Nefesh b'nefesh is Nathan of Gaza

 

You think these lunatics will tell you about housing costs in Israel? Here's the latest ad:

That's 716,445 United States Dollars for an old 2 bedroom apartment. The place is so unappealing that this ad consists mostly of photos of the nearby children's slide and a few flowers shown in a closeup. I know the apartments in this neighborhood. They are dumps. 

Instead of dealing with facts, NBN, may they soon go broke and do teshuvah, creates this completely fallacious picture of masses racing to Israel. They are like salesmen who sold swampland as land ready for housing in Florida in the 1920s. Get it on the deal now before it's too late, before prices go up. It's another version of this Zionist myth that geulah has come.

Florida swamp

What future is there for your children if they are homeless? And I'm not even getting into all the other problems like the poor healthcare, the draft, the casualties of Israel's voluntary wars, the fights, the screaming, the difficulties of earning a parnassah, the hostility to religion, the persecution of Haredim, the religious wackiness, police brutality of religious people, the lack of culture, of places to visit, the psychological harm to children of a war looming every minute, the terrible middos. All of this leads to off the derech children, marital discord and breakup, health problems, and unhappiness.

Nefesh b'nefesh is Nathan of Gaza, the right hand man of Shabbtai Tzvi. Nathan of Gaza declared himself to be Eliyahu, the prophet, who is supposed to appear before Moshiach arrives. He saw himself as a prophet:

When I had attained the age of twenty, I began to study the book Zohar and some of the Lurianic writings. [According to the Talmud] he who wants to purify himself receives the aid of Heaven; and thus He sent me some of His holy angels and blessed spirits who revealed to me many of the mysteries of the Torah. In that same year, my force having been stimulated by the visions of the angels and the blessed souls, I was undergoing a prolonged fast in the week before the feast of Purim. Having locked myself in a separate room in holiness and purity...the spirit came over me, my hair stood on end and my knees shook and I beheld the merkabah, and I saw visions of God all day long and all night...

His alleged vision, i.e. hallucination, lasted 24 crazed hours and led to him believe that Shabbtai Tzvi was the Messiah. He dedicated his life to getting everyone else to believe it too. Or shall I say, he wasted his life.

That is Nefesh b'Nefesh who sees the medinah as geulah and the Messiah and God. The people who work there are worse than Nathan of Gaza. I suspect that even he would be appalled by their dishonesty, secularity, and childishness.