Rabbi Kessin: God Is Orchestrating the Fall of Iran — And Trump Doesn’t Fully Understand His Role
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Written by: Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
Date Given: April 26, 2026
Original Link of the Article: Link to Israel365news.com
Something unprecedented is unfolding in the skies over Iran, in the corridors of the White House, and — according to Rabbi Mendel Kessin — in the heavenly tribunal itself. In a lecture posted to YouTube last week, Rabbi Mendel Kessin, one of the most compelling voices in contemporary Torah-based geopolitical analysis, delivered what can only be described as a theological framework for the war against Iran — one that reaches back to the Book of Genesis, threads through the prophecies of Isaiah, and lands squarely on Donald Trump’s desk in 2026. Rabbi Kessin’s core claim is simple and staggering: what we are watching is not merely a military campaign. It is a divine agenda unfolding in real time.
That question, which Rabbi Kessin calls a chiddush — a novel Torah insight — is the key that unlocks his entire reading of the Trump-Netanyahu relationship. The verse in question reads: “V’rav ya’avod tza’ir” — “and the elder shall serve the younger.” (Genesis 25:23) The Sages have long noted that this prophecy was made before the twins were born, yet it never appeared to be fulfilled during the lifetimes of Yaakov and Esav. Esav became a rasha — a wicked man — at 13, was openly public about his evil by 15, and spent his life as an adversary to his brother, not a servant.
“It never happened,” Rabbi Kessin says flatly. “People don’t realize that — and then how was it in the Torah?”
His answer is that the Torah deliberately avoided naming names. The text does not say “Esav will serve Yaakov.” It says, “the elder will serve the younger.” That grammatical choice, Rabbi Kessin argues, is not accidental. It encodes a remez — a hint — pointing to a future reconciliation in which Esav will return to his relationship with Yaakov as a brother. “That clearly suggests,” he explains, “that Esav returned to Judaism. And therefore, it makes sense to say that he’s a brother.”
The evidence that this prophecy is being fulfilled now, Rabbi Kessin maintained. On April 13, 2026, Donald Trump gave a speech about the spectacular rescue of two American pilots from Iranian territory — one of whom reportedly climbed a 7,000-foot mountain to evade capture — and said, in Rabbi Kessin’s paraphrase, that he “felt like a brother to Netanyahu.” Days later, Netanyahu publicly described Israel as “the small brother” and America as “the big brother.” Rabbi Kessin found the symmetry exact. “It was amazing,” he said, “because I had said that their relationship… and they actually revealed in their language that they feel like brothers.”
For Rabbi Kessin, this is prophetic fulfillment. Trump, he argues, represents the positive dimension of Esav — a man whose mission is to be “a man of the field,” to engage with the nations and remove evil from the world. “Trump is doing the job of Esav,” he says. “That’s biblical — to remove evil from the world and to bring righteousness is a biblical mission.” And crucially, Trump’s motivation must be more than a geopolitical alliance. God requires that it be brotherly love. “You do it as a brother,” Rabbi Kessin explains, “because you love him.”
He even addresses the question of why Trump, who has no Jewish blood, has such a documented affinity for the Jewish people. “Deep down,” Rabbi Kessin says, “his previous incarnation was not only a Jew, but he was a patriarch — which has an incredible soul.”
Rabbi Kessin then turns to a question that has baffled analysts: why did Pakistan suddenly offer to broker a ceasefire between the United States and Iran, and why did Trump briefly agree to it? The answer, according to Rabbi Kessin, lies in the heavenly court — the beit din shel ma’alah — where Iran’s defending angel made a case that stopped the war’s escalation.
“The malach (angel) said: ‘Wait a minute. We don’t deserve this. If you want to end the evil, end the evil — but don’t destroy the fabric or internal structure of Iran.'”
The malach‘s argument was rooted in history. Cyrus the Great — Koresh in Hebrew — ruler of Persia (ancient Iran), issued the decree in the 4th century BCE that allowed the Jewish exiles to return to the Land of Israel and rebuild the Beit HaMikdash — the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. “Our king Koresh,” the angel argued before the heavenly tribunal, “he allowed them to rebuild the Beit HaMikdash. So we allowed the Jewish people to resurrect. We didn’t destroy their civilization.” According to Rabbi Kessin, the claim was valid. God exercised rachamim — divine mercy — and arranged, through the Pakistan intermediary, that Trump would shift strategy from destroying Iranian infrastructure, which would have devastated the Persian people, to blockading the Strait of Hormuz, which impoverished the Islamist regime while inflicting minimal suffering on the Iranian people.
The economic effect has been catastrophic for Tehran. “They lose one-half billion dollars a day in oil revenues,” Rabbi Kessin says. “That’s $13 billion a month. How long are they going to last?” Iran’s civilization is being strangled — but its bridges and power plants remain standing. The punishment fits the divine ruling: destroy the koach — the power — of evil Iran, but not the country’s physical existence.
God then heard from the other side. The angel of America — Edom in the Kabbalistic framework, the nation descended from the spiritual line of Esav — presented its own claim before the heavenly court. America has spent enormous treasure, deployed 10,000 assortie munitions against Iran, rescued its pilots, destroyed Iran’s navy, and stands virtually alone in backing Israel while the entire world watches in opposition. “Wait a minute,” Rabbi Kessin paraphrases the angel of America saying. “If you’re exercising mercy to Iran, what about us? We deserve something — and not later. We deserve something now.”
The response, Rabbi Kessin says, was immediate. God arranged that the same Iranian oil blockade that is strangling Tehran is simultaneously driving every oil-dependent nation on earth — South Korea, China, and others — to American ports. “The Ribbono shel olam (Master of the Universe) is using the oil of the world as a reward,” Rabbi Kessin says. “We’re looking at billions of dollars a day going to America because of the blockade. Isn’t that incredible?”
The lecture is not all celebration. Rabbi Kessin reserves his sharpest words for what he calls Trump’s “terrible mistake.”
Trump, he argues, keeps speaking about peace negotiations with Iran. And this, Rabbi Kessin says with unusual bluntness, is not just strategically foolish — it is spiritually dangerous. “Trump is in real danger. He doesn’t understand.”
The core of the argument is that Iran is not an ordinary adversary. It is, in the language of Jewish law and mystical tradition, a kilpah — a shell of pure evil — operating at what Rabbi Kessin calls “level 10.” The paradigm is Sodom: a civilization so morally corrupted that God did not negotiate with it, did not offer a ceasefire, and did not look for a peace process. He obliterated it.
“Would you make peace with Hitler while he’s killing 56 million people?” Rabbi Kessin asks. “This man is evil incarnate. You don’t make peace with these guys.”
Iran, he notes, has killed 45,000 of its own citizens — using rooftop snipers against protesters who wanted nothing more than to buy food at a grocery store. It has bankrolled Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. It orchestrated the October 7th attack on Israel. “You have any idea how evil Iran is?” he says. “This is called a level-10 evil. It’s a Hitlerian evil. You’re not allowed to negotiate with them.”
More critically, Trump does not understand what he is actually fighting. “He is not at war with Iran,” Rabbi Kessin says. “He is at war with Islam. He’s fighting a religion — and they are commanded to bring their Mashiach (Messiah) through the destruction of the world.” The Shia doctrine of the 12th Imam — the Mahdi — holds that global chaos is a precondition for his arrival. Iran’s leadership will never abandon that doctrine at the negotiating table. “There will never be a negotiation,” Rabbi Kessin says, “because they’re not going to violate their religion.”
Every day Trump delays, Rabbi Kessin warns, Iranians die. And in the olam ha’emet — the world of truth — those souls become accusers. “He’s going to have 45,000 Iranians or everybody else that was killed, and they’re going to point their finger at him in heaven as accusers, and they’re going to say: ‘Why didn’t you kill our oppressors? We blame you — because you could have taken them out.'”
This is the midat hadin — the divine attribute of strict justice — and Rabbi Kessin says Trump is walking directly into its path. The miracle in Pennsylvania, where a bullet missed Trump’s brain by a quarter of an inch, was not simply Providence protecting a politician. It was God sending a direct, unambiguous message — the kind God almost never sends. “God doesn’t do that,” Rabbi Kessin explains. “If he does a miracle, he does a miracle called coincidences… He doesn’t do it openly in front of you like the splitting of the Red Sea.” But this time He did — in front of billions — because the message had to be unmistakable: “I’m sending you on a mission.”
The second message has been the cascade of military miracles. Khamenei killed on day one. Three levels of Iranian leadership wiped out within the first week. Iran’s air force gone, its navy sunk, 90 percent of its missiles destroyed. The rescue of two pilots in an operation that military analysts are calling historic. “Even the military people say this is unbelievable,” Rabbi Kessin notes — and attributes what they chalk up to American military prowess to something else entirely: siyata d’Shmaya — heavenly assistance.
“Trump should say: Wait a minute. This doesn’t make sense. Why are we seeing so much success? We have the might of God on our side.”
Regarding Europe, Rabbi Kessin is equally unsparing. The continent that expelled, inquisitioned, and pogromized the Jewish people for a thousand years is now absorbing a Muslim population that — unlike the Jews who desperately wanted to assimilate — has no interest in doing so. “The Arabs are taking over England, France,” he says. “They call London ‘Londonistan.'” A recent American report, he notes, projected that Europe as it currently exists will cease to exist within 18 years.
This, Rabbi Kessin says, is punishment — mida k’neged mida, measure for measure. “You don’t want my Jews? I will give you somebody else. Let’s see if you like them.”
And as a final measure of European dissolution, God has arranged — through NATO’s inexplicable refusal to assist America in its war with Iran, a violation of the alliance’s own Article 5 — that Trump will likely pull the United States out of the alliance entirely. Without America, NATO is a paper tiger. “Without the American military backing NATO,” Rabbi Kessin says, “they’re nobody.”
The prophet Isaiah saw all of this. In a vision recorded in Chapter 63, Isaiah sees God arriving in clothing stained red — stained, God explains, not with Jewish blood, but with the blood of Edom, the nations that persecuted His people. “I have trodden the winepress alone… and their lifeblood spattered on my garments.” (Isaiah 63:3) Rabbi Kessin identifies this as the ultimate fate awaiting those — whether European, Iranian, or American — who have made the Jewish people suffer.
Trump is not in that category — yet. But Rabbi Kessin’s warning is stark: if Trump continues to protect Iran’s leadership through negotiations, delays, and ceasefire games while God has placed the destruction of evil squarely in his hands, he risks crossing a line from which there is no easy return. “He has no idea what he’s going to face,” Rabbi Kessin says, “even if he’s president — because that’s irrelevant. That’s his role.”
The Sages teach that every generation has its tikkun — its repair. This generation’s tikkun is the removal of Iran’s kilpah from the world, the restoration of Eretz Yisrael — the complete Land of Israel — to Jewish sovereignty, and the preparation for the Mashiach. Donald Trump, in Rabbi Kessin’s reading, is the man chosen by Heaven for this task. The miracle in Pennsylvania proved it. The miracles over Iranian airspace confirm it. All that remains is for Trump himself to grasp the full weight of what he has been asked to do — and to stop negotiating with a regime that God has already condemned.
“Let’s hope that Iran will be taken out fully,” Rabbi Kessin concludes, “and that Israel will then prepare — tremendously spiritually — to welcome the Mashiach this year.”
IMPORTANT NOTE: Rabbi Kessin has a very important message for President Trump. Anyone who can facilitate this, please contact the author of this article at eliyahu@israel365.com or Rochelebella@yahoo.com .The rabbi said the message is vital as “[Trump] doesn’t recognize that G-d has saved him openly once, and saved him numerous times behind the scenes. A third assassination attempt is a warning by G-d that you are not doing what I sent you to do.”