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| A Russian Navy ship crosses through the Dardanelles strait today in Turkey en route to the Mediterranean Sea (AP) |
The Dardanelles straits connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara.
Rav Moshe Shternbuch shlita a great Grandson of the Vilna Gaon received a closely guarded secret that came to him from Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Chaver
zatza”l, who received it from Rabbi Chaim of Volozhyn zatza”l, who received it from the Gaon of Vilna himself, who revealed it shortly before his death: “When you hear that the Russians have captured the city of Crimea, you should know that the times of the Messiah have started, that his steps are being heard. And when you hear that the Russians have reached the city of Constantinople (today’s Istanbul), you should put on your Shabbat clothes and don’t take them off, because it means that the Mashiach is about to come any minute.”
Source: Thepartialview