“In the fifth year
(2013, starting with Rosh Hashanah 2012), there will be plenty (of rain) and
people will eat, drink, and be joyous, and the Torah will return to those who
learned it.”
Now again OvadYah
Avrahami brings us the news of rain in the Land of Israel:
“Thunderstorms
in Israel. Shomron - almost Shavuot and rain is predicted for Shavuot!
OvadYah Avrahami – “It
is Monday evening 15 May. There is thunder and lightning outside and refreshing
rain has been coming down over the last 20 minutes! This type of thunder storm,
which we are used to in South Africa in summer time, is seldom experienced even
in the winter rain season in Israel. The heavy daytime clouds over the
last week and intermittent cool summer weather reminds us of South African
summer weather which is totally different to Israel.
I checked with our Tour Guide who has lived in Shomron for the last 30 years.
"It is unusual." he comments, remarking that a friend, a weather man told
him that he does not recollect ever having had rains at Shavuot time.
A short but strong down pour came on Shabbat,, 3 days ago - while the sun was
shining plus intermittent heavy rain clouds. The weather is cool for this time
of the year - it should have been heavy summer heat already, and on Shabbat, I
had to dress warmer mid-day! Certainly strange to our knowledge!
I have commented on this change recently, posing the question whether perhaps
this may be "The year of Blessing" after Israel's new Gas line to its
abundant new gas fields was also connected right before Pesach (Passover
2013).
Now rain for Shavuot! Somewhere HaShem promises that His Blessings will be more
than we can receive – If?”
Rabbi Yochanan ben
Zaccai of Yavnah wrote the following prophecy just after the destruction of the
city of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple in 70 CE.
Sanhedrin 97a – “Rebi Yochanan ben Zaccai of Yavnah
said: In the generation that Ben Dovid will come, talmidei chachamim, the
“pupil of wisdom” known as the Torah sage or scholar, will decrease, and the
eyes of the remainder will protrude from sighing and sorrow; many chastisements
and many evil decrees will be renewed; one will not cease before another
begins.”
Then we complete the Prophecy of
Rabbi Judah ben Zaccai of Yavneh of the last Seven Years before the coming of
the Messiah as we read these words:
In the first
year (2009 starting with Rosh Hashanah 2008), the following prophecy in Amos
4:7 will be fulfilled “I caused it to rain on one city, but, on another city, I
did not cause it to rain.
In the second
year (2010, starting with Rosh Hashanah 2009), there will be a “slight famine”
in which according to Rashi, “no place will be completely satisfied”.
In the third
year (2011 starting with Rosh Hashanah 2010), “famine will be great, and men,
women, children, pious people, and men of good deeds will die; Torah will be
forgotten by those who learned it.”
In the fourth
year (2012, starting with Rosh Hashanah 2011), “some will be satiated while
others are not.”
In
the fifth year (2013, starting with Rosh Hashanah 2012), there will be plenty
and people will eat, drink, and be joyous, and the Torah will return to those
who learned it.”
In the sixth
year (2014, starting with Rosh Hashanah 2013), there will be voices which
according to Rashi depict either the blowing of the shofars (war) or the
hints and voices about the coming of the messiah.
In the seventh
year (2015, starting with Rosh Hashanah 2014), there will be war (Gog-Magog or
Armageddon).”
All across the Land of Israel preceding the Festival of
Shavuot, the Jewish people began the preparation to celebrate the Festival of
Shavuot. This was the day when the G-d of Israel gave to the Children of Israel,
His Torah. This included the Lost Ten
Tribes of the House of Israel and the House of Judah. During that time the Children
of Israel had received a spiritual state of prophecy, with an elevated state of
consciousness where the revelation of the Holy and Divine One of Israel would
have been in the most receptive mode where they received the true revelation of
the Divine and the “Blueprint” of their true existence of reality; the spiritual
neshama soul that was created in the “Image of G-d.”
One of the promises was that someday in the future, Klal
Yisrael, all 12-tribes of the House of Jacob would see that “Land” that had
lain bare of foliage, unwanted by the Ishmaelites, and neglected as a “no-man’s
land” by all the nations of the world, would now witness this same land receiving
rain with great abundance. They would see this awe and premonitions, that they
were witnessing a Divine sign that the G-d of Israel was returning to be with
His chosen people.
What was unknown to them was that that, HaShem, the G-d of Israel
was beginning to unsheathe and uncloak His Divine Existence and reveal to His
Chosen People the revelation that He was their G-d and it was time for them to
become prepared to anticipate with blessings of joy as He unleashes His Divine
Power and Glory as He elevates their existence to a new State of Consciousness.
When the “showers of blessings” are now seen in literal
reality, it will also open up the dawn of new reality to the House of Judah
that their final Redemption must be fully grasped with the fullness it’s
manifestation. Yet, this will only come when the House of Judah and the House
of Israel lay down their suspicions about each other, and join together with
great joy and gladness at the reunion and reunification of the entire House of Jacob. This will be
the sign that Eliyahu the Prophet is arriving to “prepare the way of the L-rd”
as a new state of reality will open up with a new consciousness upon All Israel
(Klal Yisrael).
So as Shavuot is celebrated across the Land of Israel, the
Book of Ruth is also being read. Her life
was a story of redemption that even after an entire nation is cursed by the Divine
for ten generations, so also Ruth the Moabite, the 11th generation was
redeemed and restored as one of the Children of Israel. For her faith and honor
of her aliyah, she was blessed to become the ancestral grandmother of King
David and the Davidian Dynasty of kings from the lineage of Kings David and
Solomon.
This multi-generational “curse” was placed upon the Nation
of Moab whose beginnings began with the incestuous relationship between Lot,
the nephew of Abram and one of his daughters who was rescued by the angels from
the clutches of annihilation when the fiery bolides of sulphur destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrah and destroyed the entire beautiful Vale of Siddim. Ruth, now redeemed after 10 generations of
curses was restored back into the family of Children of Israel.
So today, the 2013 Festival of Shavuot (Pentecost) was
heralded with heavy showers that were accompanied with thunder and lightning in
various locales though the Land of Israel. The weather forecasters were
expecting a high likelihood of flooding in the desert regions of the Negev with
cool temperatures five-to-seven degrees lower in most regions of Israel. It was
also expected that this unseasonably cool season would continue in the days
after the festival season of Shavuot.
The traditional First Fruits ceremonies that was hosted over
a scattering of dozens of kibbutzim were either rained out or rescheduled for over
the weekend. Even so, a majority of the kibbutzim
still held their Shavuot ceremonies as over 200,000 Israelis participated in
the services. Kibbutz Snir in the region
of the panhandle in Northern Galilee were one of many who persisted and held
their ceremonies with the rain drenched skies.
While the Land of Israel was experiencing one of the wettest
winters in decades, 2012, the United States was recording the hottest year ever
record in America. In this same land,
the newly created United States was initially populated by the descendants of
the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. Today, the descendants of those early Pilgrims
and Puritans that settled the land along the Eastern Seaboard of the United
States today have an unsettled mood in their hearts. The song that they have
sung for decades, “This land is your land, this land if my land,” is now being
sung “This Land is (Not) your Land, this Land is (Not) my land”. From all
prophetic speculations, the era of reunification between the Lost Ten Tribes of
the House of Israel and the Jewish people of the House of Judah was now
imminent.
Called by many “Global Warming”
this warming trend documented in the United States goes back to the official
weather and temperature records that go back to 1895. The yearly average today
is based upon reports documented from more than 1,200 weather stations across
the 48 states on the continental United States. It also was documented by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that the year of 2012
experienced the second-most extreme weather in history after the hurricane
dominated year of 1998. Using a complex formula of records that included temperature records,
drought, downpours, and land-falling hurricanes, the national picture depicts that
a true weather change was being experienced in the land once called the “Land
of the Free and the Home of the Brave.”
What was documented in the United States was the fact
that the year of 2012 ranked second to 2011 as having the highest number of
high-damage events to occur. This included eleven different $1billion disasters
led by the Superstorm Sandy and the multi-year long drought across the whole
continent of North America, the worst since the 1950s era of drought and only
slightly behind the Dust Bowl drought and Great Depression of the 1930s.
Blamed upon La Nina and what was erroneously called
“Global Warming”, the true reality appears that it is the hand of G-d’s
judgment that may soon be placed upon this nation’s population of the former immigrants
from the Tribe of Ephraim of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. But, it also includes those indigenous peoples
of the Hopi and the Navahos in the Western United States and the Confederation
of the Six “First Nations in America” who were from the Tribe of Manasseh, in
the eastern part of the continent who are both descendants from the House of
Joseph.
There in the land populated by the descendants of the
Tribe of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, we are seeing the most weather extremes
in the past 108 years. Over the last century alone, the temperature trends have
gone upwards to 1.3 degrees according to NOAA. The only year in the 20th
century that was cooler than 2012 was the year of 1997. The last record cold
month of December was 1983. What was even more stunning which the scientists
are calling incredulous, is the evidence of how far above other past “hot
years” the year of 2012 became. In the 117 years of national temperature record
documentation, all previous records were clustered between the temperature degrees
of 51 to 54 degree Fahrenheit, yet 2012 soared well above 55 degrees; a full
degree above the prior record set in 1998.
With this fact in mind, we wonder, will the rabbanim in
2013 proclaim with great joy, as the Prophet Zechariah prophesied over 2,300
years ago, and declare that in 2013 it is now time to “Replace your Feasts of Fasting
with Feasts of Joy and Thanksgiving”, when He asked the Prophet Zechariah to be
His mouthpiece as he penned the following verses in the ancient
Book of Zechariah.
All of have wondered
how the G-d of Israel will bring all the prophetic events to their fulfillment
at the time of the end. Watching the “Finger of the Divine” stirring up nations
of the world is far more fascinating than watching a movie drama. The end
results will be that all nations will pool all their economic resources at the
“gates of Israel” and be prepared to once again to evoke the “Final Solution”
this time amongst the remnant of the Jewish peoples that include all the Jews
of the Diaspora that have fled to Israel as a land of safety before their lives
will be thrust into “the world to come”.
And during this same time, the G-d of
Israel is wooing each one of you, the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel,
to return and be restored back into brotherhood with the Jews of the House of
Judah so that He will send His Messiah to clean house of all the wickedness and
corruption on Planet Earth.
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more divinely led prophecies, we invite you to Contact “Kol
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Re-United). This super Event of all Times will bring the restoration and the
Shomron Region, the Ancient Biblical Heartland of the Patriarchs plus the
Judean Wilderness as part of the entire Land of Israel. There we will witness
the Divine as the “Land” will be restored and prepared for the Return of the
Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All Israel.
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Nearby to the Ramat Shlomo
Quarter, a large Ultra-Orthodox Haredi Jewish neighborhood nearby to and
northwest of Jerusalem, another Herodian Quarry of limestone used in the
quarrying of smaller megalithic stones for King Herod’s Temple has been
discovered. Over 2,000 years old, this ancient excavation site was discovered
prior to the paving of a Highway 21 by the Moriah Company, according to the
Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA).
This quarry which is about one
dunam in size is estimated to be 2,030 years old or about the year of 27
BCE. Located on Shmuel Hanavi Street
nearby to the neighborhood of Jerusalem’s American Colony, the excavation site
is bordered by the Jerusalem neighborhood Ramot to the west, Har Hotzvim to the
south and the Shuafat neighborhood to the east.
Originally call Reches
Shuafat (Shuafat Ridge), this rocky ridge was later named after the
Orthodox Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, one of Judah preeminent rabbinic
scholars whose estimated 300,000 – 500,000 supporters lined the streets of
Jerusalem in 1995 when this rabbinic Torah giant died. His first major publication, Meorei Esh
was written on the use of electricity on the Jewish Shabbat and endorsed by
Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky with these words; ‘A New Light will Shine upon
Zion’.
The quarry excavation site is
currently being explored by Dr. Ofer Sion and Yehuda Rapuano of the IAA, before
this area will be paved over with a street and developed into residential
buildings. According to Irina Zilberbod, IAA excavation director:
IAA Excavation Director Irina Zilberbod – “The quarrying phenomenon created a spectacular sight of bedrock columns and
steps and craters of sorts that were the result of the rock-cuttings. What
remained are rock masses in various stages of quarrying, and there were those
that were found in a preliminary stage of rock-cutting prior to detachment.”
According to Dr. Ofer Sion,
the large limestone blocks were excavated here and reused for the Temple Mount walls
nearby to the grand expansion and enlargement of Zerubabbel’s Temple into King
Herod’s Temple. This large stones were about the maximum height of two meters
(6.0 to 6.5 feet) and weighing in “tens if not hundreds of tons”. In total, the team
uncovered an area of around 11,000 square feet where the ancient quarry formerly
existed.
Yet, this was not the only quarry in the region. This
northern region, located along the entire slope of the rocky ridge from Musrara
Quarter to the Sanhedria Quarter have been the exploration grounds of prior
discovered quarries. This has prompted the name for this region as Jerusalem's
“city of quarries.” The youngest quarry dates from the Second Temple Era period.
Among the
artifacts discovered at the excavation site were multiple pickaxes plus metal
wedges that were used to “sever” the cut stones from the surrounding limestone
foundational layer. There was also an iron key, that was possibly used in a
large monumental door such as one of the gates to Jerusalem, or to King Herod’s
temple, plus metal plates or wedges that were used to sever the stones from the
bedrock, and coins and pottery shards dating back to the end of the Second
Temple period (the first century BCE). As Archeologist Irina Zilberbod, the
excavation director said in an official statement for the Antiquities
Authority:
Archeologist Irina Zilberbod - “The pick axes were used to cut the severance channels around the stone
block in the bedrock surface and the arrowhead-shaped detachment wedge, which
is solid iron, was designed to detach the base of the stone from the bedrock by
means of striking it with a hammer. The key that was found, and which was
probably used to open a door some 2,000 years ago, is curved and has teeth.
What was it doing there? We can only surmise that it might have fallen from the
pocket of one of the quarrymen (or a Temple Construction Supervisor).”
One of the prior excavations
sites nearby that was explored by the IAA over five years ago in 2007 were larger
megalithic stones reaching upwards to 26 feet in length and no doubt weighed over
100 tons in weight. These were used by King Herod and possibly even earlier by King
Solomon for Jerusalem’s monumental building projects. As Dr. Ofer Sion,
excavation director reported:
Dr.
Ofer Sion – “We know from historical
sources that in order to build the Temple and other projects which Herod
constructed, such as his palace, hundreds of thousands of various size stones
were required - most of them weighing between two and five tons each. The
dimensions of the stones that were produced in the quarry that was revealed are
suitable for the Temple walls.”
The
reason for the ridge site as a quarry zone is the fact that the Meleke
limestone rock formation was easily quarried for after the limestone was cut, shaped
and exposed to air, the limestone rock would harden immediately. The region of
the quarry was at a higher elevation than the Temple Mount so the transport of
the enormous limestone stone would have been taken downhill along a
first-century road that was discovered nearby.
How it
was transported was not exactly known except during the time of the Roman
Empire the use of giant wood-lifting devices were used and oxen plus giant
rollers could have brought the stones down to the site of the temple
reconstruction area by King Herod the Great. As explained by Dr. Ofer Sion:
Dr. Ofer
Sion – “The massive quarrying
effort, on the order of hundreds of thousands of stones, lowered the topography
of Jerusalem in the vicinity of the Old City. Today, with the exposure of this
quarry, the intensity of the building projects as described in the historical
sources can be proven.”
Quarried Stones on King Herod’s Temple Mount near
the Western Wall – Archives BibleSearchers
Reflections
Flavius
Josephus wrote that before Herod built the Temple he prepared the
infrastructure for it by quarrying stones north of the Temple Mount for eight
years in preparation for the largest platformed Temple in the entire Roman
Empire. With the preparation done, Herod’s Temple took only two years, a
remarkably short time to build such a monumental edifice. As Dr. Ofer Sion
continued:
Dr. Ofer Sion – “With
the exposure of the quarries in Sanhedria and Ramat Shlomo, it is clear that
Herod began quarrying closest to the Temple and worked away from it; first he
exploited the stone on the nearby ridges and subsequently he moved on to quarry
in more distant regions.”
According
to the archeologists, these multi-ton limestone stones were transported
downhill from the site of the quarry along an ancient road to the walled city
of King David, Jerusalem to the south where they would have been used in the
construction of the platform walls on the Temple Mount, King Herod’s Temple on
its own platform mount to the south, other monumental buildings such as King
Herod’s Palace nearby to the west.”
What is
clearly depicted is the historical fact that the Jewish people were living on their
own divinely appointed tribal homeland called the Roman Province of Judea under
the rule of King Herod the Great. They were participants with a massive
construction project to enlarge the Temple Mount site and to rebuild King
Herod’s Temple to the honor of the G-d of Israel as early as 30 BCE on a temple
site that was at least 500 years old at the time. This was more than 720 to
1220 years before the Islamic Shrine Masijd Qubbat As-Sakhrah was completed in
691 CE at the order of Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik.
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The Battle for the
Minds of the Human Race is now coming to its fullest revelation. The forces of
Darkness battled against the Forces of HaShem’s angels of Light as the final
battle over 2000 years ago for the souls of men on Planet Earth. It was the
divine rule of HaShem that the Sheep of the House of Judah would be sent into
one last exile, yet out of this epic war would set the stage for the restoration
for Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel and the final redemption of All
Israel; the Ten Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and the Jews of the House of
Judah.
The Roman Empire was a
major part of this Drama of the Ages then and continues to be so today with its
Christian descendants, the Roman Catholic Church and her children of the Christian
Protestant faith. They will all be participants in the Final Act of that Divine
Drama.
These participants not
only include the Jews of the House of Judah, the Lost Ten Tribes of the House
of Northern Israel; both of the House of Jacob (Israel), but will include the
Roman Edomites of the House of Esau, the brother of Jacob of the House of Isaac
and the Arabs of the House of Ishmael, the brother to Isaac of the House of
Abraham.
If you want to learn
more, Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove. Here
is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the
imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all
Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United).
The author of this
blog is a supporter of Kol Ha Tor Vision and while we are publishing material
that may be relevant to the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, the
leadership of Kol Ha Tor do not necessarily agree with everything we have
published. Yet, we understand, until the Messiah son of David comes to give us
full insight into what is happening to our lives and our world today, we may
know only in part while we continue to support the rabbanim of Israel and seek
reconciliation with the Jews of the House of Israel until we are finally one
family; the family of our Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
This reunification
will truly be a super Event of all Times that will entail Establishing Shomron
(the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as
part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost
Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, we invite you to make a
personal Visit to Israel and stay at “Shomron Lives!”,a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House
in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost
Tribers of the House of Israel.
Haftarah; Ashkenazi - II Kings 4:42-5:19
Sephardic - II Kings 7:3-7:20
NOTE: Kol HaTor, in its
commentaries on the weekly Parashot, endeavors to search for and accentuate the
Torah Messages contained in the Parashot as applicable to the main Theme of
Tanach of the Return of the House of Israel, i.e. the Lost Ten Tribes of
Northern Israel and their Reconciliation with Judah to form the reunited
12-Tribed Kingdom of Israel.
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agree with our views expressed herein or in our other publications.
While we publish their views for its relative value to the interpretation
of the Parashah, KOL HATOR does not necessarily agree with the views expressed
by these authors.
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The following extracts from Rabbinic commentaries on
Parashat Tazriah & Metzorah have been compiled into a comprehensive Commentary
by Kol HaTor with our own comments and insights between [brackets].
There are 54 separate Torah
portions in the annual Jewish Torah reading program. In non-leap years there
are only 50 Sabbaths. For this reason some Torah portions are combined and read
together for one week. This week Parashot Tazria and Metzora, which are
two of the least popular portions for modern Jews, are combined.
[For
detailed weekly Torah Reading specifications for every year in advance, refer
to: Hebrew Calendar
For this week we have selected Rabbinic
commentaries which not only link onto our last Parashah, with the amazing
Message protruding from the death of Nadav and Avihu in the Tabernacle, but also bring
a sequence of these “dry” and uninteresting, legalistic Parashot into exciting
perspective. Come share once more in the life-giving experience that
Rabbinic insight gives to the written Word that is so often skimmed over or
even excluded by readers of the Bible.
Before setting out on this exciting spiritual high-ride, we
need to make mental notes of key Hebrew terms that not only underlie this
commentary and much of the main theme of the Bible, but should also form part
of the sincere Bible searcher's future vocabulary:
Tzara'at - defilement,
skin disease akin to leprosy
Metzorah - someone
afflicted by tzara'at.
Summary of this week's double Torah
portion: After last week's portion regarding tumah (spiritual defilement) resulting from dead animals, Parshat Tazria introduces the various categories
of tumah emanating from human beings. A woman after giving birth is
ritually impure for a certain period of time prescribed for her to stay away
from the Tabernacle or Temple.
The rest of the portion describes in great detail the
varying and numerous manifestations of a skin disease called tzara'at -
the physical manifestation of a spiritual malaise, a punishment from G-d for
the sin of speaking evil speech, amongst various other anti-social
transgressions.
A metzorah, (someone afflicted by a tzaraat-like
skin disease) is subject to a series of examinations by a Cohen (priest), who
declares the patient to be either tahor (pure) or tamei (impure). If tamei,
he is isolated outside of the camp, an appropriate punishment for someone whose
foul tongue caused dissension amongst others. After the period of defilement,
the formerly afflicted person offers sacrifices before being declared ritually
pure again by the High Priest.
The second, parashat Metzora, further deals with treatment for tzara'at.
Metzora also contains the first mention of ritual immersion of a person in
water for spiritual purification from a physical impurity ('baptism').
In parashat Shemini last week we read about Aaron's two
righteous sons, Nadav and Avihu, bringing “alien fire” into the Holy of Holies,
a service which only the High Priest was permitted to perform once a year on
Yom Kippur. They paid with their lives for their excessive zeal based on
their advanced thinking on matters Divine.
We considered this as a cautionary reprimand for today's
reawakening Ten Tribers who are so greatly blessed with discovering and
restoring Hebraic Truths which were hidden to them while in exile amongst the
nations. Many of these non-Jewish restorers of ancient Hebraic Truths
become unteachable, considering their “discoveries” as exclusive Divine gifts
and privileges.
It is not strange for these restorers to “barge in where
Angels fear to tread” with their hasty and often shallow condemnations,
judgments, conclusions and rejection especially, of Rabbinic guidance, formulated
during the ‘life-long’ extensive period of 3500 years, tight back from the time
of Moses himself!.
Let us now embark on this week's Parashot as the wisdom of
Rabbinic insight instills ‘life’ into an otherwise dormant seeming portion of
legalistic Scripture.
Rabbi Reuven Mann with Mesorah.org writes about the
following observance:
Rabbi Reuven Mann - “According
to the Rabbis these phenomena [of sin-induced skin diseases] are no longer in
existence, for we are not on a high enough level to warrant this degree of
Divine Providence. We must therefore be even more careful about the
type of speech we indulge in. The Torah regards cleanliness of
speech as essential to a life of holiness. The words we utter can
have profound consequences not only on others but on ourselves as
well. We should always be cognizant of the temptation and danger of
slanderous speech and take all the necessary precautions to avoid it.”
Rabbi David Silverberg, from Virtual Beyt
Midrash, gives us insight into the Torah laws
concerning
Rabbi David Silverberg -
“Parashat Tazria introduces us to the laws of tzara’at, a type of
skin-disease which renders the patient tamei (ritually impure).
Throughout the ages, scholars have uncovered for us the symbolism underlying
this institution and its particular laws, showing how the procedures for
dealing with tzara’at reflect the proper approach towards spiritual
defilement in general.
These analyses generally
take into account the prominent role of the kohen throughout this process. The
kohen was the only one who could formally declare the presence of tzara’at.
A non-kohen, no matter how proficient he may be in the relevant laws, cannot
establish tum’at tzara’at [skin defilement].
Only once the kohen
determines the presence of tzara’at does the patient become ritually impure.
Similarly, as the Torah outlines in the beginning of Parashat Metzora, the
kohen is the one who conducts the metzora’s [individual defiled person] process
of purification. The kohen’s role is often seen as symbolic of the function
served by the spiritual guides and leaders in “purifying” the community from
their spiritual ills.
The Midrash attributes tzara’at
to the “drying of a fountain.” Leaving aside the physiological issue of to what
exactly this Midrash refers, let us address the more crucial question: what
does this represent in terms of tzara’at and its symbolic meaning?
Rav Stollman suggests
that Chazal teach us in this passage that impurity results from a “drained
fountain.” The process of defilement does not take place in a vacuum, it does
not occur suddenly without reason. A person or community becomes “tamei” when
its authentic fountains of spirituality are drained, when the “hairs” begin to
“drink” from alternative sources of “life” rather than their traditional
teachings. Tum’a thus means the detachment from one’s source, from one’s
origins.”
[This is a condition that the 10 Northern Tribes
of Israel in exile amongst the nations have been facing for the last 2800
years, being banned by the Divine One from the Land of Israel. The modern phenomenon
of the world wide Hebraic Roots Restoration Movement is bringing awareness of
their Hebrew Roots to millions of these lost and scattered sheep of the House
of Israel, drawing them to Torah observation and a desire to return to the
Promised Land. This all in fulfillment of the Main Theme of Biblical
Prophecy; refer:
View the Comprehensive
Extract of the Divine Promises in Ancient Scriptures
The kohen’s role, symbolic of the responsibility assigned to the
religious leaders of every generation, is to identify this detachment, to check
and see whether or not the people draw their values and ideals from the
“fountain” of tradition. They must carefully study both the tradition and the
current reality to determine whether or not there exists a parity between the
two. Should they determine the presence of tum’a,
that the fountain has indeed dried, then they must lend the metzora a hand as he undergoes the
process of purification, the process of refilling the wellsprings with the
spiritual waters of our traditions, enabling him to reenter the Jewish
[Hebrew]people and recommit himself to the teachings of our heritage.”
Rav Chanoch Waxman from Virtual Beyt Midrash rounds up our review. He presents a very broad
perspective, linking several Scripture sections together and serving as a
continuation of our discussions on Nadav
and Avihu in Parashat
Shemini last week.
Rav Chanoch Waxman – “Immediately after the deaths of Nadav and Avihu, Moshe received an important
communication from G-d regarding the appropriate conditions for entering the
holiest part of the Mishkan.
Leviticus
16:1 – “And HaShem spoke to Moshe after the death of the two sons of Aharon,
who died when they drew too close to the presence of HaShem. And HaShem said to
Moshe: Tell Aharon your brother that he should not come at will into the Holy
Place within the curtain in front of the covering upon the ark, lest he die,
for I appear in the cloud over the cover. Thus only shall he enter the Holy Place…’”
This
passage is, of course, the opening of Parashat Acharei Mot [two Parashot
further on].
Strangely
enough, the Torah does not place this passage in textual sequence with the
death of Nadav and Avihu. Despite the apparent
chronological sequence implied by the subject matter, the issue of entering
into holy space and the possibility of death, the Torah only presents the
parasha of Acharei Mot a full five
chapters after the death of Nadav and
Avihu.
Despite
the near synchronicity with the death of Nadav
Avihu implied by the term “after” (see Ramban 16:1), the Torah chooses to
delay the parasha of Acharei Mot,
literally “after the death,” until after the corpus of Chapters Eleven through
Fifteen.
This intervening bulk, primarily consisting of
the parashiyot of Tazria and Metzora and the laws of "tzara'at"
[defilement], can be categorized as the laws of tum'a and tahara [defiled
and undefiled]. All of its component parts relate to the concepts of “clean”
and “unclean” or perhaps more accurately, “pristine” and “defiled.” A quick
sketch of the structure of this intervening segment should demonstrate the
point. The overall segment breaks down as follows.
Topic
Verses
Sample mention
of "tamei"
and "tahor"
Section 1- Permissible and
Forbidden Animals
11:1-47
11:4-8,
24-38, 47
Section 2- The laws of the
Postpartum women
12:1-8
12:2, 4-8
Section 3.1- Tzara'at (lesions)
of the body and Tzara'at
upon garments
13:1-59
13:3, 6-8, 11-14,
46, 51, 55, 58-59
Section 3.2- Purification
from Tzara'at-the post
Tzara'at procedure
14:1-32
14:1, 4, 7-9, 11,
19-20, 31-32
Section 3.3- Tzara'at
of the house- home
14:33-57
14:36, 40, 48,
53, 57
Section 4- The laws of
male and female discharges
and menstruation
15:1-33
15:2-6, 13-14,
16-18, 19,
25-26, 29-31
If so, we face an obvious problem. Why does the
Torah choose to “interrupt” the natural flow of the narrative from the death of
Nadav and Avihu (10:1-20) to the laws for Aharon's entrance into the holy
area (16:1-34) with the laws of tum'a and tahara (11:1-15:33)?
Alternatively, we may prefer to the “code of tum'a
and tahara” the strange phenomenon of tzara'at. In other words,
why does the Torah place the laws of tzara'at, and the overall code, in
close juxtaposition to the death of Nadav
and Avihu?
If
so, we face an obvious problem. Why does the Torah choose to “interrupt” the
natural flow of the narrative from the death of Nadav and Avihu (10:1-20)
to the laws for Aharon's entrance into the holy area (16:1-34) with the laws of
tum'a and tahara (11:1-15:33)?
Alternatively,
we may prefer to the “code of tum'a and tahara” the strange
phenomenon of tzara'at. In other words, why does the Torah place the
laws of tzara'at, and the overall code, in close juxtaposition to the
death of Nadav and Avihu?
Quite
possibly we may have already done much of the conceptual work necessary to
answer these questions. The answer may well lie in connecting the two concepts,
“tum'a and tahara” and “entrance into a holy place,” discussed
until this point.
In
describing the purification period of the postpartum women, the Torah states
the following:
Leviticus
12:4 – Our [current Parashah] – “She shall remain in a state of purification
from her blood for thirty-three days, she shall not touch any consecrated thing
(kodesh), nor enter the
sanctuary (mikdash) until her
period of purification is completed.”
Given
that she is “tamei” and has not yet reentered the pristine, pure and
holy state of “tahara,” the postpartum women is banned from contact with
sanctified objects and sanctified space. Or to phrase this a little bit
differently, the sanctified personal state of "tahara"
constitutes a necessary condition for contact with the holy.
This
mutual exclusivity of holiness and tum’a is also present as a theme in
the other segments of the overall section outlined above. The sufferer of tzara’at
lesions is banned from the camp, whose center consists of the abode of G-d.
This is not only alluded to by the text of Vayikra [Leviticus](see 13:46), but
stated explicitly in Bamidbar [Numbers], during the arrangement of the camp.
Bamidbar
5:2-3 – “And the Lord spoke to Moshe, saying: ‘Instruct the Israelites to
remove from the camp anyone with tzara’at
lesions… put them outside the camp so that they do not defile the camp of those
in whose midst I dwell.’”
Likewise,
in summing up the laws of discharges, section four of the overall code of
tum'a and tahara, the Torah reiterates the tension between a state
of tum’a and the sanctuary, and mandates the death penalty for the
improper mixing of the two.
Vayikra
[Leviticus] 15:31 – “And you shall warn the Children of Israel regarding
uncleanness, lest they die through their uncleanness by defiling My Mishkan
which is among them.”
Moreover,
the verse of c partially quoted above also mandates the expulsion of the zav
and the zava, those suffering from emissions, from the camp.
Finally,
this connection, or perhaps need to disconnect, between tum’a and
sanctity can be located not just in sections, two, three, and four of the code,
but even in section one, the laws of permitted and forbidden animals. In
closing out the segment, G-d informs Israel that he has high expectations:
Va'yikrah
11:44-45 – “For I HaShem your G-d: you shall sanctify yourselves and be holy,
for I am holy. You shall not make yourselves unclean through (eating) any
swarming thing… For I am HaShem… you shall be holy for I am holy.”
Sacredness
does not end at the borders of the sanctuary nor even at the borders of the
camp. The category of the holy extends to the very person of each and every
individual member of Israel. As members of the holy nation, another type of
mobile sanctuary, another method of encapsulating G-d's presence in the world,
the Israelites are enjoined from improper mixing of the sacred and profane, of
contacting or ingesting certain kinds of animals.
To
put this all together, the common denominator of Chapters Eleven through
Fifteen, the laws of tum’a and tahara, consists not just of the
categories of tum’a and tahara but also of the need to separate
between the tamei and the holy. Whether in the context of the sanctuary
itself, the camp within which it resides, or the people within whose camp G-d
resides, holiness demands special care, and particular conditions for
encountering and preserving it.
This
brings us back to the sin and death of Nadav and Avihu. They died
because of lack of care for the details of “hilkhot kodashim,” the laws
for the proper treatment of sanctity and approach to sanctified space. They
entered the sanctuary and G-d's space when not commanded. It is no wonder,
then, that in between the story of their death (10:1-20) and the story of the
proper conditions for entering the holiest space (16:1-34), the Torah teaches
the full corpus of “hilkhot kodashim,” the laws of sanctity and relation to holiness (11:1-15:33).
Alternatively,
we may wish to link the “laws of tum’a and tahara” (11:1-15:33)
to the death of Nadav and Avihu in a slightly different, albeit
related fashion. At the close of the laws of permitted and forbidden animals,
section one above, the Torah teaches the following:
Va'yikrah
11:46-47 [of our Parashah] – “This is the Torah of the beasts, and of the
birds, and of every living creature… to distinguish between the unclean (tamei)
and clean (tahor), between the living things that may be eaten and the
living things that may not be eaten.”
The
phrase ‘to distinguish between the unclean and clean’ should bring to mind the
immediate aftermath of the deaths of Nadav
and Avihu. As mentioned, the Torah
follows the story of the deaths with a code of priestly conduct. The latter
part of the code consists of two imperatives:
Va'yikrah
10:10-11 – “And you must distinguish between holy and unholy and between
unclean and clean. And you must teach (lehorot) the Children of Israel
[all 12 Tribes] all the laws which HaShem has imparted to them through Moshe.”
While
these two imperatives are linguistically and conceptually distinct, they are
nevertheless practically intertwined. The priests carry a special
responsibility both for differentiating between the sacred and non-sacred,
between the tamei and the tahor, and for the teaching of those
very laws to the Children of Israel.
However
the obligation to teach and enforce the laws stems from more than just their
general Torah-teaching role. The custodians of the sanctuary and the laws of “differentiation”
cannot guarantee the integrity of the sanctuary and the sanctified status of
the sanctuary, camp and people unless the laws of sanctity are observed by all.
All
of this should explain the juxtaposing of at least section one of the larger “laws
of tum’a and tahara” with the death of Nadav and Avihu. The death serves as the occasion for
defining the role of the priests. This definition is followed by the actual
laws of "differentiation" entrusted to the priests, and for which
they bear special responsibility.
In
fact, this theme easily can be expanded to cover the remaining segments of the
laws of tum’a and tahara. Like section one, section three, the
corpus of the laws of tzara'at, ends with an echo of the priest's code
of Chapter Ten. After a summary of the various types of tzara’at
(14:44-46), the Torah states the following:
Va’yikrah
14:57 – “To teach (lehorot) when it is unclean and when it is clean,
this is the Torah of tzara'at.”
While
this verse may refer to the Torah's purpose in expounding upon the laws of tzara'at
at length, it most probably refers to the role of the priests in making the
determination as to whether a particular lesion is clean or unclean. After all,
the Torah elaborates upon this role extensively throughout the one hundred and
sixteen verses of the laws of tzara'at (13:1-14:57).
Moreover,
the linguistic parallel to the terms “teaching,” “unclean” and “clean” found in
the code of priestly conduct (10:10-11), and the apparent fusing of the
concepts into a montage of teaching, ruling and governing the arena of tum’a
and tahara, further strengthens the connections outlined above. If so,
like section one, section three provides a corpus of “differentiation laws”
that the priests are charged with guarding and teaching.
In
a similar vein, it is Aharon the priest, along with Moshe, who is charged with
“warning” the children of Israel regarding their uncleanness and the
possibility of death in section four, the laws of emissions (see 15:1, 31).
Finally, regarding section one, the laws of the postpartum women, it is the
priest who plays the key role in restoring her state of “tahara” (see
12:6-7), guides her in her passage from tamei to tahor and facilitates
her approach to the sanctuary.
In
sum, the placement of the laws of “tum'a and tahara” in the
middle of the narrative of Nadav and Avihu's death stems from more than just
the concern of both of these parts of the Torah with “hilkhot kodshim,”
the rules for the treatment of sanctity. The juxtaposition also stems from the
definition of the role of priests in the aftermath of the death of Nadav and Avihu. It stems from the overarching concern of both segments with
the role of priests, their job description and their special responsibility for
the ‘laws of differentiation.’
While
the dual theory outlined above more than handles the problem of the structure
of the middle part of Sefer [book of] Vayikra,
I would nevertheless like to try to elaborate on some additional literary and
philosophical connections between the “laws of tum’a and tahara”
and the deaths of Nadav and Avihu. Let us begin by taking a look at
the treatment given to one who manifests tzara’at upon his body.
Va'yikrah
13:45 – “And the leprous man whom the lesion is upon, his clothes shall be
rent, his head shall be left bare and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall
cry, ‘Unclean, unclean.”
The
four actions required of the “metzora,” the sufferer of tzara’at, can all be thought of as
connected to disgrace and shame. The rending of the garments and baring of his
head constitute symbols of dishevelment and disgrace, similar to the baring of
the head of the women suspected of adultery (see Bamidbar 5:18).
Similarly,
the covering of the upper lip, probably done by the garment worn upon the upper
body (see Ibn Ezra 13:45), involves the covering of the metzora’s mouth
and his silencing. Having been visited by an affliction from G-d, the metzora
stands speechless in front of divine retribution. He possesses no explanation
and no rationale for his behavior and affliction. He is like the false prophets
of Mikha 3:7 who “shall be put to
shame” and “cover their lips.” Having been afflicted by a divine plague, the metzora
can do no more than proclaim his own disgrace and utter, “Unclean, unclean.”
However,
some of these actions symbolize not just shame, disgrace and self-negation, but
also the related phenomenon of mourning. This brings us back to the deaths of Nadav and Avihu. Right after the deaths, Moshe tells Aharon, Elazar and
Itamar:
Va'yikrah
10:6 – “Do not bare your heads and do not rend your clothes, lest you die… But
your brothers, all the house of Israel shall bewail the burning that G-d has
wrought.”
Aharon
and his sons are forbidden from mourning. They cannot express their pain and
anguish nor demonstrate physically the impossibility of continuing normal
existence as if nothing has occurred. Consequently, they cannot bare their
heads nor rend their clothes. If so, the acts of the metzora resemble
acts of mourning; they resemble the response of one visited by death.
In
fact “nega,” translated
as “lesion” above, constitutes the Torah's standard term for tzara’at
affliction and appears innumerable times throughout the laws of tzara’at.
Interestingly enough, the term literally means “touch” and is used in the
contexts of Bereishit [Genesis] and Shemot [Exodus] to connote a plague from
G-d, the concrete manifestation of the metaphorical “finger” or “hand” of G-d
(see Bereishit 12:17, Shemot 11:1). Shemot 11:1 uses the phrase “od nega
echad,” one more touch/plague, to herald the plague of the firstborn, the
visitation of death upon the Egyptians. In other words, visitation by a “nega,”
the touch or hand of G-d, logically results in death.
This
connection between nega-tzara'at and death is further strengthened by
both the story of tzara’at found in Sefer Bamidbar and the phenomenology
of tzara’at. Upon speaking ill of Moshe and being chastised by G-d,
Miriam is stricken with tzara’at (Bamidbar 12:1-10). At this point,
Aharon, who had been party to the slander, beseeches Moshe not to hold a grudge
against them and to pray for Miriam's welfare.
Va'yikrah
12:11-12 – “And Aharon said to Moshe: Please my master, account not to us the
sin which we committed in our folly. Let her not be as one DEAD, who emerges
from his mother's womb with half his flesh eaten away.”
Apparently,
tzara'at symbolizes death. The appearance of tzara'at resembles
the appearance of a grisly miscarriage or stillborn baby. The death of the
flesh in tzara’at comprises a harbinger and portent of the ultimate
punishment soon to be visited upon the sinner. No wonder the metzora
responds to his tzara’at as one responds to death. In a last-ditch
effort to stave off his fate, he proactively mourns his soul and his impending
doom.
This
connection between death and tzara’at should help shed some light on the
topics contained within the latter parts of the “laws of tum'a and tahara,”
the subject matter of Parashat Tazria
and Parashat Metzora.
As
has often been pointed out, death defiles. The corpse constitutes the “father
of all tumot.” Similarly, the shadow of death, the affliction of tzara’at,
defiles. But the metzora is not the only one in these sections of the
Torah who has encountered death and had its shadow cast upon him. The people
mentioned at the end of Parashat Metzora, those suffering from emissions, have
also encountered the shadow of death. The menstruating women faces the loss of
potential life implicit in her bleeding, and zav and zava the “loss
of life” implicit in their diseases and consequent inability to procreate.
Similarly,
the postpartum woman, mentioned at the beginning of Parashat Tazria, has passed
through the harrowing and life-threatening experience of childbirth. Within her
experience of birthing life, she has encountered the shadow of death. If so, the
topics of Tazria and Metzora are united by their connection
to death and the consequence of defilement.
But
this is not all that unites the postpartum women, the metzora and the
sufferer from emissions. In general, the texts focus not just on the cause of
the defilement, but also on the process of return, the means of restoring a
state of tahara. Each parasha depicts the process of “passing through,”
not so much the encounter with death, but the return from its touch, the
approach to the sanctuary and the bringing of offerings (see 12:6-8, 14:1-20,
15:13-15, 28-30).
Putting
this all together and linking up with the story of the deaths of Nadav and Avihu yields something rather interesting. The dynamic implicit in
the legal material of Tazria and Metzora parallels the dynamic implicit
in the narrative frame of the text, the story of the death of Nadav and Avihu. From the perspective of narrative, the text is about Aharon,
a father who at his very moment of triumph has suffered a devastating loss. In
his own words: “Such things have befallen me” (10:19).
Due
to his sacred status he is even forbidden from explicit mourning (10:6-7). Yet
somehow he must pass through, he must continue through death, return to the
sanctuary and perform the divine service. Likewise and in keeping with the
implicit theme, the legal material is about “passing through death” and
approaching the sanctuary.
But
this is not all. In a striking parallel to the story of Nadav and Avihu, a story
of the “eighth day” (see 9:1, 9:23-10:2), each of these “passing through” or “purification”
passages contains a reference to a period of seven days and a climactic eighth
day. The postpartum woman who bears a male is tamei for seven days. On
the eight day her son is circumcised (12:2-3). After a seven day waiting period
outside his own tent upon his return to the camp, the metzora brings his
climactic offering, approaches the sanctuary and achieves “tahara"
on the eighth day (14:8-11). Likewise the zav and the zava count
seven days and only then, on the eighth day, bring their offerings, approach
the sanctuary and reenter a pristine and undefiled state (15:13-15, 28-30).
Is
the eighth day some sort of magic number in Sefer Vayikra? Maybe! But perhaps
there is something more here. The eighth day of the miluim ceremony was
intended to be the day of G-d's descent to the Mishkan, the day when the very
source of all being, of life itself, came and dwelt amongst the people. The
death of Nadav and Avihu on the eighth day not only
constituted a tragedy in its own right, but a staining of the essence of the
eighth day, an undercutting of the status of the Mishkan and G-d's presence. The day of G-d's arrival and His very
presence are now associated with death and mourning in the consciousness of
Israel.
Upon
the death of Korach and his cohorts,
the Children of Israel gave vent to this exact sentiment:
Bamidbar
17:27-28 – “And the Children of Israel said to Moshe: Behold we die, we perish,
we all perish! Everyone who so much ventures near the Lord's Mishkan dies.
Alas, we are doomed to perish!”
If
so, we may formulate yet one more reason for the juxtaposing of Tazria and Metzora with the story of the death of Nadav and Avihu. The “passing
through" stories of the postpartum woman, the metzora, the zav
and the zava serve as a counterweight to the death of Nadav and Avihu.
The dynamic of passing through death and returning upon the eighth day to the
sanctuary and G-d's presence, to full and pure life, reverses the linkage
between the eighth day and death in the story of Nadav and Avihu.
The
legal material reminds the Children of Israel of the ideal relation between
G-d's presence in the sanctuary and the categories of life and death. Rather
than holiness causing death, death causes distance from the presence of G-d.
The transcendence of death and affirming of life finds its concrete expression
in approaching the sanctuary and entering into G-d's presence.
May
it be the will of the Almighty that we merit to pass through the shadow of
death that hovers over us these days and return to full and holy life in the
presence of G-d."
(End of Quote)
We referred to this concept
of "The eighth Day" also in our previous Parashat Shemini, quoting
from Rabbi Tzwei, at Torah.org:
Rabbi
Tzwei – “The number eight [the title of this Parashah, named after the
introductory words of this Scripture portion] Kabbalistically refers to the “World
to Come” and therefore is used to define the events of the day of the erecting
of the Tabernacle, “bayom hashemini” [on the eighth day], for on this day a “New
World Order” was initiated.”
[We are also reminded of
this New World Order of the Kingdom of G-d in the metaphoric depiction by the
Succot Festive period, of the future Kingdom dispensation. The 7 days of
Succot (depicting the Marriage Festivities, as at Sinai, between G-d and His
Bride, are followed by “the eighth day”, the conclusion of the Torah annual
cycle with all its New World Order ‘symbolism’].
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Where
is the moral compass in our present social culture that allows such pagan acts
of violence to become a part of American and European social culture at all? When we consider that these two continents,
North America and Europe are the homelands of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House
of Judah in Northern Europe and America plus the southern regions of Gaul
populated by the Jewish prisoners sent to Rome after the destruction of
Jerusalem and Herod’s Temple, we begin to realize that without the affirmation
and participation of the Lost Ten Tribes and the Jews, paganism would not have
survived. As the descendants of the
Patriarch Jacob, we are humbled to realize that paganism is not out there; it
is within our own hearts and culture.
To the
ancients, this satanic cult ritual required a fire offering to the fire god,
Baal, the god of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. Yet Baal was
worshipped by the ancient Canaanites before the Children of Israel arrived into
the Promised Land. It was the Canaanites that were worshipping the god of Baal
that the G-d of Israel eventually drove them out of the “Land” or as the sacred
texts state; “disgorged the Canaanites from the Holy Land”.
The
worship of Baal underwent many transformations over the centuries. We find it
in the worship of the ancient Sumerian god called Enlil, later it became
identified with the “fires of Molech” and Marduk as from one civilization to
another it spread across the Middle East first as the sun god, and later known
as the god of fertility. The rituals used within all of these cultures carried
the same theme; an intense focus on the spring vernal equinox of the sun that
was seen as a time of rebirth. Always, this involved human sacrifice as
described in the Encyclopedia Mythica, under the title of “Baal”:
Encyclopedia Mythica
– “The Cult of Baal celebrated annually his death and resurrection as part of
the Canaanite fertility cult rituals. These ceremonies often included human
sacrifice and temple prostitution.”
The G-d
of Israel continued to warn his chosen people, but the Baal worship cult’s
tentacles had buried themselves deeply into the culture of the Lost Ten Tribes
of the House of Israel. It resurrected itself as “Druidism” noted in the 1st
century BCE writings of Julius Caesar when he tried, but failed to take military
control of the Isle of Britannia. Druidism with the Lost Ten Tribes of the
House of Israel was written vividly by BibleSearchers Reflections in the
article titled, “The Jewish Nazarene Culdee Yeshiva and the British Cymric
Druids.” As the
Encyclopedia Mythica further describes:
Encyclopedia Mythica
– “The religion of the god Baal was
widely accepted among the ancient Jews. Although it was put down at times, it
was never permanently stamped out. Kings and other royalty of the ten Biblical
tribes worshiped the god. The ordinary people ardently worshiped this sun god
too because their prosperity depended on the productivity of their crops and
livestock. The god’s images were erected on many buildings. Within the religion
there appeared to be numerous priests and various classes of devotees. During
the ceremonies they wore appropriate robes. The ceremonies included burning
incense, and offering burnt sacrifices, occasionally consisting of human
victims. The officiating priests danced around the altars, chanting frantically
and cutting themselves with knives to inspire the attention and compassion of
the god.”
From the ancient Phoenician
civilization of the Middle-East, the homeland of the Princess of Phoenicia,
Jezebel came the origins of the Mystery religions that cast its spell all over
the entire Levant. It was found in the
ancient Babylonian religion, and later in Persia with the rise of
Zoroastrianism. It was imbedded in the
ancient religion of Mithraism that had such a large impact with the rise of the
ascendency of the Roman Christian Church and today is imbedded within its apostate
cultic worship today. This was described graphically in BibleSearchers
Reflection article titled, “Cardinal
Ratzinger and the Rise of the Black Internationale”.
But the trail of Baal worship, we
have to admit closely followed the migration of the Lost Ten Tribes of the
House of Israel as they migrated from the lands of their exile in Northern
Khurasan (Northern Iran, Eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan) to the “land
of their present dwelling.” It included the “golden calf” worshipping Danites and
later the Scythians
of the North that traveled over the Black Sea and settled in the mountainous
regions of Southern Russia until they finally settled in the sparsely inhabited
regions of Northern Gaul called Scandinavia.
With the Lost Tribes came also the
cult of Baal. It was the Celts who observed rituals of Beltane (Baal) rituals
on May 1st that were all grounded in the occult concepts of
numerology; the knowledge of Magick.
Though the rituals of Baal appear to be different, according to anthropologists,
they all carried the same theme of numerology, fire and sacrifice.
Today’s political elite still
observe these cultic rites, but with one major difference; the rituals are now
carried out on innocent and unsuspecting civilians such as the Boston Marathon
in 2013, and transmitted across the world through the international mass media.
The masses watch with fear as the fire ritualistic events are broadcasted to the
progressively fearful and traumatically stressed populations.
One of the most famous of today’s culture
of Baal and Molech rituals is imbedded in the annual spring rituals of the
elite that is hosted in the famous redwood groves of California called the Bohemian
Grove. This grove is most
famously remembered as the cultic meeting place where the famous Manhattan Project was conceived in
September, 1942.
It was here that Ernest Lawrence, the
famous American physicist who developed the electromagnetic
separation method that allowed
scientists to enrich uranium by increasing its percentage of fissile U-235, met with
officers of the American military,
the president of Harvard University, plus representatives of Standard Oil and General Electric at the
Bohemian Grove. This led to the production of
the atomic bomb by the United States.
The Manhattan Project gave to the
world the ultimate “fiery sacrifice to Molech” when American airmen dropped Little Boy on the
city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, followed by Fat Man over Nagasaki on 9
August. When we look at the roles of the “fiery sacrifice” with Adolf Hitler and World War II, we have to also see this in the
perspective of Hitler and his cousins in the royal families of Europe in Great Britain and the
Netherlands that were allied and associated with the Rothschilds. Only then can we
begin to comprehend the horrendous implication of the ancient worship of Baal
and Molech by the descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel in this
one epic war called World War II (1939 to 1945). With its targeted annihilation
of the Jewish people in Europe, in what was called the “Final Solution”, this “fiery
sacrifice to Molech” engulfed the whole earth when 100 million military personnel
participated in military units from over 30 different countries that
selectively sacrificed the lives of 6 million Jews and between 50 to 75 million
other peoples, all to the satanic powers of Molech.
It also gave the world human family
that epic era of the fear of a global nuclear annihilation called the Cold War.
Let us not forget that this war was a war of brotherhood, between the Lost Ten
Tribes of the House of Israel living in America and Europe against the Red
Communists countries of Russia and China national revolutions were created by
the Jewish revolutionaries of Karl Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, and possibly Mao Tsetung.
Even the world of Ishmaelites is not immune for Benjamin Fulford called the
Saudi royal family as a “crypto-Jewish
Saudi regime:
Benjamin Fulford – “The
world’s military and intelligence community has finally figured out that
“Islamic fundamentalist terror” is run by Zionists and not Muslims. The
crypto-Jewish Saudi regime is also now under severe attack for its role in
financing mayhem and murder. All male descendants of the Original Saudi King
will be targeted for assassination if they do not cease and desist immediately,
according to several different secret societies, including the Green dragon.”
What Fulford is hinting to is the
secret ancestral genealogy of the Saudi Royal Family who trace their ancestry
not back to the family of Muhammad but rather to an Iraqi Jewish cereal
merchant by the name of Mordakhai
bin Ibrahim bin Moshe in the city of Basra. It was in the year of 851 A.H.
a caravan of Arabian merchants from Najd, from the Al Masaleekh Clan traveled
to Basra to purchase wheat, corn and other food supplies to transport back to
Najd.
They were enticed to take this
“Hidden Jew” back to Arabian Peninsula with them who fabricated his own
ancestral ties to the Al Masaleekh Clan also and later changed his name to Markan
bin Dir'iya near Al-Qateef. Today, the Saudi royal family are recognized officially
as part of the lineage of their Prophet Muhammad by a genealogical family tree
put together by Mohammad Amin Al
Tamimi- Director/Manager of the contemporary Libraries of the Saudi Kingdom and
paid 35 thousand Egyptian pounds by the Saudi Ambassador to Cairo in 1943; Ambassador
Ibrahim Al-Fadel to solidify the Saudi-Muhammed ancestral ties.
The
ancient biblical texts in the TaNaKh, depicts vividly the pagan ties to the god
of Molech to the rebellious Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel and their
brothers, the Jews of the Southern Kingdom of Judah. This intimacy with
paganism earned them the condemnation of the G-d of Israel for their offering
up even their won children to the fiery sacrificial offerings to Molech. This
led to the exile
of the Ten Northern Tribes of the House of Israel and later the destruction of Jerusalem
and the famous King Solomon’s Temple by the
Babylonians.
Jeremiah
7:28-34 – “The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares HaShem. They
have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name (Temple of
Solomon) and have defiled it. They have built the high places of Topheth in the
Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire (of Molech) -
something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.
So
beware, the days are coming, declares HaShem, when people will no longer call
it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter, for they
will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. Then the carcasses
of this people will become food for the birds and the wild animals, and there
will be no one to frighten them away.
I
will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride
and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land
will become desolate.”
Yet,
this was not just a Jewish problem, but also chronic rebellion by both the Northern
Ten Tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Jewish people of
the Southern Kingdom of Judah:
Jeremiah 32:26-35 –
“The the word of HaShem came to Jeremiah, saying: ‘Behold! I am HaShem, the G-d
of all flesh; can anything be hidden from Me? Therefore, thus said HaShem:
Behold, I am delivering this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylonia, and he will capture it; and the
Chaldeans who are attacking his city will come and ignite this city with fire
and burn it down, along with the houses upon whose roofs the people used to
burn incense to Baal and pour out libations to the gods of theirs, in order to
anger Me.
For the Children
of Israel and the Children of Judah have been doing only what is
wrong in My eyes since their youth; for the Children of Israel only anger Me with their handiwork – the word of
Hashem. For this city has aroused My anger and My wrath in Me from the day that
they built it until this day, so that I should remove it from My presence,
because of all the evil of the Children of Israel and the Children of Judah
that they committed to anger Me – they and their kings and their officers,
their priests and their prophets and the People of Judah and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem.
To Me they turned
their back and not their face, and, though I taught, arising early and
teaching, they do not listen to accept rebuke.
They place their detestation into the Temple, upon which My Name is
proclaimed, to contaminate it; and they built the high places of the Baal that
are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, at which to pass their sons and their
daughters to the Molech – which I never commanded them, nor did I ever
contemplate performing this abomination – in order to cause Judah to sin.’”
Yet,
this same god was known in ancient history as Nimrod the Sun god. It was King
Nimrod who offered Abraham and his brother Haran as a ritual offering
during the era of the Sumerian dynasty of Nimrod. Molech later became the Roman
god, Saturn (Saturn/Devil) whom the ancient Edomites of Vatican Rome worshipped
then and today.
As
reported in the last papal prediction according to the Prophecy
of St. Malachy, we can now better
understood meaning of the cryptic sayings concerning Vatican Rome’s last
prophesied pope, “Peter the Roman”, who was recently nominated in the
papal conclave as Pope Francis I. This prophecy speaks on how Pope Francis I as
“Petrus Romanus” and his flock, the Roman Catholic Church, will witness the
destruction of the “city that sits on seven hills”; Rome. Will it also be consumed in a fiery
conflagration?
Prophecy of St.
Malachi on the Last Pope, Peter the Roman –
“During the final
persecution of the Roman Christian Church, one called “Petrus Romanus will
reign (Peter the Roman), who will nourish his believers in many sufferings.
After that, the town of the seven hills will be destroyed and the
dreaded judge will sentence his people. The End!”
Yet it
is even more difficult to believe the evil and corruption that permeates Planet
Earth and the moral compass whose gyroscope has gone totally out of control as
continues to careen towards its final destruction. The sinister evil imbedded into the entire
religious matrix of Molech idolatry was not limited to either the Lost Ten
Tribes of the House of Israel with their Baal worship or war and fiery destruction, but is also alive and well in the Vatican, the
house of the royal families of Europe, and the higher levels of our governments today.
The
Jewish sages were very clear as to the destruction that the Canaanite idolatry
of Molech would do to the national culture of Judaism. Of interest, in the Book
of Leviticus in which we read of the strange fire and evil of Molech, we read:
Leviticus 18:21 –
“You shall not present any of your children to pass through for Molech, and do
not profane the Name of your G-d – I am HaShem.
It is
of interest that the sin of participating in the cult of Molech was the only
sin in this chapter that did not involve a form of sexual conduct. Yet, like immorality, to participate in its
activity contaminated the Land of Israel. Since the Land of Israel was holy, if
in any way your life and conduct profaned the sanctity of the “Land” it would
lead to your death, expulsion, or excommunication from the land. This is why
the Canaanites were expelled from “Land” or as the biblical text states; “The
Land became contaminated and I recalled its iniquity upon it; and the Land
disgorged its inhabitants (Canaanites).”
This
fact alone should give pause to any Arab Ishmaelite or the Arab Palestinians,
who want to believe that they are the ancient Canaanites, and therefore have
rights to live, own, and expel the Jewish people from the Land of Israel. The
“Land” disgorged” them and they became non-peoples in both the ancient and
modern world.
This
speaks volumes as to the fact that Orthodox Judaism is today a “culture of
life” and Islam is a “culture of death”. Involving one’s life in the culture of
Molech deprived them of their holiness, for in their holiness, they were
regarded as G-d’s temple and by refusing to participate in idolatry they also
sanctified themselves and by sanctifying themselves and avoiding evil, the
Divine One would also assist them in cleansing his own thoughts.
For a
person to offer their children’s lives to the fires of Molech was no difference
than parents who offer their children as suicide bombers to kill and destroy
other people. They refuse to believe in the sanctity of human life, and that
there is no greater mitzvah than to save a life. Islamic martyrs in the context
of Molech would rather destroy other people’s lives as the greatest blessing to
them to offer their sacrifice to Allah. In contrast, Jewish martyrs are
defenders of the Holy Name of G-d and the high and elevated state of Torah
righteousness.
Yet,
this was not just a Jewish or Islamic opposition of the worlds in which they
live, but the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel are today having to
account to the G-d of Israel to whom will they serve. For 3,700 years they have
lost their own identity, and it has taken the Jewish historians to uncover the
truth, that they are alive and well, hundreds of millions of them. The time for
their reclamation, redemption and restoration back into the House of Israel has
come.
Yet we
have to ponder, why is the United States government, representing the Lost
Tribe of Manasseh of the House of Joseph, today involved in a well orchestrated
“Blood Sacrifice to the Beast”? Is it a
coincidence that almost seventy years after the Nazi Storm Troopers annihilated
Jewish Resistant Fighter in the storm drains of Warsaw, Poland, the Boston
Marathon Massacre occurred?
Why was
the United States government involved when a Christian sect called the Branch
Davidians, living in a commune called Mount Carmel Center Ranch about nine
miles from Waco, Texas were raided by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms (ATF). A gun battle broke
out that killed four ATF agents. When the ATF failed to raid the compound, the
FBI set a siege that ended in a standoff lasting 51 days.
What is
most interesting is that the American president at that time was William “Bill”
Jefferson Clinton, known in covert Jewish circles as the Rothschild designated,
“Royal Boy Chosen”. He
was purported to become their messiah for their One World Federation. Here the
battles between a chosen royal heir for the New World Order and the Christian
country of American which he governed gives us a new significance; for both are
steeped in the occult world of satanic rituals.
So
under the order of President Clinton’s U.S. Attorney General, Janet Reno, the
FBI launched a raid that ended in a “fiery conflagration” that incinerated 83
men, women and children during what is known as the Waco
Siege of the Branch Davidians; a
Seventh-day Sabbath keeping Adventist messianic cult who were waiting the
coming of the Christian messiah?
When it
comes to premonition, was it a coincidence that one month before the Boston
Marathon, a popular American adult cartoon show titled Family Guy showed
a cartoon that appeared to predict many aspects of the Boston Marathon attack?
The main cartoon character of the show detonated two bombs and then went on to
win the marathon by killing the rest of the participants.
In
another episode titled, Turban
Cowboy, the main character
was called Peter, who allied himself with a terrorist who planned to blow up
numerous bridges in Boston. This was showed on Fox network and repeated for
several days. Here the images of the “fiery sacrifice” the involved hundreds of
Boston Marathon runners, bystanders and well-wishers graphically depicted the
same blood, scattered limbs in a chilling episode of carnage, blood and mayhem.
Yet, the amoral social culture in American watched with no reservations these
same scenes in cartoon form before the actual Boston Marathon. Yet, we wonder
why were they shocked when they witnessed them again but now in living reality.
As reported on “What does it Mean”, reported to be a U.S. Navy disinformation site,
reported the following:
What does it Mean – “The
numerological aspect relating to this Family Guy “predictive warning,” this report continues, lies in it being the
15th episode of this programme during its 11th
season…which coincides with this attack occurring on the 15th, which
is exactly 11 years since the Boston Marathon was run on the 15th of
the month. Also to be noted, this report
says, is the “blood symbology” of the
Boston Marathon route being 26.2 miles from start to finish, which,
coincidentally, matches the death toll of the 14 December 2012 Sandy Hook Massacre where
26 innocent victims were gunned down.”
Yet,
this is not much different than the same type of “fictional pre-warnings” that
were aired in American TV on March 4, 2001 that was titled the Lone
Gunman. Included in this
television drama, the World Trade Center in New York City was targeted by
remote controlled passenger jets and then, 6 months later on September 11, 2001
hundreds of millions of people worldwide witnessed the fiery inferno of the
Twin Towers in New York crumbling to the ground when 2,985 people died.
For the
remainder of the week, for 102 intense hours of media coverage, the world was
transfixed in its absorption of the aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombings.
The focus of attention drew in a vast array of FBI and counter-intelligence
reports centered on two young men, culled out of hundreds of people walking the
sidewalks near the finish line of the Boston Marathon who left-behind upon
which left the bloody remains of three dead, 180 injured, and a police officer
killed in a fiery exchange of gunfire at MIT.
It
would be hours later before the young Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev was found hiding in a tarp-covered boat in Watertown, Massachusetts
while the entire town was covered with fear that a murderer was stalking in
their neighborhood.
The
uneasy settling of the events in mid-April 2013 appears may have forever
changed the psychic of Americans. Added to 911 twin towers destruction, the “innocence”
of Americans is now gone. With the addition of the prophetic implications of
these events, a larger global and universal significance is now on the horizon.
Do we have any clue of the apocalyptic chaos that is ahead in our lives?
The
legacy of death and destruction to the human race appears to lay with the fires
of Molech. If Satan can get man to destroy himself, why is there a need for a
messiah or salvation from the G-d of Creation? By destroying man’s respect for
one another, that you would even give up your children to death, you also
destroy the “image of G-d” in which each of us were created to be; the
reflection of the divine archetype of life, love, and righteousness that we are
privileged to pass it on to the next of our generations.
Destination Yisra’el
– “…G-d permitted
meat-eating after the flood. Before the flood, the world had been “filled with
violence”. Perhaps violence is an inherent part of human nature. If
there were to be any humanity at all, G-d would have to lower his demands of mankind.
Let them kill animals, He said, rather than kill human beings – the one form
of life that is not only G-d’s creation but also G-d’s image…
Noah
offers an animal sacrifice in thanksgiving for having survived the flood. G-d
sees that human beings need this way of expressing themselves. They are
genetically predisposed to violence (“every inclination of his heart is
evil from childhood”). If, therefore, society is to survive, human beings
need to be able to direct their violence toward non-human animals, whether
as food or sacrificial offering. The crucial ethical line to be drawn is
between human and non-human.
The permission to kill animals is accompanied by an
absolute prohibition against killing human beings (“for in the image
of G-d, has G-d made man”. It is not that G-d approves of killing animals,
whether for sacrifice or food, but that to forbid this to human beings, given
their genetic predisposition to violence, is utopian. It is not for now but for
the end of days.
In
the meanwhile, the least bad solution is to let people kill animals rather
than murder their fellow humans. Animal sacrifices are a concession to
human nature (on why G-d never chooses to change human nature, see Maimonides,
Guide for the Perplexed, Book III, ch. 32). Sacrifices are a substitute for
violence directed against mankind.”
So the
ancient prophecy to the Orthodox Jewish Nazarene Christians appears to be in
the process of being fulfilled in front of our eyes, that at the time of the
end, the Red Marxist, Leninist, Communist, Islamic legacies would begin the
self-destruction of all social cultures on Planet Earth. This “Culture of
Death” was left behind by Genghis
Khan and Tamerlane
the “Scourge of God” that there would be at the “end of days” a Red Horse
and Rider carrying a Great Sword. He did not use the “great sword” to kill
the populations of the world, but that “all men would kill one another.”
With the
uneasy settling of the events in mid-April 2013, the Boston Marathon Massacre appears
may have forever changed the psychic of Americans. Added to 911
twin towers destruction, the “innocence” of
Americans is now gone. With the addition of the prophetic implications of these
events, a larger global and universal significance is now on the horizon.
As
written so eloquently in the fast selling book written by Rabbi Jonathan Cahn
from New York, titled, “The
Harbinger”, associating the birth
of America with the apostasy of its forefathers, the Lost Ten Tribes of the
House of Israel and their Jewish Illuminate Masonic heritage, it appears that
the fateful future of America will be one of political decline and destruction.
That finger of the Divine was part of
the America’s great heritage is a “given”. For all those who accept that the
G-d of Israel is also the King of the Universe, then we also will accept that
He is the One who gives life and gives death. He is the one who plants and also
uproots.
By
paralleling the rise of America with the rise of the apostate Northern Ten
Tribes of Israel suggests that like Adam and Eve, the Lost Tribes of Israel,
and the exile of the Jews from the Land of Israel after the fall of Jerusalem
in 70 CE, that with every “fall” or “exile” there is a “restoration” and
redemption”. The curse and expulsion of
the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel came from their rebellion and
apostasy, so also America will not be able to redeem itself. It will take the
G-d of Israel, who created life, and gives redemption to be the Divine One to heal
us from our pride, our arrogance, and our self-righteousness.
The
self destruction of the fires of Molech come upon the special chosen ones, who
lost respect for their divine imprint that made them so unique above all other
creation. Yet, it was the G-d of Israel who said to the House of Israel and the
House of Judah, that:
2 Chronicles 7:14 –
“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble
themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I
will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their
land."
America
will not be saved from herself, but Americans as well as any other peoples or
nationalities, who accept returning back harmony and fellowship with the Jewish
people and the Lost Children of Israel, and be willing to live by the precepts
of the Torah contained in the Hebrew-Judaic faith given to the Children of
Israel at the mount called Sinai, will be saved.
Christians
will not be saved of themselves for soon all institutional religions will be
destroyed except those who “keep the commands (mitzvoths” of G-d”, that were
given from the mount called Sinai, and have the “faith” not “in Jesus (Yahshua)”
but the “faith of Yahshua” who himself was a Hasidic Orthodox Jewish rabbi, a
prince of David, who lived his life above and beyond the letter of Torah law. This
is the same faith and the same Torah that is followed today by every Orthodox
Jew around the world.
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In the world of sin,
after the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, the cyclical
process of “Eden Lost and Eden Restored”, “Expulsion and Restoration” is as
much a part of the cycles of life as the cyclical wave patterns of the photons
of light in which we see, and the wave patterns of sound in which we hear. The
one long exile of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel and two exiles of
the House of Judah are all part of G-d’s Divine Plan of redemption and
restoration of His chosen people.
These real spiritual
imageries that have affected the lives of the House of Israel, and also the
House of Judah, will also become part of the pathway of the redemption of the
descendants Isaac’s brother, Ishmael. What we are seeing today is the last
dramatic act of the Drama of the Ages that will bring “salvation” to all that
are “safe to save” to live in the “world to come.”
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It was
on March, 1770 the British troops that were assigned to protect the English colonial
officers stationed in the city of Boston, the capital of the Province of
Massachusetts Bay were surrounded by a “mob” of colonists protesting the
harassment and abuses of the English government. They began to throw rocks at the
soldiers. Return fire by the English military forces on the Bostonians would
later be called the “Incident on King Street” killed three Bostonian men
and injuring others in which two later died. In history this event was known as
the Boston Massacre.
There
was not singular event that consolidated within the English “Lost Israelite settler’s”
minds the concept of revolution that lived in the 13 Original Colonies along the Eastern Atlantic
Seaboard of North American. These 13 states in the minds of the American
Forefathers represented the 12 Tribes of Israel plus the 13th tribe
for Manasseh, the double portion blessing given to Joseph (Yosef) from our
Patriarch Jacob (Yakov). Out of the aspiration of these colonists, independence,
freedom of speech and religion would become their primary aspirations.
The
“Incident of King Street” eventually erupted into the American Revolutionary War (1776-1783) and the Declaration of Independence adopted
by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. This violent conflict would not be settled between the
American colonists and the British Empire until Great Britain and their Indian
allies lost the 32 month War of
1812.
What is
now known in history is that the American Revolution plus the French Revolution came from
the loins of the British and Scottish Freemasons. These 17th and 18th century revolutionaries,
now known in part as the American Founding Fathers, were adepts of the Jesuit
Jew Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Bavarian Illuminati, Rabbi Jacob Frank
(Yakov ben Judah Leib Frankovich) whose followers were called the “Frankists”,
the Shabbatian protégé of Shabbatai Tzevi, with the money of the patron father
of the Rothschild Banking Dynasty, Amschel Mayer Rothschild.
Two hundred and forty
three years later, on April 15, 2013 the most American iconic event in the
United States, the Boston Marathon, came to a catastrophic end in what is now
called the Second Bostonian Massacre. Here ended the 117th edition
of the Boston Athletic Association’s mass-participation marathon when out of
25,000 runners that participated, Lelisa Desisa from
Ethiopia won the men’s division with the time of 2:10:22 and Rita Jeptoo from
Kenya won the women’s division with the time of
2:26:25.
Twenty
five minutes later at 2:50 pm EDT when the race time clock was at 4:09.43,
slightly more than two hours after the winners had completed the race, two
large explosions occurred near the finish line. The Boston Marathon was
disrupted by the two explosions alongside the sidewalks near the finish line
about fifty meters apart.
According to the press releases, three were reportedly killed, and at least 282 people
injured. Amongst the injured were at least 15 people whose lower limbs were mangled
so significantly that they had to be amputated. The race was halted after the
explosions went off.
Soon after a third explosion at Boston’s John F.
Kennedy Library, owned by the US National Archives, started. The fire was quickly
denied by authorities as a fire in the mechanical room that was quickly extinguished,
yet a JFK Library employee, Paul Yazbeck reported to the news that it was “definitely an explosion.”
With now some somber retrospection on the
Marathon explosions and the events that followed over the next four days, the
world was in rapt horror as one of the largest manhunts in the United States
history was unfolding. It was revealed that the “bombs” were made from pressure
cookers packed with ball bearings and nails. With more than 1,000 law
enforcement officers from 30 state and federal agencies, the manhunt began for
the worst terrorist attack on American soil since September 11, 2011.
The
dead were early identified as an eight year old boy, Martin Richard from
Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, Krystal Campbell, 29, who was waiting at the
finish line for her boyfriend to finish the race plus a Chinese citizen, whose
name was withheld by the request of the family through the Chinese consulate in
New York. The power of the blasts were massive as blast debris were discovered
later on nearby rooftops and embedded within the walls of the buildings.
Just
before the race, Boston Marathon runner, Alastair Stevenson reported that there were bomb squads, including bomb
sniffing dogs were seen patrolling the region just prior to the race. He stated that one police officer what was
happening, and reported that it was just a “training exercise”. This led this runner to believe that the
police were aware of a prior threat at the Marathon.
Unbeknowns to most Americans because of the
intense world attention that was still focused on the Boston Marathon massacre,
another fiery inferno occurred in a small isolated Texas town of West, near the
city of Waco. In the midst of the night a fiery conflagration began at the West
Fertilizer Plant. This fire continued to erupt throughout the day, yet with the
whistling sounds of a possible missile attack, suddenly a violent explosion
erupted and set off a 2.1 magnitude earthquake that was felt a hundred miles
away.
Of interest this explosion came only two days
after the Boston Marathon and only two days before one of the most formidable
and potent occult days of the year, on April 19, 2013 called the “Blood
Sacrifices to the Beast”. Unknown to most Americans, just about
fifteen miles to the west from the West Fertilizer Plant, as a crow flies, was the private ranch of former President George
W. Bush in Crawford, Texas. Nearby also was a huge munitions bunker that is
located there to protect the former president and his estate.
The international new media virtually
neglected this fiery conflagration that consumed left 15 dead and over 200
injured, plus the lives of 4 fire fighters seeking to find and save people. Also over 150 homes and businesses were
heavily damaged in West with over $100 Million estimated in damages.
While the international speculations were
rife on who caused the Boston explosion, the same international press was
virtually quiescent about the news that the fiery conflagration at the
fertilized plant that could have been targeted by a missile, a flying projective or
a drone strike that left a crater in the midst of the factory about ninety feet
across.
So we ask, who fired the missiles and what was its purpose to strike an isolated fertilizer plant? Few even considered that this fertilizer plant explosion may have also been linked to the Boston Marathon massacre until Benjamin Fulford wrote this on his weekly blog titled, “Three more major Terrorist Incidents threatened after Boston and Texas.”
Benjamin
Fulford – “A member of the Japanese Yakuza was contacted by members
of the cabal (Rothschilds) last week and told to inform the White Dragon
Society that “after Kennedy and Bush would come Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and
one other.” Since the Boston terror psy-ops included a bombing of the
Kennedy Library and the missile attack in Texas took place close to
the Bush ranch, the warning seems to be a hint that some major attacks linked
to these two other presidents and “one other,” were planned for the near
future.
Somebody has also placed a $1 billion bet on a major US
stock market plunge this week in what may be a sign of foreknowledge of further
major terrorist events, according to an MI5 source.
There is also evidence of a huge information war between
two major factions in the US over the bombing attacks in Texas and Boston. The
Department of Homeland Security (SS) Sabbatean mafia faction staged the Boston
attack in an attempt to create a psychological atmosphere favorable to martial
law, while the opposition inside the agencies clearly tried to sabotage this
attack and make it clear to all this was government staged…
In the US, the cabal corporate propaganda machine was
clearly dealt a vicious blow by the insider sabotage of the Boston bomb attack
psychological warfare operation. In one example directly known to this writer,
the MI6 operative “Alexander” called the Australian embassy in Tokyo one hour
before the Boston attack and warned them it was coming in a call that must have
been recorded as forensic evidence.
There was also a press conference for the corporate media
where it was to be announced that a single white male right-winger had been
arrested for carrying out the attack, according to pentagon sources. However,
when it became clear the scenario for this lone bomber had been leaked in
advance, a last minute switch was made to “Chechens.” In any case, so many
people have torn holes into the “official” story that there is no need to
repeat that here.
Rather, we need to realize the sabotage of the operation
means very powerful groups within the intelligence/military community are now
fighting against the cabal by sabotaging their psy-ops “events” like Sandy Hook
and now Boston. The sending of letters containing the poison Ricin to
politicians including Obama, is eerily similar to the sending of anthrax
letters after 911 and is probably also aimed at exposing the cabal by carrying
out obvious acts like this.
In addition to this, we have seen the huge downplaying by
the Sabbatean cabal corporate media of what was clearly a missile attack in
Texas very close to the Bush ranch there. This may have been intended to take
out a Bush military munitions dump, an MI5 source speculated.
There is clearly more in the works. The phone call I received immediately after the attacks warning about future attacks linked to Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton need to be taken seriously. The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was in Hong Kong when this warning was issued and relevant parties were warned of a possible attack against it. An earthquake in California is another possibility. Places associated with the Clintons include Georgetown University and Little Rock, Arkansas.”
There is clearly more in
the works. The phone call I received immediately after the attacks warning
about future attacks linked to Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton need to be taken
seriously. The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was in Hong Kong when this
warning was issued and relevant parties were warned of a possible attack
against it. An earthquake in California is another possibility. Places
associated with the Clintons include Georgetown University and Little Rock,
Arkansas.”
Consider
the following facts known to date
concerning the West Fertilizer Factory:
The West Fertilized
Company reputedly stored over 270 tons of ammonium nitrate, the same substance
that Tim McVeigh used to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in
Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. This Oklahoma bombing was only the small
amount McVeigh could store in his Ryder truck bomb, yet the fertilizer storage is
over 1350 times the amount that would require the oversight investigation of the Department of
Homeland Security. Yet, there were investigations
but not concerning the ammonium nitrate.
In 2007, a class
action lawsuit was filed against the Monsanto Company by The West Fertilize
Company for artificially setting prices for the week killer, Roundup. This set
up strained relations between West Fertilized and Monsanto, who had been
conducting business relations with each other for over ten years. Yet, five
years later a district judge has still refused to certify this case to go to
court. According to an analysis by a recent Wall Street Journal article analyzing the court records, over 30 lawyers and 12
firms were involved in this case. Yet, there was also a warehouse own by
Monsanto that was also storing ammonium nitrate on the same grounds.
Monsanto has today in
many people’s minds become the paradigm of evil, in their manufacturing of Agent Orange that
destroyed so many Vietnamese lives during the Viet Nam war. Yet the curse of
Agent Orange is still ravaging the lives of our American veterans who lived
through curse of this weapon of mass destruction. Of interest is the fact that
a Monsanto plant was destroyed also in West, Texas.
Yet Monsanto is
especially known for its hybrid genetically modified agricultural seeds such as
Roundup Ready alfalfa, canola, cotton with Bt, sorghum hybrids, sugar beets and
a whole array of genetically modified wheat. It was they, who forced all the
wheat farmers tilling the farms in Iraq, to turn over their seed grain, that
had been used since the beginning of time in the Tigris and Euphrates River
Valley, and to purchase Monsanto wheat, and the world may have lost one in the
coming apocalypse one of his most valued seed stock.
A “huge” emergency
preparedness drill was being prepared at the North Hills Hospital, a one hour
drive from the plant, at the time of the plant explosion just like the
government initiated drill was occurring at Boston.
Just like the Boston
Marathon massacre, a large number of FEMA trucks were spotted in the nearby
Waco, Texas region just before the explosion.
According to numerous
videos of the explosion, a fire was started first on the main fertilized
factory and then a streak of fire, a gigantic blast that cause also a 2.1
magnitude earthquake that was felt a hundred miles away exploded later.
Does
the linking of these three dates to the human sacrifices that occurred near the
powerful occult date of April 19 give us pause to consider the affect of the
cosmic war in the heavens as the forces of darkness led by the archangel of
death, HaSatan against the forces of light? Are we afraid to ask, what is the
significance and affect of the angelic wars in the second ‘spiritual’ heaven to
our lives today on Planet Earth? As the forces of the Divine gain ascendency
over the Satanic forces of darkness, can we once again witness that ancient
connect between heaven and earth coming back into living and literal reality;
Earthly Garden of Eden – Heavenly Garden of Eden, Heavenly Temple – Earthly
Temple in Heaven, and now the Wars in Heaven and the Wars on Planet Earth?
Concerning
the significance of the Massacre of the Branch Davidians, the Boston Massacre,
and the West, Texas Fertilizer Plant explosion with the beginning of the Shoah
(Jewish Holocaust) with the final extermination of the Jewish resistance in the
Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, let us look at the links between these four
events. They include the following:
April 19, 1943 at Warsaw, Poland when the Holocaust that
began in the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto ended in that city when the last of the
Jewish people who had not already been
taken by train to the concentration camps for their annihilation in the gas
chambers died in a fiery inferno in the storm drains of that city.
April 19, 1993 near Waco, Texas – Now fifty years
later, the Branch Davidians were cremated in a fiery inferno that resulted
in the loss of 83 lives; and now seventy years after Warsaw and twenty
years after the Branch Davidians were sacrificed, two more fiery infernos
occurred:
April 15, 2013, when two pressure cooker
remote-controlled bombs went off near the finishing line of the Boston Marathon
that resulted in 3 deaths, over 140 injured and more than 14 who lost their
lower limbs. This catastrophe was followed two days later days later; on
April 17, 2013, when a purported missile, flying
projectile or a drone strike was fired at the West Fertilized Plant, nearby to
the Bush family ranch in Crawford, Texas with fifteen dead, four fire fighter
lost their lives, and the remains of a 100 foot wide crater that was ten feet
deep is that legacy of a potential missile strike who purpose was still
unknown.
Within
the framework of Satan’s emissaries of evil on Planet Earth, representing the
dark forces evil, we must always be cognizant of the ancient satanic (pagan) rituals
that were centered on numerous days of the ancient calendar year. One of the most noted was the 13 week Spring
Equinox time period called in the satanic calendars; “minor Sabbaths”.
One of
the most potent of dates in the year is the period of time surrounding the date
of April 19 all the way to May 1 (May Day) which was called the “Blood
Sacrifices to the Beast”. This period
of time there would occur a “fire sacrifice” that would occur near or on the
date of the 19th of April. Let us look at a series of these dates as
noted in American and World history that occurred near or on the date of April
19. These dates were first analyzed in BibleSearchers Reflections in 2005 in
the article titled, “Cardinal Ratzinger and the Rise of the Black
Internationale” and now updated and
expanded for this article:
Video Clip of Second Explosion at the West Fertilizer Plant
There are 3 versions of the same
shot in this clip. The first clip is "as-is" from the original video
I received. The second segment is slowed down 90%. The third version is slowed
down 98% (be patient when watching. It is moving).... One person asked,
"Is this a missile coming in from the top left?" Does the explosion
blow through the building and move from left to right?
Important Dates in History to the “Blood Sacrifices to the Beast” near to the Date of April 19
April 19, 1775 - The Masonic-led Revolutionary War was precipitated by the Battle of Lexington and
Concord when British garrison troops were ambushed by armed revolutionary
colonists in Lexington’s town square and remembered as the “shot that was heard
around the world.”
April 19, 1871 – The Declaration
of the Commune of Paris started with an initiative on March 18, 1871 in the wake
of the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War. It became known as the Fourth
French Revolution. This communal
revolution ended the era of “old governments, militarism, officialism, the exploitation, agitation, the
monopolies, of the privileges, to which the proletariat owes its serfdom, the
fatherland its misfortunes and its disasters.” The assault upon the Commune of
Paris by the government forces called the Versailles, became known as the “The
Bloody Week” of La Semaine Sanglante.
It ended in the bloody conflagration that killed between 10,000 to 50,000
Parisians. This war became
the prototype for the future revolutionary governments of the future when the
Jewish anarchist Karl Marx in his 1871 pamphlet titled, The Civil War in France that was written during the Commune became
the prototype of all future Communists revolutionary wars initiated by Lenin
(Jew) in Russian, Mao Zedong in China in what has become called the emancipation
of the proletariat.
April 19, 1919 – The revolt
of the Sailors on the battleship “France” and other warships that were sent to
stop the advance of the Russian Red Army in World War I mutinied, and later called
the “Mutiny in the Black Sea near Sébastopol” from April 19-21, 1919.
In spite of promises of the officers, the mutineers were treacherously
arrested and imprisoned between 10-20 years in prison.
April 19, 1943 – The Jewish Warsaw Ghetto was invaded by 2000 heavily armed Schutzstaffel
troops (Nazi Storm Troopers) where the last of the civilian Jewish
population hid in underground bunkers and storm drains. Using incendiary flame throwers the Jewish resistant
fighters fought off the SS causing them to withdraw. The German’s
returned and set the whole ghetto on fire. This was the first salvo to the
Holocaust of the Jews with the sacrifice of 6,000,000 Jews, a “blood sacrifice”
that was associated with a fiery conflagration (World War II).
April 19, 1960 - The April 19 Revolution saw President
Syngman Rhee, the first president of
the Provisional Government of Korea and later became the anti-communist
President of South Korea fleeing to exile in Hawaii and the death of Vice-president
Lee Kee-bung by a family group suicide.
April 19, 1961 – John F. Kennedy led
the path into the “Failed Bay of Pigs” disaster when America invaded Cuba. The Cuban
freedom fighters were betrayed when promised air support was not
provided. Fidel Castro, a high ranking Masonic member overthrew the
government of Cuba. Forty four years later he is the last remaining
Communist dictator in the world. CIA was initially blamed and the CIA’s
inspector general’s report blamed the CIA for its arrogance, poor planning and
“almost willful bungling.”
April 19, 1971 – “Operation Dewey
Canyon III” started as hundreds of Vietnam Veterans against the War
in Communist Viet Nam begin an encampment on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
between April 19-23.
April 19, 1971 – Sierra Leone’s Proclamation as the Republic brought this African
state to its independence, but was also the site where the Lost Tribal European
government of Portugal, Netherland, France and English began slave trading in
an African regions where Africans had little interest in acquiring slaves, a
practice that brutally divided the African continent to this day.
April 19, 1994 – The
Jewish American Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger stated, “The New World Order cannot
happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single
component. Yes, there will be a New
World Order, and it will force the United States to change its perceptions.” (Henry
Kissinger at the World Affairs Council Press Conference, Regent Beverly
Wilshire Hotel)
April 19, 1995 – A massive car-bomb exploded at the Alfred Murrah Courthouse building in Oklahoma
City at 9:02 a.m. This explosive was used as a detonator
or a means to divert attention away from internal explosions within the
building. It was claimed that demolition charges were found on the failed
support columns which collapsed the entire side of the nine story federal
building. The casualties included 168 people including 19 children.
A decorated Gulf War veteran was later convicted and claimed retaliation for the 1993 Waco assault on the
Branch Davidian compound.
April 19, 1996 – Marine
Corp issues treatise against “right wing” extremism.
April 20, 1999 – The Columbine High School Massacre when two seniors, Eric
Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 students, one teacher and injured 21 other
students in a fiery inferno that involved a fire bomb to divert firefighters,
propane tanks converted to bombs placed in the cafeteria, plus 99 explosive
devices and bombs that were rigged in cars.
April 16, 2007 – The Virginia
Tech University Massacre when a senior, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32
people, wounded 17 others before committing suicide. This fiery massacre was
the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunman in American history. It was
also the worst act of mass murder of college students since Syracuse University
lost 35 students in the bombing of Pan Am
Flight 103, and the second deadliest act of mass murder in a school
campus since the 1927 Bath
School disaster.
April 19, 2006 – MarineCorp
issues treatise against "right wing" extremism.
April 15, 2013 – The Boston Marathon
Massacre occurred with its twin fiery explosions four days shy of
seventy years since the Jewish annihilation of the Jewish resistant forces in
the storm drains of the Warsaw Ghetto.
April 17, 2013 – Purported Missile Bombing and
fiery conflagration of the Fertilizer Plant in the City of West, Texas that was near the home
site of former President George W. Bush. It was reported that 15 people died,
over 200 injured plus the lives of 4 fire fighters seeking to find and save
people. With a major part of this small
town destroyed, the property damages to the 150 homes, apartments and
businesses that were destroyed or heavily damaged came with a catastrophic
damage estimate of over than $100 Million. Unknown
to most, the large ammunition dump protecting his estate of President Bush
could have been targeted but was spared.
According
to Black Magick Practitioners, occultic
sacrifices as was publically done with the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas and
later at Oklahoma City were witnessed by the world populations, yet most of
these blood sacrifices are private affairs that are usually done secretly.
These include the individual covens and will never see the light of day by the public. Yet, the rituals themselves always carry forth
three elements:
There must be human
sacrifices.
There must also
include a conflagration of fire, and
This event must carry
the elements of maximum trauma, intense stress, heightened mental anguish and
just sheer terror.
What we
can saw In Boston was a dual “blood sacrifice” attack that was initiated with a
conflagration of fire and smoke. It also
occurred within a critical 13-day period of time, requiring a “Blood Sacrifice
to the Beast” near to the date of April 19 and is now noted in American history
as the second attack upon American soil reputedly to have occurred by foreign
terrorists. Yet, we again ask a question; who were the handlers of these
terrorists?
Yet, is
there imbedded within our social culture the inclination to debase the lives of
people living in other cultures who do not ally themselves with our cultural
mores? Is it possible that our greed to gain control of the oil, mineral, and
strategic resources on earth has led the American Hellenistic culture to
devalue other people’s lives and with our “fiery sacrifices” of depleted
uranium munitions in times of war? Have we or our government leaders created a
religious and political culture that truly allows the fires of Molech to enter
into our lives?
We
shall explore these questions, as we explore deeper the “fire offerings” to the
satanic god of Molech.
If you want, Read the entire Series titled: The Boston Marathon and the Fiery
Cult of Death
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a part of the cycles of life as the cyclical wave patterns of the photons of
light in which we see, and the wave patterns of sound in which we hear. The one
long exile of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel and two exiles of the
House of Judah are all part of G-d’s Divine Plan of redemption and restoration
of His chosen people.
These real spiritual
imageries that have affected the lives of the House of Israel, and also the
House of Judah, will also become part of the pathway of the redemption of the
descendants Isaac’s brother, Ishmael. What we are seeing today is the last dramatic
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Weekly Bible Reading #25 - Year 5773 (2012/2013) – April 6, 2013
Parashat Shemini (Eighth); Leviticus 9:1-11:47
Haftarah; Ashkenazi - II Samuel 6:1-7:17
Sephardic -II Samuel 6:1-6:19
NOTE: Kol HaTor, in
its commentaries on the weekly Parashot, endeavors to search for and accentuate
the Torah Messages contained in the Parashot as applicable to the main Theme of
Tanach of the Return of the House of Israel, i.e. the Lost Ten Tribes of
Northern Israel and their Reconciliation with Judah to form the reunited
12-Tribed Kingdom of Israel.
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- The authors whom we quote from for this Commentary are not associated
with KOL HA'TOR and need not agree with our views expressed herein or in
our other publications. While we publish their views for its
relative value to the interpretation of the Parashah, KOL HATOR does not
necessarily agree with the views expressed by these authors.
The
following extracts from Rabbinic commentaries on Parashat Shemini have been
compiled into a comprehensive Commentary by Kol
HaTor with further comments between [ ]. As we read in the Parashat Shemini
written by Rabbi Eli Mansour titled, “Obeying
Torah Authority” on Daily Halacha.org,
we read:
Daily
Halacha – “Parashat Shemini tells of the inauguration of the Mishkan (the
Tabernacle) and the special events that were held to mark the “opening day” (on
the eighth day) of the Mishkan's operation. Moshe tells Aharon, who on this day
became the Kohen Gadol, to prepare a number of animals as his personal
sacrifice, and to instruct Benei [the Children of] Yisrael to prepare animals
for their sacrifice. Benei Yisrael's sacrifice included an Egel – a calf – as
well as a goat.
The
Sages explain that these two offerings served to atone for two different
sins: the calf (for worshipping of strange gods), of course, atoned
for … the sin of the golden calf, whereas the goat served to atone for the
sale of Yosef. Over two centuries earlier, Yosef's brothers sold him as a
slave to Egypt, and to conceal their crime they slaughtered a goat and dipped
Yosef's garment in its blood, so that it would appear as though he were killed
by an animal. On the day of the Mishkan's inauguration, Benei Yisrael atoned
for their ancestors' sin through the offering of a goat as a special sacrifice
to God.”
[The
‘selling of Yosef into slavery’ according to Rabbinic interpretation,
represents the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel’s exile into oblivion amongst the
nations. Yosef, through his two sons Ephraim and Menasheh, represents the
re-identifying body of 10-Israel in dispersion, which will return to the Land
in the End Time. Yosef’s life, his later rulership in Egypt under the Pharaoh
and his revealing himself to his brothers, represent the ultimate Return and
Reconciliation with Judah (the Jews) in the Redemption and the settlement of
the Promised Land of Greater Israel) ].
The work “Be'er Yosef” explains that both
these unfortunate events – the sin of the calf and the sale of Yosef – resulted
from the same mistake: disregarding the guidance of Torah leaders. As many
Rabbis explained, Benei Yisrael did not actually worship a golden calf.
Rather, they sought to create some kind of structure that would replace Moshe
as the source of guidance and instruction from God, the site at which God would
convey His commands.
Such an idea is not intrinsically wrong; in
fact, this is precisely the function served by the Mishkan. However, when Benei
Yisrael contemplated this idea, they consulted with Chur, one of the leaders appointed
to guide the people in Moshe's absence, and he opposed the initiative. But the
people were very enthusiastic about the idea to fashion the calf, and therefore
killed Chur for expressing opposition. Aharon, the other leader appointed over
the nation, had no choice but to acquiesce, in order to spare himself the same
tragic fate as his colleague. The severity of the sin thus lay not in the act
itself, but rather in the brazen disregard for Chur's authority.
Similarly,
Yosef's brothers acted as they did on the basis of sound Halachic reasoning. Yosef
had spoken negatively about them to their father, seemingly in an effort to
have them expelled from the family, and his dreams indicated that he
sought to rule over them, in violation of Yehuda's exclusive rights to
the monarchy. The brothers therefore convened a Beit Din (Rabbinical court)
and concluded that he is liable to the death penalty. They erred, however, in
not consulting with the Rabbinic leadership of the time – Yaakov, Yitzchak,
Shem and Ever. As in the case of the golden calf, what appeared as a valid and
warranted course of action was followed either without the guidance of the
Torah leaders.”
[The sin of the Northern
10 Tribes of Israel, centuries later, after the Hebrew nation had settled
in the Promised Land, was identical: They rebelled against the
judicial mandate of Judah (Micah 1:2-7) and set up their own
interpretations of Torah.
As a result G-d cut them
off from His Covenant and exiled them amongst the nations – but, with the
Divine Promise that He would regather them and re-unite them at the End of Time
with Judah, in fulfillment of His Promise and Blessing to Avraham of an
innumerable generations, and (Genesis 12:7; 13:16; 15:5), settled in
a vastly expanded land mass: The Greater Israel. With the historical guilt
record cleared, seeming disaster strikes the joyful celebrations at the inauguration
of the Tabernacle. Aharon’s two sons, Nadav and Avihu, both righteous souls,
are struck dead in the Tabernacle by ‘the fire of G-d’, for bringing untimely,
wrong sacrifice].
Rabbi Berel Wein – “After the seven
days of excitement and joy upon the consecration of the Mishkan and the
installation of Aharon and his sons as the priests of Israel devoted to the
service of God and humans, tragedy strikes the family of Aharon and all of
Israel. The commentators to Torah as well as the Talmud itself searched for the
causes that created this sad situation.
The questions underlying the events
described in the parsha of Shmini go to the heart of Jewish faith and
worldview. They require investigation and serious analysis. A review of
the opinions expressed in Talmud and by the commentators, do not at first
glance reveal any major transgressions on the part of Nadav and Avihu. True,
Aharon’s role in helping create the Golden Calf may explain his being brought
to grieving for his two eldest sons, but it was Nadav and Avihu who died, not
Aharon.
Small mistakes often lead to great
tragedies. And the Torah teaches us that personal failures that can be tolerated
in most humans are magnified and are not overlooked when they occur to people
in positions of power and leadership. The scale of Heavenly tolerance, so to
speak, is a sliding one, dependent on the status, accomplishments, abilities
and public position of the human person being judged.
There is a special sin offering
reserved for the leader of Israel. The accepted usual sin offering is
insufficient if we are dealing with the sins of leadership. This is one of the
key lessons of this parsha. God’s justice is personal and exacting. Nadav and
Avihu are the prime examples of this truism.”
Rabbi
Yochanan Zweig - “The Torah records that Nadav and Avihu brought an "eish
zarah" - "alien fire" into the Holy of Holies, a service which
only the Kohein Gadol was permitted to perform once a year on Yom Kippur.The
Ramban finds it inconceivable that Nadav and Avihu would perform such a
blatantly brazen act without authorization, and therefore offers another
interpretation.Nevertheless, the Sifra maintains that they did
enter the Holy of Holies.How can the actions of Nadav and Avihu be
explained?
Perhaps
even more perplexing is the Tannaic interpretation that Nadav and Avihu entered
the Sanctuary “shisuyei yayin” – “having imbibed wine”.Apparently,
they violated the commandment forbidding a person to perform the sacrificial
service while inebriated. Moshe Rabbeinu attests to the fact that Nadav and
Avihu were greater than himself and his brother Aharon; how can this behavior
be attributed to men of such stature?
The
number eight [the title of this
Parashah, named after the introductory words of this Scripture portion] Kabbalistically
refers to the World to Come and therefore is used to define the events
of the day of the erecting of the Tabernacle, “bayom hashemini”, for on this
day a new world order was initiated.Nadav and Avihu's error was
a result of their belief that this new world order indicated the perfection of
the world, created a utopian society.
In
a perfect world imperfection does not exist and therefore everything can be
used to serve Hashem at the highest level; no special sanctification or time
limitation exists to prevent a person from entering the Holy of Holies to
perform service to Hashem. However, the building of the Tabernacle marked only
the beginning of the process toward a perfect world, only a link to the World
to Come. Therefore, limitations and imperfections still existed.”
[Rabbinic interpretation of the Scriptures is done on 4
levels of biblical exegesis in rabbinic Judaism that ranged from the basic
literal to more advance interpretations. This is called PaRDeS that includes;
Peshat, the plain (simple) or literal reading; the
Remez, the allegorical reading through text's hint or
allusion; the
Derash, the metaphorical reading through a (Rabbinic
sermon's) comparison/illustration (midrash); and the
Sod, the hidden meaning reading through text's secret or
mystery (Kabbalah).
The study of Torah (and the
Bible) affects man’s consciousness in various progressive ways. This includes:
Da’yah
– knowledge, the initial stage;
Binah
– understanding; and
Haskel
– mind consciousness, convicting realization and effort.
This latter category of
consciousness is a stage of spirituality which progressive study of the Bible
can bring about. This, to Christianity, Ten Tribers and Hebraic Restorers may
be known as a religious experience or conviction which they refer to as
‘conversion’ (repentance), viz. spiritual conversion. In Judaism this condition
is better known as Teshuvah].
Let us now bring forth the
wisdom of Rabbi Pinchas Winston also from Torah.org on his sage counsel titled, “Learning
Perceptions” that came from the Parashat Shemini:
Rabbi
Pinchas Winston - “Haskel, [is derived] from the word seichel, which
means ‘mind’. Haskel, therefore, refers to a level of consciousness on
which a person becomes mindful of an idea, to the extent that it becomes an
axiom of his perspective on life. On such a level, violation of the idea is
a violation of self.
This is different from Dayah and
Binah, two lesser levels of awareness, which mean knowledge and understanding
respectively. Dayah is really just awareness of an idea before one actually
begins to understand its meaning or role in life; something that is a function
of Binah or understanding. Understanding something or even its consequences
alone is not necessarily enough to change a person’s path in life.
A heart attack or something similar,
God forbid, does change lives. To intellectually confront death lacks impact;
to experientially confront it is real enough to cause a person to identify
their errant behavior with catastrophic results. This has the capacity to
change a person’s life, and to force them to take responsibility for their
actions to the point of biting the bullet and quitting what they should have
quit a long time ago, or to start doing that which they should have begun doing
a while back.
This is the level of Haskel, or
Da’as. It is the level of intellectual realization on which an idea merges with
one’s mindset. A person has a difficult time living with himself if his life
runs contrary to the concept, which is what forces a person to eventually do
teshuvah [repentance, turning around].
If he doesn’t, then he has to shut
himself down emotionally, which can and usually will have extreme consequences,
such as, at best, becoming a hypocrite, and at worst, a sociopath. When that
happens, a person can do just about anything without any real sense of remorse,
making him a danger to society and himself.
It is only on the level of Haskel
that ideas become part of reality, and they make life exciting. Ideas that are
based in truth, when implemented, impact us and the world in which we live. The
more truth-based they are, the greater the impact they will have, some of which
is visible to us, much of which takes place in spiritual realms beyond our
ability to perceive.
This can be both exhilarating and
dangerous at the same time. If the idea being actualized is implemented at the
wrong time, or even in the wrong place, it can damage the world and the person
responsible. The intention can be good and the act great, but if the conditions
are wrong then the impact is wrong and destructive.
There is no question that Nadav and
Avihu, the two eldest sons of Aharon HaKohen, were great people. They learned
their Torah directly from the mouth of their uncle, Moshe Rabbeinu, and they
had been sanctified for their roles in the Mishkan. If they suffered from anything,
it was a little too much religious fervor, too great a desire to achieve Haskel
on some of the holiest ideas known to mankind.
They had been trained to connect to
God. They knew things that others did not, and could not. Officiating in the
Mishkan required more than obedience and a memorization of responsibility. It
required a deep and profound understanding of what was supposed to be
accomplished, and how. If they had been drunk on anything, it was on all of the
sublime knowledge they had been exposed to in a very short period of time.
It was only natural for them to want
to become unified with that knowledge, to experience what they had already
gained on the levels of Dayah and Binah on the level of Haskel. And, in time,
they would have done exactly that, with the permission of God, just as Adam …
would have been permitted to eat from the [Tree of Good and Evil] on the first
Shabbat, had he waited for Divine permission to do so.
For, G-d does not create knowledge
and then keep it away from man. What we are not supposed to know at all we do
not know about. What we are told about is something that we can know, but only
at the right time, when we’re ready to know it, and when history is ready for
us to learn it. To jump the gun is to bring about exactly the opposite of what
the knowledge is meant to do: bring us closer to G-d, and make life a Godly
experience.
This is also true of levels of
knowledge as well. We may already know about something on the level of Dayah
and Binah, but not yet on the level of Haskel. As hungry as we may be to make
that leap of knowledge experience, and we should be, we have to be careful to
not emotionally bite off more than we can chew at the time.
I believe that the majority of the
time people are ready for higher levels of knowledge, or at least could be, but
they do not pursue them. Instead, they accept their current level of
understanding and intellectual appreciation, and intellectually, and therefore
emotionally, stagnate.”
[The above Rabbinic analysis provides great guidelines to
re-awakening Ten Tribers and Hebraic Restorers. In fulfillment of Prophetic
Promise, these souls are finding (often on their own, by G-d’s Guidance as
promised) great revelationary Truths in the Bible. These discoveries
rocket them out of Churchianity and into the Wilderness, on the Way back Home
to the Promised Land. It also, logically so, boosts their personal egos.
This, unfortunately to the extent that many of them having
been burnt by the contorted teachings of their Church leaders have become very
hesitant about learning from established religious institutions. Also,
having been brainwashed against Rabbinic teaching while living in a society
which condemn the ‘man-made contortions of Scripture by the Rabbis’, a society
which generally hates Judaism for some or often no reason at all, these
restorers of Truth are very reluctant to fall under ‘man-made’ religious
domination once more.
This Parashah and these Rabbinic interpretations, presented
on the Sod level beyond the very limited extent of the ‘Written Word’, hold
invaluable guidelines and Divine reprimands for these discoverers of new-found
Truth, about the danger of extravagant zeal – even for the Truth – as with
Nadav and Avihu.
Now here, below, follows the spiritual remedy. Do
take careful and serious note!]. Rabbi Pinchas Winston continues:
Rabbi Pinchas Winston - “We are now
into the period of Sefiras HaOmer [the Counting of the Omer – i.e. the 50
days from Pesach to Shavuot, Pentecost], the goal of which is to develop a leiv
tov— a good heart. The 32 days from Pesach to Lag B’Omer is for
developing a heart (the gematria [i.e. the numerical value of the Hebrew
letters spelling of] leiv, or heart, is 32), so-to-speak, and the 17
days after Lag B’Omer, the gematria of tov, or good, is for transforming
our hearts into good hearts, as it says:
“He [Rebi Yochanan] said to them
[his students], “Go out and discern which is the best way to which a person
should cling.”
Rebi Eliezer said: “A good eye
(i.e., be tolerant of others).” Rebi Yehoshua said: “A good friend
(i.e., he should be one and have one).”
Rebi Yosi said: “A good neighbor
[from whom he can learn good traits].”
Rebi Shimon said: “One who considers
consequences [of his actions].”
Rebi Elazar said: “A good heart
[that will lead him to all of the above].” (Pirkei Avos 2:13)
If ever there is a time of year to
achieve a good heart, it is now. Ultimately speaking, it is about becoming real
with truth, which means knowing what you know not just on the level of Dayah
and Binah, but on the level of Haskel as well. That is when a person has difficult
time acting contrary to what he knows is the Godly way to behave.”
[A good starting point for those who are not conversant with
the above concepts of: Omer, Shavuot, Gematriah is to start learning about it
and the many related topics].
To strive for UNITY
In closing, Rabbi Yissocher
Frand with Torah.org makes the
following observation of the underlying Divine Call for UNITY in this Parashah
and its Message. He responds to the question: "Why is this symbolism (the
Goat that atones for Yosef's Sale) appropriate now at the dedication of the
Mishkan? Maybe it would have been appropriate when they left Egypt to have the
Paschal Offering be a goat rather than a lamb?"
Rabbi
Yissocher Frand – “The Oznaim L'Torah gives a very logical answer. The
underlying cause of the sin of Yosef's sale was unfounded hatred (sinas Chinam). Part of the function of the
Mishkan was to act as a unifying force
within the Jewish [Hebrew} people. That is why emphasis is placed on the
fact that it was "in the midst of the camp." The Mishkan was the
focal institution of the nation, geographically as well as spiritually. It served to unify Klal Yisrael [The
12-Tribed Community].
This year, unfortunately, because of our sins we all spent Pessach separately.
But G-d willing, the Temple will speedily be rebuilt and we will all spend
Pessach together in Jerusalem -- unified as a single and cohesive nation [i.e.
ALL 12 Tribes as required for the Redemption]. The Oznaim L'Torah quotes the
pasuk from Parsahs Terumah "The middle bar inside the beams shall extend
from end to end (min hakatzeh el hakatzeh)" [Shmos (Exodus) 26:28] This
phrase is symbolic of the ability to
unify diverse components of the people -- from the far left to the far
right --who can all come together and rally around a single national focus of
attention, i.e. -- the Mishkan.
Now, at the dedication of the Mishkan, whose purpose in part was to unify the people, was indeed the appropriate venue to achieve
atonement once and for all for that unseemly incident in the nation's history
which typified disunity within the
family -- the sale of their own brother (Joseph) into slavery.”
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This reunification will truly be the supernal Event of all
Times for it will entail Establishing Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of
the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and
preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel
and then the Redemption of All Israel.
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Latest word from Israel from Kol Ha Tor
Director, Ovadyah Avrahami:
“This is 2nd in a series of Blessings observed in Israel
since Pesach. Is this the year of Blessing; the start of the Blessings foretold
by HaShem for the Time of gathering in the nation?
Surely this places His Nation under obligation for reciprocal Thanksgiving
Teshuvah ('turn around') especially in this time when our rulers are NOT tuned
in on the Will of HaShem, but rather on the will of Obama and the nations for
Israel - even for the interest of our enemies? In this respect, Jews are great exemplary executors of the NT "turn the other
cheek" (which Judaism does NOT interpret in Christian terms). Whatever the
case - the Blessings are coming!
Since Independence Day from last Monday, April 15 to
Shabbat on April 20, 2013 we have had untimely rains, more than the average
summer volume for a week! In fact, we
are back on our full winter clothing after summer had been breaking around
Pesach time!
I remember well in the 80’s, when we first came to Israel
on Aliyah. Summer would beat down relentlessly for 8 months a year without a
cloud in the sky. The seasonal change
over at end summer and end winter would take no longer than on e week. Over the
last few years we have noted a definite change in all these weather
patterns. Now abundant summer rains
after Independence day and back to winter.
This is time for Thanksgiving - and 10-Israel should join
with Judah in this celebration. HaShem's favor cannot be bought by our
'righteousness' - but, we surely could stand guilty of throwing His Kindness
and Blessings back in His Face, or for taking it simply as for granted, leaving
His Interest to find its own success.”
May His nation and people and all mankind
exalt Him!
May His people help tirelessly to build His Kingdom!
Ovadyah Avrahami
Destination Yisrael - During this weekend,
the storms and rains did wonders for the Sea of Galilee as she continued to
inch upwards from the water tables of the once “black line” and now standing at
212.12 meters upwards of 35 millimeters in one week. Reported storm, hail and
strong winds also caused significant damage upwards to NIS 35 million of damage
to fields of produce, that include avocados, citrus, fruits and vegetables,
field crops and ornamental plants plus hail damage that also did extensive
damage to numerous outdoor nurseries. These figures came from KANAT, the
insurance for natural damages in agriculture according to survey in 400
different points of crop damages.
Between the dates of
February 23 to March 4, 2013, the Mountain of Israel in Shomron and Judea
garnered the largest gains in water between 150 to 200 centimeters of water,
plus another 130-160 millimeters of rain water in Galilee and the Golan Heights
region to the northeast.
It appeared that the
final divine blessing of the “Latter Rain” may now be upon us, and will be
exemplified in a complete climate change in the Land of Israel. What we may be
witnessing is the prophetic fact that the Land of Israel and throughout the
regions of the future Greater Israel will again become a “Land flowing with
Milk and Honey”, not just by Jewish agricultural ingenuity but by the direct
blessings that Israel will be tectonically moved into a new latitude and
longitude and soon become again a tropical paradise. This fact dovetails with
the prophetic end time messages of Joel and Zechariah:
Joel
2:23
– “Be glad then ye
children of Zion and rejoice in the Lord your God: for He hath given you the
former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the
former rain, and the latter rain in the first month” [Thus Nissan and the
beginning of Pesach (Passover) season].
Zechariah
10:1 –Ask the Lord for Rain in
the time of the Latter Rain.The Lord will make flashing clouds;He will give them Showers of Rain,Grass in the Field for
Everyone.
And then we must take
another look at the famous prophecy of the Last Seven Years before the Coming
of the Messiah by the famous Prophecy
of Rabbi Yochanan ben Zaccai of Yavnah after the city of Jerusalem and the Holy
Temple were destroyed in 70 CE:
Sanhedrin 97a – “Rebi Yochanan ben Zaccai of Yavnah
said: In the generation that Ben Dovid will come, talmidei chachamim, the
“pupil of wisdom” known as the Torah sage or scholar, will decrease, and the
eyes of the remainder will protrude from sighing and sorrow; many chastisements
and many evil decrees will be renewed; one will not cease before another
begins.”
Today we can begin to perceive the
unfolding drama of the last few years before the coming of the Messiah son of
David (Maschiah ben Dovid). Now that we know when
the fifty year Jubilee Cycles will end, it now appears that the new Messianic
Age will begin in the year of 2017; according to the 13th century
prophecy by “Rabbi
Judah ben Samuel of the last 10 Jubilees before the revealing of the Messiah”.
Rabbi Judah ben Samuel - “When the Ottomans
(Turks) – who were already a power to be reckoned with on the Bosporus in
the time of Judah Ben Samuel – conquer Jerusalem they will rule over
Jerusalem for eight jubilees. Afterwards Jerusalem will become no-man’s
land for one jubilee, and then in the ninth jubilee it will once again
come back into the possession of the Jewish nation – which would signify
the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
Then we complete the
Prophecy of Rabbi Judah ben Zaccai of Yavneh of the last Seven Years before the
coming of the Messiah as we read these words:
In the first year (2009 starting with Rosh Hashanah 2008),
the following prophecy in Amos 4:7 will be fulfilled “I caused it to rain on
one city, but, on another city, I did not cause it to rain.
In the second year (2010, starting with Rosh Hashanah 2009),
there will be a “slight famine” in which according to Rashi, “no place will be
completely satisfied”.
In the third year (2011 starting with Rosh Hashanah 2010),
“famine will be great, and men, women, children, pious people, and men of good
deeds will die; Torah will be forgotten by those who learned it.”
In the fourth year (2012, starting with Rosh Hashanah 2011),
“some will be satiated while others are not.”
In the fifth year (2013, starting with Rosh Hashanah 2012),
there will be plenty and people will eat, drink, and be joyous, and the Torah
will return to those who learned it.”
In the sixth year (2014, starting with Rosh Hashanah 2013),
there will be voices which according to Rashi depict either the blowing of the
shofars (war) or the hints and voices about the coming of the messiah.
In the seventh year (2015, starting with Rosh Hashanah
2014), there will be war.”
The eighth year will be the Year of the Messiah when it will be expected that he will be fully revealed by the G-d of Israel in the year beginning with Rosh Hashanah 2015 and Planet Earth’s calendar year of 2016. The inaugural reign of King Messiah will begin as all the kings of Israel in the next year when the Jubilee Year ends on Rosh Hashanah 2016. Will we enter the new era of the Messiah in the Jewish Year 5777 (5000 + 777) or the Planet Earth’s calendar year of 2017?
To the Jews of the
Land of Israel, by Rosh Hashanah, you will be fully in perception that the G-d
of Israel is holding out His hand of mercy to you and the Land of Israel. At that time we will then see the fulfillment
of the prophetic promise of Ezekiel given to him by the G-d of Israel (Ezekiel
36) to be given to the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel; the land of
Israel will be restored to Gan Eden, the restoration of the Garden of Eden.
Also at the time will
be the great ingathering of “All Israel”; the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of
Israel plus the ingathering of all the Jews of the diaspora. Hundreds of
millions of Lost Israelites will be returned to the “land of their forefathers
and return in love and fellowship with their brothers the Jews of the House of
Israel.
Ezekiel
36:22-23, 24-28 (parts); 33- - “Therefore, tell the house of Isra’el that
Adonai Elohim (L-rd G’d) says this:I am not going to do this for your sake, house of Isra’el, but for the sake
of my holy name, which you have been profaning among the nations where you
went. I will set apart my great name to be regarded as holy, since it has
been profaned in the nations – you profaned it among them. They will know that I
am Adonai,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘when, before their eyes, I am set apart
through you to be regarded as holy.
For
I will take you from among the nations, gather you from all countries,
and return you to your own soil. Then I will sprinkle clean water upon
you…I will cleanse you from your uncleanliness…I will give you a new heart and
put a new spirit inside your…You will live in the land I gave to your
ancestors. You will be my people, and I will be your G-d…
When
the day comes for me to cleanse you from all your guilt, I will cause cities
to be inhabited and the ruins to be rebuilt. The land that was desolate
will be tilled, whereas formerly it lay desolate for all passing by to see.
They will say, ‘the land that used to be desolate has become like Gan Eden
(Garden of Eden)…Then the nations around that remain will know that I,
Adonai, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was abandoned. I, Adonai,
have spoke; and I will do it!”
If that
fact does not make your heart palpitate, will anything else?
************
The G-d of Israel is
working with imperfect people in order to restore this planet to a messianic
era in which our lives can be focused on holiness, righteousness and justice.
If so, you might desire to reconnect with the Biblical portrayals of what is
and will be happening in your near future.
This Biblical portrayal
includes Prophecies that the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel are about to
return to the Land of their Biblical Inheritance. This is Divine Destiny in
living reality as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel return to their Homelands first
in Shomron (Samaria), Israel.
If you want to learn
more, Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”, the Voice of the Turtledove. Here
is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the
imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all
Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times
will entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the
Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and
preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel
and then the Redemption of All Israel.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”,a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House
in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost
Tribers of the House of Israel.
Weekly Bible Reading
#24
- Year 5773 (2012/2013)
– March 23, 2013
Parashat Tzav (Command!): Leviticus 6:1 - 8:36
Haftarah: Jeremiah 7:21-8:3; 9:22-23
NOTE: Kol HaTor, in its commentaries on
the weekly Parashot, endeavors to search for and accentuate the Torah Messages
contained in the Parashot as applicable to the main Theme of Tanach of the
Return of the House of Israel, i.e. the Lost Ten Tribes of Northern Israel and
their Reconciliation with Judah to form the reunited 12-Tribed Kingdom of
Israel.
DISCLAIMER
- The authors whom we quote from for this Commentary are not associated
with KOL HA'TOR and need not agree with our views expressed herein or in
our other publications. While we publish their views for its
relative value to the interpretation of the Parashah, KOL HATOR does not
necessarily agree with the views expressed by these authors.
This year, Parashat Tzav coincides
with Shabbat HaGadol, the
Sabbath preceding Pesah.
The Parashah describes the sacrificial offerings and rituals to be performed in
the Tabernacle or Temple by the nation, in order to maintain a close
relationship with G-d. When Tzav coincides with Shabbat HaGadol,
the normal Haftarah from Jeremiah 7:21-8:3; 9:22-23 is replaced by Malachi 3:4-24 (which is Malachi
3:24-4:6 in non-Hebrew Version).
This Haftarah from Jeremiah
is disturbingly condemning of Judah, specifically. It raises perplexing
questions about the entire Sacrificial System and, of course, the problem that
for the last 2000 years Judah was not able to bring Sacrifices, due to the destruction
of the Temple and the Jewish Exile.
Jeremiah 7:28-34 – “The people
of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares HaShem. They have set up their
detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it. They
have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their
sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my
mind.
So beware, the days are coming, declares HaShem, when
people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the
Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no
more room. Then the carcasses of this people will
become food for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to
frighten them away. I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and
to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of
Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.”
Jeremiah 8:1-3 - “At that
time, declares HaShem, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones
of the priests and prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be
removed from their graves. They will be exposed to the
sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and
served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped.
They will not be gathered up or buried, but
will be like dung lying on the ground. Wherever I banish them, all
the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life, declares HaShem
Almighty.”
Jeremiah 7:22-23 – “When I brought your
forefathers out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not give them commands about
burnt offerings and sacrifices, but I gave them this command:
‘Obey me, and I will be your
G-d and you will be My people. Walk in all the ways I command you that it may
go well with you.’”
Britain's Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks – “Commentators
have been puzzled by the glaring contradiction between these words and the
obvious fact that G-d did command the Israelites about sacrifices after
bringing them out of Egypt. Several solutions have been offered.
According to Maimonides, the sacrifices
were a means, not an end, to the service of G-d. Radak argues that sacrifices
were not the first of G-d’s commands after the exodus; instead, civil laws
were. Abarbanel goes so far as to say that initially G-d had not intended to
give the Israelites a code of sacrifice, and did so only after the sin of the
Golden Calf. The sacrifices were an antidote to the Israelites’ tendency to
rebel against G-d.
The simplest explanation is to note that the
Hebrew word ‘lo’ does not invariably mean “not”; sometimes it means “not only”
or “not just”. According to this, Jeremiah is not saying that G-d did not
command sacrifices. He did, but they were not the sole or even most important
element of the religious life. The common denominator of the prophetic critique
of sacrifices is not opposition to them as such, but rather an insistence that
acts directed to G-d must never dull our sense of duty to mankind. Micah gave
this idea one of its most famous expressions:
Micah 6:6-8 (parts) – “With what shall I
come before HaShem and bow down before the exalted G-d?...Will HaShem be
pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil?...He has shown
you, O man, what is good. What does HaShem require of you:
To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your G-d.”
Yet the question remains. Why
sacrifices? To be sure, they have not been part of the life of Judaism since
the destruction of the Second Temple, almost 2,000 years ago. But why, if they
are a means to an end, did G-d choose this end? This is, of course, one of the
deepest questions in Judaism, and there are many answers. Here I want explore
just one, first given by the early fifteenth century Jewish thinker, R. Joseph
Albo, in his Sefer ha-Ikkarim.
Albo’s theory took as its starting point, not
sacrifices but two other intriguing questions. The first: Why, after the flood,
did G-d permit human beings to eat meat? (Genesis 9: 3-5). Initially, neither
human beings nor animals had been meat-eaters (Gen. 1: 29-30). What caused G-d,
as it were, to change His mind?
The second: What was wrong with the
first act of sacrifice -- Cain’s offering of “some of the fruits of the soil”
(Gen. 4:3-5). G-d’s rejection of that offering led directly to the first
murder, when Cain killed Abel. What was at stake in the difference between Cain
and Abel as to how to bring a gift to G-d?
Albo’s theory is this. Killing
animals for food is inherently wrong. It involves taking the life of a
sentient being to satisfy our needs. Cain knew this. He believed there was a strong
kinship between man and the animals. That is why he offered, not an animal
sacrifice, but a vegetable one (his error, according to Albo, is that he should
have brought fruit, not vegetables – the highest, not the lowest, of non-meat
produce).
Abel, by contrast, believed that there
was a qualitative difference between man and the animals. Had G-d not told the
first humans: “Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over
every living creature that moves in the ground”? That is why he brought an
animal sacrifice. Once Cain saw that Abel’s sacrifice had been accepted while
his own was not, he reasoned thus. If G-d (who forbids us to kill animals for
food) permits and even favors killing an animal as a sacrifice, and if (as Cain
believed) there is no ultimate difference between human beings and animals,
then I shall offer the very highest living being as a sacrifice to G-d,
namely my brother Abel. Cain killed Abel not out of envy or animosity but
as a human sacrifice.
That is why G-d permitted meat-eating after
the flood. Before the flood, the world had been “filled with violence”.
Perhaps violence is an inherent part of human nature. If there were to
be any humanity at all, G-d would have to lower his demands of mankind. Let
them kill animals, He said, rather than kill human beings – the one form of
life that is not only G-d’s creation but also G-d’s image. Hence the
otherwise almost unintelligible sequence of verses after Noah and his family
emerge on dry land:
Genesis 8:20-22 – 9:1,3,6 (parts) – “Then Noah built an
altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he
sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and
said in his heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even
though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood…”
According to Albo the logic of the
passage is clear. Noah offers an animal sacrifice in thanksgiving for having
survived the flood. G-d sees that human beings need this way of expressing
themselves. They are genetically predisposed to violence (“every
inclination of his heart is evil from childhood”). If, therefore, society is to
survive, human beings need to be able to direct their violence toward
non-human animals, whether as food or sacrificial offering. The crucial
ethical line to be drawn is between human and non-human.
The permission to kill animals is accompanied by an absolute prohibition
against killing human beings (“for in the image of G-d, has G-d made man”.
It is not that G-d approves of killing animals, whether for sacrifice or food,
but that to forbid this to human beings, given their genetic predisposition to
violence, is utopian. It is not for now but for the end of days.
In the meanwhile, the least bad
solution is to let people kill animals rather than murder their fellow humans.
Animal sacrifices are a concession to human nature (on why G-d never chooses to
change human nature, see Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed, Book III, ch.
32). Sacrifices are a substitute for violence directed against mankind.”
The contemporary thinker who has done most to
revive this understanding (without, however, referring to Albo or the Jewish
tradition) is René Girard, in such books as Violence and the Sacred, The Scapegoat, and Things Hidden since the
Foundation of the World. The common denominator in sacrifices, he
argues thus:
René Girard – “…internal violence –
all the dissensions, rivalries, jealousies, and quarrels within the community
that the sacrifices are designed to suppress. The purpose of the sacrifice is
to restore harmony to the community, to reinforce the social fabric. Everything
else derives from that." (Violence
and the Sacred, pg. 8).
The worst form of violence within and
between societies is vengeance, “an interminable, infinitely repetitive
process”. Hillel (whom Girard also does not quote) said, on seeing a human
skull floating on water, said in Avot 2:6:
Rabbi Hillel the Great (Avot 2:6) – “Because
you drowned others, they drowned you, and those who drowned you will in the end
themselves be drowned”
Sacrifices are one way of diverting the
destructive energy of revenge. Why then do modern societies not practice
sacrifice? Because, argues Girard, there is another way of displacing
vengeance:
René Girard – “Vengeance is a
vicious circle whose effect on primitive societies can only be surmised. For us
the circle has been broken. We owe our good fortune to one of our social
institutions above all: our judicial system, which serves to deflect the menace
of vengeance. The system does not suppress vengeance; rather, it
effectively limits itself to a single act of reprisal, enacted by a sovereign
authority specializing in this particular function. The decisions of the
judiciary are invariably presented as the final word on vengeance.” (Ibid.
pg. 15)
(End of Quote)
Not only does Girard’s theory re-affirm
the view of Albo. It also helps us understand the profound insight of the
prophets and of Judaism as a whole. Sacrifices are not ends in themselves, but
part of the Torah’s programme to construct a world redeemed from the otherwise
interminable cycle of revenge. The other part of that programme, and G-d’s
greatest desire, is a world governed by justice. That, we recall, was His first
charge to Abraham, to “instruct his children and his household after him to
keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just.” (Genesis 18:19).
Have we therefore moved beyond that stage in human history in which animal
sacrifices have a point? Has justice become a powerful enough reality that we
need no longer need religious rituals to divert the violence between human
beings? Would that it were so!
In his book, The Warrior’s Honour (1997), Michael Ignatieff tries to understand
the wave of ethnic conflict and violence (Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Rwanda)
that has scarred the face of humanity since the end of the Cold War. What
happened to the liberal dream of “the end of history”? His words go the very
heart of the new world disorder:
Michael Ignatieff – “The chief moral
obstacle in the path of reconciliation is the desire for revenge. Now,
revenge is commonly regarded as a low and unworthy emotion, and because it is
regarded as such, its deep moral hold on people is rarely understood. But revenge
– morally considered – is a desire to keep faith with the dead, to honour their
memory by taking up their cause where they left off. Revenge keeps faith
between generations…
This cycle of intergenerational recrimination has no logical end…But it is the
very impossibility of intergenerational vengeance that locks communities into
the compulsion to repeat…
Reconciliation has no chance against vengeance unless it respects the
emotions that sustain vengeance, unless it can replace the respect entailed
in vengeance with rituals in which communities once at war learn to mourn their
dead together. (The Warrior’s Honour, pg.
188-190)
Far from speaking to an age long gone and
forgotten, the Laws of Sacrifice tell us three things as important now
as then:
First, violence is still part of human
nature, never more dangerous than when combined with an ethic of revenge;
Second, rather than denying its
existence, we must find ways of redirecting it so that it does not claim yet
more human sacrifices; and
Third, that the only ultimate
alternative to sacrifices, animal or human, is the one first propounded
millennia ago by the prophets of ancient Israel. No one put it better than
Amos:
Amos 5:23-24 – “Even though you bring Me burnt offerings and offerings of grain, I will not accept them…but let justice roll down like a river, and righteousness like a never-failing stream.”
(End of Quote)
Shabbat HaGadol and the Healing Message
of the Malachi Parashah
Ismar
Schorsch – “Malachi, who lived in Judea some
time after the return from the Babylonian exile, was the last of the prophets
to make it into the Hebrew canon. We have but a few specimens of his message.
His final words, which constitute our haftarah, relate to the end of days, a
devastation that will spare only those who have remained faithful to God.
The return of Elijah, the prophet who
never died, will both foretell the impending doom as well as provide salvation
from it. In speaking of that day, Malachi uses the Hebrew word “gadol(great)”:
Malachi 3:23 – “So, I will send the
prophet Elijah to you before the coming of the awesome (gadol), fearful day of the
Lord.”
Malachi 3:24 – “He shall reconcile
parents with children and children with their parents, so that when I (the Lord
of Hosts) come, I do not strike the whole land with utter destruction.”
In short, the onset of the Messianic
Era begins at home with Familial Reconciliation.”"
(End of Quote)
In these Times of the
reawakening and Return of the House of Israel, we can look at these
"familial reconciliations" also as applying to the Greater Family
of Israel: The House of Judah and the House of Israel; the proverbial
'Prodigal Son" and the "Faithful Son".
Similarly, we can apply the following recommendations to the desperately poor
relationship between the two Houses of the Family of G-d (The House of Judah
and the House of Ephraim (Lost 10-Israel). In a commentary on Parashat Tzav, Jill
Minkoff of The Acadamy of Jewish Learning notes as follows:
Jill Minkoff – “Malachi’s verses also
speak to this relationship (with G-d) and are as poignant today as during his
lifetime. Rev. Dr. A. Cohen, in commentary on The Twelve Prophets,
describes the Jewish community of Malachi’s era as negligent: the Temple
service was in disrepute, Temple priests were careless with their duties,
people were not tithing appropriately, there was general skepticism and
indifference with regard to religion, morals were lax, and divorce and
intermarriage were common (Dr. A. Cohen,
pg. 335).
Gunther Plaut, in The Haftarah Commentary,
likens this to contemporary times: we often doubt G-d’s presence and justice,
there is instability within communities, and the rate of divorce and
intermarriage has increased (Gunther Plaut pg. 576). With these similarities
across time, Malachi’s messages are still important and meaningful to us. In
Malachi 3:6-7, G-d states:
Malachi 3:6-7 – “…I am
HaShem - I have not
changed… From the very days of your fathers you have turned away from My laws…Turn back to Me, and I will turn back to
you…” [These are very comforting assurances after the Divine Condemnations
and utter Rejections of the normal 'Jeremiah Haftarah'].”
These are words of hope. G-d does not and has not
changed; yet G-d can and is willing to “turn back”, make teshuvah, just as humans can. Cohen emphasizes
that G-d wants (us) to turn from apathy and “rekindle” the spirit of religion;
G-d is not necessarily concerned with the specific detail of ritual (as
found in Parashat Tzav), but with ritual
spirit that shows reverence to G-d (336). This ritual spirit, a process of teshuvah,
is not easy.
“How shall We turn Back?”
In Malachi [3:7]), one is able to uncover the following
seven-step process for teshuvah:
Step 1:
Acknowledge that one has turned away from G-d (3:4-5).
Step 2:
Determine whom the problem involves and who will need to take
the corrective action (3:5-7).
Step 3:
Determine how to take the corrective actions (3:8-9).
Step 4:
Know the reward for changing back to G-d’s ways (3:10-12).
Step 5:
Know that G-d is aware of the current realities and barriers to change
(3:13-16).
Step 6:
Know the consequences of not changing (3:17-21).
Step 7:
Know what to do and do it
(3:22-24).
When Elijah appears (and hopefully before), reconcile
relations between parent and child into a vision of family “unity and
affection” (Plaut pg. 579). Yet, family reconciliation is difficult. Rabbi
Missaghieh points out the immense nature of this challenge. There are no
demonstrations of this teshuvah in biblical narration; so there are no
“good old days” to look back upon and from which to learn (ibid pg. 288).
For us, other additions to this process may include being
aware that a change is needed, understanding the laws of Moses and Israel,
determining how to live according to these laws and rules, embracing the need
to foster family unity, and living accordingly. It is not an easy task. It
never has been.
We, the children of Jacob, must make the first ‘act-ion’
in the process of teshuvah; then God will
also turn and we will finally be face-to-face enjoying the radiance and
blessings that are our due.”
(End of Quote)
This portion from Malachi, the final
paragraphs of the Tanach) therefore ends with the admonition: “Remember
the law of my servant Moses, the Decrees and Laws I gave him at Horeb for all
Israel.”This Divine Admonition is directed at the
'faithful Remnant':
Malachi 4:16-18 - “Then those who feared HaShem talked with each other, and
HaShem listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence
concerning those who feared HaShem and honored His Name. On the day when I
act,” says HaShem Almighty, ‘they will be my treasured possession. I will spare
them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him. And
you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked,
between those who serve G-d and those who do not.”
And, under the apt heading that was inserted
into the English Translation of this Final Admonition:
Breaking Covenant by Withholding Tithes
Malachi 4:6-12 – “I HaShem do not change. So you, the
descendants of Jacob [ALL 12 Tribes, both Houses of Israel], are not destroyed. Ever
since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from My Decrees and have
not kept them. Return to me, and I will
return to you,” says HaShem Almighty.
But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’
“Will a mere mortal rob G-d? Yet you rob me.
But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’
In tithes and
offerings. You
are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing Me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in
My House. Test Me in this,” says HaShem Almighty, “and see if I will not throw
open the floodgates of Heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not
be room enough to store it. I will prevent pests from
devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit
before it is ripe,” says HaShem Almighty. ‘Then all the
nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful Land,” says
HaShem Almighty.”
It should be significant
to all those interested in and striving for the Reconciliation of the Two
divided Houses of Israel, that a Divine
Call for Tithing underlies the Final Call of the Bible for the
Final Days towards Redemption!
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Israel to their Homeland in Shomron (Samaria), Israel, Contact “Kol Ha’Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove. Here is a joint Orthodox
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the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes
Re-conciled and Re-United).
This reunification will truly be the supernal Event of all
Times for it will entail Establishing Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of
the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and
preparing the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel
and then the Redemption of All Israel.
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of Israel, we invite you to make a personal Visit to Israel and stay at “Shomron
Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest
House in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the
Returning Lost Tribers of the House of Israel to their future and Prophetic
Homeland.
In Part One of this series, we once again witnessed the
continuing quest of a few of the religious Zealots who like their ancestors of
old, sought to return Judaism to the life of their ancient forefathers of old.
If only, they believe from the depths of their hearts, that if Torah observant
Jews fulfilled the exact precepts of Torah law including the sacrificing of the
Korban lamb upon the Temple Mount, their hopes and dreams would precipitate the
coming of the Maschiah ben Dovid (Messiah son of David).
So we ask; is the Zionist State of Israel part of the social
profane, or the sacred? If we truly believe that the G-d of Israel is the Sovereign
G-d of the Universe, then we also will believe that He alone is stirring up the
nations to the final fulfillment of prophecy that a future Messianic Age will
come.
Can we then believe that the words spoken by the G-d of
Israel spoke through the pen of the Prophet Zechariah to the Jews that returned
back to Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity also have a meaning to not
only to the Jewish people today but also to the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of
Israel?
Zechariah 1:3-6 – “Thus said HaShem,
Master of Legions: ‘Return to Me – the word of HaShem, Master of Legions – and
I will return unto you…Do not be like your fathers, to whom the prophets of
old, called out, saying…Return now, from your evil ways and from your evil
deeds, ‘but they did not listen nor pay attentions to Me…
Your forefathers, where are they?
And as for the prophets, could they live forever? However, My words and My
decrees, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not befall your
fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as HaShem Master of Legions, thought to
do to us, according to our ways and our deeds, so did He with us.’”
Within the Prophetic Book of Zechariah
G-d left behind a message to us today, in the transliteration of the Prophet
Zechariah’s name in Hebrew: Zekaryah ben Berechiah ben Iddo (Zechariah
son of Berechiah grandson of Iddo). So we also learn, according to the traditions of the Hebrews, the names of the authors in the prophetic book of the TaNaKh have a special significance. In this prophetic book written for our end times, we see the following meaning of Zechariah unfold:
Zechariah (Zekaryah) is known as “HaShem remembers”, or “HaShem has remembered.”
Berechiah, the meaning of the name of the father of Zechariah is: “G-d blesses”
Iddo, the
meaning of the name of the grandfather of Zechariah was: “At the appointed
time”.
So the end-time message is: “G-d remembers and God blesses at the
appointed Time”
As Hebrew is translated from right to left, then, we might also consider that the following meaning of Zechariah’s
name spoken in reverse also means:
“At the Appointed Time, G-d blesses and G-d
remembers”
So today, we are witnessing prophecy in
fulfillment. Jewish organizers of the Sacrifice of the Korban Lamb/Goat rehearsal
that was now denied by the Israeli Veterinary Society, took a petition to the Jewish
court in Jerusalem. There they received a ruling that gave permission for the
Passover ritual of the sacrificing of the lamb or goat to continue. You may
witness this event below.
The Jewish Passover sacrificial ritual continued. It was
presided over by Rabbi Yehuda Glick, who, earlier had his Korban goat
“arrested” and later slaughtered by the command of the Israeli
Agricultural Minister at the Wildlife Supervision Department. Rabbi Yehuda
Glick later described that this riveting ritual was carried out with the
greatest of care for its biblical accuracy.
As he described:
Rabbi Yehuda Glick –
“We took the goat, as the Torah commands, we had an altar
built like the real one, and a cooking pit built according to halakhah (Jewish
Torah Law) We slaughtered the goat with Leviim singing and priestly clothing,
just like in the real Passover sacrifice. The ritual was emotionally moving.
The symbolism of standing opposite the Temple Mount and preparing for the real
Passover sacrifice – it was without doubt a special moment.”
Today, Rabbi Yehuda
Glick is the founder of the organization called “The Movement for the
Establishment of the Temple”. According to Rabbi Glick, the Jewish people
have become “psychologically connected, over the centuries, to the Western Wall
of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem because the rebuilding of the temple seems
like an impossible task.” It was only 25 years ago they the Jewish people
actually started ascending upon the Temple Mount. First it was small groups but
now hundreds of Jews and Christians are now going up upon the Temple. Yet,
recently the Jewish people once again been discriminated
against and not allowed to ascend to the Temple Mount
while Christians and Muslim are still allowed. So who is this Movement for the
Establishment of the Temple that is gaining so much public attention?
Motti
Inbari – “This article discusses the internal world of the Movement
for the Establishment of the Temple, a small and unique group within modern-day
ultra-Orthodox circles in Israel. This group seeks to achieve a religious
revolution within Israeli Orthodoxy through its demand to rebuild the Temple
and to abolish the grave halakhic prohibition against entering the Temple Mount
area. The movement argues that Orthodox passivity on this issue is due to a
theological error, and accordingly it offers an alternative historiographic and
theological approach.
The article discusses in
detail the manner in which this group has attempted to achieve religious change
and to address the dilemmas raised by this demand. It also discusses the manner
in which the group acts to encourage messianic activism within traditionalist
Orthodox circles.
This discussion may
provide valuable information regarding the behavior of modern-day
ultra-Orthodox society. The article describes the theological crisis provoked
in certain Orthodox Zionist circles by the Oslo process, which was based on a
territorial compromise between the State of Israel and the Palestinians in the
Land of Israel, and explains why this crisis enabled the movement's ideas to
penetrate growing circles within the rabbinical leadership of Gush Emunim.
Concern that the State
of Israel might hand the Temple Mount over to Palestinian control led to a
change in what had been considered for centuries to be a grave religious
prohibition.”
This Temple Mount
Movement understandably has caused great dissension among the Islamic people,
who believe that the Temple Mount is holy only to the Muslim people. Yet, Rabbi
Glick is now calling on all the Jewish people to unite and make every effort to
go to this sacred site and focus their prayers upon the rebuilding of the next
temple in Jerusalem.
In fact, it was back
April, 2011, that Glick claimed that the Children of Israel were commanded “in
perpetuity” to sacrifice a lamb or a goat on each anniversary of the
Exodus. Even though the current belief
that without the temple, that was last destroyed less than 2,000 years ago, in
the days of the Exodus, there was not a temple. The first Passover (Pesach) was
conducted by every Israelite family, and according to Glick, so they should be
doing so today.
Back in 2011, Rabbi
Glick, along with several influential rabbis, as written in The Jewish Daily Forwards
in the article titled, “300
Goats and Sheep, 20 Slaughterers, One Willful Rabbi”, we
learned that Rabbi Yehuda Glick contracted Jewish farmers to provide him with
300 sheep and goats for a sacrifice, should the Messiah come. Also, there were
20 Jewish slaughterers on stand-by. This event was written about on Destination
Yisrael in the article titled, “Will the Sacrifice of the Pesach
Lamb be reinstituted in Jerusalem in 2011?”
For those who wanted to
“share”, that is one ounce of lamb or goat meat, prepared according to the
halakhic command of a sacrificial animal, they were invited to purchase it by
phone, and a credit card for 12 shekels which was about $3.00. By the eve of
Pesach over 3,000 people had signed up.
The official inauguration
of the sacrificial ritual is, according to Rabbi Glick, the next step to the
actual fulfillment of biblical prophecy. At that time the work of the Temple
Mount Faithful will become fulfilled. According to the Temple Mount Faithful,
all the implements that are needed to be used in a new temple have been made.
This included the knowledge of where the site of the new Jewish Temple is to be
built upon the Temple Mount.
The Great Golden Menorah
to be used in the next Jewish Temple has been built and housed in a glass
protective casing for the visiting public to inspect. Also all of the 28,000
priests needed to conduct the sacrifices in the next Jewish temple have been
trained. Their priestly garments are now ready to be used.
Now, according to Rabbi
Glick, it is time for the Jewish people to become accustomed to “ascending the
Temple Mount” and now only to learn how to pray but to become involved as
participants in the future Temple services.
As such Rabbi Yehuda Glick has now proclaimed; “There should be no more
prayers at the Western Wall, but instead, let’s go up to the Temple Mount.”
Sanhedrin
97a – “Rebi Yochanan said: In the generation that Ben Dovid will come, talmidei
chachamim, the “pupil of wisdom” known as the Torah sage or scholar, will
decrease, and the eyes of the remainder will protrude from sighing and sorrow;
many chastisements and many evil decrees will be renewed; one will not cease
before another begins.”
Let us now look at the final four
years in this collections of passages in the Talmud in Sanhedrin 97a, as was
given by the famous Jewish sage, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zaccai:
According to Rabbi Yochanan ben Zaccai, these
immediate future days over the next 3½ years are part of HaShem’s vision for
our future life. Here was Rabbi Yochana’s vision of the final four years that
began with the Last Sabbatical Week of Years on Rosh Hashanah 2008. Here is how
he envisioned what will happen in the Land of Israel in the final four years as
the world is sinking into the economic
abyss, it’s affect upon the Land of Israel that will begin to improve in the
year of 2013, and the contagiousness about the coming of the Messiah will
become serious in the Jewish population by the years of 2014 to 2015.
Talmud
Sanhedrin 97a – “In the fourth year (2013), some will be satiated while
others are not,
In
the fifth year (2014), there will be plenty and
people will eat, drink, and be joyous, and the Torah will return to those who
learned it.
In
the sixth year (2015), there will be voices which
according to Rashi depict either the blowing of the shofars (war) or the hints
and voices about the coming of the messiah.
In
the seventh year (2016), there
will be war (GogUMogog War or Armageddon).”
Rabbi
Judah heHasid – “In the ninth jubilee (1967-2917) Jerusalem will once again
come back into the possession of the Jewish nation – which will signify
the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
As Destination Yisrael wrote:
Destination
Yisrael - “This leaves one more Jubilee,
the tenth Jubilee since the Ottoman Turks took control of Jerusalem and the
Land of Promise in the years of 1517. According to this Jewish sage, the end of
this tenth Jubilee will “signify the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
As
we review the Sabbatical Week of Years, this present Sabbatical Cycle began on
Rosh Hashanah 2008 5778. The 8th year would have been the day of the
Messiah ending Rosh Hashanah 2009, but the Messiah did not come.
If
this Sabbatical Messianic cycle 2009-2017 is completed and the GogUMogog war
does begin within the year between Rosh Hashanah 2015 to Rosh Hashanah 2016,
then the Messianic Era will commence before Rosh Hashanah 2017. We are
currently in the 4th year of the Sabbatical Messianic Cycle that
began on Rosh Hashanah 2009, now in the Jewish year 5773 (2013).
There
is still time for the Messiah the Prince, the anti-Messiah to forge a covenant
with the “Holy Ones” of the rabbanim of Jerusalem for a seven year hudna, for
the biblical text in Daniel clearly states that it will be abrogated by the
anti-Messiah within 3½ years.
Can
we look forward to a Middle East Peace Accord by Passover 2013? If so, 3½
years later, will be see the revealing of the Maschiach ben Dovid before Rosh
Hashanah 2016 (Jewish year 5777 between Rosh Hashanahs 5776-7)?
If
so, the Epic Year of the Messiah will be here on Rosh Hashanah 2016 or the
Jewish year of 5000 plus 777 years. The age of the Enlightenment of the Torah
will have begun. The forces of evil will have been destroyed and the Kingdom of
G-d on Planet Earth will begin with the Maschiach ben Dovid ruling with the
“rod of iron”.
The day will soon be
here when the HaShem, the G-d of Israel will open the gates of the supernal
heavens, and at that time, no man or any group will be able to stop the final
prophetic river from flowing towards the mighty waterfall that will cascade us
into the Age of the Messiah.
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2013 Passover Series: The Jewish Quest to
Observe Torah Law on the Temple Mount
The Exodus and the Pesach Festival are an indelible link of
the ancient Israelites to the modern Jewish people. Even the Lost Ten Tribes of
the House of Israel who are predominately worshipping in Christian Churches
today, worship the Passover in a corrupted festival of Easter initiated by the
First Church of Rome in the 3rd century CE. Yet, there is still real
spiritual imagery that if taken back to their Hebrew-Judaic roots could become
the pathway of the Lost Christian Israelites to be reunited back with their
Jewish brothers of the House of Judah.
To understand more about the Return of the Lost 10
Tribes of Israel to their
Homeland in Israel, Contact “Kol Ha Tor”,
the Voice of the Turtledove. Here is a joint Orthodox
Jewish and 10-Triber Vision destined to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes
Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail
Establishing the Shomron (the
Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing
the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of
All Israel.
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a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Reawakening
and re-identifying Lost Tribers of the House of Israel with the actuality of
the Land and its population – the Jews, and how this integration can possibly
take place.
On the eve of the 2013 Passover Season, the police
detectives in Jerusalem were monitoring the activities of Noam Federman, a well known Jewish activist who yearly has been seeking the legal rights to prepare the
halakhically prescribed biblical ritual of sacrificing the Passover lamb or
goat on Passover on or near the Temple Mount.
So on Monday afternoon, the eve of Passover, the vehicle of Noam
Federman was seen and stopped for investigation. Inside he was transporting a
sacrificial goat halakhically prepared according to the commands of the Torah.
There Noam Federman was
arrested at the Dung Gate nearby to the Temple Mount. As he arrived with his
children along with the goat that he was preparing to sacrifice near the Temple
Mount as the Korban Pesach, he was apprehended by the police. After a scuffle,
Federman was arrested and taken to the police station nearby in a Jerusalem
police squad car.
After his investigation,
Federman was released with his children, aged 12, 10 and seven-years-old, that
accompanied him to the holy site. For one week, the Jerusalem Police banned
Federman from going near the Old City in Jerusalem. According to the response
by Federman, we read:
Noam Federman – “We demand to offer the Passover
sacrifice, one of the most important commandments. The Jewish police are
harming the freedom of religion. It’s a disgrace that the police prevent Jews
from keeping the Passover sacrifice mitzvah.”
As Federman later stated
in this Pesach Festival drama, the Jerusalem detectives came and claimed he was
violating a court order. When he asked what court order was he violating they
responded to him; “you’ll see it at the police station.” As it turned out, a court order did not
exist, yet he was detained for they admitted that questioning him in from of
all the public would have disturbed the peace.
According to separate
reports, the police admitted that they were planning on taking the young goat
to the Hurva Synagogue in the Jewish Quarters and there it would create a
provocation. In the meantime, a group of girls were also stated to have been
making their way to the Mount with a third goat. At the time Federman’s goat
was confiscated, his response was that later he would demand that he be given
back his own goat from his farm for as he admitted, “I chose the best goat of
the Alpine species.”
Meanwhile why Federman
was being investigated by the police, Rabbi Yehuda Glick, director of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem was arrested as he
entered the Jaffa Gate. Earlier in the week on March 24, he sought to obtain a
permit to officially perform an actually Pesach sacrifice on the Temple Mount.
It was denied.
In protest Glick,
director of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, plus many of his members then
decided to lead a procession along with a goat, and then hold a prayer service
and perform a “mock Pesach sacrifice” without the goat, in the courtyard of the
Hurva Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
On March 29, Glick plus
his two daughters and a goat were stopped at the Jaffa Gate as they were
entering the Old City of David. They
were taken to the Kishle Police Station just inside the Joffa Gate. There also,
Glick was apprehended for three hours, his goat confiscated and he barely made it back to his home at Othniel
for the evening Seder. In the meantime, his goat was taken to the Wildlife
Supervision Department and there slaughtered by the orders of the Israeli
Agricultural Minister.
At the same time others Temple Mount
activists were assembling near the promenade next to the Jaffa Gate in
Jerusalem’s Old City. There at 1:30 p.m. they also had their goats and lambs
where they were prepared to sacrifice outside the walls of the Temple
Mount. There they waited for Noam
Federman and when he arrived they were to advance and move towards the Temple
where they were preparing to set up a “minimal kosher altar”.
They were fully aware that the chance of
their achieving this goal was slim, for they had been doing this for years. Now
the police are waiting for them, blocking their movements by force and even arresting
some of them, charging them with warrants of unauthorized transport of animals
and cruelty to animals.
Earlier on Thursday, March 21, various Jewish
groups were participants in a “mock Passover sacrifice” that was held on the
Mount of Olives opposite of the Kidron Valley from the Temple Mount overlooking
Jerusalem. According to their admission, this yearly enactment was not just for
the public interest but was done in order to for the actual Leviim or the Cohanim
who are actual literal descendants of the priestly tribe of Levi, would have
the ability to practice and participate in the actual ritual of the Pesach lamb
so that they would be prepared after the soon to be reconstruction of the
Jewish temple in Jerusalem is completed.
Today, the Leviim are Jews, that is observant
Orthodox Jews in Judaism yet, they are still descendants of the Biblical tribe
of Levi, whose forefathers were participants of the Temple services during the
days of King Solomon’s Temple, Zerubabbel’s Temple, and later the expansion
into King Herod’s Temple in the 1st century BCE and CE era.
To the shock of the Jewish Leviim, this year (2013)
they were met with a surprising veto by Israel’s Veterinary Services who for
the first time this year refused to authorize the event, as they had previously
done for multiple years prior in honor of Passover. As Passover delegation accused the Veterinary
Services:
Temple Mount Leviim and Passover activists –
“After
preventing us from fulfilling the mitzvah [commandment] of the Passover
sacrifice in its proper place, in violation of the law and of a Supreme Court
ruling, now the authorities are plotting to stop us from even learning about
the way the mitzvah is to be performed. This stands in contrast to the approach
to events surrounding the Muslim sacrifice holiday [Eid ul-Adha], during which
thousands of sheep and cattle are sacrificed freely in Jerusalem and across the
country.”
If the Temple Mount, under the sovereign control of the
State of Israel, then this picture leads us to wonder, why are not Jews and
Christians allowed to worship their also? Is it because the G-d of Israel does
not want to mix the sacred with the profane? Yet the prophets are in unison
proclaiming that that day of almost over.
What is little known in the Western World is the fact that
both the Jews and Muslims both have Festivals of Sacrificing and the
sacrificing of animals are yearly reenacted by Muslims in Jerusalem. The
Islamic Feast of Sacrifice, the second most holy day in the Muslim Calendar,
comes at the end of Ramadan and is to celebrate an event honored by both Jews
and Muslim; the willingness of Abraham, the Patriarch to the Jews, and a
Prophet to the Muslims, to sacrifice his son.
The difference is in outlook on these two people who are both
descendants of Abraham; one through his son Isaac, the chosen one by the G-d of
Israel and the other Ishmael, as the Islamic religion claims was not Isaac, but
instead the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael when Abraham
went to Mount Moriah to sacrifice. After prayers on the Temple Mount, the
Muslims then slaughter thousands of sheep and goats in the surrounding regions
and the meat is then distributed to the family, neighbors and those in poverty
and in need.
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2013 Passover Series: The Jewish Quest to Observe
Torah Law on the Temple Mount
The Exodus and the Pesach Festival are an indelible link of
the ancient Israelites to the modern Jewish people. Even the Lost Ten Tribes of
the House of Israel who are predominately worshipping in Christian Churches
today, worship the Passover in a corrupted festival of Easter initiated by the
First Church of Rome in the 3rd century CE. Yet, there is still real
spiritual imagery that if taken back to their Hebrew-Judaic roots could become
the pathway of the Lost Christian Israelites to be reunited back with their
Jewish brothers of the House of Judah.
To understand more about the Return of the Lost 10
Tribes of Israel to their
Homeland in Israel, Contact “Kol Ha Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove. Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber
Vision destined to bring
awareness of the imminent
fulfillment of the Biblical
Prophecies regarding the
Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super
Event of all Times will entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing
the “Land” for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of
All Israel.
For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”,
a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Reawakening
and re-identifying Lost Tribers of the House of Israel with the actuality of
the Land and its population – the Jews, and how this integration can possibly
take place.
As
the Jewish Passover is being celebrated around the world, we are reminded that
the Passover was the beginnings of one of the greatest epic year in world
catastrophes and redemption. Out of the Passover, the Great Exodus began that
swept the Israelites out of Egypt. It began one of the greatest migrations of
peoples in the world, for one reason, the G-d of Israel residing in the
Shekinah Glory that gave them the Pillar of Cloud that sheltered them from the
sun by day, and the Pillar of Light that gave them a protective light to keep
them safe by night.
Is it
any wonder that as members of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, we
understand that our destiny of being lost and abandoned is about over. As the
prophets have spoken with great clarity, the G-d of Israel has spoken that He
will redeem us. This time He has not asked out permission. He will do it for
one reason only; we have failed to honor His Holy Name and instead continue to
desecrate it as we live in the nations of the world, but this time, He has
promised that He will honor His Holy Name and will “take us out of the lands of
our dwelling, and plant us back into the tribal lands of our forefathers, there
we shall be His people, and He shall be our G-d. (Paraphrased on Ezekiel 36).
As we
study this present day, and Passover, we realize that we are in momentous
times. Not only that our time is short, and the cycling of time is speeding up
faster and faster. It was towards the end of the era of the Roman Christian
Crusaders that placed such havoc in the Middle East at the turn of the 1st
Millennium after the 1st century Temple of Herod era. During this era, a Hassidic rabbi called
Rabbi Ben Samuel lived. He was called the “Light of Israel”, for Rabbi
Judah ben Samuel did not discriminate against anyone who wanted to learn from
him. Even the Roman Catholic bishops sought his wisdom.
Towards the end of his life in the
year of 1217, Rabbi ben Samuel began publishing his biblical calculations
called the Gematria, plus his astronomical observations a gave us this summary
of the last ten Jubilees, or the last 400 years before the revealing of the
Maschiah ben David:
Rabbi
Judah ben Samuel - “When the Ottomans (Turks) – who were already a power
to be reckoned with on the Bosporus in the time of Judah Ben Samuel – conquer
Jerusalem they will rule over Jerusalem for eight jubilees. Afterwards Jerusalem
will become no-man’s land for one jubilee, and then in the ninth jubilee
it will once again come back into the possession of the Jewish nation
– which would signify the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
According to Leviticus 25, one Jubilee
period is 50 years in which the 50th year, each person will regain
ownership of his or her tribal lands. In reference to the time of the end, this
will be the time when the Maschiah (Messiah) will be revealed and now dwelling
among his people. Looking over this
succinct and powerful prophecy, we now realize that it amazing accuracy to
date, also gives us a potent reminded that we now have an amazingly short time
before the full prediction of this prophecy will occur. As Rabbi Judah ben
Samuel’s was revealed:
The Ottoman Turks would conquer the city of
Jerusalem, which were controlled by the Roman Christian Crusaders at that time.
This occurred in the year of 1517. They would rule over Jerusalem for eight
Jubilees (50 years x 8 is 400 years).
After that date, the city of Jerusalem will
become a “no-man’s land for one jubilee. So in 1917, that the British General
Edmund Allenby captured the city of Jerusalem on Hanukkah, December 17, 1917.
The Ottoman Empire effectively collapsed within a year, and Islam’s bid to
control the Land of Israel was destroyed.
The British Mandate controlled with the French the Middle East and
Jerusalem became a “no-man’s land for one Jubilee (1917-1967).
In the year of 1967, the Jewish people were
once again attacked my Muslim forces. After the Six-Day War ended on June 17,
1967, the entire West Bank plus the entire city of Jerusalem that was occupied
by the Jordanians but never possessed, was returned by the G-d of Israel was
returned to the possession of the Jewish people.
No matter what the pundits of the
world day, the city of Jerusalem will never again be in the possession of
anyone except the Jewish people. As Rabbi Judah heHasid wrote:
Rabbi
Judah heHasid – “In the ninth jubilee Jerusalem will once again come
back into the possession of the Jewish nation – which will signify
the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
According
to Rabbi Judah ben Samuel, this officially ends the prophecy of the ten
Jubilees (500 years) since the Land of Israel was taken control of by the
Islamic Ottoman Turks in the year of 1517, and will effectively spell the end
of Islam’s bid to control the Land of Israel and dash their hopes to control
the world. As we celebrate with the Jews the Passover, we are reminded of one
fact: we are today, on March 25, 2013 only 3½ years until the Jewish year of
2017 and the Messianic Age begins.
Understanding
the entire meaning of the Jewish Sabbatical Week of Years, the Jewish people
yearned for the coming of the messiah for seven years. In the 8th
year, or after a series of seven Sabbatical Week of Years (49 Years), the 8th
year being the Jubilee Year, the Messiah will be revealed and given the glory
of the kingdom of G-d to rule the world.
What
does this suggest to us, when we say that we have only three and one-half years
before the Maschiah will appear in our three dimensional space on Planet Earth?
Count the months, from Passover to Rosh Hashanah is six months and Rosh Hashanah
2013 (Year of 2014) to Rosh Hashanah (Year of 2017) is truly only 3½ years from now. At
that time, according to Rabbi Judah ben Samuel, the Messianic Age will
begin. The Maschiach ben Dovid will be
“come” or be “revealed” before Rosh Hashanah 2016 (Jewish year 5777 between
Rosh Hashanahs 5776-7)?
If so, the Epic Year of the Messiah
will be here on Rosh Hashanah 2016, or in the Jewish year of 5777 (5000 plus
777 years). The age of the Enlightenment of the Torah will have begun. The
forces of evil will have been destroyed and the Kingdom of G-d on Planet Earth
will begin with the Maschiach ben Dovid ruling with the “rod of iron.
Our hearts begin to palpitate now with
expectation. Did the King of the North, just arrive and then leave from the
City of Jerusalem? Will his days soon be numbered? Was he here for one purpose: to forge a Peace
Agreement with the new Jewish government in Jerusalem? Did the world just a few
days ago witness the last Pope according their own Papal Prophecies to be given
power and authority over the world until the “dreaded Judge will judge or
sentence the people?”
Prophecy of St.
Malachi on the Last Pope, Peter the Roman –
“During the final
persecution of the Roman Christian Church, one called “Petrus Romanus will
reign (Peter the Roman), who will nourish his believers in many sufferings.
After that, the town of the seven hills will be destroyed and the
dreaded judge will sentence his people. The End!”
“In the final
persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Petrus Romanus, who will
feed his flock amid many tribulations; after which the seven-hilled
city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people."
The End!”
It now appears that the Messiah the Prince, or the Maschiah
Nagid (Black, Hidden or the anti-Messiah) has now been revealed. Is he the
“King of the North” or is the titled of the Messiah the Prince be given into
the hands of Peter the Roman, who is destined to
rule over his people from Rome until “the seven hilled city will be destroyed”.
Whomever the Messiah the Prince is to
be revealed and whether he is the anti-Messiah, prophetic events appear to be
swirling around our eyes. Look at the Events that unfolded in just this one
week:
The Prime Minister of Israel officially
proclaims that he backs “two states for two peoples.”
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime
Minister Salam Fayyad were urged to “drop preconditions, for the Palestinians
deserve a fully sovereign state”.
While Iran’s leader threatened that Tel Aviv
and Haifa would be leveled if Israel were the attack Iran, the President of the
United States promised to solve the Iranian crisis.
North Korea military threatens to target
Anderson Air Force base in Guam where the B-52 takes off, the mainland of Japan
where America’s nuclear powered submarines are deployed and the American Navy
bases in Okinawa.
These events were preceded by a Plague
of Locust and the first omen came as “The Beast” his armored vehicle would not
start when filled with Israeli petrol.
The visit also ended as a rare Red
Dust Clouded Sandstorm surrounding the Land of Israel when the President of the
United States had to effectively cut short his visit with the Palestinian
delegation in Bethlehem because his helicopter was grounded by the red dust
storm. Could this dust storm have come because of the closeness of the Red
Binary Dwarf Star that is surrounded by a vortex of red iron oxide dust?
Whatever the meaning, the 4th
year of the Sabbatical Messianic Cycle that began on Rosh Hashanah 2009 is now
here in the Jewish year 5773 (2013). That gives us just 3½ years for the
anti-Messiah to abrogate the Peace Accord and final judgment will be revealed.
If not, do we have to wait for another
50 year Jubilee period to be completed before the messiah will be revealed? Let
us “Cry unto the L-rd to redeem us, for He has promised us, “If you will call upon
Me, I will answer!”
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The Battle for the
Minds of the Human Race is now coming to its fullest revelation. The forces of
Darkness will battle with the Forces of HaShem’s angels of Light as the final
battle for the souls of men are played out on Planet Earth. Out of these epic
war will come the restoration and redemption of All Israel; the Ten Lost Tribes
of the House of Israel and the Jews of the House of Judah.
The Roman Catholic
Church has been a major part of this Drama of the Ages and will continue to do
so until the Final Act of that Divine Drama. It will include the Jews of the
House of Israel, the Lost Sheep of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Northern
Israel; both of the House of Jacob (Israel). It will also include the
Roman Edomites of the House of Esau, the brother of Jacob of the House of
Isaac. It will also include the Arabs of the House of Ishmael, the brother to
Isaac of the House of Abraham.
If you want to learn
more, Contact “Kol
Ha Tor Vision”,
the Voice of the Turtledove. Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber
Mission to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical
Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and
Re-United).
The author of this
blog is a supporter of Kol Ha Tor Vision and while we are publishing material
that may be relevant to the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, the
leadership of Kol Ha Tor do not necessarily agree with everything we have
published. Yet, we understand, until the Messiah son of David comes to give us
full insight into what is happening to our lives and our world today, we may
know only in part while we continue to support the rabbanim of Israel and seek
reconciliation with the Jews of the House of Israel until we are finally one
family; the family of our Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
This reunification
will truly be a super Event of all Times that will entail Establishing the
Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean
Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land” for the
Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All
Israel.
For inquiries about
Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, we invite you to make a
personal Visit to Israel and stay at “Shomron Lives!”,a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House
in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost
Tribers of the House of Israel.
You are Israel!
The History was Revealed by the Prophets and Confirmed by Archeology, the Judgment of the God of Israel was Sealed as they were Exiled to Khurasan in Northern Iran, Eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan. They Disappeared into the Mists of History as they Migrated in Waves up through Georgia through the Caucasus and Followed the Tracks of their Cousin Dan who left his Name on the Rivers of his Passage (Don, Dniester, Dnieper, and the Danube) as they Migrated Northwestward towards Denmark. They Erupted into Northern Europe in the 3rd Century BCE as the Royal Scythians, Celts, Cymrics, Cimmerians, Goths, Angles, Saxons, Ostrogoths, Visigoths and Frisians.
They Populated the Lands of Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark), the Isles of the West (Britain, Ireland, and Scotland) the Lowlands (Netherlands and Belgium), the Colonies of Great Britain (United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa) plus the Lands of Northern France, and Germany. These today are the Lost Tribes of Israel!
If your Ancestry comes from any of these Lands,
Welcome, You are a “Lost Ten Triber” of the House of Israel!
The Prophets have Proclaimed, at the Time of the End, You will Return Home!
