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      Av 19, 5769, 8/9/2009

      What Does It Mean To You To Repent?

      by Tamar Yonah

      I received this email in my inbox a few days ago, and decided to post it after reading it at my Shabbat table when afterward one of my Shabbat guests asked me 'Tamar, what does it mean to you when they say to repent?" The guest was referring to the article below that I am posting here. 
      I have stated before that I am not so convinced by FC (Facilitated Communication) but what Binyamin Golden is saying here is beneficial in it's own way anyway.
      In answer to the title of this blog, I think everyone knows what they need to do Tshuva (repent) for.  Maybe you all want to leave your ideas below in the talk-back section.  As for me, I think I may be a hopeless case [sigh].



      ON THE THRESHOLD OF REDEMPTION
      A Message From Binyamin Golden, An Autistic Man 5769
      [Translated from the original Hebrew message. www.TorahNews.org ]

      We said that we would give a message only when a real change takes place in the world, and this has now happened.

      Before Elul we said that from Elul onwards, the world would change completely and indeed, since Elul the economy of the whole world began falling. Afterwards, Barack Hussein Obama was elected president. Between Elul and Adar, the world has changed immensely and from Adar until now the world has changed even more.

      In most areas, everything is going down. Countries are getting ready for a huge war. More and more countries now have operational nuclear weapons, anti-Semitism is severe around the world and more and more people are being left without even minimal employment.

      Let us remember the way the world was three years ago and how it is today.  So many countries are arming themselves with the most treacherous weapons and no one can stop them. Only one thing is clear: everyone is against Israel and the Jews.

      AN EVIL MESSENGER

      Barack Hussein Obama is a messenger sent from Heaven, and Hashem is causing him to do strange and illogical things that are almost foolish. However with much help from Heaven he achieved his role as the president of the United States and Hashem has put in him the will to rule the world. He is an evil messenger who will cause the destruction of most of the world .

      Obama wants to be a dictator over the United States and he is succeeding greatly. He is in control of at least thirty percent of the businesses in America. It is very interesting that he manages to do things that no other president would have dared to try. He can't even prove that he is American, and this is amazing. He has signed hundreds of laws since he came to the White House. No other president had ever managed to pass so many laws in such a short time and some of them are very, very strange as well as anti-democratic and anti-American [These things show that this is not a natural phenomenon rather this is all arranged from Heaven as stated above].

      Barack Hussain Obama is a combination of Edom, Yishmael and Amalek and he reached the presidency by open miracles. He supports all sorts of things that are forbidden not only to Jews but even to B’nei Noach.

      HATRED FOR JEWS

      He wants to rule America more like a king than a president and that is not part of the ‘American Dream’ [as it is undemocratic]. He came into the world as if he were the secular “Messiah”, the goyish “Messiah” who does not believe in anything even close to Hakadosh Baruch Hu [G-d]- and he believes he can save the world. It's unbelievable and supernatural that such a wicked and unintelligent man could advance as far as he did. It's a miracle [All of which shows that he was sent from Above -  since he did not arrive by normal processes - and this is reminicent of the unnatural way that Hitler, yimach shmo, came to power].

      Lately he has revealed even more of his compulsive hatred for the state of Israel, that is based upon his hatred for Jews. It is now becoming more and more obvious that he wants to destroy Israel, tear it apart, and he doesn’t care if the Arabs eliminate the Jews, chas vesholom. It doesn’t interest him one bit.

      He believes that the State of Israel is the main problem of the Middle East. About this, he’s not far from the truth. It is clear that the Zionists brought all the troubles upon the Jews here in Eretz Yisrael and all the wars. If they would have done the will of Hashem, we would not be having all these troubles and the Geula [Redemption] would have already come, particularly after such a painful Holocaust [Which atoned for so many of our sins].

      Nevertheless, we are still Jews, even though we don’t believe in the crooked ways of the Zionists, we still live in Eretz Yisrael and we really don’t want to have the Arabs ruling over us, which would be a life – threatening prospect.

      DANGERS AROUND THE WORLD

      Obama is clearly stating that the State of Israel has to give up [sovereignty over] Jerusalem, return to the borders of 1948 and allow all Arab “refugees” to return to Eretz Yisrael. We must pray to Hashem to help us do complete teshuva so Hashem will nevertheless have mercy on us, even with all our sins, and bring Moshiach Tzidkenu with rachamim [mercy] [“If Israel would do teshuva they would immediately be redeemed” Sanhedrin 92].

      We have been speaking about this and explaining the terrible dangers that we are facing to Jews all over the world. Yet not only are Jews not accepting our words, most Jews are not even prepared to accept what is written in the Prophecies of the Torah. Open your eyes and see for yourselves that the end is near, the difficult end [everything that is mentioned regarding Geula Be’itah].

      It’s not just that Eretz Yisrael is in danger; every Jew in the world is in danger. Anti-semitism is very great. All the Jews in the world are in danger. Do not think that if a Jew lives in the US then he’s safe. Wait until your president gets really angry at the Israelis; see where you’ll be standing then and what he will do to you.

      How many Jews are there in the world? The numbers are microscopic compared to the gentiles. What will become of you, Jews of the world? What does the future hold for you in your countries?

      MATERIALISM IS DESTRUCTIVE

      Open your eyes, Jews! We are so few compared to all those that are against us,  the only thing that can save us is Hakadosh Baruch Hu. He sent us the Prophecies to give us guidance for this period in time, what to do and how to do His will in order that we should be saved.

      Jews living abroad, if possible,  it is better for you to be here in Eretz Yisrael. If there is simply no way for you to come, then do what all the Jews, including those in Israel, should be doing and that is doing real teshuva. This is a message for the secular, the religious and the Charedi: do teshuva the way we explained in the previous messages [especially messages 27 and 37 [The messages can also be received by fax. Call: [972] [0]77-4502234].

      From WWII until today the world has never known such an abundance of gashmius [materialism] as there was up until September 2008. We grew accustomed to having all that gashmius and we truly felt that we could not live without all those things.

      The abundance of gashmius was so great that it totally distorted our way of life. When a person lives such a distorted life style, it completely distorts his outlook on the world. Even a Jew who believes in Hakadosh Baruch Hu, davens [prays] three times a day and learns Torah, if he remains connected to this world of sheker [falsehood, the Golden Calf] with all his heart and tries to live in both worlds [the world of gashmius and as well as the world of spirituality], he will vanish from existence, lo aleinu. Because one cannot live in both worlds at once – the world of emes and the world of sheker [See Chovas Halevavos, Shaar Haprishus, chapt. 2].

      Now is the time to choose. Now, is the epoch before the end. And you should know that this is indeed the final period before the end. This is the time for you to make your choice. Whoever does not choose to have full bitachon [faith] in Hashem - which means doing His will completely without any sheker whatsoever – can have no place in the world of Moshiach.

      TIME TO RETURN

      Therefore the first thing we need to do is truly return to Hashem. We must get rid of all the ideas and all the desires that have no connection to Yiddishkeit [Judaism], and go back to doing nothing except the will of Hashem. And not to distort the will of Hashem to suit our desires; rather we must do what is really the will of Hashem.

      However, we are presently so far from the real emes [Truth], including many of our leaders, that I fear very much that we will not be able to reach the Truth. Once a person’s way of thinking is so seriously distorted and his desires are so distorted, such a person will generally not be able to reach the Truth.

      I am very worried that we will end like we did in Miztrayim, where only a fifth of the Jews were redeemed. And I fear that with the present situation of the Jews, it may even be far less, chas veshalom [“Vechamushim alu” – one out of five, some say one out of fifty and some say one out of five hundred - Yalkut Shimoni and Mechilta, Shemos 12].

      [A similar thing has already occurred in the past: “And I will leave among Israel seven thousand, all the knees that did not kneel before the idols etc.” and see also in Chessed LeAvraham 3:20 who wrote that this is how many Jews will be left in Israel when Am Yisrael is redeemed by Moshiach].

      TIME IS RUNNING OUT

      Because most of the Jews are still living in a fantasy world [Egel Hazahav, the “American Dream”]. And even though everything is collapsing, they still have the desire and the hope that maybe still the situation will go back to the way it was previously. If I would ask most of the Jews: “Would you prefer to go through some hard times in order to get to the good times – of Moshiach Tzidkenu and Beis Hamikdash – or rather return to the world the way it was three or four years ago?” I’m afraid that the majority would say that they would prefer to just go back to the past.

      I therefore want to make something very clear: this is the end. In the very near future the world will come into the most terrible times, most frightening. Two thirds of the world will be destroyed , may Hashem protect us, and vicious wars will take place. Only those that are truly close to Hakadosh Baruch Hu will remain [“...and it will be that all who ‘call in the name of Hashem’ will remain” [Yoel 3], as Metzudas explains there: “Only the select few amongst them who call out to Hashem and cry out to Him and put all their trust in Him”].

      What more can be said? Read everything we have written until now and better still, read the Prophecies written in the Torah, and you will know what to do and how to do it in order to save yourselves. The world of Moshiach will be a world of emes [Truth] and only people of emes can exist in a world of emes.  

      ----  QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ----

      Q. I have heard from several intelligence sources that Iran has over a hundred atomic bombs which they sent with suicide bombers who smuggled them through the breached area of the border between Mexico and the USA and that they are now hidden in many different states, awaiting the order to detonate them. Is this true?

      A. One thing is certain: America is in for a really big bang and this is no joke. America is going to suffer terribly in the very near future. Hussein Barack Obama wants to rule the world. The problem is that he’s not so smart. He’s a big rasha [evil man]. The world is again going to change immensely and eventually, all the prophecies that are supposed to materialize will do so, down to the very last detail.

      Our concern is whether not we will survive; our concern should be whether we will be capable of living in a world of emes. We must do teshuva – that is our whole concern now, not shelters nor gas masks or anything else, just that…

      Q. I want to know what we have to do to be saved by Hashem. I pray for Am Israel all the time because I’m afraid about the financial and spiritual world but it's written: "without food there is no Torah", so we need them both to do what Hashem wants. [S. from France]

      A. You are right, but, first of all, you must come very close to Hashem and trust Him. We are approaching the point, similar to the Jews in the desert: being without a source of sustenance. We are in the stages of disconnecting ourselves from the olam-hazeh [the material world], financially, materialistically and in every way.

      If we learn to trust Hashem wholeheartedly and know that He will provide for us even though we are not succeeding in our own efforts, then we will be saved [“Blessed is the man who trusts in Hashem etc.” [Jeremiah 17].

      However, those who believe in their own abilities, in “kochi ve’otzem yadi” [MY strength, MY powers…] will not be saved [“Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man etc” [ibid]. And whoever is still living in France, woe to them.

      Q. I live in Montreal with my family. Should we follow the same instructions that you gave to American Jews [Rachel, Montreal]?

      A. Every place in the world, the Jews will be a target for Anti-Semitic actions. They already are in many places. According to the Torah prophecies Eretz Yisrael will not be destroyed [“For the day of Hashem is near upon all the nations… and in Mount Zion will be the refuge” , but Edom will certainly be destroyed , and you are living in a part of Edom.

      Q. Will it be safer to be in Canada than in America at the time of Mashiach? [Moshe, Canada]
      A. It will be safer to be with Hakadosh Baruch Hu.

      Q. How can a person know if he will be saved from Gog Umagog? [Moshe, Brooklyn]

      A. No one can know ahead of time. Just be close to Hakadosh Baruch Hu and stay far away from the Egel Hazahav and the lies of this world.

      Q. What happens to a person who is very confused in life? Will he go to Gehinnom or Gan Eden? [Menachem, Brooklyn]

      A. Confusion [bilbul] is against the Torah.

      Q. It has been already two months since you wrote that the Jews in America are in grave danger and Baruch Hashem, we did not see anything happen. Now I am going through what you wrote and I see that you wrote something similar to the Jews of Russia a very long time ago and Baruch Hashem, you were wrong there too. So what is this, Fake Predictions Inc. or just deception?

      A. As the saying says: He who laughs last laughs best. But I won’t be laughing, I will be crying for every single Jew. We are not prophets, however Jeremiah the prophet warned Am Yisrael for eighty years that a disaster would befall them if they do not repent and they only laughed at him [“And I spoke to you and a word you did not hearken” [Jeremiah 25]. In the end, the First Temple was destroyed and the Jews were exiled.

      Noah built the ark for one hundred and twenty years, and the whole time he warned the people that they should do teshuva and that if they didn’t, a flood would come and they would all be killed. They laughed at him and in the end, it happened.

      We have been giving messages for seventeen years now, and what we are saying now will not take eighty years or a hundred and twenty, it will happen soon.








      Av 16, 5769, 8/6/2009

      Puppies & Snakes

      by Tamar Yonah

      I walked into the back room and my two older kids were watching the news. "Ima, (mother) look at this news report."

      I stopped what I was doing and stood to watch a clip that Israel's channel 10 news showed of a Lebanese military training camp.  They showed the usual 'tough guys' in camouflage uniform running through obstacle courses and looking macho.  Then they showed how youth were coming there after school to train as well.  They were way underage; some looked like they were only 13 years old.  The kicker here is what the young men did next to show how tough they were to the others.

      As they were lined up, a big box was brought out and opened up in front of them.  Inside the box were live, slithering snakes.  One of the head soldiers there bent down and pulled out the snakes, handing them to the other 'youth' there, and holding them in tow, almost on cue, they all brought their faces down to the snakes and took bites out of them and ate them while they were still alive.

      Don't believe me?  Watch this (shorter version) video, but I am warning you, it is graphic.

      (It looks like they now removed this video.  However, I found this link and it can be viewed here at MEMRI.)

      These are the enemies Israel has to contend with.  And the interesting thing here, is that Lebanon is considered to be one of the more 'moderate' Arab countries.

      Can you imagine what the more intolerant Arab countries do????

      I remember years ago watching another news report showing how – I think it was kids from the Palestinian Authority- were all lined up in a court yard in different rows.  They were kids, I'd say between 7 and 10 years old. My memory is foggy, because it was so awful, I didn't want to remember.  But what I recall is the news showing these kids – also in some type of uniform, boys, and girls, but in separate sections, holding the cutest little puppy dogs. They must not have been more than a couple of months old, if that.  Now, if I remember, these kids were given these puppies to care for, play with, feed, etc…  After a month or so, at their (graduation?) ceremony from their military training, they came with their little puppies that they playfully held, and at a count and then an order from their leader, were instructed to either break the puppies' necks, or to strangle them.  Either way, the result was the same.  I recall something about them chanting in Arabic, ""This little dog is like a Jew. This is what I do to Jewish dogs."   And then, hands around the neck, they twisted it and broke the neck or strangled them.  I don't remember, I don't want to remember.

      What does it take to get a kid attached to a cute little puppy, and then order them to kill them with their own hands? Did they give names to their puppies?  These 'people', the International community tells us, are supposed to be our peace partners.  These are the 'moderates': Lebanon and our 'Palestinian Peace Partners'. 

      How should Israel respond when these are the enemies she has to contend with?

      Who's the puppy and who's the snake?







      Av 15, 5769, 8/5/2009

      Laugh, or Cry

      by Tamar Yonah

      I really, really, really, am not trying purposely to bash or target Obama. It's more what he stands for, his policies and his political beliefs. He may be a real nice guy personally.  A guy, well, a guy you'd just want to sit and have a beer with! (wink)

      It's just that the news is moving so fast with all the 'changes' he is making. The news just keeps flowing into my inbox, and try as I may, I just can't ignore these 'changes' he is making.  I MUST report them to you, at least as much as I have strength for.  Here are three gems that I want you to see, and I am sorry to overwhelm you with three videos to watch, but please, DO WATCH THEM!  The first one, by Glenn Beck is kind of unbelieveable in a big brother sort of way.  The second one, well, it's just brilliantly funny! And I am surprised no one has threatened Beck for being so outspoken (for a mainstream news station). The third one, from Pajamas Media is also a hoot.  America, you wanted change, you got it.

      Glenn Beck: Cars.gov allows government to takeover your computer

      Someone suggested that maybe if one uses an internet cafe computer, the Federal Government won't get access to your computer?

      Glenn Beck: Happy 48th Birthday, Barack Obama! This's Your Life.

      Obama's Capitol Hill Card: Who is in Your Wallet?



      Av 12, 5769, 8/2/2009

      $10 For the Truth?

      by Tamar Yonah

      The Obama Birth Certificate:  Will the real one please stand up?

      A birth certificate has apparently been found showing that Barack Hussein Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya.

      To see the birth certificate close up, click here for the WND article on this.

      I have covered the question of whether Obama was really born in the USA or not in previous blogs, and there are people I have interviewed about this as well, like Phil Berg and Orly Taitz that are on this with a magnifying glass.  There now seems to be a copy found that shows that Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya.  But is it authentic?  That's the $64,000 question.

      Another birth certificate was shown several months ago on the internet, seemingly touted by the Obama people, to show he was born in Hawaii, but many claim that the birth certificate was a forgery and the photo of it was soon taken down from the website that posted it.  Now we have another birth certificate -supposedly from Kenya. 

      The photo of this birth certificate looks a little too white and clean and new to be a document that is over 40 years old, but what do I know about these things, I am just reporting what I have come across to you, the reader, as I assume you'd want to know whether your president, or if not, a man who holds one of the most powerful offices in the world, is legitimately there.  

      Below: California Attourney, Dr. Orly Taitz Esq.

      What is interesting though is a case that Orly Taitz Esq. handled about a U.S. military officer who received orders to deploy to Afghanistan.  The officer, whose name is reported to be Maj. Stefan Cook, claimed that he did not believe that Obama was eligible to be president because he has not proven he is a natural born citizen and therefore not qualified to take office of the presidency.  Instead of the case going to court in a big media splash, the case was settled in that they did not make him deploy and therefore no big trial was held.  Hmmm.

      A website called Military.com reports: "Do you know what this means?" Taitz asked in a telephone interview with Military.com Tuesday, about an hour after hearing from Maj. Stefan Cook, the officer fighting his deployment to Afghanistan. "It means the Obama administration has blinked. They have no cards to play with. The moment I filed a lawsuit, they didn't even fight!"
       

      For more details about this case and this alleged new birth certificate shown here, you can check out these links as well:

      Is this really smoking gun of Obama's Kenyan birth?

      Orly Taitz Esquire - But I warn you, her site which I believe originally broke this story, seems to have been attacked.  Hmmmm.

      As for me, I will let the experts decide what documents are real and authentic, and as for Obama, I will say it again… Why doesn't he just turn over his real birth certificate and put all the allegations to rest?  I hear it only costs about ten dollars to order a copy of a birth certificate.  If this is true, I will be willing to help Obama with the cost if he needs help coming up with the ten bucks.  I think we all just want the truth.

      Sorry to bombard you, but I just saw this video and wanted to post it for you as well. 

      "Question about Obama's birth certificate avoided"



      Av 8, 5769, 7/29/2009

      Let Us Not Continue To Reject The Land Of Israel

      by Tamar Yonah

      Tonight I will be sitting on the floor in the dark with a candle with my kids and read from the book of Eicha (Lamentations). 

      Please, wherever you are, say a prayer that we may merit the Holy Temple and the Moshiach, and then, make a plan to go and implement that.  Tisha B'Av became a day of mourning because we rejected the Land of Israel.  The place that G-d gave us as a homeland, the place where our forefathers are buried; Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and our foremothers, Sarah, Rivka and Leah (all buried in Hebron) and Rachel, buried in Bet lechem (Bethlehem).  Our kings are buried here as well, King david, King Solomon, etc...  This is where our history is, and this is where our future is.

      Let us not continue to reject the Land of Israel. If you haven't made aliyah, go to www.NbN.org.il and check out how it has never been easier in history to come and make aliyah and return home form our long exile. 

      Do good deeds, pray, and plan what you CAN do to bring the redemption.

      May The KBH, the Holy One Blessed Be He, have mercy on us, and may we merit through our deeds and love, the rebuilding of our Holy Temple.  Amen. 

      If you like, you can leave a prayer below for the return of our Holy Temple that will be a light not just to Jews, but to all of Mankind.  We have no idea what we are missing.