Understanding Mashiach ben Yosef, Part 2
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- Опубліковано 4 тра 2024
- What does the Talmud really mean when it mentions a dying messiah? Why did Maimonides completely ignore this Talmud when codifying Jewish law? And did the death of Jesus have anything to do with the subsequent destruction of the Jerusalem Temple?
Find out in this class as we continue to explore the ancient sources about Mashiach ben Yosef. Plus: who are the 15 ancient souls that return to help Mashiach? What did King Solomon say about the Torah of Mashiach? And who is the mysterious Rabbi Dosa?
For Part 1 of the series, see here: • Understanding Mashiach...
For more on Judaism vs. Christianity, see here: • Judaism vs. Christianity
This class is based on a set of essays in the recently-published third volume of 'Garments of Light', available on Amazon and here: www.lulu.com/spotlight/efraim...
Amazing lesson as always, Rabbi. Time flies with your lectures, one hour feels like 15 minutes when listening to you. Wondering if time would fly just as fast before Maschiach ben Yosef comes...
Please record a lesson fully dedicated to Gilgul/Reincarnation. Its definitely one misunderstood aspect of judaism most people would be amazed to hear.
Thank you! Yes, my plan is to do a class on reincarnation right after Part 3 of this series. Stay tuned :)
@@EfraimPalvanov Awesome! Of course I'll stay tuned, I have binge watched like 10 of your classes in a row, and I'm planning to watch them all 😎
@@EfraimPalvanov Brother Kaduri meet Moshiach 11/4/2003 as he told the world he did. I am the one who made contact with him by email and I told him who the Moshiach is and began sending him evidences and stories and modern prophets who prove who Moshiach is and he wrote me on that day and said he believed and he did because he saw evidences ; Gods records which any who will believe must become conscious of to know and believe. Some of what id showed him is exactly what stops Russia and wars etc can we talk? Im quite sure 10/3/24 is Jubilee start so its time to appear. Moshiach cant appear to deceived lying morons as all are doing. Cherish what Kaduri saw? KADURI IS REAL MODERN PROPHET AND IS NOT A LIAR!
Moshiach is an eternal soul comes here like all other souls new body new name; illigitimate births seem common factor in many incarnations moses was moshiach moshiach was tacked to crux 4/3/33 francis bacon was moshiach and that is where moshiach can prove he was bacon an the moshiach // moshiach incarnation 2000 yrs ago had kids had davids dna in the vein then that family was important covenant family 1000s of years before then and since then played major importance in all history// been son of son of son for 2000 yrs to moshiachs bodies incarnation this time and moshiach has geneology to prove what im saying here and dna in the bone and blood and quite sure vatican broke into davids tomb stole his bones to confirm who real deal is// kaduri meet moshiach 11/4/2003 Bibi will know real deal soon hopefully before 76 th birthday! It could be any day requirement is no deceptions no lying no breaking commandments thats why you or any other dont know Moshiach because they are deceived lying and if one cant obey God they will never see and believe and know Moshiach is here.
Rabbi Efraim is legendary
Efraim is the only candidate who will assume the role of Machiach son of Joseph.
Best notification of the day! Thank you Rabbi Efraim for another lecture, Baruch HaShem!
My pleasure! Thanks Rafael :)
Agreed❤️❤️
Baruch HaShem Tov!
Garbage of a rabbi to think that Ben Joseph didn't come when he did. Just like the Bible said our messiah would come from the east... Mohammed... Coincidence? No. Never.
According to NT gospel of Luke: "And it came to pass, that after three days they found him (Jesus) in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors (rabbi Hillel, rabbi Shammai... ) , both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers... It must have crossed the old rabbi Hillel's mind that this 12yearold kid has a rather deep and abundant understanding of Torah... What if he is the one to come (twice😁)...? Baruch haba b'Shem ADONAI!
So excited for Part 3!!! Thank you Rav!! 🙏🥰✨️
My pleasure!
אני נפש חיה
ברוך אתה אבי
I said 'barukh atah avi' out loud while watching this. I survived three .380 caliber bullets, one to the stomach and intestines. It's good to still be this side of the daisies.
יז לֹא-אָמוּת כִּי-אֶחְיֶה; וַאֲסַפֵּר, מַעֲשֵׂי יָהּ.
17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
Ah-HO! ALL my relations!
I wish you continued success and true prosperity.
Y'all take care and be well!
Guard yourselves!
T'avén baxtalé!
you are really anointed on delivering knowledge. you are amazing, thank you so much. since I have started watching you videos , I have benefited a lot.🥰🥰🥰
Very glad to hear, thank you!
With all respects... "Spoken in an anguished voice and couched in uncharacteristically personal terms, the Rebbe's words deeply shocked the Chassidim present in the Rebbe's synagogue and reverberated worldwide. "How is it that the Redemption has not yet been attained?" the Rebbe cried. "That despite all that has transpired and all that has been done, Moshiach has still not come? What more can I do? I have done all I can to bring the world to truly demand and clamor for the Redemption...The only thing that remains for me to do is to give over the matter to you. Do all that is in your power to achieve this thing--a most sublime and transcendent light that needs to be brought down into our world with pragmatic tools... I have done all I can. I give it over to you. Do all that you can to bring the righteous redeemer, immediately! I have done my part. From this point on, all is in your hands..."
Amen. It kind of speaks for itself...the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson orm makes it clear that he's not Moshiach 👍 G d bless you 👍
I agree. That speech was super important.
@@EfraimPalvanov Rabbi just for reference the source: rebbe's call (1991)
on the eve of nissan 28, 5751 (april 11, 1991), the lubavitcher rebbe issued an emotional call to his followers, and to the world jewish community, to increase their efforts to bring moshiach and the ultimate redemption. amen 👍 May Moshiach be here Today 👍
It is amazing how so many Christians today are coming to realize Jesus taught Torah as a Jewish rabbi, and he did not start a new religion, as you rightly acknowledge in this message. Many of us are coming to understand the Torah did not pass away, and the covenants will be upheld to the nation of Israel. Thank you for this message. I think we're burning the candle at both ends, soon to meet in the middle.
Excellent lecture, can’t wait for part three. Thank you.
Thanks!
Thank you Efraim.... השיבני ואשובה.....🙏
Very welcome!
Ah wonderful...there will be a part three G-D willing..
Super shiur. Jofi. Shkojach. Greetings from Switzerland
Thanks!
Great videos. Thank you for these.
My pleasure!
Thank you Rabbi for another enlightened and enlightening lecture💫🕊️!
My pleasure!
Thanks for all the wonderful insights. This was a tremendous discussion.
My pleasure!
😂😂😂 it's clear from the comments when someone doesn't hear the full lecture. Great stuff Rabbi, I'm inspired by the idea of the Team moshiach!
Thank you!
You seem to be contradicting yourself with all the talk of if the messiah dies then clearly he was not the messiah.. This is true of Ben David.. but not of Ben Yoseph right? Or at least it is argued even amongst the rabbis whether or not Ben yoseph would die. Ben David they seem to clearly think doesn’t die. Because he is the warrior lion that accomplishes everything and comes at the end. But the first messiah.. the suffering one. How is it so clear that that messiah would not die? Wouldn’t it even make the most sense for that one to die? But also with the story of Jesus, we have him dying, but also he doesn’t really die.. he goes down to hell and takes the sins onto himself and takes the power from Satan. And then is resurrected.. So we have both with Jesus.. And the lines you read at the end are exactly like this for Jesus.. the death and the resurrection. So you seem to be very contradicting with the dying part. And again it sounds exactly like Jesus..
Every generation there is a new Messiah both Ben Yosef and David
hi rabbi ive got a question that differs from what i heard from a big rabbi is there an email i could reach you?
Yes, contact info on my website.
@EfraimPalvanov Can you do a lesson on the torahs take on Astral projection?
Let’s not forget that Rabbi Dosa was no ordinary man, he was a miracle worker! He wasn’t just imbued with intellect he had revelation. Rambam was a great rabbi and philosopher but Rabbi Dosa was a mystic and had divine inspiration. Jesus is the Messiah!
What about Daniel Chapter 7: verses 13 and 14. Who is this like the son of man who is given dominion over all the kingdoms of the earth?
Rabbi do you have information on Serah? she was a cantor that lived a long time and knew where the bones of Yosef were in the Nile?
I wrote an essay about her in the first volume of 'Garments of Light'. If you don't have access to the book, send me an email and I can share a PDF of the essay.
That guy really needs to stop interrupting you as you teach in these teachings. Common courtesy. Really appreciate the teachings minus the interruptions. When you ask a question, then others can answer. But to interrupt because he needs ...
Thank you so much for sharing all this with us ! I’m becoming more and more interested in learning all things related to Judaism and the Torah . You have such a profound understanding of the Old Testament… I still have some questions about Yeshua, though : did he, being, Jewish, completely followed all the Torah ? Did he believe ( or used ) in gematria , Kabbalah , reincarnation? I’m sorry for all the questions, but I’m really curious ! Thank you ! You’re a very good teacher !!!
Thank you, spoke more about it in the 'Judaism vs. Christianity' class here: ua-cam.com/video/Jgf7hBGqzJM/v-deo.html
Also there is a prophecy I believe it was in either Ezekiel or Zachariah that sounded so much like what happened on October 7th. It talks about people running away from the attackers to the desert, their houses being burned, people kidnapped and the women ravished. The only thing is, it speaks about this happening in Jerusalem. What do you make of this?
Christians heard the last 3 minutes of the lecture and said, "so you mean there's hope?" lol, Todah Rabah Rabbi. May Hashem bring his Meshiacs swiftly so all of these delusional people can live in truth.
Lol! My pleasure :)
hello Shalom! appreciate you take time to research about Yeshua at least.
I understood he was together with the Essenes, but he didnt come to divide sects or create a new religion/sect.
He just came to teach The Way to God, and it is also opened to the gentiles worldwide.
Romans11
What about Daniel Chapter 7: verses 13 and 14. Who is this like the son of man who is given dominion over all the kingdoms of the earth?
@alfredmathew9170 Good point, however, for the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, many will not come to believe Yeshua until after the Lawless One cause abomination of desolation and takes over the whole world.
Rev.13
@@kingwaymaker10349 Very true Isaiah 6:9-10. Matthew 13:13-15
I'm finally learning more about the truth. Thank you for this videos valuable information
Thank you Rabbi. Super interesting.
My pleasure!
what i said last time in part one about yehoshua that his life was the fulfillment of yakov's bracha to efraim... i meant by this that yehoshua was the first moshiach ben yosef in history unless u say it was moshe rebenu who though a levi performed this role for the yetziat mitzrayim era...
Solomon was not saying that the Torah was boring.
Soloman was saying that all the pleasure and all that he has gained is all futile and all vanity.
Hi guys I have a couple questions I can’t find answers. Why is the mountain my family comes from called Zebulon it’s in the macka valley near trabzon? Why are Pontic people the only ones who call the Pontic alps par har? How should we look at west Asian dna should we not think of that as a marker for the Israelites?ps I don’t think I’m messiah lol 😂 great video. I know my name is funny and I do plan on naming my kid Isaac but us Pontic Greeks always have semetic names. Ok I have always wanted to take back theodoro and make it my own city I don’t know if you consider that Magog and I want to be a unmercenary pirate but definitely not a messiah. This is kind of getting wierd the longer I watch
Covered the identity of Magog in the 'Third Rome' series of classes here: ua-cam.com/play/PLS68IUQOA2itggHThMzjQMnzoC4epda5d.html Hope it helps to clarify your questions.
@@EfraimPalvanov the other questions were more what I was looking for answers and after watching the other videos I really think you need to look at Pontic/rum Greeks role in the black sea and anatolia
I was just on the Temple Mount 3 times in the past 6 weeks. Just a minor correction.
Captions would be fantastic for those of us still getting familiar with Hebrew 👀... The auto captions dont even try if it's not vanilla English
The Oral Tradition is not built on the back of the Oral Tradition but upon the foundation of the Written Text. Would this be a true saying rabbi?
Everything "Oral" still has a foundation in the "Written". There should be a proof-text or supporting verse in Scripture for every Jewish practice. The Oral only extracts the true meaning of the Written. There is a work called 'Torah Temimah' that actually goes through the whole written Torah and shows how the verses interconnect with something in the Oral. Sefaria made something similar with a beautiful chart that shows how the Written and Oral intertwine. You can see it here: www.sefaria.org/explore
Help
1. Why is their a mountain called Zebulon in trabzon(fits great port prophecy)
2. Why are pontians the only ones who call Pontic alps par har
3. Why do we all have Jewish names
4. Is their any other culture with a higher percent of lyre players
5. Why are there villages names like ashkipazar near trabzon
6. Why does Maimonides have a name like a pontian
7. How come many different types of Jews have similar dna to pontians
These are just a few of the questions I have if any knows the answers I would really appreciate it
Bethlehem of the Galilee is in the inheritance of Zebulon and most of Yehoshua's disciples he selected were from this Tribe of Zebulon. Zebulon is a port city but if you look at many maps of Israel and the land given to each tribe by Yehoshua Ben Nun, the Tribe of Zebulon is landlocked.
@@tirzahifrach3057 already know that but was more wondering if Assyrians or others forcibly moved Israelites to trabzon at any point in history. Other than the New Testament mentioning jews in pontos I don’t find much
Now I'm learning more and more the truth thank you
amazing information.. thank you Rabbi
Very welcome!
If Jesus is the Messiah, then the House of David and Jerusalem will look upon Him the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
Moshiach Ben Yosef and moshiach ben Dovid are one person but it’s two different stages that he goes through.
Yes, please see part 3 of the series: ua-cam.com/video/qfUfOgNXkEc/v-deo.html
Reb Efrayim,I responded with a message to you not seeing that it was not you who responded but another person . Please look at my response to you personally.
yosef's dreams where he indicates he will be a king a moshel... is the source for the concept of a moshiach ben yosef being a real thing in judaism...
You need more followers! I am a chabad chossid, and even if i "think" (hope) the Rebbe is mashaich, your videos are so enlightening. I learn so much new torah from you. Its mamesh amazing. You should have much brochura and hatzlacha on your works!
Amen, thank you so much!
Regarding Rambam's explanation of the question, 'Why did Hashem allow xtianity to develop', wouldn't Jesus qualify to be a) the 'moshiach' for the pagan world, b) the one who prepares the world for the time of Moshiach ben David? As the violent struggle for the hearts and minds of humanity continues primarily through xtianity, does this indicate that jesus was ben Yosef? Jesus WAS killed, and his Torah-based legacy is established through practicing xtians. That doesn't mean he fulfilled the qualifications of moshiach ben David, but prepared the world. What do you think?
Wasnt Jesus married to Magdalena?
I heard an explanation from rabbi Shimon Kessin who stated that MBY/MBD were supposed to happen and be respectively Rabbi Akiva / Bar Kohba. Yet the Jewish people did not deserve this to happen, so God decided to send Jesus in order to instill some of his Torah amongst the nations. It doesn’t make Jesus a messiah, but from God’s perspective it allowed the western civilization (Edom/Essav) to start being monotheistic peoples which is good indeed
Thank you for replying to my question
@@ahavahyisrael you’re welcome ☺️
@@ahavahyisrael I believe so, but many of the validating documents pertaining Yehoshua of Nazareth and Mariam of Migdol have been suppressed, guess by whom?
Revelation 6:12-17 BSB
[12] And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red, [13] and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind. [14] The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place. [15] Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. [16] And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. [17] For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”
When the prophets say- that the nations will gather against Jerusalem, does it mean Jerusalem or Israel as a whole.
The problem of "ingathering of exiles" is that you need to want to be here. And as we have seen, many Jews prefer Brooklyn, London, Paris, and Baltimore to Jerusalem.
This is obviously a Ben Yosef job, but it is not Ben Yosef's job to ingather Jews who do not want to come. The rejection of Eretz Yisrael by people who just need to embark on an 11 hour flight is the burden of those doing the rejection not of the one assigned to ingather.
תודה רבה ❤
Just as Moses parted the waters, so would be the New Covenant.
Mem (water) is the 13th letter. Tav (cross / sign) is the 9th letter after Mem.
There are 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 books in the New Testament.
O.T. 39 ÷ 13 = 3
N.T. 27 ÷ 09 = 3
Day 3 of creation dry land parts the water.
Or even take the two sums 3 + 3 = 6 and read the 6th verse in Genesis and the water is divided.
It begins with ALEPH, divides at MEM and ends at TAV. What does that spell in Hebrew?
What did Pilate ask Jesus? "What is TRUTH?"
As someone raised Christian, but then who has leaned towards what I’ve found Jews provide as their beliefs to be the truth.. This was actually really convincing back for Jesus.. The one main thing that gives Jews message the main strength is that the job is clearly not done here.. but literally explaining the same Christian two messiah message.. one as the lamb and one as the lion. And the perfect timing of Jesus in our history.. I have a hard time not seeing that you’ve just made a really convincing argument for Jesus with this video. Who clearly massively affected the world, spread the Torah, converted the known world into monotheists who now follow the main basic commandments you would say are for Bneh Noah.. gentiles.. He very clearly played this suffering servant lamb role.. Very clearly the worlds cultures stopped sacrificing practices as his message spread.. And still we await the lion.. While also just naturally providing the time needed for the message to spread.. When you talk to people of what brought them to this message.. it’s 99% of the time through a christian.. through the message of Jesus. It’s not the Jews converting the world. Even today. And when we look at who is providing the path for Israel to exist. It’s the Christian nations. If we are going to talk of one messiah to provide space for the next.. how can we not see the role Jesus has clearly played on the world. You would not be in israel today with a converted world more ready to hear, without those who have heard and been grafted in through the work of Jesus.
You are talking completely nonsense my friend by the your saviour even doesn’t existed it the whole Christianity is just set up by Satan to pull out Jews from Judaism to still there Godly energy
So please leave as soon as possible that nonsense fait as I did after 47 years being into this false NONSENSE
So, Yeshua only repeated a prophecy about the temple being destroyed?
Essentially, yes.
@@EfraimPalvanov I thank HaShem for you and your lectures.
5:00 take note folks….
Rambam has a contradiction. In Iggeret Teiman (Epistle to Yemen), Ramban states the following: ..On the contrary he will be unknown before his coming, but he will prove by means of miracles and wonders that he is the true Messiah...
also... the final mby has to be from efraim... up until then Hashem has brought moshiim to us all throughout klal yisroel... like over the stories in sefer shoftim... different deliverers from different shevatim...
perhaps it means that mby will be born from two ba'alei tshuvah and in this way be considered "surrounded by sin" but he himself will be a perfect tzadik like his grand progenitor yosef hatzadik...
Why even bother discussing JC? Just curious.
A lot of Christians and "Messianic" Jews argue that Jesus was Mashiach ben Yosef, so it is important to debunk that notion.
@@EfraimPalvanov fair enough.
Zekharia 12:10- 13 describes the death of someone that the Malbim calls M.B.Yosef who has the yichus of those who mourn for him of being a Levi from the House of Natan who has the intense desire of the the descendants of Shimi ben Geira (ben Kish) to destroy Amaleq in the Persian Empire...... *Dat's Bibi!*
He would need to repent. According to the Targum Yonatan, there are 2 eulogies in Zekharia 12:11, one for the secular slimy politician with the personality of Achav and another for the Great Teshuvah king Yoshiyahu melekh Yehudah. So somehow he must become like the latter.
_Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy._
_Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times._
_Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined._
_Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate._
What is the name of the city and sanctuary that will be destroyed after the Messiah is cut off?
_Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined._
If you can not read the Daniel as he wrote it and need a translation, then get a better translation. The very poor mis-translation you used above will mislead you. The real sefer Daniel does not say what your mistranslation does.
@@Robert-ne4xd Perhaps you do not know the name of the city?
@@KeepingWatch95 Yerushalayim is the name of the city
@@Robert-ne4xd It appears to have happen twice so far. How many more times might this happen before the awaited Messiah is here and revealed?
@@KeepingWatch95 It only appears that way in your translation. The actual text does not say that.
Revelation 20:8-10 BSB
[8] and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth-Gog and Magog-to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore. [9] And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them. [10] And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Keep on going 🙏🏼
Thank you so much for another amazing lesson
אצפה בקוצר רוח לשיעור הבא עם פתרון השאלה שהתעוררה בסיום שיעור זה.יישר כוח עצום וברוך תהיה🙏🙏🇮🇱🇮🇱
My pleasure!
shaul and david prove that there are two moshichim... benyamin (rachel) and yehuda (leah)...
SHEMA YEHOUDIM HA MASHIA EHAD HA SHEM MASHIA EHAD
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With God, always expect the unexpected, surprises and a great showdown. A woman will in fact announce the messiah to the world, this woman also is the only one who can identify the messiah. This prophecy in the Bible is true and coming to pass shortly. It all starts with a man and a woman in the beginning so it must end, and begin again with that same man and woman. The redemption is the reverse of the beginning in every way. So the messiahs spoke of in Jeremiah are a man and a woman. Adam and Eve redeemed at last.
Are you implying according to Michah that biblical Betlehem should be rebuilt and resetteled so that the mesianic prophecy could eventually come true? 🤔
Nope, I don't think it's necessary. There are different ways to understand the Bethlehem prophecy. The simplest is that Mashiach is a direct descendant of King David, who is from Bethlehem. So Mashiach's ancestral origins are from Bethlehem, but he doesn't literally have to be born there, just like "Mashiach ben David" does not literally mean he is the son of David, but that he originates ancestrally from David.
@@EfraimPalvanov The authentic location of Bethlehem is in the Galilee and still exist. It's mostly just grain fields and hence it's name "House of Bread". Messiah Yehoshua was born in Bethlehem of the Galilee and Samuel likewise anointed David in this same Bethlehem. I believe it will be a Daughter of Zion who will return and reclaim her tribal ancestral land in preparation for Her King to Return. See Micah 4
@@EfraimPalvanov given that Talmud is talking about 7 shepherds and 8 princes (Adam, Seth, David, Abraham, Jacob...) helping the Mashiach deal with Assyrians this would mean that Talmud is expecting general resurrection of the dead or at least those 15... when Mashiach comes... Right?
Wont be the first time Jews didn't understand the plan of God and confusing messages about what a mashiach Should be. The people leaving Egypt didn't understand. Moses understood, Abraham understood, prophets understood.
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The problem with human beings is they don't even listen to the messengers that Heavenly Father sends it. Archangel Ariel gave the revelations, and it they said the majority of the people will flock to a worldly leader who has charisma, charm, wisdom, and wealth. The real Messiah would be from humble beginnings and will continue living rhe humble life. If a human doesn't have eyes in their head, oh well. I guess King Solomon's teachings were not well understood. Religion is one of the biggest forms of deception because the information being given is of the matrix. Whereas angelic information is beyond thw mateix here.
Heavenly Father's kingdom is not of THIS WORLD. It's another. This world is scheduled for deletion. There is no Messianic Age here. Not in this world.
I love Chabad, but stop with "the rebbe is mashiach" nonsense. There is so much you can learn from the Lubavitcher rebbe's teachings and they focus on something that is so patently false. Seriously, guys, let it go. The rebbe was amazing, he had ruach hakodesh for sure, he was a huge tzadik, but not mashiach.
That'll be beautiful when steam rises from the altar again, right?
youtubes's incessant interruptions ruined the experience that used to be youtube ( I don't hjave the time for all the extra content youtube requires users to experience, against their will, YEP )
I agree - which is why I recently went "Premium". Small price to pay for no ads, but totally worth it.
I also reject the Menachem is Mashiach argument. He never even set foot in Israel! I have read why he didn't but it is wholely unsatisfactory. If he thought he was, he should moved all of 770 to Israel and ran the organization from there..... maybe then, he could have been!
Did Rabbi Hillel ever say: " I and my Father are one." John 10:30... You will say he quoted, you will say his disciples invented it but you just refuse to recognise the one true anointed one son of man son of David son of Abraham onlybegotten son of the Father who came to give his life for you to lead you to save you... That is precisely why rabbies through the centuries are making distinction of ben Jousef and ben David... Refusing to put 2 and 2 together, Meshiach can be only one and you know it, only in Yeshua we are healed from this absurd mesianic scizophrenia of Ben Jousef and ben David: he is both, he is one Meshiach, one and only, and you didn't recognise him back then precisely because he was coming in the role of ben Jousef...
Yeshua is not a name. Ya’ll really trying hard. Jesus is a fake god
The video “Caesars Messiah” may clear some things up for you how the Romans hijacked this Yehoshua but it always boomerangs on the wicked… Yeshoshua has brought many to Torah where the talmidim start learning Torah then they start seeing problems with Trinity, problems with offering human sacrifice, problems with drinking blood and so on and so on which will then hopefully cause a wake up call to abandon idolatry which is why Ephraim (northern tribes) were exiled for 2730 years… the levitical curse of 7 X punishment of 390 years which was what was = to number of days (390) that Ezekiel laid on his side for the Northern Kingdom… they had a bent toward idolatry and many Christians today idolize Yahoshua. All very interesting! Thank you Ephraim for this tremendous teaching… ready to hear more!❤
@@jewchainz613what was the agenda from the jews,to decieve all Christians?!!!How can a gentile today believe a jew would say the truth!I
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@@jewchainz613 maybe this is the answer... מִי יִתֵּן מִצִּיּוֹן, יְשׁוּעַת יִשְׂרָאֵל:
בְּשׁוּב יְהוָה, שְׁבוּת עַמּוֹ; יָגֵל יַעֲקֹב, יִשְׂמַח יִשְׂרָאֵל.
He is the only name for your salvation kabalisticly speaking
@@jewchainz613 you might find an answer in TNK kabbalisticly speaking
מִי יִתֵּן מִצִּיּוֹן, יְשׁוּעַת יִשְׂרָאֵל:
בְּשׁוּב יְהוָה, שְׁבוּת עַמּוֹ; יָגֵל יַעֲקֹב, יִשְׂמַח יִשְׂרָאֵל.
He is the ONLY NAME for your salvation
And they look to him whom they have pierced, "is the scripture said. It means jeshua speaks
That somebody is the Messiah jeshua who read issiah 61 in temple and stopped at Comma.
The jew is whom he is speaking.
Jeshua had his side pierced to see if he was dead. Blood and water came out.
The jew is sad for he missed the day of your visitation.
As it us written.
Messiah says "I was killed in the house of my friends "
Yep that Sanhedrin Pharisees and pontius pilot says it all.
Joseph was the Messiah of Egypt aka the world, David was the Messiah of Israel/Jerusalem aka Zion. David was the only Messiah type ruling in Israel, Joseph never ruled in Israel in the Torah. Go back and remember the story in the Torah, it's the same pattern for the Messiah's. The ending for Joseph was him dying in Egypt and his bones being taken back to Israel by his children/descendants, Ephraim & Manasseh. Joseph was the lamb, and it's the David Messiah who rules and reigns in Israel, who is the lion. The deliverer who looks just like Joshua, claiming back Israel from the rephaim. Joseph lives in Egypt his whole life and rules the world aka Egypt. The people of Joseph is the commonwealth aka Britain & Manasseh is America today. But you can't accept it because they look like Egyptians, because that's where we have been the whole time, exiles of Israel. How was Joseph exiled? He was sold into slavery by his brothers, into idolatry. That's why it's hard for you to see them. Judah couldn't see Joseph his brother a the feast in Egypt, he had to take off his Egyptian clothes and say "Come close to me. I'm you brother Joseph." When he revealed himself to his brothers. This is the 2 branches coming back together Judah & Joseph/Ephraim, becoming one house again. Yeshua gave us the spiritual freedom first (Priesthood), next we needed mental freedom (Torah - Kingship) and last we need physical freedom (to walk in the Will of God which is righteousness - Prophet's) this is when we go back to the land of Israel. Sounds just like Melchizedek? We are currently in Kingship, mental area, why we are returning back to the Torah in the masses. And btw in the Torah Judah's descendants come with Joseph's descendants back to Israel, it's called the Exodus. The branches will become one staff again together in Israel, it's prophecy.
He came to fullfill the law.
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You mean the guy who taught human blood drinking, human flesh eating, the idolatrous worship of a human being, a polytheistic three person deity, and topped it off with a human sacrifice?
Your pagan religion has nothing to do with Judaism. Missionaries go away.
the two witnesses sing literal fire and call hurricanes they froze California with a song. do you want to know the truth?
The simple answer is it's Jesus son of Joseph.
There are two "Branch of David"s prophesied by Jerimiah. The first was Jesus and the second is his greats grandson via Mary Magdalene -John 19:25-27
25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother[Mary], and his mother's sister[in-law], Mary the wife of Cleophas[mother Mary's brother], and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by[Mary Magdalene], whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy [grand]son! [in Mary Mag's womb/pregnant.]
27 Then saith he to the disciple[Mary Mag], Behold thy mother[in-law/Jesus' mother Mary]! And from that hour that disciple[Mary Mag] took her[Jesus' mother] unto his[Jesus'] own home [The home of Jesus and his now pregnant wife Mary Magdalenein a midwifing arrangement.]
I believe it’s important to notice nowadays the vast majority of Lubavitcher Jews do not believe the Rabbi is still Moshiah ; I remember when he died a lot of Lubavitchers were really extremely disappointed and a few of them would not admit he was not the Moshiah but they were a minority and it’s even more true today
I hoped that it would subside over time, but that's not what I'm seeing all around me. If anything, it seems to be strengthening. Maybe it depends on which city you live in. Here in Toronto, it's definitely very meshichisti.
@@EfraimPalvanov I live in Paris, France. Although I am sefardi my family have been very very close to Habad here, and I mostly go to habad synagogues, also part of my family has become Habad,for decades now.
I would assess maybe 5 to 10% of French Habad still believe the Rabbi was the Moshiah and expect him to come back, from around 20% in the 1990’s when the Rabbi passed away 🤷♂️ maybe it’s because French Jews are overwhelmingly sefardim, so the idea of a messiah who resurrects is kind of weird to us compared to ashkenazim who lived amongst xtians ?
@@EfraimPalvanov by the way many thanks for your shiurims: they are always incredible with a lot of sources quoted and very great 😊 🙏
@@MrRitchie555 My pleasure!
Jeshuas Wife is the 7 Churches.
The betrothal boaz is Yesuah and Ruth is the gentile bride.
I must come teach you the Yahweh
Rebbe, just a commnet on one of your many logical fallacies,
if someone has to use reason to believe their guy is Machiah ben Josesh, then their guy is not the Machiah. Note your emphais on using reason. But you use reason to make your arguement. So your arguement is self refuting.
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1-Jesus/Yeshua was a Jew but was not the Jewish Messiah due to a myriad amount of reasons (e.g., Ezekiel 46-that Prince is The Messiah so read what he does which is irreconcilable with the Christian narrative). 2-The Jewish Messiah was never suppose to die for sins (breaking of commandments 1 John 3:4) and even if he did (which it isn’t) those commandments belonged to the Israelites under the covenant made at Mt. Sinai NOT the gentiles. 3-If you have decided to worship the God of The Jews by worshipping a “”Jewish” Christ then you should ask them how to worship their God (Matt 23:1-3).
Rabbi you should probably stop talking about the Lubavitcher Rebbe. I’m not talking about him being Moshiach or not being Moshiach, but as far his teachings it’s very clear that you are mostly ignorant of the Rebbes Torah.
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What Yeshua did was Came early on His Own Behalf to open Tanakh for all people and Gave Himself as The Sacrifice to attone for all sin of anyone who Believes on Him in order for adoptive redemption beyond the reaches of the corrupt organizations who perverted His Temple while simultaneously providing the warning to all others to repent before He Returns and destroys them and their empires permanently As His Own Service as The Profit. He Perfected Tanakh and Exposed His Generosity and Mercy even to His Enemies like He Did For Nineveh Through Jonah. He Came First as The Lamb, He Is Coming after as The Lion of Judah. Let's not repeat the error of Jonah. HaShem Is Righteous and Just. He Doesn't Pour out His Wrath without first providing the opportunity for repentance. Yeshua Is definitely Meshiac.
Definitely not the mashiah. Jesus is a false god
@@jewchainz613 what makes you think that?
@@grndhg86dsimply everything in your comment is complete heresy and has no basis in judaism. No one can die for the sins of others, Hashem detests human sacrifice, the mashiach is someone living and not a dead person, the mashiach is a human and descended from king david, but you people have turned jesus into some sort of majestic demigod. You literally worship a human, the definition of idolatry. Even the new testament is a book of falsehood, that contradicts everything in the Torah. The Torah says it will never and can never be changed, it is perfect in its entirety, yet you want me to believe jesus somehow “perfected”’it. How can someone perfect something which G-d made already perfect? Heretical
I believe this Yahoshua was hijacked by Romans, and turned into what is known as Jesus today. I would think part of the story is true where it lines up with Torah but the other parts that go against Torah must be rejected. When you see the Roman conspiracy it becomes very clear what is false and what part is true. Another great read is The Bible The Talmud and the New Testament (Commentary to the Gospels) which agrees with everything Rabbi Ephraim is saying.
@@grndhg86d chrsitians literally worship jesus as a god. Thats literally idolatry.
Tell me, if G-d gave the Torah why would it need perfecting? Unless you’re saying G-d is not perfect
Judas was a zealot not Yeshua Messiah!
Read the book 'Jesus and the Zealots'.
First of all, I am thankful I found this channel. As a Christian, I have always had a great love for Judaism and the Jewish people. I know that Israel and the Jewish people are the apple of God’s eye, and you were chosen by God.
In that, I’ve sought for several decades to learn about Judaism. This channel is a big help in that respect.
That being said, I do have some serious disagreements with some points. (No surprise there I’m sure). I could write a book just from this video alone, but I won’t. I’ll just make comments here and there briefly.
This comment will only focus on the first 5 minutes.
First of all, I take offense to your calling Jesus “my guy.” Would you call Yahweh “my guy?” I don’t think so. That’s disrespectful. Likewise, calling Jesus a guy is disrespectful. He was a male person, that is true, but He is also God. Yet I know you did not post this for Christians but for your own, so I get it. I just don’t like it.
You can look to your own scriptures as to how we believe Jesus is the 2nd person of the triune Godhead.
Please consider Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
My second disagreement would be in your interpretation of the Messiah not dying, but living. And why I believe the Messiah had to die and did indeed die.
I think perhaps one of the biggest reasons the Jewish people don’t accept Jesus as the Messiah, is because they are thinking more in terms of an earthly Messiah than they are of a heavenly Messiah. Yes it’s true Jesus will be coming again to rule and reign during the Millennial kingdom, but His primary purpose was in His first coming 2000 years ago and that was to reconcile man to God. Man has a sin debt he could never pay, no matter how good he is. His righteousness is filthy rags to God. God only forgives sin by the shedding of blood. The animal sacrifices of the Old Testament were only a shadow of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus. Jesus had to be God, because only God is perfect, without sin or blemish. Jesus paid the sin debt once and for all, with His perfect shed blood. That is why Jesus had to die. It was the only way to reconcile man to God.
So you see, He must have died. But He also lives!!! So yes, He is alive today. He rose from the grave 3 days after His death and burial.
As for your comment that the Messiah must not have come yet because we are not living in a time of peace, (swords will be plowshares as spoken by the prophet Joel), this doesn’t happen until Jesus comes again to set up His 1000 year reign on the earth. This takes place after the 7 year tribulation.
May God bless His people with ears to hear.
I know many will not believe before the rapture, but 1/3 of you will come to faith during the tribulation, and all of this group will be saved at the second coming of Christ.
Read the Hebrew for Isaiah chap 9.....its bot that the son shall be called the mighty god it says the mighty God called him the prince of peace.
Quoting Scripture translated from the Greek Septuagint by gentiles with a heavy Christian bias proves nothing, actually. In the Hebrew, there is no punctuation, and words are often out of order to an English speaker, with some words even appearing redundant, while others aren’t there in their entirety but are understood to be meant in the context of the words around them.
Names are often misunderstood by Christians. Many Hebrew-speaking people (namely Jews) have names that contain one of G-d’s names. Just hecause a man is named something including G-d’s name within it doesn’t mean that man was part of a trinity or a member of a godhead. If that were the case, most of the prophets and many of the kings would also be part of the godhead.
Mashiach will he fully human, and not G-d, partly or fully, unless you look at it from a Kabbalistic standpoint, in which case Mashiach is no more a part of Hashem than anyone else is.
ADDENDUM: Mashiach will be anointed with Ruach Hakodesh in a way no one else has ever been, and in this way he will have an understanding of G-d that no one else has had, and a special closeness to the Shechinah. However, he is still fully human, born of man and woman. Just like the rest of us. And he certainly isn’t equatable directly with G-d. That is idolatry, no matter how you look at it. Also virgin births are for pagan mythologies, and not at all what was meant by Isaiah’s prophecy.
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Isaiah 7:14
“Behold the Lord Himself will give you a sign, a Virgin shall conceive and bear a son and she shall call his name Immanuel.”
@@jameskissam8119 Has this Messiah in Jeremiah came yet?
_Jeremiah 23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth._
_Jeremiah 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS._
The two English words in Jeremiah 23:6 “THE LORD” had been translated from the single Hebrew word יְהֹוָה which is of course the Jewish national name of God. (The one and only true God, the Hebrew God)
Has this Messiah, in whom יְהֹוָה himself has instructed _"his name whereby he shall be called"_ יְהֹוָה _"YHWH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS"_ came yet? Or are you still waiting?
Jeremiah 23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD [ יְהֹוָה ], that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
Jeremiah 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, [ יְהֹוָה ] OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Joseph was the chosen lineage of Jacobs sons, in genesis, and judah denied christ as it awaits its own messiah, yet nowhere in scriptures does it state the messiah comes from judah. If you profess to follow the hebrew script, why do you deny what is written? Chosen? upon the celestial sphere pointed towards within scriptures the trait of narcissism is the very foil of why god created the construct. Shadow boxing within platos cave will not help you understand.
Have you seen Part 1?
@@EfraimPalvanov Have read the new testament and studied the laws in heaven pointed towards in the book of Job? If one views that the original hebrew text had no vowels and were a later addition to explain the story in the OT, then you should know there are at least five translantations that are in their own right valid, yet one translation accoirding the the nazerene, which joseph himself was as well as jesus, you might be able to see the NT is not an addition but a furthering of understanding whch gives detailing as to the what the whole of the scripures are telling, and that is taking the understanding from the ancient egyptians and laying it out in Canaan up until the Christ story which is written in Greek. This was also paralled by the hellenization of the judaic faith, seen in many synagogues, Beth Alpha a sixth-century CE synagogue being an example, and the advent of democrasy based upon the same understanding established in ancient greece.. The story is in the heavens, and was devised by phoenicians as they used star charts to navigate the open oceans. The binding of Isaac, is the same as the binding of Andromeda,, both involve a goat although the greel storiesare not laid out like they are in the Scriptures. Noah had three sons, african, asian and caucasian. Semite, is afro asians, and ashkenazi is caucasian. Judah is not jacob, and theres a whole lot of nonsense being spread that is cognitive dissonance. Work out where the seven day construct comes from, and you might be able to understand who god is.
@@infiniti28160 I realize your response is to Efraim but can I take issue with some of what you've said above? Firstly Messiah will come out of Jacob and yes Yacov is synonymous with Yehudah. Study this vs from Isaiah which confirm the House of Yacov is equated with Yehudah while the House of Israel is equated with Ephraim their king.
Isaiah 48:
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, **and are come forth out of the waters of Judah,** which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness. ( There is a deception when Yacov calls himself Israel because he's still in darkness and has not yet seen the Light of truth and the entity that he's been wrestling with for 2 Millennium . Only Israel/The Northern Kingdom ruled by an Ephratite saw the truth of who this Malak was that Yacov wrestled with, these being the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel. So yes, Yacov is Yehudah until a revelation and conversion takes place and He is awakened to the Testimony of HaTorah. Yacov/Yehudah is also mixed with Edom as Herod their acknowledged King and builder of their temple was an Herodian. Herod sought to kill all the baby boys 2 and under born in Bethlehem when the Great Star shown in Bethlehem of the Galilee. See Isaiah Isaiah 9: 1-2 I'm praying that Efraim will acknowledge this truth and stop rejecting the Rock of Israel. Yehoshua Ben Yoseph, Ben Elohim. BTW, Judah and Tamar's lineage is married into the Tribe of Yoseph, Ephrat is the wife of Caleb son of Hetzron, and Ephrat was the grand daughter of Yoseph. So this would make Yehoshua of Nazareth, both a Son of Yoseph and a Son of Yehudah
@@tirzahifrach3057 Im not here to untie all the fallacious arguments you put forward. The scriptures are quite clear in what they are detailing, yet some people refuse to acknowledge the reality of such with further denial. Gen 1:1 "Son of Man , Father Light , Ela the Mother"
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First Israel needs to come to EGYPT 80401 = Goshen There Yosef WILL REVEAL HIMSELF TO HIS BROTHERS
Judaism and islam god's main enemies..he will destroy them both
Messiah, Ben Joseph has already been revealed that Jesus, bro did he not say he comes not to bring peace, but a sword war people against each other!! Look at the world, He’s going after the unbeliever the wicked!! Good luck
I read this comment somewhere and I will make it my own and add a bit to it, and that is "My Messiah is a Jew" who happen to be the son of God. I am thankful! We are one body in Christ. 💚
We are all sons of God.
G-d has no direct descendants of His own.
@@MinisterRedPillno we are children of G-d, not His directly but in a generic term.
@@NinaOvadia there is no Hebrew word for "children". It's Benei which means sons. You don't know what you're talking about.
Besides, Job declares that God has many sons. Since they come from Heaven they are divine.
Stop the idolatry.
What is His name what is His son’s name? Proverbs 30:4
In that statement Yeshua is encoded in Hebrew.
Ok, we Christians are brain washed, but you, beacuse you have brain not washed and clean in time, you cant see the true, still wait. And saying maybe this will happen or this. It is kind of funny brother. Any way, we love you brother, no matter what you preach.😊❤
Well, no one knows the future so we can explore possibilities. We do know the past, however, so we can reject things that are clearly false. Thanks for the love :)
Everyone has its choice. Free will, right?! I will try to dabate, knowing your defeat or mine (because of yours stubborn mind) whatever. We know how our God is good, he loves us, and he cares about us, right? We know that you as Jews, God loved you first and the rest of us. Have you ever asked this question how it is possible after so many years, after everything that happen to the jewish people, our beloved God to keep this secret from you and let you wait for so long? Why? Somehow you are underestimating our God. There are no false, mistakes at God.
This is exactly what followers of Christ have been telling you…Yeshua did not do anything new because He is the Lawgiver! He is the Messiah and the more you study the Torah the clearer it becomes.
Actually, he's not the Messiah, it's the one whose name is Elysiel, Paradise of God.
Yeah, but followers of Christ don't follow the Torah!
He wasn't the son of Yoseph
Its funny because according to the Torah tribal lineage is according to the father. If jesus’s father is G-d according to you, then he has no tribe. Neither efraim nor judah. So even according to you, jesus cant be the messiah
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Why do you think that all followers of Christ(the annointed one) don't follow the Torah?
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Too much of Rabbi said this Rabbi said that in all the Talmud Opinion
John 6:43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
John 6:46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
John 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
John 6:48 I am that bread of life.
John 6:49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
When the prophets say- that the nations will gather against Jerusalem, does it mean Jerusalem or Israel as a whole.
I think it really means Israel as a whole. In ancient texts, the capital city is typically used to refer to the whole kingdom (the same way the Roman Empire is referred to simply as "Rome", or the Babylonian Empire as "Bavel").