Rabbi Benzion Klatzko | Connecting to the Light of Miracles | CHAZAQ

[Music] good evening everyone want to thank everyone for joining us tonight this very special evening the EV is being dedicated and loving memory Sona Aliyah amen want to thank of course congregation Bahu um all the leadership of the Round of Applause place of Torah the community we want to thank of course um Zoya Arona aronov and the entire Arona family for dedicating this annual shear and I think it's such a great um role models for the community that that that uh of course we know the greatest MIT the greatest thing the person could do is learn Torah that's what we're doing here tonight I think it's a great um it's it's a great um all the families in the community if you have someone who has uh if you have a yard site someone dedicated an event of course it's such a tremendous so I want to thank Theona family Round of Applause of course the special topic tonight connecting to the light of the Miracles un kanaka and amist and and um of course that uh we I think I think to set the the the tone for the event there's a a special message I just heard recently that that that that a rabbi got up in the Sho and he said he said he has three questions and and he and um and the three questions were does anybody on on October 7th does anybody does anyone have any relatives that that that were killed in the an October 7th attack and and no one raised their hands the second question was the the rabbi ask was does anybody know of of of anyone who does anyone have a relative who was taken hostage and no one raised their hands the third question that the person asked that the rabbi asked was was does anybody um have a relative who is who is serving in the Army and is about to maybe go into war and only a few people raised their hands and the rabbi got up and he said you know what the issue is is that every single person in this in the room should have raised their hands for all three of these questions and if we would realize that that it's not just it's not just all these that we see a news headline or whatever it is these are our relatives and if we and these are our brothers our sisters and if we would realize that then then we would act differently we would dve him differently we would say to Hill him differently so of course that's the theme of tonight we have to of course we have to unify we should think of our fellow brothers and sisters and of course we should um and uh just a quick word about the kazak organization um as we know is on the Forefront of providing Jewish Education for for so many public school students our fellow brothers and sisters who who are neighbors and there's tens of thousands of public school students that hak is on the for front after school programs and Sunday school programs at 15 different locations for hundreds of students and we know um that the kazak has help trans for over 14400 children from public school yiva last few years so of course anyone who has any who um someone who knows a friend a neighbor coworker relative as children of public school i' like to give my Jewish Education of course we know it's so important she Reach Out toak organization and of course somebody who's one of the leaders of the community someone who spreads so much Torah such a great Torah leader in the community of the the we're to call upon to say some open [Music] [Applause] marks welcome to congregation 16 years ago we said goodbye to a very special person whose name was El aronov as you know this synagogue is B House of about 20 years ago aronov said we have a lot of bukari and Jewish people here and we need to build our own synagogue and it was a private house in hasem his dream was fulfilled and as you see the synagogue already existed for many years it's going to be very soon 10 years I have honored to be a rabbi in this synagogue but I have know Mr for many years he used to respect me very much whenever he used to have Asar memorial events for his parents I had the Z to participate and to officiate mrov was born April 1st 1944 in the city of tashen in Rah aronov and Son toas family his parents had three children Boris El and Toma I wish his siblings remaining siblings many years Mr got married in 1975 to zoak kalawa who was raised in very very prominent family of the teachers her parents have 10 children and they lived together for 33 years Hashem gave them two children Mr abber who is the president of our synagogue we respect and we love him very much and daughter Elana Mr used to be a builder he built many many houses he built many many buildings and bridges a lot of a lot of he built many many project he also built the famous synagogue of bhar community synagogue yes yes yes yes today I want to welcome rco we appreciate organization and arono family for organizing this event and the topic will be today about Hana we pray that it should be shalom in Israel in Ukraine and all the hostages to B come home safely and we should only Gather in happy occasions thank you for joining us for being with us and now we're going to give the microphone to Rabbi thank you Rabbi [Applause] welcome arto good evening everyone I'm honored to be thank you for having me I've been here once before and I remember thinking how beautiful this betet is how warm the people are and when a person comes to betet they want to feel wanted they want to feel like you want them to be there and everything about this betet reminds me of love and warmth and kadus so thank you ra thank you everyone who who has made beio such a holy and special place we can't help but speak about Israel and we are here to speak about khah and one Segways into the other in obvious ways the grand War of the makim took place in Israel it was all about the survival of not just the Jewish people but Judaism the Mak fought and during the times of the second beta mikdash the only times that the Jewish people had sovereignty over the land was during that short time of the makim during the first B mikash for much of that time the Jews ran the land they owned that they were the political body but during the times of the second mdash it was not like that it was the Persians and then it was the Syrian Greeks and then it was the Romans and we were always a vassel state except when the makim the the co god with his children said whoever would like to fight sh come and we'll fight together and now we're in the middle of another fight and it's a fight sh it's not about tanks and it's not about F35 Jets it's not about the mosad or the shinb bet it is about the Jewish people fighting for Hashem for Tora and if you don't believe this look at the videos of the soldiers look at the amava tank as it goes on Friday night making kidush inside the bowels of a tank people singing Pon Beauty love it's not Revenge it is us screaming there is a light in the world and we are that nation of light it's the reason why so many from Shabbat when we light Shabbat candles to Kana where we use the light to when we light the big fire even a of pesak we have a light when we go into the different Corners light starts when we walk down the kah light is lit a candle is lit when we're buried it is all about light we never give up light light is who we are because if we're not the light then we're the darkness Kal and when there's a fight between the Jewish people and Hamas it's not two Nations Waring that's what CNN would have you believe but it is the fight between the maim and the Syrian Greeks is the fight screaming the question are we are you am I am I part of hasem or am I just a warrior aamis an animal that is clothed in a higher intellect there was a young lady who started coming to our house for Shabbat she did not grow up religious and her first Shabbat was at our house less than a year ago her name is Gabby wonderful character she was so inspired by what she saw the Shabbat the children the parasa the dancing around when we sing shal Alim she was so inspired she said this is what I want for myself and God willing one day for my children and she began to come pretty irregularly accept that her parents they were not happy about that and they would fight her and they would send her YouTube videos and articles stay away from the Orthodox stay away from the religious you'll be you'll be brainwashed you'll become like them and it was a difficult fight and she'll call me Rabbi how do I answer this question how do I answer that question and she's no slou she's a doctor how do I answer these questions and each time we have to give kuk and so it was around a month ago when I got a message from Gabby she said I can't do it Rabbi it's too hard they're fighting me my parents are fighting they don't want me to embrace my Judaism I don't feel like I have the energy to fight any longer they're wearing me down as said Gabby will be your strength really your parents should give you the right the allow you the freedom to discover your Judaism just like they had the freedom when they were your age she said Rabbi I'm not even in in New York now I'm in Paris and I've been keeping Shabbat but I don't think I'm going to keep Shabbat this week There's a tour around Paris my parents are going to this tour they want me to come along I don't think I can do shabat what am I going to do stay in my hotel room I said Gabby it's a slippery slope once you don't do one once it's okay once you give in what once they see that you're willing to compromise so then it's game over and I didn't know what to tell her but I said look I would I want to speak to you more but I don't know if I can because in about five minutes I'm giving a class online and this is not a typical class these aren't adults who will be listening these are children it's a program I'm actually give it a plug is called incredible kids and each day on this program Incredible kids they would get some kind of personality usually it's a singer they asked me to do it that night to give a little talk a few minutes to the children and then have the children say toim for all those Jewish people the soldiers the reservists those in AR Israel the power of when a child says it changes everything even have PM changes the world how much more so if it's not he but if it's the words of beauty of DAV so I said to gab you know I can't talk but you know what can I invite you to my kids class I mean I'm going to speak for a few minutes and then we'll say to hilum together and then she said you know what I'm lying in my bed over here she's in the hotel in Paris she said can I call in I said yeah you could call in but I recommend that you go on your computer if you have your computer I recommend that you go I think you're going to be inspired I was very happy because a few minutes later I went on the zoom and I was introduced to the children and you know all know the way Zoom works you fill up a page you know 25 30 people a page and then you click a little arrow and a page two and then you get the next page and if it's a popular Zoom you'll have page three and Page four it's really exciting well Gabby comes on I speak for a few minutes and then the kids begin to say to hillo and the tum was led by one of the children I didn't lead it one of the kids who reading was developing didn't have an easy time but he read through a long capital of TM a long paragraph and the children sat to him together with him and Gabby looked at these pages on the zoom and I want to tell you there weren't 50 kids on the zoom there were over 500 kids today there's over a thousand every night that come out to say and Gabby in her hotel room in Paris began to scroll through the pages of Zoom looking at the beautiful Jewish families the faces the boys and the girls y a child and right after the zoom was over Gabby wrote and she said Rabbi that's exactly what I needed I will be staying in my hotel room I will not break Shabbat our light shines bright today the chancellor of Germany of all places condemned Hamas because when the hostages for today were let out they were LED through the streets of Gaza and the streets of Gaza were filled with men women and many many children who were banging on the Red Cross vehicle screaming cursing threatening to kill older ladies in their 70s and 80s little children clinging to dear life to the people from the Red Cross and you saw the children in Gaza with anger with Fury with vengeance animalistic Ally screaming whipped up into a frenzy and in my mind I think the beautiful Jewish child who comes on each night in the middle of his homework or her homework and they D and they say to hm and they pray that everyone should be safe and they should come back in peace and the child in Gaza screaming lusting for blood Hanah when we build that light we build the light in the world you know the fight for CLA Israel is in erid Israel and what the non-jew does not understand is that erid Israel is not a random piece of real estate ISRO the AR Tor it's all one and the same the nation and the land have the same name when we look at the Torah the entire story from until the end of is about being thrown out of paradise and then the journey to find our way back wow we're thrown out of ghadan and we wander the Earth and we want to find our way back to the Earthly Gaden and that ends with entering ER Israel that's the book end of the Torah getting thrown out of a land and coming into a land and our journey is to find our way because we know when we find ER Israel the ER Isel in us the is that every AR every four is aah where there are there are the that you could only do in is we don't have the privilege the the theot we can't do that here we're lost we can learn about them when the sh our lips will speak about it maybe on some level but you know when the Jew cries the Jew cries because we know that ER is in our veins to sh we Pine we yearn for the land you know I'm sure you've had this experience there are times on yum kipur when you just feel like falling apart and there's a peute that we say after the aod where we say our eyes cry our ears they sting that we didn't hear that we didn't see the Marain we miss it our soul is an angst it's an Agony three times the day we say in no benching the Greeks did not get it America certainly does not get it the world does not get it we are not fighting for a piece of real estate we are fighting for our souls and that's why we can't [Music] lose that's why says I look down and I see you're doing hashem's eyes are looking at from the beginning of the year till the end of the year we must ask a few questions and they're important questions and let's go a little bit deep what is it about the land of er Israel that is so beautiful I mean it's not the Swiss alpes it doesn't have the oil of Saudi Arabia it doesn't have the fertile Plains of Kansas what is so amazing about that piece of land it's called the Fertile Crescent it's part of the Fertile Crescent but it's not so fertile what is it about ER Israel that is so wonderful is Hashem happy with you is Hashem happy with me no was very happy but he could be even happier how do we even know we're standing here in Queens we're sitting here in Queens I live in Muny I come from Los Angeles how do I know what Hashem thinks about me I mean I hope I'm doing okay I hope I'm doing better than okay but how do I know how do we know I want to tell you something very unique about erel erid Israel is a land with very diverse topography you can go to ER Israel and see mountains that you can go skiing on it's called Haron you can go skiing in arel and then you drive an hour and a half and you're in a place where it's over 100° the lowest place on Earth you have mountains and you've got Vineyards and you've got ples you've got it all and one of the things that is unique about ER Israel listen carefully it has Clockwork rain and it's Unique unique to erod Israel what is Clockwork rain Clockwork rain means the following in America it could rain in May in August in December and it does it rains all the time all over the world it does rain it doesn't rain ER Isel because of its topography it rains at a certain time and when it when that time is over it barely rains at all and because it has Clockwork rain there's a unique feature and the feature is when it doesn't rain and it's supposed to ER Isel is in trouble the kerit Goes Down The Vineyards and the olive Groves and the Orchards they thirst for water and if it doesn't rain then AR Israel and the agriculture can die so what happens is the m that if it doesn't rain when it's supposed to we wait a few weeks we areer extra if it if a few more weeks pass and it still doesn't rain we have fast then we close our stores we do all of that you know why because as the rain does not come if there's a drought ER is in trouble so says Hashem you know why I gave you that beautiful piece of land it's not because of the oil and it's not because of the Fertile Plains of Kansas I gave it to you because of clockwork rain the rain in AR Israel will tell you if I'm happy with you if if it rains when it's supposed to I'm happy if it doesn't rain when it's if it doesn't rain then I'm not happy and you know what I think about you based on the rain so what is that called in Kabal it's called I'm in the pon I'm in the Palace of the king you know is the king happy with me I don't know if I'm living in the Village Way Down far away from the king I don't know but if I live in the palace of The King and I passed the king in the hallway I could see oh no the king's upset today oh the king's happy today living in ER Israel is living in the Palace of the king and when you live in the Palace of the king you see the mood of the king you see whether he's happy or not so Hashem says if you live in LA you don't know if I'm happy with you you live in Queens you don't know either you try your best but if you live in a you're going to know and you know how you'll know if it rains when it's supposed to and it doesn't just rain regular you see there's two kinds of rain that it needs to rain one kind saturates the land the ground you need that kind of rain otherwise you plant the ground will be hard the seeds won't Sprout and then you need another kind of rain which is not as severe because if it's severe and you already put the seeds in the soil what's going to happen to the seeds they're going to go washed away so Hashem says if I'm happy with you it's going to rain the right kind of rain is going to come and if I'm not happy it's not going to and that's why we have ER isra listen so carefully that's why we have it because I want a relationship with Hashem and I could have that relationship when I know if Hashem is happy with me where did I know the all of this from where is this from this is shma word for word the second chapter of shama if you listen to my words if you do then I will give you the ETO the Clockwork rain the UR the malush the heavy and the light rain and you're going to plant and you're going to grow and you're going to be satiated that's what ER isra is it's not real estate it's the indication that AEM is happy with me I'll tell you a very interesting story when I was about 18 years old I was learning in Israel and the third period had come and gone and it had not rained now that's very bad cuz every few weeks is another period so normally you would fast and you would close the stores but ever since 1967 when we got back the kotala maravi we don't just fast and pray but what do we do we stop what we're doing we close our stores and we go to the cotel and we ding so I was a little bit of an amateur photographer so they said bring your camera you're going to get awesome pictures so I came to the plaza remember the cotel plaza huge area and I came at it was packed from end to end there was every every kind of Jew represented from the toest iron and theid to the kutnik the religious to the non-religious the soldiers to the civilians they were all there and especially the farmers and they had come to pray and it was so packed that I could barely move so I jumped onto a wall that used to exist that's not there anymore but there was a wall in the back and I jumped up and it was great because I was able to see the mass of Jewish Humanity and I took out my camera and I began to take pictures it's wonderful to see 100,000 Jews and I began to take pictures and as I'm looking through my camera you know what I noticed that many of the Jews had come and they were holding umbrellas and I'm thinking that is incredibly optimistic because I looked at the sky and the sky was blue but a Jew is a Jew and oura and our and I started to snap pictures and an hour passed and the and people were Ding and they were crying and there their lands and everything that they that they owned it was at stake and they D to Hashem and when the first hour was over and the filot continued all of the sudden the skies grew darker it was something straight out of the talud straight out of Garra and it began to rain on this crowd in the cotel plaza and guess what we did that you think everyone went running for cover what do you think we did as Jewish people we danced that's right it's a big dance like konel they stomp our feet and we say Hashem we are your children and we need the rain and we're doing T sha ER is that's the second chapter that's the second para in Shar that's why that land is so precious not because of the views and not the vistas and not the Dead Sea and not the Mediterranean it's so precious because it represents our relationship to Hashem those early secular zionists they had it wrong they used to say if I'm an Israel I don't need Torah and I'm thinking that's so foolish the whole reason we have Israel is to let us know how we're doing with Torah to remind us how we have to be connected do you see how special this is so now I have a different question for you again an intellectual question understanding the land of Israel here's the question we know like we said earlier that we're supposed to be a light we are the nation of light and kazal tell us we're supposed to be an or we're supposed to be a light unto the Nations they're supposed to see us see how we act see how we speak to each other and when all the anti-semites finish their anti-Semitism on their Tik Tok and their Twitter and the X and their Instagram when they finally zip their mouths and they see who we are they're very impressed and they should be you know why because we're an awesome people we're a people of we're a people OFA we're a people of family no one's like us believe me I'm a college Rabbi I go from University to University I see what the non-jewish world is like I see Brokenness whatever issues we have in our community it's Kanda it's as if it doesn't exist compared to the destruction that exists in the secular world there's not a healthy kid on campus it's it's it's fascinating and scary it makes sense when you look at our nation today and how quickly it we we we take our brains and we fry them on social media because there's nothing there there's no purpose I love it there's a big movement in in my community in m and I'm sure over here to get rid of smartphones yeah you won't be there flicking and and looking and and swiping instead you'll be paying attention to the children we the light but here's my question for you if we're supposed to be the light unto the Nations so why do we want to be in Israel wouldn't it make sense to scatter us around the world I mean after all if there are Jews in LA then we could teach the angelinos how to behave if there are Jews in Miami we'll teach the people in Miami what it's like to walk around as a Jewish person right cleanliness of speech to be careful why do we want to be in one land this is a very philosophical question it doesn't make sense if we're all in one land of the Middle East how can we be an orim actually it seems like gut is the perfect situation we could be in Queens we'll teach the people in Queens how to behave well what it means to be the chosen people they're not going to know if we're all the way if we're all the way in Israel so why is our desire to be cloistered to one land when we're supposed to be a light to the Nations do you hear the question it's an interesting question question how can we be a light if we're stuck in Israel it's better that we're scattered around so I'm going to tell you a mushell that's a story to help understand the concept there was a person from The Little Village who went to visit his friend in the city he had a marvelous time and he said I want to come back next year he came back the following year and again he had a great time by his friend who lived in the big city and over dinner he says to his friend he says you know I noticed something I think the king of your of your city he must have become very powerful this past year because last year when I came to visit you I didn't see any of the king's guards anywhere but this year I came and there was a guard at every street corner your king must have become very powerful look how many guards and the friend from the big city said oh no it's actually the opposite last year the King was powerful so when he issued a decree everyone listened cuz he was so powerful this year people stopped listening to the king so the only way that they can he can get them to listen is if he has a guard in every street [Music] corner that's Israel you see when we are the light unto the Nations when we are when we are who we are supposed to be we don't need galut we could be in Israel and our light will shine around the planet when we are powerful in our we can be in Israel and our light will will be everywhere our influence will shine it will affect the world but when our light is not so shiny when we've messed up then hasem says okay your light is not so bright anymore so the only way you could influence the world is through something called galut where I have to scatter you I have to put a guard at every street corner because otherwise no one's ever going to know about you so our dream of mashiach our dream of kanah is that our light should be so bright that we should be able to live in aod Israel and yet affect the whole world positively that's light instead of tiny little flames and queens and bonus iries and Zurich One Flame in the great land I want to tell you something there was a King who had a daughter and she was really really beautiful and a lot of people said wow she's going to end up marrying someone who appreciates her beauty and he's going to be a prince and he'll be very powerful and they heard about a certain prince in a far away land who wanted to meet this beautiful princess but the princess had heard that this Prince was a terrible person he was a person of poor character he was cruel he was mean and the princess was scared he's going to see me he's going to want me so you know what she did she took her makeup and she began to scribble on her face and she took her hair and she messed it up and she put on her most ugly clothing and when the prince who had heard about her beauty and he was excited to see her he opens the door to see this beautiful princess and he sees oh she's hideous forget it what did I come all this way for nothing and he left and then another Prince with terrible character also came and again she did the same thing and each time one of these arrogant princes would come she would make herself unattractive and then one day she hears about a prince who is coming who has amazing character he's a fine person a good son a good friend and he'll make a great ruler she takes her makeup she puts it on beautifully and she gets dressed in her nicest dress and the prince comes and the prince had actually heard yet everyone says she's so beautiful but I heard rumors that she's actually quite hideous but he decided to come and see for himself and he comes and he sees this princess and she's beautiful she is glamorous she's stunning and right away he asks her hand in marriage and then he asks her the following question he says I don't understand all these other princes came and they said you were ugly you're hideous but you're not what I don't understand are they seeing things are they crazy because you're beautiful and the princess said I did that on purpose you see those other princesses they were not for me they were arrogant they were Hoy they were cruel and therefore I made myself look ugly so they wouldn't want me they would cast me aside but I know you have tremendous character I know that you're a good person and for a person like you I let my beauty shine in 1863 Mark Twain famous American writer visited Israel and he wrote about his visit and he writes I've never seen a land so forlorn so desolate so sad so sorrowful there's no life there's no love there's no happiness there's no joy this land is deserted it's Barren it will never grow it will never have fruit it will never be plentiful it is a land that is cursed if you've been to Israel today if you've taken an egged bus if you've gone on a tour if you've taken a Moni you know what you're going to see on Orange Grove avocado you're going to see beautiful vineyards you're going to see olive trees Beauty as far as the eye can see how does that make sense says rev cook it makes sense because the land of erid is the princess in the story and when the Ottomans came and when the Muslims came and when the British came and when when the Crusades came the princess said you're not my Basher you're not my soulmate I will make myself look ugly to you and each one came and they said Israel Israel what do I need it for it's it's cursed it's it's disgusting and you know what the land was waiting for it was waiting for its people its soulmate it was waiting for for you and I when you and I came to the land the land said ah Fu the children have come back to its borders and the land becomes plentiful and it becomes beautiful and glamorous because the land is the people the people are the land it's one of the same years ago I lived in Los Angeles I did kiru in Southern California UCLA UCSB USC different colleges and it happened once that I had a young lady on my trip her name was Michelle and she came on the trip and she had questions and she was an intellectual and it was it was amazing to hear her and answer her questions and see her passion and she came on two of my trips it's 23 years ago and she together with another group of students all grew close to their yish kite she had a father who was a reformed Rabbi and he said I'd like to speak to you I'd like to meet this person who's influencing my daughter I said if you'll treat me to lunch I'll go out with you this way if it's a bad conversation at the very least I ate well sat down with him and we spoke and he saw I'm a good guy normal we hit it off and he asked me his questions about Orthodoxy and then he said to me do you have questions about the way that I practice I said I have a question I want to know why in 1948 and before the reform movement did not support Israel and why every time Israel's in trouble 1967 1973 then TI the first to pull out of the reform they're the first ones now we know so many of them are left they've abandoned Israel almost entirely and he said well I'll explain it to you that's what it means to be reformed it means we have the right to change our mind that's what it means I said yeah but where's the allegiance where's the passion so how wonderful was it when Michelle decided you know I'm going to go to study in Israel of all places as she went to study and she became sh Shabbat and more than that she met a bent Torah and she got married and she went on to live a beautiful religious ttic life a few months ago I was in Israel I was running another trip and I get a phone call Michelle would like to meet with me wow it's been two decades how are you I'm I'm doing well barem I have 10 children my husband is still in K learning Torah I said that's amazing wow from Los Angeles to now sitting in Cola learning Kindel she said I'd love to introduce you to my family I said I'd love to come I'm very busy with this trip is there any way that you can come to the old city I'm going to be doing the tunnel tours maybe we'll meet outside the tunnel she said yeah I'll bring as many kids as I can and I came to the tunnel tours and we were waiting to to start the tours and she came with eight of her 10 children it was so beautiful to see right and a few of the daughters came over and they said we want to thank you for being ma of our mother I want to thank you for helping her find yish kite and the littlest boy came over and gave me a big hug jumped on jumped on me like a a grandchild so beautiful and I said maybe you'll come on the tunnel tours with us so the family came and after the tours I said to them I said Michelle would you would you allow me to take your kids out for ice cream and she said sure and I took each of the kids out for ice cream and we sat there in the Roa right by the golden manura as the sun was setting eating ice cream with this amazing NAS from many years ago to see what this family had become and then I said where are your other two kids she said one of my sons is in Yeshiva now I didn't want to take him on and she said I have a daughter who is in farak away in the summer she's in Camp she's a camp counselor and she went to America to be a camp counselor I said that's amazing I would love to to host her for Shabbat B I'm going back to Israel in a week I'm going back to America in a week my Israel trip will be over is there any way I could have her come and she said sure here's her number invite her we came back to America and we invited her we said maybe you'll come you know we met your whole family you know your mother was our student maybe come for Shabbat and she came and she was the oldest and we had such a wonderful time and we saw the sparkle the light the shine of Torah and it wasn't just Torah it was Tas ER in this girl's face and that's the knas of a family that picks themselves up from the small light of Los Angeles and comes and makes Hashem and makes Torah and makes Eric their priority and actually a week from now I'm going to be going to Eric Israel and I'm going to see that family again and the reason why is because that girl is getting married to my son in a week they met at Shabbat and my students oldest da is now going to be my daughter-in-law and that's taas eral so with kanah upon us I want everyone here to think about the light when you read about the war whether it's the war now or the war from a a few thousand years ago the battle is the same it's not any different it's all a battle of to and connection to hasem it's the it's the land it's the fight of a nation that comes back to its bride that makes itself beautiful for the prince which is the benim which is clel thank you so much thank you much