Rav Shimshon Pincus speaking at the 70th Agudath Israel convention.

final speaker tonight a guest Mar chro is a r of the city of of ofakim a worldwide lecturer lectures in the United States lectures in Europe lectures in South Africa a worldwide marra it gives me great privileg to introduce to you tonight shim pus [Applause] and their families I'm speaking tonight in the keynote session which is reserved for Israel and this evening as a special expression of feeling and participation in the mat of I was invited as someone who lives in AEL and to be included with the concept of is rash says rash says that from all the forign is mentioned it was the smallest but and for sure in this Gathering I am the smallest but M and as a special expression of my good Israel I will be one of the speakers in this wonderful session reserved to let me first regards and say a little what's happening at Isel although we live in a world that's so small every everyone knows everyone sees first of all that's how we have to begin for sure there's an explosion in just like in American all over the world of yes of B of and to put in a word for goodness Israel is being learned in literally thousands of thousands of that has All Around the Clock different languages one B medes more than 40 every single day wonderful and again and secondly unfortunately in there isra to put it in very short words we going through a terrible terrible Holocaust and as everyone knows it's a situation that nobody in AAL any place going on a bus walking down a street wherever he is can be feel himself safe from the terrible s the Terri terrible anasty that's going on and we would imagine that the people would be devastated and and and Afraid and this is the first the the third piece of news I'd like to tell you people Isel are tranquil living happy life and in yish they say as an example let's say in this country the the situation of car accidents someone say well I imagine in America no one into a car you walk into a car and you continue living now I would like to I would like to say that although we wonder how really the People Israel are so tranquil the only people who really afraid really excited the parents who were screaming over the phone to the children not to go on the which they go anyways and we wonder how are they so tranquil but really if we'll think about it with a practical eye and try to analyze ration what's happening really the danger that's happening and what is erupting in inel is not an issue of er er is the heart of the world and kazal say that all pain starts from the heart this a yish joke they say this is not a place for jokes they say when a rooster crows he closes his eyes why he knows it by heart he does not look into the S and we can close our eyes and we know the story behind tells us in such simple language look back into history and history is still fresh in our memories and we know that before major explosions Holocaust we know that there's clear warnings and R say in this gathering in this Gathering of a good Israel and the people gathered here which are the heart of am Isel it's maybe not something which we took openly but in our hearts we have to ask are we not again in the beginning of the 1930s are we not facing a future that if we're not going to stop and not going to make a revolution who knows where it's going to lead politically speaking it has nothing to do with a because the fight is not an issue of government against any government it's the Arab Nation with the sinra against the Jewish people all over the world it has nothing to do with a Israel and we already see whether it's in Paris or in London and every gas station attendant who who fills up our cars on Ocean Parkway in Ocean Avenue or con Island Avenue or any place in this who I tells me he tells me I'm from Jordan I'm a Palestinian with a nice smile and we know very well that all it needs is a match for the whole world to ignite is again broad broadcasting a very familiar message a message that in the history of the Jewish people for the last 2,000 years was over and over again with such Clarity and we saw it and maybe the time has to come that we and very very clearly the people in this room you're the heart of am Israel Gathering of B of all of Israel that wa maybe now is the time to get that warning and that the future should not happen and we should bring the G and really it's not an issue of just becoming a little better it's a we need a wants us to wake up and we live in a world that the colors are so clear we see it in the papers today in colors and we see the blood and it's not a joke and the message is so clear and every one of us we have to wake up and make a revolution and this is part of that Revolution is this evening and a goodness the is and every been and this is one half of what I would like to speak this evening and I feel this is really my message but I'm going to continue I'm not going to be long is already my own opinion how I personally translate what is the message that is giving us and what area do we have to really make that and I'm saying this to divide it because again it'll be my opinion and just because I come from Isel did that make me a real go Isel and everyone should ask the Isel and of course we heard this evening and we hear the but let me tell you since I'm holding the schaer how I look at it there's something very special about what's happening and how we can project the future what's very a special color to the situation today in N cro which I think has really not as I mentioned not Israel that the threat is not to a gathering to a people but it's very personal it's a personal threat to people people as a person it's not as I said it's not to a certain country and now we look back and we say wow in those 1930s why didn't they run away and we were we and what a beautiful picture we see from Hashem Hashem says maybe it's not outsmarting me where's the R to the Muslim word is the world is distributed over the whole SP of the whole world and someone says I'm not a soldier but that doesn't mean anything because it's not issue of a soldier and of course it want to close our eyes so when there's a number 18 bus blows up so we say I don't go under the 18 bus I go on the 15 bus but we know how silly that is and and the message is that is a threat a personal threat to every Jew living on this globe to his child and it's something Hashem is talking in a very very personal note not as a people not as a seor not as a country but there a personal message to every single Jew in this world that has a neighbor down down the street who is actually a Muslim and is dedicated as we know and as they announce very clearly and I think I would translate it as follows we live in a world there a lot of ways to Define what's happening in our world one of the ways of defining the of our world I once experien experienced such a feeling I myself grew up in New York and I I don't get excited of tall skyscrapers I was in a one of the city in the United States and I was in the downtown well New York you know isn't that beautiful isn't that clean it was a city beautifully built of Steel and glass and marble and even though I'm an American I was looking and I was they say they say it in Hebrew I was looking and I was was beautiful looking at the buildings looking what people what what Humanity built and I was looking around and who built this and I put down my eyes and I faced the people I mean you see it every day and I see it also every day but I was in a shock the gap between the humanity and what the humanity built here's what they made and here's what they are you see people that because you believe they're human and you pass by a news stand you see the advertisement you see the pictures there's no way to describe it let's not talk about theuts but it's just the subhuman and here what they built the technology the technology the computers the whole world is now a palm and here's what people build and here's what people are and I think that this is a message which penetrates also our there's a terrible gap between bar hasem what we are building but we are we are building today and we see it yeshivas and and we see how how and it's not secret all the yeshivas in the world are being supported by this gathering over here by your monies and your mysterious neish and we build wonderful great things but there it different issue what are we not what we do what are we as an example if we were to find a clear definition of a person of a human being not what you build not what you do what you are doesn't say it in these words but I think that's what he means as an example it's the way you that moment of privacy only you and Hashem how real is that connection how real is that dialogue and RAB say if that's if that's the case then it's bad news and here what we are in private life what we see what we read again not what we build not what we do I want to tell you everybody say in the early 80 years ago between the first world war and the second world war a phenomena happened in the new world in the United States in the South America South Africa thousands of Jews came from Europe and among them were B and Bashas and they came to America and they sat and learned and there were Mish of course many were not Mish but many Mish and the second generation was wiped out and this is a mystery that no one the world can explain and for sure not myself but it's a phenomenon that we all witnessed how thousands of thousands of the most wonderful sikim for some reason forgot about their children and by side may I suggest that today it's exact opposite today the world of the world of the the world all our mind is our children every one of us wants will be mysterious neish our children should be pure should be holy should beim and there's so much talk about the videos what's happening and the children and the children and in that Generation all the concentration was on the adults and the children were forgotten and today all concentration is on the children but what's about the adults what's about the father he'll bring a newspaper into the house and he'll read an advertisement and cut it out his Yan shouldn't see that schutz but he's I'm also a yank I'm Not A Yank I'm A Yank but my children and we do so much that our children should be clean should be pure should should should should should keep the the the original beautiful yish kite and we and the whole world is exploding with this beauty but the the older generation we're so weak we allow ourselves and we're in business and we open we read and our whole world and again not what we do now I'm not speaking curses that it's not important what we do because if you don't do then you cannot be but there's a possibility you should do and still not be of course we have to do we have to build and whatever we build is not enough but what's about what we are and this personal message that is teaching us I'm talking to you in person not as as part of a good Israel not as part as building of T not as part as even the Jewish people but I'm talking to you that you live in number 19 of that street and your children there a personal personal me message where are you as a person in this story and I'm not going to repeat it over again but I'll tell you a beautiful story from the I met a granddaughter of the this is 15 years ago she came from Russia an old woman who was completely not religious and I heard this you can tell this story in my name because I heard it from this woman clish I heard it from her how do I come to her because who's also a grandson of the went to visit his cousin and he took me along and she was Mar B and she told us that when she was 18 years old she ran away from home and she went to the university and I have to put into parenthesis there's no way any of us could imagine the fire that was happening those generations and she told us and I'll tell it inish I'll translate it I went to and he have 18yearold NE unreligious girl talking to the of of who was then in the the middle 90s and she said I can't even translate it Z Grandpa why you sitting in the dark go out to the light world the beginning of the revolution of Technology go out to a beautiful world my grandfather told me this is the middle of the World War I the first airplanes and they used to bomb out of the window they would throw a box of dynamite you see those airplanes the Lun they're going to reach the moon I heard this in this old lady said this 80 years ago you see those bombs they're going to create bombs that will be able to destroy the whole world that's what they make we make mention mention mention and the was talking about the secular world and may I introduced that maybe was always also talking to us when we hear tell us what our is doing and what the world is doing and we reached the moon and and we're continuing and we did things which are which are exploding in the whole world and we will do but what's about di mention mention what's about the mench in the private life the mench I once heard of the ancient the scientists until around 100 years ago even 50 years ago even 20 years ago everything they did with with with telescope what is you know to see far away today the beauty of science is the microscope and is the last message will be R the telescope we go looking far what's about the microscope because Hashem is going to bring us back is going to bring us back to is roal and it's not enough that we may build beautiful things Hashem has to give us that final kiss that final moment of of of of connection personal connection to that appreciation and the Clarity of mind and the we and hasem tells us the first word hasm tell the Jewish people is you and the fight the final fight that the B is are fighting with us today is that claim but I says and they are claiming everything is true besides that last word it wasn't it was is and it's a fight with every Jew on this globe it's not only a fight n Israel but that's why it's talking about is because Isel is is the place we're going to back that place of love but who is the who is the and we finally have to prove and this is something that cannot be done because this because what's going every person on his own I'm a CL what I want for my children I want for myself whether I'm 15 or 30 or 50 or 70 my mind is dedicated to the world with all its entertainments and when we will prove that finally that we are still your and you're our and the love in our hearts is for your tur and for your closeness and everything that's going on all entertainments all fun everything is that's not where our love is that will prove as that we are the chosen people and Hashem is talking to us in such clear language is there blood being spilled and Hashem should help it should be the end but the way way Humanity sees it it's only a beginning and everyone knows it and we don't know where it's going to erupt the Jewish people fell seven times seven means a lot of times that's what it means in Hebrew but the day will come that they're going to push us and they push us over again and over again and the day has come that we should not fall and with this I conclude I was introduced as a guest Mar I am a guest Mar thean says says when you w into a and let us face it Orem this whole evening was dedicated to Israel but we are in a Israel this convention middle of New Jersey is a heard speak it could doesn't have to be it could be we in and this Gathering is a gathering of K sh and it's an inspiration to build and to do and to grow and to make a revolution all over the world but let us also realize that this Gathering is a place of closeness of love to Hashem and let us attach ourselves every one of us in person and get that personal message and that prophet as we heard before all of us are prophets we talk about the future the day should come we should say I was didn't happen and we should hear [Applause]