Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Parsha Noach via Kaballa 101, Two new first time stories on the net


Wolf Yaakov ben Sarah Shaena and Rabbi Yeshai ben Leah Gizel – Rav Ha Sephardi of Rehovot.
 
Disappointments
I work for many hours to convince people to be MINIMUM TORAH JEWS not fanatics. However, to many the observance of Shabbos, Kashrus and Taharos HaMishpacha is too much. Having AOL and Facebook unfortunately gives me a heavenly view who is on line or not and who guards the Shabbos. I never expected everybody to suddenly observe Shabbos overnight but over the course of time. My pay certainly is not in this world. I have given up some of my own learning time to help people. When I see some people whom I worked with for 8 to 10 years not observing the Shabbos it hurts me. But it is not only me as HASHEM is the father of all and HE sees his children not behaving properly HE looks at them and spiritually shakes HIS head as the accusing angels gather their evidence in the next world for the Beis Din Shel Maalah!
Rabbi Shlomo Mimran Shlita told me that Rabbi Amnon Yitzchak Shlita says that perhaps what I write will work on people enough to give them thoughts of repentance to keep them alive or spare them from some or all of Gehennom by giving them thoughts of Teshuva.
On the other hand I truly see myself helping with a few individuals that do get strengthened in Torah.
People ask me why mix at the bottom of my Drasha each week Inyanay Diyoma which contains besides news and a lot of politics. The answer is – it is the duty of a Jew to make the world not only a better spiritual place but also to raise the level of the world physically. When I see one side of the political equation (remember there are really no black and whites but a lot of grays in politics) promoting homosexuality, other immoralities, stealing of wealth from hard working people, and some even going against HASHEM in that camp. Even those who choose to oppose my ideas in politics should do it for the sake of heaven and I will be rejoicing with them. It is my duty to protect the world and warn them even if I am a Noach and they laugh at me for building a Teva of Wood for 120 years and collecting a zoo of animals while they go about doing their own thing. For those who think otherwise it is their duty to do things for the sake of heaven too but within the confines of the law and not to hurt their fellow man.
Our Torah warns in Parsha Shoftim not to show consideration to the rich for they are wealthy or the poor because they are unfortunate. Iyob had a strong philosophy: 34:18 Is it fit to say to a king: 'Thou art base'? Or to nobles: 'Ye are wicked'?-- 19 That respects not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? For they all are the work of His hands. 20 In a moment they die, even at midnight; the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away without hand. 21 For His eyes are upon the ways of a man, and He sees all his goings. 22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. 23 For He doth not appoint a time unto any man, when he should go before God in judgment. 24 He breaks in pieces mighty men without inquisition, and sets others in their stead. 25 Therefore He takes knowledge of their works; and He overturns them in the night, so that they are crushed. 26 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others; 27 Because they turned aside from following Him, and would not have regard to any of His ways; 28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto Him, and He hears the cry of the afflicted.
29 When He gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when He hides  His face, who then can behold Him? Further on it is written: Tehillim 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goes forth, he returns to his dust; in that very day his thoughts perish. 5 Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God, 6 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is; This is the Torah view on politics and politicians and yet we must do our best to help make the world a better place.
I do not know when the war of Gog and Magog will be and when we will face trials and tribulations that we will need every Mitzvah and every bit of Shabbos observance to protect us but it is not fair off. Friends and Readers wise up while the going is good as nobody likes trials and tribulations.
 
Parsha Noach with a little Kabala 101
From the Holy Zohar we learn that G-D created and destroyed many worlds until he created our present world existed. For the Zohar has no problem if there was a Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Mississippian, etc. epoch and then the world suddenly changed.  For the people who hold that the earth was created in 6 days like a watch. We see it ticking forward and we see it has many gears and components yet it was created only 5772 years ago and no more and everything we see is a result of heat, pressure and chemical reactions. We can imagine our Citizen, Omega, Timex, Rolex, etc. working for 10,000 years or 10,000,000,000 years and yet we know it was manufactured only last year or 23rd of Elul in the year zero.
The world before the flood had nightly mist water the earth and perhaps some watering by mankind. Man could live close to 1,000 years but after the flood the fruits and vegetables did not have the same combination of minerals to produce the proteins and genetic boosters that existed before the flood and perhaps the atmosphere changed at that time allowing more radiation from the sun in to age man quicker.
For according to Medrash and Zohar during the seven days of mourning for Metushalach in the year 1656 the light of the 6 days of Creation returned and shone on the world and as soon as the Shiva ended the deluge started. There were two ways of lighting the Teva – the Zohar which was probably an opening under a slanted roof and the Holon or window which could be shuttered during a rainstorm. The Zohar would provide air circulation and light for the Teva.
The Zohar brings mention of planets and constellations and Velikovsky in Worlds in Collision mentions this as the physical cause of the flood. Whether earthquakes, asteroids, planets or whatever, the planet earth underwent a tremendous upheaval which was to be the downfall of the wicked who lived before the flood. Had they listened to Noach and even not repented but believed that HASHEM had the power to cause the flood, they could have been saved by making an Ark themselves but they pooh-poohed it.
6:9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was in his generations a man righteous and whole-hearted; Noah walked with God. 10 And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Each son represented a different spiritual quality Shem = Neshama, Ham = Nefesh and Yefet = Ruach. Nefesh is the lowest form it is basic and Ruach is base plus arts, science, music and Neshama incorporates all plus the spiritual world.
11 And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Yermiyahu 33:25 Thus says the LORD: If My covenant be not with day and night, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; The Hebrew word used is Hamas and the actions get up G-D’s anger while HIS patience holds back until HE fully lets loose. All HASHEM wanted was for man to rule over the earth and make the mundane spiritual but instead they made the natural mundane abnormally abysmal in corruption.
12 And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
With bloodletting, immorality, idol worship and thievery and unfortunately prior to the Moshiach we are seeing a lot of this. Mishlei 10:1 A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother. The Shechina which is the feminine side of HASHEM and rests upon mankind only rested upon the house of Metushalach and Noach while the rest of the Generation rotten away.
13 And God said unto Noah: 'The end of all flesh is come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
This time water is not going to be used to destroy the world and not all the world will be destroyed as many souls are righteous. We may need fall-out shelters and prayers for us that survive. Yeshaya 24:3 The earth shall be utterly emptied, and clean despoiled; for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4 The earth faints and fades away, the world fails and fades away, the lofty people of the earth do fail. 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statute, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath a curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth waste away, and men are left few. The giants and all the men of invention were all to die for they spent their time thinking of weapons of violence and cunning ways to steal or cheat less than the legal amount of claims.
… 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
According to the Zohar Noach had to be on 600 years old to have built up enough merits to enter the Teva. He was precisely 600 years old when the heavens were opened.
Part of the behavior of the people before the flood was a direct rebellion against G-D and the Giants in that time put their feet over the fountains to clog the rising water. What did HASHEM do? He made the waters boil like in Yellowstone Park and the water of Hamat Gader.
…19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Was the Himalayan Mountains much lower as they are rising at a rate of such and such a year? Assuming that the water was 20,000 feet high and a cubit foot of water weighs 64 lbs. (sorry I learned this in ft. in school) times 20,000 is a pressure of 1,280,000 lbs. per square foot at the bottom – coal and petrified trees and fossilized animals could easily have been created. Rabbi Chiya and Rabbi Yossi noticed giant bones in ravines in Kurdistan near Ararat. They claimed that these were the Giants that existed before the flood.
As I mentioned above there was also heat involved. Combining heat and pressure would speed up the process of coalification and the creation of diamonds. The ice of the polar caps and former mountains might float and due to the quantity not fully melt and form some glaciers which in turn is great pressure on the land. Chaim B. sent me this view from Mt. Everest: http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen2/full22.html
… 8:22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.'
Man is promised this new order on the earth – not a rain of blessing and more or less steady equatorial climate but a new climate with an earth rotated on an axis of about a 23 degree tilt which might not have existed previously.
9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.
This is the second time that G-D blessing man. I did not mention last week that the original sin was disobedience and not what many non-Jews think. Participation in the Mitzvah of being fruitful and multiply brings about Shalom Beis. In fact that all women after menopause and older men are still asked to preform Shalom Beis (Peace in the Household) even if no child will come from this. This makes the whole theory of the non-Jewish Philosophy null and void regarding the original sin.
2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, and upon all wherewith the ground teems, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all. 4 Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. 5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it; and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man. 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; swarm in the earth, and multiply therein.'
The seven Mitzvos of the children of Noah have been established now. Procreation but not incest, adultery, bestiality, homosexuality and other lewd and immoral and immodest behavior shall not go unpunished for too long by HASHEM.
8 And God spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying: 9 'As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
If you see a rainbow – it is a sign that your generation was due to be destroyed but did not receive the punishment.
… 10: 21 And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born. 22 The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram. 23 And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. 24 And Arpachshad begot Shelah; and Shelah begot Eber. 25 And unto Eber were born two sons; the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
Rabbi Eliyahu Schatz Shlita has a theory that the continents were together at this time and when the Tower of Bavel happened, the land masses of the continents split off – the Americas that were attached to via Greenland to Europe and the southern half to Africa were pushed away in a series of earthquakes and volcanoes that produced the sinking of one third of the Tower into the earth and the top third to crumble and the continents to rapidly move over a very liquid layer under the outer crust of the Earth. As a result one big continent became seven smaller continents and split up. (Caution he is the only one who holds this theory and it is based on Pshat and not Oral Torah).

Sefer Yehoshua for Children Chapter 2
2:1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two spies secretly, saying: 'Go view the land, and Jericho.' And they went, and came into the house of an Inn-Keeper and other services for tourists (זוֹנָה) whose name was Rahab, and lay there. (וַיִּשְׁכְּבוּ-שָׁמָּה.)
(זוֹנָה) As I explained to my seven year old grandson – the lady who owned the house, room for rent, is called a Zona from the word for baked cakes and cookies Mezonos. She supplied first and foremost a confectionary shop with tea, coffee, wine, beer or the local beverages. She had a room or some rooms like a hotel/motel and in the case of my grandson – he only understood Zimmer which is more a Bungalow for the family.
(וַיִּשְׁכְּבוּ-שָׁמָּה.)This can mean also slept and rested – for I could not imagine the two spies which were according to our commentary doing anything wrong – Pinchas (who killed Zimri for his display of immodest behavior) and Calev ben Yephuneh who was in his 80’s at the time – small print is notes for the parents.
2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying: 'Behold, there came men in hither to-night of the children of Israel to search out the land.'
Two people with side curls (Peyos) from the Bnei Yisrael must be spies. The logic is accurate (impeccable). 40 years ago the Bnei Yisrael left Mitzrayim now suddenly they want to start visiting our area as tourists? Look what they did to the King of Arad, Midian, Balak, Balaam, Og and Sihon so these people must be spies.
3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying: 'Bring forth the men that are come to thee, that are entered into thy house; for they are come to search out all the land.'
Rahav sees the soldiers coming and she also has an idea what the Bnei Yisrael will do to the city. She hatches in her head a plan and hides the men.
4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said: 'Yea, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were; 5 and it came to pass about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went I know not; pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.'
Yes, the men came here and sat down for tea and cakes and then left the city on their way back to the other side of the Yarden before the city was locked down for the night.
6 But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had spread out upon the roof.
She had like small bales of flax hay on the roof spread out and she put many in one place and left room for the men to breathe under all the layers of flax.
7 And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan unto the fords; and as soon as they that pursued after them were gone out, the gate was shut.
This was to kill the spies on their way out to the Yarden and to lock the spies inside so that they could be captured. Yet we do not know why she wants to help the Bnei Yisrael over her own people. Perhaps the people did not think nicely of her and were nasty to her.
8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof; 9 and she said unto the men: 'I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. 10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. 11 And as soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you; for the LORD your God,
She lost all her bakery shop customers as the people lost their appetite for her luxury goods and services. She then explains what the Goyim think of the G-D of the Bnei Yisrael.
He is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.
Rahav knows what is about to happen as Pharaoh, Amalek, Arad, Midian, Moav, Og and Sihon so she pleads for her life and the lives of her family members.
12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye also will deal kindly with my father's house--and give me a true token—
She has the power to report the men to coming soldiers and yet she is more afraid of HASHEM so she makes a request for her own life and family.
13 and save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.' 14 And the men said unto her: 'Our life for yours, if ye tell not this our business; and it shall be, when the LORD gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.'
At this point she gives them an escape route. From digging up the ruins of the old Yericho one can see a double wall, her house was on the edge of the wall so that she had a window that looked outwards. She therefore gathered rope for an escape ladder.
15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. 16 And she said unto them: 'Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light upon you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned; and afterward may ye go your way.'
Rachav gives the men an escape route to avoid the soldiers returning from their pursuit. 3 days is enough to make the soldiers believe than the man crossed the Yarden and are in the camp of the Bnei Yisrael.
17 And the men said unto her: 'We will be guiltless (נְקִיִּם אֲנַחְנוּ) of this your oath which thou hast made us to swear.
נְקִיִּם אֲנַחְנוּ means we will build or up hold our oath.
18 Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by; and thou shalt gather unto thee into the house thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household. 19 And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless; (אֶת-דְּבָרֵנוּ זֶה--וְהָיִינוּ נְקִיִּם)
אֶת-דְּבָרֵנוּ זֶה--וְהָיִינוּ נְקִיִּם and these things we will uphold.
 and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him. 20 But if thou utter this our business, then we will be guiltless of your oath which thou hast made us to swear.' 21 And she said: 'According unto your words, so be it.' And she sent them away, and they departed; and she bound the scarlet line in the window. 22 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned; and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not. 23 Then the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had befallen them.
From Rahav’s help and their swearing the oath and her report of the fear of the people of the Bnei Yisrael and that the land was easy taking for the Bnei Yisrael.
24 And they said unto Joshua: 'Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; and moreover all the inhabitants of the land do melt away before us.'
Now it is time to go and conquer the land.

Halachos by Danny Schoemann
Since Mussaf on Shemini Atzeres (last Thursday) we have been praising Hashem
for the wonderful gift of rain, by adding - מַשִּׁיב הָרוּחַ וּמוֹרִיד הַגֶּשֶׁם - "He makes the wind blow and He causes the rain to fall" into - אַתָּה גִּבּוֹר - the second Bracha of the Amida. If one forgets to add מַשִּׁיב הָרוּחַ וּמוֹרִיד הַגֶּשֶׁם, what does one do? If one has not yet finished the 2nd Bracha - בָּרוּךְ... מְחַיֵּה הַמֵּתִים - then one adds it after any of the many phrases in this Bracha. If one wishes, one may restart the Bracha and say it in its correct place. If one already finished - מְחַיֵּה הַמֵּתִים - the 2nd Bracha?
If you have the custom of adding "Morid HaTal" - מוֹרִיד הַטָּל - during the summer, then continue as usual. No amendment is required. If you do NOT have the custom of adding "Morid HaTal" - מוֹרִיד הַטָּל - during the summer, then you have to restart the Amida from the beginning. This is because the first 3 Berachos of the Amida are considered a single entity. One continues saying V' Ten Bracha - וְתֵן בְּרָכָה - in the 9th Bracha of the Amida - בָּרֵךְ עָלֵינוּ - until the 7th Mar Cheshvan in Israel and the
6th December in the Diaspora. Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 19:1, 2, 5
Since the S'chach (branches covering the Sukkah) were used for a Mitzvah, they deserve some respect even after having done their duty. After Sukkoth when the S'chach is taken down, one should not trample on it. One may throw them away, but one may not use them for disrespectful purposes like building an outhouse.
One may burn S'chach. Care should be taken with decorations that have Torah verses written on them. Preferably one shouldn't hang up such decorations, but if one did, then they need to go into Geniza or otherwise carefully looked after.
Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 134:13, 14
It's a Mitzva to keep one's body in the best of health. A person should continuously pray that they remain healthy, since once one gets sick, one needs spiritual merits - repentance and good deeds - to fully recover.
Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 190:3, 192:1
"When a member of one's household is unwell, one should go to a Rabbi and ask him to pray for mercy" is what Rav Pinchas bar Chama taught us in Bava Basra (116a) based on the verse in Mishlei (16:14): "חֲמַת מֶלֶךְ מַלְאֲכֵי מָוֶת וְאִישׁ חָכָם יְכַפְּרֶנָּה" "The wrath of the King are messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it."
It's customary to also give charity to the poor, since "Repentance, Prayer and Charity abolish evil decrees". The custom is to make a special "Mi Sheberach" prayer in the synagogue for the patient; even on Shabbat, if the condition is life threatening. In extreme cases, the patient's name is changed (usually by adding another name), as this is another effective way of abolishing evil decrees against a person. Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 192:2
Danny will probably advise on the Halachos of Rosh Chodesh which will be Yom Sheshe (Friday) and Shabbos Kodesh. A Happy Mar Cheshvan to all and the Haftorah is changed when it is Rosh Chodesh and two Sifrei Torah are taken out for reading.

Machlouf has breathed for 45 minutes and the doctor is packing up! – A true story as told by Machlouf
Machlouf was one of the workers for the Chevra Kaddisha in Kiriat Shemona. One day he simply had a heart attack and died on the spot. First aid was applied and the Ambulance came immediately and a doctor came with a Defibrillator and tried seven times but to no avail. In the meantime, the man’s brother called up a big Rabbi and asked what to do – convince the Doctor to make one more try before writing out the death certificate form. He did and like a Bris Mila and Yom Ha Shemini the application of the eight pulse brought back the heart even though no regular beat was there for 45 minutes. In short order machlouf recovered.
Now that was the physical story but the spiritual story is about to be told for Machlouf was not sent back down to earth to tell a physical tale. When his heart stopped beating, he hovered over his body for a few minutes and watched the effort of everybody involve from the Psalms of his wife to the phone call of his brother and the efforts of the doctor and the paramedics. His soul was then sucked into a tunnel aka the well of souls in Chevron and brought up above. He saw and recognized relatives. He then was called in by a Beis Din of Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu who called him a Rasha (evil one) for talking during prayers and in the Schul. He then was pronounced Gehennom but an Angel came and rescued him from there. (The Beis Din contrary to earthly Halacha had 4 Judges)
Machlouf then went before a hirer Beis Din and Angels of destruction testified to his talking and so & so and such &such. Things looked very bad in fact bleak for him. In the Beis Din was the Ben Ish Chai and other Rabbis whom he could not reveal in this world. Merits were added such as his Torah learning, Chevra Kaddisha work, Shabbos and Yom Tovim, etc. and still the scales were balanced negatively. Then one Angel spoke up about how Machlouf would pray on the graves of soldiers who died young. Sudden five rows of soldiers dressed in white appeared before Beis Din and testified and the scales were tipped on the side of Gan Eden. As Machlouf was about to enter Gan Eden; Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai came with his son and pushed him down to earth for he had a mission to warn the people against talking in Schul. With a good slap on the back; Rabbi Shimon sent him on his way and at that time Machlouf felt the defibrillator shock as he body jumped reflexively in the air and he started breathing and awoke as if nothing special happened.
The late Rabbi Guzman’s dream as told to me by his grandson.
The Communist took over Russia. At that time Rabbi Guzman was teaching Torah with his cousin and ritual slaughtering and being a Mohel at Circumcisions. The Ukrainian Authorities banned such activities especially the Torah teaching. Rabbi Guzman and his cousin were sent to jail. Somehow the two managed to make a break and flee to freedom but the Ukraine was unsafe. They would flee to Moscow.
On the way Rabbi Guzman developed a disease and he was put in isolation in the Hospital and expected to die. At this time, Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain, had not yet discovered penicillin.
One day while lying there, Rabbi Guzman was dreaming in his fever. He dreamt that he went before Beis Din Shel Maalah. They Poskened that he was to die. Then suddenly his grandfather appeared. The grandfather over-ruled the Beis Din and shouted “I Posken that he live as long as I lived!” The Beis Din agreed and he awoke and saw his cousin peering through the window, he motioned for his cousin to come into the room. He told the cousin the dream and said that he would recover and live to be 86. From then on if he ever got ill, he would say don’t worry and he would say that he was going to recover for he would live until 86. This continued for years until two weeks after his 86th birthday when his soul came to its eternal rest.
 
I finally found out who is Gog of the war of Gog and Magog. Gog is fighting the G-D of Israel. He is financing wall street protests, J-Street and the Israeli Left. He is none other than György Schwartz aka George Soros. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149079#.TqgtaLLU64c
From Dina: (with thanks to "Grapevine") Hasidic Rebbe expects globally devastating world war: Son of Reb Arele  - He is the only Hasidic rebbe alive today that was present in Israel prior to the establishment of the state. I warn of the outbreak of World War III. There can be no doubt that we are on the verge of a world war. This is an absolute certainty. The last prophecy in Tanach [Bible] is in Malachi, and we learn that prior to the coming of Moshiach, there will be war, a terrible war, one the likes of which was not seen since the world’s creation. This is the prophecy and the prophet never said anything that HaKadosh Baruch Hu did not instruct. Even a moment before this occurs we will remain uncertain. It is sufficient for one crazy Arab who takes a plane and directs it into the Vatican, destroying it. This would send the world into frenzy. The prophet says the war will be “a single moment”, and we know that an atom bomb causes instantaneous destruction in a single moment. The Abarbanel writes regarding Gog U’ Magog (Armageddon) and the coming of Moshiach. Five hundred years ago he wrote how this war will look. Among the writings is when the nations of the world realize they cannot win they will turn to a nuclear bomb. This will destroy the world as we know it, in a moment. This is what the prophecy states. He however did not know about the atom bomb, but nevertheless spoke of the instantaneous destruction. The Abarbanel even describes the war will be a religious war. No one saw this 500 years ago, the matter of religion was not relevant to the nations of the world.
We will not be warned, not even a moment in advance. Everything will destruct in a moment, as the prophet describes. Therefore, we must be prepared at any moment, with all our body and spirit. I have been shouting for years calling upon the Jews outside of Israel to come home to Israel. Even those unable to do so, at the very least, they should buy an apartment in Israel so that they have a place to run to when the time comes. HaKadosh Baruch Hu runs the world. Don’t worry Israel for we have a defense minister above us - Heaven- a much more successful one that the one we call the defense minister of the State of Israel. 
All of the revolutions and turbulence began in 5760 and since then, the pace increases. We only need to see the Taliban overtake the nuclear facility in Pakistan and then it’s over. We are dealing with wild animals that can threaten the entire world. And it will come to being. Then the prophecy will be fulfilled – “והתגדלתי והתקדשתי ונודעתי לעיני גויים רבים”. (Hashem’s presence in the world will reach its height at the End of Days when Moshiach will help fix the world. Yechezkel 38:23 description of Gog U’ Magog). 500 years ago, the Abarbanel wrote in his holy writings the wonders of what will occur with the Arabs. The entire process is taking place at lightning speed. Since 5760 the world has not been quiet – a tsunami, earthquakes, Japan, Hashem is  not permitting tranquility. These acts are in preparation for what is to come. Christians and Muslims are saying that the redemption is near since they also see and feel it. It is already past the stage of ‘signs of the Geula’ [redemption] but one who delves into the words of our Sages and the holy books see that it is visible in our day, the revelation of the wonders. The vicissitudes in the world today are not only in the Arab world, but in the United States as well. This is major but most simply miss it, they don’t understand. Now losing it's influence and experiencing financial collapse, they have lost their values in the eyes of the international community.
All the nations, headed by Obama, an Arab, stand firmly together against Israel. An Iranian maniac stands up and announces he wishes to annihilate Israel and how does the world react? Nothing! Perhaps a few sanctions. What does HaKadosh Baruch Hu do? Causes disharmony between them, compelling them to busy themselves with their own problems. Regarding the changes in the world Obama decided to select Egypt as his venue for his great first address, and from that location he placed a knife in the back of the Egyptian president.
Who ever heard of such turmoil in the Arab world? In the past, if anyone dared to plot a revolution, in Egypt, Jordan or Syria, they sent troops to wipe them out, murdering tens of thousands in a number of days. No one dared to utter a word. What was bad in Tunisia? A quiet nation, and suddenly, a revolution – what was that about? This is because Tunisia was a base for Arafat's PLO in the past. The beginning of Ishmael’s fall was in Babylonia, what is Iraq today. 150,000 of these people have already fallen.  “O violated daughter of Babylon – praiseworthy is he who repays you in accordance with the manner that you treated Israel."]
Now add to this Ovadia, Zechariah 12 to 14 and Yeshaya 8 plus and you have an idea of what will be.
Baruch Dayan Emmes Rebbitzen Kanyefski Passes Away: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148765?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook#.TpnblbLU64d
Gilad Shalit no proof needed to be a disabled vet: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148766#.TpncjbLU64c
My Psak is not a lonely voice out there in space: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4135761,00.html
Will they deprogram Gilead Shalit from this or not? http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148827#.Tpv9rbLU64c
Jewish Charity: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4133005,00.html
http://rabbichaimcoffman.blogspot.com/2011/10/shailos-uteshuvos-with-rav-moshe_23.html
 
 
Inyanay Diyoma
I am not happy with the idea of a national sales tax unless food is exempt. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/15/cains-impossible-dream-resonates-with-voters/
Longevity genes??? http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/10/15/scientists-unlock-genetic-code-worlds-oldest-person/
The Shalit Deal: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4134953,00.html
Iran http://www.debka.com/article/21387/
Call talk radio and the FBI is watching you: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=355881
On the quiet regarding Iran: http://www.debka.com/article/21389/
As the blog went out I came across this which effects men. http://www.everydayhealth.com/prostate-cancer/1011/extra-vitamin-e-may-be-associated-with-prostate-cancer.aspx?xid=aol_eh-news_4_200111010&aolcat=HLT&icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl5%7Csec3_lnk1%7C103528
The Kimchi Family murdered again! http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4134740,00.html
Now the Nazis are joining with the Commies against the worst enemy to Amalek aka Jews: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/figures-nazi-party-throws-support-behind-occupy-wall-street-movement/
Bereaved family gets death threats from Abdullah Barghouti: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148820#.Tpv-LrLU64c
Such Fraud http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/18/college-student-credited-with-uncovering-possible-election-fraud-in-indianas/?test=latestnews
From Samuel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LSQls2M3Kj0
Libya is now under the control in the Capitol by a former or current Al Qaeda member.
A new threat to Israel: http://www.debka.com/article/21398/
Is it the Jews or the JU’S? http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=358449
This man is Netanyahu’s man in the press: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4137381,00.html
From Shona - What even friendly Muslim’s think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UStNkoct1_Q&feature=player_embedded
Saudi Arabia moves to a more extreme position: http://www.debka.com/article/21410/
Leave Foreign Policy and Military Policy to Bill Ayers and George Soros: http://www.debka.com/article/21412/

Free Jewish prisoners Op-ed: In interest of equality, Jews who harmed Arabs should be freed following Shalit deal http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4138650,00.html



Magic Wand as in the Cinderella Movie: Sala Kapula mancha kabula bibbity bobbity boo http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4139576,00.html


If this is so BHO wins: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=360201

Rabbi London Ztzal said regarding the American Jewish Congress – “They are anti-American, Anti-Jewish and of course against Congress”. RJC Rejects ADL/AJC Pledge:
"We will not be silenced" on Israel”
 
Washington, D.C. (October 24, 2011) -- The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) responded today to a call from the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee, asking Jewish groups to pledge not to use Israel as a "political wedge issue" or, in the words of ADL's Abe Foxman, to "avoid polarizing debates" and refrain from questioning "the current administration's foreign policy approach vis-à-vis Israel". http://www.rjchq.org/Newsroom/newsdetail.aspx?id=77664150-9a04-4dc6-a6a5-5be2905c8a8c

Ben Dror Yemini in last week’s Maariv Newspaper full in Hebrew partly translated Google translate.                                                                                                               http://www.nrg.co.il/app/index.php?do=blog&encr_id=f2b4c1b55be76d1e6d7b777256ea0370&id=2903
Shalit deal is just the tip of the iceberg. Something much more serious happening with us. This distorted version of the discourse of rights, and that the campaign spoke of neglect and irresponsibility led us to national, and media which suppressed public debate, and that the leadership knows what is right and took the decision reversed. We were left with the need to cry

High price.
An unbearable price. Unreal. 1027 terrorists for one Israeli soldier. But it's not just the number. And not only to encourage terrorism. And it's not only the victory of Hamas. Much larger problem. Strategic problem. This is not Olmert or Netanyahu, Livni or Barak. This redirects the fact that for years Israel itself to the path that leads to only one outcome. Wholesale release of terrorists is only a symptom. One of many. This disease. It did not start today. It started in the eighties. Every time we convince ourselves that this is, it will not happen again. But it's happening again.

Israel is not the first country in dealing with the issue of abductions. Even NATO countries in general and the U.S. in particular, were faced with the same problem. The policy was zero zero surrender and release of terrorists. Phenomenon disappeared. Nothing to grab. This name was Al - Qaeda and its wild plants. This is Hezbollah and Hamas. And what a difference. With our own hands we have become the global Islamic terrorism metastases adjoining strongest in the world. Hillary Clinton was quick to call to congratulate Netanyahu on surrender. Sorry, the deal. She just forgot to tell him whom it had not happened. That an American soldier, it Bergdl, which was captured by the Taliban, and she refuses to meet the family, and there were no demonstrations and no campaign. Taliban asked 21 men for an exchange deal. U.S. refused.

And there was another difference. Here has led to enormous media campaign to weaken the mind. Compassionate we are. Merciful people. Pity she reached the rank of brainwashing. Here was a collective disruption of public discourse dictionary. Refusal to surrender became L"hfkra ". Sorry! And that the abandonment of Israeli security is the embodiment of solidarity? Did not know in advance the release of terrorists leads to more terrorism and more are being murdered? And that the two Israelis lost their lives not only by those released in previous transactions? All known. But brainwashing managed to confuse us. "And if it was your son," she continued brainwashing system. It is not known that a judge may judge us. Because decisions are in any sense. No conflict of interest. In general, every company, every community, there is only one year. There are also the parents of those whose children had been killed in previous transactions. And the parents of those who had killed. The need to introduce another question: "What if the next victim is going to be your son?". If you have questions, then both directions.
* * *
It's not the same, tell us.
United States are volunteers, and is active duty. Well, really. And that if it were a regular army soldier would behave similarly? Who are we kidding? And that is why Israel should abandon its national security? And that the blood of an American soldier or French red as an Israeli soldier's blood? other Western countries chose to stand a little more robust. we chose to abandon and abandonment and surrender.

The fact that most Americans do not know who it Bergdl does not arise from human life there are no man's land. Maybe the other way around. They know no restraint campaign, as conducted here, is a national danger. This campaign is all deception. This campaign requires surrender. This campaign has become the best device of Hamas. The work of the evil done away by the innocent. And the media added fuel to the fire. A lot of oil.

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They tell us that social solidarity.
Another great deception. Because social solidarity is not only concern at the expense of the rule. The campaign for Shalit is an expression of extreme individualism took hold of us. This one concerns the expense of community interests, public, social, national. A civilized society takes care for both the individual and isolated, but not by causing far greater damage to society. Not by strengthening terrorism. Not by releasing murderers probability of return to terrorism probably. But we sold "Solidarity", when in fact the story was reversed.

FROM SCHALIT TO POLLARD By MATT SALMON 17/10/2011 19 Tishri 5772 forwarded by Gail Winston, Middle East Analyst & Commentator
Jonathan Pollard is not just an interest for the Jewish community; meeting with Joe Biden should include non-Jewish leaders.
Although one might question the wisdom of the Gilad Shalit exchange for over 1,000 Arab terrorists, no one should question the value Israel puts on the lives of its citizens. Despite the terrible price Israel has paid to terrorism and war, and despite previous hostage trades with those seeking to destroy the country, Israel’s resolve to pay an extraordinary price to bring one soldier home is testimony to the value Israelis put on human life.

Now that the campaign for Gilad Shalit is over, Israelis and friends of Israel should redirect that focus to winning the release of Jonathan Pollard. It is a propitious time, with the upcoming meeting with a high level elected US administration official on Pollard, the first to occur since his arrest 26 years ago. That meeting is with Vice President Joe Biden, the very person who claims that he is blocking Pollard’s release.

Four years ago, Vice President Biden publicly came out for the commutation of Jonathan Pollard’s sentence to time served; now, astonishingly, he has reversed this position. It is of particular shock to all of us who have reviewed Pollard’s case and agree that an injustice has been done. In response to the uproar concerning this about-face, Biden has agreed to a meeting of Jewish leaders to discuss the case. Because this is a pivotal meeting that very well could lead to Pollard’s release, it is imperative that we are clear in articulating that an injustice occurred, and, no less, that it Pollard’s release is a necessary move in America’s interest.
On June 27, 2011, I wrote President Obama asking for the commutation for Pollard’s sentence to time served. I did so after having met with Pollard, having reviewed his case and having full knowledge of his letter of remorse. It is well documented that the average sentence for a similar crime is 2-4 years. Pollard is now in his 26th year of incarceration! This is simply wrong, and no longer just. Former attorney-general Michael Mukasey made it quite clear when he asserted that no-one questions that Pollard had no intention to harm the United States by his actions.

Furthermore, this is not merely a matter of correcting an unjust sentence; rather the Pollard case harms the integrity of the United States Justice Department.

Commuting Pollard’s sentence to time served is consistent with the recommendation of his prosecutors, an opinion contained in the plea bargain they signed with Pollard. It is truly astonishing, and it raises severe ethical and moral questions, why these same prosecutors, Joseph DiGenova and John L. Martin, now advocate that Pollard serve a life sentence when they themselves, with full knowledge of the case, had agreed in writing to not seek a life sentence. What further raises questions is the fact that they sent two affidavits from former secretary of defense Casper Weinberger to the sentencing judge that clearly argued for a stronger sentence then what the prosecutors requested. This, it must be understood, was the impetus in obtaining a life sentence despite the government’s explicit promise to not to seek such a sentence. And yet the government argued on Pollard’s appeal that they had not violated their plea bargain. Now, by advocating a life sentence, they have exposed themselves as intentionally violating the plea bargain and, in turn, they have severely harmed the integrity of the Justice Department to whom they had a sworn oath to uphold.

While the integrity of the Justice Department and lawyers' ethics are important issues, the Pollard case raises even more serious issues of national security, matters that have now been damaged by the actions of DiGenova, Martin and others.

Recently, Pakistan arrested a Pakistani citizen, Dr. Shakeel Afridi, who helped US intelligence track down Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad. A Pakistani commission has recommended bringing charges of high treason against Dr. Afridi. CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen commented that due to the severity of the Pollard sentence, other countries feel that they can treat those who help allies of their countries, in this case the US, with equal severity.

Clearly, such an action by Pakistan will hurt US efforts in recruiting citizens of foreign countries in our efforts to go pursue other al- Qaeda leaders, something that will consequently and undeniably jeopardize US national security. Actions have consequences and it behooves us to understand the connection.

Prime Minister Netanyahu is the only Israeli prime minister who has visited Jonathan Pollard and has publicly written a letter to the president of the United States requesting his release. Netanyahu also publicly apologized for Israel’s actions with Pollard and stated that Israel would not and has not taken any similar action since. With the upcoming meeting with Biden, a person who had a strong record of friendship with Israel as a senator and as a former supporter of Pollard’s release, it is critical that the government of Israel bolster the efforts of those attending the meeting by further pressing on the Pollard case at this time. At the same time, the meeting with Biden should also include non-Jewish leaders, as the meeting is very important to America’s interests and the case of Jonathan Pollard is not just an interest for the Jewish community.

Yes, Vice President Biden was right four years ago. And because he recently stated that he is the main one blocking Pollard’s release, he therefore needs to reevaluate his new position and instead join former secretaries of state Shultz and Kissinger, former attorney general Mukasey, former CIA director James Woolsey, former head of Senate intelligence DeConcini, former assistant secretary of defense Lawrence Korb, Arizona Senator John McCain and other prominent Americans from both parties, in support of Pollard’s release. From his own words, if he were to do so then Pollard would be released.

It is certainly the just thing to do. The writer is a former congressman from Arizona.
 
Are YOU ready for Dow 7,000?

Dear Investor,
It may be shocking to hear us say that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is headed for 7,000...
But, yes, we firmly believe that we’re going to see the broad U.S. stock market fall another 35% from here ... AT LEAST! Just look at what's happened recently...
• The Federal Reserve warned of "significant downside risks to the economic outlook" and the International Monetary Fund said "the global economy is in a dangerous new phase."
• The global data took a nasty turn for the worse, with a key Chinese manufacturing index slumping for three months in a row for the first time since 2009 ... while activity in Europe fell to a two-year low.
• And the cost of default insurance on European banks, many U.S. banks, and even entire sovereign COUNTRIES, exploded! The market now expects a Greek default to be a near certainty ... and even the cost of insuring German bonds hit a record amid fears it will be forced to shoulder the burden of bailing out all its high-risk neighbors.
In response, we have already seen the U.S. stock market start falling out of bed.
The major averages are now flirting with multi-month lows, while several leading financial, transportation, and materials companies are heading straight to their previous lows of 2009!
And Here's the Critical Difference
Between the Last Crash and This One ...
As usual, the bureaucrats are frantically running around Washington D.C., scrambling for the 5,672nd "solution" to the sovereign debt crisis.
The phones are ringing off the hook in Frankfurt ... in London ... in Zurich ... and all over Asia ... as bankers try desperately to stem the flood of sell orders swamping their offices.
The members of the Federal Reserve board and its district banks are ripping their hair out, trying to figure out why yet ANOTHER one of their attempts to restart the U.S. economy has fallen flat on its face.
In short, unlike the last crisis, there is nothing more policymakers can do this time around.
The course of market and economic history has already been charted. We're heading back into recession, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has a date with 7,000.
Remember, last time around the Dow plunged as low as 6,470. The S&P 500 slumped to 667. And the Nasdaq Composite sank to 1,266.
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Wishing everybody a wonderful Shabbos and I will be taking a few vacation days here and there between now and Chanucha so some weeks will be double and the next one or two weeks may be without a Drasha.
Rachamim Pauli