Lo Techanem

In a nutshell, this is what is wrong with our generation. The community of Har Bracha is the site of an astounding chillul Hashem for several years now. Rabbi Eliezer Melamed has enabled missionaries and given them a foothold in Israel, by giving them a foothold in his own community. Mind-boggling! People need to isolate and expose this yishuv as if it were a leper colony. Hayovel are missionaries!

Rabbi Melamed, ever heard of a prohibition dealing with this precise issue? Lo Techanem perhaps? For more on this biblical prohibition check out the following video by Harav Yehudah Richter.

Hayovel. If it barks like a dog and bites like one......

Lo Techanem

In a nutshell, this is what is wrong with our generation. The community of Har Bracha is the site of an astounding chillul Hashem for several years now. Rabbi Eliezer Melamed has enabled missionaries and given them a foothold in Israel, by giving them a foothold in his own community. Mind-boggling! People need to isolate and expose this yishuv as if it were a leper colony. Hayovel are missionaries!

Rabbi Melamed, ever heard of a prohibition dealing with this precise issue? Lo Techanem perhaps? For more on this biblical prohibition check out the following video by Harav Yehudah Richter.

Hayovel. If it barks like a dog and bites like one......

Jeremy Gimpel and Evangelical "Lost Tribes"

In this 2009 clip from episode #31 of "Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem" starring Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel, friends of Hayovel, Gimpel interviews a random christian tour guide, and asks him if he thinks he is a Jewish soul lost in a gentile body.

Despite the christian's answer to the contrary, Gimpel elaborates on why he thinks there is a Jewish soul inside the christian tour guide's body, and implies that he and others like him are part of the return of Efrayim and the northern tribes. The relevant portion begins at 1:20.

Excerpt from interview:

"christian tour guide: I'm here leading tours of christians throughout the land of Israel.

Jeremy Gimpel: Are you christian?

christian tour guide: I am.

Jeremy Gimpel: Do you think that you are a Jewish soul lost in a gentile body?

christian tour guide: I, I, I, no (shaking head no).

Jeremy Gimpel: In the book of Hoshea it says that Efrayim, who is the northern tribes of Israel, will be lost amongst the nations. They'll look like non-Jews. And then all of a sudden, totally irrationally, they'll feel this pull to Jewish roots, to Judaism, to Israel. Although most of America, Barack Obama, they don't like Israel they don't like the Jews, most non-Jews don't like Jews. But there's this select group of non-Jew that, all of a sudden, they can't explain why, but they have this attraction to Judaism. They have an attraction to Israel. And I'm wondering if, possibly, inside your gentile body there is in fact a Jewish soul that is yearning to come home, because Efrayim and all the northern tribes not only will return, like, to their Jewish roots, they'll actually return to Israel, and we will all together pray to the God of Israel, the Heavenly Father, and I wanna know what you think of that."

Tomer Devorah posted a clip earlier this year of Gimpel in Yehuda speaking with a group of messianic christians from "Beit Tehilah," where he describes his disturbing vision for the center of study and prayer for Jews and christians that he is building in Yehuda.

"Jeremy Gimpel: This is the first center to be established as a center of study, of prayer, for Jews and 'the righteous among the nations' in the land of Israel. There is no such thing like this yet.

And so those side buildings, that's gonna be small little hotel rooms or apartments for small families, that they can come instead of staying at a hotel. You feel like you're a tourist when you're at a hotel. You come here and you live in your own little apartment. On the land.

And you wake up and there'll be prayer services here in the morning, and then a morning class. And then we'll go out and work in the fields. We'll be eating together, working together, learning together, praying together, living together.

And so, there'll be differences, of course there'll be differences. You get ten Jews in a room and there's already forty opinions. Add a bunch of non-Jews in the room, now there'll be a hundred different opinions.

But, what we have shifted away from in our belief, how do we build up Mashiach's team? Now, we may even have a dispute on who Mashiach is, 'cause the Jews don't really know yet, we're like waiting for him to appear.

And that'll be the big question when he comes, is this your first time, or is this your second time? But you know what, if he's smart, he won't ever answer. Why does one of us have to be wrong and one of us have to be right?

Maybe God's ways are beyond our ways? Maybe His thoughts are beyond our thoughts, and as we're trying to convince each other on the issue that divides us, let's put that aside for just a minute, and now let's leave theology alone.

The Messianic movement has an ideology. What's an ideology? It's not a theology, it's what we believe in, it's what we work towards, it's what we want to train our children towards, and the language that we've come up with is Biblical Zionist."

Jeremy Gimpel and Evangelical "Lost Tribes"

In this 2009 clip from episode #31 of "Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem" starring Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel, friends of Hayovel, Gimpel interviews a random christian tour guide, and asks him if he thinks he is a Jewish soul lost in a gentile body.

Despite the christian's answer to the contrary, Gimpel elaborates on why he thinks there is a Jewish soul inside the christian tour guide's body, and implies that he and others like him are part of the return of Efrayim and the northern tribes. The relevant portion begins at 1:20.

Excerpt from interview:

"christian tour guide: I'm here leading tours of christians throughout the land of Israel.

Jeremy Gimpel: Are you christian?

christian tour guide: I am.

Jeremy Gimpel: Do you think that you are a Jewish soul lost in a gentile body?

christian tour guide: I, I, I, no (shaking head no).

Jeremy Gimpel: In the book of Hoshea it says that Efrayim, who is the northern tribes of Israel, will be lost amongst the nations. They'll look like non-Jews. And then all of a sudden, totally irrationally, they'll feel this pull to Jewish roots, to Judaism, to Israel. Although most of America, Barack Obama, they don't like Israel they don't like the Jews, most non-Jews don't like Jews. But there's this select group of non-Jew that, all of a sudden, they can't explain why, but they have this attraction to Judaism. They have an attraction to Israel. And I'm wondering if, possibly, inside your gentile body there is in fact a Jewish soul that is yearning to come home, because Efrayim and all the northern tribes not only will return, like, to their Jewish roots, they'll actually return to Israel, and we will all together pray to the God of Israel, the Heavenly Father, and I wanna know what you think of that."

Tomer Devorah posted a clip earlier this year of Gimpel in Yehuda speaking with a group of messianic christians from "Beit Tehilah," where he describes his disturbing vision for the center of study and prayer for Jews and christians that he is building in Yehuda.

"Jeremy Gimpel: This is the first center to be established as a center of study, of prayer, for Jews and 'the righteous among the nations' in the land of Israel. There is no such thing like this yet.

And so those side buildings, that's gonna be small little hotel rooms or apartments for small families, that they can come instead of staying at a hotel. You feel like you're a tourist when you're at a hotel. You come here and you live in your own little apartment. On the land.

And you wake up and there'll be prayer services here in the morning, and then a morning class. And then we'll go out and work in the fields. We'll be eating together, working together, learning together, praying together, living together.

And so, there'll be differences, of course there'll be differences. You get ten Jews in a room and there's already forty opinions. Add a bunch of non-Jews in the room, now there'll be a hundred different opinions.

But, what we have shifted away from in our belief, how do we build up Mashiach's team? Now, we may even have a dispute on who Mashiach is, 'cause the Jews don't really know yet, we're like waiting for him to appear.

And that'll be the big question when he comes, is this your first time, or is this your second time? But you know what, if he's smart, he won't ever answer. Why does one of us have to be wrong and one of us have to be right?

Maybe God's ways are beyond our ways? Maybe His thoughts are beyond our thoughts, and as we're trying to convince each other on the issue that divides us, let's put that aside for just a minute, and now let's leave theology alone.

The Messianic movement has an ideology. What's an ideology? It's not a theology, it's what we believe in, it's what we work towards, it's what we want to train our children towards, and the language that we've come up with is Biblical Zionist."

Missionary Portrait: Meet Ephraim Frank

Meet Ephraim Frank, the messianic missionary who built the bridge between Tommy Waller (Hayovel) and the religious yishuv of Har Bracha.

Ephraim and Rimona Frank are messianic missionaries living in Israel. They push an "Ephraimite" replacement theology that encourages christian gentiles to see themselves as "lost tribes of Israel," and to see the land of Israel as their inheritance.

In a 2016 interview with "Hebrew Nations Radio" involving Ephraim, Rimona, and Tommy Waller (Hayovel), Ephraim described how the first donations to Nir Lavie's (now of Har Bracha Winery) vineyards came from "Ephraimites" he was bringing to Har Bracha in Shechem. Below are some revealing excerpts from that interview about the relationship that existed between messianic missionary Ephraim Frank and Nir Lavie, which enabled Ephraim to be able to hook Tommy Waller up with Nir Lavie, and enabled Hayovel to come to fruition. EPHRAIM FRANK: "I'll give you an example that we'll probably be talking about with Tommy [Waller], because when I first met Nir [Lavie], and he is a farmer on Har Bracha, Mount of Blessing, that Tommy knows very intimately, he's been working with him now for many many years. But in the beginning of our time together with Nir, when he told us he had this vision of a vineyard, and that he was going to go and really start pursuing that vision, I was bringing some Ephraimite groups up to the Mount of Blessing, Har Bracha. And we would be standing there looking at these rocky fields, and I would, and he would be telling them about the vision, and periodically he would, Nir would actually stand there, and he would start saying, and looking around and up in the air, and he would say, 'I feel the Mashiach, I feel the Mashiach, I feel the spirit of Mashiach.' And so these Ephraimites that were coming up there would seed money into the first plants that were going to be planted up there..." INTERVIEWER TO TOMMY WALLER: "How did you meet Nir Lavie, and how did you end up at Har Bracha, working year after year with his family?" TOMMY WALLER: "Well, and that's the beauty of this show, because Ephraim and Rimona were the instruments in introducing us. I can tell you, and Ephraim can jump in here, but neither Ephraim or myself had any idea at the moment when we met what was going to materialize out of that. There were certainly some other things going on that looked far more promising... Ephraim was the one who brought me for the first time to Mount Gerizim"
Written by Nathaniel FeingoldSee Tomer Devorah's article on this interview here: http://palmtreeofdeborah.blogspot.com/2016/08/who-are-lost-tribes-and-are-they_21.html

Missionary Portrait: Meet Ephraim Frank

Meet Ephraim Frank, the messianic missionary who built the bridge between Tommy Waller (Hayovel) and the religious yishuv of Har Bracha.

Ephraim and Rimona Frank are messianic missionaries living in Israel. They push an "Ephraimite" replacement theology that encourages christian gentiles to see themselves as "lost tribes of Israel," and to see the land of Israel as their inheritance.

In a 2016 interview with "Hebrew Nations Radio" involving Ephraim, Rimona, and Tommy Waller (Hayovel), Ephraim described how the first donations to Nir Lavie's (now of Har Bracha Winery) vineyards came from "Ephraimites" he was bringing to Har Bracha in Shechem. Below are some revealing excerpts from that interview about the relationship that existed between messianic missionary Ephraim Frank and Nir Lavie, which enabled Ephraim to be able to hook Tommy Waller up with Nir Lavie, and enabled Hayovel to come to fruition. EPHRAIM FRANK: "I'll give you an example that we'll probably be talking about with Tommy [Waller], because when I first met Nir [Lavie], and he is a farmer on Har Bracha, Mount of Blessing, that Tommy knows very intimately, he's been working with him now for many many years. But in the beginning of our time together with Nir, when he told us he had this vision of a vineyard, and that he was going to go and really start pursuing that vision, I was bringing some Ephraimite groups up to the Mount of Blessing, Har Bracha. And we would be standing there looking at these rocky fields, and I would, and he would be telling them about the vision, and periodically he would, Nir would actually stand there, and he would start saying, and looking around and up in the air, and he would say, 'I feel the Mashiach, I feel the Mashiach, I feel the spirit of Mashiach.' And so these Ephraimites that were coming up there would seed money into the first plants that were going to be planted up there..." INTERVIEWER TO TOMMY WALLER: "How did you meet Nir Lavie, and how did you end up at Har Bracha, working year after year with his family?" TOMMY WALLER: "Well, and that's the beauty of this show, because Ephraim and Rimona were the instruments in introducing us. I can tell you, and Ephraim can jump in here, but neither Ephraim or myself had any idea at the moment when we met what was going to materialize out of that. There were certainly some other things going on that looked far more promising... Ephraim was the one who brought me for the first time to Mount Gerizim"
Written by Nathaniel Feingold See Tomer Devorah's article on this interview here: http://palmtreeofdeborah.blogspot.com/2016/08/who-are-lost-tribes-and-are-they_21.html

Harvesters of Souls

With the growth of Har Bracha's christian missionary population, they might want to consider new slogans to cater to their growing demographic. Here are a few of my own. Top Ten Reasons to come to Har Bracha:

"So come to Har Bracha....

• because its not just for Jews anymore! (Focuses on the changing neighborhood.)

• because the father is coming and there are too many Jews here! (Emphasizes a call to action, letting the neighbors know that there are opportunities for more lebensraum, and a chance to add diversity to the yishuv.)

• because the Don Finto wing to the yeshiva is almost completed! (State of the art modern renovations.)

• its a nice place to work on your "Jew skills". (Emphasizes communal respect for adopting Jewish customs without looking like an absolute extra from "The Life of Brian".)

• because our greedy vintner Pharisees need you. (More controversial tactic, using anti-Semitic motifs to give the harvesters some colorful villains)

• because Tommy Waller spoke to Rabbi Melamed and he said that he wasn't a missionary anymore. (Very convincing as long as you don't read Hayovel's Facebook page or go touring with them in America.)

• because David Haivri Axelrod, that renowned expert on christian theology assures us that Hayovel aren't missionaries,and that we should ignore the evidence. (As long as one is a committed hasbarite, and  one accepts the assurance that a man whose claim to fame is his christian following on Twitter knows anything about evangelism; this might work.)

• where you can ogle pretty shiksa volunteers, and know one is the wiser. You are merely supervising the harvest. (Downside: The wives may not like it.)

• a happy community for believers of the prophecies. (See what I did there? A universal message.)

• because it's not just about the money! (Assurances that its not just a call for free labor.)

In the interest of accuracy, I cannot confirm whether this is a photograph from Har Bracha or Sumerisle. An argument can be made for both. 

What the hell is going on in the Shomron? And how in G-d's name did Rabbi Melamed allow missionaries to move into cottages in his yishuv? An unpardonable sin, the likes we have never seen before. A stumbling block with his official hechsher on it. 

Daati Leumi messianism run amuck. No other way to sugarcoat it. The result of abandoning rational halacha and running with mysticism. Today they read the holy words of the Neviim, through the corrupt pagan lens of the evangelical.

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