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Jun 27, 2021, 11:27 PM
Sodom Has Gucci
Sodom has Gucci. Sodomites valet your Maserati demanding your celestial guests. Offer them your daughters one in a Vera Wang iconic wedding dress another in Portofino pearl low-tops. But be prepared to flee the palm-lined esplanade. Leave your caramel bruleé latté as the mob is struck...
Jun 24, 2021, 5:41 PM
The current darkness and the Mabul: Rabbi Mendel Kessin
This is an edited transcription. It combines quotes and paraphrases. For this reason, quotation marks are not used except to indicate inventive phraseology or titles. Introduction: The time period before the mashiach comes requires even more elucidation because we are...
Jun 20, 2021, 11:31 PM
Why is There Darkness Before the End? Rabbi Mendel Kessin
Introduction: Sunday, June 13, 2021, Netanyahu was voted out of office after 12 years. Bennett and Lapid are now at the helm. The sensational nature of this development is miraculous. Reviewing the miracles: Bennett could not even pass the threshold...
Jun 16, 2021, 8:23 PM
Understanding the success of the Israeli left: Rabbi Mendel Kessin
Introduction: The rabbi reviews events in Israel, the imminent validation of a coalition of “leftist” parties led by Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid and Yamina’s Naphtali Bennett. This remarkable victory requires examination from the perspective of the Divine Agenda, particularly because...
Jun 6, 2021, 7:20 PM
Current Events & Existence of G-d: Rabbi Mendel Kessin
This transcription is not verbatim but includes much of the rabbi’s exact language. Introduction: Current Events If the “left” succeed in putting together this coalition (in Israel), it will mean the Eirev Rav, the enemies of Judaism, has been victorious which...
May 31, 2021, 5:13 PM
War of antisemitism: Why Now? Rabbi Mendel Kessin
This is an edited transcription of the audio class given May 24, 2021: Introduction: This lecture is meant as “light guidance” given recent events which have startled and disturbed many. After enumerating some of these events, Rabbi Kessin will offer,...
May 29, 2021, 10:56 PM
Meditation, nature of the soul and Nevuah: Rabbi Mendel Kessin, part 1 of 15
The topic “meditation” is one filled with ambiguity and vagueness. Despite much literature on the topic, there is much confusion. In order to begin to understand this subject, there should be prerequisite knowledge that many lack. There are four difficulties...
May 23, 2021, 4:15 PM
Bread of Shame–Nehama d’Kesufa: Rabbi Mendel Kessin
Introduction to Edited Transcription: Rabbi Kessin: Last week, I spoke about free will, what it is, what are its conditions. Now, I want to put that in a particular context; otherwise, it makes less sense. The Existential Dilemma Why has G-d created...
May 19, 2021, 5:49 PM
Sefira and redemption, part 2: Rabbi Mendel Kessin
This lecture is part 2 of “Sefira and the Redemption, Part 1” Brief Recap: Part 1 began a lecture about the stages of Redemption. G-d says: even if you are outcasts, even in the farthest regions, at the “ends of...
May 12, 2021, 2:12 PM
Mashiach’s Current Struggle: Rabbi Mendel Kessin
“Why haven’t you come?” Such is the question from tzaddikim—righteous individuals who pass away and request an audience with the mashiach. “Everything looks so bleak.” The mashiach responds, “You want me to come. Fine. But if I come now, there...
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