Kabbalist Urges Jews to Israel Ahead of Upcoming Disasters

Israel National News ^ | Sept. 14, 2005

[Alouette]

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

In a class between 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 declartion 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).”

Israel's Leading Known Kabbalist, Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri

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, tav, 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.

Arutz Sheva Israel National Radio show host Yehoshua Meiri first publicized the declaration on his Hebrew radio show late Tuesday night. Meiri, who attended the class, typed out the words of Rabbi Kaduri's declaration and presented them back to the Rabbi who signed on the document.

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 in 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.

	Rabbi Kaduri greets the Lubavitcher Rebbe

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 Mahiach 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."

Rabbi Kaduri said in the week prior to the interview, "What can save the world from calamities is real repentance by Jews, who must increase acts of kindness towards one another... The cry of the many poor in Israel and the expulsion of Jews from their homes shakes the world... It's not for naught that this place was hit, where many of our compatriots went to look for this-worldly lusts."

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.

[Alouette]

Rabbi Kaduri is a highly revered Jewish scholar and is in no way connected with the stupid Madonna cult.

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[Pessimist]

"What can save the world from calamities is real repentance by Jews,"

Ahhh... So its the JEWS' fault!

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[cgk]

Rabbi Kaduri is a highly revered Jewish scholar and is in no way connected with the stupid Madonna cult.

Thank you for stating this truth. I am a mere neophyte in this topic as it was many years ago since I studied Kabbalah, but Madonna's mere utterance of the word makes me cringe.

[Dark Skies]

Is the Rabbi speaking only to the Jews or to descendants of all the tribes of Israel?

[SJackson]

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[jla]

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[adam_az]

Interesting article...

...so, did this convince any of you to make aliyah in the next year?

[Reborn]

Rabbi Kaduri is a highly revered Jewish scholar and is in no way connected with the stupid Madonna cult.

Thank you. I had NO IDEA that there was any difference. Could you please list a few of the differences for those of us who know nothing about it? Thanks! :-)

[Alouette]

Is the Rabbi speaking only to the Jews or to descendants of all the tribes of Israel?

"And it shall come to pass on that day,
That the Lord shall gather from the flood of the river to the stream of Egypt,
And you shall be gathered one by one,
O children of Israel.

And it shall come to pass on that day,
That the great shofar shall be sounded,
And they shall come who were lost in the land of Assyria
And those who were oppressed in the land of Egypt,
And they shall bown down upon the Holy Mountain of the Lord in Jerusalem." Isaiah 27:12-13.

[Dark Skies]

I don't think I have ever read the Word of G-d without feeling His blessing.

Thx for that response.

[Alouette]

did this convince any of you to make aliyah in the next year?

Three of my kids are there now. We are planning to go for Passover, and they will try to convince us to stay.

[adam_az]

Madonna is a member of a cult

Kaballah is a mystical system for understanding Torah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaballah

[Praxeus]

The present term "Jews" includes all the so-called "lost-tribes", not just members of the tribe of Judah.

From the time of David when Israel was divided into the Northern Kingdom (Israel) which comprised all but Judah and Benjamin, and the Southern Kingdom (Judah), which included only Judah and Benjamin, the name Judah (and particularly "Jew") began to develop into an iconic label for all of Israelite extraction. Much the same way as Kleenex is used generically as a term for all brands of tissue.

The known world at the time of the Jewish dispersion was the present Middle-East and parts of Asia Minor. The bulk of the nation of Israel (both Judah & Israel) were most probably "lost" through assimilation and intermarriage. The idea that homogeneous groups of Israelites survived to be dispersed to societies and cultures that did not yet exist, or were not known to the civilized world, is simply not realistic.

Individual tribal identity most certainly did not survive the Babylonian conquest. While some Jews (even at the time of Jesus) lay claim to identity to the tribe of Benjamin and Levi, the bulk of what are the Jews today simply do not know what tribe they hail from. They are a mixture of all the twelve.

Conquests by four different empires destroyed through assimilation, death, intermarriage any hope of identifying the tribes. If there were some groups that were carted off, or escaped to distant lands, there bloodlines were diluted past any recognition of identity. Genetically they would have ceased to exist. Where are the Phoenicians? The Carthaginians? The Amalekites? ...and countless others.

Also, to suppose that ALL the people of the tribes of the Northern Kingdom left Babylon, and only the tribe of Judah stuck around is simply far-fetched hooey.

If "lost tribes" would have survived, history would witness that evidence along the way, if nothing else, by the national religion, mention of Moses and Abraham, etc. in these peoples cultures.

That just simply is not the case. Any mention of those Hebrew patriarchs and religion by the peoples of Great Britain, Germany, etc. is through Christian conversion of Roman conquests of those barbarous peoples.

So, all of Israel is represented in what today is called a "Jew". Jewish belief is that the Messiah will sort things out. This is the Christian belief too. The only debate is who is, and who is not the Messiah. Not who is a Jew (Israelite). Why would one seek to find Israelites outside of present Jewry, anyway?

[catmanblack.]

has my brother the jew forgotten his brother ISRAEL-me thinks he has- maybe one day he will know of the RABBI who has already come-and when he returns as a warrior there will be justice,peace, and eternal life.

[catmanblack.]

has my brother the jew forgotten his brother ISRAEL-me thinks he has- maybe one day he will know of the RABBI who has already come-and when he returns as a warrior there will be justice,peace, and eternal life.

[Praxeus]

re your tagline:

Actually it was five.

[adam_az]

I'd like to take my first trip there last year, but I don't think I could live there until they rescind their idiotic restrictive gun control laws.

The Arabs have lots of guns among their citizenry... Our guys blow up the Altalena over and over again.

Judges 5:8 "They chose new gods; then was war in the gates; was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?"