The Soul of Israel: The Secret of Transforming Surviving to Thriving

[Music] Shalom welcome you're listening to the soul of Israel on the land of Israel Network on the Landis israel.com I am thankful I am happy to be alive to be talking to all of you to be sitting here in arel with My Soul Brother Abbi Arya brtz and praying that today that the inner inner voice of amel's passion to thrive and not just survive is what leads our troops that are down south right now to a complete victory over our enemies please God how's that for an intro that's a great intro what I was going to say what were you going to say but just by a little bit I was going to express my gratitude that you're back with us my gratitude cuz you've been missed on the Network I've missed you our listeners have missed you I'm excited for my inbox to decrease in volume from the people that are asking where you are but uh every time you're not uh with us everybody knows that you're I'm always with you but you know what I mean yes but you're doing thank God how was your well uh my porm was special it was at at the farm I feel like the beauty in the tragedy of life sometimes is that you can be in such a precious beautiful moment and not even realize it I had a few moments over P I'm like wow we're actually here this was an empty Mountaintop and now Jeremy's home is here yes there have been a lot of Tears a lot of fear a lot of challenges but we're on this Hilltop in Judea with beloved friends they came out celebrating porm and then you know the mask is was almost negligible you know wow the mask of nature yeah I I feel the I felt that yesterday as the world as president Trump signed the the recognition of Israeli autonomy on uh on uh the Golan Heights that at the same Mo like was like wow like what a what a it was a historic moment and at the same moment Sirens are going off all of Israel a large chunk of Israel it's such a it's it's such a this and that every single second it's like until Messiah comes it's just going to be like this right the the volatility is increasing the ups and downs are so radical so it's like being you I feel because who are you you you know you have to go Comfort a mourner and then go to a bris and you're like going to and then comforting people who have lost and you're connected with them on the deepest of levels so I can only imagine the emotional roller coaster that is your life just as as a PR well I'll share with you a teaching that I heard from he said it says in in in Psalms says those who uh SE with tears will reap with joy so he used to say it's not that one thing it's about sewing with uh tears and then there's reaping with joy he says the only in this world it's that the act of sewing and reaping are together they're simultaneous it's happening explain that to me you know we we have this thing of like when I'm happy I can just be happy and when I'm sad I just sad until mashia comes with one eye I'm crying with one eye I'm smiling right there are pictures of great sadik that honestly you look at their face and you if you just if you covered one of their eyes and had to choose to you know decide what their mood was in you would say a certain mood and then you'd cover their other eye and it's a completely different mood R cook has a few pictures like this where one side of his face one eye is just in in utter like like blumin right and the other side is in this atro you know the state of atrocity of of Exile and until mashia comes it's it's just it's going to be both it's not going to be one or the other it's simultaneous and uh that's the dance I I'll share another experience I had pretty recently that that really exemplifies what we're speaking about um I got a call to come to the hospital and play for the injured Soldier nanel felber nanel Elan Ben sh what's his condition a very very very slow gradual uh Improvement yeah but but you know Nuance yeah yeah and um should have a full me am me we're in the hospital and we're playing for him and and uh we're singing songs and as we're singing his mother bless her Judy she starts traveling around the the corridors of the hospital bringing in more more patients Wheeling them in so they can also come and sing so on the one hand it's like what's so beautiful we're all singing together on the other hand we're in the of neurologia we're in this uh neurological rehab rehabil rehabilitation uh uh uh floor in the teser hospital you and hasem sees these things he's like wow my my my kind my kind you've been with for so long that's how it's going to be all now I heard it okay Aima Bina that's the BEDA Bina that those two words BEDA Bina so um I I want to share with you something that will probably be on the mind of almost every Israeli hopefully every Jew but definitely almost any Israeli that comes to sh shabas and reads the paraa because after the inauguration of the Tabernacle which is the beginning of our par a very sad tragic ending of the day takes place with the death of the two sons of aren nadav and a Aron aen the high priest he had four Sons nadav a elazar andamar 50% of his children of his sons are gone why why did they die there's a it's a whole long complicated story that has many different explanations and reasons behind the death of these two boys n but in modern day Israel there is an Aron a coin and it's a woman that I have the privilege of spending a shabas with a few months ago a woman I believe you've met as well who has had two of her sons been sacrificed while they served in the IDF ascended up to Sham and I'm speaking of a very holy woman named Miriam peris Miriam parz in my humble opinion puts every leader to shame let's go back to the par and let's try to understand Miriam par AR ain's response to the death of his two sons is summarized in one word v which means he was silent or it could be he was he was not silenced but but he had so much to say he didn't even know where to begin he chose to be silent cuz he words could never come close to you know I always sort of vised him sort of uh you know in the army they say and is like straight and sort of stoic not stoic isn't the because he was he was silenced but I'm sure there was a world of horrific pain absolutely absolutely so wait so how would you internal so how would you take the word Mama V in this context I I don't know how I would take it I could just say the emotional connotations that are summoned in my mind are uh standing straight um sort of a stoic looking face but the Dum from Dome it just elicits within me the blood as in like the blood rushes from his face and it's he's filled with horrific pain but he is accepting it in a right subdued um that's how rabman goes to try to understand this word he says he changed a person's job in this world is to change your Dam into do is to take your blood that boils when when when something bad happens to you or when you're insulted and change it into aod stop don't let the blood don't have your blood be boiling right now change your Dam into d a long teaching not for now it's now I want to bring it up say that when I'm with you all the sikim come to mind are you so I had the shabas with Miriam parot in a Hotel in Tel Aviv in some it was a it was a misi convention I think it was last year and um I had heard about her I met her before I actually I played at a function once where she was the guest speaker but I didn't have a chance to really sit with her speak with her but I had old shabus with her and what I heard from this woman's mouth was I basically a new understanding of V doesn't necessarily in our case mean silence but when a mother has not one son that she has to bury in his 20s but two sons to bury in her 20s in their 20s while they were sanctifying the name of God and she is there with a peaceful smile and has something to say you listen to her I mean also just for the record I believe that her husband also so passed away he passed away in between the two sons from heartache right right so she's even like you know on the level of death and darkness and experiencing uh uh farewell to love we we have no and we should never be able to have any grasping of such a level God forbid but she said something during that shab is that that I I I I knew that she had said before so I searched for it online and I found words that I'd like to read uh I have it here printed I want to share with everybody CU it's words that I feel are the The Secret of not just survival but thrival thriving uh I'm not interested in just surviving anymore like like that's why every time we have a this like back and forth with with the amalekites today in the form of Kamas down south it's like okay we survived another round but any when when that happens we feel like we failed yeah cuz we need to thrive and survive so this is Miriam Perot's words not not just of survival but in my in my in my opinion of mish thriving ladies and gentlemen this is when she this is when she uh received the the Israel uh Prize last year I stand humbly before my colleagues honorable honorable people who created wrote studied and invented people of vision creation and faith I'm not worthy I don't have a creation I can't point to a Revelation I made or a form or a formula I cracked and here we go to Aron aen I have a heart that was broken Thrice with terrible announcements the falling of my eldest son uel in battle in Lebanon the death of my partner Eleazar due to heartbreak and the falling of my second son I think his name she is it's not written here was it eliraz be my Second Son in the battle in gazes with that heart I came to my nation in and in simple worlds in the language of a broken heart I spoke of this land and its Legacy of choosing goodness of Happiness of Devotion to life of responsibility of social involvement and out of that heart which beats with faith in this country and in this nation out of the great depth of pain flowed Springs of love when the heart is full of faith it can withstand great challenges I turned my grief into a new Melody friends who where where where on Earth does a person come to the ability to share such words and mean them and it's such a service to all of into the whole world to hear those words because if you can hear her saying that having endured what nobody could ever endure you can extrapolate backwards correct that the things that are happening to us we should be able to also make such a transformation yeah I I would say that it's even a command even though she didn't command anything in her words she doesn't tell you what to do but it's like this it's like a silent commandment to Judah us people like listen if I'm able to speak like this and to search for light through my grief and pain and come up with a new Melody that chooses to speak about the goodness of our people and and and I'm sure you agree with me Ari we're we're less than two weeks away from the elections and there's so much linara the Jews are saying about other Jews it's sickening it's sickening I did you see the big signs above the highway where black and yellow kahai you didn't see that it's all over the highway all over y has a picture of BB with the and it says kah and then it has Gans and it says oh my God so I'm I'm saying like you know Miriam parot was approached by oh she said by almost every political party they asked her to join because they everyone knows that this is this is the this is the future this woman and her words this AR in a coin of today of choosing life of choosing light when it's the hardest thing in the world to do this is our future she turned down every single thank God thank God and she said because she said to really serve to do like to do what she wants to do she she couldn't really do it through a political party you can't there are times I think about having I mean laav deal okay but to to make a distinction Caroline Glick out to the farm to speak having an event for her or mosha fagin I'm like you know what if if they're in politics this needs to be a place of unity and uh and what that's what she's I'm sure she realized that she can't be unless no more sectarianism unless let's see like this unless can you imagine if like she she formed a new party and it was just her was called Von she'd win she'd win she'd win just you just she's not to be built to be a politician you have to be like whatever a different caliber of of of of a lot anyway anyway what I wanted to just you know share with all of us right now is that we're right now between purm and PES we're between the Redemption of purm which was a miracle through nature and we're going to this holiday of PES which is a miracle that was above and beyond nature and I think that this timeline that we have between these two redemptions really instill within us the belief that we can become people of Faith Like Miriam Paris without God forbid having to go through what she went through people of dignity people that choose to speak about Pride about life about love about the beauty of the people and the land this is the only thing that's left for us what else are we going to do what else can we possibly think is is the is the job right now so like ratan of brev once said the purpose of man in this world is to come to the states the come to the status of needing god without being tortured that's the highest place in the world when we're in state of torture we need Hashem so badly he says can you come to that same place of knowing that you need the master of the world in your life like when yob embraced ysep right and they said is at that moment the highest Joy he could ever possibly imagine and that's that's when to bring in the not just oh God this is painful please help me I feel like very often you know that's that's where where I'm coming from absolutely oh it's okay I found the parking spot I'm good I found the parking spot so you know Miriam parot is really in my humble opinion she's our AR a CO of today she's our leader as we read par shabas and as we travel few steps closer to the real Redemption that happens on PES may may you and I and our families be blessed to know that choosing life and choosing love as cliche as it might as as corny as it sounds and choosing to focus on people's Beauty and the everything beautiful about this land makes you a real Benin a a free person and Aron aorin was a free person despite the horrible tragedies that happened to him Miriam Paris she's till mashiah comes she's a broken person but she's a broken free person and I give all of our listeners a Braha to taste Freedom every step we take closer to P to taste Freedom may we CH may we be free enough that when all the legitimate reasons for our blood to boil we are free to choose that it doesn't boil we change our dam into D into St calm and steady straight quiet is on his way amen [Music] tune in for an exclusive interview with yok pendis former mayor of betar elite and former deputy mayor of Jerusalem now a candidates for knesset with United Torah Judaism the green line was there 50 years ago the green line is maybe a nice piece of paper in the UN but it doesn't really mean anything for a regular Israeli today it's about 15% of the Israeli Jewish population at least liveed over their green L for the full interview listen to inside Israel today with Gil Hoffman on the landof Israel Network at the landof israel.com