Prayers
needed for short term. Chana
bas Tirtsa and Leah bas Chaya.
BDE The youth suffering from lung cancer, Eliezer Betzalel ben Bas Sheva, passed
away. I am about to write about the generations getting weaker below but his
behavior and manners were more like my generation even though he was either
just shy of 15 or 16.
Revision
of my theory of primeval earth. After speaking to Dr. of Chemistry and Rabbi
Elihu Schatz Shlita, he told me that I did not need a solid earth but a molten
earth with a steam and gas atmosphere. This matches perfectly the 3000 K
Universe of Dr. Stephen Weinstein after the first three minutes.
The
paragraph reads: Remembering Susskind’s ‘lumps’ in the initial
‘cosmic soup’ as scientists call it. One lump here and there might have been
enough during this time to form a supernova. From these supernovas spread out
across the galaxy the elements of carbon, iron, silicon, oxygen and nitrogen
formed along with much heavier elements to the natural occurring uranium and
those elements that break down over the course of minutes or years. One such
supernova produced enough heavier elements that spawn out into empty space at zero
degrees K would condense quick enough via gravity and magnetic attraction to
form a body in space called earth or Aretz in Hebrew. After
speaking to Dr. of Chemistry and Rabbi Elihu Schatz Shlita, he told me that I
did not need a solid primeval earth but a molten earth with a steam and gas
atmosphere. This matches perfectly the 3000 K Universe of Dr. Stephen Weinstein
after the first three minutes. The elements that
were gaseous would be attracted to form an atmosphere and the H2O thrown out
would by the second day condense into water.
Parsha Noach
Last week I wrote a few things on
creation that had proof of the existence of intelligent design without even
getting into the complex systems of the body or the probability of random
forming DNA, RNA combinations that have spaces that amount to the number 26. 26
of course is the Gematria of Yud-Kay-Vav-Kay where the Kay is really Hay of the
DIVINE NAME.
The Parsha contained the story of the mankind to remain spiritual
in Gan Eden but failed the test. After that failure, mankind became
materialistic and ended up with murder, stealing and sinking into idol worship.
After close to 1500 years, the population had corrupted both man and beast and
the only thing left was to start the world from scratch.
Adam
and Chava had disobeyed the command of G-D and brought death into the world.
However, even though they were now earthly mortals, they were on the highest of
spiritual levels being created by G-D.
The
next generation resulted in the first murder and cover-up in history by Kayn.
Still Seth was quite spiritual. Mankind learned to read what I call the
astrological computer of the seven heavenly bodies and started honoring the
servants of G-D. It took a generation or more and already they started Avoda
Kochavim or star worship and then idol worship followed. There were of course
righteous and Chanoch walked with G-D and turned into an archangel Metaron.
The
world was saved by the merits of the grandfather of Noach, Methushalah. He was
such a Tzaddik that until 7 days after his passing, the world was saved from
destruction. Do the math from Parsha
Beresheis that he died in the year 1656 and the flood occurred in 1656.
6:9 These are the generations of
Noah. Noah was in his generations a man righteous and whole-hearted; Noah
walked with God.
Walked with G-D like a small child that had to
have his hand held to get through his generation. Avrum had a bad generation
too but made a Tikkun and walked before G-D.
10 And Noah begot three sons, Shem,
Ham, and Japheth. 11 And
the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
The Hebrew says full of Hamas. And their behavior
was not better than the Hamas in Gaza or Hezballah in Lebanon. There were thugs
that ruled and only the actions and merits of Noach could save the world.
12 And God saw the earth, and,
behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
Even the animals had become corrupted.
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. 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shalt
thou make the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Noach set to building this tremendous Teva in
front of most of the town. The project took between 120 or perhaps 100 years to
gather and build while everybody laughed at the ‘folly’. Had a few listen and
built their own, they too would have survived for believing in HASHEM.
15 And this is how thou shalt make
it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits,
and the height of it thirty cubits.
If we go according to Chazon Ish the Teva would
be 150 m x 25 m by 15 m making it 1.5 football fields long, standard swimming
pool length wide and between 4 and 5 stories high. Built on the flat plain in
Iraq, it would stick out like a sore thumb. According to the standard cubit of
the Bnei Noach and the span of my finger to elbow it is .45meter long or 135 m
x 22.5 m x 13.5 m. This would make it 4 stories high with a slanted roof.
16 A light shalt thou make to the
ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt
thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou
make it.
Tradition has it that there was a window or two
where the raven and pigeon would fly out of but the light was a Zohar or open
area under the slant of the roof for air circulation. With people and hundreds
of animals, fresh air was needed.
17 And I, behold, I do bring the
flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of
life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall perish.
This would indicate trees also. The oldest tree
in the world is in California and estimated to be 4100 years old. Add this to
year of the flood brings our estimate to approximately today.
18 But I will establish My covenant
with thee; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife,
and thy sons' wives with thee. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou
bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and
female. 20 Of the fowl
after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing
of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep
them alive. 21 And take
thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and gather it to thee; and it shall
be for food for thee, and for them.' 22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded
him, so did he.
He brought pairs of everything known to mankind
into the ark. In the book “In search of Noah’s Ark’ the author claims
that there was an expedition from Russia in 1917 that found the Ark as Turkey
collapsed and they had pictures of cages large enough to house dinosaurs but
the photos went to the Czar and the revolution either destroyed or hid them as
it would disprove atheism.
7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah: 'Come thou and all thy house into the ark;
for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation. 2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven
and seven, each with his mate; and of the beasts that are not clean two [and
two], each with his mate; 3 of the fowl
also of the air, seven and seven, male and female; to keep seed alive upon the
face of all the earth. 4 For yet seven
days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights;
and every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face
of the earth.'
According to many authorities is that the world
once was vegetarian even though Chevel aka Abel sacrificed sheep. Now they
would be able to eat meat after the flood. Carnivorous animals during the year
of the flood ate fish.
5 And Noah did according unto all
that the LORD commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon
the earth. 7 And Noah went
in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark,
because of the waters of the flood.
He was given a sign that the death of Methuselah would occur and
then it was time to load the Teva with animals. I assume that seeds of plants
and flowers were aboard already. Also enough food to feed all the animals in
the Teva. Some would go into hibernation for close to the year.
10 And it came to pass after the
seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
During these seven days it was like the primeval light
perhaps a planetary pass or supernova close enough by.
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. 12 And the rain was
upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the
sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into
the ark;
They were the last ones on after putting their
zoo aboard. It could also be that they did not believe themselves.
14 they, and every beast after its
kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps
upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird of
every sort. 15 And they went in unto Noah
into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all
flesh, as God commanded him; and the LORD shut him in. 17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the
waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon
the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
Volcanos across the planet spewed into the
surface steam and ash from the rocks below that absorbed waters. These are
called ‘fountains of the deep’ or ‘geysers’.
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.
7 to 7.5 meters above the highest mountain. Noach
had some measuring devise I assume.
21 And all flesh perished that
moved upon the earth, both fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every swarming
thing that swarmed upon the earth, and every man; 22 all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of
life, whatsoever was in the dry land, died. 23 And He blotted out every living substance which was
upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping thing, and fowl
of the heaven; and they were blotted out from the earth; and Noah only was
left, and they that were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and
fifty days.
This was how long the waters remained at their
highest.
8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle
that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and
the waters assuaged;
Probably some was absorbed in the ground. Now the
height of Mount Ararat today after centuries of wear and tear is 5,137 meter. The
first question on your mind must be that mount Everest is 8,848 meters and I
answer you that Everest is growing each year. At the time of the flood it could
have been much – much less.
2 the fountains also of the deep
and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was
restrained.
The waters from the rocks stored in the earth. In
Kaboom Creation I go into this between the second and third day.
3 And the waters returned from off
the earth continually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters
decreased.
Sea level had reached mountain level. Once can
see such evidence in the cavern in the Abshalom Forest. The sea had been high
up. Also Utah and other States have evidence that a sea was once there.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh
month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Ararat like Har Nevo (where Moshe died) and Har
Hermon is a series of mountains. The highest in Biblical Times named the range.
Today we use the term Himalayas, Alps, Rockies etc. to describe a mountain
range. The waters were going down so it floated down the mountain range until
at some point in time and space it rested but still having water at the bottom
of the Teva.
5 And the waters decreased
continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the
month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
It appears that fog or clouds hid the mountains
by all the evaporation occurring. As the waters receded enough the tops of the
mountains came into view.
6 And it came to pass at the end of
forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. 7 And he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and
fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
The raven being a bird of prey at the carcasses
of fish that were caught on top of the mountain and had too much food to desire
to return to captivity.
8 And he sent forth a dove from
him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot,
and she returned unto him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the
whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto
him into the ark.
The Dove did not have the food that she likes.
10 And he stayed yet other seven
days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came in to him at eventide; and lo in
her mouth an olive-leaf freshly plucked; so Noah knew that the waters were
abated from off the earth.
At this point she was like a homing pigeon and
returned. This time some of the trees had survived and the olive tree is
resilient and had leaves. The pigeons like the olive trees according to the
commentaries even though I see them more in my fig tree which is next to the
olive.
12 And he stayed yet other seven
days; and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him anymore. 13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first
year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up
from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and
behold, the face of the ground was dried.
The majority of commentaries hold that this is
Rosh Chodesh Tishrei or Rosh Hashanah but there are scholars that hold it was
Rosh Chodesh Nissan which is generally called the first month.
14 And in the second month, on the
seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.
27th of Mar Cheshvan the grass for
grazing must have returned and there was enough food to let the carnivores out
first to find food and then the more herbivorous animals out to graze. The dogs
and cats had bonded with mankind and would stay close to mankind.
15 And God spoke unto Noah, saying:
16 'Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy
wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
First the Torah speaks in general terms and now
the Torah speaks in specific terms as with the story of the creation of man in
chapter 1 and then the story of Gan Eden in Beresheis.
17 Bring forth with thee every
living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both fowl, and cattle, and every
creeping thing that creeps upon the earth; that they may swarm in the earth,
and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.' 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives
with him; 19 every beast, every creeping
thing, and every fowl, whatsoever moves upon the earth, after their families;
went forth out of the ark. 20 And Noah
build an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean
fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.
This would include deer, elks, bison, water
buffalo, chickens, turkeys, peacocks and others that would not be sacrifices in
the future.
21 And the LORD smelled the sweet
savor; and the LORD said in His heart: 'I will not again curse the ground any
more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth;
neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and
cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.'
The Ben Noach in his book claims that during the
first 1656 years, the earth was watered by the
midst as described in Gan Eden and a more moderate climate. Now something had
caused the axis of the earth to wobble and the new phenomena was called
seasons. The Pshat does not indicate it.
9:1 And God blessed Noah
and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the
earth. 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. Man could not stop being a vegetarian and eat anything as the people of the far east do and soldiers of various armies are trained to live off the land. Kashrus was not yet to be.
4 Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Although Kosher Slaughter did not exist, one was to roast the food that the blood would come out and the Bnei Noach are not confined to kosher but they should not eat blood.
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.
This is the prohibition of murder.
7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; swarm in the earth, and multiply therein.' …11 And I will establish My covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there anymore be a flood to destroy the earth.' 12 And God said: 'This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow is seen in the cloud, 15 that I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
The Talmud says woe to the generation that sees a rainbow for it is a sign that they are wicked and not destroyed because of the Bris. However, it is said that in certain generations like that of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai the rainbow was not seen.
… 10:1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the flood. …21 And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born. … 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations; and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Those mentioned are 70 nations that would form.
11: 1 And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'
Now it came to pass that these people no longer believed in the promise of HASHEM. Many had come to believe that G-D was like their idols and they could defeat him if they stormed the heavens and no flood would occur. Oops somebody forgot that the world was created ex-nilo aka from nothing. Somebody forgot that the history of planet consisted of water then dry land and that G-D had created man. History has been distorted by poor education. Man has reverted to idol worship and making war with G-D to prevent another flood. Each generation is getting further from the source and weaker. Noach and Adam’s lifespans overlapped and he received history from the source and brought it to Shem, Ever and even Avrum could have met Noach until his passing when Avrum was 58. Arab tradition places Noach’s grave in Lebanon not impossibly far from Haran where the family of Avrum lived. I have watched the generations in my own life get weaker. The ‘greatest generation’ had gone through the depression, holocaust and World War II. My generation grew up without air conditioning and when I was small we had no washing machine and ice was brought for out ice box a refrigerator or TV was a bit of luxury and not everybody had a car. My children grew up with more luxuries but being a bit more luxurious than mine. This particular generation as computers, tablets, smart phones and other things that lead to idleness. This is what basically happened in one way or other after the flood. Finally, with a lot of time on their hands, they decided to build a tower up to heaven. Logic and history were not given to their thought process.
If one was to use logic and not believe G-D where would you or I build the tower to fight G-D? We would start on the top of Mount Ararat and build it with grain and other things high enough the mountain top. Instead, the built it in the valley not far from sea level. Today we can compare this with poor education of children that prefer socialism over the free market. They were never fully educated about the Soviet Union, Cuba and Venezuela. The exact same thing happened in the Dor (generation) of Peleg.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. 6 And the LORD said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withheld from them, which they purpose to do. 7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'
The shock of the earthquake and other things that destroyed Migdal Bavel upset their brainwaves and thinking and 70 different languages evolved. Only certain children of Shem and Ever who did not participate in the construction and rebellion would retain the original language.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Bavel is not only a place but means to confuse.
10 These
are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arpachshad
two years after the flood. 11 And Shem lived after he begot Arpachshad five
hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
There
were sons and daughters that participated in the Migdal.
12 And
Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begot Shelah. …14 And Shelah lived
thirty years, and begot Eber. … 16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and
begot Peleg. …18 And Peleg lived thirty
years, and begot Reu. … 20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begot Serug.
…22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor. 23 And Serug lived after he
begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. 24 And Nahor lived
nine and twenty years, and begot Terah. … 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and
begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah
begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. 28 And Haran died in the
presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the
Chaldees. 29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was
Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father
of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. 30 And Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and
Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them
from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto
Haran, and dwelt there. 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five
years; and Terah died in Haran.
We need
this for the continuation later with the birth of Yitzchak and the Marriage to
Rivka and later the marriage of Yacov to his wives.
A
pair of deadly dogs by R’ Yerachmiel Tilles
A Jew in a Soviet Siberian
prison camp in the mid-1900's went to fellow inmate Rabbi Mendel Futerfas one
winter day and asked him for a blessing. "Tomorrow night I'm planning on
escaping from here, and I want a blessing from you for success."
Reb Mendel was shocked.
"It's a clear risk of life to try and leave this place, and well against
the odds! There are guards and dogs, and barbed wire, and high walls. How can
you even think of such a thing?"
The man explained that for
a very long time he had been diligently knocking small holes into one of the
outer walls in a large circle. "It's at the point now where I just have to
push into the center and the entire hole will cave in." More recently, he
had observed and discovered that every night at a certain time, there is a
window of opportunity for 30 minutes when the guards are changing their
positions.
The next night, Reb Mendel
watched as this man waited for his half-hour window. When the moment arrived,
he went to the wall and pushed into the circle, and just as he had said, a
large round hole appeared and he crawled through.
As soon as he emerged on
the other side he started running. R. Mendel watched incredulously as two huge
dogs appeared out of nowhere and began to chase the speeding Jew. When they
almost caught up to him, he saw the Jew reach into his pocket, pull out two
huge pieces of meat and throw them behind him. The dogs stopped in their tracks
and began tearing apart their surprise meal.
R. Mendel noticed that
there was a guard atop the wall in the tower, who had watched this entire scene
unfold. Right then he lowered his rifle, aimed at the feasting dogs and shot
twice. R' Mendel watched in horror as both dogs died instantly.
R. Mendel found himself unable to comprehend the series of events his eyes had witnessed. After a few days he walked over to the guard and asked him, "Why did you feel the need to kill the dogs? What did that accomplish? All you did is cause a loss for their owners."
R. Mendel found himself unable to comprehend the series of events his eyes had witnessed. After a few days he walked over to the guard and asked him, "Why did you feel the need to kill the dogs? What did that accomplish? All you did is cause a loss for their owners."
The guard hesitated, then
decided to answer R. Mendel. "We spend months of time and a lot of money
and energy to find the right dogs for this job. They are hand selected and bred
and then trained for service. If all it takes is a couple of pieces of meat to
reverse all of that training and all of their pedigree, then what purpose could
they possibly serve? We don't need them and they might as well be shot."
Reb Mendel would often
retell this story, and append to it the following take:
"The Creator puts us in this world to deal with a multitude of trials from Heaven. If all it takes is a little bit of tasty meat for us to be sidetracked and fail a test, then what good are we? We are no better than a dog that cannot stay on course whenever a little bit of temptation comes his way!
"The Creator puts us in this world to deal with a multitude of trials from Heaven. If all it takes is a little bit of tasty meat for us to be sidetracked and fail a test, then what good are we? We are no better than a dog that cannot stay on course whenever a little bit of temptation comes his way!
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Source: Adapted by Yerachmiel Tilles from…oops! I don't recall and somehow did not write it down. If anyone recognizes where I might have taken it from, please let me know.
Source: Adapted by Yerachmiel Tilles from…oops! I don't recall and somehow did not write it down. If anyone recognizes where I might have taken it from, please let me know.
Connection: Weekly Reading of Noach -
Every species of animal, in pairs.
Biographical note:
Rabbi Menachem-Mendel ("Reb Mendel") Futerfas (1906 - 4 Tammuz 1995), was a near legendary Lubavitcher chasid, even for those who knew him personally. In 1947 he was arrested for administrating networks of underground yeshivas and Jewish schools, and for facilitating the repatriation of thousands of Soviet Jews to Poland after WWII, and sentenced to 8 years in Soviet prisons and labor camps, which he went through without compromising any religious observances, despite the cruel pressure to do so. After another six years in Siberian exile he was allowed to emigrate to England, thanks to an appeal for family repatriation made by prime minister Harold Wilson during his summit meeting in Moscow with Chairman Nikita Khrushchev. In 1973 he settled in Kfar Chabad, Israel, where for twenty years he was a major influence on three generations of chasidim.
Rabbi Menachem-Mendel ("Reb Mendel") Futerfas (1906 - 4 Tammuz 1995), was a near legendary Lubavitcher chasid, even for those who knew him personally. In 1947 he was arrested for administrating networks of underground yeshivas and Jewish schools, and for facilitating the repatriation of thousands of Soviet Jews to Poland after WWII, and sentenced to 8 years in Soviet prisons and labor camps, which he went through without compromising any religious observances, despite the cruel pressure to do so. After another six years in Siberian exile he was allowed to emigrate to England, thanks to an appeal for family repatriation made by prime minister Harold Wilson during his summit meeting in Moscow with Chairman Nikita Khrushchev. In 1973 he settled in Kfar Chabad, Israel, where for twenty years he was a major influence on three generations of chasidim.
Robert Mueller helped
Saudi Arabia cover up its role in 9/11 attacks By Paul Sperry
Originally Published on the New
York Post
But former FBI investigators say their old boss didn’t feel the same concern when they uncovered multiple, systemic efforts by the Saudi government to assist the hijackers in the lead-up to the 9/11 attacks — a far more consequential, to say nothing of deadly, foreign influence operation on America.
As the head of the FBI at the time, they say Mueller was not nearly as interested in investigating that espionage conspiracy, which also involved foreign intelligence officers. Far from it, the record shows he covered up evidence pointing back to the Saudi Embassy and Riyadh — and may have even misled Congress about what he knew.
9/11 victims agree. “He was the master when it came to covering up the kingdom’s role in 9/11,” said survivor Sharon Premoli, who was pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center 18 years ago.
“In October of 2001, Mueller shut down the government’s investigation after only three weeks, and then took part in the Bush [administration’s] campaign to block, obfuscate and generally stop anything about Saudi Arabia from being released,” added Premoli, now a plaintiff in the 9/11 lawsuit against Saudi Arabia.
In fact, Mueller threw up roadblocks in the path of his own investigators working the 9/11 case, while making it easier for Saudi suspects to escape questioning, multiple case agents told me. Then he deep-sixed what evidence his agents did manage to uncover, according to the 9/11 lawsuit against the Saudis.
- Time and again, agents were called off from pursuing leads back to the kingdom’s embassy in Washington, as well as its consulate in Los Angeles, where former FBI Agent Stephen Moore headed a 9/11 task force looking into local contacts made by two of the 15 Saudi hijackers, Moore testified in an affidavit for the 9/11 lawsuit. He concluded that “diplomatic and intelligence personnel of Saudi Arabia knowingly provided material support to the two hijackers and facilitated the 9/11 plot.” Yet he and his team were not allowed to interview them, according to the suit.
- In Washington, former FBI Agent John Guandolo, who worked terror cases out of the bureau’s DC office, said then-Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar “should have been treated as a terrorist suspect” for giving money to a woman who funded two of the 9/11 hijackers. But he was never questioned either, Guandolo said.
- Instead, Mueller obliged what Guandolo called an “outrageous request” from Bandar within days of the attacks to help evacuate from the country dozens of Saudi officials, including at least one Osama bin Laden relative on the terror watch list. Mueller assured their safe passage to planes, using agents as personal escorts, according to FBI documents obtained by Judicial Watch. Agents who should have been interrogating the Saudis instead acted as their bodyguards.
- In 2002, Mueller prevented agents from arresting the Saudi-sponsored al Qaeda cleric who privately counseled the Saudi hijackers, said Raymond Fournier, an agent with the Joint Terrorism Task Force in San Diego at the time. “He was responsible for vacating the arrest warrant for Anwar al-Awlaki for passport fraud,” Fournier said. He even ordered agents who detained the fiend at JFK to release him into the custody of a “Saudi representative,” Fournier said. The FBI closed their investigation of Awlaki, who was allowed to leave the US on a Saudi plane. “Shortly thereafter, the Fort Hood shooting occurred and Awlaki’s fingerprints were all over that incident,” said former FBI Agent Michael Biasello, who helped work the Texas terror case.
- At the same time, Mueller removed a veteran agent from investigating a tip that an adviser to the Saudi royal family had met with some of the Saudi hijackers at his home in Sarasota, Fla., effectively killing the case, according to the lawsuit. The home was suddenly abandoned two weeks before 9/11.
- Mueller even tried to shut down a congressional investigation into the Saudi hijackers and their contacts in LA and San Diego, said Bob Graham, who led the joint inquiry as Senate Intelligence Committee chair. “The strongest objections” to his staff investigators visiting FBI offices there came from the FBI director himself, said Graham, in a 2017 interview with Harper’s magazine. Among other things, Mueller refused their demands to question a paid FBI informant who roomed with the hijackers and even moved him to a safe house where they couldn’t find him, Graham said. Mueller, with the White House, redacted 28 pages detailing Saudi-9/11 ties from the congressional report.
- He also gave testimony to Congress that was, at the very least, misleading. In an October 2002 closed-door hearing, Mueller claimed he found out about Saudi-9/11 connections only as a result of the joint inquiry’s investigative work: “Some facts came to light here and to me, frankly, that had not come to light before.” Only, Moore said he gave Mueller “daily” briefings on such connections in 2001. Mueller also testified the hijackers “contacted no known terrorist sympathizers in the United States,” even though the FBI’s own case files showed they had contact with at least 14 terrorist suspects and sympathizers in the US prior to 9/11, including some working for the Saudi government. (In later testimony, he tried to walk this back, insisting he “had no intent to mislead.”)
He’s a villain, and an arrogant one to boot,” former FBI Agent Mark Wauck said, adding that his former boss has a long history of acting as a “servant of the deep state,” or the permanent DC ruling class.
A Mueller spokesman declined to comment. But some agents say he was merely following White House orders.
“Any letting the Saudis off the hook came from the White House,” former Agent Mark Rossini said. “I can still see that photo of Bandar and Bush enjoying cigars on the balcony of the White House two days after 9/11.”
Still, others note the hypocrisy of Mueller going after President Trump for conspiring with a foreign enemy.
“Bottom line is, Mueller did not do an investigation on people involved in the 9/11 attacks who were connected to the Saudi government,” a former US counterintelligence official asserted. “Maybe if they were Russians, he would be interested. But he was not interested in investigating [Saudi] terrorists who murdered Americans.”
Elections
would be a disaster for these two. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270579
Failed
Sherriff oustered will not get my vote. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270586
Not
identical twins for surrogate. http://www.postfun.com/incredible/surrogate-mom-thinks-shes-having-twins-but-delivers-the-unthinkable/7/?firefox=1
Israel
moving to more solar power for daytime use. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5612616,00.html
El
Al flies again with no time to land before Shabbos. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270593
1400year
iron hammer found. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5616318,00.html
Turkish
Armenian Genocide. https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/10/28/top-jewish-civil-rights-group-endorses-us-congressional-resolution-to-recognize-genocide-of-armenians-by-turkey/?utm_content=news1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/
Inyanay Diyoma
Hezballah
and Iran in trouble with riots. https://www.debka.com/mass-protests-imperil-iran-hizballah-bastions-in-lebanon-and-iraq-hizballah-deploys-special-anti-demo-squad/
Riots
in Lebanon and Baghdad and the over population is part of the theme of Diane
Weber Bederman Ed-Op. https://dianebederman.com/the-population-bomb-bombed-what-about-climate-change/
IDF
fires on suspicious truck. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270592
J-Street
financier who is a sworn enemy of Israel backs Dem. Candidate. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270580
Failed
state of Gaza Ed-Op by Dr. Sherman. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/24627
Weekly
Gaza protest & firebombs. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270574
Reports
the Caliph is dead. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270613
Tapes
reveal Netanyahu is a leftist. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270612
Canadian
Gov. helped BDS. https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/10/25/top-canadian-jewish-group-deeply-concerned-by-federally-funded-voting-guide-that-promoted-bds/?utm_content=news1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/
Michael
Flynn’s attorney exposes James Clapper’s leak to the Washington Post. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270587
N.
Korea being impatient with the US. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270609
Written
before the death of the Caliph. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5612151,00.html
Russian probe becomes a criminal investigation. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270585
Two
bomb threats to Schul. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270582
Democratic
candidates go to J-Street not AIPAC. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270595
Murderer
and a coward. https://www.debka.com/trump-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-died-like-a-coward/
Ed-Op
the slow death of a promising peace. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5614358,00.html
A
more positive Ganz – Netanyahu. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5614416,00.html
Officers
receive bad write-up. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5614204,00.html
Israel’s
AF1 almost ready. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270630
NFL
Steelers remember Synagogue. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270656
ISIS
has no operation center. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270658
Israel
and US have no answer for cruise missiles. https://www.debka.com/us-mid-east-forces-relocate-out-of-iranian-cruise-missile-range-the-idf-begins-overhaul/
PM
warns of threats from cruise missiles. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270718
Whenever
my wife acts as an enabler and gives Menashe access to internet, smart phone or
tablet he turns our Shabbos into Tisha B'Av because he is going cold turkey
from his addition and TV movies don’t help. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education/mobile-phone-ban-school-llandudno-16945279?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wales_main&fbclid=IwAR1wYdZ-ezIl1AonS7hORSePG1zZONM59f3Vi0CjYLfxKTOAm1i6VOQtMF4
This
is what the left knew and they succeeded by getting teachers and professors to
carry out their agenda. https://www.theblaze.com/news/third-of-millennials-view-communism-favorably
Ed-Op Daniel gets a birthday present from President
Trump. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/24644
Monotheists
against Euthanasia. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270721
Warren
against Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270698
Lebanon
turns to civil war and Iraq vs Iranians next. https://www.debka.com/lebanons-plunge-into-civil-warfare-shakes-iran-hizballah-as-mid-east-powerhouses/
National
Socialism rises in Germany. https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/10/28/shock-in-germany-as-far-right-demagogue-bjorn-hocke-strengthens-position-with-regional-election-victory-for-afd/?utm_content=news1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/
Fugitive
flees to Jordan and is detained. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5616306,00.html
Despite
hostage, Russian hacker will be extradited to USA. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5616495,00.html
Epstein
death a murder? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270831
Ed-Op
loyalty to leader may cost the right. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5615491,00.html
Ed-Op
We cannot trust anybody but ourselves. Gemara Sotah
49B on HASHEM. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5614804,00.html
Part
of Pentagon video. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270834
New
Iranian Drone operational. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270841
Mordechai
Kedar says it is possible that Yigal Amir did not kill Yitzchak Rabin. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270829
Senate
launches bi-partisan commission on antisemitism. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270821
Democratic Senator Elizabeth
Warren of Massachusetts told the participants of this week’s J Street national
conference in Washington DC, “I will also immediately resume aid to the
Palestinians and financial support to UNRWA and focus on fixing the
humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and on bringing greater freedom and prosperity
to the people in the West Bank. We must find ways to make tangible progress on
the ground toward a two-state solution,” she said.
Close
to civil war, Iranian General takes off Iraqi security from PM. https://www.debka.com/soleimani-takes-helm-of-iraqi-security-from-prime-minister-abdul-mahdi/
Lack
of response to Iran triggers aggression. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5617166,00.html
And Netanyahu’s lack of reply to lone
rocket last night says RP.
What’s
App hack. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5617098,00.html
Assad
praises Trump’s honesty. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270908
A
new leader and spokesman for ISIS. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270905
Ed-Op
Dr. Sherman. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/24663
Bombs
thrown at Rachel’s tomb. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/270888
N.
Korea getting belligerent after Trump did nothing to Iran also threatens to end
agreement with the States by the end of the year. https://www.foxnews.com/world/north-korea-says-it-test-fired-new-multiple-rocket-launcher
Have
a wonderful Shabbos,
Rachamim
Pauli
