Indigenous Judean Life - Ari Abramowitz: The Land of Israsel Fellowship

but anyways a lot other so many other things are going on yossi's daughter my partner yossi's daughter recently got engaged which is a great joy at the farm he was starting to get really nervous really nervous she's 20 years old gotta be nervous there she's his oldest and his first and he was just ecstatic and he loved her fiance this is a picture of her and her fiance can you see them there on their horses on the farm it's like indigenous judeans and that night there was a celebration at the farm and here's what it looked [Music] like [Music] foreign [Music] i'll tell you i guarantee you i don't know if that came out well um i didn't pull out my camera that many times but there's no engagement party anywhere in the world where jews look anything like that and this is how they look every day they don't know anything else it's the most natural thing in the world for these young jews growing up in judea to return to their deepest roots of what it is to be a jew what it means to serve hashem in the most natural and integrated and holistic way i remember walking around there and just seeing i felt like i was at the party i don't know if you remember this from the tanakh but there was a party in which absalom killed his brother amnon for what he did to their sister tamar and uh took him to the back and i just felt like in the back of this party something like that was happening it just felt like it was such a throwback from the times of the tanakh that it just happens all the time there i can't wait for you to see when this group from palm beach came they were the most captivated by these little judean children because they're of course comparing these jewish kids to their kids in america who are you know on their palm pilots or you know their smartphones and televisions and these kids are just you know wild indigenous it's hard to explain but anyway another another little example just a day in the life of the farm you know sometimes i pull out my phone to take a picture or video and everybody looks at me like i'm strange for doing it because because to them there's nothing there's nothing to see here this is just how things are i'm from america i'm from texas i see the unbelievable redemptive quality but to them it's just the way things are so this is just the average morning out here on our farm in judea the young boys and girls they take turns sometimes they take out the sheep sometimes we take them out but usually they do and this is what the mornings look like uh you know i feel like i'm in the cia sometimes when i take these videos i just have to hold it tight hold it to me you know that they don't like take kindly to being videoed what's it all about you know smartphones they just don't have them they don't want them they're in the fields praying to god with instruments not just mumbling words you know it's not just that we're returning to the land the land is returning to us and the divine presence dwells amongst us and then they return from the shepherding and they milk the goats and make the cheeses and i cannot wait till you were able to come and taste these cheeses i pulled them out for these jews from palm beach and they were just enamored with them you don't taste you know cheese like that in fairway or randalls or kroger whatever the stores are they jus they're making them while they're learning how to make them i remember that they brought us these cheeses for us to taste and i was ready to give an encouraging and empowering compliment and it was absolutely unbelievably delicious most of these cheeses i mean they're just the most delicious things i've ever had i'm telling you the truth i i would weigh a full two kilograms less if it wasn't for these judean girls and their cheese making this highlight was taken from the land of israel fellowship every week hundreds of families from literally around the world come together on our live zoom sessions to strengthen each other to inspire each other and to learn torah from the land of israel in which we connect the dots between the bible the hebrew language and the confusing events of our times go to www.thelandofisral.com backslash fellowship or click on the link below to join thank you you