In Part One of this series, we once again witnessed the
continuing quest of a few of the religious Zealots who like their ancestors of
old, sought to return Judaism to the life of their ancient forefathers of old.
If only, they believe from the depths of their hearts, that if Torah observant
Jews fulfilled the exact precepts of Torah law including the sacrificing of the
Korban lamb upon the Temple Mount, their hopes and dreams would precipitate the
coming of the Maschiah ben Dovid (Messiah son of David).
So we ask; is the Zionist State of Israel part of the social
profane, or the sacred? If we truly believe that the G-d of Israel is the Sovereign
G-d of the Universe, then we also will believe that He alone is stirring up the
nations to the final fulfillment of prophecy that a future Messianic Age will
come.
Can we then believe that the words spoken by the G-d of
Israel spoke through the pen of the Prophet Zechariah to the Jews that returned
back to Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity also have a meaning to not
only to the Jewish people today but also to the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of
Israel?
Zechariah 1:3-6 – “Thus said HaShem,
Master of Legions: ‘Return to Me – the word of HaShem, Master of Legions – and
I will return unto you…Do not be like your fathers, to whom the prophets of
old, called out, saying…Return now, from your evil ways and from your evil
deeds, ‘but they did not listen nor pay attentions to Me…
Your forefathers, where are they?
And as for the prophets, could they live forever? However, My words and My
decrees, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not befall your
fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as HaShem Master of Legions, thought to
do to us, according to our ways and our deeds, so did He with us.’”
Within the Prophetic Book of Zechariah
G-d left behind a message to us today, in the transliteration of the Prophet
Zechariah’s name in Hebrew: Zekaryah ben Berechiah ben Iddo (Zechariah
son of Berechiah grandson of Iddo). So we also learn, according to the traditions of the Hebrews, the names of the authors in the prophetic book of the TaNaKh have a special significance. In this prophetic book written for our end times, we see the following meaning of Zechariah unfold:
Zechariah (Zekaryah) is known as “HaShem remembers”, or “HaShem has remembered.”
Berechiah, the meaning of the name of the father of Zechariah is: “G-d blesses”
Iddo, the
meaning of the name of the grandfather of Zechariah was: “At the appointed
time”.
So the end-time message is: “G-d remembers and God blesses at the
appointed Time”
As Hebrew is translated from right to left, then, we might also consider that the following meaning of Zechariah’s
name spoken in reverse also means:
“At the Appointed Time, G-d blesses and G-d
remembers”
So today, we are witnessing prophecy in
fulfillment. Jewish organizers of the Sacrifice of the Korban Lamb/Goat rehearsal
that was now denied by the Israeli Veterinary Society, took a petition to the Jewish
court in Jerusalem. There they received a ruling that gave permission for the
Passover ritual of the sacrificing of the lamb or goat to continue. You may
witness this event below.
The Jewish Passover sacrificial ritual continued. It was
presided over by Rabbi Yehuda Glick, who, earlier had his Korban goat
“arrested” and later slaughtered by the command of the Israeli
Agricultural Minister at the Wildlife Supervision Department. Rabbi Yehuda
Glick later described that this riveting ritual was carried out with the
greatest of care for its biblical accuracy.
As he described:
Rabbi Yehuda Glick –
“We took the goat, as the Torah commands, we had an altar
built like the real one, and a cooking pit built according to halakhah (Jewish
Torah Law) We slaughtered the goat with Leviim singing and priestly clothing,
just like in the real Passover sacrifice. The ritual was emotionally moving.
The symbolism of standing opposite the Temple Mount and preparing for the real
Passover sacrifice – it was without doubt a special moment.”
Today, Rabbi Yehuda
Glick is the founder of the organization called “The Movement for the
Establishment of the Temple”. According to Rabbi Glick, the Jewish people
have become “psychologically connected, over the centuries, to the Western Wall
of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem because the rebuilding of the temple seems
like an impossible task.” It was only 25 years ago they the Jewish people
actually started ascending upon the Temple Mount. First it was small groups but
now hundreds of Jews and Christians are now going up upon the Temple. Yet,
recently the Jewish people once again been discriminated
against and not allowed to ascend to the Temple Mount
while Christians and Muslim are still allowed. So who is this Movement for the
Establishment of the Temple that is gaining so much public attention?
Motti
Inbari – “This article discusses the internal world of the Movement
for the Establishment of the Temple, a small and unique group within modern-day
ultra-Orthodox circles in Israel. This group seeks to achieve a religious
revolution within Israeli Orthodoxy through its demand to rebuild the Temple
and to abolish the grave halakhic prohibition against entering the Temple Mount
area. The movement argues that Orthodox passivity on this issue is due to a
theological error, and accordingly it offers an alternative historiographic and
theological approach.
The article discusses in
detail the manner in which this group has attempted to achieve religious change
and to address the dilemmas raised by this demand. It also discusses the manner
in which the group acts to encourage messianic activism within traditionalist
Orthodox circles.
This discussion may
provide valuable information regarding the behavior of modern-day
ultra-Orthodox society. The article describes the theological crisis provoked
in certain Orthodox Zionist circles by the Oslo process, which was based on a
territorial compromise between the State of Israel and the Palestinians in the
Land of Israel, and explains why this crisis enabled the movement's ideas to
penetrate growing circles within the rabbinical leadership of Gush Emunim.
Concern that the State
of Israel might hand the Temple Mount over to Palestinian control led to a
change in what had been considered for centuries to be a grave religious
prohibition.”
This Temple Mount
Movement understandably has caused great dissension among the Islamic people,
who believe that the Temple Mount is holy only to the Muslim people. Yet, Rabbi
Glick is now calling on all the Jewish people to unite and make every effort to
go to this sacred site and focus their prayers upon the rebuilding of the next
temple in Jerusalem.
In fact, it was back
April, 2011, that Glick claimed that the Children of Israel were commanded “in
perpetuity” to sacrifice a lamb or a goat on each anniversary of the
Exodus. Even though the current belief
that without the temple, that was last destroyed less than 2,000 years ago, in
the days of the Exodus, there was not a temple. The first Passover (Pesach) was
conducted by every Israelite family, and according to Glick, so they should be
doing so today.
Back in 2011, Rabbi
Glick, along with several influential rabbis, as written in The Jewish Daily Forwards
in the article titled, “300
Goats and Sheep, 20 Slaughterers, One Willful Rabbi”, we
learned that Rabbi Yehuda Glick contracted Jewish farmers to provide him with
300 sheep and goats for a sacrifice, should the Messiah come. Also, there were
20 Jewish slaughterers on stand-by. This event was written about on Destination
Yisrael in the article titled, “Will the Sacrifice of the Pesach
Lamb be reinstituted in Jerusalem in 2011?”
For those who wanted to
“share”, that is one ounce of lamb or goat meat, prepared according to the
halakhic command of a sacrificial animal, they were invited to purchase it by
phone, and a credit card for 12 shekels which was about $3.00. By the eve of
Pesach over 3,000 people had signed up.
The official inauguration
of the sacrificial ritual is, according to Rabbi Glick, the next step to the
actual fulfillment of biblical prophecy. At that time the work of the Temple
Mount Faithful will become fulfilled. According to the Temple Mount Faithful,
all the implements that are needed to be used in a new temple have been made.
This included the knowledge of where the site of the new Jewish Temple is to be
built upon the Temple Mount.
The Great Golden Menorah
to be used in the next Jewish Temple has been built and housed in a glass
protective casing for the visiting public to inspect. Also all of the 28,000
priests needed to conduct the sacrifices in the next Jewish temple have been
trained. Their priestly garments are now ready to be used.
Now, according to Rabbi
Glick, it is time for the Jewish people to become accustomed to “ascending the
Temple Mount” and now only to learn how to pray but to become involved as
participants in the future Temple services.
As such Rabbi Yehuda Glick has now proclaimed; “There should be no more
prayers at the Western Wall, but instead, let’s go up to the Temple Mount.”
Sanhedrin
97a – “Rebi Yochanan said: In the generation that Ben Dovid will come, talmidei
chachamim, the “pupil of wisdom” known as the Torah sage or scholar, will
decrease, and the eyes of the remainder will protrude from sighing and sorrow;
many chastisements and many evil decrees will be renewed; one will not cease
before another begins.”
Let us now look at the final four
years in this collections of passages in the Talmud in Sanhedrin 97a, as was
given by the famous Jewish sage, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zaccai:
According to Rabbi Yochanan ben Zaccai, these
immediate future days over the next 3½ years are part of HaShem’s vision for
our future life. Here was Rabbi Yochana’s vision of the final four years that
began with the Last Sabbatical Week of Years on Rosh Hashanah 2008. Here is how
he envisioned what will happen in the Land of Israel in the final four years as
the world is sinking into the economic
abyss, it’s affect upon the Land of Israel that will begin to improve in the
year of 2013, and the contagiousness about the coming of the Messiah will
become serious in the Jewish population by the years of 2014 to 2015.
Talmud
Sanhedrin 97a – “In the fourth year (2013), some will be satiated while
others are not,
In
the fifth year (2014), there will be plenty and
people will eat, drink, and be joyous, and the Torah will return to those who
learned it.
In
the sixth year (2015), there will be voices which
according to Rashi depict either the blowing of the shofars (war) or the hints
and voices about the coming of the messiah.
In
the seventh year (2016), there
will be war (GogUMogog War or Armageddon).”
Rabbi
Judah heHasid – “In the ninth jubilee (1967-2917) Jerusalem will once again
come back into the possession of the Jewish nation – which will signify
the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
As Destination Yisrael wrote:
Destination
Yisrael - “This leaves one more Jubilee,
the tenth Jubilee since the Ottoman Turks took control of Jerusalem and the
Land of Promise in the years of 1517. According to this Jewish sage, the end of
this tenth Jubilee will “signify the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
As
we review the Sabbatical Week of Years, this present Sabbatical Cycle began on
Rosh Hashanah 2008 5778. The 8th year would have been the day of the
Messiah ending Rosh Hashanah 2009, but the Messiah did not come.
If
this Sabbatical Messianic cycle 2009-2017 is completed and the GogUMogog war
does begin within the year between Rosh Hashanah 2015 to Rosh Hashanah 2016,
then the Messianic Era will commence before Rosh Hashanah 2017. We are
currently in the 4th year of the Sabbatical Messianic Cycle that
began on Rosh Hashanah 2009, now in the Jewish year 5773 (2013).
There
is still time for the Messiah the Prince, the anti-Messiah to forge a covenant
with the “Holy Ones” of the rabbanim of Jerusalem for a seven year hudna, for
the biblical text in Daniel clearly states that it will be abrogated by the
anti-Messiah within 3½ years.
Can
we look forward to a Middle East Peace Accord by Passover 2013? If so, 3½
years later, will be see the revealing of the Maschiach ben Dovid before Rosh
Hashanah 2016 (Jewish year 5777 between Rosh Hashanahs 5776-7)?
If
so, the Epic Year of the Messiah will be here on Rosh Hashanah 2016 or the
Jewish year of 5000 plus 777 years. The age of the Enlightenment of the Torah
will have begun. The forces of evil will have been destroyed and the Kingdom of
G-d on Planet Earth will begin with the Maschiach ben Dovid ruling with the
“rod of iron”.
The day will soon be
here when the HaShem, the G-d of Israel will open the gates of the supernal
heavens, and at that time, no man or any group will be able to stop the final
prophetic river from flowing towards the mighty waterfall that will cascade us
into the Age of the Messiah.
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2013 Passover Series: The Jewish Quest to
Observe Torah Law on the Temple Mount
The Exodus and the Pesach Festival are an indelible link of
the ancient Israelites to the modern Jewish people. Even the Lost Ten Tribes of
the House of Israel who are predominately worshipping in Christian Churches
today, worship the Passover in a corrupted festival of Easter initiated by the
First Church of Rome in the 3rd century CE. Yet, there is still real
spiritual imagery that if taken back to their Hebrew-Judaic roots could become
the pathway of the Lost Christian Israelites to be reunited back with their
Jewish brothers of the House of Judah.
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Establishing the Shomron (the
Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing
the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of
All Israel.
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the Land and its population – the Jews, and how this integration can possibly
take place.
As
the Jewish Passover is being celebrated around the world, we are reminded that
the Passover was the beginnings of one of the greatest epic year in world
catastrophes and redemption. Out of the Passover, the Great Exodus began that
swept the Israelites out of Egypt. It began one of the greatest migrations of
peoples in the world, for one reason, the G-d of Israel residing in the
Shekinah Glory that gave them the Pillar of Cloud that sheltered them from the
sun by day, and the Pillar of Light that gave them a protective light to keep
them safe by night.
Is it
any wonder that as members of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, we
understand that our destiny of being lost and abandoned is about over. As the
prophets have spoken with great clarity, the G-d of Israel has spoken that He
will redeem us. This time He has not asked out permission. He will do it for
one reason only; we have failed to honor His Holy Name and instead continue to
desecrate it as we live in the nations of the world, but this time, He has
promised that He will honor His Holy Name and will “take us out of the lands of
our dwelling, and plant us back into the tribal lands of our forefathers, there
we shall be His people, and He shall be our G-d. (Paraphrased on Ezekiel 36).
As we
study this present day, and Passover, we realize that we are in momentous
times. Not only that our time is short, and the cycling of time is speeding up
faster and faster. It was towards the end of the era of the Roman Christian
Crusaders that placed such havoc in the Middle East at the turn of the 1st
Millennium after the 1st century Temple of Herod era. During this era, a Hassidic rabbi called
Rabbi Ben Samuel lived. He was called the “Light of Israel”, for Rabbi
Judah ben Samuel did not discriminate against anyone who wanted to learn from
him. Even the Roman Catholic bishops sought his wisdom.
Towards the end of his life in the
year of 1217, Rabbi ben Samuel began publishing his biblical calculations
called the Gematria, plus his astronomical observations a gave us this summary
of the last ten Jubilees, or the last 400 years before the revealing of the
Maschiah ben David:
Rabbi
Judah ben Samuel - “When the Ottomans (Turks) – who were already a power
to be reckoned with on the Bosporus in the time of Judah Ben Samuel – conquer
Jerusalem they will rule over Jerusalem for eight jubilees. Afterwards Jerusalem
will become no-man’s land for one jubilee, and then in the ninth jubilee
it will once again come back into the possession of the Jewish nation
– which would signify the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
According to Leviticus 25, one Jubilee
period is 50 years in which the 50th year, each person will regain
ownership of his or her tribal lands. In reference to the time of the end, this
will be the time when the Maschiah (Messiah) will be revealed and now dwelling
among his people. Looking over this
succinct and powerful prophecy, we now realize that it amazing accuracy to
date, also gives us a potent reminded that we now have an amazingly short time
before the full prediction of this prophecy will occur. As Rabbi Judah ben
Samuel’s was revealed:
The Ottoman Turks would conquer the city of
Jerusalem, which were controlled by the Roman Christian Crusaders at that time.
This occurred in the year of 1517. They would rule over Jerusalem for eight
Jubilees (50 years x 8 is 400 years).
After that date, the city of Jerusalem will
become a “no-man’s land for one jubilee. So in 1917, that the British General
Edmund Allenby captured the city of Jerusalem on Hanukkah, December 17, 1917.
The Ottoman Empire effectively collapsed within a year, and Islam’s bid to
control the Land of Israel was destroyed.
The British Mandate controlled with the French the Middle East and
Jerusalem became a “no-man’s land for one Jubilee (1917-1967).
In the year of 1967, the Jewish people were
once again attacked my Muslim forces. After the Six-Day War ended on June 17,
1967, the entire West Bank plus the entire city of Jerusalem that was occupied
by the Jordanians but never possessed, was returned by the G-d of Israel was
returned to the possession of the Jewish people.
No matter what the pundits of the
world day, the city of Jerusalem will never again be in the possession of
anyone except the Jewish people. As Rabbi Judah heHasid wrote:
Rabbi
Judah heHasid – “In the ninth jubilee Jerusalem will once again come
back into the possession of the Jewish nation – which will signify
the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
According
to Rabbi Judah ben Samuel, this officially ends the prophecy of the ten
Jubilees (500 years) since the Land of Israel was taken control of by the
Islamic Ottoman Turks in the year of 1517, and will effectively spell the end
of Islam’s bid to control the Land of Israel and dash their hopes to control
the world. As we celebrate with the Jews the Passover, we are reminded of one
fact: we are today, on March 25, 2013 only 3½ years until the Jewish year of
2017 and the Messianic Age begins.
Understanding
the entire meaning of the Jewish Sabbatical Week of Years, the Jewish people
yearned for the coming of the messiah for seven years. In the 8th
year, or after a series of seven Sabbatical Week of Years (49 Years), the 8th
year being the Jubilee Year, the Messiah will be revealed and given the glory
of the kingdom of G-d to rule the world.
What
does this suggest to us, when we say that we have only three and one-half years
before the Maschiah will appear in our three dimensional space on Planet Earth?
Count the months, from Passover to Rosh Hashanah is six months and Rosh Hashanah
2013 (Year of 2014) to Rosh Hashanah (Year of 2017) is truly only 3½ years from now. At
that time, according to Rabbi Judah ben Samuel, the Messianic Age will
begin. The Maschiach ben Dovid will be
“come” or be “revealed” before Rosh Hashanah 2016 (Jewish year 5777 between
Rosh Hashanahs 5776-7)?
If so, the Epic Year of the Messiah
will be here on Rosh Hashanah 2016, or in the Jewish year of 5777 (5000 plus
777 years). The age of the Enlightenment of the Torah will have begun. The
forces of evil will have been destroyed and the Kingdom of G-d on Planet Earth
will begin with the Maschiach ben Dovid ruling with the “rod of iron.
Our hearts begin to palpitate now with
expectation. Did the King of the North, just arrive and then leave from the
City of Jerusalem? Will his days soon be numbered? Was he here for one purpose: to forge a Peace
Agreement with the new Jewish government in Jerusalem? Did the world just a few
days ago witness the last Pope according their own Papal Prophecies to be given
power and authority over the world until the “dreaded Judge will judge or
sentence the people?”
Prophecy of St.
Malachi on the Last Pope, Peter the Roman –
“During the final
persecution of the Roman Christian Church, one called “Petrus Romanus will
reign (Peter the Roman), who will nourish his believers in many sufferings.
After that, the town of the seven hills will be destroyed and the
dreaded judge will sentence his people. The End!”
“In the final
persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Petrus Romanus, who will
feed his flock amid many tribulations; after which the seven-hilled
city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people."
The End!”
It now appears that the Messiah the Prince, or the Maschiah
Nagid (Black, Hidden or the anti-Messiah) has now been revealed. Is he the
“King of the North” or is the titled of the Messiah the Prince be given into
the hands of Peter the Roman, who is destined to
rule over his people from Rome until “the seven hilled city will be destroyed”.
Whomever the Messiah the Prince is to
be revealed and whether he is the anti-Messiah, prophetic events appear to be
swirling around our eyes. Look at the Events that unfolded in just this one
week:
The Prime Minister of Israel officially
proclaims that he backs “two states for two peoples.”
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime
Minister Salam Fayyad were urged to “drop preconditions, for the Palestinians
deserve a fully sovereign state”.
While Iran’s leader threatened that Tel Aviv
and Haifa would be leveled if Israel were the attack Iran, the President of the
United States promised to solve the Iranian crisis.
North Korea military threatens to target
Anderson Air Force base in Guam where the B-52 takes off, the mainland of Japan
where America’s nuclear powered submarines are deployed and the American Navy
bases in Okinawa.
These events were preceded by a Plague
of Locust and the first omen came as “The Beast” his armored vehicle would not
start when filled with Israeli petrol.
The visit also ended as a rare Red
Dust Clouded Sandstorm surrounding the Land of Israel when the President of the
United States had to effectively cut short his visit with the Palestinian
delegation in Bethlehem because his helicopter was grounded by the red dust
storm. Could this dust storm have come because of the closeness of the Red
Binary Dwarf Star that is surrounded by a vortex of red iron oxide dust?
Whatever the meaning, the 4th
year of the Sabbatical Messianic Cycle that began on Rosh Hashanah 2009 is now
here in the Jewish year 5773 (2013). That gives us just 3½ years for the
anti-Messiah to abrogate the Peace Accord and final judgment will be revealed.
If not, do we have to wait for another
50 year Jubilee period to be completed before the messiah will be revealed? Let
us “Cry unto the L-rd to redeem us, for He has promised us, “If you will call upon
Me, I will answer!”
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The Battle for the
Minds of the Human Race is now coming to its fullest revelation. The forces of
Darkness will battle with the Forces of HaShem’s angels of Light as the final
battle for the souls of men are played out on Planet Earth. Out of these epic
war will come the restoration and redemption of All Israel; the Ten Lost Tribes
of the House of Israel and the Jews of the House of Judah.
The Roman Catholic
Church has been a major part of this Drama of the Ages and will continue to do
so until the Final Act of that Divine Drama. It will include the Jews of the
House of Israel, the Lost Sheep of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Northern
Israel; both of the House of Jacob (Israel). It will also include the
Roman Edomites of the House of Esau, the brother of Jacob of the House of
Isaac. It will also include the Arabs of the House of Ishmael, the brother to
Isaac of the House of Abraham.
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more, Contact “Kol
Ha Tor Vision”,
the Voice of the Turtledove. Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber
Mission to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical
Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and
Re-United).
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blog is a supporter of Kol Ha Tor Vision and while we are publishing material
that may be relevant to the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, the
leadership of Kol Ha Tor do not necessarily agree with everything we have
published. Yet, we understand, until the Messiah son of David comes to give us
full insight into what is happening to our lives and our world today, we may
know only in part while we continue to support the rabbanim of Israel and seek
reconciliation with the Jews of the House of Israel until we are finally one
family; the family of our Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
This reunification
will truly be a super Event of all Times that will entail Establishing the
Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean
Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the
Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All
Israel.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, we invite you to make a
personal Visit to Israel and stay at “Shomron Lives!”,a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House
in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost
Tribers of the House of Israel.
With
the recent election of the new Pope, Pope Francis I will now sit on the throne
of the Vatican in Rome. This new “Jesuit Saint” whose ministry to the poor and
the downtrodden in Argentina, has been carefully scripted into his future image
is now being transmitted around the world as the new personification of the
Roman Catholic “Jesus Christ” who will bring “Peace” to the Middle East.
Looking
through the telescope of history, it is thereby important for descendants of
the “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel” to bear in mind that it was this same Orthodox
Jewish rabbi who spoke to his disciples concerning the “last days” but gave
with this prophecy a warning:
Matthew 24:4 – “Watch out! Don’t let anyone fool you! For
many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah!’ and they will lead many
astray. You will hear the noise of wars nearby and the new of wars far off; see
to it that you don’t become frightened. Such this must happen, but the end is
yet to come.
For people will fight each other, nations will fight each
other, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various parts of the world;
all this is but the beginning of the ‘birth pain.’ At that time you will be
arrested and handed over to be punished and put to death, and all peoples will
hate you because of me.
At that time many will be trapped into betraying and
hating each other, many false prophets will appear and fool many people; and
many people’s love will grow cold because of increased distance from the
Torah.”
With these words in mind, recently the
outgoing Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon left his official post in the
Israeli government and when he did, it was revealed that he has left a stain of
deception which screamed out in the recent headlines in the Jerusalem Post that announced:
Jerusalem Post – “Jerusalem is on verge of signing agreement
to formalize diplomatic relations with the Holy See.”
Why would the
State of Israel be signing diplomatic relations with the Vatican? The international news has been quiet for
almost eight years on any diplomatic moves by the Vatican with the State of
Israel. With this announcement there
came the report of “conflicting and disturbing reports” concerning the status
of the “Upper Room” (Cenacle Shrine of the Coenaculum) where it is believed
that the Jewish rabbi, Yahshua HaNotzri (Jesus the Nazarene) once hosted with
his disciples the “Last Supper” that occurred on Wednesday evening according to
the Passover traditions of the Essenes.
What is most
interesting is that this Prince of David was actually presiding over a
“Passover” season meal with his disciples in a place that the Nazarene history
called the “House with the Upper Room.” What was even more amazing was that this
“Upper Room” was located physically in the midst of the Essene Quarters of southwestern
section of the ancient walled city of Jerusalem. Not only that, this Prince of King David,
known as Rabbi Yahshua was sitting right over the traditional Tomb of King
David; a powerful political statement.
Today, this same
site is now the central campus of the Diaspora Yeshiva on the hill called Mount
Zion. Back in October, 2005, BibleSearchers Reflections
quoting Israel National News stated this report:
Israel National News – “An official
Vatican newspaper has reported that during his upcoming visit to the Vatican, President Moshe Katsav will sign an
agreement giving parts of David’s Tomb over to papal control. If such an
agreement is signed, it will put an end
to drawn out negotiations that began in 1998. Israeli and Vatican
representatives began discussing issues
of jurisdiction over certain sites around seven years ago. These sites include various buildings and parcels
of land that the Catholic Church claims it used to control.
The church is now seeking to reclaim
its ownership of these sites. Among the places under debate is an area
that the church refers to as the site
of the “last supper,” which is situated at the burial site of Kings David, Solomon, Rechavam (Rehoboam), Assa (Asa),
Chezekiyahu (Hezekiah) and Amatzia (Amaziah). The Vatican newspaper, El
Messagero, reports that President
Katsav is expected to sign an agreement during his visit that will give the
church control over the upper part of David’s Tomb. The church has
already shown Israel a trial agreement, according to which the Vatican will
receive.”
The news after that
time went underground. Now eight years later it is resurfacing again. This time
it was not open to the media or to the Jewish people but in the back offices of
the Foreign Ministry department. In 2005, there was an uproar that was led in
part by the indomitable Jewish Israeli reporter
Barry Chamish, that uncloaked the underhanded diplomatic agreements
that were about to be signed by the Israeli President Moshe Katsav. This
included also the threat, later to Israeli President Olmert of creating a “Jewish
Holocaust in Rome” if the State of Israel did not accept the Vatican sovereignty
to the site of the “House with the Upper Room”, and did not accept the “Spanish
Initiative” to remove Israeli soldiers in Gaza and replace them with soldiers
from Vatican Europe.
The Times on Line – “Vatican is hoping to regain control of the Room of the Last Supper in
Jerusalem, one of the most sacred sites in
Christianity. It will, in exchange,
hand over to the Jewish community
the historic synagogue at Toledo in Spain, at present a Catholic church.
The proposals, contained in a draft
agreement between the Israeli
Government and the Vatican, come on the eve of a state visit to the Vatican next month by President Katsav. Final
details on a long-delayed accord on the status of Roman Catholic properties in
the Holy Land are expected to be agreed during the visit, marking a new era of reconciliation between Christians and Jews after centuries of hostility.”
The
current site of the “Church with the Upper Room” was rebuilt by the Roman
Christian Crusaders in the 13th century upon the earlier foundations
of the original Jewish
Hebrew Nazarene Synagogue that was spared
by the Roman general Titus in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70
CE. Today, it is also believed that
three walls of this current structure still exist from its earliest Jewish
roots built by the guardians of King David’s Tomb.
The
Holy Zion Octagonal Church was later built by Theodosius I about 382 CE, and
later enlarged by Bishop John II into a rectangular basilica with five naves
alongside and outside the original and ancient foundations of the historic
Synagogue of the Nazarene’s Apostles. This latter building was razed by the
Persian in 614 CE, and partially rebuilt by the Patriarch Modestus.
It
is stated that the entire structure was razed to the ground by the Muslim
caliph, Al-Hakim in the 7th century CE, and afterwards was replaced
by the current structure built by the Roman Christian Crusaders in the 12th
century as a five aisled basilica in what is called today the Dormition Abbey named
after the Jewish Princess of David whom the Roman Christian Church recognizes
as Mary, the mother
of Jesus.
In
ancient times, there were four
religious parties in the 1st century Temple of Herod era culture
in Jerusalem. These were the Sadducees that included the aristocratic families
of the high priests of Jerusalem, the Pharisees Beit Shammai,
the competing yeshiva (Jewish seminary) to Beit Hillel, the party of the Scribes
and the Lawyers (Mechoqeck), and what was known as the 4th Philosophy or
the 4th
Party of Judaism; the Essenes and the Hassidim. As BibleSearchers
Reflections wrote in 1999:
BibleSearchers Reflections – “The tradition
of the Essenes goes back to about 150
BC when the Chasidim, rebelled and split off from the Jewish hierarchy
in protest to their secular accommodation with Persian and Roman
authorities. They were the most
mysterious of all the sects in Judea. Outside of Josephus and Philo, the early Jewish
and Christian scholars had very little documentation until the Dead Sea Scrolls
were uncovered in the Qumran site near the Dead Sea about this mysterious sect.
The most prominent thesis accepted today is that Qumran was a library and manuscript production site, and
possibly the major headquarters of the Essenes in Judea. Hundreds
of documents, scrolls and fragments have been discovered and catalogued on every book of the Old Testament except the
Book of Esther. Also included were scores of books and commentaries outside the Old Testament Canon.
What was even
more revealing were the words and their meaning of their literature such as, ‘the poor’, ‘the meek’, the ‘four thousand’,
the ‘five thousand’, the ‘elect’, which were used in the teachings and
ministry of the Nazarene. They were a prophetic group with a defined
apocalyptic mission. They felt they were to wait the soon coming messiah
and to protect him when he arrived.
The Essenes, about one hundred fifty years before Yahshua HaNotzri’s
(Jesus the Nazarene’s) birth, split as part of the Chasidim separatists, over the Sadducee party who were working as
‘accomplices’ with the Romans to rule and for the security of Judea. To
them, the Sadducees were usurpers of
the role of the temple priests. Later the High Priest from the descendants
of the Levitical priestly line of Zadok, the appointed High Priest of King
David, but they too, were collaborators with Herod the Great, who brought them
over from the Jewish
temple in Leontopolis in Egypt.”
Understandable, during this era, Imperial
Rome was trying to take control of Judea using Herod the Great as their ally
and accomplice. In the year of 37 BCE,
Herod the Great sent a courier to Alexandria, Egypt and to the Jewish temple at
Leontopolis. The noted priest by the name
of Boethus was requested to return to the land of Israel and assume the control
of the office of the high priest in the Temple in Jerusalem that Herod the
Great was now expanding to become the largest and most opulent temple in the world.
The Zadokians, according to some experts had set up a separate Temple service outside of Jerusalem,
at Khirbet Mird, a Hasmonean Palace, which they claimed was ministered
by the pure line of Zadok temple priests. Yet, it was in year of 6 CE that
the high priests now ruling as the official high priests of the House of Zadok became
corrupted when the famed high priestly dynasty of Ananus (Ananias) the Great
took control of the office of high priest by out bidding “bribing” the
Procurator of Rome sent to rule the Roman province of Judea and whose dynastic
family virtually controlled the office of the high priest until the temple was
destroyed in 70 CE.
The
Cenacle was later destroyed again in 1219, yet was again spared and rebuilt in
1340 CE, when the Franciscan Order of Friars took custody and possession of this site. This
possession by the Roman Catholic Church lasted only 200 years when in 1552, the
Ottoman Turks took possession and transformed this building into an Islamic Mosque.
The
truth of this fact is that within the Cenacle is a semicircular niche called a
mihrab that indicated to the Muslim worshippers the qibla, or the direction where the Kaaba in Mecca was located. This
was important to know by every Muslim worshipper for they were to pray towards
that direction; not towards the Temple Mount and the sight of Solomon’s Temple but
towards Mecca. This again suggests the
disregard that the Arabs who lived during the Middle Ages had towards the
Temple Mount. Even then the Arabs did not place any sanctity to this place but
only further to the East in Mecca.
It
was in 1967, when the State of Israel won the 6-day war against her Muslim
neighbors who once again sought to annihilate the Jewish people in Israel.
Amazingly, it was seven hundred years earlier that a famous 12th
century Jewish rabbinic sage, Rabbi
Judah ben Samuel predicted, in that in the year
of 1967 the Jewish people would once again take possession of all Jerusalem and
the Temple Mount.
He
proclaimed that they, the Jewish people, would hold possession of this site for
one Jubilee (fifty years) before the Messiah son of David would begin his
messianic reign in Jerusalem in the year of 2017. Nowhere in any biblical or Jewish prophecy
does it suggest that the Jews with the State of Israel will relinquish
sovereignty of the Temple Mount. The Nazarene Judaism prophetic testimony
stated that there would be “Two Witnesses” who would protect Jerusalem and the
Holy Land for 1260 days (3½ years) up until about 18 hours before the revealing
of the Messiah, when they would be executed as the Islamic hordes dance over
their bodies. That said, there are numerous hints that a Jewish temple or a
Temple for all religions (Masonic Temple) would be built upon the Temple Mount
in an ecumenical bid to “Peace, with Great Security” for the whole earth.
Since
1967, the Jewish government in Jerusalem has faithfully guarded and allowed
peoples from all religions to worship in every holy site in the State of Israel.
This is a historical fact to the credit of the Jewish people and the State of
Israel. It contrasts, non-the-less,
against the Arab guardians of the Temple Mount called the Islamic Waqf, who
have desecrated every bit of Jewish evidence upon the Temple Mount even though
the State of Israel still maintains sovereign control and that they have been
given only semi-autonomous rule over the Temple Mount.
When
we look at the history of the Roman Christian Church, we also see an even more
predator like role, of possession for the sake of power, greed and control.
This gave rise to the Roman
Catholic Inquisition in the 13th century and its role of
destroying all forms of free speech and the right to the free expression of
worship.
What
is the historical truth today? Of all
peoples that come to worship in the Holy Land of Israel, as former Labor MK
Daniel ben Simon shockingly observed, only the Jewish
people are discriminated from worshipping upon the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; the holiest sacred place in Judaism today.
Another historical truth, the Cenacle where the disciples of the Jewish rabbi
called Jesus the Nazarene participated in a sacred ritual called the “Last
Supper” that was akin to the Wednesday evening Passover rituals as celebrated
by the ancient Essenes in Judea.
As
a matter of symbolism, it was a statement of authority when Yahshua, the Prince
of David sat in his reclining couch as was the custom in that age. Why? He was
sitting directly over the Tomb of David. The fact that it was protected and
guarded by the Essenes in its original site in the 1st century city
of Jerusalem and that it was the Essenes who were the guardians of all Princes
of David, suggest, that layers of hidden truth still remains as to the identity
of this mysterious rabbi who claimed that his only mission was that he was
“sent by his Father, to find the “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel.” (Matthew 15:24)
When
all the apparent and literal knowledge we know of this “One Man” who has made
the most profound impact upon human history, whether it be in its most simple
understanding (peshat) or in his most
hidden and mysterious meanings (sod)
and understandings, the most profound implication is that the Roman Christian
“Jesus Christ” and the Jewish Orthodox Nazarene “Jesus the Nazarene” are about
the same historical man, but the Roman Christian Jesus of corruption of the
Prince of David Yahshua.
There
is overwhelming evidence that the Jewish messiah of the Nazarenes was lifted
out of the philosophic and religious domain of historical Judaism in the 1st
century Temple of Herod era and corrupted and replaced with the philosophical
and religious understanding of the Greco-Roman Hellenistic world at that time.
The
archetypical and historical reality is that when the Jewish (yehudi) neshama soul was placed in time
and space in Judea and Galilee as an observant Jew, a prince of David, and a
Jewish Pharisee who evoked the halakhic understanding of Torah after the
Yeshiva (school) of Hillel the Great, his imprint upon the majority of the
peasantry class of Jews was profound in its impact. Yet this understanding was three
centuries later carefully remolded and amalgamation with the surrounding pagan
ideas of Mithraism and the Roman gods of the Greco-Roman world.
It was the First
Church of Rome that destroyed the documentation and original historical archives of
this Jewish prince of David and messiah and replaced its authentic Jewish
history with a power structure that rose up in history as the Roman Catholic
(world-wide) Church who sought to smother all of his authentic Jewish roots.
The
facts still exist that the pathway of halakhic Torah truth as espoused by 1st
century Judaism was permitted by the G-d of Israel to become the pathway of
restoration eventually for the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. It was they who completely lost their identity,
their way, and their G-d. Even so, the G-d of Israel promised them that He
would restore them also to their chosen destiny as Klal Yisrael (All Israel).
Since
the day of the liberation of Eastern Jerusalem from the Occupiers of the State
of Jordan in 1967, this site, the “Upper Room” sitting directly over the Tomb
of King David has also been for almost one Jubilee the site of Jewish religious
schools called yeshivas. Today they are teaching the new generations of
observant Jews how to live and keep the commands of the Torah.
Yet,
like the Temple Mount, who also the State of Israel claims sovereignty rights
over its possession, did give control of the Temple Mount to the Islamic Waqf,
only to have the Waqf begin a process of systematically destroying all the
evidence of its Jewish heritage and replace it with Islamic mosques forbidden
by Jews and Christians alike from entering. So today, the sites of these Jewish
seminaries (yeshivas) are now being threatened to be turned over to the control
of the apostate Christianity called the Roman Catholic Church.
Yet,
Jews have already walked that walk before, when in 1967, they turned over the
managing control of the Temple Mount to the Islamic Waqf of Jerusalem. What did
they receive in return; riots, Jewish people arrested, rocks thrown down from
the Temple Mount to the praying worshippers below and more recently
throwing “fire bombs” as Israeli police
protecting the Temple Mount that turned one policeman into a fireball? All of
these things are committed by the Islamic occupiers while the Jews have to observe
that the sanctity of the site where once stood the two sacred temples of
Judaism; Solomon’s Temple and King Herod’s Temple while they also observe children
playing games, adults loitering with abandonment, and no real care given to the
real sanctity of this site to the G-d of Israel.
At
that time, the official negotiator of the “Upper Room” was the President of
Israel, President Moshe Katsav. Yet this same Israeli president later received
his reward by the Divine when on December 3, 2011, President Moshe Katsav began
serving a seven year sentence in the Israeli Maasiyahu Prison in Ramlafor two counts of rape,
obstruction of Justice plus other charges in a landmark decision that was
upheld by the Israeli Supreme Court. Will this same scenario also be repeated
today? Or will the City of Jerusalem truly have to descend once again to the 49th
level of Tuma (Degradation) as it did in the 40
years between 30 CE and 70 CE
when the entire city of David and Herod’s Temple were destroyed in a fiery
inferno. As BibleSearchers Reflections wrote in 2005 in the article titled: “The
Vatican seeks to reclaim it own; “The Vatican wants Jerusalem”:
BibleSearchers Reflections – “Within all the conflicts of the Middle East, the first
implication is what Jesuit Father
Francesco Rossi de Gasperis of the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Jerusalem called
a “theological negation of the people
of Israel, a kind of cultural and spiritual Shoah, not dissimilar to what was
seen in the churches of Europe during the age of ‘Christendom’.”
By creating a Catholic Church within Israel and “for
Israel” comes from its deep seated denial for even the very existence of the
state of Israel. Over the course of Christian history, the original “Church”
was actually a Hebrew community composed of Jews that were faithful to the
Torah, believers in the Jewish rabbi, Yahshua haMaschiah (Jesus the
Messiah). Is the guiding hand of
the G-d of Israel even calling the core of the Catholic faithful back to
a “historical turning point,” nominating
a Catholic bishop ´ad Judaeos´? Is the soul of the Catholics also at stake in
that the overarching bid to gain
control over the holy sites of Jerusalem will in turn radically change the nature of Christian
Catholicism today?
While this shift may isolate the Jewish
secular Zionists, it also isolates
a Latin patriarchate that is intentionally of an “overwhelming
Palestinian character.” This political
and religious battle for the hearts of souls of both the Arabs and the Jews,
the Vatican is playing very carefully. It is a battle that does have its costs.
Over
the years the Latin patriarchate has
overtly declared its diminishing interest in any dialogue with the Jewish
people. In the city of
Jerusalem, there is no Catholic library at all. In 2001, the Pontifical Institute “Ratisbonne” in
Jerusalem was shut down and placed for sale. The contenders to buy
were the Opus Dei (of Dan
Brown’s “De Vinci Code” fame), the Salesians
and the Neocatechumenal Way.
Abbot Gourion came under the
wrath of the patriarchate for receiving an honorary award in one of the halls of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament
while the Melkite pastor of
Nazareth, Émile Shoufani, who though an Arab is not anti-Semitic
nor anti-Israeli when he was
attacked mercilessly for taking an ecumenical pilgrimage of Jews and Palestinians together to Auschwitz.
While
the prophetic vision of bringing all
men to Jerusalem as the “house of the Lord of hosts” is seriously
considered in the revival of Hebrew
Christianity, the Jewish
rabbinate see a threat to the survival of Judaism with the rise of Jewish
believers who believe in Jesus as the Jewish and Christian messiah.
The pathway to the expectations of the
coming of the coming messiah may bring some unexpected surprises to both Christians and Jews.
This rift or fissure in the Catholic community is
serious and thought provoking
especially within the orthodox circles
of the Roman Church. The Christian Church is already fractured by
many different denominations. Now within the Catholic community the dialogue centers around whether the
Hebrew-speaking Catholic ecclesiastical church should remain separate or in
close affiliation with the Arab Latin patriarchate. Though the Jewish Catholic members number about 250
members, it is a vibrant community with its leader, French Benedictine abbot, Fr. Jean-Baptiste Gourion of
the Monastery of the Resurrection in Abu Ghosh. What is
fascinating is that in Israel, two of
the three main Catholic representatives in Israel are of Jewish descent.
This tension between the Jewish and the
Arab interests keeps the
Roman Catholic Church embroiled in the
broader issues between the
Israeli-Palestinian and the
Jewish-Christian.”
With
the inauguration of the new Pope Francis I, as the visible supreme head of the
Roman Catholic Church, we may be in for a big surprise if the Prophecy of St.
Malachi comes to its final prophetic fulfillment.
Today,
the outgoing Deputy Foreign Minister, Daniel Ayalon, who has retired and
Israel’s Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman,
who has recently taken a leave of absence awaiting trial for charges of fraud
and breach of truth are about to face off in court over charges that include money
laundering and bribery. Both of these
“servants of the State of Israel” officially represented the State of Israel
with the Vatican in Rome’s legal dispute for sovereignty rights to multiple
sites in Judea and Samaria.
According
to the LA Times, outgoing Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon will now
become an instrumental witness against his former boss and Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s senior ally with Lukud-Beitinu Party, Avigdor Lieberman.
It was this controversial Israeli foreign minister who was indicted in
December, 2012 on charges of fraud and breach of trust that included prior
charges of money-laundering and bribery.
Yet,
Danny Ayalon
also has shadows of corruption hovering over him. Over the years he has been
implicated in cozy relations now not only as the chief negotiator with the Vatican
in Rome but with numerous Christian Evangelical Organization who also continually
seek possession to claim and possess the sacred land in the Land of Israel, but
also the political rights, to “missionize” and proselytized Jews into becoming “apostate
Christians.” According to JewishIsrael:
Both Daniel Ayalon and
his wife, Anne, are intimately involved with the Evangelical and Catholic
communities and have comfortably appeared on missionary television. Anne hassignificant business and real estate dealingswith the Christian community and was listed as a "Talking Head" for the
Pope's Visit on Christian-Israeli Relations” in a pamphlet put out by The
Israel Project (T.I.P.) at the time of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit in May 2009
In November 2005, this
writerreacted
to reportsof an apparent swap deal
between Israel and the Vatican which would grant the Vatican control of the
Upper Room. I was in correspondence with David Chappell, then deputy managing
editor of the Times of London,
who confirmed my concerns of a draft agreement. At the time, a number of
activists formed theCommittee to Save Mt. Zionand effective pressure was exerted on the
Israeli government to abandon the plans to relinquish control of the Upper Room.”
It
is important to look at the context of the above international diplomatic push
for the Roman Catholic Church to take possession of one of Israel’s most
important landmarks, the tomb of King David. It is also important to see these
present international Vatican thrusts to not only grab Mount Zion that not only
includes the ancient site of the “Church with the Upper Room” and sits
literally over the “Tomb of King David”.
So
we ask, will we soon see Pope Francis I, who is being reincarnated as the new
Francis of Assisi in the Roman Catholic Church, now carry forth the mantle of the
Franciscan Order of Friars who have over
the centuries sought complete control and rights to the Land of Israel?
Will
this current pope, representing the Roman Catholic “Saint” Francis of Assisi, one
of the most venerated religious figures in religious history also carry the
mantle of the transformed human life by giving up wealth and fortune and become
one of the iconic poor where wealth is evil and poor is righteous except for global
possession, when “The Church” has every spiritual right to become the temporal and
spiritual ruler over the entire world?
Though
Barry Chamish and Benjamin Fulford do not walk in the corridors of international
power that seek Power, Greed, and Control over the entire world, they both,
being Jewish, do appear to pose the microscope of international investigation
with the same premise, the global powers that have controlled the world of the
past, are still active and well today. As Benjamin
Fulford recently posted his perspective on the New Pope, the New Israeli
government and their relationships as the One World Order is created to rule
during the “Last Days”, as we read the hints of this fact in the following:
Benjamin Fulford – “It may
be just a coincidence but it may also be a sign that something big is about to
happen. There will be a new Pope, a new Bank of Japan governor and a new
Israeli government taking office on March 19th, a date of occult significance
for Asian secret societies (and also, by sheer coincidence, this writer’s
birthday).
Pope Francis has
already made it clear the soon to be reformed Vatican bank will now be spending
its money helping the poorest and weakest people on the planet. Haruhiko
Kuroda, the new BOJ governor, also supports plans to use Japan’s overseas
assets, the world’s largest, to finance a major campaign to end poverty and
stop environmental destruction. The new
Israeli government is bankrupt and cannot finance anything but perhaps they
are about to become serious about peace for the first time since that troubled
country came into being.
There are also many
reports of bad guys dropping off the radar screen recently.
In Japan, for
example, the Zionist slave and war-mongering right-wing crypto-North Korean pseudo-nationalist politician Shintaro Ishihara has gone into hiding, according
to Japanese military intelligence. This is clear a sign the entire post-war
cabal apparatus for secret control of Japan is falling apart. In the US and
Europe the arrests and resignations are continuing as well. See this site
for a partial list:
As far as Queen
Elizabeth, (who like the Pope supports a big push to end poverty), is
concerned, this is what an MI5 source had to say:
“She is well. She has
some ‘lingering’ symptoms which she said last week that the doctors can’t
explain. This serves to confirm our previous reports of avoiding the Rome trip
[for security reasons]. She has missed some public appointments in the UK also
but is working hard behind the scenes.”
However, the biggest
change in the past week has been at the Vatican. Pope Francis, the first Jesuit
to become Pope, chose March 19th to formally take the job
because it is theFeast
day of St. Joseph, the guardian of Jesus.
The name Francis was
chosen for a series of reasons, according to a P2 freemason source. First of
all, St. Francis of Assisi, among other things, introduced the concept
of caring for nature to Catholicism. Another namesake, Francis Xavier,
was the top Jesuit for Japan and India. Finally, the third head of the Jesuits,
Francis Borgia (from the aristocratic Italian family) challenged corrupt
popes.
The Jesuits are also
featured as prominent fighters against Satan, notably in the movie the
Exorcist, which was supposedly based on a true story.
However, there is
also a spooky side to the name because the Pope’s family comes from Rome and
one of his birth names was Peter. For believers in the prophecies of St.
Malachi, it means he is Peter the Roman, the last pope. The prophecy of
Malachi, according to Wikipedia, ends thus:
“Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many
tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills [i.e.
Rome] will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The
End.”
If Pope Francis is
serious about reforming the Vatican bank, he will confront the Satanic cabal
that has illegally commandeered the Western financial system. The last time
somebody tried to do that, the (Rothschild) cabal staged the 911 terror
attacks to preserve their financial control. It is thus extremely urgent to
make sure the cabalists are prevented from any attempt to destroy Rome and its
priceless cultural and social heritage.”
As
we see with the “Signs of the Times” swirling around us, it suggests that there
is truly more undercurrents flowing in the vast prophetic river than we can
imagine. It appears that all the mini-streams of prophetic history are now
merging into the final raging vortex of the “time of the end”. The important
thing to remember, the G-d of Israel is the sovereign G-d of the Universe. His
power and control is universal and in the end, the rule of our planetary system
will be by the Maschiah ben David, who will rule with the “Rod in his mouth” as
evil people and as evil systems will be destroyed. Only then will the Era of Messianic
Torah Enlightenment begin in Israel.
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Re-unification of the 2-Houses of Israel without
proselytizing
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Reflections and Destination Yisra’el is a supporter of The Kol HaTor Vision and
recognizes the great Stumbling Block that evangelizing of Jews presents in the
Reconciliation Process between Judah and Messianic 10-Israel. The most extensive
damage done to the Jewish people over the centuries has been the attempts Christians
to convert the Jews to Apostate Roman Christianity.
Kol HaTor, as a
representative Voice not only of Judah, but also of Returning 10-Israel, does
not support any of these missionary activities, either historically or
currently. Kol HaTor associates of the House of 10-Israel declare their commitment
not to proselytize Jews, or to influence Jews in any way whatsoever to
abandon their historic and correct faith.
Rather, Kol Ha Tor
strives to influence re-identifying 10-Tribers to return to their Hebraic
Roots of the Original One True Faith, to Torah and to Jewish Halakhah and
Rabbinic authority.
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invite You to Read both Parts of this Destination Yisrael Series: “Pope Francis
I and the Final Days”
The Battle for the
Minds of the Human Race is now coming to its fullest revelation. The forces of
Darkness will battle with the Forces of HaShem’s angels of Light as the final
battle for the souls of men are played out on Planet Earth. Out of these epic
war will come the restoration and redemption of All Israel; the Ten Lost Tribes
of the House of Israel and the Jews of the House of Judah.
The Roman Catholic
Church has been a major part of this Drama of the Ages and will continue to do
so until the Final Act of that Divine Drama. It will include the Jews of the
House of Israel, the Lost Sheep of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Northern
Israel; both of the House of Jacob (Israel). It will also include the
Roman Edomites of the House of Esau, the brother of Jacob of the House of
Isaac. It will also include the Arabs of the House of Ishmael, the brother to
Isaac of the House of Abraham.
If you want to learn
more, Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove. Here
is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the
imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all
Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United).
The author of this
blog is a supporter of Kol Ha Tor Vision and while we are publishing material
that may be relevant to the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, the
leadership of Kol Ha Tor do not necessarily agree with everything we have
published. Yet, we understand, until the Messiah son of David comes to give us
full insight into what is happening to our lives and our world today, we may
know only in part while we continue to support the rabbanim of Israel and seek
reconciliation with the Jews of the House of Israel until we are finally one
family; the family of our Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
This reunification
will truly be a super Event of all Times that will entail Establishing the
Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean
Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the Return
of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All
Israel.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, we invite you to make a
personal Visit to Israel and stay at “Shomron Lives!”,a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House
in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost
Tribers of the House of Israel.
Destination Yisrael – “It appears that the transformation
and spiritual elevation of spiritual consciousness in Israel is continuing at a
rapid pace. Who would have considered that the “Rightist Nationalists” and the “Rightist
Orthodox Settlers” would be gaining an ascendant voice in the political
governance of the State of Israel today?
It is a inherent knee-gut reaction to assume that the
Leftist Knesset MKs predominately from the Labour Party are anti-nationalists,
and anti-religious Zionists. That impression appears to be changing.
Such is the implication of this new article in the
recent Israel National News (Arutz Sheva) that gives the impression that the
Israeli Knesset members are virtually clueless as to the governance of the most
sacred site in Judaism, the Temple Mount when Former Labor MK Daniel Ben-Simon
ascended upon the Temple Mount and witnessed the extreme discrimination of the
Jewish nationals who wish to visit the site where the Temple of Solomon
reportedly once stood.
If Daniel Ben-Simon’s revelation results in a profound
change of his life, and stimulates the rest of the Israeli Knesset members to
take an informed interest in the destruction and the desecration of the “House”
of the G-d of Israel that included the once most beautiful and opulent two
temples in the world, Solomon’s Temple and King Herod’s Temple, that spiritual
transformation may begin transform in a radical way of how the Israeli Jewish
populous and their political leadership may begin to transform the governance
of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in the future.
It’s about time that the Temple Mount once again may
be considered as a Holy Sanctuary unto HaShem, the G-d of Israel.
Israel National News – “Former Labour MK Daniel
Ben-Simon cut short a visit to the Temple Mount on Sunday, after he personally
witnessed the discrimination by Israeli police towards Jewish visitors to the
holy site.
Speaking to Arutz Sheva about the experience on Monday, Ben-Simon said he was
surprised, already at the start of his visit, to see that Jews are forced to
wait in long, crowded lines to enter one of the holiest sites in the world.
Ben-Simon said that when he finally reached the end of the line-up after a long
and unpleasant wait, he was told that the Temple Mount is closed due to what was
described as "tension". He later discovered that the source of this
tension is a Quran that fell from the hands of a Muslim worshiper who came to
the Temple Mount.
The Arab worshiper claimed that an Israeli police officer had deliberately
dropped the book from her hand, but Ben-Simon expressed doubt at the
truthfulness of the story and said it was unacceptable that the area was closed
off to Jews because of such a minor event.
“Because of a fallen book they close the Temple Mount to hundreds of people who
are waiting to get in?” he said. “The Minister of Internal Security must be
summoned and asked about the reality in which the police are on high alert
because of a fallen book. Who's in charge here? All this is done without
explanation.”
Later in the afternoon Ben-Simon, who was visiting the compound as part of
research he is conducting for a book he's planning to write, returned to the
Temple Mount, getting in this time, and was shocked by what he discovered.
“I was surprised by the intensity of the tension. People looking at you from
all sides, examining the movements of your lips, and heaven forbid if they move
in what seems like a prayer,” he said. “When I saw this I asked my companions
to leave. This is not a visit. I do not feel comfortable when Waqf and police
accompany each step I make. I cut the visit short and left within ten minutes.”
Ben-Simon admitted that despite having served as an MK, he was previously
unaware that this reality is what Jews are always facing on the Temple Mount,
and said that most Israeli MKs do not visit the site and are unaware of this
absurd reality
“The vast majority of those present were tourists. Israelis do not visit,” he
said, adding, “This is an unpleasant experience that I would not like to go
through again. I expect to get a little respect in a place of prayer.”
The former parliamentarian said he finds it difficult to understand how Israel
got to the current situation. He likened the corridor leading to the Temple
Mount to a military facility where one cannot look left and right, fearing his
looks may be interpreted incorrectly and cause rage.
Ben-Simon said the Israeli system should examine the situation at the Temple
Mount, though he admitted it would be hard to change things in the current
political reality.
At the same time, Ben-Simon said, it is "an impossible situation that
anyone who comes to the Temple Mount is suspected of wanting to blow up the
compound." He added that delegations of Knesset members should be taken on
a tour of the Temple Mount so they can see the situation firsthand and then
closely examine appropriate ways to solve it.
“I did not know the problem existed when I was a Knesset member,” he admitted.
Israel liberated the Temple Mount during the 1967 Six Day War, leaving the Waqf
in charge of the compound.
The Waqf, in return, has removed every sign of ancient Jewish presence at the
Jewish holy site. At the entrance to the Temple Mount, a Waqf sign says, “The
Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard and everything in it is Islamic property.”
Israeli Police, in an attempt to appease the Waqf, discriminate against Jews.
They limit the number of Jewish worshippers allowed on the Temple Mount at one
time in order to prevent conflict with Muslim worshippers. They often close the
Mount to Jews in response to Muslim riots, as Ben-Simon saw for himself on
Sunday, despite evidence that Muslim riots have been planned in advance for the
specific purpose of forcing Jews out.
Arabs continuously accuse Israel of “Judaizing” the Temple Mount, sometimes
resorting to ridiculous propaganda such as accusing Israel of using chemicals
to erode the foundations of the mosque in order to cause it to collapse.
At the same time the Waqf consistently destroys Jewish antiquities on the
Temple Mount in a direct violation of a ruling by the Supreme Court.”
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Zechariah
4:1-6 – “The
the angel who as speaking with me returned and woke me, as a man is awakened
from his sleep. He said to me, “What do
you see.”
I said
‘I see and behold – there is a menorah [made] entirely of gold with its bowl on
its top; its seven lamps are upon it, and there are seven ducts for [each of]
the lamps on its top. There are two olive trees over it, one at the right of
the bowl and one on its left.’ I spoke up and said to the angel who was
speaking to me, saying, ‘What are these, my lord?”
The angel
who was speaking to me answered, and said to me, ‘Do you not know what these
are?” He spoke up and said to me, saying, ‘This is the word of HaShem to
Zerubabbel, saying;
‘Not
through your army (power) and not through your strength (might), but through My
spirit,’ said HaShem, Master of Legions.’”
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The Land of Israel
has had a long record of broken promises, shepherd predators of G-d’s sheep, an
Erev Rav (mixed multitude) in Tel Aviv who believe in the “Golden Calf”
(salvation by making a lot of money), and lust to make Israel the Sodom and the
Egypt of the world. Then we have flocks of Orthodox settlers who fail to
comprehend why their shepherds despise them, use them instead of giving them
safe, secure homes towns and villages.
There are the Shabbatean
anti-Jews, who have not only rejected HaShem, but use the Jewish people for
their own personal lusts for world dominion. They are like their ancient
brothers of the House of Israel who chose 3,000 years to revolt and split from the
family of G-d. They wanted nothing to do with King Solomon’s Temple, the
prayers of the Levite priests, nor the kings of the dynastic lineage of Kings
David and Solomon. They even spurned throughout the centuries the Mechoqeck
judiciary of Torah Law by the rabbinic Jews of Judah who could have helped to
assist them on how to live the ways of Torah (halakhah) over three and a half
millenniums ago.
Yet, the prophets of
Israel forecasted that these days of division and separation would someday be
over. Our brother, Judah, was the first to hear the whistle of G-d to come home
in 1740s, when the famous
Vilna Gaon (Genius of Vilna) prepared his disciples in Europe to move to Israel
in the early 1800s, settle the land and populate Jerusalem in preparation
for the final event called the “End of Days” when the Maschiah would be
revealed and the Glory of HaShem will envelop the whole earth. Yet the larger
Exodus of the Jews to Israel did not happen until a holocaust happened in the
lands where the Lost Tribes of Israel (Northern Europe) dwelled when the hearts
of the Lost Tribes of Israel were hardened against their own brothers; the Jews
in the lands of Europe.
As the “whisper” of
HaShem burned in the ears of the Jews, the remnant of those that were left,
would begin their trek homewards to the lands of their forefathers where
Jerusalem became their capital where they could pray for the Shekinah Presence
of G-d to someday dwell over them and spread the light of peace all over the
globe.
The family of G-d was
now split and separated with brothers against brothers, breakdown in tribal
relationships, where one tribe warred against another and the family of Jacob
(Yaakov) sunk into depression and despair. As the dysfunctional family of G-d,
we were all eventually cast all over the globe; first the Lost Ten Tribes of
the House Israel and later, the Jews of the House of Judah.
Today the Lost Ten Tribes
still hound and persecute their Jewish brothers from the lands of their habitat
in America and Northern Europe. As founders of the “Land for Peace” movement
with the United Nations, leaders of the World Peace Council, the Oslo Accord,
and the diplomatic “Quartet” called the UN, US, EU and Russia, they continually
seek to prevent the Jewish sheep (Orthodox Jews) from fulfilling G-d’s mandate
to them; occupy
and settle “The Land of Israel” and make it one and part of “All Israel.”
So today, for almost
seventy years, the Zionist State of Israel has been ruled predominately by prime
ministers whose are beholden to Freemason masters that have no allegiance
to the G-d of Israel. Their masters called
the Shabbatean
Jews rule the English and Scottish Freemasonic lodges, plus the Freemason dignitaries
from the Vatican P2 Lodge in Rome. Is it any wonder that the Papal See
continues seeking to consolidate the Vatican hold over the Temple Mount, King
David’s Tomb, and numerous Catholic properties scattered all over Jerusalem,
for the Vatican has been ruled also by Sabbatean Jews like Pope
Benedict XVI, the descendant of the famous Rabbi, the Maharal of Prague.
Yet, today a new
elevation of spiritual consciousnessis settling over
the land of Israel. The Jewish sheep are witnessing the supernal
light of HaShem shining down upon them. Soon they will witness, as the Prophet
Zechariah did 2,300 years ago the vision of the menorah, with the spirit of oil
shining forth with the Light of G-d bringing down to them and the Lost Ten
Tribes of the House of Israel their spiritual neshama souls from the throne of
heaven.
It took though the spirit
of G-d to begin elevating the physical souls of the Jews upwards to meet with
neshama yehudi (spirit soul of Judah) for the homecoming and the resurrection
of the Jewish State of Israel. Born in sin, and not always with perfect people,
a cry now rings throughout the “Land”; “Enough is enough!” We must break this
dysfunctional cycle of family animosity.
Today, the wolves
that surround the Land of Israel in the Middle East smell the sweat of despair
that cling to the vision that the words of the prophets are true. In spite of all the anti-Semitism that is
erupting all around us, the Christian Lost Tribers, who have been G-d’s lost
sheep, began to reach for a higher vision through what is known today as the Hebrew
Roots Movement. With a true love for Israel, the G-d of Israel will soon
mobilize these forces to participate in the final salvation of the “Land of
Israel” and the redemption of “All Israel.”
The calling of the
Lost Ten Tribes in America and Europe during the First
Great Awakening began also in midst of the 18th century,
the six century of the sixth millennium after Adam was created. The time of the
end was now at hand. Amazingly, this was also the same time (1740) when the Gra
(Genius) of Vilna, called the Vilna Gaon, sent his disciples to begin
repopulating the Land of Israel, that the
Lost Tribes of the House of Israel were being awakened to the great Judgment of
G-d upon their lives with the message, “Come out of Her My people”, leave
Apostate Roman Christianity and return to the faith of their forefathers,
Judaism.
While the disciples
of Vilna Gaon were planting synagogues with observant Jewish families and
settling the land of Israel in the 1840s, the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel
in American and Europe were experiencing the Second
Great Awakening that the Jewish Messiah son of David would bring
redemption for all His people; Klal Yisra’el (All Israel).
So today, with personal
changes in our expectations, today the whisper of G-d is echoing louder and
louder across the Land of Israel from Galilee to Beer Sheva. We’re going to
break out of this cycle and start believing G-d for bigger dreams and more
spiritually elevating lives. As the “Latter
Rain” showered down upon Israel in the winter of 2012-2013, breaking a 20
year drought, the spiritual consciousness of the Jewish people became proud
again that they were being blessed by HaShem and vigorously went to the polls
to proclaim to their national leaders that the political sentiment in Israel
was to the “Right”, and that it’s time of
begin showing the world, that Israel was to be a “Holy Nation”, and that
it was Israeli leaders that were to set the pace for that physical actuality.
We must learn that when
the G-d of Israel puts a dream within our (Jews and Lost Tribers alike) hearts
to build homes in the land of our forefathers, and plant vineyards with our
brothers the Jews where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob once trod, HaShem will also
bring forth new opportunities, where physical and spiritual connect and a “bold
life of faith” now expects with confidence that we are fully capable to create
a society holy unto the L-rd.
What will it take for
the Ingathering “All Israel” to bring together Judah and Israel? What changes
must happen before we are willing to walk hand in hand building a Spiritual
Kingdom of G-d in “The Land”. For it will be there in “The Land” where the Shekinah
Presence can come and dwell with us like the vortex of the Pillar of Cloud that
rested over the Holy Sanctuary of the Dwelling so many centuries ago?
Can we perceive that
the war of the nations against Israel is but a mirage? The parasitical forces of darkness that
surround us could vanish away in a moment of time, if we would but reach out to
each other in emuna, faith, that the
G-d of Israel in His Divine Sovereignty is capable of bringing this era of sin,
division, acrimony, hate, jealousy, and rivalry with each other over.
This will happen when
the Jewish children of Judah and Lost Triber descendants of Joseph (the Lost
Ten Tribes of Israel) collectively say, “it’s time for us to reach out and heal
our tribal family wounds. When the Ingathering of all the Tribes of Israel is
completed and the HaShem’s dreams for our future are accomplished, the forces
of evil that latch unto us like parasites will vanish away. The G-d of Israel
is eagerly awaiting the day with Klal Yisra’el (All Israel) wants to come home and
be a united family once again with the Messiah son of David as our leader and
ruler over One-Israel serving the One-G-d of Israel. .
Are we prepared for
HaShem to begin seriously the land reclamation of recreating this once barren
and parched land into a New Gan Eden?
Are we ready to “receive” what we are willing to “believe” that G-d’s
promises can happen?
Are we willing to
break outside of the box of Egyptian oppression, and begin a New Exodus to the
Land of Israel? Are the Lost Ten Tribes
of the House of Israel willing to walk hand in hand with their brothers, the Jews
of the House of Judah living in the diaspora as all of us begin their journey
home and return in aliyah to Israel?
As it took the
ancient Children of Israel to physically step into the waters of the Red Sea
before the “Parting of the Sea”, so also we, both the House of Israel and the
House of Judah must step forward in faith, and say, “It’s time to repair the
breaches that divide us, and with HaShem’s divine blessing make us again one
family.
If so, then the Master of the Universe will begin sending
the forces of Hashem to push back the tide of international scorn, as His people
together take possession and reclaim the “deed of trust” of the land he gave to
our forefathers. At that time, we will seriously begin to reclaim all the lands
of our forefathers.
Yet, it will not be given to us without our
participation. Neither the Jews of Israel, nor the Lost Ten Tribes of Europe
and American will be able to close this era of man by the use of weapons of
mass destruction, nor by the flexing of international threats and power, but
only by the “spirit of HaShem”. As the Prophet Zechariah proclaimed,
representing the G-d of Israel to his people 3,300 years ago;
“Not
through armies and not through strength and international threats of power”
will the end be completed, but only “through My spirit,” said HaShem, Master of
Legions.”
Someday soon the Prophetic Name of the
Prophet Zechariah will be fulfilled:
Zechariah, the
son of Berechiah, son of Iddo
“At the Appointed Time, God blesses and God
remembers”
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If you have a hard
time believing that the G-d of Israel is in Control, keep your eyes focused on
Jerusalem. Here is the “stumbling stone” for all the nations of the world for
all the “eyes” of the Freemason of the world are focused on Jerusalem today.
Then consider, it takes a Mason to know a Mason, and then we may understand why
Netanyahu, the most skilled and articulate Jewish Freemason in the world is the
Prime Minister of Israel. Understand, he does have strong principles. He may
give up Hebron to the Palestinians, but not Jerusalem.
The G-d of Israel is
quietly recreating the State of Israel to begin its final acts before the G-d
of Israel takes full control of the Land of Israel. Yes, there are a lot of
imperfect people seeking to restore the Land of Israel to its divine mission,
the strategic planetary capital of the future Messiah son of David. Here will
be a nation focused on holiness, righteousness and justice. If you believe
these facts to be true, you might desire to reconnect with the Biblical
portrayals of what is and will be happening in your near future.
This Biblical
portrayal includes Prophecies that the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are
about to return to the Land of their Biblical Inheritance. This is Divine
Destiny in living reality as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel return to their
Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel.
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more, Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove. Here
is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the
imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all
Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times
will entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the
Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and
preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel
and then the Redemption of All Israel.
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Weekly Bible Reading #15 Year 5773 (2012/2013) – January 19, 2013
Parashat Boh (Go!): Exodus
10:1-13:16
Haftarah: Jeremiah 46:13-46:28
NOTE: Kol HaTor, in its commentaries
on the weekly Parashot, endeavors to search for and accentuate the Torah
Messages contained in the Parashot as applicable to the main Theme of Tanach of
the Return of the House of Israel, i.e. the Lost Ten Tribes of Northern Israel
and their Reconciliation with Judah to form the reunited 12-Tribed Kingdom of
Israel.
DISCLAIMER - The authors whom we quote from
for this Commentary are not associated with KOL HA'TOR and need not agree with
our views expressed herein or in our other publications. While we publish their
views for its relative value to the interpretation of the Parashah, KOL HATOR
does not necessarily agree with the views expressed by these authors.
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Our last few Parashot have repeatedly pointed to “A Time of
Trouble” approaching the People of HaShem, like the 10 Plagues and the death of
the first-born of Egypt before the Exodus, as we are drawing closer to the Time
of the Ultimate Redemption, i.e. the Restoration of the Reconciled 12-Tribed
Kingdom of HaShem. Jeremiah 16 describes this as follows:
Jeremiah 16:14-16 - “‘The days are coming,’ declares HaShem,
‘when it will no longer be said, As surely as HaShem lives, Who brought the
Israelites up out of Egypt,’ but
it will be said, ‘As surely as HaShem lives, who brought the Israelites [12
Tribes] up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he
had banished them.’ For I will restore them to the land I gave their ancestors.”
This is referred to as the ‘Second Exodus’ and does not only
refer to the return of Jews to the Land of Israel after World War 2, but to the
Return also of millions of re-identified Ten Tribers who have lost all identity
among the nations where they were exiled for 2800 years. The immensity of such
a vast re-identification and Return will totally overshadow the original
miracle filled Exodus from Egypt, according to Jeremiah.
The Rabbis are united on the principle that HaShem uses
periods of travail upon His People to purify and strengthen them spiritually.
Their struggles with hardship, adversity and misfortune serve to mold them into
the righteous likeness which they require to be part of His Kingdom and to be
in His Service.
This Divine method is not just used in the final refining
process of His elect, but, throughout all humanity, even as initial Calls for
their heart and minds. The Ten Plagues of our last two Parashot are perfect
example of this, and it holds many strategic guidelines for the sincere
observer. HaShem constantly calls on those who know Him not, who rebel against
Him, but, in response, like Pharaoh, they challenge Him, for they do not wish
to acknowledge Him. First G-d appeals to their emotions, but, like against
Pharaoh, after the first Plagues, G-d changes His approach and even hardens his
heart, while appealing to his intellect.
We, the people of Judah and 10-Israel today, when applying
the allegory of ‘Pharaoh’ to ourselves, are also hard of heart against His
Calls for higher devotion and commitment. This becomes especially evident with
regard to the approaching Final Redemption (which also entails working for
Peace in His House which is so disastrously split in two). We do not respond to
His Calls for change and rethinking. We hesitate, turn our ears and hearts
away, procrastinate, promise falsely and continue in our ways of neglecting the
Cause for Peace in Zion..
Then, like with Pharaoh, HaShem “puts on the screws” when He
Calls for final refining. This time He is using a different Calling. He is
appealing to our intellectual resources rather than our emotional. The Troubles
may increase, physical persecution may become a reality (like through wars or
anti-Semitic onslaughts even on our lives). It is all about a higher Calling
for Final Refining.
This insight into the spiritual
implications of the Ten Plagues is given in a Commentary on Parashat Boh by
Chasidic Rabbi Biggs. We publish an extract of it here:
The Exodus from Egypt was a
precursor for the coming of Moshiach. As we study and relive the Exodus, our
yearning for Moshiach is heightened.
The ten plagues parallel the ten Sefirot,
the ten Divine emanations by which Hashem creates the world. The Sefirot are
divided into two types, three intellectual and seven emotional. Evil also has
ten Sefirot of impurity through which it exists.
The ten plagues broke the ten
negative forces of Egypt and prepared for the revelation of the Ten
Commandments. Last week we read of the first seven plagues, which parallel the
emotions. This week we read the final three, which parallel the intellect. The
three faculties of the intellect are Chochmah, Binah, and Da’at [Wisdom,
Understanding and Knowledge] (the abbreviations of the three together form
ChaBaD). The plagues were in an ascending order.
The first plague [of the last three]
in this week's portion is locusts, which paralleled Da’at. Da’at, translated as
‘knowledge,’ is the faculty by which we connect the intellect and the emotions.
It is possible to understand something well on an intellectual level with no
effect on our emotional traits or actions.
We often come to the full
intellectual resolve that we should adopt good practices or reject bad habits
but it doesn’t happen. Think for a moment how many of us smoke or drive without
seatbelts, knowing full well the dangers involved. This is because the resolve
remains in the intellect, and has not reached Da’at.
Da’at is attained through repeatedly
meditating upon and applying the conclusions of our thoughts until they become
second nature. The Talmud states that a child only develops Da'at when he eats
grain. The locusts, which destroyed the grain, were the antithesis of Da’at. In
our service of Hashem, Da’at is constantly attuning our emotions by meditating
on the greatness of Hashem and how each Mitzvah creates a bind with His
infinite light until this becomes our ingrained perception.
Binah means ‘understanding’. When an
idea first falls into our head, we don't fully grasp it. When we carefully
consider the idea, analyzing how it answers numerous questions and sheds light
in other areas, this is the power of Binah. When we fully understand something,
it illuminates our awareness. Darkness and confusion are the opposite of Binah.
Thus, the ninth plague is darkness. In our service of Hashem Binah means to
study each concept we learn in Torah until it illuminates our minds and hearts.
Chochmah (wisdom) is the first
Sefirah. In intellect, it represents the first awakening of a new idea. As a
trait, it represents the nullification to that which is higher. The Hebrew word
Chochmah is a composite of the two words Koach and Mah, which means the power
of nullification. Because of its humility, Chochmah is able to be the channel
of all life.
The first born of Egypt were the
antithesis of Chochmah and of the life that Chochmah represents. Therefore the
plague connected to Chochmah is the smiting of the first-born. This is
represented by dedicating our first thought in any issue towards service of
Hashem. When we rise, our first words are "Modeh Ani (I give thanks to
G-d)…”
Conclusion and application to Judah and 10-Israel
As we approach the reality of the Redemption, there are
things that have to change and need to be achieved:
The restoration and recognition of the Lost House of Israel,
consisting of Ten Tribes in exile among the nations, beyond realization or
recognition.
Reconciliation has to be achieved between these
re-identifying and returning Lost Ten Tribers and the House of Judah before the
Peace can be established which will trigger the Return of the Shechinah
(visible Divine Presence) of HaShem to Zion (the Land of Israel).
Judah (the Jews) have to "recognize Yosef" (who
are busy re-awakening to their Hebraic Roots and approaching Judah for
re-identifying and Return). To Jews today, it must be much like ancient Israel
having to accept foreigner to them and Egyptian style Moses, or Yosef, in his ‘Egyptian
Cloak’ of many colors.
Ephraim (Ten Tribes) who are in process of awakening and
re-identification across the entire world, has to turn away from their
inherited pride and rebellion against Judah (as their fathers did for which
they were exiled into oblivion). As the returnee Prodigal son, they have to
respect and acknowledge their ‘Brother’ Judah who has faithfully been keeping
'The House of their Father' during their exile 'to the pig sties of paganism.
They should shake off their arrogance of pride in rediscovery of Torah
principles and rather than try to ‘save’ Judah, humble themselves and
acknowledge the Divine Mandate of Judah as the ‘Mechoqeck’ of HaShem ('Lawgiver
of G-d,' Ps. 60:7, 108:8).
Like HaShem did with Pharaoh, He will “put on the screws” in
this final refining. He will be appealing to our intellectual rather than our
emotional spirituality. The world is facing catastrophic culmination for its
evil empire Babylon which it has been building throughout nearly 6000 years. The
Sabbath Millennia is at the door.
Chochmah, Binah, and Da'at (Wisdom,
Understanding and Knowledge).
Both Houses urgently need more Knowledge about each
other and about the controversial way that Redemption will have to come. We
need Understanding of each other. This will result in Wisdom
about HaShem's Redemption Plan, to realize our individual personal
responsibilities, to accept each other and thus to establish Peace in Zion.
Our Haftarah concludes with a wonderful confirmation of all
this:
Haftarah
Jeremiah 46:27, 28 - “Do not be afraid, Jacob [12 Tribes of
Israel]My servant; do not be dismayed, Israel [10 Tribes, or, in
this context also all 12]. I will surely save you out of a distant place, your
descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and
security and no one will make him afraid.
Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant, for I am with you,”
declares HaShem. Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I
scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only
in due measure; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.”
To understand more
about the Return of the 10 Tribes of Israel to their Homeland in Shomron
(Samaria), Israel, Contact “Kol Ha’Tor”, the Voice of the
Turtledove.
Here is a joint
Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the imminent
fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel
(12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will
entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs)
and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the
“Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the
Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor Ministries for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron
Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that
hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost Tribers of the
House of Israel.
The Israeli elections
are only days away, and a new phenomenon is already becoming a national
obsession. According to a recent article
titled, “Israeli
Parliament Set for Record Influx of Orthodox Lawmakers”, Orthodox Jews in
greater numbers are “infiltrating” the larger parties in order to make a larger
political impact upon the government of the State of Israel.
This fact was noted
recently at a gathering for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party.
While waiting for the prime minister to arrive, Orthodox Jews, swaying in
personal prayers were in attendance and required the prime minister to
“politely” wait at the entrance while the praying was completed. Such is the new politics of Israel, a change
so phenomenal that it may forever change the politics of the Zionist State of
Israel.
Also noted by political
pundits, Orthodox Jews are leaving the smaller “niche parties” and joining the
Likud Party and other mainstream parties. Even in minority numbers, the
dominance of non-observant politicians or secular Jews that have been the
mainstream of Jewish politics is now being challenged.
The Jewish opinion polls
are now also capturing this sea of change, for the religious fervor of the
Orthodox Jew is now becoming contagious to the non-observant Jewish politicians
who are now willing to change the trends of Israeli politics towards a more
hard-line stance on Palestinian conflict.
What we are witnessing is the facts coming from the ground that
religious politicians may capture a record 40 of the Knesset parliament’s 120
seats after the elections. This is compared to the 25 Knesset members that were
presiding in the outgoing assembly that was voted into office in 2009. It was only 20 years ago that a score of
lawmakers were religiously Orthodox.
It is obvious that the
trend is not settling well with the status quo in Israeli politics. Truly
numerous Israeli of the religious observant settler movement are rejoicing but
this is not so with many of the secular majority who have controlled Israeli
politics for decades for the new trend makers are determined to re-identify the
New Israel of the future with sovereign borders that have troubled the state since
1967 and before. This trend will also give rise to a deeper conflict in part
with the substantial Arab Muslim minority who are also represented by their own
parties.
The trend also appears
will take a wider berth in Israeli politics which will shift the international
opinions of Israel away from the secular democratic Israeli left towards the
observant Israeli right. This suggests that the centrists will be hard to
identity for all parties are now in a flux trying to attract the Israeli public
towards the centrists. So we ask what do the “New Centrists” believe and will
the political center of the “New Jewish politics” bring a fundamental shift in Jewish
politics that is centered on; Jewish halakhah or Jewish Law, the Land of Israel
belongs to the G-d of Israel and is Holy Land, the purpose of Israel is to be
the “priests” to the rest of the world, and the land of Israel must remain
under the control of the Jewish people for they have a “deed” to the land for
it to be populated by a restored Klal Yisra’el (All Israel); the House of Judah
and the returning Lost 10 Tribes of the House of Israel.
As such the American Grecian
Hellenistic dream of a Democratic Israel where “religion and state” do not mix
may become a model that will fade into history. If so, then the State of Israel
is embarking on a new journey where future politics is “Law and Order” and
“Peace and Justice” will be centered on the politics of the prophets of Israel
and the halakhah of Torah Law.
The new political
disputes of the future that are being discussed openly by the political pundits
of Israel of today will include such issues as the “Jewishness” of the future
state of Israel, and the conversion status of the new immigrants that will arrive;
the Jews of the diaspora, and soon the vast immigration of the Lost Ten Tribes
of the House of Israel. The whole concept of who will be looked upon as Jewish
or the Jewishness of the future State of Israel may become the shifting center
of the future politics of Israel.
The secular minded
leftist in the Labor Party will meet an upsurge in political dissent that will
come from hardcore members of the Likud and even more so the more observant
members of the new Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home Party) that are intent on changing
the secular-minded Supreme Court of Israel seeking to keep the central laws of
Israel in line with the internationalist and the World Court at Brussels, who
in turn have turned away from Torah Law, Written and Oral, that has been since
September 17, 1787, the foundation of the Constitution
of the United States.
As Batia Siebzehner, the
Israeli sociologist of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was cited recently as
she witness the new politics of the Israeli Orthodox urging the embrace of
Jewish religious or Torah Law:
Batia
Siebzehner – “In the long run I see a weakening of the foundations of the
state's democracy.”
Understandably this
“horrifies” the secular Israeli, who now feel that they will be compared on the
global scene with the democratic Islamic Republic of Iran and other Arab states
that are becoming Islamic fundamentalists in outlook. There concern of the Israeli
left is that the new observant MKs in the Israeli Knesset will seek to restrict
civil liberties of such leftist passions for “gay rights” and makes today Tel
Aviv one of the recognized “gay friendly” cities of the world.
The new observant MKs,
it appears will also seek to improve governmental monitoring of foreign funding
for such human rights organizations sponsoring NGOs that are in full dissent and
seek to legally ham-string of the State of Israel from populating the regions
of Shomron and Judea and returning these regions, called the biblical heartland
of the Patriarch Abraham, Isaac and Jacob back under the rule of the Jewish
peoples.
Fundamental to all
dissent in Israel is settled upon the foundation of a future Jewish Theocratic
State, whose legal laws are central to Torah laws of the Jewish past. As David Stav, recognized as a moderate
Orthodox rabbi and director of the Modern Orthodox rabbinic organization,
TZohar who recently announced his running for the chief rabbi of Israel along with
Rabbis David Lau of Modiin, Yaakov Shapira and Eliezer Igra stated recently
that such fears of a New Jewish Theocracy were overblown:
David
Stav – “This is not going to be a theocracy, as most religious politicians are
"committed to a Jewish and democratic state and don't want to see themselves
as coercive to others.”
As the Time of Israel
wrote in the article, titled, “Tzohar launches campaign to initiate change in
Chief Rabbiniate”:
The Times of Israel – “Among the items that Tzohar is calling for will be to elect new
rabbinical court judges who would be more open to the needs of the general
public, not just the religiously observant sectors; and new guidelines for
managing the marriage, divorce and conversion processes in Israel – three areas
that have been particularly notorious in alienating the secular community.”
Yet, these issues that
appear to be so prominent in preserving a “Democratic Western World Oriented
State of Israel” may be a thing of the past for the G-d of Israel appears to be
bringing a fundamental shift not only in Israeli democratic cultural life, that
will includes what the prophets called “a new heart” but also a fundamental
elevation of spiritual consciousness that will permanently change Jewish life
in Israel and the lives of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel
predominately in America and Northern Europe plus their colonies scattered around
the world. As Destination Yisra’el recently wrote in the article titled, “The
Israeli Settler’s Revolution: Is Israel moving “Right” towards a Theocratic
State of Peace and Justice?” we read:
Destination
Yisra’el – “What
if the Jewish people in Israel were to take seriously the testimony of the
Hebrew prophets, like the Prophet
Zechariah?
Zechariah
7:8-10 – “And the word of the Lord came again to Zechariah: This
is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Administer true justice, show mercy and
compassion to one another.Do
not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. In your hearts
do not think evil of each other.’”
What
if the Jewish Settler’s movement in Israel were to cleanse the land of Israel
and make this land into a Holy Land beholden only to the G-d of Israel? What if
the people of Israel in one election, sweep away the bastion of power of the
Freemasons that have controlled Israeli politics since its inception in 1948,
barring one small political era and whose only argument is who controls
Jerusalem; the Jewish Masons or the Jesuit controlled Vatican P2 Lodge Masons?
What
if the mantle for the radical shift in the whole Middle Eastern world were to
shift into moving the geo-politics of the Middle East into the “Peace and
Justice” model of the Jewish Messiah David, son of David (Maschiah ben Dovid)?
What if the Jewish Messiah does take control of the world and rule it with a
“rod of iron” that will impose peace upon all nations? What if the Jewish State
of Israel will be eventually transformed into a Greater Israel that would
transform the whole world into an era of peace that would bring Torah enlightenment
for all men to live and to study?
Zechariah
8:16-17 – “These are the things you shall do;Speak each man the truth to his
neighbor; give judgment in your gates for truth, justice, and peace;‘Let none of you think
evil in your heart against your neighbor; and do not love a false oath.For all these are things
that I hate,’ says the Lord.”
Is
this not the Plan of the G-d of Israel that all men would worship at Mount Zion
and yearly come to worship in the Temple of G-d as a temple of peace for all
mankind?
The “Latter Rain”;
the Revealing of the Direct Influence of the G-d of Israel in Jewish Politics
The recent torrential storms of rain,
snow and ice in Israel in early January 2013 should give us a pause, for they
may be a portrayal that the G-d of Israel is giving a “Sign” that He is
returning to becoming fully involved in the final Guela or the redemption of All Israel. So are we now witnessing the “Latter Rain”
that has been promised to be sent upon all Israel during the end times, as
reported in the Artzeinu, the “The
Weekly Israel News Update” in its January 12,
2013 update that reported the rain being the “worse in 20 years”. If so, within
weeks, the Sea of Galilee may be ‘topping off” and the dam will be opened so
like the days of old, will send waters cascading down the Jordan River. Will this be the “Latter Rain” prophesied in
Zechariah?
What about the rabbinic prophecy
attributed to the famed 1st century Rabbi in Judea, Rebbe Yochanan ben Zaccai of Yavnah, who prophesied in
the Sanhedrin 97b, that 2013 may be the year when “there will be plenty and
people will eat, drink, and be joyous, and the Torah will return to those who
learned it.”? Then we recently learned
how “Rabbi
Judah ben Samuel’s Jubilee Prophecy gives the Year of the Messiah” as the
end of the Jubilee Year that started in 1967, when Israel took complete
possession of the city of Jerusalem to 2017; signifying the beginning of the
Messianic Kingdom of the Jewish Messiah, David son of David.
Rabbi Judah
heHasid – “In the ninth jubilee Jerusalem will once again come back into
the possession of the Jewish nation – which will signify the
beginning of the Messianic end time.”
Destination
Yisra’el – “It
appears that to justify even the existence of the State of Israel, eventually
the citizens of Israel will have to proclaim that the political center of
Israeli politics should eventually become the Torah mandates and covenant given
to their forefathers by the G-d of Israel. For the rest of the world this would
be a “radical shift” in even world politics and an anathema against the fact
that the Middle East oil governs the politics of the world.
The
entire jockeying for power gives visible recognition that the Israeli political
left is crumbling as Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua Movement may no longer be a political
party. Even Livni’s Kadima Party associates, the current Knesset’s largest
faction is barely is passing the litmus test for the minimum vote threshold to
remain as a political party, so they may fade off into Israel’s political past.
Livni’s
political legacy appears will carry the Sharon’s mantle for the destruction of
the Jewish Orthodox presence in the Gaza region for she was a strong supporter
of the unilateral Disengagement Plan in 2005. This singular act brought Hamas
to power in Gaza. Livni also negotiated on the division of Jerusalem and gave
no credence to the true patriots and pioneers in Israel; the settlers in
Shomron and Judea. As such, “measure for measure” the G-d of Israel withdrew
His protecting hand of mercy and precipitated thousands of rockets to
eventually fall on Israeli cities
The
once invincible domination of the Likud Party alliances under Prime Minister
Benyamin Netanyahu, the most recent called the Likud-Beytenu began to crack not
by the power and potency of the political left but by the strong religious
Jewish nationalist’s supporting the Jewish political party called the Jewish
Home (Bayit Yehudi), that was showing vibrant new leadership under the
direction of Naftali Bennet.
Netanyahu’s
wavering refusal to officially accept the “Levy Report” and protect the Jewish new hometowns
in Shomron and Judea has cost Netanyahu his political reputation. The question
does he have the mandate to be the spiritual leader like King David for the
Israeli pioneering settlers in Israel also. Touted in some corners as being
possibly the long awaited “Maschiah ben Yosef” to carry Israel through in time
of war, that day may soon be coming in 2016.
Outside
of the ultra-liberal Meretz Party, the Israeli left have only the fading Israel
Labor Party headed by the former journalist, Shelly Yachimovich, who is now being
attacked not by Israel’s political right but by her own labor party members.
Carrying forth the social justice mandates of the Labor leftists, Yachimovich’s
social justice agenda have superseded the traditions about Israeli conflict-related
issues like Israeli security and the “Two-State” issues that have kept Israel
in the international news for decades.”
The
Shifting of the Political Center of Jewish Politics
So today, the political
election news is sporting left-wing political parties siding up with religious
candidates. We also see Netanyahu photographed with skullcap-wearing voters.
Recently it was reported that a rabbi became a party member of the
ex-television star Yair Lapid party posing as Israel’s centrist party. Even the
former foreign minister, Tzipi Livni has tapped a skull-capped ex-general to be
a part of her left-wing party.
Today, the party lines
are blurring, as orthodox politician who once represented smaller more
single-issued parties are now being integrated into the larger political
parties. By doing this, the orthodox leaders can obtain more political clout,
even though Orthodox Israeli Jews are still a minority.
According to a recent
survey (2012) by the Jerusalem-based Israel Democracy Institute, 22 percent of
the Israeli Jews are observant today. These figures included the observant
Orthodox, ultra-Orthodox, and the moderate Orthodox. Even though 78 percent of
the population of Israel is still non-observant, the political influence of the
observant Jew is dramatically higher and truthfully so, for that was the
purpose of the State of Israel to become a safe homeland for the Jewish people
so that “Never Again” would another Jewish targeted holocaust occur.
To see how the political
winds have shifted, just look at the year of 1948, when the Declaration of
Independence was declared for the State of Israel. At that time the self-declared national
mission of Israel was centered around the once-powerful kibbutzniks, who lived
in collective farms and became identified with Israel’s early settlement of the
land.
A large percentage of
these kibbutzniks were secular Israelis who did not identify with G-d given
mandate to “possess the land.” The kibbutzniks have for almost 70 years
dominated the Israeli military and the political leadership of the land. Today,
in Israel’s election, the kibbutz movement will probably not win any seats in
the next Israeli Knesset.
Today, the political
warriors for the G-d of Israel and the preservation of the Land of Israel are
the Zionist observant Jews, who have firmly take the mantle as the
“chosen-ones” by the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is they who will
determine the next agenda and the national discourse of the future of Israel.
Today the city of
Hebron, known as the City of the Patriarch where the Tomb of the Patriarchs and
Matriarchs of the Jews and the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel is located has now
become the political fire-storm of Israeli-Palestinian politics. Nestled in the heartland of the Judean
Mountains of Judea, the homeland of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, over 3,000 feet
above sea level is where 250,000 Palestinian and 800 Jewish settlers are
intermingled around Hebron’s Old Quarters. Today, the city of Hebron is
responsible for 33% of the gross national product of the Palestinian West Bank.
In January 13, 1997, the
city of Hebron became where the current Prime Minister of Israel, Benyamin
Netanyahu met his first political “Waterloo” during his first term as prime
minister of Israel. Within days of forming a new government of Israel, he
signed an agreement with Yasser Arafat in which Israel agreed to turn over 80
percent of Hebron and roll back its presence in other parts of the West Bank in
three stages by August, 1998. Netanyahu lost his next re-election bid.
Today, the settlers in
Hebron still feel betrayed by Netanyahu, who also in his second term embraced
the “two-state solution” and froze all settlement activity for 10 months, but
after the freeze the Palestinian government of Abbas failed to become a
negotiation partner for “peace”. So,
again, even though Netanyahu is continuing today to promote expansion in East
Jerusalem and in the two Jewish towns in Shomron and Judea, the political wind
and trends show a hardening and a firming of support to the Jewish people; the
nations of the world will not give them either a homeland nor peace, even if
they give up more land.
Soon, the message will
be loud and clear, if they want the G-d of Israel to side with their cause,
then their political shepherds must “feed their sheep”, if not, then the G-d of
Israel will have to shift the geo-politics of the world to bring all the
nations of the world to the door-step of Israel and settle his dispute with
them, for not protecting Israel and give them their judgments and due rewards.
************
The G-d of Israel is
working with imperfect people in order to restore this planet to a messianic
era in which our lives can be focused on holiness, righteousness and justice.
If so, you might desire to reconnect with the Biblical portrayals of what is
and will be happening in your near future.
This Biblical
portrayal includes Prophecies that the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are
about to return to the Land of their Biblical Inheritance. This is Divine
Destiny in living reality as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel return to their
Homelands first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel.
If you want to learn
more, Contact “Kol Ha’Tor Vision”,the Voice of the Turtledove. Here is
a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the
imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all
Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times
will entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the
Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and
preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel
and then the Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”,a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House
in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost
Tribers of the House of Israel.
Destination Yisra’el – “The following article, first written
in Hebrew and translated into English, was written by Dr. Mordecai Kedar, an
Israeli scholar in Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Hebrew University called
Bar-Illan. The summarization looks only
at the geo-political ramifications of “What if?” What if the “Radical Right or the Israeli
Orthodox Settler’s Movement” in Israel does take control of the Israeli
government in this next election? What if the Jewish people in Israel were to
take seriously the testimony of the Hebrew prophets, like the Prophet
Zechariah?
Zechariah
7:8-10 – “And the word of the Lord came again to Zechariah:
This
is what the Lord Almighty says:
‘Administer
true justice, show mercy and compassion to one another.
Do
not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor.
In
your hearts do not think evil of each other.’”
What if the Jewish Settler’s movement in Israel were to
cleanse the land of Israel and make this land into a Holy Land beholden only to
the G-d of Israel? What if the people of Israel in one election, sweep away the
bastion of power of the Freemasons that have controlled Israeli politics since
its inception in 1948, barring one small political era and whose only argument
is who controls Jerusalem; the Jewish Masons or the Jesuit controlled Vatican
P2 Lodge Masons?
What
if the mantle for the radical shift in the whole Middle Eastern world were to
shift into moving the geo-politics of the Middle East into the “Peace and
Justice” model of the Jewish Messiah son of David (Maschiah ben Dovid)? What if
the Jewish Messiah does take control of the world and rule it with a “rod of
iron” that will impose peace upon all nations? What if the Jewish State of
Israel will be eventually transformed into a Greater Israel that would
transform the whole world into an era of peace that would bring Torah
enlightenment for all men to live and to study?
Zechariah
8:16-17 – These are the things you shall do;
Speak
each man the truth to his neighbor; give judgment in your gates for truth,
justice, and peace;
‘Let
none of you think evil in your heart against your neighbor; and do not love a
false oath.
For
all these are things that I hate,’ says the Lord.
Is this not the Plan of the G-d of Israel that all men would
worship at Mount Zion and year come to worship in the Temple of G-d as a temple
of peace for all mankind?
Dr. Mordecai Kedar – “The elections
are approaching in Israel, and polls are predicting what the Arab media calls,
with great dread, "the meteoric rise of the radical right in Israel".
Every article about the Israeli political map has the latest polls, showing the
obvious trend that all of us here are aware of. In recent days this writer's
telephone has been ringing constantly, with a representative of one Arab media
outlet or another on the other end, all of whom are absorbed by one great
concern: the strengthening of the Jewish spirit in Israel. The radio stations
in the Palestinian Authority, where - I must admit - I am often interviewed,
express the most apprehension.
The question is: Why is the Arab world so concerned and what are they worried
about? One possible answer is that the radical right will take over the country
and Israel will go to war against the Palestinians in order to destroy the
Palestinian Authority and undo all of the achievements, especially the
international recognition that they won in the General Assembly of the UN about
two months ago. Even if I cannot deny this possibility, it doesn't seem to me
that this is the real reason for the anxiety, because there are many -
especially in the Palestinian Authority - who wish to dissolve the PA, as we
saw last week in the article that we published on this honorable platform.
The reasons for the concern are deeper than this, and stem from the cultural
mindset of the region. An Israel that has a strong character and is confident
of itself and the justice of its cause, might stop behaving like a dishrag, as it
has done in the past, more than once, under the irresponsible leadership of the
bleeding hearts who are the "Pursuers of Peace", and might adopt a
pattern of behavior typical to the Middle East.
More than a few Israeli
politicians, some of them prime ministers, who sought "a solution
now" have earned for Israel the image of "peace seekers",
according to their point of view, but which the Middle East understood as
"Obsequious beggars pleading for a little peace and quiet". In the
Middle East only the vanquished, pleading for his life to be spared, begs for
peace, and usually he will get a big, strong kick that will hurl him all the
way down the stairs. Peace is the last thing you get when you beg for it.
In the embattled region where Israel is situated, the weak individual gets
beaten up: he is shot at, missiles rain down upon him, his buses are blown up,
he is de-legitimized, marginalized diplomatically, sued in international
courts, states are established on his back that threaten him and declare their
violent struggle against him again and again, and he - the weak one - must take
all of this garbage that is rained down upon him and say, "It's only
words". Sometimes he issues a warning but few take him seriously because
he is weak and obsequious; he "seeks peace".
In contrast, only the strong and self-confident, he who can pose a threat, who
does not restrain himself at all from utilizing full force, who will not
surrender anything due to him, will have peace and tranquility. Everyone else
will leave him be because they fear him, and this is the only peace that is
recognized in the Middle East. Peace belongs to the one who responds with great
power to the first missile that falls into his territory, even if it falls in
an open area; who doesn't say on the radio, "no damage was caused",
because the truth of the matter is that indeed great damage was caused to his
sovereignty, and nothing is more important than his sovereignty. Would a normal
person accept someone shooting at his house, even if "no damage was
caused"?
The Arab world fears an Israel that after the elections might be - good heavens
- more Jewish, because then the world might remember that the Jews, not the
Israelis, were expelled from here 1942 years ago, and now the Jews have
returned to their historic land - Judea. A more Jewish Israel might be a
"bad" example to Europe, where a sense of national identity is in
continual decline and where they watch with indifference the alien invasion
that is threatening the character of Europe. The strengthening of the Israeli
Right might therefore encourage the European Right to put an end to the great
immigration of the masses who expect to turn Europe into their land.
A Jewish Israel could be a magnet attracting Jews the world over to immigrate
to Israel and to make Israel the center of their life, and thus it will be
strengthened demographically, economically, socially and politically. This
process might be encouraged by the anti-Semitism in Europe, which is rising as
the Jews lose their influence and the public weight is transferred to groups of
immigrants that don't become part of the society of old, sleepy Europe.
A Jewish Israel will concentrate within it the educated Jews, the
entrepreneurs, the inventors, the developers and the cutting-edge scientists
who brought the Jewish people a prodigious number of Nobel prizes, and thus
Israel will become a bastion of science, technology and development, innovation
and entrepreneurship, while everything around it - chiefly in the past two
years - becomes a quagmire of blood, fire and tears, pillars of smoke,
destruction and devastation.
A sovereign and self-confident Jewish Israel will prove to its neighbors again
that the Jews are not just another "protected people" ("ahl
dhimmi" in their language) who must live according to rules determined by
the imams, and must "pay the head tax in a humiliated condition"
(Qur'an, Sura 9, Verse 29) according to the custom in the Arabian Peninsula of
the seventh century CE. A Jewish Israel will cling with more determination to
Jerusalem, the capital of the Jews since 3000 years ago, long before the sons
of the desert broke into it and invented a history that supposedly grants them
the rights to Jerusalem since the creation of the world.
With a Jewish Israel, the mutual bonds of responsibility will be strengthened
among Jews, and they will establish a more just, unified, fair and humane
society, and Jewish society will be stronger and more robust, more determined
and more able to stand the tests of life that anyone who wants to survive in
the Middle East are subjected to. This society will have a clearer self image,
and will not need to discriminate against minorities only in order to prove to
itself that it is "different".
As a result of this, the way the state
relates to minorities, especially the Muslim minority, will be more humane and
understanding, because - after all - many of the Jewish majority and the Muslim
minority see eye to eye concerning the true problems of traditional society in
a modern and permissive physical and virtual environment. Jews and Muslims
alike aspire to promote the education of the young generation, ethical behavior
of the sons and daughters of their society, restricting the use of drugs and
alcohol, honoring parents and teachers and adherence to religious and
traditional values.
A Jewish Israel will present a solid wall of defense against Islamic
radicalization and tribalism in the Arab world, and will prove that only a
people who clings to its identity and is faithful to its heritage can stand strong
against the tidal wave of radicalization and violence that engulfs the Middle
East, and this is exactly what frightens our neighbors: those who hoped that
with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, Israel would be paralyzed with fear
and would flee from all of its assets, discover that, contrary to their theory,
Israel is the state of the Jewish Brotherhood, and will not flee from an enemy.
A Jewish state such as this will prove to those near and far that the Jews have
returned to their historical and eternal homeland and will remain there forever
and ever, and only this way will Israel win peace from her neighbors. It will
not be a “peace of hugs and kisses”, because there is no such thing in the
Middle East, but rather it will be a Peace that stems from our neighbors'
recognition of the reality that the Almighty has imposed upon them, and the
realization that they have no choice but to accept it as it is. Within Islamic
tradition, there is a way to give peace to infidels who are invincible;
temporary peace that continues as long as the enemy is invincible. This is the
peace that Israel can win from her neighbors, and it will continue forever, but
only if Israel is invincible forever.
A more Jewish Israel will ensure peace among all of the citizens and will
oblige her neighbors to leave her in peace, and this is the reason that her
neighbors fear a more Jewish Israel.”
Credit to Dr. Mordechai Kedar – “The State of the Jewish
Brotherhood” - Translated from Hebrew by Sally Zahav with permission
from the author.
The G-d of Israel is
working with imperfect people in order to restore this planet to a messianic
era in which our lives can be focused on holiness, righteousness and justice.
If so, you might desire to reconnect with the Biblical portrayals of what is
and will be happening in your near future.
This Biblical
portrayal includes Prophecies that the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are
about to return to the Land of their Biblical Inheritance. This is Divine
Destiny in living reality as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel return to their Homelands
first in Shomron (Samaria), Israel.
If you want to learn
more, Contact “Kol
Ha’Tor Vision”,
the Voice of the Turtledove. Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber
Mission to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical
Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and
Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail Establishing the Shomron
(the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as
part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost
Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”,a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House
in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost
Tribers of the House of Israel.
Weekly Bible Reading
#11, Year 5773 (2012/2013)
– December 22, 2012
Parashat Va’yigash (And he drew nearer): Genesis 44:18 - 47:27
Haftarah: Ezekiel 37:15-28
NOTE: Kol HaTor, in its commentaries on
the weekly Parashot, endeavors to search for and accentuate the Torah Messages
contained in the Parashot as applicable to the main Theme of Tanach of the
Return of the House of Israel, i.e. the Lost Ten Tribes of Northern Israel and
their Reconciliation with Judah to form the reunited 12-Tribed Kingdom of
Israel.
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Having traced the
underlying Theme throughout our previous 10 Parashot of the Elected Body which
HaShem is intending to rule by in His Universal Kingdom, our Parashah this week
holds a Main Key as Guidance to those souls who are pursuing the Reconciliation
which is required for the ultimate Redemption. This Key will also secure
the Unity which our previous Parashah, Mikeitz, emphasized.
The Haftarah for this
week is Ezekiel 37:18 – the Main Prophecy regarding the Reconciliation of the two
Houses of Israel into ONE united Nation. Our Parashah Reading this week
will also provide the answer to the controversial question: What will the
religious nature of this Re-united Body be?
The name of this
Parashah, ‘Va’yigash’ is linked to the Jewish custom to take three steps
forward (as in approaching the Throne) before the Amidah main prayer, Shmoneh
Esrei, is recited in synagogue. This derives from the fact that there are 3
times in the Torah - in connection with prayer - where we find the word "vaYigash"
[and he drew closer].
The first place is
when Avraham pleaded with G-d that he should not destroy Sodom, as it is
written:
Genesis
[Bereishit 18:23] – “And Avraham drew near and said 'Will You even obliterate
righteous with wicked?’”
The second time is in
our Parshah when Yehudah (Judah) stepped toward Yosef (Joseph) before
delivering his appeal regarding his youngest brother Benyamin (Benjamin):
Genesis
[Bereishit 44:18] – “Then Judah apprached him and said, "If you please, my lord, may your servant speak a wrod in my lord's ear adn let not your anger flare upo at your servant - for you are like Pharaoh."
The third time is in
the book of Kings, regarding Eliyahu on Mt HaCarmel;
I Kings
[Melachim I] 18:36] – “And it was at the time of the Mincha offering, Eliyahu
the prophet drew near and said, "Hashem, G-d of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yisrael,
today it will become known that You are G-d in Israel and I am Your servant,
and that it is by Your word that I have done all these things.”
(Source: Torah.org, Rav Frand
This week’s Parashah
describes the circumstances which led the 12-Tribed House of Israel (70 souls
in all) to the Land of Goshen, Egypt with the approval of the Farao – because
of Yosef’’s favored position in the House and rule of Farao (Pharaoh). When
Yosef reveals himself to his brothers, he stresses the fact that G-d has used
his betrayal by his brothers as a means to save them and secure their posterity
in the times of famine which overtook them. Yosef’s life and experience
was also a metaphor of what was to come over the 12-tribed nation of Israel in
the long term – especially as regards the future Reconciliation and Redemption
when the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel would return and reconcile with Judah (as
this week’s Haftarah Ezekiel 37 foretold).
Thus, the episode in
this Parashah of the emotional recognition of each other by Yosef and his
brothers, is all about the future recognition of the Lost House of 10-Israel
(Ephraim) by Judah. In this reconciliation, the Hebraic Restoration
sector of 10-Israel (depicted by Yosef), would take the lead – just as Our
Parashah describes Yosef’s lead in the blessed recognition affair.
Now the Key that we
referred to, which could serve as a Guiding principle to the masses of
reawakening Ten Tribers today who are so desperately searching recognition by
Judah (in order to make their Return to the Land possible) is revealed in a
Va’yigash Commentary by Rabbi Label Lam titled, “The Top
Knot”:
Genesis
[Bereishit 45:25 – 26] - “And they (Yosef’s brothers) went up from Egypt, and
they came to the land of Canaan to their father Yaakov. They told him, saying,
‘Yosef is still alive. He is the ruler of all the land of Egypt.’ His heart
stood still. He could not believe them.”
As the Stone Edition
Chamush commentators wrote concerning this epic affair when the Ten Sons of Jacob had to
stage an event with soothing music in order to rewrite history, that according
to Pirkei d’R’ Eliezar, they had falsely given in the first place to their
father, Israel:
Stone
Edition Chamush – “One can barely image the tremendous emotional impact upon
Jacob of the news that Joseph was still alive and that, despite his long
isolation from his family and the harmful influence of the Egyptian society,
Joseph was still a loyal son of Jacob. Fearing that a sudden announcement might
shock and harm Jacob, the brothers sent one of his granddaughters, Serach,
daughter of Asher, to prepare him for it. She played her harp and sang gently
that Joseph was still alive and that he was the ruler of Egypt. Slowly, Jacob’s
long sadness evaporated and he blessed her for having lifted his spirits. As a
result, she was still alive centuries later, and eventually entered the Garden
of Eden alive."
Alluding to Avos
d’Rabbi Nassan’s commentary, the Chumash wrote on this Parashat:
Avos
d’Rabbi Nassan - “This was the fate of a liar: He is disbelieved even when he
tell the truth! Jacob had believed them when they came and showed him Joseph’s
bloodstained tunic, indication that a wild beast had devoured him; but now,
even though they were telling the truth, he did not believe them.”
As the medieval
French rabbi, Rashi (RAbbi SHlomo Itzhaki - 1040-1105);wrote:
Rabbi Shlomo Itzhaki – “His
heart stood still: His heart changed and he ceased believing them. His heart
was not swayed by their words.”
As then, according to the Torah:
Genesis (Bereishit) 45:27-28 – “However, when
they related to him all the words that Joseph had spoken to them and he saw the
wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, then the spirit of their father,
Jacob was revived.”
As the Chumash continues:
Stone Edition Chumash – “To prove to Jacob
that Joseph had sent these messages, Joseph directed his brothers to say that
the last topic he and Jacob had studied together was that of eglah arufah (the calf whose neck was
broken in expiation of an unsolved murder (in Deuteronomy 21:1-9).” The word,
wagons, can also be translated calves (agalos),
thus alluding to that topic.
Therefore it is written, ‘And he saw the agalos that Joseph had sent; it does not
say…that Pharaoh had sent. (Rashi)”
Rabbi Label Lam picks
up the theme of the Parashat Vi’yigash when in the blog titled, “The Top Knot”
we read:
Rabbi
Label Lam - “All of Joseph’s words: He (Yosef) gave them a sign, for example-
in what topic he was engaged when he (Yosef) separated from him (Yaakov). [That
was] the section dealing with the heifer that was to be beheaded (עֶגְלָה עִרוּפָה)
(Devarim. 21), and this is what the verse says, “and he saw the wagons that
Yosef had sent,” and it (Scripture) does not say, “that Pharaoh had sent.”[Rashi
from B’reishis Rabbah 94:3)”
This little piece of
hidden information revived Yaakov. Why did Yosef only hint to his father Yaakov
by sending him a wagon? Why did he not tell him out right that he remembered
well their last conversations in learning? We know that Yosef wanted his father
to understand that even though he had been stuck deep in the heart of Egypt for
so long he remained at Tzadik, a righteous individual.
By referring to the
last subject they had discussed Yosef was signaling to his father that he had
not lost that connection to Torah learning. Not only was he alive physically,
as the ruler of Egypt, but he was spiritually intact as well. As Rabbi Lam
continues:
Rabbi
Label Lam - “What was it that revived Yaakov’s spirit and assured him Yosef was
still alive? It was the tiny and subtle hint that accompanied the wagon that
was sent by Yosef. Since a wagon is an “agalah”
and Yosef had last learned about the “egela
arufa” from his father then the word play- the sound signaled that Yosef
was still aware of a private conversation they had shared. Who else could have
sent that private piece of information? Is that why Yaakov was convinced then
that Yosef was still alive?
Every
week in school we do a unique and profound exercise in every class in the
school. I would love to share all the splendor of the experience but I’ll spare
the readership in the meantime. It’s called, “The Pitgam HaShevuah”- “The Phrase of the Week”. A statement
of the sages is selected, usually of three or four words length and preferably
one that has to do with something topical in the world or in school. The phrase
is written in Hebrew atop a page along with an English language translation.
Below
that an appropriate picture is copied and pasted to add the dimension of a
visual anchor for the idea above. Then in the bottom third of the page there
are 100 boxes, ten rows of ten, counting from 1 to 100 and on the bottom-bottom
row is in big and bold font the number 101.
Then I
have the great pleasure to enter each class, one at a time, and give a brief
explanation/story about the Pitgam.
After that the class thunderously and rhythmically recites the statement 101 times.
That’s it! Ask any child from Pre1A to 8th Grade weeks later and they will
happily finish any phrase and tell you what it means on their level of course.
It’s a brief but powerful curriculum and it acts as a unifying force in the
school while subtly sewing great and lasting lessons into the hearts of Jewish
Children.
Last
week the Pitgam was a statement from Menachos, “Kesher Elyon D’Oraisa”-“The Top Knot is from Torah”. There I
included a picture of the top knot on the Talis-Tzitzis. That’s the simple
intent of the Talmud. The top knot of the Tzitzis is the Torah obligation while
the other knots are Rabbinical.
I
shared with the students the explanation a friend from Yehsiva days shared at
an alumni dinner… “Kesher Alyon D’Oraisa”-
The top connection two people can have is through studying Torah! It could be
that the most profound relationship in life is with those we studied Torah with
and from. Also the highest and deepest relationship with HASHEM too is Torah.
“The top knot is D’Oraisa”. Ain’t it true!?
Going out for pizza and bowling is nice but ten years later it’s hard to
remember it ever happened. Not true with Torah. Decades pass and those
relationships are as alive today as then and easily revived.
“One of
the Rabbis suggested that this very idea is right there in this week’s Torah
portion. When Yaakov got a wink and a nod from Yosef about the last
thing they had learned together it showed that not only had he physically
survived the ravages of a lonely exile but that they were still connected by the top knot!”
This hidden Sign in
our Parashah from Yosef to his father regarding his faithfulness to Torah,
offers a Great Key To 10-Israel today. Kol HaTor is well aware of the notion of
10-Israel in thinking that they will make Judah “jealous” with their Messianic
teachings that they want to enforce on Judah, not realizing that this topic is
the one great obstacle opposing Reconciliation while eternalizing the division
between the Two Houses. KHT has often stressed the opinion that the only
way that 10-Israel could ever wish to awaken the “jealousy” of Judah, is by
keeping the Torah as well as Judah or better. Their own ‘New Testament’
Scriptures confirm this when it states by mouth of its Messiah:
Matthew
5:20 - “For I tell you, that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the
Pharisees and the Teachers of the Torah, you will certainly not
enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”
From the metaphor of
our Parashah, it is clear that Yosef (Ephraim, 10-Israel – the Hebraic
Restoration section of it as represented by Yosef amongst his brothers) will be
recognized by Judah for his ties to and his observance of Torah principles
“that Judah has inherited from their fathers and guarded throughout the ages”
(according to their Divine Mandate – Genesis 49:10).
This, Judah will
recognize and respect; A Yosef that wants to impress pagan Egyptian culture and
theology upon them that they cannot accept. In Judaism, when a son wanders away
into Christianity, the father tears his clothes as for a son who has died.
Genesis
45:4-7 - “Then Yoseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” When they had
done so, he said, “I am your brother Yoseph, the one you sold into Egypt! And now, do not be distressed and do not
be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives
that G-d sent me to you. God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a
remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.”
It was all about
preserving Abraham’s Blessing of numberless descendants ‘in Egypt who would
Return to their Divine Heritage.
THIS is why God
preserved 10-Israel like a Yosef in Exile – to bring the Light of Torah
amongst the nations by their “being a Light unto the Gentiles.”
THAT is why they are rejected by the Churches for being “traitors to the Faith”
and wanting to “take the burden of the Law upon themselves with Judah.”
Much as the ‘Yosef’
amongst 10-Israel (the Hebrew Restoration sector) are now despised by his
brothers, even also by Judah, for “observing Torah”, the times will come, when
Judah will recognizes Yosef (as in this Parashah), and Yosef will be
accepted as “their long lost brother’.
The following commentary is taken from the
pen of Rabbi Dovid Siegel with Torah.org. We
will add a few comments between [ ] by the editor of Kol HaTor to simply widen
the application of this enlightening and inspiring Message to the wider
spectrum of ALL 12 Tribes involved in the Redemption – as we believe it really
applies. It strongly re-emphasizes the need for UNITY as transpired from our
previous commentary on Parashat Miketz.
Rabbi
Dovid Siegel – “This week's Haftorah is devoted to the Jewish nation's [ALL 12 Tribes,
both Houses] future unification. It opens with Hashem instructing the Prophet
Yechezkel to take two pieces of wood and inscribe them with names of the Jewish
kingdoms [the TWO divided kingdoms of], Yehuda (Judah) and Yosef (Joseph.
Hashem then said, “Bring them near one another to appear as one and they shall
unite in your hands.”
Radak
interprets this to mean that Yechezkel (Ezekiel) should hold the pieces
alongside each other and they will miraculously unite into one solid piece
of wood. He explains that this refers to the future miraculous unification
of the Jewish kingdom [with the estranged House of Israel]. The individual
pieces of wood represented the [two] individual kingdoms of Israel.
Although
Hashem unconditionally granted Dovid Hamelech's (King David’s) dynasty the
kingdom of Israel [12 Tribes] this did not preclude fragmentation. In fact,
soon after Shlomo Hamelech's (King Solomon’s) passing the kingdom suffered a
severe split.
Yeravam ben
Nvat (Jeroboam son of Nevat), a descendent of the tribe of Yosef (Ephraim) led
a powerful rebellion against the Judean dynasty and gained control over most of
the Jewish nation [the Northern Ten Tribed kingdom of Israel]. The split was so
intense that the seceding camp of Yosef totally severed ties with its brothers
[Judah] never to return to them.
Yechezkel
prophesied that these kingdoms will eventually reunite and form one inseparable
unit. The unification will be so perfect that it will leave no trace of any
previous dissension. The entire nation's sense of kinship will be so pronounced
that it will be likened to one solid piece of wood, void of all factions and
fragmentation. Yechezkel
continues and states in Hashem's name:
Yechezkel (Ezekiel) 37:23, 28 – “And I will purify them and they shall be a nation to Me and I will
be G-d to them... My
Divine Presence will rest upon them ... forever.”
These verses
predict the final phase of unity - Hashem's unification with His people. In the
Messianic era all aspects of unity will be achieved. The entire Jewish
[12-Tribed] nation will become one inseparable entity and HaShem will reunite
with His people. This unification will resemble that of the Jewish people,
an everlasting and inseparable one.
It is
important to note the order of this unity. The first phase will be our nation's
[12 Tribes’, 2 Houses’] unification and after this is achieved Hashem will return to His
people.
Sefer
Charedim (The Book of the Pious by
Rabbi Elazer Ezkari) sensitizes us to the order of this development. He
reflects upon Hashem's distinct quality of oneness and explains that it can
only be appreciated and revealed through His people’s harmonious interaction.
Hashem’s
favor and kindness emanates from His perfect oneness and reveals this quality
in full. When the Jewish [entire 12-Tribed] people function as a harmonious
body they deserve Hashem's favor and kindness. They project and reflect
Hashem's goodness and express His oneness and bring true glory to His
name. However, if the Jewish people
[12-tribed nation] are fragmented and divided they display - Heaven forbid -
division in Hashem's interactive system.
Their
divisive behavior gives the impression that Hashem's influence is disjointed
and fragmented and not achieving its ultimate purpose. At that point Hashem
removes His presence from His people and disassociates Himself from their
inappropriate ways [as happened 8 centuries BCE when the 12-Tribed Kingdom
split into two]. The Jewish people's [the 12 Tribed nation’s] lack of success
and accomplishment is then attributed to HaShem’s unwillingness to remain
involved in their lives.
We now
understand that the Jewish people’s unity [the 2 Houses’ unity] is a
prerequisite to Hashem’s return to His people. Sefer Charedim explains with this the introductory
words of the Shabbos afternoon Amidah service. We state therein:
“You are
one, Your identity is one and who can be likened to Your people Israel, one
nation, in the land.”
He
interprets these words to refer to the glorious Messianic era. During that period
Hashem's oneness will be recognized through His harmonious interactive system reflected
in the oneness of His people. Their perfect unity will provide the perfect setting
for Hashem’s revelation to the world.
During that
time Hashem's master plan will be expressed through the perfect interaction of
His people. Every detail of Hashem's kindness will serve its intended purpose
and reveal His absolute oneness and control over every aspect of this world. Undoubtedly,
this will require the Jewish people’s [all 12 Tribes’] total cooperation and perfect
harmonious interaction with one another. Indeed, it can be said that when Hashem’s people united
as an inseparable entity His identity and perfect quality of oneness will be recognized
throughout the world. Sefer Charedim chap. 7 (adapted)
In truth, the foundation for this unity was laid in this
week's sedra (Hebrew “order” “arrangement”). Yosef developed an ingenious
scheme to silence all his brothers' suspicions and convince them of their grave
misjudgment of his actions. He successfully removed their deep seeded jealousy
and hatred and brought about a sincere unification to the household of Ya’akov (Jacob).
Yosef (Joseph) and Yehuda (Judah), the two powers to be, embraced one another
and displayed a true sense of kinship.
Unfortunately,
irrevocable damage already occurred that would ultimately yield a severe split
in the Jewish [G-d’s] kingdom. Yosef's descendant, Yeravam (Jeroboam) would
eventually severe relations with Yehuda's descendant Rechavam (Rehoboam) and establishes
his own leadership. (see Gur Aryeh to Breishis 48:7) However, groundwork was
already established to reunite these kingdoms and return the Jewish [G-d’s]
nation to its original perfect unity.
This week's
sedra records the immediate result of the unity of the household of Yaakov.
After Yaakov Avinu discovered Yosef's existence and salvation, the Torah
states;
Breishis
(Genesis) 45:27 – “And their father, Yaakov's spirit was restored to life.”
Rashi quotes
the Sages who explain these words to refer to the return of Hashem’s Divine
Spirit to Yaakov. (ad loc) Yosef's absence from Yaakov's household
indirectly prevented Hashem's Divine Spirit from resting upon Yaakov. Now,
after twenty-two dark years Yaakov Avinu's (Our Father, Jacob’s) household was
reunited and Hashem returned His Divine Presence to Yaakov. This development is
indicative of the Jewish people's future experience.
The ten lost
tribes representing the kingdom of Yoseif will be divided from the Judean
kingdom for over two thousand years. This will result in Hashem’s removing
His Divine Presence from amidst His people and throughout their long dark
exile they will have no direct contact with Him.
However, the
time will eventually arrive for the Jewish people to reunite [with 10-Israel]
and become one inseparable entity. This miraculous unity will immediately lead
to a second unity; that of Hashem and His people. In response to their total
unification Hashem will return His Divine Presence and rest amongst His people
and "The spirit of Israel will be restored to life".
This lesson
is apropos for our times where so much potential diversity exists. We pray to
Hashem that we merit total unification thereby yielding Hashem's return to us
resting His Divine Presence amongst us.”
To understand more
about the Return of the 10 Tribes of Israel to their Homeland in Shomron
(Samaria), Israel, Contact “Kol Ha’Tor”,
the Voice of the Turtledove.
Here is a joint
Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the imminent
fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel
(12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will
entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs)
and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land”
for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the
Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor Ministries for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House
in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost
Tribers of the House of Israel.
To understand more
about the Return of the 10 Tribes of Israel to their Homeland in Shomron
(Samaria), Israel, Contact “Kol Ha’Tor”,
the Voice of the Turtledove.
Here is a joint
Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the imminent
fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel
(12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will
entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs)
and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the
“Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the
Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor Ministries for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House
in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost
Tribers of the House of Israel.
You are Israel!
The History was Revealed by the Prophets and Confirmed by Archeology, the Judgment of the God of Israel was Sealed as they were Exiled to Khurasan in Northern Iran, Eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan. They Disappeared into the Mists of History as they Migrated in Waves up through Georgia through the Caucasus and Followed the Tracks of their Cousin Dan who left his Name on the Rivers of his Passage (Don, Dniester, Dnieper, and the Danube) as they Migrated Northwestward towards Denmark. They Erupted into Northern Europe in the 3rd Century BCE as the Royal Scythians, Celts, Cymrics, Cimmerians, Goths, Angles, Saxons, Ostrogoths, Visigoths and Frisians.
They Populated the Lands of Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark), the Isles of the West (Britain, Ireland, and Scotland) the Lowlands (Netherlands and Belgium), the Colonies of Great Britain (United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa) plus the Lands of Northern France, and Germany. These today are the Lost Tribes of Israel!
If your Ancestry comes from any of these Lands,
Welcome, You are a “Lost Ten Triber” of the House of Israel!
The Prophets have Proclaimed, at the Time of the End, You will Return Home!
