Closed-Minded, Perfectly Socially Acceptable Bigotry is a BIG Reason Not to Live in Tzfat

I posted information about Shaykh Hisham Kabbani, the Sufi, on the Tzfat site.

I was stunned that someone thought he hates Jews just because he is an Arab, without so much as looking at who he is.

I was gobsmacked and sickened that I was not allowed to post the following as refutation of that baseless and ugly accuation on the Tzfat Yahoo list.

I was told off list by the moderator that I don't post "what people want".

http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0499/9904071.html

Tzfat was once a center of cultural cross fertilization between Mekubbalim and Sufis.

Then the Rothschilds came armed with the British Mandate.

D2

The article
"The Role of Kabbalah in the Founding of the United States of America" by Ariel bar Tzadok [should be called The Role of (Pseudo-)Kabbalah in the Founding of the United States of America] is an important article.

The Zohar, which bar Tzadok accepts, is a forgery. It was written in the Middle Ages by Moses de Leon, not by Rabbi Shim'on bar Yochai, to whom it is attributed. De Leon's own family attested that they saw him writing it.

However, though bar Tzadok himself adheres to heretical Lurianic pseduo-Kabbalah, what he writes in this article is very accurate.

It is well worth reading this essay.

http://koshertorah.com/PDF/KabbalahMasonsandAmerica.pdf

D2

EAU d'TZFAT

The J'm Post published one of those typical articles about Tzfat that make me want to barf.

It's here:

Ode to Tzfat

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331212550&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull

To which I responded, and lo and behold! the J'M editorial stuff published, this response:

About Did you visit Ofer, Shikma, TzaHa"L, parts of Cana'an and numerous other neighborhoods in Tzfat where the residents are so poor their houses are nowhere near as lovely as the tomb of Nachum Ish Gamzu? Do you think that HaShem is happy that the dead are housed in fine structures, while about half of Tzfat languishes in poverty and eat in gemachim (charities) and out of dumpsters while no one in the Old City care because they're too busy defiling themselves in graveyards? Enough with the revolting tum'ah (spiritual filth).

This is the work of the Masons, BTW, who are very active in Tzfat and have been for at least a couple of hundred years. Knowing that Tzfat is considered the Kabbalah center of the world, they have been busy little devils undermining Judaism for generations. They are continuing the work of destroying Judaism that Isaac Luria, a character with the same mindset as Ignatius Loyola, who was planted in Tzfat by the Catholic church, began 500 years ago.

A former Mayor of Tzfat told me that his great grandfather, whom he assured me was a very correct Chassid, "proof positive" proffered that the Masons are not a cult, was a Mason. He said it was a political expediency. You couldn't be anything in Tzfat without being a Mason. You still can't be anything in Tzfat without being under the Rothschild's control. Let's not forget that Rosh Pina which James de Rothschild founded is a 7 minute drive from the outskirts of Tzfat.

The Freemasons' temple is housed in a very expensive old structure on the same street where the Ruth Rimonim hotel and a cultural center are to be found. Not a shabby address.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

בסיס הנתונים הביומטריים

נא להעביר לכל ישראלי

אם פלישה ללא תקדים בעולם זאת לפרטיות שלנו תעבור ותהיה לחוק; אם הממשלה תדרוש מאתנו למסור להם מידע ביומטרי אינטימי – תחת איום במאסר ובשלילת זכותנו לקבל ממדינת ישראל תעודת זהות או דרכון בגלל אי ציות – אזי, אומרת אני, נציית להם, ועוד איך!

על כל אחד לאכול כמות הגונה של חומוס או שעועית בטרם ילך אל משרד הפנים.

בהגיע תורך לגבות ממך את טביעות אצבעותיך וסריקת הזהות, עליך להגיש להם דגימה (רבתי) של צואה, שתן, זרע, טמפונים משומשים ו/או תחבושות היגייניות. אם יש לך דלקת באיברי המין, עליך לתת להם, בלי היסוס, דגימה גם מזה – או לחתוך את המפשעה מהתחתונים אותם לבשת יום שלם ולהגיש להם אותה. יש לתת להם גם ממחטות-נייר משומשות. האם בשעות הבוקר יש לך שיעול כבד המעלה גוש דחוס בגרונך? מצוין! יש להביא גם את זה. גם קונדומים משומשים יהיו לווית-חן.

הציפו את משרדיהם במעטפות המכילות שערות ערווה קצוצות. גלו מיהם חברי הכנסת הדתיים התומכים בחוק ושלחו להם במכתב ציפורניים קצוצות (הם שטופים באמונות-הבל בעניין זה).

גידשו את סניפי משרד הפנים בנתונים ביומטריים אינטימיים רבים ככל שתוכלו להפריש. מה לא נעשה כדי לעזור לבטחון הפנים?!

הבה נהיה כולנו אזרחים טובים; ניתן להם את כל מבוקשם – ועוד הרבה יותר! האם לא לכך מצפים מאתנו, אזרחים נאמנים, בסופו של דבר?


דורין אלן בל-דותן, צפת

Biometric Data

If this unprecedented invasion of privacy passes and becomes law and the government requires us to give them very personal biometric information on threat of imprisonment and not being issued an Israeli ID card or passport for noncompliance, then I say comply! And how!

Eat a lot of whole chummus (chick peas) or beans before you go to the Ministry of the Interior.

When it's your turn to be fingerprinted and scanned present them with (large) samples of your feces, sperm samples, used tampons and sanitary pads. If you have a vaginal infection, by all means, bring them a smear or just cut the crotch out of your underwear after you've worn them all day and present them with that. Bring your tissues after you've blown your nose. Do you cough up a nice big "clam" in the morning? Good! Bring it along too.

Flood their offices with letters containing clippings of your pubic hair. Find out which of the religious MKs are supporting this and send them letters with fingernail clippings in them (they're very superstitious about that).

Fill the offices of the Ministry of the Interior and with as much internal biometric data as you can excrete. How's that for internal security?

Let's all be good citizens and give them more than they ask for. Isn't that what's expected of loyal citizens after all?

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

New Video: Satanists Give Satan a Bad Name

In the following video I discuss the true nature of Satan.

The video is in four parts. As You Tube is very busy with people sharing now, I'm not sure that all of the parts will be linked. So, I'll provide the links herein.

Pt 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnDMz7cpNnU&feature=related

Pt 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL8Mav5_Hmc

Pt 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqt_2hNELDk

Pt 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Vw8n9oDMI&feature=related

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

MESSAGE CONCERNING SEXUAL PREDATION OF SMALL MINORS ON THE PART OF A MINOR IN TZFAT *REJECTED* BY MODERATOR OF LARGE TZFAT YAHOO! LIST

Directly below you'll find a message that I wrote, which the moderator of the large Tzfat Yahoo! group refused to post.

Below it is the comment that accompanied the rejection.

I cannot understand the rationale in her reaction to this topic.

I also cannot understand how any community can stifle discussion about child abuse.

D2

Rereading this passage that I wrote, I see that there may be some equivocation: I wrote: One woman said that although her daughter was abused she will not file a complaint. She said that if her father (the victim's grandfather) knew about it he would kill the child.

So, please allow me to clarify that the child that this mother is afraid of her father killing if he knew is not the perpetrator, but her daughter, his grandchild, the *victim*.

There is no equivocation in the original Hebrew, as it is a sex specific language, and makes it clear that she is referring to her daughter, not the perpetrator. So, she is not going to lend her support to the complaint and will instead look for another place to live. The Welfare Office, the article claims, said that they won't look into the matter because they only take measures against families who have files in their office - which is a bald-faced lie and in contravention of the law.

Friends, there once was a time when child abuse, wife abuse and sexual abuse in the Charedi community was no more, and probably less, than in other communities, Jewishand non-Jewish. I am of the opinion that the Charedi community is being infiltrated by nefarious interests in order to destroy the community from within. All indications point in that direction: the widespread and horrendous abuse, the "Rabbis" who "posken" (decide new Jewish Laws) in contravention of Halakhah (Jewish Law), the weirdo take on the Kabbalah (like Avraham the Kabblah Stoner), the widespread use of drugs and drinking in the Charedi community, the admission of chozrim b'tshuvah (newly religious) with a criminal background before they demonstrate a real desire for rehabilitation, the trance music to which they set Hebrew lyrics, getting young couples of chozrim b'tshuvah married while they are still in the thrall of abuse and trauma they endured...the list goes on.

WAKE UP! There is a war on for our Souls.

I'm not bashing the Charedim. I'm aware that they are under attack.

D2

The moderator of the large Tzfat Yahoo! list wrote this with the rejection:

"If you don't agree with my decisions about posting stuff here, postit on your own board!"

D2 (shaking head)

Case Of Repetitive Child Sexual Abuse by Juvenile in Tzfat Closed?

The 13-year-old who molested and sodomized a number of children in the park near Super Sol has had the investigation about his activities closed due to lack of evidence. The one family of a victim has withdrawn their complaint and no one else will come forward. All of the families involved are religious families. Their Rabbis said to shut the matter up.

One woman said that although her daughter was abused she will not file a complaint. She said that if her father (the victim's grandfather) knew about it he would kill the child (his Granddaughter, the *victim*!)

The matter was on TV and in the press. So much for not airing one's dirty laundry. If you don't, someone else will just have to do it for you.

The message that's getting out in the press is: The Charedi is world very tolerant of these activities and protects child abusers. You can expect to attract more and more of them from the "chozrim b'tshuvah" and more and more people who are already Charedi will "let their freak flag fly" in such an atmosphere.

I spoke to my Daughter about this during kiddush. She said that there *is* a rampant problem with this in the Charedi community, not amongst the Orthodox so much, but among the Charedim. There were a number of incidents in the park her window overlooked in Beit Yisrael when she lived there. Even the wife of an Admor in Me'ah She'arim told her students to be very careful when they take their children to the park. My Daughter heard the Rabbanit sayt this herself when she learned with her and my Daughter tells me that the problem is WIDESPREAD in Me'ah She'arim, Beit Yisrael and other Charedi neighborhoods in Jerusalem. She got annoyed with me when I tried to say that it's not any worse among the Charedim. She said boys are regularly abused in cheder and at the mikveh. She told me not to delude myself and not to let anyone else tried to delude me either. It was one of the main reasons she left the Charedi world after my Grandson was born.

D2

PARADIGMATIC TZFAT

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=31308725338&ref=nf

D2 :-/

Who Are the Anti-Semites?

The following is a slightly edited excerpt of a mailing I received from Barry Chamish. His work needs to be tweaked, but there is some truth in the claims he makes. I adjust his writings to bring them into line with what seems to me to be true.

I do not accept his theory of "Sabbatians".

Hitler - Jews have mocked the contention that Hitler may have had close Jewish family ties until no less an authority as the History Channel, in a Jan./04 series on dictators, revealed that Hitler razed the Austrian town he was born in, "to destroy all hints of his Jewish father." Churchill - The essential fact about Winston Churchill is that his mother's father was Leonard Jerome (formerly Jacobson, 1818-1891) a speculator and business partner of August Belmont (nee Shoenberg 1813-1890), who was Rothschild's main American representative. Jennie Jerome's marriage to Randolph Churchill, the second son of the Duke of Marlborough appears to have been a marriage of convenience, typical of many unions between spendthrift English aristocrats and daughters of Jewish financiers. Franklin Delano Roosevelt - The Roosevelts were Jewish Dutch, arriving in NYC in 1682. The first American Roosevelt was Claes Rosenvelt who changed his name to Nicholas Roosevelt. FDR's mother, Sarah Delano, was descended from Sephardic Jews. FDR's primary advisors on the non-rescue of European Jews during the Holocaust were Max Warburg and Felix Frankfurter. The Warburg fortune financed the Russian Revolution and as revealed in Sydney Warburg's book, funded Hitler himself. As for Frankfurter, his family was a follower of Jacob Frank, the second "messiah" after Shabtai Tzvi, and, according to author Jerry Rabow, "United States Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter is reported to have received a copy of Eva Frank's portrait from his mother, a descendent of the Prague Frankist family."Joseph Stalin - The dictator, who was about to embark on a Holocaust of Russian Jews before he was assassinated, was born Joseph David Djugashvilli, meaning Son Of A Jew. His three wives and all his progeny were Jewish.Dwight Eisenhower - The war's liberating general and soon to be President's father was a Swedish Jew and was so identified in the West Point yearbook of 1915.

There are many, diverse sources which claim that both Hitler and Stalin are Rothschild bastards.

We are being undermined by Jews who have gone over to occultism and are destroying us from within.

D2

The Jewish Problem

As you can see from the references below, the Rothschild family, most especially Jacob Rothschild, maintain an absolute monopoly over the control and direction of Jewish scholarship and Jewish policy worldwide. Their interests in all that pertain to the State of Israel in particular are reflected in their donation of the Knesset and Supreme Court buildings, the latter of which is infamous for the widespread Masonic symbolism integrated, part and parcel, into its architecture. That includes all of the streams of Judaism and all of the studies undertaken and policy decided by the various Jewish ethnic subgroups.

"Jacob Rothschild resigned from the family's bank NM Rothschilds in 1980, started RIT Capital Partners. He is chairman of Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild foundation, chairs the Jewish Policy Research, dedicated to promoting issues affecting Jews worldwide."

http://www.care2.com/news/member/185341883/818460

I take exception to Jacob Rothschild being referred to as a "Kabbalist" on the above site, BTW. He does not learn Kabbalah. He learns and practices sorcery, which is proscribed absolutely by Torah.

"The Yad Hanadiv [which means Hand or Fund of the Generous Benefactor (choke)] and the Baracha Foundation [which means Foundation of the Blessing (splutter)] awards fellowships annually to scholars (who hold non-tenured university positions or who will not receive tenure within a set time frame) in Jewish studies. The purpose of the fellowships is "an effort to enhance the quality of courses, instruction and research in Jewish Studies in universities throughout the world ... Fellows will spend a year in Israel, pursuing their research projects while participating in a structured programme in their field of study. The programme will include regular meetings with a senior scholar who will be selected in consultation with the Fellow and who will serve as an academic supervisor." Upon completion of the fellowship year, the Fellows will be required to confirm that upon completion of the academic year they will resume teaching Jewish studies, at a University abroad."

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Yad_Hanadiv&printable=yes

Rothschild serves as chairman of Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild foundation which built and handed over to the State of Israel the buildings for both the Knesset and the Supreme Court. He is also President of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, an organization dedicated to cooperation in research, analysis and policy planning on issues affecting Jewish life worldwide."[3]

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jacob_Rothschild

VISITING FELLOWSHIPS IN JEWISH STUDIES

"Yad Hanadiv and the Beracha Foundation are offering visiting fellowships in Jewish Studies for the academic year 1998-1999. Fellowships will be awarded to teachers of Judaic studies who hold non-tenured university positions, or who will have received tenure after September 1997. The Fellows will spend the academic year in Israel, working on their own research but also meeting regularly with a senior scholar in their field.
Fellows are required to confirm that upon completion of the fellowship they will resume teaching Jewish studies at a university abroad."

These include endowments for the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls – the only hope the Jewish people have of being able to compare that which is written in the Talmud with another contemporaneous source and thus know how to sort out what is true and what is untrue in the Talmud.

The studies of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been systematically distorted and stymied. Research on the Dead Sea Scrolls is routinely farmed out to pseudo-scholars who have neither the Hebrew proficiency nor the background in Jewish studies to be able to understand the Texts properly and often have an agenda of their own that is inimical to understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls properly.

http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/archives/1997b/msg00419.html

I, for one, feel much more comfortable with the Judaism found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, that of the Tzdokkim (the Saducees) than in the Pharisaic Talmud and the Rabbinic tradition which is derived from it. The Judaism of HaYachad (meaning 'those who are unified', commonly known as the Essenes and the Dead Sea Sect) resembles the Judaism of the Talmud in many way. But there are also very important divergences – and those divergences are invariably more in keeping with the Torah than is the Judaism of the Pharisees, the latter of which HaYachad unequivocally stated that they considered filled with capitulation and distortion.

The Rothschilds do not want that Judaism getting out and being practiced because the dark side of the Kabbalah is based on that which is distorted in the Talmud.

And that is precisely why I do want it to get out and around. :0)

This is not to say that all that is taught in Judaism is distortion. The Jews have, despite the onslaught, managed to maintain a surprising degree of clarity and integrity and loyalty to the ancient way, but the infiltration of Judaism by those with nefarious intentions and purposes has most definitely been partially successful and has taken its toll.

D2

I Always Thought Orion Was an Unfitting Name

I always thought that the name The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Hebrew University was an odd name for a center devoted to precisely that subject. It hardly seemed a name that HaYachad (the Dead Sea Sect) would have approved of or a name that affords them their due respect.

I never felt comfortable with the fact that The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls embraced and funded the research of non-Jews, specifically Christians, who could not possibly have the background to be able to fathom what they were looking at and were clearly skewing the research, which was often conducted on translations of the fragments.

I found it odd that a representative of The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls contacted me some time ago and asked if they could integrate my research in some of their papers, but never offered to publish my work.

I always found it strange that the results of Emanuel Tov's research is published not in Israel, but by Oxford University Press and Brill Publishers.

Most of all, I wondered why the Dead Sea Scrolls were never afforded the respect they deserved and why The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls did nothing to educate the public concerning the authenticity of the Judaism propounded in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Why, I wondered again and again, was I the only voice calling in the wilderness asserting that HaYachad (The Dead Sea Sect) were practicing a form of Judaism far truer to the original than that of the Prushim (Pharisees) and that which is written about them in the Talmud is mendacious?

Recently, it all started to make sense.

I was searching for information about Emanuel Tov. I found that he received the following award: Warburg Award, Hebrew University - 1969–1971, inter alia.

http://jewish.huji.ac.il/faculty/bible_faculty/tov.html

"Hmmm...Warburg", thought I. "Might there be other "Illuminati" lurking in the shadows of Dead Sea Scroll research.

And, lo and behold, it was not long before I found this:

http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/archives/1997b/msg00419.html

What is Yad HaNadiv?

It's this: Yad Hanadiv Fellowship

In an effort to enhance the quality of courses, instruction and research in Jewish Studies in universities throughout the world, a Visiting Fellowship programme has been established by Yad Hanadiv and the Beracha Foundation

http://www.rothschild.info/community/default.asp?doc=articles/ccomm5-1

Jacob Rothschild... serves as chairman of Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild foundation which built and handed over to the State of Israel the buildings for both the Knesset and the Supreme Court. He is also President of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, an organization dedicated to cooperation in research, analysis and policy planning on issues affecting Jewish life worldwide."[3]

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jacob_Rothschild

We have seen in my article "The Supreme Masonic Temple of the State of Israel" just what the nature of the Supreme Court Building of the State of Israel is:

http://www.geocities.com/dordot2001/SupremeCourtIsraelMasonicTemple.htm

And similarly, my friends, they are employing their Craft to keep the Jewish truth from you and perpetuate Rabbinic Judaism, which is based on Pharisaic Judaism, because it is upon the distortions in that tradition (which is not to say that that tradition is all distortions) that Lurianic Kabbalah is based.

I cannot begin to express in words how serious a matter it is that "an organization dedicated to cooperation in research, analysis and policy planning on issues affecting Jewish life worldwide" is funded and administered by the Rothschild family.

Suffice it to say that so long as this is the case, that which is peddled as Judaism is Craft with a smattering of true Jewish principles in order to lend an air of credence to the heresies.

Please see my writings on the subject of HaYachad (the Essenes, The Dead Sea Sect):

http://www.geocities.com/dordot2001/index.html

http://essenesjewishandreal.blogspot.com/

http://refutationofxianityindeadseascrolls.blogspot.com/

http://hiddentheophoricnamesinthewarscroll.blogspot.com/

Someone asked me why I find exception with the name Orion.

Orion was a hunter in Greek mythology. What could be less fitting to a group of peaceful Jewish mystics? HaYachad, the Essenes or Dead Sea Sect, were begun by a group of Cohenim or Priests. They had the collective memory of the Jews being persecuted by the Greeks and desecrating the Temple deep in their psyche. They recalled when the Greeks forced the Jews to translate Torah into Greek on pain of death for the entire community for refusing and they understood the cultural havoc that would wreak in the coming generations, as Hebrew cannot be properly translated into any other language. They knew that the non-Jewish world, not possessing Hebrew and the Oral Tradition, would go far afield attempting to "interpret" a Script they could not possibly understand correctly and that matters would only become worse as further translations were carried out based on the Greek.

The Aramaic word orian or term bar orian means 'one who is literate'.

Typical of the Rothschilds who put a spin on everything they equivocated between the Aramaic word 'orian' and Orion the hunter in Greek mythology.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

Response to: "Ring of Power ILLUMINATI Bloodlines" Part 3 to 5

A discussion of the origin of the names of the Patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible begins in Part 3 and continues into part 5. I've recopied the link to Part 3 below.

My three short video responses are on the links below that of the documentary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcDzibKKjGM&feature=related

http://tinyurl.com/63bpl8

http://tinyurl.com/5gk9bd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbLjcQ7TZwU

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

Just What Does the Hebrew Bible Say About the New Arcana?

I made some videos in the last couple of days that I'd like very much to share with you.

Since it is the case that people are basing a good deal of what they believe to be arcana or enlightened knowledge on translations of the Hebrew Bible, I thought it would helpful to elucidate just what it is that the Bible actually says in Hebrew.

I've made tinyURL links of those that were a mile long. The links that are manageable and unlikely to break I've left as it.

When Truth is PsyOp

http://tinyurl.com/5b5mm9

Please see the following video-taped interview with David de Rothschild in order to understand what I'm responding to on the link that follows it.

Life Studies Conversations: David de Rothschild

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1n8QzedHsk&feature=related

http://tinyurl.com/6zkjdu

I inadvertently mispronounced Icke's name the following video. I was gratefully corrected by a viewer. It is not a response to any of his videos in particular, but rather to some of his more popular assertions.

Response to David Icke

http://tinyurl.com/5cnubp

In the following instance I did respond to a specific video of Icke's. My response is contained in the two videos that follow his.

On Reptilians - David Icke at Avebury - May 1, 2007 (1 of 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAMIXe0qEtE&feature=related

http://tinyurl.com/6krn8m

http://tinyurl.com/648k8s

If you think that someone you know might be interested in the information contained in those videos, please feel free to pass the links on.

D2

ORGANIZING A GROUP COMPLAINT AGAINST "PELEG HAGALIL"

We received a water bill that seems completely impossible from PelegHaGalil, the new company that took over from Mekorot.

They claim that the two of us used 45 cubes of water during the 05-06/08period.

To give you an idea of how ridiculous that is, they also list our usagefor the past year.

It reads:
05-06/2007: 18 cubes
07-08/2007: 21 cubes
09-10/2007: 23 cubes
11-12/2007: 17 cubes
01-02/2008: 18 cubes
03-04/2008: 21 cubes
05-06/2008: 45 cubes (current bill). The bill is for 346.20 NIS.

I don't see how this is possible. We used more than twice the water we used one year ago during the sameperiod when our son was living at home and serving on a local base andcoming home to shower every day? We two, Daniel and I, used more than twice what we used during July and August 2007, when our son was still living at home? And I'm drinking bottled water!

We have the same washing machine since January 2008. So, that's not theproblem.I also use water judiciously in respect for the low level of theKenneret. I turn off the tap when I'm soaping dishes, and when I'msoaping or shampooing in the shower or soaping my hands when I washthem.How can this amount of usage be???

Has anyone else received a far-out bill or heard of anyone who has?

Thanks in advance for your help.

__________________________________________________________

I too tried to reach Peleg by phone to no avail. The line is jammed.

Their web site does not open at all.

My Daughter said that she got a larger bill than makes sense to her too.

She told me this isn't the first time.

The last bill was also inordinate.

With the last bill she went to their office and she told me that the place was swamped with irate customers.

I, for one, do not intend to wait on line to tell them what they already evidently know very well for themselves.

I'm simply going to turn to consumer advocacy groups and have them investigated for widespread fraud.

_____________________________________________________

I was in the post office the other day and *everyone* there who was paying their water bill said there were far out usages on their bills. I asked and even the tellers said their bills were crazy.

I have not yet paid my bill and won't do so without a nasty fight.

It doesn't matter what the meter says. The meter we have is new and it's easy enough to tune a meter to run twice as fast.

I am not talking about increased tariffs. I'm talking about usage that is impossible.

When someone who was not in the country gets a bill for twice what they usually get, that's fraud.

This company has to be put in their place and fast.

A collective legal kick in the rear end'll set their heads straight.

__________________________

This water gauging seems to be an epidemic.

I urge you all to contact the following bodies:

You can serve a Complaint and ask for legal advice from the following body. I intend to try to get one of their lawyers involved, as this is so big.

The following is the fax number of The Israeli Council for Consumerism: 03- 6241035

This is their P.O. Box number: 20413

They are in Tel Aviv. The following is their zip code: 61203

I would also contact the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor - Department of Consumer Affairs.

Yitzchak Kimchi, Esq. is in charge. His number is: 02- 6662590

Also try his assistants at:

02- 6662593 and 02-6662596.

Here's another address for Consumer Complaints:

http://www.emun.org/ptrust/wc.dll?ptweb~homewc

The site is in Hebrew, but they accept complaints in English.

They call themselves Public Trust in English.

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Within twenty-four hours of sending them, I have been notified that my Complaints concerning Peleg HaGalil have been received, with appreciation for bringing the matter to their attention, and that the Complaints have been directed to the proper departments for examination and handling.

Please join me in registering your Complaints concerning Peleg HaGalil.

The time to fight is now, not when there will be a very severe water shortage and they'll have "excuses".

It is essential to the common welfare that Consumer Protection agencies are made aware of the fraud of this company.

We are facing a particularly severe water shortage. Widespread fraud like this would be despicable if it involved any commodity, but involving as it does water during so serious a water shortage, it is beneath contempt.

D2

Only Eat Schwarma at Chima's If...

...you want to be spoiled for life and never eat schwarma anywhere else ever again.

Summer is a time of celebration for the Dotan family.

I was in the neighborhood of Sh'arei HaIr today. So, I went into Chima, the new meat restaurant to check out the place. I was attracted by the variety of steaks and lamb they advertise, as that's what I enjoy, but they have many meat items on the menu to suit just about every ethnic taste.

I went in and said: I have a few reasons to celebrate coming up soon. So, I came to check out your restaurant.

The salad selection was absolutely fantastic - fresh, aesthetically pleasing and, unusual for Israel, original.

There are tables as well as a food bar.

The two plasma screens were kept low. I didn't find them at all intrusive. I even enjoyed a video of Rita as it was at a volume that would have allowed for easy conversation. As I'm not accustomed to watching TV, I'm usually sensitive to plasma screen interference.

I asked if they have a fish dish because I can get fish into Daniel a few times a year, but meat is totally out of the question.

Very politely, they said they don't, just meat.

I thanked them and explained that my Husband doesn't eat meat and I'll have to ask him if we go out if he'll be satisfied with a totally veggie dinner, which one can certainly make there from the salads, bread and side dishes easily.

I told them I'd ask my Husband about it.

As I was walking out the owner said:
.שיהיה לך במזל טוב. זה העיקר

It should be for luck and at an auspicious time for you. That's the important thing.


My eyes welled up with tears. As someone who grew up in the US, I'm still moved profoundly by the very many people in this country who consider someone else's welfare and happiness the most important thing, even if they lose business.

After I schlepped around a bit, I went back into Chima's and ordered schwarma. I figured, even if Daniel doesn't agree to go there for a formal sit-down dinner, at least I'll buy this from them.

The salads were beautiful. Their techina is rich and thick with fresh parsley decorating it. You couldn't get techina like that out of a squeeze bottle of you tried. Chima's techina is strictly for dolloping.

I took one bite of the schwarma and said: WOW! *This* is schwarma!

I have never, but never, had schwarma that remotely compares to Chima's.

I told them so as I was paying and they were so delighted and appreciative to receive a compliment for the obvious labor of love they put into that restaurant.

I told them: If this is what your schwarma is like, I can only imagine your steak.

I hope I can convince Daniel to go there with me. I sure would like to try their steak or lamb.

D2

The Comptroller of Israel's Long & Scathing Report

This article is in English:

http://tinyurl.com/5macv8

Very important findings for the North.

EXCERPT:

"Rehabilitation of North in shambles

In recognizing the destruction wreaked by the Second Lebanon War, the government promptly authorized the transfer of NIS 4 billion (nearly $2 billion) for rehabilitation efforts in Haifa and northern Israel – however some of the funds found their way to Gaza-vicinity communities and instead of drawing from the budget – a total of NIS 1.2 billion of the amount cited came from private donations."

I don't agree that this report is a victory for democracy.

In all pseudo-democracies you're allowed to yada yada about corruption. You're just not allowed to do anything about it.

D2

As for me, all I can say is: I would not live anywhere else.

And yes, this is the source of my indefatigable love of life.

"Why Israel is the world's happiest country
By Spengler

Envy surrounds no country on Earth like the state of Israel, and with good reason: by objective measures, Israel is the happiest nation on Earth at the 60th anniversary of its founding. It is one of the wealthiest, freest and best-educated; and it enjoys a higher life expectancy than Germany or the Netherlands. But most remarkable is that Israelis appear to love life and hate death more than any other nation. If history is made not by rational design but by the demands of the human heart, as I argued last week , the light heart of the Israelis in face of continuous danger is a singularity worthy of a closer look.

Can it be a coincidence that this most ancient of nations [1], and the only nation persuaded that it was summoned into history for God's service, consists of individuals who appear to love life more than any other people? As a simple index of life-preference, I plot the fertility rate versus the suicide rate of 35 industrial countries, that is, the proportion of people who choose to create new life against the proportion who choose to destroy their own. Israel stands alone, positioned in the upper-left-hand-quadrant, or life-loving, portion of the chart [2]....

Source: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JE13Ak01.html


It's easy for the Jews to talk about life
By Spengler

The better one gets to know the Jews, the more peculiar they appear. "Remember us unto life, O King who delights in life," they pray on the solemn occasion of their New Year, which this year fell on September 13. Unfeigned and spontaneous delight in life is uniquely Jewish; the standard Jewish toast states, "To life!" while the most characteristic Jewish gibe admonishes, "Get a life!" We are not dealing here with so-called lust for life that involves a pile of broken dishes and a hangover the next morning. Instead, the Jews evince a liking for life as such. That is not only unusual; it is almost unnatural...

Life as such is not that likable. As Mephistopheles taunted Faust in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's tragedy, life in its totality was fit only for a god, too hard a cracker for ordinary humans to digest. That seems to be the prevalent opinion across epochs and cultures. Socrates told us to despise life and instead to view death as the highest good. Buddhism teaches us to regard it as an illusion to inure ourselves from its attendant pain. From the Spartans to the Vikings, the martial cultures of the pagan world showed contempt for life, for they often fought to the death. Pagans aspired to a glorious death; I can think of not a single instance in the history of the Jews, whose wars of antiquity were frequent and ferocious, of the mention of a "glorious death". The very notion is repulsive to Jewish sensibilities...

What makes the Jews different is their unique belief that the Covenant gives them eternal life, a belief grounded, to be sure, by
thousands of years of history, and survival against all odds against the depredations of the Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Alexandrine and Roman empires, not to mention more recent unpleasantness. It is not changing the baby's diapers or changing grandma's bedpan to which the Jews refer when they speak of delight in life, but rather the idealized, perpetual life of a kinship community...

Paradoxically, Jewish existence exercises a great gravitational pull on Christian faith. As the great German-Jewish theologian Franz Rosenzweig wrote:
That Christ is more than idea - no Christian can know this. But that Israel is more than an idea, the Christian knows, because he sees it. For we live. We are eternal, not in the way that an idea might be eternal, but we are eternal in full reality, if eternal we be at all. And thus we are the one thing that Christians cannot doubt. The parson argued conclusively in response to Frederick the Great's question about the proofs for Christianity: "Your Majesty, the Jews." The Christians can have no doubt about us. Our presence stands surety for their truth ... The continuing life of Judaism through all time, the Judaism witnessed in the Old Testament, to which it also bears living witness, is the unique kernel, whose glow invisibly nourishes the rays [of Christianity], which through Christianity breaks visibly and multiply-refracted into the night of the pagan world.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/II18Aa01.html

D2

I'd Like to Show You Just What We're Up Against

"Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While running for President in Austria in 1985, his service as a Wehrmacht intelligence officer during World War II raised international controversy."

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

And this: One world religion and the UN

http://www.prisonplanet.com/ushering_in_the_one_world_religion.htm

And just what is that new world religion? Well, the publishing house of the UN is The Lucis Trust, formerly The Lucifer Trust. Type United Nations into the search facility on their home page:

Notice how many times the word "spiritual" and "spirituality" is used on that site.

http://www.lucistrust.org/

"And finally, we come to the photos of the UN General Assembly Hall and the UN meditation room. On the left immediately below is the UN Meditation Room. Notice the similarity of the "barren" look and "sterile" feel between the UN Meditation Room, the masonic temples, the Anglican Churches and the Vatican II New "Catholic" Churches. According to the official United Nations website, the meditation room was "created by former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld as 'a place where the doors may be open to the infinite lands of thought and prayer.'" One source has described it this as follows: "This room contains numerous freemasonic symbols and has an altar to the 'faceless god.'" (Revs. Francisco and Dominic Radecki, CMRI, What Has Happened to the Catholic Church?) Although in theory people of all faiths are welcome to us it, the stark, abstract chamber is tailor-made for occult/New Age groups, two of which enjoy the status of UN non-governmental organizations (NGOs): the Aquarian Age Community and the Lucis Trust (originally Lucifer Trust). These organizations hold their meetings in UN conference rooms and provide assistance, advice, and counseling to the U.N. officials and staff. The UN has also affiliated with other occultist-friendly activities and conducted its own, such as the Planetary Initiative, for which it named as director David Spangler, guru at Scotland's neo-pagan Findhorn Community. Spanger has been described by religious researcher J. Gordon Melton as the "primary architect/theoretician" of the New Age Movement and is particularly infamous for his contention that "No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation." And then there is the Earth Charter, which seeks to being about a new "global spirituality." (Among the Charter's supporters are the unrepentant Communist Mikhail Gorbachev and "liberation theology" propagandist Leonardo Boff.)

http://www.realnews247.com/altar_comparison_pictorial.htm

That's from a Christian site, but if you notice, Judaism wasn't represented at that UN "happening" either - and for my part, I'm glad it wasn't. But from their point of view, they don't want real Judaism part of their new world cult.

I'm not quoting Christian sites because I endorse them, God forbid.

I have no choice. There just aren't many Jews that are hip to what's going on.

Why aren't our Rabbis warning us about this???

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com

This is Israel Not India

I waited a few days to write this for a couple of reasons. First, I wanted some space and time between the event I am going to discuss and the writing about it because it is not my purpose to blame, and most certainly not accuse, anyone of willful partaking in avodah zarah. I wanted a gap in time because do not want a necessary connection between what I am going to write below and any one definite event, in order to preserve the dignity and anonymity of the people who were there (they will know who they are). Also, I am quite sure that this is not an isolated case of the types of things that go on in Tzfat and I wish to portray this most serious problem in a general way – not specific to one incident, because it is not an isolated case that foreign influences are woven into Jewish practices.

Daniel told me that he spoke with one of his Rabbis about what I am about to relay to you. His Rav was shocked profoundly and told him that it would be a big mitzvah to publish this as a warning to others. He told my husband that we are enjoined to publish this. Immediately upon hearing his from my husband, I knew the Rav was right and I had to write this, despite my many misgivings. Yet, I waited another day to let my thoughts and feelings settle because I wanted to be able to write this from love and not from revulsion or anger.

Recently, I went to an event that was advertised as a very kosher kind of event based on the work on a Rabbi that was very famous for his holiness in his time and is widely honored today. What could be nicer? I told Daniel about the description of the programme and he enthusiastically joined me.

As HaShem would have it, by the time we got to the seating arrangements Daniel and I could not sit together because so many people had come. We had to take seats on opposite sides of the room and this allowed the two of us to see more of what was going on in the room than we would have seen had we been seated at similar vantage points.

First, I was asked to remove my shoes before stepping on the rug in the room to take my seat. I complied, thinking nothing of it at the time, but in retrospect; I realize that that too was odd and not something I would have done had I known what would transpire later. I have been to the home of many Orthodox Jews, all of whom had carpets or rugs. None of them ever asked me to remove my shoes and many of them receive many guests. Later, I checked on the net and found out that many pagan rituals are performed barefoot.

So, I sat down and I noticed a number of things that made me feel uncomfortable. The person who was running the show, and I do mean show, seemed as phony to me as a one dollar bill. When he said how honored and privileged he was to be in this very special place, I could visualize him saying the exact same words to every audience he might stand before. Something about him just screamed out PHONY!!!

A number of women took seats on the rug and sat in a cross-legged, and one in a full-on lotus, position. They closed their eyes, breathed deeply and just generally broadcasted: "I am just SOOOO spiritual and all this is just SOOO spiritual and deep and kewl."

I have said before, and I will say again, "spirituality" is not a Jewish thing. While it is true that there are a number of accounts on the part of the Prophets saying that the Spirit of God aroused them to prophecy at the beginning of their books; nowhere in those books do they teach, encourage, or promulgate "spirituality". The throwing around of the term "spirituality" is wholly foreign to Judaism and it does not come from a pure source.

The attendees are people who are mature adults, I mean my age, give or take a decade. By this stage in their lives they should have accrued some Jewish dignity and internalized Jewish comportment, and stopped acting like a bunch of kids on the beach in Goa. Seeing them carrying on as they did was embarrassing, but it was not enough to make me leave – not yet.

Then two women took turns giving one another a shoulder massage. I did not see it, but my husband told me that at least one of them traced the body of the other, a few inches from the body. I do not know if that was Reiki or not, as I have never had Reiki done on me (my husband and I have both been told that Reiki cannot be done on us, thank GOD!), but whatever it was; it was not a Jewish schtick. From my seat, I saw that they too sat with their eyes closed grooving to the "vibes".

One woman, who was sitting in a chair, was moving her arms in sort of waving, undulating motions to the music. She was old enough to know better than to conduct herself that way in public. She is old enough to be a Grandmother. My Nana never carried on that way and I would have been humiliated if she did. Truly Jewish women, who have internalized the weight and meaning and honor of being a mature Jewish woman, just don't behave that way in public to this day. I was deeply abashed when I saw her, but that too was not enough to make me leave – not yet.

The question that kept going through my mind as I watched the behaviors of the people in the room was: How would my Grandparents react if they saw Jews behaving this way? How would the Rav who this evening was supposedly dedicated to react if he saw Jews carrying on this way? I tried to imagine people going on like this in the homes of any of the Jews that had been the shapers of my Jewish view of the world, those whose embodiment of Jewish holiness had made me think I want to be like *them* when I grow up – my Family, my Teachers, my Friends, those at whose Shabbat and Holiday tables I sat at when I was a student…and as I recalled the Jewish atmosphere in those homes and remembered how they conducted themselves; the scene I was witnessing grew ever more bizarre to me.

Then something happened that made me go flying out of there literally like a bat out of hell. I told Daniel that there is more India in that room than Israel and he too was more than willing to get out.

They invited a woman to light a "ner neshama", which was placed on a low table. I did not await the explanation of this spectacle. I hope that the woman was not lighting a candle for someone dear to her, as I do not wish to hurt anyone or denigrate a show of love and honor someone intends for a loved one. Yet, there are *Jewish* ways of honoring our loved ones and this wasn't one of them. As soon as I saw her begin to bend down to the low table to light the candle, or crouch to sit down on the rug; I know not which, as I knew in the core of my Being I had to flee for the sake of my Soul; I ran, not walked, out of there. I felt a wave of tum'ah and revulsion that stayed with me for hours afterward. Never had I seen such a thing in any Jewish home or function that I'd ever been in. A "ner neshama" is never part of a public gathering. It is a personal thing and it is always lit at eye level.

How could Jewish Souls not feel that something was wrong? Even if they had not been told expressly not to do that or had been told it was alright by someone they trust and respect *a Jewish Soul should know that something is not right*. For hours afterward my breathing was labored as my Neshamah cleansed the tum'ah out of my body from just having sat there for a few minutes. When I related the story to a friend the next day, she noticed that my breathing was labored as I spoke. Just talking about it was more impurity than my Soul could tolerate. How could those Jews in that room not feel the tum'ah. How?

My husband told me that when he told the part about the "ner neshamah" on the low table to his Rav, his Rav was aghast, absolutely aghast.

I too have shared what happened with Jews whom I know come from kosher backgrounds and they all said that something was very, very wrong there and they too would have left as Daniel and I did.

I don't know the purpose of the people who arranged this evening and those who partook in it. I cannot, and will not, second-guess them. I'm sure that at least most of the people in that room were honest dupes and did not know that so much avodah zarah had seeped into their practice of what they think is Judaism. I also have a sneaking suspicion that there are people in Tzfat who are not entirely innocent and are leading others to do things that no Jew should do.

A couple of days later I bumped into one of the two women who were giving each other massages that I mentioned above and whom my husband said he saw trace their body with their hands a few inches from the body, which looked weird to him. The first time we met I felt she wanted to say something to me, but hesitated. I too did not wish to make an issue of it. But we met again a few minutes later, and both of us understood that we should talk about it. She gently asked why I left. I told her that I felt very uncomfortable there. She thought that it might have been because of the cats in the house. I assured her that I love cats. We have adopted a cat, whom we love dearly. No, I told her, it wasn't the cats in the house. In fact, I had played with one of them while we waited for the programme to begin. I was astounded that, though she is a lovely person, she was so Jewishly dense that she couldn't understand what was bothering me that night. Evidently, partaking in the practices that she does has caused her to be desensitized Jewishly.

I told her that there were things going on in the room that I couldn't sit with.
I tried to say it in a diplomatic way. She said: "I understand. It just wasn't right *for you*." I said to her with a hint of irony: Yeah, it wasn't right for me, hoping that she'll eventually come to the understanding that there are some things that are, or are not right, for everyone. Pure air, water and food are among those in the former category. Strychnine and cyanide are in the latter category. To say about any of those "it's right for me" or "it's not right for me" is to say something wholly inapplicable because those are universals. There are religious and moral equivalents of pure air, water and food, on the one hand, and strychnine and cyanide on the other. There are Jewish universals. Judaism, for Jewish Souls, in pure air, water, and food. Avodah Zara, for all Jews, is strychnine and cyanide. There can be no religious and moral relativity about these matters.

My words are not meant to embarrass or hurt any of the people who attended that function. I'm sure that most of them are the innocent victims of very shrewd and subtle tingeing of Judaism with avodah zarah. Some of them were into pagan religions before coming to Judaism and have not cleared themselves out of it. Unfortunately, there is a concentration of such chozrim b'tshuvah in Tzfat who have not cleared the foreign influences from themselves. Moreover, Tzfat, being what it is, was, and is, targeted for the introduction of foreign elements into Judaism in order to lead innocent Jews astray.

Make no mistake about thinking that some of the elements of Eastern religions can be integrated into Judaism or that there are "neutral" practices from those cultures without religious basis or implications.

The swastika is an Eastern religious symbol. It is used by many Eastern traditions. It does not matter which direction it's facing. They use it facing both directions.

The Nazis were occultists, as is known. They never did anything without consulting with astrologers and they were deeply involved in other, even darker, occult practices. The Nazis made a pilgrimage to Tibet early on as they saw affinities between the ancient Germanic pagan rites and Buddhism.

Remember too, the next time you are tempted to have anything to do with Reiki that the Nazis sided with the Japanese during the war.

There is a plan afoot to bring about one world religion. The headquarters of those carrying out that plan is the UN. That religion is an amalgam of the dark occult practices in all of the religions, including the magic and conjuring in the pseudo-Kabbalah.

There is a war on for your Jewish Soul and you must win it.

There can be no compromise with any influences that are not Jewish. There can be no Jewish-pagan chimeras created. The impurities do are not diluted in one part in 60 or one part in 200. There can be no avodah zarah in Judaism. Every time a Jew partakes, even in the slightest, of one of their rituals, that Jew weakens the entire Jewish People and undermines our strength to fight those who never stopped trying to destroy us.

There is no place for true Judaism in the New World Order or in their new world occult religion. They will make no compromises with true Judaism. We must make no compromises with their tum'ah.

Small as Tzfat is, it will, as it has always been, be a focal point of their attempts to undermine Judaism. Be careful. Be very, very careful.

Pray, pray and pray some more. Strengthen your direct connection with HaShem and you will come to know that which is and is not Judaism instinctively. If you are able to be in the presence of pagan ritual or to partake in it, Rachmana litzlan, you need to strengthen your connection with HaShem - urgently.

Please take my words in the loving and well-meaning intention in which they are given.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat
DoreenDotan@gmail.com