An oil well in the Shomron (Samaria) which a company directed by an
hasidic geologist upon the inspiration of the Torah promise that “Joseph”
would have the “blessings of the deep,” promises to change
everything in the region, Israel, the Middle East and possibly the world.
It appears to be the strongest economic reason to date for the nation of
Israel to “hold on” to the entirity of the Shomron and not
continue in the insanity of a land for unobtainable peace agreement with
Yasser Arafat. It is also yet another indication that Hashem is pointing
his finger directly at the Shomron and the promise that the children of
Rachel, also known as the House of Joseph, must be allowed to return to
their inheritances as an alternative to the Palestinian state.
Tovia Luskin, after finding 44 million barrels of oil at a test site at
an undisclosed location in the Shomron in 1994, is planning a second well
near Rosh Ha’ayin (the head of the eye), which he estimates to contain one
billion barrels of oil and 4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
“It is the same petroleum pool located under Syria, Saudi Arabia
and Algeria,” according to Shmuel Becker, an Israeli lawyer and
co-partner with Luskin in Givot
Olam Oil Exploration Ltd. “This well will turn Israel into one
of the biggest oil suppliers in the world and will free the United States
and the world from the Arab countries who for decades have been
blackmailing the world with their oil.”
Givot Olam is the only
oil company in the world which does not drill on Shabbat and is therefore
ripe for blessing.
In an article published in a recent Jewish Press, Luskin, a professional
petroleum geophysicist who immigrated from the former Soviet Union and
became observant in 1982, said he got the idea for the location of the
pool of oil during the Succot holiday in 1985.
While sitting in his succah and reading the last Parsha of the Torah, “Vezot
Haberacha,” he said he came across the blessing that Moses gave to
the tribe of Joseph, and noted that the blessing was primarily to “his
land.”
And of Joseph he said, Blessed of Hashem be his LAND, for the precious
things of heaven, for the dew and for the DEEP THAT COUCHETH BENEATH…and
for the CHIEF THINGS OF THE ANCIENT MOUNTAINS and for the PRECIOUS THINGS
OF THE LASTING HILLS and for the PRECIOUS THINGS OF THE EARTH and the
fullness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let
the blessing come upon the ROSH (head) of Joseph, and upon the top of the
head of him that was separated from his brethren. (Deuteronomy 33:13,
15-16)
(The same sentiment is reflected in Parsha Vayehi (Genesis 49:25-26),
where the “blessings of the deep that lieth under,” are found “unto
the utmost bound of the everlasing hills” on the “head of Joseph
and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.”
But this promise follows that in Genesis 48:19 in the same Parsha that
clarifies Ephraim (the one separated from his brethren) would literally
become the melo ha-goyim or fullness of the Gentiles. Becoming non-Jewish
through assimilation, he would be separated from his brethren).
Rashi’s commentary that the “hills in the territory of Joseph
preceded the creation of all other hills,” was a poetic description
of fundamental principles of modern petroleum geology, Luskin reasoned. “Indeed,
oil migrates upwards and is accumulated at the top of anticlines (ancient
mountains) which are buried under younger sediments.
Since the establishment of the State in 1948, some 410 oil wells have
been drilled in Israel; the majority in the coastal plain, the Negev and
Dead Sea areas and later offshore the Mediterranean coast. Most have been
exploratory at shallow horizons or very low prospectively at the Triassic
or Permian in a southern Negev region. Those wells that have found oil
have been found insufficient supplies to be commercially acceptable.
Luskin said the Ministry of Energy’s two years’ study of Hydrocarbon
Potential of Israel, Highlights of Basin Analysis strongly emphasized
structures in the Shomron, but “no exploration had been carried out
in the land of Joseph, possibly due to political reasons.”
The proposed site at Rosh Ha’ayin, which is on the road from Petah Tikva
(literally “a door of hope”) east to Shechem, (modern Nablus and
the city in which Joseph is buried), lies within the inheritance of
Ephraim, just inside the Green Line or in the corridor of the Shomron that
is part of annexed Israel and anciently of the tribe of Ephraim. Luskin
said Israeli officials told him there had been plans to drill there in
1981 but for some reason the plans did not materialize.
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