Israel Inspired: When It Really Matters

[Music] and now live from Jerusalem you're listening to Israel inspired radio here your hosts rabbis Aria bream woods and Jeremy Gimpel [Music] Shalom and welcome to Israel inspired on the Land of Israel Network the Land of Israel calm re and Jeremy here on the hills of Judea the southeastern tip and I'm just sitting here talking to Jeremy before we start and you know he's Jeremy you're asking me some questions like I'm a tormented guy you're a tormented guy it doesn't mean that we don't have a life of vibrance and joy and purpose and happiness but there's a certain level of torment I think that is intrinsic in the Jewish condition and being a Jew may be in the human condition I think the human condition but I think take the normal torment and sort of squared formants squared for because what is Easter L mean to be a yeast rental to struggle with God we struggle and that means that even if you struggle and then you get you arrive at a resolution and you grow closer and a greater understanding there's a new struggle awaiting there's a seem sometimes like unlimited paradoxes and contradiction and confusion and and you know this is I I would always tell you my little graph in my mind where there's like an x axis of y axis and the x axis is he stud loot you know trying self-assertion doing our best and then the y axis is anxiety right and so for me i and i try to do good things I try to encourage and spread a message of Jews returning to air too strong I try to live a good life I try to to do the meat's vote and I'm trying but then sometimes you try so hard that you start not sleeping at night I've seen sometimes you've been so dedicated to a mission I can remember over our 18 years of partnership where you would go days without showering in your mission of packing the house and Dallas to get the message out to the Jews of so you know so for me when it gets to that sort of negative emotion I try to scale it back and be like okay it's in Hashem hands I'm taking this too much on myself I'm thinking it's too much me and my own actions that are going to do this clearly I believe that as a manifestation of these this anxiety that I'm having and so we were talking a little bit about your torment and I said should we bring it up on the show and you're like now you know our show is Israel inspired let's inspire people and we have a lot of good things to say and I said okay but I think the part of the inspiration is that everybody's going through challenges everybody has difficulties and God knows if anyone deserves to have some challenges it's you right I mean like you did one of the boldest most courageous moves that anyone I know personally has ever done I actually think the only person that's more than that is your wife to hila because you know you sold your house you moved out here to a hilltop and those security nothing we've gone through it before but you did spend a couple months right you would admit in some anxiety fear fetal position she didn't have a moment oh yeah I was totally knocked I'm only believing she'd never mama because you said that no that's the truth she once she felt like that's what is our mission she was dedicated to the mission and never wavered for me I had so many doubts and so many fears you know it's like this is the act of a madman following his intuition trying to fulfill God's will in his life do I know what God's will is is the right thing maybe it was a mistake wow I'm really put all my cards down here this I hope this all works out and you know but thank God now we've been here for six months in life is really starting to take shape and new life and it's been amazing I remember tequila shared something at the Shabbat table I don't remember exactly what it was I'm hoping that you do otherwise it's gonna be like wah wah wah but you remember about I get she at me trying with the parting of the sea and then later the Jews like was that real do you remember that idea yeah I think yeah I think you know there's two narratives in the story itself one is that God performed a massive miracle and the other one was that there was just you know an Eastern wind that came at the right time and at the right place and while it happened the people were like z11 value this is my god and I will worship Him here it is this is happening but then it feels like a personal I heard on Vega who comes from an EVA who and so everyone experienced this personal Redemption in the nick of time they were saved at the last minute and then a day goes by and then another day in three days without water with little children wandering through the desert that is I mean you're on the verge of dying and then people were wondering which narrative was that was that a miracle was that God was that true was that a coincidence in people's tied to doubt and that really is in some ways the blueprint of how all of us live our lives where it seems as though God pushes us to our very edge to the limits and then some and then someone's got actually have to jump in the water you're like all right I'm in the water now up into my nose and then the sea splits and then it's like oh my goodness what a miracle and then time passes on and you look back at that miracle that happened and then you start questioning yourself well was that a miracle or was that a coincidence was that God's hand was that and you know they just have to live in walking through the desert you know we just we had a group of Germans that came out here two weeks ago and they built this beautiful octagon pergola that's really the center of our promenade that we're building right outside our educational center and there's a an ecological pool that we're building there I mean it's gonna be like a an oasis that resembles the Garden of Eden right overlooking the desert it's really gonna be breathtaking it already is quite breathtaking but it's really getting there and they also built a pergola outside of my house as just a gift they gifted to us is to make our staff house more beautiful way but a host groups there and what I wanted to right there on the wood of the pergola is the hearty like I said new right about Cluett I collected a Hirai by me Barbra Eretz Lowe's Rua yes to do it yeah right that's just such a beautiful puss again it's from the plastic of the book of my name of the Book of Jeremiah and it says you know I remember for you the the love and the kindness of our youth as you walked after me into an unsewn desert and that's what I did by coming out here and that's what tequila did by following me out here and I think that is the walk of life because no one really knows you know people say you're Jeremy you've come out here and you know it's the most contested real estate in the world do you feel endangered and I'm like listen far more people died on the roads in Israel than in all of the wars and all of the terror attacks and all of israel's history many many more people died in car accidents and so what I've done is I've removed myself from the major roads of his because I live alone on a mountaintop with a bunch of dirt roads around me I'm probably far safer now than I ever have been and coming out here was a little bit walking into the desert but you know I I just you know what I try to find in life are patterns patterns that I can see on a national level on an international level and then very often those international patterns somehow form an internal pattern and that really is the story of the Torres it's the story of the nation of his Oh being birthed from Egypt that story of crossing the sea and then walking for route water with three days is an internal story that was a blueprint for us to live our lives by talk about the manna from heaven I feel like you and I live by that Torah quite a bit out here where we have no idea how we're gonna finish the educational center and you know Hashem sends angels sends manna from heaven when we need it as we needed he never lets us take a double portion but as we need it the the the manna has fallen but all of these national stories are really here as guides for us to live our own personal lives you know that's just the wisdom of the Torah and why why you know do we consider the Torah divine I mean it was written ultimately by the hand of men but to see that these writings inspired we believe by God by the hand of man are so powerfully relevant to the struggles of man to the spirit of man to human existence in 2019 with Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and you know the the Internet explosion in blockchain it's still speaking to our souls in so relevant there's just it's it's eternal wisdom but the patterns I was talking about so I'm looking now at what Israel is facing on a national level then I'll try to like bring it down into our own lives but um Israel is under a constant struggle everything about this country is a struggle the people that live here we have to serve in the military we're surrounded by enemy countries the other countries that don't exactly border us are constantly funding the terror activities here from Europe figuring out political ways to condemn us in the United Nations rockets are falling now on central Israel there's a lot of instability there's a lot of worried Rebbe Nachman would call it a guesser Sarma owed it's a very narrow bridge that Israel walks all the time we have no idea what the next day is gonna bring at any point world war could break out that is just a very simple existence that we live with with Russia invading Syria and Iran as of funding the Hezbollah in America there's just it's like a tinderbox here and we have no idea when things are going to flare up they've just now called up thousands of people to reserve duty mobilizing troops all you know as a protected our officer a couple of our officers and I was like I'm ready to go where's my call maybe you you lost my phone number what's happening they're like no we haven't been called up relax ya know so um you know here's the question why are we in Israel my parents had a very comfortable life in Atlanta Georgia although my father was born in Israel I he studied medicine in America met my mother in medical school and they had a very nice life in America you had a very nice life in Houston you know all the Jews that are here it could be very easy to pick up and go anywhere you could really pretty much go to Berlin you can go to Canada you can just find another place to live why are the Jews here and so the classic answer is that the State of Israel was founded as a knight Haven as a place for when anti-semitism there isn't a safe heaven excuse me a night shelter night shelter when anti-semitism rears its ugly head there'll be a place for Jews to run away and you know we see that happening in Europe now we see that happening in the United States now that's really a frightening development and so and that's why you know when people come to Israel dignitaries still the Israeli policy which in my belief is a failed policy the first place they take them is to Yad Vashem - the Holocaust Memorial Museum and the idea is saying listen why are we here in Israel because there was a Holocaust why are we in Israel because Jews need a safe place there's no there's no place that is safe for the Jews to be Jews we need to be here and you know this is a stat that I say all the time but that American Jews are 2% of American jewelry and almost 60% of the religious hate crimes are directed towards Jews that is just an insane stat if you really think about those numbers in the whole I keep on seeing on on Twitter all the time Islamophobia Islamophobia it's not a hello the hate crimes are being targeted on the tiny minority of Jews by Muslims by Muslims it's really unbelievable but ok that put aside now so is that the answer so that not all by Muslims that that could be one answer to anti-semitism and the truth is that could be one answer how we answer our own lives what are we doing this world man we're just trying to survive there are struggles we have to make a living we have children we need to feed we have bills that we need to pay we have just a lot of tattoos on our list and we are just trying to find a safe haven that we can get through this life and then I think ok well that's one way of looking at Israel and I don't connect to that way of looking there's no one to me if we look at Israel that way it's almost a recipe for failure so if that's a recipe for a failure on the outside on an international and national level then that's probably not the right way to live us on a personal level so then why then are we here in Israel and I think on the inside of the inside when I really dig deep the reason why every Jew is in Israel is because we're here to save the entire world and I know that that sounds grandiose and that sounds unbelievable and it sounds impossible and the truth is it probably is logically impossible but every Jew that comes together and one family at a time but every family at a time is fixing their own children in their own lives but together all of those children are entering in to the Israeli military all of those children are entering entering into the educational system and you know one Jew in the United States well maybe he can save a whale or maybe he can save a few dolphins if he's dedicated to the environment but as a country a united front where each person takes personal responsibility for him in his household that's why Joshua says but me in my house we will serve the Lord if everyone takes that responsibility collectively then as a country we're now playing on an international level to save the whole world imagine what that would look like so we're not here in Israel now to find some sort of shelter against the struggles of existence but rather we have a destiny we have a proactive approach of a mission we're taking upon ourselves that's larger than ourselves and when I'm able to get into that mode in my own personal life where I'm not just trying to like figure out how to make it happen because the move here was so traumatic for me personally was so hard for me personally there I'm just trying to keep my head above water I'm just trying to make it to the end of the day okay finally now my feet are on the ground my head is back in place now it's time to push forward powerfully so there are times where I listen to when rut life gets rough you just gotta like hold on tight but the mindset I believe needs to be a little bit more like a warrior that we are here as warriors of light that we're meant to not only walk in the light but share the light and we're meant to bring the world up were meant to bring the people around us up and what I found for me is that when I work that way when I keep my focus outside of myself and I start trying in just little ways to help the people around me immediately it gives me more light just the other day I know that there was a girl that was struggling her husband went off to the army she's all alone so teal and I made her dinner and brought it over to her and her kids the other night just like tiny little acts of kindness the H qodesh the holy fire the PSS nari says the greatest thing in the world you can do is a kindness for someone else and I feel like in this world when we just have the ability to to get away from like the selfie and the iPhone in the eye this and the I that and just pull ourselves a little bit out of the eye in a little bit towards the other then the eye becomes a little bit more not only bearable but like you can feel a little bit a little bit of yeah I figured listeners got to stay and listen after we're done with our little conversation here because we had we have rabbi Schneerson min Wallach he's the Habad Rebbe of the five towns and that's exactly what you're saying you know sometimes I feel like what we're doing is grandiose and we're on the southeastern tip of Judea and the world is against us but he is just doing one Mitzvah at a time as he said he does not discriminate between this type of Jew and that type of jus just does kindness and goodness without necessarily seeing how this is of changing the entire world but that's really the higher level the higher level is understanding that you don't need to see the outcome and the consequences as long as you know in your heart that you're doing everything that you can to sanctify God's name in the world to live a life of constant god consciousness yeah I mean there's so many things that are happening without us really doing anything you know as we just sit here on this mountain in Judea holy rabbis are coming here beautiful people non-jews Jews and at the same time all the sudden President Donald Trump recognizes the Golan Heights as the sovereign land of Israel that was acquired in a defensive war he says internationally legally this belongs to Israel they've controlled it for this amount of time it's strategic and vital for her survival that now belongs to Israel I don't know I'm just sitting on a mountaintop and it seems like the world is changing I don't know if you read this I really wish I read it a little bit more in depth it was like 2:30 in the morning but caroline glick wrote an article talked about illuminating an entirely different facet of why Trump did that I'm a bit basically what she said is that she went all the way back to the beginning of the conflict with Syria and Russia's involvement with Syria and by Trump I'm skipping through the entire or workflow here but by Trump coming out in a strong international way and saying the Golan is a part of Israel he's sending a very strong message both to Russia and to Syria that an attack on Israel it would be an attack on America to a very strong united front which on a strategic level is a very smart thing because right now Israel is in a difficult place playing a game of sort of Russian roulette with Russia where the Russia is providing Syria and Assad with weapons and Iran is on that team also but at the same time Israel doesn't want to fight against Russia start a big war but they need to attack Iranian weapons that are going into Syria so without Russia turning against Israel there's an entire a web of geostrategic interests that is the confluence of which is causing Trump to make this statement but it really is not one of necessary early ideology or or faith or even goodwill it's it's an America's strategic interest and that helped me realize you know what so many things it's like in this place yes it's just right now even right now we're in a place where we really need funds in a serious way but at the same time I'm not wound up about it like I used to be at the beginning because I've just seen enough to know that Hashem is on this thing sometimes it's difficult on our personal private lives to say is this all really being orchestrated is everything really perfect and tailored for me to grow in the way I need to but this place is so much larger than life and I'm like God will send the money when he needs to send the money the same thing as the whole strategic situation with Syria and Russia and Iran and Israel this is a shams making this whole play he's behind the whole scene we don't need to get too wound up about it yeah The Jerusalem Post just published an article saying that their Israel now has close contact new diplomatic relations with six Arab countries that they never had before and we're just thing like there is just a shift that's happening throughout the world one way or another the Embassy has been moved to Jerusalem the United States has pulled out of the the United Nations Human Rights Council the Declaration of the Golan Heights as being a part of Israel this new relationship we're developing with Arab countries and at the same time all of the Arab countries that are right on Israel's borders which at one point listened Israel has been through a bunch of wars with those countries whether it be Syria or Lebanon or Jordan or Egypt they're all falling apart so we live in a generation where we've also been able to see the rise of Israel out of the ashes of Auschwitz and at the same time the downfall of Israel's enemies that surround us we're living in such an amazing time where you can see that there is like a force that is guiding Israel to rise up and so you know to me I take a lot of personal strength by attaching myself to the national story of Israel because it seems as though Israel has been down and out for almost two millennia and you know the the circle goes round there was a time where Israel was the center of the universe and Solomon's Temple was a beacon of light that nation's flowed - and it's just a matter of time until we rise up again and it looks like we are a part of the generation where we see that rise happening and I think now that you know I was and I say my sins today I mean I was a pretty young guy I was in high school at the time that was actually our first ideological conflict that you and I had that was almost overly the beginning of our relationship I was very Pro Oslo at the beginning you know I was a little kid and everyone was pre-law slow and all the media he was over like a brainwashed Society at that time but my logic was give peace a chance like the option of the other option is war let's at least try the peace thing and let's see if that goes with what was my stance you're a census you're gonna try to make peace with these people they're only gonna kill you well there's not that's not only the issue because my main issue at the time I remember was that that's not even let's say yes let's say there would be peace so we're going to surrender Chevron we're going to surrender our heartland like let's say someone comes I'm gonna give me your wife and I'll leave you alone give peace a chance okay me he'll leave me alone even if it's true that he would leave you along you're gonna give him your wife I'm not going to revisit this conversation when we were 19 and 18 years old I was defensive you've always been more of a pragmatist okay I just wanted to say though that Israel went through the same process that I went through on a national level meaning most of Israel was for land for peace most of Israel want it's not really true Oslo was pushed through it's definitely not true today that's the point and what what I see happening I don't know if you've been watching these videos that the Arabs in Gaza are taking in they're taking it under great risk they have to do it like from behind doors and through windows because if they're caught taking videos of what the Hamas is doing to its own people they themselves will be tortured and killed but there is a public uprising and what's a popular uprising in Gaza right now where the people are rebelling against the Hamas leadership and the Arab Hamas leadership are killing and beating their own Arab people so the first thought that comes into my mind of courses oh my god that's what they're doing to their own people just imagine what they would do to the juice oh my god but the other point of that is saying that you know if we actually take responsibility like what I said that Israel is here to redeem the whole world and I think that's just the shoes that we're gonna have to step into eventually to be a light unto the nations we have been strategically positioned in this dark region surrounded by dictators surrounded by terror surrounded by in literacy surrounded by barbaric just customs and in cultures there's like a death cult of power and Submission in Israel as this the beacon of freedom and so if that's true people have to look at what happened we were in Gaza and it was a blessing for the Jews and it was blessing for the Arabs we moved out of Gaza and looking what's happening there right now the Arabs themselves are living under fear and terror and misery the more were there trying to rebel but they can't now what would it be like if Israel were to actually take responsibility of the people around us and we were to start off with Gaza he was there all right the the disengagement was a failed reality and Israel now needs to go back into Gaza and restore order and restore Liberty and freedom and human rights in the whole world they'll call us colonizers and they'll call us oppressors but if we know that we're actually there to liberate the people we're here to free them from themselves to give them the basic rights to be able to live life as they were created in the image of God in Israel starts off with Gaza and if you only see I mean have you seen the drone footage of Syria it's really unbelievable people don't appreciate that the civil war with Assad against Isis against the rebels backed by Russia and America Syria the the whole country is in rubble this is the devastated it's like it's it's unbelievable there was a time in the 1980s where Syria was a thriving beautiful country it is a wasteland of rubble and devastation right now and I believe Israel should assert its reality there as well and to go to Syria and help them rebuild themselves and give liberty and freedom to them not to bring the Torah law to them let them live as Muslims but allow them to live as free Muslims as they would want to live and then we would have to do the same and listen the Bible had a vision that it's from the Mediterranean until the Euphrates and it's like in that area right now if you look at the map I mean Isis and the rest of the hive were there they've created just total chaos and that's the world the world has been divided into these worlds of chaos and order and the only one bringing order instability and peace and prosperity to this region of chaos is Israel and I feel like if Israel were to stop looking at itself is like oh we're being fired on in Tel Aviv Netanyahu is gonna run back from Washington because a rocket fell on us and now we're going to attack the buildings of the Hamas office why haven't we attacked the building of the Hamas office three years ago the fact that the Hamas has an office that we haven't destroyed already is already an embarrassment in constant opportunities also opportunities in the sense that they just fired rockets over Tel Aviv they hit a house in pharr Sabha first of all I think if any house even on the southern periphery is attacked if there's missiles that come anywhere into Israel any self-respecting country would respond with a fierce force of power but how many times do we know okay they shot a missile that blew up a house in pharr Sabha okay done we're going in because here's the issue we're always - even last night on the Judean Roundtable we're saying no we should be talking to the Christians because the Christians are 100 million then would come out we should be appealing to them and appealing to them we're always trying to make our case we're always trying to plead our cause who does that a defendant and who do they make it to the jury right who who made the judge and jury the Democratic Party in America or the haters of Israel or even those that like us that's one of the primary internal shifts I see happening when the Jewish people are returning to the land we're realizing we are no longer at the mercy of the nations of the world were no longer subservient we can actually rise to the occasion and be a force of leadership a force of morality with and forget what the rest of the world is saying Trump is great at that by the way you know he's just spent two years with everyone in America the whole everyone is just mocking him and taunting him the media is against him collusion with Russia illusions about him and he's doing his thing you know I mean he did respond this way and then he was just exonerated which is really a quite an interesting thing to see the media in America just kids I mean they talk about collusion they colluded with each other about this story as if it was factual and there was just no fact that and they're like egg on their face eating their heads but that's not the point the point is we don't need to be so consumed because with what the world thinks because the more consumed we are the more empowered they are they sense that we need their approval and they withhold their approval and they taunt us and it's not and none of it is in good faith so to me that's that's a real critical internal shift we have to go well I think the internal shift also is just to clarify for ourselves what are we doing here's what I don't understand Michael ben-ari who was the head of the oats my you defection which is I guess the most far-right faction in Israeli politics today he was disqualified by the Supreme Court for being racist why because he was telling Jews in a fula not to sell their houses to Arabs I think that was one the one they nailed him on there like that is racist you're racist you told them not to sell your house to Arabs because you don't want Arabs to become a majority in the city of a fula you're out but then I was listening to the left-wing party merits which is pretty much the I guess the right wing left wing oats mob let's put it all the way to the left we get two merits and marriages saying we have got to create a two-state solution and put up a wall in the center of the country because we don't want to have the Arabs as a majority in this land there's too many Arabs here and we want to get them out of the land and we want to separate from them and I'm thinking well why is it okay to say that we don't want Arabs to be a majority in all of Israel but you can't say the Arabs that can be a majority in one city in Israel like two minutes of me the whole thing is racist the left-wing is racist the two-state solution is racist and I mean is that even the converse that were meant to have to me the clarification really needs to come from the inside that someone needs to point out the double standards in the hypocrisy of this old-school left-wing Zionism or is it even science I don't know what it is but what's really nice is that in these upcoming elections it's like going to an ice cream parlor the country has shifted so much to the right now then we have the Likud we have Lieberman we have the bite you d we have Fagan we have oats ma we have Kok alone it's like we can choose our flavor of what right-wing party we want we're used to just be like Oh God anything that's right-wing to not let the left-wing you destroy us and commit suicide now there's so many different flavors of who to choose from that to me that's like a real healthy sign that Israel is becoming because to me what is the difference between right wing and left wing in Israel it's a little bit confusing because that's like the elections are Bibi I mean huzzah you know it's like Bibi is the right and he's strong and the other is left and they're a week and it's right and left but what is the fundamental difference between the right in the left internet scenario when I break it down to me it's like well the right people are saying we just need to be strong like peace will come through strength and the left are saying peace will come through retreat give up the land and amusement appeasement and saying okay well if that's the case then the stronger we are internally the better it is for Israel in the fact that we see that the right is growing and diversifying and now we have like I just like walk into the candy store and pick our flavor of what right-wing we want I think is a good internal compass to say that Israel is growing stronger by the day you know when we talk about how the National processes really are somehow reflecting an internal process inside of us and so that's of course true towards all the holidays and right now we just started Pesach cleaning in my home for the first time and it's amazing the way we built our home it's just like so simple really you've started already yeah well it's right around the corner well I believe that I understand that but at the same time you're gonna have to eat between now and I don't have to eat in the bedrooms okay so we're started cleaning the bedrooms you know starting to make order and and that cleaning process you know to me it's like so obvious that as I'm cleaning my bedroom I'm really cleaning like the insides of my bedroom in my mind cleaning the insides of my bedroom in my heart and I'm just like slowly but surely cleansing myself purifying myself preparing for redemption and I think that that's that's like the final stage is that at least through what I feel in that it's time for Israel to graduate from survival to destiny it's time for me personally to graduate from just surviving to fulfilling a destiny to attaching myself to the mission of Israel and the mission of the Jewish people and so as we're preparing for Pesach to me it's really preparing on the inside and you know as I see as Israel is growing and becoming stronger it really does it makes me feel like I'm growing and becoming stronger yeah I mean when you're cleaning your house there's like entire Torre's and teachings of the intentions that you should be as spiritually and internally directing your actions towards as far as internal cleaning and cleaning yourself out but I feel like you know just coming out here and and I think every Jew that moves to the Land of Israel to some degree is in that process of internal cleansing because there's a certain leap of faith that is that it's taken there you know I have this thought the other day when you read through the Psalms one of the greatest most prevalent themes is that you know Hashem will protect Kohaku's in BO right like those who take shelter in him and those who hide under his wings and I would always read that not really no what does that mean ok take shelter in a show what does that actually mean in a real practical way and it sort of hit me that what does it mean to take shelter emotionally it means emotionally to take shelter under Hashem swings under his Providence you know the and by the way the sounds that you're hearing right now that is the construction of my house that I'm expanding here in Judea you're hearing it right now possibly in the background and so we're not going to mute it because that's holy sounds because I'll tell you what I want that to play in the background I see your fingers over the pause button but I want it to play because you know we were talking about okay so the work go ahead what I wanted to bring you back you were saying to take emotional refuge right to take emotional refuge meaning that there there's always a reason that you could be anxious but when you say okay with this anxiety this fear that I have if I really internalize I believe in my head Hashem is behind everything he's orchestrating everything the opportunity for me to grow exactly as I need to grow is is built into this challenge that I'm facing but you think about it and you internalize it from your head to your heart then it will have an emotional effect a physiological effect that will decrease your anxiety and increase your happiness and your joy which is why it says all these bad things will happen to you because you didn't serve your the Lord your God with joy the joy the happiness is serve the Lord with joy that joy is the service that's what Hashem wants from us to actually internalize from our head to hurt that he's in charge and we're not going to let these these anxieties and these fears us and when we don't let them us our eyes are open enough to see all the opportunities in the potential lying around in the very challenges themselves you know we're talking about right now we're in Parshat Remini and the sacrifices and there's so many sacrifices that we're studying about and then we just had the fast of Esther last week and so what is the connection there right there's these what does it mean to fast what is it a sacrifice the two are really intrinsically connected roughshod right he's a fourth century scholar he said before every fast are you ready to hear what he said he's in master of the universe you know that when the temple stood a person who sinned would bring a sacrifice although only the fats and the Bloods would be offered on the altar the person would be granted atonement now I have fasted and my fat and my blood have diminished maybe your will that the decrease in my fat and my blood should be considered as if I offered them on the altar and my offering was accepted right and to me that's really the it's so easy to get lost in the rituals of the blood and what about the blood and this the the concept of a sacrifice of everything that we are in the world of all of the world is really just energy and this matter and this concrete you know the solid table that I'm knocking on really seems to exist but really there's nothing but God in the world and the frequency that God is causing these atoms to vibrate is causing the illusion of a solid thing but it's really all energy then really it's transferable from one thing to another even the Shabbat right it's parshat para the the portion of reading the about the red heifer right and so this was called in the Torah who Coulomb an eternal decree an eternal decree but how could it be an eternal decree if we're not always gonna have a temple if we're not always going to have the the goal of the the the red heifer well the orihime says that even today when we read the portion which is one of those portions that you have to be there you know husband's go back and get their wives everyone needs to be there because just hearing the Torah being read about the red heifer in and of itself in and of itself is a cleansing it's a cleansing for our sins it's a cleansing for us right because um Hosea you know whatever the verse I'm gonna quote from 14 right he says return o Israel and to the Lord your God for you've stumbled and iniquity take with you words and return to Hashem say - um forgive all iniquity and accept that which is good so we will render for bullocks the offering of our lips right instead of bulls which we can't do there's not a temple anymore it's now our words but it has to be from our heart otherwise it's the same thing as a sacrifice that's offered in a ritualistic abstract manner without really having the intention Hashem wants our hearts he doesn't want these these empty don't bring these empty offerings these empty sacrifices that's why Yeshayahu says he says that Hashem says don't bring me these these sacrifices it's a it's an abomination to me it's disgusting to me instead do acts of kindness and goodness and and and mercy judge the fatherless in a positive way the widow take care of the poor that's what really matters it's not these abstract ritualistic things and that's why I'm thinking about what we're doing out here the noise there we could have waited until after the Supreme Court ruling in May before we put more than all of our money into expanding this house right Shane and I are praying for children to be blessed with children and we feel like if we create a vessel to an expanded house where we have more than one bedroom right now we just have one bedroom that God will bring that sort of abundance and children please God into the world but it would make sense for us to say you know what let's just wait until after the Supreme Court rules rather than build the house which is expected to be completed from all of our funds that we have right as the Supreme Court may roll to destroy the whole thing but we realize that's when it matters it matters when you have it all on the line that's when it matters when we say we've a home Odessa we say you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your all your soul and all your possessions to have a real opportunity to put it all on the line that's what it's about all right so we got to wind this down everybody hang on we got a great interview coming up right after this but I just want to throw it out there number one you got to come out to this place I'm telling you I've said it before if I walk around here at night if I were to see a bush on fire not being consumed it wouldn't shock me there's something intrinsically transcendent about this place and what's going on here on every single level from the political level to the cultural level all the way to the deepest spiritual spiritual foundations which is the heart of Judea where Da Vida hid from show well this is a place you got to come out here number one it's an invitation right two tours at the Land of Israel calm and we'll book you to come when you're if you're coming here soon with it with a group on a tour have them contact us we'll book your tour to come out here that's number one number two if you want to be a part of this if you want to help support this mission and really have a stake of ownership in everything that happens here you could go to the Land of Israel com website where it says donate and you could become a 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and the visceral network at the Land of Israel comm so now we have the much-anticipated much requested segment of the show my favorite segment of the show called better Noah Jew better know Jew I've always been into Show and Tell since I'm in kindergarten and I just preparing for the show we were about to to film and I hear Yossi outside saying you got to come out and meet these people I come out I had to put on sunglasses the light emanating from them was so strong especially Yaakov David very special guy Jeremy did you meet him he's right there I did I met him beautiful boy so we have here with us rabbi Schneerson Wallach and it's it's just it's an honor to have you on first before we talk about like the elephant in the room that I just found out I asked you to be on the show even before I knew that could you just give us a little brief background about yourself who you are your mission in the world what you believe in everything that you have to say go all in one sentence so the mission of the world is what the never entrusted us with we are exclusive emissaries of the Obama to Dever my position my wife and family is in the five towns and our task is to bring Torah Jewish life to every single person in the five towns and we're trying one Jew at a time when another time I also have the great fortune amongst our many friends and neighbors the now-famous who was always famous to our family Tammy and David treatment ambassadors to Israel are our neighbors of the five towns and obviously are doing a tremendous job in Israel for America and Israel for the world at large above all and the way they're being makanda shame shame I'm sanctifying our share his name sticking to the truth and to what Torah believes is the truth which is the ultimate truth indeed I have to say we recently met at the Ambassador at a barbecue and I was speaking to him I was super impressed because power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely that's what they say and his actions are have been such a reflection of the fact that he has stayed focused and he's not going to compromise and he's there for a reason and not for his own ego super impressed with him and and so he asked you to speak at the dedication of the Jerusalem Embassy which is a historic point in Jewish history but right before we get to that I made a comment I said you know we're talking about emissaries of Habad and I said you know it's one thing to go to Mozambique Timbuktu Bangladesh and open a Habad there that's really who that's really being an emissary but being in Brooklyn is that really such an emissary and you said that being in Brooklyn is no different than being in any remote community of the world there are individuals on every level that need a Habad Center and the words actually of our ambassador David Friedman told me a number of years ago as I had the good fortune for about two decades to study together once a week Nana with the ambassador Tuesday nights at about 11 o'clock was our time slot and he mentioned that today a community without a hobbit center is incomplete because Kaaba is the address for whatever you need no matter what it used to be how bad was the outreach in Timbuktu today it is community that's what Chabad is about yes we deal with an unaffiliated and we deal with the affiliated about 15 years ago a neighbor who lives in Wood he told me that he has a new understanding at the gamilons teaches that you saw a LOF apprecia Hotel Easter although that I do even if he may seem or be perceived as a sinner as a Jew he says come out of the five tiles taught us that Easter all alpha P shallow hot or so low that I do even if he did not sin is a Jew meaning you have to treat him with respect with dignity and sensitivity as if you were reaching out to the individual you trying to bring closer no different to the regular traditional Jew needs that same sensitivity and respect to reach out and feel them make sure they feel as close as possible so what what is it though that gives the inspiration in the motivation of the emissaries to go either to the five towns or to Africa or to Thailand what is it that allows them to be like these super juice and how do they stay charged forever it was the Devas life's mission to make sure that no chew is left behind and making the world a better place one Mitzvah at a time one good deed at a time when a reporter asked that ever what was his message to the world I believe this was 1991 they never responded acts of goodness and kindness that is his message to the world and that inspiration continues to live on through each Lea Chabad rabbi Habad emissary his teachings his life on legacy and as we see the unbelievable growth in the Chabad mission in the world at large that has more than quadrupled since the that was passing it is inspiration that continues to live on so you mentioned you you don't discriminate basically between Jews right and particularly reverse discrimination I could imagine Chabad has a certain mission or at least growing up I thought that there was like an ulterior motive there which is to get Jews to be more religious more connected and so if one could imagine you would overlook the at least outwardly religious or observant Jews but you're saying you don't discriminate any Jew no matter whether they seem to be on the Derrick off the Derrick when he'll oh the elder was asked teach me all of Torah while I stand on one foot one of the responds the basic theme of unconditional love for fellow Jew unconditional means unconditional nobody did anything wrong for not being raised as a traditional Jew and no one did anything wrong by being raised as a traditional do we have to love every single dividual unconditional and that is the mission of Chabad and that love is expressed by material help by physical help or by spiritual help it's all an extension of that as is so if we care about someone you care about their spiritual well-being and their material well-being which means whether it's teaching Torah or bringing a hot meal to one who's not well or whatever it is that will help them on every level and so that's what you've been doing for the last 24 years 24 years you've been running a Chabad House in the five towns what's it called come out of the five tents about of the five towns so our listeners out there we have many listeners particularly in New York if you are feeling in need of a recharge come out of the five towns that's a place to go now how did this come about that you were speaking to the at the dedication of the Jerusalem Embassy what was that like for you was that a moment of significance in your life I knew and I know that it was a historic moment and yes a tremendous Xhosa merit that the one who should take the credit and takes the credit is the fact that we have this host to be emissaries of the river and it is that that connected the freedom of family and our family through the Shabbat Center and as I mentioned our friendship goes back for over two decades and then when it came the time of the dedication of the embassy in Jerusalem which was always the capital was just reinforced by the embassy moving the interiors line to Jerusalem and the Ambassador requested of me to speak I was coming to the celebration anyhow as I recognized that it is a historic moment and therefore I plan to be there and the Ambassador asked me to speak obviously I considered tremendous honor and merits but at the merit and others not my credits but it's all thanks to the fact that we have this host an honor to be looking emissaries of the devil and so what was your message you had three minutes the you know for years Jeremy and I have done this targil this exercise we had three minutes to give a speech at the United Nations what would then this is as close to that as I can imagine because the world was listening the whole world was watching this play out what was your message the theme of the message was Jerusalem is always and will always be the capital that was the theme with the message also as it unites all walks of life right here in Jerusalem right there here I'm in a vote IRA good but right there in usual line is were really active the idea that a unites all what do you think now about the future of American Jewry with all that's happening now in the Democratic Party and the rise of anti-semitism I was told that American Jews are 2% of American Jewry but the religious hate crimes against Jews are fifty-eight percent use in American Jews American Jews constitute 2% of the American population popular use in American Jewry okay go ahead okay and 58 percent of religious hate crimes are directed towards Jews I was told that there was an absence of democratic representation in the APEC conference so there's now like almost a party that is anti-israel i some of the congresswoman there are there literally anti-semites that's something unprecedented how do you feel as the future are you hopeful for American jewelry in their future or do you think maybe Israel in alia is a part of the destiny that's to unfold aha Lord behold your Mashav oh we're getting constant reminders to pray for the imminent coming of Messiah and that's really the ultimate Ally a can be translated on many levels obviously it's beautiful to live in Israel Wonka's not Allah yeah by doing something spiritual Frawley yeah for example uplifting their life spiritually by adding an additional meets for daily whether it's putting on tefillin whether giving charity where the lighting is shabbat candle that could be a personal alia Alia is not only a physical logistical place but i was also a place of the neshamah of the soul which is a place a frame of mind that has to go along with it and that's really where it's all about and our ultimate ally as the coming of yeah okay so if I can ask you this question with tremendous Busha and humility because I don't know the amount of Torah that you have on your toenail right but my question would be when it comes to the Rebbe was not just a leader of a tremendous omona but of be Tejon meaning that he internalized from his head to his heart and every part of his essence was a doer I mean I've heard just heard legends and stories about constant doing action changing the world and not just sort of the abstraction of doing isolated atomized meets votes and so for me it to me it just seems that the perpetuation of seeing Judaism as a religion about meets vote as opposed to a land centered faith where we can only thrive and grow in our indigenous habitats of air at Easter L as a nation as a Clow as a prod on every single level yes I understand we're gonna loot there and we're gathered here I got it but that aside isn't there a calling isn't there a need particularly for our generation to be pulling back to Eretz Israel to be guiding and navigating people to return to our roots to our source there's a queue and gathering the exiles that's going to happen what American Jews they're just gonna stay there and that's gonna be the end mushy house gonna come there I mean do you understand what I'm asking you I'm understanding your question and it goes like this the oldest charity that exists in today's day is Jewish charity is Colo Chabad which was founded by the founder of Habad when his friends and then disciples made aliyah to Israel and it's over 200 years old and that is the oldest Jewish charity exists today so obviously we have very strong ties to Israel the entrance to the Cardo in the old city known as the same aesthetic shul was the third kebab that ever insisted that he has land in Israel and he found that you from India who sponsored the land in the Cardo in the heart of Jerusalem of your life the Deborah Schwab we know bought land they have run yeshiva have run today and then the village that they're building now in several is on the land that's owned by the Deborah shop v about Deborah the rebus father was father the lab has learned we cook far Habana Cossack about Chabad and SWAT the about she cook her body neutral I'm so obviously Habad is very into you would say Israel the never had personally given him from his personal funds Kanaka guilt every year for the soldiers came from his personal funds that have been insisting that the soldiers are reached out to over that matter that ever was a big fan of serving in the army that goes without saying obviously not in any way compromising on Torah values but serving the army was and influencing and and influencing the army you have many Habad rabbis who are rabbis chaplains in the army and it's all very big but at the same time we recognize one thing that everyone has their unique mission and we can't say them moving to Israel is something that all must do everyone i've seen people have grown tremendously spiritually moving in Israel to Israel then I have seen unfortunately the flip side to that too being a Jew is not connected with a land being a Jewish issue who do you buy shoes on nubira that a jeweled mortar hatzadik was known for being the issue the even in Shushan happier which was not Israel it was actually we know as Persia and that's where he was a Jew so a Jew is everywhere that same ascetic had the classic saying when one of us can see them wanted to move to Israel again we mentioned some aesthetic has land in Israel and was a big fan Atlanta Israel's Atlanta it's close to our heart for that matter I want to emphasize that when it was not popular to oppose land for peace amongst even greater burning it was the deborah who cried out publicly by fàbregas and shed many tears about his concern of giving away land and he felt that the peace agreement was nothing more than a cork to put the expression of the Gomorrah that one uses as a piece of paper to put as a cork on a bottle it's worthless that's what's the expression that the devil would use and we see unfortunately how much it has harmed and how many lives have cost us and the never spoke about that 40 years ago and 30 years ago it's not something new to any Chabad closet there's a safer that was put together compiling see talks of the grabber with regard to the Land of Israel called corrosive a marine I called and there was no response I remember as a child growing up hearing the Devas cry the rabbit publicly cried by five linens and gatherings where thousands would watch because he saw the pain and he saw the future of being weak in a land that much so strength so all of that IMM emphasized there's a tremendous deep love and passion for the land of Israel one that ever wanted children should all be take part in writing a Torah meaning that every child purchase a letter in a safe return uniting all children's world together he insisted that the writing take place in the old city of Jerusalem and he sent them that a messenger there to be there the celebration of the completion of the Torah it was something very dear to the dead but that I've been insisted that on the certificate that each child got which I have and my children got there was a there's a picture of the Kotel kafir the hell holy places in there it is long and now with after but after all set and done everyone has their mission yes many should move to Israel and if some feel they can be stronger connected as a Jew outside of Israel accomplishing some I'm not saying just living there but accomplishing something inspiring others we use the expression of the same ascetic maja edit see so that wherever we are we can't create and we must create that it should be a land of Israel wherever we all must create that holy environment rabbie do you think the in gathering of the exiles that's happening here in the Land of Israel now and the building of the IDF in the building of Israel's economy is that a part of the Tallahatchie lava the process of redemption is the modern State of Israel a part of that process or is the redemption something totally different that's going to come from the left field and be something totally different or is this something that we should engage in be a part of celebrate engage with you know and really build it up as a part of not just waiting for must yet to come but saying this perhaps is a vehicle to lay the foundations for the final coming that I leave for the moon for the professionals but we as Jews believe obviously we have to help everyone there it's a song for that matter every Jew around the world not only nerds so every person around the world that's why as you mentioned earlier we were talking in our conversation about a junto Keo and some far and being helped making sure they have Chavez food for the Shabbos table it all comes as a part of mahkum duality so bringing that spirit of Israel wherever one question that the Rebbe did that I mean I go when I'm in your shall I'm I'll either davon at kobata raha via or about of baka or about of Nakhla oat and these different Habad in Yerushalayim and to me I really thought I'm like that's a difficult about to set up in your shall I'm where everybody jirzyn is but taken se what everywhere but you go to them and you see that it's needed in some ways in your shall I'm more than anywhere else because sometimes people can feel disconnected and they need a community and they need to connect so there's no question also you've got a have run about a hub run you see what have you you've seen what they're doing I mean it's absolutely unreal the lives that are changed by the soldiers entering the army going serving in hoverin what am i doing in this place and they leave with your watch a mime and a love for Teatro I mean kebabs on the front lines here in Israel my first visit to Kabakov run I went to Danny Miceli Colin's apartment and what moved me most was how they said it but so simply as if it was natural that they had sandbags on the windowsill because the windowsill had a mattress for one of their children slept because their house was so small and they had a deep window seal so that became a bed and the sandbags were there they showed me the bullet holes on the other side so protects this child so he's not hurt by the bullets and I said if I had bullets coming through my window I don't think I would stay another minute there I felt there is Danny and by Chevak own who are there literally on the front line saving lives not only physically not only spiritually but they're putting their lives on the front line and make it sound as if they're doing nothing and as if they were given the biggest gift to live life in Chevron and they really feel so and I am with them all the time I can't say I will do the same but I'm with them just a word about them it's very easy you know they're running a business it's a non-profit and it's very easy to get lost in your own little mission but Danny Cohen on top of everything that they are doing for the Jews of government they've also helped us he calls me what can I do for you how can I help you he has no vested interest in that other than the fact that he's able to live a life of zooming out of really being to connect it to the cloud in such a selfless way I would have I didn't know that story about the sandbag that's that's power that's Monsieur it nefesh I said you know self-sacrifice I don't really feel it so much here but that is a good story that but two more questions that I'm gonna let you go to want to keep your for too long but do you think knowing the Rebbe as you did what would his message be would it be different today would he have something there different you know she Levine parts of his life where he focused on different things in specific it was always you know about you Sorrell would it be what is your intuition or is it impossible to say there's the expression as I'll evil you dot evaluative if I knew it I would be it I'm no Reba but we do know that it it ever in the later years especially but throughout his life started from 1951 he said it was his life's mission that this should be the generation of Killa with the coming of Messiah and then as we went on in years in the later 80s early 90s he was very clear that's our only purpose of this world to do everything we can to bring about Redemption which means every meets every opportunity we have we have to remember as the Rambam that ever would quote the Rambam that i'm that we are have a scale and we can tip the scale all we need is that one additional act and that I'm sure hasn't changed to this day we have to constantly focus yes we are so much closer to Google uh but yet as long as Messiah has not here we have to ask ourselves what have we done to bring what yesterday last question this is a personal question I hope it's okay we can edit this out if it's not but I've always had an not only an affinity and a love and an admiration but a little bit of holy jealousy of Habad you know there's the sickness in America these people that are born in their mailed and they think that they're female and so I've always had that about kobata I always felt like I had a Habad neshama you know and and like I just I was envious of the direction and the power in the coop that Habad is able to imbue but I want to ask you in your mission and what you're doing the five no do you ever have down times lows challenges difficulties what do those look like your basic basically asking if I'm human and the answer is I hope so well they look like it looks like another chance I want has to overcome but what would that be like there is a story told about someone who came to his Rebbe and said Rebbe I want to have a life without challenges give me a brother I never left without challenges says Rebbe respond that I heard of the name of the courts could ever heard name of other rebels that life and challenges are synonymous that's just the way it goes but we say every morning in the morning blessings in betrothal shall vow to be a new load in Istanbul oh there bazillion our prayer is that our challenges should not lead us to embarrassment we should take the challenges with pride and overcome them and that's the Baraka that he gave him when you have a challenge to have the strength to overcome it and that's our avoid that's our challenge every day I mean I mean look beautiful fortunately my family has suffered challenge of all challenges when we lost our son ten years ago and we worked with it every day to overcome it Wow he was a nine-year-old boy didn't wake up one shot this morning and that's that's life overcoming everything if you don't mind me asking you being like the Rebbe the head of the who do you turn to when you need physic who do you turn to when you need for first and foremost I was mentioning to mortify on our way here that the oh-ho the devas cover is 15 minutes away from my house I hop into the car whenever there's a damn moment and you're uplifted and actually inspired there and obviously beyond that part of Hashem we were blessed was a tremendous family my wife my children my parents my in-laws and that's support Hashem the ultimate broker won't connect when you go to the oil because I have not been Zoe yet to be at the oil um what is can you kind of describe that for us for people that haven't been you go there and you're having a conversation are you trying to communicate with that Emma himself are you trying to sort of be sciutto to reach I've got a sparkle what does that look like there's a good motor the motor describes going to keeping it Siddiqui going to great sense of italic that when the Moroccan the spies were sent to take a look at his we don't see how to conquer it not if but how [Music] yoshua had a broker for motion robin he was blessed you Takeshi AHA my task but like they should be rescued saved from the part of the Malakal of the spies and Khalif stop by at Marisa math Baylor that's why when it came to after conquering the land kaalia got Chevron because that was the land I share daughter who possessed a that was land that he stopped by and he died from there so going to keep it at the command generals a tremendously powerful idea person when I go to the river I had the good fortune of spending many years and Fabregas by the lubber hearing his voice and trying to connect to his message additionally my family and I had the good fortune of having he/she do private audiences in the devas holy study so when you go to the area he'll try and reflect on those moments with her ever and try and gain energy reflecting on those moments and then his teachings that he taught us that emma has spent thousands of hours teaching Torah on every level to every walk of life there is thousands of correspondence that were published that have guidance to every individual literally on any topic in life and wherever one makes the end in life and that's really the focus going to the Ojo to try and connect to these messages and these ideas and the gain strength from their rabbi Schneerson manoir Loic it's been a tremendous tremendous honor to have you here to have your holy son Yaakov Ovid here who was going to be a tremendous source of pride for all of them he's real he already is it's just not manifested yet and and and we want you to know that this place it's not just you know a beautiful place in Judea this is your home we are always honored to have you here and thank you for what you're doing for all of our maestro I may take you up on it mmm [Music] tune in for an exclusive interview with mayor of a frat Oded Ravi the first official representative from Judea and Samaria to speak at the AIPAC conference he said I don't agree with all that I don't come from the same political background but the way he presented the information the way he showed us reality is an important thing that should be on the stage in the main conference for the full interview check out rejuvenate