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The Soul of Israel: No Crime Goes Unrewarded
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In this powerful episode, Rabbi Shlomo Katz shares an idea that may seem irrational and counter-intuitive, but is one of the deepest and most beautiful truths in the world.
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hello everyone this is cats you
listen to the soul of Israel on the land
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Network good morning without my Ari
Abramowitz are you feeling today
that's very PC of you and it's true and
it's true oh yeah we're gonna bless this
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with the video from our summer watch
it's it's I always this list strange
things happen as we approach what's
known as the three weeks this happens
actually every year that last week
before the the beginning of the of the
period of three weeks of mourning when
we mourn or the destruction of our Beit
HaMikdash of our holy temples both of
them it happens to be that this coming
Shabbos is the 17th of Tammuz the day we
begin the three period of three weeks
period because it's Shabbos so it's
pushed off the Sunday the fasting but
there's something in the air that you
you like want to get a lot of energy out
a lot of things happen before you have
to kind of like lay low and turn things
off a little bit no life music and no
wedding celebrations so it's always like
this the last week before the three
weeks period every year this happens to
me working like crazy concert to wedding
to festival to show and but also like
spiritually speaking there's a lot that
needs to come out into the air anyway
that's the purpose that's a little of an
intro to the video that we'll be sharing
a little bit later and if you want
explanations about the video I'll be
more than happy to provide them info
sorry Shalom Oh at Land of Israel com
video you shy fleischer debating yes I
watched it yesterday top it was it was
incredible I was just humbled to know
Yishai after after I watched I was like
wow I know this guy I was having a
to trouble that because like I've
watched of America Hana and he is just a
firebrand and indicia I have to admit I
can never imagine saying it in that
genre of things he was better he was
certain level yes because he had such a
beautiful balance of me dote you know he
was he was kind and he was generous but
at the same time he was he did not let
the truth be be stumbled upon yeah I
learned so much I want to watch it again
I want to watch it again because I've
also I've watched I'm very big in
debates very big I love watching debates
I learn a lot and there are Eretz I'm
just like um even though you have a
truth that does not mean that that
should determine what you think about
someone that doesn't share your truth
and the manner which your truth is
portrayed I learned this with Carolyn
Glick was debating garrison basket
notion should heal them and she just
destroyed him she destroyed him on an
ideas level but she was so angry and
understandably she's just a woman of
absolute truth you know when he is
spewing such lies and distortions but
you know one could walk away and be like
he won because she lost she was
screaming so much really like who you
are sometimes says more than what you
say and so you should really just I'm
excited for our for our network to
receive all this while talking about
them talking about this concept of
debates there was someone that tried to
debate god this Shabbos this parsha one
of the wackiest stories will ever hear
probably the most far-out story we have
in the Torah and that's the portion of
Barak a portion where the Jews are not
even in the parsha we're not even in
this parsha it's a whole story about a
king of mow of a sorcerer named Bill um
how would you see what I mean it was the
right word in English but what would you
even say a professional warlock magic
yeah a warlock by the way member that
famous teaching we learned from my buddy
David Zeller in the name of the Tolna
Rebbe but luck and bilam spell out the
words
among which means mass confusion deep
confusion which is really this question
is but a debate where bollock or bilham
as he tries to curse on me so having God
curse them what he's coming from we
learned earlier this week a beautiful
place where is he coming from
you know whenever you want to really get
a point across you have to have a little
bit of truth in it even if you're full
of lies a little bit of truth and the
lie would be that armies realm but the
people of Israel are deserving of a
curse so what kind of truth do you have
to put into it yes they're special but
everyone is special everyone's the same
you don't have to make a whole deal at a
wide you know God why'd you choose these
people what's so special about them we
with the Sun Sunday morning might even
remember this past Sunday morning with
the safer Torah
no no Sunday morning I believe it was
just Jeremy was with us the first Sunday
morning and we learned something
beautiful an incredible concept this is
what Ballack tried to do but it was the
king of Moab and he tried to take away
the concept of Benes our being special
in the eyes of God not by saying that
we're horrible but by saying that were
just like everybody else
so Rabbi karma thought rabbi come
on top that when God punishes you he
punishes you me doc can egged me da how
would you say that in English attribute
for attribute how would you say that in
English I would say that within the
punishment is your is a illusion a hint
to the crime okay
what's the crime here the crime is that
bollock is trying to take away the
concept of us feeling and looking
special in the eyes of God so listen to
this incredible this is an incredible
teaching it's a mind-blowing teaching
people always wonder what's it gonna be
like when Messiah comes what does it
mean what's what's Messiah consciousness
what's gonna change in the world what
people feel like is it really gonna be
like magic flying carpet style
what if you heard there's a lot of
different approaches yeah but pretty fun
stuff right many of them like
supernatural yeah one of the things we
don't have we don't really speak about
too much is how people are gonna feel
inside their hearts with machines comes
okay we know it'll be peace prosper
prosperity please God just nations will
come together and pray to God but the
key element of a messianic consciousness
to describe a key element messianic
consciousness would be that each person
in the world will feel special that's
what it means to live in a messianic
consciousness everyone though we no
doubts about people feeling that they
are special in a certain way about
something and that's why until Messiah
comes you and I and all our listeners
and our viewers and all our friends all
over the world those the one be plugged
into the inside of the inside to already
have a little bit of a messianic
attitude a holy messianic attitude a
Jewish holy messianic attitude is that
we need to make people feel special now
to usher in the great day we ourselves
need to feel special about it but we
need to make cause people to realize
like rabbi karabakh really did his whole
life like you know the famous story is
then my friend was waiting on line to
get a broth off from rubbish low on
Shabbos one time and the person before
him that was hugging rips limo silence
up to this person brother your mom is
the best
my buddy Stewie comes he's next
and he gets a hug uses and written bribe
brother Stewie your mom is the best and
they said come on I guess heard you say
it's about the prison he's like yeah but
it's true because when I told him you're
the best no one else existed in the
world in that moment so he really was
the minister but now I'm in front of you
right now so I think like if we live
that teaching that's that's what it
means we're preparing repaving the roads
that we're ready for a messianic
consciousness not gonna show up like a
boom and that's the counter to what
bollock tried to do into this world
to remove this sense of special that we
are special as a people whose bollocks
great-great-granddaughter what nation is
Balak the king of mow of who else comes
from mow of Ruth Ruth Ruth the Moabitess
she is bollocks great-great
granddaughter who is the great great
grandson of roots King David the Messiah
how does God pay people back me doc can
I give me da attribute for attribute oh
brother Bullock you wanted to tear out
the concept of specialness from the
world from you from here listen not only
are you not gonna be successful I'm
gonna choose to bring the light of
specialness drawn down generations
generations later through your offspring
through Ruth the great grandmother of
the King Messiah I mean that's an
interesting sort of punishment right so
you ever getting to this so how is that
a punishment it's very simple when you
take a Russia when you take an evil man
and you want to punish him where do you
put him Jahannam or gonna aid in hell or
heaven where do you put him you put him
in heaven because for him I'm fine than
hell that's what I know of that's where
I feel most at home let's surround this
guy with light with spirituality with
love people wanting to give you a hug
that's hell
for the Russia okay all right I mean but
hell is an illusion right we don't it's
it's a refining place to refine out the
dross and then you come towards heaven
so maybe what it is it's saying that
there it was some little level of light
and Ballack there's a little level of
light in everyone because we're all
created in God's image the question is
do you care enough to spend your time so
that that that niku Dalai torturing that
exactly exactly so God says okay you're
not gonna be busy doing it I'm gonna do
it for you and I'm gonna do it through
your great-granddaughter listen the
kimono also it says that the great-great
grandchildren the descendants of Haman
ended up learning Torah and Bnei Brak
rip doma would have stories of children
of Nazis that somehow found their way to
Judaism and converted and he would see
them later in life with beards and paste
also my story at the farm remember when
the building of the Batesville our house
of prayer on the top of the mountain and
I'm watching Muslim Arabs and Germans
build that together right where my
daughter's where my daughters and my
friends who came to the farm last week
with their children danced in a dome
built by descendants of Ishmael and Adam
right so listen God consciousness
can is gonna eventually penetrate
throughout the whole world meaning
machine it's gonna reach everywhere the
question is do you want it to be as if
it's a punishment to you or do you want
to be the one to open your heart so that
you can gladly and with pride say yes
this is happening through me I'm adding
specialness to the world you know I that
just added a dimension of something that
I've always thought about you know that
devanam Elif came from prostitution and
from incest we know that right from what
and his daughters and from prostitution
but you just said and Baalak also know
of right and Eglin you remember all the
way and I remember when I was in the
fifth grade
learning that story which is quite a
compelling story for a fifth grader that
who'd been gara stabbed zeglen in the
stomach and he's so morbidly obese that
his guts come out and his servants think
he's in the bathroom but when I would
been garroted I have a message from you
from God eggwin stood up and I remember
learning then because of him standing up
in his dissent in truth when didn't send
enough David and machine yes so it's
like not only within ourselves but the
darkness of the entire world correct is
coming from there also it's all
pervasive for some reason to just
expanded my correct that's beautiful
disturbing as well but very very cool
what could I say REI give us a breath on
that I give us a profit to be little
Michels to be little you know little
messengers of you know how about it has
their shame and I think that's what
about is really doing that they're not
pushing any other trip other than listen
listen you think you could run away
somewhere where no one's gonna know who
you are I'm gonna anywhere you don't
know who you are
I'm here to remind you that you're
special and each of us have to take on
that become emissaries of machines of
what it's gonna be like and I think that
we're getting much closer despite all
the insanity and craziness it's in this
world at least if those of us that are
listening right now can take upon
ourselves that there's one person today
in our lives that we're taking upon
ourselves to make him or her that make
them feel special today that's it and
then we go to sleep at night not to feel
proud out of you know haughtiness but
say thank you God for that opportunity
tomorrow let me make two people feel
special and hopefully slowly-slowly I'm
just thinking in my mind running about
was just telling you about about peace
now right and so that's a really really
dark place I felt such a wave of
darkness when I encountered them that it
took me a while to recover and it wasn't
even that they're trying to rip me out
of the land that I love with a passion
with my whole heart and that they're
trying to ruin my life it was it wasn't
that that wasn't was darkness it was
their hatred for me in their eyes that
was so overwhelming to me and and I'm
thinking about mushiya coming from those
dark places meaning that that's rubbish
yeah is that that's where I have to look
the deepest and also the dark places in
myself and understand that's the machine
but I need to raise up so I'm giving you
a brough up for brave eyes brave eyes
courageous eyes
we all needed brave eyes courageous eyes
because making people making people that
actually are special to make them feel
special is kind of easy making people
that you know make me feel special that
it's not so evident that they're you
know carrying the goods that's where it
gets
but you know what God believes in us
simple and when you do it on God's - but
on God's account things kind of work a
little bit differently anyway have a
beautiful blessed rest of the week
dearest friends please reach out to us
slow-mo at the Land of Israel comm re at
Land of Israel the promised Messiah at
the mountain soon all the best
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