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hi everybody
a tarot rejuvenation on the land of
israel Network it is late on Thursday
October 31st and I'm just finishing one
of the most extraordinary weeks of my
life I think with the Israel bonds
women's delegation and and in a few
minutes I'll pick up and tell you guys
the stuff that I did this week but
before they get on the plane I grab
Michelle Clark who is involved with
bonds and who I want today give have you
I wanted her to give you guys some
background on what this organization is
because it is just a part of the fiber
of the State of Israel and a lot of
people think oh maybe it was something
was done a long time ago yeah I remember
my grandparents but Israel bonds for me
not that it's still a living breathing
and very active organization so first of
all Michelle who looks exhausted this
was a great week I love being with you
two years ago and it was great again
okay first of all Eve we love having you
you are literally the best and the women
had a amazing time so thank you for all
that you do it was really a special it
was very very special okay but a little
history on Israel bonds it was founded
in 1951 ben-gurion came to Madison
Square Garden and launched Israel bonds
and the reason he did that is as the
country was starting out and it was
absorbing all these immigrants from all
over the world and that and the country
needed money for infrastructure
absorbing immigrants everything water
supplies and it didn't want to keep on
having to go to the Diaspora for charity
so they came up with this idea that they
would sell bonds and that Israel would
pay back the money with interest and
since 1951
Israel has paid back has never defaulted
and it has paid back every single penny
with interest and we since 1951 we have
raised over forty three billion dollars
for the State of Israel and everything
that we saw this week in all the places
that we went to Israel bonds has a role
that played a role in that
Israel bonds helped to fund everything
that we saw this week and that's what
makes it so special it's also a way for
the women in the Diaspora to connect to
establish that bond with the State of
Israel it's so Israel knows that people
support them and and that's important
for so many different reasons number one
it's important to show the government
that there are you know Jews who care
about Israel and support the country
it's important for Israel's bonds rating
as a country that they see so many
people our bond supporters and it's
important why does there need to be a
women's division you know there's a lot
of different organizations couples give
individuals give men give women give
you're specifically the head of the
women's division why is it important
that Israel bonds has a special role
that women play this was a bus we got a
guided this week about 40 women some
have been you know I've been on quite a
few some I know from two years ago some
who were new all age ranges where is
your role different in this in Israel
bonds and made me in different
organizations so women's division was
started in 1954 it really started with
Golda Meir was the first proponent of
the women's division and ever since that
time it's become even more important
because women's financial power has
increased and Israel cares about the
number of purchasers in the Diaspora so
if there's a family why should there
just be one purchaser they care about
the amount the connection the bond
between every single person so why
shouldn't women have their own voice and
make their own investments in their own
name and be able to help out the state
in their own way so it makes sense and
additionally it's a great opportunity
for people to network women who think
the same way about Israel all lovers of
the country and understand its
importance to Jews around the world so
it's a great opportunity to network
women have the financial power Israel
wants as many supporters as we're
capable of and it's just a great way to
it's a win-win so since this is a week
there was a women's
we focused on meeting women you know
there's a lot of talk about feminism and
empowering women all over the place in
exactly what direction that takes is
different depending on what society are
in but what we saw here in Israel and
the impact that women are making is I
mean now there were things that I
learned here from the commander of the
northern reconnaissance unit who I
wouldn't I mean I'm glad she's on our
side that's all I can touch she was a
very strong woman and she had the most
amazing thing to say some woman in the
audience asked her what do you need from
us us in the United States and Canada
what can we do for you and she said
nothing we feel your love we know that
you're out there supporting us and that
means everything to us and that's what
Israel bonds is all about showing your
love for Israel in the way that you can
you know there's so much in the news all
the time the usual negativity then you
know the Western jewelry is is floating
away from Israel and there's all these
differences and of course what's
highlighted and there are differences
they're two different countries living
with very different realities Israel is
not Kansas and we are surrounded by some
of the worst people on the planet
you know but now you people come here
and they understand that what holds us
together is so much more than we have
difference and yes there are differences
but to meet some of these women that we
we met with this week who the bedouin
woman who is making changes in her own
society I'll talk about that more in
length when when I let you go because I
know you have a plane to catch
within Iran beside there's so many
different sectors in Israeli society
from ultra-orthodox women to Bedouin
women to young women to just so many who
are trying to sometimes it's their own
sector in their society that's getting
in their way and that they have to make
those changes and they need support and
they need help and they know they need
you know people out there that are not
going to be critical these changes don't
take overnight and just to know that
there's a whole a bunch of women out
there who are saying you go girl
you go girl we love you I couldn't agree
with you more and we met so many of them
just today we spoke with your who deed
Abrams who just talked about reaching up
to your potential
and how to effectuate change she kept on
trying to challenge herself she wasn't
doing enough and she pushed herself and
pushed herself this woman has a medical
degree and an engineering degree
has worked in so many different fields
and NASA right she worked in NASA
she's a convert from Kansas and she came
here and she developed this amazing
system of early detection of breast
cancer that you could monitor at home
and she's and she's just showing us the
power one person how much that they
could change the world and a mayor elisa
block from beit shemesh showed us that
today she said I was very happy being a
I was a teacher and then I became a
principal and I was very happy doing
that but I saw that things in my town
we're not getting done so I said you
know what I'm gonna take care of this
myself and she didn't have a lot of
money behind her to go launch a campaign
so she went door-to-door not in
everybody's door and got to know her and
we walked around the city with her for a
half an hour I think every single person
it was like cheers every single person
knew her name so if you put your mind to
it you can effectuate change and we saw
that with them deputy mayor Laura Hassan
today as well she is really doing a lot
of things and and not just for Jewish
people I mean we met with galas key this
week who is pouring her heart out to
help people from all over the world in
all these war-torn countries what he
sneaks into Syria to do with a clown
therapist to work with women who've been
abused and raped and have no one to talk
to because of the shame it will bring on
their own societies so they you know
they manage to help these women who
aren't Jewish warrant Israeli who are
enemies technically and she risks her
life to go in there yeah and a lot of
these women what struck me also is that
a lot of these women say their faith
puts them through that they think
there's a bigger story here than just
their lives and that's I think really
important for a lot of us that I'm not
talking about organized religion
specifically I'm talking about faith but
feeling that God gave all of us a gift a
strength and if you use it to make the
world a better place then it will gonna
reach your lives in everybody's and you
know it's great Michelle and you saw
this too most of these women don't
realize how amazing they are they're
just doing what it is they're called to
do so you who did abrams is so modest
and so like she we had to beg her to
speak to us she doesn't really like
speaking to to people about she doesn't
think of herself as anything amazing and
that one person is absolutely incredible
and how each of these women have made
such an impact and I think it's affected
each and every person on this delegation
to realize what can I do to make a
lasting impact after I leave this world
what our people get is save what AM what
am i leaving here what are my footprints
and a very easy thing to do is if he is
just to buy Israel bonds and and help
Israel have the money to continue
building up this beautiful country and
god forbid god forbid god forbid a
million times israel ever needs us we
are there and and we have the database
of people to mobilize quickly to raise
the funds whereas if we didn't have this
they wouldn't be able to it would take
years to raise that type of funds
through bonds if we weren't around and
that's the real thing also it got the
bid where their safety network the black
book and I think that's especially
pertinent in a world of BDS and of
countries and of individuals who and its
really anti-semitism but what are we
going to do its oldest hatred but we're
not going to be able to solve it who are
trying to push as well as a pariah state
and maybe cut Israel off at some point
and who knows and the people who are
involved with Israel bonds are really
like like you said the safety net the
back-up for the state god forbid we
should ever need it and also we're a
political so it doesn't matter who's
Prime Minister I mean not that anybody
is there we even meeting with a yellow
Czech head this week she wasn't able to
tell us exactly so I'm saying it like it
doesn't matter who's Prime Minister we
all share a deep love of this country
my parents are Holocaust survivors and
all they cared about was Israel I mean
this is all I was in hour an hour from
birth
it was Israel was the most important
thing and and a Jewish education and
continuing on the traditions and I just
feel it and I just love what I do
because when you go to work every day
and you so believe in what you do
there's nothing like it and the truth is
I would love to live in Israel I mean
this is the ultimate place and Eve knows
I've said this before but if I can't
live in Israel at least let me do
something for Israel and it's just a so
fulfilling it's usually cooked or in
English like your mission
an emissary for Israel until you get
here also Michelle and I have the same
skirt just to tell you what kind of
great fashion sense she only one other
person but I've ever seen who has that
skirt that I got in Aspen because they
lost my luggage when I had gone there to
speak and I had to like buy something so
like we're you know sisters separated by
the Atlantic Ocean and one day you are
gonna make it here but meantime what
you're doing is getting people involved
and I think the word that we're fishing
for is legacy that what you do in your
lifetime is what's going to be
remembered as your legacy and what you
do did you just talk or did you actually
do something and make sure that Israel
continues to exist as a strong and proud
state not just for us not just for the
Jews but for the world and also in terms
of countering BDS we have this program
well it's called bonds to universities
so you could instead of just giving your
writing a cheque to university you could
donate a bond to them and basically it's
taking BDS and making it and turning it
on its head because now this this
university that's the hotbed of
anti-semitism is holding and is real
bond so it's like it's complete
win-win-win you know so yeah so we
should all just do what we can to see
this country continue to flourish and
grow and I don't know it's funny it's
like I come here every time I come here
again it's like you get more and more
nos I'm seeing from seeing what's going
on here and seeing all the different
things it's incredible it's just the
most beautiful special place God is the
rational explanation for this cuz you
know there's no there's no other one he
believes in his people and he wants us
to succeed but we've got to move it
along with him we gotta be partner and
we're also we're all one people you know
wherever we are we're Jews and we should
all support each other and and love each
other we don't have to always agree with
each other and we don't have to feel the
same way but when it comes to Israel and
it comes to each other we're all we're
all in it together we're all brothers
and sisters are their lovers of Israel
who are not Jewish who are also support
bonds absolutely absolutely it's not
just for for Jews it's for anybody who
loves Israel and all the more the better
the god people versus the not from all
okay Michele time to get you home
like back into your routine but I'm
gonna miss you when I do these missions
they're so intense and they're so
involved from early morning until late
night we're all together mainly eating
but stopping you're talking to me along
the way
yeah and when you're with 50 women right
you get to know a lot of the bathrooms
along the way and we need more but but
it becomes a very intense it feels like
much more than a week in very intense
and we learned so much and we share so
much women share their stories so I'm
gonna have been through a lot to really
a lodge and pick themselves up and
persevered and you know lost a husband
raised the kids alone
had other tragedies got sick with cancer
pulled it out so I find it so I hate the
word empowering but I'm gonna have to
use it here as I think it's a misused a
lot but I just find that coming after a
week with with women like this who are
also powerful women because they're
involved with this great organization I
just find myself very inspired as well I
hope I did a little bit of it this week
but I but I also take this back and feel
like wow you know I belong to a gender
that's really rocking it and it makes me
stronger for what I have to do because
we all have our ups and our downs and we
need that that's just really support to
is just fantastic okay thank you so much
Eve I love you it was my pleasure I feel
like I 40 new best friends
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hi everybody
eet arrow back on the Juvonen it is very
late on Saturday night November 3rd 2019
the fourth day of on 5780
and now that you know what is oh bonds
is I could fill in a little bit of what
we did last week because the
organization has access to a lot of
people and so for me it was really a
privilege also to be able to meet and be
exposed to people in Israel that I
probably couldn't have done on my own
and so I'm very grateful for that we had
a meeting with a woman named Galvez key
who runs an organization called Israel
flying aid Michelle and I talked about
it briefly where they go into enemy
countries and treat people who are
suffering from every kind of trauma you
can possibly imagine
not a simple thing to do from every
level also legal and you can't even
imagine and she told us a bunch of the
the issues that that she has to deal
with but we came out of there just in in
awe of this woman and of the dedication
that she has and it's also time away
she's got children she's marriage his
children there's a price that her family
pays as well but she is just driven by
the fact that there are people that are
suffering in this part of the world that
nobody is helping least of all their own
tribe country religion whatever it is
and she feels that she has to go and do
it and then and then we went one early
one morning to the Air Force Base in
Haifa and we met with some of the kids
in a program called special in uniform
which is in the IDF the program to
integrate kids with Down syndrome and
other learning disabilities or things
that would have kept them normally out
of the army so that when kids at 1617
and Israel get a letter to get ready to
be drafted they get a letter saying that
they're not going to be drafted but many
of them wanted to wear uniform and so
and they want to feel it's a big part of
Israeli society
and so they have a program like this and
we spoke to or we a young man spoke to
us who was born prematurely he was a
pound when he was born and clearly had
all kinds of health difficulties his
entire life and he went completely blind
when he was fifteen but he'd always
wanted to serve in the army and so he's
serving in the spokespersons office and
you don't have to see to be in the
spokespersons office and it's just an
incredible thing the man who runs the
program he didn't give didn't give us
all the details but he himself during
the Lebanon War in 2006 was saved by
somebody who had disabilities and he
decided to devote himself to these kids
into integrating them into the army just
so moving you know and I was looking at
these kids and they're so happy and
sweet and just so grateful that I
thought to myself maybe we in society
have things wrong maybe these are the
normal people the people who are just
happy and appreciative of everything and
those people in our society who are mean
and angry and never seem satisfied maybe
those are the people that we need to
treat as as having disabilities maybe
that's the not the normal way to be but
this was just so inspiring to see these
kids and to see what the country is
doing for them because really a country
and a people is defined by how they
treat those who can't help themselves
it's easy to deal with people who don't
don't really have any issues or can
manage but it's what we do with people
can help themselves like one of our last
stops one of the last days we were in
Charlotte's attic hospital we were
hearing from said that from the doctors
around the IVF unit not shockingly
Israel has the highest rate in the world
also because the government pays for any
woman to have up to two children as many
IVF treatments as it takes the cost is
prohibitive in many countries that's why
people don't have children in here in
Israel with the emphasis on family and
on children the doctor who came in and
started to speak with us was not did not
have a keep on his head he didn't look
religious and you guys all know how much
I despise that terminology but right
away he starts quoting from the Bible
about the Mitzvah about the commandment
to which we just read about in in the
this week's portion right to be fruitful
and multiply and how Israel takes that
very very seriously and without any
regards to religion okay and arable
minute israel's going to get the same
treatments a Muslim woman as is a Jewish
woman as is a Christian woman as is a
jurors any citizen of Israel is eligible
for that treatment and and how
successful they are here but I was
walking around the hospital because we
went to give gifts in some of the wards
and I was with some of the women I
pointed out because it's in Hebrew I'm
so they wouldn't have understood the
safe places places in the hospital that
are considered that that's where you
should go if there's a bombing or some
other kind of threat away from windows
and protected areas and it's I've
thought about this a lot when I've gone
into hospitals over the years that in
the case of a war the people in the
hospital or a major liability they take
resources away from fighting whatever it
is we're fighting yet it would never
occur to anybody in Israel and I hope no
one in the West either to not take care
of people in a hospital so whatever it
is to get them to safe rooms just keep
them alive in any way possible even at
the risk of the staffs lives because
maybe they're exposed or whatever it is
but we're in a part of the world where
the opposite is true where their own
people they play with and hide behind
and put bombs under mosques and under
hospitals and under the places and
kindergartens where people are the most
vulnerable if if it's gonna be attacked
you're gonna get hurt it's such a it's
such a different way of thinking and you
know you live in Israel or maybe the
West but definitely here in Israel and
we take this for granted we take it for
granted that people help those who can't
help themselves that we have some kind
of welfare for single moms or for people
who have mental illness or whatever it
is some kind maybe not enough and maybe
not covering everybody but there's an
attempt at least there's an attempt to
take care of those who either have
fallen on hard times are never gonna get
out of hard times that's a torah value I
don't know if we realize where that
comes from that whole idea of taking
care of those if that cannot take care
of themselves
that's one of the many many things that
the Torah impacted the Western world to
the point where the world doesn't even
understand where it came from but as
with anything we can't take it to the
extreme
sometimes Israel is faulted for doing
things in a situation that puts its own
people at risk it happens it happens all
the time but it can't happen to an
extreme and they're those who want to
weaken Israel to the point that we
wouldn't be able to win wars or we would
we would have to just totally collapse
and really not be able to defend
ourselves and you see it everywhere you
see it also on on different situations
that have to do with war situations
where different reports have come out
that Israel shouldn't have done this or
shouldn't have done that in really in
situations that are just impossible to
make that decision but also when it
comes to other ways that as well as
attacks might be at the BTS or other
movements that are trying to attack
Israel's viability and and the ability
and ability to just be a country like
any other but it is the mandate of any
country to first of all protect its
citizens and we're just put in some of
the most impossible situations but
within all that we met people who just
are thinking about tomorrow who are not
thinking about the the the nasty things
and the threats around us and not just
in the Jewish world we visited the
Bedouin the northern Bedouin villages r0
the northern the better ones in the
north are very different than the better
ones in the south who are causing a lot
of trouble refusing to live in
recognized communities mainly because
they don't want to pay taxes a lot of
theft a lot of violence a lot of crime
taking over lands it's not theirs at all
the northern Bedouins are not like that
they made a decision to integrate it to
Israel they serve in the army and have
paid a price for serving in the army we
went and paid respects at their memorial
they're going to school they're going to
the universities they really want to
integrate into Israel and trying to find
the balance which i think is a very
healthy thing between their own
traditions they live in this town they
live in a very tribal way so there's
five neighborhoods and each one is a
different tribe but we spoke to a woman
who was really incredible who is she got
divorced because her husband wanted to
bring in a second wife and she didn't
agree and according to his Muslim law
that she was entitled to divorce him
because of that and she's making her way
out there as well as other women who are
becoming educated and and becoming
principals and really getting out there
and trying to make a difference and it's
a balance between again their own
religion and their own traditions it's
the same in for example the
ultra-orthodox world in Israel were also
there are women who are ready working
it's different in the old ultra-orthodox
world and we heard about this as well
because the women are already going out
to work in the ldraw Orthodox world like
70 or 80 percent of them work if the
husbands are learning Torah full-time
but now the goal is to get them to have
higher paid jobs not just to work let's
say in a kindergarten but to be able to
work in a high tech company and earn
much more so they're ready the the goal
is not to convince the women that they
can should go out to work which is what
you have more in the Arab sector with a
lot of the women still don't work but
the goal is to get them into better
paying jobs and so we visited they Chema
SH with the new mayor she'd been there
for a year ELISA bla who was not
expected to win and the changes that she
is making in the town and we went to a
girls school where also we met this
principle where ultra-orthodox woman she
the insisting that the kids learn all
the core subjects we walked into a math
class very moving dance class which was
taught by a dwarf a beautiful young
woman who was also told that she was
never going to be able to succeed
because of her height and her disability
and she wanted to be a teacher and she
found a way to be a teacher we're not
only to the kids listen to her because
the fear was that no buts
was gonna pay any attention to her she
was little but she's teaching second and
third graders dance so she's and she's
their size so they love her you can see
how enthused everyone is she's dancing
around with them
she doesn't have to intimidate them
she's like one of them but more dynamic
it was such a beautiful thing to see
that there's a place for everybody in
society as long as a you try not to be
somebody else you take who you are
you're honest about who you are what
your abilities are what your abilities
aren't alright so that's why I'm a tour
guide I'm not an ice skater and
definitely not a piano player too many
people spent too much of their lives
trying to be somebody else and it's
really sad and and one thing and this is
some of what we saw in Israel this week
is people have taken their gifts many of
them ascribe it to faith to the support
of family we went to the Olympic Village
and we spoke with we met more on Samuel
who was a top basketball player until at
age 24 she had a spinal stroke and ended
up in a wheelchair so now she is a
champion in the Paralympics and she's a
world champion in rowing and she just
pivoted and got just it took a lot of
work a lot of work both physical and
mental and emotional to say okay I'm not
gonna be able to be what I wanted to be
I could be something else and I could
still be the best at that and we spoke
with Anka Spitzer the widow of Andre
Spitzer who was murdered at the Munich
Olympics and she is tireless over the
decades now in going to the Olympic
Committee and trying to get them to
institute a moment of silence at the
last Olympics she was able to get a
moment of silence in the Olympic Village
but she wants it at the opening ceremony
and she is not gonna back down
she said it cannot be that this terrible
travesty happens and it's not
acknowledged I mean she feels that it's
anti-semitism which a lot of that comes
down to a lot of the disparity between
what we see here in Israel what we see
what the country is like and the image
of the country that's what's really
shocking it rolls out a perfect place
not by far not a perfect place but it's
probably better than any other place but
it's held to standards that are
impossible to hold to
and the image of Israel has just this
awful place that's doing terrible things
to everybody that's here it's just so
off from what the reality is and it was
so amazing to be able to spend a week
and seeing the Israel that I know is out
there and that I get to encounter but
even more deeply and with even more
people and now I have even more tools to
be able to explain Israel to others so
we also met as Michelle and I discussed
the woman the commander of the northern
reconnaissance unit who also just you
know lives and breathes the army and and
what she's doing there to protect
everybody up in the north and of you
know with our threats from Lebanon that
are not going away anytime soon we went
to the Paris Center for innovation
that's just opening it just opened a few
months ago the innovation part the
center has been open for a long time and
that was just outrageous that was just
to see innovation on an Israeli level
that's particularly to women or men and
what what are the new things that are
coming what hat Israel already has
invented and what are things in the
pipeline completely like surreal it's
like entering I don't know just
somebody's like fantasies about what
could be except that it could be reality
so that was a great stop we also went to
a place called toggle Shelley invite
young a group of educators guys in this
case who decided that there were too
many kids at risk there were too many
kids who didn't feel good about
themselves who weren't getting the
proper care at home emotional care at
home and didn't have the self-confidence
and because they loved surfing so they
decided to work with these kids through
surfing and building their
self-confidence even if they've never
been on a board in their entire lives
and they were recognized by the
Education Ministry with a lot of hutzpah
that's the only way of putting it about
how they got started and and now I think
they have 3000 kids in their program who
come after school some of the kids want
to develop like they have these lights
the kids want you to go surfing at night
and so they developed like these special
lights these balls that lit
up in the water so that they could surf
at night and great things are going to
come out of these kids and it was just
so heartwarming to see it's unfortunate
that there are kids at risk but there
are there are dysfunctional families
there are kids who don't feel good about
themselves either because there's no one
there parenting them properly or just
because that's what that's some people's
personalities or a combination of all of
it and and then there's other people
though who step in and make the
difference and we also had a lot of fun
because we met the actress of Emmet and
the producer of schnitzel which is a
show that many of you might be familiar
with about the ultra-orthodox world so
we talked to the actress who plays get
her name is natura skin' and talking
about her character development she knew
nothing about the ultra-orthodox world a
lot of people watching that show think
that everybody there must be in that
world not at all they were taught
gibbous they were taught all the
different nuances of body language and
behavior and they did it brilliantly to
the point where people who do belong to
the ultra-orthodox world are and who do
watch the show I guess like not really
telling anybody because they're not
supposed to have televisions but it
seems like everybody has watched that
Joe how well it was done even the little
things that nobody else would notice how
would how you carry bags home from the
supermarket and all kinds of things so
she was able to get into that character
character and really make her a strong
character and I don't really want to
give anything away there will probably
be a third season it wasn't really clear
if that was definitely gonna happen or
not because a lot of people were happy
with how the second season ended but but
they might do that anyhow and then we
just had a lot of fun we went to thought
and visited the mixer there for people
with disabilities I've been there many
times I'm actually going to be there
next week I've got a momentum group
coming back and we're going to be back
inside again on I think on Thursday um
and they had a fun we went to a spice
farm they had a whole workshop there
where they made Chuck shoka and salads
and just really had a good time it was a
very special week and the most special
thing about it really was spending the
week and getting to know
forty women who love Israel who loved
the land who loved the Torah everybody
in their Jewish life in their own way
and but all involved and belonging to an
organization that without judgment and
without definition of who and what just
loves this country
and the people that live in it and want
to be out there to support this country
and that in itself was an incredibly
heartwarming way of spending the week
because a lot of the time that I spend
is doing Israel advocacy and in trying
to fight the fight for Israel's
legitimacy and to be with people where I
didn't have to do that because we were
just learning all of it together and
instead of trying to convince we were
just able to strengthen each other and
this country and our history and our
future and our connection for a couple
of women it was their first time in
Israel Wow was it moving to be able to
take them to the Kotel for the first
time and that was after we had been on
the pilgrimage road we got special
permission to go on the staircase that's
not yet open to the public the staircase
that led to the led to the temple 2,000
years ago and be able to stand there and
just imagine the people in our past
walking up the stairs walking to a place
where they could unite as the people
with one God in one place and that was
lost a long time ago the the place the
building was lost but the feeling hasn't
been lost and the unity hasn't been lost
and we have to focus on that instead of
a lot of times on what divides us
because really we are an amazing people
and this country it just beyond anything
that could have happened normally so for
me that's where Hashem fits in on a
national level and also on a personal
level when those of us and I'm going to
include myself and US managed to get
past ourselves and past the excuses that
we can make I didn't get this I didn't
get that and really delve into whatever
gifts we were given and be able to use
them to in want in some little way
change the world or inspire others
there's some who are doing it like like
Michelle was talking about
you know with the hooded Abrams and and
developing something that maybe we'll
just kill breast-cancer forever instead
of treating the disease maybe preventing
it so there are some people that we met
who are just going to change the world
but all of us can change the world in a
little way if we devote ourselves to
that if we're good people and if we
realize that we're doing something like
for the greater good and put ourselves
aside because because really together we
are so much greater than the sum of our
parts so it was one - it was really just
wonderful spending the week with my
ladies whom I miss and I really do feel
like I have a lot of new good friends
because sharing a trip to Israel which
many of you listening know is is a
life-changing experience and also
creates definitely a bond and I'm not
trying to be funny here because this
happened to be Israel bonds but does
create a bonds between the people who
have those experiences together shared
memories always do that Judaism is
totally about that it is a religion of
historical memory to a great degree
that's why we sit at Passover Seder and
that's why we recall a lot of the things
that happen to us as a people as a
people and that strengthens us and
strengthens the connections between us
but even just a few days meeting people
going to places experiencing things
talking about them not necessarily
agreeing with what we saw or where it's
going but being able to talk about it
and deal with it and see the freedom
that Israel offers its people within a
part of the world that is so not free
and within I suppose security
restrictions that like we can't just go
drive across the border and a lot of
things that we want to do we can't do so
we have to we have to be careful but
within that we're just totally thriving
and helping the world in any way we can
and it was really just a blessing to be
able to see more of that this week and
and that strengthened that strengthened
who I am you see so many people
volunteering and helping to fix a
fractured world not just here in Israel
but all over
so his ol should just go from strength
to strength if any of my ladies you're
listening I miss you and I can't wait to
see you again maybe I'll come to your
communities and bring a little peace of
Israel of what we did to those who
weren't lucky enough to come so you all
know you can write to me Eve at the Land
of Israel calm you can check my website
Eve Herod calm for where I'm gonna be
coming in a month to the East Coast in
February kind of all over the place I
was just asked last week to come to
London for a weekend in May where
they're celebrating Israel's of course I
accept it and I'm really excited and
looking forward to that so thank God I
should just keep having the strength to
do what I love and and be with people
that I care about and and educate and
maybe even inspire a little bit I hope
you all get the chance to do that this
week Shavua Tov Eve Harrell thanks to
Ben anta Tabitha and to everybody on the
Land of Israel Network Eve harrow
rejuvenation take care everybody goodbye
for now