We Cry for the Palestinians ...

Welcome to "Let the Quran Speak."

I'm here with the Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss.

He supports Palestinians, and I'm gonna ask him

why that's so?

Rabbi, welcome to "Let The Quran Speak."

Thank you, and it's an honor and privilege

to be on your program

No, it's wonderful to talk to you.

So tell me, rabbi, why do you oppose

the state of Israel, first of all,

and why do you support Palestinians?

Okay, first, I pray to the Almighty

that he bestow upon me his truth

his wisdom that I may be worthy of conveying his message

and so sanctify his name.

It's not my personal opinion.

What I'm representing with God's help is the opinion

of the very religious Jews around the world

including in our courts in Jerusalem,

including well throughout Europe

and throughout the world basically.

We as a Jewish people have made a covenant with God

3,000 years ago on Mount Sinai Mo Aban

and Moses went up and took the Torah from God

and we made a covenant to uphold the Torah.

That is what Judaism is all about.

To uphold this covenant, to be close to the Almighty,

to be subservient to the Almighty.

This movement, the concept of creating a state sovereignty

and with they want to call a Jewish sovereignty,

that concept that is a movement that started

around 150 years ago.

It is a transformation from subservience to God

into nationalism.

Have a piece of land to be a nation amongst nations,

to be comparable to all the great countries.

Now, that in and of itself, even if it would have not

affected the Palestinian people,

the inhabitants, the indigenous people, in other words

if the land would have been uninhabited,

it would still be forbidden for the Jewish people

to have this concept of sovereignty of a nationalism

because we have a long history.

We made the covenant with God 3,000 years ago

to uphold the Torah, and we were then commanded

to go into the holy land and build a temple,

which King Solomon built a temple.

But we were warned by the Almighty,

and instructed by the Almighty that we have to be

in a very high level of spirituality.

If not, then we will be driven from the land.

And that came around 2000 years ago.

The Romans and the, and the Greeks,

they came, they invaded the holy land,

and the Jews were driven from the land as a nation.

Once that happened, we were put under a decree of exile.

And so for 2,000 years, we're under a decree

of exile by the Almighty.

Meaning, that we are told by the Almighty

that it is his will that we should not be

the sovereign nation.

We should be loyal citizens

in every country we're residing.

And we should not attempt to return en masse

as a large group of people,

or try to recreate even one small, one inch,

one centimeter of a Jewish sovereignty

because it is like medicine from God

to break our haughtiness.

That's what we believe.

So there is actually three, we were put under three oaths.

And that King Solomon, who built the temple

had wrote a book of prophecies called Sir Hassirim,

Song of Songs, and he speaks about these three oaths

that God put us under.

One is that we should not return en masse to the holy land

once we were dispersed amongst the nations;

secondly, we are not to rebel against any nation.

We have to be loyal citizens in every country we reside.

A Canadian citizen has to pray

for the wellbeing of the country even if you're not happy,

or let's say throughout history

Jews were many times forbidden to buy land

and they were taxed to a much higher degree.

Still in all, we have to be loyal citizens

and not rebel against that country.

Thirdly, we are not to make any attempt to end the exile.

Why?

Because it's because of our sins we are spread out.

God is compassionate and the Almighty,

when the time will come, which every Jew yearns for,

that the time will eventually come with the Almighty

will make a metaphysical change in the world

and all humanity will recognize one God,

then God will return us and God himself

will rebuild the temple without any human intervention.

There will be a spirit, like a miraculous spirit

and the world that will stop being atheists and so forth.

Everybody will believe in God.

It says, (speaks foreign language).

All the nations will hold hands and join to serve God.

That will happen.

Then we will return and we will become close to God

again in his heart.

- How does that come about?

Like, how would you know that we're in that state?

- We will know that because like I said,

there will be a spirit of holiness of god