Averting the War of Gog & Magog - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

obviously it's a difficult time for is but as I mentioned last night uh in the of your Torah learning and the Torah learning of hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of is who are starting a little early it should be a great great for that are going through very very difficult difficult times and uh we hope that uh the tide will turn um yet I don't want to rep talk I mean in a way as I say um it's both frightening and exhilarating in the sense that uh there are many many indications that this may be connected to the wars of go and MOG so the good news is that is that is the precursor to mashia the bad news is that it's kind of a bad time meaning it's a very very difficult difficult time it's the mashia now what's interesting is that uh the vagon himself WR there's a very interesting safer not written by the vagon it was written by a talmid of the Von rail ofv uh and it's called K hat T is with a t uh that means the sound or the singing of the turtle dove it's a phrase in and essentially recounts the Von's teachings on the coming of mashiach and the building up of of er Israel and there actually many many interesting things in kour a lot of it is is cabalistic a little difficult to understand one interesting thing that he says just I'll tell you one little thing he makes the point that the vnon I mean the Von didn't say this the tum said it about the vnon this this part that the vagon was a gilgal a Reincarnation of mosha raena and that is why he was not able to enter eritel Because as you know the vagon actually left VNA to go to ER Israel and in fact he wrote a famous letter to his family many sadur have two letters sometimes there's the gas ramban the letter of ramban when he went to erel and of course he actually got here Andra the letter of the Von to his family when he left to go to ER Isel right you can see maybe if you have um it's not in the article but but if you have sadur that have extra things so they'll often beeres ha there very interesting letter in a lot of way so he tells uh the women of the home not to go to sh because women are inter Fashions whatever he says better with the do at home uh whatever uh but uh what's interesting is with the vagon is that he never made it he never made it a few months after he left he came back to vilna he offered no explanation to anybody why he came back and to this very day there is a lot of discussion exactly why the the vagon did not come to to Erich Isel uh some give very prosaic reasons that I frankly find difficult to believe I mean because the gr could figure it out if anybody that the gr held that there was so much difficulty in how he would fulfill truma and Meer and shita that he literally felt he had no way of properly doing it and some I mean he left but somehow in the course of his trip he came to that conclusion I always thought that's a very very weak reason because if anybody in the universe could figure out Hally how to do things it would have been him but nevertheless some give that as the reason others give a more mystical reason which actually I think makes sense that the vnon had a plan to come to ER Isel and bring mashia there would have been a GAA and he determined Al cabala that this was not the right time and therefore he needed to go back the talim said that because he was a gilgal of M just as mosenu so moshu can't escape the gazer even if he gets reincarnated and as Hashem decreed that mosu cannot come to erel so even when he's reincarnated he will not be able to come that was the M among theim that the vagon was a gilgal of Mau it's interesting that um there was a professor at Hebrew University who was a f from person he wrote a very interesting book in which he points out again I'm digressing here but I think interesting digression he points out that the route the vagon took to get to erisel until he turned back was a very circuitous route a very very bizarre route he made a pit stop or he made a stop in Amsterdam now if you look at the map and you're going from Villa from Lithuania to erel you would go by the the Black Sea or whatever it would be you would not necess neily go further Inland to Amsterdam like why did he make a stop in Amsterdam it's a bit of a mystery what was he doing in Amsterdam so the theory that was posited again these are theories we don't have any rias for this one way or the other is that Amsterdam was the place where the ramal had lived the ramal died shortly before this and you know today the ramal everyone is maab the ramal as you know great and authoritative but one has to know that in the Ram's lifetime he was a very very he died very young he died at at 40 in ER Israel but he was very very controversial because remember he was shortly after sh the ramal was teaching cabala and the ramal was almost G to author a new Z you know people were scared of him I rabam were scared of him they thought that he was creating a quazi Messianic movement and as a result the ramal was was ordered to stop teaching kabala he was threatened with excommunication of course in a way Hashem has a sense of humor you know uh the three that are most learned of the ram are M which is consider to be the greatest of the mus D hasem which is a systematic study of Jewish philosophy and dunas which is more esoteric but Das tunos is about Divine Providence and Free Will it really is kind of the mechanism by which God interacts with the with the world essentially talks about it too but but is a book length of what is like one chapter inem now it's interesting that all of these three books were written only because the ram was not allowed to write about cabala because all his other he has many many on cabala most of which are Beyond us most of which we don't even learn so the three that clel learns most from the R came as a result of his not being allowed to write or teach cabala but the joke is I shouldn't call it a joke is that all of those three are very much based on cabala even M shashar which people think is a straight like muser book is filled with cabalistic ideas so the ramal had a very great talent he was able to explain cabala in non- cabalistic terms so he snuck it under the table uh so to speak in fact there's there are even additions of M sharim that try to show how it correlates with the teachings of the ARA but again in M sharim you certainly see no cabalistic vocabulary there's no reference to spos there's no reference to anything at all now derem dunos gets closer and closer and closer to cabala there's no question about it but he doesn't cross the line so in a sense CLA Israel talk about hasem turning something dark into light Hashem took the Ram's being disabled from teaching cabala and that became a great vehicle by which he disseminated cabalistic teachings in non- cabalistic arguments but going back oh I'm sorry going back to the gr I'm digressing on digressions on digressions I have to remember where I'm going here's the idea the ram was very very controversial but the gr had a tremendous ad airation for the ramal although they never met and the gr said if the ramal would have been alive he would have walked the gr said I would have walked from Vila Barefoot to Amsterdam to meet the ram it is said that when the ram was prohibited from teaching kabala he had thousands and thousands and thousands of pages of cabalistic writings many of which he burnt and some of which he concealed the grow was aware of a hidden uh group of writings in Amsterdam and as part of the Messianic idea he wanted to go to Amsterdam first to find the Ram's writings that he would then bring to erel and bring the mashia now beyond that we don't know much we know that he came he did get he did get to Amsterdam that much we know did he find the Ram's writings that we don't know did he have the Ram's writings you know maybe yes maybe no uh did he decide not to go to erel because he couldn't find the Ram's writings or he found the writings and he determined based on those writings it wasn't the right time time to go we don't know a lot of things are mysterious but nevertheless uh the gr himself wanted to go to AR Israel and the talum of the gr did come much of what is called sorry one second there much of what is called the yashan the old pre Zionist religious community are the talum of the Von uh they built and and and and not only did they create a spiritual infrastructure but they created a physical I mean they were involved in the building in fact they had a sheet like May sharum these neighborhoods they actually had a sheet that it was very important that even the physical infrastructure of er Israel be built with kadha and tahara you wouldn't use Arabs you wouldn't use non-religious Jews everything had to be badusha uh you know the heating systems the bricks the pipes everything and the like so many of these great were physical workers in terms of digging ditches and and brick laying carpet uh being carpenters and everything else um so the gr had a and and indeed that is exactly why at least the official Minh ashkanazi Minh theug of the gr right you may ask like why why the gra because the T of the gr were the foundation it's different up north it's very very different up north talking about spat Taria the primary Jewish ashkanazi I'm not talking SP were here before and they had a different messah Raji YF made the argument although nobody listens to it and even he didn't push it that ashkenazim have no right to even be ashkanazi in erel because when they came they came as a small minority among Jews that there were majority they were to adapt to the majority of the kahila and the fact that k buttal each askanazi becomes nullified in a majority of spim so even when you get a number of more rashim than swm they still have to be Sim uh because they got nullified in the majority as they came so he says you know ashkenazim have no right to exist in ER Isel as Asim but he was MIM that maybe it's too late to change that at this day so I'm not talking about spard but in terms of the Gin in terms of the root of the ashaz so in it was the tal of the and inat and Taria it was the talum of the balas right soas got established up north and that became the fundamental minhagim sons and other types ofas and in now obviously over the years everything gets mixed up so obviously you have L people up north and you have down here but originally the the foundational minim of theas were essentially of course different types ofas up north that's why for for example right just to give you one example uh obviously we do when there's a Coen we have Bas every day now you know that in if you remember at least among as among ashim we only have right of we don't have any other time now why that's so is indeed a very very big problem the Rama himself identifies the minog that our minog is only to but why the Tyra says there's a mitzvah for to bless people the Tyra does not say it's only on like why so the Rama has to come up with the reason that is pretty do a pretty forced reason again the RAR didn't invent this Min the RAR is trying to explain an existing Min that predated him we don't know exactly how old that was and the Rama says well you know a Coen is supposed to only if he's only if he is in joy and the problem is that in nobody is Happy except on y even on chabas you're not really happy y you're happy so you can only because that's when the Coen is were always and and the like now the truth of the matter is uh this is a very very weak reason because this is so subjective I mean some people are sour even on yum right could have a CO who's not particularly happy on yum and some people are happy even during the week I mean to make a rule we're not going to do a Mitzvah DEA because we're making the assumption that unless it's yff you're not happy is a very very reason so the Emma says because of this the gr had the opinion the vill go had the opinion that Asim should even during the week just like every single day even in all right now the gross position in Vila was a very interesting position if you were to ask what was his position in the great Jewish kahila of vilna VNA was one of the great I mean even before the vagon VNA was one of the great great great cities in CLA Israel there were many Gan before the vagon in VNA so what was the vag gone was the VNA gone the r of vilna no he was not was the vag gone the head of the Bon of villa no he was not the vilna go had no position at all in VNA the vnon in so I mean everyone acknowledged his unbelievable greatness but the vnon was a private citizen who had no official role in the kahila of Vilma now the truth of the matter is to a large degree that's exactly what he wanted he didn't want to be involved in uh running a city I mean he wanted to learn and teach tum but he was a private citizen as a result vilna had rules there was a big schulen vill but if you wanted to open up your own Minion you needed permission of the kahila you couldn't just open up your own Minion so because the vagon had unusual minhagim that were not mainstream he wanted to have his own Minion he had his own Minion but he had to have he had to ask permission from the kahal to be able to have his own Minion and this was called the vagones cl cl means like the house and uh it's very near the main sh the main sh of villa was a big magnificent show and it was in a courtyard that had a lot of different buildings and one of the smaller buildings in the courtyard was called the CLA of the G the villag G CLA these buildings survived until the Holocaust the Holocaust they were they were destroyed I mean U you know 100 years ago there were people who were daving in the villones CL as well as the the main show of of of of of VNA now what that means is though that the vilna gones minhagim were not the minhagim of the Kaya of VNA you know you would think the VNA G would establish the minhagim of the city not at all uh the city followed ashaz minhagim and if the gr minhagim were different then he was given permission to do his own thing in his place but that was not NE was those were not the men hug of the city as a whole right it was understood that the vagon was was different and uh he had the authority to deviate but that did not become you know the Authority for the gilet actually very very very interesting so one of the things that the grow wanted to do in his CL was to Institute beas him every day uh but the m is that every time he tried to do it a fire broke out in the building as if Hashem is saying you know don't change the don't change the Min hug him so the question you'll ask me is so why do we do every day in the answer is every day at least in because since they were of the gr they took the gr's minog and they brought it to erel and the reason why they don't every day in is because the Gin the foundation of that were and never had the Han of the to try to do everything in fact that's we we we actually have a problem in our a little bit of a problem you know when we have a j shabbaton or whatever even babaton or Cent if you go up to if you go up toat or Taria and you're going to spend chabas there or even during the week you know do you do right it's your but on the other hand you're in a place where they don't every day right so sometimes we're inconsistent some years I I know uh we did it because it was our minion and our minion we do our Min hug him no matter what but but but technically speaking when you're in the Mak where that's not the minog you don't do it and the minog inat and in Taria which is a very unusual minut it's a question of what the Mur is they don't D during the day but they onab now if you think about that there is no mo at all in foring and shab I mean the T hug that we have is uh you either only on the mus of Y or you doen every day there is no in that says on shabas only during M that's kind of an in between Min between ding every day which is the of the gra and versus only ding mus of Y which is Rama again Rama didn't create the Min but Rama identifies that Min but the Min among the in is so if you're interested in historically tracing minhag this might be a an area that you might want to try to investigate and see what the reason is by the way as another aside again I I apologize for the digressions but I'll I'll try to remember what my main point was uh is um that when I was growing up I grew up in Connecticut and I went to a young Israel synagogue uh and I distinctly remember maybe you remember this too that we never right we only on of okay but when yam was on chabas let's say like this year we didn't on chabas even though it was emptive and and I distinctly remember that particular custom now the question is the mishura actually writes that some people have a not to is but the Mish says explicitly that is a mistake and the mistake is based on the fact that the Min ofm based on the Rama is we don't do on chabas but that just that just means you don't doen on shabas but it never meant to say you don't when it's in other words made a mistake they took the instruction of not shabas to mean you don't shabas even when it's y says the Mish that is a mistake because the statement you don't chabas just meant that that which the r says doeses not include shabas per se because shabas still not so therefore most actually say it is a even even not which is the only thing is you don't say the Reon you don't say the petitionary prayers for dreams and the like on shabas on the other hand uh some have given some justification for it because some have given an alternative Havana uh to the Rama about why we don't every day in the ra says because not which is a subjective reason but others give another reason others say that there was a Min hug ofanim to go to the mikah before they would uh and then um during the week it was sometimes depending on the Middle Ages was sometimes very ult to find a pool of water that was nearby Etc so therefore they discontinued it since each person was to go to the mik before but on chabas the was this since shabas was a of Tash so the fear would be that the kohanim shabas morning would be Bal car would would be a BAL and the Arab wouldn't help them for the from the Tuma they contracted through Tash and therefore there was a that if they had to be in a state Of You' be better them for not again this it's very very I mean a b is allowed to but whatever it is if you're connected to and Tuma that would be a possible reason okay so wh why did I digress to all of this this was all a little bit of an introduction to the safer Kor now Kor was written by ra and it's there to give us the teachings of the Von on Bia on Isel and on the wars of Goen M and all of those different all of these different uh and the vagon says and this is really why I brought this out I mean all everything else was a digression is that the Von says that this idea that before mashia comes there have to be Wars there has to be Bloodshed there has to be turbulence there has to be massive destruction the Pains of Labor is only one particular scenario that if necessary that's what's going to have to happen but it can be bypassed by Torah and Mitzvah and MIM T either Bypass theer or minimize me meaning even if that path stops I'm sorry even if that path starts it can be aborted it can be diverted it can be rechanneled so this is a tremendously important message because it does say that all of the dire Prophecies of Goen M many of which we read on the first day of sukus fact the first day of sukus actually talks about many bad things happening in yam itself Lo no should save us and stach made a big point about that and I got a an email from an AR who saying that uh when his wife saw this email Basham MOS stach that somebody wrote he says she's terrified you know what do I say to whatever whatever I mean he he just quoted the PUK zarya but the good news is that the villon says all of these are what we would call worst case scenarios and everything can be can be changed everything can be diverted everything can be turned into a good way and uh fact the Von even says even the idea that mashia Ben yose has to be killed Isa mashia Ben Yos can also survive uh and and and the like so it's important to understand that there are two things the V he said many things but there are two almost contradictory things he said about go and MOG but you need to be aware of both of them the first thing he said about Goen mum which is very frightening is that the war of Goen MOG when it finally really comes as opposed to the preliminaries is only going to last 12 minutes the war of go and MOG is a 12-minute war for 250 years after the death of the vagon nobody understood what on Earth he's talking about what type of War can only last 12 minutes and then be over unfortunately as schlom says in coelis as you add knowledge you add pain we unfortunately have the understanding exactly of what type of War can be over in 12 minutes l aleno a nuclear war chemical War what whatever it would be there are Wars that essentially can wipe out a lot of the world in five 10 minutes whatever whatever it would be so that's one side of the coin the other side of the coin is what I said a moment ago and that is everything can be changed everything can be diverted everything can be reformulated everything can be reformatted and therefore we have great great opportunities to kind of turn this into braa now again we've already begun the suffering and it's been very very severe but again the villon is not at all saying once you're on the road you're stuck says even when you're on that bad road you can get off it right so the fact that Wars have started doesn't mean it has to continue until until the bidder end so it's important that when people quote the Von that they don't just quote like one part of the statement uh you need to look at both uh statements in order to understand it so so on one hand hands this does seem connected to Goen mug by the way the gro also has a third thing in which he writes about Russia and the Ukraine as being connected to go and MOG so that's so even before what's happening in Eric the gr saw uh all of the stuff that's going on over there as connected to go and MOG again the rues is very very phenomenal uh phenomenal here so uh there are a lot of science going on and but it's important to know that uh we can weigh in that we do have an impact that we do have a way of making things better for ourselves for am Israel for the world for the world as as a whole and again having you guys come in early and and learn Torah early greatest is one of the most important greatest things uh that that that we're able to again I mentioned last night we don't realize what our Torah does simply because we don't see a direct cause and effect Hashem doesn't doesn't let us see those things so we just don't understand it rationally but if you're a mman it's 100% true the Tyra that we do brings blessing into the world and if you say well how come how come so much bad stuff is happening and I'm learning the answer is without it it would be worse what can I tell you meaning as bad as things are things could actually be a lot lot worse and if they not it's it's at least partially because of the Ty and and the Mitzvah that we're learning so you I know that uh curtailing is is is a bit of a bit of a sacrifice but but hopefully uh you'll understand all of you understand how important it is uh that uh you're doing uh you're doing what you are uh what you are doing so beem it should be a source of Yeshua and G I got to be careful with youu you know I I I I get it's amazing when people say you know um I gave a talk somewhere and I I also said may it be a source of Yeshua so it was on YouTube so somebody made comments I was listening to this guy and still he mentions Yeshua I see now you know he's a a Christian believer in in yashka he says I'm not listening to him anymore so please believe me I I when I say Yeshua I just mean salvation Redemption perfectly good word uh to use just like gay used to mean happy you know but years ago right it doesn't necessarily have any other connotation so when I say Yeshua I just mean go love Yeshua I don't mean anything uh anything Sinister uh to that that particular particular thing okay uh so maybe we'll stop here anyway again be well and again may may all of our learning all of our Mitzvah be a for CH thank you for listening to this awesome production to find out more and to partner in our mission please visit o.edu