A lecture on the approaching era of Mashiach.
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This week was a real week. I mean, it's incredible. I'll comment on it, you know, but not all is well with the world, see, you know. I do want to read an article that I read uh that somebody gave me uh told me about. It was in last week's Ted uh June 30th, 2016. Which is Thursday. I want to read something to you. This is uh cuz last week I spoke pretty extensively on Putin. That uh what he's doing is just incredible. But you got to let me read this article. But you got to let me read this article. It's a short. Putin The name of the article, Putin explains the secret of Jewish survival to Rav Yitzhak Yosef, who is the chief rabbi of Israel. Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rav Yitzhak Yosef, recounted that when he recently attended a rabbinical conference in Moscow, he was invited with other rabbonim to attend a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. President Vladimir Putin. According to the report, according to a report in the Israeli Haredi press, Rav Yosef said, "I thought he would shake our hands and that he would and that would be it. But the meeting lasted for an hour and a quarter." Interesting. I mean, this is the Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting an hour and a quarter with rabbonim? Anyway, but the real thing is Rav Yosef quoted Putin as saying, and this is Putin speaking, "The Egyptians with the magician The Egyptians with the magicians are gone,
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- 0:20This week was a real week. I mean, it's incredible. I'll comment on it, you know,…
- 6:33Russia, now Jews can come back. If they want to leave, they can go. The ability…
- 12:41dawn, right? And at that time begins Bein ha'Arbayim, erev. And it says in the Novi,…
- 18:47Egypt, Mitzrayim, after Paroah and his whole Egyptian army and the whole Egypt actually was destroyed,…
- 25:02Tehillim. Perek Beis, and you also see the whole concept. In Tehillim Perek Beis is a…
- 31:12Like I showed you, Hizkiah was one, and now we have Haman. Okay? Where else could…
- 37:21You see. So World War I really is the first phase of Gog and Magog. World…
- 43:29himself. No, but I'm saying he's Cuz I'm saying Purim and the 10 sons of Haman…
- 49:40It will be a conflict. Well, I'm going to talk about that now. Okay? So I…
- 55:48to protect the Jews. What you see, which is interesting, is that the Bashem is weakening…
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