Rabbi Tovia Singer Lecture at Beis Medrash Ohr Chaim - The Battle For the Jewish Soul!

I am not supposed to be in Muny right now I'm not supposed to be in the United States right now I made Aliah more than five years ago almost to the day from Indonesia but I am I am here in America because my father is very sick tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands of people around the world were doing for my father would you consider praying for my father my father's name is schan haken Ben Lea schan haken Ben Lea he desperately needs your desperately and that's why I'm here otherwise I would not be here please please D for him another Point as we're here I Mish I I don't remember M for a long long time I didn't know there were tents and buildings like this and forche I I didn't recall any of this stuff it's really quite beautiful getting lost in m going wow what's that that's very interesting but as we're here in an air conditioned gorgeous tent a tent with a chandelier I didn't come across this before we should always keep in mind Kindel my holy Brothers and sisters keep in mind that as we're here engaging in the study of tyu keep in mind kind that there's more than a 100 Eden right now ne ne in a tunnel being held hostage who do not have the opportunity to sit and learn who may not even know if it's day or night if they'll live or die they don't know our hearts are with them they must come home now please keep them in your so that's one enemy we have that's one of the enemies we have but as you know know there are others who are not seeking to destroy us physically as you know there are many people they're not interested in physically destroying us they're not interested in what our enemies sought to do on purum I am here because of a kanuka problem there are those who want to destroy us spiritually listen like you've never listened in your life there are nearly a thousand organizations in the United States alone that are devoted and committed to converting every one of you and those that you love to Christianity there are Messianic congregations all over SEL and arel it's a stage four cancer and for those of you who don't know it there's no such thing as stage five it's a nightmare in a sense it's a greater nightmare there than here because in this country it is inconceivable that any synagogue or any Temple would have any shus would have any relationship with Christians with any relationship with the church it would never happen doesn't matter in or another it just won't happen but in Israel because they consider these missionaries Israel's best friends they mamish baked in it's a very serious problem these missionaries have Messianic congregations expose just one of many of here in Rockland County they love Rockland County there's a higher percentage of Jews in Rockland County than any other county in the United States approximately one out of three people who live in Rockland is a Jew and they know it and they're here in the early 1970s Evangelical Christians gathered in the early 1970s specifically 1972 Evangelical Christians gathered in Western Switzerland a city called lzone that city is really should be well known to you because it's one of the oldest Jewish communities in Europe they gathered to understand why did did the church fail in the past Hashem to convert the Jews to Christianity why was this such an abysmal failure after all the church sent their missionaries to South America and converted up people overnight why in South America they speak Spanish and and Portuguese because missionaries went there and converted them all but the Jews with all their problems we can't convert you understand that Europe became Christian Mish overnight in the blink of an eye the Jews this is a p to them not only that it doesn't even make sense their claim is listen K their claim is that the truth and proof of Christianity can be demonstrated from your Torah from your Bible from this who could read this only the Jews who could read this in the original language only the children of Israel and the Jews of all people should be so difficult to convert moreover who was in ER during the first century when the Christian religion began who was there Puerto Ricans Eskimos who was there yeen Jews and it was your great grandmother it was your El Zer that said we wish we could love to have a MH in the first century but this is definitely not it and therefore the conversion of a Jew to Christianity was essential to them and why won't didn't the Jews accept it Bish Chinese didn't so Chinese are Chinese they're too busy making the cooking too much in the restaurant they Chinese they don't have their their but the Jews were there why don't the Jews believe is a patum to them and the Jews are the only ones who could read their book moreover it is only the Jews that believed in the concept of Messiah only the Jews believed in idea of a messiah the word mesiah the word messia or in Greek christas meant nothing to the ancient world the M didn't know what it meant means christas means only to pour oil on somebody if you're giving someone a Shu M that's that's a that's just means pouring oil on somebody it meant Mish nothing so only the Jews were waiting for M only the Jews could read the text only the Jews knew exactly what it said in the Holy tanak why don't the Jews believe and the Jews have a reputation and always did and that reputation is not or ever was that the Jews were dummies the Jews had have even among our good friends they'll admit all the wicked ones will admit the Jews are a clever people right if you want to get kicked out of a clan convention just say I think the Jews are stupid and they'll throw you out on your head because you're an idiot they know the Jews are clever they know their Bible they were expecting it they were there why don't the Jews therefore only the conversion of a Jew to Christianity can lend credibility to the cross I remember I was lecturing nagas Texas nagas Texas K and you're going there such a place there's such a place you haven't seen Texas until you've been to nagas I'm not sure when I went to speak at Allan F Austin university and the room was packed the fire department had to show up there were over a thousand people there and it was more than the capacity that's a Texas not like you you go to Dallas or Houston epis whatever business that's not Texas that's flat Bush This is Texas it's an hour from the Louisiana border it's famous because when the shuttle crashed and it came down that's where it I remember I was lecturing and the audience was I'm not sure but I have a I sense had a feeling that many of people never saw Jew in their lives in person I said this to the audience to the Christians and I could see they were looking at me like this and one raised his hand and he said to me Rabbi you're completely wrong he he said isn't it true that the first Believers in Christianity they were all Jews what are you talking about the writers of the Christian Bible almost all of them were Jews almost all with the exception of Luke the Gentile physician they were all Jews always found it interesting that the one non-jew in the whole new testament a doctor but that's how things go so I asked them tell me something who should those Jews have been the first century who live then T live then re the Elder Liv then at the exact same time is even mentioned in the New Testament these were the contributors to the mishna these are these are if what you're saying is that points to the veracity of Christianity then who should those Jews get involved they should have been rabbis they should have been people who they should have been T they should have been lining up after all they knew the text better than anyone did yet who were the first Believers in Christianity were the sages were they rabbis no who were they tax collectors and prostitutes hardly those of our intellectual Elite this is a shock to the church how could it be how is it even possible this so it's only the conversion of the Jew to Christianity that can lend any credibility to the Cross do you understand to the church we are a problem a very big problem and the Christian Bible tells it its readers go to the Jew first Romans chapter 1:16 I'm not ashamed of the Gospel many of you went to Shiva you know this do you get any of these jokes at all this is too complicated for this section I can slow it down for you is it too early in the morning and this is the night people cuzz these people are getting everything and you nothing okay the Jew standing who are we what are we 15 million maybe worldwide a little pitsel of nothing the Jews don't believe in everybody else they can Brazil I've lectured there many times that's the largest Roman Catholic country in the world why don't the Jews believe one other thing kind 1972 1972 what does this mean I remember it 1972 was an epic time America was going through G Moment between Vietnam and Watergate and all the crazy with with with hippies and all this it was going through tremendous upheaval but it was in their view a very critical time number one it was five years after ylim was liberated and in tanak it openly says that ylim must be liberated by the Jews before mhia comes before mhia comes we're even given a date of when it will happen it's a PK in Daniel it's Daniel 8:14 that tells us that you will be liberated by the Jews I'm paraphrasing here 2,300 years after Darius is defeated by Alexander the Great now it doesn't say those two names Daniel by the way the angel Gabriel is speaking in chapter 8 as I'm sure many of you know and he's speaking about the the the king of Macedon destroying the the Persian the Persian Empire falling and the Greek Empire emerging it's a critical Time chapter 8 of Daniel is is devoted to those two kingdoms and it says that 2,300 years after that J be liberated one of the most famous battles in human history what battle are we talking about very good you know your stuff the Battle of granicus 334 BCE take out the zero take out the zero and just go forward 2,300 years and you are in the late spring of 1967 the Christians understand this they understand the importance of this and they understand Zechariah 12 and I want to say this to you brothers and sisters listen very carefully Zakaria is not an easy safer I don't say it Rashi says it in fact the only safer that Rashi gave H to you know how much Rashi wrote in his life you have any how much he wrote It's and he wrote it not like he was writing it up in Seagate or somewhere on a lounge chair with Word Perfect whatever I don't know whatever they use no he's RA in the middle of the Crusades in the middle of the first Crusades the only safer he gave a hak to he gives a hak to what safer is that safer Zar he opens up sa zakar and he starts with a hako he doesn't do it anywhere else and what does he say he says I first of all want you this is what Rashi was he said I want you to know first of all I don't have a m for Zar I don't I do not have a m moreover zahari is a difficult Savor it's full of stuma it's full of hidden secrets it what he means really is that it opens up with eight numinous Visions they're not that hard it's not organic chemistry but it's not so simple so zakar is a a stickle difficult it is it is but the easiest chapter to read is chapter 12 if you don't read chapter 12 that's that reads like safeer bous nothing and it tells you everything I'm telling you so 1972 Jerusalem had just been liberated by the Jews moreover they held that that yoska is making a second coming by the year 2000 whoops okay that means it's little more than a quarter of a century the Jews have to be converted to Christianity before then they discovered that the church had a number of problems with the Jews what problems could they have had what the first problem a public relations problem the church has a PR problem with the Jews that's interesting what possible public relations problem could Christianity have with the Jews for some reason they concluded after cath analysis that for some reason inexplicable Jews tend to equate Christianity with persecution I know crazy right so they realized they had to approach this in a new way in a novel way to overcome I mean Jews don't go they Jews don't go see a Church open with doors open you're in Kennedy or in Newark Airport and you see a g and you go ah a g what AM to say a g I hope I see more G today this is the best thing to have most Jews they're not interested they don't want to see it they watch from a distance I know you do when you're at a when you're at a gate in LaGuardia LaGuardia it's not but if let's say you're in Newark and you're at some gate see 67 whatever I don't know there is such a gate and you see across the thing on the other side of the gate there's somebody a g and he has a white collar two gim and one and one nun right so what do you all do you watch I wonder what they're thinking right now why CU it stirs us it wakes us up what is this what is what's going on here if you see a har Krishna with a shaved head wearing orange pajamas with pis in the middle of his head coming out every Jew says the same thing that poor mother right it doesn't stare us it's weird so therefore they had to come up with a technique that goes like this you're Jewish are you Jewish we love you wooo we love you love love love love love you we love you so much you know why we love you so much because you're chosen oh we love you barook Hashim we love the Jews but just loving us to which they are all missionaries trying to convert Jews today all of them are Christian zionists all of them are all them are zionists everyone but they realized that just loving us to death wasn't enough Jewish people realized that there's no relationship between Jew Jews don't want to stop being Jewish in short Jews are proud of their Jewish identity not you and M even let's say you have a sister-in-law a brother-in-law whatever who's not so firm who would not come to they still most Jews who say look I was B Jew I don't want to convert to another religion and that's why they develop the technique the method to say when you become a Believer and you know who you're not converting to another religion oh no no no you're becoming a a Messianic Jew a completed Jew it's the most Jewish thing you could do I brought this with me this is a a Messianic Soul winners card it's their card that trains evangelicals how to convert Jews to Christianity there are two rules about Jewish evangelism I never want you to forget rule number one in almost all cases the person who succeeds in converting a Jew is a gentile Evangelical Christian a go not a mid not a Jew who's already converted I know there are some of you sitting here right now listen listening to me that know of somebody personally that got involved in one of these groups and that's why you came here today if you ask that cousin of yours if you ask that person you work with tell me who is the first person that ever witnessed you I can almost assure you it'll be a Gomer someone who is never Jewish two it's not going to be a professional missionary it's not going to be someone who works for chosen people Ministries is this Army of Gentile evangelic Christians that are cly they are committed to and are successful in the converting Jews this is Jews this is the Messianic Soul winners card a Messianic Soul winners card on the card there are two columns two columns this column on the right says don't say don't say okay see that right here on the right don't say so when speaking to do don't say this and on the left on your left there's another column and at the very top it says you can see from there let's go through some of the don't says and do says so you know what we're talking about when witnessing to a Jew this Mak sense don't say Jesus Christ do not say those words to a Jew most Jews don't go ah Jesus Christ what to hear those words say it more I want to get most Jews I never I heard it once it's enough let's get done with this don't say that it doesn't sound so Jewish to say it do say the Messiah Yeshua that's nice two when witnessing of Jew don't say that he should convert they will never say you should convert to Christianity never say become a Messianic Jew what a completed Jew and a fulfilled Jew this is the best thing in the world three don't say become a Christian apparently it doesn't sound so Jewish to be a Christian do say become a Messianic believer oh this is a big one when speaking to a Jew do not say never never say come to church Jews do not want to go to church they don't you can't argue with them Jews generally are not plotting to go to church I never heard a Jews say it's time for M where's the church I never heard this have you heard I never heard look let's be open honest we're together we know each other sufficient fear let's talk okay Jews generally do not want to go to church they don't they did you cannot force Jews do not want to go to church they didn't want to go to SCH how you going to get them into a church say come to a a Messianic synagogue they celebrate Jewish holidays Passover is a big one but everything we do they interpolate in a Christian message you know why the Jews have wine at the Seder to represent what what are you do that's very good okay no no no and the mat I'm kidding with you and the mat you know why Jews have not one but three m to the S table why three where do you DAV very good this is we have to check every person out in this building okay for the Trinity the do you know you ever notic that matz have holes in them you ever notice that matz are perforated you ever thought about that you bet you never thought about it for a second they have holes in the MS why because he was pierced and they had holes in him you know why the MS have stripes cuz yka had Stripes you know why the middle Ms is broken but you never thought about that because he was broken you know why that that middle mat is wrapped in a white schmata you ever a Wonder because he was wrapped in a white shroud you know why it's hidden beneath the father CU he was hidden away in the Tomb you know why he's brought back at the end of the Seder because he's going to return there you go now you say what do you sign before I take your questions I want to address the most obvious question why are we so vulnerable how could such a thing happen let me be frank with you it'll be very easy for me to spend my time telling you how horrible Jews for Jesus is and they are they they're a Baptist Mission to the Jews their founder Rosen Martin Rose [Music] converted to to Christianity became a Baptist ordained minister in the 1950s broke away from the American Board of missions of the Jews to create Jews for Jesus in 1973 following 72 I could tell you how horrible chosen people Ministries is and I have centers in all the places where Jews live including in Brooklyn including in Manhattan we could talk I could tell you and your mama she walk out of here you need to it it's painful it's not pleasant I I want to do what is may not be comfortable it's hard to look in the mirror what are we doing wrong I would suggest to you my my holy brothers and sisters that the success of these missionaries represents the unpaid bills of the Jewish people I wouldit to you that the these missionaries would never succeed if we were doing our job these missionaries exploit our tanak change what it says in the Hebrew Bible alter it many of you watch my videos I expose it but there are people neb that know nothing about the Bible they've been asked to abandon and this is a nightmare I'm going to tell you something my over something from my father I remember many years ago many years ago we were driving in P down P avenue Route three it used to be right off of Route three there was a temple a reformed Temple there it's now an orthodox I somehow it's a very early memory but I somehow I came to know that the rabbi of this Temple was a woman was a lady and they had an odd Suka there that was epis I don't know it was just very oddl looking it was like a thing and they all walked through and that was a that was I thought that was hysterical and I remember driving and asking my dad like you know this is my I was laughing I was say they have a lady of a rabbi with a Suka that looks more like a a tomato plant I and my father said they don't know any better don't laugh at them they don't understand and in truth that it is the Orthodox Jews that are responsible you can feel very comfortable here you live in a community like I do you but you live in man it's a remarkable place I live in even more remarkable you know that but as it turns out the Novi yes tells us that the religious Jews who are the servant of Hashem have a responsibility two responsibility number one to bring back Jews who are not religious this is Isaiah chapter 49 verse five and six to bring back Shi and Hashem is going to Amit of us if we are silent if we forget about those NE so many Jews even here in Rockland County was so far gone so the role of the Jew is number one to bring back the rest of the of Yakov and number two is to be and who is he GNA who is the almighty going to hold accountable if we fail let this task a Jew goes to a reformed Temple he doesn't know anything M doesn't know anything it's time to bring it home it's time to bring home the Tyrant to spread it to understand the Novi the holy words of our V where they are Eternal oracles that are and that's why they're in go back to tanak understand it spread it there's something marvelous that's happening in the midst of the pain that we're enduring this this is an as Jeremiah says in chapter 30:7 Jeremiah lived during he saw terrible things in his life he fought Jews who didn't understand the motive he hated lies he hated lies and he stood up against it but in the midst of it he says there's a day coming in the future that's going to be the worst moment in history a s like nothing ever happened but but from that from those birth pangs will come your deliverance let's bring it home let's bring the Tyra to our holy brothers and sisters let us the words of Si Zephaniah hes who lived at the same time as y that all the nations will speak chapter 3:9 we should be to see it quickly in our time thank you so much for having me here this [Music] [Applause] morning if you enjoy this program please like And [Music] [Applause] [Music] subscribe fore [Music]