The Yishai Fleisher Show: A Prayer for Prosperity in Bahrain

[Music] Shalom everybody and welcome to the chef license show broadcasting live from great chest hitting from Jerusalem to the world you're part of it wherever you are Shalom and welcome to our show which is called prosperity through peace peace through prosperity nope it's called leash I flesh the show and rabbi Mike for joins me rabbi Mike Shalom Salaam Salaam alaikum Salaam alaikum and right now as we're here in beautiful Jerusalem it's a beautiful very hot but he came back here in Israel there was raised on heat is on it's a little baekje but but I didn't beautiful Bahrain it's probably scorching it might be scorching outdoors but indoors it is so interesting I am I got to tell you something that happens when you're floating on top of a pile of a puddle of oil you can air-conditioned to your heart's right that's right that's right that's right so Bahrain is is a very wealthy because of the oil reserve now behind is an island off of Saudi Arabia and it's got a little bridge that connects to to the mainland it's ruled by a Sunni minority there's a powerful Shiite well and not powerful but a vociferous Shiite large large group there in Saudi Arabia yet they tried to make some trouble recently and they were put down old school that's the kind word for what was done okay I got no problem of that because that's the rules of the Middle East you have no problem the good put down I don't because that's the rules in the Middle East that's the rules of the Middle East and that's exactly what we're putting down we're putting down the Palestinian uprising which we've had two of them and we put it down saying no you shan't take over this place when truth is we don't really play the Middle Eastern rules because if we had truly put it down we would have done it the way the Jordanians did in the 1970s right which was then killed five thousand people exiled these people out and haven't really had much trouble since right and that's that's the way that's the way you do it here in the Middle East you may not like it sometimes people say to me like like like but wouldn't it be nice if I'm like you know what I like American style life also but that's just not the region I don't live in Midwest right and also America is 200 years old this place is 5,000 years old there's there's norms here that have been that have developed and you're not gonna change them easily let's of course add to that the fact that the people who call themselves Americans you know the sort of bulk sort of white American culture killed all the natives right and took the lab that's right that's how we forget that this whole forget about it I'm very excited about what's happening in Bahrain right now as we speak in fact I want to be done with the show and get back to watching live what's going on here not hurt by that no I don't think that personally I'm very excited about it I had a major I believe a major revelation about what's happening here I think I don't over I don't arraign yeah I don't know I grant eyes this understanding so operating right but I figured I figured something on in my head the extensible topic is the israel-palestine conflict peace through prosperity peace through press spirit that's ostensibly the issue and and the promise of potentially 50 billion dollars I think promised as a two things about that first thing as a fundraiser for the Jewish community of Cameroon I want to say that I've learned that there's a big difference between pledges and in an actual mine and when the when the dollars you know hit hit this is a very true man you slip twixt the cup in the lips right that's right okay that's one but two and you saw me say this on Twitter somebody was like the Palestinians are gonna sell out for 50 million dollars I'm like not 50 million 50 billion it's a completely different order of magnitude is a lot of money that's something to sell out for right famous line in I can't say it fully on the show since we don't cuss on the show but a famous line from from Spaceballs to movie where he says we're not doing it for the money we're doing it because it's a blink load of money okay yeah great one of my favorite lines of all time but that is all in my opinion the surface issue uh-huh the bigger issue is we've been hearing rumors for a long time about normalization between Israel and the Shiite Arab states so-called moderate or I mean the Sunni Arab Sunni Arab states not the Shiite Arab states so-called moderate Arab states I say that because they were five minutes ago not moderate today they're suddenly moderate well I mean you realize the tautology the fact that they're willing to talk to us makes them moderate right that's fine and that's fine I can live with that here's the point though they've never been able to overtly that into conference mode into into big picture mode this conference so far is I have been watching it that's what it is it's basically the Emirates the Saudis the Kuwaitis et cetera saying Egypt Egypt Egypt Jordans there Jordan Jordan I trust less but okay but let's say Egypt and the energies not long from the map that's fine they're saying look Israel's here the very fact that Israelis are in Bahrain overtly as Israelis as Israelis not like as hidden little spies although not as the government even better even better that's what the genius of the Bahrain conferences they depoliticized business which is which is a code for let's talk about real life real life instead of ideology right let's and I know it's hard for you to say the Jerusalem is Jewish so don't say that let's just talk about how people can live better but that's really a way for me to say Israel you're part of we're not going anywhere right what Israel you're not going anywhere we accept that and it's time to normalize this region and let's and here's my new concept let's end the hundred year war let's we're done with the hundred year war that's what it is it's a hundred year war basically from 1917 I said it many times ma'am I'm with you and the beauty of the opportunity here is there there's a way in which it could simply peter out instead of anyone needing to declare victory i mean so much of the the language has been coming out of palestinian leadership about dignity dignity it's a it destroys our honor if you know we accept this money as a bribe in blood guilt and all that stuff and you know it takes me back to a very hard decision that we made here in our country the argument between pagan and ben-gurion about accepting reparations from West Germany yeah right and and bacon in his classic stance it's blood money you can't take it etcetera our honor demands that we say no and then Greene said ok but I'm building a state that's everyday receiving tens of thousands of Jews real Jews right like people who needed real homes and rows and cetera and he took it and look we have a thriving right now right with regarding to that I was III see now today today I've come to understand that that in many ways though you would think the opposite in many ways I I see that the beggin outlook was warped and and it messed up in a few things yeah he was willing to not he was not willing to take what we needed and was willing to give away what we didn't need that's that I have I have some issues with Megan but this is different by the way this is there's nobody giving money here we're talking about investment in joint projects but my point was is that these this cult of honor that the Palestinian leadership claims to be to be attached to I say claims because in the end of the day it's it's a cult of power in personnel yeah this is not about Arab dignity such a shame and that's exactly what Bahrain is proving yes this whole conference makes them irrelevant exactly it's huge it's humongous and it's being done really nice I want to say I want to say always very well-dressed here it looks good yeah yeah definitely does but it's Arab good the Arabs are hosting us listen they look baby I was are saying there may be no other culture in the world that has perfected the ability to host as well as Reds yes sir lettering addresses awesome why can I get back to that I do I do it every poem and every poem I had the same common which is I should dress like this every the time by the way I do it Friday night I try I have my gala BIA oh yeah absolutely not to shul no not to shul sadly I'm too is I'm thinking in your neighborhood they might look a lil askance at that you know I'm already weird enough as it is so though they'll be like alright whatever but the bottom line is is is I think that's what's happening is huge and I think the hugeness is not in the solving of the israel-palestine conflict it's in the it's in the it's in the normalization of the Israel Arab conflict which is much broader the Palestinians so-called Palestinian cuz I want to distinguish between Palestinian Palestinian leadership the the the the the death grip of the Palestinian leadership is shrinking because of irrelevance see also because money is is not actually coming to their pockets anymore either from America I I think that the Arabs will stop funding them if they keep going in this way except for the 50 billion but the 50 billion is going to be tied to real stuff I actually foresee a lot of money coming to joint projects in Judea and Samaria well listen I'd love to see a rail road like the British a Turkish British type of railroad I'd love to see I'd love to see from Istanbul okay here we go I'm going I'm going Paris Ian here well Yakko Katz proposed it didn't he all the way out to Saudi Arabia that's right that's right you should be able to go from Istanbul through Aleppo God rested no one's gonna ever take that train who rides trains anymore all of your price trains do you're a rail okay you know you go through it through all of Europe on rail and then and then you come down you'll come down it'll be fast you'll come down through Israel through the north you'll peel off towards Mecca Medina my Mecca Medina you'll come down through it through Israel you'll go down to Cairo Alexandria etc it's gonna be awesome yeah I'm all for it that's what's gonna happen here and and I I don't know I think it's a great moment I think there are great people I think that we love to just try to destroy our great people I think that Prime Minister Netanyahu has many flaws many flaws that I can enumerate myself I think that the man has set two big goals for himself economic development of this country and diplomatic development of this country you succeed in both of those in a massive way PS right now my mother almost in tears tells me that there's a trilateral conference right now in Israel between Israel the former Soviet Union ie Russia right in the United States she said who could have imagined the 70 years ago and when we were in the Soviet Union you know 50 years ago who could have imagined such a thing yeah but you would have a trilateral implying like we're all on equal footings crazy yeah it's crazy stuff yeah so so let's do flying all of that conversation you know and you know people want to tear him down and speaking of tearing great leaders down and here I want to throw in that I want to just say that before I forget I have a lot of much more respect I have now for Jared Kushner than I did before he's pulled off something really cool and I didn't know if he was just a you know yeah well he's the son-in-law that's a different status in court you it's like it's a different status yet but I thought maybe he's just a son-in-law you know give him a job so I can do something but no he's pulled something cool off and his face was glowing yesterday on TV I son whose face was like you so happy they got a lot of heat for this I think he's doing great I really think he's doing great great stuff and people take heat and that brings us to the Torah portion that brings heat on the leader literally we've had we've had other ones we've had basically three challenges or two challenges already but this is them well there's others there's gonna be yet another one but but this is a big one I think this is the bitterest bill I didn't tell you this today's my secular birthday by the way Oh 26th they call this wave date this well yeah I like to call it you know I have two birthdays my physical body birthday that's today and then your spiritual birthday your soul's birthday that's on your Hebrew birthday as one coffee yeah so so the thing is this is a lot of times as my Torah portion and frankly as you said it's a bitter one it's not an easy turbo no for sure not it's not an easy Torah portion so what go ahead I cut you off now is this a I think it's the bitter spill because you know here we are in the rebellion co-op and we've seen all the rebellions up now we saw the sort of Golden Calf you know we can't handle it without emotion rebellion and all the other things we've said about that we saw visited the complaint along the way we even saw the spies which was like a real political rebellion but here it comes from basically within the family I mean the Levites the tribe of Lavy have been with Moshe through thick and thin through every one of those rebellions they were the ones that stuck with him wholeheartedly and now from within the most intimate camp you have a challenge not just to his leadership but to his integrity so this accusation of nepotism which is you know you're talking about the the son-in-law getting a job you know that's essentially what's driving cross-claim is that Moshiach took sort of political leadership for himself he gave the spiritual leadership to his brother he's bumping up some like nobody from that's the family to make him the Prince of the tribe of Judah and Korah who sees himself as the proper inheritor of that position now wants it all I mean I think that that this sort of rebellion from within makes it in many ways its most bitter that we've seen yet okay so the name of Torah portion is Cora that's in the book of numbers but mid bar Ted Zion which is 16 and motion Aaron had indeed this a first cousin his name is Cora Carla is a very rich man according to the Talmud absurdly rich man and he thought of himself as very important and he was a lady and he was one of the men appointed to carry the our own he was also the head of the choir the Laveen was saying in the Mishkan but all that was not enough for him he wanted more honor and he was jealous according to the Midrash of six people of Aaron of Moshe of Eleazar and Itamar and he wanted to be at least a Cohen like Aaron stone Salazar knew tomorrow he was also Joseph Noxon pentomino daav the sea of Sheva two of the tribe of Judah and also and here was the toughest one he had a younger cousin named Elsa fun who Moshe appointed as in the sea as the tribal head of key hat which is the important family in Lavy right and the tribal av Cora was from the family of Kat he was older than Elsa fun why did motion shoes also fun over me car thought he skipped over me the position of the see of the children of cat is mine by right anyway the measures goes on to say that his wife was also kind of she instigator it's the instigated him into a bad way oh my gosh and I said oh my gosh because just last night I was I was preparing for the show today and the it's very famous that the first word in our Torah portion is Vika and he took what is it that he took that's why it's famous because it doesn't actually say right right what is it that he took so so so it starts off with this phrase veikok and he took and I was wondering about this last night thinking about it what could it mean I remembered what is the claim here you Mosher are actually you have power but it's only because it's all fake it's not from God you've taken power to yourself right so you're taking the most humble man in the world whose whole gig is to lead the Jewish people through the desert to receive the Torah to the Land of Israel most explicitly that his highest dream is that all the people should have the Spirit of God like him right in other words the ultimate example of selflessness and yet he's being called selfish and I recalled that my good friend Alex Trainmen told me that that was basically what the snake told haba she's like listen he's the snake said to have a listen God told me not through it he wants he wants you to be superior to lord over you and the reason he's telling you not to eat this is cuz you can become like him he's just a guy trying to keep power for himself yeah and I was like oh my gosh that is so similar this is like the snakes suggestion and then the word vodka is just like the word when the kava takes the root that's right when she takes the fruit that's the original akika right she says to me Peter yo yeah she grabbed the food and she took it yeah he to grab the fruit yeah the fruit that says you know he grabbed that say that he went for that same grab well I mean there's a there's a deep connection here because what she did was remove herself from the divine story through her agencies okay I'm gonna go back to the book of Bracy right now but the whole essence there is that what God wanted for Ami's promised oh whoops for Humanity this stage was that we should have will and selfhood but through that will and cellphone we should be expressive of the Divine Will right and and that's how the snake was able to get kava cuz cuz he said to her like the major says it's called omens so Nate balm not though no no like you have the ability to be God and that's why God hates you because every craftsman hates their fellow craftsman and she believed him right whereas she put him on the same level that's the first thing to understand God is like me I'm like God I'm on the same level as God whoa I mean listen a we're not a craftsman a craftsman hates his fellow craftsman it's because yeah but the sages said that because they're saying that she that I'm saying the understanding is she thought that God is just like them right but there's but there's a seed of truth in it because she either knew or felt that she was created but Elemeno he sure in the image of God meaning it's it's not a complete member that's the power of the snake the snake is not never actually lies snake never actually lies the snake is able to say what you already know in a way in which it makes you do that dude it's all about reframing in narrative war for sure the snake was the original all the way I mean go back to that partial look God essentially does exactly what the snake said God would do says would become like one of us and he kicks them out of the garden this that's exactly what the snake said God but do it so go into it right now but but well he convinces Javed to do is to pull herself out of the story right I know what's right Lakeisha net and that taking of the fruit is it taking of herself as a separate entity no longer as expressive of the wholeness of the divine story zigzag Acosta's never says in our partial what Cora takes because what did he do he takes himself to the side mm-hmm right he separates himself from the story of a mystery in order to gain power I mean you gain tremendous power when able to stand from the outside the power of the cola the the critical and there's potential good nap but that wasn't his goal his goal was to stand to the side and create a real mock loket right a real argument right but there's no but here's the thing there's no creativity in that for example what happened here in Israel with Lieberman people say to me Lieberman he you see he's very powerful here I go that's a power of destruction yes that's not a real power real power is creativity and that's what real power comes from with a two step mom I mean creativity by the way not like drawing a nice picture I mean the organization well in creativity comes from stepping outside I mean that's why we have this struggle has got outside creations God within creation the the the real creativity comes from stepping outside and then re-entering relationship it's a two-step move that be call it that critical vision the ability to not just be stuck in what is but to imagine what might be but definition means you step outside but you have to be committed to what is in order to be truly creative so you step out and then you step back in mmm-hmm right and that's a difference by the way we say it COFF is the archetype of mewho coach a knowledge immature mind it's an argument which is not for the sake of heaven as opposed to you know Hillel and Shammai the great rabbinic masters who were the archetype of argument for the sake of habit right but another way to say that another way if you want to take out the word sake of heaven is wake and replace them which is an argument for the sake of creativity building the world or for the sake of destruction well but do you understand what underlies the real difference well I realize the real difference I'll put you this way why was the Second Temple destroyed mclogan right right it was an argument so how could it be that that very sense of mclogan becomes the foundation of rabbinic culture right it's a fantastic move that the rabbis made by convincing us that there's one critical ingredient to make Michael creative is it has to come within the context of a commitment that we live in one world as soon as I believe I can divide the world that I can have my world and you can have your world right then it just becomes destructive because then it's mine or yours as opposed to real Michael ugly shame of mine which is like wow the world is bigger than you or me I've got my portion in it you've got yours right and and therefore I need you to be you because I can never have your portion if I want the world to be in its fullness truly creative and rich and unbounded then it comes from belief that I am now I have to agree with you on the contrary I will argue with you because I am right right but I am right in the context of knowing that that the overarching reality of the world contains us both the truth is larger than either of us and then and that in order for me to thrive and survive I need you to do as well that's what I think mccrane's about a little bit I I hope so yeah for sure believe it could be about you you know what and I and I I feel okay that that I'll be a little bit over optimistic I'm okay with please do because I I'm a little bit too skeptic I think that something is good and good is happening here I see a lot of potential yeah my and not necessarily to solve the israel-palestine oh no which is one of the part of the genius series is back you fiend right let's just like work around we're gonna do a bracket I was like why are we going to Bahrain what's in Bahrain I was like I didn't even know the capital of Bahrain I didn't know what that city was yeah I'm like and then I looked at I'm like [ __ ] looks nice this is a golf thing yeah this is like the real Arabs you know the Arabs from Arabia yes lets me forget that the ones that aren't in Arabia are colonists right from Arabia Jews from Judea it's that's just simple by the way ever I've lopped off I've laughs I finally did it I was like you know being in the snow called house bra or house bra whatever that's Bragg's I make myself laugh on my birthday anyway you know world I used to say Judea and Samaria Judea Samaria I've now finally locked off the Samaria part I just called Judea Jews are from Judea the whole thing is Judea I'm like yeah well we're not Samaritans forget it I'm not worried about it a good bad or otherwise yeah you got it you got to know when to cut in in in lay in language battles you got to know what to cut some pressure for example Palestinians always the power right Palestinians like okay I'll use that word people do people like I could use that word oh my cuz it's a group that self-identifies as powerless things I could live with it I agree with you that it's not the Israel you know it for example tiny thing for example on Twitter I don't write Palestinians all right pally mm-hmm which means Palestinian but it's different ways because it's a little bit different it a little bit yeah you know it's a tiny difference like zeros Zayat what's his ire one of those neo-nazi terms for Jews oh you know but oh I like when they use the Israel occupation for the Zionist occupation forces the zio dog 0eg scientist occupation government you know about dinos Zionists and name only do you know about those folks I may have met so it's like a rhino which is a Republican name in name only but this is a as I know that's that's people like you know that claim to be pro-israel but are actually not in any case let's get back to it joy join us on Twitter Jewish story yes at Twitter and myself don't learning I did a little bit of back and forth this week you probably yeah yeah I was trying to learn I'm watching you I know I saw I'm watching you [ __ ] your moral support and know you're on my what I do is whenever I follow on I follow a lot of people but what I do is I make do you know about this like you can make all of somebody's tweets like jump up and appear on your phone oh you don't have it on your phone anyway like I I like so I I troll people basically I might roll you but I'm a holy troller holy troller okay fine here we go let's get back to it we just get to the first verse so it's the most important one yeah Cora Cora okay when in a bad way and and then and then basically taken what's he taking and basically he's going to his first claim is you've taken too much to yourself everybody's holy God is inside wide ooh why are you haughty and lord over the rest of the people the godly people my parents when they see this kind of thing immediately they're like communists yeah he's a commie okay that's what they're like you're going to serve the people or to the people to the people which would ya I'm Tarek once were a power to the people means power to me and some of my friends right this is so so uh although I don't want to miss even in that first line the risk of dragging you back there's a very important message here yeah if it says it wasn't just cause it adds that um Gavi ROM and banana alpha Odin move aiming where all these people Rashi is quick to point out we're all his neighbors remember we had that all these intents are the articles all these best part about the layout of the camp and and and these are all cross neighbors and this is a very important insight from the stages on this oiler Russia or Latino right like nebith to the evil person and you know what just as bad to his neighbors you've gotta be careful out there people you know like you cannot separate yourself from your environments in its entirety or or let's say in a different way be cautious to put yourself in good therefore was the next right to make sure that you surround yourself I remember a certain stage early in our marriage when my wife I were trying to figure out where to live and we have very different I think general world views on particularism in universalism I said at this stage of my life I need to live somewhere where my values are going to be reflected back to me right in every direction that I turn right and I'm gonna manage of a different stage but not now right and that's by the way the ultra-orthodox the her ad outlook which is create a society that reflects those values even if I'm gonna live with certain warped lies meaning sound I'm gonna create certain things that you won't be like out and sometimes it becomes extreme yeah wouldn't women out of foot photographs in your newspaper or can I actually vent on that for sex or where they do these came mom on when I actually do vandalism and damage by like erasing stuff on the sides of buses like I understand how it could be that the cultural impetus that they don't want to look at a woman's face permits them to actually violate the Torah right right that's the me that is the sign that something is going off the rails okay but the but the major but but the important thing to understand about that is that when you're trying to homogenize the world around you in order to reflect those values okay you can come to those negative conclusions but I won't also want to want to see it in a positive light which is to understand what is there how do they live to create the next generation of followers you create a world around you that reflects your stuff uses imagine I don't know that I necessarily agree with you on that one I mean it depends on one thing I want to tell you you want to reflect I today and I think that the religious Zionist world I nurse from the world of the ultra-orthodox what I mean I'll give one simple example radio stations the ultra-orthodox radio stations play Jewish music talk about Judaism and the DAF Yomi and they just do a great job better than the one single religious Zionist radio station which does an okay job but the but the Heredia radio stations are what I put on in the car when my kids are in the car with me and we're not and what they're not I listened to Gentile music no no I know then I listened to news really and and I you know and news is something which is a problem if they're talking about the rape of a seven-year-old girl on the radio I don't want my 11 year old girl to be like what are they talking about we had that conversation there was like okay well I wasn't ready for that yet maybe maybe it was I've never choice right in age daughters okay so I put on the the the Oh yo yo music you know I mean and we really enjoy it like this my sometimes I have to translate to them from Hebrew to Hebrew Omer Akiva Ummah Turkey ever I shouldn't let me through it they didn't know what I'm saying I had to explain them with what they were saying anyway all right fine here I can we go in now okay right that's absolutely right so he so he incorporated into his rebellion all kinds of other disenchanted yes as is always true right leadership people will flock that's what happens look at the left today here in Israel ripping the Bahrain conference I'm like aren't you guys pro-peace aren't you guys telling us to normalize relations with the Arabs all day long right why would you be against this oh because it doesn't happen in the way we want right and because you're just on the other team yeah I'm going to right after this I'm going to Jaffa to i-24 to go for an hour and they don't know that I'm actually going to be defending the Korean conference and there but anyway it's gonna be a lot of fun so so we're gonna be we're gonna be there today any case he gathers all these people there's 250 people and there's different and this tar portion is famous that it's a tad confusing about the various who and who's what but the ringleader is Cora then he's got 250 people with him he convinced 250 men to join him amongst them were than to see him according to some some of the heads of the tribes Carl also persuaded a guy named own he's an important man from Sheva driven to take his side he later back out of that course began to speak against Moshe and also of course the two famous troublemakers Titano Navi ROM who were waiting for such an opportunity they're always looking for right they're looking to rip you off the the current leadership right okay the people are revolted right so right the deplorable right in any case once again the Midrash says that they really did a whole effort to get people involved by by throwing lavish parties and get and get them into the story it's kind of a political campaign it's a political campaign there's special dinners and here's one of the famous so moses is trying very hard to assuage the people calm them down put guys the soft approach right diplomacy and he says he says his in it haven't you guys been blessed so much you're a Levite and now you're asking also to be priestly isn't it you in fact who's doing a push for power that announced that word right baby which I've never really known which okay I'm sure I said it on the air I think two weeks ago and I was like it's a weird word you know mother you can Google how do I say and it'll give you actually sure of course I Google just this morning I try to figure out what the word gaslighting means I didn't exactly understand explain it do it maybe another no I got it it means life to change really nice well done what that okay that is for you that was good so he says and then he says why are you revolting and he says what is this is a famous line for our own ma houki Toledo love what is and the kabbalists go nuts on this word ma ma like what are you mem hey and all that like we are nothing when it comes up again you know God right my my MOT your ma no right that's what Moshe says am I not right right right what are what what what are we meaning to say what are we and I can hear what it really says is folks were just created beings with players on the stage of God God decided these things I certainly didn't do it from my own heart I would have gone on vacation in Oklahoma in in Montana Wyoming I don't know somewhere out there well my wife is from Texas I said Oklahoma but any case no no no boo I oming whatever it is I would have been out of here I would have parks are very nurse I would if I were truthful II he would have gone to Kenya we know that he's from Africa you know he went to hang out there in any case but I want to just hit there for a second because the power of MA as the Kabbalists see it is really the essence of motion because it's the power of leadership which comes from stepping out of the way they they they they cough ma is is the rearrangement of the words of Kaufman of course we associate with Moshe what Moshe is essentially saying is they are on me God you [ __ ] right it's God stupid like have you seen all this music you think I could have done this I could have split the see II think I could have brought down those place I'm bringing them on like like right there's something dumb about that yes like what do you mean that's right God and once it's God I don't mow right but right and and and also the right this this claim that we're trying to hold power to the preposterous claims but it's also a deep message what's a real source of power how to harm get to waste it because it wasn't just an arbitrary choice on God's behalf no because remember that the moment that arm becomes a Cohen was way back the first time wish was on Sinai and partial smote by himself and he says no to God right why does he know cuz he's worried that our own will be jealous of him right and God says don't and your brother he's gonna see you and he's gonna be happy and that's the moment guys it's fine I was gonna make you the Cohen Moshe I'm gonna make our own why because he says my own aren't doesn't one thing for himself right and and now Moses is going to call dot on in our V ROM and they said we shall not go up in Easter we shall not come out of our tent even to speak with you he comes down to speak with them right they don't want to come out of the tent they turned their back on Moses yeah and this is this is a there's there's a horrible progression of you took us out of Egypt and there was good food down there okay you didn't bring us into it this is a land of milk and honey but you didn't bring a sort of better to have died in the wilderness right and now it is the the epitome of all reversal of narratives isn't it enough that you've taken out of us out of a land of milk and honey to kill us in the desert now you're gonna rule over us and you still rule is that is that what it is we need to say the full reversal is that was a land of milk and honey you forced us out of there and and and to kill us in the desert I mean it's it's like it's really it's really in some ways the most painful of verses because it's a total reversal of the hold the whole story as much as it pains I have to say that this voice exists within the sort of pose lioness deconstructive narrative in our country right now yes like once upon a time when we lived in Baghdad right everything was good right and then of these Zionists came along and I don't hear that so much oh you've never you don't listen to the right people you know obviously MS know Irish name is a in the world's eyes major is norian one of the so called new historians entirely his narrative he calls the the Mizrahim like especially that his own community from Baghdad the second victims of Zionism Oh which is which is you see the sickness of the need to maintain victim status like that's the only righteousness in in the eyes of the postmodern world but um this is exactly the image that's been painted is that they know wasn't Zionists who actually tried to create a haven for the suffering Jewish people of the world and in gather the exiles like no no everything was good we were in a good place for you came along and you now you're just trying to manipulate doesn't rule over there you go precisely you don't may not hear it but it's being said out there and it's coming through by the way in the progressive American Jewish world which is basically saying why would we fall for you we know exactly what you did you you ruined it for all those people for whom life was good just so you could rule over them and indeed you did not bring us to a land of milk and honey continued that town of ariram and you've not given us any inheritance the eyes of those people should be gouged out we shall not go up that's that's I mean then be fighting words then be fronting words you know yeah most doesn't want to fight that's the sad part I can't I can't believe it right we're gonna see that we're gonna actually see take care we're gonna see this at some point the the Moses Ian falling on the face it gets a little it's like dude you gotta react and we're gonna a little fight fire we're gonna get some fire that's right we're gonna get some fire back and and then it said this is interesting it says and and and it got it was very bad Moses got very angry and then Moses says something very unusual he says do not turn to their to their prayers to their to their offerings I have never stolen a donkey from them I've never done anything bad to them and the word donkey by the way sometimes we used the word huh more uses the word donkey but it also has the word stuff matter yeah I've never I've never the the modern English is I've never taken my thing I've never taken a thing from the right any from these guys I've never I've never in any way hurt them not about okay so now this is an interesting thing this is so now he's turning to a difference that's what he says about those guys to the difference of the two fifty says okay guys listen you want to be a Kohanim now no problem bring tomorrow your 250 people bring 250 fire pans and and Aaron's gonna light a fire pan okay wait this is one of my favorite lines okay you know I know she'll cross you and all your people tomorrow in front of God in the morning it's funny to me is that they listened to him she beat the other guys the two other guys down on of Ihram I respect them because they went all the way against they're like we don't even want to talk to you you're not I'm not talking to you I'm not listening to anything of yours and and they curse him the other guys that want power when Moses Moses says to them come tomorrow you know at high noon through the showdown within the showdown with with the fire pants they're like okay well that's because they're ideologues they actually believe that they're right right okay all right it's interesting but you see that they still in in in a sense why they're going to get a lesser punishment they're all gonna fry but but the lesser punishment is is that they're respected and their fire pans are in the end going to become part of the altar or stand as a reminder and a warning yes but also they had there was still a higher level to them than being swallowed up in the ground that's we're gonna see later and alive in yeah I'm just saying there's something about them which which at least like back back to the golden calf at least they wanted to serve God and at least they actually heard Moses and we're like okay if that's the showdown like there's a higher level of the showdown so showdown that's right you are tomorrow and and this is there's another famous showdown in the Torah with with fire coming down from God and this is very reminiscent of that Elijah's story um alright so they in the end of the second book yet no I did not I did not and I've been chastised by my own wife I let her do it yeah that's right this is just like this week's Torah portion there you go that's right so in any case this is a little bit confusing so they took their their fire pans and they put the Keturah the the incense the Katori on it and they stood outside the the them and in Moses and Aaron outside of the tent of meeting and also Korah and his folks came outside and this is the showdown and God's glory is coming down on the whole on the whole congregation and God says to Moses okay step back okay take a step back stay back stay back Matic because something's gonna happen here okay and then there's a very famous line which appears twice in the Torah and they fell on their faces and they said God the spirit of all flesh should one person sin and you're gonna destroy the whole or be angry at the whole congregation yeah and the simple level what it means is distinguish god you're a distinguishing gun right you know don't don't judge at all and we have a concept that when when when when a bad judgment comes out even good people can be swept into it okay yeah when when death come a-knockin you could easily get swept into it that's in part the miracle of the firstborn in Egypt which is like we didn't get swept into it but we had to take acts to separate ourselves for you that's why there's a whole emphasis of painting the doorpost cetera and here it's separate yourselves separate yourselves you stand back this is gonna be messy right so move back from Korah and the ton of of Iran and and so and and so then instead of is interesting it says move away from them the next verse says and Moses went towards them he goes to the town of ariram and the the elders go after him Mary tries him one last chance maybe tries to give him one last chance and then he actually turns around and he says to the people move away from maybe he goes down there in order to separate the people that's as you said before the neighbors here away from these people and don't touch anything of theirs everybody moved back from Cork the town of Iran but the town of your arm stood this time they didn't come out they stood proverbially with her hands folded at the opening of the tents them their wives and their children yes meaning to say defiance oh yes defiance all the way this is I find that the reason that we see this in last week's parsha with Marah glim with the spies who yet again reverted and doubled down on their positions what the tourists trying to tell us is even at the last moment there's a chance for you to choo-choo VII and say no I'm sorry I was wrong and the fact and they didn't mean he said they went they double down which tells us also when we lose our cool when we eat the the the muffin that we weren't supposed to eat don't double down and say okay I'll eat the next muffin or I'll do it again don't give yourself I had to learn that look if you did sin that's one thing but repent come back from it pull back yeah the two separate problems one is the initial act which was wrong the second is the refusal to accept that you've done something right right and we've talked about this so many times is that there's a psychology that wants to elevate our our sins into ideologies right right in and it could be idolatrous in the sense of like literally worship right or can just be self-justifying and we see you know that that my one of my favorite sayings is that faced with the impossible and the unacceptable people will take the impossible right you know because the unacceptable involves reassessing what you believe in admitting failure and changing whereas the impossible just keeps inserting but no no it's gonna happen I know it hasn't happened the last eight times it's gonna happen this time like in in it's it's a psychology that's bound up within an unwillingness to accept one's own shortcomings and it doesn't leave good places as we see here yeah yeah you know and that's that's a mark of uh the mark of a human of a great human being is not that he doesn't fall that it gets back up after he falls which necessitates or shaping failure first okay so they instead they stood outside of their tents defiant and now Moses says remember that accusation you said about me before that was all for me now you're gonna know it's not for me that all these things are not from my heart literally if they die a regular death then God did not send me it's like a double negative if they died a regular death God did not send me however if a new creation shall be created and the end the earth shall open up its mouth and it swallows them and they'll go down alive my father used to get scared from this verse they would go down alive to H double hockey sticks right and like a she doubled stocky sticks if they go down to show show lies like it's the pit it's the pit you know reminds me of the Greek what do they call it over there the River Styx Hades I don't think you know what I think of this scene I remember forget which one of the Star Wars movies where they throw them into the mouth of the sand creature yes or dune Doosan worm comes up just yes yes yes the sound creature that's right you're gonna go down alive why cuz they made they made God angry when when he finished speaking these things that the earth is a mercy and death right it's sort of why I sing that because that's why they're gonna go down alive uh-huh uh-huh well a rabbis actually say that when they go down the reason they're alive is because they proclaim and and then the Talmud even talks about that people heard these voices in different places that they proclaim that God is just and his justice is just well that we have we have Psalms written by Bonet Cora right and in the sons of korah sons of korah right so they said the Miller says that the sons of korah supposed everybody else here the last minute repent there's various stories about it and so God like gives them like an island or like a little platform a little platform so they're like still there right singing the praises of God alive but not like in the pit that's right the other made wrench is is that when the mouth opened up and they certainly their tents and stuff being fell in sync right but then any object that they owned across the camp flew in so if you had borrowed a pot oh yeah it fly out of your tent and went in there a needle there were needles for the girls that's right you got to be careful the flying needles here needle crossing and and anything would just was just like like their whole their whole anything that they touched was erased except that cork got a whole tour Porsche named after him notice that that's Jay so he's easy as a rather important descendant that's right we'll get to that in a second so they all went down alive to to the nether worlds the earth closed and they were erased from the congregation there's different words here by the way a da kaha yeah a lot of different words here and it's interesting why that is in any case so but everybody but instead of being everybody will be like like down and down in the story of Elijah where people are like God is the king people here instead we're like and then and then a fire comes out and the two hundred fifty a pan in his horse offerors incinerated I think they're I think their souls not their bodies unclear I think that their bodies also didn't get burnt but I think I think the thing I like to just picture that there's nothing left but smoking copper just picked all those pants yeah oh yeah so yep anyway they got zapped from this fire cactus to Moses okay little thing happened here so why don't you pick up all of the fire pans after they cool down that's my guy we're use gloves okay because here's here's some weird stuff because they were sanctified so that's what I meant to say to you yes there's a vote I hear it it's a different level than getting swallowed and erased yes because guys get erased that's correct those guys completely pull themselves out they they were glorifying Egypt right these other people just wanted to be in charge of the surface of God right and they're different and so and so they get a complete one's better which one's worse we could have arguments about it but I hear your point in the water is valuable they get a better thing than those guys it's like it's like the Tomlin will argue at nauseam about different levels like which death do you get this death or dis death now you're just getting death no there's like listen my point is this is they the the absolute rebellion in a certain point offers a complete alternative to the worship of God there's a deeper struggle on some level that happens if you claim to actually have the proper worship God from within there's a zone problematic in that right that's what I'm saying but to me there's a there's a difference between let's call two kinds of sins sin to the calf where you want to go while and what is that that could be worse it actually corrupts the thing itself as opposed to breaking away and trying to do something else there's a problem in that yeah yeah okay your argument is good good good okay so so did he does take these things and he makes them into a covering for the altar and it says as a memorial forth for the children of Israel so that you shouldn't bring a strange fire that is not from the from the children of an urn by the way there is a similarity here to the sons of Aaron who brought a strange fire that story kinda keeps going here and here Aaron's honored but it doesn't stop really exactly there this this is the one I don't well that's we're not quite done yet because because the people are in a complete and absolute state right well you know you would also if there was an earthquake people were swallowed other people too or 50 people fiery yeah you're gonna get upset about these things it's really I don't know that I would turn on Moshe at this point right right it seems like a bad move okay although I have to tell you before we get there that's what happens right the people turn on motion the people turn on motion and they say to him you you here's a bad one you are killing God's people right so so the depth of this I'm on the surfacers does make any sense it's like wait you're first are you repeating the sin of that time I'm in [ __ ] like why would you do I just saw the consequences second of all most of the whole time has been trying to stop this rebellion and in the end and listen they got what they were seeking but I can tell you my experience as a as a counselor with at-risk youth actually tells me the entire tooth of what this story's about here because I remember once I was on a river trip and thunderstorm came in rapid we're out in the water you'd think I'm in charge right so I start giving commands and looking to do this that so a normal person in that situation does what they listen to whatever I tell them to do because sure I am the source of their safety right but if you're emotionally disturbed you know you do don't tell me what to do you don't know what to happen or not your fear sort of warps your ability to deal in a rational fashion with the situation this is the indication that the people are still slaves apart right right there disturbance is so deep that the rational thing of saying the motion like wow okay we get it know is out the window there's such a panic now that the only thing they can do is turn on motion mm-hmm which is it which is to me is heartbreaking you see at this point that none of them can go right then God says yet again all right God on my way get out my way I'm gonna strike them down we just the Jews I'm not it doesn't even say I'll make you into something just just get out of my way just get out of the way cuz I'm cuz I've had enough Oh also like you know we have a way basically we have a we're not allowed to use the name of God so flippantly and it's like you are killing the people of God so you're using God's people name to point a finger at Moses it's all backwards it's also backwards so so then so then they fell on their faces because God says I'll destroy the Jewish people I'll eat them instantly however Moses turns to Aaron and he says take yet again take a fire pan with incense and go quickly to the people and absolve them intervene for that intervene for them because I know that that God's wrath has come come out and is and it is beginning to indeed kill people there's a plague a fire plague and this is a this is a fascinating verse which I've told you I told you I think two years ago that I think it could be should have been made into a painting Ram branch should have right like a type of Rembrandt Rembrandt is kind of too still for that it would be an action kind of artist which is Aaron takes the by the way look at that word what's the word Vica mm-hmm okay same word as the first word in the Torah portion okay this guy there's different these are different takers okay he took to wreak Cora he takes to save and to build and he takes this fire pen he runs as opposed to going quickly what Moses said but you could see that there's just a little bit more annoyance that Moses has with the people than Aaron and it has more love for the people in general and he says and so Moses told them go quick but Aaron runs that little change shows you a little difference if we cut our own cuz show the emotion of a Yahtzee ran into the into the breach into the breach maybe I could call the nameless show into the breach I like that and they had so many meetings miss right right and and the thing is is that he risked his life and we have to understand that you're going into a play going into a fire and in it and it's again a prince of which is even a righteous person can we Swift up and indeed people are dying and and and he and he likes the the fire pan and he does copper on what we call that expectation tone meant for the people and then it says beautifully via Ahmad Boehner make team a benefit settlement if I he stood between the living and the dead with his fire pan and the plague stopped okay and I think fifteen thousand people died in this plague by you my team but magnify a bicep forty 14750 M yeah it's a lot okay so so that was really the the like so it was like death led to death let to death yes is total breakdown your Bacchanalia over there just wild stuff and this is why this portion is so there's something in the story portion which is just unusual and that's the next section and I want to tell you that I remember very well where I learned this Torah portion I was in I told you this a year ago or two years ago I was in Amsterdam right after college I was I went to hang out with my good friend Ari Silverman who was a listener to the show Oh Ari Silverman my brother who was in yeshiva with me and was living in Amsterdam working in Amsterdam at the time and and I was learning the Torah portion Amsterdam is famous for a lot of stuff some some a bit off colors but some very beautiful thing else canal's and frank van Gogh and Frank etc legalization of certain things whatever the point is is that there's but it's a beautiful beautiful beautiful town but there's one more thing that you might not associate but it is actually very famous and that is flowers yes flowers Amsterdam is very famous for its flowers and its flower market and and then I was learning this Torah portion and this Torah portion this next section is about that okay everybody we had the whole death thing now people are like and there's been many proves that Aaron is the chosen priest High Priest but this next section says God says to to Moses tell the children of Israel take a staff for each one of the heads of the tribes 12 staffs write your name on the staffs and then write the name of Aaron on one of the staffs on the staff off of Levite and put them in in the pretense of meeting and the person that I shall choose his staff will flower and thereby I will show forever the show forever and throw doubts throwing doubts in the complaints so they're like okay so they give Andy these twelve staffs then put him in the tent of meeting in the morning they come back and indeed Aaron's staff flowered to the house of Levi and the Lavy and and and it was had the flower of and the flower of the almonds and it gave an almond fruit and he takes out all the staffs and he gives it people saw it and they took it to me this is like a like a what it's we were talking we were talking fire and death and blood here never like take a flower all right guess you're right that's impressive up to now it wasn't really so sure right things are being swallowed you must be the wide right but the deeper level you know the stick that is dry it out that's what these people are saying you know we're try it out we don't have any strength and this is a reminiscent of chapter what is it 35 or 36 36 I think in in the Book of Ezekiel the dry bones right it's like there's no way we could be reborn through all this death and all this stuff that we face no see you're dry staff is actually alive I can give rebirth to this to this rod to these people this is the way to go this is and flower what does the flower present it's beautiful like a pregnant woman is beautiful mmm bearing fruits but as bearing fruit and I think it's part of the general sort of package of lessons of leadership that comes from this parsha which is that listen it's true that the fear and the lights in the show and the drama can go pretty far in leadership at the end of the day real leadership comes when you can show people a path which is life-giving in bears fruits right it goes back to the Torah portion of sloth which is which is Kyani I'm alive right there's life guys there's life here right I want to give you life and ultimately that is what people whatever I've always wondered why it why it didn't become a more Jewish symbol like the staff with a flower coming out of it it's interesting question and I would have thought that it would be a beautiful Jewish symbol it's good yeah and speaking of symbols it is it is also good the Torah is gonna tell us that at the end this is going to be part of some of the things that are kept in the Ark or next to the ark so you can have the flowering staff and it's gonna be perpetually flowering right right especially like when it was like plastic fake plant flowers right maybe maybe now that I think about it right maybe now I think about it it's another answer to the burning bush there's a fire and the bush doesn't get eaten there's a staff it can turn into a snake you can turn back but I just want you to know past that that's the fire and the snake there's a flower yeah that's a beauty to this world it brings my mind the Midrash that says that that all of our scene I burst into bloom right when when God spoke out the 10 commandments like fiery and thunder and lightning and the voice of God you hear your dad look impressive and all that but in the end of the day what people will follow and what really makes them push through all the difficulties is not fear and and threatened drama right it's the sense that there's life on the other side and maybe that's what I'm trying to say about Bahrain which is like the end of the Hundred Years War and let's this is not you know in the end the left is trying to sell this is like look the journey like like just like dude well you know the reality is is a person has as much dignity as they decide they have meaning meaning who's to say that the most dignified act right now wouldn't what the most glorified Arab leader ever wouldn't be the one who steps forward and says okay see this this is the sword we're burying it yes we need your help to rebuild our economy in our in our and and get our culture back on its feet after a hundred year war yes I am able to accept that fact right and yes I'm gonna devote my life to building a better world for my children and yours okay you can't be more dignified than that that's right and it's it's this false cult of Honor which which is feeding a lot of people in their own power that is standing in the way of peace at this point right I don't even use the word peace it's it's seven way of life it's real life and it's I actually I actually think that the III had there's many things on this whole bar anything that I've been very impressed with also the slogan of it it's peace through prosperity you know there's something there's something something very beautiful about that really any case that is the the last narrative part of the Torah portion and then and then there is some legal sides to it and I just want to read a little bit about that because I think it's very important that after car argued against the cornea shunt Hashem told Moses well Shara Bey know I'll make an agreement with Aaron and his descendants in which I promised them 24 different gifts right okay mana that's right this tour calls this the breat Mela a treaty of salt just a salt never decomposes so to this treaty lasts forever 24 gifts must be given by the Jews to the core name and here are some of them when a Jew offers a core bond he must an offering he usually has to give a part of it - according to eat the coin him also receive a portion of korbanot offered by the entire community korbanot zaboor every week twelve fresh loaves of the of showbread lekha mapa name were put on the shore on the twelve loaves were then taken off and given to the core name if a Jew in the time of the beta mukesh slaughtered a domestic animal to eat its meat not a core bond just to eat yet to give three parts of it to the to the coin the draw the right shoulder the the jaws and the stomach if the Jews kosher domestic animal had a firstborn he gives it to the Kohan the coin brings it to the bait to make - part of the animal is burnt on the Me's Beth and party keys for himself if a Jew has a firstborn son I didn't have him for his born son but if you do my brother then a baby must be redeemed with money we do this to this very day the money's given to the Kohan these silver coins were given today's beautiful beautiful ceremony a Jew who owns fields vineyards or olive yards or orchards must give a part of their produce to a coin the portion he takes out of the coin is called true MA the Hakka meme taught that the true the the sages taught that the true man should be at least one sixtieth of once produce it could be one fiftieth or 140 ahthe Paola when a Jew bakes dough he must give a part of it to the Cohen today we burn it up but hopefully we'll we'll we'll fix that up soon very soon by all of us right what just as a Shem and and in general we basically there's one more aspect of it there's a few more aspects but just as a Shem has an agreement with corn Amy also had an agreement with the Levine the Levites receive a gift from Tyrell after giving true moto coin a Jew must separate one tenth of all his grain fruit and vegetables after the first gift of true ma and vegetables and give it to a levy this tenth is called master the lady must take one tenth of what he received and give it to a Cohen the portion he gives the corn is called true Matt Muenster okay I want to push a little bit on the translation you're giving to breed here which is like agreement or contract and I'll point out that a breed properly translated we say is a covenant it has a contractual element which is what you're pointing out I mean the Laveen in the calling you have a lot of work to do and as such in the temple they can't be out in their fields or with flocks and in the pastures and that's the sort of contractual element that's happening here is that God says you work for me and I'll have the people pay you but there's a deeper element to covenant beyond contract and the covenantal element is it's an entering into a relationship which will allow you become the person that you couldn't otherwise be right that's why marriage is a covenant their contractual elements to marriage like I'll do this and that and said oh you'll do this and that and that's important not dismissing it at all but the deeper you don't enter into marriage in order to have a good secure contract entering the marriage because they believe there's someone they can't be until they're married so in the same way the client even Olivia may represent that element within um Israel which is able to flower when it's freed from the obligation of labor in the fields and the pastures that spiritual element that is meant that is possible in all human beings the Rambam or later say that anybody wants to devote themselves to God he's able to achieve that status buddy it's critical why because it goes back to why our own not everybody flowers and blossoms becomes a tremendous spiritual servant of God when you free them up from the obligation of work many people will sit on the couch and flip through the channels right right and and so part of what we're seeing here is God's deep belief that by entering into a covenant with our in a little beam that they will be able to come become that portion of a ministry which is so critical to its spiritual mission and it's something that we as a people God after all cause I'm like anima a nation of the colony before Sinai we should think about what would happen if peace comes what will we do with all that energy that we've devoted thank God to building and fighting and being secure now's the time to think about it what is our vision of bringing our full potential to the world because if God's gonna bless us right now out of this Baja rain conference or wherever and please let it be soon let it be now that we're not looking to get sort of an easy life Tommy's trail is looking to get an easy life I Got News for you it ain't gonna end well if we're looking to free our energies in order to fulfill our divine mission well then I can imagine how this would all play out positively and I think there's a very important piece of why covenants not just a contract but is really an opportunity to become that which you couldn't be otherwise beautiful all right so you're saying that that breed is really about about becoming that which you could be the marriage the marriage example is a very powerful example you really really become something else the contractual lays a ground right I guess right so I just want to finish off this long tour portion is that there's a discussion about about about really Hashem choices and basically the question is why do you think that a ship does not know how to pick the best people for himself we're not even the best whatever he wants this is also about our lives so many times really disappointed that we're not there we're not there and it's a it's a flaw in faith you ought to be burying right now it would have been nice after I would have more one of those dresses after all he what he called him gala BIA after all he seems not only the outside of a person but could see the inside of each one's heart if he chooses someone for himself there's a good reason for it so rabbi Yeshua taught six things were chosen by Hashem they'll Cohen aim to be the holiest in the Bates Mick - they love iam to help the core name the Jewish nation to be holier than other nations the family of David to be Kings forever the city viewers shall I'm to be a Shems holy city and the beta Mick - to be a Shems dwelling place these are like fixed points right fix point on relationship variation well you could go crazy and try to fight it but these are things that they might be in part a little bit hidden or maybe today more revealed than for a long time yeah and I would say you can if you come to your salon you know that it's the holy city right but I would say what the challenges is that God chose these things and then gave it over Tommy's rail to make sure fulfill them exactly that they're exposed in the right but yes yes but but that they're exposed you didn't right now that they exist right these are these are pillars yeah these are pillars so the core name the holy sin the bank - we don't quite have that today Levine to be the help the core name we have just memories of these things reminders of this huge nation to be holier than other nations I think we have that family of David to be forever gotta live up to it but I think I think we often do not always the family of David to be Kings forever hidden the city of your shalad to be ashame holy city working more revealed than than in the last two thousand years and the beit hamikdash to be hashem holy dwelling place that's on the agenda later in the day in bahrain okay they'll be working on that maybe not but in any case those are fixed points in the world rabbi mike for thank you so much i know that us doing the show and your other shows our fixed points for people's lives to get closer to Hashem that's a great honor I want to tell you folks personally when I go to sleep at night I think two things I say thank you God for my family thank you God for living in Eretz Israel and thank you God for having any role in your great time and great revelation and to be at any on any level a soldier a player in in this time and that is something that we really I think we should be very thankful for and I feel sad for all the people who see it as a dark time a bad time and don't understand what an incredible like like gift it is to be alive in this time a 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of the internal uncensored with Josh hasting the New England Patriots arrived in Israel here exclusive interviews from Julian Edelman Drew Bledsoe Ty Law and more what does it mean for you to be in Israel actually see American football it's pretty heartwarming to come out here and have all these Raley fans screaming your name it's such an amazing combination of brand-new and very old and the soulfulness spirituality here for more coverage of the touchdown in Israel event in Jerusalem listen to Israel uncensored on the Land of Israel network at the Land of Israel calm [Music] alright folks we're back here on the chef Licia show broadcasting live this half from Judea Shalom and welcome to Mount conflation Shalom Shalom welcome welcome to you onto the show and welcome the show to your home Thank You Monica thank you very much well you sure I'm happy to have the show here because in a few days I'm gonna have a lot more here that's right yeah just the show why is that because I'm gonna have my three children here all the time because it's gonna be summer vacation right so called summer vacation because it also entails what they mean is summer parent work time that's right so and and and but our kids are going to be in various camps for the first like month and a half is that right so one of the things that I think but is very good about Israel is the acknowledgment basically that Israeli society has that many many women are working yeah and that they need some kind of a like situation to help them with their kids while they're doing that so for example take like childcare from the age of six months even less all the way up till the age of three is either can can be either well third grade like pre-k or whatever for three-year-olds is free already in Israel that that started even when our daughter Leia but seoane was little so we actually paid for pre-k when she was three but then when our next kid was three we already weren't paying for a pre-k but also like daycare for children is like either heavily subsidized or very affordable for working mothers and also included in that is summer camp everyone understands that moms can't actually be home with their kids for three months in the summer time so there's another month that you can pay basically a little bit more money and have your child involved in like another month of like a school slash camp mixture so our son our three year old Easter L he'll be going to school camp mixture but and the our older son Eleazar he was eligible for some more school camp mixture for his school but instead of that I'm signing him up for Taekwondo camp that's right with his sister who is not eligible for a school camp mixture because she is already too old for that program that Taekwondo camp but what makes they sweat but they also go it's not just Taekwondo which they all they usually go up like a belt or a hammer belt during during sex I think they're going to a theme park yeah that's good I always have to provide five shekels for some kind of a cold drink that I wouldn't normally not allow them to consider that's right but you know summer yeah it's quite some around here I have found that that that I used to be really like I still like love the heat and I still like like the heat but it's a hot heat right now for me some people say it's hotter these days I don't know the truth is I don't I don't think it's hotter I remember when I was a kid like in New Jersey man that was hot oh my gosh Texas dude I don't know if you have what to tell me about about summer it's summer heat there's less we used to have this situation you know we had the central air with a lot of families in America and in Texas in particular have central air so America essentially Oh sweetie yes Americans Americans like central air so Israelis weather we have less centralized essentially we have oftentimes these units unit are a wall unit nobody has a window unit anymore I saw by the way on Aliexpress do you guys know what Alex presses it's this eighth of this Chinese website where you can buy all kinds of Chinese tchotchke like things it used to be really really cheap now it's just kind of more affordable than what you can get in America because they figured out that people will pay money for their stuff so I saw this like little box that you can buy an air conditioner box and you pour water into it I think they call it and Israel they call it like a desert cooler desert cooler but in Israel it's this like big ol thing on wheels and you can wheel it around into different rooms and go we'll still have those but barely yeah no you see them it's less but everyone you see them in Israel a lot of places you see them I just saw them because in Tehran all it's interesting all the guard posts for the army are now shaded they have either a tent or a box oh wow and then they have some kind of AC when I was in the Army no AC back when I was in the army there was no AC okay you just you just a seed naturally through something called sweat okay yeah so anyway I saw this this like AC it was like $23 for this like little box I think you plug it into your computer or something and it's supposed to air to show you what's really good for three days so much no no okay well do you know but the point is that we had the situation in - in Sherman Texas where I grew up that almost every not every year but more years than seems normal red fire ants would chew through the wiring of the main air conditioner box you know the big box outside and then we'd be out of air conditioning for a couple of days which is very very bad because the air conditioner people in Texas are very busy and so you would really I remember a couple of times in my childhood we had like ceiling fan so I'd turn on the ceiling fan and I took a ziploc bag and filled it with ice and slept with it on my stuff oh my god because it was and that was like ah right it was like so hot it was really hot yes story and you know there's no I don't know if they did that and you know Yankee you know it's even hotter than it it's it's these ultra-orthodox Jews that live in Arad where's the town in the desert and they're not just a regular ultra-orthodox or acidic would the ones that wear the fur has and they walk around in this desert do they wear the hat if they believe in God yeah oh my gosh so yesterday I told you that it was hotter than a cousin's head a core class of living in Arad his under his hat and your and you added on the ninth of i'm tish above - above okay yeah it was pretty warm it's not even what's crazy is it's not even so warm yet it's gonna get hotter but it's hot you know where it's hot sometimes if you're like a neo-nazi in Germany wow that Segway was so good yeah what what so I wanted to I wanted to tell you guys this story you shy you haven't heard the story yet I haven't heard the full story I told I gave you like the run the run up to the story but basically there was gonna be a shield and sword white nationalist rock music festival wheat white nationalist I was recently accused that on Twitter can I come in or what no I don't think you I don't think you qualify seeing is that it was a neo-nazi event you'd have to dye your hair blonde I don't know I think it would be too much effort yeah but it was at this town called oestrus a german town near the border with poland so a German Court had already banned alcohol at the event because they said that it was gonna get too violent you know how they are neo-nazis and alcohol don't mix yeah I think neo-nazis and every single thing in the world don't make it but so local activists were still not happy enough with the neo-nazi event at the festival so they went to the local grocery store the people of the town went to the local grocery store and they bought 200 crates of beer clearing out every drop of alcohol in the entire town okay so that the Nazis would arrive at the festival and the the beer was already banned at the event but then they would walk to the grocery store and that would be out of beer so the Nazis were totally beer lists and alcohol lists at the event and the activists saved the beer and they're going to be making their own party they're like anti neo-nazi party later on well that was the witty way that they I thought you were gonna say that they bought like 200 jars of honey and then stored it everywhere it doesn't sound very German no is that very German vive stay cause a beer I just think that was a cute story they took out beers this German town for buying up 200 crates of beer from their local grocery store so that the neo-nazis not party really because if you take the beer out of neo-nazis it's just it's just it just becomes just like grumpy white guys yeah exactly a lot of men here great anyway anyway yeah so so so it's like you know who's not grumpy who the Bahraini people about Israel seemingly Bahrain is is a first thing is a much more beautiful town than I think than a what Monomoy yeah we said in the last part of the show Mahna Mahna that Bennett that yeah yeah yeah it looks nice good weather out there it was high I think it's hot yeah it looks hot but I'm sure they got the AC I'm looking at pictures here from this reporters notebook that was put up by Rafael Aaron of The Times of Israel we're fine iron happens to be a buddy of mine that's cool the truth is I would not normally recommend you to read The Times of Israel necessarily but this article that he wrote is really good basically he's there he was one of the journalists who's 25 journalist 125 Israeli journalists 24 was also there ever follow all kinds of folks were there right I know a lot of people there Wow as you guys may remember Israel was not officially invited to this peace to prosperity conference run by the United States because the Palestinian Authority refused to send any officials so then the u.s. got nervous that it would look bad if Israeli officials were there but Palestinian Authority officials were not there so they told Israeli officials they couldn't come you know what I think that turned out to be the best way possible why it's funny because I thought that it was not gonna be so good but I guess good because there was people tweeting they were like oh my god it's a peace conference but it doesn't even have Israel or the Palestinian total failure I mean it's not a failure it's fun but it turned out the other way it turned out that it was really it there was less political tension business people were able to talk and there was plenty of Israelis but plenty of Palestinians right and and and plenty of folks they were just not on the political track and a lot of the like anti-israel activists are criticizing the event for not being political and they want to get right into the main main issues right away as they were to do that yeah if we don't do that then it's not real and it's all fake and it sham and stuff like that peace now I didn't get wrote it's a sham right it's like where do you get off saying that it's a sham you mean because the the managing director of the International Monetary Fund showed up to give a talk and and and one of the heads of Bank came that the chief of the the world the international soccer fifa federation came and there was there was a positions from Arab countries resident just about women in the Middle East yeah it was so interesting you've been watching this conference you know what I have a gut feeling I had a gut feeling in my gut my gut spoke to the gut feeling in your gut in the gut and the gut and inside my god your innards yes in my gut and I and I felt in my heart that that I had to watch this this this this conference live as much as possible also I was on i-24 yesterday and I just I was gonna talk about it so I really watched and watched it I watched a fabulous and also like you should have seen the way I did it I had I had my I was driving because I had to drive all the way to Jaffa yesterday so I had my phone in split screen once mine is illegal are you telling me of something about texting and driving right now are you gonna listen this is this I'm about to tell you what I did I I did nothing illegal it at all I had my my phone was split into two screens yes one screen was ways Wow and one screen was YouTube pass you could listen to the cops so I could listen to the conference so it was like both telling me the same things and I was like that was must have been weird I was like no I was a good on you phone and and and that's actually what made me turn on the AC in the car you know that I'm I have issues with my husband he has some things quote unquote you can't see my fingers doing the quote marks okay you see my clothes I don't believe anyway he has a few interesting things about himself one is that he does not want to turn the air conditioner on in the car once he almost killed our entire family that is around it next to the canary it was approximately three years ago three years ago it was nice the children in the car and if a social worker had been there it would have been bad yeah it was so hot in that car whatever it was was for the sake of the phone the phone can't take that kind of heat wait a second so if I'd been in the car Mike drop I'm out of here it is good for you sweetie it's it's cleansing the pores the sweat sweats if I've been in the car you would have made me not be in the air conditioner but no I'm not saying that anyway let's go on this plane split with screens screen we'll split and then guess who was they had this women's panel and they had these very smart ladies from different walks of life one was some kind of really smart undersecretary for Economic Development from the United States very impressive lady talking about Qi zis qualified industrial zones and she talked numbers about how these industrial zones between Egypt and Israel and between Jordan and Israel have done so so much for those local economies and then they had an Arab lady she was not like the best English speaker she was lady in Egypt she came up with with with a company called pink taxi right do you know pink taxis you told me it's a it's a taxi service by women forward right is a great idea so that women won't feel sketched out when they get in a cab in the middle of the night yet cetera you know and then those societies you know it's not comfortable for a woman to get into this and to cab all kinds of like well kind of and I mean this with with Coto respect cultural stuff over there so fine she create this idea first thing I love the name pink taxi I thought it was so smart you know just so smart I could see that working in Israel too yeah she said she said that she trained she has she has 10,000 women drivers whoa she talked about how she trained them and all that kind of all the stuff and it was just like in the conference was it's over now right it's over it was just but you could see all the stuff on YouTube and you should watch one you should watch that women's panel okay uh I just want to watch you know the honestly is it's so she smoked oh the part that I want to watch is just when everyone arrives that's the part I wanted I didn't get to see that kind of stuff but it was the bottom line is that that that the conference was was obviously well organized just just thought out and a lot of top people from around the world came to talk and it looks like but it made made people like like peace now Israel who I'm not exactly a big fan of in the first place it made them look like total idiots to me what they're like it's a sham hey people got together to talk about economic welfare of the region and Israel and and the and the you know Italy they treated everyone both the people who were there and the people who were not there with a lot of respect absolutely so I resent a little bit this this treatment of the event as like just brushing it off as if like you didn't come up with it so it's worthless that's exactly right you know I mean it's like not your exact vision and what you thought was the best idea and so you brush it off as like stupid I tell you now I can understand I I can understand opposing it right I can understand opposing it or saying you know we don't like this economic plan or it's an untenable economic plan or all kinds of things but to like brush it off is stupid or a sham or things like that I just I agree with you I think it makes these organizations looser a lot of respect yeah indeed okay so what else did you want to say about things I just wanted to say that I'm looking at Rafael Aaron's his article quarters reporters notebook yeah and he has a picture of a table of these Bahraini representatives in their beautiful traditional garb I'm so about that by the way I wish we would do a little bit more speaking of air conditioning right there beautiful big glass wall of this conference center overlooking some big body of water and the Gulf Issa is that is it right on the Gulf it's it's an island in the Gulf so so you I'm turning the image to you each eye you can see the the representatives here are handing out refreshments including a massive bowl of dates yeah infamous golden or just golden and silver like I saw wish for my Shabbat table you know we all we are doing about any style here okay it's very very nice do you really did do it broccolini style and row file notes that there they were like not at all afraid to use the word Israel they like the word Israel was plastered all over the place right it was on his badge it was on his badge twice and he said that the Israelis were not treated differently than anybody else right that they were provided the same kind of service and the same kind of assistance and and they were of course brought kosher food there was not kosher food at the event for sure but kosher food was served to those people who wanted and then he kind of insinuates that he went out to the street he doesn't really talk about it so much but that basically people were really nice to him everywhere even she found out that he was Israeli that it wasn't an issue at all I think that people don't know that that that now here in Israel you can go into some of the Arab villages and get murdered quickly or just drive in with your car and have you have people getting you stolen that's because this this area has been taught jihadism for a long time that's the bottom line it's been taught jihadism and in in fanaticism and hamas ism etc Muslim Brotherhood ISM but out of the Gulf states they're like okay his role as a trading partner his role as a good country Israel so Israel and Bahrain let's just note and refile like makes I think a bigger deal of this than it actually is but Israel and Bahrain do not have diplomatic relations officially great okay so let's thank you like it's not gonna happen for months or years I'm not sure he is a big expert on that I'm not sure that's necessarily true and my guess is that Bahrain after this event is actually going to completely fall in love with Israel because I think that they're gonna have really enjoyed look at why now to a very successful a very tolerant and a very interesting country in the region where everybody knows that Arabs can actually live a really good life and travel the country and come see it and come in and come out and do business go to their holy sites come to our holy sites do all the things that a person could do in a normal country in a normal normalized country and I think that it's just a matter of time until they're gonna say like let's just go that's you know for the for the sake of not sounding over-optimistic I'll just say one one simple thing it was a good step forward there were videos of Jason Greenblatt and his minion there in Bahrain and everyone well I coordinate singing ami Sakai according to Rafael iron he needed the minion for some reason and it was because of him that they organized this oh is that right that's what he says I don't know if I'd read that part but in any case it was it was a good thing and I think that that I I think that I'm gonna sound like a little bit of I'm gonna sound like a lefty here it's really about hope or not hope and I have hope why is that a lefty I'm you know because you know like the whole Obama thing and hope and all that kind of like this just the sound of it the the coloration of it could sound you know the liberal but from that point of view I'm I am liberal I'm hopeful I'm hopeful and it bothers me that many of the progressives want to knock this down and want to show hopelessness the only thing is that the left cannot the left does not have a monopoly on hope right monopoly on hope I like that can I use that as an ally very good maka very good good stuff that was good right that's right buck another maka flash of victory Michael Fletcher I want to wish you a good Shabbos Shabbat yesterday was my secular birthday so or my body birthday sorry I wish your body health and and success and really to the body of the Jewish people and the globe and the globe and the earth and the human and humanity the family of from ish i to humanity Wow I bless you I bless you all Wow okay from the land of blessings that's up by the way how I want to finish off the show from that 2018 I want to say copyright 5778 I want to say something 78 no 79 heading out to uh I want to say that the world is a good place there's still a lot of bad people there's a still a lot of people who want to have a monopoly on on hope and it's only their hope that works I think I like that very much welcome monopoly of hope I like that very much very you on thy birthday D'Arnot maka yeah you make my life just a joy you really do you really do god bless you I got bless you folks wherever you are I want to wish you all a big shabbat shalom I want to thank Ben brettski Moshe Herman and Tabitha for rocking the net waves that's a that's a term I came up with years ago instead of airwaves the net waves so rocking the net waves and 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