Wednesday, September 28, 2011

ROSH HASHANA 5772

Many Israelis welcomed the start of the Jewish New Year tonight with optimism even though they have little hope for peace with Palestinians as talks between the two sides remain deadlocked.

The Zohar-Book of Secret speaks about the End of Days when the Tribe of Rueben will return to the land and make war with his neighbors and with the world and win; but, Rueben will not remain because he came for the wrong reason. Reuben was the first of the twelve tribes.

Reuben is mentioned in the Torah as having disturbed his fathers bed, which the Zohar relates to disturbing Jerusalem. But, "Because Reuben is troubled waters he will not remain" – the Zohar quotes the Written Torah's account of the Father, Yaakov's blessing his son Reuben.

Amid all the chaos and anxiety of our times, there is a general premonition that this is a blessing, and the blessing is – it will not remain. Some tyrants practice a violent brutality while other make their mark and destroy the world with the stroke of the pen.

In the Cabala, the year 5772 represents the essence of the human being – Ab/72; there are only 228 years until the end of the 6000 year Hebrew calendar – Charachim/Fissures has the gematria of 228 indicating the time has come for the false structure to fall and birth to begin.

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