The Land of Israel Yishai Show: Pharaoh's Cholesterol Problem

[Music] I love everybody and welcome to the East High Fleischer show broadcasting live from Jerusalem to the world you're a part of it where ever you are and Shalom and welcome to rabbi Mike Feuer home you shine Shalom and it's great to be with you here at the old school Beit Midrash salami alcove what a feeling what a special place and I got here we we made up to meet here in Jerusalem early and and Swami it was still closed off I went to COAS street here you know into the little underground party baby drive yes you know and just prayed a little bit there did the thing I love not close this is this is one of my favorite places me too and if it wasn't for like being needing to be a settler in that fight I would love to live here this is that's one of my favorite places if you're gonna do it get in now because the prices are already asking about gold yeah they're ready yeah they're out of control here that's another thing everybody's talking about prices and I always I always like not always when I was in college I didn't I took I learned political science which I love but I didn't focus enough on economics it's an important tool right and today I am really I'm really trying to go back and trying to understand the economics and I listen to as much economics as possible I have some Poli Sci friends who don't delve in economics and I always feel like you don't understand a certain bit of human behavior I'm I'm a Marxist in my heart not necessarily because of his attitude on his conclusions about it but in the understanding the economic question is the fundamental question of both history and politics right absolutely it's it's certainly a great prime motivator it's yeah yeah and and to not and to not understand that is to kind of not understand trends and how people behave and I love looking at like little economic miracles for example one of my favorite economic miracles is on route 443 which is the road basically between the airport in Jerusalem and there's no Modine right and there is this falafel stand right next to the [ __ ] Carlebach town we just got the phone woody I know exactly what you're talking about of course you don't everybody knows because because the world stops there if you've ever stopped her you can have to wait for 10 minutes yes to be sir philosophy because like everybody is there and the falafel is good it's all about location its location I think it's also another some kind of other ethereal thing he's got a there's a thing that's trustworthy good place comfortable they'll clean keep it clean enough in any case and not being the important were there right and and Israel's like that also Israel's this economic miracle and you could see it and I'm I'm loving the Dynamo oh yeah I could feel in the country now oh yeah it is an astounding thing the sense of energy and life flowing through the streets it's nuts yeah it's wild it's wild and it's and it's everywhere on different levels even in Iran which is like the far region is I'm kind of like hidden away in a dark place still there I could feel it there is there is money there's juice lifeblood yeah life blood is flowing yes and it's flowing good yeah blowing good I love to see that and I think that also adds to part of our conflict because part of the conflict in the Middle East and somebody wants once said to me like you know sometimes somebody says something to you in Torah which is just like you're like duh oh my god how did I not see that like kyon comes from word kina jealousy and Kenyan acquisitions right okay good right like there's an element of our enemies there's an element that that and maybe a large element if you listen to also the teachings of dr. Mordechai Kedar for example there's a large element of jealousy oh yeah a large element of jealousy and you know what if I was then dang would I be jealous too so in the middle of this desert ii region famous british saying is that the arabs are not the sons of the desert they're the fathers of it very kind of harsh statement but you know take it I didn't say it somebody's British right exactly like and then there's this shiny country in the middle and it's only starting to be more and more polished and more and more shiny and add to that that it was the dog's dog that built it meaning the people that were seen as the outcasts of society literally came out of the ovens of Europe and we're spit out of you know every country in the Middle East and all came together as refugees and said well heck let's just build an economic dynamo right so and the first dynamo was like a military dynamo yeah right it was like defense yeah necessity after SSAT and and like the necessity of the most necessity kind not to Sesa tea like I need maybe wipes you know no well I can assess 'ti of it's important our listeners understand that in Hebrew the word left him the world Milka ma are anagrams meaning they share the same letters mean the word for bread and the word for war are one in the same really in their essence and the word alone yeah it's just dream okay right once you get past the once you ask to the fight for bread then you can dream about and that's what's happening in the country today yeah bigger dreams much bigger dreams you think about the role that we play in information technology and in binding the world together and in creating the means of communication where humanity can actually be as one so fulfilment of our divine mission in a very physical sense and you you could really see it you know if you maybe will take an image from Ezekiel for me to scale are these like bones coming together and the bones come together and then the sinews kind of come on top of them and the skin and then they're standing there and then and then he prophesy prophesizes eyes he speaks my name floor office see to to the soul any any kind of like you know says soul going to get into that body and get like you see this and a large standing army ready to do kind of God's work yeah I feel in the country like such a dynamo right now and then things like what happened yesterday which is the the murder of rabbi Raziel Sheva I think he was 35 yeah I was blown away by his CV shall we say his CV of exotic yeah like here's a guy who just became a rabbi was known for his humor was known for his barbecues was also known to be a ritual circumciser was also known to be a volunteer paramedic was known to be have tremendously good just humor and a good atmosphere and he would take the these months right now which were starting the months of show vadim which is the Torah portions having to do with the the exile in Egypt and also at the same time correlation to cleansing ourselves from impurities that come through sexual sins and sand and improper desires and he would take this month or a month and a half as a tiny dip or as a fast from speaking silence we know that yeah I wouldn't know either but my brother turned me on to 531 a.m. which is Russia more wretched or more con more wretched which is like a more her ad type of radio and they basically interviewed his brother and stuff like that like you hear more the more inside the family story right and I was like oh my gosh and back to the Dynamo versus the murder which is like there's this there's this oh and then Hamas released the most amazing statement rabbi Mike foyer what do they say they said the West Bank will continue to be a sword in your side that sounds familiar yeah I was like you know you know me me me me me right right yeah it's me Mike and I are alluding to something which is the famous verse that says you're gonna be if you leave the the folks on the land if you leave leave the jihadists of various kinds in your land they'll be sticks in your sides and thorns in your eyes or the opposite way sticks and your eyes thorns in your size but they were like hey me Hamas which in Hebrew means an act of crying not just violent crime violent taking of something which is not yours right specifically right mocking yes it's a mugging that's what their name is hiding my name is mugging and and then they're like and and guess what we're going to be a thorn in your side unless you deal with us deal with me yeah read the book people right do you remember the little prince yeah sure lifts the teeth Prince yeah sure you read it in the French oh no he says things the the fight I never I don't know why this always sticks out of my mind the Fox comes up to him and he's like he's like come come hang out with me he's like no you gotta tame me you've got a taemi that's the only way it works yeah right you know it's like you gotta tame these guys yeah Zach well I mean and go back to your economic dynamo one of the challenges that we face is if you made a topographic map but instead of elevation you put it as mean income you will see that we're standing on a mountaintop here and basically when you cross the edge of udonge homerun and you had eastward you're just get lower and lower down there's some peaks there if the salaries are children is full of poverty yeah the oil the quay tees are sitting on amount of oil but everybody else you know is just in in the pits and one of the things that I see is in the future and it may god forbid to be after the type of war that happened last time but a Marshall Plan for the Middle East and and it's gonna have to be led likely by us because we have the know-how and we have the capability but the Marshall Plan after war - really was dependent on the fact that the defeated understood that they had lost and that's kind of the place that we haven't yet reached in the region is that if you're gonna fight evil you don't you don't sort of fight evil to a standstill and say okay now we can be friends right you need to break the brat break the back of evil in order to then say and and the good people who are suffering under it and there are many good people in the Arab world who are suffering under evil right when you break the back of evil and you say now let's rebuild that's why peace is a dirty word it's a dirty word because right now what we need to talk about is victory or I like another word which is completely illegal now which is vanquished and on the heels of that as what we spoke about last week is justice economic justice right is not something that we should shy away from because we feel like in the liberal world is seize the high ground of economic justice and by definition we are in just so this is simply not true and so therefore I agree with you that piece of the dirty word but it's certainly the the you know the I don't disagree with peace now it's the now part that's problematic you know I hear you and I just a tad differ kind of you know just at the very end of the highway you take a little bit of a turn to the left right I actually think that that piece is a dirty word in the sense that peace is a beautiful word it is one of the names of God it is the vessel that holds all things our sages tell us but in the hands of the the the the genius propagandists and and and and their ilk what they mean is weakness well you mean what you're getting at is the fact that just because we use the same word doesn't mean we're talking about the same thing right and well a little bit more than that that those people will use that word in an attempt to own enmity light that's what language is no question yeah is awesome I love it personally I had some some emotional challenges this week and and III felt a kind of Darkness come over me about a few of different issues and though I love you folks so very much you will permit me to keep some parts of my life to myself a little bit in the dark in the end but but the extent I feel comfortable talking about it I will say that just certain things in my life just were just I saw everything in the in the dark light and there was a part of me in my brain I have what's called in Hebrew Aloha Bukka mhm what is that in English yeah alarm but dashboard yeah that sort of dashboard with instrumentation right that dashboard said to me you're overheating you're you're angry you're ticked off and that's not your training sir says the - you know add some oil believe in you know have him will not have my back right and remember that that that that it's all from God and all that stuff all the good stuff came to me intellectually but it was not enough to defeat the dark stuff yeah and and and this morning as I was driving over here to meet with you and I was listening as I often do to the Torah portion being read on YouTube I listen to it just as a as a creati Torah and by the way that's just a little recommendation of mine to you I listen to the Torah portion being read like Torah throughout the week and then when Shabbos it's like the whole it's all there it's all there it's the live version you know it's like it's like listening to the album and then seeing the band oh you know and I had I had a realization I'm just very excited to tell you about it and to develop it with your excellent and that is that we are you this is the Torah portion of Pharaoh and the plagues you've seen the movie look it's right it's big showdown they'll kick her out right this is it and there's gun slinging right yeah for sure God is and and the rabbi's say something which I think is to quote President Trump I'm just acknowledging the obvious here which is which is that that God unleashed a kind of removed the normal the normal way things are oh sure right the story is about right it's like it's like it's like calming aiming at the Red Sea yeah but I'm gonna I'm just gonna let offer to cliff in like I'm gonna go nuts yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna make I'm gonna make your world because you think you control this world do you think that I'm in the heavens maybe or the gods are in the heavens I'm gonna no I'm gonna show you that I'm also in control of this ball this little and you don't even really know how the world works right you think you do you think you're a god but you're not right you're just a created dude and I can play around with the whole thing which is radical because really basically in in the marishi we basically had a god that followed the rules that he set out the rules are all thrown out here right yep and we're used to thinking that that Pharaoh is the bad guy right sure and the Jews are the good guys the good guys but I started thinking to myself Yishai aren't you being a bit of a pharaoh ooh because I got signals many signals from the Lord and when you live with with God little signals come up and you have to learn to read them to relax the old hearts mm-hmm but my heart hardened against it the mind the good mind yeah good teachings we're like the Jews untouched yeah always supposed to do right but the heart was like no I shall not let your people go yeah I shall not I don't want to be free right I am I am angry and I will not I will not unclench and maybe you know that you know and maybe maybe thought maybe there aren't good reasons yeah there could be good reasons it's not it's certainly I mean legitimate reasons I mean good as I am moral judgment you know they're just Vicki said substantive reasons anger has a real force thank you correct I like that you said that that's really you're thinking about your weak I like that correction you're right they're not really good reasons they're legitimate could be perceived as legitimate in any case so I just realized that I do a lot of this work here or one I like to get the couch I know I know you do I know and I have availed myself of the couch I was even thinking about calling you this but but that was too angry to call you that's always the sign I was too angry cuz because you did money what I had to say in that moment because I would have guessed what you had to say and I'm like but I don't want him to help me yeah laughs it's always beautiful it's beautiful so what does it tell you here about how we understand the story then I hear something but you were in the middle of an insight just just just that that that that that it's easy to paint it as though Jews are these you know that they were there there are these plagues and and the Jews are are the good and Pharaohs the bed but then I started realizing maybe there's a part of us which is Pharaoh maybe there's maybe there's also a fight here between the soul and the body where Pharaoh represents the body that refuses to kind of to kind of give in to the soul and the soul is like this good pure thing then is not as untouched and and but but Pharaoh that's like really our bodies which which which yearns for something different and sometimes even though it's writer and it knows it's writer still can't really let go can't can't be defeated and that's the hardening of the heart well I'll tell you what they how we let our ideas move us to action is one of the most important skills that a person can learn in the world in order to to actualize our beliefs so I'm going to share with everybody listening and insight about myself that you shared with me which I don't know if we've said here before you want to point it out to me oh I get it you're actually really conservative in your kiss cos in your gut but your mind is very liberal and and that's very much the split that I hear in the description are making and one more piece is that that I was always taught by my Rebbe that that one of the ways we should learn the Hamas which learns Torah wait wait just how did you connect that just that first point that the liberal mind and the conservative embodiment don't always work together right and and I'm coming to the question of how do you actually work with the hardening of one's heart assuming that one's mind is correct which by the way is not always true correct it's not always true but in this case if we're gonna make power the hardening of the heart and I miss Terrill having these emotional it's just embody on my cell on Moshe from an emotions getting the direct line he knows exactly what God wants but he can't seem to get Paro to do what's right so I was always taught that one of the ways you should learn the Hamas as it's written in order to teach you about yourself and one of the ways to do that is you should be every character business Ralph Daniel Cohen who's the owner of a pot iron is that you should see yourself when you read this narrative as every character in the story put yourself into each place as you're reading it right and it becomes an inner dialogue as you're pointing out right and so you know what the power is do you know how the primary tool that the Torah teaches us to move thoughts from our mind and to get rid of that hardness of the heart is prayer right it is of ownership believe it's the service of the heart and as such it's how we're able to let ourselves feel what it's like to know what we know we know that God loves us we know that shock is coming we know we were chosen for a divine mission what does it actually feel like well life gets in the way because those are scary thoughts or or they're abstracts or or maybe they come with a lot of baggage or whatever and and in prayer is that holding of that space and what does it feel like to really be loved by God what does if you like to know that messiahs coming what does it feel like to be filled with a sense of mission I I think I know what you're talking about specifically with regarding this week I did try prayer when I was gritting my teeth in in full-on anger I said thank you God thank you God for being angry right now thank you God for this thing that I'm ticked off on and this thing and this thing in this thing and that's something that I learned from the breast love kind of Navarra virus and I did that it helped somewhat and it did it did open a little potassium I thought and a little a little bit of breathing room a threat of a needle you know an IV needle I have the needle to you know into the heart in it yeah once you have a little bit of a breathing room it starts to kind of the pus starts to come out yeah well because there's something strangely satisfying about about feeling bad yes it is a also because it's a consuming state and in that sense it has a strange comfort to it well it's selfishness really there's also that for sure I think I think if you if you listen to that what the sages say a keen eye at a viper kavod multi-unit atom in alarm which is one of my favorite phrases which is the jealousy the want and desire in honor and self-aggrandizement take a person out of this world if you think about all those things they're really they all have the same things which is me me me it's all about me yeah takes you out of the world because now it's all about me right yeah and another thing that the rabbi say well is that a person who's anchor the first thing called mean a get nominal team bow yeah all kinds of hell just rule over him right right take over it so truth anyway and and hell has a power you know oh yeah hell has it power oh yeah even if it's just when we create right okay well let us pray let us just stop for a second and actually make a tiny prayer here that that the the good you know I like an American expression or maybe it's maybe it's even a Christian expression I don't know our better angels I like that better our better angels should rule over us our sages certainly believed in angels so you can make it a Jewish one right but that just like that that the term is you sure there are better angels should should rule over us come in and that we succumb to the to the two that that white you know that that that the good light and I really see that everything's for the good also I have to say that the murder of the rabbi was like a slap in the face this happens to me every time every time I feel bad for myself I remember one time I my throat was hurting and I was at a doctor's office and I was like my throat is hurting and the minute I thought that thought I saw somebody in a wheelchair in some kind of horrible situation yeah it's always like a slap in the face yeah like hey buddy your throat is hurting it's not a biggie okay oh yeah I tell you if a and a rabbi with a father of six children a rabbi who's I'm sorry I have not reached his level of righteousness I could say that officially you know and and he gets gunned down by by these Hamas like him you know wrecking the life of his beautiful children and his family hopefully not wrecking but bring whatever incredible yeah that's right amen but but but it puts it all in perspective yeah one more thing I want to tell you today is the your site of the first level sure epi oh really the alter rebbe the snares almond meal IATI and I know that because I had a chance to do something yesterday which I almost always jump at the opportunity to do when they call me and that is I am involved that's the funniest thing you know this is one of these godly things : one of the organizations that was created by sneers Alma Milioti yeah in fact he sat in jail because he sent money to do the Land of Israel yeah put him in jail Yeah right so Yishai Fleischer gets to be they have there's a modern problem they have an event they want a live streaming people live stream events sure but there's a problem with live streaming event what's that somebody's gonna know how to do it no they if you just video the event either first thing it's in Israel so I have the people that are watching it from outside don't know what's going right yeah I can think a screen on a kind of live public event is somehow very boring it needs somebody to engage narration are you narrated if I do the burro Hashem I've got this hood to do the live stream events for Colo Habad Wow I do the last year based on the road known as a real deep connection to cover yes yes but but they are they are countrywide separate and they do stuff for four cents of the IDF and yesterday they opened up a giant new building next not far from the central bus station here for people with MS and other neurological you can't even believe this thing man there's a room there that you can it's a music room you can create music with just moving your eyes when I saw when I saw now now there were VIPs very wealthy people came in or it's a it looks like a I don't know how much it cost but it could easily be I don't know anywhere between twenty fifty million dollars talking about something bigs not something big sure and all that was cool then you saw the folks who suffer from MS right rolling in right on in the real chair listed yeah it's brutal disease and you're just like and then the love that they got from people around them and stuff like that anyway it was very moving so I just wanted to tell you that that's another example first where I saw yesterday like you know the perspective right and the gratitude that comes with it and kindness and kindness kindness of people dedicated to kindness yeah it is an awesome inspiring thing or anything all right here we go Torah portion is Vieira and we're talking about we're gonna we're gonna get in a second to the plagues the various plagues we're gonna do a big chunk of the place but not all of them not over there I think we're gonna do what I think the we're gonna do lice we're gonna do six or seven of them exact count right well we'll do it we'll do the frogs we'll do the blood yep our of the biggest wild animals the untamed animals right and we're gonna do also the the boils yeah I think it's everything but darkness the whole roads a firstborn firstborn and Hales at the end of this one thing but before we get there we I'd like to focus more in the time that we have today and we don't have so much time but I would like to focus more in the first part because the first part is this awesome thing and it and mirrors a little bit the first tour portion in the in the book of the Bible which is very sheet where God tells us first a story and then he goes back and he says let me give you the big picture again right so we went very in-depth we went into the house of a Levite a leaf I can see male Levi conceive then there was this great light it was a Moses and he went downstream and then he came out and supposed to rescues people and he remember all this stuff that we talked about last year but now oh and and and finally at the end of last week's Torah portion Moses was like hey God you know why are you working why have you done bad to your people right you sent me and it only made things worse Wow and then God says come on come over here I want to show you something let me have it let's have a chat okay let me give you the big picture right and these this first this first or portion is sometimes I wonder I'd like to talk to the sages and say why don't you make us read this one more in some of the prayers I would I would like to read this like okay that's that's just a question not a big deal it's not a kasha government yeah it's just a question so says like this way oh man I think we should read this together why oh man hello key man will ship by oh man I love onions gem so god the god of nature kind of the god of Norton world God world God says to Moses Moses and he says to him I am God but this time using the word tetragrammaton right I showed myself next verse says I showed myself to Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the name of el-shaddai which is what I mean there are a number under standings but it's in many ways the the power which bounds right the right loan which places things in their proper place in creation and specifically our sages understood it as as the name of God which makes promises which are not yet fulfilled that's right to me though uh-uh-uh-uh-uh and I and I have we talked about this a few weeks ago to me it's almost always linked up with also fertility and your growth sure you will be a great nation in other words but my name the tetragrammaton the four-letter name I did not reveal myself to them which is weird and not how I would translate it okay go ahead because when it says Rashmi ashame lo no Dottie Lam the New Gods for another name was Abram called upon God in that name but I was not known to them through this name right and this opens up for us a whole world of we just went through through did three different names exactly and it opens up for us at the end here the whole world of like what does it mean the guy has different names and that sounds slightly idolatrous like one God many names what is that and one of the things it is is that as we actually were just indirectly speaking about is that the names of God are indicative of the modes of relationship between creator and created and what what he sang demotius this is the I vote new me in the world through the promises through the through the fertility in this sort of like their primary goal was that there should be continuity right but they haven't seen the fulfillment of those problems they haven't seen me actually transform the world as I promised them I would in Moshe well it's time your yeah your up like you thought I was just sending you down to like take these people out of like the socio-political condition of slavery no no no right this is that this is a essential revolution that's about to happen right if that mode excellent III buy it so I didn't I didn't I didn't it's not that I didn't reveal myself I kind of they didn't know me through this name they knew that was my name right but they didn't was relationship with me in the world or my revelation and this world wasn't through that yes it might have been one moment right after a Brom found Isaac on the altar that that he had a sense because he says Hashem yield a very harsh MJ Raya that that name God sees me and will that name will be seen but but it wasn't what Moshe is about the witness well III I'll I'll kind of take your line from before and say they had a sense that that was going to be the big mission yeah they had a vision for it but it was a vision yeah and ultimately because it's a national but now but now it's not a vision now as you said yes not to play ball yeah because now there is a people and by the way that's that's also a message to us be to the difference between exile which is we were working on our just survival and kept going yeah and now I tighten it it's a difference between the promise of redemption and redemption right right exactly so that we're no longer living the promise we're actually leaving the process if you if you remember in the matrix in a Khmer tricks has all these lines the first of the matrix that kind of sometimes they're a little bit don't fit exactly but right after this kind of miraculous rescue at the very end so Morpheus tells neo he says to him one day you'll you you will soon learn something like that but there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path yeah and I think that's that's exactly yeah that's that's we're talking about it but but I'm adding to that that we listeners to this show in our time in this day and age we are in the process of redemption is right we're up yeah okay step to the plate people a first for the gamma Hakim ot ed Bertie I shall also raise up or or or fulfill fulfill my fulfill my covenant with them latet lehem it edits canal to give them the land of Canaan edits maguey michelle gaba the land of those soldiers which they lived in right right and this is to the promise that I made to the forefathers right now through this Seamus am I'm going to actually fulfill it right the gamma D Shema t it not cut Binet said so too I have heard the outcry of the children of Israel I shed meets I'm avoiding more time which which Egypt enslave slaves and that enslaves them they scored pretty and I'm and I shall remember or have remembered right my covenant Lahan and therefore a motive Mesa to hell the children of Israel Annie Hashem I am the name of the Tetragrammaton the ineffable name votes at the exam Mitaka to Vlad my time I will take you from the subjugation of Egypt the salty of them I will rescue you may have or the time from from their enslavement from their work the galti of them and I shall redeem you miss Donna to be Amish Fatima gleam through an outstretched or a strong arm and through great judgments judgments which also means kind of miracles yeah the Locati of them I have I will take you Leela amped for me to be a nation the high ET lehem the Elohim I shall be unto you a God via dot em and you shall know ki an irrational Ketchum that I am Shem your God I am I am the ineffable name your God hamotzi economy tacit submission which takes you out of the suffering suffering I'm sorry thank you suffering of Egypt they have vetti at lemon hearts I shall bring you to this land Masotti hid which I previously already kind of prepared which is the promise in South it's a language of I raised my hand I promise that's by the way this is the biblical source of that practice in Western culture to raise right hand and swear right beautiful Shona sati Tod I have raised my hand in an oath latet Alta to give it to our hammocks luckily I cooked Abraham Isaac and Jacob then at a tea and indeed I shall give it to you Oh Todd I shall give her to you the Land of Israel lock them to you to the nation of Israel Moishe in eternal inheritance ani hashem so that yeah and that word Morissette just two little points now i'll throw them back back to you Marisha a word appears twice in the torah at the other time it's in reference to internal Hera's fell to the Torah itself and and the rabbi's say this they just say don't read it Moorish on internal Harrisons but Manasa which is like engaged yes which rose yes and you have to understand that the Land of Israel is betrothed to the Torah well go to the people right people are also betrothed the Torah yes yes the general reading is the Land of Israel is betrothed to the people of Israel and the tour is betrothed to people Israel but I actually want to say differently that the to betrothed those are to one another the Land of Israel goes with Torah okay that's how you hold on to this land that's that's when it works so we're not disagreeing my only point was that the land in the Torah have no place to meet except through the people right way the land and the Torah are the two primary vessels really ultimately through which were meant to have a relationship with God right right I was asking you last week what's that which is is God and Torah separate thing right no in in in the the answer ultimately from God's perspective is no and from our perspective it's it's a sort of aspirational almost asymptotic relationship so we can start right sorry if we can't get to the word please asymptotic like you know I remember it wouldn't ask them so days it's something that you that you approach you approaches calculus I didn't take care not to get into into the nation nature but I will be looking up though I'll be looking at yeah so so it's basically it's if you picture on a graph coming ever closer to the asymptote the the line on the graph but never actually reaching it there's a point at which of course God being the infinite we cannot and so God in His grace and love gave us the Torah which we are see I mean I had this experience yesterday I finished a semester of learning with my students and it's a it's a beautiful thing and they always ask me like I don't know where where do we go with this and I always point out to the missus where we've always gone we've been doing this for over 3,000 years and in this little class here and you know partes Jerusalem we've come up with new insights just think about that three thousand years of the same story and its new every single day that is that is that's why one thing I like to say sometimes is like Torah is an intellectual person's endless oh no question lists I don't want to use the word playground because because there are times in the Torah where some people even King David kind of talks about torez though it's a pleasurable thing a toilet it's not a toy thing but it is an endless place first out for ya field play is a sacred act I mean Joshua in Hebrew is not like you're playing around it's the joy that you can take in the purity of engagement that not utilitarian which is also true and the door is very useful it has much practical wisdom but there's something about entering into the deep and joyful engagement of Torah which is really in my mind can only be compared to dance like in its purest sense you know they say it's an O it's an absolute engagement of something which is endlessly fascinating I'm just I didn't you know I didn't expect you to say that you're compared to dance that's that's very interesting oh when is of it we're not when I'm teaching and learning are you a dancer I was at a different time in my life okay we can we talk about that sometime or nada flamenco right I can tell Nana we we're not going there but but actually want to come back to back to the party or back to the party all right so I just wanna make one last point and and I have to say we have to wrap it up pretty soon here we do um for various reasons I just wanna say one more point here and that is in this in this paragraph but some more than probably like it's laying out a framework for recap my framework in this in this framework but it's but it's also kind of closed chapter you know there is I can't get into it now sadly we don't have enough time there's the famous for languages for words of redemption personally and I feel very comfortable that I can prove it to you there are 10 exactly 10 mm exactly perfectly ten the languages of God's framework well I'll show it to you you you won't I really feel comfortable let me just prove to you in one simple way it's definitely not for everybody knows it's five right pants sure the fifth is what yeah but here we are in have vetti right now in the land of Israel that God has brought us here but we still very much need vanity right I'm sure that's 600 so you know it's not five you know it's like for you no it's not five and you know it's six once you get the six you're already always that's what I'm sure once you pass it yeah I got it okay so there's there's exactly ten but inside the ten there's only one request of mankind of Israel you only have to do one darn thing you got to do all you got to do is one thing the Jewish people are only responsible for one thing and that is via data yes you gotta know it that's your whole thing and God will do it all and notice that how it buys us back to what God is saying demotion Moshe says wait Lama how are you at that like why you sent me here you made things worse well and God basically says lo no don t like you have to understand that to know me you have to live through the process don't stop short yes like I see this all the time here in our beautiful country people who come and they're there there they struggle or they're embittered or they look and they say what a mass that's politically culturally religiously a mess and just working on it in the middle of a process all organic processes are messy anybody who's ever been out of birth you know if you if you would never knew didn't know what birth was you had no idea what's happening you walked into a delivery room halfway through a birth process you'd think someone was dying yeah I think of a murder yeah you know and and yet if you walk in at the end and there's this beautiful baby you say that's incredible tough yeah so when you when you are able to hold the pain of the process that's when you're actually able to birth something new in the world and it's not for not that that we say that the word UDI also means physical sexual intimacy in the Bible I would say we know someone biblically and because it's the intimacy of knowing that brings about newness in the world and that's what God wants from us that's it that that's that's his big that's our big job in this world is to know yes is to know yes okay folks with that we end this part of the show rabbi Mike Feuer wonderful to see you today thank you very much I feel like I've also learned Torah and also feel a little bit psychologically more at ease which is good and let us hope that through this tour show that we just did together we will know God better and understand why he's put us in this world and really also know our own mission yes without self aggrandizement but also without self nullification you know what is our purpose here how can we do things and really seeing those about Hassidim yesterday dedicate their whole life to making people with MS and other another that such things better inspiration it's an inspiration absolutely 100% an inspiration all right folks 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is asking us just to know know his truth especially in this time this time of attention god bless you folks wherever you are stay tuned for more rabbi Mike thanks again good Shabbos about Shalom and stay tuned follow the path of the unsafe independent thinker this is Thomas J Watson expose your ideas to the danger of controversy speak your mind and fear lest a label of crackpot in the stigma of conformity calm around Mike Feuer and this is the Jewish story listen to the Jewish story with Roth Mike Feuer on the land of Israel [Music] Shalom everybody and welcome back to the isha fleshes show broadcasting from judea to the world you're a part of it wherever you are Shalom and welcome to Ashley Perry Ashley Perry's a friend also former a senior Israeli government advisor and today's the director of the Middle East forms Israel office Ashley welcome to the show thank you very much you shot good to be fit and of course you've got that winning British accent which is always going to you know I once debated a British guy and I said to the audience I said you know my my partner here he's got an advantage because he sounds British and studies have shown that that makes you sound writer in American ears my only advantages that I'm right and that was that was my opening salvo against that what do you think I think we'll both be right today that's very good Ashley Ashley last night 8:00 p.m. here Israel time probably a day before everybody's hearing the show or two days there was a murder in Samaria close to the community of Hawaii lad a rabbi was was murdered gunned down just I think it was two days before there was a similar incident there but the terrorist gun jammed okay so the the terrorist lobbied lobbed about 20 bullets towards the driver who was a young rabbi and this young rabbi rabbi Sheva he was he didn't die instantly had enough time to hit his whatsapp he sent an audio message saying I've been hit please help me and he was actually very well known for his humour for his hospitality for the fact that he was also a ritual circumciser also a volunteer for first responders and also a young scholar a young Torah scholar that was already teaching at the age of 35 and it was it was it was a another one of these losses immediately Hamas issued a communiqué saying they didn't take credit for it per se but they said such exactly will be the price and we will the West Bank they said will be a thorn in Israel's side so that's what happened last night well we know that even though the number of terrorist attacks over the last year have definitely plummeted we know that their motivation and inclination to kill as many people as possible has not gone down at all and unfortunately however good the response by the IDF is and however much they're trying to quell terrorism unfortunately it's just so difficult and as we saw so painfully last night that another Israeli was murdered in cold blood by Palestinian terrorists and as we know they try almost every single day thankfully the vast majority are stopped by Israel security forces but unfortunately they can't get to every single terrorist at every single opportunity every single moment and last night we saw that and you know our thoughts and prayers are with the family and the community of this rabbi who who was was murdered yesterday and I hope and pray that the you know that the perpetrators will be found and that we brought to justice right the Prime Minister of Israel signaled to the Europeans recently so it kind of signaled that there has been many attacks that I have been directed this is not the first time he's done this then he's basically said to the Europeans there's been many attacks that we have foiled stopped from happening on the European soil and basically give us a little bit more of a break because we're the ones protecting you so he's kind of signaling that this kind of thing could happen overseas if it wasn't for Israel I think I spent quite a number of years in the foreign ministry and in the foreign minister's office specifically and we had many meetings with Europeans and other nations around the world and there was a there's a lot of security coordination cooperation and Israel remains at the center of the the sort of international collaborative effort against global terrorism and every you know normal and democratic and liberal country knows through all the Israel plays in securing and assisting the the local security forces to quell local terrorist threats so I think he was saying something a little bit more public than it's been said before the Prime Minister but it is clear to the Europeans and others the significant role that Israel plays in combating global terrorism do they though understand the significant role that the terrorists that are against Israel our work how they're working to perpetrate attacks in Europe for example one of the things that that is kind of coming to to the surface is the connection of Hezbollah in global terror and in global drug trafficking and Varco right Crichton narco traffic and and and how that creates a whole fiscal system by which money's transferred over to - to Hezbollah and one of the one of the huge news stories that came out at least it kind of flashed very bright for a few minutes and then it went away that was a the article that came out on Politico that it was uncovered that the the - two American agencies it was the CIA and also what's called the the the the domotics right what has gotten that NRA responsible for combating illicit trades like narcotics I got maybe the exact name anyway they they were hot on the pursuit of the narco trafficking that was happening through from South America through Hezbollah and with money ending up in south Lebanon and that the Obama administration basically killed those investigations as part of their pro Iranian stance I can tell you something very interesting there's a major disconnect in international community between what goes on here the terrorism that's perpetrated in their backyards I think on the whole you know whenever there's an attack abroad a lot of Israelis will say oh now they'll get it now they'll understand what we've been facing for decades unfortunately there is still this perception amongst many that the terrorism perpetrated in France in England in the US and other places around the world these are crazies these are Islamic Islamists fascist Islamists you know crazies Isis al Qaeda all these other groups which just there's no way of reasoning with them they don't really want anything sent our complete destruction and then they make a disconnect between some of the terrorist organizations which are perpetrating atrocities against Israel whether it's Hezbollah Hamas or others and they say no that's different these are freedom fighters they're fighting the occupation while we certainly don't agree with their methods we understand to a certain extent what they're trying to do and they do have an aim and it's it's more rational it's more logical so there is a major disconnect however basically justification to a certain extent but I think what's important to note is are the highest levels of government of security agencies of intelligence agencies they do understand that this is different there is a major connection between the attack perpetrated abroad and attraction attacks perpetrated here there's always this sort of feeling that you know that what Israel is doing to a certain extent you know against the Palestinians as it's perceived is having a knock-on effect for citizens living in the West we're actually on the contrary I remember a couple of years ago there were two British nationals who came to Israel to kill people it was the Mike's place bombing I don't know if you remember that and they found all these deep connections with al Qaeda and other attacks around the world so if anything the the global war of terrorism is actually having them you know multi sibley effect here in in in Israel so it is completely connected we see the connections between local Palestinian Lebanese and other terrorist groups to the global war on terror to the illicit global drugs trade etc we've known about this for for many many years in Latin America is a hot spot and you know there's a lot of information about what's going on there so it's not surprising that's leading up to North America the u.s. this has been known and it Iran is a global player right you have absolutely yeah it sees itself an absolutely equivalent this is another thing people don't understand Iran doesn't see itself as a regional player it sees itself as a global power it sees itself on the same level as America right and only now the the murder of Alberto nisman from from South America is coming out really he was unhardened tales he's a prosecutor in Argentina studying the Iranian connection to the the bombings in Argentina besides I had I had the honor of meeting him many years ago yeah and I heard everything he had to say and what did he say he basically said that Iran was behind the bombing of the AMIA building the Jewish what would you call it public Jewish building in JCC right and and the embassy and he'd found the threads which connected directly to senior people in the Iranian government and in the Argentinian government well the cover-up the well that's that that came out that came out later at the point where I met with him that hadn't been because he hadn't completely filed his case said that wrote he was just he was just putting it together but the cover-up just demonstrates unfortunately the political reality which some are more interested in than saving lives and stopping those people who want to destroy ever more lives I mean the people behind the bombings are still very central in the Iranian regime and they haven't been touched and it doesn't seem like they're going to be touched at anytime soon because of the political realities surrounding all recent developments and that's another thing by the way the Iranian people were rising up last week against Iran another story that was hot and kind of gets suppressed and you wonder you know you wonder first thing you wonder how many people were killed in those riots you wonder what was really the motivations for those riots you know we hear that the Iranian people are not happy about economic inequality and if you're dealing with an Iranian regime who we know very well is willing to kill these are regimes that know how to suppress just like the Syrian regime which is in cahoots with the Iranian regime they know how to suppress without any qualms and and you had this internet blackout the country just simply shut down Internet connectivity out to outside of its borders and information just trickled out instead of coming out normally I think even more than that I think we saw I think it was about a year or two ago an Iranian American journalist was detained and held in you know insufferable conditions in Iran and that sent a bit of a message to he was working for The Washington Post I believe and that's in a bit of a message the international media those that are allowed into Iran there okay you can come in a report but ensure that you don't go too far in your criticism of the regime and I think we definitely saw that in the reporting from the highest levels the international media on what was going on in Iran I mean there was I've I don't know about you but there was certainly a complete lack of clarity you know what was going on where's you rarely see that in other conflicts or revolutions or street protests certainly as opposed to what's going on here in Israel where for every rock thrower it seems like it's actually a type of press conference with you know 100 folks from the press corps surrounding the the thrower almost as the other in cahoots so we talked a little bit about about Iran the Iranian people we talked also about President Obama's interest in shutting down those investigations I think the word I was looking for was DEA before but as opposed to President Trump who was really eight years I'll say it I'll say from from from my perspective eight years of an anti-israel presidency we have something very different happening right now with wild Donald Trump right with with this completely different different attitude different feeling altogether coming out of Washington and one of the major milestones I think of the last many years may be on the on the Obama side it was signing with Iran basically the the nuclear pact there the nuclear nuclear pact but basically the nuclear what do we call that kind of the it was code it's called the jcpoa it's the agreement for iranian nuclear technology moving forward sort of right and and and and the Secession of of a cessation of the sanctions on Iran in the Obama years I think that was maybe the keystone thing visa via the Middle East and now you have a president Trump recognizing Jerusalem that was I'm not you know I'm sure for you maybe I'll ask you instead of saying I'm sure what what was that like for you that recognition of a Jerusalem by President Trump how did you see that well listen I think we have to go even further back than the Obama administration we have to go back 24 plus years to the handshake the famous handshake on the White House lawn betrays Yasser Arafat eats a Carribean and Bill Clinton which was meant to be which was meant to bring in a new era a new era of peace an end to the decades of conflict between the Israeli Israelis Arabs Palestinians and if we look back we're now in the 25th year since the signing of the Oslo Accords what have been the achievements are we closer to peace no is there being an end of conflict no why this is the question we have to ask ourselves because I would argue for 24 years plus there has been a certain paradigm which has accepted that Israel is the stronger party has to make the concessions has to basically do everything that's necessary to bring this to bring this conflict to to an end and there's been tremendous pressure not just from the Americans but the international community for Israel to make some very very serious concessions recognizing a two-state solution agreeing to discuss to begin negotiations from the pre 67 lines to put every single issue on the table to talk about everything to dividing Jerusalem to it to it basically every single issue you know that there was a settlement freeze all these other things basically just to ensure that the Palestinians came to the table and what happens when they came to the table nothing happened there were subsequent offers there was the Clinton parameters that was the barakah fish I'm a chef 2001 there was the Annapolis talks there were talks even after that and it's interesting I've spoken with a number of senior negotiators on both the Israeli and the American side and they all said one thing the territorial issue was always the easiest to solve it was never really a major point of contention what was the most difficult was to get the Palestinians so either I mean the I believe these all connected to recognize Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people and to sign an end of claims end of conflict clause which you would think you know the end of a peace treaty they should be the first things they should be front and center these should be the headlines end of flicked end of claims if we sign this sign on the dotted line that's it end of conflict end of claims and the Palestinians were never ready to do that even when they were offered everything and the kitchen sink according to what they claim are their goals a Palestine stayed most of the territory Jerusalem etc etc and they were offered that by subsequent Israeli administrations but the fact that they will not sign an end of claims under conflict the fact that they refused even though it will gain them so much just to say the two words Jewish state means that this is an ideological conflict and until people understand that it's an ideological conflict we're not going to end it so I think Donald Trump has taken something a little bit out of the box it shouldn't be out of the box it should be a little bit more logical and it said you know what enough of Palestine rejection ISM the root of this conflict is Palestine rejection ISM which stretches back over a hundred years passing rejection ISM of the Jewish people's right to live in this land in sovereignty with self-determination until the Palestinian leader comes along and says we recognize that until we have a personal leader who will not even scrub out the words to States for two people what have we even got to talk about so I think President Trump is seeing things a little bit differently and he's saying you know what the Palestine is not coming to the table when we've given them everything in the kitchen sink we've tried the carrot and they'd also they've also smoked quite well we've tried that count for 24 years let's start using a little bit of the stick yeah you know it's interesting is he trying to use the stick to get them to the table or is he coming to the conclusion that they're not coming to the table and therefore it's not it's not the stick to get them to the table and certainly from my perspective I don't want them at the table right I'm not interested in to go to negotiating with the Palestinians I don't think we should ever been negotiating with the PALS things I don't think we should be giving away our homeland etc but I I get the sense that it's not really like we're gonna force you back to the table it's more like I'm starting to understand this is my emotional understanding of President Trump I'm starting to understand that you folks are gonna dis me personally and you're going to dis my vice president by by letting the world know that you're not gonna meet with him which is really dissing of America and you're not interested so why should I be paying you this is by the way the same question as that that I think should be out there more about the United Nations even visa vie not just Israel but visa fee America which is why why should America be paying for this organization which is going to snub it in its own country right it's it's the United Nations sits in America why it's not why allow ourselves to be snubbed I think basically what we're saying for the last 24 years is the incentivization of rejection ISM in other words you can do whatever you like you can walk away from the table you can say whatever you want you can get involved with paying terrorists blood money and their families and nothing will happen to you what does that do it incentivizes further rejection as and further terrorism further violence so I think what Donald Trump is doing he says that he wants negotiations he says he wants the big deal so I'm kind of you know holding him to that so I think he's saying I think he's using this mores more of a stick but also recognizing what's right you know truce recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel he's not doing us any favors we recognized drusen was capital of Israel for one would argue three thousand years but obviously in the reestablished state of issue of you know thought for 70 odd years but America is basically doing something which at least three presidents have promised to do it's something and which the American people passed into law right and it's something which no other country has to suffer no other country has to beg or say that this is our capital city every other capital city in the world is immediately recognized so I don't think they're doing us any necessarily favors well we welcome it of course but I think you found that it's it's not an issue here because you found Walter all acceptance and support for it from the left to the right because every Israeli accepts and agrees that Jerusalem is a capital city so I don't think that that was necessarily anything other than an acceptance reality and also now Satan which by the way that was his language his language was I am acknowledging the obvious exactly and basically just saying to the Palestinians you have pressure points as well the international community has many pressure points you talked about the financial that's massive you know the Palestinians are able to do what they're able to do especially its leadership quite frankly because of the taxes paid by individuals around the world especially in America and large parts of the West so they should come with ties you know if we're going to give you money if we're going to give you diplomatic support if we're going to give you political support whatever it is then you can't snub us and and stick your nose at us again and again and again and I think Donald Trump is the kind of guy who won't accept that and now and I'll just say what you said in in in a bit of different words maybe just a tad more aggressively maybe and that is that the world taxpayer that is paying the Palestinians is actually funding terror and terrorists support because at the end as has been proven and that's what Taylor force the the act that was passed recently in Congress which was really to stop funding entities the Palestinian Authority if it continues this terror payout payout to the families of terrorists it's there's there's almost like a giant moral question where where the American people would stand up and ask their government wait a minute I didn't I don't want to pay you taxes that you pay terrorists that's exactly the opposite of when we say and by the way we're seeing this now Defence Minister Lieberman just said that he's going to remove amounts that are given over to terrorists and their families from the amount that Israel collects for the Palestinians through taxes that's very interesting and you were also close to two defense minister Lieberman and he has also talked you know and he throughout his career has oftentimes come out with these kind of big statements sometimes bombastic in order to to kind of show his bona fide ease as a kind of hawkish and if there's anybody that's like hawkish Lee in in his demeanor tries to can obsess and that signa its defense minister Lieberman and I would I would also say that he's probably in his really his best post in the Israeli government really where he kind of belongs he's recently been talking about in trying to propose a bill of death sentence to two terrorists there's been a lot of it's been a lot of push back against that tell me a little bit about about that way of thinking that bill well I think that there's there's a lot of Michigan surrounding this bill it's real speaking with ya Israel has the death penalty it's only ever been used twice most famously against a doorman the architect or least the facilitator of the Holocaust but since then it hasn't really been used even though it is an option for Israeli charges but up until now it has to be a unanimous decision there usually three justices which sit on on cases of murder and basically has to be unanimous all three justices have to agree to the death penalty for it to then be enacted and that's never happened in history there have been many occasions where it's been two against one but because of the law that's irrelevant laws lost one just let me interject for a second that according to Jewish law as opposed to Israeli law if four for four for a death penalty it's 23 judges that have to sit together however if there is a unanimous decision two to execute somebody that decision is thrown out because there's something wrong with a decision that was unanimous that's according just interestingly that's a Jewish so here so here basically what this law does is it creates a majoritarian concept where if majority of judges believe that there should be a death penalty then the death penalty will be enacted so that that's really what this law it's not creating the death penalty in Israel it's just basically amending and adjusting the law to try and act as a deterrent for would-be terrorists now a lot of people said well are these a lot of these terrorists they want to die you know suicide bombers obviously want to die and a lot of others understand when they were out there in the field like the the assassination yesterday that there's a good chance that they may die at some point first of all the guy yesterday obviously didn't want to die because he probably was skulking in bushes and and ran away but exactly the terrorists but more importantly it's the people that send them Marwan Barghouti for example never physically killed anyone in his life who is Marwan Marwan Barghouti is an senior senior Palestinian leader who is an arched Harrison was responsible I think he was convicted of 30 death I'm sure he was responsible for a lot more but he was committed in Israeli court for at least 30 Israeli deaths and he's now serving some 30 life sentences with the hope that he may be traded at one point that's the Palestinian hope when he was found he certainly did not want to be arrested and there are very interesting stories of how cowardly and scared he was when he was found so someone like that may have another thought if they know that there's a good chance that they may receive the death penalty obviously the suicide bomber it's irrelevant too but it's the people behind them who should start thinking carefully again do they want to be involved in these actions and I think that's what this bill is trying to do so Ashley Perry we've really covered a gamut of not so not such easy issues you know we started really with the individual terrorism that in the murder of rabbi here in Israel yesterday last night as we're recording this and we've gone through the questions of President Obama President Trump terror funding and now also the issue of the death penalty to try to bring back deterrence to bring back deterrence is there just a judge and this is a short kind of question here at the end you do sense that there's a there's an atmospheric change here in the body politic of Israel from your long experience your many years in Israeli government the is there a shift to a more nationalistic some would call right wing position in general visa feed the fact that there is a trump right there today there is a change also in Eastern Europe certainly there's kind of a rejection of the influx of Islam into Eastern Europe they're more to these parties like the party in Austria the the leadership in Austria and another such phenomenon do you sense that the Israeli body politics is shifting to the right because polls for the next elections which are still in the offing are not showing a big shift to the right they're pretty much showing more or less hold even maybe two seats swing more to the center left potentially but of course these are very early polls don't matter I wanted to ask you kind of a general question about the atmosphere here in Israel I can tell you that from all the polls that I've seen the right-wing bloc and for those who don't understand Israeli politics Oh probably take me about two days to explain it but basically we have multiple parties and they usually fit within again it's not hard and fast rule but usually between right wing and a left-wing bloc and at the moment the right-wing government because I had a majority in the last elections not because they had the largest parties necessarily got to form the government according to all polls that I've seen there has been tremendous movement within the blocks within the left-wing bloc people leaving the Labour Party the the Zionist union for yesh at it but we haven't seen so much movement across the blocks maybe a seat here a seat there but I always say until we know what elections are about until we know what the issue is that the government felt till we know what what has been framed as the issue of the elections it's impossible to say because for example yes I did yet it doesn't really concentrate in real of Pittsburgh right it's not as well known for let's say security issues so if the elections about security issues which quite frankly most Israeli elections are about then it probably won't do as well as if it was on religious state issues or corruption issues which are they've made really as they're sort of headline issues it sounds to parenthetically I just want to say there was a major religious issue that that rose up this week and that was a bill about these mini markets that exists in cities where the head of the interior ministry from the chaste party the Sephardic party really wanted to pass a local orthodox bar the ultra-orthodox Sephardic thank you very much wanted to really bar these these bodegas we call them in New York but like many supermini markets from being open on Saturday and it was very very interesting how it came down for example and i retweeted this a defense minister Lieberman wrote something like we are for tradition were against religious coercion for the Sabbath right but against coercion and that bill did pass by a squeak but it was certainly first I want to charge right I think I think I have a number of things to say about this I think the first thing to say is that this is part of what I would call the election build up we're now in a pre-election campaign now it won't be to my won't be next week and may not even be next month there may be in six months but I can tell you that most Israeli parties are starting to put their you know lick their finger and put it to the air to see where the winds blow and there understanding that elections are coming elections have to come next year and no government in the history of the State of Israel has ever seen out its complete term so everybody knows that elections are coming sooner or later and probably they will come this year I would certainly predict that they will come this year so a lot of parties are trying to go back to their base with some of these laws and 2018 is an election year in your mind if I was a betting man which I'm not that's what I would I would put money on that okay I'd put money on elections being called in 2018 so we you know the end of the day this supermarkets or mark Collett bill as they called it basically won't do anything because the municipalities are the ones who have to go out and enforce it and most of them won't have aid the stomach for it or the staff because if you have the staff who are they they Jews and to enforce it you'll have to have Jews breaking the Sabbath so in kind of this and as I said it was it was about trying to flex your muscles it was about speaking to the base and at the end of the day the Prime Minister wants stability at this point at this point it could be in a few months depending on what happens in his personal cases he may be willing and ready to go to elections but this is not the right point for him so he wanted stability at any cost and he knows and I've been involved in numerous elections in Israel people fortunately unfortunately depending where you stand do not vote on religion estate issues the amount of Israelis who do is very small the amount who vote on other issues is very large and when every single party leader reads these statistics and reads these polls and understands that this is not an election this is not an issue you can go to elections on most of the government stood in behind as you said every door Lieberman didn't because it was a an issue of principle and also because many of his electorate are not necessarily religious but he himself as a traditional guy believes that we should find that fine balance between tradition and coercion by the way and what this will we'll finish off I was at an event which I helped create which was the alia Day celebrations it was a law that was passed based on a bill that I had written got that bill got rejected but rewritten almost the same way and it passed a victor Lieberman was one of the speakers and it was it was really it was really fun because he said he got up there and there was a big audience of like Russians and French and he goes this week and the Torah portion we read because this week we read about the first immigrant to the Land of Israel who was that everybody is like I don't know he could just see people were just they didn't know right and he's like it was Abraham and I was I will always remember that that he was the one that brought up the issue of Abraham being the first program which by the way was the idea of when we placed that law close to the partial if I that was the original idea in any case Ashley Perry former senior Israeli government advisor director today of the Middle East forums Israel office I want to thank you so much for joining me thank you it's been great all right folks you are listening to the EJ fleshes show stay tuned a few more words and we'll be right back Josh hastened here host of Israel uncensored on the Land of Israel radio network at the Land of Israel calm make sure you check out my show every Monday bringing you the news unfiltered and uncensored information that you are not getting anywhere else especially not in the mainstream media Israel uncensored with Josh hastin on the land the visceral network at the Velva end of Israel calm alright folks hope you enjoyed the show today we had rabbi Mike Feuer a great stuff from the Torah portion I think that we could all agree that we got a little bit closer to understanding the real message behind what the term is trying to tell us and really to know God and then we spoke with Ashley Perry a former senior adviser to the Israeli government and he helped us understand a little bit of the political realities that we're facing here I also want to thank so much the folks that make this show possible first thing been press key for editing Moshe Moshe Herman my man out there in the world getting the show out to you mr. broadcaster himself mr. broadcast get it out to the world of course 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