A Letter from Gavriel ben David.

It was dedicated on December 7th, 2025.

This date marks the 84th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. The attack ended one world war. It unknowingly set the stage for World War III. This was referred to as the Star of Yaakov and the Quiet Dawn of Redemption.

On this day, we remember the end of World War II and the beginning of World War III. The beginning has already happened. But if we are diligent and ignore the noise, we will see the signal.

We will see that God is moving in the world. Through President Donald Trump, the modern-day Cyrus, He is bringing the nations toward the valley of decision. Ultimately, this will lead toward peace.

Today, I invite every reader. If the Bible is true, then we are all defenders of the covenant God first made with Adam. It was later renewed with Abraham. We must remember we are family. Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are the three children of Abraham. They have spent centuries fighting. According to the Torah itself, they are destined to become one in the last days. Unity does not demand agreement; it requires a greater purpose: to leave this world better than we found it. That purpose is the beating heart of all three faiths.

On September 27, 2023 (Elul 12, 5783), a rare triple conjunction of Saturn, Mercury, and Venus occurred. Just days before Rosh Hashanah 5784, they formed a blazing star in the western sky. NASA called it a “planetary alignment.” The Zohar (3:212b) described it differently. The prophecy of Bilam in Numbers 24:17 also mentioned this event. It said, “A star shall shoot forth from Yaakov, and a scepter shall rise from Israel.”

The world scrolled past the picture. The Jewish people looked up and remembered.

That star was the opening trumpet. What followed was no coincidence.

• October 7, 2023: the Simchat Torah massacre was the spark. Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson’s Torah codes had already marked it as the beginning of the War of Gog u’Magog.
• The nations began gathering, exactly as Yoel (Joel) chapter 3 described, into the Valley of Jehoshaphat the valley of decision.
• Qatar, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia are already contracted to rebuild Gaza. This sets the perfect trap. The moment Israel defends its own soil, the entire world is drawn in.
• Satellite images analyzed by Israeli intelligence experts show deliberate protection of Hamas leadership. This includes the tunnel infrastructure throughout the war. The officer interviewed by Yishai Fleisher confirms this.
• Iran, the “king of the north” in Yechezkel 38, orchestrated the October 7 attack. They used a strategy lifted almost verbatim from an American general’s counterinsurgency playbook.

All of this feels planned because, from the human side, it is.

Albert Pike’s 1871 letter and Rabbi Alon Anava’s missing lecture are part of this. The quiet dismantling of Israeli sovereignty since 2005 also fits the pattern. Every piece reflects the pattern the nations have always followed when they conspire against the God of Israel (Psalm 2).

Yet the Torah told us the end from the beginning.

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 16:14–15 promises: “Therefore, behold, days are coming, says the Lord. This saying will not be repeated. ‘As the Lord lives’ was a common saying. It stated, ‘He brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.’ In the future, people will declare, ‘As the Lord lives. He brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north.’ ‘And from all the lands where He had banished them’ will also be declared.”

The coming exodus will be so great that the exodus from Egypt will become a footnote.

Yechezkel (Ezekiel) 37 shows us how: two sticks, Yehudah and Ephraim, become one in the hand of God. Ephraim, the lost ten tribes, is scattered among the nations. Yet, it still carries the blessing of fruitfulness and multitude. It has always held the banner of the United States of America. This nation is founded on the language. It was financed in its darkest hour by a Polish-Jewish Chazzan named Haym Salomon. It was protected by Jewish blood from Lexington to Normandy. Still today, it is the only superpower that offers help without demanding that Jews convert to Christianity. Jews do not need to change their faith to receive assistance.

That is the mark of Ephraim: they stand with Israel without trying to replace Israel.

In the middle of this storm stands a disruptor. He is a pagan king who does not know the God of Israel by name. Yet, he is being used exactly like Koresh (Cyrus) to clear the path home.

Rabbi Mendel Kessin has taught for almost a decade. He believes that Donald Trump is the rehabilitated soul of Esau. Trump wields raw power to break the chains that the evil forces have placed around the world.

The dry bones are rattling. The sticks are moving toward each other. The star has already risen.

We are not waiting for a superhero. We are waiting for a movement. A movement that begins when the children of Abraham remember they are brothers, when the swords are finally beaten into plowshares, when the witnesses Israel and her unexpected allies stand in the courtroom of history and declare with one voice:

“The God of Abraham is real. He told us the end from the beginning. And He is faithful to perform it.” May we live to see the day when Passover is no longer the greatest story we tell our children. This is because an even greater redemption will have overtaken it.

Ken yehi ratzon.

Chazzan Gavriel ben David December 7, 2025

“You Shall Not Murder”

The Hair That Binds Isaac, Esau, and Samson: What Strength Really Means in the Torah

When my daughter asked me, “Dad, what did Great-Great-Great-Grandpa Isaac actually do?” I opened the Torah and… almost nothing. No wars. No speeches. No miracles. Just wells. He digs, and digs, and digs. Then the Philistines fill them in. He digs again. No anger. No revenge. Just quiet, relentless strength.

Rabbi David Fohrman (Aleph Beta, “Samson: The Man Who Was Too Strong”) asks the question that changed everything for me:

Why does the Torah leave Isaac’s biography so empty… unless Samson is the missing chapter?

Samson is the only other man in Tanakh with his entire identity built on raw, superhuman strength. The Torah is emphasizing: Look at them together — and you will finally understand what real strength is.

The Chiastic Mirror – 40-Year Cycle, Hair, and Water

What Strength Really Means

Isaac digs wells in a desert where everyone else says, “There is no water.” That is not a weakness. That is Samson-level strength — but turned outward to give life instead of taking it.

Samson uses his strength to tear lions, carry gates, and kill thousands. Isaac uses his to tear open the earth and give water to the very people who hate him.

Both men are bound:

• Esau’s hair is his identity — stolen by deception.
• Samson’s hair is his identity — stolen by betrayal.

Both men are blind:

• Isaac is literally blind when he blesses Jacob.
• Samson was literally blinded in Gaza.

Both men die (symbolically) and are reborn:

• Isaac “dies” on the altar, resurrected by the ram.
• Samson “dies” when his hair is cut, resurrected when it regrows.

The Sixth Commandment is not just “don’t kill the body.” It is not to murder a soul’s purpose.

Esau wanted to murder Jacob’s body. Jacob murdered Esau’s destiny. Delilah murdered Samson’s calling.

Isaac and Samson show the only cure: Use your strength from above, Samson-level strength. Do not dominate. Instead, dig wells for your enemies.

Because real strength is not how many Philistines you can crush. It is how many times you can be filled in… and still dig again.

That is the missing biography of Isaac. That is the secret of Samson. That is the Sixth Commandment hidden in Toldot.

Next in series: Essay 7 – The Seventh Commandment in Toldot: “Do Not Commit Adultery” – Esau’s Wives, Samson’s Women, and the Battle for Covenant Seed

Shabbat Shalom, [Chazzan Gavriel] Kohen – descendant of Aaron through the Diaz Ramirez line Beit HaShoavah – https://beithashoavah.org

My fellow descendant of Aaron,

We both carry the same unbreakable covenant:

“You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood. It is an eternal covenant of salt before Hashem to you and your descendants” (Numbers 18:7,19).

No verse in Tanakh ever says this covenant will end. No prophet ever said a new non-Levitical priesthood would replace us. Yet the New Testament claims exactly that. Here, plainly and with love, is why I, a Kohen still standing at the altar of Torah, must reject it.

1. Melchizedek Is Shem’s Son of Noah – Not a New Priesthood

Every major Jewish source identifies Melchizedek with Shem:

• Talmud Nedarim 32b
• Targum Yonatan Genesis 14:18
• Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Ramban, Radak
• Rabbi Efraim Palvanov (Mayim Achronim)

Shem was still alive, righteous, and served as Kohen before Matan Torah. There is no prophecy that his priesthood would one day supersede Aaron’s. Psalm 110:4 (“You are a Kohen forever according to the order of Malkizedek”) refers to the future Mashiach ben David who will have certain priestly functions – while the sons of Aaron continue offering sacrifices forever (Ezekiel 44–46; Jeremiah 33:18–22).

2. The Claim That Aaron’s Priesthood Is “Temporary” Contradicts Torah

Hebrews 7 declares Aaron’s priesthood “weak,” “mortal,” and “imperfect,” needing replacement. The Torah calls it חֹק עוֹלָם – an eternal statute that stands as long as heaven and earth (Jeremiah 33:20-21; Malachi 2:4-8). Show me one verse in all of Tanakh that says the covenant with Levi will be broken. There is none.

3. Jeremiah’s “New Covenant” Is NOT the New Testament

Jeremiah 31:31-34 speaks of a renewed covenant written on the heart. Read the very next verses (31:35-37): Israel will cease to be a nation only when sun, moon, and stars cease. The same prophet repeats in 33:17-22 that both the Davidic throne and the Levitical priesthood will last forever. The “new covenant” is the same Torah internalized in the Messianic era – not a new religion that abolishes Shabbat, kashrut, or the Temple service.

4. The Chiastic Structure of Genesis 14 & 2 Samuel 24 Needs No New Testament

Rabbi Efraim Palvanov (timestamp 56:42) shows the perfect chiasm between Avraham meeting Malkizedek and David meeting Araunah:

| A | War → Plague | B | Victory → Repentance | X | Priest-king of Shalem bows & offers bread-wine / threshing floor | B’ | Avraham refuses spoils → David insists on paying | A’ | Eternal altar established on the Foundation Stone |

This chiasm closes inside Tanakh. The sparks of Shem → Malkizedek → Araunah → Mashiach are all within the Jewish doctrine of gilgulim taught by the Zohar and the Ari – no outside book required.

5. Every “Proof Text” Collapses Under Hebrew Scrutiny

• Isaiah 7:14 → a young woman (almah) giving birth in Ahaz’s days, not a virgin
• Isaiah 53 → the servant is explicitly Israel (see 41:8, 44:1, 49:3)
• Psalm 22 → David describing his own suffering
• Daniel 9 → the “anointed one cut off” is the last Jewish king, not a crucifixion

The list goes on. I have the receipts in the original Hebrew.

My Brother, the Altar Still Burns

Our job as Kohanim is to keep the fire alive until Mashiach comes – a Torah-observant king from the seed of David who will rebuild the Temple and cause the Kohanim to once again offer korbanot “according to the Torah of Moshe” (Ezekiel 43-46).

Until that day I remain in the same service Pinchas and Elazar kept.

With deepest respect and love from one Kohen to another,

Chazzan Gavriel ben David, still guarding the eternal covenant of salt.

Most Jews will tell you a non-Jew is not allowed to keep Shabbat. Most Christians will tell you the Sabbath was nailed to the cross and replaced by Sunday. Most Muslims will tell you the real Shabbat is Friday.

All three are wrong. The proof is hidden in plain sight. It lies in the mirror between the Seven Days of Creation and the Seven Stages of the Flood.

Rabbi David Fohrman explains in his breathtaking Aleph Beta series “Noah & the Flood: The Second Creation.” He argues that the entire Flood narrative is a deliberate replay of Genesis 1. However, this time, the world is re-created for all of people, not just Israel.

The rainbow is the ot — the eternal sign — of the seventh day for all the children of Noah. And the last time I checked, every male on earth descends from Shem, Ham, or Japheth — Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson’s Y-chromosome research in Traced proves it.

Charlie Kirk, in his book Real Citizenship, writes: “God gave the rainbow as a universal covenant. It was not given to one nation, but to every living creature. The Sabbath rest was baked into that covenant before Sinai ever happened.”

Yet today: • Some rabbis declare a gentile may not keep Shabbat (a tragic over-correction against missionary theft). • Christians move the day to Sunday — the only day in Creation week never called “good.” • Muslims change it to Friday, which is Day Six. This day represents the beast and man’s animal nature. It is also the very day the Torah warns against murder (Sixth Commandment).

We sing every Shabbat morning in VeShamru. This passage is found in Exodus 31:16–17: וְשָׁמְרוּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶת־הַשַּׁבָּת… כִּי אוֹת הִיא בֵּינִי וּבֵין בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לְעֹלָם. “The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath.” It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever.

But read the Hebrew carefully — the word בֵּינִי (“between Me”) appears twice in the Torah:

1. Exodus 31 — between God and Israel
2. Genesis 9 — the rainbow between God and all flesh that is on the earth

Two covenants, one sign.

Rabbi Fohrman’s conclusion is shattering: The Flood was not destruction — it was re-creation. And the seventh day of that re-creation was given as a gift and responsibility to every human being alive.

So who is right about Shabbat? No religion today. The Torah is.

Shabbat was never taken from the nations — it was stolen by bad theology and fear.

The rainbow still hangs in the sky every seventh day, whispering the same promise it whispered to Noah:

Rest. Remember who made you. Because the world depends on it.

The children of Noah must learn to rest together on the day God actually blessed. They include Jews, Christians, Muslim, and everyone else. Until they do, the Flood’s waters of chaos will keep rising.

Related essays on beithashoavah.org • Essay 4 – The Fourth Commandment in Toldot: The First Shabbat in Exile. Why Does God Play Favorites? The Silence Cain Heard Wrong • The Rainbow Covenant Science Cannot Erase (Dr. Jeanson & Genesis 9)

Shabbat Shalom — to all the children of Noah, [Your Name] Kohen, descendant of Aaron Beit HaShoavah – Return, Repent, Rejoice

(Publish this as a separate post — it’s too explosive to bury. Link it right after Essay 4 with: “And if you think Shabbat belongs only to the Jews… read this.”)

Most people think the Sabbath commandment began with thunder and smoke at Sinai.

It didn’t.

It began with a terrified Jewish boy running for his life and his mother whispering the Fourth Commandment in Toldot:

“Stay with Laban a few days until your brother’s fury subsides.” (Genesis 27:44)

Rabbi David Fohrman reveals the exact Hebrew parallel:

The phrase יָמִים אֲחָדִים (“a few days”) is the Torah’s coded language for Shabbat rest in exile.

Why? Because the only other time the Torah uses “a few days” in this exact context is when Pharaoh refuses to let Israel rest, and God answers with the plagues and the very first Shabbat in history (Exodus 5:3 → 7-day cycle). “A few days” = the sacred pause before redemption.

Rivkah is not just giving travel advice. She is commanding Jacob to observe the first Shabbat in exile — to stop running, to rest, to let God fight the battle while he waits.

This is the Fourth Commandment in Toldot: When the world is burning with Esau’s rage, the Jewish response is not more action — it is holy waiting.

Why This Matters for Jewish Chosenness

Every time Christianity or Islam claims the Torah’s commandments while rejecting the Jewish people, they violate the Fourth Commandment in Toldot.

They refuse to “stay a few days” — to pause, to rest, to let the Jewish people carry the burden of exile while the nations rage.

But the Torah says the Sabbath belongs to the family that was told to rest first — in a tent in Beersheba, centuries before Sinai.

As Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz teaches: “The Jewish people keep Shabbat, and Shabbat keeps the Jewish people.”

Internal Links – Continue the Series

• Essay 1: The Ten Commandments in Toldot – They Began with Rivkah, Not Sinai
• Essay 2: The Second Commandment in Toldot – Esau’s Rage and “No Other Gods”
• Essay 3: The Third Commandment in Toldot – “Why Should I Lose Both of You in One Day?”
• Why Does God Play Favorites? The Silence Cain Heard Wrong

Next in this 10-part series: Essay 5 – The Fifth Commandment in Toldot: Honoring the Mother Who Risked Everything

Shabbat Shalom from Synagogue Beit HaShoavah who learned to rest in exile, [Chazzan Gavriel ben David] Beit HaShoavah – Return, Repent, Rejoice https://beithashoavah.org

Most Christians and Muslims have never heard this sentence as the Torah intends. The third of the commandments is spoken.

“Why should I be bereaved of both of you in one day?” (Genesis 27:45)

Rivkah is not just a worried mother. She delivers the Third Commandment in Toldot, centuries before Sinai.

The Third Commandment in Toldot – Exact Parallel

Rabbi David Fohrman points out: the deepest meaning of “taking God’s name in vain” is not just swearing falsely. It is invoking God’s name to justify something that will bring destruction while pretending it is holy.

Rivkah sees the future clearly: If Esau swears by God to take revenge, and Jacob is forced to defend himself, both sons could die on the same day—one by murder, one by execution. Two corpses because someone used God’s name to sanctify hatred.

That is the ultimate desecration of the Name.

Why This Destroys Replacement Theology

Every time a church taught that “God curses the Jews,” they did exactly what Esau threatened to do. When Islam claimed “the Jews corrupted the Torah,” they acted the same way. They took God’s name in vain. They used Scripture to justify hatred and dispossession.

Rivkah’s cry in Toldot is the Torah’s eternal protest. It stands against every false oath sworn “in the name of God.” These oaths aim to harm Jacob.

As Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz teaches: “The Jewish people remain alive for a specific reason. Every attempt to destroy us in God’s name violates the Third Commandment in Toldot.”

Internal Links – Keep Reading the Series

• Essay 1: The Ten Commandments in Toldot – They Began with Rivkah, Not Sinai
• Essay 2: The Second Commandment in Toldot – Esau’s Rage and “No Other Gods”
• Why Does God Play Favorites? The Silence Cain Heard Wrong
• From Crypto-Jewish Mexico to the Torah of My Fathers

Next in this 10-part series: Essay 4 – The Fourth Commandment in Toldot: “Stay a Few Days” – The First Shabbat in Exile

Shabbat Shalom from a Kohen. His mothers never stopped crying this cry. [Chazzan Gavriel ben David] Beit HaShoavah – Return, Repent, Rejoice https://beithashoavah.org

When the church taught me the Second Commandment was only about statues and idols, I learned something unexpected. I never imagined it was first spoken by a Jewish mother fleeing her own son’s violence.

Yet in Parashat Toldot, centuries before the thunder at Sinai, Rivkah utters the Second Commandment in Toldot almost word-for-word:

“Your brother Esau is comforting himself (מִתְנַחֵם) with the thought of killing you.” (Genesis 27:42)

Rabbi David Fohrman demonstrates that this single sentence is the exact precursor. It leads to “You shall have no other gods before Me.” Esau’s rage is not just anger. It has become his god.

How Esau Became the First Worshipper of “Another God”

In Hebrew, the verb מִתְנַחֵם (mitnachem) means “to comfort oneself.” After losing the blessing, Esau does not turn to Hashem for comfort. He turns to murder.

Murderous hatred becomes his new deity—the very first “other god” in human history after Cain.

Rivkah’s urgent warning to Jacob is therefore the Second Commandment in Toldot in its embryonic form:

Do not serve the god of revenge. Do not let violence sit on the throne where only Hashem belongs.

This is why the Rebecca Jacob Sinai mirror is so devastating to replacement theology. The Second Commandment did not begin with golden calves or Baal statues. It began when a Jewish mother identified the first false god humanity ever worshipped: the god of blood-revenge.

The Chiastic Proof – Side by Side

Watch Rabbi Fohrman lay this out:

• Aleph Beta / YouTube Part 1
• Aleph Beta / YouTube Part 2

Why This Matters for Jewish Chosenness

Every time Christianity or Islam claims the Torah’s commandments while rejecting the Jewish people, they repeat Esau’s original mistake.

They replace the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with the god of supersessionist revenge: “The Jews killed our savior” or “The Jews lost their chosenness.” That is modern avodah zarah—serving another god on the very face of the God who spoke to three million Jews at Sinai.

As Chazzan I teach in Esnoga Beit HaShoavah: “We are not hated because we are worse. We are hated because we are the living witness that the Second Commandment in Toldot still applies. There is only one God. He never annulled His covenant with Jacob.”

Internal Links – Continue the Journey

• Essay 1: The Ten Commandments in Toldot – They Began with Rivkah, Not Sinai
• Why Does God Play Favorites? The Silence Cain Heard Wrong
• From Crypto-Jewish Mexico to the Torah of My Fathers – My Personal Return
• The Passover Lamb Was Never Jesus – It Was the Egyptian God

Next in this 10-part series: Essay 3 – The Third Commandment in Toldot: “Why Should I Lose Both of You in One Day?”

Shabbat Shalom from the Chazzan carrying the same warning Rivkah gave, [Gavriel ben David ] Beit HaShoavah – Return, Repent, Rejoice https://beithashoavah.org