How the Jewish Nation Outlasts Empires

Ryak Galinsky who was in the Third Reich during the time of Im Shimo Adolf Viller reports how he would go ahead and scream about the thousand-y year Reich that will last forever. People were dizzy by his words. They were enticed as we know they were enthralled by every other word that he said. And he was extremely convincing and cogent in everything that he did and said Italy was meant to have all of Africa. German Germany was supposed to take over all of all of Europe. All of Europe and the Japanese were supposed to take over the rest of the eastern side of the world. Only three only three powers that would be in charge of everything. Poland, Poland, Hungary, France, Romania, everything was driven over by Blitz Creek and was able to be completely annihilated and destroyed by Adolf Hitler, he was able to take him out. Anyone he said at that time that would ever dare to tell him that his Reich would not last, that his reign would be terminated and it would be anything less than a thousand years would be or put to death or just laughed at Pushet. This is going to last that long. And we all know that it didn't last a 100. It didn't last 20. It barely lasted 6 years the whole entire reign. and it caused 54 million people's death before it was turned over. What did survive afterwards the war was communism. Communism stayed around with Stalin communism. The one that was known as what we call the Mapea who made a big turnover the the revolution that went ahead and spread into many places into the world and was believed that this would be the future. the iron the iron fist the that was able to go ahead and and anybody who would rebel against it would lose their life. the whole entire future of Russia was obviously meant to be communistic and he himself of Yaka reports that he spoke to the heard that he said that the communist regime will not last more than 50 years almost a laughable comment to say it wouldn't last 50 years its power its dominance that Russia takes over is almost a sixth of the land mass of the whole entire of the whole entire world and they were very powerful and to say that it would collapse would be unbelievable and here we are And here we were 50 years later in the middle of the 80s from the time of the statement of the and everything died down. One more place that we moved on to after that of course is Aris Israel what's known as Zionism a tremendous euphoria as he reports there he remembers when they proclaimed y mut in 1948 they were singing shalashion that they were singing a shalashion back then even the non-religious had a religious content to them and they were singing it to the tune of the national anthem and at that time they kind of drove out the Arabs but not And unfortunately they didn't finish the job. They had weapons. They felt very powerful. And we are here to take the world over. Barashem we have sold anti-semitism for all time. We have our own country. It will not be had anymore. Things have already been replaced. This is our place. And now no more will people be against us. And there we have it. The closenerevy. The closen rebby actually went to Ley Eshkll the prime minister of the time. Believe it or not, there was a prime minister before BBar once upon a time and he went to Levka and he told him, "You should know this country is actually in more danger than the than the Warsaw ghetto. This place is a tremendous amount of danger about what can happen over here." And he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Whatever you want to say." And here we are many year late, many years later seeing how much dangers lurk around here. The threats have not died down in any shape or form. And apparently the closeness prediction was correct. But again, if you would speak to an Israeli back then at the time and say this is no sol, this is no solution for anti-semitism, we're still in danger, etc., etc., they wouldn't believe a word of it. And here we are, like I said, and apparently that statement is correct. Anytime a country, a place, a medina is built with some type of ism, some type of belief, it's an abstract concept, an idea, it's an opinion, it's some type of idea and concept that came up by the human person. It's something that is not meant to last and can't last. It can't be there forever. In order for something to last, it has to be something, if I could say, or divine or something embedded in stone. It has to be something that lasts. In scientific understanding, for something to last from generation to generation, it has to have some type of attribute, some type of characteristic, some type of gene that gets transferred from the one generation to the next. It has to have some common denominator between one thing and the next, between one premises and the next in order that it could be transferred onwards and onwards. And so too with a people. Every time a country gets defeated, they get swallowed up by the country that they were in because they push it intermingle. They just become intermixed with the rest of the rest of the people. They just become like everybody else. And here we are the Jews after so many years, after 2,000 years of galutes, and we're still here. What is that common gene? What is that that's around? It can't be the food because he has bagel bagels and locks and falafel might be something Jewish about it. But you go to theartim and you're in totally different food brackets. So no one understands what the other one's eating. The cultures completely different the way they are dressed completely like every look at me. I'm dressed with a suit and tie just like the country that you're surrounded by. Here I am speaking English just like the country I was raised in. We never found ourselves different from anyone else. If I could say our skin color is very similar to everyone else and also aren't that off similar to everyone else that are in the same bracket and you know you look you see an oriental person you can see they stand out but Jews just know how to mix in with the rest of the go very nicely in dress in speech in look and in type of attitude while making money I don't have to speak about that one the Jews are the ones on top of the world making a tremendous amount like it says in the protocols of the elders of Zion in taking over the world. Uncle, you go on and on and you see that there is absolutely no reason why we should be here. We should have been completely mingled, mixed and just subdued by the rest of the governments that we are surrounded by. What is our common? We didn't have a military. We didn't have a country. We didn't have anything. And here we are still here to speak about it. What is that common phenomenon? So we already saw in last week's parav that it says when we were going into the banks of the yard before the banks of the river of the Jordan the sea split we walked into it and incredibly you would think that we would try to run as quickly as possible to the other side before it would be completely collapsed on the water but instead we stopped there and drove 12 stones 70 languages the whole entire Torah that was written on it according to the Ramban The whole according to the it was the safer of other she is that was the mitzvot the 63 mitzvot but we wrote on these stones the whole entire was written on top of it what are we doing on the banks of the river some tourist attraction that we wanted to be able to have some stones that we can find these days if you go ahead and pay the tour guide enough money he'll show you where those stones are on the other side of the Jordan River what was the purpose of them anyways the water came crashing down the answer is because wanted to make sure before we step into Israel that we don't run to find the first falafel stand look where the bakery is and to make sure who sells the best shawarma and how to paint our houses in the best way. He wanted to make sure that you start this country with Torah the Evan a to the Torah is the one that kept us alive. The gene, the common gene that kept us going, that kept us from becoming extinct from generation to generation was predecessed by the common idea that we know as the Torah. The Torah was with us. It never left. As the writes on the had on its staves, those staves were never removed, which seems a little bit inappropriate. You don't leave the wheels on of the dolly when you're carrying your washing machine to the place you want to do it. You get rid of it. Whenever you carry something to a place, you use the wheels and then you get rid of it. Why are you leaving the staves inside of the aresh the tabernacle which contained inside of it? The Torah. The answer is because the Torah is required to be moved from place to place. It was always in our living room. It was always in our midash. any city we went, we took the Torah with us and that kept us connected in all circles of the planet. Just like when people go to a different place and dafomi is all on the same page and I can go ahead and pick up a shear wherever I'm located. So too, the Torah is what kept us alive with or without a country. That is how we were able to survive. This is the miracle of Kai Israel. And like I said, we've seen many countries, many empires, many regimes that have built themselves up and have completely disappeared. They have gone to nowhere. And we are left only with the beauty and the incredible sessation that we have and is experienced in our para when it says in par why was it destroyed? It's all a matter of are we going into Israel? Are we building ourselves on the that's what's keeping us or is it other factors because when it's other factors it doesn't last. I'll end with the words of emd in his bak who says an incredible thing when he's speaking about the thousands of years of the difficulties that we went through through Jewish history. He says these words, he makes a promise. When I look at these incredible wonders, how could it be that we are still here? They're much bigger than all the wonders and all the miracles that we knew of splitting seas, of the midbar, of being in the desert, of Israel. And as long he says, as long as the gullet gets longer and longer, then the nest becomes that much larger and larger, that much greater and greater. Every little thing keeps us here because the Torah is something that is lasting. It's consistent. It's divine. It's something that doesn't change. When you are part of a government that is dependent on opinion, that is dependent on something that is man-made, then it's something that just can't last because men are temporary. The divine is infinite. We are here and we are here forever. We have no end to hour here because our source, our shashim, our roots are divine and those roots are connected through the Torah. That connection is what's keeping us alive. That is what kept us alive and that is the miracle that we have experienced over these past 2,000 years.