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This year is dedicated by my dear friend
in honor of his mother's second yard
for her whole family.
I would like to personally dedicate this
presentation in honor of my very dear
friend who is the organizer of this
year's.
We're going to be going to the area of
the north tof to many of them rare many
of them rarely visited and a tremendous
amount of effort was put in in
organizing this trip. We have a
tremendous group and to give yen the
opportunity to dominate and to appre
appreciate the greatness and the of this
year is going to be about
one of the builders and architects of
Tory in the 20th century Rabra
Mandelovich who's my friend Waldler's
great-grandfather in the biography of
Ravag
there's a husk from Rapam Rapam says
that he spent 20 years in the presence
of Rashrao first as a bakar
in Bish and then as a magir
in the mif
And he always asked many of the great
people in Tvadas what was the secret of
Shagu Mandal that he was to be become
and to be one of the builders and
architects of Tyra in America in the
20th century. And Rapam says that he was
not able to pinpoint
and capture what what was the greatness
of Shagafal. You needed a go amiti like
Ruven Grosovski. And in his clarity and
in his piercing analysis, he was able to
sum up the greatness of that he was a
go.
He was a giant in spirit. And in this
presentation, we're going to talk
about's
remarkable
love for Isra described in the 20th
chapter chapter of
Many people say they love Israel but's
love for Israel was in the realm of the
great
thei
in his
talks about
the souls of your friends are tied. This
was the type of love of Shagafal had to
Israel. When he left Europe, he says,
"We're going to Israel." He was going to
America, but he understood wherever he
was going in life, it was to ultimately
be able to get to Arat Israel. in his
home in Williamsburg on South Second
Street. Opposite where he sat at the
table in black letters was the oath.
And
his love for this expressed itself at
times where he would wake he would get
down on the floor at midnight and say or
when he would give a shak or speak out
the voice of each time he would get to
the talked about
he would break out in tremendous
and when he would get up to the of again
his eyes would drip. ripped with tears,
but these were tears of joy. And he
would say as follows. He would say that
what does mean to a Jew? It's not so
much the what is there obligation, but
he would paint the following picture.
You could go to New York. You could go
to the zoo. You could go to the Bronx
Zoo and you'll see there's an exhibit
there. There's a white bear. There's a
polar bear there. The only thing is
polar bears don't live in New York. You
know, they don't live in Brooklyn. They
don't live in Flatbush. So, how do they
get a polar bear to the Bronx Zoo? Well,
they create this artificial environment
where they make it uh like the tundra
where they pump in frozen air and they
make ice in the water.
But this is not where the polar bear
lives. Polar bears don't live in New
York. Everything about it is artificial.
Or sometimes they would take a tiger
from the jungle or from India and they
would bring it to Scandinavia or to the
Ukraine. Tigers don't live in
Scandinavia. So what do they do? They
put it in some artificial environment
and they pump in hot air.
But this is not the natural habitat of
the tiger or the polar bear.
So too shag would say
is the natural habitat of a Jew. Yeah,
you could be a Jew in America or New
York. You could have shuls, you could
have batimashim, but it's all
artificial. It's not the natural habitat
of the Jew. This is his this was his
view. This was his perspective on he
actually had many initiatives in
Tarvadas in the early days to have a
program he would call it hamala. It was
based on Ezra that the purpose of this
initiative is that every Jew in America
should have some kind of
concrete plan to tie their destiny to
Israel. So he would even have a program
where Jews should own some form of real
estate in Israel so that this would in a
concrete manner tie their destiny to the
Jewish people. And there was a little
there was push back because
there were those who were not in favor
of secular Zionism and Shag this has
nothing to do with secular Zionism. This
is Judaism that every Jew has to feel
that their destiny and their future is
linked to Israel. And then he would say
as follows
true
a Jew wherever you live you don't live
in at least when you sleep at night
to dream about moving to even if you
don't do it yet at the very least you
need to dream about it he would bring
from a kiter a Jew who doesn't have a
shuka to go to Isisra
is not a healthy Jew. They are
disturbed. They are they have a
disturbed form of Yahadus. A healthy
Jewarter would say it has to be part of
healthy Judaism is the desire to go to
Israel. And if that is absent, there's
something unwell about that type of
observance. Ragafi would say if seven
days pass and you don't have a dream
regarding Israel whether it's a dream
while you're sleeping or more
importantly while you're awake if you're
not ambitiously thinking what kind of
program you could have for the benefit
of yidden and is we would apply the
a good Jew it is impossible that a week
should go by without some kind of new
good idea for the benefit of the Jewish
people in Israel. So this was part of's
world view on Israel and we have a trip
now for uh three days we're going to the
north we're going to and it's
interesting that the maharitz rai dinski
the first dashinski reba when he would
when he sent his
official statement to the United Nations
on behalf of the ida
And he would talk about the ancestral
right of the Jewish people to Israel. He
would say that even those who are not
able to reside there, these are his
words, would make it their business to
visit at least once in their lives and
therefore we have never abandoned
Israel. So we see from here that even
visiting Israel has great value as a way
of establishing that this is where uh
our destiny will be and we should all be
to uh
enhance our connection
and more
uh important visits of Kadusha uh coming
up in the next coming days. Wishing
everyone agent.
