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Israel-Islam Holy Wars: Who Will Survive God’s Final Test | Divine Punishment or Love Depends on Us

1.8K views · Jul 8, 2025

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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There are many ways we can get to the end goal that we're trying to reach, which is Msiah Haba, a perfect world, a world full of peace, a world where Hashem is back in his world, where it's his world because we gave it back to him. Right now, we stole most of it from him, but we we give back Hashem his world. And we want to reach that point. And there are two essential general ways we could reach that point. It is through our involvement, doing our part, becoming a better people, becoming a better world. And then there's less Hashem has to do. What what does that Hashem has to do. What what does that mean? So the more Hashem has to do, what really unfortunately turns out in reality is more judgment and more punishment. If there are rockets flying through my sky that I'm underneath, that that is a sign from Hashem. If we only watch the news, we only understand what's happening in the world. But if we read the Bible with that news, we understand that it's all Hashem. And so it's important when you read the Bible, what's the one thing that sticks out when a person reads the Bible? You read

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  1. 0:00There are many ways we can get to the end goal that we're trying to reach,
  2. 2:34ded through judgment that that kamas now all of a sudden throws some missiles or unfortunately
  3. 5:05necessity for the spiritual world. And it's it's a function and it's an important function. And
  4. 7:39feel scared. But if you turn to Hashem and realize Hashem is with you always then
  5. 10:12because it's more fun. That's a bit selfish. So now that we have a Torah Rabbi
  6. 13:13the month of Tamuz which is the month coming and they look at the land and
  7. 15:49back down on yudamus. So again, this is a process. We just finished, right? And Moshe
  8. 18:22the land of Israel that God is going to give us. God can do anything. We
  9. 20:57looking at us with horrible eyes and finding the worst possible story you could create for
  10. 23:31this scary future? So the way I think we need to face it is this. Look

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