Finally! Gog Putin?!

I love it! So many people have thought of Putin as a Gog figure, and now we have some good chomer to throw into the mix!

a) Israel has tons of Russians making aliyah; some Jewish, some very not Jewish. Some not shady, some who define mafioso-shady.

b) Russians are into every sect of society in Israel that ranges from movers to elite circles of finance, medicine, and politics.

c) Israel is run by Israeli Mafiosos

d)***It makes total sense that Russia could be manipulated into being a Mafia ally of the Shady-Israeli Sector. Just like Erev Rav is headed out East (as an Asian representative; as opposed to when Britain tried to do the same, but as a European - big difference: The Asians know Jews are really Asians)to do Business and secure Galus China, the Mafia side of Israel has the authentic infrastructure to be a great shidduch with Putin.

Jpost.com:

Don’t worry about Iran, Israel will take care of it, former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin as telling him years ago. Aznar, speaking Wednesday at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs on a meeting he had with the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in 2002, said Putin’s comments came after he entreated him not to sell S300 missiles to Iran. Related: Iran, Syria ordered to pay terror victim's family US House mulls measure against Iran containment “We can sell them anything,” Aznar quoted Putin as saying, because in the end “Israel will take care of it.” Aznar, one of the few western leaders to have met Khamenei, said the Iranian made it clear when they met in October 2000, that “Israel was a historic cancer and anomaly condemned to disappear.” Aznar said he found in Khamenei a man not only inspired by faith, but also “more nationalistic than I imagined." Aznar said the Iranian leader wanted Iran to flourish in all fields, especially science and technology, in order to attain self sufficiency and independence. It was this desire for self-sufficiency, he said, which has led the Iranians to strive to develop nuclear weapons, rather than buy one from North Korea or Pakistan. Aznar said that during their conversation Khamenei said that “an open confrontation with Israel and the US was inevitable,” and that “he was working for Iran to prevail in such a confrontation. “ Aznar said that Khamenei made clear during their conversation that “it was necessary to eliminate the threat Israel posed." The former Spanish prime minister said this obviously meant Khamenei believed Israel must be “removed."

One thing about the Torah of the Gra few realize: Learn about Klippah! The Erev Rav know whats going on because they see through Klippah; Klippah defines the movement of Sheker in the World.

It makes total sense: Israeli Russian Mafia+ Russian Mafia = 1= Bomb Iran for free card.

(Stux Net anyone?)

Israel is unique that it simultaneously has every friend in the World while being in utter exile and solitude at the same time! (Kedusha vs. Klippah - even amongst the Jews; Erev Rav)...but in the End, each man for himself, which means team up on Israel and take the spoils of war.

Vote Putin 5772: Prime [New] Candidate for our Fellow Gog [in training]. 

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The Venus Particle: A Secret Of Everything?

So here we have it: The 2012 Mayan Experience coupled with the Venus Transit. What do the two have in common?

Apparently the Mayans and many astronomers since then have long thought that the Secrets of the Physical Universe can be learned through a perceptive eye while observing Venus. This goes for Astronomy, Physics, Time, Nature of the Universe, etc. It is the science of sciences, and thus Venus stood as a model of worship for many societies.

The Jews had no reason to fall to this Avodah Zara, because with our unique calendar, coupled with Chazal, the Torah tradition had its own two legs to stand upon.

Interestingly enough, today rationalists would love to crucify the Talmud and say that modern day science in fact has all the answers to the Universe. To that note, they are better off to worship Venus?!

Why not just try to understand the Talmud, which is enough to bring one to knowledge of Reality. The Vilna Gaon along with Tanna D' Bei Eliyahu and others state: the Wise Men knew of "Tekufot" (pathways of the Rakiyah). This knowledge, which was a gift to the Tribe of Yissachar, is the means to acquire the Binah necessary.

With Binah, one can understand the nature of Reality, and how this World (which may be of Sheker) is really none other than a spiritual world that has its parallel in the Higher Divine World of Atzilus.

Our job is to see just how real this World is (by penetrating its Spiritual Integrity over the perceived Physical). When Hashem said Bereishit Bara Elokim, he meant that there is a Physical Universe. To see the allusion as opposed to an illusion, one must seek the Wisdom of Tekufot within the Torah, and cease to delve rationally or in denial of God's Creation. The "Frum" point of view today unfortunately is to say that God's World and Torah are not True. Thank God we do not need Avodah Zara or Kfirah to find the Truth: God gave us his Torah and Tradition to allow us to see; to see Hashem's World truly has meaning and is utterly Divine, paralleling Atzilus, which is God's desire of Creation. A Creation that exists with [super-]reason and truth, is something that is definately worth seeing every inch and second of it.


NewScientist.com:

With the last transit of Venus of the 21st century weeks away, authors trace how this rare event sparked international scientific collaboration in 1761 AT THE Large Hadron Collider, where subatomic-particle collisions at unimaginable energies lay bare the fundamental structure of matter, more than 3000 physicists from about 40 countries work shoulder to shoulder. Large-scale international collaborations are such a part of modern "big science" that few people ever wonder when and how they began. The answer is 1761 when, for a moment, the warring European powers put aside their differences to work together on the LHC project of their day: the observation of the transit of Venus. Every century or so, the tiny black disc of the planet Venus passes, or transits, across the face of the sun. In fact, it does it twice, eight years apart. Nothing to write home about, you might think. But in 1716, Edmond Halley realised that the event was of truly cosmic significance. It had the potential, he wrote, to reveal the scale of the solar system - the 18th-century universe. Astronomers already knew the relative distances of the planets from the sun because Johannes Kepler's third law of planetary motion - explained by Newtonian gravity - related distances to orbital periods, which were straightforward to measure. But, to turn relative distances into true distances, what was needed was one absolute measurement - for instance, of the distance of the Earth from the sun. This was the incredible promise of the transit of Venus. Looking at an object first with one eye, then the other, reveals its distance: your finger held close moves a lot; whereas your finger at arm's length hardly at all. The problem with the sun, unlike your finger, is it is a big and ill-defined object. Crucially, however, the black disc of Venus at the very moment it touches the edge of the sun is not. To use this "parallax method" to estimate the distance of the sun all that is necessary is to observe and time the transit from widely separated locations on the Earth. Easier said than done. In these two truly excellent books, Mark Anderson and Andrea Wulf tell the rip-roaring tales of the numerous expeditions that set off around the globe to observe the Venusian transit of 1761. Anderson writes as if the reader is on the very shoulders of the adventurers as they sledge across the icy wastes of Siberia or sail across uncharted oceans. If Wulf's approach is a slightly more sober one, both authors communicate the verve and energy - not to mention the perilous nature - of the expeditions. Mimsy scientists did not apply. Wrestling alligators for a living had nothing on being an 18th-century astronomer, risking life and limb on a daily basis. Unfortunately, the observations of 1761 were disappointing, which set things up for a rerun in 1769. Among the scores of adventurers was Captain James Cook, heading to the Pacific island of Tahiti, newly discovered by the Europeans. Not only would Cook find a fresh-vegetable-and-sauerkraut cure for scurvy, he also discovered the lush east coast of New Holland (now Australia). All of the expeditions combined led to a single number: 93,000,000 miles, the average distance between the Earth and the sun. In 1772, the French astronomer royal, César-Francois Cassini de Thury, wrote: "It won't be until 2012 that the transit of Venus will be nearly as advantageous as it was in 1769." Well, it is 2012 now. Go to a hardware store and buy yourself a sliver of shade 14 welding glass. Then, on 5 or 6 June, without having to take any of the risks faced by 18th-century astronomers, witness from your doorstep one of the great wonders of the scientific world: the last transit of Venus of the 21st century.

2012 Is at least part of the Truth -  But will it be a part of the entire TRUTH IS THE QUESTION.

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Baruch Hashem! (Tzfat Miracle)

After living in Tzfat for 11 years, one never grows old of hearing Tzfat Stories. From the Miracles in the Lebanon War, to the Tzaddikim, Learning Kabbalah, Meron, etc...Tzfat is, was, and will always be a special place..no matter how crazy our reputation is here! Here is another story that warms the heart from a local family that the community knows well: way to go Erdsteins!

IsraelNationalNews.com:

Three grade school boys accidentally found six stolen Torah scrolls in an abandoned building where they wanted to establish a clubhouse. The incredible story unfolded Sunday afternoon when nine-year-old Ariel Chaim Erdstein and three friends entered the ruins of a building and were shocked to discover the Torah scrolls, worth more than $250,000. Thieves stole them after breaking into the Chabad Tzemach Tzedek synagogue during the Sabbath a week ago. “They ran out afraid that the thieves may have been hiding there also," Ariel’s mother Batya told Arutz Sheva. However, the first time she found out about the discovery was not from her son – but from the police. “The boys went straight to the synagogue to tell the rabbi,” Batya said. The rabbis and members of the synagogue have been crying since the heart-breaking discovery of the theft on the morning of the Sabbath. When the excited boys interrupted a session of Torah learning, the rabbi anticipated what the youngsters were about to say and asked, “You found the Torah scrolls?” The three boys immediately led the rabbis to the abandoned house and showed them the Torah scrolls, and the police were contacted. Officers took Ariel and his friends to the police station. When Batya received a phone call from a police officer telling her that her child was at the station, she recalled, “My heart sank to my toes.” Her fears immediately turned to joy when the police officer told her, “Don’t worry. This is good news.” “I almost ran out the door without my shoes on,” she added. “This is a great miracle.” A joyous procession to return the Torahs scrolls to the synagogue was held Monday. Police still are looking for the thieves. One theory is that they were afraid to try to move the Torch scrolls from the abandoned building and sell them or simply wanted to wait longer before doing so. They also may have felt remorse and decided not to proceed with their plan to sell them. The children are back in school Monday, the Torah scrolls are back in the synagogue, and Ariel’s father Baruch Emanuel, a native of Detroit, has an intriguing story to add to his repertoire as a professional story-teller and entertainer. "As a family we are always telling the holy stories of the tzaddikim and miracles of simple Jews just trying to be close to HaShem," Batya told Arutz Sheva. "It seems that we have to go back into Jewish history to connect to what was so holy and worth telling, but I tell my children that in coming to israel and trying to be holy in our own simple ways by doing mitzvoth and loving each other, we too continue to make the stories of the Jewish people" Batya, originally from San Diego, California, teaches ceramics and runs family clay activities from her Tzfat Pottery Experience studio. The Erdsteins moved to Israel in 1996 and lived in Jerusalem and Herzliya before settling in Tzfat, one of Israel’s four holy cities. The other holy cites are Jerusalem, Tiberias and Hevron.

Tzfat: the coolest place on Earth - it just is.

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Pax Judaica: Present and Accounted For!

Hinted at in the Torah in the passage of the 8 Kings of Edom, we find an allusion to the number of Prime Ministers since Rabin's assassination (the beginning of giving back land proactively as an Erev Rav faction to America).

[Genesis 36:31] - ...מלך-מלך לבני ישראל ...with the idea that "לבני" is Livni, as she was elected as Prime Minister really, while Peres  gave the command to Bibi, "Israel", as Rav Kaduri said the current Government is the last and will usher in the Moshiach.
And now we really have the fulfillment of this as Livni is gone yet Kadima is back and with Bibi!

How strong is Bibi and the State of Israel really? For a long time people thought Israel has never been weaker. Now all of a sudden there is talk that Israel has never been stronger?!

Here's to the Bibi - Kadima faction ...will Bibi systematically close shop by bringing us on a collision course with Moshiach?


The Daily Star:

While incumbents around the world are struggling to hold on, one is thriving. By bringing the rival Kadima party into his ruling coalition, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become “king of Israel,” in Aaron David Miller’s phrase. He has an unusual, perhaps unique, opportunity to use his new power to secure Israel’s future. Netanyahu’s coalition now commands the largest parliamentary majority in Israeli history. He faces no plausible rival as premier. When pushed on the Palestinian issue, Netanyahu has often cited the constraints of his coalition to explain why he had not taken bolder steps toward resolution. Perhaps he liked being constrained: He refused to form a national-unity government in 1996 (with Shimon Peres) and again in 2009 (with Tzipi Livni). But now he has a broad enough base of support – with many moderates – and could move toward a peace settlement without endangering his hold on power. Look beneath the recent war fears, and Israel is in a stronger position than ever. Its per capita gross domestic product rivals Italy’s (at $31,000). The World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index ranks Israel sixth in innovation capacity, just after the United States. It is behind only the United States and China in the number of companies listed on Nasdaq. Militarily, Israel is the Middle East’s superpower, with an armed force that could easily defeat any of its neighbors. U.S. aid (Congress recently moved to add $1 billion for Israel’s missile defense program to the president’s budget) enhances its military edge. It also has one of the world’s largest nuclear arsenals, estimated at more than 200 missiles. At home the wall along the West Bank has essentially solved the problem of Palestinian suicide bombing, rendering Israel safer than at any point in its history. While Iran does pose a threat, this threat has been systematically exaggerated over the past few years. Many serious Israeli leaders, including several senior members of its military and intelligence establishment, have spoken up about this in an unprecedented manner. Tamir Pardo of Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, has said that Iran is not an existential threat. Last month, Army Chief Benny Gantz described the Iranian regime as rational. Mossad’s Meir Dagan has said that an attack on Iran would be “stupid.” Kadima party head Shaul Mofaz, the new vice prime minister and a former army chief, has said that an Israeli attack on Iran would produce a regional war and accelerate Iran’s nuclear program. He argues that “the threat that Israel will become a binational state is far more serious than the Iranian nuclear issue.” In his passionate and intelligent book “The Crisis of Zionism,” Peter Beinart observes a distinction between the ethics of weakness and power. If you see yourself as weak, besieged by the world, and as a victim, Beinart argues, you will embrace any policy that allows you to survive, regardless of its impact on others. On the other hand, an ethic of power recognizes that you are strong and must promote your own interests but with some concept of responsibility as well. Worse, Beinart argues, the obsession with victimhood has prevented people in Israel and the United States from focusing on the gravest threat to Israel’s existence as a Jewish and democratic state: demography. If there is no progress toward a two-state solution, at some point Israel will not to be able to continue to rule over millions of Palestinians without giving them the right to vote – at which point it will cease to be a Jewish state. In the past, Netanyahu has fiercely embraced the ethic of survival. For decades he has argued that Israel was in imminent danger of extinction, making comparisons to the Nazi threat to Jews in 1938. Long opposed to a Palestinian state, he railed in 1993, when Yitzhak Rabin and Peres signed the Oslo Accords, that Peres, then foreign minister, was “worse than [Neville] Chamberlain.” In the book Netanyahu published that year, he argued that dismantling Jewish settlements would produce a “Judenrein” West Bank (“free of Jews,” a phrase the Nazis used). When he reissued his book in 2009, those phrases were still in the text. Since then, perhaps recognizing the demographic dangers to Israel, he has said he now supports a two-state solution, but he has done nothing to move toward it. Israel faces real dangers. It sits in a hostile neighborhood, with anti-Semitism rising. Obstacles to Israel-Palestinian peace include the weakness of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and radicalism from the terror group Hamas. But a politician of Netanyahu’s skill can find ways to navigate this terrain. The larger questions are: Does he see an opportunity to become a truly great figure in Israeli history? Can he use his power for a purpose other than his own survival?

At least our neighbors think we are going somewhere over here. Is this objectively true? - Is Bibi a true Power Player in World History - I say yes...all the pieces are in place.

...Just when will we see the big picture, i.e. removing the Concealment of God's Will - as predicted by the Ramchal?

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Assad and Yishmael's Angels

The saga with Assad has been going on for over a year now. To relate to Arab Spring [at this stage] it is logical to gaze over into Syria. The idea being passed around when Arab Spring started, was that the Guardian Angels of Yishmael were falling down; thus if we are in Galus Yishmael, that would be a simon that the End is near.

One point of chizuk, is that Assad has been dancing on a high-wire for over a year. If we look at the nature of Galus Edom (which Yishmael is connected to) in context of Yaakov's Dream with the ladder, we can see a parallel. When Yaakov saw the Angel of Edom, he did not see an end in sight; such was the nature of the length of Galus Edom.

We have now been in Galus Edom for nearly 2000 years. Perhaps Assad is a remez/hint at the inner reality, that Edom has been going on for very long, this is Galus Yishmael, and Assad is letting us see the end of them both as one.

In any case, when will Assad fall? And will it be the end of Yishmael's Ministers falling down from command?

Jpost.com:

Keen for a little bit of certainty in a turbulent Arab world, Israeli leaders persuaded themselves last year that Syrian President Bashar Assad - the devil they knew next door - was finished, and something possibly better might be on the way. But it was not to be. With the Syrian uprising now into its 14th month and Assad still firmly in power, Israel has few options other than to sit the crisis out, unable to influence the outcome of an upheaval that is sure to affect it. Related: Syria says US colluding with al-Qaida terrorists Israeli officials and analysts believe Assad will hang on for a while, battling a popular revolt that Israel, Arab and Western powers worry could yet be hijacked by Islamist radicals, after four decades of calm along Israel's border with Syria. "A nuanced evaluation of the situation in Syria suggests that while Assad has lost his legitimacy amongst the masses, he still maintains the vital support of much of the army," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in Jerusalem last week. "So the tragic massacre of innocents continues while the future of Syria is shrouded in uncertainty," he told foreign correspondents. "Whatever follows Assad's bloodstained regime will be greeted with Israel's extended hand of peace ... Our other hand will remain firmly grasped to our weapon." As with the revolt that toppled their longtime Egyptian ally Hosni Mubarak 15 months ago, Israeli leaders had tried to keep their lips buttoned about Syria at first and let the storm unfold, hoping for the best. Then as the death toll quickly mounted in Assad's ruthless crackdown on the popular challenge to his rule, top officials including Barak and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the Assad regime was clearly on its way out. But that was last year. Assad is still in power. In the long term, Israel would like nothing better than to see the collapse of the Shi'ite Muslim-dominated Syria-Iran-Hezbollah axis, a hostile northern arch in which Assad's government headed by his Alawite sect forms the keystone. Syria's fractious Sunni Muslim-led opposition says it would turn a post-Assad Syria away from Israel's main enemy, Iran, towards moderate Sunni powers in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. The prospect of peace with Syria is enticing for Israel. But Syria's opposition is deeply divided, and Israel has little if any leverage to promote the emergence of a moderate government next door in Damascus - three hours' drive from Tel Aviv. "Israel is entirely powerless to affect the outcome in Syria," says Jonathan Spyer, senior fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs center in Herzliya. "Israel's role in the current events in Syria is that of spectator." "What Israel of course can do and is doing is to strengthen its defensive posture on its northern border in the event of any attempt by elements in Syria to try to re-focus attention on Israel. For my part, I consider this unlikely..." Spyer said. New coalition not likely to help in relation to Syria Israeli and foreign analysts agree that the grand coalition forged by Netanyahu this week could strengthen his hand in dealing with what Western officials suspect are Iran's nuclear arms development plans and in reviving hopes of a Middle East peace with the Palestinians. But Netanyahu's now unassailable Knesset majority makes no obvious or immediate difference in the case of Syria. Two car bombers killed nearly 60 people on Thursday in the deadliest strike in Damascus since the uprising began. The attack appeared to drive a stake through the heart of a dying ceasefire declared by international mediator Kofi Annan on April 12, which he acknowledges has failed to halt the bloodshed. "The hapless attempt to implement the Kofi Annan plan is ending in absurdity and humiliation," said Spyer. He believed Assad stood a good chance of surviving, "unless an international coalition comes into being which supports the opposition at least as firmly as the international coalition behind Assad supports him". Active support of the opposition would mean the creation of a buffer zone in the north, and assistance to the armed element in the Syrian uprising, this analyst said. Technically, Israel remains at war with Syria and its involvement in such a risky gamble seems highly improbable. Despite Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights after the 1973 Middle East conflict, the United Nations-patrolled disengagement line with Syria has been Israel's quietest border for 40 years - under the late Hafez Assad and now his son. Barak predicted one year ago that Assad would soon be toppled, saying Israel should not be alarmed. The process taking place in the Middle East holds great promise, he said last May. Today Barak says Israel must be ready in case "as Syria descends into chaos, advanced weapons, or part of their stock of chemical and biological weapons could spill over into both terrorist and criminal hands". Syria is widely believed to possess chemical warheads which can be fired with Soviet-era Scud missiles. Israel fears that Hezbollah, or radical Islamists, or al- Qaida fighters, could grab some of them in an uncontrolled meltdown of the regime. Could Yemeni-style solution work in Syria? "Assad is going to last," said Syria analyst Moshe Maoz of Hebrew University. "The balance of power is in his favor. There have been no mass defections." The officer corps of the army are members of Assad's minority Alawite sect, who know they would be slaughtered if Sunni-led rebels took control of Syria, and so will fight on for their lives, Maoz said. Punitive embargoes could take years to bring down Assad, he said. Sympathetic neighbors Iraq and Lebanon would ensure that Damascus never faces "a fully-fledged siege" of sanctions. In the meantime, Maoz said, Israel's best long-term strategy would be to close ranks with Sunni Arab leaders in the region, by moving finally and decisively to settle the Middle East conflict, with a peace treaty and a Palestinian state. "This is the crux issue for everybody," the analyst said. Not all Israelis agree there is real linkage between the occupation of the West Bank and Arab or Iranian hostility. But Israel is in "a stormy sea in which the waves of radicalism are growing in strength", said Barak, and "any intimation of democracy, any hint of peace should be grabbed with both hands." A senior official said Israel had no solution for Syria up its sleeve. It is anxious to see more assertive policies by Western and Arab capitals, including imposition of humanitarian corridors to areas of conflict from which the United Nations estimates one million Syrians have been displaced. Such corridors would need military protection, which Western powers so far firmly rule out. Syria's northern neighbour Turkey could force a rethink, however, if it were to declare to its NATO allies that its own security was threatened. Still, it would be mistaken to corner Assad, the Israeli official said. It would be wiser to seek a way to convince his ally Russia that its investment in Syria would not be lost if Assad could be convinced to step aside, as Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh did late last year under Saudi and American pressure. Russian cooperation, said Spyer, is crucial if the Western-Arab coalition backing Annan's plan decides Assad is not complying and goes back to the Security Council seeking "further measures" to enforce a ceasefire and political settlement. "It is Russian weaponry which is keeping Assad in place. Russia has invested deeply in Syria, both in terms of arms exports and broader infrastructural projects and the search for oil and gas. Of course, the importance of the naval base at Tartous should also not be underestimated," he said. But Spyer thinks Moscow and other allies of Assad "apparently believe that the regime stands a good chance of coming through this and now has the upper hand. So why should they do their US regional rivals a favor and make themselves look weak by abandoning a client?"

Is Assad's time up in 5772?

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New Tel Avivia

Israel is considering doing what basically already is: The Merkaz will become "Greater Tel Aviv"


Ynet.com:

Some architects and economists believe that the solution to the country's housing crisis is a new model that would see the Jewish state investing in one mega-city to encompass much of central Israel. The experts say such model can create housing solutions for up to 10 million people without raising housing prices. This model, known as megalopolis, would see Israel turning into an urban city-state, similar to Singapore and Hong Kong. According to proposal, the entire area between Haifa in the and Beersheba in the south will become a continuum of urban communities, moving agricultural lands to Negev and Galilee frontiers. Delayed Train Tel Aviv light rail delays dozens of construction projects / Shirly Sasson-Ezer, Calcalist Engineers Association official estimates damage due to unnecessary hurdles will exceed NIS 20 billion in 20 years Full Story Supporters of this approach argue that such urban development will not harm the environment. Large, populated cities can include many wide parks and maintain them more effectively, these experts say. City parks, according to this approach, are more accessible to the public and make better open areas than forests and fields. The megalopolis idea is also supported by the claim that Israel is too small and centralized to sustain more than one metropolitan center. A country of 21,000 square kilometers and 7.8 million people only needs one large city surrounded by suburbs and circled by agricultural land, argue the supporters. The only reason this model is not realized is that Israelis still believe in the original Zionist vision of spreading out the population nationwide. Economist Dr. Yaakov Sheinin, founder and CEO of Economic Models, compares Israel to London when arguing that there is no problem of urban crowdedness in Israel. The area between the shore and the Green Line, Hadera and Ashdod, is 1,400 square kilometers, the same as London and its suburbs, he says. "Eight million people live in London within this area," Sheinin says. "Here only 3.5 million people live in the same area. It's not crowded." According to Sheinin, the key to creating one large metropolitan is to develop a system of mass transport to allow fast and efficient movement from the suburbs to the center. Sheinin argues that although being a small country has many shortcomings, one important advantage is that everything is close. "When the Americans speak of New York's suburbs they mean Connecticut. That's an hour train ride," he says. "If the train to Sderot was proper, the city would become a suburb of Tel Aviv."

Now they can work on "New Brooklyn" next

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The Third Temple - Coming to Shavuous

Noahidenations.com


 

Parashas Emor: Shem and The Third Temple

Rabbi David P. Katz

This week’s Parsha weighs heavily in the most essential aspects to the Kohanim (Priests). We are introduced to the strict commands of who the Priests are allowed to marry, the nature of their sanctity, and gleanings of their intimate service in the Holy Temple. As we have mentioned in several places, a Noahide who learns Torah is viewed as a type of High Priest (which aligns with the tracing back to Shem ben Noah), and thus the Torah is quite clear of the acknowledgement of such. If the two great Nations are going to be Priests in their service to God, where would we find such an arena to cater to these lofty expectations that are placed upon both? We should look no further than to Shem himself, as the Talmud (Sukkah 52b) states: Shem is one of the Four Craftsmen of Redemption who take part in the construction of the Third [Messianic] Temple. Thus we see that Shem is directly involved with the Third Temple and is a clear image that the Noahides, and their Priestly status that they will have attained in the End of Days, will be present and affiliated with presenting Offerings along with the Jewish Priests who will be Ministering to Hashem in Ezekiel’s Temple. It should not come as a surprise that the Torah Portion that deals with Priestly Laws is the location of the very tradition of the Third Temple, and it was this very element that united Abraham and Shem on the Temple Mount, as Shem would be destined to play a part in the final construction, as having knowledge of Divine Craftsmanship that he inherited with his Righteous father Noah. In the Torah Portion Emor, the command to “waive the Omer” in the Temple (that would be standing) on the first day of Passover that falls after the Holiday (Seder night) Proper (Yom Tov – upon which creative labor is forbidden similar to Shabbat) [Chol HaMoed – Intermediary Days] is brought to light and this is the source of counting fifty days until Shavuous; the Omer is actually the beginning and the basis of what would be the holiday Shavuot, as Shavuot ironically is not Biblically the holiday commemorating the Giving of the Torah, which most are naturally led to believe, rather the completion of the “Waiving of the Omer” ceremony. The Talmud brings up a very interesting query on this point: “What if there is not a Temple in existence – what do we do then?” [Menachos 66b] The answer derived from this question is quite clear: there are two distinct Torah realities: One with a Temple standing and one without a Temple standing. When the Temple is standing, the commandment of the “Omer” is quite clear, and we follow the Torah literally. When the World is in exile from the Temple, the Rabbis have found a maneuver that is programmed within the text as a “what-to–do–in-this-case” scenario. The solution would be to have different times imposed of when to perform the ceremony as to not incur a sin if there would suddenly be a Temple standing, i.e. Exile would suddenly turn to Redemption. But can this really happen?! The scenario being brought [Talmud Sukkah, on this very issue] is a law that was instituted at the beginning of the current exile: Should the Third Temple be built suddenly, this enactment of the Rabbis must be implemented (as prescribed by the Torah) lest the Laws of the Temple and its sanctity be breeched. The Talmud then returns and asks, upon which the Bible Commentator Rashi explains, would we find such a scenario that Temple would suddenly appear on the grounds that even yesterday its construction was not underway? The answer which Rashi explains is: Yes! For the Third Temple is to come ready and built – fully-functional from the Hands of Heaven! It is Parashas Emor that we can turn to of being one of the few sacred locations that educate us of the Third Temple, and the fashion that Mankind will come to gravitate towards it. We must remember that the very basis of this teaching is in association with the “waiving of the Omer” ceremony in a “Temple”, so now for the flip side, what if we are located in a time space before the coming of the Third Temple while still in Exile? For this, the Talmud answers that the counting of the Omer (50 days counting leading to Shavuot) is merely a Rabbinic enactment (part of what the Rabbis instituted to guard against if a Temple would be built, so as not to trespass on the Holiness due to lack of awareness of having been in Exile for nearly 2000 years) that they have decreed that the counting is what is termed, “Zecher LeMikdash BeAlmah Hu” / “A Reminder of the Temple – In simple terms.” [Menachos 66a] What we glean from this enactment, is that the entire Redemptive process that leads up to the Giving of the Torah (which Noahide and Jew are both invested in) is nothing more than a yearning for the Third Temple זכר למקדש הוא / Zecher LeMikdash Hu – A Reminder of the Temple. Interestingly enough, the Gematria of that expression (Numerical value of the Hebrew) is 713: Repentance. We find that the merit to find the Temple on Earth will be from the result of Universal Repentance. It is the lack of the Third Temple that defines the current Exile, and it is this exile that has suppressed the nature of the Priests- Noahide and Jewish. As we read this Parsha in the times of the Omer, and we are fast approaching Shavuot, one can only ponder how great it would be to perform the Torah when its true structure will be built, or descend built from Heaven, as Rashi explains as per the Midrash that he quotes. How ironic is it, that it is this Parsha in specific that really educates us as to the nature of the Priests, and has within it the hidden source of the missing component: The Third Temple. The Third Temple as we have mentioned really took its roots in Abraham and Shem going back to their historic meeting at the Temple Mount. Shem ministered to God, as the High Priest, on the Temple Mount, in relation to the Heavenly Temple Above, as within Shem is access to the angelic Worlds, as explained by the Zohar, that the angel Michael was present within Shem when he met Abraham. This would be the site of the Future Third Temple that Shem himself would help usher its foundations to be cemented in this World. Abraham as well would be connected to the Third Temple, not only because of his famed meeting with Shem on the Temple Mount, but the Wells that Abraham dug followed by Isaac, would be the Spiritual Channels that the Future Temples would be able to flow into existence by, from a future domain into the present from the establishment in the past. [Ramban] The Laws of the Priests are said in the Midrash to contain revelation of the entire Torah, and we see this with the exchange between Shem and Abraham all the way until the Book of Vayikra, which lays claim to the most profound Torah concepts in the entire Torah. Vayikra is in the center of the Torah and can be compared to the heart of the Torah. The Torah itself is considered a Heart, as the first and last letters of the Torah combine to spell “לב” – Heart, thereby making Vayikra, “The Heart of Hearts.” Would it then be a surprise to see one of the Third Temple’s most profound teachings in the Parasha of Emor? The Third Temple is the domain that will ultimately define the nature of the Priest, as the Prophecies themselves concerning the Third Temple have long been thought to be highly mystical and difficult to understand. The outcome of the Third Temple is that we will learn and experience new realities of the Priesthood in that Time. One such reality will be of its builder, Shem ben Noah and myriads of Noahide-Priests who will be there at that time as well. The reminder of the Temple is not just for the Jews, but as a wakeup call for all the Priests, Noahides and Jews together, and a resonating voice that goes out to the World, to return to God. In the merit of Torah, that was given on Mount Sinai, at the culmination of a fifty days counting, the very event that made a Jew a Jew and a Noahide a Noahide to this very day – we must remember that we are both Priests to God, each in our own way, and this will only be fully realized upon the building and completion of the Third Temple, that fittingly enough will be ushered in by the first Priest the World ever saw, “Shem ben Noah.” As much as Shem sought after the Temple standing on the Temple Mount, the World’s Priests will only stand in full glory, when the Temple will reveal the Power of the Priest and The Priestly Kingdom, and when The Torah will fill the World with Knowledge of God. Only then will Mankind emanate Divinity onto the Earth, bringing into fruition the Messianic Dream that Shem envisioned when he exited the Ark and swore to Hashem to build the World on Kindness and Righteousness. Fittingly, these are the attributes the define the Priesthood, and will be the vessels of Wisdom that flow out to the World from the Third Temple, one that is slated to arrive suddenly from Heaven, as hinted at in Parashas Emor.

Shabbat Shalom

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Yishmael and The Great Naval Battle

Tanna D'Bei Eliyahu states that there will be 3 wars with Yishmael in the End of Days: By Land, By Sea, and in Rome. Could it be that Land Wars are over, and now we are heading into the Naval aspect - upon which as the Zohar confirms, the last wars are in Rome.

Israel seems to be shifting its strategies to the Naval end of War preparation. From these wars is the coming of Ben-David.


Haaretz.com:

With all the attention in recent days given to short-term political developments, an event with long-term implications for regional strategic balance almost escaped serious attention. Last Thursday, the high command of the Israeli Navy took part in the delivery ceremony of INS Tanin, Israel's fourth Dolphin submarine, at Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft shipyard in Kiel, Germany. Most of the foreign media reports tend to focus on the rumored special tubes which may also be used by nuclear-tipped missiles. This was the focus of Gunter Grass' poem on Israel's dark plans to annihilate the Iranian population. But the real significance of the new submarines Israel is receiving from Germany, three in all, is the huge boost it will give to Israel's long-range strategic capabilities. Not only will the three additional subs numerically double Israel's underwater fleet, but the navy is also simultaneously expanding its training course for submariner crews with the eventual goal of having two crews for each ship, rather than one crew per ship that it has today. This will enable a sub to spend more time at sea with a fresh crew, while the other one rests up and prepares back on shore. The first three Dolphins were supplied in the 1990s and are now going through extensive mid-life refurbishments which will equip them for many more years beneath the waves. The new subs are enhanced versions with one major improvement – a new "hybrid" propulsion system which combines the conventional diesel lead-acid battery with an air-independent propulsion electric fuel cell. "Without going into specific details of the new range," explains a senior naval officer, "the new subs will be able to spend much longer time under water without giving its position away, by coming up to the surface to replenish the air in its engine." Tracking and attacking enemy shipping is only one of the Dolphin’s roles. A submarine is basically a mobile base for collecting visual and electronic intelligence, dispatching commandos to distant beaches and launching conventional attacks against targets on shore. Almost any future war the IDF may face, be it in Lebanon, Syria, a radicalized Egypt and of course Iran, can be fought from the sea. The full complement of three new submarines will not be entirely operational until 2016 at the earliest. But since Israeli military planners are already talking about "the next strike on Iran," the one that may be carried out four or five years down the line (after the Iranians rebuild their nuclear program following an Israeli or American attack), the advanced underwater capability is very relevant. Along with the three new submarines, the IDF's most ambitious purchase is a squadron of twenty stealthy F-35s, which in a potential attack would have the role of penetrating air-defenses and carrying out the initial surgical strikes. But the F-35 is undergoing serious delays in development and early production, and the IAF will probably not have an operational squadron at this rate before 2018. This means that if Iran significantly improves its air-defense system, as can be expected, the next war, or the one after it, could well be launched from underwater.

Perhaps Iran's demise is through water, as the Midrash describes. Interestingly, Noah saved the World through Water (and a ship obviously), and Hashem said he would never destroy the World with Water; what about a nuclear vessel in WATER?

...There is nothing new under the sun...yet within this gloomy fact of wisdom, it is this World that will yield to total Novelty of that which is Moshiach ben David. 

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End [Game] Of Days

Is Bibi really leading an End Game - to resolve the Zionist [Original] Dream? Is now the opening that the Erev Rav must act to accomplish an Ancient Agenda? Or is this just another episode of Politics 101? Bibi says he is addressing real issues with his Unity Government. If [Messianic] Bibi is really stepping up to his [hoping here] (false) Messianic Destiny, maybe things will get really exciting and Novel ON TIME!

Also of note, it seems getting rid of Livni was crucial to Kadima and Israeli Politics in general.

I'm guessing its going to be extreme either way: total chaos or total [Capitalist] delay.


Jpost.com:

Netanyahu, Mofaz present deal that will draw Kadima into 94-seat coalition and cancel elections; Mofaz calls move an opportunity to join arms in face of big challenges.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Kadima chair Shaul Mofaz highlighted four priorities for their unity government on Tuesday, emphasizing with each the importance of acting "responsibly." The first priority will be "replacing the Tal Law with a historic, just and equal solution" to integrating the haredim into army service. The second is to develop a "responsible budget addressing security, economic and social issues." The third is "changing the structure of government" so that governments serving out their terms will be "the rule and not the exception." The fourth is to "move forward responsibly in the peace process." Mofaz emphasized that "leaders must make big decisions" at this "important time in the state's history." He argued that national unity was an opportunity to "join arms" to address the state's "hardest challenges." He also stated that Kadima was not doing this to receive ministries, seats, or "honors," but was joining the government with the sole focus of "resolving the main issues addressing Israel." Following the conference, Netanyahu and Mofaz will present the deal to the Knesset, which is expected to approve it within 48 hours. Netanyahu and Mofaz sealed the deal, which scuttled plans for early elections in September, overnight, after which Likud and Kadima factions agreed to the agreement. The agreement stipulates that Kadima will not topple the government until the official end of its term on October 22, 2013. Mofaz - who replaced Tzipi Livni just last month as the Kadima party head - will also become vice premier, and will fill in for the prime minister when he is abroad. Kadima's inclusion will bring the coalition to 94 seats. Kadima will lead a committee that will work towards approving an alternative to the Tal Law - which allows ultra-Orthodox men to indefinitely defer army service - by the August 1 deadline. In addition, the party will also work towards changing the government system by the end of the year.

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$o When Do We Bomb Iran Again?

Somehow the New Government matters...I just don't know why yet. Does this mean we will see a swap: bomb Iran = Give Palestinians a State? What is "Unity" in fundamentalist Zionism? Did Bibi's father see this as "the way" before he died, being that his roots go all the way back. Whatever the case, that which comes of this, will reveal a new element of saga into Israel, Politics, and Zionism.

If this is a lead up to war, then perhaps 1967 and 2012 really are one in the same. The Midrash says Moshiach will come, and hide for 45 years, and then be revealed again. Thus if '67 was the beginning of the revelation of Moshiach, and 2012 is the end of that process, it would make sense, for when one looks at the topography of today verses then - what really has changed? It's exactly the same in many ways! Only now perhaps, it will lead to revelation of Moshiach. Bringing Mofaz aboard shows that Bibi is showing restraint on the Right from Border expansion, i.e. War with Iran leading to a Palestinian State, with a Centrist View, i.e. continuing the State as is into hi-tech and capitalism.

From Wikipedia: Israel has had several National Unity Governments, in which major rival parties formed a ruling coalition. Such a coalition was notably formed in the days leading up to the Six Day War.


NyTimes.com:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the chairman of the opposition Kadima Party struck a deal early Tuesday morning to form a unity government, a surprise move that staves off early elections and creates a new coalition with a huge legislative majority. According to the three-page agreement that Mr. Netanyahu and the opposition leader, Shaul Mofaz, signed after midnight, Mr. Mofaz will become a deputy prime minister, standing in for Mr. Netanyahu when he is abroad and joining all closed sessions of the cabinet. A former defense minister and military chief who has been critical of the government’s aggressive focus on the Iranian nuclear threat, Mr. Mofaz will be “in charge of the process with the Palestinians,” according to a Kadima spokesman, Yuval Harel, who said that “part of the deal is to turn on the process.” The unity agreement came hours after the Israeli Parliament took the first steps toward dissolving itself ahead of elections scheduled for Sept. 4 rather than at the end of the government’s term in October 2013. With his coalition divided over how to replace a law expiring Aug. 1 that exempted many ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service, Mr. Netanyahu had said in a speech to the convention of his right-leaning Likud Party on Sunday night that he wanted early elections to avoid the instability of a campaign atmosphere stretching over more than a year. But even as the political establishment here was kicking into high gear in recent days, leaders of the Likud and Kadima parties had been in secret negotiations that culminated at midnight Tuesday at the prime minister’s home in Jerusalem, where he and Mr. Mofaz signed a contract, according to Mr. Harel. The two men then went to the Parliament building around 2:30 a.m., where they met with lawmakers from their parties, who voted to approve the deal, officials said. A news conference was scheduled for noon in Jerusalem. “It was at the initiation of both sides,” Mr. Harel said in an overnight telephone interview. “This is the best way to get influence.” In a brief statement issued Tuesday morning, Mr. Netanyahu, who moved closer to the center as a result of the accord, said: “A broad national unity government is good for the security, for the economy, for the people of Israel.” Reaction from other political factions was swift and harsh. “This is a pact of cowards and the most contemptible and preposterous zigzag in Israel’s political history,” said Shelly Yacimovich, chairwoman of the Labor Party and suddenly the leader of the dwindling opposition. She vowed to “show the public that there is a political and ideological alternative,” and said the deal gave Labor “a golden opportunity to lead the people eventually, if not now then in 2013, onto a new path.” Yair Lapid, a popular television commentator who recently formed a new centrist party, Yesh Atid, derided the agreement as a sign of “the old, detestable, ugly politics” and predicted that “this repulsive political alliance will bury all of its participants under it.” But for Mr. Mofaz, who ousted Tzipi Livni as head of Kadima in a party primary last month, and Mr. Netanyahu, who polls predicted would sail to victory in early elections, the benefits were clear. Besides gaining a ministership, Mr. Mofaz buys himself time to build up public support for his platform, keeping his party’s 28 seats in Parliament rather than face elections in which polls show his faction would drop to 15 or fewer. And Mr. Netanyahu’s coalition swelled from 66 to 94 of Parliament’s 120 members, while broadening its ideological base. The 13-clause agreement promises that the new coalition will pass a new law by July ensuring equal national service for all Israeli citizens, including those religious Jews who had avoided the draft to study Torah. It also calls for an overhaul of the electoral process itself by year’s end. Kadima lawmakers would also head several key parliamentary committees, including foreign affairs and defense, and economics. The Iranian-born Mr. Mofaz, 63, had originally said he would not join Mr. Netanyahu’s coalition. “I intend to replace Netanyahu,” he told The New York Times in an interview after his resounding victory over Ms. Livni. “I will not join his government.” In the interview, Mr. Mofaz criticized the prime minister’s foreign policy focus, saying that a greater threat to Israel than Iran was the continuing conflict with the Palestinians. He said that he would start with an interim Palestinian state on 60 percent of the West Bank and negotiate the rest, keeping Israeli settlement blocs in place in exchange for land elsewhere. Borders and security could be negotiated in a year, he said, and thousands of settlers in far-flung locations would agree to move or be forced to. Arik Bender, a writer for the daily newspaper Maariv, called the developments “Shaul Mofaz’s night,” writing in an analysis piece that he “saved the ship of Kadima from sinking at the very last moment, assured himself a prominent position in the government, and secured coalition favors for his party.” He said the deal dealt a “painful blow” to Ms. Yacimovich, and a “mortal” one to Mr. Lapid. Yossi Verter, a senior analyst for the left-leaning daily newspaper Haaretz, called the deal “an atomic bomb,” and said it was struck out of Mr. Netanyahu’s “great power” and Mr. Mofaz’s “severe weakness.” “No party can topple him,” Mr. Verter wrote of the prime minister. “The new Netanyahu government is made of one hundred tons of solid concrete.” David Horovitz, a veteran journalist who runs the new Web site The Times of Israel, described the new coalition as a “masterstroke” for Mr. Netanyahu. “The prime minister, with Kadima at his side, is also now potentially capable of taking a more centrist position on dealings with the Palestinians and over settlements,” Mr. Horovitz wrote in an analysis posted Tuesday morning. “It’s by no means clear that he wants to do so. But he has room for maneuver now if he wishes to use it. And the Americans and the rest of the international community will be well aware of the fact.”

What comes after unbridled Capitalism (which is another word for Zionism):
Let's hope Torah-ism (which is true Zionism)
5772 (looking sooner than '73?)

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