Divrei Chizuk from Rabbi Moshe Elefant

it is my great honor and to be able to have five minutes with Rabbi M elephant Who besides running UK kosher and being a RV in bar Park is also contributing daily on the all da platform he's been doing it for many many many years before we had all da on the OU Torah website and the parim and everything else that he contributes to General OU and specifically to the Torah platform the reason why RAB elephant agreed to come on is to have the opportunity to share two to three minutes of from himself to the many hundreds if not thousands of people that listen to his Shear daily and being able to hear from someone who you learn with daily and spend a lot of time with is certainly something that I feel would be AIC for people so it's been a very hard week CL is going through a very hard time there's a tremendous mid elephant what could you share what are your thoughts what are your feelings and at the end of the day I I'm assuming you'll be able to tell us that learning T continuing to learn daily T and only adding T and F might be not might be is surely the right thing to do among other things but Tyra certainly should be towards the top of your list thank youed um your observation that this has been a very hard week is most accurate um all of us are so concerned about in even you know wherever I go people ask me do you have relatives in Israel and the reality is I don't consider that a relevant question because even if somebody doesn't have any relatives and the fact that our our brothers and sisters who live in at are in such a terrible situation and under attack they don't have to be blood relatives to make it a aov and make it difficult time for all of us but the reality is that of course we do have relatives in atel I have two grandchildren atel a grandson and a granddaughter and many other relatives cousins ET colleagues that I work with very very Clos mostly literally on a daily basis who are in just today we heard there was something going on in bees one of our senior lives in and how are we supposed to feel and how we supposed to continue when we know that's what's happening so of course the question is H how do we how do we continue how do we continue and the first thing I think we have have to recognize is that we have to continue and an approach that we get paralyzed will not help anyone but what I think each and every person and many people have called me and met me and asked me what do I think so the first thing this is my personal opinion is God doesn't consult with me Hashem doesn't consult with me so why does happened I don't know why it happened it happened Hashem wants it obviously to happen and we need to accept the mid I can't say that people have asked me they have as I myself have grandchildren who are learning in at in Yeshiva and Seminary do I believe that they should come home and what I respond to all those people is that I myself am a child of survivors of Holocaust Survivors both my father all my mother so maybe I have a different perspective than most other people but certainly we were brought up that Hashem is everywhere and not only is Hashem everywhere but whatever is supposed to happen to you can and will happen to you wherever Hashem wants it to happen so running from Place one to place two is not in my mind the approach to be taken I know there are others that disagree but this is what I've recommended to my children and grandchildren so far they've listened they don't always listen but to this they've listened um I'm not saying that people who do differently are doing something wrong I'm not answering the question if your child isn't there should you be sending them there that's a different question then in terms of what should people be doing during this situation so again as I said a moment agoes does not consult with me and I can't identify what will make that this mid didn't should go away you know this person says say 100 brast a day with more kavana this person says accept shabas tomorrow 10 minutes earlier this person says don't make a fancy wedding I don't know what the solution is in my mind the solution is to get to to be better and do better where you need to do better I think every person knows where they need to do better every p and every person doing better is not identical some people need strengthening in and some people need strengthening in learning Tyra and some people need strengthening in other Mitzvah certainly feel is required that's what Hashem wants for us that we should be SP to him to connect to him and anything else of course I have to plug the Dai so maybe strengthening and learning the we it's not there's no coincidence the fact that we're almost at the end of and almost at the end of s and we are going to be beginning sikin is maybe a time for kol to strengthen themselves and undertake the learning of thei which as I said many times the most positive aspect or one of the most positive aspects of learning the da is the consistency and the commitment and maybe and hopefully we this consistency and this commitment the sh that I've already been asked well will we be able to celebrate a when this is what's happening in Israel maybe the answer is we'll all be in Israel m Mas will be the guest speaker at the C of Amen thank you so as much as elephant is going to plug the da because that's what he does has been doing for the last 35 to 40 years right I who's directing the all Torah platform will also give you the opportunity to come on to our platforms and learn Mish learn par sh every day there's an opportunity to learn but whatever you're doing I think the bottom line is take it on be consistent and add a little bit more there's an program starting something new beginning this upcoming Monday for some people is too much for other people this is a time for I personally would love to be able to at least start you know slow slower than I did it so we should all have the opportunity to and thees should be mble what we do and stop this terrible we all