Rabbi Singer EXPOSES the Truth About Christianity & Rambam - Living Inspired

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[music] >> Rabbi Singer, welcome to the program. >> Hey, great having me on. >> Thank you for coming back on. I appreciate this. There's an email and a couple messages that I got recently and they've been piling up and they all seem to say the same thing. I'm going to read one of them to you and here goes. In my humble opinion, Jesus is a Mashiach in the sense that he brings the pagans closer to Torah per Rambam. So, Rabbi Singer, did Christianity prepare the world for Mashiach? >> Well, you know, if the Rambam hopefully does not hear this cuz if he would, it would crush him. >> [snorts] >> Because and I encourage you to read it for yourself and there's no text the Rambam wrote that's easy to understand than his Mishneh Torah cuz that was a whole purpose of it was to write something that anyone could understand and and derive the foundations of Emunah. I specifically want you to open the Rambam's, Maimonides, um, Laws of Kings and their wars in chapter 11 and 12 which are probably the most famous, uh, part of his entire work, which is saying a lot. And the Rambam says exactly the opposite. I need to lay it out for you cuz a lot of people say this to me that didn't the Rambam say that, you know, Christianity is they're all just to bring everyone to God in soul. And the answer is no, not at all. The Rambam, uh, explains very clearly that let me reframe him. It's striking that after the destruction of the Second Temple, uh Christianity emerges as a world religion. And

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