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In the history of the world, there's a 6,000-year limit to things. We have a tradition that comes from our sages. It's not located in the Torah itself, but we have a tradition that history will only happen for 6,000 years from Adam until the end of history. We are now in year 5774, and if you have a 6,000 max, yeah, so if you do the math, what does it come up to? How many years left?
226. When you subtract 5774 from 6,000, you get 226. There are 226 years left in history. 226 years in history has to be broken down into sabbatical years. Everything in Judaism is counted based on sevens: six days a week, then Shabbat is seven, right? You count six years, then there's a sabbatical year. Count seven of those, and then you get the Jubilee year, the 50th year. Everything is in sevens; it's like the nature of things, the lunar cycle, the creative cycle in a woman. Everything's in sevens, and it's the colors of the rainbow—seven, the scale, right? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7... okay, everything's in sevens in the world.
Okay, so 226 years are left. Now, what we've got to do is divide 226 by the number seven. Okay, so if we divide the number 226 by 7, what do we get? Who can do that math? How many times does 7 go into 226? We've got a calculator because I'm not exactly the math expert.
No, what is it? 32? 32 something? 32 something? So, let's just call it here—32. Okay, um, so how many more sabbatical years are there until we hit 6,000? To get to that 7,000,000 years of Shabbat is going to be really amazing. We're going to have a thousand years of Shabbat, so how many sabbatical years do we have left before we get to 6,000? The answer is 32—32 sabbatical years left.
What is so important about sabbatical years? What's going on with sabbatical years? So, the answer is that sabbatical years are mentioned in the Talmud. The Talmud is our oral tradition, and in the tractate called Sanhedrin, in the last chapter of Sanhedrin, there are a lot of stories having to do with the bigger picture, like the next world, the history of time, the end of days, and stuff like that.
There is a lot written there, and it specifically mentions that the Messianic era will take place, first of all, in a long period of time, but it's going to take place at the end of a sabbatical year, which would be Rosh Hashanah after the seventh year.
And the words in Hebrew, for those who know Hebrew, it says "Mo." Have you guys heard the term "Mo Shabbat"? What's that mean? After Shabbat, Saturday night is called in Israel "Mo Shabbat." So, "Mo Shabbat," it says "Mo" after Shabbat. It says, "After the seventh year, the son of David comes."
What's the son of David? What does that mean? So, the answer is the Messiah. Why the son of David? Well, it was determined that the tribe of Judah would be the kingship tribe; that's the tribe that's always the monarchy of Israel. It's always got to be the tribe of Judah, and David's in the tribe of Judah. Ever since David passed away, we call the Messiah "Messiah ben David," the "Son of David."
So, it says in our tradition that at the end of the seventh year, the son of David comes.
Okay, great. There have been a lot of seventh years for the last couple of thousand years. And a lot of these things also, don't forget Messiah can come at any point. So, there are two options. See, in the Tanakh, in our prophet, it says that Messiah will come. It says "uho beo," which means "at its appointed time." Okay, that's this time.
And then it says, "A"—I need a good English word—"I'll bring it quicker." Means "I'll hurry it up." Expedited.
Okay, so this tells us that there are two ways, our commentators share that there are two ways Messiah comes. The Messiah comes either it comes at an appointed time, which the Talmud tells us. It doesn't tell us which seventh year, but it tells us it's going to be after the seventh year, or it will come—when I just send him to bail you out of some situation.
Meaning if the Jewish people get into some situation where we are in so much trouble, and the Gentiles have misused their free will so intensely that we have been pressed beyond, I guess, existence—that’s when Messiah comes, because God promised we're an eternal nation.
So, if we get pressed that badly, it could be the "aena" situation—the coming of King David's generation. Meaning Messiah would be because we're pressed badly, and God sent it early.
So, you have one of the two: either you have "aena," which let's call it the bailout, like a federal bailout, either we get bailed out. Okay, like that? Either we get bailed out, or it's what's called the appointed time. So there's bailout, and then there's the appointed time.
Okay, one of these two—the bailout or the appointed time.
Now, um, there could be a bailout, and it could come right this second. The bailout could come right this second. Why would it come right this second? I have no idea, but we're supposed to believe. The Rambam says that we're supposed to believe every Jew must believe that it could be any moment, any moment.
So somehow we have to hold on to this "any moment" idea that God could, at any moment, bring Messiah, and that it really could be any moment.
We also believe that there will be an appointed time in case that bailout doesn't come. The Talmud goes on; it doesn't just say the seventh year, but let's just do the math quick. We got 32 of these left. Next year is one of those.
Okay, next year is Tishrei 5775. So next year is 5775. I'll just show you what that looks like. 5775 equals ... um, Tashan, right? That's 4 + 300 + 400 + 300 is 700, plus 70, and then 5. Okay?
Millennia—we never put "Tashan"—hey stands for 5775, and you got to be a dunce not to know what millennia it is. So we know it happens to be the fifth millennia. Sorry, the sixth millennia right now—we're in the sixth millennia, okay?
So what does that spell? Let me just put it here. "Tashua." What does that mean? "Tashua" means "salvation." Okay? "Tashua" means salvation. That's where Joshua comes from. Yeah, Joshua means "salvation."
Okay, "Yoshua" or "Tashua." "Tashua" means the word "salvation." So next year is the word that means salvation.
Okay, by the way, I'm going to say a lot that has to do with next year, and it may freak you guys out royally. The rest of this class, I want you to know that I could easily be wrong, and I'd be totally cool with being wrong.
So many people have been wrong in the past. As I said before, you could throw it all out and say I’m wrong. Why? Because there's going to be another 31 of these after next year.
There's another 31, so it's not necessarily this coming year; there are another 31 left. Clear? It's going to be one of them. Next year, starting ... this year, starting Rosh Hashanah; that would be it.
Okay, so a couple things to note of why it's more likely now than later. First of all, it's more likely now than later because if you only have till 6,000 years and we have to have a temple, there's a Third Temple era.
So we have to have an era, and that era needs time, so it's got to be one of the earlier ones rather than the later ones. Meaning even if the Messiah came today, the first thing I'd say to him is "You're late."
I mean think, both the First Temple and the Second Temple were longer than the years we have left. They were like 450-year eras. We only have this left to 6,000. What kind of era is that? That's hardly an era in human history.
So if Messiah came now, I’d be like, "Hello?” You know, like, “Where have you been?" So it's got to be earlier than later.
And if Messiah wants to come at year 559, I'm not even going to talk to him. You know, I'm like, "We're going to build the temple in a year." You know, "What kind of crane can do that?"
So anyway, the, uh, so it's more likely it's sooner than later because it has to usher in this whole amazing era called the Messianic Era, marked by three major things:
1. In-gathering the Exiles—okay, that already happened;
2. Rebuilding in Jerusalem—okay, we already own the property; all we need is, as I said, a crane;
3. World Peace—yeah, we're not doing so hot there.
Okay, no, but that's the whole point of the era. You know, like the lion lays down with the lamb. Normally, the lion's eating the lamb, but he lays down. People take their swords and beat them into plowshares; they actually cut wheat with swords that were otherwise for killing people. They're cutting the wheat with those swords to feed people, right?
The Pres—the United States calling tankers from Norway to pick up wheat to bring it down the Mississippi to feed people in Africa—this world's filled with bounty. Our problem in this world is that we don't use the bounty appropriately. We don't appropriate the bounty in the way that makes sure everyone is well.
There's so much amazing bounty in this world; God creates more than we could ever even use. But the problem is, we got the few using it and the many missing it. And all it takes is a good leader. I myself—I’ll handle it. Yeah, I'm not Messiah. Okay, I am from the line, yeah. I am from the line.
But I don't care if it's me; I don't care if it's you. But someone who can wake people up to the fact that you get more by giving, not by taking. And that's the whole point.
And we can get a leader like that. We can find someone who can do that. I mean, Gandhi stopped Muslims and Hindus from killing each other on a whole continent of war for at least a couple hours, and he did that just by fasting. Imagine if he actually had something to say.
Yeah, so I mean, he did have something to say— "Stop killing each other." But you know, imagine if he really had content, like our kind of content that you get over here—power. Yeah, power would have stopped war all over the world.
Ghandi handled that; he handled India. But if he had actual content—wow.
So, again, it's more likely to be here than there, more likely to be here than there.
But there's another thing. As I said before, the Talmud goes on and describes more about it; it wants to hint, it wants to get us ready. The Tanakh is warning us about those years, to make sure we get to Israel before they close the airport.
Okay, now all these years I've been teaching this class; I've been teaching this class a lot of years. Okay, a lot of years. And even before the previous sabbatical year, which I did not think it would be okay; I believed it's going to be this coming one.
So, I've been teaching this a lot of years, but people would say to me, “Okay, you know, so when it comes, you know, I'll fly to Israel.” And I'm like, "Who says the airspace is going to be available? Who says you just get to book a ticket and come? Who says?"
So I used to always say that, not knowing what I’m talking about, and this is the first time I'm ever teaching the class after 48 hours of no planes flying, you know? Except for El Al, of course. But isn't it wild?
Like, this is the time. So, this is a great time to be teaching this class.
Okay, now, um, anyway, where were we? So what does the Talmud say? So guess what—the Talmud speaks through rain. It speaks through rain. Why? Because we have a tradition that God does not hide in weather. Weather is one of God's open-faced relationships with humanity. Otherwise, God’s usually hidden; he's hidden in our relationships and hidden in our finances and hidden in all kinds of ways that we go through our daily lives.
But when it comes to weather, God doesn't hide. And so the Talmud actually gives us the weather patterns of the last seven years so we can actually know to get to Israel—not at the last minute when it's going to be really iffy. I mean, the best you can do is you can maybe rent a jet ski from Cyprus and say, like, "I’m not going to be back." You know, and just, you know, cruising across the Mediterranean going, "I probably should have thought of gas."
You know, like, can you get to Israel from Cyprus on one tank of gas? You know, anyway, of course, there you are floating like a week later, you know, on your jet ski, just hoping there's no storms.
You know, the first year says the Talmud will be a drought year. So if you go back in the years—seven years ago or six years ago—to year 5774.
So I'll show you the years now: just someone bring me back six years. That would be '68—1968. I was born in '68, okay?
So '68, '69, '70, '71, '72, '73, '74, and then '75. And then it’s time—1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Okay, let's get rid of that one.
Okay, I'm not good at math. Okay, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Okay, good. Now, '69, it says, will be a drought. Next year is an increase in drought.
Okay, the next year is a very intense—so we'll put two of these. Increase in drought.
So in other words, the first year will be a drought year; the second year will be an intense drought year; and the third year is going to be like a really intense drought year—in Israel or the world? Israel, just in Israel.
Then in 5772, there will be good rains—not regular rains, but good rains.
Okay? The next year, 5773, says atonement—there will be amazing rains. And boy, were they amazing. The rains were so good that a week before Passover, I was skiing powder snow. This is summer. I mean, there's right now zero snow up on the Mount Hermon. But certainly, Passover—there's no skiing on Passover that year.
They were open all Passover; I think it was the first time since I've been here in 23 years that it was ever open on Passover. It was never open. Then we had such amazing rains that I was powder skiing in like shorts and a t-shirt.
You know, and of course, it's funny; there were women in dresses and stuff just like, you know, like religious women racing down the mountain. So amazing rains. And then the next year is our year—there's going to be rumors; this is the Talmud again. Rumors of war—not any war, but a big war. That's this one; that's this year. Rumors of big war, which basically means the world's kind of freaking out about war and stuff like that.
Okay? 5775, the Talmud goes on—you know what, this is going to help. Let me just fix this real quick. Okay, we'll just put a—don't you write it on top. Anyway, that's the first time I've drawn that since the day they taught it to me in school, I think I was in elementary school, and I missed the next day, so I didn't know why we drew it, okay?
And the last is—um, the last, that's rumors of war. And then the last year, which is next year, is the sabbatical year. The seventh year is—it's the war. And then after Rosh Hashanah, right after Rosh Hashanah, it says the son of David. Okay?
"Ben David," right after it says "Mo." Mo sounds—it would have said the eighth year or the first year of the new cycle. The fact that it says "Mo" lends us to really say right after Rosh Hashanah, not later.
Okay? Otherwise, the Talmud wouldn't have said "Mo." It would have said the next year; either call it the eighth, but it does mention the eighth, by the way, it says "ben David."
B, sorry, that's called "Mo." Okay, that's "Mo."
And then 5776, it says will be—no, 5776, this is "Mo," is 5776, so that will be "liua," which means healing. That's a healing year after the wars—a healing year, because think, these wars are intense wars.
So it's like, it's not just like Messiah comes, and everyone's like, you know, dancing around. It's like Messiah comes, it's awesome, it's great—except the world's healing from the massive war that happened.
Okay, healing—you say it every—I mean, it could be nuclear for all we know. You say it every year in the Passover story. Speaking of redemption in the Passover story, you take your pinky, you dip it in the wine, you put it on your plate, and you say the word "pillar."
Uh, sorry, palm tree-shaped pillars of smoke. You say it every year on Passover. When it's Passover, what's Passover? Redemption? Messiah? Yeah. And that's what the whole holiday is about, so you'll recognize redemption in the end of days.
And you dip your pinky in the wine, you touch it to your plate, and you say palm tree-shaped pillars of smoke, right? Palm tree-shaped—called "timos." "Tamar," is a Tamar tree. It's palm tree-shaped pillars of smoke.
Okay? The Talmud says, this says what? Yeah, I told you it was the last chapter of Sanhedrin, last chapter of Sanhedrin.
Okay, now, um, next in Sanhedrin, if you look out your window where the Al-Aqsa is—that’s where the Sanhedrin sat. That's the high court called Sanhedrin. This is all coming from the tractate called Sanhedrin, which was right out the window.
Okay, now, last chapter of the whole tractate—right? Yeah?
Now, um, next, next.
Okay, couple things. First of all, the Rambam says that the seventh year—that the seventh year, for there to be a true sabbatical year, you have to have a majority of Jews in the land of Israel.
Well, I'm sorry to say that for the last 2,500 years, we haven't had that. The Second Temple never got a majority. People were too busy with their kosher restaurants and their tsuris 200 years ago. Okay? They weren't—they didn't quite come back like our—some of us came back. We built the Second Temple, not everybody.
The Rambam says that for there to be a true seventh year, a true sabbatical year, you need to have a majority of Jews in the land. Well, this coming year will be the first time, according to the Israeli census, that we will have a majority of Jews in the land of Israel for 2,500 years.
Which means that, remember, we said that it could have been any of the seventh years for all of history? Well, not necessarily. It could be that only now it could be considered a seventh year, because only now we have hit the majority of Jews.
And by the way, they're coming like in droves from France just in the last few months. And now that craziness, rioting Jews are just like literally packing their bags and coming over here like boom, boom, boom. What? How's that possible?
According to the population—population, America alone, overpopulation here in Israel—you’re telling me the population of Jews? We have more Jews in Israel than they have Jews in America. Here, there are more Jews than America when you add other countries. Then it comes up about equal when you add France, you know, and all the other countries, Russia and places where Jews still are.
It comes about equal, and according to the Israeli census, we passed them this year. Isn't that interesting that we passed them in the year right before it? Right before all this is when we passed.
Now, again, this is the Israeli census. What do they know about who a Jew is? Anyway, we don't ask Israelis who are Jewish; we ask the rabbis who are Jewish.
So who knows? I mean, because every Catholic lady who was in some convent, hidden from the Nazis, who happened to be a Jew and had kids, is a Jew. And that means all her kids are Jews, and Catholics cannot have a lot of kids.
Okay, so she could have had seven kids, six girls, and a boy, and all those girls go and marry others, and have a bunch of Catholic kids who are all Jews. Okay, so that's a lot of Jews, but the question is, do we count them?
And that's a whole discussion. We're not going to talk about because do you guys count Catholics as Jews? No. Do rabbis count Catholics as Jews? No. What if they have the lineage? We still dip them in a mikvah.
Okay, sorry, you know, you've lost your tradition; you got to get a dip. Yeah, so we just pop them in the mikveh, pull them out. Yeah, and the real question isn't whether we hold them Jewish or not; the question is does God hold them Jewish?
And so, but if God says that a Jew who’s actually at this point has disappeared among the nations—even though they're really Jewish, but it's disappeared among the nations—or they're no longer writing Jew when they send around those census forms in America and you check off if you're a Jew or not.
If people are no longer checking that off, is it really a Jew? Yes, it’s a Jew. I mean, when you surgically reinstalled your foreskin based upon your behavior, are you really part of our nation at that point? And the answer is yes and no.
You know, and so it is a question, and I leave it open to question that, but let me just keep moving because of just time crunch here.
Um, but let's talk a little more about it. So we need a majority of Jews, and according to the census, we seem to be there. So it could be any of the sabbatical years of the next 32 years. And that number really should be bigger because that's really what we've got left.
Now imagine that you have—okay, imagine that you have a one in 32 chances of winning the lottery. Would you buy a ticket? Winning 32 chances. Yeah? How many tickets would you buy?
A lot. Would you spend a lot of money on those tickets? Yeah. You'd invest a lot because it's a very high chance.
So for sure, just knowing what the Talmud says about the sabbatical years and the coming of Messiah, and also that there are going to be big wars and it's not going to be so simple to get here—which we now know.
Now we know that it's not going to be so simple to get here for the time.
Some of you may be asking, “Who wants to be here? Who wants to be here first of all for the wars? And secondly, who says you can't come later or something?”
So the answer is, there are no promises outside the land of Israel. There are just no promises right now. Think about it: What makes you safe to be in any country as a Jew today?
Answer: What? The answer is that there's Israel, probably most likely.
The answer is because there is God, but the other answer is because there's Israel.
You guys think, um, you think Netanyahu's job is protecting Israel? Netanyahu is protecting Jews all over the planet right now. Because people know if you mess with the Jews, you can mess with one Jew, you can mess up a cemetery, you can mess with a synagogue.
You mess with the Jews in any country; the IDF is going to be there. Okay, they'll come in and they'll take care of business. That's the way it is.
But when the whole world turns on us, yeah, when it goes bigger—I wouldn't want to walk around even New York City—not even the Lower East Side, where Jews basically founded the whole place, not even the Upper West Side, where the Jews live now.
I wouldn't want to walk around anywhere outside the land of Israel if Israel's in trouble. Okay? If Israel's going through stuff.
Another thing is that it says that the war will be quiet, meaning we get to be quiet; we get to watch it. We get to actually watch it, and rather it's a clash of civilizations—most likely, yes—with the clash of Western versus Eastern, meaning Arab nations.
It's going to be more about the church versus Islam. It's going to be this like—and we, the Jews, are going to be this still small voice. It's all going to happen over Israel. And haven't you guys been watching the news?
Have you seen all these comments on Facebook, of like—all it lists all the different countries where people have been killed, and all the humanitarian crises that have been going on, and we, like, rank still in who's been killed in Gaza? We still rank the lowest.
Yet everyone's posting articles and everything. Everyone’s up in arms. Why? Because it's all about Israel in the end; it’s all the nations.
That's what it says: the nations will rise. This is the prophets. The nations will rise for this ultimate battle all over Israel. It's all going to be about Israel, okay? This tiny little sliver of land, but where the Jews learned their Torah.
That's how we started, the Jews do their Jew thing, yeah?
So the, um, anyway, uh, let me share with you a new subject. That's the same subject, but a new detail.
U something really interesting happened, um, in the calendar. You know, because we have a Hebrew calendar and then there's the Gregorian calendar. So they do line up in weird ways sometimes, and one of those weird lineups is our lowest point of the calendar, which we're in the middle of right now—these are called the three weeks.
The three weeks are the lowest part of the Jewish calendar. They begin with a fast day on the lowest part of Jewish history—the day we sinned at the golden calf and Moses broke the tablets on that day.
Yeah, that was on the day of the 17th of Tammuz. I have no more room, but the 17th of Tammuz was that day. We just fasted on it last week, okay? It’s the 17th of Tammuz—our lowest day in history, the day we sinned at the golden calf.
Okay, it's worse than even Tisha B'Av because Tisha B'Av was the result. This, the 17th, is the end of the three weeks. That's the destruction of the temple—both the First and Second Temple were destroyed on that day. Many other calamities were on that day.
But the three—and also, don't forget, you're not allowed to fly during the nine days, okay? You're allowed to fly towards Israel but not away from Israel. And those days are coming up.
When's the nine days starting? Anyone know? Anyway, what it says about those nine days is that during those nine days, you're not allowed to put yourself in any danger whatsoever.
During those nine days, people normally swim—don’t swim! People, um—not, I’m not talking about a swimming pool or something; it's more of a bathing issue. But if someone does swimming for sport, then it's fine. It’s a very interesting time, but you don't put yourself in any risk whatsoever.
They do let you fly here, though. The rabbis do allow flights to Israel.
Listen, guys, the 17th of Tammuz—okay, the fast day, the lowest point of Jewish history when we sinned at the golden calf—coincided with the Fourth of July, which it does sometimes—it coincides with America's highest day.
And when America hits its highest day, we hit our lowest day, which makes sense because the Western civilization, the top of Western civ today, which is America, is um... is called Esau.
Western civ is always called Esau. And Esau is always versus who? Jacob. It's always Jacob and Esau. They're always the ones fighting.
So remember, Rebecca was pregnant with twins. She didn’t know they were twins, and they were fighting in there. She was like, "What's going on with me?" She would walk by an idolatrous disco, and like one of them would be like trying to get out, and then she’d walk by a place of God worship, and the other one would be trying to get out.
And she's like, "Oh my gosh! I’ve got a skitso baby." And so, but she got good news later. She went to a prophet and said, "What's up?" And he's like, "Lady, you got two kids in there—one's crazy; the other one's cool."
And she's like, "Oh, that really makes me feel better." You know, somehow that was a comfort.
Anyway, but he says one will be up in civilization, the other will be down. When the other one's down, the other one will be up. And you look—Israel was up versus Esau with our first two temple periods.
Then it totally went to Esau—that's Rome in extension, then modern Europe, and then America and all Western countries. They've been up, and we've been totally down.
But, oh, all of a sudden we find this color. Who’s got some royal blue thread on them? Anyone got the thread? Ah! We have—we've now found the thread. We've got the right thread. We've now found the actual color and how to dye properly to get the royal
—it’s not called royal for nothing; it's talking about royalty—who’s on top? And now we found it, and not only that; it was predicted hundreds of years ago by Rabbi Nehman the year they’d find it, and that is the year they found it.
Okay? And there's all kinds of cool more stuff I could teach you. This class for like five hours, but let’s just keep going.
So the 17th of Tammuz, our lowest day, hits Fourth of July—the top of Esau’s days— the best day in Esau’s history.
Now, it hits once in a while, yeah. The United States of Esau gets it every like 40 years, okay? It hits sometimes.
But what happened one time in all of America's history? Did it flip? And they hit their lowest day on the Fourth of July, and we hit a high day on the 17th of Tammuz?
How could we have a high day? It's a fast day; it's our lowest day. How could it be high?
Answer: It hit on Shabbat. And when the 17th of Tammuz hits on Shabbat, we do not fast. We party like every Shabbat. Just like we're in the three weeks now, but tomorrow night we're going to party.
And then the last night, right before Tisha B'Av—the lowest fast day, the deepest darkest day of Jewish history—we're going to party on Shabbat and then go into Shabbat.
So this day, the 17th of Tammuz, all, you know, our lowest day hits the Fourth of July once in all of us history. It's only happened seven—it only will happen seven times in the entire world history.
The entire world, from the creation of the Big Bang all the way till the edge of 6,000, it will only have hit seven times. Okay? Till seven, it'll hit seven times.
One of those times—sorry, two of those times will be during the time of American history. One already happened. What happened? Fourth of July flipped to their lowest day was during the Gettysburg battle.
It was called that day; it was called the high-water mark because so many people were killed that they had to call a truce just to bury their dead.
It was America's lowest day in their history—a day dedicated only for the burial of fallen soldiers. And we, all over the globe, okay, we didn’t know that was happening; there was no internet.
And we, all Jews all over the globe on the 17th of Tammuz, were partying. On that one day, well, you can refer to your Jewish calendars and note that next year, Tisha in He will be a Fourth of July hitting the 17th of Tammuz on Shabbat.
And that is the only other time it will happen in history. It's happened once in U.S. history a couple hundred years ago; it's going to happen again this coming year.
Okay? Now, that is kind of trivia; it's kind of out there; it's kind of random. But who knows? Maybe it's an indicator.
Maybe, I don’t know, but it’s pretty crazy nevertheless because it did hit once. And when it hit, it was the worst day for the United States of Esau and the best day for Jacob.
All I can say is just this is kind of the last chance to come here with what you own, okay? Because otherwise, you're going to be jet skiing from Cyprus with whatever you're wearing at the time.
So the—to just, there’s a chance now that we can actually listen to our rabbis and recognize that they didn't give us those drought years and all this—they didn't give it to us for nothing.
The reason they gave that to us? Because it’s random information—we don't need that information unless, of course, they're telling us to prepare ourselves; they're telling us to be ready. They're telling us that it's not by coincidence we're in the land now, but we're actually supposed to live in the land.
And we're supposed to be ready for this stuff. Okay? Now, I know everyone has parents, and they have their own pressures and stuff.
But chances are your parents are, no offense to your parents, a little out to lunch about these kinds of things. Okay? They are Westerners living Western stuff.
Okay, they happen to be born Jewish, but they're living Western world view.
Okay, we're Jews; we don't have Western worldview; we have been taught by Western worldview.
We don't have Western worldview; we live amongst Jews who have a Jewish worldview. Our Jewish worldview comes from our sages who have taught us how to decipher the Torah and how to understand the world we live in so that we're ready at all times to be this eternal nation who, as promised in Deuteronomy, will be redeemed at the end of days and all of history will finally make sense.
So I think for all of us, we have to—it's a bit of a wake-up call that we all got to wake up a little bit. And like as much as we love our parents, sometimes you got to do tough love.
You got to do tough love, and tough love—what is tough love? Tough love is I love you so much that I'm not going to listen to you because I don't want to hurt you.
And you may not understand this right now, but this is what’s got to be because I'm a Jewish person, I'm a Jew.
And Judaism is what informs my life, and I love you very much, and I'll honor you to the end, but in the end, I've got to answer to myself.
I'm a Jewish person, and this is the edge of history. I want to be in the right place at the right time.
And it doesn’t mean you can’t go visit and get closure and give hugs and all that and eat all the delicious delicacies of your mother’s cooking—may it be kosher.
Um, but these are really amazing times we’re in, and it's not by coincidence you're listening to this class.
It's not by coincidence you've been hearing any classes you've been hearing; it's not by coincidence you're in Israel right now, and it's certainly not by coincidence that right behind me is the Temple Mount.
And the first time in thousands of years, you could hear all this information on the other edge of history for the grand finale coming your way.
Thank you very much. [Music]