Can a Nation Truly Be Immortal?

Let's talk about the most illogical creature on Earth. A small jellyfish called Turritopsis. Scientists call it the immortal jellyfish. Why? Because when this jellyfish gets old, when it gets sick, or when it reaches the end of its life, [music] it doesn't die. It does something that breaks all the laws of physics and biology. It initiates a process called transdifferentiation. It takes its old and dying cells and literally runs time backwards. It turns them back into fresh stem-like cells. It reverts to being a polyp and starts its life all over again. It hits the reset button on time. The laws of human history are cruel. Empires rise, grow old, [music] and fade away. Babylon, Rome, Greece, all have turned to dust in museums. That is the direction of the arrow of time. [music] And in 1945, with the end of World War II and the revelation of the extent of the Holocaust, the world looked at us. After 2,000 years of exile, persecution, and destruction, according to every historical and sociological [music] law, the Jewish people were supposed to disappear. We were ashes. We were broken cells scattered on the verge of finishing our role. Our story was supposed to end, but then Independence Day arrived. The year 1948 is not just a political event. It is a cosmic biological event. >> [music] >> We as a nation activated redifferentiation. We did not just establish something new. We went back. We returned to the same land we left 2,000 years ago. We went back to speaking Hebrew, [music] a language that had lain dormant for generations, and turned it once again into a living, breathing [music] mother tongue. This is something that has never happened in any other nation in history. We turned the hands of the historical clock backwards. We returned to our original stem cells and started anew. Thousands of years before [music] biology discovered it, the prophet Ezekiel foresaw this process in in vision of the dry bones. He sees a valley filled with completely dead bones. The creator asks him, "Will these bones live?" Logic screams, "No. Time does not move backward. Death is the end." But then a spirit enters the bones, the tendons return, flesh grows, and they stand up on their feet. Independence Day is not just a day for barbecues or politics. It is a milestone that reminds us that we are not subject only to the laws of decay in the universe. There is a divine code within us, a gene of eternity that allows us, in the face of every existential crisis, not to disappear, but to renew ourselves. And there is one who planted this code within us. The creator of the world who directs this amazing process both openly and behind the scenes. And when we mark Independence Day, we also mark our ability to overcome time itself and the hand that accompanies us along the entire [music] way. We are the living proof that the eternal nation is not afraid of a long journey. It simply knows how to begin it anew each and every time.