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21st Century #47 | The Deeper Meaning of the Trump Impeachment Hearings

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Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses the deeper meaning of the Trump impeachment hearings.

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What I wanted to do today, just very briefly talk about something which I haven't really talked about, but really it's it's a very important part of uh of what we're seeing now, which is the Messianic process. And that is a a question which I dealt with. I offered some uh explanations, but I but really I believe there's something much more fundamental which I think is important to understand. Everybody out there is looking and seeing what's happening with the United States, the House of Representatives, especially now that all of this is now basically public. And everybody's watching and seeing that basically, you know, all these people, witnesses, whatever, there's really nothing there. You know, it's all hearsay. Uh and in fact, you know, they they they just can't come up with any crime. And the the question everybody is wondering is like, so why everybody is wondering is like, so why you is why are you so why are they so adamant in trying to press charges or to try to impeach Trump? This is the question. It doesn't make sense when you think about it. How can you know, the House of Representatives, which is really should be a distinguished body, and they're basically most of them are lawyers. We're not talking about laymen. We're talking about here lawyers, you know? You figure a lawyer can see if a case is good or not. And you know,

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  1. 0:03What I wanted to do today, just very briefly talk about something which I haven't really
  2. 6:09there is uh Persia, there's Greece, and there's Rome. Right? Then I mentioned also there are
  3. 12:21Christian, they deny the Torah because they say God gave a new Torah, which is called
  4. 18:31one will be low. So if Esau is high, then he has succeeded in dominating, right?
  5. 24:43where one seeks to subdue totally the other. Impeach. You are beginning to think. I'm I'm
  6. 30:54Isn't that amazing? And what did Gorbachev do? He terminated Soviet Union. He terminated the Soviet
  7. 37:10is to overthrow kingdoms, right? We're In many ways, Esau wants to overthrow or the kingdom
  8. 43:22years with Mueller, right? Russian collusion. It's incredible. You know, and then they then they go
  9. 49:29of his store and it's open. You can walk in and take anything you want. You
  10. 55:36But um this this week really will tell us what's happening. Thursday they're going to come

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