Posted on 06/02/2012 1:40:03 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Somewhere in the Carmel hills of northern Israel, diamond exploration company Shefa Yamim hopes to uncover the exact spot where faith meets science. Inspired by the words of a revered rabbi who prophesized that precious stones were divinely buried in the area, the firm has been mining for about a decade along the steep hills and lush valleys that surround the city of Haifa. Now, Shefa Yamim, the first and only diamond explorer in Israel, says it has found strong signs that significant diamond deposits are indeed hidden in the Holy Land, surprising many who had dismissed the mission as a pipe dream. Potential new mines are big news in an industry that gets most of its diamonds from 20 or so mines, and where no large discovery has been made in 15 years. Israel has long been a global leader for polishing diamonds, but it was never considered to be a possible source for rough diamonds, which it imports from abroad....driven by prosperity in China and India there are certain to be many more speculative projects. Shefa Yamim's workers have dug up thousands of geological indicators -- including 77 macro and micro-diamonds -- in their trenches and boreholes, said Chief Executive Avi Taub. "It's a mission ... We're talking about divine providence," Taub, an Orthodox Jew who wears a skullcap and a long, white beard, told Reuters at the company's offices in the coastal city of Akko. "I hope I'm going to have the right to reveal it."
In 1999, Taub founded Shefa Yamim, which means "bounty of the seas" in Hebrew, based on a conversation that took place 11 years earlier in Brooklyn, New York between the late Rabbi Menachem Schneerson and the then mayor of Haifa. The dialogue was caught on video.
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In 1992, a Bukharan Jew received a blessing from the Lubavitcher Rebbe for success in his business endeavors.
That Jew is Lev Leviev, Russian billionaire and only rival to the DeBeers in the diamond business.
That is not at all unusual.
To have gotten a Lubie blessing? Or for such a blessing to pan out to miraculous fortune?
Which also reminds me of Joseph Gutnick (of the Gutnick Chumash), who received a blessing From Rabbi Schneerson that Gutnick would discover gold in Australia. He did indeed find lots of overlooked gold.
The second. Most Lubies got no such blessings from the Rebbe.
Wouldn’t one have to be pretty obviously religiously observant before the Rebbe would consider doing that for one?
No. One didn’t even have to be Jewish. An Irish cop whose wife never conceived happened once to be guarding the Rebbe’s motorcade to and from his father-in-law’s graveside in Queens, and asked the Rebbe for a blessing for a son. There is now a full-grown, red-haired, freckled Roman Catholic young man, possibly a cop himself like his father before him, named Menachem Mendel. A Haitian maintenance man at World Lubavitch Headquarters once asked the Rebbe for a blessing for his father, who was suffering terribly from an incurable ailment. The Rebbe blessed him, three days later his father died, and he thanked the Rebbe profusely.
A unique person, although I’d guess I’d be a bit underwhelmed with the merciful death. I could see why some would believe him to be the Jewish messiah.
Many, many non-Jews received blessings and guidance from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, me included.
A non-Jewish celebrity with a personal connection to the Rebbe is actor Jon Voigt. After a spiritual awakening and getting off drugs, he asked the Rebbe if he should convert to Judaism. The Rebbe told him no, suggesting that he could play a larger role spreading observance of the Seven Laws of the Children of Noah.
Happy for him that he kicked the drugs... not so happy he got set on an anti-Christianity jag.
Inspired by the words of a revered rabbi who prophesized that precious stones were divinely buried in the area, the firm has been mining for about a decade along the steep hills and lush valleys that surround the city of Haifa. Now, Shefa Yamim, the first and only diamond explorer in Israel, says it has found strong signs that significant diamond deposits are indeed hidden in the Holy Land, surprising many who had dismissed the mission as a pipe dream.
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