"One must openly publicize to all that we are currently in the period of Ikveta Dimshiha - this matter is clear as the sun." ~ Rav Elchanan Wasserman HY"D (Kovetz Ma'amarim Ve'Igrot, vol. 1, p. 329)
"If a man commits a sin for which he is sentenced to death, and he is put to death, you shall [then] hang him on a pole" (Devarim 21:22). "Take all the leaders of the people and hang them before the L-rd, facing ha'hammah, and then the flaring anger of the L-rd will be removed from Yisra'el" (Bamidbar 25:4). "And afterward Yehoshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five poles; and they were hanging upon the poles until the evening. And it was at the time of the setting of ha'hammah, that Yehoshua commanded, and they took them down off the poles, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hidden, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave until this very day" (Yehoshua 10:26-27).
