Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses political and geopolitical topics in a hashkafa context.
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I thought that what would be good is to get a better handle on a lot of the ideas or events happening today you know that there are certain concepts which I think would be very valuable to know and that's what I wanted to speak about I spoke about a long time ago but there there's certain fundamental ideas which I a one I want to go into I think that provides in many ways a good explanation provides in many ways a good explanation of how we can understand the events of today there's a concept of time there are two types of calendars this was called the creation calendar and the world in the world calendar two types of calendar and based on the creation calendar you can actually see when things basically should start happening and that's a very important sign and that's a very important sign indicator what all this means especially the current events in the 21st century we know that the world was created in six days yes and the before the Damona says these six days represent each day represents a thousand years the most as she saw a fish Nineveh Rama the world will exist for Sephora six thousand years because each thousand thousand years because each thousand years of the six thousand years really is a connected or matches or parallels the six days each day's worth a thousand years as it says by Dharam Allah you know 1,000 years in your eyes in our eyes like one day in yours therefore there are six thousand years at the world will last and that is the five day of the six days of creation that is a very important indicator in
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