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January 29, 2006
Rav Kaduri, zatza'l
Rav Yitzchak Kaduri zatza"l (of saintly and blessed memory) - the world's beloved 108-year-old sage and Kabbalist master - returned his soul to the Creator earlier today after Shabbos terminated, following a 2-week bout with pneumonia.
Words cannot describe the tremendous loss that Rav Kaduri's passing causes for the Jewish people. Rav Kaduri devoted his entire life to Hashem, the Torah, and the Jewish people. Thousands benefitted from his blessings and guidance.
May Hashem in His everloving mercy end our long and arduous exile, and send a complete redemption to the Jewish people. May the mourners of Zion and Yerushalayim be comforted, and may our agony - especially at the loss of our holy tzaddikim - turn into the joy of Geula and Moshiach, speedily in our days, amen.
The foregoing is from Lazer Beams, the following are the words of Rabbi Kaduri:
"We are now in the fourth year of what could be the seven-year Redemption period, according to the calculation of the Vilna Gaon. [However.] in the coming three years, uncertainty about the future will hang over our heads, unless we work and strive that the Mashiach be revealed.
The Mashiach is already in Israel. Whatever people are sure will not happen, is liable to happen, and whatever we are certain will happen may disappoint us. But in the end, there will be peace throughout the world. The world is mitmatek mehadinim (or becoming sweet from strict justice).
Great tragedies in the world are foreseen, that's the thing of the Jews going to the East. But our enemies will not prevail over us in the Land of Israel, 'fear and trembling will fall upon them,' in the power of Torah."
Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri, September, 2005
Students of the righteous Rabbi say that the blessing of the Ben Ish Chai (considered the leading rabbi of Sephardic Jewry, d. 1904) and that of the Lubavitcher Rebbe - both of whom blessed him that he might live to see the Final Redeemer - came true. The Rabbi's closest followers say that Rabbi Kaduri told them he met the Messiah on Cheshvan 9, 5764 (Nov. 4, 2003). He reportedly said that the Messiah is not promoting himself, and that a study of his [Rabbi Kaduri's] words in recent months would provide hints of his identity.
"He is not saying, 'I am the Mashiach, give me the leadership.' Rather the nation is pushing him to lead them, after they find [in my words] signs showing that he has the status of Mashiach." So said Rabbi Kaduri to one of his close relatives.
Rabbi Kaduri has also been quoted of late as saying that the imminent arrival of the Mashiach will "save Jerusalem from Islam and Christianity that wish to take Jerusalem from the Jewish Nation - but they will not succeed, and they will fight each other."
Posted by LindaSoG at January 29, 2006 05:49 AM
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Thank you for this post.
Posted by: Greta (Hooah Wife) at January 29, 2006 11:05 AM
"...Kabbalist master..."
I've read that this has nothing to do with the "Kabbalah Centre" to which Madonna et al belong.
Posted by: EveningStar at January 29, 2006 12:40 PM
That is correct, ES. Rav Kaduri is a true Kabbalist, far removed from the fashionable Kabbalah Center that Madonna is a part of.
In fact, Rav Kaduri rejected a meeting requested by Madonna, and he is quoted as having said... "It is forbidden to teach a non-Jew Kabbalah, not even Talmud, not even simple Torah."
Madonna can claim whatever mantle she chooses, but she is not, and never will be, Jewish.
Posted by: LindaSoG at January 29, 2006 12:53 PM