Oorah's Torah Spot Live 7/24- "The Unbreakable Jewish Spirit" and "Building the Mishkan Video"

next week this Sunday this coming Sunday is tishoval of the day that we mourn the destruction of the temples precursor for to the temples was the Tabernacle in the in the wilderness the mishkan so historically movies follow books but this uh particular case there was a movie before there was a book there's we did a computer program several years ago um that goes through the building of the mishkan one facet of that program are essentially video Recreations as it were all those not in the exact sequence because their purpose is educational um the pro it was the sequence of the construction of several things in assembly was changed so that you could see the different components so we'll be starting with those videos and then I'll be leaving for my nephews Bar Mitzvah and everybody Rosenfeld will be uh taking over and thing over from there the children of Israel have left Egypt and marched into a desert without food or water we are now flying over the Sinai desert for us clouds that surrounded and protected the Israelite camp below us by the tenths of the Twelve Tribes surrounding the Mishka the Tabernacle the resting place of God's glory on Earth ahead of us is the structure itself with a Divine pillar of Glory resting on it we'll explore the mishkah its construction Parts its vessels and the garments of the kayanin the priests who served in it let us begin the Jewish people were commanded the osules they shall make a sanctuary for me so that I may dwell among them so the neighborhood they rested in silver sockets the top of the Michigan was not a solid group instead the Michigan was covered with ornately woven tapestries above the mishkan Harvard the divine Divine and the schlot in the Twelve Tribes were implants around the bishop because its Holiness was the focal point of Israel's existence laughs [Music] foreign questions after the video is up this is um sides we'll go to each one of the individual vessels within the mishkan after we've after this basic overview of the entire assembly and like sublimited on that yeah the single holiest vessel in the mishkan was the aura the holy Ark that held the Ten Commandments we'll see that it was made of three boxes one inside the other it was covered by the capiris and on that cover on the coquiers were the caruvian two gold figures with outstretched wings the RN was in the Kardashian fully and holies that only one person a high priest was permitted to enter and he could enter it on only one day of the year a Yom Kippur the um staves the poles that were used to carry the ark flared at their ends because they weren't supposed to come out they always remained in place they moved the Slime and forth foreign were like those of children one was like a young boy one was like a young girl [Music] sperm explained that that signifies the love between God and the Jewish Nation [Music] inside the mishkan was the shelf on the table that held 12 uniquely shaped breads this table symbolized God's Gift of livelihood because no matter how much thought and sweat someone invests in his work it is God who gives prosperity this is the show there were two stacks of six breads that the 12 beds at all that went on to the table they went on every Saturday every Shabbos afternoon to remove the following shot this afternoon Thomas tells us that miraculously the breads stayed warm and fresh these pipes served to leave some air let air pass between the loaves intricates beautiful fashioned from one large Ingot of gold the minora symbolized the Eternal Flame of Terror nearly six feet high he stood in the mishkan and was kindled every evening their two opinions regarding its arms and there are different opinions regarding the way its cups knobs and flowers were positioned and we'll show them all in our treatment of the verses the talmud tells us that the construction of the menorah was so complex especially since it had to be a unit of one single piece not welded together that Moses could not understand how to make it and ultimately he threw God told him to throw the block of gold into a fly into a fire and the menorah emerged fully formed we just did that sorry in the courtyard is the copper altar this is where the offerings the carbonics were brought it was Hollow and filled with Earth at its top the Four Corners extended upward the altar was surrounded by an ornate engraved copper band and a copper netting because they woke up a kevish a long ramp to get to the top in the interactive part of the program as we walked through the mishkan we can climb that ramp and see the fire that burned continuously on top of this this altar was the most massive structure in the mishkan it was nearly 20 it stood nearly it's someplace between 15 and 20 feet tall was about 18 feet tall and um was about nine feet square in the basement this Alto was much larger it was still about the same height but the width was about 60 feet wide 60 feet square to accommodate all the offerings inside the misconstructor it was a gold altar much smaller than the one in the courtyard this was the misbah hakatiris the incense altered using holes taken from the large outer altar the climate would burn guitars on this altar twice every day before they performed the Divine service in the mishkan the kamehameh washed their hands and feet with water from the Cure the labor it was a copper vessel positioned between the misbeck and the Mishka okay that's um that about covers it anybody has any questions I'd love to yes remember Seminary the video General editor article yes it's one of the bosses so anybody has any questions on what you just saw yes wait why it was I don't know the boys I know the vets the gemara discusses actually there's a dispute if you look in the if you look at the um there was a question did it look like an open box like a box with the top broken off or did it look like a canoe but the most opinions are in the rambam rules that it looked like a Rashi also assumes at the end that um that it was a shape it was box shaped and the reason it's called it's called because there's the sides come up along the sides parallel to the sides of the mishkan so upon Him Rashi interprets means sides it means surfaces which the surfaces go up along the sides of the mishkan yes okay there is no the mishkan there was no line in the mishkan they had the copper band that copper band was replaced with a red line but then the mishkan this is referring to the mishkan mishkan there was no cap there was no red line there was a copper band yes I'm not gonna lift down with me and my father the was Shabbos the Shabbos there was also no there was no um there was no definitive um there was no absolute there was no absolute um at the time of the mishkan there was an obligation there was an obligation to Daven it was an obligation to pray there was just no such Monastery that they said they didn't have a set thing they never set form for prayer but there was an obligation to pray there's a the question is is it a Biblical origin or urbanic origin but certainly there was always an obligation to pray so um I can't tell you exactly what they did if they sang or not but um and I don't know what Muslim is to be kiddish but um certainly it's pretty similar probably to what in the mishkan times in the mishkan they ate the man for the first 40 years so they didn't have Khaled either they had a very interesting they made on them on which everybody mince will discuss it as he goes through the parachutes instead of we say who brings forth bread from the ground they used to make abrahamots who brings forth bread from the heavens because their bread came from the heavens on Friday on Friday morning there was a double portion which is what we one of the reasons that we have two Hollows the reason that we have a color cover and something under the khala is to remind us of the man as well because the man had a layer of dew beneath it and a layer of dew covering it when it fell tells us the the Rashi brings it down that as as participants in the building of the mishkan the women were full participants in the building of the mishkan and not only that they actually brought more things than the men did they were more generous than the men were in the giving of the mishkan and they and they came all dressed up in their finery when they came to uh to donate the contribute so they took the leading role in the donations to the mishkan and they were very involved in the building of the Michigan as much as the men were Peter at that time there were no women in the there were no women in the Mishka well in the indeed kohanim the later base later on they made a woman section because they because of because of lead because uh there was too much mingling going on on the outside so they made a lady section they separated the men and women but at that time the priest the kohanan only the male kohanim served in the basement just like I couldn't go into the basement a woman couldn't go into the basement there's no different I mean Israel did the service in the basement of a woman gave birth she had to bring her she didn't go in anyway she stood at the door right just like I would stand at the door so the roles were differentiated not by men and women but by roles of kohanan Levine Mr everybody in their own role yes that's correct we don't have well this was first of all quite good question this is what the third quite the contrary we had two of them they made their cherubs if they were proven terrorist proven came before the Christians this is this predates Christianity by several thousand years that's correct because because just like Shira ashirim is a song is a love song that depicts the love of kalist of God and the Jewish nation that we're told that Beyond kupaso is the day of Matan Torah with the Jewish nation and God are considered necess Israel is considered the Bride of God we considered this is throughout the love the Bali monster the Bali Mark explained the the commentators explain that the reason that we have love between men and women is to give us an inkling of the relationship between God and Israel and the nation of Israel it's not the other way around we our relationship with God is very fundamentally like that the reason that God built into nature this relation of a husband and wife or a man and a woman is because that represents that gives us an inkling of our relationship with him and the Tama tells us that when the Jews were Jews served God properly the cherubs faced each other and when they didn't they would miraculously turn around and turn away from one another and actually to further when they when they came into pillage the base I make dash at the first base they took out the cherubs and they said these are this is what the Jews worshiped which isn't really true it's not what the Jews worship we never worship those cherubs we worship the worship God God's presence appeared God was most imminent in this world his greatest imminence the presence of God rested between those between those cherubs over the lid of the Ark that's where his voice would emanate when he spoke to Moses that's where it would come out from that's what the verses tell us yeah good question yes go ahead right 42 42 stations how do they carry this whole mission it didn't be good in the in the early parts of this week's in also we're told not so about law school we're told how they did it they took it apart the kohanim would come they'd cover it up they'd wrap it up and double wrap it and then they'd uh they drop it in which sort of tells us different things were wrapped and different sorts of materials then they had wagons that would carry the boards the heavy boards were carried by wagons the Calum themselves the the the Claire Michigan the minora the iron the misbehos were carried by hand by the kohana by the Olivia some of it was Heavy there are the iron the iron it says was no says no stuff in certain places that the the orange would actually lift the the people that carried it but um but uh the rest of it the the largest bayach the the large gold the the very large copper altar actually was Hollow it was just it was just it was just four big planks and with with copper with the copper thin copper layer on the outside a very thin copper layer on the outside um They carried as it was without the without the Earth in the middle and the and the ramp which the ramp was reassembled every time they they didn't carry the ramp which would be a massive structure was a massive structure the children of lady that was little vm's job the different different children of Levy had different roles in carrying different parts of the mesh cup somebody told me that some of the things from the mishkan end up in roaming the Vatican some of the things in the basement we think we think we think we don't know we don't know we haven't seen them when we see them we'll know we know that gamara tells us that rubiese at one point says I was in Rome and I actually saw that sits the head plate of the kind goddel which actually we didn't see here which I should have shown still one video left um which is the uh the head played in the which probably wasn't available allow me to I will um we'll show the big they go in the video of course it's the uh give me a minute just one second where the coloring the priest performed the sacred service in the mishkah they were foreign symbolized his special role as a servant of God and the nation one of them on his spotted was a gold plate engraved with the words kadish lashem holy to God on his chest was the equation with 12 precious stones engraved with the names of the tribes okay so rubiozi tells us that he was actually in Rome and saw the sits there so the head plate of the coin got all there so obviously some of it made its way to Rome we don't know if it's in the Vatican Rome has gone through its own people at papal and Ciroc insurrections over the years so a lot there's been a lot of politics there too okay anything else okay yes I can't answer the voice the real reason why there should be layers of coverings of the mishkan the bottom covering of the Michigan was an ornate covering um was an ornate covering that you saw from the inside it's called mishkan because it is actually part of the Michigan structure it's considered as much part of the Michigan structure as the walls the covering above that was made I'm giving you an opinion it was made of Euro season black um goats wool yeah big black goat here um and that protected the bottom covering better intents are made just like the areas where panels of they're actually made from panels of goatswool so it's very Hardy it's very it protects against the elements so it would be a logical covering over the meshkan on top of the mishkan something that nobody saw and this is definitely something that is very deep significance was the third covering that was actually composed of two coverings of tahashkin and and go and ramps red red Ram skin dyed red so I can't answer the whys about that I'm sure many sparm discuss all the reasons for this and it's it's be that's best I pay scale okay now before I go yes was put away I don't know where I think Amara says that it exists it exists I don't know where we're put someplace it's it's someplace I don't know it could be they hit it in the Subterranean could be that yeah the gamara tells us that it was put away it doesn't tell us where because he was put in this Subterranean we know that there were Subterranean there were there were underground tunnels in the higher bias it could be it was put there I can't dance you we know at the end of the first base on miktash several items and the and the and the and the orange were all put five several items were placed in those Subterranean tunnels so that the eroding mobs and the people coming to destroy the base I believe it was place them that hid them there so that the non-jewers the Andrews will not be able to get a hold of those most sacred of items and Robin do we have do we have a tradition that when mashir comes it will be revealed the original we have such a tradition and the commissioner tells us that uh that uh Cohen who's uh who went to Eden was starting to go we shouldn't be gone and he didn't fare too well so um well obviously wasn't the time for it to be revealed um yeah right because I mean this was directed by the VM at different points or this the second temple was refurbished by hordes that was not that was not under anybody's jurisdiction it was under his own jurisdiction he had um he had some time working with him but it was not on the direction of Hashem they were there are Russia's in the gamara for every change that was made that explains to us why they made the changes that were Justified certain changes that were made like the size of the base I make touch like the size of them as bayaf the position of the misbeck actually when they came for the second bias the rambam tells us that the three in the VM came to tell them exactly where all about the about them is bad that there has to be extremely precise and between the VM came to tell them exactly where it goes yes privacy I'm only answering questions related to this I can't go into the deep philosophy I'm going to go up you'll ask me okay I'm going to talk about Mark Twain brother God God promised God promised Abraham that his descendants will not cease that's the simplest answer I can give you God has a covenant God has a covenant with the Jewish Nation that we will continue to exist the Torah tells us that that is our covenant with God there's no other answer that is the answer Mark Twain wonders what what it is but uh but uh certainly he knew the ends he knows his his remarks are are directed at those who say that to wipe out the Jews obviously they're existing through some America it's a miracle because we defy the laws of logic yes yes who designed it yeah the the team Moses moshe's team it says all the workmen were infused with divine inspiration so we don't know the exact designs of the depends what you mean you mean the the fabric design the rest of it's all it's all elucidated in the verses it's all alluded to or is clearly stated in the Versa invite those old straight commit those commanded right right everything has some meaning to it or lots of meaning to it I'm sure it has much much meaning to it and um but everything the the design itself was from God what okay I can't answer you I don't know exactly what the Egyptians were doing at the same time I can tell you that some of the elements design elements that we used we took from ancient things because we figured that that was be approximately we see that the vision of the early commentators often do a parallels the boundaries parallels between um some of the clothing of the of the of the kohanim and the royalty the clothing of royalty that was contemporary in his time we also know that the that the Pope the popes and the Bishops their their Investments are Loosely based on the on the on the clothing of the coin goggle and the big the Pope's Investments are based on the Bishops are based on the regular colonomous clothing very very loosely to say the least breastplate says that questions of national significance were brought questions of national significance were brought to the common goddal um and he asked it and the answers popped up now the question is ahead is the spirit did the letters line up or did the letters light up but yes it gave that power was not from the from the breastplate itself that power came from a slip that was placed in the fold of the breastplate that was called the urin vitamin that was one of the objects that did not exist at the time the second baseman that was one of the things that was put away um that was one of the most um esoteric things that existed in the basement yes because it's not our parole table the third person is not being built by us is being built by God and he's going to send it that by God and he's going to send it down when he's ready well we need to start to process whatever it is it's not our role to build the third base yes he is why don't we basically there's no we don't have amidst about the third base the the classical tells us that the third base Advantage is going to come down from God is going to send it down but the Messiah of David's descendants descendant will start the process well however the process will work Dad we have a tradition prefab yes Sears Sears best yes okay what intrigued me is that there were stones for the tribes for the 12 different tribes were there specific stones that identified each of the tribes the specific stones and those stones the color of the stone mirrored the color of their flag each of their tribe had a flag so your banner you know like so every tribe had a banner a flag and the color of his Stone reflected the colors of His Banner and they all had deep significance goes into it in Greater length that's interesting yes yes a motif right that's correct yes oh very nice okay we have it in our book too but I'm sure the stamps are nicer yeah he says Israel just this shoe is finished issuing a set of 12 stamps which is very nice anything else okay before I turn off the microwave by Rosenfeld I promised them I'm gonna roast him I have to tell you that um you all know we will come to know no one love Rabbi Rosenfeld and the success of terrorist fat over the past long while and its expansion has been Thanks to Rabbi rosenfeld's tireless efforts he's been so successful that if following the summary is going to be focusing on Outreach and he won't be joining us every weekend not every week right I'm told he's not going to be joining us every week he's going to be focusing he's going to be asking you to help in his Outreach efforts because he's going trying to expand their programs even more he's done such a good job with terrorist path we're trying to but we are getting another young rabbi oh so I was part of the family but anyway Rabbi Rosenfeld we want that's how I'm handing over the mic drop by Rosenfeld and watch the game have a great summer and everybody we'll be next meeting at the beginning of September sometime if the Labor Day exact date to be announced [Music] almost there well thank you Rabbi beat him in I I'm I'm really undeserving of that kind of uh really I feel like it's one family we all became very close over the course of the year and uh I'm flattered that uh they my colleagues asked me to complete to end the season to end off this last class with some words on the subject now you might be wondering how does Mark Twain stand ready how's Mark Twain fit into the base of mikdash and Tish above our morning and commemorating the destruction of the basement I'm going to quickly read it read marks now Mark Twain as you all know was it one of the famous American writer in the late uh 19th and earliest 20s early 20th century Mark Twain a non-jew I was his uh pen name Mark Twain Samuel Clemons as you know was his real name not Jewish and this is what he wrote on the bottom in the famous Harper's magazine in 1899 over a hundred years ago I'll read it quickly I'm sure most of you might have read the ready Mark Twain says about the Jews it's the statistics are right the Jews constitute for one percent of the human race it suggests a nebulous dim puff of Stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way properly to Jew would hardly be heard of but he is heard of has always been heard of he is as prominent on the planet as any other people and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk his contributions to the world's list of great names in literature science art music Finance medicine and abst Truth learning he might be hinting to the talmud there but that another philosophy like maimonides are also a way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers he has made a marvelous fight in the world in all ages and has done it with his hands tied behind his time behind him he could be vain of himself and be excused for it the Egyptian the Babylonian the Persian Rose filled a planet with sound and splendor but then faded to dream stuff and passed away the Greek and the Romans followed and made a vast noise and they are gone other people have sprung up like Rome was destroyed the second base to make this the Romans As We Know they're all gone other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time but it burnt out and they sit in Twilight now or have vanished entirely the Jews sought them all beat them all and is now what he always was exhibiting no decadence no infirmities of age no weakening of his Parts no slowing of his energies no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind all things are mortal but the Jew all other forces pairs but he remains what is the secret of his immortality that's a famous Mark Twain over 100 years ago that's a non-jew and now one of the famous rabbis of one of the oldest yeshivas in America Johor Rabbi Yeshiva taravadas in Brooklyn also 100 years old one of the Deans of that Yeshiva Rabbi Moshe Wilson I heard him comment on these non-jews like Mark Twain that speak of us this way now Mark Twain by the way was accused I'm not saying if it's true or not he was accused of being anti-semitic how to or anti-semitic tendency the reason why was that he joined a few other journalists in the late 1800s that accused the Jews during the American Civil War of not of being disloyal they didn't join size they didn't fight for the cause the Jews who lived in the North and the Jews who lived in the south I don't know if that's true if Mark Twain really joined that uh very interesting that's an old anti-semitic accusation against us we all know has been stayed on the robin men's many times we'd use a loyal to the countries we that host us and Jews have a fact factually actually served in the civil war thousands under this in the north and many hundreds in the South uh the Secretary of War of The South was a Jew Judah Benjamin so it's totally like all anti-semitic uh accusations it's the the uh The Emptiness and the slander is always obvious but the point I'm making is that he has a non-jew Mark Twain that says such nice things about us and Rabbi Moshe Wilson said it's not surprising because a non-jew a guy a non-jew who's honest and examines and he's got some intellect and he examines the history of US Jews Robert Wilson said there's only two options for such a non-jew he's either going to hate us or he's going to join us he'll hate us because he's jealous of us or he'll join us because he knows we have DM is the truth and he'll become a Jew it's one there's no in between so what is our secret well let me tell you a story when the second base I make this was destroyed the madrish says unbelievable story that brings out what Mark Twain was referring to the the the spirit of the Jew the undefeatable our spirit which cannot be our flame which cannot be put out the magic brings an unbelievable story that after Rome completed the destruction of our people they defeated you shall I am and millions of Jews perished we're not sure if as many as six million in the Holocaust as much maybe less but it was in the millions the talmud says it was in the Millions and before they were going to enter the base I make this the temple and looted they knew about all the gold and silver as we just saw the Romans the Roman general and the other is there was they were scared they knew about the God of Israel is a powerful God they knew recent history what the god of the Jews did to Pharaoh what he did to akashfe Rose in the miracle of Purim he knew how to the God help demaca bims defeat the Greeks they were scared to go into God's house so what they came up with an idea what should they do they told all the Jews that they had in Chains all the Jews around the base I make this they spread the word we need a volunteer a Jew to go into the base and make this and pick whatever you want be the first one to steal whatever you take is yours and once they saw that would be accomplished without the Jew getting struck down they know that God really abandoned us 100 percent well who would volunteer for such a dastardly deed amongst our people but sure enough one one very low down Jew did did just that his name was Joseph Joseph he went in he spent a little time in there looking around and what did he come out with it came walking out with none other than the six foot tall manure gold menorah six feet tall his own height and the Roman general and the other Romans looked at this and said hey you know they started to say you know uh we did say you can take whatever you want but you know you're a simple Jew this what this gold piece you're taking out here this is fit for royalty you know you'll leave that with us and uh go in a second time and take whatever we won't do this again to you whatever else you take is yours but this is not for you this is for us so Joseph Joseph this load down Judah could do such to go in now a Jew was not allowed in unless you went to the mcphail and everything you know Cohen is not allowed in he went so you know where this Jew was holding and yet he refused to go in again he told the Roman general these following words I went in and angered the god of Israel my God once I will not anger him a second time well you know the Romans don't like back talk like that it no matter how Noble it is you know so they said you know listen they first try to coax them again listen we don't want a hard time you know go in again take whatever you want but this you're not getting he said I will not go in again to anger my God and they said now listen you don't go in now we're going to torture you and you're the worst nightmare is going to happen to you and he would could not be scared he said I'm not going in to anger my God again they tortured him to death and he was screaming throughout the torture doing chuva saying I'm sorry Hashem I angered you the spirit of the Jew now I want to tie in with this an interesting parallel that in the Torah and the Hamish God when God promised Abraham he took him out and count the Stars can you count the Stars you know the famous narrative in the Torah and he said of course not this will be your seed the children your children will be as many as stars innumerable you can't count them later on during Jacobs when Jacob went to marry he went to his family back in Mesopotamia he had this famous dream and God made a different comparison a promise to Jacob he said your children are going to be as many as the dust of the Earth can you count the dust of the Earth so will be the Jewish people your children so many of the commentators are wondering why we're compared to the Stars God compared us to the stars and why to the Dust so a very several commentators give a very a very beautiful interpretation why the difference and very simple and it's what Mark Twain is talking about we Jews when we want to we want our souls want to be attached to Hashem we want to strive and be inspired we want we don't want to be pulled down to the material we don't want to copy our environment to be hedonistic and follow the crowd and just Chase pleasures of the world and more vacations we want the Stars and we Aspire for the Stars but in every generation there are some Jews that do fall from the Stars and they could even be wallowing in the dust with the materialism like Joseph in the story I just told you but yet in the moments in a moment any Jew no matter how far removed he is from Torah from our Traditions from the Jewish people no matter how far we see from the story of Joseph in a moment he returned and said you can torture me do whatever you want with me I will not anger Hashem again from the dust from the dirt Joseph is in the heavens with all our great ancestors Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses David in a moment he made it and if you might be thinking well you know that was 2 000 years ago the Jews were more spirited back then maybe things have changed well Mark Twain wrote this in 1899 didn't change much and it Mark Twain a non-jew saw the Spirit of the Jew but I will bring us back to a famous story during the Holocaust only 70 years ago the famous and it's accurate because one of the greatest rappers Hasidic rabbis who survived the death camp his name was rabbed by Israel Spiro you might have heard his name he lived to 100 years old he died about 15 years ago and he tells over a story that he saw with his own eyes how on Yom Kippur the Nazi God gave the Capo now you know the Capo it's like Joseph those couples were vicious that which most of them were Traders and they listened to the Nazis and made the Jews do they made us suffer and they beat us the Nazi God gave the Capo of Rabbi Israel's bunk strict orders you're going to make them eat on yum and they brought in a special they used to feed them potatoes every day but in spite to get the juice they brought in stew meat stew smelling hot they gave in orders to the Capo you make sure they eat I'm going to come in in the morning like more web and I'm going to make sure this is they're reading this so sure enough the Nazi God came in and that part of Stew was filled and the whole Barracks Rabbi Spira and all the Jews were watching what was going to transpire you and the Nazi God told the couple I told you why why is this pot of stew still filled no one tells us a bit why didn't you make them eat it Coppa looked to the Nazi and he said they're not going to eat on Yom Kippur and I'm not going to force them to eat on Yom Kippur well the Nazi descendants probably of uh some of the probably the sense of amalek and the Romans very similar to the story in the Madrid of 2000 years earlier he said you don't get at least one of these Jews to eat this Stone you're gonna get it so the all the eyes were on this cop but this couple was vicious I mean this copper was used to beat the Jews but they couldn't believe what they were watching here so copper walks up to the Nazi God and says you can open up his shirt and said you can shoot me right now they're not going to eat a Yom Kippur and I'm not going to make the meat the couple took out his revolver and shot the copper right in the chest and Rabbi Israel's Spirit he was called the blues of Arab because from a town in blues river in Europe Eastern Europe he always told all this story all the years he lives in New York in Borough Park you always all over the story and he said at that moment the Capo's blood and our tears Wallace Jews and the barracks his blood and our tears mixed freely at that moment that's the spirit of the Jew even if we fall to the as low as could be no Jew is lost and as we saw after the six day Ward the balchuva movement exploded and Jews from all walks of life all parts of America they had a bar mitzvah that was the last time they were in a synagogue was there by mitzvah many of them kidding they visit their grandparents Graves they can't even read the Hebrew on the grandparents grave they can't even read their Hebrew names what it says dear these same Jews are lost in the materialism of America finding their way back back to Hashem back to the Jewish people because as the commentators said a Jew soul is expiring towards the stars and if we get sidetracked for whatever reason to the ignorance or whatever the reason we might be temporarily down but in a flesh we're going to start soaring up to the shamai into the heavens and I think that's very much uh what Rabbi High amends throughout our season and the bark Hashem from circus when unless Rosh Hashanah when we started at The JCC Rabbi men started off as inspiring us and teaching us what really lies within every Jewish heart as a Holy Soul and throughout the course of the Season he's trying to wake us up to tap into that Source it's a Wellspring of Holiness and many times we look down upon ourselves or we don't give ourselves the credit or we we don't think we can do it it's a mountain to climb that's beyond us I'm just going to Echo the words of Rabbi I immense that Mark Twain's sword the spirit of the Jew we saw it during it when the chips were down during the destruction of the base I make this we saw it in the Holocaust how the Jews risk their lives and gave up their lives to do it in midst in the death camps to make a sukkah to light the Hanukkah candle somewhere the stories are replete and the Judaica stores you can buy these books as mind-boggling beyond the love of Life the Jews gave up everything for a Mitzvah to get that attachment to God to Hashem and like Robert Wilson said if we do as a god gave us our as he said unto the prophet the prophet Isaiah said quotes God's words I made you a light to the Nations we Jews besides being a light to ourselves God also wants us to be a light to the non-jewish world also but how can we be a light to them we first have to be something ourselves we have to uplift ourselves out of the materialism make ourselves better Jews be proud Jews and live the life that God wants us to be honestly as we say in Yiddish to be an honest Jew and honest huge means not just in business it means honest with ourselves honestly what we can't produce we we're not gonna we don't have to be just Rosh Hashanah high high holiday Jews Russia Jews and by the way these have gone so removed now just as per Shabbos I had a conversation with a rabbi from the OU who said he's from Canarsie Brooklyn the name of canasie and he said even the irreligious on the high holidays it was packed the Jews came out on high holidays and now sadly the new generation is getting more removed but we can't give up we cannot give up we will not give up and we'll we can start right here ignite the flame leave the Torah spot and go out to the Staten Island and out to the rest of the world that we're going to be proud Jews we're going to light up the hearts of our fellow Jews and the Jewish people will then be a light to the Nations that Isaiah quoted God is saying we can fulfill our mission or to be a light to the Nations I want to thank everybody for a wonderful Minecraft to you It's a Wonderful season it was really great [Applause] foreign