Rabbi Tovia Singer: This Is What Must Happen Before Messiah Comes

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[music] >> We do not have monopoly on suffering or oppression. We don't. The uniqueness of the Jew is that when we endure vicissitudes, it [music] causes us to unify as nothing else. >> Rabbi Singer, welcome to the program. >> Great being with you. >> Thank you for joining us. Tonight starts the three weeks. This is a morning period over the temple. It's also a time of redemption. Zechariah 8:19 says that this one day will be hug, like I think your grandfather Aaron Ha Cohen might have said, "Hug LaShem Machar." And this will one day will be a holiday. And I wanted to know if you could expand on the significance of the 17th of Tammuz and what this period actually means as far as the Geulah unfolding. >> It's very very striking because as you mentioned, this comes up this and the other three fasts aside from Yom Kippur comes at the book of Zechariah. The context really begins in the chapter prior, chapter seven, where Zechariah, who was the most influential of his generation, in that people came to him with many questions. And the question, imagine this, did the Jews have to still fast on the ninth day of Av given the second temple's being built? And he he's not happy with the question. He says, "God doesn't care if your stomach is empty or is full." And in fact, there explodes into a an extraordinary prophecy

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2. 3:07who destroyed the temple, the second temple, he would say to you that it was the…
3. 6:11Empire unbelievable, what Titus did was he actually built a wall around the walls of Jerusalem…
4. 9:12solve it is the very opposite. What would What would solve the problem bring the redemption…
5. 12:50is a complete unity and consensus of the Jewish people, which very much then everything is…
6. 15:56tremendous problems. I mean, you had a group in Eretz Yisrael, I'll tell you straight away,…
7. 19:01as a question on just two names of who's the asking and asking is Rabbi Akiva…
8. 22:32present. That's why the people who claim that Ezekiel's vision is the second temple, they're way…
9. 25:37yourself so they will understand this is a Messianic time. I didn't write it. It's in…
10. 28:43And it's very very clear that we're living in a remarkable time. The person you were…

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