The Titanic and the Secret of Jewish Eternity - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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 [Applause] 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 [Applause] this class is brought to you by the achieve Annette please help us continue the classes make even a small contribution at triple w dot they you Shiva net / donate