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"Where does it say that you have a contract with G-d to have an easy life?"

the Lubavitcher Rebbe



"Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman



26 Mar 2014

In the footsteps of the Messiah

A fellow blogger who is a real mentsch pointed me to an article at the Daily Mail about a British teen who died in a suicide pact with her boyfriend after shooting a cop.


"Alexandria Hollinghurst wrote a barrage of abuse in the vindictive suicide note to her mum, Jane Hollinghurst..."


 The blogger titled the email Sota 49b: Daughter against her mother. ‏

 IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE MESSIAH  INSOLENCE WILL INCREASE AND HONOUR DWINDLE;  THE VINE WILL YIELD ITS FRUIT [ABUNDANTLY] BUT WINE WILL BE DEAR;  THE GOVERNMENT WILL TURN TO HERESY  AND THERE WILL BE NONE [TO OFFER THEM] REPROOF; THE MEETING-PLACE [OF SCHOLARS] WILL BE USED FOR IMMORALITY; GALILEE WILL BE DESTROYED, GABLAN  DESOLATED, AND THE DWELLERS ON THE FRONTIER WILL GO ABOUT [BEGGING] FROM PLACE TO PLACE WITHOUT ANYONE TO TAKE PITY ON THEM; THE WISDOM OF THE LEARNED WILL DEGENERATE, FEARERS OF SIN WILL BE DESPISED, AND THE TRUTH WILL BE LACKING; YOUTHS WILL PUT OLD MEN TO SHAME, THE OLD WILL STAND UP IN THE PRESENCE OF THE YOUNG, A SON WILL REVILE HIS FATHER, A DAUGHTER WILL RISE AGAINST HER MOTHER, A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW, AND A MAN'S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD;  THE FACE OF THE GENERATION WILL BE LIKE THE FACE OF A DOG,  A SON WILL NOT FEEL ASHAMED BEFORE HIS FATHER. SO UPON WHOM IS IT FOR US TO RELY? UPON OUR FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN.
http://www.come-and-hear.com/sotah/sotah_49.html#PARTb


An AP article discusses President Carter's opinions about the boycott against Israel and the demand that Israel be recognized as a Jewish state.

"I don't see how the Palestinians or the Arab world can accept that premise, that Israel is an exclusively Jewish state," Carter said.
"This has never been put forward in any of the negotiations in which I was involved as president, or any president, before (Benjamin) Netanyahu became prime minister this time. And now it has been put into the forefront of consideration," he added.
..."Israel can claim 'We are a Jewish state.' I don't think the Arab countries will contradict that Jewish statement. But to force the Arab people to say that all the Arab people that they have in Israel have to be Jews, I think that's going too far," Carter said.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/carter-boycott-israel-23035869

Did anyone demand that all the Israeli Arabs have to be Jews?

In an address at the Annapolis Conference, Prime Minister Olmert opined,  "On conclusion of the negotiations, I believe that we will be able to reach an agreement which will fulfill the vision of President Bush: two states for two peoples. A peace-seeking, viable, strong, democratic and terror-free Palestinian state for the Palestinian people. A Jewish, democratic State of Israel, living in security and free from the threat of terror – the national home of the Jewish people." http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/PressRoom/2007/Pages/Address%20by%20PM%20Olmert%20at%20the%20Annapolis%20Conference%2027-Nov-2007.aspx

UN Resolution 181 of November 29, 1947 called for, "Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem, set forth in Part III of this Plan, shall come into existence in Palestine two months after the evacuation of the armed forces of the mandatory Power has been completed but in any case not later than 1 October 1948. The boundaries of the Arab State, the Jewish State, and the City of Jerusalem shall be as described in Parts II and III below."
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/res181.asp

Yet President Carter states that the idea of an exclusively Jewish State wasn't put forward until Prime Minister Netanyahu became prime minister this time.

What did Sota 49B have to say about truth in the footsteps of the Messiah?

AND THE TRUTH WILL BE LACKING.

2 comments:

  1. Rabbi Avigdor Miller (a popular Chareidi Rabbi,
    born 1908 CE, died 2001 CE) delivered a free public lecture
    in the last year of his life, in which he taught that
    Jews should pray for the Israeli Army.
    I personally witnessed this; I was there.

    When a Jew recites Tefilat Shemoneh Esrei,
    he is permitted to add his own personal prayer requests
    in the middle of the final paragraph, which begins with
    Elokai Netzor Leshoni MeiRa.

    I recently began adding the prayer for the Israeli Army
    in that part. I know this is not the way it is normally recited,
    but it is permitted, and I can say it that way in any synagogue.

    Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun
    in Teaneck NJ told me that I can recite it even on Shabbat
    and Yom Tov, because it is a communal tefillah,
    not a private bakashah.

    SOURCE:
    http://rabbipruzansky.com/2014/03/24/the-exchange-part-2/

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  2. Nothing new with that pres. Between the anti-semites (like him) all over and the erev rav regime and the description of this era before Moshiach's arrival (which we are experiencing already), we pray Moshiach will come hastily because the chaos seems to be getting more pronounced each day and becoming more & more difficult to endure.

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