Torah Connection The Key to Our Survival

The Balaturum makes it fascinating observation where it says about a king in this week's parsha Shoftim talks about appointing a king and it says uh "L'vilti rum l'vavo me'ehav u'lvilti sur u'min hamitzvah yamin u'smol." Uh I I losing the quote there. Basically, the pasuk begins [music] and ends with a lamed. And he makes the observation that's not a coincidence. Why does a pasuk [music] begin and end with a lamed? But I could hear my father giving this answer. Not that he gave it, it's my original, but he would he would shake his head and nod for sure. It begins and ends with a lamed because if you want yarich, you want yarich yamim, you want arichut yamim, you want length of days you want the klal Yisrael to continue it begins and ends with lamed. Lamed stands for liman hatorah. That's how Am Yisrael will survive galus. That's There has to be a connection [music] to Torah. So, there has to be yeshivas, yeshivas, yeshivas. So that people send their children [music] to yeshivas. And whether it's uh elementary high school and with a real emphasis on post high school [music] that the that the the people the the boys, the young men, the young women [music] coming out of high school still stay connected to Torah because the temptation to go to an I to a an Ivy League college, a great college, [music] it's there, but then there's a certain loss to connection to Torah. And that's uh and that's not that doesn't uh breed well. So, let's [music] stay connected to Torah.