Inspiring Event with Eyal Yifrach's Roommate and R' Mordechai Becher... POWERFUL!!!

good evening everyone at this time I'd like to call upon ril glas R of torth to begin our program with tum [Music] sh Isel know for for [Music] no a [Music] for for [Music] thank you right glad te at this time I'd like to call upon Warren he from the Queen's Jewish Community Council to share some brief introdu remarks before I forget like to remind everybody tomorrow at 12:30 at Dam hamak Plaza by the UN there's going to be a rally in support of Israel so it's important that everybody come there tomorrow i' like to thank kazak who's actually as all you who've been know this this it's hard to believe that we started this whole process say when the three boys were missing and we've gone kak started it and they all we've been to many of these M shabas or Sunday night events where the community gets together AAS and um it's great that we have akas and of course would be it's a perfect antidote for the fact that the was destroyed because of we should have but I would hope that we should have not for something like this we have to have Aus we able to have Aus for Sim and hopefully this will be the last one that we have and if we have the next one will be for will bejoy that will be successful and the base of will be reilt amen this evening's program is being dedicated all the should be an alyah for all their nishas as Warren had alluded to and um in fact all the Gatherings that have been taking place over the past few weeks initially when we were hoping for the best outcome for the three boys and unfortunately when we heard the terrible bassura what happened to them so a number of us called uplan who is the mash in and we met mentioned how the community has come together so beautifully there's been this tremendous AAS and we want to take hold make sure we never lose grass with that's already started and we wanted to do something that should continue to be a for these three special Nas that brought CL together and the idea he told us was that every we should make sure to gather everyone together for and and through that the legacy of these three special Nas will continue and and I couldn't think of anything more appr propo than for our first gathering in that in that Spirit than to call upon the roommate of Micky who will share some with us and some insights into the life of the special individual that his roommate was I forgot my watch in uh in Israel so if I go too long or Too Short just let me know I'll uh fill it in coming from uh Israel today I guess you could say there's a there's a lot going on there's a lot going on now I myself have uh uh I have a brother who's down there in Gaza right now um many friends from my community many brothers of my friends friends from yiva are down there recently had a a boy from yiva who lost his foot in in the fighting but without with all this going on and with and getting on a plane to America and the the pain that it takes to leave Israel although coming to a community like this is very heartwarming but just um with everything going on there's only three words that really could go through my mind I don't know how really any other Nation could explain something like that when you have such on one side you have 46 soldiers dead and many more injured and three boys who were kidnapped and three families who are grieving the the loss of their sons at the same time that the only thing that's going through people's head is wow look at this nation that's growing that's strong I was actually I didn't know really what how to start my how how I want to start what I want to say but then my brother Who's down south sent sent me a picture on WhatsApp of a of a portable schwarma that someone someone brought down for the soldiers and he had a little caption that said so I guess um we're going to if I'm here to speak about um then give a little background information about Yesa in the that we learn in it's a in the heart of the Jewish um the Jewish area of right next TOA for those who who been there it's a it's not a he it's called means that guys can come for as long as they want to learn they stay to learn and then when they want to go to the army they can go to the Army for as long as they want there's no real set plan for anyone everyone who comes has his own motive and he has his own plan what he wants to do many guys in Thea what something that's special about is that the guys come and they they stay for a good two three four years which is a substantial amount in Israel and then they go on even after 3 four years in Yeshiva they go on um important units in the Army special units in the Army elite units they go on to be successful officers um it's m um it's not something that you see every day around not around the world and not around Israel that people who were willing to take out a few years of their life just to learn tah and then after putting a few years to learn toah they put another few years even when they they could take a shorter Ser service because they've gotone to an age where they have that that ability but yet they still um take it upon themselves to put themselves In Harm's Way and um put another three or four five years for for the country that's something that to me represents a lot about the ISA the reason that I went to the ISA that I know that a came to the ISA is for it's that type of it's that type of personality the type of people that you have surrounded you who are who are learning and they're learning they're not just to be in Yesa to learn toah which is special and it's a beautiful thing within itself but the fact that I'm there learning toah because I understand that each letter that comes out of my mouth each letter that me and my discuss it helps am it's something it's more light that comes into this world and you you see that when you come to the B from the morning till late at night and the guys are learning and learning and it's not truthfully I know guys and I know myself I'm truthfully to tell you the truth I've been there for 2 years and I only just realize how much I don't know but um guys you don't come out there you don't come out of you don't always come out of Yesa knowing all of sh or you're knowing all the and everything like that but you do know that I gave a substantial part portion of my life for that's the type of um that's the motivation that we get that's the type of guys that come in and that's the type that's the same for that same reason um came um came to as you may or may not know he started off in a different place he started off in in um a place called el el um El is a more preparation for the Army um approach it's a little less more more um learning on values and faith and whatnot and uh place like AI it's hard it's hard to explain but um Eli is the top when it comes to a boy who wants to go far in the Army and be a a religious Zionist who's also religious and also you know um on one hand he has the Toran and on the other hand he has the he has the work the you know the ultimate B ultimate you know the that whole ideal a is real um is like the place to be and it takes a lot of and it's um it's known as like the number as a number one spot for that type of guy which is why you see when guys who go there you don't find guys who who leave guys stay there because they really um they really do well there but someone who finds especially in their first year at such a young age at 18 to be in a place where nobody leaves and people just you know they stay there because they know it's a good place but when you have a guy who's comes there and his fifth month is willing to say I'm glad I came here this is a great place but I'm looking for something more or I'm looking for something else that's the type of person it that you don't see every day it's something that's very rare to come by but that was who A was I someone who who understood where he was at every moment always looking where am I as a person now if I want to go to the next level or if I will need to get from A to point B now what do I need to do okay I'm in a great place right now but that's not enough I want to grow more in the Tora sense so I needed Yeshiva so if that means getting up from a place where I'm comfortable right now and going to a place where I know I'm going to have to struggle and I know I'm going to have to work harder but because I believe in growing and I believe in becoming a better person becoming a stronger Jew if that's what it takes then I'm going to I'm willing to do that and that's how the beginning of there was also another piece of the story that the news I don't think the news really picked up on a month before around a month before came to is from a place called elad elad this year a few boys from elad came to one was eel e a month before AA um was killed in a car crash a took it upon himself then the B where F used to sit a said that's where I'm going to sit a sort of Saw himself as I'm going to continue what e started so from the beginning of a would sit in F spot diligently kept learning another aspect before I get to the the main story just one little point um something that really gives a taste of is the the the the boarding the the rooms where we sleep rooms where we sleep the guys are all from all different ages sometimes we have rooms of 10 15 guys four but the ages are all varied and um it's m family within a family the family is the Yesa and the family within the family is the is the room we have birthdays we do on Shabbat we have Mo about those thing it's it's real like um it's fun it's uh it adds a very family aspect has a very touching aspect to the to the Yesa knowing that when you look up from the gamar and the baby jash and the first person you're always going to recognize is the guy who's in your room the guy who's next to you the guy who you sleep next to and um I was I had the that I was in the room with My Story begins the Friday after the Thursday night the tragic Thursday night Fridays we go to jerus we take buses to Jerusalem and we go to he shim from some of the big the big rabbis um that's that's the Friday plan for Yeshiva after the shoe was over I get a text message from my father saying it's like a it was like a chain text message saying that there were two boys who the police thinking are missing and um I think they they posted the names of gilad andali they're missing from last night they didn't return home if anybody knows anything to report immediately to the police okay I I didn't know the guys thank God truthfully I didn't think much of it at the beginning it's Israel it's you know their kids maybe they went on too old they didn't tell their parents their phones turned off the parents are you know a little you know get a little nervous I only I only have brothers so I'm used to that when someone maybe goes missing for an hour or two we don't really get worried we just you know he'll show up and something oh I didn't think so much of it and then someone started there was more whispering and Whispering all right what's going on there's there might be a a third who's the third so I'm saying see guys talking I'm that one who's part of usually part of the when the rumors break so I go up to my friend I said who's what's going on he said uh could be that there's a third from the Yeshiva who he said I couldn't really tell you he's new I mean he said I've never really seen him before said well who is it said his name I think is something he's not new he's been here for a few months so what are you saying saying I'm I'm telling you that the rumor that he's also missing okay and immediately that was the most calming moment that I could ever ever had if you're in a situation where you hear that three people are missing if someone was to tell me that one of them was I felt fine because I knew that if they're missing and A's with them they're for sure going to be fine I knew that if I if they're could maybe considered kidnapped then if I thought to myself if A's there it's going to be fine or they're not really kidnapped and a probably just took them on like a long T and they lost reception and it's going to be fine cuz a is there a a year younger than me but for the few months that he was in my room with me and since I got to meet him I always sort of looked at I was the one looking up to him he told me that he looked up to me but I looked up to him continue made my way back to Yeshiva that Friday someone posted there's going to be immediately in the in the first there was we're going to stay in move to the bid we're singing to suddenly I'm starting to understand that this is a little more serious than I originally thought it was one to heling two to hel him suddenly all the rabbis are showing up everybody's taking a break from suddenly everyone even guys were not connected to Thea The Bash is starting to fill up I don't know how many people I imagine in this room probably had a time where they had to say to he him but not to heal him for someone or some name that they never heard of but someone they actually knew was in trouble and really needed there to heal him right now that's sort of what I had that that Friday say one to him two to hims three to hims four to him suddenly you're realizing something something was going through my head that's saying okay it's me vers God right now now it's my to hel him and without my to hel him it's not going to work out I could picture there was rumors it wasn't rumors it was true I mean rumors that every unit every special unit was getting sent down to the the area we had friends who are saying that they're under way there searching through Arab villages in the area searching roads being closed I understood what was going on and anything that could have just what was going through my mind was that every tahim every word everything was going on was one more thing for the soldiers they knew that every time the soldier was going it was in my head a soldier is going through a door he's going to is he going to see him is he not going to see him is there going to be a Terrace there is there not going to be a Terrace there is his bullet going to hit the Terrace he's going to not get hit the ter Ed each to one more two more three more that's how it go it went on for almost a half an hour M I never had any experience like that I say to he him all the time but usually it's SP to him for the friend's mother's mother or the friends friends friends or this guy this this guy Suddenly It's my friend it's my room me life got pretty real for a second then suddenly I couldn't take it anymore I look up for a second to take a little breathe I look up and see my friend two guys actually in front of me one pretending to be Tiger Woods the other one being someone else with their hands raised up they were looking up to the they were looking up to theem saying I'm thinking to myself we need a miracle right now see the one L like isn't this isn't this what a miracle I think to myself I just I just made a miracle might to H him just something something's going on here right now got a text message just then that on a daring raid the yamas Israel's top counterterrorist unit has successfully taken out three terrorists rescued the two boys who were missing nobody was injured everyone save the story is over the third boy was found in everybody can go on prepare for Shabbat like they plan to wow if I didn't believe in God before then I really believed in God just then the rabbi is still saying to H him one more two more so I decided you know it's not it's not nice to say to H him and then then you know get what I want and then not then just stop saying to him so I said I'll say to him just for I'll say thank you say tell them to say thank you but they're still going so I decided I'll go to the back of the B and see what's going on I looked at someone just by the the look on his face I could tell that whatever rumor that we thought was true was not true and that the opposite was I guess that that feeling was how you try and go into Shabbat with that type of feeling the unimaginable only your imagination to fulfill to fill whatever void that knowing just doesn't to make a longer story a little bit shorter that Shabbat we stayed up Mish we learned all night afterward went to sleep for 2 hours went back to the B to keep learning through the night the next night same Thea had a mish throughout every night to make sure that there wasn't a minute where there wasn't somebody learning at that time for the safety of the troops searching and for this Speedy return I was then asked uh to do a few few press conferences because I was the I was the English speaker in the Yeshiva so naturally not knowing what to say from myself I called the meeting within in the room in the Pia like I mentioned before the Pia the the room is a family the family just Sur they say that there were guys who were sleeping on the floor there were guys who were sleeping without sheets there were guys who weren't sleeping at all so I called a meeting with the the cuz I'm about to speak before the price I'm going to speak the world's going to hear what I have to say but I'd rather rather the whole world i' rather the the room let me know what they what they want us to say so there's one guy who said to me listen Mickey nothing happens without a reason everything happens for a reason what's going on now is for a reason make sure the world knows that am and stud it's not St it's not you know three boys were just taken make sure that the World Hears that here in here we're not taking this as some tragedy we're not sitting here we're not crying and we're not sitting on the floor we're not doing anything no the opposite we're we're ding harder we believe in more we see the that's happening we're learning harder we're taking everything more seriously make sure the world knows that that we're not backing down send that message and that's really how it was the next morning I go to Bab M to to start learning I see that half of my friends aren't there strange I look I go downstairs see what's going on go down another floor go down to the offices Suddenly I See the meeting room where the the offices are the Roa usually you know in the the office people decid to I see the room is filled of 30 teenagers all on the phone bustling running like throwing papers throwing this throwing that we were getting organized for the the the the the the ding that was at the K during the first few days it started from that room that room everyone was given a few numbers to call this Isa that M those people T Aviv University ban University everyone has to come for that day we spend on the day phones calling to make sure that every Jew that was in Israel would get to the cot of that day that night I was on the phone myself I was on the phone with one of the um leading um members of thei um Community without going into detail the world is known that there's a lot of politics between religious Zionism Zionism non-religious there's no there's no um no shortage of differences and no shortage of of of beliefs when I got on the phone the first thing that the member of the said to me listen make sure yba knows that we were ding for you guys we want you guys to be strong make sure you guys are strong cuz if you guys aren't strong we're not going to be strong we're counting on you we need you I looked at the phone I was just making sure they had the right number I a few months ago there was elections and that was not what was I was hearing but that's how it was when I went went the the and I was handing out to hel him so I was so one who was coming guys with tattoos Guys Without tattoos guys people with you know addressed properly not addressed appropriately religious zist the the world was there there wasn't a place to move hundreds of close to a few hundred thousands of people there if it was the first sign of from the whole KU from the whole time from there at the Cel was I guess you could say like a little preview a little promo for the whole Jewish nation is is about to get ready for for the next few months it started there throughout the three we during those three weeks one of the one of the days the room traveled allow to sit with bu Andis um A's parents in in their home one of the I could say looking back on my 20 years of life I think that that meeting with them has to be one of one of the most defining moments in my life e had just com back from the United Nations in Geneva where she liked to call it the United Nations and in Hebrew is the um she called the so I said what do you mean like what what do you see her she says Mickey when you're sitting there standing there pleading for help for three boys who are on their way home to spend sh out with their family coming from educational um educational places institutions and you just see closed door closed door closed door closed door and one open door so that that's what it was and that's how it is we was talking to oui A's father and he was telling us how he was sitting with Shimon peris in the beginning and he was s screaming at Shimon Shimon start screaming out to the world the world likes you scream out to the world tell them tell them to start moving Shimon perz looked at him he said listen I could I could scream out to the world if you want me to scream out to the world they're not going to listen you guys are Jews you have to remember that the world doesn't like you but Shimon said one thing and coming from Shimon Paris said for the time that I've been in politics which for as long as there been Israeli politics there's been Shimon Paris as long as there been shim Paris there been Israeli politics and he said I've seen a few things in my life but I've never seen the nation come together like this there's never been a time like this not The Six Day War not the Yum kipur War not y not the the beginning of the nation the state there hasn't been a time like this and just so you know it's you guys who are doing it the world sees the parents the Jews looking at the three parents the three mothers that's what's bringing us together I then got a lesson from I she said to me she saids listen she said to all of us there's times in life where you could scream lama lama lama why why why why my son why this why now why me she says but there comes a time when you stop asking Lama you start asking LMA you put a little D Gish between the lam and the me it's not Lama it's Lima not why but for what for what is this happening for why me I was chosen my kid was chosen yes I don't know where he is right now I don't know what they're doing to him right now for all I know the worst but for what it's not it doesn't happen just because there's something that God wants to happen here and wants to happen now and I was given the responsibility to do this and I is my responsibility and is my job to do that to the best of my ability so yes that means going out that means standing in front of cameras that means saying yes that I believe in God more she as she said she says the only thing this is her words this is the mother whose son is at that point nobody knew what was going on but she said there's nothing left to do besides them bring the B mikdash say we've done everything there's there's people are ding people are saying to he him just what more do we need to do all we're doing all we're waiting for is the mdash to come down I'm telling you we've done it all we're ready so I said to myself that if she believes in This Then I then I guess I can too of course we all know how this whole story ended but whoever who thought that this whole if for the reason why we're here tonight is because of and hear the in the congregation it's not it's not only in the congregation it's in many congregations the they coming together it's it's something that it's growth that nobody could have expected but if anybody thought that this is possibly maybe during the time of the the cap the three boys that this was something of then and that this was just it was just a peak that am had gone to I guess we provve them wrong too because weeks afterwards and months afterwards anyone who's who's in Israel together and anyone who's in Israel today and anyone who is here now could explain to you that am is still together not only am is still together but am is even more together than they were during the time of the captured boys it's amazing what's going on down south right now you go to the hospital in Soka where there's they bring all the injured soldiers I walked into a room with there's two there's two injured boys there's 100 bottles of drink there 100 bottles of of nesty and Coke and Sprite they're going to have to uh I mean they're going to have to spend the rest of their lives there just to finish it God forbid but seriously someone walked into the into the room 10 pies of pizza brings it in another Mor s comes in with the homemade spim and the stuff that Moroccans make I don't I don't know what they're called they're delicious and she just handing them me to handing them to me I said I'm not a soldier she Justa she says no no no but you come to support the soldiers and whoever comes to support the soldiers is making a big it's big mitah I have to support you for supporting them I don't know what's going on here I don't know how to explain what's going on here you see soldiers during the time during the time of um Kon was very filled with soldiers as you can imagine during the time you probably saw in the you saw in the the news that there a lot of searching that was going on there but the soldiers that were doing the doing the searching and going to the houses and going to these houses not is not simple uh simple business as in the previous um attempts to to save captured Israelis it's not always ends in the Yi Netanyahu the ra ofi n Waxman we lost soldiers these guys were risking their lives and these soldiers weren't all the most West or the most Fanatics in the world M no that actually the the opposite my Rabbi was who lives in K there was um two units of Duan two units or the of um a big counter counterterrorist um uh units and he would invite them to to shower in his house so one of the guys approached my Rabbi and he says listen I'm as leftist as as they come I live in a kibuts up North I'm not religious at all me and you have nothing in common I really don't usually want to talk to people like you to me you're right as fanatic and that's how it stays but you're a good guy you guys are good people I want to just just finish up by saying the Maywood started off with three kidna kidnapped boys and D's personality that I don't I I never know when when I'm speaking about this whole subject I never know how how much to speak about a and how much to speak about the and the that the the nation has gotten because to me they're they're one and the same what's going on right now is really Masha is a clear image of who was and I'm sure I didn't get to know G but I'm guessing the same about them too but this is who was I asked I called up before I got on the plane I asked her what should I tell the people in America you're the mother I'm just a friend they should hear what you have to say I'm the one who speaks English but so what do you want me to say she says she says I don't know really what to tell them but tell them this Aya loved everybody he was just a lover he his heart went out to everybody instead of coming to the family Barbecue he went to the heart of Tel Aviv and just started handing out Israeli Flags cuz he wanted everyone to know that listen we have an Israeli State and it's ours that was who he used and that's what we have now that's who we are that's what's continuing and I came 3,000 miles just to maybe put a a face to the picture a face to but just to say this can't stop this could only continue it's our job to continue it like said in the beginning she told me the it's not Lama it's l and if it's l if it's for what and God put me in this time in this generation now then it's our duty not only as a human being but as a servant of hasem to continue that and to not just continue it but to take it to the next level came because he wanted to take it to the next level a lived his life to take things to the next level to only continue so let's together hopefully take it upon ourselves that this that we have now we can Pat ourselves on the back for it is Masha a great thing there hasn't been anything like this we have to take it to the next level and always and more and more and more have a good [Applause] evening thank you so much Mickey it's truly an honor to have have you here at this point I'd like to call upon by Mor beer who is a senior lecturer at gateways and instructor in Jewish history at yba University he himself served in the IDF and he's the author of gateway to Judaism right so I'm sure you've all heard the names Hamas fat alqaeda Isis bah Haram his bullah does anyone doubt these people who killed 3,000 Americans the World Trade Center does anyone have any doubt that if they had the ability the technology to kill more would they do so of course these people who kidnapped and murdered three of our children does anyone have any doubt that if they could for Shalom get more of our children as they were planning to do with their tunnels that they would do so anyone remember the Iran Iraq war during the Iran Iraq War the Iranians placed plastic Keys painted gold around the necks of children and told them they were the keys to paradise and they sent the children into minefields on the border of Iraq to explode the mines in front of their soldiers parents complained not enough left to bury so they wrapped the children in special blankets so there's enough left to bury 100,000 were killed if the Iranians are prepared to kill 100,000 of their own children in a war against fellow Muslims because they happen to believe that Ali was the correct khif after Muhammad because he was his nephew and his son-in-law and they Shiites and the Iraqis who are sunnis believe was Omar who was the correct khif and they're prepared to kill a 100,000 of their own children in a war against fellow Muslims who believe in Omar and not Ali does anyone have any doubt about what they're prepared to do to us and we see this is not you know people often say things are not black and white you hear in the newspapers and the Press mark Wayne actually said if you don't read the newspaper you are ill informed if you read it you are misinformed and there's no question it sickens me to hear the news to read the newspapers to look at CNN etc etc and to hear the words cycle of violence both sides it is black and white they are the epitome of evil they are want they want to kill murder as many Jews and Christians as they can you don't hear people talking about it much you don't hear the Christians or the World Press criticizing Isis who by the way is considered Radical by Al-Qaeda that's already a mahadin that's like unbelievable if Al-Qaeda considers you radical Isis is driving out Christians from mosul who lived there for a thousand years offering them the choice of death conversion or Exile no one talks about that last week in 2 days 800 moslims were killed in Syria no one mentions that why do they care it's only if a Jew kills them not because they're concerned with Muslim lives because if they were concerned with Muslim lives if they were concerned with people being persecuted that'd be worried about Syria much more Iraq Iran Etc it is basic anti-Semitism and why do they hate Israel why do they hate us there are many reasons but it's interesting to note the Presbyterians in the United States voted for boycott divestment and sanctions against Israel what do the Presbyterians have in common with Al-Qaeda aside from hatred of Israel what's the common motivation do they hate us for the same what what is it what motivates these people what motivates the BBC to continuously harp on civilian casualties and by the way an Israeli analyst did a statistical analysis of the casualties in Gaza based on a list of names and ages of casualties in printed by Al jazer certainly an objective source and based on the casualty list in Al jazer he calculated that approximately 86% of the casualties in Gaza were males between the ages of 18 and 28 you don't have to be a rocket scientist what does that mean about 86% of the casualties who are they are they civilians males between the ages of 18 and 28 are military are terrorists are Fighters close to 50% of the population of Gaza is under the age of 14 that means if 86% of the casualties are between 18 and 28 that is over represented ridiculously from a statistical perspective the answer is they're not civilians they're terrorists they are evil in every sense of the word they cynically use their own population they want Arab deaths they want Palestinian desk because it looked good for them on television but what is it that unites the Presbyterians and Al-Qaeda here are the Presbyterians in the United States voting for the for the boycott divestment and sanctions against Israel at the same time time that the people they're supporting are killing exiling and forcing Christians to convert so what motivates them it's very strange I think the answer is possible answer is the gamorra says actually there's an expression in the gamorra sometimes your soul can see something and detect something even if you're not aware of of it consciously I can feel something even though I'm not aware of it consciously you can feel something even if your senses don't detect it I think that's the case the return of millions of Jews to the land of Israel in the past 100 years the establishment of a Jewish country in Israel in the past 66 years the success of Israel in so many areas economically technologically medically sociologically in terms of Tor production 400 yeshivas inim registered probably means 800 there are books being published every single day of Torah being published I don't think there's a person here who went to Yeshiva SE a high school Yeshua high school or bakov who didn't have probably the majority of their teachers people who studied in Artis at some point you think about it whether it is your aan your teachers who didn't spend a few years many years one year studying so we see that and we are inspired and we get a tremendous a tremendous strength in our faith because we see KES is fulfilling his promise to the Jewish people but you know what if your entire ideology is built on the assumption that the Jewish people are fossilized if your entire ideology is based on the belief that the Jewish people have been replaced by the Christians or the tanak has been replaced by the Quran or the 12 apostles repl the 12 tribes or Muhammad is a seal of all prophets and supersedes them if that's what your entire belief is based on then you're going to get pretty uh scared pretty scared and very nervous when the Jewish people show signs of life to such a tremendous degree if you're walking on the beach rather in Haro where I used to live nearby b z there was an area of stone with fossilized dinosaur footprints it's not a very famous site cuz it's right near a from neighborhood dinosaurs for some reason not popular in from neighborhoods but there were fosite now you walk down there no one you're not going to get nervous seeing fossilized Footprints because if it's fossilized it's very I'm not going to get into how old it is I still want to get an Aaliyah tomorrow right but but you see old footprints it's not nervous you don't get nervous cuz they're they're extinct there's no dinosaurs around none they don't exist and but if you're on the beach in Costa Rica and you see little three a large thre toad footprint in the fresh sand that would have been made by a veliseraptor there is reason to be nervous cuz if it's extinct it's not making Footprints in the Sand Arnold Toby the great anti-semitic British historian in a debate just after the second world war with Yakov Herzog the great historian whose father was the chief Rabbi whose brother was president of the state of Israel Yakov Herzog in a debate with him Arnold Toby said to Herzog he says the Jews are the fossils of history now after the second world war now after what experienced the Jews will barely survive the next few years he predicted the demise of the Jewish people many people have predicted that if Jimmy the Greek would put odds on that you'd make a lot of money and that's what he said so but you see when you see a fossil come to life when you see something which you thought was extinct come to life when you see a nation that you believe that you've replaced living in the land of ABR is and yov speaking the language of mosha and yua and shoel and yahu when you see a people in that land Not only living there and speaking the language but thriving and successful and you look at your own people and what do you see anyone ever walked into a store and bought something that says Made in Iran made in Syria made in Iraq very rare but they see this and they go insane because they haven't it's not just about land it's about the very existence of the Jewish people if the Jewish people as our previous speaker so beautifully said Mickey when he started I'm is for us is inspirational it's beautiful it tells us this is our it's an amazing thing but for them it is scary because what it means is as one of my students at once said he said so like dud so like they believe that if if we're chosen they're frozen and if they're chosen we're Frozen I said correct dude that is correct they believe that they're Chosen and we're Frozen but what they're seeing here is that we're not frozen we're thoring out quite nicely as fresh as the day that we were created and it's an amazing thing someone once wrote an article not remember who it was but it was a great article it was about a man turns up at benuron airport and his luggage is lost shockingly and he walks over to the Tunisian Jew who's the baggage handler and he says to him and he immediately knows what he's talking about but you know what this Jew who comes to benorian airport and is asking the Tunisian Jew baggage handler where is fillan is he could be from bavel 800 years ago he could be from Spain 600 years ago he could be from eritis roel 2,000 years ago he could be from Rome a thousand years ago a Jew from any time in history would recognize us in many ways may not recognize our Tunes our pronunciation but if a Jew would walk into our house and she would see two loaves of bread on the table on Friday night it may look different than the Kal she's used to but she would immediately say ah there's no there's no generation gap here but so for us that's beautiful but for them for the Arabs for the Muslims for the Presbyterians for all of them it's a threat to their very existence their spiritual ideological existence we pose an existential threat to them even if we didn't lift our finger we didn't do anything we just succeeded in what we're doing now it would be a threat to them and that's why they hate us and that's where it's in common between the Presbyterians and Isis they both hate us and for the same reason because our existence our success our eternity our attachment to the Torah our attachment to erel our attachment to each other is for them a contradiction to everything they believe in everything they preach everything they believed in for thousands of years so that's as far as a little bit of an introduction but what can we do we read a couple of weeks ago the famous statement that mosaru made in which he said shall your brothers go to war and you sit here that's unacceptable it's not acceptable to sit when our brothers and sisters and our children are at War today there were funerals for eight soldiers 56 rockets and mortars landed in Israel people are wounded soldiers have been killed fortunately I think we're 46 just read to you something my son emailed me I felt I had to share a memory of my former Battalion Commander Lieutenant General Dov Kar Hashem yukam DAV may God avenge his blood in the summer of 2010 I was stationed on the Gaza border along with the rest of the Gatti Brigade gilad Shalit was still in captivity operation cast lead had recently ended and it was our fifth month of deployment in Gaza there had already been several serious incidents in a short period of time and the relative calm we had experienced looked like it was about to break a constant palpable threat of a kidnapping attempt hung over us on patrols Kamas terrorists could be spotted observing us through binoculars waiting for a mistake that would leave us exposed it was a crucial period of time Lieutenant Colonel do Kar arranged to speak to our Battalion as many ranking IDF officers are Dov was a captivating orator inspiring with the compassion that he had for every Soldier and a confidence he expressed in us yet demanding through the personal example he set in the course of his speech Lieutenant Colonel Dov Kar stood before us and with complete pragmatic honesty laid out the priorities of our mission our first priority he stated is to protect the citizens of Israel our second priority is to come home safely he continued that is the order of things if you cannot accomplish both and you protect the citizens of Israel but you die in the process you have accomplished your mission then in a factual tone of voice he said to us sometimes the job of a soldier is to die in order that civilians do not Lieutenant General DV Kar Hashem yikom M was killed on Monday in an ambush by Kamas terrorists who infiltrated the Border through a tunnel he exemplified a Jewish Warrior a selfless servant to the Jewish Nation it's incumbent upon us to do something what can we do there's obvious obvious channels of hisus of effort that we have to make there's obviously things like easy stuff buy Israeli Goods not hard to do don't walk by if it's Israeli you buy it made in Israel buy it the economy is suffering that's not a minor that's not something minor that's important contacting your Congressman your representatives political pressure very important donations there are many many wonderful organizations they're sending help to the Troops they're sending help to families in the South stot this doesn't get talked about in the news there's an entire generation of children who grew up in the past 12 years in stot in towns in the South they estimate 75% to 94% are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder 12-year-old children who've grown up their whole life with the threat of rockets and there are many organizations but tonight and the fact that you're all here is an example of it there are I think two major areas in which we can help and I think they're both linked intrinsically filler andus prayer and unity and I think they're one and the same thing the gamar says in br it says you should always try to pray in a house that has got Windows got windows and the rashash ofon he asks he says the meaning in V where he lived in the 19th century he said there's no windows the big sh in V he says there's no windows and he says the second biggest Shaw the windows are so high you can't even see out of them so how can we ignore an explicit Hal a law in the gamar that you're supposed to have Windows he says our sh's in V vilner 19th century Villa these shes were built when the Villa G was around they didn't bring in a fangu oh windows I mean these are so the rash how could it be so the rash says he says this Hal is only true when you're govering at home by yourself that's when you need Windows he says a sh doesn't need Windows you know why he says he doesn't say why he says but the gamor seems to say the gamor says it doesn't say community and it doesn't say bessis it says Adam that's an individual and it says and it says b which means a house and the rambam in a letter actually says this what's the logic how do you understand this so there's a very beautiful explanation by R cook in his commentary on the citter he says the following he says you know why you're supposed to have Windows he says because filla is not meant to disconnect you from other people it's not like meditation getting into yourself disconnecting from the world no filler is about connecting to other people to do for the other to pray for Claus Ro he says the windows are to remind you that you should not be disconnected from the rest of the Jewish people if that's true it makes total sense you only need that when you're at home by yourself if you're in scho if you're with hundreds of Jews or even 10 Jews you don't need the windows to REM you you've got people around you to remind you that we have to pray for everyone else and when we pray for others when we pray for the Jewish people as a whole it's a totally different level of prayer totally different level number one the Tanya tells us that praying for the needs of the Jewish people is ultimately praying for the because the Jewish people are the dwelling place of Hashem in this world you are one your name is one and who is like your People Israel one nation in the land and the Tanya says the idea is very simple the greater the unity of the Jewish people the more similar we are to Hashem and the greater the unity of the Jewish people the more of a receptical we are for hashem's presence Hashem who is absolute ultimate Oneness incomparable to any unity in the world he cannot dwell and will not dwell in a plurality in a lack of unity in a lack of Oneness but when the Jewish people are one when we're united we are a CLE we are a utensil we are a dwelling place we are receptical for the divine presence in addition no one person can really survive by themselves in terms of Merit in terms of mitzvah very famously Alisha comes to the Isam the shunamite woman who gave him Hospitality when he would travel around and he says to her he says thank you they built a small room for him and Elisha the prophet says to her can I speak to the king for you something I can do for you and you know what she says strange answer she says I'm dwelling amongst my people he says can I speak to the king for you and she responds I'm dwelling amongst my people it's like they're not talking to each other it's it's like he says this and she says there not an answers to the question so the Z tells us that when Alisha said to her the the king he was talking about was God and her response was don't pray just for me I'm dwelling amongst my people I don't want to be prayed for by myself I do not want to be mentioned by myself I want to be mentioned only amongst the Jewish people don't mention me mention us that's what the shunamite woman said to Elisha that's the zahar understands it and the M says something amazing he says during the day of the time of we know it's customary to increase in s and we give more charity we do more acts of kindness as we're doing now he says why is that is it just to increase our mer if it's to increase our Merit there are many Mitzvah that we could do why specifically was the Instinct of the Jewish people who are even though we're not prophets and we're children of prophets the Instinct of the Jewish people in times like this that we are in now what's our Instinct we give we give charity we give we do we do acts of kindness and give give why why is that instinct so the M says a beautiful idea he says because we have a rule you know let's say you have a tree and the tree has produced fruit for more than 3 years so all the fruit in that tree is fine it's permitted unbeknown to you your Gardener grafts a branch from another fruit tree which is 2 years old onto your 5-year-old fruit tree and you can't find the branch so as you know you cannot eat fruit from a tree under 3 years old after 3 years you can eat it orer so what's the what's the law can you eat from the fruit of this tree or do you have to worry about the branch from The Young tree that was grafted onto the old tree so the H the law is the following that the older tree purifies the younger branch when the younger branch is attached to the permitted tree that tree purifies the branch we have the same law regarding mikah the Waters of a mikah even if they're invalid but if they're attached if they're attached to a valid body of water the valid Body by attaching itself to the source of Purity it becomes pure as well the M says the same is true of every individual as an individual we may not be the most IDE deal as an individual we may have all types of problems impurity sins deliberate non-deliberate failings etc etc he says how do we purify ourselves the answer is he says graft yourself onto the tree of the Jewish people attach yourself to the Waters of the Jewish people he says when you do that you we become part because the Jewish people never becoming pure the Jewish people as a whole that remains pure forever the Jewish people as a whole is kadosh vah individuals not necessarily so what's the trick not a trick what's a trick is to attach yourself to the Jewish people how do you attach yourself to the Jewish people sadaka coming together like we're doing now showing concern for other Jews then each one of us is like the branch which may not be kosher by itself but I'm grafted on to the trunk which is unlike the water which may not be maybe but it's it's it's kissing it's touching the water which is pure that's the secret he says that's why in times of stress in times of trouble as we're in now the Jewish people come together because we recognize intuitively that our strength is an attachment not as individuals but the attachment to the Jewish people and one more thing when we are united and we are attached to each other we are told that a Hashem looks at that and understands and sees this is the people that he wants we goes back to when we were at we camped at the mountain that was the ideal level we were like one person with one heart that's what we've reached this time my daughter just got back from Israel she was volunteering at a hospital there she got back on Friday she told me she was at the cotel the other day and she's standing next to an Ethiopian woman who is crying her eyes out and saying to Hill him at the Cel my daughter could not quite understand the words she was saying that her accent was very strong but she overheard that a woman a classic yusal woman from mayin standing next to her she leans over to the Ethiopian woman she says what's your son's name she understood that this woman's son was in battle in Gaza and she said what's your son's name and she told her her son's name and this woman told all the women standing there right the boy's name and the whole all this group of women these women from sharim and some volunteers from America and an Ethiopian Jewish woman all duffing together at the coell as if it was their own son in Gaza that's how we have to D we have to imagine some maybe don't have to imagine we have to imagine it's our own children there and that's the feeling that Mickey conveyed that was going through the Jewish people then and it's going through the Jewish people now and it's a there's a there's it's not a time it's that is true but we don't reduce in we don't reduce in Hope and we do not reduce in the expectation that Hashem will save us the ramban famously on the gamorra which says that the Messiah was born on Tish so the ramban in his debate with Pablo Christian he said he says that's not literal he says you know what it means it means that in the depths of Despair in The Valleys of Exile and in the depths of Destruction that's where is Born the seed of Hope the light of redemption and the expectation of hashem's help that's what it means and that's what we're seeing in the battles that we're fighting now in the tragedies that we've experienced whether it was those three boys who were kidnapped the 46 soldiers who were killed the soldiers the hundreds of soldiers who were injured and all of the Jews and the children who were suffering PTSD and the people who displaced from their homes and the children who are scared to go to playgroup and the mothers who are scared to send their children to kindergart and people who are afraid to go further away from their house than they actually need to and all of those people in the midst of all of that there is the seed of redemption and there is the Light Of Hope because we see the power the strength of Claus we see the unity of the Jewish people we see the power of our unity and our concern for each other and when we have that type of level of love and concern for each other and unity nothing can stand in our way and when our looks down and sees this Unity that we are exhibiting when he sees that a woman ethnically sociologically geographically and linguistically totally distant from another woman can cry for the son of that woman like it's her own son when Hashem sees that he looks down and he says and he says he will us and Hashem will pull us through this and Hashem will bring the G the Redemption thank you we're going to be ding May shortly just a few quick announcements prior to uh unfortunately I just got word that raber of Theo just lost his father uh the Levi will be tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Parkside Memorial Chapel uh we um i' want to thank first and foremost Yan from kazak Arian and pleas Jewish Council and uh chickens for chabas and of course I want to thank um Taurus Ems for opening their so graciously to us this evening just want to make everyone everyone aware particularly the men uh there are so many great things that are happening here at Taurus Ms I personally every morning dve I'm here by Rabbi gladstein minion at the 7:00 minion which can use a little bit of help and I have to tell you I don't need to sell Rabbi gladstein everybody knows how special RAB glasting is and to start your day to hear different T from R glasting is really the right way to start it so I encourage en anyone who can join us at the 7:00 a.m. minion it really would be a great to the SCH and uh for each person that joins I I guarantee you it'll be a physic to you as well uh there's also a 9:15 my minion here downstairs as well and then Wednesday evenings R gladin gets a packed house uh for his par s Year and that he gives a sh on I encourage everyone to join as well for for those Shum one last announcement yes Robbie Newman mentioned at our at our last event that as everyone knows there's no cover charge for anything that we put together uh so for each event each person at the good goodness of their heart whatever they can give we're going to be collecting for one local institution last time we collected for feris mosha so tonight in the back whatever person feels appropriate if they have the capability to give if we can give to the right in the back you'll see a box it's going to be all funds collected this evening will be given towards bakov thank you all for joining and have a good evening