The Inauguration of Trump, LA Fires, Yahrzeit of the Wondrous Savior Abir Yaakov Abuchatzera

[Music] hey welcome everyone today is y Shen foros we we passed this p shabis and um we have entered a new period of time which has great great pent and uh has been highly anticipated so what I mean is first of all in the Jewish calendar we started the book of shos which means we're in a ear in a in a sequence sequence of shabas known is and is which have been designated by kalal Israel for for many many hundreds of years as a special time of chuba and uh based on the term it's at this time that we really really now that we're passed Kaneka we received the illumination of Kaneka we've also crossed the threshold into to tavas which are days which we are we had a number of uh tragic incidents for example n this past Friday was aarab t and n eight nine and 10th of Tav were three historical events that occur to CLA Israel in the period of by uh uh sheney period the death of Ezra the sofair uh the the translation of Torah into Greek and the third one was the death of EZ s who was the Nai Mali and was signal the end of the prophetic period so it was it was a time this is a time in which we acknowledge that Tate um is the shortest uh shabas of the Year this like tavas and we've come through Kaneka we've made a turning point as as you mentioned past the fifth day of Kaneka but now it's time to battle having our our battle is recharged hopefully with the ru and or of kanaka then we can now tackle the task of battling against the Kos to bring or and Sim to the world and and so the fight Begins the the um the entry point that we speak about uh is so the the idea of what do you mean they're been in Egypt and we had also the incredible detailed list of the 70 Souls that descended to Egypt previously in the previous parot so why is there as we begin this particular saare it could have just said and then why does it have to reiterate what did you think yov is not going to come with his household ISO bet is probably isto a little strange because because um this is you know Rashi asked a question it's basically rash's question the medis question saying this seems a little bit redundant we we have this information we know that so what is being reiterated here so kazal tell us that what's happening is that hasem is counting the jewels he's saying these are my precious Ben Israel who went down into MIT they descended into the pit of darkness in terms of a spiritual sense and they Shone there like diamonds they really like the soar of the Tava of Noah perhaps that's what the the beginning PUK is revealing to us it says okay so CL will descend into Gus um but they will shine there there will be mitsu sh they will have the resources both spiritually physically intellectually emotionally on aama level to be on a continuous basis there'll be many Goos that we're going to be going into going to this one then we're going to go into that one it's not it's not b in the past it's not behind us it's consistently and throughout the generations and even now there are elements of gas which have not been resolved because kazal tell us is the difference between one of the opinions is the difference between our world and the world of mashia may only be as simple as sh that we are dependent and and solely beholden to other nations and we still are certainly are still beholden to other nations unfortunately both for our safety security parosa we're not uh we're not we're not quite there yet um and no greater evidence what's going on this weekend I want to reference very very important events both spiritually and and uh on the world scene first of all we have entered the week of the yite of the great abir Yakov known as RAB yakob Abu this is his pictor for King this is the holy yob abua he is the grandfather of the babaali and he thrived in Morocco in the eight in the 19th century passed away around 1880 just as the yesu in erel started to take off that's when he passed away on his way from Morocco to erisel in a small town named damore which is on the outskirts of Alexandria not far from erid Goan and that's where he's buried in a really sort of a a non non illust space and we're going to get to the story of that but before we get to the story of his life and afterlife because his his burial area in damur after he passed away in 1880 came back into the news in a big big way just at most critical point of Jewish history in ER Israel we mentioned about the dangers in ER Israel the greatest danger that ever existed to the Yu Israel was in the summer of 1942 when the Nazis were poised to conquer uh ER Israel and and the husseini the founder of the quote unquote Palestinian movement cohort of Hitler had plans to exterminate the roughly rough half million half a million Jews that were present in uh in AR Israel okay so we'll get back to that part of the story but first let's talk about his illustrious life lifetime his yite is going to be Sunday so today being Monday we've entered the week of the abir yakov's yite he is of course the Father the uh the greatest star of the modern era of the family and by the way you have to answer to that the pinto family because Pinto is married inos they're also having enormous impact around the world whatever you want to say uh I've personally seen the pinto synagogues you know and uh they do a remarkable work I heard just recently from a good neighbor of ours here who's of Moroccan origin and how her oh excuse me Algerian origin and they made their way like most of the north Africans uh who Lear who knew French because the French in their Folly uh conquered North Africa at the height of the colonialist era which was right around the turn of the 20th century approximately 1906 and prior right in the Years prior to World War I vast colonies the English colonies were across the world India Egypt uh you know the Sun never sets on the British Empire was already an old story and similarly the French captured Morocco they captured Algeria Tunisia uh and the area known as mreb and therefore they began to teach French French culture which of course to the Jews was completely a secular um Endeavor and unfortunately many Jews assimilated due to that the alliance France schools who were perhaps well intended but sadly did not follow the course of Torah mitos they wanted to give Jews opportunities to make parosa vula and integrate the quote unquote backward Moroccan Jew the backward Moroccan Jews had been thriving since the times of bay cheni for sure and uh the uh many of the Moroccans traced their andry to uh the Roman conquest of by cheni and they followed the Romans out all the way to Morocco and they were the Berber Jews they're still known as Berber Jews there's a descended from that early early early immigration in the first century we're talking about first century H excuse me second century around uh after the by uh Reon and the Roman expansion so around there and then there was the newcomers known as the usurping Jews who came much later in history in 19 uh in 1492 with the with the uh gush farad they were called this the uh Spanish newcomers they were upstarts they weren't old Moroccan Jews so this Moroccans history of Jewish life and more importantly of Torah scholarship Sid cabalist Giants righteousness incredible incredible levels you can go and I have traveled there I've been Z to travel there it's through Morocco it's the entire country is dotted with the graves of incredibly incredible gim sages Saints P Pious men Mystics miracle workers great it's just a remarkable remarkable place and now in 20th centuries they encountered modernity so they were struggling and uh but it also was a sort of a hot Salah because then after World War II and that those communities survived World War II thank God it's another story why and how but they were able to immigrate to Europe to Paris to Canada Etc ter Israel and they survived and we had a million a million uh spartic Jews who came to Israel uh around the time of the founding of the state a little bit thereafter but the French speaking Arab world gave the Jews a place to flee and to seek protection fortunately now the it's offered its same protections to the Arab world who is French speaking since all the way in the beginning of the 20th century and uh that has caused many of the problems that we have today with Islamic uh fanaticism anti-Semitism violence heavy anti-israel Behavior lack of um Law and Order I can't we can't get into it but what is going on in Europe if you're following it is absolutely reprehensible and the United States is not that far behind okay but so it's been a bless a double-edged sword what the french did it brought Jews in yes and it saved Jewish Lives Many but it also opened the gateways to the expansion of Islamic fanaticism into Europe Gateway into Europe Canada and the United States and elsewhere now let's go back to the abir Yakov himself so the the various diasp that we have been to that that Moroccan diaspora was so early was just so early that um the abuat clan goes back as far as the 15th century who immigrated from the Middle East to serve the Moroccan Jewish Community as their mentors teachers mov uh was an immense immense he was a rosh Shiva he was on the highest level of Torah scholarship but but that's not all Not only was he a revered scholar posac Etc but he was prolific teacher and he kind of was the father figure in reaching out and being M the the Moroccans who clung to tradition but as in his lifetime in the modern world in the late 1800s were being exposed further and further to assimilationist forces and he against them by teaching and doing kiru he went around from town to town and he gave His Brilliant lectures this is one of his great works some of it's now translated into English but he was an orator a popular speaker think about it you have the godor in terms of gamarra just plain gamarra also a gifted speaker and teacher to the level that people could understand and at the same time a a um incredibly impossible to comprehend kados and miracle worker all wrapped up into one I mean that is remarkable he truly is uh the The Legend the star of the abater clan on all fronts he excelled so we're just going to take a little bit we'll take one little teaching from him and then I'm going to go to a little bit to this history he says as follows the main Journey we come down to this world this world is like a MIT it's limiting it has MIT it has boundaries space time is a boundary our short lifetimes is a boundary the situations around us our our our bodily needs Etc need for money sustenance food we're very we have a lot of M we have a lot of constraints that we have to deal with that does not have to uh be encounter but he says the reason we come into this world be us these are the three levels basic levels of the soul that come to this world Nao being our lower level or quote unquote animist our animal Soul so to speak rho is more the the uh spirit the intellectual Spirit logic teaching knowledge um discernment and Nish is the level of the Soul which is extremely mysterious and we don't really perfectly fathom our kadus um and their hasl says the will come through we have to become hard Learners we have to become attached to mitos in their in their various details and knowledge of but we have to become exert doers he was an expert about they said they would shoot a gun near him and he wouldn't Flinch I mean that's how intensely en wrapped he was in his in his and now was a very tall order to come to this world and achieve such great magnificent achievements perfect your your all these levels it's it's it's uh not only a lifetime's work it may be a millennium's work end game is to connect with the so that's a very important thing because what is saying is that our goal here is to work towards being a place where the can rest and I've mentioned in previous year anybody who opens up a page of piece of AI or something like that is already worthy to receive the so it's not really that hard to achieve but we want to be connected in and and be how shall I say a place where the Shina wants to dwell why will a person not be a place ofina that's if their thoughts there are veos if they're in um if their mood the frame of mood their personality uh their ability to create a positive spirit of rest Anda around them as opposed to conflict and strife these are all things that will drive the away and what a what a enormous developmental task we've been given and it's all en capsul in the words words of course his picture appears on the The Chariot and every Jew asov ISO in other words it's not just jako but it's each and every Jewish household and the commentary here says that the Zohar what what's what the ayak is really referring to here is based on a Zohar teaching it says that the are raught in the in his book about gulim about the repetition of souls coming down to this world he a transmigration of souls is we're born we get a that then there's an additional level which is what we'll call the r which enters a person when they gain majority mitvah then by the time you turn to 20 it's interesting 20 you will gain your Nish everybody knows scientifically that the that the brain does not mature until the 20th Fe you cannot really it's an amazing thing that it correlates on a spiritual level that the Nish doesn't really enter a person fully until their brain is a base kble that can accept it so it's constantly arriving it's a constantly coming down towards us however if you are not making yourself then that great will have be blocked and you won't have the high you'll have lower levels and if you're not makak in your lower body you may not even get your ruach so it's a joint pce by piece and says unfortunately that will be the need cause the need to come back as a Gilgo so wheny a simple he really went into the entire purpose of of Our Lives getting people to think about doing deep Chua lofty connection to Torah and Hashem this was his gift among many many other gifts but I'm going to just uh tell a little bit of the of the of his ma of major stories about him now uh he in his role as a miracle worker I'll tell you a couple of incidents and then we'll tell you how it collected to the story of 19 the summer of 1942 often times the Moroccan Community was terribly uh terrorized by their their Muslim rulers some were better some were worse all were unpredictable but they did have enormous respect for a holy person especially if it was a Jew that's one thing that the Arabs the Muslims truly understood perhap much more than the European you know in the Arab world they understand the concept of a sadic that there's such a thing as a Jewish holy man and that they should fear Him and they should they should be should not look to contest with them all right so there's one story for example where Arabs were bothering the ab Yakov as he traveled from Village to Village to teach to raise money for Sedaka to do to do kir to pasin to mik Torah and Y in those lands and they had a cross I mean s you're talking about the Sahara Desert you're talking about forests you're talk that are are higher up uh it's a tough terrain with Incredible amount of wild animals lions and snakes and a venomous nature don't ask it's it's Africa it's p at Africa and so once he was crossing a river with his attendant and they were he his attendant was very scared because he said there's a bunch of Arabs Gathering here and they're looking at us we got this horse we got all this stuff we're traveling from town to town they're all too happy to relieve us of all of our goods and services righto they're seeing us enter a river to try to cross a river on foot and then later on horse and they're saying no way they're getting to the other side either they're gonna drown or the hor and guess what we will be privileged to have all of the money that he's collected all of the various good that he seems to be carrying with him and they were already making bets between themselves and casting lots who's going to get what sure enough as they enter the water somehow very easily they cross to the other side and they're shocked the people are shocked on the other side of the river the Arabs who were observing this start kissing the robe of the aako kissing the Hem of His robe because they said this is a holy man and they would scream they screamed this is a holy man a little taste of what Messiah is going to be like by the way on a microcosm that when the Messiah who's the great sadic of all time and Miracle Worker of course but he will be revered by the nations of the world they're gonna be flocking to him if you think you have a tough time getting into it sodic nowaday you need protexia right you got to go people want to go to get a br from a great bashash and uh or from AIC or from whatever it is you got to wait online you need protection got to pay money blah blah blah blah blah you think getting into msia is going to be easy the entire world is going to want to talk to him and be with him the entire world leaders of of every continent and what are we going to do we're gonna we'll have our special time but it's almost like you know when you have um a parent who's very devoted to the seore but you're the child you know so you say hey we want don't don't just worry about your people out there we need we need we need your direction and teaching but don't worry we'll have it we'll have it but don't think that there's not going to be incredible passion and love quite the opposite of what's going on right now sadly sadly but that is really where we're going so the the beako was an example of someone who just by going about his business was was understood to be a very holy man here's another example the Yakov forgot a safeair in one of the villages where he had traveled and now he was in the next Village and he had a young man who was accompanying him and he said to him could you please retrieve my safeair from the other Village so the boy said to him I'm afraid that first of all I'm going out by myself I'm going into a forest land basically junk and there are robbers there they'll just kill me and and and if not that there are wild animals there so he says don't worry just just go so relying on the toic the boy steps out and before you before you know it he sees a snake whose head is twice as big as a human head and it's long and it's wide this kid is terrified but then he realized that the snake is moving parallel to him doesn't seem to be any paying any attention to him at all it's just slithering along it seems that it is accompanying him sure enough the snake follows him to where the next Village he goes and gets the safeair and as he walks back through the forest the snake accompanies him the same way doesn't bother him doesn't shepher him but sure is scaring away a lot of other people like robbers and thieves and other wild animals that wouldn't go near that thing okay and until he's accompanied that was that's the yakob he was a master not only of the Jewish world and Torah wisdom but he was a master of mankind and nature it's this is what when it says in peros MTO morto you know from everybody you become the highest level if you learn TMA this is what we're talking about I have to tell you it it it's frightening to read about people of this nature because then we s and look at ourselves and say they you know like these people was streaming through them a level of kadosa and you know like it's embarrassing you know it's like embarrassing you have to even read about it's like how can I even think about and this was not a long time ago this is a man who lived in the modern era in the modern era I mean you can tell stories about the B was Al you know who lived until 19 100 years later he passed away than his grandfather and his stories are endless endless Miracles I'm focusing on his grandfather ayako here's another story they said that bakov was traveling with some th him and he says okay we're gonna sleep in the forest right here we're gonna D in and sleep in the forest F they're all terrified what to be here for who knows what animals are coming for us and which which rash are coming to steal us slit our throats and take everything we have don't worry don't worry W's calm cool calm collected they're sitting there in the dark and they hear ruffling in the bushes and then slowly like a little growling a massive lion a massive lion appears and Baka was just like okay no no problem and they're like but said sh just calm down the lion approaches approaches approaches they thought it's the end and all of a sudden it sits down and you know kind of rests on the Paw lowers his head and it's just there not threatening them and then they get up in the morning and the lion has been watching them all night long no one was going to come near them for fear of this line that was literally protecting them and in the morning they they gave him a nice chunk of cholent meat they sent him on his way and that was it this was regular life with the air yako this wasn't this wasn't fantasies this was re this was his reality another story so he would go around collecting funds a lot of Sedaka because whenever he came people just threw money at him threw money him for Bros for this for for flam anything anything anything so he had a lot of money that he would collect he would distribute it to the poor this is what he did he was Mak of them he did with themable to an unbelievable extent and and there was one uh Arab donkey driver who was his driver I mean they used to ride on donkeys I mean what are they going to do it's it's you know 1860 in Morocco you know today you go to the you go to uh uden shamron you'll see all the dunkeys do you know that is hysterical but Isis thank God our our good friends Isis who now are all running around Syria know that you're running around on horses intimidating people horses this is 2024 get yourself a car what are we talking about it's not appropriate for you a horse why you riding a horse I heard my know horsepower but this is ridiculous now that you know the donkey drawing wagons that's how they're moving up and down Israeli Army says get out of here they take the wagon they go there get out of here take the W over there back and forth and both and back and they don't seem to be bothered by it very much you're on the donkey and B yako says I got to get back to my town of tailal which is on the edge of this Sahara Desert literally and Southern Southern Morocco not that South but South to to the till this the opening of the of the Sahara Desert and he said we're gonna take this shortcut and the driver says we can't take that shortcut everybody knows we're gonna pass by a village that is all robbers it's a village of robbers they live by staying on this highway and plundering anybody who comes by that's what they do that is how they make a living He says don't worry don't worry I'll give you an extra just I gotta got I gotta get back I gotta get back in town so so this guy is okay takes the money and says okay but let's see what happens I'm not so thrilled about this it starts walking walking walking sure enough right outside this Village comes out a group of who knows 20 or so Arab Mor rowers in those days already guns don't forget Wild Wild West they had plenty of guns they had rifles in those days so these guys are approaching them the driver of the donkey uh who's leading the donkey of rakov splits instantaneously runs as far as he can hides himself under the brush and ayaka who was just learning something is approached by these 20 guys rifles and he says yes can I help you he goes they go yeah we're gonna kill you and take all your money he says oh really okay and UTS some sort of tilila some sort of who knows what to cabala and they see they they they freeze not only do they freeze they became like statues but they sank into the ground all the way up to their waistline and were frozen like statues not able to move so aako calls a driver says come on we got to get out of here and they get on the dkey and they go back to the to tailal which is not far from this Village sure enough the families of these guys is like where is everybody they're not coming home you know and they said there's something a miss here and the only way we're going to locate them is by going to the abiro he'll tell us what happened to them or or if he did something to them or whatever so they come to him and he no no get out of here I don't know what you're talking about he shoes him away for a few days you know finally they come begging again kissing his hems apologizing for all their sins and crimes against the Jews consistently is okay I'll show you where they are and they ride out sure enough they're there Frozen with their guns halfway sunk into the ground and the family's freaking out the families are freaking out they said save him save them they're like dead people waking waking them up he goes okay I'm going to talk to them and he says to these Frozen figures he said if you ever ever attack another Jew okay don't you dare I will only release you from this state if you swear that you will never ever molest another Jew that ever comes by your village and somehow they were able to go like a little B over their head that's about what they could handle and sure enough they were released and then afterwards they came once fully revived there was never a problem from that Village of marauders ever again this is things that happen in our lifetime these are things that have not lifetime but in the modern era we can't begin to Fathom and of course there's a famous story about a boy who was NE he was paralyzed and his mother was a jewelry dealer in one of the towns in Morocco and she was close with the local uh Sheik who she used to go sell precious stones that was her part she was an ala and she had this little boy who had never ever gotten out of a wheelchair or whatever and um so the air Yakov appears in town and she goes running to the to the air Yakov to receive him and she says I want you to dove in that I should pass away he what what what are you saying he saysi want you to die I should pass away he says why I can't go one more day seeing my son in this debilitated State he's basically a I have to wash him bathe him everything and he has no uh he has no life to him I can't bear seeing him anymore please doin that he should that that Hashem should take my life take his life it's too much to bear he said bring him here and she brought him and um he says to the boy stand up walk to me and the kid you know he can't do anything for himself he's like completely he's he's he has a brain but he he can but he's not he can't move he's immobilized so all of a sudden sure enough he rises and he walks towards the abiro the mother faints you know but sure enough he's healed starts going around with his mother selling jewelry okay like a good son helped the family business help Mom so they end up at the shik's house and the shik was n too happy that abir yakob was in town because all the Jews came out to greet him with Fanfare and and songs and praise and this Sheik was like huh these Jews they're my Jews they're they're they wouldn't be alive if not for me this is my town right I own these Jews and they're going and giving so much honor to this Rabbi and he was like thinking bad thoughts and maybe he's GNA do something to this Rabbi in the meantime this woman shows up with her son and he goes who's this boy he goes this is my son he goes one second you have a don't you have a son who's you know he can never come here he never moved he said no this is the son so what happened the yov came sadic and he blessed him and he came back he he he regained power to walk so now the shh was completely flipped and he goes to where the abiro is staying and says I want your blessing I'm G to make a big feast in your honor now the only problem is when a Muslim makes a feast it's not necessarily kosher maybe kalal but it's not Kosher so air Yakov being entertained by the not Muslim you know sheh is not is not really going to have much to eat over there but nevertheless he can't insult him so he made this big feast and he he sat him at the table there he didn't eat anything but but he blessed him and he said to him um I'll bless you on the condition that you're good to the Jews that under your control and the guy swore to him that's it that's it that's it of course I will I'm going to I'm going to repent my ways I'm not going to torment them I'm not going to bother them I'm not going to seek all sorts of punishments and taxes and monies and so on there are endless amount of stories endless amount of stories but let's fast forward to 1942 the air Yakov UND had understood in 1880 that it was time for him to pass and he made his last grand tour through the mreb Morocco Algeria all these places on his way to ER Israel where he hoped to enter the land of Israel and spend his last years of his life on the way there he was detained in a small Egyptian town near Alexandria known as damore you'll see it look if you look on the map you you Google it din hamur it's uh out it's a it's a small place outside of Alexandria it's like a basically a village nowhere he gets to there and he couldn't go further and he ends up spending shabas there with the community very small community but then he understands that he's going to pass that job as he says I see it's my time I'm I'm I'm going to pass and he and he says I accept the Judgment upon me of Hashem whatever and he gets a hold of the two guys who run the kadish and and say listen um I'm inviting you to do my Tara because I'm going to pass however I want you to know that if you do it you're GNA pass away but you'll be my m g you since you did me this favor of doing my tahara I'm going to take you with me so to speak to G and they GRE they agreed they said sure no problem going one way ticket with beak of to Gaden that's a lot better than hanging out in downtown damore you know there's not even a pizza place you know so sure enough they do the tahara and they they both bear witness that the body was toille itself in other words they didn't have to dunk the body in the Mikvah the body was lifted and placed into the Mikvah by some unseen hands which they understood later to be than the the power of the Nish of theak was so great and this is not the only it's not the only incident where this has occurred I've heard this relevant to several sadikin that then the sh picked up the body and Tel it it's unbelievable thing so they witnessed this sure enough they die a few days later he's they're all buried in damore and that's that comes the summer of 1942 and we're about era of 1943 which was the worst year of the Holocaust and already husseini the founder imako the founder of the Palestinian uh scorge that we are that we are unfortunately dealing with ar ma they really the history of Palestine begins with him and it only begins close to the Holocaust and and actually when they the riots in the 1920s when the Jews started to really build build up a community and they were founding and and whatever they were doing and draining the swamps and and taking a lot of Arab labors to work which is how they got here in the first place so their grand leader uh the Muti of Jerusalem the Russia he he approaches Hitler and says listen we got to get rid of these Jews they're like they're coming out they're coming all there are hundreds of thousands of Jews four to 500,000 Jews living in what will become the state of Israel and he approaches Hitler with a plan saying please help me kill the Jews in fact some suggest that in 42 which was still a little bit early in the Holocaust progression Hitler said to what should I do with them and he said burn them and some say some suggest that it was Hussein he suggestion that gave birth to the cremator don't know that's actually true but that's what they say and uh he said we'll give you the Manpower I'll Supply with as many Arabs as you want and so as uh Field General raml otherwise known as The Desert Fox the powerful Panzer divisions of his tanks rolled through North Africa conquering North Africa on behalf of the Nazis till they reached Egypt and the last which was under British control and the British mounted a defense known as the Elam line they had built up a defense line hoping to repel raml and his forces in the meantime uh a team had been sent to nearby Greece who would then implement the Holocaust of the Jews of then Palestine they had places designated already in Bean which would have been uh concentration camps the whole thing was underway all that needed to happen was the formality of raml dispensing with this pitiful Egyptian defense line and they would have been unfortunately in charge of arel okay so the day comes the 15th of Tom was 1942 the York side of and a day of fasting and prayer is declared for the entire Jewish people and population of er Israel it's even in the headline of harat's newspaper I saw the headline incredible thing imagine for the Jewish people that day there was only unity and there was another Rabbi Z RAB LED Theos at the C ofos the great Moroccan Sage who came here in 1742 literally literally 200 years earlier kades had passed away in Yan but but not that wasn't the only story there was a RAB fasi who had a recurrent dream that there was a rabbi from damore saying come to me come to me Davin is it for nothing that I'm buried here in Egypt and he didn't know was and what he was seeing and he ran to the and they said oh yeah din that's the aako we used to go there all the time in the 20s you know that was the that was the place to go was like it was like my Rome and sure enough uh we can't get into details now but he managed through this scoffing British officer who said to him do you really believe that your prayers will make a bit of difference against rl's panzers I and he dismissed him with derision but sure enough this Reb fasi made it with a military transport out to Alexandria was a closed military zone gathers a minion runs to damur and he reports that it was an enormous light when he experienced an enormous ore after his toos and he had a feeling that Theos have been answered Rama would be stopped against all logic similarly this Villa rebbe and it wasn't only this vill rebbe there was one other rbbi there said the same thing about when they davened in the 15th of Tas 1942 at the gravide of their KES two days later on the 17th of toas raml barrels through the elain defenses like a knife through butter he finds water pipes that have been laid by the British to give water to their soldiers except the problem is those lines were not even finished before raml got to them and they had not been uh they were still filled with contaminated water which the Nazis drank and got sick for two weeks at least with denty or whatever it was and the advance stopped on that day raml asks yakimo Hitler for a vacation so he can go to his granddaughter's birthday party back in Germany he gets vacation and then afterwards Hashem sent Shah the um momery was newly appointed uh to the defense of Egypt against raml very Brash young man very very over confident and he said I'm gonna beat raml and he took the offense well that's exactly what was needed because the Beats back raml all the way to Morocco and then co-leads the invasion of the English forces on D-Day more than a year later and uh and that was the end of the Nazi threat to AR so one could argue that these F these two Moroccan sadikin actually PRS by their side stopped the Holocaust from engulfing in Flames Eris and speaking of flames I want to make a comment about the LA Fires for a moment it's like you know the word holocaust does mean fire mean fire I don't know about you but I saw such scary pictures you know fright really really frightening pictures of the extent of the blaze I mean it shook me and how many people lost their homes what is the message fullness so I'm I'm not from the school that says oh Hashem is punishing but no but Hashem is definitely teaching he man whether he's punishing or not we don't know but we do know that he's teaching and we got the world's attention Hashem has a way of getting our attention especially in a big way in these last several years which have been epic and what is the point of all this what is the message and if you listen I I tried to read between the lines of this terrible tragedy and I heard something very interesting uh some of the um people who lost their homes including movie stars Etc said you know what when the fire was going on you know what we experienced everybody was helping everybody it didn't matter whether you're a movie star or nobody or uh somebody whether you owned a big house a little house a farmhouse or a greenhouse it didn't matter we are in this together as human beings and we need to be unified and the person who's most admired is the person who sticks his neck out to try and help his fellow human being to save his home wow what a message Hashem sent what a lesson no it's not about how much money you have it's not about what large house you have or how famous you are but whether you're a person who actually cares enough to be MOS nees for another human being and Theus that these people experienced I mean we use the term Aus but you know the Brotherhood that these people experienced that was the message that was the message that is the message and at the Davin for the sake of the Jewish community and of the entire communities there but there's another message too the irresponsibility of the leadership sadly of the governor who was that Governor Nome if you don't think that he was on track to becoming the next president after Trump you are mistaken he is a big time politician handsome good-looking charismatic he would have carried the day I believe in the next election he's finished K buru just showed him to be uncaring and irresponsible they had cut him on a video saying how you know we diverted all the water from California which they needed to put out the fire and so that we could reintroduce two fish that had been absent from the ecological uh you know environment and one was a goldfish one was some other kind of fish and they showed him a picture with the fish they said we're so proud of this and we're so amazed and this is a great accomplish me that the the fish came back meanwhile because of those little fishes there was no water the dams had been broken there were no collection of water there was no pressure there was no way to bring the water to save human lives you saved a bunch of goldfish very nice but is that the point are goldfish and the worship of uh ecological systems and I'll include in that all these all the people people who want to put animals and people on the same level which is patently absurd and then on top of that you know to tell us all sorts of stories about what's happening to the world and how we have to tax everybody and save the planet I'm not saying yes or no I'm not a scientist but I will tell you that that's not a bigger priority than saving human lives and if you're and someone said very good if you're a if you are and this I learned if you're a mayor or a governor what's your job your first and foremost responsibility is to protect your people if you cannot provide Safety and Security right a is about is about you have to have food and you have to have shelter right food clothing shelter food clothing shelter let's get down to the basics that's why it's so challenging here in ER Isel because we are all vulnerable we are vulnerable people can lob rockets on our heads day and night the world will not bat an eyelash the government's job is to protect its population and then we'll worry about it you don't fire all the district attorneys and let people run in the streets to loot and and and pillage and run Riot on campuses everywhere else it's lawlessness and lack of safety and I think that hashem's lesson is low it's not about the Goldfish and it's not about people who will not put put anybody in jail be no matter what they do or allowing theft and allow but also irr it's an irresponsibility towards the value of protecting human lives you can't protect human lives then you don't have a job and and you don't deserve a job as a mayor as a governor for certain and this is the master classb was teaching us so many master classes and here we have it that the inauguration of President Donald J Trump number two is on the Y site of the air yakos January 20 R kin noted that that thing but maybe there's a message there too master class Master Class the abiro the righteous sadic the Bal Bal Torah Bak Bales sadik Bala Miracle Worker m whoever was lost in Egypt okay if Hees and such figure stops evil in its tracks stopped and saved the lives and provided Safety and Security for a half a million Jews from being exterminated at the hands of the vicious Nazis and their Arab compatriots and the quote unquote Palestinian Muti then maybe on the yite of the airos we're going to be entering a period of of appreciating righteousness honor Justice um protection of people and human life and of course the defense of the Jewish people from harm and hatred this is what we're hoping for I have a lot more to say a lot about the para but I wanted to just give honor to this Great Sage you know on my bucket list personally and I will be traveling on the day of the yite please God to a very holy Place uh known as lens on my way to New York first visit in about a year and a half I'm going to see family and bezem be a help to my family there in uh in New York uh after a long absence for various reasons but I got a ticket for about $1,000 which you can't get anymore um but you have to travel through Warsaw and have a nice long layover and I said okay I'll go through Warsaw I don't have a problem but I'm going to take advantage of my 21-hour layover run three and a half hours by car and three and a half hours back and who know his hours there and and say some to helm and offer some heartbroke prayers for anybody and everybody clel on that day of the inauguration when I'm going to be there January 20th that this should be a turning point for us and the light of our great sidus and sages should burn in the hearts you know just like the re Al the jabal m a miracle worker one of the pillars ofus for the entire world a place where people go to Davin and experience great Miracles and I can say myself I went to Davin for a child and sure enough I was blessed nine months later with a baby boy named Ellie M named him Ellie m in thanks and uh both of are redheads by the way old was a redhead and my son's red J and maybe that's no accident but point being is that this is a time where we are taking on headon that let's hope that hem who hasem should guide the leadership of the world wherever it might be like Canada might be getting new leader who's a more righteous person certainly not an anti-semitic person America hopefully getting someone who will will support the Jewish people and Israel and other places around the globe The Tide is a little bit turning let's hope hope hope that this takes root and this becomes a turning point and in this year we should see the continuous or the oran the or of the of the Great sadim and the fire of Torah light our hearts I'll just end by this I said somebody said to me you know because of all the anti-Semitism Jews should really invest in the land of Israel buy anything buy garage buy you could afford a can you afford a garage buy anything because whatever it is it's going up up up up up in the real estate I just spoke to somebody today he says it doesn't matter where you buy from neighborhood not from neighborhood this place on the beach it doesn't matter arel is just a source of enormous wealth and blessing that's what's coming and it's here already so just invest and you know so we're just saying that um you know it doesn't matter where you are but he said to me you know why I'm telling you this not only because of it's happening but because around the world there's almost no place where a Jew can live anymore without some sort of root connection for his Safety and Security for the future so get something buy something borrow something at least make arrangements with a friends that you can stay with them for a while ER is a source of blessing Hashem wants us to be here and safe and secure and under his wings and uh Perhaps Perhaps just perhaps we're going to see another big step forward in the year ahead from this yard site of the to the next one and uh should be turned TOA and as the yov said it's a qualitative and quantitative shift razor game you know who came to this world to achieve level after level if you're on a bema level move it up to a mental level if you're on the mental level move it up to the soul level that's what we're here for that's our purpose and uh take advantage of of these opportunities for continuous growth in TOA and Yu Baba Schwarz yes thank you you made a connection with the fires in California but there was a very obvious one made by an actress who compared what it looked like now with all the destroyed houses to Gaza she wow wow wow and in big trouble for it as well well you know I like I said I'm always wary to assign blame I don't think it's responsible to say God did this to punish that person who we don't know anything but we can look for look for lessons moral lessons and you know I think I think there's a moral lesson there of a profound nature saying what is valuable what is not not valuable right who are people what is a good person what does a good person want and that Flames are not a joke and when somebody's throwing missiles at your head it's not a joke and when you speak words that are like Flames that's also not a joke and we should just if Calif does a little bit of introspection and says we need to be more responsible this is a very important point clud on the video butan said he said the stages of GAA of the Jewish people the stage that we are currently at which is prior just a step before the real M which is always really kind of happening already and then of course the B of mdash is called restoring leadership called an people that can be trusted like you have imuna in them just moral people I'm not talking religious people I'm not talking scholarly people I'm not talking about that I'm talking about people with moral judgment right to know that a goldfish is not important more important than a human being and that a mayor's job is to get the Water Resources always at hand in a place which is constantly threatened by fires and that's your job that is your job so moral Clarity and goodness of spirit and honesty of Truth Jew non-jew that's I think the the master lesson that we're going through and of course it applies to Gaza and all these places uh un and anywhere else so the Cole Ms should come we don't want the whole world to turn into Gaza but we do want the the uh the world to come to appreciate the Beauty and the need for their connection to as the Jewish people and to and arish Isel ra the best line you had I just cracked me up is guaranteed Haba is better than pizza in downtown what is that called right damur right yeah I'll take that one anytime that's a good deal line me up for that sign me up for that I do hope to get to to damore one day that's one of my real desires I'd say I think right now um it's not on the same level as it was for many many years I just wanted to go wanted to go so badly I sent aitt with someone who actually did go that's as close I got I know my name made it there I know my family's name made it there it's a start I know that R kessen went successfully there at the risk of his life but he went there and I just think it's a magical place to do in and and uh and let's hope that we regain access it's one of the places in the world you can pretty much go to any Cave of any toic today you can go to Morocco you can go to Eastern Europe I'm going to the r mil please God Le har and but you can't go there that shows you that it's that it's the value of it anyway good week everyone I will be away next week so I wish you I wish you a wonderful shos and vaa and I hope to be back soon thank you so mucha and all your feel should be answer L yes and you don't hesitate to send names don't hesitate to send me names for next Sunday thank you okay thank you safe trip thank you bye bye de [Music]