Rabbi Eitan Ash addresses the recent unrest in South Africa.

hi everybody i sent you this video from sitting in isolation and i've been watching the whole day all these different videos and clips and snapshots just going around the entire country of the absolute madness that's going on in the world and what worry me the most of the despondency that's out there at the same time i mean understandably so we've had over 80 months worth of covert which has absolutely ravished us one way two ways this third wave which is more of a tsunami and not a single person has not lost a loved one every family's been hit with covert we've suffered financially emotionally psychologically physically we're literally smashed and above that all when i land up in a situation where we watching our country bird shops being looted we're watching this absolute pandemonium in the street and all we can do is be despondent and i personally think back in my own personal life of being a south african born and bred here and having watched the journey of this country over my short years i remember the pre-94 every person talking about the the the war that was going to come out the civil war we had to leave i mean my parents locking themselves up in a room discussing whether or not we should run and reeve or not we landed up staying and we're not going to say the times were tough then the tribal wars the death was huge at the time but we came through it i clearly remember that friday when chris honey was savagely murdered and i remember the country going into absolute riot and correct me so at the time and we all were told don't you dare go to show friday night don't you dare go to saturday morning you will be killed in the street i climbed up onto my house and i was watching the smoke bellowing from the areas around as a writing and the anger was spilt out in the streets and we went through the towns of gupta we went through times of our finance ministers coming and going and iran plunging and every time we said we cannot continue we're done and we're over but south africa is a miraculous country south africa is a country that lives with the broker from the baby today that says that africa will be good and the mashiach will be better thereafter we are not natural it's illogical what takes place yeah we've always come through it and i'm not saying it's not tough trust me it's tough i love eating breathers every day as all of you do are we watching people leave the country all over we're all saying oh is it too late and we're despondent but the truth is that ever a time to be strong it is every time to be positive has got to be now we've got to understand that we don't run on the natural laws this country don't ask me how but the river gave us a bracha and the broker works i spoke to a friend today ahmad asked me how he was doing and his words were all good except for the fact that they're looting and burning my stores to the ground which is a little bit of a problem so but the truth is thank god i am healthy and this guy inspired me today because when he's watching what he's built up getting better he still understood the broken the goodness he had and he will bounce and he will fly and he will flourish and that is the energy we need now it's hard it's tough but now is not the time to be despondent now is not the time to say it's over we can't continue now's the time more than ever to put our feet strong in the ground believe in the bracha from the victor eva at the same time understand that no matter what we go through it's not there to bring us down but give us opportunity to grow let's stay strong let's focus and understand we are coming to those days of mashiach and we will be there and they will be great