Rejuvenation: The Present of Jerusalem Day

pocket adonai eloheynu melech ha-olam asher kitchen OB mitzvah tov vit Savano the co-ed Hallel blessed art Thou O Lord our God King of the universe who has sanctified us by that Commandments and has commanded us to read the Hallel hi everybody this is Yves Harrow rejuvenation for the land of israel network today is the 28th day of ER 5778 of course finds at the 13th day of May 2018 it has been 51 years since a great miracle happened here and hence we read the Hallel weary prays which is psalms 113 to 118 with a blessing on this day it's Jerusalem day this is the day where 51 years ago Jerusalem was liberated from Jordanian occupation as well as Judea and Samaria the Sinai already had been freed 2 days before and the Golan Heights about to be so we are in the time period were winding down through the Oh mer in just a few days we're going to be celebrating Sheva Watts the giving of the Torah at Sinai the harvest of the Land of Israel it should be a very interesting week here in the land the American Embassy moving tomorrow our enemies as usual planning to disrupt whatever they can our joy is usually their grief for the decisions that they made with that that were the wrong decisions but those of us who feel hams blessings all the time and feel him with us all the time take a step back and understand the bigger picture so this is a great day in the land of Israel and I hope for you as well last night the Israelis the Israel song Netta bars Eli won Eurovision for her song toy I have to be perfectly honest and say it's not my favorite piece of music but I couldn't help but be moved hear her say next year in Jerusalem because the winner of Eurovision that country hosts the next year's show so I guess we are part of the world of Nations in ways that we didn't necessarily anticipate and it's crazy stuff just wow just an amazing time to be alive so this week's show was actually pre-taped on Friday every year there is a run in Gush Etzion in F rats like you know a half marathon 10k ten kilometres five kilometres two kilometres for the people that live here and this is I live here I've lived here for nearly thirty years in a fraction Gousha T on in the area between Bethlehem and Chiron the area and the Judean mountains that has seen so much history of my people obviously the tribe of Judah the kingship of David in Bethlehem the Maccabees fought here so much history here this was where Bar Kokhba the revolts of against Hadrian in the 2nd century this was where the last time we had some kind of little State for three and a half years some kind of little piece of sovereignty Judea of Bar Kokhba rebellion Eva was more or less cautious none of today so it's hard to describe especially in a world where everything is now now now and anything that happened two days ago is already old but living here is really living for the people who came before me living for the people who will come after me and living in the past and in the future and the present all together it's really hard to explain but that's that's how I feel and that I'm really just the link in a chain and it's truly the privilege of my life anyway I just wanted to give you a little bit of the voices and of the thoughts that I had on Friday in Gush Etzion during the run and so that is going to be the bulk of today's show but I wanted to be able to share the prayer with you to share howl with you today and and that is praise always understanding that we do we do we do we have to do we have to do we have to act but ultimately we have to thank our creator for giving us the strength for giving us the ability for having faith in us as we have faith in Him and for not making the prophets look bad we would not want to do that make the prophets look bad and it turns out that they knew what they were talking about so happy Jerusalem day wherever you are think thoughts for the holy city and were God's presence once rested in the world and we still work to do but we have come so so far and I can't end without thanking all of those who sacrifice maybe there's possible even though this is a joyous day it came at a high price and my heart and mind and soul goes out to those who paid that price and their families that they left behind in order that we can all everybody from every religion can go to Jerusalem can go to United Jerusalem and and pray except for the Jews praying on the Temple Mount okay got a little work to do there as I'll talk about later but that we at least started at least started and liberated the city and made it once again officially the capital of the Jewish people it always has been in our hearts and in our minds but there is something so it being official without a doubt so hugs some ass to all of you everywhere and next year maybe for you guys next year in Jerusalem Eve hair rejuvenation on the Land of Israel Network love to hear from you Eve at the Land of Israel calm enjoy the show okay I'm with one of the people who just finished the 10k Jill are you feeling okay okay exhausted it's great it was had your teen party I'm the hills and going up and down but it was great and I finished running through the cherry trees by the cherry trees and the finish and the boys monument was very special okay go get something to drink Jill cocoa originally from Sydney Australia a longtime resident of Gousha John and I don't know if you heard because as a matter of fact I'm moving away because of the the announcements that were going on behind but I'm walking through here she was talking about how she ran past the cherry trees and the vineyards that's what I mentioned of course it's Jana and she was also she said how they walked they ran past the memorials for the three boys who were kidnapped from here in Gush Etzion also for Ezra Schwartz from Boston who was killed to negotiate John along with one of the teachers from a lunch vote and that's the mix here I decided to I was debating what to do for your meal or saline yummy or shall I'm sure a solemn day the the the holiday the holiday Hallel with Abraha the holiday for the Six Day War for the miraculous victory of the six-day war that brought us home again after 19 years of being cut off completely from Judea and Samaria a few Dabish from Ronan half of your cell I'm the miracle of the six-day war that brought us home again and here where I live in Gush Etzion it's particularly meaningful for many of us here because Israel's Memorial Day is the day that gush etzion fell that the forky would seem here fell in 1948 to the Jordanians and to the Arabs around you came and slaughtered everybody after they had surrendered so nineteen years later we come back and I'm walking around here I'm here where the race took off in when the race started from in what's called Givat subha it's like the the center of renewed life in Gush Etzion this is where the school is the school named Sheila Kannan the song of cannon cannot Rev cannon poetic or notes or Dukla Praha one of the people who comes back here after the six-day war go they go to levy Eshkol prime minister at the time they say we want to go back the herbs don't want it the Khartoum conference they say no even though Israel is willing to relinquish lands that we conquered in a defensive war the Arabs say no no because as we now understand it's not about any kind of peace treaty it's not about any coexistence and we just humiliated them in a tremendous war there's no way that were they're getting it handed back goes against all logic that most of us listening to this would have but that's what we have to understand is for thinking here in any event rob Conine poets and other people go to levy Eshkol and say listen we want to go home again our parents were killed here in 1948 for 19 years the lad has been left destitute and we want to go home and he says go ahead Kindle off let go ahead kids he figures they're not gonna last they'll put up a tent if you read us decline of levies book like dreamers where he talks about rob Conine he would have ready passed away from a brain tumor four years ago and RAF cannon says that he came out here it was totally desolate and been destroyed and he looks he thinks to himself one day one day there will be little white houses here with pink grooves and and children playing in the street so I'm looking now in little houses with pink grooves and children and their parents running races here going to school here the school as I said she got she got Kanaan named after Ralph Hanan a lot of hard work went into this this was not handed to us this was total partnership with the Creator but I'm looking at trees that were planted here advantage they were planted here reminding once again of the blessing of Jacob to his son Yehuda who about there will be some your teeth your teeth will be white as milk your eyes red as wine be able to wash your clothes in wine and I'm looking around and seeing the vineyards here and the schools and the houses and the places of Torah learning and the people also exercising and running because you need to have that balance also as Maimonides said as the Rambam said if you don't have a healthy body you won't have the the body in order to do Mitzvah and to do good things and to physically bring God into the world so you have to do both nothing obsessively but you have to have that balance in here and go John you have people who are doing that and working and and serving in the army the army that protects us at all times as I am taping this show we don't know what's going on in the north a couple of days ago Iran we have an stuff opening up there and shooting at the Golan Heights just just last week I was with a tour group of women I spoke about in the Golan Heights and it was just so beautiful and we had chocolate and we hiked and we made pottery and watch pottery being made more correctly and then a couple days later do you know whose house we're at and and all that they're in bomb shelters and that's how it goes here in this country that constant tension between the peaceful life the quiet life in which we appreciate so much when we have it because we know that at any point it can be disrupted but that is our strength and that is what nobody understands about us here nobody and if you don't live here if you don't experience here you can't really understand that the constant tension but the intention not necessarily in a bad way but that constant knowing that what you have is fragile and therefore you need to appreciate it all the time the goodness appreciate the people that keep it quiet for us like that as I said our soldiers and the intelligence and the people who are making decisions may Hashem always give wisdom to our leaders to make the right decision but in the meantime we've got a race and we've got Shabbat coming and I'm taping this on Friday I'm Friday May 11th and so we have Shabbat coming and I'm looking around in addition to what was planted here as I mentioned before there's also wild wheat growing I'm looking at wild wheat fields and just behind the wild wheat fields I'm looking at Bethlehem and just behind Bethlehem I'm looking at Jerusalem and we in a week on Sheva Watts we're gonna be reading the Book of Ruth the Book of Ruth it takes place right here in the wheat fields outside of Bethlehem they let him the house of bread the ultimate book of social justice of caring for the weak of caring for the widow for the orphan for the poor something that Israel still does something that defines a society nobody has to lecture to us about how to take care of those who can't take care of themselves and that happens here and of course the birth of David King David who for so many of us such an important person in our collective histories who founds the monarchy in Jerusalem and right here I'm looking at go should say I've got good shits yawn I've got Bethlehem I've got Jerusalem in the background I'm looking at the Mount of Olives at the three the three towers on the Mount of Olives that symbolizes it the the Church of the the Mosque of the Church of the Ascension of Augusta Victoria Hospital the modern tower of Hebrew University also on the ridge the ridge from which the paratroopers in 1967 came down to the old city city and liberated the old city haha bite they a day know the Temple Mount is in our hands need a little work on that particular aspect we weren't ready we weren't ready for the victory so when I was debating what to do for a Jerusalem day and I had a lot of different thoughts about who to interview people who fought in the six-day war obviously was one of them people who have some memories from 51 years ago but I decided instead and you can get all of that and you should get all of that and you should really now go and go you got the internet don't look at pictures of cats today okay go into the Internet read about the six-day war there's all kinds of I'm sure on YouTube in all kinds of places there's different things that you can see and interviews with people from there and and the film that we have of the battle for the old city but I decided instead of going back to there to focus on today and focus on the future and that's the children and that's the people living here and all over you have a sham run people Jews have resettled and and that's for some reason the obsession of the world and why why Jews have the right to live in our ancient homeland for some reason upsets a lot of people and so much energy is being put to hurt the so-called settlements to her Jews that are living out here and why yeah you just have to ask so if I just said a few minutes ago obsessions are never good so why why everybody's so upset and so obsessed with the Jews who came home to live again and there's so much empty land here if this was about coexistence there is room here for everybody I'm looking down at Samara villages also villages that Israel did not destroy in 1967 as opposed to what they did to the Jewish communities that were here in 1948 we did not do that and we could have and they expected it and the famous stories of in Quran where they actually put out their white flags and they end up they end up surrendering as it turns out to rabbi Goren chalma Koren who's the rabbi of the Israeli army at the time in a crazy turn of events but they expected because people think the way people think so therefore if when they win they slaughter all the people that they conquer and destroy all their homes and it's a zero-sum game then the assumption is that we are going to do the same and we don't do the same we don't do the same and we were hoping for being able to live together and hoping for coexistence and it looks like that has been taken away from us and not because we haven't tried but because this isn't about how we think and that's something that we have to remember in every facet of our lives in any relationship you have in any part of your life it's not about how you think and how you want it to be there's another side and it has to be about how they think as well and when you can work it out like in a marriage or an income lationship that is absolutely fabulous but we are fighting a religious war we're fighting a war against Judaism against Christianity against anything that isn't a certain brand of Islam and therefore it's just not going to happen and and even though there are people here and I know that there are people in their villages that I'm looking at who are so happy that these really Jews are here so happy because they have decent lives and they have worked they have somebody who actually cares for them but they can't say so publicly because then their own leadership will have them killed as collaborators as not as what we would call moderates and people who seek to live together and that is a tragedy of theirs and I can feel for them on an individual level and I really can and I can empathize with them and feel for them and hope that it'll be better but there is a limit as to what I can do so I as a mother have had what I have had to do in terms of raising my children with the Jewish values that I hold so dear about peace being so important and about caring for the other which is so much in the Book of Ruth caring for the other right for that not necessarily your people that's easy okay but especially in those days and that put the Book of Ruth in context it happens during the time of the judges right obviously it happens for the monarchy because only at the very end is David born but it happens and if you compare it as I interviewed yet Elzy Gloria Ziegler a few years ago a couple years ago in her book about Ruth came out why isn't it in the book of Judges The Book of Ruth because it's the counterbalance the book of Judges is a slide into internal war between the different tribes and what happens when we're not together and the book of Ruth is the counterbalance to that what happens when we do care about each other when we worry about the other and that's why a parent according to her and it's a great idea it's not in the book of Judges but it is in that time period the time period between us coming into the land and conquering out all the land but most of the land with Joshua but before the monarchy and it is a fascinating time period in archeology that we have here from that period which is called like the early iron age scientifically speaking we find the villages where the houses are all the same size the forum house is very much the same size which shows you some kind of also fairness within the society and you don't have like you know necessarily one person more powerful or richer which is what you're going to get when you get a king if you look at the Tanakh in terms of sociology and in terms of how people behave it's an unbelievable book and here we put it into a place we could see the villages and we can look around and understand what they were up against at the time also in the hills now we're starting it's been raining a little more than usual in the past couple of weeks but normally they don't get rain after passover but we are starting and today i'm feeling it it's warm we are starting our dry season and so up in the hills here no rivers and so they'd had to dig out cisterns and we have cisterns dating from that period cisterns they collected the water during the rainy season and we have springs all over here springs that now our children have fixed up and they go hang out on Saturday night with a guitar and go into these natural springs that were dredged out here so long ago and then a Shem gave us this kind of land this kind of what we call the limestone where you have a karstic process where you have caves that come out in law and water that trickles into the mountain and then comes out in different springs where it runs all year long so the land here was set up for us for a set up for that kind of farming we figured out how to do it knock down in the fields not down in the in the valleys where you have your fields but up here on the hills and the hills are terrorists and this is where you can also use out the land properly terracing which are still doing today I'm looking at a vineyard here in Ghosh it's on that's on terrorists side of the hill and just a little bit to the east of here the Judean Desert which is where the Shepherds go to make sure that they don't that their goats the sheep and the goats don't eat the food the double blessing of Judah right your eyes will be red as wine your teeth will be white as milk okay you'll be able to be a shepherd and be a farmer and that's a huge thing in the ancient day because if you look in the Tanakh there's always that again tension and living together and cooperating between those two types of works so I'm standing here I'm walking around my husband one of my sons if you have my grandchildren or running the 5k and I'm walking around waiting for them to come back and just within the vision that I have here the view that I have here is everything that I'm just talking to you about I'm looking at and now I'm over on the side of the peak air of the mountains here and looking down and I'm seeing the coast in front of me I'm seeing all the way from Ashkelon ok Ashkelon aza is just to the south of that ok those were two once police t cities right and they are not anymore they're not anymore well Gaza we still have major issues from you can stand a period actually sometimes and when Hamas shoots missiles out of Gaza you can actually see them coming towards the center of Israel hopefully that will never happen again but I'm looking down and looking down where I'm about 900 or so meters above sea level close to a kilometer above sea level and looking down to the lowlands and as the country breaks down towards the sea the mountains break down towards sea level towards the Mediterranean so much history just in this view that I have right here and I'm seeing Jewish communities though Beit are elite and Beit Shemesh and Rome at Beit Shemesh and out in the distance like I said ashqelon and Medina and the outskirts of Tel Aviv and in what has to be maybe the greatest miracle that humanity has ever seen the Jewish people have come home have built a vibrant secure an incredible society that is giving to the world all the time and like I said last week that's all we want we just want to be safe and secure so that we can do for others and I just AM overwhelmed by living within that prophecy and I talk about this all the time because it never gets old and hear the sounds the sounds of the president the sounds of the future every time you plant a tree you're planting it for your children fruit tree especially you're planting it for your tree your children and your grandchildren in order to enjoy the fruit as well and every building that we build and the buildings here all face with Jerusalem stone because we consider ourselves part of Greater Jerusalem Sogo shoots down his back the New Jerusalem day is also the day that we celebrate Judea and Samaria being liberated the first two days of the war Sinai and giving kind of a broad perspective the first two days of the war Sinai second two days of the war Judea and Samaria and of course Jerusalem and the last two days the Golan Heights so it is just no explanation for any of that we have this week of course next week this week coming up and who knows what it'll bring we have the opening of the American Embassy in Jerusalem and I'm supposed to be on BBC Radio that morning I'm sure that it won't be as friendly as it should be the British not known for being great and the BBC especially for being great backers of the Jewish right to live in Judea and Samaria then again the British have their own things to answer for for why so many Jews we're not let in to British Mandate Palestine during the critical years of 39 to 45 we're being slaughtered by the Germans so I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for their point of view it should be a religious the interview we'll see if it happens on BBC radio but definitely hope to have a chance to give my point of view and the embassy opening in Jerusalem which is huge it's not that I need it to open in order to recognize that Jerusalem is my capital none of the Jewish people do but symbolism still isn't incredibly important just like we had a state in the making for decades before 1948 but until it was right cognized by the world we didn't actually have a state so there's still tremendous importance you're not just doing your own thing but getting getting that recognition from the other countries of the world and and the fact that the embassy is moving and that the United States which seems seems now to have regained its footing as a leader in the world something that was devastating to us here and not just us here I'm sure to many of you listening as well during the last administration to put down Teddy Roosevelt's big stick but to leave chaos behind because where there is no strength and is no power or good power keeping things in order the bad guys will come in and have come in and we are going to be paying a price for that hopefully not too high of a price but the fact that the United States is moving its embassy to Jerusalem and FUP being followed by some other countries as well Paraguay and Guatemala and other countries and hopefully there will be an embassy row in Jerusalem and and we will also do what's needed to be done as after that which is putting Israeli sovereignty on Judea and Samaria as well and that there will be a now an understanding that we're home and we're not going anywhere ever again and it is just the the Pride and the glory and the wonder of my life to be able to be a part of this and nothing that I ever take for granted because I had choices along the way also and places that I could have stayed and done very well and lived a full Jewish life but for me there's absolutely no way to live a full Jewish life unless you're living it in the country emeritus well to be a part of the arm to be a part of the people to be living with the Torah and in our land is a connection that is just wow talk about the triple crown that is the total triple crown so there you go some thoughts and some voices during this very very special time here in the Land of Israel but before I go probably for two weeks next Sunday is Shabbat so if you hear a show that day it obviously will have been pre-taped but I probably will not be doing a show next week so I want to thank as usual Ben and Tabitha and everybody at the station but there are also two more things that I would like to give and Hebrew is going to be followed by English and I'm reading here from the Book of Ruth chapter one vitomir old octave key Birla severe clash of Maharaja share tequila of Sheriff Cellini a lean America me hello kya karu Chi by Sheraton mootie moot the Shamika ver Korea hm Lee the whole Steve Kerr Moffatt afraid mania veneer this is Ruth saying to know me don't make me go back don't make me go back to more of what for wherever you go do not urge me to leave you to turn back and not follow you forever you God will go wherever you Lodge I will Lodge your people shall be my people and your God my God where you die will die and there will be buried the sand and more may the Lord do to me if anything the death parts me from you and that is the from the Book of Ruth and that is the Moabite that is the former enemy who joins the Jewish people put her joins the people joins our God and we know where the story leads from there so that is one Thank You to Ruth for what she did so long ago and here now and again English will follow Hebrew reading from Jeremiah 31 Yahoo Lama Dallas Khmer Hashem cobraman eeschema knew he believed tambaram nirmala carbonara Magali in ahem Alban Akeno karma Hashem benign colloquy behave in a comedy ma ke ish Shahrukh Polat air wash em for cheveux marital youth vah-teh-kah-rah ha ha ha Tejano mash em versiv Oh by name league volum thus said the Lord cry is heard in Ramah wailing bitter weeping Rachel's weeping for her children she refuses to be comforted for her children who are gone thus said the Lord restrain your voice from weeping your eyes from shedding tears for there's a reward for your labor declares the Lord they shall return from the enemy's land and there is hope for your future declares the Lord your children shall return to their country for cheveux by name lead volum your children shall return to their borders and so we have so thank you in addition to everybody else thank you to hold and thank you to our holy Manor to make our Creole and to everybody else who have been a part of returning to our country and we are never leaving again ya'muru shall I'm Samia have a wonderful Jerusalem day cuff ready our this day we are a special day for the Jewish people special forces on our side so pray for good pray for health and all the wonderful things and I will be back Eve Harrell rejuvenation on the 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