The Sin of the Spies & The Restoration of Judea - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

it's really good to be here i can't believe that we have a hundred sessions with this fellowship and to me it's like a spice cart falling out of the sky that the land of israel fellowship the one thing that has brought us all together is the land of israel and it is that this torah portion really guides us to i mean we encounter the greatest sin in the torah and the truth is that's just really counterintuitive if you would have told me the greatest sin i would have said murder i would have said the golden calf idolatry there's just so many complaining not trusting in god i don't know there's a million sins that could have really pointed us to the worst of all sins and the torah points it to us because it's not intuitive it's not an obvious claim but it happened on the ninth of and that is a day that we continue to commemorate to this very day the destruction of the first temple on the ninth aval the destruction of the second temple on the ninth of av the demolition orders were handed out in gush katif in the land of israel just about a decade ago or a little bit more than they give me two decades ago on the ninth of destruction after destruction and the seeds of that of the saddest day of the year the sin that the people of israel we weren't able to atone for we weren't able to say we're sorry was the sin of the spies i mean we worshiped idols after god and the ten commandments says do not worship idols and we go and we worship idols it's like what a slap in the face we were able to fix that we were able to figure out how to do it but the sin of the spies it was like i'm sorry you're not going into the land of israel anymore enough is enough that's the 9th of of and that's actually going to be a day of crying now for generations to come in 3 000 plus years later we're still suffering from that sin it's almost like our relationship with hashem we're being told here is expressed through the land of israel if you don't love the land of israel you're missing something if you are not connected to the land of israel you're missing something our relationship with god is going to somehow be mediated through the land if we don't behave in the land the land is going to spit us out and when we come back to the land and when we're outside of the land the land is going to shut down the land will just become desolate no one will be able to flourish there nothing will be able to grow there and then when the jewish people return to the land of israel the land is going to start to flourish again it's like how do we know um where god is what god's feeling where we're at in this journey toward redemption it's all expressed through the land of israel and it's here we see behind us like sort of the heart and the mission in some ways of the land of israel fellowship like a headquarters a physical reality that we're all building together and where did we go to to the edge of the desert in the middle of nowhere in the edge of jewish settlement in the land of israel as deep in to the promised land as the jews had arrived and we started building there and you know there is no sure sign of the coming of mashiach than when the jewish people return to the land of israel and the land starts to flourish again and you know the land of israel fellowship on our 100th session i just want to show you what we started this week and this is really an amazing story because a small group of fellowship members came to the farm as a team they were all from colorado they all love us to death they follow us whenever i'm in colorado they host us and they came out to the farm and post covid there hasn't been any tour groups that have come out to the farm i think they were of the first if not the first one of the first that had come out but they were the first tour group from the united states where the bus refused to come they're like oh sorry your road it's just not up to code anymore we've received notice you can't come out to the ira goat farm on a bus anymore and that's pretty devastating for the arugula farm because the whole purpose of the arugula farm is that buses from the united states and europe and around the world come out to our farm to experience the spirit of judea and they stop outside the gate and then there's about i don't know a kilometer of road that ari had to drive back and forth with his little tractor put people in the back of the tractor drive them back and forth it was a little bit traumatic because it was unexpected and that just had never happened ever from a group of the united states where the bus wasn't able to come it actually happened a few times since then and the group came from colorado with a check in their hand and i didn't know anything you know we're just hosting people sometimes they bless us sometimes they don't sometimes they help support us sometimes they don't sometimes people come and they leave and you just never and then a few months later you just never know what's going to happen and when we realized that we had i mean we ran this whole campaign now to fix up the infrastructure of the farm and the road was part of it because buses can't come there anymore it's just two um seven years a dirt road needs to be maintained and we priced it out and the blessing that they gave us was the exact original quote that we got to fix the road and it was like as if they came they were stopped and before they even knew it because they brought that donation from the united states before they ever knew they were even coming and when they were coming and what they needed and it was like a perfect reality that they came they were stopped but don't worry they had it going and so i just want to share you this clip that i made uh this week or at least last week that's like the week of the fellowship um as i was running in the morning through the mountains because you talk about speaking slander of the land of israel what's the opposite of that it's loving the land so much that you would go out to the edge of the desert and start building her up and making her beautiful so i wanted to show you the first steps of our absolute revolution that we're starting now on the arugula farm with our campaign coming to an end and this was the first steps of that so i want you to say hey good morning i'm just in the middle of my run here and i want to show you what's happening right here behind us the truck is bringing the new top layer to pave the road from ibeo naka back to the arugula farm this funny looking tractor here is the one that sort of straightens it out and then there's this big rolling guy he comes and then flattens it but if you can see now behind us the road to the arugula farm is slowly being repaved because of our campaign we are now fixing the infrastructure bringing the arugula farm up to code but there's something deeper that's happening here as the rocks are spilling out behind me if you look at an aerial view of the farm our road is so beautiful and who could have imagined just a dirt road being so beautiful but somehow it's like a stroke of a painting and really that's what we're building here on the aruba car a work of art king david says i am my prayer he doesn't say i have a life and then sometimes i pray he's like no i am the prayer and really that's what he's teaching us that our whole life could be a prayer to god the life that we live the things that we do the family that we raise the places that we build all of this is our prayer it's our work of art that at the end of our lives we'll present to our creator and look at the masterpiece from the unpaved desert roads to the newly paved road and the arugula farm and so in the mountains of judea we are quite literally constructing the crown the diamond on the crown in the mountains of judea so thank you all so much as we are rebuilding the judean frontier with your help thank you anyway i wanted you to see that that we just started we're getting going now we've started now i mean it's just it's i'm the truth is i mean i'm leaving this saturday night or sunday morning depends how you look at it uh on a lecture towards the united states we're starting off i think we're landing in newark and then we're crossing pennsylvania ohio indiana colorado i forgot the name of the states to texas and then we're going all the way back to florida my poor children are going to be dizzy by the end of that trip but um i'm i'm a little bit upset that i'm going to miss all of the i'm going to come back to a new farm because we have so much planned and my dream is that there is a center in haifa called the baha'i gardens and i don't know much about the baha'i religion i think that they very much respect the bible but there is just no reason the arugula farm should not rival the baja gardens like this mountain area here why can't we make this more beautiful than the baha'i gardens in haifa we should just make it an absolute masterpiece and we're starting we just started now so thank you all for that and could it have been in better timing than on parashat shlock and i want to tell you this story because when we first moved out to gila and i to the farm um her parents live in ephrath which is a settlement about 15 minutes closer to jerusalem than the arugot farm when we moved out to the arugula farm because we were the only family moving there for my in-laws sake i might as well have moved to afghanistan that's what it was like it was like what where are you going where are you taking my grandchildren what's happening it was just so out of the ordinary and so unheard of that we would leave this beautiful community in nevada daniel to move out to the mountains and i don't know why we love what we love and i don't think that no one has ever figured out that mystery but hashem has put a love of the land of israel in my heart and somehow that same fire is in everyone's heart here in the land of israel fellowship and it is the thing that brings all the tribes of israel together it's the thing that brings all people together it is where the temple will stand as a house of prayer for all nations there is something about the land of israel that has the ability to bring it all together and here we are all of us building not only the most strategic area in jewish settlement in the land of israel but the place where king david taught the world how to pray and as we're building that road that was the image that came to my mind it's like another stroke like a paintbrush on the mountain itself like this is our mark on the land that we have a place in israel that we're building together in such a holy mountain and just what else could we ask for that we have a global fellowship that learns torah together a global fellowship that prays together and now a global fellowship that is quite literally building up the land of israel and making her beautiful again and on our 100th session where we're taught the worst thing you can do is to speak poorly of the land of israel and here we are making her beautiful if you want to know a trick love what your friends love and your friends will love you love what god loves and god will love you god loves the land of israel so if you love what god loves it's a trick he just loves well you love what he loves and he's gonna love you for loving what he loves and so all of us love the land of israel but it's not just kind of a theoretical love or a theological love we are quite literally building this monument that will last for generations that was built by this fellowship and just what a marvelous thing to do together and so i'm coming to the united states and my mission is to meet as many members of this fellowship as i possibly can that's the goal and hopefully we'll be able to spread the circle gain more and more members of the fellowship but really i want to meet and spend time with as many people as we possibly can and then of course to make the invitation although you already know the arugula farm is open covet is over and the arugula farm is open for business and so our gates are open and you are welcome anytime we had our first members from the fellowship that came just just last time just like allowed to last week and it was just an absolute blessing just a joy and so that's we've built this in order to in some ways um to model our lives after abraham and sarah that there should be a place that asks no questions wherever you're from whatever your background you want to come to the land of israel and experience the mountains of king david you are welcome always and so soon we'll see you in the united states and then even better we'll see you in the arugula farm the new and improved arugula farm after these summer renovations so on this 100th session of our fellowship i just can't think of a more beautiful way to celebrate than on the parasha of those who spoke ill of the land of israel for all of us to come together and make the land of israel beautiful again so thank you all so much and also next time we'll be broadcasting it'll be from the other side of the world hi my name is jeremy gimpel a lot of people want to know exactly what the land of israel fellowship is and what members receive when they join so let me explain the land of israel fellowship is a global online community with hundreds of members from over 40 countries around the world there are live sessions and gatherings that create a direct personal connection to the land of israel and the lovers of israel from around the world there's no online gathering that i'm familiar with that is connected to the land of israel that unites and brings together such a diverse group of people backgrounds and nationalities it feels like prophecy it feels like something we need in these times a window in to a better future on the horizon there's a divine unity we experience every week in our fellowship broadcast we heard these amazing teachings from an authentic hebrew and israel perspective and our jaws drop not only because they ring so true and are such a blessing because they are so consistent with what we believe these sunday morning gatherings are nothing less than a house of prayer for all nations cindy lo the united states of america the land of israel fellowship is an amazing resource for learning torah the bible and the prophets unfiltered and uncensored directly from the land of israel we've been studying torah for almost 20 years but we feel we are stepping into it more than ever in seeing new depth and dimensions to scripture we're encouraged more and more every week calen ardell usa members receive access to all the archives in the library of teachings on every portion of the torah the biblical feasts hebrew prayer prophecy sessions on the ancient wisdom of the prophets of israel to help us navigate through these turbulent times these sessions are so rich i re-listen to each in truly each session is the best one yet tehela is a tremendous asset and the teachings ari shares are so rich i've read the bible so many times and i've known the things you are teaching the hebrew understanding is what christians have missed for centuries sister georgian from germany the land of israel fellowship is truly unique because it's built upon personal relationships with the teachers of the fellowship myself rabbi arya bramwitz in tehillah gimpel every member has direct access to the staff 24 6 via email or direct whatsapp to ask questions to comment to connect directly to all the teachers and over the last years we've connected to some of the most beautiful people on the planet so if you want to find out more and join the land of israel fellowship you can click on the link below and if you want to try it out for just a month you can email fellowship at the land of israel.com and we'll hook you up i hope to see you shalom from the mountains of judea you