Restoring the brethren to the Son of Joseph, one day at a time
My apologies for the delay, as well as for the length of this post. Normally, I just note that the podcast is up and give a summary, but as I wrote this some thoughts occurred to me that I felt that the Holy One wanted me to pass along. In this week's podcast, I talk …
Continue reading "New Podcast, the Haredi, and Egypt’s Dossier Part 2"
I've been a bit slow on the theology lately because I've been working on a "prophetic dossier" of Egypt. However, as usual the birth-pains of the Messiah have outpaced my ability to keep up with them. To wit: Not too many people in my own generation remember this, but in the 60s and 70s, Iran …
Hoo-boy. I had held back on commenting on the Lebanon situation because I wanted to see where it was headed before putting in my two shekels, and now it seems like the whole Middle-East is trying to blow up like [fill-in-your-favorite Mythbusters reference]. First on Lebanon, for those who don't religiously follow the news (pun …
From the Jerusalem Post: Two weeks ago, Iran scored a massive victory. Jordan, the West’s most stable and loyal ally in the Arab world, began slouching towards the Iranian Gomorrah. On December 12, Ahmadinejad’s chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei met with Jordanian King Abdullah II in Amman and extended a formal invitation from Ahmadinejad …
Okay, lousy title. It's been far too long since I've done this, so without further ado: Accidents and Arson As many of you doubtless know, fires have raged along Mt. Carmel and the surrounding area since December 2nd, destroying 40 sq. km. of forest and claiming at least 44 lives and forced the evacuation of …
Eilat Under Attack "The southern port city of Eilat, once thought to be practically extra-territorial in terms of security and demographic dangers, now finds itself under a two-pronged attack from foreign infiltrators and terrorist rockets," which were fired this morning. Arutz Sheva also notes, "Infiltrators from Africa, mostly Eritrea and Sudan, have snuck into Israel, …
Since the sheer amount of information coming out is difficult to keep up with, and since there are others who do a far more competent job analyzing the news than yours truly, I'm going to try something new to try to keep up: Instead of trying to have a blog post for every interesting piece …
So we've got water turning to blood in the Gulf and frogs in Greece so we're up to, what, gnats? Shalom.
The Return of Benjamin 