Israel Inspired: Trump & Judea - Jacob & Esau

[Music] and now live from Jerusalem you're listening to Israel and spidered radio [Music] here your hosts rabbis Aria bream woods and Jeremy Gimpel [Music] shuttle everybody welcome to Israel inspired on the Land of Israel network at the Land of Israel calm this is Jeremy compel and I'm here with Arya Bram woods it's been a few weeks because I've been outside of the country but we're finally back I'm finally over jet lag and we have a lot to say I think it's been we're being generous for ourselves there's more than a few weeks I'd call it a good month and a half at least that's true I think so I made a commitment when I come back now every week we're going to be broadcasting I'm gonna be broadcasting once a week with tequila you're gonna be broadcasting one city with you and then every other week every week I will be putting out Network content for all of our list and you are only going to be vegan only make it you're done with the whole struggle it's over Oh Lord well let me tell you it was a world wind trip around the United State and I try to correct it every time listen it's oh it's fine you made aliawan you were 12 well there's another thing it's a whirlwind but it wasn't no but it wasn't a whirlwind tour it was it was like oh there's a world and I'm like what's being blown around the world in a world wind that's I say okay so you're coining in it okay so tell us about your world away to the tour I've been here since I was a little boy leave me alone I'm Israeli I said it's fine you know there's not greater all right anyway and you know it was just such a contrast just I've been living on this mountain now for 13 months in one week and it's just been a very simple life I literally wake up in the morning go out to my chickens pick up the eggs make omelets for my children just simple holy holistic just a really good simple life good when you say good it's not simple don't say simple because that's just misleading sometimes you're trying to convey a thought and you take it like one step too far it's not simple we are dealing with you know peace now the supreme court groups coming in from Jewish places non-jewish places all over the world it's complex it's beautiful it's profound it's prophetic well just call it just like simple we're not like living in Idaho that's you know I really feel like I meant to say to me me okay I meant to say to me incertum him and he is translated as simple pure just Tamim there's just no other word for it so that Jakob was an ish Tom your chef Oh Holly we're talking about Jacob in this week's Torah portion he was just like a simple good sweet pure just a pure life just living without too many distractions in too much nonsense and in the last week that we were here we had German volunteers that came here that was really a marvelous thing we can talk about that in just a little bit but just like a fixing of hatred between peoples and religions and just living this amazing life and I haven't left Israel in more than three years and I get off the plane and I go to someone's home and he takes me into his garage and the man has I don't know eight or nine vehicles that are the coolest looking cars that I've ever seen one I think was like a 2019 brand-new Corvette and others were like a 1960 Chevy you know just like a collection of cars like you collect the baseball cards when you're a kid this guy collects really really nice cars and I asked you could if you were if you had a hundred million dollars in your shekels and your bank account well let's say 350 million shekels in your bank account because that would be a hundred million dollars would could you imagine yourself ever it's just not my thing I would just give the equivalent of it can you picture having that much of anything extraneous and superfluous yeah it's just it just the truth is when I saw it it was a mixture between like wow I've never seen so you see that in like Ferris Bueller's Day Off you see that in like movies but then there was actually a person that had done that and I never seen that before so in one and I was sort of like stunned by it but at the same time I got nauseous I almost threw up I was like what that one of those cars do you know one of those cars could do in Israel just imagine what one of those cars could do in the Land of Israel one of those cars could transform our farm here and we would take us to another level and I just saw like so much materialism in so much superfluous system it's waste I didn't know what to do with it was such a contrast of these volunteers that had given of their time and of their vacation days to come here and help us build in Judea and living out this on this mountain and these these kids from Tekoa I don't say kids 16 17 18 year old boys that come out here and are working in the fields all day long working really hard volunteering because they love the land so much they have nothing they have like nothing I've seen the entire wardrobe of these kids and it's like three pairs of pants and a t-shirt and that's the total wardrobe at all yeah you know and just to compare the two I mean when I was this guy when when you saw was he was he proud - oh my gosh he was showing me his collection like he was show-and-tell so proud of his collection of cars and unone and its really impressive I never saw such a thing in my life but on the other hand when it like actually like dontoh me like oh my goodness there is so much darkness of the Exile it really reminds me of Hanukkah like we're about to come and celebrate Hanukkah like that was the exile of darkness because the Western Greek gymnasiums and the beauty of this world in the materialism that still influences the Western world until today was so powerful for the Jews that they were just enveloped in the darkness of Hellenism and I was looking at so it's so dark there because hey it's a great life the man worked really hard spent his life making money and listen it's his money he should be able to do with it whatever he wants but I feel like because the drive to make money in America is so central and so focused upon and it is the it is the barometer of success there it's the your family okay it's a but your real success as a man in in the United States of America today is how much money you make okay but Warren Buffett to drive the same old pickup truck right he lives in a normal modest house yeah you're right and look Bill Gates gave away 90% of his wealth and Mark Zuckerberg this young Jew he did the same I think this guy's giving 10% of his money that's a duckie he may very well be I am NOT here to judge anyone on anything I'm just saying it was such a contrast in such a shock to my system that I didn't know what to do with myself I was like is this it to me it seemed like he had someone had gone mad and was given a lot of money and they just lost it and they're like alright I'll buy some cars to go look at he didn't drive them he just looks at them he puts cars in the garage to look at and I'm like okay well that was a quite a shocking experience and then I went to New York and for the first time in my life I was in Borough Park have you ever been to Borough Park years and years and years ago so Borough Park is a neighborhood maybe it's one mile on one mile like this Square area in the middle of New York where everyone speaks Yiddish there's not a Gentile in sight there's what we the white socks tucked their black pants into the white socks the furry hats the peyote Yiddish everywhere everyone is talking yudish with be Hebrew signs every restaurant is kosher it's like what it was like a time warp it's like a Twilight Zone is what it was it was like a Twilight Zone I'm like what the hell is going on here who are all these Jews what are they doing in the middle of New York how did they create this independent bubble Society in the middle of the Exile and I was like are these people crazy no imagine two days in a row I'm looking at people all around me and I'm like is that guy crazy look what he did with his cars then I turn to the right of me like are all these Jews here and bro part crazy well after I start putting irony is that when they come here to Israel and they see us they're like on the mountaintop they're crazy maybe it's me maybe I'm the one that's like off maybe I'm the one that's crazy maybe these people are the normal ones and I've lost it and was just such a just a very Mattel tell is the word in Hebrew just a very disorienting trip and so thank God that I am back and I just I didn't even understand really you had this impulse to go and I was like okay you gotta follow your heart we have no idea in this journey through life the reasons we're doing different things but but to me if it was about a fundraiser because we obviously we're having money things that we're trying to we're trying to raise funds and build this place well that's like Superman going to Krypton and doing a ballet Crypton on kryptonite it's like without having this place to actually show people and have them experience it I mean to leave here and to describe it to people is that what you were doing it's hard to explain what I was doing it was just an inner intuition that I had months ago that I just had to go out with a message that was inside me and I'm like all right well I'm gonna go out there and if I'm already going out there then I'm gonna try to meet with the people and try to build this farm and the problem with this farm is this farm is like an escalator if we're not constantly pushing it forward it will pull us down just to maintain this place is a huge financial responsibility so I said all right alone to build it to complete the retreat center to complete the promenade to finish the gardens and the Bates Fila it's it's a deal it's a deal and I said all right so maybe this is what I'm being called to do now go to the United States go teach go inspire go and connect people to the Land of Israel into the destiny of the Jewish people that's literally unfolding before our eyes not that it can really be sensed over there that's the whole thing Borough Park and someone that's lost in their material mansions whether it be in Florida or in New York it's hard to actually open your eyes to the reality of what's happening in our lives that Jewish destiny Israel's destiny ultimately world destiny is literally unfolding before our eyes history is being made as we speak and if you're just sort of in your own world and you don't have the eyes to see it it literally can just brush you by and you'll just live your life you know to kind of doing your own thing and miss the greatest opportunity that there is to be had in this world and to take part in this amazing story and participate literally with the God of Israel and the redemption of this whole world in assure the world in to like a new era I mean the world is so broken and I'm like going from place to place and the trees I don't see much happiness there I don't see much happiness in these very elaborate beautiful lifestyles of the United States I didn't see a certain passion and an excitement about life and a thrill to be alive and it just it's it just seemed like a little bit like a golden cage it seemed it like well they've built a nice house and they've built a nice thing around themselves but it didn't really think seem like they were thriving it didn't seem like they were really just lit up about life and excited about their purpose and then I do see that out here of course that's because we are literally on the center stage of what Hashem is doing in the world I feel like I don't know it's just about center stage I also think we're in our indigenous place we're where we're supposed to be we are in the best environment that brings out our ability to be truly alive and vibrant with vitality it's just something that happens just our natural habitus just fish in water that's it well what kept on coming back to me over and over and over again in this in this trip was Psalm 128 I know that that sounds very biblical and a little bit like out of the left field like what does that have to do with anything but Psalm 128 is a really short just a few verses that King David wrote and he really is kind of giving us I think the blueprint to what everyone really wants in life people you know it's we're motivated when I analyze everything down to its core everyone is motivated inside because they want a certain feeling they're acting in the world because they want a feeling meaning they think that maybe money is going to bring them that feeling the security will bring them that feeling the honor the prestige the fame the whatever it is that's motivating those people and then it's like a feeling that they want to have inside and they want that feeling so much that they'll dedicate their lives towards achieving that feeling and well America and Hollywood has really persuaded people that this is the direction towards that moment in the movie where this is how it is and if you just follow the American Dream you're going to get that feeling because that is the dream and King David really offers us an alternative an alternate reality a different dream but really the way to achieve what everyone really wants inside and someone 28 is just saying listen happy is the man who fears the Lord that if you live just a humble a good life with the Racha mind then you know what's gonna happen your wife is going to be a fruit vine in the heart of your home your children will be around your Shabbos table like olive trees you'll work and you'll enjoy the fruits of your labor it's not saying that if you just follow the tour you're gonna be a millionaire and if you bless me then you'll be blessed beyond measure says no you're gonna work for your for your living but you're really going to enjoy the work that you work towards and it's just like oh it's it's the simple life it's just back to fundamentals and vegetation I mean it doesn't mean a lot of times in English they translate it as fear of God but you're awesome I'm denotative li means your uh ro ed to see Hashem to see how Shimon everything and when you see how Shimon everything then you interact to situations radically on a radically different level you don't it's like a man beating a dog with a stick and the dog bites at the stick so a lot of times I feel like I'm going through we're going through this world and we're biting at this stick but when you see Hashem in everything you can really address Hashem directly talk to Shem and not get lost in the middle man illusions of this world and throw yourself at the mercy of whoever you feel like you are at they're at their whim right now it's really you're in Hashem sense so that's I think what your arch of my means and that's why it would bring all that joy yeah and so you know I went from this kind of like detached Jewish life whenever I'm in America and I'm just I'm surrounded by so many of the nations and in New York it's like such a it's almost like a Messianic inverse of like Chinese people and Korean people and black people and white people and purple people and just like everyone is all together and like the Jews are just sort of like disconnected sort of being blown through the universe and they were like starting to prepare I use I started first seeing the first trees of the Christmas being put in target and I was like wow it's just like it's it's just not our home here we're just so removed from like we can sort of try to create our own bubbles whether it be in Borough Park or whether it be in Bal Harbour Miami but ultimately like that's just not our home and I come home to Israel and the head Habad Shelia rabbi Donna Cohen who's just like such a sweet good wholesome like mensch Shiva mensches invited me as a guest of honor to bodenheimer on on the parsha of Kyocera which was just last week's parsha and i like come home to that shabbat were 40,000 Jews from all over the world I mean there were every type of Jewish demographic was there and they were all together celebrating the Torah portion where Avraham purchases the tomb of the patriarchs almost four thousand years ago and here on Easter L is now like returning to that first acquisition in the Land of Israel celebrating it all together and it would like talk about a contrast being alone in an airport just feeling like this loans you wandering from city to city to all of a sudden being rooted 4000 years in our history towards Avraham Avinu to the location of the heart of Judea surrounded by all of the Jewish people if Guiness would have been at that Shabbat dinner it broke a world record for the largest Shabbat dinner in human history Habad put on the largest Shabbat dinner ever before that that was it really the largest ever oh you didn't bring Guiness next year Donnie you gotta bring goodness are you crazy being the Guinness Book word and so it oh my goodness it was like what a spectacle to see and kebab they know how to party they're making like hyams and singing and dancing and all these Jews are together celebrating Shabbat together and you know I don't you know about they do know how to party yeah it's really a thing they understand that that Judaism needs to be alive that so many Jews in America they're just like okay it's ritual mumbling and Hamas like no no I just I don't know what to say I just love Habad nickim I love Chabad everywhere I go I'm in Miami I'm at the show that Brad buys a Chabad rabbi I go over here in Toronto oh it's a like they are holding up really the Exile on their shoulders and they are in the far ends of the world and I'm like I will you send me the picture from their sleeping they had their emissaries conference it was like it had to be a panorama picture it was like an army yeah it was an army of super juice that are fully dedicated retired Mad Cow are the most elite unit in the Israeli army of Jewish yeah that picture is so inspiring to me and it's so inspiring because I was alive when the LaBarbara Rebbe was alive I mean we lived in the same generation as him and like when he died it was like sad like rava vodka passed away and many big rabbis passed away and it was like a terrible day for the Jewish people and I don't know his work has just quadrupled more than quadroon and so there's like these two phrases in hazael that just hit me so strong when I was in heaven the first one is sad Hakeem mulatto is set B daya Hyrum that righteous people their work is done by others that somehow the Rebbe also was in his lifetime he really barely ever dies always understand I've always understood you working so much harder than me and so but okay so in you know you had all of these emissaries doing his work going out to the ends of the world in order to like spread the light and then it says said he came to meet at Omni crane claim and righteous people in their deaths are considered alive and all of a sudden you see like these giant posters of the Rebbe and these Shabbat meals and bringing all of these Jewish people together celebrating Shabbat I'm connecting them to the Land of Israel I'm like Mike goodness look at how marvelous that is that that is a really not just example of Jewish leadership but it is like a manifestation of what we should all strive to be like all of those people that feel connected in some ways so much that they're on a mission in Bangkok are there in Hong Kong or there in the far reaches of Africa I mean Chabad are literally everywhere they are on a mission they have a calling and it like goes back to the root of the Jewish people our fundamental claim in the the fundamental claim of the Torah is that Avraham had a calling that's not a modern terminology of I don't know life coaches or new-age thinking that is the fundamentals of the Bible Avraham heard Lachlan he heard it it was a calling in his life to go on a mission to build a kingdom to build a country that will ultimately be a blessing to all families of the earth now Avram really had to like not hold his breath because it's taken four thousand years imagine it was one person named Avraham and the rest of the world around him and then slowly but surely now look at who Avraham has actually influenced he's influenced millions upon millions of people that are now living by the Judeo ethic living by the principles of the Torah and it's like slowly but surely now once again a third Commonwealth in the Land of Israel with the same mission that Avraham had to build a country that will ultimately fix the entire world and we're like watching the country come to realization now and imagine on the parsha that Avram had his first acquisition his first purchase are the first deed in the Land of Israel it's like recorded on paper that he had this purchase in Judea the Trump administration declares that the settlements in Judea and in Samaria are legitimate and legal to me that is just a spice cart beyond Spice carts that a specific have meant to mention that a week ago he could imagine that three months from now he mentioned exactly on the Torah portion of the Jewish people acquiring Judea in the parsha of highest Sarah and then to be there in heaven on that parsha I just felt like I should almost kissing me saying like I want you to know Jeremy whatever you're doing you may have been in Toronto and in Cleveland and in New York and in New Jersey but like you're right on track you were like sent off to the Exile for two weeks had your heads spun around but don't worry you are right where you need to be and that was just super encouraging yeah that's true I feel like we have a calling - I mean my name is Abramowitz son of Abraham and we are living in the land of Abraham Isaac and Jacob we're living in these hills and I've never felt so with such profound clarity what our calling is and you know we're both I just turned 40 I just turned 40 a few days ago and you're turning 40 your body is turning 40 actually today at the recording of the show right now happy birthday Jeremy thank you very much we are what eleven days apart same year and and and that's a big deal and you know I speak to friends of mine in America about you know I'm turning 40 and my friends are turning 42 and there's a bummer I'm little down about it and trying to deal with it and for me it's like so foreign to even think of it like that a bummer do that I mean these are also people that are a little bit more where it's normal to be like I look at you you're living on this hilltop you've got six kids like what could you want different or better like Shane and I please God we're very excited to be starting our family please God but you know we're not exactly in the ignore normative age range which is finally there was not room and sorry that's okay but but at this point I'm just so grateful to be alive I was gonna have a midlife crisis and move to a mountain but I already did that last year so now I'm really stuck yes no I'm grateful to be alive I'm surprised that I'm alive that's surprising to me and I just feel like we're surrounded by too much mortality too many great people falling before their times re fold I think about it could go any minute so the older we get I feel like it's the more reason to celebrate we're on stolen time we're on stolen time yeah I feel like people in Israel that served in the IDF infantry feel that a little bit more than other people because other people around you are killed and that could have just as easily been you shot that you know the three kilometers to the left we could have been on that mission it's just stolen time stolen time is so grateful to be alive and to be living where we're living right now and it's I feel like we're clearly guided by a shaman I actually would have been there with you at have room for that Shabbat we were scheduled and slated to go we're going to be staying in the same house there but my wife Shana her grandmother Bubbe Zoosh she was lovingly known she passed away and that was a very difficult thing for the family she was really the matriarch she had children she had grandchildren great-grandchildren and I'm really grateful because Shana and I we've only been together like over two years but I've merited to spend a good amount of time with Bubby's ushe I really had very deep long conversations with her interviewed her for this media network and she was just so interview about a lot of Holocaust survivors that have survived Auschwitz and door - what's sometimes there's sort of angry and bitter they don't like to talk about their story she you would always open up and share her story and share her struggles and she has such simcha she had this trademark it is really a trademark smile and like let it you remember my wedding when usually everybody's lining up to get a bra from the bride and the groom well that it was like a triple long line for bubbies hush to be giving blessings and this is a woman that like always talked about how much she struggled with God because of the Holocaust and struggled with God all the time yet she's constantly blessing us and blessing everybody in God's name Passover was like her holiday the holiday of like Exodus and shearing the Exodus and what she went through and she just you know you can see manifested in her children and grandchildren who have just like a living fire within them for a great grandchildren for Tauron for Judaism it's just like it's a it's an enduring legacy because in the end of the day you're talking about the cars and the Chevy's and whatnot Chevy's what were they court ever they were whatever they were those are it's just stuff that's gonna be impounded after the person leaves the world and the bank is gonna take it and that's it what is our real legacy that lives on it's our children it's our grandchildren it's our great-grandchildren and those are really a testimony there so I'm grateful I'm really happy because you remember the story I shared on the show about Michelle the you know the bald four tooth french guy that I'm paying child support for his kids I needed to pay twenty thousand shekels in cash to leave to go visit bubbies Esch and it was the best twenty thousand shekels I could have spent because that time with her can't be taken away from me and and just she will definitely be missed so that's why we weren't there for highest Sarah because she passed away I think about that generation in you know tequila's grandfather also just passed away within this last year now Shana's grandmother passed away from this last year and I mean she Anna's grandmother literally lived through the horrors of Auschwitz and she saw all of the curses of the Torah manifest before her eyes because sometimes you read there's two chapters of real curses that will come upon the Jewish people in the Exile and some of the curses are so outrageous maybe you just think it's poetic that Moshe was just kind of like talking enough in a poetic scary kind of way and then all of a sudden you see the end of the eggs every single curse that was there manifested to write to the descriptive reality and then from that dark exile you know that generation lived to see the rebirth of the State of Israel the Independence Day War the Six Day War children grandchildren and great-grandchildren living in a sovereign Jewish country in the mountains of Judea that's like in one generation that actually happened and now that that generation is sort of slowly going it was like it's like the blink of an eye but that actually happened in one lifetime we actually saw the Exile to redemption in terrifying it says the salvation of God is like the blink of an eye and now we can understand like well now that they're gone it was like that actually happened in one generation it was like the blink of an eye right and to have been in that generation like bubbies hush you know she flew in for Shana and I was wedding Shana her granddaughter that she's been praying to get married she said she wanted to be there so even though she was 96 she flew in for the wedding and she was able to come out to the farm and be on my own armored pet and I remember her looking out and looking around and her she was just mind blown that this was like Judea that this is Israel that her grand daughter is living the manifestation of her dreams and then I told her the story about the Germans the Germans that have come here some of them were children and grandchildren of Nazis and they've come here to help us and to bless us volunteering their time and efforts and money in our to help build this place because they love us so much her eyes filled up with tears you know they just like filled up with tears and she turned to me and she was like you're either a Navi or you're Meshuga thing to that note she said to me but but to see her experience the entire range and to be here and to be able to have facilitated that in some way well that was extraordinarily meaningful I want to talk just for a moment about those German volunteers that you just mentioned now you know it's not the first time that a group of Germans have come here and each time some of them are the same and some of them are new and every year for the last four years a group of Germans come here for about two weeks and volunteer and they've really made their mark on this farm they've really helped practically build things that are to last here this time they built a two hundred and metre a square metre pergola gazebo right outside our UK you know I've had like builders construction people come and marvel at it at the expertise the meticulous exactitude its job the angles and the wood it was just superb we built but like by Germans by Joe and they're working from morning tonight we had these two guys from from Holland when Arthur and and Aaron Arthur our own and they showed up on their bicycles and flip-flops and they wanted to help and they were working and they worked super hard and they said they went up to the Germans to try to talk to them while they were working they wouldn't even talk now they are working now they're focused and they worked really hard and they don't even come here expecting there's not like a program there's not an itinerary we don't they're not expecting anything from us the first time we were here they were here it was so disorienting from us then I don't think we even interacted with them all that much but they came back again because it wasn't about what they wanted to get from us it wasn't about an itinerary it was about their mission and their takuna and every year they come back and this year I think we connected with them well very perfect well it was just so special it was also like the last experience that I had right before leaving the Land of Israel for two weeks and we I left on Saturday night and they were here for more than one week so they had one Shabbat in the middle of their time here and so I said well of course I live here now on the farm that purpose why I moved here was exactly for this that I would finally be able to like host people like you at our home for Shabbat and so they were about twelve Germans that lived here on the farm for about two weeks and then on Friday they brought in another eight Germans that just came for Friday to finish off the job before Shabbat and then all of them asked to have Shabbat dinner by me and celebrate Shabbat together and I'm like oh great that's beautiful what an amazing opportunity and then eight of the Germans came up to me before Shabbat and they said that their life's dream was to spend Shabbat with a Jewish family and because their children or ancestors are Nazis they're the children and grandchildren of Nazis and because they're Christians no Jews ever wanted to have these Germans over for Shabbat one woman told me she once saw a rabbi in Germany and he seemed to be very afraid and he was behind security and she could barely come close to him and this is her first time coming close and even exchanging and talking to a rabbi a rabbi almost even a Jew it was like so exciting and mind-blowing and so their life's dream was dispensed Shabab with a Jewish family and I was like I am honored to be able to host you for Shabbat and so we had about I don't know 30 people after we and your family was invited my kids and all the people that were there it was the most special Shabbat meal ever I mean people were crying it was just so marvelous and I was just thinking that probably the greatest hatred to ever exist in the world was the combination of Christian replacement theology melded together with Nazi ideology like the crucifix turned swastika like this cross that was crippled into this twisted into a swastika as Hitler is giving these talks with the Pope behind him giving his silent approval of this final solution to eradicate the Jewish people from the face of the earth it was the horrors of Auschwitz like the worst human atrocities in modern history and all of a sudden from the greatest hatred all of a sudden this farm in the mountains of Judea made this little bridge of love and brotherhood in friendship and companionship and light and Torah Wow what an amazing place this is I mean just four years ago there was nothing on this mountain there were just rocks there was no electrical infrastructure there was just thorns and all of a sudden now this like become a healing between nations a place of healing between peoples and what a marvelous opportunity and I felt you know so filled with so much light and I'm just I don't want to leave anymore left to America and was like what I'm just like holed into the the confusion of the exile in the the materialistic magazine land of Hollywood and it was like just so disorienting let me just sometimes we need to leave in order to to appreciate rest let me tell you I'd literally because for three years I hadn't left Israel it's like I created it created such a yearning and a longing and a love and appreciation for Judea and for this land and to be around you know our people in our context and in our environment it was just marvelous and so it's just so funny that the Germans they walk away every year saying this is the highlight of their year they are blessed beyond measure that are filled with light invigorated to go back to Germany connected to the Land of Israel effed us with the before they left they handed me a wad of cash a lot of the meaning they came here volunteered their time efforts energy brought that but their own supplies everything and then they paid us to do it and then they're walking away feeling so blessed so blessed oh it's like unbelieving they're like the biggest blessing in the world for us that's I even shared that with them I told them that I think the first time they were there and even now I still have trouble approaching them because I'm so overwhelmingly humbled and I don't know how to deal with the kindness and the giving and being the receiving end sometimes the taking is giving and I feel like this is that situation if we refused to take their money which of course is going to the farm it's going to build what we're doing but if we refuse to allow them it would be an active of violence almost did not allow them to give to us in this way because they're so they're so thirsty yeah there's so many funny stories with the Germans I we can't get into all of them now but there's one that I just have to mention now because obviously when they leave I still know that there's so many that I have to choose one or two because when you tell all of them it's like all right it's too many but I'm just like but I stay in contact with many of them you know what's up is so easy you know you just send out a broadcast list keep them connected to the podcast and then they'll send me a message back and then very often either maybe it's just like the German culture but there's a little emoji where there's like a man raising his hand saying hi and it's like hello how are you and for whatever reason one of my German friends everytime she ends she ends it with that emoji with like someone just like so I'm waving hello that looks like hailing Hitler it looks like Heil Hitler every time and I just like each time it makes me like a smile laughs just it never the Wonder and mystery of it all never leaves me because like at the end of every like what's that message I get a little hi Heil Hitler reminder of who I'm actually talking to and to never forget the the mystery of it all it's just so marvelous even even when I go into the Han right now into the retreat center that we're building and they stay they come here and they stay in these three rooms that it's a construction site it's the closest that we actually come to hosting a real retreat those are pretty beautiful and there's a beautiful rooms but it's still the building itself as a construction site and they make do they make do they find broken mirror once and they put it up on the wall and that was their mirror and they just they're very resourceful Trias yeah and resourceful and so my one thing that I had in my head I'll just say mine is to walk in there and I saw that they constructed these bunk beds for themselves in the rooms and I walked in the rooms and the rooms were just packed with bunk bed beautiful bunk beds beautiful bunk beds but I couldn't help but to think like wow they were putting us in bunk beds I thought you know and now look at these bunk beds they're putting themself in here for this place it's just there's just too much to do but this is one thing that I do want to mention just our listeners as we're on the context of volunteers however this has happened it just seemingly people are calling us and it looks like a small group of volunteers is going to be coming here for the first few weeks of March and now we don't have unlimited space we're about halfway full to the bunk beds that we have here now but if that's something that you're interested in coming here for two weeks the first two or three weeks of March it looks like there's going to be a group necessarily put out the invitation like that because I just don't know that we're really set up for the means happening it's happening but it doesn't mean that we need to be packed say we need to be packed it could be that by the time people email it's already going to be full cover iam I'm sorry but for those that really do have an interest and there's not any program here we're not like offer where I we're just trying to put one foot in front of the other evidence of insurance yeah there's if we don't have anything here he literally coming here to sleep on bunk beds in the middle of a construction site and work all day long and if you want to do that great but like there's no sale anyway happens anyways but I just wanted to talk for a second about these Germans because this week's Torah portion really illuminated what what what happened it just it filled in a lot of blanks because I'll tell you these Germans they come here and I'm humbled and if I'm gonna be honest and true I wonder they're coming here they want to drink up our words and our wisdom and our Torah but I feel like I end up walking away from my encounters with them with a renewed sense of chuhwa of wanting to come back to em to work harder in my Torah study to learn more because they're working super hard and then in their time off they have their Bibles open and they're talking tore em there they're not lost on their phones doing silly things they don't even have phones or reception here and they're just in this little bubble of like working and learning and holiness and it inspires me and so you know if you ask any of them who are you descended from they they said II don't I don't know why they don't say I said a sub they said a 7th ed Oh ed dome is is a sub right and that's who they say that they're descended from that so we believe that that they're descended from also but there's a rabbi re Kaun who I was I had the honor of interviewing before I want to a fix that interview to the end of our show today he shared a beautiful beautiful insights about ASA he's talked about that there's two different personality deceptive personality types right there's the deceptive personality type of someone that is evil inside but tries to convince others that they're holy and people that are evil inside and convinced themselves that they're holy and so that's what he says is the inion with Asaph that ASA actually was convincing himself that he was holy and he believed that he was holy too and so that was a big paradigm shift for me because I always thought of ASA was just you know duplicitous and constantly lying and but know that he was lying to himself changes things meaning that you know that you shiz a favor midrash or at least one of his favorite Midrash the details often on a show around this time of year is the story of Hashim Bend on the story of the the tribe of Don his son's name was Hashim right so he was deaf but he could see perfectly but he was deaf which is by the way the opposite of Yitzhak right Utes huh could hear but he couldn't see anything and yet Slyke loved a sob but Hashim saw a sob come to the after Yaakov passed away to the Mirada Micaela then we came from a capella hoverin and a SUP said no this is I have the right deed to this place and the brothers started getting into a debate with him and someone ran off to Egypt to get the deed to the land to prove to ASA that it was there that they could marry Yaakov meanwhile his body is not being buried which is it disgraced him and pushing him the opposite of Yitzhak who loved a saw if he saw a saw he didn't hear his words and get confused by them he saw ASA for what he was and he cut off his head and his head rolled into Murata Mikayla and he shot always talks about how they saw via this vision of like a sobs head like winking and smiling anyways but what's the idea that Rabbi Cahn shares that a sobs head actually belong to their he his in his intentions his thoughts his mind was wanting to be holy was wanting to be a good Jew but he just wasn't able to implement that to live that truth and and I have to admit I it was like my first time actually empathizing with a South because I feel like that tremendous tremendously that I'm not living my ideals I'm not living up to my ideals that's what he was called a sob he's called the pig right why was he likened to a pig not to disgrace the bigger to disgrace Ava but the pig is the animal that has the split hooves on the outside meaning it looks kosher but on the inside it doesn't chew it's cut so he was he looked on the outside like he was holy but on the inside he really wasn't even when he was born right he was born a soui he was born completed with a hairy mantle he looked done but inside he was far from being evolved or completed at all so here's the idea you ready for this Jeremy yes so the famous story is how did he how did he seem like the pig he would ask his father Yaakov do you need to take ty ma soeur tithe on salt & straw meanwhile he's going around like murdering and pillaging and idolatry and he's like well I'm just wondering about the exactitude about the laws of tithing do you need to take tithes on straw or salt which you don't but he was trying to convey that he's so holy when in reality he wasn't okay now what how do we see a Sabha the father of Christendom of Catholicism of Rome now here's what the are Rizal brings up and I love when this happens when there's stories in my head you know tales or parts of the Torah that are self-contained and then you see the underlying interconnection and who was the re-al he was a mystic and he said that when get stock heard a sobs voice right who did he hear who did he actually hear from hey sobs voice he heard the voice of rebbi akiva he the voice of Asaph but he heard rebbi akiva because rebbi akiva we know the story of rebbi akiva of course that he was actually either it's not clear whether he or his father converted to being to being a Jew from a descendant of Asaph from unalaq from a Mallick meaning that deep within a sobs voice it was rebbi akiva trying to get out trying to be heard and that's what Yitzhak actually heard and Rabbi Cahn just said it beautifully it's deep inside the recesses of a soft soul was rebbi akiva trying to get out and of course Akiva is a variant of Yaakov because within Rabbi Akiva I know this is sort of abstract but I just found it so powerful than Rabi Akiva there is it parts of Yaakov and parts of ASA because within a sub there was also parts of Yaakov right rebbi akiva he had serious issues with his father-in-law just like Yaakov did he married Rafael the love of his life just like Yaakov did but a sob now here's the story do you know you remember the tale about rebbi akiva that they were impoverished Rocco's wife his wife his her father was tremendously wealthy he disinherited them didn't give them anything and they were sleeping in a barn on straw and that's all they had was just the straw that they were sleeping on and right when they were falling asleep a poor man came in and said his wife was giving birth and he needed straw and so they were able to and they said of course and they they gave their straw so what did it rebbi akiva do he actually gave the tie that gave the mass air on the straw that ASA asked about - yet sock isn't that a cool connection of those two story beautiful connection so I love these fixing stories because I see this fixing happening all the time like the for example route when people come out around the farm and they stand on my balcony and I point to where route came from I talked about how Avraham and looked Avram said okay listen our shepherds are fighting with each other you go one way I'll go the other and what does let's say okay I'm gonna go that way to the greener pastures now looks great great granddaughter Ruth she was now facing Niomi Nomi said listen you go home leave or pie left Bruce said no your nation is my nation your God is my god your people as my she wouldn't go right what would you have said if Avram Avena said to you listen our Shepherds are fighting you go one way I'll go the other I would I know I would have said listen my Shepherds they are now your Shepherds I'm giving them to you my sheep or your she I'm just not I'll do anything you say but I am not going anywhere I'm staying with you and that's what Ruth said it's so there was like fixing there's fixed things going on even what you just said about Trump Trump during Kyocera Trump who in my mind is a human manifestation incarnate of ace of every attribute every description of a sum is impulsivity right his need for everything right now is his fiery disposition his red hair his red hair everything his Trump his Trump and what's Trump doing there's like a deeper fixing going on there that that's happening right before eyes this is like a generation of fixing just it's almost like this root rifki right she has within herself the a sob and yaakov and she was so confused she would go buy a place of idol worship an ASA would kick she would go buy a place of tour learning and Yaakov would kick she didn't know what was going on go back to the Garden of Eden we're walking through the garden won't get into the whole story but I find that a lot of these deeper spiritual things all go back to GaN Eden we're walking through GaN Eden and we're the recipient of this overwhelming kindness and goodness and we felt this lehem Busha the bread of shame that were we've done nothing forgot and he's given us this beautiful garden in this prophetic connection with him so Adam they say eats from the tree and all of a sudden infused within him is this evil and this confusion and good and evil are now all mixed in together and why did he do this because he wanted to be able to overcome the evil through his desire to serve God I would have advised him otherwise but the bottom line is so there's this all this confusion and it's almost like within the belly of rifka this evil and good is now being distilled out into a sub and into Yaakov and now it's actually not just internal within ourselves this confusion of good and and bad but now it's being distilled out and this is a conflict a battle that's going on in the world outside in the physical world between good and evil and I used to think that the purpose here what are we doing here in the world as we need to conquer that evil we need to defeat that evil but now and this is how I think I've changed since being at the farm over the last number of years I don't think it's to defeat the evil I think it's to elevate it I think it's to bless it because we see that Ishmael did reconcile with with Isaac Isaac and Ishmael they became brothers again and they buried their father together and that's eventually what will happen with Yaakov and Asaph there will be a reconciliation the only way to do that I think it needs to come from us and it needs to come in the form of blessing and of love and that's why you know to come out to the farm I had a few groups come out there were life changing for me one of the most profound experiences I've had at the farm was when this J Street like leftist group came out to the farm they came out for three hours the first hour they asked to be alone so they can prepare themselves emotionally and mentally for what was about to happen in their meeting me and then the hour afterwards they also wanted to be alone so they can sort of unwind and unpack and deal with what just the trauma that just happened with meeting me I guess so I only had one hour with them and meanwhile they were going to a lot of these other you know Ramallah and Toole kerim and just various I don't know that those places but constant like dealing with Arabs and the Palestinians and the issue so I had a very limited amount of time to convey to them what the message was so I did a lot of thinking what it was and I would say it just came down to one thing I said this is not a conflict that's going to be solved it's only going to be transcended that you're looking at this through political two-state solution that's not what this is at all this is a spiritual issue this is a religious issue this is a collective trauma that Ishmael has from being cast off into the desert with his mother to die and feeling second to Isaac we pray three times a day they want to pray five times a day and that's where the hatred comes from and that's why the blessing is going to come from love and from only when we love them and we bless them and has to be listen I'm not like a fluffy leftist we have to be strong and we have to defend ourselves but at the same time we can build them up I don't know did you see the story in The Jerusalem Post Jeremy about this Arab group that that has now rejected the BDS movement it was a huge conference of Arab leaders from around the world that came together and they rejected the BDS movement is like just a pie in the face of so many of these leftists that are propagating the boycott divestment sanctions thing which by the way I also told them that while these left is their mean is their well meaning and they want to do something good this it's the same Western imperialism coming in and meddling and tempering and projecting what they think the issues are and they think the solutions are this arrogance like who why are you coming from the West and we're having issues with our cousins here and we're figuring it out and we're back in our land and now you're gonna come and impose your solutions on the whole thing that that always drove me nuts anyways so this is what it says just a little thing from the Jay post it says in regards to the BDF movement the founding statement of this organization stated that the boycott quotes Tiny's hopes for peace between the Israeli and Palestinian people preventing from engaging either of the two peoples directly Arabs were unable to cultivate ties that could have enabled them to foster conciliation and compromise on both sides the boycott increased suffering of both societies and weakened their capacities this is from the Arabs that said that and it's just so true you even told me about your conversation with Hamid right you remember that tell me you said you said why is there a conflict between us you remember do you remember how we answer sure he said the Jews here I believe us from God without Arabs there's no workers and without Jews there's no work and that our presence here brings prosperity peace and stability to a very unstable region in the world and from this rocky barren mountain we've brought prosperity and blessing to over 40 Arab families that have helped us build this whole campus so literally these are people that don't have huge bank accounts they're living like they get the paycheck and they put the food on the table which by the way isn't that far from how our lives are very often as well but so we're really in the in the same we're in the same situation together and that's why it was cool when I was talking to this leftist group you know I made sure to say at the beginning listen I know you're well-intentioned our goal here is not to change each other just to understand each other you may ask me questions I don't know I'm not a political guy just gonna share my experience just sort of I found that almost more important than anything was the disclaimers beforehand and as I was talking to them bossom this Arab Bedouin from the nearby village he shows up at my house and you know when we see each other I give him five I give him a hug and I told them he I just had dinner with him I just had dinner with him last night at my house which happened happened to be true the first time it was the first time we did that but it happened be true that he came over for dinner and I'm like they must have been thinking how what do I do for Arabs that I'm coming in so sanctimonious and virtuous trying to help them when in reality I'm just hurting them they're hurting them there's just so much confusion so much confusion yeah well I want to say something just about the this week's Torah portion as you like said so much about Trump and about the realities and you know the beauty about the Torah portion is it literally is a Shems message to each person individually in their lives it's you you pray to God looking for answers sometimes you might feel an intuition sometimes you might get a dream that might inspire you but very often like his word is his answer he's broadcasting this message every week to every Jew around the world and now to the nations that are sort of tapping into that collective message as well so last week it's could be more clear that Trump's declaration is happening right at the parsha of highest Sarah and Trump a sort of taken the center stage as a sub is now being born and just to understand a dome ace of Asaph spiritually in the Jewish tradition represents the West it represents the European Union what has been birthed out of the Catholic Church and you know a sub is depicted as this strong beautiful person progress the material the physical the immediate in the fast food it is just Western civilization encapsulated in a man similar to last week's Torah portion where Abraham is talking to this guy named F throne which literally should be translated as dust in the man's name is afar his name is dusty he's talking to the manifestation of land of earth as he's acquiring the land in Israel ASA is just a manifestation in this idea of what the Western world is and I'm looking at Donald Trump who is just this bread haired ace of manifest just as Ari just said now and there is something that's going on here he is representing the the one side of the United States of America and I would say that you know it's divided between Democrats and Republicans but I feel like if you're really just like Pierce down to what what is the fundamental divide there between these conservatives and these liberals what are they conserving they're conserving the Jewish traditions of the American civilization they're conserving the judeo-christian values I don't like the word judeo-christian because Christianity didn't really add anything to the Judeo ethnic they just sort of like took what Judaism had and just brought it to the world but it's a biblical ethic that they are conserving and so he now as the leader of America last time Obama did not represent the Judeo epoch at all but Trump does he represents very much spiritual dimensions of it a vase up but he's a see he like takes the full circle of it he literally takes these spiritual underpinnings of his support and his progress his manly womanizing physical rude just he is this reality and look at what's happening sometimes you know I feel like Ari and I take great pride in being a light to the nation's and opening up this place in Judea to the world and whoever wants to connect to King David and the Feli and the prayers that were composed in this holy place to bring them on board but we see that something is happening you know without us it's like manifesting before our eyes that ASA before our very eyes is doing chuhwa in a way that's just been unprecedented that there is like a bond that's you know Trump is like just like an amazing leader in that way the whole world inside America and outside of America is pressuring him don't move the embassy to Jerusalem and he moves the embassy to Jerusalem don't recognize the goal i night he recognizes the Golan Heights don't defund the United Nations he D funds the United Nations and now recognizing the Jewish rights to Judea it's just such a declaration of truth and it is a sub because imagine if Trump was against us god forbid he is a scary guy Donald Trump is a scary guy he is Asaph and if he were to turn against the Jews all of that power and that lust in that passion in that impulsiveness turned against us is a terrifying thought he could be a terrifyingly look at the Kurds I mean they're just now being slaughtered by Turkey not that the world cares at all but if I build an extension off of my mere pet it's international headlines but right now ASA with all of the power that was given to the Western world and the leader right now of the Western world is in some ways before our very eyes building a bridge of chuva between our peoples and it's just marvelous to see that it's happening right as we read the Torah portions of Yaakov and a sub and their split but they're ultimately prophesied to come together again and so I just feel like our hope is to bring a little bit of sanity to this crazy world because without the Torah and without the vision of the Tanakh you can just get lost in Borough Park are lost with Corvettes and garages in the you know mansions of the United States and here's just I don't know the Torah from Zion from the mountains of Judea and you know the headquarters that we're building here I just feel like it's a like Factory we just had yesterday a seminary I made Raja of you know young women that have finished high school they've stayed here for one year of study and now this group actually stayed for a second year of Torah study before they go off to colleges like the cream of the crop do you know how many of them came to me were like this is the most exciting thing that I've ever done ever at any point in my life that's what they said yes look II just I have I had to like pull out my camera just a video than they planted two trees out here and they were just so moved and and for just imagine being us right I think about what it is to be me all the time I'm so spoiled and pampered spiritually that I have sometimes in a day two or three the Jews a Houston Jewish Federation came out here mind blown I was contacted by the leader that said it was one of the most powerful experience that they've had in Israel to be able to go through your day and have three groups come out and see and experience and go on the journey with them meaning it's not boring for me to do this these tours because each interaction is a wholly new experience with new people that are going on a totally different journey and to see an experience and go on that journey with them I just keep saying um I want this I want this you please keep using me in this way don't cast me away that's like my greatest fear just polish leaf an email phone yeah people just come here and they're like it's like in an assembly line they're like filled like the bottles are filled with like soda pop and then bottled and shipped off they're like filled with light and then shipped off into the way come in here to this assembly line of the mountains of Judea and they're like sent off filled with light just abyss cranking out the light here and what comforts me often is when people come out here and I don't get to meet them or see them and they tell me later oh my goodness that was an experience that was just beyond and I didn't even talk to them out here it comfort to me I realize okay it's not about us you know we were able to facilitate it well and to give people a wonderful experience but there's something about this place about these mountains about what we've built out here what that is yeah yeah well this is what we're doing here is much larger than re and I and you know we've picked up the biggest burden that we can carry and we believe that jeez we are just broadcasting a beautiful light around the world on the Land of Israel Network building this headquarters for this beautiful movement and you know for the first time we're starting a campaign now and we are calling on people to help us because this place it's just like it is an escalator until it's built it will pull us down if we're not pushing forward and so we're asking out the people the listeners of the Land of Israel Network to really jump on board 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so many of the ideas that I share they're from so many different sources but one of primary sources for many years is Rabbi Ari Cahn and I was able to bring him and his wife out to the farm and interview them so I want you to hear from Rabbi Ari con Shalom from Judea Shalom Aleichem and here we are with Rabbi Ari con who who has been for many years one of the most profound influences on my life on my thinking on the prism through which I experienced my Torah journey his ideas I try to quote him but they've already been so deeply integrated into my worldview and into the way I think that I just sort of in my heart and often I say my great rabbis my great influences in Rabbi Cahn is definitely in there and to have him come out to the farm experience what we're doing out here in Judea to see the place and then to being able to interview him well it's a very very big deal for me when I read through his his books echoes of Eden is a series of books which I highly recommend everybody get because I was telling my dear friend Arthur who was here next to me who I'll share a little bit about later every time I read through his parsha commentaries and insights I say there's just no other way I could possibly anyone could ever possibly read this parsha without it being this way there's just nothing more anyone could say about the parsha and then I read the next one and I'm like oh my god that's just every single one of them is mind-blowing so to have rabbi Cahn here you know you look at me just he looks like a god-fearing Jew but he looks like just another person that you would walk by on the street and you don't know that you're in the presence of one of the Great's of our generation in my humble opinion Sarabhai khan it's an honor to have you out here thank you so much for for joining us on Israel inspired on the Land of Israel Network thank you for the excessive energy and exaggerated words exaggerated not quite or nor excessive but we won't get into that right now so let me just start you know we're talking about the your body of work right now I want to get a little bit into your your back story your origin story but the the primary works you've put out in at least the one I've experienced and I feel like such a fool for not having you bring a bunch of all of your books because I love hoarding the Great's farm that have influenced me then I give them as gifts when people come so we're gonna have to make that meeting next time so I can you know I get many of your books but echoes of Eden that's part of my weekly Torah diet and usually what happens is one year I'm reading echoes of Eden next year I'll move on to another you know commentary but for some reason I just can't wean myself off of it and a number of years now I read them again and again and they're they're just as beautiful echo echoes of Eden would be in my mind your primary primary books but there's also emanations there's also explorations how are these different what could you share with me what you've put into the world so explorations was my first book what happened was I wrote essays as emails back in 1996 mainly to keep in contact with my students and what explorations was was an attention students at bar-ilan University and other places and that was an attempt to be able to keep in contact with them so really it was and it it was a truncated form of the class now when I wrote it I had spoken to somebody who was very involved in the publishing business and she was involved in hundreds of books and she said it's good but you need to cut it down around 30% and then we can mass-market it and I said I don't want to cut it down 30% I want it as it is and that was a book which was 500 pages and all five books of the tour one in saying why would she have said that arbitrarily picked 30% because she didn't have the patience for it she knows the market wouldn't have the patience for it if she wants me to get into a non-jewish market she wanted to go all over the world and she felt that we needed to dumb it down those are the words that she used we need to dumb it down a little bit and then we can get it out there in mass market it and then it could have a much larger impact and I didn't want to dumb it down now what's happened now is 20 years later I have rewritten that book so the there's a new book that I just put out and I mean you got your hands on literally the first copies arrived in Israel yesterday and it's called explorations expanded so what I gave you now was 350 pages on desperation just on Genesis and what I did is I worked on it more instead of taking out the 30% now I added an another 50% and now I added in some new essays and I headed in some sources and their Hebrew sources are there so now instead of just reading it again echoes Avedon was a book which was interesting because I wrote it that people can learn it not just learn it not just read it to learn it you can sit with LaRussa and read in north of route then read it you can use it if you teach a class because the sources are all there so what I did now is updated explorations and made it look like it goes of Eden and I hope in the next couple of years to put out four more volumes of this okay so that's echoes of Eden yes okay and exploration exploration so you're gonna take each one of the books from echos of Eden and four from explorations no each one of the books from echoes of Eden and combine them into one exploration no no okay so I so I see that I have the total lack of clarity so what I'm reading is again that original 500 page it's rushing through my mind or the plethora of questions I want a barrage you it will go we'll get there in a second s the 500 page book now became first line 350 pages second volume will be again operations second vine will be expanded explorations on Schmoe and then expand on the number eight core then by mid Birds burn so most of the work on this I have already done and now the question is do I want to add more essays into it you know I the book came out and over the summer I decided I want to hit one more essay but I missed the deadline so I was still working on it most of last week why because it was on Pascha and Noah and it was something that I wrote about where I gave a lecture on it I never had written it before and I'm still am I finished with it you said you asked about why not yes before when I write God should give me time and strength and so on give you tremendous time and strength actually the last night when we were communicating I sent you a whatsapp and you responded very quickly and I was really shocked about that because I picture you with all communications off in a room with candles and in total seclusion because I can only imagine the depth of concentration it would take to be able to bring all that together and so the truth is I would really like to know your process I'd love to know how it happens how these ideas come to you and when they're coming to you when you're writing them do you the sources just pop into your head from a lifetime of study and you just remember where they are like I just don't know how you're able to aggregate the sources in the right way is this a legitimate question yeah it's it's legitimate it isn't because what you're asking really is a process of creativity so how was a person to explain creativity any any I mean I would like to believe that any creativity that I have is because for the audience and the people that read it and the people that listen to the classes and that God gives you God uses me as a vessel and many other teachers as vessels and because people read it so therefore I have these insights and maybe that's a total cop-out answer but if you want to know more technically this is always gonna be a combination what I'll do is early on that's a weekly class I'm gonna give I will early on in the week I will try to read the entire portion should I make record Targum total old school nothing fancy read it through and and study my current avatar go for our listeners is just the reading of the shots meaning just the reading of the text itself twice and then with Rashi or Tarkin it's our uncle's uncle it's oaklands targum I thought it was no no no no people do other things but I said old school old school is two times to read the text and one time to read the Aramaic translation of it which is the closest to a literal translation so in that foundational basic diet of yours Rashi doesn't show up no interesting no just text nothing else just text and then what will happen is the way that I'm thinking is thematically ideas combinations words is something repeating itself I look at the characters I look at things they've done I question issues like that and more often than not will identify what I'm looking for and then I'll look for sources which means I already know what the sources are gonna say before I have found them right okay well your sources are from the entire breadth and scope of the TANF the Gemara the midrash the entire corpus of jewish learning is so tell me a little bit about your journey through life where were you born how did you come to do you have a photographic memory I don't believe so I don't remember so he said you were born I was born in Brooklyn New York and my father's a rabbi and a clinical psychologist um brought up in a moderate and Orthodox home although it's interesting because you know what is Modern Orthodox it's realistic yeah it's it's where the people are monitored and the rabbi's Orthodox so um I was brought up in that kind of home I have an older brother a user of it many of them older older brother who's very accomplished on behalf of my father's as well very accomplished that was awesome my brother teaches here in along foot English so you're from a long dynasty and that dynasty is a big word but my great-grandfather was a very prestigious for a plane as well if we're talking about your great-grandfather being a perceived as relevant it's officially a dynasty dynasty and and I got a very good education I'll put it like that I was privileged to be able to to study with ruff salivate shook for three years I was in his class towards the end of his life I'm probably one of the younger people when I was in this year I may well have been the first year the youngest person in this year and I stayed with her by listing for four years as well and along the way I've been privileged to be able to study with some really really special people and did you have a process because I know I feel like my my learning has been a little bit hodgepodge did you have a process did you do Tanna and then Mishnah and then Gemara or no no I I you know in high school I probably didn't take things all that seriously I came to Israel for the year when I was 17 where did you go I was in a place called BMT I stayed there for two I was also in VM teams there for two years and then I went to good chef towards a third year at some place in the middle I spent around as man or so with her of Koosman who was in Rafah via and I would say that by the time I came back after the three years in Israel then I made a decision that I warned note 2 na but I want to know just what it says which means I felt that my Jewish education till that point had caused this confusion of homage and Rashi or ho machinery behind Commission other things and it was that point I started to build but I had felt I needed to build from the ground floor first I need to know what the text says and then I can go through all of Rashi and then every year I would I would try to go through different commentaries and along the way getting more and more right so a lot of times nowadays you know you quote something you don't even realize it's Arashi and it's not the actual text of right and you know that's something I have to deal with students because I know that they don't know the difference sometimes and then I started to go through more more esoteric things when I was yet now I'll start all over again independent of finale's part of this is actually quite amusing to me I don't know any other word to use that a lot of people know of me as somebody who has taught to enough when then really wasn't my first interest it was it was more so Madrid shim Camaro I got do't and things like that if you would have asked me some some thirty years ago if you would have asked me some thirty years ago you know you can write a book I would have said yeah I'm gonna write a book on Anka dodo that would have been my first thing and it was my first love but I got the note is the stories of the Talmud and the stories or stories and when I say that what I mean is that we need to be able to distill from those stories what wisdom is and ultimately I believed and I was looking for mysticism as well and ultimately I believed that the most core Jewish mystical teachings were contained within the town with itself and I ended up going towards all kinds of later you know readings and texts as well going through what we would call more classic mysticism or what we would call perhaps let's say there Hasidic writings subsequently but but I used them because what they were doing is that they were explaining some of these core ideas but I felt it was almost like a watering down taking place so I ended up going back to these core sources trying to you know take away all the veneer to look underneath you know that the pure wood which is underneath and they're interesting what those messages was were and I was teaching the whole time the whole time I've been teaching the alga dote even though as I said I ended up writing other things cuz you know on there's a market for partial to chef wah and people seem to be interested in it so the partial shavoo on this is I think the partial touch of or the weekly Torah portion it helps by giving sort of a systematic way to go about learning the Torah you know it gives you just a portion a doable bite-sized amount of Torah that you can do on a weekly level that's why I even started going into simila because I was learning in such a hodgepodge way I was hoping that Samia would give me some sort of context to to approach Torah learning so um so yes so you were saying so with the parser Shiva what's interesting is that every year I give no classes every year my partial Shiva class is going to be different the ones that I give in various places in in our neighborhood I've been giving one for a women's class I don't know for how many years 20-something years well that makes sense in the womb in your neighborhood because it's the same woman's but if you're teaching at bar-ilan University and varices Shiva you could theoretically do the same thing ever you could but I've been giving classes on the öyou center and I have people been coming for 20 years well you said they probably won't resort hear from you for 20 years what do I give different classes so every year I'll do something which is which is different but the odd odd that I've been teaching is the same one year after year after year and therefore the analysis has just gotten deeper and deeper and deeper so I finally I would say I don't know if the last how many years I started writing it some of the essays in this new book it's gonna be called crowns on the letters and it's done the book is finished the book is ready to come out it's just thirteen chapters on thirteen I got 13 stories on the Talmud but again these the essays that I wrote could be 30 40 pages now analyzing one you know teacher why did you decide first of all I reserved the first five copy five copies of the first batch okay okay if that's okay no pressure but - why do you call it crowns on the letters because of one of the teachings with that I'm dealing with is a story of Rabbi Akiva his classroom that a man named Moses Moshe wanders into that classroom and he what you said a man named Moshe I learned that it was Moshe Rabbeinu well sure obey no that is the man he wanders into the classroom that he's a quest and the quest is to try to figure out what in the world of those crowns that God is putting on what he sees up on Mount Sinai he's putting crowns on the letters and why do you need crowns don't letters so I then go to try to explain what this teaching is and as I said I have 13 chapters on these okoto the book is finished and the publisher is just still trying to raise a little bit more money because Jewish publishers are convinced that they cannot make their money selling books really yeah so or they can't make as much money as if they also have which is fine so the book has been waiting it's ready it's done it's ready and is that frustrating for you that the read ibly yeah I imagine greater frustrating the book is ready okay okay so so crowns on the letters that's coming out soon so let me ask you this okay we're right now we just finished the book of the parsha of noah and we're going into lexico yeah right you're sitting down with a group right now and they say teach us teach us the heart of la flaca teach us what the primary messages in the in the portion of LA in the book of Genesis Sulekha that let's look actually has a whole bunch of teachings it's not it's not that there's one thing you have our home and Sarah going on a quest but I'll start off what I would be thinking of first question I would have why does God she was out for him why him of all people did God talk to other people with other people that God spoke to who thought they were having some kind of a psychotic episode and would not do it or they didn't have you know did other people get the dream that you have right here to build a farm and they just woke up in the morning said well that was insanity I'm doing that again are you the only lunatic of the head this dream I mean perhaps there's hundreds of others but they just they couldn't deal with it so that that to me is very intriguing I mean I actually did find sources that say that God speaks spoke to everybody and told every single person get up and come over here and only one guy listened so I found that really really interesting but that goes back to my question that I'm looking for why Avraham why is he the one who's chosen what is it what is it that he has done which means as we enter into the story we don't have any reason any rationale for this you know Noah even we're told oh he's a righteous man when I told anything about him we're just told one thing that he goes but the second thing and this is something which also I think takes a great deal of thought God uses the words left' look on you know pick up and go and then that's like a general turn let's look up pick up a go to be good for you and so on he actually uses that terminology twice when speaking without for him he uses it over here in the very beating of L'Aquila and he uses it again at the end of a era the end of a era he's telling him to go and to do the akkada to go and offer his son and uses the exact so really anything that you're gonna say about what lek Lahore really means it should be consistent than mean the same thing over there and that's what I mean that that the first time I read I pay attention to language I try to look at words I try to hold on to the words or is this a common word an uncommon word what kind of term is used other places how is it used how consistent is this so that other left look ah it has then has a difference in terms of response there it says finish game out of them about care of them gets up early in the morning and it goes that's lacking over here so now whenever there's gonna be some symmetry then you look for the symmetry in the asymmetry so you have symmetry in terms of the phrases you have asymmetry in terms the response and that leads me then to another question did I open get up and go immediately ordered out from wake up lots of times after hearing gods say to go which means that becomes a far more intriguing thing and I see you want to respond to that no I never even thought of such a thing but that would be the quote right here I am a book here meaning I Ram woke up early in the morning and he saddled his donkey to do something as dreadful as the and that he was given to sacrifice his son so we just sort of elaborating on what you're saying so if it if it does not say that he responded that way so the first initial one we could ask the question that you're saying was he receiving this again and again and he just maybe shirked it off what right so so that see also what we just now did is we turned the album into a person we and we always have to walk a very fine line with you know I said most short guy names most remaining emotions at Moshe Rabbeinu and I say a man named Avram you say ah Verma me know which is there's a line to walk over here we're dealing with the spiritual Giants beyond our imagination who nonetheless we human beings also so therefore is it really though beyond our imagination or could it be that you know because one of the my qalam my issues with art scroll you know the the books that you read about the the greats of our of the Jewish past like the Vilna Gaon would say AHA Cole and his mother's breast milk you know it's like just such high levels of that it makes them almost out of out of our grasp but if if they're really out of our grasps and why would have Shem have put them before us meaning Jeremy tells the story but when he left nav a Daniel sold his house and built this out here and the huge massive trauma that it was for him and his family and that Avram once he left Hashem didn't talk to him anymore for a while and he's just wandering in the desert wondering what has he just done so what is your sort of go on shake it makes him a person you were saying so my first response is then the olden days they used to breastfeed kids till they three or four years old able to say a brook is not as impressive so maybe as you made it sound maybe even five years old second the second point is that there's attention there's attention because they are and they will remain our spiritual Giants on the other hand they are human beings so it you know there's a term which is used in modern Israel in terms of learning Tanakh but globally I am to look at people you know in the eye is word on the same level I - I is if they're regular people so I believe we can do that but we also have to realize for me to look at him in the eye which we have to do because if they're not human beings what can we learn from it but I do have to realize I have to get on a step stool to look at them in the eye and I think that stuff still is very important it's not just a regular guy like any other guy we have to be careful and now go back to spiritual John what would have to have hubris of epic proportions not to think that right but then I go back and say wow did I or maybe hesitate was there hesitation there did it take time and then as you start looking and sort of thinking's easy part of what I do is I notice the words I notice the ideas or I'm looking and part of what I do is I just keep things in mind and keep track of things that other people sort of just you know play over you know you we mentioned you know the study of Rashi is the you know basic study do you realize that Rashi in this of exposure says the following that when a firm has the stream later on chapter 15 he has this vision and he not speaks to him and says but you should know you're gonna have a child but you're going you're gonna inherit the land but your descendants are going to be enslaved and abused right for 400 years and the fourth generation is going to be come back over here Syrah she then says that when it talks about you were descendants it's talking about yet look that we started counting from yet stuck Raschi later on she mode is going to tell you that the counting of the 400 years is actually from the birth of its cook but then he adds another point than this isn't about there it says that the duration of 430 years the Jews left so how do you give an extra 30 years in there you know I know if you live in Israel you'll say was mom right taxes and so on and therefore okay we're never surprised when extra money gets tacked on extra years get down but you but you realize that's a problem where's the 430 years and there he says no 30 years took place between when God spoke to the point that yes was born so good so now I know that when yet slick was born on from was a hundred thirty years before that Avram were 70 so therefore the Brit beta battery and the Covenant that took place when God says I'm gonna give you all this land and your your descendants and so on all took place when he was 70 years old go back to the beginning of life look and it says an average 75 years old when he left but it doesn't say how old he was when God spoke to him so now I have five more years in order to account and you realize now that just got inside your head and you're stuck and you have to buy my books now because you're stuck because you're gonna have now figure this out what in the world is going on because then it's clear that he's 75 and why she just told me 70 now why didn't you remember that Rashi because he never put it together you just never you just never went to that sort of take it at face value and you're just sort of flowing through here yeah it takes a certain amount of critical if reading with the critical eye - yeah and say holding so what's going on over here now I go back to my question okay God's it left the fine it doesn't say that he got up the next morning how much time tick place it doesn't say how old he was when God said to go it says he was 75 years old when he left how much time did plays did he go more than once did he go once inna to go back did he make a pilot trip and then go back because didn't work out the first time did he go wouldn't it have included that maybe it does it actually says he left twice but you have to pay attention really in the first five verses in the first five verses it talks what I'm from leaving twice but you just didn't notice it it says but Yela of romka sure DeBell of hashem they yell at you to load the off-ramp information in machine vision of it's a tome if I run an Avram did as God commanded doesn't say when and it says that he that lo 20 min Ivan was 75 years in love Quran and the next verse says v kaha from it Soraya stove it load benefit and Ivan took Sarai his wife and to quote why did it say it's a cloud it just said he took him the last verse is this the same trip whereas this two different trips and I'll say that now once I asked the question now you can start looking at the commentaries right it would also make sense that the second verse should be before the first verse yes the e cough and then viola and first he took them and then he went right this as he went and then he took them and then he went right well that is establishes an entirely new narrative narrative of one of the foundational stories of the Jewish people would you say that is the foundational story of the Jewish people viola right now was about the humanity you know what you know what I noticed about Noah and there's nothing tragic right now first of all he's silent he never speaks there's no there's no there's no speech the first time he talks is after he himself was hurt either physically or emotionally by his son in the first things he says is he curses his son there the whole story there was no words that's the first thing comes out his cursing his son and later on when God speaks to him was about to speak to him well that is another thing is that amazing I've never thought of it the first thing he says that's so tragic it's it's it's completely tragic and then you contrast this with what does God say to himself or as an editorial comment before he's about to inform Avram about what's what he's gonna do to stone he says I'm gonna tell her about this because I was a great person and he is going to instruct his children and he instruct his children alone never instructs his children the people always Noah no I'm sorry never instructs his children and the people that are building the tower or Knox descendants and according to at least biblical chronology Noah's still there no instruction no communications the same lack of a spot of caring of consideration of warning of the people of a generation he built that he built the the ark but no Vetrov a chef Michelle right there was no it's all lacking it's it's none of it's there and that's the argument that the rabbis have about him is he is he really so great or not so great so reveal Helen says he's not so great you know had he lived in a better generation he wouldn't have been all that great cuz look he's not like great rich Lukesh the Bell Chava and I have a whole chapter in which location the book on I gotta write where's lucky she labelled chuhwa their penitence the man who used to be a criminal he says you he says now had he been in a better generation been better because he was I I know what it's like to be in a bad group of people I know what it's like if you mean a better group of people to imagine rich sluggish making this observation that's interesting right and saying no no he would have been far greater he says take the criminal and put them in the basement rich it's like there's the ladder right it's how many now as you've climbed so no off climb tremendous now just which if you come to our room it doesn't compare but if you compare it to Algrim there's something lacking there isn't there again I'm just imagine who I'm from it is Avram is somebody who is dedicated to kindness the decency to helping other people and when God says I'm going to wipe out the people who are the very antithesis of what you are the people who stand against kindness against generosity against decency so can you imagine somebody today saying I'm gonna get rid of your mortal enemy and all of them says no no these people who juji's offerings kindness is even towards the people who are in his way because even them he feels us love to and again I think that all of us I'm no offense towards you I think all of us fall short on that to be able to look at our quote-unquote an average adversaries and say no no these people are people and they can change that's been one of my greatest votos one of my greatest you know internal processes of growth out here when we were rated by peace now one of the greatest challenges was working through in my heart saying these are my fellow Jews okay I love them even though they're seeking to harm me Hashem Lilu Ramaiah SLE Adam they won't be able to hurt us that's unless Hashem wills it there's room to love them and have compassion on them but it is not easy and and what they're doing is coming from Jewish values I don't think applied properly but it's coming from Jewish Val I actually strongly agree with that and it's a very precious idea for me but tell me what you mean by that if you don't mind Jewish values of caring about rights of others and caring about this the other so you know I would love to believe that that's the case however if there is any shred of intellectual honesty there they are standing in between Arabs and Prosperity meaning we have Arabs working here we're putting food on the table we have wonderful relationships I think that if they claim it's really about Arab rights there's a little disingenuous and is there what I was feeling about the Jewish values the peace now is rooted within is it's the desire for tikkun olam in the sense of having the world love us and they feel like the thing that's standing between meaning it's not the you know Jews of have run that they hate it the Jew within themselves that's different because what does it mean to have Jewish unity Jewish identity that we're different than the rest of the they want the world to have one global consciousness I think that's in my experience with them and dealing with them I've come to believe that that's a little bit more their motivation and the whole Arab writes things a little bit not so much but that's neither here nor there thoughts my thoughts are a piece now here's the problem of course in order to say I will achieve peace now means that you have to live in a delusion now because it's not peace now unfortunately certain processes yes it's a long time to work out rev I meet all who who taught not so far from where we are right now he felt that the Cheviot the noun is that the need for immediate gratification even spiritual emotional others was part of the problem of this generation first whether it be mushy Akasha or whether it be shallow Mashav that this action he felt was something which was very dangerous and spiritually immature and even michiochi yes yes he felt that was spiritually mature and he felt that again if it's here than good but don't imagine it's here when it's not but what I was what I was trying to get out was a slightly different point there's this beautiful Madras beautiful teaching that says that when God was coming to the world he he spoke with various attributes as a war spoke with a peace in circles truths and so on and and and and and kindness and decency and justice and it says that they were all arguing and then God takes truth and throws to the ground so I think one of the responses of this and there's a lot to say about this but one of the again I can be very gratuitous and say I have a chapter on this as well in the new book but I've also written about this and a couple of other books on the parsha what happens when truth is thrown to the ground it shatters and therefore truth is all over the place and what I find is that many peoples of this world have taken little pieces of truth and they contain truth they have truth and part of greatness of us our own greatness is being able to find the pieces of truth in other people as well I'm not saying it's always distilled in exactly the proper way but there there are grains of truth over there and if we can't see it then there's a problem within us or if we get blinded by the parts that we see are false right and we're not able to see past that to see the truth it's there all right we're in and I think that I think it's a very healthy way of looking at the world because even within the Jewish community I think that this is very pronounced that there's different aspects and I think terms in the entire world and just to take that teaching that's what it means truth is thrown to the ground so what's our job is to put it back together again it's sort of you know like Humpty Dumpty on a cosmic level right right okay so I literally could keep you here forever but I'm gonna have just two last questions you can answer them however long you want to and I would literally just I would just sit by the dust of your feet for the next year and a half and be grateful for people can't see there's a lot of dust over you that's true you shall love the the stones in the dust of the land right from Salem we better love it here because there's a lot of it we're talking about lexicon and Avraham Avinu Abraham what Abraham didn't have the Torah did he find God first did God find him first did he there's a belief that he deduced the existence of God how I've probably had a more complex spiritual journey than we give him credit for um in my first book explorations which is now more work dad I'm really sorry for doing this but in exploration expanded I pointed out something which I noticed which i think is interesting and I checked this out I'm for his father did something different from every single person who live till that point he named his son a his father's name was Nahar if they have lots of people who name their son after their father or his father Terah was the first one to do this that means that oblems father had an appreciation of where things came from which means tariff is personality who's a very interesting personality which means I'm going to now an answer your question by asking a different question which is what we do did often come in a vacuum or did is there that you know nature nurture however you want but is there an atmosphere that creates him you know I gave a little YouTube talk on this last year and I talked about how from Apple no Newton according to the story the Apple falls off and hits it on the head whether that happened or not what was a firm's Apple what was the thing that hit his head and anyway Wow this is what's going on so that I considered the fact that opera was grown up in a famine a family with an appreciation of where things come from because every time he looks at his brother he realizes that it that that's a reminder and a memory as a word of his grandfather so therefore albums father had this appreciation for the past and where things come from so I think the germ of Abraham's genius comes out of taking the logic of terror in a place he can never the terror himself couldn't take it and I have a second thing to support that we're told in the end of last week's Barcia the tariff had taken Avram and his family and they were on the way to the land of Canaan but he stops halfway so that tells us and it says it says he's on the way to Kanaan so now you think about that a second that means that tariff is this again fascinating person who has an appreciation for the past as appreciation for the future but he can't go all the way and therefore Avram is this person who's brought up and he's able to take that next step and maybe as like we said before maybe God called out to all peoples on earth maybe he called out to tariffs maybe that's the reason terror who's on the way there but he didn't make it all the way he stomps I mean the other people didn't even take the first step that's the first positive thing I've ever heard about tariffs you know there's the Midrash about you know he was the Walmart of idols and he put off rum in charge that's the famous one but I've never heard that about it but it makes sense it would how can I remove in an in a total vacuum but but ok so the second question that I'm going to whine it I was talking to Arthur and Aaron and they asked me they said could you sum up Judaism ok Judaism and just give me a little summary what is Judaism what did you say Arthur the message or the mission or how did you phrase it yeah give me a summary of Judaism well I feel intimidated because you know very intimidating very intimidating question no because this was the question that was asked of shaman who zest of he'll oh so you didn't actually say it in the way will teach me all judy's when I'm standing on one foot but Shammai had a very interesting answer does the shaman I took at a stick but it wasn't any stick it said it was a builder's stick I would imagine something that you would use in order to be able to build buildings and he takes out this builders stick and he chases the guy away with it so what is he saying again this goes back to understanding I got out he's saying if you're gonna build a building you can't stand on one foot a building on one foot is gonna fall down you need a foundation and therefore he's using the builders stick in his hand and he's saying and he's chasing away no you want to you want to ask a serious question then don't ask a very short question like that you know put it all into one you know while you're standing on one foot one really quick answer but that's interesting because he's saying that you need something stronger now let's let's pause there for a second hello then gives very approaches he'll oh and he'll give a very interesting answer himself hillo says that that which is detestable to you don't you to somebody else that's the entire Torah everything else is commentary go ahead and learn there's a whole bunch of words there that need to be understood which means the first thing is something detestable to you despicable to you don't do to somebody else Rashi points is out that the other person includes other people and includes God which means that's already a message something you would not want don't do to others don't do to God that that's the core of it but why did he think again everything else is commentary now you have to learn the rest of the commentaries because there's lots and lots of applications right and go learn ultimately it can't go down to one principle it has to learn was a part of this summer he's absolutely is absolutely an important part of it frunze rosen sort made that point he said that the go learn is actually the key to the entire thing but I was always intrigued by the difference in Hillel and Shammai because by the way Xiaomi was not a bad guy sha mais you know i would imagine this was on his tombstone but he said in pyaar kiya vote that you should greet everybody you know with a good countenance right makka bill called um per se for putting your vote treat everybody means that Shah was a guy who had a smile on his face all the time Shama was the guy he would meet somebody I how you doing whatever because you imagine Shama is being mad and angry and bad and so shall I just has one unfortunate circumstance and that is that Hillel lives at the same time as him if there if Gila wasn't there shaman would be this unbelievable superstar but I'm stressing that was his saying treat people you know me couple safer putting up street people with a smile that's what he's teaching his students greet people in the morning say you'd be the guy to say good morning to people that that's who Shawn my was no he didn't say in this instance because he felt that he felt that the foundation isn't strong enough if you take it down to one principal but why did he'll think it was so that got me thinking of the vision the image of standing on one foot right you can't do in one foot but you know when we pray when we say the Amidah we stand with our two feet together why to make it look like one foot why to be like angels because angel stands on one foot which means the difference in Hillel and Shammai was hot Shani was practical and on a practical level you have to teach people a foundation they can stand down because he can't stand on one foot but angel stand on one foot and every person that Hillel met he thought was an angel and an angel you can teach them when they're standing on one foot because there's something very angelic and something special about them and maybe that's the way that what's distastefully to don't do to others go see the other person as being an angel of God see that see the humanity and other people see the decency in other people love other people because of that spirit within them and if you can do that then everything else becomes the details and that's what Judy's messages Wow I guess that would be a fantastic way to wind down our little conversation here together let's before we leave I just how could people find out about you about your teachings about your books get in contact with you is there a central primary website after if they google you every website in the world comes up yes yes there is something called rabbi our econ comm which is not functional a student of mine put it together but it needs to be we need a resurrection we have I do have a blog another reason for Michele out we do I have a blog which is explorations our recon explorations look you easy to find that I have a presence in terms of people want to listen to audio lectures on why you Tora I have hundreds of lectures over there one searches around you can also find hundreds of essays but on the blog every week I put a list of the lectures and of the essays on that week's parsha and you can be find yourself with enough material to this is why you tour on X on my Expo on your exploration yeah you can find him what is that website it's cool it's it's a blog and it's called explorations dot-com yeah something like that you think I know exactly what it's called Arika if you look re okay if anyone wants to know if you can't find it googling it I'll give you my email it's ad k re David Kahn 1010 one zero one zero which is my birthday sorbets today's the tenth of a tenth ADK ten ten at gmail.com ADK ten ten at gmail.com and if you look in Amazon you'll find a whole bunch of books including ones I didn't even know that I wrote because somebody just published when I books in paperback without my knowledge even really are you allowed to do that oh this isn't that is that you yes did you reach out to that that's a crazy thing I've never even heard of all those I have more stories to tell you afterwards then but yeah well I think it's probably par for the course of putting out what you put out into the world yeah so uh and which by the way if you ask me is a small price to pay for the gift of sham has given you of your and so I just want to thank you with tears in my eyes really of just the profound richness you've brought to my life the inspiration you've brought to my life the you know so you everything you see here you share in the merit of all of this because the tour is that you share aren't abstract theological they're applicable they give me strength I'm able to actually take refuge in your teachings and really not in your teachings your teachings give me the tools to take refuge in Hashem and and have real be Tejon in my heart and so I edit you that with that tremendously so for me you know I could see a thousand movie stars and I'm not moved and I see you and I get like like a sixteen year old girl Beatles concert that's how I feel so uh so you were always just don't throw any of your underwear what III will say two things one is that I hope next time I come out here we'll have the well the the grapes that you have out there we'll have some have very quickly turned into wine I'm not say I'm gonna wait that long to come and that will love be able to have a proper repast over here and you could stay here first about we're gonna have a retreat center we're gonna have simmering and you could always wear my home is almost completed to have you as a guest in my home well that would just be a little taste of get will out for me and the other thing I want to say is that I write in my first language which is yeshiva SH and the writing is special because of my wife who has translated it into English and turned it into something which is beautiful and you know as much as we've had five children together and at this point four grandchildren together God willing many many many more but we also have around eleven or how many books we've had together and all the things that I have is due to her skill as well so I don't want to take all the credit but naomi has had a great deal of credit and everything that I've done I would say Rebbetzin Khan thank you for all of that but you get mad every time I say Rebbetzin she loves it so and Naomi Khan is also a very important player in the land of Israel today with the organization of reg Aviv perhaps we will have her on another episode of Israel inspired so Rabbi Cahn thank you so much my pleasure this week on the high flyer show Woodstock meets the Bible the first purchase of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel is celebrated as forty five thousand people gathered in Hebron this past Shabbat for parshat Chaya sera the eighteen hundred years later after this event took place King Herod built the building that is still there today and for there was a giant building there the Torah keeps on saying this is where it is you got to know where it is it's a real