”This
declaration I find fitting to issue for all of the Jews of the world to
hear. It is incumbent upon them to return to the Land of Israel due to
terrible natural disasters which threaten the world.

In the
future, the Holy One, Blessed be He, will bring about great disasters in
the countries of the world to sweeten the judgements of the Land of
Israel.

I am ordering the publication of this declaration as a
warning, so that Jews in the countries of the world will be aware of the
impending danger and will come to the Land of Israel for the buliding
of the Temple and revelation of our righteous Mashiach (Messiah).”

Israel’s Leading Known Kabbalist, Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri

Rabbi
Kaduri also stated that the upcoming year would be a year of “secret
and revelation” in the world. The Jewish year 5766 begins in less than
three weeks, with the holiday of Rosh Hashana.

The Rabbi explained that the numerical Hebrew abbreviation for 5766, taf, shin, samech, vav gives insight into the nature of the upcoming year. “This will be a year of secret (or sod, from the letter samech) and revelation (or v’giliu from the letter vav).

Arutz Sheva Israel National Radio show host Yehoshua Meiri first publicized the declaration on his Hebrew radio show
late Tuesday night. Meiri typed out the words of Rabbi Kaduri’s
declaration and presented them back to the Rabbi who signed on the
document.

Associates of Rabbi Kaduri were dispatched to
communicate the Kabbalistic Elder’s call to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
before the latter’s departure to the United States later the same night.

Meiri says he will publicize the signed declaration after Prime
Minister Sharon delivers a speech in the U.S., in which he is expected
to call upon the Jews of the Diaspora to make Aliyah (immigrate) to Israel.

Rabbi Kaduri greets the Lubavitcher Rebbe

During
a visit in 1990 with the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel
Schneerson (of blessed memory), Rabbi Kaduri was told by the Rebbe that
he would live to see the coming of the Mashiach.

Earlier this
Jewish year, Rabbi Kaduri predicted great tragedies in the world. Just
two weeks before the devastating tsunami in southeast Asia, Rabbi Kaduri
was quoted in the Yediot Acharonot newspaper as saying:

“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 Kaduri said in the week prior to the
interview, “What can save the world from calamities is real repentance
by Jews, who must increase acts of kindness towards one another… The
cry of the many poor in Israel and the expulsion of Jews from their
homes shakes the world… It’s not for naught that this place was hit,
where many of our compatriots went to look for this-worldly lusts.”

The month of Elul, which immediately preceeds the Jewish New Year is traditionally a month of teshuva, or repentence by the Jewish people, in anticipation of the judgments that are incurred on the Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.

Rabbi
Kaduri has told his students that the current government will be the
last one of the “old era.” He is on record as saying that Sharon will be
the last prime minister in Israel, and that the new government will
already have leadership of the Messianic era.

Postscript to this article.
In light of numerous questions to the editor regarding the above article, Arutz Sheva wishes to clarify the following:

Arutz Sheva show host Yehoshua Meiri takes full responsibility for the accuracy of the information in the news item above.

Rabbi
Kaduri’s remarks regarding natural disasters were said in the framework
of a class on Tuesday, Sept. 13th, 2005, which covered the Nevi’im
(prophets) section of the book Chok l’Yisrael.

The following is a response from Yehoshua Meiri:

• I am not the official spokesman for Rabbi Kaduri’s court.
• Anyone
  who needs to know, knows precisely the essence of the relationship
  between the Tzadik Rabbi Kaduri and myself. HaRav Baruch Avraham
  Rakovsky from Jerusalem and HaRav Yissachar Bergman Shach from Bnei
  Barak and even the Director of Channel One TV Moti Eden and many others
  can testify to this relationship.
• Moreover, in the last
  national elections in Israel, all of the election commercials for Rabbi
  Kaduri’s party Ahavat Yisrael broadcast the explicit announcement that
  the Kaduri.net website, which I operate, is the official website of Rav
  Yitzhak Kaduri, shlita. In the website, there is an explicit letter of
  approbation signed by Rabbi Kaduri for the website and my activities.
• Also
  noteworthy is the fact that when the Rabbi went on a helicopter
  campaign to various communities years ago, I escorted him in his travels
  as can be seen by clicking here.
• Anyone
  interested in clarifying the truth should make an appointment to meet
  the Rabbi, and I will join the meeting to hear together what the Rabbi
  says.
• Feel free to respond to me via Kaduri.net.

End of Meiri’s response

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