This is part of another awesome shiur given by the Rav.

Meet me back in the footnotes, where we’ll start to put some of these pieces together.

Shiur given on Cheshvan 8, 5786 (October 30, 2025)

There is no-one like Daniel Blatt.

How he came from Australia to here, and he knew all the compositions… All of them. He used to play with chesed elyon (transcendental kindness). He used to play each time we got to Moscow, and we found ourselves there in the hotel, in Kiev, the Hotel Rus.

And the whole community would come to hear his niggunim (melodies). What compositions! What niggunim! They saw human beings?! They saw angels! They said, this has to be angels, this is not human beings!

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Here, [the book] the Great Solution.

He spoke about the Final Solution already 50 years before Hitler. He talked about the ‘Final Solution’, the ‘Great Solution’. Because at the beginning, they only spoke about expelling them [i.e. the Jews] to Eretz Yisrael – and the English didn’t want to accept them, because the Mufti didn’t agree.

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[The Hebrew editor explains the beginning of the following sentence was not so clear, then the Rav continues]:

Here, the Jew of Lessing[1], ‘Nathan the Wise’. There was Lessing, and there was a positive ‘composition’ about the Jews [called ‘Nathan the Wise’} – that the Jews were the most, the very most wisest in the world, the ones who were most advancing the world.

They invented the airplane, they invented the radio, radio waves.

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[The Jew who first invented the airplane] was called Otto Lillienthal.

He was fat, fat, fat. As soon as he sat in the plane, the plane turned over upon him, and he fell into the [River] Rhine.

He fell, and they needed to get him out of there.

Otto Lilienthal invented the airplane, and he fell into the Rhine. All the planes with him on them flipped over during their first flight. And so then, the Wright Brothers bought the invention of the plane [i.e. the prototype or patent] in 1912.

As we were building the Shul, they started to fly in the air. The moment we had the Shul, they flew in the air.

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So, there were compositions written for the good of the Jews.

This was called ‘Natan the Wise’.

Natan, R’ Natan – he put together a composition for R’ Natan.

Yes, he died in ‘49. How did he die? He died. Rabbenu died 60 years earlier, 70 years, he died at 83. 72, his rabbi died before him – 83. That’s when his rabbi died. [Speaking about Gotthold Ephraim Lessing].

He authored a composition, this was called ‘Nathan the Wise’. I am saying that this was for R’ Natan, you can decide.

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So then, there was a work that said that the Jews, they are the most chosen people, the greatest people, the people the most…

They see from one of the world to the other. And each one of them sees from one end of the world until the other, and they can tell the future.

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Like R’ Heshel of Krakow.

Now, we were by R’ Heshel of Krakow, we prostrated ourselves on his Tzion.

Once, two witnesses came about the daughter of his sister, to say they had cut the head off her husband – they cut his head off! They saw it.

She said: Maybe, it was just someone who looked like him? Maybe, it was his doppelganger?

But there were two witnesses! You are going against two witnesses?! No?

If two witnesses come to a woman and tell her that someone cut off her husband’s head…

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[The witnesses said] We saw it.

They were standing in a line, a hundred people were standing in a line [during that particular massacre], everything was organised. This wasn’t a ‘pogrom’, they were standing nicely in a line.

The cossack was going from one to the next, was taking off their heads, with that beautiful, sharp sword of his.

This is ‘death by a kiss’, this happens in an instant. It doesn’t hurt at all. Truly, it’s ‘death by a kiss’.

And he took off the heads of 99 people.

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He got to the last one [the husband of R’ Heshel’s niece], such a sweetie, a cutie. [And suddenly, the cossack sees] such a face, shining like the sun. The cossack said: you, I can’t take your head off. I just can’t do it! You are the sun, you are Moses, you are Moshe Rabbenu!

You know what? Fall down! Make out like you’re dead, and I will give you a blow with the sword and push you down, and they will think that you are dead.

Like that, he was saved.

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So, the two witnesses are standing there, and they saw how they took the heads off 99 people, and they were witnesses to ‘free agunot’.

It’s written that’s it’s permitted to go to theatres, to see how they ‘bury’ Jews, so then you can testify on behalf of the wife, so that the woman won’t be left alone [i.e. unable to remarry].

They used to take people and slaughter them.

So, [the witnesses] gave testimony for 99 women, they gave testimony, two witnesses. And [these same women] got remarried immediately. After three months, it’s already permitted to remarry, and to raise a family.

They have grandchildren and great-grandchildren, even up until our days.

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But, this was the last one, the hundredth.

They also came to give testimony [that they’d seen him murdered].

The woman said, i don’t believe them! Liars! Deceivers! (For sure, the witnesses were Jews…)

You are lying to me! I don’t believe you!

[They replied] But we saw them cut off his head! We saw it!

You didn’t see anything! It was for sure someone else! Maybe, someone else who resembled him. It wasn’t my husband! My husband is kodesh kodeshim (holy of holies), the biggest tzaddik!

The woman sees everything. She sees from one end of the world to the other. She said:

I don’t believe it!!!

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And R’ Heshel of Krakow was like the Vilna Gaon.

R’ Heshel of Krakow knew the whole SHAS, the Rishonim, the Acharonim – he knew a million seforim.

He knew the whole SHAS, forward and backwards.

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Excerpted and translated from Shivivei Or, 432.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] This is referring to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Read more about him on Wiki HERE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthold_Ephraim_Lessing

Snippet:

Lessing was also famous for his friendship with Jewish-German philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. A 2003 biography of Mendelssohn’s grandson, Felix, describes their friendship as one of the most “illuminating metaphors [for] the clarion call of the Enlightenment for religious tolerance“.[10] It was this relationship that sparked his interest in popular religious debates of the time. He began publishing heated pamphlets on his beliefs which were eventually banned. It was this banishment that inspired him to return to theatre to portray his views and to write Nathan the Wise.

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According to Marvin Antelmann, Mendelssohn was a leading Frankist, and received his smicha from none other than Yonatan Eibshitz.

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Meanwhile, you can read more about Lessing’s play ‘Nathan the Wise’ HERE.

Snippet:

Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, it describes how the wise Jewish merchant Nathan, the enlightened sultan Saladin, and the (initially anonymous) Templar, bridge their gaps between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Its major themes are friendship, tolerance, relativism of God, a rejection of miracles and a need for communication.

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Hel-lo one world religion operating out of Jerusalem, with the proto-freemason Templars firmly in the picture, and lots of ‘enlightenment’ and ‘illumination’ going on – and of course, downplaying God, chas v’halila, and mocking miracles.

I am starting to feel like maybe ‘Nathan the Wise’ got reincarnated in our generation as ‘Nathan-who-thinks-he’s-wise-rationalist-Jew’. But I digress.

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If you go HERE, to the freemasonry site, you’ll find that Lessing was a senior and influential German freemason.

Snippet:

“ERNEST AND FALK.— ‘Ernst und Falk, Gespräche für Freimaurer’ — ‘Conversations for Freemasons.’ A remarkable work by Bro. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, translated by me, in part in the London Freemason’s Quarterly, 1854, and afterwards republished and completed in the London Freemason for 1872. Findel’s opinion is, that this work, unfortunately only a fragment, is one of the best treatises ever written on Freemasonry.”1

Initiated, Passed and Raised: October 14, 1771
Lodge Zu den Drei Goldenen Rosen, Hamburg2

Tov.

Are you starting to figure more of this out for yourself?

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If you go to Amazon HERE, you’ll find the German language work Lessing wrote as propaganda for the freemasons, called Ernst and Falk.

Snippet from the description:

The book ‘Gespräche für Freimaurer’ by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing delves into deep philosophical discussions between two friends, Ernst and Falk, about the nature of Freemasonry. The conversations touch upon the essence of Freemasonry, its purpose, and its role in society.

Falk, a Freemason, explains to Ernst the hidden intentions and actions of the Freemasons, focusing on their efforts to unite humanity despite the inevitable divisions created by states and religions.

The discussions revolve around the idea that Freemasons work towards overcoming these divisions and promoting unity among individuals of different backgrounds. The book explores the concept of Freemasonry as a means to address the inherent evils of society and to promote harmony and understanding among people. Through thought-provoking dialogues, the book challenges the reader to consider the deeper meanings and intentions behind the actions of Freemasons and their impact on society.

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Remember, Lessing is best friends with Moses Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn is a Frankist ‘rebbe’ given smicha by another Frankist ‘rebbe’ Yonatan Eibshutz, and these people are all freemasons.

And their descendants are in very influential leadership positions within all areas of the Jewish community, within Israel and without, still today.

Starts to explain things, doesn’t it?

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Let’s move on to OTTO LILLIENTHAL.

He is a real person, and it does look like he invented airplanes, after all.

Go to Wiki HERE.

Snippet:

His flight attempts in 1891 are seen as the beginning of human flight and the “Lilienthal Normalsegelapparat” is considered the first airplane in series production, making the Maschinenfabrik Otto Lilienthal in Berlin the first airplane production company in the world. He has been referred to as the “father of aviation” and “father of flight”.

On 9 August 1896, Lilienthal’s glider stalled and he was unable to regain control. Falling from about 15 metres (49 ft), he broke his neck and died the next day.

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How does the Rav know all this stuff?!

It’s amazing.

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Rav Heshel’s story continues later in this shiur, which BH I plan on translating a lot more. We’ll pick it up next week.

BTW, my internet is still out, and my internet provider apparently can’t even find my details. BH, I hope I can sort it out next week, but slow posting until that happens.

Shabbat shalom.