The Truth About The Iran War - Rabbi Tovia Singer - Living Inspired

The key really very important message for the Shiva world is Rabbi Singer, welcome to the program. A war just broke out in the past 24 hours. We've been getting incoming ballistic hypersonic missiles from Iran. We've been running to the shelters every hour for the past 24 hours. What could you tell us about this moment that we're in right now in the month of Adar? It's the time. It's that month, the last month of the calendar where um Venaha who everything is turned around and Nissan, the month of the redemption, is right ahead of us. So, we're literally there. We're there. Where where our great-grandparents could not imagine could not imagine their wildest dreams and we're here and there now. >> I'm in editing. I just ran to the safe room and there was a direct hit. A loud boom from a hypersonic missile launched from Iran that right now the sirens are blaring. The the rocket just fell down over there. Ambulances are outside. Let's all say a prayer. The Rambam who's, you know, the ultimate rationalist would go, "Stop speculating. The generation of the Gullah, they'll understand exactly what this pasuk mean." And they could they couldn't have known. Um we are living now. So, now we can say with confidence we know exactly what's going on here. They couldn't. They just didn't have access to it cuz we're we're absolutely And there's a maiseh sudden that Yeshiva's are not teaching na- navi. This maiseh is crazy cuz we're in the most literate generation since Chizkiyahu. My grandfather, blessed memory, told me that when he lived in Europe, he said the average kid from kid, they weren't They didn't have to They knew. They went to cheder and then they went work, whatever it was. They took the brightest kids, and they did send them off to the to the greatest Yeshivas. They took the prodigies, and they were sent off to sit and learn. But, the average That means the amount of literacy today that that what what Everybody knows how to learn and knows how to learn is unprecedented since the days of Hiskiah. And that we are not learning these in the Nevi'im in particular, what I call the Oracular Nevi'im, is mind-blowing. Only Sodom could be responsible for that. Cuz it doesn't make sense. The key, really very important message for the Yeshiva world is they have to get the Nevi'im. We need giants to stand up and say we the our fight with the Haskalah movement is long over. The key part is around the key part of the Jews' return to the land. The key part is the land giving forth its fruit. That's what the Gemara says. That it makes sense. Why would the Gemara say there's no After the Gemara goes through all the different signs of Messiah, you know, and all these things is there's no greater sign than the land giving forth its fruit for the Jews. You know, that seems to be a mundane thing. Imagine for a moment that the land wasn't fertile, if we can. Just let's reverse it. Let's say this land was like the United States, which doesn't care who puts a seed in the ground. It's going to So, what would happen is that all the other nations that had conquered these lands would have been able to live off the land and not have to rely >> And they tried and they tried >> and nothing happened for generations. Why? Because the land says, "I'm not having babies for you." Both Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28, and everywhere else is if you're doing the right thing, you're going to defeat your enemies, right? When a Jew comes in and things don't go well, right? So, we're doing something wrong, right? So, doing well on the battlefield indicates that God is with you, and not doing well on the battlefield means God is not with you. If you saw the early Zionist movement, they saw Hertzel and Weizmann and Ben-Gurion, I understand that they were taking Yeshiva guys out of, you know, Europe, Lithuania, whatever, that this is a the problematic group. I I understand that, but that's not the case today. That's not the case now. In any case In any case, we are now living in that time and just like you remember when we were kids they would take out an ad in the newspaper telling Jews not to go to Reform and Conservative temple to hear to hear shofar cuz you're not Yotzei and buddy, you don't hear it. So, they used to be when I was a kid in the '60s and '70s cuz then the Reform movement and the Conservative movement were were like at the the height, very big and the Orthodox were low. So, they were always ads taken out even in the New York Times. An ad saying, "Come out by the good side of them that a Jew if you cannot go to an Orthodox shul, it's better to not hear shofar on Rosh Hashanah. It's better to stay home and not hear not to go into a Reform or Conservative temple." They used to put out That was every year, every year. "Do not go into a Reform or Conservative temple no matter what even if it's if it's under the Conservative movement even with a mechitza cuz there were like in Montreal there's a few synagogues still that are Conservative, but they're under the Conservative movement that have a mechitza. It's really weird. The point is that in the old days it was a thing that good would come out with it not allowed to hear >> That was fear because they were losing Jews. There was There was no Torah in the >> No, it was just it was no, I I I think they were being very strict. They were saying, "You should have to understand that if you want to hear the shofar with a minyan, do not go into a Conservative temple. It's better you stay home." Just that's all. That's all they would say. It was every year. It was a very big thing. They took out ads all over. Cannot go in, okay? But the point is those ads don't exist. You're I'm older than you. So, if you ask all the guys who are my age, they everyone remembers this. Why? Cuz then the Conservative The Conservative movement was very, very big and very, very popular. It's huge. They even You know the Conservative movement had its own hashgacha in Philadelphia. They had a Conservative movement. They had their own hashgacha. So, they were at they were in the ascent at the time. But now no one takes out those ads because they're gone. They're finished. So, whatever that was, that's a that's an old battle. It's gone. The Conservative movement is just disappearing or they're becoming They're either many of them becoming, you know, baalei teshuvah or meeting all of them today who's who grew up in the Conservative form movement who are now benei Torah. That's it. But it means the war is over. Get back into Novi. Whatever reason you had, um this is not the time not to learn Novi. I researched it recently that >> Yeah. the question if if most Jews are in Israel today, and it seems like it seems like that that that is the case. And that would change shmita coming up in 2 and 1/2 years would be de'oraita. That would change a lot of things. >> change a lot, a lot of things. There's a big question. There's a big issue. And there's something that I and Rudy Rockman and by a lot of people behind it. And that is there are a lot, a lot of people in Africa who mamash have mesorah that they're Jewish and conduct themselves totally Jewish. And their DNA is Jewish. Like the Lemba in the tribe in South Africa that said we have mesorah that we're Kohanim. And they have the Y chromosome of Kohanim. In Nigeria, the Ibos. So, if that turns out the way it looks like, this is cuz you know, cuz what When Nigeria When all these African countries are created, they just took different tribes and they slammed them together and created artificial countries. That's why the the boundaries, if you look at Africa, the the boundaries between different countries is a straight line because all the colonials did was they took out a ruler and a pencil and said, "Okay, this is Nigeria, this is Liberia, and that's the end of it." You know, whereas in Europe, the countries don't follow any straight lines. And the other big question is Afghanistan, which is very transparent that there's huge numbers of Jews. I mean, everything is pointing in that direction. You and I could mamesh walk We're in Asia, technically. We could walk to Europe. We couldn't Well, we we couldn't walk to We couldn't walk to Africa cuz we could walk in the tunnel of the Suez Canal. >> a guy last week who drove his Volkswagen Beetle all the way from South Africa to Israel. A couple of uh So, I've driven to Africa a number of times. There is mamesh like the Lincoln Tunnel that goes under the Suez Canal. Wow. Mamesh, it's it's like I don't know how many miles it is. It's longer than Lincoln Tunnel. But, they So, the canal is on top, but underneath there's a may have four-lane highway that's like the like the Holland Tunnel, but four lanes, not two lanes. It would not It's like I think two and two. So, I've driven to Africa many many times. Oh, yeah. >> From Israel, you've driven to Africa? >> Yes, yes, yes, yes. That's amazing. It's not amazing. A billion is nothing. No, no, I I I I wasn't behind the wheel. There's a taxi cab. So, you get up in Taba and you hire a taxi. It's very cheap cuz labor costs nothing in Egypt, and you get in and I I wanted to go to Africa. So, the taxi will take you. You can be in Hurghada in 10 hours from Eilat. It's a 10-hour drive. And you pass by Mount Sinai, incidentally, if you if you drive that way. Anyways, a good nacht and >> much. >> [music]