A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing From Boca Raton by Rabbi Mizrachi

0:00If you thought that all the problems are gone, now comes the biggest blow. The biggest blow. We have a disaster happening in our communities as we speak. There's a community in Boca Raton, Florida. The Rav (Rabbi) is in charge of this community. I actually spoke in that shul. I don't remember if it was six years ago or seven, something like that, a few years ago. I spoke in that shul. It was very successful. There were a lot of people. It's online. You can watch that lecture. I spoke about desires and things that happen in our life. It is a very popular lecture online. There's a rabbi there, modern Orthodox. There are two rabbis in that community. The main one, his name is Ephraim Goldberg. He's the chief rabbi of that community. The second rabbi over there, his name is Philip Moskowitz. They are the ones who run the show. Supposedly, in the entire area, I don't know how many families belong to that shul.

1:20I think the shul can fit, if I remember correctly, about two to three hundred people, more or less. Don't catch me on a number. And it's a Modern Orthodox. The term "Modern Orthodox," you know, can be defined in different ways because some Modern Orthodox are really Orthodox, while some of them are more Conservative and Reform. So it really depends. And there is one... Rabbi in Florida that brought it to my attention. I don't really know what's happening in the community there until I heard two days ago, it came to my attention that this Rabbi Goldberg is inviting a Christian missionary that teach the missionaries how to hunt Jewish souls into Christianity. You know what the Christian missionaries do all over the world? They invest billions of dollars, they send missionaries, and their main goal is to take Jews and turn them into Christians. That's their main goal. If they hunt one Jew, it's a big party for them. This motivational speaker, his name is Matthew Kelly.

2:41He's famous on YouTube, I believe. He gives seminars, he has books. He speaks to all kinds of corporations, whatever. And he's a believer in J.C. He's an idol worshiper. Idol worshiper, let's not forget that. And the rabbi that calls himself a rabbi—I don't understand how it can be such a chutzpah to call himself a rabbi. And Orthodox, nevertheless. He invites the head of the missionaries into his community to speak to the audience to motivate them to succeed in life, the purpose of life. Somehow, there are not enough Jewish speakers. The best speakers in the world are Jewish speakers. All kinds of Orthodox, Litvish, Hasidic, Sephardi—all kinds of different speakers all over the world speak beautiful English. Why could he not find one that can motivate the community and give them the speech they want? Very interesting.

3:47He had to go and find a Christian, an enemy of the Jewish nation. I'm talking spiritually, not physically. Spiritually. It's a spiritual war between the idol worshippers, the missionaries, who hunt thousands of Jews in Israel every year, and here in New York, and right here, a few blocks away from here, the Heaven Center. Over there, sorry. Right? What? Every Saturday. Every Saturday, right here. O and P. O and P. I was right. It's right there. On Friday. and Brighton Beach, okay, he ran there. Half a mile to my left, half a mile to my right, hunting Jews, hunting Jews on a daily basis. And they do it in Florida, and that's their goal. The last thing he cares about is to come to speak to a bunch of Jews in a synagogue. One or two hundred people, I promise you. There's only one agenda behind it. After that, they get in touch with me. I give out my business cards, I distribute CDs and books. They begin to buy them, they order online, they write emails, and then they invite me to speak in other places. Slowly, slowly, I achieve my mission to bring more and more Jewish souls closer. The absurdity is that, guess who this Rabbi Efrem Goldberg is?

5:05Do you remember the letter against me a few months ago? A few rabbis wrote that no one should invite me to speak. They disagree with my Kiruv style. I'm too strict. I'm a danger to the Jewish people. A danger. You understand? Someone who perhaps made more Baalei Teshuva in the history of the Jewish nation all of a sudden became a danger to the Jewish nation. After 23 years of such success, beyond any... any doubt, we don't recommend that you should invite him. Ah, but the Pope, the priest, the head of the Satan, invite him as a guest of honor in his synagogue. Not that he writes in a letter that he supports him. Come be my guest in my own synagogue next to the holy Sefer Torah. An idol worshiper I don't have to tell you what the punishment of an idol worshiper is in the Torah, whether he's a Jew or a non-Jew. What's the punishment? Execution. He doesn't have the right to leave. If there was a Beit HaMikdash today with a Sanhedrin, all the idol worshipers in the land of Israel would be executed. Not one of them would be left. Not one.

6:25You should know someone who persuades other Jews to come and follow any idol-worshipping religion or an idol. You execute him in the Sanhedrin immediately without warning. If you catch someone who breaks the Sabbath, you cannot execute him. You have to give him a warning: "What you did is against the rules. If we catch you one more time doing it, you're facing execution by stoning." If you catch him the first time, breaking Shabbat on purpose, you cannot touch him—just give him a warning. But if you catch a Jew saying to another Jew, "Come to a lecture of this Matthew Kelly," he's a motivational speaker. come to his lecture, immediately. If two witnesses heard it, they bring you to Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin execute you on the spot, with no warning, immediately. That's the only sin in Judaism that you don't need to give a warning for when it's a death penalty. For all other death penalties, you have to give hatra'ah. Over here, without hatra'ah, it's one of the 613 commandments,

7:34Unbelievable. That's how much Hashem hates it. Now, wait a minute, wait. When they asked him, when Rabbi Reuven wrote to him a few emails before it became public, he wrote to him a few emails. He sent me those emails, and I read them. He begged him to cancel the event before it went public. To prevent the big Chilul Hashem and the massive danger to a potential thousand families in the area of Boca Raton, he answered him, "This motivational speaker is not coming to speak about religion. He knows not to speak about religion. He will speak about what? About motivating people in life." So he answered him with a very smart answer. Nobody really cares what he's going to speak about in a lecture, obviously. He's not going to stand in front of you and tell people, "Come follow me to JC, to the church." You know, he's not that dumb. What he's going to do is just make connections with all the doctors, lawyers, and people there—the professionals of Boca Raton.

8:41And, you know, then he's going to speak in this guy's house, and this, slowly, slowly, infiltrates into the community, and Hashem knows how many victims he's going to hunt over there. That's what he told him. Once or twice, he answered him back, but in the end, he told him the decision is made; the event will take place. They started to go to big rabbis in Israel. Every dayan in Israel, Rav Gidon ben Moshe, is one of the most important judges in Israel, in Yerushalayim. A student of Rav Ovadia Yosef and Rav Ben Zion Abba Shaul, he almost fainted when he heard such a thing. He went to the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rav Yitzchak Yosef, who could not believe something like this happened. Every rabbi I spoke to, nobody believes something like this. It cannot be. It has to be a scam. An Orthodox rabbi will bring a Christian person to speak in a shul? What? Are you crazy there in America? What's happening by you over there? Here, someone like this would not be able to come out of his home anymore for the rest of his life. Just for thinking to do such a crime. To bring an idol worshiper into the synagogue to speak to the Jewish community.

9:48Just for thinking about it, it will be the end of not his career, but the end of his life. He wouldn't be able to show his face. No one will ever marry his children after that. No one will say hello to him in the street. You bring a missionary to speak in a synagogue in Bnei Brak, in Jerusalem, and you're calling yourself a rabbi? The biggest criminal on earth. To sign against me, he ran to sign, together with the other wicked guy, Dweck, from London. Remember the other criminal, Dweck? Together, together with Philip, another holy Jewish name, Philip. Together, all of them cooked a beautiful event for JC Penny and their friends. This is what's happening here. Today, he came up with a new trick. Unbelievable. If it wouldn't be said, it would actually be funny. Today, he answered on his page, someone sent it to me, that I am the one behind that.

10:53It took me over 24 hours to find out about it while it was going on. But besides, I wish I had the merit to be the one who started, to be zealous for Hashem. I wish. But someone else had the merit to discover it and to start it. It wasn't me, but I wish it was me. But listen to what he wrote. Hold tight to your chair. He said, Rabbi Mizrachi, a few years ago, debated a Christian professor in the synagogue. What's the difference between what he did and what I'm doing by bringing a Christian guy into my synagogue? Did you ever hear of such a foolish person in your life? I go against the head of the missionaries, a professor who has been teaching Christianity for 30 years in Manhattan, teaching all the priests how to destroy more people in the world. I go and target him to destroy him once and for all, to show the whole world that their religion is full of lies and a fake religion, to save thousands of Jews who fell into their hands, once and for all to destroy him like many, many holy rabbis in the past did, such as Rambam, Ramban, Rav Yehudah HaLevi, and many others.

12:05You know, many others, Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi and many famous ones did in the past. So I go to fight against him to destroy their fake ideology and religion. And he is going to help them and promote them and bring them so that they will be more successful in their destruction. And he compares between him and me. Do you understand that? It's a little bit similar to the United Nations saying the Holy Temple did not belong to the Jews. It was always Palestinian when there was no Palestinian nation until 1967. It's a little bit similar, a similar comparison. Both of them are absurd. So now I want to say something to the community of Bnei Torah. I know many of them will not care what I say. I know they'll get angry. I know they'll get upset. I took this into consideration. My job is not to find favor in their eyes or in anyone's eyes. My job, if I speak, I must speak the truth.

13:13It's a huge crime to attach yourself to someone who calls himself a Rabbi, Dayan, or Chief of Community. These titles are worthless. Someone who dares to bring an idol worshiper, who is well known over the internet and whose agenda is clear—he's not hiding it, he's bragging about bringing people into Christianity and following J.C.—is committing a grave sin. Bringing someone into the holy synagogue, in front of the Sifrei Torah, in front of the Shomrei Shabbat community, and making the biggest Chilul Hashem since Korach and his Adat, I don't remember something like this ever happening. Not allowed to stand next to him. Not allowed to say hello to him. Not allowed to do business with him. Not allowed to pray with him in the same minyan. And if they have a little brain, they must fire him yesterday, not tomorrow. If they want Hashem to have mercy on them on the Day of Judgment, they should fire him yesterday. And his assistant, Philip. Both of them. Throw them directly into the garbage can. Directly. Not in between. No mercy whatsoever. That's really what they deserve, these people. If you have mercy on these wicked criminals, you are an enemy of Hashem.

14:30No wonder, I was wondering to myself, who would sign such a letter? It has to be a real criminal. Without speaking to me a word, without knowing all the thousands of names that we get every year, of people who become Shomrei Shabbat, to come and try to destroy it, has to be someone that Hashem really hates. It cannot be someone who is righteous in the eyes of Hashem who would fall into something like this and sign. Cannot be. Slowly, slowly, I'm beginning to discover. Yes, maybe some of the people who signed there were fooled. They didn't know somebody fooled them. I heard there's one very old rabbi over there. He's 90-something years old. He's totally paralyzed. One of his students told me, how could he sign if he cannot move his hands? I said, okay, sometimes people sign for the rabbis. It's a big deal. They take the stamp and sign—the driver or the whatever, or the grandson. It's no problem. Politics you have everywhere. But this guy definitely signed. He's not denying it. He's bragging about it. Everything is midah k'neged midah. You go against someone who gave his life to save souls for so many years?

15:41I will be with the idol worshiper inside your synagogue that will show the whole world your real face. This is it. I am tired of speaking with hints. No more hints. From now on, names. Names, details, I don't care. It goes on the radio, it goes on the website, it goes everywhere. Because in the past, I used to speak about these wicked people without saying their names. It wasn't effective. Now when I spoke against this Rasha Dweck, who is hiding in London after he was kicked out from here, this liberal reform one, many people from London sent me thank you messages for saving them from this Rasha. They said, "I didn't know. I thought he was a nice guy. I will never come near this guy anymore after I heard." People get the point. The righteous people know after they hear to run away from these criminals. It's the people that are fakers who want these people to be their rabbis. Be my guest. It's your problem, not mine. I fulfilled my obligation. I was protesting publicly in front of Hashem, in front of the whole world, in front of the camera. Everybody, no one can deny it. I say that if you participate in that event, it's very likely you're going to lose your Olam Haba. Think about it. It's no joke to be an idol worshiper or to go to listen to someone like this. There's not one kosher rabbi in the world that will endorse such an event.

17:11Go to Rav Chaim Kanievsky. Go to Rav Steinman. Go to the chief rabbis of Israel. Go to any one of the big rabbis. Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, Gadol Hador in America. He's the son of Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky. His father was the Gadol Hador also. Today someone wrote that he went to him to speak to him. He said, it must be stopped. It's the biggest Chillul Hashem. Every big rabbi. I went yesterday to Rav Eliyahu Ben Chaim, the Av Beit Din in Queens. They couldn't believe it. There were a few rabbis sitting over there. Nobody understands how something like this can happen with someone who calls himself an Orthodox rabbi. This is the tragedy we live in. Clowns, clowns, wicked clowns have become the leaders of some of our communities. Clowns are better than him. Somebody asked me, who's worse, him or a Reform rabbi? What do you think? He is much worse. I'll tell you why he's worse. Reform, nobody expects from. Reform marries men with men in a synagogue. Normal people expect something from someone like that. They call him a real rabbi. Reform drives with a car to the synagogue. Reform marries the Goya. Reform eats pork on Yom Kippur. He's not hiding it. Reform can stand in a congregation and say that he doesn't believe there was an Exodus from Egypt.

18:31That's what the Reform Rabbi speaks. They call themselves Rabbis, what a joke. But someone like that, who comes with his cute beard, you know, and comes with a Gemara like this, pretending he's a big Talmid Chacham with a rotten ideology like this, can knock down thousands of innocent people into the garbage with him. Just like Korach Ve'Adato, 100%. We speak in religion here; it's not politics. I'm not competing with him to become the Rabbi of Boca Raton, in case you're wondering. That's not the issue here. The issue here is that someone is about to commit a huge crime and a big Chilul Hashem. Everyone who fears G-d must be outraged, scream, write letters, demonstrate, and if he won't cancel the event, a thousand people should come and ruin the event over there. demonstrate over there with signs, "Shame on you," walking inside, making a big mess, so that he will be embarrassed ever to repeat such a crime again. What does he think? The community belongs to him just because he's a rabbi over there? Everyone is a Jewish soul. Who gives you permission to play with their future, with their eternity? Who gives you permission?

19:43Your job is to teach Torah and to give them the right advice. Showing them that you're bringing an idol worshiper, the head of them, the head, into your synagogue means Christianity is fine for you. No problem bringing a guy with an ideology that is against the Torah to speak to your community and become friendly with them. No problem. This is what we're living in. This is it. You know, sometimes they catch rabbis doing something wrong. One fell with money, one with women, one with corruption, whatever, different kinds of things. Of course, someone that is a leader of a community and is teaching Torah should be more careful, extra, extra careful than ordinary religious Jews. If a Jew has to be very careful not to make sins, a rabbi has to be ten times or a hundred times more careful. Why? Because it's Bichilul Hashem. Many times my friend here from Moscow...

20:49Many times he said, how do you want me to be religious when this rabbi did such and such? You know what the reason is why many people do not become religious? The rabbis. That's what he said. Right or wrong? You've said it at least a hundred times to me, maybe more. Okay. So, I can tell you one thing. Of course, I don't justify it, and of course, it's wrong, and of course, it's against the Torah, and of course, it's Chilul Hashem, and of course, whatever you say, you are right. But the sins that they do are from desire, meaning a person has desire, and he eats something that is not kosher. He's not doing it because he hates Hashem. He's not doing it for ideological reasons. Some people have bad ideology. They are anti-Hashem, anti-Torah, anti-Gemara, anti-Halacha. So if they have glatt kosher and non-kosher, glatt kosher right here, they will definitely eat the non-kosher. That's not a sin that comes from desires, no.

21:59That's an ideological sin. My ideology is I don't believe in God. Or if I believe in God, I don't believe in the rules that the Rabbis wrote in the Gemara or later in the Shulchan Aruch. I rebel against it. That's called an ideological crime. Which crimes are worse? That a person in the heat of the moment has a desire, which is normal. We all have desires—physical desires—all of us, with no exception. So if a person has a local desire and he went after the money, or after a woman, or after forbidden food. or after getting some honor, or fighting with someone for a job, he wants to get the kavod. All these sins come from desire. It could be a momentary failure, and then later on they regret it, and they stop. They don't do it again. And ta'ava, we call it ta'avot. And even if they do it again, and again they regret it. It's a moment that a person has a weakness, and he fails.

23:04And again, I don't justify it. Even so, there are sins, there are punishments, and everything. But they are nothing compared to the sins that come from a rotten, wicked ideology. And bringing a missionary, a Christian, who hunts Jewish souls after 2,000 years of inquisitions, pogroms, and the Holocaust. And who knows how much they tortured us in the name of this false Christianity religion. How many millions of Jews, rivers of blood in the streets everywhere, all over Spain, Portugal, the United States, Russia, Israel—everywhere. bringing him into the synagogue as a guest of honor, I don't find another despicable big crime worse than that. I just cannot find. And if this is who you want to be, the leader of your community, what does it say about your community? I hope there are a few people over there that have yirat shamayim that will gather together and will tell him, you must resign. Go and hide for 30 years by the Western Wall, fast, wear a sack, every day recite Tehillim. Maybe Hashem will forgive you.

24:15Remember, now even if you cancel the event, the Chilul Hashem he made is already irreversible. There's no way to fix it. But at least the crime that is about to happen and continue later on, maybe that will be prevented. Let's move on. I'm sorry that I have to talk about things like this, but this is going all over. I know that nobody here cares about following Mr. Kelly and his idol. I understand that. And I know that also many of the listeners also won't care. But there are many people who do not know. And I don't see what's wrong with that. I saw in the comments that they sent me today. Some people, naively, naively. What is the problem if he is not going to talk about religion? What's the problem? They don't understand that according to the halacha, you're not allowed to stand next to an idol worshiper. They're lucky there's no Sanhedrin. If there were a Sanhedrin, they would not leave by tomorrow morning. If he were giving this speech not in a synagogue.

25:20Also not allowed. Not allowed? But you promote a missionary? No, no, no. I apologize, you're right. I'm sorry, maybe I have to repeat my question. If he would be giving a lecture, with no salary, and no rabbi would promote that lecture. Jews are not allowed to go. Not allowed to go. Everyone who is known as an idol worshiper, especially when he declares himself as someone who hunts Jewish souls and other souls, also other ones, not only Jews. After everyone that they convert to Christianity, they are not allowed to go to their speeches. That's what I said there in my comments, if you read it. That's what I said. Every talmid yeshiva, one month in yeshiva, I already know it. He doesn't know it? It has to be either money behind it, or I don't really know what's in his mind. It's definitely not a pure cause.