Purim: Russia Vs. USA ; Is This The Final War? - Probing the Historic Tradition of the Vilna Gaon

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you have not yet purchased the concealed and the revealed you might have shahmanas you might have a costume but you don't have this book yet and even if you have this book you might not have this book so you got to have you got to get both of them you know there's there's good stuff in both what's in one is not necessarily in the other okay Marvel voice I fasten your seatbelts I was so uh stirred by this year I said you know what the Hashem should give Seattle to the shmaya we have to have another one so and maybe not obviously not next to you can't sell another book on Forum next year but after tonight's sure it's going to completely completely revolutionize our understanding of current events and what's unfolding in front of us I want to begin by discussing the following uh subject there's an individual who plays a major role in the Purim story and not only doesn't get a lot of credit he don't get no credit nobody even talks about him and I think we could argue after what we're about to learn he is the central figure in the Purim story so who's he talking about Mordechai he's he's the hero you're not talking about Esther oh he says Daniel I'm not talking about Daniel no we already know we covered all of them you know we have a shield makes a number of appearances this individual as we're about to see plays the central role in the Purim story and nobody ever says nobody says throw him a donut nothing he's just completely under the radar now where did the whole story start from the whole story began I first made a party and they started a conversation who are the most beautiful was uh boasting about his wife and they said really okay so let's take uh let's look and she wouldn't come why says she became a leaper she got Saras and in a Bryce so we taught she grew a tail find that we all know but who made her grow a tail well you think she just grew a tail she just took a tail pill and you know how did she grow a tail I mean you don't grow a tail so how did she grow a tail says the gemara bo Gabriel Gabriel came now did you ever wonder about this what in the world has Gabriel doing what he's he's like the malach hamamuna over Tails whenever you need a tail yeah Gabriel will come right in there and produce I mean Gabriel is so he pauses in between his mission so here what he's doing is he's rescuing Claudia Israel so you would not expect this to be the job of Gabriel I would have expected mikhal to do this no Gabriel is making the tale fine and I start to think is Gabriel does he do anything else he literally is behind the scenes of every single episode in the middle it's unbelievable you could learn the Magilla every year you could delve and this and that and you come to the Miguel again it's kiilu you never saw it before in your entire life watch this the ALCO shamani says that uh Hama needed to build the Gallows so he didn't have enough water so he took a boat he took apart apart his back porchadra and then he wanted to have one good ship to hang Mordechai on he took a kite and he's trying to see if Mordecai would fit on the kite so he measured himself up like to see you know he's like trying it on for size and says the Madras Gabrielle came and he said come on you're trying this on for size good we're glad it really fits you perfectly because this kites has been destined for you boracious so Gabrielle's already there he's like you know Paving the way for the hanging of Haman then the yakut shimani says this and also abagorian s couldn't sleep why not why couldn't he sleep says Gabriel came down so he was like smacking him he was jumping on his head he took his head and he smashed it against the floor 366 times that could do the job 366 times what's 366. what a leap year a solar year with Fab with a quarter of the day if you add the day for every day of the year he said you in great people try to help you and you never rewarded them you never took care of them he took his head Bam Bam Bam like like an arrival let's get like an oysterecta Arava he smacked him I just woke up in the morning he couldn't he didn't know if he was coming or going so who woke up that he should start to think how could he reward Mordecai good old Gabrielle he's back in Action Gabrielle and then the Metro uh there's a meters called Panem it's Brewing the safer agarita that Gabriel couldn't sleep because he knew he had a job to wake up uh now watch this sleeping and then he can't sleep because Gabrielle's banging his head 366 times after church had to enter concussion protocol he couldn't play NFL didn't let him play that that week and what happened so he said read to me from the safe house so the gemara says and he found that it was being written as the gemara it should say but you must say he found a writing what do you mean he found was being written Allah made we see shimshai the son of Hamad he was erasing that Mordechai saved the King's life you know the king said okay tell me every good thing that anybody did to me and shim Shai's uh oh this says that Mordechai helped out the King this is not going to be good for us so shimshai took out his big eraser his big yellow Persian eraser you know the big yellow person I just totally made that up right he erased it and he um and who came and wrote the safer has the quranos says the gemara the Gabriel koi save Gabriel so who's saving mordechai's life who's who's invoking Gabriel so think about what he did he made vashti grow a tale he woke up the night he's writing on the document that Mordechai saved the King's life now this blue this is unbelievable what is the most important moment in the megillah Esther says to the king king you won't believe it this evil man I sure couldn't think he was he was Furious so he ran outside he took a breather and he's out in the courtyard and the angels are chopping down his trees and he comes back in and he sees that hamon is on top of Esther foreign someone pushed him on top of Esther who pushed him haha who else Gabriel says the medrish says um the king returned in Anger from his garden to back to the party the hug Gabriel foreign I mean he's doing everything he made vastly grow the tail he woke up against another night he rewrote the same as the cry nice and he pushed Esther on top of Haman and then I saw it right there you go the roofing margolius has a safer called Malachi alien what does he do if he wakes up another night and he's like you know about to fall back asleep what does he think about he says he thinks about the names of the amiram the Republic and he has an entry on Gabrielle and in Essentia on Gabriel he lists the five things that gavriel did in the Purim Story number one he made vashi grow the tale number two he measured he was with Haman when Haman was Measuring Up The Thorn that he was going to hang Mordecai on and he woke up the kingdom of the night and he woke up in the middle of the night and he rewrote the save House of Kronos and he pushed Haman Alastair and then I realized you know what I think he did some more stuff he did more stuff because Apostle says in the beginning of Paris download [Laughter] what was going on Rashi says he knew that Hashem was masking Hashem consented to the plan of Haman that because the Jewish people bowed down to the sun on the time of and because they were Nana from the suit of and how did Mordechai know look at Rashi the master of Dreams told him now here's the question who in the world is the master of Dreams so the many many ask why doesn't Rashi just say Mordechai knew well what does he have to I mean did you ever hear that a navi knew something through the master of Dreams first of all who in the world's a master of dreams and why didn't Rashi just say he's a by the way a summit Russians say who told him but Rashi doesn't say that Rashi says Gabrielle I mean the man's everywhere he's doing more stuff than Mordechai what are you doing he could make vashti grow a tail davriel he he got a I mean that's impressive to get a tail going is usually just he's just there right Joyce is wandering and he finds an ish and then Gabriel says where are you going I'm going to Toys okay have a great day you know he's not he's not metal linger I mean you ever see got real metal around like this what's going on over here by the way also says is always Gabriel so I thought that maybe this is the reason why when Joseph was coming to the brothers well the brothers idios what does that mean because who did Joseph just bump into he met the battle so the brothers were saying what are you what are you so busy with your dreams if you're meeting gavriel Gabriel probably already told you what your dreams mean so I see he uh there's a safer pair McDonald's he brings from The Call by I don't know what the Kaaba Israel but he brings this idea that that's why the brother said so basically six of the key moments in the Purim story were executed by Gabrielle we never even heard of him before I mean have you ever you ever see oh whoever speak about Gabrielle what his role is in a particular narrative and he's doing everything producing the tale waking up riding the safer as the quranos pushing Haman on Esther telling Mordechai what's going on this is he's very busy in the prom story I guess one at a time he's doing well in this case he's doing a lot of things over here okay here is this is the seminal question in history so this is not just one particular shear and the truth is we're going to learn tucumars now we're going to ask a question on both we've given in the past a completely different approach but in light of more recent events I think perhaps there could be another way to approach this the gemara Tells usara then the end of days for Torah and he's going to say whoever learned this come get reward so all the nations are going to clamor Syria North Korea South Korea the Philippines Crimea Moldova Poland they're all going to say look well everything we did it so Jews could they run out of Russia and they learned Torah in our country and Moldova they learned in the Ukraine that everything we did so the Jewish people could learn Tyra so God first of all says one at a time stop pushing we can't yeah we have to do this in an organized manner One Nation at a time says they line up and the First Nation to come before God is the most hush of all the nations and that's Rome why are they and we know they're the most hush of we have Rayas the gemara brings rias that Rome is the most hash of and God said no what did you do so they said we made marketplaces and stores and we amassed gold and silver and everything we did is so the Jewish people could learn Tyra and God said you fools you made stores to situate prostitutes you made bath houses to delight yourself and money all money belongs to me said God what does that mean all money belongs to God money's not it doesn't even exist today the Dao is here tomorrow it could be 5 000 points higher it could disappear it's only God owns money now it's interesting that briskarov says God did not tell the nations of the world you're Liars he told them you're fools yes everything the nations of the world do is so that we should learn Torah it's just that's not their Cabana so they can't be rewarded for it so that's why they're fools they're not Liars next so Rome walks out dejected because God said you never learned Torah and next after Rome comes Paras Persia and the Persians say now who are the Persians compared to we know in the Daniel had a prophecy and in the prophecy he saw the Persians depicted as a beast which Beast the bear because they're they're Russians they're fat like a bear and they're hairy like a beer and they're corpulent like a beer so God tells the Persians no what were you involved in oh we made a lot of bridges and we waged a lot of wars and everything we did was for the Jewish people to learn Torah and God said you fools you made Bridges to collect taxes you wage Wars to capture and the money belongs to me and the wars belong to me therefore get lost I'm not giving you any reward ask the Gomorrah why are only and once the Romans and the Persians are pushed away all the other nations run away dejected ask the gemara why do Rome and Persia enter first foreign because Rome and Persia will last until mashiach comes and the obvious question here is okay Rome could say the Roman Empire the spiritual Heirs of the Roman Empire is the Western World United States of America so the USA will last until mashiach comes but Persia will last until mashiach comes you know when the last time there was a Persian Empire in the times and then the Persian Empire was destroyed and if you want to find anything about the Persian Empire you go to the British Museum and you could find a mug the handle of a mug that possibly akashvirosh once used to drink hot chocolate That's The Relic that we have of the Persian Empire the Persian Empire was conquered by the Greeks and their crumbled then they fell and they don't exist anymore and don't tell me Iran Iran has nothing at all to do with the Persian Empire they're not ethnically connected to the Persian Empire they're not they don't descend from them Iran today are of Middle Eastern descent they changed their name 1939. there you go so what does the gemara mean that the Persians will last until Mischief comes how will the Persians last until mashiach comes and this is the question we discussed in the safe from pesach and by the way the approach we've always said through the years is based on the morale that the morale identifies that why of the four goleston do we never talk about Ishmael right we talk about Babylon and Persia and Greece and Rome what about the Ishmael and the marao says Ishmael is Persia do you remember this yeah yeah you smell this Persia of course okay we spoke about it many times and we also asked on the gemara Yuma the gemara Numa brings the famous maklikas but Yeshua benavi Rabbi the gemara says in the end of days there'll be two Nations standing Rome now let's assume that's USA and Persia and one will destroy the other now you want to say it's Iran and USA yeah Persia is not at Iran so you have two Nations that will stand the end of this USA and Paras and Persia and who will destroy who celebrate says Rome will be obliterated by Persia USA is is going to be destroyed by Persia and the gamara brings proofs that Rome will fall into the hands of the youngest of the the Sheep that's a reference to Persia which comes from tiras and that is also the opinion of because he says who built the first base hamiktas Israel who Destroyer bovill Bothell was destroyed by the Persians but the second base which was built by the Persians and the Romans destroyed it certainly the Romans will be destroyed by Persia and that is the um opinion of and Rob says no Rome will destroy Persia USA will be standing last so we have a major math like this who's the last Nation to stand the last two are Rome and Persia and this who will be standing last and again the question is how could you say that the last two Nations standing are Rome in Persia Persia fell 2000 years ago so in the past and I think this is definitely true we said from the morale that Persia is Ishmael and the end of days there'll be two superpowers Western world and the Arab world and it's a big math like this who will destroy who by the way poskins your smile will destroy the Western world and he learns sorry I mean I'm not here to make anybody feel good I'm just trying to give a share right rightevsky says that's eight characters each one of the four golestom could be broken into two bottles and the last one standing is Ishmael Ishmael and falls and then mashiach comes this is the approach we said in the past but I think in light of recent events and something I saw from the village there may be another way to view this please take a look in the command Yuma number 16. I'll tell you a little story there's a safer called The Book of Daniel and in the 10th chapter we read about an angel his name was Gabriel and Gabrielle was sent on a mission God told him Gabriel go into the holy of holies go on top of the urine there's hot coals on our own pick up the hot coals drop it on Jerusalem and Destroy Jerusalem so what did Gabrielle do he went to the holy of holies he asked the Cherub on top of the orange to pass him the code says the Gomorrah had he not done that your slime would have been destroyed forever I am wasn't completely destroyed they then call out Gabriel Gabriel what do you do you didn't listen to Hashem if you're not gonna listen to him then don't do anything play it cool wait a day or two maybe Hashem would calm down but you what did you do you went ahead and you altered what Hashem said you went ahead and you took the call but you didn't do it the way Hashem wanted so Gabrielle you're out of here out of the shamaim he was like me bahuts how's that what happened here this is the best another guy one second oh the card is full okay well we'll do it again some other time but they told them what's going on over here you know you're not listening questions they took Gabrielle and they threw him out they threw him out so now meanwhile gavriel is uh he's waiting on the outside and who do they replace Gabriella listen to this says they took a malach by the name of duviel you ever hear of him they took him out by the name of duvial you know who duvial is he's the age the angel of Persia and they put him in charge of yusheline and he sat there in charge of you shalim for 21 days and they he and now DeVille is like taking control he said okay I'm gonna sign some documents now from now on all the Jews have to pay taxes to the Persians and he signed that and then he wrote all the time and have to pay taxes well Murphy Gabrielle is standing outside and he can't bear it anymore the Jews have to pay taxes and tell me if that's on them have to pay taxes it's not right so Gabriel calls out in the Merit of the wives of that they stay up late taking care of their households while their husbands learn please spare the Jewish people and he was ignored and then Gabriel said I don't understand this Daniel over here is if you take all the sages of the nations of the world he would outweigh all of them so God says who just defended call Israel and they pointed to Gabrielle oh you defend the cloud Israel get back inside and saw that this duvial had these documents that he was going to be charging taxes to the Jewish people he wanted to rip it out of his hands so DeVille took the documents and he swallowed them and ligamara discusses the possibility that when he swallowed the documents the seal got erased so they weren't so conclusive and the bottom line is the gamara says that's why bizmanas as some rabbis pay taxes in Persia some don't because the the sign Got a little muddled by this malach duvian [Music] who is this guy what did he do exactly why did he take the place of Gabrielle apparently the mama says the command condition that when Daniel envisioned Persia he envisioned Persia as a bear because the Persians they eat like Bears they drink like Bears they're corpulent like Bears they're hairy like Bears says the Marshall that's why the angel of Persia's duviel Dove kale it's the Divine bear the Big Bear the angel of Persia is the bear very interesting one of the great McClellan he says from here we see that the Nemesis of Gabrielle is the real and the Nemesis of duvial is gavria now it should be clear why in the perm story gavriel is doing everything because right now what's at stake is the continuity and the viability of the Persian Empire so therefore who's going to be you so who's going to be challenging the viability of the Persian Empire I mean it's gavriel versus dubiel so for the first thing he has to do is he has to knock off his claim to the throne so he has to get rid of vashti so he makes her grow a tail and then he has to promote Mordecai so he makes sure that the king can't sleep and he writes Mordecai's and so a and gavriel is instrumental in the poor Miracle because basically the poor America brought an end to the Persian Empire and the Persian Empire is governed by duviel so who's going to be instigating and they're going to be the main antagonist to the villal Gabriel I think that's simple that's the that's the classic approach but I'm not here to tell you that that you have to go ahead you have to get a Margaret campaign I'm not up to who's that who's that I'm not up to that now I'm up to the camera says to come every day to the Yeshiva of rebbe one day it was and he was late Robbie said where were you say you won't believe it you know what I have to do every day I gotta wake up Abraham wash his hands diving with him and put him back to sleep then I gotta wake up Isaac wash his hands pray with him and put him back to sleep then I gotta go to Jacob wake him up wash his hands diving with him and put him back to sleep by the time the day was over uh but it took a long time too it was a long happening so Robbie said why don't you just wake them all up together and have you know one session of dabbing with avra music says oh yo because if they were all diving together it would be so powerful mashiach would come so Robbie said is there anyone in this world today that they could Diamond together and bring mashiach said yeah and his sons so Robbie made a fast day he got real clear and his sons together so they said okay no let's go let's get going so he said there was a hurricane they said murder gosham and there was a tsunami they're about to say and God said no no no no no we're not ready for this so they told the guy said who told who told Remy about the secret they point that Elio they took 60 lashes of fire and they whipped him and they said Elio you got to stop this so eliyahu appeared like a fiery bear by the way I will I always find that when the fiery beer appears in shul it's very distracting to the dominant it's very hard to have cavana when a fiery bear appears no you're able to I am the fiery bear and the fiery bear distracted them and they couldn't have him says Marcel what's this fiery beer the fiery bear is the Persians what that was saying was we're still in golos we're still we need to be subjugated by the Persians and therefore it's not time for a chef to come Persians in the time of ready I mean what's this message that the Persians are the last you know we're not ready for mashiach because we have to be under the god of the jurisdiction of a fiery bear so there's a everything we learned until now was as a hakadama to put into context something that's been circulating a lot a few people sent this to me first my favorite yaakov Grant and I was trying to see if there's any basis for this idea but there's one word in this quote from the gra that's actually quite remarkable this is uh an excerpt from the writings of Ramon storm book in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. and the remote says that we have a tradition from the gra we see Russia is prevailing getting stronger they they conquered what is called katsi Karim leave it to matter in Hebrew to come up with the most bizarre expressions right you know what an e is and he is an island what's half an island it's a peninsula in modern Hebrew is a peninsula the Crimean Peninsula he says we have a tradition from the garage [Music] Tomah will prevail the cross said Russia the clip of duvial the girl said that Russia is the Clipper of Julia which is the Clipper of Persia that's what the grass said and they're also Catholic and so you have some yavan in there and some Edom in there and then he quotes from you guys a cover students that he told his student of David luria that if the Russians conquer the city of Crimea or the peninsula Crimea and the die a tradition that when Russia will prevail Russia will sort of flicker before the coming of mashiach and there's another story from the summer behind the legendary was very afraid of the Russians so he sent a message to the Regina and the Regina said Russians I don't like the Russians either I hate the Russians they are the epitome of Tama I just want to focus on one thing even though he's obviously behind the scenes a major player here got protagonists he's always opposing to Veal we see that when Gabriel was kicked out of shamayim duviel took his place so in the Persian Empire the malach that will try to exert itself to try to bring the downfall of the Persian Empire will be gavriel but we have these two very enigmatic amaras that tell us that right before Michelle comes there'll be two Nations one is Rome so let's say that's USA but how in the world can the gamara say what does the gamara mean that before Michelle comes Persia will be the other world power there ain't no Persian Empire but according to the what is the Persian Empire that is the power that is controlled by duviel if we say like like I don't know what the basis of this coin is and the only source I know of is quoted by Ramesh sternbach and it's also brought in uh called damsel the summer so I'll say like this if there's such a tradition then let's use it and could it be that's what the gemara means and the end of days there'll be two Powers left in the world there's Rome a USA and there's Persia who's Persia Russia who says that the village and now the question is who will destroy who will the Paras destroy Raimi or will rhyme me destroy Paras nobody ever said this share will help you sleep better at night but that's the pretty eye-opening possibility to say that the two gemara that the two Nations that Shas is constantly talking about will be clamoring and fighting and Waging War on the end of days usually we say we have no idea what it means it's a secret Maybe but again we have uh we have a tradition from the gra that Russia is the Clipper of Persia and even though there's no Persian Empire certainly Russia is rearing its head and trying to uh exert itself as one of the main powers in the world today so I want to conclude with a little story and know the story and you hear me you hear me over here based on uh to put it in the context of what we're learning now the case nothing what's wrong with that nothing so why was it held back they took it away from him why different reasons Give Me One Reason Why what's wrong with knowing when Michelle broke up one of the meanings is that he saw they weren't getting along and they weren't the actors so he he basically was telling them you're not going to deserve it you're not ready for it in other words it was withdrawn from him the possibility it was very removed but again we see throughout the gemara you know nobody knows exactly when it's supposed to come but please listen to the story okay um we'll end off with this you know people think that the Germans invented the idea of systematic killing of the Jewish people the Germans did not invent that idea that idea was invented by the Russians in the 19th century in the 19th century the Russians had a plan to exterminate all all Jews in on their in their region the plan was they would kill a third they would convert a third and they would uh expel a third my Inquisition was the first to expel to expel a third systematic camps camps to eradicate Jews was invented by the Soviets so by 1920 two million Jews had already left the Soviet Union and the only thing is the Soviets weren't that good at it but the Germans were much more uh efficient and they perfected it then for the last 50 60 years the Soviets have been the main funder of all Arab aggression in the world so Stalin brutalized the Jewish people through communism he and uh mysteriously he's the one who funded the war of independence and the reason why we won the war is because Stalin gave us ammunition and because he recognized the state of Israel in the U.N resolution the reason for that is one of the greatest miracles in history that he figured Israel would be socialist and communist but he made a mistake it would just be socialist and then in 1953 he saw Israel wasn't going communist communistic so he created these trumped-up charges on a bunch of doctors and he was going to uh convict them of murder and then because of that he was going to eradicate between two and four million Jews in Russia Stalin put into place the final solution he hadn't played he had the outline he had he built the camps he built the railroad systems this was going to start on I believe you have it in on your sheet over here this is from the biography of reviews this was going to take place on the 6th of March 1953 after these doctors were converted and at the time it was February 1953 the 28th day of February we're convicted right it was February 28 and repeat for example was in a slave Camp slave labor camp and it was Shabbos araf Park and Ruby six zilber is telling the inmates about the story of Peru and how God rescued the Jewish people and saved the Jewish people and he could do it again and there was a guy there who he had a big temper and he was already uh in a he had he had a 10-year sentence in the slave labor camp his name was maranovic and he said rabo who are you telling us bummer Masons are what happened 2500 years ago it's it's not relevant the the bottom line is stop stop put into place a plan to take million of his own people Stalin made Hitler look like uh Stalin killed 20 million people he expelled entire nations the people of Russia were slaves they were owned by Stalin he made him a slave community and this muranovich tells reviews like silver okay it's very nice God saved us 2500 years ago but we're in big trouble today because he has the railroad system he has the tracks he has the camps he's his plan was he's going to ship everyone off to Siberia the temperature there was between negative 76 and navigating 94 degrees below zero yeah your freezer wouldn't even know what to you know and reviews said at 7 50 pm that Stalin is only abasavadam and nobody knows what could be the next moment and this Miranda says Stalin he's strong like an ox what do you mean he's a buster for them he could carry this out like nobody's business that night they heard on the radio that poor in 1953 Stalin stroked out February 28th days before these doctors were going to be convicted and the Jews of Russia would be trained off to be killed in Siberia when was the downfall of duviel in 1953 of course Leo always goes down Purim time is there any Wonder now this is special pre-porm handout okay the malach of Russia is the bear anybody know what the the mascot of Russia is in the in the Olympics you know what's the guy's name what's the bear's name here take a look I have some good cartoons for you so when Napoleon you know when Napoleon came into Russia what was his big mistake his big mistake was he went beyond Moscow because nobody gets past Moscow so they had a cartoon of Napoleon coming to Moscow little Napoleon getting swallowed by what the Lion a tiger snake by the Big Bear Russia by duviel now watch this one look on the right hand side in the English satirical magazine with the Russian beer sitting on the tail of the Persian cat from almost indicating you know Russia is going to take over the uh Galos Paras AI it's just a theory well la mesa this is what the villanue says that the clipper of Paras the Clipper of Paras is duvia and the Clipper of Russia is duvial and Russia somehow with yoresh the Clipper of Paras and if we accept that then when the gemara says in the end of days there'll be two Nations could it be that the para stigma refers to is none other than Mother Russia and in that case just like duvia went down the first time antonym and Devil Went Down I don't know 70 years ago on Purim there's more where that came from and we hope actually should bring to us also like you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by 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