Melvah Malka Lechoved Yarchei Kallah , Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kanter - 5786

Araf Shamto and thank you the juosition the connection camp and the fact that camp is camprol is the location is for the kala which is honoring the reb's father could have been anywhere but it's for many decades here in Kaman is in dasha outside the city in a place that's um that the Reb gave a name Gol and it's now 70 years. And if you think about it, the Reb's father gave up his life for the Cl for Yiddish Nephesh keshm and Bashmus. his life was shortened because he was sent into Gulos. Perhaps it was never as clear that what's happening in Ghana is here and in the Gany around the world is the living not the where we have to give up our lives but the nephesh the keshm where lives are being lived in a way that Yiddish kite is alive and strong. It's no secret that in today's day and age, we're facing a situation where to walk around the world, to walk in the streets in almost every single country of the world. Walking around as a yid is a statement which is not a simple statement. It's a defiance. It's because when the today sees the it's not clear whether we have what we've had for 70 years a tolerance a respect an acceptability in the last few years we know that to be a y is a statement gro has branch upon branch upon branch I uh have the privilege to be here on the same day as with my pioneer Rabbi Abson who celebrating 40 years in Asia. He broke through the distant Asia which the Reb said is the east that is not called near rather than saying the far east. and from one rabbi and rabbits 40 years ago today in Asia there are over 50 mishb of and there's probably over 25 camp ganis in Asia alone and there's tens and hundreds of giros and one of the most critical achievements of every single gyro I'm a Jew [screaming] and I'm proud and I'll sh forever ever. That's what I'll be. You have parents that are sending their kids to Ghana is that if you look at their at their but if you look at the way they look, you'll see that they don't look like they're proud to be Jewish. In many ways, they hide it. In many ways, they try and tone it down, but they're sending their kids because they understand it. They want to send their kids to a place where they'll be taken care of, where they'll have a good experience, where they'll be able to have an identity created within them and camp by camp by camp. Today, there are different versions of that song. I don't remember the more modern um I'm a Jew. There's all these, you know, ha ha I'm a Jew. I don't remember the exact the exact melodies, but it's the same thing. These kids are walking around screaming and shouting and believing and jumping and hop and smiling and dancing that they're Jewish. Today we're in a time where that aid should be should know that he's aided should should be happy that he's aided should celebrate his yiddish kite. This is and there's no place where yishkite [cough] is more built into the child more more brought into him than in the fun and joyous experience of camp. So as we stand here Shivim Shan of Ghan Israel and this GI isol has become duplicated in hundreds literally of places probably hundreds of thousands probably over the years millions of children have gone through Ganyol it's made an imprint on their life it's akideshm of the [clears throat] utmost of the tallest order and it's exactly what the Reb's father was doing and the result there unfortunately was that uh he passed away in Golos. But our mandate is the Reb says our generation we need to be even before Mashiach comes needs to be it has to be the only challenge we should have the Reb says the challenge of our generation is don't pay attention to the naysayers to the scoffers to the cynics not the ones inside and not the ones outside and I don't know when the Reb was saying this 50 years ago and 70 years ago but alim there wasn't social media yet people didn't live their lives based if you got a like or you got a unlike today one of the malim one of the big maligums is the online from all the kinds upwards and onwards proud to be a Jew makes I had the privilege to be a shabas these KIDS ARE SINGING SHABAS I loved it. I don't remember what the song is. It's a new song. You know it goes. In some places they're looking at the watch to SEE WHEN SHABAS GOES OUT. When is Shabas going out? But in camp in Shabas where it sits is Shabas. Learning class is a learning class. Making benching.