Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: Birth-pangs of Moshiach and Lessons of Quarantine

[Music] hi everybody we're the little more than a week after Pesach I hope everyone had a wonderful inspirational holiday I know it was a little isolated but but hopefully all of you felt the presence of Hashem and the presence of the family even if they could not be with you in embody they were certainly with you in spirits today we're meeting at a somewhat different location and because of the coronavirus I decided to stay put and well repost them was kind enough to come to me so I'm speaking from the conference room ravi shivaji or Sameach which is not only a nice commercial for my yeshiva but right in back of me you can see the picture of the namesake of the Shiva the great rabbi in Sadiq rabbi meir simcha cohan the rabbi of Dvinsk who died in the 1920s and the shiva was named after him he and his represented not merit to have any children but he was a great great influence on Kali Israel and that influence continues to this very day and I hope that he will guide me to try to say something that's meaningful and inspiring at this very difficult time this is a challenging time and I know that you yourselves might be tired of even talking about the coronavirus I will not talk about the coronavirus tonight however it happens to be connected at least peripherally to the topic of the parsha that I will talk about so I'll try to make a connection to our contemporary situation the pressure that we're reading about really has two topics topic number one are the various Corbyn out the various sacrifices that a woman must bring after childbirth and interestingly enough one would expect that those sacrifices would be in the nature of thanksgiving offerings in fact they are not the dominant core bond that a woman brings after childbirth is a sin offering and one wonders what exactly is the and Rashi offers an interesting interpretation that labor pains can be so intense that a woman might swear she never wants to have kids again so as a result there would have to be a a sin-offering that itself is a very interesting thing to ponder the notion that birth the bringing of new life into the world is preceded by pain and suffering now all of us know that was not God's original plan but as a result of the sin of Adam and Eve eating from the fruits of the Garden of Eden one of the consequences that God decreed was number one that death comes into the world and number two that people with women will suffer in birth so although that wasn't as it were the ultimate ideal that is the reality that the generation of life must be preceded by a great deal of suffering the reason this is interesting is because our sages use the same analogy for the Messianic process the Messianic process which is described as bringing new life into the world vitality Redemption renewal will be according to our tradition preceded by a series of cataclysmic events and in fact the term that the rabbi's employed for those cataclysmic events is call a messiah which literally means the birth pains of Messiah now the Rambam already tells us that we really should not get involved in trying to identify which types of events are car blame Ashiya and which are not because we'll only know that in retrospect once mushiya comes we'll be able to point out this step in that step so obviously anyone who claims any type of certain knowledge about the messianic sequence is basically very foolish because we don't have prophets today but one needs to keep in mind that cataclysmic events are not limited to Wars they can include the devastating impact of a virus a kind of a silent enemy or a microscopic enemy which drives us into our homes which creates panic and fear which devastates not only by reason of the illness but by reason of the reaction the cataclysmic impacts on the economy the losses of business the costs of social isolation and the like so if there's any silver lining to kind of the dark cloud that the world faces perhaps we should think of the analogy of childbirth which is preceded by labor pains and sounds so to the Messianic era is preceded by those labor pains it is certainly my prayer and I'm sure it's a prayer that all of us share that as difficult as this time is may it be the Kavli mashiac maybe the birth pains that will lead to the redemption and to the light of messiah I made the point earlier I guess it's worthy to repeat a little bit that one of the ways we bring Mashiach is when we forsake our ego and we recognize our helplessness and we realize how much without God we cannot do anything and initially that's very uncomfortable in this very frightening but at some point when a person realizes that we are not the Masters of our faith there can be something enormous ly comforting in knowing that God is essentially in charge of the car in charge of the vehicle and will take us to the destination we need to go and that too is part of why this is the Messianic process now that is only the first topic of the partion that's the smaller topic of the project the OLED that's the woman who gives birth but then the bulk of the parsha deals in great great detail detail that is quite complicated and quite technical about a malady that is known as syrettes the standard translation of surat is leprosy but the Surat of the Torah does not at all corresponds to the disease that used to be called leprosy now it's not even called that Hansen's disease the leprosy of the Torah that serrata of the Torah is a skin condition interestingly enough the closest word to Surat which actually resembles the condition of surrett is psoriasis which is a Greek word and Surat is a skin condition in which part of the skin turns white and we'll talk about what that means in a moment however Surat comes in at least three varieties there is surat of the person which is essentially a white discoloration of the flesh there is Sarat of a garments which develops a type of mold or fungus and there is even surat of the Byatt and for each rava of a house and in all of these situations the Torah prescribes a very detailed ritual followed by purification rites until the Surat goes away which may be a short amount of time may be a very long amount of time and it may be never theoretically although I imagine it was rare a person could remain a submit' sohe forever for the rest of their of their lives the first point to keep in mind is that although let's talk about the route of a person primarily although Surratt is indeed a physical manifestation of discoloration of the flesh though it certainly is something in the person's body it is not regarded in our tradition as a medical condition indeed it is not treated as a contagious disease because it is not according to our rabbis according to Kazan Surratt is essentially a message from God that the individual that is afflicted has a spiritual blemish that they must endeavor to rectify and cuz I'll differentiate what that blemish might be in the case of Seurat of the person the primary blemish the rat that is inside which manifests itself as a skin condition is Russian Jara derogatory speech even if true about other people malicious gossip which is really kind of an outgrowth of either indifference towards other people are actively hating them or the light in fact cuz I'll say the very word for leper highlights the nature of the sin midsole gras can be read as a combination word mote Syrah he who brings out bad or negative negative thoughts about other people so as a result Seurat although it manifests itself as a physical condition is essentially a warning to the person to rectify his ways and try to do chuva repentance for the sin of Russian Hara the Gemara American goes on and says that if the wrath of the person is because of Lashon Hara Surratt of the garments is a punishment because of gasuto Ruach because of arrogance and conceit a person often takes pride in the way they dress etc and if one is overly arrogant haughty lacks humility so that cirrhosis of the garment says that were kind of too big for our britches as the as the expression goes and finally Surratt of the bias which cause I'll actually say never happened it was a theoretical construct comes from selfishness and a lack of concern for others because one of the things you have to do when the house has this leprosy is every single thing in the house has to be removed from the house and placed in public view so if you were a person if somebody needed hospitality somebody needed a meal either sorry I don't have any extra food I don't have any extra clothing well all of that would have to be exposed so people would see that indeed you had the resources to help people and you didn't so buckets or Surratt of the body Lashon Hara Surratt of the garment gasuto F arrogance Surratt of the biased saw roots audience selfishness lack of concern for others that's kind of a general introduction but the bulk of my remarks I want to focus on the most common Surratt interests was probably never common but relatively speaking the most common sura is surat of the person that comes because of russian haram russian hara is something that many people don't always take very seriously you know the old saying sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me but we know how untrue that is the power of speech is awesome speech words can destroy they can devastate they can create psychic pain for which a person may never recover I remember hearing Richard Nixon being interviewed years after he left the presidency in disgrace because of Watergate so this man had certainly been through the wringer and put us through the wringer although in many ways he actually was a very good president for Israel but that's a talk for another time and yet this man who was the only President of the United States to ever resign because otherwise he would have been removed from office after impeachment but he could not stop talking about were the sixth grade insults that he remembers hearing as a kid in school that that bothered him and that in some sense motivated him his entire life so you could blame Watergate and Vietnam and all sorts of things on those taunts so part of what the matura has to realize and part of what we have to realize is that words are very very far from harmless words can destroy words can be like daggers that pierce a heart but at the same time words have the capacity to give comforts to give love to strengthen people in their times of weakness and we have to look at our speech as something holy something elevated and try to endeavor to use our speech of course for prayer for Torah learning but also to give people encouragement and strength to build people up instead of cutting them down and then we have learned the lesson of the Messiah in point of fact it's been pointed out that this is why there are certain aspects of the matura ritual that are connected to this for example one of the things you will notice when you study all of the leprosy provisions is the key role that a coal vein place when a person has this skin blemish he must go to the Kohen and just like baseball umpire say you know it's not a ball or a strike until I call it a ball or a strike Surratt is not surrett unless the co hane proclaims it to be so this is very different than a medical condition a person has cancer whether the doctor called it cancer or not that's why people sometimes say I don't want to go to the doctor I'm afraid what he'll discover well sorry you know if it's there it's there so rat actually isn't that way until the Cohen proclaims one is not a Matsuura and as a result the Gemara actually says there are certain days where Kohanim are not allowed to proclaim a person as matura because that will take away the joy of the occasion we don't throw a Cohen does not proclaim Matsuura on Shabbos around young Sephora haul MOA or for the seven days following a wedding which are days of celebration and by the way Maimonides makes the point this is very very clear therefore that's a rat is not a contagious disease if that would be the case it would mean it would make no sense to defer the quarantine until after the shipper breakfast of anything we'd have to stop it right away just as we're doing now we would have a zoom sheva brachot or whatever they may be a balcony Sheva brachot or whatever the equivalent would have been years years ago so the calling is the one that makes it or breaks it and there are two important lessons that are connected to this idea of Russian era number one you see from the Cohen himself the power of speech speech creates the realities his statement you are emits aura makes the reality of misery and his statement you're not emits aura takes away that reality so the matura sees in his own person the power of speech to create realities that's lesson number one lesson number two of course is that the Cohen is an exemplar as per Kiev vote says of our own who is the prototypical coing our own is described in Pirkei avos as the OHL oh the lover of peace the pursuer of peace Aaron loved Aaron reconciled the one who speaks Russian Hara is indifferent is callously indifferent to the harm that is inflicted on reputations on family on feelings on communities he misuses his speech to destroy instead have built up his penance is to attach himself to the Cohen who represents the utilization of speech for ohev Shalom Pradesh column a final aspect of the Messiah is that for the duration of his Sarat he actually is put in quarantine he has to be hoodlum Akana out of the camp he is all by himself and here the lesson is number one we're not quarantine him because he has a contagious virus but on the other hand there is something that is contagious and that is gossip Lashon Hara that it is so dangerous that is so pernicious it is so destructive that we have to isolate it because that's the cancer the cancer is not the skin condition but the cancer is the destructive power of speech but there's another aspect to the quarantine not just to protect the public but for the misery to experience in microcosm the pain that he may have inflicted on others Lashon Hara can break up families can create hatred let the midst aura experience what it's like to be alone let them Asura understand how precious and beautiful community and family is and that in turn will make him think twice before he engages in destructive speech in some ways again I did say I wasn't going to talk about Corona BRE codes but I think there's another point about Corona that does emerge here and I think RAF crime canopy actually made the point very early on in the lockdown quarantine process and he says in a sense the quarantine that all of us are going through again quarantine technically he's not quite a quarantine for most of us but nevertheless the isolation that we have is really kind of mid so rail like in the sense that all of us are me hoodlum Akana a lot of our shows are closed are you see boats are closed we weren't allowed to kind of have extended family and on a pass-off seder or even for a visit during column OE so all of us were operating and to some degree still are operating under conditions of isolation and maybe the lesson is that just as the myths aura is isolated so he should feel the pain of isolation and therefore appreciate the importance of community solidarity family and togetherness and thereby desist from Russian Hara so - perhaps this is an experience that all of us need I hope and I pray and again I'm speaking to myself as well I'm certainly not above this struggle that when the but taken is Co to open up again when the issue was opened up again when we can visit each other we will cherish what it is that we've lost for a few weeks and we won't take it for granted anymore and in that sense this can be what our sages call le da let's service Elia sometimes going down is preliminary to being able to step up just like with the ladder in order to climb up on the ladder you have to press your foot down there's a concept in spiritual growth that you sometimes have to experience a descent in order to appreciate the ascent that comes later once again if we have to go through difficult times then at the very least let's learn from it let's grow from it because if we go through difficulties and we don't grow and learn from it then it's really a waste with all the parts we can salvage something good which is always such a mess intense while suffering that a Shem brings to the world is so that we learn and that we grow and not simply just experience the negativity of it so now I want to focus on something that's quite quite technical but I think it has a powerful message so you're gonna have to bear with me for a while initially you might be wondering why am I getting into such detail but I hope you'll find this relevant and that is when a person comes to the colored person wakes up one morning and a person has a white blotch and again it's not what we call psoriasis it literally is a very bright white which is somewhat unusual so remember he's not a masseur yet because there's no colouring that's why today we wouldn't have that issue but he goes to the culling and the Cohen inspects it and the Cohen makes a ruling is C emits aura is he not emits or it depends on color it depends on size there are various determinations a Cohen must make let's assume the Cohen says he's a Matsuura well the truth of the matter is he's not a full-fledged masseur yet he goes into quarantine and he's in quarantine for seven days on the seventh day the cow Aine Arion specs him and the calling has to determine is there some additional sign along with the white blotch that is a sign of additional impurity and the Torah identifies three possible signs of additional impurity one is that there was a black hair let's say the nega was on his arm and the black hair within the white splotch of skin turned white that is cement umma number one alternative semen tuna is that the splotch expanded it grew bigger in other words had covered a smaller area and on day seven it enlarged that's called PCR and the third Simonton which might be a little counterintuitive is that within the nega within the splotch there is now some healthy skin now ironically you might have thought that should be better but that's considered and I'll try to explain this that's called the Simmons Houma so if he has along with the nega along with the skin discoloration the white the black hair turned white or the nega and it or there is mithya healthy flesh he then gets graduated upgraded or downgraded that were he now becomes a full-fledged man Sora who will eventually have to bring sacrifices in the basin McNish what if nothing changed he still has the but he does not have a semen a sign of tumor so the coloring puts him in quarantine for another seven days and then at the end of the two weeks the Cohen Rhian specs him to see if perhaps a sim and tumor developed by that time again the white hair the expansion of the nega or the healthy flesh if there's a scimitar at that point he once again gets upgraded to be a full-fledged Sura but interestingly enough if at the end of the two weeks he still has the same leprosy he began with but a black hair did not turn away or there was no expansion or there's no healthy flesh he still has the nega he is actually sent home and he no longer has the impurity of Cerreta a lot of people unless they study the Commish very carefully my guess is they wouldn't imagine this people think you're a leper until the leprosy goes away actually not true if a seaman Touma it does not arguments the nega by day 14 actually stay 13 because the first of the second week is the same day as the last of the first week the person is not how logically a missoula the quarantine stops even though he has the sieve the initial symptom ology of the nega obviously this is a very very technical area and besides the Commish which is quite confusing there's a whole track date of Mishnah masochist Nigam which is one of the most difficult track dates in the whole Talmud so I'm not going to go into great detail but I want to see if we can understand if we can extract a little bit of a spiritual message from all of these details because that's really our vote it today you know we don't have the ritual of masseur today much of it is enigmatic anyway and it's hard for us to fully understand by the way the run ban makes a beautiful comment that today there are no mid solos because Serrat is connected to prophecy now it's a negative prophecy if I if I become submit sorry I'm not that happy with my situation but essentially it is a direct communication from God as to what you have to correct so therefore even the negative feedback only exists when there's prophecy today we don't get that type of report card we have the kind of yes or figure things out so in a wedding myth surah Rahman suggests was actually part of the gifts of direct communication that God gave us when there was privacy okay so we don't have that today and in a sense the way there Obama is explaining it that's like kind of a loss for us actually but still is there some type of message that we could extract so I want to suggest they thought that the basis of the thought is really in the safer huh - foyer in the ratio rug was a great Rav in Latvia in Poland before World War two and I'll be elaborating understood a little bit adding some aspects of it but the basic idea is in his safer hadashah ian and he says the following the whole purpose as I said before of the quarantine is to give them a server the opportunity to reflect to think about the damage that he's done to recognize the consequences of his ave rot and this in turn inspires a person to do chuhwa to rectify his actions and when he eventually rejoined society he will do so in a constructive way but when we are confronted with evidence of our sin that survived as kind of God's mark obtained that there's something you need to correct we immediately move into different modalities in which we try to look for excuses to avoid the introspection that Shuba entails right we always seek avoidance mitigation and there are three types of psychological excuses we give ourselves when we are confronted with evidence of our shortcomings defense mechanism number one is denial we simply refuse to acknowledge that we did anything wrong in the case of loshon Hara we might say things like but it was true which of course is not a defense at all because lesser Nara is forbidden even though it's true but the person might say everything I said was true or something like he deserved it or he's much worse than I said or he hurt me so I'm hitting back we'll call that denial because the person is refusing to acknowledge to himself he did anything wrong Chuba obviously cannot exist until a person is at least honest to himself we're not talking about confessing to others but without honestly to myself then I messed up I did something wrong how am I going to change so one way that denial could be described in English is the term whitewashing whitewashing is you cover up your offense by making believe it's not a problem the white hair the black hair that turned white in other words the Mazzara wasn't in quarantine for seven days the calling examines him on day seven to see is he doing the chilla process and the same way God showed the sin through the nega God is giving the colouring who after all cannot read the heart some physical sign is a tuber process proceeding if the hair turned white then the Torah effectively is telling the matura and the Cohen this guy is still living in the world of whitewash and denial send him back he needs more time so that's why Tsar LaVon is a seaman to MA because it is a heavenly statement that the person has not come to grips with the reality of their transgression that's one defense mechanism we have there's another mechanism we have which almost works in the opposite direction a person may be so hyper conscious of their guilt that they feel they have reached a point of no return and there's no point in even trying to do Java because chuhwa is impossible this is what is called Yale giving up this is the idea that I am so far gone that there's no way that God will ever forgive me and therefore I might as well keep going eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we shall die that is exemplified by the second semen of Touma the nega spreads the rat spreads it does not spread because of indifference it spreads because of a loss of hope that positive change is ever possible so again it's the same dynamic I come to the Kohen on day 7 the colleen has to inspect me if the hair turned white that means I'm living in denial go back and think about it and the same thing happens the second week if the nega spreads I mean hopelessness the Cohen's message is think about this some more the way the pathways of chuhwa are always open then there's a third thing that we do we have all sorts of mind games to kind of get us out of the confrontation and that is a person perhaps because if they do think about it they'll become overwhelmed with guilt simply emotionally does not allow their selves to go there meaning they're not in active denial in which they convince themselves they're right nor are they overwhelmed with guilt but they simply say I'm not going there I'm not going to allow my mind to dwell upon it meaning to say in the recesses of my heart I will keep it out sometimes at least in the short term that actually might be a necessary strategy for self-preservation that's a really talk for another time in which sometimes the person is not yet ready to confront and therefore you need to build your on your strengths in other areas but that is the third simin of Touma the healthy flesh the healthy flesh basically says even if I'm surrounded by rats of lush and Haram I will not allow it to penetrate the inner dimensions of my being once again the Cohen says to the person spend some time working this out now if there's a Simmons umma that is a sign that the chuhwa process has not really begun but if after two weeks you still have the nega the sin of blush nara is still there but you don't have the denial you don't have the hopelessness and you don't have the emotional distant distancing at that point the Cohen can say to the guy you're still sick but you can go home and work on it because the process of chuhwa is proceeding apace and that explains the what otherwise is an anomaly the guy goes home even though he still has the leprosy again proof that it's not contagious disease because without the seeming tumor he's not utilizing the mechanisms that prevent the person from doing children and therefore he is able to go home right so that's what the symptom is this a very very ingenious beautiful interpretation that the c-money move Touma are kind of the mini yachts the things that hold us back from Shiva denial hopelessness and inability or lack of desire to grapple with the issue meaning even if I'm out in Active Denial I just don't want to go there and again I want to emphasize again this deserves more elaboration than I can give it that at least the last one is sometimes necessary in other words I'm not going to call the last one bad but until you're able to deal with it the process of chuva can never be completed so we differentiate the third one from the other to denial hopelessness are never really positive responses deciding to put something on the backburner sometimes may be a necessary response but by definition it's an incomplete response because until you confront it you're not able to go beyond it okay so that is the meaning of the Simon attuma and why they are relevant to the purification of the leprosy process now what's interesting is you know we just finished Pesach no - a little a little more than a week ago and it's interesting that the three SEMA name of Touma actually correspond to different aspects of comics I think the one thing we know about pays off is of course her mates bad not so good right Pesach is the one time of year where we don't have comments we don't have leavened stuff and there are different interpretations of what hummus represents obviously in terms of the biblical narrative not eating her mates is a historical commemoration of the fact that when the Israelites left Egypt they had to leave in such a hurry both in terms of God pushing them out are the Egyptians pushing them out that they couldn't let their dough rise they had to bake it as unleavened bread and therefore we commemorate the keepers own the hurriedness by which we left with Ryan by not eating hummus and only eating matzah the IRAs Allah explains a very famous teaching of their result that we are the 49th level of impurity if we would have hit the 50th level we would have been a redeemable and therefore God had to take us out even within the few minutes that it takes for dough to rise and become coming through these only 18 minutes because in those few minutes we would have hit level 50 and that would have been it so obviously the primary understanding of comets and matzah is that it is a commemoration of the historical circumstances of the of the exodus and yet we find certainly even in the gomorrah and certainly in the writings of the Kabbalists that Hermits and matzo have deeper symbols as well we are told for example that us or 11 represents the eighth sir hara the evil inclination and when you burn the Comets you're also talking about destroying the aether hara to have a pure more pure relationship with god in fact for many years i don't know what they did this year because of corona but for many years the largest seder in the world was the Habad seder in Katmandu in the powell a few a few thousand people most of whom were Israelis actually who liked the backpack and the like and because the population are largely not religious so they have to be a little avant-garde so an era of Pesa they have a very interesting ritual that when they burn the Comets every person is asked to write on a piece of paper some negative character traits that they would like to get rid of their arrogance their yeah their anger and they burn that with the hummus now that may sound avant-garde that may sound hippie-ish that may sound so 60s but in truth it's very much resonates with the Kabbalistic understanding that car mates is Yeats Aharon but in particular of all of the attributes of Yeats are others homage represents the one that is most identified with her mates is that of arrogance because her mates rises it's puffed up it represents conceit arrogance you breath as opposed to matzo which is flat and simple and represents humility so symbol number one of huh mates are mates equals eight Sahara Yeats AHA equals arrogance and diver that actually corresponds to the white hair because often a person denies that they're in the wrong because of their arrogance I am too proud to admit that I made a mistake I am too proud to say that I'm at fault so in a sense the same way the Saar LaVon the white hair the black hair that turns white connotes denial denial itself is connected to arrogance and therefore the Sullivan corresponds to the first meaning of Hermits that Hermits represents Kaiba now there are two other meanings of comments that the more awesome give us the morale points out that huh mates spoils it rats right if you take climates and you just leave it around it gets mold in fact that they get kind of sell it it gets moldy mats it can stay for a thousand years right I think we have matzah from Assad or something you know still sometimes he/she Muramasa eat this it seems to be seems to me from there and the light but Massa does not spoil coming spoils so the second association with commit sin matzah is rat what corresponds to the second semen of the matura where the nega spreads that's an inner rat where because of hopelessness and despondency you feel you can never improve your situation so you keep on rotting in the commission of that sin degenerating further and further and further so the Tsar LaVon corresponds to the arrogance message of comets the piece al corresponds to the the spreading of the nega corresponds to the hopelessness of the rots of hummus then we have a third understanding of Hermits that the morale advances and he points out that a difference in comments in matzah is that huh nights happens automatically by that I mean if water hits flour you don't have to do anything you don't need a starter you don't need yeast contrary to what people think water and flour will automatically produce huh mates without the need of any supplementary action so khanates represents inertia paralysis not moving forward matzah on the other hand requires that action be taken right the whole theory of halakhah is that when you baked a dough you have stopped the fermentation process if you don't bake the dough fermentation will occur within 18 minutes well so that's the third Association right our first association was car mates as arrogance our second association was car mates as rot and spoilage and our third association is car mates is inertia and paralysis that corresponds to the third Simmon of emotional distancing that's the clean healthy flesh in which you don't allow yourself to be inspired you don't allow yourself to move so it's very very interesting that purchase matura is normally read typically the second Shabbos after Pesach sometimes even the first job is after Pesach and although we're no longer thinking about car mates and not so that much but in a sense it comes back to haunt us in a different guise that the three see my name of Matsuura come back to remind us of the three meanings of the message of car mates and ends matzah I just want to point out that's obviously this week we observed Yom Hashoah Holocaust Memorial Day and this is a day that actually the actual date there's a little controversial because we are still in the month of Nisan and in the month of Nisan we normally don't mourn so there were certain country controversies about yamazawa in the month of Nisan but Lamesa the reason why the date was chosen was because it does commemorate the fall of the Warsaw Ghetto which was an example of outstanding heroism standing up for the Jewish people against against the Nazis although it's resulted in unfortunately the destruction of the of the ghetto and the Jews that lived in the ghetto but it's very important for us to understand that when we think about the Holocaust we shouldn't only think about tragedy we shouldn't only think about destruction but we should think about the nobility and the inspiration of the spiritual heroism of Jews who in spite of the fact that they lost everything continued to believe in God continue to sanctify God even the people who went to their deaths because they didn't have the ability to fight did so with their nobility and we have to remember that yes they died as juice but certainly many of them many of them lived as Jews as well and we have to take an example not only from their deaths but from their lives as well and almost all of us have lost relatives in the Holocaust and we should think about them but we should resolve that a you know the expression goes a chain is only as strong as its weakest link and if we don't condemn in our own lives to preserve the Torah and live as Jews and build a rich Israel and I have a kiss well then God forbid we are doing to ourselves what Hitler was not able to do to our ancestors so he's a crime by Rilke made their blessing be a memory and may we endeavor to follow their role model and live lives of key discussion thank you and culture [Music]