The Draft. The Hatred. What Can We Do? | Tisha B'Av in Israel 5786

Three year mats, three years they were surrounding the the Romans were around. Everybody was starving. Nobody had any food. It was a matab a lot worse than you're going to feel about than you're going to feel tomorrow. And why did this all happen? They had plenty of plenty of food. As we know the Gitan already points out, there were many rich people. They could have lasted more or less. There were more or less three groups of people in Kalisra. There were three groups of uh there were three categories of people. The first type of people which might be familiar with and if you pay attention this could be applied very much in our day and age also. The first group was called the sudukim. They were the people on the side of being connecting to the Romans. We love them. Let's be one of them. When in Rome do like the Romans. Let's be one of them also. Why do we have to act so different? Why can't we go ahead and hang out with them and be the same? Why do we have to rebel against them? Let's just go ahead and do what we need to do. Those were the tukim, the ones who were poorish from Tar who separated themselves from Torah mitzvah more or less and said we're going to do our own thing. And they're the ones who said like we said let's get modern let's get progressive brought in Josephus and Yoseifon they were known as the birionim the biranim the sakonim. They were called sakri because they used to carry them daggers and knives and they were very vicious. They were a little bit tough. The these were the side of Gor. The first were the side of the second side were the side of Gura. They wanted to fight, kill, destroy. We want to go ahead and rampage. We're the ones who are going to conquest. We will go we will go ahead and uh and and take over. I'm going to take over you shal. We will be in charge and we will not let the Romans tell us what to do. And of course, as we understand, they didn't listen to that Torah. That wasn't so much of their interest. their interest in doing what they felt was the right thing to do according to their own opinion and therefore that's the reason for the surrounded that's what led eventually to the eventual mikdash and there's a third category of people known as the pushim they were headed by the the ones who were involved in that Torah the ones who are listening to what needs to be said whether to said whether it's comfortable or not and they were of the opinion of ter something in the middle. In other words, to go ahead and stay separate from the from the Romans, but not to go ahead but to go ahead and give in, to go ahead and relax, to go ahead and try your best. And that's why Zak went out of his way to go ahead outside of the city in order to go ahead and make this connection with with the Romans outside with the leaders to others. I'm mentioning this because I have to say I've spoke about here many many years say a cliche. It's almost something that's mentioned all the time when we're discussing the beta mikdash. And I think the reason is because many times we know that it's hard to relate to the idea of beta mikdash 2,000 years. I remember many years, you know, in the earlier years whenever I used to listen to all the time, he used to always hear everyone saying it's hard to connect. We can't relate to the beta mikdash and the on it so long ago. We have to try to feel it. I think for most of us it should not be a hard case at all. It should be a piece of cake. Every time you open the media, every time you listen to what's being said outside you hear the antagonistic waves speaking and the s and tina and the fire that is being thrown and the bits of of and greet that is being thrown in every single corner. It reminds me of the mdash. It just reminds me of the kam that was going on here. three groups of people, the sadukim, the bironim and the pushim. They were always around and everybody had their own opinion and nobody was interested in the other and people were getting vicious and violent more than speaking about the fight the the ran they're busy speaking about us. They're speaking about the and how they're destroying the country and it's all about us. I tell you the truth, it's very similar. If you just hear a little bit of the past of what the accusations were when we were in Germany at the time, back in the time with the SA with the SS and everybody was around the same type of thing. They're leeches. They're taking advantage. They're all separate. They're not helping the society. They're not doing anything. They're not working. Who are they? They just act separate. They're not part of it. Same. I don't know. Whenever I hear it, I almost feel like it's a a crazy thing. I'm just saying when I hear this when I feel it I feel the damage that's going in and it's invested inside of our body and sometimes it's what comes inside the is something that is preventing the beta mikdash from being from being uh from from coming about as we know everybody knows and numa the first three uh the first beta mikdash was destroyed by the three of cardinal sins this is this is the worst of the worst of what is z is considered we don't relate to idolatry but that's number one on the list it's the one mentioned the Most in the Gmorrah in the the in the in the Torah all the time is mentioned killing someone else murdering and in the end of the day only 70 years in the end of the day it wasn't as serious as in the second mdash it really is a question it really is like don't exaggerate in the end of the day in the end of the day let's be serious one is a very serious event one is karet these things are very very big things and they're going to be on the same ramifications as the other one lasted for 70 years of galut The first beta mikdash was only 70 years and this one's 2,000 years as a result of a little bit of hatred. It's like it almost seems like exaggerated. Like I said, it's a cliche. I understand the idea of it's not nice. The moral even points out just a interesting as we know three of the proim out of five of the proim in are written in bet of bet and are written in bet. Those are the three cardinal sins of the first bet. Those three are written in in reference to the first bet and it's written the three cardinal sins. That's why they have the bet in them. All three of those start with a which is the gamat of 36 which is the amount of ket that is in the 36 of people that are and he says perim which is written with three olive bets. It has three olive bets in the whole par three times is one of just one. You know what that is? The second bet mikdash says the third perk is connected to the second beta mikdash and written. So why is it written with three olive bets? Why not one? In order to not lest you think that even though this is one and this is three, it's a little bit less or it's a third of the other. No, no, no. It's parallel. It's equal to all three. And that's why it's written three times over and over again because of the seriousness of how it is. not to make a mistake that uh that it's uh that it's that it's any less than the other one. So what's the reason why? And the answer is like this. Listen to the he says a beautiful idea for this. I want to expand a little bit. He basically says that when I do something wrong, I get a punishment. You get your kid does something wrong, he gets a spank. He has to get a punishment. You go ahead and give him an onesh. He does something wrong. It's limited. It has a time. It has a time span. That's the way it is. We did three things wrong. We did sin. We did sins. So it's something clear. It's something clearcut. We understood and therefore we get immediately the punishment. But when we go ahead and are over the that's not a punishment. We didn't get a punish. We are never punished for this is not a punishment. It's a it's a fact. It's something that's built into the tea of the world into the nature of the world. The fact is whenal Israel is together when we're here the we are together as opposed to when we are individuals when we're standing in the same country but we stand alone and we're not connected he says automatically there's no we have no we are not a body of people we're just a group of individuals and automatically we are given into the 70 wolves that will vanquish us and completely devour us in a second the more s that happens with us we are we have we have no force field. We have nothing to protect us. The only thing that keeps us together is when we have the amongst us when we have a certain connection. So then we are greater than the sum of our parts. We're a much higher level that it works. It's an automatic consequence. The mdash that happened. It's not that the sin was worse. It's just something automatic that happens. When you punish a child, like I said, you give him a spank and that's it. But a educated parent knows that you don't put a child in the room and say, "Come out in half an hour." That's not the way you do it. You say when you stop being wild, come out. It's a consequence. When you We like relaxed people here. When you're not relaxed, stay inside. If it's 1 minute, if it's an hour, it's all up to you. As long as you decide that you want to act like a mench, like a benad. So then I let you come out of the room says destroy. It's not here. Every door that doesn't have it, it's why? Because you're still punished. You're in the room. You're in the room. That's it. There's no punishment here. It's not a punishment. It's a consequence. As long as we're acting like this, as long as we're hearing this, as long as the fire is burning outside, there's no way we can come back to a single place. The power of Israel as one is incredible. But it's only when we work as a unit. If you pay attention, the incredible power that we had these past two years, the miracles, open miracles, which I'm not going to go into. I think we mentioned it a year or two ago, but the idea of the past two and a half years in the war which was unprecedented. Nobody can explain it. We know it's all because right in the beginning there was a certain that we were together. We were working together as one unit. That's what it was. What was the day before? There was fire. There was esh there was a tremendous amount of sin of there was a tremendous amount of rampaging. That same yum kipper one week before that happened. that same yum kipper these I could call them evil people these people they went in the tukim they went into the um they went into places on yum kiper they went into shs in yum kipper in Tel Aviv and they rampaged the whole place they ripped the makita they said this is not appropriate we are going to go ahead when they do that it's obvious what's going to happen it's something that's an automatic consequence when we have this dissidence between us if anyone knew about the history before the shawah you don't know how bad it was it was almost worse than it was here which is hard to believe. Yeah. But back then the the the was because of the enlightenment skull and the other people in the sides and there were so many different types of husk which I'm not going to get into it right now was so big that there was a big big disagreement especially in Germany about how how things should be looking and there's a tremendous amount of fighting and internal fighting immense ones one another and this all comes down to the same that the kak of Israel is as an when we're Israel when we're together one time there was a person that was reading In fact, 200 years ago, 250 years ago, he was reading from a puk and every puk he finished, he said the name of Hashem. He said he said, "Hashem's name." He said, "Hashem's name." So the balm, the balmtov came up to me. He goes, "Why? Why are you saying hashem's name at the end?" He says, "Cuz I see the yud at the end of every yud like yud and he was really looking at a colon at a colon at the end of a two dots." He thought it was a yud and yud which you know is a yud. So he said it's not. So the balv told him is only the balm could say when the yid and the yid and the when two yiden when two yen are side by side when they're next to each other then you have hashem's name then you have the but when one is on top of the other like the colon then you're at the end of the p you're finished you're wiped out there's nothing that's going to continue anymore that's all there is but that's the kak that we have the points out an hour an hour para also you should know and again I'm not going to speak at length about this because it's not my theme that I want to mention but he mentions when mosh raenu gives He says what's before he said what does he mean said do you know that I begged 550 times to get into do you know I made one sin and I'm not being let in do you know raenu there's no person on this planet that will ever be as great as mosh raenu and hashm still said no hashem refused to let me in and you guys are walking in you know what you guys did in the midbar and you're still you're much higher higher than me. As an individual, we're much lower than But as a group as a whole, when we're when we're not just individuals, then we're above we're able to go ahead and break all doors. We're able to break any barriers. We are nothing can stop us. We can go ahead and completely do the most miraculous thing. And that's when, like the says, we focus ourselves to the mdash. Wherever a person stands in this planet and he has to go ahead and face where the beta mdash the the place where the was the which was a bad smell and it had many different types of spices and everything didn't sound very good but in the end of the day the success comes when we all focus towards that one place when they're all together in the beta mdash the beta mikdash is a consequence of our actions it's not something to sit and just cry about and say oh this will build we have to do something about it we have to go ahead and take a step that will connect us there if as long as we have this like I said I can't even listen to what's going on outside of the world these people are fighting like this fight fighting fighting everyone going ahead and charging at each other there's no chance that it could ever happen so obviously the question is what are we supposed to do how are we supposed to get ourselves out of this situation to be able to build ourselves up to be able to to get here to the right place I'll tell you I was at a simish I was in the north not maybe a few months ago I don't remember exactly few months said no you know I saw some cousins which I never really have so much of a relationship with they're you know as they say they're direct cousins of mine first cousins but I don't have we're quite different so I don't really have so much relationship but I went to the sim I remember seeing a cousin which I remember when I was younger and whatever a little bit older than me I remember saying how are you what's going on I mamish I'm telling you the person looked at me as if I I'm mish like I I felt like you know the the wanted ads on the on post office where it has a big like, you know, reward for $25,000. Like I think they found the person like mama they were looking at me with the eyes like whoa whoa whoa like that they were familiar with what you know that I'm dressed the way I dress they were willing but I was so torn by this fact that we can get to such a stage that even amongst family or even among to have such a to one another and I felt I really felt at that time like I said who can say they don't feel tish these days I feel it I feel it I feel it over and over again so Let's go in a direction. I want to at least learn one lesson about what's going on in front of us so we can get a clarity of the point of the dispute that is going on here. And I'm not doing this for any reason for any type of political reasons. I have no issue at all. Most of what they're doing is completely political and that's not why we're here on tishb to speak about it. I want to speak of a lesson that we can all take from the matsah from the situation that we're surrounded by right now because I think it's tremendous thing that we can learn about where this difference of opinion is coming from. What's it built on? where is it focused and you'll realize that at least this is something that we could be from if the other side is not going to at least we can learn from it I'll explain like this s when I was um you know when I was a young younger and I was becoming from and I was I was in you know learning in yeshiva and this eventually continuing so I spoke to a number of my relatives is already going in America not over here and one of the things that most of them kept asking and I'm sure you'll be familiar with this cogn phenomenon is so how long do you learn in yeshiva How long does it take to get there? Is it 2 years, four years, 10 years? You need a PhD. Is there like rabbi, grand rabbi, chief rabbi, lord? Like there's levels of, you know, what you get, you know, how many years does it take to go ahead and do that? So did he did this funny thing that we call which is not really it's nothing real from and that's called the tactic. In order that we can get in order that we can make people happy that you got audible understanding and you have to understand this is all the difference and I'll show you it's this applies to every single case that we bump into is the idea of learning of studying is an external act. It's there as a means to an end. It's there to go ahead and get to a certain point. It's a means to an end. When you're finished, you're finished. You take the test and it's over. It's there as a way to get there. All and when you see a big someone who's very who knows a tremendous amount of information. So the you said such a person on an Einstein is gave his he gave it over. It's external. It's something that Hashem handed over to him. He received it and he received it and that's his contribution to society. He goes ahead and he tries to go ahead and do it for something else to get to somewhere. However, and this is the main that we have to take this home and it'll make a difference in all of our perspective of everything that we see around us. Torah is a totally different mahal. Torah is a way of life. It's a different way of understanding. It's something that a person delves into and it metamorphosizes the purpose the person it's supposed to transform you into saying something else. You know when you see those pictures of someone before he was a balcha and after baluva so he was dressed like this and dressed like that. You don't realize the whole inards of that person is a different you just think that you're seeing someone with you know shorts and a and a whatever his getup is and he changed with it to a black hat that's not it. His whole perspective of life changed. His whole way of thinking, his whole life became a different person. When we see we don't say we say he gave it from himself. It's a he was transformed into something else. The ghetto of Torah is something to reinstate something because we learn for the sake of learning. We learn for the etsum thing of what it does for us, what it performs for us. I remember one time he from a visement he said he was by a doctor and he was smoothing with the doctor whatever it is and he told him yeah he gives a shir on say Shabbat or whatever it is and he mentions he gets a good number of people there are hundreds of people that show up and he mentioned it so so the doctor said oh really so what do they get when you're finished like what's the what do they get afterwards there prize is there a degree is why would hundreds of people come st to when you think about it it's it's a it's an incredible thing it's a fantastic thing that people just come st there's no nothing no No incentive, no grades, nothing happening. You come, you go and you listen. This whole tish above is as they call, you know, these days become movie night. Like everyone's just watching shum the whole entire time. And this is why people are going ahead and connecting to everything. And if you think about this difference, you understand about what I'm mentioning right here, you'll start realizing that really answers all the all the differences between us. They say, "What's the big deal? You can go ahead and learn and you can also go to the go to milim you go to the you come back number two there's programs do that right you go ahead go learn a few years couple years go to the come back you can do that you'll do this and that and the truth is they're right if it's an intellectual pursuit if we're here just to be able to you know you go to college you learn a year and a half you go back take a break you come back what's the big deal go ahead and you'll finish the subject it's not the end of the world if you go ahead and do it you stop you go take a break and you come back to where you were beforehand in as much as that's one is information is information what's the difference if you take a break in the middle but as long as we understand the Torah is here to metamorphosize it's cumulative the yesterday doesn't work like today the next day doesn't work like today one is built on the next when someone's working on a project and you're working and you have a goal and you're aim towards that you're aiming and you're building on what you did yesterday your ideas are built from what you did before you can't stop it works all together it's one big picture it's Not that I'm getting paid to day-to-day information. I'm not just gaining. I'm here to make a big one big project. To be able to do that, it has to be cumulative. The most famous example and it's a beautiful example. So, it's worth saying again. Of course, who knows? Who is greater than Rya that he went away for 12 years to go ahead and learn? Started from scratch as we're familiar with. I don't know if to tell you. And when he finally came back to his wife, we all know that he was standing by the door and he listened behind the door and he heard some leftist telling off his wife. You idiot. What do you think you did? You went ahead and you go ahead and you married some guy who ran away from you. Your father sent you up. You have no money. You really You're a princess. You come from a tremendous amount of wealth. Yeah, it's good what your father did. It's good. It's good. I'm so happy. You deserve to live like this. How can you do such a foolish thing? And everyone knows it. Everyone knows too hot enough to be m but she went ahead and said if it was up to me you would go for another 12 years turned around and went back for another 12 years. Obvious question is come on go in the house knock on the door have one Shabbat with her take a walk spend a lot of times check out the kids like what's going on here to go ahead and not even turn around and not even open the door. But the answer is in the intellectual world people who hear such a story is correct. He should have knocked in the door and went in go in take a break and come back. But the answer is in our world in the world of Torah it's not 12 + 12 does not equal 24. It equals a lot more than that. It's like you know to the square to the square. It's a lot more. It's building one on the next. It needs to be cumulative. One is built on the next and another one is built on the next. It's not something that comes automatic. The miri says this in Mish thei himself one of the he says when a person builds a building or builds a table or builds a builds draws a picture he goes. He leaves, the picture stays, the bigny stays, and then he comes back. Hopefully, he'll come back to finish the bion. He goes and he leaves and eventually he'll hopefully come back. But he says, "If you leave her, if you leave her a little bit, he runs away from you even farther. If you're not, if you're not living it, if it's not a way of life, if it's not being experienced, if it's not part of you, there's no here. You can't do it. There's a big difference between a and a of is someone who goes ahead and becomes a part of what he's learning. He's living what he's learning. He's changing his life. He's changing himself. He's being a different person from what he is. It's all the difference in the world and gives us a tremendous perspective about what we're trying to do here. Rapinkus was nif. Rapinkus passed away right before the to right before the twin towers. But he gave a shir a little bit before that time period which was Mah Nava. He said he was in Manhattan and he was looking at the skyscraper in front of him and he said, "Wow, I cannot believe what the people can build." You know, 100 100 floors, a tremendous amount what people can build. This is incredible. This is could be done with intellect of man. He was very impressed. And then after finished rubbernecking looking up to the top of the building, he looked down at the bottom of the building and he saw the people who built the building and he said, "Huh?" He couldn't believe it. He said, "This built to that." He couldn't understand where's the connection because that's what it is when you're dealing with just intellect da not necessarily what I build is building myself. He says and he and he was coming to tell and he he came to give an example. He mentioned from the he said that his granddaughter who was in the husca she was already muscal she was in the university she went to her grandfather and she told her a little bit but she went to her grandfather and she said when are you going to stop with all your primitive swarm? When are you going to get out to the real world out to the light and see the changing world? So he took her out to the window. The took his granddaughter out to the window. It was in the middle of World War I, middle of World War I, where there were biplanes flying back and forth and they were dropping dynamites in the back over there. He said, "See those planes? One day those planes will get to the moon. See those dynamite? One day the dynamite, those bombs will be able to destroy the whole entire world." And he said in Yiddish, that's what they build. That's what they build. Mentioned, "But we build people. We create people. We're building ourselves. We're building to make who we are." That's really what Torah is about. It's something that is extensive, something that's cumulative, something that is part of us. It comes to change us and it makes a into and it can only work when it's connected. It can't be with these stops and these breaks and these middle or these types of things where they think it's a they say a half and half job. Yeshua, as we all know, when Mosher Rabenu went up to Hari for 40 days, Yeshua went and he stayed by the heart. He stayed on the bottom of the mountain and he stayed there for 40 days. And the question is why? Let's be honest. Your your rebi is leaving. So walk him to the airport, watch him go on the plane, watch the plane take off and go home. Come back 39 39 and 12 days later. You have to sleep in the airport. What's wrong with you? Why? He has to sleep in the airport. Why can't you just wait till the time for the rabbi to come back and he should wait by the mountain? Because he knew the this is to go ahead and connect to the learning that you're doing. It's not something that you just go and do. It's something that you live. It's something you experience. A person's a real mishim is there even when he's not there. He's living it even when he's not around. It's something that it change. It metamorphosizes the bench and it makes him into a different into a different purpose. It's like I said, it's cumulative. It's consistent. It doesn't have any any end to it. Rarin one time he missed a he missed a train. He was running to catch an important train and he missed it and he had to he had to catch a train. It wasn't it wasn't push to miss that train because if he stayed where he was it was considered dangerous. He just missed the train because the doors just closed on him and he wasn't able. Two Talmid were in the window saw the Reb. They saw the rashiva over there standing in the train station. They rolled down the window of the train. Each one grabbed one of his hands. Each one grabbed and threw him over the window into the train and he fell on the floor. He fell on the floor. He was he was he was he wasn't a tall person so it probably wasn't too hard. They flew him and they flipped him over the floor and then he fell on the floor as he was getting up and brushing up his brushing off his pants. He says where house to where are you holding what sug you in what? He didn't even ask oh you didn't pan for breath nothing on the spot he was already asking what's giving you in the middle it was already there that's a person who's experienced a different way of life a different way of thinking it's there and someone who's living it someone who's changing it that's not someone you could take a break with in the middle and take a little bit of I think we know I don't have to it's not a secret that most of the program if you ask the people that are there it doesn't work very well 99% of the people when they finish and they come back they don't come back it doesn't really happen doesn't work anymore because there's something Like I said, you're living it. It's an experience that you're going ahead and being surrounded by it and something that changes the mansion to be and to be a different person. Can I go back to Rabika one more time? Rabi, the great Rabbi Aka. So, Rael, this incredible wife decided to pick a rabbi. Now, why would she pick a Rabaka? You know what the Gar says? She he was the Eloy. He was a he was a big He had incredible memory. He was the future gutor. Their says very simple. He was malleenua. He was malleua. He was tenua. He was a humble person and he had good midot. He was a good guy. I don't know. I I would venture to say you should look for the best guy in Ponovich. No. Does that make sense? Good guy in the mirror. Good guy. Top guy in BMG. No, it doesn't make sense. What would it mu? It doesn't say a word about his memory. Doesn't say a word about how impressive, you know, how impressive his capabilities were in this and that. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. because she knew what we're speaking about today. The idea of learning Torah has nothing to do with intellect. It doesn't have to do with knowledge or yot. It has to do with making yourself a vessel that receives the Torah that needs to be received. It makes yourself into something that can go ahead and become a receptacle to receive the from Harvard and Colombia to go there. But if you want to go there, you have to have a certain intellect. You have to have a certain level of thing. They don't care about the person. Hara look at Harvard Columbia you see what I mean right you know you don't have to have any type of status the status is everything about intellect that's and it's true because when you're discussing knowledge when you're stussing what you need to have intellectual textbooks and this that makes sense that's what you're looking for but by us that's not our inventory that's not our that's not the ingredients in a that's not what we ever look for and that's not what we try to look for go through the 48 Torah go through 40. So of course over there is written yeah he is a or he's an elo or zikarontov a good memory someone who's very impressive someone who's a someone who's incredible wisdom intelligence not once 48 ways at least throw it once something about a memory something intelligent nothing what does it talk about anov someone who's someone who's able to receive someone who's able to receive pain someone who does have to do with knowing a tremendous amount we go back to where we started It all comes back to the same that if you want to be a reba, you have to be a malleta. The whole idea of connecting to is who you are and facing yourself and making a change, a metamorphosis in the being that I am. I have my mind focused on it. And I'm always there. Of course, we're allowed to go to work. I'm allowed to go to work. I'm allowed to do what I need to do. I have things that I need to do. But in the end of the day, you're always there. You're always in the place of learning Torah. You know what the Ram says? The Ram writes, "When you go ahead and do a mitzvah that you're allowed to do, when you're in the middle of learning Torah, he says you're allowed to go ahead and do the mitzvah because it's something that someone else can't do. And then he writes at the end of the he says, "You should go back to your learning." Since when does a say for the have to tell me what to do? I understand you have to go ahead and say after you do the go back to your learning. Why does why does he throw those extra two words in? So, you know why? Because even when you're at the you're always you're always by your limood. You're always connected to where that limood is. You're always there to be in that place even when you are far away. This is this is who we are. This is what makes us this is transforms a person. And it's something to appreciate, to love, and really to care that our children should go in that direction because you realize when we're in a world that the I could say the next generation is not looking too good and the place that they're leading to and and and the type of you know it's hard it's hard to use certain words but the the type of the way people look at this stage there's a beautiful phenomenon to make someone to transform him and when you see people in a midr the way they are it's a fantastic thing. It's just fantastic to be able to see that they actually transformed themselves into into something else. I saw Msa recently for with the the Sabbath. They came to the yeshiva, the Russian army. They came to the yeshiva because they wanted to see if there were any people that were trying to get out of the draft. Sounds familiar? They came to the yeshiva and they were trying to see if there's anyone trying to get out of the draft. So the Sabbath told everyone, "It's on me. everyone sit with a garum in the in a standender and learn and don't worry about it you'll be fine you'll be fine just trust me so they all went they weren't scared even though all the there were a bunch of you know a bunch of sen a bunch of people from Russian Russian ministers came to look they saw b midrush full of people learning and they said these guys are not arikim these are not people that are running away they're not mishim no they seem to be okay I guess they're doing that as they were on their way outside walking out of the He said that they heard some noise in the esat nashim. They heard some noise in the nashim. They went upstairs and there were three or four bakim that didn't listen to the sabah because they were scared of the people that were going to walk in. They were scared of the Russians that were coming and they were hiding underneath the table and they moved the table and chairs and they said, "Oh, we found narim." And they went and grabbed them and put them in the army. They went in and did that because it's the k of the the k of the to go ahead and protect. But I'm just trying to say that we see that the level of our connection to the Torah is something that makes us great. This is what makes us special and this makes us different from everybody else. And again, no one's going to understand you. Get on the radio and try to get with one of these interviewers. They won't understand it. This is something beyond their comprehension. To learn for the sake of learning, to learn just for the sake of of building a character. No degrees involved. There's nothing I'm going to get out of this. I'm just doing it completely voluntary. It seems something off the wall. They don't they can't connect to it. And that's why we're in the place that we are. And that's why there's all the and all the fire and that is coming that is coming in between us. There was a boy and there was a who was learning inva and the hala called up his father and they said to him, "Listen, I have to be honest with you. He's he's okay. He's a good guy. He learns on his own but he doesn't really come to the shim here and there he has a kuta and whatever he's learning but I don't know we're thinking about telling him asking him to not to stay in the yeshiva I'm not sure we said maybe you should go ahead and the father said listen just leave him leave him he'll be okay he said are you sure yeah he'll be okay he'll be okay the father that they called was a stipler and the boy was kvski he was going ahead and doing gear and learning up his garas and viewing karula what he was doing over there and not necessarily is the one who you always think going to be the star the one who ends up being the star sometimes it comes from a different perspective because like I said Torah is a different language it's something that's a different way a different way of thinking I want to tell you another story that this is a manyar that's why I'm quoting I don't know if I would have said otherwise but anyways about a young boy who when he was younger used to ask a lot of questions he used to ask a lot the rebi is reporting this his sixth grade rebby was reporting this and he used to ask him all the time can the rebi repeat the sh repeat the He almost wasn't sure why is he asking so many times he would give up his recess and when all the other boys were recess he would go back to the rebi and he would go and can we just learn it again can you go over it with me and he saw he was a kesh he saw that he came from a good place even though it was a little bit hard for the rebi but he went ahead and did it again and again this boy got a little bit older and he went to try out to get into lublin's yeshiva lublin yeshiva lublin he didn't pass he didn't end up passing and getting and he he wasn't able to I mean it wasn't such a easy test half of sh is not so easy and he went and he said okay and he went back to the train station he missed the train he realized that the next train is tomorrow he has to wait 24 hours that was the days when he had to wait so he opened up a garra sat on the bench with a suitcase he went ahead and opened the gumar and sat on the bench with a suitcase and he saw that the train was um and and he and he found a light that he was able to go ahead and uh and do it and when he did that he was learning over there as he was learning underneath the lights. As he was learning underneath the lights that night, Romero Shapiro passed by Shapiro bad small. He ended up passing by. And he said and he said to him, he said to the boy, "Um, uh, what are you doing?" He said, "I didn't get in, so I'm learning. I'll wait for the next train." That's it. He saw I'm learning and learning, learning. He said, "No, no, you're coming. You're accepted. These are the boys that I want. This is what I this is what I'm looking for." and he ended up taking him as as a bakar. Who is this boy in the end? This boy was none other than does anyone know who Vazar is? >> He's not only the one who was the guttle in Ben. Not only the one who was the guttle of nebra but even though even though uh I think you turned it off huh I think you turned it off actually he's not only the one who was in the neighborh who ended up being the nebra but as I know he has incredible all the presently all the presently that are in again are his and I'll tell you why because he went from bottom up. He's the one that didn't get it as any freebies. He's the one that were he has so many I'm saying every name that you know I can name a few names it's not relevant right now are all of his because he knew how to be a he knew how to start someone from bottom up. His systems were there because he was he turned himself into and that's the difference like I said between us and them there is no making breaks. There's no types of maybe a little bit of there. This also explains and I'm coming close to finishing here. One last thing, another that they want to say, okay, so let's take a percentage. Let's do percentages. You can leave for yourself 20%. Right? Leave yourself 20% of your we'll take and hijack the other 80%. Okay, we'll take the other 80%. We'll go ahead and do the 80%. Why not? You have your good, you have your good guys. Now again, in a world of intellect, in a world of knowledge, in a world of textbooks, they're so correct. It makes so much sense what they're saying. in that world then what they're saying makes a tremendous amount of sense but that's not where we are ours is a mile of mala a person who's willing to be mabel to make himself a to turn himself into something else that is the and that's how we're able to go ahead and succeed this is how we've always succeeded if you look in history this is what's always kept us around and that's how and that's how we succeed transforms a metamorphosis a change change of a person I just want to end with the last thing which Again, I think we're familiar with this idea. And this, of course, also they're not going to pay attention to, but you have to realize when we talk about the of Torah, you have to realize that the Gmorra says, we know in Babatra, Torah is magnet, Torah is something that goes ahead and protects us. Yeshua was about to go into he was about to do something miraculous to destroy a whole entire city, which was much stronger. It was the strongest city in Israel. That night, what do you recommend your soldiers to do? Get a good rest. No, there's nothing smarter, especially when you're working hand-to- hand combat. You're working with swords and and and and shields. Of course, you need to go ahead and work and and get a good night's sleep. What happens that night? Of course, we don't say for Yeshua. It says that a malik came to him and says, "You came and he was about to kill Yeshua. He was about to lop off Yeshua's head. Why? Because he wasn't." He said, "I want you to stay up all night and be learning." What? This person, this Malik is coming and told me that to stay up all night. How in heaven's name is that going to protect us? That's only going to make everyone's going to be up all night. You're going to be exhausted. How can you actually survive? So the answer is because he knew that the co of Torah is going to protect us. So I saw a beautiful question once. One second. Since when is since when because you stop learning Torah, do you deserve to die? Since when do we have such a such a thing? Okay, so he's BAR is not good, but he's going to kill Yeshua because of that. The answer is he wasn't coming to him because of BAR. He was coming to him with military strategy. You're about to destroy your whole entire thing. This is bad military strategy. Don't you realize what you're doing? You have to be able to learn in order to protect yourself and protect everybody around you in order for it to in order for you to succeed. You have to go ahead and be protected by the fact and you know what the Malik was dressed up as as a Sav. He was dressed as the Ram back then that was okay. He was dressed as the Sava the head of the whole he wasn't dressed like a rasha telling him to learn. He wasn't dressed with a frock in a hed because he was coming to teach him military tactics. You're going about it the wrong way. You have to stay up learning at night and that's the only way that you will succeed. Yaamelik when the biggest army in the world san was about to conquer and never lost he was bigger than Alexander the great he had the whole entire world he was standing outside of the gates of what does do he stands at the door of the m to make sure that everybody's sitting and learning and what happens as we all know they all go to sleep the next day they're all out disappeared you look in the history books nobody knows what happened to it was the most popular the most successful army around just suddenly they just disappeared overnight. Where did that happen? Because of the Torah that we had. Because of the that we had to be able to to succeed. I just want to say again with this I'm coming to a conclusion. I just want to tell you that if you know someone told me recently that they just did uh stat stats. They were checking uh the statistics and we're trying to say who are from the most loved countries in the world and who are the most hated countries in the world. And you know we don't always win competitions but guess what? We won this one. We're the number one hated country in the whole entire world. The majority opinion doesn't like us. Does that bother you? Doesn't bother me. We've had that all the time. We've been used to it. We've had it. It's over again. Everyone talks about anti-semitism. There's nothing more populated. No. Nothing more populated than discuss about you know what? All of Israel was created for one reason. The whole the whole idea of Israel coming here and making a Medina was for one reason. so that people will like us. Went the exact opposite direction. Now, everybody hates us. Not only the Germans when we're in Germany hate us or the Polish and Polish hate us. Now, everybody hates us. How does that work? It doesn't make any sense. But the answer is when we hate ourselves, then everybody hates us. That's really the answer. When we're able to go ahead and build ourselves as an when we're able to understand and work together, why should people like us? I'm telling you, copy it. Copy and paste all the hated propaganda that we hated about CNN and BBC. What they were doing about the war and Israel is doing this and we're all bad people. We're all doing this. Check the same propaganda we're doing in this country. Also, one against the other. It's the same propaganda cutting and pasting what the rabbi said or cutting and pasting what he said. Everything's like a cut and paste to be able to take things out of context and man to make everyone just go ahead. When we hate ourselves, everybody hates us. It's a fact. It's always been that way. I told you all if you read a little bit of history right before the the German Reich, it was it wasn't it wasn't normal how bad it was amongst us. We are literally killing each others. We at each other's throats and that's what happens because the answer is our protection device and our connection comes and this is our we're not going to change the world. I'm not going to change the world. This speech is not going to change the world. Maybe some people will hear it, maybe not. We could only change ourselves to go ahead and realize and take the of he made it out of he had one. He had one request three requests but his main request was what was said didn't even say to savely give me I know as long as the we'll be able to have a little bit of a relationship we'll be able to survive no matter where we are. I realize the base m is about to be burnt. we don't deserve it. There was a grippus was begging us to go ahead. Agrippus said I have connections with the Roman army. I'll take care of them. Can you do it? And in the end, no. The bironi went ahead and attacked him and they said no. And they were burning down things and everybody was fighting back and forth and that and a group said to go goodbye with you guys. I have nothing to do with you. He wasn't interested in trying to help us because when we kill each other and I hate to say I don't want to say what the rest of the sentence is, but that's what happens when when such happens. And therefore we should realize and appreciate what we can do to go ahead and our children or ourselves to go ahead and invest in what's really going to keep us alive. What's going to keep us alive in generations? What's going to keep us alive amongst each other the amongst us and the Torah will be able to be there to protect us. I'm going to end with a story of a person who presently he's a right now and he's a boua and he mentioned his story that took place how he became a balua. He says in 1978 he says to the date in 1978 he remembers he had a couple a few questions about why how if and he went to a very and it's interesting yeah anyways and he went to he doesn't mention who the ro is I feel I know who it is and he says that he asked him a bunch of questions over about yad and Judaism and this and he was very impressed the mamish floored him and he was very very impressed but he was left with one question that he left the door and was still bothering him and turning him and it it didn't it didn't do good for him. He said he went and he didn't give him a proper answer about why don't go into the army. He didn't get a good answer. I guess he didn't hear the speech but anyways he went I didn't he didn't understand why can't they also go to the army go for 3 years go back to your learning he didn't he didn't get a good answer so he said so he went to the bus stop he was going going back home he was a bakar he was a young teenager and he was waiting at the bus stop and he said as he was sitting at the bus stop there were two bakr standing on the side word for word what he said standing on the side of the bus stop over there and they were talking to each other you know one buffer said to the other he said you know did you see that Rambam what the raam wrote and the and the certain sug that they were telling He said, "Yeah, but the Ram doesn't make sense. It's complete steer to the it's contradiction. Doesn't make any sense." He said, "Well, you don't know what the Raom is." Obviously, that's why you're saying steer the Rambam meant to say like this. That's what he meant to say. He said, "That can't be what the Ram said because another Rambam says exactly not like that. So, obviously, you're not saying back and forth, back and forth." He said, he he reiterated what he said. He said, "When I saw that, I realized I didn't know one word what they were saying. I didn't understand anything they had to say. But one thing I knew is that these people are drafted for life. These people are not drafted for three years or working some 9-to-five job. This is a 247 job and they're drafted for life. They're here to do it. They're living their Torah. They're they're swimming by their Torah. They're going ahead and this is a metamorphosis in the life. They're sitting at a bus stop. What do you talk about at a bus stop? You flip on your phone and you go ahead and you surf the net. That's what you do. You don't go ahead and start talking 1978, right? you don't go ahead and do that. Where where do you find to say and this exists in our day and age also when you find other people that are doing such things it should give us a tremendous to realize this is what's left this is a sh this is what's left for us we don't have much left we had a yes we had a mdash but we lost our think about who was around before the tremendous and we don't have names like that anymore if you want or or we don't have names like that Hashem gave us a few leftovers to be able to see what happened. But we lost tremendous amount of Torah. This is all that's left for us. This is what's going to keep us alive. This is the last thing that we're always there. We're always connected. And when we have this realization, this is the whole difference between us. Is this an intellectual pursuit or is it something that affects me? And if it affects me, we can all do it. I don't care if you're working or learning or how how much of background you have in learning. All of you can be a malua. We all if can do it, we can all do it. That's the 48 ways to be able to go ahead and make this connection. It's very hard and I'm telling you, we see the and there's nothing to do. Sometimes I get on and say, I wish I could speak. I wish I could say something to be able to do it. But you can't speak to go ahead and get a to keep your learning strong to raise your children to make us realize that the consistency, the cumulative effect, the idea that we're building a project together, the power of the Torah will metamorphosize us and will mortifi metamorphosize our children also. And yes, we will be a light onto the nations. This is the only way we will succeed and this is the only way that mashia will come. It won't happen with all the that is sitting around here. It won't happen. It can't. Like I said, it's automatic. There is no mdash for that reason should build. We should only have amongst each other and we should only have shalom.