Israel Inspired: Rep. Ilhan Omar and the Purim Blueprint

[Music] and now live from Jerusalem you're listening to Israel inspired radio here your hosts rabbis Aria bream woods and Jeremy Gimpel [Music] Shalom everybody and welcome to Israel inspired on the Land of Israel Network this is Jeremy compiled here with Rabbi Arya Bram Watts broadcasting from the most beautiful majestic mountains in the hills of Judea overlooking the Dead Sea it's magical today and if you hear some tractors in the background it's because that's what we're doing we're building up the Land of Israel and making this Garden of Eden like Oasis at the edge of the desert it's like a dream come true that's what I feel like I feel like I'm living in a dream while building the dream at the same time re how are you I'm doing well there is that element of living in a dream and building the dream but then there are these periodic bolts of lightning that come to wake us up and say however incredible this dream is and however crucial this mission is strategically for Israel spiritually for the Jewish people for the Land of Israel then we get blindsided by the Supreme Court you know and and these challenges being thrown at us we just went to meet with our lawyers which is such an unpleasant thing to have to do and we see this massive file against us that is submitted to us you're giving me it look like you you don't like it when we talk about this thing so much no I don't think I contradicts being in a dream meaning we're inside a dream and we're building the dream and this is a part of the dream meaning we are at the front lines settling the Land of Israel that's trending Israel tour biblical borders if you don't think we're going to meet resistance along the way and everyone that has supported us that's come out and visited here they know exactly what we're up against we're up against the former Obama administration the State Department the European Union the United Nations and these Israeli quote-unquote left-wing organizations that are funded by the European Union and so where did that file appear from who paid for that it's called Europe and so we're literally taking on the world single-handedly but yes after meeting with our lawyers they have no real case against us at all and I think that we're going to wipe the floor with they don't leave out even trying they don't have a case against us I believe they know that they don't have a case against us but the point is they don't need to have a case against us they simply need to bring a lawsuit against that is just a thick booklet again so we were sifting through it how many of the pages that rabbis for human rights these crazy Jews as some should bless them that that are coming and trying to pull Jews out of Judea wherever they're and they're just hoping that if they bring enough against us and file against us that the due diligence the investigation the magnifying glass of the Supreme Court will yield something and of course everything you said is true but like just a moment of like humanity here of course living in a part of the dream part of the dream are you saying you walk around perpetually with that awareness or do you have some moments that are like oh my god this is a lot no that's true obviously like a-- they're moments of of just getting lost and changing diapers you know I mean there's moments of just living life but when I just have not even much of a presence of mind I just need to step outside and then once I'm outside it's like wow we're here this is what we're doing this is what we're building I mean one of like the mantras that I always return to in my life is remember above all else as you build your life build it as though it were a work of art and I'm just outside here man and it's a work of art it is so like yeah it's not always an easy work of art moving here was the hardest thing that I've ever done but yeah with all the challenges and the stripes I think for the most time at least at this you know this week it's been a dreamy week for me you know we're like it's annoying that they take us away from learning Torah from making music from writing from doing these podcasts we have to go meet with lawyers and spend time and resources fighting these left we don't have we're just a few guys we don't have you know the EU and UN and NGOs behind us it's literally God is sending us angels individual people to come here and give of themselves to this place and that's what it's keeping us going literally day by day that's what's keeping us going but I'll tell you I'm editing your book right now the perfect Jewish Judean way to start your day the ancient Judean ancient Tuesday's way to start your day and and it's good thank you and it's good and I I woke up very early this morning and I went out on a hike with my wife Shana that's cool that's right we haven't done that so I want to say years but we haven't even been married for a year but we've been talking about doing it and it was so serene and so beautiful and such a gift and I'm walking thinking well I'm like living here I'm not really taking full advantage of the beauty of this place you know and also like with my wife Shana she comes back late she's tired we're tired and to be able to like really like sanctify a moment there a portion of the morning and going to walk together through the fields it was really a blessing to me my mornings have just become the best part of my day after the morning like let's say once the kids wake up once you got to go out to work then the day is just the day but if you're able to really just follow the path of the prophets and just wake up earlier than everyone else and then take that time it's the best time in the day when I miss it and I miss it often because sometimes my kids will keep me up all night and who knows what happens the night before when I miss it I literally feel like I've missed the heart of my day I've missed the best part of my day and then it kind of gives me motivation to get up the next day but yeah I mean I think about them the music video that we put out it was like a month ago has now over 20,000 views and that really excites me because you know the music is really prayer and we've triggered 20,000 prayers in Hebrew around the world that's just awesome in the book I'm gonna send it out to the hundreds of people that have already pre-ordered it thank you so much for helping with structuring it and re editing it and I've given it to a few people and it's people say that it's really it's really like helping them inspiring them guiding them brush em yeah yeah and I'm honored to take real full credit for everything in the book but you know what let's let's talk about that for a second you know this when I see what's playing out in the world and it seems like there's you know events are happening but events are happening through people and it's not like you know external events of a nuclear like people populations are taking shifts in direction that are strange what's happening what I mean is that the elections here in Israel we're gonna talk about that soon I want to I want to get into that but it seems like there's surprises and shifts and a lot the way we used to look at it where there's a left and a right and a center and all the parties sort of conform to that now there's like a nuanced right wing that split off that sort of secular right and there's a religious right and then there's Moshe Feiglin that's quite a surprise of the election we should talk about that but like you know a lot of the walls are coming down and when I look at America and you know Donald Trump is so vilified in the media and in the whole country that it seems like the leftist Democrats in America would be so wise to just be normal to just not do anything crazy to come up with some normal moderate Democrat and that he would crush Trump crushed Ron but they're so crazy and they can't help themselves and they're really shifting in a vicious leftist socialist anti-semitic intersectional victimhood way that's it's it's it's wild American Jews are going through a real crisis about that as well I feel really bad for the secular American Jews that identify more with the Democratic Party than they do with their own Judaism and now the Democratic Party which raises more than 50% of its money comes from Jews and these Jews are like what have we done who do we belong where is our home what is going on as the Democratic Party is like revealing its cards it's not just anti-israel it is anti-jewish right well so we could talk about the Democratic Party but I think on this show with poram coming up we should try to look at the whole thing with poram eyes right like to dig a little bit deeper to pierce through the veil of of you know duality and multiply chemic rat ik party and see things a much more at their ideological spiritual emotional roots because it seems like the Megillah is playing out right now and we just have to have the eyes to see it how perfect the timing is that all of this is happening now and how very clear the correlation is between the events of the Megillah and and what we see playing out in America I know I'm not going to do justice to the whole thing but but I mean of course the epicenter of this is all from Ilhan Omar right this is this Somali Muslim woman that is very out of the closet about her hatred not just for Israel but for Jews right she's calling it the same thing that Haman went to a hush hush and said there's this a nation that is not loyal to your laws and that doesn't obey doesn't identify with as your innate there they're a sec a second what's it called fifth column fifth column right they have dual loyalty and this is what Ilhan Omar is coming out and saying that American Jews have dual loyalty they're paying off lawmakers to support Israel hear my thoughts just about Ilan Omar really quick that if someone would have just ignored her then it would have just kind of blown over but the she's become the most well known congresswoman in the United States at this point she's become so powerful now and now this powerful woman is just spewing Jew hatred and I don't want to use the word anti-semitism anymore if I never hear that word again I would be a happy man let's just call it hating Jews Jew hatred let's just say that from now on that's exactly the case I don't know if you saw Robert Kraft I don't want to talk about that whole gross sort of old man scandal that he had but but the hem in Roman Abramovich right this a billionaire Russian oligarch who owns I think the Chelsea football team he's today the richest man in Israel anyways him and Kraft who owned the Patriots are organizing a game of their two teams to play each other and the theme of it is fight against anti-semitism no more - anti-semitism say no to anti-semitism and it's like saying no - so first of all I agree with you the anti-semitism it's like it just sounds do we be and dorky do people even know what that word means anymore like a Millennials that are growing today so overused just say what it is you're in it's Jew hatred but this idea of these two overwhelmingly wealthy oligarch old Jewish men with billions of dollars are coming together and saying say no to anti-semitism first of all there's the principle whatever you resist persists you resist against it and if the spotlight is on it attention give into it and it strengthens it you have to be fighting for something not against something but American Jews are so confused I don't know what they're fighting for so they're just fighting against anti-semitism which what does that mean you're fighting against people who are against Israel and against people who are against Jews like against someone that's again you're fighting against something that's against just be inspiring be a light what are you fighting for what is the mission for plus it's not exactly like dispelling stereotypes that these hugely wealthy Jews are trying to manipulate and coerce people to not hate Jews as if that's gonna wear I mean it's just so obviously a bad move full of projection and lacking a general respect you know for the human condition that's for sure here are my thoughts in just a nutshell on the Jew hatred that is happening all around the world I mean in Europe forget about it what is the future of the Jews in Europe and now we see that really like the left-wing in America is the driving force behind America and I know that that's gonna upset all of our you know Bible believing Republican listeners in America but that's just tough tamales if it's women's issues gay issues transgender issues what was 30 years ago their agenda has become the mainstream political correctness of today and that's just the way it's probably going to play out in the future I don't really see a reason why it would change but what's happening of the Jew hatred in America is that Jews comprised 2% of the population in the United States and 58 percent of religious hate crimes in the United States are directed towards Jews so more than half of the hate crimes are directed towards a population that's less than 2% the stat that I last saw was from 2016 to 2017 the increase was 37% so now we're looking at not only huge numbers but a trajectory the Jew hatred in the United States is going up and up and up and it's becoming now the new mainstream in the United States in fact you know the congresswoman that is the most annoying person on the planet she an acronym for her AOC so her response to Elan Omar's anti-semitic jew-hating statements were anyone that's against that is an islamaphobe so now anyone that's a Muslim can just just spew anti Jew hatred hatred of the Jew because that's just a part of the Islamic religion according to so if there's no what can we do now it's like hi ear Shushan Avoca there's just like we're just like the the irony though is that they this was there was such an uproar that they passed a resolution the technocratic party this is what's called ben shapiro calls a gaslighting right where you like are tormenting the torment ii and saying that they're the Tormentor that they passed this resolution because of the Ilhan omar thing against prejudice and bigotry against blacks and gays and transgenders and muslims and pacific islanders and jews so throwing jews like at the very end there and it just to throw it in for good measure and ellen omar comes out and says this is a big victory because there's the first time that an anti Islamophobic law is passed so she's anti-semitic she hates Jews and there's a resolution passed in order to stand against this bigotry and she's making it about a better it's actually it's quite as really an anthem shouter II would say it's rich but it's also painful about and I think for these Jews is that as you said by far the most persecuted people in America today are Jews and this intersectional group which by the way the whole idea of intersectionality I find too boring to handle that there's no such thing as ideas or personality or it's all about what group you fall into and where that group falls in on the hierarchy of victimhood right so the Jews don't apply they don't they're not welcome in the group of victims in the Democratic Party which is ironic because they're actually the only real victims in America today the most persecuted people by far are the Jews as you said but they're not included in this hierarchy of victimhood and you see these Jews going through really a crisis of identity because think about without doing the whole German thing more Jews died for the fatherland for Germany in World War one than all of the Wars of Israel combined you can understand why the Jews in Germany were like we are the most patriotic that's how the Jews of America are the Democratic Party are I know we have been for thirty years not one Republican has succeeded in getting over a third of Jewish votes that's how long Jews have been card-carrying identifying Democrats most of them would put Democrat over their own identity as Jews and now it's coming to bite them in the toughest we had a woman on our show Susan Silverman right she was in women of the wall she's currently in women of the wall super liberal super democratic her sister is Sarah Silverman who was like a huge Democratic activist and she posted something on Facebook and it just said it well and I feel like she was able to actually be courageous enough and honest enough to write this partially I think because she lives here in Israel so she has a little bit of room to stand back and look at it I think most American Jews are just too terrified to their core about what's happening to be honest about it so they end up doing what Nancy Pelosi did and saying oh Ilhan Omar she's a good woman I don't think she understood the way that this would sound the way it would come off she's covering for her it's it's unfortunate that there's not a greater amount of communication and education in which she's able to more accurately express her feelings because if she could then you'd see that she's not a Jew hater like you know the Democrat Bernie Sanders is defending Ilyn Omar I don't I don't think that that the congresswoman is perhaps appreciated the court date of how is heard by other people although I don't believe it was intended and an anti-semitic way we're working on something it was one resolution but addressing these these forms of hatred not mentioned her name because it's not about it's about ancient you know of course there was in Nazi Germany there's a huge party of Jews that were just supporting Hitler and the Nazi Party somehow believing that all of their is their support even when it comes to condemning Israel the Jews will jump on board yeah we're Americans first we're gonna condemn Israel the Jews of the Democratic Party condemn Israel and now nobody is coming to their aid nobody is standing with them in their entire party so Susan Silverman wrote this sure it won American Jews for the vast part share the values of the Democratic Party I think I represent many liberal Jews when I say we see sparks of not welcoming us there right that's already pretty on we do not have a home in the Republican Party as we do not share their values I can imagine you as Jews being homeless in their home I'm not a paranoid person and I'm willing to take risks for the greater good but this feels like one of those moments that has to be taken seriously on behalf of us Jews right this is like a Democrat activist liberal all the way through and she's saying who are we what do we have left there was one congressman that stood up against this Democratic congressman at least I mean there was a Megan McCain on the view I heard her and she she came out she was super she was getting emotional she was crying and she's like this needs to be taken seriously I may not be a Jew because nowadays you can't say anything about anything unless you are that person she's like I may not be a Jew or have Jewish family to know how terrible what I'm seeing happening here is but the Democratic Party know that one guy I heard that stood up I've got the clip let's play that here it's not political no one should make it political the use of anti-semitic language and images can never be tolerated what's been so difficult for so many people in my community is that people who are fearful when anti-semitic tropes are used are being told that they're wrong when a colleague invokes classic anti-semitic lies three times then this body must condemn that anti-semitism anti-semitism is worthy of being taken seriously on its own it's worthy of being singularly called out words matter for generations they have had dangerous consequences for me for my family and for my people this shouldn't be so hard and that's where it comes back to the Megillah right we see this happening the accusations are being leveled and when these accusations were leveled against the Jewish people by Haman Taha gibberish and this law this legislative law condemning the entire Jewish population everyone from children to adult everyone to genocide came out it says says that the Jews of Shushan were navaja we've spoken about this in the past but it just applies right now to this moment in time so perfectly what does neva ha mean consternated confused disoriented I mean do you think they'd be like Holocaust is coming oh my god screaming terror fear they were just confused how is this possible we are the most weird we are the most loyal patriotic Persians that there are wait before I go on Jeremy at the shaba tone Friday night you gave a speech that was just so good and how do I know it's so good because I have a DD it's hard for me to focus on thing when you speak I'm able to focus from the beginning to the end which is weird because you think I'd be over identifying with you as your partner is he doing well as you know I'm just listening to what you're saying from the beginning to the end and there was something you said there because my my grasp of Jewish history I think is pretty good but there are some spots there that I have a mental block against that I don't fully wrap my mind around and one thing you mentioned in your speech about Ezra that was really interesting is that and I want to ask you if you're sure about this I imagine you are cuz you really know is that there were Jews the the decree I'm exposing my ignorance here but that's okay everybody knows it the decree of the genocide happened after already the return of Ezra and Nephi Mia to Israel to rebuild the second temple right this is so this is this is the way it happened Cyrus which was well before the story of for him made a declaration allowing the Jewish people to return to the Land of Israel and the Jews not many of them 40,000 or so picked up and left and started coming back to to Jerusalem and they started actually building Jerusalem and laid the cornerstone and the foundations of the temple and at this time they're struggling through a lot of hardships economic hardships the locals that were there we're giving them problems and as they're struggling through all of this at that time there's a whole Jewish reality in Persia and Ahava Roche is celebrating his big feast that starts off the Purim sudha and the Midrash says that he's actually bringing out the vessels from the temple and the Jews are now with Ahava Rosh celebrating this big party in his palace with the vessels of the temple as Ahava Roche has called for a building freeze in Jerusalem the Jews have returned to Israel they started building it up and there's this whole other reality of Jews outside of Israel at you know in at the white house that are celebrating with that administration siding against Israel saying yes call for a building freeze we don't even care bring out the vessels of the temple let's eat with that because we're not we're not loyal to Israel we're loyal to a Koosh parish in his party and that is exactly what's happening to the Jewish Democrats right now that they have always sided with the Democratic Party against Israel and now they're at the white house lawn celebrating without Xavier ocean out of nowhere oh my goodness Ilan Omar or this ha maan like character rises up and starts spewing Jew hatred and so now they're like oh my goodness but we were with we're know but we're Democrats but we we've cited with you against our homeland and against our people in Israel and now they're like well what do we do now and that is the definition of navaja and I think that's what we're experiencing literally before our eyes words that were written thousands of years ago yeah and you know it's funny I periodically watch like watching you know clips from the left from liberals just to understand the way they think and one of the so at least like the most is this guy Bill Maher I sent you this clip dude I didn't watch it yet I'm sorry so so he's talking about all of these people that are saying that Trump is like Cyrus Trump is like Cyrus Trump is and then he's laughing at that he's mocking not only that he's mocking Christianity he's mocking people that believe in God the whole thing is that you know he made this documentary called Religulous or something in which he just mocking everybody and it's interesting the way he mocked Jews as opposed to all other things seemed to be very nuanced you know about like our lamps and stuff that we can use on Shabbat because it creates a circuit that was the only thing like he really came against Jews about which was everyone he came against like fundamental things about their faith but but one thing he was he was saying you know he's like Cyrus they're comparing him to Cyrus in the Bible Cyrus wasn't a vessel for Friday this is what he said Cyrus is the ancient king of Persia who conquered Babylon where the Jews were living in captivity this is before Miami [Laughter] now Cyrus didn't do it for the Jews he did it for Persia his country but it had the happy side effect of allowing the Jews to return home to Israel so Cyrus you see is an unwitting conduit a a vessel for God's will except Trump is it a vessel for God's will he's a vessel for fried chicken and you know I think that's exactly the point of Purim the point of Purim is to recognize that everybody in everything near life is a vessel through which Hashem is communicating it to us through everyone in everything that's the big that's the big paradigm shift right our sages say that Haman seal was able to accomplish what the prophets of Israel were not that the prophets were saying to the Jewish people high school your miaoyi Chou the prophets were saying repent repent return to Hashem return to Shem and they weren't doing it and then Hans seal Hmong's decree is it what's able to actually bring people to repent meaning that Hashem is communicating with us through what directly through our prophets or our sages and also through the nations of Israel who was stirring their spirits to turn against Israel like this now to turn against the Jewish people the masks are falling off right now in Jewish history and what is causing that what is moving their hearts it's that Hashem is communicating with us through people right so the Midrash tells us that in the Megillah every mention of the name hemella a hush-hush the King Ahaz rosh refers to a hush-hush but every time the Megillah says only the word mela it's a double meaning it refers to hush-hush but it also refers to a Shem so every time we see a hutch Roshan in in the Megillah in our lives it's our job to see right through him and to know that he has no independent power or agency that we're seeing and dealing with Hashem himself you know ruff Sutton wrote this book poor him light everybody has to read it he brings a lot of these ideas here but what is the ROM bond stay we're getting a little bit sore see here but this is the right thing Rambam says the mitzvah of a coot of cleaving to Shem involves constantly remembering his love and not allowing your thoughts to be distracted from him not when you walk on the wane or when you lie down to sleep nor when you rise up to the extent that even when you speak with people or engage in mundane conversations your heart is not with them only rather you're standing before Hashem attaining such a level the ROM bond says is what's called to be bound up in the bundle of life that schroer Hawaii where you become a dwelling place for the sheena in the world right that's that's what the the ROM bond is telling us that's also what Heschel writes we one of my favorite quotes from heschel he says a religious man is a person who holds God and man and one thought at one time at all times who suffers harm done to others whose greatest passion is compassion whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair and you're only able to have that that faith and that love and that compassion when you recognize and internalize from your head to your heart that Hashem is behind everyone and everything so they don't have their own a dependent agency so they're not a threat they're not a threat one of the best examples of the stance stands out on the Tanakh was the Chad dubs look right after what you quoted Jeremy from Ezra right this is from the book of Nahum eeeh so I'm gonna skip through the first couple of sooo keen but chapter two one through five and this is where Nehemia is in front of the king and his he's downtrodden he's feeling sad the king says to him why are you so sad are you sick and i me said this is nothing but the sorrow of my heart and then the king says well then there's got to be evil in your heart if you if there's sorrow in your heart and he said and I said to the king let the king live forever why should my countenance not be be sad when the city the place of my father's lies in waste and ruins and consumed with fire then the king said to me what's your request so I prayed to the God of heaven right he's talking to the king but he's praying to Hashem as he's talking to the king and then he said and I said unto the king which King well I think he said in his heart I am if it pleases the King and if I found favor in your eyes please send me to Judah to the city of my father's that I may build it right so Nehemia is as he's talking to the king he's constantly aware this is what Avram did when he spoke to AVI Mela and to pyro this is what Yaakov did when he spoke to a sovereign to Shimon to this is what our our sages shares the Moshe Rabbeinu when he spoke to Paro he was smoking to Hashem that's why Shem said bow l Paro come to power not go to power come to power because Hashem is there within Paro and it's such a critical very impo why am i bringing all these sources because it's such a paradigm shift that if we're ever able to bring it into our minds to internalize it it changes the whole world it changes everything I wish that the Jews in America were able to do that rather than to freak out to be afraid to lie to themselves to delude themselves to understand that when a man hits a dog with a stick the dog bites at the stick where as opposed to saying what is this all about what's the underlying purpose here and can I just share my finish with you that I thought was really a beautiful thing Jeremy yeah so I thought so Yom Kippur and you know and poor him right Yom Kippur is like poor him why is it like formal and Yom Kippur you go straight before Hashem and you're talking to a sham and you're toning before Hashem but poram they say is an even holier day it's an even holier day why because on porn we realize that when we look at another person we're seeing Hashem when we love another person we're loving Hashem so Avraham so Noah is - Yom Kippur as Avraham is - poram what do I mean by that that Hashem came to Noah con said I'm gonna destroy the world build an ark Noah could have said he could have tried to convince the people around him this is what's going to happen turn your hearts back to God repent save yourselves but no no he doesn't do that he builds the ark he's not arguing on behalf of the people nope it's him and God and he does not have this passion for Humanity through which he expresses his love and God so that's Yom Kippur right but Avraham when it's when God says he's gonna destroy stone he goes and he argues on behalf of stone right he brings these pagan idolaters into his tent sits by their feet washes their feet gives them food Avraham expresses his love for hashem through all of mankind and that's what poram is really about and if the Jews of America were able to see that this is really Hashem talking to them in communicating them because what do they think they thought well you know it's who is really the problem here why is rabbis against human rights petitioning the Supreme Court and peace now and all these Jewish organizations petitioning the Supreme Court against us what is their underlying motivation I think that they think that well it's those Jews those Judeans the Jews that are standing out there the reason that the world hates us if we would just disseminate and disappear well then the world would love us and that's why they say that the Megillah starts with the banquet it starts with the story starts with the banquets because to teach us that that's the reason the decree happened the decree came against the Jewish people because they went to this banquet where the vessels of the temple were being used and a hush rushed the king was wearing the high priests garments and they went there to that banquet because otherwise if we didn't know that I'm sure I have no doubt that many Jews were blaming this decree on more dahye then Mordechai not only didn't bow to Haman but went out of his way to find Haman when Haman was going down stand there in front of everyone not bow to Haman of course they're gonna blame Mordecai of course they're gonna blame him and so I think a lot of American Jews would just blame Israel and blame Judea and blame the settler assembly settlers that's the reason that they'll and now they're having this this this real tragedy right and that's the thing I want to know but that's not beautifully about Yellin home art is because the mask has come off she's not blaming the settlers and she's not blaming Israel she's saying the Jews are a fifth column in America even the Jew there the door boiled apart exactly even the Jews in my own party and then that's the thing but when you look at you know rabbis for human rights in peace now and they're bringing this a lawsuit against us they are while they're really deeply sick people and that's why I really have no hatred for them but a lot of compassion for them that they have to walk around being them the they're really very small group here in Israel they're very disproportionately felt in this country why because of the European money that is being bused into them that's why they're the every time they I don't know what is preventing this ngo law from passing that nonprofits in israel non-governmental organizations should not be allowed to receive overwhelming amounts of money from foreign governments and from foreign people who are trying to undermine the this country from within in exactly this way whenever I think about what's happening with the European countries and Israel it makes my blood boil because what Europe tried to do 75 years ago they're continuing now they're paying the families of terrorists to continue to kill Jews making it a good business to kill Jews in Israel so what they couldn't finish with their soldiers they're paying other mercenaries now to go and kill Jews while they're trying to attack us legally like Europe is not done with the Jews and they continue the war against us even now but nonetheless there are still Jews that are fighting the good fight to stay there to be accepted to be loved and for those Jews things are going to be increasingly dark they're gonna be increasingly dark but here's what I wanted to say because it's so Magilla that it this this perspective this prism if we see our enemies and those seeking our damage our destruction our downfall we can understand that this is really there's two prototypes the cause I'll tell our sages tell us of Jew haters there's the Akasha faroush prototype and the Heyman prototype now the Heyman one we know that's a Moloch that is the visceral overwhelming irrational hatred to destroy the Jewish people that is the primary driving force for their lives for their existence when Hitler decided who are we gonna focus on are we gonna focus the rest of the Nazi armies resources on beating the Allies and winning the war or destroying the Jewish people he said no destroying the Jewish people that's my war that is the Heyman prototype and then there's the hush-hush prototype he's more the the wolf in sheep's clothing it's much more nuanced he has a hatred of the Jews but he harnesses Haman's hatred for that purpose so they was they work together so this the story goes that the that brings down on the Talmud that the two prototypes are like this there's a one man that has a huge mouth of dirt in his in his yard the other man has a deep what sekolah up a pit an empty pit and so the man with the dirt is thinking what I wouldn't give to just to get this dirt off of my yard and the guy with the pit is thinking I just need to fill this pit up what I want to give to be able to fill this up so they meet one day and the guy with the pits as well you have all that dirt yeah I'll give you ten thousand shekels just let me put it in my pit and the guy says you know what take it keep the money I don't even want the money take the dirt that is a hush for ocean home on that Hammond what has this deep visceral void pit in his stomach he needs to destroy the Jewish people and a hush Rocha has this Kingdom full of Jews that he doesn't love much anyways and himand gusta Hut Roshan says please I'll give you ten thousand shekels ten thousand Dean are just what wipe them out and hunters like you you know what keep it keep it I don't want it and you know what I like this idea so much here is the my royal seal that's how excited I am about this idea and then it goes down to the very roots of it with a sub and yeesh mal I've said this on the show before but it is so beautiful and so perfect for right now that a sub hates Yaakov so much he tricked him twice he says the when the days of my father come to an end then I'm gonna go and I'm going to kill Yaakov now our house I'll say or say just tell us that he didn't just want to wait for his father you'd select to die he was actually gonna take a move to expedite that that reality so he went to yushima l his uncle and he said listen here's the idea you kill your brother right you should miles brothers he attack I'll kill my brother Yaakov and together we're gonna take over the whole world yeesh mal loved the idea he gave him his daughter in marriage but it says that he's a soft said in his heart once we do this I'm gonna kill you you smile and you smile says once we do this I'm gonna kill you a sob they both hated each other and so you look at Ilhan Omar and who is coming to her defense and writing beautiful tweets about her David Duke David Duke the white supremacist that hates non-whites hates blacks hates Muslims but he is defending Ilhan Omar and he's defending Farrakhan and there's this alliant that's an extreme example but the alliance between the European left and the fundamentalist Muslim religious like the European atheist left and the fundamental Muslim what weird bedfellows that they're allowing themselves together and we see no no this goes a lot further back than you know superficial political explanations this is a deep spiritual predisposition and we're seeing a play out in our lives right now and that's why it's just that what's the answer the answer is that assimilation is the cause of this if we are Mordecai if we put our faith in Hashem and we're proud Jews and I think Hashem is also right now the gates of the Exile are starting to close we're starting to see the unfolding the deterioration the unraveling of American Jews and in global jury diaspora unraveling that's what I was shocked that you said the thing about anti-semitism and assimilation many Aliyah that's the answer there's a place where you're a majority there's a place where you're not a minority fighting for tolerance in order that you can preserve yourself in your future there's a place where you have a home and a destiny and obviously your home is in Israel that's where you can feel comfortable if you're a left-wing Jew then you can vote Moshe Feiglin and if you're a white wing Jew you can vote but Salo Smotrich there's a place for you here in the land of Israel where you can shape our destiny and bring the values that you have whatever they may be and join Israel and where you're supposed to be what's happening now in Europe and the United States it's the beginning of the end and so the answer isn't to fight assimilation the answer is to get on an airplane and move to Israel yeah one of the reasons i listened to ben shapiro regularly is because i respect him he has courage and i feel like for the vast majority as much as any person that i know that to human being with flaws he's intellectually honest and he just had an episode that i listened to and he was like wow i was not expecting this i never thought it would happen like this or it happened so quick to see what's happening with anti-semitism with Jew hatred in America in the Democratic Party nobody is rising to their defense and I just didn't think I would see this is a very sad day for Jews and someone said do you think that this is going to increase alia to Israel and he said yes I do and that was it because we've had him on the show twice right and and that's was an the issue of contention and and now he's I think seeing it from a very different perspective you know like what is it about the Democratic Party that Jews are so attracted to and when I boil it down it comes down to two things I think one the Democrats are known before tolerance you know accept this and accept that and accept this lifestyle accept that lifestyle and it's usually expressed through through gays and transgender but the idea of Tolerance really comes from self-preservation well if they're tolerant of those kinds of people and those minorities then they'll be tolerant of us well that's kind of falling apart now and the second one which I think is a little bit more important and even a little bit deeper in the jewish soul is democrats are known for trying to fix the world whether they're doing a good job or a bad job conservatives are trying to conserve what is and democrats are progressive trying to make progress in trying to fix what now the Green Deal and the stupidity of that woman AOC and her just ridiculous even the head of Greenpeace is like oh man this woman this cars knows nothing about the environment knows nothing about science but that striving to make the world better I think is a real real deep Jewish embedded reality that Jews identify with whether they be liberal secular Jews in America or whether they be ultra-orthodox Jews in Panay Brock tikkun olam fixing the world is such an embedded Jewish idea and I was hearing a conversation from emunah my five-year-old and tequila and a muna when we brush her hair we let we let her watch like you know different cartoons and then sometimes we leave the phone with her and you know she's watching these cartoons on YouTube and we try to like pick at least some cartoons that are something there you are either cartoons that we knew of when we were children that are relatively harmless that may have a good meaning at the end but every once in a while a cartoon will slip in there that's sort of on the YouTube playlist and that'll pop up and then em when I comes to wife Dylan says you know who do you like more sheera princess of power or Barbie sure obviously and then he must like of course we like Cheryl more how are you even watching Barbie he said I like Shira princess of power more to shear a princess of power she's like a misplay Aloma fired she's like the nation of Israel isn't scared I can fight Hordak and I can fight those bad guys and that's the way the Jewish people should be we shouldn't be scared we should try to go and save the world Barbie she's like I just want to have fun and other people will save the world for me Shira princess of power she was a liberated woman Shira brings as a power she wants to go and save the world and that's what we should never forget we should be like evilly uh nope even to shame you know she starts like quoting these Jewish songs that she knows articulating how Shira princess of power fighting the forces of evil is really um like the mission of the Jewish people and I feel like that sort of five-year-old understanding is embedded in every Jew around the world and so but particularly Jews being raised with that internet or TV and Judea yeah like struggling to find internet reception on a phone as they're watching like cartoons and so you know I was walking with Akiva we were just taking a hike here one afternoon when he got back from school and there right now is literally the most beautiful time of the year in our farm I mean there's just hands-down the weather is gorgeous the rains have not yet stopped but pretty much stopped so there's green everywhere you know we're really at the edge of the desert so most of the time if you come here in August it'll be pretty brown but right now everything is green there are wild flowers everywhere and Akiva Lapointe I said listen it's just it's so beautiful here you just don't never notice how many wild flowers there aren't all the different colors it's like Kaaba isn't it interesting there's also these cooked seam here there's also these thorny bushes here and it's like ah but you know what that reminds me of it reminds me of the Gila it reminds me of Redemption and I'm like okay I keep I would love to hear this how does it remind you of Redemption and he's like because like we're in Israel now and there's so many beautiful things that are happening and there's so many flowers and it's really coming back to life but at the same time there's a lot of Cooke seem still in Israel there's a lot of problems that are still here no way he said that's what he said on his own as we're like hiking through the mountains like a Kiva you are just the most amazing kid in the world he's 12 years old he's already like developing his own thoughts and his own insights into the world but that really is the way to see I think Israel like yeah we have a lot of thorny bushes that we still need to to deal with you know there's still terrorism and there's Aza and there's all these different realities but the desert is blossoming like there's so much green and there are so many wildflowers that are here and our battle is really to not hyper focus on the thorns not to hyper focus on and also like the more that I think about it and the more that I just live in this world how are we going to accomplish the Jewish mission of fixing the whole world and so you know I think about you know I put out this in this music video and it has now over 20,000 views in less than a month and that is just so exciting and I think about just one person at a time you know each person I don't know they know about 500 people and you know if you do a good act you're not just changing yourself but in some ways you've now elevated yourself and by default you're gonna elevate the people around you because you're a little bit higher now so you're gonna elevate your husband or wife or your children and your friends and their friends and each person there's like a ripple effect that happens and then those people that you've affected well they know also about 500 people and yeah the influence gets a little bit weaker and weaker as those circles continue to spread but every person elevated every person changed one person at a time is the way to fix the entire world if everyone took it upon themselves to just not try to change climate change and change global structures of economies and politics but just to fix themselves and fix their homes if everyone just took that responsibility upon themselves the whole world would be transformed in one generation and I think that's where we're at right now and so when I think about you know the impact that each individual has it really gives me motivation to try to go out and spread the light you know if I'm able to elevate one person if I'm able to inspire a prayer and one person I know that that person is effecting 500 people and those 500 people are effecting 500 people it really motivates me I don't think we should be too outcome oriented but there's something about it saying like wow you can really spread light into the world and I feel like what we did last weekend with our first Israel inspired retreat in the Dead Sea was exactly that a hundred and fifty people came from not only all over Israel but from around the world there were Jews there were even a bunch of non-jews that just joined the party and it was I feel like people walked away they're touched moved inspired enlightened educated fired up to go back and be a Jew in Israel again like they had made Ali on most of them and it's like reminding us why we made alia and to keep making alia and it was just I walked away from that event I was like the one working quote unquote and I walked away inspired I walked away elevated and I'm just excited for the next one to come about yeah and I'll tell you the the way this came about was also pretty interesting our our beloved friend of many years Avraham Altschuler he got this Juke in his head and he wanted to do this event we at the time I don't think we fully shared the vision of it all how it was gonna be but he was pushing it pushing and pushing and I was like I remember I had a voice in my heart that you know what he has such an overwhelming need to create an event for us to be able to speak to people to share this message who's giving him this to this desire where is that coming from maybe I should not act like I know exactly the way things are supposed to be and what we're supposed to be promoting and we're bringing people out to Judea what to go to the the Dead Sea in a five-star hotel and do a retreat if we're gonna do a retreat it's gonna be at our place here in Judea but then I said okay you know he wants to do this so badly you should I said I'm in and so fusia is doing it then you know that is of course strengthen my resolve even further to be able to to do an event like this with you shine it was so special it was such a really powerful powerful event we have 150 people there right and the the it was originally marketed because on some whatever globe like material level of world were in me and you and you shy were like the guys that are out there where the big faces were the the we've got a message and we're activists and then we are wives also we're gonna be there and hosting you know different lectures and speeches and presentations as well and sort of so there they're there because we're also there but we're like the main thing and then our wives speak and I'm not like that guy that's like oh my wife is so great it just to get like brownie points maybe there's a little part of that here but not really I mean I'm telling you between you tequila's presentations which were mind-blowing she do she yeah she's unbelievable I mean it was like it was when I say future she means a novel new idea in the world total insight insight for him into the toilet toilet into the color blue back to the Iliad and the Odyssey in the color blind I mean I can't we're not going into the whole thing here it was awesome Shana my wife she just got her doctorate and she was teaching about self compassion self efficacy how to be there for yourself the connection between the two and that is such important work in our times today to be able to really have compassion for ourselves only when we're able to have compassion for ourselves can we really love other people only when we fully accept other people can we really change ourselves the connection they're such important work Malka spoke about and when I mean the wives just blew it out of the water I mean it was just so so good and the just you know the event and we were it was the first time we did it I think we learned a lot of things but the next one is going to be amazing this one was already epic and huge a historic it the whole things that were in that sort of like ballroom it was sort of like to me was a little bit of a dungeon there were no windows there's it was just dark you didn't tell what time of day it was and if that plate was they was able to light up and become dynamic and exciting in that place next time we're gonna be able to do it in a better place in a better ways integrate people more and but it was just it was a really really special thing and so associate what are we calling it we're calling it the Israel inspired retreat Israel inspired retreat you know I think the next one is going must be a conference I think so many people are going to come because the word of mouth has already spread what an incredible time in the age range I mean we had about 40 kids young couples grandparents we had one great grandparent and everyone just had such a marvelous time and I feel like for me I learned a really powerful lesson and it was the LAT lesson actually that I gave over Friday night is that you know the Israel inspired retreat how do we inspiration how do we maintain inspiration and to me the answer is that most people wait to be inspired to take action they're waiting to be moved in order to go exercise they're waiting to be inspired to go on that diet they're just waiting for the spirit to overcome them to finally get to do that to do that they've always wanted to do but haven't yet done it and I feel like the secret that the Torah reveals to us is that action berths inspiration not the other way around inspiration is a byproduct of action and the more that we just act in the world and we're not what is the right thing to do and just do it that was what you said recently will come I I walked away was that the Friday night Dominick speech you gave from smote yeah I don't know how you connected the two but I walked away really like saying like that's exactly the message I needed to hear well that's because there's so many things I want to do and right and I'm just when I want to do it I'm not feeling inspired to do it and I feel like well I don't have that divine touch working through me right now and I really walked away from there saying no no you just got to do it right Hashem will see okay you're doing it you're putting it in Hashem will send the inspiration then that was a big a very important muster you know like an important life lesson I needed to hear it yeah I think it's really all throughout the book of Shimoda you know it's you know no 70 shmeil we will do and then we will understand just build it and build it and build it and all these details of the myshkin's like okay we'll just build it and then the cloud of glory appears it's just we got to take the action and then the inspiration comes and I just want to leave this with this one last message that's something that you said really really inspired me now because the book of Ezra and I mean it really is happening at the parallel time of the story of poram it's like the poram story that no one talks about because it's what's happening at the porn story what's happening in the Land of Israel and you're talking about Nehemia Nehemiah and how marvellous it is that it says Vaio mirela mela and again meaning it's like a style that's happening that when it says hemella it's talking about the king that of flesh and blood but then it's also literally talking to the king and if you read that verse in the book of Nahum iya you can literally read it as though Nehemia is talking not to the king but through the king he's talking directly through the king to Hashem realizing who runs the show here how did Donald Trump end up the President of the United States no one expected that there's like moves are happening but there's like a giant plan that's unfolding and so sometimes you know I feel a little bit nervous I feel like overwhelmed the Supreme Court the Arab world who's gonna win these elections are they going to evict us from Judea and Samaria and make Israel nine miles wide but then you just have to remember that like there is a bigger plan a master plan and there's a master to that master plan and I think that's what allows you to not hyper focus on the thorns when you're able to really live a life where you integrate from your head to your heart that Hashem is behind everyone and everything and that there's nothing that we're gonna do to mess up this plan or to make it perfect Hashem is in charge you're able to really see not hyper focus on the thorns because it's not up to us really to remove them we have to do our part and so you gotta figure got to see the thorns and you got to pull them out you could also enjoy the greater picture because that shows in charge of the whole thing yeah so there's one thing that I want to share right before we end and that's the one song on the album that doesn't really have to do with the morning prayers but it was a song that came to me in a very stressful time moving out to this farm giving all of my money selling my possessions selling my home investing it in a house that doesn't even belong to me moving out to this the most contested real estate in the world with my six kids it was just like oh my goodness and it was mean hi mates our karate yeah from this narrow place from my distressed I called out to God a nanny bomber huff yeah just answer me in the expanse answer me with like the with what I need to see and what I need to hear and then the last pursuit is lo a masa para mas saya I am NOT going to die but I shall live and I will tell of the great deeds of God and so here's a song I want to share with you and if you enjoy this song you enjoy the other one that's on youtube you can go to the Land of Israel com download the album the e-book is going to be done in the next few days and that is going directly to support our work here at the Land of Israel Network that's where it goes it's not you know going anywhere else so if you want to continue supporting the network continue building our farm it's right there on the thing enjoy you can also go to the Land of Israel come back slash your donate that's true a lot of people have listened to it but they want to be a part of what we're doing that is always always always Abraha for us so Shalom to all of you and hopefully hopefully please God Lena there we'll do a show next week but if not happy fourth [Music] me bumming ha ha Mina makes all the color I need my man I don't know Zoe [Music] kid [Music] first [Music] my say [Music] Mina make some Galatea need by man [Music] cuz [Music] minami bye me nah mate come on