Living With Emunah (Part 291) - Going from Amateur to Professional Jew

good morning B should be a good morning for may we hear yes we should hear good news sweeping Victory our hostages should be brought home the Army should be able to retire and please God we should hear only only good things I want to thank our generous and Min serious sponsors for the year our dear friends to we are so grateful ABI and Bella Morgan in memory of Bella's mother Dr Ellen chander and a memory of Rabbi Dr Brian galber also morning Shear is sponsored in honor ofer scha for Alexander Ben Rosa should have a complete and Speedy rafu scha you have a flyers on your chairs to remind you this Mo shabas we are welcoming back and once again hosting Dr Erica Brown an amazing woman an amazing speaker Vice proost of values and Leadership at Yeshiva University holding each other up in crisis she's a wonderful speaker that is this Mo shabas at 8:30 p.m. also reminder if you Canen so you turn your cell phones to silent thank you for the reminder okay a couple of amuna emails and then we'll dive back into the piece that we have been learning and hopefully finish it up from the great rash Drita but a few a few emails first that continue to remind us of how to put our amuna into practice the beauty the value of the emails the reason I read them is that our amuna is not theoretical it's not academic we don't study about it but we are reading and sharing ex examples of people people who needed to employ and deploy it and that gives us the courage and strength when we are in a situation that we can also dig deep that we can also work out oura muscle that we can also see through the prism of amuna and interpret what is happening in our lives in that way which is really our para I'll speak about it on chabas I don't want to spoil it now but that's Yad that's this week's para when you live your life with amuna you are able to reframe everything in your life when you don't have amuna then you can't reframe and you feel you don't have the courage and you don't have the ability it's called out you don't have the ability someone from alas someone from Alaska just walked in someone from is it snowing not quite snowing okay I'm not making fun and if you can't it's my wife and she finds it in Dearing it's all fine it's all good right I have to ask M that's what happens if you come in later that's what happens you get in trouble you're uh that's what happens and you make a grand entry where was I oh Yad I'm gonna get emails I'm mean to my wife she finds it enduring and loving endearing endearing endearing and loving I'm not I'm not I'm not mean both both yeah please be M if you live life with whatever is happening in your world and in your life there's the capacity to frame and reframe it to adjust and pivot if you don't and you feel like a victim of everything happening in life then it's very hard to get through any given day we'll talk about that more on shabas that's why we read these emails so here is an email thank you Rabbi G blah blah blah that really gives me the Yuna boost the last the whole week I used to listen to the sheer online but since the war started I decided to attend in person I didn't read this one last week right no listen to this one this is an amazing story I used to listen to the she online but since the war started I decided to attend in person so that I could join in the tum at the end and what a reminder stay after we're going to recite and complete all of Saum just stay for a few minutes we can divide several times complete all of sa tum who knows if your booklet your tum you staying and you contributing could be the tum that put something over the top and if you don't believe that listen to this email listen to this story I used to listen to the sh online but since the war started I decided to attend in person so that I can join in the tum at the end of sh I'd like to share part of the reason tum is so important to me when I was going through Kimo my daughter up north told me she would say the whole sa for every day for me as a it was an huge accomplishment since she has dyslexia and it took her five hours daily she always called after she finished the safer to tell me that she finished one evening during this period our family in Florida was eating together and I realized the piece of chicken I tried to swallow was stuck in my throat I couldn't speak and I motion to my family that I was in trouble my son started panicking mommy's in trouble mommy's choking my husband got the kids and tried to Pat my back but the chicken was stuck in my throat this was before we had had Salah locally as I was trying to cough it up and not succeeding I thought what a way to leave this world not because of cancer notab kesem not the massive stuff I went through in my life a piece of chicken as I was thinking all this something my husband did finally worked and the obstruction released and I coughed it up and just then just then I got a call from my daughter in New York work she had just completed several tum for me I thanked her and told them that tum told her that tum saved my life since then I try to say a lot more to him because I saw firsthand how powerful it is as an aside in my next visit to the clinic I told the oncologist my story he apologized and said he forgot to tell me that chemo sometimes causes muscle spasms in the throat you have to be careful when you chew thank you for the shum blah blah blah but wow the power of tum just in that moment her daughter reaching for the tum just as she needed it while she was coughing absolutely incredible so if that doesn't motivate and inspire you to stay for tum I don't know what will but our tum is incredibly powerful next email go listen to your sh I get some blah blah blah I love living I'm a strong believer everything happens for a reason I have bought only one lottery ticket for each game for years and I truly believe that things happen the way hashm wants it to if you're waiting to say she won the lottery and she's only get all a BRS that did not happen I live in in a certain community in New York New York area and I'm now in Israel with a friend for a week ever since the war started I knew I needed to come here and here I am my friend and I arrived last week at the volunteer plan that we knew would be fluid there so many stories to tell but one in particular stands out for the Amun first though on Monday we went to benim half a mile from Egypt eight miles from Gaza it's one of the one of the uh of khuta we went for two days to help with with farming it was crazy I was sitting on the sand picking cherry tomatoes while listening to the Amun and listening to booms and airplanes we were assuming it was the IDF doing all their work anyway today we went to a Shiva visit for a fallen soldier and then we made our way to hadasa hospital to visit wounded soldiers who are in rehab our contact told us there was one particular wounded soldier who has been in the hospital a while and had four kids the kids had nothing to do when they arrived to visit and our contact asked if we could bring age appropriate things for him to give to his children when they came so we bought games and books books and we went to the hospital we were met by a soldier who was our contact there she told us we were not allowed to go in and meet the soldiers because they were tired and visits were hard for them she said she would give the toys to the soldier for us we then said the soldier was expecting us according to our contact she said she would call upstairs and see and then she said the soldier was sleeping we walked with her to an area and gave her the toys we were of course disappointed but I channed my amuna brain and said we were really there to help the soldiers if it was too much for them so be it it wasn't really about us I decided I wanted a picture of the re Hospital sign right after I took the picture we stood for a few minutes to regroup and figure out our next step I then noticed a few guys with instruments walking into the hospital I approached them and asked them if they were singing for the soldiers they said not the soldiers but someone who was a victim of a bombing in Yim I asked if we could join them and they said we could we went into the patient's room and it turns out that one of the musicians was the victim's son as the band was setting up we introduced ourselves we said from we came from Ek to visit I asked if there was anything he wanted us to go home and tell others first he said bar he survived since the friend he was sitting with at the time did not and second he said five minutes before the attack he was learning that someone was complaining of a pain to his leg but then he was reminded that he was lucky he didn't have a pain in his eye the victim suffered a leg injury his roommate is a wounded soldier the music Started turns out the patient is a Vidor spor not sure spelled correctly he's a rabbi the music was incredible the rabbi had such joy in his face and sang along there was a p in a wheelchair in the hallway listening to the music I asked the singers if he could join us and he said yes so much joy in amuna in the room our soldier contact from earlier walked into the room and was a little surprised to see us upstairs she handed us back our bag of toys and asked if we wanted to give the soldier we were supposed to meet the gifts we said sure she introduced us to the soldier that was listening to the music we said to come and listen with us we couldn't believe this is who we were supposed to meet and we weren't allowed to and then that was the person they invited into the room to come hear the music with them we left the room we gave him the toys directly ourselves we had such amazing experiences we're going home tonight I have to process it all sorry this is so long I just needed to share since I felt this was a real amuna moment we were disappointed not to see the soldiers the musicians came at the exact moment we needed them to so we can go upstairs the music and amuna was so much more than we thought we could get we were moved beyond words another incredible incredible story beautiful beautiful amuna stories please keep the emails coming I don't know about anybody else but they give me tremendous and inspiration sorry just having the AC raised in here because I don't want anyone to get pneumonia and I'm not sure why the AC is on back to will be learning this piece the that gave on rashes we're now the eth day of and ruk was speaking about the power of those who are not physically on the front lines the soldiers are Del Del deserve our greatest support and love and admiration and help and honor are on the front lines risking their lives in fact tonight on behind the Bea we interview our dear friend NE Ruben who you may remember was a guest in our community several years ago through an amazing program called peace of mind he and his unit came after fighting in Lebanon and losing soldiers then they came here with their therapist peace of mind is an incredible program in which with therapists they come for two weeks to work on PTSD to work through things that Israelis generally like to deny they have to work through and it was a new movement to get people to work through we developed an incredibly close connection with that unit with near in particular while we were in Israel a couple weeks ago near came to the base we made a barbecue he's an incredible musician he sang and he played we spoke about it last week and put the little clip of him singing the for and he left us that night from singing and dancing and he went into Gaza and his Commander was shot and killed and died in his arms and I'm behind the be tonight he talks about what that was and kissing him and saying goodbye how powerful that was and then he talks about Hashem and amuna and fighting and why we are unstoppable and why they will win this war this people are unbelievable they're angels angels angels pabas donak con her husband aad killed on October 7th defending not his yeshu but the neighboring one of pran left six orphans six children they were here for chabas as well and she's just beyond words her amuna her faith her connection to asem of course her grief and her sadness but these people they are the hot spot that we connect through When we struggle when we suffer when we're unsure if there is a Hashem we connect through their Hots spot these these people they are extraordinary so soldiers like near his unit his friends hundreds of thousands on the front line they are they are the central part of winning this war but we've been learning that we are all reservists we're all called up we're all contributing our part and that when we DAV that's the place where the miracle happens was said on the rock that Moshe orchestrated the that was the battlefield from which the battle was one and Noah was responsible thank you Noah was responsible they're called we learned the May Noah the floods of Noah because Noah could have and should have D for his ah it wouldn't have helped it wouldn't have helped saw that when you have less than 10 it doesn't help he didn't ask he didn't bother for less than 10 Noah had less than 10 that's why he didn't bother it wouldn't have helped and the last thing we left off with wasz taught that a Jew cries out because they're in pain even if they're cry won't necessarily bring about a different result their cry won't transform the the respon resp nevertheless when you're in pain you scream ow and if you didn't scream ouch if you didn't scream ow then what does that mean you're not in pain and if what's happening if every day you wake up in the middle of the night you wake up and you long to hear a headline no new soldiers no new count no new casualties but we haven't had such a headline I don't know that there's a day non- ceasefire and even during the supposed ceasefire was a terror attack in we haven't had such a day how are we not yelling ouch how are we not in pain each and every day if you can go through your day if you're not tied to those news if you're not checking if life is ordinary and as usual I think there's work to do there's work to do so Noah was responsible they called the May Noah and we are accountable if we don't stay for the and say and contribute what we can learning and Ding and merits and and Shalom and re and love and financial support and all the different ways that we're called upon to make a difference then it correlates and corresponds with us the difference that we could have made we're in the second and last paragraph on the first side IM when the Jewish people are in a moment of Crisis a moment of difficulty a challenging time we have to be a part of this process to cry out and to Daven and to storm the Gates of Heaven to tear up the Heavenly decree the a and don't worry let God do his work don't make a for why I shouldn't and don't bother it doesn't matter and it won't add it won't help and this is good it's bad let hem do his part he doesn't need your help he's hem he's hem our job is to be part of the community who are in pain to be counted of those people who can't go on with life as usual and life as ordinary yov and our job at this time is for the voice the voice of yov to be louder and stronger than ever as a rabbi say the med teaches this past shabas we had in addition to Donna in addition to our dear friend you did Yar just extraordinary Heroes they would tell you they're ordinary and they are ordinary they're not influence they're not influencers they're not famous they don't have a huge following online but when you interact and engage and you hear their stories there's nothing ordinary about them nothing ordinary about them for those of you who are here those of you who heard you know exactly what I'm talking about but we also as part of this past weekend at Brett Stevens the great columnist po a prizewinning journalist anyway I see the speech he gave on chabas was a dry run of the column that he published today in the in the New York Times essentially the same ideas but he had previously published about the October 8th Jew and he talked about how after October 7th the October 8th Jew has to be forever different not no longer swooning over the institutions of prestige that we once held in high regard but who abandoned us betrayed us stabbed Us in the back like the three Maas who run those three IV League institutions who can't even call genocide against Jews wrong and other institutions like it I asked him then and I feel the same about his column now the October 8th Jew one of the things he omitted and it was brilliant and beautiful and insightful and wonderful and we're grateful he was here and he has a lot of very important things to say again he's been here before and again he stood in my office and gazed at the I have a picture and I have aavad in my office a handwritten letter not to me he passed away long before I was bornin Brett Stevens great-grandfather is a nephew of oer oer so the brains clearly passed down genetically in the family but what's missing from his column and from that talk again I'm not blaming him his background is different than ours our Torah orientation is that the October 8th Jew has to be more committed than ever to the K Co Yakov the October 8th Jew can't be a casual Jew anymore there were and are so many casual Jews who are casual about their Judaism maybe even checking all the correct boxes is kosher Jewish Day School membership in a Jewish in a and Orthodox SCH observant sh check check check check check but casual about a relationship with Hashem feeling his presence talking to him hearing him talk to us walking around with pride pride and being a Jew walking around with a commitment to be a practicing Jew that Judaism informs and Judaism inspires everything that we do and how we see the world and who we are and how we engage everything October 8th October 8th has to be the the end of casual Judaism October 8th has to be the end October 7th should represent the death of a casual Judaism and October 8th among the what he called for a commitment to strengthen the institutions that are aligned with our values that welcome us and will protect us but the October 8th Jew also has to be a proud Jew the October 8th Jew has to be a practicing Jew the October 8th Jew has to find their call call Yakov has to find their voice the voice of yov because K tell us very simply I wrote about this this past week fight1 million fight a million dollars if I had $100 to try to impact anti-Semitism I would not spend it on ads on TV I would not spend it on lobbying members of Congress I would not spend it on trying to get rid of presidents of IV League institutions all of which are important and other people are doing and I'm grateful for it but I would spend it on how we can inspire a greater Cole Co Yakov how can we have more Jews practice more Judaism more proudly let's send a David to every Jew who will wear one around their neck mza to anyone who will hang it on a door particularly on a college campus candles to anyone who will light them CES to anyone who will wear them let's Inspire and welcome and invite Juda to lean into their Judaism we are living in an incredible moment this is all I think about and a wonderful conversation with someone who's become a a good friend the chief Rabbi of South Africa Warren Goldstein is a really extraordinary person this is on his mind and and we were talking about it the other day there are Judaism who until now aligned their Judaism was defined the whole Judaism was social justice and the institutions of social justice that was their expression and manifestation of their Judaism failed them betrayed them abandoned them to me too unless you're a Jew it was black lives matter but Jewish lives don't matter and such institutions of wokeness and progressiveness and there is an entire world who need to fill in something else and there there's a vacuum there's an absence there's an absence there's a whole what will Judaism look like but I'm not only speaking about the other it's true about all of us it's true about all of us as anti-Semitism has spiked and his Rising there are those who want to kill us for being Jewish shouldn't we consider more what it means to be a Jew why is it important to continue this Jewish story this Jewish Legacy this Jewish Journey why does Judaism matter why is it worth fighting for why is it worth living for why is it worth what these soldiers do why is it worth dying for yya was at my home on M shabas talking to a few of us and he described he described yya yya who was the leader of khut schlomit who put the community on his shoulders on October 7th and stayed with them as they were relocated first to Gim and then went with his unit to go fight and has been in and out of Gaza in and out of Gaza and he described I didn't know this when you go into Gaza when you go into war I guess there's somewhere on the border that you pass through that they check your dog tags around your neck and apparently there's also some ID in your boots and he said in that moment your life flashes before your eyes they check your dog tags in case there's nothing else left of you to identify you with other than your dog tags and he described in that moment in that moment is the you confront the reality that you might be going in but you might not be coming out and you think about your parents and your siblings and if you're married your wife and your children you think about your life and where you've been and you can't afford to think about any of those things once you're in if you're in you can't be thinking about anything other than your mission and what you have to do but he described very vividly for a moment while they're checking your dog tag for a moment your life flashes before your eyes so too many too many right now are living with that reality of what does it mean to live as a Jew and what does it mean to be willing to die and to give it all up to be a Jew and we need to for those who need to fill in their Judaism with something new and all of us who can Elevate and enrich and Inspire and upgrade our Judaism have to go from a casual attitude about and and a casual attitude about our in a casual attitude to Total Learning a casual attitude towards observance a casual attitude towards Jewish Pride a casual attitude towards Jewish Outreach we live in maybe the most densely Jewish populated area outside of the land of Israel in the world you understand that more than 50% of the people in Palm Beach in in South Palm Beach County in Boke and Del are Jewish there are there are 200,000 Jews in South Palm Beach County we have to lean in and we have to work harder for that co co Yakov for that Co Yakov because K tell us when we have more Jewish pride in Jewish practice when Jews are present in the shs then the lethal dangerous threatening hands of asov cannot win but when we're silence when we're muted when we're casual when we're Ed when we're ashamed when we're shy when we're hiding then then those anti-semites so the real answer to anti-Semitism is of course lobbying and of course it's confronting and of course it's legislation yes those are all critical components but you know and I won't call anyone out by name right now the alphabet sou soup of Jewish institutions I won't mention by name Millions tens hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent in organizations whose sole existence is to confront anti-Semitism and the result is anti-Semitism had an alltime high anti-Semitism as the greatest hate crimes in America so maybe it's time to rethink maybe it's time to do something different maybe it's time to shake it up maybe it's time to invest in other answers to anti-Semitism and I would I would argue to you that hako Yakov counterintuitively that yes it's about confronting anti-semites but it's also about confronting ourselves it's almost easier to confront the anti-semite to call out to be critical to post on social media to write to our friends can you believe did you see we can't tolerate this is no good this is unconscionable I'm outraged that's easier it's easier to confront the other but maybe we also need to confront ourselves is our Co K Yakov how is our Jewish Pride how is our Jewish practice how is our Jewish Outreach where are we are we casual are we amateurs or are we ready to go pro in our Judaism we spoke about that on chabua a few years ago an incredible book that we worked off of and showed the Torah sources or origins of it an amazing book called uh the war of art by Steven pressfield the war of art not the Art of War but the war of art it's a little book you'll finish it one reading Steven pressfield is a yid and in fact we developed in that shabash the war of art he talks about resistance and all throughout the book when he talks about resistance it struck me this is the most eloquent description I ever heard of the yat Sahara when I later looked he actually wrote an essay online Steven pressfield saying that resistance is What's called the Yahara he's not a practicing Jew but he's a yid I got to get him on behind the Bea because his books are amazing he wrote a great book about the sixth day war and reconquering yusim he wrote a book that became a famous movie I forgot what it's called I didn't read the book or watch the movie I don't remember but anyway read the book The War of art he calls it resistance and in that book he talks about that when do you have your breakthrough when can you overcome resistance this is a man who was homeless and slept in his car and couldn't get published until he was in his maybe 40s maybe late 30s I don't remember and he spoke about the resistance the resistance the resistance that was holding him back and how do you break through to achieve and accomplish your dreams your aspirations your vision your hopes how do you break through and overcome that resistance and he speaks about and he develops in this little book again you'll finish it in one reading the answer is you have to go from being an amateur to a professional from an avocation to a vocation and he talks about what that means and how you do it the mechanics of it and what we developed and all I thought about when I read it was that's yish K are we amateur is like a hit a hobby on the side is it a hobby on the side really I'm a Country Club Jew really I'm a fashionista really I'm a professional really I'm a business person really I'm a this I'm a that I do a little yish K on the side I go to schol on the weekends I send my kids to the Jewish school I observe the holidays on the side it complements my life I'm an amateur I have a hobby it's a hobby yish kite or is yish kite not a is it is it our vocation is it our passion are we ready to turn pro you overcome and you break through resistance when you're ready to become professional or do you want to stay an amate throughout life so coov are we ready to go professional or are we are we just casual amateurs are we ready that's where I'd put the money that's where I'd invest it that's where I'd hang Billboards to invite all of us I don't want to point fingers it's the UNA affiliate it's all of us all of us need to hold up that mirror and look at ourselves and confront ourselves and find our voice our coo Yakov our voice of yishai part of being in October 8th Jew has to mean the end of a casual you see it all over Israel this incredible Spiritual Awakening this Awakening of people who had never engaged and never encountered and were never interested who are now open and I don't want to romanticize or overd dramatize it's not that the entire country now is keeping shabas and it's it's not but a lot of people who previously not only were disinterested they were actually opposed to are now open and what do we need to be open to even within our observant lives are there aspects of observance that we were C about that had resistance to that we're ready to finally take seriously ready to take seriously and is describing this particularly about coming to sh going to sh coming to the B Med learning and daving and saying to but he's saying none of us none of us have the right to say unless just like with the real army if somebody is eligible for the physical Army I shouldn't say the real army because the spiritual Army is also the real army but if somebody is eligible for the physical Army but let's say they go for their what's it called evaluation assessment their physical is another word and let's say they're they're disqualified there's a physical disability a mental or emotional disability so they're exempt someone is exempt of being in the Army will be hurtful or harmful to them they're exempt and I would argue the same thing is true here and I want to say this with sensitivity because I've received emails from people who have their own mental struggles that if they would indeed engage the pain of what's going on right now they would become debilitated they they they mentally physically don't have the capacity to feel that sadness if they would engage in a way that would feel the sadness they would be so debilitated it would be harmful and almost irreparable to them so just like the physical Army there are exemptions I would say this Also spiritually associating identifying connecting feeling an empathy for what's going on also there are exemptions and I want to say that clearly and with sensitivity but if one does not fit into the exemption which most do not then we're all in this Army says R druk nobody has the luxury of saying I'm not in the army me we are all called up and we're all called upon and we are all reservists and we are all in you're here from Reuben tonight if you listen near rubben fought in Lebanon and lost friends he was done he's out he's got a wife and beautiful kids and lives on a yeshu and plays Incredible music all over Israel he's done he put in his time he lost people gave a piece of his soul but that doesn't work that exemption doesn't qualify he was called up and he still has to go in last night we at the gala and uh they honored there a a retired General whose son was killed October 7th and in the middle of Shiva got up put on his uniform aborted and abandoned the Shiva to go fight because it was a Mitzvah and he had a contribution to make a commander a leader he put on a uniform in the middle of Shiva for his son who died in this war to go fight to go fight in the room you could imagine stood and applauded and honored him these are unimaginable he didn't do that because he would be in Miami at a Gala and get recognition and honor and he didn't do that because he someone would write a book about him he didn't do that so people would notice he did that because it was desperate times called for desperate measures he did it because he felt he didn't have a choice and that's the feeling that we have to have about leaning into our y our Co yov whatever it is however it expresses itself and it's different for each and one every one of us for some it'll be Ding and others it's learning Torah and others it's digging deeper to give more staka and others it's making peace with someone and others it's experiencing more unity and having more space and tolerance and love for Jews who are different than you it's time to finally let go of those preconceived notions and tension and hatred for the Jew who wears or looks or observes or does different it's fine for you to walk over to them in sh in the community in the supermarket and just give them a hug and they're gonna ask what in the world is going on here just give them a hug they say what just happened and just say you know I used to think X Y or Z about people who look like you dress like you I just want to give you a hug because I love you brother or sister only do it if it's the same gender it's appropriate don't go RAB Goldberg told me I have to give you a hug you're gonna find a and AAL you're gonna give him a big hug unless he's nart then you can give him a hug too but don't don't do that either I'm joking don't do that either but whatever it means for each and every one of us how can our Co a Yakov how can our Co be a greater K Yakov how are we going to express a greater voice of our yish more Jewish Pride more Jewish practice more Jewish passion more Jewish any other word you could think of with a p we are all recruited into this battlefield turn the side but there's really a question ask of Dr on this of anytime The Voice is not the voice of yov then the hands sorry anytime the voice is the voice of yov then the hands will not be the hands of how did Kaz extrapolate that how did Kaz learn that from where did kazal derive that the verse the seems to say exactly the opposite let me remind you of the story because we are now long past it in the what happened is poised to give his son how come doesn't get it well RKA does that's a topic for another time but doesn't get it and he favors as and he believes as is the only one who What It Takes I'll give you a little hint you know what the answer is the war of T what you're watching right now because Yak knows as the son of aam and feels responsible to be the progenitor of the future of a Jewish people and he says who's gon to have what it takes after an October 7th to have the singular focus and commitment against International pressure and the United Nations and even our great friend the United States to do what it takes to go fight and battle and eliminate Hamas and then when you're done with that Hezbollah and then when you're done with that the the Yemen and then when you're done with that Iran who's going to have what it takes and Y concludes to himself the only one who's gonna have what it takes is my as as is he Ackle off the D I wish he came to shore I wish he DED a little bit more I wish he would learn with me when I ask him to learn I wish he wore yamaka in public but you know what my hunter Warrior battle Sun muscular brute asov he's the only one who going to continue this Legacy and Rifka says boy are you underestimating AR Yakov you have no idea why cuz he's pale and meek and sits in the Bas medes all day boy are you underestimating our Yakov and there's only one way that you're going to realize how much you're underestimating him and you know how that is I'm gonna orchestrate with him to fool you when yob is able to dress up and come before yak and fool his father and and scheme and go in mosad we're talking we're talking shinb mosad right mad stories are unbelievable my friend Daniel katson gave me a great book about the mad it's the thickest thing if you need a paper weight or a door stop or you want to actually read it I think it's called mad I don't remember what it's called it's an amazing book you don't read it on Friday night because you won't be able to put it down you won't sleep it is just incredible stories of the mad's accomplishments and achievements so what Yakov does to get the from is like an original Mad story put on a disguise dress up learn the accent the language the furry hand go in and walk out with the braa take it away from the enemy in this case ASV and who Rises to the occasion is able to accomplish it and pulls it off and gets it done none other than the meek weak Yesa Bak who his father dismissed him is incapable unable Yakov pulls it off Yakov pulls it off you can imag imagine the pillow talk that night RKA says no no what do you think about yov took that BR you had no idea h Huh what do you think you still think Yakov can't do it and I'll tell you you know who's pulling it off in this war when we were in Israel two weeks ago we met with a minister who shared with us he said the war is not the time to talk about this said so I can't talk about it publicly you don't distinguish between soldiers all soldiers are the same we can't talk about it but as of two weeks ago he said 41% of the soldiers who killed in combat are the religious soldiers because religious soldiers are disproportionately represented in combat units you don't know that Google it you'll see the statistics the religious Soldiers the hezer soldiers the soldiers Meek weak pale soldiers who divide their army time between being in the Bas medish for a few years and then going to fight they're the combat soldiers they're the most passionate they're the most driven they're the most focused on what that cause is and they're the ones tragically who are falling the most again you'll hear ni Rubin tonight talk about after his Commander died in his arms how do you go back to continue to fight and he talks about when you know you're why then you never ask how when you know your why you're not bothered by how and these religious soldiers they know their why they know their why of what they're fighting for they know their why so Yakov pulled that off pulled that off and when he pulls it off says something's something's off here why even with yov there's a little glitch he almost didn't pull it off why because notices The Voice something's wrong the voice sounds like my Yakov but the furry hairy hands and the food and the conversation that's ASV so that's how that is originally communicated the voice is the voice of yov but there's an anomaly so I asks Dr how do we go from the PK saying the voice is the voice of yob but the hands are the hands of asov to when the voice is the voice of yov then the hands can't be the hands of asov where did kazal derive that from that's not what the PK says how could our rabbis derive an extrapolate a conclusion that flies in the face and contradicts exactly what the vers is say should we leave it here okay elain wants us to at least we'll start the answer when said this he said it as a question he said it as a question question mark the reason he asked it as a question was it's incompatible it's inconceivable it's in congruous it's impossible it can't be it's not compatible you can't simultaneously have the voice of the voice of Yakov and yet the hands be the hands of it wasn't that was noting an observation interesting the voice of yob but the hands of Asa no he wasn't sharing an observation he was asking a question can't be incompatible they don't go together doesn't work so understood it doesn't work they don't go together which means if we can live with a COO then we will avoid if we express and manifest and Proclaim our Co Yakov our yish kite if we go from amateur to Pro from avocation to vocation from casual to Serious from disp passionate to passionate then the anti-semites can't touch us they will be in fear of us when they see Jews who stick together with unity when they see Jews who practice proudly when they see Jews who unashamed not defensive and Unapologetic then they think twice that's what I wrote about two weeks ago Hamas underestimated us and so did we that was the lesson that we learned from the generals that we met with in our trip Kamas saw a country that was being described as on the brink of Civil War secular against religious right against left left against right and they said attack now go go go you know why they're going to fall apart they're going to blame one another they're going to point fingers at one another and they won't be able to come together to fight and respond to us and boy did they underestimate and then they underestimated a second time because they said all we need is a ceas fire a few days and then this wounded people are so wounded they're going to say you know this quiet's not so bad let's just make a permanent ceasefire they didn't understand you didn't see one I didn't see one headline one opposition one demonstration one rally one group who when they went back to fighting said no no no no in Israel I'm not talking about whatever outside of Israel in Israel you didn't find the most left-wing politician nobody in Israel said you know we have peace it's quiet let's leave it that way ferocious Fierce ready to go back Kamas consistently underestimated us and we underestimated us of what it means and how we could come together with unity with passion with pride with commitment with Jewish practice that was a video shared just yesterday if you're not on her status if you want to be in connected and inspired by what's going on in Judaism get on her WhatsApp group and watch her status she publishes a lot of very very beautiful and inspiring things and it was a pluga was a unit in the Army about to go into Gaza singing anim there wasn't like a soldier on the side like you go to an ncsy shabat I don't know about today when I used to go I'm trying to pull people in sing there's always that guy in the he's too cool he doesn't connect he doesn't want to sing doesn't want to dve in doesn't do it for me there's no soldiers on the side I'm too cool this isn't for me I'm not religious I don't believe in God I don't want to be in the video These video there's no there's no doesn't exist it doesn't exist there it's unbelievable underestimated the co co Yakov but I'm worried and you're worried is it going to last can we keep it can we grow it can we add to it can we bottle it can we secure it and the answer is in us the answer is in us and that's what he'll finish we'll continue with this piece next week but that's the question each of us have to answer what are we doing to find our coov where's our coo Yakov Brett Stevens's outline of an October 8th Jew is brilliant and F fantastic we're not contradicting it but it needs an addendum the addendum to the October 8th Jew is the Jew finds their coo Yakov please stay for to hilum Mo shabas don't forget Dr Erica Brown tonight behind the