The Mabul of Dever - Is it Almost Over?

 

Forged copy of Otzar HaMaharsha

The above image - without the X going through it - was going around my emails and Whatsapp groups a couple weeks ago during Sukkot.  It was later found to be forged, which is why I put an X through it.

However, even though it was forged, it contains an interesting gematria, as we will see later.

We know from many sources in Haza"l (Berachot 7b, for example) that the 2nd chapter of Tehillim talks about Gog Umagog.

א  לָמָּה, רָגְשׁוּ גוֹיִם;    וּלְאֻמִּים, יֶהְגּוּ-רִיק.

1 Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain?

Wait a second.  Nations are in an uproar now during the pandemic.  Peoples are muttering in vain right now during the pandemic.  But למה?  Why did this happen?  How did we get here?  What led up to this point?

ב  יִתְיַצְּבוּ, מַלְכֵי-אֶרֶץ--    וְרוֹזְנִים נוֹסְדוּ-יָחַד: עַל-יְהוָה,    וְעַל-מְשִׁיחוֹ.

2 The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together, {N} against the LORD, and against His anointed:

In the last several years, the rulers of the democratic countries of the Western world (Edom - note the vast majority of the countries listed here) have decided to rise up against Hashem and against His Mashiah by approving, endorsing, and encouraging the "marriage" of two people of the same gender.

ג  נְנַתְּקָה, אֶת-מוֹסְרוֹתֵימוֹ;    וְנַשְׁלִיכָה מִמֶּנּוּ עֲבֹתֵימוֹ.

3 'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.'

By doing so, they have broken off any semblance of fealty to Hashem and threw away any connection they had with Him whatsoever.

ד  יוֹשֵׁב בַּשָּׁמַיִם יִשְׂחָק:    אֲדֹנָי, יִלְעַג-לָמוֹ.

4 He that sitteth in heaven laugheth, the Lord hath them in derision.

Hashem doesn't take too kindly to this kind of stuff.  Note that the gematria of this verse is 1942 (when using the ם as 600).  In the decade that started 1942 years after the Hurban at the hands of Edom (i.e. the end of 5770 going into the beginning of 5771), things started to get bad with this.

ה  אָז יְדַבֵּר אֵלֵימוֹ בְאַפּוֹ;    וּבַחֲרוֹנוֹ יְבַהֲלֵמוֹ.

5 Then will He speak unto them in His wrath, and affright them in His sore displeasure

But Hashem Yitbarach has the attribute of Erech Apayim.  He gave society אז (i.e. 8) years to correct the trend.  But things went from bad to worse.  Such "marriages" became legal in all 50 states during this time while Europe and others were no better.  That took us to the end of 5778 going into the beginning of 5779.  But Hashem had even more mercy and let us finish the year of 5779.

Then came 5780 and boy, did Hashem speak unto us!  We got slammed with קורונה - Corona.  As the forged page points out, קורונה is the same gematria as באפו ובחרונו (in His wrath and in His anger) from this verse.  We could say: Corona יבהלמו - Corona will panic them.  And it did.

Interestingly, Wikipedia notes:

Phylogenic estimates in genetic studies conducted in early 2020 indicate that the SARS-CoV-2 virus likely passed onto humans sometime between 6 October 2019 and 11 December 2019.^[4]

which means that this could have started in the very early days of 5780.

Anyways, getting back to the seriousness of the sin, the Mahara"l on Hulin describes writing marriage contracts to males as worse than the act itself, which itself is the worst type of sin with one's body.

Additionally, the Midrash explains that the Generation of the Flood was only wiped out when they wrote marriage contracts to males and animals.

One person who decidedly did NOT get the message is none other than the Avi Avot Hatum'ah himself, the Pope, the spiritual leader of Edom.  He just declared that same gender civil unions are not a problem.  And during Parashat No'ah of the pandemic, no less.  יוֹשֵׁב בַּשָּׁמַיִם יִשְׂחָק indeed.

As Ribbi Yosei says in the Tosefta, although Hashem will no longer bring a Flood of Water upon the earth, He will bring a Flood of Plague in the days of the Mashiah, which most likely means right before the days of the Mashiah.

Based on earlier sources, some might say that the pandemic itself is Gog Umagog, and we know from the Mishna in Eduyot that Gog Umagog will last 12 months - just like the Mabul did.

Thus, if as we said before, it started early 5780, it will BE"H be over early 5781, which could be any day now, followed by the coming of Mashiah.  May this hope come to pass.