["Kahane in the Parsha Book of Devarim 301","302","Kahane in the Parsha Devarim 303","Devarim The Missing Piece of Faith ,\u202b \u05db\u05d1\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05de \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e0\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e0 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c--\u202b \u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d6\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05dc\u05d1 \u05d5 \u05db\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8\u202c32 Yet in this thing ye do not believe the LORD \u202b \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202cyour God (Devarim 1:32) \u2018Yet in \u2018this\u2019 matter you do not believe in Hashem, your G-d\u2026\u2019 (Devarim 1:32) \\\"\u202b\\\"\u05d5\u05d1\u05d3\u05d1\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d6\u05d4 \u05d0\u05d9\u05e0\u05db\u05dd \u05de\u05d0\u05de\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd \u05d1\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c \u2018This\u2019 matter, I believe refers to warfare. The idea that Hashem is also the Master of War and will drive out our enemies before us, is the type of faith that Israel is criticized for lacking in this passage. \u202b \u05e0\u05e9\u05de\u05d5\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9\u05e9 \u05d9\u05de \u05db\u05dc \u05d4\u05d7 \u05d4\u05de\u05d4; \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05d2 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c3 The LORD is a man of war, The LORD is His name. (Shemot 15:3) This passage certainly reminds us of our own times and a similar chastisement was given in many speeches by the Rabbi. Many people agreed with his position, but felt it wasn't \u201crealistic\u201d. What did they mean \u201crealistic\u201d? The Rabbi said that what they were really saying is: How do you dare do it? What will the world say? That is it wasn't a technical problem of \u201chow\u201d can we throw them out, but something much deeper. It was a matter of faith. Do we believe God is more omnipotent then the President who is occupying the White House? Do we dare fulfill the mitzvot that will save our lives but might enrage the world? (Wit and Wisdom of Rabbi Meir Kahane Lenny Goldberg Pg.153) ,\u202b\u05e9\u05de \u05de\u05d0 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e0\u05dd\u202c ,\u202b\u05d9\u05e0\u05db \u05ea\u05db \u05dd\u202c \u202b\u05d0\u05df\u202c--\u202b \u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d6\u05d4\u202c,\u202b\u05dc\u05d1 \u05d5 \u05db\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8\u202c 32 Yet in this thing ye do not believe the LORD your God \u202b \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b\u05db\u05d1\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c (Devarim 1:32) The letters inside this passage spell \u2018Kahane Maamin\u2019 (Kahane believes). Even though this lack of faith and lack of desire in our physical ability to conquer the Land has always been a weak point in our religiosity, Rav Kahane raised a generation of leaders that had this \u2018true faith\u2019. We sinned with the chet haegel because we wanted to be more spiritual. We sinned with the meraglim, because we didn\u2019t want to be more physical. This is the problem; to bring Hashems commandments into this world. The Torah is not a religion, it is a national constitution. We are commanded to be a Nation that has faith in G-d and does not rely on strange gods or fickle allies. 304","The Nation Developing the Missing Piece At the end of the Parsha, Moshe commands the Nation: \u2018You shall not fear them, for Hashem, your G-d \u2013 He shall wage war for you.\u2019 The last part of the verse in Hebrew : \u2018He shall wage war for you\u2019 \u202b\u05d4\u05d5\u05d0\u202c ,\u202b\u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c \u202b\u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c \u202b\u05d9\u05db\u05d9\u202c :\u202b \u05d9\u05ea\u05d9\u05e8\u05d4\u05d0\u05d5\u05dd\u202c,\u202b\u05db\u05d1 \u05dc\u05d4\u05d0\u202c 26 You shall not fear them, for Hashem, your G-d \u2013 He shall wage war for you. \u202b\u05e9\u05d4 \u05d9\u05e0 \u05db\u05dc \u05d4\u05d7\u05dd \u05d4\u05dc \u05ea\u05db\u05dd\u202c (Devarim 3:22) (He shall wage war for you) has within it the words Praise Kahane (Hallelu Kahane) = \u202b\u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e0\u05dc\u05d7\u05dd \u05dc\u05db\u05dd\u202c \u202b\u05dc\u05d7\u05dd \u05dc \u05dd\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e0 \u05db\u202c \u202b = \u05d4\u05d5\u202cKahane \u202b = \u05d0 \u05d4\u05e0 \u05d7\u05dd \u05db\u05dd\u05d4\u05d5 \u05dc \u05dc\u202cHallelu - Praise The connection I see between Hashem waging war for us and Praise Kahane is the following. When the Tzadik is persecuted it is as if Hashem is persecuted, and alternatively when the Tzadik is praised Hashem is also praised. When the Nation restores Kahane and gives credit to the source of the revolution today that is demanding \u2018true\u2019 Jewish leadership, then Hashem\u2019s emissary will be vindicated and His name too will be restored. When a significant number of the Nation will have done Teshuva to the point where Praise Kahane is no longer \u2018illegal\u2019 but rather an expression of faith in the fullness of Hashem, not only as the Merciful G-d but also as \u2018Master of War\u2019, then we will prepare for war but won\u2019t have much to do, because Hashem will wage war for us, and our enemies will flee. Rav Kahane more than any other Jewish leader understood and taught us that if we do what is required without fear of what the world will say Hashem will wage war for us. The Fast Road and the Slow Road \u2018\u2026eleven days from Horeb..\u2019 (Devarim 1:2) Artscroll writes: G-d said that the time had come for them to enter Eretz Yisrael, and instructed them to use the route that skirts Mount Seir. Normally, it would have been an eleven day journey to Kadesh- barnea, but G-d was so anxious for them to enter the Land quickly that He miraculously brought them there in only three days. This should have been more than adequate proof that G-d was guiding them-yet the people wanted spies to reassure themselves-and then they believed the calumnies about the Land. We read in the Haftorah of Ki Savo : \u2018I am Hashem, I will hurry it [the Redemption] in its time.\u2019 Yeshaya (60:22). From here we see the concept of a fast road and a slow road towards redemption. Rav Kahane spoke about this many times, and tried to raise the Nation to the level of wanting the hurried redemption, rather than the redemption \u2018in it\u2019s time\u2019. 305","The concept of the \u2018hurried\u2019 redemption we see exemplified here in our passage pertaining to eleven days. On one side an eleven day journey was miraculously made in three days, and on the other side a failure to grasp the proximity of Hashem or not to desire it, resulted in wandering for forty years and dying in the desert. \u202b \u05d4\u05e9 \u05db\u05de\u05e2\u202c-\u202b \u05d9\u05dc \u05e0\u05e4 \u05d9\u05e0\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; \u05e0\u05d5\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u202c,\u202b \u05de\u05d4 \u05db\u05d5 \u05d4\u05ea \u05de\u05e9\u05d1\u05d5 \u05db\u05d5 \u05d9\u05ea \u05e0\u05d1\u05db\u05d5\u202c45 Then you retreated and wept before Hashem, \u202b \u05e0\u05d5\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d0 \u05d9\u05d6\u05d9\u05df \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d9\u05dc\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d4\u05e7 \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202cbut Hashem did not listen to your voice and He did not hearken to you. (Devarim 1:45) \u2018Then you retreated and wept before Hashem, but Hashem did not listen to your voice and He did not hearken to you.\u2019 (Devarim 1:45) Artscroll writes: Moses praises Israel, saying that they acknowledged their sin and repented openly. Even so, their sin could not be forgiven, because G-d had taken an oath to punish them (Numbers 14:21-23). The sages teach (Rosh Hashanah 18a) that a decree accompanied by an oath cannot be annulled (Ramban). There is a point where the three day journey becomes the eleven day journey, or the \u2018hurried\u2019 redemption becomes the \u2018in it\u2019s time\u2019 redemption, and there is little that can be done. It\u2019s interesting to note that the passage quoted above in Hebrew is made up of eleven words. \\\"\u202b\u05e9\u05de\u05e2 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d1\u05e7\u05dc\u05db\u05dd \u05d5\u05dc\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d0\u05d6\u05d9\u05df \u05d0\u05dc\u05d9\u05db\u05dd\u202c-\u202b\\\"\u05d5\u05ea\u05e9\u05d1\u05d5 \u05d5\u05ea\u05d1\u05db\u05d5 \u05dc\u05e4\u05e0\u05d9 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d5\u05dc\u05d0\u202c \u2018Eleven years\u2019 is also written in the prophecy of Yecheskel, who prophesied eleven years after the destruction of the Temple that Yermiyahu warned about. Eleven years here suggests that the great Holocaust the Nation of Israel had suffered with the destruction of the Temple was an indication that redemption was no longer being \u2018hurried\u2019, but was unfolding \u2018in it\u2019s time\u2019, which in this case meant the next two thousand years. The last straw in such a decree from above is always determined from our actions below towards Hashem\u2019s emissary, which in this case was Yermiyahu. Eleven years earlier, he was imprisoned by the government of Israel for the Torah he was prophesying. They chose to silence the messenger instead of heeding the message. This of course sounds familiar in our own time, as Rav Kahane was imprisoned countless times for his Torah. It\u2019s no coincidence that the twin towers were struck down not far away from the place Rav Kahane was struck down eleven years previously. In that 11th year Binyamin was also struck down nine months before the twin towers, sealing the fate that would be born nine months later and heralding in a time of redemption \u2018in it\u2019s time\u2019. Eicha and it\u2019s Antidote The famous passage in Devarim that hints at Tisha B\u2019Av, which always falls out on Parsha Devarim is the following: \u202b\u05df\u05d0\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d8 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d7 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd \u05d5 \u05db\u05de \u05db\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05dc \u05db\u05d1 \u05d9\u05d3\u05d9\u202c,\u202b\u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05d0\u202c 12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, \u202b\u05d9\u05d1\u202c and your burden, and your strife? \u202b\u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c (Devarim 1:12) \u2018(Eicha) How can I alone carry your contentiousness..\u2019(Devarim 1:12) 306","As we wrote earlier about the \u2018missing piece of faith\u2019, and in Parshat Pinchas, we see a pattern in our history of evolution through suffering. As our consciousness evolves as a people we will begin to understand the degree to which we brought about our own suffering and rectify the \u2018Moom\u2019 (the blemish). The Creator who created the world \u2018first in thought and last in deed\u2019 expressed this idea in the \u2018Yud\u2019 \u2018Hey\u2019\u2019Vav\u2019 \u2018Hey\u2019. \u202b\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c One can see from this picture of Hashems name that the original 'Yud' above is reflected in the small \u2018yud\u2019 at the bottom of the last \u2018Hey\u2019. This letter \u2018Hey\u2019 can be seen as a small \u2018yud\u2019 that is planted like a seed next to a \u2018Daled\u2019 forming the last \u2018Hey\u2019 of Hashem\u2019s name. The \u2018Daled\u2019 (4) gematria four, alludes to the spreading out in all directions of the \u2018Yud\u2019 of above so that it becomes internalized within the Nation below. This in a nutshell is the purpose of Creation \u2013 reflecting Hashem\u2019s light back to Him so that He can walk before us as He intended to do on the third day from Horeb. As we say at the end of every prayer in Alyenu \u2013 Bayom hahu, Iye Adoshem echad oShmo Echad \u2013 On that day God will be One and His name will be One. The education we are learning over these millenniums, is that the more we persecute the Yoseph\u2019s of each generation (who are Hashem\u2019s emissaries), the more we bring suffering upon ourselves, and seal our fate of \u2018Eicha\u2019. When we change our ways and begin to understand that the Tzadik is not the enemy that must be imprisoned or assassinated, but the voice of Hashem trying to raise us to a higher standard, then we will properly reflect the 'Yud' below. Destroying the Sar of Cheshbon As for the Avvim who dwell in open cities until Gaza, the Caphtorim who went out of Caphtor destroyed them, and dwelled in their place. Rise up, go and cross Arnon Brook; see! Into your hand have I delivered Sihon king of Heshbon, theAmorite, and his land; begin to drive him out and provoke war with him. (Devarim 2:23-24) In this passage Hashem tells Israel that they have the legitimate right to make war with these people. Avraham had made a pact with the Philistines in the past, therefore Hashem providentially cause the Caphtorim to conquer the Avvim (who were a Philistine clan), and hardening the heart of Sihon (to make war) giving Israel both the legitimacy to wage war, and the necessity to do it. In our times our Rav spoke many times about destroying the psychological barriers that prevent us from returning to Israel as well as making war physically against those who come to attack us. He used to joke that one must tear up the list of excuses that keep him in the exile. An account of money owed in Hebrew is called a \u2018Chesbon\u2019. This was the 1st king that was conquered as we entered the Land of Israel, and spiritually we must tear up our own \u2018Cheshbon\u2019 to make the 1st step which is Aliya. On another level, the \u2018Jewish guilt\u2019 that prevents us from conquering our Land he proved time and time again to be unfounded guilt and a \u2018mercy of fools\u2019 whose cloak of morality, is in reality, immoral and cruel for \u2018those who are kind to the cruel will one day be cruel to the kind\u2019, as we see today with Gush Katif. We learn from Chazal that before destroying our enemies below, Hashem first destroys their Sar (ministering angel) above. Effectively what the Tzadik does, is destroys the legitimacy of the Goliaths 307","that face us, so that instead of standing frozen and confused, we act as young David armed with the pebble of truth that will put an end to desecration and allow good to triumph over evil. Tisha B\u2019Av The day Moshiach ben Yoseph is killed is a day that the Temple and it\u2019s finest gold is destroyed. Will there ever be another like this giant who\u2019s words were silver and gold and who was the most loyal servant of the King? \u2018Could this be the City that was called Perfect in Beauty, Joy of all the Earth? All your enemies jeered at you; they hiss and gnash their teeth. They say \u2018We have devoured her! Indeed this is the day we longed for; we have actually seen it!\u2019 \u201d (Eicha 2:15-16) All of those who feared Rav Kahane for he was a giant among men celebrated his defeat, but on the day of his destruction is also the day of his birth. From the ashes of the destruction of Rav Kahane and 11 years later his son and his wife as well, comes a new Torah that is like a fire burning in the hearts of not only the giants but even the small ones, who have now grown and brought about a new generation. Alas-the gold is dimmed! The finest gold is changed! Sacred stones are scattered at every street corner! (Eicha 4:1) \u202b\u05d4\u05ea\u05dd \u05db\u05d4\u05d8\u05d5\u05d1;\u05ea\u05e0\u05d0 \u05e9\u05d4 \u05ea\u05db\u202c \u202b\u05d9\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e9\u202c ,\u202b\u05d4\u05d6 \u05d4\u05d4\u05d1\u202c \u202b\u05d9\u05d5 \u05db\u05e2\u05dd\u202c \u202b\u05d9\u05d0\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05d4\u202c \u202b\u05d0\u202c 1 How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed! The hallowed stones are \u202b \u05e9\u05d0\u202c,\u202b\u05db\u05db \u05d4\u05e0\u05d4\u202c-\u202b \u05d4\u05db\u05dc\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d1\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d0\u05e9\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05e7 \u05d4\u05d3\u05e9\u202c-\u202b\u05e0\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u202c \u202b \u05d9\u05ea \u05e0\u05e9 \u05db\u05ea \u05d9\u05e4\u202cpoured out at the head of every street. \u202b\u05d7\u05d5\u05e6\u05d5\u05ea\u202c. (Eicha 4:1) In these lines is a message for today. The Eicha in our generation was the loss of this finest gold, both father and son. The names Kahane are twice intertwined with the precious things in Hashems treasury that we destroyed with our indifference and persecution. I see here also an echo of another passage in the Haftorah of Nitzavim (from September 11th). \u202b \u05db\u05e4\u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d3 \u05d4\u05e8\u05da \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d4\u05e2\u05dd; \u05d4\u05e1\u05dc\u05d5\u05d9\u05e2 \u05d5 \u05db\u05d1\u05e8\u202c,\u202b\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d1\u05e8 \u05d9\u05e2 \u05d5 \u05db\u05d1 \u05e0\u05e9 \u05d4\u05e2 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd\u202c 10 Go through, go through the gates, clear ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway, -\u202b \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9\u05de\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e0\u05e1 \u05db\u05e2\u05dc\u202c,\u202b\u05d4\u05e1\u05dc\u05d5 \u05db\u05d4 \u05e0\u05de \u05d9\u05e1 \u05d4\u05dc\u05d4 \u05db\u05e1 \u05e0\u05e7\u05dc\u05d5 \u05d9\u05de \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d1\u05df\u202c gather out the stones; lift up an ensign over the \u202b\u05d4\u05d4 \u05db\u05e2 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05dd\u202c peoples. (Yishayahu 62:10) \u202b =\u05e2\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d1\u05e8\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e2 \u05e0\u05d1\u05e8\u05d5\u202cGo Through, Go Through \u202b = \u05d9\u05e2 \u05db\u05d1\u05e8\u05d5 \u05e2\u05d9 \u05db\u05d1\u05e8\u05d5\u202cRav \u202b = \u05d9\u05e2 \u05e0\u05d1\u05e8\u05d5 \u05e2\u05d9 \u05db\u05d1\u05e8\u05d5\u202cseventy six 76 = Gematria: Kahane In his death as the hallowed stones are poured out, the Rav was telling us 'Go through the gates' 'Lift up the stones in our pathway, they are nothing, go through. Don't worry about the Arabs or Washington or world pressure, or the Chesbon that keeps you in the exile. Conquer the Land and do Hashems will, He won't forsake us. He is waiting for us to have this type of faith. For us to believe in Him in 'this' way. ('this way' see: Devarim 1:32) 308","Devarim 2012 The Book of Malchut As we explained in Behalotecha (Bamidbar 10:35,36) there is a tradition that these two passages are a separate book. This would mean that the section before and after these passages are counted as separate books bringing the count to seven books of Torah instead of five. If we read these books according to the seven levels of the Sephira then the beginning of Bamidbar and the above mentioned passages (Bamidbar 10:35,36) correspond to Netzach and Hod. The complaints which begin right after and follow through Shalch, Korach, Chukat, Pinchas, till the end of Bamidbar correspond to Yesod. Devarim corresponds to Malchut. The unity that was achieved from the forty nine days after Pesach culminated in the military parade we saw in the beginning of Bamidbar. We went forth as a Nation and our enemies were scattered before our Torah. We went forth on the two legs of Netzach and Hod. The complaints that follow contain the deep mysteries of Yesod. So many calamities befell us, as well as divisions and rebellions. The book of Devarim looks back at our journey and explains it in a way that can only be understood once we have experienced these National catastrophes. Artscrolls Masoratic note seems to corroborate this idea. There are 105 verses in the Sidrah, numerically corresponding to the mnemonic \u202b\u05de\u05dc\u05db\u05d9 \\\"\u05d4\u202c The mnemonic suggest that God gave authority over the countries of the world to their respective kings, meaning that He has ultimate authority over the world, so that He was justified in giving the Land of Israel, when it pleased Him to do so, as Rashi comments to Genesis 1:1 (R' David Feinstein) \u2013 from Artscroll Siddur Pg 957 The 105 verses of Parsha Devarim indicate that this new book deals with Malchut. Yesod is related to Moshiach ben Yoseph who conquers the Land of Israel and Malchut is related to Moshiach ben David who rebuilds the Temple and restores Hashems kingdom here on earth. After the battles have been waged we can look back and understand our mistakes and see Hashems hand in the whole process. Jewish Relativity in Time and Space Chazal explains that the eleven days from Chorev are mentioned here as a rebuke. After receiving the commandments at Chorev it was an eleven day journey to Israel. They miraculously arrived in only three days. This Divine intervention should have been more than enough to convince the Nation that Hashem was leading them and they should have no fears. Instead they wanted to send spies and the rest of the story we know. Eleven days was the 'natural' amount of time and three days was the 'above nature' time that Hashem altered for the sake of Israel. There are events that happen in their natural time and there are events that are altered based upon our actions. This is Jewish relativity in time and space. Hashem foretold four hundred years of exile to Avraham (Bereshit 15:13) but because of our suffering in Egypt these years were re-calculated from Itzchaks birth which left us 210 years in Egypt of which not all were years of slavery, only the last 86. 309","Rabbi Nachum Kahane writes about the process and events of history. Jewish history \u2013 and probably world history \u2013 can be divided into two general eras: the era of recuperation and the era of epoch. Four years of intense anxiety, emotion, physical pain and total mental immersion are invested in the few days of the Olympic Games. Without the years of pain, there would be no Olympic gain; but the headlines will feature mostly the week of the epoch while disregarding the years of an athlete's preparation. We became a holy nation not on account of the miracle of the Red Sea or the revelation at Mount Sinai, but as a result of the inconspicuous, yet arduous 38 years of Torah study under the tutelage of Moshe and Aaron....The Torah records the important events of our history. The preparations have to be studied between the lines. (With All Your Might pg 803) The event is what is remembered but it is the process that determines how and when the event will transpire. He continues: The epochal Shoah brought the curtain down on the galut, with the current remnant surviving there only by inertia; and with the next miraculous, metaphysical event to be played out at some unknown time in the future. (Ibid. pg 804) How long will this current remnant survive by inertia? Sept 11 and Eleven days from Horeb World War I \u2013 which began the downward slide to the Holocaust \u2013 began on Tisha B\u2019av. As Rav Nachum Kahane points out the Jewish version of September 11 is also related to Tisha B'Av, which occurs on the 9th of the 11th Hebrew month of Av \u2013 the original 9-11. Both of these events are bookends of history \u2013 the event that marked the beginning of Jewish exile and the events that marked the end of the exile. If our Nation had heard the bells tolling in the 1920's when the doors of Israel were opening there would not have been a Shoa. Each time the bell tolls, there are about 20% that hear. Twenty percent left Egypt, twenty percent came in the 1920's, another twenty percent came at the time of the Shoa and today as the bell tolls from the twin towers another twenty percent arrive in Israel. There are those who hear the bells and escape while there are those who plug their ears and are lost in the darkness of Egypt. Personally I have experienced the 11 days and the 3 days journey. The concepts I have been discussing above are not only concepts but personal transformations I have felt between preparation and epoch. After September 11 I was pulled out of the exile by G-ds merciful hand even though I was not prepared. My brothers offer of a free trip was Divine intervention for me. Finding a temporary place for me to stay with hardly any money or security, it was enough for me to jump into the sea. Once my feet were wet I let go, and the wave that carried me was and still is my security. Time stood still and I became ten years younger . What is above nature is normal in this new Land. I set my cup of tea down and my friend at the bet knesset said 'careful your cup is on the edge'. I replied 'just like the Jewish people in Israel are on the edge but they always feel Hashem close by watching them so they don't fall.' Rabbi Kahane used to always plead with the Jewish people to hurry the redemption by heeding the call and not to wait for redemption to come 'in its time' accompanied by tragedies. We have an 11 day 310","journey that can become a 3 day journey. We have a grace period where the bell tolls and we can heed the call and escape Egypt and in the process witness many awesome miracles. We can be sacrifices through death and darkness or sacrifices through life and participation in epic times. The bell has tolled three times, in the 20's and the 40's and now the last call. Jump in and alter your time and space. The Measurement of True Faith (2014) We spoke about this passage in Parsha Chukat and the relationship to Mitspe and the different spirit that characterized the true shepherds of Israel. ,\u202b \u05d9\u05ea\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e8\u05d0\u05d5\u05df\u202c-\u202b \u05db\u05ea \u05db\u05e2 \u05e0\u05e8\u05e6\u05d5\u05df \u05e0\u05d5\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u202c-\u202b \u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u202c:\u202b \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d9\u05dc \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05d8 \u05d4\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05db\u05de\u05e8\u202c29 Then I said unto you: 'Dread not, neither be \u202b \u05d9\u05de \u05d4\u05d4\u05dd\u202c. afraid of them. \u202b \u05d4\u05d5\u05d0\u202c,\u202b \u05dc \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd \u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d9\u05dc\u05da \u05d9\u05dc \u05db\u05e4\u05e0\u05df\u05d9 \u05ea\u05db\u05dd\u202c30 The LORD your God who goes before you, He shall fight for you, according to all that ,\u202b\u05d9\u05d0 \u05e0\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c \u202b\u05d4\u05e2 \u05d4\u05e9\u05d4\u202c \u202b \u05e0\u05db \u05d4\u05db\u05dc \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8\u202c:\u202b\u05d9\u05d9 \u05d4\u05dc \u05d9\u05d7\u05dd \u05d4\u05dc \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c in Egypt before your eyes; \u202b \u05e0\u05dc \u05d9\u05e2\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e0\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c--\u202b\u05e0\u05d1 \u05d9\u05de \u05e0\u05e6 \u05db\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d9\u05dd\u202c He did for you \u202b \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05e0\u05e0 \u05d4\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d0\u05da \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d4\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9 \u05d4\u05ea\u202c,\u202b \u05d5 \u05db\u05d1 \u05d9\u05de \u05e0\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8\u202c31 and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen -\u202b \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d4\u05db\u05dc\u202c--\u202b \u05e0\u05d1\u05e0\u05d5\u202c-\u202b \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9\u05e9 \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u202c-\u202b \u05db\u05db \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d9 \u05d4\u05e9\u05d0\u202c,\u202b \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d4\u05d4\u05d9\u05da\u202chow that the LORD thy God bore thee, as a man \u202b \u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05de\u05e7\u05d5\u05dd\u202c-\u202b\u05db\u05e2\u05d3\u202c \u202b \u05d4\u05d1 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c-\u202b\u05db\u05e2\u05d3\u202c ,\u202b\u05e0\u05d4 \u05db\u05dc \u05e0\u05db \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd\u202c \u202b\u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8\u202c \u202b\u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d3 \u05d4\u05e8\u05da\u202c doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until \u202b\u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d6\u05d4\u202c ye came unto this place. ,\u202b \u05db\u05de \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e0\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e0 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c--\u202b \u05e9\u05d4 \u05ea\u05d6\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05dc\u05d1 \u05d5 \u05e9\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8\u202c32 Yet in this thing ye do not believe the \u202b \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05d1\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202cLORD your God, (Devarim 1:29-32) \u202b = \u05d5 \u05e9\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8 \u05e9\u05d4 \u05ea\u05d6\u05d4\u202cYet in this thing = 231 \u202b = \u05dc\u05d9\u05e4\u05db\u05e0\u05df\u05d9 \u05ea\u05db\u05dd\u202cWho goes before you = 230+1(kollel) = 231 \u202b \u05db\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05de\u05e8\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e9 \u05d4\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d0\u05dc\u202c-\u202b \u05d4\u05db\u05dc\u202c-\u202b \u05d0 \u05db\u05d5 \u05d9\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e7 \u05d4\u05e8\u05d0 \u05d4\u05de \u05d4\u05e9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0\u05dc\u202c1 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto \u202b \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d4\u05e2 \u05d4\u05e9\u05d4\u202c-\u202b \u05d9\u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05dc\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05d0 \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd \u05e0\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9 \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd\u202c:\u202b \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d9\u05dc \u05d4\u05d4\u05dd\u202cthem: Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, \u202b \u05e0\u05dc \u05db\u05e4 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05d4\u05e2\u05d4\u05db\u05dc \u05df\u05e2\u05d9 \u05df\u05e0\u05d9 \u05ea\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b\u05e0\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e8\u05e5 \u05d9\u05de \u05e0\u05e6 \u05db\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d9\u05dd\u202c \u202b\u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c and unto all his servants, and unto all his land \u202b \u05db\u05d0 \u05e0\u05e8\u05e6\u05d5\u202c-\u202b \u05d5 \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05db\u05dc\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d3\u05d9\u05d5\u202c-\u202b\u05d5 \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05db\u05dc\u202c (Devarim 29:1) \u202b = \u05db\u05dc \u05df\u05e2\u05d9 \u05df\u05e0\u05d9 \u05ea\u05db\u05dd\u202cBefore your eyes = 230+1(kollel) = 231 \u202b = \u05d9\u05de \u05df\u05e7\u05e5\u202cIn the End = 230+1(kollel) = 231 311","In the end of days we will understand what was always right before our eyes. Our stumbling block was our faith to really believe that Hashem will protect us if we do what He requires of us, even if it angers the world. We are in the beginning of this end. We are in the last journey of Moshe who said take the Lord's vengeance. Israel is no longer the sheep led to the slaughter, but the avenger who is saving the world from barbarism and the death worship of radical Islam. We are currently in a war and have destroyed much of Hamas, despite the worlds cries of the civilian human shields that Hamas surrounds themselves with. Still we lost more than sixty young men; much of this due to our concern over enemy civilian deaths. When we become less concerned with world opinion, and more concerned with Hashems vengeance no soldier will lose his life in battle. \u202b\u05d4\u05d5\u05d0\u202c ,\u202b\u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c \u202b\u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c \u202b \u05d9\u05db\u05d9\u202c:\u202b \u05d9\u05ea\u05d9 \u05d4\u05e8\u05d0\u05d5\u05dd\u202c,\u202b\u05db\u05d1 \u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u202c 22 Ye shall not fear them; for the LORD your \u202b\u05e9\u05d4 \u05d9\u05e0 \u05db\u05dc \u05d4\u05d7\u05dd \u05d4\u05dc \u05ea\u05db\u05dd\u202c God, He shall wage war for you.' (Devarim 3:22) -\u202b \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d3\u05d9\u05da \u05d4\u05e0 \u05e0\u05e9\u05d0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05de \u05d4\u05e9\u05d4\u202c-\u202b \u05d4\u05d0\u05dc\u202c,\u202b \u05de\u05d8 \u05db\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05de\u05e8\u05d5\u202c49 and they said unto Moses: 'Thy servants have -\u202b \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d9 \u05d9\u05d3\u05e0\u05d5; \u05e0\u05d5\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u202c,\u202b \u05e8 \u05d4\u05d0\u05e9 \u05db\u05d0 \u05e0\u05e0 \u05d9\u05e9\u05d9 \u05db\u05d4 \u05d9\u05de \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05d7 \u05d4\u05de\u05d4\u202ctaken the sum of the men of war that are under our \u202b \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9\u05e9\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05e0 \u05db\u05e4 \u05e9\u05e7\u05d3 \u05d9\u05de \u05d4\u05de\u05e0\u05d5\u202ccharge, and not a man of us is missing. (Bamidbar 31:49) \u202b = \u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05e9\u05d4 \u05d9\u05e0 \u05db\u05dc \u05d4\u05d7\u05dd \u05d4\u05dc \u05ea\u05db\u05dd\u202cHe shall wage war for you = 235 \u202b( = \u05d9\u05e0 \u05db\u05e4 \u05e9\u05e7\u05d3\u202cnot a man of us is) missing 234+1(kollel) = 235 There is something else hidden in this passage. \u202b\u05d4 \u05d0\u05df \u05db\u05e0 \u05ea\u05db\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05de \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e0\u05dd\u202c,\u202b\u05dd\u202c\u202b\u05d9\u202c 32 Yet in this thing ye do not believe the LORD -- \u202b \u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d6\u202c,\u202b\u05dc\u05d1 \u05d5 \u05db\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8\u202c your God, \u202b \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b\u05db\u05d1\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c (Devarim 1:32) \u202b\u05e9\u05d4 \u05ea\u05d6 \u05d9 \u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05de \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e0\u05dd\u202c,\u202b\u05e0\u05e0 \u05d4\u05db\u202c 32 Yet in this thing ye do not believe the LORD \u202b\u05d0\u05d9\u202c--\u202b \u05d4\u202c,\u202b\u05dc\u05d1 \u05d5 \u05db\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8\u202c your God, \u202b \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b\u05db\u05d1\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c (Devarim 1:32) \u202b = \u05db\u05d4\u05e0\u05d0\u202cKahane \u202b = \u05de\u05d9 \u05d6\u05d4 \u05db\u05d4\u05e0\u05d0\u202cMi ze Kahane? (who is this Kahane?) 312","Hidden in this passage 'in this thing' you do not believe is the name Kahane. The other letters spell 'who is this Kahane?' What is the meaning? Rabbi Kahane demonstrated to am Israel that Hashem is stronger than Washington or Moscow or the United Nations or our Arab enemies. If we have the faith to do His will, He will cover our backs. The Torah of Rabbi Kahane is 'this thing' that you don't believe in. We have a G-d that we believe in, customs that we observe, and a religion with a wealth of knowledge and wisdom. Yet with all of our faith and wisdom we prefer to weep on Tisha B'Av instead of demanding for our Temple to be rebuilt. We prefer to call ourselves sinners when Jews are murdered by Arabs rather than throwing our enemies out. We fear the reactions of the world, and not Hashems punishments, which ironically are precisely the reactions of the world because we 'don't' do His will. The measurement of the lack of this 'type' of faith can be measured by ones reaction to Kahane. If your reaction is 'yes but its not practical' or ' but how will the world react?' then you lack the faith that he demonstrates. Don't think that I am saying if you don't like my Rabbi then you have no faith in G-d for I too suffer from this certain type of Jewish anti-Antisemitism. I remember long ago when a Charedi man prayed in my synagogue in Toronto. Some small voice inside my head said 'I bet he thinks he is holier than us, we keep shabaat too'. The reaction of a less observant Jew to a more observant Jew can be ridicule based upon guilty feelings. Part of the animosity is because we know we are not as observant and to put him down will make us feel a little better about ourselves. The same process is true for Rabbi Kahane. Because we are afraid to rise to the level he demands we say 'he is not relevant', or he is an 'extremist'. On the other hand one who says 'mi ze Kahane'? because he wants to learn more about this man, is one who is attracted by the faith and accomplishment of this great leader. The holy sparks that were drawn to the Rav and said to themselves 'mi ze?' who is this? This is a type of Jew I have never seen before! This is a reason to become Jewish! Many non-Jews also loved Rabbi Kahane and asked why there were not more Jews like him? The nations are waiting for us to show spiritual leadership and build Hashems kingdom here on earth. His spirit was among the youth of Gush Katif that spread the orange ribbons across the Nation and pleaded with our leaders to stop the great sin that they transgressed. His spirit is growing within the leadership of the Nation that is maturing into a 'Jewish' state and not just a Hebrew speaking Scandinavia (as he used to put it). Only in Israel are Jews uprooted from their homes, synagogues destroyed and graves desecrated to appease the world under the banner of 'democracy' which is really a feudal system run by a small group of left wing judges. For those who don't believe in the G-d of Israel and His Torah I can understand their fears, but for those who do, where is their protest? When Rabbi Kahane attempted successfully to make agreements with Arabs who were happy to immigrate, he was persecuted, when he tried to lead the Nation he was banned. For every Heavenly law he tried to bring down to earth he was persecuted and those who agreed and understood these laws were silent. It is in 'this' way that we do not believe. Even worse than this we seek to destroy those who do. Calev and Gush Katif My friend Ruben mentioned to me that the root of the word Yephuna is 'Panui' which is the word used for the expulsion of the people of Gush Katif. It literally means evacuation but this is the term that is associated with driving Jews from their homes. Calev can also be read 'like a heart'. 313","\u202b \u05db\u05d4\u05d3\u05d5\u05e8\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d0\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9\u05e9 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e0 \u05d9\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d0 \u05d4\u05dc\u05d4\u202c-\u202b \u05dc\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d0\u05dd\u202c35 'Surely there shall not one of these men, even \u202b \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e8\u05e5 \u05db\u05d4\u05d8\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d1\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d0\u05ea\u202c--\u202b \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d4\u05e8\u05e2 \u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d6\u05d4\u202cthis evil generation, see the good land, which I \u202b \u05d4\u05dc \u05d9\u05ea\u05ea \u05db\u05dc \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d9\u05ea\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05e0 \u05e0\u05e9 \u05db\u05d1 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d9\u05ea\u05d9\u202cswore to give unto your fathers, \u202b \u05db\u05d9 \u05d0\u05e4 \u05ea\u05e0\u05d4\u202c-\u202b\u05d4\u05db \u05df\u05dc\u05d1 \u05ea\u05d1\u05df\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05d9\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e0\u05d4\u202c, \u202b\u05dc\u05d5 \u05d6\u05d5 \u05d4\u05dc \u05d9\u05ea\u05d9\u202c 36 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he hath --\u202b \u05d5 \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d4\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d1\u05d4\u202c-\u202b \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e8\u05e5 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d3 \u05db\u05e8\u05da\u202c-\u202b \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d9\u05ea\u05df \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u202c-\u202b\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u202c trodden upon, and to his children; because he hath wholly followed the LORD.' \u202b \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d9\u05de \u05d9\u05dc\u05d0 \u05db\u05d0 \u05e0\u05d7 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c,\u202b\u05db\u05d9 \u05db\u05e2\u05df\u202c (Devarim 1:35,36) \u202b \u05db\u05d9 \u05d0\u05e4 \u05ea\u05e0\u05d4\u202c-\u202b = \u05d4\u05db \u05df\u05dc\u05d1 \u05ea\u05d1\u05df\u202cread as \u202b\u05db \u05df\u05dc\u05d1 \u05e4\u05e0\u05d5\u05d9\u202c Read: Like the heart of the children of the pinui (the evacuation). The tragedies that have shaped our Nation from the two thousand years of exile to the Shoa and the re- birth of our Nation have shaped our character. A new Jew was born from the ashes of the Warsaw Ghetto, and a new Jew was also born from the expulsions that we have perpetrated against our brothers and children. It is only this last Jew that will remain and those whose hearts beat to this drum. There are many Jewish leaders in the exile and represented here that applaud the exile of our people from Yesha and seek to disengage with our Land and re-write our Torah as well. There was a recent hysteria by several dozen Jewish leaders in America when the Levy report came out which asserted that the settlements are legal under International Law. More than 40 prominent communal leaders and philanthropists wrote to the Prime Minister and said. \u201cWe fear that this report, if approved, will place the two-state solution, and the prestige of Israel as a democratic member of the international community, in peril.\u201d What they are really saying is whether its legal or not, whether it belongs to us or not, whether G-d gave it to us or not, we are afraid of what the world will say so just throw it out. The last refinement of our people is coming and those who cling to darkness and seek to undermine our Nation will not succeed. What will be left as always will be the same 20% that left Egypt and in our time those who feel the pain of Calev ben Yefunah and the love of their Land as Calev did. These souls can be found not only in the heart of Yesah but all across the country. Even in Tel Aviv where I am writing from the majority of our Nation is Zionist and traditional and will not give away the Land we fought and died for. In the recent Likud primaries the Moshe Feiglin camp once again increased in numbers and many of the votes came not only from Yesha but also from Tel Aviv. Here is an excerpt from the news at that time: The Feiglin camp..said it was happy with the results, saying he managed to win more votes than in the last primary elections in 2007. They also pointed out that Feiglin gained support in many communities outside of Judea and Samaria. He claimed that his platform, which advocates abandoning the two-state solution to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, annexation of the West Bank and encouraging Palestinians to emigrate through financial inducements, has support far beyond the settler community. \u201cAround 70-80 percent of my vote did not come from people I brought into the party or from 314","the settlements in Judea and Samaria, but from places like Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Beersheba,\u201d Feiglin told the Report. \u201cMore and more people all across the country are starting to dream our dream.\u201d Feiglin said the solution to the Palestinian issue was for them to leave the country. \u201cThe will to emigrate is there, we see it in the surveys. And countries crying out for modern semi-skilled and skilled labor would be willing to absorb them. The question is whether those countries get people who built mud huts in Sudan or people who built the Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv,\u201d he said. \u201cI am not talking about transfer or about trains or buses. No one can complain about people being given money and emigrating freely,\u201d he added. The heart of Calev and Yehoshua which also represents Moshiach ben Yoseph and Moshiach ben David as Calev was from Yehuda and Yehoshua was from the tribe of Ephraim will be united in their mission, as will be the people that support them and sacrifice for the same goals. Whether they are the brokenhearted of Gush Katif whose lives were destroyed, or their brothers in any of the major cities of Israel it is the children of these broken hearts that will be rewarded. Those who seek to appease our enemies and inform on their brothers will come to a bad end. Yerushalaym is built by the brokenhearted. Moshiach and Kahane 2015 I found the Rav's name hidden inside a famous passage of Devarim In this passage there is an illusion to the book of Eicha which we read at this time. Seeing the Rav's name here adds a new insight into this passage that I never saw before. -\u202b \u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u202c:\u202b \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e2\u05ea \u05db\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05d9\u05dc\u05d0 \u05d4\u05de\u05e8\u202c,\u202b \u05d8 \u05d4\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05db\u05de\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d9\u05dc \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c9 And I said to you at that time, saying: 'I cannot \u202b \u05e0\u05e9 \u05d9\u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b\u05d0\u05d5 \u05db\u05db\u05dc \u05e0\u05dc \u05db\u05d1 \u05d9\u05d3\u05d9\u202c. carry you alone. \u202b \u05d9\u05d4 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d1\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05dd; \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05d4 \u05e0\u05e0 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d9 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c10 Hashem your God has multiplied you, and, \u202b \u05e0\u05db\u05db\u05d5 \u05e0\u05db \u05d9\u05d1\u05d9 \u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05e9 \u05db\u05de \u05d9\u05d9\u05dd \u05d4\u05dc \u05d4\u05e8\u05d1\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05d4\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd\u202c. behold, you are like the stars of heaven for abundance. --\u202b \u05d4\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e1\u05e3 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d9\u05dc\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd \u05d4\u05db \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d0 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d0\u05d1\u05d5 \u05d9\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c11 May Hashem, the God of your forefathers, add \u202b \u05db\u05db \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8 \u05d4\u05dc \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05dc\u05e3 \u05e0\u05e4 \u05d4\u05e2 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05dd; \u05d9\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e8\u05da \u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202cto you a thousand times yourselves, and bless you, as He has spoken to you. \u202b\u05df\u05d0\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d8 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d7 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd \u05d5 \u05db\u05de \u05db\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05dc \u05db\u05d1 \u05d9\u05d3\u05d9\u202c,\u202b\u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05d0\u202c 12 How can I alone carry your contentiousness, \u202b\u05d9\u05d1\u202c \u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c. your burdens, and your quarrels? \u2026.. \u202b \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05d0\u202c.\u202b\u05db\u05db \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8 \u05d4\u05dc \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c \u2026.. \u202b \u05df\u05d0\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05d0\u202c.\u202b\u05db\u05db \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8 \u05d4\u05dc \u05d4\u05db \u05dd\u202c \u2026.. \u202b \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05d0\u202c.\u202b\u05db\u05db \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8 \u05dc\u05d4\u05db\u05ea \u05dd\u202c If you add the Mem from the preceding letter of Eicha and the Yud from Eicha this equals Nun and 315","spells Kahane. The three preceding letters have the Resh from Meir and the Mem and Yud of Meir equals fifty the same as the Lamed Chaf. \u202b \u05df\u05d0\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05d4\u202c.\u202b = \u05dd\u202cKahane (76) \u202b = \u05d9\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8 \u05d4\u05dc \u05ea\u05db \u05dd\u202cMeir (250 +1) The fact that the hidden Kahane is connected to the previous line reveals something about this passage. I submit that it is not that Moshe could not have led the people but there wasn't enough support from the people themselves to overcome all of this contentiousness. Rav Kahane fought an uphill battle and by far his greatest adversaries were the Jewish people themselves and the judges of Israel who put roadblock after roadblock against him. They persecuted him, imprisoned him and quite likely arranged his sudden death (see Parshiot dealing with Yoseph). Rav Kahane was taken away in a similar way that Moshe was taken away; because the people were not worthy of them. Moshe was able to lead the revolution that brought the people out of Mitrayim, reveal the Torah to them, and give them the yearning for Israel that he had but he was not able to lead them there. The physical manifestations that he accomplished barely succeeded. The people rebelled all along the way. And now this final vision was beyond the grasp of the people. Although the younger generation was capable and had a new mindset as they entered not as slaves but as conquerors, there was still much further to go in order to enter the Land as Moshe would have intended. Rav Kahane accomplished huge impossible tasks and changed the mindset of the Jewish people. He stood against impenetrable super powers and freed millions of Jews, however the hardest battle of all is to free the Jewish people from themselves. On his dying lips were probably the same prayers of Moshe that the people should increase like the stars in Heaven. One of the greatest lessons of Tisha B'Av is that we learn that on the same day of destruction the Moshiach is born. On the same day that all of our hopes and aspirations were destroyed; when Hashem himself destroyed the heroes of Israel that fought for Him; on this same day a new day is born from the seeds of this destruction. A new type of Jew is born. One may ask if on the lips of these great leaders was a prayer that Israel should be multiplied, would that not also multiply the quarrels and contentiousness? It seems to me that there is an additional word \u202b\u05d4\u05db \u05ea\u05db\u05dd\u202cthat does not need to be there. 'Add to you a thousand times yourselves' \u202b\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e1\u05e3 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d9\u05dc\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c It could have been written 'May Hashem add to you a thousand times.' The Gematria of \u202b \u05d4\u05db \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202cequals eighty, in Hebrew Shmonim. I wonder if there is an illusion to Chashmonayim. In other words that the Chashmonayim should increase within you. Those who fought against the Hellenists and rebuilt the Temple on Chanuka. Eicha has within it the seeds of a new future built on the tears and yearning of great leaders who fought to bring us to the edge of glory, but we must have a little more Moshe and Rav Kahane within us to overturn the rule of judges who fear foreign rulers and lack the fear of Hashem. The persecution of our people and God fearing leaders must end. The solution will come when we drive out our enemies and rebuild our Temple. In order to do this, not only the Torah of Moshe but the Torah of Rav Kahane must become internalized within the Nation and grow so that we can enter the Land as intended by Moshe and there will never be another Eicha. 316","Tisha B\u2019Av Tish (2016) This year Tisha B\u2019Av fell out on Shabbat. At the Chabbad Farbrengen Rav Halperin pointed out there there is no contradiction with the concept of the Moshiach being born on Tisha B\u2019Av and the Rebbes birthday which is at a different time. In England there is a public birthday for the Queen in the summer making it easier for parades, but her private birthday is at another time of the year. I was asked to say a L\u2019Chaim and so I said the following: If I may offer another suggestion let me explain why I believe that the Moshiach is born on Tisha B\u2019Av. Tisha B\u2019Av is a time we have suffered from our accumulated sins beginning with the spies who cried on Tisha B\u2019Av to a series of World Wars that began on Tisha B\u2019Av to September 11 which is a 9\/11 on a different calendar. Whatever sin or deficiency that is leading us down a road of destruction must be remedied and when it is, Moshiach will be born. It's not that Moshiach will save us, but rather when we have saved ourselves, Moshiach will arrive as a consequence of our self-development. Let me explain what I mean. I then shared what Binyamin wrote about Tisha B\u2019Av and the story of Napoleon which exemplified our faith in the exile which will be rewarded one day (See Binyamin on Tisha B\u2019Av). Binyamin points out that although our mourning for the Temple was commendable in the exile how could we sit and cry today? Not only do we live in Israel, but we are an independent country with our own police and army. Why are we crying instead of throwing out our enemies and building the Temple? He draws a parallel to Yam Suf when Hashem told us this is not a time for crying, but to go through the sea and then it split. \u2018Let me add something to what Binyamin wrote\u2019 I said. \u2018Why is it that we still sit and cry on Tisha B\u2019Av? Why does this Geula we dream about still seem so far off? Hashem tells us in this week's Parsha. Because in \u2018this way\u2019 you do not believe. What is \u2018this way\u2019? This way is the whole Torah of Rav Kahane. When he spoke about throwing out our enemies regardless of the animosity it would create among the Arab world or America many people including many Torah observant Jews responded that although faith is important we must be practical. How could we survive without America and the whole world against us? This right there is the flaw the Rav pointed out. He wrote many pages about Emunah. He said that Emunah is not a luxury, to be embraced and endorsed when times are good and the living is easy and it is never needed. Precisely when it is needed and it becomes a meaningful things, we say, let's\u2019 be practical. Of what value is this type of faith?\u2019 One of the Rabbis interjected \u2018So go and throw out our enemies and build the Temple if you have so much faith\u2019. I answered \u2018What you said right there, is an even bigger problem and is the reason that I still cry on Tisha B\u2019Av.\u2019. I continued \u2018There was a man who stood alone and said these things. His name was Meir Kahane. He drew more and more people until he had so much support that he was on the verge of gaining a lot of seats in the knesset and making the Geula a reality. He also had many enemies especially Jewish ones that wanted to destroy him. Do you know who killed Rav Kahane h\u2019yd? Was it an Arab? Was it possibly the government that sent the Arab? Or was it all of us, myself included, that didn\u2019t do enough to support him. The sin is not only that in \u2018this way\u2019 we don\u2019t believe but those who do believe we despise. We compound the sin. Rather than saying \u2018wow, such Emunah, your right, we must go into the sea or at least contribute to this cause\u2019, we joke and we ridicule and slander. Why? Because this type of faith 317","makes us look bad or we feel it's dangerous; because we lack this faith. Let me end with something positive. The passage preceding Eicha is a passage full of blessing. --\u202b \u05d4\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e1\u05e3 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d9\u05dc\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd \u05d4\u05db \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d0 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d0\u05d1\u05d5 \u05d9\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c11 May Hashem, the God of your fathers, add to \u202b \u05db\u05db \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8 \u05d4\u05dc \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05dc\u05e3 \u05e0\u05e4 \u05d4\u05e2 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05dd; \u05d9\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e8\u05da \u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202cyou a thousand yourselves, and bless you, as He had spoken to you!-- ,\u202b \u05d4\u05d8 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d7 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd \u05d5 \u05db\u05de \u05db\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05dc \u05db\u05d1 \u05d9\u05d3\u05d9\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d1 \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05d0\u202c12 How can I alone carry your contentiousness, \u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202cyour burdens, and your quarrels? (Dvarim 1:11,12) As I studied the word Eicha I noticed that if you add the letter Mem from the previous word, the gematria comes out to 76 which is Kahane. \u202b \u05df\u05d0\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05d4\u202c+ mem \u202b = \u05dd\u202cKahane (76) The question then arises why would this gematria attach itself to a previous passage unless there was something to learn from this? When you take off the Mem of Diber Lachem you can rearrange the letters to spell davar kal (something simple). \u202b \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05dc\u05e3\u202c--\u202b \u05d4\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e1\u05e3 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d9\u05dc\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd \u05d4\u05db \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d0 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d0\u05d1\u05d5 \u05d9\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c11 May Hashem, the God of your fathers, add to you a thousand yourselves, and bless you, \u202b\u05dd\u05d9\u05d3 \u05ea\u05d1\u05e8 \u05d4\u05dc \u05ea\u05db\u202c \u202b \u05db\u05db \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8\u202c,\u202b\u05e0\u05e4 \u05d4\u05e2 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05dd; \u05d9\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e8\u05da \u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c as He had spoken to you!-- ,\u202b \u05d4\u05d8 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d7 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd \u05d5 \u05db\u05de \u05db\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05dc \u05db\u05d1 \u05d9\u05d3\u05d9\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d1 \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05d0\u202c12 How can I alone carry your \u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202ccontentiousness, your burdens, and your quarrels? (Dvarim 1:11,12) The point it seems to me is that when we acquire this Emunah, Geula will be an easy thing to accomplish. It says Hashem will add 1000 times yourselves (Lachem). Why does it say 1000 times \u2018yourselves\u2019? Imagine that you felt there were 1000 more of you. On the day that we have developed this type of Emunah the consequence is that we will feel like 1000 times more of what we are now. This inner feeling will also be projected outwardly and our enemies will see 1000 angels by our side and will run away in fear. The root of the treacherous and cruel crimes we commit against our fellow Jews especially those who have this type of Enumah is because of fear we have which is the direct product of a lack of faith. Instead of being fearful and condemning and ridiculing this type of faith we must study it and practice it so that we can say that in this way, we do indeed believe in Hashem. Then the Moshiach will already have been born and instead of being a lonely persecuted voice that stands against the mob he will become the voice that reflects the generation. It all begins here in our hearts and in the bottle of Vodka on the table. 318","The Cambodian Farbrengin (2017) The Chabad Rabbi from Cambodia was visiting on Shabbat. All the Rabbi\u2019s spoke. Rav Kedem who was also visiting explained that the book of Devarim was a review of the Torah by Moshe with explanations so that the people could better understand what they have witnessed and bring it down into their lives. It\u2019s not enough to understand things spiritually but it needs to be brought down into our physical world - this is the job of chassidut and this was Moshes intention in the book of Devarim. After 4-5 L'chaims I was allowed to say a few words. Although I am not a Rabbi I often have some questions or a few thoughts to impart. This is what I said: I want to give a L'chaim to the Rav from Cambodia but with a preface and also add something to what Rav Kedem said about the book of Devarim. I'm not a Chabad chasid as we all know but rather a student of Rav Kahane. One might define the difference between Chabad chassidut and Kahane chassidut as this. Chabad have great Ahavat Israel and everyone knows this. They will travel to the furthest corners of the world to set up an outpost whose mission is to search for lost Jew's and spread Yiddishkeit. Kahane Chassidut also has Ahavat Israel but excel in Ahavat 'Eretz' Israel. Every corner of Israel they seek to settle, however its not so easy. Just like the Chabad Rabbis who were thrown in prison years ago for their religious beliefs, today Kahane Jews are thrown in prison for settling every hilltop. Their buildings are destroyed, they are harassed, incarcerated and then they return to build and settle again. As Rav Kedem mentioned regarding the book of Devarim we must bring spiritual ideas into the physical world and this is what we see Kahane Jews doing all the time and being persecuted for it. One might say that Chabad is closer to our father and Kahanist's closer to our mother. Even though they defame us as being violent over zealous extremists, were really momma\u2019s boys; we love our momma. You can see this reflected by our Rav who left us during Chaia Sarah where Sarah in her death began to inherit the land for the Jewish people and throw out the thorns in our midst. The last time you saw your Rebbe was in Parshat Chukat with the story of Moshe who is destined to stay in the Galut with the Jewish people. This explains much. Now in the Torah we saw today; 'Yet in 'this' thing you do not believe' (Devarim 1:32) which means in the ways of wars and politics. You could be 100% frum but not really believe that Hashem has your back when it comes to 'tachlis' issues of settling our Land, Har Habayit, the Arabs, etc. Kahane Jews don\u2019t have this issue. In 'this thing' they 'do' believe. They believe and are ready to throw out our enemies according to the same options that Yehoshua offered the Canaanites and rebuild the Temple today. But of course the problem is they are few among the Nation. We read about the 3 day journey today and the 11 day journey; which becomes the 40 year journey. As the Rav often spoke we can bring Moshiach speedily or in its time (B'ita Achishena \u2013 In it's time I will hasten it) Yeshiyahu 60:22. The 11 day journey is a sign of 'in its time' which is accompanied with suffering like the original 9-11 Tisha B'av; the ninth day of the eleventh Hebrew month. The 9-11 we speak of today with the tragedy of the twin towers also is a wake up call for the Jewish people to come home speedily and not wait for 'in its time'. Actually it's the many differences between our tribes that determine whether it will be a 3 day or an 11 day journey or forty years. That being said, however, there are still many Jews who don't even know there is a difference between 319","a 3 day or an 11 day journey. They don't even know about any journey. They don't even know they are Jews. The sacrifice of the Cambodia Rav to raise a family in a far off outpost searching for any stray Jews is an act of self-sacrifice based on love of the Jewish people. When you look at some of the great Jewish leaders that seem like Kahane type Jews for example Rabbi Akiva who declared war against the Romans, or David Hamelech who slew Goliath or Pinchas who brought vengeance against Zimri there is something they all have in common. These great Jews came from families or ancestors that were far away from Judaism. If their families had never entered the fold they would never have been the great ones that they became. Maybe there is a David Hamelech in Cambodia that doesn't know there is even a road back. However the Rav can show him that road. Maybe he will make Aliyah and his children will become Rabbi Akiva's or slay Goliaths. We don't know. It may be harder for Kahane Jews to have Ahavat Israel when they are constantly being persecuted by their own brothers. It may be harder for Chabad Jews to have Ahavat 'Eretz' Israel when they are preoccupied in the Galut. Both are crucial. So L'Chaim to the Rav for building a road for some lost soul to return; some lost soul who may become the next Pinchas, or Rabbi Akiva or David Hamelech. Moshiach and his Donkey (2020) The Moshiach is known to ride on a donkey. The donkey is a symbol of physicality with little intellect both stubborn and dumb. It is this donkey that must eventually fulfill its mission and carry its virtuous rider. Refinement is not an easy task however this is the requirement of mankind and especially the Jew. Once (years before I was religious) I had a girlfriend who lived in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec. I went to visit her in the winter and we had a nice romantic time until one day her face was not the same and she spoke about the train leaving the next day. I asked her what was wrong. What happened suddenly? She did not want to discuss it and just said it would be best for me to leave. After prodding she finally told me that she was upset that I never offered to shovel the snow. I had been an insensitive donkey and had no idea. It's written rebuke to a wise man is worth 1000 lashes to a fool. The lifelong road of refinement is not only commanded and expected but it also shortens the journey to achieve our purpose. I have written before that 'in this way you don't believe' refers to God as a 'man of war,' and when we demonstrate this type of faith the God of Judgment is more inclined to transform into the Merciful God. It is interesting to note that the God of Mercy (\u202b ) \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202cis actually called the Man of War. \u202b \u05e0\u05e9\u05de\u05d5\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9\u05e9 \u05d9\u05de \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05d7 \u05d4\u05de\u05d4; \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05d2 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c3 The LORD is a man of war, The LORD is His name. (Shmot 15:3) Mercy comes through accepting judgment. We are familiar with this idea on Rosh Hoshanna however are we really familiar with this idea? In Parsha Devarim Hashem begins by reminding us about the 11 day journey that he had miraculously shortened to 3 days but we did not notice and were insensitive to 320","this. Tisha Bav always falls out at this time which is the 9th of the 11th month. Calev is mentioned in this week\u2019s Parsha; that man with a different spirit who was whole hearted with Hashem and Pinchas who avenged His honor had closed the last book. When we have a bit of the Calev inside of us or Pinchas and fight against adversity and injustice by standing up for Torah and truth Hashem is inclined to be merciful to us and we inherit the Land and are blessed with peace and prosperity. However, when we are silent to perfidy, when we do nothing, there are dire consequences. Hashem hates mendacity among assemblage. \u202b \u05e0\u05e7 \u05d4\u05d8 \u05d4\u05e8\u05ea\u202c--\u202b \u05d4\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d5\u05d0\u202c-\u202b \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d1\u05d9\u05d0 \u05d9\u05de \u05e0\u05e0 \u05db\u05d7\u05ea\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d2 \u05dc \u05d4\u05d0 \u05ea\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e1\u05d9\u05e4\u05d5\u202c13 You shall not continue to bring a worthless ,\u202b \u05d9\u05dc\u05d9; \u05d4\u05d7 \u05d4\u05d3\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05e9 \u05d4\u05d1\u05ea \u05e0\u05e7\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d9\u05de \u05e0\u05e7 \u05d4\u05e8\u05d0\u202c,\u202b \u05ea\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e2 \u05d4\u05d1\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9\u05d0\u202cmeal-offering \u2013 incense of abomination is it unto Me; new moon and sabbath, the holding of \u202b\u05d0\u05d5 \u05db\u05db\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d5\u05df \u05db\u05d5 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05e6 \u05d4\u05e8\u05d4\u202c-\u202b\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u202c convocations--I cannot abide mendacity with assemblage. (Isaiah 1:13) The root of Tisha BAv began in Parsha Shlach when we overlooked Hashems 3 day miracle and many others and despised Hashems messengers Calev and Yehoshua for reminding us of our lack of faith and vision. We wept for nothing so He gave us something to weep about. We transformed the 3 we did not see into the 11 that we pay for. Just as we did then we do today with the 3 day journey Rav Kahane was about to bring into a September 11 that may not have happened. After we killed the father and the son 11 years apart, the plagues of Sept 11 began. They continue now with Corona and rapidly increase mirroring the rapid fall of morality in our societies. The Corona plague today is part of the punishment we originally incurred when the 11th Knesset chose to ban Rav Kahane and call Moshiach Ben Yoseph a racist, to smear Hashems messenger and slaughter him. The murder of his son 11 years later was the last straw, and harsh decrees entered the world on Spetember 11. As we continue to provoke and wage war against Hashems laws the punishments are increasing. As I spoke these words at Kiddish in the Bet Knesset among Charedi Rabbis, I said some of you may agree that the wicked Zionist government was to blame for banning Kahane and for bringing this Heavenly wrath today. You may wonder however why did Hashem close all the Bet Knessets because of Corona, and why are there so many deaths among the Bnei Torah; those who keep the Torah and the laws? Why should so many of them be victims of this plague? You may say don\u2019t worry be happy and God is good and accept everything with love and devotion and we don\u2019t understand Gods ways, however he writes today. 'I cannot stand mendacity among assemblage.' He despises these religious offerings. He does not need them. What He loves is when we admit our sins and correct injustice. This is what He loves. You should know that it was not only the 11th Knesset that banned Rav Kahane We don't expect the government to support the Torah and to be anything less than cruel and corrupt. Before the 11th Knesset banned the Rabbi however great efforts were made by supporters to gather signatures of prestigious Rabbis throughout Israel, in the hope that this may sway the Supreme Court decision. The government after all though not a religious body needs political support of the Orthodox parties as well to pass certain legislation. Since Rabbi Kahane's party was being deemed as racist and anti-Democratic for its stance on 321","intermarriage between a Jew and gentile, signatures from these world-renowned Orthodox Rabbis stating that the Torah is indeed against intermarriage, may have influenced the court. Although all the Torah leaders agreed they stipulated that they would gladly sign if one of the other Torah leaders signed first. Unfortunately, in the end because each signature was dependent upon another signature preceding his not one signed. It was the rabbis who faithfully believe in Hashem and His Torah who abandoned Moshiach Ben Yoseph. They who more than others should have supported him and signed such a non-political affirmation of the Halacha, were silent. They put the nail in the coffin when they abandoned him giving the Knesset even more confidence to do as they please without regard for truth and justice. The Torah world offered no resistance for the Knesset to remove an obstacle that stood in their way and threatened to take away their votes and their power. Hashem spoke to Moshe in the 38th year, which our Rabbis tell us means the following: \u201cWhile that evil generation lived He did not speak to Moshe. The L-rd did not resume speaking with Moses until all those condemned to die in the desert had perished.\u201d - (Ta'anith 30b) 2:16 And it was when all the men of war had finished dying from the midst of the people, R Zeira said in the name of R. Chanina:What can the great men of the generation do if the congregation is judged only according to the majority! For thus do we find; all the thirty-eight years that the children of Israel were out of favor, the L-rd did not speak with Moses, as it is written: \u201cThen the L-ord spoke to me saying\\\" (Yerushalmi Ta'anith 3:4) The solution to the problem is not just to say dont worry be happy and pass the chulent, but to understand and to say an 'al chet'. When we recognize that we had a part by not doing enough then and today, only by our admission will Hashem be appeased and hopefully relent. Otherwise, it may be that He will wait till the evil generation is no more and then He will speak again. It is interesting to note that men of understanding were not found in the desert generation. \u202b \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e0 \u05d9\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05e8\u05d0 \u05d9\u05e9\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d9\u05d8\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c-\u202b \u05d8\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05db\u05e7\u05d7 \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u202c15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, ,\u202b \u05d4\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d9\u05ea\u05df \u05d0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd \u05d4\u05e8\u05d0 \u05d9\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d7 \u05d4\u05db \u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05dd \u05d9\u05d5\u05d9 \u05de\u05d3 \u05d9\u05e2\u05d9\u05dd\u202cand full of knowledge, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of \u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e9 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9\u202c,\u202b\u05d4\u05e9 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05dc \u05d9\u05e4\u05d9\u05dd \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e9 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9 \u05d9\u05de\u05d0\u05d5\u05ea\u202c :\u202b\u05e2\u05e0 \u05d9\u05dc\u05d9\u05db\u05d4\u05dd\u202c hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of \u202b \u05e0\u05dc \u05d9\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d9\u05d8\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d8 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd\u202c,\u202b\u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e9 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05e9 \u05d4\u05e8\u05ea\u202c \u202b\u05e0\u05d7 \u05d9\u05de \u05d9\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd\u202c tens, and officers, tribe by tribe. (Devarim 1:15) And I took the heads of your tribes, men of wisdom and renown...of wisdom and renown - [But above it is written 1:13 \\\"Seek for yourselves men who are wise, understanding, and known.\\\" Why is \\\"understanding\\\" omitted here?] Because \\\"understanding ones\\\" could not be found (Eruvin 100b) My dear friend Shifra Hoffman writes in one of her articles, \u201cIn one of the volumes [Meir Kahane] signed for me personally, is an inscription I treasure dearly: 'In every generation, there are always a few who understand; Always understand...even if you remain among the few.'\u201d May we have the understanding to see our mistakes and admit them and then by our admission correct them. God is a man of war means that we must make war with a double edged sword. We must refine our own behavior, understand our own fears and callousness that allows evil to rule without opposition. By refining ourselves and rising to the occasion, by standing up to those who outlaw the Torah and call Hashems laws racist or anti democratic or homophobic we may be in a position to annul Hashems 322","decrees. By waging a war to purify our own people from the \u2018Eruv Rav\u2019 that wish to nullify all the commandments and outlaw them while giving our enemies freedom to eat away at the body and soul of Israel, we may find peace through a renewed Godly spirit. By an admission of our flaws we may succeed in turning judgment into mercy; its imperative. Otherwise there will be no understanding in this generation and it will be washed away like the desert generation and Moshiach will not come speedily but slowly and painfully in its time, on the 11th day and only our children will inherit it. Idiotpox (2022) The Jewish people are a people that has been tested through fire and water in a refining process that began with the trials of Avraham. Different types of students require different types of tests. A refined concert pianist goes through strenuous and rigorous tests to refine his abilities and sensitivities. An unrefined gangster may be tested to leave the gang or to get into even worse trouble. What about a student that has tremendous abilities but is easily influenced and because of his bad company and perverted admiration he fails to apply himself and his grades continually slide? The teacher tries to influence him but to no avail. A compassionate teacher who wants the student to succeed may warn him to apply himself or else and offer a very simple final test in order for the student to remain and not fail completely. If he even fails this test then there is nothing the teacher can do. The student has sealed his own fate. Throughout our history of tests our teacher who gave us a Torah of truth rewards and punishes us with wisdom so that if we failed to hear the warnings the punishment itself makes it clear and apparent the very trait that was lacking and which we knew about yet ignored. \\\"He is also wise when He brings evil\\\" (Isaiah 31:2) Our Torah explains in great detail the reasons that Noah's generation died through water and Sodom through fire. It tells us why the unity of Bavel against Heaven was punished by disunity and confusion of languages below or the unjustified fear of entering Israel turned into a justified cry of an untimely death in the desert. There are many explanations of punishments we received for tests we have failed along the way. Why some escape persecution and others do not are beyond our understanding. The things that befall us as a Nation however we must examine. Through the manner in which destruction befalls us collectively we may be able to glimpse what sins we are paying a price for. Hashem first comes in whispers, however if after repeated warnings we sink deeper and deeper into our sleep we are woken up suddenly with a start. These are thoughts to consider on individual matters as well as national ones. There is a sifting process that has gone on since the beginning of time and it is still going on today. The 9-11 in the USA is not unrelated to our own 9-11 of Tisha B'Av and one must take note of this new chapter as the Western world decays and collapses while Israel is continually being refined and re-born. The Torah is not a history book. Just as we must understand how eighty percent of our Nation were sifted out as we were freed from slavery, it is essential to understand the collective suffering we have gone through in our own times, as the State of Israel emerged from the ashes of the Shoa. Are some of the ideological wars that preceded the Shoa and might have prevented the Shoa still being fought today? Most certainly they are. 323","In the secular world a new religion was born. Yad Vashem has become the Temple of the secular State of Israel and 'never again' has inspired our army and politicians and dignitaries that visit, however if we only see the physical result without understanding the spiritual issues that brought about or could have avoided the Shoa all the lessons will be lost and we will become like the generation of the Tower of Bavel. The generation of the Tower of Bavel were quite unified however their unity was against God. Instead of understanding that the generation that preceded the flood were drowned because of their sins, this lesson was lost on them completely. They were a generation of science, much like our own today. They calculated that every number of years a flood comes and they would build a tower to Heaven to prevent this. Today there are secular scholars who explain the history of morality and religion as a series of malfunctioning collective ideas and bad programming and they seek to improve it. There are large corporate and political stakeholders that seek to implement a great reset where our thoughts and social systems can be reprogrammed to an IBM cloud rather than a Heavenly one. Good and evil can be monitored now through the bloodstream from vaccines with tracking systems and good citizens rewarded while bad are weeded out in this Utopian (social credit) totalitarianism. Of course, it is all made to sound very innovative and progressive under the guise of saving the planet. All of these restrictions controls and coercion's are in place to save us from hysterical fears that must be real because our benevolent governments could not possibly be in collusion and orchestrating these fears for a systematic goal. There could not possibly be anything nefarious in the United Nations Agenda 2030 partnering with the World Economic Forum. It is merely coincidental that their agendas seem to align quite well with the supporters of Eugenics and admirers of the efficiency of Communist China. Yuval Noah Harari (an acclaimed secular historian and darling of the WEF) writes \u2018no nation can prevent ecological collapse by itself and therefore must become a globalist.' Is there really an impending ecological collapse or is this a scare tactic as well, similar to the deadly Covid virus? Is it not in fact the globalist agenda that is deliberately undermining farms and food supply under the guise of \u2018global warming\u2019 tricking us into believing their altruism while they are forcibly destroying farms on an international scale? Is it because of the ridiculous notion of carbon footprints from cows and fertilizer or is it to control the food supply? It has been said that if you control oil, you control countries but if you control food supply you control people. The destruction of the family farm is part of a process that began with destroying the family itself with legitimizing and celebrating immorality along with encouraging abortion as the most moral of choices. Our lifestyle of irresponsible self-gratification has hardened our sensitivity to millions of aborted fetuses with beating hearts while inviting more degeneracy. Decades of foreign aid conditional upon abortion friendly planned parenthood has also made Eugenics quite acceptable to us on a national level. How did we arrive at this place? Are there similar spiritual issues that overtook us in the Shoa? Is this a continuation? As a hilltop writer suggested we have noted in the past there have been Nazis and children of Nazis who converted and became Jews. Does the same apply in the opposite direction? Can Jews act like Nazis? If we examine the perplexing judgments that European Jews passed through, we can describe a specific type of horror that was meted out. Maybe from this horror we can learn what may have preceded this harsh judgment. As we said earlier with increasing indifference the manifestation of punishment becomes more shocking when it can no longer be appeased. Within the punishment itself the sin is 324","more clearly displayed. Even those who inflict the punishment unbeknownst to them are a rod in Hashem's hands and the design of their savagery and sadism may have entered their dark minds with a certain celestial intelligence that put words and actions in the mouth and hands of these beasts. One of the tragic images we have is how brothers were forced to put their own brothers in the furnace. What does this image tell us? Another sadistic torture was forced on those who escaped and were captured. They had to choose another Jew to die with. Did our animosity between Zionists and anti- Zionists increase to such a degree that we placed each other in the fire? Did the massive escape from Judaism in an unprecedented measure (in the turn of the century) affect the physical death of others who did not escape? We see within the character and manner of these terrible tragedies things to ponder and consider if we believe that Hashem orchestrates every moment of existence. If the collective judgments of the past were connected to terrible rifts between our people, what can we see today? Are we still informing on our brothers? Does our exit from Judaism only affect ourselves? Although there will always be rifts and differences within our Nation, we have entered a new chapter as we have sunk to a new low level. In Germany we felt secure to be proud Germans of Mosaic persuasion, today we are comfortable globalists. We are at war with our very identity as a Jewish State and even our moral identity as human beings are in question. There are movements of trans-humanism that believe they can improve Hashems design of Creation from altering our immune system to reassigning one\u2019s sex in his own perverted image. Like that simple test we spoke about in the beginning, even this test we are failing. We are not talking about a generation ago when Israel was being born and there was a great division among those who desired the returning body of Israel even with a somewhat rebellious soul and those who fought tooth and nail for a soul with very little desire for a body. Today those who protested that body are now well accustomed to its comforts and those who rebelled against its soul cannot escape those who constantly remind them by their Torah observance of their Jewishness. The painful birth of the State of Israel happened in the way that it did for a reason and this is something that must be studied and not ignored. By understanding painful births that brought us this new reality we will better understand the process of re-birth we are in now. There will always be new and more refined realities. Our choices will determine an easy or more difficult birth. In Germany the pessimists left while the optimists stayed. Where do the pessimists go today? The State and body of Israel has been reborn and this is an amazing new reality. However, the merciful period that Hashem has granted us after the terrible Shoa is still tempered with judgments and they increase in proportion to our indifference and rebelliousness. What is this strange Bavel unity we have arrived at today? Instead of brothers putting their brothers into the fire in order to survive, today we are lining up willingly to be poisoned. We are willingly putting ourselves into the fire. Another man-made plague and another man-made poison antidote and again the same blind trust in government. Just as those who wanted to believe that the Germans were only relocating them, and they went along with the masses, so too (lehavdil), are we trusting things we should be very suspicious of. No one would have thought that people could do such an inhuman thing in Germany and today no one can imagine that their tattooed digital number already exists and with the flick of a switch you could be on a different type of train if your number has been flagged. You could be denied everything you need to survive. Just as Germans surprised the world with tanks and technology that the old world was not prepared for so too in our generation. It is not a conspiracy theory but rather an open and proclaimed 325","conspiracy by the United Nations agenda 2030 backed by the World Economic Forum along with leading multinational corporate and government members called 'stakeholders' to radically alter the global economy modeled somewhat after the dictatorship of communist China. Clause Shwabe, in his book The Great Reset - (which he gifts to every member and Jr member of government around the world), seeks to influence and attract officials to join the influential group of world globalists and assist their agenda. This one world government seeks with its motto 'you will own nothing and be happy' to regulate and restrict society based on its disturbed world view that humanity is the earth's enemy and each of his carbon footprints must be rationed or eliminated altogether. This is a cynical counter insurrection of individual world governments by blaming the victim instead of the industrial corporations who are by far the greater polluters so they can legally force farmers out of business and then confiscate their land to be distributed by the new shareholders. The cruelty and tyranny of this new world order that is taking away our liberties inch by inch is being aided and abetted by the masses who have been hypnotized by the corporate owned mainstream media. Authorities we once trusted to 'serve and protect' are now crushing protest by arresting silencing and illegally seizing bank accounts with barely a 'bleat' from the masses. Any protest or dissenting view from their unified agenda stoked with pandemic fears and a supposed global warming is called misinformation and the perpetrators are swiftly defamed and imprisoned just like the Soviet gulag. Dr Zelenko (z\u2019tl) who recently passed away said each individual is being tested today by Hashem's 1st commandment: \u2018I am the Lord Thy God You shall have no other Gods before Me\u2019. (Shmot 20:2) It is interesting to note that concurrently as the 1st amendment in the USA is being undermined the 1st biblical amendment is also being challenged. The more we choose false gods the more we are silenced. This warped unified anti-God philosophy did not appear suddenly but has been festering for years by indifference and moral decay. If there is no moral outrage to kill full grown fetuses with beating hearts then human murder at any age can become rationalized and made acceptable for the greater good. With the pretext of concern of overpopulation and the convenience of abortion over the years the hysterical extreme Marxists along with those who beat the false drum of global warming are radically trying to save the planet from humans. This orthodox pagan view that the world is too populated and something must be done about it along with this belief that humanity is some type of cancer that is destroying the planet is the product of sick self-indulgent people that have no God and are seeking to create a new world in their image. The Nazis were the super race and these elites are the new special class while others are disposable and taking up too much space. Many of these globalists like Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau admire China and how efficient they are. These colonialist abortionists and sterilizers consider 5 billion people too many and believe the earth's population should be no more than 1 billion. So where will the other 4 billion go? If we are considered useless eaters by modern-day eugenicists and trans-humanists, why don't we protest? Why do we keep proving how useless we are to question authority? Why do we blindly line up with new fears of monkeypox and elephant pox and idiotpox? Why do we agree to be experimented on? Do we prove the theory of the elites that we don't need to be disposed of by force, we can simply be manipulated into disposing of ourselves willingly? 326","Stalins Chicken Dr. Zelenko tells a true story of Stalin who pulled the feathers out of a live chicken in front of his officers. The chicken screamed and there was blood everywhere. Then he took out chicken feed and demonstrated how the chicken would follow him everywhere. You see, he told them, this is how you control the masses. Inflict whatever painful measure you wish and then give them a little food and they will follow you. Hashem gives greater tests to those who have proven themselves time and time again. To those who fail and depreciate and are misled he gives a simple test so they should not fail completely. Do we have an unconditional trust in man and science that has been politicized and weaponized against us, or do we trust in Hashem? Another motto of the Utopian One World Government or shall I say the Western Provinces of China, is 'build back better'. As they completely undermine the Western free market system using their ideological tools of 'climate change' and 'compulsory public health surveillance' each individual is being tested. Will you be a lamb willingly submitting to your digital tattoo, will you be a wolf or predator that survives by informing on others, or will you remain free and possibly on the run? The test is really quite simple. Will you simply remain human as a radical world seeks to undermine our economy our social and moral system and even our personal God given immune system? \u2018A boor cannot know nor can a fool understand this: when the wicked bloom like grass, and all the doers of iniquity blossom - it is to destroy them till eternity.\u2019 (Tehillim 92) Those who choose to be sifted, will be sifted, either as lambs or as wolves. However, to the leaders of this new Tower of Bavel who seek to surprise the world with their radical new world order and their digital passports that will determine life or death, to them will come an unexpected surprise. Hashem also has a motto called 'Build back better'. He is referring to the Temple that was destroyed and that we are in the process of building back even better than before. History repeats itself but never exactly the same way. There is another sifting process happening right before our eyes. As the manufactured fears of idiotpox grow and other weapons of fear to prod the cattle into subservience will we join the builders of the new tower of Bavel as slaves or taskmasters or will we be able to pass this idiot test? Our Father in Heaven does not want us to fail and made it very simple for us to pass. But how many will? 327","328","Kahane in the Parsha Vaetchanan 329","What Death Gives Birth To ParshaVaetchanan (August 2012) There are personal things that happen in our lives where our fate is sealed and we can no longer plead for mercy. In relationships people often say \u2018it was for the best\u2019. What does that mean? It\u2019s possible that you were prepared and ready to build your own personal Bet Hamigdash but your partner was not and left and so you died a little. After time and with G-ds help you may find someone else that revives you from the dead and you may enter matrimony together. It was decreed that Moshe was not coming into the Land. No matter how much he prayed the decree stood. In a sense they say that Moshe had to die there so that future generations would be saved from punishment. What does it mean that Moshe must die for others to live? He wanted to build G-ds kingdom even \u2018more\u2019 with the ultimate climax of entering the Land - but he wasn\u2019t allowed to. It wasn\u2019t about him, it was about us. His spiritual level was so high that if he had built the Bet Migdash then Hashem would not have been able to destroy it. That would mean that instead of Hashem venting His anger on the wood and stone of the Temple He would have destroyed His people instead. Where do we see this idea in our own time? We see something similar yet opposite when we look back a few generations. I suggest that the Temples in Europe where built by Tzaddikim of the stature of Moshe. Their salvation was in fact to \u2018enter\u2019 the Temple of the \u2018lower\u2019 level (the developing settlements of Israel) but they remained with perfect principles and were destroyed because of them. Moshe\u2019s dying when he could have forced the issue and entered was similar to his breaking of the luchot. The distance between the behavior of the Nation and the perfection of the first luchot was too wide a gap. Hashem pulled them back while Moshe hung on to them and so they broke. Remnants of this perfection remain but a new Torah needed to be re-written. We are the broken Torah that needs to be re-written throughout history until we are at the level where we can enter again with Moshe. As in relationships sometimes there is no sin on one part, but the sin of another forever closes the book. Two or three times in the Parsha Moshe says that he cannot enter because of our sins. We know that it was \u2018he\u2019 who sinned at the rock. Why does he turn it on us now? Like in relationships one partner may have destroyed all of the dreams, hopes, and aspirations of the other. One would have done everything to build a home together but it would have been built upon shaky ground. Their spiritual death may atone for some other sins that still prevent them from making their life complete. Moshe was ready but the people weren\u2019t. We are sometimes ready but our partner isn\u2019t and during the time of our suffering, a new soul is being prepared. When these souls meet all which is broken becomes fixed and they enter the Land together to build the Bet HaMigdash. 330","The Comfort of the United States of Israel The greatest comfort to our long suffering people is the re-birth of our Nation once again. It is through this re-birth and in-gathering of the exiles that we will come to understand who we are and how we have arrived here. All of the dissensions and conflicts within our Nation must be worked out, as we sail in this ship together. There are many sacrifices being made, some pulling more than their weight and some being carried by others. The children of those opposed to each other eventually cross over and mix. A child of one opposed to Zionism and army service may disappoint his parents by becoming a three star general. A child of a secular family may disappoint his parents by becoming a rabbi with ten children in Mea Shaarim. Tu B'Av reflects this idea. After the various tribes had inherited their areas and were careful to propagate their particular tribe, there came a time when the inheritance was solid enough that tribes were able to intermarry and become unified yet distinct. This became permitted on Tu B'Av. The currents that led to our many pogroms and Shoas can only be understood in retrospect as we have developed now as a Nation with an army and civic laws and Jewish government. The new Jew that was created with the State continues to suffer at the hands of our enemies however vengeance, deterrence and conquest are also part of our National identity. These ideas can be seen reflected in the gematria of Nachamu, the comfort that Hashem sends us after the terrible destruction of our Temple and our long exile. \u202b \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05db\u05de\u05e8\u202c--\u202b \u05db\u05e2 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u202c,\u202b\u05d0 \u05e9\u05e0 \u05de\u05d7\u05de\u05d5 \u05e9\u05e0 \u05de\u05d7\u05de\u05d5\u202c 1 Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith your God. (Isaiah 40:1) \u202b = \u05e9\u05e0 \u05de\u05d7\u05de\u05d5\u202cComfort Ye = 104 \u202b \u05d9\u05dc \u05e0\u05e9\u05de\u05d5\u05ea\u202c:\u202b \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e8\u05e5\u202c-\u202b \u05d9\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d7 \u05d9\u05dc\u05e7 \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d1\u05d2\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e8\u05dc\u202c-\u202b \u05e0\u05d4 \u05db\u05d0\u05da\u202c55 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by \u202b \u05d9\u05d9 \u05db\u05e0 \u05d4\u05d7\u05dc\u05d5\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd\u202c-\u202b\u05db\u05de\u05d8\u05d5\u05ea\u202c lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. ((Bamidbar 26:55) \u202b = \u05d9\u05d9 \u05db\u05e0 \u05d4\u05d7\u05dc\u05d5\u202cshall inherit = 104 Our comfort will come through the inheritance of our Land. \u202b \u05db\u05dc \u05e9\u05dc \u05df\u05de\u05d3\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e2\u05ea \u05db\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d0\u202c,\u202b\u05d9\u05d3 \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d9\u05ea\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e6 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c 14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might --\u202b \u05db\u05dc \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05e9 \u05e0\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05dd \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd\u202c:\u202b \u05de\u05d7 \u05d9\u05e7\u05d9\u05dd \u05d5 \u05d9\u05de \u05e0\u05e9 \u05d4\u05e4 \u05d9\u05d8\u05d9\u05dd\u202c,\u202b\u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c do them in the land whither ye go over to \u202b \u05de\u05d0 \u05ea\u05e9\u05e8 \u05e9\u05d0 \u05ea\u05ea\u05dd \u05d4\u05e2 \u05db\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd \u05d4\u05e9 \u05d4\u05de\u05d4 \u05db\u05dc \u05d9\u05e8 \u05db\u05e9 \u05d4\u05ea\u05d4\u202c,\u202b\u05d4\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05ea\u05e8\u05e5\u202c possess it. (Devarim 4:14) \u202b = \u05db\u05dc \u05e9\u05dc \u05df\u05de\u05d3\u202cto teach you = 104 The understanding of our history, the mistakes we have made and continue to make as well as the victories that continue to inspire us are understood collectively as we grow and prosper surrounded by many hostile neighbors. \u202b = \u05e9\u05e0 \u05de\u05d7\u05de\u05d5 \u05e9\u05e0 \u05de\u05d7\u05de\u05d5\u202cComfort ye, Comfort ye = 208 331","Together = 208. The sacrifice of Itzchak was a perfect sacrifice for G-d, while the self-sacrifice of Pinchas came in the form of avenging the nation. These two types of sacrifice are the backbone of our Nation. \u202b = \u05e4\u05d9\u05e0\u05d7\u05e1\u202cPinchas = 208 \u202b = \u05d9\u05e6\u05d7\u05e7\u202cItzchak = 208 \u202b \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05db\u05de\u05e8\u202c--\u202b \u05db\u05e2 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u202c,\u202b \u05d0 \u05db\u05e0 \u05e0\u05d7\u05de\u05d5 \u05db\u05e0 \u05e0\u05d7\u05de\u05d5\u202c1 Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith your God. \u202b \u05d9\u05db\u05d9\u202c--\u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e7 \u05e0\u05e8\u05d0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05d0 \u05d4\u05dc\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05dc\u05d1 \u05e0\u05d9\u05e8\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e9 \u05db\u05dc \u05d9\u05dd\u202c-\u202b \u05d1 \u05db\u05d3 \u05e0\u05d1\u05e8\u05d5 \u05db\u05e2\u05dc\u202c2 Bid Jerusalem take heart, and proclaim unto her, \u202b \u05d9\u05db\u05d9 \u05d4\u05dc \u05e0\u05e7 \u05d4\u05d7\u05d4 \u05d9\u05de \u05db\u05d9\u05d3\u202c:\u202b \u05d9\u05db\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e0 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05d4\u05e6\u05d4 \u05e0\u05e2\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e0\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05de \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u05d4 \u05e0\u05e6 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d0\u05d4\u202cthat her time of service is accomplished, that her \u202b \u05db\u05d7\u05d8 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05ea\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d4\u05d9\u05db \u05db\u05e4 \u05e9\u05dc \u05d9\u05d9\u05dd\u202c-\u202b\u05e0\u05d1 \u05d4\u05db\u05dc\u202c guilt is paid off; that she hath received of the ,\u202b\u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c LORD'S hand double for all her sins. (Isaiah 40:1) It is implied in these passages that for every pain Hashem caused us, He will return to us a double portion of joy. The repetition of Nachamu however implies without limit. What is a double joy that has unlimited joy contained within it? I suggest it alludes to two states; the state of Israel and a future State of Judea. The final correction of our nation will come about when the rift between brothers is mended. \u202b \u05d9\u05e9 \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05d7\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e9 \u05d4\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d0\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d9\u05d1\u05d9\u05d5\u202c-\u202b \u05d7 \u05db\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05de\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d3\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0\u05dc\u202c8 And Judah said unto Israel his father: 'Send the \u202b\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d4\u05d0\u05db\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e0\u05e7\u05d5 \u05d4\u05de\u05d4\u202c lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we \u202b\u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e0 \u05d9\u05dc \u05d4\u05db\u05d4; \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e0 \u05e0\u05d7 \u05d4\u05d9\u05d4\u202c --\u202b\u05db\u05d4 \u05db\u05e0 \u05db\u05e2\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d0 \u05d9\u05ea\u05d9\u202c may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also \u202b \u05db\u05d8 \u05d9\u05e4\u05e0\u05d5\u202c-\u202b \u05db\u05d0 \u05d4\u05ea\u05d4 \u05db\u05d2\u05dd\u202c-\u202b\u05db\u05d2\u05dd\u202c \u202b \u05e0\u05d0 \u05db\u05e0 \u05e0\u05d7\u05e0\u05d5\u202c-\u202b \u05db\u05d2\u05dd\u202c,\u202b\u05d4\u05e0\u05de\u05d5\u05ea\u202c our little ones. (Bereshit 43:8) \u202b = \u05db\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e0\u05e7\u05d5 \u05d4\u05de\u05d4\u202cwe will arise = 207+1(kollel) =208 \u202b = \u05e9\u05e0 \u05de\u05d7\u05de\u05d5 \u05e9\u05e0 \u05de\u05d7\u05de\u05d5\u202cComfort ye, Comfort ye = 208 ,\u202b \u05d9\u05d5\u05d9 \u05db\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e8\u05e5\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05d4 \u05db\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d3\u05df\u202c-\u202b \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u202c,\u202b \u05d9 \u05db\u05d5 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05db\u05d1 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd\u202c10 But when ye go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God causeth you \u202b\u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05dd;\u05e9\u05de \u05db\u05e0 \u05d9\u05d7\u05d9\u05dc\u202c \u202b\u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c \u202b \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c-\u202b\u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8\u202c to inherit, and He giveth you rest from all your \u202b \u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05d9 \u05d9\u05d1\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c-\u202b\u05d9\u05de \u05d4\u05db\u05dc\u202c \u202b\u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05d4 \u05d9\u05e0\u05d9 \u05db\u05d7 \u05d4\u05dc \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; -\u202b \u05d9\u05d5\u05d9 \u05db\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd\u202c,\u202b\u05d9\u05de \u05d4\u05e1 \u05d9\u05d1\u05d9\u05d1\u202c \u202b\u05d1\u05d4\u05d8\u05db\u05d7\u202c (Devarim 12:10) \u202b = \u05e9\u05de \u05db\u05e0 \u05d9\u05d7\u05d9\u05dc\u202ccauses you to inherit = 138+1(kollel) = 139 \u202b = \u05de\u05d3\u05d9\u05e0\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d3\u05d4\u202cState of Yehdua = 139 We are reluctant conquerors but Hashem will cause us to inherit and through this force us to mend the rifts between us. The 613 mitzvot of the Torah cannot be fully practiced until we return to our Land. ,\u202b \u05db\u05db \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05de \u05d4\u05e4 \u05d4\u05e0\u05d9\u05da\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d1\u05d9\u05da\u202c-\u202b \u05d4\u05db\u05dc\u202c-\u202b \u05d9\u05d8 \u05db\u05dc \u05e0\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d3\u05e3 \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u202c19 to thrust away all your enemies from before \u202b \u05d9\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c. you, as Hashem spoke (Devarim 6:19) 332","\u202b \u05d4\u05d0 \u05db\u05d9 \u05ea\u05d1\u05d9\u05da\u202c-\u202b \u05d4\u05db\u05dc\u202c-\u202b = \u05e9\u05dc \u05de\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d3\u05e3 \u05ea\u05d0\u05ea\u202cto thrust away all your enemies = 613 Appeasing a Jealous God (August 2012) ParshaVaetchanan What does it mean that Hashem is a jealous God? Kana (jealousy) is similar to the word Kane (to buy). In a sense jealousy comes from the feeling of ownership of an object that has been stolen by a thief. If we speak about 'objects' ones anger is directed at the thief for stealing what does not belong to him. He must return the object and pay a penalty for his theft. If he damages the object then he must pay whatever the price is to restore or replace this object. Now if instead of an object we are talking about a living being it raises a few questions. Can a living being be the property of someone? In addition in the case of a living being ones anger is directed equally on the object itself rather than the thief that stole this object of desire. Why is this? In relationships there is a concept of ownership. In matrimony the husband acquires a wife and she accepts to serve her husband with love and affection. If she is seduced and her heart is stolen away the husband feels anger and jealousy at the thief who seduced his wife away from him. In addition he feels bitterness to the object of his desire who has now been tarnished and forever lost to him. The snake was punished seven times more than Eve who suffered death and expulsion from the garden of Eden. The gestation period of a snake is seven times that of a human (seven years). Although Eve was punished with death and expulsion from the Garden of Eden, never to return again, Hashem still watched over her from a distance, as He does all of us. Now when Israel encountered Hashem at Sinai it was compared to returning to the Garden of Eden once again. This time however we were more mature and we became betrothed as husband and wife. A sin between husband and wife is much more serious than a sin that a child makes. Now jealousy between husband and wife and seducer we can understand because we can relate to this in human terms. The love between Hashem and Israel is similar but beyond the scope of human understanding. In human terms there would be divorce and estrangement and usually no return unless there are children involved in which case there could be ongoing friendships that take on a different form. Hashem on the other hand is more like a Latin lover. He is very passionate and it is all or nothing. The relationship in addition to being passionate is also based upon a promise to the forefathers that cannot be annulled. We are constantly playing the harlot and He is constantly enraged and abandoning us to our Nazi, Babylonian or American lovers who we cherish more than Him. He leaves us in their hands without His protection so that we understand in the end who was always watching over us. Those who would laugh about Him to their lovers and say we don't take Him seriously and were quick to abandon their own brothers and sisters for the false promises of those who seduce us in each generation, wake up suddenly and find themselves alone. Their lover turns out to be evil and the one who truly cared for them is no where to be found because we had ridiculed Him as the 'old man' to our young lovers who were more exciting. The lovers of Zion are the object of scorn and derision as they settle Yehuda and Shomron surrounded by wild wolves thirsty for their blood and strengthened by the cold hearts of their brothers and sisters who want only to dine with their gentile lovers. To prove their loyalty they abandon and disassociate 333","themselves from these lovers of Zion that they call renegades and criminals to appease their gentile friends and display their allegiance. Hashems love is constant and patient. He waits for us to mature and learn and come of age. There are those however, like Pharoah, who after many plagues still cling to their evil ways and so they lose the opportunity to make teshuva, and instead they become the example for others to fear. People will say years later, 'if only they had left before', or 'didn't they see that coming'? We all have a time line in life. Sometimes our actions are too little, too late. Sometimes we hear the whispers without having to run from earthquakes. Hashems love and jealousy are still active ingredients in the evolution of Israel and the world. Israel is a work in progress as well as the Jewish people as a whole. Although this process began before I entered the world and will continue long after I leave there are principles that we can learn from 'jealousy' that can appease an angry G-d. The best prayers come from experience. Rabbi Akiva was able to make it rain because he could say to Hashem, 'I understand you are angry at Israel and so You are withholding the rain. But do you know who I am? If I who was such a wild and angry man can overcome my anger to do your will, then certainly You who are G-d can overcome Yours'. He obligated G-d by his own pain and it worked, the rain fell. If you have loved someone dearly and they were seduced by another and it destroyed everything that to you was holy and pure there is something you can do. If you felt anger and rage at the seducer and bitterness towards the object of your desire that is now tarnished and of no use there is something you can do. If your ex lover was then betrayed by her new lover and left alone with no place to go there is something you can do. The natural thing to do is to say 'I told you so' and to let her wallow in her misery. The natural thing to do is to run away from this bitter taste and leave this helpless creature to the wolves where she belongs. Only when you have had such an experience can you make it rain so to speak but in a different way. To extend your hand to care for one that you still love, even from a distance is not a sin. The Garden of Eden may be closed forever, but to help someone who is helpless and weak, even though they were the one who destroyed your world is not a sin. If you use this pain in your prayer you may succeed in appeasing G-d. You may say 'I understand You are angry at Israel for we are betraying our brothers and sisters. I understand you want to run away and leave them to their lovers who you know are wolves. However, remember me. I was destroyed by the woman of my desire, who was seduced by another yet I still helped her from a distance when it went against my will to do so. If I who am mortal man can overcome my jealousy and anger, then You who are G-d must do so \u2013 You are obligated by me.' In this way, sometimes certain individuals are in the position to appease a jealous G-d. 334","The Reluctant Conquerors \u202b \u05db\u05d5 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05db\u05d3 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d4\u05e8\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d0 \u05d4\u05dc\u05d9\u05da \u05d9\u05d0\u05ea\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05e4\u05d4 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05de\u05d3 \u05d9\u05e2 \u05d4\u05de \u05d9\u05d3\u05d9\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05d6 \u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05d0 \u05d4\u05ea\u05d4\u202c27 But as for thee, stand thou here by Me, and I \u202b \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05d4 \u05d9\u05de \u05e0\u05e6 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05d4 \u05de\u05d7 \u05d9\u05e7\u05d9\u05dd \u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05d4 \u05d9\u05de \u05e0\u05e9 \u05d4\u05e4 \u05d9\u05d8\u05d9\u05dd\u202c-\u202b \u05d4\u05db\u05dc\u202cwill speak unto thee all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which thou shalt \u202b\u05d4\u05e0 \u05d9\u05ea\u05df\u202c \u202b\u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e0 \u05d9\u05db\u05d9\u202c ;\u202b\u05e0\u05ea \u05db\u05dc \u05e0\u05de \u05d9\u05d3\u05dd\u202c teach them, that they may do them in the land \u202b\u05d4\u05dc \u05d4\u05d4\u05dd\u05db\u05dc \u05d9\u05e8 \u05db\u05e9 \u05d4\u05ea\u05d4\u202c \u202b\u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8\u202c ,\u202b\u05d4\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e8\u05e5\u202c \u202b\u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e2\u05e9\u05d5\u202c which I give them to possess it.' (Devarim 5:27) \u202b\u05e0\u05d4 \u05db\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d2 \u05d9\u05ea\u05d9\u05da\u05d9\u05d4 \u05db\u05ea \u05e9\u05e2 \u05e9\u05dc \u05db\u05dc \u05db\u05ea\u202c \u202b \u05d9\u05db\u05d9\u202c,\u202b\u05db\u05d8 \u05db\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05de\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d1 \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05e2\u05dd \u05d4\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u05d5\u05df\u202c 29 And Balaam said unto the ass: 'Because thou \u202b \u05d9\u05db\u05d9 \u05db\u05e2 \u05d4\u05ea\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d7 \u05d4\u05e8\u05d1 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d9 \u05d9\u05d3\u05d9\u202c-\u202b\u05d9\u05d1\u05d9; \u05dc\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d9\u05e9\u202c hast mocked me; I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed thee.' (Bamidbar 22:29) \u202b = \u05db\u05dc \u05d9\u05e8 \u05db\u05e9 \u05d4\u05ea\u05d4\u202cto posses it = 935 \u202b = \u05d9\u05d4 \u05db\u05ea \u05e9\u05e2 \u05e9\u05dc \u05db\u05dc \u05db\u05ea\u202cyou have mocked me = 935 It seems that our 'possession' comes about against our will. Our enemies seek to curse us and instead they become a laughing stock as even their donkey seems to be on a higher spiritual level than they are. Their claim that God is with them and they can orchestrate the demise of the Israelite Nation turns into a blessing rather than a curse. Had it not been for Arab aggression in 1967 we would not have Yehuda and Shomron today. Who knows what the next aggression will bring? When the concept of the 'State of Judea' is discussed most people respond that we don't need any more division, we have enough. The concept of the return of Judea however I don't believe is a divisive one, rather it will bring the final unity that prevents Moshiach from arriving. Our enemies insist on a second State for the Arabs called 'Palestine'; invented to divide and weaken Israel. The second State that is forced upon us will in fact unite us not as 'Palestine' but the 'State of Judea'. The leader unlike Ben Gurion who was the 1st Prime Minister, will be the 1st King of Israel, known also as Moshiach. When we admire and build the more spiritual state of Yehuda, then Esav will also admire and benefit Israel. The battle in Rivkahs womb was not only between Esav and Yacov but the Esav within Yacov. -\u202b \u05db\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05de\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d0\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e7 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d1\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05d1 \u05db\u05d5 \u05d9\u05d9 \u05e0\u05ea \u05d4\u05e8 \u05e0\u05e6\u05e6\u05d5 \u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd\u202c22 And the children struggled together within her; \u202b \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c-\u202b \u05d9\u05dc \u05e0\u05d3 \u05d4\u05e8\u05e9 \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05dc \u05d4\u05de\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d6\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e0 \u05d9\u05db\u05d9; \u05db\u05d5 \u05d9\u05ea \u05d4\u05dc\u05da\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05db\u05df\u202cand she said: 'If it be so, wherefore do I live?' And she went to inquire of the LORD ' (Bereshit 25:22) \u202b = \u05d9\u05dc \u05db\u05d3 \u05d4\u05e8\u05e9\u202cinquire = 534 \u202b = \u05de\u05d3\u05d9\u05e0\u05ea \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d3\u05d4\u202cState of Judea = 534 335","Vaetchanan and Vayeshev ;\u202b \u05e0\u05d5\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9 \u05db\u05de\u05e2 \u05d9\u05d0 \u05d4\u05dc\u05d9\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05d5 \u05db\u05d5 \u05d9\u05d9 \u05e0\u05ea \u05db\u05e2 \u05d9\u05d1\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d1\u05d9 \u05e0\u05dc \u05db\u05de \u05db\u05e2 \u05e0\u05e0 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c26 But Hashem became angry with me because of you, and He did not listen to me; Hashem said to \u202b \u05d4\u05dc\u05da\u202c-\u202b\u05ea\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e1\u05e3 \u05db\u05d3 \u05d9\u05d1\u05e8\u05e9\u05e8\u05d1\u202c-\u202b \u05db\u05d0\u05dc\u202c-- ,\u202b\u05db\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05de\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d0 \u05db\u05dc\u05d9\u202c \u202b \u05db\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8 \u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d6\u05d4\u202c,\u202b\u05d9\u05d0 \u05db\u05dc\u05d9 \u05e2\u05d5\u05d3\u202c me: 'It is too much for you! Do not continue to speak further to Me about this matter. ; (Devarim 3:26) \u202b \u05d6 \u05d5 \u05e0\u05ea\u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d9\u05d4\u05df \u05d9\u05d0\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e9\u05d9\u05de\u05d5 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d9\u05dc\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d4\u05df \u05e0\u05e7 \u05d4\u05d8 \u05d4\u05e8\u05ea \u05d9\u05dc \u05e0\u05e4 \u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u202c7 and put fire in them and put incense upon them ,\u202b \u05d9\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05db\u05d7\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c-\u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05de \u05d4\u05d7\u05e8\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202cbefore Hashem tomorrow; Then the man whom Hashem will choose \u2013 he is the holy one. It is \u202b \u05d4\u05dc \u05ea\u05db\u05dd\u202c-\u202b \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e0\u05d9 \u05d9\u05dc \u05d9\u05d5\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d1\u202c, ;\u202b\u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05e7\u05d3\u05d5\u05e9\u202c too much for you, O offspring of Levi. (Bamidbar 16:7) Every year I look at this Parsha and wonder about this passage. When Hashem answers to Moshe 'Rav Lach' (it is too much for you) , it seems to echo another 'Rav Lach' which Moshe himself said to Korach. Moshe said to Korach that it was 'too much' for him to desire to lead the Nation, it should be enough to be a Levite. Here it seems Hashem is saying to Moshe it is enough that you will receive a great reward in the next world but to lead Bnei Israel into the Land of Israel, this is no longer your role. There is one other place in the Torah where a phrase repeats itself with very dramatic implications. The phrase Ha Ker Na (discern please) that is used by Yehuda when presenting Yosephs blood stained cloak to his father, and then echoed in the future by Tamar who asked Yehuda to discern please who's staff and signet ring she was holding. -\u202b \u05db\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d9 \u05d9\u05d1\u05d9\u05d0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d0\u05dc\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05db \u05d4\u05ea \u05d4\u05e0\u05ea \u05db\u05d4 \u05db\u05e4 \u05d9\u05e1\u05d9\u05dd\u202c-\u202b \u05dc\u05d1 \u05db\u05d5 \u05e0\u05d9 \u05db\u05e9 \u05e0\u05dc\u05d7\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u202c32 and they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father; and said: 'We found this; \u202b \u05d4\u05e0\u05d0\u202c-\u202b\u05e9\u05d4 \u05ea\u05db\u05e8\u202c, :\u202b \u05d6 \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05de \u05d4\u05e6\u05d0\u05e0\u05d5\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05de\u05e8\u05d5\u202c,\u202b\u05e0\u05d0 \u05d9\u05d1\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d4\u05dd\u202c \u202b\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u202c-\u202b \u05d9\u05d0\u05dd\u202c--\u202b\u05db\u05d4 \u05e0\u05db \u05d4\u05ea \u05d4\u05e0\u05ea \u05d9\u05d1 \u05e0\u05e0\u05da \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d0\u202c identify, if you please; Is it your son's tunic or not? (Bereshit 37:32) \u202b \u05d4\u05d7 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d4\u202c-\u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9 \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05d7\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0\u05dc\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05de\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e6\u05d0\u05ea\u202c25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her ;\u202b \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e0 \u05d9\u05db\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d4\u05e8\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d0 \u05d4\u05dc\u05d4 \u05dc\u05d5\u202c-\u202b \u05e0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05dc\u05d0 \u05d4\u05de\u05e8\u202cfather-in-law, saying: 'By the man, whose these are, am I with child'; and she said: 'identify, if \u202b \u05d4\u05e0\u05d0\u202c-\u202b \u05e0\u05dc \u05d9\u05de\u05d9 \u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d7 \u05d4\u05ea \u05d4\u05de\u05ea\u05e9\u05d4 \u05ea\u05db\u05e8\u202c-- ,\u202b\u05db\u05d5 \u05d4\u05ea\u05d0 \u05d4\u05de\u05e8\u202c \u202b\u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05d4 \u05e0\u05e4 \u05d9\u05ea\u05d9 \u05d9\u05dc\u05d9\u05dd\u202c you please, whose are these, the signet, and the \u202b \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d0 \u05d4\u05dc\u05d4\u202c,\u202b\u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05d4 \u05db\u05de \u05d4\u05d8\u05d4\u202c cords, and the staff.' (Bereshit 38:25) In the story of Yehuda what was formerly obscure was suddenly perceived quite clearly once Tamar said this phrase. Yehuda had been responsible for causing unbearable suffering to his father while thinking at the time that it was a necessary evil. Again he was about to commit a tragedy and suddenly realized that he was making a terrible mistake. Consequently the implications that it had for his previous actions came into question. The dramatic moment of Yehuda's realization, the connection from 336","the past to the present and the sin that is implied is easier to understand than the connection between Korach and Moshe. There is no question that Korach was undermining Moshes mission and creating rebellion. There is no question that Moshe did the appropriate action. There is also no sin in Moshe pleading with Hashem to allow him to enter the Land. So how is Rav Lach connected to Haker Na? In order to understand the connection we need to look at another unusual concept within of the same passage. 'Because of you' Hashem became angry at me. It seems odd that Moshe does not accept blame for his sins but qualifies that his sin is a consequence of the rebellion of the people of Israel. Hashem did not say that because of the people Moshe was being punished, so why is Moshe not accepting the punishment for his sin completely and blaming his punishment on the people? We also see that the gematria of Lemanchem (because of you) and Rav Lach (it's too much for you) are almost identical gematrias. So what is their connection and what do we learn from the words 'because of you'? \u202b \u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d4\u05d0 \u05e9\u05d4 \u05db\u05de\u05e2\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05d5 \u05db\u05d5 \u05d9\u05d9 \u05e0\u05ea \u05db\u05e2 \u05d9\u05d1\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d1\u05d9 \u05db\u05dc \u05e9\u05de \u05e9\u05e2 \u05db\u05e0 \u05ea\u05db\u05dd\u202c26 But Hashem became angry with me because \u202b \u05d4\u05dc\u05da\u202c-\u202b\u05e9\u05e8\u05d1\u202c-\u202b \u05db\u05d0\u05dc\u202c-- of you, and He did not listen to me; Hashem said ,\u202b\u05d9\u05d0 \u05d4\u05dc\u05d9; \u05db\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05de\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d0 \u05db\u05dc\u05d9\u202c to me: 'It is too much for you! Do not \u202b \u05db\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8 \u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d6\u05d4\u202c,\u202b\u05ea\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e1\u05e3 \u05db\u05d3 \u05d9\u05d1\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d0 \u05db\u05dc\u05d9 \u05e2\u05d5\u05d3\u202c continue to speak further to Me about this matter. ; 3:26 \u202b = \u05db\u05dc \u05e9\u05de \u05e9\u05e2 \u05db\u05e0 \u05ea\u05db\u05dd\u202cbecause of you = 250 \u202b \u05d4\u05dc\u05da\u202c-\u202b = \u05e9\u05e8\u05d1\u202cit is too much for you = 252 The Role of the Shepherd of Israel In order to understand the connection we must define the role of Moshe which among other things is to be the Guide and Guarantor of the Nation. Lets examine each of these positions. Guarantor: A Guarantor is responsible when a loan defaults. He pays the price for those who may not hold up their part of the bargain. Guide: A Guide is responsible to deliver a party safely to their destination. To better understand these roles let's look at an example in our own modern times. Reb Elchonon Wasserman was one of the great pre-war Roshei Yeshiva in Europe. Reb Elchonon was in his mid-60s when the war broke out. He had spent a great deal of time in America collecting for his Yeshiva in Baranovich. He resisted their pleas to remain in America and chose to return to a Europe that was about to engulfed in flames. Tragically Reb Elchonon fell victim to the Nazi collaborators on 11 Tammuz 5701\/1941 when he was murdered AL Kiddush Hashem along with his son and a handful of talmidim and other Rabbonim. Reb Ephraim Oshry who was 27 years old at that time, was one of the few that 337","managed to escape. He related the following about the last thing Reb Elchonon told them. When they saw the end was near Reb Elchonon got up and spoke to them. He spoke the same way he always did; he was calm and there was no indication of panic. He said the following. \u201cIn Shamayim it seems that they consider us to be tzadikim, because we have been chosen to be Korbanos for Klal Yisroel. Therefore, we must do Tshuvah now. We don\u2019t have much time. We must keep in mind that we will be better korbonos if we do tshuvah. In this way we will save the Yidden in America. Let no foreign thought enter our minds, Chas V\u2019Shalom, as that will make us pigul, an unfit korban. We are now fulfilling the greatest mitzvah. Yerushalayim was destroyed with fire and will be rebuilt with fire. The same fire that will consume our bodies will one day rebuild Klal Yisroel.\u201d (from Epoch Of The Messiah \u2013 Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman) As Guarantors the spiritual leadership of our people pays the price for a Nation that defaults on its obligations or wanders away from its destiny. In Israel today we hear a similar idea that the Bnei Torah are Guarantors of the nation, they are soldiers of a different kind who's study of Torah strengthens the Nation and we always need that pure vile of oil to light the other candles and keep the fire of Torah burning. There is of course truth to that. As Guides, however, did the Bnei Torah succeed in saving us from the great tragedy of the Shoa? When the gates of Israel opened in the turn of the century and Jewish feelings of nationalism and longing for their ancient homeland began to take shape what was the response of the Bnei Torah world? If they had encouraged aliya then, regardless of Zionists that were less observant maybe there would not have been a Shoa. If they had expressed the same love of the Land as their less observant brothers maybe there would have been a different outcome? As Guides it seems in many places they displayed an anger against the rebels of Torah that did not truly represent Hashems anger. This anger and resentment continues today. Recently I sat at a shabbat table with my Charedi friends and one Rabbi said 'Thank G-d for the great miracles we are seeing every day as more than 2000 missiles are being fired on us and He is protecting us from above'. Another Charedi Rabbi answered, 'The miracle is that the government actually made something that works! This is the miracle.' Even at such a time when we should find unity he could only say something derogatory. As Guides there are some questions to be answered from the Bnei Torah world. Are they accurately conveying Hashems will by their resentment towards Zionism or are they 'hitting the rock'? The Point of Correction Vaetchanan represent the 'point of correction'. Now that it is clear that Moshe will not be entering the Land, only now can we begin to understand what exactly was this sin that was so irreversible. Moshe thought that perhaps because of the conquest of Cheshbon it is a sign that Hashem has forgiven him and it is a good opportunity to plead for forgiveness. He is mistaken. Hashem orders him to stop. It is not that Hashem is not forgiving, nor does He not want to forgive but there is no forgiveness without correction. Most likely preceding the Shoa there were those who saw Israel turning green and rather than 338","concluding it was time to come home, they chose to remain in the purity of exile and believed that their study was making the Land green, and Hashem would miraculously save them and the Temple would fall down complete from heaven as Rashi explains. These ideas are echoed by the Bnei Torah today. Simply study and ignore the rising tides of antisemitism in the exile. Hashem will bring Moshiach and the Temple will fall down from the sky complete. There seems to be a contradiction as Rambam says the Temple will be built by man while Rashi says it will fall down from heaven complete. I believe there is no contradiction at all. They are both telling two sides of the same story. Less than a hundred years ago Israel was practically a barren desert. The high Tech Nation with its Nobel prize winners and its modern and advanced army seems to have fallen from Heaven. It began with people draining swamps but Hashem made things move ten times faster from His side. The same process that occurred in the Temple in ancient days, occurs today. In the times when the Temple stood we would light the fire below and the Heavenly fire came down and consumed it. The same political will that brought about the secular state will bring about the Temple. But only when we make this correction. Then it will seem like it fell from Heaven complete. ,\u202b \u05e0\u05e2\u05d5\u05df \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd\u202c-\u202b \u05e0\u05e2\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e0\u05dd \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u202c-\u202b \u05de \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05d4 \u05e0\u05ea \u05db\u05d5\u05d3\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u202c40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the \u202b \u05d4\u05d4 \u05e0\u05dc\u05db\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e2 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u202c-\u202b \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05d0\u05e3\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d1\u05d9\u202c-\u202b \u05e0\u05d1 \u05db\u05de \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05dc\u05dd \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d4\u05de \u05e0\u05e2\u05dc\u05d5\u202ciniquity of their fathers, in their treachery which they committed against Me, and also that they \u202b\u05d1\u05e0 \u05d4\u05e7 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9\u202c have walked contrary unto Me. \u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d1\u05d0 \u05d9\u05ea\u05d9\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d0 \u05d9\u05dc\u05da \u05d9\u05e2 \u05d4\u05de\u05dd \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d4\u05e7 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u202c-\u202b \u05de\u05d0 \u05db\u05d0\u05e3\u202c41 I also will walk contrary unto them, and bring \u202b \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d1\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d0\u05d6 \u05d9\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db \u05db\u05e0\u05e2\u202c-\u202b \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e8\u05e5 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05d9 \u05d9\u05d1\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d4\u05dd; \u05d0\u05d5\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd\u202cthem into the land of their enemies; if then \u202b \u05e0\u05e2\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e0\u05dd\u202c-\u202b \u05d9\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e8\u05e6\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d0\u05d6\u202c,\u202b\u05d4\u05d4 \u05d4\u05e2 \u05d9\u05e8\u05dc\u202c perchance their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then be paid the punishment of their iniquity; (Vayikra 26:40,41) The 'point of correction' here in Vaetchanan is similar to the passage above from Parsha Bechuchosai. After all of the punishments in Bechuchosai the people then confess but Hashem does not forgive them, He continues to punish them. Why? Because they have yet to fully address the sin that caused their suffering. There is no forgiveness without correction. Korach saw the prophetic images of a great spiritual future from his progeny. He was absolutely correct but the path was wrong. Moshe saw the Land being conquered and saw it as a sign of Hashems forgiveness, but Hashem had a different path in mind. In the future there will be both a conquest of Land and a conquest of spirit that will result in a great revelation. However as Moshe still blames the people the correction will not take place nor the redemption. Korachs spiritual future and Moshes physical one are both correct and will come to pass but only when this impediment is corrected. The Final Push 'Rav Lach' in Vaetchanan and 'Haker Na' in Vayeshev are talking about the same concept. This is the beginning point of correction. It is no coincidence that this Parsha always comes after Tisha B'Av, after the destruction, after the Shoa, after Moshe knows no more prayers will help. This is when one must learn and discover what is missing and what went wrong. And the conclusion I believe is that Hashem 339","is willing to forgive and wants to forgive, but he needs us to make corrections and draw the proper conclusions. With the sentence that comes back to him from Tamar, Judah begins the process of correction that will eventually lead to his brother Yoseph. The correction of hitting the rock must also begin here after the Shoa and after Hashem will no longer accept prayers, because in my opinion I suggest He is waiting for us to make this final correction. The Temple will not be built by reading books about it or by learning the laws of Loshon Hora. The Temple will be built by doing what Moshe Feiglin is doing. Moshe Feiglin goes on mass with a handful of faithful believers to pray on Har Habayit. He is met with jeers and protest but he knows that without the heart there is no body. If the Temple Mount is not truly in our hands then neither is Gaza or Tel Aviv. He is trying to change the political reality which in turn will give us the desire to bring our Korban Pesach and build our Temple. We need to make a demand and we need to show interest. Just like secular Jews showed interest in their ancient homeland enough to drain swamps and turn deserts into gardens the Bnei Torah need to show the same interest. The Zionists pushed and the State of Israel fell from Heaven. If the Bnei Torah push, then the Temple too will fall from Heaven, but not without the push. Binyamin absolves our Differences It is as if we are now in Parsha Vayeshev. Yehuda is beginning to review his past and question his motives and the tragedy that maybe he had something to do with. Every Jewish soul that is martyred is a Guarantor, but as Guides could we not have prevented unnecessary deaths? We have not yet met Yoseph and Moshiach is not quite here but very close. The Bnei Torah can no longer stand on the side lines and simply complain about Zionists and curse them and hit the rock especially when Hashem Himslef is not angry. The Zionists must begin to see that as we become increasingly isolated we need G-d on our side and maybe his directives regarding Canaan offer a political solution that is worth a try. All of our man made options have only painted us into the corner and Hashems solution seems the only way out. 'Rav Lach' Hashem reminds Moshe. You have a great reward in Heaven. If you want the reward of Guiding Israel to its proper destination, then you don't need more prayers, simply make the correct changes. Similarly Korach with all his Techelet was missing that one strand of Zionism without which makes the rest of his Torah meaningless. Hashem rebukes the spiritual leadership and says don't expect the Bet Hamigsash to fall from heaven. This is not what I want. Make the necessary corrections. Only when we rally for Binyamin (whose territory is in Yesha) and the Bnei Torah will be in the forefront of that battle making the tikun that is needed from them; will we arrive all together. It is already happening. The spiritual leadership is slowly becoming more physical and involved with the battles of Israel. In addition the physical leadership is realizing that the solution outlined in the Torah is maybe worth a try. Soon we will examine our past as Judah did. We will hear the cries of Gush Katif and Oslo, and we will examine our hatred of our Zionist brother and our decision not to participate in the greatest spiritual event that ever happened; the ending of the exile. Instead we chose to ignore it and continue to choose this casualness in the face of the miraculous. 340","How many years did I attend Torah classes and when I mentioned Meir Kahane I was told don\u2019t talk politics, lets learn Torah; as if politics was secular and Torah was holy. When Moshe Feiglin goes every month to the Temple Mount he is doing an action that will eventually change the physical reality. The Torah is not a blueprint to simply study, Hashem wants us to build a reality from the blueprint. When others who love Hashem's Torah and truly want the Temple will join and come with their Pesach offering then things will change. Only then will the temple will fall down from heaven just as the secular state of Israel fell from heaven in sixty six years. If we think however that simply prayers and guarding ourselves from Lashon Hora is going to alter our physical world then Hashem answers Rav Lach. He doesn\u2019t want our prayers he wants our actions. 'Rav Lach' and 'Do you recognize these things?' are intertwined. They are the same message. We must look at our sins. Hashem is not punishing us 'because of the Zionists'. Learn from the Zionists to love the Land of Israel enough to build it and fight for it and to love the Temple enough to want to build it and fight for it as well. And from the other side look at the blood stained clothes of Meir Kahane and Gush Katif and the settlers that have been persecuted and realize that their love of Israel and their path was correct then and even more so now. The battle is waiting in Yehuda and Shomron the future Kingdom of Israel and the tikkun of 'Rav Lach' and 'Ha Karna'. We are in Vayeshev and we are somewhere between Egypt and Israel. As we are increasingly isolated we become increasingly unified. We are overcoming our differences and learning from each other and our ultimate point of unification will come from the territory of Binyamin and the State of Judea. This is the point of correction. Finally as we approach Yoseph when we realize the mistakes of our past Yoseph will tell us Nachamu, Nachamu, it was all part of Hashems plan. May this correction come quickly. Two Streams of Chassids This week in the news a man was arrested for stabbing gays at the gay parade held in Jerusalem. This man had just finished serving a ten year sentence for stabbing gays in a gay parade ten years ago in Jerusalem. After three weeks of freedom he went again to do the same thing. I was at Chabbad (Mamal Mamash) Friday night and the Rabbi spoke and said this type of action only brings bad results. The gays will only get stronger now. Its like adding oil on fire. Our spiritual battles need to be with love. I suggest that although some gays may become even more adamant the majority will think twice before they march in Jerusalem. They may say its enough we have Tel Aviv we don't need to push our lifestyle in Jerusalem with the risk of crazy stabbers. The essence of these two viewpoints I think we can see in this weeks Parsha. As I pointed out earlier \u202b \u05d4\u05d0 \u05db\u05d9 \u05ea\u05d1\u05d9\u05da\u202c-\u202b \u05d4\u05db\u05dc\u202c-\u202b = \u05e9\u05dc \u05de\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d3\u05e3 \u05ea\u05d0\u05ea\u202cto thrust away all your enemies = 613. Can the essence of the Torah, the 613 commandments be simply to throw out our enemies? By fulfilling this commandment is it as if we are fulfilling all of the commandments? We also wrote that the greatest comfort Nachamu, Nachamu is related to Pinchas (both have the Gematria 208). Can the minority of zealots change the political reality of the majority and will that majority accept this? It seems to have happened in Chanuka. The fire of a minority of zealots spread like candles to light the rest of the Nation whose light increased symbolized by the menorah. In a way Moshe was also a Kahane type Chassid. He wanted Moshiach now, literally. Against all odds 341","he was ready to throw out our enemies and build Hashems Kingdom now. Hashem answers him that He is right in the same way that Korach was right, however the vision of the future, that both he and Korach saw, is not the reality of today. It seems to me that both streams though diametrically opposite need each other so that one does not fall asleep and so that the other has time to grow more inside the nation as Yacov said to Shimon and Levi 'I will disperse them in Israel.' Moshiach and Tisha B'Av This year Tisha B'Av occurred on Shabbat. At the Chabbad farbrengen I normally attend Rav Lewin made the kiddish. The Rabbis began talking about Siporey Tzaddikim (stories of Tzadikim). They spoke about the Rebbe and recalled where they were standing when he spoke. They did not speak about actions that the Rebbe did but whether the Rebbe looked to the left or to the right or pointed this way or that way; many details that seemed superficial to me. I understood their admiration for years ago when I learned that Rav Lewin was friendly with Rav Kahane and worked with him in the Knesset, I was like a sponge asking him for any stories he could relate. I was not concerned about how he looked or who he pointed at, but I wanted to know about things he did. I raised my L'chaim glass and said 'since we are talking about Tzadikim, we have one sitting right here Rav Lewin. Here is a story none of you know. Please tell us the story of how you made Rabbi Kahane a Knesset member.' Everyone was silent. He went on to tell the story of how he was an aide to the Knesset member Geula Cohen at the time when Rav Kahane was also a Knesset member. Before the new Knesset members were sworn in, Rav Lewin happened to go into the empty Knesset hall and he saw that the temporary paper labels of the seating arrangements had the Rav sitting isolated away from all the other members. Even though he was a Chassid of the Rebbe and not a Kahane follower he thought it was disgusting the way the Rav was persecuted. He moved his seating label over two desks next to a religious Knesset member that didn't have an ax to grind. In the opening ceremony the members had to swear in. Rav Kahane repeated the oath but prefacing it with Bisrat Hashem. They forced him to repeat it without adding anything, and so he mumbled Bisrat Hashem. The Knesset speaker asked the man sitting next to the Rav if he heard anything additional. He didn't really care about this game and said no he did not. So in a way thanks the Rav Lewin's placement of Rav Kahanes seat, he was sworn in as a member. Rav Lewin went on to tell other stories like when he took a tramp in Rav Kahanes car to the Knesset. There was a leftist protest outside the Knesset and the Rav stopped his car and said wait a minute. Rav Lewin got nervous. The last thing he needed was press as he was a Knesset aide and not connected to Rabbi Kahane, but there was no stopping him. Rav Lewin stood up and pretended to walk as Rav Kahane did. As the Rav approached the protesters were frightened and said 'Ok Rav Kahane were leaving' and they packed up and left. They say Moshiach is born on Tisha B'Av and this Tisha B'Av I saw a good sign. Instead of making jokes about Misnagids and people who are not followers of the Rebbe, the Rabbis listened in awe to stories of a Misnagid giant who was a true Chassid for the word Chassid means devout. The animosity 342","between Yoseph and the ten tribes is slowly shifting to a concern for Binyamin, Yosephs brother. Two weeks later Meir Ettinger the Rav's grandson was put away without trial simply for his writings and for allegedly being the leader of the hilltop youth. The struggle for the State of Yehuda is beginning. Next year (13 months from now) is the Jewish year ending in 76 (Kahane). May it bring the Moshiach that is beginning to be born today on Tisha B'av in a Chabbad Bet Knesset. And may the people of Binyamin bring unity to our Nation. The Gabai's Mistake (2017) I believe that when a Gabai calls someone up for an aliyah he becomes a conduit. Whenever I have received an Aliyah the Gabai did not call me up, rather Hashem called me through the voice of the Gabai. This Shabbat we read the Ten Commandments for the second time. The honor for this aliyah is always reserved for the learned Rav of the Bet Knesset who understands more than the rest of the congregation the secrets and depths of the Torah and this profound aliyah. The Gabai called up a new comer to the Bet Knesset who had recently begun practicing Judaism. The Gabai realized he made a mistake and was very embarrassed. The Rav saw the situation and answered not to worry, he will take the Shma Israel Aliyah which is also a good one. Between the two aliyah's I was called up and I whispered to the Gabai that at Kiddish I will explain what just happened and its significance. He smiled. At Kiddish I explained the following. When I made Aliyah people back home wrote me and asked me what it was like living in Israel. I answered that, back home we studied this wonderful book called the Torah. The difference is that now I am living inside of this book. Everything that we looked at from the outside I am seeing from the inside. Stories of idol worshipers that didn't seem believable I can see with my own eyes and understand the situations and the arguments. I can look up and see new pages of Torah being written every day in the Land of Israel. In the Talmud (Baba Metzia 85a) Rav Zera fasted 100 days before he came to Israel from Babylon. He wanted to forget the Babylonian yeshiva methods of study so that he would have a new head for the Torah of Israel. I can understand this because living in Israel the Torah becomes completely different. It becomes more than study it becomes a reality that we are building physically. Why am I saying this? The Ten Commandments are repeated twice in the Torah. Today we are repeating them for the second time to the generation that is about to enter the Land. To them it is a new Torah; not a Torah that they only studied but one they will use as a blueprint to build the Nation in its homeland. What happened today in the Bet Knesset is a reflection of what happened in the Parsha. Moshe wanted to enter the Land of Israel but Hashem denied him saying Rav Lach. It's interesting to note that these are the same words used by Moshe to Korach. What could the connection be? In another unusual passage we hear a complaint from Moshe when he states lemanchem (because of you ) I cannot enter the Land. Hashem said however in Parshat Chukat that Moshe was being punished not because of the people but for hitting the rock. Maybe if he had spoken differently the attitude of the people may have changed. At 343","any rate at this point Hashem makes it clear to Moshe that even though he envisions great things in the future the situation today requires him to remain with his generation in the desert. Just as Korach was told to accept his prominent position as a Levi rather than demand more than was coming to him also Moshe had to accept his position as leader of his generation and not the one who would lead the next generation into Erez Israel. To understand this better we can look at our own recent history. There was the generation before the Shoa and the generation after the Shoa. When the Torah leadership saw the young generation of Zionists turning the desert into a garden they were incensed. \u2018This Aliyah belongs to us\u2019 they felt. We have studied all of the laws and have the proper reverence for Erez Israel and these Zionists are coming to pollute the Holy Land and disregard its sanctity. They forbid their followers to go there. And so history was played out as it happened. But there was no mistake. This was what Hashem decreed. Maybe the anger at the rock did not accurately represent Hashems disposition. Maybe tragedy could have been prevented. However there comes a time when Hashem says Rav Lach. The gematria of nachamu = nachilu (to possess). The greatest comfort from the terrible horrors and countless deaths of the Shoa is the rebirth of Israel. The double phrase nachamu nachamu = 208 the gematria of Itzchak as well as Pinchas. It seems to me that the death and rebirth of Am Israel involves two types of korbanot. The korbanot of the Shoa were perfect sacrifices like Itzchak while the sacrifices we continue to suffer today are in the manner of Pinchas the avenger. Today the strong arm of Israel brings vengeance to our enemies while both sacrifices build Am Israel from blood and through blood, from fire with fire. So a new comer took the Aliyah that should have been the Rav\u2019s Aliyah and what was his name? Amichai. Or read Am Israel Chai. The great tikkun that happened however and sign from above that Moshiach is close at hand was pronounced by the Rav. Rather than demanding his rightful Aliyah he said Shma Israel is also good. The Lord our God; the Lord is One. There was no mistake with Moshe or the Shoa nor today. Hashem decrees the times and sometimes they don't seem to fit but if we look a little deeper the Gabai never makes mistakes. Ben and Jerry and the Har Habayit (2021) It is always been an enigma to me why so many Jews oppose Rav Kahane and see him as extreme when I see him as a holy God fearing Jew who if anything was extremely good. I suppose this goes back as far as the Torah that singles out Calev with a 'different' spirit' than the rest of the entire Nation. He succeeded in following Hashems will, despite being persecuted by the mob who eventually died for their sins while he entered and settled in the Land of Israel. This week however I was pleasantly surprised. I was consoled in Parsha Nachamu. Suddenly a great number of Jews from left to right, and from Torah observant to non-observant have suddenly become zealous for Israel and it warms my heart. What is the secret button that was pushed to ignite this fire in the Nations soul? What is the chord that finally reverberated and inspired the pacifists of our Nation to dissent? Why it was the stomach of course! Someone tried to take away our ice cream! I suddenly received an epiphany. Why haven't we thought of this before? Here is the solution for Geula. 344","All we need to do is to set up an exclusive Ben and Jerry's warehouse by the Har Habayit. Let there be a decree that all Ben and Jerry's ice cream can only be purchased from the warehouse on the Har Habayit. Then after we have grown accustomed to acquiring our weekly rations of Ben and Jerry's we suddenly close the warehouse. This will cause a revolution within the Jewish Nation and all sectors of society will protest on the Har Habayit for ice cream. The Nation will then gladly remove any obstacles on the Temple Mount and rebuild our Holy Temple if they know that after we swiftly succeed in this rebuilding Jews from Israel and all around the world will get Ice Cream! Then along with Chunky Monkey and Cherry Garcia the Moshiach will arrive and we will renew the days of old. I think it could work. The Way the World Works (2022) 'For this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that, when they hear all these statutes, shall say: 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.' (Devarim 4:6) 'All the nations are as nothing before Him' (Yeshayahu 40:17) I read an opinion piece that explained the backstory of our recent war. The columnist explained that recently there was a revolt against the proxy Iranian backed government in Iraq. Additionally there were protests against the Iranian backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. In response to these rebellions Iran wanted to restore their image by initiating terrorist attacks in Israel by their agents Islamic Jihad which are the competitors to Hamas in Gaza. Not surprisingly Israel knew of their plans and proactively took out their leadership. This opinion piece may be accurate but let me explain what is not written in the news. What is the underlying reason why this operation was such a success and there were zero Israeli casualties in this last war called Breaking Dawn which lasted a few days. In fact maybe the dawn is breaking if we can see it. Let me explain. I have written previously that a great war was expected on Yom Yerushalayim. Dancing and flag waving through the Muslim quarter of the Old city was considered a provocation to many and people warned of an impending war. Hamas threatened they would use all of their capabilities against the Zionist entity if the parade went on. To their credit unlike the previous year where Netanyahu curtailed the route of the march to appease the terrorists (which achieved the opposite result and a week long war broke out) this year the crippled government led by Bennett allowed the usual parade and the result was 'our enemies were scattered.' There was no compromise with terrorists and we did not sell out our National pride and because of this there was no war and instead an abundance of joy. This same compromised government led now by Lapid, despite the usual threats allowed people on the Temple Mount on Tisha B'Av. It was the first time that thousands went up and the police did not harass these loyal Jews but treated the people with respect. No arrests were made for opening one's mouth in prayer. This I believe is certainly the root cause of why this war was so successful. 345","The formula is simple. When we demonstrate our love for Hashem or at least do not obstruct good Jews from demonstrating their faith, Hashem rewards us and helps us. This is simply the way the world works. The more we internalize this the closer we are to bringing Moshiach. I happened to see Jonathan Pollard this week walking in the streets of Yeryshalyim and shared these thoughts. He told me not to count on it. It may be a glimpse of what could come but it was politically motivated. He told me that we need drastic changes instead of just the status quo. What we see unfolding is everything Rav Kahane warned about. I agreed with him completely, however I believe our Father in Heaven is not very strict. He just wants to see a little Kavod, and even if we lack faith or do the right thing with an ulterior motive, He is easily pleased and wishes to help us and demonstrate to us how the world is supposed to work. Maybe if we do the right things enough times we may start to get it and understand our secret weapon and our true security. As it says in Perkei Avot: 'Make His (G-d's) will like your will, so that He will make your will like His will. Nullify your will before His will, so that He will nullify the will of others before your will.' Perkei Avot: Chapter 2, Mishna 4 346","Kahane in the Parsha Ekev 347","Ekev 2012 In this weeks Parsha Moshe admonished us to circumcise the foreskin of our heart. To understand what this means let us look at a few related passages. \u202b;\u05d4\u05e2 \u05db\u05e8 \u05e9\u05dc\u05ea \u05db\u05dc \u05e9\u05d1 \u05db\u05d1 \u05ea\u05db\u05dd\u202c 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your \u202b \u05d9\u05d0\u05ea\u202c,\u202b\u05d8\u05d6 \u05d5 \u05db\u05de \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd\u202c heart, and be no more stiffnecked. \u202b \u05e2\u05d5\u05d3\u202c,\u202b\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0 \u05db\u05ea \u05e0\u05e7\u05e9\u05d5\u202c--\u202b\u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e2 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05e0\u05e4 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c (Devarim 10:16) --\u202b \u05d0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d9\u05e2 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d9\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d9 \u05d4\u05de \u05d9\u05db\u05e8 \u05e0\u05dc\u05da \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d9\u05d7\u05d9\u05da \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d9\u05e2 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9\u202c-\u202b \u05d9\u05d1 \u05d9\u05db\u05d9\u202c12 If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew ,\u202b \u05db\u05d4 \u05e0\u05e9 \u05d9\u05d1\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e2\u05ea\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05e9\u05e9 \u05d4\u05e9 \u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd; \u05d5 \u05db\u05d1 \u05d4\u05e9 \u05d4\u05e0\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05d5 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05e0\u05d3\u05da\u202cwoman, be sold unto thee, he shall serve thee six \u202b \u05d9\u05de \u05d9\u05e2 \u05d4\u05de\u05da\u05db\u05ea \u05e9\u05e9 \u05db\u05dc \u05ea\u05d7\u05e0\u05d5\u202c,\u202b\u05d4\u05d7 \u05e0\u05e4 \u05d9\u05e9\u05d9\u202c years; and in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. (Devarim 15:12) Hashem is long suffering and endures personal insult however when His children are cruel to each punishment often ensues. Exile and the accompanied tragedy comes from the mistreatment of our brothers; from the sale of Yoseph to the refusal to free Hebrew servants hundreds of years later. One way to remove this hard exterior is to be concerned about our brothers, from those settling our Land to those that lack food and sustenance. \u202b\u05de\u05d7\u05e6\u05d5 \u05db\u05e6 \u05d4\u05e8\u05ea\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05de \u05e0\u05e7 \u05d4\u05e9\u05d4\u202c--\u202b\u05d4\u05db \u05d4\u05e1\u05e3\u202c \u202b \u05e0\u05e9 \u05d9\u05ea\u05d9\u202c,\u202b\u05d1 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d9\u05e9\u05d4 \u05e0\u05dc\u05da\u202c 2 'Make thee two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shalt thou make them; and they shall be unto ,\u202b\u05e0\u05dc \u05d9\u05de \u05e0\u05e7 \u05d4\u05e8\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d9\u05e2 \u05d4\u05d3\u05d4\u202c \u202b\u05db\u05ea \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05e9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd; \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d4\u05d9\u05d5 \u05e0\u05dc\u05da\u202c thee for the calling of the congregation, and for \u202b \u05db\u05d4 \u05db\u05de \u05e0\u05d7\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea\u202c-\u202b\u05d5 \u05e0\u05dc \u05db\u05de \u05db\u05e1\u05e2 \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u202c causing the camps to set forward. (Bamidbar 10:2) The trumpets of war and the shofar of Rosh Hoshanna serve to stir our hearts and awaken us from our apathy and turn us from destructive paths. \u202b \u05e0\u05e4 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e2\u05e5 \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d3\u05e8\u202c,\u202b \u05de \u05d5 \u05e0\u05dc \u05db\u05e7 \u05e0\u05d7 \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd \u05d4\u05dc \u05d4\u05db\u05dd \u05db\u05d1\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05d5\u05df\u202c40 And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit ;\u202b \u05d4\u05e0 \u05db\u05d7\u05dc\u202c-\u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05e2 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d1\u05d9\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05e2 \u05d4\u05d1\u05ea\u202c-\u202b \u05db\u05d5 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05db\u05e0\u05e3 \u05d9\u05e2\u05e5\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05db \u05d4\u05e4\u05ea \u05e0\u05ea \u05d4\u05de \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd\u202cof goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and \u202b \u05d9\u05e9 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05db\u05e2\u05ea\u05d5 \u05db\u05e9 \u05e9\u05de \u05db\u05d7 \u05ea\u05ea\u05dd\u202c--\u202b \u05d9\u05dc \u05e0\u05e4 \u05d9\u05e0\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c, boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God \u202b \u05d4\u05d9 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05dd\u202cseven days. (Vayikra 23:40) When we make the proper correction and remove this cruel and cold exterior to reveal the Holy Sparks within, then there is great rejoicing. Waving the four species is a symbol of unity within the diversity of our Nation. Hashem is our shield when we have care and concern for each other. \u202b = \u05d4\u05e2 \u05db\u05e8 \u05e9\u05dc\u05ea \u05db\u05dc \u05e9\u05d1 \u05db\u05d1 \u05ea\u05db\u05dd\u202cthe foreskin of your heart = 794 \u202b = \u05db\u05ea \u05e9\u05e9 \u05db\u05dc \u05ea\u05d7\u05e0\u05d5\u202clet him go = 794 \u202b = \u05de\u05d7\u05e6\u05d5 \u05db\u05e6 \u05d4\u05e8\u05ea\u202ctrumpets = 794 \u202b = \u05d5 \u05db\u05e9 \u05e9\u05de \u05db\u05d7 \u05ea\u05ea\u05dd\u202cand ye shall rejoice = 794 348","Ekev (2005) Subduing the Giant \u202b \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05db\u05d0 \u05d4\u05ea\u05d4\u202c:\u202b \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e0\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05e0 \u05d9\u05e7\u05d9\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d2\u05d3\u05d5\u05dc \u05d4\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e8\u05dd\u202c-\u202b \u05d1 \u05db\u05e2\u05dd\u202c2 a people great and tall, children of giants, that \u202b \u05d9\u05dc \u05e0\u05e4 \u05d9\u05e0\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05de\u05d9 \u05d9\u05d9 \u05e0\u05ea \u05db\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e6\u05d1\u202c--\u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05d0 \u05d4\u05ea\u05d4 \u05d4\u05e9 \u05db\u05de \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05ea\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d9 \u05db\u05d3 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05ea\u202cyou knew of, and of whom you have heard say: \u202b' \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05e0\u05e7\u202cWho can stand before the children of the giant?' \u202b \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d4\u05e2 \u05d9\u05d1\u05e8\u202c-\u202b \u05d9\u05db\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d4\u05d4\u05d9\u05da \u05d4\u05d5\u05d0\u202c,\u202b \u05d2 \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d9 \u05db\u05d3 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05ea \u05db\u05d4\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd\u202c3 Know therefore this day, that the Hashem your God is He who crosses before you a consuming \u202b\u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05db\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e9 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9 \u05d9\u05d3\u05dd \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d5\u05e0\u05ea \u05d4\u05d0 \u05db\u05db \u05d4 \u05d4 \u05d0\u202c-- \u202b\u05d4\u05dc\u202c fire; He will destroy them, and He will subjugate \u202b\u05d9\u05da \u05d9\u05d0\u05e9\u202c \u202b\u05dc\u05e0 \u05d4\u05e4\u202c \u202b\u05db\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05e4 \u05d4\u05e0\u05d9\u05da; \u05e0\u05d5\u05d4\u05d5 \u05db\u05e8 \u05e0\u05e9 \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd \u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05d4 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05db\u05d1 \u05e0\u05d3 \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd \u05db\u05de \u05d9\u05d4\u05e8\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05d9 \u05d9 \u05d9\u05e2\u05dd\u202cthem before you; you will drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Hashem spoke to \u202b\u05db\u05db \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d4\u05dc\u05da\u202c you. (Devarim 9:2,3) \u202b \u05db\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d1\u05d9\u05dd \u05db\u05d4\u05d2\u05d5 \u05d9\u05d9\u05dd \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d9\u05d0 \u05d4\u05dc\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05d6 \u05d9\u05db\u05d9 \u05ea \u05d4\u05d0 \u05db\u05de\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d1 \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05d1 \u05e0\u05d1\u05da\u202c17 If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are \u202b\u05d0\u05df \u05d4\u05db\u05d4\u202c.\u202b \u05e0\u05dc\u05d4\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d9 \u05d4\u05e9\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05de\u05de\u05d4 \u05d9; \u05d9\u05d9\u05e0 \u05d0\u05d5 \u05db\u05db\u05dc\u202cmore than I; how can I dispossess them?' (Devarim 7:17) The Torah of Rav Kahane is the consuming fire that will subjugate the enemies of Hashem. He said things that people felt but were afraid to say. He stood up to the children of the giant and was cursed by his own people for stirring this giant. Yet he proved that there was one thing that scared this mighty giant and that was Kahane. If he had not been persecuted by his own people the giant that we fear would have been banished. 'I want the Arabs out!' he would say. And people questioned 'But how will you transfer them?' He would answer 'with Egged buses'. He said 'We will give the Arabs back to any one of their 22 countries and we will compensate them less 10% that will go into a fund for Sephardic Jews who were robbed of all their fortunes when they escaped from Arab countries with nothing.' He brought the term 'transfer' and population exchange out in public and issues that he was stoned and jailed and beaten for are now being discussed by knesset members. When the Arabs began speaking about compensation for displacement in 1948 the issue of displacement of Sephardic Jews was raised and how they should be compensated. Today the issue of Arabs doing national service has been raised and Moshe Feiglin writes about encouraging Arab immigration to other countries that need skilled labor. It is interesting to note that in the passages above it begins with Hashem driving out our enemies and then it changes from 'He' to 'You'. When we act a little like Rav Kahane Hashem puts fear into our enemies and the giant is subdued. 349","Worn Out Shoes (2012) My good friend Ruben mentioned to me ten years ago that his name 'Ruben' has the same gematria of vraglayim (feet) as seen in this weeks Parsha. It made me wonder about this passage that is seen once here and with some variations in KiSavo, four Parshiot later. When I asked the Rav of the Bograshov Bet Knesset he looked up in an obscure Rashi something about these two passages. Apparently Rashi explains that the 2nd passage refers to when they first left Egypt and the 1st passage refers to forty years later as they no longer had shoes. What does this mean? Is it indicating that our generation is more physical and naked? If we look at the passages that sandwich these lines maybe we can understand it a little more. The 'shoes' that did not wear out come after the 'new heart' we were given. If this corresponds to the generation of the Shoa then it fits that when Israel came into being a new reality set in that we had not known before. The swollen feet of our generation is sandwiched with chastisements so that we understand the miraculous prosperity of the re-birth of our Nation comes with conditions. -\u202b \u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05de\u05df \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u202c-\u202b \u05db\u05d5 \u05db\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d9\u05db \u05e0\u05dc\u05da \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05d5 \u05db\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05d9\u05e2 \u05d4\u05d1\u05da\u202c,\u202b \u05d2 \u05db\u05d5 \u05e0\u05d9 \u05db\u05e2 \u05e0\u05e0\u05da\u202c3 And He afflicted you, and let you hunger, and \u202b \u05d9\u05db\u05d9\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05dc \u05db\u05de \u05db\u05e2\u05df \u05d4\u05d5 \u05d9\u05d3\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e2\u05da\u202c:\u202b \u05e0\u05d5\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d3\u05e2\u05d5\u05df \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d4\u05ea\u05d9\u05da\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d9 \u05db\u05d3 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05ea\u202cfed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know; that He might make -\u202b \u05d4\u05db\u05dc\u202c-\u202b\u05db\u05e2\u05dc\u202c \u202b \u05d9\u05db\u05d9\u202c--\u202b \u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05dc \u05d4\u05d7\u05dd \u05e0\u05dc \u05db\u05d1\u05d3\u05d5 \u05d9\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d7 \u05d4\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d3\u05dd\u202c-\u202b\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0 \u05db\u05e2\u05dc\u202c you know that man does not live by bread alone, \u202b \u05d9\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d7 \u05d4\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d3\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c-\u202b\u05de\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e6\u05d0 \u05d9\u05e4\u05d9\u202c but by every thing that emanates from the mouth of G-d does man live. \u202b \u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d2 \u05e0\u05dc\u05da\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05de \u05d4\u05e2 \u05d4\u05dc\u05d9\u05da\u202c,\u202b \u05d3 \u05d9\u05e9 \u05e0\u05de \u05d4\u05dc \u05e0\u05ea\u05da \u05dc \u05d4\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05ea\u05d4\u202c4 Your garment did not wear out upon you and \u202b \u05db\u05d0 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e2\u05d9\u05dd \u05d4\u05e9 \u05d4\u05e0\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d6\u05d4\u202c--\u202b \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e6 \u05d4\u05e7\u05d4\u202cyour feet did not swell, these forty years. \u202b \u05db\u05db \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d9 \u05db\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e1\u05e8 \u05d9\u05d0\u05d9\u05e9\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05db\u05d9\u202c:\u202b \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d4\u05d1\u05da\u202c-\u202b \u05d9\u05e2\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d4 \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d9 \u05db\u05d3 \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d4\u05ea\u202c5 And you should know in your heart, that, just as \u202b \u05e0\u05de \u05db\u05d9 \u05e0\u05e1 \u05d4\u05e8 \u05d4\u05da\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d4\u05d4\u05d9\u05da\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05d1\u05e0\u05d5\u202c-\u202b \u05d4\u05d0\u05ea\u202ca father will chastise his son, so your God chastises you. (Devarim 8:3,4,5) \u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e2\u05d9 \u05db\u05e0 \u05d9\u05d9\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05e0 \u05db\u05ea\u05df \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05d4\u05dc \u05d4\u05db\u05dd \u05d9\u05dc\u05d1 \u05d4\u05dc \u05db\u05d3 \u05db\u05e2\u05ea\u202c-\u202b \u05d2 \u05e0\u05d5\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u202c3 but the LORD hath not given you a heart to \u202b \u05db\u05d4\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05db\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d6\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05db\u05e2\u05d3\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05dc \u05e0\u05e8\u05d0\u05d5\u05ea \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05d6 \u05db\u05e0 \u05d9\u05d9\u05dd \u05d9\u05dc \u05e0\u05e9 \u05d4\u05de \u05db\u05e2\u202cknow, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. -\u202b \u05db\u05d1 \u05d9\u05de \u05e0\u05d3 \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8; \u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u202c,\u202b \u05d3 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05dc\u05da \u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05dd \u05db\u05d0 \u05e0\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e2\u05d9\u05dd \u05d4\u05e9 \u05d4\u05e0\u05d4\u202c4 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; \u202b \u05d4\u05d1 \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05ea\u05d4\u202c-\u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05e0 \u05db\u05e2 \u05e0\u05dc\u05da \u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u202c,\u202b \u05d4\u05d1\u05dc\u05d5 \u05db\u05e9 \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05de \u05d9\u05ea\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd \u05d9\u05de \u05e0\u05e2 \u05d9\u05dc\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202cyour garment did not wear out from on you, and \u202b \u05d9\u05de \u05db\u05e2\u05dc \u05db\u05e8 \u05e0\u05d2 \u05d4\u05dc\u05da\u202cyour shoe did not wear out from on your foot. --\u202b \u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05d9 \u05d9\u05d9\u05df \u05e0\u05d5 \u05d9\u05e9 \u05d4\u05db\u05e8 \u05dc \u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05e9 \u05d9\u05ea\u05d9 \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d4 \u05d4\u05dc \u05d4\u05d7\u05dd \u05dc \u05d4\u05d0 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05db\u05db \u05e0\u05dc \u05d4\u05ea\u05dd\u202c5 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk \u202b \u05d1\u05d0\u05dc \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05db\u05dd\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05db\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d0 \u05d9\u05e0\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u202c,\u202b \u05d9\u05ea \u05e0\u05d3\u05e2\u05d5\u202c,\u202b \u05e0\u05dc \u05db\u05de \u05db\u05e2\u05df\u202cwine or strong drink; that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. 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