From Nine to Ten (Ep. 290)

Hi, this is David Alaski and welcome to the Rabelki show. And whether you're watching with our friends over at tour anytime, our new producers, or wherever you watch or listen to your podcast, as always, we're happy to have you along for the experience. Uh we have a sponsorship this week and uh it's a very special sponsorship if I say so. Dear Relowski, thank you Rob for everything that Rob does and for all his shurum and podcasts. I'm going to interrupt this at at the moment to tell you about a phone call I got from someone in Tom's River, which is for those who don't know, it's just outside of Lakewood. Phil calls me up and he says, "I have to thank you. I've been meaning to make this phone call for a long time to thank you for your sharam. I drive from Tom's River to Brooklyn. I listen to your shirum. I get a tremendous physic from it and uh I um I just wanted to uh to you know thank you so much for it and I'm sure that I'm representing hundreds of people who feel the same way just never got around to calling you. He says, "But the real reason I'm calling is because I met someone in T River who told me that he had a very bad experience in the system." And he went off to Derek and he says, "And even though he wasn't keeping anything, he listened to your he says, and then he heard you tell a story. Full disclosure, I don't remember this. I don't remember it. I was telling it over at uh at my table and my son says I remember this. I remember what had happened. So that's that's enough adus for me. And the fact that I don't remember something is not such a a raya but uh says um I uh uh I I heard on Reilki say on the tape that these two girls came to the door on a Friday night. We were already in our suda and they forgot where their suda was. They didn't know where they were going and uh I they probably told me the name. I looked it up uh in the book, but they must have been renting. The name wasn't there. I said, "Okay, so you'll stay here." They joined us for the suda. Now, I've done things like this before. That's why it didn't obviously make such an impression on me. Anyway, apparently, as the story goes, in the middle of the sh of the suda, the balabos managed to find them and said, "I'm sorry for the whole mixup. You know, please come come to us now." I said, "Listen, they're already sitting. They're at the suda. You'll take them next week. You know, they're here already. You know, we we don't want to let them go." And uh and this fellow said when he heard that, he said, "Never in my life did I ever feel like I was wanted and that anybody wanted me." And so he went off to came back and he's from today and uh I don't remember the story but it's not out of character. Let's just say I'm used to I'm used to uh you know doing things like that which I don't even think twice about. So um so when you say this uh it reminded me of that story but this is the part that found even more interesting. I'm one of those who when I discovered the Rav Shirum and podcast went back and watched any and all of the Rav Shirum that I could find online going back as far as possible. We're almost up to 300 episodes. So, uh that's Miss Snapfish person. Really, you know, you deserve a plaque for that. And if we ever make merch, I'll send you a plaque. I would like to sponsor the episode whose yard site is on tishav. So this will be coming out before tish. So this should be aus for them all the learning that we do in the thank you again. May there continue to be Marv's and give and inspiration to many more people may and beyond with health, happiness and all good things. And may we be to see Msiah from a absolutely and uh you know it's not too late this tich we can uh we can make it into a uh into a yontiff in the time of the basa mikdash a tishb was celebrated as a yontiff and uh and mashem I like that a lot better I like that a lot better than the way it's going. So this is uh this is our video for the nine days and um I I wanted to try to put the nine days into a perspective because nine is a very important number in Yahadus. Um nine is just before 10. Okay, that's that's how much of a kadesh. What do I mean by that? means that in the ones column B giml all of those are the ones column they represent individual things once you get to 10 and if you look in base 10 how it works it means that you have a single digit and now you move over to two digits you have one and a zero that's a new mitus and that's called making a sibra that sib is 10 people. It's very important point to remember meaning that um you can go to uh the sashas and um the last sashas if you watch very very closely you can see in the video of sham around the world there's two seconds of me I mean it's literally two seconds but I think that really made the whole evening ing for many people. I give a dy. I give a dy every morning here in Harno. There are people who come from America every now and then and stop in and uh and I also give one online um that I been giving since we started in Brahas this cycle but um uh you know tens of thousands of people come to David the first 10 people bring the and that's why which represents the three letters is that come to meet it in the opposite direction is melik because once you have a seabore then you have a melik and 10 people make a seabore and that becomes complete that's whole and it doesn't matter what you add on to it they're joining the seabore I don't know if you've ever had this experience I've had this experience many times you uh go to a shaw and you're waiting for a minion Now in many sh this is not an issue but uh let's say you're diving in one of these where it's a pickup minion you know it's not necessarily at a set time so you start off uh you know three four people you're waiting you're waiting yeah you get up to seven eight you know what I mean as soon as you hit 10 and you start ashray from three people walk in the door and it happens many times I've seen this because they weren't to bring the they weren't to be part of the first 10 who create the minion create and then it doesn't matter what you add on to it I heard once from Shapro and I don't know what the source is I think it's anal but I'm not positive so don't quote me I'm sure uh my fact checkers out there will give me the correct source yeah malimage What's what is that lion? King, king of kings. Why don't you say? So said that there's three types of there's 10 people, there's 100 people, and there's a thousand people. And those are the only numbers, right? From one to 10, the ones column, right? That's not a sib. But you come to 10. When you go from 10, you move up to 100. You go up to 100, you move to a th00and that's the last number is alf. What about reava? Right. Yeah. Reavvice just means a lot. So the number that's associated with it is 10,000. But 10,000 is not the number. The last number is alf. And that obviously brings you back from the beginning to the end. You start with alf and you go to alf. Obviously there's a relationship between those two. So mel over 10 over 100 over a thousand that's it that's as much that's as much as we count to thousands and uh when we use 10,000 very interesting the maharal says the number that represents this world not total schlamus to schlamus in this world is six and that's why when we came out of mitzv we were 600,000 so we had the ones column the hundreds column and the thousand's column column but just to get in the 10 column we sometimes say shishim rebi so we can get in the 60 yeah to get in the tens but those are the only ones that are there so uh 10 is 10 is where we reach a level of completion uh the za kadesh says that yakov was yud which is schlamus all the way down to is Avlete. So that's the number 10 is complete. That's the end. Uh it's very interesting. The number that represents Asov is the number 11. And the reason for this is as you can see in his confrontation with Yakov where Yakov encouraged him to take this gift And he says, "Take it." I have everything. I mean, I I'm not anything. I have everything. And as says, "I have more than everything." Like the say everyone who adds actually takes away because there's two ways to destroy schlamas. You could take away some of it. Take a bite out of the out of the kala beforehand. So it's not a shal or you could add to it and by adding destroy the schlamus what I describe as the mustache on the Mona Lisa. You didn't help. You didn't make it better by adding on that extra thing. Yeah. when uh home computers first came out. So uh they would have these programs where you could um make a flyer a dot matrix printer and you could pick all different types of fonts and all different sizes and people would make a flyer would come out looking like a hostage note. You know what I mean? They would each line they would take a different font, a different size. It's too much you're adding. Now the the more you're adding to it, the worse it is. I have a friend of mine, Shalom Cat, who's also a caterer. I was learning with him and he comes in and he's gmeted. He says, "What's the matter?" He says, "I catered a last night. It was a high-end And I bought um prime beef roasts and I roasted them till they were just medium pink on the inside, just the way it should be. And you know, I was planning on serving them. And when it came time to put out the main course, I couldn't find the roasts. They were all gone. So I asked the worker, "What was it? What happened to my rose?" He goes, "Oh." I started to slice it up and I saw it wasn't cooked. So, I boiled up a big pot of water and I dumped them all in to boil them some more. Yeah. And he was if you're if you know food, you get very emotional about food. Food is like, you know, you take it where it gets just medium, you know. Uh my son Schlommo who was on the show runs a runs a business called Schlime's Meats where he smokes meats and makes different types of things you know and uh he's got all kinds of fancy thermometers and things and measure everything that it should be just right. He has a uh a uh timer on his smoker with a remote control to be able to monitor it to make sure that it's just the right amount. And if you overcook it, so that's it. You destroyed a good piece of meat, you know. Uh that's what I do all the time because I eat my meat well done. Um I uh I that's how I grew up. That's how Jews always ate their meat, you know. Um my father used to say he was a florist he used to work with caterers you know he says the hardest thing for a Jewish caterer is how to come up with 400 end pieces because everybody wants the end piece because that's the one that's cooked the most and that's how Jews like it you know Jews never used to eat medium certainly not rare this was this was uh you had it well done if you were a little more modernish medium well but but My children eat their meat and it's still mooing. Walks around the table, you know. It's a it's a different uh it's a different thing alto together, you know. So, you know, there's a certain point beyond which it's no longer that pink that medium and it starts to get well done and that's it. It's it's lost it. And uh um my daughter Mindy, you know, so she's here now. uh she's going back to uh to to her cure of work on NYU campus uh and she has students here now she brought a trip so she's still doing followup but while she's here so she makes a whole shabas very very gishik you know she bakes kalas and she makes all kinds of things and one of the things she does is she makes mediumbboiled eggs I know how to make hardboiled eggs you take the water and you put the eggs in. You boil them for a very long time and they come out and they're hard boiled. Yeah. I know to make softboiled eggs, you put them in, you take them out while they're still raw. But medium is a very careful timing to be able to get it just right so that they're cooked just enough without being soft boiled or hard boiled to get them to medium boiled. And that's a big treat. Most of us can't manage that. That's uh that kind of timing. Yeah. But um uh you uh you cook it more. So this guy thought he was doing a great thing and uh my friend Sham didn't think so. He didn't find it that it was called you could see it. You know the the more you do it, it doesn't become it doesn't become better, you know. Um, it's the nine days and uh I just made a lasagna and uh I haven't given a recipe in a long time. I don't think I've ever gave my own lasagna recipe. I don't know how to recreate this exactly in America because I've been making it here in Israel for so long. Um, I take uh eight containers of 9% ca cheese. I mix in a bag of grated cheese. I add some salt and pepper and dried parsley. Mix it all in together. I boiled lasagna noodles. I don't use the Israeli lasagna noodles, those ones that are like short and triangle. They have to be American lasagna noodles. And uh sometimes you can't get them here. So I was just in England. Project Inspire is starting in England. It was really a fab fabulous thing to see. um YTK Sandler and I Samson um are trying to start project inspire which I'm sure most of us are familiar with which is an organization that inspires from people to go out and do kirv so they're trying to start it up in England and uh um so I had this of walking up and down the streets of Edgewear um in the pouring rain on Chabas speaking in many many different places. In the end, we did a program on Sunday night. Sunday morning, I spoke in Hasminian. I spoke for Torah Way, which is an organization there. In between, I got to spend time with my good friend, the Frankles. I first started going to England maybe 35 years ago. and Danny Kersh, one of the legends of Kir Vokim and particularly in England who had started the JLE uh placed me there in Henden and I had this to have a cash with them to these to this day. So, we got together and then went to Dav M and on the way back I stopped off from Gurinsk's bakery to buy some gingerbread cookies for my uh children, my grandchildren. And um and uh and Michael Franco pointed out. He says, "See that supermarket? They have everything." I said, "Really? Cuz there's two things I can't find in Let's see if they have them here. American cheese. I wouldn't think they have American cheese in in England. And lasagna noodles." And they had both of them. I brought them back. So I made a lasagna in his Yeah. So um so I that's my filling. I boil them up and I have to make sure I have the filling ready and the pans ready because as soon as I pour them out, pour a little cold water on them and then I can put them right into the pans so that they don't stick. And so I spray a little oil on the pan, I lay up the noodles, and then I take tomato paste. In America, I never use tomato paste, but here basically they only have tomato paste. So, uh, avanote there really tomato paste and I put that over the noodles and I put in filling and then I put another layer of noodles and then more sauce and then more filling. Another layer of noodles and then I put sauce on top and I sprinkle cheese on top. Bake it in the oven for as much time as you need so that it doesn't get too well done. And I don't know. I've never timed it. You have to keep checking it. And me, of course, with my memory, every now and then my wife will say, "Were you supposed to take out the lasagna?" And very often it was too late. I mean, it was it was still edible, but it wasn't like it was supposed to be. It was a little too well done. You have to try to take it out just before. I have the same experience. Uh Friday night, um we made the breaded chicken. And it's my wife's recipe. She found it many years ago. Basically, you take the chicken and you rub it with um mayonnaise top to bottom. And then you um take a cup of matzam and 1/4 cup of onion soup mix. Mix it up together and you sprinkle it on the top and on the bottom. You cover it and you bake it and you take it out before it's too well done. Especially because you end up heating it up for for shabas. And if it gets too well done, then it's it's not tasty. Has to be just juicy enough. Last week, it came out perfect. I took it out too early for me, you know. So, when you take it out too early, it was just enough. So, those are two people have complained. I haven't given recipes in a while. Gosh, if you're going to just keep talking to you, you might as well call this a shir already instead of a show. That's how that's how it came about. Those of you, you know, my uh my sponsor for this week obviously remembers that show where I said it's a it's a show, not a shar, you know, because I I said I'm going to give recipes. So, um so that that takes it out from the realm of of a shir although when I do give shimm I also give recipes. So have to have to uh have to share. But um uh but the uh the point is that all these things are misog assuming that you're like my children. Um and uh all these kind of things. So you didn't add to it. You have to stop. You have to stop at a certain point. Shakai the name Hashem Shakai said to the universe enough too much is not good. Yeah. And the da is that rain is a braha m is not and therefore you have to know that too much of a good thing. I always think of that when it's raining and someone says to me a little rain never killed anybody. I said I don't know. I'm remembering the dar marble and I don't think it do too well for them. So, so yeah, maybe a little rain never killed anybody, but a lot of rain does. Yeah. Uh, so, so the uh the idea is that too much is not a braha. Too much is I read an article in Scientific America about a book that came out called Twinkie Deconstructed. For my firm audience who may not be familiar, um there is a uh commercial baked good place called Hostess. You might be familiar with Drakes, which has an OU. You might be familiar with Entimments, which has an OU. Hostess does not. It's one of the holdouts, but still. And one of the things they make is a Twinkie, which is basically this kind of yellow cake with filling inside of it. And someone put out a book called Twinkie Deconstructed and explains what goes into it. Now, this to me was mindblowing. One of the things they add in is butter flavoring. And this chemical which gives it the butter taste is toxic. They when they open up the the container, they're wearing hazmat suits. And you have to add just a tiny amount. With a tiny amount, cuz you add too much, it's toxic. You'll die. It's poison. A tiny tiny little amount. Yeah. I remember um I uh when I go to America before Pesak, I try to buy some of the Pesak treats that you can't get here. And one of the things I bought was jello koshula pesak with splendor diet diet jello. So there was a fellow there who was one of the head mashkim for the Reuben's hashkah. He said to me splend I know that there are people who are uh mocked about certain of these uh things neutrie like that that they hold it might be a kid derivative but but splendor I never heard that and I and it has a good ashka on the jello Um, it was kind of strange. Anyway, I go home and I look at it and then I notice that there's a kosher for Pesak with a Reuben's hashkah on RC cola diet RC cola and it says with splendor. So I bring it into him and I said if splendor is how are you giving hashka on this? He said I'll look into it. And he came back and he told me all of the diet RC that is made in all of Israel. Yeah. Is this much if you're listening instead of watching. Oh, it's the size of like um a tomato sauce can. Yeah. That's how much Splendor is used for everything. It is so highly concentrated. Therefore, when you have a Splendor packet, there's m of splendor and the rest of the powder is all filler and it's the powder that's I found that fascinating. So um uh so but and everybody knows this you know there's an expression in English when you feel like someone's being mlin or you're over the top say it's saccharine sweet. Yeah. If you take an extra spoonful of sugar, it doesn't come out the same way as if you take an extra, you know, little tablet of saccharine or another packet of it. It changes the whole taste of the uh of of whatever you're doing. It gets over the top of ga. So that's why the way Asv takes away from the Schlamus is by adding on. That's why he's 11. So when we bring the we bring 10 nice smelling um spices and then we add in which smells bad. That 11th represents Asov and the other 10 all work together to cancel him out and the contrast comes out making it smell better. But that's the bad smelling number 11. Uh or uh the um the top of the Mishkun was made with these 10 pieces of beautiful embroidery with pictures, colorful, and that went on top of the Mishkun. Nobody could see it unless you went inside the Mishkun. And the only one who went inside the mishkun was the coain who cleaned out the monora. The coin who lit the manora. The coain who once a week switch the upon him. And the person who in the morning the evening brought the uh and the otherwise you didn't you didn't go into the to the mishkan. So nobody could see it. On top of it went this covering of goat skins and it completely covered it. There were 11 pieces of goat skins because seir is seen as a sign of evil. So when it saysim the goats were dancing, it's referring to um it's really referring to uh demons. So it's not by chance that um that as went to har. Yeah, he it's it represents Asov and that's why there are 11 pieces to cover it up to protect it from from Asov. And that's why it's interesting the 11th child that Yakov has as soon as he's born he says to love now I want to go home as now the one who will destroy Asov has been uh born that's Yoseph why because Yoseph is the of in a positive way he can add more things to the of without taking away from it, if you will. A little kala roll is a shame and a big bar mitzvah is a shame. They're both shal. There's just more of it. That's the kayak of yose to be able to be most on it. That's why um we know Abraham made shak and made min and yakov made. But you know that there's what's called the shiva ro which most of us probably know as the ushisen and these seven individuals also represent the lower seven spherus gvures and malus. So is Abraham and Gur is and is Yakov. They made Shak and then Nets and Hod is Mosha and Aon. Moshe made as a set up like a like a there's a a kadesh then you say it in the end there's a kadeshel. Yeah. And Aron made and Melik made and Yoseph made Mosf the extra offering the additional offering and that's why Yoseph is actually the star of Paras Pinas because Pinas gets added on to the kahuna. Why? Because he's Ben Putout. So they were making fun of him. Putil is Yro who fetted cows to a vodor. But Rashi in Vira says Putio could also be Yoseph who controlled his ters. And because of the coak of Yoseph Pinhusk was able to be added on could be Mov to the Kahuna. The manos who come from Anasha who comes from Yoseph add a para into the Tory. By the way, there's another para that's added in by Pesak Sheni. That's because the Garra says they were tummy because they were carrying atmospheres Moshe to put his hand on Yoshua's head and he puts two hands on. He's Moses and Yahosua is of course from Ephraim from Yoseph. So the ability to be able to add on the core Mosa. So 10 is 10 is complete. And that's why we very seldom access those top three spheres. We mostly work in the seven lower spheres. Right? They correspond to parts of the body. Is your right arm and gur is your left arm and your chest is your right leg is net. Your left leg is hod. The muk of the brisma is your and woman is malus. That's why malus is always in the feminine. Shabas malasa. Yeah. It's a it's it's a feminine manifestation because it's Macabo from all the others. That's of course the Mugan Dovid. We could have made a seven-pointed star, but we don't. We make a six-pointed star. And the hexagon that's formed in the middle is Malus. It's Mabo from all of the other ones. That, by the way, is uh how the Arrial set up the Seda plate like a mug. Yeah. to get in all the different spheres that these things represent. But um uh so those are the bottom seven ones and that's how we usually work. The extra three that's usually outside of this world. Now we know this by the number eight. Eight is always outside of this world. Anytime you find the number eight. Yeah. Uh eight days of Khan, it's outside of the normal functioning of the world. Um the eighth month uh which is outside doesn't have any holidays. It's it's it's a special time. We don't do anything. Seven days we use a lul and suka and then anmin nothing. We count seven days seven times and we come to the 50th day which is like the eighth after all the sevens and there's nothing on if we didn't have a minute of staying up all night and eating milk. There'd be nothing on because eight is outside of this world and certainly nine and certainly 10. Yeah, that's it. That's as far as we go. But only on rare occasions do we access 8 n and 10. And that's why everyone knows the famous vort on para's bow. And that is that bow bamatria is three because there are three macakos in para's bow. Somebody pointed out bow is the first two letters of the name of that para. Okay, that's that's that's you know that's that's a little bit of a stretch because there are only two letters but okay that's paras vira the first two letters equals seven and there are seven macos there but is it by chance that there were seven in one para and three in the other not by chance it's because we always make it seven and threeu is promised 10 lands and we get seven of them. Three we will get Mashiach. So the the 10 is often divided up in the seven three. The rose created with 10 expressions in seven days. So I I showed you how this lower seven spherus represent parts of the body. The upper three are called the left brain, the right brain and the skull. Yeah, and that's the that's the upper three. We very seldom are able to access those. uh sarasmecha is one example where we move into uh that highest realm and then we mameish reach the level of kesser and go into the kosha kadoshim that's also the idea of kaduca's hay when it says there are 10 levels of kaduca and the final one is the kosha kadoshim it also says assuren there are 10 different levels and the Last levels are Israel, Lei, Cohen, Cohen. The Cohen who is the 10th Yikas on the 10th day yum kipper goes in the 10th low of kadusha to the kosha kadoshim and that is completely out of this world. That's why yum kiper is completely out of this world. Doesn't it doesn't play by any of the rules and uh otherwise chuva can never work. Chuva is completely out of this world. And that's why when is explaining that added in but he says not with it's a it's beyond everything. So you move outside of that. So that's the relationship between the nine and the 10. Nine is the maximum number of uh pieces. I said oo ah oo ah. I said oo ah oo ah. I said who knows nine. I know nine. Nine is the months before a baby is born. After we sing we sing the English version from uh from uncle Moshi. I think I asked Uncle Moshi once where he got that from and he said they sang it in NCSY. I don't know where it originally came from. I'm sure my uh fact checkers out there will let me know. But um nine of the months before baby is born. If you think about that, that means the baby is born in the 10th month because you have to finish the ninth month and then the baby is born because um I don't know if you remember this when they would sometimes advertise toys and they'd say some assembly required. So you're going to have a baby. Some assembly required. We got to gather together all the body parts and all the internal organs and all the cells. We got to put everything in the right place. We got to put this thing together until we end up with a baby. Tada. Babies can survive earlier than that. Um, but as Mr. Wizard said, not recommended. Yeah, it uh it's a a hard hard thing on the baby. The lungs aren't developed, things aren't developed. So, science has reached the point that we can keep babies alive. Hashem, but um but the way it was originally meant is you need 9 months to get everything finished the way it's supposed to be. By the way, call of Gera. If they stay in there too long, then the placenta starts to age and that's not so good for the baby either, you know. And uh and then the baby becomes bigger and bigger and it gets harder to deliver. You know, one of my daughters had a 10 lb baby. She didn't even deliver it. He just climbed out by himself. Hi, it's me. That's tough. Yeah. Anybody remembers the the cartoon Baby Yui? But um uh the um uh the idea is it takes nine months to get all together and the 10th month it's fully made and it comes out. The tisha yamim is period nine days. It's the maximum amount of separation. There is no seabboard. There is no togetherness. Okay. The B mikd was destroyed because of sinus because we hated each other. There was no aus. We were not together. When we're together, we get the Torah. [Music] Actus will bring us together and to be able to give us the power to be able to be successful when we're what did Hmon say? I can destroy the Jewish people. They are and mafuza are spread out. They're not together. They're they're all over the place. He didn't understand that the Jewish people have the ability to come together even when we're spread all over the place. That's the famous story from the Bayis trial where this Jew and Bis was being tried for killing a Christian child for his blood which of course was a blood liel in the classic sense of the word and um uh and they basically put Judaism on trial. They bring all kinds of different khazal and things to show that uh that Jews don't value the lives of non-Jews. And one of the things they brought was you're called and they're not nine Jews are not called. So he says, "You think you don't even think nine Jews are human. So of course you could just kill them." And the Reb answered, "We have a lot of different words for people." Yeah. Um Ben Noah um is adam is a word that implies before man and woman were separated and they were one being they were called. Adam is a lion of together. He says, "Only we're called um Adam." Why? And the Rav looked at the at the crowd and he said, "Because there's a Jew on trial here in Russia and every Jew around the world is trying to help him as best they can, whether they can intercede, pressure their government, davin, give money, whatever they can do to help." If there was a Russian on trial here, how many Russians would care? I remember during operation Moses and oper operation Solomon when Israel went in to save um the Ethiopian Jews um because people were starving in Ethiopia and they airlifted them to Israel. There was criticism. Why are they only saving the Jews? Why don't they save the the Christians and the Muslims? And Israel rightly said, why don't the Christians save the Christians? Why don't the Muslims save the Muslims? Why in the world do you think that only Jews have to save everybody and you have no obligation? Why? Because you don't care about anybody. You don't care about anybody. I heard this story many years ago. try to remember where I heard it from, but um the person who told me the story said like this. He says, "This guy was sitting next to this Israeli guy uh religious guy. He was on an LL flight and he says, "Where you going?" He says, "I'm going to Boston." He says, "Do you have family there?" He says, "No, I've never been to America in my life. I don't have any family there." He says, "Why you go to Boston?" And he points to his son sitting next to him and says, "He has a medical condition that's going to kill him. And they tell me that there's a doctor in Boston who can help him. And I'm taking him to Boston." He says, "Well, how much is the operation going to cost?" Says, "$50,000." He says, "Do you have that kind of money?" He says, "No." He says, 'What are you going to do? I'll worry about it when I get there. Right now, I'm trying to save my son's life. When I get to Boston, I'll try to figure out, you know, to see if I can find someone to give me buddy, help me out. So, the guy says, "Excuse me." And he got up and he walked to the back of the plane and he turned around by the galley, walked up the other side of the plane, went all the way to the front of the plane, turned around, came back. I did $50,000. He attempted to crew them. Yeah. And somebody told me that there was some soldier or police officer, I forgot the story now, who had gotten killed and they set up like a fund for him all around the country and they raised $5,000. I'm a mafur. But Hmon's right. Our enemies know more than we do. Um the more um uh the more that we have separation, the more power they have over us because we're in the nine. Tishb is in the ninth and tishb ends on the 10th because the 10th takes us out of the nine into a new reality where we move beyond it. You can look at tishb from two points of view. Tishb is the day that the basic m was destroyed or tishb was the day that we began to bring msiah. It's the day we began to build the third base of mikdash. And that's why tishb is very strange because they did not set fire to the basa mikdash until the end of the ninth and it burned through the 10th. But already halfway through we get up off the floor. We're sitting on chairs. What what's happening? It hasn't even been set fire to yet is whether you're supposed to celebrate on the 9th or the 10th. But okay, if you're not going to celebrate it on the 10th or commemorate, I should say, if you're not going to commemorate it on the 10th, so at least the whole ninth, it hasn't even been set fire to yet. And the answer is because we're making that transition from the nine to the 10, we're moving over to that extent. The balmtov supposedly gave a if you have nine people and you're waiting for a minion I I guarantee you'll get a tenth. I don't know what his makur was. Maybe it was when Abraham was saying maybe there are 10 sadikim in the town and he said well maybe there's nine and you'll be the 10th you'll be the nine goes into the 10 takes us into a new reality and that's the we have so these are the nine days are the times of period and separation and of pain and mitz hashem we will go from the nine into the 10 and to be able to have that opportunity to be able to experience an Emma and that brings us to the question and answer portion of our program by anonymous. What's your perspective on the protests in Israel about the hostages? Should Netanyahu resign? Should we have new elections? Is there an obvious solution we're not doing? Well, now that uh Tony Time is producing the show and the um and the uh podcast usually comes out the same day we film it. Usually we film it in advance. Um it'll be there. So hopefully I can get my son Yakov to come in and discuss politics. He knows all about politics in Israel. And uh so as of now as you know giml which is auda and tora and shas have left the government. So what's going to happen I don't know. So when you're asking me about the government should we have new elections etc. Um that's a different question visa v the army. Julie Edelstein for some reason has decided to push very heavily now to draft all the yeshiva bakram into the army and this is was not the deal that uh the religious parties made when they came into the government and he's breaking all the agreements and I don't know exactly what his motivations are um but uh but that's the matsus so as far as that goes but before this crisis came along I don't understand the demonstrations accuser You know, I remember Natano many years ago there were these peace protests and he said, "Do you think there's anyone who doesn't want peace?" Everybody wants peace. The only question is, you know, what price do you pay if you pay an existentialistic price? you know, Aba Iban, who was the uh uh the ambassador to the United Nations, um uh called the pre967 lines, borders of Israel, Awitz borders, right? It was guaranteed to destroy a country. The country is only 9 miles wide. How hard is it to destroy a country 9 miles wide? You know, as we saw in ' 67, how close the situation was to becoming desperate? So you think that doesn't want the hostages to come home, right? The only question is after what kamas did. So if you say kamas will say let bygones be bygones, we'll give you back the whichever hostages are still alive. We'll give you the dead bodies. you give us all of the terrorists that you captured and we'll remain in power here in Gaza and catch you next time. You know, right now we're not in a position to attack Israel, but hopefully we'll get resupplied because we'll have control of all the tunnels coming out of Egypt. We'll get more missiles. We'll get more things. We'll get more arms. And then we'll come in and we'll kill another 1,200 of you and capture another 200 of you. It might take us a few years to get it together. So is that the price that you want to pay? So when people say bring them home, it's like anybody saying don't bring them home. Kamas says we're going to release the terrorists. Nah, it's not worth it. You know, we don't want to pay for the bus fair. You know, is anybody saying that? Of course not. The only question is at what price? Natano. Okay, we talked about this under conspiracy theories. If you go back, you'll see for few episodes ago, we talked about conspiracy theories. How could it be that the same Israel which bought a beeper company, managed to sell all these beepers to Hzbollah, set them all off at the same time, didn't know that Hamas was coming in with an army this size, that they were rampaging, that they were unable to pull themselves together? How is it the head of the Mossad the night before Shminyat Seras told Netanyahu, "There's no imminent threats. Don't worry about anything." How come when the attack started, they didn't wake him up and tell him we're under attack? Uh, I'm suspicious. It could be incompetence and it could be that the left knows they don't have the votes. They cobbled together a government by taking the left and some people from the right who the only thing they had in common is they hated Natano and Arab parties and put together this you know this uh uh this shotness taros of all kinds of different things. There was no way it could possibly stay together just to keep out Netanyahu and the whole thing fell apart. So Natano, there is nobody on the world stage. I don't know if there's anybody on the world stage, but certainly nobody from Israel who has that command on the world stage that Zeno has who who has the experience and the leadership that he does. You know, do I trust guns? Absolutely not. Leid, not in the chance. Bennett, forget about it. So who exactly? Lieberman, you know, who who do you think is more competent and capable than Natano? I don't even understand the question, you know. So, with Natano there, I uh I have more trust for him than I do for any of these other people. And the problem is he's fighting the deep state. So, this guy from the Mossad, what he did was unforgivable. And the Supreme Court says, "No, we don't want you to fire him." Says, "What do you mean? He's incompetent. Look at what he did. He's responsible for 1,200 deaths." Yeah, but we don't I've talked about this in the past. You know, there's a They passed a law and the Knesset that the Supreme Court It was only 40 people in the Knesset when they passed it out of 120 because no no day afternoon. Nobody expected this. Yeah. That there's something called the reasonableist clause. Doesn't matter what law you pass. There's no constitution in Israel. The judges can just say, "No, we don't think that's reasonable." No, we don't think it's reasonable for you to fire him based on what? No, we just don't think so. Is there a lawyer basing it on? Nope. Just our own opinion. We don't find it reasonable. And they can stop anything that they don't think is reasonable. I mean, talk about a dictatorship. And the joke is that the left says we're defending democracy. It's the most undemocratic thing that ever. It's totalitarian. It's ridiculous. So, Netanyo has to try to fight. You know, Trump talks about the deep state. Forget about it in Israel. Impossible. It's absolutely impossible. And uh and that's why the first thing he did was try to reform the Supreme Court and people took to the street. And now it turns out that the Biden administration was giving the money for the for the uh demonstrations for USAD. You know, it's unbelievable. But forget about all that. Put all of that aside, you know. Um who's the alternative? And that's why even though the religious parties dropped out of the government, they didn't put up a no confidence vote because who do you want there instead of good but they broke their word etc. So we have no choice. Eden wants to just drag yeshiva Bakram off to prison. One guy in the radio said ah we'll just set up you know prison camps out in the desert and with tents and just send them all there. Who talks this way? What kind of hatred is this? Talking about sin. So, is there an obvious solution we're not doing? You know, when you watch these talk shows, and I don't suggest that you do. They're just horrible. Yeah. Um, there's this English fellow, Piers Morgan, who it's clear is not very bright. He's just not a bright guy. I listen to things he says, they're just not bright. and he's interested in one thing and I heard him say it once bearish he wants clicks. till he'll get some radical Arab and he'll get some Israeli who's willing to come on to his show and anyone who does obviously he's not among the most knowledgeable you know and he just keeps saying genocide genocide you know that and when anybody asks him so what would you do what's your solution no one has any answer kamas came in killed a bunch of people and took our hostages so you say we shouldn't be attacking them what should we do they want to give our hostages back what should we do I don't know but this is terrible this is terrible see so what should we do so there's nobody in Israel that I trust at this particular time more than natano there are certain people who are made for certain moments Winston Churchill was there to lead England in World War II you know there there are certain moments that make a man you know leansa I think that's it from Poland who started the solidarity movement brought down communism that was his moment. There are certain people in certain situations, you know, Lincoln during the Civil War, there are certain people who are put in in a particular place, you know, and Victor Davis Hansen said, you know, there are certain people who um they pull them out for a moment of leadership that uh that they come in to save the day, but then you know, General Patton, the Nazis said afterwards the only one they were really afraid of was General Patton. and um uh and they didn't want to give him command because he was a difficult person but he was a great general and uh the Germans knew it so they had no choice you know when we were losing the Korean war they brought this uh you know Rididgeway out of retirement and he managed to win the Korean War um and uh he he just understood how to go He was that person for that moment. And I think at this particular moment, one of the smartest commentators out there is this professor of classics called Victor Davis Hansen. I listen to a lot of these different people to get perspectives. And he's, I think, by far the smartest guy out there. And he speaks he he speaks clarity with simple terms that everyone can understand. He doesn't hide behind jargon like some of these people. And he says, "No in the past year more or less destroyed Hamas, more or less destroyed Hzbalah, more or less destroyed Iran, more or less destroyed uh you know Assad in Syria." He unbelievable things he did. How many leaders could do that in the in the course of two years? He says, "And he was written off. People were screaming he should resign. He should resign." And look what he accomplished. So, do I think he's the right person for the for the moment? Yes. What's going to happen with the with the uh Yeshiva draft? I don't know. And we really should have uh uh one podcast where we talk about that. Maybe I can convince Yakob to come in and share his perspective. 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