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color: #500050; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Yesterday's email to some people before the 10th day of Tevet: Email was entitled my last (hopeful) prediction:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #500050; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Please pray hard that collapse of Europe starts at dawn on the Tenth of Tevet. &amp;nbsp;If this does not occur, I still believe wholeheartedly that it will occur in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="tel:5772" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;" target="_blank" value="+9725772"&gt;5772&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;, but I will not write about it until it happens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Pray hard that something in this vein will happen tomorrow. &amp;nbsp;Of course when it does occur, Ron Paul (Yemach shmo) will instantly become a more viable candidate amongst independents losing their jobs. &amp;nbsp;So if it happens, take appropriate action. &amp;nbsp;I am only sharing this with you six and one other person. &amp;nbsp;my last prediction. &amp;nbsp;It is just a bit based on the Chatam&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Sofer's thoughts about Asarah b'Tevet and the Final Redemption being the actual date of the beginning of the final redemption in the Year of the Final Redemption.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.2em; text-align: left;"&gt;And, importantly it is a fact that tomorrow's Aliyah in the Wed - Tuesday effect is Birkat Ephraim (blessing of Ephraim) when Yosef's kingship is centered b'kerev HaAretz (in Eretz Yisrael) as opposed to in Chutz LaAretz (outside of EY in Mitzra'im). &amp;nbsp;If nothing happens, I will just wait until the inevitable event occurs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.2em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.2em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Today's thoughts after the Iowa caucuses and the precipitous collapse of the Euro and the Italian stock market as Italian interest rates on 10 year resale bonds once again climbed to 7.1%:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Years ago the Lubavitcher Rebbe said something very cryptic. &amp;nbsp;America a country of great G-dly origins as opposed to being of Xtian origins and the potential to become the 11th prince of Edom. &amp;nbsp;His name is Iram. &amp;nbsp; Most of Edom is stuck in the frame of Magdiel, who is Rome for sure. &amp;nbsp;All of our mephorshim say that Magdiel is Rome. &amp;nbsp;Well guess what. And for this I thank you Devorah Jane from Sydney of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://shiratdevorah.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #0000cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank"&gt;Shiratdevorah.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;. &amp;nbsp;Today based on the email that i sent out yesterday, it really appears that we can say, "Rep Rep Rurray". &amp;nbsp;Rome Esta Pulti. &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Rome has fallen&lt;/b&gt;. &amp;nbsp;Hitler youth used to chant: Hip Hip Hurray which stands for HEP: Herusalem esta pulti or Herusalem has fallen, G-d forbid. &amp;nbsp;So as the Italian markets go off the Vesuvian cliff finally because of a combination of Asarah B'Tevet and the 2nd Aliyah of parshat VaYechi where Mashiach ben Ephraim is blessed to come from b'kerev HaAretz as opposed to Yosef's Malkhut (kingship) in Chutz LaAretz (outside of EY in Egypt). &amp;nbsp;So the process that really began on the 12th of Cheshvan this year when Italian rates first thrust above 7% seems to be climaxing as we speak with a precipitous collapse in the Euro and the Italian markets. &amp;nbsp;This is sending the Vesuvian goat finally finally off the cliff. &amp;nbsp;As the Euro continues its steady and accelerating collapse which basically started to accelerate today, hundreds of millions of Europeans in the Eurozone will find that they basically are broke. &amp;nbsp;There will be a sudden drop in American exports, and American unemployment will start to rise to new highs. &amp;nbsp;After the Iowa caucuses, a new leader seems to have emerged in the Republican Party, not just another vESUVian (Italian) as we have come to expect, but a man who understands America's G-d centered founding values to the core of his being. &amp;nbsp;His name is Rick Sant( oram). &amp;nbsp;He is the one with Iram in his name. &amp;nbsp;Actually Santorum is Saint Iram which seems to fit his character, and I believe myself to be a pretty good judge of character. &amp;nbsp;Iram is special for unlike Magdiel who plummets off of Mt. Esav (Vesuvius), Iram somehow makes it whole into Yemot HaMashiach. &amp;nbsp;Now this next point is critical. &amp;nbsp;It is not necessarily the case that Iram be this positive force for good in the world. &amp;nbsp;Iram could morph into Iran and according to Grimm's Laws of linguistics (see The Word by Dr. Isaac Mozeson), Ms and Ns are etymologically interchangeable. &amp;nbsp;So Iram could refer to the Aryan nation of Iran. &amp;nbsp;This could only happen in the world if America chooses not to take on Iran, but to turn in as an isolationist and blame the fact that Iran is taking over world on Israel. &amp;nbsp;Now let me see. &amp;nbsp;Which of the Presidential candidates seems to fit this mode. &amp;nbsp;Hmm. &amp;nbsp;Could it be that rugged Amaleki himself Dr. Looney Tunes (Some call him America's national physcian from the fiat currency nightmare (Ron Paul). &amp;nbsp;Well this will be the choice of the unwashed independents that suddenly find themselves unemployed. &amp;nbsp;If they are&amp;nbsp;scathingly&amp;nbsp;angry and they suddenly want to vote in the Republican primaries of Super Tuesday sometime in the next 6 weeks, they will surely vote for Dr. Loon. &amp;nbsp;Such people will not be rational will hate Israel despite its extenuating circumstances and will choose the Dr. Loon, who will seem to represent their most evil side. &amp;nbsp;It really will be America's final curtain call. &amp;nbsp;For if Dr. Loon wins in those primaries and becomes the Republican nominee, since Amalek can never win in America, the 11th horn in Sefer Daniel will likely be re-elected. &amp;nbsp;Yet, if Saint Iram wins, well G-d will continue to bless America. &amp;nbsp;It is your call. &amp;nbsp;I live 7 time zones away here in Eretz Yisrael. &amp;nbsp;I will vote absentee for Saint Iram in the Missouri Republican primary, but if the Amaleki suddenly starts to get the independent crossover votes of 10 million sports fans suddenly out of a job who cannot put bread on the table, no where in America will it be safe. &amp;nbsp;Don't worry about us and the other Amaleki in Iran. &amp;nbsp;We will be saved from this last Persian king. &amp;nbsp;I have no idea what life will be like under the 2nd term of the 11th horn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-9091841597621654233?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/9091841597621654233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=9091841597621654233' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/9091841597621654233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/9091841597621654233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2012/01/saint-iram-santorum.html' title='Saint Iram (Santorum)'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-4731711580215310872</id><published>2011-12-29T03:24:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T03:24:26.005+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The 2nd Aliyah of the VaYigash Effect</title><content type='html'>The 2nd Aliyah of parshat VaYigash is the climax of the last three parshiyot (Shabbat Torah portions) in Bereishit (Genesis) which started with VaYeishev (Gen. 37). &amp;nbsp;It is such a stirring aliyah, one has to wonder how and in what way it will spur on the final redemption and the revelation of Mashiach ben Yosef. &amp;nbsp;Since today is Thursday, according to one opinion, today corresponds to that 2nd Aliyah. &amp;nbsp;(This is going by the effect of Shabbat on the days of the week from the Wednesday before until the Tuesday after that Shabbat.) &amp;nbsp;It is truly one of the most stirring moments in the entire Written Torah if not all of our Written Scriptures. &amp;nbsp;It is such a watershed event, that it represents the greatest watershed in human history. &amp;nbsp;Here is the text of Holy Torah starting with Chapter 45:1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Now Yosef could not restrain himself in the presence of all who stood before him, so he called out, "Remove everyone from before me!" &amp;nbsp;Thus no one remained with him when Yosef made himself known to his brothers. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;He cried out in a loud voice. &amp;nbsp;Egypt heard, and Paro's household heard. &amp;nbsp;And Yosef said to his brothers, &lt;b&gt;"I am Yosef. &amp;nbsp;Is my father still alive?"&lt;/b&gt; &amp;nbsp;But his brothers could not answer him because they were left disconcerted before him. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Yosef said, "I am Yosef," G-d's master plan became clear to his brothers: &amp;nbsp;Everything that had happened for the last twenty-two years fell into perspective. &amp;nbsp;So, too, wit it be at the End of Days when G-d will reveal Himself and announce, "&lt;b&gt;I am HaShem!&lt;/b&gt;" &amp;nbsp;The veil will be lifted from our eyes and we will comprehend everything that transpired throughout (all of human) history. - Chafetz Chaim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was not planning on writing tonight because of pressing concerns, but this climactic moment cannot go unnoticed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May it be so, so so soon!&lt;div 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Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-5323453455289423097</id><published>2011-12-16T04:28:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-19T04:25:43.719+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Let us All Have a Good Shabbat and a Freilichin Chanukah</title><content type='html'>I really was not planning on posting before Shabbat, and since the first three Aliyot of Parshat VaYeishev are a nightmare on the lack of common decency that our forebears. the Shvatim, had with each other and against Yosef in particular, I could not see anything good coming out of those days that were associated with those three Aliyot, especially Aliyot 2 and 3 of this weeks parsha.  Because events of this week have truly corresponded to the 2nd thesis, that the Aliyot of the parsha are associated with the Wednesday before Shabbat until the Tuesday after that Shabbat.  This past Tuesday, Esav went off the cliff as I demonstrated in the previous post.  It happened on Tuesday because of one word, Magdi'el that is mentioned in the 7th Aliyah of VaYishlach.  And all of our Sages of the Ages (Chazal) are in agreement that Magdi'el is Rome.  So the goat called Esav went off the Italian cliff called Vesuvius because the name Magdi'el seems to have tied the fate of Rome with the fourth Aliyah when Esav returns to Se'ir the mountain of the male goat.  So the goat is now in midair and is still falling as I write this.  Now there have been a flurry of financial stories from Kyle Bass and several other hedge fund gurus that  a collapse of the European banking system is imminent while no one in their right mind is giving a date for the collapse of the European banking system in order to actually cause the panic rather than to just report on it.  That is responsible, and even if Kyle Bass says that a collapse might be months away, he says it because if he said "days away", he himself would be blamed for initiating full scale panic.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yet, Tyler Durden takes no prisoners.  His penchant for the Truth in matters financial is such a breath of fresh air.  And he is hilarious.  Here is one of his zerohedge.com posts in its entirety:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/australian-banks-given-one-week-prepare-european-meltdown"&gt;http://www.zerohedge.com/news/australian-banks-given-one-week-prepare-european-meltdown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-top: 0.25em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Whereas previously we had heard extensive horror stories about banks being told to prepare for the end of the world in case the European summit (the latest and greatest one from last Friday which was supposed to find a cure for cancer among other things) failed, and even went so far as to read about preparations for trading in the drachma on a when issued basis, once the summit passed (and it was clear that media posturing would do nothing to fix what has already been a failure and it would be best to remove the threats of "reality" from the public's attention) all such "end of the world" speculation promptly disappeared - after all why remind people that things are now worse than ever.  Until today. According to the Australian Finance Review (&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/vjlcvA" style="color: #1e439a; text-decoration: none;"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; - subscription required), banks down under "&lt;strong&gt;have been given 1 week by regulators to stress test how they would handle a spike in joblessness, plunge in home prices spurred by EU debt crisis&lt;/strong&gt;." Aka a European "Meltdown." And since we don't have immediate access to the article, we leave it to Bloomberg First Word to describe for us what the article says:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Australian Prudential Regulation Authority envision worst-case scenario of 12% unemployment, 30% drop in house prices, 40% fall in commercial property values, AFR says&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;Banks will assume that write-offs, other mitigation measures are unavailable; later stress tests might allow for such steps, AFR says&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Australia’s banks have A$87.2b of exposure to Europe, or 2.7% of assets, with A$74.6b of it mostly tied to bank borrowers in France, Germany, Netherlands, AFR says, citing RBA statistics&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-top: 0.25em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Why is this notable? Because unlike before, when media reports were really a propaganda ploy to get European politicians to collaborate (what has now proven to be an impossible task), and nothing but a rhetorical device, this time around, the warning is for real. And, more importantly, we have a sense of urgency, courtesy of the 1 week deadline: the question then is is it really that bad, and does Europe truly have a little over a week for global banks to prepare for the inevitable fall out?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-top: 0.25em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lastly, how long until our own prudent leaders decide it may be time to push the Stress Test scheduled for next year forward, just in case the "unthinkable" does happen, and US banks end up getting stampeded even as the rest of the world is already prepared for a worst case scenario?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-top: 0.25em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;We are confident Tim Geithner will get right back to us asap on all of these open items.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-top: 0.25em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-top: 0.25em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"&gt;Well I must hand it to the Aussies.  When they want to prepare, they actually tell their own citizens that perhaps they should do whatever means to prepare too.  I wonder if Obuzzard will also give Americans the same time space to prepare in the ways that they should have been preparing for the last several months anyway.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Now next week is Chanukah, and in the first Aliyah of MiKeitz which corresponds to the first day of Chanukah in the Wednesday through Tuesday system, Yosef gets his "Get out of Jail Free" card when Paro needs a dream interpreter.  That first Aliyah actually took place on Rosh HaShana so many years ago, but it always appears during the week of Chanukah.  In the third Aliyah of MiKeitz, Yosef is appointed as the vice-king by Paro and becomes 2nd to Paro and ultimately becomes a lifeline of food to the entire world.  So the horrible events of the first three Aliyot of VaYeishev this week, within one week, are transformed into three Aliyot days of triumph for Yosef HaTzaddik.  So quickly the world can change in one week.  And may the real Mashiach ben Yosef, who may very well at this time, be sitting in an American prison with a Yud Key Vav in his first name as opposed to his last name, get his "Get Out of Jail Free" card during those first three days of Chanukah.  May HaShem make it so.  Amen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-top: 0.25em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-top: 0.25em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Urgent update: &amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;It takes a Kyle Bass, the most credible hedge fund manager in the world, based in Dallas to set it all straight for all of us:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-top: 0.25em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-12-14/markets/30515046_1_central-bank-doomsday-machine-cnbc"&gt;http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-12-14/markets/30515046_1_central-bank-doomsday-machine-cnbc&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-top: 0.25em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;The exact day that it pops for good is&amp;nbsp;obviously&amp;nbsp;unknown. But is is imminent. &amp;nbsp;So please do not let your guard down, and stay just as prepared no matter what laughers and scoffers say.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-5323453455289423097?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/5323453455289423097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=5323453455289423097' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/5323453455289423097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/5323453455289423097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/12/let-us-all-have-good-shabbat.html' title='Let us All Have a Good Shabbat and a Freilichin Chanukah'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-3695625253718090201</id><published>2011-12-14T00:07:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-14T09:32:41.250+02:00</updated><title type='text'>An Underground Earthquake??</title><content type='html'>Did anyone astute enough to notice recognize something unusual between 4pm European time (10 am in New York) and around 1 pm Eastern Standard time today on Tuesday, the 7th day of the VaYishlach effect?  I simply present the following evidence.  Perhaps I am all wet.  Yet, I am no fool.  And the strange sequence of events simply represents pieces of a puzzle that smoothly fit into each other.  Exhibit One: the following chart of the DAX (German stock exchange).  Press 1D on the chart in order to see the intraday rate:&lt;div&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=DAX:IND"&gt;http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=DAX:IND&lt;/a&gt;   Notice that the times are NY times.  So the plunge at the end of the day began about 4pm in Germany.  &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;CAC 40: The French stock exchange:  &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=CAC:IND"&gt;http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=CAC:IND&lt;/a&gt;  Again another plunge after 10am NY time, same effect.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;FTSE-MIB:  The Italian stock exchange:  &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=FTSEMIB:IND"&gt;http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=FTSEMIB:IND&lt;/a&gt;  Another plunge at the same time with the same effect.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here is a control that shows outside of the Euro the same effect is simply not there.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;FTSE 100:  The British stock exchange:  &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=UKX:IND"&gt;http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=UKX:IND&lt;/a&gt;  Notice here that in a country in Europe whose currency is not the Euro, the plunge right after 10am New York time did not occur at all.  In Great Britain business continued as usual, and stocks were up over 1% during the day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;About two to three hours later there was a major bond auction in the United States.  There was a huge inflow of foreign money, very likely from Europe, into the US ten year bond market.  Here is the chart:  &lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/rate-plunges-bid-cover-and-foreign-bid-soars-just-completed-10-year-auction"&gt;http://www.zerohedge.com/news/rate-plunges-bid-cover-and-foreign-bid-soars-just-completed-10-year-auction&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Notice the plunge in bond yields on US savings bonds at 1pm in the afternoon, New York time.  Now Tyler's analysis is very coy.  He does not always come out and say exactly what he is thinking.  He often gives enough hints that a thinking person can draw his/her own conclusions.  Notice what he says in red here:  &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;even as credit continues to flood into the relative safety of US paper (earlier we saw 4 week Bills price at 0.000% - some "risk taking"). One wonders where and why the surge in foreign demand for safety came from. We will likely very soon know.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "&gt;Now here is the scary/interesting part.  Apparently, the drawing of Euros to buy US dollars to pay for these relatively safe American bonds did not just come from the European stock markets which trade in Euros.  Apparently, the money has been withdrawn from European banks.  Here is a article sent to me by Tamar Yonah of israelnationalradio (Arutz 7):  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "&gt;This is from Shabbat, December 10th:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;a href="http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/10144-back-door-bank-runs-in-europe-have-started" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "&gt;http://thenewamerican.com/&lt;wbr&gt;world-mainmenu-26/europe-&lt;wbr&gt;mainmenu-35/10144-back-door-&lt;wbr&gt;bank-runs-in-europe-have-&lt;wbr&gt;started&lt;/a&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;Back-Door Bank Runs in Europe Have Started&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt;In his interview at &lt;em&gt;King World News&lt;/em&gt;, James Turk, founder of GoldMoney and author of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Dollar-How-Profit-Investing/dp/0385512244/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1323481068&amp;amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "&gt;The Coming Collapse of the Dollar&lt;/a&gt;, noted in his travels around Europe that “there is one common trait, regardless of which country I am in: people are really frightened about the possibility of the collapse of the euro. Money continues to move out of the European banking system, which explains why central banks stepped in with some money printing last week.”&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt;He then went on to explain that there are only three sources of funding available to a bank: its customers lending it capital through checking and savings accounts, the issuing of long-term bonds which it sells to bond investors, and short-term financing provided mostly through money market funds. If any of these sources dries up, it puts the bank almost immediately into a precarious financial position. He said that the day before the world’s central banks stepped in to make short-term money more available was “frightening:”&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 30pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt;Even though I’ve been saying this has been coming, last week was truly frightening with the banking system about to fall into the abyss. Had the central banks not stepped in it would have been a Lehman moment.&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 30pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;Sadly, they haven’t solved the problem. They have bought time and whether that time is one or two weeks or maybe a month, we will soon find out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;…&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt;Two days later, &lt;em&gt;The Economist &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/11/euro-crisis-16" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "&gt;wrote&lt;/a&gt; that a back-door run on European banks had begun in earnest. &lt;span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;This is not the typical visible bank run with depositors lined up at the front doors waiting to withdraw their funds. Instead, as &lt;em&gt;The Economist &lt;/em&gt;noted, “billions of euros are flooding out of Europe’s banking system through [the back door of] bond and money markets.”&lt;/span&gt; It started just after Dexia failed. In the third quarter bonds issued by European banks were just 15 percent of the amount they sold over the same period in the last two years.&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt;…&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;An analyst for Citi Group wrote that corporations also have started withdrawing excess balances from banks in Spain, Italy, France, and Belgium. This is forcing banks to begin to act like pawn brokers, putting up real assets as collateral for loans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt; The president of UniCredit, an Italian bank, for instance, has asked the European Central Bank to broaden its range of “acceptable assets” against which it will lend. And an increasing number of banks are now engaging in “liquidity swaps” where banks borrow an asset that the ECB will accept as collateral in exchange for one that it won’t accept, and paying a hefty premium for the privilege.&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;Banks are reducing their lending to finance trade and fund aircraft leases as well in order to preserve cash.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt; But that only slows down the bleeding and buys the banks precious little time.&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;And also this from Sunday, December 11th:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/313085-is-the-eurozone-banking-system-about-to-collapse" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "&gt;http://seekingalpha.com/&lt;wbr&gt;article/313085-is-the-&lt;wbr&gt;eurozone-banking-system-about-&lt;wbr&gt;to-collapse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; "&gt;Is The Eurozone Banking System About To Collapse?&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;December 11, &lt;a href="tel:2011" value="+9722011" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "&gt;2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;The Telegraph sounded alarm bells late Friday that the &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8947470/Eurozone-banking-system-on-the-edge-of-collapse.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "&gt;Eurozone banking system [is] on the edge of collapse&lt;/a&gt;. Specifically, the problem is related to a lack of acceptable collateral, or "collateral crunch", for overnight and other short-term bank funding [emphasis added]:&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-right: 0.4in; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;Senior analysts and traders warned of impending bank failures as a summit intended to solve the European crisis failed to deliver a solution that eased concerns over bank funding.&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-right: 0.4in; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;The European Central Bank admitted it had held meetings about providing emergency funding to the region's struggling banks, however City figures said a "collateral crunch" was looming.&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-right: 0.4in; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;&lt;span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;"If anyone thinks things are getting better then they simply don't understand how severe the problems are. &lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;I think a major bank could fail within weeks&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;," said one London-based executive at a major global bank.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-right: 0.4in; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;Many banks, including some French, Italian and Spanish lenders, have already run out of many of the acceptable forms of collateral such as US Treasuries and other liquid securities used to finance short-term loans and have been forced to resort to lending out their gold reserves to maintain access to dollar funding.&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;The eurozone banking system is paralyzed by counterparty &lt;s&gt;fears&lt;/s&gt; risk, where banks would rather park their excess funds with the ECB instead of lending to each other:&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-right: 0.4in; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;Bank deposits with the ECB now stand at their highest level since June &lt;a href="tel:2010" value="+9722010" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "&gt;2010&lt;/a&gt; at €905bn (£772bn) as lenders withdraw deposits held with their peers and put them into the central bank. At the same time, banks in major eurozone countries such as France and Italy have become increasingly reliant on central bank funding. This follows the trend seen in smaller countries like Ireland where lenders have effectively becomes taxpayer-funded "zombie" banks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-right: 0.4in; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "&gt;I will let you decide if the crisis of the VaYishlach effect is over.  In my humble opinion it has just begun.  Something happened on Tuesday, December 13th at about 4pm.  It seems like a floodgate opened up and money poured out of Europe into the United States to buy US Savings bonds at a piddly 2% interest rate.  Europeans are now jumping in massive numbers from the Lusitania to the Titanic, figuring that the Titaninc (the USA) may yet sink, but the Lusitania (The Eurozone) is in the last stages of sinking.  It is your money.  I leave it up to you to decide.  Then someone can tell me.  Who was at that Spanish auction today for short term Spanish treasuries?  With a near panic of Europeans leaving the Euro for a safer haven, someone else was in Spain buying up all that Spanish debt for the sole purpose of calming the markets.  Was in Ben Oni Bernanke, the ECB, the Chinese, or someone else???  Do not take me for a fool and tell me that it was a bunch of hopium inspired Europeans with infinite faith that the Spanish will pay back their debts, just like the Greeks, the Irish, and the Portuguese paid back their debts too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt;…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-3695625253718090201?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/3695625253718090201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=3695625253718090201' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/3695625253718090201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/3695625253718090201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/12/underground-earthquake.html' title='An Underground Earthquake??'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-3007582014368234420</id><published>2011-12-10T22:08:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-12T22:30:20.102+02:00</updated><title type='text'>72 Minutes From Dawn Until Daybreak and the Financial Collapse on Monday or Tuesday?</title><content type='html'>Is the European shebang going to fold up early this coming week?  The European Summit was a non-event which solved no major problems.  See here:&lt;div&gt; &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203413304577087562993283958.html?mod=WSJEurope_hpp_LEFTTopStories"&gt;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203413304577087562993283958.html?mod=WSJEurope_hpp_LEFTTopStories&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The equities (stock) markets are at this time basically filled with organized gamblers and thieves.  So any rise in the stock market at this time is either because of hopium or insider trades. In addition, even though the credit markets often tell a truer story about whether investors want to invest in a nation on the verge of default, when the ECB decides to buy up debt by creating Euros out of nowhere, interest rates go down for that nation's sovereign debt because of an infusion of ECB cash.  I will let you decide.  Please let me know what you think.  Here are some other articles to consider:&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/evolution-warns-total-carnage-and-meltdown-european-bank-sales-cds-european-sovereign-debt-soar"&gt;http://www.zerohedge.com/news/evolution-warns-total-carnage-and-meltdown-european-bank-sales-cds-european-sovereign-debt-soar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/weekly-bullbear-recap-december-5-9-2011"&gt;http://www.zerohedge.com/news/weekly-bullbear-recap-december-5-9-2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ultimate-all-trade"&gt;http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ultimate-all-trade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;An important Torah thought:  We learn from last week's parsha, VaYishlach, that the angel of Esav wrestled with Ya'akov all night long on Yom Kippur.  At dawn (Alot HaShachar) when the night starts to give way to morning light,  And angel dislocated Ya'akov's thigh vein.  At sunrise Ya'akov was healed from the limp that he had because of the dislocated hip.  As mentioned on this blog before, in an early post, The Secret of the Vav in HaShem's Name, in the sidebar of this blog the process of coming to the state of Atereth HaYesod in the 6th millennium could be no earlier than the year 5666.  Also mentioned was the fact that the final Churban, the Shoah, would be a tikkun for evil speech although it may be true speech (lashon hara) which destroyed the 2nd Temple.  And in a very recent post, it was mentioned that the Gid HaNashe corresponds with precisely that, Rechilut (tale-bearing).  So it is clear that the Shoah was the Churban which corresponds to the dislocation of the thigh bone at Alot HaShachar.  Now the first full year of the Holocaust was the year 5700, the threshold date mentioned in the Zohar on Parshat VaYera (119).  So that year (5700) was the Alot HaShachar date referred to in parshat VaYishlach.  Yet,  alas it is a full 72 minutes as degrees or Ma'alot before sunrise when the Shoah takes place.  It is exactly 72 minutes as degrees before sunrise when Alot HaShachar (break of dawn) takes place.  So if there is exactly one minute as a degree for every year since 5700, then 5772 is sunrise on the Final Redemption even if this process of redemption is 100% B'itah.  And at sunrise Peniel "The Face of G-d" heals Ya'akov of his limp.  Now in Kabbalah,  Ya'akov's thigh is Mashiach ben Yosef.  When Esav's eyes fall out of his head when Chushim ben Dan cuts off his head, the eyes fall out onto Ya'akov's thighs.  The Eyes of Esav, his ainayim ra'ot (evil eyes) represent Amalek, and when they fall on Ya'akov's thighs, it represents the destruction of Amalek at the hands of Mashiach ben Yosef.   So no matter what happens on Monday or Tuesday,  Mashiach ben Yosef should rise here in EY this year.  Shavua tov.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;UPDATE:  &lt;/b&gt;The next post will not be posted until the week of the VaYishlach Effect is completed on Tuesday night which is tomorrow night December 13th, 2011.  That would be the 18th of Kislev 5772.  At that time depending on what happens tomorrow during the day, bli neder, I will write something.  Just one note:  If one such as Mayor Bloomberg wants to continue offering up incense (Hopium) to the idol of the Erev Rav (World Public Opinion), this is the type of story that one prints on a day when stocks in Germany and Italy have collapsed by 3.5%:  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-12/forecasters-miss-by-most-in-nine-months-amid-improving-u-s-data-economy.html"&gt;http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-12/forecasters-miss-by-most-in-nine-months-amid-improving-u-s-data-economy.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;New Yorkers!:  Your mayor is a dangerous fool!  Do not read the analysis on his website.  It will blind you like the incense of Esav's wives blinded Yitzchak Avinu.  The incense is hopium, and it is a powerfully scented smokescreen and is a dangerous scent to smell by following your nose.  The idol is &lt;b&gt;World Public Opinion&lt;/b&gt; which is never ever ever ever the Truth.  For that one has to listen to Newt Gingrich talk about the Fakestinian people.  At least there one gets the Truth.  Whether he wins is besides the point, for it has nothing to do with whether he is popular or not.  He will go to his grave knowing that he is telling the Truth.   For that and the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 he should be eternally blessed.  Amen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-3007582014368234420?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/3007582014368234420/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=3007582014368234420' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/3007582014368234420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/3007582014368234420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/12/72-minutes-from-dawn-until-daybreak-and.html' title='72 Minutes From Dawn Until Daybreak and the Financial Collapse on Monday or Tuesday?'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-8709686179324875833</id><published>2011-12-08T04:30:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-08T10:36:20.727+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Mayor Bloomberg: The Hopium is About to Wear Off</title><content type='html'>This is a plea.  I will not inundate you with all kinds of evidence.  Just look at this and decide if Mayor Bloomberg is telling you the Truth:&lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ambrose-evans-pritchard-summarizes-latest-hopium-dud-out-europe-quatsch-b%C3%AAtises-and-eyewash"&gt; here&lt;/a&gt; .  Now Tyler Durden of course is a pseudonym from a 1999 cult classic movie "Fight Club".  Yet, this guy is brilliant, and I believe he is a straight shooter on financial and economic issues.  And most important of all not only is he honest, but he knows his stuff.  I contrast him with Mayor Bloomberg who seems to be as slick as Bill "Slick Willy" Clinton.  The difference is that Bloomberg is dangerous because he runs a media empire who daily gives people advice to pour more money into the stock market because he claims a sunny economic utopia is on the American horizon.  It is your decision.  I really believe we are at the precipice or at least Esav's goat is at the precipice.  Yet, because we are all connected to Western Civilization in its present form, we will all be affected when the goat goes over the Italian precipice.  I just have one piece of advice for those who have not prepared for this simply because they are in denial because of Normalcy Bias that a catastrophic economic collapse or something approaching it might occur.  I am adding this link too even though it was written last week, for it is worth reading: &lt;a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/034270_debt_crisis_police_state_tyranny.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;  I have seen about a dozen of similar articles in the last week, but I do not have the links to every single one of them to share with you.  This European summit seems like it is doomed to fail.  They need to somehow raise at least 2 trillion Euro to just cover the magnitude of Italy's debt problems alone.  And according to legendary investor Jim Rogers, the Fed is printing money like it is going out of style.  Ben Oni Bernanke is desperately trying to save Western Civilization.  Here is &lt;a href="http://www.wealthdaily.com/articles/jim-rogers-vaporizes-fed/3328"&gt;Mr. Rogers&lt;/a&gt;.  Again decide for yourself.  &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Take a chunk of money out of the bank today or tomorrow on Thursday, and hold it until next Tuesday afternoon.  If nothing happens, put it all back in the bank, and you will not have lost a penny.  I would suggest that you have as much cash on hand, just in case that there are massive bank closures worldwide.  Keep in mind that you lose nothing or very little by having this cash on hand just in case there is an economic tsunami.  On Tuesday as I just said, if nothing has happened, put your money back in the bank.   If you want to take a risk, buy about a dozen canned foods for each member of your family if you haven't already made the more extensive preparations that I have been suggesting for about 2 1/2 months on this blog and on Mystical Paths.  Maybe I will be proven wrong.  I am an adult and I can handle being wrong.  But I could not live with myself if I had not taken the time that I am taking right now at 5 am in the morning Israel time to give you this gentle warning.  G-d Bless you all.  I really hope that most of you have already prepared for what is very possibly going to transpire over the next six days.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;ADDENDUM&lt;/b&gt;:  It is not my purpose here to scare the bejeepbers out of anyone, but these two Tyler Durden pieces on www.zerohedge.com scared the beejeepbers out of me.  And I am not easily phased these days:  Here he connects Lavan's latest actions at MF Global with the collapse of Edom's Euro:  &lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/why-uk-trail-mf-global-collapse-may-have-apocalyptic-consequences-eurozone-canadian-banks-jeffe"&gt;http://www.zerohedge.com/news/why-uk-trail-mf-global-collapse-may-have-apocalyptic-consequences-eurozone-canadian-banks-jeffe&lt;/a&gt; .  Plus when Trusties? remove $1.2 billion dollars from the investment savings accounts of private individuals, do we really have to wait until Gerald Celente is one of the victims to see grand theft on a global scale?   Thank G-d in the highest Heaven that Jon Corzine was &lt;b&gt;not&lt;/b&gt; a Jew.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And here he speaks of the Bundesbank preparing for "Plan B" as there seems to be a "&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;lock up in interbank liquidity".  Uh Oh:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/has-imploding-european-shadow-banking-system-forced-bundesbank-prepare-plan-b"&gt;http://www.zerohedge.com/news/has-imploding-european-shadow-banking-system-forced-bundesbank-prepare-plan-b&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-8709686179324875833?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/8709686179324875833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=8709686179324875833' title='26 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8709686179324875833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8709686179324875833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/12/mayor-bloomberg-hopium-is-about-to-wear.html' title='Mayor Bloomberg: The Hopium is About to Wear Off'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>26</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-5475161900466824504</id><published>2011-12-06T19:55:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-06T22:34:48.256+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Mayor Michael Bloomberg: Hopiate of the Masses</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;This blog entry is a work in progress.  The full post of this entry will be available later today, G-d willing.  Yet, I wanted to publish the beginning of it now because events might start moving very, very fast.  Check later today or tomorrow for the full post which will be this post, but the post will be edited.  The 2nd post about Ben Bernanke will wait until the economic collapse of the evil Edom is in full progress.  In accordance to what I posted on Mystical Paths about the &lt;a href="http://www.mpaths.com/2011/11/geulah-speculation-for-toldos.html"&gt;Toldot Effect&lt;/a&gt; on Motzei Shabbat November 26th and on this website last week (Tuesday, November 29th) the &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/11/toldot-and-vayishlach-effect.html"&gt;VaYishlach effect&lt;/a&gt; will be in full effect from tonight, Tuesday, December 6th through Monday, December 12th.  I refer you to the following statement from the original article on Mystical Paths from Nov. 26th:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); "&gt;&lt;i&gt;The more important and final hammer blow event is when Esau flies off a cliff in the fourth Aliyah of Parshat VaYishlach &lt;b&gt;(Wednesday, Dec. 7th or Shabbat, Dec 10th) according to the two opinions on how Shabbat influences the week. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Keep in mind that any event on Shabbat or Sunday is not reflected in the markets until Monday.&lt;/b&gt;  This is speculation with no guarantee that it will happen, but the events happening today associated with the 6th Aliyah of Toldot seem to imply that what follows is very plausible.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Keep in mind that the two opinions of how Shabbat influences the week in which the Torah portion is read in synagogue are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;1. the entire week before Shabbat including Shabbat itself for the 7th Aliyah.  This would mean that the 1st Aliyah corresponds with Saturday night and Sunday and so on and so forth until the entire parsha is read in shul that Shabbat morning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;2. From Yom Rivi'i, the fourth day of the week which starts on Tuesday night before the parsha is read in shul until the following Tuesday afternoon which corresponds with the 7th Aliyah.  The 7th Aliyah actually mentions the City of Rome itself in the code word Magdi'el which our sages say is Rome.  So this collapse will likely be a process that will accelerate as late as Tues., December 13th.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;The 2nd opinion that the 4th Aliyah of Parshat VaYishlach corresponds with this coming Shabbat would bring about a collapse on the first market day following this coming Shabbat which would be Monday, December 12th.  This was mentioned on the original Mystical Paths post at the beginning of last week.  So let me officially, with G-d's permission, put Western Civilization in &lt;b&gt;the warning category of Beginning of Catastrophic Economic Collapse between right now and the end of the day on Monday, December 12th&lt;/b&gt;.  This means that if HaShem is bringing about the Final Redemption this year 5772, the most likely time for a catastrophic event to take place involving Italy and the European Union is between now and Monday, December 12th.  And unlike 5765 which was the 1st Year of Sukkot, the process that is taking place right now is totally b'itah, it its time. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; All the Achishena, before its time, moments have ended.  Every Achishena moment is accompanied by a free will test.   Because the last Achishena test was in 5765, the First Year of Sukkot, it was really b'itah Achishena (In its time, I will hasten it.)  And the test was not a test on our level of Shmittah observance, for instance, as other Achishena tests were.  It was a test in basic human decency: &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;not to unilaterally evacuate 10,000 Jews from their home in Gaza and the Northern Shomron and not to summarily put a quarter of a million people in SW Eretz Yisrael into imminent danger of murderous longer range missiles&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;  The test was simple, and we failed it miserably, not all of us, but enough of us who either actively did something to disengage from Gaza, to enable the Disengagement, or to do nothing at all because some of us thought that we could get along with our lives by doing nothing.  Because of the failure of this test which had a 90% chance of being passed if we could simply be decent,  George W. Bush son of George H.W. Bush Sr. was not Gog ben Gog as he was supposed to be.  And history has now transpired it a way which reflects the fact that an unhealthy segment of our people failed this basic test in common decency.  What this test has guaranteed though is that the entire anointment of Mashiach ben Yosef will be an anointment of re-establishing common decency as the hallmark of the Jewish people.  MBY himself will likely be Shomer Shabbat and will definitely be G-d fearing, but the only laws that he will enforce on the nation will be Noachide Laws, Circumcision for Jewish 8 day year old boys, and Laws against gossip (evil speech which is 100% true about actions done in private).  We Jews have it as our legacy that while this law was not given to the Children of Noach, it is still amongst our laws of common decency.  This is based on the all night wrestling match in this week's parsha (VaYishlach) between the Angel of Esav and Ya'akov.  The angel is able to injure Ya'akov at Alot HaShachar (72 minutes before dawn on Yom Kippur, the day of the wrestling match).  He dislocated Ya'akov's thigh vein or So'as tendon whichever it is.  And we are commanded from that moment on to never eat from the Gid HaNashe from any kosher animal are any animal that could be eaten before the Torah was given.  Now unlike this Gid HaNashe commandment and the commandment of Circumcision, all the other commandments were given starting on the New Moon of Nisan before the Exodus from Egypt until we arrived at Mt. Sinai to receive the Torah and continuing during the 40 years that we were in the desert while Moses was still alive.  So the commandments of Circumcision and the Gid HaNashe are part of our fundamental (Yesod) covenant with G-d that preceded the Exodus from Egypt.  Yet, there are 365 Giddim (veins and tendons) in the human body, and there are 365 negative commandments or prohibitions in the Torah.  Therefore there is a one to one correspondence between the 365 Giddim and the 365 prohibitions in the Torah.  According to Me'am Loez, the Gid HaNashe specifically corresponds with the prohibition against Rechilut: talebearing (speaking about another person's private matter, that paints him in an unfavorable light, in public even if it is 100% true).  So this prohibition against talebearing joins Circumcision and the Noachide Laws in the area of laws that will be enforced in a Jewish society of common decency by Mashiach ben Yosef.  Just think of all the gossip newspapers that will be put out of business here in Eretz Yisrael alone!  Keep in mind that Rechilut (talebearing) is not slander: (motzi shem ra) (info. which is both defamatory and false).  Slander and libel, the written form of slander, are even forbidden by Noachide Law as a subcategory against Theft.  Gossip is not a Noachide prohibition of common decency, but it is a Jewish prohibition of common decency.  And MBY will enforce laws against it.  The complete return to the Torah in its entirety by the nation in general can only be accomplished once a utopian society of common decency is established here in EY first.  Then whoever will be Mashiach ben David will re-establish the Torah society that we all desire.  There will be a large return to the Torah in the 5th year of the Sabbatical cycle (5773) after MBY has established our utopia of common decency in the 4th year (this year!).  So that 5th year teshuvah to the Torah will actually begin before ben David even shows up in the 8th year!  In short many will get the cue that human decency is the basis of our society here, but it is not the end goal of why we are here in Eretz Yisrael.   That teshuvah to the Torah will be of great merit in HaShem's eyes because it will be done before Mashiach ben David even shows up.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Given the subject matter of the particular Aliyah to the Torah that we are talking about, the 4th Aliyah, we have now as of tonight Tuesday night entered the danger zone.  The 4th Aliyah in question goes from Gen. 33:6 until Gen. 33:20.  In short this warning stated above is totally based on the effect on the world of the 4th Aliyah of Parshat VaYishlach + the 7th Aliyah of the same parsha.  For it seems from events as they are transpiring, G-d is looking into the Torah and bringing the Final Redemption in accordance with the Torah portions as they are read in the synagogue and as they are associated with the weeks of the year during the winter months between Shabbat Bereishit and the Shabbat after Purim (ki Tisa) or the Shabbat after that (VaYakhel). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;This is a letter that I sent out to several people including Akiva of www.mysticalpaths.blogspot.com : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Akiva, this especially concerns your most recent &lt;a href="http://www.mpaths.com/2011/12/american-foot-in-mouth.html"&gt;posting&lt;/a&gt; and our combined comments on the post.  Yet, this concerns all of you who so trust Mayor Bloomberg's website for analysis.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-06/how-israel-can-stop-alienating-u-s-jews-commentary-by-jeffrey-goldberg.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;http://www.bloomberg.com/&lt;wbr&gt;news/2011-12-06/how-israel-&lt;wbr&gt;can-stop-alienating-u-s-jews-&lt;wbr&gt;commentary-by-jeffrey-&lt;wbr&gt;goldberg.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; on financial matters.   And don't tell me that he is totally out of the loop as far as editorial control of his website and of his Business Week publication.  And don't tell me that Bloomberg completely dissociates himself from this scathingly self-hating article.  Try, ask him to print a rebuttal with equal placement next to this article, and you will get an "Are you kidding" wry smile.  I am sick of these puritanical leftists telling us how we should live our lives.  In response perhaps we should segregate more private buses between men and women.  Why in Heaven's Name is a business site, &lt;a href="www.bloomberg.com"&gt;www.bloomberg.com&lt;/a&gt; so fixated on how religious Jews live their lives here in Israel?  And rue be the day that some Reform Rabbinic pompous fool starts marrying off gay couples here in the Holy Land.  There is no end to this madness except for total Western economic collapse so that the 78% of American Jews who voted for Obuzzard, including Mayor Bloomberg whether he voted for him or not, have nothing to show for all their evil efforts.  And I will then look out my kitchen window before I go to bed while doing dishes every night, and I will see the lights of MIgron while doing the dishes because the lady with the broomstick and her warlock husband, the HillyBilly show will not be able to funnel money to NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) from the US State Dept. to destroy Jewish life in Eretz Yisrael.  Orthodox Jews in America have to understand that the continuance of their prosperity outside of the Land of Israel comes at the cost to living a sane life and life free of fear of being evacuated in the middle of the night here in Eretz Yisrael.  It really has come down to our survival vs. your 401K.  Sorry about that. So as events unfold in the very short term, G-d will see to it that we thrive here, and if it comes at the expense of your prosperity, I am sorry about that.  Yet, the warnings about that have abounded since 9/11/2001.  You have had ten years to wrap up your American lives in your guilded cage and leave because you were sick at things such as 6 months after 9/11 when Gog W. Bush, Jr. personally sent Colin Powell to tell us that we could not put a bullet in Arafat's head even though Bush wanted to put a bullet in Bin Laden's head.  That should have made you vomit to remaining in America.  That was 9 1/2 years ago.  What action did you take back then to prepare to leave a land run by pigs, Edom, this case being Gog W. Bush?  The word Pigs (as opposed to the word PIIGS which refers to Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) here refers to the hypocrisy of the pig pretending to be virtuous and kosher while overseeing the death of dozens of more Jews in the ensuing years at the hand of Arafat who lived another 2 1/2 years after Bush ordered Sharon not to put a bullet in Arafat's miserable head.  On whose hands is all that Jewish blood?  Hmm?  So now the day of comeuppance is rapidly approaching, when G-d brings down the hammer.  And it is the collapse of the West (Edom) or bust, but for now avoid Erev Rav publications such as Business Week for your fiscal analysis..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-5475161900466824504?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/5475161900466824504/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=5475161900466824504' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/5475161900466824504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/5475161900466824504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/12/mayor-michael-bloomberg-hopiate-of.html' title='Mayor Michael Bloomberg: Hopiate of the Masses'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-8181169162091451831</id><published>2011-12-04T00:28:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-05T02:44:34.363+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Next Episode: The Adventures of Uncle Ben Bernanke and QE3</title><content type='html'>Well, everyone knows the story.  Last week, Uncle Ben Bernanke as an employee of Uncle Lavan opened up the floodgates of money to the entire world.  Just call it QE3 (Quantitative Easing 3).  The first two attempts at revving the American economy back to life were brought to you by QE1 and QE2.  Both attempts failed miserably and made the Chinese very angry.  The logic being:  We the Chinese are buying all of your National Debt.  And each year you are adding a trillion and a half to that debt.  So what gives you the right to devalue our investment by printing all that new money?  Well, this time duty called again.  Italian interest rates last Monday were soaring near 8%.  So who do the Europeans call on to water the entire world with money.  Why, they call on Uncle Ben Bernanke.  And by Wednesday interest rates in Europe had slid to 6.5% for Italian bonds, and many a stupid investor in the stock market had an orgy because Uncle Ben was watering the entire world.  Well, it just so happens that in the 2nd Aliyah of VaYeitzei, Ya'akov instantly comes from his night in Beit El to Charan.  He had just had visions of angels going up and down on a ladder reaching up to heaven.  And boy did that angel of Esav go up so high that Ya'akov feared that he would not come down.  but then HaShem starts to speak to him while he is asleep.  And HaShem says, "&lt;i&gt;I am HaShem, G-d of Avraham your father and G-d of Yitzchak; The ground upon which you are lying to you will I give it and to your descendants.  Your offspring shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall bust forth westward, eastward, northward, and southward; and all the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you and by your offspring.  Behold, I am with you; and I will guard you wherever you go, and I will return you to this soil;  For I will not forsake you until I will have done what I have spoken for you.&lt;/i&gt;"  After a series of pasukim recognizing that HaShem had folded up the earth underneath his head so that he could be in Beit El and Yerushalayim at the same time in which he speaks about the awesome dream that he had just had in such a holy place, he makes a vow about how the Third Temple which represents the third Patriarch, Ya'akov would be built there.  And that it would be a House of G-d and that he would surely tithe to G-d on his return to Beit El and Yerushalayim.  &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Immediately Ya'akov arrives in Charan, and this is where it says that he went toward the land of the easterners.  Now at that time the Torah was speaking about the Arameans, but from our perspective today, the Torah is obviously speaking about the Chinese.  Well, then comes the bombshell.  The Torah is breathless explaining the scene that Ya'akov beheld.  It speaks in staccato format.   &lt;b&gt;He looked and behold....A Well in the Field...and Behold There were Three (&lt;i&gt;that is three not two or four&lt;/i&gt;) Edrei Tzon (flocks of sheep) lying right beside it, for from that well they would water the flocks &lt;/b&gt;(the sheeple)&lt;b&gt;, and the stone on the mouth of the well was large.  And all the flocks would be gathered there, and they would roll the stone from upon the mouth of the well and they would water the sheep(le);  Then they would return the stone onto the mouth of the well, to its place.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now 20/20 hindsight is always better than any attempt at predicting.  So let us look at what is happening now.  Uncle Ben Bernanke had already conducted QE1 and QE2 for all of the United States.  This time he has been called to duty to save the entire Civilization that is on the brink of collapse.  It is QE3 (as in three flocks of sheep) for the entire planet.  At least that is how the brainchilds at the Federal Reserve are seeing it.  So it is Uncle Ben's duty to water the entire planet with liquidity, and all the world's sheeple have been awaiting Uncle Ben to roll that rock from over the mouth of that wellspring of infinite resource called the Federal Reserve.  Some people might call it a Creature from Jekyll Island, but nonetheless, Uncle Ben is performing his assigned duty at the behest of Uncle Lavan who is too tricky to show his face.  So Ben why is your name not Ya'akov.  Why is it Ben as in Benjamin?  For that stay tuned for tomorrow's edition of &lt;b&gt;"The Continuing Adventures of Uncle Ben Bernanke and QE3!"  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For now I leave you with a conversation between Ya'akov and the shepherds who are sitting around waiting for someone to open up the wellsprings and give the world QE3.  It is from &lt;b&gt;The Midrash Says &lt;/b&gt;which often comes along and fills in the gaps in the written text of the Holy Tanakh (The Hebrew Bible).  This is a classic.  Think about whom Ya'akov is describing.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ya'akov wanted to find out more about Lavan and asked, "What type of man is he, and what does he do?  Does he live at peace with the citizens of Charan?  The shepherds did not understnad the purpose of Ya'akov's inquiries and considered him an idle talker.  "If you are interested in making conversation," they answered him, "here is Rachel, his daughter, coming out with the sheep.  Ask her, snce women are talkative!"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;At this point Ya'akov rebukes the shepherds, &lt;b&gt;"Why do you sit around idly by the well?  If you are employed, it is your duty to continue grazing the sheep until dark.  If these are your own sheep (speaking about the recipients of QE1, 2, and 3), it is not yet time to gather them for the night!  (&lt;/b&gt;In short Ya'akov is asking the shepherds why they are being so lazy.)  The shepherds explained to Ya'akov that they were waiting for everybody to arrive in order to be able to roll the stone off the well and give water to the sheep.  (In short they did not have enough muscle power to open up those wellsprings to water the entire world.  They were waiting for someone like Ya'akov to show up and do it for them.)  As they were speaking, Rachel appeared with Lavan's sheep......  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now citizens of planet Earth why are you waiting for Ya'akov in the form of  Uncle Ben Bernanke to come by and water the entire planet for you?  For that answer and for the answer to why is his name Ben and not Jacob or for that matter Alan Greenspan, tune in tomorrow for &lt;b&gt;The Continuing Adventures of Uncle Ben Bernanke and QE3!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I will give you a hint.&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;While Rachel showed up at the beginning of Ya'akov's 20 year stint at Lavan's house, Ben showed up at the end of Rachel's life when she called out the name Ben-Oni.  Ya'akov immediately changed Ben's name to Binyamin.  Think about where Rachel was then buried, and leave a comment about why it is Ben Bernanke who is watering the the entire planet with Lavan's liquidity.  I am interested in the views of thinking people, not all the sheeple who like lemmings believed all the lies last week by pouring their last dollar in savings into the stock market.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-8181169162091451831?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/8181169162091451831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=8181169162091451831' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8181169162091451831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8181169162091451831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/12/next-episode-adventures-of-uncle-ben.html' title='Next Episode: The Adventures of Uncle Ben Bernanke and QE3'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-1221534144005389784</id><published>2011-12-01T00:03:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T05:12:01.663+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Because of You (Ya'akov), HaShem Has Blessed Me (Lavan)</title><content type='html'>I was not planning on writing tonight, but because of the event of the day and because of what I wrote &lt;a href="http://www.mpaths.com/2011/11/geulah-speculation-for-toldos.html"&gt;here &lt;/a&gt;on Mystical Paths, I could not let this event go into obscurity without comment.  I mentioned there, that because this year is about the rise of Mashiach ben Yosef and the fall of the Kingdom of Edom, I was not sure what event associated with Lavan would take place during the week of Parshat VaYeitzei before the potentially catastrophic crash and burn of Edom that could take place by the end of next week and by Monday, December 12th at the latest.  From the 5th Aliyah of Toldot until the end of Toldot and the first four Aliyot of VaYishlach followed by the end of the 6th Aliyah until the end of VaYishlach, the Torah speaks primarily of Ya'akov's relationship with Esav or Edom.  So events associated with the fall of Edom (Western Civiliztation) would revolve primarily around weeks associated with Toldot and VaYishlach, but Parshat VaYeitzei sandwiched in between these two Torah portions would deal exclusively with Ya'akov's relationship with Lavan.  I have been writing about how the United States and Great Britain because of their red and white colors on their flags which never permit one color to dominate the other are a combination of Edom and Lavan.  I wrote about it &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/04/leaving-lavans-house-before-it-falls.html"&gt;here &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/07/houses-of-lavan-part-1.html"&gt;here &lt;/a&gt;back in 2007.  I even discussed the blue on both flags as being both Israel in their midst and their own desire to have Israel's blessings in their midst.  There was a time that the white stripes on the American flag represented at least in part America's desire to be decent amongst a health majority of its population.  Starting with Slick Willy, the white on the flag is all Lavan (Mr. White) the Aramean.  The decent people of the US still desire Israel's blessing, but they are confined to the blue field in the upper left hand corner.  The vast "middle" of decent people who want to be pure before G-d in the US is now gone.  Lavan has stolen their soul.  By electing Bill Clinton twice after all of his Huey Long type shenanigans were well-known showed that as early as 1996, the vast "white" middle had almost completely disappeared.  And while Glenn Beck can garner a half million decent people on the Washington Mall, maybe a full 25% of the American people are in tune with his message, maybe.  &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In order to continue I must digress.  The red on the flag is said by some to represent hardiness and valour, but while these can represent Ya'akov, the fact that the color chosen is red definitely indicates Edom.  As a matter of fact the old group of G-7 economic world powers (USA, Canada, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Japan) plus Russia to make the G-8 nations only have one color in common on all their flags.  Take a guess what that color is.  It is red of course.  The green on these flags where it exists represents the Bnai Japeth who have taiva (desire) that comes through their eyes.  So the red represents the Gaiva (pride) of the heart while the green represents the taiva of the eyes.  The situation in the world is reversed for the Bnei Shem and Ham.  Yishmael for instance is the gaiva of the eyes (a collective arrogance of sorts).  The Saudi flag represents this the best by being a sea of green.  Islam on the individual level is not gaivadick only on the collective level.  The red on Hamitic/Yishmael flags represents taiva of the heart (Bnei Ham) as opposed to the green of the Bnei Japeth which is taiva through the eyes.  Now this is true for the majority in the Islamic World, the Sunni world.  In the Sunni world, the religion is Islam, but the leaders historically have been from Ham.  In Europe the leaders have been from Edom, but the common folk were from Japeth.  The interesting anomaly in all this is the Shiite minority in Islam.  The Shiites have always been far more extreme than their Sunni counterparts.  The world Assassin for instance has Shiite origins where their loyal adherents would get high on Hashish and became Hashishin, and then they would be in a mode to do the Middle Ages version of the suicide bombing mission.  So I would contend, with enough understanding of history, that while the red on the flags of the Sunni majority represents Ham, who is the leader in most cases of the Sunni majority, the red on the flags of Shiite dominated countries is the red of Amalek.  So Shiism is unique, it has the collective gaiva of Islam and the individual gaiva of Amalek.  So in Persia nothing has changed from Haman to Achmadinejad.  So the Torah tells us not to stray after our hearts and after our eyes.  After our hearts in both the realms of taivah and gaivah is the color red.  And after our eyes in the realms of taivah and gaivah is green.  The seat of taivah is the animal soul, our nefesh behamith.  Taivah after our eyes has another name in both Hebrew and English.  It is called kinah (envy or jealousy).  So taivah after our hearts is lust and desire.  And taivah after our eyes is envy and jealousy.  The seat of gaivah believe it or not is the seven lower sefirot of our upper soul, our neshama.  We often call this the nefesh elyon.  It is worth noting that while animals may have taivahs.  The attribute of gaivah is exclusively a human attribute.  Not even lions have gaivah (pride).  What we mistakenly think in lions as gaivah is really a very predatory form of taivah.  The reason why it is exclusively human is because animals do not have a nefesh elyon.  Only humans have this.  And as it turns out, gaivah of the heart is far more dangerous to the well being of civilization than any taivah could possibly become.  It is why Amalek who represents this gaivah of the heart more than any other force in human society has no place even in Yemot HaMashiach, while Ham who represents the taivah of the heart does have a place.  And then there is Yishmael who uniquely created a society of gaivah through the eyes, a collective gaivah.  They do this through a principle that they call Jihad (Yichud in Hebrew).  As individuals they are submitters to G-d.  As a collective they want to take over the world, and all other ways of connecting to G-d will have to be necessarily over time abolished.  As we can see in various places where they are dominant, if one is not from one of the two Dhimmi religions, Judasim or Xtianity, all other G-d centered folk either convert or are decimated.  Ask the Bahai what it means to be a G-d centered minority in a Muslim country.  The other aspect of Yishmael is equally unpleasant but more self-destructive than destructive of others.  It is their often Hamitic animal soul.  The word hamur in Hebrew means jackass.  The same root with different vowels means materialism.  Like all Hebrew roots of three letters, one can see two two letter roots with a common letter.  Hamur can be broken up into Ham and MaR, meaning bitter passion.  So that is what a jackass is, and that is what the religion of materialism is.  There is really no difference between the behavior of hundreds of thousands of jackasses romping around Tahrir Square engaging in gang rape and other outrages and hundreds of Black Friday shoppers stomping over a dying man to get a deeply discounted sweater or DvD player at Target.  In both cases they are Ham Mar.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Into this colorful sea of those who use there animal or upper souls to pursue their eyes and their hearts comes a sea of blue.  Blue more than any color is the color of the spirit, the color of spiritual transcendence.  For the three children of Noach we had Ham (taivah of the heart = red) and Japheth (taivah of the eyes or envy = green) and Shem (taivah which transcends and follows the dictates of the neshama = blue) Shem whose animal soul was totally guided by his divine soul began the process of distilling our evil inclinations that exist within through the heart and in the world through the eyes so that this inclination would be a prisoner to his neshama.  Since the neshama has ten dimensions or sefirot and the nefesh behamit (the animal soul) has seven emotional sefirot totally tied to nature, a grand total of ten times seven nations = 70 nations were made possible in the world.  In the beginning of this process, Shem and his descendants were the obvious choices to be the leaders of the Spirit in the world.  The problem developed when because the neshama itself is a tricky thing.  It too has seven "emotional" sefirot or dimensions which can lead one astray after the heart or the eyes as discussed above.  Only with Wisdom (Chochmah or analyitical reason), Understanding (Binah or inductive reasoning) and the crowning glory of the One true G-d does Mankind have a chance to control the straying nature of His animal soul and the emotional parts of His divine soul.  Further Birur (selection process) was required before someone, Avraham, could come forth from Ur of the Chasdim and say that there can only be world peace if there is reverence for G-d.  From Japeth came 14 nations who had an intense interest in establishing nationhood so that everyone could be envious and keep up with the Jones's.  From Ham came 30 nations, but those nations were far more splintered because one who follows his heart is far less concerned about what others think of him while he is exploring his own passions that come from within.  So from Bavel we still have the ancient nations of Germany (Gomer or Ashkenaz) and Greece (Jawan) and Meshach and Tuval (who collectively became Russia) and Magog (Mongolia and the Apache and Navajo nations).  All these ancient Japhetic peoples survived into the modern era because nation building was important for them in order to do things that were pleasing to each other so that they all looked good to each other.  Amongst the children of Ham, it is very difficult to discern nations that have survived until the modern era.  Modern Egypt may have Mitzraim in it, but it is also very Greek and filled with Arabs who were (meuravim from which one gets the word Arab) from the time of Senchariv who mixed up (AiRuBed) all the Semitic peoples whom he conquered.  So most of the Semitic peoples are accounted for because the Assyrian Empire was pretty vast and covered most of the Semitic world.  So most of the Semitic peoples were mixed up by Senchariv and became the Arabs (the mixed up ones or me'uravim).  Most of the Hamitic peoples of the world were not conquered by Senchariv, but because their nature did not lead to nation building, the only Hamitic nation from the 70 nations to survive intact in the modern era is probably China (Sin).  Believe it or not Sin is a son of Cana'an and was destined to be enslaved.  In the modern era the Chinese for the most part are slaves to Communists.  How they survived as an ancient nation into the modern era is a story into itself, and perhaps the Chinese can tell it better than anyone else.  Yet, as we see in modern China including Hong Kong and Taiwan, the best way to remove one from the necessity of being a slave to others is to enslave one's own animal soul to serve his upper soul.  The final birur is to then make the upper soul a servant of G-d.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is a work in progress.  The final point is that the last line in the 4th Aliyah (the Wednesday Aliyah) of Vayeitzei is the reason for all the ecstasy in the world markets yesterday.  "And Lavan said unto him (Ya'akov), 'If I have found favor in your eyes(according to R. Aryeh Kaplan:  Haven't I earned your friendship?) I have learned by divination that HaShem has blessed me on account of you!'"  Think about how that can cause a nation that is half Edom and half Lavan to get ready for the collapse of the original Edom (Germany and Rome) in Europe.  Lavan is oblivious to the full spiritual collapse that is at his doorstep.  He is too busy being a deceiver in order to rob us blind.  And he has just discovered that Ya'akov in his midst as an employee has made him a very wealthy man.  He is as high as a kite, and has no interest in letting Ya'akov leave his guilded cage.  Here is a piece of Lavan's deceptions in the United States:    &lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-economic-data-reporting-now-officially-farce-every-economic-data-point-prints-4-std-devs-abo"&gt;http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-economic-data-reporting-now-officially-farce-every-economic-data-point-prints-4-std-devs-abo&lt;/a&gt;  The lies and deceits are simply exploding as we get closer to the end which hopefully will reach a climax by the end of next week, Parshat VaYishlach.  Then there is this.  I thought that the number 400 (Ayin Ra) might catch your attention: &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-30/four-hundred-dow-points-aren-t-what-they-used-to-be-amid-record-volatility.html"&gt;http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-30/four-hundred-dow-points-aren-t-what-they-used-to-be-amid-record-volatility.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;An important addendum to this post&lt;/b&gt;:  There is much information left out of this post that is relevant because the subject is so vast.  One point that should be noted is that in the final birur of the neshama and the emotional part of this upper soul, Avraham was not Israel.  Israel/Ya'akov is all blue with the white field of Avraham Our Father.  Avraham was like the white dove who left Haran for a place unknown to him because it was the dove who plucked an olive branch from the Land of Israel when the Flood was subsiding and said better is the the bitter fruits of the Hand of G-d than the sweet fruits of the Hands of Man.  So in order to distill Israel out of Avraham, one has to realize that white separates out into Green (Yishmael) and Purple (Yitzchak).  Now purple is an unusual spiritual color.  It is very rare on the flags of the world.  It represents such humility that for a person that exists in a purple state like Yitzchak, Olam Hazeh and Olam Haba are one.  Yitzchak had a Gan Eden existence in this world when he had to choose between good and evil.  After the Akeidah all of his choices were black and white.  And all Yitzchak had to do was to choose white.  He did not have to deal with pesky issues such as extenuating circumstances.  When evil encroached upon him, Yitzchak just moved away and dug a well somewhere else.  99.9 % of us do not live in such a world.  So another birur was required.  The Purple representing Yitzchak had to distill into red and blue.  Esav became Red, and Ya'akov became Blue.  So Ya'akov was the ultimate man of the Spirit. He had to deal with practical issues of making the best of his extenuating circumstances and to always make the best choice that was available at the time.  So here you had a man who totally represented Emeth.  Yet, when the future of the spiritual world lay in the balance, for the sake of Pikuach nefesh, he had to steal his the blessing that Yitzchak meant for his brother Esav.  In the world of extenuating circumstances, Ya'akov had no other option.  Through his adventures in the physical world, he towered over the other Avot, his own father and grandfather, blazing a trail for every Jew who would ever live and also for righteous gentiles who needed an example of how to cope and make moral decisions in a very dark world.  He was blue in his nefesh behamith, an inheritance from his ancestor Shem.  But he was also blue in his Divine &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;soul too.  So he dwelt in Spirit next to the blue sapphire brick that makes up the Heavenly footstool for the Heavenly Throne.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-1221534144005389784?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/1221534144005389784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=1221534144005389784' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/1221534144005389784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/1221534144005389784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/12/because-of-you-yaakov-hashem-has.html' title='Because of You (Ya&apos;akov), HaShem Has Blessed Me (Lavan)'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-6210841787533258636</id><published>2011-11-29T02:57:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-29T05:54:51.954+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Toldot and VaYishlach Effect</title><content type='html'>I am simply linking here to an article that I wrote with Akiva on MPaths blog about the effect of these two Torah portions on world events.  Please read the post and the comments that I made to the post.  I figure that linking to it would be fine.  If you are reading this on my blog The End of Days, please comment on what I have written right here.  Here is the MPaths post:  &lt;a href="http://www.mpaths.com/2011/11/geulah-speculation-for-toldos.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A short discussion of why Esau or Esav falls off a cliff in Parshat VaYishlach is in order.  It says in Gen. 33 the following:  A&lt;i&gt;nd he (Esav) said,  "Travel on and let us go.  I will proceed alongside you."  But he (Ya'akov) said to him (Esav), "My lord knows that the children are tender, and the nursing flocks and cattle are upon me.  If they will be driven hard for a single day, then all the flocks will die.  Let my lord (Esav) go ahead of his servant.  I will make my way at a my slow pace according to the gait of the drove before me and the gait of the children, &lt;b&gt;until I come to my lord at Se'ir&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yet, Ya'akov never accompanied Esav to Mt. Se'ir (the Mt. of the male goat).  As it says: &lt;i&gt;So Esav started back that day on his way toward Se'ir.  But Ya'akov journeyed to Sukkoth...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So was Ya'akov lying to Esav?  Of course not.  Whatever was not fulfilled at that time will be fulfilled at the End of Days when Ya'akov accompanies Esav to Mt. Se'ir.  Yet, there are a few problems with this.  Mt. Se'ir today is a wasteland in Southwestern Jordan.  The crumbling ruin of Petra (ancient Botzrah) can still be found by hearty backpackers who trek their way to the ancient ruin built into Mt. Se'ir.  This is doubtful the Se'ir that the Torah is referring to when it says that Ya'akov will accompany Esav to it at the End of Days.  Instead our sages of the ages (Chazal) have given us keen insight.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. This entire encounter between Esav and Ya'akov occurred on Yom Kippur including the previous night's wrestling match with Esav's angel.  So when Ya'akov went on to Sukkot, he was literally going on to the next holiday on the Jewish calendar, Sukkot (Feast of Booths&lt;i&gt;).  &lt;/i&gt;Apparently although Esav's spiritual descendants were of course invited to the Temple during Sukkot, Esav himself could never appreciate the concept that there was an idea of teshuvah b'simcha.  Esav could understand G-d as a King (repentance out of fear) and G-d as a Father (repentance out of love).  Yet, he could not understand G-d as a friend (repentance out of joy) where the penitent receives no earthly reward for his repentance  except the joy of doing the right thing.  Perhaps this is why, Xtianity understands G-d as a father, but what a friend they have in Yoshke.  For the Xtian repentance at this level is not understood unless they have an intermediary.  This also explains why the nations of the world kick the Sukkah when G-d prevents them because of bad weather from keeping the mitzvah of Sukkah.  The only reward for the mitzvah of Sukkah in this world is the joy of sitting in the Sukkah.  So when a Jew has to leave the sukkah under similar circumstances, he understands that the entirety of the reward except for the joy is in the World to Come.  So for this reason when Esav goes to Mt. Se'ir, Ya'akov goes on to Sukkot.  Since Ya'akov alone understands the greatness of the reward for the mitzvah of sukkah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. At the End of Days it is not Har Se'ir itself that is judged.  It is Esav aka Edom who is judged and the mountain named after him, Mt. Esav (VESUVius in southern Italy).  And the two men Esav and Ya'akov are like two male goats.  Ya'akov dressed up as one in order to receive his blessing from Yitzchak.  As we know from the Yom Kippur service, there are also two goats.  One goes to Azezel, and one goes to HaShem.  The one that goes to Azezel is thrown over a cliff in the Eastern wilderness at the time of the Temples.  In modern parlance, Esav's very civilization is about to be thrown over a cliff.  And the mountain being judged is Vesuvius, for in the following paragraphs we can see how Vesuvius was used by HaShem to judge the nation which destroyed the 2nd Temple.  So when Ya'akov accompanies Esav as a Se'ir (a male goat) to the proverbial Italian cliff at the End of Days, Esav himself will destroy himself along its rocky outcroppings.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3.  The final question is how do we know that this final judgement is financial in origin?  It comes from the following:  When Esav was approaching he was approaching with an army of 400 Centurions (400 principal men in the language of the Torah).  That is an army of 40,000 foot soldiers.  He was obviously coming to fight a war.  Where do we see this number 400 earlier?  When Avraham purchases the Cave of Machpelah next to the City of Chevron from Efron the Hittite, he pays the exhorbitant sum of 400 silver shekels.  And it says there "VaYakam Sdei Efron..."  And Ephron's field was confirmed (was transferred)... to Avraham as a purchase in view of the children of Heth (the Hittites who witnessed the sale and the fact that Avraham weighed out 400 silver shekels to Efron in clear view).  The Acronym formed by the three words VaYakam Sdei Efron is Esav, referring to a future time where Esav would dispute ownership of the Cave of the Patriarchs with Ya'akov's children.  Yet, there is something deeper here.  The numerical value of the expression for Evil Eye (Ayin Ra, עין רע in Hebrew) is a gematriah of 400.  Since Esau's kingdom is the last kingdom before the Messianic kingdom, the Ayin Ra is referring to the last currency of Esav's kingdom, the currency of Amalek.  From the Talmud in Megillah we are given a clear hint when does Amalek rise in Edom.  It rises when a united Germany signs a treaty with Rome, and then Amalek goes forth to destroy the world.  In WW2 this was an actual treaty not between Berlin and Italy, but a Concordat between Hitler, yemach shmo, and the Roman Catholic Church since the Talmud tells us that there are not just 300 princes in Germany that are united internally, but there are also 365 principal Saints to the Roman Catholic Church.  Italy even during the Middle Ages never had more than 14 states on the Italian Peninsula while Germany was a kingdom of 300 fiefdoms.  Plus, Mussolini may have been a brutal dictator, but he was not an Anti-Semite.  From 1922 when he took over until 1938 he did not pass one piece of Anti-Semitic legislation.  Only after he saw the Anshluss of Austria, did he get the message that he better play ball with Eichmann and company's Anti-Semitic program which he never fully enforced anyway as long as he was fully in power until 1943.  So the 365 princes in the Gemorrah must be referring to the principal saints of the Roman Church who does have a rather long history of Anti-Semitism, a history that Hitler himself carefully learned from.  So has this unity happened again.  Well yes, but this time it is with Italy and Rome and Germany and about 15 other countries.  It is called the EU, the European Union.  The Hebrew letter tav which is the last letter of the Hebrew alephbet is the key to understanding the currency of this outfit.  Tav also has the Gematriah of 400 like the word Ayin Ra.  And the word Tav means "Mark" in Hebrew.  Now we know that the principal currency of Germany is the DeutschMark and is the bedrock of the EU's market basket currency known as the Euro.  This is where things get interesting.  If we look at the word Euro as an acronym it should be spelled Ayin vav Resh Vav, not Aleph Vav Resh Vav as it is spelled in modern Hebrew.  Now why might that be?  The answer lies with etymology, the study of world origins.  Dr. Isaac Mozeson years ago noticed something peculiar about the names of the Old World continents.  They all end in "ah" or just "a".  In Hebrew this denotes direction.  So if we can safely assume that all of the nations of the world come from the Tower of Bavel and that before the tower we were all speaking one language, Hebrew, the secret of the names of the continents can be unlocked.  The nations headed toward the Rising fireball in the sky were headed "Aisha" or Asia.   The nations headed toward the land that was set apart were headed "HaPerekah" or to Africa.  (Ps and Fs are interchangeable using Grimm's Laws of linguistics.).  The nations headed toward the setting sun or the evening were headed (ARaVaH where the first A is an ayin not an aleph)  Since Vs and Fs and Ps are interchangeable using Grimm's Laws  ARaVaH linuistically and etymologically becomes EuRoPaH or Europe.  So Europe should be spelled with an Ayin not an Aleph.  Let us be sure to tell the Hebrew language authorties here in Eretz Yisrael the next time we have the chance.  From this we see that the word EuRo is an acronym Ayin Resh.  The words for which it is an acronym are Ayin Ra (the Evil Eye).  So this is what is about to be dismantled when Esav goes tumbling over a cliff.  QED (Quickly and Easily Done).  More about vESUVius follows.  Oh the final connection:  When Esav is approaching with that army of 400 Roman Centurions, who stares into his evil eye and defeats him?  Why it is Yosef, of course.  More about Mashiach ben Yosef later.  For now, buy silver, for MBY's rise will be accompanied by an exponential increase in the price of silver.  Whether it is bars, coins, or grains, just make sure that it is pure physical silver.   You will find that the more silver you have, the more mitzvot you will be able to do in the Messianic Era with the silver.  So have some on hand when the time arises by collecting it now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In addition I offer the following information why when saviors ascend Mt. Tzion to judge Mt. Esav, it is Mt. VESUVius that will be judged, about 100 miles south of Rome, Italy.  ius is a Latin suffix.  Remove the suffix and ESAV's name is clearly written in the name of the volcano.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;It is worth noting the most famous event in the history of volcanic eruptions was of course the eruption of VESUVius in the year 79ce, nine years after the destruction of the 2nd Temple.  There are two facts worth considering.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;1. The head of the triumvirate at the time that Rome took over from the Chashmonaim while the latter were involved in a Civil War was of course Pompeii who made deal with one of the Chashmonaic adversaries to help him to defeat his brother, but once Pompeii sent the Roman legions to "help out", the Romans never left.  That was around the year 63 bce. Here is an Aish HaTorah link to describe the history of the Chashmonaic era: &lt;a href="http://www.aish.com/h/c/t/h/48942121.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  Yet, curiously it was the famous City of Pompeii that took the brunt of the volcanic eruption in 79 ce.  Since Pompeii dismantled the independent rule of the Sons of Aharon over Judea, it is fitting that the city that bore his name should be destroyed by the most infamous volcanic eruptions in history.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;2. Why 79ce and not earlier?  Well almost 2 full months prior to the eruption, guess who became Rome's emperor?  Two months prior Titus replaced Vespasian as emperor.  I guess HaShem had a special message for Titus, the new emperor who happened to be the general who destroyed the 2nd Temple.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;And may saviors on Mt. Tzion judge Mt. Esav (VESUVius) very soon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-6210841787533258636?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/6210841787533258636/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=6210841787533258636' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/6210841787533258636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/6210841787533258636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/11/toldot-and-vayishlach-effect.html' title='The Toldot and VaYishlach Effect'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-1919496493169318185</id><published>2011-11-09T13:49:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-09T14:56:33.477+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Get Out the Bubbly Champagne</title><content type='html'>As of this morning the 12th of Cheshvan, the day following the Yahrzeit of Rachel Immeinu (our Mother), the Din for the new Era is now clear.  See the Mystical Paths blog for my post on Rachel Immeinu.  We have fully entered Stage Four of the economic collapse of Western Civilization which will be replaced over the next few months by the "economics" of the Era of Mashiach ben Yosef (hopefully by Zayin Adar) for Yosef is like Fish, the mazal for the month of Adar, and is impervious to the Evil Eye.  After establishing truly just courts here in Eretz Yisrael from the perspective of common decency which for Jews includes laws against Gossip not just slander, he will go forth and lead us in battle to obliterate Amalek from the world.  All soldiers in this war will be required to have a proper Brit Milah (Circumcision) which is part of the secret in the War against Amalek.  Whoever it turns out being, he will likely have a Yud Key Vav in his name to signify that MBY begins the process of unifying the Name of HaShem under Heaven.  Human decency will be for its own sake  not with any other ulterior motives, and for that reason alone MB Yosef will be blessed with material blessings that will spread out to the entire world in the 5th year of the Sabbatical cycle.  Of course the Western leaders will hate his guts because his ascendancy spells their doom as leaders of Mankind.  He will be called liar even if the microphone is on or off, and a segment of the Xtian world that does not serve G-d for its own sake but only for the eschatological reasons will likely declare him to be the Anti-X.  So who cares.  Is the Man who stands by the Truth in the area of human decency necessarily supposed to be popular too?  Of course not!  Let his existence offend the sensibilities of a certain percentage (&lt;b&gt;But not all&lt;/b&gt;) of the world's 2 billion Xtians and 1.3 billion Muslims.  Yet, it is important to remember MBYosef will be more successful in subduing Edom than Yishmael.  And ultimately a Man who is part Yishmael might be his Achilles heel.  We shall see how that plays out later when we talk about the 11th horn in Daniel's vision.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But now the contagion that started in Athens has spread to Rome (both literally and spiritually).  Italian interest rates have climbed above the magic 7% as of this morning.  See here:  &lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ransquawk-european-morning-briefing-091111"&gt; http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ransquawk-european-morning-briefing-091111&lt;/a&gt; .  7% is the point of no return.  Interest rates will skyrocket from here, and no one knows what to do.  I really hope that all of you outside of EY have prepared your food storage with a group of other Jews or with righteous gentiles in a small town or country location.  Sorry for the short warning over the last couple of weeks, but if 25% of American gentiles are preparing in sensible ways for Financial Ameggedon, why did it not occur to you to take sensible precautions?  Learn how to shoot to protect your storage of food from roving gangs of whom about 1/3 to 1/2 half of them will likely be Anti-Semitic.  But be prepared to leave large cities outside of EY because the roving gang problem will be much worse in cities than in the country.  Also get as far away from states and countries that grant marriage and civil union contracts to male homosexuals.  If you cannot make Aliyah, head for Texas or Missouri.  The northeastern seaboard in the US where millions of Jews live is filled with states that cause G-d to boil with His Wrath.  How can an Orthodox Jew in NY remain in NY knowing what the Talmud in Chullin says about legal jurisdictions that give official sanction and sanctity to male homosexuality?  I mention Texas and Missouri not because they were in the World Series, but because neither of those states will ever grant official sanction to male homosexuals with a marriage contract or a Civil Union contract.  Has anyone thought about the tragic murder of Leiby Kletzky just a couple of weeks after New York sanctioned homosexual marriage contracts?  Or all of the crazy weather and why a Tropical Storm named Irene could cause so much damage in the Catskills and in Vermont?  Really think about why am I still here in New York or Massachusetts or New Jersey or Illinois and on and on and on.  Apparently California has not officially joined the growing list of states that are giving G-d a reason to be angry, but the San Francisco Bay area is on the list.  If you happen to be there, move away from all the deadbeat deadheads in Marin County.  Bad neighbors can have an effect on your soul too especially in the San Francisco Bay area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Finally come to realize why it must collapse now and not several months or years from now.  This is the Year of Shmini Atzereth.  The nations of the world were judged for their behavior for all of human history this past Tishrei on the tail end of the Year of Hoshana Rabbah.  Also Shmini Atzereth is all about the singular nation that is supposed to dwell alone in the Holy Land.  There is only one bull offered up on Shmini Atzereth, and it is for Israel.  Also parnassah for Eretz Yisrael is judged on Shmini Atzereth since it comes from the upper waters while the rest of the world gets its parnassah from the lower waters which are judged on Hoshana Rabba.  So when Western countries have agents here in the Land of Israel that want to destroy homes in Givat Assaf, Migron, and the Ulpana neighborhood in Beit El, the sources of Ehud Barak's and Dorit Beinisch's second paycheck from the US State Dept. or the EU have to dry up pre-emptively.  Right now Netanyahu is cowering before Obuzzard and Nicholas Sarkozy (Hachsharo from Medrash Sefer Eliyahu according to a previous post on this blog) because he has no emunah or bitachon to tell them to stick it where the sun does not shine.  So here comes the Divine freight train that will make the big bad Western World not look so frightening anymore.  So everyone lift up your glasses of champagne as interest rates in Rome necessarily skyrocket, thank G-d, and say L'Chaim!  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-1919496493169318185?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/1919496493169318185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=1919496493169318185' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/1919496493169318185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/1919496493169318185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/11/get-out-bubbly-champagne.html' title='Get Out the Bubbly Champagne'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-8866651599401980389</id><published>2011-11-02T12:21:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-03T13:10:02.039+02:00</updated><title type='text'>How to Recognize a Righteous Gentile</title><content type='html'>This post is simply a completion of the previous post about the Financial Mabul.  Also the link to Mystical Paths which I added to the previous post is to a September 20th article which I wrote giving everyone practical advice about what to do to prepare for what is about to happen.  Please read it and take action.   These are the attributes of a righteous gentile.  There are really four attributes, but I offer it up here as a summary attribute.  These are the people with whom you should be storing up food and and water to prepare for the collapse.  Also contact jewishpreppers.com to form such a group of exclusively Jews&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;1.  He/she must not only believe in G-d, but he/she must fear Him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2.  the very important attribute for the gentile to have a brain which is  in full control of his/her heart when deciding between good and evil.   The gentile who considers things to be right because "the Holy Spirit"  moved him to consider this or that to be good is not to be trusted.  This does not mean that there is not plenty of room for the Spirit of G-d to move people to do things like changing one's career.  Also 1/3 of the books of Tanakh were written with revelation through Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) which is a more indirect form of prophesy.  It just cannot be used as a reason to make an emotional moral decision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3. humility especially in the area of taking the  extenuating circumstances of others into account before he/she makes  judgment about others.  Such an individual understands that G-d does  precisely this, that he takes the extenuating circumstances of others  into account before He judges them  Therefore there are legitimate  heterim (permissions) for every thou shalt not and legit paturim (exemptions) for every thou  shalt.  The only exceptions are for idolatry, murder, and immorality for  which one never has a heter to commit these.  (See comment section for the one instance where a gentile is permitted to worship an idol under threat of his life.)  The righteous gentile  understands this, and if he sees an Israeli soldier shoot someone who is  beating him with a crowbar, he/she understands why the soldier has to  shoot back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There is one overriding concept that unites all three  of the above.  Is the gentile doing the right thing lishma, or is he/she  doing it with an ulterior motive in mind such as prosperity.  A  righteous gentile will always be wanting to do the right thing because  G-d says that it is the right thing to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, the 7 Laws of the Righteous Gentile naturally flow from the previous four principles.  Simply by studying nature and Nature's G-d, one can derive the 7 Laws.  Remember the gematriah of Elokim is the same as the gematriah of HaTeva.   Thomas Jefferson did it, and so can any other human being including you.  Let all humble and G-d-fearing men and women sit down at a table and reason together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Note:  All of the 7 Noachide Laws can be logically proven by studying Nature (HaTeva or Nature with a capital N) with one notable exception: incest.  First we postulate that there is a Creator of the Universe who transcends the universe that He created.  We then take note that G-d is Infinite and therefore does not need us to be satisfied.  So His creating us was a pure act of lovingkindness (chessed).  And we can see from this that He must be a G-d that demands moral obedience more than He demands anything else.  Also by emulating His selflessness, we set up a spiritual resonance with Him by emulating Him.  In this way we grow close to Him.  Then we note that there is a hierarchy in Creation ascending upwards: Domeim (the inanimate world), Tzemach (Plant Kingdom), Chaya (Animal Kingdom), and Medaber (Those who speak with language, aka. human beings).  From this all Noachide Laws can be derived with the exception noted.  For instance, Tzemach has no central nervous system while Chaya does have a central nervous system.  So it is logical that while one can tear the limb off a live tree, one cannot tear the limb off a live animal.  See how logical this is!  Also there are four obscene Arayot (sexual immoralities) which are forbidden to a Noachide.  Two of them are forbidden because they are not natural, and since Elokim is Nature's G-d, unnatural things are necessarily forbidden: male homosexuality (with penetration) and bestiality.  Also adultery is forbidden because it involves stealing another man's wife.  The wife is also killed for the crime if she is a willing participant.  If she was raped and could not scream out, that is a different matter.  Rape itself is not one of the sexual immorality sins.  It is considered as a subcategory of Theft, another one of the 7 Laws.  Slander and Libel are also subcategories of Theft too.  All of these can be proven to be wrong for a Noachide.  The exception is one of the Arayot: Incest.  Here the prohibition for a mother to have relations with her son and for a father to have relations with his daughter can be proven to be evils.  All the other forms of Noachide incest require an Oral tradition going back to Noach himself.  For instance who might guess that if one's father has a second wife and his father dies, that the widow of one's father who in not one's mother is a forbidden union.  This is impossible to prove though.  Without an oral tradition going back to Noach himself, one should consult a local Orthodox Rabbi on other forbidden incests and what may actually be permitted.  Case in point:  For a Jew a man cannot marry 2 sisters, but a Noachide can marry two sisters.  So Jacob married two sisters outside the Land of Israel.  Since it was before the Torah was given, he could marry two sisters.  Yet, Avraham's covenant with G-d included a provision that inside the Land of Israel, he would keep the Torah that would eventually be given at Sinai.  So Jacob was obligated in this.  So when he returned to Eretz Yisrael with both sisters as wives, one of the wives had to prematurely die.  So Rachel died.  Yet, keep in mind that other than the peculiarities of some of the things considered to be incest, the Noachide system of laws is rational.  If it were not rational, in the absence of an oral tradition, a gentile would not be obligated simply because there would have been no way of knowing.  Imagine that one is an Algonquin Indian sitting on a hilltop in the 11th century in Upstate New York contemplating the universe.  He has no knowledge of a Torah given at Mt. Sinai and therefore he is devoid of the precedence of Divine Revelation.  How is he to know what is right or wrong?  through studying Nature and Nature's G-d.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-8866651599401980389?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/8866651599401980389/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=8866651599401980389' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8866651599401980389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8866651599401980389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-recognize-righteous-gentile_02.html' title='How to Recognize a Righteous Gentile'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-701740758615611115</id><published>2011-11-01T00:14:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T03:20:20.248+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Coming Financial Mabul (Flood)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;I posted this to a friend just a few minutes ago:  Please get ready outside of Eretz Yisrael.  This is not a test for all your lives, but it is a test of all your possessions.  So there are rational steps that you can take to protect yourself from what might be coming within the next two weeks.  Non-perishable Food storage in a small town or a country location away from roving gangs of hungry people looking for food is a good place to start. About a third to one half of these roving gangs will likely be anti-Semitic.  So you will have to leave large and medium-sized cities as soon as possible.  Also if you are in a country where this is possible, get away from states that grant marriage contracts or civil unions to male homosexuals.  The punishment on such medinot (states) will be particularly harsh.  If you are in Illinois, go to Missouri or Texas.  Ha, weren't they just in the World Series?  Leave the Northeast US completely if you can.  If the weather systems don't convince you to leave, the financial collapse will.  I recently posted a list of preparatory things people can do on Mystical Path's blog &lt;a href="http://www.mpaths.com/2011/09/ways-to-survive-outside-of-eretz.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  I will edit this post and add to it in the next day or two.  I will include the previous post on Mystical Paths along with four tips on how to know that a non-Jew is a righteous gentile.  This is important because the food storage should be done with a group of families with weapons that you should be ready to use if necessary to protect your storage of food.  About 25% of American gentiles are preparing for Financial Armegeddon in one way are another.  About 1% of American Jews are preparing.  So you will need to group up with some righteous gentiles who are already preparing.   Here is a website representing the 1% of Jews who are preparing:  &lt;a href="http://www.jewishpreppers.com/"&gt;http://www.jewishpreppers.com/&lt;/a&gt;  Quickly get in contact with these folks.  They seem to know about everything that must be done.  Here is the letter:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yes, J. you have, it seems, about 7 to 14 days to either make Aliyah, or have your food storage in the country all prepared with a group of people and guns to protect it.  Please be prepared.  This is only stage three.  Stage four will be financial Armageddon.   The St. Louis Cardinals victory was the final sign.  In 1946 as the memorable hit of Harry "the Hat" Walker to drive in Enos Slaughter in his mad dash occurred in the 7th game against the Boston Red Sox, at that very moment 10 Nazis were marched to the gallows at Nuremberg, all on Hoshana Rabba 5707.  It was the beginning of America as the singular economic power in the world.  St. Louis, both the city and the Talmud burner, represents Sheker haChen (the falsehood of charm or grace), the feminine personality of the yetzer hara (evil inclination) whose goddess is popularity.  Since America is not Amalek, one has to look at WW2 as a war between the masculine and feminine personalities of the Yetzer Hara.  America, France, England were married in with the masculine Russia, who actually did have an Amalek leader at the time, Josef Stalin, (This is true even though Russia is known as Mother Russia.)  And the opposition was The Fatherland (Germany) and Japan, married into the more feminine Italy and of course the Roman Catholic Church, and their titular head was Amalek who is masculine (as in zachor which means both male and remember).  Well thank G-d, the feminine side of the evil inclination won the war.  The feminine side only shmads (destroys) us because we, the Jewish people, are not popular because popularity is the goddess of Sheker HaChen.  The masculine side murdered 6 million Jews.  So the Sheker HaChen club has now ruled the world since 1946, but it is now coming to an end.  So like bookends, the Sheker HaChen baseball team, the Cardinals, had one last hurrah.  Yes, I saw the 6th game after the fact.  I stayed up until 5 am until the Rangers went ahead 6 -4 in the 7th inning, and I was so dead tired that I went to bed.  At 8am the following morning Lisa woke me up, and told me that the Cardinals had won with ten runs.  So for $25 I bought a subscription to the entire 2011 season from &lt;a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp"&gt;www.mlb.com&lt;/a&gt; .  That was on the first day of Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan, 30th of Tishrei, the last day that Western Civilization (Edom) will ever prosper from Heaven's dew in the history of the world.  From now on Edom only has the Oil of the earth (shmanei ha'aretz), something that it has even without merits.  This of course includes Libya, Venezuela, and the banks of the Hiddekel (Tigris) and the Prat (Euphrates) Rivers in northern and central Iraq, the confluence at the delta of these two rivers in Batzrah (where Edom will ultimately be destroyed), and of course the shores of the Persian Gulf.  Over 55% of the world's sweet oil reserves lie along the banks and at the mouth of two of the four rivers that come out of the Garden of Eden.  In short, it seems to be quickly coming to a close.  Without the bracha for dew from the mouth of G-d, Europe will likely collapse within the next two weeks.  And the international banking system is so intertwined that this will necessarily take the rest of the Western World down with it.  &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-30/credit-default-swap-risk-bomb-is-wired-to-explode-mark-buchanan.html"&gt;http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-30/credit-default-swap-risk-bomb-is-wired-to-explode-mark-buchanan.html&lt;/a&gt; Bloomberg actually reported the news this time.  It must be serious.  Usually Mayor Bloomberg of NYC, America's investment consultant, is a hack for Obama.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; Am I 100% sure that this will occur.  No I am not, but unlike in 5765, the First Year of Sukkot, there are no tests in basic human decency for the Posek HaDor to fail again this time.  There is no evil government for him to enable for a 300 million shekel bribe.  It is all b'itah.  Welcome to 5772, the Year of Shmini Atzereth.  The Final Redeption begins now.  It actually picks up steam, for it really began last Lag B'Omer.  Next post: Mashiach ben Yosef by zayin Adar.  But for now be ready for a hit any time from the tenth to the 17th of Cheshvan (the day that the Great Flood (Mabul) came upon the world in Genesis).  Really be prepared for a financial Mabul.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-701740758615611115?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/701740758615611115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=701740758615611115' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/701740758615611115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/701740758615611115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/11/coming-financial-mabul.html' title='The Coming Financial Mabul (Flood)'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-237461597306638927</id><published>2011-10-19T02:35:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-19T03:36:21.336+02:00</updated><title type='text'>A Quick Four Part Scenario for Economic Collapse</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;There really is no way of knowing how precisely HaShem is going to bring about the economic collapse of Western Civilization in 5772.  It can either happen abruptly in 12 month segments, or it might be catastrophic and take place during the course of the25 to 30 day period from today, Hoshana Rabbah,  until the middle of Cheshvan.  I am leaning toward the catastrophic collapse for two reasons.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. There is much that should take place this year besides the economic collapse of Western Civilization to make the world a spiritually healthier place to live.  So a quick collapse will allow time for these other things to happen.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. Yosef when he was thrown into a pit by his brothers was in a pit with snakes and scorpions, but he miraculously survived the dangers.  The snake as was presented in the previous post about Greece being the face of Rome corresponds to the Primordial snake of Rosh HaShana and therefore the month of Tishrei.  The Scorpion is the Mazal for the month of Cheshvan.  This seems to be an ancient hint that in the year that Mashiach ben Yosef shows up, the months of collapse are Tishrei and Cheshvan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So here is a quick scenario for a catastrophic collapse which might possibly occur in this fashion:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Europe is now spinning out of control.  PM Merkel of Germany and the banks are rebelling against excusing more debt losses.  Things are looking quite probable for chaos when the European Union meets on Sunday, October 23rd.  Their self-imposed deadline is Oct. 23rd which is strange because that is a Sunday.  But that is their deadline.  This should worsen in stages over the next four weeks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. This week because the last 3 days of Sukkot only Edom is judged and Hoshana Rabba which seals the judgment for the nations of the world.  According to the Vilna Gaon, the 1st, 2nd, and 4th days of Sukkot are reserved for the children of Ketura (Hinduism and Buddhism) and the children of Yishmael (Islam).  The 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 7th days of Sukkot are reserved for Edom.  So on the third day of Sukkot, the day of tiffereth (charisma),  it was Shabbat, and there was large scale rioting in the streets of Rome.  Italy of the G-8 economic powers is the nation most tied to Edom's version of tiffereth.  On the 5th day of Sukkot, this past Monday, Merkel announced that there is no agreement in sight for unity within the EU to somehow raise over 2 trillion Euro to prevent the collapse of the Eurozone at the October 23rd meeting.  Germany is most associated with Edom's version of hod (glory) since hod as discussed before is most associated with this worldly prosperity.  As we see with modern day athletes, whoever gets the glory also gets the money.  Then there is Malkhut (kingship) the 7th sefirah associated with the United States and Canada who are a combination of France (chessed) and Great Britain (Din or Gevurah) in their makeups.  Think of France being the right shoulder and Great Britain the left shoulder of an upside down triangle, and the US and Canada being the point.  So who knows what will occur later today if anything associated with the US and Canada on Hoshana Rabbah or on Shmini Atzereth.  It could be nothing specifically since the collapse will probably be triggered by nations in the Eurozone.  So if anything happens on Hoshana Rabba itself, it may revolve around coincident problems in France and Great Britain at the same time.  The 6th sefirah yesod (foundation) in Edom is most associated with Russia.  Since Russia has no real clout in the EU, the 6th day of Sukkot passed without incident.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. (Stage 2) next week actually starting on Shmini Atzereth itself because after Hoshana Rabba, HaShem wants to start blessing Klal Yisrael on the judgment for the New Year.  So all the good from the new judgement starts to flow on Shmini Atzereth.  This Shabbat is Shabbat Bereishit when we bless the New Moon for Cheshvan.  So the flow for Cheshvan actually begins this weekend before Cheshvan is actualized with the New Moon on the following Friday and Shabbat, October 28 and 29.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3. After Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan because Edom has run out of bracha from the Tal Min HaShamayim (Dew from Heaven) for the New Year and for all time, Western Civilization will simply run out of spiritual gas.  The month of Tishrei 5772 is actually judged on the previous year's judgment.  So the loss of bracha for Edom only becomes evident after Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan.  In short all the blessing on Edom for all of human history might simply come to an end at the end of this Tishrei.  At this point all Edom will have left is the shmanei ha'aretz (the oil  of the earth) which they have as long as the US keeps troops in Iraq and at the pivotal port facility of Batzrah at the confluence of 2 or the 4 rivers that come out of the Garden of Eden.  All the talk about the US actually leaving Iraq will necessarily have to come to an end when it becomes clear that the US will have no physical gas for its civilization if Persia gains hegemony over the Shiite areas of Iraq and Saudi Arabia.  This will become more obvious when Western Civilization runs out of the spiritual gas (the dew from the mouth of G-d) at the end of the month of Tishrei 5772.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4. In some cases the Din for the New month is held in abeyance until the tenth of each month when it is finally sealed.  This is especially true for bainoni nations such as the United States who have tremendous merits for all the good that they have done in history as a force for good in the world along with all of negative things that they did when goodness came into conflict with making money.   Under such circumstances where there has been a direct conflict between this worldly prosperity and the will of G-d, America has always chosen prosperity over goodness.  So it is a 2/3rds nation.  2/3 of the time when America could be good without sacrificing its prosperity,  America chose to be good.  Yet, the 1/3 of the time when there was a direct conflict between the two, America chose the evil path.  This makes the US a bainoni nation (a nation where the scales of justice are weighted towards its goodness and its wickedness.  This would seem to indicate that Europe will collapse first, and America might be dragged down a couple of weeks later.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Again this is a possible scenario for a quick collapse.  I am not saying that this is precisely how it will occur.  Just prepare yourself for this type of catastrophe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;  So those are the four stages.  We are already seeing stage one.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-237461597306638927?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/237461597306638927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=237461597306638927' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/237461597306638927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/237461597306638927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/10/quick-four-part-scenario-for-economic.html' title='A Quick Four Part Scenario for Economic Collapse'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-6749118657900012218</id><published>2011-10-09T23:57:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T04:13:57.159+02:00</updated><title type='text'>It is Atereth HaYesod: Geulah in its time</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Back near the end of August, my family told me that I needed to take a vacation.  Since I have no desire to leave Israel at this time, we decided to leave Eretz Yisrael but to remain in the medinah.  We went to the city set up by Shlomo Hamelech to be a port to India and the Far East.  We drove the four hour trek to Eilat.  Ah, those 12 or so miles along the right bunny ear of the Red Sea sometimes called the Gulf of Aqaba and sometimes called the Gulf of Eilat.   Snorkeling was the order of the day, and those Red Sea fish are so colorful.  A day at the City of Kings amusement park with an unbelievable ride about the life and times of the city's founder, Shlomo HaMelekh.  Was it worth it?  Well I will have to ask the kids.  I also enjoyed some of the memories too.  And I told my wife that I would go on condition if on Wednesday, August 24th, she would let me watch the Glenn Beck Restoring Courage Rally on GBTV.  I intentionally ignored his Sunday rally since it was for fundamentalist Xtians only.  So I had no interest in watching Mike Evans and Rev. John Hagee strut their stuff.  His Monday rally was interesting, and it was primarily about remembering the Shoah and how one survivor went back to the city of his birth in Northern Germany and confronted his past with courage.  But it was really his Wednesday rally that I wanted to see.  Besides being my Gregorian birthday (My Hebrew b-day is the 1st of Elul 5720.), I had been a fan of Glenn Beck for over a year and a half watching his Fox hour long show about 3 times per week.  It was during the rally that I watched live from the hotel lobby's Wyfy Internet connection that I gave a cursory glance to my email.  Someone wrote me that there had been an medium-sized earthquake with its epicenter in Virginia that had cracked the Washington Monument and had caused severe damage to the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.  At this point all bets were off.  My interest in the rally of a truly righteous gentile at the Davidson Center near the Southern Wall of the Temple Mt. faded into the background.  I sensed that something momentous was afoot.  You see, there is this concept that at the End of Days when the Messianic Era commences, G-d is going to change the rules by which the spiritual world runs the physical world in such a way that there would never be an exile of Israel again.  This would happen in the 6th Millennium associated with the kabbalistic sefirah called Yesod (Foundation).  That would be the foundation for G-d's Kingship in the world.  The First Millennium was associated with Chessed (Lovingkindness).  The Second Millennium was associated with Din (Strict Judgment) or Gevurah (Strength).  The Third Millennium was associated with Tiffereth (Charisma).  The Fourth Millennium was associated with Netzach (Victory or Eternity).  The Fifth Millennium was associated with Hod (Glory).  And the 6th Millennium which began in the year 5001 (1241 ce.) would be the most gut wrentching of all the millennia.  We would spend most of the millennium squeezing out that which was pure from a very impure world.  As we say during Hoshana Rabba with the 6th hakafah (circuit around the bimah): ground from accursedness, beast from aborting, granary from one species of locust, grain from scorched earth.  etc.  In short of all the centuries in human history, the most difficult millennium would be the 6th one.  Starting around 1240 with the burning of 24 cartloads of Talmuds in the streets of Paris by King Louis IXth (aka St. Louis and he is still one of the 365 principle saints of the Roman Catholic Church whose official day of the year is August 25th.  And if you go to the American Catholic website, there is no mention of St. Louis's act of Xtian love when he burned all those Talmuds with rare Tosefot in the margins) and the destruction of Khazaria about the same time in the early 1240s, the 6th Millennium was like entering the pits of Hell for the chosen nation of G-d.  Apparently if we could not offer up korbonot for the nations of the world on Sukkot, we became their korbonot.  This gives the idea of the suffering servant in Sefer Yishaiyahu a whole new meaning.  Yet, sometime in this millennium at least 2/3rds of the way through it according to the Zohar, the fortune of the Jewish people would instantly change.  That moment would be Atereth HaYesod (The tiara of Yesod).  At this point the churbanot of Israel in its long exile would instantly stop.  And those Jews who could somehow make it to the shores of the Land of Israel at this time would experience miracles (as long as they are decent in their own lives, for G-d abhors human indecency even for a tinok she'nishba which makes up about 80% of world Jewry today.  How much the more so does he abhor lack of common decency amongst those who are versed in the Torah?).  Ladies and Gents, we have finally arrived.  5772, the year where at the beginning of the year all judgments for the lack of common decency are written and sealed and sent during Tishrei of that year, is the year of the full establishment of Atereth HaYesod.  Ah, but where is Mashiach?  Well because of our little act of horror that we committed on each other in the First Year of Sukkot called the evacuation of Gush Katif, Netzarim, Northern Gaza, and four cities in the Northern Shomron which put about a quarter of a million people into the direct fire of longer range and more accurate missiles from Gaza in addition to the horror inflicted on the 10,000 expelled Jews, we kind of blew it in a very basic test of common decency.  So our most pivotal Achishena moment within B'itah was tossed out the window with the garbage.  Surely G-d showed with Hurricane Katrina (His crown and the 11th named storm of the season to represent HaShem Elokim, G-d sitting on His throne of Judgment) that He was on the case, and that the matter of Gog W. Bush's involvement in the affair had not gone unnoticed.  Yet, because of our indiscretion in the area of common decency, he became the Gog that could have been Gog and should have been Gog if not for our serious moral lapse.  It is curious what happened to him next.  Apparently after the expulsions Gog ben Gog started to receive a lot of mail from his Orthodox Jewish supporters and many of his fundamentalist Xtian supporters too.  They told him that if continues along this path, he will be the Gog that will divide Jerusalem, and G-d's Wrath would really pour out on him far more than having to visit flood ravaged New Orleans where 600,000 fled from their flooded town trying to explain why FEMA did not show up in a serious way for several days.  Gog being the proud Methodist Fundamentalist that he was apparently did not want to follow the dictates of his Church and go about the business of dividing Jerusalem to establish a state for the Non-nation.  He was no spiritual fool.  He saw what happened in New Orleans and put two plus two together and decided right then and there that he was not going to be the Gog of Ezekiel and Zecharia.  Back in 1995 another righteous gentile named Newt Gingrich after getting his Contract on or for America passed legislatively through Congress decided to take on a thorny issue in Foreign policy.  He proposed and passed by 90% majorities in both houses of Congress the Jerusalem Embassy Act which effectively required by law that the the American Embassy in Tel Aviv be moved to Jerusalem within five years and that money was set aside to purchase land or an existing structure in Jerusalem which would house the new American Embassy.  The Act also recognized Jerusalem as Israel's united and eternal capital.  For at least 40 years the Democrats controlled the House of Reps., and this act was neither proposed or considered.  Yet, when a bunch of Republicans took over, many of them with less than a dozen Jews in their districts, this became a priority in the first year of the new Congress.  Fascinating study in which party was the party of righteous gentiles at least in the 1990s.  Well little did they realize, they ran into a roadblock in the name of Alexander Hamilton, the only Jew amongst America's Founding Fathers.  Yet, apparently Alexander born in either 1755 or 1757 was born to one Rachel Levine, the wife of Michael Yochanan Levine.  Apparently, the marriage was a horrible marriage, and he left her without giving her a get or even a legal Anglican divorce since the courts on the island of Nevis in the Caribbean were run by the Anglican Church.  Well into Rachel's abode came one James Hamilton, a live-in lover.  They had two children out of wedlock, James Jr. and Alexander.  James was a devout Anglican and tried to enroll Alexander in the Anglican school on the island, but the Church said no because according to their rules, Alexander was a bastard and had no right to an Anglican education.  Then Rachel has a bright idea.  Let's enroll Alexander in the Jewish Cheder on the island since she had the proof that she was a Jew.  Well lo and behold the Jewish elementary school on the island enrolled Alexander in the early 1760s.  Sorry there were no Reform Schools at the time.  So the school was 100% Orthodox.  He was a good talmid there for about five or six years when at the tender age of eleven his mother died, and he left the school.  Whether one is a mamzer (a bastard by Jewish law) or not when one's father is not Jewish does not matter in this area because a mamzer cannot be denied a Jewish education anyway.   So it is pretty self-evident that the first Sec. of the US Treasury whose face is front and center on the $10 bill was born to a Jewish mother.  I would ignore the the Daughters of the American Revolution genealogical claims that Rachel was a French Huguenot.  The last name that they claim for her was Lavien not Levine, but they fail to explain that she got that last name from her observant Jewish husband.  Very peculiar that they would go to such lengths to deny Alexander's ancestry.  So what is the point?  Well apparently at the Constitutional Convention in the late 1780s, it was Alexander that proposed the imperial presidency.  He actually thought that Presidents should be elected for a lifetime position.  This did not go over well with James Madison and others.  So the lifetime position idea is in history's dust bin.  Yet, apparently Alexander did get his way about one aspect of the American Presidency.  While in domestic affairs the Constitution is filled with checks and balances between all three branches of government, in foreign affairs in the day to day running of foreign policy, the President is essentially a King for four or eight years.  Surely when the moment requires it, the President is sometimes required to actually seek a Declaration of War when both houses of Congress actually get around to doing it.  But even there such as the most recent action in Libya, the Congress forgets to even do that, even after 60 days when the War Powers Act says that they must declare war or demand that the President withdraw troops from wherever he unilaterally sent them.  Also the Senate must ratify all Treaties signed by the President or his officers by the 2/3rds majority.  But that is it folks.  On every other aspect of American foreign policy, the US Congress has absolutely no say whatsoever.  You can blame the Jew, Alexander Hamilton, for that one.  Now I only mention this because when Gingrich and Company passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act by majorities that could not be vetoed, the Act supposedly became law within ten working days of passage.  But Clinton ignored it citing Mr. Hamilton, probably in the Federalist Papers but I am not sure, that the Congress cannot tell him to do what he desires in foreign policy.  So even thought the five year limit was within the end of his term, the Embassy remained in Tel Aviv.  And same transpired during the first term of Gog W. Bush's Administration.   So in our overarching view of history apparently it took a Jew to put something into the US Constitution with tremendous End of Days Consequences.  Only in late 2005 after the evacuations did Gog W. Bush realize that as the imperial President in foreign policy, he better do something to prove to G-d that he was not the Gog of Ezekiel.  Remember that sum of money set aside by the Gingrich Congress for purchase of the Embassy building?  Well, Gog W. had an idea.  He took that money and purchased the former Diplomat Hotel in the growing Jewish East Jerusalem of Arnona, and made the preparations to move the American Consulate from Derech Shkhem one block into an Arab neigborhood of the Holy City to this spanking new and I must say beautiful Consulate building in a Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem.  Now this was of course intentional.  He wanted to show G-d that he had no intention of dividing the City and exiling its Jewish inhabitants from its Eastern half even though from recent Methodist Church policy statements, this is precisely what the Church recommended to Obama just before his May meeting with Netanyahu.  Now if you could just imagine what would have happened had his plan to destroy Jewish Gaza had failed either because UTJ would not have enabled Sharon's government in Dec. of 2004 on the tenth of Tevet or because Eliyahu Ha Navi would have shown up to stop it in accordance to the words of Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, ztl at the time.  Either way there would have been no evacuation, and Gog W. would have been seething with rage, something that seems to happen to American Presidents who think that they really are Kings of the earth in foreign policy.  He would have ignored all warnings about not dividing Jerusalem, and well history would have made him Gog after all.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now, according to the Cosmic Clock, 5765 was the First Year of Sukkot and was supposed to be a tremendous year of simcha, but for reasons discussed above all we could come up with was a rotten etrog.  But alas, the Year of Hoshana Rabbah, 5771, is all top down.  G-d is not seeking the approval of this generation's Torah sages by setting up another test of common decency.  Judgment for all time at the end of that year is proceeding as planned.  It is if this moment is built into the Creation itself.  This Tishrei of 5772 was meant to be a drop dead date, that is no one could delay it again.  One problem though is that the establishment of Atereth HaYesod in the world is without either of G-d annointed shepherds in charge at the time (&lt;i&gt;unless Netanyahu stops being a coward and grows into the job.  He shows promise when he speaks and quotes tzaddikim with whom he meets for consultation.  He has the Yud Key Vav (yahu) in his name which is prerequisite for MBYosef even though in his case it is in his last name and not his first name.  His name is Binyamin, the only one of Yakov's sons who was not kissed by Lavan.  He was also the way that Yehudah redeemed himself from selling Yosef into slavery, at least it was his idea.  Yehudah became the Areiv (guarantor) of Binyamin in Egypt by promising Yakov his father that if Binyamin is taken as a slave, he would become a slave in his stead and Binyamin would go free.  So when Yakov blessed Yehudah, he said that when Shilo comes, Yehudah's kingdom would become a kingdom for Mankind.  So our sages say that Shilo is Shai lo (gift to him), for just as Binyamin became a gift to Yosef in Egypt because Yehudah was doing a complete repentance for selling Yosef into slavery by becoming the guarantor of his full fledged brother.  So at the End of Days would G-d (Yud Key Vav or Yahu) give (natan) Binyamin as a gift to him, Mashiach ben David.  More on this Netanyahu phenomenon later.  Except one thing of note.  The Medrash Sefer Eliyahu says that the last imposed leader of the Erev Rav at the end of the Kingdom of Edom would be a man named TRMLO which is Olmert backwards.  So who is this Netanyahu?&lt;/i&gt;)  So whether Netanyahu or someone else with the Yud Key Vav perhaps in their first name such as Yehonatan  ...... (as in he will be released over Biden's dead body) or someone else whoever it may be will be MB Yosef, Atereth HaYesod has arrived.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;One of the main characteristics of Atereth HaYesod is the following:  All attempts to serve G-d at the 33rd level of purity and no further (such as through FreeMasonry and through normative Xtianity) will be met with Divine contempt.  That is the purpose for serving G-d can no longer be to just build prosperity in this World.  The purpose for Serving G-d must be lishma, for only that will build the World to Come.  This was the warning that was sent upon America when both the Washington Monument and the National Cathedral were cracked in that earthquake on the 23rd of Av (August).  The reason for America to be a nation under G-d was to create a prosperous society with a common moral foundation which could only lead to more prosperity in Olam HaZeh.  The purpose for serving G-d for the last 235 years was to make money.  This is why July 4th, 1776 was the 17th of Tamuz because the original sin of the Jewish nation was the idea that utopia in the form of the Golden Calf was prosperity.  Yet, since we had a Chazakah on the Mon on Lag B'Omer (the 33rd day after the Exodus) for that was the third day that it fell,  then serving G-d to make money would only take one to the 33rd level of purity and no further.  And of course this is not what G-d wants.  He wants us to strive to the 49th level of purity and the 33rd level is only 2/3 rds of the way there.  This is why the pyramid on the back of the dollar bill (a FreeMasonic symbol) is cut of precisely at the 2/3rds mark.  Think of it this way.  Bavel is gevurah she begevurah (strength that is in strength).   This is the ninth level of purity.  so at the end of nine centuries after the giving of the Torah, Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the First Temple.  Paras/Madai is Tiffereth she b'tiffereth.  At this level Ya'akov competes with Esau's grandson, Amalek.  Why? Because Ya'akov only has charisma (tifereth) when he speaks the Truth.  Amalek has tifereth when he speaks lies.  Since the Truth wipes away all lies, and lies destroy the Truth, Ya'akov and Amalek cannot coexist with each other.  If one does not wipe the other out, the other will wipe out the one.  So this is why it was not enough to out Haman.  His sons had to be wiped out too, and all of his animals too.  This was Tifereth she'btifereth (the 17th level of purity) because the one who is pure in Netzach, the Gadol HaDor, the Torah scholar of the generation had the koach to wipe out the liar Haman.  Then there is Greece that was pure in Netzach for it produced philosophers who would have an almost eternal influence.  Who in this generation does not remember Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?  Yet, were they pure.  Are they really eternal?  Of course not.  Yes, we know of them still 2500 years later, but 2500 years is not eternity.  Even they will have their end.  So at the level of netzach she'benetzach (the 25th level of purity) they can be defeated by the one who is pure in Hod (Our High Priest, Aharon HaKohen).  The descendants of Aharon were the Chashmonaim, and they defeated the Greeks on the level at which they depended to be pure (the 25th level of purity on the 25th of Kislev).  And now there is Edom at Hod she beHod (the 33rd level of purity), another great pretender to represent G-d's Glory to Mankind.  In the 1860s it was Glory Glory Hallelujah the watchword of the Northern effort in America's Civil War.  In the 1890s just 30 years later rather than giving Gold, Silver, and Copper to glorify G-d in a Temple meant for His Glory, the founders of the modern Olympics were putting gold, silver, and copper around the necks of the world's greatest athletes.  So to these athletes goes the glory.  Another faker this Edom is.  In the end it is all about him.  It has nothing to do with G-d.  This would help explain the medrash that when Esau realized that his blessing was only for this world and that he had no place as a nation in the world to Come, he started to cry.  Now crying is the way that we do teshuvah out of love when the opportunity arises.  So let us count the days.  There are thirty days of teshuvah until the end of Elul when we repent out of fear and out of love separately from each other.  During Elul it is one or the other but not both at the same time.  In short there is no fusion between Chessed and Din until Rosh HaShana itself when we start to say Avinu Malkeinu (Our Father Our King) when we are doing teshuvah b'ahavah really for the first time, for until Rosh HaShana we do not refer to G-d as Our Father, but only as a king who comes into the field to meet with us.  At that level we can do teshuvah in our chessed (our lack of good deeds) and teshuvah in our Gevurah ( our sins).  But to see G-d as a fusion of chessed and Gevurah which is a Melech Emeth (King of Truth) who takes into account our extenuating circumstances when He judges us, we only see on Rosh HaShana which depending on how it is counted is either the 30th day of teshuvah or the 31st day of teshuvah.  Now getting back to Esau,  apparently he was able to cry two tears, and a third tear welled up in his eye, but it would not come out.  It is said that if it had come out, then Esau's kingdom of Edom would last forever.  Can you imagine a kingdom that serves G-d to make money lasting forever?  So the first tear that he cried took him from the 30th level of purity to the 31st level of purity (the first day of Avinu Malkeinu).  And the second tear that he cried took him from the 31st level of purity to the 32nd level of purity (the second day of Avinu Malkeinu).  But thank G-d that third tear never came out, for if it had, his kingdom would be pure at the 33rd level of purity and he would have a chazakah on the Mon (money), and it would fall for him forever.  But alas at the 33rd level as pointed out before, Esau is a faker.  Even in FreeMasonry all the levels through the 32nd level require a certain amount of spiritual work which requires improvement on one's relationship with G-d.  The 33rd level requires no work whatsoever, and to be honest with you, it is not clear if at that level the 33rd degree FreeMason is even serving G-d at all.  Amongst America's founding fathers there were many FreeMasons.  They are too numerous to mention by name.  One could almost conclude that the United States was founded as one gigantic Masonic lodge.  Unlike the Edomite nations in Europe,  America was not founded as a nation under Yoshke.  It was founded as a nation under G-d.  It did not see its collective actions as dirty rags before G-d whose citizens all needed Yoshke to die for its collective sins.  At a very deep level America rid itself of one of Edom's major flaws.  It really did (not sure that it even understands this any longer) at one time look at its own deeds as G-d sees them where He only expects Man to make the right decisions based on his own extenuating circumstances.  Yet, accountable Man is, for G-d knows what the best choice is available for every human being  So our acts are not dirty rags, and no deed passes before him without the deepest understanding for how we failed in our potential.   Read Abraham Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural address on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial, which by the way was not cracked in the recent earthquake, in order to understand how one great American understood this aspect of Divine Providence.  Yet, in America the problem lies with Esau's 2nd fatal flaw, not the flaw at its inception, but the flaw of its purpose (its tachlit) as a nation.  It more than any other nation in history has served G-d for the sole purpose of making money.  Yet, just like Esau's third tear which failed to fall, America does not quite cut it at the 33rd level of purity.  The greatest American FreeMason was its ultimate Founding Father (Gog Washington) for from Gog to Gog there is no Gog quite like Gog.  He was such a believer in America as a nation that serves G-d to create national prosperity that at his 2nd inaugural swearing in ceremony, he dressed up if full Masonic regalia and placed his had on a Masonic Bible.  More than any other founding father, he was the Grand Poobah of the American Masonic Temple.  But alas the symbol that represents him seems to have developed a crack.  It is over America.  It is over in 5772. And who replaces Edom the faker at the 33rd level.  Ah yes, just like Mordechai defeated Haman at the level of tifereth she betiffereth because Mordechai was the Moshe Rabbeinu pure in Netzach of his generation.  Just like The Kohanim from Aharon pure in Hod could defeat Greece at the level of Netzach she'benetzach (the 25th level of purity), in the end it will he who is pure in Yesod in the Year of Atereth HaYesod (the scion of Yosef, annointed on high for this enormous task) who will defeat Edom at the level of hod she'behod (33rd level of purity).  But because Edom's scion, Amalek, has his hand on the Seat of Yud Key and divides the Divine Name so that it cannot reach perfection, this son of Yosef will need to bring the Yud Key together with the Vav in HaShem's Name.  Will the real son of Yosef with Yud Key Vav in his name please stand up?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now I actually have to build my entire sukkah tomorrow and purchase my lulav.  So I do not have time right now to properly edit this enormous post.  So I will post it as it is, and hope that it makes a difference.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-6749118657900012218?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/6749118657900012218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=6749118657900012218' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/6749118657900012218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/6749118657900012218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/10/it-is-atereth-hayesod-geulah-in-its.html' title='It is Atereth HaYesod: Geulah in its time'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-9170738594070310650</id><published>2011-09-28T01:56:00.006+03:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T23:15:14.875+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Greece (Darkness) is the Face of Rome (the Abyss): Part 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Greece is falling apart.  Now that Papandreou has passed his Draconian property tax increases, the situation in Greece is decaying into total chaos.  Any sense that it was once a great civilization is about to disappear.  For example, &lt;a href="http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1655820/pg1"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;  If you just read this, we are talking about a country that is in immediate near term collapse, and no one is going to rescue it from itself.  It will disintegrate and implode in a way that we have not seen since the collapse of Alexandria centuries ago where Ptolemy's library was raided and destroyed by the citizens themselves.  But Alexandria was an outpost, one of the four offshoots, of the mighty Greek Empire.  The disintegration now is in Greece itself, in the heart of Athens.  I posted this on Yeranen Ya'akov blog earlier this evening.  I hope that this clarifies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kativa and Chatima tova Ya'ak, now that the molad (the birth of the new moon) passed at 5:08 pm Israel time, keep an eye on Yavan (Ion or Greece), for Yavan will lead the way in the collapse of Edom (Western Civilization).  While Yavan has been a good guy this year when it stopped those flotilla ships, this judgment in 5772 is for all time.  And Yavan's influence over the historic reference frame of 4115 years since the Mabul has not been very positive.   Now that the molad has passed, we can mention the exact time that it occurred publicly because the Satan did not know the time when it occurred.  Too bad Satan, you missed the boat (You cannot stop it), for the ship of Geulah has already sailed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-27/roubini-says-u-s-is-running-out-of-bullets-in-what-may-become-recession.html"&gt;http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-27/roubini-says-u-s-is-running-out-of-bullets-in-what-may-become-recession.html &lt;/a&gt;  The economic news is down right horrible.  Yet the Dow is going through the stratosphere.  Why?  Here are my thoughts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So Ya'ak to complete Rav Fish's &lt;a href="http://www.ladaat.net/siteimages/fl_4e8064ca2895b.pdf"&gt;wonderful thoughts&lt;/a&gt;, I leave you with the following:  In the year that Mashiach ben Yosef shows up by zayin Adar, for Yehoshua was given his authority as the leader on zayin Adar, Klal Yisrael would be elevated from the 32nd camp in the desert, Midbar Tzin, which is where Mariam died exactly one year before entering Eretz Yisrael on the 10th of Nisan.  The Klal arrived at Hor HaHar, the 33rd camp in the desert, around Lag B'Omer.  They remained there until the end of Av to mourn the death of Aharon for 30 days.  On Rosh Chodesh Elul they went to Tzalmona.  As I have pointed out before in order for all the events that occurred at the 41st and last place in the desert Arvot Moav could occur, the Klal would have had to arrive there by the 15th of Kislev.  This means that to be at each campsite for an approximately equal amount of time, the Bnei Yisrael had to be at each campsite from the 34th campsite until the 40th campsite about two weeks per campsite.  That is from Rosh Chodesh Elul until the 15th of Kislev, 3 1/2 months that had to include all seven campsites!  So where was the Klal on Rosh HaShana 2488, the year of entering Eretz Yisrael?  They were at the 35th campsite in the desert.  That campsite was Punon.  It was at Punon that the Klal complained against the Mon (Manna) for being unsubstantial, and poisonous snakes were sent to bite the Klal with venom.  Then G-d told Moshe to erect a serpent on a pole so that all who looked upon it would live.  And Moshe erected a copper snake on a pole.  But wait, why copper?  Moshe was not instructed by G-d in the material of the snake:  The answer is because the essence of the primordial serpent was chochmah (wisdom) to reign supreme and that chochmah made us into gods.  Incidental to this is that the root of the word snake is copper itself.  Alas, the yetzer hara, which is most tied to chochmah since the original sin was on Rosh HaShana, is Yavan (or Ion also known as Greece).  We see this most clearly in Sefer Daniel when the third kingdom in Nebuachadnezzar's dream, Yavan, is tied to copper.  So if this the year when Mashiach ben Yosef arrives or is revealed if he is already here on Zayin Adar, it is a very strong possibility that Yavan will collapse on Rosh HaShana when the copper snake was erected in the midbar (the desert).  I guess we will have to wait 72 hours until Motzei Shabbat to find out what happened.  If it does not happen, I am sure that HaShem has his way to bring down Yavan before MBY shows up in 5772, G-d willing by Zayin Adar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I guess I should post this on my blog too.  The stock market is going nuts in an upward direction only because Yavan might not go bankrupt or because Yavan's default can be somehow controled.  There is no other good news today.  All the economic news is horrible.  The only news that is driving up the market is the avoidance of collapse.  So for the stock market to react in such an irrational way, there has to be a deep seated reason associated with the yetzer hara that could cause all these smart investors to behave like idiots.  Think of that:  There is no good news today to justify the swing, just the apparent avoidance of the collapse of Western Civilization.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;One last thought:  Bavel (Babylon or modern Iraq) or (tohu) rose and fell when S. Hussein was hung on the 9th of Tevet 5767 (2007).  Persia (Iran) or (bohu) has risen in its place and will only be destroyed in an apocalyptic war with Edom before the coming of Mashiach ben David.  Now it is time for the third great empire of world history that occupied the Land of Israel to collapse.  Yet, because it is the face of Western Civilization, the West will quickly follow.  It will not take years or even months.  "And the earth was tohu (chaotic) and bohu (void with something in it), and Darkness (Greece) was on the face of the abyss (Western Civilization)". (Gen. 1:2)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sorry for any grammatical mistakes at this time.  The hour is very late, and I have to be at Slichot early this morning.  May everyone who is trying hard to be decent be written and sealed in the Book of Eternal Life!  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I will edit this post some more, bli neder after Rosh HaShana.  Have a good year, for this is most likely the first full year of the Final Redemption.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-9170738594070310650?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/9170738594070310650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=9170738594070310650' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/9170738594070310650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/9170738594070310650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/09/greece-is-face-of-rome-part-2.html' title='Greece (Darkness) is the Face of Rome (the Abyss): Part 2'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-6464859173935036758</id><published>2011-09-22T03:06:00.002+03:00</published><updated>2011-09-22T03:12:58.356+03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Most Momentous Time in Human History</title><content type='html'>It is crunch time.  The feeling of Geulah is now palpable.  G-d is taking a roll call vote of the nations of the world before He pronounces final judgment in stage one of Gog and Magog.  the issue:  What He has said it would be for the last 2400 years.  Do you want to divide Jerusalem and to exile its Jewish inhabitants from its holier half?  So it looks like in stage one, the US will not get a direct hit.  G-d has arranged it so that Obama needs Jewish money for his campaign and the campaigns of Congressional Democrats.  So in his first term, he has too much to lose.  Britain I believe is voting yes.  Sarkozy seems to have not made up his mind yet.  Merkel is voting no.  And so is Berlusconi and Poland too.  But most of Europe is voting yes.  And all of Latin America is voting yes.  That is right with the possible exception of Costa Rica, an entire continent and a half of Catholic countries except for Surinam is voting YES!  I would think that because of his present circumstances Papendreou is probably voting no because of his defense pact with Israel.  Yet, the Din for all time scheduled for this Rosh HaShana and Hoshana Rabba will transcend what everyone does right now and will take into account the behavior of the various nations as they have behaved throughout human history all the way back to the Tower of Bavel.  This UN roll call vote is simply an alleviating factor to deflect some of the judgment for nations that actually vote no.  For a young country such as the USA that has historically been a great place for Jews to live, this could make a big difference.  For a country like Yavan (Greece) which has been around since the beginning, its vote will only slightly alleviate all the pain that it has caused Klal Yisrael throughout its long history.  Such will be the judgment on the nations this coming Tishrei.  What a momentous time this is!!  It is hard to even go to sleep.  Who wants to miss even a minute of what is happening now!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-6464859173935036758?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/6464859173935036758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=6464859173935036758' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/6464859173935036758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/6464859173935036758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/09/most-momentous-time-in-human-history.html' title='The Most Momentous Time in Human History'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-4017896737140380782</id><published>2011-09-13T20:41:00.008+03:00</published><updated>2011-09-13T23:57:50.704+03:00</updated><title type='text'>The End of Repentence (B'Ahavah) for the Lack of Common Decency is Now!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Yes, this is it folks.  We have finally arrived.  The Cosmic Clock says that we are ending the Year of Hoshana Rabbah.  The end of repenting out of love for our lack of human decency is very, very near.  Technically and maybe even in action the last time that one can repent for one's lack of human decency out of love will likely be this coming Yom Kippur 5772.  And the last time that one can repent for this through joy is likely this coming Hoshana Rabbah 5772.  After that the Cosmic Clock predicts that the only way that one will be able to repent for one's lack of human decency will be out of reverence for G-d or sheer terror from his Wrath.  This is not just for this year or for this generation.  This is for all generations since the Great Flood that ended 4115 years ago for the bulk of human history for all of our incarnations.  Do not worry about this though.  Always if one is having a problem with a certain mitzvah in previous incarnations, one regularly encounters problems with that mitzvah in one's present incarnation.  So just work on your failures in human decency in your present life.  You do not have to be like Shirley Maclaine, lehavdil, to find out what you did wrong in a previous lifetime.  G-d has given you the facilities to figure out what you need to work on at this time in this lifetime.  But work on it you should because the opportunity to do teshuvah b'ahavah for your lack of common decency very likely will not be an option next year.  Now because all Mankind is obligated in human decency via the Noachide legal system, we are all obligated Jew and gentile.  The non-Jew is obligated because of Noach's Covenant with G-d, and we Jews are obligated because the Covenant of common decency is kadmah (precedes) the Torah.  It actually preceded the giving of the Torah by 2447 years because even though we say that this is a covenant with Noach, it is really a Covenant with Adam after the Sin of eating of the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good vs. Evil.  Plus all of the provisions of the original covenants with Adam and Noach were reaffirmed in the Holy Torah which only Israel has to keep.   Yes, we should do teshuvah this year as in all years for our lack  of Torah observance.  Yet, because it is human decency that G-d demands before He demands Torah observance, and that a full teshuvah for not being decent is about to become much harder, I would sincerely reccommend that everyone put emphasis on repenting in this area this year more than one did in any previous year.   For the Jewish People, the Targum Yonatan, seems to say that the quitessential test of our human decency in our generation was how did we respond to the unilateral evacuations of Gush Katif, Netzarim, Northern Gaza, and the Northern Shomron.  This unilateral evacuation did nothing for Israel's security (this was obvious at the time), and it put at least a quarter of a million people in the direct fire of more accurate and longer range missiles (this was also obvious at the time).  The residents also were not compensated right away, but on average it took three years for evacuees to be compensated.  This is out right genaivah (stealing) and a disgusting reminder of the cruelty of those who were responsible.  The point that over a quarter of a million people were put into imminent danger ranges to being careless about other peoples' lives (a form of murder) to devaluing other peoples' property (a form of stealing).  Now this lack of decency apparently was committed by a wide variety of people.  Some of them were directly responsible for carrying it out.  Others are directly responsible for enabling it by enabling the government that carried it out.  When Tommy Lapid left Sharon's government in a huff in December of 2004, Sharon was desperate for a coalition partner to prevent him from declaring new elections.  Yet, sadly true to form he found the coalition partner he needed with a 300 million shekel bribe.  And the destruction of Jewish Gaza proceeded as planned.  Well this coalition partner has to repent as much as anyone else, for the evacuations would have unlikely happened if this coalition partner had not joined in.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am writing frantically about a whole bunch of things tonight and tomorrow, but I want to post this now so that people can think about this.  I will post more later.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-4017896737140380782?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/4017896737140380782/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=4017896737140380782' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/4017896737140380782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/4017896737140380782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/09/end-of-repentence-bahavah-for-lack-of.html' title='The End of Repentence (B&apos;Ahavah) for the Lack of Common Decency is Now!'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-7399236219888512067</id><published>2011-07-01T14:00:00.006+03:00</published><updated>2011-07-03T01:59:19.798+03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Darkness (Greece) is on the face of the Abyss (Rome) (Gen. 1:2)</title><content type='html'>The financial collapse of Western Civilization is staring us in the face, and the Greeks in spite of the total financial bankruptcy of their country seem to have enough time to launch a major flotilla against Israel. Here is what I just posted on another blog in the comments section. I do not have time to write more extensively about this until next week, but this will do for now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is really a commentary on both Daniel chapter 7 and on Bilaam's last blessing of Israel in Parshat Balak in the book of Numbers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ten kings in Sefer Daniel have not yet arisen. They will only arise after the complete economic collapse of Malkhut Edom, the Western World in the 3rd year of the Shmittah cycle 5771. This could happen when "fleets of mercantile ships go forth from Kittim", flotilla from Greece starting as early as next week, parshat Balak, after Rosh Chodesh Tamuz. This would be of course the second such flotilla allowing for the plural use of the word in Hebrew for "fleets". The Targum Yonatan in another one of his amazing visions said that the principle city in sending these fleets of ships would be Costantina, which of course is Constantinople or Istanbul, Turkey. Of course there is one "problem" with Yonatan ben Uziel's sweeping description of End Times events. Rav Yonatan lived at the beginning of the first century of the common era before the destruction of the 2nd Temple. Constantine lived a full three centuries after the Targum Yonatan's death. &lt;strong&gt;There was no Constantinople for at least three centuries after the death of the Targum Yonaton!!!&lt;/strong&gt; Yet, there it is, the name of the city in black and white, another unbelievable proof of the veracity of the Oral Torah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the military from Greece with the support from the population overthrows Greek Parliament in a coup and rejects the recently passed austerity measures, both the Euro and then the dollar will collapse in relatively short order. Or it could happen in another way. Either way the New World Order already has a plan: ten economic superstates, each with their own "governor" and currency. These economic superstates will be Free Trade Associations. So the Euro will be resurrected. NAFTA will have the amero and so forth. Only in Eretz Yisrael will a different leader arise or he is already here who will not fit the mold. That would be Mashiach ben Yosef. It will be only because of Mashiach ben Yosef that the world economy will begin to improve in the 4th year of the Shmittah cycle 5772. The world will hate him, and it will be through this that MBY will subdue Edom and destroy Amalek over a 3 1/2 year period. In Edom itself things will not be going so well. So an 11th horn either from Amalek or Yishmael will subdue 3 or the 10 governors, and take over the shebang and come chasing after Israel. If he is the European Armilus as opposed to the Erev Rav Armolgus, he will obviously be from Amalek, and the complete destruction of Amalek will proceed from there. If he is from Yishmael, he may be Barack Obama, maybe, or he may be a European Muslim, and he will end of killing MBY at the end of 3 1/2 years, and ben David will arise in Tishrei or Cheshvan of the year after the Shmittah year. The next Shmittah year is 5775. Any questions? In short the Redemption starts full steam with the collapse of the dollar by Rosh Chodesh Av 5771??? This will definitely vary in accordance to HaShem's wishes, but I verily believe that the timetable will proceed in this manner give or take a couple of months. But a 60% chance that the dollar will be in serious collapse within the month.&lt;br /&gt;Everyone have a Shabbat Shalom and a great Chodesh (New Moon) of what used to be a horrible month, Tamuz. The mazal for the month is the Crab which in Hebrew is the same name as the jener machalah, that horrible dreaded disease, the Big C. But this year, I verily believe the curse is on our enemies in Edom. And yes even on America. Why you may ask? Well ask Gog W. Bush why in the Spring of 2002, 6 months after 9/11, the IDF could not put a bullet in Yasser Arafat's head while he wanted to put a bullet in Bin Laden's head. Arafat was holed up in his Ramallah compound during Operation Defensive Wall after bloody Adar and then the Pesach massacre. Gog W. Bush, Jr. sent Colin Powell to tell Sharon that the IDF could not put a bullet in Arafat's head even though he had been personally responsible for the death of over a thousand innocent non-combatant Jews. Through the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade Arafat continued to murder Jews until his death 2 1/2 years later probably from AIDS. At least 200 Jews cry out from the grave because of Gog W.'s demand. And America's plea stinks before the Heavenly Court. Since Bush probably made that demand to appease the Saudis to keep ratcheting up oil production, it is the American dollar that has to crash, measure for measure. Yours Truly decided that we needed to make Aliyah within the year because of this blatant ugly hypocrisy. Why other Jews did not follow suit, well perhaps they have forgotten that human decency is kadmah to the Torah. And the gentile world is liable for its human indecency that Gog W. Bush demonstrated when he demanded that Arafat remain alive. Shabbat Shalom.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-7399236219888512067?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/7399236219888512067/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=7399236219888512067' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/7399236219888512067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/7399236219888512067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/07/darkness-greece-is-on-face-of-abyss.html' title='The Darkness (Greece) is on the face of the Abyss (Rome) (Gen. 1:2)'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-9163822353070560790</id><published>2011-05-25T22:14:00.003+03:00</published><updated>2011-05-26T22:02:25.327+03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Final Redemption, G-d willing, Has Begun</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We knew things have been forever changing this year.  The signs have been everywhere.  Massive flooding in Australia a few short weeks after their Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd told us in Israel that we would have to divide Jerusalem.  The massive flood covered the Rudd's gigantic home state of Queensland.  This was probably just a warning and not a final punishment.  Then eleven short days after the F.M. of Japan met with the F. M. of Iran to inform him that Japan would supply Iran with nuclear fuel rods for its nuclear reactor in Bushehr a massive earthquake/tsunami strikes the coast of Sendai, Japan.  This triggers as everyone knows nuclear meltdowns or near meltdowns at four of six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima reactor facility south of Sendai.  Keep in mind that it took G-d just 11 days to send this fierce retribution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here we go again, but this time the judgements are coming frequent and fast.  It is getting hard to keep up.  One judgement happens.  And I say, let me write about this one. But before I sit down to compose a post, another one happens, and one has to write about that one too.  Before you know it, the avalanche of judgements keeps coming at a pace that the mind cannot focus.  Each one needs to be researched and discussed.  So let us discuss just two.  I wrote an email to a friend, and this is what I sent him:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay away from any city named after a Methodist Minister.  Joplin was a Methodist minister that founded the city of Joplin, MO in 1873.  Stay away from small towns with a majority Methodist population.  Denning, Arkansas's only church was a Untited Methodist Church.  Both were destroyed by F-5 tornadoes, the worst kind.  Those who chase tornadoes call F-5 tornadoes "The Finger of G-d".  Here is the latest from the United Methodist Church:  &lt;a href="http://us2nomads.multiply.com/journal/item/2199/United_Methodist_Church_Features_Anti-Israel_Message"&gt;here &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/american-methodist-church-calls-for-end-to-settlements/"&gt;here &lt;/a&gt;.  The first link is from The Blaze, Glenn Beck's outfit and is from the last ten days.  G-d is working very fast now.  Notice that part of the United Methodist Church's attack against Israel is to influence Obama to forever alter American foreign policy.  The key point in all this is that they seek to divide Jerusalem by demonizing Israel.  Netanyahu's speech indicates that he is going to play a profound role in the geulah process after all.  I am not ready to pronounce his Mashiach ben Yosef just yet because he has to make many personal and public changes to fit that role.  But the fact that this has all occured around Lag B'Omer is profoundly significant, for it is from Lag B'Omer or the 33rd level of purity onwards that M.B.Y begins to lead the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So pray tell what did Bibi do on Lag B'Omer morning.  He and his wife Sarah took a 90 minute walk through the Washington DC National Mall.  He exhilarated her according to Arutz-7 with his knowledge about the monuments and all the inscriptions on them all designed, built, and inscribed by 33rd degree FreeMasons on the 33rd day of the counting of the Omer.  Why Bibi are you a FreeMason?  Well we hope not, because M.B.Y. has to get us all beyond the idea that the purpose of serving G-d is to make money or as the US Constitution says "To Promote the Common Welfare".  So this is really a dangerous time for him.  If he cannot lead us beyond the 33rd level, G-d will find someone else who can, and the ideas of the Golden Calf are so entrenched in our society that perhaps the only way that the world will grow beyond the 33rd level is if the US dollar were to collapse.  Let's see, is that about to happen?  So either Netanyahu will lead us to the next level, or G-d will find someone else with a Yud Key Vav in his name to lead us all to the next level.  But Netanyahu, let us commend you on your speech.   That walk with Sarah on Lag B'Omer seems to have turned you into a leader.  You know that even though you received standing ovations from both houses of Congress, most of the world will hate you for talking about a united Jerusalem, like let us say the United Methodist Church and perhaps V.P. Joe Biden who seemed to forget to clap when you mentioned it.  Or maybe he was just asleep.  With VP Joe we can never know.  This would be a good time to start building in Ramat Shlomo when VP Joe is snoring away.  We all know that you knew going into that speech that the Pals. would be preparing their rejection statement while you were inviting them to talk about peace and more peace and how about some more peace talks while we are all talking about talking about peace.  Just be forewarned.   HaAretz, Ma'ariv, and "The Last Idiot" a.k.a Ynet are already preparing their attack strategy against you.    They are scared to death of what is coming in September with that little UN vote for a Pal. State.   If they are scared, that is a good sign that everything will be all right.    Also be sure that Israel's Attourney General's office is already preparing the trumped up charge that they are going to indict you with if you even demonstrate that you might take us all above and beyond America's thumb to the 34th level of purity.   Are you prepared?   In your years as Israel's UN Ambassador you used to receive advice from the Lubavitcher Rebbe.  And in recent years you sought out advice from Rav Mordechai Eliyahu.   So from whom are you seeking out advice now?  Anyone?  No one?  Well of all times in your life this is the time to find a Rav.   May I suggest Rav Shalom Arush.  He seems to know a thing or two about what is going on right now.   Someone such as him can help you retrieve yourself from the 33rd degree FreeMason danger zone.  Edom has not really been surpassed yet.  So he is going to fight tooth and nail to stop you if that is your intention.  The 34th level of purity and above is rarefied air.  No nation in world history except for Israel under David, Shlomo, and Yehudah under Hezekiah has ever succeeded in going above and beyond the 33rd level.  And even at that time, the rest of the world lagged behind.  So here's your opportunity, your last one at that, to continue to be a man and not a mouse.  At the end of your speech you kept saying G-d bless America.  May G-d bless you with multiple-fold strength because you are going to need it.  But not to worry if you mess up at this juncture in history and fail, no one and I repeat no one can stop the redemptive process that began on Lag B'Omer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Footnote to this post:&lt;/b&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; I am adding this so the message of this post is not misconstrued:  The general judgement on a city can usually not be understood in the same way as a judgement on the individuals. The individuals who suffered and died did so in accordance to several different reasons that the Ramchal discusses in Derech HaShem. Therefore there is no real way of knowing why one individual suffers a calamity while another does not. The Ramchal points to suffering as a natural condition which brings an individual closer to G-d even if he did not necessarily sin in this incarnation of his soul. Of course, we wish the best for all the victims that died and their families, but if mentioning the root cause of the general reason for the calamity brings about reflection and efforts to change the names of cities named after famous Methodist preachers, then hundreds of lives can be saved.   In short, this blog is not condemning any individual who died as someone that deserved to die in Joplin, MO or from any of the other tornadoes that have swept the Midwest of the USA.  But we are obligated to see the important meaning behind tragedies in terms of what G-d expects of all of us especially in this Year of Hoshana Rabba.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-9163822353070560790?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/9163822353070560790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=9163822353070560790' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/9163822353070560790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/9163822353070560790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/05/final-redemption-g-d-willing-has-begun.html' title='The Final Redemption, G-d willing, Has Begun'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-2853643923078587925</id><published>2011-03-13T01:49:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-03-13T04:05:25.348+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Dizzying Speed of it All</title><content type='html'>There is so much to write about. The earthquake/tsunami in Japan with the associated radioactive cloud from the nuclear meltdown. The brutal murder of five members of the Fogel family in their home in Itamar. Both events took place so close the the birthday of Moshe Rabbeinu, the 7th of Adar, in the year of Hoshana Rabba 5771, the seventh year of Sukkot. Add to that the earthquake in XChurch, New Zealand just three short weeks ago. Give me until midweek to see where this nuclear cloud is heading. Then I will post something. Hint: Remember my first post? About the &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/02/tsunami-and-sweet-letters-of-judgment.html"&gt;South Asian Tsunami&lt;/a&gt; in Tevet of 5765 (Dec. 2004). Well in this Japanese catastrophe, one has the same three letters that were sweetened back then on the first year of Sukkot plus the peh from Japan. The peh is pakod pakaditi and stands for Moshe Rabbeinu. And it took place two days before his birthday/(and Jahrzeit but in a year with 2 Adars, Jahrzeits are commemerated in the first Adar.) So in this catastrophe four of the five final letters were sweetened. Of course pakod pakaditi means that the full measure of our suffering is sitting before the Heavenly throne, and G-d is now judging the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first plague of the "earthquake season" was really about three weeks ago in XChurch, New Zealand. It is in keeping with the redemption from Egypt that the first plague is against the god of what is being judged. In Egypt it was the Nile River that was judged first with relatively small loss of life. In XChurch between 200 and 300 people lost their lives, and there was large scale destruction in the city. But most of the good people of the city are alive today, Baruch HaShem, but the man-god for about 2 billion of planet earth's residents was judged. It was not a stretch of the imagination that bigger things were coming now that the meat of the year of Hoshana Rabba lies before us. Even before the XChurch earthquake, warnings were all around us. Blackbirds were falling from the sky in Arkansas and Brazil. An entire state in the country/continent of Australia was underwater for weeks and then was hit by a massive cyclone. The dizzying amount of judgements on the world simply must be catalogued since the beginning of the year 5771. Now if this present unfolding catastrophe in Japan continues to turn into something more massive than the death toll from the earthquake/tsunami, this will turn out to be the 2nd whack of the willow branch bundle that I wrote about in my first post that I linked to above. What unfolds before Purim will tell the full tale of that whack. More later as more develops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until then buy silver to protect your assets as the dollar heads toward oblivion. Two potential dates this year for the collapse of the dollar are the day after Lag B'Omer (since Lag B'Omer is on a Sunday this year when the dollar is not traded) or on the 17th of Tamuz, the 235th Hebrew calendar anniversary of America's founding. Again these are potential dates. Nothing is for sure.  Yet, if this is the 3rd year of the Sabbatical cycle after which ben David comes in the first year of the next cycle, then this is the year that the economy of Western Civilization has to collapse.   Just make sure that when it does take place that you are where you want to be, for it will be very hard to buy oneself out of a bad situation if the currency is worthless. Sometime, G-d willing, by the end of Adar 5772 Mashiach ben Yosef possibly will arise if present trends continue. So the value of silver must continue to rise before MBY is revealed. Secondly do teshuvah now, for all sins that you can think of. Hoshana Rabba is really the last opportunity to do teshuvah in a complete sense before one's fate in Olam Haba is sealed forever. Look for certain aspects of free will to be taken away sometime after Hoshana Rabba of 5772 (October 19, 2011).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally a discussion about why the other years of Sukkot were not so happy, and even why this year will involve suffering of so many Jews as individuals, must take place. This is a delicate subject which must be made in another post, lest I receive tons of hate mail. In the meantime, I am writing a letter to one of the people who could have made a difference in 5765 so that the years of Sukkot would have been happier for all Jews and righteous gentiles throughout the world. Gog W. Bush, Jr, the gilgul (reincarnation) of Eliphaz would have been the Gog who came against Jerusalem, and the encounter would have been more pleasant than what seems to be on the horizon. The letter that is being written will hopefully create the right environment for teshuvah from this person in particular and a half million of his followers throughout the world. This teshuvah will ameliorate the effects that we can expect when a Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt supplies Hamas in Gaza with all the missiles that they will need to bombard the coastal plain including Tel Aviv and all of its suburbs (&lt;strong&gt;all of them. There will most likely be no exceptions this time unlike during the First Persian Gulf War in 5751 in the 2nd year of Rosh HaShanah when one suburb was spared&lt;/strong&gt;. Therefore, teshuvah will be required to reinvoke the promise of the Hazon Ish on this matter.) from precisely the same place where four Northern Gaza yishuvim peacefully existed before the evacuations of Av 5765. The purpose of this letter is not to spread hate but to create an atmosphere of Achdut in the Jewish people. Also, more later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good night, and Happy Birthday Moshe Rabbeinu! If this is the 2nd whack, there are three more to go.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-2853643923078587925?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/2853643923078587925/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=2853643923078587925' title='22 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/2853643923078587925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/2853643923078587925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/03/dizzying-speed-of-it-all.html' title='The Dizzying Speed of it All'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>22</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-36938046096364896</id><published>2011-02-01T00:41:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-02-01T01:29:08.300+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Smell of Truth is in the Air!</title><content type='html'>Yes, tis a sweet savour indeed! The smell of Truth is in the Air! I will cry it from the mointaintops if I could. But this blog entry shall suffice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The righteous in Israel will prevail this time. How do I Know? Because the sweet savour of Truth is in the Air.&lt;br /&gt;1. Wikileaks about Gog Bush Jr.'s massive spying campaign on Israel, exposing forever the lie for why Pollard is still suffering in prison in his 26th year&lt;br /&gt;2. Al Jazeera leaks sending Abbas and Erekat scurrying behind rocks, denying that they will ever make even the smallest concession to Israel,&lt;br /&gt;3. the Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt blowing out of the water the fallacies of the peace treaty with Egypt, that we should have at the very least kept our hold on to the northeastern sixth of the Sinai Peninsula all the way to Wadi El Arish (a.k.a. the Wadi of Mitzraim). By holding on to this territory, Hamas could now not be supplied by the Muslim Brotherhood because there would be no border between Gaza and Egypt.&lt;br /&gt;4. Hezbollah's takeover of Lebanon, setting up the moment when Ehud Barak will finally be tarred and feathered. Yes, Tel Aviv and the entire coast may be bombed this summer, but narry a leftist will be left when we prevail with the coming of Mashiach ben Yosef. The Smell of Truth is in the Air!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sent this letter to Arutz-7. It is not a time for despair. It is a time for teshuvah for our sins of common indecency. Mashiach ben Yosef's soul root is from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil according to Rav Chaim Vital student of the Arizal HaKodesh. All of the 365 negative commandments of the Torah were part of the fruit of that tree. That is to partake of that tree lead Adam and Chava to break all 365 prohibitions in the Torah. The Nachash (the primordial snake) entered into Adam. The gematriah of nachash is 358. He could therefore no longer perceive 358 of the 365 prohibitions in the Torah! Therefore from then on Adam and his descendants could only perceive the remaining seven negative prohibitions. It is from this root that we have the soul of Mashiach ben Yosef. He will lead us back to doing common decency for its own sake. We will become experts in derech eretz (human decency) which is kadmah (preceeding) the Torah. From the looks of what happened in Gush Katif, we have a tremendous amount of teshuvah to do in that area alone. But this year the Hoshana Rabba of years is the year to do it. It very well may be the last year to do it before we lose some of our free will in that area. Keep in mind that human decency is really what the seven Noachide Laws are all about, and if we are to be a nation of priests for Mankind we must be experts at keeping this code. Only then can Mashiach ben David come whose soul root is from the Tree of Life which is of course the Torah, but first we must become decent again. By the way, the gematriah of Mashiach is also 358, for ben David is the tikkun for eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. I will soon be publishing a blog on how we can all do teshuvah in the areas of common decency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For now, let us celebrate that the sweet savour of G-d's signature, the Truth, is taking over the world. Who will Mashiach ben Yosef be then? One thing is sure. It will be someone for whom if Wikileaks were to reveal his private conversations, no one would be astonished or surprised because whatever he has said in private will have already been said by him in public! So nothing new would be revealed. Could this be someone who already is in Netanyahu's inner circle? Could this be Netanyahu himself after he does teshuvah for his own disreputable behaviour? Or will this be someone else from the outside who takes over the reigns of government while it is in collapse because of the massive bombing of the Galil and the Left Coast? To be discussed at a later time.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-36938046096364896?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/36938046096364896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=36938046096364896' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/36938046096364896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/36938046096364896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2011/02/smell-of-truth-is-in-air.html' title='The Smell of Truth is in the Air!'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-5300995753444821880</id><published>2010-12-27T14:58:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2010-12-30T03:59:24.836+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Vendyl Jones</title><content type='html'>Vendyl Jones just passed away at 3:15 this morning, Monday morning, in Texas. This is a great loss for the world as this Noachide soldier is now with G-d. He found the annointing oil for Kohanim, Kings, and the First Temple's utensils and the incense that was used in the 2nd Temple. He, at the end of his long life, wanted to drill a bore hole into the Cave of the Column in Qumran to see if the treasures of Betzalel were hidden there including the Menorah, the Golden Table, and the Ark of the Covenant. All of these things were hidden during the reign of Josaiah (Yoshiyahu), the great king of Yehudah, in the waning days of the First Temple period. Yet he ran into political resistance, for Qumran is in what was or is to become Palestine. Someone else will have to carry on this mission when the proper time comes. For now, Baruch Dayan Emeth for the soul of this great man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His funeral info is as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Local funeral home in Grandview, TX:&lt;br /&gt;Clayton Kay-Vaughn Funeral Home&lt;br /&gt;109 S. Third Street&lt;br /&gt;Grandview, Texas&lt;br /&gt;phone number: 817-866-3311&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is survived by two children who converted to Judaism and three other children who did not. I am personally aware of Sarah Richardson of Ma'aleh Levonah here in Israel and another son, Gershom Bar-Yonas (son of Jones) formerly of Mitzpeh Yericho. The 600 kilograms of incense that Vendyl found in 1992 are actually being stored in Ma'aleh Levonah, which means Bringing Up Levonah. Levonah is frankincense, one of the eleven spices in the Incense and one of the its major ingredients. How appropriate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update on the funeral service for Vendyl Jones:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;2:00 pm Thursday 12/30/2010&lt;br /&gt;Beth-El Congregation&lt;br /&gt;4900 Briarhaven Road&lt;br /&gt;Fort Worth, TX 76109&lt;br /&gt;phone no. (817-332-7141)&lt;br /&gt;Website: &lt;a href="http://www.bethelfw.org/"&gt;www.bethelfw.org&lt;/a&gt; For a map and directions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(The location is just north of I-20 off of Hulen St., west of I-35W. There are numerous hotels on I-35W and on west of the I-20 &amp;amp; Hulen St. intersection.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beth-El Congregation is a reform temple.  It was the largest venue that could be secured at short notice for a large influx of Noachides and Jews who appreciated Vendyl's work while he was alive.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-5300995753444821880?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/5300995753444821880/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=5300995753444821880' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/5300995753444821880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/5300995753444821880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2010/12/vendyl-jones.html' title='Vendyl Jones'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-1609416069948352190</id><published>2010-12-20T01:10:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-12-20T22:06:07.974+02:00</updated><title type='text'>What Might Happen Now</title><content type='html'>This post is also now appearing at the &lt;a href="http://mysticalpaths.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-might-happen-now.html"&gt;Mystical Paths &lt;/a&gt;blogsite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the Chafetz Chaim, right after WW1, he said that WW1 was the first war of Gog and Magog. He proceeded to say that about 25 years after WW1 there would be another great war from which the Jewish people would not be redeemed. That of course was WW2, the 2nd war of Gog and Magog. He then said that sometime in the future after this second great war there would be a final great war from which the Final Redemption would take place. This prediction of his is verifiable by one of his students, Rav Elchanon Wasserman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is also verifiable that according to Rav Yitzchak Kaduri's quotation of the Vilna Gaon that the final battle of Gog and Magog would begin on Hoshanah Rabba, the 7th day of Sukkot, in the first year of a Shmittah (Sabbatical) cycle. It just so happens that Gog W. son of Gog Bush initiated the War on Terror after 9/11 by starting the bombing of the Taliban in Afghanistan on Hoshanah Rabbah 5762, the first year of a Shmittah cycle. The problem is that what happened after seven years of this final battle was the beginning of another severn year economic cycle spoken of in the Talmud in &lt;a href="http://www.come-and-hear.com/sanhedrin/sanhedrin_97.html"&gt;Sanhedrin 97a&lt;/a&gt;. In the third year of that cycle which we are now in, the economy of Western Civilization will collapse after signs of collapse for two full years prior. This started really in Elul 5768, just before the first year of the next Shmittah cycle, 5769, after the one that began in 5762. On Rosh HaShanna 5769, the bottom fell out of the stock market after the collapse of Lehman Bros. two weeks earlier. We are now in the third and pivotal year of that Shmittah cycle, and the dollar is literally disintegrating before our eyes. Why the seven year cycle of the War on Terror is being followed by a seven year economic cycle is a question that only Eliyahu HaNavi can answer. There is nothing about this in the words of our sages that one seven year cycle would be followed immediately on its heels by another seven year economic cycle. One possible insight is that the Jewish people have to do Teshuvah before Mashiach arrives. Since the seven year war on terror did not facilitate this teshuvah, G-d has to hit us where it really hurts, our pocketbook. The Old World Order where the purpose for serving G-d is to make money has to be replaced by its converse where the purpose for making money is to serve G-d. Since America represents the former and not the latter, America's collapse is destined to happen during the third year of this Shmittah Cycle if this is the seven year cycle from Sanhedrin 97a. The New World Order will not be lead by the likes of George Soros, of course, but by Mashiach ben Yosef who is either the present Prime Minister (Yes, believe it or not I mean Netanyahu) or one with enough faith to set up the New World Economic Order where the purpose for making money is to serve G-d. Remember it is Yosef who can economically stabilize the entire world as he did in ancient Egypt. But just like ancient Egypt the World will not appreciate what he does, and they will gather against Yerushalayim to divide it either this year or in the 7th year of this economic cycle. When the nations of the world do this, either only Mashiach ben Yosef will be killed in accordance with most commentaries on Zecharia 12 or "Half the City will go into exile" in accordance with Zecharia 14. Some other sefarim by our sages say that Mashiach ben Yosef does not have to die, but the Mixed Multitude will try to kill him for not bending on the status of Yerushalayim before the entire world (except for Canada which is very strange). Therefore, either in August (Av) of 5771 or in 5775, the next Shmittah year, the nations of the world will gather against Yerushalayim to divide it probably in order to set up a PA State. By the way, do not think for one minute that a Republican House of Reps. can prevent Obama from ordering the sending of NATO troops to do this. Since these troops would be on a peace keeping mission, he does not need a Declaration of War in accordance with the Constitution or the War Powers Act. Since no treaty will need ratification, he does not need 2/3 of the Senate to give its consent. And since the NATO troops will have a high German (Gomer) and Turkish (Togarmah) representation, Germany and Turkey will gladly flip the bill to pay for it. A special appropriations bill to pay for it from the US Congress will not be needed. In short the American Founding Fathers put way to much power in the day to day running of foreign policy into the hands of the President. But their mistake is part of Divine Providence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the arguments that it might be this year is that Av 5771 is Mincha Gedolah of the 6th millennium. According to a shitah (method of calculation) of the Vilna Gaon, Mashiach ben David can no longer come Achishena, in a nice way without suffering, after Mincha Gedolah on Yom Shishi (12:30 pm on Friday). He therefore has to start coming b'itah (in its time with tribulation). Just calculate from the Year One when the 1st millennium began until the year 5001 when the 6th millennium began. That takes us to sundown at the beginning of Yom Shishi, Thursday evening. To high noon on Friday just add 750 years (3/4 of a millenmium) taking us to Rosh HaShana 5751. Since 1000 years divided by 24 hours = 41.6667 years, that is how many years correspond with each hour of the day. To get to 12:30 pm on Friday take 41.6667 divided by 2 = 20.8333 years or 20 5/6th years for each half hour. Add this to Rosh HaShanna 5751, and one gets Rosh Chodesh Av 5771, 5/6th of the way through 5771, which is this coming August 1st, just at the time when the PA wants to set up their state. On this subject one just has to see the following sent to me by Rav Pinchus Winston word for word:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rabbah bar Bar Chanah said: Once I was going on a boat and saw a fish upon whose back grass was growing. We thought it was an island. We alighted, baked, and cooked upon it. When the back of the fish became hot, it turned over, and had the ship not been so near (to enable us to jump into it), we would have drowned (Bava Basra 73b) … Explains Rabbeinu Ya’akov: Rabbah bar Bar Channah saw with Ruach Hakodesh that in the End-of-Days, Israel would rule over a people. Israel will assume that this people has no hope of ever overcoming Israel, and will therefore subjugate them. When the people have suffered much, they will “turn the plate over on its mouth” and resist Israel. If Moshiach is not close at hand, Israel will drown from the many problems that will arise. (“I, the author of the ‘Beis Yechiel’) showed this explanation to my teacher, Rabbi Nachum Partzuvitch, immediately after the Yom Kippur War (1973). He said that these words must have been written with Divine assistance, since at the time (18th century), the idea of Jews controlling another people was incomprehensible.” (Tuvcha Yabiyu, Balak)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can make a valid argument that that the Palestinians are not really a people, that many of their so-called refugees were simply trying to return to where they came from. The most common last name in Gaza is Masri which means Egyptian in Arabic (Mitzri in Hebrew), proving that all those people with that last name were originally from Egypt. They made massive immigration to the Holy Land because the Jews were arriving at the same time, bringing with them the highest prosperity in that part of the world from the 1880s onward. In 1947 and 48 these Arabs were trying to return back to Egypt when King Farouk stopped them at the border and forced them to settle in Gaza. The Masris became instant Palestinians. Kaboom!!. This happened many times over with a massive influx from Jordan because the Palestinian Mandate under the British had an open border with the Jordanians with almost unlimited immigration while Jews were forced to wait in line to enter starting in the 1930s. Of course in 1939 Jewish immigration was effectively ended. What a wonderful time for the civilized British Empire to shut down Jewish immigration to the Holy Land! How thoughtful that Empire was! And with unlimited Arab immigration from Jordan to boot! Yea, I am sure no Arabs showed up from there to participate in the highest standard of living in the entire Middle East. But the facts are, they are here now, and in 1964 the new ethnic group, the Palestinians formed the PLO to liberate Palestine from the Jews. Wait a second. Judea and Samaria were part of Jordan in 1964. What lands was the PLO formed to liberate? Golly, could it be Haifa and Tel Aviv? Do they still want to flood Haifa and Tel Aviv with 7 million Arab "refugees"? Well PM Fayyad just said that last week. So for what reason are we talking to them? Because if we do not the entire world will come to force a settlement, and they will send NATO (Gomer and Togarmah), Russian (Meshach and Tuval), and UN troops, representing the entire Quartet. So the only fact on the ground is that 3 million Arabs live in Judea, Samaria, Gaza, and "East Yerushalayim" along with another million and a half who live in pre-67 Israel. No matter how they got here, they are here now with no real demographic solution in sight. And now they want to, in the words of the interpretation to the above medrash, "turn the plate over on its mouth" and "re-establish" the historically non-existent" Arab country or even province of Palestine in Judea and Samaria and Haifa and Tel Aviv and the Gallilee. How unbelievably thoughtful of them! We get to remain in a non-Jewish State of Israel with a majority Arab population that was in large part from either Egypt or Jordan to begin with who magically coalesced into a people in 1964. And of course we will be dhimmi'ized, and no Jew will ever ascend again to the seventh step leading to the Cave of Machpelah where Avraham, Isaac, and Ya'akov and their wives are buried. Remember Hebron will be Judenrein. But this is what the above medrash says.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whichever it is Rosh Chodesh Av 5771 or sometime in 5775, the nations of the world will gather against Yerushalayim to kick off the final phase of the battle of Gog and Magog. According to Talmudic Sources and the Prophet Micah 5:2, this final tribulation of Jews being dislocated from their properties should last approximately nine months. At that point according to the Talmud in several places, there will be one great apocalyptic battle between Rome or Edom (Western Civilization) and Persia (Iran) and its allies such as North Korea. This should therefore happen either in 5772 or 5776. During this war all the nations that gathered to divide Yerushalayim will be punished by the effects of a nuclear war. See Zecharia 14 for the plague upon the nations that come up against Yerushalayim. It describes the effects of nuclear blasts upon the human body. During this nine month period there will be severe punishments leading up to this war upon the nations of the world. We saw with the evacuation from Gaza and the northern Shomron a preview of things that will take place if the nations of the world evacuate Judea, Samaria, and East Jerusalem of their Jews. Hurricane Katrina, the worst natural disaster in American History, came to New Orleans within two weeks of these evacuations. During this hurricane 60 times as many Americans lost their homes as were evacuated from Gaza and N. Shomron. Until this day tens of thousands of New Orleans residnents are living in temporary shelters. If this 60 to one ratio holds up for the evacuations of Jews from Judea and Samaria to make them Judenrein, then 320,000 Jews will lose their homes (for up to nine months). 60 * 320,000 = more than 19 million people worldwide will lose their homes as divine retribution for that many Jews losing their homes. This will also happen in short order after any successful evacuations from Judea and Samaria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;East Yerushalayim has a special status though. According to Zecharia 12, just talking about slowing down Jewish population growth in the Holy City will cause that nation that does the talking in the words of the Prophet to be lacerated. It is very possible that G-d will consider the 19 years that Yerushalayim was divided under Jordanian rule between 1948 and 1967 to be enough time where Jews in East Yerushalayim were forcibly removed from their homes. But the verses in Zecharia 14 do not say this. Immediately after it says that all the nations of the world will gather against Yerushalayim, it says that homes will be ramsacked and women will be violated, and half of the City will go into exile. To say that this happened in 1948 would require HaShem to use His attribute of Rachamim (Mercy) in calculating the events of the End of Days. He did this in Egypt by counting the 400 years of exile from the birth of Yitzchak. We therefore only spent 210 years in Egypt. He could be doing this again, but we cannot expect it because in 1948 all the nations of the world did not gather against Yerushalayim. Only Jordan's Arab League gathered against Yerushalayim. This is a far cry from what is about to happen in our time where the entire world will gather against the Jews in East Yerushalayim and where the entire world will at least attempt to send half of the City into exile. With all this exile and being thrown out of one's permanent home into temporary shelters, no wonder that the holiday which most represents the Final Redemption is Sukkot, the holiday of temporary dwellings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On this note it might be best to discuss where should one be to be part of these apocalyptic events. Here in Eretz Yisrael the worst that will happen to its Jews is that up to 570,000 Jews might lose their homes in Judea, Samaria, and East Jerusalem. Some women might be violated while they are being dislocated from their homes too, which of course is even worse than the expulsions. What will happen to the rest of the world because of this will be far worse. Will Jewish communities in the Diaspora have invisible shields to protect them from the punishments on the nations in which they dwell. I do not beieve so, but there are actually those in the Diaspora who think that this is the case. They believe this even though already most homes in America have lost between 25-50% of their cash value since the onset of the sub-prime mortgage crisis which began in 2006. Most Jewish communities have suffered along with the rest of America with steep declines in the value of their homes, declines which have become far more steep over the last two years. It does not look like that the invisible shield theory has worked very well. On the other hand, there are medrashim about miracles here in the Land of Israel that will protect Eretz Yisrael from the worst of the backlash on the nations. This does not include earthquakes that will turn Yerushalayim into a plain by flattening out the entire City, but there is a medrash which talks about aerial attacks of "missiles" which will be stopped by the Hand of G-d. Do not confuse this with Ehud Barak's and B. Hussein Obama's Iron Dome for the truncated Eretz Yisrael which in their minds does not include Judea, Samaria, Gaza, and East Yerushalayim. Such borders are proving to be insane as secular Israelis on the Left Coast are slowly waking up to this fact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway whether it is less than two years or if it is five years, the end is clearly in sight. And if it takes longer so be it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To end this off, I need to note three other reasons why the nations &lt;strong&gt;might&lt;/strong&gt; gather against Yerushalayim this year and not in 5775. For one, there is a post from &lt;a href="http://www.lazerbrody.typepad.com/"&gt;Rav Lazer Brody&lt;/a&gt;, right after the evacuations from Gush Katif in 5765 (Aug. 2005), that quoted Rabbeinu Bachya on the Torah portion of VaYechi, that the Final Redemption (either Mashiach ben Yosef or ben David) has to begin within seven years of Jews being forcibly removed from their homes. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rav Lazer has recently purged many of his old posts including this one from his archives, for he says that he does not want to comment any more on politics. Everything that he writes about now deals with increasing emunah (faith) in HaShem in the world. Therefore, do not look for this post in his archives.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; I do not know why this does not include Yamit and other communities that were in the far-eastern Sinai in 1982 as part of the Peace Treaty with Egypt. These communities were also part of Eretz Yisrael according to BaMidbar (Book of Numbers) which includes up to 1/3 of the eastern Sinai. But the evacuation of Gush Katif by a standing army of 200,000 Jews as part of the time of Gog son of Gog is spoken about by the Targum (translator) Yonatan ben Uziel from 2000 years ago &lt;a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dvNhKo4b2zAJ:yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/05/secret-of-vav-in-hashems-name.html+%22targum+yonatan%22+ben+uziel+%E2%80%9CKirvat+Dekalya%E2%80%9D&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on Deut. 34:2-3. He even mentions by name the Capital City of Gush Katif as Kirvat Dekalya, City of Date Palms (It actually was Newe Dekalim, The Dwellings of Date Palms). Now this happened 5 1/2 years ago. By August of this year it will be six years since the evacuation of Gush Katif, leaving only one year left in Rabbeinu Bachya's calculation. Of course this calculation allows for the arrival of Mashiach ben Yosef in the seventh year from the evacuation from Gush Katif and not necessarily the coming of ben David. Secondly, in my &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/04/everyone-hold-on-to-your-seat.html"&gt;Cosmic Clock &lt;/a&gt;this year 5771 is the Year of Hoshana Rabbah, the seventh Year of Sukkoth. Therefore until the end of this year according to the Cosmic Clock, Jews could still enter "temporary dwellings" , forcibly this time at the hands of the entire world. Also in accordance with the Cosmic Clock, 5772 is Shmini Atzeret, the 8th day of the Great Festival of the Final Redemption on which only one sacrificial bull for the nation Israel was offered. On the other previous seven days of the Festival, during the seven days of Sukkot, 70 bulls for the 70 original nations of the world are offered up. The nations of the world are invited to "party" with Israel during these first seven days. Shmini Atzeret is only for Israel, and we return to live in our permanent homes too. Therefore it makes sense that Israel's Final Redemption might come to its peak during 5772 according to the Cosmic Clock. Finally there is a book by Eliyahu Shatz. I came across this book because of my close association with Rabbi Dr. Marvin Antelman (&lt;strong&gt;To Eliminate the Opiate&lt;/strong&gt;) who highly recommends Shatz's book written in Hebrew (&lt;strong&gt;Commentary of Eliyahu on Prophesies of the Redemption in (the Hebrew) Scripture&lt;/strong&gt;). In this book he dissects the two word expression that appears regularly throughout Scripture &lt;em&gt;Acharit HaYamim (The End of Days)&lt;/em&gt;. He says Yamim should be understood as Yoma'im (Two days) as it says in Hoshea 6:2 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;After two days He will rescucitate us. On the third day He will raise us up, and we will live before Him. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The two days are 2000 years where the Holy Temple lies fallow in a state of ruin. This includes 70 years for the First Temple, and 1930 years for the 2nd Temple. This takes us to the end of the Year 5760 (Fall of 2000). Acharit refers to the beginning the the Al Aksa Intafada which began about 36 hours before Rosh HaShannah 5761 (Fall of 2000). Somehow he derives that Acharit refers to twelve years. He understands this as twelve years of the final third battle of Gog and Magog. Rabbi Dr. Antelman has given me another book to read in English by the same author which derives this from the Book of Daniel. I will let you all know when I have read it, bli neder, and understood it. He definitively says in the above referenced book that the Redemption is in 5772. The copyright date on the book is in 5764 (2004).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As with everything else we will have to see it happen to know for sure. In truth none of this is certain as I have learned since I started blogging in early 2005 right after the South Asian Tsunami. We should just be prepared for anything that G-d might happen to throw our way. It is all for our very best. This is the generation that will correct the original sins of Israel in the desert. G-d will find the best path for us to do that.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-1609416069948352190?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/1609416069948352190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=1609416069948352190' title='27 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/1609416069948352190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/1609416069948352190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-might-happen-now.html' title='What Might Happen Now'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>27</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-2060738793589296858</id><published>2010-11-08T02:10:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-11-08T03:05:33.036+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Vendyl Jones is Very Sick</title><content type='html'>He has the jener Machalah (Cancer). He has been suffering for several months. He is a very good friend of this blog and a devout Noahide. He is the archaeologist who discovered the shemen hamishchah, the aromatic anointing oil, in 1988 near Qumran which was used to anoint the vessels for the tabernacle, kings, priests and prophets (Exodus 30::22-33). Four years later in 1992 he discovered 600 kilograms of the 11 spiced incense (Qetoret) probably from the 2nd Temple period (Exodus 30:34-38, Talmud Kereisos 6a) along with karshina lye and Sodom Salt which were lying right next to it, ready to be mixed with the incense. In between these momentous discoveries he demarcated the ancient site of the tabernacle resting place of Gilgal near the Jordan River and discovered the ancient site of the threshing floor of Nachon where Uzza was smitten by G-d when he touched the Ark of the Covenant (II Samuel 6:6). He has lead a colorful life, and now he is very, very sick. Here is the copy of an e-mail that I received:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shalom everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A request has been made to Noahide Nations that I feel is a worthy cause and is an opportunity to do a mitzvot for a family that has worked tirelessly for 20 years on behalf of the Noahide Movement. Many people on this discussion group know Vendyl and Anita and the difficulties they are going through. The request was made this week and is below. I can also confirm the reports in this request.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ray, Can you distribute this to the people of Noahide Nations?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the friends of Vendyl Jones,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am seeking the help of the thousands of people,Christian,Noahide or Jew that Vendyl has had an effect upon. Those of us to whom Vendyl has given freely of his knowledge of God's word. Those who finally knew how to understand the Torah, how to study, what God expected of us and even those of us who started a ministry from the knowledge that Vendyl shared with us.&lt;br /&gt;I first started studying with Vendyl in 1978 and took a wonderful trip to Israel with him as the guide in 1982. As many of his friends found out the knowledge gained from that trip was incredible, the understanding that we suddenly had of the Bible was profound as he guided us with the scripture in his hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In April of 1990 Vendyl's organization funded and arranged the founding Noahide conference at the Fort Worth Convention Center, resulting in the recognition of B'nai No'ach by the chief Rabbinate of Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of us have been on digs to Israel and have joined in the thrill of discovery at the Cave of the Column. Many have been to weekly, monthly or yearly studies of Torah at Vendyl's home or at some camp he arranged so that we could relax, learn and talk with friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this was financed with supporters' donations. Those donations were used wisely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No Mercedes, no planes, no Rolexes and no weekends in Vegas. Vendyl put our money into research, a big house that would support a conference of 100 or more, digs that uncovered 900 lbs of the Temple incense and numerous Researchers that I read--we all read--with great anticipation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem with this was that all the funds raised went into the Institute, none was set aside for personal use other than day to day living costs. Now Vendyl at 80 needs some of that funding he so selflessly spent only for Hashem's work .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may or may not know that Vendyl was diagnosed with a rather aggressive form of cancer in his throat this last spring. It was too large and intertwined for surgery and the prognosis is not good. At 120 lbs and unable to swallow, he is fighting for his life. He is taking chemotherapy weekly and radiation. The radiation has burned his neck, mouth and lips to the point that he cannot swallow or even sip water. Anita has been feeding him through a stomach tube. The pain meds are keeping him semi napping and of course his throat is too sore to talk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now let's get to the point, Vendyl who has given so much, needs our help. We are not talking about tax deductible, not so we can get a new researcher to hear about the new finds on a dig, we are talking about a good deed for a friend who will not be able to return our favor in money, excitement or knowledge, even a conversation is not possible at this time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are we talking about? The institute has about $30,000 in debt from past meetings, past Researchers, past digs and now 6 months of living with cancer. Ongoing expenses are $35 copays to 2 to 4 doctors a day, prescription co-pays and travel and food expenses for up to 5 trips weekly to the hospital. The credit cards are maxed out but current for now. Anita has been paying off some bills and keeping everything current, even no AC to reduce the electric bill, but she is close to the end of her rope. She needs to focus on Vendyl's care and needs to keep herself strong so that she will be there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am asking you, the friends of Vendyl Jones for help. Can you make an offering of $10, $20 or even $100 or more? Now we can show a friend what he means to us."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noahide Nations will participate in this effort and I hope that all who can will join in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please make check out to and send check to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noahide Nations&lt;br /&gt;2435 N. Central Expressway&lt;br /&gt;Suite 1200&lt;br /&gt;Richardson, TX. 75080&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or you can use PayPal or Credit Card. Go to &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.noahidenations.com/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;www.NoahideNations.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; and on the right hand side you will see a 'Donate' box.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In either case please designate that the donation is for Vendyl Jones. NOTE: If you choose PayPal or Credit Card please send me an email about the donation because there is no longer a comment box to identify the project being donated to. Go ahead and make your donation and then send me an email that this is what the donations is for. Sorry for the inconvenience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Send e-mail to Ray@NoahideNations.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shalom and be well,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ray Pettersen&lt;br /&gt;Executive Director&lt;br /&gt;Noahide Nations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noahide Nations is a registered 501(c)3. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short everyone please donate whatever you can to nurse back to health this great lover of Israel.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-2060738793589296858?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/2060738793589296858/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=2060738793589296858' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/2060738793589296858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/2060738793589296858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2010/11/vendyl-jones-is-very-sick.html' title='Vendyl Jones is Very Sick'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-4825033966453622570</id><published>2010-10-11T02:08:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-14T13:29:54.414+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Zecharia 14 and the Trail to Hope</title><content type='html'>This article is appearing both on &lt;a href="http://mysticalpaths.blogspot.com/2010/10/zecharia-14-and-trail-to-hope.html"&gt;Mystical Paths&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://www.yearsofawe.blogspot.com/"&gt;End of Days&lt;/a&gt; blog in two parts or more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have not written for a while because my writing was dependent on the fact that former President George W. Bush would turn out to be Gog, and when this did not occur, I withdrew from writing. But now signs of hope have begun to reappear that the end of days is near and the final redemption is at our doorstep. During Nisan of 5770, the drive by President Obama to divide Jerusalem hit us like a breath of fresh air. As horrible and ominous as this sounds, the fact that the prophet Zechariah in chapters 12 and 14 predicts this 2400 years ago as the clanging of a redemption in its time is enough to calm the nerves as the nations of the world gather against Jerusalem. No more years and years of death and maiming. How many hundreds have died in the Al Aqsa Intafada? How many thousands have been maimed for life? &lt;a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LFPk0Crw01MJ:www.come-and-hear.com/sanhedrin/sanhedrin_98.html+Talmud+Rome+%22nine+months%22&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;gl=il"&gt;Sanhedrin 98b&lt;/a&gt; , Tosafot on Avodah Zarah 2b, and &lt;a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_Jfj4XW-CgoJ:www.facebook.com/topic.php%3Fuid%3D2257308273%26topic%3D2461+Avodah+Zarah+Rome+%22nine+months%22&amp;amp;cd=5&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;gl=il"&gt;Rav Eibeschutz&lt;/a&gt; say that the dislocations will last no longer than nine months once and if they occur that is, until Persia falls into the hands of Edom (the West) or until Edom rules the world for nine months. It may be painful once these dislocations occur if they have to occur. But which is worse: another ten years of a third intifada where thousands more would die, G-d forbid, or something quick where HaShem could fight the nations that come against Yerushalayim. The Oslo War will quickly end as HaShem performs his miracles to redeem his chosen nation. Let's look at the facts that are inherent in the prophetic scenario.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact #1: Zecharia 14:1-2 &lt;strong&gt;Behold a day is coming for HaShem, when your spoils will be divided up in your midst. I will gather all the nations &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;(of the world)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;to Yerushalayim for the war; the city will be captured, the houses will be pillaged and the women will be violated; HALF of the city will go out into exile, but the rest of the people will not be eliminated from the city.&lt;/strong&gt; How could he, the prophet, have known that this is precisely what the nations of the world would want 2,400 years later? This is precisely Obama's, the EU's, Russia's, and the UN's goal. In their minds East Yerushalayim is an illegal Israeli settlement. They accept West Yerushalayim as being part of Israel. So they have no intention of sending those residents into exile. Again how could he have known?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact #2: Zecharia 14:10 &lt;strong&gt;The entire land will change to a plain, from GEVA to RIMMON, south of Yerushalayim....&lt;/strong&gt; These are precisely the geographic limits of modern Yerushalayim. The northern most border of Jewish Yerushalayim is just outside the separation fence between Yerushalayim and the Shomron. It is the community of Geva Binyamin known to the locals as Geva for short (a.k.a. Adam). The southern most community inside the separation fence south of Yerushalayim is Efrat. It is a city built on seven hills. The southern most hill in Efrat is Givat Rimmon (Pomegranate Hill). In short Jewish Yerushalayim stretches from Geva in the north to Givat Rimmon in the south. Again 2,400 years ago how could the prophet have known? How could he have known?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact #3: Zecharia 12:2 &lt;strong&gt;...Also Yehudah will take part in the siege of Yerushalayim.&lt;/strong&gt; Also Zecharia 14:14 &lt;strong&gt;Also Yehudah will wage war against Yerushalayim...&lt;/strong&gt; From J Street in America to Peace Now, from former PM Olmert to the present PM Netanyahu there is a turning against Jewish sovereignty over 270,000 Arabs in East Yerushalayim. There is an acceptance of the fact that a Palestinian State will have its capital there. Yet, the logistics are a nightmare. There are over 200,000 Jews living beyond the 67 border in Yerushalayim in twelve Jewish neighborhoods. How can the Eastern, Northern, and Southern parts of the Capital city be divided up by establishing different water mains, sewage tunnels, and electrical grids one for Israel and another for Palestine? How would international borders between intertwined neighborhoods be set up? The traffic and road blocks in the "eastern" half of the city would be a nightmare making commerce and moving around impossible. Would Jews living in majority Arab neighborhoods have to leave their properties behind a second time, once in 1948 and once again now? Of course they would simply because it would be unsafe for them to remain. I am sure there would be international condemnation for the reverse situation. Arabs living in majority Jewish neighborhoods would surely be allowed to keep their properties in both eastern and western parts of the city. Then of course there is the Temple Mount where the Muslim Wakf has systematically gone about destroying every piece of evidence that two Jewish Temples once stood up there. Under UN auspices how much worse would the situation be? Yet Jews want to divide the City. Do you think that the &lt;a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/201071715237381855.html"&gt;NATO &lt;/a&gt;and Russian troops that come to "protect" the new State of Palestine will &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Neighborhoods,_Jerusalem"&gt;allow the Jews to remain beyond the 1967 borders in Yerushalayim?&lt;/a&gt; What will these naive Jews do then? Will they wring their hands, or will they say that &lt;a href="http://www.btselem.org/english/Jerusalem/Discriminating_Policy.asp"&gt;Jews should never have been there to begin with?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again how did Zecharia know this 2400 years ago? How did he know that Jews would turn on Jews who live in Yerushalayim?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact #4: Zecharia 12:3 &lt;strong&gt;It shall be on that day that I will make Yerushalayim for all the peoples a burdensome stone, all whose bearers become lacerated; and all the nations of the world will gather against it.&lt;/strong&gt; On March 9th, 2010 Israel's Interior Ministry announced the approval of building 1600 housing units in Ramat Shlomo, a neighborhood beyond the 1967 border in Northern Yerushalayim. American Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton roundly condemned "the expansion of Jewish settlements in occupied territory" on the day that Biden was visiting Israel. Prior to this Netanyahu had specifically mentioned to the world that the ongoing building freeze in Judea and Samaria did not include the annexed parts of Yerushalayim, that building in "East" Jerusalem would continue unabated. Yerushalayim is at the heart of the Jewish people, and nobody was going to tell us whether or not we could or could not build there. Yet on March 31st, 2010 Obama demanded a &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/u-s-seeks-4-month-east-jerusalem-building-freeze-in-return-for-direct-talks-1.266790"&gt;four month "East Jerusalem" building freeze &lt;/a&gt;in exchange for pressuring PA President Mahmoud Abbas to talk directly with Israel. &lt;a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2010/04/26/netanyahu-freezes-building-in-east-jerusalem/"&gt;On April 26th, 2010 it was reported by the Associated Press &lt;/a&gt;that sometime after Obama's March 31st demand that Jews stop building in Yerushalayim beyond the 1967 border, Netanyahu quietly stopped the advancement of all building projects in that part of Yerushalayim. This was meant to mend fences with the Obama Administration and to stop all of the public condemnations of Israel for expanding neighborhoods in "East Jerusalem". In the midst of all this brouhaha tragedy strikes the American Gulf Coast. On April 20th, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon oil platform blew up causing the &lt;a href="http://www.eoearth.org/article/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill"&gt;worst underwater oil spill in world history.&lt;/a&gt; It lasted until July 15th, 2010 with repeated attempts to cap the underwater gusher ending in abject failure time and time again. Each time a promise was made by British Petroleum that the underwater gusher could be stopped, the attempts would fail for one reason or another. Until on July 15th it was finally capped. Not so coincidently on July 12th, 2010, Netanyahu ended the freeze in East Jerusalem &lt;a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/138558"&gt;with the approval of 32 new housing units in Pisgat Ze'ev.&lt;/a&gt; This came on the heels of a &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/06/AR2010070601889.html"&gt;July 6th meeting &lt;/a&gt;where Obama actually treated Netanyahu like a mentsch after a &lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7076431.ece"&gt;disgraceful rebuke at their previous meeting on March 23rd &lt;/a&gt;when Netanyahu was not even invited to have dinner. So here we have it. Obama and Company freeze Jewish growth in Yerushalayim in early April 2010. The worst underwater oil spill in world history commences on April 20th. Obama for now in order to raise Jewish money for Democratic candidates reverses his earlier disrespectful behavior on July 6th. Building in all of Yerushalayim recommences on July 12th. BP caps the underwater gusher on July 15th after a series of repeated failures to do so. America was truly lacerated by its attempt to decide who has the right to live in all parts of Yerushalayim. If this is what happens with a building freeze, what will happen when NATO and Russian troops start removing Jews from their homes. One can only begin to imagine. The final outcome is known though. Zecharia 14:12-13 &lt;strong&gt;This will be the plague with which HaShem will strike all the peoples that have organized against Yerushalayim: Each one's flesh will melt away while he is standing on his feet; each one's eyes will melt away in their sockets; and each one's tongue will melt away in their mouths. It shall be on that day that there will be a great panic of HaShem among them; each one will grab the hand of his fellow, and his hand will be raised up against the hand of his fellow. &lt;/strong&gt;Again how did the prophet know, how did he know?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact #5: Ezekiel 38:3-6 Say: &lt;strong&gt;Thus said the L-rd Elokim: Behold I am against you Gog, the prince, leader of Meshech and Tubal. I will lead you astray, and I will place hooks into your cheeks and bring you out wit your entire army, horses and riders, all of them clothed in splendor, a vast assembly, with buckler and shield, all of them wielding swords. Persia, Cush, and Put will be with them, all of them with shield and helmet; Gomer and all her cohorts, the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all its cohorts - many peoples will be with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;More on this later.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-4825033966453622570?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/4825033966453622570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=4825033966453622570' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/4825033966453622570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/4825033966453622570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2010/10/zecharia-14-and-trail-to-hope.html' title='Zecharia 14 and the Trail to Hope'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-995909771498892518</id><published>2008-10-05T21:46:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-05T22:15:38.320+02:00</updated><title type='text'>777 Ticks Into History</title><content type='html'>On Erev Rosh HaShanah in New York while we entered Rosh HaShanah here in Yerushalayim, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell exactly 777 points, the largest point drop in its history.  On the Day of Judgement for humanity, the world's second greatest country in human history has lost its Divine blessing for prosperity.  &lt;em&gt;The greatest country in human history was the Nation of Israel under David and Solomon and the Nation of Judea under Chizkiyahu (Hezekiah)&lt;/em&gt;.  The Shekhinah a.k.a. the Divine Presence, whose number is seven, placed her mark on this auspicious date, announcing to humanity that She was leaving America.  Any Jew who wants to get out and has a way and the wherewithal to leave should now leave or yearn to leave.  The entire sorted process of our redemption is now reaching a climax.  How fast America collapses is in G-d's left hand, His hand of judgement.  I am writing this post and coming out of hibernation, for I now fear for the safety of Jews in America.  Come now to Eretz Yisrael if you can and if Providence has provided you with the opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is now seven full years since 9/11/2001 and almost seven full years since President Bush started bombing Afghanistan.  The Sabbatical cycle in now complete.  How G-d advances the Redemption this year, only He knows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We still do not know if George W. is Gog.  We will definitely know by mid-January.  Until then I will write sparingly.  If he turns out not to be Gog, and the Redemption comes anyway, I will gladly herald the good tidings along with many other bloggers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-995909771498892518?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/995909771498892518/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=995909771498892518' title='28 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/995909771498892518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/995909771498892518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2008/10/777-ticks-into-history.html' title='777 Ticks Into History'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-2745540049903151375</id><published>2008-03-18T09:18:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-03-18T09:44:33.624+02:00</updated><title type='text'>6,000,000 for Redemption: A Deal Made With Haman</title><content type='html'>This is a reprint of a letter that I wrote to Rav Lazer Brody back in December of 2005. It deals with the subject that I broached but did not complete on the Tamar Yonah show earlier today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In continuation of today's earlier post about assimilation, I received a very special letter from the "Maggid" of Kochav Yaakov, my esteemed friend &lt;a href="http://www.yearsofawe.blogspot.com/"&gt;Dov Bar-Leib&lt;/a&gt;, may Hashem bless him, his family, and his community. Here's what Reb Dov writes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Reb Lazer:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is gut wrenching to report, but there is an end-times source for this Holocaust in America. Zechariya HaNavi tells us that two out of three of us will not make it. Only one-third of Klal Yisrael will be refined to welcome Mashiach.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1939 there were 18 million Jews in the world. Hitler, yemach shmo (may his name be wiped out - LB), took a third, but because they died for the Sanctification of HaShem's Name, they have a spiritual rebirth in our time. In the American Holocaust, another one-third has no spiritual rebirth, for they chose their path, sometimes through total ignorance. This leaves the original six million taken by Hitler, yemach shmo, who are here to say "Baruch HaBah" to Mashiach. Thank G-d, that the original six million has divided up into 6 million men and 6 million women for a total of 12 million Halakhic Jews in the world. The reason for this is steeped in Kabbala and has to do with the number of Jews that Haman purchased for slaughter with 10,000 Kikar. You can read about it in my article "6 million for Makhzit HaShekel" on my blog site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The calculation is not so complicated. When Yosef was sold into slavery, each of the ten brothers received 2 dinar which according to most sources was equal to 1/2 of a Shekel or Makhzit HaShekel. The total 20 dinar received for the sale was therefore equal to five shekel, the amount which is equivalent to redeeming the firstborn, Pidyon HaBen. As our sources tell us, the coins were then used to buy shoes from the Midyanim who were passing by at the same time as the Yishmaelim. Since Yosef represented 1/10th of those who benefited from the transaction, a tikun of Makhzit HaShekel makes sense. 600,000 men at Sinai would give 300,000 shekel which would purchase 300,000 divided by five equalling 60,000 Josephs back from slavery. How Yosef would be rewarded with the 36 silver crowns is described in my article. Of course this relates Chanukah to Purim, probably a subject of another article.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is worth noting that the Makhzit HaShekel (half shekel - LB) coin was actually a coin that was worth twice as much with twice as much silver since the crime of selling Yosef against his will required the brothers to pay back double, "kefel". After the Chait HaEigel, the Makhzit HaShekel would not suffice to bring Klal Yisrael back to the "Gate of Gan Eden" from which we fell back because of that Chait, for now all 600,000 needed to be redeemed. This, of course would require 6 million Jewish men giving 3 million shekel. You see, the Chait HaEigel (sin of the golden calf - LB) is intimately intertwined with Mechirat Yosef (sale of Joseph - LB), for the same plate that was used to cause Yosef to rise out of his burial spot in the Nile was used later by the sons of Bilaam to cause the Eigel to appear from the fire into which Aharon had thrown the gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Haman put 10,000 kikar of silver into the genizah (treasury - LB) of the King, he intended to buy all the Jews for slaughter. The question arises how many Jews did he purchase. From Parshat Pekudei we see that 603,550 men in the desert contributed from Makhzit HaShekel 100 kikar of silver for the Adanim (one kikar for each socket holding together the fifty beams that formed the skeleton for the tabernacle, two sockets for each beam, one on top and one on the bottom) plus 1775 additional shekel for the hooks on the pillars. The 1775 additional shekels come the 3550 Jews over the exact 600,000 figure. Since exactly 600,000 Jews gave 300,000 shekel of silver which equals 100 kikar, we get a conversion factor of 3,000 shekel /kikar of silver. 10,000 kikar times 3000 shekel /kikar equals 30 million shekel. 30 million shekel divided by five shekel per person purchased six million Jews for slaughter! HaShem said that Amalek's purchase was valid, but not in that generation. Only a generation just before Mashiach would come would need such merit for Mashiach to come. In the merit of that 6 million who perished, 6 million male Jews and 6 million female Jews will witness the miracles of Israel's great redemption speedily in our day and will willingly donate 3 million shekel for the Third Temple effectively cleansing our Sin of the Eigel HaZahav. My forgiveness - May we have Jews in excess.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Baruch HaShem, Dov&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-2745540049903151375?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/2745540049903151375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=2745540049903151375' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/2745540049903151375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/2745540049903151375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2008/03/6000000-for-redemption-deal-made-with.html' title='6,000,000 for Redemption: A Deal Made With Haman'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-2870560467472614384</id><published>2008-01-13T20:33:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-01-13T22:33:16.174+02:00</updated><title type='text'>My Dear Readers Letter</title><content type='html'>Dear Readers:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I realize that I have not published in the last six weeks. I am sorry to have disappointed you. I must admit that since the British left &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Batzrah&lt;/span&gt;, albeit leaving it in Persian hands, I have been reeling. I have thought for a long time that the prophesy regarding &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Batzrah&lt;/span&gt;, that the L-rd will have a sacrifice of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Edom's&lt;/span&gt; kingdom there, dealt with them. I feel that I really missed the mark. Even though many things that are transpiring now regarding Gog W.'s stated goal to divide &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Yerushalayim&lt;/span&gt; and establish a P.A. State, I have felt like I did something really wrong. I do believe that the British will not be let off the hook for their closing the gates to Zion just in time for the Holocaust, but at least for now their comeuppance will not be in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Batzrah&lt;/span&gt; (Basra in Arabic where &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;tzaddees&lt;/span&gt; become letter S such as &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Masri&lt;/span&gt; instead of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Mitzri&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Moshe &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Yess&lt;/span&gt; has pointed out, I will no longer move the goal line. If Gog W. Bush does not prove to be the Gog of prophesy by the time he leaves office in January 2009, I will, bli neder, stop publishing altogether. Until then events should be moving fast now. As it is, the American President will be returning several times this year as he makes creating a P.A. State his legacy and his payback to the Saudi Royal family so that the democratically elected leaders of the Royal family will continue to produce enough oil to fill America's needs. I mention this in response to Gog W.'s claim that his reason for creating this state is to bring democracy to the Middle East. Perhaps it simply slipped Gog's mind that &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Hamas&lt;/span&gt; is the &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4650300.stm"&gt;elected leadership &lt;/a&gt;of the Palestinians. In January of 2006, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Hamas&lt;/span&gt; won in an election against Mahmoud Abbas to lead this ragtag collection of so called refugees and stateless Arabs. Therefore, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Hamas&lt;/span&gt; is the "legitimately elected leadership" of this non-nation that &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_National_Covenant"&gt;became a nation &lt;/a&gt;in 1964, dedicating itself to liberating the occupied territories of Tel &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Aviv&lt;/span&gt; and Haifa before there was a Six Day War. By the way, this is another lie. Until the 90s Arabs in Judea and Samaria had Jordanian citizenship, and the most common last name in Gaza is still &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;Masri&lt;/span&gt; which as mentioned above means &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;Mitzri&lt;/span&gt; which means &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;Egyptian&lt;/span&gt;. I guess I will need to publish to confront the cascade of lies, but as I mentioned above, if Gog W. does not prove to be Gog by the time he leaves office, I will, bli neder, stop publishing this blog.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-2870560467472614384?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/2870560467472614384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=2870560467472614384' title='24 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/2870560467472614384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/2870560467472614384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2008/01/my-dear-readers-letter.html' title='My Dear Readers Letter'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>24</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-5759251968409021707</id><published>2007-11-29T02:46:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-11-29T03:07:49.372+02:00</updated><title type='text'>A Gathering of Seventy Wolves</title><content type='html'>The Annapolis charade has come and gone.  Dozens of nations came this week to divide Yerushalayim in two.  Along with this they have hope in their hearts to impoverish and make homeless one hundred to two hundred thousand Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria.  Gog W. Bush is on a mission.  As the leader of this plot to keep the Saudi royal family happy and pumping lots of oil, G-d has allowed him to literally explode Gog UMagog in our faces.  The gematriah (numerical value) of Gog UMagog is 70, the total number of national/language spinoffs of Hebrew to span out of the Tower of Bavel.  It represents the combined will of Mankind in their vain attempt to defy the Almighty.  In their minds and in the mind of Armilus (Olmert) and Armolgus (Peres),  Yerushalayim belongs to Mankind to do with it what it wishes.  From Zecharia 14 we see that the Creator has other plans.   The prophet very specifically says that there will be a plague that will go out against those nations that dare to divide Yerushalayim.  This week the trap has been set, and forty or fifty nations have flung themselves after the bait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may ask, "Are there not supposed to be seventy nations that gather against Yerushalayim."  This is where the math becomes tricky.  Apparently there are forty or fifty nations that want to play ball with Gog.  There are another twenty or thirty nations that will reject all compromises with the American king of Edom in exchange for economic largess.  These nations are in Iran's (Persia's) corner.  They cannot be bought.  It is with them that Gog will need to fight his final war.  According to the prophets and the medrashim, it is precisely that war that begins the process of our redemption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is truly history's crowning moment that these nations have gathered in Annapolis to proudly spit at G-d's plan for his treasured nation.  Let the plagues begin.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-5759251968409021707?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/5759251968409021707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=5759251968409021707' title='50 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/5759251968409021707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/5759251968409021707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/11/gathering-of-seventy-wolves.html' title='A Gathering of Seventy Wolves'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>50</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-4964612608211613744</id><published>2007-11-04T12:40:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-11-04T14:29:46.292+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Ya'akov Journeyed on to Sukkot, Part 2</title><content type='html'>We are now nearing the end of the lunar month of Marcheshvan in the Fourth Year of Sukkot, the year of Moshe Rabbeinu, and it is time to take stock. We are rushing headlong into a seemingly frightening "International Peace Conference" in which yours truly could lose his home along with tens of thousands of others. No wonder why the sub-prime mortgage crisis, in which citizens of the &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/02/land-of-magog-part-one.html"&gt;Land of Magog&lt;/a&gt; are on the verge of losing huge chunks of equity in their homes, is hitting calamitous crisis mode at this time. Much more needs to be written about this topic, but there is an even more urgent matter brewing at the surface. Apparently &lt;a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/135680"&gt;NATO troops&lt;/a&gt; are getting ready to take up the power vacuum in Judea and Samaria when the IDF vacates its posts. Discussion about this is in the preliminary stages, but the significance of this cannot be overestimated. A quick perusal of Yechezkel 38 lists the nations which will "invade" the Land of Israel. Meshech (Moscow) and Tuval (Tobolsk) are most probably forces from Russia, containing within it the European and the Siberian flanks of the Russian Empire. Curiously the text then lists the following Japhetic peoples who will descend upon the mountains of the Holy Land in addition to Meshech and Tubal. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gomer and all of her flanks, the House of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north- Many Peoples will be with you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; The last time I checked the genealogy of Gomer and Togarmah respectively, these nations were Germany and Turkey respectively. There is only one flag under which German and Turkish forces serve side by side. That flag is NATO. I am, therefore at least in part (one can never be 100% sure), expecting NATO troops to be patrolling alongside Russian troops in Judea and Samaria sometime before the end of this year 5768. Of course when this happens, all Heaven will break loose. As it says in verse 21, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I will summon the sword against him &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;(Gog's troops) &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;in all of my mountains. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;So alas, the Palestinian Authority is not equipped to take over the power vacuum when the IDF vacates Judea and Samaria, but Gog's troops will be equipped. At least so it seems.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-4964612608211613744?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/4964612608211613744/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=4964612608211613744' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/4964612608211613744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/4964612608211613744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/11/yaakov-journeyed-on-to-sukkot-part-2.html' title='Ya&apos;akov Journeyed on to Sukkot, Part 2'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-4250082893745355836</id><published>2007-10-15T13:18:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-15T14:24:38.145+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Peres: The Second Face of Armilus</title><content type='html'>The following is a series of questions and answers with a reader of this blog during the Days of Awe before Yom Kippur:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt; Someone claims that there is to be a 9 month occupation of Israel. The fact that Israel is almost a puppet of the world may be a form of occupation. Has the 9 months begun?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; I believe that it is possible that the nine months began with the ascendency of the second face of Armilus, Peres or Armolgos, as President of Israel on the eve of Rosh Chodesh Av. Armolgus and Peres have the exact same gematriah of 340. Armolgus is the second face of Armilus (it appears in the Targum Yonatan's commentary on MosheRabbeinu's last vigil of Eretz Yisrael from Har Nevo in Devarim). Armilus has two faces because the dor hamidbar had two leaders fromthe Erev rav, two sons of Bilaam, Yanus and Yambrus. We are living through their original treachery of the Golden Calf again right now.I believe that Olmert and Peres are Yanus and Yambrus respectively. Both needed to be in power for the nine months to begin. Since 5768 is a leap year with two Adars, according to this possibility the nine months began on Rosh Chodesh Av and will end on Rosh Chodesh Nissan5768. Condi Rice is driving between Yerushalayim and Ramallah as I write this as the official rep. of the nation of the Golden Calf. See my article on American Twilight to see whyAmerica is the nation of the golden calf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;G'mar Chatimah Tovah, Dov&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Follow up Question:&lt;/strong&gt; one second, for some time you call Olmert to be Armilus. Now you seem to link Armilus to Peres. and, you call the pair re-incarceration of the two sons of bileem. Now Who or what do they represent? and What is your source to say that bileem had 2 sons in the eriv rav? Why would bileem rush to curse israel knowing that he might condemn his own children?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; Reb Chaim Vital, I believe, in&lt;strong&gt; Shaar HaGilgulim &lt;/strong&gt;and the Vilna Gaon in &lt;strong&gt;Kol HaTor &lt;/strong&gt;refer to Armilus as the Malach of the Erev rav, the spiritual force behind the lead players, the 2 sons of Bilaam. The source for the 2 sons of Bilaam being the leading forces for the Erev rav is in&lt;strong&gt; The Medrash Says &lt;/strong&gt;which is a compilation of many medrashim. When Bilaam wanted to curse Israel, he probably did not believe that his sons were really a true part of Israel and that they could somehow separate themselves from the enemy nation as he saw us. He was right about one thing. The goals of the Erev rav are irreconcilable with objectives of Klal Yisrael. Your question, though, is a good one. Why would Bilaam curse his own children, knowing that they had joined the Jewish people? He probably did not think that they would still be a part of us 3300 years later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way the&lt;strong&gt; The Medrash Says&lt;/strong&gt; has a detailed explanation of the golden calf collusion of Yanus and Yambrus. I would probably need to explain how these men gained access to the gold that Aharon had collected and how Yanus (Olmert) had committed sorcery with 2/3 of the gold and how Yambrus (Peres) had committed sorcery with the other third. And why too did Yanus have control over 2/3 of the gold when seconds later out popped the golden calf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;follow up question:&lt;/strong&gt; there is a risk declaring a specific date starting the 9 months of occupation. people will expect some serious event at the end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;answer:&lt;/strong&gt; You are right. That is why I would preceed such a statement by "It is possible..." I would also say that this is not a prediction just an educated thought. I would also inform readers of the potential "test" to show one's love for Yerushalayim.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-4250082893745355836?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/4250082893745355836/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=4250082893745355836' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/4250082893745355836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/4250082893745355836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/10/peres-second-face-of-armilus.html' title='Peres: The Second Face of Armilus'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-4798579892036520605</id><published>2007-09-17T23:43:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-18T21:51:12.634+02:00</updated><title type='text'>North Korea is Emerging from the Twilight Zone</title><content type='html'>Over the last few days it has become known what really happened on the 23rd of Elul 5767 (Sept. 6th, 2007), the Hebrew anniversary of Sept. 11th, 2001 (9/11). When the &lt;a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/132896"&gt;news first came out&lt;/a&gt;, we read information that the Israeli Air Force had invaded Syrian air space and had dropped a few bombs in the the deserted area of Northern Syria. &lt;a href="http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1301"&gt;Debka&lt;/a&gt; seemed to think that the real reason for the thrust into Northern Syria was at least in part to see if newly installed Syrian anti-aircraft batteries were up to snuff. This may have been part of the reason for the raid, but just before Rosh HaShanah the plot began to thicken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently the North Koreans were getting into the act &lt;a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123666"&gt;by supplying nuclear material to Syria &lt;/a&gt;for Iranian built missiles with nuclear warheads. North Korea is therefore emerging from the twilight zone. They have been in the twilight zone since 5750 (1990), three quarters of the way through the Sixth Millennium (corresponding to high noon on Friday). Apparently as they enter Yom She'Kulo Shabbat heaven and hell will break loose at the same time. I previously back during Chanukah of 5766 &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/12/koreas-in-twilight-zone.html"&gt;discussed this extensively&lt;/a&gt;. So now another piece in the upcoming War of Redemption is sliding into place. Baruch HaShem that the IAF was successful at this time in destroying that cache of Korean supplied nuclear material. As &lt;a href="http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/archives5767/noach/lettkoreanch67.htm"&gt;Rav Levi Saadia Nachmani, ztl. over ten years ago described&lt;/a&gt; this exact situation, may we very soon see miracles of G-d's deliverance.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-4798579892036520605?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/4798579892036520605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=4798579892036520605' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/4798579892036520605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/4798579892036520605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/09/north-korea-is-emerging-from-twilight.html' title='North Korea is Emerging from the Twilight Zone'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-8537074936832128548</id><published>2007-09-05T13:30:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-09-05T13:38:24.792+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Which Dog is the Dog?  The Houses of Lavan: Part 2</title><content type='html'>have been thinking all day about Simple Jew's comment to my previous entry about Monsieur &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Sarkozy&lt;/span&gt;. I believe that I have come up with an answer. Actually this has been a thinking process going through my head during the last three weeks since my article about the Houses of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Lavan&lt;/span&gt;, dealing with the sub-prime mortgage catastrophe in the the USA. Why has this happened? Have not American Jews been keeping &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;mitzvot&lt;/span&gt; with great fervor in America. Surely the Baal &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Teshuvah&lt;/span&gt; movement in America should have protected American Jews and their investments in their homes. The cost of parochial or day school education has skyrocketed. The rising value on their homes and some creative financing on mortgages have been a vital source for paying for a G-d fearing education for one's children along with paying for the secular education of everyone &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;else's&lt;/span&gt; child through state property taxes. Except in Wisconsin no one gets a break on taxes simply because one has children in private schools. Moving to Milwaukee might solve a problem or two if every Jew who wanted to give their children a Torah education could move there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As reported on &lt;a href="http://mysticalpaths.blogspot.com/2007/07/jewish-real-estate-crunch-in-us.html"&gt;Mystical Paths&lt;/a&gt; Jews who have mortgaged their homes to the hilt for holy purposes are being hurt by this. Is there something in their service to G-d which may need improvement which could have lead to this? Even if their service is holy and wholly wonderful is there potentially something that G-d wants that they have heretofore have not been able to deliver?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Talmud in two places in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Sotah&lt;/span&gt; and in Sanhedrin explicitly says that the face of this last generation before &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Mashiach&lt;/span&gt; comes and into which &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Mashiach&lt;/span&gt; comes will have the "face of a dog". This can mean many things, and not all of them are bad. While &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Chazal&lt;/span&gt; (the Sages of the Ages) heaps much scorn on people who behave like dogs, it must be remembered that one of the heroes of Jewish History who resisted tremendous temptation to be like ten of his comrades had the name "Dog". He of course was &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Kalev&lt;/span&gt; (Caleb means dog) &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;ben&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Yefunah&lt;/span&gt;. In Hebrew that would be כלב בן יפונה. Two things need to be remembered about &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Kalev&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;ben&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;Yefunah&lt;/span&gt; with regards to his resistance against the pervasive plot of ten of his comrades in the book of Numbers. For one, he did not need a name change to go in and spy out the land. No &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;yuds&lt;/span&gt; or any other letter were added to his name to help him resist the pervasive onslaught of his comrades' arguments to continue to learn Torah in the miraculous environment of the desert perpetually living on Mon (daily manna) and under Clouds of Glory. As G-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;d's&lt;/span&gt; Dog he knew that G-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;d's&lt;/span&gt; will was for &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;Klal&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;Yisrael&lt;/span&gt; to live in the Land of Israel with all of the incumbent dangers and tribulations that come with fighting wars for and living with G-d in a more natural environment where the supernatural expresses itself within nature and where one only reaps what he sows. Secondly and on a deeper level we see from Numbers 13:22 that only &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;Kalev&lt;/span&gt; went into &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;Hevron&lt;/span&gt; to pray at the Cave of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs. He risked his life at the hands of the three giants, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;Ahiman&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"&gt;Sheshai&lt;/span&gt;, and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"&gt;Talmai&lt;/span&gt;, who lived there. What was so important that he would place himself in such a dangerous situation knowingly. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"&gt;Rashi&lt;/span&gt; tells us that he wanted to protect himself from the spies evil counsel. Of course this is true, but on a deeper level he was praying on behalf of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"&gt;Klal&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"&gt;Yisrael&lt;/span&gt; that at the end of days we who love the Land of Israel, his distant spiritual descendants, will not fall into the trap of falling into the evil counsel of Mankind and the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"&gt;Erev&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"&gt;Rav&lt;/span&gt; that Chevron is expendable in order to bring World Peace. We will feel the pain of our &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"&gt;Chaver&lt;/span&gt; (the root of the word Chevron), our fellow Jew, when the nations of the world seek to expel him from there. We will not take comfort with studying Torah in the "Desert" without &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"&gt;Mashiach&lt;/span&gt; by ignoring the plight of our fellow Jew in Chevron as Esau slyly instructs his &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"&gt;Erev&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33"&gt;Rav&lt;/span&gt; representatives to expel Jews from their homes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a work in progress. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34"&gt;Bli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35"&gt;neder&lt;/span&gt; I will continue this essay as time allows. I am sorry for all the delay, but I have been very sick. Until yesterday I was not even able to answer my email. Baruch &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36"&gt;HaShem&lt;/span&gt; I am doing better now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-8537074936832128548?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/8537074936832128548/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=8537074936832128548' title='23 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8537074936832128548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8537074936832128548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/08/which-dog-is-dog.html' title='Which Dog is the Dog?  The Houses of Lavan: Part 2'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-8140485279297732055</id><published>2007-08-11T23:45:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-08-12T01:56:19.438+03:00</updated><title type='text'>A Tornado Grows in Brooklyn</title><content type='html'>Yes, I believe that the expulsion of two Jewish families from the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Shalhevet&lt;/span&gt; Pass &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Hevron&lt;/span&gt; market under direct orders from Co. Rice on Tuesday, August 7&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; is directly related to the tornado in Brooklyn on Wednesday, August 8&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt;. It is the first tornado in Brooklyn ever, at least since the U.S. Weather Service has been keeping records. The tit for tat shakeup of the world associated with Gog &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;UMagog&lt;/span&gt;, I sincerely believe has begun. It is a little secret of the prophets of Israel that the world will not escape the wrath of G-d when the Jewish heartland is ripped free of its faithful Jews. From what I can see from the news on the tornado is that the worst damage was in Sunset Park and Bay Ridge neighborhoods, adjacent to Borough Park. It is a message to the Jewish community that it cannot build its homes in comfort in America, thinking that the destruction of Jewish homes in the Land of Israel is an Israeli problem. Nor can you prosper while the tragedy here becomes more acute. I am in the middle of a major article on this subject as I write this update. The article will concentrate on how the sub-prime mortgage collapse and the attempt to destroy Jewish life in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Yesha&lt;/span&gt; are intrinsically related to each other. Also since the American president is the one pulling &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Armilus's&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Olmert's&lt;/span&gt; and yes &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Peres's&lt;/span&gt;) strings for the pleasure the Saudi royal family, owning an American home is not a kosher way to prosper any longer. It makes no spiritual sense that the value of an American home should rise for the benefit of American Jews as the value of a home in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Yesha&lt;/span&gt; plummets so that the Saudis will produce abundant amounts of oil to help America prosper. As Gog W. thickens the plot of American involvement in Jewish life here, the American prosperity machine will sink into its own red ink. You can take that to the bank. It is no accident that we are in the Years of Sukkot, a festival of temporary housing, as this tit for tat tragedy continues. In the end the tat will win over the tit because the tat is brought to you by G-d Almighty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is important to understand that throughout all of this that will yet transpire, feeling the pain of your fellow human being is a great repair for the soul.  It helps us all become greater people who will, G-d willing, share in the Messianic Era together.  We will know through experience how to avoid doing what is hateful to our fellow human being by understanding how it feels to ourselves.  Facing &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;financial&lt;/span&gt; distress in America because of the crashing of the value of one's home will help us better understand the distress of having one's home taken away from someone in Gush &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Katif&lt;/span&gt; with nothing but a paper shack to replace it.  If you have not yet felt that distress because you have chosen to ignore it, for the benefit of your soul may you soon feel it.  If you have felt that distress, experiencing it for yourself will be even a greater &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;tikkun&lt;/span&gt;.  It would have been more pleasant to learn these lessons on empathy without the suffering, but our lack of merit and our stone hearted ways have seemingly left G-d with no alternative.  I hopefully, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;bli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;neder&lt;/span&gt;, will have this next installment of "The Houses of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;Lavan&lt;/span&gt;" published this coming week.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-8140485279297732055?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/8140485279297732055/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=8140485279297732055' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8140485279297732055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8140485279297732055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/08/tornado-in-brooklyn.html' title='A Tornado Grows in Brooklyn'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-3477534181825045604</id><published>2007-07-29T21:09:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-07-30T00:40:54.954+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Sarkozy the Mysterious HaKhShaRO?, Or Arguing With an Archangel</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;A quick note: I will be on Tamar Yonah's morning show on &lt;a href="http://www.israelnationalradio.com/"&gt;http://www.israelnationalradio.com/&lt;/a&gt; this Tu B'Av morning (Monday, July 30th, 2007) in celebration of G-d's festival of boundless love.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.religiousstudies.uncc.edu/jcreeves/sefer_elijah.htm"&gt;Medrash Sefer Eliyahu &lt;/a&gt;has raised its beautiful head again. An important apparent complicating factor in the medrash might be on the way to being solved. For those who read this blog on a regular basis, several months ago, we discussed the &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/11/agitated-in-accord-with-medrash-sefer.html"&gt;potential rise of Nicholas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt; as the next President of France. Our discussion basically centered around the possibility that he would be one of the three Western mighty "kings" who would come up against the last king of Persia spoken about in the medrash. We were hoping that he would become the "&lt;em&gt;lowliest of the three kings, the son of a slave woman whose name is Gigit, will confront him from the West." &lt;/em&gt;We discussed how it is very unusual to assume that any "end-times" Western man would own a wife as a slave and how that this can only be a reference to a Jewish man marrying a non-Jewish woman since such a marriage is expressly forbidden in the Torah. Of the three nations that are set to go up against Persia, only Sarkozy qualifies. His mother's father was Jewish, but his mother's mother was not. Neither Gordon Brown nor Gog W. have Jewish parents or grandparents. Yet, when in the Comments section it was revealed that his mother's Catholic mother was named Adele and not Gigit or Gigi, I dropped the matter completely because I did not want to stick a square peg in a round hole. It did not make sense, and I therefore decided to put it off to future discussion as the smoke cleared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo and behold, the news has been swift in the last couple weeks. Gog W. and Co. Rice are on a full court press for a Mahmoud Abbas led P.A. State. All this comes about because Hamas has taken over Gaza. The perverted and twisted logic that leads them to suggest such insanity at this time when their failed policy of a P.A. led Gaza has fallen apart, in normal times would not even require a response. These people are either raving mad or are completely controlled by Saudi Arabian petroleum production promises. I choose the latter possibility. By the way, we are not living in normal times. Gog W.'s belief system where he chooses to serve G-d in order to make money rather than the other way around traps him at the &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/03/thirty-third-degree-free-masonry.html"&gt;33rd level of purity&lt;/a&gt;. The conflict between Western prosperity and doing the right thing in G-d's eyes leaves him with no other alternative. Prosperity wins out over G-d's definition of what is right. In short, in the eyes of Gog W., turning on Israel at this time by making a suicidal ultimatum to set up the P.A. state before he leaves office, is normal operating procedure. If Andrew Jackson could displace the entire Cherokee nation from its Smoky Mountain home for no other reason than that they were living on prime Georgia and Carolina farmland, Gog W. can displace 100,000 Jews from their ancestral home across the ocean. The Saudis will continue to try to keep the price of oil below $80 per barrel as a quid pro quo for his efforts. Such is the life of the &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/03/six-million-for-machzit-hashekel-and.html"&gt;gilgul of Eliphaz son of Esau, Gog W. Bush&lt;/a&gt;. The new twist that has been reported in the last week is that NATO troops will come to secure the piece of Eretz Yisrael in the Piece Treaty that will be signed soon. Wow, Gog will have his hordes not just in Southern Lebanon but in the Wild Wild West Bank. Gomer (The Germans) will be here. Togarmah (The Turks) will be here. For nine months we will call them all neighbor!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This brings me to the final point and back to the first point. I have always been puzzled by the following: Medrash Sefer Eliyahu states it as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Then (the Archangel) Michael said to me, "The appointed time for the End of Days will occur during the reign of a 'king', ahem, who will be named HRMLT. There are some that say that TRMLO will be his name." Rav Simai says HKShRT will be his name. Rav Elazar says Ahashverosh (Xerxes or Artaxerxes) will be his name. Rav Yehudah ben Betira says Koresh (Coresh or Co. Rice) will be his name. Rav Shimon bar Yochai says HaKhShaRO will be his name. The Halakhah (legal ruling) in this case follows Rav Shimon who said HaKhShaRO will be his name.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First and foremost Eliyahu, the second greatest prophet of all time receives a message directly from Michael, the Heavenly Prince of Yisrael, and Second Century Rabbanim and Kabbalists argue with him! Don't get me wrong! These are great Rabbanim, but no Tanna from the Second Century can argue with Eliyahu HaNavi! What is going on here! Secondly, Xerxes and Koresh are foreign Persian potentates, and by easy inference so is HaKhShaRO. Why would they usurp the reign of Armilus (TRMLO) the Wicked?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There can be only one explanation. Rav Shimon Bar Yochai and his kabbalistic comrades davened. They knew that this TRMLO would be worse than an abomination. If allowed to reign until Mashiach ben David revealed himself, he would easily be the worst elected Prime Minister of any country in all of human history. He has to be stopped. Replace him with a foreign potentate, a Ahashverosh or even better a Koresh, or even better HaKhShaRO. A benevolent foreign potentate would be far better than nine final months of TRMLO. The first letter in the name is a Hey. It can mean "the". The other four Hebrew letters can easily be unscrambled. By the way the final O is an Aleph. Taking the Khaf and putting it between the Resh and the Aleph gives us SaRKO, the well known nickname of Nicolas Sarkozy. Can he be that benevolent foreign potentate for whom the Rashbi prayed? Time will tell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-3477534181825045604?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/3477534181825045604/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=3477534181825045604' title='19 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/3477534181825045604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/3477534181825045604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/07/is-sarkozy-mysterious-hakhsharo.html' title='Is Sarkozy the Mysterious HaKhShaRO?, Or Arguing With an Archangel'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-4505561438962995291</id><published>2007-07-25T00:09:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-07-25T01:21:20.869+03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Houses of Lavan, Part 1</title><content type='html'>It is Motzei Tisha B'Av, and the American investor is coming to terms with the fact that American Lending institutions over the last five years have given about 100 billion dollars in bad loans. Sub prime mortgages have been given with predatory purposes in mind to borrowers whose credit rating disqualified them from getting a normal mortgage with reasonable terms. I have been sitting on this evolving story for a long time, about six months. I was not sure that this was the sign that the House of Lavan the Aramean, the United States in our time, was about to lose a part of its prosperity to indicate to the Yakovs that live there that it was time to jump ship on his two year journey home. This Motzei Tisha B'Av I am becoming seriously convinced that this is the sign. The stock market seriously contracted today for the first time on &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=azVmMhMhPAJc&amp;amp;refer=home"&gt;news that these sub prime mortgages and the resulting depression like glut in the housing market will spill over to the rest of the American economy&lt;/a&gt;. It is an evolving situation whose catastrophic effect of seriously decreasing the net worth of every American home-owner will be felt several months if not up to one year and then some in the future. It is a slow enough effect to give the Yakovs of America, the American Jews, time to quickly wrap of their affairs and move on up to the Holy Land. The text of Genesis is very clear in telling us that Lavan's wealth as measured by his holding of real property, his cattle and his flock, was intricately tied to Yakov Avinu's presence as a hired hand in Lavan's house. When Yakov left Lavan's house with Lavans's daughters and their maidservants, he took with him a significant portion of Lavan's net worth. Lavan was not impoverished completely by Yakov's leaving, but the blessing upon his prosperity from HaShem because Yakov was in his midst was removed from him. Later we learn that the nation of Aram would continue to prosper from foreign trade with the nation of Israel, but the extra blessing of having Yakov Avinu in its midst would cease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the U.S. is the archetype for the nation of Aram today, we should expect a similar drop in America's real prosperity that is not tied to foreign trade since this is the Year of Yakov, the Third year of Sukkot. See my article on the &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/04/everyone-hold-on-to-your-seat.html"&gt;Cosmic Clock&lt;/a&gt; for a lengthy explanation of this. Therefore, we would expect a falloff of the net worth of those Americans for whom the &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/04/leaving-lavans-house-before-it-falls.html"&gt;white stripes on the American flag&lt;/a&gt; exist. This economic earthquake could not affect the business climate in America in the short term because Lavan in particular and Aram in general continued to prosper from trading with Yakov and his descendants. Therefore we cannot expect immediate declines in durable goods orders, the strength of the service economy, and of course, the stock market, but we could expect a long term corrosive effect to be set in motion. This is so because the number one real asset that Americans have is their homes. Real estate today is the repository of real wealth in the way that heads of sheep, goats, and cattle were the repository of real wealth in the ancient world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A discussion about why this is finally rearing its head on Tisha B'Av as a catastrophic weight on future American prosperity will bli neder be discussed later this week in a second installment of &lt;strong&gt;And Yakov Traveled on to Sukkot, Part 2. May we see the geulah shlaimah hurriedly in our day.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-4505561438962995291?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/4505561438962995291/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=4505561438962995291' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/4505561438962995291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/4505561438962995291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/07/houses-of-lavan-part-1.html' title='The Houses of Lavan, Part 1'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-5817430107771211582</id><published>2007-06-29T07:45:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-06-29T12:49:27.797+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Point Man for the Fourth Beast</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;I thought that I would post my opinion of the Tony Blair nomination as the new negotiator for the Quartet as its own post. It is from the comments of my previous post&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe that it is possible that Tony Blair is the spokesperson for the fourth beast in Daniel's vision of Daniel chapter seven. His appearance on the scene as the new point man, a.k.a Chief Prosecutor, for the Quartet during the 40 day period of the Wandering of the Spies sent by Moshe is no accident. The Quartet is an undisguised fourth beast, representing the Kingdom of Edom. It has the pieces of the previous three beasts in its makeup. The lion with the eagle's wings is the Anglo-American Empire even though in ancient times it was Babylon. The bear is Russia even though in ancient times it was Persia/Media. The leopard with four heads is the European Union although in ancient times it was Alexander's Empire broken up amongst his four generals. I do not know who the four heads are today. (&lt;em&gt;Could these heads possibly be the four leaders represented in the Quartet, itself?! In short does the fourth beast "borrow" the heads of the third beast because Greece is the Face of Rome according to Chazal?&lt;/em&gt;) I do know this, though. The ancient empire of Nimrod is a favorite of the EU. They speak in their literature of building a modern Tower of Bavel. Nimrod broken up stands for Namer rod (The leopard rules.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ten horns in Daniel's vision are the ten economic powers that the CFR wants to break up the world into. Each one would have its own currency. Europe has the Euro. NAFTA will have the Amero. MEFTA including Israel within its pre-67 borders will have its own currency. Tony Blair has been sent to enforce this vision of reality upon the Mideast. I believe G-d has a different scenario.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="comment permalink" href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/06/path-to-divine-mercy.html#2217815945460601217"&gt;6/28/2007 11:50 PM&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="Delete Comment" style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=2217815945460601217"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="c4627999853765678916"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130" rel="nofollow"&gt;Dov Bar-Leib&lt;/a&gt; said...&lt;br /&gt;One last thought. This does not mean that Blair is necessarily the small horn that pulls three horns from the crown on the fourth beast. Yet, he might become that little horn. We will wait and see. Consolidation for the ten economic kingdoms is set for 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="comment permalink" href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/06/path-to-divine-mercy.html#4627999853765678916"&gt;6/29/2007 12:26 AM&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="Delete Comment" style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;amp;postID=4627999853765678916"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-5817430107771211582?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/5817430107771211582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=5817430107771211582' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/5817430107771211582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/5817430107771211582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/06/point-man-for-fourth-beast.html' title='Point Man for the Fourth Beast'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-4039686438503098689</id><published>2007-06-20T23:49:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-06-21T01:55:23.326+03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Path to Divine Mercy</title><content type='html'>The ominous Abomination Parade is set to treif the streets of the Holy City in less than 24 hours. The Attorney General Snake Mazuz and the Prime Minister, Armilus the Wicked, are rejoicing. They have pulled another fast one. Perhaps the Prime Minister's lesbian daughter will get to be the Grand Marshall. We shall see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The real news is that it is now 2 1/2 years since one of the Chareidi parties signed a letter of intent on the tenth of Tevet 5765 to join Sharon's Disengagement government for money for hungry teachers and for political leverage in stopping the educational reforms of the Dovrat Commission which would have placed curriculum obligations on Chareidi Schools. This, of course, would have been a disaster for Chareidi education. The wisdom of becoming a silent partner in a government which impoverished 10,000 Jews and placed tens of thousands more in firing range of Hamasistan has already been discussed &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/08/nachamu-klal-yisrael-we-are-in-pain.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/08/there-is-tachlit-purpose-for-previous.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I have no desire to rehash old arguments. The following point must be made though:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It took Nebuchadnezzar 2 1/2 years to conquer Yerushalayim!!&lt;/strong&gt; His conquest began on the tenth of Tevet 3336. It ended on the ninth of Av 3338. It is my firmly held believe that this summer's agony was set in motion 2 1/2 years ago by that letter of intent. The abandonment of Gaza and its Jews and its neighboring towns and communities has led directly to the issue that G-d fearing Yerushalmis most care about, the soiling of the sanctity of the Holy City and its capture by half-naked men linking arm and arm and in other ways with other half-naked men. As abominable as this is, a realization must dawn on those who are missing the message that the crime against humanity that took place in the summer of 5765 must be deeply understood to be a crime at least as horrific as what is set to take place in less than 24 hours from now. Lives have been lost because of that Churban and many of the children of Gush Katif whose lives were sent into turmoil have abandoned the faith of their parents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Baruch HaShem. G-d has already put into effect the cure. On the ninth of Tevet this year 5767 the &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/12/2500-years-of-glory-from.html"&gt;real Nebuchadnezzar of ancient reputation &lt;/a&gt;was executed. Saddam Hussein was sent swinging lifeless from a hangman's noose. A good dose of teshuvah right now will make the summer of 5769 into a real winner!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-4039686438503098689?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/4039686438503098689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=4039686438503098689' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/4039686438503098689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/4039686438503098689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/06/path-to-divine-mercy.html' title='The Path to Divine Mercy'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-7420773195203640918</id><published>2007-06-14T13:25:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-06-14T14:13:47.291+03:00</updated><title type='text'>And Ya'akov Went on to Sukkot...(Gen. 33.17)</title><content type='html'>Normally one does not pray for war. Usually in war the righteous in this incarnation of their lives suffer with the wicked. It is a messy business. Those who build networks of chessed institutions suffer with those who plan parades of homosexuals. Those who vote for kindness to their fellow Jews suffer with those who vote for Kadima. At first glance it seems that war is bloody and unfair. Of course, according to Rav Moshe Chaim Luzzato's classic &lt;strong&gt;The Way of HaShem, &lt;/strong&gt;the righteous suffer often to perfect their souls because of sins done or imperfections fostered in previous lives. Sometimes they just suffer for the sins of the generation so that the world itself will not be destroyed by those sins. Be that as it may, War is usually Hell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The upcoming war that is the final battles of Gog UMagog that will probably take place some time between tomorrow, the 29th of Sivan, and when Gog W. Bush leaves office in January 2009 (Winter 5769) will be no exception to this rule. It will be bloody, lo aleynu, maybe even the bloodiest war in all of history, may Heaven spare us. Yet, the Talmud in several places tells us that in the seventh year there will be war, and when we daven the shmonah esrei (18 blessing prayer), the seventh blessing is a blessing for redemption. Why is this the case? This is so because the war in the seventh year of Gog UMagog is really the beginning of the redemption process even though Mashiach does not show up until the eighth year. The only question becomes how do we know which year of the eight year process we are in now in the year 5767. The Al Aksa Intifada began a day and a half before Rosh HaShana 5761, and Israel was condemned by the United Nations for defending itself by a vote of 92 to 6 on Hoshana Rabba 5761. See my article on &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/02/tsunami-and-sweet-letters-of-judgment.html"&gt;The South Asian Tsunami&lt;/a&gt; . It was the beginning of Israel's agony of the last generation, our Gog and Magog agony, before Gog W. is elected later that Fall. Counting seven years leads to the conclusion that our seven years are up this summer of 5767, a year which ends in a seven. The more classic interpretation, though, of the word "shvi'is" describing the seventh year is the Shmittah (sabbatical) year which is next year 5768. Rav Kaduri ztl. is quoted as saying that the Gaon of Vilna's iterpretation of the word shvi'is is just that, the sabbatical year. The Gaon according to the Saintly Rav Kaduri even said that the seven years of Gog U Magog would begin on Hoshana Rabbah (the seventh day of the Feast of Booths) in the first year of a shmittah cycle and would conclude in the eighth year, which is the first year of the next Shmittah cycle. The seventh year would be the year of the war. The eighth year would be the year of Mashiach's timely arrival. Therefore it is no accident that while 9/11 was a week before Rosh Hashana 5762 and while 9/11 itself was therefore on the 23rd of Elul 5761, Gog launched his air war against the Taliban in Afghanistan on Hoshana Rabba 5762, the first year of a Shmittah cycle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have decided to write and publish in spurts. Check as often as you like to see when I write more. I have time to write often but in spurts.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-7420773195203640918?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/7420773195203640918/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=7420773195203640918' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/7420773195203640918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/7420773195203640918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/06/and-yaakov-went-on-to-sukkotgen-3317.html' title='And Ya&apos;akov Went on to Sukkot...(Gen. 33.17)'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-905006398335479177</id><published>2007-06-05T14:34:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-06-05T14:55:43.657+03:00</updated><title type='text'>G-d willing, Back to the Business of the End of Days</title><content type='html'>Please forgive me. I sincerely apologize for my hiatus from posting. I have been dealing with my own demons. I was in the United States from a week after my last post until the day before Shavuot. The gashmiut (physical pleasure of the Creation) was very enticing. I needed to recover from the pleasurable assault on my senses. With the help of HaShem and a good friend here in Kochav Ya'akov, I have been nursing myself back to spiritual health.   He has convinced me that Eretz Yisrael is the best place for one to put one's soul and that we are right on schedule for the coming of Mashiach.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will take me a few days to plunge into the mail and the comments. Some of them I am sure will express disappointment or anger. Some will express encouragement. Bli neder I will have a post within the week. I am sure that I have lost some of you, but I only want to write what comes from my head and my heart which I know to be verily the truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;G-d bless.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-905006398335479177?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/905006398335479177/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=905006398335479177' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/905006398335479177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/905006398335479177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/06/g-d-willing-back-to-business-of-end-of.html' title='G-d willing, Back to the Business of the End of Days'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-8707930899436907479</id><published>2007-04-20T10:11:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-04-20T10:44:54.308+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Leaving Lavan's House before it falls</title><content type='html'>This is a short post before Shabbat to answer some questions on where is Lavan's house.  There are two countries whose flags are red, white, and blue on which the white prevents the red from uniting as one.  Those two countries are the United States and Great Britain.  The red on the flags is Edom.  The white is either the pure and decent people that make up the country which prevent Edom from completely devouring Ya'akov in the countries, or it is Lavan the Aramean who also desires to devour Ya'akov.  The blue is both the Ya'akov that lives there in exile and the desire of both countries to have the blessings that G-d bestowed on ancient Israel.  Now that America's national version of former Louisianna Governor Huey Long, former President Bill "Dog Face" Clinton, has served his full eight year term,  the white on America's flag now fully represents the "House of Lavan" with whom Edom must unite in America in order to be elected.  While the two Gogs that have been elected are surely from the House of Edom (Gog Sr. as Esau himself and Gog Jr. as Eliphaz, his son).  Slick Willy was surely from the House of Lavan, maybe the reincarnate of the old slickmeister himself.  (Thank you to Rush Limbaugh for the nickname Slick Willy.)  Now that the Hilly Billy show wants to return to the White House in the person of Ov and Yidoni expert, Hillary Clinton, who communes with the souls of Eleanor Roosevelt and other prehistoric feminists, the House of Lavan wants to return to power in the White House (the House of Lavan).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is now time to leave the protection of the House of Lavan on Ya'akov Avinu's two year journey home.  The descending value of the gurgling dollar will make it more and more difficult to leave the guilded American cage.  It is now gurgling because in the Spring of the 20th year of Ya'akov Avinu's presence in the House of Lavan, he was told to go home.  It took him two years to get there, but he started on his way that fateful Spring.  Twenty years ago the first Intafada broke on the world scene during the last declining year of the Reagan Administration.  Gog Sr. as VP took control of his ailing from Alzheimer's disease boss's foreign policy to  use the Intafada as a whip against the Jews of the Holy Land.  A year later the gilgul of Esau himself, Gog Sr., became President and immediately recognized Yassir Arafat as the "elected" ha ha leader of the peaceful Palestinian oppressed folk.  When Ya'akov wanted to leave Lavan's house six years earlier, Lavan himself informed him that a significant amount of Lavan's fortune came from Ya'akov Avinu's presence in his midst.  When Ya'akov left Lavan's house,  Aram became a second rate economic power.  By the time the Hilly Billy show or the Barack Obama show comes to power in America, this could very well be America's fate again. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dollar is gurgling.  The shekel because it is so dependent on the American broken reed will also gurgle, but as we approach Esau and Amalek (Gog W. as Eliphaz and the Euro and Iran as Amalek) one more time to escort them to Mount Seir for their final judgement, starting this Fall after Yom Kippur, the eye of HaShem will rest on the Land of Israel with his Divine protection forever.  Amen!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-8707930899436907479?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/8707930899436907479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=8707930899436907479' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8707930899436907479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8707930899436907479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/04/leaving-lavans-house-before-it-falls.html' title='Leaving Lavan&apos;s House before it falls'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-6375296069089196246</id><published>2007-04-17T21:13:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-04-18T07:22:03.532+03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Fall of the House of Lavan</title><content type='html'>I spoke with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Reb&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Lazer&lt;/span&gt; Brody today. I told him about my writer's block, and how I have swung from one situation of high anxiety to another over the last month. He has set me straight with a strong dose of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;emunah&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;bitachon&lt;/span&gt; (faith and trust in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;HaShem&lt;/span&gt;). Somehow everything that is pressing on me at this time will work itself out if I connect to the Infinite. I have decided to press onwards before people start pelting me with stones for my absence. I have decided to press onwards, but first of all I want to apologize to my readers for my delays in writing. I have promised, and I have not delivered. I will try to rectify this now. I am going to the States for three weeks in about ten days to visit my family. What a time to be going, just before the onset of the intensification of Gog &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;UMagog&lt;/span&gt; here in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Eretz&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Yisrael&lt;/span&gt;. During that three week hiatus I will hardly be able to write anything extensive. So I better write now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The principle thing to remember at this time is that our greatest key towards success during our final &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;teshuvah&lt;/span&gt; efforts before the world turns &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;topsy&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;turvey&lt;/span&gt; is &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;emunah&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;bitachon&lt;/span&gt;. It is the key to happiness when so much that we think that we can control is turning upside down. It is also the key to our ultimate ability to function on all of our cylinders when the external circumstances in our lives do not go our way and spiral out of our control. I will try to implement this more on a personal level and remind others that as chaos begins to reign even in "stable" America, you will need to start functioning like Israelis who live with chaos on a daily basis. For instance, we are now in the throes of one our annual rites of passage, this year's week-long postal strike. As the dollar continues to plummet, I am sure that Americans will soon need to adjust to their new Israeli life-style. Better do it with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;emunah&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;bitachon&lt;/span&gt; than do it like the unhealthy Israeli who does without such ties to his Creator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enough said. How has the Full Remembrance of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;Ya'akov&lt;/span&gt; affected you? You are probably saying that it seems like nothing permanent has really changed. If you said this you would be really wrong and out of tune with your spiritual environment. You might say that the British hostages were let go, and the crisis with Iran petered out into a whimper. Yet, if you think for one minute that the British are going back to life as it existed before the capture of their seamen, you would be wrong. To understand what is happening we must consult the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;Zohar&lt;/span&gt; on this subject on a page that this &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;blogsite&lt;/span&gt; has often quoted before. Back &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;toVaYera&lt;/span&gt; 119a.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;Rav&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;Shimon&lt;/span&gt; discusses the following verse:  'And I will remember my covenant with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;Ya'akov&lt;/span&gt; and also my covenant with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;Yitzkhak&lt;/span&gt;, and also my covenant with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"&gt;Avraham&lt;/span&gt; will I remember, and I will remember the Land (of Israel)' (Lev. 26:42).  "The name &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"&gt;Ya'akov&lt;/span&gt;," he said, "is written in full with a letter &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"&gt;Vav&lt;/span&gt;.  For what reason?  In the first place as an allusion to the grade of Wisdom, the realm where &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"&gt;Ya'akov&lt;/span&gt; dwells.  But the chief reason is because the passage speaks of the exile of Israel, intimating that the redemption of Israel will come about through the mystic force of the letter &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"&gt;Vav&lt;/span&gt;, namely, in the 6&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"&gt;millenium&lt;/span&gt;, and, more precisely, after six seconds and a half thereof.  &lt;/strong&gt;In several previous writings including the &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/05/secret-of-vav-in-hashems-name.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"&gt;Seceret&lt;/span&gt; of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"&gt;Vav&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"&gt;Hashem's&lt;/span&gt; name&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;, &lt;/em&gt;I discussed with you how that year was 5666 (1906), more precisely on the Seventh Day of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33"&gt;Pesach&lt;/span&gt; after noon.  The historical event of that year was the establishment of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34"&gt;Seudat&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35"&gt;HaMashiach&lt;/span&gt; on the last day of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36"&gt;Pesach&lt;/span&gt;, which outside the land of Israel is the eighth day of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37"&gt;Pesach&lt;/span&gt;.  This establishment was by the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38"&gt;Rebbe&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39"&gt;Reshab&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40"&gt;Lubavitch&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More in short, but frequent spurts, G-d willing, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41"&gt;bli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42"&gt;neder&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-6375296069089196246?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/6375296069089196246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=6375296069089196246' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/6375296069089196246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/6375296069089196246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/04/fall-of-house-of-lavan.html' title='The Fall of the House of Lavan'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-5425491542752953623</id><published>2007-03-28T20:17:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-03-28T20:43:37.527+02:00</updated><title type='text'>There will be a post during Chol HaMoed</title><content type='html'>I have been swamped with work and Pesach cleaning.  Cleaning is a major ritual for my beloved, but because she works more than full time, I am in charge of that ritual this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I realize that the full remembrance is in full bloom.  The British hostages are the trigger to intensify Gog UMagog to its climax.  Now that we have reached the tenth of Nissan, and the British hostage crisis seems to be intensifying instead of reaching resolution, I doubt that this crisis will reach any conclusion that will leave the world in the condition that it was in before the first of Nissan.  I hope and pray that by the intermediate days of the festival of Pesach, I will be writing about the repercussions of this and much more.  May the L-rd have his sacrifice in Basra sooner rather than later.  As mentioned before on this blog, the British slammed the gates to Eretz Yisrael closed in 5699 (1939), encouraging Hitler, yemach shmo, to institute his Final Solution.  With no place to send the Jews, what was the evil Amalekite to do.  The British may be attempting to leave Basra, but chaos in Iraq's second largest city keeps drawing them back.  What mysterious forces are at work keeping the angel of Esau (Western Civilization as represented by the British) from leaving Basra (Batzrah in Hebrew)?  Remember that this angel claims to the world that it only murdered unintentionally (b'shogeig), that it did not know what Hitler would do when the gates to Eretz Yisrael were closed in 1939.  Perhaps HaShem knows differently.  Perhaps HaShem knows that the British knew exactly how H. would respond, and they knew of the Final Solution once it was implemented.  Yet, the gates to the Holy Land remained closed to Jews for the duration of the Holocaust.  Who will come forth from Batzrah with bloodied clothes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More during Chol HaMoed....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-5425491542752953623?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/5425491542752953623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=5425491542752953623' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/5425491542752953623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/5425491542752953623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/03/there-will-be-post-during-chol-hamoed.html' title='There will be a post during Chol HaMoed'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-6826216565548442702</id><published>2007-03-13T00:48:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T10:53:38.019+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Other Shoe is Dropping</title><content type='html'>I have been waiting for this to occur. Now that the Gog W. Administration is "negotiating" with Persia to provide it with an exit strategy from Iraq, the Saudis, who own this President, want their payment for keeping the price of oil stable enough so that the American economy does not shrink. The Saudis also want something for needing to accept a nuclear armed Persia at their doorstep. Gog W. or should I say Gog Sr. is more than happy to deliver. We are on a fast track for the "End Game" now. The powers at be want final status negotiations &lt;a href="http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=3920"&gt;NOW not later&lt;/a&gt;.  Now that this is happening, Yerushalayim will be the main issue on the table.  The full remembrance is coming by Pesach, and now the world will be here to contest G-d's verdict.  Bli neder, I will write more extensively about all this this week or the beginning of next week.  I have been waiting for this all this winter.  Hamas and Persia are dictating terms for Israel's surrender to the entire world, and now Armilus (Olmert) the wicked with his three percent approval rating will comply.  Yes, that is right.  The worst elected Prime Minister of any country in all of world history is looking for what the Israeli press calls "Etrog immunity" from his legal troubles.  Attorney General "Snake" Mazuz surely will not prosecute him if he caves into Washington's demands.  The divvying up of Yerushalayim is now on the table with no preconditions with regards to Hamas or Abbas stopping terror.  &lt;strong&gt;How this speaks of HaShem's majesty that everything that He told us through His prophets is now falling into place!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-6826216565548442702?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/6826216565548442702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=6826216565548442702' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/6826216565548442702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/6826216565548442702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/03/other-shoe-is-dropping.html' title='The Other Shoe is Dropping'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-8331679033650081422</id><published>2007-03-01T13:48:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-03-01T14:11:43.711+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Coming Sellout</title><content type='html'>It is &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Ta'anit&lt;/span&gt; Esther, and Jews throughout the world are fasting from sunrise to sunset. I have been looking for a sign that the full remembrance of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Ya'akov&lt;/span&gt; was approaching this Nissan, and it looks like it has finally arrived. Through the hunger pains in my stomach I am actually rejoicing. I am getting ready to make bricks without straw. You see this impossible task was requested of the Jews by Pharaoh and his taskmasters 3320 years ago after the first full remembrance of the descendants of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Avraham&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Yitzkhak&lt;/span&gt;, and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Ya'akov&lt;/span&gt;. On &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Pesach&lt;/span&gt; 2447 G-d fully remembered the cry that ascended to the highest heights of the Seventh Heaven. Within one year and one week Egypt lay in ruins and Pharaoh's army lay dead along the shores of the Yam &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Suf&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well folks it appears that we will need to cry out once more. The following has been sent to me by my good friend Moshe. The Gog W. Bush Administration is setting up our sellout in order to insure the free flow of cheap oil through the "Persian" Gulf or should I say Persia's Gulf. &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/27/iraq/main2521339.shtml"&gt;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/27/iraq/main2521339.shtml&lt;/a&gt; The dye on Ezekiel 38 and 39 is almost set.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-8331679033650081422?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/8331679033650081422/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=8331679033650081422' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8331679033650081422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8331679033650081422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/03/coming-sellout.html' title='The Coming Sellout'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-8712954843627701985</id><published>2007-02-19T00:15:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-02-19T00:48:29.233+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Donkey is Braying</title><content type='html'>At the end of the first third of the night, the donkey will bray. So goes the Talmud in brachos. This is the secret of Israel's redemption, for immediately after the jackass (Yishmael) brays, the "Lion" in Heaven will roar at the beginning of the second "watch" of the night. This tractate section like none other provides a very important key to understand this final redemption. The gate at the entrance to the Temple Mount is just a pretext for all that is "good" to transpire by bringing the nations of the world to Yerushalayim for battle with G-d himself. One third of the night is one sixth of a day. If each day is a century, one third of a night is 16 2/3 years. We entered the thirty-fourth century after the Giving of the Torah in the year 5749, the year that Gog Sr. was elected President of the United States. By the beginning of the year 5751, he had already declared Edom's New World Order. 16 and 2/3 years later is this coming Shavuot. It is time for the donkey to bray!  Hee Haw!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I apologize deeply for the spotty posting, but I am trying hard to make a living here. If anyone wants to sponsor me to post full time, please write me privately. I deeply understand the need to post often at this time. We are on the cusp of really big things. But I need to support my family through this too. It is a mitzvah for me to do that first.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, if someone knows the source which says that Rav Akiva's students stopped dying by the end of the first watch on Lag B'Omer night (the 33rd day of the counting of the Omer), you will receive my appreciation and respect!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-8712954843627701985?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/8712954843627701985/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=8712954843627701985' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8712954843627701985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8712954843627701985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/02/donkey-is-braying.html' title='The Donkey is Braying'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-895315694160594438</id><published>2007-02-01T11:51:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-02-01T12:59:15.767+02:00</updated><title type='text'>European Union Coming to Yesha?</title><content type='html'>According to World Net Daily &lt;a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53888"&gt;here &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53914"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; the European troops will be showing up this Spring.  I wish that I can find other corroborating articles which substantiate this news story further, but except for the Arutz 7 story &lt;a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=120294"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; I can find no such article.  Aaron Klein of World Net Daily seems to be the source of the reports.  I am at a loss to explain why he would report such earth shaking information that no one else in the media frenzy that makes up Mideast reporting seems to be on the bandwagon on this piece of news.  Even though this fits in perfectly with the "full remembrance of Ya'akov" and the attempt by the nations of the world to internationalize Yerushalayim, I cannot get overly excited about Aaron Klein's report, at least not yet.  If anyone else has information or respectable news that this takeover of Judea and Samaria is imminent, please let us know immediately.  Such a news story with backing would be earth shattering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I realize that the tsunami Rav Shimon Dahan mentioned twice in his Shabbat VaYeshev drasha for the first Chanukah licht that the Erev Rav government would fall three months from that time and would not rise again with a new leader.  This is right on schedule with the time frame of the WND articles, both of which point to massive political change here in the Holy Land around Rosh Chodesh Nissan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The third and most important marker of change is in the Holy Zohar which says the following in VaYera 119a.  &lt;strong&gt;The redemption of Israel will come about through the mystic force of the letter Vav, specifically, in the 6th millenium, and more precisely, after six seconds and a half of time.&lt;/strong&gt;  This is a reference the fact that Mashiach could not come b'itah until after 5666, 6 1/2 months, 6 1/2 days, 6 1/2 hours, and 6 1/2 seconds (1906 on the seventh day of Pesach).  &lt;strong&gt;When the sixtieth year shall have passed over the threshold of the sixth millennium, the G-d of haeven will visit the daughter of Ya'akov with a preliminary remembrances (a p'qidah).  &lt;/strong&gt;The question then comes down to what year is the threshold.  Was it 5666?  Well nothing happened 60 years later in 5726 (1966) to indicate that that was the year of the P'qidah.  Of course the Spring of 1967 was a very propitious time, but the Erev Rav upon winning Yerusahalayim in battle in the Six Day War immediately disowned the Temple Mount, preferring to hand the keys over to the Muslim Authority that has ruled there ever since.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to be continued...soon...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-895315694160594438?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/895315694160594438/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=895315694160594438' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/895315694160594438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/895315694160594438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/02/european-union-coming-to-yesha.html' title='European Union Coming to Yesha?'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-8384127103793823778</id><published>2007-01-28T15:13:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-01-28T15:19:50.852+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Blogging Hiatus</title><content type='html'>I am sorry for the one month break from posting.  Bli neder, I will post once a week or more often than that, including this week, as the "full remembrance of Ya'akov" gets closer.  There is much to do to catch up.  Bli neder, I will post this week.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-8384127103793823778?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/8384127103793823778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=8384127103793823778' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8384127103793823778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/8384127103793823778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2007/01/blogging-hiatus.html' title='Blogging Hiatus'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-116759794723035635</id><published>2006-12-31T22:21:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-01-27T19:20:04.066+02:00</updated><title type='text'>2500 Years of Glory: From Nebuchadnezzar to Saddam Hussein</title><content type='html'>It is raining here in Eretz Yisrael. It is a cool steady rain that is a sign of blessing. After a long dry spell, the Holy One Blessed Be He decided that on the Fifth of Tevet, the anniversary of "&lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/01/travail-of-shepherd.html"&gt;The Shepherd's&lt;/a&gt;" stroke, it was time to open up the Heavens to let us know that despite all of our failures, we are still blessed to be here. He still wants us here despite all the ugly ways that we have treated each other here over the last couple of years. Redemption is still coming b'itah even though some of us from the most learned to the most uninformed do things which in other generations would stop this process immediately. Yet, apparently the time of the remembrance of the daughter of Ya'akov is about to hit us this Spring whether some of us desire it or not. Thank G-d for His infinite Mercies from the hearts of those of us who taste it in our mouths when we pray.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Ya'akov fled from Beer Sheva after receiving his father's blessing on the 14th of Nissan when he was sixty-three years old, he had many adventures which are in the medrash but not in the written text of the Torah. He was stripped of everything that he had by Eliphaz ben Esau except for his staff after he had crossed the Yarden as he was about to cross the Yabok. An instant later a horseman came riding by and was thrown backwards into the cold waters of the Yabok, giving him his clothes to go learn in the Yeshivah of Shem and Eber for the next fourteen years. All of this is in the medrashich writings, but in reality the next event in the text is Ya'akov's dream in Bet El. Here according to Rashi the earth from Yerushalayim to Bet El folded up underneath his head when he had his vision of angels ascending and descending on a ladder from Heaven. Here the text draws an inextricable link between Ya'akov receiving the blessing and the fate of Yerushalayim, as a matter of fact the fate of the entire stretch of Eretz Yisrael stretching from Yerushalayim to Bet El. Yours truly, the author of this blog, lives in that stretch of land. The angels were none other than the angels of the four kingdoms, Bavel (Babylon), Paras (Persia), Yavan (Greece or Ionia), and Edom (Rome). The distance of their ascension and descent on that ladder was directly proportional to the lengths of their rule over the Holy City. What is most important to understand is that at the End of Days all four angels would return to contest over the Holy City. Four angels coveting One City. What a confusing mess! Well to make matters more perplexing, the Talmud in Avodah Zarah specifically states that in reality only two of the angels will be around for the &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/11/heavenly-court-cases-continue.html"&gt;final contest&lt;/a&gt;. Apparently, the angel of Babylon and the angel of Yavan will not be official participants in this final contest. Now we know that the angel of Greece simply absorbed into the goals and purposes of the angel of Rome, for Chazal tell us that Greece is the Face of Rome. From this we see that Rome did not need to vanquish Greece in order to rise. It simply needed to absorb it in order to embellish its empire. Previously &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great"&gt;Persia under Koresh (Cyrus)&lt;/a&gt; had vanquished Babylon, and &lt;a href="http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/history/ancient/alexander.htm"&gt;Greece under Alexander &lt;/a&gt;had vanquished Persia under Daryavush. The Greeks also were defeated by the Romans in the Punic Wars when the Greeks allied with Hannibal and the Carthaginians. Yet, the Romans ultimately absorbed Greek culture, not the other way around. In short the angel of Greece was absorbed into Rome and not simply vanquished.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This leaves one big problem. If the last Great War is between the Greco-Roman West and the Persians, what happens to the Babylonians? They too coveted and destroyed Yerushalayim like the Romans. How are they to be judged for coming against Yerushalayim? Well now we have the answer. Any quick study of Sadaam Hussein's life lead one to the inexorable conclusion that he was probably the reincarnate (gilgul) of Nebuchadnezzar. He tried to rebuild Babylon to its former glory. All of the the tank divisions in his army were named after great Babyonian kings. Most importantly of all on his coins he minted: &lt;strong&gt;2500 years of glory: From Nebuchadnezzar to Saddam Hussein. &lt;/strong&gt;Well now he and his guardian angel, the Angel of Bavel, are no more. On the Tenth of Tevet 3336, he started his 2 1/2 year siege of Yerushalayim. Exactly 2431 years minus one day later he has finally been executed.  I am sure that the Sunni population in Central and Western Iraq that supported him are now in deep trouble.  Long live the Kings of Persia and Edom, at least until this summer or the next, when the redemption of Israel puts an end to their folly too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is worth noting that Chazal (Our Sages of the Ages) tie three events together that occurred on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of Tevet respectively as great tragedies in Klal Yisrael's history.  The 8th of Tevet commemorates the day when the Torah was translated into Greek by the Septuagint making it just another great book in Ptolemy's library in Alexandria.  The Talmud says that darkness fell upon the world.  On the ninth of Tevet, Ezra the Scribe passed away.  He along with Nechemiah had built the physical and the spiritual walls of Yerushalayim for the returning exiles from Babylon.  How blessed we are by his efforts.  It is really in his merit that Hussein, a.k.a. Nebuchadnezzar who desired more than anything else to tear down those walls, was executed on his Yahrzeit.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-116759794723035635?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/116759794723035635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=116759794723035635' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116759794723035635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116759794723035635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/12/2500-years-of-glory-from.html' title='2500 Years of Glory: From Nebuchadnezzar to Saddam Hussein'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-116534329314977364</id><published>2006-12-05T20:12:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-01-06T23:05:11.936+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Positive Energy</title><content type='html'>Now let's see if we can create some positive energy. The dollar will not go belly-up if Jews are en masse doing teshuvah for the sin which has set this process in motion. The Jews from Gush Katif and the Northern Shomron are still in tremendous pain. Feeling their pain before the expulsion and stopping the expulsion could have curtailed the process that we are now experiencing. Let us all raise our monthly or annual contribution to help the Caravilla folks, many of whom are living in utter destitution. &lt;a href="http://english.katif.net/"&gt;http://english.katif.net/&lt;/a&gt; is a good place to start. Contact Dror Vanunu at the following email and tell him that you want ot make a contribution: &lt;a title="mailto:gkatif@netvision.net.il" href="mailto:gkatif@netvision.net.il"&gt;gkatif@netvision.net.il&lt;/a&gt; , or call Buddy Macy 1-800-283-3969 or from outside the U.S. or Canada 973-785-0057 for details. His PO Box number is on this &lt;a href="http://english.katif.net/index.php?id=2159&amp;amp;sub=5"&gt;web page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the next week I will attempt to get information up on this website in the sidebar so that those who link to this site can make a contribution over the internet to help out the destitute families who were made destitute by the expulsion fiasco of the summer of 5765 (2005). Let us strengthen the dollar by appealing to G-d's mercy for our collective crime against our own humanity. Giving dollars to these folks who have received so little help from official Jewish organizations will do more to strengthen the dollar than the Federal Reserve can by raising interest rates!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-116534329314977364?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/116534329314977364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=116534329314977364' title='26 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116534329314977364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116534329314977364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/12/positive-energy.html' title='Positive Energy'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>26</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-116509613509188318</id><published>2006-12-02T23:10:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T08:10:04.026+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Watch the Dollar Go Gurgle</title><content type='html'>When we first made Aliyah here to G-d's palace turned insane asylum by the Erev Rav, we were told by my wife's close friend from her erstwhile community of Cincinnati to watch those dollars. The almighty greenback, strong and true, would never fluctuate in the down direction like the weak New and Revised over again version of the Israeli shekel. Of course her wise thoughtful friend from the alter heim (the old country) did not factor into the equation Gog W.'s continual regurgitation of his Road Map to Hell. For the last four and one-half years, whether he knows it yet or not, he has been on a collision course with the Almighty. He and his good ole' boys from Texas and from the Erev Rav have mistaken the holy soil here for Astroturf. They have tried to barter with Yishmael at the high cost of Jewish blood and body parts over tracts of holy dirt here in the Holy Land. The dollar during this time period has struggled to maintain respectability. Instead of rising to five and one-half shekels to the dollar it has plunged and plunged since about the time that Gog W. first announced his Road Map back in 2002. Now with the same Texas wheeler dealer from daddy's Administration, James K. Baker, Yemach Shmo, running foreign policy in the new and revised Gog W. Administration, the dollar is threatening to plunge into the abyss from which it will not return, bankrupting many good Americans in the process. Do you Americans want this good ole' boy from Abba Gog's Administration to ruin your superpower status in the world? Watch the dollar plunge to record lows as Gog W. searches for an "exit strategy" from Iraq, whose unholy soil he can really never leave because of all the Texas crude buried underneath it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was one thing when Gog made buddy buddy with the likes of Mahmoud Abbas. At least he could feign a desire for long term solutions to his unpeople's problems. Now Human debris Sir K. Baker wants to buddy up with Hamas to bring world peace and prosperity. Now watch the dollar go gurgle gurgle. Hold those greenbacks! Are you kidding! It's time to unload!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-116509613509188318?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/116509613509188318/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=116509613509188318' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116509613509188318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116509613509188318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/12/watch-dollar-go-gurgle.html' title='Watch the Dollar Go Gurgle'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-116454340031676224</id><published>2006-11-26T14:16:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-12-27T16:15:43.436+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Year of Ya'akov: Pulling him out of the Klipot</title><content type='html'>America is founded on a principle that the purpose for serving G-d is to make money. About half of the American people may still subscribe to this pact with the Eibishter. The other half have gone the way of the Europeans and chucked the "serving G-d" part altogether. The consequences for this pact with G-d are catastrophic for Esau in this year of Ya'akov, whose purpose for being a Mentsch was to be G-d's mentsch. That's it. No other ulterior motives. No expectations for a divine "cookie or snack". He just asks for what he needs to better do the right thing in G-d's eyes. Even when he deceived his father by wearing skins of a goat, it was G-d's will. His mother had been told nothing less than just that, when he was scuffling with Esau in her womb. The older will at the End of Days end up serving the younger. So she was told, and so it will soon come to be. The blessing was crucial. All of human history hinged on that Erev Pesach approximately 3600 years ago. In came Ya'akov into Yitzkhak Avinu's tent with a delicious meal prepared by his mother to deceive his father. It will be a time to relive that moment this coming Erev Pesach, when the Guardian of Israel fully remembers the Children of Ya'akov. The nations of the world will lash out at this remembrance just as they did when we were remembered in Mitzraim. There the work became increasingly harder, until the Ten Plagues commenced later that year. Now the nations will cry foul and demand the best portions of the Holy City for themselves, until later this year or during Sukkot 5768.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a letter to a friend explaining why the impure husk of serving G-d for the purpose of prosperity is as of the beginning of this year being stripped away from us forever. The consequences are catastrophic for the American Dream. It will cause some suffering here as we adjust to the new reality and until G-d pulls our "chestnuts out of the fire" (as a recent letter writer put it) during the Year of Moshe, 5768. The nations united under Amalek's pen name here in the Holy Land, Hamas, will descend upon us like a ton of bricks. Most of them already have representation in Southern Lebanon. Only Gog W. himself has not shown up yet. Gomer (Germany and the Franks) are there. Togarmah (The Turks) showed up three weeks ago. Cush (Somali terrorists) are poised and ready to do Hezbollah's bidding. And of course the Russians have already sent Chechnyan thugs. The Who's Who of Ezekiel 38 is already at our northern gate. They are just waiting for Armilus the Wicked (Olmert), with some choice deposits into his Swiss bank account, to invite them in. Yet, this is the full remembrance of Ya'akov spoken about in Leviticus 26:42 and in the Zohar on VaYera, to commence 6 1/2 years after the start of the Al Aksa Intafada. By Pesach time next year, G-d willing, they will have been shown the exit from this world. Here is the letter:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;America has prospered on a system where the purpose of serving G-d is to make money. In the Year of Yakov that system will no longer work to obtain Divine Blessing. One can be like Yakov Avinu whose purpose for being a Mentsch was lishma, for its own sake, or one can receive sustenance from the Kochot HaTumah (spiritual impure forces). Esau's 3600 year old bargain with G-d to serve Him to build Olam HaZeh has now ended. Hamas and Amalek ( E.U. and Persia) are on the rise because they receive there prosperity from the forces of impurity in the world. America in order to survive will attach itself to them. It has no option.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last leading currency of Edom will be the EuRo, the Ayin Ra (the evil eye). This is what Chazal have told us for millennia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is a good thing that Ya'akov deceived his father and rightfully took his father's blessing. The deception will cost us by leading to the division of Yerushalayim by the Europeans and an assortment of Moslem nations. But its pain will be short lived (nine months?) Yet, if Ya'akov had not done so, Amalek would rule the world for the rest of terrestrial time. Yitzkhak's blessing of Yakov will be remembered this Pesach, 6 1/2 years after the start of the Al Aksa Intafada. The full zechira of Ya'akov Avinu is what should bring Gog W. out of his shell to lead the international coalition against us . He may be pulled into service by the Europeans, but he will be compelled to lead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I, like you, thought that Gog W. would at least fight Iran before turning on us, but Blair and Bush for different reasons are folding like a house of cards. Bush because of his recent loss in Congress and Blair because he always hated us. He just wanted to try to impose democracy on Iraq before coming after us. They could still surprise us on this and come up against Persia in a big way before they have to fight a Persian superpower.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please make no mistake!  I am not saying that there is no longer a reason to make money.  It's is just that the purpose for serving G-d is no longer to make money.  It just will not work any more.  Nations based on this Masonic principle will now in this Year of Ya'akov begin to falter big time.  The only real time example of such a nation is the U.S.A.  Most other Western countries are either Catholic or godless.  The converse of the above statement is still and always the real truth.  The purpose for making money is to serve G-d.  This is the real purpose of money.  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-116454340031676224?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/116454340031676224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=116454340031676224' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116454340031676224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116454340031676224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/11/year-of-yaakov-pulling-him-out-of.html' title='Year of Ya&apos;akov: Pulling him out of the Klipot'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-116370428882423655</id><published>2006-11-16T20:31:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-11-22T10:04:12.393+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Sobering Funeral and the Torah of Shem and Eber</title><content type='html'>I wanted to share this with you. I could not stop crying. The pain is so great.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://muqata.blogspot.com/2006/11/funeral-in-sederot.html"&gt;http://muqata.blogspot.com/2006/11/funeral-in-sederot.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this year 5767 is probably the last year folks (the last year that insanity and rank evil seem to win at every turn). Our Father in Heaven just wants to hear us accept his Torah of Common Decency (the Torah of Shem and Eber). Let us be more decent to each other and hear each other cry. Let us not cut each other off at intersections. Let us not profit on the suffering of others. Let us only learn from Gedolim who did not take a penny from the Sharon government or did take money but cried in pain when they did, sending ten thousand Jews packing into poverty. &lt;strong&gt;(There are plenty to learn from: all of Breslov, all of Chabad, all of the Sephardim, the Admor of Sadigora, the Erloir Rebbe, the Bostoner Rebbe, the Sanzer Rebbe, and Satmar who have never joined any government here.... The list is very long. I am sorry if I did not mention yours.)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the Torah that Ya'akov Avinu learned for fourteen years before going to Lavan's house. This is the Torah that he practiced for all those years in Lavan's house when he married both wives and fathered twelve of his thirteen children (including his daughter Dina). This is the Torah that he practiced during the year that he spent in Sukkot. The Torah of human decency is kadma (preceeds) the Torah of Moshe Rabbeinu. Moshe's year, the fourth year of Sukkot, is next year in accordance to the ushpizim order of the Arizal. This year let's practice the long lost art of human decency as exemplified by the Av (forefather) of Klal Yisrael that rose to greater heights than his esteemed father and grandfather (Yitzkhak and Avraham). Let us behave in a way that would make our abba proud. For G-d's sake our Father in Heaven gave "Kal" (everything) to Ya'akov because he was the greatest "mentsch" of all time. If we have to divide up our avodah into time periods, let's learn to be mentschen. Next year we will perfect Shabbat and Kashrut. Of course if you can do both this year, so much the better. BUT BE A MENTSCH FIRST!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world is closing in around us. Baruch HaShem!! Perhaps He is the only one whom we can turn to. In a world where most Jews are ignorant of their lofty heritage, Mentschlichkeit is all that HaShem can expect of the Klal (the whole of Jewry) now. We are a generation of children who have been captured by various idolatries, but there is never an excuse for indecency!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:  Please refer back to any mention of N. Korea exploding a nuclear device during Sukkot to the previous &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/12/koreas-in-twilight-zone.html"&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; .  Now that the entire world seems to have accepted upon themselves the &lt;a href="http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1229"&gt;spirit of Hamas &lt;/a&gt;on the 17th of Cheshvan, the fact that the Koreans have nuclear devices that they can give to Persia for delivery cannot be overstated.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-116370428882423655?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/116370428882423655/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=116370428882423655' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116370428882423655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116370428882423655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/11/sobering-funeral-and-torah-of-shem-and.html' title='Sobering Funeral and the Torah of Shem and Eber'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-116353748390732894</id><published>2006-11-15T04:19:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-11-22T19:52:09.626+02:00</updated><title type='text'>A World Filled with Hamas and Other Thoughts</title><content type='html'>I have had many requests to discuss what specifically happened on the 17th of Cheshvan. I have decided to publish several letters that I have written over the last couple months to explain. Yes, Gog W. is now caught between Iraq and a hard place, "The War Powers Act", which only allows a Chief Executive sixty days from the onset of hostilities to secure an "Act of War" from both houses of Congress. Whether he will initiate something against Persia and North Korea in the next two months before Congress is seated in mid-January is the trump card in G-d's Hand. He may delay in a fatal move to forestall what he believes could be his impeachment. Surely the price of oil will soar to record heights if he withdraws from Iraq as the Persians gain hegemonial control over 55% of the world's sweet oil reserves. (Sweet oil is best defined as the crude oil which is hightly endowed with the lower boiling point gasolines.) Rush Limbaugh is so right about this. This present crop of isolationist Democrats is so very ignorant of Evil and so shortsighted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe, through the prophets and the Sages of the Ages (ChaZaL), G-d has shown us some of His Hand for these two peak years of Gog UMagog (5767 and 5768). He just did not tell us when He was going to play His cards which are stacked against those who side with the Evil Inclination. There is no question in my mind that when &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/12/koreas-in-twilight-zone.html"&gt;North Korea tested its nuclear bomb &lt;/a&gt;during Sukkot this year, it was because after bowing seven times before Esau on Yom Kippur, Ya'akov Avinu has traveled on to Sukkot. According to most of our commentators, he was in Sukkot for Sukkot, the entire winter, the following summer, and the following Sukkot. Only then did he enter Eretz Yisrael, full and complete. Then after tarrying for twelve full months in Sukkot, he tarried another six months until Pesach before joining his father Yitzkhak in Southern Eretz Yisrael. For the time that he tarried, we are in for an 18 month world record rocky ride. But this roller coaster ride will be for keeps, G-d willing. The worst for Eretz Yisrael should be over by next Yom Kippur/Sukkot when Ya'akov accompanies his brother to Mt. Seir, to heave his Heavenly Prince over a cliff, to Azazel. The medrashim are full of what this year represents. More to be discussed in a future post about the Third year of Sukkot 5767, the Year of Ya'akov.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here a sampling of my most recent letters:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Letter one on the subject of the Democratic party victory on the 17th of Cheshvan:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I believe the new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will now play a major role pushing Bush to divide Jerusalem in order to bring peace to the world. She may say that she is doing it for Israel's long term survival, but she has a large pro-Palestinian constituency in her San Francisco district to please. Olmert will of course comply happily. Checks from wealthy left-wing American Jews, the European Union political establishment, and the U.S. State Dept. will be in the mail when he says yes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition to the above letter it has since become known that our arch-enemy James Baker of Gog Sr.'s administration is now restructuring Jr.'s foreign policy to mirror the desires of the Council on Foreign Relations. The Saudis are surely happy about this. They probably even ordered it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally a word about Nancy Pelosi. In the axis of feminist evil, she cannot hold a candle to the likes of Hillary Clinton or Helen Thomas. She has no history of anti-Israel rhetoric or hugging Suha Arafat. And she has a strong affinity toward Jews and the modern State of Israel. For Heaven's sake her son-in-law is Jewish!! She even was caught at an AIPAC get-together singing HaTikvah right after September 11th when an alarm sounded. The entire room started to vacate, but her voice calmed the crowd. The important thing to note, though, is that she is an avowed San Francisco Socialist on every other issue. Her desire to bring peace to Mankind will overwhelm her lesser instinct that human decency must trounce evil in war. Her left-wing Jewish supporters and her San Francisco constituents will see to it that an exit strategy from Iraq is assured at the expense of the division of Jerusalem. Calming the Arab street will be their pretext. Their real reason for selling out the this country that they say that they love will be to be loved by as many as possible. I do not expect Pelosi to be with us when the chips are down, but I do not expect it from her Jewish son-in-law either unless he divorces her daughter and returns to the Tribe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Letter two on the meaning of Hamas Declaring War on the United States on the 17th of Cheshvan:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, this is a good siman (sign) that G-d should be kind to America when it is time to dispense judgement upon Mankind. America deserves to be separated from the rest of its fellow travelers in Edom. On Hoshana Rabba 5761, when the rest of the world was voting to condemn Israel for its actions of self-defense, the United States and two South Pacific nations voted nay to condemnation. I wrote about this in my &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/02/tsunami-and-sweet-letters-of-judgment.html"&gt;original article on the South Asian Tsunami.&lt;/a&gt; Now again in response to the accident in Beit Hanoun when 19 civilians were killed, the Gog W.'s United States voted to veto a resolution in the U.N. Security Council condemning Israel. At least Gog W. had the decency to own up to bombing of the target that was missed as being in tune with his policy even though he had Armilus (Olmert) tied to a short leash. May America be separated out for special consideration from the rest of the Western World which voted to condemn. Here is the letter which is really the combination of three separate letters:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hamas, for the first time, &lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378352193&amp;amp;pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull"&gt;declared war on the United States &lt;/a&gt;on November 8th after the Beit Hanoun bombing. November 8th of course was the 17th of Cheshvan.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Before the great Flood the Torah is very explicit that the straw that broke the camel's back was that the entire world was filled with Hamas (Gen. 6:13). Hamas is translated as chaotic violence or lawlessness. Hazal derive from this that genaivah (thievery) of less than a prutah (a coin worth about a dime) was common. This brought on the Great Flood on the 17th of Cheshvan. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beit Hanoun puts Hamas in the driver's seat of international terrorism. They now become Iran's primary point men in exporting international terrorism to the U.S. Their rallying cry will be "Remember Beit Hanoun!". The more they terrorize, the more Nancy Pelosi gets Gog to divide Yerushalayim. She will claim that this will bring peace to Israel and America. He and his new foreign policy team sent by his dad Gog Sr. will comply. It will be hard for the feeble minded to argue with her. She will end up following a McGovern-like foreign policy line with regards to Israel even thought in the past she never would have done so. The stress of the moment and the need for world-wide affection and constituency support will drive this along.&lt;/em&gt; (If you disagree, please comment.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eventually, hopefully sooner rather than later, Gog starts to bomb Persia. Whether he does so now to prevent the price of oil from soaring or whether he does so after he has left Iraq and the price of oil has already soared, he will have to attack Persia. The division of Yerushalayim seems to be running neck and neck with the coming nuclear- tipped attack to reach those deep Persian bunkers. One needs to happen yesterday. The other will happen because Olmert is bought and paid for. He will just deliver. Only when it is too late will it become obvious to all that the War with Persia will not be going well because of the drive to divide Yerushalayim. In 5767 G-d is controlling every event like never before. Judgement is palpable. This is the seventh year, the climax, for Eretz Yisrael. In Chutz LaAretz (outside Israel), the Hamas (chaotic violence) is just beginning (&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;also a seven year process? The Zohar seems to say yes, for the final blow against the nations of the world occurs in the 73rd year according to the Zohar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;). Al Qeida's attack on 9/11 was a singular event. The drumbeat of daily terrorism has not yet been felt by America and the Western nations.&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;The Medrash Sefer Eliyahu explicitly says that "souls suffering for all of their sins" will be a phenomenum in the western part of the world. The year 5766 was the great divider. According to the Zohar the supernal body of Adam Kadmon was emptied by the end of the year. All reincarnations for the purpose of repairing sins in previous lives ended at the end of that year, last year. For those of us that are already here in this physical plain, we have seven years to get our act together or suffer for all of our sins. Here in Eretz Yisrael we have experienced six of those seven years already. Outside EY 9/11 was a tragic warning shot, but the seven years seem to have hardly commenced. Pray for leniency, but it is hard to believe that at the End of days the Shopkeeper does not demand full payment for unrepentent sin.&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe that this new stated policy of Hamas and &lt;a href="http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/11/fatah_alaqsa_martyrs_brigade_t.php"&gt;now Fatah and their Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade &lt;/a&gt;to bring suicide bombings enmasse to the United States will quickly become a policy on all the Western nations. A world wide intafada is in the making. More later....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-116353748390732894?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/116353748390732894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=116353748390732894' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116353748390732894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116353748390732894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/11/world-filled-with-hamas-and-other.html' title='A World Filled with Hamas and Other Thoughts'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-116309167255031562</id><published>2006-11-09T18:52:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-11-16T00:37:57.146+02:00</updated><title type='text'>IT'S CANCELED!</title><content type='html'>The Abomination Parade scheduled for tomorrow late morning has been &lt;a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=115170"&gt;canceled&lt;/a&gt;. Hodu LaShem Ki Tov Ki L'Olam Chasdo!!! (Praise HaShem for He is Good and His chessed is forever!!) They exchanged their parade for a rally at Givat Ram stadium because of the worsening security situation brought about by the &lt;a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=115073"&gt;Beit Hanoun&lt;/a&gt; fiasco. It may have been an accident, but Armilus and company's evil plans are being blocked from all sides by the Guardian of Israel!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember, though, that the post-rally parties may get problematic. Some of these folks will be out for revenge. Their partying will definitely coincide with the onset of the Jewish Shabbat. Who knows what some of these folks have planned. The threats against the Shomer Shabbat public have already been publicized. Last year a group of the local gays from here in their local march made a point to French kiss in front of the Great Synagogue as they passed it. Now some of them are threatening &lt;a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=115133"&gt;rape&lt;/a&gt;! A big curse upon the Ford Foundation for trying to curse us with these folks pushing their twisted lifestyle upon all of us!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-116309167255031562?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/116309167255031562/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=116309167255031562' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116309167255031562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116309167255031562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/11/its-canceled.html' title='IT&apos;S CANCELED!'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-116294403027619757</id><published>2006-11-08T00:28:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-11-09T20:04:00.416+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Agitated in Accord with the Medrash Sefer Eliyahu</title><content type='html'>I quote for your perusal from the oft-quoted and very accurate portrayal of events in our generataion, the Medrash "Sefer Eliyahu". Way too much of it is starkly self-explanatory. Here it is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Then Michael, The Archangel, said to me, 'The appointed time for the End of Days will occur during the reign of a king who will be named &lt;strong&gt;HRMLT. &lt;/strong&gt;There are those that say that &lt;strong&gt;TRMLO &lt;/strong&gt;will be his name.' (&lt;/em&gt;Following this is a list of other names given by Later Tannaim from the first and second centuries c.e. describing the foreign handlers of &lt;strong&gt;TRMLO &lt;/strong&gt;and/or foreign rulers of Yerushalayim after he caves in over everything.) Continuing: &lt;em&gt;Rav Shimon bar Yochai says &lt;strong&gt;HaChShaRaH &lt;/strong&gt;will be his name. The halachah in this dipute amongst later Tannaim follows Rav Shimon who said HaChShaRaH will be his name. (&lt;/em&gt;This name sounds peculiarly like Jacques Chirac, the President of France until the end of this coming April 2007 when Nicholas Sarkozy is likely to be elected by picking up over 95% of every non-Muslim voter. Yet, Chirac who seems to dislike Sarkozy intensely may decide to run again just to spite him, but Chirac is 73 years old.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Continuing in the very next paragraph: &lt;em&gt;The last king of Persia will come up against the Romans for three successive years until he expands (his gains) against them (in battle) over a period of twelve months. (&lt;/em&gt;Achmadinejad came to power in the summer of 5765. Part of a year of a king is counted as a full year of his reign, and the rule of gentile kings is counted from Rosh HaShanah unlike Jewish kings whose rule is counted from Pesach. Achi is in the third year of his reign starting this Rosh HaShana 5767. He has been a handful for Edom (Rome) from the moment that he ascended his throne. He has outwitted them with every move. According to Eliyahu HaNavi, expect war this year. And with whom you may ask?) &lt;em&gt;Three mighty warrior kings &lt;strong&gt;(&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gog W., Tony Blair, and maybe Jacques Chirac: All three are elected lame ducks with nothing to lose but their legacies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;.) will come up to oppose him from the West, but they will be handed over into his control. Then the lowliest of the kings &lt;/em&gt;(The French king?),&lt;em&gt; the son (or grandson) of a 'shifchah' named 'Gigit' &lt;/em&gt;(Gigi in French&lt;em&gt;?) will confront him from the West&lt;/em&gt;. (For over 150 years slavery has been banned if every Western country. The only possible shifchah is a non-Jewish woman married to a Jewish man. Since such a marriage is impossible, it is as if the relationship between a Jewish man and a non-Jewish woman is a relationship between a Jewish man and his slave. Only one Western leader or potential leader is the son or grandson on his mother's side of a Jewish man and a non-Jewish woman. That man is Nicholas Sarkozy whose maternal grandfather was a Jew from Salonika named Benedict Mallah and his mother's mother was a French Catholic. I cannot find her name yet. Maybe it was Gigi. Please help if you can.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now back to Armilus or &lt;strong&gt;TRMLO: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;These will be his signs, for Daniel has already foreseen him: His face will be long, there will be a bald patch between his eyes, he will be very tall, the soles of his feet will be high, and his thighs will be thin. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe this is his mugshot:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3169/824/1600/olmert%20with%20dog.5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3169/824/320/olmert%20with%20dog.5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;At that time he will attack the faithful people, and he will provoke at that time three agitations. All the constellations will be gathered together and move to one place. They will plunder houses and rob fields and strike the orphan and the widow in in the shuk, but if they (soldiers or police) perform penitence they will be forgiven.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Armona was agitation number one, this Gayvah (Proud or Gay) Parade is agitation number two. If Gush Katif was number one, this is agitation number three. With a wife who is an open supporter of same sex marriage and with a lesbian daughter who would be proud to be be Grand Marshall of a parade which forces society to accept her lifestyle as an equal, any attempt to mollify his Chareidi coalition partners by recognizing their right to protest is a feigned attempt. He has supported this parade from the start.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the parade has been confined to the citadels and the cathedrals of the Erev Rav. The Mazuz compromise route will offer participants views of the Knesset, the Supreme NarishCourt, the Museum District, and the Givat Ram Campus of Hebrew Univ. If this were a normal group of marchers, one might agree with Snake Mazuz's compromise. If anything he has quickened the pace the destruction of the secular state in the hands of G-d. But these marchers will be looking for trouble after the March. The same group of thugs that French kissed in front of the Great Synagogue last year when the local gays had their march will be back in force to welcome congregants leaving shule on Friday night. I have no idea how the police plan to control the Friday night party after the march.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are three groups of Chareidi Jews that have vehemently protested to keep this garbage out of their neighborhoods. The followers of the Admor of Sadigura and the Erloier Rebbe who valiantly tried to stop orthodox Jews from participating in a government that impoverished 10,000 Jews from Gush Katif and the Shomron are one group. The followers of those who joined Sharon's government make up a larger group. They now ask what have they done to bring on this tragedy. The answer for those in the second group who understand that Mentchlichkeit is kadma to the Torah is a simple one. Hugging a Caravilla refugee or at least paying his phone bill might be a good step toward teshuva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a third group, though, which is probably the largest group of vehement protesters. Their leaders many of them from Satmar have never joined any government. They take no govenment money for anything and have refrained since 1948 from receiving benefits from the secular state. I do not know how they avoid National Insurance since anyone who owns a business here has to give ma'aser (10%) to those folks, but somehow they have insulated themselves from the secular state. They are like tzaddikim with pelts (fur coats) who pray for redemption in general but withdraw completely from those who participate in the state's history. They, in general, did nothing to stop disengagement, but they did nothing to cause it either. Measure for measure, in their merit, this ugly affair has been removed by G-d (Mazuz has no real power.) from their neighborhood into the places that they abhor and ignore as much as possible, the Institutions of the State. If we could only lock up the parade goers in the Knesset and the Supreme NarishCourt overnight after their pitiful little event, we could all breathe a sigh of relief.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Since I first wrote this blog entry, one of the many readers has informed me that Nicholas Sarkozy's maternal grandmother did not have the legal name Gigi when she married Benedict Mallah. There is no way I could have found this out by ordinary means since her name does not appear in any articles in English or Hebrew. Googling it in English and Hebrew therefore came up with nothing which is why I posed it as a question. Thanks to the French readers of this blog, one of whom spent several hours investigating the geneology of his mother's family. In short, in this case I needed to publish the possibility in order to find out the facts from someone who could do the research in French. Only in the worldwide blogosphere is this possible. His response is in the comments to this blog entry. Thanks, Ben.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-116294403027619757?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/116294403027619757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=116294403027619757' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116294403027619757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116294403027619757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/11/agitated-in-accord-with-medrash-sefer.html' title='Agitated in Accord with the Medrash Sefer Eliyahu'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-116277052853754992</id><published>2006-11-06T01:14:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-11-08T00:06:04.450+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Total Hefkerut:  Nothing is Sacred to these folks</title><content type='html'>Attourney General Mazuz who kept privately threatening the now brain dead Sharon with the prosecution of his sons if he did not destroy Jewish life in Gush Katif, now has found a new more kosher beast to slay.  He has his sights on debasing the sanctity of Yerushalayim.  Nothing will stop him now.  Rioting and/or logic will not stop this wicked little snake of an attourney general from trashing the sanctity of Yerushalayim.  The perverts must march.  In his mind there can be no greater good.  No letter writing campaign will stop these monsters.  The police, trying their best not to be storm troopers this week, have officially been put on notice to crush all dissent.  The holy souls of Mea Shearim, Geulah, and Bayit VeGan need our fervent Tehillim and prayers to stop this madness.  The intensification of Gog UMagog has officially begun.  Perek Shira everyday if you can!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will, G-d willing be updating every day this week. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two and a half years after UTJ signed a letter of intent on the tenth of Tevet, 5765 to join Sharon's government the Holy City might be handed over to the nations of the world.  We are quickly headed in that direction.  Marching and fighting with the police over the city's sanctity cannot stop the fact that when the lives of 10,000 holy Jews were turned into hefkerut (ownerless garbage), Yerushalayim was handed over too.  Unless some rich and wealthy supporters of those who joined the Sharon government in 5765 put the good people of Gush Katif on their feet with a just compensation package, burning garbage in the middle of Kikar Shabbat will not stop this inevitable march to hefkerut of the Holy City at the hand of the unholy snake M. Mazuz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am now working on my article about the year of Yakov, the third year of Sukkot, 5767.  He is now living in Sukkot this year.  He encountered Esau of Yom Kippur, and he has moved on to Sukkot.  For the rest of this year, he will be dwelling there as the world apparently changes in such fundamental ways that by 5768, the world could very possibly change more drastically than it usually does in the normal century.  I believe such change is usually called apocalyptic?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we see from this Abomination Parade, G-d has no one else to bless on the side of purity.  No blessing will come into the world this year except through those who serve him lishma.  Western Civilization is now mired totally in the power of impurity.  It is destined to fight the Persians who are also mired in the same muck.  Now one might think that since there is no one else to bless except for Yakov Avinu and truly righteous gentiles that everything should be good for Israel, but alas the Erev Rav still reigns here, for they too have a brit milah and are adopted into the family of Jacob.  Yet, as we see, they will do everything in their power to keep us all in the garbage heep so that Edom can still rule here.  Mazuz is their point man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The year of Jacob needs a more intense understanding.  I am on the case.  G-d willing, more tomorrow.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-116277052853754992?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/116277052853754992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=116277052853754992' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116277052853754992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116277052853754992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/11/total-hefkerut-nothing-is-sacred-to.html' title='Total Hefkerut:  Nothing is Sacred to these folks'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-116150887213747832</id><published>2006-10-22T11:18:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-01-12T10:04:52.426+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Reiteration of Mashiach's "Appearance" in 5766</title><content type='html'>I have decided to post a response to last weeks post as a post itself. It is too important not to clarify how Mashiach made his presence known in 5766. We are living in a very dangerous world. The "appearance" of Mashiach has made the world even more dangerous for the short term for two reasons. For one, he has appeared to stop the suicidal moves of Armilus the Wicked which would destroy the lives and property of another 100,000 Jews in order to make Israel look good amongst the goyim and to accrue whatever personal benefits he has been promised by their leaders. The entire Avodah Zarah of world public opinion which has the "face of a dog" is crumbling before our eyes. The benefits of accruing good will from gentile Presidents, Prime Ministers, and potentates are being trashed before our eyes. Evacuations from Gaza may have accrued some "good will", but the cost of this "good will" is our safety and survival. Has impoverishing some of the finest Jews on the planet been worth it? This sets up the second reason for his "appearance" in 5766. We now have no one else on whom we can rely except our Father in Heaven. Armilus the wicked, with G-d's help, is succeeding in isolating us from all the nations that he craves to love us. I would not be surprised, therefore, if Gog W. were to lose his Republican held Senate seats in Missouri and Tennessee. He would then lose the Senate to Democrats who are hostile to Israel's long-term survival. We will be truly a "nation that dwells alone." Either way Gog UMagog will intensify after the American Congressional Elections. If the Republicans hold on in the Senate that is if Jim Talent keeps his seat in Missouri and Bob Corker wins in Tennessee, Gog W. will quickly go to war against Persia and then he will be "forced" to work with Kofi Anan to divide Yerushalayim as a quid pro quo. The Saudi royals will insist on that. The Persians according to Medrash Sefer Eliyahu will gain the upper hand for about 12 months until the least of the Edomite kings defeats them. They, the Persians, will happily join any international coalition to divide Yerushalayim as long as they are leading the effort. Hmm...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Gog loses Republican leadership in the Senate, the division of Yerushalayim will be item number one on the international agenda, but when the price of oil begins to rise again towards $100 per barrel as Iran gets closer to obtaining nuclear weapons from North Korea or from its own research, American liberals will be proven to be as dangerously stupid as Israeli ones, and Gog W. Will be forced to go to war against Iran. The possibilities of controlled "chaos" over the next few months are endless. Add into the mixture nuclear tipped warheads, suitcase nukes in civilian locations, other forms of terror, and a lot of prayer from the descendents of Yakov Avinu, it is not possible to fully guess all the ways that the coming "chaos" might unfold. G-d willing by Pesach we will begin to see that G-d favors the descendents of Yakov in the year of Yakov, and whether or not the world is ready to accept it, Eretz Yisrael goes to him. On Erev Pesach he received G-d's blessing for Eretz Yisrael from his father, Yitzkhak, and his brother, Esau, inherited much oil from Yishmael's oil fields. We shall see this year how G-d fully remembers His covenant with Yakov, for a full rememberence of Yakov is in order this year about 6 1/2 years from the onset of the Al Aksa Intafada. We shall see how this unfolds. More on the Year of Yakov, G-d willing, very soon. Below is my response to a commenter on the previous post, "Filling the Four Universes":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will cover this again if necessary. I am sorry that I did not make this completely clear. The Medrash Eliyahu says that in the year when Mashiach comes "Angels of Destruction will be set up by Mashiach on the 20th of Shvat to destroy the entire great nation stretching from the (coastal) plain to Yafo (Tel Aviv) down to Ashkelon" This happened with Hamas's election when they installed their government on the 20th of Shvat, 5766 this past February. The culling of 1.2 million chickens because of the Avian Flu right before 25 to 30% of Israeli Jews voted to install the evil Armilus as PM seems to have symbolically prevented the carnage against 1.2 million coastal plain Jews, Barush HaShem, Chasdei HaShem. Yet, there would have been no War in Gaza followed by a War in Lebanon and the Gallilee if Hamas had not installed a new government on the 20th of Shvat. The war started in Gaza against Hamas but spread to Lebanon against Hezbollah. And it is precisely because of his controlled failure during the War in Lebanon and the Gallilee that Armilus cannot go through with his evil plan to unilaterally destroy most of Jewish Judea and Samaria. (His failed war effort was directed by Co. Rice and the US State Dept. with Gog W.'s approval.) Within six months of his "election" his evil plan with Gog W. pulling the strings needed reevaluation. This was Mashiach's appearance in the Gallilee in the 66th year in accordance with the Zohar on VaYera. Gog W. and his hordes will need to come out of the closet. They can no longer prop up a Erev Rav puppet to execute their plans unilaterally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short, G-d has provided them no other avenue to put into effect their evil plans other than to come to Yerushalayim themselves to try to destroy Jewish Yesha and to internationalize half of the Holy City. Mashiach's action, on the 20th of Shvat in February and again in the Gallilee during the summer of 5766 on the anniversary of Moshe's sending the spies to spy out the Land, is forcing the Nations of the World to come to Yerushalayim for battle against the Almighty this year possibly stretching into Sukkot 5768. Clueless leftist and Erev Rav voters who have lapped up a bunch of garbage from the media were forced by this act of Mashiach to smell the coffee of what it would be like to have missile emplacements in Judea and Samaria mirroring what existed in Southern Lebanon and what now exists there again and also now exists in Gaza. These clueless leftists and Erev Rav Kadima and Meretz voters are being forced to swallow their rejection of parts of Eretz Yisrael even though it will now make them unpopular at European and American cocktail parties where they have been lavished with praise since they destroyed Jewish life in Gaza and placed so many Gush Katif refugees into poverty. They have wised up at least for their own benefit if not for the benefit of their fellow Jews living in Yesha protecting their behinds by their presence there. No Skhar (reward) for coming to this realization to save their own skins, but at least G-d has stopped another self-imposed churban (destruction). More importantly Gog and company can no longer rely upon placing large sums of money into Swiss Bank Accts. of choice Israeli PMs or threatening them with prosecution of themselves and their children in order to enact their Road Maps to Hell. For the first six years of the Al Aksa Intafada, this is how Gog and the Europeans controlled Sharon and Armilus. It looks like these monsters have to show up and try to do it themselves now. And the L-rd will gather the nations of the world against Yerushalayim for battle. (Zecharia) I hope this makes everything clear. Gut Hodesh to all. What a year we have ahead of us!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-116150887213747832?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/116150887213747832/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=116150887213747832' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116150887213747832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116150887213747832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/10/reiteration-of-mashiachs-appearance-in.html' title='Reiteration of Mashiach&apos;s &quot;Appearance&quot; in 5766'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-116052074870615875</id><published>2006-10-19T00:21:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-11-08T15:43:33.383+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Filling of Four Universes</title><content type='html'>The following is a presentation of a very possible scenario for the unfolding of the acceleration of the Gog UMagog seven year cycle now that we have entered the seventh full year of the Al Aksa Intafada. It is based on a commentary that in the year 5760 the entire world was immersed in a mikvah. 5767 is the eighth year including the year that we were immersed. Since in Kinot, our lament during our Jewish day of national mourning, Tisha B'Av, Israel is compared to a woman in niddah (a state of physical/ spiritual impurity), the waters of a kosher mikvah can erase that impurity on the eighth clean day of a woman's menstrual cycle. 5767 is the eighth year of that cleansing process. In actuality the Al Aksa Intafada began a day and a half before the year 5761 in the year 5760 so that although we are in the seventh full year of the Al Aksa intafada, we are really in the eighth year of both the cleansing process and the Al Aksa Intafada. According to most opinions Israel is supposed to suffer deeply during the bulk of the seven year period known as Gog and Magog. I believe that we have suffered enough. HaKodesh Baruch Hu may disagree. In the end it is His opinion that counts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing for sure. There are two possibilities on how to count the the seven years. One is from the beginning of the shmittah cycle which began in 5762 (Fall of 2001) when Gog W. invaded Afghanistan on Hoshana Rabba, the last day of the Feast of Booths. The other is from the beginning of our final sorrow. This as pointed out above began the day before Rosh HaShana 5761 on the 28th or 29th of Elul 5760. Ariel Sharon ascended the Temple Mount on the 28th of Elul. The rioting which had been planned for months started almost immediately. According to opinion number two, we have had our seven years of misery here in the Holy Land. Several thing buttress opinion number two. For one, the Targum Yonatan on the last thing Moshe Rabbeinu saw at the end of his life describes events that will occur in the last year before the Redemption commences, including the evacuation of Gush Katif, the City of the Date Palms a.k.a. Newe Dekalim. As pointed out just recently on this blog I believe that Mashiach made his presence known last year, 5766.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another event that can very possibly be happening right now is the filling of the four universes. This is a silent process until the very end. Atzilut the highest of the universes is first filled with the gematriah 72 letter name for G-d. (See the chart below as provided by Rabbi Pinchus Winston on the sefer, &lt;strong&gt;HaLeshem.&lt;/strong&gt;) HaShem's Name in this universe is spelled as follows: The Yud is spelled Yud- Vav- Dalet. The Heys are spelled Hey- Yud. And the Vav is spelled Vav- Yud- Vav. All together the numerical value of Yud Key Vav Key is 72. (The letter Key is to be understood as Hey.) Note that Yud is 10. Vav is 6. Dalet is four. Hey is five. And for reference below Aleph is one. According to the Arizal HaKodesh (Rav Yitzkhak Luria from the fifteenth century), this process of filling the four universes began before the creation of the universe on the 25th of Adar. Do not ask me to explain this, for time itself is a creation, and it was created on the 25th of Elul, six months later!! We can assume a perfect thirty day cycle for the moon at this point because before Adam sinned the lunar cycles in concept and later in actuallity were perfect. From and including the 25th of Adar, there are six days in Adar, thirty days in Nissan, thirty days in Iyar, and six more in Sivan until the Sixth of Sivan which is Shavuot. This totals 72 days. During this period when HaShem is coming to judge His world, He fills the universe of Atzilut, a universe which in a sense has always existed and contains only HaShem and His ten emanations of Elokut. For a further explanation, plan to study Kabbalah with a proper Rav for several years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The universe of Bri'ah (ex-nihilo creation where HaShem's words become conceptions of reality, existence from non-existence. Think A&lt;strong&gt;brah &lt;/strong&gt;Kedabra or "I will create in accordance to My Word.") is then filled for the next 63 days by the gematriah 63 Name of HaShem. In this universe everything is the same as Atzilut except the that Vav is spelled Vav- Aleph- Vav instead of Vav- Yud- Vav. Aleph is nine less than Yud leaving us with a gematriah of 63 in the complete spelling of the letters in HaShem's Name. There are exactly 63 days from and including the Seventh of Sivan until the Ninth of Av otherwise known as Tisha B'Av.&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;Again assume thirty days in Tamuz, 24 days remaining in Sivan and nine days in Av.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The universe of Yetzirah (In this universe the concepts created in bri'ah take shape and are defined by form and function. The creations themselves do not yet exist in space and time.) is then filled with the gematriah 45 Name of HaShem. In this universe both Heys are spelled Hey- Aleph instead of Hey- Yud. Both Heys lose nine each for a total gematriah reduction of 18. 63 minus 18 is 45. This Name fills the universe of Yetzirah between and including the tenth of Av through the 24th of Elul. Finally the final Name of HaShem has a gemtriah of 52. In this universe of Asi'ah( the work of Creation within space and time) HaShem's Name is spelled Yud-Vav- Dalet, Hey- Hey, Vav- Vav, and then Hey- Hey. Because Adam sinned during this process, Elul only has five remaining days from the 25th of Elul until the 29th; Tishrei still has thirty days, followed by 17 days in Cheshvan. From this we see that the world should be prepared for judgement on the the 17th of Cheshvan. We know from the Torah that this was the case in the year of the Flood when the Deluge started on the 17th of Cheshvan, 1656 after the Sin of Adam. There is a good chance that it is happening as I write this explanation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gog W. is stuck. He cannot attack Persia until he has secured his Republican majority in the U.S. Senate. He hopes to do that on November seventh in order to prevent the Democrats from coming after him for an official declaration of war within 60 days of any "police action" that he starts in the Persian Gulf. The evening of the seventh of November when the election results come in begins a new day on the calendar of G-d. That night is the 17th of Cheshvan. In the year of Gog UMagog we can expect that the world will enter its "chaos" phase on the 17th of Cheshvan. Gog will think that he is running the show, but events will quickly spiral out of his control. Is this the year? No matter what, you should prepare for the Pilot of spaceship earth to make His presence known.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3169/824/1600/Arizal%20timeline%20and%20Names%20of%20G-d.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3169/824/320/Arizal%20timeline%20and%20Names%20of%20G-d.jpg" width="415" height="214" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-116052074870615875?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/116052074870615875/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=116052074870615875' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116052074870615875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116052074870615875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/10/filling-of-four-universes.html' title='The Filling of Four Universes'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-116070191650311089</id><published>2006-10-13T03:06:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-10-18T21:21:34.403+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Idle Speculation</title><content type='html'>My desire to publish my lengthy post about the year of Gog UMagog has been delayed by a serious tragedy to the family of the Aish HaTorah rabbi in S. Louis, MO.  I am publishing a letter instead that I just published on the Mystical Paths blog hinting at the post that I wanted to publish this week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until then please say tehillim for Tehilla bat Bracha, Elisha ben Bracha, David ben Bracha, and Chaim ben Bracha.  They are is serious condition in Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in S. Louis.  Here is the letter:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is more than just idle speculation.  There are many things one can do to prepare for what is about to happen after the Congressional elections on the 17th of Cheshvan, between then and Pesach.  Rent or buy here in Israel.  Come to see the Holy Land as the island of safety as the entire world is flooded by the effects of Gog UMagog.  Seeing the hand of G-d in history is the ultimate root of teshuvah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So much of this is being brought on by the apathy of so many Jews to the plight of the refugees from Gush Katif and the Northern Shomron.  They have only received a fraction of their compensation.  G-d's Name is filling all four universes as we speak to avenge their sullied holiness.  This process was triggered by the evacuations and started within seven months after the evacuations on the 25th of Adar, 5766.  The Targum Yonatan himself wrote that the evacuations from the "City of the Date Palms, Newe' Dekalim" would trigger the build up to Gog UMagog within one year of the evacuation. All four universes will be filled by the 17th of Cheshvan this year.  This only happened in full once before in World History, just before the Great Flood.  To ignore whether or not it is happening now would be something for which one should really do teshuvah!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-116070191650311089?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/116070191650311089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=116070191650311089' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116070191650311089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/116070191650311089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/10/idle-speculation.html' title='Idle Speculation'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-115937735585507936</id><published>2006-09-27T19:49:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-10-12T17:54:49.260+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Did Mashiach Come in 5766?</title><content type='html'>Apparently I am getting requests to explain how Mashiach came in 5766. He has not come and introduced himself as such, and maybe the only one who knows who he is one of Rav Kaduri's most trusted students. Other than that his presence was made last year nevertheless. A more extensive article is necessary to discuss 5766 in total as the Year of Yitzkhak, but I just want to make the following note.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It says in the Medrash Sefer Eliyahu the following: &lt;em&gt;There is a very large nation extending from the great plain to Yaffo (a.k.a. Tel Aviv) and on to Ashkelon. On the 20th of Sh'vat, Mashiach will come. Angels of destruction will descend and destroy the whole of that multitude, and they will not leave a single soul. &lt;/em&gt;Thank G-d the second part of this has not happened. The bird flu came and gave out 1.2 million kapporot when that many domestic birds were culled. Yet, true to the medrash's word, Hamas installed its government on the 20th of Shvat. They were elected earlier, but their government was officially installed on that day. A few months later Israel had a war with the another Iranian supported group of thugs in Lebanon, Hezbullah. A million or more Israelis were in bomb shelters or other temporary housing for over a month. All of Armilus's (Olmert's) plans are in ruins except for a regurgitated form of Gog W.'s and Tony Blair's Road Map to Hell. Red Haifa is not as red as it has been for the last fifty years or so. Valuable lessons have been learned by the populace that was affected that another ten year Intafada would not teach. Mashiach made a small appearance in the Gallilee after all in the 66th year just as the Holy Zohar said he would. Perhaps we were looking for something more spectacular, but in the Year of Yitzkhak, the Second Year of Sukkot, when the Divine attribute of Strict Justice is in effect, it was a good start. The Armilus government is in disarray. G-d has placed his hand on Sharon's underlings, just as promised in "&lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/01/travail-of-shepherd.html"&gt;The Travail of the Shepherd&lt;/a&gt;". I firmly believe that as the Melitzer Rebbe said that the Redemption has begun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More later&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-115937735585507936?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/115937735585507936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=115937735585507936' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/115937735585507936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/115937735585507936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/09/did-mashiach-come-in-5766.html' title='Did Mashiach Come in 5766?'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-115893259952171758</id><published>2006-09-22T16:37:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-09-26T19:17:58.186+03:00</updated><title type='text'>L'Shana Tova</title><content type='html'>I know that I have not published in a while.  I will publish something, that I hope is very stimulating after the New Year.  Mashiach is still on the way.  And actually he has made his presence known already.  Not to worry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May all of you be written and sealed in the Books of Eternal Life, Health, Happiness, and Peace.  May the year go well for all of you.  The Year of Yakov is on the way, and it promises to be a spectacular year in so many ways.   I truly believe that G-d will make Himself known this year in ways that He has not been felt since Shlomo's Temple was destroyed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;G-d bless,  Dov&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-115893259952171758?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/115893259952171758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=115893259952171758' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/115893259952171758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/115893259952171758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/09/lshana-tova.html' title='L&apos;Shana Tova'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-115546528566978023</id><published>2006-08-13T12:57:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-09-21T05:12:53.793+03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Cease fire of Armilus the Wicked and the Hordes of Gog</title><content type='html'>This is a reprint of a very recent letter to a reader of this blog. Events are changing so fast. Updates will be frequent if necessary. The letter Vav in the World of Yetzirah is spelled Vav-Aleph-Vav. The first six years of the Al Aksa intafada apparently will lead to the most chaotic year in world history, 5767. It is the Aleph year in the Vav in Hashem's name. There is no way to even begin to guess how this world will look when Rosh HaShana 5768 commences. Apparently, as the Gemorrah in Sotah ends, "We have no one on whom we can rely except Our Father in Heaven."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, Armilus the Wicked has caved in the worst possible way. He even made a little show of sending troops to the Litani without disarming Hezballah just to quiet the outrage in the Hebrew press who five months ago was celebrating his victory. These evil monsters at HaAretz, Ma'ariv, and the Last Idiot have nothing to complain about. They are now reaping the "reward" for their victory. The international hordes will be at our northern border within two weeks. Kofi Anan, "Monkey Cloud" will be leading them like a "cloud" as Yechezkel 38 and 39 puts it. Vlad Putin, craving the next pogram, I believe will make a deal with Gog W. so that Russian troops have a leading role in the "peace-keeping" force. The Russians, Meshach and Tuval, cannot continue to exist without committing at least one pogram every few decades. I believe that Vlad smells Jewish blood. He may even abstain on inflicting economic sanctions against Iran just for the opportunity to be at the northern border, to beat up Jews, and to divide Yerushalayim hopefully in his mind within the year. Again "All we have to rely on is our Father in Heaven".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the letter:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The answer to your first question is that Armilus in the end only cares about Armilus and his wife, a genuine Makhsheifah (witch). The international force will probably be invited in by Armilus to patrol chunks of Judea and Samaria in 5767 about the same time that the US and Britain and one other Western power will go to war against Iran. Of course if there is a coup by supporters of Mashiach ben Yosef, the northern hordes will not wait to be invited in. To elucidate who Armilus is, besides the worst Prime Minister of any country in World History, you must understand his spiritual psychology. He believes that the world is not perfectible. The entire purpose for serving G-d is therefore to make money, even though he himself has nothing to do with G-dly matters. He respects his good buddy Gog W. because Gog W. does serve G-d to make money at least for the United States. This only takes one to the 33rd level of purity, for only by serving G-d lishma can one rise to the 49th level of purity. The 33rd level is there because the Mon (manna) fell for the third time on Lag B'Omer (thirty-third day of the Omer counted from the day after Pesach until Shavuot a.k.a. by others as Pentacost). It fell for the first time on the 31st day of the Omer. Edom (Esau) does a calculation that he can merit the Mon forever if he has a chazakah (partial ownership) on the Mon when it falls the third time. This is the source of him not being able to lead Mankind above the 33rd level of purity. This is also the source for his affinity for Armilus the last "king" of the Erev Rav before he is replaced by Mashiach ben Yosef whom Armilus tries very hard to kill until Mashiach ben David kills Armilus. See Sefer Kol HaTor by Hillel Shklover, the Vilna Gaon's most dedicated personal student on matters of the final redemption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Armilus reserves his strongest hatred for those groups of Jews who serve G-d lishma (for its own sake) who through "religious Zionism" represent a continuing spiritual and political threat toward undermining his worldview. He hates religious settlers so much that he is willing to risk losing a war to express his glee that now he will have a greater opportunity to destroy their lives just as he did in Gush Katif. What was accomplished by this war? Apparently a significant number of Coastal Plain folks have awakened to whom their PM really is, how evil he is, and how last March human garbage voted for garbage.  (&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;If you voted with the human garbage for Kadima or for Meretz, the path to teshuvah is very difficult, for you must bring the good saintly people of Gush Katif, Northern Gaza and  the Northern Shomron back to a financially sound, productive situation.  You must also restore the value of the homes of the good people of Sederot and other "border" cities and kibbutzim.  Giving your home to a refugee who is living in a Caravilla and then sitting in sackcloth and ashes for a year for your crime might be a good way to remove yourself from the status of being human debris. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;G-d have mercy on us all if you do not start soon.)  &lt;/span&gt;They are realizing that they need to throw out the garbage before they get thrown out with the garbage. When they realize this strongly enough, Armilus will be forcibly removed from office and replaced with Mashiach ben Yosef if the State does not lose its sovereignty to the northern hordes in the meantime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My research indicates that the international force will attempt to take over in 5767, but the world will be in such turmoil from so many pressing matters, it is unclear how many people they will remove from their homes while G-d whacks and whacks them. By Pesach 5767 any attempt by a nation to remove Jews from their homes will lead to the decimation of that nation. In short these international forces may succeed but only at the cost of their continued existence. Armilus will probably be around all next year egging them on, leading one nation after the other to its demise. His destruction will probably occur in 5768 with the onset of the fourth year of Sukkot, the Year of Moshe. Since it was Moshe who begged HaShem to accept the Erev Rav, only in his merit can we finally be rid of their treachery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are right. Eretz HaGivli has not yet been wasted. There will be another round. Kiryat Shmona which is part of Eretz HaGivli (The Gavlan) on Israel's side of the border has been wasted, though. Sefer Yehoshua 13 says that Eretz Hagivli stretches as far southeast as Ba'al Gad which today is known as the Banyas, one of the headwaters of the Yarden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short, not to worry. Next year Gog W. will send the hordes against us so that he can deal with little Haman/Hitler in Tehran. He will ostensibly send them in as a peace-keeping force so that he can go up against the Persians without Russian opposition. You see, Putin and company (Meshach and Tuval) will probably be leading the hordes as part of Gog's international coalition. Gogumogog will take place. By the end of Sukkot 5768 the worst for Eretz Yisrael will, G-d willing be over. It will not be over for Chutz LaAretz though. In the Aleph year of Vav-Aleph-Vav judgement of the nations of the world will have only just begun.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-115546528566978023?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/115546528566978023/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=115546528566978023' title='25 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/115546528566978023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/115546528566978023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/08/cease-fire-of-armilus-wicked-and.html' title='The Cease fire of Armilus the Wicked and the Hordes of Gog'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>25</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-115452444260300769</id><published>2006-08-02T15:54:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-09-21T18:54:56.130+03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Gavlan will be Desolate: the Last Sign to Fall</title><content type='html'>A quick post before the Yom Tov? of Tisha b'Av. The key to the last of the 18 signs in the Gemorrah in Sotah so that Mashiach can come b'itah has now been found with the assistance of my friend, YS. Is the Gavlan already desolate? Will Armilus (Olmert) use this as a pretext to resist G-d even more? That is does the last leader of the Erev Rav delay the redemption just a little bit longer in order for HaShem to make one more important point before Armilus is destroyed? We will soon see. Here is a copy of the letter that I sent to &lt;a href="http://mysticalpaths.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mystical Paths&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After extensive research it is obvious that the Gavlan, as mentioned by the Maharsha as he comments on the list of the 18 signs repeated in Tractate Sanhedrin, is the same Eretz Givli (Land of Gebel) that is mentioned in the 13th perek of Yehoshua (Joshua 13) which in the life of Yehoshua was not conquered. Drawing a line from Baniyas to Tsidon reveals the full extent of Yehoshua's conquests. Everything north of that line up to the River Ibrahim north of Beirut was supposed to be conquered as part of Ca'anan but was not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to sources, one of the most ancient cities of all time from the time of the Creation of Man is the city of Jbail, 35 km north of modern Beirut.. The Greeks called it Byblos because of its importance in the papyrus trade. Around the time of the Exodus from Mitzraim (Egypt), the population of J'bail became too great to meet the needs of the Givli (J'baili in Arabic) populace. A group of J'bailians traveled and settled in southeast Lebanon. They called their new capital Daughter of Jbail (Bint Jbail in Arabic). According to modern Lebanese maps it is still the provincial capital of the &lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/900/910/912/maps/mot-maps/english-map/eng-l07.html" target="_blank"&gt;Land of the Daughter of Jbail&lt;/a&gt; (Caza refers to the word province). Notice the name of the country at Lebanon's southern border is called Palestine. In Sefer Yehoshua (Joshua 13), the text divides up the northern areas not conquered by Yehushua into north-western and north-eastern sections as follow: The coastal (north-western) unconquered areas are called from Tsidon to Afeik. The inland northeastern areas are called from Eretz HaGivli (Gebel or the Gavlan) and all of Eastern Lebanon. In short, Eretz HaGivli (The Land of Gebel) or the Gavlan in Sotah and Sanhedrin is the province of Bint J'bail. May it soon be desolate. Of course, its desolation will bring about WW3, but what the heck, a world where the public relations of our official dwarf, Armilus (Olmert) needs to be replaced with a world where the Truth is no longer absent.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-115452444260300769?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/115452444260300769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=115452444260300769' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/115452444260300769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/115452444260300769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/08/gavlan-will-be-desolate-last-sign-to.html' title='The Gavlan will be Desolate: the Last Sign to Fall'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-115369489775457141</id><published>2006-07-24T01:18:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-08-11T07:01:06.783+03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Galilee Lies in Ruins</title><content type='html'>The Galilee lies in ruins, and the border cities are in a wasteland. These cities are ghost towns. Naharia and Kiryat Shmona are not habitable right now. Tsfat is not either, but Breslovers and one Chabad Yeshivah are hanging in there. They believe that Mashiach will show up there first, for the word Tsfat means, "We expected Mashiach and watched out for his coming more than any other place in Eretz Yisrael." Therefore it is worth the risks to life and limb to be there at this time near the end of 5766.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last mishna in Sotah lists a series of conditions for the coming of Mashiach. All the conditions have now been met including the two that HaGalil Chareiv (The Galilee will be in ruins), and the Gavlan will be a wasteland (Either the border cities or the Golan Heights:  It is looking more and more that this condition refers to the border cities and not to the Golan.). Will the anointed king of Israel make an appearance in the Galilee in the 66th year as was mentioned in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/05/secret-of-vav-in-hashems-name.html"&gt;The Secret of the Vav in HaShem's Name&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/strong&gt;We will soon see, and much depends upon all of us crying out to G-d and doing teshuvah. G-d in His infinite Chesed has delayed the Abomination Parade in Yerushalayim. This test has probably been delayed for several months, if not a full year. Will that be all that we need to begin the Redemption in 5766, since G-d will keep his promise with us if we repent of at least one sin. Please write me about all new commitments you are making to change your lives forever. It is so important to insure this Redemption and your part in it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-115369489775457141?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/115369489775457141/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=115369489775457141' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/115369489775457141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/115369489775457141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/07/galilee-lies-in-ruins.html' title='The Galilee Lies in Ruins'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-115324998010666127</id><published>2006-07-18T21:47:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-07-28T05:44:34.923+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Yerushalayim in the Hot Seat</title><content type='html'>Has Olmert done teshuvah? He is now calling for G-d's children to return to the borders of the Holy Land. The news around here keeps changing by the minute. The obvious effect since the missiles have started falling on the 17th of Tamuz is that teshuvah for last year's atrocity pulled off by the IDF and the police is becoming the choice of so many with no other choice. The pleasures of living in the coastal plain are quickly being replaced with thoughts about whether they are next on Hezballah's hit list. Reflection for last year's horrific crime, expelling decent citizens from their homes, and this year's horrific election is becoming easier and easier with each passing day. Why the righteous and the decent need to suffer with the wicked is something G-d himself will tell Eliyahu HaNavi when he sends his prophet with an eternal covenant before that blessed moment of Rachamim (compassion) comes to the Holy People in the Holy Land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since G-d struck the foolish or evil "Shepherd" (Zech 11 and 13) a.k.a Ariel Sharon with a heavenly sword above his right eye, the Holy Land has been in spiritual chaos. Angels of Destruction ascended on the 20th of Shevat with the installation of the Hamas government. Armilus has actually won an election with the albeit weakest plurality in modern Israel's history. He has appointed a labor leader as his defense minister so that the Labor Party leader does not destroy Israel's economy. The laugh is on us. And worst of all, the Abomination Parade is set to take place even when the Gallilee is being blown apart by hundreds of missiles. One might think this chaos started on the 5th of Tevet this year when G-d struck the Evil Shepherd with his sword, or when 10,000 Jews were forcibly removed from their homes last August. A more important question is when did the latest phase of the battle for Yerushalayim begin. The answer is December 21st, 2004 or the 9th or 10th of Tevet, 5765. On that day United Torah Judaism signed a letter of intent to join the Sharon government to keep it from collapsing when Tommy Lapid went into opposition. If UTJ had not joined, it is unknown whether or not the Gaza unilateral retreat would have occurred. This was a very controversial act of course disputed greatly by many Tzaddikim within UTJ itself. I have written about this before, and there is no need to write about this again except to bring up the following crucial point. Nebuchadnezzer started his siege of Yerushalayim on the 10th of Tevet. He sacked the Holy Temple 2 1/2 years later on the 7th, 8th, and 9th of Av. When Mitzvah observing Jews decide to give up on what G-d has given us here in Eretz Yisrael especially when it is a piece of Eretz Yisrael, it is a very serious matter. It places even our Holy City where Heaven's throne touches earth into question. Abandoning part of Eretz Yisrael to unrepentent terrorists, placing thousands into harms way of missile bombardment, places our very existence in the Holy City into question. Heaven has the right to ask: Will we sell it for a price too? Are we willing to learn Torah in a spiritual desert here in the Land of Israel behind beautiful Jerusalem stone walls while Hell comes for a visit? Learning Torah may be the best of ways to fight the forces of Hell, but not when money for doing so comes from those who empower Hell itself. Olmert and his wife until now have badly wanted this parade. A coalition with this man, until he stops this parade, is unacceptable. If he has done teshuvah, really, he will stop the parade today. If he has not, get out of this government. It is best not to be in a coalition with Bilaam or one of Bilaam's two sons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are now 1 1/2 years into the process since that letter of intent was signed. Next summer Yerushalayim will be divided, G-d forbid, if we do not take action now. Zecharia 12 offers one miraculous scenario for the attempt by the nations to wrest Yerushalayim from our hands, and Zecharia 14 offers another very unpleasant but ultimately miraculous scenario. When Operation Summer Rains started immediately after Gilad Shalit was captured on the 29th of Sivan, a good friend of mine, YS, reminded me that on the 29th of Sivan in the second year after leaving Mitzraim (Egypt), the spies left with Moshe Rabbeinu's permission to spy out the Land. On Tisha B'Av (9th of Av) they returned 40 days later with a report that would make any scholar shudder. Let us continue to learn Torah here in the desert under the "Clouds of Glory". Why take on such a harsh and powerful enemy under harsh conditions? The nation agreed except for Calev and Yehoshua and Moshe himself. For the next 37 years on Tisha B'Av those who were 20 and above when we left Egypt died in the desert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the good news for this year 5766. In the 40th year after leaving Egypt, no one died in the desert on the 9th of Av. It was the first positive sign in the desert of our impending entry into the Land of Israel. We are now in the 40th year since the Six Day War. The Erev Rav generation is quickly coming to a close. Perhaps this Tisha B'Av will see the birth of a new era. I will say nothing more about this, for I am not into the prediction making business, and G-d forbid if I disappoint. Yet, with G-d's help we will short circuit the Abomination Makes Desolate Parade scheduled for right after Tisha B'Av so that Tu B'Av (15th of Av) will be a day of G-d's Infinite grace for His people and not a day of twisted perversion on Jaffa Road. By being a cog in the wheel which stops this mess and stops our 2 1/2 year march to putting the Holy City in our enemies' hands, we can bring Divine Compassion down to earth without another year of Hell on earth. I choose Zecharia 12 over Zecharia 14 any day of the year. Let us pledge ourselves to keeping one more mitzvah, any mitzvah, big or small. Let us bring the forces for Good in the world into line with G-d's desire for us. Let us have the full redemption this year. Let us not wait until the lead up to geulah becomes most unpleasant by waiting until next Tisha B'Av or G-d forbid Rosh HaShana 5768. Please write me and let me know what mitzvah you have decided to take on. I will try to publish it by only mentioning your initials. Also do not forget to fax to the &lt;a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2006/06/emuna_news_week_2.html"&gt;following numbers&lt;/a&gt;. Olmert is vulnerable to pressure now to stop this evil parade. Rav Lazer Brody has done a lot of work trying to stop this madness. Send as many faxes and e-mails as you can to Eli Yishai and the Gerer Rebbe. Eli Yishai can threaten to bolt the coalition, and the Gerrer Rebbe could be convinced to keep UTJ away from Armilus like the plague. If Armilus has done teshuvah, he will stop this madness now, but if this gilgul of Bilaam or one of his two sons is just spouting words, well, study the torah portion of Balak to see what Bilaam did to destroy the sanctity of the Holy People with the daughters of Midian. While his curses were turned into blessings, public fornication succeeded. How much worse is public abomination. On this note study the Torah portions of Chukat, Balak and the first part of Pinchas in the Book of BaMidbar (Numbers chaps. 19- 27) to get an idea of what the 40th year in the desert was like. Check out our successes and our failures, and compare them to this 40th year since the Six Day War. Study them with Rashi, Or HaChaim, and the Ramban.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-115324998010666127?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/115324998010666127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=115324998010666127' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/115324998010666127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/115324998010666127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/07/yerushalayim-in-hot-seat.html' title='Yerushalayim in the Hot Seat'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-115299880930430003</id><published>2006-07-15T23:29:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-07-24T09:58:48.500+03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Redeemer of Israel Is Here, But the Battle for Yerushalayim Has Just Begun</title><content type='html'>Back on the 20th of Shevat this year, 5766, I was praying for it to happen. We needed a tremendous salvation. It was Shabbat (Feb 18, 2006), and I did not know how it would happen. Yet, the Medrash Eliyahu is clear:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is a very large nation (extending) from the great plain unto Yafo and Ashkelon. On the 20th day of Shevat Mashiach will come. Angels of destruction will descend and destroy the whole of that multitude, and these angels will not leave alive a single soul. It is regarding this time that G-d spoke about to Avraham: 'Your progeny are destined to sink to the lowest level, as scripture states: "And you shall be low, and you will speak from the ground" (Isa. 29:4), but afterwards they will be exalted higher than all the nations, as scripture affirms: "And HaShem your G-d will set you high above all the nations of the earth" (Deut. 28:1).' After this all the Gentile nations will come and prostrate themselves before every Israelite and lick off the dust from their feet, as scripture says: 'Kings will serve as your tutors, [while their princesses will be your nursemaids; they will prostrate themselves facedown on the ground to you and lick off the dust from your feet]' (Isa. 49:23).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is obvious that the &lt;em&gt;"very large nation (extending) from the great plain unto Yafo and Ashkelon" &lt;/em&gt;is the modern Erev Rav controlled State of Israel. The geographic parameters describe either a coastal plain country or a lowland country starting around Beer Sheva extending south all the way to Ashkelon, but including a large population center in the vicinity of Yafo at the End of Days. That population center is of course the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area. It did not exist in ancient times, but Eliyahu HaNavi (the prophet) from Michael, one of the four principle angels in heaven, is hinting that such a great population center will exist at the End of Days. Also the Prophet's reference to Ashkelon is that it will be the southernmost city along the coast at the End of Days. This is also a telling reference to the accuracy of this prophesy. The one thing that I firmly believed would not occur was that the complete destruction of the Erev Rav Republic at that time. I firmly believed that the Holocaust was the atonement standing before the Heavenly Throne, and that the lives of two to three million Jews on the Left Coast would not be wiped out here in the Land of Israel even if so many of them are spiritual descendents of the Erev Rav. This is the way in prophesy. Extenuating circumstances can fully ameliorate its negative aspects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What was supposed to happen on that faithful Shabbat 5766 was something that has to be described as awesome. Hamas was supposed to install their government on that very day. As it turned out G-d was true to His word. Mashiach could not and would not come on the Shabbat. He would be delayed one day. As it turned out Hamas installed their government of the destruction the following day on Sunday, the 21st of Shevat. Yet G-d would show that those who would vote for Kadima or Meretz even after Hamas was elected would live despite their despicable sin. They would live, I believe, because we are all spiritual descendents of the Holocaust. About one month after Hamas installed its government, 1.2 million chickens that were culled and killed because of the Avian Flu became the Kapparos (symbolic substitute) for 1.2 million souls who deserved to die for attaching themselves to Armilus and his evil scheme. Then came the election of Armilus (Olmert) on the 28th of Adar by 30% of the Jewish voters. The sefer &lt;strong&gt;Kol HaTor&lt;/strong&gt; tells us that Armilus comes to power as head of the Erev Rav in order to delay the redemption. The next day, the 29th of Adar, was the occurrance of the 80% solar eclipse for the New Moon of Nissan. The next day Rosh Chodesh Nissan (1st of Nissan) 5766 was a propitious time for Mashiach to come, but Armilus had arrived two days earlier to delay the final redemption. The 40th year since the Six Day War began with Armilus going to Washington on the 25th of Iyar (May 23rd) in order to push his evil plan for the destruction of Jewish communities in large tracts of Yehudah and the Shomron for nothing in return from our intractable foes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be continued, bli neder, on Sunday, because of the late hour......I have an unscheduled oral surgery.  will finish by Tuesday, bli neder&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-115299880930430003?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/115299880930430003/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=115299880930430003' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/115299880930430003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/115299880930430003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/07/redeemer-of-israel-is-here-but-battle.html' title='The Redeemer of Israel Is Here, But the Battle for Yerushalayim Has Just Begun'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-114911307892039449</id><published>2006-06-01T00:53:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-07-02T03:34:20.483+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Esau's Angel Has Fled to Batzrah (Basra)</title><content type='html'>Here is a reprint of a response to a recent letter from a friend of this blog:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the first Persian Gulf War in 1991, when Gog Sr. stopped at the outskirts of Basra and permitted 2 Babylonian divisions to return to Baghdad, I knew that the second Gog would be back to place Babylon under his thumb. In 1994 when he became Governor of Texas, I knew he was the second Gog. Yechezkel repeats himself in chapters 38 and 39, hinting that there would be two men named Gog. Until Gog W. became Governor, there was no way of knowing that the second Gog would be the son of the first one.  Yet, every Shabbat since March 1991 when the Gulf War ended, I have made it a point to sing &lt;em&gt;Droch Pura B'Toch Batzrah VeGam Bavel Asher Gavrah (Tread the winepress in the city of Batzrah {Cause Edom's blood to flow there} and also in Babylon which arose with strength.)  &lt;/em&gt;This is, of course from the third verse of &lt;strong&gt;Dror Yikrah&lt;/strong&gt;, by tenth century Baghdad poet Donash ibn Labrat who understood that the last war between Edom and Yishmael would lead to the destruction of both, Yishmael in Baghdad and Edom in Batzrah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The real source to all this lies literally "In the Beginning". On the third day of Creation G-d planted a garden in the eastern half of Eden. (According to Dr. Gerald Schroeder's calculation in &lt;strong&gt;The Science of G-d&lt;/strong&gt; using the General Theory of Relativity, the remaining three days of Creation elapsed over two billion of our years. Of course, these were three 24 hour days by G-d's clock since he fills the universe with His Glory, but His clock ticks one million million times more slowly than our terrestrial clocks in accordance with Einstein's Theory. Therefore, since the third day of Creation took place over a two billion years between two to four billion years ago, the Garden, which exists even now if we could experience the passage of time as G-d's "Divine Presence" experiences it, has existed for at least 2 to 3 billion of our years.) This is important to understand what came next. See my article from last year on this &lt;a href="http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2005/03/science-slowly-catches-up-with-torah.html"&gt;subject&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The text of the Bible is very straightforward but puzzling. &lt;em&gt;And HaShem, G-d, caused to sprout from the ground every tree that was pleasing to the sight and good for food; also the Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden, and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil&lt;/em&gt;. Here comes the puzzling part. The Torah spends the next four pasukim discussing four rivers that issue from Gan Eden. Only then does the Torah bother to tell us that oh by the way about that tree of knowledge of good and evil: &lt;em&gt;On the day you eat of it, you shall surely die.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rav Shimshon Raphael Hirsch on verse seven dealing with the breathing of Man's neshama into his nostrils explains to us the reason why there is this interlude in the text about the four rivers. In the Torah itself G-d always introduces the tikun (the repair) into the world before the sin. Therefore G-d placed into these four rivers the mineral wealth of repairing the sin of Adam HaRishon. Here another problem arises. The Torah only tells us about the mineral wealth associated with the River Pishon. The good gold is for hashra'at Shekhina (induction of the Divine Presence) on a bed of gold between the Cherubim. The onyx is for Aharon and his descendants to feel the pain and ecstasy of every Jew as the Kohen Hagadol goes about his avodah (Divine service), literally carrying the onyx on his shoulders as the he carries out his daily tasks. These two minerals are therefore integral in returning the world to a Gan Eden existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem arises with the remaining three rivers. They are mentioned with no mineral wealth associated with them. Chazal (our Sages of the Ages) tell us the Euphrates is mentioned in association with the final borders of Eretz Yisrael, but this does not explain why the Torah seems at first glance to waste print with regards to the Gihon (Ganges) and the Hiddekel (Tigris). For this we need to skip forward 2200 years to when Yakov and Esau received their blessings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is with regards to the blessings of Yakov and Esau that we get the keys which unlocks why these remaining three rivers are mentioned if the principle reason for mentioning all four of them is to show us how we can return to a Gan Eden existence. Yakov is told that "&lt;em&gt;Elokim will give you from the dew of heaven and the fat/oil of the earth.&lt;/em&gt;" There are three things to recognize about this verse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Yakov would get his blessing from Elokim. Therefore he would suffer for his sins in this world so that he would be certain to have a place in the World to Come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Yakov principally gets his blessing from the dew, which emanates from the mouth of G-d. Where there is no dew, he gets no blessing. Everything for Yakov emanates from the dew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. The Torah leaves us with a double entendre'. Mishmanei ha'aretz can either mean from the shumanei ha'aretz (fats of the earth) or from the shamnei ha'aretz (oils of the earth). For Yakov Avinu there is no question. Since the shuman (fat) is dependent on the dew for its purpose, the Torah is referencing the fats of the earth which gives forth its blessing dependent on the dew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esau swaggers in, begs his father for one blessing, and he receives the following: &lt;em&gt;From the fats/oils of the earth you will receive a dwelling and from the dew of heaven above.&lt;/em&gt; The two differences stick out like a brilliant flash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Esau does not get his blessing from Elokim. Therefore, he will not suffer for his sins in this world. Therefore, he may lose his world to come by not being chastised down here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. His bracha is reversed! Therefore, even though he does get reward for the good that he does through dew, his blessing for the oil of the earth is not contingent upon his receiving dew. When he deserves blessing, the dew comes to water the fatness of the earth, but Rashi says that even if he is a total rasha (wicked person) with no more merits for the dew, he will still receive from the oil of the earth. Notice that here the double entendre' matters, for without the blessing of water from heaven, he will either depend upon irrigation for the the fat of the earth, or it does not mean fat at all. When it does not mean fat of the earth, it means oil of the earth a.k.a. bubbling crude.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this point I would need to explain why I believe the end of Esau's bracha came during the Clinton years, but Shabbat is approaching and I must go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just food for thought. The Pishon tells us about the tikun to build Olam Haba (World to Come). The other three rivers are the source for the principle mineral wealth of this world. Therefore the Torah which is interested in building Olam Haba does not tell us about the mineral wealth of the other three rivers. The principle mineral wealth for two of the remaining three rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, is of course 55% of the world's sweet oil reserves. These reserves are located along the banks of these two rivers in northern and central Iraq and of course at the mouth of these two rivers as they enter the Persian Gulf. This is why, except for Iraq itself, most of the Persian Gulf oil is close to the coast of the Gulf. The city which is at the confluence of these two rivers of Eden as they enter the Persian Gulf is of course Basra. Whoever controls the confluence of two rivers which exist to bestow the world with an existence before Mashiach comes can try to dictate terms to others about how they should run their affairs in Olam HaZeh (this world where the wicked are rewarded for the good that they do and where the righteous suffer for their few sins). Gog W. and Blair have come to do just that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact that the oil is "sweet" requires a scientific explanation. In the course of my research on this subject I came across an intriguing fact about oil fossilization. When ancient mulch contains a high concentration of dead animal decay, the resulting fossilized crude will have a high percentage of the high melting point oils. It is therefore not desirable as a source for the more highly volatile, low melting point gasolines which power Western Civilization. Crude oil which is fossilized over eons is considered "sweet" and desirable for energy when the original mulch had negligible amounts of dead animal products. Since these two rivers come from Gan Eden where animals do not die but trees natuarally shed their leaves, one would expect that the original organic mulch would have a non-existent amount of animal decay in it. Therefore, Persian Gulf oil is some of the sweetest oil on the planet. Secondly, the Torah tells us that the river which waters the Garden of Eden goes way underground to become the source of the four rivers, placing the organic waste under intense heat and pressure in an oxygen starved environment. This environment of anaerobic heat and pressure favored oil production over coal production when the organic decay fossilized. G-d has been setting up the conditions of Edom's destruction for a long, long time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The geulah process is unfolding before our eyes, and I have to finish planting my tree of becoming a teacher. What a bummer! I am figuring that he (Gog) will not attack Iran until at least September or October when night cover for air raids becomes lengthier. America does very well when it starts its air wars as the nights are getting longer and longer. If a ground assault becomes necessary, which is probably the case, Gog W. would like to wait until Spring when it stops raining. If on the other hand, he is expecting to need to launch a ground invasion almost immediately, then you are right, and hostilities are imminent. My reading of &lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://debka.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Debka.com&lt;/a&gt; which is right about 90% of the time is that he wants to begin the air war in the dead of winter (Chanukah?) allowing for a possible ground invasion in the Spring. Yet, you are right. The British are scared to death of this one. Both passages in Isaiah describe exactly the end of Edom's malkhut. I did an entire blog on Isaiah 34 called "Let the Skies Roll Up." The destruction in Basra there is quickly followed by a description of massive oil fires:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Its Rivers will be filled with tar and the soil to sulfur, and its land will become burning tar. Night and day it will not be extinguished; its smoke will ascend forever.&lt;/em&gt; (Isaiah 34)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It appears that Red "Edom" Adair who has now passed on has no replacement. He put out the oil fires in the first Gulf War for a million dollars a well. For some reason noone will put the fires out this time. It will no longer be worth a million bucks for each well. By the way the preceeding verse to the above passage tells us why Edom's angel is being slain in Basra: &lt;em&gt;For it is a day of vengeance for HaShem, a year of retribution for the grievance of Zion. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Talmud in Makkos in the perek of Eilu hen hagolin discusses in detail the ins and outs of a negligent murderer who can flee to a city of refuge. There Reish Lakish makes a striking prediction which you can take to the bank. He says that at the End of Days, the angel of Rome will make three mistakes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. He will flee to Basra thinking that it provides refuge like Betzer which is one of the six cities of refuge for negligent but unintentional murderers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. An angel like a man can find refuge in a city of refuge. (This is of course not true.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. One who has murdered intentionally (bemayzid) can find refuge like one who has murdered unintentionally (beshogaig). This is of course absurd. One who murders intentionally is liable for the death penalty. One can pursue such a murderer into the city of refuge, put him on trial, and if found guilty execute him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prior to WW2 every country in the world closed their doors to Jews escaping continental Europe. Yet, a gentile is not obligated in Chesed. Believe it or not, their refusal to provide refuge was not a crime that could be tried in the Heavenly Court. There is one glaring exception to this. The country that closed the door to Eretz Yisroel was not closing the door to its own country. It was closing the door to the land which was given by the Creator to the people that were seeking refuge. That country that shut the door in 1939 was of course Great Britain. By closing the door to our own home, they became partners with Hitler. They of course claimed that they were ignorant of the goings on in Europe during the war. Therefore they were only "shogaig" or negligent. You and I and the Eibishter know very well that the British were fully appraised of the Holocaust while it was happening. They were Hitler's fully cognizant partner in the Crime of intentional mass murder. Whatever happens in Basra, the British have it coming to them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-114911307892039449?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/114911307892039449/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=114911307892039449' title='22 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/114911307892039449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/114911307892039449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/06/esaus-angel-has-fled-to-batzrah-basra.html' title='Esau&apos;s Angel Has Fled to Batzrah (Basra)'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>22</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-114864062073246086</id><published>2006-05-26T13:46:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-07-05T15:07:02.023+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Limited For One Month</title><content type='html'>Dear Readers:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because of pressures from the coursework that I am pursuing, I will be limited to the amount of postings for the next month and a half.  I will, bli neder, resume frequent postings by mid-July.  &lt;strong&gt;I will post some of my letter responses next week because they are topical&lt;/strong&gt;.  Yet again I will not be posting more frequently until July.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-114864062073246086?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/114864062073246086/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=114864062073246086' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/114864062073246086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/114864062073246086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/05/limited-for-one-month.html' title='Limited For One Month'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-114656557121563732</id><published>2006-05-02T13:20:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-05-26T06:06:20.736+03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Dung of a Jackass</title><content type='html'>The Rabbaim of this generation or not dreck, G-d forbid, as a letter writer to my previous post wrote. They are falling victim to a well-known medrash that Rav Ezriel Tauber quotes at the end of his book, &lt;strong&gt;Days Are Coming. &lt;/strong&gt;They are staring through the dung of a jackass, and Moshiach is riding in the saddle. More on this later, G-d willing, before Shabbat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;G-d has willed that I continue this on Motzei Shabbat, but it is based on the following quote from the Talmud in Sanhedrin 98b:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Three great sages- Rabba, Ulla, and Rav Yochanan- said "Let him (Mashiach) come, but I do not want to have to live in that time."  Rav Yosef said, "Let him come, and I will see him.  And furthermore, let me be worthy to sit under the shadow of the dung of his donkey!"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see, the biggest test right now is on the Torah scholars of our generation.  The Torah scholars of previous generations did not think they would properly pass this excrutiating test.  They did not want to be around to be tested with a test where the physicality of Creation could no longer be perfected. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Hebrew word for donkey is Chamur.  The word for materialism is Chomer.  Both words are comprised of the same letters chet-vav-mem-resh.  The main point to understand is that only Mashiach will be given mastery over the physicality of this world which can no longer be refined.  The rest of us including the sages of this generation will be inundated with imperfectable chomer.  There is an expression.  "Where there is no flour there is no Torah."  In this generation, it is best to be careful where the flour is coming from.  Taking it could displace tens of thousands from their homes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10578166-114656557121563732?l=yearsofawe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/feeds/114656557121563732/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10578166&amp;postID=114656557121563732' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/114656557121563732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10578166/posts/default/114656557121563732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2006/05/dung-of-jackass.html' title='The Dung of a Jackass'/><author><name>Dov Bar-Leib</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15915682856620634130</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10578166.post-114634168720671737</id><published>2006-04-29T23:12:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-05-06T22:54:06.373+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Redemption in its Time</title><content type='html'>Over the last two weeks I wrote a series of letters to my blog buddy, Akiva of Mystical Paths, and to Moshe, another buddy from the blogosphere. It was a reflection on the b'itah process which was sealed with the destruction of Gush Katif, the last time that the redemption could have come hastily with virtually no suffering if some Torah scholars had not joined that coalition with Ariel Sharon and Shimon Peres (a.k.a. Armolgus not to be confused with Armilus a.k.a. Ehud Olmert). It should be noted that there were noteworthy giants in the Ashkenazi Torah world that vociferously opposed UTJ's decision to join the "Shepherd's" last government. Kudos and blessings to the Admor of Sadigora and to the Erloier Rebbe for trying to stop this insane horror. I have previously written about this. See the archives of August 2005. Yes, I did mention at that time that one of the reasons for joining was to preserve the independence and to guarrantee the survival of the Chareidi school system which was in jeopardy. See my response to this in the August 2005 archive article- "There is a Tachlit (Purpose) for the Previous Post."  &lt;strong&gt;Remember! The purpose of writing this is to inspire teshuvah, not to spread recriminations!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The situation now is vastly different. The Israeli High Court and Armilus are holding a huge threat over the heads of Rav Eliyashiv and Rav Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual heads of UTJ and Shas respectively. They will quickly secularize the country, stripping Jewish Religious Courts of all power, if one of them does not join his coalition of the damned. I am sure they will further starve Kollel students and engage in an assortment of other "tortures" if one of them does not join. Besides it seems that he has four Likudniks in the wings who are ready to pull off a high school prank by abandoning whatever principles they might have by jumping to Olmert's side for whatever financil benefit such a jump might offer. This would give Armilus the more than 61 seat majority he still needs to pull off his string of horrors. Therefore, the ruling to join or not to join this time is not so morally clear cut. Back on the ninth or tenth of Tevet, 5765 when UTJ (United Torah Judaism) signed a letter of intent to join the Sharon government, UTJ in effect stopped the march to new elections. New elections would have been a welcome move and would have cleared the air before the ensuing summer's catastrophe. Whether it would have stopped the catastrophe, we will not know until Mashiach comes and until someone asks him. By the way, your eyes have not deceived you. The letter of intent was signed on the ninth or the tenth of Tevet. I clearly remember seeing the newspaper article in HaModia after the fast of Tevet ended. It was a horrible and depressing shock, for I fully understood at the time what it meant. It took Nebuchadnezzar 2 1/2 years to sack Yerushalayim from the date that he arrived to set up a siege to the city on the tenth of Tevet, 3336. On the ninth of Av, 3338 Solomon's Temple was totally destroyed. Two and 1/2 half years from the tenth of Tevet, 5765 is the summer of 5767. Whether Armilus, Gog W., and his soon to be Russian allies of convenience can wait that long remains to be seen. (This letter of intent was actually one of the reasons that I decided to start this blog. The South Asian tsunami, less than one week later privided the material.) Everything is happening so so fast, and the everything that is happening is like a snowball which no mortal can stop. The B'itah express was kicked off with the brain death of the "Shepherd" a.k.a Ariel Sharon on the fifth of Tevet, 5766. Which Sukkot over the next three years will host the climax of the final redemption remains to be seen. I am praying for the one that will transpire in the next six months. I would be less surprised, though, if we need to wait until Sukkot 5768. Pray that I am wrong. Let it be this coming Sukkot! Here are the letters with some modifications:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Akiva:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where did your friend from Eli hear about survivors coming from the Negev?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From studying Bereishit, it is abundantly clear that there is a special canopy of Rachmanut (Divine Compassion) that stretches from Beersheva to ancient Luz a.k.a Beth El. When Avraham stopped off in Shekhem, he built an altar and offered korbanot (sacrifices) to HaShem, thanking him for his rachmanut in getting him safely to EY (the Land of Israel). Yet, when he gets to Beth El, he offered up offerings on another mizbeach twice, once before he went down to Egypt and again when he returned. In addition to this he called out the name of HaShem asking for a special dose of Rachmanut. One of these cries was for the battle of Ai in the days of Yehoshua which was lost because of Achan's sin (He took booty from Yericho against the ban placed on that by Joshua). The second cry, I believe, was for our time, the years of Sukkot. Surely enough, hitnatkut 1 in the year of Avraham included Shekhem and the road to Dothan, but didn't extend further south.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This rachmanut is accentuated in the time that Ya'akov Avinu returned from Haran to Yerushalayim to daven before proceeding to the Yeshivah of Shem and Eiver. He returned as far south as BethEl and went to sleep and Yerushalayim came to greet him. He had his vision of the ladder to shamayim (heaven) which stretched from Beer Sheva to over BethEl. Rashi and others refer to a canopy of Rachmanut which stretches as far north as BethEl, for it was in BethEl that HaShem was standing over him while he was sleeping. North of BethEl, when Israel is under strict judgement, the northern part of EY is judged first. In the year of Yitzkhak, before Mashiach appears, the entire land will remain under strict judgement. According to the Zohar, Mashiach will first "appear" in the Gallilee providing redemptive rachamanut there. The midat HaDin, though will extend southwards from where Avraham first arrived in EY in Elon Moreh. Yet, in the merit of Ya'akov Avinu, the midat HaRachamim will return in full force by next Pesach, for it was then that he was given a bracha of Din in Olam HaZeh but Rachmanut in Olam Haba. Since Yemot HaMashiach is the vestibule for Olam HaBa, I firmly believe that that Rachmanut will extend to when he is remembered for receiving that bracha and the promise for being the sole inheritor of EY at the end of days in the third year of Sukkot. Yet, in Avraham, Yitzkhak, and Ya'akov Avinu's merit it is unclear whether this canopy of Rachamim will extend north of Bethel to Elon Moreh during the first three years of Sukkot. I can fully understand the concern of your friend in Eli who lives in this "in between area" of the Shomron.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having said this, obviously there is a concern to be in Yesha (Judea and the Shomron including the Binyamin region north of Yerushalayim) until next Pesach. Ya'akov Avinu tarried for up to six months between Sukkot and Pesach when returning to his father in Chevron, 22 years after he fled from his brother Esau. In that six month period at least six tragedies befell him, and not one of the altars that he built refers to HaShem's attribute of mercy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. the rape of Dinah&lt;br /&gt;2. the Chillul HaShem of Shimon and Levi by signing a peace treaty with the residents of Shekhem just to set up their slaughter (sounds like something Muhamad would do)&lt;br /&gt;3. the the death of Devorah, his mother's wet nurse&lt;br /&gt;4. the death of his mother, Rivka&lt;br /&gt;5. the death of his wife, Rachel in childbirth&lt;br /&gt;6.the moving of his bed from Bilhah's tent by Reuven&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So much tragedy in just six months of failing to honor his father! If this process slips into b'itah (which it already has done), the remainder of this
