Living With Emunah (Part 289) - Feeling the Pain of Others

okay good morning it should be a good morning for want to thank our amuna series sponsors Dr Ai and Bella Morgan in memory of Dr Brian galin in memory of Bella's mother Dr Ellen shanzer we are very grateful to the Morgans don't take their generosity and sponsorship and friendship for granted this morning Shear is also sponsored by Neil and pper mayor Ben should continue to be well and healthy and by Jonathan in honor of the birth of amuna Kayla Ratner Ma we're very excited to Welcome amuna to Our Youth Department by hna and abble in memory of her father Yakov Ben mosha Jack Wilder the shav and Aliyah thank you so much for your sponsorship also a reminder at the conclusion of Shir as we do each and every week we will complete all of sa if you stay for just a few moments we divide all ofum we can complete all of Saum and special for the Amun participants on your way out some someone doesn't have the sound on and they're just watching I don't know what they're thinking right now but on your way out for your car Israeli flag American flag we now have a sahal flag also so that first of all I actually found it very convenient the other day it's very easy to find your car in the parking lot if you cover it with flags especially the T flag it's very easy to find your car in the parking lot so there are all kinds of other advantages all kinds of other advantages to doing it they're available in the uh in the lobby I want to share with you a couple of Muna emails and then we will dive into a new a new uh piece that we're going to study today there are copies of it here if you'd like to follow inside I apologize that is only in the Hebrew but we will learn it and translate it together first email dear Rabbi Goldberg and The BRS congregation I was raised a reformed Jew although I went to Sunday school until I was 15 years old and never stuck with me although I've always been a proud Jew and a strong supporter of Israel I moved farther and farther away from any religious practice in adulthood indeed for most of my adult life I didn't belong to a synagogue and didn't attend Services even on the high holidays I thought very little if ever about God in 2010 one of my business partners strong armed me into studying privately with Rabbi Maris salic a good friend of mine who spoke here last year any opportunity to study with salich I agreed only because of my respect for my partner so I went into the project with a great deal of skepticism I didn't think of RAB salich had much to teach me silly arrogant but lucky me I studied with RAB salich for three years and it changed me profoundly I found Hashem in a much deeper connection with my fellow Jews I will forever be grateful to salvic my Wall Street partner most of all Hashem for putting me on this path isn't it amazing someone you author of this might be sitting in the room right now but somebody who Begins by saying I had no relationship with God wasn't sure I believed in him didn't even go to sh on on rashash just in the next paragraph says I will forever be grateful to Hashem for putting me on this path it's so easy it seems so easy it's not easy at all it's hard but life is so much richer and better and bigger and it's in living vibrant color you could go through life in black and white nobody I'm young people don't even know what I'm talking about what's black and white you could go I don't know what I'm talking about I didn't exactly grow up on black and white either but you can grow up watching something in black and white or you could live in vibrant Living Color and when Hashem is everywhere and he's involved and you can attribute and you can feel and you can be grateful he's everywhere just life is so much more sometimes tolerable sometimes you can navigate it better and sometimes it's just more elevated and enriching and amazing that's not the end Hashem intervened further in my life last year in February my husband and I attended R Sal's talk at BRS we belonged to a reformed synagogue but it was not the right place for us as our spiritual needs had deepened we discussed joining BRS but didn't think that we could fit into the community because we're not observant but I began to spend time on the BRS website and listen to many podcasts and YouTube videos in August I told my husband I want to join BRS though we will never participate fully in the community and I felt and feel extremely close spiritually to you all I don't know how I could have weathered the horrors since October 7th with Without You BRS the Sham have offered the class have offered me great comfort they have reinforced my faith in hashem's plan for us and bolstered my as Israel is a light onto Nations so is the be Community a light onto all Jews thank you all so so much it's an incredible email the author is incredible she might be in this room and we're proud and honored to have her as a member of our community and I'll reiterate for those watching or those who are here we don't really care how you get here on shabas or during the week we care that you're here nobody's looking nobody's judging nobody's nobody's giving you a score on how many mitzah you do and all all we want is for you to be here and be part of our big family that is open warm and welcoming and I love that somebody who describes having so little background and doubt about God and spending a majority into adult life of not having him ends up with Hashem Hashem and Hashem and Hashem this and Hashem brought me and Hashem and I'm grateful for Hashem so amazing thank you so much for sharing and giving me permission to share that email next email this is an amazing email they're all amazing emails and then we have amazing Torah and then I have an amazing thing to tell you there's a lot going on no it's not amazing My Own Story Rabbi Gober I hope you're doing well my name is blank my family made Aliah a little over a year ago August 2022 from such and such place where my husband was the rabbi of such and such place making Aliah with older children was challenging for all the regular reasons of adjusting to a new culture and Language new schools a new community but additionally leaving our Sho was difficult and I of Wonder throughout the year if we did the right thing however throughout the year I've been listening to the weekly I found it gives me so much I often found that if I was having a hard day I could put on theun and it would help me change my mindset and be able to view the day in a better light and remember that Hashem has put me exactly where I'm supposed to be I just want to say I have the same experience I I don't put on the Amun I just remember that I'm the one who has to give it and then when I'm going through that difficult or challenging or frustrating so last night I wrote my article for the week and at about midnight when I thought it was done and proud of myself and grateful so early I discovered that it was gone then I spent the next hour trying to find it and watching every video on YouTube about how to recover the old files so it's gone now I don't know if I'm going to rewrite it or it wasn't meant to see the light of day it wasn't really so important or take the week off or write something different I don't know yet I will tell you it was very ever happened to you you put a lot of work into something and it was Creative Energy and you were proud of it and then it's gone it is among the it's frustrating it's aggravating it's frustrating it's infuriating and then I put on the Amun I didn't actually press play and listen to one but I just remember that I give it and then I give it the next day today so then you're just like okay it is it's me it's that's why the life of theun is amazing because you just let go and you're like I don't know why but like you start arguing with Hashem but it was really good it was written well and it's important and then you're like but you're the you're the editor you're the publisher you get you publish and you've rejected my piece and if you view it that way not should have saved it and I can't believe it and technology is the worst and the IT host why didn't he set it up that way and why did it happened to me and I can't believe this fluke instead of being frustrated and infuriated and aggravated and all you do in the process is lose your mental health spiritual health and physical health instead you say Hashem you are the great editor the great publisher and you rejected the piece so I guess I have to submit a different one I have to try again or take the week off but you rejected the and it just if you do that paradigm shift it changes your whole experience Hashem you're the publisher and you rejected the piece you chose to reject it by having this file be lost okay first of all what lesson can I learn how should I save my files differently what am I meant to take from it but once you extract the lesson you're meant to learn if you let go and let God and you say you're the publisher you rejected it SCH it's time to go to sleep you're no longer frustrated or ar aggravated or angry I told you that before but I have that experience when I give Dres and sometimes afterwards I say oh I forgot I should have ended that way or I had this story I had this quote I had this and it used to drive me crazy I couldn't concentrate the whole mus because I think in my mind I should have landed the drha that way maybe I should just give it again after doing don't worry I don't really think about and then you realize no you weren't meant that wasn't meant to be shared and then you could concentrate on M and then you never think about it again you let go because you just realize it wasn't meant and it's just it's such a amazing way to live life so back to the email that was my personal thing I feel even better now that so back to the email so the author writes that sometimes they put on on the shear our Shear it's not my Shear you write the emails I spend after the she it's our Shear together I've been waiting to be able to send you a wonderful amuna story even one with not the positive outcome which I know you always appreciate but honestly I found my most of my stories are just everyday life being able to take a deep breath relax not feel overly anxious when the dayto day of living in Israel feel feels overwhelming and that was before the war especially as my husband and I had to figure out our new parasa one of you starting BRS East there was no one AA moment but the const from the allowed me to just keep repeating let go and let God I want to share one event that happened last week in Israel and I just keep replying in my head May was killed in Gaza lived on our block Ines and so it felt very close to home Y and the group that she's with from the u a Shiva call just yesterday to the family and um Ben yamin's uncle and Aunt used to live in our community now live uh in Parkland but we feel connected to this terrible loss Sunday the day of the Lev was the first real very rainy day in a cold day of the season and a downpour during the levia the cold rainy weather matched the mood we were all feeling but I kept feeling that while I was cold and wet and sad usually in Israel the first rain is seen as a Sim and kids go out and dance in the street it's a sign of BR I couldn't quite wrap my head around the weather to answer this while in America you've not start started saying yet but we happen to be learning about about that during sitter Snippets why we start a different date in Israel and outside of Israel in Israel they began on the seventh ofan at that time my husband told me there was discussion between some ran if should we begin saying it because rain will be bad for the soldiers fighting in the South so normally in Israel they ask for rain at the beginning of the rainy season the seventh of kesan in fact the rainy season is really at the end of sukus Why do they wait till the seventh of kesan the gamar gives the reason because it takes 15 days for the person who lives farthest to get home so as not to ask for rain and create flooding that would be dangerous that would be a a mud whatever would would kill The Travelers on their way home we wait till the seventh ofes so if the whole reason that we wait to start asking for rain is to protect people so there was discussion in Israel this year maybe delay asking for rain even longer because the rain could be dangerous for the soldiers one R suggest the change in the text to say something along the lines of give the fields the needed rain but not the I felt uncomfortable by this idea we don't change the text of our daving hasm knows exactly where and how to bring the rain last week at the Shiva I heard that when it did rain in a torrential downpour last Sunday it caused the Kamas Terror tunnel to flood drowning some terrorists and causing others to come up and be captured and killed I just kept thinking wow see Hashem not only brought the rain that Israel needs for its crops but even in doing so made it a br for the soldiers and Gaza when we can only see that the situation will be good in one way but bad in another we don't need to fear because Hashem can make the situation so it is totally good even when we can't understand how that will be thank you for the may we all all am but I had seen that too because I mentioned it in the sitter snippet that they contemplated pushing it off because the soldiers and someone sent me a video actually of a soldier talking about that how the rain was welcome it's not for the soldier who has to sleep outside under the trees but it helped them in their fighting because it flooded the tunnels Hashem as always knows exactly exactly what he is doing one more or save it for next week I'll save it for next week let's get into our learning together let's see this piece and we'll start off with the next email next week okay this piece that we're looking at rash who is Moren rashita is May this is a piece by those who enjoy the par know that for several years we've been quoting the Torah of in his his new saer his other saer we quote sometimes in theab shabas k he has wonderful he a wonderful also has a tremendous power of looking at a person's name and understanding a lot about them he's a very very special human being and and this is a this is a talk that he gave having to does having to deal with the mat this reality this crisis that is going on in our Holy Land it was given on the so it was given a couple weeks ago Begins bying the it says the following in the time that the Jewish people are living with tragedy living with crisis in an urgent moment so two angels come and escort a person and put their hands on his head and say what happens the community the community can be defined in a very small way in a broader way of a community of a city or broadly as a nation and as a people and the Gus tells us that when CL are when we are struggling and suffering in a crisis what does p mean someone separates someone says not my problem I live in burrow park or bokeh I'm comfortable I'm safe and I'm well first of all the delusional but aside from that let's say they weren't just delusional they say I'm good to go my family's comfortable and okay and I don't feel connected I don't want to watch or read or know about what's going on don't get your sadness on me I'm good says the gamar something incredible two angels come down and they escort the person who is dividing from the people they put their hands on their head and they said and they say this individual who's separated from the community will not see in the will not see in the comfort of the community this individual a person when a community is in crisis a person shouldn't say so sorry to hear that feel really bad add me to the WhatsApp Group Forum and then go home and eat and drink and be merry and say I'm good if the person does so the says person should never live a life with the philosophy of eat and drink and be married for tomorrow we may diep that's not the way that we live but je feels connected to the reality of what's going on around them but je feels empathy and sympathy and the pain we find that doesn't say I'm God's loyal servant I'm good to go I have his promise and protection mosu spends his whole life feeling connected noo feels the SAR of theor why was mosha recruited and selected why was he in fact appointed to be the savior of the Jewish people our leader because Moshe felt that capacity not only no for fellow man for other people before mosha was in charge of people who was he in charge of a bunch of sheep as were all our great leaders the Z Ro our Seven Shepherds who we welcomed into the Su theen the seven Great Shepherds of Amel before they emerged before they were elevated to be great leaders first they were great Shepherds is that a coincidence that is not a career path that Jewish parents take pride in today if you called home I figured out what I want to be doctor a lawyer Rabbi no none of the above what is it what do you want to be a shepherd shepherd I said that once in a sheer and someone told me afterwards that their child actually knew what they wanted to be but took took some time before doing it because they always wanted to first they spent several months in Israel first being a Shepherd but why were they all Shepherds why were they Shepherds there's a lot of answers to that one of them it's actually connected to our Paras yov when did Yakov have an enormous growth spurt when he was leado when he disconnected from technology and noise and social media and even the 12 children who needed bath time and bedtime and to learn mishna with them and homework with them that's as you know why Yakov invented Marv so he could get out of bath time and bedtime the 12 children that he had but Yakov got a few minutes of quiet and salace he was and and when we are we can wrestle with ourselves there's a lot more to say about it for another time for another time but what we call hisus hisus is when we have a meaningful real authentic genuine conversation with Hashem and when does that happen it doesn't happen when we're scrolling and typing and following and watching and listening when does it happen when we have a little bit of alone just close our eyes and we breathe and we reconnect and we reconnect we talked about this on Sunday night with rosha gers those who didn't hear it you could listen online The Amazing author of it's all the same to me the bov's idea of his if you don't know whether that's a little book worth reading it may be the only it is the only book on the planet that has an endorsement from Rasha and deac Chopra both think it's worth your time to read it's called it's all the same to me and there's a new book called The Three conditions and we talked about this the role of breathing and of mindfulness in being equ in practicing equinity and feeling and finding Hashem so hisus how can you just be in a slow the breathing slow the pulse feel connected to ourselves to our core to our Essence to our creator and be in a conversation with him that's what it's about you know who does that Shepherds you know why because the shepherd didn't have an iPhone or an iPad the shepherd wasn't catching up or binge watching Netflix The Catch the the shepherd wasn't checking the stock market or what happened last night in the game The Shepherd when the little sheep were eating and grazing from the field where the flock was fast asleep you know what the shepherd did just having a conversation with Hashem it's just him and Hashem listening to the sounds that all of us don't even hear because we have airpods in just listening to the rustle of the leaves and the grass and looking around and seeing the hills and The Valleys the the sky and the Sun and the shepherd finds Hashem in such profound ways that we are so blind to because we've created all these artificial obstacles and barriers that we can't find or feel Hashem in fact he he shared in this talk that before we started on Sunday night he was here a few minutes earlier and he met somebody who he obviously knows from before and that person was describing they're feeling very anxious so they sat together with their eyes closed did some breathing and also did some listening and if you're listening you can hear all kinds of things that we don't even pay attention to you don't know a door closing squeaking an air conditioning kicking in you're just you're just creating a sense of mindfulness and presence that brings with it a calm that allows for Discovery and growth Listen to It's it's worth listening it's more worth even reading so the Shepherd in the field that's all they do all day is they're just fully present with themselves and fully present with the world around them and discovering and finding Hashem and they are involved in conversation but that's not why mosha was chosen all the Z zon the seven Shepherds all practiced shepherding before they then got their lives very noisy and busy and rattled with their rabanus with their position leading Amel first they had to be a Shepherd we should introduce that to SM you gotta learn your you got to take SM and before you go out to be a rabbi you got to spend some time being a Shepherd we should introduce are you comfortable in your own skin can you be alone do you find AEM how are you in nature you have to the Zion Rome the Zion R you got to be comfortable out in in nature in nature I went last night to buy a winter coat not because it's freezing here it is freezing here I'm going to Israel next week and I'm have to go to New York today for a little bit so I was in uh somebody sent me to a store I didn't even know existed that has like outdoor gear REI is that what it's called is that my is it is it you're supposed to pronounce it like Ray re it has a name I'm not trying to like I never heard of it before anyway I went there so I'm looking at the coats and there's a guy SM smoing looking at the same coat I said what do you think is this a good coat he's like here's how it works when you're out and camping and the nature and the hiking and it can get snagged so I like to wear on top of it another is what are you getting it for what are your activities are the hiking the whatever I'm like going to New York Manhattan I have to get through Manhattan can I get through will it work anyway so n that's as far as a Jew goes with nature is when you have to walk to sh and chab is because you have no choice it's the closest we come so no we should come a lot closer and we live in a place it's it's beautiful it's beautiful even on this frigid cold day go for a walk around the lake go for a walk you talk about the nature because of the weather make sure no iguana hits you on the head when it falls out of the tree but I I don't do it every day I don't do it every week I go through spurts where I tried in the middle of the day just go for a walk around the lake return a calls or even better leave the phone and just talk to yourself we we have beautiful Lake and there are lizards and iguanas and ducks and there are fish and turtles and there's all kind it's it's amazing it's amazing and there are leaves and there are trees and there are bushes and FAA and it's amazing when's the last time you left your phone at home and just went for that walk and just took that in and found him and we in a conversation with him and the more frazzled you are the more frustrated you are the more anxious you feel the less you want to do that like I can't do that now I don't have a head for that now I don't want to go that's the that's when you need it the most that's when you need it the most that's when you when you have no time and so much to do and you're passing out from it and you're super busy that's when take five minutes and go for that walk and find and feel hasm and come back you will be super productive super efficient super calm be a Shepherd to the iguanas and the lizards and the Ducks Shepherd them for a little bit Shepherd them for a little bit but that's not why mosha was chosen why was mosha chosen mosha was chosen because the M tells the story The alar of K brings it down when he talks about his a long essay tells the story of one of the flock of the sheep one day a little sheep was you know even among the Sheep they fall behind there was the sheep that couldn't keep up was a little slower struggled in school struggled socially with friends struggled in executive function and couldn't get dressed and get it going in the morning so this sheep this neb this little sheep you know before there were all kinds of programs and support and we had the knowledge and learned how to to support such and next Monday night you see how I do the plugs weave them in Monday night we're doing a three-part mental hygiene series mental health we have literally World experts incredible people coming it's really really special the woman that's starting Monday night is an expert wrote a book on DBT and she uh incredible and and for ourselves and for our children and for these sheep in particular the Sheep not the sheep in the flock who's the first one who's running in the front who nobody can keep up with who excels in everything not that sheep the Superstar sheep gets the best grades and stars on the team and is picked first and socially fits in but the sheep in the back the sheep that can't keep up the sheep that can't get it going the sheep that has a failure to launch that sheep maybe you feel like that sheep maybe you're a parent of such a little sheep come Monday night you'll see it you'll see it advertised really amazing so Moshe Moshe was not the great Moshe theam the brilliant arite Superstar incredible spiritually Superior mosha he didn't neglect that sheep he found that sheep and he put the Sheep the medis say on his shoulders the med that little sheep was was tired and thirsty was a little dehydrated and Moshe carefully almost like with a dropper fed the Sheep hydrated the Sheep nourished the Sheep carried the sheep on his shoulders until he can get it back with a flock until he fit back in until he got it going and Hashem said forget how humble you are forget how smart you are forget how righteous you are there's other smart righteous and humble people but you're no you feel the pain you see that sheep that doesn't fit in you care he's or She's Not Invisible or inconsequential to you you're my leader you're the one you are the model you are rabenu forever it's a beautiful altar of C it's a long essay worth reading so here ruk is referring to it it says that Moshe Moshe we can learn from Moshe he started with the sheep and later with all the people Moshe saw and he cared and he supported and he felt the pain when the Jewish people and here's the point where ruk is getting to when the Jewish people are fighting Alik we've been fighting on Malik since we began since our very Inception we've been fighting on Malik and we're still fighting on Malik and you see our Malik is pernicious and if you allow them to remain they metastasized and throughout our history the the public National pressure that's always told us to back off is what has allowed the amalik to live to continue to regroup and to come back and we've paid the highest price each time we're still fighting amalik but in that original fight with amalik so yahushua was the General who led the people in battle and what did mosha do at that time he held up his hands the mishna says and there's a song to these words by the London School of Jewish music that maybe you never heard but there's a song to these words he held up his hands and when moshe's hands were up that's not the song but when moshe's hands were up so then they won and when moshe's hands were down they lost and wonders the mishna do hands pointing to the heavens win a war and kazal rabbis tell us yeah you know why when mosha pointed up everybody looked up and they remembered who's really in charge who's really in control Hashem so as we spoke about in the par yesterday we have to take our initiative first yov divided his camp and he armed them and he got them ready and then he turned to hashm and he daved we do both parts we have an army and we have to get them ready and we have to support them and take care of them and then we DAV for them and D for ourselves we have to do both parts and so moshe's hands were props when he lifted them the people remembered oh yeah he's in charge and we DED him and when Mosa's hands got heavy and they fell and we forgot and we looked down and we thought it's our tanks and our artillery and it's our parat Troopers and it's our Navy it's us then we lost the war because when we think it's all us then we're in trouble and when we remember that we're Partners but really it's all him then we do well so what happened if you've ever tried to hold up your arms you know body weight is an incredible source of exercise everyone thinks I have to go to the gym and I have to buy these fancy weights and then just do repetitions with your own body weight and see how hold your hands up and see how long you can hold them up you don't have to do it right now they get very heavy M's arms get incredibly heavy so what happened M's hands got heavy so they took a stone and they put it underneath and he sat on it Moshe sat on a rock instead of standing holding up his arms the first thing when it got heavy was here's a chair only they didn't give him a chair it wasn't a comfortable chair it wasn't an uncomfortable chair it wasn't a chair what did they give him a rock a rock nobody had a pillow nobody had a chair nobody had a recliner nobody had something comfortable that mosha could sit on if the Jewish people are struggling and suffering if they're at War and battling if they're sleeping outside in the woods if they haven't seen their family if they haven't had a good meal then I'm not sitting on no comfortable recliner or couch or chair the gamar says similarly any of us any of us hasn't slept with a pillow since October 7th this war broke out didn't sleep on a mattress during World War I I wrote last week's article I mentioned someone in our community mentioned in passing an extraordinary amazing person that he hasn't had chocolate since October 7th every time he has a little bit of a uh impulse for chocolate he stops himself and says you know I could do without chocolate if they can do without all they're doing without I not even ch chocolate going to defeat Kamas not eating chocolate not sleeping in the pillow is going to beat terrorists it's going to bring hostages home the answer is yes the Merit of so what are we denying or depriving ourselves just a little bit what luxury are we not indulging in right now because while brothers and sisters can't have necessities how could we enjoy luxuries and we should be thinking about that as we're planning Yeshiva week thinking about that as we're looking at Kaneka we still have to keep Kaneka we have to observe kanah is a we have to experience khah I'm not saying we don't have to have Kaneka I'm not saying when our children are off we shouldn't find the meaningful way to spend time with them during Yeshiva week I'm not saying that everything that we're doing right now our everyday lives we need to live make ourselves suffer but what luxury are we temporarily suspending while our brothers and sisters don't have some basic necessities because if we want to be like Mosher renu and who is mosh Renu imitating Hashem this recently when hasm speaks to Moshe I think it was last week I told you he doesn't do it from beautiful landscape he does it from a thorn bush among the thistles because Hashem himself says if you're in pain I'm in pain I can't if you're sleeping on the ground I'll sleep without a pillow so you could be back in a bed I could live with one you sleep with two pillows one pillow one less pillow until you're in a bed I'm without one of my pillows why that's going to stop Kamas yeah because when a Jew car about another Jew and connects with another Jew and feels the of another Jew if we can feel the pain of the then we will Merit to see the comfort and consolation of theor so far he didn't say anything of so far allus now he starts to say something we are finding ourselves with half a million soldiers who are who are in danger and you'll say we're not in danger right now there's a temporary ceasefire except that yesterday three soldiers were shot and injured because that's howas you know what the Kamas definition of a ceasefire is you cease and we keep firing that's the Kamas definition of a ceasefire that's what it's always been that's what it continues to be that's what it was I'm sure you saw the headlines right the outrage of the world how Kamas breached the ceasefire and shot three solders I'm sure you saw you read all about it right of course not because the world doesn't ask Kamas to see they're allowed to keep firing it's only Israel that has to cease so even in a ceasefire our soldiers are in great danger half a million soldiers on the front people living in all kinds of situations and conditions more family still sitting shiva injured in the hospital families were displaced and not yet home described when she got to the hotel visit displaced soldiers when she first got there on Monday she said the lobby is packed and filled with people and they look just they're they're they're like shells of themselves this is going on seven weeks of sitting in a l it's not a PES program that you have four outfits to be in the lobby for the of your kid and the next barbecue and midnight Tea Room this is seven weeks of taking your whole family without your clothing without your without your belongings without your space cramming into a room and having to hang out in a lab enough enough that's SAR that's says we're not even talking about the families who are grieving for those who were murdered or those who were injured we're not even talking about the families of those who are held hostage or the hostages themselves you read the report yesterday the parent of one of the children who was released said the children were forced to watch videos from October 7th over and over the videos that are not even being released for us to see that were only shown to some of the media some of knesset some Congress children that's these barbar Ian these animals made children watch videos The Pride they took of October 7 monsters in a astonishing profound pain says this isn't a new phenomenon this isn't the first time the Jews have been taken hostage and the gar tells us being held hostage is worse than everything you remember the father was interviewed it turns out his child was alive but when he was told his child was murdered after a few days and it was unclear and he said that's a relief they said that's a relief and he said yes the thought of is being held hostage tortured mistreated do you see the images of the children and adults coming out you notice something about them what are they wearing have you asked yourself why are these adults and children who are coming out 50 some days later coming out at night why are they wearing pajamas and there's a very simple answer you know why because seven weeks ago that's what they were wearing when they were first taken hostage they haven't been allowed to change or shower in seven weeks they're wearing the same pajamas every minute feels like an eternity says I'm not even talking about The Grieving families I'm not even talking about the families who someone's being held hostage or the hostages themselves I'm talking we're in a war as we wrote about last week the med tells us the P says when we fought with midan a thousand per tribe a thousand per tribe for every thousand who went to fight a thousand adopted and doed on their behalf the war is being fought on the front in Gaza and in leanon and in yehud Von and against Iran and it's being fought over 70 times on Army bases American army bases in the Middle East should think about the US troops who've been fired upon now 70 times in the last month be nice to see them have some support he said but the real wars fought where is the victory attained in theab said if you were to see the rock the stone that Moshe sat on while he lifted his arms and Dav during that war with amalik you would recite a what is said upon seeing that stone blessed is you Hashem who made a miracle for our forefathers in this place now do you think we we don't make that BR anymore we still make that we one would make that if you knew exactly where yamu happened the place of the yard we crossed over when we entered Israel where the yard ain't split gives examples where you make that I saw a video of someone making that BR one of the residents of schlomit of khuta Who the head of khuta our dear friend y didar will be here for shabas in a couple weeks but one of the residents named o who was part of the battle and went out to fight in October 7th not the Army because the real October 7th claw was saved by the civilians the civilian Security Forces he took his gun he put his family in the safe room he went out to fight he lost four four of the 70 families of schlomit without a husband and a father who fell in that battle but o survived but he was shot in the leg and when he recovered and got out of the hospital he went back to that same spot have a video of him in the front of the of the house fighting terrorists who infiltrated and he made this with's name who made a miracle in this place if it's our forefather sorry I skipped M appears in the back of the gamarra sh idel interesting footnote idel was not his name the mara took on his wife's maiden name because the Marsha was a big feminist no no he had certain reason he had to take on his wife's lame I think it had to do with the dowy and his father-in-law support and whatever the case may be historically he took on his wife's you know who else took on his wife's made a name my grandfather-in-law zidi took on his wife's made a name certain circumstances immigration having to come in it was common yeah it was common oh they kept changing the name oh so the was among them in the back of that he wonders a very good question and we'll end with this he said why did Moshe why do we make a on that rock it's a rock where was the war one against amalik on the on the battlefield so if you go to the battlefield where we defeated amalik I don't even know if that's accurate to say I wish we could say we defeated amalik we didn't we just pushed back amalik we withstood the attack of amalik we defended ourselves against amalik but we can't say we defeated amalik the BR at the battlefield you go to the battlefield and you see the miracle where we won against but the rock that mosha sat while he D that's where you make the you make the blessing in the place of the miracle the miracle was on the battlefield not the place where M answers it's true the miracle was the battlefield the miracle happening on the border of Gaza in Gaza the Miracles are happening we know nothing about because those stories are not being shared with us the miracle you saw the story of the bullet that didn't get through the tum soldier who had a tum and a bullet was caught in the tum someone said to me even a bullet can't get through KU test even the B KU test the longest of the TA even the bullet can't get through K test there are miracles happen so the miracle happens on the battlefield absolutely says the however where was the real Battlefield it was the top of that mountain where mosha raised his hands yes you make the where O's survive the infiltration of the terrorists outside schi yes one makes the BR there but you know where else you make the BR in the Bas Med and in the base can next to the stone that Moshe sat on because where is the war really ultimately won we take our initiative we do our estais but what is actually the key to success and Triumph where is the victory attained in the place of in the place that we DAV and that's why every one of us are soldiers and we'll pick up with this next week we're in Israel so we're off but in two weeks when we come back Kaneka we will pick up with this piece where of dro will therefore conclude you think you're not a soldier you think all you're doing is is giving up on some chocolate you're a reservist and you've been called up because where will we make a br please God when this is over that a miracle happened in the place where tum was finished you stay after sheer and you introduce something new not just have a coffee and catch up and compare majan results but now I'm not suggesting that's all people talk save the email I wasn't insulting anybody but if you stay afterwards and you say to then this is this is where the miracle will be have a responsibility we have an obligation please stay and say to we pick up with living with in two weeks should be a good day for am Isel amen