Israel Inspired: What Made Abraham the Most Influential Man in History?

[Music] and now live from Jerusalem you're listening to Israel inspired radio here your hosts rabbis Aria bream wits and Jeremy Gimpel [Music] Shalom and welcome to Israel inspired on the Land of Israel Network that's the Land of Israel calm re brown woods here back on the air with Jeremy compelled Jeremy it's good to have you here it's good to be here it's it seems like it's been a while has been a while right I would call it maybe we were off for the holidays my head was just spinning too much yes I'm in a perpetual state of complete disorientation and it's not a bad disorientation it's a it's a good disorientation meaning coming out to this place has been so overwhelming and the shifts are it's causing like a mental emotional psychological aerobics like flexibility of switching and I mean do you understand what I'm saying here's what happened to me yesterday out here we have a group of eleven Germans that are now living here on the farm they're living here for the whole week they sleep here they eat here they've made their own food they're totally self-reliant they're really productive they wake up in the morning they work in the fields they're building our prayer Center I mean it's like truly unbelievable when I was walking yesterday towards the evening I was walking together with you and we bump into them I hear on the walking on our path that we had made towards our cave and it's like people are walking around the property and they're living here it's like the dream is actually yes started for matters at the time that building is actually being lived in but you know that was huge for both of us just that moment of bumping into someone as we're walking on the property cuz it's in a long road and actually see the dream is beginning to materialize right because it didn't mean to be this way I took a picture of that moment you know maybe we'll use that as the cover picture for this show but what happened to me yesterday morning I feel like was historic because I was I thought I was going to be starting Reserve Duty Sunday so it wasn't Sunday it's this coming Sunday and so the the Germans came Saturday night and I hadn't really spoken to them for a full day that they were here and I'm that's not like me you know I'm the hospitable type I consider myself very Abrahamic I would have gone to them and engaged them but the truth is I just I was so it was difficult for me to believe that they're really here because correct me if I'm wrong hermie but a number of these Germans here are related directly related to Nazis they are Germans through and through right but I'm saying they were children and grandchildren like SS officers I don't know if SS officers but they were patriotic Germans in the times of the Holocaust right so so anyways in the morning I wake up to go say hello to them and and when I get there you know the Builder the guy in charge of the building and he told me what what to say to them that I should say well you know the men are gonna go and help build the the synagogue because that is heavier lifting work and the women were gonna go prune the olive trees so he said you know tell the men to go there and the women to go there and for summary I couldn't get the words out of my mouth I couldn't say it was like and then I said I said to them you know men go in this direction and women you go in that direction to the olive trees because just think historically right in in the Holocaust Jews men in this line women in this line and here they are in Judea every Holocaust movie that I've ever seen as men in this line women in this and then I'm saying to them men in this direction women in this direction and they're like oh yeah they were so happy and it was like an out-of-body moment for me as I'm telling Germans men go here women go here it was so such a profound experience that I actually felt you know in in the song of a sense this is when a return design will be like dreamers our mouths will be filled with laughter then I walked away actually laughing and I felt like I could hear divine laughter at such a thing that that's such an event were to even transpire and then later at night I sat down with them and I spoke to them I told them about that and and one woman said when that happened that's the first thing I thought of as well you know and then we were all laughing about it together and it's just so strange that we're all laughing together about this crazy turn of events where now Germans are in Judea and the in this direction women are in that direction you also pointed out something really unbelievable that we have a prayer center here and it was literally Muslims and Nazis are building our prayer center right it's just unbelievable yeah and I said that too though I went there and I started taking videos and pictures because to see them working hand-in-hand together these Arabs from the communities around here of course they're not volunteering and they may not be super Blee excited about what we're doing yet but the bottom line is when you just look at the actions we have Arab Muslim descendants of Ishmael and German descendants of a sob Adam because when I sat with them I even brought this up to them and I said we're not descendants of Asaph were I said well II do man ASA that's the same thing they just did they didn't realize there was that sort of confluence between those two concepts but it was hard it's hard for me not to feel strongly like what is happening here is directly connected to the unfolding of Redemption it's just too beyond it's too you know we had a film crew come out this week from the United States and they wanted to make kind of a mini documentary about what we're doing here and I just felt like it's it's not going to capture it and we tried to give over what we're seeing here what we're doing here what we feel here and showed them around and show the different places until you see the vines growing where Amos said the vines would be growing and you see the fruit gardens that we're planting and you see Germans from around the world that have come here to help participate in building this place it's just something that is beyond it can't be conveyed in a camera something magical and it can only happen here right because what's this week's Torah portion God says it's arguably the first Mitzvah that is given to a Jew in the history of the world God says to Abraham left la la receta right you should go unto yourself when it's translated in the art scroll or the English it doesn't really do with judges just go to your land but it says left la ha unto yourself because Abraham had really reached a certain level when he was in Haran it says that he left and he brought the nefesh shut that he made him her on the souls that he made meaning he was already imagine writing books and he was teaching and he was preaching he had made a number of converts to the one God of Israel and yet still even though he had already made many souls and he'd already gathered a following and he'd already traveled from Orcas team on his way to Kanaan Hashem only appears to him in a clear vivid way in this week's Porsche so meaning everything he had done up until now was done out of a certain inner intuition a certain feeling but he yet didn't really have a one-on-one encounter with God yet that was all done up and first of all I'm not sure it says anywhere in the text that left Luca was a clear revelation of Luca and it wasn't just a very strong feeling of intuition in his soul well it says with the difference between moving because something happening he was born in or custody and we know that or custody there was you know there was the Tower of Babel the Midrash said that Avram actually heard me morones ideas about unity and the world coming together with a common purpose and Abraham was one of the builders of the Tower of Babel according to the Midrash and then he saw the society that he was around and Abraham and Sarah were just you know two independent thinkers and even though they looked like everyone else they sounded like everyone else they didn't feel comfortable in the society in which they lived in this it let's we got to get out of here we had a we had a move out of this place and it says in last week's Porsche that they were actually on their way to the Land of Israel and on their way to the Land of Israel for some reason they stopped in Quran it seems to me that at that point they're operating in some sort of inner intuition they're operating in some sort of gut feeling they just don't feel right there they're seeking truth there's already teaching truth in her on there already amassing of following spreading the ideas of one God but yet still something shifts in this week's Torah portion that it says Valmer it's like a Shem is now speaking to him directly it's more than just an intuition it's an intuition that has that he's confirm this is now directly from God it's not just a gut anymore I know like everyone smile many people have an experience like that where they just haven't encountered and says I've just seen the truth now and I have to be true to what I know is true Abraham wasn't even told where to go I mean it's really unbelievable he says go to this land that I will show you and God doesn't show him what land and so Avram has to do some sort of internal soul-searching that he says well when I first left Orcas team I was on my way to the Land of Israel to Kanaan I guess I should pick up and continue on that original journey only to discover that Hashem had intended for him what he had originally intended for himself and that's why Rashi says la la la' Tova Coppola Hanukkah then what does it mean to go forth to yourself it's for your pleasure and for your benefit that sometimes we see God is saying like I want you to take on a challenge right now I want you to go and build a farm in the mountains of Judea at the furthest most outreach post in the West Bank in order to you know we can see as well God is calling us to a big challenge but if God is calling us to do anything we always need to know it slit ofit a novela Hana kotti know he's doing this for our good and for our benefit for our pleasure for our joy the path that we walk if we're actually listening to Hashem is one that will be ultimately for our good that's right how much happier is a fish in water than flopping on the riverbank that's exactly the the toe vittala Hannukah that fish is happier it is able to flourish and it is able to use all of the strengths that God gave it as a fish best when it's in the water that's how I feel is a slow growth and evolution that's happening in my soul being in this place living in these mountains I love it when days go by where I don't even need to leave I'm just connecting so deeply and profoundly with this place that the words left' la ha have never meant as much to me as they do really right now yeah you know what I really appreciate I love the fact that the Torah has gone full cycle and we're back into the patriarchs again back in the oven about their lives every time I read it every year we read these stories about the UH vote and each time I find new inspiration new meaning for myself I defying more with their journey how their journey affects my journey how I'm modeling our own journeys after their journeys and you know Hashem sends Abraham to the Land of Israel Rama arrives here again gets confirmation saying I want you to know you've followed me this is the land that I'm gonna give to you in your offspring forever and then he has to go down to Egypt almost immediately he comes into the land now imagine what that was for him he's coming preaching the one God no more idolatry love of humanity and then all these idolaters in the land see this new prophet come into the scene and all of a sudden a drought hits the land and they're like look what you've brought you've upset our gods all of the idolaters like look what you've done you're the one that has brought this curse on to the lane and Abram they'll ask to leave and go down to me try me ask to go down to marry me and I crime and it's like unbelievable what a challenge but here's the deal outcome isn't told to go down to meets Ryan he's not told to go down there the Midrash later on tells us that God was guiding him down to meet Simon the truth is there's a dispute amongst the sages of Israel if it was a sin that he left Israel it was a mistake that he might win Israel or if he was indeed following Hashem's will but I like the fact that Avraham sometimes has just an inner intuition sometimes he knows the truth and does it and sometimes he needs to look around and from the outside reality figure out what God's will is in his life just last week Ari and I were learning I'm a mother named Smith one of the greatest Zionist manifestos ever written of Aaron and one of the ideas that was brought down was this story of Abraham and he says that I want you to know that Abraham came into the Land of Israel and he wasn't told by God to go down to Egypt but he looked around any soft famine and you saw the trouble and he started the hardships and from his own intellect and understanding in gut he was able to decipher that this is what a Shem wants him he went down to Egypt and what was his message in the book as much as I listen folks were in Europe now look around us the world is falling apart just as Abraham needed to decipher what Hashem swill was for him to go down to Egypt all the more so the gates to the land of Israel are open in Europe is falling apart quickly now is the time to follow Abraham's foot leave where we are and go to the land of Israel and I said that's really a marvelous idea and I was thinking oh there's a lot of Jews around the world and I know a few of them myself that know in their gut that God wants them to be in the Land of Israel and they've actually already purchased a home here and they already have it here but they're there waiting in America for X number of things maybe it's for their parents to pass away maybe it's for a money issue of you know what if there's always a reason and I was just reading last week's Torah portion that Noah built the ark and the Midrash says that Noah built the ark and that was a good thing that he had enough faith to build the Ark but he only got in the ark once it started to rain a model once the flood really started coming down only then he got in the ark and I was thinking that's so parallel to what those Jews are doing they've bought the house there they had enough emunah enough faith to buy the house they know they're supposed to be in Israel but they're just waiting for it to pour for them to actually get on the ark and be saved and so all of us in some way or another are making these fundamental decisions that will transform the way that we live that our children live that our grandchildren live and what model are we modeling ourselves after are we waiting for the floods to come the in order that we escape then to the ark are we gonna hear the call of Lachlan ha in our generation I mean like you said the first command given to the first Jew in one breath Judaism was born the people of Israel were born Zionism was born and it was all born around this one concept of to go forth to this land and build a kingdom build a country because one man what could Abraham do what could one Jew what could one righteous among the nations do you could save maybe a few whales alone but as a country as a kingdom you can change the entire world and ultimately that really is this final in gathering is to finally accomplish the mission that Avraham was given so many thousands of years ago as we're now finally building the country that was really first given to Abraham right Hashem says to Avram I go and I will make you a great nation and that's an important idea I'll make you a great nation when a Jew throughout the last 2,000 years if there's some sort of great novel invention most of the time it's ignored but if something really great happens Einstein invents something they call him a German the Germans invented the der and it's on behalf of Germany they don't say the Jew Einstein the Jew your whatever nation you happen to be in that's the nation that gets credit but when you're in the Land of Israel everything you do is representative of the Jewish people that's who you represent and who do the Jewish people represent Hashem exactly you're representing God you're representing but even for those who are not as advanced in their faith just to be part of their own nation and be a proud representative of that that in and of itself is worth it because you know I got to say this this whole thing that's going on it's overwhelming Facebook and the internet it's a story that's just not going away this story about this Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein not anymore you don't know anything about Harvey efforts I don't have facebook you could give me a some background I'm sure a lot of our listeners need some background - okay Harvey Weinstein is a Jewish producer in Hollywood and he they had some undercover woman recording him being just absolutely vulgar ly terrible harassing her and I mean and it came out that those who set that reporter to expose that I don't know I don't know I don't know but that's not the point it's Jewish thing that's the question Weinstein is pretty Jewish that's not the where I want to go with this right now okay the point is that it's not like his name is you know Bob Smith and he happens to be Jewish Harvey Weinstein it's a Jewish name and he's a Jew and he did horrific terrible terrible things and that more movie producers are being outed people are doing this me to campaign were me too I was harassed I was raped these terrible things that happen to people and all in Hollywood know if people are saying in general but people in Hollywood are speaking out a little bit more now not as much as they should but another big produce was just added having dinner if eclis vulgar things and I was like no no please no okay he's a Jew he's a Jew as well James Toback was his name and you know and the fact is I don't want to be a conspiracy there's but when I hear people talking about the moral decay of America and how it comes from Hollywood and how that's from the Jews it's hard not to somewhat agree with that I mean come on I don't think that's fair what I'm saying meaning you need to dilute the fact to ignore the fact that many many Jews are running much of Hollywood Jews are very entrenched in Hollywood and there's a poisonous disgusting culture coming out of Hollywood but that's the thing about the Jews we're either great or terrible you know what I'm saying that there's also Maimonides Moses Abraham Einstein the examples of the light that we're bringing to the world is also beyond but there's also that darkness you know and I think that that darkness is able to perpetuate itself and ferment even more when with the Jews are not are in exile here's what it is Hollywood has a certain culture and it's a culture of hedonism it's a culture of materialism it's shallow it's empty I mean the entire industry is based on Lashon Hara whether magazines talking about how vile everyone else is and divorced and on drugs and just the whole reality of Hollywood is about as hollow as you can get now put a Jew in that scenario what will happen is the Jew will become the most successful at that game you want to put him in a place where where you're gonna be a materialistic you're gonna be immoral then he's going to be the most of all of that you want to put him in Wall Street watch he's gonna rise to the top and he's gonna be Wall Street Jews have killing we have vessels and we can either use our vessels to bring light or we can use our vessels to bring darkness but I don't think that it's fair to say that the Hollywood culture was invented by the Jews I feel like what you can say is that there's a culture a secular reality in Hollywood and in new you but to say that the Jews have not contributed to it in a terrible way well in my opinion would be the juice honest the Jews participated in a culture that existed that exists and they have they flourished in it they enhanced it they are at fault for doing that here's what I'm saying I keep on reading about articles on Twitter that are saying the rise in anti-semitism in Europe is unprecedented they have not seen such levels of anti-semitism since the times of the Holocaust and I keep on in theirs there's no more Jews in Europe what Muslims are coming in violently taking over their country pillaging stealing crime rates are going through the roof women are being raped in her arrest and Europe is pointing the fingers at the Jews that aren't there anymore there's no Jews in Norway anymore in Norway is like the rise in anti-semitism I'm like there's something supernatural happening here meaning when things go bad the finger points to the Jew for one reason right so that was a feeling I had about the Harvey Weinstein the Jews are being pointed at right now in Hollywood but I don't think it's fair to blame the Jews it was justified the guy is absolute dreck and what he's done is unforgivable and producers like that should be outed but the fact that this story isn't going away that it's not I mean I can't remember so usually these things rise and they fall yeah I thought stuff like that happens in Hollywood all that it does it does you know but they found they have an entire industry of pornography in Hollywood and so people are doing immoral things all the time this producer that producer I mean to me the fact that it's being pointed out and they're not letting it go and news articles come out about it is to keep the Weinstein Jewish name and I love read a lot of articles that said that you've said told me that the article is like his jooheon meaning they're singling out yeah but that article is written by Jews of course of course meaning words just such a crazy people were our own worst enemy in America were a tremendous source of darkness but an even greater source of light throughout history in America but but that's the point there's this imbalance and we're not supposed to be there and when we return to our land we will flourish and we will thrive and we will come to and what will happen as the Jews will be immersed not in a Hollywood culture but in a Jewish culture in a Jewish country with a Jewish army in a Jewish land in a Jewish people and then what will come out of Israel is a blessing to the world in fact that is the first promise given to Abraham the venire Habakkuk Omaha Adama that all families of the earth will be blessed through this nation in this land that is given to opera ham and now I mean I remember just a few months ago I left Ben Gurion Airport and you know you go past the security and you're on a moving sidewalk and on the side there's usually some sort of paintings or something anymore of something it was like all of the Nobel Prizes and the massive technologies that have changed the world in 70 years that Israel is produced and you see that Israel has affected millions of people's lives in Africa in biotechnology in clean water and clean tech and biotech I mean it's just like it's unprecedented what this little nation has done in only 70 years and if the Jews are just given an opportunity to live as a free people in our land it will it will affect the entire world only as a blessing but keep us in Hollywood keep us in Wall Street and who knows what you'll find there is probably a lot of corruption and evil right you know one of the zucchini that comes with the verses that come right after Abraham is told to leave it says viola romka shared a barrel of a Shem that Avraham went it just as Hashem had told him this meaning our sages say that he didn't even wait for Hashem to finish the instructions he already got up and left he wasn't thinking about his money he thought he said if I close up shop if I close up my business then it's just gonna I'm gonna get stuck here it's not gonna work I need to just leave he's it says he left behind some people that were that closed up his business form but he just got up and left you know it makes me think of my parents that were in Houston Texas and they told me that some of their neighbors said listen don't sell right now wait a little bit property values are going up and then you can make alia and they just at a certain point they just said this is just the time life is too short and they sold their house and of course after they sold their house a few months later the flood comes or but I don't remember exactly how much time but the flood comes destroys the home and you know we have to be zealous we have to act with conviction you know and I think that this is the time to really do it this is the parsha of our generation Lolita this is a a call that is still echoing in throughout the world for those Jews who are listening to what a Shem is saying that have the courage to hear what Hashem is telling them even though it is challenging and difficult and scary I feel like sometimes maybe I make it sound too easy you know and I don't give the proper kavod the proper weight the proper you know respect and recognition of the formidable challenge that leaving to another country with your family is I know it's a huge challenge but at a certain point you just got to dive in yeah I mean we only live once and I feel like if there's one thing to learn from Avraham it is to be unreasonable that if we only have one life to live here and we all know that that we have a destiny in this world and we're given guidance over the sages of the thousands of years through the sages and the prophets of Israel that all of us are meant to find our place in this land and find our place within this nation and I was just like I don't know I'm trying to figure out what's happening inside Israel man - if for just a little bit Ari yeah you know because right now the only real social media that I find myself dealing with is Twitter because I got all my news there I get it from a lot of different sources it's very quick the articles that I'm able to see I'm able to see in this organ I don't want to see I'm able to just kind of flip by but of course I'm also subscribed to like left-wing rags like Haaretz and the editor put out this thing and I clicked on the editors a profile to see like what he writes about himself and the way that the editor of Haaretz I forgot his name now writes about himself he says fearful for Israel's future that's that was like his tagline for who he is as a person and what his stance is in the world like that is how he defines himself fearful fearful and I'm like that's really interesting because many many years ago we learned something from a great non-jewish Odaiba and his name was Brian Tracy and I remember when our early 20s when we were trying to work on our time management and how to become more productive ritualism I mean I used to listen to him a lot and I remember one of the torah's that he taught was that man can operate from two places he can either operate out of fear or operate out of desire I think that's really interesting that this person from merits is declaring on Twitter to the world that's who he is I'm a man that's operating out of fear I am fear for fearful for shame there's nothing to you know I even feel like when people say you live out there are their fences or the security systems I said no no none of that like aren't you afraid I always want to respond aren't you embarrassed to ask that question no I understand that question I guess I understand it but we should be embarrassed to ask that question well here's the question that I want to ask all of our listeners and also to us that this is something that I think these Torah portions force us to contemplate when Avram was told LaCava he wasn't operating out of fear he was operating out of desire and when I look at like inside Israel what is the difference between the right wing and the left wing anymore is there a common thread or a common denominators right wing secular generating murder what there are two camps within a Mistral today those that are operating out of fear and those that are operating out of desire those that have a vision of something that they want to see in the world those that meaning the early Zionists pioneers were secular but they were operating with hurt CIL's vision of the Jewish state of Jabotinsky writings they were operating on such a deep desire mission a deep desire a mission a vision and now the left wing of Haaretz is just fearful for Israel's future because he has no vision and he has no clear direction so now everything is just reactionary and everything is just operating out of fear where will success lie if we operate out of fear obviously that's not the case and so all of us need to meditate the same when I'd make choices in life whether it be in my family in my personal life with my with my wife with my husband in my professional life on my spiritual life am i operating out of fear or am i operating out of desire in this parsha in particular really Kindles my desire to want to be someone like Abraham this one man who changed the whole world and what he you know in his lifetime he couldn't even see the impact his impact was so multi-generational that the whole world is different now because of this man why because he had vision and he had a desire and he didn't compromise he was ready to be unreasonable from what he believed in yeah you know this coming Sunday is the beginning of reserve duty I'll be going there for a little bit more time than you'll be spending there because you just had another baby and you can't be there for as much time but we're gonna be there together and you know this is the first time I can remember ever that I'm not super excited to go because you don't want to leave the farm I don't want to leave the usually I'm in a city I'm in Nakhla I'm living in the you know the old city I'm like in the middle of the hustle and bustle and going out to be under the stars and put on the uniform and protect the country it's just great so I still love the uniform I still love protecting the country being part of a greater whole but but the stars out here stars out here and the air out here it's just so it's a good feeling because it's you know that feeling of Missy root nefesh of self-sacrifice sacrificing yourself because it's been a while since I've really felt that like I'm flexing that muscle of self-sacrifice because I come when people come out here and visit they say wow the Mosuo nefesh you have the self-sacrifice to live out here like self sacrifice this is the most beautiful place on the planet this is like I wouldn't go to you know as I always say I wouldn't go to Hawaii for a 10 day free vacation I want to share something about what you're saying now about Missy root nephesh that today is the PS that's in a rabi's your sight now the PS sets new Rebbe was anonymous common Shapira and he was the rabbi of the Warsaw Ghetto and Ari and I are a part of the Hyborian f-prot led by Katz and we've learned a lot of his labor a club or a learning group a group of people that are there to grow together to learn together to enhance each other's spiritual journeys and today is the art side of the rabbi that we've been learning so much from and he's taught something so beautiful just yesterday and he said that there is food for the body and there's food for the soul it is what is food for the Soul it says the nourishment for the soul is the amount that you are ready to be most Serra nefesh for what you believe in the amount that you're ready to really give yourself over for Hashem for the cause that you believe in in that giving over towards giving of yourself Missy root never needs to pass over your soul to give of yourself to that is actually the sustenance that your soul wants to thrive to grow to become stronger and so there is something about the Land of Israel making Aliyah coming out here to the mountains building a family here whatever it might be inside the Land of Israel that inherently nourishes our soul that's why the children that are growing up in the land of Israel they have a better sparkle in their either you just don't see outside of Israel there's something else here the fact that men have to go to reserve duty to give to the land to protect the borders enhances the spiritual power of every Jew living here right it creates you into someone that's larger than just yourself yeah and and you know you were talking about that desire and I think you know going to the army we're already getting up there is like the vatic the what's it what's the word for fatigued veterans veteran soldiers and I'm already starting to script in my head the speech that I want to give to the entire dude right cuz they let me speak sure I wouldn't say they let me speak when I forcefully command the attention of 500 people I will get two to three minutes before they stop no but this time you're really going to be able to yeah this is this time I'm going to be able to and I think that's one of the main messages that I want to give over that we're not coming here because we have to we want to be here I want to be here when we go to war you know you need to go by our good friend he's really a warrior he said the main problem with the Israeli army he said is that we go to war against Hezbollah they want to be there and we're like wanting to get home to our families nobody said we we need to want to be there more than they do I want them in my face I want them in my life I want to be dealing with this Hezbollah guy more than anything else this is what I want that's what we need to be as a nation and it's happening more and more it really is every time I go to the army there's an increased zeal and increased joy there's Zionism people are getting more religious every time we go the prayer groups are getting bigger and bigger you know I had such an experience just over Sukkot we had groups here from Holland there was one group of 200 people that was from Papua New Guinea from Kenya from New Zealand from Sweden from South Africa we literally all over the world they were all here my bathroom here has had more international attendants bathroom no place that's not that soon to change where we're building more bathrooms very soon but this group from Hungary came and one man came up to me and he said is it normal that a rabbi wears a gun because you know Ari and I both walk around with Glocks on our side because you know there there are bad guys around here and we need to defend ourselves and before I got to answer the other guy next to him literally burst out crying said he's like Nehemiah that were like big Nehemia where they were like protecting jerusalem building a wall with sword in their hand and at a knock on the other hand and there is something about another thing there was a shovel and a sword well there's something about being here in the Land of Israel that is restoring us back to our former glory and the IDF is absolutely a part of it it's forcing the Jews to be who we were meant to be yeah and not only for us to be who were meant to be but I think the dust is starting to settle a little bit among the nations of the world because who is converging not only to Israel but particularly to our place here in the mountains those righteous of the nations that are so thirsty that there drawn like a magnet to the tip of the spear where it's all really unfolding which in my estimation this is where we are as one of those places and there's a lot of confusion there's a lot of confusion a lot of people think that they're Ephraimites descendants of a frien I personally don't know how anyone could say that with sureness and conviction I also deviate away from the whole idea of saying I am from this tribe or I'm from that tribe that to me is more God's department our department is to say what are we here to do now how does God want me to act in these times what is the way I can best represent his name and bring his light to the world not to play the I'm in this tribe or that tribe listen you have to understand these people they feel very similar like Abraham they look at the society around them like I have nothing to do with this pop culture this MTV culture this Hollywood culture or whether it be the secular European culture like I just don't I do I want to be the connect I'm holy and then the question is well who are they then are they germans are met with you know how i they love israel so much so they like why must be a part of that somehow i feel to connect to them so they're really going through somewhat of an identity it's beautiful I'm not in dining them really I think that they're on a really beautiful journey I'm talking about one facet of that which is saying with a clear conviction which tribe they're from because it just doesn't seem to be relevant who was Abraham what tribe was he from okay well there weren't tribes then Abraham was just someone that's sought God with all of his heart okay so that's what I think all of us need to be right now and not get too lost in the labels but nonetheless it's very difficult for me to cast any judgment on them because they're on such a unique journey that I can't even imagine what they're going through and I think that even these Efrem eyed people beautiful things that they're doing and they're seeking truth with all of their hearts and that's where they're on their journey and what do I know I don't know anything about anything the point out the reason I brought it up was because I was with a group of Germans interesting right - dealing a lot with these ruins no no different German determines a lot of Germans interesting anyways so one of them said that he thought he was from the tribe of a crime and another one said I I believe that I'm from the tribe of Amalek and that like really shocked me nobody's ever claimed that to be a descendant of omlette because as we know Amalek is that nation which is like the embodiment the personification of pure evil there you can tell of Amalek based on their desire to wipe out the Jewish people without any ulterior motive well I think that is there I think that's why he was being honest because he saw that the German nation was with with just hell-bent on annihilating the Jews that is the spirit of Rome and he said he said what is more miraculous and inspiring him who just said a frame or me who thinks I'm from a Mallick and I had to admit I agreed with him I'm alike as much I Mallick I'm like to see that Amalek has come this far around and is now in Judea seeking the God of Israel it just shows that as we've shared before from the the sages the chicken grows as the egg decays if it looks from the outside like things are really really falling apart but on the inside these unbelievable things are unfolding before our eyes it's our hands you know the whole world is talking about Harvey Weinstein and all this nonsense in Hollywood where the most incredible story in the history of stories that they're descendants of Nazis that are now in Judea building our prayer center with Muslims in the heart of Judea like that's not getting any headlines things that are happening they're all happening like in between the lines below the radar they're not like making the big waves but slowly but surely something is happening here that ultimately will change the entire world folks this is Ari and Jeremy Israel inspired the Land of Israel network at the Land of Israel calm and the call to action for you is you should come out to our farm you have to see with your own eyes what is going on here we actually have three functioning sweets now that people are living in and staying and already to me they're just unbelievable it's happening folks so not to stay or necessarily but just to come and be a part of a plant tree here walk the roads here see what's happening because if it is a taste of adventure but also reach out we love to hear from you questions thoughts weighing on anything this is re Jeremy right here we're going to