Putin's favorite rabbi is Chabad. One of the richest oligarchs in Russia & Putin confidante (a steel magnate [reminder: Wilbur Ross is currently doing a natsec investigation of our steel imports]) Roman Abramovitch supports Chabad.
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What makes Chabad interesting: some of them think the Holocaust was God's punishment for Jews becoming secular, and they have messianic/apocalyptic tendencies because their last spiritual leader (they had 7 "Rebbes") died without an heir and possibly made claims to the title.
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They are also yuge out in Los Angeles: I wonder if that's where all the intel about these celebrities is coming from?
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...they're also some of the only people who actually want the embassy/capital moved to Jerusalem. Curious.
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Like I was saying a year ago: 1. Embassy 2. new Temple 3. Kushner high priest 4. diaspora Judaism outlawed
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There are people chattering about restarting Temple sacrifices and I was the only one shouting about how this means bad times are ahead.
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i think i read a blog post by
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iirc Madison Grant when describing the Middle East as the time said it was a wasteland of the spirit with ignorant peasants flocking to one messiah claimant or another
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that was the default late medieval pre/early-modern STATE of Islam and Judaism: kind of a black comedy parody of Christianity
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Well well well [https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/718138/messiah-jewish-israel-end-times-born-jerusalem-temple-rabbi-chaim-kanievsky-arrival …]pic.twitter.com/kWUqwNxi1x
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