SEPARATING AND REMOVING THE EREV RAV

In the past few years I have wondered why Hashem would allow this growing alliance between Jews and xians. Why would he allow xians to attach themselves to our government, our land, our customs and our people. Why would He let rabbis teach them Torah, which they then use for their own agenda? Why would Hashem let "judeo-xianity" develop and spread? Well finally I think I know the answer. Before we were given a Torah and a land, Moshe Rabbeinu accepted the Erev Rav into Am Yisrael. Before we can be completely redeemed, the Erev Rav has to be separated and removed from within Am Yisrael. Those Jews who have attached themselves to the goyim by making alliances and building relationships with them are the Erev Rav. Once the separation is completed, the evil will be removed. Of course this is only one part of the separation but it is the part that most affects my "community".

Rebbe Nachman on "spreading God's Word"

I first posted this in 2010, but do to recent events, it seemed worthy of a repost.

"....during first Temple times, when peace reigned in the world, King Solomon personally traveled far and wide, and sent emissaries to foreign countries, in an effort to spread God's Word. Solomon sought to love all human beings, by virtue of their being God's creatures, hoping that this would bring about a union of hearts and enable him to have an impact on their spirituality. However, when you truly love someone and care for him, you become aware of his or her thoughts (Imrei Pinchas, Inyanim Shonim 72). Thus, gentile thoughts entered Solomon's mind. He did not realize that the thoughts of the foreign wives he had taken had poisoned his holy thinking. furthermore, the very struggle to lift someone out of the mud will inevitably dirty your own clothes. Thus, the very desire to rouse the buried holiness in the gentiles roused the gentile desire to bury the Jewish people in unholiness (Likuty Moharan I, 59:1; Resisey Lailah 57, p. 83d)." (Chanukah with Rebbe Nachman of Breslav)

If this was the case with the wisest of men in an era of world peace, how much more so now. Those Jews who are "going out to teach the goyim", "breaking down the walls of separation between Jew and gentile", forging bonds with xians, even spending time in xian churches and homes, under the guise of bringing them closer to God, are not only endangering their own souls, but all of Am Yisrael.

"So if you want to bring others close, you must be protected from negative influence. You must become aware of all your thoughts, learn how to assess your intentions, and become sensitive to any subtle changes that may occur within you. In short, you must judge yourself. Furthermore, not everyone can be brought close to God, and certainly not all the time. Judgement and discerning is required to know who can and when (Likutey Mohoran I, 59:5-6:Likutey Halakhot, Geirim 3:26), because even compassion for all of mankind is sometimes inappropriate (Likutey Moharan II, 7:1)." (Chanukah with Rebbe Nachman of Breslov)"

Many of the Jews involved in this "outreach to the world" are ba'alei tshuva and recent converts to Judaism from anglo countries. Many of these people are not only lacking in Torah knowledge but the Torah knowledge they do have, has been heavily influenced by western thought and values. These Jews also refuse to listen to rabbis who have advised them to stop what they are doing. Do they really believe they are immune to the gentile influence even though Shlomo HaMelech wasn't?

We can only influence the gentiles for the good instead of being influenced by them, when we live as a separate and holy nation. A nation of priests who serve and honor Hashem, not the goyim. By this we will be a shining example, a light unto the nations. We cannot reach this point without separation.
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SEPARATION IS THE KEY TO REDEMPTION

We live in a world where the lines between Jew and non-Jew have not just been blurred but completely destroyed.

We live in a world where the person praying next to you in shul or at the kotel could just as easily be a xian rather than a Jew.



We live in a world where Judaism has been mixed with idolatry to form a new religion called Judeo-xianity.
We live in a world where Orthodox Jews call xians brother.

We live in a world where the goyim want our inheritance and are getting help from Jews to take it from us.

We live in a world where Orthodox Rabbis call idolaters righteous gentiles and come to the defense of these idolaters against fellow Jews.

We live in a world where xians are living and conducting prayers and worship services every morning in a religious yishuv in Israel.

But this must come to an end. Either we stop it or Ha Kodosh Baruch Hu will. We still have free choice but HaShem will only let his name and his holy mountain be desecrated for so long.

SEPARATION IS THE KEY TO REDEMPTION!

SEPARATION IS THE KEY TO REDEMPTION

We live in a world where the lines between Jew and non-Jew have not just been blurred but completely destroyed.

We live in a world where the person praying next to you in shul or at the kotel could just as easily be a xian rather than a Jew.

We live in a world where Judaism has been mixed with idolatry to form a new religion called Judeo-xianity.

We live in a world where Orthodox Jews call xians brother.

We live in a world where a Jew can believe yeshu is G-d and still call himself an Orthodox Rabbi.


We live in a world where the goyim want our inheritance and are getting help from Jews to take it from us.

But this must come to an end. Either we stop it or Ha Kodosh Baruch Hu will. We still have free choice but HaShem will only let his name and his holy mountain be desecrated for so long.

SEPARATION IS THE KEY TO REDEMPTION!

People are starting to get the message....

From JPost:

In light of Tuesday's incident and the earlier terror attack, many
residents believed that the solution to the violence lay in the separation of Arabs and Jews and said they would rather Arabs didn't come into their
neighborhood.

"These terror attacks don't come from Gaza or Hamas, they come from
people who live with us. As long as there is no clear
separation between us, nothing will help," Avraham said.
His sentiments were echoed by others in the area.

LIGHT TO THE NATIONS SERIES PART 1

B"H

The phrase “light to the nations” has been distorted along with most of the Torah by the Hellenizers of our day, the Erev Rav.

Before us we have a recommendation for one world and one people, and why should Israel remain alone, a nation that dwells apart?

Likewise, regarding the verse, "Return, return, O Shulammite.  Return, return, that we may look upon you.  What will you see in the Shulammite?  As it were a dance of two companies" (Song of Songs 7:1), our sages offered the following description (Shir HaShirim Rabbah, 7:[1]2):

The nations of the world say to Israel, "How long shall you die for your G-d and pay Him... How long shall you be killed for His sake... How long shall you show G-d kindness when He shows you misfortune?  Come to us and we shall appoint you governors, prefects and commanders.  'Let us look [nechezeh] upon you--You will be the admiration [machazit] of the whole world"  As it says, "You shall be seen [techezeh] of all the people" (Ex. 18:21). 

The admiration of the whole world, a "light unto the nations"... Here is their basic enticement, adopted also by the Hellenists and falsifiers of Israel.  They have distorted the concept of Israel being a "covenant of the people, a light unto the nations" (Isaiah 42:6).  In their hands, this has turned into a demand that we depart the Land of our isolation and cling to the nations in the exile, living there with them in order to serve as their beacon.  To achieve this, we are supposed to abandon unpleasant, "unacceptable" concepts and laws, lest these make the nations hate us, and all this in the name of unity.  That is, we are supposed to assimilate for the sake of unity. (Or HaRa'ayon, Havdallah, Rabbi Kahane)

Being a "light to the nations" isn't a commandment or an action we perform nor our mission. It is the affect we have on the world by serving Hashem and following his Torah.

The 613 mitzvoth are called pillars of light.  When a Jew fulfills one of the 613 mitzvoth he/she brings down light from above (heaven) to below (earth), as we learn from the Tanya:

And this is what the Yenuka meant when he said that "The Supernal light that is kindled on one's head, namely, the Shechinah, requires oil," that is, to be clothed in wisdom, which is called "oil from the holy anointing," as is explained in the Zohar, that "these are the good deeds," namely, the 613 commandments, which derive from His blessed wisdom. Thereby the light of the Shechinah can cling to the wick, i.e. the vivifying soul in the body, which is metaphorically called a "wick." For just as in the case of a material candle, the light shines by virtue of the annihilation and burning of the wick turning to fire, so does the light of the Shechinah rest on the divine soul as a result of the annihilation of the animal soul and its transformation "From darkness to light and from bitterness to sweetness" in the case of the righteous, or at least through the destruction of its garments, which are thought, speech and action, and their transformation from the darkness of the kelipot to the Divine light of the blessed En Sof, which is clothed and united in the thought, speech and action of the 613 commandments of the Torah, in the case of benonim. For as a result of the transformation of the animal soul, originating from the kelipat nogah, [a transformation] from darkness to light, and so forth, there is brought about the so-called "ascent of the feminine waters" to draw the light of the Shechinah, i.e. the category of the "revealed" light of the blessed En Sof— over one's divine soul [principally dwelling] in the brain of the head. Thereby will also be clearly understood the text "For the Lord Thy G-d is a consuming fire" as is explained elsewhere.

The Greeks forbid Jews from keeping mitzvoth, which brings down the supernal light.  They also desired to eliminate the uniqueness of the Jewish people by destroying the separation between Jew and non-Jew.  Only when Am Yisrael is separated from impurity and the impure nations and fulfilling mitzvoth are we able to bring down the supernal light and then we will be "a light unto the nations".    The lighting of the oil which was lit in the Beit HaMikdash represented the intention of the Jews led by the Maccabees to be separate from the Greeks and the Hellenists and to return to mitzvot. (still trying to locate the source for this)

There is no commandment “to be a light to the nations” in the 613 mitzvot.  This is because “being a light to the nations” is a result of the actions of Am Yisrael doing all of the mitzvot. So if you want to be a "light to the nations" or even better you want to bring down the light of Hashem to illuminate the world, DO MITZVOT!!!! 

Separation is the Key to Redemption

(from the Zohar on Parshat Lech Lecha)

20. "And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Avram's cattle"

When Avraham discovered that Lot, his nephew, was engaged in Idol Worshipping, Avraham knew immediately that he had to disconnect himself completely from Lot. The spiritual principle of this story concerns the influence that our immediate environment exerts upon us. It is incumbent upon all of us to associate with people who are sincere in their desire for spiritual growth. Although our own intentions may be pure, the influences that surround us inevitably affect our way of life.

The Relevance of this Passage

The Kabbalistic definition of Idol Worshipping includes much more than simply praying to statues or other false gods. Whenever we allow an external object or situation to control our behavior, our thoughts, or our emotions, we are worshipping an idol. Many people, for example, worship the idol of money. They are disciples and servants to their own businesses. Others are ruled by appearances and the perceptions of those around them. The moment we allow the external world to control our hearts and minds, we are committing the sin of Idol Worshipping. In this portion, freedom from external negative forces and influences is bestowed upon the reader.

174. Rabbi Shimon said, Come and behold, It is written: "And there was strife (Heb. riv) between the herdsmen of Avram's cattle." The word riv is spelled Resh Bet without the letter Yud, which means that Lot wanted to return to idol worshipping, which was the custom of the natives. Thus, at the end of the verse, it is written: "and the Cnaani and the Perizi dwelt then in the land." THIS TEACHES US THAT LOT WANTED TO WORSHIP IDOLS AS THEY DID. AND THE REASON WHY IT GIVES RIV WITHOUT A YUD IS TO POINT TOWARD IDOL WORSHIP. IT FOLLOWS THE SECRET FOUND IN THE VERSE, "AND THE ELDER (HEB. RAV) SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER" (BERESHEET 25:23). ESAV SAID TO YA'AKOV, "I HAVE ENOUGH (HEB. RAV - RESH BET)" (BERESHEET 33:9), BUT YA'AKOV SAID TO HIM, "AND BECAUSE I HAVE ALL (HEB. KOL)" (BERESHEET 25:11). THIS IS ALSO THE SECRET OF THE VERSE, "AND A MIXED MULTITUDE (HEB. EREV RAV) WENT UP ALSO WITH THEM" (SHEMOT 12:38).


175. How do we know that Lot reverted to his evil ways of idolatry? We know is from the verse: "and Lot journeyed from the east (i.e. from yore)" (Beresheet 13:11). And what is the meaning of "yore?" It means from Him-He who is more ancient than the world. And thus it is written: "and Lot journeyed from the east," and "it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east" (Beresheet 11:1). So, because there they journeyed away from Him-He who is more ancient than the world, it means the same thing here!


176. As soon as Avraham realized that Lot reverted TO IDOLATRY, he spoke to him: "And Avram said to Lot, separate yourself, I pray you, from me" (Beresheet 13:8-9)--you are not worthy of associating with me. So Avraham separated from him and did not want to travel with or deal him any more, because whoever accompanies a wicked person shall eventually follow in his steps and be punished because of him.


177. How do we know this? We know this from Yehoshafat, who associated with Achav. And had it not been for the merit of his ancestors, Yehoshafat would have been punished because of Achav. As it is written: "but Yehoshafat cried out..." (II Divrei Hayamim 18:31). Then he was saved, as it is written: "and Elohim moved them to depart from him" (Ibid.)

We must separate ourselves from Esav, from Yishmael and from the Erev Rav, this is our mission.

MERCY FOR THE CRUEL? BY RABBI MEIR KAHANE

Parashat Beshallach – Mercy for the cruel? - Rabbi Meir Kahane

The water came back and covered the chariots and the horsemen of the entire army of Pharaoh, who were coming behind them in the sea – there remained not a one of them. (Ex. 14:28)

“The ministering angels sought to sing G-d's praises [when the Egyptians drowned at sea]. G-d responded, 'My handiwork is drowning at sea and you would sing?'” (Megillah 10b) Who can retell the distortions of G-d's valor perpetrated in recent generations! The deliberate distortion of “My handiwork is drowning in the sea”, as if we must glumly avoid gladness when our enemy falls, has become the steady fare of those who consume the alien culture [of the secular Western world]. G-d, Merciful Father and Creator of all life – righteous and evil – certainly does not sing or rejoice when His evil children die. Despite their wickedness, they are still His, and what father will rejoice at his son's death, even if that son be the most evil on earth? 

All the same, G-d does not hesitate to kill His handiwork, as when He drowned the Egyptians. He does not sing; He does not rejoice; but he drowns His handiwork at sea. True, He, Himself, neither rejoices nor allows rejoicing or song in Heaven, but others, the Jewish people, He does cause to rejoice.

In fact, He requires them to sing. Our sages said (Mechilta, Beshallach, Mesechta Devayehi, Ch.2): “The L-rd will fight for you” (Ex. 14:14): That is, “Will G-d perform mighty wonders for you while you just stand in silence?” Israel asked Moses, “What should we do?” and he responded, “Extol and exalt! Sing the praises, glory and majesty of the Master of all warfare, as it says, 'Let the high praises of G-d be in their mouth' (Psalms 149:6)”... Israel then opened their mouths and sang G-d's praises.

Because of their arrogance and wickedness, G-d drowned His handiwork in the sea and commanded Israel to sing praise and thanks to G-d, so as to inform the world that “The L-rd will reign forever and ever!” (Ex. 15:18).

Forgiveness and love for an enemy? Mercy and sorrow over his death? Here is Midrash Avchir, quoted in Torah Shlema, Ex. 14:31, letter 210: “Israel saw the great work” (Ex. 14:31): When G-d wished to drown Egypt, Uza, Egypt's angelic prince stood before G-d and said:”Master of the Universe! You have been called righteous and upright...Why do you wish to drown the Egyptians?” ... Just then Gabriel rose up, took a mud brick and stood before G-d saying, “Master of the Universe! Shall You have mercy on these who so harshly enslaved Your children with mud bricks?” G-d immediately retracted, judging them strictly and drowning them in the sea.

Sorrow over the death of the evil? Over Israel's enemies? The Torah's very defining good and evil in real, absolute terms constitutes a declaration of war against the [contemporary secular Western] culture of the nations and of the Hellenists [secularized Jews] who adopted it. That culture preaches that no one absolute good or evil can be determined, since all ideas and concepts, including those defining good and evil, are the product of human thought. Both those who deny the existence of a Supreme, Omniscient, Omnipotent G-d Who is the source of wisdom and truth, and those who admit the existence of a Supreme Being yet deny Torah from Sinai, i.e., that G-d set forth a blueprint in the Torah, hold that we cannot attach special status to one “good” over another.

Tolerance and pluralism are the ultimate principles of that alien culture. Since followers of that culture cannot determine with certainty what evil is, they cannot eradicate it from the world. Mercy toward the cruel is not a good trait. Quite the opposite, one is duty-bound to separate oneself from the evildoer even if this is a difficult step, and even if it appears cruel. The cruel, wicked person will influence goodness and corrupt it. There can be no coexistence between evil and upright people – only separation.

The mitzvah of eradicating evil from our midst requires us to hate it, as in Psalms 97:10, “Those that love the L-rd hate evil.” It is the duty of him who loves G-d to hate evil and evildoers, for they are G-d's enemies. Nonetheless, in the alien [contemporary secular] Hellenist culture, the themes of love and hatred have been so entirely distorted that it is a terrible crime to speak of hatred as a halachic duty in the right time and place. False love finds a hundred different ways to overlook evil. Advocates of that culture have transformed all such traits as cruelty and revenge into an evil that must be shunned. Such is not the Torah's way...

G-d, Creator of the universe and all that it contains, also created attributes, ethics and values. He created and defined them, assigning every single trait its time, place and purpose. As King Solomon said (Eccles. 3:1-8): To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up; a time to weep and a time to dance; a time to cast stones and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away; a time to rend and a time to sew; a time to keep silence and a time to speak; a time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

Everything has a season. There is a time for every attribute and value. G-d created them all and assigned each a purpose, place and time. There is a time to love – but also a time to hate. Anyone incapable of hating those who G-d commanded us to hate is a sinner and heretic and he brings destruction to the world.

In the final analysis, if someone does not know how to hate properly, he cannot love properly. Whoever is unready for war in the right time and place, mandated by G-d, is a sinner and heretic precisely like someone unready for peace. G-d, Who created the world, understands “the minds of His beasts” (Prov. 12:10) in all their detail. He, Who understands and listens, examining man's inner recesses, knows that there is a place for mercy, peace, love, kindness and forgiveness, but simultaneously a place and a need for “cruelty”, so to speak, for war, hatred, killing, uprooting wickedness from the land and destroying evil from the world. What would one not do to save and defend one's household, family and friends from their enemies, to rid their world of danger, to frustrate the evildoers' designs? What would one not be ready to do to the evildoers themselves?

Precisely with this in mind, G-d, Merciful Father of the universe, gazed down and saw the danger posed by evil and wickedness threatening His righteous dear ones, innocent of all wrong. He understood that it is an unpardonable sin to take pity on those of whom it says, “Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness” (I. Samuel 24:13), thereby facilitating their cruel treatment of the righteous and innocent. Whoever takes pity on an evildoer, leaving him free to treat the righteous with cruelty and abuse, is not merciful but cruel. Anyone incapable of hating evil and evildoers can never love the righteous. The death of the wicked is infinitely preferable to the death of the righteous, and eradicating evil is infinitely superior to eradicating good.

Quite the contrary, when G-d destroys evil and evildoers, He is not showing kindness just to the righteous and innocent but to the evildoer as well. He does a kindness to the evildoers when He removes them from the world, for He thereby prevents their doing evil and increasing their sins. This represents a great gift from G-d which lightens their punishment in the Afterlife.

We find this regarding Enoch, of whom it says, “Enoch walked with G-d, and he was not, for G-d took him” (Gen. 5:24). The Midrash comments (Bereshit Rabbah 25:1): “Enoch was a hypocrite – sometimes righteous and sometimes evil. G-d said, 'Let Me remove him while he is still righteous.'” This is the true, definite meaning of our sages' utterance above, “The death of the evildoers is beneficial to them and beneficial to the world.”

It is beneficial to the world because the evildoers stop oppressing it. It is beneficial to the evildoers because G-d is saving them from themselves.

G-d established a time and place for love and for hate, and in the right time and place, each is a duty and a commandment. The Torah never contained, and never will contain, a concept of “groundless love”, just as the Torah absolutely rejects the concept of “groundless hate”. In G-d's attributes, nothing is “groundless”. Rather, there is a clear reason for all required behavior – with love and hatred warranted in their time and place. It is our duty to carry them out lawfully and as commanded, without, G-d forbid, confusing them.

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PARSHAT BEHUCHOTAI

Parshat Behuchotai,

 Vayikra 26:3;

If you will follow My decrees and observe My commandments and perform them; then I will provide your rains in their time, and the land will give its produce and the tree of the field will give its fruit.

Vayikra  26:14-18

But if you will not listen to Me and will not perform all of these commandments; If you consider My decrees loathsome, and if your being rejects My ordinances, so as not to perform all My commandments, so that you annul My covenant—then I will do the same to you; I will assign upon you panic, swelling lesions, and burning fever, which cause eyes to long and souls to suffer; you will sow your seeds in vain for your enemies will eat it.  I will turn My attention against you, you will be struck down before enemies; those who hate you will subjugate you—you will flee with no one pursuing you. If despite this you do not heed Me, then I shall punish you further, seven ways for your sins.

Anti-semitism is one of the tools Hashem uses to punish us.  Harav Naftali Hoffner explains it clearly in his book Our Faith, Our Strength;

COMMUNAL PUNISHMENT

63. ANTISEMITISM AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE

a. The real reason for anti-Semitism (which would seem to be completely unjustified) is clearly explained by the following Midrash (in connection with what happened before the exodus from Egypt): “When Yoseph died, they [i.e.the children of Israel] did away with the Brith Milah Mitzvah,  claiming lets be like the Egyptians!

…Because of this the Almighty turned the affection which the Eyptians had for Israel into hatred as it says: ‘He turned their heart to hate His nation, to plot against His servants’”

b. Likewise in our times, in reaction to the tendency of a considerable section of our people to be ‘like the other nations’ (a process which starts with ignoring the Mitzvoth – and gradually moves toward assimilation and intermarriage with the goyim) we are faced by communal punishment (according to the measure –for- measure principle) of anti-Semitism (which impedes assimilation).

c. The purpose of communal punishment is-- to serve as a clear warning to all of us to improve our ways, before our situation deteriorates further. Note: for instance, when the Nazi regime came to power in Germany more than 60 years ago (then according to the ‘measure-for-measure’):

1. During the first month of power, they prohibited all mixed marriages between Jews and non-Jews (at the time, the rate of such marriages had reached 50% in some places!!).

2. About 2 months after he seized power, on April 1^st, ’33, which fell on a Shabath, he ordered SA-guards to stand at the entrance of each Jewish-owned store, open on that Shabath, to warn any potential customer that the store was owned by a Jew and should therefore be boycotted. –There could have been no clearer warning against the desecration of the Shabath!!

I don’t think anyone is unaware of the increase in antisemitism around the world in the past decade. However, I think most are unaware of the increase in interfaith relations in the same time period and their correlation.  It is shocking  to me how many Jews believe interfaith dialogue, breaking down the walls of separation between Jew and non-Jew and building bridges between “faith communities” is the solution to anti-semitism when it is actually one of the causes.  After all, they say, there is really no difference between us and them and once we show them this, peace will reign in the world. 

The most disturbing part of this issue are the so-called “religious” Jews, even Rabbis, that are not only involved in this interfaith movement but leading it.  They have put a new spin on things.  Instead of assimilating amongst the goyim, they are trying to assimilate the goyim amongst Am Yisrael.  They may be able to fool some people with their righteous claim of being “a light to the nations” but Hashem is not fooled.  The goal is the same: to mingle and become one with the goyim (by making the goyim into quasi-Jews) and to destroy Judaism (by corrupting halachah or claiming it is no longer relevant at all and infusing Torah with foreign ideas and philosophies).

These xian loving Jews disregard the halachah, the ways of our forefathers and the words of our sages regarding relations with non-Jews.  They are new Jews and their Judaism is all about love and tolerance and becoming one with the goyim.   They have traded our covenant with Hashem for a covenant with the goyim.  We are to be “ovdei Hashem”, but they are more focused on the religious experience they get  from Judaism than  serving and obeying Hashem . These Jews take the exalted mission our people to be a nation of priests who serve Hashem and have degraded it into being a nation whose purpose is to serve the goyim. Of course in reality these Jews only serve themselves .  We are taught to fear Hashem, to obey Hashem andto be in awe of Hashem. 

These Jews do not fear Hashem or they would never be able to reduce Judaism, Torah, Shabbat and our sacred relationship to Hashem to a “religious experience” as the latest high to be marketed to the masses.

In this week’s parsha, Bechukotai, Vayikra 26:21,

If you behave casually with Me and refuse to heed Me, then I shall lay a further blow upon you—seven ways like your sins. 

In the commentary it is written;

קרי Casually.  The translation follows Rashi’s primary interpretation according to Sifra.  It means that despite the punishments, your performance of the commandments will be haphazard and erratic; you will treat them as a matter of choice and convenience, rather than as divinely imposed obligations.  

These people "celebrate" Shabbat and what they get from it, they do not "observe" Shabbat as commanded by the Almighty.

Hashem is loving and merciful but he is not a liar.  He will punish us for our sins as he said in this weeks parsha.  It is just a matter of time. Do teshuva now before it is too late.

WHY I VOTED FOR YACHAD

I have friends who said not to vote because the system is corrupt and by voting you only perpetuate the corruption.  I have friends who said to vote for a Likud or Bayit Yehudi because this is the only way to keep the left from giving the land away.  I have friends who voted for Yachad because for once their was a feeling of hope for change and not the same status quo. I think that all of them have valid points and I would have agreed with them at different points in time. In the 18 years I have lived in Israel, I have voted Likud, voted Feiglin, voted for smaller idealogical parties and abstained from voting.  I believe, as Shlomo HaMelech wrote, there is a time for everything. Our jobs as Jews to learn Torah and daven to Hashem to give us the basis to decide in every situation what choice to make.  I believe that this world is just a serious of tests to prepare for and earn the world to come. We are partners with Hashem in separating good from bad which will result in Tikkun Olam. Every choice, every decision, every test in this world is part of the separation that will bring redemption. With this in mind, if there is a choice between bad and worse, I would not choose either but if there is a choice between bad and good, I choose the good. Yachad represented good, no matter the spiritual level of the individual members or their faults.

Their first priority of their platform was unity among Jews who respect Hashem and Torah but not with anti-Torah Jews or goyim or our enemies.  As I have learned from Rabbi Kahane, unity can only come around Torah and Hashem.  Their can be no unity without them.  This wasn't just a slogan! There was real potential for unity here as we saw by the many respected Rabbis across the spectrum who supported Yachad.

Their platform declared;
"All aspects of running a modern state can be informed by our Torah. We will operate under the guidance of Torah leaders."

"We firmly oppose laws that violate our eternal Torah principles."

"We hold that all of Yehuda and Shomron must be included in the sovereign State of Israel and will remove barriers to settling the land."

"Yachad will not give up one centimeter of the land of Israel"

"The flow of illegals threatens the safety and wellbeing of the residents of those in those neighborhoods where they have settled"

I didn't expect Yachad to ever sit in the Knesset.  Either the powers that be would cheat them out of votes (the news was full of reports of voter fraud and corruption yesterday) or would find someway to disqualify them like they did Rabbi Kahane.

The main point was to show Hashem and the world that at least a minority of Jews are not happy with the status quo. That we want unity, that we want to observe all of the mitzvot in all of our G-d given land, that we want a Torah government or in other words WE WANT MASHIACH NOW!  And if he will send Mashiach we will follow him.

Thanks to Yachad our voice was heard.

From A7

"Marzel took to Facebook late Tuesday night to address his supporters as the counting of polls was under way and initial results indicated the list had possibly fallen short.
"We will continue will full force!" pledged Marzel. "If we make it in or not, the Knesset is only a means and not a goal! Our goal is the land of Israel and we will continue to defend it in any situation, from within (the Knesset) or without!""

I second Marzel, the Knesset was only a means not a goal.

I just want to add I respect those who chose not to vote.  I believe they chose what was right for them. In the end it was Hashem's will that Yachad not get in. So what is next? to be continued......

WHY THE NEED TO DESTROY AMALEK? BY RABBI ELIYAHU KIN

This is a great shiur which talks about who Amalek is and how we can fight him.  It also touches on the theme of birur, separation.

"Love your enemies" is not a Jewish teaching

I have been accused of "hate" as if it is always wrong, never called for and even unjewish. To those people I point out the following....

From the Tanakh

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up; a time to weep and a time to dance; a time to cast stones and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away; a time to rend and a time to sew; a time to keep silent and a time to speak; a time to love a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.(Eccles. 3:1-8)

From Or HaRa'ayon

Mercy toward the cruel is not a good trait. Quite the opposite, one is duty-bound to separate oneself from the evildoer, even if this is a difficult step, and even if it appears cruel. The cruel, wicked person will influence goodness and corrupt it. There can be no coexistence between evil and upright people-only separation.

The mitzvah of eradicating evil from our midst requires us to hate it, as in Psalms 97:10, quoted above, "Those that love the L-rd, hate evil." It is the duty of him that loves G-d to hate evil and evildoers, for they are G-d's enemies. Nonetheless, in the alien Hellenist culture, the themes of love and hatred have been so entirely distorted that it is a terrible crime to speak of hatred as a halachic duty in the right time and place. False love finds a hundred different ways to overlook evil. Advocates of that culture have transformed all such traits as cruelty and revenge into an evil that must be shunned. Such is not the Torah's way... (Or HaRa'ayon p.148)

BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS OF SEPARATION

This is what happens when we break down the walls, build bridges and dialogue with the nations

Are missionaries targeting the elderly?
By RACHEL GEIZHALS

A Holocaust survivor who was suffering from dementia was deceived by those hired to help her, family members said, because they claimed they converted her to their Messianic Christian religion.

The two women who were hired to play music and speak with 94-year-old Sara told her daughter Goldie Maxwell weeks after Sara died that they were both Messianic Jews, that they had played and sung songs from the New Testament when Maxwell and her husband were not around, and that at the end of her life, Sara had a revelation and acknowledged Jesus as the messiah. (more of the article)

and

Serving in the IDF, 'for the sake of God and Jesus'
By MATTHEW WAGNER

Jesus supports the IDF and he wants his believers to be the best soldiers they can be.

That was the message conveyed by members of the local Messianic Jewish community via sacred texts, prayer and talks, to a group of 18-year-olds who took part this week in a premilitary program called Netsor.

"I am a soldier of God," said Boris, an intense redhead accepted to an elite combat unit, who is one of the 28 young men and women who participated in Netsor.

"I will do my best during my service in the IDF to serve God spiritually and physically. Not for the sake of state authorities but for the sake of God and Jesus," added Boris, as we sat in the dining room of a guest house that overlooks Lake Kinneret on Wednesday. (more of the article)

Of course it isn't the government leaders and rabbis like Benny Elon, Shlomo Riskin, and Yechiel Eckstein who are raking in the money from their work with xians, who suffer. The xians prey on the weak and emotionally vulnerable holocaust survivors, new immigrants, poor, orphans and widows.

For those of you who think "but the xians love us and support us politically", consider the following comments from the article above

Other verses, such as the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew, 5-7), which some Christians interpret as Jesus's support for pacifism, are seen by Messianic Jews
as an obligation to love one's enemies while fighting and killing them.

"I hate what Palestinian terrorists do, therefore I will do anything, including kill, if necessary, to stop them," said Tzvi, an educator and counselor at Netsor. "But I do not allow that to prevent me from loving them as human beings."

Parshat Pinchas

Here is an excellent shiur by Rabbi Sitorsky on Parshat Pinchas. He speaks about the separation between Am Yisrael and the nations.

UPDATE "WELCOME HOME EPHRAIM" TOUR

As far as I can tell the only thing of significance that came out the tour is the following video/infomercial for the Two-House movement. According to Don Esposito, the most important thing for Bnai Ephraim right now is PR. They have to convince "the Jews" that they aren't xians who worship a false god but are really our long lost brothers(and sisters)who want to come home. This is the deception they hope to lure us into which will allow them to take our physical and spiritual inheritance. Sagiv Assulin is their "man on the inside". Assulin and Esposito are a grave danger to the Jewish people and must be stopped. The Ephraimite goal, along with the messianics, xian zionists, evangelicals and missionaries, is to break down the wall of separation between the world and the Jewish people so there will no longer be a Jewish people but a Judeo-xian humanity.

New Blog

The goal of this blog was to get people to focus on Mashiach and the Geula and to start the separation, from Yishmael, Esav, and the Erev Rav, which I believe must take place for Am Yisrael to be elevated to it's rightful place. I feel that this blog has gotten sidetracked on the xtian issue and I want to bring the focus back to Mashiach and the Geula. Therefore, be'ezrat Hashem, I will be starting a separate blog devoted to the xtian issue.

ISRAEL'S MISSION TO REMAIN SEPARATE

I meant to post this a week ago but I was so overwhelmed with the research for my post on the World Likud, that this was overlooked.

Parshat Balak Bamidbar 23:9

ובגוים לא יתחשב-And not be reckoned among the nations. When the final reckoning is made to punish the nations, Israel will not be included among them (Rashi). Midrash HaGadol interprets this as a reference to Israel's mission to remain separate and distinct from the nations. From this blessing that Balaam delivered against his will, we see what he had hoped to achieve (see Sanhedrin 105a): that Jews assimilate with the nations and be left with neither religion nor renown.

We can see from this that nothing has changed. The goal of xtians is to "break down the walls of separation" and "build bridges" so that we will cease to be a distinct nation.

Missionaries in Sderot-What do they expect

FACT: When you take money or help from xtians you open yourself up to missionary activity. What did they expect? Did they really believe them when they said "We love you, we want to help you, no strings attached"?

Missionary Activity in Sderot
by Hillel Fendel 11/14/07
(IsraelNN.com)

Increased pro-Jesus missionary activity has been initiated in Kassam-besieged Sderot over the past two weeks, local residents say. On the backdrop of Kassams exploding into the small city of Sderot, the mostly working-class population is now facing yet another danger: missionary activity. Local residents say, "They are taking advantage of the difficulties here and trying to convert us to their beliefs."

Herzl Shayubi, who served until recently as Deputy Mayor of Sderot, told Arutz-7 "You can see that they have become very active here of late, with large signs about repentance and door-to-door activity with their Bibles and materials... In one case, I physically stopped one of them when I saw what he was giving out."

Moshe Malka, an activist of the Yad L'Achim anti-missionary organization who has family living in Sderot, said, "The missionaries - most of them 'Messianic Jews' - often show up to the weekly market day, marketing their destructive wares... Many of the residents say that the missionaries are taking advantage of their difficult situation to try to entice them to join their services - and it really appears that they have targeted Sderot. For instance, around the country they give out cheap editions of the New Testament, but here in Sderot they have been giving out a very fancy edition, with a very beautiful gold and black binding and gold-edged pages. I went into some houses to show them the book and ask if they've ever seen one like it - and they say, 'Sure, someone once gave us this' and they pull it out of their libraries. The missionaries simply prey on the ignorant and the weak."

"They have two houses here in Sderot, one on Natan Elbaz Street and one on Shivat Tzion [Return to Zion] Street In one of them, they have a weekly class in Russian on Friday evenings, and in the other they have Sabbath prayer services - featuring Jesus, of course... We have found that a 60-year-old man named Peter from nearby Bror Hayil comes and gives out literature."

Bombs and Missionaries in Sderot
Yad L'Achim 14/11/07

Taking advantage of the fear and distress in this western Negev town, cults are knocking on doors with promises of ‘salvation’.

As if it weren’t bad enough that Sderot residents are being hit by incessant Kassem rockets, they are also being bombarded by missionaries who are seeking to take advantage of their distress by promising them “salvation.”

Residents report that the missionaries knock on their doors and offer an impressively bound “new testament” that was published in a special edition for Sderot. The missionaries promise that these books will serve as a good luck charm to protect residents from rocket attacks.

Messianics in Sderot



According to the video two messianic groups are run out of a messianic center in Sderot, the Joseph Project run by Joel Chernoff of the MJAA (Messianic Jewish Association of America) and the Joshua Fund run by Joel Rosenberg in conjunction with municipal leaders and social workers.

The Joseph Project: In 1996, the Joseph Project was inspired by a prophetic word that NOW is the time to prepare for massive immigration to Israel of at least a million Jewish people from Eastern Europe and Russia in the near future. In 2006 alone we have shipped over $70 million of goods that were distributed via our 30 humanitarian aid centers, as well as over 100 Israeli government centers. (Many of the Russians that are coming with their help are messianics.)

The Joshua Fund, therefore, is a non-profit educational and charitable organization founded to encourage Christians to:

Pray knowledgeably and consistently for Israel and the Middle East

Invite speakers to their churches and conferences to talk about how to bless srael and her neighbors and to share what God is doing in the Middle East today

Take vision trips to and attend conferences in Israel and the Middle East

Publish Christian books and music in Israel and the Middle East

Invest in the rebuilding of the ancient ruins in the Holy Land

Assist the poor and needy in Israel in the name of Jesus Christ

Support the evangelical Church in Israel and the Middle East as the only true hope for peace and reconciliation

Quote from Rosenberg in the video:
"We don't just kind of burst onto the scene and say hey here's some help how can we help. We work closely with the mayor's office here, closely with the local leaders and so that if they're feeling comfortable then they can tell people look this is a good thing. We've got christians coming from all over the world to help us and this is a good thing."

Quote from a xtian in the video:
"The least we can do is help them with their material needs and this opens them up to all that the lord might have for them." (Code for after we give them stuff they will feel obligated to listen to us preach to them)

Orthodox Deputy Mayor of Sderot thanks the MJAA's Joseph Project for our needed help Monday, March 17, 2008

The Deputy Mayor's words follow: "I would like to say a few words. First of all, welcome and thank you very much for all that you are doing. and to all those involved. I do not believe that there are those who do not know Ms. Jo (Kaplan)and the Joseph Project, since she has come to us many times here to Sderot, doing projects such as these and others, including all kinds of distributions together with the Volunteer Unit. So this is not the first time, and thank you very much. Now I would like to relate to what you mentioned in your speech about the Sderot residents. What you mentioned about the Prime Minister, that is also the way the residents here feel. We are really currently in a war. A war that has been going on for a long time. But our ray of light is that the residents here are standing firmly and strongly, and they do not break, despite all the difficulties. This is our might as a nation, which is very much due to people such as yourselves who come to us here, to encourage, support, strengthen, and identify with us. It is therefore important to say, that this identification, even though sometimes it may not be to bring something, just a phone call, or a visit, does us a world of good, and gives us a lot of strength to continue to remain in this city." As a symbolic gesture, we wanted to grant you a gift of 'A key to the city."'You have reached almost every home in this city, Jo and the Joseph Project, and I would therefore like to present this key to you. This is for you. Thank you for all that you do. Your good hearts give us a reason to smile, even though we find ourselves in such a difficult situation. Thank you!"

Separation is the key. We must separate from the xtians. We must trust Hashem to provide for our needs and not the goyim. All missionaries should be evicted from Sderot and all of Israel.

Separating from Yishmael

I assumed that it was not necessary to present the case for separation from the arabs within Israel, especially after the attack on Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva. Apparently, I was wrong. According to the article Shin Bet thwarts mass restaurant poisoning,

Two Palestinian employees detained mere days before they planned to lace food at Ramat Gan grill bar with tasteless, odorless toxin.

For those of you who didn't get the memo, STOP HIRING ARABS!!

Separating from Esav

I want to focus on the separation from Esav (the christian world) particularly the ones who claim to "love Israel". Not only is our connection to them the most dangerous, because most Jews do not recognize them as a threat, but it is completely in our power to sever, as opposed to Yishmael which is much more complicated. When we left galut, that should have been the end of our connection to Esav but instead we brought them, along with their foreign culture, ideas and idolatry with us. We invited them into our land and into our homes. Even right wing, religious Jews have invited christians into their yishuvim and into their homes under the guise of building bridges for unity between Jews and gentiles or to take their generous donations. This is against Torah and we need to correct it.

Rabbi Meir Kahane said in his final shiur at the yeshiva

"...Because there is no time. Who knows how much time is left. We have to say it - and then, 90% of our supporters will leave us. Oh well, so be it. But we have to say it. To say: Do Tsheuva! But not just the tsheuva that everyone else talks about. Of course Shabbat, and of course Kashrut, learning Torah, modesty - everything. But - to wreck the relations! That is the real tsheuva! To cling to God, and to separate ourselves from them. One cannot cling to God without separating himself from them. It doesn't go together. That's it. It's not easy. Isolation was always difficult. It is something that always caused worry. But it has to be. We are a "nation that dwells alone" (Am livadad yishkon - BaMidbar, 23:9). People read the verse. How nice. What a nice song it makes. But it isn't a song, and it isn't some nice saying. It is Jewish law. The laws of isolation."

If you doubt that we are so intwined with Esav that it is hard to tell the difference between a Jew and a Christian watch the following video.

Christian Jews or Jewish christians?