Seeds of Eternity 🇮🇱

In the 1960s, archaeologists excavated at Masada, the place where 2,000 years ago, the Romans were certain they had destroyed the last [music] remnants of Jewish resistance. Amid the ruins and ashes, they found a small clay jar [music] containing several seeds of the Judean date palm. Seeds that were 2,000 years old. Biologically speaking, a seed that sits in darkness for 2,000 [music] years is like a stone. It's dead. But in 2005, a researcher decided [music] to do something that seemed like madness. He took one of these ancient seeds [music] and planted it in the ground. Friends, after 2,000 years in the dark, >> [music] >> that seed sprouted. It broke through its shell, sent out roots, and grew into a magnificent date palm [music] tree that is still alive with us today. Its name is Methuselah. The Romans thought they had buried our people at [music] Masada, but they made a fatal mistake in biology. They didn't understand the difference between burying a stone and planting a seed. On the memorial day for the fallen soldiers of Israel, and as we look back at the difficult years since October 7th, our hearts shatter into pieces. We see the new graves at [music] Mount Herzl, hear about Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and others threatening to destroy us, [music] and the human instinct says, "This is a cemetery. We are losing the very best among us. We are bleeding. They are diminishing us." The enemies celebrate. They look at the earth opening up, convinced they are burying us, [music] casting us into darkness. But here, the secret of the Jewish nation's eternity is revealed. Judaism cries out, "A soldier who falls for the sanctification [music] of God's name, a Jew who is murdered simply because he is a Jew, is not buried. [music] He is planted. There is a profound difference. A stone that you bury [music] remains a stone. It crumbles. But a seed that you plant in the ground, the shell breaks open. Yes, it hurts, but only in this way does the energy that was trapped inside [music] burst forth. When the enemies of Israel harm the bodies of our heroes, they repeat the mistake of the Romans. They break [music] the shell, but release the energy of the soul. The souls do not disappear. They ascend and become the spiritual fuel that sustains the nation. Where does the spirit of the fighters in Gaza [music] and Lebanon come from? Where does the unity, the devotion, the courage of spirit come from? It comes from there, from the seeds that were [music] planted in the ground. Every drop of blood they think weakens us becomes a root that deepens our hold on the land [music] and gives strength for new branches to grow. The war against Iran and against terror is not just a material war. It is a war of faith, and our faith tells us that we defeated death long ago. So, when we stand in silence during [music] the siren, we will recite a chapter of Psalms for the elevation of the souls of the fallen, [music] because we are not standing only before loss. We are standing before a field of seeds of eternity. We are not extinct. We do not [music] come to an end. We are growing the strongest forest the world has ever seen, and the people of Israel live on.