FAKE MASHIACHS

1:41Uh... just in case you guys are wondering, uh... he's not only not Jewish, but, uh... he doesn't speak Hebrew. He doesn't know anything; all he knows is what he watched on YouTube. And he decided that he's Mashiach. He lives somewhere in India and is convinced he's Mashiach. He just keeps making videos. In each video, he claims, "I am the one. I am the ancient one. I am the forgotten one." And he keeps repeating this. He says it so many times that people are actually watching him. I guess he's not as much of a mental case as the people watching him. But anyway, he wanted to, he says, "I have a prophecy." He says, "A prophecy, you see, in the book," and he quotes the verses—though he doesn't really know them, he reads it in English—and says, "Oh yeah, the ancient one is going to ride a donkey." And then he shows a video of himself in Eretz Yisrael riding a white donkey. He said, "See, see, I fulfilled a prophecy. I rode on a donkey, I rode a white donkey. See, I’m the ancient one, I'm the forgotten one. Why doesn’t the Sanhedrin come call me? You guys need to call me, Sanhedrin." Like, he's so oblivious he doesn't realize that it doesn't exist.

2:49But anyway, this is one 'Mashiach'. Then there's another one that is a woman, but she says she's the reincarnation of Yeshu. And she's the ancient one, but she doesn't call herself the ancient one. She calls herself the Shechinah. She's the Shechinah. She wears jeans. Shechinah. And there are all types of mental cases. There's one mental case that talks to people like this for years already. Mashiach is coming. Doesn't care for in Hebrew, I don't care. He talks like this; that's how he talks, and he closes his eyes and he talks like this, as if he's seeing something. One of the things, you know, we see prophecy and Ruach HaKodesh, it doesn't come whenever you feel like it. You can't just say, "Oh yeah, I'm talking to Hashem now and He's telling me this." Anyone who says that is a mashiach sheker or a navi sheker; it doesn't work that way. Prophecy, if you notice it from the verses, the prophet shows up and suddenly starts talking about something. All of a sudden, here he is saying what happened. We were just discussing something else. Where did it come from? You were just talking to Ahav about something, and all of a sudden, Hashem's message appears. Where did this come from? The prophecy shows up just like that. Just like that, one time, and Eliyahu Hanavi comes to Ahav.

4:09Comes to Achav, rebukes him. Ta, ta, ta, ta. They want to kill him now. So, Eliyahu HaNavi runs away because Izevel wants to kill him. Izevel was the Goya wife of Achav. So, you figure, where's Hashem? Hashem, I'm Eliyahu, hey, oh, nothing. He's running in the desert. Nothing. Hashem is not talking to him. Not talking to him. He passes out from starvation. Pass out. An angel comes to him to give him special food, providing him with the energy needed for a very long, supernatural journey in the desert to reach Mount Sinai. Gives him the food. He has the food. He goes over there in the mountain, and Hashem gives him a chizuk, chazak u'baruch, showing him all types of supernatural things at Mount Sinai. But how long does this take? Almost two months. Almost two months from the time that he asked Hashem to talk to him until Hashem finally spoke to him. Some say that Hashem did not speak to Moshe Rabbeinu for 40 years.

5:20Forty years he didn't talk to him. So anyone that goes like this to you, "Oh yeah, Hashem is telling me this," is a Navi Sheker. At the time of the real Sanhedrin, it would have been the death penalty. That's what would have happened. Today there is no death penalty, but anyone that pretends they're talking to Hashem whenever they feel like it is automatic, number one, they're ignorant, and automatic, Navi Sheker. So some guy does this. Another guy likes to look like a rock star. He wears all types of weird clothes. Another guy likes to go to different Chasidic gatherings. He goes to Chasidic gatherings, and you know, the Chasidim, they're nice people, and they have their traditions and so on. This guy likes to show up, and he always has a cameraman somehow, always has a cameraman, and he starts telling them, "Yeah, you know, one day, I just said to myself, what does Hashem want? What does Hashem want from me?" Then he said, "You know what, maybe I should start keeping mitzvot. Yeah, I'll do teshuva." And the next thing he knew, he claims that Hashem was talking to him. And then he told me, "You are the chosen one. You are the Mashiach." And he started telling me about how he was mechallel Shabbat 5, 10, 15 years ago, and all of a sudden he's the Mashiach. And there are countless crazy people like this. Countless. Every week. Every week I get emails from them. Every week. So if one day you wake up and you think you're the Mashiach, smash your head against the wall a few times, come back to reality. I'll teach you about it. I'll teach you that you're not. You're not the Mashiach. Why? Rabotai, enough of the nonsense.

6:45This is every day; there are a lot of crazy people, lots of them, tons of them, tons and tons of crazy people. So you have to understand, there is going to be a Mashiach. The Mashiach is not going to be something that we could even imagine—how he looks, how he acts, how he is. It's not going to be like anything that we could comprehend until we see it. Even the things that will happen at the time of Mashiach, even the things we cannot even fathom until they happen. The Rambam says there's no point in talking so much about what's going to happen after Mashiach comes, because we're not going to know for sure until it happens. There are a lot of things that we simply can't get our heads around. We're very excited to offer you the new Be'ezrat Hashem app 3.0. It's a newer, faster app, full of Torah, and lots of kedusha through the shiurim that we do. Myself, Rabbi Ephraim, and Rabbi Chaim. where you'll also have newer features that allow you to use the app while using other applications on your phone. You'll be able to share the shiurim directly from the app. You'll be able to donate online and support our kehilla and the Torah work that we're doing.

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