Be of Good Cheer: The Modern State’s Greatest Saboteur Is Itself!

Authored by: העורך Editor

See an excerpt from a long article here (applied in a very narrow way in one country):

During World War II, the Office of Strategic Services — predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency — produced a manual detailing methods of sabotage intended for the European Allied resistance in German-occupied areas to disrupt the German war machine. But this wasn’t about blowing up bridges.1 The Simple Sabotage Field Manual established disruption tactics to impede productivity and create inefficiencies in enemy organizations. These tactics were considered subversive acts of warfare.

Ironically, from rigid adherence to procedure to endless deliberation in committees, many of these tactics have become normalized and even embraced in modern workplaces. How did we come to unwittingly replicate this wartime sabotage directed at our enemies to proliferating it against ourselves?

I think clarity can be found in our relationship with time and risk. In times of peace and stability, we perceive we have more time to fill, our relationship with risk drops, and we make people do more things to ensure less risk. Then if war, conflict, or emergency hits, we abandon those same sabotage and bureaucratic tactics because “things really matter” and a lazy game becomes speed chess, on the clock.

What if we behaved as if time was always the most powerful weapons platform we have and every minute mattered, every day? What if we respected people’s time, lessened the toil, and asked, “Would I do this in war?” What if we treated our daily work as the “practice field” for war, rather than only scrambling to overcome all the malaise when it becomes “game critical”?

Or read a far punchier bullet list, if somewhat inaccurate, as applied to the EU.

Funniest of all, they know this — and the self-deifyingly “all-capable” pols are powerless to stop themselves!

Tears of laughter…

Lesson: We Can Actually Get Gradualist NORMIES to Fund the Revolution!

Authored by: העורך Editor

Via the Quotulatiousness blog:

An important lesson from history is that people living in relatively stable and functional societies seldom understand how rapidly things can deteriorate and plunge into catastrophe, violence, and mass murder.

A real-life individual named Savva Morozov (1862–1905) was one of the wealthiest men in pre-revolutionary Russia.

He was a textile magnate, a patron of the arts, and a genuine philanthropist. His Moscow mansion was said to be the most expensive in the city. He and his wife, Zinaida, hosted famous writers, composers, and scientists. Morozov also worked to improve conditions for workers in his factories. He gave pregnant women paid leave. He funded scholarships for students. He built a hospital and a theater for his workers. He pushed for constitutional reform: freedom of the press, freedom of association, workers’ rights to organize and strike, and public oversight of the state budget.

Morozov also bankrolled the Bolsheviks.

Reports from this period suggest he gave hundreds of thousands of rubles to the revolutionary cause. He personally financed an underground newspaper of the banned social-democratic party that would eventually become the Russian Communist Party.

Morozov’s goal was almost certainly not to ignite a civil war or hand power to a dictatorship. He likely saw the radicals as useful pressure on the tsar, a way to force real reforms from a regime that would not move on its own.

When revolution came in January 1905, the violence shocked him.

He had set forces in motion that he could not control.

He suffered a nervous breakdown and fell into depression. His doctors and family sent him to the French Riviera to recover. He checked into a hotel in Cannes. There, he apparently shot himself, though rumors persisted for years that he had been murdered and the suicide had been staged.

His wife Zinaida returned to Russia and continued living off the enormous fortune her husband had left behind. Then came 1917. The Bolsheviks seized everything. She survived by selling off the few pieces of jewelry she had managed to keep.

The lavish country estate she and her husband owned later became the personal residence of Vladimir Lenin, leader of the communist revolution. Today it is a museum called Lenin’s Gorki, filled with the possessions and mementos of the first leader of the Soviet Union.

In his book End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration, Peter Turchin points out that in most cases of societal collapse and state breakdown, “the overwhelming majority of precrisis elites … were clueless about the catastrophe that was about to engulf them. They shook the foundations of the state and then were surprised when the state crumbled.”

Rob Henderson, “Dark Shadows Fall, One Upon The Other”, Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2026-03-22.

The Golden Dome and the Golden Calf

Our Holiest Site

Rabbi Chaim Ozer Chait

Founder, HarHabayit.org

The most holy site for the Jewish people is the Har Habayit, an area of five hundred square amot situated on the Temple Mount. With the destruction of the Second Temple the Jewish people were exiled from their most holy site and the long and painful years of the diaspora began. For the past two thousand years  the Temple Mount  has undergone many changes.  It came under the rulership of many foreign nations: The Roman Period, Byzantine Period, Arab period, Crusader Period, Ottoman, British, Jordainan, to name some. With the changing of time its appearance underwent changes as well. From the concluding Gemara in Makot it appears to be a desolate area as Rabbi Akiva and his colleagues walked on the Temple mount.  During the Byzantine period  a Church was constructed on the Temple Mount and in 691 the Muslims erected the Dome of the Rock. Al-Aqsa was built in 705 on the site of the Byzantine church. From that point on it became  a Muslim holy site. The Jewish ability to ascend The Har Habayit depended on the ruler. When relationships between the Jewish people and their ruler were good, their ability to ascend was more permissive. But throughout this long period of Galut, the Jewish people always felt like foreigners in their own land.

On the 28th day of the month of Iyar, June 7, 1967 things miraculously changed. The Temple Mount was returned to Jewish sovereignty. Fifty four years have passed since that miraculous gift from G-d to the Jewish people. One would imagine that the nature and the overall character of the mountain would change in both its outer appearance and religious practices as well. It would be obvious to all that this is a Jewish holy site (similar to a shul), but surprisingly that has not occurred. Except for the raising of the Jewish flag over the Dome of the Rock on June 7, for approximately one hour  (Prime Minister Levi Eshkol as well as Moshe Dayan ordered it to be removed on  the basis that we don’t display victory on the holy sites of other religions) nothing has changed and its Islamic appearance as a Muslim holy site is still ostentatiously visible. On the contrary, the Jewish people are still treated as foreigners, but now, in their own land. Even more shocking, we as a Jewish nation have only displayed disgrace and contempt to our most holy site. We have openly violated the 21 positive commandments according to the counting of the Rambam (and the 254 mitzvas according to the Sefer Ha’Chinuch) where we are commanded to show awe and reverence to this holy site, the Har Habayit.

For the first time in the history of the Jewish people we are enforcing Islamic law and of all places on the Har Habayit. Even more shocking is the fact that for most of the history of the Dome of the Rock the dome was not made out of gold, although originally gold, however the gold did not last long and for the last one thousand years it was made out of  other metals such as  bronze or other metals  painted gold. In 1992 King Hussein of Jordan wanted to renovate the dome. He asked  the Jewish state of Israel to grant him permission to build the biggest gold dome in the world to honor and glorify Islam (even in Mecca there isn’t a gold dome of that magnitude). Permission was astonishingly granted.  This is the gold dome we see today that sits over the Kodesh Kadashim. This is outright shocking and blasphemous. That we should honor Islam over the the Kodesh Kadashim is categorically kefira (heretical). Furthermore, Rambam (Hilchos Beis Habechira 4:1) says that the Ark (contaning the Luchos and the Shivrei Luchos) are all buried there on the Har Habayit. To honor Islam over the Luchos is unequivocally kefira. Rambam states “he who says…that the Torah although of divine origin is now obsolete, as the Nazarenes and Moslems assert is a denier of the Torah.” “They have no portion in the world to come but are cut off and perish for their wickedness and sinfulness are condemned for ever and ever” (Hilchos Teshuva 3) How did we come to such an abominable and contemptible situation?! This and other important topics will be discussed in forthcoming articles.

I am presently serving as  president of Yeshivat Har Habayit under the tutelage of Rabbi Eliyahu Weber Shlita and Kollel Drishat Tzion under the tutelage of Rabbi Elisha Wolfson Shilta. I therefore feel it is my responsibility to educate and inform the public what is happening on the Har Habayit. I asked Rabbi Moshe Ben-Chaim if he would give me a weekly column where I can communicate and inform his readers on one of the most important and pressing topics facing the Jewish people today.  He enthusiastically agreed and offered his assistance whenever needed. The column will be called “Min Hahar.” We will work hard on giving our readers important Halachos as well as current events, upcoming events and politics pertaining to the Har Habayit. I will be asking others to contribute informative articles as well.

Please visit us at www.HarHabayit.org. We are  dedicated and committed to protecting the holiness of this area and rendering it into a place where Jews have the right to visit and pray. Through our  efforts I wish to point out that davening has returned to the Har Habayit on a regular basis, twice a day, Sunday through Thursday, as well as daily shiurim (an event to my knowledge has not taken place since the destruction of the second Temple). All are welcome to join and participate or to walk on the assigned route, thereby fulfilling the Mitzvot of showing Reverence to the Sanctuary and laying the foundation of the Third Beis Hamikdash. These visits are coordinated with the Israeli police to ensure safety and to scrupulously avoid treading on places where it is forbidden to go.

All those who wish to donate to our Yeshiva and Kollel or want additional information on the Har Habayit, please visit www.HarHabayit.org

NOTE: One should not ascend the Temple Mount without proper Rabbinical instruction:

1) You should be informed of the various routes that are available according to the different Rabbinicial opinions.

2) You must immerse in a Kosher Mikvah that meets the standards to be kosher med’oriasa.

3) You must receive instructions for the proper preparations for the Mikvah (Chafifah)

From Mesora.org, here.