Jewish History Is Still Alive - Rabbi Hillel Eisenberg

Recently, the last 3 weeks I was running around Eastern Europe and [music] I was all over Slovenia and Croatia and Austria [music] and Germany. And I saw the same thing repeat itself over and over and over again. I'm walking down a street and the buildings are easily a thousand years old. America makes a big deal about 250 years. Wow, it's a big deal. Like you go into a little town in Slovenia, they're celebrating their 1000th birthday [music] and they have like a little balloon and a cupcake. That's it. But every time I would go [music] inside of an office building or a coffee shop or a house or a hotel that from the outside looked a thousand years old, it's the same thing [music] every time. You walk in, there's modern stuff, there's Wi-Fi, giant TVs, modern architecture because the outside was kept old because old is good for tourism. But no one actually wants to live in the 1300s, right? You walk down the street, you ask people what happened on this street, no one has any idea. In fact, a few Shabbat lessons that I was in Salzburg, I passed by a street named after [music] a Nazi. I asked the guy, I said like do people believe in what this guy the ideologies of what this guy believed? Like nah, it's a street, no one cares, [music] whatever. They walk right back. No one cares. History is something that you bolt to the outside of your house. Me, the Jewish people are the exact opposite. Here we have a modern, high, cutting-edge, up-to-date company. I'm very much on the forefront of the latest technology. You walk inside and you have a sheer where someone quotes a possuk from 3,000 years ago, brings a medrish from 2,000 years ago, it's elucidated with a reishon from a thousand years ago, it's clarified by an achron from 500 years ago, it's given [music] with some wisdom from a rebbe from 300 years ago and a moshol from a magnid from 200 years ago and a rosh yeshiva gives a halachic tsak from a hundred years ago and then the magnid sheer and a chaim menin says a chiddush he thought of that morning over his cup of coffee and all of that took place in a matter of 2 minutes and 17 seconds. Cuz history to the rest of [music] the world is something you just go to in museums. History is what we eat for breakfast. We are history. We don't observe it, we make it.