POWERFUL: Our Soldiers on the Frontlines (A Reservists Wife Speaks)

We are almost two years into a war here in Israel in Aza alak that I think some people are starting to forget that we have our soldiers still over the lines over there in very dangerous areas. And I wanted to speak about specifically people that are known as the maluikim. The maluim are the ones who are married men. They're in their 30s, their 40s, even some in their mid-4s. Have a number of children already have jobs. have a life that they're set on and they're going back and serving and some have served the whole entire year and a half. I want to report to you when I heard from the wife of one of these maluim that she actually wrote a book about this whole experience of all the wives of these people of these uh these people who are in the maluim that they're going ahead and serving this whole entire time that she said a few months ago after not seeing him for close to a year he came home for 24 hours. He came home for a whopping 24 hours. What do you think the first thing that he did when he came home after giving the hugs and kisses? You know what happened first thing after seeing his family? He wrote a will. That's what he did. Because these are people that when they wake up in the morning and say they don't know if they're going to have the opportunity to go to sleep and say at the same time. When we wake up in the morning, we wake up with a certain confidence that things are okay. We go up to business as usual. Sherm are continuing. Everybody with their own subjects, but we're forgetting that there are people over there that have wills that are written because they don't know what's going to be tomorrow. You take one wrong step in the wrong direction and you bump into some explosive trap. You go ahead and look in the wrong direction. You get ambushed by something that you completely did not expect. And again, I want to mention we're not only discussing teenagers or youngsters, which obviously that's also an incredible loss, but we're talking about people with proper lives and they're willing to go ahead and give it all up in order to fight for Kal Israel, in order to fight to protect us and fight for all of Israel. Now what's incredible about this point that I'm trying to get out is in the process of speaking about this whole entire idea there was a whole discussion with many of these people who are on the front lines these malim people and you would be absolutely shocked at the tremendous anticipation that they have for going ahead and going and going and fighting the war. The excitement, the vigor. Of course, we were all full of this of this incredible vigor to go ahead and conquer and get rid of these rashim that are standing on the other side of the line over there in Aza. But still at this stage to go ahead and free those hostages in this stage to go ahead and wipe out these rash this satan from off the planet their excitement is still there and is remained that way and they're willing to be moer nephesh for it that it was titled this whole idea this whole discussion as people addicted to milim people that were addicted to being in the millim they were interested and they were going and fighting the cause because they know it's a real cause and I want ask and figure out where does this come from? Now, of course, we know where this incredible power comes from, this interest, and like I said, when we're far away, especially if we're farther across the ocean. So, it's an intellectual idea, remembrance. We try to remember, don't forget those soldiers, but we don't realize that they're sitting in the crux of absolute danger, not knowing what's going to be tomorrow. Where does this come from this incredible mysterious efforts that they have? And I want to contrast immediately and point out, of course, that when the Arabs go ahead and kill themselves, if you don't mind me saying so, it comes from a place of meaninglessness. They don't have much to live for. And they're told that when they go, they're going to get some type of physical desire, which they're not getting right now to think of the shallow understanding of the way these people live. But we're coming from people and especially I took people like this that have a life that love life that want to live life that want to have a family that want to go ahead and be meet that want to go ahead and learn. Some of them they're all have something to live for for tomorrow and still they're willing to go ahead and do it. Where does it come from? I don't have to go over the history but I'm going to a quick fix of how we've seen this mysterious nephesh over all the generations. One of the classics are during the time of the Holocaust in the Shawah there were 93 basak of girls that actually were captured by the Nazis. There were girls together with some of the teachers that were captured by some of the Nazis and they realized that they weren't being taken just to be gassed. They were going to be taken advantage of. They were interested in doing things that were abhorable. And as a result of that, they went and took away their lives. They all swallowed pills in order to they all swallowed poison in order to kill themselves. In order to avoid this they were willing to do it in order to avoid they learned the lesson from the which ta brings in of the 400 boys and girls that were taken on a ship and when they realized what they were being taken for the girls jumped overboard. Just think about it when you're on a boat in the city in the middle of the ocean to jump overboard. It's much easier to talk about. Crazy to think about to think about actually doing such a thing. Tossing and turning in the waves until we all know what happens. The boys saw what the girls did and they said if that's what they're doing and they and the girls darken it was a normal phenomenon for us for what they're going to do to us is even worse and they also jumped overboard. This is the of Israel over the generations to be do it. If we talked about the Kurban or the Shaw or the Holocaust, of course, we also know in the Gazeratlav during the Crusades when the wicked Christians who were much worse than the Arabs, by the way, just don't forget about that. When they were going ahead and killing and torturing, there were incredible amount of stories of whole cities, Megania and others that actually went and took away their lives of themselves and their children in order to avoid being given to this we speak we many that are said and other that are said are over during the times of the crusades that we went ahead and gave up our lives. for this matter. You should know it's a cabala. And the divor brings there's a kabala from the bal to the pir on the gar on the side and we have a tremendous bunch of given by the balvat and the many many even maybe the majority were killed during the time of the crusades and when they were in jail waiting for their sentence to be brought out they were going to be killed soon afterwards they wrote perk maruba we have a kabala that that's when they built the seventh perkab which are the biggest to the most intriguing intrinsic and most that we have almost in shalo wrote that right before they were being taken to the slav right being before taken to to be killed to be burnt to the stake to be hung up on the cross or whatever they were being taken for they did that in an incredible gesture of msu nephesh which our religion is oh so familiar with the vagon testified about the duke mech who is they're known as the G had said when he was cut and was being taken to the stakes to be burnt. He said when he died the vilat who said I want to be buried next to the ashes of the duke I want to be buried next to the ashes of the geretic because it's gamore he said when the garedic died he lowered tuma in the whole entire world the level of the sitra a went down in the mid700s when he got healed and that's why we're a little bit more lenient sometimes so one of the reasons about nata dime immediately in the ba we're supposed to do as soon as possible but one of the reasons to be more lenient is Because we live after the geretic when he was nephesh aldeshm incredible the incredible the incredible nephesh that has foresh where does it come from where is the secret where do we do to get there how do these people get to such a place that they're willing to do it I know you've heard s you know but sometimes think about it when you're there when you're sitting on a cruise boat look and stand at the edge and go, would I jump? Would I really jump? When you're standing and I do this by the pes mat when we're cooking, when we're making the mats, right before pes, I stand next to one of those ovens. And those ovens are hot. It's pure fire from wood ovens, not like the ones you have in your house. Stand close. You can't even get next to it. Would you pull that off and jump in the fire in order to avoid bowing down to a cross or something of the sort? Would you do that? Think about it. Where does it come from? So we end with the most important of the piece and that is one of the greatest of people who gave up their lives and did it with glee. Did it with a smile and that is Rebi Aka the man of Omar. He is the one who retaught the five to meet him real during the time of Rebea is the man of the hour during this time period of spir including Lagba Omar. And we all know what the Gumar brings down that when Tis Rufus go ahead and put him on the steak and it says over there in the USA brings it in Alf it says that he was smiling he was happy right before and he says what are you are you a sorcerer or are you just a stam sadist or are you stabur what's with you what's the matter with you so said no I'm not this and this he says neither rather I seeelves in the lapim in the sadikim. I see myself and ready embraced by the sadikim that are standing in front of me. What is the meaning of this statement? And this is an incredible you saw it. You have to get this well. And I saw this once of galinsky. This incredible idea didn't see the future. He didn't see something as something we call Haba. He saw the present but the whole future he saw in front of his eyes right now. If I know there's I'm like praying I'll be there and please give me and I do it with tears and wanting and a yearning to get there. But if I feelabar right now, then I laugh. Raiku was able to laugh, to smile, to be happy, even in the clinches, even in the depths of a fire because right now he saw the right now he was standing in the bosom of of of he was surrounded by he saw the in front of his face even at the time because it wasn't something in the future. It was something in the present. How did he reach such a level? because he lived his life by this amma. This was his life. This was his life goal. This is the way he lived from the beginning of his life. That's all he did. As we all know, when he learned the alabet, right, from 40 years old, he was able to pull himself up from sitting in a classroom with young children. And how was he able to do it? Everybody knows the famous ma with the rock and the drips of water that were dripping on top of the rock until he saw it made a hole. And he said, "If it can make a hole in the rock, it can make a hole in my heart." What's the shot? Very nice. It's a nice muscle. You know, it can go up on a guitar anytime she. But how is he being able to make a change to actually go ahead and do it and pull over in 24 years straight without any break to be able to do it just from a rock? Because he saw the future in the present. He saw right now the hole in his heart. He saw the metamorphosis in the present. He didn't see it in the future. He saw it right now. Everything. And that's how he always was when he told his incredible wife Rael that if I had the money, I would buy you a shim. I would buy you a beautiful penant on top of a crown on top of your head because you are an incredible queen that is supporting me. You know, many husbands say that, but do they really mean it? Come on. You know, like I always say, we always I always tell my wife when we walk into a jewelry store, this is all yours. Just make sure to put it back when you're finished. Very nice. We feel very present and try to be very, you know, as they say for again to be nice and try to try to sound big. But felt it right now. If I had the money and eventually he did buy it for her, I'm going to give you everything in the present. He lived not with a not even a ama became a part of the present. It was living it in the and it made a change. And if you go through all the gar that describe, it's the same theme. Everybody knows the gar in the end of Mak of course where they saw all the rabbanim over there. They all saw the shaleim the foxes going out of bet mikdash and they said oh a place where no one was allowed to walk into the kesh kadosha but now foxes are around there and they heard the Romans who were calling away and were crying out in the and they were all crying and crying and rabbi was laughing look I understand don't rub it in what are you laughing about I understand you want to say you're not crying but why laughing because Rabika said that the same sukim which described the destruction of the beta mikdash is where it says immediately afterwards he saw in the ashes of the mikdash he saw the zakim that were sitting there now he wasn't just intellectually understanding it's we're going to get there one day with tears in his eyes and a passion and giving over a good druss and a shir speaking about it he was living he saw this he saw the elderly people and the kids playing over there he saw the built on the ruins of the ashes of the beta mikdash he presently was able to see everything that was standing on top of it when he saw those foxes that the robotim were crying about he said no I actually see the people who are in place of those foxes he physically saw it and that's why it wasn't just he was able to say don't worry it's going to be okay give a pat on the back give a little bit of empathy and we'll be all right it was a feeling of laughing of the gar says he laughed he was smiling he was enjoying himself It was incredible. And that's what they said immediately after doesn't say to that you you will give us in the future. Now you gave us we see it now. You're teaching us to look and see it in the present not to see it as afterwards. The gra in the famous gra everybody knows the gra with that says you should always see the good in everything. We know the mice over there. He had a candle. He had a chicken. He had a donkey. They all died. And as a result of that, he ended up getting saved because there were a bunch of bandits that were around and they weren't able to spot Rebi Aka. And that's what he tells us. Always remember this cl that I'm telling you to always understand that there's good in the future. Because if you realize that the future is good, you'll appreciate it in the present. Right now, you'll be satisfied. It's not that you'll be itching and I'll do it. I can get there. No, he was content right now. He was completely in a state of bliss presently. It wasn't something about the future was something about the present. That's the incredible level of Rabbi Babatra and went to again that evil man who was out to get asked him if Hashem loves your poor people then what's the problem? Why are they poor? Why can't he give them a little bit? Why can't he flip them a bill? Why can't he give them a little bit of money? And Rebeika answered him so successly. He said, "In order to take theim out of Ghanum, he saw the to in order to help the rich people that that take care of the anem in order to help them out. He saw what's going to happen to them presently. He saw that the ani is happy right now with his situation. The poor person is happy with the situation because he's going to have a tremendous amount of a tremendous amount of merit because he's getting other people to the highest of levels. And lastly, another Garan Sanhedrin and Kufalif when the Rebezzer was on his deathbed and all the Tomim were crying in the beginning in the first Gar says he was sick and he had he was going through tremendous pain and his couldn't look at him anymore and they were having so much trouble seeing it. Rebea did it again. He laughed. Mitsah, come on. There's a there's a there's a limit to everything. your Reb's in pain. He's in anguish. What are you laughing about? How can you do that? It doesn't make any sense. Doesn't make any sense. But you know what Rebika said over there? He they said, "Why are we cry?" He said, "Why are you crying?" He said, "Because we see a safer that's burning in front of us." And he says, "And that's why I'm happy because I see all the oil this man is about to get." Until now, it could be everything was pleasant and fantastic for him. Who knows what's in store from upstairs, but now when I see such an incredible person and he's going through this type of sar, wow, this is fantastic. Think about where he's going to be getting to. In other words, I don't think we can do this. And I don't recommend when you start going to a shiva house to start laughing. Do me a favor. Or when you start doing borim to start giving a little bit of a chuckle. That's not what's recommended unless you're Rebecca. Rabbi Aka now saw what this man what Rebel Lazar was in store for when they were busy telling Reb when they were busy telling Rebel Lazar as the command continues and they were saying you're like our parents you're like the sun you're like the moon you're so fantastic Rebel Lazar you saved us you're the best statement was so fantastic are you because he says because the I know that you're going to be able to get to the highest places it's going to lead you to places that you could never have gone before and Ka was consistent because when he was going through he smiled and he ended up with Israel. Why is why did he end with why is he the motto of because he saw the past present and future all in one is not bound by time. He's not limited by time. And a person who lives with the of hem is so happy. He sees everything. He sees the success. He's willing to give up everything with a smile. These are our maluim. These are the ones who are over the lines in Aza and even though they've been going through very treacherous and intrepid and difficult times, but they're willing to be moes just like we've done for many generations for one time because we all know that what we're getting in the future is here in the present. We see it with a glee in our eyes. We could see it ever presently in front of us. The fantastic beauty of a bar standing there and us all chanting and pointing to in the middle in the middle of the circle and all together we all say it should come soon. Amen.