ALL SHOOK UP

Tuesday's 5.8 East Coast earthquake closed The Washington Monument with cracks at its top; the central tower of the Washington National Cathedral, the highest elevated point in Washington, sustained significant damage.

The Washington Monument was completed in 1884, ten years later the charter was written and the place designated for the National Cathedral, which took 83 years to build – Midgal/Tower is gematria 83. What does it mean when both towers of the capitol crack?

In the Torah, Migdal Dovid refers to the Third Temple built in Heaven, ready to descend when the Earth is prepared. The Temple is called Migal/Tower because the basis for Melech HaMoshiach/King Moshicach comes from Dovid-first king of Israel – lofty in his humility.

The towers of Rome, symbols of their government and their religion, have cracked – in the end of the month of Av, the month of the Lion. Rome has used America as the sword by which to rule the world – it is time for America, the bastion of revolution, to arise.

There is a tower that rises from humility and another that comes from arrogance; God says, I will bring you up high so you can fall below. It is time for America to redefine herself; America, Am Raika in Hebrew means: Empty Vessel – America, place of free choice.