Rabbi Singer EXPOSES the Truth About Christianity & Rambam - Living Inspired

[music] Rabbi Singer, welcome to the program. >> Hey, great having me on. >> Thank you for coming back on. I appreciate this. There's an email and a couple messages that I got recently and they've been piling up and they all seem to say the same thing. I'm going to read one of them to you and here goes. In my humble opinion, Jesus is a Messiah in the sense that he brings the pagans closer to Torah per Rambam. So, Rabbi Singer, did Christianity prepare the world for Messiah? If the Rambam hopefully does not hear this because if he would it would crush him [snorts] because and I encourage you to read it for yourself and there's no text that Rambam wrote that's easier to understand than his Mishna Torah because that was the whole purpose of it was to write something that anyone could understand and and derive the foundations of Ramuna. I specifically want you to open the Rambam's Mymonades um laws of kings and their wars and chapter 11 and 12 which are probably the most famous uh part of his entire work which is saying a lot and the Ram says exactly the opposite and I need to lay it out for you because a lot of people say this to me that Didn't the Raam say that, you know, Christianity is they're all just just to bring everyone to God and Saul? And the answer is no, not at all. The Rambam uh explains very clearly that let me reframe him. It's striking that after the destruction of the second temple uh Christianity emerges as a world religion and certainly once constantly converts to Christianity. So everything is the Roman Empire becomes Christian. So why did this happen? What was the point that you have following the destruction of second temple two major world religions that are both predicated on Judaism that both believe that orthodox Judaism I'm saying that very specifically uh was true and God gave them commandments and God revealed himself to the children of Israel and that he's one God except those religions s believe that something changed and the the church would say this to you. There's a new covenant and therefore the commandments have been obregated and Christianity introduces ideas about God that are completely alien to the Hebrew Bible introduces idolatry through the doctrine of the Trinity. So what's going on here? Why is this all necessary? So the Ram explains that we see very clearly in the Hebrew Bible that when the true Messiah comes, the nations immediately recognize their error and the nations grab the shirt of a Jew and say I Zechariah 8 verse 23, let us go with you because we have heard that God is with you. This is a very critical point. The nations realize instantaneously that they were all along they were wrong and the Jews had the truth throughout history. But how is this possible to occur? Like let's play a a thought experiment for a moment. Let's say there had been no Abrahamic religion um after Judaism. That means all the religions of the world look something like Zorastianism, um, Hinduism, religions, Shintoism, just religions of the east. None of them had any basis on the Abrahamic faith. So if we're very very close now to the end in fact as far as the Rambam is concerned from the moment is go the end time war begins between Persia and and Israel it's we're in the time of the redemption himself itself but in this thought experiment imagine that there were no other Abrahamic religions and in fact that's the way the world was in the first century BC. In 1st century B.CE when Pompei entered Jerusalem in 66 B.CE thus beginning the Roman conquest of the land of Israel. Um nobody would have known what a Messiah is. No one they knew about the Jews and the Jews were a well-known people for many reasons but the no one understood the word uh Messiah in Greek Christos meant nothing to them. In fact the word Christo literally means to pour oil. If you were getting a shiatsu massage that was a Christo in the ancient world they it had no meaning to the ancient world. So therefore if there would been no Abrahamic religions in the world the Christianity had never emerged. So when the true Messiah comes the world would go what's that? They wouldn't turn to the Jews who would have believed a report and look to whom the arm of the Lord has been revealed which the nations will say when Messiah comes the beginning of the famed Isaiah 53 that's misappropriated by the church they go what are you talking about there's a whole bunch of gods or there's a pantheon of gods in the Greco Roman world and they would have like believed in the gods that are venerated and worshiped in the islands of Bali and throughout India they would What? What's that? But rather the world must be filled with Christianity's example. It's the largest world religion which believes all Christians believe that Judaism was once correct. And I don't say orthodox Judaism in order to to when it Jesus as far as Christianity is concerned was said to have come from a phariseic background. Paul whether this is true or not is ger not gerine. Paul claims to have been a Pharisee meaning that is the exact same thing as orthodox Jew. The term orthodox Jew incidentally was not coined by orthodox Jews. It was coined around the year 1800 by reformed Jews. And it was a term of derision. I I might as well just say this because this term is going to come up here a bit. um the the reform movement that emerges the hcala the enlightenment within the Jewish circles looked at Jews meaning who are following everything they called us orthodox in Greek that means the correct opinion that's all it means they didn't the the reform movement or what the hculla movement the alignment they weren't calling uh traditional Judaism orthodox because they thought we were right but rather They the word Orthodox had already been used was in long use by the Orthodox Church, a very very large denomination and the Orthodox Church was known as and still known as a very rigid version of Christianity. So it was sort of a derisive term, Orthodox Jew, like you're like the Orthodox Christians. And in fact, the the rabbis of the 19th century didn't like that term orthodox because it it wasn't meant but eventually we needed to come up with a term as the reform movement emerged and eventually even though Shamshshire Fersh and others didn't like it because they knew it wasn't but we adopted this is very very often the case where a name that's being used was not comes up from an opponent And eventually the group adopts it. I can think of Methodist, Kalahavdo, all so just but understand that Judaism this was the religion that Christianity emerged from proudly except they're saying that everything changed. Now when the true Messiah comes and please God, it's imminent and we'll see it very soon. So the nations will immediately recognize their error meaning they'll understand that Jesus is not the Messiah and they'll if Jesus is not the Messiah every Christian would concede every Christian although this would not be a very generally not a very pleasant conversation but if pushed every Christian would concede that Jesus is not the Messiah and the and the teachings of the Christian Bible and the apostolic and the fathers all all of it was wrong. There's no trinity. God is a unity. There's no other god. He's not none. It's all completely false. So they'll all recognize that Judaism is the default baseline. It means it would revert back to what they knew to be true. So it all returns back to that. And that's exactly perfect. So the world until the Messiah comes, that means we're living in a world of lies. We're living in a world of false teachings now. Now the question is what should the world religions look like? Well, it is much better that the world religions are predicated on Judaism are well Abrahamic would be a good term now to use. That means they're all predicated on Judaism. They all believe that uh Judaism was once true. However, because of our prophet or our demigod, you don't have to keep the Torah anymore. You don't have to keep Shabas anymore. Christianity goes way further in that it turns to complete idolatry that there's three persons within the godhead and it's not it's complete idolatry and it's the most vulgar version of it and mymonities refers to Jesus explicitly read Mishna Torah laws of kings chapter 11 he call he first Jesus the most vulgar among them He he was not trying to be insulting. He wasn't trying to he was just being very clear. And it's intriguing incidentally that he brings up the issue in that context of Barakb that in that even though there were many rabbis who thought that Barakba when he began his revolt in let's say 132 many of them thought he was the Messiah but they had guard rails in place there was something to catch them. So when Barco he calls Barooivo, it's a a porative when he got killed by the Romans because of his behavior. So they had guard rails in place to say okay he's not Messiah. The church had no guard rails. That means the church today appeals to the church f which is a very important thing which means they they have no way of escaping. They have no guardrails. I have no it's all gone. It's all been dismissed. So therefore, the false religions that dominate the world today must be based on Judaism. Meaning they must know that there's a one God concept and they must believe that there were commandments incumbent upon the world and the Jewish people except those commandments especially the ritual commandments have been nullified because of their religions. Once the true Messiah comes, this is the key part of everything. All the nations will know that I am Hashem. Period. Full stop. The Messiah is not going to go around doing miracles. He's not going to go around healing people. All if you you think in this way as the Messiah as some sort of hidden hero, it's because you've been affected by the the the stench of Christianity. And we grew up in Christian countries, a Christian culture. That's why you think that way. It's in the days of Messiah there will be uh everyone will want to be close to the Jewish people. There will be no more wars in the world. All of our opponents will become our allies and even more they'll want to take part in the final building of the temple and the commonwealth. See Isaiah 60 verse one 2 3 for the whole chapter is about the the whole end of Isaiah is about the realization of the non-Jews. uh and and how do they instantaneously know that? So therefore, Christianity is the perfect religion. Perfect and that it's the perfect false religion. What does that mean? It means that when Messiah comes, everyone go, okay, I got it. The Jews were right all along. Isaiah 53, I'm as a tangent is they then don't understand why the Jews were persecuted. That's very interesting for you to know and I'm throwing this in even though it's not gerine. Isaiah 53, the non-Jews then have a big question. If the Jews are right all along, why did they suffer so much? So they conclude that the Jews suffered as a result of their sins. And number two is Jewish suffering was a trigger for the non-Jews to repent, which is an amazing thing. And many people all over the world tell me that it was the suffering of the Jews throughout history. Certainly show October 7th that brought them to have a new record. Jewish suffering has an indelible effect on non-Jews. So therefore, God fills the world with with Christian Islam. The manities is very clearly stating these are false religions. Of course, he his very very very strong criticism is against Christianity because Christianity persecuted the Jews more than the Islamic world and it's absolute complete idolatry. You know there there's something that a caveat here. Although the nations of the world were given access to radical monotheism and Judaism that means they're very aware of it. So this way when Msiah comes they right away get their mistake. They right if the world was full of as I said of of Hinduism and all these Eastern religions they have no they would not know what does that mean? They wouldn't be able to fulfill these promises. The one thing God didn't allow the other nations of the world to have intriguingly is the Sabbath. It's very interesting. Although the Abrahamic religions well well well over half the world uh belongs to an Abrahamic religion. This is mind-blowing. But the Torah says that's what would happen. The beginning of Deuteron say what a wise nation this has such a wise Torah. the it's interesting that Hashem would not allow them to have Shabbat. And it although it's not in the Christian Bible at all, the church would move the Sabbath to Sunday and Islam would move it to Friday, which is mind-blowing because neither Christianity nor Islam believe that the Jews have the wrong day. But they somehow, it's not important how it happened. I mean, Ignatius was a very early church father, the bishop of Antioch. He's the one who really is gets behind this idea that Sunday should be. But it's intriguing that Hashem does not allow these religions to have the Saturday, the seventh day as their Sabbath. Why not? Because we say it in the kdish. It's in Exodus 31:E 16 and 17. Most importantly, we were told about the Sabbath that God gave the Sabbath to the children of Israel and it's an eternal nation bain Israel between God and Israel. So therefore, what God did is unbelievable and it's not intuitive. You can ask Christians and Muslims why he was changed and you'll notice that the answers are surprisingly unsatisfying. Well, Jesus resurrected on Sunday. What does it have to do? But God very clearly in Genesis 2 says that the seventh day is what was made holy. Fine. You believe something else. Well, what does it have to do? And it really doesn't make sense. Moreover, to prove this point that I'm not I'm not saying something unflattering about Christianity. There has always been sects of Christianity that are regarded as heretical both now and throughout the ages that try to push back the Sabbath to Saturday. In our time, you have Seventh Day Adventists, which is a millinarian group. It doesn't matter. Throughout history, there always groups like this, and the church fathers and reformers always condemn [clears throat] them like they were the worst heresy in the world. So it's not like like I'm coming up with this idea because I have an unfavorable view of Christianity and I'd like you to have the same unfair. This always went on as maybe we should bring it back to Sabbath and that those ideas were crushed as a fiercely crushed as a heresy. They couldn't stand it. It's not like they thought it was not the smartest thing in the world. It is. No, they they couldn't stand it. So the Ram very clearly is saying that Shabbat is set aside for the Jewish people and he's saying that Christianity and Islam are there to prepare the world for Msiah but not that they're true but rather they're replacing the religions of the let's say the Greco Roman world um with religions that are predicated on Judaism so that when Messiah comes they'll realize that their mistaken beliefs are wrong and then they will fulfill the the proph Prophecy of Isaiah 11:9. The knowledge of God will cover the world as the water covers the sea. And God will be king of the whole world. He will be one. His name will be one. Famous Zechariah chapter 14. The Rambam did not only did not support Christianity as you're I get the same emails. He was the fiercest opponent and most relentless opponent of Christianity. He said the most unflattering things about Jesus in the opening of his letter to the Yemonites. He says that what is stated in Daniel 11 about the one who would be the great the one who would the greatest persecutor and would lead us astray was Jesus. He was fiercely anti-Christian and held the strongest view that Christianity is absolutely idolatry for Jews and Gentiles. I mean you couldn't when someone makes that suggestion it's a tragedy that people are not reading the original text and let me promise you this if you you can go online in a second just go to laws of kings laws of kings chapter 11 and 12 that's the the whole end of it and you just read chapter 11 he he's very I don't even know how he's alive I mean I don't know how how he how he didn't get killed over for this whatever. >> Yeah, it was retracted. I think there were many volumes that didn't have this uh chapter in it for many years. It was hidden. >> Um but who who's spreading this lie? Is there some malicious uh reason why people would want to align Judaism and Christianity? Is that something that that dealing with? >> I don't think it's malevolent at all. I think it's ignorance. Just ignorance. And I think people say that because they want to believe that we're all just believe in the same god and it's all different pathways. Uh the church pope Francis colleague it's all different pathways to the top of the mountain this kind of ecumenical thought. So there were many people who who tried to even in the orthodox world there were people la did this who was the Israeli um ambassador to Milan he said a and he said a lot of he's dead he can't defend himself so I'm not going to attack him he said a lot of crazy things he was a very intelligent person but he wanted to engender a lot of we're all the same we're all worshiping the same god And in light of, you know, Vatican 2, he wanted to he won diplomatic relations between Israel and the Vatican, which he did not achieve, but he he said all kinds of very things that are completely odd. But there are a lot of people who just want to say we all worship the same God. You even had rabbis who are very respectful who said, "Look, originally Christianity didn't have a trinity and really you're supposed to keep the Torah." You know, there are all kinds of people who tried to find that we all worship the same God. These are different pathways of God. It's not cor. It's weirdly not correct. And I'll I'll just say this to you that the problem we suffer from, you know, you and I have done many shows together that have been seen by hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people around the world, maybe millions because it's on others channels that Sadhasha what is common among all the people who were who are making terrible mistakes is this is is this just occurred to me is people are not reading the primary sources. Like I don't even know how many shows we've done together that have been seen by hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people, maybe a million people around the world. If you think of all the shows we've done, it's on many, many channels, seen by millions of people. And we're always addressing something. And I think we can conclude that the reason we're out there trying to correct and guide as we're right at the precipice of of Messiah is that people just have not taken the time to read the primary meaning the original sources but rather they go on on Google and they watch some you know they watch some video I don't know what they do they read some book or they they're they're in Sedona Arizona and they're just thinking that they're in a vernal uh some vortex is completely incorrect. Like in this case, like all you would have to do to understand what we're doing here is we're going back to my monities text. I assure you that my what my monities says about Christianity is [snorts] much more critical of of Jesus himself and Christianity than I'm even portraying. I'm like softening it a little. quotes I think a >> Yeah. Yeah. Kag Daniel. He I'm we're being gentle here. So this is all wrong. And I want to say to you this to you cuz I know that you know we we both are on the same exact uh clear path. The mistake people are making is they're just not opening up Ezekiel 38 and 39. There is not reading uh Zechariah 12. There's nothing hidden. It's not like you or I have some secret verses and this is some esoteric movement we're starting here like you and I are starting a cult and we are claiming like Paul claimed that we have secret revelation. No, I know everything I'm we're sharing with you is explicitly clearly transparently in the text itself. So the world the major world religions are Abrahamic believe that Judaism was originally true specifically so that when Messiah comes they will immediately recognize their error. Literally, the prophet said they'll put their hands over their mouths and go, they be shocked because what they're observing is like what they never considered. What they're finally seeing is like nothing they ever heard. And they're in stunned. And they're also stunned why the Jews then suffered. Cuz all this time, all along the non-Jews thought, why do the Jews suffer? Yeah, we're against October 7th. Yeah, we're against the pugs. We're embarrassed by it. But why does everyone hate the Jews? They'll say because they accept that they rejected our savior and that's why they suffer so much. I'm talking about n nice nice people who are not Holocaust deniers who not don't deny October 7th. They'll say, but you're asking why did the Jew this this rabid anti-semite made the statement that why is it that Europeans all persecute Jews? What were the Jews doing that everyone couldn't stand them and throw them out? It's like blame the victim. Like why is everyone raping this person? Why is well maybe the bunch so the the it's very important to understand listen holy children nothing would make us happier and I know I could speak on Rabbi Circle myself nothing would make us happier than you would need us at all and that you go back to the original primary sources they're very easy to read and then you could figure this out there's nothing complicated about any of these things there has to be until the Messiah comes false religions. Okay? And I don't want any Christians or Muslims to get upset with me, Rabbi Suckle, because all the Christians believe that their esquetology, everyone's going to be a Christian or destroyed or whatever. And all the Muslims believe that at the end of the days, everyone's going to be a Muslim. Okay? So, it's all okay. We could talk this way. We are exclusivist religions there. However, there is a difference between us. There's a big difference between us and that is that Judaism is the original religion which our our friends the Christendom and Islam agree we are the original religion and therefore the burden of evidence is upon them not upon us but the key point is we're not going to try to be cute here like who's going to win the Super Bowl or anything like that but we have to be very clear there's a reason why after destruction of second temple cuz this Very odd. Why not during the period of the Mcabes as an example when the land of Israel was an independent state during that period that was less than a century we were independent that was a time when we should have the greatest influence in but it wasn't during the first temple period we weren't we were not able everyone was worshiping every rock that was in the tree that wasn't worshiped they all worshiping rocks and stones in their ancestors Why is it now when the Jews are in their weakest state, belleaguered state, meaning in the last 2,000 years of exile, why then that religions adopt Judaism, but with a change, with a twist? The answer is because the moment the temple was destroyed, this is a little key. Messiah, one of the things the Messiah will do is build a temple, right? Very clear that he will, the temple will be built with his coming. It doesn't literally say he will build it, but look at Ezekiel 37 26- 28 and the whole end of Ezekiel is about the building of the temple. So therefore, the Messiah comes after the temple is destroyed. So because you you're building a new temple and the third temple described in Ezekiel 40-48 is not the same. I mean it's in general it's the same [snorts] as all the other temples means it'll have many all many of the accutrants of it and the sacrifices will return. My manes talks about this in this section. But the key point is the moment the temple was destroyed in 70, the potential for the Messiah to come was immediately released. The kinetic energy was there. Then it was up to every generation to repent filling Isaiah 59:20 so that the true Messiah would come. So therefore, it would make sense and it does that that these Abrahamic religions would only emerge after the destruction of the second temple. It reminds me of Malahi starts aim. God uh through Maliki, Ezra or Morai uh tells the Jewish people uh the sinners actually the ones who did return who were not from the elite uh and he tells them I love you and that message of I love you was coming directly from Hashem that Hashem was telling the entire the entire Jewish people that he loved them. Perhaps explain that to the viewers. So in Christianity although Christians say that God is love they would always say that. I don't want to mischaracterize it but [clears throat] they will say that God is inaccessible in that you're a sinner. So what they do is they create a barrier. This very much is like my monities explaining how idolatry began. I mean he just nails everything. I don't and I I don't understand how is humanly possible such a person could just know and understand everything and understand our times um uh completely. But what's what's very very striking is that um at the end of days all the nations of the world will come to know the one God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob because it's all predicated on um on on Judaism. In this way, the nation understand. However, Christianity immediately began to portray the God, the father, the creator of all as inaccessible. You're a sinner and you can't reach him. And that's why Paul says in in 1 Timothy 2:5 that there is one God and one mediator between God and man, and that's the man Jesus Christ. He's placing that that you have to go through somebody in order to reach God because God is way up here. He's inaccessible. This is very much an idea that emerges from the uh Greco Roman world that of course for instance in the G the Greek understanding of God it was called a henotheism which of course there was one great god Zeus in the in the Roman Empire it would have been Jupiter it didn't matter but they were of course that was the great god no other great god in the pantheon on was equal to Zeus or Jupiter. No way. They would have laughed at you who said that. But no one prayed to Zeus. Jupiter was completely inaccessible. There were state ceremonies with sacrifice to the great god. But people didn't talk to Zeus. You can talk to him. So the idea was God is just remote. We are broken. This is really gnostic um middle platonic thinking. And therefore something there has to be gods in between the great God and man. And in Christianity's case, it Jesus is very much the intercessor. And it should be said that the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church go further like even Jesus not completely, you know, accessible. And therefore you can pray to Mary who's in the Orthodox church was the theotocos the mother of God and she you can venerate her and in their liturgy in an Orthodox church which is highly structured. They speak to of her as a savior and as someone who's an intercessor and they pray to the saints. I mean in the Orthodox and Catholic church they no they won't say worship the saints but they're just using different words as a as a fig leaf to hide the idolatry they so they venerate and pray to Christom who was the archbishop of Constantinople to Sirill of Alexandri the patriarch of Alexandria don't these guys were crazy anti crazed idolattors. Augustine, the bishop of Hippo, they pray to him. It's not like they look to him as like a brilliant genius, you know, as they would look to origin or they look to Aquinus as a great philosopher. Oh, it's way so they but what they're doing, what I want to do is sort of get away from that. What they're doing is what are they doing with their icons? Kissing icons and they and in case you think like Havdo we kiss the Western world. No, they hold in the Orthodox church that these icons that you see all over the place kissing them and crying and pray don't ask what's going on. They see this as not as some something to remind you and focus on and no they call the window to heaven. They these Mary icons and of all the saints are wind are an encounter with the divine. But so of course you and I could sit there and go wow that's that's really terrible and it's horrible that you know people who come who believe that Tanakh is from the word of God would believe that remember no guard rails that's what we started with these these expressions they had no way of correcting like Rabika was able to when Barak was killed by the Romans go okay then he's not Msiah there's a guard rail you so critical the Christianity has no guard rails nothing cuz they say the New Testament reinterprets the Hebrew Bible and they see the Hebrew Bible straight through the Christian Bible. That means you have no you have no mechanism in place to correct the church. I don't know this may be too deep for the audience. I hope you're catching this all. We if we think one way and it turns out the other way. So we we have guard rails. They have no guardrails at all. And that's why don't walk you're not allowed to walk into a church. But if you happen to see an Orthodox Christians and watch what's going on, you would flip out. And I warn everyone, please never ever, I just say this, if you see Christian priests here in Israel, nuns, smile at them, nod to them. We all do in Jerusalem. Never ever ever ever ever use violence. Just the opposite. Always smile. Always nod. It It makes a very It makes a big kiss of Hashem. It has a big effect on them. But always smile. There is an arena of disagreement and that's with words and ideas that are thoughtful, but never never anything else. So I'm sharing this with you not to, God forbid, that you should these people don't know any better. That's the truth. These these nuns and priests walking down the streets of Jerusalem, this is all they know. This is all they know, all they understand. And therefore, always with thoughtfulness nod to them. I always always in passing the priest ever make eye contact with me I always say good morning I smile always do that >> Rabbi Singer do you ever get mad ever >> no [laughter] I >> that's not normaling I >> I get disappointed no I don't I have not raised my voice my children have told me my my youngest daughter told me when she was getting marriage. She said, "Thank you, Tatiish father." She told me this right before she walked down the aisle. She thanked me. I hope she doesn't mind me saying it. She thanked me for never raising my voice at her ever. And to me, it doesn't make sense. It it it's just the word. It doesn't make any sense at all. There are people who get very angry at me and go crazy on me on the internet, but really you couldn't It's such a It just It doesn't make any sense to me. In any case, I I am disappointed in people >> No, but I don't No, there's no reason to. I did a a show with Jesse Lee Peterson. He interviewed me. He's a conservative fellow from America who's kind of very interesting and he just couldn't believe that I don't get angry, but I don't. I because it's not I don't think this way. I'm just allergic to people who are who just get angry. I just I'm allergic to that. And it happens to be a very weak way of convincing people. I mean, it's so nice to convey something in a thoughtful way and to ideas. And it happens to me, my faith is the true faith. The God of Israel is true. So why would I need anger? Like I'm saying, here's $100. I don't need to get angry. It's like I'm something beautiful. So why get angry if you're trying to mug someone? So you need to use violence and anger to get someone to give you money that they ordinarily wouldn't want to share with you. It doesn't make any sense. In any case, I do tell the viewers these are very serious matters. It's immediate. But please do always, you know, puna just always have a a nice smiling face when you especially Jews who live in Israel are encountering Christian uh priests and nuns and and clergy and so on. Always be smile. I go out of my way to smile to nod. Suddenly they come over to me and they recognize me and they ask me questions. We have very delightful convers conversations. So please go back to the original. I'm I'm speaking on behalf of both of us. Everything we're talking about is we're not sitting here and doing some calculations of gamatria and making some sort of we're not. It's just plain plain plain text. And today we live in a time in the old days you and me when we wanted to have Mishna Torah. So my grandmother, blessed memory, gave me that as my braitzer, which I still have big the the Mishna Torah. She gave it to me. So we had to actually open a book today. You can go in 3 seconds, go online and read everything you want. So >> and don't trust listeners, don't trust chat GPT. I've tried many times to research things with it. It is always or if not, this is not a plug against it. I don't want to get sued, but I'm just saying that's not a source. Chad GPT is not a source. Get real sources. Um, so that's also important. >> I'll say one interesting thing. I don't know if you've done this. If you about share this with you and I have no clue if you've done this. So sometimes I'll ask chat I don't know. I'll whatever I'll ask chat GBT something and to see what it'll say and it says something. It's completely incorrect. And the one thing I'm gonna say about the character of Chad GBT, [laughter] the one thing about Chad GBT is it'll always apologize to me and says you are correct. It does. It never throws a tantrum. So Chad GBT. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. >> It says right. This happens all the time. So I I want to make sure that I correct it. >> But it's the typical American. That's that's exactly what it is. It it just it's I'm not saying this in a derogatory way. It has that respect, the American kind of respect that that is, you know, very American to give that type of respect. >> But you're correct. J chatbt J chatb GPT all the time will tell me you are correct and I was I was dis I actually asked it about a certain ecumenical council of the church or the second council and I said it doesn't matter but the point is Chad GBT said something incorrect I said that is incorrect here's correct and it said you are correct and didn't throw a tantrum or anything. So >> we stopped using it in the Na'vi share. We would every time we had a question in Na'vi, we'd ask it and it would make up ramboms that literally was able to write a perfect Rambom and that didn't exist. >> So it's very it's a very dangerous tool in that sense. >> There were Christians who did that by the way. There was a guy named Raymond Martini who was a contemporary and a the person who was the mentor of Pablo Christianity who famously debated Nakmanities in 1263. So this you want to hear something weird this is crazy. So Pablo Christianity was a Jew who converted to Christianity and he became he became a priest a monk and he went on to debate Akmanities the Ramban in 1263 in front of who was his guide? It was a man named Raymond Martini who was a scholar and he was a scholar of Hebrew. He and he was a real Hebraasis. I mean he really knew his Hebrew and he literally invented midrashim invent the maj that do not exist but he had such a he was such a master of the Hebrew language that he was able to create midrashim which did not exist. He just made it up. And some of them crept in to printed editions later on because some of the people involved in in the printed editions of Tanakh and other sources were Christians. Believe it or not, I know this is going to drive you nuts, but the the mcrose gadolos, what we use, the first publisher of it, despite the name of the were not Jewish, and they hired a Jew convert to Christianity to do the layout that we now have, which created I know everyone's losing their mind hearing this, but >> you know, we have this discussion every time we're learning Na'vi. We learn Na'vi every night. So, so every time they bring up the peric, you know, it's been split up by the Christians. And I always bring the argument that the the names of every month were taken from Babylon, right? Uh, all these names and we still we still say, but that was, you know, a Babylonian name. But there is some influence that the world has on Judaism in that sense that that the Torah was affected in a certain way by the Christian by the Christians. It's just a fact. It has affected and should we reject that part of it? I mean that's that that's that's always been an ongoing debate we had in our NVI class. So um so we the person who invented our chapter breaks that we currently use now there are many places we don't go with the Christians on it just full disclosure for but not usually not for theological reasons I'm not going into whether they so it was the an Anglican archbishop his name was a 13th century medieval his name is Steven Langton he's the guy who invented all the chapter breaks and verse things that we adopted and we felt we need something in common plus Jews and Christians were really interacting with each other and there was palemics going between so we needed a common reference tool to point to it so we largely adopted it now there are many times where the church did it I don't I'm trying not to confuse everyone so they for instance in psalms very often what it says mism a song to David So they don't be following the Septuagent design. That's like a title text. It doesn't get verse one. So our verses are usually one ahead of theirs. That's not nefarious at all. And we don't go with them on that. We don't follow them on that. There are breaks really which are theological for christoologgical reasons. For instance, um Isaiah 8 ends differently in a Christian Bible than in a Jewish Bible. But they they jam two verses together because of Matthew chapter 4. I'm not here to teach New Testament. That they did it for theological reasons. The last verse of Deuteronomy 12 in a Christian Bible is different than in a Jewish Bible. It means in a Jewish Bible, Deuteronomy 13 begins by saying it's talking about the false prophet. And it begins by saying you can't answer the Torah nor take away from it. And if a prophet a dream in dreams arise and tells you follow the gods you know the church did not want you should add Torah take away from the Torah to be connected to the false prophet. This is paras Deuteronomy 13. I'm I'm not I know you're going I know right now everyone's going online and looking creating two browsers or whatever windows whatever it is and looking them side by side you'll find exactly what I'm saying. So you'll see Deuteronomy 13:1 in a Jewish Bible begins with not adding to it nor taking away from it in the context of a false prophet. And the church did not like that at all. So it shoves that verse to the end of chapter 12. So that's really nefarious. You get it? So there are a lot of examples of that. But we don't go with them on that when they were playing as they say in biblical Hebrew mki fuki. So that we don't go with. But now addresses the question of why we adopted. He addresses just brilliantly. He was so brilliant. We I was at his Levia TV many many years ago. I met him as well when he was 97 or 98. I met him. >> He was just such he had such clear clarity of mind. I knew everything and his ability to communicate his love his love for it so very very important incident that lane he was just a gift of of dripping love. He was and then his it was said at his funeral I think he had a funeral both at Turvidas that's where I was there and I don't know how many people were there. I don't know it was 100 200,000 people there. I just don't know. was just couldn't move and I think he had another one in Muny I think because he actually lived in Muny in his old age and there were nuns along the route that were waiting there I didn't see it but it was reported that people ask why would nuns standing in the entourage of his this has relevant to what I said what were nuns doing at his funeral at the procession and the nuns said that when he would pass by our convent every day and see us he would always say good morning, good afternoon. He would always nod and smile and it meant a lot to them. So, I'm just saying this. What happened here in Jerusalem was a horrible, horrible thing to attack a nun. What the horrible don't ever do that I'm saying to all of you. It's a horrible horrible thing. Never just beautiful words. And but uh he getting back so Kamitki addresses this question which is a probing question. Why in the second temple period there were many things changes that occurred um the this we went from the iy which is the earlier writing of meaning the font of Hebrew changed in the first temple that we use that's what we use today number two is we went to from speaking Hebrew in the first temple that was that was what Jews spoke to each other We see that explicitly in Tanakh and it's called Yehudit. He anyone let anyone say Judaism isn't there. It is there. Yehudit is clearly there. And also the names of the month like what like why did it happen? Like why did those things happen? He addresses that and he says something I think is just just so he always takes my breath away. He says that the great sin of the Jewish people is here we were a non-Jew says to the Jews return come back to the land of Israel and we have a prophet that lived nearly two centuries earlier that named him by name that he would do this which means in Babylon they knew clearly that this was an act of God and they didn't come to the land of Israel but they rather they stayed behind in BL and only 42,000 360 Jews moved to the land of Israel initial there would be other waves that would come subsequently and this was a the temple could have been built at that time and what I'm saying is in the gar could have been at that in the days of Ezra Mashiach could have come in fact the says that's why they needed prophets Malachi during the Persian Empire why because they'll build a base of migr they wouldn't need prophets and it didn't happen. So says that I forget his words, but saying to show us, yes, you're going to get a temple. We see in Daniel 2 when he when the angel Gabriel is telling Daniel about the building of the second temple because that's why Daniel was so distressed. He says it would be in a time of in great trouble. The whole second temple period was basically problematic. Sometimes worse than other times. It was almost all a nightmare. It was the whole second temple period was difficult difficult times. So in order to show the children of Israel that you're living in a time that's lower. So therefore to be a constant reminder to us that things are not I'm giving you temple. you see this temple, I'm giving it to you, but you um you you handled this all a nightmare that you didn't come back right away. Instead, you went the imamish went to a banquet that Akash gave instead of coming to assist in building a temple, which is crazy. He says for that big because of this therefore the outer symbols of the Jewish people namely the language. So Aramaic is a sister language of Hebrew and it's used in Tanakh. So it's a holy language. So of course the it's only the font that changed not the not the text just what font they're using. So the font went from and that we would adopt the months of that preceded it. All this was a symbol to the Jews that God was he was displeased with everything. Now, still it was Ezra who would do such a thing. And these months are mentioned in Tanakh. So any Ukarites out there that want to throw a tantrum, drop it right away cuz these months that we use now are used in Tanakh. And if you open up the book of Zechariah, you have these months there. So don't think this is I know you guys are going to come after the rabbis because you you know for you it's a national pastime. I'm not talking to Kar just all of you guys don't don't even try it [laughter] don't don't even try to come after us it's in these names are in Tanakh so we know that this was the will of God this was not like you know you know blame it on the rabbis don't blame it on the it's in Tanakh which means it's codified in the cannon so but it's a signal to us and you see it in Daniel openly the second temple is going to be it's going to be in a a problem time but that's how things went. So that's Yakov's explanation which resonates because then it expl it solves everything. It explains the whole deal from beginning to end and it was the go that the Jews stayed in Babylon which was fantastic. I mean life must have been good there. It must have been like I don't know the five towns or Miami, North Miami and but it was a it was a grave sin that they didn't come in and because that Mashiah didn't come and Hashem had it in and wondering no now I'm going to really put you in your place. You're going to have to sit in the corner with a duncap which means you're going to be using these names that you're so in love with of Assyrian names and the font and the language. And this was meant that I want you to know you messed up. >> Those are essentially the soiled garments, you know, the the externals that are that are all dirty. The the Swas says a similar idea as well that the 70 nations, the 70 languages that Moshe translated the Torah was, he was instilling in each one of our exiles a certain Torah which would come out of that that exile. that there's a different way that an American learns a a dafamara than a French person, an Italian person, Israeli person. They all have their personalities, each language which can express the Torah in a different way and Mosha hid that and we went into exile to retrieve that. So Rab Singer, thank you so much for joining us. Maybe you could lead us out with a braha. Uh thank you. >> We're living in special times. the according to the Rambam which is the source of this entire show that we've enjoyed together um the go the war between Israel and Persia is the beginning of the gula please read it for yourself so we are now in the time of the redemption it's very simple and we are very fortunate why God chose us to be here I don't know we but it's according to his will and perfect knowledge and may We merit to see the time when all the nations will worship the one God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and speak in a pure speech. And we should witness this glorious moment quickly in our time. Thank you so much. [music]