I haven't written in a while. Been very busy since getting married and everything. Now B"H we have a son 9 months old. Wanted to start writing again when I have the chance.

The Israeli Revolutionary is back!!

After a 3-plus month break, I'm back, and married, and better than ever. That's all I have to say for now.

Xmas customs

My last couple of posts were relevant to Hanukah.

Some people get very depressed this time of the year.  I think the reason is Xmas, the evil holiday, celebrating the birth of the evil empire.  Undoubtably, the Somech"Mem wields a lot of power at this time of the year.  It may explain Hanukah being this time of the year, since it celebrates its defeat.

Also there's Easter, which celebrates the rebirth (and continued rebirth) of evil.  Easter is that experience where you just think you killed the yetzer hara and then it comes back twice as hard.  However, there will be a time when it's killed off for good...Purim, or Pesach perhaps.

The Easter bunny is a reincarnated homosexual.  This is how the Romans were reincarnated.

The custom of searching for eggs:  Eggs are a sign of mourning, as in the last meal before the Tisha B'Av fast.  The parents hide the eggs and the kids search for them.  This is the legacy of Edom, to search for new churbanot for the Jewish people, to spend every last minute trying to figure out how to uproot every last vestige of Judaism from them.

Decorating Xmas trees: This is the Xtian bible.  The tree represents the Tree of Life, the Torah, which the Evil Empire took and redecorated in the clothes of Edom and claimed for themselves.  They consider this day the day where the Torah was nabbed from the Jews and redecorated--thus they cut down (kill) and decorate Xmas trees.

"Hanukah bushes": For all those Jews who accept this premise...that is, that the Torah is no longer relevant.

Santa Claus and stockings:  The evil prince enters people's houses secretly at night to fill their stomachs with candy.  Yesh li rav achi...

Ho...Ho...Ho...For on the morrow we die.

Mistletoe:  an excuse for making licentiousness obligatory.

Exchanging presents:  exchanging bribes.  Our sages say that people's lives shortened the moment they started accepting presents.

Joseph had to overcome his temptation on the Egyptian festive day which caused the yetzer hara to be at its strongest.  Is it any wonder we read about Joseph during Xmas time?  If Joseph could do it, so can you...

David's message for the day:  Rid yourself of the burden of gentile culture!

Quick, get me away from this gentile culture!!!

From Likutey Moharan #14 (from Breslov Institute translation by Moshe Mykoff) with my own comments:

"To draw peace into the world it is necessary to elevate the Holy One's glory to its source--i.e. to fear.  As is written, "To fear the glorious name."

Glory is referring to souls, as it says, "So that my glory will sing to You and not be silent."

The entire idea of this chapter is that all the souls have to elevated to fear of G-d (Yirat Hashem), since this is the main part of their tikkun.

"Yet, it is impossible to elevate the glory except through the Torah of lovingkindness.  And of the Torah of lovingkindness our sages taught: This is the one who studies in order to teach it...This applies equally to converts who convert and to baaley teshuvah (repentant Jews), for they were also on the outside

So this tikkun is achieved by teaching Torah to others, specifically to bring them to fear of Hashem.

"Now the only way to attract converts and baaley teshuvah is through Torah...This is what our sages taught: There is no glory other than Torah.  And, concerning, "If you take out the precious from the vile", our sages taught: This refers to those who draw people to the service of G-d."

Through Torah and Yirat Hashem, the klipah (forces of evil) is removed and this is the main part of the tikkun.  The precious here is the soul, the vile is the klipah, which is the state of not fearing G-d, or in short being in rebellion (as we see, most gentiles are in rebellion against Hashem, since most haven't accepted the 7 Noahidic laws.  And in order for any tikkun to begin for them, they have to stop rebelling.)

"Yet, it is impossible for either Jewish sinners or converts to come to an awakening of repentance except through Torah, which shines to them wherever they are, as in "Your wellsprings shall spread outward."  Specifically "outward", because the Torah is comprised of 600,000 letters, corresponding to the 600,000 [Jewish] souls.  And each soul has its own source Above, in the Divine thought of the Holy One, for "Israel arose first in thought."

Each generation is comprised of 600,000 souls.  First the Jews must return to Yirat Hashem, which is its source Above.  As in known, the soul comes from Binah/Ema, which is Yirah.

"And through a union of souls, the souls of the converts are created.  When the souls are aroused through the letters of Torah that a person recites, and they shine to one another, this is the concept of union--each one receives light from the other.  And, by means of the union of the souls' shining within thought, the souls of converts are created.

"So, too, the Jewish sinner.  As long as he is called a Jew...even though he has sinned, he is a Jew.  He also has a hold and a source in  upper thought.  As a result of the shining, the source of his soul shines together with the other sources, so that an illumination reaches this Jewish sinner from his soul's source.  And, by virtue of this illumination, he returns in repentance."

When one studies Torah properly, he creates the souls of converts.  This is part of the rectification of the 974 generations.  Again, the rectification comes from bringing a person to Yirat Hashem, so a person must study with Yirat Hashem.  He also brings Jews to Yirat Hashem.

"This is what our Sages taught: Why do Torah scholars not have sons who are Torah scholars?  Because they did not recite the blessing for Torah first."

That is, because they didn't recite the blessing for Torah study, the soul illumination of their children did not reach the children.  A Torah scholar's soul comes from the world of Beriah, the source of the souls themselves and also the source of Yirah.  So by saying the blessing before Torah study, they are able to draw down from the soul root of their children illumination, so that their children's souls can be drawn from Beriah.

"Now, a person can only merit Torah through humility...He Has to break his haughtiness, drawing from the four aspects of humility...before those greater than he, before his equals, before those lesser than he, [and] that he himself is sometimes the smallest of the small must humble himself relative to his own level.  He should imagine himself lower than he really is, corresponding to, "Every person must sit beneath his place."

This is because the main hold of the klipah is from haughtiness.  The entire culture of the 974 generations (the goyim) is built entirely upon ga'ava and rebellion.  So to the extent that a person removes ga'ava from himself, and likewise the influence of gentile culture, so too he removes the klipah and is able to reach true and clear yirat Hashem and Torah.  Elsewhere, Rabbi Nachman describes the klipah as soiled clothes (bigadim tzoim)...

"This is the meaning of "and you shall honor it"--honor it with clean garments.  "Clean garments" alludes to throwing off the soiled garments.  For this is the essence of G-d's glory...to induce people to repent and to draw down the souls of converts."

On Shabbat we're supposed to wear clean clothes, preferably white clothes.  Shabbat is the ultimate state of tikkun.  So one who wears clean, white clothes on Shabbat brings himself to Yirat Hashem.

"Each person, according to his level, can be aware of glory's elevation to the source of fear.  To that degree that he honors those who fear G-d, G-d's glory ascends to its source...

And the essential thing is that a  person sincerely honors those who fear G-d."

The point is that it's not enough to merely "fear G-d" but one must also honor those who fear G-d.  It's the nature of the world that people honor others according to their wealth, their wisdom, their strength or their good looks.  However, the essential point is to honor those who fear G-d.

"When a person returns the glory to its source, i.e., to fear, and thus completes that which is lacking in fear, he then merits peace."

Since fear is where everything is united, one has peace, since contradiction is removed and everything is for the sake of Heaven.  This includes inner peace, peace in the home, and universal peace.  A rabbi once told me that a couple that have equal levels of Yirat Hashem between them, will have peace in the home, since at the end of the day they can settle most disputes by asking their rabbi.

"And when a person has inner peace, he is then able to pray.  For the essence of prayer is achieved through fear."

In short, a person who fears G-d knows what to pray for and is clear in his head.  Instead of praying for material things or all the different varieties of things gentile or gentile-influenced culture has to offer, he prays for simple things like Torah and the ability to raise G-d-fearing children, etc.

It is a common mistake for people to believe that tikkun olam can happen through taking advantage of all the things that gentile culture has to offer.  This is the yetzer hara.  Rather, one has to fear Hashem continuously and sincerely, and, moreover, work on drawing closer to those who fear Hashem.  The error of Adam HaRishon was that he thought he could do the the tikkun from within the klipah.  Big mistake for him and the entire world!

Rather, the tikkun of Adam HaRishon comes from drawing Jews to Yirat Hashem.  One must fear Hashem himself and not do something that will tick Hashem off.  This is the only thing in the world that it is permissible to worry about.  Practically all of us live in a certain denial in our everyday lives against Yirat Hashem.  It's a difficult thing to be cautious in every part of our lives like that.  In any case, this is the main tikkun.  And of course one must find a Rav who truly fears Hashem and who hates monetary gain, so that he can give a clear picture of the path to take.

When all of Am Yisrael is brought to true yirat Hashem, that will be the tikkun of Adam HaRishon.  When the souls of converts are created and so all the goyim--past, present and future--are brought to true Yirat Hashem, that will be the tikkun of the 974 generations.

"...prayer rectifies strife and creates universal peace, the peace of all the worlds.  This is why the Amidah concludes with the blessing for peace...

"We see, therefore, that someone who wants to draw universal peace has to elevate the glory to its source--i.e., to fear.  And through fear, he merits peace in the home.  Through peace in the home he then merits prayer.  And through prayer, he merits universal peace."

So the proper order is:

1.  Elevate souls to fear of Hashem

2. Fear brings peace in the home

3. Peace in the home leads to proper prayer

4. Proper prayer leads to universal peace.

It happens that the main goal of most baal teshuva yeshivas is to just get people in the door of Torah and mitzvot.  While this is certainly praiseworthy, it often leaves people without a place to go from there.  After one is "in the door" they have to continually work on achieving greater and greater levels of yirat Hashem.  I believe that this can only be achieved with the help of  a true tzaddik.  Sometimes in keruv, people employ tactics which don't produce yirat Hashem at all, but can even cause a person to become observant in mitzvot while still lacking any sort of true yirat Hashem or a reason to work towards it.  But yirat Hashem is the goal of everything, since like I said, that is the main tikkun.

Israel says, "Baruch Hashem!" - America says, "Barack Hussein!"

Baruch Hashem is Hebrew for "Blessed is G-d" or "Thank G-d."

Barack Hussein is Arabic for "Blessed is the beautiful."

Isn't this the difference between Israel and the West?  We bless G-d, they bless beautiful appearances.

I've given some thought lately to the spiritual significance of the Obama victory.  On a more basic level, this is what liberal Americans wanted all along.  A (seemingly) open-minded, self-aware moral relativist, who pays homage to Heaven on occasion when it suits him.  Actually, perhaps all these accusations that he is a Muslim are really uncalled for.  I don't think it really matters either way.  His Muslim father became an atheist later in life.  His mother, who was the one mostly responsible for raising him, also "touted herself as an atheist," although she sometimes flirted with Xtian ideas along the way.  Obama describes her as a "secular humanist" with a "healthy skepticism of religion as an institution."  And perhaps this describes Obama well also.  In short, the mentality that G-d is there for convenience's and comfort's sake, and not to command us what to do.  So really he is sort of a messiah for all those people who possess such a mentality, and there are certainly plenty.

Which brings me to the next point.  Obama was being accused of being a Muslim.  Unlike most Jewish right-wingers, I don't really believe he was a Muslim.  Nonetheless, he represented the mentality of Yishmael more than that of Esau.  Besides the fact that his father and step-father were Muslims, here is what I mean to say.

The Torah states that Abraham gave gifts to and sent the children of his concubine Keturah to the East, which the Zohar understands to mean that he sent them to the Orient where they used impure names, which eventually gave rise to such religions as Hinduism and Buddhism.  Whether this means that the Indians are Abraham's descendants or only that they were taught spiritual ideas by some of his descendants is unclear.  In any case, it is understood by some commentators that the children of the concubine Keturah were to be called by the name of their older brother Yishmael.  I believe that this is the meaning of what is sometimes said regarding the 70 nations which separated after the Tower of Babel: that all 70 nations today are included either under the domain of Esau or Yishmael.  Therefore, the children of Keturah, meaning those practicing the religion inspired by Keturah's descendants would also be considered under the domain of Yishmael.  Therefore, of the two possibilities, India is also considered under the domain of Yishmael, even though India is not a Muslim country (it's understood of course that Islam only came about 2,000 years after Yishmael lived).  Therefore, most of the East are under the domain of Yishmael and the West, including America, are under the domain of Esau.

However, there is often a battle between the two over who has control of what.  Besides the obvious examples of the crusades and the current "war on terror", such examples as the Marxist takeover of China could be included, since Communism is a Western (Edomite) invention, which came in and took control in the domain of a traditionally Buddhist ("Yishmaelite") country.

So too in America.  If anything, Obama's beliefs look very eastern, prompting high praises from the likes of Deepak Chopra.  This is why in my opinion he is (incorrectly) accused of being a Muslim.  ...Because unconsciously Edomite Americans recognize that Yishmael is making a bid for control of their country.

And why must it be so?  Some sources say that Esau/Edom will be conquered by Yishmael in the end of days.  This actually makes sense if some remnant of the Western world is to be spared.  Rashi points out that Yishmael repented and recognized Israel's right place, but Esau did not.  Some understand this to mean that in the end of days Yishmael will repent.  This of course doesn't necessarily mean all of Yishmael, nor does it merely mean Arabs, but also those under his wider domain, such as India, Japan, etc.  Now in order for an Edomite nation to repent it must be taken over by Yishmael first.  This includes America.  And that is why Obama has been allowed to win, despite being a vicious enemy of Israel.  He is merely a pawn for creating the conditions so that at least some Americans can repent and come to recognize Israel.

There is however a more sinister aspect to this election.  It is recounted in Genesis that Esau went to Yishmael and married his daughter when he realized his parents didn't like his Canaanite wives.  Recall that this was one of Esau's first moves when he decided to kill his brother Jacob.  According to kabbalistic understanding, this pairing of Esau and Yishmael was designed to effect Israel's destuction.  The significance of this pairing is described in greater detail in Rabbi Marvin Antelman's book "To Eliminate the Opiate, Vol. II" on page 118.

Therefore, did America (Edom) marry Obama (Yishmael's daughter) to attempt to finally destroy Israel?

The Day Israel Committed Suicide

I wanted to submit this story to the short story contest, but found out that it has to be at least 6 pages in length, and this is 2, so I post it here.

The Day Israel Committed Suicide
By David H. Samuels

It was a soaky, soggy night. Blasting hip-hop music was heard coming from apartment 41a on the 19th floor. The special UN police force broke down the door to see a terrible, shocking sight. The floor was covered in blood wall to wall and whisky bottles and porn mags were strewn about. They approached the body that was lying face down on the floor. As they walked towards it, they noticed open pill bottles scattered around the head, a knife was in one hand, a gun in the other. They turned the body over to see one of the most gruesome sights any had ever seen. There were 17 bullet holes in the chest. The wrists were slashed at least 10 times each. Pills were shoved into the foaming mouth.

The police turned down the music and the forensics department was called in to do their work. After the apartment was thoroughly dusted for fingerprints, the body was carried out.

News of the death of Israel spread throughout the world. No one had ever seen anything like it. It was called the most stubborn suicide in world history. A new term was coined for it: “Suigenocide”. The UN resolved to never let another suigenocide take place again.

Meanwhile the body was still being taken to the hospital by ambulance. In the midst of that 18 minute ride, the paramedics began to see signs of life coming from the mutilated corpse. “Is it possible?” they thought. Indeed, not only did the body start moving, but he even began talking, asking “What happened?” and so forth. The paramedics were stunned. They told the driver to speed up and turned on the siren. When they arrived at Ichilov Hospital the body was rushed in and emergency surgery was begun. Soon they had a stable pulse and other vital signs. In the midst of this a Shabak agent strolled into the operating room and ordered everyone to leave. After the doctors and nurses were forced to exit, the Shabak agent went over to the body and unloaded his pistol into its head. Soon after, the vital signs plummeted to zero.

The results of the investigation began to emerge as quickly as they were suppressed. The fingerprints of Shimon Peres were found on the pistol that was used to shoot the victim 17 times in the chest. Ehud Olmert’s prints were found on the knife. Aharon Barak’s prints were found on the porn mags, but no one could understand the significance of this. The prints of various Erev Rav were found on the pill and whiskey bottles.

Nonetheless, it was declared a national suicide. However, more and more evidence emerged indicating that in fact it was a murder. Therefore, a religious Yemenite youth was taken into custody and charged with the crime. It wasn’t exactly clear how he had anything to do with the murder, but it was said that he was seen near the crime scene on the same day. Disturbing reports began to emerge of a connection he apparently had with radical right wing elements. It was therefore determined that he must have been responsible for the murder. Thus, it was reported in newspapers that his fingerprints were found on the pill and whiskey bottles, the gun, the knife and the porn mags, even though no police reports were produced to support this. All the evidence indicated that there was more than one person involved in the crime. So it was also decided to throw his brother in jail, since he clearly couldn’t have acted alone. They also closed down his mother’s kindergarten for good measure.

It was from then on called an assisted national suicide: “Assisted Suigenocide” for short.

The UN declared 3 days of mourning to mark this international tragedy. The body, according to Jewish custom, was set to be buried the next day.

All the dignitaries of the world came to Israel’s funeral. The Head of the UN gave a speech talking about the contributions of Israel to world history, religion, culture, art and science. President Bush gave a sermon about the sin of assisted suicide and that such things must be prevented in the future, declaring a War Against Assisted Suigenocide. Even Ahmadinejad of Iran admitted that perhaps the Holocaust happened after all, saying it must have been perpetrated by a West Bank settler. Shimon Peres cried his eyes out yelling “Yisrael! Yisrael!” as the body was lowered into the grave. He said Baruch Dayan HaEmet cutting his shirt pocket as he did so. He then said Shehiyanu since he had finally inherited a place amongst the Arab nations and was free.

As the mourners began the burying process by scooping dirt onto the casket, a shocking thing took place. Faint knocking could be heard coming from within the casket. A voice cried from within, “Let me out!” The casket was raised back up and Israel burst force, throwing off the cover. All the dignitaries were shocked. Not only that, this formerly mutilated corpse was now completely healed. “You thought I was dead, but here I am,” he cried out. At that moment, the dignitaries made a frenzied rush towards Israel and choked him, all simultaneously. It was heard from one of the Erev Rav “That’s right, choke him, that’s the only way to kill this one.” In the midst of this strangulation, the Head of the UN gazed at the united hands on the neck of Israel and laughed, saying, “Isn’t it funny…Iran, Palestine and the United States are finally united in something. It looks like the UN was a success after all.” Just then a great deal of bickering emerged from the group strangulation. Each argued about who got to have his hands on the jugular. “Me first,” yelled Mahmud Abbas, “My people suffered most.” Ahmadinejad said, “Me first, we sponsored Palestine throughout their hardships.” President Bush said, “Me first, I sponsored Palestine throughout their hardships. Who gave more, you or me?” And so a fight soon broke out over who got to press the jugular. The dignitaries and Erev Rav killed each other.

THE END