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Until now, we've seen mostly hidden
miracles and some semi semi uh revealed
miracles. I mean certainly when we were
attacked by Iran twice, there's a level
of miracle there that we all have to
thank Hashem for. You know, we were
attacked and and and many people could
have been hurt and hashem shielded us
and Hashem is shielding us right now.
You know how many enemies there are. You
know how much anti-semitism is
ignited. Without Hashem, like it says a
sheep cannot survive between 70 wolves.
And certainly the nation of peace, PICE,
how would we survive around a billion
Muslims? And if you even if you remove
the moderate ones or the even extremely
moderate ones, you have radical Islamic,
jihad, Muslim people and nations that
would love to see us disappear and not
just like by snapping their finger
because they want to actually kill us.
They want to come and get the knives and
see our blood and tear us to pieces.
That's what they really want. We've seen
it. We know it. We don't have to assume
it. We know it. If they have the
chance, we know what they want to do.
And so, the fact that we're here is an
absolute miracle. God does miracles. God
is making a miracle right now that
Israel is is is alive and
sustained despite everything that's
happening in the world. Now, I I must
say I'm saddened and I'm going to make
this point. What can we do to fight the
fight to fight the battle against evil
and darkness? What's the number one
thing we can do is first of all fight
with yourself. I have this guy annoying
me all the time next to me over here. I
mentioned him before. If I'm going to
fight with somebody, it's him. Him. That
guy that keeps following me. It's a joke
obviously, but no one's laughing. I feel
really weird now. And and I didn't mean
to insult you. I'm sorry. Uh the point
is this. You want to fight with someone,
fight with yourself. The sages teach us
a a mighty man, a real strong man, a
real a real king is a man that knows how
to conquer himself. Conquer the evil
within. You want to see a beautiful
world, create a beautiful you within.
You'll see a much more beautiful world
regardless of how it how it looks
because it all starts with you. So first
of all, we have to know that spread
light, spread goodness, spread love
starts with yourself. and and the only
enemy that you have to fight at at the
the first battle is the battle within
you, the evil within you. Once you get
rid of that, now you're in a much better
position. Now, what about the the world
at large? So, I think unfortunately the
Jewish people are their own enemies,
their worst
enemies,
because think about it, little things,
just we're not looking at big things.
We're not talking about nuclear
explosion. We're talking about little
little little things that we miss. And
I'll share with you an example. Maybe
made up, whatever, but like this. This
is the type of an
example. We want God's compassion. We
want God to to overlook our our flaws,
our mistakes, and we want God to save
us. Well, what are we doing to help
facilitate that? Right now, Israel and
and and and again, it's only a
reflection of the greater world, the
bigger world. Israel is about to
explode from inner
conflict, espionage,
conspiracies, you know, this the left
against the right, the kared again, not
against but against the where you it's
insane. We are we are going to
self-destruct if we continue in this
gener this direction. When we fight with
each other over stupidity, over who's
right, who's wrong, what you're not like
me, I'm not like you. the so the the
worst thing and and our our biggest fall
right now today is not how religious we
are. That's not the biggest problem. I'm
not saying that we should all go to the
beach and have a have a nasty plunge. I
don't I'm not saying we should all go to
the beach and have a have a party. We
have to know that we're here for
purpose. We have to have enjoy our
lives. We have to have a purposeful life
and accomplish what God put us here to
accomplish. We have to know Hashem. We
have to do what Hashem wants and we have
to be real Jews. But but the level of
rel religiosity today, I don't think is
what's going to cause or or not cause
the the destruction. How God's going to
be on our side when we're on our when
when our when we're on our side, when we
are for our fellow, even though he's the
opposite of me, even though he
represents the opposite of what I
represent, when I despite all that, I
say he but he's my brother. He's one of
me. I'm one. We're we're one. You're
hating yourself in the end of that's
what you're doing. You're hating
yourself. You're cutting your own hand
off, your own fingers off. Who would do
that? Only an insane person. What makes
a person insane? Hate. The the feeling
that that person is my enemy. So you
think you're cutting off you think
you're cutting off your enemy. You're
cutting off your left hand. You're
cutting off your right hand. We are not
each other's enemy. There are people
that are less confused, more confused,
think they're right. Know they're right.
Above all all that matters, when a when
a parent walks into a room and the kids
are fighting and the kids are hurting
each other and the kids are screaming
and it's a mess, the first thing and
only thing that parent wants is one
thing. Stop. Stop. Who's right? Who's
wrong? Who started it? Who who's ending
it? All that is secondary. The only
thing that matters is one thing. Stop.
And it's not our job to to blame the
people fighting. He started. I saw
that's not what the parent wants to hear
and that's not what Hashem wants to
hear. Hashem wants to hear one thing.
Hashem, we stopped. We're not fighting
anymore. And there are sources for this
all over the Torah. I'm not here to come
and give you an encyclopedia type of
class, but it's very clear in even in
the times of the most wicked kings in
Israel when there was
unity, God protected us more than we
were righteous. When we were righteous
in the times of of the righteous kings
and we fought our enemies, God protected
us protected us less. When there was
disunityity, when there was quarreling
and fighting and and and and hate
between each other, even though we were
righteous, more much more righteous, he
protected us less and more of the
soldiers died. When there was unity and
love and acceptance, even though we were
wicked, tremendously more wicked, God
protected our lives more. And that means
something. It's a very important point
today. You want to help protect your
child, your child, then then then look
at your neighbor's child as your child.
When we look at each other as one unit
with love and acceptance and tolerance,
regardless of of the evils we believe
and feel that the other person is
partaking of, and how dare you be on the
right side, how dare you be on the left
side. Well, listen, I don't know how you
can argue with something on the right
side. It's he's on the right side after
all. Let me I don't see what the point
is. I never I never understood this like
you know being against the right side.
The right means the right side,
right? Just kidding. He's looking at me
like am I have I have I lost it. There's
a war between Jew and Jew and as a
result manifest is also a war between
our external enemies and our and the
Jewish nation, the Jewish people. That
is exactly what happened in Kaneka.
Kaneka there was a civil war, a civil
split in ideology. There were
Hellenists which we could equate to
basically secularism today. You know the
idea of every of this this this American
way secular continuation of of Greek and
American and European philosophy and the
idea of melting pot system and and and
there's all this extreme freedom. That's
what they were fighting for in the time
of Khaneka. Literally it's in the
history books. It's in the Kazal mention
it. The Hellenists were were were
killing killing, you know, what they
felt were backwards, you know,
prehistoric Jewish stubborn people that
wouldn't let go of Jewish tradition.
They they they they were they were
bringing them to the Greek government to
to kill. They were killing them
themselves. There was a terrible
disgusting civil war between Jews and
there was this as a result there was
also a war against the Greeks. There
were two things happening at the same
time. And so let's appreciate Kanekah is
happening right now because the civil
war between the Jews right now in Israel
and abroad this is the real war. This is
the real problem because as we said the
Bible tells us the the prophets tell us
the the tell us when we get along Hashem
protects all of us. Hashem wants all his
children safe. Not one of them not part
of them. He wants all of his children
safe. But when we're divided, then he
has for some reason he he he doesn't he
says, "I I can't protect you all now
because you're divided." When we're
hating each other and wanting to to
unfortunately cancel each other and god
forbid, thank God in this day and age,
nobody's killing each other. But when
we're in this condition, Hashem says,
"I'm I'm not going to protect you the
same way that if you make peace, the
secular Jew versus the the more
religious Jew." And again, what's the
solution? So if you if you if you're on
either side, you think the solution is
so we all have to become secular. If
you're on the religious side, you think
the solution is we all have to become
religious. That's that's wrong. And it's
also impossible whether it's right or
wrong. It's impossible. That cannot be
the solution to gain God's favor and
protection right now. Because we're not
going to convince every single secular
Jew to become religious today. And we're
not going to convince every single
religious Jew today to become
irreligious. It's just not going to
happen. So, how do we bring Hashem into
our lives and and how do we gain his
protection and his acceptance right now?
The answer is to accept each other the
way they are. Right now, that's the
solution. That is the secret solution is
to accept them unconditionally right
now, the way they are, and stop cutting
off your right and left hand. That's the
solution because as and and as soon as
we do that, it says
That really means the way we treat each
other is the way God will treat us.
Because the second reference of Adam in
that puk is really talking about God in
this high place in heaven that is that
we're created in the likeness of God.
This Adam that's created in the likeness
of a spiritual likeness. And it's on
that level that Hashem will then take
care of us. It's a deepistic concept. I
don't want to confuse anybody with just
giving you a oneliner, but that's that's
what's going on. And so the
solution and and and the remedy for our
safety and protection and to see
miracles in our lives right now in
Kaneka 2024 in right now in Basman Haz
to see Hashem's miracles is to accept
every single one of our brothers and
sisters the way they are as they are. no
conditions and it's only from that point
that we can start to heal and recover
and bring the positive results that we
all want and are praying for. That's
that is the way. When we look at our
fellow without condition and accept him,
then Hashem will look at us without
condition and accept us. That is the way
to redemption. If we want to merit as
the clalius ro for the ultimate
redemption, a messiah redemption and
that we shouldn't have to hear another
story of a soldier dying, of a person
being attacked somewhere around the
world because he had a Jewish star on
his face or rocks were thrown at him.
It all will and can end when we stop
fighting with ourselves.
