Rachel Imeinu and Teshuva, Tefillah, and Tzedakah Chizuk During Iron Sword by Rabbi Baruch Taub

okay good morning everybody um just to mention I I understand this the share will be videoed for those that can't make it today so you can let everyone know I've got already gotten some requests first of all with reference to the hostages theim the holy Jews from pelah from little babies to great-grandparents I just want to Echo the words of mosha which were not just said for a particular moment in history but anything that mosha Renu said which is toras mosha Torah is eternal so when mosenu said to sh let my people go that those words of mosenu are are operative today and they're going to work very soon it is today um the yite AL the of RA so I want to uh spend a few moments few thoughts on ra IMU as it is herit the first is a thought that was given by the great late rashash Shiva of the and in his his saas was reprinted in the newer edition of SAS mus there's a section in the back with additional Dres and he has a number of Dres that he spoke out every day of the in the B Med during The Six Day War and one of the days of the Sixth Day War I think it was the fourth Russia that he gave he asked a question why is it only r IMU whose prayers were offered and were heard for the displaced Jews why what about SAR Rifka Le why da ra so R said that there was something unique about theas of Rael and this really applies to those of us here that are here in ER Israel Rael was there she was on the side of the road theot from Isel the on behalf of here in are so much more powerful and therefore R were highlighted clearly the doing of Jews all over the world is important and special and works every Jew feel is work work but theas from Isel are so much more powerful and that's why Leia is highlighted in fact there's a RI that says why why are there two days Y in only one day y inel aside from the technicalities of AD and so on we're all familiar with that but thei says an amazing thing the kadus the Kad the Holiness of the Y can be acquired in one day in ER Israel it requires two days outside of er Israel to reach that level of Holiness there's another thought that I want to share with you fromo kbo once said he asked the same question why Ru what was unique about Ru and Herz so he said that Ru was the first Jew to witness the first Jew who was thrown out of his home Ru met Yakov ainu at the well and rul witnessed a Jew the first Jew who was thrown out of his home in ER Israel who was escaping who was running away the power of the of RA of Mama ra of RA for all of the hundreds and thousands of Jews who are right now in the same position is going to hell this is the ofu this is her today we all know the secret code of Jewish life we said it on yont chuva repentance ding acts of kindness chuva we did iTab came that was the the seal all of CLA Isel were forgiven the Jew has been done is there a Jew today that is not doing somehow some way doing there's no atheists in the Foxhole you know I was at the police station the other day here in Natan and the chief of police introduced me to an officer who was had his tius out wearing tius he introduced me to him and we were talking and afterwards he pulled me aside he said I want to tell you who this Jew is this Jew's religion is he is he is anti against Rel he anti anti he's secular sec to his bone his Nish and he put on cissus you cannot find you'd be hard pressed to be able to buy a pair of tius of arbos in AEL today you know the American communities that were made are busy kids are busy making CES and flying them in to to a Isel for people it's amazing right everybody is duffing feel is happening I know I'm sure you must have heard or seen theet theet soldier in the Army and she was in correspondence with one of her friends and her friend said maybe you can find a nice tati Soldier for yourself you know you're at this you want to get married right said impossible I don't know who's from and who's not from everybody is wearing a keeper everybody's wearing sisses so we'll have to worry about the shim another time in maybe maybe one of these guys who was not yet from has become from maybe he'll be the guy who knows right who knows the Kikar in natana I noticed yesterday and the day before the the Kikar the in in N there's always there's a a laich stand Forin right so once in a while you go by you'll see somebody they get somebody there's a lineup there's a lineup for people putting on F so see is happening in this kindness I'll get to I'll get to in a minute but I want to before I get to and stuck I wanna I want to revisit for a few minutes I want to revisit the things what we said last week and perhaps part two of what we said last week last week we pointed out that the um the world was set in motion the creation Bria was set in motion by it was the icing on the cake after Theon created the world right there was a contradiction between day three which said that all the plants and vegetation were created and day six which said Teran they did not grow yet so what happened was that there was no so when Man was created man Adam and doed for the rain Thea the doing was the microchip which put RI which put Genesis would put would put which put creation into motion the microchip of the world was is but I want to take this a step further I want to take this a step further the Mitzvah there's actually a I think we mentioned this last week There's A M we shown him a difference of opinion the rambam holds there is a Mitzvah to D every single day right and according to the rambam just saying is enough incidentally for women you don't say I'm sure you know this it's mod right forget about what's printed in the sitter modani for a lady mod for a man but that's the ran holds there's no misf to D every day however when it comes to aov to an a to a moment of crisis when tragedy strikes when we have to deal with Ace s there's no disagreement the ran agrees with the rambam that a s is azah it is the mitvah of the hour the ra at the beginning of says the first when tragedy strikes we do that's the Mitzvah like mitvah like like shabas like any other this is the Mitzvah that we are supposed to be engaged in now the says something very interesting we're familiar with this how come how come and how come they were unable to have children theor answers B who passionately Longs for the ofik now we have to understand this AR sorry did not have a womb did not have a re was a it was illogical futile absurd illogical abnormal for them to have children and yet they do for children right what does that mean it means that sometimes normally was a gift to us to deal with moments of tragedy moments of of of need to turn to the Rabon was created in order to return to the to to deal with certain moments with regard to the otheros he created a moment of a in order to bring about the what does that mean the AV were given an impossible moment to focus on we are all here today the Jewish people is here today as a result of the doing the praying of our aot of our forefathers during unspeakable inexplicable moments which would seem to be impossible we've talked many times about the R's understanding of this but I want to say something else what happens to the happens to the children different from the ran Bor who had to wire certain things in to the Jewish hard drive through the AOS and the imos had to allow certain things to happen to the AOS that they were Barren the theas Y The Binding of Isaac certain things that will never could never be repeated in Jewish history this is not a paradigm for this is not a a paradigm for the god of Israel that he enjoys listening to our doing likes he wants to hear us this is not a paradigm for God that's not what it's all about this is a paradigm for us he wired things for eternity for from from from Ab andov so that we would know what we can do what we have to do when the sirens go off we are living in a moment of a Sor we are living in a moment which futile absurd abnormal K totally against the grain to call these people animals that's a compliment animals only kill for prey they only kill to eat right right these are subhuman suban animal right the the a of is has been taken to a new le a new level for us right this is a moment in Jewish history which defies defies any definition of logic right not just the tragedy but the response of the world that we're seeing students in ivy league universities the halls of Academia which many hear are embarrassed to say they studied in those those universities March walking out marching on behalf of the Palestinians this refusing to accept the the the reality and the truth the queen of Jordan the queen of Jordan interviewed on CNN and what does she say that the world has to speak out against The Butchery of Israel against the Palestinians and as far as killing babies killing babies it never happened he said it right this is a this is what this is in this is a moment of a s leov and has told us how we respond to this right this is how we we're we survived as a Jewish people because of a response to such a doesn't provide this because he wants to he provides us because he's telling us this is how we this is how we have to get out of it and this is how you're you're going to get out of it now there's a difference of opinion in the gamar of the origin of the Mitzvah one opinion is Theus were created invented BYOB right the other opinion is that is to we are we do because of the daily offering that was given in the will be done again in the morning and at night the the daily the daily offering right what's the Nexus between these two reasons there has to be a Nexus between these two reasons so the Miri points out one of the Ron and one of the early rabbis he says something very profound points out in in the Corban the morning daily burnt offering was offered on the west side of the M the sun rises on the East the Corbin was offered on the west side at night when the sun sets on the west the Corbin was offered on the East why because the corbon is ConEd it is counterintuitive to Nature we do to God to do something for us that even in to a logical mind is not going to have and that's the next it's con it has nothing to do with Mother Nature just like the AOS the of Theos had nothing to do with Mother Nature now the gorah says you're not allowed to pray for something that's that's that's a nice right a woman is pregnant the husband wants a wants a boy he's not allowed to pray for it that it should be a boy that's a shove you're not supposed to do that but when it comes toov in a moment like this all bets are off we can die D whatever we have to do and respond and the respond will come response will come from the Ron let me go from let me go to let me go to the that we are witnessing that we are involved in everybody here is involved in the that we are witnessing from all of Israel all of Israel is beyond I I spoke to a Jew flew in here Canada and he took a truck he rented a truck in Karim and he went to butchers and he's making thousands of hamburgers barbecuing for thousands of hamburgers going from army base to Army i' SE I'm sure you've seen it there are other people other people have come here from Kars from America to and they're barbecuing right you know husbands don't want to do anything in the house when it comes to barbecuing well a Jewish husband really knows how to barbecue well they're putting their talents to good service and I you see I mean I don't know how many people are going around barbecuing making making hamburgers for for for our holy our holy soldiers right all night all day the Army the the the Stucker millions of dollars of stuer that's coming in my my own son or of mosha who sh in Queens in New York is involved in in an operation that's raised already hundreds of thousands of dollars they're shipping in from helmets and and and vests to duct tape to provide whatever is needed here you see pictures you know we say that when times are tough the economy is in in bad shape right the ronan's going to take care of the economy right but we say the hotels are empty tourism what's going to be with tourism got news for you I think we all know the hotels are not empty there's not an empty hotel in this country the hotels are full of families or should I say half families partial families giving them food and shelter and comfort toys are being brought in for children right the the is impossible you've seen these stories one story that really hit me that I'm sure many of you have seen this kutnik decided that he wants to do something there was an Army base nearby and he he brought to the army base food for two 100 so the representative of the army base said that this is wonderful what you're doing but we have to have the raban check out exactly take go back to your kib how did you do this we have to know that it's kosher there many of our soldiers want kosher it's a wonderful thing you're doing but please forgive me we have to check it out he says okay give me the rabbi so he brings the rabbi and he says to the rabbi come to me come he said I want to tell you something I am so I am so not not religious I never spoke to a rabbi in my life but in the last three days I've spoken to two rabbis first time in my life the first Rabbi was three days ago that I went to a rabbi to say I want to do this for the army base I want to I want to make food for the army base and I need you to cusher my kitchen I need you to make my kitchen kosher so I can tell me what to do what ingredients I should get how to do it when to do it why and I'll do it and you are the second Rabbi who speaking well needless to say the second Rabbi was in tears and of course the food brought but this is this is what what's happening what's happening today the right did not become the first Jew because of theology yes he taught the world belief in Noah Noah believed in God but Noah was not the first Jew Noah did not become the first Jew believing in the Rabon is not enough to make you a Jew it is it is it is the the love the grace the Embrace that every Jew has for another Jew no matter what no matter what color no matter what politics this is the definition of a Jew and this is the definition of am Israel and that's what's been going on right now cha we D of M ofu today we mentioned her site is really the is the of there should be for all of is we should should immediately take us out of this situation return theim return every one of them return the every one of them everybody should come home there should be shom is and we through our Chua and our will make it happen partners with the Rabon sholan in the outcome that we so long for so so desperately okay I think we're supposed to say a little tillum before at the end so I'm just going to say we said last I'm going to say the same I I mentioned last week tillum is very important we talked about tillum last week I'm not going to repeat what I said but tillum is is unique it's the only safer where God is silent it's up to us we have to speak no safer in Tanakh God is silent except here it's up it's up to us right say tillum not a lot it's hard to say a lot of tillum for a long time it's very tedious it's very hard to concentrate say a few say a few till them every day read every word slowly would we're just going to do the one Capital we did last week chos a song of ascent I lift up my eyes to the mountains and I pointed out last week and I'll repeat it again why does why does King David why doesn't he [Music] say I'll lift up my M eyes to the mountain no is teaching us something about our our ability right we can't get up to the Sun or the moon for the sky but we can get up we can climb a mountain we can do it let me see the peak of the mountain I want to climb that mountain I want to do what has to be done for clra from where our help comes from that mountain our help we bring it we do it as REM Hashem our help comes from God oh who created heaven and earth don't let us stop the god of Israel never sleeps will protect you he guard you on your right the and the moon will continue to give us light God will heal protect us from all evil protect our our spirituality as well as our physicality he will guard our going in out and coming in our going out to war and are coming home from war Now and Forever Until mesiah comes the muted footstep the increasingly Audible mut footsteps of Miau should become a scream and we should hear those footsteps all the best everybody