The Yishai Fleisher Show: Cloudy With a Chance of Quail

[Music] Shilo of everybody and welcome back to the shine fleischer show broadcasting live from Jerusalem to the world you're a part of it where ever you are shallow and welcome to a hot and beautiful day here in your I'm ear hakodesh the holy city you shall I'm rabbi Mike Feuer joins me here at parties Institute Shalom rabbi Mike shallow be shocked good to see you you too it's uh it's well it's a little bit post a season right yeah I got a little bit of a post partum mini kind of depression I get from after like both cog fatigue well it's not just cog right it's a season of Pesach it's really pre Pesach to Pesach to then the Zionist holidays the the the the modern the the return of it to Israel holidays pace of Shanee included in that and Lag Ba'Omer included in that and of course your Matsumoto mister current you mean Rochelle I'm and then and then the the the preparation for Shiva wrote and then should vote and then even post a vote there's some there's you know there's that those seven days of this we're not saying confident yet right but like wow those are really powerful days and there's only one consolation for me which is it's summertime yeah this is a season it's summertime and I think maybe from college days and you're still in education day and day out sometimes a different time it's a different zone it's true it's not like what it used to be for me that I'm just like off I've actually worked harder in the summer generally than I to take the mantle shift for sure it's a mental shift yeah I'm really excited for for the summer except except in Judaism we have these this like three weeks in the summer which are these like rough weeks and then the 97th level of Jahannam type week it's like it's hot it's hot think you feel bad you're mourning you're mourning things break down like everything falls apart things fall apart there's like a dark time the season this year rather yet that we're not there yet but this year I haven't really prepared for it but I do have my remedy for that season for the for the tough season in juice calendar which is right which is actually 40 days of speaking good about the land of Israel right from the 17th of Tammuz right faster Burton was right until until two Chhabra of those are the days that the spies are gonna walk in the Land of Israel and then they're gonna get punished for forty years in the desert longer than that right let's see the time goes to negative Ava's three weeks right so you've gotta work your way backwards if you want when did they leave oh they only know they left a coffee are they leave on the left on the 28th of C Vaughn sorry I know that cuz it's my birthday well that they left on the 28th of C Vaughn and then and then it was 40 days that was 40 days until the ninth evolved that's right absolutely and and and I always thought that they got punished for a slanderous speech against Land of Israel and we live in an era of slanderous speech against the land the state the people of Israel and so I thought we should go on a kind of diet cleanse I'm speaking only good for forty days about the Land of Israel I'm working about the people of Israel and it's also being cautious about the Lashon Hara that you receive you guys for watching the news and oftentimes Israeli outlets of news talking bad about ourselves which is which is also type of Lashon Hara in fact we're gonna get to the genre at the very end of this Torah portion right before we get to it it's a long Torah portion in rough solavei check himself described as Torah portion like a be going between different flowers that you don't always understand what the order is there is it is a tremendous Torah portion with with really it's a setup for the next few weeks so right before I get to that I just want to say that I had the great merit of being part of the vote of a lifetime weekend experience at the Mount Zion hotel with many of the Land of Israel educators and the new Strachan educators and great people that came in it was really really an absolute pleasure I myself got a chance to hear some great lessons from for example Malcolm Fleischer who gave the intros to the intros of the a Melba Nina Smith on this incredible book written by this Hungarian brilliant rabbi who was an anti Zionist and became a Zionist in the Holocaust and and his death and really very moving to me and I gave classes I give it classes to intro to Moses's life who Moses was character his character the kind of secrets of Moses life and then I give a class called Schiavone in the Big Bang which had nothing to do with a big bang at all but yeah exactly and that's what I told them and it actually was just ten verses that I like from from the from the Tanakh including two non vs. buts statements of the rabbi's and just discuss them for example one of my very favorites I talked about who mekomo shel Olam vanillin mekomo he is the the the medium for the world but the world is not his medium he contains the whole world within him but the world does not contain him so we didn't get into it but that's how cerebellum in her begins eyes or Hakodesh go look at the Orihime accord well he points out that it's a strange with the safer begins but it points out that that God spoke to motion in the wilderness of Sinai in the tent of meeting so shouldn't have been in the tent of meeting in the wilderness of Sinai right and he goes through a somewhat complex explanation of how that wherever God is that's the reference point for wherever everything else is so since he's meeting God in the tent of meeting it says if the mid bar is inside the tent that's awesome or high McCord on the first puzzle can say remember oh wow I'm gonna do that yeah I really love work I'm stuff you know it's a good one that's really cool and I was listening to rabbi eat Succat Shalom who I'd listen to oftentimes and there's really one of the people who has influenced me in the last few years a lot in terms of Tanakh study and you know how I always say the Book of Numbers the book of Bamidbar is the book of Jewish politics so he says that also but in his way he says it's about the camp and it's about finding a place for everybody in the camp that's what politics is right exactly exactly sure way he said that I like that very much and and and his when he comes up with a phrase like that you could see he runs it through the theme of everything here makes it so the Torah portion is is balatka oh I forgot to say this is what this is what I was getting to I had the great merit to also take up my daughter to the Temple Mount on Shiva morning and you know how you and I talk a lot of times about the intersection of modernity with with with our biblical values or our Torah values going up to the Temple Mount is an awesome thing you come out with a spiritual suntan just like when you go to the beach you come out you feel like hot on your face before if you're coming out like like something happened to you and you know it my daughter had a fabulous time up there emotional she was crying at the beginning but then she cheered up and there was I think sometimes people get emotional just because there was just like too much energy you're like you're like a cup under a waterfall it's like girl and like it just comes out Alex Trainmen my good buddy was there with me and my brother Josh came up there with me but I was saying to you that that on cheveux when you don't have your cell phone when you're not taking a selfie when you're not you're not doing communicating out and it's a quiet in the Temple Mount you're just communicating in it's really very powerful and that's of course the the pilgrimage holiday you supposed to go up to the temple mats that that was really a special part of Shiva and I really highly recommend that everybody gets a chance to go up to Temple Mount but certainly on the if you can on one of the huh game on one of the days off when you're not carrying anything you don't have your cell phone with you it makes a tremendous difference although a walk Muslim Authority guy started taking pictures of me so I was like I smiled so that he would take a good picture of me and then I'm like can I give you my email address can you send it under after the holiday and he told me to shut up anyway speaking of the Temple Mount this Torah portion kind of surprisingly starts off with yet another mention about lighting the menorah in lighting the the that aaron has commanded to light the menorah Rashi tells us that that the reason that he's commanded to light the menorah here is because he felt a little bit sad that he wasn't one of the twelve tribal princesses who got to give the gifts to the temple but the Rambam here says something very wild he says actually this is Konica this is a message about Hanukkah you Aaron have a part in the temple where you guys will resurrect the temple where your your children will clean up and you will light the menorah one day and that's your great gift to the temple I mean that those two explosions don't contradict but they rest on a fundamental split to Iraqi and their own bond which is that inner ah she says in Mohammed oh ha right she says that the chronological presentation of the partial are not necessarily reflective of the way in which the events themselves happen therefore he's always looking for a conceptual connection right and and and in here it's very interesting in this conceptual connection is the experience of our like this sort of inner experiences instead of his desire to attach himself to God man is feeling left out right which is introduces the Rambam actually is is into the chronological presentation and yet at the same time what you're pointing out is that here he's projecting down the line to the chronology of don't worry because after the people have done their job in creating the temple you your descendants will do their job in truly rededicating it right so it's a there's a there's a lot in that split there right and and like I think kind of cuz the other holiday that I get very emotional about and it's like and it's like it's in here suddenly and it's like he jams on chronica and it's like hunk is also about the Jewish people splitting and and then and then the fight to - for liberation and for cleansing and for you know it's all these these issues that's how it starts off here right the deep struggle is what's it mean to be a Jew I mean that's what lies at the heart of the conical struggle it's one which is quite fitting in the wake of chef who won't and the receiving of the tour and it's one that frankly I got to do is read the news whether it's from the political perspective whether it's between American and in Israel or whether it's just within our own culture like what is it that we're meant to be doing in the world it's interesting you say about American Israel because it wasn't interesting a little blip in the tension that that is underlying right now American jewelry and Israeli jury and all these things was a blip right now that blip was when the US ambassador to Israel well his name is David Friedman and who is really a a pro settler kind of guy he was beforehand it's well known so well-documented and well-known and everybody in the quote-unquote civil community knows him made a statement that there might likely be some annexation some sovereignty I think he actually made the same way that it's Israel's right to annex certainly right which is a much different statement than saying there might be right but anyway but value but but it's also probably leaning towards a future you know coming up soon policy statement any case you know the American left went berserk that was the issue of the day you know today berserk is actually the norm yeah so it's like that's today's blew it a little bit more buzzer was more froth on the phone and they were like you're not representing America I wrote on Twitter saying like he's not meant to represent the American people he is the he is not chosen by the American people he is the arm of the president okay yeah if I were to say you represent his own opinions I'm sure he's elected official yeah but it all goes to the heart of what they underlies a lot of the tension in the immediate but does the American Jews don't like their president and their president is a friend of Israel surprise if he doesn't go your way doesn't know when they say you're not representing America what they really mean is we don't feel that our president represents America he's not our president therefore you're part of this like he's your president but you didn't vote for him you are the losing side democracy means well is there's a certain math at the end isn't there you know it's not just what democracy means it what is it's what it means to live in a nation-state do you either accept the rules of the game whether they go your way or not or cast you know sort of lies at your door and and and then that's what a lot of the world's nations are looking at right now a lot of times people say to me I think America is gonna fall apart or something I resist that always because I there's something in me that resists chaos or or or a belief in cataclysmic things I don't think it has to be Cataclysm I think that the future of the Union would be well served by considering how to loosen the the federal structure that that keeps it so tightly bound together okay that's for a different discussion and I know you have a show coming up about the Constitution the Israeli Constitution these rails but in there are some reflections on America I mean America is the grandfather of constitutional democracy very interesting I'm looking forward to that that's of course the Jewish story the rabbi Mike force let's get that done before the end of the day I bless you okay here we go so to do that we have to go on as well and so the first part is really about about the in the construction of the menorah as well once again we're reminded it's made of one solid piece of gold this is something that the Torah wants to remind us a few times once to make sure we understand it's yes it's got the seven candelabras ins got these flowery fruits and nuts nuts and all this guy this different stuff but it's made out of one that's a great that's a great thought about i'm eastrail you're gonna be seven candelabras you're gonna be you can have a lot of defit of an expression in modern hebrew this idea of being mature but at the same time you're made out of one thing at a base remember that I'm Israel all right there he goes so then fine then the next thing is the the continuation of the discussion of the Levites and their inauguration inauguration part of that inauguration we're gonna actually meet that in Midrash not next partial but the parsha after that is that they have to shave their their body here mm-hmm including the eyebrows the eyebrows which is wacky wacky I think it's downright Egyptian I mean we have good evidence that the Egyptians like their their priestly caste removed all of their hair right right there was like when you say Egyptian what you really mean is I think what you really mean is a lot of times the Torah will Abraham will go to what was a cultic site and kind of sanctify it you'll take an Egyptian thing and you'll make it ours yeah well I mean you have to remember that the the Levites in particularly the Kohanim who stand at their heart a lot of the way the Torah presents them is needs to be understood through the power of the aesthetic in the sacred service meaning the way they look is critical like we don't live in an abstracted intellectual world but you have to remember that they represent the divine within the world by the way they look and what they do they're putting animals on the fire burning you know incense song all that and so therefore the clothes are made for to honor God yes exactly it's a show it's there's a pageantry but the aesthetics and with all the spiritual implication of aesthetics is critical and therefore it makes perfect sense to me that that a people coming out of slavery in Egypt who have seen the priestly caste who are clean and elevated and educated and in service of idolatrous but in service of the divine it makes sense that the Torah would choose then to have the Levites look in a way which was immediately grounded in the association of oh they're the servants of God right so they shave all the hair because they can mm-hmm right and I also think that people have to appreciate that there is a way to take a pagan thing and be like elevate it well cause it again you're actually converting is the conversion of ideas we see this is one of our great skills as a people through through history is that that we take ideas from outside and we internalize them and make them our own they have to be careful because one that to bridge that works both ways which going back to the Konica story it was a lot of what that story was about as a certain point we swallowed too deep and we were unable to assimilate the ideas and we began to assimilate into the Hellenistic culture so it's very similar what's happening with Western democratic sort of liberal culture today it's like on one hand we've taken personally they took a lot of the core ideals from our tradition we've taken them back in many ways and the importance of the individual and and the value of freedom and you know the sort of sanctity of the self etc at the same time be careful because when those things are taken to a certain logical extension to begin to conflict with core values of the tour in terms of the service of the divine the obligation to the collective and in and so we see this struggle happening once again today sometimes when you say things like that I think to myself and I haven't an ironic thought which is since we're still in the same kind of struggles that we're in the past so you can calm down a little bit like these struggles are normal this is part of what we do and and fighting and struggling and stressing and that's actually part of the regular thing that we do and so then it's okay anyway I want to say if you want an image that helps me understand what what rabbi Mike just said is like especially talking about the conversion of the Celtic to the Jewish like I imagined Abraham going up on a mountain like Bobcats or which is of the tallest mountain in Samaria and really the third tallest mountain Israel I think and you see it from a lot of places if you know where to look and he went up there and he called out in the name of the one God right I was a cultic site beforehand where people did all kinds of stuff the archetype of this is Sheol oh right right there's a great I know if you spend much time with sheilo I've done something taking some great tour groups up there it's a wonderful place it's really through the lens of the book of show theme to like engage this whole question of what happens when we're able to sanctify what had previously been idolatrous what happens when that becomes itself a source of idolatry within hama trail because there's that whole tension in the story of sheilo in there and they're taking of the ark right and the another very famous one is the copper snake yeah with a copper snake at first is this great healing sign it's a way to look up to God and to realize what God he's actually sending you a message through this caricature of the copper snake but then later on it's gonna become an idolatry and it's gonna have to be melted down you're gonna have to get rid of it right because it becomes a bad thing okay speaking of of taking bad things well taking the bad and turning into good is is really the story that Passover is once again going to be kind of announced this is the desert Passover that's going to be done really one desert Passover happens go to Rashi methey every not everyone only shown him agrees Rashi brings me Josh it's one opinion me Josh that this is the only pass off which I'm Israel celebrates in the meat bar right and so therefore we see that as the normative opinion just know that not all the Midrash even certainly not all the rashon him agree that that was the kids very good me trash them that's the Jewish lor themar the narrative the early commentators right but then comes a great story which which we talked about a lot so we're not going to do it too much today which is the story of P 2 pencil Cheney which is the group of people that come to to Moses and say hey we weren't able to fulfill our our our duty to give the Paschal Lamb sacrifice because we had been contaminated with the the impurity of the dead of the dead and so now we'd like we'd like some kind of remedy for them 11 our right some according to some opinions there's different opinions about who these people were and it's amazing when you delve into Judaism how much what the Bible here is not saying who these people are for sure but if you actually think that it's a certain group of people that will affect many other things for example if you believe that it's Michel and ELISA fun who are the cousins of Aaron who who are committed to take out the the two dead dogs be who then if if if if indeed then it then you then you believe that it was the eighth day of Nisan we just saw happen when this all happened and not the first day of Nisan when it happened and that throws off the different cat if you believe that it's them then therefore the the altar was erected on the 8th finally erected on the eighth day and that's the day that these two other sons were killed and that therefore 8 plus 7 is 15 therefore they missed it by one day and they were impure in any case there's other opinions about that it gets complicated quickly just take it hour there are no bit characters in the Bible right that's right that's right there are no big characters that's right you made it in your there forever right you made it in and you may have a different role on the perspective brought to the question right and so these people come up to Moses and they say hey like we don't want to and here's a key word here laminate gara why should we miss out why should why should we not be have the merit to fulfill this is an important word because we're going to meet this word at the end of the book of the mid part of numbers with the daughters of Slovak odd who say Lama you gara why should our father's inheritance be lost and then their fellow tribesmen will also say again Lama Iger our [ __ ] odd over there of our inheritance if they marry out so this is actually this ironically is a complaint right where it says like why should I miss out well it indicates yeah why is it there a piece missing from the hole right exactly exactly but at the same time this is the kind of complaint that's great right yeah I don't want to miss out well that's the difference that's why I said it the way I didn't they don't say hey how come I don't get my share and they are asking because they themselves want to participate or the daughters slow Club themselves wanted yeah but they're saying is why should there be a piece missing from the whole yeah it's my piece I want my piece but that's not the primary issue the primary issue is that why should am I losing out mean that there's a piece missing from the whole and that's why God responds so favorably in all three situations if it just been gimme-gimme-gimme I want mine and we're gonna we're gonna meet that that's that that's the point I want to make which is we're gonna meet very soon the folks who say give me give me give me I have lust I have want yes and not I I am so concerned about not missing out on this great thing or not as you say you know having the the piece of it I just want to double down because yeah people understand this is one of the well this is one of the most important foundations of what it means to be a Jew in the world in terms of like Jewish spirituality of avarice of Shem they the key lies in this is that we are not people who say who say thy will be done but it's just God's will and there's nothing else we're also not be born Maktoob right that's the great way right whatever it is we're also not people who say my will be done the the egoistic individualist we're people who say that God created me as me which means that the things that I truly desire are God's will and so that's what they're saying they're saying I want my portion in order that your will be done I mean holding that tension is the essence of what it means to be a Jew in the world and that's why of course they as Rashi says they God could have taught most of the rules of passage any and he could have taught it to the people just like he taught them everything else but this piece of the Torah was waiting to come down through the merit of these people who understood that secret of what it means to be a Jew in the world right so what I want to say is complaints or asking for more or asking for something we need to say there's a good place for that yes there's a good place right I'll give an example I want to pray to God that my children will go in the ways of Torah I mean and I say please God please help me and by the way I just want to tell you that the Sephardic folks that I the good folks that I know tell me about their grandparents that they would put their hand on the mezuzah when the kids were crying and when the kids were sleeping and they would and the parents would cry or the grandparents would cry holding out to the mezuzah asking God to bless the children and to have them go on on the path all I'm saying is there's a place for complaining there's a place for not accepting there's a place for saying guy I don't like it this way and I want more absolutely and some other religions may be considered a type of heresy who are you says Islam to tell God that it's not perfect it's a deep question right no but that's our way and you said it very well and so so and this is going to be juxtaposed to coming up the folks who are gonna be yes complaining but gimme gimme-gimme-gimme and I want to fill my belly I don't wanna fulfill your great well I want to fill my great belly okay so and and the other thing that you mentioned and just wanted a little highlight which is that there is more Torah in the heavens yeah just ask for it mm-hmm just your morning God will say oh you want to fail it oh you you know you you want the laws of of properly keeping the land fallow etc I'll let you have more info there's more with me yeah up here there is no end to the ways of serving God okay the next section is about the travels and at first it's a little bit strange this section because it just says that the Jewish people followed the cloud when it told them to when it got up off the tent of meeting it would basically signal to them it's time to go and the Jewish people would would follow it the the I mean wouldn't you you know thus far no here sets down that that the people have a tendency to complain when you're moved around a lot you can't get your stuff down and you don't always like where you go and so this God would test them sometimes you would bring them to a beautiful place and then say it's time to go or then may paint make them Park in what seemed like a harsh place and they followed uh-huh and and I think that I think that if you think about our lives we are oftentimes finding ourselves in the house mmm-hmm or dealing with taxes and stuff and it's those are the moments where you complain and you're not you're not exactly following God because it's a little bit harsh and you say why me well yeah it's a question can we hold the tension between the reality of our experience which is I don't want to be here and the acceptance of this is where I belong very those two don't contradict and and and you see that that Omni element in this whole journey we're gonna have in the desert for the rest of our safer here are often unable to hold those because they're feeling if I don't want to be here it leads them immediately to and therefore it's not where we belong we're gonna go back with let's get a new leader right and and this is like speaking of foundations for divine service to be able to hold that tension the honesty if I don't want to be there with the deep in moon of deep faith of but this is where I belong because there's it's where I find myself he's one of the keys not just to serving God but I think to being happy at life so so I think that one of the people that came up with a really the brilliant way to deal with those tensions was Rebbe Nachman yeah and one of the things that I learned from him I never heard it said this way this is the way I understood it which is he basically says listen you're gonna have to emotions at the same time in life okay you're gonna believe in God and you're gonna believe that he gave you good things and that you're supposed to be where you are but at the same time you don't like it you want to complain about it so he basically says disambiguate those two emotions don't hold them at the same time you know he says be happy so he gives the story of Irish gives a story about a guy a religious Torah student who had to become a cab bank teller so he knew that I Shem sent him to be a bank teller and to do what he had to do so during the hours of Bank telling he did it the Simca he did it with joy he served the Shimon joy he was the best bank teller he could be he did everything right and he said thank you a Shem for this but then during his lunch break he would go down to some place and he would eat his lunch and he would cry and he would say Hashem please bringing back to the basement please let me learn Torah again I don't want to be here and then when that period was done he would go back and serve Hashem and joy you would disambiguate those things and then of course you know God heard his prayers and he came back with a bit much according to the story but the bottom line is I something I learned for that's I think is very good is like don't try to hold two emotions at the same time it really causes a lot of yeah we don't do it we don't do it well it causes a lot of internal tensions and stress so so so if you simply place right be fully happy and thankful to God and then be fully crying and asking God for what you want and do it do those things in a full way and give those things there's full space mmm very wise I think it is very wise any case it finishes off with with the phrase OPM ya know they they parked and I wanted to write with Malka the the and put it on every spearing wheel the prayer for the parking the Jewish people's prayer for parking o ye God who helped us park 42 times in the deserts ye he gave our forefathers a camera was a resting place good parking where we lasted you he who had who gave us a pillar of fire and a pillar of cloud please help me find parking today if you can Park 600,000 people 42 times we little old one person just today may I merit the parking of my forefathers and mothers and and and just stick it on because I know that the market gets very fresh and you know in Jerusalem or you know Tel Aviv and for example here when I come to the tea parties I park about 10 minutes walk away it's got shade and it's free yeah and I think the I think the good Lord for for the parking that's right so it says on by the Word of God they parked and by the Word of God they travel traveled and it mish-mosh MSHA motto phn be AG moshe so they kept the the the the in it in simple terms they didn't complain they did it the way God also be spared a shame there also means that they did the divine service when they stopped long enough to set up the right the rich gun by the way I heard that one of the one of the explanations of why there was a Michigan was because the fate to a go because there was a sin of the golden calf because of that that's a stay that desert longer so then therefore guy gave them a way to serve God while in the desert as opposed to just the quick trip to the Land of Israel God would reveal to them the place that he was going to choose right okay so then the next section is about a making trumpets silver trumpets we have silver trumpets here do you know that two big silver trumpets a nice they blow them every Rosh Chodesh a nice anytime we have a cohan we try to get them to do it is it good they're great it was last time you sit around on Rose Cottage and listen someone blow big silver trumpet it's also I've ever heard in this institution of all places it's often a bazaar everyone sing around eating bagels afterwards go to stop eating and then oh we gotta bring out the trumpets a silver and yeah they're silver properly long silver trumpets that's it could be polished they're a little bit tarnished ha ha if my mom was here she'd polish them like anything anyway that's awesome and interesting it has it has a dual purpose doing trumpets dual purpose trumpets that's right well that's right its dual purpose one for peace ones for war ones for music and native elements for drinking out of well it's more like one is for traveling tomorrow a shot of Jack forget ok ok one is for traveling and one is for war yeah and one it's either to gather the the leaders or to tell them to move and if we if we read so far what we've read it's all everything is pretty perfect and perfect plus right we've read about the menorah it's lighting up everything's in place everything's in place lit up right we got we got the got the Passover yes and Pat and then Passover Plus right we've got a pass different password plus they'll get the silver trumpets and in and then it says when you come to war in your land on the people who bug you or try to subdue you blast the trumpets and you shall be remembered in front of God and you shall be saved from your enemies and in the days of your joys and then the days of your holy convocation holy convocations how's your new man that was good new and new months you shall blow the shofar over your core but not over your offerings and there shall be a memory in front of God we finish up okay come on ehm okay am i M assume your gut so it'll be in front of your god I am assume your God say it's gonna be in front of him I'm the one who's telling you that okay that's pretty cool and and maybe a philosophical question of what that does that mean that you shall be remembered like you need a does God need a reminder or is it you acting in such a way is that you want to be reminded in front of God or do we just accept the fact that like God says this is the way to do it turn it to to be reminded in front of me yeah I would say it's a bit of all above all though the one thing I would push on this it's not so clear to me that this is if fira really means memory in the way you're using it okay all right I would say that the more essential meaning of the word is it better match to modern Hebrew word of he's the Haute but God will identify with what's happening with you now right you see the two major places we see this in the Amish in the in the in the Torah are the first usage the shemin's a high no no I remember like as if you forgot like oh that doesn't make any sense is what it is it there was a for certain reason that God identified with no experience trapped in the ark and that brought about divine action and the other one is Rachel well okay fair but I was thinking about right before the Exodus now that God remembers Omni so it would cry out God remembered and God knew right right and so in the same way you see that the the hot zone are the essence of our ability to cry out so like why doesn't God God always on some levels is aware of what's happening time Israel why would the trumpets call causes Akira because there's it's very important especially in this case of cold socks over a bollocky my name when your enemies come against you because the instinctive move for people is to rely on their own strength which of course we need to be able to do we're not just praying this is part of making war but but when God really brings about the full fullness of the Divine Will is when we cry out as well because that means that we understand we in ourselves identify with the fact that everything we have comes from God he's who oh no think I'll he's the one that gives us that power and in that moment when we identify with the fact that God is the master that's when it works the opposite way as well that God identifies with us and so to speak remembers you understand the distinction it's not like a forgetting which is overcome right there's there's a gap between the Divine Will and the way the world is playing out and we close that gap by showing we know who's in charge here blow the trumpets and then God responds hello I said make the same thing when you pray for something God's gonna do what God does just because you asked for it doesn't make any sense I mean if it's the right thing to do then God already knew that why isn't God doing it's not the right thing to do then why would God do it just because you ask the answer is what God wants is for you to understand that it's the right thing to do okay I accept that I will give a little bit of a different angle which is he will remember the big picture he will remember he hasn't forgotten it the big plan and that you remember that you're part of a big plan that's the key that your actual memory causes God to identify with that plan right but but in all those cases in the in the nowak hey we're here and then it's like oh yeah I have a global I have a whole thing to do here and Israel is like we got a levy chip now it's like yes there's the big plan the big promise and Rachel also which is like I see that she doesn't have children but it's key for her to have children so that's the whole plan is is fulfilled and at war time here in the Land of Israel it's like God you promised to make you know a temple in Jerusalem to be a light unto the nations that whole thing we can't get wiped out we can't get wiped out also by the way a trumpet is very much like a human being it's like a it's like a it's like there's a wind that blows through this physical object make some noise make some noise vibrations right but it's like a it's like there's a soul or a wind inside of this physical thing without that wind by the way it's just a silent piece of this chunk of metal just chunk of metal shaped maybe but but no but lifeless lifeless so I guess I guess we kind of like through these vibrations we like people call show good vibrations good silver trumpet vibrations okay does that sound good sounds good to me all right so so so and also this almost ends up nope not yet that's okay so now we have the light of the menorah and we got the Passover the coven and we what else did we do we got the living so we're with you God you say go down the Laveen you say the Levites are perfectly either hairless and and and and you say you you you you lift the the cloud we'd say we're going to yeah we're to God and and we're blowing the TRO for the trumpets we remembering the big thing and then finally um underway well we're on the way and we're on the way they're moving we're moving and it says ye sad day come on everything you with that burry show now let's see what I'm about slow not so I'm gonna mean the time so the this gives us the actual date now after all that in this second year and the in the shamash you need the holy city bury me close Nollan on me scarlet dude right okay now on that day here we go here we go it's going everything's in place all the work we've done in the last three part show to put everything in place right now it starts all the pieces it's like one it's like it's like when you when you when you when you start off Big Ben when you and yeah like you've done all that work and let's see if it actually works ready right go that's right lunch and so and there they go and the various the various the the for tribal contingents made up of three tribes each are on the way and they have their leaders they have good names like Elias often do L right God will gather a son of know the Lord right that's a like we got the good names we got it we have it all we got it all it's all it's all moving forward very beautiful now it is another interesting story here there's one little very important tidbit in there huh go ahead which one of you for me so I'm talking about the I'm talking about Jethro yes this is an interesting thing and the truth is had it I've said this many times in the show had it not been forever and I mentioned in the last on my last show without you a root had it not been for for rabbi Sultan Sultan who in the Mount of Olives who taught me love money two's Torah about this I would have not understood what this is about mmm-hmm but basically moshe says to have been real which we understand probably to mean Jethro the Midianite whole 10 most had the father in law of Moses he says listen we're going to this place that God said to us that he's gonna do good with us because God spoke good on Israel this is a rabbi Shalom was like this is triumphalism this is this is triumph there's there's a ton of positivity here it's like it's like wow this is this is great and we're going to Israel join us this is the top of the arc right this is this is it this is the big moment we're moving and and we're moving to come with us but interestingly enough this this Jethro does not acquiesce seemingly to the requests of Moses saying nope I'm gonna go back to my homeland and then Moses system don't leave us because you knew our parking in the desert you knew where we stopped our camping in the desert and you'll be with us for eyes so rabbi Shalom explained in a way that I didn't exactly agree with he's like look you know the desert you're a desert people so you'll help us out and maybe that's a little bit weird in terms of the fact that you like we're going with God so we don't need good I know this whole point in the earlier in the parts are that we're now in the cloud right so I don't buy that what I what I think is you're an outsider and we need a good outsider a good outsider a good gear a good Noahide a good Gentile who loves Israel it's sometimes very helpful and they help us see as it says in the Psalms he goes from a shell muscle team Ellen right God has done good with you guys don't you see that sometimes the outsiders are helpful you're a little bit of an outsider stick with us you've already given me good advice one of the things that Rashi says this is a cultivar divided actually called the very devar she's a lamb in nano CM earring you know anything which we miss you're gonna see cuz like you said cuz you're not like bound up in the camp right you're part of the whole picture but you're outside the camp right you're outside the camp but we have room for you says Moses yeah first like he says but he says you Jethro know I'm gonna go back to my to my family and to my state into my land and it raises a big question what happened here well money - explanation I think really it just is fabulous he basically says Jethro I was like look you taught me about the one God I'm gonna go back and teach monotheism and a relationship to God but Moses was like no you see the relationship of to God is a relationship through this people of Israel and the Land of Israel and with this nation with the story of this nation that is the way to find God but Mum but Jethro understood no this is a universal thing you taught me you've got your mission but I got mine I'm gonna go out there and teach people about I'll be the next kind of Abraham before he became Israel I'll be Abraham teaching the nation's yeah and and it says we have money to that that was his mistake that he did not understand that and the fixing for that was roots each row has the same letters as roots okay and he says root says your nation is my nation your God is my god she keeps saying that first is I'm joining the nation I'm following you blindly to the nation and through that I'm going to find God okay through the nation of Israel not through God and and they have of their role and I have mine know the way to find God is by holding on to the seed of a of the Jewish people and saying I'm gonna go with you to find God that was his that was Jethro's kind of mistake in a sense and you see that Moses is really asking him to stick with us but but he did not accept them yeah I mean I also wonder if it's a question of timing because minyan in many ways represents the the ability of the nations of the world to see Israel in the proper light right and and it may be that the timing was just off meaning if he had gone with them and seen the fullness and he had understood how it's not the particular or the universal it's the way in which the two unite that really brings Redemption then perhaps he wouldn't be able to fulfill his mission but there's something that goes off at this moment that we can agree on something goes off at this moment in our story right it's definitely like Moses does not get his way and that's one and like somehow maybe I'm gonna say in a funny way maybe you and I will laugh about this I love God but being with you Jews is a little bit annoying right like don't watch this is great and and and and I believe but hanging out with you guys there's a lot of tension a lot of issues and and I just I need to go back to my peaceful Colorado I had a student say that's basically the same thing to me at the end of the year she said you know because she like she's Jewish but she never grew up in the Jewish world and so it's just like I asked it like you know what she's ready to go home she's like I need to just get out of an environment where everybody isn't just talking about being Jewish and what it means to be Jewish all the time right right or is my Gentile friends so hang out with me tell me if they come to us for Shabbos they're just like I've heard as many heard this many times they're like are you guys always like this look like what like what are you like there's an intensity to this business and it is if you're not used to that that that kind of hyper you know and and all and anoles got always political problems and we see the in-store portion he basically Jethro got out before it got ugly that's my point is right here that they we were just describing this arc where we are mr. reaches the height of the arc and then you get this very strange moment where mostly it seems obvious which is like hey by the way we're not leaving you out right no we we have room for you absolutely we have land because this whole inoa this whole picture could look like listen you've been helpful but Zia we're on the way the emotions just not it's not at all by always an important lesson to Ami's rel that at the moments of our height in our and our power and our glory it's very important to understand that we have room for those that can see us at the right light yes you know and they but something goes off because look what comes next yeah I have a lot of Gentile friends listeners to this show as well who are frustrated with us sometimes that we don't have more room for them yeah I get that a lot I get that a lot one of the things that if I ever got a chance one of the laws that I'm interested in trying to pass down the line is a law that actually gives a resident status to Gentiles who want to live in Israel right but not because they have a visa a work visa proper a proper gear toshow proper standard but let's use the English terminology a proper resident alien that lives our green card if you will yeah but it's in the tourist business residency yeah but my point of using the term is because in the tour it's based on exactly what you said which is the recognition of Israel's divine mission that's right and the fact that there are laws which apply also to the Gentiles right and that their laws which come from God to them and aren't just simply I'm sort of humanistic moral laws which is important but as the Rambam says that a person who sees the Seven Commandments of Noah as humanistic moral principles is one of the hawkmen Motul um there's a wise person who gets it you need we need rules but someone who understands that that's what God has commanded to the world he's me I see game over love he's one of the righteous of the of the nation's of all the VA so helical amoeba and and there's an eternity turn allottee that he achieves through that yep yep I even think that a Gentile who helps Jews keep the Sabbath like like there's a this hotel in Los Angeles and they totally understand the Jewish stuff I think there's a certain place for somebody who helped Jews keep the Sabbath you know it was just kind enough to like help us get through this thing in a proper way but but I think that there should be a status here in Israel I think there should be a legal status and yeah you got to jump through a little bit but like right now these people find status like you know through a visa and a work visa and this and that and there they go to the Knesset member I just think this should be a normative status for Gentiles to love Israel yeah I think it's symptomatic of a lot of the trauma that we're still carrying that in a position of strength we still feel weak and threatened yeah it's a small-minded understanding of our time I think in any case so so there was so we had a lot of positivity a Stickle bit of bitterness here with the Jethro thing but it but you're right it sends a little signal into the ether you're like what's happening I thought we were at the top right right and then eight mamasa turn it maybe maybe again a little bit of a tongue-in-cheek way maybe he wasn't a nine maybe he did seems like he's like there's something it's this gonna be there's gonna be issues here and you're not exactly going to the Land of Israel yeah well maybe maybe he's like you think you are but you Moses my son-in-law - my family you're not going home I'm going home you can have been hanging out in the desert you've got a ways to go anyway right so then but yet back to positivity one of several more verses dua for just a few more verses and here comes one of the Bible's mysteries one of the tourist mysteries and that is these inverted letter nun the inverted end the none right and this were inverted none really acting like biblical parentheses brackets have you ever scrolled down a webpage and suddenly with when you're scrolling down because your mouse is like in the middle suddenly there's a scroll bar and instead of scrolling more down the page it's scrolling just in the middle of the page that you were scrolling down on you're scrolling down a long page but in the middle they have something that has a little scroll bar so yeah you get caught in there in there scroll right in this girl there you go that is what this is this is the scroll within the scroll is the scrolls in the scroll it's a mini scroll and basically it says that when he pin saw her own when when they when the arc which starts to travel moses would say arise O Lord and scatter dine enemies scatter that emmys and they should run away from you your haters should run away from you by the way this word is kuma which means arise and that is a name that many years ago how about the year 1999 year 20 years ago I this was the company that I the organization that I founded are you doing a 20 year celebration I didn't think of it I really didn't think of it and and so it's a good way to raise money yes join us next time for Spaceballs the search for more money anyway so Akuma means a rise and I don't know why I really like this word I like this word it was just a men arise men's getup and was really at the time I also came up with an acronym for America for just arise Americans return to Zion but any case it just meant to rise and I just liked that word very much and I also like that sometimes God arises like Moses tells God to arise it's not that God's like you Jews arise like no God you arise it's time for you your great mission is going to be fulfill through the Jewish people we also say to Israel cool mobility style so that either means God of Israel arised to the help of Israel or des Artistes I'll come with the help of Israel you shall arise yeah you shall arise through our help we got our help rise you up and one of the definitions of freedom in the Bible is commute right is standing upright that's right absolutely that's right upright leanest so that's the first part that's when the art goes out and goes ahead of the camp and flattens mountains and kills off snakes and scatters the we good status do its wicked and then but but and then there's like pause and then there is and when the the art comes to rest this is return oh god amongst the tens of thousands of Israel so in many ways if you think about it this is actually the whole Bible or a book onto itself where it just says like we will travel out you got go before us and then at the end amongst Israel you will come to rest I mean this if you think about it that's the whole story that's supposed to be the rest of the journey there it's Israel right that's really what's meant to happen right right that's how it should have finished then we would go on to the book of Davari right but the stages say this little inverted nuns is itself may be its own safer Torah which really means that there are seven sea freight or if you think about it because it splits up this book into three yeah right so then there are seven which makes kind of its own sense 5 goes to 7 let's not get into it Jews read the book of you see how many Amelie went down into Egypt 70 except it was actually 69 right Greg didn't do that was it God was a pretty lashes 39 less 130 less 139 there's no simple numbers I love I love six 613 mitzvot actually 612 it's actually the 612 the ball term says in a lot of places because she'll morph as a [ __ ] came down as one thing right so therefore it can be counted as either table or which is breached the same letters is breed covenant or teriyaki which is gar T in any case so that's and we say this by the way when we take out the Torah out of the ark we take out coupons that we say hakuna shove my foot so come when we put our back in we say sure lets off a strap we return it okay bum-bum-bum you need to stop you now yeah that's it thank you very much and we got there too so it all ended and so I do it by kids every time I read them like half a story and I'm like and that's it they go no I go and everything worked out good and they're like okay so you are that all bars yes yes yes I do many other things like I'll turn this car right around like that kind of thing you know what I mean if you kids don't settle down you know we're like almost at the beach yeah you know you got to do those things you learned that in Opera that's right okay but but indeed it's not the end quite the opposite in fact things turn here the beginning in many ways right right right that's right it's a new beginning and we're dealing now with the the the stiff neck at Israel that's a lot of the Bible that the Jews aren't we did I guess I guess we could the Jews are and the Jews aren't maybe that's why I call the show that's that's what it is it's like the first part is the Jews are we just they are they are that and now they are not that and that's what's going to happen here and in and it's a very harsh first successfully I'm Kim Kim meet on a NEMA la posesión the nation was complaining and that was bad in the ears of God they smashed FA sharp oh and Hashem heard and his anger was kindled flared and he burns them and fired the dirty far by mache fire burn to them a fire of God the toe Colin and ate the AHA mokona the edge of the camp we were dealing muchly with the center of the camp before dark and and the traveling now but at the edge of the camp it's not that perfect you know I mean it's a little bit reminds me of when I come here to your shall I'm I'm like yeah cities bumpin it's happening here and then just the my Reve magazine just put out a whole supplement on Jerusalem and it's like yeah this is happening this is happening now come to Hannah Braun okay and it's like whoa right the the edge come see the edge come see the front if you will and the front is different than the comfy Center well and you know Rashi says I think a very profound thing when he wants to explain what this meat ona NIEM because it's a reflexive right and he says the word is a meter named Alhassan al-al'ama vaccine a Lila hey Leif Rosemarie McComb they it indicates the people who were seeking something to complain about that would serve as an excuse to turn away from God right right because the the piece that also might have influenced each other's decision is Ferris on it yet it's hard to be a Jew and this is something that they just just need to get across to me so we're a lot of ways narrative right it's like a type of story or a type excuse yeah but it can also be cause I mean that they do the bind together make understanding a narrative is this happen because that happen because this happen in this context what it means is they're looking for a cause right Aliyah a lil Eric and Ileana rule the but it's it's just so critical to understand that that if you're gonna be on the mission you need to appreciate that it's a mission it's hard mm-hmm it's gonna be hard even if it's a three day walk through the desert you look at the demand here everyone needs to be in their place everyone under their flag this is way we're gonna do it and you don't get to just do what you want when you want right this is a military camp right and it's a people who are I'm not just a mission of fizzle conquest my mission of spiritual calm we don't even know what there are exactly complaining about that's what you're saying they're like looking at complete I think that's why she's picking up on this doesn't matter what they're complaining about right they were looking for someone to complain about so they could break ranks right with vehicles so so so the Nate so the fire burns in the mick people and the nation yells to Moses and Moses prayed to God and the fire died down but the way when this is fattoush gah it means the fire went to a low flame it became it sunk Rashi says it sunk into the earth where was gone back where it came from it would have burned everybody up on the way home okay shucks Adam come on that's right right but but then again went to a low flame yeah it's it's it's not quite gonna go out didn't go out bulletin right it wasn't like it was gone it was like it's a quiet alright so and but just but just don't don't don't do something else that I bother God right now anyway that place was called at a Veyron which was which is a conflagration because a fire of God burned them but we're gonna also learn that this word Taffarel so it comes from it's it's related to like a like a burning desire and ref love a chick is gonna talk about the voluptuousness voluptuous sores or something like that the people who they had Tyva had they had that desire lost lost in in and you got you got up you got to put that picture in your head you're in the desert you've really seen God there's a lot of laws about purity it's dry and they're gonna you know I mean there's that there's a a proper Ness yeah although I want to point out it what I'm saying one could that's I was going to say what could come to a place where it's like it's too proper it's too constraining you and and one of the complaints that they're gonna have in a second about the mana was that they weren't going in the bathroom right it's everything is perfectly measured and meted out yeah you're in it's true and this is by the way one of the reasons that when they get into air to sail there's a lot of boundary breaking it's almost immediately but what I was going to say is it's important to understand the difference between lust and desire it's a very important like we're hitting a lot of the fundamentals of my eyes at divine service because lust is a desire which is an end unto itself right people wanted to feel the experience of having an Eden fulfilling it desire is something which leads to a deepening of a relationship which is why of course the Torah I usually want and design right as I'm saying right but circuses and tourists sees desires a very good and important thing provided that is in the right channels and leads to a deepening of a relationship as opposed to this which is just simply a lust which is a desire unto itself okay so so lust is that is the right thing so there's there's lustiness and that's the atmosphere in the camp right now Sony and so there's this a soft soup the acids it was literally the word rabble rabble the rabble rabble the rabble the Rabb Allah and this word I see fog gathering is gonna be one of the words that place or at this Torah portion will see it right at the end but there's a rabble which is within it and it says literally heat a vote to Avadh right they just desire desire right exactly my point they were lusting after lost right last I I think I understand that you know people they want a party however they sat and they cried this is an interesting word excuse me via Shuvo by a shovel which really means they turn back and return back they returned they return back but I would also say they sat meaning to say they weren't in motion right weren't in motion now Jewish people are in emotion when you're going it's going somewhere says no and sits down right going oh my kid did that to me this morning lay down on the couch and I told them I'm going without you and then he cried and then it and then I got anyway all right Sophia Shuvo is still via Suva they return or turn their back somehow life who they cried and then it's a nice route which which means that the children of Israel also why because you buy into it yeah we were talking about a completely different issue before him which I'm telling it like we were before the show we were talking about environmentalism other issues but like people fall into behavioral chatter and they said who shall feed us flesh but listen listen carefully here who who who will do it God has fed you everything he's given you everything is taking animage who he hasn't given a stake right but but the question of who is is in one word it's like there is no God yeah and and it's a it's definitely an affront its frito who just me and then your clan who will feed us who will who is there a god will feed me meat who will feel it but first who will feed me like like I I deserve to be fed right right what do we call that white privilege he's Jewish like whoever white privilige go feed me flash not the veggies that I need that will keep me alive right but but like the flesh a long time three words I love it meet you Claire new bazaar who's gonna feed us flesh and then remember what we said before that about memory and about and about that about being plugged into the big story you had a different word for memory identification and this is a great example right they start to go through their experience of their mouth waters right they're working up this is what's called diarrhea yet said they're just working themselves up right now I remember the fish we eat for free oh I know squash this watermelon watermelon and that's what it is but right and the cuts here which is what vegetable yeah and I think it's bulb so it's the types of yeah this it's hard to know exactly what the onions and and the garlic's don't forget the garlic right we need the garlic that's part of it when I went to Egypt we made a point out of eating fish with garlic on the Nile and now listen to this language so it's and the Bible so exacting if you know psychology it's like it's like perfect words for the psychological situation and now enough Shane we have a shot our souls dry it's dry I'm not hungry but ain't cold guilty I'm uh uh I'm on a nano all we see is this darned mana right and then Tory takes it aside by the way is an aside how did they eat the mana and it's described here as more of a not a a food that is already prepared but rather you have to prepare it and it's a sweet type of food that is baked baked or fried a shaman right okay and when when the do would fall on the camp the man would fall on top of it that was the parentheses and Moses heard the nation crying to its to their families however not just inwardly but also each LaPenta although standing at the door of their tent when you say it's also being broadcast on our but they're always working each other up is right via car a fashion met hood in this angered God greatly movie a name oh [ __ ] in the eyes of Moses it was bad and we just had that before basically God is angry and it's in the eyes of God it's bad now it's in the eyes of Moses bad these are tough verses these are tough verses and it totally reversed the the happy verses of before had that pinnacle that's that was like we were hit that spot it's like boom and Reviver says by the way that the big sin in Judaism is complaining that's he and he shows it in place after place after place complaint is the not feeling bad or having issues complaint this kind of complaint and we and we and we juxtapose to a different kind of complaint which is why should we miss out being close to God here it's not that it's the lusty kind of complaint and and it and and it just shows you like the complaint and the issues of speech and slander and negative perceptions is a tremendous thing in the Torah and these are verses that are like they're not hiding they're like this was anchored God greatly Moses eyes is bad and now we're gonna get to a also like if you remember the verses after the golden calf of this almost romantic dance between God and Moses trying to get together this one's very different this is a defeated Moses and he's going to save and we'll share Allah Shem lamb out of there why have you a little I've definitely soaping why you treat me so bad guy why you why you got a weight you hurting on me okay notice how it becomes personal for Moshe here yeah yeah this is the real switch is that Moshe is no longer able to take the stance that he took just a few verses before where you saw something was bad pray to God fix this now Moe just like listening I don't want this right I can't deal with this alone and and by the way interestingly enough we also have here the leaving of Jethro who said you can't handle this alone right well the only that bit-line LEM I wrote this is the second time we've heard Moshe say it the first time we heard him say it was back when he first went to Paro and said let my people go serve me in the wilderness and empower was like what I'll make it worse emotion went to Godzilla Mariota but this time it's personal right why have you done bad to me have I not found favor in your eyes to carry this people that you put this burden of the people on me have I given birth of these people have I have I have was impregnated with these people did I give birth to them that you say to me carry them in your in your bosom as a parent would would would carry a a suckling a suckling child on this on this earth which you promised to the forefathers you basically you've put me into as the sole parent of this of this nation and he says where shall I in this year's of their hears within here as a bit of a mistake I think and the rabbi's mentioned this is where shall I find for them for this nation meat right they said give feed us meat and he also makes a that cultural mistake where he says where shall I find the meat yeah I just counted them there's over 600 thousand men here that's a big barbecue God right where am I gonna get all that meat am I gonna get that I will not be able to carry this nation by myself it's too heavy for me and if you do such a thing to me this is crazy versus veem kakaako said li if you do such to me how again II know how look please kill me you might set this in a minute so if you like me and this is very Jewish if you like me then kill me now tell me now and and I won't see in my own downfall I mean this is the exact reversal of the heroic stance that Moshe took in the face of the Golden Calf right when he says oh you want to destroy the people you know you know wipe me out from your book right because I don't want to see such a thing here it's like oh my gosh these are the people this is what happens when if we get a little bit along the way and they want to go back and they're hungry and there's that okay just wipe and kill me now because cuz I I don't want to go forward with this anybody was dealt with Israeli politics and Jewish politics you really can get the feeling like that it's hard and it's hard to love on me so you know and you and I talked also about though the warsaw ghetto ghetto and that uprising and all the issues between Jews Jews can be this this is a moment where the leader is really being is really being challenged where Moses this great person we're gonna see how great Moses is in just a few verses as well because we're really seeing him at his lowest ebb and we're going to see how God Moses in just a few verses and I think you you alluded to it but I think we should make it clear that and some and some level this I think is Michaela shot this tells us like what what what was happening with you throw it back in in that moment is it was Moshe that comes to me and says listen you're the only one here that actually helped me out everybody else comes to me and said Moses what we do most what we do you're the only one here that's looked at what I'm doing it says Moses you need to this differently right don't leave me right and and and neutral basically says some no you take it from here I think this is not my mission this is your mission and now which is really feeling it right and that's why he says I can't do this alone I can't do it alone God interestingly God doesn't doesn't really respond to the whole kill me thing and those emotions venting right you know he's venting is a hard lesson for me to learn that and I think it's been even harder for my wife to learn but sometimes you just gotta let people then yeah you don't have to respond to what they're saying hey they just wanna vent yep it's true sometimes the best thing that a psychologist or rabbi or because just listen it's my time let it out sometimes I tell my wife I'm like look I'm about to event I need my three minutes I might huff and puff and cuss and who knows what yeah but when when this is over just say okay and I'll feel a lot better I I literally tell her so Julie of me so you should that's good that you teller because it took my wife a good 15 years to figure out that suggesting and making suggestions about what I've just said is right they say that men do that to women but I find that women do that to men just as much like I don't need a solution here just hear me okay yeah you know muscle wolf says about about what a female jihadi suicide bomber gets nobody bet it's the best line I've heard he says he says this is when a female suicide bomber you know kills himself goes to heaven she gets she gets 70 men who will really listen its mother Wolf's line oh he's got it he's got it certainly some of the top top 10 yeah he's got great lines okay so God says to him I got you bro I understand I don't mean to make light here I mean to say that really Moses and place in God's system I I well he responds to the practical process right right the one thing that God feels like in the answer here is I'm gonna give you 70 of the elders to take some of the burden off but here's the me in that moment I'm like oh now 70 others that means I'm gonna be lowered in status and Rashi goes out to say no no no you see the thing is they're all there it's like it's like a it's like a candle that lights all their candles but it doesn't detract from it's great lights by the way this makes us back to the beginning of the parsha here's one we didn't think about at the time but the phrase bahá'u'llah is when you lift up the candles and one of the explanations of why is it why isn't it when you light them the answer is because the way you light from a candle to another candle is you keep your flame on it until it rises on its own but then as you're pointing out the other half is but you lose nothing and that's one of the ways as an educator and its parents as a friend we can understand is that we need to focus our energy on people with the goal of letting them rise right and knowing that managers also do that yeah do that like a best manager as a person who lets the other person gives him from time to time gives him or her some you know direction and and and and and the mission but let's there create a thing happen and and that's what a good manager does he doesn't control everything and one of the things that lets them do that is the belief that it doesn't diminish them at all right when the other people shine well sit so so he says gather the seventy-seven the elders come to the tent of meeting they'll gather around you and I'm going to come down says god I'm gonna speak with you there and I'm going to share the spirit which is upon you and I'm gonna put it on them it's gonna spill over as it were on today's meeting we remember right it's salty but something really has the word shadow in it right like I'll take a shadow of you like an emanation and emulation it also means nobility it gets some very interesting usages further on right okay tradition right right that's right it means nobility that's right but I'm gonna take some of you okay so I'm gonna take some of your nobility or I'm gonna take some of your shadow and take it from your spirit and it's going to pour out over them you know and I and I'm gonna put it on them and they're gonna carry with you the weight of the nation and you are not going to carry it alone the difference is is Jethro's idea was that these would be learned men they would be they would be straight men all that kind of stuff but what God is saying here they'll have to have pretty neat prophecy you read in the rock we need the prophecy not just not just there you know good characteristics which are of course key to that but they need God's prophecy and to the nations say sanctifies yourself because and you're gonna eat meat because you cried in the eyes of God saying saying give me some flesh because that's good that's good right not my good but your good excuse me Egypt right that was good I mean that can really anger God really yeah really is that really gonna say you're really gonna say that that was good wasn't so good when you were crying like a baby for me to take you out right and it was not good like good is Israel free of slavery on the way to Israel that's good good is not watching your children being beaten with whips and having to happen to have a piece of meat at night and building up the Egyptian idolatrous cities etc yeah but however I want you to know something now that you asked me here's here's the real parental moment from God you're gonna eat this flesh or you'll eat it oh yeah that's right not not not one day not one day not two days five days are not ten days in not twenty days for a month you're gonna eat until it comes out of your noses yeah it's just such a raw I mean we use that phrase there's a lot of wrong phrases in the CF whole and this part is particular it's just like so you eat it till it comes out your nose yes it's that way right and and and and that's because you rejected God who was within you and you cried before him saying why did you take us out of Egypt yeah and there's a little hint here to what comes down the line where I'm sort of cries for nothing and then God ensures that we will cry for something for the rest of right with that that will be next week's Torah portion or we're gonna get that but this is in many ways this is a setup for that for that tour yes this is laying the foundation for sure and so okay so but and here's another strange phrase from Moses who says okay god you're gonna feed them all this meat but I have one hundred thousand infantrymen a men of that age means say you can extrapolate how many people aren't in the nation just picture the grill right and and right these are the eating guys yeah so the eaters and you said gonna give them gonna give them flesh month were there for a month how's that gonna work if I if I if we say if we what's a good chef know if we slaughter they or all the the animals that we have with us and all the fish in the sea will be gathered here's that word gather again and it was found for them it won't be enough and then God says to Moses hey yeah - empty Qatar will the hand of God be shortened what will there's God not have the abilities are you really in other words are you really the boss of all these things am I asking you to do it all I didn't really ask you to do it all cuz really and I think there's a subtle critique here which is like so subtle right it's like you're what you're bearing the weight of these people in the end it's really my people in my world and I'm gonna feed them right and and here we really see certain flaws and Moses's character which is so awesome yeah I mean I mean people I just need to say people have to when you see a flowing flaw in Moses be like this Torah is real that's to me when I when I see it when I went when the Bible shares with me the flaws of Moses I'm like wow wow wow like like you are saying to me you guys can can work to the get to these levels these are human beings these are real people that's and that's the key is like it's true their flaws when I think of it was just also just the limitations of his capacity meaning meaning it's true he's there's a particular and we'll speak about it more when we get the partial godlike because this is also laying the groundwork for the final breakdown between motion and the people but on some level it's true their flaws but but you also just have to recognize there's just a limit there's a limit to what he can do he's okay but otherwise the tour sharing this was breaking down the fourth wall why are we seeing Moses as complaints and and weakness as a dirty laundry here it's it's it's it's the most beautiful thing in the world and the tours going to ironically in this week's Torah portion be like but just I want you don't know we'll see in a second I just want you to know Moses the greatest man that ever walked this earth right you know and therefore take the heart the fact that I just told you he wasn't perfect right I think it's I think it's amazing and so so Moses gets a little a little pushback from God saying will Hashem a hand be short now you shall see if my word is fulfilled or not Moses goes out and he does two things he gathers the 70 and he tells them he tells he tells the people were that word of God he gathers the 70 and indeed the God's presence in a cloud comes down and the spirits of of Moses gets put on the seventy men and they became prophets they were previously not prophets prophesy you can and the Rambam tells us you can get to a very high level but that's not prophecy that's that's approaching the ability to receive the communique right if you Biff you refine your character before they had refined characters then God spilled his his prophetic spirit upon them begins isn't a voter but it always ends as a gift right in fact there's a process you can do to shave yourself into a vessel but God chooses to give her an out right right very good by the way the reason the Rambam brings I was a big mouth local to the Philosopher's of the Middle Ages where the prophecy was a natural phenomenon that you just had to like tune yourself into and then there was and therefore there was no personality of the divine that was reaching out and making a connection right but it is important to understand that there is also wisdom so you can in your for sure and even now it's a real code a schism is like a very high divine form of wisdom but this is a specific act of will which is one of the great mysteries of what it is to be honest trailing carry the assertion that God has a will right and that right and then he chooses to communicate to the world through his people right okay so but however one yet again there is a little bit of rogue and the the rogue here you know it's interesting I just made the connection in my head between Michelle and elite so fun who are care pulling out the two sons of Aaron who went a little rogue yeah in many many traditions went rogue in two positive way by over-enthusiasm over and through I'm here there's gonna be these two prophets there's there's there's a whole story about that there was actually 72 men and they had to - well you know twelve tribes everybody's got to get their fair share so Moshe says you know we'll go six each tribe but then ends up being something - instead of 70 70 - instead of seven Vey nobody's gonna agree if I cut two out of the Tri so he puts you know a little no no thank you came in in a hat basically does everybody pick out he says prophet show up if it's blank stay home right and then then L Dodd may Dodd they saw prophet they didn't want anyone else to be embarrassed so they stayed home they were they had the humility of saying I'll never read they got the call to be a prophet but they said no no we'll just stay home because we don't want anyone else to lose out but they got the prophesy anyway that's in the camp that's why I specifically said suddenly they're overwhelmed with the spirit right and they're in the middle of the camp and they say something right what is that thing the Bible's the Torah purposefully does not let us know right but our our sages say that they said Moses is going to die and Joshua's gonna bring them into the land which by the way is a very important insight about understand think of all the conversation we just had almost got these limitations and he's not perfect and he said kill me off hey kill me off me and that was a private conversation by the way between God and motion even though it gets written down from generations right which is on record God says yes no but part of what prophecy is is to pull back into the divine perspective so they have this moment of almost zooming out like there they are there in the camp the spirit pours down and they boom zoom out to the level where they see oh my gosh I see what's happening I see where things are going I see what the conversation that most just have of God I understand that it's gonna be you're sure for all kinds of reasons that will speak about maybe in Kolkata and and that's their message not just some like Moses gone to die and Josh is going to Israel it's not like no that's not it they just see where things are going because they were privy in that moment to the divine perspective right but still though it's an interesting thing that the moment where we see a certain mosaic weakness is the moment that we're also kind of there's a revelation that like you won't be able to fulfill the mission like there's a lot of little clue in store portion yeah you it was the Jethro thing it was it was it was this broken moment and we're gonna see more and there's this like little messages and this is also going to have a political effect on the people in next tour portion oh yeah we're there kind of sense that Moses leadership is shaky-shaky yeah seemingly okay so so we actually got out like a lot of messages of Moses shakiness well first thing is that these two prophets are in the camp they're saying something and then Joshua runs to suit if somebody runs to Moses and tells him who that is is an interesting question maybe it's Joshua maybe it's an Aaron himself we'll see or we won't see but that that's one of the questions there and then Joshua who is and and here's Joshua suddenly right this is Moses a second in command and this is Moses as prime students is his disciple and he says my master Moses jail them their jail them like like like like lock him up lock him up like shut up oh yeah and here's the moment where it's beautiful right where's good where Moses Austin are you jealous for me who would give that the whole nation of God should be prophets this is that Hashem should give his spirit upon all of them so we're back to Moses the the for the nation man and beyond that it's my eyes one of the most important and most revealing statements in the entire Torah because here we see where Moshe who received the Torah we see what his perspective on the whole purpose of the endeavor is the whole person endeavor the reason that he believed that the Torah was important to receive and give onto the people of building the camp of going at the area to say oh the whole thing is in order that I wouldn't be a vessel that's able to receive God's Spirit it needs and it's something which is unfortunately been lost in the and the sort of exilic relationship we have to reducing the Torah to religion which it behooves us to think about how to bring this mosaic vision of what it is we're working toward back into focus so Moses is is is is we kind of some momentarily what's the word I'm looking for enough fault or fault or falter in his back yeah and he says like no no no because that's the thing is that everyone's flaws come up when you put them under enough pressure but it doesn't mean that the genuine base of their personality has changed right and this is actually who Moshe is right that's right that's right and I want them and I'm not jealous of the 70 elders me and I'm not afraid if somebody says I'm not gonna lead the people into the land I wish everybody would have real God's perspective and even when I complained said kill me I don't want to see it wasn't about because it was about me it was just because I'm telling God okay and I also don't want to see my failure in your duty right that's that's what that's a big part of it anyway we're just about to finish up there's two more important points here one is Moses again here's that word vyas if the word Cephas gather is repetitive in this Torah portion so he gathered Moses was gathered in back into the campaign and the and the elders of Israel and then suddenly a wind came last time a wind came it was awesome remember when a win came that's when we had the splitting of the Red Sea here we're going to have this big what are the college birds pheasants they're called whale quail well I've seen them I've seen many a quail here in the Land of Israel many many equivalent and quail if you look at them they look like birds that you want to eat their fat yeah the fat and it comes from the sea and suddenly it like landed on the camp its ring and the grass right straight it's like that movie chew and swallow whatever it is making meatballs just like that right maybe I should call the show ok Cloudy with a Chance of that's funny ok so cloudy is also good because that's right that's right so in the description is that really is a lot of quail all over the camp as in a day's walk distance they need even quail right there knee-deep in quail and there's and it's in as far as the agency and its in its long okay and now the nation and the nation got up that whole day in that night and the following day and they gathered the quail even the one who didn't gather a lot gathered in ten more quail and you could possibly write and and there and then they they actually laid it out flat around the camp dried quail dry quail and then right they salted dried whatever and then these flesh was yet between their teeth when God struck them by the way the flesh was between their teeth and the rabbi's are like oh you see this means that that the the stuff between your teeth called me it's called me and then you swallow it's still it's still very well be meat and therefore you can't have milk wait I love I love you're like oh you see this this story about Jews bidding getting destroyed I wasn't about divine wrath about having to wait between milk and meat prevent up the Java statement rule it's you know what I have a new lush ear that I haven't yet formulated which is it's all about eternity like so many of our laws are about keeping our people in eternal people so many of our laws are about a secret way to keep ourselves to clean on Passover to keep the Sabbath so you don't get tired out to eat the proper things to honor your parents all these things really in one way is to keep the Jewish people eternal which is the greatest proof that God is God is alive and so our laws are all in many ways to keep us going as a people I know but you realize then why the individualistic culture which we live today finds them so difficult because it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with me right right and and you know who had a problem with that I can think of any you know what Alysha been a boy it was like hey how come this guy fulfilled the the commandments to to keep our that that the Torah says the two commandments honoring the parents and and sending away the mother bird and then this kid died in the process and therefore the late Dean feel like die and there's no there's no judge and there's no judgement and I'm always like at least a better boy that was talking about the nation it's talk about the nation man a nation that does these things who honors their parents who who's kind to the mother burden and sees you know the continuation of the next generation that's a nation that dwells eternally not the individual person you met you missed that well I mean that raises a lot of questions we don't need to go to it now okay very good fine okay fine and the place is called vltava yeah grave little gloss last graves of lost and which tells us that lust can send you to the grave as our rabbi's tell us and not only that but that the part of you which lusts is the one which will rot and part of you which rises above that is that which is eternal amen that is true that is true Akina at a vibe back avoidin what's in the thermometer lust the the jealousy the lust in the honor sire of honor that fire takes a person out of this world there's there it is here in the Torquay frota tava don't don't don't that's right finally laughs or at least the eighteenth story in this Barger seriously and that is the story again it really is about Moses but it's about also Miriam and Aaron who get together and somehow talk negatively about Moses and about the coucher woman who shied either means beautiful or black know or African it could either mean that it's talking about his wife Zipporah or maybe a previous wife because there's about 60 years of Moses life which we don't know about the Midrash and talk about how he became a warlord in Africa it's a whole long story he's got a backstory it's got a backstory right that's like that's the prequel okay so so the Kushites oh they talked about the coucher woman and basically they say well is it just that God spoke to to Moses because he also spoke to us and we didn't and and we hear him speaking well what they're referring to probably is that he separated himself from his wife because Moses relationship with God is not with preparation and and kind of kind of knowing that now you're going to have a discussion with God it's rather at all times a live connection live connection and therefore he always had to be separated from his wife from the highest state of purity high state a focus right instead of purity and focus and they're like aren't we also like him well God heard since God hears everything and then in parentheses the narration says and the man Moses is the most humble from any human that is on the that that is on the face that is that is on the face of the earth which on I think on a simple level is just telling us by the way most probably heard - right he wasn't gonna say anything right right but God wasn't gonna let it there's a proof for what you're saying there's a proof for what you're saying because when the punishment comes now it's Moses who had the Aaron asks forgiveness of Moses right for what Miriam dishonor right so suddenly God shows up to them which is not the way he shows up to them and they're not therefore not prepared not prepared focus in purity right and they're like a little probably shaken up any any any cost of the three of them outside and says the three of them came out and this is me are the way that's the way three summit says there were three some twice here this is the leaders this is this is the triumvirate this is the triangle of of the this is a family these are all so simple simply this is and it God calls them out God comes down a me at the entrance of the tent of meeting and he calls out separately to Moses to Aaron and Miriam and they come out and he says listen to this this to me is amazing he says Vollmer she moon odd for I listen to my words that is that as an unusual phrase that God would say like listen to me I gotta tell you something you listen to me listen he says if your prophecy which you have prophecy is on one level I show up to you I I reveal myself to you in a dream it's a Fatah I reveal yourself I am en Aviv damn Hashem been mother Maria love know elevate vada the Shalom at the Beverly in through a dream that's how I reveal myself to you that's how I speak to you right that's a prophet or that's really your prophecy well the Rambam builds a whole perspective here from pointing out that motion might not actually be a prophet he might just be a different category right of I don't know relationship uh-huh he says not so my servant Moses in my whole house he is trustworthy he is to be trusted these words like I think right it's an explosion in the mind that you can't even swallow this stuff it's like that God says in my whole house he is he is trustworthiness and man who oh my gosh hey l pedobear bow I speak to mouth to mouth Umar Umar Umar a and I and I show myself the lovely daughter but who not to show me a beat and not through and not through a mobile she doted now with riddles not with riddles or with images nor this is this is separate for a phrase he says he says I speak to mouth to mouth meaning like face to face in our English language mother Liberty throat and as in a vision and not the riddles to mullah to show me a beat and the shot there isn't he actually sees the image of God which is really problematic since motions just told the people over and over at Sinai no tomorrow's please no tomorrow no no pictures so there's a beautiful phrase I think in and I really think it's perhaps even shot is that the difference between Moshe and the other prophets is that Moshe is so elevate is that he sees the world truly from the divine perspective we're not the shamily beat he doesn't just see what I show him God he sees the world like I see it wow that that is that that just you know how it says you know you're not supposed to see God if you see God you'd like just these thoughts themselves put a shudder through me like oh that's you were feeling a little too much for me you know that people don't understand it's just like the Jewish people said to God at Sinai it's like after the first two Commandments you know what you take it from here maybe we'll listen to you yeah we're happy to keep get a reduced version of this thing I mean it's if you ever if you ever look in the middle of the night open up look out like a like a Jewish mysticism book like a book like separates Iran they're like okay I gotta close this a little scary in any case so the the the this on the simplest simplest level really God says to them look you see Moses one way you see God in your religion you see prophecy you receive prophecy one way Moses as you just said rabbi mike is a different level altogether he sees directly maybe either my image or the image that I see how and then he says how come you didn't fear to speak badly on my servant on Moses I mean you wouldn't speak that way about me right maybe since you know for sure though you have Nathan the debate about the motion AHA is indicating you're at the Shem right and it says via our fashion bond via the Shem was anchored in them any left right he just turns his back to them seemingly and theirs and as we know every time there's a hurry off every time there's a the word anger or Larry a flaring anger there's going to be punishment except for one time the Torah that's a whole story onto itself I talked about it on my class over chef wrote finally the the the the cloud lifts up as part of God's going away and there is Miriam she is now white as snow white as snow not in a good way to snow a bad white as snow which is the Sirat the skin leave the skin disease as I've told you many times Sarat psoriasis comes from the word Sarat but in any case she's now in frikkin she stricken she's inflicted and Aaron looks at Miriam and suddenly he sees her in this state in Aaron says to Moshe be a donee which is which is it's my fault sir it's our fault it's my fault don't don't I'm translating a little bit you know not it's not exact translation but don't don't put the sin upon us do not be angry with us Sharon Oliver share katana which we went we did we did wrong did wrong right from the from the word Rashi says from the word I fell we sinned and we and we there's two kinds of different sins there we spoke badly about you please don't hold it against us I'll not see commandership it's a bit Satomi reckon emo vol could seem sorrow it's a tough race so is it is it is it you Moses don't be like like it likely it'll be dead don't be dead like like immune to our right like like a child that emerges from the from the womb and half its flesh of Seaton or don't be do not allow the situation that Miriam is now like half dead who the one who also came out from the same womb as you right all right so do not do not either way but I don't like this just just on the vehicle that cb0 is flesh is half-eaten a week we harken back now to the other flesh that was eaten here in this week I'm still eating it right now that's going on right so Moses immediately fights a commotion Moses Moses yells to God Lemoore saying five words Elna respond Allah that's it God please heal her please and God says to Moses if the if a father would spit in the face in her face it's a comparable would she not be embarrassed for seven days let her stay outside of the camp for seven days and then she again will be gathered there's that word as if again okay and indeed Miriam was outside of the camp for seven days and the nation did not leave her the nation would not leave her remember she is the one who also and the Mishna says she's the one who waited to see what's going on with her brother with her brother in the in the little reed basket rhe basket so the nation waits for her and then they went from there MacArthur wrote and they and they parked it at par on which is gonna be opposite the Land of Israel but basically whoa and this is all about slander speech it's all about the greatness of Moses is highlighted through this story his difference between him and other people him and other even other prophets it hurts me for Miriam it always hurts me it always hurts me it always bothers me that this is written in the Torah I always good like want to say to God like can we not put this in a tour because she's such an amazing and great lady as we said in so many ways my Lord caused a set up for the partial which comes we're gonna see the enter speech with it Miriam's at this point is there's a great grace that God is offering to people that say listen I'm gonna you that that that this is a great sin to speak slander even Miriam even the great man we we could have taken care this just between the four of us as God but no I want I wanted you to know because I see what's coming down the line right you need to learn the lesson for us too late unfortunately they didn't they don't but we can we certainly can and we should get prepared for really 40 days of clean no slander certainly about the Jewish people about the Land of Israel about God okay and just forty days of a clean even far ask far just 40 days of consciousness that the good comes out of your mouth and we can always ask yourself is it true is it necessary is it kind alright true is it necessary is it kind right I mean if you can't get past the first one obviously it's actually a sewer to say it the second one it may not be so necessary obviously but the third one is really the question of what kind of world do you want to live in mhm and speech creates yo yes each creates all right folks that was in our 40 minutes of Rabbi Mike Feuer and myself I'm clean fun yeah intense intense business and and I think that we will call the show what do we get Cloudy with a Chance well but the other one I think is also really the other title I thought for this show which probably not going to use but really the Jews are and the Jews aren't is I think very very affair of what the story portions about it's really it's really a seminal Torah portion and that really shows a tension between what can be and what happened and the highs and lows for sure of Ami's rail more highs and lows of a nice trail can be heard at rabbi Mike's other podcast called the Jewish story here in the Land of Israel and I want to give people an invite if you're still listening at this point send me an email Ralph Mike foyer at gmail.com if you're interested in jumping on the next Jewish story webinar well them to be a two-part session on religion in the postmodern age the promise and the challenge should be a very good discussion so shoot me an email send you the details that sounds awesome and that email is Ralph Mike Feuer at gmail.com or Rob Mike at the Land of Israel that's right on Facebook facebook.com forward slash mine you can reach me there and 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right hello so if anybody is listening to this part of the program write us back a hashtag qdn princess that's right hashtag Judean princess that's exactly right by the way the name of the show is going to be Cloudy with a Chance of quail quail and I'm gonna nice get a nice quail picture for the show most quail picture Maka's that means that we're gonna keep this half tight so that people can write to it so I want to get to really two stories and they're really two articles you don't think people want to know what I made for Shiva ultimately okay you can tell them about your your your basically I can tell them and you can add you can put the garnish on it which is you basically made three cakes one was a coconut cake coconut pie coconut pie which was amazing it was just like amazing if you're a coconut lover now some people don't my mother does not like coconut I love coconut coconut soap coconut everybody call it the suntan lotion coconut drinks alcoholically that would be there will be there will be what's called appreciated alcoholic you know the little with the little umbrellas yeah because if you like pina colada you know so so that's that's and you made the coconut cake then you also made a carrot cake which had many layers of cream cheese frosting people it was in years that I've been encouraged you were college to make that say the truth you were polishing that's right so you were housing for and you made the carrot cake and you also made for me you made a cheese cake with a puree strawberry topping on top which was outrageous out of this world and and it may have taken a few years off my this worldly life I mean my share and say I meant took away a little bit of my next world because we saw sneaking away but it was quite good and then you also made Blin shows male inches I wasn't happy with the blintzes they say there is still any left we left them all with your mom why cuz I didn't think they were good Oh phooey I would eat one tonight you know it's been a very long day for me today I've been up since since the morning I did recorded the mic show or with Rabbi right mic where that part of the show I met with him today I went down to know if I alone - shall I beam hazardous Eva where I spoke to the students that are about to leave after this at the beginning of the summers are going back to America or Canada or England so I spoke with them then I drove back did my requisite Wednesday night yoga men's yoga here at in in beautiful Judea and now recording with you so it's been a long day and you know but it would have been good for me blueberry blends yeah with some tea sorry I would have been really happy really the conversation we should have had several days ago well I didn't know me when the divvying up of the leftovers of what was happening speaking of really not knowing things fully like divvying divvying i would have seriously though my enzymes immediately just kicked into having a bunch in tea that was sorry bad real the men so good would have been right now for making me feel bad don't worry about it don't worry about it bubbling shanti well just wait I'll make it again for you on circus yeah yeah or maybe I could go to my mom's house and get one of those okay listen there's there's this organization called if not now mmm-hmm and they're like they're like this you know they're these young angry Jews like the video game that my children play on my phone what is that called angry game it's not all the way the most PC when you kill a bad guy it's like a little sow yeah but you're not killing like any any specifically anti-jewish it's not like you're shooting a Nazi or jihadis it's just regular bad guys right I think they're I think they're Cossacks with like Oh with these like what's the thing that you cut the we with sides yeah we're coming to get you and your yeah you and you're supposed to save the challah and the books seriously if you go to to your your your Google app store he falls down he's like oh oh you can anyway and and when he jumps over something goes cry sure thing if you if you go to you you can actually get this game it's called angry angry Joe it's angry on your play store and our kids loved it they loved it I think I think and they I don't think they really like get deep into the nuance of it I just think that they like that there's like a rabbi and he gets the books in the hollows I think that's what I think ya rabbi whose superhero is awesome and if you can get the bad guys there's nothing wrong with that you know it's funny say that let me let me then switch gears here for a second okay so the oh it's not now actually that is the care that I was talking back it's that they have it back and they have it so so this organization has been anti birthright they've been doing this birthright walk walk offs so these registers are disrupting the birthright trip yeah and then they go to see like Palestine and the palestinian plight and they like the whole thing is we're gonna show the Jewish establishments truth that they're hiding this deep dark secret of the occupation and and my ploy has been the whole time being like and I wrote an article in the foreword which which made a kick it made a splash at the time which was like great I I want you to uncover the establishments unwillingness to go to the West Bank Judea and Samaria because the minute you're gonna push them to go see the real Palestine they're gonna have to see the real settler story also they're gonna have to come to gush etzion and kevro etc unless you're just a propagandist you 100 they're gonna dare that's what they want they want to see one side but people are not that dumb and so people are going to have to see both sides and therefore we're gonna actually open up the issues of our ancestral connection to this place so they had so of course in any one of these Oh so the New York Times had an article about them right now the truth of the matter is this whole group is made up of like a hundred people okay although they have a Twitter following that's serious but but they they're really not that big and you see it in their pictures a lot of times it's like seven people hanging a banner off a bridge or something but the New York Times since it wants to side with their with their outlook you know just wrote a big big old article about them sure and again the truth of who do you expect from the New York Times right if you read it if you read it with a with a with the what's it called my it's it's late in the day with the judgmental I like the salt with a discerning diamond you see that really no talking about it just a few people who are disrupting things you know that but in any case they have one line there what's like I went to so who do they always knock who do they always know if not now people the you know this kind of article and then yeah but specifically it's always gonna be heparin it's always gonna there's always gonna be a knock on a hammer on why because it's the only place where Jews live amongst Arabs / Palestinians right it's the only one people are really literally 31 and it's the only one that has a security apparatus to maintain that and and it's the only one that therefore does all kinds of stuff to push Arabs back from destroying the small Jewish community which the New York Times / if not now read as an abridgment of Palestinian rights instead of seeing it as being a defense of the small Jewish community which has been under attack by the jihad forever they read that very same situation as being like look you're not letting this Arab walk right here they don't mention that 97% of the cities jew-free right they'll say look this street is Arab free which is not sure there's no street that is Arab free or anything like that there's some slivers that there was like there's like it's like a little bit more sterile a little bit more like less friction and so Arabs are made to like walk around one part of one little street so that they won't come in contact with the Jews too much so there won't be any tension between both Arabs and Jews that everybody will stay safe and I think when you say tension you mean stabbings killings writings exactly and it's like wow and so they have a line in there Malcolm mm-hmm when I came to Hebron this is the NYT reporter no person talking and she says no not a rep a girl who was on there they don't have reps marker this is a grassroots movement right so she's like I came and I saw that a Jewish star was spray-painted some we're marking Jewish territory okay and I was so ashamed because the Jewish being Jewish is about love and kindness not about marking territory and I just she was uncomfortable with the ideas that Jews own anything that the Jewish star symbolizes any kind of possession right and I'm like girl have you heard of the State of Israel in our flag which marks a big Jewish star right up on there and it's like it's like you know and it's a it I I kind of love this article oh yeah there's something about me like a love is this article because it's the preposterous nosov it on which is which is it's it's there's a like an element of comical to it but there's also an element of late Baroness here it is Laine Baron is I don't lame bear it's right before us here it is a girl who can't deal with that a Jewish star represents Jewish control Jewish strength Jewish land ownership to her it's an anathema of the quote unquote I can't possession be why can't possession come with love that's because because she can't deal with the one of the main problems that that so-called Jewish liberals have a problem with one of their main things beef says they don't say it but here's the real truth they have a hard time with Jewish power in general they have a hard time with Jewish power and I wrote about this in depth in my article in The Daily wire which is really that that coming from a diaspora perspective where you're like this liberal minority sending a signal of liberalism to the ruling majority right that's that's the way you see you don't see Jewish power Jewish power may send a signal back to the rulers controls of where you live that there's they should themselves be powerful and nationalistic so it offends them an offense of Jewish strength is a way to actually endanger them Jewish weakness is a way for them to actually survive in their mind in the Diaspora and and it's just a kanata matter so it was like it was a it's like a it's almost a comical statement she was bothered by the Jewish star representing landowner ship or controller marking of territory it's like that means that you can't deal with the whole formula of the Jewish state right you just can't deal with that with that with that concept anyway that's that is definitely and I and I tweeted it please check out my tweets on this thing and if you can retweet though be they'll be wonderful in a similar issue I think you read an article about a study right so this girl is a little bit off the charts but it but she kind of a little bit reflects what's going on with American jewelry the American Jewish Committee did a study they put it out about a week ago a little bit more than a week ago a study like this has not been done before it's because of the the like broadness of its international scope and they asked similar questions of Israeli American and French Jews to try and get a sense of where they stand on some of the issues so let's go through some of the things that they said they were all asked how important is it to be Jewish wait on your life I missed for a second the that's the AJC that put out the AJC put out the study about a week ago and it's considered like a pretty I think groundbreaking is a little extreme it's not it's not a groundbreaking study but it is it is Revere and revealing study more revealing than some of the others because usually they're there they don't do comparisons of these three different groups mm-hmm so they asked all the groups how important is it in your life that you're Jewish how much is Jesus being Jewish an important part of your life so 51% of Israeli Jews said it was most important it's way way up at the top mm-hmm 29% said it was very important and 8% said not important or not that important at all so together about seventy percent so so 80 percent of rally Jews when it was either most important or very important so an eighty percent think of just really just think it's quite a that it's very important very quite mostly yes important too their judaism in their life whatever they perceive it to be okay okay but when you ask the French Jews yeah only 33 percent found it very important 32 percent found it somewhat important oh man and 32 percent said it was not important merde yeah exactly but American Jews they were doing a little bit better really forty-one percent I thought it was very important 41 percent that's ten percent less than than Israeli Jews yeah thirty five percent said it was somewhat important mm-hmm which is a little bit of a different question than then it seems like the Israelis got and 24 percent said not important so that's interesting to look at where as a percent of Israeli Jews think that they're being Jewish is not important twenty four percent of American Jews think it's not important that's a big difference you might have thought that it would be exactly reversed since Israeli Jews live in Israel and they don't need their Judaism as much because being Israeli it fulfills that and like you kind of don't need to be a Jew but I think you would have thought you would have thought I'm saying that you then you gotta ask so you just said something that's like you just glossed over like a major existential question which is how much is being Jewish a part of being an Israeli you just said that being an Israeli is much more you know they wouldn't need the Judaism because they're Israeli but maybe inherent and the answer is that Israelis considered their Judaism part of their Israeli nasai it out I'm saying I could have thought that American Jews would be like whoa it's really important to be Jewish right because that's what identifies me here but in truth it's exactly the opposite which is when you're in Israel being Jewish is a big part of life and you're in America it's easy to slip into Americanism and really assimilate out assimilation doesn't necessarily happen in a conscious way it's basically it becomes less and less important for you throughout the generations and nothing reminds me of that here in Israel you're reminded of the Jewish story and the Jewish identity quite often so here's another spect of the Jewish story that's also can be compared between the groups they also asked all three groups about how they view their counterparts abroad or in some cases in Israel in terms of family relationship they were offered a few options they were allowed to call where you got me confused okay so Israeli Jews were asked yeah whether they consider American Jews to be their siblings cousins or extended family or not family are you brothers are you cuz I you know are you like do you have like a brothers are we brothers are we cousins right or are we not much right right or something I don't know not something very strong right so 31% of Israeli Jews said American Jews are their brothers 31% of Israel Israeli Jews said American Jews are their brothers right another 47% said that there are their cousins it's about 70 percent together so for the 30 and 40 percent 30 said brothers right so 78 percent of Israelis yeah see American Jews as either their cause either their siblings or their cousins right but then you turn to the American Jews right the other side of that same coin okay the other side they got asked the same question only 13% of American Jews view Israeli Jews as their sibling right 58 percent which is a very significant portion right only 47 percent of Israeli Jews saw American Jews as their cousins whereas a 58 percent of American Jews see Israeli Jews as their cousins right so we're related but it's further out but 28 percent of American Jews do not see Israeli Jews as their family wow that's that's that is humongous that means that almost 30% of Americans American Jews don't see Israelis don't even like kasher there's nothing but that holds which really means what I really forget that forget for a second now they do they see Israel as cousins or not what it means is actually they don't have it an ethnic identification that's what it means it means that they don't think the word ethnicity okay exactly okay that's interesting so so basically whereas 78% of Israeli Jews see a fairly close familial relationship it's about seventy one percent of American Jews who feel any kind of similar thing now there's there's a thirty one percent of French Jews yeah said they'd consider Israeli Jews their siblings a much higher percent than American Jews which is interesting there again right because you brought up an interesting point that American Jews seemingly from the results see Judaism as as a religion right whereas it seems here these French Jews who just a second ago told you that being Jewish is not a very big part of their life thirty one percent of them still consider Israeli Jews to be their siblings which is they view being Jewish as much more of an ethnic belong it's absolutely correct that's exactly right it's very important to understand that a family let me say two things first thing is that one of the reasons that Israelis see American Jews as closer family is actually a cultural thing which is like this Israelis like America and they try to speak English they love English some do in some tone I know a lot of Israelis that don't speak a lick of English but but but they try they generally emulate they think America is a good country strong country and their brothers living there are culturally close I mean their minds are like I can talk English do you know but the is Americans look at Israel with a little bit of a jaundiced eye they don't always understand the culture in Israel and American culture is much easier to understand because you see it on TV right you like you can identify with it because it's like oh my cousin is exactly like that dr. house or whatever it is you know and but the America gets dr. Joel Fleischman on exposure more than dr. house I don't think dr. house was Jewish whatever I meant to say that it wasn't talking about Jewish I was talking about that in America Israeli Jew can understand America better than an American Jew can understand Israel yes just for sure the American culture is much more available and so their Israeli and so you want to be closer to the guy you think is cool so look in Israeli Jew will be like oh the Americans are cool and so is the American Jew who's my the American Jew looks at the Israeli Jew he's like I don't quite get you I don't understand what motivates you you're a little bit different than me you may be a little bit haughty towards me I may feel a little inferior I may have an inferiority complex visa fee you because you carry guns and you get this whole thing and me I'm a little bit soft I'm a little bit this and that I'm all about the you know I'm just about comfort and all that and I don't quite know where I fit in with you and I don't always understand you and I don't get your country and you kind of understand my country but I don't quite understand your country and so and so like there's like it's a little bit more of a cultural divide for an American Jew these night watching a lot of television shows except for foutre right like if I were to probably changed that dynamic a little bit now she's disels also on or so there's no question to me there's no question 100% that people will feel more identified with the ultra-orthodox and will fear them less and understand them better because there's no question about it it's a nice show by the way it's clean I haven't I haven't watched it yet and I know no bad language and I'm like I totally I totally and it's really real right you know anything about a hurry Tim you know that there's like a lot a lot of truth and there isn't a good show like that changes people's perceptions just like people you know after the movies like the right stuff there's like a huge interest and going to space for young people becoming astronauts etc but people people see that kind of stuff at least you'll be able to identify better okay let's go to the next the next topic next and last which is the same which is almost no it's so interesting we can't I we have to go through it okay the next topic caring about Israel how important is it how what how much of an important part is it of your a Jew mmm Israel okay mm-hmm 62% of American Jews believe that caring about Israel is a very important part of my being a Jew that's interesting how much 62 yes mm-hmm I think that's staggered not low yeah okay yep seventy-two percent agree that a thriving State of Israel is vital for the long-term future of the Jewish people okay so that that's kind of encouraging because it's definitely more than than half I mean it's the majority opinion here's something interesting among Israelis fifty percent said living in Israel is a very important part of my being a Jew mm-hmm which is also interesting given the fact that that a lot of Jeolla Israeli said said that being Jewish is very important to them right very or pretty important to them yep however ninety one percent said the long-term future of the Jewish people is linked to the future of the State of Israel in Israel Israeli say that Israelis said that ninety one percent it's like a huge huge majority okay the two-state solution wait yes wait that's what's the American version of that the American version version is that 72 percent believed that a thriving State of Israel is vital for the long-term future of the Jewish people it's not well they yeah they couldn't really acts exactly the same they didn't ask well what sort of what we see there and even though I have to say I'm a little bit surprised is that basically Israelis and Americans basically understand that's how central and affright that Israel is a big part of the future future okay that's nice yes happiness okay the two-state solution by the way I just want to tell you just today I was driving I went to no-fee alone yeah I spoke to you she about Shelly room and I saw the train coming out of a tunnel the New Jerusalem Tel Aviv train which we haven't taken my feel like we'll do that as was like a fun thing to do it markets middle of June just don't you know I mean like summer vacation okay okay okay okay are you one of those like old school people who think about summer these a V what month it is no no we think about summer in terms of are the kids home or the kids not home that's what summer means I say I say I misunderstood now I totally forgot oh so I saw the train coming out and I was just like wow State and I looked at the pylons of a big bridge that they have that lets that fast ring zip over a valley there and I'm just like wow State of Israel look at you yeah you know no and no fight long very beautiful place beautiful view in the mountains I gotta take you there I'm looking for them okay again the two-state solution Israelis 51% opposed mm-hm either strongly more somewhat mm-hmm 39 percent are in favor according to this study 39 39 percent like two-state solution 51 percent strongly opposed or somewhat opposed among younger israelis forty two point four percent strongly opposed mm-hmm which is almost the entire percent that that strongly oppose or somewhat oppose when you look at the larger population look is that the the younger and fifty 6.8 percent of ultra-orthodox israelis strongly opposed how much fifty six point eight percent well that's good news strongly oppose a two-state solution fabulous fabulous however now let's go it's over it's over mark and fifty percent of israelis say that not one single Jewish community in Judea and Samaria should be dismantled for the sake of a Palestinian state which is interesting fifty percent say there should not be even one hair on one Jew should have to move two steps over so that so that a Palestinian state could be created which is very very significant also given the fact that this includes people who support a two-state solution at all hmm half of Israelis just don't want to move a Jew again whatever we're done with that okay so that's interesting news but then you go to the American Jews how do they look at a two-state solution but wait but can I just ask you a question with respective American Jews like really like I say this like with love why would I ask that over marriages we'll get to that okay okay we'll get me that save your questions save your question okay okay let's just we asked no good it was a poll with meaning to say you don't with you had you can have an opinion in Israel but like this is a security question asking what the local question isn't they're not it's not like they get to push the red button or anything right they're just asking in an age a zpool sure okay so we go over to them 26% of American Jews oppose a two-state solution hmm 64 percent 26 that's half over the years or that's half of what the Israelis are yes okay half the number of people 64% supports right so that is a fundamental difference of opinion right between Israelis and Americans yeah just let me tweet at the Mokka will will will well knock that down okay weren't you work on that okay the last question that I have here is was asked again of Israeli and American Jews not to offend all the French Jews who were excitedly waiting to hear all their answers that the results were not like so forth coming from that segment not a lot of publicized parts of the report if there are French Jews god bless you and please write me hashtag I'm a French Jew alright there you go yeah so Israelis were asked about American Jewish opinions kind of like you were just asked like who's asking you right so sixty three point five percent of Israelis a clear majority said it is quote not appropriate for American Jews to attempt to influence Israeli policy on such issues as national security and peace negotiations with the Palestinians mm-hmm that's a lot yes we three point five percent However fifty seven percent of American Jews said no we should have a say in the policy decisions of Israel uh uh and I can help everybody figure this sounds very simple and that's the study by the way he designed and sealed okay let me just say something yeah I think American Jews should a say on issues that impact them for example GU er conversion or the koto or I don't know what like things that really impact them personally then of course I could define impact right you got a lot of you had this girl who came into her Braun and she saw the Jewish star that's not it got all triggered right because sugar sugar does not come on what someone we're talking about we're talking about that it's also Israel is creating a bad image of Jews out there and she doesn't want to be associated with that kind of light so she can move here Israel is like creating a problem she can move here in vote she can make a difference if she wants but she's not gonna be able to tell Israel what to do with security policy while sitting and not serving in the security services and not being part of that apparatus and not suffering the things and not suffering what it actually would mean to give away land etc so like I'm talking about if something impacts your community or is or let's put let me let me put it a little bit better if it's a global Jewish issue okay global Jewish issue then everybody can have a say or should ever say but not equal is necessarily but I say but if it's a local issue our security our security our kids lives on the line they I don't like to use the language don't have a say have a say people never say as much as they want but we also have the kind of normative right to to disregard or to that wasn't was not the word I'm looking for it to discount that's what I'm looking for it to discount your opinion because you don't bear the consequences of these decisions and also to put it really really simply you're just not part of the democratic process here so with read a million articles from Jews in America and hear their impassioned opinion but in the end of the day like when we're picking our legislators and they're going out there to make some laws there are American Jews are not or the French Jews there any other Jews who are outside of Israel are not really represented I'm excited that in the end I think that if not now is going to serve our purposes that's the funny thing I'm Amish feel that if not now unbeknownst to them well I think peace now just recently put out some kind of an animated map of like thirty years of settlement or something did you see that I've met I've never actually got to look at it I think I get distracted and then never looked at it but some like incredibly beautiful thing where you like to see Jewish communities crop up if you just put a tikva in the background it's probably like the most beautiful thing you've ever listened listen that's a really great idea if you can't in the meantime I got to find that yeah so next time you if you watch the piece now video just just put on another YouTube in the background of the high-tech foil like that you know wacky Barak chameau he by rock sham oh macha I want to say that that if not now does not realize that their focus on the Palestinian narrative enforcing these Jewish American establishment to look at the truth of the occupation will actually eventually lead the American establishment to have to recognize the Jewish story of Judea and Samaria which they've basically everybody's like kept our eye away from that and if not now is gonna force is gonna force these the Jewish organizations to have to like confront the West Bank and in it they're gonna connect to our story to make sure that you got all these like very impressive organizations out there in the world who are very well budgeted and unmanned by very smart Jewish leaders out in the Diaspora and then you wanna like raise issues like Judea and Samaria and they are terrified to touch it they don't the educational for sure the educational institutions don't want to touch it and if they do it's like the most Parv unhelpful these kids are out on campus getting like ideologically slaughtered every day and they're they're not look they're like desperately with their fingernails clinging to their belief that Israel is like not a genocide all you know making matzo with the blood of gods and children country and and that the big smart organizations are like well it's disputed territory and Israel's always ready to negotiate about it and they like don't they don't like give them any tools and I find this to be incredibly incredibly sad so in the in and and like destructive because when these kids are looking to somebody for help and they're like you know they're these kids are on fire and these organizations won't even spit on them to put the fire out then it's like okay so you're not gonna help me and I can't do this anymore so I think you're right that that even negative attention on these issues will force Jews to ultimately because Klaus to defend the truth here's how it's gonna work out they'll have to go listen to what if not now is saying about the Palestinians but then the open-mindedness will force them to have to confront the Jewish Jewish story of this place right and then it's gonna have to talk about it out loud right and and at the end our narrative is gonna win because it's true and not and not jihadist and and historical and true and security-wise and we're not gonna leave this place etc so so I like I like I really go to on if not now I'm like keep going and keep keep those New York Times coming you know it's like to me it's like you you just want us a victory but you don't see it it's it's you're you know keep keep going with it because your occupation narrative will actually bring to a sovereignty narrative in the end yes amen amen Malcolm Fleischer I wanna I want to thank you for so many things Wow but I especially want Coco's carriage ya strawberry topping cheese and Blanche sorry about those blintzes now I feel why would you leave a name what have you heard of alkane yeah so if he shuts off everything wrong beats Vukovich dough and may you live Lynch Akkad okay the [ __ ] look at me I'm lacking a blintz in here carryin Lynch this whole hole right in front of our audience I don't have to make you know what I want you to make me one for Shabbos that's what that's that's what I'm saying yes and because it's still within the seven days of the power of the holiday holiday alright folks I think about it we got a we got to get some rest Marcus so I want to thank everybody for joining us the show has been long if you listened to to this part of the show please hashtag holiday or or Yishai deserves a blintz deserve visible in Wien princess more Judy inferences moreover a lot of you wrote to me saying each I please make me please make us the the the whole book of Ruth and and I want if 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