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In the year that the Mashiach will come,
[music] the king of Persia will go to
war with the king of Arabia. He'll go to
Syria to get advice.
>> [music]
>> Go to Edom to get advice. Won't know
what to do. And then the world will go
into a tremendous time of confusion at
this moment. [music] This is after
Persia went to war with Israel. And
suddenly it goes to war with the Bnei
Ishmael, with the [music] with the king
of Arabia. And then the children of
Israel become worried. What's happening
to us?
We do know at the end of days there is a
watching now the end-time war.
Persia doesn't wants to go to war with
us.
It doesn't make sense. Like why? This is
a rich country with enormous oil and
natural reserve natural gas.
What do you need this for? You're
starting a war with Trump? Trump is
Trump will take you out.
So why [snorts] are you doing this? But
it says in Ezekiel 38 that God will put
hooks in their mouth and drag them into
this war.
>> Wow.
>> Like a behemoth. It's Ezekiel 38:4.
He'll put He'll harden their heart, just
like Pharaoh's story, and they'll
Pharaoh didn't make sense. What are you
nuts? You're turning water into blood
and all this thing and then So what?
What are you chasing them? You're
chasing them thinking you're running
after them. If you will What God is
doing he's hardening their heart every
step of the way. What Hashem does he
takes them around and he makes them
stronger that they don't want to give
up. That's what Ezekiel tells us that in
fact Hashem will harden the heart of
Persia, drag them into war. It doesn't
even make sense. Conversely, Hashem will
defeat the enemies
our enemies.
And it tells us
because of that through this the whole
world will see
the glory of Hashem when Gog Umagog is
destroyed, verse 21. And we too will see
at the end that Hashem is Lord, verse
22. So in the end the eschatology in
Tanakh ultimately is that it's the
enemies who come up against us, rise
against us.
>> You don't have to be uh a prophet, and
you don't have to uh really be
um
be a mind reader to see that God is
doing amazing things, and you could see
any of this crazy really is from God.
The The insanity of countries committing
suicide, country suicide. Iran is
basically committing suicide.
That That stuff doesn't happen.
Europe committed suicide when it invited
the millions of uh of Muslims in in one
shot, which basically is a way to kill
your country. And so, that's that's
insane. When country leaders could
commit suicide on their own countries,
this obviously from God. It can't be
from anywhere in anyone's brain, so it
must be a place from beyond the the
brain. We see it happening. We see the
divine hand
Mamash doing things that he he's just
screaming to us. He's not even
whispering to us anymore. He's screaming
to us, "I'm here, and I'm and I'm ready
to bring the end. I'm ready to end
this." It's not the the poor megillah
that you have to look to 10 times till
you can find God in on a page. He's
screaming on every page of of every
minute of every hour. The news The news
is God. Don't Don't Don't read the news
headlines. Understand like the Tanakh.
When you read Tanakh, you know God was
on every page because the prophet tells
you.
Today, we don't need a prophet. We can
just see that God is on every every
page, every news article. Every day we
hear news, it's God. It's God screaming
to us, "The end is here. I want you
back. Just get up and move." That's I
think what the message we have to take
with all these crazy things happening
around us.
>> The Mashiach is endowed with the spirit
of Hashem.
Isaiah chapter 11.
So, he
could identify what is righteous and
punish those who are wicked with the
spirit that he was given, that he's
infused with in Isaiah 11:2, 3, and 4.
And I think that there's a tremendous
emphasis in Tanakh. You often speak
about this, how the Jewish [snorts]
people must be united at the end.
And if we are united, we can overcome
our shortcomings. All of us
bring different features. Some of us can
see very well, some of us can walk very
well. Alone, we can't we can't solve it.
That's why in in Ezra chapter 3, the
Navi goes out of his way to say that
when the children of Israel came to
Eretz Israel, to Jerusalem, they came as
one person, as a three verse one. And
[snorts] when we are united as one, then
we can bring about the complete
redemption.
And that's really what we're going
through. We went through a very
difficult time a few years ago. It
united us, I could say. I don't think we
had this discussion that the people we
were 3 years ago
um those people will never be. And a new
nation has emerged, and we're each
bringing unique uh qualities, unique
abilities. Together as a united people,
we can bring the proper redemption.
>> I I really want to focus on two things
you mentioned. All of humanity is one
big body and soul, and how each person
in their place, each country, ultimately
can do its part to be partners in life
rather than partners in in in in
destruction. And that's that's a
beautiful and important thing. I I want
to also caution us because even though
we'll never be the same after October
7th,
fortunately, time heals all wounds, and
we may find ourselves back making the
same mistakes. In fact, we see the the
civil unrest already beginning, and
already the name-calling, and the
fighting, and the anger, and the hate,
which got us in trouble in the first
place. So, it's true, we'll never be the
same again, but it doesn't mean we won't
go back and make the same mistakes
again.
>> And then, there's always helps us out
when we get ourselves into that
predicament.
>> I hear.
>> We have out in Persia, 1,000 km east of
where we are right now, just straight
down that way, we have our little
friend. Now, he doesn't look like a
friend, but in reality, it is a Persia
that comes to attack the land of Israel
at the end of days. Ezekiel chapter 38.
And what does that do?
It gets us back into the right
orientation.
We are always responsive. We live by our
blood. Ezekiel 16:6.
In fact,
um throughout our history, we've always
responded to our enemies that came up
rose up against us. So,
Hashem uses a little friend we have. His
name is Mamdani.
What a wonderful gift he is, huh?
>> That's interesting friend. I didn't know
he was such a friend of ours.
>> Oh, so Mamdani is doing more for Aliyah
than Nefesh B'Nefesh and Jewish Agency
combined.
>> So, he's our public relations
department.
>> Yeah. So, therefore, Hashem brings I
mean, Hazal tell us that Haman
accomplished more for Jewry than any of
the prophets. So, we all we react that
way. And part of it, I believe, and I
know you share this thought, although we
haven't discussed it, it does
anti-Semitism doesn't make sense at the
end. Like, why would you want to kill
the very people who invent the polio
vaccine? Why Why would you want to
murder people who delivered your
children and delivered you?
>> Can I add just the people whose religion
you you borrowed and passed forward so
they borrowed it. Why would you want to
erase them? How does that cause all
anything? It's all all illogical.
>> When I speak, and I know for you, I'm
sure it's the same, that the question
people ask about all the time,
regardless [snorts] of their religious
affiliation, is they're perplexed by the
anti-Semitism.
Why Why do they hate us? There are other
nations that are successful. I do people
of South Korea, very innovative,
[snorts] no one hates them because they
work hard. Somehow, there's this this
hatred for the Jew. Why? It seems
self-defeating. But the truth is it's a
supernatural hatred. It's Esau that's
rising up against his brother and they
know our enemies know we're at the end
right now. They can hear that their
their end Edom is coming to a close. So
therefore these are the
the screaming of those that are going to
the execution chamber.
>> [snorts]
>> So anti-Semitism is there to trigger the
Jewish people that we could do chuvah.
Conversely, it helps the non-Jews.
>> Very fascinating [clears throat] and
very true. Um I just want to point out
two things. I think that
it would be so wonderful if we could
be our own fix rather than having our
neighbor Iran be our best friend to fix
us with their hate and desire to kill
us. And by just us getting it right, why
don't we just get with it and fix
ourselves by doing the right thing and
certainly turning to each other in unity
and turning to God in loyalty. So that
would be the quick fix for avoiding the
anti-Semitism.
>> I just want to share one thing. Although
other nations of the world
suffer from natural disasters, the
children of Israel typically don't. It
means the problems that we confront
throughout our exile are not earthquakes
and tsunamis. Tsunami hit Indonesia in
2004 December 26th.
Indonesia and Thailand
almost a half a million people killed in
the blink of an eye in that morning.
Typically, I would say without
fear of anyone contradicting me, that
devil is not what the Jewish people
suffer from. Other nations [snorts] do,
but we suffer from one thing and that's
the nations of the world that rise up
against us in every generation. And we
say that in fact in our Passover, we say
that in every generation they rise up
against us. And in a strange way it
ascends affirms our faith because it
doesn't make sense. It can only be
explained spiritually. But if we can,
the next level is is very important.
That is we in some sense cause this. We
will this problem in that our
role, as you always point out, is to be
a light to the nations. That's our
mandate. Isaiah 49:6.
So, what happens if we fail to kindle
the light for the world? If we're the
antibiotics of the world, means we're
there to keep the body healthy. If we
fail in that task, then what happens is
the non-Jews, the nations of the world,
want to go to war with God because we're
not giving them the sufficient light. In
turn, how do you go to war with God? Do
you flail your fists in the air? That's
silly. What you do instead is you go to
war with God's son,
his firstborn son, Exodus chapter 4:22,
Israel. So, therefore, we actually
trigger anti-Semitism in fundamental to
that reading. We cause the to be
distant from God, and in turn, they then
go come up rise up against the Jewish
people. So, it is a perfect cycle of we
cause non-Jews sense to turn away from
God because we're not doing our job.
We're not fulfilling our mandate. The
non-nations of the world in turn, what
do they do? They take it and they want
to go to war with God. You can't go to
war with God, but you can go to war with
the children of Israel. And therefore,
we can then identify, "Aha, we actually
triggered this cycle, and the only way
to stop it is for us to turn to the God
of Israel and rise up to our proper
mandate of being a light to nations."
>> I just want to point out two things. I
want to mention that when we're hated
and hunted, so I would think that
there's a level of bitur. I think we
become slightly exempt. Maybe even, you
know, it's I know it's beyond our
ability to be teachers when they want to
hate us and kill us and and dismiss us.
So, what type of obligation do we have
to try to come with a book and and teach
them? They're not ready to be to be
students. So, I I don't know how how
strong of a of a of a requirement we
have to be a light when when they are
trying to extinguish our light, when
they're ready to be a a receptacle for
our light, then we're absolutely
obligated. And Baruch Hashem, thank God,
it's it's an amazing thing. It's almost
like
end of days prophecy is happening in in
the most peculiar ways, because it's not
really clearly defined how these things
are going to happen and be manifest, but
in the modern world, we're seeing things
and we're thinking,
"What is this? Is Is this Is this really
happening? This This seems like we're
we're almost home."
Jewish rabbi YouTube channels have more
non-Jews than Jew subscribers.
It's an incredible sign that the the
world is ready to be our students again,
and ready to receive our light. And so
certainly we have an obligation to shine
our light, and an unbelievable place to
shine it YouTube with the millions and
millions of views that it's more
non-Jews than Jews. It's It's It's
itself
It's also nonsensical that that that
more We have more non-Jewish followers
than Jewish followers.
>> I think you would agree that we are not
to behave like the Muslims did
when in 638,
they came here to Jerusalem, and the
Roman Empire surrendered to them. And
we're not supposed to behave like the
Crusaders did in 1099, when they came to
Jerusalem. You know, imagine for a
moment if this room
were completely dark,
no lights at all.
One candle here, where I'm sitting or
you're sitting, could illuminate the
rest of the room. There's something
marvelous about what you do,
and that you're able to teach Torah from
Jerusalem, and that light travels all
over the world. So in fact, I I think
what you I don't I hope the viewers
understand the importance of what you
just shared. You can illuminate that one
light here.
You don't have to go to Morocco. You
don't have to go to
uh South Africa. You don't have to go
there. From here, you can illuminate the
light, and the nations of the world will
see by your light. And that's [snorts]
why Isaiah, blessed memory, he preached
right here. He might have walked down
these streets where we are right now.
He said, "Arise and shine, for your
light has come.
Kings will go by your light." Isaiah
60:1-3.
So, we know very well at the end of days
that the nations will will go by our
light.
And we also know that
what you said is so powerful that we
would like it that we would act
proactively.
But we do know at the end of days there
is a watching now the end-time war.
That means that doesn't mean that you
what you're doing should halt or tell
you keep shining that light. And you
pointed out that our viewers, for the
most part, are not Jewish.
I'm going to guess that wasn't
our intention. It certainly wasn't mine.
I wasn't even thinking of that.
>> Well, as a baal teshuvah, I felt, you
know, more comfortable, you know, not
singling out and and selecting. I felt
that, look, spread truth for everybody.
That was really my intention and my
mindset when I first thought of coming
closer to Judaism.
And uh I think it all It's still It's
still can apply. It still can apply that
we can we can shine our light and we
don't have to limit it. Why should we
limit it?
>> No.
>> Let God decide how far it can go.
>> We can't. That means once you shine the
light, once you light the candle, light
goes wherever it wants to. It keeps
going. That's where we are right now. We
We shine the light and that light goes
around the world.
>> Right.
>> Right. And we are very much responding
to something that clearly is
supernatural. Clearly is. This has been
a very long exile.
A bitterness since it's so long.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe said on the
haftarah that we just spoke we just read
Isaiah 54
that for
that speaking about the redemption that
we'll look back and it'll look like our
entire exile was just for a brief
moment, a quick flash of an eye. But at
the very end we'll look back on it and
go, "Wow,
that was just a flash." And God promises
us, as the waters of Noah, that no
tongue that rise against you will
succeed.
No weapon that will forge against you
will succeed. We're living in such a
striking time.
Persia has gone to war with Israel
attacked us, and now they're attacking
other Islamic countries.
And we're standing there watching. It's
a very strange event that's occurring.
The Yalkut Shimoni has a commentary has
a commentary on the book of Isaiah.
Yalkut Shimoni is a collection of
received wisdom of the children of
Israel.
And it quotes in Amora Rabbi Yitzchak
who says, "Lo as in love I
in the year that the Mashiach will come
that the king of Persia will go to war
with the king of Arabia."
>> Wow.
>> And the king of Arabia will become very
confused and will run all over the world
to receive an answer to receive advice.
He'll go to this end of the world to
receive advice. He'll go to Syria to get
advice.
He'll go to Edom to get advice. Won't
know what to do.
And then [snorts] the world week go into
a tremendous time of confusion at this
moment. This is after Persia went to war
with Israel, and suddenly it goes to war
with the Bnei Ishmael, with the with the
king of Arabia. Literally it says it.
And then the children of Israel become
worried.
Yalkut Shimoni quotes Rabbi Yitzchak,
and the children of Israel will begin to
worry, "What's happening to us?"
And Hakadosh Baruch Hu will speak out
and will say, "My children, do not be
afraid.
All this that is happening was because
of you.
For your sake."
And we're living in such a remarkable
moment now in history. We have to be
very self-aware that everything that's
happening is so that we can help the
nations of the world come to know about
the God of Israel, to light that flame
that illuminates the world that we
talked about last time.
That is that the unique feature of a
flame is that we can illuminate an
unlimited number of other candles
without diminishing from our light.
That's what's remarkable. That's the
moment we're in right now.
And please God, may we be zocheh to see
the coming of the true Moshiach quickly
in our time.
>> Amen. Amen.
>> [music]