Liad The Nazarite - Ari Abramowitz: The Land of Israel Network

and the best kept secret of judea is the jews of judea and you are one of those incredible diamonds you're a diamond of a jew every time i'm around you i feel closer to hashem i leave inspired and and i thought that this was a perfect week to introduce you to our friends and brothers in the fellowship i was just telling you about the fellowship uh you know hundreds of people in 40 countries around the world that are just so thirsty to connect with israel the torah of israel the nation of israel the god of israel and and that's what it's about so i wanted to introduce them to you and i was thinking of course there was another torah portion i thought that you would tie in very well too but this one is beautiful as well because this the minute i started reading through it and it was about vows and annulling vows and just in general the power of a vow of a neder in hebrew i i thought to invite you now why would i invite you to uh well first of all i got to say it's a privilege to be here thank you and uh i feel the same way anytime i'm around you i feel closer to hashem so uh we're very blessed um i know the other portion you're talking about is probably parshas nasso and most of the time i get a text message like oh it's your parsha and the reason is because i was a nazirite a nazir in hebrew for over seven years uh concluded recently on life by and uh so yeah even to this day even though i'm no longer in that status people still know me as a nazir just because of that most people have only ever known me as that my wife i've known you for years and only recently correct have you uh returned it to the fold of yeah whatever that means humanity yeah right trying to become a human again so what was that like why did you take on that vow what was it what was that like give us your thought process just briefly you were born in south africa correct born in south africa lived there until i was about 11. spent the next about 11 years in california and then i went off spent a year in asia it was a wild time and it was actually in asia and that i i became an azerite it was right after pesach time on uh the conclusion of pesach is the it's known as the pesach and it concludes with seventh day of passover passover right and uh there's a little bit of a celebration a feast at the conclusion some call it my munna others call it the mashiach the feast of messiah and um it was actually on that day that i ended up taking on the vow um i think one of the simple reasons i took it on is like you and i think this is why we connect so much is we're a bit extremist in a certain sense i mean if you look at where ari is right now where we are right now you understand there's a there's a positive we just saw it in paris pinchas that to be zealous for hashem to be zealous for holiness there's nothing wrong with that and i think that's why me and you connect in our friend circle we connect and um i've always manifested itself in different ways right absolutely absolutely and um i i i strongly felt that it's an injustice it's a sadness in the world that the creator of the world where there is nothing outside of him doesn't have a home in his own world and how can i allow myself to be comfortable to be too comfortable so long as he doesn't have a home i don't want to be so well isn't that what we're trying to do with our our prayers and our national aspiration for the beit hamikdash for the temple to create a dwelling place a home for god in the world isn't that what we're what our aspiration should be why did you decide to make it on such a personal biblical nazarite out-of-the-box way i mean most people don't know any other nazarites i i didn't other than you right i think an add-in element is you can't really maybe give a good reason behind these things i know i'm married to a woman who's a convert although it's a story for another time that she does have family lineage that connected to judaism so um when you ask most converts at least when i've asked them why they did it it's it's something deep and innate inside of them that they can't really describe they just know that this is who they are and they could give reasons but the reasons are never good enough i can't tell you necessarily i can give you reasons but even to myself the reasons aren't good enough the most deep and innate reason is i just felt this is what i need to do this is one of the what we would call with regard to kabbalah this is a rectification that we as a cloud as a general all-encompassing soul of israel need and sometimes a certain individual might do so for the the collective and i even after now i've concluded i've had rabbis come up to me and say thank you in a sense for your service like we would say to a soldier because they understand that the torah is eternal that means that the portions of the torah that describe the nazarite and speak about the commandments relating to the nazirite they haven't gone out of effect just because we don't have a temple anymore there's still a belief and there's still an idea of it and this is something that i can describe i just knew this is something i needed to do this highlight was taken from the land of israel fellowship every week hundreds of families from literally around the world come together on our live zoom sessions to strengthen each other to inspire each other and to learn torah from the land of israel in which we connect the dots between the bible the hebrew language and the confusing events of our times go to www.thelandofisral.com backslash fellowship or click on the link below to join thank you