Current Events: Is This Really Happening?

There's a story in the Gummoran s which is somewhat known which relates an incredible yod and that is that when they were going and burying Jakov in the marat in the cave and his 12 sons were around him about to go ahead and bury him they had an unfortunate unexpected guest as his brother Jakov's brother and he came with tanot he came with complaints he said this cave is mine I'm the bore you guys are out Jakov is not staying here. And obviously the men had a little bit more brun than other people. And they got into a whole debate, a whole feud. They had to go ahead and decide who's Yes. A whole feud between the two of you. It was a family feud that had to decide who's going to be. That's not true. Yakov, who bought the rights, didn't buy the rights. Back and forth between the two until they said, "Let's take out the deeds to see that it's mine." And they realized the deeds were back in Mit. They left it back in Mit. So immediately they sent Napali the Napali who was was Nimsh to its to be able to rut with his super speed to be able to go back he had a special extra and he got into his Tesla and he went back to in order to bring the deeds in the process while everybody's sitting around waiting for him to come back and show the deeds that Mah really belongs to Yakovu that it goes under his oposes. Suddenly a guy named Hushin Ben Dunn who was the son of Dun the grandson of Yakovinu who was also deaf got up and he said what's going on here what's happening and they said and they start explaining him with sign language that apparently there is a problem because of as they went through the whole spiel of what just happened and they're waiting for the the contract to come in order to uh to prove that Yakov is the one who deserves to to be buried there. So as the Gomorrah relates, Kosha Bendan got up immediately with a quick move. He took out his sword from and he immediately sliced off Asov's head. The great Asov came to an end at that point. And we know that that's where Asov's head is buried in that he had one mitzvah that he kept. His head is at least buried in in that was the action as it's a classic question. He says what madean different than everybody else. Yehuda was a day strong man. God were the ones who were going to go in front of various Israel. These are strong people. Many of the many of the sons of Jacobu very powerful people. They were able to knock off all of Shim and Ley. Come on. Why did it take to go ahead and get up and make this to be able to do it? Says it's an incredible us says you know why? Because he was deaf. He couldn't hear anything. What's the difference if you're deaf? Deaf. So he says the difference is because everybody else was sitting with a back and a fourth and a back and a fourth with a lot of as they call a shaklaria going back and forth between them and they slowly eventually got used to the situation. They already adapted to the situation around them and therefore it bothered them but not like Benushim it was a different story. Hushim was deaf. He didn't know anything. He didn't hear a word until they came and told him, "Well, guess what happened?" In one shot, as they say, in one boom, they told him the whole story within two minutes. What are you crazy? The coet of my grandfather, the co of one of the one of the Are you joking? Whoop. and he got rid of as in order to show you says the people get used to things too often and sometimes things which are offthe-wall which are wacky which doesn't make sense we just push it get used to it cuz we're living the news dayto day instead of just seeing one historical boom about what happened when you're living it dayto-day it doesn't affect you as much when we read about the Holocaust we're like wow but at the time the people living through it of course were affected by it. But it was a dayto-day event. So the power and the impact wasn't as strong as someone like us that comes afterwards and takes a tour through Poland to see what happened. What are we trying to say? We are living through the same phenomenon. Mash the same thing. We want to bring out an important lesson with this idea. But if we go through what we're going through on dayto-day news, this is abnormal. It's just offthe-wall. It doesn't make sense. this has just gone to an extreme where it's unexplainable. But if I could say we've gotten so used to it, so to speak, that it's unacceptable and there's something wrong. But we've kind of it's just kind of, you know, melted into our bodies. It's already kind of come to us through osmosis, so to speak. As we know from the beginning, we had a group of 3,000 musha people, Arabs that have come with a bunch of motorbikes and a few uh you know flying saucers to be able to go over the gates and through gates which are electrically barbed that even a mouse that would touch one of these gates would immediately get zapped. This thing was unbelievably technologically advanced and they were still able to step through it and they still haven't had an answer how they were able to succeed to be able to do such a thing. That's a B. Even when they were in there, how long did it take to retrieve the situation? They were five hours unadulterated without anyone to interrupt them. No army people were there to to be able to to stop them. Only after 5 hours would people come in to realize, wow, this is a really serious situation. Not only that, they went into a they went into a base, an army base, all people equipped with guns, and they knocked them all out. 250 people dead in one shot. They were able to kill all of them without any of them moving to be able to take care of the whole entire player with no resistance at all. And not only that, they were able to capture 250 captives. I know these are all familiar stories. I don't know about the base, but they are all familiar stories with us, but it's already become part of life. Here we are 10 months later and things haven't been and it doesn't affect us as much. But we've been getting used to it. Besides all the gruesome slaughters that we saw, suddenly we find that we are the ones being chased. Instead of other people understanding that we were victims, suddenly we're the ones who are not the we're the ones who are the the the ones who are trying to attack as opposed to the ones who are being attacked. This doesn't make any any sense when we go ahead and think about it. We have people 60 states, 60 countries that signed a contract in this cursed uh group of people that we call the UN that they decided that we are considered that we are considered aparthide. We are the ones who are considered the ones who are destroying a whole entire innocent people. The the innocent civilians that they're talking about, they were in together with these 3,000 people. They were part of them. these innocent civilians. Of course, I don't have to talk to you about the chanting of the river and the sea and all the anti-semitism that we see. And yes, we're disgusted by it, but I hate to say I think we're not like Ben. We've become adapted to it slowly but surely. It's just become a part of life to be able to something that we swallow. We're in a war right now with Iran, something that has never happened in this country with a very powerful country. not necessarily intelligent if I could say but they have a tremendous amount of goods and a tremendous amount of money behind them to be able to law what they can do and at the same time coinciding to this whole incredible event that's happening they're taking away all funding from the people learning to make sure to choke them at the neck to make sure that they can survive even the day the day schools and everything that that the wives can go to work in the meantime that they should be able to to go to work they're taking away those capabilities to make sure that that is not here to protect us either. It's an incredible type of thing. I don't have to go through the presidents that are going through this funny whole cycle of what's happening in America of what one president to the next. Things that we've never seen before. One one crazy one just goes to the next crazier one. On both sides, both the Republican and the Democrats seem to be completely imbalanced. As if when you have a country of 300 million people, they couldn't find two candidates that were a little bit more fitting to be able to fit the picture. And all this comes of course is already in the back of our memory of something that comes from a million years ago. This comes in the record of Corona which was something that was unprecedented in human history. This whole corona situation what it caused and besides the inflation that it caused the whole situation. We're living in an upside down world because from the past couple years something's unusual here. Something's not going on but we're kind of living current events through the news that we read and we're not so much rebuffed by it. It doesn't make us change. It doesn't do something as you would expect that it should do. I saw beautiful the death has come within our windows. It came into our into our houses. I saw a beautiful says you know what it says went into the windows. What's with the windows? The normal way to walk into a house is through the door. When does a person walk through the window? When there's a fire in the house, when Lena Waganov comes into the house, you jump out through the window. If you've got to make a quick exit, then you jump out the window. You don't use the front door. When things are strange, when things are off the wall, it's happening now as we are. It's coming through our windows. It's coming in the most unusual, unfathomable way that no one would have been ever able to write such a book. You wouldn't even bought such a book. You would have said it's worse than Harry Potter. It's more not not believable than that book to be able to go ahead and understand that all this could be happening in current events and here we are living at it. Let me tell you a from Yseph Shalom Yosh the great rese is a big organization here. a great organization there that collects money for helping uh helping people in distraught and helping being makar of people who are far away and able to do poot and over there when he was standing they got they were able to get him to come and it was during the time of the suicide bus bombings approximately 20 years ago during the great Oslo Accords that was doing us so many benefits that was causing that was doubling up the amount of suicide bombings that was happening at the time and he read from the misbour as we know the misbar says shalom David sings a song as he is running away from his son of shalom that is busy chasing him to lop his head off that's what it says and of course thear says misour why are you singing songs this is a time to sing a your own son is chasing after you and you know what the says because David knew that someone was supposed to chase after him to kill him he thought it would be some moms there he thought it would be some evid within his household he thought it was going to be some slave or some illegitimate person or something someone incorrect someone off his rocker and he was happy to find out it was his own flesh and blood it was a son of shalom who says an ibish what what does that mean that's a more reason to be depressed I can't imagine a more depressing thing to have one's own son trying to get rid of him because he wants to take over the kingdom that's a little bit depressing I don't think I would be able to swallow the trauma from such a scenario you've got to be kidding in it's an incredible based on one of the same things that we just said. Now he says because a person comes before and he understands that he's going through a hard time and he says that you know if that's what happens it happens but maybe it comes to me these asotes maybe it's happening in a normal way and that's what happens know a person gets in a car accident he gets injured a person trips and falls he gets injured and things like that when it happens in a normal as they say natural way so you say Okay, be some type of being able to see in the picture. It's as they call mother nature that did it. It seems to be something that's just a natural phenomenon. You swallowed, you choked a little bit, spit it out. I'm okay. I'm alive and things are okay. But, you know, that's just how things happen. It happened to the neighbor. It happened to someone else. And that's just how things happen. But he says, "When you see things that are outlandish, they're just absolutely wacky. They make absolutely no sense. You can't put two and two together. It just push doesn't equal what it's supposed to be equaling. Suddenly you realize this is a cure. This is a different story over here. This is something very focused. It's very directed. The bullet is put on my on the person's head. He realized that is focusing on this person. And now suddenly he finds a connection with suddenly realize whoa Hashem is speaking to me. Suddenly he realizes that maybe it is speaking to me. Now there's more reason for me to make a change. There's more realizing there's more of a realization that Hashem cares about me. There's something that we call the individual providence that he gives. It's not something that's clearly that just happened to just like the neighbor. It happened to me also. This is something incredibly individualized. That's the of the great who lived in the time of 300 years ago who said this incredible. And from here we understand a piece in a that says like this. What does a hearam say? Sometimes stands behind a wall and he watches us from the window and he's peeking from the crevices. Go and says when does he look from the window? He says when you're doing when things are good when you guys are being uh good is when you're not doing theem what's the what's the difference when he looks from the window when he looks from a crevice an incredible because when a when a person is looking at you from the window you can look at him back you see him through the window in turn also it's receptive it's receptive it comes back and there's a back and forth between the two of When you see him, he sees you. That's when you're when you see doing the he's looking from what we spoke about before from the windows. When he looks from a crevice, he can see you but you can't see him. That's called that's that's called when it's when works that you're not even able to see him. Right? That's where that's when he's working completely. So we are living in a time when it's not stare. It's when we're able to see au through the window is coming and showing us in a place that we cannot get comfortable things. It's not time to relax. It's time to wake up and smell the coffee to realize something big is happening here is giving it to us at the end of days right before like we've never had it. We're suddenly feeling the closeness writes in a different piece. He says when a mother goes and she's carrying her baby and she goes shopping in the beginning then she goes to the post office afterwards and she goes to visit a friend and then she comes home. So how if we would ask the mother how long did that take? Well, if it's here in Israel, it's about 3 days adventures to be able to do all these things. Over there in America, it takes about 3 hours. And if we would ask the mother where were you should go. I went shopping. I went to a friend of mine. I went to the post office. I had to do a few errands. But the baby that she was carrying in her hand, if you would ask him where did he go, he'll tell you one thing. I was with mommy. I was with my mother. That's all I know. I don't know better. And that's the situation that we are here. We're with Tati. We're just with our Abba. We don't know any better. We don't know what's happening. We don't know why. But all I know is we are completely connected with and there's nothing else. And this is really the theme of our parot. We're now in the par ofan and par and we know that it brings in both these par the great uh that we'd say every day twice a day brings the first half brings the second half of both these are being read and you have to know that this of Israel this is the basis of all of Judaism this is where we have been all the time this is the lifeline this is the blood of every Jew that we live by. There's no Jew that doesn't know this. And unfortunately, they've discovered that yes, people are being raised in this country. Even reformed Jews know the expression of Israel. People are raised in this country not knowing Israel because they're coming to strangle them to keep them away from this intimate connection that we have with the with these words on our lip of Israel. When a person is born first thing by his what we say is that's how he enters his life because that's a very important time to hear the words of kaduca. I one time had one of my children that had to be born in Tel Aviv because it was more an unusual pregnancy and he had to be she had to be born in Tel Aviv as opposed to all my other children. And when when we was in the nursery after the birth of this child, I couldn't help but hear the music that was going around around it was the song of a oho song that I happen to remember of the from the '8s. An old song from one of the groups of the 80s and I was thinking this is what you're teaching the kids. We believe that things even as a child sees into his brain. I can give you many stories but it's not our it's not our subject right now. as opposed to if you go to shared and over there they're playing Jewish songs or they're playing some types of songs that at least inside of it because this is what we tried to see inside from the beginning when a child is three years old or when he's beginning to talk so as the says we teach him the words of that's how we begin him until the day of death many People when they die, I mean when a person dies, they're obligated to go ahead and say Israel at their death. How many people have died in kdishem with the words of Israel on their lips? Uh three times a day we dab in once in the morning and once at night time we go ahead and say again before we go to sleep we have to go ahead and rem reminisce and remember and reverberate those special words that we say and the most holiest day of all days as we all know. How do we conclude that day with Israel? These words are totally invigorate the Jew. They are what gives us our lifeline. That is what brings us to everything that we are. And it's something that we are constantly remembering. As in Shalom writes in the beginning of he writes the amuna of every Jew is the misbe. It's the sacrificial altar of love that we have given to our it's a sacrifice of self that millions and hund and tens of millions of Jews have done over the centuries that we it's the song of life the shalanu that we have always died with this incredible holy fire we have gone to to the to be sacrificed to be go ahead and and sacrifice ourselves to and even though they were given promises of living a happy and joyful and comfortable life, they went ahead and were willing to give it all up. Even if it's just as he says, even if it's just to the naked eye looks like you're going to head and do be a Christian or be or go and do something that's not Jewish. Even if it was just for that, they were still not willing to do it because there's no there's no pleasure that goes over and beyond such a connection, such a relationship that we've given with these words of which is goes back to what I was saying before. This idea of feeling that Tati is holding me. I'm so connected to him. I look up to him and I know I'm in good hands. I know that I'm going to be okay and things are fine. There's a misa that happened in the concentration camps as we know that many of them went of course to the gas chambers and there's a misa that used to say very very often over in ismuzim people know was one of the mim that he used to say very often and he says when they were locked up and they closed those heavy double doors behind a group of men that were sitting inside of those gas chambers they looked one to the other and there was nothing to see except that they knew life is coming to its And they realized this is the last couple minutes that they will be walking on this planet. They were unclothed. They had nothing to do except to just think pitifully about the gloomy end that is in front of them until one person called out and he said, "You know what day it is today? It's but it wasn't far from there. It says it's and on we have a mitzvah to sing and be happy." They all held hands, got in a c got in a circle and they started singing. They started singing this beautiful chant to and that's how they ended up till the guests got turned on. They ended up going to their death with the words of Schma Israel and on their lips. That's how they finished their life. Shak used to say, "I am so jealous of these people." And he says, "I'm not jealous of their haba. That's not what I mean. I think Rafshak was doing pretty well with his oil. That's not their haba that I'm jealous of. I was jealous of their oil. There was no feeling that a person can feel like that type of sacrifice to be able to know I'm in the hands of Tati. I'm okay. I'm comfortable. Things are okay. I have seen with such clarity that I am nowhere else except for in the in the hands of Hashem who is taking care of me." And that is how we have to be able to understand. And that's everything that we're going through is to make us experience that to such an extent but is sending us the messages to help us experience that connection that relationship that is looking through the not through the not through the crevices we could see him for those of us who are on the level we're able to see him in the in the and that's where we have to get to this level and with this I'll finish with the words of Rwab Rwab actually writes he says the biggest mile of a kachit when he talks about the idea of ak speaks about this in was not the physical sacrifice of it was not the physical sacrifice of that wasn't what the biggest that wasn't what the was all about it was anat was a sacrifice of knowledge of my cognition of being able to we say to completely unknow my knowledge to the toes to know that a knows what's up he knows knows what's the right thing to do. His all-encompassing knowledge, his all-encompassing yad is way beyond mine. And I know that I'm doing and that's it. I don't have to go beyond that. That's more than that. Knew this is the right thing to do and that's it. This is what we tried to be our children. By the way, the reason why the world is so difficult to be able to go ahead and believe in religion, the reason why the world has become so atheistic, so far away from belief in a god is for one reason, one reason only. Because there's no parenthood anymore. At least the western world, there's no parenthood anymore. The idea of the parenting in the western world is don't be a parent. Let him make his own decisions. Let him do his own thing. Meaning there is no hierarchy. There's no one above me. And when you have such a phenomenon, when you have such a way of thinking, then we live in a godless world. Of course, I don't need to be what we say to enol my way of thinking to a higher being because the way I think is it. There is nothing beyond that way of thinking. And by that factor, you end up never have you living you you are raising godless children. You're basically raising children who don't need to believe in a god and don't believe in more. And that's why from the day we're born till the day we die, we enunciate these beautiful words of Israel and we say we say which is all about the fact that there is nothing else and it's not it's an it's a sacrifice to as the writes that they did they were killed. They were killed but what was the big thing? He says these words also. It was the it was the sacrificing my to the and this is the great power that we have when we say these words of Israel. When we say the whole all the paragraphs of Israel we should have this in mind during that time period and realize this is the you need to have the proper the to realize that yes I am in the hands of don't just think what does it mean? What does it mean? It means to know that I'm not in my own hands. Look at the mess of what's going on in the world. You know, this is not normal. This is unnatural. There's something going on. There's something strange. We are not in control of the news. We're not in control of changing it and sub and and making some type of substitutes or changes in this whole entire situation. It is what it is. And only a keshbu is going to be running the show. And with this, I will end with a quick story from the panovich. The Panovich on 1946 right after the Holocaust knew that there were many many kids that were taken into the churches. As we all know many parents wanted their children to live and they gave them up to to to gave them up to many or they gave them up to the churches. When the were finished with them after the war they knew the parents weren't around anymore at loenu. So then they went ahead and they gave them all to the churches. The churches had a few big auditoriums of Jewish children which were on the way to being baptized. The Pontovich worked very hard to find out names of children, specifications as much as he could to be able to do the best he can. After much toil and work, you know what the Pvichar did? He went to a few of these churches in Poland and Krakow and in and Warsa and other places that he was able to get to as much as he could and he said, "Let my nation go." He said, "Let my people go. They have to come out. It's time to let them out. These are Jewish children. You know, like I know Mr. Co, Mr. Priest, that this these people are Jewish and just let them go. They have a brea you you know that they're that they're Jewish." The priest said, "What are you talking about? They're in the process of being baptized. the Christians have a nice day their parent there's no more parents these are Christian they're Christian people and that's it and it's finished there's nothing to talk about they as much as it was a back and forth they would not budge finally the punovich asked can I have five minutes have an audience with these children give me five minutes and onions guy said okay five minutes what can a guy do in five minutes these kids were raised six years 1939 to 1945 underneath Christian opposes complete brainwash 5 minutes. He ain't getting anywhere. Go ahead. And he let the punovicher walk inside. Punovicher went in the middle of the room with all the kids around him looking at him with this strange man with a long beard. And he said to them, "Children, guess what?" And he started talking to them in Yiddish about um Judaism for about a minute. And then everybody looked a strange to him. didn't know what he was talking about until he cried out in a beaconing scream. These children still remembered that Israel that their mother would say to them every time they would go to sleep. They ran tugging and pulling at his pants. They went tugging and pulling at him and saying, "Tati, Tatty, Tatty, mommy, mommy, mommy." Suddenly everything came back and he was able to pull out many many children with these incredible words that we are going and understanding that this is the lifeline of every Jew and that we wish to live for and understanding that this is the current events that we are surrounded by by just remembering the fact of Israel. A semi volcano.