ROCKETS & MERON TRAGEDY: IS MASHIACH COMING?

QUESTION
Are the rockets now in Eretz Yisrael a sign of the “war of Gog and Magog” and that Mashiach is coming?

ANSWER
It is not a sign – it is a part of the war of Gog and Magog, for we are already
amidst it.

LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM THE MERON TRAGEDY

QUESTION
When more people told me about it, I said Hashem wants us to do teshuva.

To my surprise, people had strong negative reactions to that!

One wanted to be in the moment of grief feeling for the families of the victims and absorbing the shock, basically calling me unsensitive to the pain of others.

Another did not want to be blamed and told me I was burning up the world.

And both felt very strongly that telling people to do teshuva was too harsh on people who cannot take it, who have gone off the derech hearing those crushing messages about Hashem’s anger at us and becoming hardened and cold to Him.

A third person told me that she is so numb from everything that the tragedy simply has not registered in any way.

I realize that the galus has been long and we are storm tossed and we need Hashem to be gentle with us. Is the message that Hashem wants the Yidden to do teshuva applicable here?

ANSWER
Speak to each person on their own level and in their "language."

Any one lesson that can be learned from something will not be understood by everyone equally.

QUESTION
Is the [negative] reactivity to that all a kelipah in which the very light Hashem wants to come into the world being concealed?

ANSWER
Yes, but before giving over the message to others, first see if the message will be taken positively or negatively by the other.

QUESTION
If it is indeed a message to do teshuvah, what is a way to respond so that those experiencing a push back to doing teshuva can recognize Hashem and “do the work” of opening their hearts?

ANSWER
...You need to figure out what the individual in question needs to hear, based on his on her personal soul and what you think they need to hear.

The Baal HaTanya writes that some people were created NOT to conquer a Midda; just for the battle itself.

There has to be a side to you that is enjoying working without success, meaning just to enjoy the "working" on the Midda itself.

The world today is heavily involved with success.

They say that even the most successful people have a "Blue Monday."

 FROM YWN:
The Israel Dog Unit issued an "urgent appeal to the public" in its search for a missing youth whose life may be in danger.

Avraham Moshe Kleinerman, 16, of Modiin Illit was last seen over a month ago at Meron.

He has a thin build, dark hair and eyes, and wears glasses.

The unit requests that anyone who knows about his whereabouts or could be of assistance in finding him should contact:
— Israel Police at 100
— the Israel Police Modiin Illit station at 08-644-7200
— or the Israel Dog Unit-Search and Rescue at 054-487-6709.

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PLEASE DAVEN AND SAY TEHILLIM THAT HASHEM OPENS THE EYES OF THE SEARCHERS AND LET'S AVRAHAM BE FOUND AND THAT NO HARM COMES TO HIM.  

UPDATE 3- MAY-2022 SUSPECTED ABDUCTION BY ARABS.  PLEASE DAVEN AND SAY TEHILLIM THAT NO HARM COMES TO HIM!  Here's what was printed in YWN:

Avraham was once injured by Palestinian Arabs throwing stones at him in the Shomron and even has a large scar on his forehead due to a stone thrown at him.

According to his father, he was hospitalized after the incident and has never been the same since, wandering around confused since he was released from the hospital.

Perhaps due to the trauma of the incident, he attempted in the past to return to the scene of the attack despite the fact that it occurred in Area A, which is legally forbidden for Israeli citizens to enter and extremely dangerous.

Additionally, the IDU received a threatening message in Arabic from a Jordanian telephone number that Avraham was captured and would be killed in 24 hours.

Security officials fear that he indeed may have been abducted.

“This is very serious,” said IDU director Yekutiel Ben-Yaakov. “Over a month has passed and it’s as if the ground swallowed him up. We are not ruling out a terrorist motive. I can’t say more at this time, other than request from the public to contact us if they can recall seeing Avraham any time over this past month, at our special missing person hotline.” 

​PLEASE INCREASE YOUR PRAYERS AND TEHILLIM FOR HIM THAT HASHEM PROTECTS HIM.

Thank You for Saving Me From Social Media, Rabbi Wallerstein

The Ideal Tatty & Knight in Shining Armor

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Rav Avigdor Miller on Disney’s Immorality 

Q:Is it wrong to allow one’s children to read Disney books like Mickey Mouse and things like that?
A:
Now, whether or not you should be reading Walt Disney to your children is one question.

But I say that you shouldn’t for a different reason.

I say that you should boycott Walt Disney because Disney is an active force in promoting all types of immorality and I don’t want to say what else.

They promote very filthy things like H-O-M [the Rav spelled out the three letters] – I really don’t want to say the rest.

And therefore, we should boycott Walt Disney as much as possible.

And if they hadn’t been promoting immorality then it would just be stam a waste of time.

What do you get out of books that make it that mice talk and other animals are talking? It’s meaningless.

But Walt Disney is worse than meaningless because of the immorality that they are promoting in America.

And therefore we should do everything we can to lend our support to those who are trying to make this world more moral.

We should help the people – even the goyim – who are fighting for morality. 

​We really should do that.

TAPE # E-219 (January 2000)

https://torasavigdor.org/rav-avigdor-miller-on-boycotting-walt-disney/

Could we think Hakodosh Boruch Hu will be silent when He sees that the reshaim are trying to wipe out the Torah in the Eretz Yisroel?

The answer is, He’s not silent.  That’s why there are terrorists. 

It’s a big mistake to read the newspapers and think that it’s the result of them not wanting the peace treaty or because they want to have the Jews out of Eretz Yisroel. 

No. 

The terrorists are sent by Hakodosh Boruch Hu as a puraniyos on the Labor Party, on the apikorsim, on those who are trying to teach Jewish children immorality and atheism in the Israeli public schools.

https://torasavigdor.org/rav-avigdor-miller-on-when-hashem-is-not-silent/

But I have to tell you something. People don’t realize this, but why did this uprising happen right now?

Just before this uprising began, Barak came out with a statement and it was in all the headlines.

He said that he’s going to do everything in his power to change Eretz Yisroel into a secular medinah. What it was up till now, I don’t know.

But he said that he wants to make it, that religion should have no connection to the Medinah at all.

Do you hear this statement from the Prime Minister of the State of Israel?!

He wants that the Am Yisroel in Eretz Yisroel should be a completely secular nation – a nation without any Torah at all.

And he said this openly.

It was all the headlines. And the New York Times was very happy about it. They wrote these headlines with excitement.

But our people were very disturbed.

People protested against such a thing. People wrote letters. I sent him a letter.

And then, just now, immediately after Barak announces his plans, the Intafada erupts.

That’s why they’re suffering through this now. Because they made a public declaration that they’re going to rebel against Hakodosh Boruch Hu and that the Torah will play no role at all in our nation.

That’s what he said, that the Torah will play no role in the life of our nation. We are a secular nation and the Toras Hashem will play no role.

So Hakodosh Boruch Hu said, “I’m going to give you a lesson about my role.”

And now people are crying out to Hashem. “Please help us Hashem.”

And even some choifshim are beginning to think, “Maybe we should also cry out to Hashem.”

​And this is midah ki’neged midah.

https://torasavigdor.org/rav-avigdor-miller-on-terror-in-eretz-yisroel/

Everything that’s taking place in Eretz Yisroel, you should know, is done by Hakodosh Boruch Hu – not by Arabs. 

Arabs are not killing anybody – Hashem is killing.  No question about that.  

Why is He doing it? 

Because the Jews in Eretz Yisrael are going m’dechi el dechi.  

Here they passed a law decriminalizing homosxuality.  It’s kosher now to be a homosxual in Eretz Yisroel. 

Hakodosh Boruch Hu says, “That’s a toevah.  If that’s what Eretz Yisroel is going to be, I’ll take steps.”
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They passed a law now that you could import treifeh meat now. 

For the first time since the history of the medina you could import treifeh meat in Eretz Yisroel. 

Hakodosh Boruch Hu says, “I’ll show you.  I’ll show you.”
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And now Tel Aviv has become a place of hefkeirus.  All kinds of wickedness in Tel Aviv.

Hashem says,  “I made Eretz Yisroel for Tel Aviv?!” 

The Israelis, some of them, are so terrible, they’re even worse than goyim in some places.  
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Why are women in the Israeli army?  You know why they’re there? 

So a man wrote a book about the IDF, the Israeli Defense Force; not a frumme. He said, “The purpose of women is not for fighting.” 

You hear that? The purpose of women in the Israeli army is not for fighting, not for defense. 

You understand that? You understand what that means?  
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And this great wickedness happened before America had female soldiers. 

America is now no good either. But Israel led the way with this abomination.
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And therefore, Hakodosh Boruch Hu says, “Pay attention.  הֲיֹסֵר גּוֹיִם הֲלֹא יוֹכִיחַ – The one who is bringing upon the nations adversity, isn’t He showing something? He’s showing something! הַמְלַמֵּד אָדָם דָּעַת – Isn’t He teaching wisdom (Tehillim 94:10)? 

So it’s up to us to understand that we’re being taught. 

We’re getting messages from Hashem.
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Of course we have to fight back.  Of course, we have to defend ourselves. 

Of course we have to look for ways and means of stopping the terror. 

And yet, fundamentally we have to understand it’s Hashem and the purpose is to teach us that something is very wrong in Eretz Yisroel today – very wrong!  

​In the schools, they teach atheism.

In the schools in Eretz Yisroel they teach Jewish boys and girls atheism!

Children should be taught there’s a Boirei, a Creator. In every school, even not a religious school.

But no, in all the Israeli schools they’re being taught atheism.  
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So what does Hakodosh Boruch Hu say? “You’re forgetting about Me? I’ll remind you.”
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https://torasavigdor.org/rav-avigdor-miller-on-investigating-terror-attacks/

Why are many who were killed frum people?

I must explain something here. 

It’s a fundamental principle that Hakodosh Boruch Hu conceals His hand.

He doesn’t want to show that it’s a neis.  

Now suppose only reshaim would be killed; suppose only mechalelei Shabbos and oichlei treifos would be killed.

Then everybody would do teshuva.

Let’s say a man who walked in the street on Shabbos and lit a cigarette, he would fall dead right away; so nobody would smoke on Shabbos. Even the Puerto Ricans would make teshuva. The Mirrer Yeshiva would be filled with Puerto Ricans.
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So Hakodosh Boruch Hu conceals it. 

In order to leave room for bechira, for free choice, He makes it look camouflaged; so you shouldn’t see His open hand. 

And that’s what it says, כיון שניתן רשות למשחית – when a mashchis has power, שוב אינו מבחין בין צדיק לרשע – he makes no distinction between a tzaddik and a rasha.  
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Like it says in Mitzrayim; when the malach came to destroy the firstborn in Mitzrayim, אתם לא תצאו איש מפתח ביתו עד בוקר – you shouldn’t walk out in the streets. 

Why not?  We didn’t do anything wrong.  Egyptians oppressed us – why should we be afraid to walk in the streets? 

The answer is no.  Once the mashchis is loose, then he makes no distinction.  
And therefore, Hakodosh Boruch Hu doesn’t make any distinctions. 

People should know that once there’s a tzara, the tzara comes upon the tzaddikim and the reshaim equally – that’s a fundamental principle of how Hashem guides the world in order to leave room for free will; so His hand shouldn’t be so evident.

TAPE # 942 (November 1993)


torasavigdor.org/rav-avigdor-miller-on-investigating-terror-attacks/

Look, I’m not saying that the message is that we should therefore walk across the border with outstretched arms to embrace the Arabs and make peace – because most likely they’ll greet us with gunfire.
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But there is a message from Hashem that we have things to fix inside of Eretz Yisroel. A lot of things. 

Maybe, for instance, we have to start pressing for the observance of Shabbos in the Land of Israel.

The Torah says, “Michalileha mos yumos” – those who profane the Shabbos will be put to death. The Torah says that.

And the Gemara says “Af al pi she’batlu Sanhedrin,” although we do not have a Sanhedrin to execute sinners today, “din arbah misos lo batlu,” the judgement will still be carried out.

So maybe when men fall at the border, or when a hand grenade is thrown into a bus, or when people are gunned down in Tel- Aviv, maybe we should think, maybe we should suspect – and it’s a reasonable suspicion – that maybe Hakodosh Boruch Hu is carrying out what He said He would do.

If buses publicly travel on Shabbos and if the Ministry of Labor is giving out permits to so many factories to allow them to open on Shabbos – so many factories are open in Eretz Yisroel on Shabbos!

A lot of factories, with the explicit permission of the government. In the Land of Israel, it is now accepted to profane the Shabbos!

We should think about this!

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They’re destroying Jewish souls!

So maybe, if you’re destroying Jewish souls, that’s why Jewish bodies are being destroyed.

It’s really not hard, not difficult at all, to look for reasons for why things are happening.

Of course, if you don’t have ears, so you say, “Well, this is nothing. Every new state has troubles. Growing pains. They have battles in the beginning. For the first hundred years they have to battle.”

But the truth is that it’ll never get better.

And it will get worse and worse.

So there are plenty of messages being sent by Hakodosh Boruch Hu that we have to listen to.

https://torasavigdor.org/rav-avigdor-miller-on-the-message-from-the-terrorist/

Some Chizuk for All Us Non-Angels