Something Big Is Unfolding: Why This Moment in Jewish History Is Different - Living Inspired

[music] Yishi, welcome to the program. Thank you. >> We're in a pregnant pause right now. The world is waiting for something to happen, and it seems like the whole world understands the significance of the Jews returning to the land, but yet the Jews don't get it. What would you say is the truth that's happening right now? >> What do you mean by Jews don't get it? Before I answer that question, what do you mean by that? When I speak to Tovia Singer, he says that all the Christian Zionists totally understand what the significance of the Jews returning to the land, rebuilding their country, creating a sovereign state after 2,000 years of exile, fulfillment of Deuteronomy 33 that God will return us to the land. And this truth stares in the face of the Muslims of the Christian of the Christians. They had to deal with this 200 years ago and kind of rewrite the words and say, "Yeah, it's quite possible that this will have to be the messianic times unfolding through the Jews." And I wanted to see if you could tell us what the Jews may be the last to understand what's happening. But see, this is where I'm asking you again. What do you Why do you see why are you saying that the Jews don't get it? Like where is that coming from? Like you you you've laid out the pieces about the the various Gentiles, the various peoples. Okay. and the Torah thing, but where's the part where Jews don't get it? I'm not sure that that I agree with that. I would say, well, you know, in many ways, we get it. The Kuresh has given us a chance to have an army uh a Hebrew language that that that has been reborn, a Jerusalem, a yushalam that's being built, more Torah than ever before, more American Jews coming here all the time. So, and being part of it. When I'm I'm sitting right now in a town that has 40% Anglo, English speakers. you hear them with their American accent speaking Hebrew. And I think that's a point of pride. You might we might say that Jews don't that the Jewish people are not like all on board in a full, you know, full steam ahead type of way. But to say that Jews don't get it is is too broad of a term. I can't agree to that. I think that Jews are doing a lot. They're doing a lot in a lot of different ways. Your show is an example. And and and I I I I see Arusha being built right now before my eyes. If you look out my window, there's like 10 cranes that you could see right at the s southern entrance to Jerusalem. So I can't blame the Jews and say you guys are totally asleep. That's to be honest with you, that's a kind of Christian language, right? Like you guys are totally you guys you guys are missing the boat. I don't think Jews are missing the boat. I think the Jews this Jewish state is bureaucratic. It's socialist. It's slow. The Jewish people have a lot of inertia to get over. They built up a whole life in the United States as well. Uh so that's not easy to to to break out of when you build a whole economy and family and structures and businesses uh in a different country. And also we've a lot of us through the advent of communism, Nazism, enlightenment, uh uh um modernity, reform, conservative, all these movements, they have they have they have watered down Yiddish kite Judaism. So now we're trying to get it back. But it's not so easy. You know what I mean? A a human being bas at the end, a human being is a programmable uh uh piece of hardware. It's got a it's got a it's got a software box up here. If that software box isn't programmed from the get-go, then it's not so easy. So, it takes time. So, we have a chuva movement. We could have a bigger chuva move, a return to to God movement or a chuva, a repentance movement. But the bottom line is I can't agree with you and say, you know, Jews are totally asleep. Look, there's a Jewish state. When I was born, there was 3 million Jews living in in the land of Israel. Now there are 7 million Jews. Uh I just the other day I went to the liquor store and the liquor store here I uh my my wife had a Shiva uh for for her father shalom. I bought a bottle of Drami. I also bought uh because it's like a liquor that's a scotch that's shave nefish. Everybody could drink Dambooi. But like there was humongous shelf after shelf of Israeli wine that is just on the highest level. Uh and I bought some great Israeli wine dfka from Oregon next to next to meron. Okay. And you go to Avenue M in Brooklyn, there's tons of great Israeli wine. These are industries. These are things. There are there are 747s or whatever they're called today with the flag of Israel with the Star of David behind it. So I could I could spend an hour with you complaining about a lot of stuff and I have many complaints that come from love, but I can't get on board the idea that the Jewish people are totally asleep. No, I can't I can't agree to that. I think we're doing a lot. We could be doing more, but there is an awakening, of course. Okay, so I'll concede the point that perhaps I've gone one step too far, but I think that I'm coming from a maybe a little different background than you. Um, I grew up in Lakewood, so I kind of went through the I am from from birth. My parents are Balichua, but they're from California. They're actually there right now um in Santa Barbara. So what what's happening right now in America and I was just there for the first time in 13 years uh on July 4th and I almost got egged coming home from Schul in Lakewood on Friday night. We had to cut through someone's backyard. And when I tell people, you know, there's a thriving country called Israel, and they're like, there's a great cemetery in Beamesh, you know, and I'm like, no, there's living people here. People are and it's kind of like a secret, and it's really I really struggled to understand the America. I I understand why a person would want to stay in America. And I could see how if I was living in America right now, it would be very difficult for me to just get up and move. Even if I had to move in Beameish right now, if I had to move five blocks away, it's just a different culture. There's and I can't imagine the amount of difficulty that people take. And I speak to people about this, >> right? And there's uh some like silence among the Torah world of when I say the yeshiva world, I wear a black velvet yamoka. Okay. And that world is silent about it. >> Right. >> So I And so now you're sharpening the question. You're talking about a subset of Jewish society. You're not talking about the whole Jewish world. You're talking about a big seemingly powerful Jewish subset. it ex it's the yeshivish world you know and and you remember in the in the in the in the our in our ultraorthodox in our in our Torah world we have all kinds right we have Kabad they're in Crown Heights and we've got Budapak and it's a totally different thing we got Williamsburg that's a totally different thing we got you know Flatbush and now they're moving out to to Lakewood and all these [snorts] things okay you know that definitely exists and you know what I first thing be before I go to there you come to America today you come to most shs. Okay. You you see that one way or the other they're related to something that's happening init one way or the other. You see it in in their in whatever they're reading. I always look to see what people are reading. If you read the stuff that's being put out in in the in the tri-state area, which is Bavl, right, which is the the other Jewish center in this world, Bavl, which is New York. And by the way, Bavl puts out it has great yeshivas and Bavl puts out a new Talmud. That's Shenstein, right? Shinstein. It's like >> the Gomorrah says that we more more Torah came out of bubble than Israel. >> Yes. >> At that at that time, >> it served its purpose. >> It served its purpose. and and and I I I submit to you that that there was great Torah in in Kutzlar and outside of the land of Israel. There still is Torah. I don't think there's any more gdole like big gdole anymore. I I don't think the the Golim That's an interesting thing in Judaism. You know, you could trace the Idish. Now, I think you you think like this also. I'm just guessing that um you know, we one way to to study history is through intellectual history. Like where are the great intellectuals? Where's the great people? Right now the gdole there are great they're very big rabbis but not the gdole. The gdole are init. Torah has shifted to Israel. The center of Torah is lakewood. >> I want to play I want to play a clue. >> One second. One second. Hold on one second. Lake just let me finish the thought. Lakewood may think of itself as a big as a big religious place and it is but so if it's not the heart of things. See I am a kind of yid who wants to be in the heart of things. I want to be in the heart. Is there an is there a satellite uh of the Jewish world called Lakewood? Yes. Is it in Brooklyn? Yes. Is it is it going to grow? It seems like it's growing, but overall it's shrinking. Meaning to say there's more there's more there's more from Jews today and that's a growing thing in America as opposed to the the secular world which is shrinking. Fine. But that's not the heart of the Jewish world. The heart of the Jewish world is your shalim. That's where it's happening. And so therefore I kind of in in a sense instead of looking at them like a bunch of lost people, I just say to them, what can I help you to take another step towards Israel? What it's Israel? What what can I do? How can I how can I bring you on board? By the way, you get to any of the tri-state airport tri-state area airports, right? You go to the many flights. One time, I don't think it's like that today, but one time I counted about 11 flights a day from the tri-state area uh to to Eritis. Okay. Full full flights. United and and and al of course etc etc. Look at those planes. It's all from a yidden. It's all it's all orthodox blackhead Jews keep your kind of keeping Jews. So so so it is happening. To to deny that is is is is silly. Is it frustrating for you as a Jew who sees the the centrality of of of Israel and Torah? I'm sure it's very frustrating to see it. But is it the big picture? Frankly, I think that those people are are they're just not in the heart of the Jewish world. Just like London, what do you call that place out there? Uh not Edgeware, what do you call it? Uh in north of London, Manchester and all that. Okay, there's from Jews there, but so what? Okay, let me tell you, let me tell you one thing. My mom said to me years ago, my mom's a big intellectual. My mom says to me five years ago, she goes, "What do you think the future of American jewelry is?" I told her, "The future of American jewelry is French jewelry. It's going to become like France. It's going to shrink, become less important, keep shrinking, become less important. Then it's becoming going to become Muslim. New York just went Muslim. Right. Right. >> And slowly but surely it become it shrinks. It shrinks. But the natural process or the supernatural process of the in gathering is a foot is a foot. And when I come to Lakewood, I bless those people to have to have parosa to have to buy a place in Israel to drink wine from Israel to send their kids to Israel to yeshiva whatever it is. and to build them a bridge to get closer. That's what I blessed them with. You made this video uh I think uh 20 years ago. >> Safety and security of the exile is a prison. A prison for your soul. I am giving you a chance, Neo. Take the blue pill and it will distract you from the symptoms of your illness and you will lead a seemingly normal life here in America. You take the red pill, you learn about the Holy Land, and I show you how deep your connection to Israel is. I'm leaving. I'm moving to Israel. I wanted to thank you and say goodbye. >> Man, are you crazy? That place is a war zone. How you going to make any money? There's not even any jobs there. >> Neo, [music] Israel's far away. And you don't even speak the language. >> You're going to throw it all away, buddy. Everything you know and everything you have. >> Neo, [music] we need you here. And you can be just as Jewish and still love Israel [music] if you stay. I'll even throw in a raise. >> So, tell us about this video. You know, Rabbar Beruta, with your permission, I I want to I want to give a I'll explain the video in a minute, but I want to give a more a clear sense of my position on these things. Okay. I I I want you really you're challenging me uh so correctly and I'm so happy that we're having this interview and call to you. I want to I want to make both sides of my nishama open to you on this issue. Okay. The first thing is like this. I have no doubt in my mind that a kureshu is in gathering the exiles. It's obvious to me kibbut galyos is not something that's going to happen in msiach times and all that kind of it's happening now. Hashem has decided it not me, not Ben Kurion. We have decided, not we have not decided. Hashem has decided. He has decided. And that's that's self-evident. Yale is being built. Erit is more filled with Torah than ever before. It's just obvious like all the signs. I don't want to I don't have to go through the signs, but it's so obvious that Israel is what Hashem is doing. That's number one. Number two, I'm not going to talk about I'm not going to talk about I'm going to talk about opportunity. The opportunity to raise your children ner is and to fulfill this mitzvah is now in in our time. And the godless of it is that when you raise a child init is the operative word is organic oneness. It's oneness. What do I mean? I mean the language, the the Torah, the place, the the the the the places mentioned in in in the Torah, the the the the many about in gathering. There are many many many many many about in gathering in in everything from your meowish whatever you are it's all one and you get to raise your kid in Jewish in when I mean Jewish pride not like look at me I'm a Jew I'm Israeli to say look here's our Torah we're living by this Torah we're walking the footsteps of the avot we are we are we are doing what Hashem told Abraham we're fulfilling the the did you see Rashi on para's bow he says it says vyonu that the Jewish people rejoiced. So what did they rejoice? They rejoiced on three things. What was the three things they rejoiced on? The the promise of Gulah, the promise of Israel, and the promise of banim of children. Okay. So So we're bringing our children in in the land learning Torah. It's all beautiful oneness. Now we could we could take more steps if you can't make the aliyah step. Okay? You could do other things that could bring you closer, but this is the time to do it. To miss that is to be blind is to really miss the time that we're in. And frankly, it's to be blind to what the kotesh is doing at this time. And it's to fall into the aera of of of the of the sin of the spies of the mira and to really be blind to Israel and to this mitzvah and to this inyan which was so inside the heart of the avot mahot and all the prophets and everybody. If you don't understand it, if you don't see it, you need to you need to wake up a little bit. Okay? You need you need to have a you need to shake yourself out of something and if your a bunim are not telling it to you find another rv okay or or or give your rv a wakeup call yourself but you know find a rv that's going to talk to you so that's you know my position is we are building your shalam hashem is doing it for me personally for me personally in my life there's not I I there's not a date by the way also rashi and pashas I don't remember the the p exactly I was just finishing uh last week's uh shai mikra that uh that that he says you So he says about Torah, it should be new for you every single day. But he says that also about the gift of Israel should be new for you every single day. I'm Z to that for me is new every single day. I'm here now for 25 years. I still every day get a zet somewhere and I can't I pinch myself saying I can't believe I have the and the big that I have is not only to live in Israel to speak the Hebrew language but it's also to be in the mitzvah of arits gulits and even I have the of from time to time we we take an Arab house and we're able to to to to make it a Jewish house that's a bit that's a that's a high level not everybody is to Wow. >> Okay. So, that's so that's so that's that's my one side. On the other side, I don't like to talk down to Jews. I don't like to beat Jews over with with a cudel with a bat. I don't like to tell them that they don't know and they don't understand and that they're missing it and that they're stupid and I don't like to do that. Why? First thing, because I respect Jews. I respect people. Necuda. That's just that's an app priori position that I have. I respect people. I think people are smart. I think Jews are smart and I understand their challenges and so therefore I try to find a way to speak to them in a way that's loving that's inviting and give them a bridge. I don't like to I don't like to you know to smash them over the head and say you're not beset because that has a little bit of of what we call in Judaism yhor has a little bit of hardiness kilo I know and you don't know and I want to help you and I'm going to missionize you by helping you understand this thing. I don't like that posture. I don't like that. >> I accept your criticism and I will take it to heart. I just I just like to talk to Jews and and I and I can tell you a little story that happened to me personally that changed my life. I used to be when I made that movie that you showed. I was a giant mamash aliyah activist in Torah and not in to like for secular Jews for for for from Jews, you know, I always say you need to know how to speak blue and white, you need how to know how to speak black and white. >> I'm all three blue. [laughter] And that's by the way a beautiful beautiful combination. Frankly to me what you represent to me is a very organic person because you on the one hand Torah values on the other hand with the misa of of what the what the Kushb is giving us the tools that he's given us the state of >> you so you had a switch you you started I think more like me and then you've you've become a instead of coming from fear you're coming from love instead of >> I never I never came from fear I never came from I never never ever came from fear and that's that that was never part of the thing uh that I have my good I have a clip We'll we'll play on that. It's a great clip. It actually shows this point. I want we'll do that later. Okay. >> I do I do a lot less fear. That's just not a that's not a methodology. I also figure out what do you need fear for. If you have fear, you're going to feel it. You [laughter] know, you don't need me to help you understand if you're scared out there. You don't need me to to help you understand. You know, >> Kadar seems to have a good a good a good analysis. I saw your your clip on that yesterday. Yes. Thank you. >> He's a he's a he's a great man. Uh Dr. Kdar, in any case, uh wait, back to the point that we were saying. Oh, the change that I had was like this, you know. Um, I work in Hevron. I work at the Maratah. I get to beautify the Matah. Even as I just said that to myself, I felt a z like am I doing enough to beautify. But uh I have to go to America to to raise money from our brothers and sisters and actually give them this to connect. So when I first used to fly out there to America, I used to come with a lot of like inner frustration. the kind that you maybe ha spoke about at the beginning of the program. Your question had in it an element of frustration with with the Jews and I realized with time that it's it's not going to work. I can't come to people and inside feel that they're schmaggies and ask them for help and and and and come to them to their house but inside feel a bitterness that they have established a school or established a shul or a mikvah. I realized it's not going to work. And I also read a business book that said, "You'll never be a millionaire." Not that I'm looking to be a millionaire, but you'll never be a millionaire if when you see a millionaire's house, you subtly subtly curse him and give him an ins. It's not going to work. You got to be able to share blessings. I decided that my posture visa v American Jews is to bless them. I'm gonna bless you. I'm gonna bless your rabbi. I'm gonna bless your mikvah. I'm gonna bless your your your your sh your school. I'm gonna bless you guys. I'm not gonna come at you with like a with like a with like a with like a with like a pin, you know, and and and look with you within, you know, with, you know, within. I'm not gonna do that. It's not going to work for me. I decided I'm going to do it much more with a with a loving and blessing kind of thing and develop for them ways to become more connected. >> When go ahead. What was what's your question? >> When Kiv came to the land, he went and prayed. Now, I what what was he praying for? Well, Rashi says that he was beginning to think like the moragum. He was beginning to say, "This is impossible." And he went and he prayed and he asked Hashem, "Hashem, take this away from me. I don't want to feel this way towards Eros." And that really resonates with what you're saying of like instead of, you know, going going like, why are you not here? It's like davenin for it, dream about it. Let let this let this uh you know and also become more aware and that's what a lot of I think a lot of your audience gets a taste of Eritus every time you speak. Um >> well you you mentioned two things that are so meaningful to me. One is KV who happens to be my like you know how the go call it my like my spirit animal or the you know the it's like my it's like it's like a it's like I try >> well you're a messenger for Hashem. that's how you see yourself >> and for Huda and and just KHV happens to be a like there's much much we can I'd love if you if you wanted to we'll do a different podcast just on KV Benu I would I would be honored to to to talk with you about it um uh that that's that's that's one and the other thing is this is this idea of like sharing sharing the spirit the energy of Israel and that's what we're doing right now and we're doing it by the way with a lot of in the English language so that our brothers and sisters could could connect to that. There's an awesome spirit here. It's an awesome spirit. It's hard to communicate. It's not so easy to communicate it, but you know, most most American Jews when they come here to your Shalam, they're like, "Whoa, there is a juice here. There is a a bren, right? There's a fire here. There's a there's a woo. It's a pulsating energy of everything. You want to go to cafes, cafes. You want to got to everything." >> Okay. So, >> but I do agree with you by the way that it is important to speak about it. That is true. You can't it can't it's not going to happen automatically. That's for sure. For a lot of people there the the of the mira is that the rabbis will make it that you don't see like to me a frustration I have if I come parl to America this happened to me like two three times I came parl and the rabbi is like this week's para is about uh this corban and and starts talking about like it's like don't look here let's miss the main point of what this thing is about and that that's that's a that's a problem. And and my, you know, I also am very close with Kabad. I love Kabad. I'm I am really a Kabad couch surfer around the world. I I I'm very connected in so many ways. I Everybody in Kabad knows how connected I am. And so I don't have to like, you know, roll out my my uh uh my my resume on that. But when it comes to the Israel thing, uh I think that some of them miss the point. uh they think that that uh kibbut galios is something that's going to happen in messianic times and they don't see that it's happening right now. I don't think they understand that mitzvah is is today. And I think also this is where they make a big mistake is that when and this is a this is a tricky one. When it's time to evacuate a place like Ukraine, then they have it in their heads. No, we have to hold on here and light Kanukia in in Kiev and and keep up the thing. I'm like, no, no, no, no. You should help evacuate these people to Israel. That place's time is over. I could go into this bigger and I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a shalik there to help the Jews that stay. Fine. But don't make it into a value to light aukia in Kiev. That's not that's not kibut. That's not that's not what we need. And people should get the hell out of there. Places is under fire. Okay. And and so too was for North Africa. And the Rebi was against evacuating. But bas at the end these places are evacuated because Hashem is cleaning us out from all those little galut places and hopefully also from the big galute places. So here I have a you know a philosophical disagreement with my brothers and sisters but again I come to them with love. I think that they're like we could come and smash them and I know people love to like smash them you know but you know what they're doing amazing holy work. So what am I going to come to them and give them you know they have their they have their they have their they have their their Torah the way they understand it. So I'm going to talk with them and I tell every that I meet every young I said listen don't go to in Miami or Toronto go to in Tel Aviv. We have here millions of Jews that don't understand basic Yiddishkite. I ask in the army I I say to to soldiers in the army I like remind me who is Yitzkak's wife. They don't know. They don't know. Average Israelis don't know. Basic book of Beresas. Okay. So I say to them, why are you going to in Miami? There's like every three blocks there's another do me a favor. Come to Israel. I know it's easier to raise money in Miami, but you want to do real come to Israel. Guess what in that's where we need and and you know what? I have managed to convince some of that. And so therefore again it comes me you got to when you're in the Sanhedrin you got to speak 70 languages that does not mean that you probably does not mean that you need to speak Swahili what it probably means is that you need to speak to 70 kinds of Jews okay you can talk a little bit but really it's got to come it's got to come in a loving way and that's when Jews will listen to you and it radiates we you mentioned before living in eritral that every day is new so we say shift That means I will dwell in the land and I will also be a tourist. When you're a tourist, you're taking pictures. And I feel like that every time I drive through the hills of Judea, I feel like I'm a tourist again. Every single day, I pinch myself when I say I'm actually living. I live right near where David fought Gullus. I I'm I'm I drive through archaeological digs every day. I want to play a clip over here. Today's mark. >> You see you see the sweetness that you're that you're sharing. That sweetness is so palpable. I know exactly what you're talking about. I love and that feeling is is like such an amazing thing. But it it at the end we have to somehow share with them those feelings that that's such a obviously part of it by the way is the study of Tanakh. Okay, that's one of the that's one of the that's and the study of boracious or or or or in a in a real way like how can I you know what I mean? At the end for me, er is comes from the pukim and the pukim bring it to life and brings the pukim to life. And you're you're you're saying it. I can see it. I can I can see it in your eyes. You know what I thought? >> I have so much I got chills just listening to you right now. I want to today marks a very important day because it's the first time in over a decade we have like we we mentioned Deuteronomy 33. God will return your captives as well. And today the last captive has has been returned. And I want to just play this clip over here. They are [singing] >> [singing] >> Mhm. Okay. So, you've you've been in the army. Tell me what's going on over here. Um the IDF uh uh was able to uh um bring out the the last uh body uh that was buried that was taken hostage uh on October 7th, Irani. And uh there was uh a sense of relief because Israelis um uh were very pained at the whole hostage situation and uh they got out the living hostages and now they got out the last body. Um and there's uh what else can I tell you about that? You know, there's there's a moment of uh there's a there's a moment of relief for some uh for people like me. Far from it. I don't feel much relief from this thing. it that's not the way I understand it. To me, I I understand it that uh we're still allowing um Gaza to be held in the hands of our enemies, that we did not really uh write the wrong of October 7th, and that uh now that this last body has been liberated. So now stage two begins, which is the opening of the Rafa crossing between the Sinai and Gaza, and I'm afraid that there'll be rearmament of our enemies. And uh I feel that that there's no closure. Even though this is a day of closure, I don't feel that this is a day of closure at all uh in my heart. Uh but uh okay, you know, that's that's that's uh the continuing story of the Jewish people. Uh I think that some of my Karedi brothers and sisters might say that ar that our army isn't always fighting with Jewish values because maybe the Jewish values would be to destroy our enemies and to hold on to Gaza. Uh, and I would agree to that and I think that we are moving in the direction of making our state and our army more Jewish with more Jewish values. You could see that in the political tendencies and leanings of this land. Uh, but we're not there yet and um we're going to have to keep fighting uh on many fronts and that sometimes scares people. Uh, but it looks like that the war against the jihad is uh is still ahead of us. still ahead of us in Judea and Samaria and Udav Shamron and in Gaza again and in uh and in other locations. On the other hand, we have also smashed our enemies good. Uh and uh and we and and and the most important of it all is that we are like some some explanations about what Mosherenu was so concerned about when he saw the burning bush is he said that look I've always wondered how is it that the Jews survive. So too this bush is not being eaten up and and so that that's that's the mystery. The the greatest thing that I could say about October 7th and the subsequent war is that we're still here. We're still here. We're even bigger, stronger. Okay, we're still here. Uh and and we have and and and and there's more Torah today uh than there was two years ago. That's for sure. The land is holier. Uh and so uh that's maybe the best thing that has happened through through this thing. For example, channel 14, which is Israel's Fox, always has a little banner at the top. It says, "With the help of God, we will win." Just that just that has already been a a victory. >> I'll tell you for me from this clip you uh seeing grown men. These are not kids in this picture. These are reserveists. These are people who have been serving for 10, 20, 30 years. Some of these people, they're not kids. And just breaking out and singing about Msiach. I mean that is like to me it was a shock. I grew up I went to regular yeshivas. I've always loved Israel. I even wrote a book on it. I never published it, but it's I I read I did an interview yesterday with Rabbi, not Rabbi Takar with Raosha. We did a two-hour interview on the diss >> and there and there are many tal by the way. There are many uh uh uh grandchildren, great-grandchildren of this tal. Yeah, it's an amazing see you've had what I call, you know, I came up with a term years ago. It was called the aliyah revolution. And then later on I realized that there's another term which is the aliyah revelation. You you you've had the Israel revelation the that book that's that's a cl that's that's a that's a classic manuscript. Um and what can I tell you like you know it's like it's like a you know it's like it's like it's like a mitzvah that you just feel you just feel it in all of your all of your you know you feel it in all parts of your body. uh this this mitzvah it's Israel and then things open up to you and you see you know you know the old joke right there was this guy in Shul in in Poland and he started he got the aliyah revelation right so he's like every day he's like and he says look at the para look look at the para look look what it says in the in look they said to him no so go to so he goes to Israel after a year he comes back and uh starts to live again in Poland And so they said to Mush, "What happened? It didn't work out." He goes, "I couldn't live without the yearning for Erit Israel." You know, that's that's the oldest joke in the book. You know, [laughter] our good land, our good land is such a good land. And I agree with you. It was beautiful thing to see to see the soldiers happy. I mean, I you know, I I I also, you know, to me, the way I understand the whole hostages thing is is is is uh a little bit more cynically. I I see the handiwork of Iran and and Qatar and they created this whole, you know, thing that it's all about the hostages instead of all about defeating our enemies. In many ways, the whole hostage narrative is the script of our enemies. Oh, just get the hostages back. The biggest hostage is itself is a hostage. Gaza is a hostage in the hands and now in the hands of, you know, Qatar and Turkey and Trump and who knows what else. It's a, you know, it's it's the whole thing is we're we're we're we're shrank us. They they they very adroitly, you know, were able to maneuver this whole thing to make it about a much smaller war and erode our international standing and give us these little pitchkas of of, you know, like like Kilu yesterday was a But that's me. You know what I mean? I've I've I'm a little bit more cynical about, you know, about uh about Gaza. I was there in 2005. I was be I was protesting, begging our state, do not leave Gaza. Um, and Gaza is Israeli beachfront property of the tribe of Yehuda. Okay? It's been taken over by the jihad. Uh, I read in a Torah book that the word aza comes from the word aut. It has a brazenness against us from antiquity until today. and Latari, you know, we are we have a partial hold on it, but I'm afraid that this process will make us uh leave and then yet again have to fight one day down the line and kick the war down to to our children. And you know, we're speaking here on an English speaking podcast and we're trying to attract people to connect to Israel. So, I don't want to speak bad. I don't want to bismerch it, you know, but on the other hand, stupid policies are stupid and they and they cost the lives of our of our, you know, of our of our of our of our of our peoplehood. So, I'm not this Roni thing is not, you know, giving me nas, frankly. I I understand the >> Yeah. Okay. Sorry. I know that's not the I know that's not the standard line. I know. I'm sorry. >> No, no. Look, I I appreciate that you have you have both personalities because towards the Jews, you're all positivity, but when you discuss our enemies and you mentioned before 1st Samuel's when if you look in 1 Samuel's, I think it's 15:9 where Schmal says to Schul, "Have you killed all thikim?" And he's like, "I don't get it. I gave you the word of God." And he's like, "Well, we had mercy." You know PM is coming up. We say after we read the migillo we say and we say and don't be like Shaw who had misplaced mercy. So that's right. You know misplaced mercy. There's a great clip of yours which I'm going to play. >> When you say you're fighting a defensive war, what the critics of the way that Israel has executed this war will say is that yes, what happened October 7th was horrific. 200 people murdered including many many innocent women and children nearly 7,000 more wounded some of them horrifically yes that was a despicable terror attack but the scale of of Israel's response in Gaza alone has been unbelievably disproportionate that you're now up to 35 40,000 people uh being killed again on Saturday not really reported that much because it's becomes the norm that 30 people are killed by an Israeli air strike like a 100 plus more injured, many many women and children killed and wounded. And this is going on on an almost daily basis. And there seems to be no apparent plan by Israel's government for what happens at the end of this or indeed how it ends. >> Here's let me use this opportunity then to actually criticize my government as well. I think that Israel should have fought this war much harder right at the beginning in the first two weeks. We have we should have shut down the electricity and the water and the fuel and we should have dried out the should have turned off all those turbines that bring air into those tunnels. We should have fought a very hard and fast war instead of a drawn out 10th 10 month. >> So I loved your response and Pierce didn't like it too much but I thought that it was way powerful. Now tell us what this what what you doubled down. You went back at him and said [laughter] you think we should have been weaker. We should have been. >> Yeah, that's first thing is a technique-wise I find that a lot of times when they ask you what they think is a is a gotcha question, just turn it around on them. Just that's that's a general technique thing which I use, which is like you're going to ask me what you think is a tough question, I'm going to I'm going to smash you and say even more. So, >> the look on his face was of shock when you said that. It was like, >> right. So, that's number one. And it's also it's also true. It's also what I hold. You know what I mean? What are they trying to say to me? The the truth of the matter is is that Gaza should be jihad free. It should be jihad free and and all of our borders should be jihad free and all of our land inside should be jihad free. We should be free of anybody who hates us. >> What is jihad? >> Jihad is an an Islamic version of uh it's a fundamentalist religious totalitarianism. It's a it's a uh supremacy. That's what it is. It's that their peoplehood and their religion is supreme to ours and that they want to destroy uh or or subdue anybody else who doesn't uh >> is it about who is the chosen people? Is this really ultimately about if this prophecy of Deuteronomy 33 that the Jews will return and we have returned? Is that a question in their face? Is that really what this whole war is about? There's no question whatsoever that the advent of a Jewish state is a theological problem for both Islam and Christendom. There's no question about that. And and it there are forms of Christianity where they make sense out of this thing and even try to plug it into their theology. >> In Islam, in Islam, you have that also. They just do it in a different way. They do it by not being as uh uh you know hot on their you know on their texts and kind of making them more about you know jihad means fixing yourself inside and and and and you know tikun midot that kind of thing. So, so you know there are forms of Islam that we lived with let's say Kurdish Islam that kind of thing you or Sufi Islam that that has been more chill but generally speaking Islam itself and the Quran itself is an anti-semitic doctrine and Muhammad himself was a man who murdered Jewish tribes took Jewish slaves took young girls you know as as as you know slaves and concubines. So uh it's a it's a very tricky document and and basically the um the assertion is uh the the basic assertion of both Christianity Islam is that these religions came to be the true religion and therefore they came to replace the old religions and therefore in a simple analysis if you came to be a new religion but these other people are still holding on to their thing they're heretics and if they're heretics either you could swallow them through some theological way or you could try to destroy him in another way. But one thing you can't do is have him come back and be a big shiny Jewish state back in the Middle East just like the Bible promised unless you figure out some theological way to to to to deal with it or you exit out of your own religions. You have >> Christian Zionism. Christian Zionism is Christian Zionism. Not only is it not only do they make theological sense for themselves uh by by by making the Christian texts and the Torah somehow jive uh they not not not only did they come about with the with the advent of the Jewish state, but they actually helped create the Jewish state. Meaning to say it was part of that theology that actually helped Christian Zionists already you know in England 200 years ago uh a little bit less than 200 years ago helped create the Jewish state. The the the Balffort declaration was a product of Christian Zionism together with the power that the British Empire had at the time. So, so that fusion, you know, was was a tickun in many ways for the 2,000 years of abuse that we had at the hands of of of of Christendom. Uh, Islam has not gone through that kind of they don't have that version inside uh of Islam. But, as I said, there's different for example, the Kurds or maybe the UAE to some limited extent have some figured out some way to to to deal with the Jews and the Jewish state or to find a more moderate form of Islam. But the bottom line is you know it when you see it. If it's if it's ISIS, if it's al-Qaeda, if it's if it's uh Muslim Brotherhood with its various forms or the Iranian Shiite version of jihadism, which is which isah and and Houthi and all that kind of stuff like, okay, these are folks that take their Quran, you know, all the way. They want to do what Muhammad did. By the way, interestingly enough, and and here I would love to meet the Rambam uh and and argue with him a little bit. I would love to say to him, listen, uh you say Islam is not idolatry. On the other hand, the basic tenants of Islam is that Muhammad never faltered, never failed. Everything that he did is perfect. So in the end, it's a kind of idol. It's just that they frame it like he's a prophet of God. But if he's perfect, unlike our great people who are imperfect, if he's perfect, then that's a demigod. It's just a way of packaging it. But bas it isn't a type of a votes. Plus not to mention that they have a clear mole uh and and and the death cult aspect to it as well. So I would and then they have the cobba stone and all that. So I would say there is a healthy heap an unhealthy heap of a vodara and I'd love to talk with the rabbi. Maybe he would have probably said listen for the purpose of of the Jews in Yemen who are under the I want to give them a sack that they can continue to be Jews and not dial kashm. So maybe maybe that was his rationale. But but but in my in my sense it really is it has plenty of a vote. Maybe it doesn't have idols. Okay. And idols so like 2,000 years ago like who does idols but some people still do. Uh but those so anyway that's the bottom line that those religions have have an issue. Listen the Jewish state is a challenge to Islam. It's a challenge to Christendom and it's a challenge to your Lakewood friends and family. I think that was my original point in this video. >> It's a challenge. It's a challenge. And you know what? It's a and and religious rebirth is a challenge to the secular Jews in Israel. The ar the arising of the ultraorththodox movement is a challenge to the reformed conservative movement. Like there are changes. There are changes around here. Okay? You know, and and there's this thing that's happening and it and keeps going. It reminds me of like a frozen river. like there's a flow underneath. No matter what you see up top, there's a flow that yalam is being built. That to me is that that's where I put my finger on the pulse. I put my finger on the pulse in your line. If I see your shale being built and more and more Jews are coming and there's more Yiddish happen like whoa, there's something happening. You know, you know the airport when it the Israeli airport when it opened up, they made a rule that all the restaurants have to be open 24 seven days a week. You know, and [laughter] there was no cash. Today the vast majority is mahadin. Okay? Because economics, you know, dictated that this thing is that's where we're going as an um listen, I've got a friend who goes to trans parties like like dance parties, you know what I mean? He's my buddy. Whatever. I don't want to say anymore. So I said to him, "What's going on?" He says, "Yeah, I went to a party and I said to him any over the weekend over Shabbat, I said to him, was there any chabas in these parties?" He goes to me, "These days it's weird. We stop dancing. We make kdish. We eat and then we keep dancing. >> Yes. >> And we dive in Friday night. I'm like I'm like I said to him, "Is this the norm?" He's like, "It's become cool. It's become cool to make kittish. It's become cool to pray. It's these kids that are on the negative doing who knows what with who knows what. They're stopping to make kdish. So there is a palpable change. So it's a challenge. It's a challenge to a challenge to Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv is a challenge to New York. And certainly Tel Aviv and Jerusalem is a challenge to Riad and to Tehran and it's a challenge to Rome. These are challenges to to these things and Hashem is marching through history coming back to Jerusalem. the Jews have re h are returning and as you as you said and I do take what you said to me and I think that uh I really invited you to to give me criticism because I I I don't think that and I and I have do have criticism and I don't think that I've been fear and I think that I'll admit that uh I can um use my time online to try to uh enhance the feeling like as you said and the motivation uh by through I guess it would be instead of trying to convince people u trying to make them want it I guess attraction more than promotion so um I I >> and give them and give them a ladder give them a bridge or a ladder what's what's your step that's what I always tell people what's your step let me give you a story can I tell you a story >> sure I was uh this is this this to me an amazing story I was at uh there's these goyam in Texas and I say the word going not in a derogatory fashion >> in Texas. Yeah. >> Right. So Texas is an amazing place uh for many reasons. Um and um I was in Texas and there's these wonderful pro-Israel who are Christians bas. But I'm not talking about him. I'm talking about a family and they live in a beautiful house and they welcome people in all the time and they're holy wonderful go that love the land of Israel. So I'm spending time with them uh and at their house and they bring a lot of people to here and that's another discussion that we have to have which is what is the role of Jews versus visa voy do they want to hear about about do they want to hear about Torah do they want to come closer okay well we can discuss that that's another that's another topic but in any case um so I said to my host an I said to her you know I love this house it's so beautiful but I said to her I can't pray here. She doesn't have any like crosses up or anything like that. I said, "I can't pray here." She goes, "What do you mean?" I go, "You don't have any There's no lectturn, what we call a standender. There's no place to there's no wall and there's no direction towards Jerusalem. I can't tell where Shalam here is. I I I'm not oriented. A Jew needs a an orientation towards Jerusalem. I need to stand there. I need some holy books. Get a picture of your so now. Now, now first thing that's you come to somebody's house and you tell them, you know, I don't like something here. Anyway, she took my my myika, you know, Jewish critique. She moved around her furniture, changed stuff from the stuff in the house, created a lectern, a picture of Jerusalem, put art scroll books to the right, and made it face Jerusalem. And she calls me, she goes, she goes, "My whole life has changed. My whole life has changed. I pray now facing Jerusalem." She goes, "I'm even learning this thing called the Shmona." Okay. And and I say it every day with meaning. You know, all I'm saying to you is that was for for that non-Jewish person who loves Israel, that was a bridge. That was a bridge for Jewish people. So many bridges. So many bridges. A simple bridge that I'm telling everybody all the time. And I'm telling you, it's unbelievable how this thing works. Friday night, be makid to drink wine from be mak and and make it into a thing. Make it into a thing like old time like the like the make it when you have that glass of wine be like this is wine from make it into a thing and make a big slow beautiful braha bless Hashem on the wine of Israel you know what I mean and you you'll see that that that just it'll it'll pull you in what's the what's the bridge and you're creating a bridge with this program you're creating a bridge with this program so give them give them that bridge give them that that that step you're talking to a community that's a stickle insul got a you know they got their own thing going on. You're trying to break through to them. You're one of them. You got to talk to them. You got to talk to them bahava. And I I recommend, by the way, that you show them. Show them. Read it to them slowly. Sometimes we have as Jews, we read them. You know, we we mumble our stuff. You know, show them a puzz and show it to them. What what is this pusk saying and say like that we're living this puss? It's really it's really real. And I I I think that where more and more people will come to see it. You know why they'll come to see it? Because it's emis because it's pushet emis. That's what it is. They're going to come to see it because Jews are not dumb. Torah Jews want to serve hashmov. So okay, you'll show put them real Torah in front of them and they'll see it. I think taste it and you will see. >> Exactly. >> It's something you can't describe. We talk about it and talk about it and when when a person experiences it, I had a moment and every person I ever spoke to had a moment. Maybe before we end this conversation, maybe you could share your moment when something awoken with you. Uh, you know, just yesterday I was touring I was touring Brooklyn from Syrian Jews in Kevron and I had the really to help build rebuild Kev Rous and Isai in Kevron. It's a was a four-year project about a million dollars with Jewish labor. We took what was a kind of heap, a stone heap, rubble and made it into something beautiful. Really rebuilt the buildings there, made it beautiful, lay down, you know, stone and grass and then blue paint and everything. Make it really we we took we took ruins and made it beautiful. And I I I read to them a puss, which is one of my favoriteim 36 ladvas lammed. Easy way to remember lammed. It's it's double double kai. Okay. It's 36 36. It's easy to remember. Okay. 3636. Easy. Okay. Easy way. Really easy to remember. The nations will know those that remain around you. I.e. ones that can appreciate it's the Jewish people and not make trouble for us because those will the rest will push out. The go around you that are going to remain you will know I have rebuilt. I have rebuilt the ruins. I have I have swn the empty places. I've I've planted in the empty places. I Hashem have spoken and I have done. And and and I and and I told them the secret of Yiddish kite is you do it and then give Hashem the glory. That's the whole secret. You do it with these hands and then say, "Hashem, you gave me the co." That's the secret of the whole thing. So, so, so, so I can I can go back, you know, last year and think of a moment of inspiration or a few days before or who knows, you know, or when it all started, think of a moment of inspiration. But Belf, I I get inspired all the time. It's it's the the the thing with Israel is is just to be able to hold on to this live wire. That's that's the that's the issue. You want inspiration. Hashem's going to talk to you every single day here. Okay? And and when you get that prophecy, believe me, you better hold that stickleesh, you better have the the the wiring to be able to handle it because when he sends that electricity through you, just like the Naveim would pass out and have convulsions and have uh you know, epileptic, you know, fits to receive prophecy. Like you're going to get a zap every day here. You're going to get a zap. And and and and here in when you see somebody littering, it hurts you 10 times more. And when you see our government do something stupid, you it hurts you 10 times more than what ever hurt in America. Uh because because it's you, it's your body. You're the extension of it. You know, says that that the word the phrase which which which is meant to be a derogatory that this is a land that eats up its inhabitants. He's like, "Yeah, but you can understand it differently. It's a land that you become it. It it it digests you. You become part of it. You become one with it." Anyway, what can I tell you? It's it's really it's it's uh we got to keep plugging away. We got to keep plugging away and Hashem is doing great things and and and just get on that flight. Come and visit. You keep broadcasting. Tell them teach them the sukim. Teach them the the the passion. Go to them. But don't but the only thing is with Jews, it's not going to work with hottiness. It's not going to work with I know better than you. It's not going to work with you don't know. It's it's it's you know it's it's it at least in my experience it doesn't work that way. I I Jews have to be respected. Jews by the way don't do well with disrespect right. We're not like a we're not like a toka loving people. Exactly. Although we seem to receive quite a bit of it. Uh but uh I think also you're talking to a target audience that but so in the end in the end at the end at the end at the end at the end the question is what is Hashem's will? Are we doing Hashem's will? That bas has got to be a a from Yidd's analysis of every day and every moment. That bas is the difference between us and the non Hashem people. What what does Hashem want for me? How do I move his plan forward? And the whole life has got to be reoriented around that. And when I say that, believe me, I'm not saying that with a lot of hottiness cuz we all struggle that every single day with our yesh and our yeets and our ani and our in our, you know, in our in our in our in our in our materialism and our and our desires and and you know, all the all the stuff that we want. But a Jew has got to be a servant of Hashem. He's got to want what Hashem wants. I think what Hashem wants is to rebuild Jewish and to rebuild the mikdash and and to do it now. And he wants his Jewish people home. And he wants to become an he wants to be an orim. He wants to gather his people. Uh, and I think he's doing that. And the question is, can I can I jump on board? Can I jump on board? And if you don't jump on board, yes, there's the boot of anti-semitism which comes and kicks you in the tus, you know, and and Manni is obviously like the ring of passing to Haman, which does more than 48 prophets, you know. So, okay, you know, Hashem, you know, if if you don't get it, so Hashem sends you something to help you get the memo. Okay, I don't want to be Mannani. I I I want to I you know, he's doing his tough kid and he's doing it. Oh, boy is he doing it. But uh but uh but but we got to do it bava. At least I think that's that's the way to do it. I want to thank you very much for what you're doing and I think you're talking to the most in the people going to really hear it the most bas Hashem's talking to them and you have aut to to send them to send them a message and you should be successful with your podcast and all your other endeavors and you should publish that book about Israel. >> Oh man, thank you so much Rabbi or rabbi I think I can call you a rabbi. I've learned something from you. I also have >> and and uh I got to we got to see a the the Torah side. Uh uh not that your other work isn't Torah, but this was specifically we focused on it and uh this was uh >> I love the Torah side. You're right. You're you're you know that's actually just so you know the reason that I agreed to be with you today. I'm busy. I've got a million other things going on. I'm looking at the clock right now. But I'm like speaking to the Torah Jews. That's where I want to be. I I want to be there. I mean, I mean, if you're there, if I have the to to speak about it through you, then then good. You know what I mean? That my other podcasts are a little bit more general audience and I don't, you know, use uh, you know, all all of our Torah words. Uh, but uh, but it but but but that, you know, th those are those are the people. And I want to come to Lakewood. I want to make this plug. I want to come to Lakewood. I want to come to Lakewood and speak. I want to I want to come to Lakewood, Taka. I want to come to Lakewood and talk to the Yids. You know, if it has to be underground, we'll do it underground, you know. >> [laughter] >> No, the the yeah more and more people are coming. Uh if you take a look in Rashi on Gimmel the we keep talking about Rashi I'll read the words of Rashi and then he says God has to hold each person's hands. That's what is this is what Rashi says. It's not it's not it's not read the words. >> That's right. No, it's a it's it's it's beautiful. Uh Rashi was clearly a big Erit Israel. Uh Paran and um what can I tell you? It's it's like so it becomes so obvious. It becomes so obvious and and and the way we should talk about it though is always through it's the it's aut like like it's aut and and and uh and I I hope that you know you're in Bish is that right? >> Yes. Yes. Rat Bish >> like look look at that. Look, you know, there's a med that says that why is it Israel hilly? Because when the Jewish people are in gathered, so the hills will be flattened out and there'll be more land to to to to encompass them all. That medish is lame. They take mountains in Bish. They flatten them. They flatten them and then they build you in Madura. It's lame. Wow. Wow. It's not It's not like a you know, it's a nice beautiful, you know, homalytic. No, it's a Lamisa thought. It's >> and there are mikvah ancient mikvah all the streets where I live is archaeological sites from the first base of there's you have no idea when the there was a book I saw 20 years ago that made a and this will interest you because you're from you you were the there was somebody I read a book I can't find it anymore he said if you take a dot from the dome of the rock toron to be b sheamesh to the where the where the ark of where the ark of covenant came back from the pushim and he says that's a perfect triangle and he wrote this whole book about this that and he said that so beh is a historical spot and when when back then when they sent it back with with all the the mice and the other things on it and the people of BMA sinned I had a beautiful word that I when we learned that in our nvishir I have a nvishir every night I said that think about It it came naturally to be bamesh. The Torah came here naturally. It would only come here if it was possible for the people of Bamesh to help to have that and to rise up to the moment. They didn't rose up rise up to the moment. But perhaps today we are rising up to the moment >> and Bamesh is definitely alive. There's more yeshivas and there's more schools. There's like my my son who's 18. He's going to be going to the army uh this summer. He's going Hashem, God willing, and he was able to graduate with a full broo, a full and and he's going to be also going to get help getting into college and getting all his education taken care of. And this is all with an complete English. He speaks Hebrew as well, but Eros is his whole class is olim. Everybody is like, you know, from even from Lakewood, from all over the world. My block is neighbors from Yemen, Ethiopia, Ukraine. People came from Ukraine. Jews just came after that that whole war started. They just moved here. So we're by the way, let let me turn it around on you for a second. And you're talking beautiful thing about the development of Beth Sheameish. And just just to think about that that the didn't like come at once to it. It went through steps. It's going it's going up to your shalam. It's going it's going up to your shalam. That's also something. It's coming from the west by the way from Gaza and it's coming up to your shaleim. So that's a good that's an interesting thought to have right now. Uh I want to tell you that it's also upon us here is I know it's going to sound a little different but it's upon us to actually make it even more welcoming, better for business, better for doctors, better for Torah, better for safety. It's it's taka upon us to do even more to make it so that a Jew will not have an excuse to say, "Yeah, but people throw dirt on the floor. Yeah, but the driving is crazy. Yeah, but there's jihadis everywhere." Like, we we we got to do our part to to to fix up. And that's the end of uh of Gamar Brah over there that, you know, the the rabbis would fix up the roads, you know, fix up the roads. We clean the streets of Aku that people shouldn't say that it's a dirty place. So, so, so that's, you know, but we got to do that. You know what I mean? We got to do that. So, it's upon us. We made it here. Hashem helped us here with Parnasa. We're able to do it. We're have the kids here. You have a house. But, you have a doicile. You know, you have neighbor. It's working good. Now we we actually have responsibility to make it a little more mat, a little sweeter, a little better, a little easier, you know, too much, you know, get rid of that bureaucracy. Uh uh help help Jews make a living here, you know, help them find a job. Like it's it's a mitzvah to reach a handout and and to and to pull them in. It's a mitzvah to make Israel more more welcoming. That's our you know what I that that that's our but that's also a responsibility you know and and and by the way I was just learning the I happen to also be a um a councilman here in my town in gition I'm an elected councilman and um I realized to my shock that if I see a situation that's dangerous in a crosswalk if a crosswalk isn't painted well and let lit up well and I allow as a councilman my moat my my my city municipality to not fix this thing up if I didn't push for it I'm over >> because he says when you see a security or or uh we we say we say or like either a security or a safety thing that that that is a problem like and you didn't talk about it you didn't say you didn't fix it it's I'm like I tell you I I got I'm like I'm still like dealing with this with this realization that I have such an awesome responsibility, awful responsibility. We all do. So, we have to make Israel safer, better, better driving, less bureaucracy, more welcoming. Uh, we have to make it less expensive. Okay? Like, I'll give you an example on the regalim. The Torah says that Jews should come on the regaleim, but we make it so it's impossible to come on the regaleim. You have to be like a like a big rich guy. >> Buy stock in lal. Everybody should buy stock in LL. >> But I'm talking to you about we should make it cheaper. The Medina should make it cheaper to fly in during those times. Rent more planes. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Break make it so it's $500, not $2,500 to fly in LA during the regime. Make >> I would sign that. Yes, I would. >> You see what I'm saying? You see what I'm saying? We have to do our part. It's easy to smash him in the head. But a ticket on Lost, you know. So, what you're saying essentially is there's a lot of people who would take the green pill from that video today if they could. If they could wake up in an apartment that they own in Jerusalem, >> maybe all the Jews would take that pill. There's not a person who wouldn't take it. It's just they just can't do it. >> Make it easier for them. >> Hotels are super expensive around here. Okay? Like like the hotel in Cyprus is is is so much cheaper than the hotel here in Erit Israel. make it make our our job is to not just talk about it, but to make it a little bit a wee bit better for our brothers and sisters a little bit easier. >> The most frustrating thing for me is construction. I I don't I I have this vision in my head of containers holding a house, four containers, all the wood, everything that could be built in two weeks. When I lived in San Antonio, Texas, I came as a rabbi for a year and we needed a house. Within a month, the whole house was built. And you can put that on a container and ship it here. And if they would allow these type of constructions, we could build like they did after World War II where they which is what we should have done back then. We should have when we came here, we should have all come and built houses and it will need to happen soon when Rabbi Rabon there's no past. There's only there's only here today forward, right? >> That's it. There's no there is >> but you gave an idea. You gave an idea. Now I challenge you. Research a company like that. Find it in Texas. Now, there's a new they're establishing right now a new Texas Israel uh business council. It's being established right now. Let's bring those houses over. Let's fight. Let's fight the bureaucracy. Let's do let's take a project and do it. Let's take a project and do it. >> This is someone everybody even if you can't come to Israel, you can be an advocate for Israel and you could work to help other people come to Israel. >> That's right. That's right. And and and and you can you can help let's say you're a big law firm. I knew a friend who had started a big law firm. He in order to satisfy the mitzvah of Israel, he hires Israeli based lawyers so that he lives in America. But he wants to help Israel so he gives them jobs so he could do. >> Yeah. >> What a You see what I'm saying? There's so many there's by the way there's many companies in Israel that are based in America from companies title companies that rent offices over here and hire tens if not hundreds of American olim are working American hours um working for accountants working for title agencies working for nursing homes there's lots of work and probably a 30 40% of olim are working in these things and making American salaries in Israel which is like best of both worlds. Yes, it's crazy hours, but you know, they get off Sundays. You know, there's they have it has its benefits. They're off Friday, Shabas, and Sunday. So, that's really working four days a week, you know. So, >> we're we're that's Yeshua. That's that's takisha. That's is helping a Jew live in Israel. That's and and with pride. Anyway, we have there's a lot that we can do. And really, if you think about it, >> lead us out with a braha. Let tell us your braha. My braha is that we all get together around this project of building is of building of helping each other out of having is of of of of recognizing what God is doing in this world of of having this just a that's what it means. That's what it means. What it means is give me a in your dream. Give me to do your thing. That's what it means. >> That's you know I have I have little shots like that. By the way my other shot is related to this. >> This is the longest closing ever. Yeah. When when when when you teach your kids Torah, they should see your teeth. They should see your smiling. >> They should see your smiling. And that's and that's where you're going to teach it because when they see you smiling, they're going to see like, "Oh, this is m I want to be part of this thing." Same thing for I I want to give you to keep broadcasting emm should channel his his his through you and through all of our friends and we should see but remember we don't see gashma we effectuate goulash and then we say you did it that's exactly that's my brain I gotta go bless you thank you so much for everything >> thank you very much for to thereaba.