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21st Century #4 | President Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Mashiach

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Rabbi Mendel Kessin

A Torah-based analysis of global politics and the End of Days.

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Okay. Hello everybody. Today is an installment again on current events. Uh maybe I'll finish today, I'm not sure. Probably not, we'll certainly finish by next week, you know. Uh You know, I really have to say the whole point of this, you know, uh really in many ways cuz people think that our scoff is about something that happened thousands of years ago, you know, and what relevance does it you know, and what relevance does it have really today? And uh this kind of sheer affords me the opportunity to demonstrate certain ideas, which I think are really very important. First idea is Torah is relevant literally up to today, period. Uh not only is Torah relevant relevant in that sense, but uh the reason why it's relevant, I should say, is because it it has our scoff of that explains the whole history of the briah, mankind. You know, so uh so therefore it's it's You know, so uh so therefore it's it's obviously completely relevant, you know. Uh another thing which is interesting is to show you how relevant it is that you can actually interpret current events based on the principles and the facts of our scoff. Um does it mean one is always right if he interprets because I'm really interpreting all this, obviously. Nobody talks about this. Uh but it's a great guess. I mean, I you know, uh it's a great way of understanding uh what could be even if it's not because I mentioned

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  1. 0:21Okay. Hello everybody. Today is an installment again on current events. Uh maybe I'll finish today,
  2. 6:00if you subtract at least 210 years, what year do we arrive at? 2030. Now, we're
  3. 12:08absence of light. It means there's an enormous amount of tumor. of defilement, pollution, contamination, sin,
  4. 18:25uh so it's a tremendous blow to Europe. They They exited from where? Who? They They
  5. 24:37okay? What they say and then I'm going to comment what I think is how it's
  6. 30:51uh about against a Jewish person, and he intervened. He reduced drastically the sentence that they
  7. 36:30second father. Imagine what a relationship he had with Putin. I was with him I was
  8. 42:34The question we have to ask ourselves is what's going on here? Wait a minute. Russia
  9. 48:10right it doesn't make sense. It never happened before. Because the Russian now is weakening the
  10. 54:24oil under Golan. I mean Israel is going to be up there in oil and gas

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