Do Not Stay Silent! Do Not Comply! - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

it's great to be here it's just the world is a crazy place and life is not simple and everything that we think we understand we don't really understand and it's just hard to put it all together but you know we had come to an agreement with the government that we were going to be able to keep our vineyard until after the shmita year and then after the shemitah year we would be able to discuss it maybe we would relocate it because we can't really do anything during the shmita year and it states land it's not anyone's private land it's in the edge of the desert you'd think we should get a prize for making the desert blossom and we just got noticed that for whatever reason it's just so inconceivable that the government on tuesday has deployed the idf to come and destroy our vineyard and i just i don't i don't know what to do with that because not only is it the sabbatical year but it's also the week of tu b'shvat which is the new year for trees where there is an ancient judean tradition to plant trees on tu bishvat which is like the new year for trees it's like right that the as the winter is like reached its climax the sap is like running through the trees we plant a new tree in the land and on the week of tu bishop on a sabbatical year where you're not really supposed to plant anything you're not supposed to work the land at all the jewish israeli government is going to uproot all of our vineyard and destroy it and i i just don't i mean i can't help but feel as though we're being communicated to in some way because it's just it's too much to just say it's a coincidence and the most amazing thing is that just not that long ago we pulled our first bottles of wine out of our vineyard and if you can see i don't know why it's not coming in so well here maybe i put it back here ah why can't you see it zoom if you see the label it was actually sent to us by one of our members krista that's here today i don't know why it's not letting me show you the bottle of wine but we literally have our first bottle of wine here and it doesn't even have it's just we put that sticker on it because we wanted to label it in some way and we just got our first bottles of wine after five years of labor and now they want to destroy it and so i've been on the phone with politicians and the media and interviews all day long trying to figure out how to annul this decree and i don't know what to say it really speaks though to what i wanted to talk about today and so tehillah and i were talking about it over shabbat and dealer really shared this idea with me and i said that i would share it on her behalf here on the fellowship and we were having a conversation with emunah and we were having a conversation about the exodus from egypt and then when i was such a sharp girl and she's reading the story and she's like i don't understand why did they have to put blood on the doorposts i mean it says so god would see the blood post and then skip over the houses that had the blood on the post i mean god could just know where they are like why did they have to like make a sign for him doesn't god know everything like why did they have to do that and like eminem that is such a good question but let's look at what scripture says and so if we could just put the scripture up on the screen that would be amazing is that possible oh tabitha is it possible to get it up there there we go and so this is exodus chapter 12 verse 13. now the blood shall be a sign for you that's actually an exact translation on the houses where you are and when i see the blood i will pass over you and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when i strike the land of egypt and so this is really deep the blood on the doorpost wasn't for god it was a sign for you for the children of israel and what does that mean i think that really speaks to us right now in our generation i feel like i'm very concerned very hesitant to post anything on social media that's i would never i would never post my children the pictures of my children you see on the fellowship that's in the family here that's not going on facebook that's not going on twitter i don't trust big tech i don't know who's listening to me i sometimes just have conversations and then the very next moment google ads are popping up on my phone about the conversation i had yesterday and i'm like what is going on everyone's watching everyone's listening does everyone's look so i'm just very hesitant to do anything and i think all of us feel that way it's like wow the governments are getting a little more tyrannical things are getting a little bit more stressful and the natural instinct is let's keep it quiet let's kind of like let's just let's lay low let's lay low until this storm passes and that makes a lot of sense and then hashem says no no no there's no name there's no laying low now take the blood of the sheep the god of the egyptians and then smear the blood on your doorpost declare it loud and clear that you're going to be passed over and that god is king and he's saying that even though the natural instinct is to lay low the protection will come when we make our voices heard when we stand for what we believe in and there are actual statistics that have come out in israel every once while they're arab uprisings and the rise in terrorism can just be seen statistically and one of the responses was well let's you know kind of drive at night time and drive a little bit quicker and there was another response that said no put an israeli flag on your car raise it up high and they saw that the cars that drove with israeli flags nothing happened to them the rocks weren't thrown on those cars the rocks were thrown on the people that were trying to lay low and the same thing happens on college campuses there's a rise in anti-semitism and jew hatred on college campuses when you then would say all right i'll just take off my keepa i won't i won't like hide my identity i'll just kind of lay low until you know the storm passes that's when it rises up but as soon as a jew wears a star of david on his necklace wears something to display his pride and who he is and what he believes in somehow evil kind of makes way for it and that there is the communication to us in this week's torah portion you can't really lay low the only way to banish darkness is to bring the light the only way to fight evil is to bring good and we have to not be afraid to stand up for what we believe in and i would have loved for us to just lay low let this decree pass over us maybe a new government will arise maybe they'll be able to save our vineyard but we are not that lucky and we have to now raise our voices we're going to be organizing a mass prayer on tuesday morning at the vineyard i think i'm gonna go out and buy a thousand israeli flags and just hang them up on every one of those vines and as the tractors come to uproot our vineyard that we planted five years ago let them uproot and drive over all of those flags how this is happening in the state of israel i don't know it's hard for me to wrap my mind around because my children are asking me and all i can say to them is that it's only going to make us stronger we are being tested and we have to rise up and we have to everyone has challenges i don't know a single family in the world that doesn't deal with challenges real challenges challenges that push them to the limit of their ability whether it be in their marriage with their children with their health with their finances everyone's got challenges that's just the way this world is structured so my challenge is fighting for the land of israel our challenge is fighting to make the desert blossom our challenge is fighting for prophecy to be fulfilled our challenge is fighting for the future generations of believers who want to love this land and come here our pro that my challenge i'll take that challenge on i'll take it i'm happy with that challenge and so whatever challenge faces us this is the time that we can show courage it's the time that we can show perseverance i feel like it's just going to make us stronger and bring out the best within us but even more importantly until tuesday happens every decree can be annulled we've seen it with our own eyes the power of prayer is more powerful than anything else in this world it is the guiding force of this world and so i would just call on everyone that loves this land loves our farm loves this vineyard to pray for us pray for this decree to be annulled it's so it's you know you can't help but we are the deepest settlement in judea on a sabbatical year on the week of to beswa i just can't feel as though hashem is not just shining a projector of light onto us just waking people up to pay attention and just as we got our first bottle of wine look at that it's okay because now we have bottles of wine i'm gonna sell these bottles of wine and with that money i'm gonna go plant another vineyard they're not gonna stop us we're gonna make the desert blossom whether they like it or not because there's a bigger plan involved here and so uh thank you all for kind of marking your doors for the world to know where you stand and what you believe because that's actually the greatest protection not to lay low not to fear but to stand up to not comply and to be proud and so please god give us the strength and the courage to persevere hi my name is jeremy gimpel a lot of people want to know exactly what the land of israel fellowship is and what members receive when they join so let me explain the land of israel fellowship is a global online community with hundreds of members from over 40 countries around the world they're live sessions and gatherings that create a direct personal connection to the land of israel and the lovers of israel from around the world there's no online gathering that i'm familiar with that is connected to the land of israel that unites and brings together such a diverse group of people 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