The rule of the Arabs ended in the year 2000

ARAB RULE OF ERETZ YISRAEL ENDED IN 2000

Translated excerpt from a class that Rav Berland gave over in Ashdod, last week.

And Hashem said to Avraham Avinu: “You should know with certainty, that your children will be strangers in a land not their own, and they will serve them and they will oppress them for 400 years.” (Lech Lecha, 15:13)

It’s written that the ministering angel of Ishmael prosecuted for 400 years. Ishmael’s ministering angel was a big believer in ‘equal rights’. He said: ‘”Ishmael is Avraham’s son; not only is he Avraham’s son, he is Avraham’s first-born – by rights, he should get a double inheritance! So, why it Yitzhak getting Eretz Yisrael?”

WHY DO THE JEWS DESERVE ERETZ YISRAEL?

Ishmael’s ministering angel came and prostrated himself in front of the kisey hakavod (the throne of glory), and cried like a baby. The angel’s name is Rahav, and he said: “What protektzia (special influence) do the Jews have?! Why are you giving special treatment to the Jews? Why are you giving them Eretz Yisrael? How do they deserve it?

“YOU GAVE THEM ASHDOD, YOU GAVE THEM ASHKELON – THESE ARE ALL ARAB TOWNS! WHAT’S GOING ON, HERE?! THE JEWS ARE TAKING EVERYTHING! ALL THAT’S LEFT IS GAZA, WITH TWO MILLION ARABS SQUEEZED IN THERE LIKE SARDINES. I’M NOT GOING TO BACK DOWN ANY MORE, WHERE IS THE JUSTICE HERE?! WHERE IS THE STRAIGHT-DEALING? A PERSON IS MEANT TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE, AND FOR FAIRNESS!”

"WHAT'S GOING ON?"

Rahav, Ishmael’s ministering angel, came and asked God, what’s going on here?

The Jews were given Eretz Yisrael. Hashem promised Eretz Yisrael to them. “I have given this land to your offspring.” (Parshat Lech Lecha). [Rahav said], “and us poor, unfortunate Arabs, we don’t have even a part of Eretz Yisrael.

“We’re also circumcised! We also do brit milah!”

THE ARABS GET TO RULE FOR 1300 YEARS

Hashem said to this angel of Ishmael,

> “At what age do you perform brit milah? Thirteen? Ok, so you’ll get 1300 years.”

The Arabs ruled here for 1300 years, from 700 CE to 2000 CE. In the year 2000, the millennium – this was the Jewish year 5760 – the rule of the Arabs ended. They were ruling here. Ishmael is the Turks, and they received 400 years, 400 ‘pure’ years, where there was no other government. Between 1517 and 1917, only the Arabs were ruling here. There was no other nation, and no other language was honored here.

THE ENGLISH HELPED THE ARABS

In 1917, the English came, but they delivered the governance [of Israel] over to the Arabs. They gave them the guns, they gave them the tanks, they gave them the armored personnel carriers. Now, it’s 90 years since the Hevron pogrom, when 67 Jews were murdered. They tore them limb from limb, they cut off their legs, and they went with their axes from house to house.

> All this was done with the help of the English.

HOW RAV SARNA'S DAUGHTER WAS SAVED

The daughter of Rabbi Yehezkel Sarna, who was the Rosh Yeshiva of Hevron, was saved by missing the bus. The bus for Hevron only left at 12pm. There used to be a bus every two hours. Rav Yehezkel Sarna said if you miss that bus, don’t travel to Hevron. It’s forbidden to travel after chatzot (halachic noon). I won’t travel under any circumstances!

And then, the pogrom happened, and the daughter of Rav Yehezkel Sarna survived [because she didn’t travel to Hevron that day], and she raised the orphans.

This was the Arabs, for you. And the English gave them the ‘green light’. They told them, the more Jews you destroy, the more we are going to help you. And all this was happening after the Balfour Declaration. --- It’s written that the Balfour Declaration was a ‘sign’ of the geula (redemption), because it caused the pogrom.

THE ENGLISH REGRETTED SIGNING THE BALFOUR DECLARATION

THE RUZHINER REBBE WROTE IN SHVI SHEL PESACH: “IN ANOTHER, 70 YEARS A BIG RULER WILL ARISE IN THE WORLD, AND WILL FOCUS ON FOUNDING A HOME, FOR THE NATION OF ISRAEL.”

And so it happened. But the English immediately regretted what they’d done [in the Balfour Declaration]. They told [the Jews] “Take Uganda! Take Denmark! Why does it dafka have to be Eretz Yisrael?”

The chilonim (secular Jews) agreed to go and live in Uganda. If we’d been in Uganda, they would have thrown us into Lake Victoria. All the natives would have come, and thrown us into the lake, like they’ve done to each other. For a thousand years, they’ve had a million corpses a year [in the lake]. It’s forbidden to eat the Nile Perch, whoever eats Nile Perch will get poisoned, because everything is corpses, there.

EVERYONE WANT JERUSALEM AND ERETZ YISRAEL

Now, when the English saw that they’d lost Eretz Yisrael, because the crowning achievement is Eretz Yisrael… Every nation wants to conquer Eretz Yisrael. There is a tradition among the nations that whoever conquers Eretz Yisrael, and whoever conquers Jerusalem, they will rule the whole world.

Napoleon wanted to conquer Eretz Yisrael, and to conquer Jerusalem, and if he’d managed to do it, then no trace of the world would have remained.

All of this is written in the parsha:

“You should know with certainty, that your children will be strangers in a land not their own, and they will serve them and they will oppress them for 400 years.”

PRAY BY THE SHAAREI RACHAMIM

We timed them. The Arabs ruled here, with complete sovereignty, for 400 years. The Kotel was uncovered by the Emperor Suleiman. Once, there was no Kotel, the whole area was covered over with refuse. When the Rambam came to Jerusalem, he prayed by the Shaarei HaRachamim (the Gate of Mercy).

Every time you come to Jerusalem, you need to pray by the Shaarei HaRachamim, where Moshiach is going to enter from.

> There is a tradition that Moshiach is going to come from the Shaarei HaRachamim.