Condensed Version - Israel At War: It’s Up To Us

if you follow the history of Any Nation it basically has a cycle it starts off as a little tribes eventually they unite under a central government and have a golden age and then there's Civil War and they start fighting each other and uh eventually they fall apart and are conquered by a larger civilization larger Empire this happened to the Babylonians it happened to the Greeks happened to the Persians and happened uh to Every Other Nation the Romans it happened to the Jewish people too we start out as tribes we reached a golden age under doid and schlomo right after that Civil War we split in half constant battles until we finally disintegrated and we're conquered by Babylonia and that was the end nadet ended the Jewish Nation the Jew Jewish Empire it was over the miracle of the Jews is that we came back why because during the perm story we recommitted ourselves toes and to the Torah yeah um we reestablished the Torah stronger than we did at har and we came back and we built another Bas to make Deion we built another country built another and we true to our mission until we didn't remain true to our mission and then we were destroyed by the Romans and then we reappeared in bille and we reached you know the period of the great yeshivas then B was destroyed and so they made their way to Spain and Spain had the golden error then it disintegrated fell apart and this has been the story of the Jews throughout history but we keep reappearing you know why because at some point we wake up and we say okay what does it mean to be a Jew what does it mean to be a Jew that's a that's that's an important question and if we stop being Jews so two stories one story I heard from David lucens when he was the Jewish Affairs advisor to Senator Patrick moan he tells the story um Patrick moan the Irish Senator came to meet with Shimon Perez to thank him for supporting ASA Torah fellowship program the Irish Catholic is thanking the Jewish minister for supporting a Torah program and jimz told him I'll always support any program that teaches about Judaism and I'll tell you why he says when I was young I joined the Communist party and the Zionist party I was a communist Zionist I was going to come to Israel and make a make a Jewish State based on communist principles the early labor party was basically Comm they they celebrated Mayday and everything that's why in in when they had the UN vote for the partition Russia and all of the war or pack countries voted in favor of Israel because they were sure it was going to be a communist country he says so someone brought me to the and he said to me go to Israel and build your state but just remember you can't have a Jewish State without Judaism he says' and the older I get the more I realize that me and my friends were wrong and that old Rabbi was right you can't have a Jewish country without Judaism yeah that's Story number one story number two is after the Yip War Ario shiron came to America and he was speaking around and he spoke in my school Hebrew Academy of Nasa County he spoke in Hebrew so most people had no idea what he was saying to be perfectly Frank but he kept throwing in this phrase AAL I'm not religious but I'm not religious but fine so uh I had a friend at the time who uh was above average intelligence yeah and he had uh he had become uh very religious and this rankled him so when it came time for the question and answer he answered in English because he wanted to make sure that all the students could hear he said general what gave us the right to take this land away from the Arabs who were living there AR was surprised by the question it said t that this land was given to us by to was given by God to AB is and yob he said well if your uh claim to the land is based on the Torah how could you say I how could you say I'm not religious well everybody understood that this was a affront to this General who was a war hero right Fel was saying okay let's just you know end the questioning now you know and everybody was y telling they don't know what to do you know and above the fry RAB yakob whale my rebi who was Mar me his voice was booming above everybody else's saying let him answer let him answer finally everything quiets down and he gave the following answer there is no answer to explain why we fulfilled this dream of coming back to the land of Israel Herzel who had no connection to Judaism when they offered him Madagascar he was just as happy to take Madagascar he didn't care he didn't see any particular connection to Israel per se because he didn't have any connection to Judaism so you just want a country take that country no difference yeah but if you claim that I write to the land is because of the Torah Mission and per Mish there were 10 Generations from to to teach you how much patience God has all the generations came and made him angry till he brought the flood there were 10 generations to show you how much patience God has now it should end with some terrible destruction so Abraham came and got everyone's reward which means Noah was not able to save his generation from the flood he couldn't do it Abraham did what Noah couldn't do he save the world he managed to bring it back together the Kaz say like a tailor sews two pieces of cloth together he sewed together sh he managed to bring back together the connection between the world and God no couldn't do that he saved himself he saved his family but he couldn't but he couldn't save the generation I was able to save everybody he was able to become the new source of creation as the Torah says beib mix up the letters and it says Abraham Abraham was able to save the world and recreate it what does that mean that means when you watch Society disintegrate you get a choice you could be Noah or you could be a you can save yourself or you can save your generation now I'm not here to judge Noah it's a it's a [Music] mad was he sadic only in his generation and in ab's generation he would not have counted for anything it's interesting that at the door when they were building Mig both abrah and Noah was there and abah was called AB I because he was on one side and the whole world was on the other side but it doesn't say anything about Noah he wasn't even a player so uh so when you have a situation like that you have to ask yourself okay what happens now who am I going to be we are watching a disintegration of society that is incomprehensible and here inel the level of hatred towards religion hard to remember when it was so hateful now okay the early Zionist there were a lot of them uh mosha Dian The Six Day War war hero his parents on the kabut used to hang a loaf of bread outside of their door in pesak you okay but for the most part PES was PES shabas was sh they weren't fighting for public transportation they understood chabas is shabas yam Kipper even secular Jews wouldn't drive on yum Kiper they understood yum Kiper at a certain thing and now we see people attacking people who are ding on yum Kipper we see people attacking people who are just trying to be religious what happened where's our generation now be perfectly clear and that's one of my problems you know is that sometimes you know there are these people who have figured out how to make money off of my podcast I haven't but you know they'll take little clips of mine and they'll put it up and they'll get 50 sponsors and make a you know make thousands of dollars I don't get anything out of it but anyway but it'll take a little clip and the problem when you take a little clip is it's out of context you don't know what's going on so someone might just take that little clip and say oh R lowski is saying is because the second the people are attacking the religious that's why this is happening no I'm not saying that when people came to the brisar RV in the early years of the state and were complaining about the Zionist and complaining about the uh uh the nonreligious he said why you looking at them that that they're not the issue yonah Hani is on a boat surrounded by o AAR and we know that AAR makes God angry and there's this big storm they're trying to figure out why it's happening and yon says it's not do with you people it's only because of me who do you think a KES bar is looking at at this moment only us there's a story that apparently is welln I only heard it today but apparently it's welln that's someone said to you should DAV because there was a you know a Jewish kid on a bicycle who got hit uh you know got hit in the road he's there now because can't be says no look look he's this this kid with yam is lying in the street because it can't be so they go out and it's some Hispanic who stole the yamaka from a Jewish kid he used to go around and steal the yamas from Jewish kids I was wearing it as I was riding his bicycle M said no Jewish kid could get hit from a bicycle outside of my window you think I would let that happen if an accident happens it's it's because of me I could stop it if something like this happens there's no place to look other than ourselves I'm not looking at anybody else this is a tragedy the likes of which we have not seen in 40 years Yer War happened on y Kipper this happened on shatas it's devastating devastating so what do we do so what do we do I heard people saying the following and giving a whole on that it doesn't help over here because this is not asov this is yes this is yes sh explained that when you go up against yesma yesma is coming with two weapons one is in his name yes God will hear his voice they dve it went to a gas station here and there was a Mas behind the coke I just wanted to pay I couldn't pay because he was had his little prayer rug and he was you know doing his y could five times you know he was doing he didn't care he's going to do we have to be M our daving because they're doing you bet that they're doing and uh if they doing better than us so when we fight asov we're have an advantage because we're coming with two different tools but here we're coming with the same tool that's number one number two is the of is mes isal says to Y ah big deal you had your bris at eight days you had nothing to say about it it's not so painful I had mine at 13 and Y has to respond if Hashem asked for my entire body I would give it to him and that in fact is what led to Aus Y where the Jewish people had to show y we have more mysterious neph than you one of these Arab terrorists said eventually we're going to win this war because we're willing to die for what we believe in and you're not willing to die anymore you're tired you had enough you don't care it's the level of M nefesh how much we're willing to put in how much we care that's going to determine the outcome of the battle with is so two things we clearly have to be M ourselves in is when it comes TOA and how seriously we take our Judaism my son was at a kenis at the Mir and they said the following this is what the r the Mir said in J they said the kazal tell us that when chabas is rashash it's going to be a bad year why because uh we didn't blow chauffeur and when we blow chauffer and rashash moves from the KE to the he moves from the Throne of judgment to the throne of mercy so if you don't have that in a year where you don't blow chauffeur so uh so he says what we need to do isas so they start the early and they're doing so if you knowas you know they they skipped their head to the shabas and uh they're going to be having different people speaking about chabas and learning shabas and there's always going to be a group in the Bas medes doing H shabas so we can for sure for ourselves be our shabas shabas you know after all the holidays you know we had shabas R we had shabas shabas had shaba now we have shabas shabas veras the first regular chabas all the regular stuff is there let's take this shabas and make sure that we put our shabas to the point but understand nothing like this happens for no reason unless you don't believe in God if you say why did God do this then you're assuming that there's something to do between us and if you don't okay so it's just they were smart they they practice they they made an attack nothing to do with anything but if we're believing Jews then we understand nothing happens for nothing and when you take a look and we said uh you know in in the who this year is going to die by fire and who by water and who by by by sword who's going to be captured who's going to be uh abused and oppressed and all the terrible things that take place when you when you see all of this taking place it's time for us to beaz ourselves and to strengthen ourselves because at the end of the day there's nobody else to look at there's nobody there's just me I'm the only one in this world who can take responsibility for what's going on there's nobody doing for me there's nobody to solve this problem it's going to be us every one of us in our own life are going to look down and say I'm going to become that Jew that can stand up to yile Mya and my nees and I'm going to take the ofab and I'm going to use that ofis to be able to get us closer to nothing can make up for the terrible losses we've had hundreds dead thousands wounded it's it's mindboggling you know and when you talk about wounded you know you're talking about people losing limbs losing is who knows what terrible terrible things on us and if we come out of this tragedy stronger and better people to be able to make the world a better place that we're going to try to do the best we can in our own lives to solve this divide between the religious and the irreligious between the non-believers and the Believers by showing them how strong we are salant told the boys when they were learning iniva learn shark so that the Jews in France don't end to marry means that if you learn Stark in your base Mees the Ripple effects will be such that at least there'll be enough sense of Judaism that nobody's going to into marry so that's what we have to do we have to work on ourselves and make ourselves so strong that people will look at the firm community and say yeah those are the people who are living the lives that make a difference and that's we will have uh Yeshua and a victory