Hoshea: Chapter 11 - The Remarkable Account Of Colonel John Patterson & the Man-Eating Lion of Tsavo

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com welcome everyone to today's edition of the navi haishaya the prophet hose and now um the prophet ends this parekh with a glimpse into what the Final Redemption will look at look like when we finally return to our Holy Land so this week's par this week's shirt is going to be about one subject but I'm not telling you what the subject is yet foreign he will roar like a lion for he will Roar and children will shake from the West children will shake from the West so God will roar like a lion somebody here with a black Kia God will roar like a lion and at that point children will shake will stir from the West so again this is a very important plastic they will go you will roar like a lion for he will Roar and children will stir Miami from the West what does this plastic mean says um this I will do for them when the time of redemption comes they will follow God to their land he will roar like a lion God will roar like a lion just like when a lion roars all the animals gather to him he is the king king likewise all the Nations will gather after God so the the seems to say that the Roar the function of the Roar of the Lion is to gather all the animals likewise Allah by God will Roar and so to speak galvanized all the nations to follow him yeah so that this is one interpretation of what occurs when a lion roars we will explore others continues he will inspire the Harris as if he Roars with a loud sandwich called the children of Hashem they will come suddenly from the west from the side of the sea let's see the next possible first and then we'll go back they will tremble they will stir me like a bird from Egypt ashram like a dove from Assyria back to the birds and I will settle them in their homes says God okay let us um explore this plastic further let's see the radar first let's see yes like a lion they will leave Golf and follow him will gather from the West it is actually quite a remarkable thing to point out that of all the directions that the navi points out that people will return from the direction that it it emphasizes that the Jews will return from the West which is Lamesa going to be true because before mashiach comes there are no Jews left anywhere else in the world other than America if you want to know where in the world are there more than half a million Jews other than Israel there's only one place America what not not anymore no well under now um in the last 10 years yeah Soviet Union no not anymore more than a million Jews have left the Soviet Union and come to Israel 1.1 million Jews in the last uh since since the Holocaust um came out every 10 years God picks another country and he empties it out and what's remarkable is there's only one country that remains there's only one country that still has Jews in it think about it you have your uh one second Iran all of a sudden in the 167 they emptied out there very few Jews left in Iran Iraq the Soviet Union more than more than a million Jews left Morocco kamat there no Jews left Yemen all the Jews are left France it emptied out well under half a million well under half a million yeah there's one problem with your thesis yeah it says here that the Jews are going to return from the West yeah America is from the East no when they're coming back they're coming east no but they're coming from the West yeah from the West that's what it says that the Jews will return from the well why doesn't it say from the north you know Soviet Union is North why is it safe in the South Morocco the answers at the end of days they're only coming from one place they're only coming from America it's the prophecy of the navi they're the most stubborn people they still they don't get it they have to take they're the last call for the Jews of America it's going to take the Roar of a lion to get him to come back all the other people they have a abyssal Sega on their cup to return before the Royal lion but the last call last call is you know is only is heard is needed to be heard by the Jews in the west what let's see yeah let's see them album the mountain says the ear when they'll be outside of the city there they will find God who is designated to go into Galas ham in their Elite in lead of them he will remain holy in them so that the king of Asher does not take away the religion he's letting them know that even though God took them into Legolas when he goes before them to the Gospels so what does this mean we know Babylon was compared to a lion that Daniel saw in his vision like the navi said Daniel said that the ministering angel of Babel as an Arya like it says the lion emerges from his Thicket foreign so it says here Hashem will be mislavish in the Galas in the image of the Tsar into which he exiled his children so the Malibu has a completely different take on this says that when we go into Gallos hashem's voice will not be his own voice he will dim his voice instead of roaring with the voice the karoshakai which is the powerful voice to perform Miracles God will diminish himself into the likeness so to speak of a lion whose voice is the uh only the call of a wild animal meaning Hashem will not display himself openly however the day will come days are coming that and during this time when God will not display himself as shock eye but rather as an Arya to Arya yashag meaning during that time there will not be a Nissan glorium but rather Hashem will just manipulate events that Hashem will care for them from behind the scenes however the day will come that he will not roar like a lion he will Roar in his voice to perform open Miracles with them and at that point of time the Jewish people will return from the Galas okay so I want to share with you something interesting in Tanakh sham is sometimes uh compared to a lion like in this postok it says God will roar like a lion we know why the image of a lion is picked a lion as the king of all the animals now what's interesting is there are many words in Tanakh that refer to the Roar of a lion so we have over here yeshag but what other words are there sometimes we have another word for roaring or nasan Kyle or hamam or Yaga but uh Shag in a way is the most uh powerful of oral the roars so interesting thing a lion uh aligns are very vocal animals and they have a wide repertoire of sounds they grunt they could growl hum snarl moan but the most prominent prominent of their vocalization is the Roar and here we have that the uh God will sort of Roar at the end of days and at that point of time we will follow him now Lions could Roar for many reasons one reason a line May Roar they want to Proclaim that the ownership of territory to signal to Lions of arrival Pride to stay away often a line will emit a roar right before a hunt sometimes they'll Roar to maintain maintain contact with other lions or to intimidate hyenas because sometimes when a lion has a finds a piece of meat so they have to compete with the hyenas that come you know what the hyenas come because the hyenas only know that there's meat there because they see the vulture sweep swoop down when the hyenas see the vultures move down then they they go after the meat so the Lions want to keep the uh hyenas away anyway a lion's roar can be heard from several miles away okay that's how powerful the roar is so here it's saying when we hear the Roar of God at the end of days we will follow him back to ours Israel so just to give you a little taste of the fright and the fear that is engendered when uh people hear the Roar of a lion maybe you heard there was somebody by them Colonel John Patterson who was building a railroad construction camp in Kenya and his men suffered from the notorious man-eating Lions of Savo so this is at the turn of the 20th century right in the beginning of the 1900s and he writes in his whole life I've never experienced anything more nerve-shaking than to hear the Deep Roars of these Dreadful monsters growing gradually nearer and nearer and to know that someone or other of us was doomed to be their victim before morning dawn so he was building a railroad station I guess under British occupied Kenya and every single night all of a sudden one of his members and they were Carried Away by one of the two men eating lions there were two men eating lions called the man-eaters of Savo who in this period of time when the British were building a railroad station they ate more than a hundred people actually he wrote a book Colonel John Patterson wrote a book about it called the man Eaters of Savo and basically what would happen is or they would hear from a distance the Roar of a lion and they knew the hundreds of men knew that that night one of them would be eaten because they knew the way that Lions operated they would Roar from afar that was like the signal for the hunt and then once they got within a mile silence the roar was just a signal someone's going down and these were lionesses these were lionesses huge meaningless lions and you could see them today they were caught they were stuffed they're in a museum in Chicago they preserve them the man eaters but listen to the story once they um and so he says than to hear the Deep Roars of these Dreadful monsters growing gradually nearer and nearer and to know that someone else we're going down once they reach the vicinity of the camps the roar is completely ceased and we knew that they were stalking for their prey shouts would then pass from Camp to Camp which means I guess an African but we are brothers the devil is coming but the warning cries with proof of no avail and sooner or later agonizing shrieks would break the silence and again as every day another man would be missing from roll call the next morning with such an account in mind we understand what the navi Amai says Milo era right you know we we just read that plastic are you shocked when the lion roars who's not afraid I don't know I'm not afraid I've been to a zoo I'm Not Afraid no we're not talking about a lion in the zoo here you have a colonel who said there is nothing that more nerve-shaking than to hear the Deep Aurora of the lion so I want to tell you the story of the lion Eaters of Savo and the historical twist that it took okay I'm reading to you from a book the name of the book is the Torah Encyclopedia of animals and uh they have a little chapter here on Jewish Jewish history and the lion if you want to see I have a picture here of Colonel John Patterson alongside the first man-eating lion that he killed these lines were huge meaningless female lines fine uh we know from Jewish history I paraphrase from shim shine tebanayahu to David to Daniel many have demonstrated their Courage by overcoming lions in modern times too one of the greatest heroes of the Jewish Nation gained Fame as a Slayer of lions okay that might be a little bit of an exaggeration great Heroes of the Jewish Nation but listen to the story these were not just any Lions but were amongst the most feared and dangerous lions in recorded history their Slayer although an outstanding hero who fought on behalf of Jewish people was not even Jewish okay Colonel John Patterson remember the name on several occasions okay these are two mainless huge Lions working together we're estimated to have killed in Eden well over a hundred people working on the railroad at the turn of 20 20th century Colonel John Patterson an Irish Soldier an engineer in charge of the railroad was faced with the task of killing these lions night after night Patterson sat in a tree hoping to shoot the Lions when they came to the bait that he set up for them the Lions demonstrated supernatural abilities they would instead of passing by the bait they would break through the thorn fences and figure out a way to take victims from elsewhere they seem to be immune to all the bullets that were shot at them after many months Patterson eventually shot both Lions he himself was nearly killed in the process such as When approaching the body of a lion that he had shot several times the lion leaped suddenly to attack him Patterson published a blood curdling account of the episode named the man-eaters of Savo which became a bestseller and it earned him a close relationship with President Roosevelt now listen to this so Patterson yeah upon Upon returning to England Patterson was held a hero World War One breaks down Patterson travels to Egypt and he took upon himself a most unusual task he formed and led a unit of Jewish soldiers who were exiled by Palestine by the Turks so now he's leading a band of Jewish soldiers who are exiled Turks as a child Patterson was mesmerized by stories from the Bible he viewed his task as being of tremendous historic significance of freeing Palestine for the Jewish people the unit was called the Zion mule corpse and was tasked with providing supplies to soldiers in the trenches in Gallipoli Patterson persuaded a reluctant War office to provide kosher food matzah for Passover and he himself learned Hebrew and Yiddish to be able to communicate with his troops in Egypt 1916 Patterson joins forces with jabatinsky to create a full-fledged Jewish Legion in the British army to fight a liberate Palestine from the cruel reign of the Ottoman Empire and enabled Jews to create a Jewish homeland the war minister now who's the war minister of England he says Lord Derby succumbed to anti-zionist agitators and attempted to prevent the Jewish Legion from receiving kosher food and from serving in Palestine altogether Patterson threatened to resign and risk the court-martial protested Derby's decision as a disgrace Derby backed down and Patterson formed the Jewish Legion in Egypt to liberate Palestine during training Patterson again threatened the war office with resignation if his men many were Orthodox if they were not allowed to keep Shabbos while fighting in the army meanwhile Patterson imported cook to inspire the troops in Egypt Patterson classed repeatedly with anti-semitical officers in the British army once when a visiting Brigadier called once window visiting Brigadier called one of his soldiers a dirty Jew he told all of his soldiers to surround him with bayonets until he officially apologized he was reprimanded by General Allenby on another occasion one of his troops was sentenced to execution for sleeping so he circumvents a chain of authority he contacted Allenby directly to earn a reprieve he got it but the notorious anti-semitic Brigadier by the name of Lewis Bowles complained about Patterson's interference to General Shea General Shea then summoned Patterson Patterson thought he would be executed and instead of being executed General Shea told him that his children are big fans of his book The Lion Eaters of savom the Jewish Legion fought well Palestine was liberated from the Turks Patterson was the only British officer in World War One not to receive a promotion because of the because the Britain was anti-Semitic and dedicate himself thing with the creation of a Jewish homeland the achievements of the Jewish Legion gained sympathy but there was much opposition one Jewish delegation seeking to explore an alternate option of creating a Jewish homeland in Africa change their mind when they read Patterson's account of the man eating lions of Savo they said we're we're not we're not standing up a Homeland near these lions Israel can be in Uganda meanwhile against Patterson's efforts Bulls was appointed military governor of Palestine and fill the administration's anti-semites who attempted to undermine the Balfour Declaration and empower the Hostile Arab world War II breaks out Patterson is now an old man he fought to create another Jewish Legion he got the Jewish infantry Brigade to be approved and aside from finding the Germans members of the brigades succeeded in smuggling many Camp survivors into Palestine many other survivors had been cruelly turned away and Patterson protested this to President Truman capitalizing on his former relationship with Roosevelt this contributed to Truman's support for Israel okay now listen to this Patterson spent most of his later years actively campaigning for Jewish homeland and against the British mandates actions towards Jews and Palestine tragically Patterson passed away one month before the founding of the state the newly formed country would not have won the war of independence without the trained soldiers that were trained by the veterans of Patterson's Jewish Legion and Jewish infantry Brigade Colonel John Patterson had ensured the survival Jewish homeland Alias Patterson had all been but forgotten you could see the two lions today at display at the Field museum in Chicago but his legacy lived on in another way he had a close friend his close friend was professor bencion Netanyahu okay and when Patterson passed away he named his son yonatan after Colonel John Patterson wow so bibi's brother was killed it was named after Colonel John Patterson I don't know I thought that was very interesting especially when I saw the post look that in the future God will roar like a lion I don't think I ever appreciated the fright and the scare of the Roar of a lion until I read this account of the man-eaters of Savo anyway yeah right if only right okay Rabbi say have a great day just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com