Education No Tuition Can Buy - Ari Abramowitz: The Land of Israel Fellowship

the Great Sage known as theit teaches whatever a person acquired in his childhood remains in their nature the rest of their lives and that is why we bless our children to be like masas neim not only because they didn't fight but because of why they didn't fight they didn't fight because of their deep and profound faith and trust in Hashem a faith that they were raised with in the home of their father Joseph from their very Youth and I saw this play out at my Shabbat table right in front of me with these sweet and holy kyot these Soldier girls we were going around the table as we do every single week when we were blessed with guests and everyone was sharing about themselves now keep in mind these girls were not just any soldiers they were here in Judea as one of the stops during their officers course to be an officer in the Israeli Army is not an easy accomplishment you have to be really motivated you have to really want it now these girls too you know like I said they identified as secular they weren't Fired Up by the exact same thing that fired me up right the Fulfillment of Prophecy the ingathering of the Exiles just to give some examples what fired them up shockingly as we run around the table it was the same thing for each of them and I don't think that they themselves even knew they had this in commment until they were sitting there at the table going around the table each of them shared their memories from when they were little girls seeing their father put on his uniform of hearing stories of their parents one of the girls shared about the Great accomplishments of her mother from the Army and I think that deep down that is one of the reasons I'm so happy to have the honor to serve right now despite my 20 plus years of service in the IDF reserves no one would have thought twice if I didn't you know answer this call and join up because you know as you all know Shaya and I married at a later age and while Jeremy's children were raised seeing him go off every year to serve in reserves whether it's training or even fighting Wars my children are only becoming aware right now and last week when we were sitting in the living room and reports came in on the walkie-talkie that there was a a shooting happening and everybody else would be running inside and taking cover Tash and Shilo saw their ABA throw on his vest in his helmet grab his weapon and run outside running towards running towards the the the the danger to protect intuitively I know that there's no amount of tuition in the most elite Zionist expensive Zionist private schools in America that you could pay that would have that same effect that same impact that same lesson the same values entering the hearts of your children you just can't get that in a classroom [Music]