The kidnapped boys are in the cruel captivity of Hamas, the Jewish people are gripped by terror and worry about their future, but there are those who already know exactly where the boys are, why they were kidnapped, and what they are doing now.
Senior defense officials? Military warfare experts? Intelligence geniuses from 8200? Apparently not. Sensitive information is held by people who are considered experts, although not necessarily in the discipline we would think of, like indecipherable algorithms in the tangle of information that reaches intelligence systems.
They are experts on God.
It began, of course, in the intellectual and spirited newspaper, Yated Ne'eman, which found the perpetrators of the kidnapping - Yair Lapid and his friends - because of their persecution of the Torah world, which is a completely logical equation, if we do not take into account, of course, the fact that the abductees were yeshiva students from families devout in Torah and mitzvot, and not, for example, atheistic Tovims from Herzliya Pituach.
Later, unnamed rabbis said that the boys are alive, which according to the DSM [the global psychiatric definition of diseases] is a subtype of schizophrenia that manifests itself in hallucinations and hearing voices from external worlds, which raises the question of why news about them appears in the leading news sections, and not in the health, leisure, or culture sections?
The climax came with the message I received in the email today (I didn't touch it):
""To Eliezer the 10th Haredi editor: I'm sending you an email I received that shocked me. You must publish it. You are one of the first to receive it, and you can be exclusive.".
In Parashat Shelah Ketu ""And they went up by the south, and came unto Hebron, and there were Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai.".
And there is Ahiman.- Yaakov Naftali = 32 in small gematria.
अनुवादानsixth- Eyal (the largest among them - with the Kollel) = 7 in small gematria.
अनुवादानAnd Ptolemy- Age up to!!!!= 18 in small gematria.
Later, the Bible tells us that they reached Ashkel River. And here is the Ashkel River- Hamas!!!!!= 25 in small gematria!!!
PS Following a comment I received that Gilead is also called Michal (which was accepted as 'Ptolemaic') It turns out that the next word in the Bible after that is "native"": Michal - born = 10 in small gematria"".
I finished reading the email and burst into tears, from which I could not recover. Indeed, everything is written. Shashi Achiman and Talmi, or by their lesser-known names, Eyal Naftali and Gil-Ad are in Hebron, and they were kidnapped by Nahal Eshkol, or by its archaic name Hamas.
I was a little bothered by the fact that the tender boys were given the names of giants known to be evil, and that Michael is also written with the letter Y. I also remembered that the Alon junction is quite far from the Negev, and I felt uncomfortable with Yaakov Naftali Frenkel, who received the gematria name "Vashem Achiman", and not just "Achiman" alone like his two friends - is it because he is Ashkenazi? - but I did not let these trifles interfere with revealing the sensitive information, which I was happy to offer to the editor-in-chief of the site as an exclusive scoop, which will probably pique the interest of law enforcement officials.
And now seriously. The fact that people in distress seek to cling to anything that gives them familiar and legitimate hope. Psychosocial studies all point to a sense of ambiguity, ambiguity as variables with a proven causal relationship to the experience of anxiety in both adults and children, and it subsides with the provision of information or with the identification of an anchor, which is perceived as safe to lean on.
It's just that dealing with the spirit of the hawks, or with this psychosis in such difficult times, is a kind of cheap entertainment or amusement for the information-thirsty and drama-loving masses, and it is not only so unnecessary, but mostly sickening.
Note: These words are not meant for the 'fate of the Gra', about which, according to the Kabbalah, there is an ancient tradition.
Sabbath friend
My good friend, sociologist Professor A.A., you asked me to tell you about Isi, the young man to whom I nodded in greeting during our meeting, and whom I referred to as a 'Shabbat friend'. You mainly wanted to understand what this somewhat strange term 'Shabbat friend' is. Well, I'll tell you, because it does not refer to a formal or even 'slang' form of speech in Haredi terminology. It refers to a type of friend who appears only on Shabbat, and with whom there is no interaction during the week.
'The 'Shabbat companion' is the neighbor, acquaintance, or friend from the synagogue, with whom one converses during or after prayer/sermon, on various topics of local current affairs or in cases of emergency - even national ones. The companionship is characterized by a slow walk to the home of one of the conversation partners, and it is interrupted there without unnecessary sentimentality until the next Shabbat. During the conversation, each of the participants tries to demonstrate his or her knowledge of the subject under discussion, with one of the clear criteria for this being the complete rejection of the 'Shabbat companion's' words, and the launching of casual barbs in his or her direction.
The 'Shabbat friend' will not be invited to important family events, will not be involved in sensitive personal dilemmas, and will not be asked for help when needed. All that is required of him is to serve as a weekly 'friend' and stick to this slot.
Good afternoon, friend.