Excerpt of shiur from 7th Tammuz, 5786, to Yeshivat Chachma ve daat

(The Rav has been speaking about how yeshiva students shouldn’t be spending their time working out in the gym, and should be concentrating on their learning. He continues.)

In any case, we need to know that the first thing is not to participate in body-building competitions.

There is what to read [instead], there’s the Zohar, that [the Angel of Ishmael] requested 400 years [to rule over Eretz Yisrael].[1] And they ruled here for 400 years, until Allenby arrived.

Here, [in Jerusalem], there is no ‘Allenby Street’. Now, I was in Netanya, and I saw Harry Truman [Street] – they made him a road. This State was founded by Harry Truman, not Ben Gurion, and not Moshe Sharett, and not Golda Meir.

The person who founded the State was Harry Truman and Masaryk.

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Everyone said, yalla, let them destroy the Jews, it’s enough! We have no more strength for these Jews.

But he said no.

So then, the Arabs said that there wouldn’t be any oil, for half a year [during the Yom Kippur War of 1973] there was no oil. There was no-one who would sell it.

At that time time we were in Holland, and everyone was with their bicycles. They distributed bikes for free, half-price, a third of the price. They subsidised it with payments. All the Dutch travel around on bikes – there was no oil.

And Holland was, at that time, a good friend of ours, so they said we don’t need petrol.

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[When they founded the State in 1947] Truman said, we don’t need petrol, the ikker [main thing] is that there shouldn’t be rivers of blood here. There was his speech.

And Harry Truman said:

I, from the age of 10, I said I would return the Jews to Eretz Yisrael. I want to be Koresh [Cyrus].

He used to study Tanach every day. Lincoln only studied Tanach. Lincoln, who founded [the modern United States of] America – only Tanach. There are non-Jews who only study Tanach.

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There was Bedford – he only learned Tanach.

He founded America, Bedford, with his laws. He said, here, we are going to keep Shabbat.

But, they didn’t know what ‘Shabbat’ was, so they travelled to the sea, OK. But there is no football on Shabbat, there just isn’t. So then they said, when are we meant to play football?! So they made two days of ‘holiday’ [i.e. the weekend].

Shabbat according to the halacha, and they recited the prayers, and everything. And Sunday, this is for football. They only worked five days, this was the scheme of the ‘time to come’…

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So Lincoln, he said that only the Jews are the ‘truth’.

And he held a vote, to kick them out of America, like they did in Spain. It didn’t pass by one vote. He suppressed everything, because everything was Sephardim.

The whole of Florida, and Texas, and Oklahoma, and Virginia – everything there was Sephardim, everything! They were the first ones who came to America. So, they were the majority, and they said they should banish the Jews.

The first thing, was to kick out the Jews, and then, they suppressed it with one vote.

I had a book about Lincoln, someone should bring it. He said how much he worried about the Jews, and how much he was in favour of the Jews.

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So Harry Truman said, from the age of 10, I was going to return the Jews to Eretz Yisrael, I am going to be Cyrus.

The Gemara says that Cyrus said:

“Whoever is among you of His entire people…”[2]

It’s the last verse in Ezra, he said “Whoever is among you of His entire people” – he should have told them All of you go to Eretz Yisrael! To kick them out.

Only 4,000 out of 10 million ascended [to Israel].

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So then it’s written at the end of Ezra-Nehemia, “Whoever is among you of His entire people”.

The olim from the generation that was exiled [from Eretz Yisrael after the destruction of the First Temple], Whoever is among you of His entire people”. Divrei HaYamim,the writings of Ezra, here, it’s the end of Divrei haYamim, in the first year of Cyrys.

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So, Harry Truman said, I want to be Cyrus. I am going to return the Jews to Eretz Yisrael.

That’s how it was. Rosov said that not a single Jew [would remain alive, if the State was declared]. He died after 16 days, [he said this on] April 22, and on May 8th [he was dead].

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“Thus said Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth has Hashem, God of heaven, given to me and He has commanded me to build Him a temple in Jerusalem, which is in Judah”[3]

It’s written in verse 45 of Isaiah:

“Thus said Hashem to his moshiach [i.e. anointed one], to Cyrus”, you are Cyrus.

There were a few others, who were called Cyrus. Daniel used to see him every day, and say to him you are Cyrus, who was prophesied about. [Cyrus] was the bodyguard of Nebuchadnezzer.

He said [to Daniel] no, be quiet! They will hang me!

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Translated and Excerpted from Shivivei Or # 465.

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So, I never heard of this proposal to “kick the Jews out” under Lincoln, before the Rav said this, above.

(BTW, explain to me again how the Rav knows all this stuff… we keep looking for miracle-workers and lighting on people who really are not. Here, in front of our faces, we have proof time and time again, that the Rav knows things that really can only be ruach hakodesh. Even professors of Jewish history know nothing about this stuff.)

I went looking, and here’s what I found:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/43057797.pdf

Here is a relevant snippet – but the whole paper is bang on the topic, if you are interested in this stuff:

“President Lincoln’s administration was marked by a few noteworthy incidents affecting the Jews as a body, the most important being the appointment of a Jewish chaplain in 1861-62, and the proposed expulsion of the Jews “as a class ” from within the lines of General Grant’s army in 1862-63.”

The stuff about the weekend is also in this paper, and also, that Lincoln himself apparently claimed he had Jewish ancestors.

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“Bedford” seems to be this guy:

Gunning Bedford Jr, an american Founding Father and lawyer. Snippet from HERE:

Bedford was later also named as a member of the Constitutional Convention which met in Philadelphia in the Summer of 1787. At the Constitutional Convention, Bedford was a strong voice for the rights of small states and helped to debate, draft and sign the United States Constitution.

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According to THIS, Bedford was of course also a leading Freemason. Snippet:

• Gunning Bedford Jr. (1747–1812), signer of the U.S. Constitution; first Grand Master of Masons in Delaware

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Zohar, commentary on Shmot, Parshat Vayera, 31b.

[2] Ezra 1:3. The full verse reads: “Whoever is among you of His entire people—may his God be with him—and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and build the Temple of Hashem, God of Israel—He is the God!—which is in Jerusalem.”

[3] Ezra, 1:2.