America’s Turning Point for Jews – Rabbi Tovia Singer & Rabbi Aron Sokol

Rabia Singer, thank you for joining us. Uh, right now American jewelry is in shock. New York just elected Zoran Mdani, a Shia 12 Muslim. Fear is spreading and many Jews are beginning to feel like, is this the end of an American chapter? >> Sure. Of course. So we're told explicitly in the Torah in the two places you would predict what's called a Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28, the blessings and the curses. So we're told explicitly when the Jewish people go into exile, the Tyra says, "And I will scatter you among the nations. I will draw out a sword against you." Leviticus 26:33. The same thing. We have the same uh idea conveyed in Deuteronomy 28 verse 64 and 65 that the nations where you will go you will have no rest. It's fairly transparent to us that if the Jews had gone to the Korean peninsula uh particularly the southern part or if we had gone to China or Japan or the far east we wouldn't be dealing with this. Throughout our exile, we have been um hated by the nations where we uh where we lived, which had multiple effects which Kazal anticipated and Tanakh talk about. Uh number one, it it means that the Jewish people would still be in gulus and be very aware that we're in exile. It's very hostile. And number two is our sages tell us that it prevents anti-semitism prevents Jews from assimilating because we're constantly reminded by our adversaries who we are what we are and that is that we're hated. um the election of this um mayor Mami who as you said is a Shia which is an iteration of Islam which holds the Jew in the most contempt meaning it's a very strange thing but meaning they hold that Jews are mameish to translate that that are literally impure if a Jew touches food that food becomes inedible Sunnis which comprised 90% of the Islamic world uh do not view Jews in that fashion. Next uh next prophecy which is very critical because we're seeing something very odd that's happening something we're observing the spectacle that it's not only that we're observing something that really very striking in the largest most populous Jewish city in the world. There are more Jews living in New York City than any other city in the world. There's no city near that has as many Jews as New York. It's really it's impossible to ignore that. Um but Mami is coming from the left. That's his appeal. But what what we thought is that well we can certainly rely on our good friends the Americans who are on the right. After all Donald Trump has been an extraordinary friend to Israel and we are very grateful for what he did in taking out Iran's nuclear facilities that Israel simply didn't have the ability to hit. He and his father are both people who have a who have a genuine love for the Jews. And he said it openly. He said, "You Jews who are going to vote for Mdami, you must be crazy." He said, "It's very hard to argue with him." But what's very striking, what has emerged is also a a brand of visceral anti-semitism on the right in the conservative right which people weren't expecting from the Republican party which no one was expecting. the emergence of uh Tucker Carlson who worked for Fox News for a quarter of a century very successful and once he was fired was released to uh exp and and it's very interesting he's a very attractive presenter in the manner that he has in that he the way he laers the most vile anti-semmites and Holocaust deniers is simply by interviewing them and these are puff interviews where there's no push back where he's simply laundering their ideas and saying I'm just asking questions having Nick Fuentes on. Nick Fuentes Nick Fuentes is a was just on on Tucker Carlson's show and he was on for hours. He's a he's a a Nazi. He's a guy who said I like Stalin. He said he's a fan of Stalin and there was no push back. Stalin was one of the most evil people in the 20th century responsible of probably 20 to 30 million people killed. He allied himself with Hitler in 1939. Hitler in the bar roa uh violated that agreement and in a way it saved us because he attacked the Russian he attacked the eastern front. So that was the mistake that Hitler made that ultimately led to the downfall of the Third Reich. But what is consequential is here you have Tucker who is simply bringing on people who state that Churchill was really the great villain of World War II. Bringing on fuentes is shocking. And then you have other people who are coming from an iteration of Roman Catholicism that are verdently anti-Semitic that are just simply naming the Jews. Mandami is sort of hiding it because he's saying I have nothing against the Jews. I he went into a s during sukus. It was a very stupid thing for those guys in s to do this. Very stupid. It's I'm not I don't want to discuss the theology of Zionism with Sabra. It's not relevant. But it was not the way of Satner to ever ally itself with people who support terrorism, who support terrorist organizations. Nuric Carter does that. And that's why they are looked upon as a as the crazies of our people. That means they're not even considered our people. The people who will ally themselves with terrorists. So this was something that Satmer never did. And the Satar rebi opposed this completely. And what one group in Zmer did was very very damaging and they have to do true for what they did. But the the key point is that we're seeing this explosion. We we're talking about Candace Owens. So it's interesting that the Catholic Church now just celebrated in fact tonight in Yuslam at their Notre Dame center which is right outside the old city the 60th anniversary of Noete which is a uh the result of the second Vatican council that began in the let's say about 1960 it ended in 1965 and The key most well-known certainly most controversial document is a document called in our time in which it refuts it's it's a positive document. It does not undo everything but it does say that the Jews are not responsible for killing Jesus that we're not to be called a treacherous Jew in their prayers in their uh Good Friday prayers. um whatever it was a positive document but there are people who despise second Vatican council the real anti-semites and unfortunately Candace Owens when she married her husband his name is George Farmer she was a Calvinist someone who held a reformed theology it doesn't matter what that means but the thing is she was a Protestant but she joined her husband's version of Catholicism which is called SSPX. Do you want me to explain what this all means? Probably. So >> yeah, sure. It sounds I'll explain. SPX means a Society of St. Pas I 10th. The date January 25th, 1904. The meeting is between Theodore Herzel and Pope Pius I 10th. Herzel on a fool's errand asked Pas the 10th uh that the Vatican should recognize Israel. He said, "We're not only not going to recognize Israel. You don't recognize our savior, we're not going to recognize your state. And while we can't prevent Jews from coming to to Palestine when you come, we'll have priests waiting to baptize you." It was unbelievable. So the people who love pest I 10th and reject the second Vatican council and that's called the SSPX Roman Catholics all verent anti-semmites like Gibson. Now what does this have to do with what we're talking about? We're we're warned in Tanakh explicitly by a very uh unique noi a very unique prophet his name Ezekiel who lived at a very striking time. He lived during the destruction of the first temple. His safer 48 chapters could be divided into three massive segments. Very famous, very famous segment of Ezekiel is a segment of Yuma Mashiach as an example. We have the unused blueprints of the third temple in the book of Ezekiel. I appeal to the viewers to read it from Ezekiel 40-48. We have a segment of Ezekiel that is devoted to tell us that the Shina will always be with the Jewish people. Remember, he's living at a time when it's not just a building that destroyed the first temple. It's the first commonwealth is destroyed by the Babylonian Empire by Neadzar. But the part that's very critical that's germanine to our conversation is the part where Ezekiel explains why the first temple was destroyed. This is very unique to Ezekiel where he devotes chapters of explaining what was going on at the in the first temple mean the end of the first temple period. This is the temple that was built by King Solomon 410 years earlier. and to explain to us how what will exile look for you. And what he says is something fascinating. He addresses the of how the Jews will be treated in their exile. Ordinarily, when a people are not liked, when a minority are disliked by the host nation, as an example, Irish and Italians came to the United States in very large numbers like Jews at the end of the 19th century and they were hated in America. In fact, the it may be the largest lynching that ever occurred in the United States or one of the largest lynchings that ever occurred was to Italian Americans in 1891 after the police chief in New Orleans was murdered. They blamed it on the Italians. About 10,000 Americans gathered up the the Italians. They took them from prison. don't ask people who weren't even put on trial and they they killed a they lynched 11 Italians. It's very famous and even the New York Times reported as something well you know these are the kind of people we're dealing with here you know you have to get rid of your riff the Irish were hated as well but what's very sh what we're all very aware of today is no one has negative feelings towards the Irish or Italians they proudly march in parades of Fifth Avenue on their you know what happened so what happened to the Irish and Italians is that they both as an example. They participated in the American uh experiment. Civically, they contributed enormously and they demonstrated to Americans that we're just like you. You know, that's true. We have, you know, different foods and a special culture and a special thing. That's all fascinating, but we're committed to the United States. And therefore today whatever hatred was focused on Irish and was plenty there were plenty of jobs in UN Irish could not get into Irish were not welcome to don't ask but today these things do not exist why because the dislike of the unlike recedes when the minority group behaves like the host says this phenomena does not apply to Kalisel it's a very important chapter it's Ezekiel chapter 20 we addresses what your experience will be like for the Jew and says just remember this as you remember again our time Ezekiel is living during the Babylonian exile he's living their time of the destruction of the first temple and the Jews are now going 90% are going to be and 10% will wind up in North Africa and he says to them the words of verse 32-34 he says do not think for a moment he says let it not go up on your mind he says that how will we escape persecution exile so this sociological uh phenomena is not we didn't just discover it everyone knew if you act like the host country eventually persecution ends he says no it'll be the reverse for you what says that if you will try this out in the nations that you will be driven to where you'll say let us be like the other nations. Hashem says then the fiercest kind of hatred will explode. And that's what he continued. Then I'm going to bring you out to the wilderness and you'll face destruction. So the so and what is very striking I remember I had to read mine comp written by Hitler Makimo in 1934 when he was in prison and unfortunately it's extremely readable. I mean I he didn't he wrote it in German. I wrote it read it in English a few times to prepare myself to write my books. And in his first chapter he very clearly it's a very lucid work. It's not like the ranting of a crazy person like Nick Fuentes. It's he very clearly describes how before he moved to Vienna, he thought that the Jews were just another religion among just like you have Catholics, you have um Protestants, you have Jews were just another way. He said he realized he he says in the streets of Vienna he saw a a Jew with side locks and a special hat. And then which he knew of course was a Jew, but then he he interacted with Jews who dressed just like everyone else and he realized that they were in fact a they were like a cancer that was infecting society. The most dangerous people to Adolf Hitler were the Jews who pretended to be like one of us who were infiltrating our society who are our misery, our unlik and in fact they had to be we had to deal with this problem by eviscerating by destroying them because they are infiltrating our society and marrying our women even worse and so on. So we we're observing a spectacle on both the left and the right in the United States. the most successful experiment for Jewish life where Jews have full equality with non-Jews, which really never existed in history. And here we're seeing from both ends a massive problem. Tucker Carlson, I I can't emphasize this enough, is a very dangerous person. It's not only because he's very attractive and he brings with him a success from Fox News, but he's also quite close to his son works for JD Vance as a senior press advisor, a senior adviser to the vice president of the United States. who he's and I think that's why the Heritage Center defended him and his choice for not only interviewing Nick Fandes who's just out of his mind. He's just a neo-Nazi but not pushing back at all. And you look at the difference between that and when um when Tucker Carlson interviewed Senator from Texas Ted Cruz and how he attacked him. So this is something that Tanakh is predicting and it's something that we're seeing emerging today. >> Okay. Wow. Wow. Thank you. So what does that mean practically for a Jew watching this right now? What can we do right now? In truth, I can um you know, there's a very interesting gamorra that describes the exile of the first temple and and then Ezra and why uh that the Messiah could have come in the days of Ezra. It didn't happen because the Jewish people the Mar says on this it's a Gmoran yumus of dalid the Marsha says that what the Jews what was why was God so angry I just want to explain the context of the Gmorrah in both of these places there were three Nivea when we say Nvisn it's really a mistake It's a 500y old mistake that everything from on is called aim the latter prophets. This is a complete error in as far as were concerned with three individuals and those three Nim those three prophets lived during the Persian Empire. They lived during the time of Ezra. They lived during time when the second temple was being rebuilt. And the Gmorra addresses why did we need three these nim because it was possible that Messiah would come during the days of Ezra. And if you build a base am you needim. So they were there on standby in case Mashiach would have come then. It's very critical. How come Mashiach didn't come? So the Masha explains what the Gomorrah says that is because the vast majority of the Jews did not return back to the land of Israel when they could. In fact, you should know we have a chapter in Tanakh. It's in the book of Ezra. Chapter 2. You know what chapter 2 is? Chapter 2 of Ezra enumerates every single family, every Jew that returned to the land of >> 32,436. Is that right? 42,360 Jews, okay? We those are it's unbelievable. So it's and it's you know I'll tell you something very interesting. I'll tell you something interesting. I want the viewers to understand this. >> So our sages asked so every family is named there. every family by name we're told and how many of the you know this the name of the family and how many of their now you should know that that was the first aliyah which means Cyrus who opens up the book of Ezra he begins with his saliloquy of saying he has a nua he's got to tell the Jews to go back so on that was only the first aliyah the First wave mean Jews came from Belove. There was nothing here in there was no Jewish life for 50 years from I should say that in English. From the destruction of the first temple until the Jews returned was nun was 50 years. There were no re there was no Jews in Israel unless they were hiding. So 42,360 Jews come to nothing and they begin the project of building the second temple, the second commonwealth. Now they they came there was nothing here. There was nothing here. But the Persian Empire was there. The Babylon Empire was destroyed. Come back. Now subsequently it's very interesting that there were other aliot which means other subsequent waves that occurred years later 8 years later 12 years later more Jews come back when the second commonwealth is being built. There are of course hiccups along the way and that's a lot of the problems that go on but the second commonwealth is already there. It's interesting that we're only given the names of those Jews who came before the bas was built. And it's interesting that kazal look at that in a way that the Jews who came it's like comparing to the Jews who will come after the Messiah comes. Meaning we know from Tanakh that all the Jews will return to the land of Israel in the days of Messiah. Isaiah 43:5 and 6 is an example. Ezekiel 37. But there will be a special status for the Jews who come before Mashiach comes. It's very interesting. Now, the zor says that the Jews who come before Mashiach comes, they're going to have wings. I don't know, and I'm not going to pretend to know what that means, but it's a special status. If you came before Mashiach, I just want to say to my brothers and sisters around the world, it's time to come home and to come now. And if you don't then you have we have free will. We have so but the holy one blessed be his name will of course adjust what is occurring and the Jews who live in Antworp and the Jews who live in the five towns are very cognizant of what's occurring and therefore there's a movement. Sober is pushing. That's the whole idea of mash which means pressure and Jews are realizing it's time to come back. So I there's nothing I could say more importantly. I mean before the holocaust but Hitler comes to power in if Jews there were many people unfortunately said don't go to Palestine you know it's dangerous Palestine's going to go up in flames. I'm talking from the Jewish world and er was the safe place to be during World War II. Raml's tanks were destroyed. He wasn't able to proceed to Israel and carry out what Hajim Husseini Yakim the Grand Muy of Jerusalem planned that Hitler's armies would come to the land of Israel and kill all the Jews there. Even though there were swastikers, yeah, there were swastiks with swastikers flying in Jerusalem by the in the where the templars are, but the Jews were safe here in the land of Israel. So there's it's time for the Jews to come home. That's what's really going on. That you feel confident and comfortable and the Republican party and this is where our friends are. Be very, very careful. And it's happening really in a way that's so transparent now and it's coming from mainstream uh from the Republican party. And here we watch the Heritage Center, a think tank, come out and defend Tucker Carlson in a way that was really extraordinary. And my gratitude goes out to those Christians who who are part of that think tank who resigned who are Christians who said we want nothing to do with this. But we need to know that the events that are occurring now that are coming from the left and from the right are a sign from the Jews that it's time to come back there. Right now is the time. >> Thank you. There's something different about the anti-semitism of today than even 50 years ago. And I'll explain that in now when there's anti-semitism. First of all, it's the first time I remember a Muslim, you know, 12ver. He was like the same religion as Iran uh becoming and interesting enough this morning on wiki it still said that he was a 12ver and then when I checked just before the meeting I did not see that it had been taken down. So somebody made that change and like what does this really mean now that the Jews have a place to go? I know like he took down the gates that were stopping people from making aliyah and it was medish says that it was a big it was a big question a ton Israel that now that they can go make aliyah they could come aliasel and they didn't come so that was much worse when they couldn't come you know all the years we couldn't come and now I think for the first time we really experiencing something anti-semitism that we haven't never witnessed we're just wondering if you could just shed some light on what the difference today is. Um, thank you. >> Yeah, Zor Mandani is a Shia Muslim. Uh, the center of Shia Islam is Iran. Iran has been the center of Shia Islam six since the 16th century. And Shia Islam, there are no Shia here in Israel. None at all. There are in Lebanon, there are in in in um um Qatar. There are in Kuwait. There are in Iraq and but the center of it all, the power of it all is really in um Isra Jews are and this is what's germanine to this point. In their view, Jews are filthy. In their view, Jews are intrinsically inherently dirty. Our tummy using a Hebrew word. In fact, there were many times under it depends who led Iran where if it rained in Iran in Thyan, Jews were not allowed to go outside. They had to stay in their house. Why? Unless the rain hit a Jew and then the water splashes off of him and touches a Shia Muslim, he becomes unclean. If the water fall hits a Jew and that water then touches food of a Muslim of a Shia Muslim, he's not allowed to eat it. The Sunni Muslims do not hold to this at all. It's strange, but Sunnis, I know many of them and I'm interviewed on Muslim channel will tell me personally that they hold that Judaism is closer to them than Shia Islam. They generally Sunnis hold that she is complete idolatry, a complete aid desor. However, the split, it should be just I'll take 10 seconds. The split between Shia and Sunni happened very rapidly after Muhammad's death and it was not a theological breakaway but rather it was completely political who would head the Islamic caliphat caliphate after the death of Muhammad. So it's important to note that although today there are theological distinctions between the roughly 10% of the Islamic world the Shia and 90% the Islamic world Sunni now I'm over there are other Islamic groups but these are the two big ones. It began political, but it shifted off where Shia Islam, which this America's New York City's um future mayor is a member of, has a very dark view of the Jews. And you could just look at Persia for a moment. Think about it. It has no border with the land of Israel. You could say in Syria, they're angry. The Jews have the golden heights. They lost a number of wars. But Iran doesn't have such a war. hasn't have doesn't have any there's no basis for them to be at war with Israel. They they we don't they're roughly a thousand kilometers east of Israel. They're not Arabs. It's one of the biggest insults. You can call an Iranian, tell him he's an Arab. They don't like it. So Shia Islam or the you refer to them as 12. the this is an iteration of Islam that is inherently more hostile uh to Jews inherently. Um but from the it's intriguing. I'll just share this one thought. It's that same book of Ezekiel, same safer that tells us that at the end of days that Persia will lead the coalition of nations against You'll find that in the uh in Ezekiel 38 and39 the ha Torah that we read on sukus because of the gummor and migillo tells us that um that mashiach or gagu this end time war begins on sukus. So this is uh very striking and I just as a caveat at the time when these oracles were articulated Persia was a a benign nation. I mean it was not a they did not pose a threat to the Jewish people and throughout the Cisanian Empire the Persian Empire Jews had it good. The Gmorra, the Babylonian Talmud was written under the Cisanian Empire and life was very comfortable for them in contrast to what was what the Jews were enduring under the Roman Empire which was a night absolute nightmare in the Byzantine Empire in eastern part of the empire. What one of the I I just want to convey this to the viewer something very intriguing about prophecy is unlike a the the person who's the weather person on telling you what the weather's going to be like. He's not a novy. The person who's telling you what it'll rain tomorrow, whatever it's going to be. He's studying maps, satellite imagery, and he's extrapolating from that what's the weather likely to be like tomorrow and the next day after that. in Tanakh and in Kazal in the words in the oracles of our prophets and sages of blessed memory. There's nothing they could have been looking at at the time and extrapolate that at the end of days we're going to face an implacable enemy for no apparent reason that's going to be the uh opponent of Israel, the land of Israel. There was nothing happening back then that would have implied this. And yet here we are with the enemy of our people who we share no border with who are not Yeshu where Yeshu and Isaac had a tenuous relationship. They worked it out at the end of their lives when Yeshu gave uh Kadimus to Yeitzk in Genesis 25:9 and the Talmud tells us the Ishmael repented and from there we infer that the Benish will turn back and join us and do Chuva. We look forward to that. This does not apply to Persia, does not apply to Iran. So uh view in my view what we're seeing is we're getting hit from both sides and as you said correctly is something that none of us have witnessed in our lifetimes. >> I appreciate appreciate you taking the time and um joining us on this channel. U maybe you could lead us out with a prayer. >> Yeah, we're we're living in an extraordinary time. Uh we are you know I never had this conversation with you and you the viewer but I imagine that when we're in Detroit we wonder to ourselves aloud why we and not our great great grandparents who could not have imagined that we would live in such a remarkable moment in history and should lead us by his light to unify us as one nation with one heart as the children of Israel had when they possessed when they came to the land of Israel. Now we're at the precipice of building the third commonwealth as Amos who was a great prophet lived during the time of Isaiah tells us at the end of his safer in chapter 9 verse 14 or 15 that once the Jews are restored back to the land of Israel they will be planted and will never be uprooted again. We should be z to see the the ghoulish layma the true redemption quickly in our time where all the nations will speak besafa budo will speak in a pure speech as sana describes who lived here in as well. So we look forward to that. Thank you so much for having me on. Thank you, Rabbi Singer of Chavis. Chavis, >> you know, I did not record that section. I did, as it turns