Kabbalist Urges Jews to Israel Ahead of Upcoming Disasters
16:46 Sep 15, '05 / 11 Elul 5765
By Baruch Gordon

Israel's leading known Kabbalistic Elder, Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri called
upon worldwide Jewry Tuesday night to return to Israel due to natural
disasters which threaten to strike the world.

In a class between the Mincha (afternoon) and Maariv (evening) prayers
at his Jerusalem yeshiva seminary, Rabbi Kaduri issued the following
call:


    "This declaration I find fitting to issue for all of the Jews of
the world to hear. It is incumbent upon them to return to the Land of
Israel due to terrible natural disasters which threaten the world.

    In the future, the Holy One, Blessed be He, will bring about great
disasters in the countries of the world to sweeten the judgements of
the Land of Israel.

    I am ordering the publication of this declaration as a warning, so
that Jews in the countries of the world will be aware of the impending
danger and will come to the Land of Israel for the buliding of the
Temple and revelation of our righteous Mashiach (Messiah)."


Rabbi Kaduri also stated that the upcoming year would be a year of
"secret and revelation" in the world. The Jewish year 5766 begins in
less than three weeks, with the holiday of Rosh Hashana.

The Rabbi explained that the numerical Hebrew abbreviation for 5766,
taf, shin, samech, vav gives insight into the nature of the upcoming
year. "This will be a year of secret (or sod, from the letter samech)
and revelation (or v'giliu from the letter vav).

[...]

Associates of Rabbi Kaduri were dispatched to communicate the
Kabbalistic Elder's call to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon before the
latter's departure to the United States later the same night.

Meiri says he will publicize the signed declaration after Prime
Minister Sharon delivers a speech in the U.S., in which he is expected
to call upon the Jews of the Diaspora to make Aliyah (immigrate) to
Israel.

During a visit in 1990 with the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem
Mendel Schneerson (of blessed memory), Rabbi Kaduri was told by the
Rebbe that he would live to see the coming of the Mashiach.

Earlier this Jewish year, Rabbi Kaduri predicted great tragedies in 
the world. Just two weeks before the devastating tsunami in southeast 
Asia, Rabbi Kaduri was quoted in the Yediot Acharonot newspaper as saying:


    "We are now in the fourth year of what could be the seven-year
Redemption period, according to the calculation of the Vilna Gaon.
[However.] in the coming three years, uncertainty about the future
will hang over our heads, unless we work and strive that the Mashiach
be revealed.

    The Mashiach is already in Israel. Whatever people are sure will
not happen, is liable to happen, and whatever we are certain will
happen may disappoint us. But in the end, there will be peace
throughout the world. The world is mitmatek mehadinim (or becoming
sweet from strict justice).

    Great tragedies in the world are foreseen, that's the thing of the
Jews going to the East. But our enemies will not prevail over us in
the Land of Israel, 'fear and trembling will fall upon them,' in the
power of Torah."

The month of Elul, which immediately preceeds the Jewish New Year is
traditionally a month of teshuva, or repentence by the Jewish people,
in anticipation of the judgments that are incurred on the Jewish High
Holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.

Rabbi Kaduri has told his students that the current government will be
the last one of the "old era." He is on record as saying that Sharon
will be the last prime minister in Israel, and that the new government
will already have leadership of the Messianic era.


Full article at "Arutz SHEVA" / Israel National News
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=89850

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Matthew 24:5 (to 24:8)

For many will come in my name, saying,'I am the Christ,' and will 
lead many astray. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that 
you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and
there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.
But all these things are the beginning of birth pains. 

http://bible.cc/matthew/24-5.htm (to 24-8.htm)


Cheers, Steve..

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