Part 1 Rabbi Tovia Singer - Let's Get Biblical - Jesus was a Jew, but can a Jew be for Jesus?

[Music] rosswall we should both have louise machado also for the continued reforeshalema for harvey kaspin who underwent triple heart surgery have in mind i am without any further ado rabbi singer wow um i know this sounds strange but it's very exciting to be in a singaporean and i just for a moment a woman a woman there asked me about these words before and i don't know about you but i never saw this prominent in the cinema coming to you it's really very very beautiful so it's a possible it's parakeet i think it's plastic base pacific puzzle base umrah should listen to my words it's it's actually in straightforward prosaic biblical hebrew this would not be the normative way to write that out so it puts the emphasis on umrah it normally would be god listen to my words with my words god this is very very exquisite and this is which means please consider my meditation on this listen to my heart it's very beautiful this is a a very big theme to listen to my heart not just my words he was a very great man imagine enduring the pain and agony of this giant you know david is mentioned in tanakh more frequently than anyone else is mentioned 770 times in time don't get excited the great man he endured so much so much pain in his life so much suffering in his life who among us could have withstood with this great man of god did and he never gave up on god and that's what makes him so extraordinary he never gave up he never gave up and in fact in our holy words that he left us he talks about he cries out hashem help me i'm in very big trouble i'm suffering terribly as you can well imagine the church would use his words and apply it to to their to their man god but he ultimately never gives up it is your staff it is your rod they both comfort me thanks psalm 23. this is really very striking i never saw that [Music] i want you to know that my congregation is very angry at all of you that you slapped me here no they would just like to be here i should um begin by saying that to give you a little bit of background into what i do i devoted my life as some of you know to helping jews in the church return back to the truth and the beauty of the jewish faith but the question i'm asked often is how how did a nice jewish boy like you from borough park brooklyn ever get involved in such a thing how is it what's going on how did you enter but when i was a young man i i when i was a kid i grew up in you never heard of it boro park brooklyn you never heard it's a growing community to try and maybe they can get a community they're not sure if they'll be able to strike it they'll put it together but maybe they will you never know but i was born 15 years after the show i was born 15 years after the holocaust and everybody i knew in the gentrified world i grew up in who was not jewish did not like me and i didn't care for them very much nothing personal i just did not care about people who were not jewish because every jew around me pretty much not everybody people had numbers on their hands wherever i went and i knew who gave this to us i live in indonesia i serve as rabbi and jews were saved in indonesia it's the far east jews were saved in the philippines by the thousands it's the far east but i knew what the church had done to us and it was only christian europe that could have produced the greatest horror in human history to see on the streets of new york people with a t-shirt blazing the jews for jesus shocked me to my core shocked me to my quote it would be like jews for isis i would just i just couldn't fathom what i could not found like jews for al qaeda like it's it's like a bomb went off in in my soul in 1973 evangelical christians gathered from around the world in a city in western europe in the most western one of the most western cities in switzerland in lausanne they gathered there to study a problem of the jews not the jewish problem but the problem of evangelizing the jews fundamentalist christians gather to understand why have the jewish people resisted the cross for so long why have the effort to evangelize the jews basically was a miserable failure christianity spread throughout europe like wildfire south america christian missionaries came from spain and portugal and converted masses the largest roman catholic country in the world is in south america not in europe and the jews with all their problems the one people who were there who speak the language of the bible they're the ones who are most difficult to convert moreover 1972-73 this was only a half a decade after jerusalem fell into jewish heads was liberated they anticipated that the second coming of jesus was imminent the jews had to be converted beforehand based on a verse in matthew 23 it's not a pretty very it's not a pretty chapter but the chapter ends jesus is speaking we are called to a jewish audience and he ends the chapter by saying i will not return unless you say blessed is he that comes in the name of the lord because jesus was speaking to a jewish audience in that chapter the church understood it to mean one thing what jesus was actually saying is i cannot make my second coming unless the jewish people accept me they say barack obama and the jews therefore must be brought to the cross they must know about the savior in order to enable these three terms so make no mistake about this the church wants to convert the world not just the jews the great commission of matthew 28 applies to everyone into all nations but there's an obsession with the jewish people not just because of matthew 10 verse 34 and 35 not just because of romans chapter one not only because of that because the jewish people play a unique eschatological role and it is our conversion god forbid that will trigger the second coming the jews must be brought to the cross we're now a half a decade after the after the 67 war we're now a half a decade after harabayas biodenu moreover they believe that jesus is going to make a second coming by the year 2000. so there was an imperative we had to bring the jews to the cross the people who the type the christian denominations that were most interested in the jews are those who are part of a movement we'll call it pre-millennial dispensationalism i'm not going to spend time on on charles on darby for a moment i'm not going to spend time on him but there was a a growing movement especially in america because of one british minister who came to the united states spreading a new gospel that the jews are still chosen that is not what premillennial dispensationalism actually means and it's not germane to this program but one part of it is that the covenant that god made with the jews has not been abrogated and they hold they completely rejected what is called replacement theology or it's called new covenant theology that the church is a new israel that is the standard in the roman church in the eastern church and the most protestant denominations until then the jews of course were chosen of course they had the blessings but they lost it when they committed the unspeakable act of deicide for killing god and therefore the churches of new israel that was the theology but he came to the united states and spread a different idea and that theology is that god cannot break his covenant with the physical seed of jacob that's not possible he was right because the tyrant says and the nobody says over and over it can't be even if they sin i will never break my covenant with them even in the most difficult chapters in the take leviticus 26 what is a very difficult chapter we were told about blessings and curses and it's very very difficult to read it's painful but what how does the chapter end verse but one day the church of israel in their exile they'll turn back to me and i'll bring them back i'll remember my covenant now i'll bring them back never never never could could my relationship with the children of the overall music and yeah could be abbreviated so says the lord who created the son and the son to illuminate the dumb days today and the stars of the moon to illuminate the night if these wars shall pass before me so shall i break my covenant my promise with zara yacon with the seed of jacob zara always means physical biological always that's the word in hebrew it also happens to be the exact same word in arabic and his message spent spread by many others so moody famously the scofield bible which was published in early 20th century and exploded i mean millions were sold by by world war one and i don't remember the numbers scofield was a brilliant man he was actually a lawmaker in the united states cyrus schofield but it was these people that spread this new gospel now these people were completely committed to converting the jewish people but they believe that the land of israel belongs to the people of israel why color is the world belongs to me and god gave this land to the jews and they had to return but we have to bring them to know jesus and they would gather a quarter of a century before the year in western switzerland to figure out why had the church failed in the past to bring the church to bring the jews to their lord why has it been so challenging why has this been essentially an utter failure of course they were able to convert mahler because mueller wanted to be the head of the the symphony but they couldn't get why can't they just conquer iran and moreover the jews are the ones who are reading their bible in its original language who else speaks hebrew who else speaks washington kurdish only the jews no christian schools i'm talking about my kids teach hebrew to their students nowhere i don't know the single school in the united states that does why has the church failed to bring the jews to the cross and they discovered that there were two basic problems very quickly and the problem the first problem is they realized it was a public relations problem you could actually read this little zomb conference on jewish evangelism google it you can read the minutes the christianity first of all had a public relations problem with the jews has a public relation about what kind of pr problem could have with the jews so they discovered as it turns out who would have known but it turns out that jews tend to equate christianity with persecution they've managed they brought the giants the geniuses they must have starbucks bringing in their up all night to come up with this they figure somehow i don't know how it happened but the truth is to have a point i never heard of i never heard a jew go oh jesus christ what a roman collar basically in a black jacket and that's the whole outfit but as you know here in accesstrell they have fancier outfits and they should have consulted versace first before they came out with the darth vader thing i don't need to make them so but they came with but here they're walking around with a whole the whole regalia you know with schmuckers and things flying in helmets and they have things that consensus and stars and jews i've done that used to this and come here give a look what's going on over there you know why if it's a if it's a harry krishna with a shaved head with the hair in the middle so we go oh it bothers us right if you see a buddhist monk on a bus or a train and he's walking around his outfits whatever they wear all right but if we see everyone and we see a nun walking around in the in the airport we see our preach average you goes oh i don't know what goes after who but we notice it why it's engraving us all that image is repulsive repulsive to us and therefore they took up a very important approach you're jewish we love you l.o.v we love the jews are these jokes to advance to this section we love you you don't like it you're chosen they love you persecution no no any christian that persecuted your name jesus couldn't possibly be a real christian i've told this i i was i remember i was in hbu houston baptist they were telling me that and i went to the library and the library was full of stuff written by luther and why why don't you throw this garbage out the window they are by the way very sincere that's a note they are not pouring this love out because they're trying to convert us they actually are independent they're not they're they're not interdependent it is not a scheme their theology just does tell them to love the jews and genesis 12 3 does apply they also want to convert the jews but they do use we love the jews to convert the jews but even if they knew i don't want to mischaracterize the evangelical community which often and rightly so we're suspicious but i do want to make this point if they knew that they would never convert another jew they would still support the jewish people just know that they are not interlinked are any people here who are christians but we're christians you know i'm telling you the truth so they will well they will exploit their genuine love for the jews and their belief that god that the covenant that god made with israel is forever and cannot be broken they do exploit that for jewish evangelism but it is independent of it do you all understand me but just loving us to death would not be enough it wouldn't be enough because because that's not the reason why jews don't believe in the teachings of the church you don't they have a claim you need to believe in the messiah that he came for you and if you believe in him you're saved and if you believe hath not you're dead there is no hope for you mark chapter 16 there is an eternal lake of fire that awaits those who do not accept jesus as the lord and savior 2 thessalonians chapter 1 verse 8 there is no salvation outside of the cross that is the message of jesus for jesus i do not want to mischaracterize what they believe in the fundamentalist christian world they believe that there are the world is divided into two parts those who are saved and those who are condemned to the eternal fires of hell there is no gray unless there are no one ever heard the gospel but setting that aside you must believe in jesus if you do you are going to have it and if not you are lost you're going to hell there is no salvation for you outside of the cross being outside the blood of jesus john 15 6 describes what happens to those who don't accept jesus as the lord and savior they're gathered like sticks and twigs and man set him a fire when the french crusade the first crusade came to her to throw and came to slay of 1099 the estimates vary of how many jews were in new flag at the time during the thousands they took all the jews and there was no new city there was not an old city it means even though technically but there was that's when they took all the jews and they put them into a synagogue and locked the doors from the outside lit the synagogue got fined reciting this passage there is no salvation for you outside of the cross god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son so that anyone who believed in him would not perish but have everlasting life john 3 16 was once lecturing in brooklyn i didn't know it but after the lecture people came over to me as it turned out one was my rebbe rabbi frankel from fifth grade i was 10 years old he walked up with him my review in brooklyn was at my lecture and it came over to me after the program and he said i told you if you would have known your hummish like you know the new testament i didn't know how to take that so basically around the time i was born israeli mossad agents went to argentina to capture one of the most wanted nazis alive and as sure you know he was captured he was surreptitiously brought here to the holy land to stay in trial for crimes against humanity his name is is it really a very important book on this anyone remember the prosecutor in the case gideon justice in jerusalem very good reading so eichmann was found of course guilty of his crimes and he was condemned to be executed in may 1960 the end of may 1962 two days before his execution he requested a dutch confessor and although the conduction that he murdered were not afforded that before they their lives were taken from them the state of israel obliged he was said to have accepted jesus as the lord and savior two days later he was executed and cremated in christian theology if if eichmann's conversion was genuine following his execution he went to heaven and the jews that he they didn't believe they went to hell i i um share with you that very troubling anecdote for a reason because um you want to if you want to understand the drug and theology you have to look at it in the most extreme sense now you need to believe in jesus if you don't you're going to hell that's pretty important i don't know about you but i don't want to go to hell and you spend a lot more time being dead than alive you want to get that part of your career right so this is a very important matter a lot of people believe that jews are impressed with numbers they're doing they handle it's the largest by far the largest religion in the world it's not the fastest growing religion that's the largest it's a very big claim according to them you could be a nice person but if you don't believe in jesus you're going to go to hell you can be a nazi but if you accept jesus you all your sins are forgiven so we naturally have to ask a very basic question you know you want to do the right thing i mean you love hashem i'm sure that's why you're here not just in the slap you're hearing you're here in the hollywood so we would ask you a very simple question you want to make sure we're right i know it's not politically correct but when you want to know the truth you know it doesn't make a difference right let's say you go to the doctor the other doctor something bothering something they go to the doctor i don't know right so in america go to the doctor the doctor does things that if anybody else try to do it you call the police immediately right did they do that yeah here in israel so they do they put that at the table right and they put they always put delicatessen paper there i got it i feel like a pastrami sandwich people got a coastal next to me why would any person ever submit themselves to this humiliating thing why why would we all go whatever the doctor says run around like this put your hand then he charges you at the end which is mind-blowing why would we ever subject ourselves so something so unelegant because really you got a doctor all you care about is look figure out what's wrong with me and just give probably what diagnosis and just give me hopefully it'll only be a white pill i have to take once and that will be the end but whatever is figured out whatever you have to do you need to know political correctness does not exist in a doctor's office as it shouldn't and it also does not exist here we wouldn't know the truth they won't know the endless we love that show we want to follow so we have to ask the fundamental question how many times does it say throughout the entire corpus of the jewish scriptures is very large it's more than twenty three thousand verses there are three hundred and four thousand nine hundred and one words in tanakh it's a very large sacred document how many times does it say throughout the entire corpus of our holy scriptures that remember when the messiah comes make sure you accept them and you don't reject them that should be way up there i mean after all cross-dressing is there a couple of times right it's the vintage cockroaches i know that messes up your dinner plans but as it turns out the insert to eat insects is there right there all kinds of commandments in the in throughout our holy scriptures so it should be if everything comes down to this god bless addressing it comes down to this that when the meshiac comes make sure you accept him and you don't reject him according to christianity it should be all over the place the commandment to decline to the convert you know you miss this if you're kind to someone who has converted to judaism do you know how many misses you become you haven't it's the most 25. if you're around someone who has chosen to who chose to be chosen as someone who's a guerrilla civic and you fear how be very careful what you're saying hashem is watching if they cry hashem will see the tears he's watches over them we are told by the church that everything comes down to this so it should be that tanakh is filled he's pregnant with passengers that give us this stark and strong warning that when the messiah comes make sure you accept him and make sure you don't reject him that's not something that they would fail to to remind us of so we have to ask the question throughout the entire body of our holy scriptures how many times do we have this mitzvah that when mashiach comes make sure that you accept it and don't reject them by the way don't answer yet i wanted to ask you another question why would we only look in talaq for the answer to that question even the christian has to agree to this point why would we only why would we restrict our certainty why all christians would agree that the answer has to be tonight right there's a axiom here there's a postulate here this is all christians would agree that it's possible for the jewish bible to be true and the christian bible false it is impossible for the new testament the christian bible to be true and the jewish scriptures false that can't be because of the christian bible why because there's nobody was fighting the jews it's misquoting but it's quoting you when mercy on a set he had actually an interesting idea in the second second actually there were two different gods the jewish bible in the christian life was so incompatible that um there had to be two different gods there was a god in the old testament and he believed that the god of jesus was the superior god he didn't like the gnostics believed that the god of the jews was evil but he thought he was not he was inferior but marcia knights are long gone he was in the sands right they are incompatible the reason we would restrict our view only to the jewish scriptures is because because of the old christians away the jewish bible is the word of god the new testament is what is in question you can't use circular reasoning improve christianity from the gospels and the writings of paul so my brothers and sisters throughout the entire corpus of tanaka throughout all 24 39 books how many times do we find the prophets telling us that when the messiah comes make sure that you believe him and you don't reject him how many times zero nowhere why because it is not a part of god's salvation program that's why it's false there's not one verse even according to the christians there is no such verse you're like what listen carefully even if you'll yes we'll talk about but even according to isaiah there i'm standing by isaiah 33 they will understand the daniel 9 they're understanding michael 5 2 their understanding of of [Music] zechariah 12 10 it never says that if you believe in your savior you don't believe in him you're lost that doesn't save me according to them there is no passage like that even according to their horrific translations does not exist whereas we're dealing with torah this one's only work we're dealing with hashem does say in deuteronomy 30 before you had placed life and death of good and evil you must choose life that you might live i call heaven and earth as witnesses magnificent we have no such thing about moshiach i want to ask you a question i want to ask you this question let's forget about christianity for a moment and we can i i didn't mean to be funny um we can because christians are dependent on us but we're not dependent on them they're not relevant to us sociologically historically they're very important to us but uh theologically they're irrelevant to us why for a moment i'll ask you doesn't it say anywhere in tanakh listen carefully that when the sheikh comes make sure that you accept him after all he's going to be the heir to the davidic promises made of a davidic covenant 2nd samuel chapter 12 chapter 7 verse 12 through 16 and so on it really should be please god will see michelle coming very soon we'll welcome him quickly in our time i would think that when chef comes down to the mount of olives and this i would imagine it would be a very good thing to accept him and i really would think it would be a very bad idea to say i don't want anything to do with you i reject you right so why i guess does it not say that we have many epic chapters that are clearly messianic isaiah 11 ezekiel 37 the whole end of his eagle is all messianic why does it say in these epic passages from jacob's trouble jeremiah 37 all the way jeremiah 30 months all about she has i'm doing explicitly you don't need any hermeneutic for isaiah 11 or isaiah chapter 2 or micah chapter 4. it's just why in fact does it not say that let me share times make sure you accept him and don't reject him before you answer too quickly to strengthen the question we do have such warnings about a prophet meaning if we go for example we examine deuteronomy chapter 18 we're told that when we're told that there'll be another prophet like moses but then where it maps out the prophets in general that you when if they are prophets and they fulfill the criteria outline of deuteronomy 13 and 18 which means that their message is in is exactly synced with the entire they introduce nothing new that only they don't take away they're able to do things that are miraculous they're able to foretell and so on and god says if you don't follow them if it turns out they are nothing and you don't follow them i will require it of you so we do have such a warning about nadine we have a similar warning about the judges of israel in deuteronomy 17 whatever they tell you must follow them and so on so why this means we do have texts in our sacred literature that warn us that people of god are to be followed and do not reject them and don't reject their message follow them right or left you understand i'm sort of giving strength to the question so why taka why in fact do we not find in our holy writings that if you say look when meshiach comes make sure that you accept and don't reject them why that's indonesia why why doesn't it say why don't we have such a warning is pregnant with messianic prophet it's not all it is but it's loaded with such prophecy he couldn't find one passage to put it in there right why doesn't it say wire doesn't hear me why didn't he say such a thing warn us you haven't seen the book of ezekiel is essentially a three-part book one section is only he couldn't one verse when he comes make sure you accept him in argentina it doesn't tell me why there is not a passage in tanakh that warns us that comes accept him and don't reject him tell him yes because not an important part of our theology it's not true it really is it really is and not only that we it's the 12th of the third i think i apologize and just say we overstate that i want to say this i i don't want to mischaracterize anything i think part of it's not a big part of our theology is largely a polemic a bad secular polemic against christianity we're saying hello you make all of your mothership is not so important it's not correct and i think it uh it doesn't so no it is a very big part of it and it's the 12th principle of faith that i believe in fact like the years to come today let's just i i'll ever think but i just want it is very very important why doesn't it say comes yesterday right testing's there he's a dear friend and a very great rabbi who's during his time it's i really shouldn't allow you to answer these questions it's not really fair to the audience you're not playing another therefore why doesn't it say you're begging the question he's going to do all these things so why doesn't it say like he does it but make sure you believe him it's like it's what he does that proves he's the mashiach the problem is i have to tune down your iq a little bit that was very brilliantly said it was almost too brilliant so i have to dumb that down a little bit so everyone will understand what he said uh anybody else want to take a shower gentlemen here yes that was brilliant that was exactly that was the best dance i ever got in my life actually yesterday because the tenacious clearly and the sages will come once and will be rejected the first time and will then come again so this is what the scripture says i i just so i'm not trying to catch not a trick question where does it say that the messiah will be rejected that's what you said where does it say that that's all 53 is 12 verses just give me one verse where it says you don't need to quote it by heart just give me a number number which verse all right so let's move on it doesn't say it anywhere we don't be in church yes sir we don't have to believe it will be self-evident the answer is that it would be like saying to believe this is your right hand when meshiach comes the events that will unfold will be as such that will require no faith whatsoever in fact what he said even goes further the essential the essence of the coming of the most important central feature of the coming of shia as the rabbi alluded to is that the whole world will know the knowledge of god will cover the world as the world recovers the sea isaiah chapter 11 verse 9 and all nations will speak of a pure speech zechariah zephaniah chapter 3 verse 9. and king of the whole world zechariah chapter 14 everyone will know the truth in those days no one that can have to teach his neighbor or strength about god for they shall all know me from the least of them to the grace then declares the lord it's built into the system it's built in it that is precisely what we'll have in the mushack arms the events will that will occur will be so self-met will be so manifestly clear that everyone will know and you know what the guy am i going to do it's not that the grain are provoking the jews to jealousy is our good friend and the great luminary paul says in romans it's just the opposite as we've told zechariah 8 23 in those days 10 people 10 10 people of different nations will grab the head of the jew and say take us with you because we have hurt we have heard that what that god is with you it is which is plural i had christians saying that is jesus while it's in the plural in english you and you could be plural singing we don't know so with you all and if we're wrong the most important thing in the world and that is jesus why are the guys coming to the jewish people it should be the opposite when jesus makes his second coming all the jews will go i'm sorry i made a mistake i'm sorry i apologize teach us now about the trinity and about sunday worship and where you're gonna get to us and please teach us about all these wonderful things the answer is that all the grain will become in fact exactly three my friend it is speaking of the kings of nations who are shocked to depaul by all the current day of the days and who they will what they will see will be like nothing they've ever heard or considered they're going to say who would have believed this report this show this report is hearing and look to whom the army lord has been revealed that's isaiah 53 not delicious anyways it's just the opposite of being raised that they made a terrible mistake all this time and they'll say oh i see now the servants who are told already in isaiah 41 they're saying isaiah 44 1 44 21 2145 verse 48 verse 20 49 verse 3 is the servant hold over and tonight not that people reject him you and me we're going to stay together for another couple of weeks is everybody stop in a moment the key is that it's the system also the events that will unfold what will happen when mashiach comes there will be a worldwide peace that will grip the world nation will not lift the sword against nation and they will not learn a war anymore animals that are predators and prey will lie together whether that means in a hyper little sense or as a figure it means it'll be world peace as the prophets foretold going back two thousand not five hundred years ago about two thousand seven hundred years ago by the grave prophet and so on and so forth so our prophecies are that they'll be there are many who lie in the earth daniel 12 2 that will arrive to everlasting life another everlasting damnation 26 verse 19 the first the graves sheikh they offer it's very delicious he refers to those who are in the grace what's a sharkhand in hebrew someone's shaking [Music] the dead will arise but they they pee those who are in the grave they're just they're renting out a little muck and they're gonna be absolutely gonna be out it's temporary for all those who say that the resurrection was invented later by daniel so this is isaiah 26 even for our good friends who say in isaiah it was written by 800 authors they all agree that this is written by the original anxiety and the temple because i'm additionally built and will stand forever and no one who's uncertain size both of the flesh and of the heart will be able to enter my sanctuary do you hear that nobody uncircumcised colin is great wherever he is hear that damned galatians 5 and 6 up with tanakh that's right the end gathering of the exiles isaiah 43 verse 6 hashem will never forget about you will find whoever you are in the most distant island i will gather you in from the end of the earth i will bring you i will not forgive myself watching these prophecies unfolding for our eyes today where jews are found to the end of the world and hashem has not forgotten them and the promises are filled before our lives right now and these are the kinds of prophecies that we find that the base of migration has described in the greatest detailed messianic prophecy this is ezekiel 40 through 48 really 47 is all about the besanic dash the third temple the final temple what detailed detail is there and then the nationals will know that i have learned when my sanctuary will be among you ezekiel chapter 37 verse 28 the latest passage of such a delicious chapter ezekiel 37 famous the valley of dry bones it's so shocked it's so delicious it should be like honey on your tongue that's why we reject the tenants of christianity because it's not found anywhere in tonight if it was we believe in a second we'd all be in church if these texts in the christian bible were inside the jewish scriptures of course we would we're not idiots the reason why the jewish people want to give their lives not to become christians is because we follow the words of our holy prophets of blessed memory that's all there now it's true there are many people who love jesus and jesus changed my life and i'm no longer on drugs and drinking alcohol all religions have members like this almost all religions you meet people right you hear a christian testimony yeah right what do they say tell you here's something i thought you were why you watching coming together except jesus in my life the story goes like this i'm really not mischaracterizing when the testimony goes you don't understand rabbi i was on drugs i was a prostitute in the streets of new york i was vomiting all over the streets i was on drugs i was high i was on alcohol i had i was this and that and then i found jesus right or wrong am i those of you who know know the mindless is that a typical testimony like people who are on drugs and heroin and alcohol and rock band players then when you're on drugs and vomiting on the streets of midtown manhattan that's the time you're going to make the best decision of your life well my brothers and sisters we've all met we've all met people who chose to be who chose to be part of colossal who who who who embraced in the shovel who came to that calling i never met someone who converted to the jewish faith and said i asked them why did you convert every joy so probably why'd you convert like well why wasn't it's like one of the dumb jewish questions it's delicious beautiful anyways we have this thing so what's your story i have yet to hear the gear certificate everybody settle down i got a great story earlier i was on the streets in new york throwing my guts up laying in my vomit drinking my saliva high unmasculined drip of heroin and methadone and masculinity and and whatever [Music] and i found moses no i have never met this person that you have i'd like you to introduce it what's going on here why are the people who are making all these decisions when they're throwing up in new york they're the ones to the right but the people who will tell you when i i wasn't just a counter like this i wasn't just like this i was a born again christian hyped up boarding a christian and how did i find the terrorists true i was not i was high on god not high on drugs what a difference so i say to all my dear friends hashem we are living in unique times right now and why did hashem according to his wisdom and his understanding that we should be here and my great my health is they did my great grandfather after whom i was named was murdered by the nazis in the spring of 1944 in hungary why wasn't he i don't i don't know hashem have shed me to promise i'm gonna bring you home and yes thank you so much [Applause] [Music] uh [Music] a