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The Titanic and the Secret of Jewish Eternity - By Rabbi YY Jacobson
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How Reb Yochanan ben Zakai Defeated Rome Tisha B'av 5777 Lecture The Jewish Future - Rebuilding. A live Broadcast by Rabbi YY Jacobson
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the yeshiva dotnet there's a famous
statement in the Talmud tractate anus
moussaka Stein is page 29 that column is
a Bilal you shall I am Zarif every abyss
and Casa
whoever mourns for Jerusalem merits and
sees its joy by the way the crowd that's
sitting here is part of the crowd is a
large crowd that's watching us live
virtually from different types of
backgrounds and walks of life hence I
try to translate everything into English
those who don't will understand the
original shouldn't feel insulted then
I'm God for a bit under estimating your
intelligence or your scholastic genius
and knowledge it's simply that everybody
who's listening from across the world
should be able to hopefully understand
it and get it the words of our sages of
the castle are always precise column is
a Bilal yerushalayim silvery abyss and
Casa
whoever mourns for Jerusalem merits and
seizes joy seems grammatically off one
would expect the rabbi's to say whoever
mourns for Jerusalem will merit and see
its joy in the future obviously when we
are mourning for Jerusalem it's because
it's Phyllis in a state of destruction
of ruin the third base are mixtures the
third temple was not rebuilt so you say
whoever mourns for you Rochelle I am
will merit and experience its imitates
joy or as the expression is if you want
to be with me if you want me to be with
you when you land you have to take me
with you when you take off so column
Isabella you shall I am the one who's
emotionally linked to Jerusalem and bad
times will merit to be there with
Jerusalem and the good times but that's
not what the sages say saying to speak
about both in the presence whoever
mourns for Jerusalem Zola veeraiah
he merits and sees its joy Roya is
present not future not year and not will
see he sees now its joy but that of
course seems strange he doesn't see now
as joy he's mourning he's mourning for
Drusilla
he's sitting on a low chair he's not
wearing shoes he's not eating he's not
drinking he's not bathing he's not
showering
he's afflicting himself he's reading
lamentations etc he's mourning for
Jerusalem he's not yet celebrating it's
rebuilding its renovation this question
was raised by the Sam safer the Sam
safer at Moshe safer in my Schreiber who
passed away approximately in the year
1840 the rabbi of fresh work then in the
austria-hungarian empire after the First
World War of course Austria and Aryan
Empire was one of the four empires that
was dissolved during the First World War
and today presberg is known as
Bratislava but he was the chief rabbi of
fresh burg known as the some sofa and
one of his Russia's one of his sermons
that he wrote he asks this question I
want to present today to you the moving
response an answer an insight of remove
yourself of the Sam cipher which is
brief and concise but as always to
really appreciate it to really
understand what he's saying
needs context needs introduction we need
to get the full picture to be able to
fully appreciate the nuance that the
sages are conveying in this above
statement with the slight grammatical
error which as we shall see is far from
an error for this let's change the
subject
not completely a little bit and go to
exhibit to the Gemara the Talmud
attracted brockless page 28 Bratislava
Kafka's tells the following story Rebbe
- and Ben Zakai
reputation and the son of Zakia was
considered one of the greatest sages and
leaders of his generation
he wasn't only a great sage leader
thinker teacher Shepherd of his people
but he lived at a pivotal moment he is
the man who had to not only observe but
facilitate the transition of temple
Judaism the post Temple Julius rebuking
of ANZAC I lived during the era when the
second base our makers the second temple
was destroyed by the Roman legions in
the year 70 after the Common Era the
revolt against the Romans erupted in the
year 66 after the Common Era and a few
years later
whether it's 68 or 69 or 70 that's still
debated the Romans destroyed Jerusalem
burned the temple murdered or exiled
most of his Jews destroy the
Commonwealth Jewish sovereignty came to
an end for close to two millennia and
your Buchanan Ben Zakai was the leader
of the Sanhedrin of the spiritual
Supreme Court the most important body
legislative and spiritual leaders of the
Jewish people he was did not see the
leader of the Sanhedrin of the 71
spiritual leaders of the Jewish people
and therefore he is the man who not only
watched this transition but he is the
one who felt responsible to facilitate
the transition he understood that
Judaism will have to take on a
completely new face it's hard for us to
understand
well we I'll give you an example when we
celebrate Pesach today you have a Seder
everybody feels like it space especially
if you stay home we clean the house for
a month everybody's nervous everybody's
stressed everybody's exhausted everybody
is anxious enough it has to be that way
but we're discussing the reality and
then comes the day before pacers and my
life then the baking mat seemed
appearing more anti-racism some of us
squeeze juice and finishing with a
petechiae and beer a material Arif basic
in the morning and spurning etc then
comes the night of the Seder with all
the anticipation and the children come
on with their booklets and our goddess
and they have a lot of ideas and
insights a different era the occupying
of thank god there's a lot of kids in
the family lot of grandchildren the
family so we sit for many hours
listening to everybody's insight and
then if you're lucky enough to have a
father who feels that
as many insights let us say there and he
has read a lot for the last few weeks
everyone is responsible to listen to
that as well that's only if you're
privileged to have such a person leading
the Seder and so it completely feels
like Pesach between tomorrow and the
crisis and everyone is commenting how
delicious the matzah is this year and
how this year the morrow did not come
out too sharp
every year the morrow doesn't come out
sharp and the moths is unbelievably
delicious this year sure I want to see
you serving it at your son's Bar Mitzvah
or at the wedding but the main thing is
the moths is delicious okay pace of his
pace somebody doubts if it's pacer of
course its pace if it feels like pacer
it acts like pacer
it sounds like pacer but imagine the Jew
who experienced pace off with a base of
mikdash what did the first Pesach look
like after the temple was destroyed what
did it look like he sat down by the
seder and he was crying a whole time
he looked at his little child who was 2
years old at 3 years old the 4 years old
and with nostalgia he tells his wife
these kids will never know what either
skite was with Pesach was this is a poor
poor it's like a picture it's like a
photograph rather than being at your
son's wedding you see a picture of the
wedding what do we have already the main
highlight the key ingredient of the
Seder which was the carbon pacer and
everything that came with the current
basis was completely young it's obvious
in the sandwich the Cairo sandwich what
do we have we have lettuce and matzo
member imagine if there were lamb chops
it would have been a different career if
that's how they used to have okay now
say hello there were lamb chops
it wasn't lettuce and matzo with a
little grain but the beard so for the
first generation it would have been easy
to dismiss it and say Judaism came to an
end same is true with everything Shabbos
is not Shabbos Yom Kippur for us you've
kippers him kipper him kippers not
innkeeper innkeeper XIV Kippur nobody
knows what to do with themselves and
short but imagine if you experienced the
transition from Temple to post temple
this is Yom Kippur sitting in show and
bow jumping down five times backing up
five times that's in Kippur
that's nothing
talking there was once a high priest we
take these things for granted
somebody had to facilitate that
transition and know how will Judaism
survive the man was rebuking up in
soccer and hence the mission emissary
Shoshanna discusses the various
institutions liberation a man's ark a
man made after the destruction of the
temple in order to perpetuate its memory
including institutions in order to
prepare for the coming of machine
there's one story about American diamond
Zack I want to focus on when he fell ill
the Talmud says in broca's 28 the
students came in to visit him rebuking
him and zakah was weeping they asked him
why he's weeping and one of the things
he said as the one a person passes on
there are two paths in front of him one
path leads to paradise and one path
leads to get hand him to purgatory there
a me idea there's a derrickman listen I
see and I do not know which path I am
going to be led down am I going to
paradise am I going to purgatory to get
ennum how can I not cry at the end right
before he dies he tells the students
create a chair Panama can make place for
fiscal Malathi Oda for kiss Kia the LAT
one the one of the later kings of Judea
make place for him he passes away the
commentators struggle with his comment I
don't know which path I am going to be
led on really rebuking demands a canoe
Gomorrah says forty years he learned
forty years he taught forty years he led
the Jewish people Lahm oddly made penis
is wrong his entire life was one
continuum of goodness holiness purity
dedication connection
and leadership of the Jewish people if
he's not going to paradise who is going
to paradise now you might say that's
humility that's not humility some of us
think humility means lying to yourself
if I'm tall and I say I'm short I'm not
humble I'm stupid if I'm intelligent and
I say no I'm dumb I'm not humble I'm an
idiot if I'm strong and I say I'm weak
it's not humility it's ludicrous if you
have a certain virtue a certain talent
physical or spiritual or emotional not
acknowledging it is not humility we
often misunderstand what humility is we
think humility is tool I can make
believe you don't have what you have
will you have what you don't have that's
not your melody that humility is fake
humility because you yourself know it's
not true very important idea when it
says moisture was the most humble person
on the world in the world our issue
Shawn of mine you think Marshall looked
in the mirror and say oh I'm a nobody
I'm a matter
I'm valueless really when Curtis stood
up to him I sure wasn't such a Samantha
what happened to his humility throughout
the whole 40 years moistures never asked
matter he knows exactly what he has to
do he stands up to God not only to the
people that's not so humble humility
does not mean you don't know you're
calling on the country that's not
humility that's a form of arrogance
fake humility is rooted in arrogance
humility means I know exactly who I am
I know exactly my calling I know exactly
my talents my virtues my potentials my
abilities and I'm humble with what I
have I'm humble because I appreciate at
the end of the day that it's a gift and
then if somebody else would have had it
he or she may have developed it yet more
and reached even a deeper place rebuking
him exactly knew who he was he really
thought he's going to gain and why is he
going to gain and his whole life was one
story of terror and mysterious nefesh
learning and teaching and sacrifice for
the people he really thought I'm going
to purgatory
who's gonna even made four if not you
the answer to this my dear friends is as
follows
sometimes you live a good life a
meaningful life a virtuous life you look
back at your life and you could say the
e mate I've it was fine I think I lived
a good life but sometimes there's one
story in your life and when you look
back at that story you often cannot
forgive yourself and it eclipses
everything else
depression immense arc I knew about the
life he lived but at the moment of truth
the moment before he returned his soul
to its maker he reflected on one moment
in his long life and he asked himself
maybe this moment was a moment that I
will never be able to forgive myself for
what was that moment we know go we now
go to another story the talmud
instructed get in page 58 Paracon is a
kind of non COS tells the story in the
famous discussion and elaborates few
pages that deal with the history of this
day of the destruction of the Second
Temple and the first Talmud tells her
objection of in zakah was up against a
bunch of Jews who were sick Rakim they
were fanatical zealots who felt that
there should be no compromise with Rome
they forced the Jews into war against
Rome many of the sages felt it was an
ill-advised move at that point in
history the logical path of the Jewish
people would to be to try to reconcile
the throne to try to work with Rome but
it was an argument there was a strong
debate and the fighting within
ultimately became so ferocious that the
zealots burned down and destroyed all of
the food all the storage of food that
they had in Jerusalem that would last
for decades they got rid of it so the
Jews were starving so they were forced
to go out of the city where the Roman
legions were surrounding them and they
were forced into war American demands
act I felt otherwise
and he sneaked out of the city it wasn't
easy to sneak out of the city because
they wouldn't let you leave the city he
sneaked out as a corpse as a dead man to
be buried outside of Jerusalem and when
he comes out he goes to visit a
specialist a specialist is Vespasian for
space Ian was sent by naira by Nero Nero
Nero their emperor of Rome to be the
commander in chief to lead the Roman
legions against Jerusalem ultimately as
a reaction and predicted to him for
space ian would become the new caesar a
specialist was called back to the
imperial city of rome and in a commander
as commander in lieu of him he
dispatched his son his son was Titus
Titus who was the general who ultimately
brought down Jerusalem and burnt the
temple as the Talmud describes at length
titters his father was the space in a
specialist who was back and wrong
rebuking abanazar a mitzvah Spacey the
conversation that ensues is described in
the Talmud and the space scene is as we
would say in English blown away by the
stature by the presence by the wisdom
and personality of Rabbi Hahn on to the
point then he finds so much grace in his
eyes that Vespasian says namely your
wish and I will fulfill it whatever you
want I will do imagine the Jewish
representative standing face-to-face in
front of the most powerful person the
representative of the Ceaser of Rome
who's here to crush the Jewish
resistance to bring Jerusalem to its
knees to destroy the Jewish Commonwealth
and he's asking you what do you want
newbee air cannon asks for three things
rabbi cahana Ben Zak number one he wants
a doctor a physician for episodic
episodic has been fasting for forty
years sensing the pending the impending
destruction he wants a physician to heal
him he wants her Sadiq to remain alive
number two he asks him to spear the
family of Reming ham leo
the family of ramdomly all traces its
lineage back to Hillel as Aachen
Hillel the elder which traces back his
lineage to King David mouse who's based
of it he wants the family of Jewish
royalty of Jewish kingship represented
by them Gamliel in that generation and
then his son of Shimon bang I'm Leo and
his surname agam lil and his son of
Shimon and his son would we W hood on
now see the editor of the Mishnah he
wants him to spear the family not to
destroy the family rip remember Gamliel
himself is executed we read about a
today one of the Tsurugi malkos Sherman
the son of Gumley but he wants the chain
to remain the third request
Tenley yvonna the hakama who forwards 12
miles from Jerusalem there's a little
city called the Avenue the Avenue had a
yeshiva a place Mandurah Sh
with students learned tyre ultimately
the Sanhedrin the spiritual Supreme
Court the Supreme Court of the Jewish
people would transport itself from
Jerusalem Teavana
allow me to have Jana and it's ages
don't burn Alvina don't destroy Avner
leave it impact let them continue
stunning let them continue teaching let
them continue learning title Vespasian
agrees to all three the talmud says
rabbi akiva and some say abusive were
perturbed by Rebbe a Chinaman's occurs
decision they asked themselves how could
you ask for such small stuff when this
man offered you to do whatever you want
in fact they applied a verse to rebirth
enamines akka may Shiva come and offer
God takes the mind of brilliant people
and sometimes he sets it backwards he
takes the most brilliant people and he
sets their mind backwards if some things
have to happen they just have to happen
how could he not ask for Jerusalem for
the temple he could have said the Spacey
and do me a favor go home take your wife
on vacation to Hawaii
dr. rome wasn't Stu of course a person a
man zack i felt it's not gonna work
- faster Maroubra lighter faster that
was his calculation you don't ask for
too much because you get nothing that's
what he thought but they disagreed the
harab years could have been zack is on
his own death bed and he reflects on his
life and he has to ask himself some hard
questions and he asks himself this
question is it possible that i failed my
people remember how many of us are asked
a question in our life that we know will
transform the destiny of an entire
nation how many of us are asked in our
life a question that you know that the
answer to that question on that answer
hangs the entire destiny of your people
what you say will determine the future
of your people reveal cinnamons actually
looked at what happened there was
complete destruction and devastation and
he asked himself is it not true that i
may have to go to again is it not true
that i may deserve purgatory maybe i had
good intentions but what do they say
maybe it comes from here right the path
to hell is paved with wonderful
intentions I think it applies there very
well excellent dimensions but if I would
have said something else with one answer
I could have saved my country I could
have saved my government I could have
saved my people could have saved my
homeland I could have saved my temple my
base emitters my spiritual epicenter I
could have saved the future of the
Jewish people in their organic natural
homeland and I did not instead I asked
for Yana the comma a little base meddra
SHhhh
a few miles away Rubio in a Ben Zakai
asks himself that question now you know
when you're confronted by such a
question by a man like the space here
how do you decide these things
these are not questions that you could
look up and show Canara a drop of milk
fell into the Cholan is the chawan
kosher or not my Flay Shakur spoon went
into my mouth like a sink I cleaned it
with hot water together with cheese
dishes can I use the spoon can I not use
the spoon etc for this you open up or
Shikamaru you don't wanna open /
sonography you don't know you call up a
rabbi you text them and you get an
answer but we're gonna get this answer
you're standing in front of his face in
a spacey and says what would you like
rabbi say whoa-ho man I gotta call my
Rambo what is here am I gonna tell you
you're not gonna find this in ingress my
son or a biscuit children you're not
gonna find this inshallah traversée a br
a mare or Eretz me you're not gonna find
our algebra or abaca vaguer a shock or
Towser a smile or prima condom that
addresses this these are questions you
have to decide like this with your gut
with your kishkes with your heart with
your soul there's nobody to ask he made
a decision and on his deathbed he asks
himself that I fail my people or did I
not the question we have to ask now is
we're living almost 2,000 years later we
did revere cinnamons like a end up we
did he deserve to end up he couldn't
know the answer he was too close
hindsight is 20/20 but he didn't have
hindsight he lived through the period
but this happened in the year 70 after
the Common Era
we stand today in the year 2017 after
the Common Era that's how many years
later mr. Kamath a petition
19:47 exactly exactly we like exact
anybody here with numbers if that I'm
gonna have to do it yeah okay 1947 1909
hundred and forty-seven years later a
ship should say it's a nice couple of
years they once asked a chinese
politician chinese politician what's
your opinion of the American Revolution
and the French Revolution this is too
early to tell
two hundred and fifty years 300 years as
a babies Americans a bunch of babies
come three centuries you're dealing here
with nineteen almost 2000 years there's
a lot of height sacked a lot of
perspective not many nations have been
around for 2,000 years we live in
America we're thankful for America a few
hundred years old that's it
we have hindsight we have perspective in
1989 the Dalai Lama summoned 10 Jews for
a meeting one of the Jews who was there
his name is Roger cabinets recorded the
conversation in a book called the Jew in
the Lotus the Dalai Lama raised with
them a fascinating question I'm just
fascinated by the fact that he called in
Jews to discuss this dilemma and this
was his problem he and his tribe and his
religion were exiled by the Chinese from
Tibet in the 1950s they've been exiled
in India for close to a half a century
more than a half a century and he comes
to the Jews and he says I have a problem
not living in our organic homeland for
close to 50 years I do not know how we
are going to manage to give over our
traditions to the next generation we're
in exile ultimately in another country
so who did I call I summoned the people
who have managed somehow to do this well
they have been in exile
for millennia scattered all over the
world and nonetheless for the most part
many of them managed to maintain their
identity with pride with dignity with
determination and with conviction and
they're still thriving as a culture as a
people as a religion as a faith I want
to know how you did it they understood
this is a question you have to ask from
the experts who are the experts the Jews
I'm not gonna tell you what they
answered in because I'm not sure I agree
with their answer but I'm gonna tell you
what I would have answered if I would
have been in that delegation
I actually know if I would have answers
I don't know if it's so relevant to him
but what's the real answer the answer to
this question comes from a strange and
interesting Mitzvah there's a mitzvah
Marsha struma in the portion of Truman
the book of Exodus were commanded to
build the Mishkan the sanctuary the
tabernacle and the piece of furniture
that was most pivotal in the sanctuary
was the are in the Ark which contained
the two lookers the two tablets with the
Ten Commandments in the Holy of Holies
in the Michigan and the sanctuary later
transported to the Holy of Holies in the
temple on the Temple Mount in Solomon's
claim on Maya's first temple and which
were that later was hidden or exiled
there's one Mitzvah and that is the ark
the Orang which is a box a container
needs to have badan it needs to have
Steinem Steinem yeah just ago and
Steinem poles staves I don't mean to
bring up nightmares here for the red
Angola but poles staves right post why
do you need poles the Michigan had to be
transported true they were in college
for 19 years but still you have to
transport they were traveling
how you gonna transport an ark you have
about them just like you had on the
other pieces of furniture on the table
show from the Miss Bates's the altars
they all had staves they all had poles
but by the arced is a special
commandment
lawyer suru Habad a momento never take
away the poles the poles always have to
remain in the arc ready to go
very strange Mitzvah in fact somebody
who removes the poles from the arc is
violating a mitzvah slicer with the
penalties of Malchus
it's a serious transgression er a
strange Mitzvah imagine you purchase a
beautiful piece of art a van Gogh a
Rafael a Picasso for your living room or
your salon it costs you 29 million
dollars an original anybody you hang it
up you hang it up in your living room
it's the plat of your house you make
sure to make many showrooms offices in
your house just to get people jealous
the commune econo give their mama for
summer and so it comes in the special
packed up suitcase protected with many
many layers and as you take out the
piece of art the painting in your hangar
though you keep the suitcase there and
your wife asks you why do you keep the
suitcase so you say well one day we have
to move and we need this suitcase to be
able to transport it so she says when we
move will bring up the suitcase from
storage and the meantime suitcases you
leave in storage you don't leave it in
the living room right under the picture
quite logical right and unless you're
having each other issues you don't argue
with her about this unless you have
other issues so you just need to argue
you have to move the ark you'll bring up
the poles in the Holy of Holies you have
to have poles
cos nisht leaves are in there take the
sticks put them in a corner when you
have to move you'll bring them back not
only that they were in one place for 19
years well you need the poles for 19
years they came to she lay in she lay
the sanctuary existed through now many
years 369 years
369 years you need poles for what why
well you sir about them why
the answer to this question was
presented by two people one by the Mesha
hakama there is a mayor grammarian
kakoen of Dvinsk a few decades before
him by obsession Rafal Hersh in his
commentary on Hamish just like Romero
simcha Cohen and his commentary on
commish they say it briefly I'll just
present their insight the way I
understood it with some elaboration
there was a profound message here and it
goes back to the wisdom of rabbi
l-alamin Sokka
when he's standing in front of a space
here you see he is standing in front of
the Roman Emperor he knows the man is
determined to destroy the temple to
destroy Jerusalem rebuking him Ben Zakai
standing in front of the most powerful
person in the world but he's thinking
how am I gonna save my people
how will we survive he knew this when
the temple gets destroyed when the
spiritual epicentre of the Jewish people
is gone when we have no Jerusalem
anymore no base a McNish no central
power no Commonwealth no sovereignty no
political or military independence will
we survive maybe maybe not maybe very
challenging maybe very difficult but you
knew this if we lose our connection to
terror with no way we're going to
survive if we don't bring physical sheep
every morning to the temple a sheep in
the morning
a sheep in the afternoon if Shabbos
comes and we don't have the offerings
known as the must suffer if Passover
comes and we don't have the offerings
known as pace on Yom Kippur comes we
don't have the offerings of um Kippur we
don't have the goat that we don't have
the bull we don't have the blood and the
Holy of Holies and we don't have the
burning incense will we survive maybe
very challenging but what he didn't know
is if we don't learn about the sheep if
we don't learn about the car bonus of
Yom Kippur if we don't have the ability
anymore to master
miss after Yuma or miss actors welcome
Manaka suppliers tomorrow Christmas if
we don't learn any more about Katya
kadosh team and cut some column cholera
Ilhabela piggle nicer douches machetes
etc if we don't learn any more about
true miss and my sisters about to miss
aunt iris about our reverses the vehicle
as whiskering in vs. as I see strong all
the components that deal with the study
the learning the understanding of the
offerings of the base hamikdash of the
Jewish relationship with God then there
should have been Zack I knew there's no
way that the Jewish people will be able
to survive and that was the secret of
the poles
why were the poles always there by the
ark the sanctuary became the center of
the Jewish people later it would be
Jerusalem the holy temple the Holy of
Holies and the Ark usually what happens
to a nation when they're throwing out of
their land what happens to a nation when
they're expelled when they're exiled
they naturally assimilate you can't
expect anything else when you become a
minority among a majority you want to
fit in especially if there's pressure
especially of this discrimination
especially of this bigotry nevermind
persecution you naturally surrender you
acclimate you become part of the
majority there's no way you could
maintain a strong identity if you're not
running the show others are running the
show and they don't want you to be
different on the contrary they will
crush you for being different
the are in the ark had poles what was
the message of the poles the message of
the poles was this you also have a
homeland you also have a center but I
want to tell you about your homeland you
have a portable homeland
your homeland is portable as long as
this arc this iron you will take with
you wherever you go around the world in
all of your journeys you will take this
iron those poles will not come off it
will always allow itself to be
transportable you will never ever
forfeit your identity and your eternity
because wherever you will be you will be
in your homeland fascinating this
observation was made by none other than
a Jew who converted his name was
Heinrich Heine he was a German Jew to
baquette to get a ticket into university
you couldn't as a Jew he converted he
became a Protestant not because he
believed in Christianity simply because
he wanted to have a career in the
university he was a brilliant man he was
a poet he was a writer and he lived in
the 18th century and he was once
speaking with German intellectuals and
they started to make fun of the Jewish
people they said you don't even have a
homeland you're parasites this is the
18th century the 1700s Jews are living
among their host nations whether it's
Germany France Britain or in the
countries of Eastern Europe or anywhere
else and Heine tells his colleagues the
Germans he says you're making a mistake
the Jewish people have a homeland it's a
portable homeland and it's called the
terror indeed this has become the story
of the Jewish people a Jew is living in
sus Levites in Edessa in Krakow in Lodge
it'll Blin he's coming home from a hard
day at work a hard difficult day at work
and he comes into his home or he walks
into the shul to the base mattress and
he opens up a Gomorrah he opens up a
Mishnah he opens up a woman she opens up
a comma he opens up a work of halakhah
or any work of Tyrel and he starts
learning and where is he he's in
Jerusalem he's in the Holy Temple
he's in the Holy of Holies he's in the
ark he or she is in their organic
homeland wherever they were it's a
portable homeland somebody once sent me
a story would be interesting to verify
if it's historically accurate it was
quite amusing
Queen Victoria from Britain was once
vacationing in Germany her husband came
from Germany originally and she was
vacationing at Hannover she was pregnant
but she still had two months scheduled
to deliver the baby lo and behold she
started to feel as I thought the baby is
coming out now you do realize the crisis
- don't you Queen Victoria's gonna have
a baby on which soil German soil there's
not enough time to go back to Britain to
be too dangerous if the baby is born on
German soil he could never become the
future heir to the British throne he has
to be born on British soil Faust hitmen
crisis Victoria is having her baby and
this baby will not even be able to rule
two months early it's her problem she
went on vacation she didn't realize
sometimes vacation has interesting
results first Ottoman here's a classic
Jewish moment Moisture Manta fury sir
Moses Montefiore who was one of the
great Jews of his day a great
philanthropist and a skin an activist a
great man went to shul for minsum iris
he was a close advisor to the royal
palace of Britain to the royal court in
Britain he went to shul firm in Samara
in Hannover who was the rabbi rip nos
and Adler so what are Jews do be two men
share my roof they solve the world's
problems
that's what Jews in a good shoulder
bituminous amirev they discussed the
world's problems and they solve it
that's what it is today it's the
comments and the websites took over that
position the Jews in the common solve
all the world's problems but it used to
be in sherbert Hindman car my roof that
was the official calling you bring up
issue and you solve the problem and you
tell the president's the Prime
Minister's and the Kings what to do and
what not to do and of course with
absolute conviction and certainty since
they will usually call you right after
my earth and so but in this case it
wasn't funny they were actually solving
the world's problems if NASA Nadler sees
that much amount of theory is berserk
he's worried he's pretty since the
moisture what's going on he tells him
there's a crisis there's a crisis as a
Queen Victoria decided to give birth a
little two months early and it's gonna
be a major urban for the British Royal
Court Hypnose analysis what's the
problem
take a British ship take a british ship
go out three kilometers into the water
Hanover's on the coast
three kilometers in the waters
international waters it's not German
soil anymore and if the baby is born on
a British on a British ship the baby is
British it was born on British soil
solve the problem and so King Edward
Edward was born and applause and Adler
ultimately becomes the first chief rabbi
of Britain and the United Kingdom the
one who allowed King Edward to be able
to come become the King of Britain you
see this is the Jewish skill the Jewish
talent how do you retain identity as
Mamluk ask lion and the guy Kaddish as a
kingdom of princesses on foreign soil
they did it for the British they did it
for themselves how do you retain your
identity out in the sea out in the ocean
out in other people's countries it was
because there Oran always had Baden
always had poles always had staves I
want to share with you a story it's a
it's quite a loaded story not very no
one as well which I think in an
interesting way also brings out this
point
in April 1912 the Titanic embarked on
its great journey from England destined
to New York the Titanic as its name
intimates indicates was singular both in
size and in majesty they said then there
was the unsinkable ship as somebody said
even God Himself could not sink the
Titanic the Titanic cost in the early
1900's to make seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars which today I'm sorry
seven million five hundred thousand
dollars which today would be equivalent
to four hundred million dollars that was
the price of the building of the Titanic
the lowest fear for third-class passage
in the panic was $36.25 one way for a
single person who was willing to share a
cabin second-class starting from fear
was $66 first class started at 125
dollars but can go up to $4,500 $4,500
for a first-class ticket in 1912 was a
fabulous sum of money because at that
time you could purchase a house for less
than $1000 Nibbana $1,000 you could
purchase a house if you only would have
lived then I'm a higher you would have
been so wealthy today it could have
brought up the whole forshay and Fifth
Avenue and Madison Avenue too and
therefore they called it the millionaire
suite the Titanic left Southampton
England on Wednesday April 10th 1912
23rd day of Nissen tough race I in base
five seven twelve one day after Pesach
one day
after Passover towards New York among
the passengers was an 18 year old young
Jewish woman her name was Leia ox AKA
AKA slayer acts she traveled with a ten
month old baby
his name was a FRA official Frank
Phillip his nickname filly a FRA
official acts with his mother
eighteen-year-old Leia Leia was born in
Warsaw in Poland varsha
her family immigrated from Poland to
England in London she met a young Jewish
man named Shmuel or Sam Leia and Schmuel
took a liking for each other he was a
tailor who also came from worser to
England and they got married to each
other one day a cousin of Shmuel who
lived in America came to visit his
cousin Sam in London and he tells him
what are you slepping around here as a
failure in England a tailor in England
if you would only come to America you
would be able to make a lot of money
Jews then called the United States of
America the gold in the Medina because
in their imagination the streets were
paved with gold and the trees produced
not leaves but gold whereas Sam Levenson
once said he said my father when he came
to America he was told that the streets
are paved with gold and then when he
actually arrived in America he
discovered three things first of all the
streets were not paved with gold second
of all the streets were not paved at all
and third of all he is the one who has
to pave them so this was the perspective
of America now we're still looking for
the copper if we could find some copper
would also be good but let's not
complain compared to the poverty of
those days it's really extraordinary we
have in America Leia was at this time
expecting her first child
her parents felt that in her condition
she should have made the trip from
England to create a new home in the
United States he struggled if she's
pregnant rather let Sam Laxmi reveal
alone he'll set up home he'll set up
shop and then when the baby is born
he's feeling better she'll join her
husband in the United States so Sam
travelled alone he set up home in
Norfolk Virginia and they were waiting
for Leia to give birth Leia gave birth
to a baby they made a bris his name was
a frame official and now they were
planning to head to America he was 10
months old she was strong enough he was
strong enough to be able to make this
long trip from England to America they
were booked on an earlier ship leaving
to the US also in April 1912
but as usual the case the Jewish mother
intervenes this is a classic behavior
and so Leia's mother mixed in and she
said I'm reading in the newspapers about
the Titanic you can't go in this other
for hack the ship we need you to go in
the Titanic so they canceled the ticket
that they had on the earlier ship and
they put her they've got her a ticket
third-class steerage
they weren't wealthy in the Titanic she
said you need a gigantic ship a safe
ship a sturdy ship the best and safest
ocean liner that existed till that time
and it's making its historic maybe in
voyage to New York it's the first time
ever the Titanic was embarking on its
first journey
Leia's mother was convinced that she has
to travel on the world's safest ocean
liner
one day after Pesach April 10th 1912
Leia ax and her baby a frame official
together with many other passengers they
board the ship in Southampton in England
his fanfare there is ceremony they were
in a third-class cabin which was called
steerage together with many other
immigrants to America four days later
shortly before midnight on April 14th as
the ship was 95 miles south of the Grand
Banks in Newfoundland it was it hit it
struck
on iceberg the iceberg that the Titanic
struck was a hundred feet over the deck
that's how tall it was now 90% of an
iceberg is hidden beneath the water
so this iceberg was literally a mountain
of ice close to a thousand feet from
bottom to top most of it of course was
under the water
its massive knife-like edges beneath the
water surface punctured and gashed the
ship along 250 feet of its hull 20
minutes later after consulting with the
ship's designer whose name was Andrews
the captain of the ship whose name was
Edward Smith realized that the Titanic
would sink within two hours everyone on
board would lose their lives unless they
would get on to lifeboats and then be
rescued by other passing ships in the
water now the tragedy became clear there
were not enough spaces in the lifeboats
for everyone there were two thousand two
hundred passengers and crew on board
there was room only for 1178 people on
lifeboats more than a thousand people
would surely die the boat begins tilting
there's absolute panic there's
pandemonium there's confusion there's
hollering fear uncertainty the captain
and the crew order that women and
children would be saved first in the
third cabin third-class cabin women and
children are ordered in front of the men
in order to go in front of the men to be
saved
Leia acts the Jewish young woman from
Warsaw is holding her ten year old baby
a fry and fishel in her arms and she's
trying to get from the third-class cabin
in steerage to the deck to be able to
get on one of the lifeboats the problem
is that the gate in front of her cabin
jammed and no one could get out she's
standing pressed against the gate
screaming for help a sailor
her with her little baby in her arms he
reaches over the gate he lifts her and
her child up so she could run to the
deck where women and children are being
put into lifeboats most of the people in
the third-class cabin did not get out
they could not get to the deck 75% of
them indeed drown leia runs up to the
deck with her child and she's waiting
she's raving by the edge of the deck
trying to get on line to get into one of
the lifeboats to be rescued it was
frightening Lee cold remember this is
the middle of the night it's freezing
people are shoving people are pushing
people are screaming people are trying
to get onto lifeboats down below the
water mercilessly is gushing into the
Titanic into its gaping holes the stuff
that the ship is getting full of water
the whole bottom of the ship is now
flooded layers on the deck shivering
from cold together with her son one of
the wealthiest women on board was a
woman named Lady Madeline Astor she sees
her and her baby huddled against the
cold Lady Astor herself was five months
pregnant she had an eight foot beautiful
warm shawl she removes it she gives it
to Leia and she says here wrap your baby
it's so cold out here her teeth are
shattering Leia thanks our profusely in
fact Lady Astor survived her husband
perished and her baby was born four
months late and she named him after his
father during this time a man pushed
himself into a lifeboat that was about
to be lowered into the water when the
cabin steward saw him they forced him
out of the boat pulled him back on that
yelling that women and children come
first this man managed to jump into
another lifeboat waiting for it to be
lowered he was determined to be saved
again they fought with him they slept
him
out of the second lifeboat and they put
him back on the deck insisting that
women and children must be given
priority the man saw Leia
Leia ox standing with a frame official
there on the deck he was enraged his
eyes were wild as he stalk back and
forth consumed by anger madness and
frustration in a demented moment of
madness he runs towards lair and he
screams you think women are first you
think children are first I'll show you
he grabs the infant from Leia's arms and
he throws him overboard Leia shrieks in
horror her child was just thrown into
the ocean the men on board attack this
man but it's too late the deed has been
done the child has been thrown overboard
the poor baby is gone people are yelling
and screaming and now it's layers turned
to get on the lifeboat I won't go
without my baby
she cries the officers tell her you have
to save your own life your baby is lost
what is your what are you gonna gain by
dying as well you need to save your own
life
there's no point than staying on a ship
it's going to sink
they literally slap her they try to
console her she's crying hysterically
and they just take her and place her in
a lifeboat that is lowered into the
water she comes down to the middle of
the Atlantic her lifeboats number is 13
she is together with 63 other people
2:20 a.m. the Titanic went down with
every passing minute the cries for help
from those dying in the water faded away
it was only at daybreak April 15th 1912
that the liner Carpathia arrived and
rescued the survivors from the lifeboats
1523 soles slipped into the icy waters
of the North Atlantic and drowned 1523
Souls out of the 22 hundred passengers
and the Titanic Leia was shattered her
life was saved her baby literally thrown
into the ocean she took to the mattress
on the Carpathia for two days she would
not move she could not console herself
there was another Titanic survivor by
the name of Selena cook Selena cook
urged Leia to come up on the deck for
ear she refused she says come you need
some fresh air
she slept Leia out to the deck of the
Carpathia just to breathe a little bit
Leia is grief-stricken and suddenly Leia
sees on the Carpathia a woman holding a
child Leia here's the child crying the
voice of this child sounds too familiar
Leia comes closer and the child sees
Leia and the child lunges the child
moves towards Leia
she recognizes the child it was a frien
fishel that's my baby that's my child
you see unknown to Leia as the madman
threw the baby overboard he fell into
the hands of a woman sitting on lifeboat
number 11 this woman who already went
down in a lifeboat was a Catholic woman
her name was Elizabeth Nye she she was
pregnant she was saved lifeboat 11 her
husband was not permitted to follow his
pregnant wife into the lifeboat
Elizabeth NIH's husband perished he
drowned
she was a firm Catholic believer as
she's sitting on the boat suddenly a
child falls into her arms
she begins to believe that God sent her
a child as a replacement for her dead
husband and as a brother for the child
who she's carrying in her womb this
child is gonna be born as an orphan he
won't have a father now he'll have at
least a brother
God sent from heaven a child Elizabeth
Nye is holding a Jewish baby she's
dressed in a long black dress with a
huge cross
she tells Leia it's not your child it's
God's child it's not your child the
child was entrusted by the Lord to me on
the deck of the Carpathia
the woman who cared for Philly since the
Titanic sank refused to give Leia the
child layer goes to the captain of the
Carpathia who now becomes King Solomon
who has to determine which mother is
saying the truth remember the story
right which mother is saying the truth
thank God he did not say take a knife
did not say that his name was Arthur
Rustin Arthur Rustin was the captain of
the Carpathia he is now put in the role
of Schlemmer Malik of King Solomon
deciding who the real mother Leia is
crying hysterically this is my baby this
is my son mrs. Nye is insisting that
it's her child Leia has no proof she
decided it's her child she would not be
denied this child
captain roster on Captain Rustin Arthur
Rustin takes both women and he says come
with me to my quarters my private
quarters there we could sit and I could
reflect on the matter further in the
captains quarters he's investigating he
speaks to this when he speaks to this
one Leia suddenly calls out she says I
have proof that this is my child
captain Rustin says what's the proof 18
year old Leia says firmly and with
certainty she says I am Jewish my son is
circumcised he had a bris
you have to understand I'm not like
America today in Europe at that time
only Jewish children were circumcised
the baby was undressed sure it is sure
it was black and white the baby had a
bris when captain Rustin saw this he
took ten month all the frame official
and returned him back to his mother
Leia the Carpathia brought all the
survivors from the lifeboats to New York
mother and baby were united with father
with small who came of course to greet
his wife and his baby in what has become
uneventful trip nine months later Leia
who was now with her husband gave birth
to another baby
deeply grateful to captain Rustin and
his crew on the Carpathia who saved them
from their lifeboats in the North
Atlantic Leia named her daughter Sara
Carpathia Ochs God always has it his way
the nuns at the hospital in Norfolk
Virginia got confused and instead of
naming the baby Sara Carpathia ox they
named the baby Sara Titanic ox and that
remained that remained her name for life
Sara Titanic acts became her name a FRA
official grew up in Norfolk Virginia
with his mom and sister and and dad with
sorrow with Leia with war as a proud Jew
he would walk for miles every Shabbos to
Darvin in the Orthodox shul in Norfolk
Virginia
knowin as the Cumberland Street roll he
would look literally miles every single
Shabbos to davon in that show he never
forgot how fortunate he was to survive
he was given not one life but three
lives he was given one life like
everybody else his second life when he
was saved from the Titanic going under
and his third life when he was saved
from this man man throwing him literally
over board he could have perished with
other 1523 people but God speared him
and his bris ensured that he was
returned to his mother Leia died in 1967
a FRA official died not
long ago he died in July 1991 I tell you
the story not only because it's a
fascinating story but it captures the
Jewish story it's one story about an
individual and his mother but it
captures the Jewish story because the
Jewish is injured the Titanic sunk the
sink the ship that was not sinkable sunk
and the Jewish people the Jewish people
did not sink and the question is how
that happened and here we come back to
the insight of the Sam cipher so I
visited a camp on Sunday this Sunday I
had a Chaba tone in pine tree in the
Catskills and Sunday I went to speak at
a very nice camp hundreds of children
and at the end of my speech I asked the
boys to ask questions so one of the boys
13 or 14 years old he has the following
question he said rabbi Jacobsen this
week we had no meat all we had for nine
days fish I hate fish I love meat why in
the world can't we have meat I said what
did they tell you what did they tell you
when you grew up why he can't have meat
they said cuz it's the nine days and you
now let it have meat but I don't
understand why should they make us
miserable why would they deprive us for
me I want to eat what's wrong with just
eating a normal meal why does this
religion want to make me miserable that
was the question anybody here ever asked
his question what was the response he
got anybody you asked this question you
had it you never asked it
that's my job to articulate the
questions that everyone thinks about and
nobody asks or some think about not
everybody some think about I actually
was very happy he asked the question
because it allowed for a genuine
conversation I'll tell you what I told
them I can't vouch that it was a good
answer although I thought it was a good
answer but I could vouch that when I
finished he was going like this like
this he was nodding with almost
enthusiasm I'm not gonna say it turned
his fish into the taste of paradise and
he lost his love for meat in the nine
days but he was very extremely agreeable
I would say like almost emotionally
emotionally satisfied with the answer I
said I'll tell you something I know
exactly how you feel I also like meat
I like all foods and I like fish too but
I also like me that'll discriminate I
have respect for all animals especially
if they end up in my abdomen I have even
more respect for them so when was the
last time you had meat mr. bishopman
fish from myeloma has a phase before
you're out of there I said I want to
explain to you something about your
people we could naturally say nine days
what happened in these nine days 1947
years ago some Roman troops came
breached the wall of a city three weeks
penetrated the city and the nine days
got closer and closer and closer to the
Temple Mount put the temple on flames
it happened 1947 years ago not only that
it happened once more 500 years earlier
with the first temple and we could say
you know I'm dealing with my life today
I don't know what happened last week to
me I'm still trying to figure out what
happened yesterday now you want me not
to change my to change my diet based on
what happened almost 2,000 years ago I
mean let's face it I don't know they
were
I don't feel it I don't have anything
with these nine days I got my own issues
and I just don't feel connected so
you'll tell me stories after stories
after stories you'll read Asia and
you'll read kiner's and you'll tell me
about the nine days you tell me about
loss at the Piranha user and Shiva Dean
Hempton Kazan you're shy oh I just don't
feel connected I said but you're 14
years old and I want you to understand
how our people how our people function
how we operate I want to tell you those
we consider it a duty to ourselves and
to our children to always remember that
we're part of a story and to always keep
in our memory every Jew lived breathed
danced cried laughed suffered lived or
died as a Jew yes be very proud of the
fact that 2,000 years later every year
you and your friends tell a story you
tell a story about a brother and a
sister
children of the high priest a Bhishma
taken into captivity and the masters say
to each other we have just captured and
bought slaves from Jerusalem the nicest
of the nicest literally their faces
projected brilliance of the Sun if we
could just marry these two slaves to
each other their children will be beyond
extraordinary and they all belong to us
every small coin goggles saw in the ears
that he's going to marry tomorrow
morning a slave non Jewish and she hears
the same and the whole night they're
locked up in one room and they're
weeping about their fake remember their
father was murdered not just murdered
murdered brutally and this is their fate
as the Sun rises they recognize each
other brother and sister and they hug
and they embrace so tightly their souls
expire I said now think about it 2,000
years past we remember that boy and that
girl we think about them
we talk about them be proud of your
people that it'll just move on and
forget their past every Jew who went up
in the flames we remember them we paid
tribute to them every mother every child
every father we speak of Rab Akiva we
speak about your space we speak a
representative in tragedian we speak
about W hood of Imbaba we speak about
nebulas Asamoah as though they were our
eby's our colleagues our teachers Danny
Goldhagen wrote a book called Hitler's
willing executioner's he accused the
entire German people in being part of
the Holocaust
not just the Nazis Harvard professor
Jewish professor in Berlin at a lecture
after he gave out the book a professor
says 60 years since the Holocaust it's
time to forget Goldhagen says 19 hundred
years ago we had a house on top of a
mountain in Jerusalem it burned down 60
times a day we remember it we're not
gonna forget to what happened in
Auschwitz 60 years ago you open up a
chemist and you go through Jewish
history yes be proud of the fact that in
1096 the Crusaders marched through the
communities of Speyer mines worms
magenta spire vermeil's ax on the Rhine
River in Germany and murdered its
communities and we speak about that in
the chemists be proud of the fact that
in the 13th century in the month of
Thomas they burned 24 wagons of the
Talmud and Paris and we speak about a
chalice refurbish be proud of the fact
of you who de la vie in Spain speaks
about CIA analysis a Lelouch Lima Syria
they go through the First Crusade the
Second Crusade the 3rd cruise the Third
Crusade you may not feel what happened
in the nine days
but be proud that you're part of the
people that speaks about the past as
though it was present I was debating
somebody had a lecture he said that he
thinks tisha buff should be abolished it
should be removed from the calendar
I said why he said you asking for the
rebuilding of Jerusalem Jerusalem is
rebuilt he says come to Jerusalem what
is saying in knocking comfort this this
was soon gonna say in minutes and
nothing the city that's available Shama
desolate
it's a beautiful city you guys buy real
estate here for millions of dollars
really that's your desolate Jerusalem
what do you saw epic Ritz
he says your religion you're hypocrites
you say it's desolate but then you're
charging ten million dollars that's what
you charge for desolate this is it come
to Brooklyn that's much worse for a
garage they can take two million dollars
he says demolish it I said do you think
Jews should remember he said she
remember do you believe in memory he
says what what here it's old and we're
ready gone we really have a nation we
came back to Israel I said I have a
question when I'm in Israel and the
siren goes off on Yom Hashoah
on the Holocaust Remembrance Day or
Yama's a car on when they remember the
soldiers who fell in battle or terrorist
victims there's some Jews who specially
don't stop by the siren they feel
they're not part of this whole culture
that's not how they remember the Fallen
and they start stop they continue
walking and I once asked one of them
maybe you're hurting the feelings of
people who suffer terribly he said what
doesn't matter Jewish think it's a
secular zionists thing I don't have to
any part of it I said this is very
interesting to me there may be a mother
there who buried a child for her the
siren is the way that she and the
country respect her child
I'm sure that instead of standing by the
certain you're going to show when you're
learning a pea Krishna is for the
soldier I'm sure about that or if not
you should find out his name from the
mother and learn the program of Matthias
but she doesn't know yet about Matthias
for her it's the siren don't you think
you speak always in your your shiva's
there we speak about a chorus a toy if
showing appreciation no simcha very
being sensitive to other people not
embarrassing somebody in public
the mother who buried her child don't
you think it's an outcry it's an act of
act of Cruelty not to show just basic
sensitivity well have they'll even an
animal there's a mitzvah of terrible as
I am in the rice here's another fellow
Jew
why don't you he didn't understand what
I was saying ok it's another topic but I
say to him this man do you stop at the
siren yo ma sha he says of course I
honor the Holocaust victims we have to
always remember the Holocaust victims
always remember the Holocaust victims I
say but Israel rebuilt itself he says
yeah but it doesn't take away from the
tragedy of the Holocaust so now I want
to tell you something there are still
Holocaust survivors living today you
have parents were Holocaust survivors
you grew up with people on the numbers
in their arms you knew it but I want to
tell you something in 50 years from now
in a hundred years from now in nine
hundred years from now the Holocaust is
gonna be like urban Bayou Shaney urban
my shame look what happens to Shabaab in
Israel there's two groups of people
there are people who go and sit on the
floor and say eh huh and then there are
people who wonder whitish above is
disturbing the hot summer beautiful
vacation day in August and the Holy Land
and they go to the beach they go to the
cafe's they sip iced coffee they say it
happened 1900 years ago it's exactly
what they're gonna say about the
Holocaust do you understand the moment
you divorce the Jewish people from
memory from the past you say the
Holocaust I remember the Spanish
Inquisition I don't remember the
Crusades I don't remember
urban biased ruins of mind problem it's
my problem you ultimately sever the
connection to the Holocaust victims as
well
it's because of this power of
the Jewish people that have comes the
night of Tish above and we say that
3,300 years ago on this night the spies
came back and they dissuaded the people
from going into the land and they
created mass hysteria three and a half
thousand years ago we remember that Jews
were weeping because they were fearful
in vain out of a pending disaster that
didn't exist and we remember that event
three and half thousand years ago so I
told this camper I said I also like meat
but I think the value of being connected
to such a people probably Trump's the
taste of meat for nine days you may not
emotionally identify with what happened
I know how could you didn't happen to
you your mother had happened long ago
but just appreciate the nature of this
people appreciate this reality comes
that some say France says call Hamas a
bill are you shall I am so severe a
abyssum cosa
none of the future now if you mourn for
Jerusalem you see its joy why the Torah
says in Genesis precious my aviation
Joseph Joseph Joseph was killed
apparently jacob was told that he was
devoured by a wild animal and he felt
that he was died but he couldn't find
comfort why couldn't he find comfort my
email is not him he couldn't find
comfort so the medic says Zahra oh haha
show your Stockman alive of Allah Allah
mace Zahra
I'm sorry Zahra Allah may see a stockist
man la love Allah Allah hi if somebody
dies god forbid there's a certain
program that the creator put into the
world that we try to move on it's not
easy it always comes with much pain and
grief but there is a certain human
resource ability to say we have to move
on we don't forget but we move on that's
if somebody died
if somebody is alive you can't move on
you can't forget you can't tell Gilad
Shalit spare ins when he was five years
in captivity by hamas Gilad Shalit tell
the parents Oh
closure you can't have closure the hope
that he's still gonna come out one day
doesn't alight to go to sleep and say he
died cuz you don't know if he died
Yaakov couldn't find comfort for Yosef
because he was alive he didn't know that
he was alive but because he was alive he
couldn't come to grips with it he
couldn't just say a chapter ended and a
new one has to begin columnist Abu al
yerushalayim whoever mourns for
Jerusalem and the question is how can
one mourn for Jerusalem it's been 2000
years so much water has come under the
bridge Druze have been through so much
how could people still mourn for
something and someone that lived 2,000
years ago
I mean how old-fashioned can you be so
severe a abyss and casas he merits and
seized joy now the very fact that you
speak about Jerusalem they speak about
the base--emitter they speak about air
too strong that means that it's alive
it's not dead if it would have been dead
the chapter is over you forget say Allah
may see astonishment I love you forget
you liner yard side candle once a year
and after a few generations that stops -
who says coddlers today for people who
live 200 years ago 300 years ago 400
years ago how are they mourning for
Jerusalem why do they continue the story
because it's not a mace it's a high it's
alive if it's alive its alive now if
it's alive now people still can't come
to grips with its loss she says every
abyssum casa they merit and see its joy
now that itself is the joy that never
really died it's alive and that's why it
will they have come back to full life
when a Buchanan Ben Zakai stood in front
of his face in he understood all of this
he knew that he has to ask
something that will guarantee the
Eternity of the Jewish people
he asked for Jovana what was this Spacey
and thinking spatially and looked at the
rabbi he says he's a smart guy but he's
not too smart
here is Rome the epicentre of the might
of the modern world Rome was the
superpower of the civilization yeah
Avner
there's a little Stiebel probably looked
like this 10th probably a little smaller
and also that could not decorate it so
nicely I'll spit you out in the big deal
little did the space you know that by
acquiescing to rebuking a man Zachary's
request he himself was signing the death
certificate for the roman empire it's
always how history works ultimately evil
has to be transformed into goodness
darkness has to be transformed into
light and therefore light can always be
fine found in the darkness the Spacey
and himself was ultimately the one who
was signing the death certificate for
the Roman Empire and the life
certificate for the Jewish people by his
telling rebuking on of course you can
have Yavin of a hakama rebuking I'm
Anzac I said I don't know if I'm gonna
go to paradise or purgatory we
understand his question very well we who
live almost 2,000 years later now turned
to the earth from the man's sake and say
rebuking demands occur now it's time for
us to ask you the following question
we're isthmus space in we're is Titus
where is Caligula
where is Pompeii where is Julius where
is Adrian where are they we restore come
a day where is Nebuchadnezzar pyro come
on who is Bogdan malinovski where is
Alfred Rosenberg Himmler Mengele Stalin
where are they the answer is they are in
Wikipedia that's where they are you
could Google right now Wikipedia Google
their name you'll have a nice Wikipedia
entry under Spacey and a Titus with even
a picture an engraved statue of them
exactly when they lived when they died
on what they accomplished
and now the question is we are the
Jewish people and the answer is we
created Wikipedia we are the ones who
write these entries for them we put them
in him we tell them when they're born
when they died we edit it we put in the
pictures we write comments we argue
about it we created Wikipedia how did
that happen how did that come about the
space ian could have never imagined this
your viewers can have been zack i did
four words
Tenley Jaffna the hakama he knew that as
long as the Jewish people will be able
to hold on to terror will be able to
hold on to its mitzvos will be able to
have the ark with the poles that will
transport the Turner wherever they go
no mite will ultimately be able to
defeat them or crush them and therefore
when he's about to die
he asks to make space for who Chris Kia
Mela Theodore Ezekiel the king of Judea
why is Zeki a wife Ischia why not
Abraham Isaac Jacob why not Moses why
not Hill oh why not King David wife
Ischia the answer of course is Chris Kia
was the King of Jerusalem it was also
besieged by Sun tariffs whiskey
ultimately saved the siege Sun Caravan
180,000 troops died hiss Kia was saved
with the entire region ten tribes in the
north were exiled but he and the two
tribes in Jerusalem were saved rebuking
demands Acker was doubting that he saved
Jerusalem or is he the one who
ultimately surrendered Jerusalem to the
enemy who came to escort him on his
final chapter who came to bid farewell
to welcome Rabinowitz out into the next
world the man who saved juice Allah but
American him exactly did not save
Jerusalem but his skier said you did
save Jerusalem by asking for Jana Makaha
mal you kept Jerusalem alive in memory
you kept Drusilla I'm alive in words you
kept rusul them alive in hearts
you kept Drusilla them alive in books
you
Jerusalem alive in prayers in texts in
rituals in traditions
America demands acha is the one who
instituted that we should shake lulav on
suka 7 days we never did we used to
shake lulav only the first day of circus
there's no Mitzvah to shake a loom of
seven days only the first day in the
base on victors is a midst of seven days
American demands act I said we should
shake a little of seven days why is a
fella mikdash keep the base on McNish
alive maybe I could've been zakat made
sure that it lives in the hearts and the
words and the emotions
2,000 years later was once I was once a
giving a sheer a lecture so very
interesting conversation came up this is
a whole other creature I'm not gonna get
into it in detail but I want to bring at
one point and somebody said you know the
fact is that Israel the state of visit
was built by secular Jews by atheists
not by religious Jews he says that's the
fact I said yeah but I want to ask you
one question
you think it would have been possible
for Herzl or ben-gurion
or Moshe Sharett or high and Weitzman or
Zalman shazar
or Sokolov to even remember and speak
about Israel if not for the Rambam and
derive it in the 11th and 12th century
arguing and Hill says base up here if
you could bring car bonus today without
a base I mix dish if you have an altar
you think anybody would have thought
about AIDS is straw if the case of
Mishnah and the let commissioner and the
magadh Mishnah would not delve into the
hollow cos of true myths and my Souris
and my solution am i sir Shanee am i sir
only and the producer of your selenium
and the tradition of the megistus and
where it could be eaten we can not beat
you think anybody would remember I just
all I'm able to come back if not for
Ibaka vaguer and the bass lav and a
primal AV
delving into nights and nights pending
analyzing the definition
they have the Home Office of the car
bonus and the kedusha severity and the
kaduche severity straw
etc the jews who sat by candles late at
night for 2,000 years and learned how
locus of Carmona's a locus of two
Montera how locus of the base--emitter
sh a locus of the Ozora a locus of yom
kippur a locus of the cobra mussaf they
kept the country alive the Druze who
stood up three times a day and faced
yerushalayim - Davin they're the only
reason there was a place that was so
alive and Jewish memory Jews could come
back then crews can come back there so
column Isabella Yerushalayim Zartha
variable Simcoe so I'm gonna conclude
with this story
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the rabbi of mikela a Mac in Israel is a
Jew by the name of rebel David Grossman
repeats of David Grossman is a very
well-known rabbi he created institutions
for Russian children and other children
with different challenges thousands of
children in his educational institutions
in middle amick a man once came to visit
him a few years ago a guy by the name of
mati Dalton mati Dalton is the head of
the lower Galilee Regional Council in
Israel though tan tells rabbi Grossman
he says recently he returned from
Germany he attended a ceremony in honor
of the 25th anniversary of the twin
cities pact between the Regional Council
and the lower Galilee and the honover
district in Germany they had a Twin
Cities pact 25th anniversary multi
Dalton travelled to Germany for the
celebration after the ceremony a German
parliament member comes over to the
Israeli mattina tongue a German bund one
stock parliament member his name is Det
love Herod seek that Love Hurts a kiss
from the SP tea party in the parliament
the approach is multi Doulton and he
says I have to tell you a story my
father mr. death love hurts it says died
a few weeks ago right before his demise
he called me in and he said I have to
make a confession to you I took part in
their trustees of the Holocaust since
there are many Holocaust deniers today
he tells us son I wanted to share the
truth before I died so that at least you
could tell people that the Holocaust
deniers are true liars
he told his son that he had been an
officer in the German air force in the
Luftwaffe during World War two and he
hands his son an envelope his son opens
the envelope did Liv Harrison opens the
envelope and he finds a vermont army
officer certificate
he was an officer in the in Hitler's
army in the Varma
they was wrapped the certificate was
wrapped in a strange wallet wonderful
rich aristocratic feel it was like a
wallet made of expensive parchment his
father says let me tell you the story
behind this wallet once I was with my
Nazi comrades and we went to destroy and
burn down a synagogue on the floor we
threw out a large scroll and we unrolled
it and it was there on the floor open
from cover to cover it was huge and I
touched it
and I felt that it's really high-quality
parchment so the Nazi officer cut out a
piece of the scroll to use as a wallet
and that wallet he used to place within
it his officer certificate later he
discovered that this parchment came from
something that was very precious to the
Jews who was there safe at Torah their
Torah scroll so he tells his son I want
you to give over this envelope to the
first drew that you're going to meet and
ask him to deliver it to the holiest Jew
in Israel and he will already know how
to use it properly so moti Doulton takes
the wallet from did live hurt so who
just got it from his father a few weeks
ago comes back to the Holy Land goes
into her by hits of Dover grouse and he
says as far as I'm concerned you're the
holiest man in this country here is the
wallet her by Grossman takes the wallet
in his hand there it was made of the
cloth made of the parchment of a Torah
scroll of a safe area the Nazi officer
fashioned a very nice wallet for himself
he was trembling he was gripped with
emotion the beautiful dovid grossman
notice that did not see cut out a piece
of torah not from the empty parchment
from the grill but from a part that had
in it letters words he realized it was
from the book of Deuteronomy
the end of parshas cassava the beginning
of parsha schnitz of him Robbie Grossman
begins to read the words inscribed in
ink on the parchment of this Nazi wallet
they were the terrifying words of the
Taj Mahal the chapter of rebuking
deuteronomy at the end of cassava in
which the traitor warns of the terrible
consequences of the Jews abandoned their
covenant with God and then on the wallet
the Turner continues to say Adam needs
of him how um Kulthum Linnea sham
allocation you are standing today before
your God Robbie Grossman turns to mati
and he says and now let me show you the
Rashi the Rashi on this verse anybody
has a homer sure yep so homage want to
read to you the Russian mystic emerged
volume 1 of the blue commercial - thank
you
he reads tamati what - thank you he
reads Tumulty what Rashi says on this
verse
optimum itself and my uncle comes up
grouchy
when the Jews heard about all of these
words of rebuke their faces became green
and they said we're never gonna survive
so moisture began to appease them and he
said Optimates of him hi i'm adam kyuman
lafawn of hey i'm kalamazoo shahu
Khayyam you are standing in front of him
today like this day that will always
endure boom ah Phil either when it gets
dark
Oh mayor sunrise happens once again cat
hair left Ambika casa de la hora loca
don't think you will ever fade away you
are like the day like sunlight it may
set but the Sun will yet rise again
that's why my she says after the rebuke
at the mitts of him how you I'm Cole
come with me I'm a location so now
imagine the scene my friends Germans
come into a synagogue they burn it they
murder all of its Jews they desecrate
the Torah scrolls
this was their routine in hundreds of
Staedtler of cities where they conquer
they entered one of them has the hutzpah
to cut off a piece and use it for his
personal wallet at last if anybody was
standing there one would say with
certainty Hitler triumphed over the Jews
Hitler triumph over the terror
katelyn triumph over the Jewish God that
was his ambition as he once said we have
to get rid of the Jewish God and his
life denying Ten Commandments six
decades pass not so long six decades
pass the wallet ends up in the hands of
a rabbi in Israel in middle amick who
has thousands of Jewish children
studying from that very Torah that was
desecrated in that particular show he
now kisses the holy parchment and he
quotes to the man who brought the wallet
from Germany the divine promise that the
Jewish people will never perish
thus in retrospect in hindsight we could
look at rebuking of in Sakai and say
terribly funny Ben Zakai thank you by
giving us a vanilla ha ha maha you
secured the Eternity of the Jewish
people and the knowledge that just as
the Sun set that will rise again
speedily in our days thank you
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