The Truth About Israel No One Talks About - Rabbi Moshe Chaim Eade

Let's speak about Jewish right to the land of Israel. Let's speak about the land of Eretz Yisrael. There are so many verses in the Torah that point and indicate and are explicit to God giving the land to the Jewish nation. All over the five books of Moses, we see that the land of Israel is given to the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I'd like to go deeper into that topic now with an interesting Gemara. Yes, a section from the Talmud. The first of the books of the Talmud, Berakhot. On page five, Hey Amud Aleph. So, we see an interesting statement from Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai makes the following statement. And I quote, Tanya, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai omer, Shalosh matanot tovot natan Hakadosh Baruch Hu l'Yisrael. There were three very good gifts that God gave to Klal Yisrael. Sounds good. And if God gives a gift, you know it's good. And if it's pointed out that it's good, it must really be good. Now, it's interesting that it points out that it's good because it has something to it that you may think somehow is not pure good. Let us explain. All of these gifts, God only gave them through Yisurin. Through challenge. From our perspective, when we receive a gift, and it comes with challenge, well, that seems to diminish the gift. But as we see in a second, that the fact that there's a challenge here points even more to how good the gift is because the one who's receiving it has to really want it. And has to in a certain way be worthy of it to really receive it in a pure and full way. Well, what are these three gifts? These three special gifts. They are these are them. Torah. It's not easy to learn Torah. It's not easy to come into the Mesorah and understand the wisdom of Hashem. It really it requires me to have skin in the game to really understand what's going on, how to learn, how to follow a logical sequence. It requires me to put in some effort. You can't learn the Torah like the Sunday Times. Just pick it up. Okay, yeah, Bava Metzia. Okay, Eilu Metzi'ot. Sit back. You actually have to think and go into the topic and probe and figure it out. You're not pushing some button on an AI. You have to really think it through to get clarity. The Torah is something that requires putting yourself into. Lefum tzara agra. According to the challenge will be the reward. Not only in how much you know, but how difficult it is for you to learn Torah. What if somebody's mind is very clear and he's a smart guy? He learns Torah and he just picks it up after 2 seconds. But the other guy, his brain doesn't work so well, but he puts in day after day, showing up to morning seder, steiging it up. So, he's somebody who's going to get something big even though it's not easy. So, the Torah is something that's given with Yisurin, challenges, real challenges. What else do we receive, a great gift, but it comes with challenge? The land of Israel. The land of Israel is something that comes with challenge. The land of Israel is something so special. The land of Israel is not just another geographical location. The land of Israel is a gift that God gave to Klal Yisrael as outlined in the Torah over and over. Tucker Carlson's faith, most famous uh favorite parsha, Lech Lecha, and countless other places. The Torah is a gift to Klal Yisrael. It's part of the covenant. The Brit bein habetarim, the covenant of the parts. That this will be the land that you'll come to. And that's something that takes some challenge to be here. Many of the tzaddikim would pray every single day that they were here, Hashem, please let me continue to be here. The zechut of being here. And think about the Yidden over the millennia, thousands of years. Great people who never even stepped foot in the land of Israel. Moshe Rabbeinu, the Baal Shem Tov, so many others that never got to come to the land of Israel once. In the olden days, there were many, many great people in Europe where they couldn't just come. It wasn't easy. And one day, somebody came back to the little shtetl and they were holding an etrog. And the rabbi said, "Where did the etrog come from?" And he said, "This etrog grew in Israel." And they said, "Can I just see this? Just to look at something that came from Eretz Yisrael." Moshe Rabbeinu said, "I'll do anything to come in. I'm happy to come in in a in the form of a bird. Turn me into a bird and I'll just fly in. I just need to be in Eretz Yisrael." Yossel. Rabbi, why is it that some Hasidim who measure bush by the cabin, the Baal Shem Tov, has the same kedusha that Eretz Yisrael has? Because there are tzaddikim that they are like Eretz Yisrael. That they became so connected to the inner light of what Eretz Yisrael represents. The inner light that this land is not a regular piece of real estate. That this land is a land that the eyes of God are on all the time. Einei Hashem Elohecha bah, mereishit shanah ad acharit shanah. That God is looking at this land mamash. And those that look where God looks, they become like the land itself. It also says that places where people do tremendous kindness is also like a little bit of Eretz Yisrael. When I was by Camp HASC, I have to point this out. Very special. Camp HASC is a special needs camp in upstate New York. And people are just taking care of human beings that have real, severe developmental needs, autism. Some of them very low functioning. And all day long, people are just taking care of other human beings. Taking care of some of them older campers, and they're still changing diapers. And I mean, older older. And they're just there, helping day in and day out, day and night, yomam valaila. You walk into a place that's so much chesed, you feel avira d'aretz. You feel there's a energy of Eretz Yisrael. It's such a special place. So, those tzaddikim that also did so much chesed, it's like Eretz Yisrael. Yes. Isn't it true that not only the people doing the chesed are the tzaddikim, but apparently like special needs children and people are gilgulim of great tzaddikim? There is such a thing. There is such a thing that people who are special needs because they can't do any mitzvot. They're patur from mitzvot. Cuz someone's not a bar mitzvah, so he is patur from doing mitzvot. And those that tzaddikim say are souls that were very, very exalted. And they finished all of their tikkun. They finished all the work they needed to do. So, they came back to this world not for themselves cuz they can't do or undo. They came back that the people around them would become bigger givers. They came back to help their families be more selfless. They came back to help humanity understand the need to help other human beings. Which is a very unique thing also in the Jewish nation, is that even if a child may be of special needs, so it's a very big topic, but those children will be born. Because we understand that those souls are coming to the world for a reason. And they have a very, very big power of being with those that are special needs. And you see it when you're with them. You see something very big. You see something exalted in their eyes. Something very special. You see the eyes of Eretz Yisrael. You see the eyes of the tzaddikim. So, Eretz Yisrael is something that's not simple. And it is also with Yisurin. And the third part the Gemara says is Olam Haba. The world to come. The world to come, it's not a cakewalk to get to the world to come. To have a place in the world to come really requires work. You have to really work to get to the world to come. I'd like to see something from the Maharsha who goes through these ideas and explains them for us. Excuse me, the Ben Ish Yoyada, the Ben Ish Chai. The Maharsha also speaks here. The Ben Ish Yoyada, The Ben Yoyada is the Benishchai, the great Sefardi Kabbalist, Halachic authority from Baghdad who lived in the late 1800s who was one of the greatest sages of the last generation. And he wrote an amazing explanation of the Gemara. So, on this Gemara he says, "What's the reason that Hashem gave these three things through Yissurim? Why would these three things of Torah, of the land of Israel, and the world to come, why would these be the things that would be of great challenge, that would come with Yissurim?" Says the Benishchai, "Kedei liv chayn et ha'adam, to test a person, im roy hu lekablam, is he fitting to receive them?" And these are great gifts. In order for the gift to find the place where it could go, so the vessel has to be able to receive the gift. In other words, if someone has a big light, well, you need a very strong vessel to receive them. If you want to charge your phone, so what's the greatest way to get a quick charge on the phone? So, you plug it into a nuclear power plant, obviously, right? What's going to happen then, Usher? Blow up. It blows up because it's so much light, it's so much power, and that vessel does not have the strength to receive it. So, what do we do? We take the energy, it goes through a series of transformers that reduce the light, that when you plug your phone into the wall, it doesn't just explode. But imagine you want that light. You want the stuff. So, you need to build up the vessel to receive it. These are three things with the light. The power of these three things is so great. We need to refine ourselves. Are we able to receive this? And therefore, through the Yissurim, through the challenges the person goes through, this is refining his ability to receive these gifts, and seeing if he's someone who really wants to receive it. If a person comes to Eretz Yisrael and starts whining, "They only have one ply tissue paper." Even though nowadays they have all the Kirkland products and stuff, and Peach Snapple, and all the luxuries that you could want, and he's still complaining, "The parking spaces are not big enough for my SUV." So, then there's something he's still missing. Something that he's still missing in what it means to receive the light in Eretz Yisrael. Meaning, if he goes through that, and each thing has its own challenges, and there's bigger challenges, obviously, about being here, besides the sirens and missiles, there's many more challenges. Eretz Yisrael has been a place of challenge for thousands of years. Thousands of years. Hashem said this is a gift to the Jewish people. Eretz Yisrael is a place where through us receiving the vessels to receive the light, that's how we could receive it. Which means we have to go through things. And this is all part of a long story of the Jewish destiny, and ultimately the destiny of all humanity. It's really going through what it means to receive this land. There's an amazing Rashi, the first Rashi of the Torah. One of my favorite Rashis, and I'm excited for someone to get up in the UN and to share this Rashi. I think it's going to be a watershed moment. The Rashi asked the question, he brings from Rabbi Yitzchak, and likely that was a vort that he heard from his father. And Rashi says like this, that the Torah begins with what? Bereishit bara Elohim et hashamaim ve'et ha'aretz. The entire Torah begins with "And God created the heavens and the earth." So, Rashi says that he heard from Rabbi Yitzchak, "Then why didn't the Torah begin with the first mitzvah given to the Jewish people? If the whole of the Torah is, as the name Torah, which means guidebook, hora'ah, guiding us. Like Reb Nachman of Breslov, of blessed memory, would say, a guidebook for life. If it's all about us keeping the mitzvahs and cleaving to God, so start with the first mitzvah, which is hachodesh hazeh lachem, sanctifying the new month. Why begin with the entire narrative of God creating the world? Why do I need to know that? Why is that relevant?" So, he says, "Because there's going to come a time where people are going to say, list to matan, list to matan, look, you come into the land where were the seven Amon, there were the seven nations before. So, he quotes the words of King David, koach ma'asav higid le'amo, that Hashem is telling the world, I want to show you who I am, who God is. Because if people may come along and say later, and I'm sure nobody's ever accused the Jewish nation of this, wait a second, weren't there ancient people, and we're talking about thousands of years ago, we're not talking about recent, talking about ancient times, time of 3,300 years ago, the time of Joshua, and the coming into the land after receiving the Torah and the 40 years in the desert. Well, there were people. And by the way, the Jews were able to have peace if necessary, and we want peace. So, you know what you have to respond to them? Hashem gave the land to them, but then he made a promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their children, that he's going to give the land to the Jewish nation. What gives God the authority to say that? Because God created heaven and earth. And therefore, if anybody has authority to say that, it's God. And therefore, I would advise all of humanity, just open the Bible, page one, Bereishit bara Elohim, et hashamaim ve'et ha'aretz. That gives God the authority. But I heard from the Yeshiva, he asked a follow-up on that. Great. The Torah should read like this, Bereishit bara Elohim et hashamaim ve'et ha'aretz, "And God created heaven and earth." And then what should be the next verse of the Torah? Hachodesh hazeh lachem. Why go through the entire narrative now, going through the time of Noah and the flood, and the emergence of Abraham, and his righteousness, and his kindness, going through his children, Isaac, Jacob, going down to Mitzrayim, learning from them, coming out, receiving the Torah? He said from the Ramban, he said, "Because you know what gives the authority that the world will see that koach ma'asav higid le'amo, that this land is a land that was given to the Jewish nation, it's because we're able to be like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We're able to be those Jews who are keeping the Torah, that the nations of the world will see that, and they will say, "This is the land that God has given to the Jewish nation." And that's how we go through the entire narrative. If you need to learn the ways of Avraham, you need to be a fanatic for loving kindness, for social justice. You need to know the ways of Yitzchak, of Isaac, of gevurah, of strength, of Yaakov Avinu, Torah, compassion. You need to learn from the tribes. You need to learn from the shvatim. When you could be Jews that are living up to that mandate, then the world will recognize. And that's really our charge. And therefore, all the Yissurim that are coming are really just to make our vessels bigger, that we could be people that could receive the real light of what it means to be here. If a person comes here and he thinks to himself, "Yo, that was good shawarma I got on Ben Yehuda. I went to an ulpan and learned a couple words, you know, in Hebrew, and I took some bapi, and hit each other on the head with some blow-up thing, a bapi, just say no to bapis, and put some silly string on somebody else on some unnamed day." He's missing it. The Jewish nation only came out of Mitzrayim to go receive the Torah. Us being the independent nation is part and parcel with us having the Torah and living up to that mandate, living up to the status and the greatness of the human condition that Hashem wants us to do. That will then ring in the ears of the nations of the world. They will say that this is the nation that God gave the land to. We are very excited as the movement of Hashem's light is moving all over the world and the Messiah is coming. That Hashem, that the light of Torah should become infused and illuminated in every single Yiddishe heart. We should turn our hearts from hearts of stone to hearts of flesh to feel to feel how much Hashem loves us and he wants us to have this special land. But he says for you to really be here you have to go through what it means to be a Yid. To connect yourself to Jewish destiny. May Hashem bless us that the great days of the Messiah will come. And all the weapons will be turned into plowshares. And no nation will lift up weapon against any other nation once again. Cuz everybody's going to be too busy learning Torah and connecting to the one God. And then once and for all we'll have the prophecies of Isaiah fulfilled. That all the nations of the world stream to the Beit Hamikdash. Let us go up to the Beit Hamikdash. To be a house of prayer for all the nations of the world together. May we merit to this and may have the merit of this. May it be speedily in our days. Amen ve'amen. Amen. Have a wonderful day, rabbis. Call to my dear friends. Thank you, Harav. Okay, rabbis. Get the job done. Call to him.