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April 28, 2024 - The Adam King Show
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FIRST HAND UNDENIABLE PROOF The Vatican Is Hoarding Stolen Artifacts from Around the World - MUST SEE!!!!!
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- Without further ado, I wanna bring in my guest, the esteemed honorable rabbi, Benjamin Black. - My name is Benjamin Black. - Without further ado, I wanna bring in my guest, the esteemed honorable rabbi, Benjamin Black. - My name is Benjamin Black. Benjamin Black. - My name is Benjamin Black.
I had the unique honor and privilege of meeting with the Pope and of in fact seeing some of the items that the Vatican has in their possession.
Pope John Paul II, the first pope ever to go to Israel and made it his business to then go to the wall, the Western Wall.
It is the custom of Jews to place a prayer within the wall.
Those prayers are never meant to be read by a stranger.
After the pope had inserted his prayer, someone did something that was very, very improper.
He was a journalist and he searched.
Through the inserts in the wall, I found the one that the Pope inserted and actually read it.
God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nation.
We are deeply saddened by the behavior of those who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer.
And asking your forgiveness, we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the people of the covenant.
Oh please, that you brought that up, that there is a visible indication here of feelings that he had.
Yeah.
Not just for his people, but for humankind.
That's incredible.
If only all Christians would be aware of the mandate, so to speak, of Pope and the desire that he had to eliminate anti-Semitism, what a better world that would be.
- He's just standing there, menacingly! - And we are live, menacingly! - And we are live, ladies and gentlemen. - And we are We are live, ladies and gentlemen.
I don't even remember what episode this is.
We stopped our counters a while back since we've been on this debate tour.
But we have an unbelievable Pesach special for you, our viewer audience, that tunes in every single episode that we do.
I'm super excited about this one.
This one has taken me about three months to procure.
I started trying to get this interview scheduled after my debate with Nick Fuentes and Prissy McInnis.
And we broached a subject where it was like a dead stop to the debate.
And that subject was about Jewish artifacts held in the Vatican.
Everybody knows what happened afterwards.
Prissy McGinnis had his little temper tantrum, and Nick Fuentes wouldn't get off of it.
But I wanted to bring to you, my viewer audience, unequivocable proof, since the last three months has been an uproar, and a lot of people have sent me private messages, probably well over several thousand DMs.
Direct messages asking me what proof do I have that the Vatican actually has Jewish artifacts from the the temple periods And some of the other claims I made about the Vatican having other relics of other nations that they had So I have gone forth and I have brought forth one of the most credible scholars on the subject and other subjects.
The former dean of Yeshiva University, Rabbi Benjamin Blech, is going to join us on the show today, and he's going to talk about his experiences with the Popes, with the Vatican.
We're going to go into a lot of history.
I'm sure we're all going to learn something very new, and I'm very excited to have this guest.
This guest is directly attributed to you, the viewer audience.
who wants to know, and this information, this is the number one request that we get here at the Adam King Show, is to put forth proof that the Vatican actually does possess some of these hidden relics from the Jewish Temple.
Without further ado, I want to bring in my guest, the esteemed Honorable Rabbi Benjamin Blach, Dean of Yeshiva University, Eternal Dean of Yeshiva University, Former dean of... the former dean of Yeshiva University.
First, by wishing everybody a happy Passover, and second, by indicating that whatever we are going to be discussing is true.
And so, therefore, the very first thing I have to do is just correct a mistaken intro.
I was never the Dean of Yeshiva University.
I'm not the Dean of Yeshiva University, if you want to indicate exactly who I am.
I've been a professor at Yishiv University for the past 60 years, which in fact is incredible, because I'm not even 60 years old, as you can see.
But I have been a professor at the university, and at that time I had A remarkable experience, which I will explain the beginnings of and the story involved, if you'd like to hear it.
However, I'm not here to discuss history from books.
I had the unique honor and privilege of meeting with the Pope.
And of in fact seeing some of the items that the Vatican has in their possession that really belonged and belong to the Jewish people, that are extremely significant historically, and I can't imagine that you had people calling in and being upset A claim that is not a claim but has been seen by many, many people.
I'm not the only one.
I can mention by name some others who had the privilege of sharing in this experience, nor did I ever imagine that There are people who claim that that's not true.
It's very simple to verify.
I don't think that the church denies that they have these items.
With that introduction, again, I want to say it's a privilege to be here on a very special day for the Jewish people and for the world because it is part of Passover.
It is a day that is supposed to be filled with gratitude to God for all the good that he has achieved for us, as well as for the world.
And more important, it is a festival of hope, because implicit in this holiday is the fact that just as God redeemed us a long time ago, He will eventually bring a final redemption.
That we call the messianic era.
The concept of Messiah is a Jewish one.
And of course we differ with Christianity in that their belief is that he already came and we say that's all we were hoping for.
We're in pretty bad shape.
He has not come yet, but he will.
And at that time, peace will reign.
Love between people and all the things that we so desperately need today when we read the newspapers.
Without a doubt, Rabbi.
And for all intents and purposes, I've seen several interviews that you've given on the subject of lost artifacts of the Jewish people.
I know you said it's hard to believe that anybody out there would disbelieve that.
We're going to read some of the comments at the end of the segment.
And to all of you tuning in, we do have a lot of eyeballs watching right now live.
Please comment below, share the link, and in your comments, write questions that you may have for Rabbi Blech.
I know that this is a very sensitive subject.
Rabbi, my audience actually is not Jewish.
My audience is mainly Christians.
I actually think, Rabbi, I'm more infamous than famous because most of the people that come to my show don't really, they have contention with some of the things that I say, especially when it comes to stuff related, like this type of a show, when it comes to stuff related to the Vatican.
My audience is mainly Christian.
So this has been a very personal journey for me as we've gone on this.
Most of the people that we've debated actually have been Catholic anti-Semites who use Catholic doctrine to promote their version of anti-Semitism, which is very reminiscent of the Europe that
My family being Ashkenazi and yours as well, the stories that are told and the culture that we know as Ashkenazi Jews, which is centered around somewhat of an oppressive nature that the Vatican has taken towards the Jewish people.
Now in modern years with Pope John Paul and And the newer popes, they have been much more kind.
History is not bereft of benevolent popes to the Jews, but there are very few of them.
In your experience dealing with the popes, maybe you could share some of your background with John Paul, because I know the two of you are very close, and a lot of bridge-working was made between the papacy and the Jewish people through that friendship.
Maybe you could touch a little bit on that before we get into the lost treasures and some of the more relevant subjects to this discussion.
You could tell us a little bit about your background with John Paul.
Well, before I met with the Pope, I had heard certain stories from people who were directly involved.
Perhaps one of the most interesting is that Pope John Paul II, the first Pope ever to go to Israel and made it his business to then go to the wall, the Western Wall.
It is the custom of Jews to place a prayer within the wall.
It's filled with prayers of people.
Who have been there, who pour out their hearts and make requests for God.
It's a very personal thing.
Now, this story has one unfortunate aspect to it because those prayers are never meant to be read by a stranger, by anyone other than the person who actually inserted it into into the wall.
No one should know the contents.
And unfortunately, after the Pope had inserted his prayer, someone did something that was very, very improper.
He was a journalist, and he searched through the inserts in the wall, found the one that the Pope inserted and actually read it.
That was, I denounce it and I say it's a horrible thing, but still I'm going to tell the story.
It was then reported and there was an opportunity for people to learn what the Pope had written that he put into
And the text of his request to God was, please, God, I pray to you that you forgive Christianity for all the hurt and the harm they expressed towards Jews by anti-Semitism throughout history.
So, I say that of all the popes, and we won't go into the history of the bad relationships and the horrors throughout the past that unfortunately occurred, the misunderstandings between the two religions, the difficulties between us and some of their leaders.
And we should acknowledge that there are some people, and Pope John Paul II, who I was fortunate enough to meet and then have a relationship with, was one of those who truly understood that if religion doesn't bring people together, but rather elicits hatred,
Then that is not a religion that definitely is part of God's outlook and God's desire for the world that he created.
God created, says the Talmud in a magnificent message, the world from one person.
God created Adam and from Adam and Eve, of course.
The entire world exists.
The reason God did that rather than take a shortcut and create many, many different people in different places at one time is so that we should all acknowledge that we came from one set of parents and that we are all related and we are all brothers and sisters.
Pope John Paul II understood that.
Having given that small introduction, I'd like to share with you the answer to the question of how in the world that a young, at that time, young person, a young boy from Brooklyn, ended up meeting the Pope.
And the answer is that I had a remarkable experience.
After 9/11, I mean the 9/11 of 2001 with the World Trade Center bombing.
Two years after that, that was the 9/11 was 2001.
And then in 2003, there was a conference of doctors in New York.
There were 700 people there.
And I would say a goodly number of them were Jews.
And the people who initiated this program and ran it also wanted to pay tribute to a past figure who they magnificently said is the person, the one person historically who should be emulated, who we should acknowledge as a role model for the post 9/11 generation.
And that was Maimonides.
Maimonides was an incredible scholar.
Maimonides was perhaps the greatest rabbi.
There was a saying among the Jewish people, from Moses, Moses, the original Moses, to Moses.
That was Maimonides, Moses ben Maimon.
There was none like Moses, you can imagine.
And we, ought to acknowledge his greatness not only in the sphere of religious scholarship but also Maimonides was a doctor and some of his medical books are so advanced that they're still studied by doctors today in medical schools.
It was an incredible doctor and the people who ran this program said that after 9-11 we should, we the world, should understand the need for combining science and religion and ethical behavior
We should use as our heroes, someone like Maimonides, and they gave Maimonides an award, obviously after death, in terms of recognition of the kind of people that we ought to emulate and should become our heroes.
And so they needed somebody to introduce to and to explain to this crowd of over 700 Doctors from all over the world exactly who Maimonides was and what ideals we were supposed to gain from his life and from his contributions in order to let this world become a better world, a post 9-11 world.
I had a reputation somewhat with regards to history and Maimonides and they asked me to be the guest speaker.
Now, uh,
Before the program I was a little bit busy obviously with preparations and my wife, who is sitting here by the way and listening in, my wife was walking around at the cocktail hour before the presentations and someone came over to her and said, I understand that you were the wife of the guest speaker
And I'd like to introduce myself.
I am one of the few people in the world who is Jewish and who is knighted by the church and by the Pope.
And he then followed that with, and if you ask why is this knight different than any other, He explained that this was a unique tribute that only three other Jews before him had ever achieved.
So only three Jews before him actually met with the Pope?
And there are a few, few.
And this man, his name is Gary Krupp, was actually given the honor of knighthood, whatever that means in their tradition.
And he said to my wife, you know, I'd love to talk to your husband after the program is over.
And that's what we did.
He introduced himself.
And then he, by way of passing, explained to me how he managed that and his relationship with the Pope.
And then he said something Which I thought to myself was just a little bit of hyperbole, that it was a little exaggerated.
He was probably trying to make a very good impression on me and he said, you know, And if there's ever anything you need from the church or from the Pope, if you'd like to tell me, I could see to it that you could meet with him and discuss it with him.
And I thought that that was just a kid that's, you know, he's saying to me, if you want, I'll arrange it for you.
And I said, yeah, I think there is something that I would like to ask the Pope, you know, that I'm sure.
You know that the Vatican has a great many items that belonged or belong still to the Jewish people that are of great interest to us.
And by items, I mean books that we have never seen, precious items, and we're not even sure what they are.
I'd love to have an opportunity to meet with the Pope and discuss it with him.
And he, Gary Krebs, said to me, well, I understand what you're saying.
You know, if there is some opportunity, and if I think that I can arrange that, I'll be in touch with you.
Give me your card.
I gave him my card, and I I thought that I would hear from him much as I thought that the President of the United States would call me in the aftermath of that meeting.
It was no more than three weeks later that Oh my goodness, you have that up here.
Oh yeah, sorry to interrupt your story.
We have the best crew in town.
They pull up all sorts of stuff for us in live time.
I'll read it really quick.
This is actually the prayer from John Paul that he wrote into the wall.
Yeah, I'm going to read the whole thing.
God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nations.
We are deeply saddened by the behavior of those who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer.
And asking your forgiveness, we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the people of the covenant.
And that was Pope John Paul II's letter that he left Not just for Jewish people, but for humankind.
That's incredible.
I'm so pleased that you brought that up, that there is a visible indication here of the feelings that he had.
Yeah.
Not just for Jewish people, but for humankind.
That's incredible.
And if only all Christians would be aware of the mandate, so to speak, of the Pope and the desire that he had to eliminate anti-Semitism, what a better world that would be.
And I'm addressing in particular all those college students and those brilliant minds today who are out protesting and ready to do violence to Jews and singling out Jews.
My God, if you are not only if you're Jewish, but if you're not Jewish, if the Catholic Church means anything to you, if the Pope means anything to you, just reading those words should enable you to feel that we are people created in the image of God.
We're all brothers.
And just as racism was so much denounced, I remember it was just two years ago that Black Lives Matter and now Jewish lives don't matter.
It just boggles the mind.
Again, Adam, I thank you for bringing that up here.
I'm back to the story.
Yes.
Yeah.
And I want to get to the end of this story because our time is very limited with you.
We only have an hour and a half and I have so many questions I want to cover.
Sure.
The reason I emphasize this is because I want you to know it is the result of a personal experience, so let me rush through it.
Barry Krebs calls me up one day and he says that I can work out an arrangement whereby you can meet with the Pope.
Are you ready to go to Rome?
and meet with him in three weeks.
So I'm still not believing that this is actually going to happen.
I said to him, let me look at my calendar.
It was just a bit of a joke, but of course, of course.
And my wife, there was a journalist who can verify everything.
And we went to Rome and we met with the Pope and then we had an opportunity to speak.
Did they actually fly you out?
like Did you ride in some Vatican private jet or anything like that?
Or was it like you covered your own expenses, came at your leisure?
No, it was a great honor to go.
There were people who were vying for the opportunity and the great wondrous gift it would be to them to sponsor our trip.
So they did sponsor your trip.
They paid for it.
Is that what you're asking me?
I think that's quite significant.
It's almost like a summoning.
I've gotten summoned by a government once and they actually sent me a jet and I flew to them and it was official business.
When that happens, when they summon you like that, it's official business.
Pope John Paul brought you to Rome on official business.
And when you got to Rome, how were you greeted?
How were you greeted by his emissaries?
The Secretary of State of the Vatican came to meet with me and a small group that Accompanied me.
The Vatican, you know, is a state within a state.
It has a secretarial estate.
And he came and expressed great honor and gave me great respect.
My parents were in Poland and they were subject to pogroms and vicious beatings very often because they were Jews.
And here I said, boy, we've come a long way, baby.
We now, I, sons of immigrants, met by the Secretary of State.
I said to the Secretary of State, you know, that this was on a Friday morning that we came.
I said, tonight is the Sabbath.
We are meeting.
We're invited by the Chief Rabbi of Rome to services in the great synagogue of Rome.
And we will also have a Shabbat Sabbath meal with interesting customs.
You might be Interested in coming and he said it will be my great privilege.
Wow.
So he went with you to Shabbos.
That's, that's mind blowing.
And I explained the various customs to him, including the singing of the song Shalom Aleichem to the angels, because angels come to every Sabbath meal, including the Kiddush, where over a cup of wine, we bless God.
And the reason for wine, just as on Passover we drink wine, is that wine rejoices the soul of man.
It says in the Bible, it means that we believe that through the goodness of God, we are meant to have happiness and joy.
And then we sang the Sabbath songs.
You know that on Sabbath, when the Jews were in the desert and they lived, they existed on manna that came from heaven.
During the week on Friday they would look out and they would see that magically and mysteriously a double portion came down.
A double portion of the food that was their sustenance came down and the seventh meal was a double portion, which is why to this day there are two challahs, two loaves of bread that we have at the table.
I explained all these things and he was fascinated and then he told us that we would be able to have a meeting first with the The cardinal, the head cardinal, and with the top aides of the Pope.
Subsequently, later time, we would meet with the Pope himself.
But at that meeting, I want to emphasize something that happened, that if there are people who are listening to this are not going to believe, then I will simply say that whatever my word will mean to anybody.
I am here only to report what happened.
And I want to say to you that when the Chief Cardinal, whose name was Cardinal Mejia, he was probably the smartest of all of them there.
And he was used by Pope John Paul II as his aide, his top right hand man.
He was there, in other words, the week before I was to meet with the Pope, I met with the Cardinal.
And there was also a father there, Father Farina, who was in charge of the Jewish library.
That is to say, the library that contained many, many books that were written by Jews.
Now, is this a library that's public or a library that's not public?
Some of it is public and some of it was never seen by Jewish eyes.
There was one thing in particular that I wanted to see because the books written by Maimonides, some of them were in the originals, were in the library of the Vatican.
And it was extremely important for us.
And you saw them with your own eyes.
The original, obviously they were handwritten by the Rambam.
Yes.
And that is exactly the point.
That's incredible, Rabbi.
I want to say that becomes part of a major story.
And if you want, I'll jump ahead.
Please.
Yeah.
For the second time.
Now, before I went on this trip, I met with a number of top rabbis in New York, heads of schools, etc.
And I said, I know you'll find this difficult to believe, but I'm going to be going to Rome, meeting with the Pope, and I will be in the Vatican and see things, perhaps, if they give me permission, that no Jews have ever seen before.
And if there is one thing that I could request.
I know I can't ask for everything, but perhaps I can ask, what is the one item more precious than any other that I could ask for?
I don't mean, I know people are going to say, why don't you ask for the menorah or things of that sort if they have it.
No, I mean, as a book, what could I possibly ask for that is logical that they might accede to, that they might say yes to?
And they said there is The original copy of the Maimonides book of Jewish law that is so important because there are different versions of it.
All these books, of course, were always rewritten by scribes and there were errors that crept in.
And there's one thing where we need to know what the original said.
We need more than anything else to know what was in the original.
And if you could get to see that, Then that would be absolutely incredible.
And when I was there, we then had set up a time where we would be shown some of the manuscripts, and they have tons of them.
And this is a story that is so incredible that I find it hard to believe even to this day.
I was begging them, could you show me some of the original works that you have here?
They would not let me specify.
But what they did was, they said, we will, the next meeting, we are going to take out a number of items, 10 items.
They put them on the glass and they said, that's what you can look at.
And I said to myself, And I said to my wife, Oh my God, I won't have a choice.
And they're just going to show me 10 things.
Who knows?
It could be 10 minor items, but all right, at least I'll see something.
And they brought out, and I'm telling you that they brought out 10 items that were just selected haphazardly.
And they were under glass and I go over to the glass and the first item that I looked at was the copy and the page of the Rambam, my Maharishi's book, that I needed to see because it had exactly the information that everybody said I should beg for.
We are talking now about... That's an open miracle.
Hundreds of thousands of pages that they could have put there.
How many pages?
Say that number again.
Folio pages.
We're talking about hundreds of thousands of folio pages of different books.
And what was under the glass, the first page that struck me, was precisely the page that I would have given anything to see.
Precisely the reason why, more than any other, I went to Rome.
Precisely what the rabbis Yeah.
That's absolutely miraculous.
Every time I open up a book, like I have a book and I'm like, oh, I'm going to open up directly to the, and I open up directly to the page.
I'm like, wow, that's incredible.
Here they're talking about tens of thousands of pages and they open up directly to the page.
And it's almost indicative... Excuse me.
I just want to tell you there is a Catholic magazine that had written to me because they asked a lot of people, are there still miracles?
And they asked me to represent a Jewish view and I said, yes, there are miracles.
And I told this story.
And this magazine has 20 million subscribers.
And that story appears in that book and I got tremendous response to it.
It's incredible.
But I want to get back to one thing.
I don't know what your timing is like, but I think this, I must... We've got about an hour left.
You're kidding.
So that there's no problem.
Am I telling you this?
Well, I have a ton of questions too.
I want to go over.
Let me just get this.
Sure.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
At the first meeting, as I told you, this was a meeting not with the Pope yet.
This was with Cardinal Mejia and a number of his aides and the head of the library.
And in our discussion, I asked the obvious question, the question that you had asked me, that everybody asks, what do they have?
And, uh, I knew they wouldn't give me a firm answer.
They're not going to tell me everything they have, but I phrased it in this way.
I said, uh, Cardinal Mejia, uh, you know how important all of this is to us.
And, uh, I would love to know as a guess, if you could just give me an about, about how many items of Jewish interest, of Jewish content, of Jewish authorship, of Jewish scholarship, would you say that the Vatican has in their possession?
That's a good question.
I'm not asking him the names of, I'm simply asking about how many items do you possess?
That would be of great significance to me as a rabbi and to the Jewish people.
And the answer that I'm going to share with you and with the audience is incredible on two counts, on two major counts, each one of which is mind-blowing.
He said, again, these are cognitively his words, I'm thinking about, he says, I think we have about 6 million items
Now, first, when you say to a Jew, six million, everyone, any Jew who has any knowledge of Jewish history, understands that six million is the unfortunate figure defining the number of Jews who were slaughtered during the Holocaust.
Six million is a tragic number, and that's simply to hear that this is the number of items that the Vatican has in their possession that basically are Jewish in content.
But to have that number be the equivalent of the horrific number.
Do you think he was doing that to be antagonistic?
That is a wonderful question.
And I wish I knew the answer to that.
I I highly doubt it in context.
In the context of our discussion, I need everyone here listening to understand that this was a friendly discussion.
This was something that, as a matter of fact, subsequently, they would lend us and allow us to take on tour some of the items.
It was a frank answer.
They did say that they would allow you to take some of the items on tour.
So all I can say is that is the number that he told us.
And the second most incredible thing, as I tell the story over, is the quantity that is involved.
That is to say, one might perhaps have difficulty believing that they have more than 100 items If you say 1000, people would be shocked.
Now, I can't even to this day fathom Maybe it is books.
million unless they're counting folio pages that is to say if we're talking about books I can't believe that they have six million books they must be counting every page as an item and there are all these books maybe it's stuff from the ancient world that we don't know about anything is possible I said And this is more of the stuff I wanted to get in with you.
What is underneath in the catacombs?
What are the objects?
I understand they have 53 miles worth of book shelving in the Vatican.
That's an astounding number so the fact could be that that I mean if if a book is on average two inches but you know how we could do the math how many inches are in a mile you know and you could figure out how many books could possibly be in the Vatican.
The number is absolutely astounding.
But as far as other artifacts are concerned, I'm reminded of a story that I heard from a famous Rabbi Yitzhak Sokol, actually, who was a posik in the Lakewood yeshiva prior to moving to Jerusalem.
Who was close with Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, who also went to the Vatican at one point and made mention of physical objects such as pillars that were in the catacombs.
When you went, you only saw books.
Did you happen to ask Cardinal Mejia or any of the cardinals about any other objects?
Yes, and we were not able to see any other objects.
Let me tell you that a few years ago, I was interviewed by Glenn Beck.
Remember Glenn Beck?
Yeah, of course.
He was a great personality.
He had a great show.
Unfortunately, for some reason, you don't hear too much from him today.
It's because of internet censorship, Rabbi.
Probably.
So he told me That when he was in Rome, he was invited by a top Cardinal to go to the Vatican, to the 14th floor to the cellar where they keep most of these items.
And he said, Glenn said to me, I refused because at that time I didn't know you, Rabbi Bleich, and I wish I would have, that you would have come with me because I felt that a historic moment like that should be viewed by someone who knows what he's seeing.
And I unfortunately would not understand, and I felt it would be a visit gone to waste.
And I would prefer, and I still prefer, he said that somebody who has historic knowledge would be the person who sees this.
Let me then tell you that when I was in Rome the first time, there was a The chief rabbi said to me he wanted to introduce me to somebody, and this was a Jewish Italian who was in a unit in the Italian army in World War II.
And this particular unit fought an important battle Which they won and there weren't, forgive me, there weren't too many Italian units that were victorious.
And therefore they wanted, the church wanted to do something for the unit.
And they said, we are going to allow you.
to see something that nobody is permitted to see.
I think I heard this story on one of your other interviews.
Was this the story where he went down into something like 14 floors or something like that?
Exactly.
But I met the guy.
So you met the guy.
He went 14 floors down there.
What did he tell you?
He had to promise everybody in that unit had to promise if they were going to be given this great opportunity to go down Vatican 14th floor that is closed off to everybody.
Why do you think that they would allow something like that to happen?
I will tell you, because this unit was responsible for something that was very important to them.
And they made everyone promise, A, that they were not Jewish and B, that they would never reveal what they saw.
Now people make promises.
I cannot promise you, but everybody keeps the promises that they do.
But this Jewish soldier, Italian soldier, felt That it was important enough to break a promise in order to see what they were going to show his unit.
And he went down, uh, with his unit and he saw items.
One of which was from the temple and it was the breastplate that the Cohen Goddard, priest of war, and an item from the Beit Hamikdash, from the Holy of Holies of the temple.
And that was incredible.
And that was, again, something that he was not supposed to tell.
I heard this when he, the Italian soldier, told it to me in the presence of the Chief Rabbi of Rome.
And the Chief Rabbi knew the story, obviously, but he wanted me to hear this as well and to be aware of it.
There are, almost certainly, other items that are in the possession of the Church and are in the Vatican, including, almost certainly, Some items from the Beit Hamikdash other than the one I just indicated.
There is a huge controversy.
Invariably at this point, whenever I tell the story, someone raises his hand and asks, do they have the menorah?
And that would be incredible if they did.
We know the story of the Arch of Titus, how it's round and the real Menorah is straight.
And I've had some thoughts about that.
Actually, my crew was very enthralled by that.
That was one of the questions the crew had for you.
was about the nature of the menorah.
How do we feel about their menorah being real or fake?
And I was thinking to myself, maybe they didn't show the artist the actual menorah when they were painting the rendition of the menorah or sculpting the rendition of the menorah in the Arc de Triomphe.
You are almost certainly correct with that.
It seems that there was one menorah whose construction is described fairly clearly And this is not the way this particular menorah looks.
Menorahs also, smaller menorahs, were used in the passageway because they were lights.
There were no lights as lights.
And this probably was a mini Menorah, not the Menorah.
Yeah, there were many Menorahs, actually.
But was this the one that Bezalel made with the honeycomb structure on the inside?
And the answer is...
Wondersome at best.
We know that several different times and we know that Nebuchadnezzar had temple treasures too.
What was done with those temple treasures?
Were they returned after the first temple?
Some of them were hidden and returned.
Others were hidden and not yet found.
I say not yet found because according to the Talmud, the priests who hid these items hid them so well because they didn't want them to be treated in a non-sacrificed manner.
And we have a promise from the prophets, from God, that the third temple There will be a third temple and these items then will be found and will be used and we will be the ones that would sell away.
So do you think that the items that were taken by Nebuchadnezzar are also going to be returned?
The lost ones from the first temple as well as the lost ones from the second temple?
I know that the Second Temple never had the Aharon HaKodesh, the Ark of the Covenant, that it was hidden prior to the sacking of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, and they never took the full gamut of temple treasures.
The main treasures have never left Jerusalem.
I wonder if the menorah is counted amongst them, the actual menorah, if it was counted amongst the treasures that were not taken by Nebuchadnezzar, such as the Ark of the Covenant and so on and so forth.
The hearing that the Romans had the breastplate of Aaron, you have to ask yourself what came back and what is currently out on loan.
Have you ever heard of Vendel Jones?
Of course.
What an amazing old school name.
When I first went to Israel, I got very into his work.
And actually, interestingly enough, the guest right before you was Byron Stinson, the man who found the red heifer.
And I remember Vendel Jones actually found some of the original incense.
Very good.
And I became friends with his daughter, Wendell's daughter.
She told me the most amazing story.
I'm not sure if Wendell is still with us anymore.
No, he isn't.
I was a very close friend of Wendell Jones.
Wendell Jones had a group.
You know that he was the head of B'nai Noah.
Yeah.
The non-Jews who are not yet ready to convert fully but who commit themselves to observing the seven laws of Noah which are the universal laws for all of mankind according to the Torah and according to the Talmud.
Wendell Jones was the key to The role model for the movie, the… The Indiana Jones, yeah.
The Indiana Jones movie.
He just wouldn't allow it.
He was a famous archaeologist who was constantly searching for temple treasures.
Correct.
So this story, when I met his daughter, she told me the most amazing thing.
She said that they actually, because a Jew is not permitted to burn the incense, so they actually took the incense because they weren't Jewish, and they went out to the desert and they burned it.
to see what would happen.
And they said they noticed a smell and whatever.
Nothing was remarkable.
But what was remarkable was the day after they burned the incense, they came back and she said within a square mile, there wasn't a bug or reptile or snake in sight.
That it removed all the insects.
There were holes in the base of the temple.
Even in the temple area where they offered sacrifices and it was meat and it would of course certainly should have been flies and all kinds of bugs.
There wasn't a bug.
I know that Jews are forbidden on punishment of death of recreating this incense.
But I'm surprised some lucky Gentile out there hasn't gone out and made a bug repellent, incense bug repellent, and made a fortune off of it and, you know, sold a million, millions of units all over the world.
But to anybody listening, Gentiles are allowed to make it, but Jews aren't.
Am I right?
Yes sir.
No, no.
Yes, sir.
Literally, if you're a Gentile, am I allowed to tell them to go do this?
No, I don't think so.
No, no.
But it's a good idea if you want to make some money.
It gets all the bugs away.
It makes the earth smell really good.
There you go, Adam.
That proves you're Jewish.
But seriously, Rabbi Blech, how amazing would that be, if like all of a sudden it became like this trending fad, that everybody's like, you know, the citroen candles, but instead of the citroen candles, they're burning temple incense, and we don't have any bugs or pests anymore, and everything smells like the temple and the Garden of Eden, you know.
Amazing.
Yes.
You said you wanted to ask me a series of questions.
Yes.
Well, I wanted to talk to you about a couple things.
Right now we're in the exile of Edom, the Roman exile.
I wanted to ask you, as it relates to the temple treasures that are in the Vatican and how we are required to get them back, You know, I know that, you know, we've gone over privately about several, we're not going to focus on popes like Pius VIII who oversaw the Holocaust.
I'm sorry, Pius XII who oversaw the Holocaust.
But, you know, we were going to focus on more benevolent popes like John Paul and our current pope who's working hard to address issues of anti-Semitism.
Especially with his Vatican II.
First question, and, you know, more like a yes or no answer.
Do you see Vatican II as something to... Is Vatican II about Jews?
Or is Vatican II... How do they... In Vatican II, I know they specifically deal with things related to Jews, but In Vatican II, or this concept of Vatican II, do the popes become benevolent enough that they actually return some of these possessions?
Or is this something that, let's say, the Messiah has to come and rectify for humanity?
You know, we should not be making theological statements about what they believe.
Now, Catholics believe
That there is replacement theology, which means anything that had to do with Jews and promises for the Jewish people, since the Jews did not accept Jesus as Messiah, those were shifted over to Catholics, to Christians.
They will now be the beneficiaries of A lot of people don't know, for example, I've written a book on the Sistine Chapel, and the Sistine Chapel... I want to get into the Michelangelo stuff, but I don't want to go too deep into it.
Let me say this, that the Sistine Chapel was modeled after the exact architectural design of the temple, because they said that Christians say that After the Jews didn't accept Jesus, then whatever was Jerusalem was replaced by Rome and therefore
If you ask me, is this, was this specifically for Christians or for Jews or for what?
I am not going to answer what they believe.
Some of it is negative.
Some of it is, that's what they believe.
They're entitled to their beliefs.
Without a doubt.
So, do you believe that the rectification of these temple treasures, do you think that there's something that we will be able to have seen within our lifetime?
And obviously, if you believe that the Messiah is near, like I asked before, do you think that this rectification is reserved for the Messiah, or could it happen before the Messiah?
I believe a hundred percent that Messiah is near.
The Talmud says that the world in terms of the count of years is destined to count from Adam.
There were years before that.
That is destined to last only 6,000 years.
So we are on 5778, 5778, 4.
We believe that Messiah must come before the year 6,000.
We are on the cusp of the Messianic era.
So, um, I know right now is the year 5,784.
Um, we are close to the year 6,000.
With everything taking place with Iran, Israel strike the Iran, uh, Iran obviously sent in 300 missiles into Israel.
Uh, do you see us in some sort of end of days type of, uh, Ezekiel 38 Gog level prophecy being fulfilled in our time?
Definitely.
You know, like, uh, you know the story about how, um, when Titus, before he began his siege on Jerusalem, he shot an arrow in every direction and they all landed in Jerusalem.
You know, like how there was in history, they always have like this ceremonious, like arrow shooting event where before they even leave their nation, they shoot an arrow in the direction of their opponent.
I don't think Iran is aware of that.
Do you think that that was what Iran was doing when they sent in those 300 missiles, knowing that they were all going to be intercepted?
Like it was a symbolic gesture saying, we are about to begin our march on Jerusalem?
I don't think Iran is aware of that.
I think you make a valid point in that events, current events can have aspects of prediction that were already known to Kabbalists, that were already known to Jewish scholars, that were already known to Jewish scholars, and these are fulfillments of them.
If I tell you something that will blow your mind, are you prepared to listen for a moment to an incredible concept with regard to prophecy and prediction?
I will ask the viewers to be very, very careful about how they handle this.
But Kabbalistically, the verses in the Bible correspond to the years.
I mean, the Hebrew years.
We got back.
Land of Israel in the year 1948, which In the Hebrew calendar was the year 5708.
And if you look up the text of the Bible and go to the 5708th verse in the Torah, the verse says, if I may, first in Hebrew, which means, which means, and the Lord God will gather you in from the lands of your dispersion, and he will bring you back there to your land.
That is the 5708th verse in the Torah.
It is Devarim Lamed, Deuteronomy 30, verse 3.
That is predictive and that says God will return us to our land.
That's in the Torah.
Wow!
There are other predictions.
They are remarkable, but there are predictions that we know.
I would not go as far as what you said that Iran knows that and therefore they know.
It's the arc of history as divinely ordained.
There is a beautiful, beautiful line by Rabbi Jonathan Sachs, who says that the word history says it all because history is his story.
Yeah, I've heard that one actually, the his story.
So getting back to the Gog stuff and Ezekiel 38, obviously Rabbi, you're esteemed in all forms of Torah and Kabbalah and all sorts of ritual goodness.
My question for you is, Gog, he comes with this horde, and Gog is first, before Gog comes, it says that Persia is burning to the ground.
Do you see this as some sort of advanced attack that Israel does or the Americas do like what just took place secretly on the nuclear facility last week that Israel will strike first at Iran before Iran sends a retaliation like a cloud covering the sky?
What I do know is That from all the prophets, we are told that preceding and prefacing the coming of the Messiah, there will be a terrible period of time, a period of death, of destruction, of other nations doing horrible things.
The why, we do not know.
I can't understand the why, but there is a common consensus and Many, many rabbis, rabbis much greater than I, believed that the Holocaust was one major indicator that we are reaching the end of days.
Is it not amazing?
I know people who were in the concentration camps who, when they came out of Auschwitz, thought they were the last Jews alive.
You don't understand that 1945 is when World War II ended and 1948, three years later, is when we established the State of Israel, that there is a linkage that's so obvious and so clear, but that linkage was prophetically ordained and that was something that we unfortunately knew.
We didn't know the specifics of it.
The more we looked into the text Kabbalistically, the more we recognized that in fact there are clues to this.
Are there any clues you're going to ask me for the future or for today?
And I would say to you, even if I knew them, I wouldn't tell you.
I can't tell you.
It's very dangerous to do this, especially if one puts all his faith and hope into
conclusion that one believes he spotted he or she spotted in the text and it doesn't come true there are people who might then give up and there are people who might say okay and that Messiah is a fraud and it won't happen but I will say to you the consensus of the right wise people
of the great rabbis to this day, contemporary, is that the Holocaust was the prelude and subsequent to that we got back the land of Israel, subsequent to that we got back Jerusalem, And all of this in the context of something that I hesitate to say, but I will say.
You know that the Jews were called the wandering Jews because in Christian theology, the Jews are condemned to wander off the face of the earth until they accept Jesus as the Messiah.
Now we haven't accepted Jesus as the Messiah.
They're entitled and we're entitled.
But the one thing that we have seen is that in spite of the prediction that the Jews will continue to wander over the face of the earth for their lack of faith in Jesus, we are back in Israel, thank God, and we have Jerusalem.
The fact that the world is so anti-Semitic and is trying to deprive us of both may perhaps be part of the theological story that the world is afraid of the revelations and of the appearance of and of the fulfillment of everything that's biblical.
People fear holiness And that may be the unwritten script of today and the current rejection of the Jews and Jewish people.
So, it's almost as if the creation of the state of Israel and the resettlement of Jews to our ancestral land kind of invalidates that Christian prophecy because the Jews did not accept Jesus, yet we were brought back from wandering and now we are being settled.
In Ezekiel 39, he says, why have you come here?
Have you come to uproot people who have been settled from abroad in the diaspora, who I have brought back?
And we see that there is this resettlement of Jerusalem, which kind of disproves the Christian theology.
And I get it that theology is so intertwined, Rabbi, and you say we could believe these things, and they say that we could believe these things.
It's like how the Muslims say that it was Ishmael on the altar and not Isaac.
The ramifications for such are tremendously great.
Whoever was on that altar receives the land.
So the Quran clearly says it was Ishmael.
And the Torah clearly says it was Yitzhak.
So those are two theologies so intertwined that they have to have a resolution in order for justice to be served.
Also, too, in the sense of Christendom, is this something that needs to be addressed so that people could have eyes to see and ears to hear the truth of what God is performing with the Jewish people?
The one thing that needs to be added to this entire discussion is that when we, as Jews, talk about the end of days, we do not say that it is our intention to bring this about via the sword.
That is to say, we have never missionized.
We never force other people to accept our religion.
We never say that because we believe that the Lord is one hero Israel, The Lord is our God, the Lord is one here at Israel and have faith and you will see, but we do not like other faiths say, and we will make this happen.
By raping your women, burning your children, killing your scholars, doing things that are outrageous, and then I hear on the campuses of the United States of America, on the campuses, we are all Hamas.
That is the horror of this generation that we had better learn to deal with.
You mean to tell me that people committing the vilest acts imaginable, things that one would have thought are part of the Middle Ages or before, and Those are the goals and the ideals after you've been talking about the horror of racism for the past, I don't know how many years and after you've been saying it.
Exactly.
The university's like drunk off this like LGBTQ inclusion, diversity, equity, inclusion, whatever they have.
And then when it comes to Jews, they all want to be Hamas.
It's so strange.
Incredible.
And plus, I mean, did you see the organization Queers for Hamas, where if they would be ruled by Hamas, they would be thrown off roofs because homosexuality warrants a death penalty.
They don't understand a thing.
And if we ask them to define the river and the sea, they don't know what the names of the river and the sea are.
And they're just protesting.
Yeah, you know, it's a weird world that we live in.
We talk about this on the Adam King show all the time, is how there's been an intentional effort to dilute the education system so that the youth could be raised without knowledge and without fact.
uh hyper emotional overstimulated by their technology so they lash out in these temper tantrums like they do across campuses all across the united states it's amazing how much these people care about palestinians but they don't care about homeless people in the united states
Like, you don't see them, like, protesting about homeless veterans or the border being overrun with illegal immigrants or anything.
But, you know, they want to run to support the most anti-American, anti-freedom, blood libel, murdering organization that has it in the Article 1 of their... I'm sorry.
I can give you a list of a hundred, at least, dictatorships, countries where horrors are committed every day, and you mean to say that their love and their desire to make this a better world only extends to removing Jews from this earth?
Why have they not fought for the liberties, the civil liberties, the freedom.
Why only for Palestinians and not for anybody else?
If the only person that you care about is somebody who is not Jewish and you wanna get rid of and have Jews killed, That's what they say.
Why does your heart that you say that you claim has love in it for all?
Why does that love only extend one way and why do you have no care, no concern for Jewish people.
What is it that bugs you so much about Jews?
May I offer an answer to you?
Yeah, absolutely.
Hitler said, he actually said when he was asked, why do you hate the Jews so?
Why do you single them out?
He said, because they are the ones who gave the world the idea of conscience and conscience And the desire to be a good person is as harmful as circumcision.
You know, on my little dark corner of the internet, they refer to Jews as the chosenites.
That we believe that we're chosen by God and all this stuff.
And I grew up every single day of my life a Jew.
And all this stuff made me feel so uncomfortable.
And I never resonated with it.
It always made me feel confused because of the amount of oppression that we've had.
What does it mean we're chosen?
You know, I callously joked about our digestive issues.
What do you mean we're chosen?
We have so many digestive issues.
What are you talking about, chosen?
But when I see the world, how they respond to the Jewish people, Especially when I was in Vihishayamda of the Seder a few nights ago, and I was thinking, they say this in our Seder, in every single generation they rise up against us.
And it says specifically, I wish I had the Haggadah in front of me, in every single generation they rise up against us.
And if there's ever been something that made me feel like I was chosen for something, or chosen by God, It doesn't make sense why these people are so Jew obsessed.
They're like crazy Jew obsessed.
In this dark little corner of the Internet, people are giving themselves the Hitler mustaches as like a sign of solidarity.
These people like there's a there's a guy named Lucas Gage who I've actually done content with before, before he became such an ardent Nazi.
But it's amazing that people like him have like fought for America.
They were soldiers.
They pledged to be, you know, patriots of our country.
Yet the whole Internet has gone uproar.
And for some reason, hating Jews is something worth casting the yoke of the Constitution.
As a soldier who fought in the army for the United States and for all intents and purposes claims to be a patriot, Yet has become so Hitler obsessed in the last six months as if he just discovered who Adolf Hitler was.
And there's so many of these people all over the Internet that are just happening.
It's just it's like uncontrollable.
Like I don't think he hated Jews as much as he did when we We're on Adam Green's show together six months ago now he's full-blown Hitler mustache as if it's like some badge of honor and All these anti-semites have been rocking the Hitler mustache these days on their shows on the internet And it's crazy because they all claim to be patriots for America and all that stuff.
Literally, like, Hitler was the enemy of America.
Hitler is the enemy of freedom, the enemy of morality.
Everything that they claim that they want to fight in their talk shows, you know, that children should be wards of the state and not wards of their parents, that's so Hitler-esque.
and they love Hitler but they say that they're patriots and it's like come into this divide that like the desire to hate Jews trumps all other civil morality or feelings of of allegiance that they have to the country they're gonna go side with Hamas and they you know you got people like Jackson Hinkle and Ryan Dawson who are like praising Iran right now all over the internet and uh and it's mind-boggling to me
I'm not saying that they have no sense of history and they do not remember.
Well, maybe they're not old enough, but at least they could read.
What happened during the Holocaust, not just to Jews, what the result was of a Hitler perspective.
And this world will not survive because during World War II, all we had were the kinds of bombs that did damage to a localized area.
But in a nuclear age and a Hitlerian philosophy, this world is doomed.
You say it might be doomed, but I wonder if it's just context and precursor to the Mashiach.
What are your thoughts on that?
Exactly.
I merely phrased it in that way in order to indicate when it gets so bad that people finally understand that your way is going to create the destruction of everything that we have on this earth.
That your world will be a world of hatred where everyone will suffer the consequences, then perhaps that is the necessary requirement for a messianic age, because it ain't going to get better until we acknowledge how bad this road is, how this road of
and in particular of hatred of the Jew is going to lead to destruction of the world.
I merely am saying it as a lesson, as a powerful idea to ward off the possibility of that potential.
So I want to thank everybody who's watching.
I want to encourage everybody to hit the share link and share this so we can get more viewers in on the live.
If you have any questions for Rabbi Blech, please drop them in the comments and I will ask them.
Rabbi, I want to pivot back to Lost Objects of the Temple, which is our theme of the show today.
And in all speculation, I understand the importance of the volumes of knowledge that were captured by the Vatican.
In anywhere in Scripture, does it refer to lost objects being returned to the Jews in the Messianic age?
Very interesting that it's Passover now, and we say The end of the story is, God promised that after this period of slavery, the time of liberation, the time of leaving Egypt, which is what we celebrate now, the Jews will leave with great wealth.
Now that's unusual on the surface because wealth is a monetary thing and this is a spiritual holiday and therefore the
Commentators, the Jewish commentators of the entire Passover story say that the real point of the story is that after we leave Egypt, we will leave with great wealth, the wealth of knowledge, the wealth of understanding, the wealth gained by spirituality, the wealth acquired by the Jewish people recognizing what slavery or lack of freedom can do to a world.
That we will then leave.
The lesson from Egypt is the greatest treasure, and we still haven't learned it.
The lesson of the Egypt story.
What a great way to end this show, I think.
The greatest lesson of that time period is that just as power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, slavery corrupts.
Slavery destroys.
Racism destroys.
Hatred destroys.
It destroys not only the victims, it destroys the perpetrators.
And that's something that the world has to recognize.
America was able to become the greatest empire in human history.
Because of our founding fathers and because of our ideals.
And what we are now doing is betraying our ideals, perverting our ideals, turning this world into a place of hatred.
And that is the battle that we have to win in order to have great wealth.
The wealth of knowledge, purpose, divinity, spirituality.
I want to read some of the comments from our live stream and questions.
Indymedia East Coast says, if you really think about it, Jews do get blamed way too much.
I appreciate your insight and it's important that you stay on the stream.
I also want to talk, there's been a lot of comments.
Pasqual Severino de... I don't even know his whole name... De La Barca says We won it in war, so F off.
What is your response to him, Rabbi Blech?
Some of the people in the comments are really crass, low-level individuals.
And so I want to read you their comments, because this is how they feel when we talk about reclaiming lost objects.
He said, We won it in war, so F off.
This was his comment.
This is his comment about Jews having objects that are... May I say, when he gets out of first grade and second grade and gets an education, please call me so we can talk in a civilized manner.
If the best that you can do is F off, that means you only know one letter, the F. Wow, there are 25 other letters and there's an education to be had as well.
I appreciate that, Rabbi.
And it's important that I show these comments.
It's important that I show these comments because people need to know that this is the opposition.
This is what we're up against.
I remember when I was debating Nick Fuentes in January, he said, to the victor goes the spoils.
And that's what he referred to as if it was a fair fight the last 2,000 years of Jewish oppression.
This guy, Pascal, also just said, in addition, he said that these were objects taken by people in Russia.
And the genocide was from Jews who were in Russia and Poland.
It wasn't 2000 years ago.
And that just shows you how They don't believe that we're the same Jews from the Bible.
I know that this Khazar myth has like really taken the anti-semitic world by storm.
Any which way that they could discredit the Jews and say that the Jews of today are not the Jews of the Bible and therefore don't have a claim to these possessions that they want to use.
If you want someone, if you want to explain to someone in two hours they cannot gain an education that they should have, Because these guys from Harvard and Yale and Princeton and Columbia and NYU, etc., have had an education that was distorted and destroyed for them by people who gave them misinformation.
And if their years in college haven't enabled them to gain any wisdom, not just mistaken facts, but no wisdom, then Your program, this program, merely is a wake-up call to them.
And maybe, maybe, if there are a hundred, if there are perhaps more people who say, gee, this guy seems to be pretty smart.
And there's some facts here.
Maybe it's my obligation before I spout off.
I just saw in the paper today, uh, there are these, they asked these college students protesting and, uh, The journalist asked, do you know what you're protesting?
And he said, not really.
I don't know.
I wish I was more educated.
This is someone attending a university, protesting, going out.
It's a big thrill.
It's a big thrill to put up this tent and scream and this pascuala, whatever he is, if all he can say is a word that begins with F.
If that is the extent of your ability to argue a point, then stick with that and demonstrate that that's who you are, an ignorant fool who is bringing about a society that will destroy you.
You!
Mic drop on that one.
I have to say, a very based rabbi.
It's astounding to me that the pompousness and the guile at which all these people flaunt the hoarding of our possessions.
And the deeper I get into this Catholic anti-Semite world, the more it becomes So relevant.
And this is something that I would like for you as a take-home to your Catholic friends, because you do have very high-level Catholic friends, that in this little dark corner of the internet, it is like me versus 250,000 Catholic anti-Semites every single day on the internet.
And it gets crazy down here.
I would love some attention from the Vatican for the work that I'm doing addressing anti-Semitism.
And many people from the Catholic anti-Semite community have become reformed through this show and have, especially from a lot of the debates, have really come to see the lunacy and the hatred in some of the positionings that members of the church and members of the Catholic anti-Jewish community share publicly.
So, listen, it's not easy doing this, Rabbi.
It's hard to constantly fight this battle and bring awareness.
And I'm afraid that if I'm not here on this dark corner of the internet, That it's just going to spread and spread and spread and spread and spread.
And so we've been very successful.
We just took in our new analytics for 2.1 million views, which, you know, a lot of people It doesn't reflect in my followership because of my censorship, but when I saw the analytics that 2.1 million people were tuning in, I realized that we are making a huge difference whether it's visible on the internet or not.
But it becomes so relevant, and maybe this could be for your closing points, as the vitriol inside of this community that, like I said, this guy Paschal doesn't think we're the Jews of the Bible, and that it's okay that the Catholics genocided us in generations in Russia and Poland.
And all the books that were stolen from the pogroms and all the book burnings that were taken.
And this is something I actually would love your comment before we wrap this up and get to your final closing sentiment.
But one theory that I have is that a lot of the pogroms were started because Catholics, the Vatican specifically, became aware of a specific Kabbalistic book or something that was published.
I know after Shabtai Tzvi, the Ram Hall was heavily censored by the Jewish community because they were afraid his books would cause damage in the world.
I know that there's been other, like, for instance, there's a book called Kabbalat Maasit by Rabbi Yoel Habal Shem Tov, who was the teacher of Rabbi, he was the student of Rabbi Eliyahu Habal Shem Tov, he was the student of Rabbi Eliyahu Habal Shem Tov, who was the teacher of Rabbi Adam Habal Shem Tov, who taught our Habal Shem Tov that we all know and love.
And he, with this Rabbi Naftali Katz, wrote this unbelievable treatise on Kabbalat Maasit, practical Kabbalah.
And these books were hidden.
They weren't even just hidden.
They were hunted by secret societies, Knights Templars, Jesuit orders, all sorts of different things.
For centuries, I like to say that it wasn't the Jews that they were coming after, but it was the Torah and we just stood in the way.
What are your thoughts on, you know, minus the temple treasures, obviously you spoke about the writings of the Rambam that were brought out before you that you've actually seen with your own eyes as a first-hand witness.
What do you think about that theory that all these other books and original Kabbalistic manuscripts throughout the ages, Harav, Mippano, these great Kabbalistic sages that existed, that they're hoarding onto this information?
What are your thoughts on that?
I once had a discussion with Rabbi Lau, who at the time was the Chief Rabbi of Israel, and I told him the gist of the talk that we had today.
And I asked him, how is it that God allowed Christianity Catholics to get possession of all these items in the first place?
And he said to me something extremely profound that I think is the key to our entire discussion.
He said, do you know that in the Middle Ages, the power, the political power was the Catholic Church and had all these items that the church took, had they been not gathered in and held by the church, they would have been destroyed.
So in effect, unbeknownst to them, they were the best guardians for all the books, the items of the temple, the various holy spiritual treasures that they held on to.
They were watching them Without realizing that they're watching them because the original owners someday, when Messiah comes, will merely demonstrate.
They won't fight for them, but they will indicate that they come from God and they belong in a house of God.
And that is the explanation for the treasures of the Jewish people temporarily being guarded by What a remarkable insight, guarded by the Church.
So I want to thank the Church for holding on to them in such a way that we still have them.
And I'd like to add, by saying to them, not only do I thank you, but you know, soon Moshiach is coming, so I will be here, and we will rebuild the Temple, so we'll be happy to take them back at that time.
I appreciate that.
But also, what about the other books?
The non-biblical books?
The books that were taken at various pogroms of Jewish communities throughout the ages.
Do you feel that they're hoarding onto those materials as well, intentionally?
Excellent!
And do you know, I don't have to tell you, the number of Nobel Prizes, the number of awards, the number of things that the Jewish people gave to the world by our wisdom, by our intelligence, by our creativity.
Well, they should be grateful and included amongst those are all the books that you mentioned.
All of them which contain The spiritual ideas and ideals of humanity of what we have after all this time been able To present to the world.
Now the world obviously wasn't ready to accept or even to understand.
The world is ready, as you just read to me a few minutes ago, to say to a rabbi, F you.
That's all.
That's a wonderful insight that you have.
But if you were to read the sages, the scholars, just as Einstein gave us the concepts that define the scientific world of today, so too were there Einsteins of spirituality.
Countless rabbis, scholars, thinkers who understood and understand God and their books and their writings could change your life and turn you from someone who only knows That's all you hear.
I walk the streets.
I don't hear another word other than that.
I watch TV sometimes.
And that's what you hear.
That's your contribution.
to intellectual discourse.
That's incredible.
Maybe you should grow up.
Maybe you should go from kindergarten level of stupidity to listening to programs such as this.
Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity and gaining a little wisdom.
And with wisdom, you will gain insight.
And with insight, you will gain a piece of God.
You will become a little holier.
You will become a better human being.
Rabbi, I know we're going a little over time.
I want to ask you one more question, if I may, and then I want to give you a closing statement.
My other question, I know we focused a lot on Jewish possessions that the Vatican has in store.
What are your thoughts on possessions of other cultures that the Romans conquered and used the Vatican as treasure houses for?
One thing I talk about on my show is when these possessions of the Jews are returned, that all the Europeans are going to realize there's no such a thing as being white, that they're actually Visigoth, or Ashkenaz, or from real ancient kingdoms They have real ancient bloodlines that also go back to Adam from the garden.
And that there's kind of like this wool that's been pulled over everybody's eyes just to believe you're white.
Just that you're French white, you're German white, you're British white.
You're only like 250 years old.
You're not even a thousand year old lineage.
Don't ever go back into history.
Don't ever think about these things.
And kind of like as if when the Jewish people get redeemed, so too the rest of the world will be redeemed and the histories of earth will be returned.
to everyone else.
What are your thoughts on that, that the Vatican is also hoarding treasures of other people that are not so vocal or contentious or maybe don't exist anymore?
Their nations have completely ceased to exist.
My thought is the mission in the Talmud, which I quoted before, and that is the reason God created humankind from one atom.
That's Adam and Eve, of course, because Eve came from Adam, is that no person should ever say, I'm better than you because my lineage is greater than yours.
We all come from the same source.
And that source originally is God, because in the image of God, he created human beings and God, you know how possessive we are of our children?
You mess with my son or my daughters.
I have one son, three daughters.
You mess with them, you've messed with the wrong person.
Everyone will say that.
Well, guess who else says it?
God.
God says, you mess with my children, you're messing with me.
Amen.
Rabbi, it is such a delight to have you.
Your presence here in this dark corner of the internet shines so much light.
I heard at the Passover Seder one of the most beautiful parables.
Why did God say to Abraham, Your descendants will be like the stars of the heavens, as numerous as the stars of the heavens.
And somebody at my Seder said, because when you look up, you look up at the sky and they illuminate the darkness.
And that what the Jewish people are supposed to be is this force that illuminates darkness that the world could look up to.
And so there's this great mashal in the stars being That when God says, I'll make you like the stars, that he's really referring to the character attributes that the Jewish people are wanting to possess, in which you absolutely possess that.
You're a living treasure trove of information for our whole nation.
The Jewish people revere you tremendously and your work and contribution Especially in relationship with the Vatican is tremendously felt and known by people far and wide that you don't even know, including myself.
And so with that, I want to give you the closing word.
And if you could please depart us with some wisdom for all of us, the ones who are on our side and the ones who are not on our side, something we can collectively swallow together.
Some holy wisdom from the rabbi as we're concluding the show today that may be able to take us as it is Pesach Passover to Herutenu, to our freedom.
If you could give us, take as much time as you'd want, your words are as precious as honey.
So please share with us your closing words and depart on us some real wisdom that we can ponder for weeks to come.
What I'd like to tell you is, after all those compliments, The most important thing every person should realize is that they, I'm speaking to every viewer, were given that gift.
It's not Rabbi Blech.
It is you and every person was created for a special reason, a purpose.
Know your purpose and know that you have divinity in you.
Know that there is a part of God Know the concept of insight.
What a beautiful word, insight.
Now, seeing right now, I'm looking at you, I see myself too, but I don't really see myself, nor do I see you.
I don't see the insight, the sight within myself.
Now I want to tell you that when I look at the TV screen today of the universities and of the people who are acting like animals, I say they don't see themselves.
They don't see how far they have fallen.
And more important, they don't see what they could be.
If only we could see a vision of ourselves and who we could be, what we could be.
We are God because God has put himself into us.
We have a soul The soul is the spirit, is the essence.
It is the key to our being and it is the key to our understanding of the world.
Why, why do we turn ourselves into animals and go backwards in the evolutionary scale when we have so much to look forward to in terms of looking up?
Stand up straight.
Stand up and be who you could be, because you could be godly.
Think to yourself, whoever that Pasquale was, and I'm sure you were kind to me, Adam, and you didn't want to read to me, I'm sure many other of the comments that came in, and I would say
For those who sent insults and words that should never be said about another human being, why don't you look at the note that you bothered to send, deprecating others, insulting others, not caring about others and say, is this really me?
Is this who I am?
And is this our country?
Is this what America turned into?
Is this what our ancestors fought for?
I don't just mean our ancestors in America who fought the world wars and gave us a country that we should be proud of and people instead say, death to America!
Hooray for Hamas!
How could we have sunk so low?
Look at yourself in the mirror and say, is that who I am?
Is that who my ancestors wanted me to be?
You know what you tell your kids?
Grow up, grow up, grow up and be the descendant of God who has spirituality, who has purpose.
You're here for a reason and the reason is not to demonstrate hatred or to look down at others.
If love is really your ideal, love conquers all, is what they say.
And love will turn this world into a paradise.
We were there once.
We got kicked out because we forsook God, because we didn't understand this message.
Are we going to be kicked out of paradise again?
Or are we going to renew paradise and create an Eden that's worthwhile living in?
It's your choice.
It's our choice.
Let us become who we could become.
Wow.
Amen.
Thank you, Rabbi.
And on that note, we are going to conclude the show.
I want to thank our esteemed Rabbi Benjamin Blech for joining us.
I want to thank our listener audience who tune in every single week.
I am your host, Adam King.
We got more in the pipes.
Please stay tuned and keep coming back.
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