A dream delivered from the world beyond has surfaced in southern Israel, and it carries a warning for the nations along with a promise for the Jewish people. Baba Baruch Abuhatzeira, the Kabbalist rabbi of Netivot known as the son of the legendary miracle worker the Baba Sali, described a message his late father delivered to him in a dream. The message named names, addressed the war with Iran, and pointed directly at President Trump.
“We don’t need to be afraid. We are secure,” Baba Baruch said, opening his account of the message. “I said then in the previous interview, a war will break out. There will be a world war. Nothing will help. And this war is what will bring complete redemption to the people of Israel, and it is what will bring us to the war of Gog and Magog, from which our righteous Messiah will emerge.”
Asked where that security comes from, Baba Baruch did not point to world leaders. “The people of Israel need to be secure. In what? In the Creator of the world,” he said. “Not to rely on anyone. Not on Trump. Not in any country. Many countries.”
He then turned to history to make his point. “Whoever remembers what happened years ago during the Holocaust, the whole world was silent,” Baba Baruch said. “Hitler rose. They rose. They did to us what they did, and the world was silent. We are today, thank God, the people of Israel who trust in the Creator of the world and know that we have merits that no one else has.”
Baba Baruch then relayed a direct warning addressed to Trump himself, in the voice of the Baba Sali: “If you try to stray a little from the path you started on to protect the people of Israel and help the people of Israel, I will bring you trouble from another place you didn’t dream of.”
What does the Hebrew Bible say about relying on politicians rather than God? The Psalmist gave the answer three thousand years ago: “Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation” (Psalms 146:3). The verse does not merely caution against dependence on the powerful. It states as fact that no mortal ruler, however great his intentions, can deliver salvation. Salvation belongs to God alone.
Scripture and Jewish history are full of precedent for the pattern Baba Baruch described. Pharaoh enslaved the Israelites and drowned with his army in the sea. Haman plotted to destroy the Jews of Persia and was hanged on the very gallows he built for Mordechai, his decree annulled. Antiochus IV desecrated the Temple and died in disgrace on a failed campaign in Persia. Britain, which issued the Balfour Declaration promising a Jewish national home, later choked off Jewish immigration during the Holocaust under the 1939 White Paper, and the empire that once ruled a quarter of the globe dissolved within a generation of that betrayal. The Sages read this pattern as covenantal, not coincidental: nations and leaders are judged by their treatment of the Jewish people.
Baba Baruch’s warning lands at a moment when American pressure on Israel is very much a live story. President Trump has pressured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to move forward with elements of the plan, including handing portions of Gaza’s administration to a technocratic committee. Israel has resisted. Trump has also pushed back publicly on Israel’s conduct of the war, saying Israel had “gone too far” and voiced discomfort over conditions in Gaza. It is precisely this dynamic, an American president applying pressure on a sitting Israeli government, that Baba Baruch’s message addresses directly.
Baba Baruch described a three-part formula his father conveyed through the first three letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Aleph stands for emunah, faith in God. Bet stands for brachah, praise directed to God rather than to men. Gimmel stands for geulah, the very act of redemption. Faith and praise are the avodah, the spiritual labor required of the Jewish people now, and geulah follows from that labor.
Asked directly whether Israel stands at the threshold of the messianic era, Baba Baruch answered without hedging: “We’re at the very precipice. We’re at the very end and it’s coming very quickly.”
Baba Baruch’s account offers the Jewish people a framework that predates any administration. Pharaoh fell. Haman fell. The British Empire fell. Hitler fell. The pattern, as the Baba Sali reportedly told his son, holds regardless of who occupies the White House today. The fate of Israel rests in the hands of God, and no shift in Washington changes the outcome already promised in Jerusalem.
