War Chizzuk for Women (and Men)

This Torah class is brought to you by tora anytime.com. We currently have a war going on in Israel and we live in times that are a little scary which makes what I'm about to say even more important. The Arizal famously stated that every para in the entire falls out exactly when we need its message the most. Out of every event in all of Jewish history, nothing compares to the devastation caused by the Moragim, the 12 spies. Their negative report completely shattered our destiny. If not for them, we would have entered our Israel right away and the B mikdash would have been built immediately and Moshe would have led us in and not Yeshua and our promised spiritual utopia would have been realized. But instead, because of the spies, an entire generation wiped out. 40 years of wandering. We delayed the Ba Mikdash's construction by centuries. The spiritual dream was crushed and Hashem declared that day, the day of the spies sin, would be a day of tears for generations. That day was the 9th of A tishab, which would become the darkest date in Jewish history. The date of the destruction of the first basikdash. The date of the destruction of the second basmikdash. The Romans killing 580,000 Jews in the city of Betar. The start of the first crusade on August 15th, 1096. The expulsion of Jews from England on July 18th, 1290. The expulsion of Jews from France on July 22nd, 1306. The expulsion of Jews from Spain on July 31st, 1492. The day of Germany's entrance into World War I on August 2nd, 1914. And the day Himra Himmler formally started the final solution and the start of the Holocaust on August 2nd, 1941. And the day the mass deportation of the Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Trebinka began on July 22nd, 1942. And it was the day of the bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenoseris, killing and injuring hundreds of Jews on July 18th, 1994. All of these because of the 12 spies. All happened on Tishab. all trace back to the failure of 12 men who chose fear over faith. Now, here is the million-dollar question asked by all the great thinkers in Jewish history. We got a punishment of 40 years in the desert corresponding to the 40 days the spies were init. The question is how exactly is that proportionate? If the whole sin of the spies was that we spoke lash har about the land that we spoke negatively about that only took one day. Okay, so we had a bad day and we said lash. Okay, so we should get punished for that one day. Why was the sin corresponding to the 40 days of walking the land? How does that make sense? Listen to this idea from he says the sin of the spies wasn't the lash we spoke. The sin was walking through the land with the wrong perspective. They walked the entire breath of errands and instead of seeing and olive groves and rolling hills and dripping in holiness, you know what they saw? They saw rockets. They saw bomb shelters. They saw fear and giants and terrorists. They saw problems when they should have seen promise. They didn't lift their heads high and say, "Hashem's got this. He knows exactly what he's doing." They walked hunched over, dragged down by doubt and drowning in their own negativity. The wasn't in their words. It was in their eyes. The sin wasn't that they said three minutes of lashhara. The was that they were negative people. They didn't see Hashem's goodness around them. They saw issues. They saw bad when they should have seen good. They saw darkness when they should have seen light. And Hashem said, "No, no, no. This land isn't for you. This is a land for people who see me. A land for those who walk through challenges and still say gamula. A land for people who thank Hashem for all the small things and not just for the big ones. If you see what's wrong, then you're not just out of place here. You're incompatible with the very essence of the land because Aristol demands vision. It demands amuna. It demands people who see the miracles in the mundane and light even in the shadows. Now here is the most important part for the holy women of this group listening to this right now. The cleer says the reason why the para begins with the words instead of just saying is because hashem was telling Israel you know what your problem is you know why this is only it's only your choice I want nothing to do with this you want to know why says the kakar because you're sending in an you're sending in men and you should be sending in women the kakar says this says the kakar you should have sent in women because women have this perspective They have the innate ability to see good. They could they would have seen good in the land. They would have walked into the land. They would have looked past the terror attacks and the bombs and the missiles and the shelters and the craziness and they would have seen the good, the milk and honey, the holiness, the kaduca of it. They would have walked into the land and seen Hashem. That's your mistake. You should have sent in women. And because you didn't, you will suffer for 40 years in the desert, losing your chance to make it in the land. The land wasn't the problem. The vision was the problem. And the Cleoer is telling us, if you want to see the good, send the ones who were born to find it. You should have sent women because women for the duration of our history have been the beacons of positive light in the homes of Jews around the world. When all was lost, when all seemed dark, when there were Syrians and Babylonians and Greeks and Romans and Inquisitioners and Bolsheviks and Nazis, only one city over with their troops on the way. It was the holy women of Clasro who softly stayed by the bedside of their pure and innocent children and whispered that somehow someway Hashem is a plan and that this too will be for the best. Seeing Hashem in everything we do in life isn't just a cherry on top to our aid. It is our we have 10 million miracles that happen to us each and every single day. And every single one of them is Hashem telling us that he cares for us and he watches for us and he loves us and he wants us and he yearns for us. And it behooves us all to thank him back. Not only for the big things, not just for the night we marry off our last child. Not just the day our husband made a big business deal. Not just the day our daughter who was waiting five years to have a child finally heard the news that she's pregnant. No, that takes little skill in thanking Hashem. The real women thank Hashem for the dayto-day things, the small things, the overlooked things, the 10,000 miracles that happen in your day that disguise themselves as nature. Thanking Hashem for the he does for us is so integral to our success in Erit Israel. Do you know what Yoshua said after he marched into Aritzel? He said, "Theila of Alenu, aila we say every single day." And how does it feel begin? How does the very first fela uttered in the land of arel begin? It is my duty to thank Hashem laon hak to the master of everything to the controller of everything for the god who is with me through the thick and the thin to the ups and the downs to the sunshine and the rain that is the mida we need to have to be that is the mida we need to have to bring hashem's into our lives that is the mida Jewish women around the world need to express and the health of our nation literally relies on it. I wanted to share with you a story that happened to my kusa. He told this story to me last night. My kusa took upon himself the fundrais for a certain important cause and he was having a hard time getting the last remaining $5,000. So he decided you know what I'm going to go to the kev of the scalenereia yakov of scalen who was nifter not so long ago and he lived in borrow park and he was a big sadic and a big miracle worker and people from all over the world would go to him for Yeshua and when he died he wrote in his will that he doesn't want anything written on his tombstone other than the fact that he would davin with extra concentration during maiden he felt that people should know that he wasn't able to miraculously help other people because he knew black magic He was able to help people and bring salvation to people in need because he was constantly thanking Hashem and someone who was constantly thanking Hashem for everything in life is someone Hashem feels very close to. So Muso drove to his Kev and Daven there and was inspired by what was written on his tombstone. And he was mabalan himself to thank Hashem more often. Later that night, driving home from the cemetery, my kusa was driving and it was late and it was raining and my kabusu was driving a little too fast and he suddenly noticed a deer running out of the woods and was about to cross on the highway in front of his car and my kabusa didn't know if he should stop or if he should go. And he was driving 80 miles an hour and it was slippery and you know what happened? The deer stopped right by the edge of the highway and didn't jump in front of my's car. And my drove right past the deer and made it safely all the way home. And later that evening my kusa who's normally a reserves kind of guy after marav he made a clock on the beimma and said I just want to tell you that I was at the kev of the schoolb and he was very into having to hashem and I just wanted to publicly thank Hashem for saving me from a deer that didn't jump in front of my car and that was that. The next morning, he gets a call from a wealthy man who says, "I would like to repay you for a favor you did for me. Here is a check for $5,000." The exact amount of money was collecting. You hear that? Musa is not a mak. He's not a speaker who has crazy stories at a suspiciously often rate. Musa is a regular guy with three kids who learns in BMG who shops at Gourmetlat. But he thanked Hashem. So Hashem gave him even more reasons to thank him. Because when we thank Hashem constantly for the goodness that's all around us, we open up the floodgates to the shea waiting for us in Shmayim. Right now Eratra is in danger. It needs if an entire dar got wiped out because they had the wrong perspective and outlook on Israel. It behooves all of Kl, but especially the women to work on having the right perspective. A perspective of positivity. A perspective that every single thing that happens to us, every mess, every tantrum, every bad date, every bad report guard from the days in life where we think it couldn't get better to the days in life where we think it couldn't get worse. A perspective that every single second of every minute of every hour of our lives is a tailorade miracle just for us. That is the perspective that keeps KaiL afloat. That is the perspective Hashem is waiting for us to all have. We live in a world bursting with hundreds of millions of God-scent miracles. It's our job to simply open up our eyes and see them. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tora anytime.com.