A JEWISH STATE | WAR OF AMALEK (25)

We are back our Tuesday night series that uh we have the merit to come back to we haven't been uh learning this with you for some time the war of Amalik series a series that although these writings were uh written before World War II before the holocaust uh as we see each and every single time. Uh the uh writings of are more relevant today it seems like than it even was back then. Uh especially with all the things that are happening uh in the world and Israel today. Uh tonight's show is going to be for the lait leaves and all of Am all the righteous nohides that continue to learn with us, continue to donate and support all the amazing things that the organization is doing. And uh Hashem bless each and every one of you that does it a thousandfold. And some of you with more ambition than others if your donations are as ambitious as some of our supporters will bless you a millionfold. Uh so uh tonight it's uh literally an unbelievable timing uh pure dishaya as you'll hear the words especially with everything that's happening in Israel. uh and everything that's happening really around the world. Now the writings of Vasman were before World War II. Uh he was murdered uh in the Holocaust by the Nazis. But despite all of that, of course, everyone knows that Israel was modernday Israel was founded uh in 1948 uh after the uh the war was over and uh Benu uh convinced his and his uh Zionist friends convinced the United Nations with by holding up a Tanakh and saying that we have a contract. We have proof that Israel belongs to us and we'll speak about that a little today. But what we see from the writings of that again were written before the war, needless to say before the founding of the state of Israel. We see that he had clear eyes of what was happening and what will be happening in the state of Israel we live you know we have today. And um in fact it becomes even more amazing when you start looking at all of the details of what's happening in the government and the and just the protests the uh corruption. You start seeing more and more. In fact, you get to see what he spoke about that we've spoken about in lectures over the years about the corruption and ideology where many people don't realize that although the only Jewish state in the world is in the Middle East, it was actually some self-hating Jews that uh are behind its founding even though there were many religious Jews that loved Hashem that were there well before the Zionist ever were even born. But we're not going to spend much time on that as we are going to spend on what makes a Jewish state and what does the Tanakh that Bengurion used to win his argument at the UN say about a Jewish state. Before we really get into it, of course, no two Jews are the same. There are some extraordinary Torah scholars. There are people that are religious Jews, decent people. There are secular Jews. Some are decent. Some are wicked. There are also some people that pretend to be religious but are wicked. There's all types. But the Jewish soul, if somebody has a real Jewish soul, is unlike anything else in the world. And we see that from the stories of self-sacrifice nephesh that Jews were willing to make in order for them to not cross the line. There was a story that's uh been uh publicized in recent days about one of the hostages guy by the name of Omar Shtov who was a hostage in Gaza and uh the terrorist told him that uh he could save his own life by waiting in the cave for the Israeli soldiers to come in and as soon as they come in to blow up the cave. and that's how he's going to save his life and if he doesn't do it they'll kill him. Now I don't know if shetov knows about the three cardinal sins where it you know it's best a person die or they have to die and and not make those sins. One of them being kilashem the uh to to by uh you know serving an idol, one of them being the uh immorality and the third one being murder. You're not allowed to kill somebody in order to save your life. Now, I don't know if Omar Shtov knew this, but his Jewish certainly knew it. And he told the terrorists that under no condition is he willing to kill his fellow Jews that are going to be coming into the cave, even if that means that he's going to die right there and then. And of course, when these terrorists were threatening to kill, they weren't joking. But his life was spared and he was able to live to tell the story. In a world where a person dedicates all of their life to Hashem and and to learning his Torah and somebody sacrifices their life for it, you're going to understand why they did it because they lived their whole life doing that. But when you have people that are not exactly Shabbat, they're not exactly religious, they don't really know much about the Torah or Hashem, but they're willing to do the same sacrifice, not just to save their fellow Jews, but even to save their faith in Hashem. However small or big it is, it shows you that there's something beyond what you're able to see. This is the reason why when I speak to people that ask me about how to uh help people do chuva, how to rebuke family members, friends, and so on or or if they have issues with different people that are currently not observing Torah, I always tell people that it's best for them to send them my lectures than to speak to them because many times people do not know how to speak not because they don't know how to speak the language, but simply they don't have communication skills. So their uh rebuke sounds more like attacking, judging, hatred. Uh and many times it uh people uh do chuva and build this chip on their shoulder, start to hate all of their old family friends, which is the exact opposite of what they're supposed to do. They're supposed to help their family and friends, not uh hate them. Uh but unfortunately, this is a common thing. And one of the things that you have to acquire in your life if you want to serve Hashem properly and if you want certainly if you want to help people do chva is you have to love Jews. You have to love is now a person says well but this person doesn't keep Shabbat. This person is uh you know committing immorality. Sure he's sinning but is he an enemy of God intentionally or out of ignorance? And there's a very big difference. Either way, a person, you know, if he dies that way, certainly he's going to get punished. There's no question about that. And those that say otherwise are simply lying to you and to themselves. But, uh, if a person wants to help somebody, they have to know the essence of what's behind their lack of observance. What's what's behind their lack of interest in the Torah? Is it simply addiction to to to sins, to to immorality, or is it actual heresy where they hate the Torah? They are enemies of the Torah in a sephil calledesh by a rahua uh ibashitz on page 22. He has a story u that one of the survivors from the Holocaust told about their friend, their beloved, a man by the name of Yel Machek. Now Machek wasn't really his last name. He that was just his nickname. They called him Machek. But uh they said that Machek was Kadosh. Why was Mach Kadosh? Because after they escaped the concentration camps, they couldn't go very far. They would hide in the woods in the forests. And the evil Nazis viz were relentless in trying to find these what they considered rebels, these Jewish survivors. And one of those times they c they caught Machek, but they didn't want to kill him. They wanted him to disclose where are the rest of the Jews hiding in the forests. If you tell us, we'll spare your life. And Machek, who before the Holocaust was a simple Jew driving a truck, wasn't a huge Torah scholar, wasn't known as a big sadic, wasn't known as a Mikubal, but by his friends in this story, he was known as Kadosh. Why? Because Machek knew exactly where his fellow Jews were hiding in the forest. But no matter how much torture and torment the Nazis put upon him, he refused to tell them where it is. And he ended up dying from the torture, dying on Kadushm, saving his fellow Jews. Now again if Machek was a prophet, if Machik was an extraordinary sadik mikubal willing to die on kadushem, it would be understandable. You lived your whole life serving Hashem. You're close to Hashem. You're understanding the purpose of life. You understand that there's an afterlife, a reward for the righteous, a punishment for the wicked. So therefore to die over here by these evil monsters it's not a big deal. Theoretically speaking it's always a big deal. But point is there is the understanding that there's life doesn't end here. This is just a chapter. But Machik wasn't that. Machik was a simple Jew, but a simple Jew that endured endless suffering and torture from the Nazis imam just to save his fellow Jews from the same death that ended up taking him out of this world. Where did this come from? Where does Omar Shamtov and Machek and countless other simple Jews we've read about, we've heard about that are willing and were sacrificing their life. Where do they get this strength from? The Balata, founder of Kabad, writes about it in his inut chapter 18. The Batana expands on the extraordinary strength within a Jew in order for him not to become a heretic, not to betray his God. And he talks about how the soul of a Jew is unique where they acquired it as a result of being descendants of our patriarchs of Ramitak and Yakov who were the chariot of Hashem. the what they call the and transmitted to their descendants this blessing forever of a from the holy t. Now this means says the Tanya that even the most worthless of worthless men and the sinners of Israel are thus endowed at the time of marital union with at any rate a nephish of royalty in the world of action which is the lowest grade of holiness in the world of Assyah. Nevertheless, since the latter of the 10 holy spir since it's it's the last of the 10, it's compounded of them all, including and so on. In so many words, the spiritual makeup of a Jew is different. Now what does that translate to says the Tanya therefore same chapter 18 even the most worthless of worthless and the transgressors of the Israelites in the majority of cases sacrifice their lives for the sanctity of God's name and suffer harsh tortures rather than deny the one God although they be poors and illiterates and ignorant of God's greatness. Here he's telling us that your average Jew that maybe a sinner may drive on Shabbat, maybe a thief, maybe somebody that you're not even sure he he's Jewish just by the way he looks. still has the power within his soul to make sacrifices unlike anyone else in mankind. You're never going to see a Chinese person sacrifice their life in order to protect their belief in uh communism or or Buddha or any of the beliefs there. You're not going to see people in America willing to sacrifice their life for their belief in uh Yoshk or in Islam or anything else. They may fight for it. They may argue about it. They may vote. They may uh censor, but they're not willing to die for it. Now, even if you can say, "Yeah, but some look, there's historical proofs. There's some martyrs here." Yes, these are exceptions. Your average person, which we're referring to, is not willing to die for his beliefs. He may scri scream about it. He may argue about it, but he's not willing to die. But a Jew has the power within them. I'm not saying every Jew is willing to die for it, but they do have the power within them to die despite the suffering and agony they'll have to go through just for the sake of something that they're very, very illiterate about. They don't know much about God. They don't know much about the Torah. They don't even know much about what makes them Jewish, but they're willing to sacrifice their life. Anda concludes this section by saying rather they do they suffer martyrdom without any knowledge and reflection but as if it were absolutely impo impossible for them to renounce the one God and without any reason or hesitation whatsoever. This is because the one God illuminates and animates the entire nephesh which is part of that soul they have through being clothed in its faculty of which is beyond any grasp beyond any graspable and understood knowledge or intelligence. In so many words, it's impossible to understand this power within each Jew if they choose to utilize it. So this gives us a little more clarity about the strength. But perhaps the next story will give us even more. The Sabishipoli, one of the greatim in recent history, continuing the teachings of the Baltov was once on Shabbat Kesh with hisim. They start to sing a very special song knew and he started singing and he started singing. So of course the continued and they start singing but the subol stops and he says to his you know I once heard this song being sung with a lot more excitement. So theim got the message. So he started singing with more excitement. But the police said, "Yeah, it's good. But I heard this with even more excitement." Are getting the message from the Rebi. And of course, they want to make the Rebi happy. And they start again with even more excitement. I heard it with even more excitement. People are losing their voices already. What is the Rebi saying to us? And they try again and again. And then the Miship says to them, "Let me tell you a story, my dearim, of when I heard this song with more excitement." years ago when I was much younger, I lived in a town. We're in this town to two Jewish thieves named Alex and Max. Now, these thieves, they were expert thieves. No matter how much planning, how much protection, no one can protect themselves from these two thieves. They caused havoc in the town and the non-Jewish government was adamant about putting a stop to it. They strategized, planned, combined efforts with different forces and eventually caught Alex and Max, the thieves, and immediately decreed death penalty on both of them. Now, even though Judaism does not allow such a thing, to kill somebody for stealing, the worst punishment for a thief is to pay double. There's no jail time even. But in the non-Jewish world, they make up laws based on their own uh ideas. Sometimes they'll put somebody in jail for one year. Sometimes they'll put him in jail for 50 years. Sometimes they'll put him in jail with a sentence for 20 years, but then let let him go after two months because he knows the president or he knows somebody else that's important and sometimes death penalty, different rules. There's no rhyme or reason for them. But these two Jews, they were unbearable to the non-Jews. They determined Alex and Max must die. But not only die, we want to make an example out of them and kill them in public as the go typically don't do. So, of course, in the middle of the town, they bring Alex and Max preparing to kill them. I believe initially was hanging them. And of course, all of the community people community people come. It's full of Christians there excited to kill a Jew. And the priest comes and he's walking on the stage and everyone is looking forward to his support and he quiets everyone's down this priest and he tells them ladies and gentlemen my beloved members of the religion of love and mercy of Christendom. It's about to kill two people, but in their eyes, it's love and mercy. Instead of killing them, why don't we do something better? Why don't we get them to abandon Judaism and join us in Christianity or Catholicism, whichever one it was. Of course, everyone was excited about this. And he comes to Alex and Max who are tied up prepared for their death and he says to them, "Are you Alex and Max willing to kiss the cross and accept upon yourself the Christian religion of love and mercy? And the Saba Mishipoli says, "I was there in the crowd watching and hoping they said no." Even though they were thieves, obviously not exactly religious, but still except idolatry right before they die. If they had any merits whatsoever, they're going to lose that, too. But to my dismay, I heard Alex and Max said, "Yes, we're willing to accept it." After they spoke among each other for quietly for a few seconds, they said, "Yes." Of course, everybody roars and excited. They're going to really get these Jews to now become Christians. And they bring the huge cross to the priest who now is handing it over to Alex and Max to kiss it and bow to it and accept Christianity. As soon as he gives it to them in their hands, Alex and Max, without wasting a second, throw the huge cross on the floor and start stepping and smashing it to pieces. This priest almost got a heart attack. The people couldn't believe what was happening. as Alex and Max. Satan, you think we're about to sell our Judaism? H we never sell our Judaism. Now, of course, they were already decreed to get a death penalty. But now after they did this, the judges of the religion of love and peace said, "No, it now has to be unusual punishment." And of course, they had many of them. Anyone that studied a little bit about what happened to us, to the Jewish people during the Spanish Inquisition can get some of these ideas of what they did to us. And they took a couple of barrels of tar, put Alex and Max in each one of them, and then started burning wood to heat up the tar to burn them alive, but in the most awful, horrific possible way. And as they started burning them in there, the Sabiship says, "I was happy that they did not abandon Hashem, but it pain me to see them suffering this pain." But all of a sudden, a sound came out of their throats as they both started singing. The most beautiful song I ever heard. [Music] And they started singing it over and over again as their hands are literally melting. The skin is falling off. But they are clapping and singing until their souls came out of their bodies. And there, my dearim, he says, I heard this song in the most excited, beautiful way ever imaginable. Now, these two Jews, as we started off the story with, they were not exactly rabbis. They were thieves, known thieves. But they had what the bala says is strength within that's beyond comprehension. So when you speak about a Jewish land that means it's supposed to be comprised of such people. But to our dismay we know that not everyone is that. In fact, many are not even close to it. In section 21 says as follows. And here this critical part critical message of this writing of this countress is to know that they say that a Jewish place, a Jewish uh uh Jewish uh uh nation will be built in Israel. What does that mean? Well, few live there at the time. In comparison to today and most of Jews throughout the last couple of thousand years have been all over the world. Everyone always understood that Israel was gifted to Am is by Hashem. And no matter how many Jews were able to live in peace for a certain period of time in Morocco, in Poland, in different parts of Russia, in Germany, in uh Tunis, in Syria, in Egypt, Iran, different places around the world, America, everyone always understood that the Jewish land could only be in Israel, the same land that Hashem gave to Isis. So even if you have a lot of Jews in one place, everyone knows you're still in the exile. You have 6 million Jews in America, you're still in the exile. You have a million Jews in France, you're still in the exile. Everyone knows that there's only one Jewish state. No. If you're going to build a Jewish state, it has to be in Israel. says the problem is he says if this actually happened, if this was what the Zionists were planning to do, then of course this would be a big sim for us if this was real. But it is well known. He says already in his time. It's well known and publicized that already in the land of Israel before the UN's approval, if you will, there were Jews living there. There were also Arabs. There was the religious Jews that have been there for centuries throughout all of history. But there were also the new the Zionists. Those ones that became they were the political leaders. Those are the ones that went to the UN to get the independence. says of Alan, it's already known what these Zionists already built in Israel because more than half of the children that are in Israel right now at that time, needless to say much more today, more than half of the children there are going and getting their education from the schools of the Mityavim. from the schools of those Greeks, those that assimilated like at the time of the beta mikdash, which means saysan that they are educating them already at a young age to become mumal, heretics, either regular heretics, regular mumal or Even a which is a heretic that has a mission to anger God. Typically that type of a heretic is a missionary that tries to gather other people to become atheists to become anti- good to become different religions. So says if this is the case that they're trying to say that this is a Jewish land in the land of Israel, a Jewish country in the land of Israel, Jewish state in the land of Israel. But at the same time, they're sending their kids to become enemies of am is enemies of the Torah. Then how could we possibly be happy about it? Is this says Rael Kanan, is this something that is built for Jews or for the destruction of the Jews by their haters? It's clear saysan that such a build, such a state will inevitably be destroyed because Hashem does not make his Torah like a blank plaster cast where you can draw whatever you want on it and do what you want. In so many words, that gift that Hashem gave us of the land was conditional. It wasn't you get to get it no matter what. And if you're going to say on one end it's a Jewish state, but the way you act and the way you educate is anti-Jewish. then you're violating the condition of which Hashem gave us the land and therefore you're not going to succeed at some point. They'll be destroyed. Now, of course, his mercy makes it easier for us by always connecting the words of the that we need to hear with the verses of the Torah that we need to hear. And in this week's At the end of the paras in chapter 18 verse 28 after Hashem warns us about all of the immorality that we are forbidden from being involved in from taking part in whether it's the LGB or it's a uh boyfriend, girlfriend, adultery, incest, all of these different immodesty, all of these different things. Hashem says to us chapter 18 verse 28. Let not the land discourage you, meaning to vomit you, for having contaminated it, as it discouraged the nation that was before you. For anyone, for if anyone commits any of these abominations, the people doing so will be cut off from amongst their people. So here we see that the very same Torah that gave us right to the land. The same Torah that Ben Gulon the Zionist the heretic Zionists I should say. It's not enough to be just a Zionist heretic. Rasha clever but Rasha. The same Torah that he yelled up at the UN says that the land is being given to us, but also it's not like any other land. It's not like the land of Asia where you have the Indians fighting now the Pakistanis. It's not like in China. It's not like in Russia. It's not like in North America, in South America. No, no. It's not like Australia. No. No. It's not like Nigeria. It's not like Brazil. It's not like the UK. No, no, no. This small piece of land is different. God says this land can vomit you, can discourage you if you become contaminated. It doesn't happen on demand in an instant. But needless to say, Hashem does not allow his Torah to be done with and be treated as if it's a blank piece of paper and you could do what you want, write what you want, say what you want. At some point the bill has to be paid and when it comes to the land the land has conditions. Now, Hashem has shown us and our sages teach us that there is a triangle, a triangular connection that is the God of Israel, the Torah of Israel, and the land of Israel. Now, throughout history, there have been different types of heretics and enemies of the Torah that chose to ignore or even try to eliminate one of more of these pieces of the triangle. If it's in Christianity, simply they like the land of Israel. They think they believe in the God of Israel, but they don't like so much the Torah of Israel because it says things that are against their beliefs. So, just don't worship that God is not a man and we're not allowed to worship men and God doesn't have a body or the likeness of a body. And we have it written in an oral Torah. So they didn't like that so much. And Jews that do not want to keep mitzvot but yet want to feel religious unfortunately many times baptize themselves and still baptize themselves to this day thinking that they are religious moral people without the Torah. Then you have the Zionists which were Jews. But these Jews had no problem with the Torah of Israel because their primary mission was the land of Israel. Their problem was the God of Israel. They wanted Torah but without the God of Israel. In so many words, yes, it happened. It's a history book, but it's not applicable today. And then, of course, you have the reformers, the enlightenment movement that did away with all of it. They didn't want the land of Israel. They wanted Berlin. They wanted America. They didn't care for the Torah of Israel. They say themselves they don't even believe that God gave it to Moses. And they don't care so much about God because they violate every single one of these rules, even more than non-Jews do. But yet they claim to represent Judaism and so did the Zionists and so did some people that think that that believe that they are representing Judaism in the form of Christianity. So there are different people, different groups of people throughout history that try to pick this triangle but with just a couple of corners. Not the whole thing. The whole thing was too much for them. in the by our dear Rabime in the section called puts different documented proof of what the sages said. the sages of the time of the previous time before the Holocaust and what actually happened in the Holocaust in comparison to their statements. And on page number four, there is an excerpt of the writings of one of Israel who lived from 1843 to 1926 according to their Gregorian calendar. Meaning he died about 14 years before World War II, before the Holocaust. But he wrote in his years before the holocaust in chapter 26 verse number 44 his commentary he says there will come a time where the Israeli the Jew will forget his face and consider himself like he is like everybody else. He will abandon his religion. He will abandon his tongue meaning his language and he will go and adopt things that are not really his. other religions, other languages, and he will think that Berlin is Jerusalem, just like the ones before him that have been ruined did. And he will adopt the behaviors of the wicked among them. Not even the good ones among them. Meaning he will become worse than the worst goim. And not good like the good goim and he will celebrate as if he is part of the nations. He will celebrate their holidays, their memorials, as if he's one of them. But at one point there will come a strong wind that will uproot him from where he thinks he is. and will show him that he is not one of the nations. And in fact, the nations will be the ones that show him that he's not one of them, even though he speaks their tongue. And they will make sure that he knows that he is just a sjgerer. He's a visitor there and he is part of those that nation that speaks the holy tongue and the way he speaks and acts and behaves is a custom. He's not really part of them. He's part of a different nation. He is part of the Jewish roots. And this uprooting is what the prophets predicted. These words, as Rime comments on them, of a strong wind that uprooted the Jews from the false reality they had of thinking that they were Germans or they were Spaniards or Greeks has happened. But 14 years after the holiness of left this world, that heavenly wind came down upon the Jews that lived in Europe, whether it be Germany, Poland, all over the world, but especially in Europe. Even my grandparents suffered in the Holocaust even though they were in the Middle East in Tripoli. There was a lot of people don't know that there was the allies of uh Hitler, the Italians made concentration camps in Tunis. And my dear grandfather said there were people dying like flies with bombings. He would collect the body parts and bury them. 14 years after the holiness of his words come to fruition, a strong wind comes and uproots many Jews that view themselves as Germans. They're successful politicians, doctors, lawyers. They have a lot of money, political power, scientists, all of it is taken from them in a second. And their defense, what are you talking about? I'm married to a non-Jew. I don't practice Judaism. In the eyes of Hitler, you're no less Jew than the rabbi. Yeah, but I have a wife that's not Jewish. Yes, she's the one that informed on you. She's the one that told us you're Jewish. Many stories like that were told and recorded of how Jews that were intermarried, Jews that were hiding in the church, Jews that were in government, Jews that were in business, Jews that were in science, Jews that were as removed from their Judaism as you can possibly have were reminded of their jewelry by their enemy. and there was nothing they could do to defend themselves. You know, it took a lot of time and effort to study for this lecture and every lecture changes my life a little bit and I hope it does to you as well. If you're enjoying it, please make sure to like, subscribe, and share with people that you care about, people that you know could benefit from it. You may end up changing their life. Thanks again for learning with me and we'll continue growing together. Now back to the lecture as said this wind was already written. So tells us that yes, the land of Israel was given to us by Hashem and it's the only land that can be a Jewish state. But if you are one of those groups that is trying to have a Jewish state without all three parts of the triangle where it's the land, the Torah, and God, then this is not a Jewish state. While the Zionists said they don't mind the Torah, they don't mind the land. They want the land. They just don't want God. They literally argued over including God's name in the declaration of independence, refused. So what is the conclusion of such a state that's based on falsehood? It cannot be successful. At some point there will be chaos. And what have we seen in 77 years? Although there's an extraordinary amount of holy Torah, more Torah learned in Israel than anywhere else in the world, but that was the case beforehand. That was the case before the politicians. But needless to say, there's a lot more today, but there's also a lot more wars. There's a lot more protests, a lot more hatred, a lot more heresy, a lot more ignorance, a lot more ignorance to the point where your average person does not actually know what is a Jew. Asking that question in America is a complete waste of time because Americans don't even know what America is. The level of education today literally is like cancerous. I have no idea why parents pay for schools. You're literally sending your kids to places that will destroy them. Higher level education in America is the bottom of the barrel today. It is better to simply watch YouTube videos and get courses on the internet than go to the colleges of today. Complete disgrace to anything good that could happen and it has happened in this country. You ask the average American how many how many Arab countries are in the world? Your major is geography. How many Arab countries are in the world? They'll tell you three, four. How many Jewish countries are in the world? 15, 20, 35. How many people in the world? They have no idea. They don't know basic things. Who is the president? Who is the founding fathers? They don't know nothing. So to ask them, what is a Jew? Is a waste of time. But you would expect people that live in the Jewish state to know the answer. In one of the independence days, Yomat in Israel, they had a somebody go out there and to the party and ask people, "What is a Jew?" And of course, they put this on the news and they ask these young kids, secular kids, don't really know much about Torah, unfortunately. But you ask them, "What is a Jew?" They were excited to answer, "What's a Jew to you?" The first guy says, "Somebody that eats falafil." Now, even though falaful is delicious, you do realize that came from the Arabs, right? No, no, no, but we make it better. Okay. Second guy says, "Nah, it's not falaful. Somebody that eats humus, for sure he's a Jew. That's a Jew. Somebody eats humus." By the way, that also came from the Arabs. And yeah, you can say we make it better. But that's what makes you a Jew. Third kid. What makes you a Jew? Somebody that lives in Israel. That's a Jew. What? So you're telling me that the 6 million Jews that live in America, they're all hundreds of thousands of Jews living in England. All goim. Everybody else go. All they live in is all Jews. The fourth guy said the most common answer who is a Jew says somebody that serves in the Israeli Defense Force, the army tal somebody's in the air in the uh IDF, that's a Jew. No mit, no traditions, no clue what is a Jew. nothing. But what can you say when that's the education that they got? It's not their fault. That's what what was crying about even before the founding of the country of the state. Even before, he says, "Look, even before 1948, even before the founding of the state, already the Zionist put schools there that were teaching the kids heresy, that were teaching the kids to be like Greeks, to be like atheists, to be like communists. What can you possibly expect? They'll teach you everything except the Torah." In one of the live shim that Ra Ephraim did, he did something unusual. He has a sh for some time, 10, 15, 20 minutes depending on a shor sometimes longer. And then he takes questions from people similar to the stump the rabbi and uh but the questions from the Israeli crowd is very different. I must say some are very clever, some are very foolish, but nonetheless, they're just very different crowd, very different mentality. And one of these shim that he asked uh the questions, he actually allowed these couple of guys, these group of guys to come online and speak to him at this like they were on the feed and uh they said to listen Rabenu, we respect you. We're not trying to disrespect you, but we are all educated in Tanakh. We got a degree in Tanakh in school. We went to school. You had to pick a major. We all took Tanakh. So we know Tanakh. And what you're saying is not in. He said, "Which part is not inh?" He said, "You said that it says in that some that a Jew that violates Shabbat intentionally is that penalty. It's not in a has endless patience for these kids and he says to them, "Come, my dear children. Go get a go get a Tanakh. Go get a Tanakh. No, we're all outside. We'll wait for you. Go inside. Get a Tanakh." They went and this is all live. They went inside. They got Tanakh. Okay, Rabenu, we don't want to embarrass you right now, but listen, we have to say something. He says, "No problem. Open in the book of Exodus. Read after me." He gives him the verse. Wow, it's here. The kids live on the thing. Like these are all kids that got education of Tanakh but in a secular school which means Torah without God. Torah treated like a history book. Torah that does not have certain verses in it because it obligates you. But these young guys were saying, "I don't understand. Why didn't they teach this to us in school?" They realized they've been fed a lie. One of the giants of the makabim in his generation for decades already before I was even a thought in this world and has fruits we could only admire of what he's done over these decades. He has information that it's literally unbelievable. He says, "Bengu was a smart guy, clever, but he was a heretic and a rash. And he knew that the leaders at the United Nations, most of them were Catholics, Christians, and they believed in the Tanakh. So he prepared himself and when these leaders at the UN asked him why should we give you the land I mean there are many Arabs there that have lived there for many years raised up the Tanakh and says we have a proof that this land is ours. And what are the Christian and Catholic UN delegates going to say? No, they believe in that too. And therefore, they agreed. After this happened, one of the rabbis in Israel wanted to verify the story and he came up to Benu and he asked him, "Is this true?" And he said, "Yes, that's what happened." So the rabbi said, "But this Tanakh that you showed them, it also says that Jews have to keep Shabbat. It also says stay away from immorality. It also says kosher food. Why don't you preach that too? To to that Bengu was not clever enough to respond to. So he turned around and left without responding. Unfortunately, Abu Thai, a Jewish state could only be in Israel. But to be Jewish and follow God, you don't need the state. So whether you live in Israel or you don't live in Israel, you could still be a follower of Hashem and follow his Torah and be the ultimate Jew. That's when people ask, "Should I make aliyah to Israel?" That depends. What will you do when you get there? Are you going to get closer to Hashem as a result and learn more Torah and do more mitzvot? or are you going to send your kids to secular schools or what they call a uh half a religious school and end up having kids that marry non-Jews or desecrate Shabbat? What are you going to do there once you get there? If you're going to go there and learn more Torah and do more mitzvot and get closer to Hashem, then certainly it's a good option. But if you're already doing good where you are and you have more to lose by going there than than to stay, why would you do it? That's not da. You see, many people, especially those unfortunately that made aliyah, get this chip on their shoulder thinking that now that they've made aliyah, they made the mitzvah of going up to land of Israel, they can in so many words insult anyone in a very snobby way that hasn't made aliyah. Oh, how come you don't make aliyah? It's much better. It's holier here. How could you be over there among this? Hey, first of all, don't forget where you you you lived here, too. Second of all, how are you doing as far as your Judaism? Because based on your attitude, you're probably better off staying in America, and London, and uh Kuwait, or wherever you came from. Many times people think that just making aliyah makes them more religious. It's not necessarily the case. Now certainly some people grow and prosper and it's the best thing for them but some not necessarily. I've seen stories where people literally make a move to Israel religious when they get there the religion gets thrown in the garbage. People don't understand that you can't just take pieces and make a puzzle the way you like with the Torah. One father came to of Kyvski, I love a shalom. And his father was a little modern and uh but he was uh you know he knew a few things and uh he came to the rabbi with a shaya he says rabbi I have a problem my son learns in a but he doesn't fulfill one of the which the in chapter two where it says that it's good to learn Torah and work ways of the land my son doesn't work he only learns Torah says, "You're right. Your son doesn't fulfill that because he only learns. But if he leaves the coal that he won't fulfill any of the Mishna." The father didn't understand. Well, why not? He says, "Because if he leaves the coal, he's not going to continue learning. And then all of the Mishna are going to come to him and say, you didn't learn any of us. You didn't fulfill any of us." People don't understand that sometimes You have to understand where Judaism comes from in order to know whether your question in itself is inherently wrong or right. Whether your understanding of a topic is wrong or right based on what Judaism is about, not necessarily what your opinion is about, what's popular. Because from that triangle that we mentioned where you have Hashem, the God of Israel, the Torah, the Torah of Israel that Hashem gave us, and you have the land, the land of Israel in that triangle, the critical parts that make up is that are irreovable, that you cannot even adjust. is the God of Israel and the Torah of Israel. They are the foundational part of AmI because we can still be a Jewish people even without the Jewish land as we've seen over the last couple thousand years as we see today. Although there are more Jews living in Israel today than any other time in the last 2,000 years, the vast majority are not Torah observant. And the government hates the Torah. They're following the Zionist leaders. They're following the anti- Torah ideology. They're making every possible rule to destroy the Torah. One politician after another is joining them to force not only the religious people to live among them in in this in this devastating rules that they have, but they're even trying to force the religious people to not be religious. when they ask how come the religious people don't sign up to the army. First of all, you should know that if you investigate the issue, there was actually a uh a video that I saw recently that was sent to me by a uh a person by the name of who is uh gave extraordinary information about how throughout history the religious community was not only in the Israeli army and we're not talking about history throughout like thousands of years ago. We're talking about modern day since 1948. The religious community were the first ones to sign up to go to the army. Whether it's the war of independence, yum kipool, this whole thing of Jews of of of religious Jews not signing up to the army is as a recent thing. They make you believe that it's never they've never been there, but it's it's a lie. is actually some of the greatest warriors in the Israeli army that are actually in the memorials in uh you know shown as leaders as heroes were religious khedi people but the reason why the attitude has changed in recent years is not because the religious Jews don't want to fight for the land of Israel but rather because the Zionist Israeli government is bent on forcing their secularism and their anti-God mentality and behaviorisms upon the religious Jews by forcing them to eat non-coosher food, forcing them to go into immorality, forcing them to violate all laws they possibly can do. And there are literally countless stories that we know close of people that are inside that are verifying this and much more. So it's not the problem with fighting with guns. No, the problem is fighting the communist leadership that are forcing us to become like them. So you see Israel has survived without an army for 2,000 years. Am Israel has survived without a country for 2,000 years. That's because although we would love to have the land, we want the land, we realize that the land has conditions. And so long as those conditions are not met, we can live there. We can celebrate there. We love it there. But we know it's not really in our control. It's in the control of people that are against the Torah. It's in control of people that say they accept the Torah but not the God of the Torah. Say they accept the land but not with the rules of the land from the one that gave it to us. In the beginning of this para, the paras starts with the words that this is after the death of the two sons of okay. And then a verse later, it says, "Hashem says to Moshe. Tell Aron not to do what his sons did so he doesn't die." Is that a nice way to talk to Aron? Aron's sadik is kadosh. Why is threatening him after he killed his sons? Why people don't like to believe in a scary god? I had somebody send me a message yesterday complaining about the new rabbi in his town that says that uh to be scared of God is uh for fools and and and and uh children. Well, apparently he hasn't read the this week's para or pretty much any part of the Torah because the first verse of the Torah in order for in this para in order for you to understand it you have to read commentary at least by Rashi. So what does Rashi say? What does Rashi say about why is Hashem beginning the para with reminding us about the death of the sons of Aon? They're both and then if that's not enough he threatens Aon by telling Moshe Moshe tell Aon not to do what his sons did. I'm going to kill him. Why? Why? Rashi says as an example we learned from in the Midash who says there are two doctors where there's a guy that comes to them and he's deathly ill and the first doctor says to him don't eat cold food or sleep in a damp place But the second doctor says, "Don't eat cold food and sleep in a damp place because if you do, you're gonna die like that other guy that just died from the same thing you have." Says, "The second one is a better doctor. The second one is the better doctor." How do we know? Because we learned from who in this says, you know, after the death of the sons of Moshe, go tell if he does what they do, he's going to die. That's the warning that Hashem gives. Why? That's a clear warning. That's the warning that's going to get the proper response. If you don't scare, you're not going to get the result. And therefore, hem warns Aon not to repeat what his sons did in order for him not to have the same end. Now liked to make connections in every part of the Torah. And one of the sages of the Abu family believe it was David Abu writes what's the connection of the beginning of the paras to the end of the para the beginning of the para we learn that hashem is threatening don't repeat what they did So you don't have the same end. What about the end of the par after warns us not to commit all of the immorality, all the tova, all of the immodesty. In chapter 18, Hashem completes the warning by saying as follows. Let not the land discourage you for having contaminated it as it discou the nation that was before you. For if anyone commits any of these abominations, the people doing so will be cut off from among the their people. You shall safeguard my charge not to do any of the abominable traditions that were done before you and not contaminate yourselves through them. I am Hashem your God. So after warning us of the things that we're not allowed to do, Hashem says there's a problem. If you do it, the land itself is programmed to vomit you. But then Hashem ends off the para with what seems unusual where he says, "I am Hashem your God." After he gave us the warnings not to do, not to do, not to do, not to do. Then the this will be the punishment if you do it. And then he finishes off by saying, "I am Hashem, your God." Well, of course you're Hashem, our God. If you weren't Hashem, our God, we wouldn't have the Torah. We wouldn't listen to you. You wouldn't be telling us what you're telling us. You were Hashem, our God before the warning. Certainly, you're Hashem, our God after the warning. Why the need to remind us that you are Hashem, our God? Again, here as we know, in order for us to understand any word in the Torah, you have to look at the commentary by Rashi. You're not going to understand anything. What does Rashi say? Rashi explained to us the beginning of the para and he explains to us the end of the parish. And he says, "Why is Hashem saying, "I am Hashem your God. Because what Hashem is telling us, I am Hashem your God. But if you contaminate yourselves with these sins, I cannot be your God. You will have cut yourself off from me. What pleasure can I have from you? What do I need you for? You will deserve annihilation." And therefore scripture stresses, I am hashem your god. Here rashia kadosh addresses multiple questions with one commentary. First and foremost, anyone that thinks that God needs us right here, Rashi says impossible. Hashem himself says I do not need you. What pleasure do I get from you? Two, anyone that says, "No, you shouldn't scare people." Well, apparently that's God's way. And if you want to follow in the footsteps of God, in order to get people to follow the ways of God, they need to know what the consequences are. I'm not spend I'm not saying spend all your time talking about punishment non-stop. But to show your child that you love him, you must punish him. How do I know? That's what the wisest man of all said. Proverbs chapter 13 verse 24. One who spares his rod hates his child, but he who loves him disciplines him in his youth. One who spares his rod. A rod hurts. Rod hurts. But a person that spares his rod, doesn't want to hit his kid even though his kid is doing bad things, doesn't want to discipline his kid. Why? No, no, no. It's a uh I'm going to try to talk to him. Sometimes talking it's not enough. And the way you talk, you're talking to him like he's your friend. Sometimes being a friend to your kid is killing your kid. You have to show him that you're his parent, not his friend. A parent that's friends with their kids is not a parent. In fact, the kids that grow up without Mal, without end up hurting their parents more than everybody else, betraying their parents more than everybody else. Certainly, we're not telling people to beat up their kids to the point where the kids get hurt and they uh go to the hospital. Never hit your kid out of anger. Hit him out of actual discipline. It's two different things. But nonetheless, many people in our generation are scared. Scared of their kids. Oh, no. No. If I do that, she's going to yell. Yell. Yell until you're blue in her face. Who cares if she yells? No, no, no. If she If she's going to get upset if I She's 15 years old, she's 8 years old. Let her yell. Slap her in the face and uh she'll stop yelling. No, no, no. She'll call the police. She'll call the police. let her go live with the police then she called the police. How she call the police? Who gave her a phone? Many people don't accept that. People think today no no you have to uh be friends with the kids. The kids discipline the parents. Says one who spares his rod hates his child. Why? Cuz sometimes rebuking your kids, punishing your kids is absolutely necessary for them. But he who loves him disciplines him in his youth. Someone that loves him gives him. So you see Rashi here tells us the same thing that says in simple different words. Hashem did not write the Torah in order for us to change it. In order for us to pick and choose what we want. The Torah is the Torah of God and does not change. no matter what you like or what you accept or what you ex understand. So in order for us to really benefit from the gift that gave us, it's not enough for us to love the land only. It's not enough for us to love the Torah only. It's not enough for us to love God only. We have to do all because you see when you only have a piece of the pie, you may still have that holiness that we talked about at the beginning of the sh that holiness that even though he doesn't know much about God, doesn't know much about Torah, he's willing to sacrifice his life for his fellow Jews. He's willing to sacrifice his life and not be an idol worshipper. He's willing to sacrifice. Countless stories of Jewish people not willing to sacrifice anything for others, but they're not willing to sacrifice their Judaism even though they're not practicing. Countless stories of people that are not religious dying on kushm. The problem is they only get a piece of the pie. So yeah, they love their fellow Jews, that's good. Yeah, they love Hashem, that's good. Yeah, they may love the land, that's good. But without the Torah, you're missing a critical piece. So yes, you still have as a Jew, you still have that special nama that has strength to sacrifice itself, not to abandon Hashem. But unfortunately, some people do everything they possibly can to silence that part of the nama and abandon God intentionally and become part of the communist, the Zionist, those that hate the Torah, those that missionize against the Torah. So yes, in the in the soul of each one of these Jews was power. Power that could do a lot to sacrifice. power that can do everything to sacrifice for the sake of God's glory. But yes, that same power can be silenced to such an extent that they could literally build an entire piece of land and turn it against itself. making Jews fight with each other, making Jews hate each other because it serves their political purpose, their agenda. So you see, if you want to show love to a Jew, educate him. Because most people, they don't know what it means to be a Jew. Sometimes religious people don't know what it means to be a Jew. Sometimes secular people don't know what it means to Jew to be a Jew. In order to be a Jew, you have to have a connection to Hashem, to his Torah, to his people. You're missing one of those. You're missing a critical piece. Now, you don't have to live in the land of Israel in order to be a great Jew, a great person, but you do need those other pieces in order to be a great person and a great Jew. If anything is missing, you may have power to do great things, but it'll always be missing the full potential. It's like that unity magnifies the power within exponentially. So when you have Jews that don't know what it means to be a Jew, how can you possibly have a Jewish state? But when you have a Jewish state run by people that hate Judaism, how can it be a Jewish state? Does that mean people that live there should leave? Absolutely not. Does that mean that everybody that lives in the exile should move there? Not necessarily. A person has to evaluate their decision of where to move, where to live based on their love for Hashem. his Torah and the Jewish people. Wherever they're able to excel in those three, that's where they have to be until Msiah comes. We will learn, we will do, and we will help anyone that wants to know what it means to be a Jew, whether they live in Israel or somewhere else around the world. Thank you very much for learning with me. Hashm bless each and every single one of you, especially those that support, donate, and help us by sharing these lectures with as many people as possible. Anyone that wants to donate could donate on our website bezelashem.org. You could donate on the app. You could donate by sending a check. There's lots of ways to donate. You could also uh sign up to the AI rabbi app which is beloved by many people literally. It's something amazing. And recently my kids, God bless them, have fallen in love with the AI rabbi where they don't want to leave it. They want to play with the AI rabbi. They ask, they learn more Torah from the rabbi than they learn from uh from other things. They so they love it and it's it's good for them. It teaches them. It shows them sources, shows them answers, answers a lot of interesting questions that I didn't even know they had. So, it's good for kids. It's good for adults. I have many students all over the world that are using item. Uh some, you know, occasionally some on a regular basis, but anyone that has subscribed to it didn't regret it. It's just really a matter of actually using it. And I actually have some Torah scholars that use it on a regular basis in Israel. Uh so uh it's certainly something that helps. Uh you can subscribe there. There's I think a uh special where if you sign up for the whole year there's a discount of 20 30%. Um either way that's one way to do it. But uh most importantly learn enjoy and be holy called to [Music] Beuven AI is speaking here. Let me be very clear about Shabbat. It is the foundation of [Music] Judaism. He's really pretty. This 13year-old, no shame whatsoever. He belongs perfectly in the time of the Tower of Babel, the time of Noah. [Music]