Independence or Dependence?

This article “Independence or Dependence?“, reprinted with the kind permission of Reb Akiva M, of:

by Reb Nati at Mystical Paths

Atzmayi or Lo Atzmayi?

We can see that there is no truth to this at all! When the Erev Rav and Bush Inc can destroy and intimidate, threaten, beat at will… then we are in trouble folks!

This day marks the Yartzeit of Am Israel.

60 years ago we were gathered after the Holocaust. And what happened? The Erev Rav put us in a vegetative, garbanzo bean, chickpea state. Rav Brody at Lazer Beams says ‘The Falafel State‘. This was until they could figure out what to do with us.

Wake up and see. If you’re honest with yourselves, G-d help us, you’ll see us on the brink of annihilation. ‘The final solution’ has put us in State run ghetto to slowly strangle us, to dope us with materialism and goyish music, TV, xxx and drugs, to tear our kids away from us and Torah with secularism, MTV and the like, and with the media as the tool to cause one to mistrust the other to the point of hatred.

We have surely helped them do their job well by sleeping on the job running after all the money, because of our lack of faith in Hashem!

Atzmayi (hebrew) - independent or self reliant. Or as in Yom HaAzmaut, Israeli Independence Day. The only way to be truly independent is to have Emunah and Bitachon in Hakodosh Barachu and in His Torah!

It seems obvious to anyone who sees clearly that there appears to be a lack of this in the world, especially in relation to the Jewish people of whom I’m a member. As we come to the second “Independence Day” since the sinful destruction of the Jewish communities of Gush Katif and the Northern Shomron (West Bank), it appears more obvious every day that this is a recurring theme in our history. Now it is the separation of the Holy city of Jerusalem! And know, this is right out of the words of the (biblical) prophets.

Even the Xian’s children of preschool age know this from Sunday school, but ask a Jew and we have no clue! Ask yourself why? As a rabbi I must help all of those of want to understand, and if I have failed in this until now, please forgive me!

Ask yourselves, are we truly independent? Or is this a deception that has been used to keep us from making trouble in the world? If we choose to take all this at face value, we would seem to have limited independence and freedom. Or, is this just an illusion? Are we fooling ourselves? I say YES!!!!!

What does it mean to be independent? Politically, economically, physically, spiritually? We can look at the first golus (exile), the Egyptian. We went because of famine, we stayed because it was comfortable, and became slaves. This appears to me to indicate dependency, not independence. And we have been trying to return to this status, as slaves, ever since.

Wake up, grow up, for we are so helplessly dependent on this world, we are so addicted to this system of things. Otherwise, we would cry out like we did in Egypt. ENOUGH!!!

We do not seem to be ready or able to admit that two thousand years of frustration, annihilation and failure has caused us to become ill, ‘Choleh Nefesh’, spiritually sick. We suffer from neuroses, the cause of which is being separated from our source, Hashem, the root of all our souls. We are what the doctors like to call co-dependent, on the junk of this world! And we resist reconnection to Hashem, because we would have to separate from the things we are comfortable with. We yet again prove that we are not ready to be unplugged from this matrix of this world.

Someone asked me my opinion on whether to say or not to say Hallel (the great prayers of praise) in honor of “Israeli Independence Day“? And I asked this question in response, “Are we truly independent?” I believe that we are in a Erev Rav, Herodian dictatorship sponsored and directly under the proxy rule of Rome (i.e. The United States and European Union). And if this is the case, then maybe we are making a bracha (the blessing for the great praise) in vain. Instead I believe that we should be sitting and mourning in sack cloth and ashes and saying Kaddish, as did Yermiyahu and Mordechai. This answer was not popular, I was almost lynched.

This sounds very discouraging, very depressing. But don’t be discouraged, yesh ma’la’sot, there is a response! Our forefathers set the example of the correct course of action, with strong Emunah and Bitachon ‘faith and trust’ we must cry out to our Father in Heaven, AS we did in Egypt.

I have started an online petition here. This is not another political petition, or click to show you care and subsequently will be ignored.

This is a spiritual petition. As the geulah was (in Egypt), so the geulah will be. First the Jews cried out, Hashem heard and remembered. He sent Moshe rabaynu. When Moshe rabaynu came to redeem the Jews, he came to the elders. And the elders declared the redemption and informed the people, and Moshe accepted the leadership and began the redemption. We must CRY OUT to Hashem, together as one, as the Jewish people, it’s time. And, we must demand, yes demand, of the elders, the gedolim of our generation, the princes of Torah, to declare it’s time for the redemption.

Around the world, this is an online petition. Here in Israel, it’s a physical one. We’re going out, sometimes with camera in hand, to ask people directly, do you want the geulah?

With, G-d willing, tens of thousands of both physical and virtual signatures, we will approach the Torah leaders of our generation and demand that they take the necessary spiritual and practical actions to end this golus now!

Do you care, do you dare, to stand up and be counted among the minyan’s of Hashem? As Yehoshua bin Nun said ‘As for me and my house, we shall serve Hashem.’

Some say we can just sit back, pray, learn some Torah, do the daily mitzvot of Judaism, the rest is up to Hashem. But, if we just sit back and take no actions in this world, then we have no voice in Shamayim and we’re destined to stay ‘Itah’, till the end, and then we deserve what we get, G-d forbid.

We need to realize that we are all helplessly dependent on Hashem or we would not exist for even one moment. It is only those who can see and understand this that are truly independent in this world.

Shalom and blessings,

Rabbi Nathanel Levi Ben Yitzak Ben Chana Shara M’ Breslev

“Help bring the Geulah” petition

Hi,

I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed:

“Help bring the Geulah“

I really think this is an important cause, and I’d like to encourage you to add your signature, too. It’s free and takes less than a minute of your time.

Your signature is valuable and makes a real difference.

Thanks!

Aryeh ben Abraham

Check This Out!

Check This Out!, reprinted with the kind permission of:

Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily has posted an article that addresses beautifully the issue of dividing the Land of Israel, the subject of present negotiations between Olmert and Abbas.

Entitled “Solomonic Wisdom and Dividing the Land”, Farah makes the case biblically from a perspective I’ve not heard from anyone else about the present struggle over the Land.

Take a look - I think you’ll enjoy the article. It’s not long but gets to the point!

Solomonic Wisdom and the Land

Following are some excerpts of the article written by Joseph Farah, founder, editor and CEO of WND, entitled “Solomonic wisdom and dividing of Israel“, which makes one ponder.

There is a Bible story familiar to practically everyone that relates directly to efforts by the international community to divide Israel for the purpose of creating a Palestinian state.

It can be found in 1 Kings 3.

The young king Solomon dreams of a conversation with the Lord in which he asks for wisdom to judge God’s people. God grants the desires of Solomon’s heart as well as bestowing upon him a long life, great riches and honor.

Immediately after Solomon claims this promise with sacrifices, peace offerings and a feast to all his servants, he gets to judge the most famous case of his life.

Two harlots come before him – each claiming a baby as their own.

That’s the story everyone knows. But is there special meaning for today in these words? Could this story relate directly to the two-state solution being planned by the internationalist busybodies who seek to split Israel in half? Is it possible that this familiar old Bible story actually contains a prophecy yet to be fulfilled?

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Please pray for Rabbi Nati!

Rabb Nati, is now under the threat of Administrative detention.

What has Rabbi Nati done, in order for this terrible threat to be pending over him?

As far as I can see and know, Rabbi Nati is wanting the Geulah! Yes, that Moshiach come now.

This, the Israeli Governmant considers, is a revolution in their eyes, dangerous for world or national order.

Just in case you didn’t know, the Israel Internal Security Service, the Shabak, has been interrogating Rabbi Nati nightly, all night, every night, ALL WEEK, on the revolution that Breslov and the Tzaddik of Meah Shearim are setting up. The one called Moshiach and the other Geulah.

It appears that they are in the process of trying to set up the Tzadik HaRav Shalom Arush, shlita and his followers as right wing religious zealots who want turn over the world, or at least the Israeli government.

Now then, what have Rabi Nati and the Tzadik HaRav Shalom Arush, shlita and his followers, been doing for them to be considered by the Isralei Government as a menace to the Israeli Government. As far as I know and everyone in Eretz Yisrael knows, there only doings have been requesting Klal Yisrael to pray, do hisbodedut, tikun chazot and study Torah. And why? Beacause of the impending dangers that Eretz Yisrael is facing, such as the Iranian threat to wipe Eretz Yisrael out of the face of world, the latent menace of Hizballah, the constant attacks of Kassam rockets from Hamas, and the division of our Holy City Jerusalem.

So as you can see, there is absolutely nothing wrong or agaist Torah, or the Israeli Government, in what they are doing.

Well from what we are seeing in the news, it’s more than apparent that this anti-Torah, anti-Emunah government is living its last hours, and as you can see, neither did Rabbi Nati or the Tzadik HaRav Shalom Arush, shlita, have anything whatsoever to do with it.

Brethren let’s all unite in prayer, that Hashem protect Rabbi Nati and the Tzadik HaRav Shalom Arush, shlita and his followers, against those evil forces that want to shut them up and harm them, Heaven forbid.

Aryeh ben Abraham

Template for non-Emuna Falafel Republic

Following excerpts from “Template for non-Emuna Falafel Republic“, from Rabbi Lazer Brody’s blog:

A Felafel Republic is similar to a banana republic, but whereas the latter is in South America, the former is in the Middle East.

Here’s how to make a Falafel Republic:

1. Tell people you’re a democracy for PR purposes, but let an arrogant elitist leftist oligarchy run the show behind the scenes.

2. Be as corrupt as you can. If you’re caught, simply appease the oligarchy, build more sidewalk cafes and gay bars, and give territories to the enemies in exchange for 6 months of undisturbed expresso drinking with croissants and butter.

3. Throw idealistic youth in jail.

Kinneret Very Low

Kinneret Very Low, reprinted with the kind permission of:

The recent heat wave and scanty rainfall this past winter have combined to create a dangerously low water level in Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee).

This winter’s rains raised the level by a total of only 60 centimeters (24 inches) - and 25 percent of that gain has already been lost because of the intense heat. During Pesach, for example, it reached 109F in the area of the Galilee.

This is the fourth straight year that there has been a less than average rainfall in the country, leaving the underground aquifers throughout the country in worse shape than they have been for more than a decade. Officials say the Kinneret is at its lowest in 46 years - since 1962. Israelis may well face water rationing this summer.

My Comment:

The Shema,: (lit. “hear”); the daily declaration of faith, recited in the morning and evening prayers and before retiring for the night.

The second passage is from Deuteronomy 11:13-21, beginning with the word “v’haya.” It declares the Jews‘ acceptance of the commandments and their undertaking to carry out the commandments as evidence of their loyalty to G_d. It talks of the fundamental principle in Jewish belief of reward and punishment that is based on the fulfillment of G_d’s commandments.

Devarim - Deuteronomy

Chapter 11

    13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto My commandments which I command you this day, to love HaShem your G-d, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

    14 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

    15 And I will give grass in thy fields for thy cattle, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied.

   16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

    17 and the anger of HaShem be kindled against you, and He shut up the heaven, so that there shall be no rain, and the ground shall not yield her fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which HaShem giveth you.

From the above verses, that we recite four times a day, it’s quite clear why there have been no rains in Eretz Yisrael.

My beloved brethren, I beg that we all return to our ONE and only G_d in Teshuvah, and start praying that all those harsh decrees against us be forgiven.

Critical

This article “Critical“, reprinted with the kind permission of Reb Akiva M, of:

by Akiva at Mystical Paths

We’re going to delve into a practical analysis briefly. The situation in Israel is critical, though somewhat existential. Surrounded by enemies on all sides who have figured out a way to hit and hurt, Israel is unwilling as well as pressured by the world to avoid taking the steps that would defend herself and/or prevent further attacks.

Instead, she’ll allow herself, or pieces of herself, to be sacrificed so the Western nations can keep their oil suppliers happy and stable (as if Israel has anything to do with their stability).

But, some of her population is bleeding (S’derot and everything south of Ashdod). Some is nationalistic and insists on acting as if land actually matters. Some is national religious, and acts as if settling the Land of Israel actually matters. And some just cares about the Land of Israel.

The rest, which is the ’silent majority’? They’re just going about their lives, and as long as terrorist incidents remain ‘low’ and missile attacks remain outside where 70% of the population lives, hey, out of sight out of mind.

So what to do about those annoying segments that actually care? This isn’t speculation, we’ll define exactly WHAT WAS DONE starting with the Rabin government and continuing through the expulsion of Gush Katif…

1. Minimize the voice. No media reports. No government offices dispatched. Welcome to what’s happening in S’derot. How many rockets this week, how many people hurt this month? I don’t know, no reports IN ISRAEL.

2. Delegitimize. News reports focus on “crazy” settlers, “innocent” palestinians, “blockages to peace”. Every investigative government agency investigates, they’re is always something to find wrong, highlight it.

3. Organize trouble. Take the community trouble makers and let them run free. Have “friends” conveniently hand them trouble making resources. Make sure to have other “friends” nearby who are capturing information (video/audio) to make the evening news.

4. Make the community question itself, make the rest of the nation question the community. Take all the above together and you rob a community of it’s voice, you divide it as some say it’s gone overboard, and you make it considered either crazy, a laughing stock, or dangerous, by the rest of the nation.

This is not speculation, this is the program run several times in the past in Israel. As Jerusalem comes on the table and tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands stand to lose their homes, and murderers are to be brought within range of 90% of the Israeli population, you can be sure such tactics are already in progress.

You’ll note that almost every Israeli commentor found the situation regarding Rabbi Nati to be completely plausible and in line with PAST Israeli internal events. A few Americans wish to believe that such things must be paranoia or a scam of some sort. Those same people, however, probably scream about the lost rights due to the US Patriot Act and other similar security measures the US has taken. Yet when they see the results of such things in action, they fail to grasp it.

“That female is our child’s murderer”

Dedicated to the memory of Malka Chana Roth Z”L 1985-2001

Following are excerpts of “That female is our child’s murderer“
by Ted Belman of Israpundit - THERE IS NO DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION

The New York Times carries a review of a film called ‘Hot House’ that goes inside Israeli prisons and examines the lives of Palestinian prisoners. We’re not recommending the film or the review ..But we do want to share our feelings with you about the beaming female face that adorns the article.

That female is our child’s murderer. She was sentenced to sixteen life sentences or 320 years which she is serving in an Israeli jail. Fifteen people were killed and more than a hundred maimed and injured by the actions of this “attractive” person and her associates.

Her name was Malka. Visit her website so that she not be forgotten.

Can Israel Resist US Pressure?

Following are excerpts of “Can Israel Resist US Pressure?“
by Ted Belman of Arutz Sheva - IsraelNationalNews.com

The US has made Israel dependent on it.

Recently, we hear that Ehud Olmert offered to cede the Golan Heights to Syria, and I commented that the Golan is safe for now. For now; but ultimately the US will be pressuring Israel to do the deal. As Ami Isseroff points out in “Territorial Integrity: American Middle East policy and what it means for Israel“, it has always been US policy to force Israel to trade land for peace.

To accomplish its goals, the US has made Israel dependent on it for military supply and diplomatic support, in order to gain influence on Israel. Recently, in keeping with this policy, Rice advised Israel that the US would not send extra supplies to Israel, but would keep them in the US.

There are two factors that remain obstacles to US plans, however. The determination of most Israelis to not cede all the land demanded or to divide Jerusalem is one. The other is the Arab rejectionist camp of Iran, Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas - which reject peace with Israel.