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Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses the length of the exile in a weekly hashkafa shiur.
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what I'd like to do tonight uh is talk about something which I think most people have thought about you know the Bas of MDES was destroyed and there's an argument which here but let's assume it was 70c that's a long time ago that's that's almost 2,000 years ago so people wonder why does the Gus take so long it's called the you know you think that after so many thousands of years and so many uh you know difficulties that the Jews have gone through we would imagine that the Gus would be over Mia would come the bdes would be built and so on so the question then is why does gois take so long so I'd like to deal with that this evening uh before I begin however this year should be a blessing and a merit for the health and success of the families of regas Ru and yes wolf [Music] Ben Wolf you know things are happening now I'm not going to go into it you know in terms of current events but there is something that you should know one of the things that are happening which is really amazing there are two things which are happening which is incredible has and it never happened before really and what it is obviously I mean there other reasons but the central idea of this is a wakeup call for Jews that's why they're really happening I refer to two things that are simultaneously happening in America and in Israel you see because the main idea of the um the Redemption process starting is really in both which I had talked about the concept of America is where Trump will assume the presidency and that begins es or
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