As Jews around the world look to the heavens on Yom Kippur, four asteroids will fly by, unseen and the remains of another asteroid will drift past. The asteroids  2022 SM21 and 2022 SO11 passed by the earth on Tuesday night, the beginning of the Yom Kippur holiday. 2018 VG and 2022 SJ28 made their passes the following day. Rabbi Yosef Berger, the rabbi of King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, “The asteroids by themselves are not alarming or even shocking,” the rabbi noted. “But they come in the context of a rather alarming year. Until a few years ago, troubles were localized. Wars were between two countries. Every person in the world was touched by COVID,” the rabbi added. “For the first time in eighty years, war threatens to engulf the world and there are threats of nuclear weapons. We are beginning the year after the shemittah (sabbatical year). The sages tell us that this is when the Son of David comes. The Talmud states that wars increase in the year after shemittah… (READ MORE)

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