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Call Of Moshiach 7 - Building Israel
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We explore the idea brought in the Gemara in Sanhedrin which speaks of King Omri's merit of maintaining his kingship for three generations. It was based on the fact that he had built up a great city in Israel - the city of Shomron. Although he was exceedingly wicked, the very act of building Israel is a spiritual act that has great merit, even if done without the proper intent. We also explore a story with Rav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, who explained how important Jewish sovereignty over Israel is, as a sanctuary for Jews, and a possible reason why it was being built by secular Jews.
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shraga menz was perfectly well aware of
who its Founders and leaders were why is
it being built by people who are not
religious so that they would maintain
their connection with the Jewish people
and not be swallowed up among the
nations of the
world the call of my Shia podcast with
Ari
goldwag you're listening to the seventh
edition of the call of Messiah podcast
I'd like to remind you once again this
week about the safer new safer the gift
of Israel right Rai Kala and he's told
me that it's been released in the states
can find it in your local swarm store
highly encourage you to get a copy of
this we're going to read a little story
from this towards the end of the podcast
but let's read one last section from the
introduction of
the and he tells us like this because
you know one of the challenges and
difficulties that we face in thinking
about Earth Israel and thinking about
our return to the land of Israel is the
fact that who were the ones that wasn't
only and exclusively but often the
people who built the land of Israel were
the secular zionists certainly in the
early years and in the times when R was
writing so the main proponents of
the of the state of Israel were not
religious and as we saw last week one of
the the most essential components to
returning to the land of Israel to be
able to live in AR Israel is that we be
the AR and we be the spiritual Hees of
Abu of Abraham who was fulfilling the T
and when we fulfill the T So then we're
we Merit to have that special Divine
Providence the that's only here in
Israel but L when we look at the reality
of it we look at who's in charge who's
been in charge and amazingly as the
years have passed
the spiritual element of of Yiddish kite
and of the state of Israel has gotten
stronger and stronger to the point where
today more than
50% the the right the conservatives
which are mainly the religious parties
the dumi parties the Ki parties and the
traditional parties those are the ones
who are the ones in power in this
country so it's an amazing thing is and
there's an amazing Renaissance that's
going on and it's also interesting to
note that as we come up against the
challenges today the challenges are much
different than they were in the early
days of the country 76 years ago we had
challenges but today it's you know we're
talking about crazy weapons but of
course the fact that we have
strengthened our yish kite the fact that
there's so much Torah learning that's
going on in the land of Israel yes we
know about the discussions about the
draft Etc I'm not getting into that but
the fact that there's so much Torah so
much yish kit so much more
tradition within the land of Israel has
given us incredible power that's you
know that goes without question but the
question that does exist is why indeed
or or can it be how can it be that those
who are not religious were so heavily
involved in building up the
state so of addresses this point and he
says he says AAR and sanedrin on
108b and the gar teaches us something
which really underscores the fact that
it it can be it can be first of all that
someone who's not righteous or even
Wicked it says can build the land of
Israel but not just that he has a
tremendous Merit it's it's considered an
awesome spiritual accomplishment even
though he has the wrong intentions let's
see this
together he says why was it that om was
a wicked King of the northern kingdom of
the Jewish
people why did he Merit to have malus to
have the kingship and not only that of
course it was 10 tribes out of the 12
tribes and not only that as we'll see
his kids also merited to have
it it's because he built up one city in
the land of
Israel the tells
us is speaking he says one time I was
sitting in the basement
what's the difference between om this
wicked King who had three sons contined
to be Kings after
him whereas there were other kings who
they didn't Merit to have Kings come out
of them to continue their
line so they said in the B we haven't
heard the answer to this
question I said to them the prophet said
it's because he built up the city the
city of shamon he built up he added and
he built up a huge City in the land of
Israel and interestingly he didn't have
the most intentions he wasn't such a big
sadic he was quite Wicked and his intent
was he said in his
mind he said look
the kings of Judah they have their own
capital city which is Jerusalem which is
a center of teaching and a center of
worship to Hashem so we're going to have
in the north we're going to have the
northern kingdom a different city called
shron that's going to be the center for
the kings of the northern kingdom which
is
called it's very
interesting going to he
brings say for his founded on calistic
ideas it's hard to understand for
building up a city in Jerusalem or I'm
sorry not Jerusalem corresponding to
Jerusalem for building up a city in
Israel so therefore he gets this reward
of kingship being a king and his
children being Kings what's the
reason uh malus
is why doesn't he get a different reward
because
right we find that the land of Israel
cabalistic corresponds to the upper
sphere of malus malus means kingship we
could think of it as Israel is the the
king of the world the Jewish people are
meant to be the kings of the world the
rulers of the world Israel is the
location which is meant to be the
kingship of the world which is why
everybody wants
it right Whoever has control over Israel
or
Jerusalem they're the spiritual rulers
of the world
really since he added on a city to
Jerusalem in I'm sorry he was saying
Jerusalem he added on a city to the land
of
Israel which it means that he added on
to the malus of the world the aspect
of so that's why he merited himself to
be a king he added on a city in Israel
which is Mal so he
got
says even om was from one of the wicked
Kings
he tells us many
times speaks of him establishing the
city immediately it says that he did
evil in the eyes
of he was worse than anyone before
him he went in the ways of manov was the
ultimate of the evil Kings of the
northern kingdom
he established the city not for God's
sake but only for his own sake for his
own
honor he wanted this to be the city the
beautiful capital city of the northern
kingdom even though he was a sinner and
he built the city with great sins
fulfilled the positive command
commandment of living and dwell dwelling
in and developing the land of Israel and
it's a midst of every moment as I read
in the safer of the gift of Isel from
rala just planting just stopping and
planting you're you're obligated to even
stop learning in order to plant
something in Isel I just could go into
my backyard plant some grass and I'm
doing
came like Mitzvah like a star right if
not for the fact that he was doing a
positive commandment he wouldn't have
any he wouldn't have a Mitzvah and he
wouldn't have any
reward and specifically he got what was
the scar the reward was that he got to
be a
king clearly he did a rectification in
the upper aspect in the in the sphere of
malus up
above so that's why he merited to have
himself and three generations would be
Kings over the Jewish
people so even though he did it wrongly
he did it with wickedness
nevertheless he was able to accomplish
this and the proof is that he received
reward he became the king you can't
can't
deny this is very clear there's no way
to refute some this kind of
proof even a person who's
Wicked and he denies the Torah having
forbid
despite his sinning despite his denial
of the entire ter by being an serving
idolatry
nevertheless he was able through his
building through the building of that
city of
shom to accomplish an
incredible even in the upper
Realms this proves that even in our
times as this is talking again only 80
years ago today it's much less it's much
more the religious people who are
involved in actually building the
land but in those days the ones who
started off the building were people who
were not those who were serving Hashem
properly they left the Tyra
the people today are not worse than om
om the Torah tells us he was wicked he
followed in the ways of he was worse
than anyone before
him he caused the people to
sin so he says it would be it would seem
to be the same in regards
to our times that although it's being
done in a way and by people who are not
they're not properly doing it for the
sake of heaven and if anything they're
doing it for their own sake for their
own destructive reasons
nevertheless as we see from om it does
have powerful consequences it does have
powerful T it fixes the highest highest
Realms and therefore we need to
understand that although it's easy to
see it in negative light also have to
look at it in a positive light and he
continues I'm not reading everything I'm
skipping a little part but he continues
and finishes off this introduction by
telling us that the tah is kind of
talking directly to the people who are
actually not keeping the tah but it's a
for us to hear because we are and when
we come to we're helping to
build through the T through building T
through
learning and he says like
thisk says do you want to know how to
overcome your enemies right and this is
the question on our minds of course we
need a good army we need Advanced
protective weapons and offensive weapons
Etc but you want to know the spiritual
truth to how we can succeed in defeating
our enemies it's the BK it says
chapter 81: 14 and 15 it
says if my nation would just listen to
me Hashem
says their enemies will be almost
completely
destroyed is
saying leave behind and this was a
problem by the way also in the times of
this is one of the main problems that
they dealt with as they built the second
bikash and says that when Messiah comes
there will be a similar type of return
as in the days of Ezra they dealt with
this problem of people who were not
religious and were there were many men
who had married non-jewish women it's
explicit in theuk in there go look it up
perhaps we'll see more about it as we
study the safer but what's the what's
the
solution leave the spirit of the Nations
that you brought with you right and
that's also true of all of us when we
come to Israel we we come with us with
our American ideas our European ideas
our Australian South African wherever
we're coming from we have the a way of
thinking which is more of a a g way of
thinking but we need to leave that
behind make sure you do everything based
on the advice of the great sages of the
Torah should be done in the spirit of
the
our is so rich with our we can solve all
of the national issues that face
Us in the best way possible in all
times such that the land of Israel will
continue to flourish in every single way
in the in the best measure possible
won't be any stopping we won't have any
issues
nationally when everything is done in
the spirit of
the
says on the the daughters of
Jerusalem don't wor the verse the
daughters of Jerusalem but rather read
it those who build Jerusalem Ben
Builders this is a reference to the
great sanadrin the great sages who stood
on the arabis you can see it right
behind me that was the exact place where
they
stood and they judged the people they
guided them in their interpersonal
Affairs they're the ones the Torah sag
the great ones of they're the ones who
have all the answers to all the
questions of
Life the the court has a special power
they have a
special to do things
correctly to to give the correct
direction to help the Jewish people to
that and whatever they say and whatever
they do it has a k it it
lasts so we see that the the great sages
of the Torah have all of this ability
now that's what I want to read from
Theon I want to just read one small
section from the gift of Isel which is
very much it's a little story about it's
one of the great uh Torah sages of the
land of America at the land of Israel
but he had an incredible love for Earth
Israel and he spoke extensively about
the importance of living in Earth Israel
and he had students who came here this
is talking about in the early days of of
the establishment of of
Israel and he says like this this is on
page
156 while Shaga menz his stor support
for the new newly created Jewish state
was widely known he was perfectly well
aware of who its Founders and leaders
were Yeshua Shi recalled rraga FAL
saying that the fact that ER Israel was
controlled by non-religious and
anti-religious Jews was no reason to
abstain from acknowledging hashem's
kindness in opening the gates of Earth
Israel once again on behalf of Jews
everywhere right he was talking about
right immediately after World War II and
there were Jewish survivors in DP camps
R would often say that although the
leaders of the state were our religious
at least there was now one country in
the world that would not refuse entry to
the thousands of Holocaust Survivors
languishing and displaced persons camps
throughout Germany and Austria he would
say that a mere three years after having
survived the greatest Jewish tragedy in
history it was hard not to hope that the
Jewish state would offer survivors a
chance to begin their lives a new which
was indeed true it's exactly what
happened and look at the transformation
as we spoke about earlier the
transformation how the the the country
has become more and more religious well
listen to this last Point rria F often
speculated as to why Divine Divine Pro
Providence had orchestrated for secular
zionists to play such an important role
in the history of the Jewish Nation why
is it being built by them why is it
being built by people who are not
religious and he said an amazing thing
every Jew as a pent a spark of Holiness
inherited from our forefathers a isakov
deep inside
that no matter how far a Jew drifts
spark is always there perhaps sh Hashem
wanted the secular zist to play a major
role in building the new state so that
they would maintain their connection
with the Jewish people and not be
swallowed up among the nations of the
world and if we look at history we see
how precient his words were because look
at the the Jewish community in the
United States of course we have the
Torah Community which is very strong but
6 million Jews were lost in the
spiritual abyss of assimilation in in
the states while those who are living in
Israel there there was hope for them
there was an opportunity for them they
remained Jewish they remained connected
and ultimately so the the balua movement
is going strong and it gets stronger and
there's Hut is a channel speaking to to
balich Chua it's on TV
and it it inspires people to come back
but that potential was there because
they were part of the founding of the
state so these are such important ideas
we need to take them to heart try to
understand it and recognize that
herel this is where we belong thank you
so much for listening see you again next
time