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Thursday, April 16, 2026

"And the Gavlan will be Desolate"

Sotah 49b, referring to the time of the "Footsteps of Mashiah", provides the signs for the times.  Here's one of them:
והגבלן ישום
And the Gavlan will be desolate

R' Dov Bar Leib, in a post from almost 20 years ago, believes that the Gavlan refers to the Hizballah-infested town of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon.

Reports coming out of news sites, like Kikar and an Arabic-language site show the destruction of the center of town by Tzahal.

Wikipedia, in the entry for April 14th, writes:

The town center was visibly in ruins from satellite images.

Here's the before-and-after picture from Kikar:


The battle continues, but just saying...

2 comments:

  1. Interesting. Having only gone over, but not really learned the similar sugiya in TB Sanhedrin 97a, I never thought about HaGavlan. But of the other elements of דור שבן דוד בא בו, I have heard plenty of theories on what they could mean.

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