I’d say yes, but not quite in the 'come-to-Jesus' phrasing—Judaism doesn’t really do that kind of dramatic pivot, at least not in the Christian sense of conversion. It’s more like an adaptation, like how the Middle Ages drew on Perkei Avot to shape a new take on ethics.
For the record , as a jew I don't regard it as hate speech, and I have a deep respect for people of faith as they provide the moral underpinning of society. I despise the overuse of the term antisemitsm as it devalues the term where it actually exists.
According to tradition, he doesn’t need the Beith Hamikdash standing to step into his role. Maimonides says he’ll build it - not a condition for his coming, but a mark of his reign. Take King Herod: he rebuilt the Temple, grander than before, yet tradition never crowns him Messiah—lacking David’s line and redemption’s spirit, he was no king of ours. Imagine the true one, as some say, by the riverside, washing his wounds one at a time, not borrowed from elsewhere. And yet history brings caution: there’s deep fear in assimilation, stretching back to the Hellenization of the Greeks and led to the Maccabean Revolt; and in Spain, conversion couldn’t erase the cultural identity, only deepened the dread.
I was discussing today that apparently Sprott has a major silver short going on, which should not happen on a pure physical market. I think it should be physical only as paper can't be trusted:
It means the IMF world reserve currency is dying, which will be a good thing for the US in the long run. The reserve currency needed to be exported abroad to benefit the rest of the world but sacrificed main street in the process. This is why the money changers/wall street were the only ones to stand benefit.
I was watching interviews with Tom Luongo earlier this week, and during one of the discussions it was mentioned that there was a leak from a Czech source that 4 days prior to Trump taking office, that the UK brokered a deal for Ukraine's mineral rights for 100 years. Trump knowing this is trolling both the UK and Ukraine with this his mineral deal.
Here is the point in the interview: https://youtu.be/ORfzlz6avdg?si=qtPZPOfEJJ5uQv33&t=280
Kidney stones is no laughing matter but very relieved to hear it is not worse. He has to watch out for high oxalate foods and after these are passed, adding coconut water into the diet is helpful for preventing their formation and aid in breaking down smaller ones.
After Cyrus of Persia conquered Babylon, Jews were allowed back to to Israel, some stayed and some went back. My background are the ones that stayed.