The World is Boiling, Time To Wake Up!! (6 minutes)
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Transcript
1:24So we realize that this is not for ISIS. You don't need to be Einstein to see that the United States is heating up every day. Everyone wants to fight. Israel is becoming the most hated country in the world on a regular basis. It's actually becoming popular to be anti-Semitic. A recent study from just a couple of years ago said that over 40% of Americans consider themselves anti-Semitic. These are our allies. Missiles are being shot at us in Israel on a regular basis. Jews are being beaten up all over the world; some of them are even being killed. Hashem is watching everything unfold. I think there were a few incidents in Brooklyn as well recently. The world is not the same; the world is heating up. According to the nevu'ot, the prophecies, which you can find all over the Gemara, throughout the book of Ezekiel, Zechariah, and also even the Chumash HaTorah, these events are indicative of the period before the Mashiach.
2:25We have every single sign we need for the end of times, except one, the Mashiach himself. If you go to the last page of the Gemara Masechet Sotah, page 49, it says these are the things that are going to happen at the end of times before the Mashiach comes. When you read it, which I did a few days ago in a shiur in Staten Island, anyone that wants to watch it, and get some serious yirat shamayim, but seriously get the truth and wake up, you listen to it and it's like reading the newspaper. The daily news. Everything they said is going to happen, which was unheard of in those times, is happening as we speak. So Hashem had to speed up things. He said, "My son, I love you, but you're a rasha. You have all this money, and you're justifying giving tzedakah and helping people, and you think that's enough. You gamble with the parnasah that I gave you, even though, relatively to what I had, it was nothing. If I gambled $50,000, it didn't really mean much."
3:27But nonetheless, you do nothing for me. You're not fulfilling your purpose. And if you don't fulfill your purpose, which is learning Torah and observing it, I don't need you. What's my source? My source is the Torah. When we left Egypt, the next parasha after we left Egypt starts with the word Vay'hi. In general, any parashah that starts with the word Vayihi means tzar, which means sorrow. Why was Am Yisrael in sorrow after they left Egypt? They just left slavery. Why would they be in sorrow? Because later on it says Hamushim left Mitzrayim. What's Hamushim? Chazal explains it. It's one out of five. Twenty percent. Twenty percent of Am Yisrael or Bnei Yisrael left Egypt. What happened to the other 80%? 80% died. Hashem killed them during the Makot Choshech, the plague of darkness.
4:36But then there's an interesting Midrash in Me'am Loez. Me'am Loez was written about 300 years ago by a genius, Rabbi Yaakov Culi. I highly recommend you buy the series or at least buy a few of the first books and start reading the series. It gives you at least 500 to 600 sources, whether it's Gemara, Zohar, or other texts. all types of things for every single verse in the Torah, and it puts it in a story format. Go to moznaim.com. I do not own the company, so I don't make any money from it, but I highly recommend it. It's a very, very enjoyable series. And according to the Midrash—and you know Midrash is part of the Oral Torah, part of the Torah we got from Mount Sinai—the Midrash says no. Hamushim does not mean one out of five. Hamushim means one out of 500,000. Which means that only two out of every million of Bnei Yisrael survived Egypt. 99.98% died during the plague of darkness. Why? Because they didn't want the Torah. Hashem created the Torah 974 generations before He created the earth, before He created mankind, before Am Yisrael was even something we knew existed.
6:00Which means that the purpose of the world is the Torah. Before the Jews. If the Jews, chas v'shalom, rejected the Torah at Mount Sinai, according to the Gemara, Masechet Avodah Zarah, Hashem would have destroyed the world instantly. No second chance. No teshuva. No giving it to another nation because the other nations already rejected it. So now we have ourselves a dilemma. Whether it's 80% or 99% is irrelevant. The point is that Hashem is not kidding.
