Sabrina Hogan

G-D, haShem, great spirit, creator of the universe, please shield us from the evil and restore peace and harmony to the world.

Our growth doesn’t look like a straight line. Rather, that line turns, circles, returns. As I often say figuratively, “two steps forward, one step back.” At first, that step back feels like failure, like we lost something, or like we’re undoing our progress, nut not every step back is a loss. Some are part of the pattern. There are phases where we advance, learn, expand, push beyond what we knew. And there are phases where things slow down, where we revisit, consolidate, integrate. That’s where the foundation is built. Without it, growth stays shallow. We tend to rush the process because we want constant movement. Constant improvement. A clean upward line. But real development is heavier than that. It needs depth, reinforcement, and time to settle. Oftentimes, that step back isn’t there to stop us. It’s there to stabilize us. So when we move forward again, we’re not just reaching higher, we’re standing on something stronger. ~ Zen Stoic ✨🙌🏾💫

A powerful moment and an unforgettable story from 2022. In 2019, former Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei was forced by the evil Islamic Republic to avoid a match with Israeli judoka Sagi Muki, simply because Muki is Israeli. Afterward, Mollaei fled the regime. In 2021, while representing Mongolia, he won a silver medal at a competition in Israel. At the Tokyo Olympics later that year, he dedicated his silver medal to Israel, thanking the country for its support. Muki and Mollaei subsequently struck up a friendship. When they faced each other in 2022 at the Hungary Grand Slam, Mollaei won the match, and the two men embraced, sending a powerful message that friendship knows no political bounds. Original story from StandwithUs.

Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz says his country will seize control 'of the entire area up to the Litani', in comments that lay bare the scale of Israel's military plans in southern Lebanon. 'In addition, the return south of the Litani [river] of over 600,000 residents of southern Lebanon who evacuated north will be completely prohibited until the safety and security of the residents of the north [of Israel] is ensured,' he added. Katz also said 'all houses in the villages near the border in Lebanon will be demolished, in accordance with the Rafah and Beit Hanoun models in Gaza', referring to two towns razed by Israel. (The National)

Israel now has the death penalty for terrorists who are tried and convicted of attacks resulting in death of citizens. Palestine like many other states has long had the death penalty for simply being gay, but also for selling property to a Jew. Only the top one sparks outrage.

Very impressed by this young woman. And mark my words, she’s going to be - very successful. She’s both intelligent, and very eloquent. By way of comparison, Nick Fuentes is also smart and well spoken. But they’re polar opposites based on their moral compass. Listen to what she has to say about Zionism and the massive hate emanating from Woke Reich Catholics.

Authorities are asking for the public's help finding the person who abandoned the dogs. Read more: ktla.com/news/local-new…

.@AOC hates Israel but doesn't know why

A Japanese smartphone made entirely from wood. 📹 canoopsy

ENERGY PARASITES CAN’T EXIST IN A FIELD THEY CAN’T MATCH Not everything people call a “demon” is what they think. Most of it isn’t that at all. What you’re dealing with… is parasitic energy. Fragments of consciousness. Echoes of trauma. Distortions looking for a place to feed. They don’t attack randomly— they attach through resonance. fear rage addiction unhealed wounds These are the doorways. But here’s the truth they don’t want you to realize: If they can’t match your frequency… they can’t touch you. Your field is your authority. Your energy is your boundary. Raise your frequency. Seal your field. Reclaim your power. Now visualize… A pale silver 12D flame pouring down from your crown flowing through your entire body anchoring deep into the core of the Earth. Now reverse it— run that flame back up your spine and out through your crown. This is your scalar reversal field. Your energetic firewall. Speak it. Command it. Become it: “I stand in Christic command. All frequencies not aligned with the Law of One must now leave my field.” Feel that shift. You are not weak. You are not open to everything. You are Source-connected. You are protected. You are sovereign. And anything that cannot rise… must fall away. Because your light doesn’t fight darkness— it reveals it, dissolves it, and outgrows it. What once fed on you will no longer even recognize you. Different frequency. Different reality. And in that space… there is no interference. no attachment. no control. Only clarity. Only power. Only YOU—fully embodied, fully aligned. ~ Lizz Marion ✨🙌🏾💫

@hannahrossbooks @Average_NY_Guy Chometz sticks to a lot of surfaces. Kids touch everything.

@SharonsRose13 @Average_NY_Guy I mean stuff like windows and bathrooms.

If you’ve never experienced Passover in an Orthodox Jewish home, it’s almost impossible to understand how far it actually goes. People throw around the phrase “spring cleaning” and think that’s what it is. It’s not. It’s a full teardown and rebuild of how you live inside your own house, all for just one week. It doesn’t start a few days before the holiday. It starts weeks, sometimes even months earlier. Every cabinet gets emptied, every shelf is wiped down, and every corner is checked. We’re not just cleaning dirt, we’re on the hunt for chametz, any leavened grain product. Bread, cookies, crumbs, even something that fell behind a couch months ago. You move appliances, you vacuum inside drawers, you scrub surfaces you normally wouldn’t even think about, like high walls. Some people take apart their ovens, some pour boiling water over countertops, others line entire kitchens with foil or special coverings so nothing that touched chametz during the year comes into contact with Pesach food. And that’s just the beginning. In many homes, especially more careful or Hasidic ones, cleaning alone isn’t enough. The entire system gets replaced. Separate dishes, separate pots, separate utensils that were never used with chametz all year. Some families have full Pesach kitchens packed away in boxes eleven months of the year. And it goes further. In certain homes, you won’t eat there unless you know exactly how that kitchen was prepared, down to the smallest detail, and many won’t eat anything that wasn’t prepared in their own home, even if it’s from close friends. Then comes the halachic process. You don’t just clean and call it a day. There’s bedikat chametz, the formal search the night before Pesach, done with a candle and a blessing, where pieces of bread are traditionally placed around the house and then found. The next morning is biur chametz, burning whatever remains. Anything you can’t realistically get rid of gets sold through a rabbi in a formal transaction called mechirat chametz, because owning chametz on Pesach is forbidden, not just eating it. Then the eating itself changes completely. For seven or eight days depending on where you are, there is no bread, no pasta, no flour products unless they are specifically made as matzah, which is unleavened bread made quickly so it doesn’t rise. And matzah itself is a whole world. It has to be made in under 18 minutes from the moment water touches flour, because otherwise it could start fermenting and become chametz. Some only eat shmurah matzah, which means matzah that has been supervised from the time the wheat was harvested to make sure it never came into contact with moisture. Others insist on handmade matzah, not machine. There are also families who won’t eat anything that has even a question of moisture that could have caused fermentation. Then you have kitniyot, which is legumes and similar foods like rice, corn, beans, and peanuts, which adds another layer. Ashkenazi Jews, Jews of European descent, traditionally don’t eat these on Pesach. Sephardic Jews, from Middle Eastern and North African backgrounds, generally do. So even within Orthodox Judaism, what your Pesach looks like depends on your background. One family is eating rice, and another wouldn’t let it into the house. One family is comfortable with certain processed Pesach foods, another will only eat simple, basic items they prepared themselves. And it keeps going. Some peel every vegetable because maybe something touched it in a factory. Others won’t use any product unless it has a very specific Pesach certification, meaning rabbinic approval that it meets all Passover standards. Many won’t eat out at all, not even in kosher restaurants, because they don’t trust anyone else’s standards. In certain homes, even food prepared before Pesach won’t be touched once the holiday starts. Everything is fresh, controlled, and intentional. Then comes the Seder. It’s not just a meal. It’s a structured reliving of Yetziat Mitzrayim, the Exodus from Egypt, guided step by step through the Haggadah, with four cups of wine, matzah on the table, maror eaten to feel the bitterness, korech put together like a reminder you can actually taste, children asking questions, and everyone leaning like free people. It’s built to make it feel like you yourself left Egypt. And that’s the point behind all of this. We’re not just avoiding bread because of some random restriction. Chametz represents inflation, ego, something that rises. Matzah is simple, flat, controlled. The Torah commands us to remember the Exodus as if you yourself left Egypt. All the cleaning, all the restrictions, all the effort, it forces you to step out of your normal life and enter a completely different mode. You feel it physically. Your house looks different, your kitchen functions differently, your diet changes, your schedule changes. You can’t ignore it even if you wanted to. And if you step back, it’s actually insane in the most literal sense. Thousands of years later, Jews are still removing every crumb of bread from their homes because of something that happened in Egypt. Entire industries exist around this. Families plan their lives around it. Kids grow up expecting it as normal. There is no other nation on earth that has maintained something this detailed, this demanding, and this consistent for this long. Empires came and went, languages disappeared, cultures vanished, and Jews are still arguing over how to kasher a countertop and whether a product is acceptable for Pesach. You can call it stubbornness, but it’s more than that. It’s continuity, it’s identity, it’s a direct line from the Torah to a kitchen in Brooklyn in 2026. And for those of us who live it, it’s real. It’s exhausting, it’s expensive, it’s sometimes overwhelming. But it’s also something we take seriously in a way that barely exists anywhere else. Because this is what it means to be part of Am Yisrael, not just believing something but living it in a way that shapes your entire life, down to the crumbs you can’t keep in your house for one week a year. And after all of that, after the cleaning, the stress, the shopping, the kashering, all the details that never seem to end, you sit down at the Seder with your family and it all comes together. You look around the table, your kids are asking the same questions kids have asked for generations, and you realize it worked. This whole system actually worked. It kept us the same people. So wherever you are, whatever your level, whether your kitchen looks like a full Pesach operation or you’re just doing what you can, there’s something powerful about being part of this. Wishing you a happy and kosher Pesach, wherever you are, physically and spiritually.

BREAKING: A second siren in Tel Aviv within 30 minutes, following another launch from Iran toward central and northern Israel. The latest missile attack left a 10-year-old girl, a 36-year-old woman, and a 13-year-old boy injured. The young girl is in serious condition. 11 others are in mild condition. This is who Iran is harming on the day of Passover: children.

This doesn’t get spoken about enough.

This time tomorrow, four brave astronauts on Artemis II will be en route to orbit the moon. Their mission could take them farther from earth than anyone’s been before.  We will wait and watch, and celebrate the work of so many to reach so far.  Godspeed! OP: astro.alexandra (via IG)

@Mottel @nntaleb They forgot Spanish (ladino)

@nntaleb This isn't true. Hebrew was also used as a lingua franca across the Jewish diaspora (not all Jews spoke Yiddish), as a language for poetry and other forms of writing, attempts were made by some to converse in it in Shabbat, and was used by some in the Holy Land.

In The Lydian Stone I discuss holy languages and how they did not use Hebrew (reserved for prayer) but Yiddish (for communication) and Aramaic (for scholarship).

“Pesach is the festival of Jewish identity. It is the night on which we tell our children who they are." ~ @rabbisacks

One of those innocent Palestinian prisoners.

Health officials are asking the public to avoid over a dozen beaches in Los Angeles County due to high levels of bacteria. Details: ktla.com/news/local-new…

Sunscreen under UV: the invisible shield made visible

I cannot begin to describe how defeated Israelis feel. I arrived in Israel on Sunday morning, and since then I’ve been spending much of my time underground—as you can see 👇 The message the world has sent to the Jews is brutally simple: you’re condemned if you act, and condemned if you don’t. So, they might as well kick the ass of their enemies and reunite them with 72 virgins so that the rest of us can finally live in peace. Cheers from Jerusalem 🥂 #AmIsraelChai

@HashemAllMighty They already colonized those.

Millions of Muslims seek asylum in Western countries every year. Yet you rarely see them heading to other Muslim nations—especially the extremely wealthy Gulf states. Why is that?