From the Hills of Judea to Granbury Texas - Jeremy & Tehila Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

hey fellowship it's sunday morning i'm in granbury texas and this is where we spent shabbat right here on this lake in this beautiful place behind me and i have a meeting this morning so i'm pre-recording this message um because exactly as the fellowship goes live i won't be available i know that teji will be taking my place but what started in iowa with just a few sparks and families that came together from iowa from wisconsin just a small group that spent shabbat together then we went to colorado and the fire got a little bit bigger and then this shabbat it was just like the fire is spreading we had such a beautiful shabbat here um this is just like to try to give you a taste of what it was like before shabbat i think there might have been 50 people there and so look at this clip [Music] and so here we are celebrating shabbat together and people are coming on friday and some had to leave and then some people came on shabbat morning and then throughout the afternoon until saturday night we were up just um meeting each other learning together talking together i think dela gave a three-hour session on shabbat afternoon she's like unbelievable and it finally hit me like what we're doing here in the united states because when i first came here i didn't know exactly what we were doing i was like what are we doing here and it really became clear to me over this shabbat and as these sparks are being lit and fires are being set you know it really feels as though in some ways we are building hashem in the world we're building god's kingdom in this world and on the arugude farm it's obvious because we're just actually with rocks and trees and vineyards building this window in to the messianic era what would it look like if mashiach was already here how would the jewish people live with a flock of sheep and each family have under their vineyard and under their fig tree and trying to really build that vision of the future today most places in israel you go and visit the past so you visit archaeological sites and old synagogues and old places and museums and the arugula farm it's almost like you're going to a place and you're touching and entering into the future but what really makes sense to me now is that the knowledge of god will cover the world like water covers the sea and the capital is in israel the capital is in jerusalem but god's kingdom is going to reign all over earth and it seems as though there's going to be small pockets of people that are lighting fires and god's kingdom is a kingdom of light and all these people that are dedicated to working together to bring light into the world with all of this darkness that's around us you know it's what we're trying to do we're trying to bring the trying to bring the redemption what better thing could we do with our lives and here we are each person in their own way trying to build it and who knows what just a small group of zealous people that are just courageously trying to do the impossible how far that might take us and i think that's what the torah portion of pinchas that we read here over shabbat teaches us that's where the covenant of peace is people are going to have to look at us and be like whoa those people are radical those people are not in the mainstream those people are not toeing the line of mainstream society and it seems that one of these breaking points these forks in a road are shabbat people that are celebrating shabbat people that are transcending because light you can't capture it it's like almost a spiritual reality it lights up the physical reality you can't really hold on to light and it's something that transcends and these people are we're all sort of transcending to the next level it's like beyond religion beyond theology beyond education beyond upbringing it's just sensing what's good what's true what's godly in the world what are his ways in the world how do we walk in his path and all of us coming together sort of transcending what has brought us to this place and going a little bit beyond it and in that place we meet a new era a new a new dimension a new time in history and slowly but surely it seems like all over the world our fellowship has have these little builders and we're just slowly chipping away building and building and building more and more light and i just can't imagine of anything that i would rather do with my life and then meeting all of these fellowship members that have all come together from all over to me it's pretty clear that we're having this amazing event on the arugude farm we need to do an international conference at some point where we bring everyone together as best as we can maybe one in europe maybe one in the united states and keep on gathering keep on building and so have a beautiful week a beautiful morning here from cranberry texas and i'll see you guys soon shalom okay that's beautiful and now i think we have tahila live tila is that true hey ari hey hey everybody we're here at the beautiful home of ann and john stacy in granberry texas and we have our some of our oldest and most um uh dedicated fellowship members here behind me uh uh tara and nancy who have been with us ari you know how long they've been with us from like the very beginning before that long before the fellowship was even a twinkle in anybody's eye and ed and julie who for the second year in a row have made the trek from broken arrow oklahoma all the way down to granberry texas to come be with us and we had a wonderful shabbat together uh but i just wanna first of all give a moment for the lady and the legend and stacy who if you don't know her you should know her because she is the untiring force behind endless israel projects and her home is called the blessing for good reason because she is a blessing to anybody coming through who's working for israel or for any kind of jewish torah judean cause and so i just want to let anne say a couple of words about shabbat we are so grateful to her for organizing everything out of thin air so and well two weeks ago i i heard ardell brodie uh talking about the shabbat from iowa and that they had like a retreat and i thought this was just it was 14 days ago i thought well we could do that we could do that and so i called to gila jeremy and says could i have could i could i invite eight states and to my amazement we had people come from kansas and we had people come from oklahoma and we had other people call from different places and say i would like to come it's a short notice but i can't and you know i just want to say this this shabbat time i felt like that you know you see uh documentaries or or stories on the news of people that were separated at earth and never knew each other and then they found each other 50 60 70 80 years later and that's exactly what i feel like is a family that has come together like i mean it was unbelievable so um where are this time i'm going to give more notice and i'm going to look for a retreat that people can bring their rvs and we'll have a hotel someplace and we'll have a shabbat fight none other in texas and if anne says that that's going to happen when ari and jeremy said i said i don't know maybe maybe not we'll see what happens when anne says something's going to happen you better believe it's going to happen because she is a powerhouse uh like i've never met before so so thank you and i'll just say a few words because i'm a short time i know are you have a lot to talk about but i just i'll say a couple of things no don't make it short because of me tehela don't oh i'm making it short because you're taking responsibility for this r you're taking responsibility for me only saying a few words so so uh you know on shabbat jeremy and i it's interesting we've only done these shabbat this is our third fellowship shabbat that we've done but little by little we're starting to develop a routine of traditions and jeremy pours his little heart out all morning long in the prayers and in the torah uh portion and then we eat lunch and he goes el ari we live we live we're neighbors so you know what happens to jeremy after lunch even when he's not pouring his heart out all morning long he goes clunk and it doesn't matter who's there he goes clunk so i uh have the privilege of uh shepherding the flock on shabbat afternoons and i seem to get a second wound so what's interesting was that uh this shabbat afternoon i didn't prepare anything and something that really struck me was that i don't know if we've talked about this uh on the fellowship but uh jewish torah study is different i think than uh pretty much any other religion because if you go to any jewish house of prayer the main way that people study is through what's called havruta through a dialectic learning where people put their minds together to study and i would say if you would go to a a yeshiva you know a house of study even with the greatest rabbi i mean the the top top tier rabbi they probably have the 80 20 rule where 80 is learning on your own and 20 is the rabbi lecturing and teaching and i think that's so interesting because even if you're in a yeshiva with the greatest rabbi you first have to butt heads together and try to figure things out so what we did on shabbat afternoon was just had a haruta learning from the prophets and we were learning from the book of kings one in chapter 19 with elijah and i didn't prepare anything we were just reading it out together and the beautiful thing was that just people sharing ideas and you know one person sharing an experience or an understanding or something they read and it all kind of came together uh into uh three hours as jeremy said i think something along the lines of three hours of just hashing out the words of the prophets together and i just want to mention because it's it's we didn't read this hawk tour uh this week because of the the three weeks leading up to the ninth of ab we read uh the prophecies of destruction but the sages did set this as the hafthora for pencil when you study pinholes the sages are saying there's something here that you need to be learning this week so this was the portion that we decided to study and in this portion elijah has just had his shining prophetic moment where he destroys in his showdown he destroys the ba'al he shows that the ba'al is worthless hashem is god everyone screams out hashem the lord is our god and i mean every prophet has been waiting for this moment right he just slaughters the prophets of the baal and you think he's going to be doing great right and then what happens i'm in chapter 19 in first kings the most shocking thing happens he starts going to ahab and he's probably thinking well now now i've proven myself you know i've proven that god is the king the one god of israel and i think everyone's going to start you know they're going to hire me to be the chief rabbi of the kingdom of israel and what happens is oh yeah we're gonna kill you and then he runs away and now the translation here is so off because the translation says when he saw the danger he arose and fled for his life but that's not actually what the hebrew says the hebrew says in verse 3 it says he got up it doesn't say he ran away from danger he went up and he went to his soul and you know it got me thinking because what happened he should have been in his shining moment there were all of these miracles but then he saw the corruption of the government jezebel and ahab's corruption and he became so despondent that he just went out into the wilderness he said okay i'm just going to go after my own soul he's just going to go and connect with hashem you know on his own terms quietly and separate from the rest of society and hashem comes to him and hashem sends an angel to bring him food he says you have a long way to go you have a lot more to do because you have to go appoint this king and you have to go appoint alicia and you have to go you have a lot of work left to do in the world and it really spoke to me as a message that i know a lot of us both in israel and outside of israel are dealing with this feeling like you know sometimes i say to myself why couldn't we have miracles like elijah had why doesn't hashem come out of the sky and do and then i remember oh yeah didn't we just have 1948 and 1967 we had miracles hashem did miracles for us but when do we get despondent just like elijah we start to give up when we see oh the government oh the leadership oh the politics everything is so corrupt and i know that so many of us get this feeling like okay you know it's just us elijah says it's only me it's only me in the world that that that is zealous for you and hashem says no hashem in the end of the chapter he says there are seven thousand other people that have not bent down their knee to the ball hashem says to elijah you think you're alone but there are other believers and if you guys band together you can still make a difference even with the corruption in the government and even with the the the the leadership that has so many problems believers can pull together and make a difference you have to go back and engage and i know that for many of us many people that we're meeting here on the fellowship say i'm i'm the only person in my community who's like this i'm the only person in my family who's like this and i think that we can all draw strength and i recommend everybody just go back and read this chapter again to see that hashem sends an angel to give you sustenance and he says to elijah there are more believers you guys can go connect go find elisha go find the other believers and by pulling together you'll draw strength from one another and we don't have the privilege of going and leaving just to be with our own souls no matter how hard it is it's our imperative in this world to go and we can find one more soul and convince you know speak to them one more person and inspire them one more family and draw them closer to torah or hashem that is what hashem is putting on us as a responsibility to do and so that's just something that kind of came out of our our torah study in the afternoon and i know that uh i know that a lot of us who have that feeling are drawing strength from this fellowship in the same way and finding one another so that's just a little a little a little tidbit a tiny tidbit of the three hours of study that we had together and i wanted to share with you guys 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 backgrounds and nationalities it feels like prophecy it feels like something we need in these times a window in to a better future on the horizon there's a divine unity we experience every week in our fellowship broadcast we heard these amazing teachings from an authentic hebrew and israel perspective and our jaws drop not only because they ring so true and are such a blessing because they are so consistent with what we believe these sunday morning gatherings are nothing less than a house of prayer for all nations cindy low the united states of america the land of israel fellowship is an amazing resource for learning torah the bible and the prophets unfiltered and uncentered directly from the land of israel we've been studying torah for almost 20 years but we feel we are stepping into it more than ever in seeing new depth and dimensions to scripture we're encouraged more and more every week calendar dell usa members receive access to all the archives in the library of teachings on every portion of the torah the biblical feast hebrew prayer prophecy sessions on the ancient wisdom of the prophets of israel to help us navigate through these turbulent times these sessions are so rich i re-listen to each and truly each session is the best one yet tehela is a tremendous asset and the teachings ari shares are so rich i've read the bible so many times and i've known the things you are teaching the hebrew understanding is what christians have missed for century sister georgian from germany the land of israel fellowship is truly unique because it's built upon personal relationships with the teachers of the fellowship myself rabbi arya bramwitz and tahila gimpel every member has direct access to the staff 24 6 via email or direct whatsapp to ask questions to comment to connect directly to all the teachers and over the last years we've connected to some of the most beautiful people on the planet so if you want to find out more and 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