#Olam Ha-Ba

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Unveiling the Rich Tapestry of Judaism beliefs and practices

One of the oldest monotheistic religions in the world, Judaism, has a rich tapestry of doctrines and customs that have developed through thousands of years. Jewish Beliefs and Practices encompass a system of beliefs, practices, and rituals that have influenced Jewish people and communities throughout history. It is based on the covenant that God made with the Jewish people. In this investigation,…

[psycheapuleius]

“… to his beloved wife Esther until, three years ago, she passed…and to his duty, as he saw it. Where does such a man go? A tzadik—who knows, maybe even a lamid vovnik—a man beloved by all, a man who despised the frivolous? Could such a serious man... simply... disappear?

The words echo.

Again the rabbi gazes around, as if awaiting answer.

THEN:

We speak of L'olam ha-ba, the World to Come. Not heaven. Not what the gentiles think of as afterlife.

‘L'olam ha-ba.’ What is L'olam ha-ba? Where is L'olam ha-ba? Well: it is not a geoaraphic place, certainly. Like—Canada.

Murmured chuckles from the congregation.

Nor is it the eretz zavat chalav ood'vash-the land flowing with milk and honey, for we are not promised a personal reward, a gold star, a first-class VIP lounge where we get milk and cookies to eternity!

More chuckles.

L'olam ha-ba… is in the bosom of Abraham. L'olam ha-ba is in the soul of this community which nurtured Sy Ableman and to which Sy Ableman now returns. That's right, he returns. Because he still inspires us Ableman returns. Because his memory instructs us Ableman returns. Because his thoughts illuminate our days and ways Sy Ableman returns. The frivolous man may vanish without a ripple but Sy Ableman? Sy Ableman was a serious man…”

— A Serious Man, 2007.

[girlactionfigure]

Happy Tu BiShvat!

The 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat is a great opportunity. It’s known as Tu BiShvat, the New Year for Trees.

I’ve always wondered as to the origin of what has become Jewish Arbour Day. It has to do with the rainy season in Israel, which commences with the festival of Sukkot. It takes four months for the rains to saturate the soil, nurture the trees and coax them into producing fruit. This is important to know if you are planning to give your tithes of fruits, as is done in the Land of Israel, because the required tithes vary from year to year. It’s also important if you are a tree and looking for something to celebrate.

We humans can also celebrate along with the trees. After all, the Torah says, “Man is a tree of the field.” We are nurtured by deep roots, as far back as Abraham and Sarah; we reach upwards to the heavens while standing firmly on the ground; and when we do all this right, we produce fruits that benefit the world—namely, our good deeds.

Traditional Observances:

Eat some fruit on this day. Best if you can get some of those fruits for which Israel is famous: olives, dates, grapes, figs and pomegranates.

The blessing on fruit:

Ba-ruch atah Ado-nai, Elo-hei-nu me-lech ha-olam, borei pri ha-etz.

[Blessed are You, L‑rd our G‑d, King of the universe, who creates the fruit of the tree.]

If tasting a fruit for the first time in its season, recite the Shehecheyanu blessing before saying the fruit blessing:

Ba-ruch a-tah Ado-nai, Elo-hei-nu me-lech ha-olam, she-heche-ya-nu ve-ki-ye-ma-nu ve-higi-a-nu liz-man ha-zeh.

[Blessed are You, L‑rd our G‑d, King of the universe, who has granted us life, sustained us, and enabled us to reach this occasion.

Rabbi Yisroel Bernath

[henghost]

seven theses on ziz waifuism

i. i use Ziz instead of simurgh to maintain consistency with the other endbringers, whose names are derived from the monsters mentioned in the book of job, from whose flesh israel will feast in olam ha-ba.

ii. what is Ziz? Ziz is her body, her power, her scream, her effect, her allegorical potential. she is hypermediated surveillance capitalism, outside of which we are literally incapable of seeing. she is the death drive. she is school shootings and suicide epidemics.

iii. what is waifuism? waifuism is the practice of taking a character and imagining them as a partner, often a romantic one. waifuism shares qualities with "reality shifting," the belief made popular by tiktok that it is possible with sufficient to training to move between realities, even fictional ones. it also shares characteristics with the epidemic of synthetic tourette's.

iv. what is schizoposting? a subtack writer puts it thusly: "Schizoposting is the art of saying weird shit and believing in it, to sum it up. It’s the art of using wrong reasoning, weird spelling and grammar, and new age/based [sic] beliefs to create a pretty intelligent worldview, that no rational mind can ever conjure up, even if their lives depended on it. It’s a psycho-weapon against capitalism/the state and it’s [sic] agents, a protective shell against outside forces. It has its roots in surrealism and dadaism, both art movements dedicated to unwrapped the unconscious/subconscious mind, as laid out in freudian theory, and the abolishing of logic as a natural force."

this is far too optimistic an account. v. it is said that in madison (among, in fact, all other cities that fell victim of Ziz) the first effect to be noticed was a strange epidemic of cough syrup (dextromethorphan) addiction. it was as though, knowing they were doomed to enact violent events, the citizens sought comfort in dissociation because only that could fully separate them from the violence of their actions. another word for dissociation is irony.

vi. if we take walter benjamin's angel of history to be a symbol of the 20th century's bourgeois notions of a strictly progressive history, then Ziz is the 21st century's angel of the perennial now. there is nothing new, only deconstruction.

what are we to make, by the way, of the idea that worm is a "deconstruction" of the superhero genre? they say this as if it means it is progressive, when in fact its deconstructionism is precisely its most regressive aspect, its love for the status quo, for the perennial now.

vii. it is said that there are those who were immune to Ziz's attacks because they had listened to her scream on the internet. these people had Ziz body pillows. they had developed a tolerance via asmr. we must follow them, these Ziz waifuists. Ziz is my waifu the way accelerationism is my waifu: problematically, dangerously, wrongly. Ziz tells me to schizopost.

[f3mcelbambi]

as a girl who likes to learn things about several religions and incorporate certain things from them into my life, i’m just gonna do the thing from judaism where they don’t worry about the after life (olam ha ba) and just focus on the now

[roystonvasey]

as an antizionist jew i hear and see calls for jewish unity, the thought that the jewish people must be united / jewish solidarity is the only way to survive, and this is probably controversial but: no. i will not be in unity with colonizers, genocidal nationalists who happen also to be jews. they are not my family, not my tribe. we do not worship the same g-d. does your g-d look upon the massacre of civilians and smile? mine does not. mine is an ancient divine of justice and covenant. the soul of judaism dies with you. it lives in me, in diaspora, in palestinian jews and black jews and queer jews and trans jews and converts and magic-workers and in the mighty community we make and care for. THAT is jewish unity. not the destruction of yiddish and ladino and all of our ancestral tongues. not the genocide of a people for the sake of nationalism and power. not the silencing of jews who speak out against the zionist project and their allies in liberation. you bring us further from olam ha-ba, not closer to it. heal your hearts. listen to the voice of hashem who calls you home to love and true liberation. listen to shekhinah who cries out with the grief of a mother for all those you have destroyed.

[bonyassfish]

I know they called the atlantic goliath grouper the "jewfish" as a way to insult stereotypical jewish physical features but honestly?

I think he's really cute. a nice jewish fish boy. sinless. pure. for sure headed to the water version of olam ha-ba

[batmanego]

the state of israel is just constantly in such flagrant violation of jewish law that it fucking baffles me like the corpse cum thing is insane. what happened to leaving a body untouched and burying it quickly?

the answer is of course that israel uses judaism mostly as something to pick up and drop when it suits the government because it is convenient for a genocidal fascist theocratic ethnostate and the religion is handy in a couple of key ways, one being that it gives it an easy way to execute an apartheid state, two that it allows its fellow genocidal theocratic fascist ethnostates (such as the US and france) to point at it and say “noooo, we aren’t antisemitic! look how close we are with israel!” and third (related to point two) it allows itself to ally with its right wing conspiracy theory peers who can point to israel and be like “look we were right all along”.

there’s also much to be said about the apocalyptic messianism at work in the government and military and general structure of israel, wherein olam ha-ba, the world to come, is only achievable after we have erased all heretics, infidels, and perceived threats (despite the fact that it is explicitly stated that gentiles have a spot in the world to come as well!) but that’s another post entirely

[silverjetsystm]

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During the mid-90s, they were able to have summer in New York with Mom's sister, Tante Ruth. Mom had passed by then (always with this language. 'passed.' Passed on to the olam ha-ba). New York wasn't Chicago. Older history, different museums, away from those who had the Spector boys in their sights. They went out on family excursions instead of their usual sort of freedom at home. Back home, they were trusted enough to get to school and back, not trusted enough to leave a predetermined radius. (They left anyway).

Each have their own memories - different years, rituals of their visits. Marc made sandcastles out of white Island sand. Steven devoured hot dogs on Coney Island. They were surrounded by community back home too. It's different when it isn't your dad on the bimah, when they can be another kid. Jake holding the Havdalah candle while the many wicked flame flickered in the kitchen. Once the flame was extinguished in wine, him and Rand would hole up in the den where the big wooden TV played Captain America and the Howling Commandos and old flicks. The slow drift of Jake's accent, Jake fitting in like a social chameleon in whatever city they were in.

By mid-teens, they stopped flying out. Grades got worse. Rougher fights. Argumentative. Unable to track a calendar. Staying out late with G-d knows who doing G-d knows what. Why would Dad set them loose on New York if Marc couldn't behave at home?

[whatisbrandecho]

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PANEL ONE: Alice looks lost in thought as she continues to clear with the rabbi.

ALICE: Temple... just...

ALICE: It reminds me of Dad.

KURTZBERG: Ah. Say no more.

PANEL TWO: Alice and Kurtzberg redouble their cleaning efforts. Alice is irritated.

ALICE: I don't remember there being as much of this shit...

KURTZBERG: It's picked up since the election.

ALICE: Ah. Say no more.

PANEL THREE: The two of them converse as they continue to clean.

ALICE: Rabbi, this is out of nowhere, but what's your opinion on the afterlife?

KURTZBERG: Olam ha-ba? I believe in it, but I don't like to focus on it. Life in the here and now is more important. I believe it's less a place, than a time; that after the messiah's return, all we lost will return to us. No difference between the afterlife and life itself.

PANEL FOUR: Kurtzberg turns to Alice, inquisitive.

KURTZBERG: But what I believe, and what you believe, don't have to be the same belief, obviously. Why do you ask?

ALICE: Rabbi...

PANEL FIVE: Close up on Alice, as she is pensive.

ALICE: Rabbi, I think I saw a ghost. And I think it was Brandy.

[autolabrum]

Watched A Serious Man

Spoilers herein.

Hard to elaborate the number of personal resonances here (of admittedly varying degrees). Extraordinary insight to juxtapose Danny's bar mitzvah and Larry's tenure decision. Larry is essentially a child, trying to pass his own final examination, after which, so the story goes, an academic's life is really on the steady track, the turmoil is over and everything starts to settle. A horrifying realization that the sheer accumulation of specialized information has delayed such a coming-of-age ceremony to so late in life. What is the reward? What do we get after finishing the final examination? What is the world to come, olam ha-ba? The movie is adamant not to offer any answers: "We can't ever really know what's going on ... although you will be responsible for this on the midterm". Somehow, to Larry's constant astonishment, everyone else is able to go on about their business even when explicitly conscious of the horror of being. There is no semblance of an implication he will ever be able to do so. In this way, the lack of answers is cruel. Danny, however, is able to move on from his childhood. His coming of age is cultural, it is serious (whether or not he thinks it so), it is encouraged, and it is successful. He is given a reward. Unlike his father, begging to get on the train he missed, to understand how it is people live, he is given the kindest gift of the movie. Not only is his radio returned, he is given access, to Rabbi Marshak, who eschews wisdom that could be given by anyone who had done his studies in favor of a personal message: "When the truth is found to be lies / And the joy within you dies / What then?". This is perhaps the only scene in the movie where anyone makes any legitimate and competent effort to connect with anyone else as a real individual. It does not stop the tornado, or the bad news about the x-rays, or the legal bills. All it does, in its utter kindness shining in the sea of cruelty, is tell Danny that he is real, that he is legitimate, that his questions are important even if they are not answered and it is okay if important questions do not get answered. It tells him that he is a serious man.

Why does he make us feel the questions if he's not gonna give us any answers?

He hasn't told me.

[thegospelofstjohn]

"The Beep." From the Gospel of Saint John, 8: 42-47.

Jesus maintains His Position: Sin is forbidden. Man is not permitted to sin. Sin, He says can be cured if one applies oneself to the Torah. So long as man is willing to study the Torah and still sin, there can be no respite, no Noah, no redemption, no salvation, forgiveness or Shabbat. There is nothing of value at all in life in fact so long as we believe we can sin and get away with it. Especially in the public sphere.

It is the government's job to lead in eradicating sin from the organization management of man's combined affairs. There are no excuses for immoral or unethical conduct, no rule or lawbreaking in the government. Individuals can plumb the depts of religion in search of ways to avoid sin, but governments are not allowed this luxury. Jesus is much meaner than I about this. He speaks of Tikkun Olam Ha Ba, what is to come...will it be God or the devil? We are more than capable of making this decision:

42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me. 

43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say:

44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 

45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! 46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 

47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”

The Values in Gematria are:

v 42. God has sent me. To be sent is 235, בגה‎ , bega, "in an instant." When God sends a message, like the Great Hillel, easy to understand, that is what a good person will do. Who would do the opposite? A sick person.

The Number is 10126, י‎אבו‎, "the desire."

The Church does not need to undergo reform it needs to satisfy the desires of God and man that overlap. We do not believe the Holy Ghost is capable of doing this because we do not trust it or heed it or pay attention to it. We worry too much about all the little gods and hogwashers that are presently distracting us from Him.

To fix the Church and fix the faith we need to study the Gospels, obey the law and unearth ways that make us all happy that do not cause us to pay too dearly for them.

v. 43: Why don't you listen? The Number is 6280, ו‎בף‎, "and BF." "The beep."

= the motions of the mouth are used to break apart nonsense and cleave together wisdom. If the mouth is not being used in this fashion it is sinning.

v. 44: You all belong to the father of lies. I cannot believe you scum reelected Donald Trump after that wet kiss between him and Elon Musk, after he told the world he allowed his son to be raped by a disgusting old pedophile or are continuingt to honor the 2024 election results after Robert Kennedy told the world he cheated in 2016 and now plans to evict millions of perfectly happy persons and send them out into the night with nothing. Something is wrong with you.

The Number is 12114, יבא‎יד‎, "the iyad", the destination. The destination is the Mashiach, a mankind possessed of messianic tendencies.

v. 45-47: Whoever belongs to God believes what God says. The Number is 14204, ידךד‎, your hand, depressed.

Life must not be lived in a state of depression. This is blasphemy against God. All must be for the sake of the Shabbos, which leads to the wisdom needed to realize the nature of the Self called Shabbat. Collaboration between persons who understand Shabbos and Shabbat is called the Mashiach.

Observe these aspects of the Gospel Torah as if they were the law, which they are the black pillar of depression that is pressing the life out of the human race will lift.

[dfroza]

A link to my personal reading of the Scriptures

for the 14th of October 2024 with a paired chapter from each Testament (the First & the New Covenant) of the Bible

[The Book of Matthew, Chapter 22 • The Book of Judges, Chapter 15]

along with Today’s reading from the ancient books of Proverbs and Psalms with Proverbs 14 and Psalm 14 coinciding with the day of the month, accompanied by Psalm 23 for the 23rd day of Astronomical Autumn, and Psalm 138 for day 288 of the year (with the consummate book of 150 Psalms in its 2nd revolution this year)

A post by John Parsons:

Shavuah tov, chaverim. On the Torah’s calendar, there is a (very) quick transition from the somber time of the Jewish High Holidays (Yom Teruah through Yom Kippur) to the week-long festival of Sukkot (i.e., “Tabernacles”). If the High Holidays focus on the LORD as our Creator, our Judge, and yet the merciful Savior who atones for our sins, Sukkot is the time when we joyously celebrate all that He has done for us. Prophetically understood, the seven days of Sukkot picture olam haba, the world to come, and the Millennial Kingdom reign of Mashiach ben David. If Yeshua was born during Sukkot (i.e., conceived during Chanukah, the festival of lights), then another meaning of the "word became flesh and 'tabernacled with us" (John 1:14) extends to the coming kingdom age, when He will again “sukkah” with us during his glorious reign from Zion.

This year Sukkot begins just after sundown on Wednesday, October 16th (i.e., Tishri 15 on the Jewish calendar). The festival is celebrated for seven days (i.e., from Tishri 15-21) during which we "dwell" in a sukkah -- a hut of temporary construction, with a roof covering (schach) of raw vegetable matter (i.e., branches, bamboo, etc.). The sukkah represents our dependence upon God’s shelter for our protection and divine providence. We eat our meals in the sukkah and recite a special blessing (leshev Ba-Sukkah) at this time.

In addition to the Sukkah, the most prominent symbol of Sukkot is the arba'at ha-minim (אַרְבַּעַת הַמִּינִים) - "the Four Species," or four kinds of plants explicitly mentioned in the Torah regarding the festival of Sukkot: “On the first day you shall take: 1) the product of goodly trees (etrog), 2) branches of palm trees (lulav), 3) boughs of leafy trees (hadas), and 4) willows of the brook (aravot), and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days” (Lev. 23:40). We wave the “four species” (held together as a bouquet with the etrog) and recite a blessing (netilat lulav) to ask God for a fruitful and blessed year.

Sukkot is effectively the conclusion of the Fall Holiday season and is the last of the three Shelosh Regalim [the three annual pilgrimage festivals: Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot (Deut. 16:16)]. It can be argued that Sukkot is the climax of all the festivals in Scripture.... Everything leads to it as a culmination in God’s prophetic plan. It is interesting to compare the use of words relating to simchah (joy) in the description of these three festivals. Regarding Pesach, the word simchah does not appear at all (Deut. 17:1-8); regarding Shavuot (Pentecost), it appears only once (Deut. 17:11); but, regarding Sukkot, the word simchah appears several times:"You shall keep the Feast of Sukkot seven days, when you have gathered in the produce... You shall rejoice in your feast... because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful" (Deut. 16:13-15).

In fact, in ancient Israel, the joy of Sukkot was so great that it became known simply as "the Feast" (1 Kings 12:32). It was a time of many sacrifices (Numbers 29) and a time when (on Sabbatical years) the Torah would be read aloud to the people (Deut. 31:10-13).

From a spiritual perspective, Sukkot corresponds to the joy of knowing our sins were forgiven (during Yom Kippur) and also recalls God’s miraculous provision and care after the deliverance from bondage in Egypt (Lev. 23:43). Prophetically, Sukkot anticipates the coming kingdom of Yeshua wherein all the nations shall come up to Jerusalem to worship the LORD during the festival (see Zech. 14:16). Today Sukkot is a time to remember God’s Sheltering Presence and Provision for us for the start of the New Year. May the Lord our God help us all to receive the grace and blessing of his glory.

[ Hebrew for Christians ]

Deut. 16:13a Hebrew reading:

https://hebrew4christians.com/Blessings/Blessing_Cards/deut16-13a-jjp.mp3

Hebrew page:

https://hebrew4christians.com/Blessings/Blessing_Cards/deut16-13a-lesson.pdf

More about Sukkot (Tabernacles):

https://hebrew4christians.com/Holidays/Fall_Holidays/Sukkot/sukkot.html

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from Today’s email by Israel365

Today’s message (Days of Praise) from the Institute for Creation Research

[theestervashti]

"The Scrimmage." From Esther 9: 16-19.

The reason we are having this pleasant conversation is apparently because mankind laid a rotten egg at some point. Now the Rab says we should give another a try, except I don't think we could do a much better job. We are too urbanized.

People who live in cities as we know don't actually do anything. Cities are places where people buy but very seldom make things. Food and manufacturing of the essentials has almost always been done outside the city and shipped or trucked in to sell those more fortunate. But rarely do the people who live in comfort actually know how or have the means to take care of themselves.

But the most important people in the world are the people that feed us. The next passage in the story of Esther and the liberation of the Jewish people said some, those vital to the livelihood of the rest were forgotten and needed protection from the prejudices of the evil oligarch named Haman. So they protected themselves. There was a lot of blood:

16 Meanwhile, the remainder of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces also assembled to protect themselves and get relief from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of them but did not lay their hands on the plunder.

17 This happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.

18 The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth, and then on the fifteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.

19 That is why rural Jews—those living in villages—observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other.

How can we tie this bizarre sequence to the struggle of the Jews who are alive today all around the world and the other kinds of people who are hanging in the balance while we figure out once and for all what to do about all the fucking Jews?

This is the meaning of the word "meanwhile". While we worry about horseshit and assclowns, the rest of the world is trying to turn, to fend for its survival. We feel the need to do what it takes, and this leads to the bloodshed mentioned above. Obviously the boardroom did not prevail in the rural parts of the Persian Empire like it did in the King's presence. So the farmers and artisans well outside his attention span took the law into their own hands.

Everyone has a reason for revenge against their oppressors it seems but if we do it, no matter how necessary, will we still attain to Adar, will we feel handsome as a result of doing it? This is a topic of great discussion within the Book of Esther, one we are about to undertake.

The Values in Gematria are:

v. 16: They assembled to protect themselves. The Number is 13558, ליגת‎הח‎, "the eighth league", AKA the Messianic movement. Like all things Jewish, it involves a discussion about men's wieners:

"So the covenant of circumcision, which binds the Jew to G‑d in a bond that supersedes all nature and convention even as it pervades every nook and cranny of life, is entered into on the eighth day of life. The Sanctuary (Mishkan), whose role was to make the infinite reality of G‑d an indwelling presence in the physical world, was inaugurated on the eighth day following a seven-day training period.

The festival of Shemini Atzeret (“Eighth Day of Retention”), whose function is to internalize the transcendent encompassing light of the sukkah, occurs on the eighth day that follows Sukkot’s seven days. Seven Shemittah cycles are followed by a Jubilee year characterized by liberty (i.e., freedom from all bounds) rather than just “suspension.”

And the messianic seventh millennium of history will be followed by the supra-historical “world to come” (olam ha-ba), in which the divine reality will unite with the created reality in ways that we cannot even speculate upon in a world where finite and infinite are mutually exclusive. In the words of the Talmud (Berachot 34b), “All prophets prophesied only regarding the days of Moshiach; regarding the world to come, ‘No eye can behold it, O G‑d, save Yours’” (Isaiah 64:3)."

We cannot really protect ourselves because man has become to uncontrollable. This is why the only way we can achieve sanctuary is to discuss the Holy Talmud and evangelize about a world where men do no harm.

v. 17: This happened. The Number is 5640, הו‎מ, "in the water, confounded, delirious."

To collectively travail sums up the human condition, but the verses says "they killed, then they stopped struggling."

v. 18: This verse says the Jews closer to the City did it two days later. The Number is 8929, חטבט, "a scrimmage."

You have to be able to win a scrimmage or you have no hope of winning the game. So the killing of the fukchucks can't stop until we win all around the world. There is no such thing as scrimmage, practice at fighting corruption and injustice. Victory belongs to the the good and the just games have to go on until the end before we award the prize.

v. 19: This is why Jews give presents to each other. The Number is 11809, יאףט‎, yaft, "pretty, nice, beautiful."

Sounds pretty sarcastic to me. And it is. Pretty and beautiful are "on a sliding scale of time." Whether or not something is pretty does not mean it is fit. We have developed a capacity to tell stories about ourselves that have us convinced we are fit when we are not at all ready to deal with the lives we are in.

Donald Trump and his treatment of the issues associated with long lines of homeless persons at our borders is an example. The man is fabulously wealthy and wants for nothing, has cheated, lied, murdered, and pillaged this planet but we have painted over it and are hoping it won't be too bad if he wins the election because too many people think he is pretty.

This is an example of a scrimmage. If that bitch Kamala Harris doesn't stop screwing around, take his head off and put him in prison before the election commences I will have no respect for her and neither should you. He and his friends attacked Israel, they dug a luxurious and extensive tunnel system right underneath the ground, and right in front of the world they used it to attack the most sacred ground on the planet.

Blood must run.

After that, we can discuss how to open the curtains on a new Messianic age, but not before. What's happening all around us- we are forgetting about everyone and everything that is dear and important to us and that is a mistake.

[gatorskulls]

Olam ha-ba, the world to come

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