ENDTIME CURIOSITIES & COMPLEXITIES

"It will be on that day that Hashem will thresh from the surging Euphrates to the brook of Egypt and gather in all His scattered ones. And a great shofar will be sounded; and those who are servants in Happy Land, and those who contaiminated from the land of bondage shall come to celebrate before Hashem on His holy mountain..." (Isaiah 28, Haftara parsha Va'eira, Exodus 6:3 - 9)

We are come to a momentous season, a time when the keywords of existence unlock and interpret events rushing toward us at accelerating speeds. Public events and the speech that 'describes' them spin mists that hide their layers of design. Holy texts in season penetrate the veils. Lies are being exposed to be broken...

The foremost Kabbalist in Israel, Rav Yitzhak Kaduri, about the age of Joseph the righteous when his neshama ascended, has gone to hospital saying, "the redemption is coming." The neshama of the righteous pull the nefesh and ruach to the spice meadows and, gathering a crown from the King, descend with their healing fragrance to the depths of Hebron where the throne and chariot are completed and the camp of Israel united. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their spouses, Adam and Eve and David, whose 70 years, a part of Adam's portion, a tenth of them, a shemittah cycle is in Hebron, are established, calling in the covenant obligations God promised His beloved Jewish people. For "the holy kingdom could not be fully established without attaching itself to the patriarchs in Hebron" (Zohar, Va'eira, 31a-b).

Below, we will talk of events as the world speaks, for there are many complexities, to our eyes, of the playing out the last few spaces on the board; many ways for us to reach the end. Who is Pharaoh today? Who is being broken in ten great strokes, and will be annihilated after the end, in the postscript to history, since the deeds of the fathers are a pattern to the sons? Who is master of that mighty nation that retricts and contaminates the Jewish people? They who are the "handiwork" of Yah, "the people I have created to declare My praise," He states.

Upon those who have scattered, discarded and contaminated Israel, and who are restricting and staining them now, the Zohar states that Yah God will hurl upon them the "Arav" the confusion, horde of beasts and disorder from which creation was called by Yah's tapestry of Hebrew speech (Genesis 1). Fighting oveor God's covenanted land, Greece and Persia, the winged goat and the bear created a vaccuum into which, for the first time in history, the Arav swept. Their disorder, their entropy can go no further. The vermin, the epidemic, and the utter confusion will be cast, measure for measure upon those who worshipped "hybrid and perverse" beasts, and humans with beast-heads, as the Egptians did. As the Zohar indicates, this is the Vatican that through organizations as seemingly disparate as the "Paving the Way" foundation, headed by a "Jewish - Catholic" doctor, clawing at Mt. Zion. It will be for Rome as for ancient Egypt. "The same punishment is destined to be meted out by the Holy One, blessed be He, to Rome, the great Metropolis," to Europe as it is written, "Who is this coming from Edom His garments sullied with blood...a great slaughter in the land of Batzrah" (Zohar 30b - 31a, 32a; cf. Isaiah 63 -4).

Those who control the major media of the world, those who set the parameters of permissible 'debate' and forge its mind-cramping vocabulary of lies have decided to inform the public that there is a danger of Nuclear Armageddon from Iran, known from ancient until recent times as Persia, "the Bear." Iran has been developing its ballistic missiles, the Shuhab series (now in its third, intercontinental stage) and warhead technology for at least ten years ith assistance from Russia and others via North Korea. Its nuclear technology is courtesy of Russia, Germany and France. For several years it has had missiles than can blanket Israel, and has rarely ceased insisting it will the "apple of God's eye." Now its Shuhab III can reach central Europe and steadily, quickly the world is being alerted that there is a serious threat that even the UN and the leftist parties will have to acknowledge. The crisis, having been created, is now going to be solved, the power think, in their way.

This remains to be seen. In-fighting among the interlocking interests in "the West" may protract the outcome into the spring, until the Bear strikes first. It is written that "in the end of days, Edom will attack Ishmael, Ishmael will enflame Persia, and Persia will attack the entire world. Israel will run back and forth, crying, 'where shall I go? What shall I do.'" That certainly sounds like Labor-Kadima-Likud that colludes with "those that say, 'come, let us blot them out from nationhood, that Israel's name not be remembered anymore." And with the name and memory of Israel, the Name, nature and knowledge of Yah God, Hashem, the Master and Maker of the universe they mean to blot out and replace with their "other gods."

In Mesopotamia, in the British-minted state of 'Iraq' (b. 1923, a vassal of the house of Saud -Arabi, the horde) there are complexites and confusion, schemes within schemes. It is not only that making of Mesopotomia's disparate groups a single nation there, much less one capable of "democracy," is a thing of smoke and mirrors, a deceit and delusion. It is that: the British Foreign Ministry, which began dominating the British media in the 1930s and then integrated itself with the American State Department and American media has succeeded, it would appear, in having American governments and American soldiers prop up and discipline its rogue Arab puppet state in Mesopotamia, securing not only the oil from Mosul and Basra, but its control of the middle east, and thus of world commerce and most importantly, ideologies. And making, they fact, "Iraq" a settled fact.

But the non-war conflict, operation 'democracy in Iraq' [sic] also serves as fly paper, drawing the plague of Arob into the area, murdering each other, lamentably, at a sad cost in American lives and in establishing in blood the fiction of a nation of "Iraq." (Note that the Islamic world recognizes no such nation; there are only dar al Islam, dar al sulh [nations that buy temporary truce by concessions and tribute]; and dar al Harb, the realm of war). But this bloody and sad police action does keep many hostiles pre-occupied and far from certain shores, which in many ways, for many people is a blessing, even if it is a nasty way of buying time.

In the belated crisis regarding the ballistic missiles and nuclear capability of Persia, and the messianic, apocalypse-minded leaders there, "Iraq's" a-historical, imposed boundaries will dissolve in blood and storm. Ahmedenijab sees himself as the 12th Shi'ite Imam whose return, expected since 941 CE will usher in global war and the global rule of Shi'a Islam.

Ahmedenijab has made speeches asserting that only Shi'ites are human. So an attack on his regime will free the Islamic world, especially the Saudi - Wahhabis of their main rival and enemy. Those who frame the issue as one of Iran v. Israel are low and middlebrows of the usual blame-the-Jews crowd. There is a strong case that regime change in Iran and a taking down of its military capabilities helps Saudi - Wahhabi near and long term goals and interests as much or more than those of Israel. Certainly there is precedent for the house of Bush working extensively with that of Saud, but this matter should not be personalized. The State Department and Foreign Ministry of Britain are the main players here; their agenda is only inflected, not changed by the pez dispenser at the top of the ticket, though some dispensers (e.g. Bush Senior) do help cook the pez....

So powers in the uttermost west are buying time in order to, 1) apply pressure to their Israeli puppets to uproot the alternative and ultimate source of sanctity, authority, wisdom and power; 2) marshal at least tepid support from their own 'opposition' and from Edom in order to minimize damage to their interests and their control of the pez; 3) continuing to keep the Arav from surging over the world too much; 4) fine tuning the assessment of how much damage will be tolerated and who will suffer it; 5) doing Israel a "favor" while continuing to destroy the Jewish content of the state, and perhaps the state itself. Thanks.

These schemes are not pretty; allies and friends get help only on the terms of the powers. Remember our (and Israel's) ally the Shah of Iran? How the French unleashed Khomeini from Paris into Persia and how the sick Shah was bundled on an American plane that flew around and around and around until he died? At the roof of the world there are no pretty schemes and no allies, except perhaps Britain, is safe from Gog's designs.

Another interesting distraction in the media weather has been talk about the impossibility of Israel's air force reaching Iran and doing for the world what it did in 1981 at Osirak. We hear about the logisitical differences: many widely diffused sites, the far greater distances; we hear of supposed American refusal to allow Israeli overflight of Mesopotamia. But after all, given the heart of the Jonathan Pollard case, the withholding from Israel by a few highly placed officials of American intelligence on "Iraqi" and Libyan weapons of mass destruction targeting Israel, this potential refusal is only too possible.

These scenarios overlook some facts: Israel might be persuaded, even ordered to strike, or assist in a strike, even while the official word shuts it out, as it has been shut out of direct participation in both of the Anglo-American wars in Mesopotamia (1991; 2003 - ongoing). While it is difficult to imagine a near-term scenario, save one, in which Israel does not lose its pariah status, there is one truth not mentioned publicly: Israel has about a half dozen nuclear submarines that could be positioned to accomplish most or all of the destruction of Iran's missiles (America has many more). American, British, and Israeli air power, if allowed, could finish the job and then the Anglo-American establishment would proceed to the next step of their crisis creation -- crisis management game.

From a Jewish perspective, the fact that we are at this point, although fitting the historical and millenarian perspectives, is preposterous. The Shulchan Aruch of Rav Yosef Karo makes very clear that when an enemy or enemies gather to attack Israel, even the edge of its outermost boundaries, it is mandatory upon Jews to "kill them first." But the galut and the hellenists still rule in Israel. Thus the nightmare, the sorrow and the pity drag on.

Israel is at or very near to its nadir, that is clear, with black-shirted police beating women and children in Hebron next to the cave of the patriarchs, and preparing for more of this horor throughout Judea and Samaria. This also may well be the "dar al sulh" tribute paid by Washington to Saud; it also is the burying of that other Authority the new world order intends at all costs to supplant, but gradually, so as still to be profitable, like turning Mt. Zion into a center for Catholic tourism, Truly, the nations are drunk, and not with wine...

With Israel at its nadir, the time is ripe for a decisive reversal. There are many many signs of degeneracy, vicious scheming, and radical reversal near at hand. We have been taught since Hashem made the covenant of the parts with Avraham, since Moshe taught us in parsha Tochacha (Deuteronomy 28), since the song, "Ha'Azinu" he sang to Israel on the last full day of his life (Deut. 32) that "redemption and the Moshiach will not come till everyone despairs" from what they see. We are told that the end of days, "will be a generation of perverts; children will not respect parents, wives will not respect husbands, the wise man will be esteemed a fool, the virtuous will be scorned and exiled while scoffers and sluts will be adored." And so "today we praise wanton sinners," as Malachi said. All this we see: the shadow rulers of America relentlessly betray and undermine Israel, empower and often apologize for global jihad, and the plagues of immorality and the deification of the state proceed. The Europeans demand the division of Jerusalem and Eurabia demands that EU troops police the Jewish heartland.

Jews are taught that the deeds of the fathers (the earliest generations of the Jews) are a pattern for their descendants. It was about 3320 years ago that ten of the twelve scouts that Moshe sent to spy out the Promised Land returned, on Tisha B'Av with "evil reports" claiming that the Jewish people could not conquer it (Numbers 14). Instead of entering Israel directly after completing the Ark and its Tabernacle a year after the revelation at Sinai; instead of the month of Av, the month of the Father, being the triumph it should have been, that generation had to wander another 38 years and 8 months, till its entire military host died out because of its disengagement from its heritage.

In June 1967, following the miracle victory of that June, the Labor leaders of Israel repeated this betrayal, refusing to follow up and secure Israel's promised boundaries and instead, as in a nightmare, in a trance, offering to give away the heartland for which Jews had fought, worked, bled, and yearned for millenia. Thus has followed 38 years of "[Jewish] land for [worthless American and Eurabian promises of] peace" schemes. This February, around Tu B'Shvat, the New Year of Trees, it will be 38 years and 8 months since that horrible repetition

Is Israel ready to become itself? Is it ready to shine, to rise up like a lion and conquer with joy? To make the entire land blossom and "dwell secure, solitary in the likeness of Jacob: even its heavens will drip with dew." For it is a people that shall dwell apart, an example and light to the nations, not be counted among them.

The Torah portions that Israel is studying and singing from now until the latter part of February are those that deal with Pharaoh's defiance of the Holy One, blessed be He, and the steady and devastating revelation of His sovereignty and His relation to Israel, His "first born son" (Exodus 4:22). This week the world is reminded that the Master and Maker of all worlds is "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. This is My Name forever," He states, "and this is My rememberance through all generations!"

In the following weeks we will read of the hammer blows it took for Pharaoh, Egypt, and, in a foretaste, Babylon, Happy Land (Ashur), and Edom to learn this lesson. Portions Vayeira, Bo, Beshallach, this last in which is described the Holy One's splitting of the Sea, Pharaoh's furious pursuit of Israel into it and the destruction of Egypt, the pattern for Edom, as the Zohar states (above). That following monday, February 13, is Tu B'Shevat, the 15th of Shevat, the month alluding to the tribes - branches of Israel, and to the tithes that Israel takes from its literal branches to bring before the King Hashem in Jerusalem.

And on the last folio page of the Zohar's commentary on Torah portion Va'eira, it speaks of these battles and this glorious reversal, joy of all on earth who have eyes to see. "Ishmael is destined to rule over the land for a long time, so long as it is empty..." And so they did, until the land became "astonishing bare and desolate," just as the Eternal One had said through Moshe. "And they will prevent Israel from returning to their land until their [Ishmael's] merit is exhausted," as it was by the end of the 19th century CE. And so it came to pass...

And more: "and the sons of Ishmael will fight mighty battles in the world, and the sons of Edom will gather against them and make war on them on land and on sea, some close to Jerusalem" as we see in our days, bringing indelible sins on themselves by dividing up the land the Almighty raised His hand in a covenant to give forever to the Jewish people.

"Fear not, My servant Jacob, and Israel, My chosen One, for I have fashioned you: I clasp your right hand..." The Zohar continues on this week's portion as we approach the crippling of the bear and a radical tikkun of the world: "but the Holy Land will not be delivered to the sons of Edom. Then a nation from the furthest ends of the earth will rise against WICKED ROME and many nations will gather there and fall into the hands of that people," who else is this but America whose foundational principles and inspiration were drawn from the scriptures and history of the Jewish people.

"Then all the sons of Edom will congregate against her from all the ends of the earth" as is stated by Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel and other of the great prophets: "it will come in the end of days that all the nations of the world will gather against Jerusalem..." And then "the Holy One will rise against them as it says: "A slaughter in Batzrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. He will take hold of the ends of the earth that the wicked will be shaken out of it (Job 38:13). He will wipe out the children of Ishmael from the Holy Land and crush all the powers and principalities of the nations and only one power will remain above to rule over the nations, namely the divine power representing Israel," joy of all the world. And the Ancient of Days will give victory to the high holy ones [Israel] and their kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, as He promised. And "then I will turn the peoples to a pure language [Hebrew] that they may call upon the name of the Lord to serve Him with one consent" and "on that day, the Hashem will be One, and His Name, One" (Zohar 32a, citing Haggai 3, Daniel 7, Zephaniah, Zechariah 14).