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Rockland County at 91.9 on the FM dial and around the world in the web JM the am.org rabbi fendel has been um in stay Road for how many years now Rabbi almost 20 almost 20 years and you have the distinction and the honor of serving as rosha Yeshiva the Yeshiva here in St Road uh I love what one of your students said earlier that a lot of cities have a Yeshiva you as the Yeshiva have a city around you the entire place you've pointed that pointed this out to me every time I'm here the entire place no matter what their background may be no matter what type of homes they may come from they all know where the Yeshiva is in St Road and now it's even more now it's an Army near the yes we had about thousands of soldiers throughout the past three weeks first I'd like to extend the ma to Simon Jacob and Dr Joe Rosen talk and to to you for all the help it's a big inan that's what we need Tora that's what our town needs danc could you tell us something about the Ethiopian Community here is it large is it is it been here a long time what could you tell us about them the rabbi of the community RAB alone happens to be the name of the mayor right of the community and both of them have in common that they were in our there and we're proud of that tremendous connection the Ethiopian Community is not very large but it there's a lot of Youth that are my daughter is now leaving to be a comar of the Ethiopian Community we see them as real potential tra and great citizens phenomenal and I hope I'll recognize some of the songs Ator we'll start a lot of them you think so okay I just want to make sure I don't know I'm not very familiar with the with the uh different minhagim of the Ethiopian Jewish Community um you mentioned about the Army being here uh the Shiva played a continues to play but especially in the height of this war played a very important role just in giving basic necessities to the soldiers what would they have done without you the truth is the Army doesn't need theot but they needed our spirit and that was something very unique and very special so many bonds so many connections solders just called me up last night and he said I don't know I got his my number he just wanted to tell me the special relationship that was for that the whole it's it's a group of officers and we're talking about hundreds of future officers and present officers they're exposed to Yeshiva environment they're exposed to what hezer is all about they're exposed to a special spirit and unity people from T Aviv they they SP one soldier asked me he said wait you guys foresaw all this CU I told them that N9 years ago AR was also packed with uninvited guests we had thousands of people here then also many hundreds you know over a thousand Uninvited showered slept all over the grass and in the dorms then it was a little different we were also looking at Maps trying to figure out exactly how to get into the Gaza Strip but it was really a demonstration then against the Hideous crime of the senseless evacuation from the Gaza Strip and so one guy said to me from Tel Aviv a secular person he said you guys foro all this so I said not exactly even though many did we just saw a video of a rabbi being dragged out of his house saying you dragging us now out of our homes you're going to see it's going to fall on ashalon and you're going to you're going to feel sorry but I personally didn't foresee it like that we just knew it's a mistake this land is a land that we have so much to do so much learning so many that we didn't yet discover so many uh medicines that weren't yet so much high-tech so much so many so much building and so much giving and so much learning and these our neighbors they don't know what to do with it a little out of breath we keep in shape from running from uh Kasam Rockets but that's not why we came to sto not to dodge Kasam Rockets we came here with a real mission of bringing Torah to a development Town development Town doesn't have to always be developing it could be developed and I think you guys saw a little bit and I'd like to invite all your listeners to come see stero it's not what you picture stero not what you thought it's not a it's not the pictures that you see in the Gaza Strip it's it's a lot of building a lot of growth a lot of learning it became a capital of Torah and Zionism it became a capital of young couples that we found great housing here there's a place between the twoot there it's called when they order cement they say bring it over to stot Torah our neighbors they know how to live underground I'm I'm I think we have to came to time to divide the land you know you live here a lot of years you have to compromise they could take the bottom and we'll take the top because they they don't know what to do it's like taking fish and putting him out of water that's the Arabs don't know how to develop this beautiful land we do and you can see it we're building a beautiful mosit Park 50 60 dunam we think it's going to be a state-of-the-art park nicer than a lot of the parks in America with real beautiful equipment we're building a a visitor center two gigantic bar where we're accepting now another two and a half weeks even though you see the building it's not finished another two and a half weeks the bottom floor will be ready to accept almost 120 F first year guys and that means that they voted for us and they said that even though it may people think it's not safe the parents said we want stero R doel is with us he's actually our host today here at J and the Amon State Road it's our honor I appreciate that you basically answered my next question but just to reiterate it's amazing the relationship that this city and yiva specifically mostly because of you and people like Yi Bal have with the American Jewish Community I was going to ask you what projects you're working on right now that would be of interest to our listeners but you just mentioned the the park is being built uh more construction is going up in terms of Yeshiva buildings and and dormitories right the major project and this is something I think I can feel comfortable to tell your listeners is the learning of Torah the voice of Torah that's it it's something it's much less popular everybody loves to build parks and we raised a lot of money for parks and it's easy and everybody loves to build uh but what we need is we have hundreds of guys and they end up getting married here and living here and that's real kiru and real kesem and these people a lot of them are so the people the residents see them as their children grandchildren and it created a tremendous impact on the school system on the shs when the former May mayor he got a little he was a great guy the former mayor right and he was very supportive of us but a month before the elections he got frightened because the new mayor was someone from our community and very popular and very popular and he thought so he decided to make a campaign against me personally and the new mayor signs having pictures of us saying these guys are going to turn stoad into another B another bees and the mayor told me the new mayor he said he went from house to house and people said these guys we know them we know them from the shs we know them from the schools we know them from they're our neighbors they're great guys and he won by a landslide the mayor even reversed his campaign to be with us two weeks before but didn't help uh that's mayor alond deidi and I know you have uh regards from him to us he was not able to be here today he's out of town so to speak but he's doing very well right he's uh he has proven to be as we suspected during the campaign a real leader in this city 100% And he said he gives a lot of credit to his years as being a director of the Yeshiva he says he learned there had galvanized and how to uh excite the world to make they wrote into something they thought they'd start up with a little hick town they didn't realize that world jury will unite around this town and and make it into a special capital and Center that it is amazing Rabbi fendel continued success what you're doing here is unbelievable a lot of uh members of the American Jewish Community are very proud because they're very involved with what's going on here in stot and we wish youa and the spirit that you give us and the amazing optimism you give us I hope it it continues to spread throughout the entire land of Israel amen and we have a lot of thanks to the American Community the type of giving is something unique it's something people have to write about the generosity and we couldn't have done what we did here without you guys over there they love this town for some reason we appreciate that we love them also and it's something it's a special and special partnership we can't do this alone Thea thank you so much for joining us thank you shabbat shalom a peaceful naku as we say JM and the am Rabbi shvat and uh and Rabbi seagull are joining us now as we talk about the significance of this uh major event that's going to be happening as we uh as we conclude our show Once We conclude the show we're literally going to go to the Ethiopian synagogue here in St root and start the big celebration Simon we're under an hour away finally after all this time we're under an hour away from going to the synagogue and starting the big celebration I cannot wait to get there and to talk and to experience this day that we have spoken about for so long Rabbi sharbat is the rabbi of the sparta congregation in congregation abas Jacob and David in West Orange New Jersey I've had the pleasure of being there Rabbi shvat first of all welcome back to JM and the am thank you so much it's great to be here uh this was a little bit of a surprise for you because at this time last week you didn't know you'd be in in St Road er shabas naku no I did not at all know I was going to be here uh when this uh the talks began I guess mon ago uh Joe encouraged me to come and I told him I can't I'm actually moving uh or I did move on Wednesday um and he encouraged me encouraged me RAB wickler encouraged me to come and I left literally in the middle of the move while the movers were packing the truck to go to my new home I walked out and I I'm sure your family's very happy about that and people are wondering where am I going to sleep when I come back home um but I need to thank my wife first of all baa for allowing me to come here and and for uh Joe and RAB zul making it happen for me to come it's really an unbelievable Simka for the Jacob rosada and seagull families SIM for West Orange Community especially the spartic West Orange Community you know we're so lucky to have two unbelievable people who could get things done um and I've seen it with my own eyes and now I'm happy to experience it here in STO and now I'm an eyewitness to it I could tell you it's an amazing feeling having people who want to get things done and do it um your thoughts you know that this sa Tor is being dedicated to the memory of three special people we keep mentioning it's a Tor in an Ethiopian synagogue your thoughts as all this is going on today it's such a show of unity a sign of unity um you know we think about ashkanazi community and we think about the sparta Community then you have the communities that uh are not mentioned that much and the Ethiopian Jews um who are here in Israel sometimes feel left out um and it's beautiful to see that uh the spum and ashkenazim could come together and help the rest of am Israel where the Ethiopian Jews feel like you know we we are being taken care of um and it's beautiful to see that they're going to have a sa Torah isic sa for Torah and I'm very excited to dance with them soon 100% it's gonna be a nice celebration that's for sure Rabbi sharbat will report back to the West Orange saric minion next Shabbat I'm sure right definitely report more than just uh what I've seen so far in dayot but to report uh yesterday uh Dr Joe and Simon we went to go visit uh one of the soldiers family to be um and really just a show of unity for all of Israel that they're not golden family right the golden family right and I say that because so many people knew who he was just from the circumstances of his death and you were there yesterday and you spent some time in the northern part of Israel we did we spent some time in the northern part of Israel and hopefully on Sunday the central part of Israel and really we're trying to get to different parts of er Israel to show our support that the Jews in America have not forgotten them and even when there was a ceasefire we're still not forgetting them as we know of so too often that unfortunately things don't just end peacefully um and although we hope and we pray that they do as we've just heard an hour ago a uh Red Alert here at stad remember way back when that ceasefire was on remember that remember those days when they had the ceasefire uh ra Shabbat I thank you and now I introduce Rim nusa Nate seagull uh we've had the honor and privilege of doing many things together before before I would turn to people like Simon and Dr Joe I would turn Trin Nate because he always seemed to have a connection to get things done he's also one of those people and he is here today to celebrate with us as I mentioned our father is among the people and by the way Rabbi seagull good morning to you good morning this is something that Simon insisted on this was something that when we together uh put together this project and and it all fell into you know our laps like this Simon said in addition to whoever we're going to memorialize with this beautiful saf T we want Rabbi zeev seagull to be part part of it so I'm glad you're here today to uh express our appreciation I have to admit I didn't even know until this morning that that was happening and I I I have to thank you very very very much and I uh I just want to tell you an interesting thing that uh people say to me what are you doing you're going there now and your brother my brother was here two weeks ago right and you were stuck in the airport all day trying to get home but I remember as a as a as a kid when my mother should live in be one said to me she said I think Daddy's going to go to Israel in the next week or so so I said why she says because there's trouble there so I said what do you mean go he always goes when there's trouble and I see that his CH his children have followed that and um to have his name on a sa for Turan they wrote in an Ethiopian synagogue my father loved every Jew that was one thing I could say he loved every Jew and to see that his name is going to be here in an Ethiopian Community is something very very special for our family and there are no words to thank you for for what you have done and we appreciate it greatly it is amazing and uh I was thinking of the significance because you know how he felt about expansion in the land of Israel and you talk about St Road and the building and the and and and just the uh the kots Goot the Ethiopian Community being here obviously it's something that happened during his lifetime but it was a very recent development as as Jewish history goes put all of that together he must have a greater appreciation for an event like this you know I want to tell you something I once took a group of uh of teenagers across the country when I came back I was telling them about the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park and Old Faithful and everything I would say he would say yeah we have that in Israel we have that in Israel we have that in Israel so I said okay you have everything is he says but you have to remember that he says you have to remember that Israel has everything and that's your home I'll never forget when he said that to me amazing amazing great message uh like we always say you can go you can go skiing in the Heron and the same day go down to aot and enjoy 100 degree weather Israel has everything that's for sure the nak I have to just say I was a little surprised by something when that red alert came you didn't even bend down the whole place is lying on the floor and there you are you're the biggest Target in the room well everyone seemed to think that I'm responsible for protecting everybody else I think if I stay here everyone can hide behind me just don't let Mommy listen to those few minutes okay I'll tell you it's very interesting the uh thank God thank God Iron Dome exists and thank God the real Iron Dome right is watching over the people of Israel because God is very good to us and bar hasem the majority of the time thank God that safer Ty is adding more security to this wonderful City exactly exactly I thank you very very much and it's great to celebrate this occasion with you here we're spending shabas together what great which is pretty amazing as well and ironically uh our other brother who lives in y is in the United States this week go go explain that I guess he heard we were coming that's what happened he heard we were coming and that's that's how it developed uh JM and the am I have been given um a word and uh I I really am happy to share this with Joe and Simon and everybody that Rabbi Udin is going to uh discuss uh this occasion today during his presentation on Paran he has been made aware of what's Happening Here Today this unique unique day in JM history where we are participating in this in this this this uh hardto believe set of circumstances of how this all came together uh and culminates today with this big celebration the in the Ethiopian synagogue and RAB Udin is going to include it in his words and in a very special way uh this morning here at JM am I do want to remind everybody that our weekly update which normally is heard around this time with Malcolm Hine is going to be uh presented next week uh because of the special circumstances today we are going to postpone our next edition of the weekly update until next week so you'll catch that about 7:40 in the morning next week right here at JM and am on Friday I also want to remind you that Theon M1 Israel fund together they are sponsoring the Unity Concert with uh God Elbas and um Eighth Day 11m tomorrow night at the master gymnasium on Mall Road in Barryville New York as we always say we want as much of a um of an attendance as possible as much of an attendance as possible for any event that's considered a Unity event at this time so please make sure to be there tomorrow night enjoy the music and come out for Israel and before we go to Rabbi Udin we're rejoined by uh Simon and Dr Joe and Joe you wanted to say something please just uh you know I I meant to say this before um you know first of all I want to say that all our family you know D Ben ysin who's my father um your father and um should inah go higher and higher and higher and uh you know I want to say that like you know it's it's Quin whatever n whatever you want to call it that you know were able to give the sa toot I have to tell you about 20 years ago we we came from Iran as you know um 1988 and right after that my father came to Israel and uh he loved basali and when he was alive actually he used to go see basali which is right about five minutes away right by by and he always used to tell me that uh that when he used to at the beginning they used to take him about seven to eight hours to get here because he had to go take a bus from Dem Marcus here here there was no bus there's nothing here going through to sto or niot and he always told me that I it takes me so long but I really have to go to naot because he felt something so it's all Min that you know I was thinking about it like that you know I'm giving a Tor inro where he probably passed so many times to get toote and to get a from the basali and then and you know to go to to him over there it's which is it means so much to me and my father you know like really loved Amel he really really cared about about all the Jews from all different type of the world and you know we escaped just so we could have the freedom we could learn and we could we could have it to we could write a Torah we could do whatever we need to do with the Torah so it's it means a lot to me and that it's joined by two great great people your father and Simon's father-in-law uh which I knew also and it's I'm I'm amazed and you know barash it's it's amazing and I really thank you for giving us that opportunity to be able to do this I appreciate that Simon you have one more minute sure okay so I just I wanted to mention that Joe rosada is the Gabi in arm minan and every week for the past few weeks he's been going through and doing hash Kaba which is like a kmal for all of the soldiers who passed away um since the beginning of this uh whole thing with Gaza um over the last few weeks and also he's been doing a um Whata call it mishab for all of the soldiers who are hurt and that list gets very long and people in America and I'm really I'm I'm taking this opport to speak to people in America they kind of Disconnect from that list it's like one of the things that Joe mentioned uh last week was we've got to remember behind every name is a person well one of the things I realized when and I spoke about it last week was when when I'm listening to that list I suddenly heard my name and I suddenly heard my father's name and I suddenly heard uh one of the other people in the community's names and all of a sudden all the names started to come out and I realize that those names are not the names of disconnected people in AR isra those names are our names they're us we're not we're not there to support and know that somebody's behind that name they're in front of us they're standing there for us and and that's such an important thing this is not about stot this is not this this whole War that's going on is not about sto it's not even about Israel it's about Jews and we're all Jews and if we believe if we believe it's about Israel and we're we're disconnected in America and everything's you know everything's going to be great we're crazy to be honest they're our front line of defense and they're standing in front for us so we really really need to remember that to pay cavod to them we tried to do that um when we went to the Goldens yesterday um we met with the twin brother we saw the twin brother there um we got a chance to talk to him but BR we have an opportunity but we also have to have super hakar for every one of the people who's putting their life on line for us not for them for us you know as as we were going from from from the north to the golden family last today I couldn't stop thinking about you know the things that I was reading to them like you know like the the Miracles that Hashem does for for cl Israel like you know there's so much stuff that's going on that people don't even think about or know about it's like unbelievable like I'm not sure I'm sure people know that you know there was a rocket that was going to hit Tel Aviv and I'm not sure if you heard the story that there was you know they they did the Iron Dome and it failed and the second one it failed and then the they sent emergency system to the place I'm not sure if you heard this and then all of a sudden there was a big wind that came and took the rocket and put it into the sea and the guy that was sitting behind the Iron Dome he recalled he says you know there's there is a God there is a God is unbelievable it's not just us Iron Dome it's going there and there's many many stories about that and there's so much stuff going on oh it's amazing and by the way Simon you talk about hakarat to and expressing it yesterday when we went ahead and thanked every Soldier you know what they say to us they say thank you and I'm why would the soldiers be thanking us come they come up to us and they say thank you so much for giving us huk and we look at them and go giving you huk are you kidding that's exactly what we here we're getting huk so much huk from them so thank you thank you and now moment because as I said Rabbi Udin is going to include this big celebration his words this time each and every Friday every Arab shabas Rabbi Benjamin Udin spiritual leader of congregation Shay Torah in Fon New Jersey to address the entire listening audience concerning the Torah portion of the week good morning Rabbi Udin good morning good shabas everybody tomorrow we have the privilege of reading it is also this week shabas naku now I say this every year that the very par itself of esan with its 12 mitzvos eight positive and four prohibitions the parha itself gives us the para itself gives us consolation how so look at the mitzvos you have in this week's parasa aside from the repetition of the Ten Commandments you have the Mitzvah of literally the Oneness of God the mitah the Mitzvah to love God and remember we save the morning and night after we've already recited the that God loves us God loves us and therefore we can return This Love towards him you have the Mitzvah of T Tor you have the Mitzvah of andad the Mitzvah of and Ro you have the Mitzvah of mza now before I continue I want to say that it's always hard to leave ER Isel I got in from ER Israel this morning I'm doing the program towards Thursday evening in America so you can play it please God from sto tomorrow morning this was so difficult to leave as you will see yourself I'm so proud of where you are in stay Road I'm so proud of what you're doing Torah to an Ethiopian synagogue in stoad I want to give aash to the partners that you have in this effort Dr Rosetta and Mr Simon Jacob of West Orange and to say that just as I've been telling everybody of the incredible feeling ofus that we've had over the last month in ER it continues by the sa Torah being literally dedicated in memory of Dr Rosetta's father rain's father Rabbi Ze seagull and Simon Jacob's father inlaw is but the unity of the Jewish people of bringing the sa of Torah to an Ethiopian synagogue we are all literally envious of this Mitzvah and participate in the Sim with you and the rest of Cl Isel this shabas as we know is called shabas based upon the opening words of the Torah whereby the yes promises USU that there will be consolation coming to our people this shabas is not only like I say every year showing the resiliency of CLA Israel that we were just a few days ago this past Tuesday Monday night and Tuesday Morning sitting on the ground crying literally for that which we are lacking and now all of a sudden our capacity to be in a state of sim how do you explain this so the theme of what I'd like to share with every body this morning I believe is such a powerful one and that is that what we've experienced these last month beginning with unfortunately the kidnapping and then unfortunately the war in Gaza which we pray is over the idea is that this has all been AEV La of this has been Pains of childbirth and when the mommy is going through through these pains we feel her pain and we are unfortunately suffering with her but we say to the mommy please God the end is good there's going to be a healthy child there's going to be please God Generations there's going to be good that comes out of it and that is the very important lesson that emerges from first of all the paraa and second of all from the whole concept of our approach to life let's start with the para itself so Moshe right after the aeras hadibros are given to us in chapter five of so immediately thereafter Moshe says take a look God spoke all this to the entire nation literally from the fire from the cloud and the especially thick crowd now watch this what do we have and the people said in P 21 God has revealed and showed his greatness and we've heard his voice from the fire now watch this the the people say l why should we die when we will be consumed by this great fire now ask yourself the following question is giving the Torah to CL is would you not have imagined that he would have given them let's say an assembly now whether or not they have theater seats Etc okay but the bottom line is they're in a relaxed environment and now that they're in this relax relaxed environment they have come on uh the capacity to accept and to listen very clearly to each of the Ten Commandments no just the opposite the Torah tells us here in this week's paraa and at the end of parro that after the first two Commandments they come running to Moshe and they say to Moshe we've got to hear it from you and let God not give us anym L we die they were so frightened as we find in this week's par again if we hear anymore from God himself we're going to die now I ask you a question why why does Hashem have to give the Torah in such a frightened environment and the answer is very clearly that from the mar from this quote bitter experience from this frightening experience literally from the mar comes the sweetness not simply the sweetness of Torah but one could get the impression that what happened at Sinai very simply man has to eat a man has to sleep and then needs a job and then needs to exercise man needs to do all different things in his life and also he needs Tor no the fact that gave us the Torah in an environment where literally their lives were in danger and they realized it and they realized that in this kind of a very serious matv in this kind of a very serious circumstance this is how he is giving us the Torah that in of itself taught us that very important lesson that very important message how meaningful is Torah that if necessary and when necessary the Jew was prepared to give everything including as we have in this week's par literally not just your resources but even prepare to give your life now this is such a basic concept and this is what we have to understand coming from this week's para coming from shabas naku and this is how we are to look upon that which happened over this last few weeks in Hebrew it's called the kipot barzel the Iron Dome now let's talk about this for a moment there's no question about it people will say look how the Iron Dome protected us but go One Step Beyond the Iron Dome intercepts the the rockets and then what the Rockets are broken into pieces and where do they fall well hopefully very often in completely isolated areas as we've mentioned but very very often it fell literally between the houses the people simos and that's so very important the nimos is not coming anymore from the Iron Dome it's coming from the fact that it's falling between the houses this is God himself communicating with everybody with the people now this is an idea which theam s points out in his Dr this is an idea which is found in the in his commentary on the that we say every year at the PED it wasn't just one people on the night of the PES meaning that want to unfort wanted unfortunately to annihilate us but rather in every generation there are those that want to destroy us now the next word is not El but says theu it's not but but rather it's one Continuum meaning that brings about listen carefully now the potential danger only to save us to have a direct communication with us and to remind us of the incredible relationship that we have with him and so literally what comes out of these past few weeks is that which we find in number one and please bring to the table tonight on Le shabis bring the naviu and turn to chapter 30 and turn to P 7 and read the second half of the verse where the navi says the a s literally it is a challenging difficult time for Jacob for the Jewish people and from it and from it it will be saved so the literal understanding of the verse is that there's a potential problem but don't worry you'll be saved from the danger but our rabbis tell us on a much deeper level what's happening is no that from it itself through the S through the Sor through the challenging times will come the Yeshua and this indeed is what our rabbis tell us is that famous G inim 50a whereby the gar says you should know that this world is not like the world to come in this world toos literally for good news we have a but with God's name the God is the good one who literally extends goodness but when we hear unfortunately bad news we say the of which is blessed is the one who is the true judge and for us unfortunately it looks and it is bad at the moment in the future in the future there's only one BR that we're going to make and the says that what does it mean it means that on the Soros we're going to be on that level that we're going to realize that from the Sor itself we're going to say the of now this is literally once again what you have in the nvi yes and you can bring him to the table if you bring a tanak yes comes before in the the first verse of chapter 12 and what does the say you're going to say on that day literally I give thanks to you God to be there's only one way to translate the wordsa to be and that is for your being angry with me wait a minute the idea is we're going to realize that once again from the that which appears to be bad I recognize that the good comes there from and this is such a powerful idea and this is why we are so full of sim this chabas because of the fact that we recognize that we've been living through challenging times but these are times that are bringing us closer to our ultimate Gula to our ultimate Redemption I want to close with a reminder that this Monday is a special day on our calendar it is tuba the 15th day of the month of a the gamar teaches us at the end of T 30b at the bottom spilling over to 31a the gor teaches us of the different things that occurred on to I don't have time to go through them they are interest exciting I'm just going to share with you one and that is listen carefully the gar tells us that literally it's the day the 15th of a that they stopped cutting down trees for the fire on the Mis Rashi explains that the the wood that was used for the M had to be especially dry so the wood that was cut before the 15th of a while the heat of the summer is still on the sun has the capacity to completely dry the wood and therefore there would be no worms in the wood making it fit for the M from the 15th of a on it's starting to get a little bit cooler the sun is not as strong and therefore lest there be worms in the wood we no longer cut the wood and now that we've completed this Mitzvah it's a h of wood for the M it's a happy day that ISAT in the words y this is what the words mean the day that they stopped cutting now I'm going to suggest an additional understanding of these words which is appropriate it for this year this is not it's a remes it's a that I'm suggesting again I told you what the literal translation is but now listen to this in modern Hebrew as well means the Battlefront is not only trees but as we find in that man is compared to the tree of the field and therefore we're being told we're celebrating an addition on this coming Monday to make this all the more alive for us today we celebrate please God y a day that please God they stopped dying me cutting down theim these young very special trees these young special men who gave their lives for and to give us all the opportunity to be able to develop our very special land in an environment of Shalom it really is a shabus of and I pray with all that in the of all this incredible coming together that this please God continues in the sour of the many mitzvos which have generated from these last few weeks and to conclude with the Mitzvah that's going on this morning in St the very special all this should bring us another strong Step Closer please God to our ultimate Yeshua shabat Shalom to all JM and the am live from St Road and I thank her Udin for acknowledging today's amazing event that's happening in stoad minutes from now in fact yie balel just confirmed with me that we're going to be after this pre-recorded JM in the AM we're going to be heading to the Ethiopian synagogue together our entire group you've met a lot of our group today uh here at JM and am I do want to acknowledge uh Daniel crane of Yin Moshe who journeyed with us from yam to stay road today as well and I think we've mentioned everybody who was part of our group mentioned Dena earlier who's here for the big family celebration and um I uh I thank everybody who journeyed with us it was a was a fun ride to stay Road and a wonderful stay so far Yi balel we welcome you back to JM and the am this is getting to be a bad habit nak no I like it it's a good habit yes I know we should have a show on the prime time or something together hey this is prime time all right so here we go uh everybody in the United States you heard what I said to R fendel how the American Jewish Community has this Affinity towards stay Road I mean there are a lot of great towns that get wonderful support from the the United States but there's something special wouldn't you say about our community in New York in New Jersey and the folks here in St Road there's no question and I think you were wrong in giving me any credit whatsoever to to there may be the last couple of years but the truth but the truth the truth is that uh when the Rockets first started falling here the fact that there was an American Rush Shiva here in the eye of the storm really brought out the fact of well how the people what people going through and you know R fandel tells stories to everybody took people around before he told about how a rocket fell near his office right I remember that story so you know he tells how he was he remember Sugi he was Maring to V which Sugi was in the middle and the rocket Falls right outside and he runs outside what he didn't tell them is that he he yelled out emergency emergency bring a camera and they took a picture of him cowering down next to the Flaming Kasam rocket and that picture went all over the world I remember that and that really was the beginning of the pr about St wrote I mean the fact that President like Obama came here before and he mentions it so many times there right that he's been here uh that all started R Fel being here and you know I know so few people a lot of us have come in Aliyah a lot of us are doing great things in Israel but I know so few people who came from the New York area who learned in yiv vote and came to Israel and then in the end wanted to go to a place like stero where if you want to talk English you have to call up your wife to talk her on the phone basically this we I found a few people here but really it's a it's a different culture and he's been he's so well loved we saw the song when we visit B on the door from the soldiers we are thanking him and he told a little about he's just unbelievable thing that he was here at this time and he was able to galvinized public uh support and and interest in STO and that's really I just came on to be his uh assistant that really he did he did all the work I know one other person like that my from elephant who's the chief RAB of deona who uh went to live in deona you know there's so few and far between for us it's easy to live in excuse me inra in German Colony you know that's almost likely you know it's better of course because very but it's easy a lot of Americans to come here and make a difference in a place like this is just unbelievable and unparalleled and and that that's why it it gives me so much strength to work for a guy like that it's pretty amazing that the uh the entire effort that's being made here and and we said this point earlier uh one of the young people who was with us the Shiva usually is in the city in this case the city you know what I mean right yeah it's a bit of an exaggeration respect it is something when even people of varied backgrounds you know are attracted to the Yeshiva and know about it now I discovered that many times when I first started working here when I said I'm from the Yeshiva and they say no no you mean from our Yeshiva people are not religious at all our Yeshiva that's how they look upon it you have to understand when boys who are going to serve in the Army come from all over the country to live in stot and the people here see those boys coming from all over they think to themselves they're not alone these guys are going to fight for us in the future they're coming here now to be with us to help us to learn to with us so it's just it's just an unbelievable thing that strengthens the community when they see The Outsiders come in and when American Jews come to visit the isiv and we walk through the streets and they see that American Jews come to identify with steroid that just blows them away we have so many we talked about this already how do people make arrangements for these trips we've been uh we've been talking about it now we spoke about it ER of Tish which was what just a few days ago on Monday we were together Monday and today we're here shabas nak so I can tell you just example since we spoke last there are three groups coming on Sunday rert pinski just emailed me that they're coming and I told him come a little in the afternoon because we have two groups in the morning we have uh some other group by Ken bramit is coming to give a lecture on the fall of Western Society here in STO to the people I'm familiar with Ken's topics I I heard I I went to see hear him he's great and we have also Rabbi Barry Gelman from Houston Texas coming with a few members from is SCH on Sunday morning as well so this is just you know this is you know this Shabbat is going to be my my first Shabbat off in a month or so because I was either here in stot in America and I'm spending with my mother-in-law we like to stay with her in your and the phone number to arrange these stor in any case so all you have to do is call 718 673 4945 that's 718- 673 4945 I just want to clarify to everyone uh that this number reaches me wherever I am in the world and this time when you by the time you hear this I'll be relaxed and I'll be able to take your calls instead of answering the phone while I'm driving out of Jersey City which I always get when I when I leave uh the jmdm studios so this time I'll be a little more calmer and I'll be able to take care of you 718- 673 4945 or you can go to our website the.org SD o t.org and plus on the American flag for English and you'll get all the information about how to order a tour and to about all about the great work that we're doing here in St do you remember how key the West Orange and Livingston communities were for the St Road din this past year oh there's no question we this whole thing is like you know somebody mentioned about how the Jewish rule is so small so when you agreed that you when you told me that you maybe you have a lead to a SE for Torah I had been in Joe's house for Shabbat just a few weeks before that and I didn't know who you were talking about all together and then I got to meet Simon as well uh so uh I hope you met Rabin I hope did he meet Dr Rabin I was in his house of Shabbat you think I didn't meet mama I didn't meet Mama everybody just checking but in he still L to me Yi I thank you it's been an amazing day so far it's only going to get better for us because we're going to celebrate together at the Ethiopian synagogue within minutes mazal go ahead couple of points yeah just a couple of things people always ask me what they can do and you know I want you to think back to what Simon was talking about earlier about the fact that we are rocket okay not here uh what s was talking about before uh about how that we are fighting here your battle and you know I always feel feel bad for American Jews because when they come here and they're coming now during the war and they want to tap into that special Spirit here we're blessed with feeling Kess Israel feeling one the unity of Jewish people in Israel and in America it's hard to tap into that thing and whatever person does even when they give a large donation it's not the same as the sacrifice of a hez the boy who's on the front over here in St but there is one thing that I always tell people that American Jew can be sacrificed it's like lying down on the floor during a a steroid attack and that's to be honored at a dinner that's how Dr that's the the carbon modern carbon of our time is to be honored and the people see you they cross the street they go they they walk the other way it's I know people think that get people get honored it's a big pleasure it's not a pleasure it's a it's a it's a it's a to identify with the organization have people point at you and say oh this that it's really difficult when I see some soldiers today can I point this out to them people who are on you have to understand that that when they do go through all of that Lem sh for the organization and I said to to honores of every when we were at the BET dinner together I went over to every honor and I told them this that the only thing in American Jew that equals a sacrifice of Jews in Israel is to agree to be honored at there that is the ultimate sacrifice in America that you can have and that's a really important thing I better move to Israel quick we're we're going to be having a big dinner uh right after sukot it's going to be in the middle of November we don't have the details yet we're going to have a big dinner and we're aiming that we want to have a thousand people come out after all of this to come out and identify we had last year 500 people we wanted doubled for this year and this is very important and this is this is our goal right now I also want to thank one person who's name I'm not going to mention but on my recent trip someone agreed to help us very substantially towards uh with the building the dormatory that we're trying to build it's not enough a lot of people have taken upon themselves dormatory units and I thank all of them as well but this is really important things but I want to finish off with one thing Rabbi when you ask rabie fandel what's most important he told you Torah is the most important thing I want you to think for example let's forget all the rockets and forget all the buildings beautiful buildings you see on this campus let's think about the individual kid who comes here from deona who comes here from Yim who comes here from niot and comes here with his family having Torah ripped from him in the 1950s when the SP Jews were subjected to this terrible terrible uh attempt to re-educate them and these kids grew up in houses with maybe the father would go to sh but you know they do something else afterward and then when we take these kids from all over the ne and we bring them to the we turn them into leaders we turn them to soldiers we turn them to it's it's basically the saving the future of the Jewish people because that's the majority of this country the faric traditional people in this country are the majority of the people and they're the future of the people and when we save those people then we what we're doing is we're saving the entire country and this is UN Point thing those people who don't have so much money who can't give so much money for big buildings or things like that tuition we have have scholarship to have these people who their parents don't want them to learn in Yeshiva they they can't afford to send them to Yeshiva and this is something very important when you can hook up to that Torah revolution in the netive by helping these people in my opinion more important than all the rockets and all the buildings and all the other things the Torah that is learned by these kids is the most important thing possible callot I thank you y thank you for welcoming usabat Shalom and one thing why is it say twice one of the explanations is that the consolation the comes in stages doesn't happen all in one shot so we're going through aough a difficult time now last week's par how come you don't finish them off in one shot why don't you finish one shot why do you do it kimim slowly Hashem says if you're not going to do it I'll take care of it so I just want to say me the consolation is coming slowly it's the work of many people we are's hands on on this world and we're going to get the job done shabbat shalom shabbat shalom and thank you uh we're here in stay Road getting ready for the big celebration Tor just minutes from now uh at the Ethiopian synagogue again I thank everybody who's been participating with us and the team of Simon and Dr Joe who made this happen we're finally here after all these months of planning and talking about it and we're going to be celebrating together within minutes right here in St Road a uh big thank you to Miriam L wallik for producing yet another amazing JM show in our entire week that has been so far well our our wraparound week I call it from Thursday to Tuesday here in Israel which so far has been amazing and uh I thank Miriam for that and I thank PC guy for leading our engineering team a very large team that has come to join us uh no oh no Sirus it's a smaller team than usual but I thank him for all his efforts it's been amazing and much appreciated a big thank you to Stan back in our studio a big thank you to the Inbal hotel which we are highly recommending to all the tourists and all the people who are coming to Jerusalem they again have extended their hand of hospitality to us with open arms I should say and we'll talk more about them on Monday I think we're going to be doing something extra special with them on Monday in fact from Jerusalem so a big thank you to the entire staff and those who made the Inbal Hotel possible for us and that means I have to thank our very own mayor Wine Garden who always helps with these trips in advance and has been especially helpful even more so than usual this time around and I thank him for that um from all of us here at the uh at the big journey to Israel don't forget that Monday we Jerusalem and then Tuesday it's neish Benish in a unique radio broadcast something that never gets old we may have done it last year but I guarantee you this year is going to be a lot different and that is being at the plane in the old terminal actually of Ben gon airport when hundreds of oim arrive on Tuesday morning it's extra special that we get to be there and speak to these oim and have this connection with neish benfish and we are looking forward to an amazing and incredible show Tuesday Morning from the airport right here at JM in the AM candle lighting on this Arab sh is not shabas is 7:43 7:43 candle lighting time we get set to celebrate in stay Road and wish everybody a wonderful shabas from all of us said JM in the am the Sun is going it's shining through the trees another week's gone by become a memory so throw away your Hammer there's nothing and there you it's time to say good J cuz all your work is done going to spend a day together with the Holy One say a special blessing on a cup that's build with wine man and his creator it's a very special your candles will be burning they'll fill your home with light singing songs of shabus well into the night so throw away your Hammer's work is done going to spend the day together together with the Holy sayal bless on a cup that's filled with wine man and his creat is a very special you can spend time with your family you'll study and you'll pray why not wait till after all those Nails won't run away so throw away your Hammer there's nothing left to do go on home and find the that's waiting there for it's time to say good cuz all your work is done going to spend the day together with the Holy One say a special blessing on a cup that's filled with wine man and his creator it's a very very very very very very very very special brothers and sisters in Israel we are with you it's your favorite America's one and only Jewish moments in the morning radio program heard on listeners sponsored WFMU e star orang W mfu Mount Hope Rockland County at 91 .9 on the FM dial and around the world in the web JM and the am.org and that wraps up an amazing day for us here in STO actually an amazing show the amazing day will continue as we celebrate the foror that we've been talking about all this time a big thank you again to to Simon and Dr Joe and everybody who participated with us today in this very special program a big thank you to everybody here in stot and uh don't get Monday from yam Monday morning make sure to be tuned in starting at 6:00 a.m. we're going to be doing the show from yam earlier in the day on Monday make sure to join us and uh and be tuned in uh all the photos go to the N SLE Network Facebook update page n SLE Network Facebook update page and you'll be updated on everything that we're doing in Israel and see some of the amazing things that we've been able to experience while we are here have a wonderful shopas great weekend enjy nak