The Roman Emperor who was Esav | Weekly Hashkafa Shiur #121

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

before I begin uh with a continuation really you know many ways of uh of the story of Jaco Vanessa which has tremendous repercussions in today's time as we begin to see you know from last week what happens repentance which he didn't of course because yaakov did not realize that it was a tremendous opportunity there's just a couple of things that I wanted to mention which I think is very noteworthy one thing we see which is the in many ways very important we see that there are many leaders and righteous people tadikum you know and doylem of rebels whatever that are dying now it is true that many of them are old which is true in their 90s or whatever but it's also true that there are young people people who are dying who in a certain sense you know really have many more years that they can influence people and not only that I once mentioned a statistic uh it was a study done in London would they estimate that there's 15.1 million Jews in the world not many but in any case out of that 15.1 million they estimate that the total Community you know that observes the Torah at whatever level is only about 2.1 million that means 13 million Jews according to them are gone whether it be assimilated right or intermarried right which is integrated in the non-jewish world or just completely unaffiliated with Judaism I mean who would it would ever imagine that this ultimately is what happens in the total world you know the religion of Judaism who would ever imagined that the Jews would almost have disappeared I mean they won't

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1. 0:00before I begin uh with a continuation really you know many ways of uh of the…
2. 5:59so what what the plan seems to be that no matter how many people God takes…
3. 11:41right and if they were in the membership 49 levels of you know of deformities on…
4. 17:33that's what they did and I've commented on that well that was the interpretation of the…
5. 24:09happened in Hanukkah and chronic is the time that the religious Jews won over not only…
6. 30:00that that which is yours be yours right which means that he uh right he regretted…
7. 35:50what happened was is that antoninus who this child grew up and became the emperor of…
8. 42:19by in inert Israel and rebby was able to convene all the sages to get together…
9. 48:08essential relationship with the archive first is Ace of and then certainly as Marcus Aurelius and…
10. 54:02four years I believe that he will enormously help the Jewish people you see to complete…

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