The Root Cause of Israel's Failure - Jeremy Gimpel: Land of Israel Fellowship Highlight

you read the news articles and it's mindblowing how just the intelligence agencies that were wrong and they had the information but they didn't act on the information and they had the information but they didn't send it to the government and why didn't the Government Act and how did the billion dollar fence I mean the fence that was made there the most technological Border in the whole world was just walked through there's actually one video I was trying to find that I couldn't find it but there's like a man an old an elderly man on crutches that's walking through the fence you're like the most technologically advanced fence and there's just this old gauen man that's going to plunder the Jews that have been attacked by the militants and you're like the fence couldn't stop the old man on crutches like something has to have happened here that we need to look deep inside and all throughout the Torah there is a key there is one thing more than any other thing one attribute that more than any other attribute that defines our success in the land of Israel I just want to really drive this point home I want to watch this video of the just the hubris the arrogance sounding the music behind it about the achievement of the most technological fence in all of of the world look like the Titanic all over [Music] again [Music] [Applause] the most sophisticated thing from here to Athens from Australia the amount of concrete the amount of iron this is the most amazing fence that's going to protect I am here to declare the security and safety of the people of Israel and who is going to save us the fence is going to protect us and I can't help but look to Deuteronomy chapter 8 and it's the get-go Moses's final speech to the people of Israel as you enter into the land then you may say in your heart my power and the might of my hand have gained me this success and you shall remember the Lord your God for it is he who gives you power to succeed that he may establish his Covenant which he swore to your fathers as it is this day then it shall be if you by any means forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and serve them and worship them I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish so God is saying I'm making a testimony here the verses right before say ver and your heart will be lifted so high you'll become so arrogant to think that your strength and your power and your technology and your fence the people literally just walked through the fence they just walked through yeah they had tunnels that went down to stop the walls and the security cameras but in the end they just took a big tractor and made a hole in the fence and people just walked through because if we are so arrogant the essence of arrogance is forgetting God in fact I would posit that you cannot really truly be a good person if you don't believe in God and I a lot of people like what hell I know a lot of good people that they're but not really because if you don't believe in God and you're very smart and you're very talented and you have an amazing fence and you have great technology then what are you you're just arrogant inherently because my power and my strength and my engineers and my technology and my success is from me me me and then God says I want you to know that's the one thing the one thing I'm telling you before you enter into the land of Israel is don't let your heart be lifted up and don't say my power and my strength will bring me our success in the land of Israel the key attribute is humility and humility is inherently connected to our belief in a higher power saying who gave me my strength who gave me my intelligence who gave me my wisdom who gave me my life God that humility can only come from a place of acknowledging a higher power that humility which is essential to our success in the land of Israel can only come from God