The Olmert-Peres government has colluded with the “world community” in ceasing its half-hearted war in the Lebanon against Persia / Iran and rejecting Israel’s sovereignty and sovereign rights of self-defense. The results of this total perversion of milchemet mitzvah (”mandatory war,” see Rambam, Hilchot Melachim 15) include the German Navy patrolling the coast to repel IDF measures, Fatah leaders boasting of the success of kidnapping Jews as an instrument of policy “highly rewarded by the international community,” and increased attacks on Jews around the world.

Still, truth, little-noted, emerges from the earth. “The world is Hashem’s and all its fruits , the inhabited land and those who dwell thereon. For he founded it upon seas…”

I refer to remarkable seismic activity centering on the long central valley of the Promised Land and its extension to the southern Sinai and to the foothills of its northeastern edge bordering the plain of Hamath. As the encrusted shells of empires, regimes and exile disintegrate in violence and fraud we see that “truth will sprout from the earth and righteousness will peer from heaven…” We live among the birth pangs and footsteps of messiah and may be approaching the genuine sovereignty of Israel.

The hamstringing of Israel’s latest attempt to redeem and save itself became official on August 20. Since that shameful ceasefire, — no redemption of captives or land, no defeat of Amalek — quake-tracker and Torah student Elisheva Rubin has pointed to information on a series of earthquakes beginning in the Negev southeast of Dimona where Israel has major military assets notable for their disuse. Though small, the quakes on August 21^st, 29^th and 30^th have grown steadily from about 3.2 to 3.5 on the Richter scale (www.emsc-csem.org/Images).

On August 31^st, 2006 at 8:10 GMT (Greenwich [England] mean time) a slightly larger quake struck a few miles east of the ancient caravan city of Palmyra on the eastern edge of Givat Abba Rabbah, the rugged plateau in central Aram (in the Franco-British state of “Syria”) whose ridges run northeast to the Euphrates at al Tibni (“my bastion”), Israel’s northeastern boundary.*

The charts show that there have been additional quakes on September 01 and 03, this last was the largest one, 3.8 and also nearest to Israel’s demographic center: two km under the Jordan River valley about ten miles east of Shiloh, ancient site of the Tabernacle. The frequency and magnitude of the events is increasing: the future is rushing toward us… (more…)

“When you go out to battle against your enemy, and you see horse and chariot, a people more numerous than you, you shall not fear them for Hashem your G-d is with you…” (Deut. 20:1)

All the failures of the recent conflict with Iran – Hezbollah reflect ignorance and rejection of the core principle of milchemet mitzvah, mandatory war. This key concept of Judaism is inextricable from Israel’s failure to recognize and assert its boundaries and thus to settle its land.

Judaism is not an abstract ideological system. If it does not know where it is, literally, it cannot know or be who it is. Similarly, its integrity and relationship to the Holy One is impaired. Alienation of the land is a grave sin not mainly in a personal moral sense but in a failure of the wholeness of the people in every facet of their lives and relationships. It is not a tactic, aspect or bargaining chip but a root that pervades Judaism in it entirety.

The coming of the messiah and his era is delayed and torturous because of this ignorance, these failures of will, intellect and heart. But terrible as are the consequences and experience of these shortcomings they are no surprise; they are inevitable and should not be the cause for undue dismay. The exile imposed by Edom has been long and dark and the sparks of the nation of Israel everywhere have been encrusted with thick, nearly opaque layers. The survival of these sparks reflect the supreme courage and faith of the Jewish people and the Creator’s unshakeable love for them. Despite every variety of assault and seduction, they have survived while the klippot of Hellenism spread and enforced by Rome are breaking up. We see this in the decay of the west for centuries from popular to high culture, to corruption of its dominant, Jewish-informed law and morality to the suicidal squandering of its military might, to the giddy treachery of its elites.

The breaking husk of Hellenism-Edom is part and parcel of the liberation of the light of Judaism and the nation of Israel. Its increasing restoration is restoring the light of the creation and the Creator into the world. In this transitional period, the birth pangs of messiah, we have convulsions, confusion, distress and bewildering terrors. The disintegration in bungling, waste, fraud and delusion of labor Zionism is part of this process of decaying husks. The light that was in it will go forth with the settlers on whom it warred.

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