Blood Libel, 2012

Iran’s state-run news network blames ‘Israeli death squads’ for Sandy Hook shooting

Millions of gullible Americans are liable to believe some neo-Nazi redneck's lies, which Iran spreads with glee. So when the holy Rabbi Yehuda Zev Leibowitz of saintly and blessed memory warned of difficult times ahead for US Jews, he knew what he was talking about.

The blood libels of the Middle Ages, when people like Harris and the Iranians accused Jews of baking matzas with the blood of non-Jewish children, are now back, big time. To paraphrase our sages, the wise man has eyes in his head.

It's time to come home. Please don't ignore Hashem's messages.

Comments

[Helene]

So let me get this straight. The crazy Iranians continually say that they want to wipe Israel off the planet and people in Israel are not running scared, but in Sandy Hook, where the perpetrator has an Italian last name and is known to be mentally ill with a pistol packing mama, the American public will blame the Jews. Sorry, I don't buy it.

[Bakuny]

Shalom, Is holy Rabbi mentioned when it will happen or Israel have better times than US? Did holy Rabbi mentioned what will be in Israel at the end of day, and what days we are talking about, nobody knows the end.
Imagine everybody will fly to Israel, then what Mashiah will come or it is going to be more suffering for those who left their parnassa and made aliya because holy rabbi said it will be bad times and what will be Israel anybody knows?

[Dovbearbarleib]

This likely is not the particular blood libel which will cause a serious backlash by what is now at least a 50% immoral nation called the United States. Any country that would re-elect Obama is now a majority immoral nation where at least 50% of the country can't make basic distinctions between good and evil. Living amongst such people is to live in a makom sakanah. It is impossible to know the event in advance that will kick off a deadly blood libel. Will it be hyper-inflation? Economic collapse? Israel electing a far "right wing" government which tells the world to go to H-ll because we are going to determine rules of engagement in war by G-d's rules not the rules set down by the nations? Or perhaps the backlash against G-d Himself when he pummels the nations' Massive Protection Force that comes against Yerushalayim with fiery meteorites and fiery hail? There are many, many things that can push an immoral people, like 2012 or 2013 America, over the edge to do pogroms.

[Helene]

The mother of the Sandy Hook killer was what they call here a "prepper", which was the reason she was hoarding guns, an assault rifle, water, you name it, in her house in fear of and in preparation for an upcoming doomsday economic or social crisis which such people vaguely call SHTF -- Translated into Plain English, when. _-------- hits the fan. Anecdotally, there is a lot of mental instability within this fear of apocalypse crowd. Her psychotic son got hold of her weapons and was trained by her to use them. I think utilizing a tone of apocalypse or hysteria in attempting to scare Western Jews on a plane to Israel is a questionable strategy. Most American Jews believe such people are crackpots and point to the mother of the killer as confirmation of these beliefs, Hashem should bless Israel, but when we speak about Makom Sakannah, you have to be very careful when discussing certain parts of Israel where families have gotten killed and people continue to live there.

I usually visit this blog for its discussion of how to bolster my emunah and have studied books like the Garden of Gratitude thoroughly. However, it is a major turn off to see this constant bandwagon directed at Jews of the Diaspora. Due to the Holocaust, my parents were literally kicked out of Europe, and were part of shearith hapleta, with most family members dead, few escaping, some to Israel, some to Canada, some to Russia and some to the US. I think If people continue to have an ongoing dialogue with Hashem in light of the unfathomable tragedy of the Holocaust before Israel was in independent state, he will cut the Jews some slack to temporarily remain in any country that has been a haven for them until the Moshiach comes,

[Esther Wong]

Dear Rabbi,

Please spread your emunah in ERetz Yisrael where it is needed most because your country is run by people w/o emunah, and the majority of your people are irreligious secular Jews with no connection to Judaism.

The people in the USA look to your people for guidance, and scaring us will not help. The majority of non-Jews who live in the USA have emunah in HAshem, and they cannot run to EY where it is not their home.

Thank you,
Esther

[Bakuny]

Oh yes Dovbearbarleib, we can only guess which year it will be, 2012 or 2013 or 2063 or "gezerah" will be annulled? Anybody knows, I guess not. Yes, it is great Mitsva to live in Israel, but While erev ravs are in the power, to live in Israel is also makom sakanah. We have a tradition that whoever holds on Torah and Mitsvot will be saved from the birth pangs of Mashiah.

[Laya]

In my humble opinion, I think the blood libels started many years ago, with the Palestinians, claiming falsely, that Jewish soldiers killed thousands of Arabs and all the false claims of killing children. Many, or most have been debunked, but it continues until this day and will not stop, in my opinion, until the Jewish political leadership of Israel declares publicly and consistently, that HaSh-m controls all and gave us the Holy Eretz Yisroel, period.

[Dovbearbarleib]

78% of American Jew voted for Obama the first time, and 69% of American Jews voted for Obama a second time. Are these American Jews an example to teach us all about good and evil, right and wrong? Most children of preppers live normal lives. This one went off fully cocked and loaded for bear. Is it a popularity contest where the 69 or 78% know something about unstable people who engage in mass murder? Does G-d take a poll of American Jews before deciding that those who talk about the end of America are crazy when about 70% of them can't recognize a purely evil human being when they voted for him a 2nd time? Yes, the 70% who can't see how evil Obama is are out to lunch. Rav Lazer goes to America to help them do teshuvah. I pray that he succeeds. Personally, I believe that he is likely more successful with the 30% who figured it out four years later. But the fact that 70% of American Jews find the end of the world of lies, or apocalypse as you call it, laughable is proof of absolutely nothing. They can't figure it out that the Pres. who told Marines and Navy Seals to stand down while his Ambassador was murdered in Benghazi running guns to Syrian jihadists is one evil dude. Nor did it matter to them that Obama started fundraising as a politician running for the Illinois legislature in the home of domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. So point being, if they can't make a basic judgement of how evil Obama is as a human being, how can they sit in judgement of a movement of preppers??

Bakuny: There won't be a 2063. The Gregorian Catholic dating system will end when Mashiach ben David comes before Obama completes his 2nd term. What Amerika will be like by the end of the Shmittah year 5775 (2015) will likely be vastly different than it is right now. G-d bless you. I hope that G-d comes and fetches you when ben David shows up by or before Motzei Shmittah 5776.

[Bakuny]

Dovbearbarleib: Chazal said that Mashiah will come before year 6000. So again, all Obamas second term, Motzei Shemita 5776 is only guessing. If the holy rabbi were saying when bad things will be in the US instead of just saying at the end of times, that will be something to think about, but right now all gematriot, and all the computer coding to find the end is meaningless. And don't forget Hashem is in the power to change things and I hope that out last redemption will be with His endless Mercy, and nothing bad will happen to Am Israel, we had enoughh suffering in the past. I don't see any reaon to panic. G-d bless to you Dov.

--Moshe

[Stephen Little]

Helene - You are making your own standards and shaping the Torah around them. Emuna demands action. If you are convinced of the truth of Hashem, as brought down by the Torah, chazal and the tzaddikim then you will realise making aliyah is what Hashem wants, not necessarily what you want. But with Emuna you know and trust Hashem knows what's right and best for you.

Kol dodi dofek.

[Helene]

Thank you for your input, Stephen. I've dealt with Modern Orthodoxy, with The Satmer's, Chabad as well as Rabbis a lot more learned than myself. Each group seems to have a different version of what Hashem wants with respect to making Aliyah and when it needs to done. I also acknowledge that the hashkafa of this site is that American Jews are in error to stay in America. As I mentioned in previous comments, I personally visit this site because I am a big fan of,Rabbi Lazer and the Emunah series which I do not view as passive recreational reading.

I am relating to the intention, rhetoric and tone of the comments and offering a suggestion. If the motivation of the commentators here is to agree amongst themselves about how misguided American Jews are in the wake of impending doom, or their violation of Hashem's ways to stay in America then you have absolutely no problem. If your intention is to really motivate American Jews to leave the US to come to Israel, the arguments supplied here will put off American Jews. People do not act because they have been vilified or scared. They will act out,of positive motivation." Not anyone's job here to positively motivate, you may think, "or "I don't care what Americans think."Sure, I get it. But you are operating out of an Israeli mindset even if you are an "Anglo" living in Israel and you will get an equivalent snarky response. Maybe this approach is not just Israeli, come to think of it, Not to be funny, but there is an old American joke that the only thing two Jews can agree on is how much money a third Jew should give to Israel. I think it is a standard Jewish trait, Israeli or American for Jewih people to be 100 percent convinced about what other Jews should do.

The most successful Kiruv group in America today is Chabad. If people study their techniques, they will get a deep and major insight into what motivates American Jews. Aliyah, if it is a mitzvah, should be approached as Kiruv work. How do you do that? I think you need another forum on this site. Tht's a biggie.

By the way, with all the strong commentary back and forth, I would like to give everyone here a Bracha for Hatzlocha in all their endeavors and a very good upcoming Shabbat.

[dimarules]

I love all the teachings of Rabbi Brody, but I have to say I disagree with his approach to Aliya. I have not heard of any orthodox Rabbi to leave US to make Aliya. In fact, a lot of Rabbi's come to US to collect for yeshivot in Israel.

Please listen to the following lecture by well known Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi

http://www.divineinformation.com/audios-english/the-war-and-more-2/

If you start listening from 8:30, the Rabbi will list all the reasons why NOT to make an Aliya. The only reason one should make an Aliya is if his and his family's spiritual life will be much greater in Israel than in his home town.

Let me know what you think. If you reply to me, PLEASE listen to the lecture first (or at least the Aliya part) before commenting on my post.

[Dovbearbarleib]

Dear Helene: Yes, Chabad is very successful in America, and your service to G-d in America I am sure has been the service of a committed Jew. But on 9/11/01 which was the 23rd of Elul 5761, The Twin Towers came down, and it was a shofar blast to tell Yidden in America to come home to EY. You see, on the 23rd of Elul in the year of the Great Flood, the white dove with an olive branch in its mouth came back to Noah to tell him that better are the bitter fruits of the Hands of G-d from Eretz Yisrael (the olive branch was from EY) than the sweet fruits of the hands of Man. So when the representation of America as a mercantile world power crashed to the ground, HaShem was telling all Jews that our days as world traders and merchants for the world living in their midst were coming to an end. He was calling us home. Now Aliyah is a tricky matter. It takes time and forethought. So HaShem gave us ten years to figure it out. Then after the State of New York passed and started to enforce marriage certificates to homosexuals back in June of 2011, HaShem sent Hurricane Irene to nudge us out of our comfort zones, and He compassionately added another year to the first ten years after 9/11/01. Then came Sandy I and now Sandy II. and G-d is now shoving us out the door, for those who are paying attention. If Rav Leibowitz is correct, staying in America now for another three years could cost one his/ her life. So the message has to be like another shofar blast, but this one is urgent because frankly there are not another 11 years to slowly think about all this. We are therefore obligated by Yechezkel 33 to blow the shofar and warn you of trouble coming. G-d forbid if no one warned you at all. Correct you will not hear this from Chabad. Chabad is well settled since the Rebbe passed on to do kiruv in far flung parts of the world. Yet, we just want you to come home, because staying in the US three more years could become very dangerous. Please take this with love because it is meant to save your life. There was a fellow named Jabotinsky back in the late 30s who was secular but loved all Jews. He went throughout Eastern Europe pleading "Er kumt" (He is coming) to get Jews to leave for Eretz Yisrael enmasse. Now he had a far more difficult job because the British were closing the gate to EY while he was crisscrossing Europe to get Jews to come home. But the situation is different now. The Gate to EY is wide open.

[Stephen Little]

Helena - I don't necessarily disagree, but the point is fairly simple. There's only one place on earth you get a mitzvah just for being there and that's Eretz Yisrael. Some people look down on that, given R'Feinstein zatzal ruled it was an optional mitzvah, like wearing tallis katan. But what male Jew who wants to serve Hashem doesn't wear tallis katan?

You make it sound like R'Brody shlita is trying to scare you into making aliyah. On the contrary, he's saying what he's always said; everything comes from Hashem. I don't pretend to understand what Hashem intended with Hurricane Sandy etc, but if chazal says forever a person should live in Eretz Yisrael then I believe they are right.

We aren't so far apart really. I haven't made aliyah either, but I know I have to make steps towards it and pray for divine assistance, just like with achieving any other mitzvah. Rebbe Nachman said "Wherever I'm going, I'm going to Eretz Yisrael", the real one, with it's real people and houses.

Dimarules - Rav Arush shlita is calling for aliyah. Chacham Ovadia Yosef shlita calls for aliyah. The Belzer Rebbe (Rav Aharon Rokeach zatzal) called for aliyah.
Did chazal not say that a Jew should even live in a town of idol worshipers in Eretz Yisrael than in a town of tzaddikim in Chutz l'aretz?

[Bakuny]

Dov, where did you get these numbers , 3 years to Mashiah Ben David, 3 years could cost one his/ her life, what is your sources to give such statements? How do you know? May be answer this, will be a chemical war in Israel this year? Without knowing the future you are Worrying to save our lives, are you sure you can save yours?

[Helene]

To all commentators: thank you for your kind words and thank you to Rabbi Brody for doing Hashem's work. From my perspective here, tons of people hae a different relationship toward Hashem because of you Also thank you to Dimarules for the great lecture. One major thing it reminded me of was the tremendous need for Jewish unity. Easy to forget, imperative to remember, at least for me. to DovBeirBarLeib, just to amplify your story about Jabotinsky, I remember reading in a New York Times commemorative article about him ( before I went to live in Israel for half a decade some years ago), that when he was walking through the rubble of the Kishinev program, with ripped up books all over the place, he picked up a small fragment of the Torah that was floating. That fragment had the words, strangers in a strange land on it-- a symbol that concretized what he believed all along . Shabbat Shalom to all.

[Dovbearbarleib]

Even if Israel were to rebel against the nations of the world this year 5773 by setting our own rules of engagement in times of war which come from G-d, it still might take three years for Ben David to come even if we desire his coming every day. According to the Gemorrah the most likely time for Ben David to come is right after a Shmittah year (Motzei Shvi'it). 5776 is three years away and is the next year which qualifies as Motzei Shvi'it. It is the zman mesugal for Ben David to come b'itah....three years from now. Now the Zohar VaYeira 119 speaks of the world coming against Yerushalayim in 5773. So a rebellion by Mashiach ben Ephraim this year is very likely to bring the entire world against Yerushalayim this year. Medrash Sefer Eliyahu also speaks of a three year process too where Edom falls in 5773 and Persia waxes during Galut Yishmael until the end of the Shmittah year 5775 until Persia is finally subdued by the son of a shifchah named Gigi. I happen to now know who he is, but we will leave it at that. This is b'itah, and some secrets are best kept secret. I can't get more specific than that, Bakuny.

Apparently a calculation by Yehudah HaChassid almost 800 years ago concurs that 5776 is the Yovel of Yovelot.

[Bakuny]

In the Gemara says that Mashiah can come any time and if nesesary He will come even on Shabbath itself. You can't be more specific because you don't know the "chesbon" of Hakadosh Baruhu, no one knows. You can only guess.

[Dovbearbarleib]

Fine, Agreed. We will continue to pray that Mashiach comes tomorrow or better yet today. But be prepared if he tarries. Make preparations to be here for the sake of your life just in case that he might tarry until Motzei Shvi'it or even later this year. Just be prepared.

[Bakuny]

Dov, are you prepared? Don't tell me that Israel will be the safest place. If it will hit there will be no place to run(G-d forbid). Are you prepared for chemicals? or muslims brotherhood?

[Dovbearbarleib]

Bakuny: I am prepared as I possibly can be for the last three years of Obamanation (the half Muslim (clay) and half Xtian (iron)) 11th horn dude from the Book of Daniel. I have spent time preparing myself spiritually for any event that might come our way. I have infinite trust in G-d that Yerushalayim will be a refuge at the End of Days (Yoel 3) which we are in right now. Yes, Israel will be he safest place. G-d has his eye on his chosen land from the beginning of the year until the end of the year. And the 6 million Jews who live here now will receive the merit of the 6 million who perished starting 73 years ago.

[Bakuny]

Good luck to you in the war of Gog U magog if you think it is not over yet. Like I said in the previous post and I will repeat again:
"And don't forget Hashem is in the power to change things and I hope that out last redemption will be with His endless Mercy, and nothing bad will happen to Am Israel, we had enoughh suffering in the past. I don't see any reaon to panic. "

--Moshe