Living With Emunah (Part 287) - Rallying with Hashem

okay it should be a good morning a good day for cl yeshu the day of sweeping Victory our hostages should be returned home our soldiers successfully should go home and those who are injured should heal and those who are mourning should be comforted our Muna series sponsorship we're very grateful for the year Dr zav and Bella Morgan in memory of RAB Dr Brian galet in memory of Bella's mother Dr Ellen Chan remain very very grateful to the Morgans this morning Shear is also sponsored in memory of Dr Jacob Piller who exemplified a mod how to live with by Sylvia Brody who might still be sleeping in business class on our Charter flight in commemoration of the upcoming 21st year side of her beloved husband Arnold Brody who uh did an amazing job raising a family including Rabbi Brody and by my in-laws Dr Robert and JY brooken in memory of my wife's grandmother K Esther brooken his beloved mother my father-in-law's mother a very very special woman AR Bobby who was a woman who exemplified living with amuna despite having lost everything her parents her family her first husband her child and surviving aitz by being The Guiding Light to her sisters who were there with her she lived her life uh with positivity and a smile and rebuilt a beautiful family and I'm so grateful to her because otherwise I wouldn't have so uh it should be in her memory and by Yi davidovich wishing his wife DNA happy birthday it's always nice to have a good reason for a sponsorship a very happy birthday DNA should be your best year yet and who's in surgery right now should hear good news it should be a successful surgery should guide the hand of the surgeon to success and of course all of our learning is in honor of our soldiers and in the Merit of the return of our hostages and in memory of the kadhim who gave their lives I'd ask everyone to stay afterwards we're going to divide to if we have 30 people to stay we'll take just a few minutes to finish all of saer in their Merit so please uh please do so so living with amuna living with amuna yesterday was a rally in Washington almost 300,000 people were there was really extraordinary to look around and see Jews of all backgrounds and all types and non-jews but decent good people who cared about Israel had that in common to see kabad everywhere putting Fillin on people to see people waving Israeli flags and American flags you've likely seen that um some have noted including Nikki Haley the difference between this Mass gathering in Washington and every Pro prestonian Gathering I think she listed four or five differences American flags no violence no hate call for peace a call for love a call for big differences and it was felt it was pable in the air to DAV together ISO leted us inum and inil it was a very very powerful day but it was not an easy day to get to or return from so uh through the incredible generosity of a very very very very great couple philanthropists in Boon Beach we were able our community to arrange a charter flight and if you are jealous you weren't on the charter flight why didn't you know about it why was it too late you already booked we are jealous of you the charter flight was amazing was amazing on the way there we read to hilum and we tied situs and we completed allus and we sang and we danced with shim it was amazing the charter flight it was incredible and the generosity of these philanthropists was extraordinary but it was also complicated because Dallas airport had an unprecedented amount of charter flights that came in you've likely seen the story of Dallas and the anti-semites who wouldn't allow them a bus because it was to an Israel rally they had to turn around and go home one of those planes so uh actually uhit Detroit what did I say well you'll understand now why I I can't think straight and then on the way home the airplan the airport was inundated and when we finally bordered that plane many hours after we were supposed to leave they couldn't get the stairs away from the plane because the hydraulic lift that goes down to stabilize the stairs so people don't slip when they climb up it and have a little moreas on the president not so easy to walk up and down those steps it turns out it turns out even if you're not yet 80 years old it's not so easy in windy conditions to walk up and down those steps but they couldn't move the steps so we were all just looking out the window waiting for the steps to move anyway again I'm not asking for sympathy but we didn't land till after 1: am. didn't get home till after 2: a.m. which was all wonderful and great why am I telling you all this because as organizers of the trip I was but felt very guilty for the 170 people who wanted things to go super smoothly when we landed to get on the buses and the buses had to go through security to get through and it took us a long time to get on the buses to get to the rally but what did I keep doing a it's all part of your plan it's all for your Reason by the way when we thought we landed with enough time and it took us many hours just to get off the plane and get the buses and get the buses turns out hm is amazing because we had been warned that Washington was essentially closed down because the rally No Buses could get in buses have to park far away and you take a Metro we said we're going to go for it we're driving right there and it took us half the time we thought it would take to drive with no traffic whatsoever and was able to drop us off right next to the rally so we made it on time even though it looked like we were going to be incredibly late because Hashem is amazing and we also made it back and we landed and we're flying and guess what Detroit didn't take off till 2:30 Miami didn't take off till after midnight and another chartered flight didn't take off at all and had to scramble to find hotels to stay over so we made it back and slept in our beds even if it was for few hours Hashem is always amazing Hashem has a plan Hashem is great I'm only telling you this because I had to flex my amuna muscle a little bit last night look through the amuna glasses a little bit not on my behalf was fine but the responsibility of the the many people and Hashem is always amazing and it was it was a very powerful experience I'm sure we'll reflect more on it in the coming days of what it meant to be with such a cross-section qual I'll just tell you this someone shared this morning and it hadn't occurred to me all day yesterday that 300,000 which was the number that we were standing together and if you see the pictures it is an enormous number of people that is the number of reservists that have been called up so if you want to picture every Soldier that's not with his family right now every Soldier that's sleeping under a tree every soldier that doesn't get to return to his bed at 2 am. would be grateful for that opportunity if you want to picture every soldier that had to leave his business unattended to every soldier that left his family every soldier that left his community if you look at that picture and you see how many people are there that's what it would look like if all the reservists were collected and put together for a couple hours getting to listen to ISO and Omar Adam and whoever else spoke I didn't notice any of the other speakers I just noticed the two of them but that's what it would look like and it gives you a little perspective it gives you a little scope of of what that means how interrupted the lives of Israel is there's a lot to reflect on I think this was not just the largest gathering of pro Israel that's what they're saying the news historic this was also the largest gathering of people that ever sang A together the largest gather of people who proclaimed when L Us in together and this was the largest group and the longest time Jews have ever been together with no cell phone reception they were like breaking out in hives and panic panic attacks hatala was working overtime Jews were just panicking and freaking out they couldn't text they couldn't post their pictures and videos they couldn't tell everyone where they were but it was remarkable it's like Hashem said just be here right now don't be posting and don't be streaming and don't be just be here just be here look around it's like you was said you're with you're with 300,000 of your siblings of my children just be in the moment because the technology totally makes us be out of the moment so it's like he was saying just and people were I was everyone was panicked I wasn't panicked I know I could post the pictures later I wasn't panicked I was panicked I was panicked because we kept saying we're going to post our location and everyone will find us and our huge delegation will stand together I just felt so bad I felt so bad that we weren't standing together and then the people were like occasionally a text would randomly come through and then you'd say it was somebody who's like I have no idea where you are and I'm by myself and how will I find the buses but but for the most part Hashem was saying you're disconnected enjoy it I gave you a couple hours of chabas on a Tuesday afternoon you got a couple hours of chabas in the middle of the week enjoy it kabas Shem looked down he said kabas yeah they're speaking through a microphone but kabas kabas you're disconnected so you could connect to you could connect to you could connect to shos shos you could connect toes you could connect to the beginning of what say everyone was worried and I'm not weighing in right now about the agenda and the itinerary and the speakers and rabbis and no rabbis and a pastor and if it would have been rabbis You' have to have three rabbis I'm not touching with a 10- foot pole I'm not weighing in there's enough Beauty to see in it if you want to share the criticism save it for your own I don't know what I'm not weighing in in that all I'll tell you is if you weren't there then you don't know that it was an entirely religious experience because when ISO began and he said he was I communicated with him afterwards a little bit because I said you made it a religious experience you transformed Med it into a spiritual moment when he said it's R andl has the most days that are filled with the deepest Darkness it it falls in the darkest parts of the year that the length of the day is the longest of Darkness they're the shortest days which means the most Darkness kiss slave so he said kiss slave is filled with the most Darkness but he said looking out all I see is endless light he said said he said a few and then put on a keeper when he's saying it was an event of was 300,000 Jews couple non sprinkled in but 300,000 Jews who were just and then he said repeat after me and he said is and everybody repeated it was it was extraordinary and Hashem said don't miss it I'm disconnecting you so you could connect to each other and to this moment and to what you are what you are saying and be present he said God said for God's sake that's me he said for my sake be present be present in this moment hopefully it will never have to be repeated again in your life other than when you come to welcome mhia the next time you'll have this many Jews it'll be to welcome mhia but hopefully so be present disconnect and connect it was amazing mun email and then we'll dive back into the text we were learning the P's message during the Persian Gulf War we started last week but first a message this is a camp friend of mine I went to Camp a few years ago just a few and we were in Camp together and I've seen him through the years but we haven't been in constant touch through the years and he wrote me the following greetings from Israel I hope you and your family are doing well ever since Leo mentioned Yun at the funeral of his daughters and his wife I've been listening to many of them our family was shaken up by the Deep tragedy as was all of my wife my wife was friendly with Lucy and my younger daughter with re I find that she inspiring along the lines of not to introduce major hammering home by repetition and by creative formulation essential ideas of how to see hashem's hand in our lives and mold our emotions and actions accordingly unless you see that as a dis or a criticism it's an accurate description of other work blah blah blah one of the ideas I like very much which I instituted in our family is the hash prus WhatsApp group I can't say it's been all active or that every member of our family is as interested in it as I am but it helps me keep an eye out for the hash moments in my life and I want to share one which you can feel free to read in a future sheer which is today I got this email 5:13 a.m. the war of course has upended the lives of everyone in Israel even aside from the families and friends of those murdered are taken captive on S Torah almost everyone has a family member on the front lines or knows someone who does our oldest is an intelligence based near the Gaza border I teach mathematics at M Technical College in where the semester has been pushed off at least until the last week of December the same is true at every University in the country which if you're a university student you're trying to figure out what you're doing with your time meaningfully and how does this set back your life because you knew when you were going to school when you were graduating and Jewish parents impress upon their children therefore when you'd get your first job when you were eligible to get married when you would when you would when you would plan out the rest of your life but now they said nah University's on hold you know why because your professors have a gun and they're fighting for their lives so your University is on is on hold depending on the progress of the war the Army need for the reservist many of whom are College University students there may be further delays and no one really knows when this Academic Year will look like this posed a unique challenge for me as I had been preparing for the last six months to donate a kidney through the services of mat mat an organization here which encourages outst a kidney donation my plan was to finish all the medical and bureaucratic preparations of which there are many before the start of the semester schedule the donation for my long semester break in January February the last meeting with the committee which gives the final OCC to donate was scheduled for October 16th was cancelled when the war broke out I wasn't I really wasn't sure what would become of my plan when I received a phone call three weeks ago from the hospital the committee was meeting now only with potential donors whose surgeries were scheduled in the next few weeks what I possibly be interested in donating very soon in the second week of November the suggestion made a lot of sense to me is I would need some time off to recuperate and I certainly had that now but up to that point I thought of my potential donation as something in in the far off future now that I was forced with the prospect of donating very soon I immediately felt confronted by questions and doubts was this really a wise course of action should I listen to those close to me who urged me not to take on the risks of living with a single kidney what if the recipient's body rejected the kidney which happens would I feel it was all for nothing in any event I had to consult with my wife before giving an answer so I had a little time to decide by the time my wife came home IID recovered from the shock of the phone call and I fought back my doubts I knew that I wanted to donate now as much as I had 6 months earlier when the process began my wife agreed that it made perfect sense to move up the date of the surgery given I'd be off from work for a while within minutes after I spoke with her I received a phone call from my dentist's office I had an appointment scheduled for the third week of November a few days after the suggested donation date but someone canceled an appointment tomorrow was I interested in taking an appointment tomorrow instead obviously would not be feasible to visit the dentist a few days after donating a kidney I immediately realized this as a moment the fortuitous timing of the call from the dentist was Hashem reminding me not only the Dona kimley is a huge Mitzvah of PES but that P is a Mitzvah that doesn't wait even a minute longer than necessary I took the earlier dental appointment moved up the donation date to November 12th I'm now recuperating at home a few days after both my surgery and the recipient surgery went well the kidney is working to clean out his body my wife and I had a very emotional meeting with him and his family in the hospital before I was discharged as terrible as the current war is with horrific tragedy that initiated it the thousands of people displaced by it and the growing List of soldiers killed and wounded fighting it I take solace in the fact that it provided a few months of extra time to the recipient of my kidney and I thank Hashem for the opportunity to do this Mitzvah and for the reminder in that Hask moment how important a Mitzvah it was to doto and BOS so as much as I admired this kimp friend before wow every Kidney donor is extraordinary and incredible and tremendous but what a beautiful story and what a beautiful way to interpret instead of being so annoying we're making this big decision why the dentist have to call now said wow that's not the dentist calling that's Hashem calling it's Hashem calling saying you move the dentist appointment up to free you up to donate the kidney that's confirmation go do it Save a Life go take advantage of this time off that you never wanted wow what an email then I got another great email yesterday at the rally had the opportunity to stop by and say hi which he did when I walked up to you and said my Kusa it wasn't me trying to be cute the re K are part of my everyday life all the way in New York and making a prior L on living with Amir a day for the past six months as I've been catching up it has changed my life we're going to have to give more often because people are going to run out if they listen I I'll save the rest of this email for next week because I want to get to some learning but it was there were several people that were kind enough to introduce themselves yesterday he was one of them it was very sweet to you live and learn with people virtually but it's a gift that Hashem gives us our community that we get to connect globally but you don't get the chance in fact somebody had texted me from one of the whatsa groups I think the para one and said in the para group drop the location where you are at the rally par perspectives could have a great reunion and people could come over we never met but we learn together every week and we could all say hello those who learn live in person but those who learn virtually one day we'll do item when we go to greet mashia we'll drop a pin our location a live location I don't know if right I was about to say if Hashem loves us he'll knock out all the reception when mhia comes as a gift so that nobody would be post who will be the first one to post I won't mention names but but who will be in the competitive world of Jewish influencers who will be the first one who gets to drop the story Messiah is here and I landed him for the podcast who will be the first one who gets mashiach for the podcast W the answer will be nobody because mashiach's gonna have his own podcast and he's gonna interview the people who brought him and made him come and guess what it won't be any famous people his guest won't be anyone that we know his guest will be people who will refuse to be interviewed those are the ones that are likely bring him okay back to this essay this this m that was first given by the was given to the month of shat during the Persian Gulf War P was the g rashash at the time since then has become was the G Reb and uh today his son is the G rashash of alter who we the privilege of hosting in our community recently and he gave this from the fear of my enemy fashion me and make me a life and we read how people are living afraid the first thing that the Gabba did was validate that fear there's so much uncertainty there's so much doubt there's so much unknown it's understandable there were people who were afraid yesterday of the rally of Safety and Security I will tell you I didn't spend one moment afraid that I was going to die all of my fear was that my phone was going to die all my panic I had no fear about my dying I had a lot of fear that my phone was going to die will we plug in is there a backup battery will it drain the battery that's where all the fear was but there were people who understandably were afraid safety security and again it was beautiful it's beautifully organized I'm sure you saw the stories already online of the police officers of security guards who said they got more thank yous in one day than they got in their entire career the people acted with such and mid and der and the please and the thank you was a beautiful thing we had that in our Charter flight when we were going through uh and leaving one of the security people said this is the nicest group we've ever had it's possible we sent out a message make sure you're the nicest group they ever had but we knew that we have a lot of work to do to offset and compensate for those who may look like us and not leave that impression but barash 300,000 people overwhelmingly left that impression orderly and organized and not chaotic and there was no violence nobody tore down Flags we waved Flags American and Israeli it was beautiful but it's legitimate said the it's understandable that a person would be nervous and that's why let me not live with panic and fear and anxiety let it not be debilitating and paralyzing let it not hold my life and that's what we say in NE save me from Panic let me not be panicked let me not be anxious let me not be worried let me not be worried but then he continued and that's what we're up to I left off the first page when I made the copies for today we in the T it says page two on your copy on the side that says page two on the top the single line that says if it's true how are we meant to conduct ourselves in our condition in our situation today it's true every day you wake up and now it's I think 48 soldiers 48 soldiers who've lost their lives still activity and concern on the northern border still uncertainty what will happen out of Iran still a rise of anti-Semitism all around us how are we meant to live how can we overcome natural panic and the natural fear it's legitimate it's understandable it's reasonable if you're not a little bit nervous and Afraid then you might be living recklessly Hashem gave us healthy fear spoke about this morning right healthy fear makes you drive more safely makes you live more cautiously the people who are fearless live recklessly stupidly and foolishly there's a whole don't don't watch it you'll waste too much of your time but there's a whole online world called tons tons are tourist morons it's a hashtag and if you want to find the people who want to catch a picture a selfy hanging off the cliff at fill in the blank of of uh of a national park and they do that and someone in their life says that's stupid you could slip you could fall are you crazy they say no no no it's gonna be a great picture don't worry nothing's going to happen and and it happens there are torons who take pictures with bears torons who take pictures with wild animals torons who hang off of cliffs and national parks torons you know why because they're fearless and stupid and they have no fear they're they're morons I'm so sorry to say that about them they're morons they're torons don't be a toron don't be a a little healthy fear a little healthy fear so it's healthy says the it's understandable but how do you live I was just looking for the opportunity to weave in Tora to some she been holding on to that for a while could check that off now mention torons move on just promise me you won't look for it it's a waste of time but it's shocking how moronic people are when I was at a national park I think it was in Wyoming the tour guide when we watched some morons hanging off the cliff trying to capture the perfect selfie is the one who told us about it that's how I discovered the great human whatever from the Torah of our ancestors we learn how to live in a time of of incredible stress the great great his tells us the story The mush the allegory of a king who one of the members of his kingdom did something deeply offensive violated the king so the king doesn't get mess he doesn't get down and dirt doesn't lower himself to get involved what is the king do the king pulls over one of his appointed agents and says go take care of this person now his chief of staff doesn't also take care of it he's the chief of staff so he calls the head of the prison and he says prisoner so and so Off With His Head now the he the prison doesn't take care of it who does he do what does he take care of he asks one of the prison guards go get this inmate from that cell so what happens this lowly guard the private who's his first day on the job this guard goes to the cell to get the prisoner and says come we're going because of what you did to the king we're going to give you a capital punishment so he gets down on the floor and he starts to plead and he starts to beg and he tells this private this lowly officer This Guy's first day in the job the one who came to his prison cell you have to forgive me you have to grant me immunity and clemency you have to not uh give me capital punishment please please please I have a wife I have children I have a community they've all written letters on my behalf please please please so what does the officer say what are you pleading with me I'm just carrying out the order I'm just a low private I'm just the officer I'm just the policeman just the prison guard this came from this I got this order from the head of the prison so what happens so then this inmate goes to the head of the prison and begs and pleads and gets on his knees he says what are you pleading with me I'm just the head of the prison this came from the uh Secretary of the prison system he goes to the Secretary of the prison say what are you going this came from the chief of staff he goes to the chief of staff he says what do you want from me it came from the King came from the king so this is what the remember I told you that the great my new friend from waves at hasola over the northern border says you want to see my secret weapon it's a secret weapon his little he puts in his uniform his secret weapon is he waves it his weapon so what do say he says this mus so we're so busy we're pleading with the pharmacist and the lab technician we're pleading with the doctor hey none of them are in charge we're pleading with the surgeon we're pleading with the with pleading with the surgery center none of them are in charge we're busy in Washington we're pleading with the Congress we're pleading with the Senators we're pleading with the administration we're pleading with the president we're pleading with the media we're pleading with it's important you have to Advocate you have to talk to them too if you don't talk to the prison guard you'll never get to the head of the prison you'll never get to the Secretary of Defense you'll never get to the king it's important to make your way up the but all along from when you have the first conversation with the prison guard you have to know where' the order come down from and who's the only one who can reverse the order it all comes from above so what are you doing says the what are you doing overly investing what are you doing dis proportionately focusing on the lowly guard go right to the king that's where your effort that's where your advocacy that's where your energy don't forget that's what we did yesterday the whole way up and the whole way back we made to see him on the plane on the way back the whole way up on the whole way back we were talking to the king and while we were there you know again I'm not weighing in on debate but there were plenty of people there ranski and in our trip itself TB came and he had a safer open the whole time he was listening but he was learning we were talking to the king while we were listening to his subjects while we were listening to his officers and agents and staff members we were also talking to the King singing To The King saying to helm to the king also at the same time go right to the king brings down another famous Marshall that many of the bring it's like you know a person is smacking a door you shouldn't Peter if you listen we don't endorse this but a person smacks a dog with a stick with a staff the dog goes after the stick because the dog doesn't realize the stick didn't hit him the person waving the stick hit him whatever's happening in our life whoever hit us whoever's fir rockets at us whatever's happening to us yes eliminate the stick you don't want to get hit again but know where it's coming from said the let us say to ourselves the ancient truth he was talking in the Persian Gulf War let us speak the truth that the rocket doesn't kill and the Patriot missile isn't what saves you their Rockets aren't what kills and the Iron Dome isn't what saves us it's important to say wasn't reciting this from B Park or from bokeh he was in he was fitted for a gas mask he was living this in real time he was also a target of of Saddam Hussein there Israel was not was not a front line the Persian Gulf War there weren't no soldiers fighting on a front line the Army wasn't called up they were just the Target because you know if America's in a war with Iraq it makes sense to send missiles to Israel because that makes sense like did the kid on the side of the playground just watching doing nothing but why not beat them up because they're friends with the person who in a fight with you so you remember Sadam threatened to send chemical weapons to Israel because because they're friends with America so P was as much skin in the game as anyone else in Israel when he gave this mimer and he said we need to remember he was talking to the people in real time we need to remember it's not the missile which kills and it's not the Patriot or today the Iron Dome that saves rather we have to see the hand of Hashem at every stage in in every moment it's true that these missiles are being launched at the order of the Jew hater in bagad but the heart of Kings is in the hands of hem you know what missile is coming right at each and every one of us a missile that has the message wake up wake up transform your life transform yourself be the person you could and were meant to be live the life you were meant to live Jewish people wake up be United set aside the petty differences stop being so divided wake up and bring me bring G bring mashia says hem wake up there an interesting thing maybe we'll talk about it off the record this week but I don't know if you've seen the pictures online of people who write messages on the Israeli bombs before they send them over I saw one of them had a message from campas one of them had a message from program they had messages from community that were decimated I have mixed feelings about it I'm not entitled to an opinion so I'm not weighing in because I'm not responsible for launching those bombs or risking my life in order to drop them on the people who deserve them I'm not I'm not weighing in but a person could have mixed feelings about should we be writing messages on those bombs maybe it's an outlet for people maybe it's cathartic and therapeutic to be writing this message and the people who the bomb is landing on their head 100% deserve it that's our responsibility to be doing it so should you write a message I'm not weighing in but when the bombs come at us there's a message written on them too says the p and the message is from Hashem wake up wake up the truth is there's a good reason to be afraid right now but transfer and channel that anxiousness that Panic that fear towards Hashem not towards the lonly guard or officer but towards directly towards says the the quoting from the that askem makes Wars to return us to a life of Torah says come to me into my room come let's have a moment of closeness a moment of intimacy a moment of time of connection overcome that fear come I'll hold you I'll cudle you I'll cuddle with you come you're afraid let me hold you child wakes up with a nightmare in the middle of the night where do they climb into their parents' bed right my morning what'sapp this is the greatest what'sapp to have is the morning alert from my children which of their children woke up in the middle of the night did let them sleep climbed into their bed it's the greatest as the grandparent it's the greatest text to get it's beautiful oh adorable I remember when you did that the grandchildren it's not my bed it's amazing I give everyone a who's waiting for grandchildren they should be Z to get those texts and you should be Z for them to wake you in the middle of the night Tak a climb into your bed it's the most delicious thing most delicious thing when it happens on rare occasion it's delicious it's delicious so so they climb in the middle of your bed that a nightmare they wake you and what do you do you hold them how did that make anything better how'd they make that weird sound or that fear go away because you held them and you're their mommy or tatti or ABA you're their Bubby or zi sabba or Safta you held them and you're the person who makes everything okay so when you hold them and you're the one who makes everything okay they can fall back to sleep says the p take that fear that Panic that's making you wake up in the middle of the night and let Hashem hold you run into his arms let him stroke your back let him stroke your cheek let him say tat I'm in charge I'm in control for 2,000 years it's been okay we walk away injured and harmed there are losses and they hurt but it's going to be okay it's for a reason come come into my arms come into my room come direct your panic and fear into a deeper more intense relationship with me the we can't act like we are a nation of panicked fearful anxious people and like and like spoiled Bratz all we're looking for our guarantees promise me guarantee me that's not what life is about that's not who we are we know they're going to come but where are we how are we living what's on us to change to transform to do now is the time to double down now is the time to dig in now is the time to Proclaim from the rooftops the message that we've always believed that there's Hashem he's in charge he's in control and the only way we survive and we Thrive is a relationship with him are you in further conversation with him are you listening to him are you helping his children are you connecting with his mission Hashem that's what it's all about that's what this time demands that's what this time calls out that's what this time is all all about that's the M that the was saying in the Persian Gulf War and is the reality that we are seeing right now the hisus to Chua The Awakening that is going on is extraordinary extraordinary again not weighing in on yesterday's rally the debate about it I'm weighing in if you can't notice but not weighing in do you know how many Jews were there secular Jews who were not in contact with their jewishness should they should they not come made the effort to come maybe they put on fillan for the first and only time in their life maybe they said to Hill him for the first and only time in their life maybe they went back to their campus or community and and want to wear a mugging doid or want to hang a Maza on their door or going to show up at that Shear how many people have told me stories of their relatives who were utterly and totally disconnected to their Judaism but as this war has waged and as anti-semites have thrived have taken another look at what it means to be Jewish there's a hisus Chua there's an Awakening A Spiritual Awakening happening to our people I put a picture in our family WhatsApp group our greater family meaning my siblings and their children my parents which includes soldiers who are fighting in the front lines one in Gaza who will come back hasn't looked at his phone in weeks to hundreds or thousands of family messages and I put a picture of I put the video of our TI time campaign M shabus and Sunday night and yesterday we streamed the rally while people Contin to TI situs we tied situs on the plane our flight people individually on their flights we made a big commitment 2000 titas a lot of titas to tie I put in our family WhatsApp group you know saying that you know all the soldiers want we're Ty tius our small part in building the armor and tactical gear of the soldiers and my niece wrote back she spoke to her husband who's in Gaza and he said in capital letters everyone is wearing Titus now everyone wants those titas it's not just like some gimmick to get CLA all to tie titas so we made up that even the secular soldiers there's no such thing as a secular soldier that is an oxymoron if you are a Soldier right now first of all if you're risking your life for the Jewish people there's nothing secular about you you're a Holy Holy Soul Holy Soul but there's no such thing as a secular Soldier because they're singing and dancing to they're saying to and they're putting on tius they're wearing this tius capital letters everyone that's how I heard her voice everyone in capital letters everyone is wearing titas everyone is wearing those titas and everyone wants to tie the tius I'll tell you going say not for public consumption as we're streaming this around the world but there was some concern because the video that we posted not everybody who might tying Theus is wearing a yamaka is a beautiful image of a holy Jew I don't know who he is I wasn't here Sunday night I was at a wedding who might have several tattoos and and an earring and no yamak he that there's some question of the kasas and the of the tius it's possible that from Israel I got a message wondering exactly what was going on we shared some sources back and forth the and the is clear of course it's preferable for tias to be tied by those who are who are trembling in of hasem but the is also very clear that the ti are Kosher if the person who tied them knows what the Mitzvah TI is about and did it and I'll tell you that anybody who saw a flyer the Jews are coming together to tied sitas for soldiers on the front line and interrupted their night Mo shabas Sunday night and came yamaka no yamaka we taught every single person who was there to say the words with every knot they tightened and they looked around that room and they listened to the music that was playing and they heard and felt that energy of of prayer every one of them in that moment every pair of those titas is ker every pair of those titas because of the spiritual arousal the fact that someone saw and wanted to you know what I'm not impressed you keep shabas you D you wear yamaka cover your hair and you came in tight big deal that's your job that's what you're supposed to do you know you were taught you were educated big deal none of you you all you all impress me but none of you impress me none of you impress me but you don't even wear yamaka you don't even wear situs maybe you never put on your own situs and you came and you tied situs and you said shame Mitzvah and someone sat and taught you 7 8 11 13 cabalistic you add it all up with the kns you get to 613 the number of MIT remind us that there's and and you sat there painstakingly and you did it wow those are a holy pair of tias lucky is the soldier who gets to put on those tias wow wow there is a spiritual awakening that is taking place said the G in the Persian Gul war and we're seeing with our eyes now here's the question we didn't finish this I wanted to finish it we'll finish it next week but here's the question I have for you there's a spiritual awakening that's happening all around us the people planning on going back to Israel right now one of the things that we're being asked for is a lot ofin soldiers who never owned and never wore are asking Forin till a lot more expensive than tias there's a spiritual awakening happening all around us is it happening in you are you part of that will you look back when this is over please God by the end of today and will you say wow how my life changed not because I have a phone full of pictures of every rally I went to but every how did my life change how do I make my bras how do I see the hand of Hashem what kind of mitzah what kind of messages what is my mission what kind of family am I raising kind of shabas table do I have what difference did I make what radical change did I make in my life what was I waiting for there are people that were there that night I want you to know there was a kid yesterday who came on our trip who tied tius but says I don't wear Titus can I wear the Titus I tied for today at the rally we'll clean them before we send them to the soldier can I wear the titas I tied there are people who tied titas and now said I'm so busy tying titas for a soldier I need to start wearing tizas so what change are you making what change are you what difference are you making in your life how will you look back and say yeah that's when I started wearing tias that's when I started ding a little bit every day that's when I started being being patient and not losing my cool and not getting angry that's when I finally worked on my Shalom buas I wanted shalom in Israel I worked on my Shalom bu maybe that's when I started covering my hair or I stopped eating out or I started keeping shabas a little more carefully or that's when I started having guests that's when I started caring about others and checking in on them that's when I started giving staka everyone can answer for themselves but you know in the war of T Shin pay dollar 2023 that's when I changed this in 20 or 30 years from now we'll look back and say that's when this changed in my life there's a spiritual arousal A Spiritual Awakening A Spiritual is is happening it's happening everywhere that's our reaction that's our defense that's our Iron Dome it's happening the only question is are you part of item will continue with this next week