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so we're going to begin today uh by I
would like to reflect on two things
today besides some interesting lessons
about the paraa and about
SOS as as we approach the M but also of
the events the events of this past week
now when we learned last it was pre
beeper right it was before the whole
situation with the beepers right that
went off in Lebanon and the subsequent
attacks on
Wednesday and then the sub subsequent
taking out of the top leadership of
Hezbollah who were actively
planning a uh October 7th on steroids
which would have been to take over the
Galilee as it says in the final
mishna but it doesn't mean that it will
be destroyed
necessarily means it will
become it will become a war zone
okay that's my generous interpretation
of
it uh and therefore yes of course it's a
war zone we know it's a war zone it's
been a war zone since October 7th but
that doesn't mean that um it won't it
will it Willam be destroyed that people
will not be able to return their home so
we have to dedicate our our Shear
specially to everything and everyone who
has suffered specifically in the north
and that they should speedily return to
their homes so an observation
two points one what reaction would be
the appropriate reaction to hearing of
some of our deepest and and most
determined and evil enemies that we have
faced per probably since the Holocaust I
say that probably but because I'm sure
there's plenty of others that we maybe
not even aware of but uh and when they
fell in such a humiliating fashion in a
ating fashion and and and
gruesome because these beepers went off
in their pockets in front of their faces
uh near their private parts near their
arms and
fingers and I did see in a video where
there was a a Yeshiva that was
dancing I didn't see anybody out handing
out candy as our cousins the Arabs tend
to do but I was it did trigger the
question to me I was riveted I wanted to
know every detail I was amazed at how it
seemed to
be I get to a
second very similar to some of the makos
in MIT and I'm going to explain why but
first let's just hold de deal with the
whole concept of celebrating our enemies
demise we
know uh P mishle that's became the
slogan of shaon in
pavos been
when your enemy Falls don't be joyous
right and when he
stumbles don't let your heart
Rejoice enough maybe hasem will get
angry at you for doing that
right and he'll
stop his anger at your enemy and who
knows might divert it towards you now
on the other hand so it seems from that
P clearly that we never should rejoice
in donf of our enemies similarly we
don't say full for the and the last day
of P because we say m tells
us my my human beings my Egyptians are
drowning as wicked as they were as
guilty as they were as wretched as they
were as abusive as they were to CLA
Israel
and and met says that each each Mystery
got what they deserve the worst got him
more slow and painful drowning and those
who were a little bit more little less
uh evil got a more merciful death so we
know that the people in the yamu weren't
great sadikin and they certainly
tormented CLA Israel and yet hasem
castigates the Heavenly
Host so I might you the Heavenly Host
wanted to sing
AEM because it was a downfall of the
enemies of Hashem and said no and for
that reason we don't say a full h
on and Ence to the last day of PES not
saying Hal we also don't say it all of
that's one of the reasons given for the
half H there is another reason which is
that there's no unique carbonos that are
added unlike sukus which there's a
different carbon every single day
uh pesak is flatlined it's the same
carbonous every single day so since
there's no unique carbon past the first
day uh we don't we don't uh say full
Hollow in deference to the Kad but that
is a very long an arite discussion that
we don't have to go into but clearly the
point is made that we should not rejoice
on the other hand clel did Rejoice they
sang Shir the Shir and guess what we
sing that Shir every every single day so
how could you tell
me it's wrong to do that we do it every
day every single day doesn't
matter right so how in the world can you
reconcile the fact that we celebrate
with every single day of the calendar
year without
exception without exception uh um and
then but you told me you know play it
down it's not really a time to say but
we say have hollow on PESA that's two
contradictory things on the same day of
that you're going to recite half you're
gonna
say so how could that make any sense
what's the intention here
of okay frame it that way for you as
clearly as I can possibly frame the
question if you have a comment you may
may do
so please feel free to
oh I don't hear I don't
hear I want to ask a question about
Shira please I I thought Shira was only
sung when something major was changing
in our in our cloud in our life coming
out of MIM we see a whole different a
whole different chapter a whole
different paral for us so we sing Shir
Halo is something like coming from our
hearts praising Hashem for saving us and
doing wonderful things for us which is
not that different but it is different
okay so you're saying that there's
something different in the between a Hal
and Shir right which I which obviously
there is I agree with you because
otherwise we wouldn't have the play out
in that manner it can't be that Hal is
counterindicated and Shir is indicated
is is is is is to be embraced okay so we
have to get a little deeper in which way
can we sing praises of the downfall of
enemies and which way shall we not after
all if you look in the Shir itself can
you quote a p which speaks to the fact
that we rejoicing in the downfalls of
the
enemy you know and all that stuff that
they fell be they fell into the deepest
depths I mean we go into
detail they we go into detail of their
you know horrific death so then what's
going on okay what and what is the
wisdom what's the
I'll go a step further okay
that on the Seder night we
say meaning those that destroyed the B
mikdash which Eli who is is entering at
that at that time of the Seder we open
the door for in the same time we decry
all of our historical
tormentors and we understand that that
this should come to an end okay and we
ask Hashem to meet out judgment on our
enemies so so now the question becomes
even more
complicated okay Hashem did it we either
Rejoice by saying Shir we keep it muted
by saying have Hal but to ask Hashem to
destroy our enemy that we didn't hear
yet that we didn't
hear we didn't pray to God that our
enemies be destroyed and in such a
wrathful
way so how do we understand this these
are simple things that every one of us
knows but if we look at them in context
you know we it be hard pressed to come
up with a simple explanation we need
something that we'll we'll go into a
little bit more depth at least at least
I hope
so so so how do we deal with
that so A couple of thoughts number
one is that we have to look at theim
themselves and be very careful what does
it say in Mish it
says it's a very funny way of
pronouncing it but it is spelled that
that is the correct pronunciation not
but and it's very much on the singular
it emphasizes the singular
because would necessarily could
necessarily mean
the multiple people right multiple
people no o means a personal enemy he
may to to me be an enemy a rival a
threat but to somebody else he's just a
you know regular guy there's kamson and
there's Barson you know there's people
who don't you know who have a personal
Vendetta who thinks horrible things have
been done and they're not ready to
forgive this person and they consider
them in o or another guy down the street
doesn't know the difference between him
and anybody
else so that's the wisdom of mish you
have a personal enemy personal
enemy
means the type of Joy that's all out
right
that's high level it's not a chuckle
it's not a smile it's Delirious dancing
and song like a right don't go crazy
here all right you want to
smile okay that's one thing but don't go
delirious when your your personal enemy
had yeah he had it coming and he this
and that and he did this to me and no
Hashem doesn't like that Hashem says
listen buddy I chose to do this this um
judgment on your personal enemy and it
doesn't necessarily have anything to do
with you maybe it's part of what you
maybe it was part of my decision what
the wrongs that were done to you or the
dangers that he exposed you or she
exposed you to or the wrongs that were
done to you by this person that was part
of the divine plan perhaps we're not
even sure but
you just remember people who live in
Glass Houses should not throw
rocks who says you're a sadic you know
they have this statement in you in in
called sadic in pelts it's sarcastic you
know what that means what does sadic and
pelts mean you know a sadic in a really
expensive fur
coat you can go on and say what aoic you
are and how you deprive yourself day and
night to learn toy and to
do but meantime you got you're driving
Alexus or you're driving a rollsroyce no
no no that's called sodic
impels maybe there's maybe you're not
you know free of above criticism so we
say to such a person Altis don't carry
on here and
even you're gonna keep it to
yourself don't go around dancing and
skipping to yourself
even right even to yourself
right hasem will be angry at you and say
what you think you're so much better
than this guy who says so let's open up
your tick and take a look at jayam and
see how you're doing no no no
no no way just keep it quiet but that's
when it's a personal eny okay what if
it's an enemy of CLA Israel or an enemy
of
Hashem now CLA Israel at the yamu faced
a collective enemy parro didn't just
come after one Jew he didn't even come
after Moshe he probably didn't even care
about mosha that
much he just wanted the slaves
back what have we done to give up this
free and powerful and Brilliant and
talented Workforce called Ami Israel so
when parro parro he Crees parro comes
close it means the collective parro the
whole MIT
Ro St and Barrow its spiritual forces
it's it's sorrow shim the you know the
the the coak of Egypt in the world it's
powerful and it wants Cloud Israel back
so when Cloud Israel have been tormented
by these people working us literally to
the Bone and and even the times to the
death especially of young children and
so on
and they disposed of by Hashem and they
had skin in the game what do I mean by
skin in the game skin in the game means
I was we all CLA thr was a was at risk
here I'm a member of CLA Israel and CLA
Israel was in wretched danger in such a
case they're certainly entitled to say
Shira because their life was saved you
say about lifechanging experience the
best life changing experience is not to
die that's the best that's the top life
experience is not to be killed doesn't
matter if you had a good day or not you
went to the amusement park they got ice
cream it don't matter you're alive
you're alive you survived that evokes
Shira because it's an immediate reaction
to a sudden incredible Yeshua CLA Israel
guess what always is a constant if CLA
was saved in MIT that means we've been
we're getting saved every single
day each and every day by saying the
sheir we reconnect to the wifi
of of the and to the Collective Soul of
the Jewish people known as known as KET
Isel which hooks up anytime you look
hook into a whether it's one person
learning alone or two people withus or
three people in din Torah or five people
in an organization or 10 people in a
minion it doesn't really matter you log
on to the to the kadus and the
inspirational reality and life saving
life saving and intervening K of hem and
his so therefore you're entitled to say
Shir every single day because you were
part of that collective experience of Cl
Israel and if they were saved on that
day if they weren't saved on that day
guess what there would be no claw
you so I can say thanks God I'm here
today because you did this wonderful
Miracle so many years ago so it makes
more sense a little bit more sense to
say don't cancel Shir ever the Jewish
people deserve and are obligated to say
Shir every single day and in certain
times more than others there's a
special like if a new Miracle occurs a
new life-saving Miracle occurs we also
would be obligated but when a life
saving Miracle happens to the whole
Jewish people then the entire Jewish
people need to say she not just an
individual whose life was saved or a
group but now let's turn our question
to this what
told why did he castigate the MIM for
for wanting to sing and rejoice at the
Salvation of K Israel so Hashem said to
the L you're not
mortal right you don't have any
life-saving
experiences I created you and you'll be
as you'll be alive if I want to for
eternity and why wouldn't you be he says
you're coming in to
celebrate the fact that a human being
and a group of people called
clel were saved just know the truth
there was not that much difference
between the average Jew at that time and
the average mitz believe it or not at
least in terms of idolatry I'm not
saying in terms of punish you know
horrible Deeds but just in terms of the
hashkafa or the amuna in aara
Unfortunately they was not there was not
a big difference that's how they were
raised that's what they understood to be
true but
was the first one that ever came around
other than the levim who tried to tell
them
otherwise and therefore malim have no
right to Rejoice on on those moments
they're not they're not GL is s was
basically saying to them you're not K
Israel you have no right to say sheir
they have a right to say sheir but you
don't okay so why do we reduce our Hal
why do we reduce our Hal because in
deference to the fact that we weren't so
a when we when we went through the AMU
we went to the yamu the Torah tells
us there's two him like that one is
spelled with
a wall one is spelled without
a anger there are people who were Kat
weren't really associated with Hashem
didn't have a fully developed imun and
hasem and a relationship ship with hasm
weren't talking to Hashem weren't
involved with Hashem in their
life and they had a hard time and then
there were the other Jews who were I
imagine all the Lev and so on who were
and many more that they were fully
attached to Hashem and they they went
through this and they they saw it as the
most beautiful incredibly miraculous
experience and for them the water was a
strong foundation and there was no fear
and there was no anxiety there was the
sense of an Incredible Gift and
relief now I'll just parenthetically
mention that that's the way Hashem wants
us he doesn't want us to live
fearing our very lives dayt day he
doesn't want us eating our hearts out
over money or health issues or children
issues bnny is zing and aggravating
ourselves day and night about the plight
even of the Jewish people it's not
really what Hashem wants
Hashem wants you to view him as
a right
a that's our relationship to hem as a
child to a father sometimes a child will
be disciplined by your father that's
true but even if a child is disciplined
by their father there's no question
about the love of the father for the son
even if it's a harsh discipline a lesson
that needs to be learned because it's he
knows it's for his own good for his own
future success and for his own moral
development so therefore we kind of
perhaps bow our heads to the
fact and you know what we we kind of
deserve to be with them but out of the
great mercy of Hashem we
weren't echoing the words of
mish so yes we we have to thank and
praise Hashem and sing the fact that we
were that our lives were saved that's a
sheer reaction right but a Hal reaction
is a different sort of thing Hal means
you know run
sadik it has a little bit of a thing of
you know his chosen people were saved
his sacred ones his beloved ones and
guess what we had a lot of War and a lot
of blemishes at that time we weren't
that you know gorgeous a bride just
yet so cool the sh cool the H drop you
know I'm not saying not to say it but
with humility with humility that's how I
would like to suggest we reconcile those
suuk now how does all this apply to the
Beeper well the Beeper rim
were we let's take a look at a few
things of that phenomenon that occurred
to
me we say
that we say that in the kadha
right what does that mean I'm GNA redeem
you uh the way I redeemed you before
acious the previous time like the last
time the last time will be like the
first time which means that gas MIT is
the pattern and precedent for gas
hamashiach okay it's got to follow a
pattern it's not like we haven't been
mapped out you know really organized
people they map out everything
meticulously right Hashem is ultra
organized Ultra I mean like you know
you're not going be more organized than
a I mean it's just not happening
Hashem set the pattern he gave a rimo he
gave a quick flash to create a reality
and a memory that we would then fill in
later that's really the way to
understand how MIT worked it was this it
was like a lightning flash of a vision
and now go ahead and start step by step
to climb that great Mountain
literally so the great Mountain
approacheth okay and that means that we
should find if we look maybe not even
that closely parallels to the and
particularly to
Theos
says
right and 10 on theam there were
multiple Miracles all over the place
just look at our hundreds and hundreds
of Miracles new are there not hundreds
and hundreds of Miracles that have gone
on
recently can you name even some of them
and let's go also into the
PRM I could name you several
Miracles but within the Miracles they
were
Miracles and that's what the MIT
experience was we were overwhelmed Mak
wasn't just a one in out look at the hag
250 you know 3 it was 50 instead of 10
it was incredibly layered nuanced and
expanded why so that we would take a
look at it and appreciate the
incredible power of hashem's judgment
and also experience his incredible love
for the Jewish people so let throw out a
couple of Miracles that have happened
only I would say I know as you know last
couple of months last couple of days go
ahead what about out all of the tons of
um Weaponry that Iran threw at us and
not one single Jewish person was
killed yeah that happened not once it
happened once to Iran
right and once by by nasala
right so if you
remember that was in response to an
earlier attack and I can't I have to we
have to write down all the Miracles
where they had done away with uh
one of the bigban Nicks what triggered
that one who know you have to go back
and look at all the timeline it's a
massive timeline so they did there were
two times that that that was done one by
Iran and one
byah and the only major losses that we
suffered I'm not talking about fear
anxiety so but there were in the first
attack not even a chicken Coupe was was
was Destro destroyed that's what the
Arabs were saying or laughing at Iran
they were laughing they were mocking
hasem
was Hashem is mocking his enemies and cl
Israel's enemies playing games with them
you didn't even kill a chicken coup and
the Arabs on Arab media are laughing and
laughing at them they couldn't even kill
a chicken now the next attack by
hasbalah actually did kill
chickens and then they were sending
around on the mass meeting
you know Hezbollah fried chicken and
they had a big picture of him the
colonel Colonel Sanders Hezbollah you
wow you killed a couple of chickens
yay now in this most recent attack by
Hezbollah after after the beepers after
the walkie-talkies exploding taking out
their top echelons of leaders including
a man that's wanted by America for $7
million since 1983
oh that's 40
years he was he was like a kid when that
happened he's an old Cocker now but 83
300 what am I talking about 300
Americans
300 and now he finally got him with a
bomb that came after the beepers after
the walki talkis and then a big bomb is
they sat in the bottom of a residential
building in Beirut no less it wasn't n
over the Border in babil that cursed
place where we suffered so much in
2006 it wasn't a building and who was
with him the top commanders of hisbah
number two number three plus all other
sorts of Rogues gallery of upper echelon
terrorists and Iranians Boom the what
were they planning they're planning the
October 7th on steroid
which was to take over the Galilee kban
as I mentioned earlier and boom they
were
vaporized now within all these Miracles
with one after one after one so this
time hasb responded and they killed 15
cows now I received a a a text saying
that the state department of the United
States considered that a major
escalation in other words to move from
no chickens to chickens and now 15 cows
cautioned Hezbollah restraint that they
should not escalate their war with
Israel now they're going to call him you
know like barbecue marcala or Benny's
barbecue or something like
that you know spare rib spare rib Su uh
you know uh whatever his name is
nasala NASA with barbecue
sauce a
g a i mean poor cows I'm not rejoicing
in the death of a
cow but better a cow than a Jew you know
maybe maybe they were gulum of Jews and
they were you know dying Kem could very
well be I wouldn't be surprised at all
um
so now let's look at the beepers for a
second
if you want to compare the Beeper thing
to any one of the
mcos oh and there's been lots of bod
right lots of bod things falling from
the sky and burning right there's been
lots of
D um so I thought it occurred to me that
if there was one Maca that the beepers
would remind us
of would be the following number one we
know thata went into their inerts we
know that it destroyed their ability to
reproduce children we know that it went
into their bathrooms into their bed
Chambers okay we know that it made
noises what maca am I
describing
sarda now the worda is also saara
because the pay and the bay are prli
inter changeable means Gathering
intelligence and that's what these
things were for but also importantly the
you know the intelligence gathering
Services some people say worked for 15
years on it I don't believe I just don't
believe it I mean maybe maybe it's true
I don't know I think they saw an
opportunity and They seized it I don't
know but in any case no one knows how it
happened they put in explosiv they
didn't put in explosives they let out a
pulse they didn't let out a pulse the
batteries exploded but maybe they didn't
explode so much they exploded a little
but not so much and then they detonated
the the the the explosive but it was not
too much explosives because it would
have hurt people and you see an
individual person being stricken while
everybody else was a picture of him a
guy in in a food
market right his beeper goes off and he
drops to the floor not one apple moved
off off the stand he didn't knock over
even one peach or one pair he just
dropped to the ground alone everybody's
standing around looking around what's
going on around here that's a Divine
Justice that's to me as targeted as
macas
BOS he chose the guys that deserve to
die and whack them nobody else you are B
you know what they say in in modern
Hebrew means he's a b he's like an elite
an elite person these were Elite
terrorists they
were well those got Mak
and yeah so I can't help but look
looking at it and saying how Hashem is
mocking our enemies and I've always
shared with you and I will share it
again what my my holy mashab wolson said
in 1980 something around 1984 or five or
six or eight uh when I was with with him
in
Yeshiva and he said I man is is no
they're falling one after the other
after the other falling the Beeper goes
off they fall down the the the Maki
talki goes off they fall down they
showed a guy dangling a walk talking in
front of his friend an Arab and the guy
went crazy and jumped and ran out of the
house and then they started laughing
they realized they were punking each
other they were you know but the guy
dangled walking talking guys
there this is the m and that hasem talks
about that we couldn't even imagine
these guys are petrified that if his
bill gives them something it's going to
blow up they can't trust it they were
not going to keep it in their pockets
would you and therefore we can see many
many things yes there's terrible
suffering yes there's horrible
Injustice yes there's incredible
incredible
failures that we have experienced and
the loss of an incredibly precious
immense group of
people at the same time at the same time
we have to recognize the hasem and that
he seems to be
taking with his enemies
and
they have their hearts hardened now
remarkable thing you would think Nala
would stop he says no we're going to
keep fighting good good good good let us
keep fighting and you know the reaction
of the world has actually been
shocking the the uh American State
Department official who unceasingly and
despicably despise his Israel and uses
every opportunity every time he speaks
to disparage them he thanked Israel for
taking out this guy eal UK UK is like a
like a when some some grabs control of
your bank account you know it's like a
bad thing this guy's name was
e or whatever his name was and they say
oh thanks he's worth $7 million reward I
appreciate it that you took out this guy
he deserved to die what what what about
that we bombed innocent
children oh y yo oh yyo these innocent
children and no that doesn't didn't come
out of his mouth and that's another sign
that a KES actually if we if we can if
we can hold on with Aruna the T and we
show strength and faith and unity the
world will catch
on and and I'll just conclude with
this an incredible sh of
CLA CLA
Israel got a tremendous compliment what
was the
compliment so the commentators in the
Arab world said why did they why did
Gaza talk why is all this going on now
because they were convinced that Israeli
Society was so fractured and so much
baseless hatred so much sinum going on
with all of the all of the media they
said this group if we just pressure it
will
disintegrate and they really believe
that and they right for believing it
because that's how the rest of the world
would react that's how they would react
that's how they have reacted they're
loosely held together and when they go
at each other and other people attack
boom so they thought the same thing
would happen to the Jews and they were
shocked to find out that that's not what
a Jew
does they were shocked to find out the
Jews don't fall
apart but even under the worst
circumstances and the most unfair
circumstances
they can get together and when they do
they're incredibly powerful and that
hasem is on our
side so what they complained about in
the Arab media says these were false
articles you see this was this was
Espionage harat's newspaper you wrote
These articles to convince us that
Israel was defeatable and that was
terrorism on the part that was thank
you you see how Hashem uses even the
most
backwards inside out connections with no
intent to for his purposes Hashem used
hits and all those people who whatever
they said they
said to convince the Arabs that now is
the time to attack just so that they
could be destroyed thank you hars thank
you now byy our prescription since the
Arabs think that you fooled them and the
on the and the fiesta resistance of all
this is that s that some people are
suggesting that the helicopter that
carried Iran's president what was his
name again salami halimi what was his
name again I
forget
hania
hania um there was a beeper on board
that went off you see how paranoid and
crazy they are truth is it was the
weather but now they're even so inside
their head that it was a beeper
as if the other beepers wouldn't have
all gone off simultaneously I don't know
it was a beeper they're afraid and
that's the pad that grips our enemies
when it's time for us a small nation to
get rid of a
large says they'll run seven ways and
they're running away and they're saying
the beepers the beepers the beepers
help this
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is is that I do think it would been
proper sing when the beepers went off
but you have to sing this
song they were planning a terrible
thing
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not have a great rest of the week be
well
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oh