Torah Awakening Among the Nations Book Launch by Dr. Rivkah Lambert Adler

[Music] especially for suppose there's a special blessing but the truth is is come from shower but I like to recognize it as we all know we all know the verses in Solaria it do speak about what will happen at the end of the days and I just want to remind you to be negative the prophecies don't have to happen okay so there's a word Armageddon gothic Bunco but you just wave it or you can hear me and that good chance two-thirds of the world might be wiped out remember this doesn't have to happen and the prophecies the prophets have come to warn us to rebuke us to strip us out and if we eat and we listen then of course those negative prophecies negative circumstances do not have to play themselves out as we see so those amongst the nations will come up and to celebrate Sukkot is you may not be obligated probably dated right now but it will become an obligation and you'll come up and you'll celebrate and recognize the king of kings you'll prostrate yourselves before a shell but the very act of coming up it is as you probably we'll know a lot of money a lot of effort babysitter's knows what somebody wants to kit the cat's the grandchildren maybe not in that order so those who come up will be blessed with rain and what is rain represents gesh in Hebrew is gosh mute it's physical but also comes down from the heaviness so it represents both the spiritual and the physical blessings that for those who came up to use your item or came up to Israel just for the occasion of supportive and thank you I want to thank you all for coming anyway tonight and an introduction to the evening as we all know this very befitting that not lose it after Sukkot but also a partial grace she's very chic but all team in the beginning doctor in the world very much translation but that's not the best Abita for the sake of race she's God created the world and what is race sheet gray sheet is the Torah which is fitting for the evening for the stake of the Torah God created the world and what else is very sheet Israel for the sake of ISM doctor in the world what do they represent first of all in order to know about God right how you ain't gonna know that the world is created that there is a creator that we have obligations in this world through the door so the tour itself it's basically it's proclaiming it's letting you know that there is a creator that the rule is created I think saying this something from nothing because it's not true it's something physical from something spiritual it's not nothing but the world came into being is a physical world that the real world is the other idea is that it's serve Israel through hopefully our ability to fulfill the Torah to live a moral existence as a society but something interesting with the clean car dimensions about Memphis is ratified I'm sorry the Torah the fine that's what we're here tonight in this way a little bit more about that but Israel so what happened was Adam first man he was a witness to the world being built there was nothing around and it was from person to the person who up a lot a transmission until Abraham Isaac and Jacob and now through the seed of Abraham Isaac Jacob which we will call Israel and so it's our job and let you know you can go to the Torah or you talk to us or hopefully together the synthesis of both will be obvious I wanted to mention interestingly enough trying to juice the electro speaker we have a and they say that's sweet quite controversial and this is the the topic of tonight the Rob God says or seems to say the explain is therefore not Jew it's forbidden to learn the Torah to heaven understand at the same time there's different levels of non Jew some of these meanings and perhaps that's where the ground bombings by saying that what about it not you that was to know more about the creator of the universe and his role so he can learn about the seven it says Vanina and become a Noah father then there's maybe a level above that in fact that Rob box says there's two different levels of MIL effects what is a wise person can't do it all with his own okay so through his own Kaufman and he'll be labeled the very wise person amongst the Hawkman also a lot but he doesn't get the rule to cover he doesn't go to heaven because he believes through his own intellect this is the best way to maintain the world and have these super a great society but then there's a level above that and that is called in the terms of the realm onethis out I see big Allah so Allah the pious amongst the nations and this person believes in the revelation they believe the Bible well haven't they believed in the Bible if they never read the Bible didn't study the Bible so they believe in the revelation they must be these different levels of intense study and what they can study so for sure dependent on the lowest level can can study languages relating to the seven laws but the problem goes a step further he says that they could even do other mistress if they want okay there's only a few they may not be able to do but for the most part if they do it as he says they have to do it kid how I thought okay haha means according to the letter of the law and the do it do it right so has been enough what to do if he doesn't learn so it sounds like and then we have another level which is a dear Technic someone has to be burped and be a full-fledged responsible for us it was June so of course he's gonna learn how else can he need the day after he goes to the victim so for sure it seems appropriate for certain Gentiles to litter but now I'm going to prove it before ages so the jury by 1619 a prophecy that the Gentiles are going to come to a shaman say only lying lies sheket have our fathers handed down to us emptiness in which there is nothing to them how do they know their lives how do they know the truth if they haven't learned the difference between what is the truth and what is a lie of course tonight's evening I guess the theme Zechariah 8:23 we're deluded man it's not that difficult there's 70 nations the Torah tells us the the Prophet tells us the ten men of all the languages that means ten men in times 70 70 languages that's 700 we're going to take all of the shirt of a Jewish man saying let us go we've heard that God is we have to hear what do they know they must have learned something either through Torah or through Israel either way this is more a measure of God are one so the math comes out like this how many corners does a Jewish government have four so what do we have ten times seventy that's seven hundred times from work corners that's 2,800 so in my little chapter page 300 I emphasize the act that we the Jewish people have to get ready because we're going to be very busy teach 2,800 people each and what really got me was Deuteronomy for chapter 4 verse 6 or 8 talks about what the Gentiles are going to say about the Jews and you shall keep them and do them for that is your wisdom and your understanding so that's to us in the eyes of the peoples who will hear all these statutes the Gentiles are going to hear all the statues and say only this great nations old wise and understanding people so the clea car says that when they hear about a business they only heard about a minstrel a Duma the red heifer so they may mock us because they're not easy to understand but once they hear all about those rules and laws and civil discourse by how to treat another human being and run a society they're gonna be Wow I might want to join a believer study a little more so I think it's very clear that how can they come to this point and say that we were great and wise and understanding people it's only through understanding here the next verse for what radiation is there that has God so near to it as the Word of God is at all times the qualifying and what great nation is it that has just statutes and ordinances as this entire Torah I think if we like the way okay here we go now just I think before I say I'm very inspired by her enthusiasm and guts to even just say hey I wanna hear stories I want to compile the stories or see where it leads to but there's something going on there's an awakening that is going on you read my chapter you'll see so rific a blur is a writer and adult Jewish educator with a special interest in good hula and in the non-jewish awaking to Torah happening you know boredom raised in the New York she moved to South Florida during high school she attended the University of Maryland yeah where she earned a bachelor's master's and PhD she worked in the college administration for over two decades and lived in Baltimore to Louboutins right up in 2010 she and her husband alone they're active autism community just outside of Jerusalem they have children of Israel in Israel and in the u.s. she's a former freelance writer for breaking Israel news Karen freelance writer produced the post and to his values online now she asked me before I called her up to read an email that you see Saturday night and I'll tell you what's wrong it's from Peter Rambo and panel in the car and it says like this our verse for the evening so said the Lord of Hosts in those days it will happen the 10 men of all the languages of the nations will take hold of the corner of the garment of a Jewish man saying let us go with you if we have heard that God is with you so it says dear rifki and Apollo it is Shabbat more and I'm reading and studying so heavy on my heart that has stopped and writing note I'm keenly aware that in a few short hours you will have or host the public release of ten from the nation's Agua has uniquely prepared and called you to administrative revelation and Reconciliation that will open doors and broadly expand by blood for such time as this like deepest cry to a Shannon is that they need and guide you may he grant you wisdom is an insight whether you know it or not you bear the torture for many in releasing this book towards the nation for the nation's ten days you place a massive stone bridge across a Great Divide and do so you help those opera awakens to be able to return home how fitting with death that you bear the name of whatever matrix may your labors and challenges bear and many sons and daughters you are fulfilling the prophecy and Mazel Tov [Applause] okay thank you so much for coming and I'm going to thank the chef for bringing us together tonight and for making these books available for us tonight because for those of you that aren't aware we didn't know for sure until this morning if we were going to have books tonight and I just saw that book myself for the Baker's tonight two hours ago very very exciting in a way I think this isn't just a book launch this is also a party because I see so many people here tonight and either contributed to the book or who are deeply connected to its message and to one another so let's just see who is here tonight okay can you please raise your hand if you're Jewish okay good put your hands down thank you can you please raise your hand if you're from the nation's to the book and you're with us tonight radicals didn't mentioned this I just mentioned it to you again that the contributors are all wearing name tags and it has the page number that their story begins on after we're finished for the evening so if you did not a divided book if you'd like to fish you're so inspired by what I'm going to say to you the books will be for sale to your right as you exit and the contributors I'm going to ask them to set up over to the left so that you can schmooze with them and also maybe you want them to sign the page of their story signs starts up I am incredibly humbled to be here to be the one standing here because they are Jewish people in this room and all over Israel who have been interacting with people from the nation's for way way longer than I have and so I think of myself as the johnny-come-lately of this this whole scene and I'm only here because Hashem kept sending me clues and pictures started to emerge so I didn't invent anything new I only gradually became aware of something that I began to call a tow or awakening as I said a little at a time one relationship at a time one of the earliest clues happened in my living room so I was chatting with Bob Odell who's here [Music] Christian Zionists from who along with his Jewish partner D Dario who you'll meet later tonight runs an organization called root source and root source mission is to teach to facilitate Israeli Jews teaching Torah to the nation to Christians worldwide okay so if I'm sitting in my living room and he tells me that this white volume an arts gross seed or for Father's Day so for those of you that are not familiar arts grow is a widely popular publisher of authentic Torah literature and their prayer book is like pretty much in many many english-speaking traditional english-speaking homes a year ago he told me that he asked his wife for arts girls with mash we cut for Christmas why a Christian from Texas would wanna know the Jewish prayer book and a Jewish commentary on the Torah this was a big puzzlement to me this was the first hint of okay when I was writing for breaking the Israel news which is the news division of Israel 365 by gråvik's really weiss and has a particular outreach to to people like Bob to Christians all over the world I started to hear more and more stories and to meet more and more people people who contact me and they would say oh i read your stuff and i'm coming to Israel and I'd love to meet you and that's cool because usually they bought me dinner and so that was good so some of them identified as Christians and some of them had actually left Christianity but they were cleared they weren't planning on converting to Judaism rather they were looking for authentic Torah guidelines on how God wanted to be worshipped by people from the nations the second ittsan actually happened with Bob's partner Nicky Don Ariel who I mentioned already that God willing he'll show up and you'll meet him later in the evening so I was doing research for art that was crowdsourcing on Facebook because and I asked how many Jewish people who I was connected to on Facebook personally knew a Jew I'm sorry knew and non Jew who is interested in terror but who wasn't particularly looking to convert somebody so lots of people knew somebody their father's business partner a co-worker a neighbor whatever [Music] and so the comments kept coming in from Jews oh I know a lot of people like that I know one person like that whatever and this is looking all right he said he said to me forget about an article on this topic Scott I smell a full-blown book that's on April 9th of this year tonight just six months later thanks to a shams incredible lesson that will is this book [Applause] this is a good time for me to mention that because of all of the holidays in Israel we have really tight timeline to get this book done okay so the book was printed locally and I or I know that there are some typos okay we we caught a lot of them and fix it for the Amazon edition this is from the first edition it looks fabulous there are few typos if you find one please do email me make sure that we fixed it moving forward okay with this book I basically drew a big circle around a number of related phenomenon that I was observing there happening in disparate circles and my circle said these things share some commonalities I would like my contribution to be defined as connecting all of it that's going on out there with Google with the redemption all of it manifestations of the Torah awakening I believe are part of the ultimate redemption of the world and so even though I I say the introduction this is a book about the Allah only about a quarter of the book was actually written by Jews the other three quarters of the book are the stories of current and Christians who have over the course of their spiritual lives come to an appreciation of Torah many of them observe biblical holidays albeit not exactly the way I do many of them on our Shabbat on the same day as Jews do many of them studied the weekly portion and they avoid eating pork and shellfish which is called eating biblically clean based on their understanding of the Bible now do they follow Jewish law as I do no they don't but they're moving closer to a recognition of the universality of Torah for all of humanity so some of the contributors to the book have an ongoing relationship with Jesus even as they move toward Shabbat and holidays Irvan tsa's learning Hebrew study partial eating biblically clean as an Orthodox Jew I would be lying if I said I was a hundred percent comfortable with some of the ways that the Torah Awakening manifests itself at this stage at the same time I recognize that this chara Awakening is in process so last summer we renovated our kitchen and foremost it was a big mess it was completely unsuitable unusable not even recognizable as a kitchen because that's the process and today actually it's gorgeous and functional we think and that's how I see this tower awakening process right now we're in the message stage the non-jews of the book identified themselves along a whole continuum some are Christian Zionists some identifies termites which is if it's not determined familiar with it will be explained to you later evening some as no types of you may know as Binet know off some as dare and something they don't know what to call themselves they're just somewhere in this maze as I wrote in the editors introduction I don't agree with the theology of many of the contributors to the book and further the people who contributed their stories to the book don't agree with one another or with me to my mind it's only because Hashem appointed me to tell these stories of the massive tomorrow awakening that's happening in our day in a book form that these contributors stories are even together in the same book I'm aware there are deep theological divides among the people whose stories are told in the book and as I wrote an introduction and it means I want you to hear this because when we start reading the book God willing and you start getting uncomfortable think back to this moment when I said there are chapters in this volume that will make every single reader uncomfortable no matter where they are on the continuum even the contributors don't see eye to eye with everyone else whose story is told in these pages it is my hope that the book will find readers brave enough to push through the discomfort long enough to see the bigger picture to my fellow Jews I know as much as anyone that many of us were taught to avoid contact with non-jews and so much of our history it's true that it hasn't been safe or smart to reach out to Christians especially when discussing theology so I'm asking you especially to read the stories in this book with an open mind I think you will be touched as I've been when you see the genuine spiritual searching and the price that many people who contributed to this book have paid in their personal lives in the attempts to follow God a few nights ago my husband I run the light brown and we met two non-jewish women from South Carolina and one of them started telling me a little bit about her story and she said that she was homeschooling her children and she was teaching in it for the history class about the biblical festivals or the Jewish festivals and she got more and more intrigued more and more interested and she wanted to keep the biblical festivals and her husband of thirty years was not aboard well when I was speaking to her on the light rail in Jerusalem she told me that they got divorced over this issue if that her commitment to follow God and to worship Him as she understood he was asking of her cost her her marriage this level of sacrifice what we call in Hebrew masu of nephesh boggles my mind here's another small incident last week last week my husband I were meeting with a group of Heber roots people who were visiting Jerusalem for Sukkot from Sweden Ireland China Jordan all over the US all over the place in the Q&A that came after our session one member of the group looked at us and she said this we want to thank you and the Jewish people for preserving the Torah for all this time so we would have something to return to as she spoke these words of appreciation she started to tear up and her husband was sitting next to her started to tear up and I did to these people whose stories are told in this book are not the Christians you have been taught to fear I am not so naive as to believe that every Christian Zionist and every person Hebrew roots movement has given up to bring Jews to Jesus at the same time I see things changing in this work I've met many Christian Zionists and Hebrew roots people who explicitly express a belief that the Jews do not need to be brought to Jesus I know maybe Jews are suspicious and believe that no Christian can never be trusted to not have a hidden proselytizing agenda this book and the bridges that I'm trying to construct are based on the idea as Google approaches we have entered a new era not every Christian is an enemy not every Christian professing friendship is after our souls and not every former Christian following Torah wants to be a Jew there was another paradigm shift for me in this book I framed the Torah awakening as part of the process of the bula the front cover speaks of the quote from Zakaria chapter 8 verse 23 I translate a little bit different posts that it talks about ten people from the nations clinging to the garment of a Jew people who know me are smiling because they know what I mean and say let us go with you for we have heard God is with you that is what I see happening every day it's very early in the tour awakening process I don't know how long it's gonna take how it's gonna play out and there's no accurate way to number I tried in response to somebody who asked me the question how many people are we talking about and there really isn't a way to accurately represent the number of people from the nations who are involved in this awakening and I would venture this most Jews have no idea that they are actually non-jews today you're expressing a sincere reverence for the Torah to the Jews who are not yet aware of this phenomenon of non-jews who are connected to the tour I hope this book will serve as an introduction and to the non-jews who feel a stirring to reconsider the Hebrew Bible the biblical festivals Shabbat eating biblically clean I want them to know that they're not alone because it sometimes happens that they're in an isolated area they don't know anybody like them and they think that they really are the only ones in the world who are like them this book is the start of a conversation that I hope to continue with people all around the world and I hope that as Jews read about the spiritual journey of current and former Christians who are developing their personal relationship with Torah that it will open them up to having relationships with people in real life at the same time that anti-semitism is ranging around the world Hashem is creating something new I like to think that like any loving parent God wants his children to get along to my mind Torah is the vehicle that's guiding this family reunion before you choose a few of the contributors I want express my thanks and appreciation to those who have helped make this evening possible thanks first of all to Rabbi aren't posted up you boneheads who invited me to speak about the book and immediately agreed to turn that talk into a book launch and when I suggested it work with him has been a real pleasure and I think I also wanna thank my friends syoma Hadar and her sister Sarah who's visiting from the u.s. emunah Marie and Chava Goldfine who have spent hours and hours and hours listening to me talk about this book and the film that it represents and they are also serving as book sellers tonight so thank you guys and of course I said thanks to my husband Ivana not only escorted me so lovely onto the stage and we'll come and get me when I'm done but he really has encouraged me every step of the way he has begun to build his own bridges as a rabbi and as a teacher to people from the nations I also want to thank the contributors who are with us tonight and those will be watching the video of tonight's event there actually there are too many to name but as I said the contributors are here wearing name tags the ones that are here and I hope that you'll take advantage of the opportunity to meet and talk with them and ask them to sign your book too to round out the evening I am NOT I invited four people from two Jewish people and - not Jewish people from who contributed to the book to speak to you briefly so that you can get a little bit of a flavor I'm going to introduce all of them now so listen if you're speaking what are you going okay so first up is Thomas Young now I really a lot of enthusiastic support from tor this book from contributors but ioniq really distinguished himself as being among the most helpful and enthusiastic of the lot and after here he's a Jewish man who's been involved with the Nations for a very very long time after Sonic's brief remarks you'll hear from Kimberly Rogers Brown cubed Lee first reached out to me when I was ready for breaking Israel news and she introduced me to the world of Ephraim ice and it's so doing she forced me to go back into my home Bible to review the history of the Exile of the Northern Kingdom because she was saying things like I think Lee knew but she knew them like way better than I did so she made me a better student of the Bible after Kimberly you'll hear a chance you you'll have a chance to hear from Dean by Dean are you here Dean is a Christian Zionist who oversees an extraordinary project here in Israel who paid Zahra and also a lot with contributors dr. yet here and Dina Yehuda who are sitting right next to him he's been they've been learning the weekly Parcher together for seven years seven okay finally you mikito memory o if he's here he is here yes okay even as a former neighbor and a friend who's many many years of interfacing with loving Christians open multiple professional doors for me and it was his Facebook comment that got this whole thing rolling so you can shake his hand later if you're a man after the speakers share their reflections again I'm going to ask all the contributors to go to the lobby to the left - so you can speak with them on a more personal basis and ask them please ask them to sign the new book because that's like a very cool thing okay and the books are on sale tonight it's a special price tonight discounted 60 shows for one book two books for a hundred shekels and just they are now available on Amazon in print and in and the Kindle version okay thank you again ladies and gentlemen [Applause] I really don't like the word but just putting it out there it was back in April of 1994 when I was a mere lad began meeting people who said to me you know I think I'm part of his job not Jewish but part of Israel not to replace my Jewish brothers and sisters but rather to stand alongside I personally never haven't gotten high or been drunk I couldn't understand what it is that they could have possibly ingested and it started me on a journey very similar to rifki in the sense of going back to the Tanakh the Hebrew bottle and I discovered what I now described as the best-kept secret of the entire sonam that the most reverent theme throughout the division with the prophets is the reconciliation and restoration of all of Israel all the Trump's of Israel ten out of nine Orthodox Jew certainly unaware of that and it's a very [Music] one of my graduate degrees is in statistics the one thing that Hashem promises to do with all of his might is to gather his people and worse turn them restore them plant them in Eretz Israel now we're talking about the whole enchilada the Tanakh speaks about Judah Israel Shinra F Ryan Yosef same group four different names and Judah every morning right before the army diamond shop to eat when we step back we call a punish em to save who you who down the Easter now for those who will tell you that well they're only talking about the Jewish people seriously who has the stutter to say the Jewish people than the Jewish people we're talking about all of Israel now the one thing that if he even did not give us is a blueprint of how it would look so we're standing across the divide from each other very much like yourself in his brothers you're your sisters are you waiting for seriously you don't look the way I do you don't sound the way I do you're not the way we do but we've been overcoming that based on the concept of mutual respect for the reconciliation restoration of all of Israel I personally detest trust louis i personally detest those who would demand of someone else to give up their beliefs to join your personal exclusive club now trust me i've traveled to the u.s. three times a year speaking to that for my groups across the united states I've spoken in toy sri lanka and in germany do you have any idea of how many people they're praying for my soul on a daily basis just let it slide but there are people here in Israel who demand the same thing now we know and it states very clearly in vesical in Ezekiel that the two sticks being brought together will become one in his hand in Hashem Sammy you know it's it's not a common expression that Jewish community to say let God be God but it's time we started thinking in that way it's Hashem that's gonna put us together it's ahem that's gonna sort out how we are what people separated who've become two very distinct religious groups will become one people but for now it's the process of reconciliation of getting to know each other of spending the time looking each other in the eye and getting to know each other and care for each other as human beings and when you find out the most extraordinary things who likes spending Jerry's more than more than those who is deeply spiritual can appreciate Leonard Skinner to repents love to speak okay let's wrap up very quickly in the twenty three and a half years I've had the suit the merit to walk with my brothers and sisters I've gotten to know their hearts and like every other population group there was some amazing welcoming warm loving people and there's some who just want to cut your legs out from underneath you there were those who questioned me all the time how can you know for sure that these are brothers and sisters proof positive they are repeatedly fighting with each other nothing to do they're showing each other no longer sharing the meal whether Shabbat or Sukkot or whatever the term is and let me tell you you put two of them on an island together marooned they'll have nothing to do with each other and questionnaire it's been a tremendous I have no idea why I showed threw me into this whole thing I've asked many times what you know I'm the wrong person in the right place at the I don't know but I can tell you for a fact that after coming out on the aisle I became a more Adara the tour guide specifically because who else was going to be prepared to show us writing their own them together our brothers and sisters are knocking at the door but it's not they're not it's the cold OD no fair it's the knocking of the ganache lay up if you cannot hear it you're somewhat death [Applause] good evening in Shalom I'm Kimberly Rogers Brahman I have a chapter in this book starting on I think it says page 205 when when Rivka asked me if I would be willing to speak I said all first thing out of my mouth was yes and then she said can you make it five minutes well I'm used to speaking for an hour an hour and a half so this was a challenge for me but I have to say that I am delighted to be here it's a pleasure to have be here for dr. Rivka Lambert abner who I met first through interviewing her on my radio show on Hebrew nation radio out of Salem Oregon and it's an honor to have a chapter in this book and it's a blessing to be here to speak with you this evening dr. Adler it is among history's most courageous pioneering authors who has dared to publish groundbreaking revolutionary and the word controversy has come up before something that doing is a bad thing in any field usually but in the religious world forget you know she done something truly extraordinary here this book presents personal accounts of this recent and worldwide hand of God movement and this movement is dear to me and I suspect hundreds of thousands of other exile is all over the earth these chapters were written by individuals who are experiencing this tide of movement toward Torah observance and yet we are none Jews now you're gonna find out what kind of a non Jew I am because I'm going to mention the word here and say that we are Ephraimites I no longer identify as Christians I'm one of those who does not but whoever we are in between those that are coming out Christianity and those that are getting closer to Judaism we are a bridge between our two houses the ingathering the return of Ephraimites the lost house of Israel excise this is the beginning of the two sticks of Ezekiel coming together the restoration of the fortunes of the house of jacob jeremiah chapter 30 verse 18 says this is what Hashem says I'm going to restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwellings the city will be rebuilt on its ruins in a palace will sit on its rightful place this is the restoration that's beginning right now and Hashem said you need every man of course throughout the Tanakh that his people wouldn't be so scattered that we would forget that we are Hebrews that we all come from one Father Jacob Hebrews from the northern tribes cover the face of this earth but few know their true identity however Hebrews from the southern tribes cover the face of the earth and they blessed Lea do know who they are and thank you we need every one of you the Prophet said that we would return that how soon would remember us when we turn back to him back to his Torah that's what this is all about that issue by returning with all of our hearts right now we are awakening from a deep spiritual coma this has not been just a sleep we we've been comatose and this again is described in Ezekiel 37 and some of us have felt the breath of the Ruach quickening us this quickening has resulted in our sudden and inexplicable realization that God's kingdom has rules and if we want to be in it we must learn to obey them this is an anomaly of Christians who mostly are former Torah rejection rejecters but who are now towards seekers and this is the greatest anytime sign of the coming of Messiah I am sure that rebellious Jeroboam upper house of Israel ancestor and those northern tribes had no idea that it would take well to this year's 2737 years since they were finally taken captive for us to make our way back to the Torah but this return has begun here we are and more are coming the most important sign of our return is that we are beginning to reject what Jeroboam decreed for our ancestors which was to stop coming to Jerusalem three times a year increasing numbers of Ephraimites have begun coming to Jerusalem for the pilgrimage feasts now I want to say something you've been all rapt attention you know listening to me speak but I want to say something very serious now and I want all the Jews in this room to hear this it's a message that I deliver every time that I get an opportunity for the rebellion of the Jeroboam against the southern kingdom all on behalf of our people from the house of Israel I repent and ask the house of Judah to forgive us forgiving us is your challenge it's your challenge Judah our challenge is simply to continue waking up and return as we already have started so here we are at the end of days the house of Judah and house of Israel and for mites awaiting the completion of Hashem promised to fully restore the fortunes of Jacob to make us once again a whole house of Jacob a house of twelve tribes with enough members of each tribe to actually be counted as tribes of Israel that is really what we are celebrating here this evening the return of the excise dr. Adler's book is simply putting the world on notice we are coming home rifki and their mom Michael and I deeply value our friendship with you and rifki congratulations well done [Applause] [Music] well I read together Mazel Tov congratulations this is this is amazing and I feel almost extremely very nervous up here tonight I'm humbled to be before many of you I'm just this little itty bitty guy from Canada and once upon a time I guess it was about 27 years ago I had just as her sister just shared he had really came just after the Berlin Wall had dropped and I began reading my newspaper reading my Bible at the same time and it was difficult to be able to see all these Jewish people making their their move out of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and then realizing that they were boarding planes and and landing here and as I began to study this I began to pinch myself and say could I be living in an amazing time of biblical history that challenged me to begin to read my Bible and and begin to be a part of this in gathering of the else from the nations and as I began I I guess it comes a little bit I have a loop of a drama background so it comes a little bit naturally for me is when you're giving us scripts you here first thing you do is you look for your part and then once you find your part to begin to highlight it and as I began to read the the Bible in a different light I realized oh my god there's there's parts to the Jewish people there's parts for so there's parts were even those of us from the nations and I'm going I began to realize that I needed to find out what is the role for the nations what is the role for those who are far off what is the role for the Gentiles and as I began to clarify and understand my part I realized that we have a part in not only grabbing that the hem as as you say here hold to the corner of the garments of the Jews but as they began to identify with through the Book of Ruth I began to realize to cling to me and say your guys might go ahead but your people as my people where you go I go when you live I go there let nothing but death separate you with me and that was begun in during the last 27 years where I feel today in 2015 we've done many journeys and we've spoken here there and everywhere but we started a journey after a fella gave us 10 white trucks to basically bless the poor in Israel but it came with a condition he says you need to challenge Canadians to be able to kind of a love for God to bless Israel it's a little bit different than bless Israel for the blessing you can receive but out of a love for God to bless Israel and so over 60 days in a hundred meetings and 22,000 kilometers and 35 people go across the country we began to and asked Canadians to be a part of a movement that we thought was a little bit different and I've waited years as the rabbi said a little bit earlier you know there's some prophecies that don't have to happen you know there's some prophecies that need to happen and I look at the prophecies that have to do with the wealth of the nations coming into Israel and gold and silver coming here and so we began to ask for the gold and silver and was remarkable meeting after meeting I've never seen so much coal be so burn all my life we thought would get the broken necklace maybe the earring missing its match possibly the the jewelry in the bottom of the jewelry box that the husband wouldn't let the wife wear anymore we didn't know what we were going to receive that's what we and disappeared and what king was more valuable than the gold it was the treasures of air lose to this day I can't tell you how many people took the wedding rings off in front of my husband and wife and said the Covenant God made with Abraham Isaac and Jacob that covenants everlasting we could replace these rings but we want to give them into the works you're doing that started in 2015 now it's coming from all over the world we're in this place and originally we're just going to mount those stuff down you know and use it for projects that we're doing here in Israel but again we were challenged how do you take some of the greatest treasures that have been given to us over and over night after night it's still coming I mean yesterday someone else gave me a ring from a u.s. Marine that died in Iraq and their child a few days earlier I received some wedding rings from some righteous Gentiles out of Germany that hid you and they wanted us to have these since passed away but they wanted us to have their wedding bands their kids but we're receiving this and I'm going I'm in the middle of I saw this half of it Egypt this happened in Babylon and how do you just mount it down for these projects what we do we sat and he and he says take some of that gold and silver and melt it down and make some special rings and we began making these rings and we've we sense to be putting him on pioneers throughout Israel and since September of 2016 we took these raise some with Jeremiah 30 speaking about that God will restore all things and we began putting them on pioneers here in the Land of Israel many Holocaust survivors one meeting we get a hundred other classifiers you can't imagine that night I still as I think about it and we we've been taking these rings in and and trying to hear from God as other Christians have sponsored these new rings now around the world to go into the projects and we're taking this treasure of this golden silver placing it and playing here's here rifka tonight I really want to honor you as flying in the air but we've had various pioneers that have over the last over a hundred years of helped pioneer the establishment of the State of Israel and we're seeing miracles happen daily as we walk through that Gurion Airport and drive around this land and when you're called and many of you other people here that are living major alia born here in this land many of you people who call yourself part of Israel you think ought to be alike to me and and other family members and the nations and I'm just super here to encourage you would you be alike to us would you open up your Torah and would you give us your insights and we would you help us to be who were called to be because we have a role we have a part and you can encourage us in that we have to do our best not to you do your thing and we'll do our thing but let's continue with Dean any air or starting eight year every week studying the Torah together on a webinar and I have to tell you I'm learning how to be a Christian okay I'm learning how to be one from the nations a Klingon I'm learning how as a result of you taking time and risk and awkward moments many of them but it has to happen because all through your to not bother your Torah it speaks about the nation's praising your God he has to happen it's happening yeah those of you living here in Jerusalem you had thousands of Christians all over your streets and just as our brother explained from many different paths but worse there's a stirring going on we don't even know what to do a little bit we need to be taught we need your light just got 100 you you are taking a very and who knows what it's going to be like after tonight this is fun tonight I often tell people I feel like this juggler walking on this tightrope not always understood it's rather lonely and if you haven't felt loneliness you're probably going to feel some loneliness they had but you know Michelle gave me the strength and the courage and and I believe this is really just the beginning but tonight I'd like to take one of these rings that are really just a token of those from the nations that have given up their wealth believing that that's their call and that there are prophetic words that we are not to just look and spectate and wait to happen but actually to cooperate with this gym to be a part of it so it would be my pleasure I think put it on right but the the ring says utter Ruth your God your people will be my people it says a lot of it if not you could do the inside don't give me the inscription you go to your five minute rest god bless you thank you for be Israeli [Applause] debug page 26 good evening my name is Guillaume our yell it's a pleasure to be here event we've got very very happy that you were able to fulfill this dream I had a little partner as well and after I hear such beautiful things from my good friends panel and Kimberly and Dean I think that that I've talked about the connection with the Guru laughs and Kimberly talked about the aspect of request for forgiveness and Dean talked about the perspective of a Christian who Dean is a is a big leader in a Christian ministry so for people who are familiar with him I'm sure that you should read his chapter as well because this is really the first time that I spoke I'm speaking about this topic I've been speaking about this topic for over 15 years but this is possibly the first time I'm actually speaking to an audience that is a majority Jewish and so I what I wanted to do is to for the first time really at least in such a forum to to think about what place the Jewish people or without that words up but Jewish people can have in this phenomena I'd like to start with a little bar Torah over here I was noticing so I'm alright Xena tonight betta Haghighi now this is a nature if I understood this putt so properly they'd get a chance to check it out on Google it's a very interesting masu because it's the opposite of what would say it's mine words listen Oh God and understand my thought sense and speakings we would think that God is at we would ask God to teach us and certainly so many verses of the Bible say that but here it's as if were saying to God you please try to listen to what we're saying and to understand what we're saying now that's a prayer but perhaps even as a teaching in other words and I think that's the connection I think that might be a message for the Jewish people over here Lahab deal but justice we wouldn't think that God should have to learn from us who are we to teach God similarly I think that many Jews would say Who am I to teach Christians first of all this is something that has barely been done before and I'm not such a sage myself well the answer of course is because we've got a lot of first graders here who are very very thirsty to learn and so they're they'll be very very happy in they would be mostly happening with second graders who are willing to teach them they don't meet they they won't be for the most part people and really people also ask me I have a a website will route source which is an online platform for Israelis to teach that Christians all over the world about Israel to ride Biola Jewish history all sorts of topics that the Jewish topics that the Jewish teachers want to teach to Christians who want to learn about it and people ask me how it's not such a big deal because thank god we've had about 50 years of experience teaching ballet Chabot thank god there's so many Jews who aren't religious that we know how to teach people who aren't familiar with with Judaism and it's been going very very well I think that people should like I started my talk here loosen up and there are there's a lot of things that you can now say oh is it good to check my rabbi there's a lot of others who say it's not don't worry about it this is you're not in spite of the social media you don't have the camera on you 24/7 if you talk to somebody on the light rail or even if you invite somebody to your Shabbat table Grand Slam every trying to try something you just try it and nobody has very high expectations so that's the first thing that you really should do just try and because the event is something that I've learned from my Christian friends just let go and let God that's I wanted to just find it before I in a finisher we just want to say where I came from tonight and then why I was late my apologies I came from a really incredible event also in the same industry it was the launching of the Schindler project now most people here have heard of Oskar Schindler and there is a pastor by the name of rosemary Schindler who is a relative descendent great nephew niece or something of Oskar Schindler who has been taken really strongly with this relationship between between Christians and Jews and Christians of Israel and she together with other Christian leaders have brought together American Christian political leaders to launch this project which will be a Bible study in the Knesset with Christian leaders and Israeli political leaders and Israeli authorities not so that the Christians will teach the the Jews just the opposite they are thirsty for Jews to teach it in my good friend Donna Jolie can't keep her soap and say how the sorry that and really this is this is this is perhaps I always like to wonder like really the vine if I'm not mistaken says in a garret our bond whenever you learn something whenever you attend a lecture by your sword you have to think okay what can I take with me from this so this is what I challenging a wall with first of all read the book get a feeling for it you're very very lucky that you've got so many people are sharing your stories I don't think I even heard so many stories that have been told in this book but reach out today it's not difficult you've got Google you can you've got Facebook if you don't have Facebook don't get on it and be be forgiving the Christians have asked us to forgive them for for the trosset ease throughout the generations somebody don't know yet the lingo doesn't know lexicon doesn't necessarily say things then and and and so many of them are often so much I hope I don't I don't offend you trying to say let's first be friends I think that's really the message here that God just and somebody said I think might have been kind of God just wants his children to play nice and so it's about the Sham we can we can get that done okay I have been asked to summarize over here so I think I will thank you very much everybody for coming and together with my co contributors I will be here on the left side outside hand in hand ready to sign your books I appreciate your coming tonight thank you very much Ilana rifki and rabbi Aaron and everybody else and if you are a Christian in the audience I don't know please introduce yourself to me I feel like you kind of guys [Applause] [Music]