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Rabbi Judah ben Samuel (1140-1217)
It was in the year of 1217 CE that one of Judah’s
most legendary and prolific German Hassidic rabbis made an astounding
prediction about the future of Jerusalem and the coming of the Messiah. Known
as Judah ben Samuel (Judah He-Hasid or Judah the Pious, he lived in the 12th
and 13th century in Regensburg, Germany.
Born in Speyer in 1140, Rabbi ben Samuel died in
February 22, 1217 in Regensbug. He was one of the fathers of Chassidei
(Hassidic Judaism), a movement of Jewish mysticism in Germany different than
Rabbi Lurias Kabbalistic mysticism, where the Chassids emphasized strong moral
ethics and prayer.
When Rabbi Judah HeHasid settled in Regensburg at
the age of 55, it was here that he wrote his seminal books; the Sefer Hasidim
(Book of the Pious), Sefer Gematriyot (a book on astrology) and Sefer Hakavod
(Book of Glory). The latter book is now lost and few quotations have remained
by subsequent authors.
These years were the time of the Roman Christian
crusades into the Holy Land between the years of 1096-1270. During that time
also a flourishing correspondence was carried back and forth from Jerusalem and
the Holy Land and Europe rabbis in Worms and Regensburg in Germany. It was in
these letters that they knew about Saladin the Great and Saladin’s Sunni
Ayyubid Dynasty in Egypt.
It was in this year that Rabbi Judah ben Samuel
began publishing his biblical calculations called the Gematria, plus his
astronomical observations a gave us this summary which we can read today.
Rabbi Judah ben Samuel - “When the Ottomans (Turks)
– who were already a power to be reckoned with on the Bosporus in the time of
Judah Ben Samuel – conquer Jerusalem [1517] they will rule over Jerusalem for eight
jubilees [1917]. Afterwards Jerusalem will become no-man’s land for one jubilee [1967], and
then in the ninth jubilee [2017] it will once again come back into the possession of
the Jewish nation – which would signify the beginning of the Messianic end
time.”
According to Leviticus 25, one Jubilee period is 50
years in which the 50th year, each person will regain ownership of his or her
tribal lands. As Rabbi Judah the Pious looked into the future, he was
postulating theoretical calculations, which today are showing them to be
amazingly accurate. It would be over 300 years after his death that his first
prediction would become true.During the Roman Christian Crusades, the Mamluk began their reign in Jerusalem in the year of 1250 CE when the last Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt, Turanshah was assassinated by his Mamluk slave General Aibek. Aibek then founded the Mamluk Bahri dynasty. They held power over Jerusalem until they were conquered by the Ottoman Turks in the year of 1517, three hundred years after the death of Rabbi Judah ben Samuel.
According to Rabbi Judah he-Hasid, the Ottoman Turks
would later wrestle power and control over the Middle East and assume power and
control over Jerusalem. They would control the Land of Palestine and Jerusalem
for eight Jubilees, according to his predictive calculations.
The Ottoman Empire at its Peak
Well, eight Jubilees (50 years x 8 Jubilees) are 400
years. We know again by history that the Ottoman Turks gained control of
Jerusalem in the year 1517 and held power over Jerusalem for 400 years, when
they were conquered in 1917, by the British military forces under the command
of British military General Edmund Allenby on Hanukkah, December 17, 1917. The Ottoman Turks began to falter in 1918
after the defeat of the army at Jerusalem. The city of Damascus fell on October
1, Homs on October 16, and Aleppo on October 25 and Turkey capitulated on October
30, 1918. After this date the League of Nations conferred the Turkey, Syria,
and Egypt to the British Mandate that included the Land of Israel, then called
Palestine, and Jerusalem to the British.
Then the prophecy continues when it states; “Afterwards
Jerusalem will become no-man’s land for one jubilee.” Is it not amazing that
from the year of 1917 when the British Mandate controlled the city of
Jerusalem, Jerusalem did become under international law a “no-man’s land for
one jubilee”. It was fifty years after that year in 1917, that the Israeli army
captured the city of Jerusalem in the Six Day War on June 17, 1967. Exactly one
Jubilee, 50 years later, Jerusalem returned for the first time to the control
of the Jewish-Israeli ownership since the day when Jerusalem was destroyed in
70 CE.
Called the “Light of Israel”, Rabbi Ben Samuel truly
was a “Light to the World”. He did not discriminate against anyone who wanted
to learn from him. Even the Roman Catholic bishops sought his wisdom.
His students were some of the Torah scholars of the
ages. Those who have spent their lives studying and referencing the studies of
Rabbi Judah he-Hasid, were; Rabbi Isaac Ben Solomon Luria, a mystic dealing
with the messianic world (Jerusalem, 1531-1572, Safed); Joseph Solomon
Delmegido (1591 Candia – 1655 Prague), a mathematician and astronomer (“Mazref
le-Chochma”), Azulai I (1724-1806), a famed bibliographer; Samuel David
Luzzatto (1800-1865), a Bible scholar; historian Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891);
and Torah scholar Jacob Epstein (1925-1993).
According to his pupils Rabbi Isaac ben Moses
(Vienna), Rabbi Baruch ben Samuel (Mainz) and Rabbi Simcha (Speyer), Rabbi
Judah the Pious was a model in his role of strict abstinence selflessness and
of service to other. His burning desire was awaiting the coming of the Messiah.
When he was asked where he received his wisdom from,
his answer was:
Rabbi Judah ben Samuel – “The prophet Elijah, who
will precede the Messiah, appeared to me and revealed many things to me and
emphasized that the precondition for answered prayer is that it is fueled by
enthusiasm and joy for the greatness and holiness of God.”
As we read the studies of this great man of G-d, and
review his finding in all their simplicity and accuracy, we stand amazed today.
In review, just before 1217 CE, this rabbinic sage and giant of Israel made the
amazing prediction that the “Ottoman Turks would rule over the holy city of
Jerusalem for eight Jubilees.”
Unknown to Rabbi Judah ben Samuel, the first known reference
of the “Ottomans” was in 1215 CE, just two years before he died. The Ottomans
were a Turkish speaking tribe that was first ruled by Ertugrul in the land of
Anatolia. His rule continued to ascend in power as the Seljuk Turkish Empire
decayed. Ertugrul’s son, Osman, became the name-sake “father of the Ottoman
Turks” for his name was corrupted in Europe as “Ottoman”.
Famous public photo of dismounted General Sir Edmund
Allenby entering the Holy City of Jerusalem on foot on Hanukkah on December 11,
1917 to show respect for holy place.
The Ottomans expanded to Nicaea (present-day Iznik
and then went over the Dardanelles in 1362. Almost ninety years later, the
Ottoman ruler Mehmed II conquered the Byzantine Imperial capital,
Constantinople (Istanbul) in the year of 1453. Eventually the Ottomans ruled
over most of the Balkans, the Fertile Crescent and Egypt included the forsaken
land of Palestine.
This empire lasted until after World War II, but the
Holy Land and Jerusalem were taken possession of in the year of 1917 by the
British General Edmund Allenby on Hanukkah, December 17, 1917. Of personal interest, one of my relatives
sent a personal account of the Battle of Jerusalem by the British forces under
the command of General Edmund Allenby. As written:
Geoffrey – “The story of Jerusalem and General
Allenby, which I remember my Grandfather telling me was about the time when
Allenby halted the British Army some twenty miles away from the great city and
sent a telegram directly to King George V. saying: “I will not fire British
Guns on G-D’s City” signed Allenby.
Apparently, the King wired him back with one word “PRAY!” And the next day the Turks left without a
shot being fired and Allenby led the British Army into Jerusalem.
We survived the German Occupation of the Channel
Islands, because we knew who we were – values had been handed down, we were
British! We knew right from wrong! And
we would, no matter how bad things could become and they did, win the war. Today, we can clearly see that society has
forgotten to hand those core values.”
Rabbi Judah
ben Samuel’s Prophecy of Ten Jubilees
As Judah ben Samuel predicted the years of 1217 and
1517 were recognized as the biblical 50 year Jubilee Years. Three hundred years
of six Jubilees after 1217, the Ottoman Turks took control of Jerusalem until
its fading years when the Allied Forces swept the last ruler of the Ottoman
from power by the forces of the British military troops under the command of
General George Allenby in 1917.
Even after the Declaration of Independence by Israel
in May 15, 1948 and Israel’s War of Independence against five Islamic nations,
the city of Jerusalem still remained a “divided city”. The Jordanian government
controlled the eastern part of Jerusalem including the Temple Mount and the Old
City of Jerusalem. A strip of land divided the State of Israel control of
Western Jerusalem and the Jordanian controlled East Jerusalem. This strip of
land was called “The No-Man’s Land” by both Israelis and Jordanians.
Then in the year of 1967, Israel was once again
attacked. After the Six Day War, on June 17, 1967, the entire region of the
West Bank was conquered by the Israeli Army and the entire city of Jerusalem
returned back in possession of the Jewish people. Seven hundred and fifty years
after the prophecy was first made by Rabbi Judah the Pious, from 1217 to 1967,
all the conditions of the prophecy were fulfilled to the letter of the
prophetic oracle. Then Rabbi Judah heHasid wrote:
Rabbi Judah heHasid – “In the ninth jubilee
Jerusalem will once again come back into the possession of the Jewish nation –
which will signify the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
This leaves one more Jubilee, the tenth Jubilee
since the Ottoman Turks took control of Jerusalem and the Land of Promise in
the years of 1517. According to this Jewish sage, the end of this tenth Jubilee
will “signify the beginning of the Messianic end time.”
As we review the Sabbatical Week of Years, this
present Sabbatical Cycle began on Rosh Hashanah 2008 5778. The 8th year would
have been the day of the Messiah ending Rosh Hashanah 2009, but the Messiah did
not come.
If this Sabbatical Messianic cycle 2009-2017 is
completed and the Gog Mogog war does begin within the year between Rosh
Hashanah 2015 to Rosh Hashanah 2016, then the Messianic Era will commence
before Rosh Hashanah 2017. We are currently in the 4th year of the Sabbatical
Messianic Cycle that began on Rosh Hashanah 2009, in the Jewish year 5773
(2013).
There is still time for the Messiah the Prince, the
anti-Messiah to forge a covenant with the “Holy Ones” of the rabbanim of
Jerusalem for a seven year hudna, for the biblical text in Daniel clearly
states that it will be abrogated by the anti-Messiah within 3½ years.
Can we look forward to a Middle East Peace Accord by
Passover 2013? If so, 3½ years later,
will be see the revealing of the Maschiach ben Dovid before Rosh Hashanah 2016
(Jewish year 5777 between Rosh Hashanahs 5776-7)?
If so, the Epic Year of the Messiah will be here on
Rosh Hashanah 2016 or the Jewish year of 5000 plus 777 years. The age of the
Enlightenment of the Torah will have begun. The forces of evil will have been
destroyed and the Kingdom of G-d on Planet Earth will begin with the Maschiach
ben Dovid ruling with the “rod of iron.
If not, will we have to endure for another Seven
Year Sabbatical Week of Years or another Jubilee cycle? It’s time that the Lost
Sheep of the House of Israel with their brothers, the Jews of the House of
Judah begin praying, as revealed in the name of the Prophet Zechariah,
Zechariah ben Berechiah ben Iddo (At the Appointed Time, G-d blesses and G-d
remembers). Let us call upon the Holy Name of the L-rd to bless us and be
merciful to the Jews of the House of Judah and the Lost Ten Tribes of the House
of Israel.My Year of Jubilee note: After six years of farming, God declared a Shmita Year to rest the land for all Hebrews. It was a year to return property to remit debts (except foreigners) and set slaves (indentured servants) free. A Jubilee Year has always been the year following seven periods of Sabbatical years or forty-nine years. It was a year to return property to the original owners. We’re not sure if the ancient Hebrews ever rested on a Shmita Seventh Year. And, based on years of slavery calculations, odds are they never celebrated a Jubilee Year.
Jubilee Years have been counted since the Hebrews, after leaving captivity in Egypt, entered the Promised Land. If you count Jubilee years as forty-nine plus one, or fifty years from the possible date of 1,413 BCE, when they entered Canaan, you will come up with seventy jubilee cycles ending on the head of the year, Rosh HaShanah 2017.
Recently, a man named Dewey Bruton has researched the end times and has created multiple theories he named, “Daniel’s Timeline.” Rather than assess if he is correct or not with all of his theories, I will only state that he is nearly accurate with his Jubilee Year research. He regards that 2017 is a Jubilee year. Fifty years earlier, he cites the 1967 Six Day War as the key point of the last Jubilee Year. Fifty years before 1967, he cites the Balfour Agreement and the end of the Ottoman Empire rule of Jerusalem in 1917 completing that Jubilee cycle. Then in 1867 there was a final emancipation of Jews from Austria-Hungary, and a covert excavation in Jerusalem where the Temple Mount location was confirmed(?). He even researched antiquities to verify Alexander the Great fits into the Jubilee Year of 333 BCE.
If Dewey Bruton is correct, the world will soon experience one hundred twenty Jubilee cycles. That, according to him, matches with the age of man after Noah. It also seems to match up with every forty cycles are two thousand years which seem to mark ages or covenants set up to the Jews by God. And one hundred twenty Jubilee cycles of fifty years would lead one to conclude the age of the earth is six thousand years. According to the Jewish calendar, we are in the year 5773 (2012-2013). But most scholars know the Jewish scribes deleted many years from their calendars after Yahushua HaMashiach (Jesus) died and resurrected. We don’t know how many years were deleted.
I like to harmonize R. Judah ben Samuel with Mark Biltz (Blood Moon Eclipse Tetrads), and Jonathan Cahn (Shemitahs). Let's assume R. Samuel is correct, and that rabbis is Israel, and Jonathan Cahn are off by a year on the Shemitah Cycle, because they won't impose a Jubilee Year, and let's assume that Mark Biltz is correct; then, 9.13.2015 begins the Shemitah Year, and 10.2.2016 begins the Jubilee Year, and a Blood Moon Eclipse Tetrad calls our attention to this event.
“…Rabbi Judah Ben Samuel was a top Talmudic scholar
in Germany. Just before he died in the year 1217 he prophesied that the Ottoman
Turks would rule over the holy City of Jerusalem for eight jubilees. That is
400 years (8 x 50). The Ottoman Turks did take control of Jerusalem 300 years
after the Rabbi’s death in 1517 and as according to the prophecy, the Ottoman
Turks then lost Jerusalem 400 years later in 1917. It was during WWI that
British General Edmund Allenby walked into Jerusalem on Hanukkah without firing
a shot in 1917. The timing of this with the holiday and the ease at which it
occurred indeed make this moment of history extremely significant.
In the book, "Signs of the End," the
significance of this date and its events helped launch the book. This was
without even knowing of the Rabbi’s prophecy. They key was Allenby’s entrance
into Jerusalem during Hanukkah. With the First World War underway with nation
rising against nation and kingdom against kingdom there was added importance.
In 1917 all nations that were involved in the war had become involved. But the
kickoff day for WWI was the 9th of Av 1914, when Russia and Germany entered the
war establishing the plurality of nations involved in the war. In doing a study
on the day counts found in Daniel, these two days came up on the radar screen
at the same spacing and these days were the second day of Hanukkah (Kislev 26)
and the 9th of Av. With these days occurring in 1914 and 1917, it was found
that 100 years later that the same day counts of Daniel occur. This with 100
years being the limit of a generation found in the Bible (as defined by
Abraham’s 4 generations of a total of 400 years-–is it a coincidence that the
Rabbi’s prophesy of 400 years also ends in 1917?).
The Rabbi then went on to say that after the eight
jubilees, the ninth jubilee would have Jerusalem being a no-man’s-land, which
it was from 1917 to 1967 until the Six-Day-War. The Rabbi’s prophecy then
stated that in the tenth Jubilee that Jerusalem would be controlled by Israel
and then the Messianic end times would begin.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2419204/posts?page=17Another Interpretation of the Prophecy:
“Some 800 years ago in Germany, Rabbi Judah Ben Samuel was a top
Talmudic scholar with an inclination for the mystical. Before he died in the
year 1217, he prophesied that the Ottoman Turks would conquer Jerusalem and
rule the Holy City for ‘eight Jubilee Years.’” A biblical Jubilee year consists
of 50 years. Fifty multiplied by eight equals 400 years.
Afterwards, according to Ben Samuel, the Ottomans
would be driven out of Jerusalem, which would remain a no-man’s land for one
Jubilee year. In the tenth Jubilee year [2017]…the Messianic end times would
begin.…
Looking back at Ben Samuel’s prediction, we should
note that the Ottoman Empire did conquer Jerusalem in 1517, exactly 300 years
after the rabbi’s death, and was defeated 400 years later in 1917.
In Israel Today, Ludwig Schneider continues, “This
came to pass 300 years after Ben Samuel’s death. He could not have based this
prophecy on events that could be foreseen, but only on the results of his study
of the Bible.
According to Leviticus 25, the nation is reunited
with its land in the year of Jubilee. Therefore, the Jubilee year plays an
important role in Israel’s history. In this case, the Jubilee began with the
defeat and conquest of the Mamelukes in Jerusalem by the Ottoman Kingdom in
1517. The Turks reigned over Jerusalem until the British General Edmund Allenby
defeated them exactly eight Jubilees later in 1917.
“Ben Samuel’s prophecy was fulfilled precisely
because 1517 to 1917 is exactly 400 years. Afterward, Jerusalem was a no-man’s
land for 50 years during the time of the British Mandate (1917–1967) and the
time of Jordanian rule (1947–1967), another Jubilee year. During the Six Day
War in 1967, Israel captured Jerusalem from Jordan and the city returned to the
Jewish people after nearly two millennia of exile. After that, the countdown
for the Messianic age began.” by Ludwig Schneider, Israel Today (March 2008)
Shalom!
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