Is This the End of Europe? Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Tonight, the world, of course, is full with the news of different things happening and so on, you know. I thought it would be really very, uh, significant to talk about something which, uh, in a certain sense, most people are unfamiliar with. There's something going on now which I think everybody should certainly be aware of. And that is the nations of the world. There's a tremendous unrest, or I should even say upheaval, in Europe. Tremendous. We're not looking here about an incident. We're looking at an attempt in many ways to, uh, shake severely the, uh, tranquility of Europe, especially in many of the countries on the European continent. Um, France, Spain, Portugal, uh, we have Italy, uh, we have Albania, and Germany, and, uh, Belgium, or whatever. But there are many, uh, countries that ostensibly are having tremendous amount of unrest and riots actually in the cities, significant cities, because what they protest as student unrest and so on. So I thought it's a really in many ways very important to talk about that. Uh, however, before I go on, let me just dedicate, offer dedication to this year. This year should be a merit for the health and service and success of the families of Regina Basse Yisrael, Benjamin Wolf, um, Ben Zvi Hirsch and um, Baruch ben Benjamin Wolf, Shmuel Ruvein ben Regina before Shlema and Leib should have Ben Feiga, Akiva ben Toyba, ben Feiga, and Akiva ben Toyba, Esther, uh, whoever needs should certainly have a full Shlema, the source of this year, and um, they should have tremendous uh, hatslacha, uh, and so on and further. >> [clears throat] >> So, what I'd like to do is talk about what is happening in the world and why. And I think it's very important for people to understand uh, now, remember one thing, >> [clears throat] >> we don't really know how the redemption unfolds, really, the exact way that it does. That is all [snorts] ultimately waiting to be experienced and so on. But, based on a knowledge of the divine plan, we have an idea of what should happen or could happen, uh, especially at the end of time. And that's what I want to talk about, >> [clears throat] >> what it seems is happening, the divine plan itself at the end of time. And uh, it in in many ways this certainly looks like uh we have an acceleration of what is going to happen at the end of time. So, I'm certainly going to talk about what's going on in Europe, explain based on the divine plan, which you will see is very different what people imagine. It's nothing like you can imagine what is happening and so on. So, I will explain uh what's going on and so on, you know. But, I think the the best way to start is that we are approaching the end of time. This is very important to understand. And there was an incident that happened several a month ago, 2 months ago, whatever it was, when Netanyahu came and he addressed the United Nations. And most people look at that as, "Well, okay, you know, that's understood why he would do that and so on." He certainly wanted to exonerate their feelings of Israel and so on. But, the way I see it, I see that he was compelled to visit. Why? This wasn't an accident. He's obviously trying to to defend the in the accusations of the nations of the world, the UN. And he defended it very well. Why? Why now? Why at all? I I feel that what the Ribono shel Olam is doing is he's warning the world of the end of time. And he's giving them a chance to do teshuvah. So, before you do teshuvah, you have to understand and know what you're accused of. So, as far as I see what he did, not that he knows this Netanyahu, but it certainly he did it whatever for his own reasons. But what he did is he laid out an accusation against many of the nations that pursue and accuse Israel of uh you know death to innocent people, you know, and so on. He accused them of hating Israel and false accusations that Israel is nothing more than genocide and so on, which of course is absurd for anybody who looks at the reality of the Middle East. Of course it's absurd. So, what Netanyahu did is he accused them of falsehood. That's what he did. So, what was the test? It's a warning. So, what God is putting them up to rebutting exactly what they accuse. And it is now up to them to listen to the charge and to ask themselves, "Maybe he's right. Let's examine the facts." What I'd ask them them to make up the ideas, let them examine what he's accusing them of, you know, cuz that's the first thing you have to do if you want to do teshuvah, repent. Instead, I think 80 or 90% of them walked out >> [clears throat] >> even before he spoke. So, what that does, it immediately condemns them that when God does take vengeance, which we will see, that's exactly what he's doing now. When he will do that, okay, and take revenge and so on, he will have be able to say to them, "I warned you. I gave you a chance. All I asked you was to listen to what he says and see and verify if there's any truth in it. That's all. Instead, you gave him no chance whatsoever because you walked out. And therefore, you can no longer say, "I didn't warn you. I did. You failed. And therefore, here comes the punishment for the entire United Nations. And when I mean the United Nations, I'm talking about the entire world. Cuz as far as I'm concerned, the UN is going from the land my going. That is the ultimate confrontation between the Jewish people and the UN, which is the entire world. And God gave them a chance to be accused and let's see what you do. Instead, what they committed was the height of absurdity and they just walked out. And so on. Therefore, the question is why did God do that? Well, he wants to give them a chance where they can say, "What do you do you know, what do you want from us? What did we do?" And he's going to say, "This is why I did what I did. I'm giving you a chance to repent. To return. By having him accuse you of exactly what I'm going to accuse you of. And let's see what you do. And you lost your chance. So, don't say I didn't warn you. I believe that's why. And guess what? You're now seeing what God warned the world he would do and he's now doing it in Europe. Right. One comes right after the other and so on. Cuz as we will see, that's really what's happening. And so on. And we'll even see either further, and so on. Besides that, there are other interesting ideas. So, that's now what's [clears throat] happening, and so on, you know. What was interesting is the incident of the airplane, Fly Dubai, which was clearly a miracle. I mean, the odds of that plane coming out of that dive before it crashed, it's a miracle. Before the entire world, and so on, you know. That Fly Dubai, because God wants to show the world and raised the status and the stature of the Jewish people in front of the entire world. You see? So, the world respects heroism, especially if that You see? So, this raises the stature of the Jewish people, which, by the way, will continue. The Jews will look better and better. Already, the Jewish the world sees the Jews as one of the greatest intelligence agencies that they possess. It's just incredible how they know everything going on in Iran, and so on. They already see the superb uh intelligence agency uh intelligence situation status of the Israeli people, and so on. So, that is a tremendous, uh you know, acceleration and height of the Jewish people in terms of their potential and their actual skills, and so on, you know. So, we're already seeing that. >> [clears throat] >> Uh in any case, uh so, that's also what happened now, which is unusual. Israel usually doesn't perform something that everybody can see it and miraculously. So, that's an important concept, also. In In any case, it magnifies the status of the Jews in front of the entire world. Now, I'm going [clears throat] to go into what is behind all this. And you are going to be going to be very shocked at what the Rebbe himself says as Yeshayahu, what he's going to do at the end of time. And this is me repeating what I'm going to read from Yeshayahu, what he says he's going to do to the nations of the world. And you're going to hear, and you're going to say, "Boy, that sounds awfully familiar with what is going on today." Cuz we're not looking here at the uh downfall of a nation, you know. We're looking at the end of a civilization. It's much worse than we think. In any case, but you first have to know, which I've spoken about before, but it's always worth repeating, the true concept of the divine plan. We know that God created two worlds. One is called Olam Hazeh, this world, and the other is called Olam Haba. And they're really two realities. They're really two different realities, you see. One is the material reality, which is Olam Hazeh, this world, and the other is a spiritual reality, you see. I really should say that the spiritual reality is really part of the material reality. But because Olam Haba is not spiritual, it's divine. As they say in Hebrew, it's Eloki. We don't know what kind of reality that is. You see, but it's the reality of God's residence, which is different. In other words, that's where He has allowed us to experience Him directly. Also, we're not looking here at Olam Hazeh, right? And we're not looking really here at the a material world or even a spiritual world. We're looking at a world beyond the spiritual. It is not a world of angels. It is a world of Elokey, divine. That's an important idea because many people think that God is spiritual. That could not be further from the truth. He's not spiritual in that sense. He is divine, which is far infinitely greater than a spiritual domain. It's That's an idea which is really very worthwhile knowing and so on. Now, but what He does, He does connect to us and relate to us in terms of Sefirot, which are forces. God emits divine force, and they are called Sefirot. We can look at them as sparks of divinity. We don't know what they are, but they can create They create reality if God wills them to do that. So, they are what's called the ultimate energy source, really, of everything and so on. And they are in many ways almost infinitely powerful. And they all emanate from God, and they can affect incredible change. Now, >> [clears throat] >> we know that God has a plan in mind. Very simply, He issues commandments, >> [snorts] >> mitzvahs, and he wants us to do commandments and so on. If we sin, which means we disobey what he asked, he allows us to do teshuvah. He allows us to repent, to regret what we did, and to repent. And if we don't, then he allows us, or he gives us, I should say, yissurin, suffering, so that we can undo, you see, we can undo the concept of what we sinned, and so on. Those are the three objectives, mitzvahs, teshuvah, and yissurin. That's an important concept because this is the wherewithal of how we change reality from Olam Hazeh to Olam Haba. This is it. There is no other way. Either do mitzvahs, commandments, or you do not mitzvahs, but you do teshuvah if you sinned. You see, and if you sinned, you repent, and if you don't repent, then you will have to go through suffering. That is the basic plan that God has stored for us. Another very important idea, which I spoke about in the last year, is the concept of our relationship with the Satan. We have a certain relationship with the Satan, whereby we can bring down sefirot. If we do the will of God, then our job, obviously, when you think about it, really is two ideas. One is by doing his mitzvahs, we bring down these sparks of holiness, tremendous energy, ultimately to change the world. We bring it down. >> [clears throat] >> And if we don't, if we sin, then we do not bring it down, we give it over to the Satan. He takes those sparks and he uses it for his own purposes because he needs that energy that we need. We both vie for the same energy source, namely the sparks of holiness. So, if we don't take it down, then it's transferred to him and that's called his Yod Hey Vav Hey. Means he nourishes from the divine sparks that we would have gotten had we done the mitzvahs and so on. And if not and if we don't get the mitzvahs, we don't do it, then he takes right, those sparks to himself. And that gives him enormous power. If that's the case, then we need to extract those [clears throat] sparks from him. We got to take away his food, so to speak, and we need to restore it to the side that that contains those sparks. So, either we're bringing down sparks because of our mitzvahs or if we repent and or we suffer, we take the sparks out of the Satan. That's a very important idea. Now, >> [clears throat] >> in order to test us, we go into many situations. And we went into the following situations, which is really uh the way we travel. We went to Egypt first and we were there for hundreds of years suffering under their uh under the slavery and so on. And we were tested in Egypt. Then after Egypt, I'm obviously skipping a lot. We went to Babylon. Then after Babylon, we were in Persia. After Persia, we were in Greece. And after Greece, we were in Rome. And what is interesting about that is the concept that we are in these five nations, which are then powered by the Satan to tempt us, right? To tempt us and to try to get us to sin, so it can take those sparks itself and have the power to harm us. Uh, you see. And uh, if we withstand the temptations that exist in these five nations, then we will survive because we withstood the test. What we do then is we take out whatever sparks he has gotten from the Jewish people, right? We take it out and we restore it to the other side. And what happens to those nations that represent the temptations of the Satan, they collapse. They disappear. And that is why you do not see any of the nations of antiquity at all. It's not cuz they disappeared cuz that is the evolution of nations. The reason why nations disappear after we leave is because we have taken out sparks that the Satan possesses and is able to empower these nations. He takes it. You see, we take it out because we've done the mitzvahs or we've suffered or whatever, and the nation collapses. So, we are the cause of the collapse of the nations of antiquity. Now, besides them, there's three other let's call them nations, okay? That also we have to contend with, especially at the end of time. What are they? They are Ishmael, who was the son of Avraham, okay? His descendants are the Arabs and the Muslims and so on. So, we have to contend with them. The second nation is called Amalek, Amalekites, of which is more of a philosophy today than an actual people. >> [clears throat] >> And we have to contend with Jews who wish to abandon Judaism, the Erev Rav, and therefore try to influence us to disregard or ignore God and just do what we want, so on. They are also in a certain sense Satanic, even though they may be driven to do it, but they certainly are a bad influence on us and so on. So, it comes out we have eight different nations or forces that tempt us and get us to try to abandon God. >> [clears throat] >> In any case, uh >> [clears throat] >> let us go further and get closer to the problem of today. You have today, if we look at Esau, when he was born, I'm skipping obviously a lot because I want to go over the entire history of the world. Big task, but I'm trying to do that and show how it connects to today's rebellion against society. Esau, which is the of course the brother of Jacob, had or became what's called Edom, the and so on. They were obviously in the beginning they were tribes. And Esau is a nation, became a nation called Edom. And they obviously and so on are in many ways adversaries to the Jewish people. In any case, Edom became Rome. This is what the Gamara says. Rome is really Edom. How it changed and so on is not particularly understood, but Rome is an incarnate of Esau. First Edom and now Esau. In any case, he is the representation of Rome. Rome became a religion, Christianity. So, that's really who Rome is. And Western and Christianity becomes Western civilization, which is a very important concept. That's really what Western civilization is. It's basically the Christian religion that dominates the West. Now, >> [clears throat and cough] >> what is interesting is who is Western civilization? Well, Western civilization, very interestingly enough, which I'm saying is Christianity, which is Rome, which is Edom, which is Esau. >> [clears throat] >> Esau had three characteristics. That's what he had. What were they? Esau was a tremendous haughty, arrogant person, a ba'al ga'avah. So, he that characteristic really is prevalent in a nation, the concept of ga'avah, arrogance, tremendous haughtiness, and so on is tremendously present in the nation. Who's that nation? That nation is now part of Europe. That's Russia. Russia is a very unfortunately certainly under communism tremendous atheistic ideas tremendous arrogance and so on. So, Russia certainly under communism or atheism or whatever represents Russia. Esau also became tremendous deceit. Esau was known as a fraud, an impostor. So, he becomes Europe. Europe is a very fraudulent place. It's full of deception. It's called Myanmar. Esau had a characteristic where really he was an impostor. That's basically what he was. And so on. That's the concept of Europe, you know? You know, they tell you to turn the other cheek if somebody slaps you, meanwhile it's your cheek that they turn, not theirs, whatever. And uh the fact that they butchered so many people over the thousands of years how many Jews they've killed in other nations in spreading the religion of Christianity condemns them really in a terrible way. This is what you do because somebody is not Christian. In any case uh Europe is what's called Myanmar or fraudulent or you know, certainly uh like I say, a fraud and a and a fake, right? >> [clears throat] >> Then Esau had a third characteristic called Ta'avah. And Ta'avah is pleasure. Esau has that. And who is the pleasure a that represents Esau. The pleasure nation is the US, United States. In fact, we know that Esau was very good, right? In terms of kibbud av v'em, of honoring your father and mother. He was one of the greatest people ever known to respect his father, certainly, and probably his mother. Okay, you know? Uh and it's only basically in America where you have Mother's Day and Father's Day. That's what they get. That's ingrained in their nature. So, you now have what? We now have three nations, which is Western civilization, which is Edom, and they represent uh at the one a nation called Edom, in order to test the Jews about their faith and loyalty to God, and so on. Now, [clears throat] let's take a look in terms of what they do. The Jews are commanded to do what? Basically, as I said, according to the divine plan, the Jews are commanded to be righteous. That's what God wants. He wants righteousness. Okay? Number one. He wants the Jewish people to love one another. They have tremendous achdus, or unity. That's what he also wants. And he also wanted them to promote righteousness. Besides the fact that they are righteous, he wants them to promote it to the nations [clears throat] of the world. That's what he basically wanted uh from the Jews in a in a very general way. Instead, what did they exhibit at the time of the second temple at the at the end, God destroyed the temple. Why? Cuz they exhibited tremendous sin and shame on them. Hatred of one another in whatever form it took and so on, you know. And they spoke tremendous amount of Russian horror. So, as a result of that, God said, "Of course I want you to remain righteous and continue to promote me, but the promotion takes second seat in a certain way." The Rambam says that it was a Previously, the task of the Jews to promote God, to promote belief and trust in God into the Jews and somehow they would get rid of paganism. Instead, because the Jews had tremendous amount of >> [clears throat and cough] >> hatred and strife amongst themselves, the Rambam says that they Therefore, it was taken away from them and God decided that it would be given to the Christians, >> [clears throat] >> which is very interesting, which shows you that he gave it to Esau and so on, Christianity, that they can have a share by doing this, by spreading a belief in what? In many Messianic concepts. And that was their purpose. The purpose is for that. You [clears throat] see, uh What concepts should they spread? Concepts of Messiah, which which was unknown in the in the ancient world. Um [clears throat] that they should spread concepts of a Messiah, a judgment period, that there will be a judgment, and you know, at the end, that there even will be an end. Cuz according to them, what end? You die and that's the end of it. There's no hereafter and so on. So, he wanted Christianity under the charge of Asaph to spread the the the ideas that Jews would have spread. You see? And they would take over and that would give them tremendous merit. But he did not want them to try to be a rival to the Jewish people. And as a result of the rivalry, to kill the Jews at all. He did not want that. What happened? They jealous they developed a tremendous jealously. And as a result of that, they became rivals. And once they became rivals, they condemned the Jews and they killed them. They killed Jews for 2,000 years. We have no idea how many Jews died under them for 2,000 [clears throat] years, which is already, you think about it, a long a long time and so on, you know. If you think about what they did, pogroms, right? This is what they did. Expulsions, Holocaust, and uh Crusades, Inquisitions. This has been the history of Christianity with Judaism and so on for thousands of years, which they were pretty forbidden to do. You know, the Jews were left on their own to be religious and righteous and so on. Not to contend with Christianity as a rival. >> [clears throat] >> And Christianity's purpose, that's guy That's why God made it famous or he allowed it to dominate the world religions. Uh you know, certainly in the West and so on. He gave it that hatzlochah, that success in order for it, you know, to promote God and so on, not to kill the Jews. But instead, they used it as in rivalry to kill Who knows how many Jews they killed, which is really If you think about it, is really incredible. In fact, if you want to think about something, this is interesting. Historians estimate that 2,000 years ago, there were approximately uh 9 million Jews in the world in the time of the Roman time. It was 9 million Jews. Interesting. They also estimate that what there was at that time about 25 million Chinese. Well, if you think about it, let's say, 25 million Chinese 2,000 years ago and then 9 million Jews. Okay. How many Chinese are there today, 2,000 years later? 1.4 billion Chinese. Right? So, if that's the case, if that's the normal reproduction rate, how many Jews should there be? Well, there should be about 500 million Jews. Right? Chinese would be 1.4 billion cuz they started off more. And according to the Jews, there should be at least 500 million Jews and so on. Well, if you think about it, after not 2,000 years, but after 4,000 years from Abraham, Avraham How many Jews are there today in the world? Well, maybe there are, let's say, 15 and 1/2 max. 16 million Jews. What? That's nothing. There should be at least 500 million Jews. Can you imagine what that would be for the Jewish people and so on? Yet, there's only 16 million Jewish people and there's 1.4 billion, right? Chinese. How's that possible? They're not that far apart in numbers 2,000 years ago. And the answer is stunning cuz that's how many Jews really died for 2,000 years when you think about it. We should have been at least 500 million Jewish people, which is incredible. Instead, what do we come out to be? 15, 16 million Jews. Where are the rest? And the answer is they were all dead. Right? That's how many people were killed in all those things that I mentioned. The pogroms, expulsions, crusades, inquisitions, right? All those things devastated the Jewish people. Right? This is what the Christians or the Catholics, whatever you want to call them, did to the Jewish people. Now, do you think that God, even though he allowed it to happen, which whatever his reasoning is and so on, do you think that's what he's going to let undone or unpunished? No. Not at all. The amount of Jews that are dead staggering. Imagine how much we would have been had this not happened or Christianity not done this to the Jewish people. You see. In any case, this is what happened and so on. So, what did God do to try to mitigate this? It's very interesting. He assigned that role, according to the Rambam, to the you know, the Jews would keep of course their task, divine agenda, to be righteous and so on. Love one one another and so on. But he would give the idea of promoting these values, messianic values of a Messiah of an end of a judgment of mankind. You see, of a a task to be righteous, he would actually give that to Christianity. That was their role. And that's why he gave incredible success to their founder. Because what were the odds that somebody crucified on a cross, right? Killed as a criminal against Rome and so on, that he would become a world religion, one of the greatest forces on the earth and so on. There was no chance. There were no odds and so on. But it happened. Why? Because he had a task for the Christians. That's why. Now, if however Christianity would decide to kill the Jews because they don't accept their founder, what would they do? They would begin to kill, persecute the Jewish people. That's exactly what they did. Also, what God did, which is interesting, is you could see Ishmael, the son of Avram, who did teshuvah in his life. He actually repented. You see, Ishmael, that he comes up in front of God and says, "Please, you gave the ability of Esau to do something for you, you know, and so on, to at least have a belief, you know, of a Messiah, some kind of a belief that helps people change and so on. Please give my people, the Arabs, give them also the merit of getting away from paganism, which is really what they were all in. They were all pagans at the turn of the millennium, right? Please give them the right or the the merit of also being having a certain level of truth besides Esau and so on. And God said, "I will do it, cuz you did teshuvah, you repented. I will give your descendants that emerge from you also the ability to promote God." And not only that, because Ishmael did teshuvah, repented, while he was alive, right? Not like Esau, who I mentioned could have repented and didn't, you know, the merit to do that, I will give your children also the merit to know the truth much and their their knowledge of the truth will be much closer to the truth than the children of Esau, which it was. But, there's a condition. They will be my weapon, my instrument, to stop the Christians from destroying the Jews. And therefore, we see the birth of a tremendous clash between Islam and Christianity. Cuz the purpose of Islam is not merely just to give them a merit in order to know the truth and to be more righteous and so on. You see? But it's also to protect the Jews. How? By killing the Christians when they start killing the Jews. Right. >> [clears throat] >> So he gave Christianity a mortal enemy. Right. And this goes on for 1,500 years. That's how many years this has been going on. A long time. You see? And as a result there has been a clash of these two religions for enormous amount of time. >> [clears throat] >> Where do we see the clash? We see it all over the place. The conquest >> [clears throat] >> of the Middle East by the Arabs. We see that by Islam. That's where we see it. We see it in the what? In the Crusades. There was several Crusades, uh battles between the Muslims and the Christians. The Crusades. We see it many times in many in fact Spain where the Almohads, the Arabs, went over into Spain. But God stopped them because he must have Christianity exist and flourish in order to promote him. That he still wanted. So he stopped the Almohads from invading and taking over Spain. So they only have small because had they taken over Spain, then they would have taken over Europe. In fact, they tried again to take over Europe. I think in the fifth and 16th century or whatever around then, they wanted to take over Vienna. That was a great battle of Vienna between the Ishmael between the Arabs and the Christians and the Arabs lost. Cuz had they taken over Vienna, which was the gateway to Europe then, then Christianity would have ceased to exist. Then the Arabs would have taken over the entire Europe. Uh so you see, you ask yourself, why did he want to preserve this clash throughout history? And the answer is because you need a force to protect the Jews to that they should do the righteousness and the love one another that they need to do. And Christianity and Islam have their own purposes and so on. But I must leave the Arabs to do what they can do and so on. But because the Arabs also persecuted the Jews, they were not the Christians were not the only one, but the Arabs when never as bad or as treacherous or as severe as the Christians what they did to the Jews. Holocaust, inquisitions, being burned at the stake. What are you kidding me? You know, for what and so on, you know. Or the pogroms in cities, the killing of women, raping them, children and so on. This is what they do for what? Cuz they don't believe in your founder, therefore they destroy you, destroy them. They were much worse than the Arabs and so on. And the Arabs just considered them dimmies, which means second class citizens. And then of course passed rules which are terrible and so on, you know. There was no question that there was persecution by the Arabs, but nowhere near the butchery of the Catholics, of the Christians and so on. So therefore, ultimately, God preserved both of them. And that's a very important idea. The The Christian the Muslims exist to preserve the Jews by killing the Christians or vying with them for dominance and so on. This is a very very important idea. And so on. But what we do see which is very interesting is that the Arabs never penetrated Europe. They never penetrated it neither in Spain nor in Vienna >> [clears throat] >> because God said no, I have to have two distinct nations or two distinct religions. You see, one has to promote my name throughout the world which the Christians did. They went all over the world and made missionaries and so on and their missionaries, you know, converted many many people to believe in a God and so on, you know. And that's what happened. So that that transpired and so on. And the Arabs did their thing and so on. However, what's important to see is why God allows them to exist and so on. But what is wrong on both parts is that they both killed Jew harmed Jews but certainly not like Christianity and so on. That's a very important idea to understand. They never penetrated the Christian Christianity's hold on Europe. They just remained in the Middle East. But that is changing and I will explain. However this [clears throat] is all good until the end. Cuz the Ribono Shel Olam wants Christianity to keep spreading the concepts or the ideas of Judaism cuz that's really what it is. It's It's all Jewish, which they took from us. In fact, I will tell you something which I really want to reserve, because I have to finish the uh shear on the Mashiach ben David, which I haven't done. Uh so, I want to do that next time, and so on. But, I will tell you something very interesting. Uh Christianity is really Judaism in a Christian veneer. Or, I should say it's really Chris- It's really I don't want to get into that, but Paul had a problem, and he realized something. How do I make an individual who was killed, crucified by the Romans, as a criminal, right? How do I make him into a being, a person, that can be worshipped? That's a big problem. Cuz why would anybody worship a criminal that was killed by Rome? As a criminal. I'm not looking here like an upstanding citizen. They killed him because he was a rebel. He was saying to people that he's a king, or whatever he was saying. So, Paul came after him, had a problem. So, Paul Paul realized something, which he knew. There's a concept which I had mentioned 2 weeks ago, or whatever it was, of Mashiach ben David, that he is an individual who's really a Mashiach ben Joseph, that has taken on the role of a rescuer, a savior of Jews that won't make it into Olam Haba. Which, when you think about it, is incredible. If you remember from the last year, that his dialogue with God, that he accepted the suffering to save the Jews that won't make it into Olam Haba. He accepted that suffering that every Jew makes it into Olam Haba. If you recall, he knew that. And this has been part of Judaism. That Midrash was written at the beginning of time or when they wrote the Midrash, it was about a discussion between Messiah ben Joseph and later on they call Messiah that same individual become Messiah ben Don. That discussion happened at the beginning of time, creation. You see. So, what he did, very interestingly enough, is he applied that to their founder, Yeshua. That's all he did. He took the concept of saving the Jews to saving mankind. Voila! There it was. He now had a reason why you could worship Yeshua. That's what he did, which is astounding how much of their religion is nothing more than Judaism. Uh I just wanted to mention that, you know. So, for this, they go and kill Jews for 1,500 years and there's no 500 million Jews for this? In any case, I thought that would be of interest to people where he gets that theological point. >> [clears throat] >> In any case, I want to read Isaiah, Yeshayahu. Okay? 63. What will be at the end of time? And this is very, very important because it describes exactly what is happening in Europe, Russia, and the United States. Right. We are part of that. So, let me read it. And then I will try to explain it. >> [clears throat] >> The possuk starts in chapter 63 book Isaiah. And Isaiah is a prophet of what we know one of the greatest of the prophets. Yesha'yahu, Isaiah of the Jewish prophets. And here's what he says. Now, we know he's a prophet, which means that he sees prophetically means by divine inspiration. This isn't hallucinations. This is a divine vision that God is giving him to communicate with him. And you know, and so on. And this is what he sees. Just listen carefully. >> [clears throat] >> Who is this coming from Edom? This is what Isaiah says. Mi zeh bo me Edom? Who is this coming from Edom? Cuz he sees God coming from the land of Edom. That's where he's coming from. And with what? With bloodied or sullied garments. He sees God with his garments. Of course, it's all symbolic. This is all part of the prophetic illusion. You know, God doesn't wear garments. He couldn't possibly see God even without a garment or with a garment. But, the prophetic vision is that God has a garment. And that tells you but it's not only a garment. You know, it's a garment that is soaked in blood. Right. God is walking toward him in a garment, probably a royal garment that is soaked in blood. And he's coming from Bozrah. Right? And Bozrah is uh Persia. In any case, this So, he says, Isaiah says to himself, this one who's majestic in his raiment, gooded with his abundant strength. It's God come to me. Right? With a garment soaked in blood, with incredible strength. That's what he the vision is all about, and so on. And God says to him, it is I. God says, it is me. I am God who speaks with righteousness, abundantly able to save. Right? I'm speaking to you with righteousness, which means that I'm going to tell you what I did, which is completely just and righteous. Cuz when you look at a person soaked in blood, you know that he probably had just killed a lot of people, and the blood got it got on him. So, God tells him, don't worry. It's all just and righteous, and so on. So, Isaiah, who's afraid, that's why he's saying this, as the commentaries say. He's afraid. When God comes to you in a garment soaked in blood, what are you afraid of? That he's after you. It's me sadin. It's the attribute of justice. That's what it means that he's wearing red garments. He's God has come with you as a judge to exact punishment. So, Isaiah was afraid that he was coming from, you know, to do this to the Jewish people. He was afraid. So, Isaiah, Yeshayahu, asks him, "Why is there red on your raiment? Why? And why are you Why are your garments like those of someone treading in a wine vat?" You know, in the old days, they used to make wine. What did they do? They stepped on the grapes. They would crush them with their feet. And I hope they washed their feet. But, in any case, they stepped on the grapes. That's how they used to do it. All right? And the And the the grape juice used to spurt out of the grapes. And that's how they would make a wine. That's how they would get the wine out of the grape to make wine. So, he says, "You look like somebody Those guys who step on the grapes, and all the juice comes out, and therefore, obviously, it's going to stain their clothing. Why you look Why do you look like that? Like you just stepped on something." >> [clears throat] >> So, God says, which is really incredibly graphic, "I alone have trodden a wine press." Means, "You're right. I stepped on a that what is symbolically a wine press. I alone. Nobody helped me. I did it myself. Not a man from the nations was with me. Nobody assisted me to do justice." That's what God is really saying. "I did justice, and I did it alone. Nobody would come with me to do justice. What does that mean?" That means everybody else was not interested in justice. Whatever God was addressing, the justice, nobody else was interested. They couldn't care less. That is an accusation of mankind. I That's where you have to read this. God is saying, "I am coming to do justice, which is real justice." Cuz knows what he's doing. And he obviously in a certain sense asked mankind to assist him to do justice so they can have a reward for assisting God. So God said, "Nobody was with me." And what does that mean? Nobody cared. Nobody would side with me to do justice. So therefore, I trod on them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Can you imagine the [clears throat] the imagery here? Where God is stepping on mankind. Who Edom? Who is Edom? He's stepping on Rome in this in this characterization. Remember, this is a prophecy. No, it's nobody would help me with with doing justice because they obviously committed a terrible sin that required that I kill them. That's what he was doing. What happens [clears throat] when you step on somebody and his blood squirts out? Uh he's finished. And so on. Why is God doing that? Cuz they deserve death through justice. But nobody would help me do it. So I had to do it myself. And what did I do? I stepped on them in my anger. This is what it is. Me this I did. I was angry with what they did. And I trampled on them. Imagine the imagery. In my wrath. And their lifeblood spurted out [snorts] on my garments. So their blood spurted out. Could you imagine the imagery of this? What God is saying what would appear to be incredible brutality but is really the administration of justice. Uh you see. So I soiled all my garments. And now you know why my garments are red cuz I did the act of a judge. I executed justice. Right? And I squirted them. I stepped on them. Right? And of course they all died. Imagine God talking this way. Cuz you know and so on. Yet this is all righteousness. Now but this is important. Why did you do it? Why did you kill the Cuz that's where he's coming from. He's coming from Edom. You see? Why did you do it? And I want to point out something which is not obvious. What does it mean I stepped on them like a wine vat? Obviously it's not a wine vat. He killed them and whatever. Why does he use the imagery or metaphor for wine vat? Because he wants to tell you who in Edom that I come from. Okay, ask yourself. If Edom is Europe, what country is famous for its wine? You know what it is. It's France. They are the ones that have Bordeaux, the Bordeaux wines. They are the ones that have this. So God is using an imagery that's familiar with that location in Edom so everybody will understand what country I just stepped on. So God is alluding to the fact through a hint that I'm coming from France. Right. >> [clears throat] >> And I stepped on them which means I'm crushing their civilization because [clears throat] of what they did. And France is obviously Christian. And what was what they what these guys did and so on. In any case, so that alludes to France. The wine vat uh uh Now what God says is interesting. When does this take place? And why did you do it? That's what Isaiah wants to know. So, here's what God says. For a day of vengeance is in my heart. Now is the retribution time for what they did. They deserved to die. This is vengeance. Vengeance means it's some type of reciprocity of what they did, which was terrible, right? And it's also the year of my redemption has come. It's the end of time, right? Now is the end of time, he says, and the year of my redemption has come. That's why I'm doing it. I finally said to myself, "Enough is enough. What they did to my children over the thousands of years, enough is enough." Vengeance, which really means not revenge revenge, but then justice. You see? That's what God says. And so on. I looked, but there was no helper. Nobody wanted to help me do ju- I'm talking about doing justice. It's like somebody kills in front of you, and you say to people around you, "Let's get him. Let's stop him." And they do nothing, and they all walk away. Not interested. They themselves are guilty. And so on. >> [clears throat] >> So, I was astounded that they had They weren't interested. Well, there's no but there was no supporter. What does it sound like? It sounds like Netanyahu at the UN. I accuse you, all these nations, of murder and falsely accusing we of doing what? Killing people? You right? That's it. That's it That's That's momish it is. Was there any supporter? No. 95% of them walked out. Instead of assisting me to accurately charge us which we did nothing. So then God says, "I stepped on peoples in my anger." You hear the kind of imagery? "I stepped on people." This is God talking, right? "In my anger, which was completely justified, [clears throat] and made them drunk with my wrath. And I And I threw them And I threw their lifeblood to the ground." You hear this kind of imagery? This is what is happening in Europe. As I just said, right? What does that mean? This is a very profound concept. What God is saying is at the end of time vengeance will be done. By who? By Edom, right? Who's Edom? Christianity, right? Certainly Europe. Time for vengeance at the end of time what they did to the Jews. They were supposed to do something limited. But that kill for 1,500 years, when you're looking at, you know, burning at the stake in Spain, the Holocaust 6 million Jews in the ovens. What is this? Now it's time to get revenge on these people, right? And in any case, therefore, that's what God says, which is an incredible concept. And like I said, it As far as I'm concerned, it alludes to France. Wine press, cuz that's what's very frequent in France and so on, you know. Uh This is what God says, which is when you think about it really incredible and so on, you know. But there's something very disturbing. What? Wait a minute. Who's doing this? God is using >> [clears throat] >> the Arabs, Islam, our old friend Ishmael, as Remember he was the block that prevents Christianity from killing the Jews, right? That's what he's doing. He's now calling out his instrument destroy the Europeans. But how? For 1,500 years, they were never able to get into really the Christian countries, right? They were always stopped by God cuz he wants them to exist. Like I said, to promote. But for the first time, they're in those countries. They're the one destroying Europe. How did they do it? Because what God did was astounding. He put into the mind of the leaders of Europe to allow immigration by the Arabs in European countries. But that was absolutely idiotic. Why? I mean, it's just incredible how stupid and I have to say this was that decision. For instance, Merkel. I think her name was Angela Merkel. She allowed this to happen. She allowed the Arabs, the Muslims, to immigrate to Europe, to Germany. And they're all over Germany. Why did she do that? Maybe she feels guilty what the Germans did to other people, so now she want to come across as a kind woman. But it's idiotic what she did. Why? Cuz Arabs never assimilate. That's why. If you let them in, sure they want to come in cuz you're a much higher standard of living than the Arab countries. But, they'll never adopt any of your customs. Nothing. That means they will not speak German. They will not adopt the cultures, the beliefs of German, and so on. That's the same thing and then once she did it, it opened up to Europe. France did it. Spain did it. They all did it. Oh, yeah, why not? Let's take them in. But, fools, they will not assimilate in your country. They will gather together amongst themselves. And they will take and destroy you. France? It's only a matter of time until they burn down the Louvre, right? Cuz they're against all those paintings, right? And so on. It's against Arab Islam to have those kind of paintings in the Louvre and so on, you know? Uh How's France going to feel when their Louvre burns down? When they destroy their Eiffel Tower? Do they have any idea what's at stake by these people rebelling? And the people rebelling, right? They're not students. Many of them and they're well-funded. Many of them are Arabs. It is Islam and so on, you know? Therefore, their civilization is going to die. That's what's happening. For the first time in history, the Muslims actually penetrated France, Europe for the first time. Because the other way, which was war, they never got in. But, Europe actually let them in. God put it in mind to let them in. Why? Like it says in the [clears throat] "I will destroy them, their civilization." In other words, you don't want Jews, and that's what you've demonstrated for thousands of years, 8,000 years, or whatever, 1,500 years. Great, I will give you Muslims. Let's see if you like them. Let's see how you get along with them, and this is the result. Of course, what you're watching is Isaiah 63. That's really what you're watching, and God says, "This is vengeance." And at the the time of my redemption has come. Right, and it's not just in Paris, it's in Marseille, and all the other French. And it's in Spain, Barcelona, whatever. It's in Portugal, it's in Italy, it's in Germany. You see, it's in Belgium, it's in Greece. It's Europe, and it's only started now. And now you understand the connection between Netanyahu, right, and why he did what he did, to warn the nations what God is going to do. Cuz God has made them, forced them to allow the Arabs to come in. You see, but in a way that sounds legal. Well, why not? Sure, why not? Cuz they don't assimilate, and when they don't assimilate, right, they will take you over, cuz that's what Arabs want to do. They want to take the nations of Christianity over. They think it's a mitzvah. That's what Allah willed, and so on, right? So, therefore, they want to take you over, and do what? And introduce Sharia law, and so on. It's only a matter of time until it happens to England, and so on. This is what's happening. Isaiah 63 is what we are seeing, you know. The real problem is what the real problem is. Now, it's not just happening to Europe. Russia. Russia is has been basically People realized they woke up with Ukraine. You mean Ukraine actually beat Russia? And they stopped them from taking them over? I mean Ukraine looked like a third world nation. And that actually was prevented. Right? They prevented Russia from taking them over. And so on, which is when you think about it, it's incredible. Russia was always feared to be formidable. And now everybody sees that Russia is nothing more than a paper tiger. In fact, if it wasn't for their missiles, the nuclear missiles and so on, people would laugh at Russia because they're really a backward country. They're a third world country. Just go to Russia and check out their grocery store. There's nothing there. You know? Only the very rich can afford. And not only that, 35,000 men died in the war in 1 month. Imagine what that is. That's 1.5 million people Russian soldiers have died. You call that Russia strong? Of course not. It's a joke. So, Russia's reputation has been destroyed in terms of being a formidable opponent and so on, you know? Their soldiers are dying left and right. In fact, Putin needs to make peace. Cuz he's losing the youth at an incredible rate. Does this sound like a formidable enemy to you? And Ukraine Ukraine is a basket case. Ukraine it would probably cost $6 I don't know how many trillion dollars to restore that place. And so on, you know? So, Ukraine is certainly dying. Or basically it's better said it's probably dead. And so on. So, you have that part. And what's tragic, guess what? US. What is happening in the United States? Well, God apparently is very mad at Trump. His job, and that's why he was saved by the bullet. His job was to take out Iran cuz God wants to remove the evil of Ishmael, the evil of Islam. He wants to get rid of it cuz they are responsible for enormous amount of destruction of the world itself. Just take a look what they've been doing and doing for the last uh you know, 47 years and so on, you know. But, he has not. He's playing around with them. He's negotiating with them. You don't negotiate with Hitler. Tragically, they have made him Trump look like a fool cuz everybody knows you can't trust these people. In fact, they restarted their nuclear program. Of course, he didn't know that that that's what they I don't understand what kind of leader is he that he doesn't understand the nature of his enemy that every five-year-old can tell you what they're going to do. But, whatever he did, he allowed them to continue. And he uh and and and in many ways, that's what he should have done. In many ways, he failed. Yeah, he did tremendous economic success. That's very nice. But, you know, the real success do what God assigned you to do, which he didn't. Uh >> [clears throat] >> we have to worry about America. In seven or eight days, whatever it is, is a test. If God decides, he can destroy the United States. Very simple. The DSA the Democratic Socialist Party, they are destroying the United States. It's very obvious. They're crazy. This is not a Democratic Party. They stole the name of the party. This is no longer Democratic. It's very obvious. How can anybody will for them? Yet, they're predicting that they will win win the house. How can anybody vote for the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America? It's ridiculous. And what about all the progressives and the liberals? And what about the Islams, the Muslims? Um Madani [clears throat] runs New York, destroying New York. It's It's very obvious. Everybody's fleeing. New York New York is going to be a half into what it was. Do we realize what the future of America is? We have to hope that God is marachim on America, that since they have done so many good things for the Jewish people, even though there's so many as so much anti-Semitism, but they have done so much by allowing the Jews to learn their Torah, to practice their religion. They've done tremendous amount of chessed and sickness for the Jewish people. We have to hope that God will have what? Tremendous mercy, and he will not do what he says here. He won't do it only to Europe and to Russia or whatever the other countries and not do it to America. But there's one more thing we have to worry. And that is in the old days, Islam would have to war with Christianity. Today, it doesn't have to war at all. It's invited in to America or anywhere. So, they don't even have to make war. They just enter America because they're invited in. And of course, they never assimilate. Just take a look at where the Arabs are. They don't assimilate and so on. So, America is really at a tremendous danger point in terms of what happens to America. It can easily go down the tubes, easily. And we're very close to that point. And there's something else also. In the old days, it used to be as far as I can see, in the old days, war was difficult. You need missiles, you need bombs, and so on. Today, you don't need any of that to the conquer America. You know, you could take out America in one day. The electric grid. It's unprotected. Very minimally. If you take out the electric grid, that's the end of electricity in America. And it would take, even if you could restore it, months. Can you survive without electricity for one day? It runs everything. Imagine no heat, no phone, no nothing, no banks, no business, no stores, nothing, cuz there's no electricity. And America keeps the system, grid, the electric grid, functioning without any protection. Fortunately, I heard that they're trying to protect that system, that they're now assigning an agency to protect the grid. Cuz that could take out America in one day, and that's the end of America. You can't last more than a day without electricity. No food, no refrigeration, no air conditioning, no nothing, and so on. So, it is now possible for Iran, in a super cell in America, to take out the system. I'm sure they know where the electrics are, and so on. We live in a very dangerous time, and I'm showing you where it comes from. It comes from Isaiah, right, Yeshayahu 63, verse one, where God says what he's going to do Christianity, because of what they did to Jews for 1,500 years continuously. Well, look. Let's hope uh that this is not what's going to happen. I personally believe that it will not happen to America cuz I believe America plays contributory part in bringing the Messiah and so on. Cuz God needs a country that fundamentally wants righteousness even if they're led astray by some insane party called DSA and so on, you know. But Americans basically are decent and they want righteousness, they want truth and justice and so on. And that people who are evil will be severely punished. Like God says, "Nobody assisted me. Okay, I'll do it on my own." And he says, "I stepped on them." Can you imagine what that means that God steps on you? What chance do you have? You don't. And so on. So, let's hope that God has Rachmanus on America because of all the chesed that they've done. But right now Europe is being slaughtered. We have no idea of how extensive this is going to become and so on. Look. We're in the Messianic times. And that's what's moving very, very rapidly. So, please think about where your life is headed. And become more spiritual. Get back into the groove of ruchniyus, of spirituality. Cuz the Messiah really you think about it is right around the corner. Thank you. I wanted to inform the oilam, the public, the audience, uh that uh a certain milestone has been achieved. The destruction of the Beis Hamikdash happened because of a single chet, sin, that transpired. I'm not going to go into the elaboration of this, but we know the sin is the concept of or the sin of Lashon Hara, harmful speech. Now, many years ago, uh actually 1988, it's a long time ago, I gave a shiur describing the pnimius, which means the internal idea or principle of why Lashon Hara, speaking harmful uh speech, is so devastating. How it destroyed the Beit Hamikdash, why it doesn't bring the Mashiach. And I explained that, and this of course is all based on what the Chofetz Chaim says. Uh in any case, uh I have tried many times to transcribe the shiur and actually print it, cuz there are people that would like to see it in print and read it. Well, it's finally been accomplished. Um Feldheim has graciously accepted the uh opportunity to work on the shiur and to print a transcript of the shiur itself. And they've done really a beautiful job, excellent job. And what I've tried to do also is procure a lot of actually what I what you will consider gedolei Torah. Many people who signed on as endorsements for this shiur, you know, they read the transcript, uh certainly they saw the transcript and so on, and they agreed wholeheartedly uh that people should acquire the transcript in print. And to that end, like I said, Feldheim has agreed and done a beautiful job publishing this transcript of that shiur. It has now been uh brought to the [clears throat] United States. And it's going to be distributed in the Seforim stores uh before Shavuos be Thomas. Uh I would urge everybody to try to secure a an edition of this uh shiur because it will be life-changing. I guarantee you that. Because I don't go into the mussar which means, you know, uh the fact that you should not speak lashon hara. And as a middah tovah as a good attribute and so on. But what the shiur is really all about is when you speak lashon hara detrimental derogatory speech what happens according to the divine plan? What happens to your mazel? That is the question. What is hap- what happens to your good fortune and so on and the good fortune of your family? And it goes into extensively what the mechanics, what the dynamics are of the occurrences that happen. And it's all explained in the book. So, in order to acquaint yourself with it and to prepare yourself for what is the churban what is the concept of shmiras halashon and if you avoid speaking lashon hara what happens? And so on. All of this will be explained in this book that just came out by Feldheim. So, I wanted to inform the public that it is now available in print. You can buy it in the Seforim stores. Uh and I would certainly urge everybody to get a copy. It's not expensive. But it's very comprehensive to read all about the major movement or dynamic of what caused the churban the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash, what prevents the Beis Hamikdash from being built? Okay? Why the redemption doesn't happen? Why are we still in galus? It will explain all of this in this particular book. I have titled the book um The True Power of Speech, The Key to Both Worlds. And the reason for that is because I think it's an accurate description that really brings forward the message of the importance of shmiras halashon. The True Power of Speech >> [snorts] >> means it actually has a power, a very strong effect when you speak lashon hara, and if you avoid speaking lashon hara. It actually brings forth severe repercussions either way on this behavior, speaking or not speaking. And when I say The Key to Both Worlds, it's not only that it will bring you peace and harmony and goodwill in this world when you don't speak lashon hara, but it's the key to Olam Haba. Yes, you'll actually understand why it is the key to Olam Haba, right? And I'm sure everybody wants to be in Olam Haba, the future world. And you will also understand that it's not only the key to your Olam Haba, it is the key to the Olam Haba, the future world of your family, and your community, and of course the entire Jewish people. So therefore, I call it The Key to Both Worlds. So there you are. That's the title, The True Power of Speech, and The Key to Both Worlds. Read it, and you'll see exactly why these titles are so appropriate. So again, I would urge everybody to get a copy, read it, and I guarantee you, that's right, I guarantee you that if you do that, it will profoundly affect your life and the life of your family. Right. Uh and it will bring you tremendous merit, s'chus, in the fact that you have read it, understood it, and actually put into practice the concept of shmiras halashon, of being very careful about not defaming in any way uh another person, certainly another Jew. And what it will add to the mazel, the good fortune, of your family. And uh when you do buy the book, you will see exactly that it's probably one of the best investments that you've ever made. Thank you.