ISRAEL AT WAR: Is This Gog Umagog War The Prophets Spoke About

We are back here on our Sunday night sh but due to the current events uh we're making a change. We're not going to be doing our uh Torah Foundation series but rather we're going to be talking about the current events Israel at war and whether this is go. Uh tonight's show you is uh sponsored by uh and also uh by the sun and also uh for the uh good health and rewash lema for Elizabeth Bat Marette Cornelia Spoor Maker and also for the uh Refash Lama of Adrien Zaldivar Leon uh son of Patricia and uh also for the Lam Fry Benitan Sah Leavatimavid and all of Am is all the righteous nohides that continue to learn with us, continue to support the organization. Uh, continue to help us publicize which there is more of a need for right now than ever before. and you will understand why I'm saying that uh tonight uh probably more than ever. So Karim, if uh you haven't been sleeping under a rock over the last 48 hours, you realize that we are back at war uh with uh Iran. uh Israel and the United States attacked Iran after all of the different threats that they've been uh giving out and issuing on a regular basis for decades already. But really over the last few months, it got to a point of being unbearable for anyone to take and uh Israel and the United States took the initiative and uh decided to attack them again as they did uh nearly a year ago. And of course, everyone realizes why this is happening on a political level. The uh the danger that's there, the uh what the Iranians are doing to their own people, massacring them by the thousands. Uh of course, I don't have to go into the polit politics of it. Question is, what is the what is the data of everything that's happening? Especially since we see that this outbreak of the war happened just days before Pi days before we recite celebrate the salvation we got from Akados from Persia which is Iran nearly couple thousand years ago. Again, we are at a war and uh we're hoping that a kadosh bahu brings us a salvation again from the looks of things. What they show on TV is a world away from what's actually happening. What they show on uh TV or the news stations here in the west is uh that this is nothing to see here. This is just another day. But the reality of what's happening in Israel is very very different. The uh Iranians are fighting fighting back. They shot over a thousand missiles uh within the first 48 hours and unfortunately some of them hit in Israel and uh killed some people. There's uh unfortunately a uh big disaster in Bish. They hit a uh synagogue and uh direct hit which included the Miklat that was under it. Uh so far they're saying there was uh 16 dead and 11 11 missing. It also hit other areas. And of course the Iranians don't care about life. So they're shooting everywhere. Meaning they're shooting everywhere and anywhere, even places that seem like they're not really involved in the war. Like for example, just uh uh in the last 24 hours, they also shot a missile at Cyprus. What do you want with Cypress? What do they have anything to do with the war? Of course, they uh shot missiles at US bases uh that are in the Middle East. They shot at Dubai. They hit a hotel. They hit several other places. And uh this whole situation is much more significant than it's ever been before. One of the bits of good news we got on Shabbat was that the Kumi is finally dead. But this is not enough. Even though he and several other of the top leaders were killed by the surprise attack by Israel and the United States. Unfortunately, it was just a week ago that this Humeni actually put in power his replacement. And his replacement is already making even worse threats than Kumini was making by saying that all of the stuff that we shot at you so far, all of these missiles that we shot at you so far, these were just the small things we have. Wait till we show you the real stuff that we have hiding in the caves underground. stuff that you guys have never seen before. So the Persians, the Iranians are very very proud, arrogant people and uh they're not uh going down without a fight. And in fact, the question is where is this play in the prophecies? Of course, we could all easily say, okay, it's the end of days. Mashiach is coming. But anyone that saw our film Gogum Magog the movie knows that Go Magog is a process. It's a series of wars and not just simply a single war. The culminating event of Goum Magog is a battle that the go said will last less than 10 minutes. But to get to that last stage is a process, a series of wars which the midashim and many of the spoke about some of the things we've talked about in the past, some we have not which will bring uh new uh some things that uh we would like to hear and some certainly are going to be bad news for some people. But those that see it initially as bad news will realize that they could turn it into good news. Because this is not a lecture in order to scare you. This lecture's goal is in order to inform you so you make informed decisions with your life starting today. Many people, religious and non-religious, realize that right now is not the time to ignore Hashem. You're seeing the missiles. You're seeing things that are dropping from the sky that are the size of, you know, trucks, 18-wheelers, huge missiles. And if this is the smallest that the Iranians have, obviously this is a time to pray even for the atheist because his nothing is not going to save him. But we have to understand things also from the perspective of Torah and where we stand. And just like we did when we were in Israel a few years ago during the October 7th attacks, we were giving a whole series of lectures called Israel at war to give people to give people information about what's actually happening. How does the Torah perspective look like which is very very different than the news look like? The same concept will go today. So, as I said before, the good news that we'll start off with is that it's a good sign that it started in Adal. Not just because everyone likes Adal, because Pim it's the holiday that both religious and non-religious Jews enjoy putting costumes on, eating some food. Some people take it a little too far by getting too drunk. But nonetheless, according to our sages, this is an auspicious time for good fortunes for Israel. As the page 29A says, in the name of Rava, Benat who said it in the name of Rav, just as when a month of Av begins, we curtail joy. time where a lot of horrible things happened to the destruction of the first and the second mikdash the uh sin of the uh the the spies. A lot of horrible things happened to is during the month of Av and therefore this is a month that as soon as it begins we curtail our joy. But just as we do that, so too when the month of Adar begins, we increase joy. In fact, Rafa says this is such an auspicious time that it's not only apicious for the nation of Israel as a whole but also for the individual Jews as a whole where if a Jew has a lawsuit with a non-Jew, he should avoid him and delay the court case if It's scheduled for the month of Av because that's a month of bad fortunes. Whereas if he has a court case, he could schedule it and he should schedule it for the month of Adal. Make himself available and appear before the court during the month of Adal because this is when the mazal of Is increases. So here we see already words from the sages, clear instructions that if there was ever a perfect time for us to go to war, this is the ideal time. This is the ideal time. Now as we all know and again I remind you for anyone who has not watched the movie we have about Gum Magog that is full of dozens and dozens of sources from across the spectrum of it that it's both a spiritual war and a physical war. Most people are more concerned with the physical war because they feel more endangered by it, not realizing that the spiritual war has been going on for some time. Whether it's the attacks on Jewish institutions in New York, in Belgium, in England, in Israel, the governments are going against them in different ways. Whether it's literally taking the Bah Shivot and throwing him in jail after they beat them up, after they break some bones, after they beat up all types of religious Jews in the middle of the street. And this is happening in Israel, not in Nazi Germany. Or it's making Brit Milan against the law in places like Belgium. or it's having a new expose putting bad light on the Jewish communities in America every other day. Whether it's different YouTubers that have nothing to do with their life other than manipulating reality and simply highlighting any negative point they could possibly find or rationalize or invent. and putting it out there. Oh, look this Jewish community in Muny and Lakewood and so and so. Oh, there's a lot of people here on welfare. If you go to any community in the United States that has a lot of people, you will find a lot of people taking advantage of what the government allows as far as welfare, as far as uh food stamps, as far as insurance, and so on and so forth. This is part of living in America as well as in any other country. Every country offers certain benefits to people that meet the requirements. No, but I don't think you should have kids if you can't afford them. Yes, you are from the generation of Sodom and Gomorrah. You think that a couple should have, you know, one or two kids and a dog or maybe two dogs and one kid. But the reality is that if your grandparents thought like you, you wouldn't be here because according to your logic, you are actually causing the country you live in that you want to strengthen, you're actually causing them to become extinct. Because in order for a civilization to survive, it has to produce more than two and a half kids per family, which is not happening in America. outside of the religious communities of the Jewish people, the Muslims. But nonetheless, people are so deluded of what is good versus what is bad. They simply have no concept of what is good. They have no understanding whatsoever what is good. They have deified money to the point where it's a it's the deciding factor for everything. Morals are thrown out the window, honesty thrown out the window, logic thrown out the window. But if that was it, we would not even mention it. We see that some people that used to be pro- Israel, they used to speak positively of Israel, whether it's the Tucker Carlson's and the uh the uh others on the uh on TV that now have become YouTubers YouTubers, the Candace and some of these other they went from being pro-Israel to being the voice of anti-semitism. ism today. Interestingly enough, they use the New Testament as their proof of why they should be the way they are. But they don't consider themselves anti-semitic. Initially they were pro, then they went silent, then they went against saying that these Jews are bad. But then they went into a whole new argument. Who are the Jews? Suddenly they don't have sufficient proof of whether the Jewish people of today living in Israel, living in America, living all over the world that observe the Torah in a mitzvot and some that don't. They don't have conviction as Taco Carlson said. How do we know who they are? How do we know that these are really the Jews? The one nation that has more history, more records than all of the other nations put together, this decides to question. But he's not alone. It wasn't too long ago that Kanye West, before he apologized, said, "You're Jew. I'm Jewish." And all of these uh Israelites, they call themselves, the uh Mortal Kombat people that have all types of costumes. They started producing movies and all types of protest against the Jewish people claiming that they are the Jews just like the midash says will happen at the end of days. One of the many different things we brought in the film. I wonder what these Israelites wear on Puim. Do they actually finally wear normal clothes because it's pou so they have to perhaps we'll have a different shoe on that. But nonetheless, we see that the Jewish people are constantly a topic of conversation. It doesn't matter what channel you go to. It doesn't matter what report it is. Somehow some way there's a Jew involved, especially when it's negative. Of course, it's always advisable for the Jews to stop making so much noise that they don't need to, whether it's their business success or it's anything else that they're doing. But that's not something that's going to change overnight. That's a entire that a person has to change in order to realize that blessings are kept are best kept silent. Nonetheless, we have a spiritual war. The amount of heretics that are out there that pretend to be rabbis is at an all-time high. The amount of people that make videos and write books against the Torah is at all-time highs. Some are Jews, some are non-Jews. The most successful missionaries in the world were born Jewish. But yet today, their number one goal in life is to bring the Jews to Yoshk, to abandon the Torah, to abandon mitzvot. And unfortunately, just like they were successful 2,000 years ago in taking advantage of ignorant bulls, people that don't know anything, they're successful at doing it. So today, the people they're able they're able to capture to bring into their world of idolatry are typically ignorant people. They do not know much Torah. It would be surprising if they ever read the commentary by Rashi. Needless to say, the Talmud. Needless to say, but this is not marketing. This is not politics. This is the spiritual war of Gum Magog. And as far as the physical war, certainly this war that we have with Iran right now is part of it, but it's not the end. in order to get to the end where the Messiah will arrive where in the breath out of his mouth he will destroy the wicked will be a process. But for all of those that say that perhaps the Christians are right, that the covenant between Hashem and the Jewish people was nullified, was voided, was cancelled. We'll address that for anyone that says it, for anyone that thinks it's even possible before we go into the process of go. One of the most important things that a person has to have in order to win a debate with anyone is something called postulates, which is a common ground that both parties agree to. Because if you simply state your facts that the other party claims are lies and they state their facts which you claim are lies, no one can win the argument because you don't believe their information. They don't believe your information. And even though theologically the world of Judaism and Christianity is worlds apart, there are things that are considered postulates. We both agree that the 24 books of the Tanakh are the word of God and his prophets. And of course, everyone loves [snorts] David and his book of Psalms. Psalm number 94 the vid says to Isel in verse number 14 for Hashem will not cast off his people nor will he forsake his heritage. This as we know was not just simply a song or just simply a conversation had with people that were in front of him. In fact the sages said that the vidame was not allowed as a king to sing these in front of people. He had the levime sing them. He and others wrote to Mosherenu and some other righteous people part of throughout history and compiled all 150 together and the mil says that anything that's written in the whether it's the words in the five books of Moses or it's any verse in the other 19 books of the prophets and the writings were intentionally included in there by Hashem because they are relevant forever. They're relevant for the generation that reads them. Which means that the vid statement in Psalm number 94:14 and everything else that we will read today is relevant to us today. For Hashem will not cast off his people, nor will he forsake his heritage. But what about the others that go against Israel? The Candacees and the Tucker Carlson's of the world, the Iranians of the world, the anti-semites of the world, the enemy. What about them that the rest of this psalm talks about? And David says as follows, "Oh God of vengeance, Hashem, oh God of vengeance, appear." And the sages explain why is mentioning God of vengeance twice. This is because just like you punished those wicked people in the past, you will do so again in the future. And as the page 58A says that when a Jew sees that the houses of idolatry are destroyed, they should say, "Oh God of vengeance, Hashem, he's uprooting a place of idolatry." And the alik says that is giving us a message here that although hem is known as the god of mercy when time comes to punish the wicked his kindness turn into vengeance. Arise oh judge of earth render recompense to the hearty. Until when will the wicked, oh hashem, until when will the wicked exalt? Here again we see that the medak mentions the same thing twice again. This is not a cop a editor mistake. Each word is there for a reason. Just like when the Navei Oya prophesized after he converted to Judaism, became a prophet. Not because he converted that he become a prophet, but rather because he saved prophets by sacrificing his own life. And he merited giving the prophecy of what will happen to the wicked among Adam at the end of days where chapter 1 verse number four says though you soar a loft like the eagle and though you set your nest among the stars from there I will bring you down says Hashem to all those that are in positions of power whether it's because they're popular in the media or they're heads of nations like Iran. You may feel powerful today but Hashem says when the time comes I'll uproot you from there all the way from the top position that you think you are in. And when the vid says until when the wicked oem twice the says this is simply us crying out toadosh that were suffering from this long long exile and as the dash Moshe says that if the wicked would be shamed D for their sins, there would be hope that maybe they would do chuva. But we're seeing that the wicked are not being punished. Rather, they're enjoying their crimes. So this is a difficulty. Remember this particular dash Moshe where he says that if we see the wicked get punished they could do chuva then and when they're not punished they don't do chuva. This will be very important for later on. But the vid continues and says all of the horrible things that the wicked are doing. And then in verse number seven, he says, "Among all of the things that the wicked do, they say, God will not see, nor will the God of Yakov understand." Meaning, I could do whatever I want. Kill whoever, steal from whoever, go with whoever, cheat with whoever. The Vidame says, "Understand you bo among the people, you fools, when will you gain wisdom? He who implants the ear, will he not hear? Will he who he who fashions the eye not see? He who chastises nation, will he not rebuke?" Here Davidid Melik is saying to people, how stupid can you possibly be? You claim to believe in God. You're not a complete ignoramis, but your actions show that you are worse than an ignoramis. You're a bull. You're a fool by choice. You're thinking that just because Hashem is allowing you to have an unethical business, to have an unethical life, to harm people, and among them being the Jewish people, that this is okay. Perhaps he doesn't see, perhaps he doesn't care. How can you possibly think that way? If the same God who implanted the ear, how could he not hear? Meaning that if he gave people the ability, his creation, he gave his creation the ability to invent things that allow you to hear what your friend is saying. Even if he lives at the end of the world through a phone, through computer, through all types of technology. In fact, he even gave you the ability to see your friend and even your enemy at the end of the world. So if Hashem gave his the the people, his creation the ability to do these things, what makes you think that he can't do it himself? Only a fool by choice thinks like that. Only a fool by choice. So how do we explain the fact that Hashem allows these wicked people to harm the Jewish people? This David says or he hints at when he calls He calls hem. Why? instead of the because as the Torah says in when hides his face then in essence he allows the enemy to attack. The asks if the is in the Torah, where is in the Torah? It says in that I will hide my face. And one of the ways that we see that Hashem hides his face is when the wicked people are prospering. And that's why David says these wicked people will say he doesn't see. And that's why he used the word the instead of the udu vav and the he as if hashem's name is not complete. It's only two out of the four letters of the tetrogrammatita where he's hiding the other two. But David explains in verse number 11, Hashem knows the thoughts of man that they are futile. All of the things that the enemies think, all of the things that the righteous people think, Hashem knows all of it. He has no limitations. He doesn't need anything. He doesn't need for anything. He's beyond time. He created time. He's beyond space. He created space. He is not part of the creation. The creation is not part of him. Hashem created everything and did not become part of anything. Therefore, he's not subject to the limitations of the creation whether it be time and space, needs, feelings, body, physicality. And anyone that says otherwise is simply an apicos, a heretic. Whether it's from different religions that have deified a human and said that this is part of God or it's heretical teachers that call themselves rabbis that all of a sudden started subjecting God to human needs and limitations. And this is not just my words. These are the words of our sages. And if you look at has a whole se about this where he addresses every possibility of heresy that a person can come up with and among them being human limitations whether it be need physicality, feelings, space, time and so on. Why is it important that Hashem knows your thoughts? Because that means that there's no hiding from him. There's no forgetfulness. There's no rest. Everything that you do is written in a book and a kadosh who is the author. And therefore says David, praiseworthy is the man whom God disciplines [snorts] and whom you teach from your Torah to give him rest from the days of evil while a pit is dug for the wicked. For Hashem will not cast off his people, nor will he forsake his heritage. For justice shall revert to righteousness, and following it will be all of upright heart. here which everyone believes in, everyone agrees with, everyone loves, everyone knows Mashiach comes from him. Gives us the answer to all heretics, to all false beliefs. Who's praiseworthy in the eyes of Hashem? those that Hashem teaches them the Torah, those that Hashem disciplines them, meaning he's going to give them certain hardships in order to build them, in order to purify them. Meaning that when you see the Jewish people suffer, don't think that's because Hashem is punishing them to get rid of them. Quite the opposite, it's because he loves them. And especially if he gives them difficulties in this world because this will prepare them for the days of evil that are coming. Those days of evil where kados puts the wicked in a pit. What is this pit? In order to know what this pit is, we'll have to go to another couple of prophets. First we'll go to the prophet who talks about the ways of Hashem when Am Israel made sins by wanting another king by doing things that they thought were good even though they were not. The prophet showed them despite your sins, despite your mistakes, hope is not lost. In chapter 12 verse number 18 and on, the prophet says as follows. This is inelif one. Then Shel called to Hashem and Hashem set forth thunder and rain on that day. And all of the people greatly feared Hashem and Shel. All of the people then said to pray on behalf of your servants to Hashem, your God that we not die, for we have added evil upon all our sins [snorts] to request a king for ourselves. Meaning we ask for a king and obviously now we realize it's a mistake. Please Tell Hashem not to kill us. And again, this is written then, not only for the people then, but for the people today that have sinned with other things. And says as follows in verse number 20, said to the people, "Fear not. You have done all this evil." Meaning, he doesn't say, "Oh, everything's okay. There's no such thing as a Jew that sins." Or like the mana says that nobody sins anymore. Hashem's going to ask you for an apology because he put you in exile. This is not the way of a Torah. Says, "No, no, you sinned. YOU MADE A MISTAKE. YOU DID horrible things. But hope is not lost. Fear not. You have done all this evil. But do not turn away from following Hashem. Rather, serve Hashem with all your heart. Do not turn away, for that would be to pursue futilities that cannot avail and cannot rescue, for they are futile. For Hashem shall not forsake his people for the sake of his great name. For Hashem has sworn to make you for a people onto him. So here again, the prophet promises Isel then and forever that Hashem will never forsake them. Despite the destruction of the beta mikdash, the horrors that Am went through, the holocaust, the inquisitions, these are all rebukes from Hashem, but not a destruction, not him forsaking us, but rather getting us prepared for the end of days and therefore giving us whatever rebuke rebuke whatever cleansing necessary here so long as we didn't take it too far and removed ourselves from by adopting idolatry forever and not doing chuva when given the opportunity for Hashem shall not forsake his people again this is a book in that everyone believes in but yet ignores these verses and I also Far be it for me to sin against Hashem and refrain from praying on your behalf. Rather, I shall instruct you in the good and the proper path. Only fear Hashem and serve him faithfully with all your hearts. For look at how much he has done for you. But if you act wickedly, both you and your king will perish. Again, the prophet does not beat around the bush, does not pacify them, but rather tell them, "You have an opportunity to do chuva, to follow the ways of Hashem, to follow the Torah completely. Despite all of the sins you've made, you can still do chuva while you're alive. But if you continue with your Shabbat, if you continue with your stealing, with your immorality, then Hashem will destroy you and whoever you made your king because it certainly is not God. Now, as I promised, says that the wicked go to a bowl. Go to a hole. What is this hole? The prophet Isaiah clarifies in chapter 24 verse 21 and 22. And it shall be on that day, he's talking about the end of days. And it shall be on that day that Hashem will deal with the hosts of heaven in heaven and with the kings of the earth on earth. They will be gathered together in a gathering, a captive in a bow, in a dungeon, and they'll be imprisoned. Here Rashi explains what is this bull? What is this dungeon? He says David told us to do chuva. The prophet Isaiah told us to do chuva. But some people won't listen whether it's Jews or Gentiles. So the day will come where Hashem deals with them. First the prophet Isaiah says you supposed to fear. Fear what? The sword of Mashiach Ben Ysef. And if you did not fear Mashiach Ben Ysef when he came, you were supposed to fear the pit. What's the pit? Thou was the sword of Mashiah Ben Davidid. And if you did not fear the Mashiach bend Davidid, then the snare of the war of go will be the thing that will put you to annihilation forever. Because this b this b is a place in gum. Once you go in, you're going to regret the day you were born. Now, the teach us that there is no such thing as a war in this world without there being a war in the upper heavens. The reason why the page 29b says that during the month of is the time where you want to go to war is a time that you want to go to a lawsuit that you can't avoid because the mazal of both on a national and on a individual basis rises and writes that each and every holiday that the Jewish people have in the Jewish calendar is an auspicious time for the Jewish people because there's an a specific event that happens in the heavens that gives every Jew an opportunity to elevate themselves much further than they can during the rest of the year. That's why the In which talks about the laws of also pus that when a begins we suppress joy. When begins, we increase not just because of the holiday per se, but rather because our angel als nations. Who are these angels? Each nation has an angel, has what's called a s that fights for them. This is actually what the prophet Isaiah is talking about here where he says that and it shall be on that day that Hashem will deal with the host of heaven in heaven and with the kings of the earth on the earth. Meaning that right now as we speak, the angel of Persia, who is Iran, has been weakened, but not defeated. How do we know he's not defeated? Because we're seeing casualties. We're seeing suffering. We're seeing the war continues. And therefore the prophet Isaiah says when he saw the end of days, he saw the prophecy. He saw what it looks like. He said, "Woe is me. The treacherous have dealt with treachery. With the treachery of the treacherous have they dealt treacherously." Again repeating the same word multiple times. What is the meaning of all this? Page 94A says that the prophet Isaiah is terribly troubled for what's been revealed to him because he saw just like there is the word treachery or treacherous five times. He saw there's going to be five periods of subjugation for the Jewish people before the final salvation where Msiah will come where Israel will suffer under the Babylonians, Media, Persia, Greece and Adom. Some say that Greece and Adam are really one and the same. and Ishmael is the last one, which makes a lot of sense. But needless to say, this is what we're dealing with right now. But the good news is that the salvation is closer than it's ever been before. And Isaiah addresses adom and Ishmael, the last of the two enemies of Am where he says, "Fear and pitfall and snare will be upon you, oh inhabitants of the land, because Adam do and Ishmael will dwell in the land of Israel and they'll become its masters. So he says to them, don't think that it's just Israel that will suffer at that time. All who have subjugated Israel will suffer retribution. The God of vengeance is Hashem. The God of vengeance has appeared. Now to explain how could it be that both Adam do and Ishmael are in Israel. Adom and Ishmael are enemies. So how could they both be in Israel at the same time? We know that their the prophet Isaiah says that their end is the bold is a place in gay where the wicked will be punished for a long period of time much longer than the exile they put us in. But nonetheless, we have to understand how this all works. Right now, it's hard for many people to think clearly because of all of the missiles that are constantly in the air. And unfortunately, some are hitting. This is a reminder of why created the thunder. As the says, what purpose does the thunder have? And the says that's thunder is to scare you in order to straighten your heart. When a person hears thunder, they realize just how enormously powerful au is. Sometimes people get accustomed to thunder. It's not really a big deal. So Hashem sends missiles instead. Why? to strain your heart. Strain your heart so you could do chuva. Now the page 2B says that Persia will defeat Rome. But then the san page 98b says that the kingdom of Rome will conquer the entire world for 9 months at the era of Messiah. How could this be? If Persia is going to defeat Rome, how could it be that Rome will conquer the entire world for nine months? This is why you don't learn Tawa from just a single place. And you don't just decide which one is right or which one you like better. That's why you have to go to the methim to the sages that are commentators that explain and clarify everything because these two are talking about the same exact time, same exact issue but conflicting words. One says that Adam Rome is going to conquer the entire world for nine months and the other one says that Persia Iran will defeat Adom say there in Abu. How could this be? This is all at the end of days. really really close to the time where Mashiach arrives. Meaning this will all happen one after the other. One after the other. It's not a period of time where one is where Persia defeats a dome and is the ruler for years and years and then somehow a dome comes out of nothing and uh goes back to being the ruler. No, no, no. This is all within a short period of time at the end of days as part of go Now to understand where we really stand right now and how the Messiah picture really looks like. We also have to look at what our sages said about the end of days about that same in page 97 where it says that will rule the world for nine months. Where do we stand? and his commentary on Berit. when Yakovu gives the blessings to his sons but also gives them the prophecy of what the end of days will look like. He wanted to give them this exact time. But the sages say that Hashem stopped him from giving them the exact time. But it did not stop him from giving them different prophecies that will happen before the end of times. And Yakovu gives each one of the sons a different prophecy that's relevant to him and his descendants. And when it comes to Yehuda, he tells him that Mashiach will come from you and he will launder his garments in wine. Obviously, nobody does laundry with wine. So, we all know this has a hidden secret in it. on the verse, he will launder his garments in wine and his clothing in the blood of grapes. The uncovers the secret for us and tells us as follows. Hold on to your chairs because this will be a doozy for some of you. This will be explained according to what our sages said in the kadash the first volume page 158. that at the conclusion of the fourth exile in which the mighty Messiah, our redeemer, will be revealed, the Jewish people will need to possess the merit of Torah study, and without that, the Messiah will delay his arrival. Yakovinu alluded to this by saying that the Mashiach will launder his garments in wine. Meaning that the power of the long awaited king named Shilo, which is another name for the Messiah, is derived from the element of Torah study. And therefore, in order for him to come, the Jewish people must engage in the wine of Torah. See what our sages have explained in the Midash Rabba Bidval. Chapter 2 section 3 about the verse in Song of Songs where it says he had brought me to the house of wine. The wine is referring to Torah. Yakovu therefore is saying that he will launder his garments in wine. Meaning that through the Torah, through the study of Torah, the garment of Messiah, which is a metaphor for his kingship, will become ready for him to wear. So far so good. But what if we don't have enough Torah study merits during these end of days where we already said it'll be delayed. What if we've run out of time to delay? Because tells us either he's going to come through us doing chuva and he's going to come early or Hashem will bring ham and force us to do chuva. Meaning that there's a time that he could come early or we're out of time. But here he said, "Well, we need Torah merits. So what if we're out of time and we also don't have Torah merits?" says the by saying in his clothing in the blood of grapes, Yakovu intended to say that if the designated time for the redemption arrives and there will be no wine to be found, meaning that there will not be sufficient Torah study among us, the redemption will have to take place by means of an intensification of the yoke of exile, wherein and the idoltors will oppress the Jews. This is as our sages of blessed memory said in page 97b that if the sealed end of the exile arrives and the Jews do not possess sufficient merit to be redeemed, Hashem will appoint over them a king as brutal as Haman, oppressing them to the point that they finally repent and become worthy of redemption. This is what Yakovu meant when he said in his clothing in the blood of grapes by means of the afflictions blood that the enemies will bring upon them. The souls of the Jewish people will be purified and the sparks of holiness will be extracted from the grasp of the kipa just as they would have been extracted by means of the element of Torah study had the Jewish people been properly engaged in it. The two methods accomplish the same thing except the latter Torah study is a pleasant task whereas the former persecution and exile is not. Here says the kadosh is telling us when the time for the Msiah comes if we do not have enough Torah that instead of Torah there will be blood instead of Torah there will be death instead of Torah there will be many many tears Right? In order to extract the from the we've added among ourselves because of all of our sins, one or another has to happen. Either the burden of Torah and the for the Torah that removes all of that filth by us doing or by spilling blood one way or another he will launder his garments in wine. The good news is says the by saying the blood of grapes yakinu meant that by means of affliction of exile the Jewish people's preparation for redemption will be completed like the complete ripening of the fruit of the vine which is the point at which the fruits are called grapes. Yakov also alluded to the fact that even under circumstances of heavy oppression, the idoltors will not have the power to spill blood to the extent that they will cut off an entire tree, a branch or even a cluster, meaning a major portion of the Jewish people, but rather only grapes, meaning individual grapes. Meaning that at the end of days, it's not going to be another holocaust like event where 30% of the people are erased even if they're righteous. At the end of days, Hashem will save the righteous people. And those people that have done chuva, but those that have forsaken the Torah, those that have abandoned and have simply rejected doing chuva, they'll be the blood. They'll be the blood that spills. Now this is not just an opinion or like some people like to call midashim or aot like as if it's a fairy tale. This is this is our foundation and the first by telling us in chapter five in chapter seven number five all of the prophets commanded the Jewish people to repent. Israel will only be redeemed through Chuva. The Torah has already promised that ultimately Israel will repent towards the end of her exile and immediately she will be redeemed. As the book of uh the book of Deuteronomy chapter 30:es 1-3 say there shall come a time when you will experience all these things and you will return to God your Lord. God your Lord will bring back your captivity and have mercy upon you. He will once again gather you from among the nations where God your Lord scattered you. And then he continues in the next that chuva is great for it draws men closer to the where a person that does chuva starts keeping Shabbat keeps family purity eats kosher only learns to does business honestly and continues to grow in Tawa. is now removing himself from his evil past to such a point where the Rambam says that chuva brings those that were far removed near Hashem. Previously this person who was hated by God, considered disgusting, far removed and abominable, now he's beloved and desirable, close and dear. So here we see the Rambam telling us that if a person rejects doing chuva, rejects the Tora, he's an abomination to Hashem. He's considered disgusting. He's hated. And number eight, the Rambam says, "The manner of ballet is to be very humble and modest." Meaning that even if you keep Shabbat, keep family purity, but you're still an arrogant fool. You still think that it's only good if you do chuva, but it doesn't matter if other people do chuva. If you're only worried about yourself, [snorts] then you have not done chuva. Because the matter of ballet chuva is to be very humble and modest. If fools shame them because of their previous deeds and say them, say to them, "Yesterday you would commit such and such sins. Yesterday you would commit these and these transgressions." These ballet that are real pay no attention to them. On the contrary, they will hear this abuse and rejoice knowing that it is a merit for them. Whenever they're embarrassed for the deeds they committed and shamed because of them, their merit increases and their level is raised. And it's an utter sin to tell a bal chuva to remember their previous deeds and make them recall their past in order to embarrass them. But again at the end of days we must do chuva and that's what the Rambam writes in a section that he talks about the end of days in in chapter 12 number two the Rambam Poskins and says in regards to the end of days what the prophet Isaiah is saying all of these different majestic things that will happen he says the simple interpretation of the prophet's words appear to imply the war the war of go that will take place at the beginning of the messianic Before the war of Gum Magog, a prophet will rise to inspire Israel to be upright and prepare their hearts. As Malachi says in chapter 3 22, "Behold, I am sending you a so here the Rambam distinguishes between what Hashem will send and what Malachi is saying. Ela the Rambam says it doesn't necessarily need to be ely that is sent to get people to do chuva. Rather he's sending them a nave. What's a nav fat? Somebody that speaks in order to do kiru in order to help people do chuva. That's ultimately the goal of this person that will come before Mashiach arrives where time is out. And the Rambam elaborates, he will not come to declare the pure impure or to declare the impure pure. He will not dispute the lineage of those presumed to be proper pedigree. Nor will he validate the pedigree of those whose lineage is presumed blemished. Rather, he will establish peace within the world. Asi as the prophet continues saying, he will turn the hearts of the fathers to children. There are some that say that Ela and Aviv's coming will precede the coming of Msiach. All these and similar matters cannot be definitely known by man until they occur for these events are undefined in the prophet's words. And even the wise men have no established tradition regarding these matters except their own interpretation of the verses. And therefore there is a controversy among them regarding these matters. Meaning everyone knows Mashia is going to come. Everyone knows that there has to be a nave that comes before him to get people to do chuva. But as far as the details that we will know when it happens. But the Rambam warns those that spend too much time only studying this subject. He says a person should not occupy himself withis of verses concerning these in similar matters nor should he consider them as essentials for the study of them will neither bring him fear nor love of God. And he should not try to determine the appointed time for the Msiah's coming. As our sages have declared, may the spirits of those who attempt to determine the time of Msiah coming expire. Meaning anyone that says at such and such date the Mashiah will come gets a curse from heaven. Don't predict the Mashiach. But nonetheless, what we learned from the Rambam is that in order for us to do Chuva, in order for the Mashiah to come, we have to do chuva. We have to do chuva. We have to stop going against the and if we don't do chuva that simply means as elaborates in what the says more blood will be spilled. You're seeing rockets hitting and some Jews are dying. That's because we have not done enough chuva. That's because we have not done enough kuf. If every one of the people that have been learning from our shim over these last decade actually took upon themselves to distribute books and USBs in our shim and make clips and arrange lectures and do kiru on a regular basis. Certainly there would be less blood spilled. Needless to say, if everyone that has done chuva from other rabbis from other places takes upon themselves to do kiru to support, we can even get to a point where no blood at all is spilled because everyone will do chuva. Now our situation is what it is. But in order to really understand things of why does either from Torah or suffering? Why can't it just be that Hashem brings the Mashiach and that's it? To understand that we have to go to one of the from nearly a hundred years ago that wrote lot of Torah and among them and answered this question in a mama in the Mishn by Isakalo Benitak nearly about 90 years ago. He himself was killed in the Holocaust. But he saw horrors that were happening before the Holocaust. Not just the horrors of people being killed in the middle of the street, anti-semitism becoming a standard in every neighborhood. But he also saw the deluded words of Jews that were denying the opportunity to do chuva, denying the warning that Hashem was sending them on a day-to-day basis, especially as Hitler came to power. And he writes in his called this is a mama he wrote before the high holidays that's called that am is not going to get the salvation other outside without doing chuva. What does it mean? He says there's a confusion. There's a confusion that on one hand we see that most Jews today and he's talking about his time are already under the heavy hand of Haman. whether it was the Haman in Russia or the Haman in Germany or the Haman in the rest of uh the world. So we see that what the sages said in the if doesn't do then Hashem will send him. We see that's happening. But despite that he says we see that this has not helped bring our salvation or to even bring Amish is to do chuva. Quite the opposite. He says we see the words that people are saying that are the opposite. One example is what was published in the newspaper that's called a newspaper for thinking people that was published in Israel where they said that all that was written in mine by Adolf Hitler was only for political reasons. Now that he's been elected he's going to be really nice to the Jewish people. People were deluding themselves to such an extent they actually thought that Hitler didn't really hate Jews and he was only saying those things for political reasons. They were denying the warning. They were denying the opportunity to do chuva. And why is that a problem? Because it says in the if they don't do chuva, hashem will send them and then they will do chuva. BUT WE SEE HE SENT them and they have not done chuva. Further he says we have to ask ourselves what does he want? What is his what is the hashem's way here? where we see that this is not helping what's happening here. All this extra suffering and in fact it's gotten things worse where more of our brothers that used to be careful with mitzvot because the situation has become so difficult. Those that used to be careful with kosher food are now eating non-coosher just because of starvation, just because of how difficult it is to get slaughtered uh slaughtered meat. We see that the worst the decrees are, the worse things get. So it looks like this is not working like what said. This is a big question people have about Hashem. And he says, "But let me resolve this confusion that people have about Hashem by bringing you the words of the Aluchim at the end of in section 595." Rab says ifra does not do chuva they will not be redeemed and they won't do chuva if they don't have suffering and difficulties. So we see Abuda is telling us we cannot be redeemed unless we do chuva and we don't do chuva unless we're suffering. And we know that the Mashiach is coming only after comes cuz he's the one that's supposed to get us to do the whether it's or it's a different because the prophet Malachi said we said that I sent you but what does it say after It says thereof, and he returned the hearts of the fathers to the hearts of the sons to the fathers. To explain this, he says the words of the midrash is to explain how it all works. is that realistically the whole salvation does depend on us doing chuva. But in order for us to do chuva, two things have to happen because of our nature, because of who we are, two things must happen. First, suffering in anguish from the troubles of the exile, meaning blood being spilled, difficulties, anti-semitism, horrible stuff. That's the first stage that has to happen. Why? But with this, it's not enough for chuva to come. Meaning this suffering and anguish is not enough to bring the actual chuva that will bring the Messiah. Just like we see in our days now, says there rather this suffering and anguish still has to precede Eli where he will only be capable of helping us do chuva after we have suffered and had the anguish. where if he would come to us when we are in the exile enjoying ourselves on the beach in some fancy five-star hotel in Dubai in a $10 million house in Los Angeles even ya would not be able to help us says thereof And therefore it's necessary for the it's necessary for the troubles that will submit that will subjugate our heart and make it submit finally to but to hearing the words of Eli Yahu that will then make us do chuva. So here we found ourselves a precious stone. He says that in order for us to actually get to Chuva, we have to submit our hearts. Give up on all this. give up on all of these tavot, give up on all of this evil, but so long as things are good for us, so long as we are living in $5 million houses, so long as we're doing whatever we want, even if yaw comes with the words of the Torah, it's not going to be enough to get us to do chuva. So what does Hashem do? He brings us Haman because Haman will turn everything around. All of a sudden that Bitcoin account with a few million in it gone. All of a sudden that $10 million mansion gone. All of a sudden the career, the law firm, the hospital, the uh online business that was making a fortune every month without us even trying gone. All of a sudden the fame, THE FORTUNE GONE, THE COMFORT, THE PEACE OF mind gone. Haman will take away all of that comfort of the physical world and put all of in a situation where we realize there is nothing for us to rely on other than Hashem, our father in heaven. The money is gone. the reputation gone, the connections, the political connections, the business connections, the gone. Hashem will put us in a situation where we have nothing but him. And only then when the fat comes and tell us the words of the Torah to do then we will be receptive because now we have a broken heart and a broken heart is going to accept the word of Torah because we'll know this is from Hashem and if it comes in any other way he says even ely Y and Avi would not succeed because an arrogant heart will not be receptive to the Torah. Here we see clarify what many people struggled with in his time and needless to say today. Now if you would ask how come the mashia didn't come in his time after the Holocaust simple there wasn't enough chuva and there was not enough people telling people the truth to get them to take advantage of this situation where everyone has a broken heart and now we should all do chuva. Apparently, that didn't happen. But now that we're out of time, it must happen. And that's why the Satan is doing everything possible to stop us from learning Torah. Whether it's giving people more problems and more difficulties to occupy their time so they don't have the time to study Torah or it's on a larger scale by taking those that are already learning Tawa and throwing them in jail like they're doing in Israel throwing all the in jail because the Satan knows this is the last harrah. This is his last opportunity to bring suffering to Israel. The Mashiah is coming one way or the other. THE SATAN SAYS, "I DON'T WANT HIM TO come in a nice way through Torah. So, I'm going to do whatever I can to get in the way of Torah." Now, this sounds horrible if we stopped it here, but it's not. The reason why is because what the sages said, what the prophet said were options. Meaning this is not a decree that it has to happen through suffering. It has to happen through spilling blood. Rather it has to happen. Either through spilling blood, horrors, terrible nightmare or we do chuva before that happens. And therefore we study more Torah. We get more people to study Torah. We get more people to do chuva. We get more people to keep Shabbat. we get more people to stop doing things that are against the Torah. And by doing that, we're not only saving them from anguish and suffering, but we're helping ourselves. This is why it's not only a good idea for all Jews and non-Jews that believe in Hashem to support Kiru to help Am do Chuva to help as many people as possible to do Chuva before we all run out of time. It's not only a good idea, it's an obligation for your own benefit. Because if there's blood being spilled, it's only because we did not do enough. [snorts] And that's why Ta says the blood of your hand is in your hands. The blood of your head is in your hands. Meaning it's it's in our control. If every one of us takes the initiative where even the weak among us becomes strong, strong when it comes to not only learning Torah but also getting other people to do chuva, supporting kiru becoming the number one priority, the number one investment in every Jewish household and needless to say the non-Jews as well like the one that sponsored one of the lecture. This is a great merit for them. Why? because they're doing something that's not only helping them personally, but it's also helping the nation where more people now have an opportunity to do chuva after hearing the words of our prophets, the words of the living God, the words of our Torah that is simply giving us not only the cheat sheet of how to deal with the situation but literally a reality where you're seeing everything actually happening. So it's not a matter of whether this is go or not. The question should be now that you know this is it and these are your two options. Which one will you exert your energy to be a part of? Do you want the blood of the grapes to be Torah that you have put into the world by helping people do chuva, by helping people learn, by helping people come back to Hashem? Or do you want that blood to be literally blood? This is the most important lesson that any single one of us will listen to as it affects the rest of their life until the salvation finally is here. We don't know how much time we have whether it's a matter of months or years. It's all irrelevant because a kad Bahu is making all of this happen to give us a chance to do something about it. If he wanted to end it, he could have already done it. He's giving us a chance to take action. To take action and do chuva, to take action and help other people do chuva. to get more people information that will make them change their path. Whether it's sharing this lecture with every single person you know, Jew and Gentile, young or old, male or female, and even taking the initiative to get one of these ku boxes that so many people love, enjoy, but not enough people give this to the people that they love and enjoy. your brother, your sister, your best friend, your co-workers. Every single person you know should have at least one of these. Why I say at least one? You should give them one for themselves and one for them to give somebody else because these are different tools that will help people see the world differently than what they've seen until now. This is the tools that will help people make the right decisions moving forward now that there are rockets in the air. Now that there are a war that no one can deny is happening. Now that there is a situation in the world that is beyond anybody's control. All of the news in the world that you watch and know about will not help you. All of the friends and the connections that you have will not help you. Anti-semitism is in practically every neighborhood. Even neighborhoods that don't have Jews in them, they hate Jews. Problems are everywhere. Everyone has to realize. We're not here just for us to make money and buy more stuff. Hashem gave us the ability to make money. Hashem gave us the ability to think of things. Hashem gave us the ability to do things for the purpose of glorifying his name. for the purpose of connecting to him, for the purpose of getting other people to connect to him. We have to stop being so selfish and think that just because we keep Shabbat and we keep mitzvot that's enough. It's not enough. Why? Because in Judaism, unlike any any other religion, we have a mitzvah of what's you are responsible for your brother's sins. If your brother sins under your nose, you see him, you see him sinning, you see her going against the Torah and you don't say anything about it, you don't even try to help them do chuva. Guess what? You'll be prosecuted against. And it doesn't have to be your biological brother. It could simply be another fellow Jew that lives next door to you that you work with, that you see at shul every day. Every Jew has a responsibility for his fellow Jews. And those among the nations that want to be the righteous Noahites, the righteous among the nations, it's also their responsibility to help Amucha and needless to say also help their responsibility to help their friends and family, to abandon falseianity, to abandon all of the heresy that's out there. But guess what? The more you help that part of that you don't know that's not related to you that's not a personal interest to you only the more you helped the Jewish people that you don't know the more Hashem will help you succeed in helping those that you do know. People that just focus on their own friends and family usually do not succeed very much. Why? They don't have enough to open up the hearts of their friends and family. But those that actually help by supporting Kiru, by supporting our ability to get more people that we don't know and that they don't know, but to get more people to come back to Hashem, the more they actually have success with their own friends and family. Just today, literally hours ago, one of my dear students that tried to get her daughters to do chuva, to abandon falsianity, to abandon all the lies for years without any success. So much so that literally the relationships were practically broken as a result of the misbehaviors of the kids and and and everybody this past high holidays. This couple made one of the major donations to the campaign, the ones that I told you guys you get special prayers. And guess what? Within a matter of months, two of her kids abandoned falseity and are now learning about the truth. Something that she could not do for years succeeded in a matter of months. Why? Once you sacrifice for the sake of Hashem's children that are not a personal benefit to you because you know them, because you like them, but you sacrifice and you show Hashem that you love him and you love his children even if you don't know them. Hashem will show you how you'll end up benefiting by him opening up the hearts of those you do love, those that you do know. So this is a message to each and every single one of us. The blood of grapes has to be spilled one way or the other. But it's our choice of whether that's going to be anguish and horrors that we don't want to see, that we don't want to hear about, that we don't want to live through, or it's going to be Torah. Simply getting more people to learn Tawa, simply getting more people to keep Shabbat, simply getting more people to do what we were created to do. Who would pick the first? Why would you pick the first? The only people that will pick the first choice are people that don't believe in the Torah at all. And therefore, they're not picking. They're just simply ignoring. And they'll be part of those that will not go to a good place, but rather to the bull that the prophet Isaiah talked about. This will help each and every single one of us realign our minds, our path, our lives to take a bigger initiative, a bigger position, a bigger investment of time, resources, effort and emotions and invest it into our own chuva as well as the chuva of Israel. When we all do it and influence other people to do it, we're not only bringing the salvation, but we're bringing it in the most ideal way you can possibly imagine. So much so that the prophet Isaiah also tells us what that looks like. what that looks like. In chapter 48, verse number 17 and on, the prophet says, "Thus says Hashem, your Messiah, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel. I am Hashem, your God, who instructs you for your benefit, who guides you in the way you should follow. If you had hearkened to my commandments, your peace would flow like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. Your offspring would be like the sand, and those that emerge from your inards like the seas inards. Its name will not be cut off and will not be destroyed before me. here. The prophet Isaiah, the same prophet that just scared the lights out of us, tells us you have another choice. If you follow my commandments, the peace and good and blessings you will have will flow like a river. Everything will be good. Even at the end of days, we have a choice. Everyone has a choice. Everyone will be given a chance to see the truth. Some people are watching this right now and they already start doing chuva. Some people are watching this and they're fighting against it even though it makes sense. Even though it destroys their false current beliefs, what do they say? We don't want to believe. We believe in some idol. We believe in some other form of heresy. We believe in doing whatever we want. Everyone has a choice. Choose wisely and this will help many of you make the right choice and will all succeed. Anyone that wants to support could certainly do so on our website bezelm.org or bhttora.org. You could also donate through YouTube and uh Facebook and other places. But more importantly than anything else, donate your time and skill set to help us spread the message. We have a couple of people that have started channels of making clips of our videos. We have a few people that are working on trying to arrange some events. We have a few people that are trying to get some of their friends and family that are uh financially okay to uh to to donate some money. Everybody should do something. And if you could do more than one thing, do more. Do more. If you could raise money from your friends and family you could raise, do it. If you could make clips, make clips and send it to us. If you could publicize the shim to more people, do it. If you could arrange events, do it. The point is everybody needs to do everything possible because now is our chance. Hashem is sending a Navi. That Na'vi will be in a perfect position to help us do chuva. But only if we broke our heart. We could either break our heart from suffering or from simply following the words of the Torah. will make the right choice. 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