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Divine Warning About Israel EUROVISION

7 years ago

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1:05Blossom far and do everything possible to ask Hashem for forgiveness. Ask Hashem for mercy because right now there's something happening that most of you don't understand—the magnitude of what's happening. Rav Chaim Kanievsky doesn't write letters. Let me just tell you that people say a lot of things in his name. Rav Chaim doesn't write letters. He doesn't write letters. He's too busy learning Torah. People say things in his name that he doesn't say. What he says is usually in books. He doesn't write letters. He wrote a letter. He publicized the letter, and he says all of Am Yisrael right now is in serious danger. And we already have signs of it. The day after, Bibi Netanyahu said that 30,000 Jews are allowed to violate Shabbat because suddenly he became a posek. Okay, for Eurovision, for this garbage of promoting homosexuality, for a lack of modesty, for tziniut (modesty), for the garbage present in the world—30,000 people are going to violate Shabbat for it. Guess what happened the next day or within 48 hours? 700 missiles were shot at Am Yisrael.

2:09700 missiles within 48 hours. That's not insignificant. Rav Chaim Kanievsky, along with a few other Rabbis, spoke about it. Rav Chaim Kanievsky even wrote a letter. Guess what happened today? There was a 4.4 magnitude earthquake in Yerushalayim and across the entire country. Israel typically does not experience earthquakes. We're not like America, we're not Los Angeles. Having an earthquake in Eretz Yisrael? The Gemara states you have a very serious problem. Why? There are Pesukim in the Torah that discuss this. Why does Hashem give earthquakes? Why does Hashem give earthquakes? You look at the Gemara in Massechet Yerushalmi, Massechet Brachot, Perek 9, Halacha number 2. It says that HaKadosh Baruch Hu, on one end, it says in Tehilim that He looks at the land favorably and gives it sustenance from the beginning of the year until the end of the year. But then in another one, it says that He looks at the land and makes it tremble. Why? He says when people do certain things that are good, He looks at it favorably, but when people do certain things that are bad, He brings earthquakes. What are the good and the bad? The Gemara says the following.

3:31Ma says when people build theaters and circuses, and they celebrate with things that are against Hashem, Hashem sits there in Shamayim looking at them and gets angry to the point where He wants to destroy the world. Because his house is destroyed, the Beit HaMikdash is destroyed, and they're sitting there relaxing in a theater at the Eurovision. They're over there at the Eurovision, and they're having a good time. But he, the Melech Malchei HaMelachim, is in Shamayim, and he's crying over his Beit HaMikdash, but you're having a good time. He says this gives him the feeling to destroy the entire world. That's what the Gra says. But then Eliyahu HaNavi, Sister B. said, "Yes, that's one aspect of it, but there's something else too." What else is there? It is said that when HaKadosh Baruch Hu looks at the world, He sees that people are far away from Him. He sees that people are so far away that they're not doing the will of Hashem.

4:51More ways than just the theaters? In what ways? Rav Acha says one of the things that causes earthquakes is when there is an increase in homosexuality. Another factor, mentioned at another time and in another context... Rabbanan, actually, the rabbis say, oh, it's not just that. It's the machloket. It's the different debates, the disagreements, divorces, partnerships breaking, stealing, and things of that nature. Now we have ourselves several different reasons for why the Gemara says that Hashem shakes the land. He brings earthquakes as a sign that you have to do teshuva, whether it's homosexuality or being in a theater, immodesty, or perhaps it is the different types of machlokets and debates that people have that are not for shamayim. Eurovision is not the first time that it's coming to Eretz Yisrael; this is the third time. And Hashem says to the prophet Amos...

6:11He says to the prophet Amos, in chapters 1 and 2, he mentions it about seven times. Seven times, he repeats, or he states, or he expresses it again. What does it all say? Why does it keep mentioning the same thing seven times? Hashem says, "Thus said Hashem, for the first three transgressions that you did at Edom, at Gaza, at Tyre, different things, the first three times you made this sin, I looked away. I looked somewhere else. I said, give him time, give him time, give him time." the fourth one, I will not pardon it, and I will punish you with the sword and suppress my mercy. I will punish you with anger and slaughter, incessantly, and so on and so forth. It says horrible things; you would want to read it yourself. You can read it. They're just going to make you cry double-tight. What's happening right now is not the third time; it's the fourth time. Aside from that, this event...

7:37Full of immodesty, full of chillul Shabbat, represented by a transvestite. But last, but not least, the gedolei hador are crying over it, saying that this is going to bring a disaster to Am Yisrael. Why? Because the government of Israel always says that it doesn't have enough money to feed the poor, and... Right now, statistically speaking, we did a little bit of research. It says there are 1 million kids, 1 million Jewish kids in Eretz Yisrael, that go to sleep starving every night, hungry every night. 1 million kids, 1 million Jewish kids in Eretz Yisrael going to sleep hungry. Now, if I were the governor... If anybody normal was the governor and you know that there's 1 million out of 8 million, 12% of your population, and probably 35-40% of the actual kids in the country are going to sleep hungry every day, the least you should do is what? Feed them, and...

8:52Freedom, but you know what, you could do something even less. What can you do? Try to save money so you can feed them in the future because you don't have money right now. That's why they're hungry, right? So try to save money. What does Bibi Netanyahu do? He takes 50 million shekels—50 million shekels—and instead of feeding hungry kids, what does he do? He spends it on Eurovision. to bring Eurovision to Eretz Yisrael. So not only is he telling 30,000 people to violate Shabbat, not only is he promoting homosexuality, immodesty, and all the garbage of the world, but on top of it, instead of actually giving money to the hungry kids in his own country, what is he doing? He's spending it on homosexuality and To'eivat Hashem and all that stuff. This is why, Rabotai, the Gedolei HaDor, starting to cry because they know that disaster is the only thing that follows such a thing. So what's happening right now in the world of Jews is far more dangerous than anything we've ever seen in our life. The only thing you can compare it to is

10:07Is it every single time span that took place right before a disaster, whether it was the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, or the Beit HaMikdash—the first one or the second one. Every time these disasters happened, there were many, many signs. There was writing on the wall, like we talked about a few weeks ago regarding the Holocaust—all the things that happened for years before the Holocaust finally happened, unfortunately, there were many, many signs. I'm afraid to tell you that right now all of that is happening again, and it's happening at a much more rapid pace. It's very, very scary. Now, all we can do is very limited. One, we can bring you the facts. Do what you want with them. You can curse me out, you can write stupid comments, or you can do something about it. What we're trying to do is, number one, publicize it. Publicize that we're all in danger right now as a nation, whether you're in America, Bulgaria, or Israel, it doesn't really make a difference. Once there's a decree, there's a decree on everyone. Whether you keep Shabbat or you don't keep Shabbat, a decree affects everyone. Therefore, every single person should take upon themselves and...

11:30Some type of mitzvah, something that they're not doing, something in which they're weak. If you are a woman who is not modest, this is the time to become modest. Why? At least to fix the tikkun of the immodesty that's being promoted this weekend. If you are mechalel Shabbat, this is the time to start keeping Shabbat. At least start with this Shabbat. Keep this Shabbat. Why? 30,000 Jews are not going to keep Shabbat. The Shabbat. If this happens, some were unfortunately not keeping Shabbat. Now is the time to start keeping Shabbat. If you're not modest, now is the time to start being modest. If you're not promoting Torah, if you're not doing kiruv, if you're not donating to kiruv, now is the time to do it. You have to give Am Yisrael merits right now because we are in danger and...

12:30We are in very, very serious danger. Last but not least, what we're trying to do is actually raise some money for poor kids ourselves. Even though this is not the primary goal of our organization, we're a kiruv organization. We're trying to save neshamos. But when you hear that there are a million Jewish kids who don't have money, and when you hear that there are poor religious families, it becomes imperative to try and help. We know, and you know, that some people don't have food for Shavuot. It's hard to go to sleep in your nice, comfortable American home with $15, $20, $50, $100, $200, or even $500,000 in the bank, as some people do. It's hard. It's hard to do that. Now, we don't have much money because we lost it all, b'ezrat Hashem, but we have a mouth, we have a website, we have an organization, and we're trying to raise as much money as we can. So we're starting a new campaign tomorrow to try to raise as much money as we possibly can to at least get this family some food for Shavuot. Now, we're not going to be able to feed a million people overnight or permanently. But we're going to try to do whatever we can. If we can feed five people, great. If we can feed 500, great. For Pesach, we fed over 400 people.

13:51400 people, 400 people ate because of what we try to do. We will do a thousand times more this time. I don't know how much more. All I know is everybody has to do something. But not just one thing. Because there are a lot more people who, unfortunately, are putting the rest of the nation in danger than usual. Whether it's the president of the country, the prime minister, or whatever you call him. It's the secular government, or it's the secular people, or it's to confuse people, or it's to confuse rabbis, or it's the businessmen that are not really businessmen, but they're just crooks with a suit. There's just a lot going on, and now it's time for us to do something about it. Every person has to do something. If you can take on a mitzvah, do it. If you can give tzedakah, do it. If you can do both, do it. Do something. This is one of the things that I wanted to tell you tonight. Other stuff, Baruch Hashem, came from the questions. I think that some of the stuff scared some of the people away. But we have to say it. We have to say it because the reality is, you're stuck with me. This is the saddest news in the world. Really, I'm serious. You're laughing, but I'm very serious. You see, in the previous generations, you look at the Gemara.

15:15Previous generations often did not appreciate those who delivered the truth. When Yirmiyahu (Jeremiah) came and told the people that they were sinners, they reacted violently. They began beating him and causing him harm in various ways. They tortured him to such an extent that he regretted the day he was born. Similarly, when Zechariah came to admonish the people, he too faced severe persecution. Yirmiyahu, Kodesh Kodashim, lamented the day of his birth due to the immense suffering he endured at the hands of those who rejected his message. Tzefaniah, the Holy Prophet, in Gemara Masechet Gittin, page 57b, is mentioned in a way that is difficult to comprehend. Tzefaniah came to the people and told them they must do teshuva. And what did they do? They slaughtered him like a cow. They slaughtered him, and his blood never left. The Gemara says the blood never left.

16:15Nebuzaradan, the general of Nebuchadnezzar who destroyed the Beit HaMikdash, came over there and saw that there was blood boiling on the floor. Years after it happened, not like a week later, years and years later, he sees there's blood boiling over there and he asks the rabbis over there, the Jews over there, "What is this? What is this?" "No, no, nothing. Nothing." "What nothing? I saw a lot of blood, never saw blood boiling before. What is this?" "Oh, no, it's just one of our korbanot. We do sacrifices here in Yerushalayim, we do sacrifices. So, it's the blood of one of the korbanot." "Oh, yeah, show me." Show me. I want to see. I want to see how the blood boils. I want to see how it happens. What are they going to do? This is a general who just slaughtered 10 million people. So they take a little sheep, slaughter it, and blood comes out. Guess what? It goes into the ground, doesn't stay up, doesn't boil, nothing. It was all done. He wasn't stupid—vicious, but not stupid.

17:19He says to them, "If you don't tell me where this blood came from, I'm going to slaughter every single one of you like you slaughtered the sheep." What are they going to do? They said, "Listen, the truth is, this is the blood of Zecharyah, our prophet. We slaughtered him because he told us to do teshuva. He told us we were making mistakes, and we didn't like it, so we killed him. Now his blood is boiling because he's taking vengeance." Nebu-zaradan said, "I'm gonna take vengeance for him." He started killing everybody. He started killing millions of people. He killed the adults. He started killing people left and right. He came back to the blood and saw that it was still boiling, so he continued killing. He came back to the blood again, and it was still boiling. He continued killing. It got to a point where literally there were just a few good ones left. I... He said to the blood, "Zechariah, Zechariah, I killed the worst of them. Do you want me to kill the best of them too? Do you want me to kill everyone, the rest of them, the whole nation?" The blood stopped boiling on the spot; it stopped. And then Nebuzaradan, the mass murderer, made a calculation in his head. He said, "Wait a minute, if..."

18:46Look at what happened here. These Jewish people slaughtered their own prophet, and look what just happened to them. Their God gave me the power to kill all of them. All of these people just died because they killed one guy. What's going to happen to me for killing all of those people? At that moment, he took off his uniform, sent a suicide letter back home as if he had killed himself, put on a sack as if he were a slave like the Jews, and joined Am Yisrael, converting on the spot. He realized that everything that had just happened was from Hashem, even the death of a Jew. This is in the Gemara of Massekhet Gittin; you can see it. It's a horrific, horrific story. Now, Chaverim, when Zechariah rebuked people, they killed him. Jeremiah rebuked people, and they tried to kill him. For generation after generation, we've always had people rebuke and remind others of what the Torah says. Now, before the Holocaust, we had some of the Gedolei HaDor, we had the Chafetz Chaim crying and begging people to take action.

20:05And beg people to take him door to door to help people do teshuva. Chafetz Chaim. Rav Wasserman, alav haShalom, told people what I told you a couple of weeks ago. There's going to be a disaster coming soon. Please, please do teshuva, do something. Now, see, there's a very sad situation in this generation. The English-speaking world doesn't have Zechariah. The English-speaking world doesn't have Zecharia. The English-speaking world doesn't have the Chafetz Chaim or Rav Wasserman. The English-speaking world doesn't have even one of their shoes. It has Rav Mizrahi, Shlita, and it has me. That's what you're stuck with, guys. There's also Rav Zitron, Baruch Hashem, and a couple of others here and there. This is where we're at. This is what you have. You don't have anything great. This is how low we've become. You're stuck with me. This is what you have. Why? Because your local rabbi is going to tell you what this young man just told me 20 minutes ago. What? The local rabbi told him, yeah, yeah, go, go into the cash advance business. It's not really ethical, but it's okay, it's okay. What is that? Is that a rabbi or a bank robber?

21:24Who is that, Nebuchadnezzar or Nebuzaradan? It's definitely not Zechariah. What kind of rabbi is this? Tells his student to go into an illegal business? What kind of rabbi is this? Rabotai, you don't have much, but you know what? You don't need much. You have the Torah, you have a Torah, and you have a distinct difference between someone who lies to you and someone who tells you the truth. Why? You have a lot of people singing to you, a lot of people telling you jokes, and there are only a few who tell you the truth. And the truth? How do you know what it is? It hurts. It hurts, it agrees with a lot, and it's unchallengeable. That's what it is. So please, take the things that I say to heart and do something about them, please. Whether it's donating, doing teshuvah, or all of the above, do something. If you don't have money, and you are a tzaddik, then be a big tzaddik and come with me to my car. I'll give you a bunch of free CDs to give to people. Hopefully, they will do teshuvah too. Whatever it is, if you have time and a pulse, you can do something. You could do something—don't just sit there on your hands and say, "Yeah, I'm sure somebody else is going to do it. I'm sure somebody else is going to donate."

22:39I'm sure somebody else is going to do Kiruv now. I'm sure somebody else is going to say something. Don't be one of those losers. Be a winner, be a leader, be somebody that does something. Don't worry about everybody else; you do something. Just like some people, b'ezrat Hashem, took the initiative, started bringing people, and started taking money out of their pocket to pay kids to come to the shiur. Think about it. Why? Other than loving Am Yisrael, why would anybody pay somebody else, a complete stranger, to come learn Torah? Why? Because you want to make Hashem happy. Right now, we have a problem. Hashem is completely unhappy. He just shook Eretz Yisrael in a way that's pretty clear. It's not supposed to be this way. Rabbi Fein called me a few minutes after it happened. He says I was in a room, the whole room shook. In Yerushalayim, I was in a room, the whole room shook. The house shook. My wife is... Not sure what was happening. I thought, well, is something wrong with the floor? Like, what? Never, never such a thing. Now, it wasn't a 7.0 Chas V'Shalom or 7.9 like the tremors we sometimes experience. But he's clearly telling us he's not happy. He's not happy about Eurovision. He's not happy about homosexuality.

23:51He's not happy about illegal businesses that are happening in America and other places. He's not happy about how people are behaving when it comes to business. He's not happy that people are declaring divorce as soon as there's a little misunderstanding. He's not happy about a lot of things. We can't fix all those things ourselves, but we can fix ourselves, and we can try to influence other people to fix something. That's the only thing that we must ask ourselves. But if you're going to wait for Moshe Rabbeinu to arrive, or if you're going to wait for the Mashiach to arrive, or if you're going to wait for Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov to arrive before you do something about it, I can tell you already now: don't wait. Why? It's gonna be too late. It's going to be too late, so please take this seriously. I apologize for scaring some of you, but there's nothing I can do about it. Reality is scary, and I promise you it's much, much scarier than I'm telling you. I contain myself, believe it or not. I contain myself for some of the things that I know, because I know that simply if I say more, it's not going to be very reassuring.

24:51This is enough to hopefully make the clever among you, who are watching and those who are here and watching on the internet, understand. The clever among you are going to get the point. The situation is not good at all, at all, at all—like, not an ounce of good. Get the point. Take the initiative. Do something about it. I'm sorry for scaring you; I really, really am. I don't mind scaring you about Gehinnom and Kaf HaKela, all that other stuff, because that's just reading the Torah. But this is like a reality check, that something's happening, and it's not good. So please take the initiative. Do something. Do something. Please, I beg you, do something. I'm here to help with ensuring the text aligns with the correct Orthodox Jewish perspectives and language usage. Please provide the specific text requiring review and corrections.

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