Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz - Various Topics: Questions and Answers - 6

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] okay good morning everybody I understand that uh today was supposed to be or is supposed to be a question and answer session as I always say you are free to ask any question I will not necessarily be able to give you an answer I make no warranties but I'll I will uh try and uh you know we could uh obviously have followup on any particular point so the ball is in your court and uh yeah what do you think is the solution to um you know the peace in the Middle East well uh the solution is the coming of the mashiah on one hand this is a hopeless situation but precisely when it is hopeless you realize that God is going to have to take over so that is really our ultimate belief yeah so you mentioned the Mia and I've always had some questions about it so is it a specific person or just a time or yeah yeah that is an excellent question so first of all translation of mashiach which is Messiah it just means the anointed one and in fact in the Bible mashia is not always referring to some ultimate person the high priest could be called mashiach a king any King could be called mashia but typically the way we use it in the talud we refer to a a specific person person and the traditional Jewish belief is that uh this will be a person who will be descended from King David and he will establish uh he will

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1. 0:03[Music] okay good morning everybody I understand that uh today was supposed to be or is…
2. 4:25Shabbat and as a result uh the belief is that that although mashiach can come any…
3. 8:43new moon and we're not going to use calendars and so the confidence in the mashiah…
4. 13:04philosophical premises in other words a person can reach a stage in which the genocide of…
5. 17:20and so sacred that the powers of impurity wouldn't let it in unless it looked like…
6. 21:38struggle for human dignity which is a revelation from God about the direction of society uh…
7. 26:04test there are some professors uh that at least know some colleges they actually give you…
8. 30:24contain any fermented grain that would be prohibited so I'll give you an example Coca-Cola in…
9. 34:50very system the Constitution sets up now objectively the Supreme Court might be wrong in other…
10. 39:06same as the ratification of the Constitution meaning this became an act where the Jewish people…

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