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How can we dance during a Jewish massacre?
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so it's the most sacred and joyous of
Jewish holidays we're sitting in chill
we're praying we're getting ready to
dance and rejoice and somebody comes in
and reveals the horrifying news of
what's going on in Israel our hearts
just
sunk and now we have to make a decision
do we
dance how do we react to this are we
insensitive by dancing are we neglecting
the holiday by not dancing everybody was
just trying to process the shock and
what do we
do and we made the decision to
dance there's a terrorist attack going
on hostages murders and you know we
don't even describe it and we're
dancing
why and I'd like to share with you three
insights as to why we've all danced on
this very confusing
holiday number one you can't mourn on a
holiday mours is postponed so despite
all the deaths Judaism believes that the
joy of the holiday the
happiness is not a mood but a
responsibility we have a responsibility
to be
joyous and it's it's a confusing feeling
you know in our heart we're crying in
our face we're crying with our legs
we're
dancing because we want to do God's will
that was the first thing that kind of
went through our
minds but then we thought about it a
little bit more uh
deeply and I was reflecting on one of my
favorite verses in tahil and
Psalms the Lord is your
Shadow God is our shadow he's here to
protect us but the balm has a a
different interpretation a shadow
follows the person B says God follows us
and when we open ourselves to divine
blessing when we open the channels
through Joy God
reciprocates and we we honestly felt
that dancing on Sim Tor is doing a
service to our brothers and sisters
suffering in Israel because our trust
and and joy is opening those channels
opening the channels of
blessing and then there was a third
thing that crossed my
mind we're celebrating not just because
we need to we're not celebrating just
because we need channels open but beyond
that we're anticipating a brighter
future we're anticipating a positive
future we're anticipating good news
we're not ignoring or bearing our head
in the sand
but we're we're hoping and praying for a
brighter future and that it's soon and
there should be no more hostages there
should be no murders there should be no
more brutality there should be only
peace peace for our brothers and sisters
in the holy land and I'd like to just
read to you a very
meaningful Psalm into
hm where it says this is chapter 149
kest let the faith full exalt in glory
let them sing upon their
beds let the glorification of God be in
their mouth and a double-edged
sword in their hand to execute vengeance
upon the Nations punishments upon the
people to bind their kings in Chains and
their nobles in Iron feathers to execute
upon them the prescribed judgment this
is the glory of all his faithful praise
God
God the glorification of God in their
mouth a double-edged sword in their hand
the gar and says what is this double or
sword that we have it's the praise of
God in our mouth that is the
double-edged
sword saying the shama twice a day
declaring that God is one that God is
relevant the God is true despite how
difficult it might be twice a day every
single morning every single evening this
is our
weapon that's not to say that we don't
need to take uh physical measures and
that we need the IDF to do what they
need to do but for us that are feeling
helpless over here say the shama every
single morning every single evening
declare that God is relevant and God is
real