Friday, June 30, 2017
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Tuesday, June 6, 2017
What is [authentic] Zionism?
The Vilna Gaon - Father of Zionism [Tzion'it Gra'it] |
The Vilna Gaon created/fathered Zionism in the 18th Century [1740] calling it 'Tzion'it Gra'it'. If you thought Zionism was created by the seculars and Hertzl - think again, as it all began with the GR"A and his students. Authentic Zionism is not only kosher and created from Daas Torah, but it will be the path of Moshiach ben Yosef 'that lives'. The GR"A [and his students] have given us a heritage of all that happened in the 100 years after the prophetic time of '1740' detailed in the diaries of Midrash Shlomo, the companion work to the celebrated 'Kol HaTor'.
No longer does Zionism need to be thought of in secular kelim, for the Torah will never be separated from Zion. This is a sample chapter from my new translation of 'Midrash Shlomo' that serves to reintroduce Tzion'it Gra'it to the many who have not yet had the experience to see for themselves what Zionism is and where it comes from and what is to be expected in its fulfilment. We are in the times...and not because I said so, but because the Vilna Gaon tells us it is so, as he kicked things off in 1740 in a way that can't be stopped.
The task upon Kl'al Yisrael today is to emulate the ways of the Messiah's namesake 'Yosef' which as the GR'A explains is to be successful. Geulah will be paved by a path of success, and as promised, MBY will live, ushering in a complete redemption. On a personal note, let it be stated [and obvious] that pandering to Christians, Muslims, etc. and their affiliates is not in any way considered 'success'. But the righteous non-Jew, who follows the Torah of Moses that calls him a 'Ger in your Gates', is fundamental to the success of Geulah. The poskim call this a 'chiddush gadol' to quote the Lubavitcher Rebbe in specific. The same Lubavitcher Rebbe who speaks about Ger Toshav in 'Likutei Sichos vol. 31 Parashas Mishpatim' and as brought in 'Shaarei Halacha and Minhag'.
The Torah contains many angles that have not been brought out into English. Now, finally, the vision of the GR"A's Zionism may come to light, and the time couldn't be any more opportune.
Gra Zionism
Learn well of the Zionism of
the GR”A – as it was announced and spread by the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Tzvi
Rivlin of Blessed Memory author of ‘Darshan HaGeulah’ – we are to learn well
the history and the ideology of the GR”A and his students, the founders of The
Settlement; to learn well the Messianic Torah of The Start based on the views
of our rabbi the GR”A, and the self-sacrifice of his students in their efforts
of the in-gathering of the exiles and the establishment of The Settlement in
our Holy Land.
Learn well all of this for the
sake of sanctifying the Name of God, for the sake of strengthening and
expanding The Settlement; for the sake of the honor of our Holy Torah, and for
the sake of strengthening the Messianic Faith in the heart of every House of
Israel. Learn well each great and lofty Parasha of this type, for the sake of
bringing close the Complete Redemption.
GR”A Zionism was the foundation
of all foundations of every Holy Establishment
and its fulfillment ; its opening and its success from all of these
aspects, as was said through the great voice ‘Darshan HaGeulah’ Rabbi Yitzchak
Tzvi of Blessed Memory.
It is a Commandment upon us
proclaim, said our rabbis, of Going out of Egypt. It was already explained by
the earlier ones that every ‘going out exile is called a going out of Egypt’
and it is a Commandment from the Torah to remember leaving, as it is written,
‘Remember the days of yore; understand the years of generation after
generation’. That is to say that it is comes to know what happened and it is on
you to meditate deep meditations on the conditions of the earliest generations,
and if you do not meditate on them, then ask your father and he will tell you,
or your elder and he will say it over to you.
According to the Midrash: ‘The
main thing/principle of the offspring/legacy of the righteous is good deeds. In
order to draw down for us their merit and their Shefa from the Upper World for
the sake of strengthening their deeds that they performed in the lower world.
To speak of the GR”A and
gathering the exiles and on the Messianic Torah of the Start from the view of
the GR”A, and so too of the self-sacrifice of his students who established The
Settlement, explained for a considerable length of time, also over many days
and months so as to not stop comprehension of this great and lofty Parsha.
A comprehensive synopsis in
general categories of the offspring of this movement are brought in a special
essay under the name ‘Hartzet Chazon Zion’ in this sefer above. However, this
synopsis-essay is also long, and that this reading [which is a collection of
important Ikkarim…] is an investigation that can take several hours, and since
that a large gathering of the masses is not a place for lengthy words, thus in order to give all of this over, the
entire concept from this vast parsha of GR”A Zionism, [it] mentions only a gist
of the chapter headings of the fundamental points of this complex thing with
concise vigor.
This digest is divided here
into divisions:
A) Messianic Meaning
B) Aliyah Movement
C) Actions
of Settlement
A) Messianic Meaning: The fundamental points of
the first portion of ‘Messianic Meaning’ are the following:
1) Bringing
the Redemption close through Gathering the exiles and building Zion and
Jerusalem.
2) Gathering
the exiles will bring the time period called ‘Pekida’ with an ‘Awakening from
Below’ just like it was with Cyrus and in the days of Second Temple.
3) Every
effort of gathering the exiles and building the Settlement of The Land of
Israel will be helped with high and mighty power from Heaven assigned to the
First Messiah, Messiah son of Joseph.
4) Our
Rabbi the GR”A himself saw with his Divine Inspiration through ‘Holy Hints’
that he merited this sent lofty mission from Heaven categorically as Messiah
son of Joseph. Many of our Rabbi the GR”A’s expert students wrote about the
greatness of quality, of that which was his Divine Inspiration, and on his
Higher Knowledge with wondrous actions, and on
his knowledge to involve himself with Secret Names [of
God].
Through Revelation of Jacob our Father and Elijah the Prophet of
which, were revealed to him in days of stress. With all of these revelations
that he saw with his Divine Inspiration was all part of his great mission to
gather in the exiles.
5) Our
Rabbi the GR”A fastened his way to journey to The Land of Israel twice, and
from Heaven he was held back because he was a spark of Moshe Rabbeinu and was
not given permission to enter into The Land of Israel. Our Rabbi the GR”A gave
over this holy mission to his students that they should fulfill his request and
this Commandment with all of their rigor, as it will be brought through the
continuation of these words.
6) Our
Rabbi the GR”A in his compilations of The Torah of Kabbalah increased his
speaking about the ways of Messianism concerning the Start of Redemption
through different hints, and only concerning the Final End did he write that he
adjured in the Name of The God of Israel that this should not be revealed.
7) Our
Rabbi the GR”A saw his mission of gathering the exiles through many wondrous
hints; the first hint he saw was in the verse ‘A perfect and just weight’ –
that in it he saw his name ‘Even Shleimah’ [‘a perfect
and just weight’ (hinted at) ‘Elijah son of Shlomo’ the name ‘Elijah’ begins
with an ‘alef’ and the words ‘son of’ is ‘ben’ in Hebrew, which is an acronym
of ‘Eve”n’, and ‘Shlomo’ – ‘Solomon’ is the same spelling as ‘Shleimah’ –
‘complete’] …and in the second verse it speaks about wiping out Amalek
and immediately after this it says ‘And you will come to The Land’. The author
of ‘Kol HaTor’ a student of the GR”A, in the 3rd Chapter counted
even more hints of the GR”A in this complex thing and said to the GR”A that
there were 52 hints in Tanach, the same number as ‘Elijah’ – that in them he
saw his great mission to gather the exiles and the Commandment of Settling The
Land of Israel.
8) Our
Rabbi the GR”A led from his name to reveal hints of The Torah concerning The
Footsteps of The Messiah; thus our Rabbi the GR”A knew where every Man of
Israel’s Name and Mission is hinted at in The Torah, and many from among his
students revealed hints like these concerning their missions in gathering the
exiles and Settling The Land of Israel.
9) The
author of ‘Kol HaTor’ counted 156 Aspects and nick names of The First Messiah,
the Messiah son of Joseph, that on his hand is the gathering of the exiles and
the redemption from national subjugation and a victory for Israel in the war of
Gog and Magog. And through them there is to learn and to fully comprehend all
of the ways of the Start of the Redemption and the ways of the Holy Efforts of
Gathering the Exiles and Building The Settlement of The Land of Israel, and the
lofty virtues and the expansion of The Settlement until the coming the
Redeemer, The Messiah son of David may he come quickly and in our days. Further
on it is explained that the first purpose of the GR”A and his students who
founded The Settlement through their efforts of Gathering the Exiles – that
these were the principle things: To accelerate the ‘Revealed End’ to bring
close The End Redemption according to Chazal (Sanhedrin 98a and Megillah 17a),
build Jerusalem and the Commandment to expand according to that which is
written ‘I will expand the place of your tent’, to setup a central place of
Torah in Jerusalem and a place to learn the 7 Wisdoms as Commanded by the GR”A
in the name of grasping the Wisdom of Torah and for the sake of Sanctifying The
Name of God in the eyes of the nations.
B) The Aliyah Movement: The arrival of the
students of the GR”A to The Land of Israel which first came into action in the
year 5569. However the movement to prepare this arrival came out and lasted
many years before this. Further in the life of the GR”A in the year 5541 the
Gaon sent Rabbi Azriel from Shklov, the Elder of the Gaon Rabbi Yisrael,
through the sages of Shklov to The Land of Israel in the name of preparing The
Land for an Aliyah of the multitudes, however due to many reasons he was held
back from this journey. In the year 5561, three years after the passing of the
GR”A, the movement was revitalized with a great awakening to fulfill the
Commandment of the GR”A to Settle Zion. In the month of Sivan 5566 a major
conference called ‘Yevaneh Dreisen’ was held in the city of Shklov in the name
of accomplishing this great purpose. The conference was held in a great hall in
the Yeshiva of Shklov. In the conference, the sages of Shklov and the
multitudes of other cities in Russia joined; Rabbis – the heads of Kollel’s,
and leaders and known noblemen, and an empty chair stood at the front as a
remembrance of the GR”A. Invited to the conference were the Gaonim Rabbi
Benyamin from Shklov, that through him and the sages, the city of Shklov was
built, Rabbi Yehoshua Tzeitlin, and Rabbi Hillel the son of Rabbi Benyamin. The
conference lasted many days and held in a grand style, amidst enormous
enthusiasm for this lofty purpose. There was a special assembly established by
the name ‘Chazon Tzion’ to help the Aliyah and to strengthen The Settlement in
The Holy Land. They made strong efforts to prepare for the travel of the first
convoys, and on the 24th of Cheshvan of the year 5569 the first
convoy went out from Shklov to The Land of Israel. The journey by sea and land
took ten months, ‘three hundred days and storms of trouble’. About two months
after the first convoy went out, a second convoy went out. The first convoy
reached the city of Tzfat on the 8th day of Elul of the year 5569,
and the second convoy in the month of Tishrei 5570. Fourteen students of the
GR”A came in these convoys, along with ten families, the majority of which were
from the group of Peirushim [non-Chassidim] along
with individuals from the Chassidim; the majority of these Settlers were of
middle age, and a portion of them were juniors to the days that they came with
their families, women and children. Among these Settlers were prominent wealthy
people. Peculiar details through suffering and hardships and through the
heroism of the spirit of these first Settlers on their route from Russia to The
Land of Israel and in the Establishment of the first Settling in The Land of
Israel, as brought in the work ‘Chazon Zion’ through the legacy of the Aliyah
of the students of the GR”A.
C) Settlement Undertaking: By way of the first
establishment of Settlement there fell into place opinionated matters among the
students of the GR”A; a portion from them and first and foremost the Gaon Rabbi
Yisrael from Shklov taught with absolute authority to begin the establishment
of the Settlement in the Galilee, and they exerted with much self-sacrifice to
open the Settlement in Tzfat and in Tiveria, and a portion of them, headed by
the Gaonim Rabbi Hillel from Shklov and Rabbi Sadiah explained with full
authority to begin the establishment to Settle in Jerusalem. The position of
the Gaon Rabbi Menachem Mendyl from Shklov who was an expounder of Torah in
this complex thing.
In the month of Elul in the
year 5571 Rabbi Hillel went to Jerusalem and after him, in the month of
Cheshvan in the year 5572, they went to Jerusalem and settled in it, also Rabbi
Saadiah and Rabbi Menachem Mendyl from Shklov and his son Rabbi Natan Netta and
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Shapira and Rabbi Yitzchak Baruch Mekovna and more.
Immediately upon coming to
Jerusalem a great stir fell to concentrate on the main things concerning the
efforts of Settling in Jerusalem, and began to inspire great propaganda from
our brothers that were in the Diaspora – to ascend to Zion and to settle it.
And The Settlement in Jerusalem
began to grow in large measures, additional convoys began to come from Russia
and this influx continued for many years until it reached the level of a
hurried Aliyah.
The first actions of the
students of the GR”A were in Jerusalem; established a central institution to
strengthen The Settlement and to expand it under the name ‘General Assembly of
the Kollel of the Peirushim’ and ‘Aderet Eliyahu’. After many years, from the
year 5581 and onward, this institution expanded under the name ‘General
Assembly of the Kollel of the Peirushim and Chasidim’.
This institution was the first
foundation of the General Assembly of The Gathering of Israel [Rebbe Meir Baal
HaNes], that from the beginning of the first foundation in the year 5572 and
onward, it was practically the primary and central institution of The
Settlement from all aspects. From the start of the foundation, the settlement
of the Ashkenazim in Jerusalem came through the students of the GR”A, and
afterward a partnership included the Chasidim, and in good measure there was
also a partnership with the heads of the Sefardic camp, who had already made
vigorous steps and bold plans to strengthen The Settlement and to expand it.
‘The Era of Troubles”
Shocking deeds are told of this
era. Thirty years from the year 5570 until the year 5600were known as ‘The era
of the students of the GR”A’ and were equally remembered as the ‘Era of
Troubles’.
Here in this parsha we will
mention in a short synopsis, ‘from among the troublesome period, loomed
hardships and horrors:
…epidemics repeatedly occurred
from time to time, amidst breaks of several years, such that many sicknesses
fell in the heart of civilization without skipping even one home at the heart
of the Jewish camp and without being able to escape or flee from them. There
were special epidemics of the land, lack of water, and sick places. Arabs
approached the Jews in Jerusalem. There were frequent government taxes –
constant and sudden, as a sign of their lives by the government officials,
which would also burden the heads of the Kollel like a forced pledge.
Persecution, scorn, and
beatings of the Jews, particularly the Ashkenazim in the entire Land, in
matters taken up by the Arabs, like contact ways and transport. There was
plunder in their paths, robbery in their homes; these things happened every
day, and so too insults like being under the duress of Sodomite behavior.
And it is known that the custom
of the Arabs was sure to trap Jews passing their way and to load something
heavy with him, and they would roar after them to their houses to spy to cause
baseless misery. All of these horrible things happened to the Jews, through
robbery and murder of hundreds of Jews, they raped women on Torah Scrolls in
Jerusalem, Hebron, Tzfat, and in Tiveria and this happened many times in ‘The
Era of Troubles’.
Added to this, were the
troubles that came because of changing the government in The Land; There was a
rebellion by the King of Egypt against the Ruler of Turkey in the year 5592,
conquering The Land of Israel and Syria through his general ‘Ivrim Pashah’ and
the Ruler of Turkey returned in the year 5600, that between conquests the Jews
suffered from the retribution of captivity, and the heavy payback came with the
blast in the Galilee that brought down thousands of sick Jews and caused
additional menacing distress also onto the Jews of Jerusalem.
In spite of all of this, in the
midst of this troubling storm, and grave dangers – the heads of the divisions
and all of the men of Jerusalem did not stop for even a brief time in their
efforts of strengthening the expansion of The Settlement from every aspect.
The heart’s desire and foremost
purpose of the students of the GR”A and their Nilviim, who are the Peirushim
and the Chasidim according to all that has been journaled – these are the
principle things: Gathering the Exiles, Building Jerusalem, and Expanding The
Settlement in The Land in general, according to the view of the GR”A, in order
to fulfill the Commandment of ‘expansion’ according to the verse, ‘I will
expand the place of your tent’ and ‘hasten the revealed end’ which is to say
through planting and building according to the view of the Rabbis, in the name
of bringing close the redemption.
This is the rule of every
effort and plan of the students of the GR”A and of the students of the students
and of all of the heads of the division in Jerusalem concerning the labors of
The Settlement; they strengthened it and expanded it from all of the aspects
spanning 100 years from the day that they established The Ashkenazi Settlement
in Jerusalem. They founded and established it only through ‘Starting Messianic
Torah’ through the view of our rabbi the GR”A.
On the foundation of this
tradition, they relied on and accepted with deep faith by every division and by
every resident of The Land of Israel, even the commoners of the nation…in those
days…these three principles/things:
A) Before the coming of the Messiah there will be
a ‘Start of the Redemption’ through permission of the governments of the
nations, just like it was in the days Cyrus and the Second Temple.
B) Before the Complete Redemption there needs to
be an in-gathering of the exiles with a tally of no less than 600,000 in the
Gates of Jerusalem.
C) Before the Complete Redemption The Land of
Israel needs to be built and bearing fruit in all of its expansiveness under
the category of the Revealed End that was spoken of through the Rabbis.
This was the aspiration and aim
of the GR”A and his students, the founders of The Settlement, and until The
Land of Israel will be entirely as a Garden of Eden on Earth according to the
verse, ‘For Hashem will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her ruins; He will
make her wilderness like Eden and her wasteland like a Garden of Hashem’.
Our Rabbi established on The
Torah of Holy Settlement a recuperation of The Land in measure, expanse, and
space. The mission of our Rabbi is our mission, on every detail of building and
developing. And every holy hint is a light to our path, becoming a lengthy book
to our Torah of our Settlement.
In all of these things, they
toiled and gave effort with great vigor, not only the leaders, but also the
general men, great and small joined in these efforts with great enthusiasm. All
of them grabbed a hold of this higher faith with deep faith, Messianic Faith,
that with every stride and step they expanded The Settlement and strengthened
it, bringing close the redemption according to the view of the GR”A; his
Commandment and his Blessing. In spite of these difficult conditions and
incidents of this era, it drew out stubbornness even without the Commandment of
this holy service.
A journal of these essential
efforts ’26 Types of Labor’ of all that was done in that era, drawn out over
100 years from the Start of the establishment of The Settlement through the
students of the GR”A from the year 5572 and onward, through the direction of
the higher foundation of the Ashkenazi camp in Jerusalem, including the
Peirushim and the Chasidim and the General Assembly of Israel – they journaled
in the work ‘Mosdei HaYesod’ about the General Assembly. Here we mentioned only
the various vital actions of saving The Settlement – its structure and it’s
being strengthened, from the start of the foundation of The Settlement of
Ashkenazim in Jerusalem.
A) Forming a Jewish Guard…this is known by the
name ‘Hagavradi’ brought together from Ashkenazim and Sefardim. This Hagavradi
stood for many years and it continued also during the entire era of the
foundation and building of the first neighborhoods outside of the walls of
Jerusalem. And the originals already wrote, ‘that were in not for Hagavradi of
the Jews the Jews of The Settlement would not have been able to withstand those
days for even one day.
B) For a long time the division leaders in
Jerusalem performed great vital labor, that they saved the entire Settlement
from devastation and desolation which benefited and rescued also the Arabs in
those days. A unique and courageous effort to remove the roots of illness and
plague through removing and drying rancid pools of water, that stood since the
destruction of the Temple amidst the Old City in Jerusalem and its outskirts.
C) Innovative foodstuffs came from outside The
Land – from Russia and from Amsterdam: flour, potatoes, rice, medicinal herbs,
etc.
D)
Building houses and building sewage conduits.
Concluding this essay, we will
return with what we began with, with enthusiastic and holy words by the Gaon
Rabbi Yitzchak Tzvi Rivlin of Blessed Memory: ‘Learn well the Zionism of the
GR”A, learn well the history and the ideology of the GR”A and his students who
were the founders of The Settlement, learn well the Beginnings of Messianism
through the view of the GR”A , the self-sacrifice of his students in their
efforts of gathering the exiles and establishing The Settlement in our Holy
Land, learn well all of this for the sake of Sanctifying God’s Name, for the
sake of strengthening and expanding The Settlement, for the sake of glorifying
our Holy Torah, for the sake of strengthening Messianic Faith in the heart of
all of Israel, learn well this entire great and holy and lofty parsha for the
sake of bringing close the complete redemption.
‘If we forget this great and
holy history’ cried Rabbi Yitzchak Tzvi with a great voice – ‘if we hadn’t
maliciously forgot GR”A Zionism, The Land of Israel would have been settled
already by our brothers, the Children of Israel through Torah and the
Commandments.
It is a holy obligation upon
all of us to repair this light that is crooked with all self-sacrifice.
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Why is Geula Blocked [you ask]?!
Don't forget - you too could be a lost Jew!
[at least thats what you are being told by counter-missionaries]...
***watch at 5:15 specifically***
Internet spiritual denominations...are like the mystery box; don't get caught up in them.
The answer is simple. Yes there are many strange cases [of lost Jews] in the World, but for most, the spiritual answer for the Biblically perplexed is 'Ger'.
Don't deny the truth; tell the whole truth.
There are Jews and there are Ger. See, it's really simple.
Torah is reality. Don't put your soul into the mystery box.
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