Written by: Peretz Green

 

 

MESSAGE OF THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL

 

Part 2: You are blessed with the Segullah (hidden virtues of the heart)

 

from August 6, 1990, Menahhem Av 15, 5750

in memory of my beloved mother Ann Green

November 21, 1994

 

 

You are blessed with the Segullah of Jacob: "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven, and behold, angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And behold, the Lord stood above it, and said: I am the Lord, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north and to the south; and in thee and thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done what I have spoken to thee of" (Genesis, 28: 12-15). You have the hidden virtues of Jacob's ladder in your heart. The segullah of prophecy is latent in your souls. Angels from above are ready to descend to bring you the prophetic substance. Angels from your words and prayers ascend the prophetic ladder to ask before God that you be allowed to partake of the segullah. Do not be surprised, for at Sinai you heard the voice of God Himself. Did Moses not say: "Would that the whole nation be prophets" (Numbers, 11: 29)?

You are blessed with the segullah of God's presence: "And Jacob awakened out of his sleep and said: Surely the Lord is present in this place; and I knew it not" (Genesis, 28: 16). So too you possess the segullah that you may be awakened from your worldly sleep to feel the presence of the Lord. This segullah then awakens the segullah of the fear of God: "And he was afraid, and said: How fearful is this place! this is none other but the house of God and this is the gate of heaven" (Ibid: 17). This brings you to the segullah of searching for the gate of heaven in the house of God. It is deep in your souls from Jacob your father. Therefore you wish to anoint the stone that has been a pillow under your head and to set it up as a pillar before God. This is the segullah upon which you have been sleeping, but now you must set it up for a pillar before God.

Yours is the segullah of Jacob's prayer: "And Jacob made a vow, saying: If God will be with me, and will keep me on this way which I am going, and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on, And I shall come again in peace to my father's house: Then shall the Lord be my God; And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house; and of all that Thou wilt give me I will surely give the tenth unto Thee" (Ibid: 20-22). Jacob knew the segullah of giving the tenth part of one's earnings. The segullah of the tenth reveals the segullah of God's protection. You are blessed in the segullah of giving charity. You are blessed in the protection of the charity that you have given, for in charity lies the segullah of God's protection.

You are blessed in the segullah of Jacob's strength: "And it came to pass when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother" (Ibid, 29: 10). At least ten strong men were needed to move this stone, but Jacob rolled the stone from the mouth of the well by himself because of the segullah of force that he had received.

You are blessed in the segullah of Jacob's love: "And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept" (Ibid: 11). And it states: "And Jacob loved Rachel, and he said: I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter" (Ibid: 18). And it states: "And Jacob served Rachel seven years, and they seemed unto him but a few days, through the love he had for her" (Ibid: 20). You are blessed in the segullah of Jacob's patience, when Laban tricked him into taking Leah. You are blessed in the segullah of Jacob's perfection because of God's providence, for if Laban had not tricked Jacob into taking Leah, Jacob of himself would not have taken her.

You are blessed in the segullot of the tribes of Israel Reuben, Shimon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin. You are blessed in the segullot of their mothers Leah, Bilha, Zilpa and Rachel. You are blessed in the segullah of Jacob's wisdom, for he knew the secret to make his flocks give birth to speckled and spotted offspring. This is because Jacob, your father, knew the secret segullot of nature. Yea, every element of nature has its own segullah. One who knows how to combine the segullot with one another, knows the secret segullot of nature. In all those years that Jacob, your father, was a shepherd in the service of Laban, he worked by day and he meditated by night on the marvels of God and on the segullot that He has bestowed on every part of nature, some parts revealed but most of them hidden.

You are blessed in the segullah of Jacob's return to the land of Israel: "And the Lord said unto Jacob: Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy birthplace, and I will be with thee" (Ibid, 31, 3). You are blessed in Jacob's segullah of receiving God's justice: "And it came to pass at the time that the flocks conceived, that I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold the rams which leaped upon the flock were streaked, speckled and grizzled. And an angel of God spoke unto me in the dream: Jacob: and I said: Here am I. And he said: Lift up now thy eyes and see, all the rams which leap upon the flocks are streaked, speckled and grizzled; for I have seen all that Laban doth unto thee. I am the God of Beth-El, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where thou madest unto Me a vow; now arise, get thee out from this land, and return until the land of thy birth" (Ibid: 10-13). You are blessed in Jacob's segullah of receiving angels: "and Jacob went on his way, and there met him angels of God. And when Jacob saw them, he said: This is the camp of God; and he called the name of that place Mahhanaim" (Ibid: 32: 2-3).

You are blessed in the segullah of Jacob's humbleness, as he said to God in his prayer: "I am not worthy of all the kindness, and of all the truth, which Thou has shown unto thy servant: for with my staff I have passed over this Jordan; and now I became two bands" (Ibid: 11). You are blessed in the segullah of Jacob's prayer of deliverance: "Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, the mother with the children" (Ibid: 12). You are blessed in the segullah of Jacob's gift to his brother: "For he said: I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will receive me kindly" (Ibid: 21). You are blessed in the segullah of Jacob's victory over the ministering angel of Esau: "And he said: Let me go, for the day hath dawned. And he said: I will not let thee go until thou hast blessed me." (Ibid: 27). You are blessed in the segullah of Jacob's becoming Israel: "And he said: Not Jacob shall anymore be called thy name, but Israel, for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed" (Ibid: 29). You are blessed in the segullah of the reconciliation between Jacob and Esau: "And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him and they wept" (Ibid: 33: 4). That is the segullah of the six points over the word va-yishakeihu.

You are blessed in the segullah of the fear that others have for Jacob: "And they journeyed; and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not persue after the sons of Jacob" (Ibid: 35: 5). You are blessed in the segullah of the altar of Beth-El: "And he built there an altar and called the place EL BETH-EL: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother" (Ibid: 7). You are blessed in the segullah of God's blessing to Jacob: "And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came from Padan-aram, and blessed him. And God said unto him: Thy name is Jacob; thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called his name Israel. And God said unto him: I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a group of nations shall spring from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins. And the land which I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, to thee will I give it; and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. And God went up from him at the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon" (Ibid: 9-14).

You are blessed in the segullah of Joseph's dream: "And behold we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also remained standing upright, and behold, your sheaves placed themselves round about, and bowed down to my sheaf" (Ibid: 37: 7). So are you blessed in the segullah of Joseph's second dream: "and he said: Behold, I have dreamed one dream more, and behold the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowing down to me" (Ibid: 9). You are blessed in the segullah of Tamar's strategy: "And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered herself with a vail, and concealed her face, and seated herself at the cross-road, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him for wife" (Ibid: 38: 14). You are blessed in the segullah of the three signs of Judah: "And he said: What is the pledge which I shall give thee? And she said: Thy signet, and thy scarf, and thy staff that is in thy hand. And he gave them unto her, and came unto her, and she conceived by him" (Ibid: 18). You are blessed in the segullah of Judah's admittance: "She hath been more righteous than I, because that I gave her not to Shelah my son" (Ibid: 26). You are blessed in the segullah of the scarlet thread around Zerah's hand: "And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: And the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread: saying: This came out first" (Ibid: 28). You are blessed in the segullah of the breaking out of Peretz: "And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that behold his brother came out; and she said: How vigorously thou hast broken forth: this breach is upon thee: therefore his name was called Peretz" (Ibid: 29). You are blessed in the segullah of the splendid light of Zerah: "And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zerah" (Ibid: 30). You are blessed in the segullah of Joseph's good fortune: "And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man" (Ibid: 39: 2). You are blessed in the segullah of Joseph's grace: "Joseph found grace in his eyes and he served him; and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had, he put into his hand" (Ibid: 4).