What is the Messianic Meaning of the Trump Presidency? Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Tonight, I'd like to speak about probably one of the greatest moments in American history that Donald J. Trump has achieved something which is which basically most people thought that he could never do. And that is become president of the United States a second time. You know, uh and the only one I was in them Grover Cleveland. He was non-consecutive. You see. I think Grover Cleveland was the 22nd president and then the 24th president if I remember correctly. And Donald J. Trump is the 45th and now the 47th. But I want to bring everybody up to speed cuz I'm sure everybody is very curious. You know, where you know, what is really happening in so So, I want to talk about several topics tonight. And they all fit, believe it or not, even though they look uh what's called disjointed, you know, they look like what does one have to do with the other? Uh I want to talk about the Los Angeles fires cuz that itself is almost unheard of. And then what I want to talk about Donald Trump and what uh and and basically the title of this year is what are the Messianic implications of the Donald Trump presidency? And I want to explain uh you know, what it is how it all fits in the divine agenda and what we can expect of a Trump presidency, you know, and so on. Anyway, uh before I begin, let me uh offer dedication. This sheer should be a blessing and a merit for the health and success of the families of Regina bas Yosef Reuven and Yeshaya ben Yisrael and Benjamin Wolf ben Zvi Hirsch and Boruch ben Benjamin Wolf and also that Shmuel Reuven ben Regina should have a refuah shleimah. Okay, good. Also Leib ben Feiga Leib ben Feiga And also Leib ben Feiga ben Feiga and Esther Liba Bas And Esther Liba Bas Chaya Yaffa Chaya Yaffa Every all of them should have a refuah shleimah. Okay. So, in any case, that's what I want to speak about tonight. And also, what's interesting is where exactly are we in the messianic process? Is it possible to see based on the process where we are and as a result of that to see where we are headed or what can be expected in the future. Any case, first thing I want to mention is what I forgot to uh say. Couple of weeks ago I gave a shiur about my trip to Damanhur. I'm sure people who saw that um uh you know, remember the shiur. I think it was in many ways memorable and so on, you know. But I forgot to mention this. I did say that as I was leaving the kever of Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira I had an idea which I did not think about at all as for the reason why I even came. It just occurred to me as I was about to leave the graveside, the Kever of Rab Yakov Abu Hatzeira. And I said to the Kever, I mean, as if I spoke to him, I said, "In the merit that I have come uh and and put myself in tremendous danger, cuz I said that not only was it Egypt, and it wasn't a tourist place, it was Damanhur, which is like going to Ramallah. But not only was it a a tremendously dangerous place, cuz they're not even tourists there. You know, they could have taken a a shot at me and nobody would ever know where I was and so on. But uh besides the fact that uh I was in a tremendous, you know, real Arab village or city, whatever, you know. Besides that, it was Ramadan. So, clearly it was very very dangerous and so on. So, I said to the Kever that in because I put myself in such danger, that I've been looking for an apartment in Eretz Yisrael for 25 years and I've never found anything. You know, even though there have been different opportunities, it never materialize. So, I said to him, "Please get me an apartment." Almost like an afterthought. So, I forgot to mention what whatever happened to that, right? So, that's what I want to complete this story. What happened was this was Thursday that I went to the Kever of Damanhur. So, I back to Tel Aviv with Air Sinai right? That night. It was a 1:00 a.m. flight. Landed in Tel Aviv. And I was below came back to Jerusalem you know, it it really at very early in the morning. I should say about 4:00 a.m. or whatever. Anyway, uh knowing what you know, what happened was is that somebody came over to me. Somebody who's involved in real estate. He came over to me that morning, which is Friday morning. In less than 24 hours after I left. He came over and he said, "You know, uh I think I have an an interesting opportunity for an apartment." You know, which was really, you know, okay. And what happened was that apartment I was able to buy. So, the astounding idea was that I hold uh Rab Yaakov Abuhatzeira was able to get me an apartment in less than 24 hours when I had when I had visited him. You know, so I mean, as far as I'm concerned, he was my heavenly uh you know, uh helper. He got me the apartment. So, I just wanted to, you know, mention that to to people and so on, you know. So, I recommend now in jest that if you're looking for an apartment in Eretz Yisrael, you either go to a real estate broker or you go to Damanhur to ask Rab Yaakov if to get you an apartment. Believe me, he works a lot better than brokers. And guess what? He didn't charge me. But anyway, uh so, I just wanted to complete that story as part of the really, when you think about it, the miracles that happened to me when I went to Damanhur to pray for the uh failure of the government of Israel while they were trying to give away land to the uh Muslims, the Arabs, and so on. Anyway, so I just wanted to mention that in any case. So, what I want to do now is talk about current events, you know, and really orient you, and to indicate where we stand in the process to bring Moshiach. And uh certainly, I want to show you and demonstrate that there are tremendous Messianic implications for the Trump presidency, which uh is really very important. But in order to do that, you know, you have to understand the history or the process of the divine plan. Once you have that, then we can actually locate where we are at in that plan, and so on. And I want to be very specific about that, you see. So, at which stage, like I said, are we at in the advancement of bringing the Moshiach himself? That's what I want to do. Okay. So, you have to know that the divine plan, basically, it's really very simple. Where the Rebono shel Olam does what? He takes an an entity, a the a soul, and he enclothes it, right? In a physical reality, which we know, of course, is our universe. And the soul, which is completely spiritual, that it's like even more than that. It's quasi divine, which is what I mentioned a while back, and so you know. So, he encloses that, we insert that divine soul in a physical environment, a physical body, and so on. With that soul, right? Is born into that, and does not recognize what it really is. But, not only that, it's born not knowing that the physical universe has another dimension beyond it, which is the we call the spiritual universe. That And that's the main reality, not the physical. And not only is there a spiritual universe, which supersedes the physical, this neshama also does not know that there is a supreme being, God, right? That is in charge, that created everything. And what God wants, and this is called tikkun, to rectify, what God wants ultimately is to remove the physicality of the universe and transform the reality of physicality, basically, to a reality of divinity, you see? So, as such, it's called tikkun. He wants to restore the reality, like I said, of physical to spiritual. This is what the Ribono shel Olam wants to do. And therefore, he assigns different individuals, as we see, the job of discovering this idea. And what he really wants is that not only will you understand that there is a spiritual reality which takes precedence and is obviously the essential nature of reality. Not only that, and there is such a divine reality, but that ultimately I want the universe to return to that state. And it is your job to do it. How? By being obedient and adhering in terms of your activities in cognizant of a spiritual reality. Which means basically to do the mitzvahs. Cuz when you do a mitzvah, what you're really doing is you are acting in a way based on a belief that there is a spiritual reality and that God is the source of that spiritual reality. So, when you would do do a mitzvah, what you're really saying, of course, is I believe that there is God and that he is a sovereign and he has commandments. In other words, that there's another reality called divinity. And I will act in accordance or in conformity to that reality. And that's a testimony to what you believe. And the interesting part part about that is that what that does by acting in accordance with a reality called divinity, by acting in that accordance with the to right? You actually, when the time comes, will change the reality itself and transform it back into the state that it originally started. Cuz that's really what it was. When God created reality, first it was spiritual, and then slowly became physical. And he wants you to restore it to its divine or spiritual state. That's basically the upshot of the whole divine task, you see. Is that you should restore the universe from what it once was, which is completely spiritual and divine, right? Was. And then it was changed to a physical reality. He wants you by acting out in acting in behavioral terms in as in accordance with that reality, right? And as a result of that, ultimately, you will have restored, and God will do that. He will transform the physical reality back into its original state. You see. And so, you know, in fact, the word olam haba, right? Means doesn't mean the world that will will come. Because then it would say olam sheyavo, the world that will come. Olam haba, the word olam haba doesn't mean the world that will come, even though that's the way we translate it. What the word olam haba means is olam haba, the world that is coming. Or the Sefer Habahir, which is a major Kabbalistic text, says that the word olam haba means the world that came. Haba. The world that came. Therefore, we see that the Olam Haba, which the universe is destined to return to, actually was created when it was created was created first. Was changed into a physical reality and is destined to return to what it was created. Therefore, the word Olam Haba means the world that came. Not the world to come. That's what the Sefer Bahir says. That's a very important idea and it's exactly what I'm saying and so on. So, that's basically what the divine plan is. In any case, so he assigned, without going into, you know, too too much steps, Adam Harishon, he assigned him the job that you need to follow my commandment, right? With And that's following commandment, you therefore believe, of course, that I exist and that my reality is true. Adam was given that job. That So, therefore, Adam Harishon, if you think about it, is act one. That's the first act that God of the divine plan is Adam Harishon, the first man. Now, we know, of course, that Adam failed. He did not listen to the Ribbono shel Olam. He failed. And so, that was act one. So, then the Ribbono shel Olam assigned this task of tikkun not to Adam, but to Adam's progeny, his descendants. So, for 2,000 years, he assigned it to the descendants of Adam. And that is the world that we see in the Chumash, right? Uh and that went on for 2,000 years. So, that really is what's called act two. So, he assigned it not to Adam who failed, but to what's called min who anushi, humankind, mankind. So, they now had the job of transforming the world to its original state. You see. So, therefore and that went on for 2,000 years. But, they failed also. They failed certainly twice. One was by the marble, of course, and God destroyed them. And the second thing is by the dor haflaga, which is the tower of Babel, where God spread them all around. So, what he did basically is he took away that mission of mankind, you see. And he said to them, you know, they're they're gone. And he then assigned it to what's called Avraham Avinu. And Avraham Avinu, of course, is the beginning of the Jewish people. So, he assigned the tikkun process to Avraham Avinu, and that is act three. Right. This is a third attempt to enlist somebody, a nation, that would do the tikkun. You see, that would listen to God and act in accordance with this divine reality. You see. So, he That's called act three. Okay. But, then Avraham Avinu did it. He and Yitzchak and Yaakov and so on. And then the 12 tribes, and all all the Jewish people. So, this has been going on for about what? On close to 4,000 years. So, that's act three. That's like I said, it's been going on for fourth almost 4,000 years. Right. But now, there's an act four where the Jews have done where the Jews have done the actual tikkun. Right? They've done it. So, therefore, there is now act four in the divine plan. Well, now we have reached what is called the termination stage. Which once the tikkun is basically done, then what God will do is turn around history to begin to prepare for a Messianic entry. And that requires a certain amount of preparation. You see, which is very different to the job that the Jews had from act three, which is to do the mitzvahs and so on for the tikkun process. So, we now have what's called act four, which is the termination stage. So, that's very important. Okay, great. Then, once that termination stage, and I will explain that in detail, cuz that's where we're located, by the way, and is act four, which is the termination stage or act and so on, right? In any case, then there's act five where God now intercedes. Mankind has done his job, specifically the Jewish people, and the Messianic age is really what God wanted to do initially, and that is to change the physical universe into a spiritual. And by the way, people have a tremendous error in their thinking of a Messianic age. The Messianic age initially is a transformation to a certain extent of one physical state to another, but not really. We don't realize that when we introduce the idea called chiyas hameisim, resurrection of the dead, this isn't physical. Dead people getting up, walking around, right? That's not physical. It's inconceivable. Because we are looking at the reversal of death. Reversal of death. I'm not talking about somebody's almost dead and revives. These people are dead. They are in cemeteries all around the world. Yet they all get up, whatever, and whatever they do, what does it mean for dead people to get up and live, right? We don't really know. We're not talking about a physical transformation. We are talking about a physical transformation not to a better physical state, but we're talking about a physical transformation into a spiritual entity. Cuz that's what it is to be alive after you're dead means that the whole concept of tum'ah or zo'amah, which is the power of the Satan, that the Satan himself is killed. However you want to look at it. He is annihilated, obliterated. That means there's not only no more physicality, right? There's no more evil. It doesn't exist anymore. Well, that's not this physical world. So people do not realize something very important. Um that the real a Messianic age is not physical. It is already the beginning of being spiritual. You see? So, that is act five, which is the transformation, right? Of the physical world to the divine. You see? So, it goes from this world, which is physical, to the formation or transformation of Olam Haba. Right? And that takes, as I will mention, several thousand years and so on. That's an important idea to remember. Yemot Hamashiach, initially, is a physical world to a utopia, if you want to use that expression, which is a tremendous physical change. But really, what Yemot Hamashiach is, which I will get into, is a spiritual transformation from what was once physical. So, that is already the beginning of a different reality. You see? That already starts in the Messianic era. So, don't make that mistake. You see? And once that happens, it's a whole different kind of reality. And then, so that's act five, actually the transformation of the physical to the divine, Olam Haba, right? The future world. Then you have to have have act what's called act six, right? Which is Olam Haba, the future world, eternally. It never ends. And there is a progression, greater and greater, which we, of course, have no understanding of what that means. You know, we barely understand what it means to change physically. Do we understand what it means for a soul, a neshama, to change from one divine state to a greater divine state cuz that's really what happens. Is in the neshama itself the experience of the neshama is equal to the change of the neshama itself into a greater and greater being. We have no understanding of what that is. You know, it's much greater than just understanding the concept of an experience. Well, I know more, I feel better. No. You become a different type of being every It's almost like every nanosecond you become a different being. By experiencing God you become a different being. We do not understand what that means. And that's what it says in the Gemara. You know, it's sadikim that have no menucha. They have no rest. You know, in the world to come. You know, so we say to ourselves, what do you mean they have no rest? Because the growth toward perfection of existence of a being, an entity is something we cannot imagine where the existential change is the being itself. It's not where all of a sudden it experiences greater delights. The greater delight is that you are different. And we don't know what that means and how. But that's an important idea that the change is existential of the being itself. And therefore it has a greater experience. Not because it remains the same reality, right? And it therefore has a greater experience which is external to the being itself. Anyway, that's a very important idea. So that is act six. Right. There you are. So basically I've outlined the whole divine plan, what it is, and that it takes place in six acts, acts of God, and so on, with certain very important ideas about what are some of the stages of the act itself, acts itself, right? Okay. Now, let's go on. Now, let's go back. I mentioned that there are three acts, but then there's a fourth act called the termination phase. That's where the Jews will have done whatever is necessary for the tikkun. They did it. Whatever that entails. I had mentioned many times long time ago that there are three methods. One is mitzvahs, commandments. The second way of doing it is teshuvah, repent, if you sinned. And the third way is if you haven't repented, then suffering will allow you again to continue the tikkun process. Okay. So, therefore that's how you do the tikkun. But when the tikkun is complete or almost complete, then the world must go through a metamorphosis, a termination phase. Now, but the act four, which I mentioned is a termination phase or stage, right? Has several scenes. You know, I would compare it Imagine you go to a play. So, let's say you have four acts, but each act has a scene, you know. So, what we're now about to see is act four, which is the termination phase, that God now must change the world in order to allow the Messianic entry. You see, and that needs specific ideas directings directives that are addressed to this to the whole entire world in order for the Messiah to enter. You see. And so therefore it has different scenes. The first scene is called ikvisa d'meshicha the footsteps of the Messiah. What is the footsteps of the Messiah? What it means is that sometimes you know if somebody walks in the snow so the closer you are to that person in walking the snow the more clearer will be his footsteps cuz you're much closer to him. You see. So the footsteps of the Messiah is that you are so close to the Messiah that you can hear his steps. It's not that he's far away and you don't hear anything. No. When you're very next to a person you can actually hear their steps. So that's what ikvisa d'meshicha is. We are so close to the Messiah that we can hear his steps. So that's scene one. Footsteps of the Messiah. And it has an entire series of of events and characteristics and features that has to happen. You should know one thing you know even if the tikkun has been done and that's called the tikkun haklali the general rectification has been accomplished. Fine. But what God wants is not just the rectification of the world to be accomplished by the Jews. But he wants to make sure that each Jew will be in the future world. You see at the highest level possible for that person's uh life and so on. So, there is an hugger. There is a series of actions that God needs to take in order to guarantee that not only that the tikkun will be complete in its last detail, but that every Jew will be credited with with having done something for the tikkun and thereby thereby merit the future world. And by the way, that's why no tzaddik can bring the Moshiach because the tikkun, even if it has been done, it's almost done. No, every Jew has to have credit, merit for having done it cuz God wants every Jew in the future world. You see. Now, this is also true, by the way, or not completely in this way, but God would like also to be in the future world. And they have their path, which isn't tikkun, but it's leading a righteous life. That's their path to having credit of being living in the future world. And that's basically to observe the Noahide laws. And to be a Noahide, that's really what it is. They will also get the future world, you see, not the same as a Jew, because a Noahide doesn't do the tikkun unless he becomes Jewish, which he can. But if not, then they will get the future world at obviously a vastly inferior level. But like I say, it's up to them. So, the hanhaga'ah yichud are those acts that God has to do, you see, to make sure that the tikkun of the entire universe does happen completely, you see, and that all the Jews will be credited and therefore get the future world. You see. Now, here's the problem. In order for that to happen, then God has to do acts which to us are irrational. You see, he has to do things which he not that he wouldn't do it, but you know, it doesn't make sense given the description that he describes himself. Like the 13 attributes you give a meters of rahamim and so on. Uh so, in a certain sense, God does things which appear to be irrational. And they don't make sense based on who he is. And the reason why he has to do that is several. In a certain sense, determination phase seen one, equals to the mashiach. Because God now has to rush up or complete the job. It's like becomes like an Alice in Wonderland country, right? Where nothing makes sense. You see, that's how I'm going to say yichud. What it does in the end of time, in the footsteps of the Messiah stage. Cuz God now has to do the job. You see, and and what he does, and therefore it's irrational, comes across as irrational. Clearly as a mystery of why is God acting that way. And we we know the anti-semitism, the Holocaust, there are so many things that don't make sense. You see, and I will explain and so on, you know. In fact, there's a gemara that says that, you know, if you see evil people being successful, right? You don't touch them. Hashem mesachek aleihem, the hour smiles on them. Why? Because since God now has to finish up the job, he has to do this behavior or treatment of the people and so on in order to guarantee that they get into Olam Haba or whatever. So therefore God will not alter what he is doing because it's an emergency. This has to be done and so on, you know. So that's why it says the hour smiles on them because it's an emergency measure for them to be spared or whatever. You see. And another characteristic of that time, right? Is Tikbur So'ra. The proliferation or the growth the supremacy of evil. You see. God what God does is says, "Listen, evil has a claim. Evil says, 'Well, why am I not successful? Nobody's doing what you want basically. I have a right to increase the desire to do evil. Right? Cuz that's mida k'neged mida, measure for measure. So therefore this last ikveta d'meshicha, the footsteps of the Messiah, will witness the greatest evil that is possible to be done. And therefore God will satisfy justice. You see. So by allowing evil its growth and its success, cuz that's what people deserve, he completes the judgment that mankind has to have. So Tikbur So'ra, the proliferation of evil, is one of the essential characteristics of the footsteps of the Messiah stage. A very important idea, you see. Now, also, God wants to reward the resha'im for without for many reasons. Those people who are evil and deserve they they they're overall evil resha'im, right? But they've done good with their lives. So, God should can't just destroy them, you see? It says that God does not deny anybody the the the consequences of his acts. So, God has to reward evil people because there are certain things that they did that was good. Now, and that's what it means to satisfy justice. For instance, if you take a a Nazi individual who ran a concentration camp, you know, and this guy obviously has unbelievable amount of blood and torture on his hand, but there's sometimes he did good. He may have uh called up his mother and said, "Hi, Mom. How you doing?" Now, even to us, it says, "Who cares?" Right? But to God, that is a good deed. Even though the overwhelming nature of this person is unbelievably evil. So, God will reward evil people, and then they have no more claim to live in in a future world. You see? He has to satisfy justice. So, he has to reward evil people for the good that they did. And then, once it's once it's satisfied, then he destroys them cuz they have no claim. And the same thing with tzaddikim. There are people many people who are good overall, but every once in a while, they sin. You see. So, justice demands that, "Hey, there's a consequence." So, even though overall you're good, you're a tzaddik, or whatever, and therefore you will get the future world, but God has to satisfy justice for these people. So, all of a sudden you see people who really are righteous, or semi-righteous, whatever, and they are suffering terribly. Right in hospitals, or whatever, poverty, and divorce, or whatever, all the sufferings of mankind, because God is punishing them to satisfy justice. And then once the justice is satisfied, he will then give them Olam Haba. Same idea. And a great deal of this stuff happens at the end, cuz God is now focused on bringing the Moshiach, ending the whole journey of tikkun, you see. So, that's happens. In fact, what's interesting, you know, people wonder, for instance, the stock market. Why is there a stock market? If you think about it, what does it have to do with business? Business is where you sell a good or a service, right? And in exchange for giving that, you get rewarded with money or whatever, and so on. What is a stock market? The stock market is where basically, you know, you buy a share in somebody else's company, right? You become a shareholder, and you profit from the fact that that company profits. You see? But you're not exchanging, there's no business going on. The company has a business, but what do you have to do with it? You just hitched along for the ride. What's the value of the stock market? Well, if God wants to reward or punish people, and he doesn't have much time cuz at the end of time equals to the Mashiach he's got to do it right away. You see? Now normally if God wants to reward somebody, so he wants to make him a successful businessman. Normally it takes a long time to build a successful business. You know, can't do it in 3 days. You you see? But it equals to the Mashiach is very short. Relatively speaking. So what does God do? You see? So what God does he puts in the mind of man to create some type of an institute. Right? Where you could become a multi-millionaire overnight. Or you can become broke overnight. That's the reasons for the stock market, right? You see? That's why it exists because a person can put in the right money, right investment, and make a fortune overnight. You see? Or he can lose a fortune overnight. So the stock market is nothing more than a vehicle to reward or punish people that God wants to do in order to either clean up their record to be ready for the future world, the oil my ball. Or not clean either way or punish them. Rightfully so where they can get oil my ball. Or reward them and they won't get oil my ball cuz now they become multi-millionaires. So I'm just giving you an example of an institution that God created for the purpose of the end of time. That's why mankind invented the stock market. I think it was invented in the in the 1750 or 1780 or whatever it was somebody thought about this and so on, you know. Because it equals to the Mashiach He started approximately in 1840. So, he already had a put in an institute that would be able to live up to this uh purpose and so on, you know. Now, remember one thing. At the end of time, what God wants is he doesn't look at a person what he did in this life. He looks at the person's incarnations for thousands of years. And a person can come back a thousand times to complete the tikun. That's one of the great chesed. Reincarnation is one of the great kindnesses that if you have failed in the first test, you get to make a repeat test and so on, over and over again. You see? So, at the end of time, God looks at this person, his total record. And based on that record, it could be going back 800 years that he didn't do he did a sin and he never corrected that sin. So, God looks at the total record of a person, what he did, and he he adjusts what he has to do at the end of time. You see? So, that's why you can't figure out the acts of God toward any individual cuz it's not based on the here and now. It's based on what the person did for many, many reincarnations, lifetimes. You see? That's why you really cannot figure out why something has happened to you which is great or something which is happening to you which is terrible. You see? And that therefore that's a very important concept. You see? And therefore, what God requires Well, what's what do we do in scene one? It goes to the mashiach. Then what's our job? And the answer is the Akedah. The essential idea of the Akedah is a message, right, to Avraham Avinu that even though I tell you to kill Yitzchak, which is irrational, why did God give him an irrational deed to do? Because he wanted Avraham Avinu to stand a test where God will actually appear irrational. You see, and for God to tell uh Avraham Avinu that your descendants will come through Yitzchak, and then command him at the same time to kill him, it's completely irrational. It's a contradiction in terms, and so on, you know. Because what he's Avraham Avinu had to figure out, look, I have no idea why God is doing this. It doesn't It's It's illogical. It's irrational. But I have to remain loyal to God, no matter what. And the reason why the Akedah is the last test because the last phase of mankind, which is Ikvis Mashiach, requires us to do what? To be loyal. Cuz in that tekufah, there will be an unbelievable amount of irrational things, things which don't make sense, and so on. Like the destruction of Europe. The Holocaust, 6 million Jews. How do you explain that? And it's not only the fact that they died, it's the way they died. And God allowed complete supremacy and superiority of the Nazis and the German people, yimach shmam, and so on, to do this. Because in order to end the entire program, he had to do this. Therefore, what requires of us in the end and that's why the Akeda, the binding of Yitzchak, happened at the end, is the main idea, the main avodah, the main task that you have to do at the end of time, is don't abandon God, no matter how he appears to you, even though it's irrational, and you have no understanding of what's going on, you see. And he demonstrated that to Avraham Avinu. And thank God Avraham Avinu passed the test. But that is the avodah of ikvisah d'meshicha. You need to be loyal to God, no matter how he appears to you. You see, you cannot be marher after his middos. You cannot question his characteristics of being all good. You have to say gamzu l'tovah. This too is for the good, no matter how irrational it sounds, cuz the whole point of it is God examines your complete history of reincarnation and has to adjust to keep you in Olam Haba at a tremendous level. You see, and remember what God said after Egypt, Ki ani Hashem rofecha, I am God, your healer. And that's essentially what he is. It's not only that he's a judge, cuz as a judge, he doesn't have to rehabilitate you. But the main focus of God is really judgment, but rehabilitation of what you did. Because God wants you to be in Olam Haba in the best possible position that he determines. That's a very important idea, that the main avodah of the end of time, which is ikvisah d'meshicha, is loyalty, to God no matter how he appears to the person and so on, you see. Anyway, this is what we see. And these are the main idea but what we have witnessed, right? Is one of the main ideas is Tikun Ha'olam is the beginning of the proliferation of evil itself. You see? And that's where the concept of Ha'olam comes in. All of it is to prepare the world for the Messianic entry. Very important idea. Okay. So that is seen right? That is seen one of the termination phase which is act four. But then there's a scene two. See? It's act four, scene two. So it's not we're not going to leave equis of the Mashiach and begin the transformation away from equis of the Mashiach. Toward what? What is scene two? Scene two is called Aschalta D'Geulah the beginning of redemption, right? It's where it has reached rock bottom. And God says enough. That whatever I wanted to accomplish has been done and now I will begin to change from what it was in the equis of the Mashiach. So scene two of act four is Aschalta D'Geulah, the beginning of what? The beginning of redemption which is fascinating. And that's where you begin to see things which we've never seen before. You see? And let me give you some of the ideas. Trump is part of act two, or I should say scene two. You see. We've never seen if if you if you are honest with yourself, we've never seen a guy like Trump in the sense of what he does. We don't understand. How does a guy who is a businessman succeed in becoming president of the United States? You see. And then all of a sudden he is tremendously, right, persecuted. He's got the full weight of the American government against him. Nobody predicted that he would walk out at all. Be finished. All the indictments, whatever, the four or five indictments. Who predicted? And remember, it's the full weight of the American government. The DOJ, the Department of Justice, the FBI, right? The IRS. Then of course they try to kill him twice, right, bankrupt him, destroy his family. I mean, would anybody of us have survived? Forget about it, you know, you wouldn't have any money. Yeah, where you would have the lawyers which is lawyers costs and so on, you know. And not only that, he's 78. Where does he get his energy from? Certainly 80-year-old people don't do what he did. It's a miracle. You see. And the clarity of his thought, the ideas he has, and most of all his defiance against evil, and the the courage that he has and so on, you know. Uh it's really when you think about that, that's astounding. You should know what this is. This is us how to the goal. Right? And it starts with Tisha B'Av. As I mentioned many times, most people do not realize that Esau does teshuvah. You see? And not teshuvah, repentance after Messiah comes, but he will do teshuvah before Messiah comes because what the Rebbe wants to do is give him a tremendous chelek in Olam Haba, Esau. So, he has empowered in this unique individual to change America, which is the beginning concept of evil to good. From rah to tov. We've never seen that in such unbelievable magnitude. You see? I mean, he's not a guy that's going to change America in a mild way. You know, this guy is president for 5 days and he's already issued over three, as far as I know the statistic, 300 executive orders. How do you even keep track of that? And so on, you know. But it's astounding. And they're all common sense. They all make sense. And they're all good. Forget about what people say and so on. So, that itself is unheard of that there should be such a transformation. Right? From evil to good. Right? It should happen in 5 days. It's unheard of in American history. If somebody's really honest with himself, they'd never seen it. You see? So, what we've seen, and this is the characteristic of seeing to Aschalta d'Geulah, is tikbirsa tov. Is a complete overturning. Change. Transformation. Not complete, but the beginning of the overturn from evil to good. This is messianic because it is seen too. It's really what it is. It's the beginning of the end of equisetic Messiah and the beginning of, right, as shelter the ruler, the beginning of redemption, you see. And it's basically Donald Trump. I know it's hard to people to admit that. You know, but that's what it is. Because his life story until when he came down that escalator in 2015 and so on, you know, is an unbelievable story. I mean, it's hard to believe that this even happened. Anyway, so that's one very important concept is the unbelievable turnaround from evil to good. And that's his job, you should know. To do chuva to bring the world, not just America. His divine mission is to bring the world from good from evil to good, right? And it's not just MAGA, Make America Great. It's also, right, it's also to influence the world itself. Very important, people don't realize what God has done. And it's And it's interesting, you know, I just I just pick out one thing. God has saved America. Does America realize that? Yes, there are many people that realize that God saved America. And you should know one thing, it's a mitzvah to realize that. I'll give you one example. Biden Biden debated Trump. That was ridiculous. He didn't have to do that. He could have concealed his dementia, right? He like he fooled everybody in 2020. Uh you see? He didn't have to debate the the Trump at all. Not only that, even though Biden doesn't want to admit it, but he knows there's something wrong cognitively with him. It's obvious. He's not that demented where he doesn't know he's demented. He does know that. But of course, he's an unbelievable megalomaniac, and he wants power and luxury and glory. That's what he's into. So of course, he doesn't care. How can you govern America as president? Are you crazy? It's the most difficult job in the world, and you think you can handle it? But he doesn't care. Cuz being president allows him to have unbelievable luxuries and so on, you know? You know what it used to be able to go to Air Force One and fly wherever you want? Air Force One is like the Hilton, you know? That's one perk. And so, why would Biden debate Trump? You see? It's very obvious he can't He can't debate Trump. Why would he expose himself to his tremendous weakness? And that's exactly what he did. Why did he do it? I'll tell you why. Cuz God took away his free will. That's right. What God did he says, "I'm going to save America." How? How is America going to know what Biden really is? And therefore, not vote for him. Well, what he did was he forced him to debate Trump, and that's what downfall was. Everybody saw what he was. Because God saved America, right? And that's how he did it. And that was a tremendous hesed, kindness, that God did for America. But what it really is cuz he had to get rid of Biden, right? Cuz I once spoke about that and so on. What the job of Biden was and so on. But they had to get rid of Biden in order to begin this scenario, right? Called Aschalta D'gulah. Right. That's the very interesting part about this. Cuz with the election of Trump in November 5th, which happened in Cheshvan, and we know Cheshvan has no holidays. Why? Cuz Cheshvan will Where that was the beginning of Aschalta D'gulah. Right. This already happened. It started on November 5th, the election. Right. But of course there was a precursor with Biden's debate. But on November 5th, right? Which is Cheshvan, that's when Aschalta D'gulah began. You see? And that is the turnaround that all of us have been waiting for. You see? That's the beginning and so on. On Cheshvan itself. And what is so interesting, you know, which I have to say, is the month of Esau, every month has a certain mazel. And the mazel of Esau as an evil person is Tevet, the goat. And the sign of Esau is a sa'ir, a goat. So what is interesting is the Aschalta D'gulah begins on November 5th, right? Which is the month that begins the redemption, right? And Trump takes office on January 20th, which is what? Which is Tevet. But wait a minute. That's the mazel of Esau as a rasha, as an evil person. Yet when he took office on January 20th, right? Hey, wait a minute. This isn't bad. This is unbelievable for America. You see? So wait a minute. Is this the muscle of Esau that's bad? And the answer is it used to be, right? Cuz that's what the essential idea of Esau to the good law it is what's called the turnaround, right? The Esau to the good law begins on Cheshvan, right? November 5th, he's elected, and he takes office on Tevet, January 20th, which is Chof Tevet, which I spoke about. With the with Yaakov Abuhatzeira and so on. It actually begins in his month of Tevet, but as a good thing, not as a bad, like I said. He's already issued in 5 days, which is astounding, unbelievable executive orders and so on. So, this is really what we begin to see. Not only that, but in Tevet, which is the used to be the month of Esau, the bad part of Esau, right? Who represents the rash of Esau, the evil of Esau? And the answer is Democratic Party. They are incredibly godless evil party. We don't even realize the amount of evil they do to mankind, certainly to America. With his election, with his ascendancy to the presidency, the Democratic Party's basically destroyed. Because since good has now been bad has now been reversed to good, he will be very successful in terms of building up America. I mean, just look at what he's done in 5 days. It's unbelievable how everybody's running scared of Trump. You see? It's unbelievable what's happening. And how he's going to stop the wars and introduce and so on, you know. Uh so, that destruction of the Democratic Party in Tavis, which should not be. Should be the reverse. The The success of the Democratic Party, cuz that's their muzzle. To the rush of Asov. The exact opposite is happening. Not only that, but take a look at the other stuff happening. This is all turn around stuff. People don't realize this. You know, with Jews, the Israel has destroyed Hamas. You think they knew that they would be destroyed? Would they have ever done what they did if they would have realized what Israel is going to do to them? Of course not. They're completely oblivious to this. Israel destroyed Hamas. You see, and would Nasrallah ever have done challenged Israel if he would have known that Israel would take out the entire upper echelon of of of command of of Hezbollah and wipe out Hezbollah? You see, of course he wouldn't have done it. But he was stupid. And the truth is God forced them. Cuz we are seeing the end or the beginning of the end of the destruction of Islam as an evil power Sunni against the Jews. And they are being neutralized. And as we watch, Iran is next. You see, they will also the mullahs will fall. And Iran will become go back to the people of Iran, cuz that's really what they want. And that will be the end of the evil of Ishmael. And then what will bring Ishmael, which are the Muslims, closer to the Jews? And that is the Abrahamic accords, which of course again is Donald Trump. We are witnessing a change in history that we've never seen before. But it's one after the other. I'm just basically just pointing all of this out and so on, you know. But there are other things that have to happen in this thekufer called aschalta degula, the beginning of redemption. And that is the erev rav. The greatest enemy of Judaism is the erev rav, right? Is those people who control Judaism, right? Israel. There's an enormous amount of people, the left, if you want to call them the left, the progressives, the liberals, whatever, they are erev rav. What about them is so dangerous? Because they hate God. They hate the Torah, you see. Cuz essentially, you have to realize what Zionism is. Zionism is a philosophy that wants to replace the uniqueness of the Jews not with the Torah, but with secularism. That's really what all Zionism is. Well, you're an Israeli. You are in the land of Israel, so what do you need mitzvahs for? You see. That's what Zionism is. It's the attempt to remove the uniqueness of the Jewish people, which is the agreement or the covenant, the bond that the Jews have with God, to observe his commandments, to learn the Torah, and so on, to destroy that, and therefore to only say that what? That we are Israel like every other country. You see? Forget about Torah. We have gefilte fish, right? We have Jewish cuisine, cholent. I don't know if they eat Charlotte, but whatever it so on, you see. Uh so, they are next. And they are usually the last. Cuz it's very hard to get rid of them. And like I said once before, why have the Supreme Court, which is Erev Rav? Why has the government, which is Erev Rav? Those who don't even teach There's 1.5 million kids in the school system, public school system of Israel, right? How much Judaism do they do they learn? Do you ever look at the Torah? How many times does Moshe Rabbeinu say, "And you will observe the observe all the commandments"? Thousand times? Could you imagine if Moshe Rabbeinu woke up and he took a look at what the Erev Rav, those Zionist, secularist, and all those people that want to dump the Torah, replace it, right? With uh an identity of secularism and so on, you know? You Could you imagine what Moshe Rabbeinu would say? Every other pasuk is a pasuk that Moshe says, "And you will observe the commandments." Again and again, thousand times. Could you ima- Can you imagine what he would have said had he seen what's today? 1.5 million kids. That's a lot That's the whole future of Israel, right? They don't learn anything about mitzvahs, basically. It's all nothing. You see? And not only that, it's a war against the Charedim. It's a war, and so on, cuz they don't recognize, you see, that Torah not only i- i- is it the bond covenant, it is the agreement between us and God, but it protects the Jews. You see, they don't realize that. To them, all it is is reading an ancient philosophy or about an ancient the study of ancient religion, old time Judaism. So, of course they're against it. But, what God is doing is very interesting. Because they have a merit. The merit is that they pay Haredim, their wives to and so on. They pay Haredim pay for Yeshivas. So, that gives them a merit. So, that's why it's so hard to get rid of them. So, God said I have to remove that merit of the Erev Rav. And how will that be? That they will war against the Haredim, the Jews, the Torah, and so on. This is the default God has done us a tremendous favor, even though it doesn't look that way. He has taken away the merit of these people. You see, and therefore they will be overthrown. Now, we don't know how, but something will happen overnight that will scandalize the Erev Rav. And somebody will replace them and begin to turn around of the Jewish people to that Torah, you see. So, that's a very, very important thing, you see. And now, in the same concept of Aschalta DeGeulah, I'm going to tell you something else which is very important. Remember, not only is Trump back in power to to bring tremendous good, right? Not only is the Democratic Party destroyed, but there's something else that we don't realize. Where are the values of America brought? Where are they brought, the values of America and so on? How are they transmitted to the entire world? And the answer is Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. We don't realize how much decadence and depravity emanates from that city, and so on. And therefore, how irresponsible. So, as part of the turnaround, it is very important. We have never seen evil recompensed. You see, we have never seen such a retribution against evil. Well, take a look. That's what the LA fires are all about. Right? It's the retribution against Los Angeles, because they have destroyed in many ways the values, right, of righteousness, of morality. So, therefore, since Aschalta the Geulah has happened, therefore, this has happened. In fact, the LA fires started in the same week as Asarah b'Tevet. Asarah b'Tevet, the 10th of Tevet, is when the decision to destroy the Beit Hamikdash was made. You see? It was made, right? And the LA fires started in that week of Asarah b'Tevet to indicate that the retribution is now reversed. It's no longer against Jews and so on. I will now destroy the tumah, the evil, the corruption, the depravity that emanates from that city. So, guess what? God has destroyed LA, you know. The question is to what extent will he do that? You see, but they've never seen a fire like that, of course, and so on, you know. So, the LA fires are really part of Aschalta the Geulah. We don't realize that. And it's not directed at some city in Iowa. No. It's directed against the rich, those people who have tremendous power and influence over the morals of America. Those are the guys that suffered it. They estimate it's going to cost hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars to bring back LA. You have any idea what kind of punishment that is? Right. The question is will they learn that? But the LA fires is nothing more, right, than an actualization of the salt of the gula, the turnaround of good. And look how many places we've seen the turnaround of good. And I'm not even going into the the weather extremes and the hurricanes and and and so on, you see. So this is all part of the salt of the gula. This is all part of the beginning of the Messianic era. But the main idea is to get away from evil into the good. Now, together with Trump, there has to be a figure we call Messiah ben Joseph, that will begin the revolution of Ruchniyus, spirituality, and Torah that has to begin, right? God will restore, that's called the kibbutz, that God promises, right? That God will restore the the uh supremacy of Torah in Klal Yisrael. He will not allow the Jewish people to appear before a Messianic figure and the beginning of Ruchniyus as Ammoratzim, as ignoramuses. He won't do that. He will restore their knowledge of Torah. And like it says in the possuk in Nitzavim and so on, right? That it says there that even if you are outcast be at the ends of heaven, from there, what is from there? From the ends of heaven, God will gather you you come back home. He will gather you. And somehow he's going to make the Jews alert, aware. He's going to change the consciousness of the Jewish people. We don't know how. And then it says "Only sham and from there" means from the ends of heaven. In the clipper itself, you see, he will restore right? The Torah you go he will take you. And that is he will make them all come in the home. We don't know how. And then it says and then he will bring them, the Jews, to Israel. So clearly we see that the goal of the redemption will begin right outside of Israel. And that will be the Messianic figure of the Joseph. And that will be together with the base I mean dish. We don't really know exactly how which will come first and so on, you know. But that will be the the base I mean dish and so on, you know. That's what we're looking forward to. And that's the of the goal. Remember the essential idea is to get rid of the evil and to introduce the toy. And then there is scene three. Scene one I said was in the show. Footsteps of the Messiah. Scene two is the goal which is the beginning of the turn around through Trump and through obviously the show Joseph and so on. And a turn around of and so on, you know. But then there's scene three. And that is the Messiah. That is the Messianic era itself. And that is primarily the show David. Right. Then we will see Israel's rise to tremendous greatness. Right. That's when Klaas or the Jewish people or God will says, you know, that the entire world will see that I dwell in the midst of the Jews. Yes, that's where I am. Right? And they will realize the greatness of the Jews. And not only that, what the Jews brought the tikkun to the entire universe. They will realize that. And that is the Messianic era. And the war prophecy will abound among the Jews, right? It'll be so easy to access the Shekinah. That is the restoration of the Shekinah and so on. So, this is a time we've never seen before. You see, we're all of a sudden the Jews are vindicated of who they really are and so on. And all the will bow down to the Jews cuz they have saved the world. And they will realize that the Jews are the children of God in terms of what they've done and so on. And that's only the first part of the Yemot Hamashiach, the time of Mashiach ben David. You see, and they will realize that. I want to tell you something interesting. Trump is receiving an enormous amount of honor. It's amazing. Everybody's running to Mar-a-Lago. Everybody. But why? He wasn't even president and they're running to Mar-a-Lago, you know? And the honor that was being bestowed on him was incredible, you know? And the reason for that is because it says in Chazal that if you ever have you have ever have the opportunity, you should run to see kings. Why? Cuz you see the glory and the honor, right? And the majesty of a king. could you imagine what will happen on the Messiah bin David and Joseph the glory and the majesty. That's how you realize by seeing the contrast that what the kings of the world don't do for themselves the honor and glory is nothing compared to the majesty of the Messiah bin David himself. It'll be incredible you see. So you should know one thing. That is one of the reasons why I believe that Trump has this majesty. He's enjoying that majestic atmosphere or that majestic image that the Messiah himself enjoys. Why? Because in many ways he's part of that redemption. He is the taste of Esau Esau doing chuva and therefore part of the majesty of Messiah is being rubbed off on Trump. That's what I believe and so on. Because to watch the honor being given to him by the nations of the world and so on is incredible. And the question is where? We've never seen that before. The honor being bestowed on a president. And that is all part of the the goolah itself you see. But the second part of Messiah bin David is the beginning of the end of the zoyamo. And that is what I said. Do not think that the Messianic era is an era when physically everything is govalding, everything is great. It's a mistake. The Messianic era itself is an era of time right? When the physical universe begins to change into a different type of universe you know and so on. Because the Satan will be killed. That's the end of evil. That means there's no death. There's no sickness. There's no disease. There's no tragedy or calamity. It will be an unbelievable time for the Jewish people and even for the the world. Because goodness will completely dominate every aspect of mankind, you see. So, that is the second part of the Messianic era, you see. And then Act five, which I mentioned, is after the Messianic era. Is the reality transformations. Where reality itself changes. And cabalistically, there are different four maybe four or even five worlds and so on. Where Assiah, the world of Assiah, will change into Yetzirah, which is a different type of universe. It's spiritual. And then Olam Yetzirah, the world of Yetzirah, will change into Briah, which is the world of angels, the upper angels. And then Olam Briah, the world of Briah, will change into Atziluth, which is the world of God. You see? And then Atziluth will change into what is called Adam Kadmon, primordial man, which is Olam Ha'Atziluth. That is Act five. And then Act six is when Olam Ha'Atziluth, once it's formed, will go on for all eternity. Right. So, if you asked, "Well, where are we in this whole outline of the Messianic process and the Tikkun process?" And the answer is we are in Act four, which is the termination phase, stage, right? And we are on the second scene called aschalta the geula, which is what I'm saying so, you know. And all of this, we are just waiting Now, so Trump has started his mission in that sense, you know. But what we are waiting for really the real turnaround and the real geula aschalta the geula the real one right? Is not just a preparation. It's Mashiach ben Yosef. Who is Mashiach ben Yosef? Well, the Torah gives you a hint in that sense where the brothers, the whole story of Yosef and his brothers we're finally in parshas Vayigash Yosef looks at them and says I knew Yosef. I am Yosef. And they were shocked. That means that the Mashiach ben Yosef is a person that you would never think is the Mashiach. And that was the revelation of Yosef Hatzadik when he said, "I am Yosef." And that will happen in the aschalta the geula, you see. And what is interesting is that the geula started with the Egyptians. Yosef saved Egypt from the famine. He saved Egypt from the famine. They came first. And it was only later when Yakov and the shvatim came down that Yosef built for them yeshivas and a whole community of all the Jews. So we see therefore what we're really looking at is the preparation which is aschalta the geula, which I'm saying began on November 5th. Right, the turnaround and so on. So, let's hope that it's going to happen shortly. Right? And that Trump will fulfill his mission. I mean, The that he was saved by a quarter of an inch is a miracle. Even he says God saved him. It's unfortunate that Trump does not realize completely what his mission is cuz he keeps repeating MAGA, you know, to make America prosperous and so on. That's that this that's only secondary or even tertiary, which is third. No, the real purpose of Trump is to change the world from evil to good. And then Mashiach ben Yosef, what he has to do is change the world from good to righteous. That's the difference. And then Mashiach ben David has to change the world from righteousness to spiritual and then to holy and then the world begin to transform and therefore it has to change from holiness to divine. And this is the job. I hope learns of the Trump learns of that that what his real mission is and so on. That he has to govern with common sense. But he has to govern really with a sense of mission. A mission of what? A mission of righteousness. You see? And uh he has to be very very careful what he does with the Jewish people in Israel and so on. But I believe that he will do it. That he will do it. And and that is basically what his purpose is. Thank you.