Rabbi David Lau - Tears of Emunah | Chazaq

Thank you ra. This is surprise for me. Why surprise? Because last month when my secretary told me that he invites me to share with you a few points from a few expressions from my last three years in Israel. They spoke about Hebrew. They told me to speak in Hebrew. And when I saw you and I was that I need to practice my English. So first thank you for the lady and I hope that I succeed to share with you the environment that I felt last two three years because I wrote a book now is in Hebrew translated to English in Hebrew it means tears of a but this these thinking and the explanations that I had last 3 years in Israel. I can tell you I was more than 700 morning houses and everyone is especially I was a lot in hospitals. I met a lot of groups of soldiers and I can tell you I saw nation of money even you can't believe about it for example I remember in sh a body of a soldier that according to data of his body is far from I can't tell you which color and painting on this body that he had but he was with he went in the army with it without but with So I took decision to myself never judge anyone. I don't know how close to he to Hashem and how much maybe more than me. I don't know what is his troubles what is his questions. I don't know anything. But I know that we look for ways to be close to shame. All my life, this is my life to go to make people brothers and sisters close each other and close worship. Because of that, for example, in the days between three years ago, I was in the night. At the night I was in and three weeks before everyone knows that these famous names and I was there. I spoke with them. I can tell you that and had have very big argument if they allow to come in or not. This is executed speaking I saw the back of the people because a few of them came sat on the chair near me but with the back to show me that we don't happy that here we have a rabbi. They change their and they saw their face later. But this is the way this is from time to time our situation in Israel. I was there and I can tell you I remember I'm going to sh I heard a notice I heard I understood that it was a rocket. I didn't know how much it is. I remember the morning I arrived to SH. So one young man went in and told me I am a soldier in air force in the air defense and because it rockets maybe I need to go to army. I told him and where is your cell phone? He said in my home I closed it before Shabbat before. will go on open the cell phone and if they need you tell me later he came back with uniform for the army and as please bless me we have four or five hostages he said the moment this is a terror attack of one village in Israel. We didn't know it's not only one. So I think we continue our comfort but we adding every 10 minutes to them for our life. But I went to show them wherever we could we took DNA sample and why it's so necessary. I can give you an example. I remember in this day a lot of civilians in Israel went to the area even in danger and they took bodies and brought them to share. It was something amazing. I don't know that I could do it to take in my parent town to take bodies of someone that you don't know who is it. One of them was father of a young girl that was in the event in Nova and he brought his daughter. Two days later he called to s he called to soldiers and he shouted why I can't do funeral I want to do funeral why I need to do to wait and I want I ask him please they ask me the soldiers ask me it's very hard for us to to him please do it. I called him and I asked him please come to show that he came and I began to speak with him about his daughter. She was around 19 20 years old and I asked him to tell me about her time her baby time. I want to hear about when she was born she he shouted he was angry. If you want details about her, come to visit me in Shiva. Now give me her body. And I continue to speak with him. And after a few sentences, he said for me it was too much sentences that I told him. You know why I ask you about her childhood? Because I was afraid maybe she is. Why? Because the DNA of you and your mama wife are not the same of her DNA. So please come with me. He approached to her body and went back and approached and told me I'm not sure. And after a few seconds he told me no I'm not sure his hair style was the same hairstyle of her his daughter but is not his daughter. He sacrificed his life to bring body not of his daughter his daughter helped me because of that I don't have mistake >> and I can tell you help us that we found her body after a few days not too much but this is very big matter that this war it was the first war of the state of Israel that we don't have any abun until after two weeks we knew all the details who is murder who is lost on the edge We have all the details about that very big miracle. The first war state of Israel without any arena. I want to visit in hospitals and I can share with you one point. I met someone said he covered himself or his body was only I saw only his face. He saw me and he said, "Oh, hello Rabbi. I am the religious man of Faza Faza village near Aza. I am the religious man. What it means? He told me that every hill here in Yipur is only one who went to s village religious village to d in. I asked him do you like the governance the prayer? Of course I see. I asked him tell me what about and which song do you prefer? Do you remember? He said you know it's and if I have night or the day they my time in the cow house I need to to to give treatment to cows. So this year I was in the at night, not in the day. And he told me about the songs that he like day. He told me the song that he like in the night at night. I spoke with him. I began singing. He said with me, But here in this community he will send this world. No in a community we said and we sang. We have very nice thinking about this world. We sang together. And you need to understand he lost his arms. He had bottom on his stomach and on his leg. And when I began singing, I began singing and he began singing with me. We ask we will feel his holiness in our world. This is the meaning of this learning. And someone without arms with stomach and leg stay with me. He closed his eyes. He took his face from right to left from right and sang and asked Hashem please I want to feel that you are holy in my life in our nation in our world. I felt a lot of tears near his bed. Not because of because that I saw myself going on. See what is the problem of your son, not his situation, not his terrible health. What is his problem? He wants to feed you. This is a Jewish nation. This is someone that once a year, not all the day, is in the sh how close they are for you. This is someone that that's what he wants. After singing, I I told him that when he feel better, he came back to home and we teach his neighbors this song. He said, "I agree to come back to my home. When the army tell me that I can come back, it will be maybe one year." I agreed to be there. But with one condition, I was in the left side of the politic of Israel. I was not today. And I want to tell you how I I'm coming back to my house. Just if you tell me that you can see the middle sea from my window in my house. I want to see only the middle sea not. I told him okay. I speak with um when I went out from the hospital, I called to the chief of staff and I told him this is the request of someone from please help me help us. Two months later, my secretary told me, "I have received I received the phone from the chief of staff for you." We spoke and he told me, "Rabbi, I want to tell you one point. Do you ask me something is the name of the guy from? He told me that the hotel blue moon in the sia neighborhood in Gaza to see the middle sea. You can tell him that this building don't doesn't disturb him. Now that's all this building doesn't disturb me to see the I look for this guy. I met him not in hospital in the meditation department hospital and I told him my part in our agreement I did. Now is your time to make you part and to gather all your friends and to teach them. We ask please we want to be close to you. This is someone not religious. This is someone that with a lot of button on his body but is so want to be close to Hashem. If I talk about development, I want to tell you I don't complain about it. But I want to share with you one point in the first day when someone arrived to hospital all the family all the friends remember. They are coming to hospital. They are sending food to his family. They are looking for ways how to help them. But after that, this is a long way in rehabilitation department. And I not everyone came back to his life. I can tell you my love or my lovely woman has very hard talk for years ago. I remember beginning a lot of people came and help and I thank everyone and I'm not afraid this is the fact understand it after 4 years we are in the middle of the way and everyone need to come back to his house it's okay But if you can do it, please remember when you come to Israel, please come to visit meditation department. You will find there families that the life change in one second. Maybe not only in meditation department, maybe in the house also good for them. They need encouragement, they need help. And one of my projects that I doing last years is to help families because I know they need help. They need to pay about treatment. They need to pay about food. Maybe they lost their job. >> They need help and they receive their bottle instead of us. So we need to continue to help to all the soldiers that they need help. >> I can tell you that this is a duty of a job. This is the duty of every we needed to remember as I said in my book from where we know it from the alive. All you children, all the children of Jewish nation are and what need to do. So we have two parts. First to be all of us know all of us need to be close to Hashem and close each other. We need to remember this. We need to do it. And I want to tell you a few words. A few words about the people that we need to remember. We have very difficult time in Israel. But I'm sure that we will succeed to continue to feel close to Hashem. I have an opportunity of helping women. They lost their husband and they need because they haven't child for him. It was 14 cases that women, young women that their husband murdered or from the army and would need to find ways how to help them. I had a privilege to officiate the wedding of three from them. And I remember the discussion that I had with one of them. She told me, "I can't forget my husband." And I felt this is a lie to get married in the time that I remember my husband. I told him I don't agree. No, you need to understand your personality is from the experiences that you had in your past and your program to the future. This is mean I when someone said I I think I said what it means I I it means all the experiences that you felt all your life till this time and all your problems that you have for future because of that I don't have he is bad for You built house, you had dreams together. So now is the time that you don't need forget. This is part of your personality. But you need to think what is better. The people is to remember the terrible time they murder your husband. You need to help them to murder you also. No, I don't agree. And I'm asking you please speak with your future husband. Tell him this point and if he agree to be your husband, even you best, do it. Take it. And I send Hashem that I had a privilege to do it. The land of Israel, we build it through suffering. But I'm sure and I know that we go there and by standing together this of us here in Israel and here in Greece brothers and sister together we will win. We can do it. We can do it because we have father in heaven that ask us only one point. Please together please remember you are brothers and sisters and please do it do things to show it to show everyone that you can continue. I want to tell you one point about the weddings. When I came to ter hospitals to depart hospitals and to to visit soldiers there, I saw young couple that smile. They laughed and he with stick try to go towards me and she with him. She's going. I went to them and I told them, "Hello, I saw you hungry and he told me you are the reason I'm the reason of loving something here. I didn't know." And he said that for him is the first time to see me. For him is the second time. Why? He was in emergency department in Soka hospital in Bel and I came to visit. She said there he didn't remember minutes of this place emergency he wasn't with us and she told him this morning one point this morning when she arrived He showed her ring and asked her to get married and she said, "Do you know when he was in emergency department, I sat near you and I cried with a lot of tears." And I remember came a rabbi to visit, stood near you, said and encouraged me and told me that you will see that he will ask you to go with you. She said I thought it's it's not dream. No, this is not situation. But I told him that rabbi encouraged me and said together with me and sukim of and the rabbi told me that if I agree he will be with us in the wedding. I told him, said the girl to the soldier, to the boy. I told him this story this morning when he show me the ring and he asked me >> and finally he's surprised. We saw you and I told him this is a rabbi that came to visit you that encourage me. I told her, "Yes, I remember. I remember it was I was in the department in the emergency department in SA three times and I remember everyone. It was darkness in the room. I remember she was so little. She looked like maybe 12, 13 years old." And she sat there and crying. And I remember that I heard his arm and told her, "Please repeat after me." And I explained her the meaning of I told her we are speaking about and she said yes I appreciated what it was. It was very happy, nice and a lot of you know to feel the despite of all the troubles time we built a new house in Israel. Now this is a secret but they told me they asked me if I can be in the so what I want to tell you I'm inside. I'm inside I'm know I want to tell you one point as I saw I was in the three weeks before the 7th September. It's the night I called two men to woman who invited me. They hid themselves everyone in his village. I went later to visit them. laying in a lot in that sea. I met them. They spoke about the terrible time in the room in darkness without electric with a lot of fear for the noise that they heard out from the room. And I told them that I heard the same situation from my father in Host. But I told them we have very big difference between the time of my father to your time. The difference is when my father went out, who was out of the room? German, Ukrainian soldiers and other murders. When you went out, why you went out? Because you had Jewish brothers came to visit to help you. >> They simplify their life to survive you. Very big difference. Please remember them. So one of them told me I was afraid when I heard someone knock on the door and said there there is anyone here. I was afraid maybe they are the I didn't know but he said and I proud to tell you that I know to continue the sentence and I said and I open the door. We are brothers and sisters in Israel in abroad. We are one nation all of us children of Hashem. We have very nice tradition and we need to remember I'm very proud about my forefathers. I'm sure that every one of you can tell me that he his dynasty has a grandmother, righteous grandmother, very famous rabbi, everyone all of us children of Abuhammed. So we are proud about the last generations but the questions that we need to ask that what we are doing that the next generations will be proud about us. This is the question that I'm asking you. Please everyone ask himself all my life. I am going from place to place to explain people. We have so nice tradition so tremendous heritage. what we are doing to share it with the next generation and if we will succeed with one or two or three generations we are very lucky will help everyone with us to see a lot of Jewish for