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.
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.
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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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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We
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.
Weekly Bible Reading #23 - Year 5773
(2012/2013) – March 16, 2013
Parashot Va'yikrah (And He called ): Leviticus 1:1-5:26
Haftarah: Isaiah 43:21-44:23
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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The last five Parashot of
the Book of Exodus explained the structure of the Tabernacle and its vessels,
and Exodus concluded with an account of how the completed Sanctuary was finally
erected and arranged by Moses on the 1st of Aviv, almost one year after the
Exodus from Egypt. This was all done according to the Instructions of HaShem.
With the dedication of the Sanctuary, the Cloud of G-d's Glory (His Shechinah)
covered the Tent of Meeting.
Exodus
40:34 – “Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the Glory of HaShem
filled the Tabernacle.Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting
because the cloud had settled on it and the Glory of HaShem filled the
Tabernacle.”
We have contemplated how
one of the main purposes for the Tabernacle was, that “in this way the
omnipresent Spirit Being, the G-d of Israel, could dwell amongst His People,
guiding them by day in a Pillar of Cloud, and by night in a Pillar of Fire.”
We have also considered the possibility that HaShem, similarly, wishes to “indwell
the physical bodies” (tabernacles) of His People individually. In the same
manner, ultimately, He would “completely fill” such a person.
Now that the Sanctuary was
complete, the next step is for us to learn what is to be done in it - what our responsibilities are. The
book of Va'yikrah (Leviticus) begins with the detailed Commandments relating to
the sacrifices, since these were to be the main activity in the Sanctuary and
in the Temple throughout the generations.
Our Haftarah, in Isaiah
43:21 proclaims: “The people I formed for Myselfthat they may
proclaim My Praise.” But, in the succeeding verses He complains:
Isaiah
43:23 – “You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings (‘Horban Olah’
elevation offerings) nor honored me with your sacrifices. You have not bought
any fragrant calamus for Me or lavished on Me the fat of your sacrifices. But
you have burdened Me with your sins and wearied Me with your
offenses."
Clearly, He requires our
thanksgivings and praises. Sins, He forgives ... but where are the
Praises and exultations?
Almost the complete book of
Va'yikrah is about sacrifices, offerings and libations. When we search it
in the spirit of finding our responsibilities in regard to our “living
Tabernacles dedicated to HaShem”, we are bound to turn what otherwise
presents the “driest” section of the entire Bible, the book of Va'yikrah
(Leviticus) into “a Fountain of Living Waters.”
Rabbi
Avraham Greenbaum from Azamra Institutewrites in his commentary on Va'yikrah:
Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum – “G-d’s challenge to ALL of the Children of Israel was to
be ‘a kingdom of PRIESTS and a holy nation.’ (Exodus 19:6). While only the
Cohen-priest may officiate at the offering of sacrifices, they could be brought
by all. Many of the other Commandments in Leviticus relating to ‘holiness’ apply
not only to the Cohen-Priests but to all of us.
At
the very heart of Leviticus is Parshas KEDOSHIM, ‘Be holy.’ (Exodus ch's 19-20)
which contains the fundamental laws governing man's behavior to his fellows.
This is explicitly addressed to all of the Children of Israel (Leviticus 19:2).
The book of VAYIKRA also contains Commandments that apply to Gentiles. These
include the laws of sacrifices with which our present Parshah of VAYIKRA,
opens: the first commandment is that of KORBAN OLAH, the ‘elevation’ or
whole-burned offering, which both Israelites and Gentiles are eligible to
bring.”
At
the Woodlands
Community Temple at White Plains, New York, Rabbi Billy Dreskin states the
following concerning the temple sacrifices given to the G-d of Israel:
Rabbi Billy Dreskin – “Leviticus,
the third book of the Torah, is not the most compelling by a long shot ...
Leviticus’ limitations aside, it’s my favorite book of the Torah, not because
it’s a page-turner, but because it’s about human responsibility. Its words have
God challenging us, saying, “You want to have a relationship with Me? Then
there’s stuff you need to do. You want blessings in your life? You’re going to
have to work for them.”
The
Torah has a way of working things out through purgation offerings. But with the
fall of the Jerusalem Temple, we had to find an alternative path to taking care
of our shortcomings. So now, the sacrificial offerings have become a symbol
of our efforts in life to make things right.
We
need a pathway to return. We may find it in prayer, in relationship, or in
brave yet difficult action. However we proceed, that path is likely to be far
more constructive (and healing) than running from the problem. Leviticus is
about sticking things out. While yes, we make mistakes—and plenty of them—we
don’t run away but, to the contrary, we try to make things right. For our
ancestors, a goat or a ram offering did the trick. For us, there are offerings
of the heart that accomplish the needed repair.”
Rabbi David Kaufman – “What do we do to make things right? With what have we
replaced these offerings? Certainly, we replace them with prayers and
songs, but words alone hardly do justice to the actions and intentions
symbolized by the ancient sacrifices.
Actions must accompany our words. I am reminded of the passage from Isaiah, Chapter
58:6–9: ‘This is the fast I desire: to unlock the fetters of wickedness, ... ;
it is to share your bread with the hungry, and to take the wretched poor into
your home; when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to ignore your own
kin. Then shall your light burst through like the dawn ... Then when you call
out, the Eternal will answer; when you cry, G-d will
say: Hineini, Here I am.’”
Mark Kirschbaum, Tikkun Daily,
concludes the following in regard to
the Sacrificial system of the Torah:
Mark Kirschbaum – “Once we are ‘trained’ in recognizing sacred otherness in
our spiritual lives, we have the capacity to recognize that every person has
their own unique set of needs and drives, their needs are not our needs, and we
find ourselves living properly in community (perhaps this is what is meant when
Avraham is congratulated for not holding back his son from God at the Akedah –
that Avraham reached the point where he truly allowed another living being to
individuate, that is the sacrifice, the sacrifice of the illusion that one has
control over another).
Thus
the true moment of atonement comes when one realizes that the world is not
narcissistically absorbed in one’s own sins, etc., but rather, when one
realizes that all living beings, in their own unique and free way, are part of
a whole community of life, each with their own specific needs and desires,
where the truest atonement (and sacrifice) is the recognition of the Other’s
existence and autonomy.”
Consider this concise
delineation of the main purpose of the Tabernacle or Temple in the light of our
previous discussion (Parashat Va'yakhel) regarding the related root
meanings of Shechinah, viz. dwell, neighborhood, neighbor). Thus:
the indwelling Spirit of HaShem in our human tabernacles requires the corrective
attitudes and actions towards our neighbors (community) in life.
This underlies our whole duty and purpose in life - towards our fellow
earthlings and towards our Maker. This is what Torah is all about.
The interpretation of
Torah has been Divinely mandated to Judah until Mashiach ben David comes who
will rule over the nations (Genesis 49:10; refer to our Enlightening Study on this Topic, “Judah -The Lawgiver of God–Part One”
The ancient northern Ten
Tribes of Israel rebelled against this authority of Judah for which they were
exiled into oblivion by HaShem, cut off from His Covenant. Their
reconciliation, however, and Return to the Land was foretold by Divine
Oath, filling the major part of Biblical Prophecy - a process which now is in
fulfillment as millions of souls across the world are turning to Torah in
search of their original Hebraic Roots.
There can be no greater
commitment in these Times, by BOTH the Houses of Judah and 10-Israel, then to
dedicate our human ‘temples’ to the original Divine Intent, i.e. as a Dwelling
Place for HaShem; a sincere study of Va'yikrah (Leviticus) will assist the sincere
seeking soul to find its responsibilities to ensure the ultimate full
habitation of the Shechinah of HaShem (as in the Tabernacle of old).
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 reunification
will truly be the supernal Event of all Times for it will entail Establishing
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’s 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 to their future and Prophetic Homeland.
Weekly Bible Reading #21
- Year 5773 (2012/2013) – March 9, 2013
Parashot Va'yakhel (And He assembled): Exodus 35:1 -
38:20
Parashot Pekudei: Exodus 38:21-40:38
Haftarah: I Kings 7:40-7:50
(Sephardic I Kings 7:13-7:26)
I Kings 7:51-8:21
(Sephardic) Kings 7:40-7:50)
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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This week's Torah reading includes both the
Parashah of Va'yakhel (Exodus 35:1-38:20) and the Parashah
of Pekudei (Exodus 38:21-40:38).
With these, we conclude the reading of the first 2 Books of the Torah.
The final 5 Parashot of the Book of Exodus (chapters 25 to
40) and the first ten chapters of the book of Leviticus, focus on one specific
theme: the Mishkan (the Tabernacle - God's Sanctuary). Volumes are written
about the meaning and importance of the Tabernacle in Jewish liturgy. The most
prominent concept, which we will also use as our theme today, is that of
providing “A Dwelling Place for G-d to live amongst His People.”
Parashat Pekudei concludes therefore, with the inspiring end
result of the newly completed Tabernacle:
Exodus 40:34-28 – “Then the cloud
covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of HaShem filled the Tabernacle.
Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled on it and
the glory of HaShem filled the Tabernacle.
In all the travels of the
Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the Tabernacle, they would set
out; but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it
lifted. So the cloud of HaShem was over the Tabernacle by day, and fire was in
the cloud by night, in the sight of all the Israelites during all their
travels.”
In this way the omnipresent Spirit Being, the G-d of Israel,
dwelt amongst His People, guiding them by day in a Pillar of Cloud, and by
night in a Pillar of Fire. In this Tabernacle, Moses would convene with G-d.
Exodus 34:35 – “But when Moses went
in before HaShem to speak with Him, he took the veil off, until he came out.
And he came out, and spoke unto the children of Israel that which he was
commanded. And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of
Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in
to speak with Him.”
The Shechinah Presence of G-d in the Tabernacle
As Rabbi Juda ben Shalom once stated:
Rabbi Juda son of Rabbi Shalom – “It
was on the Day of Atonement that Moses was commanded ‘Let them make me a
sanctuary.’ ... You will find that on the Day of Atonement their sin [of
worshipping the golden calf] was forgiven, and on the same day the Holy One
Blessed be He said to them: ‘And let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell
among them’ in order that all the nations should know that the sin of the golden
calf had been atoned for.”
In our previous Parashah we have seen how this atonement was
brought about by an offering of half Shekel on every member of the community -
like a national census.
The word, Shechinah, is derived from the Hebrew root שכן (sh-ch-n). In
Biblical
Hebrew it means
literally to settle,inhabit, or
dwell, In modern Hebrew, other concepts based on the same root are ‘neighbor’
(shochen) and ‘neighborhood’ (shechunah).
This close neighborly relationship is
portrayed in the community setting of the 12 Tribes in their encampment around
the Tabernacle.
Can this indicate that HaShem is purposing to dwell amongst
His People by way of indwelling the personal beings of His righteous People?
That each righteous follower would be a Living Temple for the Shechinah of
HaShem?
In previous Parashot commentary of Lech Lechah, we deliberated:
Kol Ha Tor in Lech Lechah – “When
Ephraim (the House of Israel, the re-identified Lost Ten Tribes) and Judah
(Jews) are individually regenerated and regathered into the rebuilt Tabernacle
of David, then we will begin to recognize each other as blood brothers, as
physical Israelites from different sides of the same family nation! This vision
does includes the truth of Israel's two houses and demands that Ephraim
renounce all paganism and embrace the fabric of Israelite living and holiness,
which is Torah.”
We then also considered this reconstructed and ruling ‘Tabernacle
of David’ from the vision of the prophet Daniel, as recorded in Daniel chapter
7:
Daniel 7:13-18 (parts) – “I saw in
the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son
of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before Him. And
there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people,
nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting
dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be
destroyed.
I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit
in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. I came near unto one of them that stood
by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the
interpretation of the things… the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom,
and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.”
Is this not the Tabernacle that HaShem envisaged for Himself
to dwell amongst His People?
According to Jewish
tradition the radiance of the Shechinah, with its untold blessings,
"rests" upon all those who are pious and righteous. According to
ancient Rabbis the Shechinah appears in the midst of at least a minyan of
worshipers when they pray in congregation and of two or more Jews when they
engage in the study of Torah, or on a man when he recites the Shema.
The
Shechinah is said also to rest upon the chaste, the benevolent, and the
hospitable, and upon husband and wife when they live in peace and harmony. The
ancient Rabbis also said that the Shechinah appeared before Moses at the
burning bush, rested upon the Tabernacle in the Wilderness on the day of its
dedication, and in the holy of holies in the Temple at Jerusalem, and it has
illuminated the bliss of the righteous (Heb. tzaddikim) in the
world-to-come ever since.
The Talmudic Sages
conceived of the Shechinah as a spiritual essence of indescribable beauty and
exalting effect. In a commentary on
Va'yakhel, Rabbi Label Lam makes the following observation:
Rabbi Label Lam
- “The Nefesh HaChaim writes: ‘And so a person from the Holy Nation that
contains the whole organization of the creation…he is also constructed like the Tabernacle and the Temple and its
vessels, corresponding to the order and connections of the segments of
the limbs and the ligaments and their functions. So it is detailed in the Zohar how the Tabernacle and its vessels are each
referring to Man.”
There is a lot of talk in the world and great fears amongst
Arabs that the Jews will build a Third Temple in Jerusalem on the spot where
currently a Muslim Temple, the Dome of the Rock, stands. Now consider the
following statement of Jewish thought - a concept that could hint at the
possibility of such a collective body of a ‘Human’ Temple:
Rabbi Yissocher Frand - “The last 5 parshios -- Terumah, Tezaveh, Ki
Tisa, Va'yakhel and Pekudei -- have been dealing with the mitzvah of ‘You shall
make for me a Sanctuary and I will dwell therein’ [Shmos 25:8]. Apparently,
this is a mitzvah that none of us will ever have the opportunity to fulfill.
Even if, G-d willing, we will live to see the coming of Moshiach, it seems that
we will still not be able to fulfill this commandment. The reason for this is because our Sages tell us that the Third
Beis HaMikdash will descend from Heaven - theoretically complete.
This would appear to mean that in His Kindness, G-d is removing this mitzvah
from us. G-d will do it for us!”
In Lech Lecha we also noted:
Kol Ha Tor in Lech Lecha – “We have yet another
confirmation – an awesome eye-opener! It comes from the Song of Ascents, Psalm
(Tehillim) 126 - Translation and commentary by Rabbi Avraham Sutton. This Song
opens the Thanksgiving for the Meal on Shabbat – a Song of Joy by the Returnees
to Zion.”
Rabbi Sutton makes the revealing observation:
Rabbi Avraham Sutton – “When Hashem will come out of concealment (the
Return of His Shechinah, when Peace and Reconciliation is restored between the
2 Houses of Israel) and return with the
captivity of Tzion, (the exiles) we will all awaken as if from a deep
slumber; it will be so wondrous, as if an impossible dream has finally come
true.”
Rabbi Avraham Sutton continues to explain in a foot note:
Rabbi Avraham Sutton - “The verse does not state “behashiv
Hashem shivat Tzion—when Hashem will restore the captivity of Zion” but
rather “beshuv Hashem et shivat Tzion—when Hashem will return with the
captivity of Zion.” This implies that the Shechinah is in exile with the
Jewish people, and will be redeemed with us at the time of the Redemption.
The source for this teaching is found in the Talmud (Megillah 29a)."
(Refer to Lech
Lecha for full quote).
It is doubtful that this could refer to the Returnees that
have returned to the Land of Israel since 1948. It most likely could refer to
the body of ‘Holy Ones’ that the prophet Zechariah refers to in that fearful
forecast of the Day that ‘all the nations’ will draw up in battle against
Jerusalem”:
Zechariah 14:3-5 (parts) – “Then
HaShem will go out and fight against those nations, as He fights on a day of
battle. On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of
Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west,
forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving
south. You will flee by my mountain valley, ... Then HaShem my God will come,
and all the holy ones with him.”
Can this
possibly refer to the ‘Heavenly’ Beit HaMikdash which will descend? - as that ‘Body’
that He will rule through - that Purpose for which He persisted to continue
Creation (for the sake of one righteous man and his family, Noah) rather than
destroy it? (As we have observed in our first Parashot on Creation).
Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky – “The
portion of Parashat Pekudei (Reckoning) begins in Exodus 38:21 – ‘These are the
reckoning of the Mishkan -- the Mishkan of testimony.’ The Medrash is bothered
by Moshe's repetitive expression. Why does he repeat the words Mishkan --
Mishkan? He should have said, “These are the reckoning of the Mishkan of
testimony."? The Medrash answers, homiletically, that the word Mishkan
has a close relative in the word Mashkon -- collateral. Moshe was
alluding, ‘to the two Temples that were taken back by G-d as collateral for the
sins of Israel.’”
Rav Zvi Shimon – “Judah son of Rabbi
Shalom said: “And let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them” in
order that all the nations should know that the sin of the golden calf had been
atoned for. It is therefore called the ‘Mishkan Eidut’ (Tabernacle of
Testimony, see Numbers 1:53), a testimony to all the inhabitants of the world
that the Holy One Blessed be He dwells in our sanctuary. Said the Holy One,
Blessed be He, ‘Let the gold of the Mishkan come and atone for the gold of
which the calf was made ...’ (Midrash Tanchuma, Exodus 25:8).”
As Rabbi Zvi Shimon continued in his remarks:
Rabbi Zvi Shimon - “According to the
Tanchuma, the construction of the Mishkan is an act of atonement by the people
for the sin of the golden calf. The people sinned with gold by building a
golden calf and atone with gold by constructing the Mishkan which included many
gold instruments. The Mishkan is a testimony to the fact that God forgave the
people for their sin and dwells among them."
The True Temple of HaShem, whether a physical building or a
Body of People, would by necessity have to be a place of supreme righteousness,
to befit the Presence (Shechinah) of the Living G-d! As such, and as such only,
could it serve as a Testimony to the nations, a Testimony of what G-d expects
of mankind:
Micah 6:8 – “What does HaShem
require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your
G-d.”
Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky – “These
final portions in the Book of Exodus summarize the amazing accomplishments of
the Children of Israel in building the Mishkan -- the edifice that would house
the Divine presence in this temporal world -- while in the desert. It was a
mammoth feat, an act that consumed an entire nation. Men and women, young and
old each had a share in this great endeavor.
The Torah tells us: ‘Every man whose heart inspired him
came; and everyone whose spirit
motivated him brought the portion of Hashem for the work of the Tent of
Meeting, for all its labor and for the sacred vestments. The men came with the
women; everyone whose heart motivated him brought bracelets, nose-rings, rings,
body ornaments -- all sorts of gold ornaments -- every man who raised up an
offering of gold to Hashem.’ (Exodus 35:21-22)
And then there were those who did
the work. ‘Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man whose
heart Hashem endowed with wisdom, everyone whose heart inspired him, to come
close to the work, to do it (Exodus 36:2). The wording needs clarification. Why
use the term, ‘whose heart inspired him, to come close to the work, to do it?’
Why not just say ‘whose heart inspired him, to do the work?’ What is the meaning of coming close to do the
work? Just do the work!
Building a Mishkan, like any project
that entails difficult work for the sake of Heaven, can be arduous. It can
become depressing at times and it is easy to become dispirited and desperate.
The key to the success of the building Mishkan lies in the words of the posuk,
‘everyone whose heart inspired him, to come close to the work, to do it.’ In
order to do the work, you must draw yourself close to the work. If you take
small steps with love and bring a project close to your heart, then rest
assured you will complete the work in joy!’”
Rabbi Label Lam – “What is the first thing we need before starting to build a
building? I know some people will say, ‘Money!’ There's something more basic
than that. No, not a building permit. Right! A plan! You can't get money or a
permit without submitting first an architect's scheme. The drawing itself first
requires something even more fundamental before it becomes a reality. Yes. A
motivation! A will to create or become! And that all flows from an imaginative
picture, an ideal of how things will look or be after all the work is done.
Lest we be seduced into
thinking that the building itself is more important than its true function,
Moshe set the record straight. The vessels and their special internal use are
the real purpose of the project. The Almighty is not served by a meaningless building.
There is no ‘edifice complex’ at play here.
The main part, the
essence is the realm within. The outer world serves and thrives on the inner.
For practical logistical considerations the external structure needs to be worked
on first.”
This "Realm Within" would
be the Testimony to the Nations.
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On the 6th of March, 2013, the Italian skyline
in the nighttime heavens overlooking the Island of Sicily began glowing red
with the massive eruption from Mount Etna.
Here was the tallest volcano in the world and the highest
mountain located in Italy south the Alps. It began to spew
hot lava and ash in to the Sicilian atmosphere to the wonder and amazement of
the surrounding populous; a sight the local populous have gotten use to watch and enjoy. Yet, the portents of the future may have now just begun.
The island of Sicily is located just off the southwestern
coastline of the tip of Italy within the northern borders of the central
Mediterranean region. Here it forms the tectonic
boundary zone between the African and the Eurasian plate.
Noted as a strong seismic or tectonically active region,
Italy has given us the dramatic stories of the explosions at Pompey when Mount
Vesuvius’ epic left the entire region encased in pumice stone. This same region
has also created numerous strong deep-focused earthquakes over the last few
centuries. According to scientific analysis of the great Pliocene-age
subsidence bay in the Ionian Sea, this historical analysis has shown that Mount
Etna erupted every six years.
Beginning in the mid-1950s, after the Jewish people
gained their homeland in Israel in 1948 and again after the year of 1967, when
the Jewish people gained autonomous control of the city of Jerusalem and made
it their capital of the Zionist State of Israel for the first time in 2000
years, the eruptions of Mount Etan have made a dramatic and marked increase in
volcanic activity.
It was in 1991-1993 that the most significant eruptions
occurred on Mount Etna in over three centuries.
According to A. Bonaccorsi in the March, 31, 1996 edition of the
Geophysical Research Letters (v. 23, p 451), it demonstrated the dramatic
impact of the eruptions upon Mount Etna and the endurance of the volcano
eruptions that lasted for 472 days. This volcanic activity along with a dramatic
volume of erupted lava produced marked deformation in the regions surrounding
Italy.
Today, Mount Etna (10,922 feet height and currently
active 2013) is the only active volcano on the Island of Sicily and one of
three active volcanoes in the last century, connected with the Italian
Peninsula that are active volcanoes; Mount Stromboli (3038 feet in height and
continuously active in 2013) and Mount Vesuvius (4203 feet in height and last
active in 1944) near the Italian city of Naples. Here within these three the
archetype of all other volcanoes came into being. It was the ancient Romans, who along with
their Grecian scholars who dominated the Roman scholastic atmosphere believed
that the god Vulcan kept his forge on the Mount called Etna and from there the
word, volcano originated.
Again in 1993, the volcanic activity intensified in Mount
Etna’s northeastern crater. It continued, allying itself with its sister
Volcano at Mount Stromboli with increasingly intense seismic and volcanic
eruption. Here begins our inquiry of the
reported sinking and rising of the long history of volcanic activity in the
Mediterranean Sea over antiquity.
The renewal of the “sinking and rising” of the
Mediterranean Sea in coordination with the increased seismic activity in the
Southern Pacific at the K-T Trench region east of Australia, the antipodal
region completely opposite of Mount Etna heralds to be one of the makers of the
“end of days” when the Great Earthquake in the 6th Seal of
Revelation begins its last phase of world seismic activity and eruption until
the “Great Day of the L-rd” when the Maschiah ben Dovid will be revealed in
Jerusalem and usher in the Millennial Year of the Messianic Era of Spiritual
Torah Enlightenment.
Here in the Mediterranean Basin is where over 300
megalithic cities are imbedded underneath its waters of the greatest of
antiquity. It has a long history of
crustal instability created by powerful explosions, the most famous being the
explosion of the Island of Santorini (also known as Thera, Thira, or Santorin)
that is the most southerly lying island in the archipelago of the Cyclades in
southern Greece.
This island was almost blown away over 3,500 years ago,
when according to the TaNaKh (Torah) the Children of Israel began their Great
Exodus out of Egypt after a year-long series of Plagues nestled with great seismic
activity in the region that culminated in the dramatic pathway through the Red
Sea that with the “Great Hand of G-d” the Children of Israel were taken to
their encounter with G-d at the base of the exploding volcanic mount called
Sinai.
This explosion that erupted on the Island of Santorini
destroyed the Minoan civilization as this 5,200 foot volcano that was once
called a “very beautiful island” was reduced to a few mounds of islands where
the former mountain of its habitation was stood. According to numerous authors,
it was this explosion on Santorini in the eastern Mediterranean that caused the
tephra (volcanic ash) to blow across the eastern margins of the Sinai Peninsula
near present day Saudi Arabia and created the present uplift that same region.
This planetary event was related to tectonic events that
began deep beneath the mantle of the earth in this region. Was it an act of G-d
that the final destruction of the largest empire of the world at that time in
Egypt was destroyed as the fleeing masses of Israelites began their epic trek towards
the mount called Sinai in this same region?
This massive explosion included also the geological events such as an
exploding mountain, called Sinai, where Moses met the G-d of Israel within the
fiery volcanic inferno that coincided exactly the same time?
The tephra from the exploding mountain at Thera
(Santorini), according to scientists, was carried widely from its source and
carried by the winds around the world. It affected seriously the climatic
conditions as far as China, for it is known that the record in China of that
period describe the dimming of atmospheric changes that caused the dimming of
the sun that also resulted in crop failure, and famine. These changes were also
recorded in the ice core from the continental island of Greenland.
The up-and-down fluctuation of the continental plate east
of the coastline of Greece near to the southwestern coast of Crete depict evidence
of seismic uplifts of 30 feet that occurred about 360 CE. This included the remains
of shorelines against the tide less coasts of the Aegean Sea. Overall they depict
a sea-level that dropped about 3.3 feet in Euboea near the date of 1000 BCE and
later in 400 BCE and then in Thessaly near the date of 400 CE.
These fossil lined shorelines are all indication of
uplifting conditions of seismic uplift rather than sea level climatic changes.
This puts this entire region even to this day from Egypt, southern Greece,
Crete, and the other Aegean islands to become again tectonically a tumultuous
region and potentially unhospitable to human life. From Eastern Sicily and the
regions in the southwestern and central Italian region all appear to be quite
vulnerable to seismic events in the future that could spell catastrophic
changes in that region.
Is it of interest that the exploding fireworks of Etna
also began to increase as the Papal Conclave began in session on 3/11/13,
spelling the occulted numbers of date as “9” and “11”(3/11/13; 3/11/2013)? We
wonder again at the ancient Roman Catholic Prophecy, which the Catholic Church
has followed faithfully for 8 centuries, the prophecy of Malachy that stated
that the final pope, Petrus Romanus, is now about to be selected by the College
of Cardinals. Does it give us insight to this futuristic event of tectonic and
catastrophic events that will spell doom and destruction to the Vatican and the
City of Rome that sits on seven hills as the Vatican will be presided over by
the last
Pope of the Apocalypse?
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!”
Is the G-d of Israel giving us a warning today, as the
Papal Conclave elected its first Jesuit Pope of Italian descent, the Argentinean
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now know as Pope Francis, whose
ministry to the peoples of Argentina carried with him the mantle of St. Francis of Assisi?
Yet, we understand this election also gives a portend of the future, for now the
White Pope is no longer guarded and protected by the Black Pope, the Jesuit
General of the Society of Jesus, but rather is subordinated
now to the Black Pope, Jesuit General Adolfo Nicholas.
So now, the ancient Bavarian Order of the Illuminate has
risen to claim its mantle of power at the time of the end. This occult order was
created by the Jewish
Jesuit Joseph Johann Adam Weishaupt who trained under the founder of the Jesuits
(The Society of Jesus), San Ignacio de Loyala, born of Jewish Morrano lineage in
the Basque province of Guipuzcoa. Weishaupt then allied himself with the Jewish
banking conglomerate started by Amschel Mayer Rothschild with the protégé of Rabbi
Shabbatai Tzevi, Rabbi Yakov ben
Judah Leib Frankovich, known as Rabbi
Jacob Frank.
So we ask, is the finger of the L-rd winding over the
Mediterranean coastline creating again, like in the days of old, the same cosmic
and subterranean tectonic conditions that triggered and precipitated the Great
Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt? This propelled them around 1550 BCE, many
times against their will, towards the Land of their Promise given by “divine covenant”
to their forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
Are we
seeing the same cosmic conditions again today, by the purported incoming
cosmic dark twin star called Nibiru, that according to the ancient Sumerians
in the days of Abraham had a cyclical orbit around our Sun’s Solar System of
about one Sumerian Sar, or 3,600 years?
Will this purported twin star solar
system, called Planet X, become the same cosmic agent, called the “Death Star”
or the “Angel of G-d” that made a “Pass-over” of the land of Egypt at the time
of the Exodus? Will this “dark red binary star” become again the agent of
G-d’s Divine Judgment during the Final Apocalypse of Redemption?
Will this event during the next few years become the
fulcrum of tectonic change that will precipitate the Final Exodus of the Lost
Ten Tribes of the House of Israel as hundreds of millions of Lost 10-Tribers
make a massive exodus from the “lands of their dwelling” from the Northern
Countries of Europe, and the lands of their former colonies in the United
States, Canada, South Africa, Australia and other colonial lands of these 16th
century European colonial powers. Will these same émigrés become a new mass
Exodus of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel that may include also the remaining
50% of the assimilated Jews of the Diaspora still living in countries outside
of Israel? If so:
Pay attention to Mount Etna and the other volcanic
mountain peaks on the Italian peninsula. They may be the harbinger of the final
days of the Vatican and the City of Rome that is sitting on a potential
explosive cauldron. This may precipitate a cascading chain of cataclysmic events
in our near future, before the G-d of Israel casts the final vial and trumpet
plagues down upon Planet Earth and brings the final catastrophic events at the
“End of Days” before the final revealing of the Maschiah ben Dovid (Messiah son
of David).
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Weekly Bible Reading #20 - Year 5773 (2012/2013) – March 2, 2013
Parashat Ki Tisah (When you elevate): Exodus 30:11-34:35
Haftarah: I Kings 18:1-18:39
Sephardic: (I Kings 18:20-18:39
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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- The authors whom we quote from for this Commentary are not associated with
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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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The title of this Parashah, Ki Tisah, as is the
Jewish tradition for naming each Parashah, is taken from the opening words of
the portion. Various translations render it:
‘When you take a census of the Israelites to count them ...’
‘When thou take the sum of the children of Israel ...’
‘When you raise the head of the children of Yisrael’
Our heading title above,
taken from yashanet.com, reflects a
more literal translation of this text as, 'when you elevate'. So, what
has 'elevate' or 'raise'to do with a census?
The following review will show how fallible and even
misleading the translations are which we so much depend on in order to read and
understand the Bible - which is G-d's Message to mankind. Many non-Jewish Bible
students forget that the Bible was NOT written in their language, but in
Hebrew. They then draw their conclusions on their translations, which could be
off the mark in some instances.
Our Ki'Tisah portion bears proof of this and confirms how
important it is to understand Hebrew. But, even with a fluent understanding of
the Hebrew language, it still lacks much, viz. the communal 'academic' research
into the wider aspects surrounding the written Bible record. What better source
for this wider insight, than the 3500 year academy of higher Jewish learning,
containing the insights, debates, deliberations and conclusions of dedicated
students throughout the centuries, many with above average intelligence and
specialized knowledge?
We are referring to Rabbinic insight on these wider levels,
founded upon practical experience over more than 3000 years with the very nation
of the G-d of the Bible, the ‘G-d of Israel’. This knowledge, which initially
has been transferred orally from generation to generation, was later recorded
in various volumes which collectively became known as Rabbinic Oral Torah. Ki 'Tisah is a perfect example of the need
for Oral Torah as compiled by the Rabbinic academy - not by those interpreters,
no matter how specialized they are, who generally do not have an in-depth
Hebrew knowledge, neither any in-depth and practical experience with the
culture of the nation of G-d. These specialists each have their own ‘oral’
interpretations but without in-depth knowledge of the Jewish religion which was
born out of the nation which is the main actor in the entire Bible.
So, let us delve deeper into Ki'Tisah. We quote from Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem, Israel by Rabbi Yaakov
Asher Sinclair:
Exodus 30:12 – “When you raise the head of the
Children of Yisrael”
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair – “Why
does the Torah choose the expression raise the head to mean that Moshe should
take a census of the Jewish People?
G-d explained to Moshe that the
People had placed their lives in jeopardy by worshipping the golden calf. The
process of counting them by the coins they were to donate would “raise their
heads,” elevate them spiritually from the depths to which they sunk, and earn
them atonement from their sin.
Moshe supposed that such atonement
would require a coin of a very large denomination indeed. Perhaps it would be a
kikar of silver, the equivalent of three thousand silver coins. ...
Since G-d's Name was defamed when they proclaimed “These are your gods,
Yisrael,” this might be the level of the atonement required.
At the very least, Moshe
conjectured, G-d would demand a coin to the value of thirty shekalim.
The owner of a goring ox must pay thirty shekels. By worshipping a calf, the
Jewish People had traded G-d's glory for the image of a calf.
In the event, Moshe's fears were
unfounded. G-d said to him "You need not pay Me coins worth a hundred, or
fifty, or even thirty silver pieces. All I ask is that you donate one small
coin to the value of a half-shekel.
Those half-shekel coins from the
census were melted down and used for the silver sockets, the “adonim”,
that were the foundation for the walls of the Mishkan (Tabernacle). In other
words, the Mishkan literally stood on the half-shekalim that the People
donated.”
In Parashat Terumah (week 19) we saw the importance for G-d’s
people to make offerings of gold, silver and exquisite fabrics for the
completion and maintenance of the Temple and Tabernacle. Ki'Tisah this week
opens with a minimal amount as a form of census - thus, it was levied on each
and every individual from the age of 20 on, as an atonement.
Exodus 30:15 - 16 - “The rich shall
not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel when [you]
give this offering to HaShem to make atonement for yourselves. And you shall
take the atonement money of the Israelites and use it [exclusively] for the
service of the Tent of Meeting, that it may bring the Israelites to remembrance
before HaShem, to make atonement for yourselves.”
Many experienced fund raisers will confirm that it is the
cumulative value of small contributions which raise the required funds. Rabbi
Avraham Greenbaum, AZAMRA, comments as follows on the half Shekel atonement:
Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum - “When G-d
spoke to Moses, He “showed him a kind of coin of fire, the weight of a half
shekel” and He said to him: “THIS shall all who pass through the count give --
a half shekel” (Exekiel 30:13 and Rashi there). This fiery HALF SHEKEL COIN,
which made every single citizen an equal partner in the Sanctuary and its
upkeep, was the remedy for material lust and the appetite for wealth. Everyone
was to join and be a partner in an enterprise that elevates material wealth --
the finest vessels of gold, silver and copper, the finest fabrics, choicest
animals, flour, oil, wine and spices -- by incorporating them in the worship of
the One G-d. This is where the display of wealth is truly fitting, a place
where each may take a just pride in having a share. Having a joint share with
everyone else in the national treasure, the Temple, keeping one's eyes focused
on its splendid golden vessels and their implicit messages -- these are the
medicine for the selfish lust for wealth for its own sake.
Differences in wealth and assets
were of no significance in this annual half shekel tax that made each citizen
an equal partner in the Temple enterprise. The rich could not give more nor the
poor less. Souls cannot be quantified and counted -- each soul has its own
unique significance that would be violated by trying to quantify it or assign
it a number. What counts is that each person adds his or her own SELF and WILL,
and is willing to play his or her part by paying the “head tax” and “casting a
vote”. Numbers and wealth do not count in the eyes of G-d. What counts is each
person's WILL to make a contribution -- to have an equal share with everyone
else, without pride and without shame, in being part of the whole, feeding the
Altar and bringing the fire of G-d's presence into the world.”
The Half Shekel atonement was a united national effort - as
in a national census. Every one participated - the result? - the Mishkan (Tabernacle,
later the Temple in Jerusalem).
The Talmud says “if you never saw the Second Beit
HaMikdash (Holy Temple), you never saw a beautiful building in your life.”
The Beit HaMikdash was called the “eye of the world.” The eye is a physical
organ but it receives something that is about as non-physical as you can get:
Light. The Beit Hamikdash was called “the eye of the world” because it was the
portal for the Light. The Beit HaMikdash was the most beautiful building
not because of its dimensions and proportions or its finishes but because it
revealed the resting of the Divine Presence in this world.
Faith is like a shadow. Faith is the knowledge of something
that you cannot see”, Rabbi Yaakov Sinclair further remarks.
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair – “The nation
that dwells in the shadow of faith proclaims that existence extends beyond the
here-and-now, beyond what can be perceived by the five senses of man. Faith is
something that takes place in the shade. In the shadow.”
Today, both the Houses of Judah and reawakening 10-Israel
reveal this Faith. What lacks though, is the “national unity.” They have to
find each other and co-operate in unison like HaShem expected of 12-tribed
Israel of old. Too often today, each House sees itself as the only cogwheel in
the machine. Both Houses think that they can achieve Redemption by themselves;
that the Divine Blessing applies to themselves only. We need to recall the
words of Rabbi Avraham Feld, founder of the Kol HaTor Vision:
Rabbi Avraham Feld - “Judah without
10-Israel is like an airplane without wings, a car without wheels.”
We need a “national census atonement”; …he will give Terumah of G-d’:
Exodus 30:14 – “Every one that
passes among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall
give the offering (Terumah) of HaShem. The rich shall not give more, and
the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering
(Terumah) of HaShem, to make atonement for your souls.”
Note how these Atonement offerings are referred to as ‘Terumah’
in the same context. Now experience the following Rabbinic insight into Terumah,
which is a Divine requirement on all of Israel - all twelve Tribes which
were involved in Exodus. Surely, today it applies to both Judah and the
re-identifying House of 10-Israel? Let us note what was written about Parashat
Ki'Tisah (for 2012) by Rabbi Yaakov
Asher Sinclair:
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair - "The
entire Oral Torah begins with the question, “When do we read the Shema
prayer in the evening?” The Mishna answers, “When the kohanim (priests)
go in to eat their Teruma (the priestly gifts).”
What is the connection between
saying the Shema and the mitzvah (Command) of Teruma? Why didn’t
the Mishna (Oral Torah writings) just say, “The time to say Shema in the
evening is when it gets dark”?
The Torah obligation to give Teruma
is as little as a single grain. The Rabbinic obligation, however mandates
between one-sixtieth, which is considered miserly, and one-fortieth, which is
generous. The median amount is one-fiftieth. The word “Teruma” is an
allusion to this median amount, for Teruma stands for trei mi-me’ah,
two out of one hundred — one-fiftieth.
If the Torah was hinting through the
word Teruma to the median gift of one-fiftieth, why did it express that
fraction as two parts out of a hundred? Why didn’t it coin instead a word that
used the words for ‘one’ and ‘fifty — Chad and Chamishim? Why
wasn’t Teruma called “Chadshim” or something like that? And why
specifically the proportion of two out of a hundred? Why not four parts out of
two hundred, or eight out of four hundred?
The Vilna Gaon (author of the book
Kol Ha'Tor) explains that the core of Shema lies in the first verse, Shema
Yisrael, and in the next phrase Baruch Shem Kevod Malchuto le’olam
va’ed, “Blessed is Hashem’s name of the Honor of His Kingdom forever and
ever,” which we say immediately afterward.
The essence of Shema is to affirm
our belief that everything in existence is One and the smallest aspect of
creation ultimately leads to Him alone.
The Gaon of Vilna observed that the
twenty-five letters in the first verse of Shema and the twenty-four letters in Baruch
Shem together equal forty-nine.
The number fifty connotes something
beyond this world. We count forty-nine days of the Omer from Pesach till
Shavuot, but we do not count the final day, the day of Shavuot itself, because Shavuot
represents something beyond this world — the supernal moment of the closest encounter between G-d and man.
In this world, we can approach
fifty, but we cannot count it; we cannot define or delineate it.
When I say the Shema, I surrender
the ineffable, indisputable knowledge of my own existence and proclaim that
there is only One Existence, and that I am no more than just one expression of
that Ultimate Existence. That is the ‘one’ that I give to make the fifty
complete.
My recitation of the Shema – my own
closest encounter with G-d — represents the “one” that raises the forty-nine to
fifty. And as I say the Shema twice daily, it represents the trei mi-me’ah
– the two out of a hundred.
Trei mi me’ah– twice a day,
the Teruma that I give is the forty-nine letters that make up my declaration of
G-d’s total and absolute Unity, together with the ‘one’ — the surrender and
elevation of my own existence that joins me to ‘fifty’ — the Ultimate
Existence.”
In this, there may be a hint also of the supreme ‘oneness’
that we may achieve through the Redemption; that ‘oneness’ that seems to be the
underlying motive of HaShem's Creation Plan, which we have referred to in Parashat Commentary Lech’Lecha.
These important guidelines and Divine requirement of
offerings recorded in the opening Scriptures of Parashat Ki’Tisah, are reviewed
in another commentary on Ki'Tisah titled, YESHIVAT HARA'AYON HA'YEHUDI, Jerusalem,
Israel by HaRav Yehuda Kreuser SHLIT"A, Rosh Yeshiva and presented by
Rabbi Levi Chazen.
It also further confirms the deep insight that Rabbinic
interpretation holds in the background to the actual Scriptures - knowledge
without which it would be impossible to fully understand the Bible.
HaRav Yehuda Kreuser SHLIT"A –
“Every Jewish child knows the elementary rule in Judaism, that one does not
count the Jewish people by numbers, one... two...three. Rather, each person
gives a small coin worth half a shekel and once they are collected, the coins
are then counted to know the sum of the population. Rashi comments: ‘And there
will be no plague among them; otherwise there will be a plague, for the evil
eye can affect that which has been counted and pestilence can come upon them,
as we have found in the days of King David.’
And what took place in the time of
King David? We find in the book of II Samuel that King David ordered his
general, Yoav, to take a census of the Jewish people. This was in spite of the
fact that Yoav objected to the taking of a direct census because of the
biblical transgression of not counting the Jewish people. But King David was
adamant and the counting of the census went on. Immediately thereafter, 70,000
people died in a plague.
The question arises: How is it
possible that the mighty King David ordered his top general to take a direct
census, something that is clearly forbidden in the Torah, as even every young
child knows?
It is clear that a dark decree was
hanging over the Jewish people [12-Israel], and for this reason King David had
forgotten a very simple rule in Jewish law and caused a plague to befall the
people. But what was it that could have been so bad that it caused the death of
some 70,000 people?
Our Rabbis in the Midrash fill in
the blanks and teach us that the sin of the people at that time was that
they had no desire to build a House for G-d; each family was content with
their own homes and gardens, letting the Holy Temple wait for some other
generation, some other time. So great was G-d's wrath at His people that this
horrendous plague killed off 70,000 people!
And as in every generation, they had
all the excuses in the world for putting off the building of the Temple: It's
not the right time... the nation is not ready... the prophet Natan had told
King David that he would not be the one to build a House for G-d. They already
had the tabernacle, a temporary dwelling place, so why the urgency for a
permanent place? And still, in spite of all these seemingly ‘correct’ excuses,
the wrath of G-d came upon the Jewish people.
Interestingly, these same excuses
are still thrown around today by Rabbis and laymen alike.
‘In order to ensure that a
reoccurrence of this horrible plague will not happen again, the Rabbis tried to
awaken our desire for the Holy Temple.
Three times a day we [the Jews] pray
for the return to the Land of Israel, to rebuild the city of Jerusalem and its
House of G-d. At every wedding, our happiest moment, we break the glass to
remember the Temple.
When we build our home, we leave a
small area unfinished to remember that as long as the Temple is still not
built, our homes are also missing the final touch. And as we sit together at the
Passover Seder, we declare: ‘Next year in Jerusalem’. Alas. how many of us are
just saying the words, going through the motions - but in reality, it is
actually the last thing that we want, for the Temple and its service would not
fit into our daily lives. If we truly desired it, nothing would stand in our
way to make it happen.”
Practical fulfillment and evidence in this week's News
Once more and right on time, this week featured a statement
by a ‘shocked’
former member of Israel Knesset. He visited the Temple Mount for
the first time in many years and was ‘astounded’ at the shocking discriminating
treatment that Jews received on “the Holiest Site in the world - the Temple
Mount.”
A “Save the
Temple Mount” Call went out from a concerned source in Jerusalem and their
following response was reported:
“After many attempts to contact the Orthodox
Union, (largest Jewish Orthodox organization in the US) including emails and
phone calls to convince them to join our efforts to oppose both the destruction
of the Temple antiquities and the persecution of Jews who ascend to the Temple
Mount, we received today a loud and clear NO.
“The Orthodox Union will not speak to us nor
have anything to do with efforts for the Temple Mount."
The silence from Jewish authorities, the
Knesset and even Rabbis on this disgrace and desecration of the Temple Mount is
simply deafening!
Whereas our Parashah reading relates the idolatrous affair
of the 12 Tribes at Sinai, our Parashah relates the idolatrous affairs of the
10 Tribes under King Ahab before their exile. The king himself had built an
altar to Baal, and his Phoenician wife, Jezebel, encouraged pagan cults and
persecuted Israelite prophets. It is against this idolatrous and dangerous
state of affairs that the prophet Elijah battles.
1 Kings 18:18-20 – “I have not made
trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you [Ahab] and your father’s family
have. You have abandoned HaShem’s Commands and have followed the Baals. Now
summon the people from all over Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. And bring
the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of
Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”So Ahab sent word throughout
all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel.”
It may not be so commonly known that Elijah took on the Baal
prophets of Northern 10-Israel on this occasion. Ten Tribers are normally very
defensive about why the Ten Tribes rebelled against Judah and Jerusalem. They
insist that it was because of the heavy taxation that Jerusalem laid on them.
Elijah though, spells it out in the above encounter with Ahab (as it stands
confirmed in several other Scriptures in the Bible also), i.e. because of their
rebellion against Torah and acquiring themselves “other Lords” to follow.
Though they claim to serve the same God as Judah, they have
created for themselves an entire un-Jewish ‘trinitarian multiple godhead’ and a
Messiah whom most claim has “done away with” Torah and its Divinely mandated
judicial authority (the Mechoqeck) of Judah. On this occasion the prayers of
10-Israel's Baal prophets were NOT heard and despite an entire day of praying,
running around the altar, increasing their voices, NOTHING occurred. ‘Their god’
did NOT hear!
The Message of Ki'Tisah calls loudly for 10-Israel in these
days to join Judah in a ‘census atonement offering’ to build the Land and
eventually the Temple. Significantly this Message presents Elijah's
confrontation and confirmation that: "HaShem
— He is G-d! HaShem — He
is G-d!” (The concluding text of the Haftarah).
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Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United).
This reunification
will truly be the supernal Event of all Times for it will entail Establishing
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
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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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After many attempts to contact the Orthodox Union, (largest
Jewish Orthodox organization in the US) including emails and phone
calls to convince them to join our efforts to oppose both the destruction
of the Temple antiquities and the persecution of Jews who ascend to the Temple
Mount, we received today a loud and clear NO.
Public Relations
Director, Stephen Steiner declared today that the "Orthodox Union will not
speak to us nor have anything to do with efforts for the Temple Mount"
This means we must now send the Orthodox Union a clear message that they cannot
remain silent any longer
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Yesterday you
presented the position of the Orthodox Union in regard to Temple Mount, which
is that your organization will not take a position. For an organization that
professes to believe in the Torah, this position is simply unacceptable. We are
shocked at your blunt and cold response to the plight of Jews who ascend the
Temple Mount in accordance with Torah law and the fate of the remnants of the
Temple that are continually being destroyed by the Muslim authority with the
permission of the Israeli Police. This position is tantamount to public consent
to the anti-Jewish and illegal behavior of the Israeli Police and Muslim
Authority.
We demand that the Orthodox Union take immediate steps to protest the
following:
1. The persecution of Jews on the Temple Mount
Only Jews are
forced to wait an extended period of time before being allowed through
security.
Only Jews are
forced to present their ID’s to the police.
Only Jews are
followed and harassed by Israeli police and Muslim Wakf guards throughout the
entire visit on the Mount.
Only Jews are
arrested for crimes such as prayer, closing eyes, bowing down or singing.
2. The ongoing
destruction of Temple Mount antiquities.
The State
authorities do not enforce the Antiquities Law and the planning and
Construction Law on the Temple Mount and allow the Wakf to grossly violate the
law
The Wakf has
built a mass new illegal underground Mosque in the southern area known as
Solomon Stables
Many truckloads
of dirt and archaeology have been dumped illegally into the Kidron valley by
the Wakf, Israeli archaeologists are attempting a salvage effort.
The Wakf has
even continued digging around the area of the Mizbeyach and placed a large
screen around that area to hid activity.
The Wakf is now
using Mikdash columns to pave a walk way of the Har, which is part of the
Halchicly permissible path for Jews who ascend the Har according to
Halacha.
3. The Day to
day desecration of the Temple Mount by Muslim visitors.
Muslim children
hold daily soccer games and other sports activities on the Mount.
Muslim families
gather picnics and family gatherings on the Mount.
Anti Israel Marches
are held on the Har and many times enemy flags such as Turkey, Hamas and PLO
have been raised over the Mount.
The Wakf
regularly used the loudspeakers on the Mount Muslim prayer towers to broadcast
their message of hate and destruction towards the Jewish People.
We who care
about the sanctity of the Temple Mount will not cease this campaign until the
OU comes out with an official policy statement in regard to the issues
mentioned above.
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Ten Tribes of the House of Israel.
One of the highlights of the Plagues of Ancient Egypt in
the great drama of redemption for the early Children of Israel, was the 8th
Plague of the Swarms of Locusts that destroyed all the food for their families
and livestock for that year. Without food and no one to export food to them,
the Egyptian Empire of that day descended into chaos and civil dissent. So it may
again be so today.
One of the biggest factors of the “Arab Spring”
revolution was the restlessness and dissent of the Arab people with the
skyrocketing food prices that had left their families in poverty and despair as
Arab despots clinging to their spigots of oil, sucked the life blood out of the
Egyptian economy and her peoples. We ask are we seeing a warning today of what
may occur again as the Egyptian economy under now religious despots come under
the judgment of the G-d of Israel?
Destination Yisra’el
– “When we look at this
region, the affiliations between money and power, and the distain for the basic
civil rights of their citizens, we wonder for it is all based around the greed
of oil and gas. Consider that fact that Egypt is not truly an oil producing
country, but consider also how President Hosni Mubarak is worth more than all
the oil tycoons in the Middle East, we also see the largess of rubbing
shoulders with America and Mubarak’s strong affiliation with the CIA. Here is a
list of the richest royal and rulers of the world, Mubarak’s name was at the
top of the list:
The Richest Royalty in the Middle East
President of Egypt, Hosni
Mubarak estimated worth is between $40 - 70 Billion
At
the end of days, the prophets warn us that the catastrophes in which we will
witness will resemble the days when the Children of Israel were taken from the
land of their oppression, Egypt, and in the Great Exodus were returned to the
land of their forefathers. So we are reminded of this fact when in the
districts surrounding Cairo, including Moqatam and New Cairo were warned of a
“locust plague” that would soon reach Cairo.
The
locusts were earlier sighted along the Red Sea Coastline, in Upper Egypt when
they reached Egypt’s Red Sea city of Zafarana, 200 kilometers south of
Cairo. Then they were later sighted at
the Egyptian city of Qena, where the locusts raided over three villages in the
region.
There
were earlier reports of a “plague of locusts,” which some experts said could
hit the Egypt’s Nile Delta. After the rainy winter, during the month of January,
swarms of the insects, hatching in Sudan to the south and west, were spotted
along the Red Sea coastline at where the south-eastern border of Egypt meets
the north-eastern of Sudan where the winter breeding regions along the Red Sea
coastal plains threaten Egyptian crops to the north and Eritrea and Saudi
Arabia to the east. It was only 11 years ago in 2004, that the land of Egypt
witnessed one of its most serious locust infestations in recent history. During
that year, Egyptian suffered extensive crop damage in 15 out of the country’s
27 governorates.
At
the time, the Land Centre for Human Rights, a local NGO devoted to agriculture
issues, reported that 38 percent of the nation’s crops had been damaged as a
direct result of the arrival of locusts. According to the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), one ton of locusts eat the same amount of food in
a single day as around 2,500 people.
As if we hadn't already seen enough Biblical
events occurring the world this year, a plague of over 30 million locusts swarming over
Egypt's cities and farms just three weeks before Passover begins should give us
pause for reflection. We realize that locust migration swarms are part of the
Middle Eastern way of life and occur in small areas every year.
Yet, we realize that the winter rains that
have blessed the Nation of Israel and brought her out of a drought of two
decades, can also become the finger of judgment upon the Islamic nations that
refuse to accept that the G-d of Israel is the G-d of Creation and the ruler of
the Universe. Noe only is He the Creator G-d but also personally involved in
the redemption of His people, the Jews of the House of Judah and the Lost Ten
Tribes of the House of Israel.
What we are seeing may not be an apocalyptic
event but it could be a mini-drama of a prophetic course of events that will
eventually bring to the end the scattering of G-d’s chosen people to the
nations of the world. First to be exiled were the Lost Ten Tribes of the House
of Israel who were cast out of Samaria and sent into exile by the Assyrians in
the 7th century BCE. Later
came the scattering of the Jewish people when the Jewish culture in the 1st
century Temple of Herod Era descended into the 49th Level of Tuma
(Degradation) and were then scattered into the nations of the world in the 1st
century CE by the Romans.
No, we cannot put our apocalyptic and
catastrophic fears to rest. What the G-d of Israel has promised, will occur and
take place. If you believe that the “time of the end” is here, then the world
as we know it to be will be forever changed by the judgments of G-d whether we
want to deny that fact or not.
As the migration of locust moved from the Red
Sea to Saudi Arabia, as reported by the in the Egyptian news by the Egyptian
Agricultural Minister Salah Abdel Moamen as he explained the situation to the country in a calmly worded statement.
Egyptian Agricultural
Minister Salah Abdel Moamen – “The current inspection teams at areas targeted
by locusts did not witness swarms damaging a single inch of crop…the locusts
are sexually immature and do not depend on plants for energy since they mainly
rely on fat stores.”
Yet, the Egyptian officials did not expect
that the locusts would affect the Egyptian capital in Cairo to the north, but
the swarms have now arrived at the capital that lies just south of the
traditional home of the Children of Israel in the land of Goshen in the
Egyptian Delta just to the north.
Understanding that the Locust plagues are
unpredictable, and that which is unexpected can occur. Scientists have predicted that plagues such
as this could become part of the “global warming” effect upon the desert
regions of the Middle East. Yet, recent scientific
studies dispute that locust are associated with warm wet regional changes
but rather could also be part of cooler wet weather climatic changes.
That said, these plagues can be
unpredictable. Egyptian officials didn't expect the plague to pass by the
country's capital, until Sunday, March 3, 2013 when the locusts unexpectedly
arrived in Cairo. The government denied reports that
the locusts had started devastating crops as well as a report from United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that the Ministry of Agriculture
cleared 11,000 hectares of land in an attempt to save the harvest.
As the UN officials reported, when the locust
get hungry, a one-ton hoard of locusts can eat the same amount of food in one
day as 2,500 humans. The memory in Egypt understands this fact also for less
than a decade ago, a plague of locusts that spread nearly 40 miles wide swept over
Egypt. They damaged a majority of the crops in the regional farms at that
time. Conflicting reports aside, Moamen insisted that the government had
everything under control. As he mentioned:
Egyptian Agricultural Minister Salah Abdel
Moamen – “Egyptian armed forces and the border guards are attempting to fight
the swarm with the means at their disposal.
I ask the families living in the locust-plagued areas not to burn tires.
This does not chase away the locusts, but only causes damage and could ignite
large scale fires that would cost in lives.”
Is it not amazing that just as the locust hordes have
descended upon Cairo, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi who recently granted
himself unlimited dictatorial powers to “protect” Egypt in late November 2012
that included the power to legislate without judicial oversight or any official
review of his acts, were now confronted with new massive demonstrations called
the 2012 Egyptian
protests.
With the Plagues of Locust now hitting the Egyptian news, riots
were erupting again across Egypt as new brutality
charges were made against the Morsi government. At the same time, one Egyptian
protest group signed up Morsi to go up into space on the contest started by
Axe, a brand of grooming products for men who teamed up with US
astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon during NASA's Apollo
11 mission in 1969 and promised
to sent 22 contestants to “the edge of space and back aboard a private
spaceship.”
As Israel
Hayom reported on March 5, 2013, next door to Egypt in the State of Israel,
the residents on the Red Sea Israeli port city of Eilat were witness to the flying
hordes of locusts swarming as far north as the city of Holon. As one greenhouse farmer, Moshav Kmehin exclaimed;
Moshav Kmehin - “I was in the fields, tending to my greenhouse, when I saw
thousands of insects flying at the greenhouses. It's not so scary on a personal
level, but I'm concerned as a farmer because locusts specialize in destroying
crops.”
Regional farmers in Southern Israel near the town of Nitzana nearby to the
Egyptian border continued to report swarms of locusts all the way up to the
Israeli towns of Kmehim and the biblical Kadesh Barnea. With the local trade
winds pushing the locust swarm eastwards from Egypt and northward upwards into
Israel, the warning went out from Amir Ayali, heading the Tel Aviv University
zoology department stating on TV:
Amir Ayali – “We can prevent the locusts from destroying our farmlands, but
we have to act fast."
The regional farmers were advised by the Ramat Hanegev
Regional Council to seal up their green houses and hoophouses as the United
Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warned the Agriculture Ministry that locust
swarms were heading to Israel. The Agriculture Ministry, Miriam Freund, the
director of the Plant Protection and Inspections Services announced that the State
of Israel was already on “High Locust Alert” as their regional Israeli aerial and
ground pest control systems were alerted and put on emergency stand-by.
According to Freund, it voracious appetite of 30 million
locusts were to swarm into Israel while in their hungry adult stage, the State
of Israel crop losses would amount to 100 million shekels ($27 million) in
agricultural damages. Such an event has not been seen since November, 2004.
The question we ask, are we seeing the prelude of
catastrophes of biblical proportion beginning to surround the Israeli region in
the Middle East. Will a locust
catastrophe in Egypt unseat the well laid plans of Morsi and the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt to wrest complete control of that nation and create a
Muslim Caliphate in Egypt? Are we rather
seeing the finger of the L-rd stirring again the nations of the world, as He
watches the plotting of the nations against the anointed ones in Israel as the Psalmist
proclaimed:
Psalms 2:1-5 - “Why do
nations gather, and regimes talk in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand
and the princes conspire secretly against HaShem and against His anointed: “Let
us cut their cords and let us cast off their ropes from ourselves. He Who site
in heaven will laugh, the L-rd will mock them. Then he will speak to them in
His anger, and in His wrath He will terrify them.”
Are witnessing today, the realigning of the nations in
the Middle East instead, to become nations that will eventually worship the G-d
of Israel? As we watched mini-vignettes of prophetic fulfillment swarming
around our lives, let us remember this text gives us a final picture of what
the region of the Middle East from the lands of Ancient Assyria to Ancient
Egypt will be transformed into:
Isaiah
19:23 – “On that day there will be a road from
Egypt to Assyria; Assyrian will come into Egypt and Egyptian into Assyria, and Egypt will serve Hashem with Assyria. On that
day Israel will be the third
party with Egypt and with
Assyria, a blessing in the midst
of the land, for Hashem, Master
of Legions will bless them saying, ‘Blessed is My people, Egypt; and the work of My hands, Assyria; and My heritage, Israel.’”
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If you have wondered the difference between the Biblical
concepts of Torah’s true “Culture of Life” as compared to a “Culture of Death”,
you might desire to learn of the
Biblical portrayals on what is and
may 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 vision shared by Orthodox Jews and
10-Tribers bringing 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
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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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Tetzaveh is the 2nd
of a series of 5 Parashot about the Tabernacle, providing specifications of its
design, contents, apparel and services. From our previous Parashat Terumah, we
have, identified the important message for ourselves:
How the Tabernacle provides
man the opportunity to renew him/herself “in the image of G-d” and to draw
closer until G-d Himself “dwells with man”;
How it is man's
responsibility to support the building and maintenance of the Temple and its
services with his/her assets, possessions and abilities by returning to G-d
some of that which G-d in His Kindness has bestowed and which really belongs to
Him.
This week, in Parashat
Tetzaveh, we will see, from the apparel of the High Priest, what an important
part the twelve Tribes hold in the Creation and Redemption Plan of HaShem.
Tetzaveh, at great length,
describes the special clothing that the Priests (Kohanim) wore in the Temple.
These garments were of such importance that if anything was lacking, the Temple
service would become invalid. Eight garments were prescribed for the High Priest
(Kohen HaGadol). That is four more garments
than for the Priests.
The first mentioned of
these special garments for the High Priest, is the Ephod which was an
elaborate garment that rested upon the Kohen Gadol’s shoulders. Upon the
shoulders were two gemstones that were engraved with the names of the
twelve tribes of Israel. “This teaches us that at all times we have upon our
shoulders not only ourselves, but also the entire Nation of Israel [12 Tribes
of Israel]. This is true both in our relation with Hashem and with the rest of
the world ... Our acts, for the good and the bad reflect upon the entire Jewish
people. Thus, each of us carries the entire twelve tribes upon our shoulders.”
Then Rabbi Yonasan Biggs
with Chabad.org discussed another part of the High Priest's attire, the Breast
Plate (Choshen Mishpat). On it
were twelve different gemstones, upon each of which was inscribed the
name of one of the Tribes of Israel. As Rabbi Biggs wrote:
Rabbi
Yonasan Biggs – “The inscription of the Twelve Tribes on the Breastplate teaches that we must always have the entire Jewish
people [all 12 Tribes] upon our heart. When we pray, we pray for everyone, when
we make a decision, we concern ourselves with everyone… “The Choshen was
primarily an instrument designed to communicate Prophecy. The Choshen's
function as an essential garment of the Kohen Gadol was subsidiary. This
means that the stones and the letters engraved upon them were the main element
of the Choshen. The breastplate was fundamentally a garment designed to
display the stones which featured these engravings. If this possibility is
accepted, then it follows that the size of the stones and the lettering was
dictated by the primary function – communicating
prophecy. All letters [All Ten
Tribes of Israel] were equally essential.”
Rabbi
Bernie Fox – “The Torah describes the stones of the Choshen as “avnai miluim”. Most commentaries translate this term as “stones meant to
be set.” This is a strange appellation for these stones. Why did the Torah not
merely describe them as stones for adornment of the Kohen Gadol’s
garments? What message is the Torah communicating by referring to the stones as
avnai miluim?
Gershonides responds to this
question. He explains that the Choshen featured gold settings. The
stones were required in order to fill these gold settings. This is an odd way
to describe the relationship between the stones and the Choshen. The
simpler, more straightforward description would be that the settings were
required to accommodate the stones.
A simple example will illustrate
this point. What is the relationship between the diamond in an engagement ring
and its setting? It would be incorrect to describe the diamond as “required to
fill”, or complement, the setting (thus
suggesting that the diamond is secondary to the setting). The setting is designed to hold the diamond!"
(Thus, the Lost Ten Tribes played a primary role in HaShem's Temple Plan!)
Why does Gershonides describe the
stones as “required” to fill the gold settings? Gershonides’ point is that the
stones were designated to adorn and complete the Choshen.”
This enlightening insight presented by Mesora.org continues when
we review the High Priest's Head Plate:
“And you should make a Head-plate of pure gold.
And you should engrave upon it as the engraving of a signet ring, “Sanctified
to Hashem”.
Rabbi
Bernie Fox – “One of the eight garments of the Kohen HaGadol was the Tzitz – the golden Head-Plate. This band was worn on the
forehead. Engraved upon the Tzitz
were the words, “kodesh laHashem” – “sanctified to Hashem”.
The message of the Tzitz seems difficult to unravel.
The Tzitz is obviously declaring the sanctity of some object or person.
However, the specific entity to which the Tzitz refers is not clear.
Furthermore, we would expect the message of the Tzitz to be
self-evident. The Tzitz is making the overt assertion that it—or
someone—is ‘sanctified to G-d.’ Such a message should be easy to grasp!
This issue can perhaps be resolved from the comments of the Sefer HaChinuch. Sefer HaChinuch explains the garments of the kohanim and the
Kohen Gadol were designed to reinforce an important impression ... This suggests that the phrase, “sanctified to Hashem”
refers to the Kohen Gadol. He is sanctified to Hashem. The Tzitz
reminds the High Priest of his position and his duties. He must conduct himself
in accordance with his responsibilities. (Rav
Ahron HaLeyve, Sefer HaChinuch,
Mitzvah 99)
Rabbaynu Shemuel ben Meir – Rashbam – offers an alternative explanation of the message of
the Tzitz. Rashbam suggests that in order to understand the message of
the Tzitz, it is essential to evaluate it as part of the entire set of
vestments. The garments of the Kohen Gadol must be considered as a
whole.
The Tzitz was not the only vestment featuring words.
The Ephod – the apron – and the Choshen also featured words. On
the stones of the Ephod and Choshen the names of the tribes were
engraved. Rashbam suggests that the message of the Tzitz emerges when
considered in relation to these other vestments and their engravings. Rashbam
explains the Tzitz refers to the shevatim -- the [12-] Tribes
whose names were engraved on the stones of the Ephod and Choshen.
The Tzitz (therefore)
refers to these shevatim as sanctified to Hashem.” (Rabbaynu Shemuel ben Meir (Rashbam) Commentary on Sefer Shemot 28:36.)
What a glorious Calling! What an exalted position!
Deuteronomy 33:29 – “Blessed are
you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by HaShem? He is your Shield and
Helper and your glorious Sword.”
From its very beginnings, this “one nation” has been
comprised of twelve distinct tribes. Jacob had twelve sons; before his passing
he blessed them ‘each man according to his individual blessing,’ granting Judah
the majesty of the lion, Issachar the perseverance of the donkey, Dan
the ingenuity of the snake, Naphtali the swiftness of the gazelle, and
so on. Each tribe was thereby given a distinct vocation and role: Judah
produced kings and legislators; Issachar, scholars; Zebulun,
seafarers and merchants; warriors came from Gad, schoolteachers from Shimon,
olive growers from Asher, shepherds from Manasseh, and so on.
The descendants of Jacob’s children preserved their tribal
identities throughout their exile in Egypt. When the Red Sea parted to allow
them passage, it split into twelve pathways—one for each tribe. Each tribe
was counted separately in the various censuses taken of the people of
Israel; each [Tribe] had its own stone on the High Priest’s breastplate,
its own flag (in the color of its stone), its designated place in
line when the people of Israel journeyed through the desert, and its designated
position when they camped around the Sanctuary (mirroring the places that
Jacob designated for his sons around his bier at his funeral).
Twelve spies, each representing his respective
tribe, made up the reconnaissance mission sent in preparation for the conquest
of the Holy Land. Once there, each tribe was allotted its own territory
suited for its particular vocation; there was even a time when certain
restrictions were placed on marriages between the tribes to prevent the
ownership of land from passing from one tribe to the other.
Even as we each pursue our divinely ordained role, each
living his life on his “day” in his way, we are all doing the same thing.
For in origin and essence we are one, and our individual lives and
accomplishments are but the many expressions of a single quest.
The first aspect of our unity concerns only the end,
but not the means, of our national mission. It sees the common goal that is
the ultimate purpose of it all; but the process of life—what we
actually do to attain this goal—remains an area of difference and disparity. So
even if our present-day efforts are guided by, and permeated with, the vision
of our common objective, our actual lives are conducted apart and disconnected.
The second aspect, however, sees an intrinsic oneness in the process of
life itself. Even before our individual paths have converged upon the same
destination, it sees in the many ways in which we apply our particular
talents and abilities a single process, a single deed, a single
endeavor: making our lives a “Tent of Meeting,” a place to house the
goodness and perfection of our Creator.
HaShem's One Nation uniquely
features '12-Tribes' divided into TWO Houses.
Rabbi Simon Jacobson poses the question in the article
titled; “Meaningful Life”:
Rabbi Simon Jacobson - “How, indeed,
do a people comprised of various tribes, each with its own character,
temperament, talents and vocation, achieve union as ‘one nation’?
One approach is to focus on our
“interdependence”: to appreciate that since we share a common goal—namely, to
build for G‑d ‘a dwelling in the physical world’—and since we each have a
crucial role to play in the achievement of this goal, our various ‘tribes’ and
types complement and fulfill one another to create a single people. In other
words, our differences themselves are what unite us. Since the entity ‘Israel’
and what it stands for would be incomplete were any one ‘tribe’ missing from
the equation, no Jew is fully Jewish without his relationship with every other
type of Jew.”
The greatest stumbling block today in the way of Redemption
(i.e. Reconciliation of the two Houses, 12 Tribes), is the diversity amongst
the two Houses. It is clear from the above review, that we are blindly and
stubbornly stumbling across the Solution: HaShem sees us and wants us to be ONE UNITED Nation. He has in fact created
the diversity amongst the different Tribes - NOT to divide, but to perfect the
ONENESS of His Nation.
No one tribe could ever fulfill His requirements on all
aspects of life fully by itself. As pointed out above, it is the sum total of
the diversities that bring full Oneness. But, there has to be Unity across the
diversity! Rather than seeing these diversities as failures and stumbling
stones, it should be seen as stepping stones to Unity and Oneness.
Research has shown that the best lasting marriages come from
two totally diverse spouses. Look around you at those successful marriages -
how totally diverse the spouses are! Research has shown how that the children
from such marriages, being exposed to the two opposites of life options in
their own lives, benefit through their experience of the two opposites in their
parents. In this way they are given two extremes between which to make informed
decisions in their own lives. In this way our Creator has provided us with
additional life style tools to draw closer to Him and to enjoy the Blessing of
righteous living!
Unfortunately, more than often, we see these keys to life as
obstacles rather than stepping stones. And we do the same when it comes to
establishing Peace in the House of HaShem amongst His diverse people! Just as
in marriage, what generally causes the break down; is the individual insistence
to "have it MY way!”
May this life generating insight brought to us by our
Rabbis, into this otherwise 'dry' portion of Scripture, serve to help us appreciate
the diversities amongst 12-Israel and between the two greatly divided Houses of
HaShem.
Which would bring the ultimate
Redemption to the Door Step!
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 reunification
will truly be the supernal Event of all Times for it will entail Establishing
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’s 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 to their future and Prophetic Homeland.
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!
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