Parsha Perspectives (Bechukosai, 5784) - He Remembers the Land

okay good evening everyone thank you so much for your flexibility traveled for Sim last night unable to give the shear this morning but who could pass up the opportunity to learn parai together so often almost always it's combined with par Bahar we rarely have ever get to focus just on this paraa so we uh I figured as long as someone would come and if no one came I had the camera the camera stand it looks a little bit like a person so at least I'd have one Kusa want to thank as always our generous par sh sponsors backing the cats and family member of David Gman we're very grateful to the cats is also this morning today's this evening sheer is sponsored by Judy and Mitch Taran in honor of the marriage of their son yets Tel Marilyn in commemoration of the second year side of Mitch's father Jerry Taran yuel and alah should always sponsor for many more s please God page 78 in the art SC Stone if you follow my decrees You observe my Commandments if you perform them and then the Torah goes on to give us a list of promises I'll make the rain fall in its time we've analyzed and study there so many times in the past offering so many interpretations I say this in the beginning of every paraa class we read the same para every week so I don't feel so bad every year the para doesn't change and the interpretations we try to bring new ones each week but some of the themes overlap and they're important they need reinforcement just like the para itself so and God says I will give you rain in its right time is also the root of the word GM this is a promise of the physical material reward in its right time it's a famous question which is what happened to there's no reward in this world we don't get rewarded in this world for doing the right thing the reward is living a most meaningful purposeful virtuous valuable satisfying gratifying life there's no external reward and here the Pasha seems to suggest if you do the right thing observe my laws get it all done then I'm going to reward you da with G so which is it is a reward of G this world the next World what's going on in the beginning of our para but even before we get to that even before we get to that Rashi tells us so maybe what's the root of if you if you walk if you carry yourself following my and means observe keep my and and you do them so three descriptions and two categories and we're not the first to pick up on that Rashi was bothered May means observe my laws but it can't be why because is about to spell out so it's already covered so what then is God saying if if you walk with my what is that mission what is that mandate and Rashi says the famous words this is the Torah obligation to learn and study Torah not at some surface or superficial level but to delve into to immerse ourselves to toil to sweat to work to work on our learning of Torah to work on our learning of Torah Torah is not supposed to just come and be spoonfed it's not on a silver platter shouldn't just be downloaded transmitted takes work you know the more work the more effort you put in the more you make something your own of destler's famous formula that love is the result not of receiving but of giving when you give your energy and your toil and your sweat and your tears and your time when you work really hard in order to be able to understand in order to be able to appreciate you acquire that's in fact what says at the very beginning of he says if your desire is the Torah of we went from Tora to to saso went from the Torah that belongs to God the Divine to your Torah what makes it your Torah you went on Art scr you went on Koran you went on whatever publishing house I don't want to get in trouble and you purchased you downloaded you went to the bookstore the store you came that's what makes it your Torah no so is a k Torah when you acquire and how do you acquire when learning Torah is not a passive experience when learning Torah is not a spectat sport when learning Torah is not supposed to be with comfort and ease but you're willing to work on it break your teeth on it study it challenge yourself with it to toil to break a sweat you know they say in another area where we want to grow and gain and improve ourselves physically famously it was said no pain no gain so what's true in the physical world is also true in the spiritual world no pain no gain now I don't mean to minimize certainly those of you who are here in person those watching online who are listening and learning and what is what an unbelievable honor for me to learn together with you and it's valuable and it's wonderful I hope it is that's why you keep coming back and it brings me back it makes me want to not cancel even if we have to do it at an awkward time I have a different relationship with the par in weeks that we have the par I do it for myself not for not for you but in the end of the day when you attend a shear and you sit back and here in the ran Sanctuary Bon synagogue we got some really comfortable chairs sitb back in the back you got coffee and tea station back in the Heyday granola bar granola bars W in the morning little breakfast and you sit back and you say no inspire me no give me some good stuff give me something from my shabas table and this value I understand I'm this is you know bad this is bad for the business here for me what I'm doing right now you keep coming to sheer but don't let that take the place of real Torah learning and real Torah learning is open a safer break your teeth sit with a dictionary work hard to understand grow your skills work work to decipher to understand to review to remember some of you come to the great gift to from and it includes a people of all ages we have people take Bas who take the test they challenge themselves on material who haven't taken a test in 60 years in over 60 years and then walking around with notes and reviewing and memorizing and of course challenging the teacher that wasn't clear that's not a fair question it's fantastic how excited a to get involved invested but here's the question where did get that from from the words where is Rashi raises the challenge it can't be mitzah because that we say later in the P so it's got to be something else and what's the something else okay we understand the lesson of the something else we understand we have to get to something else but how did we get from camping mitz has to mean something else to meaning so we have several answers to share firstes the ofs the of the ofs where do you see that in the words means to walk and means where do you see from there it means don't just sit back in a recliner and passively listen to She and maybe try to stay awake till the end but immerse yourself be dedicated be devot where do you see that in the words who [Music] says when a person works hard and toils when a person gives of themself makes the effort no pain no gain when a person is truly and learning when a person is truly immersed when a person is really lost when a person is really delving when a person is really debating it's not Aus at all is a great expression if you love what you do you'll never work a day in your life I've never worked a day in my life if you love what you do you never work a day in your life and if you love The Learning it'll never feel like a you know when it's I'm tired I don't feel like it I don't understand it's not coming easily I don't have any energy I can't focus I don't want to be doing this that's when it feels like I'm Al it's work sometimes your mind is not clear you're focused or thinking about other things you're worried about a livelihood or some other other source of anxiety wor you know what it takes when you run into that wall when you don't feel like doing it when you're exhausted when it's not coming easily when it doesn't make sense when you want to be and go somewhere else and you stick it out anyway and you show up anyway you know in the physical world too it's not a big deal if you work out an exercise when you're excited about it when you're into it when you're on a roll when it feels good when you get the feedback when you're getting ener what happens when you didn't get the night's sleep you were hoping to get what happened when you didn't eat right what happens when there's so much on your mind what happens when you have every excuse on the Under the Sun to cancel but you show up that's when it really counts and all the more so in Total Learning that's when it really counts wow what's a a is I don't understand the reason I can't comprehend it doesn't make sense to me it's not coming easily it's not coming naturally it doesn't have a taste it doesn't have a taste the opposite of a is a Mitzvah that has a several commentators explain and I've shared this before for that we use the same word for Taste and reason how do you say does it have a good tastes good is a taste reason is test is a reason why do we have the same word whenever we use the same word for two different definitions it means those definitions are intertwined what do reason and taste have to do with each other the answer is the answer is we eat in order to live and bland food bread and water if it was all that were available we'd have to eat it because we need it to live if you're malnourished if you are if you don't eat enough then you can't live if it tastes good all the better if it tastes great makes it even more pleasurable more enjoyable but whether it tastes good or not you have to eat in order to live the same is true with t total learning you have to learn total whether it makes sense whether you have the reason whether you comprehend whether you feel like it it is the spiritual nourishment for the soul it's more delicious when it has a t when you understand the reason when it makes sense tastes more delicious it's more exciting but even if you don't have the reason and even if it doesn't make sense you still have to you still have to swallow your Torah you have to take in your daily portion your your Torah calorie intake even if it doesn't so is reason and Tam is taste because they're similar and they go together and now says the now we understand where did get this from is when Torah requires when it comes easily and naturally and it's fun and it's seamless and it's smooth and it's without friction then it's not it's not a when it's AOS it's aoke this doesn't make sense I don't want to do it I don't want to be here it's not coming easily but you show up you you showed up you're here nonetheless and then when does hem give us a reward not when it's easy not when it's natural not when you get the instant feedback and gratification but when you didn't feel like it and it doesn't make sense and it feels like a hoke why do I have to do this and you know what you show you came anyway you showed up anyway that's when the reciprocal that's when it comes so that's how the the understands He suggests that's how saw in the words the explains based on the measures the You observe and you do them two opinions in it's not is it if You observe the the Torah it's as if you've done them or it's as if you've done you've created you've made yourselves you've made yourselves so the explains no one person can complete or observe all 613 why very simple can't be a is a man and a woman living Israel and outside of Israel time of the not of you can't be the combination that is able to personally fulfill and live all of the Mitzvah impossible impossible so how do we do it how do we do it all the examples so how do you how do we have a relationship with all if by definition we are not qualified to fulfill them all because there are many pieces of advice some say you can't technically observe all but you can long for Hope for have a relationship with study get to the deeper meaning the pemus of the Mitzvah and then observe each Mitzvah opportunity that presents itself as long as you long to and you want to and you yearn to and you identify with and you associate with and you study and you connect to the deeper meaning of treats it as if we kept it all as if we kept it all that's what it means if you learn the laws of the as if you offered an and so on and now we understand the medish itself said if Torah what does it have to do with the mitz it means the Mitzvah that you can't keep those the ones go even deeper on so parts of Torah we don't have a we're not offering coros they're the parts of Torah they're not the said that it's like P you have to redeem the captives theas that are being neglected and ignored to study da those and how do we show we want the B we want mashia by studying specifically theas that are the most neglected but it means the mitz that we can't do we're not qualified for we're not included in that those are the mitzvas we should focus on and learn that if you learn them we delve deep into them then it's as if we then it's as if we observe them then it's as if we observe them ourselves okay moving over to also has a couple interpretations get past the first p and we got a hard stop today because we got we don't usually say that at the par if we say at the par we've got a hard stop because we've got that's a very long par normally it's at 9:30 in the morning but today we got a hard stop so says the following he ques he has 42 interpretations on this P wow so his he also didn't get past the first 42 separate interpretations suggestions the second one is tells us that had all kinds of plans he had all kinds of goals all kinds of aspirations for that day and yet he found himself that his feet kept taking him back where to the basic me if we condition ourselves and cultivate ourselves and habituate ourselves and have such a yearning and such a love then our body itself will carry us so even if upstairs even if on our list on our to-do list I got to go to Publix and I got to go to Costco and I got to stop at the tailor and I got to hit the dry cleaning and yet and I keep finding myself in the Bas Med that's something we love so much we yearn for so much we can't get enough of we keep finding ourselves there a person who's really conditioned to love Torah can't get enough of Torah you know those people they can't stop checking the stock market every day even Memorial Day when the Market's closed they're still checking it just to make sure that what they saw Friday is they still remember and they add up what they have some people can't get enough the box score Rangers Panthers overtime who won who had the winning score where they more Rangers fans Panther fans there what happened some people can't get enough and even if they're not intending it and even if they meant to be thinking about something else their mind is back there a person who's so drawn to and connected with and lives off of and is nourished by Torah or if K Le by or Torah Le by Torah you can't get enough of it wherever you go that's what you're thinking that's what you're reading that's what you're learning that's the little thing you have in your pocket today you can have almost Kula on your phone you never have an excuse you're never in a place that you can't make the best use of your time to be learning Torah that's hergo our habits reveal what we love what we care about what's our habit you know some people when they're sitting at their computer they're just checking the same without thinking about it their finger on the mouse brings them back to the same websites so what what in a Mindless thoughtless way are you being brought back to what are you checking out is it Times of Israel because you can't stop thinking about what's going on in Israel is it some social media site is it the stock market is it Amazon to order another package where is it that without thinking mindlessly that's where your fingers and your computer bring you back that's where you go you open your phone because you're bored and you're sitting and you're waiting without even thinking that's where you are so describ the tells us that he says about my ways that's now we understand that's what we say every morning you ready it's a little bonus sitter snippet before every morning we say the words may it be your will give us the habit of your Torah and let us stick to and cling to your mitz what does it mean say it every morning and I don't even remember if we said this in s Snippets it was so many years and Snippets ago when we learned this what do those words mean now we understand based on the based on the measur of based on the interpretation let my regillus let my habit let my momentum let my let my inertia let the the fault of my mindlessness be it leads me back to your Torah that when I get in the car I don't put on some podcast I don't put on some music I don't put on some comedy the default instinctively mindlessly I put I press Torah T I have a few minutes in the car I have a few minutes I'm walking I have a few minutes I'm shopping I a few minutes I'm cooking let my Regus be Torah let that be my habit let that be my default let that be where I automatically go that's number one number two now the says if you don't listen and you don't do these mitz and rash there says if you fail to delve into and to immerse yourselves in the depths of Torah so so how does it work or Dr is wondering means that you were an so then it should have been that if you listen that's how does this make sense soar the following shadam why does it take delving why does it take toiling why does it take work should be that if you're bright you're able to download all of Torah and access it and have it like all other whatever the subject the smarter the brighter a person is the quicker they pick it up and if you're slower you have a poor memory you have bad analytical skills it takes you longer it's not on Theus and yet Torah Torah is this unusual unusual unusual subject that it requires Aus for all that's a below the way orchestrated his Torah is that it requires Aus from the smartest and the brightest to the slowest or the one who struggles the most there's no one who can say yeah it's easy I just read it like a novel and I'm done in order to become someone something in Torah no matter where you start and and I blessed to have access and a relationship with some true G is brilliant Brilliant Minds Brilliant Minds and we're tempted to dismiss and say yeah it's easy for them comes naturally for them but you know how hard they work you think ofar and theiva and many others you think it doesn't take Aus doesn't take Aus I have a poster that we hang in our Suka it's an amazing poster it's a collage of pictures of r they learning all over it was made by one of his children you have to have access to all these pictures every family vacation online sitting on the ground sitting on the end waiting at the air just pictures of him when is learning from a little wherever he is and whatever he just wants another few minutes to learn and when he's doing that there's no one and nothing else in the world he is it doesn't matter where he is and what's happening around him that's that's what's going on he was once staying at house and he was cturing that earliest flight of the day out the 6:00 a.m. you get picked up at the airport at 4:30 4:15 a.m. to get to the airport and he wasn't sure it's brilliant in mind he is he's not in this world how to work the alarm clock exactly so I woke up to check to make sure that he was awake that rebi was going to get out on time Not only was he awake when I came out I'll never forget this he was sitting at my dining room table and there was a nuda open in front of him he was looking up a Chua in the nuda at 4 o' in the morning whatever time of day your mind is brightest save the nuda for that moment because that's what you need in order to go through a TR of the nuda but he was sitting it was 4 AM wasn't time yet the car wasn't there to pick him up no deud that's hairo that's the that's the that no matter where you start with what IQ and what memory you still have to be you still have to be drawn to and love learning wherever you are and that aspect of Torah different than every single other area of study is what makes it a says and that's why you have to know that this subject called Torah it's a it's a it requires a no matter where you start out no matter how bright or gifted you are so where do we learn you have to be willing to kill yourself over Torah kill yourself not sit back in a recliner have it spoonfed you've got a shitz over Tor you got to kill yourself to learn to remember to be literate you have to kill yourself you have to work where do we learn that where's the is in what context because that aspect of Torah that it demands that level of AOS is a so it appears within the quintessential H Nam namely the it's all part of a longer essay he has here but I want to move on past the opening past the opening POS here has one more was gonna yeah one more quick quick quick quick on the words so follow my decrees walk with them condition yourself that's where you go automatically and my Commandments TSH what does the word tshu mean it can't really mean observe because that's what means right if means to do that what is then what does mean so listen to what he says listen to what he says what do we call somebody who's observant are you a TZ TZ is a person observant are they a shabas Tor why do we call them a we should call them a m do you obser Do You observe do you fulfill colloquially why do we refer to someone who observed Torah as sh Torah sh shabas Shas why do we refer to it as a sh so listen know what he answers there are two types of people that have Rel relationship with there's a person who's scrupulous and Vigilant and careful and gets it right they're careful about but there's an altogether another relationship you could have with mitzvos there's another level listen to this you listening there's another level you could observe Mitzvah as a check check went to Shak check check put some money in the pushka check check P that sh check okay P done check sh is coming up do count the OM last night check check check check check just means it's a burden it's a responsibility it's an obligation and I've got to do it all and I do it all vigilantly and carefully and scrupulously but there's another level the other level of relationship with mitzah is not just a check mark it's not to fulfill it and say you're done but rather it is to look forward to it is to count down it is to be excited it is to be enthused your excitement and your joy you have no rest you have no peace just can't wait for the next mitvah when's the next daving when's the next Mitzvah when's the next when's the next opportunity you're looking you're longing you're waiting where's the opportunity what's the next I could do who's the next person I can lift their Spirits where's the next Shear I can go to or listen to No what's the next kades I can answer was the next I could sayain to it's an excitement and a looking and a long it's an altogether different way of living life both fulfill Torah and mitzah but the first does so responsively the first does so as a reaction check done the other does so looking and longing and waiting so that's what the word sh means P says back in bra and rash there says on that who it talking about yob about Ys what's he waiting for when will it come when will he arrive the dream be fulfilled what does Shar mean in this context sh he was looking forward he was anticipating he was excited he was counting down the word Shamar means excitement anticipation looking forward looking forward that's what the OB the says the says that's theat in what it means to be a sh shabas sh shabas is what you do from Sunday to Friday shabas You observe shabas when are you a Sher shabas are are you excited are you looking forward are you turning Friday into Arab shabas are you learning are you preparing are you counting down are you excited are you anticipating are you planning Shar means to look forward so now you can understand what does the mean means to observe and to keep what does mean it means not just a fulfillment and observance it means the attitude the relationship with what's the relationship and that's why what do we call somebody who keeps mitos the greatest praise that we can say is there the truth is not everybody is some are just some just happen to fulfill Torah mitz but they're not sh Tor mitz to be sh Tor mitz is a different relationship than to Simply and that's the meaning of the words says okay okay moving along still in the we haven't get gotten to the yetem says I'm gonna give you peace in your land a sword won't pass on your land or you'll pursue and Chase your enemy and what will happen they will fall Before You by The Sword so to summarize these twoim let's go to the beginning of the first p and the end of this next p shom God says I'll give you peace in your land and your enemies are going to fall before you ask who's the 16th century are backwards shom it's out of order what happens first you have peace in your land and then your enemies fall no you destroy and you eliminate Hamas you get rid of hisbah you kill the head of the snake Iran you take care of the htis you take care of all your enemies and then shom now you have peace in the land the got it backwards you have peace in your land then your enemies fall your enemies fall and then you'll have peace in your land listen to the answer he gives and this to say this under last night but I didn't get to read it inside because they always say Rabbi would you speak very briefly so anyway they didn't say that in this case but you got to be brief if you're gonna speak under when should you have peace in the land this shot is unbelievable when you make peace among yourselves when you have Harmony and unity when you're unified then hasem will take care that the enemies will fall before you when you're divided when you're on the brink of Civil War when you're blaming when you're pointing fingers when you're rallying when you're protesting when you're coming out against then your enemies aren't going to fall the peace the peace the PK is talking about is not the absence of the enemies that's a peace that comes after of enough what's the peace that precedes it when you make peace between each other when you have peace this is still a time that we need such there are so many forces working so hard to divide us and Splinter us and break us apart and we can't let them we can't let them because we're so desperately longing for so desperately longing for our enemies to Simply fall before us to collapse and to fall before us but what must preced it is shom there has to be peace in his words not with your enemies there have to be peace within ourselves we have to have unity and community and peoplehood and when we'll have peace shom it should come quickly God says I'll walk among you and I will not I will walk among you I will be God onto you and you will be a people unto me throw back to the passer on the para we didn't get to this in the previous years I'll walk with you and like I'm one of you Bel to many and you won't be scared you won't be frightened you won't recoil from me so maybe you'll be so casual and comfortable that you'll have no awe or reverence of Me no don't worry I'll still be your God you'll still know who boss you'll still know what's what one do in his last you're gonna walk side by side with God you're GNA go on a T and G with God and you're not going to tremble you're not going to recoil fear how could it be your heart should be overwhelmed with an awesome fear how will that happen says you know what you see from you you s you see the danger of habit the more used to something you are the more something becomes a habit the more casual you feel about it you lose the awe you lose the reverence you lose the respect it can grow old and it can grow stale that which was so exciting that which was so special that which was so a inducing everything can grow stale even going on a t side by side with hem in ganen in ganen you'll be so comfortable and Casual you might think that you'll lose your all in reverence Hashem has to ensure and guarantee don't worry it will still be there you see the danger of hair Gale person has to always be on alert switch up use a new sitter with a new layout mix things up break out of the Habit break out of the Casual relationship mix things up and light things up and get things going because even the holiest activity even that which was so uplifting and exciting at first can grow stale even going on a with hem in ganen page 714 you know actually we're going to save this one for shabas maybe Arab shabas maybe turn Friday into Arab shabas so lesson about shabas we'll save it because we're already Time bottom page 714 now we're in the the harsh harsh graphic rebuke our people unfortunately have seen come true come true famously after the war was in the to was being read was doing is the which is to read it quietly under his breath because we don't want to say these things out loud because you know when you're a Jew if you say something it could happen so certain words we don't say we whisper so the to we whisper and the said louder louder louder everyone was stunned and the bori looked around and he said we lived it and we survived it you don't have to whisper it if you're reading the Great Book I've been promoting actually the author sent me an email I guess it got back to him that we've been encouraging I don't get any royalty but it's an amazing Arts girl came out with a new biography of the you want to attach yourself to a person of amuna you want to connect to a hot spot of amuna if you have a slow connection and you want high speed amuna use the hot spot of the Cen bua this incredible book louder louder but we read it quietly and here in this PK it describes they will confess their sin the sin of their fathers for the treachery with which they betrayed me and for having behaved towards me beer Ker's mikra happens to chance hasm didn't give me this job hhm didn't give me the sh hasm didn't give me this baby Hashem didn't give me this parking spot Hashem didn't give me this it's a happen stance it's chance it's random when we walk with god with Randomness he responds he reciprocates he walks with us with Randomness as well so this PK uses a very funny language because the PK says we're confessing I don't understand isn't confessing a good thing confessing is a good thing so why is this part of why is this part of the rebuke that God's going to respond to why is this part of the carry the happen stance listen to [Music] the if you confess but you haven't expressed regret about the past and you haven't come up with a plan and a commitment for the future your confession is empty it's meaningless it's meaningless reminds me sometimes of the child sometimes the wife or the husband you know often the husband he knows at some point that day he's going to have to apologize so at some point he says sorry so she says why now the hard work begins he's got to figure out what he did wrong what he's saying sorry for and even if he knows what he did wrong and he said he's sorry but he doesn't really regret having done it and she and he both know he's gonna do it again so his it's true I did I told you I was going there but I was playing golf with my friends true I said I was on my way home I hadn't even left the office it's true I this that or the other thing it's all true it's all true he says it's true I confess I apologize but she says that's empty and it's meaningless because if it's not filled with regret for the past and it doesn't contain a commitment for the future it's garnished it's nothing says the same is true with Hashem this do it's even worse you're confessing you can identify you know what you did wrong but there's no serious regret and no serious attempt to fix it going forward it's worthless it's meaningless means nothing that's why it's part of the to and that's why it Garners this harsh harsh response so has a different interpretation points out and notices something the ran raises the question the order the pum seemed to be inverted first read Jews will confess their sins but the consequence of that confession will be Exile the opposite should be true once the people realize their error and confess Hashem should react favorably the answer lies in the form of the confession with the Jews employ notice in the they confess could look inside it's an open book test they're confessing their own sins and the sins of their fathers the AP indicates the Jews will admit their sins and their fathers implicit in this confession is the contention that the sins are not entirely their fault they will claim their fathers introduce them to the sinful lifestyle mode of living and thus they're not totally to blame the Jew will claim that their sins are not their fault fault could not be avoided there were Dynamic forces prevented them from doing the right thing they'll confess but then they'll blame others and that is not a real confession the moment your confession is this V you got me I was wrong made a mistake but do you know why it happened have you met my parents do you know where I come from the DNA you're right I always run late my parents late my grandparents were always late my great-grandparents were always late or do you meet my teacher or my boss or do you know my children the person who admits that they've made a mistake but immediately shifts into blame mode and part of their part of the confession is to blame their parents confession that's not a confession that is not a confession and that's why it's part of the and that's why it Garners that harsh reuk me me top of page 716 Hashem says the conclusion of the please leave the door closed just go out the other way can you lock that back door I'll remember my BR with yob and my bris with and my bris with and I'll also remember I'll also remember the land what's going on over here what do you notice about this P it's in reverse yov and by the way in addition to Theos you know what other Merit what what other I'm going to invoke and also so we've got an inanimate object that's what we culminate with that's what we conclude with we are in need of all the Merit we can earn we know hasem showering was all the love that we can get so we're invoking the AOS and also the land the OS are out of order and then what does the land add to vibrant Dynamic actual actual animate people animate people so we'll start with the out of order thead says it's a the CL are not yet over so why are we invoking it's an unbelievable the is not over and we're invoking Hashem says I'm gonna remember yob and and the land and that's part of the to the rebuke how is that part of the rebuke listen to the schl Hashem says you know you don't come from nowhere you had the greatest M the greatest teachers the greatest mentors the greatest role models and because of that you should have known better better others have an excuse how was I meant to know who taught me did you see how I was raised no wonder I couldn't do better but you you could have done better look where you come from look who you are I was once at a sentencing of someone who was really a wonderful person got mixed up in a in a bad thing and had a lot of people argue on his behalf the judge said I never received so many letters before rabbis Community leaders my whole life I never received so many letters in any other case and I read everyone that's a commitment I I would always do he said but I must tell you and here it backfired he said when I read all these letters all I think to myself was there are people who appear before me they had no way of knowing any better they had no role models and no mentors and nobody who taught them and for everyone who wrote a letter saying how wonderful you are it leaves me more wondering how you could have gone wrong because you had so many powerful role models in your life wow I was stunned in that moment it backfired the judge put it all the other way and that's this that's the judge upstairs he says I know where you come from I know what opportunities I know what teachers I know what role models I know who you had I remember it and therefore you could have and you should have done better and that's why this PK which seems to be invoking Merit is really start is still included in what the the Clos itself it's still in there what is what is this land land Mich says the very fact that Israel is isolated internationally the vast majority of Cl is sympathetic towards her and ready to suffer all manner of charges against her by jewers the fact that we identify with the state and see all who oppose it as jewers is due to the sanctity of our AOS take away erel and the Jews of the diaspora will be engulfed by a tremendous wave of estrangement and assimilation all the dramatic tragic experience of the sanctity of the OS the existential difference of Jewish history would farbeit be wiped out when you reach the stage of you will become lost among the Nations when you'll be in turmoil dumbfounded afraid when you'll no longer want to be recognized as Jewish hiding like yon in the bowels of the ship when you'll be frightened by the lot of aam of the patriarchal Covenant it will not Avail you in spite of all to forget the ancient Covenant I will bring about something new that will always remind you of your jewishness that will exemplify the fact that you are different a hasem will remember the Covenant you'll be forced to remember it Covenant of ab will boom forth from the radio all the newspapers will point out the Jews his particular promis his stubbornness as well as his cast iron determination The Shadow of ab our father will pursue you do you know how by ER is and I will remember the land this is the most prophetic pre think I maybe I ever read in my whole life look what's going on right now at the very college campuses where Jews were assimilated and lo losing their jewishness anti-semites are putting up their homeless shelters their tents and they're screaming their anti-semitic vile hate and all why the assimilating Jews who are trying to forget they're Jewish anti-semites are yelling at them about ab and yob your Covenant your jewishness why V because Israel will be the Catalyst that little tiny State smaller than New Jersey that could fit many times in the State of Florida that little sliver of land the only in its area that doesn't even produce oil that little place is going to be the cause when you forget that others remember and yob how many Jews across this country in the world who have gotten the bris the Covenant forgot they descend from a and yob and they're being caused to remind by anti-semites in their face and what's the reason the land of Israel is bringing the anti-Semitism that's reminding the Jew tries to forget that they're a child of mitob I have to read that again read it too fast because we got to go to it's unbelievable as always a lot more we didn't get to in the end of the para a value we leave our abbreviated you're here but at least we got it in should be a good day and a good night of for thank you