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?

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.

“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.

…help…help…

…help…help…, by Rabbi Nati at Mystical Paths, is reprinted with the kind permission of Reb Akiva M, from Mystical Paths,

As we here in Israel stood and waited silently for a moment yesterday to contemplate the Holocaust of 60 odd years ago, a chapter is being written in the Final Solution. As was then it is now. We are being duped and lulled into beleieving that all is well. We have failed to be concious of the fact that they are swaying pulbic opinion and setting the stage for the final deinfestation of this world of the Holy people.

Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli independence day) is the yaretzheit of Am Yisroel (the Jewish People). Why? Because the State is the antithesis of the the Am Kodesh (the Holy Nation).

The plan is falling into place as this is being written. The players are setting up for the final act. Israel was termed by Colon Powell when he was US Secretary of State as the “lastest and last ghetto for the Jews”.

As of late I’ve been targeted for wanting the Geulah! This is a revolution in their eyes, dangerous for world or national order. With this post I may be committing suicide. The Israel Internal Security Service, the Shabak, has interrogated me 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 Geulah.

My house is literally being watched, my phone has literally been tapped. I’ve been grilled for hours and hours on … prayer, tikun chazot, hisbodedut, the teachings of my rebbe, HaRav Shalom Arush, shlita, mikvah, and Moshiach and the Geulah. Hours and hours and hours on end of literal interrogation, yanked from my bed, pulled from my house in front of my children, night after night.

It appears to me 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. And the side of evil literally are killing people over their fear of what will be.

I’ve been pulled in and questioned in what I’m told is the “most nice manner”. I am not permitted to turn off my cell phone and required to have it on me at all times. When I have, they’ve arrived quickly and screamed “what do you think you’re doing???”

I believe this all in an effort to form a picture to sell to the world to prove that we are dangerous and must be dealt with harshly. Yet the only revolution we are selling is one of teshuvah and connecting to Hashem.

This sounds so much like the propaganda machines of the past, of the Nazi’s (y’m), of the Communists, of the dictators.

Things are running on a dead end track to disaster. The disengagement is exploding in our faces, literally daily (color red alert, color red alert). The division of the holy city is about to take place. The holy prophets foretold of this many years ago and now it is finally here.

My friends and family have seen me taken away, they’ve heard the men inform me they were secret police. I indeed fear an ‘accident’ or ‘heart attack’ soon.

In the past 2 weeks, 3 of the largest rabbi’s against the government plans have ’sickened’. In the past, Rabbi Kahane was murdered, Prime Minister Rabin was assasinated, Knesset Member Zeezy was murdered, even Prime Minister Sharon suffered a sudden mysterious improperly treated ailment. (Getting a little paranoid, well a week of all night interrogations will do that to you.)

Hashem YeRachem! Please call out to the King of Kings and ask for Him to help us. I’m just a rabbi who wants to help and teach people to live right and free themselves from fear, who wants peace in the world, without weapons, a world where we can express our love of Hashem without fear. Please may it come.

That’s my revolutionary message, G-d help me!

Since I all I been doing is making the few videos and podcast’s you’ve seen here, learning Torah in HaRav Arush, shlita’s yeshiva, and talking to people about connecting to Hashem, I can only assume that this is exactly what the other side is afraid of.

My friends, I’m asking for your help. First, if you don’t hear that I’m safe, published here at least once a week, please assume I’m not. I have a wife and children, I’d like to be around to take care of them.

Second, if the other side is pushing so hard against just a few words about connecting to Hashem and trying to bring the geulah, we must have hit on something right. I am asking for your help, just some small donations, to set up a completely legal properly documented charity organization (here in Israel and a 501(3)(c) in the US) to begin to publicize connecting with Hashem, and crying out together to HaKodesh Baruch Hu to bring the Geulah!

We already have ideas for a night of prayer, videos on related Torah teachings, and have actually prepared the ultimate petition, a rabbinically approved petition to HaKodesh Baruch Hu, the Beis Din shel Mala and the Beis Din shel Mata, for Geulah.

In Meron on Lag B’Omer this year there will be, G-d willing, 500,000 Jews. Would it not be great to get all of them to pray in union of heart and soul for the coming redemption??? I think so, and I’d like to make it happen with a special pamphlet of tikun chazot (the midnight prayer lamenting the destructions of the Beis HaMikdash and crying out for it’s rebuilding), but we need to work fast to make it happen.

Thank you, truly thank you, for your support and prayers.
Rabbi Nathanel Levi ben Yitchok and Chana Sara Kinstein M’Breslev.

UPDATE! Since making this post, mid-morning the secret police stopped by Rabbi Nati’s home to collect him again! Fortunately, he was out at the grocery store buying food for Shabbat and had left his tracked cell phone at home.

…help…help…, by Rabbi Nati at Mystical Paths, is reprinted with the kind permission of Reb Akiva M, from Mystical Paths,

A Mystery in the Middle East

By George Friedman

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | The Arab-Israeli region of the Middle East is filled with rumors of war. That is about as unusual as the rising of the sun, so normally it would not be worth mentioning. But like the proverbial broken clock that is right twice a day, such rumors occasionally will be true. In this case, we don’t know that they are true, and certainly it’s not the rumors that are driving us. But other things — minor and readily explicable individually — have drawn our attention to the possibility that something is happening.

The first thing that drew our attention was a minor, routine matter. Back in February, the United States started purchasing oil for its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The SPR is a reserve of crude oil stored in underground salt domes. Back in February, it stood at 96.2 percent of capacity, which is pretty full as far as we are concerned. But the U.S. Department of Energy decided to increase its capacity. This move came in spite of record-high oil prices and the fact that the purchase would not help matters. It also came despite potential political fallout, since during times like these there is generally pressure to release reserves. Part of the step could have been the bureaucracy cranking away, and part of it could have been the feeling that the step didn’t make much difference. But part of it could have been based on real fears of a disruption in oil supplies. By itself, the move meant nothing. But it did cause us to become thoughtful.

Also in February, someone assassinated Imad Mughniyah, a leader of Hezbollah, in a car bomb explosion in Syria. It was assumed the Israelis had killed him, although there were some suspicions the Syrians might have had him killed for their own arcane reasons. In any case, Hezbollah publicly claimed the Israelis killed Mughniyah, and therefore it was expected the militant Shiite group would take revenge. In the past, Hezbollah responded not by attacking Israel but by attacking Jewish targets elsewhere, as in the Buenos Aires attacks of 1992 and 1994.

In March, the United States decided to dispatch the USS Cole, then under Sixth Fleet command, to Lebanese coastal waters. Washington later replaced it with two escorts from the Nassau (LHA-4) Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG), reportedly maintaining a minor naval presence in the area. (Most of the ESG, on a regularly scheduled deployment, is no more than a few days sail from the coast, as it remains in the Mediterranean Sea.) The reason given for the American naval presence was to serve as a warning to the Syrians not to involve themselves in Lebanese affairs. The exact mission of the naval presence off the Levantine coast — and the exact deterrent function it served — was not clear, but there they were. The Sixth Fleet has gone out of its way to park and maintain U.S. warships off the Lebanese coast.

Most Israelis Agree: Jerusalem is Being Secretly Discussed

By Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) Nearly 60% of Israelis say the Israeli government is secretly negotiating the division of Jerusalem with the Palestinian Authority – despite government attempts to blur the existence of such talks.

This and other findings were the results of a survey carried out by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Bar Ilan University. The official numbers will be presented this Tuesday at a special seminar at Bar Ilan. The Guest of Honor will be Trade Minister Eli Yishai, the head of the government coalition member Shas Party. Yishai has stated frequently that the moment it becomes clear that Jerusalem is being negotiated, his party will quit the coalition.

PA is Sure to Make More Demands

The respondents were asked their forecast of the situation in the event that an Israeli-PA peace agreement would include an Israeli giveaway of Jerusalem’s Arab neighborhoods, Old City and Temple Mount to the PA. Nearly 70% said there is no or little chance that such an agreement would bring about an end to terrorism, and 56% feel there is a high or very high likelihood that the areas would be used for terrorist bases.

Read complete article.

Shimon Peres Exposed!

This is simply outrageous, here you have what our government thinks of G_d and His Torah.

Beloved, it’s time that all the Orthodox Rabbinate get together and get Klal Yisrael to unite and make this government and the whole political establishment resign.

How can this be done, well to start of, why not have all Klal Yisrael stay home and not show up to work.

Offices, public services, schools, universities, everybody just simply stay home, until these anti-Torah people resign.

Then have the Rabbinate, start putting order in Eretz Yisrael, by evicting all the Arabs.

Then destroy the Dome and all constructions/buildings that desecrate our Holy Land.

You probably think I’m out of my mind or under some high substance, nope, none whatsoever, simply these are things which should have been done a long time ago, and as they have not, we are paying the consequences now, today.

Make it very clear to the Arab World, that if they continue to harass us and kill our brethren, we shall recuperate the Holy Land that was given wrongly to them.

You will probably be thinking, we are going to have the whole world on top of us, yes one way or the other we will have the world on top of us, but you know what, it doesn’t matter one bit as Hashem will be with us once again.

And lastly, this whole affair can be handled without one drop of blood, Heaven forbid that a Jew extend his hand against another Jew.

Now see with your own eyes and hear with your ears, what Shimon Peres is teaching our youth.

Shimon Peres tells Israeli youth that history is irrelevant, borders and land are the past, and science and technology alone are the future.

“G-d makes us crazy,” he says, and tells us mankind has found new partners in science and technology that are much more dependable.

He tells youth not to listen to their parents or their teachers (those that actually love and care about them the most) and that they should look towards a new world, a new reality.

History, Torah, and heritage should be stored on a computer to be remembered, states Peres, but that youth should forget the past and look towards a “new world” and a new future.

Peres instructs that land and borders are “old world” and simply cause wars.

If by any chance there are any mistakes in the composition, please bear with me, as I just feel very upset about this.

Aryeh

3/4 of Israelis See at Least Partial Transfer for Arabs

By Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) A survey carried out the Panels Research Institute finds that more than 75% of Israelis see partial or total transfer for Israeli-Arabs out of Israel in any final-status agreement that includes a Palestinian state.

The poll asked whether it would be justified, in the framework of an agreement for the establishment of a Palestinian state, to demand the transfer out of Israel of all Arabs. Nearly 30% said yes with no reservations, while 28% said only Arabs who did not express loyalty to Israel should be expelled. In addition, another 19% said that Arabs who lived in areas bordering the PA-controlled areas, such as Wadi Area and the southern Galilee, should be transferred out.

Read complete article.