October 7 Simchat Torah & Shabbat: Last Time This Happened…It Was Bad for Israel. How Do We Stop It?

We're fighting again. We're hating again. That's dangerous. [music] Why? And what can we do to change it tomorrow? This is and Shabbat. I remember a time not too far away that it was [music] and Shabbat. I remember that day. Very sad. Very, very sad day. We got the news little by little and we only heard something happened. They took some hostages. It's only after when the news fully spread, we found out the the the the gravity of what happened that the the tragic not since the Holocaust were so many [music] Jews killed in one day. What a day. What a day. And tomorrow [music] on we're going to have to celebrate because it's a time to celebrate. How do we put the two together? It's it's a just like the [music] one where October 7th happened. What do we do? We have to understand beneath the singing and dancing is mahaba. It's it's thought. It's eternality. It's understanding what we have gone through to reach this moment. And understanding [music] that ultimately the singing and dancing with the Torah is idea of bringing God's truth to the world in action in thought through heartfelt action. Legs are for moving, hands are for doing. That's what the singing and dancing really represents. And it's I know it's hard to kind of reconcile how can we sing and dance when it's connected to such a [music] tragedy. We're speaking about October 7th. But we have to know that those people did not die in vain. Death of the body is only a asleep. We say in our prayer that those that are sleeping in the earth will rise again. [music] And we have to know that it's sad. It's hard. And I'm not belittling anyone's suffering. I we we suffer [music] with everyone, but no one suffers like those that really lived through it and lost [music] loved ones. And we're not belittling anything or anyone. What we're saying is, and the dancing is the idea of the tomorrow that's [music] going to come and wipe away all the tears forever as if they never existed. Mashiach and Hashem [music] back in this world. the Jews with their beta mikdash and the world really coming to its full conclusion of peace and unity within diversity. That's what's coming. It's a great song of life and it's a great singing and dancing [music] of the Torah which will light up the entire world and that's what we have to tap into this. But the lesson I want to bring is the most important lesson of the idea of connecting the singing and [music] dancing of the with the Torah in our hands to October 7th. [music] And that is this. We dance in a circle. And when we dance in a circle, everyone is equally distant from the middle, which means everyone is equal. Equal. We're all the same. The level of circles represent the idea of being [music] all the same and all on one level. The circle dance of Simkatra is the idea of Jewish unity. We were vulnerable on the October 7th because we lacked a unity and we lacked a brotherly love for one another. There was inner inner conflict. We were heading towards a civil war. And unfortunately, when we're not getting along, we lose protection from our enemies that hate [music] us and wait every day to come and hurt us. The big question that everybody mentions is, "Where was God on October 7th?" I think there's a different question that we have to ask. I know where God was on October 7th. You know how I know? Cuz I asked these other questions. Where was God on October 6th? [music] 6th. Where was God on October 5th? Why didn't they do it earlier? Every day they want to kill us. Every day they want to hurt us. And [music] God stops them. So where was God on October 7th? He was where he always was, where he belongs, [music] running this world. It's only one difference. On October 7th, he let them get through that war. Why? And what can we do to change it tomorrow? Happiness doesn't mean empty laughing. It means being serious and knowing who you are and what the truth is and being happy with that. We we failed. We failed each other. And the response was that God did not come to our rescue. We don't have anyone to blame but ourselves. And we're heading forward again because of course time heals all wounds and makes us forget makes us forget what got us in trouble in the first place. We're fighting again. We're hating again. That's dangerous. This we have to remember what almost destroyed [music] us and how we can recover from that. And we're still recovering. It starts with forgetting about [music] how this person thinks and how we're different and focusing on how we're the same [music] and how we're really one. One family trying to survive surrounded by millions of enemies. [music] Anti-semitism is exploding worldwide right now. We have a [music] chance right now on Shabbat to come together in a circle dance of unity and love and oneness with Hashem and ultimately to take that lesson that to take the Torah and its goodness and its wisdom and take it with us out of the bet out of the synagogue into [music] our life into the world and that's how we stop there from ever being another October 7th again.