Rabbi Tovia Singer: This Is What Must Happen Before Messiah Comes

What’s said in this shiur

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] >> We do not have monopoly on suffering or oppression. We don't. The uniqueness of the Jew is that when we endure vicissitudes, it [music] causes us to unify as nothing else. >> Rabbi Singer, welcome to the program. >> Great being with you. >> Thank you for joining us. Tonight starts the three weeks. This is a morning period over the temple. It's also a time of redemption. Zechariah 8:19 says that this one day will be hug, like I think your grandfather Aaron Ha Cohen might have said, "Hug LaShem Machar." And this will one day will be a holiday. And I wanted to know if you could expand on the significance of the 17th of Tammuz and what this period actually means as far as the Geulah unfolding. >> It's very very striking because as you mentioned, this comes up this and the other three fasts aside from Yom Kippur comes at the book of Zechariah. The context really begins in the chapter prior, chapter seven, where Zechariah, who was the most influential of his generation, in that people came to him with many questions. And the question, imagine this, did the Jews have to still fast on the ninth day of Av given the second temple's being built? And he he's not happy with the question. He says, "God doesn't care if your stomach is empty or is full." And in fact, there explodes into a an extraordinary prophecy

Jump to a moment

1. 0:01[music] >> We do not have monopoly on suffering or oppression. We don't. The uniqueness of…
2. 3:07who destroyed the temple, the second temple, he would say to you that it was the…
3. 6:18of Jerusalem in order to breach it. It was very, very complicated. It cost the Empire…
4. 9:32But in we first we're told in the Talmud I should lay this out in track…
5. 12:43importantly, and the most difficult part of it is not the priests, not the parah adumah,…
6. 15:57group in Eretz Yisrael, I'll tell you straight away, in the land of Israel, they they…
7. 19:07Eger. No question, the the greatest Talmudic giant of the 19th century. I mean it just…
8. 22:26from 46, 47, it's the division of the land, the re-division of the land according to…
9. 25:37yourself so they will understand this is a Messianic time. I didn't write it. It's in…
10. 28:43And it's very very clear that we're living in a remarkable time. The person you were…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library where each video was reviewed against one written standard before it could appear. No ads, no comments, no autoplay into anything unapproved.