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What will happen to unaffiliated Jews when Moshiach comes???

39K views · Apr 9, 2024

Rabbi Yoel Gold

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a few months ago I had the opportunity to spend pesak at Bruce Bachman's wonderful pesak program pesak in the south east with Rabbi Simmon Jacobson he told over a story that resonated so deeply with me I was invited to be on a panel with two rabbis an orthodox and conservative Rabbi and it was in Huntington New York they were given 10 questions ahead of time they were able to prepare their answers each one gave their answer and answers each one gave their answer and then they opened it up to the floor this I remember around 500 people in the room and a woman all the way in the back to the left I remember she said I heard all three of you eloquently describe end of days Messianic World utopian world the world of peace I want to know what will happen to the largest segment of the Jewish population who I speak on behalf that segment is the unaffiliated the alienated the ones that don't necessarily have a synagogue don't even know what it means to be Jewish what will happen to us if the Messiah comes will happen to us if the Messiah comes tonight that was the question you can hear a pin drop all of them are secular thank God my turn was third so first came the Orthodox Rabbi and he said four words he said God will have mercy that's all he said now I don't know if you've ever heard AO but 500 people booing someone is very very uh humiliating the rabbi walks back back to his chair and then it was the conservative rabbis turn he

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