The World Is Not Hefker

Rabbi Ari Goldwag notes, in my reformulation, that 5727 was year ט of the 100th Machzor Katan since Churban Bayin Sheni. The 99th such year ט was 5708, the year the State of Israel was declared. As I wrote three years ago, there was a count that reached 500 in 5727.

The world is not Hefker. In a hidden way, the Hand of HaShem is leading us to the Geula. He controls human history in a very precise way, just as He controlled the evolution of life in a very precise way. Regarding the latter, many think that evolution is about random mutations and selection of the fittest. On the surface, it seems like that. However, know that "random" is a mathematical abstraction. It does not exist in this world. It does not even exist in Quantum Mechanics...

Finally, a remark to Rabbi Goldwag. In my understanding, the climax of the leap years is not the 19th year of the cycle, but rather the 8th year, year ט, the year of the latest Pesach. Yom HaAtzma'ut and Yom Yerushalayim show it. The next such year is 5784, unless we change the calendar.

סוף מעשה במחשבה תחילה

Today we count the 42nd day of the Omer, which is six weeks. We reached the completion of the long waiting period for the seventh week, the time of Man, the time of Adam. Sof Ma'aseh B'Machshavah Techilah.

We have seen that 128 years of the seventh millenium are in a sense not within time. Sof Ma'aseh B'Machshavah Techilah. It seems to me that the 128 years repair for the breaking, as it were, of the Name of 45, caused by the time taken up by the first king. For this repair to be perfect, 128/1000 days of the first king would have had to be within time, a little more than the 2.5/24 days posited in the previous post. The small correction makes the age of the Universe grow another 7264519 years, to 13755317922 years (45128*304805 + 73440 + 4442) ...

Space and time were created. The Universe exploded. Stars were born and died. New stars were born and also they died. Hundreds of billions of galaxies arose - assemblies of hundreds of billions of stars. After 9 billion years, the Sun was born and spew the Earth and the planets. Life arose. Countless numbers of species of life appeared and went exinct, one after the other. Then. after 13.75 billion years of waiting, man arose. Man evolved, understood, invented, progressed, and forgot and regressed. Progressed and regressed. Cultures appeared, and disappeared. Empires arose, and fell. Sof Ma'aseh B'Machshavah Techilah. No matter how erratic and undirected history appears to be, no matter how random and redundant evolution may seem to have been, in truth there is a plan, and the plan is precise.

How great is the Chesed of the Creator. How awesome is His plan. How great His patience. How long is the distance between Techila and Sof. Yet, they will come together, because they are complementary - the awesome beginning and the awesome end. G-d and man. The Shechina and Knesset Yisrael.

Contemplate: Every single letter in the Torah stands for 45,000 years. The lifespan of man is a mere 120 years. Yet, all things that preceded man, all of these letters of Torah, were just for his benefit. It happened for you. All that occurred was to create a perfect world for you, so that you, the purpose of Creation, will observe, and understand, and will be able to learn to know the Creator.

A Small Correction

The seven kings that died were really ten. The first king corresponds to the four days before (Erev) Pesach, whereas kings two to seven correspond to the first six weeks of the Omer. To reach from seven to ten, the four days of the first king are counted each day by itself.

The first of the four days is not completely included in time. It contains the creation of time. The creation corresponds to Brit Mila, on the tenth of Nissan. At what hour should we say this occurred? I think that there are reasons to say that this must be the hour of Mincha Ketana, 2.5 hours before the end of the day. This would add 2.5/24 times 1000 times 304805, which is 31750521 years, to the ages mentioned in the previous post, which makes the age of Universe 13748053403 years...

Yom Yerushalayim

Starting with Lag B'Omer we no longer behave like mourners, and starting with Yom Yerushalayim, we barely say Tachanun. Yom Yerushalayim is the first day of the last week of the Omer period. This week is the seventh week, the holy week, corresponding to the eigth king, who does not die. This is the week that corresponds to the history of man. Yetziat Mitzrayim corresponds to day 45 of the Omer, the third day of the seventh week. Starting from this day, Tachanun is canceled altogether.

I have presented the age of the world as 46000 times 300000 years, 13.8 billion years. That number is a fraction of a percent too high. Now, 46 is a little over two percent more than 45, מ"ה, a divine number, and 300000 is a little under two percent less than the 304805 letters of the Torah.

HaKadosh Baruch Hu (מ"ה) looked in the Torah and created the world - קודשא בריך הוא אסתכל באורייתא וברא עלמא. Perhaps one can say that He counted the letters. The multiplication 45000*304805 yields 13716225000, a value that is pretty close to the current scientific value of the age of the Universe.

The 13716225000 years would be the time until "Yom Yerushalayim," until the last week of the Omer, until the emergence of man. Add 73440 years until Yetziat Mitzrayim, and 4442 years from Yetziat Mitrayim until now, in the chronology that I have described, and obtain that we live 13716302882 years after Creation...

Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time, a long time ago, Netanyahu was very much against a Palestinian state:

My Neighbor's Blog

Thanks to Yaak, I found that my neighbor and friend Baruch has a blog. The blog is excellent, and that does not amaze me. Here is a video that Baruch posted a while ago.

Netanyahu Lied

Netanyahu spoke well, but said an outright lie yesterday when he said that all six prime ministers since the Oslo agreements agreed to establish a Palestinian state. The six are Rabin (Peres), Netanyahu, Barak, Sharon, Olmert, Netanyahu. In his first term as prime minister, Netanyahu was against a Palestinian state. Before him, Rabin did not want a Palestinian state. Barak was the first to be in favor. When Sharon came out accepting the idea of a Palestinian state, Netanyahu vehemently opposed him. It is not only Abbas who is revising history.

Eukaryotes

Three years ago, on Lag B'Omer, I noted that the Eukaryotes arose in what corresponds to the fifth week of the Omer period. The earliest traces of Eukaryotes seem to be 2.7 billion years old, nine days in the mapping to the Omer. In other words, the Eukaryotes appeared on "Lag B'Omer."

Glenn Beck senses Makom HaMikdash

Glenn Beck senses Makom HaMikdash.

Shiur on Tzaddik Yesod Olam

Here is a fascinating Shiur (in Hebrew) by Rav Ezra Sheinberg around the Pasuk of Megillat Ruth that I have written about. The Rav explains the book Tzaddik Yesod Olam, the Arizal's commentary on Megillat Ruth. Among other things, he explains the date of the begining of the Geula. It is a date that you know.

Return of Mishpat to Tzedek

Kol HaTor lists several Geula hints containing the words Tzedek (Justice) and Mishpat (Judgement):

עד צדק ישוב משפט ואחריו כל ישרי לב

Judgement shall return to Justice and all the upright of heart will follow it (Tehilim 94:15).

צדק ומשפט מכון כסאו

Justice and Judgment are the foundation of his throne (Tehilim 97:2).

ציון במשפט תפדה ושביה בצדקה

Tzion shall be redeemed with Judgement and those that return to her with Justice (Yeshaya 1:27).

Kol HaTor notices that the Gematria of צדק ומשפט מכון כסאו equals the gematria of "Eretz Yisrael", and that the Gematria of משפט תפדה equals the gematria of "Moshiach Rishon", the first Moshiach.

Often, Mishpat, judgement, is removed from Tzedek, the correct, ideal, judgement. In the Israeli court systems this happens a lot, for deep reasons, see below. It happens a lot in the "political" dispute regarding Eretz Yisrael, both inside and outside Israel.

I think Kol HaTor hints as follows. Eretz Yisrael will become "the foundation of his throne", of Moshiach ben David, when Tzedek and Mishpat are united. The first Moshiach is associated to judgement that brings redemption, and is followed by Justice that will come to those who returned to Tzion. The principle regards both Jew and Gentile. The reason for the judgement is the very separation between Mishpat and Tzedek, which must be eliminated. The separation causes Kitrug. S'dom was destroyed because its system of Mishpat was too far from Tzedek. The system had morally confused the law-abiding Sodomites to such a degree that no repair was possible. They had come to think that false was true and evil was good.

When, in the time of the first Moshiach, the Nations judge Israel completely unjustly, as they do today, this will bring Sodom-like Judgement upon them. Within Israel, when one group judges the other in perverted ways, or when court systems pervert Justice, and in other cases of principled unjustice, Kitrug awaits the perpetrators. HaShem Yerachem. יהי רצון מלפניך שיכבשו רחמיך את כעסך

The Sod of Mishpat returning to Tzedek is contained in the Sod of the left returning to the right, and of Law returning to Truth. Halacha is rooted in the Shechina. Truth is rooted higher, and comes to the Shechina through Zeir Anpin. During the Galut, the Shechina is to the right, with Moshiach ben David, and Zeir Anpin is on the left, with Moshiach ben Yosef. In this state, Mishpat and Tzedek are separated, but not too much. Tzedek, Truth, Chochma, influence Mishpat, Halacha, via the back of Zeir Anpin. This changes when the Shechina moves to Moshiach ben Yosef, when ציון במשפט תפדה, as discussed.

May we soon merit restoring Sanhedrin and returning Mishpat to Tzedek.

חרב בא לעולם על ענוי הדין ועל עוות הדין

5771

The politicians say no to Gevura - no to Eretz Yisrael.
The judges say no to Tzedek - no to Am Yisrael.
The gedolim say no to Emet - no to Torat Yisrael.

They all say no to the G-d of Israel.

1984

Taken from here and here.

Yom HaAtzma'ut

Jewish existence in the Galut is spiritual, miraculous, but unnatural, and cannot last forever. Ruth could be with Boaz only until the morning. She had to get married. As the Shechina moves to the left, to Moshiach ben Yosef, Klal Yisrael concentrates on earthly matters. On science and technology, on the restoration of a natural national existence. Though this process brings spiritual and physical danger, there is no alternative. The night is coming to an end.

The declaration of independence was a decisive moment in this process. For many, the associated emphasis on earthly matters was hard to accept. However, this emphasis had to be and it is only temporary. The Shechina will turn around, to Zeir Anpin. The restored natural Nation will return to HaShem. This does not mean that there will be a return to exilic religion. The Nation will return to HaShem in its regained naturalness. The left and the right will redeem each other. The earthly and the spiritual will unite.

Yom HaZikaron

As noted before, after the defeat of Bar Kochba, the Sages understood Ruth 3:13

ליני הלילה והיה בבקר אם יגאלך טוב יגאל

to teach that a long night lay ahead, the night of the Galut, and that in the morning there might be a first redeemer, by the name "Tov". This is Moshiach ben Yosef.

Should Tov not redeem Ruth, Boaz will redeem her. We see that Boaz represents Moshiach ben David, the Moshiach of the Right, and Ruth represents the Shechina, Malchut. Should Moshiach ben Yosef not redeem the Shechina, Moshiach ben David will redeem Her.

Where does the Shechina rest during the Galut? At the right, with Boaz, with Moshiach ben David. This is Her place of safety. Correspondingly, we saw that the count of Malchut is a count of the right, a count of Chesed.

Ramchal explains (Tikkun 33) that the Shechina is bound to the right so that Moshiach ben Yosef can redeem Her without dying. The Remez is the word Mezuzot, מזוזות, which can be reordered as זז מוות, death moves away - the death of Moshiach ben Yosef. Correspondingly, Mezuzot are bound to the right door-poles. This location corresponds to the safe location of the Shechina in the Galut.

At the time of the unison of the Shechina and Zeir Anpin, however, the latter must be on the right, just as Abba is to the right of Imma. Hence, the Shechina must move to the left and leave Her place of safety. This is related to danger that must come to Klal Yisrael, and from which the Jewish Nation will be saved.

The wars which Medinat Yisrael had to fight derive from this Yesod. May the memory of the fallen be a blessing to all.

Noteworthy Observations

Makor Rishon had an article by Rav Shmuel Yaniv with a few noteworthy observations.

The Rav observes that the six-day war, in June 1967, was 1335 years after the death of Mohammed, in June 632. He proposes that this is a fulfillment of Daniel 12:12.

Accordingly, Rav Yaniv notes that 1290 years after the death of Mohammed, the League of Nations decided to create the British Mandate over the Land of Israel, to secure the establishment of the Jewish national home.

Finally, Rav Yaniv brings in the name of Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook that this decision was the sole decision of the League of Nations that was actually carried out. And so it seems that the League of Nations was only established for this purpose.

Aspire For More

The four spiritual levels of this post describe the spiritual evolution of Am Yisrael, leading the way for the rest of mankind. According to "Din," the four levels correspond to Matan Torah, Beit HaMikdash, Geula HaShlemah, and Techiat HaMetim, respectively.

Nevertheless, at Matan Torah, beyond the Hanhaga of that time, the level Chochma-Bina-Da'at was revealed. This occurred because Am Yisrael aspired for this, and because they correspondingly acted beyond what was required. Na'aseh v'Nishma was more than required. The three days of preparation before Matan Torah were more than required.

The approaching Geula will, according to Din, reveal the Hanhaga of Keter. Am Yisrael will, B'Chasdei HaShem, rise above any level ever reached by man. However, even this is not the end of human potential. Learning from Matan Torah, it is clear that we are invited to aspire for even more.

Food Prices Stabilize

At a historically high level, food prices stabilize. Source here.

Kinneret Water Level

Hashgachah in action. The Kinneret reached the highest level in three years. Even so, the current level is dangerously low. Source here.

The Special Halachic Status of the "Palestinians"

"Behold, I drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites. Be vigilant lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you come, lest it be a snare among you." (Shemot 34:11-12)
The Arbabanel writes: ".... Since the All Mighty drives out His enemies it is unseemly that we should make a covenant with them because this would be a desecration of His honor. How much more so that friendship and a treaty with them will not succeed since after the Israelites took their land from them there is no doubt that they will always seek evil for Israel. And this is the meaning of what it says: 'the land to which you come,', i.e., since you, Israel, went into that land and took it from its inhabitants and they feel oppressed and robbed of it, how will they preserve a treaty of friendship? Rather, it will be the opposite, and they will be 'a snare among you,', i.e., when war shall break out they will join your enemies and fight you."

"And you shall drive out ALL the inhabitants of the Land." (BaMidbar 33:52)
Or HaChaim writes: " And although the verse specifically said in the case of the seven nations 'you shall utterly destroy them,' here it speaks in addition to the seven nations found there. And that is why it said specifically ALL the inhabitants of the land, i.e., even those who are not of the seven nations.

The above was noted and translated by Rabbi Meir Kahane. I took it from his penultimate article in the Jewish Press, November 2, 1990, one week before he was murdered. Rav Kahane concludes:

The seven nations do not have their special status alone, but rather all people who were there before the Jews arrived, and who see the Jews as robbers who took the land from them, have the same kind of attitude and approach of hate and revenge - and thus, the same legal status.