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[Music] for the world of there and others to come together and hear Torah and so I decided that this topic would be a topic on T what is the Torah that we are learning here in we are fortunate very fortunate to be alive living and learning the T of we are here experiencing the unfold before our very eyes the truth is that way before we were born already the gah had begun in modern day times we know that what's the definition of he says what is the between a regular day and the times of M mean times of This is a political definition the definition of g is that we are self- autonomous the definition of galut is that we are sh we are subed to the Nations that we are not ruling ourselves so according very very clearly according to the we are in times of um so the question is how is it that so much of the the the Torah world doesn't recognize that how is it that so much of the how how is it possible how is it possible so I don't know if you saw this uh just recently thisone a little video of of one of the uh one of the Sim of the KET dancing with the young potential singing and he says how could it be how could it be that what where's the dichotomy here how do we see things one way and they see things a totally different way so the the answer in short is just there's a Tora of galut and there's a Tora of G they're still living in the Tora of galut where we have a to we have an awareness of the Tor and that's we're very fortunate the truth is um there's a yuch that everyone here in the room knows we don't know so many yonies by heart but this one we know by heart because of yakobi the famous singer so he sings Bish you know the song right so he says the Mia will be standing on the rooftop of the and he's going to be sounding says oh modest ones the time of the Gul has come if you don't believe wait a minute what do you mean if you don't believe the meas says the mashia is standing on the goag of the BET mikdash which means the mikdash is built the mash is there what else do we need for the what other signs could you possibly have and yet he says and that's where the answer is if you don't believe you're not seeing the light when we stop for a moment just to see what's going on around us when we stop for a moment to understand the Miracles that are happening every single day in our lives here in Israel then we realize oh my gosh look at the light look at the light but if we look for the problems we look for the darkness you'll see them everywhere there are a lot of problems there's a lack of unity among the nation um most of our leaders are still not or there's still a lot of problems in Isel yes there are but we can't deny it's like it's like the m is saying the mikdash is built the messia is there we may there's still people who don't believe so the idea that we have a Tora which is T and A lot of people don't see it this was already predicted in 2,000 years ago in the mid it was predicted that that would be the case in modern day times and that's truly what the case is we have an whole it's a it's a small Tora we have a very wide so this year what I'd like to do is I would explain through the aot and through the through we'll see very quickly and we'll go back to theot and we'll see it a little bit more in detail where exactly is theod for the where is the for this that we um we we we teach we learn and we and we live so let's start off with theot the very simply very simply the T says that there are two aspects to the Jewish people very simply stated on one hand we are and we're also a great we on one hand have the spiritual side we also have the national side these two come together in one personality in one nation we have the and this is really all one entity the idea that there's the religious connects to the National goes very very very very just from the aot themselves the first n the first to abrah the first to and the first toob was n nationalism what does it say by by abah go to is the talks about nationalism about um establishing the Jewish people in our homeland we know there's a famine in the land and he was about to leave do not leave the land so Abra was told to come to the land was told not to leave the land and yov don't worry yov you're about to go to the you're going to come back to the land right you are going to you're going to come back to the land so the which is the most spiritual the most religious thing possible is our connection withes where KES communicates directly with us the First with the we're all about is we're all about the national aspect of the Jewish people now let's fast forward to to will have time last year we ran out of time will have time and we'll come back to theot and see a little bit more deta as we know we're about to finish this week is turned by mistranslated in English as Exodus um it's mistranslated because Exodus is only the physical G but raan in his his he explains that is all about the physical G that's and then it's about the spiritual Gul when we receive the but it's not complete until we reach the level of the who are and that happens when we build the Mish and rests amongst is so sa is all about the G but look about look at sa again in modern day times in in our lives as Jews every year we we live through in a period of time called connects the physical G to the spiritual Gul when we receive so this is the period of time if you think about it most people view the G as two parts is the physical and the spiritual but if you look a little deeper you'll understand the PES is not just a physical Gul pesak represents and is the birth of the Jewish people it's our birth as nation and Sh it's not just a spiritual Gul it's when we we received the Torah we received our mandate our religion so we have and we have which is the whole is all about connecting this is what is about we know there's you must count every day you cannot miss a day what is the reason Hally for this idea of not missing a day in the idea is you cannot sever the connection between the and the if the whole period is really connection between these two so then you cannot disconnect these two sides of our national personality our religious side and our national side so uh so that's the period of time called who can tell me another period of time which many people get confused with anybody anybody the three weeks the three weeks we a lot of people get confused because the three weeks also has we have in we also have in three weeks so it seems very similar it's both period of time seven weeks 3 weeks seems very similar but the truth is that they cannot be more opposite by nature and we're going to explain this right now the three weeks is bookended not by but by what is the The Source the original source of sh andab was the day that was the day that committed that was that was that and and was the day of what's the nature of each one of these days so would you say that's a religious sin or a national sin religious religious sin there's nothing more anti- religion than right if if religion is all about Hashem so the exact opposite and would that be a religious or national sin a national sin obviously they denied their Homeland so if PES is the national birth and Sh is our religious birth so three weeks is exact opposite we denied our religious nature and Sh we denied our national nature so if if you don't have a religious side and you don't have a national side what are you left with nothing nothing in another word is called is nothing it's exact opposite the ramban says that that the uh period that we call is a period which is really a period it's a between the big holidays and whereas the 3 weeks is really really tragic it's really the opposite truth is the the the saddest time of the year starts with as comes in we have lesson leading up to the leading up to if you look historically really should have been the happiest day of the year it should have been how so so what again what happened on on on what didn't happen is that we did not receive the M broke the because of what would have happened had we not done what would have happened had we received and we had not had so then the next day we would have started a journey toward how long is that Journey towards anybody know how long no I'll give you a hint it's in the very beginning of it says it anybody so opens Up's 11 days so if they would leave on the 18th of tamuz the 29th of tamuz they would get right to the border of the next that's what should have been and we know we have a cloud whenever there's great potential for Kus if that Kusa is not met so then the opposite Falls in so the day which was with destined for such greatness would then be destined for the exact opposite so that's that's that's the period of the three weeks a period of great tragedy so then if the period of is so great so then why you have who knows the answer you all do students okay there are a lot of tragedies why what's connect what's the connection between rba's students dying and the period of so the period of om if we say that P is the national Gul and Sh is the religious Gul so the whole period is a period of G and in fact the knew this and the g predicted that in the in the future there'll be two days in which will be days of days of Y and and those days were hey and he said he was off by a day I guess because we have y maybe our our celebration is off by a day but that's what the said he predicted those days because these are days of G it's in the fabric of time that they're G I once thought you know we have one of the days which is a great a great controversy um is y y we know it's the commemoration of the they call right why they call they chose a date which was connected to the ghetto Warsaw Uprising because for the Israeli it's very hard to say that we went like sheep to the slaughter they tried to find something in the Shah which we could be proud of and that was the uprising of the G um the War so ghetto but the problem is that it's in Nissan and you're not supposed to have Nissan is a is a is a month which is a happy month so you're not supposed to put sad days in Nissan but perhaps has that it would be there anyway to show us that what was the the war Soto Uprising it was an impossible situation of Jews who had nothing who were famished who were ill equipped and they fought off the Nazi regime they with against all Lots they lost in the end but it's during that time because this is the time of it's the time of G RAB students as well you know that RAB was a big supporter of bar and R even was the arms bearer of bar and historians say that really the gor may say one thing maybe it's hinting to another thing that really the students Raba had the first is at has there and he his students fought in the battle against bar they all died so this this was again like the Jewish people these LOM de Torah are going to get up and rise up against the Roman Empire and the truth is that they fought and they almost won but they lost at the end so the period of gula when there's a potential for Gula and that potential was not fulfilled was not achieved was not attained so instead of the celebration of gula during that time we have n to show us that listen there was a great potential there but it was lost in modern day time these were not just days of potential G we actualized the G during this time so the periods between and the three weeks could not be more different they're exact opposites problem is when you go into and you if you go to Ben for example and you ask a person he'll say you go to T Aviv and you tell a person hey like it's like a disconnect between our national side and our religious side some say this some that I heard very very funny says what what do the what do the the non-religious believe the non-religious believe it's uh that's what the believe what do the believe [Music] that's what they believe so the only one who believes that had something to do with is is us we're the only ones nobody else thinks that that was involved so we have aora our Tor includes this is what T there is it's one that connects our religious side and our national side understanding that there's no separation once we unlock this idea once we understand that this this is a code we'll find it everywhere it's amazing we say um we put on represents the represents the spiritual you're not allowed to be you can't speak in between you're going to sever the connection between our national side and our religious side we also you're not allowed to make a have SE after the you cannot make a before starting and represents our spiritual nature our religious nature you can't make have between these two things even the themselves we know that there are told over two I'll read to the first part the first three one now you will still be you will still be but you won't work so hard won't be second stage you will no longer be be be slaves but you won't be able to leave it's like being in [Music] America and then you're actually going to leave that's one next leave the next the next is you're going to I'm going to take you as a nation this happens in so the first three the first is the physical is the national Gul the second is the spiritual it's the religious Gul and what do we do on to commemorate these for we we drink the AR and the says Mish brings down that between the first cup and the second cup you're allowed to drink as many cups as you want between the second cup and the third cup you're also allowed to drink as many cups as you want but between the third and the fourth you cannot have extra cups why you're severing the connection between the national Gula the spiritual Gul so this code is is everywhere now let's bring it back toit we have we we encounter Abu but before we encounter Abu there are two generations the first generation which ended up in disaster wasas filled the land not thisas but all of all of corruption the whole world was was corrupted Andes brought a and killed everybody the second generation that's spoken about in the end of Noah is the this is the door of mdal B and there the punishment is not that they are that they're wiped out they're not killed they're disbanded they're dispersed what is the difference what was their exactly and theim tried to understand what exactly did do wrong what did they do wrong they said andash brings down one of the opinions is they tried to do they wanted to go to war against The KES where do you get that idea from the kar was asked where can you find The KES and he answered anywhere you let him in the said the the before we received the Tor so says to I'm standing before you and before hem he says it's the an it's the an it's the me it's the egotism that stands before you in you want to be close to you have to be if you look at the whole of it's all about them let's make a name for ourselves is devoid he's absent he's not mentioned he's not even thought about the whole generation didn't think about Hashem it was a Godless Society so if the first generation was destroyed because they were immoral unethical the second one was destroyed because they were Godless they had no God decides it didn't work with Adam didn't work with no let's have a nation this special Nation this will bring Hashem into the world and he chooses has a double task and we see when he first comes to Earth the first thing he does is build him his he calls out the name of he brings AEM he's not he's he brings into the world how can I hide from from from what I'm about to do he's going to be he's going to bring to the world is going to bring to the world in essence AB is given a double task he's supposed to do a double T he needs to do a of by bringing Justice right ethics morality to the world but he also has to do a for and bring into the world these are the two signs he needs to bring make a nation that's going to be righteous and be an example to All Nations that's the national aspect it needs to bring a KES into the world that's the religious aspect it starts with Abraham doesn't doesn't stop with Abraham we are we are children ofah but we're more specifically the so now the next few minutes maybe 10 I'm going to explain something which is so significant and and it's so foundational to who we are as the Jewish people that we must say it and we must illustrate that is yob his name changed from to right right your name is yob but your name will be Israel okay right what is this what is the meaning of this main name change to understand this properly we have to go back to we all know famous story wants to give a to his to and we're all standing and thinking what in the world is yak thinking is he blind like is it possible that he doesn't really see what what I appreciate this SM um is is it is it really possibly doesn't see it what was he thinking what was the hav so many people think that he just was choosing a over it's not true probably really that he looked if you look at the nature of the I mean he's giving which is right for as you are going to be a leader you are going to have power looks at his sons he understands that AB was chosen the is handed to and now he has to hand it to his children to be the special Nation he doesn't think for a moment that he has to choose or KES is going to choose between and yob he thinks both of them will inherit him both of them will be part of this great nation every they're both going to be now he has to decide when you're building a nation it's like it's like making a coalition so if you have yob and and you want one of them to be let's say the Minister of Defense who would you choose as if you you want one him to be the minister of Education who would you choose what about Minister of Finance I think iob you never know and what about what about prime minister who would you choose who would you choose asab you want a leader that the the leaders of the world will cower before him you want someone who's going to stand before right he's going to be a person that's going to that's going to control control the room he looks and he says I'm looking for a leader parenthetically the end of when yob gives blessings to all of his sons what is he doing there he's trying to find the right one to be the leader and there two sons that come out with the most and that is YF and yud and those are the natural choices ysf seems to have a better CV than than than UDA in the end the surprise is that he chooses UDA over YF but he's looking for a leader so to over here he's looking who which one of my sons can be the leader of this people he'll have the power he have the money in the end gets the and then and then he realizes oh my gosh all along in the end it's all going to go toob which is a because Abraham had two sons from two different wives but these are twins are from the same mother they should really both be part of the family so it's now you could say a lot of things one of the things I was thinking is that everyone in the world by definition has andus there two stories we know know about what did he do he was and also he chose these women these women and was he made his parents very very upset the choice that you have of who you're going to marry is the most important choice of your life so he chose out so now who by nature is an he is the spiritual one he is the man of the world these two thought would work together to be the the holy nation but now yob not only does he have the of his own which is he also now has to be so he needs to go to a place to train to become that person so he goes to the place where there's the most Checker in the world goes to B laan in English we say the White House right so you have to go and he goes he goes there to learn the ways of the world goes to learn the ways of the world and he first meets Rael who is like his his Basher right and and the kids that he have you can see the kids that he have are like Min of yob Y is just like yob and bamin he's one of the four people that never sinned these are wonderful wonderful children he's so proud of them but then he since he takes the of of he also has to take the wife that was intended for why was she crying all the time because she knew that she was intended for as so if he's marrying the wife that was intended for so the kids we see they're all but we see the challenges that they have are not yob challenges they're challenges you have you also these are challenges which are not are not B challenges these are B challenges very very interesting right so um so yob needs to understand that now that he has a double he has to he has to grow into that position ultimately just a fast forward he comes to Israel and he wrestles The Angel right and your name is going to be now you have a new name a new personality which comprises which is a synthesis between these two aspects of yob and as in one personality that is is is you have the spiritual side you have the the national side the man you have to struggle with people with Nations and you'll be successful so this is yob becoming is we know that is is his new name and yet K in the end of the first ask what's going on like his name is changed and yet we find not like Abraham and sah that they don't have their original names anymore yob many times the Tor itself calls him yob so the says it's not that the shame of will be uprooted [Music] rather is is now the secondary name it's important but not as important as isra isra is the main thing the private name is the name of yob the public name the national name is the name is so we have two to we have toob and is toob of all the he is the one that represents the G we know that are connected the isob gets he gets why he get that's the N time that's when it's dark the darkness is the galut the light is the G yob is the of the galut but is he's the the says that from the day that KES destroyed the from the day that the was destroyed allem has in the world is now a lot of people who studying will say what do you mean that's everything that's everything right that's how we live our lives what do you mean you only have everything like what do you mean all you have is everything meaning there's something missing here that we're not getting because we think to in when you're living outside of is all you have is you have life cycles you wake up in the morning you wash your hands you go to daving right you bris you have a you have a wedding you have a funeral that's it there's no National Life when we came back to Isel 1948 all of a sudden it's no longer toov we have a full which combines the religious side our religious nature with our national nature it is something much much greater than just it's this idea that we have two sides to our personality to our Jewish personality is something that we showed BYOB we showed by Abraham we showed by we showed the contrast in in the three weeks that is the exact opposite and it's something that teaches until until today it's not a I read an article there's a very famous article written in 1981 by ra he was the and he wrote it was an article that he wrote in uh in Tradition magazine called T and he wanted to teach the world what it mean what's this concept ofz today we have close to 100 over 80 for sure and and back then there were not as many k this was the first yes right here very first one and and he he wanted people to understand in in the early 80s you know what what it meant what is has started becoming on the front lines because of the war in 1973 in the in the the yipper war so there it was just such Pride they had these pictures of these going to war they had their and they had these pictur and and they fought like lions and with something very very special he there he there basically he goes back and forth on on the nature of and he says he says that it's almost it's almost be we have no choice we have to we have to learn tah that's our nature that's our yob nature would add but at the same time we have a national responsibility it's it's it's the most logical thing that we have to do so we make a compromise almost between two values says it's not a compromise it's if we think about it we frame it the way that we framed it until now then we can understand that this life of because it connects us to the Torah connects us to the Torah which in the T it's the T and all we have is the T that's but it also connects us to in a way which is you can't you can't compare we know anybody that's been that's been in the war that's been together with with with with every with all is the more we understand the national side the heart of Isel is pumping the national side of Israel is alive so being connected not not separating ourselves from theor but connecting to the Tor is not just a circumstance it's circumstance it's an ideal it's something that we live and for those of us who who may not be joining the Army those of us who may not be they just happen to be KES arranged that you should be learning in but really you may go else so understanding the times that we live in understanding the Tora that you learned and there that that's an obligation now it's an obligation to understand that our the destiny of the jewi people here we're no longer we're now we should just like we saw and we saw and we're living the right now we should be amen [Music]