PIC2024 Keynote Rabbi Yitzchok Meir Lau, shlita

Israel mayor La was just 9 years old when he walked out of the hell of the Holocaust he lost most of his family a wondering child who landed on the shores of then Palestine the world would have bet that if he' managed just to get by in life that would be a major accomplishment but Young Israel mayor did much more than just get by he came to personify the essence of the Jewish people in times of tragedy [Music] the more they beat us the more and stronger we become he took up this Legacy with a mission to rebuild the Jewish people rebuild us with great strength Rabbi Israel mayor LA from the darkness of Holocaust which I personally was very lucky to be one of its survivors to show us there is a light in the edge of the tunnel 1993 RAB Israel mayah became the chief Rabbi of Israel the leader of millions in Israel and around the world at a time now when our very existence is being tested where banners and placards not seen in 75 years are publicly displayed in our backyards possibly there is no one else in the Jewish World whose experience and message is more relevant than harav Israel May and if we are here and we exist and we will exist it's a a miracle made by God to die together we are experts to live together we have to learn Rabbi Lao has instilled in all of us the meaning of being a Jew of our history of the importance of the actors of the Jewish people of loving every Jew his life is a living witness how we come back from the ashes grow and become great and Inspire thousands something you see in your life you feel it you live in it this is amuna this is Faith ladies and gentlemen the former Chief Rabbi of Israel and really the current chief Rabbi of Jews all over the world har Israel may allow [Music] schita good evening sh once upon a time I gave a story in Israel and Yos fredman heard this story when he have invited me for this convention this time he said to me I insist on that the story you told us will be told to all the people by you and you cannot see tell him no I said okay I will try almost 50 years ago about 50 years I sit in my home in Tel Aviv the telephone rings M David benuron David benuron is speaking ra I want to ask you a favor there are two verses in the tanak in the Bible I don't understand them and you know that I like Bible if I would be now in in the ne I wouldn't bother you to come from Tel Aviv so far but since my wife passed away I am not very well a little bit sick I'm here in Tel Aviv for all kinds of treatment medical treatment I cannot walk to you even I had to do it please do me a favor come to me not far from you that's time K today is bouv Inon 17 where I live I was sure that someone is kidding me avidon phones to me I was 50 years younger I wasn't a chief Raba yet not of T Aviv not of natania not of Israel I said but okay tomorrow 10:00 is okay said very good my brother my late brother naftali who my owe him my life he worked that time with mosan in the ministery of Defense in Tel Aviv I wanted to be sure that no one makes kidding from me I phone to him and told him someone on the name of David benon asked me to meet him the Bible story to to us do me a favor and check it for me if it's not a joke one one teasing me 10 minutes later T may I join you tomorrow 10:00 in K 17 yes it's true I came the room is full with books and I saw talmud bav schinger an American talmud 20 chaps and I asked The Bodyguard Bon wasn't yet in the room does he open one Once Upon a Time one of these books said the big one said yes the red one said yes every day an hour he's reading in one of these books was for me prise T I knew that he Liv about tal came and I told him about theim I know only one that he didn't understand it's a very difficult I will not repeat it in book of to the second PUK we didn't arrive because we spoke only three and a half hours from the first PUK and then came the same bodyguard and said the doctor said that he has to take his what he needs to have we must stop to take three and a half hours during this long talk first time in my life to meet with a man who was a legend you can agree with him you can disagree but it's undoubtedly a legend of the story of the state of Israel was the head of the Jewish agency and and then the head of the government of Israel prime minister and minister of arms he led the war Independence war and I had the opportunity to speak to him now it came to a point that I could ask him Mr Boron I want to tell you a story story I had from a rabbi in he is a witness to this story it's an amazing story for me I want to ask you this occasion that we sit together if the story is true what is the story the Arabs made pograms against Jewish people and they killed many many of us seven at once in mishar Shiva near Tel Aviv we didn't have an army we didn't have defense real defense and they were seven countries what to do the British Mand that who rolled over Palestine socalled understood that they had to do something before Holocaust 1933 they sent a mission the pill Mission the name of the head the chairman of the mission was Lord pill that's the name he have to increase and to check what's going on in Palestine which was a part of the British mandate they sit in MIM where the Supreme Court was later and there was a stand like this and three books on it the Bible the have de the New Testament and the Quran for the Egyptian Islamic for the British and love for the Jews to swear it's the point of royalty you want you to swear that you go go to tell the whole truth Boron was the first one to be to appeal in this heart but he was in France he bought weapons for the independence War many years later he was the last witness the last witness in the committee of uh Lord Hall he came put his hand of the Bible said I will say the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth and then he gave his lesson a lecture of three hours the connection of the people of Israel to the land of Israel and he started with and to everything is for you and then the of Yeshua Bon and King David and the makim three hours this is our homeland this is our past and we dream for it and the prayers daily daily daily he quoted it when he finished the three hours lecture was a for five minutes of release and then Lord PE said to him Mr Boron may I ask you a personal question said of course that's why I'm here where were you born Mr Boran the answer was PL Lord P where is plon in Poland after a while North P like speaking to himself but he wanted that everyone will listen very strange phenomena you are the last with this year all the Islamic leaders such as NBA and and many was all of them were born in Palestine most of the Israeli Witnesses were not born here Russia Poland Germany how can you say that this is your land usually if someone comes to home and said go away this is my home not yours we tell him you have to go to the authorities and bring a paper that this belongs to you do you have a paper that Palestine belongs to the Jewish people Lord pill spontaneously benon lifted up the Bible a paper Lord P you ask me for a paper document that the land of Israel is a Jewish land is our homeland this Bible is very respected by all the world all mankind the culture world knows what is the Bible look in the Bible how many times appears the promise of the Lord Almighty to the Jewish people that This Land Is Ours this is our homeland this is the Bible and all the journalist went out running to the telephones to tell the story about the Bible which this is the document that the land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people according to David benguan I asked him Mr oron I have heard the story from Rabbi katel ban he was there is it true or a legend he smiled that people know and remember I said I remembered I remember two words that he said 100% he was happy that people know then I ask him if Lord PE ask you a question and you answered I respect the answer but I want to to put a question also if we permit me I have also a question for you please what do you want the same Bible in the same document that tells us and tells the whole world in all the generations that the land of Israel is Jewish land in that Bible there are some other words such like what can we answer to our children if they say we sit in her Israel because of the Bible what with Shabbat okay you accept but Shabbat and other other Commandments 613 Commandments we don't keep it how can we ask Arafat to take the Bible as a document and we don't take it as a document or other paragraphs what can we answer what do you think muron answered of this question he was a very smart man what did he answer because he was so smart he didn't answer no answer this is the story I owe you where is he here I paid this I paid the bill now from the past we which is not passive this is a present continuous I want to end to end my words this is the thir time that I speak on this vacation I want to end with one word it was mentioned [Music] before and we are in every child in the kindergarten in the Jewish kindergarten sings enters this month we will have is it true to say does it make sense to say historically do you know what happens 11 months before on Nissan Haman made the lottery that in of to liquidate the Jewish people on the ofar children babies and they fast and they prayed they said him in 127 countries he want to live he want to exist he wanted to live with us the H the months of Nissan went over Tam El seven months and the law doesn't change and didn't change his mind can you imagine what happens we didn't leave even a letter for whom because we have only 13 days to live with our children and the babies all God forbid for a liquidation can you imagine the feelings in the Jewish Street in the Jewish homes in fasting ding crying saying and you says says in m sadness prayers tell him ah if you want to be true to the history you had to say this is my question this end this man's passed away ham man is on the tree h is on the horse is this is a time for happiness why do we say and we sing and we teach our children babies sing with us it's not true what do you say I have to add one word a even this is the Jewish power according to the calendar we have only certain days to exist but we don't lose hope says never give up never lose hope always even they were in says the they sing s and they sing in the ghetto in the concentration camps last we are still in a war in Israel today we had the difficult day with three new victims our kids our sons our soldiers died during Shabbat three of them he we are in the story of we have to believe we are a nation who showed what power is in our faith that we will never give up up in our m one to the other call Isel we are we are together as I said in the film Not Only We Know to die together we know to live together and we will see amen he