End-Days Prophesies: Israel Islam Holy Wars, Morality & Righteousness VS Evil & Wickedness

We are living with Yakov. And I literally mean living with Yakov because this week's para is called and Yakov lived. And so let's figure out what it means when the Torah decides to say that Yakov was a lie. Because the issue with saying that Yakov was a lie, meaning in the truest sense, he was tapping into life on the most highest, purest, truest level, is beautiful. We we would expect YaKob, the holiest, most righteous man alive, the the the saddic of the generation, the idea of of prophet of God that's that God speaks to and that he speaks back to God that has dreams of angels that has angels escorting him all over the place. We would think that he if he if anyone would be alive in the world would be him. The problem isn't who was alive nor how he was alive but but where he was alive and where was he. So the verse continues in the land of Egypt. Let us appreciate what it means when the sages point out that Yakov was in the land of Egypt. Okay? So we have to appreciate Egypt was not the best place in the world. In fact, the sages tell us without trying to be insultive or insulting that Egypt was perhaps the worst, most morally debased place on earth in that time and place. Promiscuity, theft, betrayal. It's it's all happening there. And also sorcery and idol worship. Again, it was olden days, so the world had a lot of improvement proving to make. But but they were, so to speak, the the core of of of of immorality. For example, today most big cities in fact are really um hot beds, you know, for for immorality. You know, Hollywood, Paris, New York, not everybody's uh singing on the choir. They're doing a lot of other activities. And again for people that are want to be conservative, moderate, wholesome, follow the ways of the Bible. For whatever religion version you follow, but the morals at least of the Bible, not the, you know, maybe distorted things you want to squeeze in there like worship our brother or kill or kill God's children, that's separate. But but the the biblical values that are in the the core Bible, which comes from, you know, Moses and the Torah. So of course the these these unfortunate very secular very modern societies are not all about that anymore because what happens when you give human beings too much freedom so then they will tend to go down and copy the animals instead of trying to go up and copy the angels and that's what Egypt was. It was a very difficult place to live and so the problem with this opening statement that Yakob was truly living is that it was in Egypt. How could he be so alive and so vibrant and so happy to be in Egypt when Egypt really was really the opposite of him? He represented biblical values. He represented wholesome values, modesty, integrity. And Egypt, Egypt was more like unfortunately like the you know a world that really like more like Sodom and Gomorrah that that embraced you know you know unbridled um you know type of behavior and activities lust, greed, all the different things that that you could have and so they represented the opposite of that. Now what makes this question even bigger is how can he be happy in Egypt? Because again, if you take a person that wants to go to a nightclub and party all night and bring him to church, if he's if he's Christian or whatever, hopefully the type that doesn't believe that our brother is their God, but just believes in in in the morality of Christianity, or you take him to any other place like that. So, where's he going to be more happy? He's going to be happy to be in church. If he's Jewish, of course, shag, he's not going to want to be there. He wants to party because his animal wants to party. And vice versa, if you take a person who's a holy rabbi or a holy saintly man that believes of course in God and only God, we don't advise or advocate anything else. If you take him and send him to an eye club, he's not going to he can't be there. Be disgusted. He'll be it would bother him. He won't be happy. So the question now is this this contradiction. How could Jacob, the holiest man alive, be so happy in Egypt, one of the most deprived uh morally places, whether it's whether it's whether it's involved in intimacy, theft, and and the worship of idols. How can he be happy there? But again, bigger than that question is knowing that he's going to die soon. How could he be content knowing that he's going to leave his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren in such a place? How could he be so happy? He should be shaky. He should be so afraid that his children are going to be influenced by these these societies that they're a part of and they're not all so strong like him. He was he was strong. He fought with angels. But the average person can't all be like Yakov fighting angels, making miracles where everywhere they turn. So how was he not so afraid that his children if not them because they were very good strong but their children and their children's children will eventually succumb to the influence of Egypt and become like Egypt like any minority people that move to a country generally speaking that minority kind becomes absorbed in the the hosting country that is just you know so much more in population and there's a social cultural environment you get kind of like get pickled and you get you are absorbed. Now today there's a phenomenon by the way when you bring in mass immigration. So they come in as a on mass. So they're a group and they don't absorb as much. But when you're talking about 70 people that came to Egypt, they're supposed to absorb in in a blink of an eye. They're supposed to have disappeared. There should be no Jewish people in ancient Egypt and there should have been no Jewish people in modern Egypt and there should be no Jewish people alive. We are we are actually God's greatest miracle. To be quite honest, the greatest miracle that God has ever did was maintain the population of this tiny Jewish people scattered all around the world where we should have all been socially absorbed into our hosting countries and have disappeared. Here's a deeper problem that exists. Let's really talk about culture, culturalism, and the idea of the social climate that kind of produces you. Okay? And it works like this. If there was a compounding system generation to generation, we would have more protection. I'll tell you what I mean. The human experience, you start off as an embryo. You develop into a baby. A baby is brainless. Not insulting anybody. It's just what it is. A baby's hasn't developed his intellectual capacity to discern yet. So he has to go through that phase and that period and an environment and again powerful sight is very powerful what we see as the norm around us. It's very hard to take a child that was raised. It's like taking a cucumber and putting it in brine and expecting it not to come out of pickle. Just doesn't happen. So even though you have two parents that want to explain things differently to you, but you're still part of an entire society and environment, everything, the clothing you buy, the the where you eat, what you eat, who you speak to, where you're educated, you you can't live in a bubble. So as that child's infant brain and emotional makeup develops, it's pickled. It's pickled. French style, Canadian style, you know, Brooklyn style, uh, Los Angeles style, it's being pickled. And so the the the the small impact that that parents can have to completely shield them to the degree that they shield them is the to the degree of the success that they'll have. Meaning this, if I could raise my children from birth to 15, 16 years old and leave them in my home and they don't leave my home, then I can control who they become. >> But if they're interacting with the same environment that I have to as an adult with work as a child, then they're being programmed by different factors, different powers, different people are fighting for their attention. Now, the animal within all of us likes what it likes. And so when they go to school and there's Jennifer is smiling at them. So all the preaching that I can do to tell my my son Michael that Jennifer is not for you. No one's for you until you get married is one thing. But on the streets you you can't control what's happening practically speaking because Jennifer's smile is powerful or the beautiful sneakers that everybody wants or the you know being cool getting attention. It's all it's all like you know subtle very very deep drugs that they're feeding off of and I can't compete with that. So there's no way to protect your children from being influenced by the environment you choose to live in. This is a catch 22 because again look at Egypt. God specifically took 70 holy souls of Jacob and his children and grandchildren and sent them to Egypt and said ironically counterintuitive. It's actually insane what God did but not insane. It's it's just above sanity because God is God. But what but would seem insane to us is this. I want to take my 70 pure, perfect souls and I want to throw them into Egypt and see what comes out. That's what he did on purpose. You know, it's like taking a bunch of clean clothes, throwing it in a in a in a bin with dirty clothes and expecting it to come out clean. Or even better, tell to go swimming and don't get wet. Play in the dirt and don't get dirty. That's exactly what God said, I'm going to do with my 70 souls of Israel. I'm going to throw them into Egypt, a very dirty, very risky, very dangerous place for the soul, as we mentioned, and said, "I want to see what comes out." Throwing all that into the pot, we have this interesting introduction to the final para, the final story of the Jews as they descend into Egypt and the happiness and contentness of Jacob, Jacob, and the fact that he lived a truly living successful fin satisfying life both physically and spiritually in the garbage in a garbage dump. Right? That's that's that's this whole that's it just makes no sense. The answer quick answer which I will hopefully elaborate on is you don't know what you have until you wait till the end. You don't know what you have until you wait till the end. You can meet a girl, girl meets boy, and they think they love each other. There's excitement. It's new. There's attraction. It's fun. And there there's romance. There's lust. There's there's uh that feeling that you don't know if you have your wife until you make it through a lot more than that. In the end of the day, ultimately most relationships end up having to go through some kind of brokenness in in order to really reach that true level of a bond that can't be broken. And that's the story that God wanted to make right here. He said, "If they're truly my holy souls of Israel, then when I throw them into Egypt, they won't come out Egyptians. They'll come out Jews. They'll come out Israel." Takes more than a miracle to happen, but God instilled every one of them with an aspect of the divine and said, "I'm expecting that miracle, and if I don't get that miracle, then they're not my Israel." And so Yakov understanding this understands that we have to go through Mitsay in order to come out as real true children of God Israel. Because if we don't go through Mitsry then we could be fakers all of our lives. And certainly anyone that has gone through difficulty in their marriage ultimately understands that the making up after you fight is worth the fight. But it should never be done on purpose and we don't ever do it on purpose. But anyone who knows that they've gone through that difficulty and really made up and reached a new a new beautiful deep connection understands that I wouldn't we wouldn't be each others the way we are today if we didn't have to go through the falls that we went through. And that's the same thing with us and Hashem, us and God. We wouldn't be his people the way we're going to be his people in the ultimate forever world of truth if we didn't have to go through the falls and the brokenness and the betrayals that we have gone through for this these millennia that have passed and Egypt was the first the first ride around that merrygoround and so what should have come out of Egypt was Egyptians but instead 210 years later a nation of Israel came How did that work? How did Yakov know that that's what's going to happen? How could he go to his resting place to sleep until Mashiach comes with a smile on his face saying, "I'm happy. I'm content with my life and I'm content with leaving my future me, the me that's going to continue through my children and grandchildren and so on." That I'm happy to know that I'll meet them one day in that land of truth when Msiah comes. How could he be so certain? >> Well, if God was so certain, I would think Yakov could be so certain. But how do we know that when you flip the coin of assimilation, when it's all said and done, as dark as it looks out there, as bleak as it looks, we're going to win because we're all going to come out as Jews in the end of the day. There is no other option. Because we might go to sleep, we might look like we're dead, but we will never die. And that's why in fact the liturgy of our prayers doesn't even say that we're dead. It says we're sleeping. There's a prayer in where we say that one day those that are sleeping six foot under will wake up because they're not dead. True life can never die and what's truly dead can never live. And the soul, the true soul, a part of God can never die. And so no holy righteous soul really ever dies. They just go to a different place and they'll come back one day because that's the way it is. So now I'll share with you the secret for success. And we've touched on it. We've actually touched on it just from the conversation and the question of our one of our great students here. I won't say his name because he wants to remain a secret sadic but uh you know so here we go. How do you do the impossible? Well, when you're when you have a part of the impossible in you, then you can do the impossible. When you hold on to God who can do anything, then anything can happen. And that's what we've done till now. Our secret to survival is that we don't let go. We don't let go of Hashem and we don't let go of Jacob. We don't let go of Jacob. And if we hold on to him and we hold on to our leaders, we hold on to where we come from, then we can never get lost. And it ultimately means holding on to Hashem. And here's the solution. We turn back a few pages, we see that before Jacob and the 70 people that came to Egypt stepped foot in Egypt, we see two things. I actually said something wrong. They never stepped foot in Egypt. They stepped foot in Gan, which was a suburb of Egypt. And number two, they didn't even step foot in in Gan until they sent first and foremost Yehuda, which was the strongest of the of the sons, strongest of the tribes to build a home for God and God's light to shine. And it's a very clear verse. It says before Jacob went to see his son Yseph that he hadn't seen for so many years, he first sent Yehuda to go ahead of him and the entire family to go build what's called a base Talmud and Ashkanazi or a bet Talmud for the A Talmud means a house where God can reside and where God's ways will remain intact. A place where the light of God's Torah and the ways of God will shine and permeate where the suburb of Egypt go. And there you have the two secrets to Jewish success and why we're still here. We are the people of the book. Not because we are people that have the book, but because we have the book in us. When you have a book, that's God's book inside of you. Then you have God with you and a part of God in you that connects. That's why the Torah and God and the Jewish people are are three things that are really one. The real three things that are one is Israel, the Jewish people, God, and the Torah. Okay? And just, you know, Christianity just got it all mixed up. They took one of the Israel that is a part of God and made him their God instead of realizing that we, the Jewish people, are God's representatives in this world for divine wisdom. They want to be our teachers. now convince us that that that that Jesus's mother didn't cheat on her husband was some guy named Joseph, but instead was immaculately conceived. This is and they want us to believe them. That's how foolish they are. But anyway, that's the secret. Yakov sent Yehuda to be the leader of a place that will be built and a society that will function and and exist around Torah, around divine wisdom and and the holy moral values of Torah. Had the Jews have gone straight into Egypt, we wouldn't maybe have the same story today. But when you take the Jews and you put them in their own isolated, insulated environment, then Jewish identity can remain. And what's essentially is being said here is Jacob foresaw what was needed and understood if we can create a Jewish town, a ghetto, which unfortunately the Nazis use for what they use it for. But what we need to use it for is to maintain our identity within the hosting country that we're in. Then Judaism survives. Then the Jews survives. Because only when the Torah and the God part of this survives, do we survive. And so when you have the two, you have success. We were kept out of the city of Egypt, which means stay away from LA, stay away from Manhattan, stay away from Paris, or at least if you have to be in these places, create some type of suburbian type of insulation where you can remain who you are. Now, you know who we see thriving at this today, by the way, and we got to call a spade a spade, as I thought I was saying, the Muslims. the the the Muslims are creating for them insulated neighborhoods where they can remain Muslim because again they did not come in as a few people. They came in on mass. So when you bring an entire community into your country, they remain a community. We did it the hard way. But you know, God found an easy way for them to do it because God wants them where they are right now on purpose. He put entire Islamic Arab societies in these secular countries because he wants them to remain who they are where they are because the final exile believe it or not that we must go through is not the exile of Adam which is from from Asa which is Rome and Greek and America and secular modern society like Europe. That's not the final Gulf. That's not the final exile. That was the exile until now during the last two millennia. That was the exile. The final exile that we have to go through before we have Mashiach and we have it all back together again with Hashem in in the holy land is the Ishmael is the final exile because at the end he's going to encroach and take over from Adam. And that's what we're seeing. You think it's you think insanity just grows on trees? No. Insanity is from God. God said in the end of days, I'm going to make country leaders commit country suicide. I'm gonna make country leaders and and and and uh legislation create laws that are going to end their countries. Bring in an entire society that is never going to let go of their ways in one shot to take over countries. That's what's happening in Islam. Everybody's saying it. Islam is taking over the world. Not with a sword, with an open pass. Come on in. Mikasa sucasa, whatever language Spanish, right? Mikasa sucasa. And then they write. They're like, Ken, your house is our house because they're taking over because in democracies, majority rules. And in the end of the day, by default, they're all going to be majorities. And we're going to have the fulfillment of the divine prophecy of God that Islam and Ishmael will rule in the end of days. But you know who will be the last man standing? Jacob. And those that hold on to the Torah and God because we're a miracle. We're God's greatest miracle. And not two billion, not 10 billion can get rid of us. That's why we're still here. And we'll be the last man standing. that religious Jewish man that I can't help but picture when I go to the Holocaust Museum standing in a row of people that were shot dead on the floor next to him with a bunch of Nazi soldiers smiling and laughing at him with broken to fill in standing there. That's us. And hopefully not through such hardships, but through God's revealed love and mercy, we will be the ones standing like he was standing to greet Mashiach and Hashem when this world becomes his again. That's how Kam Yakov was able to live and die a happy life and go to sleep because he knew he was coming back. And we're going to come back and we're coming back stronger than ever right now because the more anti- anti-semitism there is, it just means we're stronger. The stronger we are, the more we're going to be hated. And eventually, it'll all shift. And Hashem will say, "It's enough. Now it's time for love and goodness." And he'll accept us the way we are. And we this will end happily ever after with us where we belong in our little tiny blue dot will expand, which will expand with Msiah and Hashem and world peace.