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The Jewish Messiah & The Final Redemption

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Rabbi Aaron L Raskin

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[Music] a few months ago I was sitting in the airport awaiting my plane and they overheard two older people a couple talking in Hebrew so I figured they must be Jewish and even though I was in some crazy airport in crazy airport in eckelt in a non-jewish area I approached them and said excuse me are you Jewish and they said yes so I pulled out myin and I told the man would you like to put on Fillin today said no no no no I'm not religious but the wife says but with kosher we eat kosher all the time I said if you eat kosher that's your Mitzvah that's the Mitzvah of the wife to provide the kosher and the Mitzvah of the husband is to put on thein so we should get him to put on Fillin n it's okay I eat kosher it's Fillin n it's okay I eat kosher it's enough I said you know if he puts Onin this could be the final Mitzvah that could bring about the coming of messia for the r says that we should always view the world on a scale of 50 good deeds and 50 bad Deeds so this one Mitzvah putting Onin could tip the scale to Salvation and you could bring mhia right now the wife thinks about it for a moment and says God says God forbid I say what do you mean when Mia comes is going to be the end of the world there going to be destruction we don't want mhia to come I said lady you have it all wrong that's not the Jewish view of mashiah on the contrary the Jewish view of Messiah means a word of peace and Harmony she said if that's the case let my husband put Onin and we pulled out the Fillin and he

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  1. 0:02[Music] a few months ago I was sitting in the airport awaiting my plane and they
  2. 3:12Mitzvah of the 613 Commandments of the Torah number three when is messia first referenced or
  3. 6:17captivity and have mercy upon you he will again gather you from among the Nations so
  4. 9:27and a lover of the Torah wanted to be able to do all the Torah and
  5. 12:32why is belief in Messiah not a Mitzvah should be a Mitzvah if it's so important
  6. 15:36to come and he prays to God in his God bring M now now Messiah becomes
  7. 18:43one step closer to Redemption so really Messiah is not only a specific Mitzvah a particular
  8. 21:49need a vision you need a purpose so God says the purpose of creation the goal
  9. 24:59similarly we find in the book he says in the word bous we find the word
  10. 28:03the Bible starts from the second part of creation but the first part of creation which

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