Why I Believe The Messiah Is Coming - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

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

My father, alav hashalom, was a keen Zionist. In fact, he got into serious trouble with my mother when at the wedding reception, which was a few days after the founding of the state of Israel, he managed to toast the state of Israel and somehow forgot to mention my mother. But my father, alav hashalom, as so many Jews, found it difficult to believe in the coming of the Mashiach. I said to him once, "Daddy, you were born in 1910. You saw the worst horror unleashed on the Jewish people in history, and 4 years after the end of that nightmare, the Jewish people had a that nightmare, the Jewish people had a sovereign state for the first time in over a thousand years. If I'd been around in 1930 and told you that all that was about to take place, you'd have laughed at me. So, is the coming of Mashiach that much more outlandish? Imagine you've never seen water boil. Imagine you lived in a world where there just was no means to heat something hotter than around 200 Fahrenheit or 90° C. You'd imagine that water just got hotter and hotter and hotter. The idea that a cataclysmic change in the nature of the

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1. 0:02My father, alav hashalom, was a keen Zionist. In fact, he got into serious trouble with…
2. 0:33that nightmare, the Jewish people had a sovereign state for the first time in over a…
3. 1:04cataclysmic change in the nature of the water turning it into vapor would seem absurd, fanciful…
4. 1:36meekly accept a set of water wings supplied, no doubt, by the UN and happily paddle…
5. 2:07As a believing Jew, it's clear to me that the only solution to this situation is…
6. 2:37against all the laws of history, so I believe he will bring his redeemer to Zion.…

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