The Great Shabbat of 5786: What Do Torah Secrets Reveal about Trump’s Hormuz 48-Hour Iran Deadline?

[music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music and singing] >> Shalom everyone. >> [clears throat] >> I want to pose a very very important question uh as we begin this video today. The the question is what is the significance of the 48-hour deadline that President Trump has given regarding Hormuz, which took place on the 22nd day of the conflict. A secondary question is why does this war with Iran have two names? The war has a name given by America and a name given by Israel. What is the significance of that? And third of all, we're going to explore we're going to explore the indivisible bond between Purim and Pesach regarding the salvation of the Jewish people. We shall see how this war, which is now crossed over from it began in the month of Purim and is crossed over now into the month of Nissan, and it seems to be hurtling towards a you know, almost like a definitive confrontation. And that deadline is tonight. So, I want to begin um by again reiterating this question. Are there a been ex sources and hidden sources that will help us refract and understand these incredible events that are unfolding in front of our eyes. And of course, we dedicate a sheer to the wounded of Arad, the wounded of Dimona, uh all those who suffered hits, the people terrorized by falls of of debris on cars, and trauma. Oh my goodness, uh they say that 5 million Israelis are in shelters, and that's the over half the population. As we prepare for Yom Tov, as we prepare for our Pesach, that may be epic. So, let me begin. There's a lot that's been posted regarding the significance of the Strait of Hormuz, and what there has been any rabbinic uh interpretations on various pesukim from Tanakh that might explain, or might uh had a had a somewhat predictive quality about events that would happen now in the era of Mashiach, as all prophecies are really meant not that it were preserved for us to read uh throughout our history have relevance to till the end of days, until the very end of days. Okay, so the first source that people have been discussing was discovered was was first taught by Rabbi Baruch Rosenblum, who's a very popular speaker here in Hebrew. Uh it was it was echoed by um Rabbi Glatstein, another uh popular speaker. Uh that there is a pasuk in Yeshayahu lamed daled vav, Isaiah 30 4 : 6 that was commented on by by a uh on a safer known as um Klei Paz. Now, the Klei Paz was written by Rabbi Shmuel Laniado some 500 years ago. He was in the 17th century. And he was called Bal Ha Keilim. Uh he was a very capable person, very brilliant person. And he has two um Perushim. Uh two two his books has an unusual structure. And he said something that hinted at that the war with brought with Gog Umagog, which contains a reference to Basra Batsra. Now, we normally would assume that Basra and Batsra, I always did, are the same. In other words, that's a town in Iraq. Well, that's completely um not where the Strait of Hormuz is. For those if you would open a map, if I could provide you a map of the Strait of Hormuz, you would be in shock. Because what it is is a tiny 2-mi wide opening where the entire Persia, Iran, runs runs east-west. And just below are the entire array of Arab Gulf nations on the that what is called the Persian Gulf. I understand why it's called the Persian Gulf and not the Arabic the Arab Gulf or the Arabian Gulf, which is what I think what President Trump wanted to rename it or did rename it. I'm not really sure. May have happened already. >> [snorts] >> Because it's many small Arab nations, Saudi Arabia. Uh Kuwait. Every everything else, every other Medina that is on the Persian Gulf, UAE, etc., Aden, Qatar, you name it, are all like facing Iran. And what's between them is only this tiny waterway known as the Strait of Hormuz. So, if you really want to understand what Hormuz is, it's the confrontation line between Iran and the other is In other words, the the um Sunnis and the Shiites are the two types Iranians are Shiites. So it's almost considered a vote of Zara by the Sunnis who have a pure monotheistic faith, whereas the Shiites incorporate much like Catholicism versus Protestantism or Unitarianism. They They have all sorts of shrines and and statues and so on's that that had seems like it was some sort of blend, which it really is, between a European religion of the another words a Greek Greco-Roman type of religion and hybrid with with um Islam. But pure Islam which is uh what the Arabs are is what's known as Sunni Sunni Islam. Now ironically uh as we mentioned the Medrish which predicts the the the final confrontation which will be the will signal the impending era of Messiah is a confrontation between the king of Paras and the king of Arav. Now up until now, which is Saudi Arabia and all the Arab nation nations including all the way through Egypt, but specifically the ones that are sitting shotgun across from it's like the OK Corral. The on the one high one side you got Iran the other side you got everybody else. The Shiites on one side, all of the Sunnis on the other side, and it's described Medrish as the war between Tahuma between the king of Iran or Paras and the king of Arav, which would really be Saudi Arabia and the Arav and all the Aravim. And we have seen this remarkable conflict emerge because we we never thought we thought this is a war between Israel and Iran plus America on Israel's team or between America and Iran with Israel on on America's team. Not quite sure what it is. Uh but but that's why there are two names to this war, which I will go into, cuz there's the American name and there's the Israeli name, and they're not the same. They are maybe bound together, but they're not the same. I'm going to explain. Uh same objectives. So So here we are, and we're this war oh for some unknown reason, Iran begins firing indiscriminately across the Strait of Hormuz on all of its Arab co-religionists. Well, not really co-religionists, they're both but they're both Islam, they both share the goal of spreading Islam throughout the world. Islam, by the way, I heard is represents E Salaam, no peace. It's impossible to make peace with them cuz they want to dominate the world, so what are you going to do? There's nothing you can do to deter them. So but why fire on each other? Cuz this is like a key in of that measure. So let me explain the significance of that. All right. So this is Laniado, the author of Klippas, wrote as follows on the pasuk in Yeshayahu lamed dalet vav. Let me read it to you. Sounds pretty good to me. All right, here we go. One second. Hold on. Hold on. The pasuk describes the cherev, the the um what's known as the the sword that Hashem is using in the battles of the final of the final days, okay? What is that sword? Here we go. Cherev Hashem maleat dam. The sword of Hashem is filled with blood. Okay, that means Hashem is fighting. Hudah dashnam mi chelev mi dam karim. Atudim mi chelev kilyot elim. It's it's saturated with the fat that the inner in other words, the kidneys have fat over them we know are definitely brought as carbonos. Karim is the is these big animals that we're slaughtering. Elim ki zevach lashem be batzrah. There is a slaughter going on in batzrah. Now, if you're familiar with the mizmoros of shabbos ra right, there is a reference that Hashem is ba chamutz begadim. Betoch batzrah, right? That's from the gamba vel asher gabra. So, that's what goes back to the word Yikra which is written by the famed group Marion Dunash ibn Labrat who was a Sephardic literally Spanish great literary figure in the Hebrew language and he referred to Hashem this this idea that Hashem is coming uh with blooded bloody garments. It's also included in in one of the mishaberachs that we say on shabbos for uh that we part of the shabbos davening that we have added in. Okay, but the point is that batzrah is associated with the final war of Gog and Magog and Edom and in the end it's he is the the clay this clay paws Rav Laniado from 1603 wrote that this is a reference to as follows. That this is a reference to Hormuz. Okay? That's the area. I'll I'll a little awesome Shiva and Edom will work with the terror on Sharif. Very very big slaughter, blood, really blood and gore really is what it is. I'm going to take over the domain. Okay, so there's going to be a major confrontation. And this confrontation suggests the the pause is going to take place in a place called where which he identifies as Hormuz. So we now have a voice from 500 years ago telling us telling us that um there's going to be a major major conflict here. And here we are the 48-hour declaration was made and that was made on day 22 of this conflict, 3 weeks into the conflict, which we'll get to in a moment, but the book of Daniel says something very specific about 21 going into 22 days. This is going to be my added value to the sheer from ideas that have been that have been posted. So that's the concept that that he says me or MS the clay pots said I I don't know what's going to be, but it seems to me that this is a reference to the war at the end of days which will involve Edom. Okay, now the problem here is is that who's getting slaughtered? Is it Edom or is it Paras? Now that particular question the Hormuz confrontation, right? Or the horror of Hormuz is who's going to be the the victor. So there is a very important in Yuma Yod which contains a locus who the victor will be in the war in this in this in the confrontation between Edom and Paras. All right, so here's the Gamara. Let me share it with you. And there's an actually amazing amazing map here. Uh I'll share it with you. This is from the ArtScroll from which I don't know if you can see it clearly, but it does show you not clearly. Okay, it does identify the nations that are associated with with Yefes, which we call which we consider the European nations and it is associated with the Edom and the Christian nations even though Edom comes from us meaning Esau, but he's sort of grafted into the children of Yefes and including all the nations that come out of Yefes. Gomer, Magog, these are the guys that we're going to be fighting with when it comes to the the war of Gog Magog. The Gamara here says that Gomer is Germa. Can't make this stuff up. The Germany's in there. Magog is Scandia, which sounds a lot like Canada to me, but it's not. Candy is a part of Germany. And says So, I forgot the after limit of Yefes. And I should have showed it all the same. There's going to be great power. Okay? And the children of Yefes include Persia because Tiras, which is one of the descendants of Yefes, is identified by Rashi as Iran, Persia. In addition, one of the descendants is of course going to be Rome. Aluf Magdiel, who's one of those one of the captains of Edom, is Rome. So, actually what's ironic here is that Persia, Paras, and Edom are on the same team. So, why are they fighting? They're both descendants of a Yefes. But what happens here is they enter conflict. Why? They're the same guys. They should be brothers, right? They're all children of Yefes. They have nothing to do with Shem, the Semites, the Jews and the and the Jews and the Ishmaelites. Not true. Cuz what happened here was the smallest child, the the youngest, or like the baby of of Yefes' descendants, Tiras or Iran, some baby, um was taken over by Ishmael. In other words, it became a hybrid nation. Rome never merged with Islam till today. Now what's happening in Europe, you now you will now understand that Europe is falling to Islam Ishmael, but that's was never the case. Ishmael swallowed Iran. Okay? And it would have swallowed all of Europe, too, had they not been defeated in uh in in Austria, where you know, the thank God the the uh they they managed to put a stop to the march of Islam in Western Europe. Till today, till these days. But idea being that uh Persia has no business being Islam. How did it get to be Islam? It's really they In fact, ironically, Iran is modeled after the word Aryan. And they modeled themselves after the Germans, which makes sense cuz they are the cousins. They're both from the their progenitors The progenitor of Yefes uh uh of Persia is Yefes. Doesn't make any sense. But it was a hybrid. Now this hybrid is exceedingly deadly. Its makor is the marriage of Esau to the daughter of Ishmael. If you recall in Seder Berachot, Esau got a sense Well, pretty blatantly that Yaakov was sent away because he didn't want Yaakov You took the Rivka didn't want Yaakov to be married to any of the daughters of Canaan. Now, Canaan are the cursed Sham, cursed children of whom? Not Sham and not and not Yafes, but Ham. Ham has no place here. Ham has no place because they have no bracha, which is why Eliezer ben Avraham, who was a Hamite, who was the son of Nimrod, had no place in the in the uh high the redemptive nation of Israel. Just cannot be. They're the ones being redeemed. They're not the ones that are going to provide the redeemer. So, uh and ironically, Ishmael hybrids in from being a Semite, Ishmael, who is is born to Hagar, who's a Mitzris. So, you have the hybrid going that way, that Ishmael takes over sometimes Semites, which it has. I would call those the Sunnis. And then you have something else, where Tiras, Iran, and nations like Iran were taken over by the religion of Ishmael. So, when Esau marries the daughter of Ishmael, it set up a possibility of creating a lethal crossbreed. Because the day that Esau marries Ishmael, Ishmael, by the way, dies immediately, and which was a good thing for him, and Yaco splits for the house of Laban. He says, "I am out of here. I'm not going to stay near Ishmael. I'm not going to stay near Esau's partnership with Ishmael is lethal, is deadly." And if you don't think about the history of modern Israel, where did all the weapons come from in the attacks against Israel? First of all, the Nazis attacked Israel during World War II. People are not really aware of that. But then, Russia, Russia, a a a clearly a part of Edom, um one of the most difficult and hard and evil parts, Ad HaYom HaZeh, gave all the weaponry for all the wars. Gave to Assyria, gave to Egypt, gave everything. Because when they they put they what they supply is what President Trump has described as epic fury. In other words, Charon Appi. Charon Appi is what the name of this war is according to the Americans. It's Charon Aph. It's anger and it's fire power. The ability to blow up and destroy completely. So now that is a generic thing. Being able to destroy something is neither good nor bad. It depends in service of whom. So if the Charon Aph of Esau, who knows how to hunt and destroy, right? Is teamed up with Ishmael, then the target is Yitzchak's children, Yaakov Avinu. You follow me? That's who they're gunning for. It's not a not a not a secret. But the United States is something else. It's not interested as much, by the way, I'm not saying it's not interested, but it's not interested as much in the partnership with Ishmael. Again again I'm not including Obama and Biden and all these recent leaders who totally wanted that, but Trump represents the Charon Aph that doesn't serve Ishmael. But it's it it serves part of Ishmael, but the other part of Ishmael it rejects. What part of Ishmael is that? The hybrid state of Tiras. Tiras is part of Japheth, and yet it's completely bound up with Islam to such a point that it's weaponized Islam. Okay? That's the danger. When you put the Charon Aph, the Charon Appi, the power and might of the military prowess of Edom, which is unmatched in the world of in the book of Daniel when it describes the beast that that that correlates to the Golis Edom, it's the most fearsome of all the beasts of the four exiles. It's the steel feet as it were of the Colossus monster that will attack the Jewish people, which is steel and a steel and ceramic. It's actually what they would call um There's a name for treated steel Yeah, I think it's it's iron becomes steel when it's somehow processed, mixed in with with other things. And that's the what they they call the 10 toes of the beast, which are partially ceramic and partially steel. And they could destroy and devour anything. It's unstoppable. It's lethal. It's deadly. It's the hair of of Esau. When you put that hair of in the hands of fanatical Ishmael, then Ishmael who shot arrows, again, can only shoot missiles at Israel. It's ironic, but it's the same thing it says in safer bereishis that Ishmael, according to the Medrash, was shooting arrows at Yitz at at Yitzhak and saying that it's only a joke. It's not really war. I'm just shooting a few missiles. We're not We're not waging war. There's no frontal war. He's not going to come after him with a sword. He's only going to come after him with a projectile because that's not Ishmael's power. The sword is not Ishmael's power. Ahavat Yitzhak was not said about Ishmael. He's an archer. By definition, roveh keshes. So all he can do is shoot projectiles. That's his weaponry. But when you put together the wet weaponry of destruction, missiles, i.e. all the all those things, ballistic missiles, etc. with atomic warheads, then you've blended the haron of Esau with the anger of Ishmael against Israel, now you got a problem. So, what's happening in this war is a remarkable, remarkable thing. That it's breaking away Iran from its Islamic fanaticism. That does not mean that Iran will be destroyed. And it does not even mean that Iran will surrender. I don't believe they're going to surrender because if they have a breath in their body, they'll never surrender. It's against their theology. They can't. And no Islam, no Islamist can. The only hope is to return to a regime that's non-Islamic. Or that is ideologically neutral. Okay? And that is exactly what Persia was under the Shah. Harking back to a real descendant of Yefes, otherwise known as Koresh the Great, Cyrus the Great. If you look at their flag and you see that lion with the sword on it, with the sun, complete avodah zarah, by the way, that's total avodah zarah. That actually, by the way, symbolizes Zoroastrianism, which is what the Jews had to put up with when the Persians were in control of us for the first years of the Beis Hamikdash. The Gemara says that they would used to collect the lanterns because they worship fire. This holiday that they wanted the Iranians to come out in force and and protest against the regime, that was called that holiday called Nowruz, is avodah zarah, a mamash avodah zarah, worshipping the fire god. And the president of Israel wished them a good Yom Tov. You know, I I I don't I don't I sometimes I I'm at a loss. I'm just at a loss. The stupidity. Go do avodah zarah. Hey! We bless you to go do avodah zarah. No, we don't. No, we don't. We're not telling them go worship Nowruz, which is Zoroastrianism, which is fire worship. Please. Even the Ishmaelites know this. That's why they targeted all the Zoroastrians. ISIS killed them all because ISIS did not tolerate Avoda Zara because they are Sunnis and they're virulently monotheistic. They'll kill you if you try to worship an idol. Kill you. They hate the Shiites. What's happening is the Iranians are returning to their roots. They're going away from the being captive of the religion fanatical religion of Islam and now they're allowed to be what they always were, Westerners. Iranians, Aryans, they considered themselves a new type of Germany and they're right because just like it says in the Pasukim in in in Bereshit that there's going to be many children of Yavan. It outlines it in Perek Yud Bereshit. And they have Tuval and Meshech and all these countries V'Chadoram Paras. Tiras is Paras. Okay? So, there you go. So, what's the unpacking? It's very difficult. It's very difficult to separate Persia from Iran. Follow me. Persia and Iran are really are really not Islamic at all. You got to get the Islamic fanaticism out. What could happen is the fall of the regime but not necessarily to the to President Trump or even to Israel. But within its own nation will have a turn of heart. What we would call an internal revolution, which is really how how it must be. It's really how it must be cuz anything else is not is not really sustainable in my personal opinion. You can't control a nation that large and that powerful against its will. It's got to have the will to be to turn as as the Persians did their hearts towards Israel. Now, this is the confrontation that we are facing and it's predicted in the book of Daniel. All right. So, so far, let's recap. What we've said so far is that um the the reality is that this is not um a war which has not been rooted in various nevoos and gemoros of our tradition. So, at first we we noticed that there's a machlokes in Yuma Yud about the confrontation between Paras and and Rome and who's going to win and maybe sometimes one will win one times the other win, you know, in certain places right now in Iran, Yishmael won. You know what I'm saying? Is winning. It It has control of it. And in Europe it's taken control and even in New York City it's taken control under Mayor Mondani. New York City is under siege. It's under the influence of Yishmael. The whole country of America was under Obama who was Islam. It's not so black and white. It goes a little bit back and forth. In fact, the gemara in Avodah Zarah Daf Beis speaks about end days when the nations will say, "Oh, we were supportive of the Jewish people." And two great empires will come and claim their great rewards. I'm not going to analyze this gemara right now because in interest of time I want to add this new material. But we've spoken about that, but I'll show you there was another occasion I Rome first, Persia second, everybody else third. They're the two major players at the end of days that will present themselves as the world emperors world empires. Rome number one and Persia number two. Now, ironically, um in the world in America they're they're they're doing something known as March Madness. They have basketball teams from every university in the country playing against each other and everybody has a number. You're number one, two, three, four and they want to know who's going to come out the winner, right? So, we had four we have four Golios. It's number two versus number four. Okay, so Porus was number two and Rome is number four. So, we got the two seed against the four seed and they're going to fight it out. We're waiting for the March Madness. This is our March Madness. Our our Purim Madness. Who's going to win this tournament? Want to know? Look at the Gemara in in in Yoma Daf Yud. But, we are turning our attention to something else entirely. And we mentioned, of course, this prediction from the book of Yeshayahu by Reb Laniado of the Klipahs that Reb Baruch Rosenberg introduced and others have have have shared as well that he thinks that Hormuz is Bozrah. Is the Bozrah of the Gog u'Magog year. Okay, whether that's true or not. And that's certainly debatable. There is something which is incredible that I have discovered that I want to share with you. And that is the book of Daniel Perek Yud. You know, I'm not necessarily one who walks around studying the book of Daniel every day. I did have a time period where I focused on it. It's not an easy safer. A lot of it is in is uh is not in is not even in Hebrew. Okay? But, this is and this is what it says. The 10th chapter so blow your mind. The 10th chapter of the book of Daniel says as follows. Bishnas Shlosh Koresh Melech Porus when the king of Persia, this Cyrus the Great, was king Davar Niglala Daniel. He Daniel who was a captive slave of the Babylonians, of Nebuchadnezzar, and then late later we know he was the captive servant of Ahasuerus in Persia. And before that, Cyrus. And he was known as Hasach in the Megillas Esther. He was a courier between Esther and Mordechai who was killed, nebach, by Haman himself. Daniel falls to Haman. But, not before he has previously, with the first of the Persian kings Koresh not Media Media came before Koresh. >> [cough and clears throat] >> What he says is follows. He said there would be there would be the following revelation and it's tough for our God though. And he saw this great image by a man of him and he Daniel I see miss Albel Slosha Shavuim Yamin. Daniel did something very powerful. He saw that in the days of Koresh Haman and his wife would make a reversal and change their minds about allowing the Jews to go back and rebuild the base of Migdash. There would be a change of heart. Haman would influence that the more Migulah outlines this I don't have to say it based on Sukim from from our our very own Tanakh. He said Lechem Chamudos Lo Achalti we call Daniel Ish Chamudos he says I didn't eat Ubasar Veyayin Lo Ba Al Pi I wouldn't eat any meat or wine Visof Lo Sachti I didn't put any oil on my body Am Lo Slosha Shavuim 21 days. Tormented fasting what was he fasting for? He was fasting because of the terrible news that Haman and Achashverosh had put a kabash on Koresh and made him stop the building of the base of Migdash. There was influence from above there was a divine influence going on. Now look at this Uviyom Esrim Varba Lachodesh Rishon now all of a sudden he mentions the 20 the date date 24. Now whether this is the date date 24 of what his fast was to the 21 days and this continued 24 is not 100% clear but Ani Ayisi Al Yad Nahar Gadol Chidekel I was by the Tigris River it's up there. Ummatnayim Chagurim Bekethem Ufaz he's describing the Malach Gavriel who's coming to him. The Malach Gavriel is used as a messenger. He's one of the archangels, right? But he is a herald. He's the one that held and also he has certain jobs running the world, but one of his main jobs is to communicate Hashem's wisdom to mankind. Okay, so he's the source. And he sees this incredible thing. His fellow Nevi'im do not see anything. They can't see this incredible vision of the Malach Gavriel. And he says as follows, Gavriel tells Daniel, Ish Hamudos, the man who's who is of our that Hashem delights in, Get up. Don't fall down on your feet. You're going to You're going to handle what I'm going to tell you. He says, "Don't be afraid." Once you started your 21-day fast, in the upper heavens, already on day one they were listening. to give you this information. Sar Listen to this. Sar Malchus Paras, the archangel of Paras, which according to sources is in the shape of a bear. And they call him Dubi Kayal, Dubi'el. Dubi'el Hamalach. It's a giant bear, okay? During those 21 days, Dubi'el was in charge. And who's fighting against him on spiritual warfare? Daniel with his 21-day fast. Follow me? V'hinei Michael, that's another archangel. He's the Sar Shel Yisrael. He's the Jewish angel, right? We team up. to Parus. We got rid of the bear. That I'm telling you that you're going to go back and to build the base of Migdash. So, Hazal tell us here, Rashi explains, that Parus got in and uh the Gemara explains kicked out Gavriel. And it was the teaming of Gavriel Michael that was able to overcome Perdue the Tsar of Parus and kick him out. Cuz he had taken over. Hashem was angry with Gavriel and he replaced him with Melech Par with the with this with the angel of Parus and Parus is therefore ascendant in the world, one of the four archangels that surrounds Hashem. Oh boy, big problem. But Daniel comes to the rescue. Daniel's 21-day fast. Very much like the three weeks of Tisha B'Av that we speak about. Unseats this giant bear of Amalekh and the Jews can now be cleared for takeoff to go back to the base of Migdash. This is the idea of flipping Achashverosh from one side to the other. Koresh flips. They all flip. That's the secret of Purim. Who ha goral? I'll add, you flips from one side to the other. You don't know what's going to come out. It could be that they'll be the best friends of Israel. Iran under the under the Shah was a wonderful friend to the Jewish people. Didn't you know that we got most of our oil from Iran prior to the revolution in 1979? We were best friends. There were a lot of Jews in Iran. Most of them are in Los Angeles. Or they're in uh Great Neck. Or you know, in that area, North North Shore, North Shore of Long Island. They're either there or there. Some are religious than others. They have different people, the Mashhadis and the Okay, fine. But they all ran to America. A lot of them are now taking root in Brooklyn and they become very, very religious. The next generation of Persians is not the generation of Persians of the Shah. They've been able to grow up in an atmosphere of Torah and mitzvahs. They're very devout. I mean, my You ask my brother, God bless him, Dr. Yoni Schwartz, big tzaddik, in his shul where he goes to Yeshiva people that's populated by Yeshivish baal habatim, in the basement is a Persian minyan. Cuz that's the trend. You know, who's moving to Brooklyn? Bukharin or Armenians or Hasidim. So, there you go. But what I mean to say is that there's a 21-day spiritual battle. Ata ashivli lahem im sar Paras, says Gavriel, I'm going to battle with that giant bear of a malach. Ani yotzei vihinei sar Yavan ba. And then the next generation will come in, which is the the Greeks, who as we say can have a special peace with the Jewish people, as the Gemara says over there, um in Yoma and Avodah Zarah, Yafet especially in Yoma daf yud, Yafet Elohim l'Yefet v'Yishkon b'ohalei Shem. The Greeks allowed the Beit Hamikdash to be. There was Greek letters on the collection boxes of the Beit Hamikdash. Okay, they overstepped their boundaries in the days of Antiochus, but essentially Alexander the Great allowed the Jews to pursue. His heir, Ptolemy I Soter, translated the Torah, which was tragic, but at the same time he revered the knowledge of of the Jews and uh you know, the Romans followed suit. So, there is a potential There is a potential. The Romans allowed the Beit Hamikdash until they didn't, until there was a rebellion, until they didn't, until they became too ornery. And to you know, until the the Roman uh you know, and before them the Greeks started to plunder the wealth instead of allowing it to prosper. So, if this book of Daniel's true, truly relevant to the end times, and he says the whole book of Daniel's all about the end times, then listen to this. There was a 21-day war against Dubiel, the Malach of Persia. On day 22, President Trump says, "You got 48 hours." Because after 21 days, the power of the Malach of Dubiel diminishes. That's why they're in tremendous hot water right now. It wasn't enough that their leadership was decapitated. It wasn't enough that their that their atomic weaponry weaponry all the Charon off, all of the firepower, okay, is being leveled against them. And it's just starting because Trump said that it's starting tonight. Right? The 48 hours elapses tonight. They're going to destroy their energy sources. Energy is fire, is what burns, right? That's the Charon off. That's the anger. Like anger burns. Charon Apo, which is what what Trump has called this this episode, is the blazing anger of Hashem. That's going to blaze when you hit the energy sites. He says, "I'm going to I'm going to destroy all their liquid gas, whatever it might be." So, what's happened here is that from the American side, they're just supplying incredible firepower. That's why they call it Epic Fury. But for the Jews, the war has another name, and that is what? Sha'agas Ha'ari, the roaring lion. Who's the lion? The lion of Judah. We know that from the brochos of Yakov to Yehuda, Yehuda who is the melech of Yerushalayim. He's starting to roar. Now, when lions roar, they will generally roar because they want something. Usually food. Okay. Or to scare off an enemy, perhaps. But lions roar when they're not happy and they want a change to the status quo. They want what they want. They want their malchus back. They want their food. They want their prey. The lion of Judah is roaring. It wants Yerushalayim back. What's standing in the way is this enormous bear force known as It's not an air force, but it's a bear force of Paras. But according to the book of Daniel, one might argue that we passed the 21-day mark, which represented the defeat of the angel of Persia known as Dubiel, which was presaged and it's It's not These are not midrashim. These are psukim. Psukim. In Daniel D'afyod, it was a remarkable to understand and to discover this. So therefore, uh what I'd like to add is as follows. I'd like to end on the following the following very important message. There is a strong possibility that now that we've crossed past day 21, that the ability of Paras to cling to its how shall I say, combination of of of of of fiery Islam together with a nation that's really not rooted in that at all, but it is Yefes, which can inherently make peace. The people of Iran can inherently make peace with Israel. They're not Koresh made peace with the He's He's unbelievable, but he was unbelievable. And they They Koresh back. They want Pallavi represents the Cyrus kingdom and mantle. That's what they want. That's who they are in their essence. It's being taken away from them. How long will it take for them to fall? I don't know that they're going to fall. Uh but I I think that they might revolt from within and transform back to what they were prior to the to this revolution. In other words, they'll rid themselves of radical Shiite Islam and the rest of Islam will, like Ishmael, make peace with Yitzhak. We are This is a tremendous potential for peace. There's also a tremendous potential for conflict. But there are two wars going on. The Haroun off is being supplied by Trump. But the Shagas Aryeh, the the yearning to clear the boundaries for Yerushalayim. Everything about Megillas Esther is all about returning to Yerushalayim. Ad chazi amalkhut chazal tell us is the midpoint, which was Yerushalayim. He said, "I'll give you everything, but I'm not going to give you Jerusalem." Paras will not give Jerusalem until they do. Until they turn their hearts and minds towards the Jewish people and allow them to return to whatever extent that that that that that continues. So, I'm going to end on this note. Please note, as this war bridged Purim and Pesach, cuz it took place starting with Parshas Zachor, and it's concluding now after after Parshas Chodesh, know one thing. There is a law. There is a halacha that there is four special readings that we read during this time period. The first one is Parshas Shkalim, gathering the money to build the Beis Hamikdash or Mishkan. Two, Parshas Zachor, the eradication of Amalek, which are two intertwined mitzvahs, because you need you need a king to eradicate Amalek so that you can build the Beis Hamikdash. And then we have Parshas Para, the cleansing from the sin of the of the golden calf, and finally Parshas Hachodesh, which is Hachodesh Hazeh Lachem Rosh Chodashim. We're going to go to the carbon Pesach and we're going to realize the the the Yitzias Mitzrayim, the the Jews' emergence from bondage. The truth is that the first two can be separated by a Shabbos according to our calendar. You can have parshas Shkalim, Shabbos off, and then parshas Shkalim. You could also have Shk- um Shkalim and also parshas Zachor together, skip a week, and then go parshas Parah and then parshas Hachodesh. But you can never split parshas Parah from parshas Hachodesh ever. Similarly, you can never split Adar from Nisan. If you have two months of Adar, when do we make Purim? In the second Adar. And the Gemara Megillah tells us uh daf vov that we want to be someach geulah b'geulah. You have to put Purim Purim's redemption and Pesach's redemption together. Why? What's the difference? Similarly, when we enter our Seder, which is soon to coming, you can drink between the first cup and the second cup, but you can never drink between the third cup and the fourth cup. Adar and Nisan, the Gemara says, have to be together. What's the point? What's the halacha? You know, for a New York side, if a person had yahrtzeit in a regular Adar and then it's a leap year, which yahrtzeit do they observe? And we have all kinds of opinions. We end up saying both cuz we don't really know. That's as far as yahrtzeit goes, but when it comes to the observance of the festivities of Purim, that's for sure, according to every single opinion, we're going to have in the second Adar. Why were Chazal so incredibly focused on linking these two things? So, I'd like to suggest something very simple. That Parah and Hachodesh must go together. Why? Cuz the Parah Adumah was the death knell of the Jewish people. Really, they should have died. But Moshe Rabbeinu stepped up and said to Hashem, "Macheini na m'sifrecha." Uh without the Jewish people, you don't have me, either. So, make your choice, Hashem. You can't do without me, you can't do without the Jewish people. We're a team. And therefore, it was the saving, you know, the death of Mosha on Zion Adar was the day that that Haman sent the goral. He we spilled the goral. So, the the goral is the symbol of the near-death experience of the Jewish people. That was Purim. And then Chodesh, which is the carbon Pesach, is Pesach. Okay, so you can never split between the two. Notice, what night was the king up, another dashna some melech in the Purim story? Seder night, according to Chazal. And then the next day, first day of Pesach, Esther comes and asks for a mishteh. They weren't drinking wine at night cuz she skipped Pesach altogether. By Yalkut Mordechai, there was no seder, but they drank wine. Some say she didn't drink on the first day of Pesach cuz she was in the middle of a fast. On the second day of Pesach, which is the day we start the the Omer, which we're learning about right now in an office, by the way, ironically, in Daf Yomi, she said, "I want a second party." And it was that day, the first day of the Omer, that Haman was hung. Haman is hung on Pesach when we start Sefirat HaOmer. And the Gemara in Megillah records that Haman mocked Mordechai and said, "Uh, you're learning with children about the this little wheat thing that you're going to put on the mizbeach, barley. You're going to put on mizbeach? I got 10,000 talents of silver in the bank in the bank for Achashverosh, and your little wheat can't stand up to my 10,000 talents of silver." What was the 10,000 talents of silver? The Gemara explains in Megillah the money to build the Mishkan. He was basically saying, "I've got the anti-Mishkan. You want to build the Mishkan of Kedusha? I here in Shushan am building the Mishkan of Tumah." And we saw it on the party of Achashverosh. We built it. It's here. The throne of Hashem is here. That's what he claimed. And he mocked Mordechai. Little did he know that his end would come on the first day of the Omer. So, Purim and Pesach can never be separated. They're actually one in the same. The story of Purim takes place on the calendar historically during Pesach, okay? And therefore, we must understand that we can never separate these parshas. What do they represent? Purim represents the mirror the hidden miracles. The miracles that we say, "Oh, it's just war. It was just politics. It was just this." And then Pesach represents open miracles like Krias Yam Suf and the Makos. Guess what? There's no difference between them. Khazal is saying, "We believe in Hashgacha Pratis of Hashem engineering the the miracles of the world through nature, which is what we've seen. And then at the same time, we believe that there could be open miracles. And we must believe in both. A Jew, a believing Jew, never separates between the hidden miracles of nature and the open miracles of Mitzrayim. It's all one." The Ramban said, "Every bit of Hashgacha Pratis is what's called a hidden miracle. And then there are open miracles. For a Jew, they're one in the same. It's Hashem's control of the world, and we thank him. And we have an obligation to get up and thank Hashem. On Purim, we thank Hashem. We sing our we we we we sing and and make merry. And on Pesach, we thank Hashem for his open open miracles, which may be unfolding now. So, the bottom line is, we have a very exciting tekufa going on here, but it's important to thank Hashem for all of the miracles. If you can think back of everything that has transpired in this last year and make a dayenu, we killed Khomeini. Dayenu. We killed Soleimani. Dayenu. Ali's son is a Dayenu. And if you there's going to be more than a lot more than the number of dayenus that are in the Haggadah, we have to sing, and I think it's a little bit of an obligation upon all of us to just collect our memories, which is what Machias Amalek is all about. Zachor asher asah lecha Amalek, and at least thank Hashem for the destruction of of the of Rishaim Rina, the great joy of those who destroying those who seek to destroy us. But those who will make peace with us, even Amalek, if they decide to make peace, we will reach out our hands in brotherhood. Hashem should just give us chesed v'rachamim, we should be protected during this this dangerous time, but also to keep our eyes open and to thank Hashem for each and every detail of this incredible incredible period that we're going through, for every time that missiles hit open buildings and no one was killed, it's not possible. It's absolutely not possible unless the malachim were inside shielding people from impact. Please, let's not ignore the open miracles that are coming through the war, but we call them hidden miracles. No, but they're not, okay? Hashem should give us the strength lehalel u'lehodos. We should stay strong in our emunah, we should be joyous in the salvations of Hashem, and be over Rishaim Rina, continued destruction, not to sinners, uh to to people to the sins, and not necessarily the sinners. We want the sinners to change their hearts and reach out in peace, too. 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