The Yishai Fleisher Show: Steal This Blessing

[Music] Shilo everybody and welcome to the chef laser show broadcasting live from you shall I'm here ha kodesh Jerusalem the holy city the wonderful city the beautiful city with so many beautiful awesome things including the partes Institute here in Tokyo Jerusalem rabbi Mike Feuer joint so Shalom rabbi Mike Borzello it's me it's good to see you and it's a it's a it's a it's a stunningly gorgeous day out there a beautiful fall like for the school but it's already like it's already race the ball big which is exactly and I would say somewhat disturbingly beautiful yeah and and you and I were just hashing some of the challenges that the State of Israel in the state of the world is at right now something bothered me yesterday very much and and way I got to get through quickly because we've got to get to the parsha very big part of Toldo lots of amazing depth in action there lots of prophecy that that is meaningful big stuff yeah big stuff just this morning I heard about Jews going to the tomb of Yosef hey Jews continue to go to the tomb of Joseph you know and and they do it under cover of night into the big Arab city of sham Shechem or Nablus it's got three ways of saying it really and we call it chicken the Arabs called Nablus which is a Roman name Neapolis Neil polis and you know they were they were attacked savagely with Molotov cocktails who the the army repelled with rubber bullets and gas and what's called riot right response yeah to to this and and I just you know I wrote today on Twitter I'm like look this is what the Palestinian national movement is about it's it's really about repressing both our it's about ethnic cleansing and then it's about repressing our history and erasing our history and rewriting a map well we can get a different map and and and we're in the throes of a battle out there and then I got a I got a video from Navarone about how the army responded to a similar situation with their own very weak response I saw our boys can I use that term or is that like a old term like Oh like our our fighters you you know like just just being ordered to have this weak response and and you could see this very milquetoast response to extreme violence which in the end then you and I discussed this right before show you made the point to say you know look this is educating the next generation of terrorists as well which means at the end more deaths on our side and are their science classic case of penny smart pound-foolish meaning I can understand why the army and in the political sort of decisions behind it would take a weak response because they don't want the local problem they want the media etc but in the end of the day that's under the assumption that this problem would just go away if we let it right but the reality is this you're pointing out is we're in the novel war and I think we were speaking for the show about the need to to face the crisis in in government I think more than anything else and I've begun to do this to my students who boast them being North Americans don't look at life this way just say small things you can by the way we're in little war or it's a hundred year war in war that's right we have a tendency to think oh but there aren't tanks and this nagging oh no no sorry like we're in the middle of war and when you're in the middle of war you need to bring to bear your whole self as an individual and your culture yeah to achieve victory which means you need some clarity on what is you're trying to do yeah I keep talking about collect clarity isn't one of the key words it works that way I think the reason we don't want to talk about the fact that were in war is that we use a society lack any clarity of vision that's the fact that our our governmental system is hanging fire now and and so it's easier to pretend no we're not at war this is disturbance it's a no it's a dispute it's a you know we're trying to work out some modus vivendi you know that sounds nice but I actually don't think it's true mm-hm and certainly we know our enemies don't think it's true right they're at war they're full war yeah and and that whole myth that it takes two to tango yeah well that's because you know a tango is actually a productive act it's a dance it only takes one person person get the stuff and beat out of them like like I said I'm not really looking for that so we need to choose our posture I think yeah and Daniel Pipes professor Daniel Pipes has written a lot about this kind of hold victory military movement yeah and and and you know I have to say that while on the one hand I think it's a little and it's not like a full discourse of it but it's but it's a it's an important to counterpoint to like the peace movement right right I mean which which is based on the assumption that we're tired and we're gonna I just have to concede and retreat and I don't even know if we're tired and when my sense is more than tiredness is again back to clarity back to inner narrative it dawned on me sometimes the simplest things dawn on me you know like sometimes like oh this is you know my this is my right hands my left hand like like like you know like the simplest things on me here's what dawned on me it might seem simple but it's actually not law is a product of narrative oh yes ready like you create laws your society create laws as a product of what its values are which are as a product of its narrative yes and so I'm constantly feeling it's nothing we're tired our intern era t'v is unclear it's just they don't know it and and and I'll just add one more points is exhausting yes right lack of clarity bad policy all that you know and and you know then throw in a heap of world criticism that produces exhaustion plus some major baggage from the last 2000 years right that definitely produces exhaustion but what I what I've come to a conclusion in my mind is that one of the biggest if I could if I could throw in a panacea into this mix it would be a greater affinity and connection to the Tanakh yes because the Tanakh is the source of our narrative I'm saying things that are simple but these things that are like they're absolutely key like if I ask my friends in the Army when I'm sitting with them in a Jeep in the middle of the night on the on the Carmel Hill of Haifa and I say hey what Tanakh story took place here which the most famous story of Elijah the Prophet had come into this mountain bringing down fire it's it's it's a seminal seminal and beautiful story and they're like I don't know and if I start telling them the story they're not like oh yeah yeah yet they have no idea you're like well how could you possibly know that you're supposed to fight for this mountain you're supposed to know that your profits are from this mountain and that your stories are from this mountain and I don't even mean religiously although though that would be of course the better but even as a national story a national mythology and by the way the religiously goes to the heart of the fact it's not just the Tanakh that we need to connect to the the interplay between narrative and law in the mind of our sages is very important as well this is by the way the keystone of kind of everything I do in my teaching the Jewish story they there is no law without narrative right if you want to understand what's happening to Western society there's a reason that the postmodern era is defined by what they call the death of the grand narrative and all the narratives that held together Western society the religious this sort of secular philosophical the political all those narratives that gave guidance which gave a justification for the application of law you know in sometimes harsh and sometimes otherwise have collapsed and you can see a society out there which is trying to adjudicate with without any underlying structure what we are facing though in the in the Israel V Arab world v Palestine battle they are very sharp on narrative yes very good by the way this morning when I was watching World War Two in color to relax one of the things that I saw is that Goebbels one of the things that he did was that he made these certain radios very very cheap practically handing them out but guess what they had one channel that one channel and everybody tuned in and and with with he just kept on genius yeah absolutely absolutely brilliant guy you could see it on him and super motivated and and he kept feeding them it took 10 years of anti-semitic teachings to bring out all German anti-semitism - you know for see that the Jews the Bolsheviks and all that or one of the same thing we've got it we've got to destroy these people so to where you actually get them killing twelve thousand people a day at the height of a droid right that's right so but but but it was a taut thing you know me and you propaganda so so we're you when you have narrative weakness and you're facing somebody who's got narrative and in our clarity clarity and in push yes and is good at narrative warfare you're at a disadvantage the greater you see the great proof this is the the victory of the language of occupation I mean I'm a we were joking when I first started in the post is Shiva worlds I'm thinking about right now say mm and we 2004 that's 15 years ago like a big joke was about Hana Maui right that that anytime you would ask her what time it was you'd look at her watch and say it is time to end the occupation right right meaning there's only one message right and you just keep repeating in every possible and they've installed that language into a whole generation of not just the American sort of more liberal left world of Judaism but even here we've adopted our government is adopted it yeah yeah and and and and I have I have a simple solution by the way carefully forward no I have a relatively simple solution for the problem of occupation yeah I have a simple solution for the problem of occupation here's here's what it is now my friends my friends on the nationalist side of the map here in Israel they think that the answer in me to the answer to occupation narrative is the sovereignty narrative huh I get that and I'm I'm all for it Oh 100 thousand percent I'm willing we've discussed I'm all good with with sovereignty I believe that I down with sovereignty as well but I think that there's an intermediary step that can be taken immediately that would would alleviate a lot of this tension and that is to change the name when we talk about the territories etc the occupation we just start calling it the Israeli territories ie Israel is holding onto some territories like America has territories but instead of calling it the territories or occupy just say the Israeli territories we see them as these really started they are non annexed Israeli territories that we will hopefully maybe one day in the future right over like Puerto Rico like okay maybe it's never gonna be a state or maybe a will but it's never not gonna be independent Puerto Rico it's going to be you know America and and maybe that's not the best example but the simple the simple fact is is that countries big countries hold onto territories there are there territories so we're if we just change the language of adding that word the Israeli territories yeah I mean it's I think it's a small measure it's a small measure but also go back to the the whole narrative question then part of that also is we need to shift the language around speaking about the Arabs who live between the Jordan and the sea right right Palestinians citizens residents like me this is this is a language but but but I am but like a deep question like how do we relate I think that there's you know I've said this a long time ago there's there's there's residency that's one way of looking at it another way is citizen of Jordan I would bring Jordan back into this picture especially that Jordan so critical of us you know it's like you know I said that I met panel by the way and literally someone point out to me I said we should drag Jordan into this discussion by its nostrils okay I was like I said that okay so there you know and there was there was an Arab flying in several knows I have a fine gauge ient giant Jordanian flag and it served my purpose of so well and it came down you know how it is there I came down but it was a huge humongous I'm talking about you know you know five by six meters like and now it's kind of but it was great I kept I said to people look at that flag they'd be like yeah it's like a pass and I'm like no look at that little starts a flag at Jordan okay and that was and I was very good I'm like these are Jordanians these are Jordanian Palestinian Arabs living here as Israeli residents potentially people like okay all right we got to get to the Torah portion right you have to get that away yeah campaign for Camano and I want to say that I love this Torah portion Scott it's got fabulous fabulous narrative fabulous stories and and also fabulous characters the fabulous characters they're really this is their Torah portion and that is II stuck in Rivka this amazing couple and I've said this many times before rifka is one of my favorite characters in the Torah at every sin every single verse of hers is forthright and clarity and decision-making every verse that she's in is like this do this I'm gonna do this I'll show it to you as we go along and then there's the it's clock a type of silent person who doesn't talk too much I've come to respect it stuck in my reading is is the kind of man who is strong in silence like does go ahead and moves ahead very cunning very witty very kind of smart but without without a lot of words laconic okay keeps it kind of keeps it inside definitely classic laconic right but but but I've there's little little little kind of signs in the Texas show that he's he's there you know there's also an otherworldly miss about him right now and I think that you know that whole question of what the world would look like after coming down off the altar right right needs to be kept in sort of full square focus when we're looking at his character to the right because because he made it halfway into the next world yeah he was almost there he was almost taken at the binding the the the the Jewish liturgy around that is that he did die it's about a binding yes stay before art before God all the time which is another way of saying that whoever he was beforehand it's not who he was after right and then we have the other two characters of it's five of Yaakov and ASA and we're gonna meet them and they are both intended dudes yeah their intent to get there let's get right to it so let's open up the book we're chapter 25 torsion is called told out and pray sheet Lama Huff hay and 25 25 all right here we go let's let's see where we're gonna start first we'll start with the praying it turns out that it's like in Rivka pray for 20 years for to have a child and it says that and this is the first time by the way in the Torah that anybody prays for a child other times you argue for a child other times you ask for a sign for a child before and this time via a tear it's like lash Emlyn no callisto kiya karate Vitello Hashem but I leave cashed okay they both pray the the the the the Rashi says the ration now why God answered his specific prayer for for for children it's because he's the son of a righteous person himself for his also righteous but but she's a daughter of not such righteous folks we'll learn about that later and then these two it turns out that there's twins in her stomach weight and her womb go ahead don't just blow by that the whole parsha opens with this problem of barrenness because it's worth it to point out they that Sarah Rivka and Raquel right we're all barren right at that Cana in terms of like the biblical Ark of barren woman and it obviously poses questions like why do the great female leaders of our people suffer from Berenice when the primary command that we get at the being able challenges to be fruitful multiply and the answer is in the deeper aspect of what you just said is that what God wants out of the world is not just natural process what God wants out of the world is consciousness and the height of expression of consciousness is prayer right and so so what does it mean that he was Sadiq been Sadiq and that's why his prayers were answered he said said Rahil wanted the child because she wanted to re I'm Rivka wanted a job because he wanted a child and she was righteous so therefore she wanted a good child she wanted a child who was gonna serve God she knew those God's will Yitzhak on some level wanted God's will to be done and he knew that God's Will was that he have a child so that's a deeper expression of this power of consciousnesses I don't just want for me that's fine I'll say what you just said but I'll add a tiny twist which is a silent actor in this whole portion is Avraham yeah it's just who's gonna pass on the thing of Avraham who's gonna so that's that's why Rashi said citing ensoniq like the real issue here is it's like saying again like you like I've roamed it like am I gonna have that child to pass it on am I gonna have that ability who's gonna who's gonna take the mantle of Abraham and that's precisely my point mean it's not just the fact that he's a father and he wants or he wants to be a father and have his own child he's saying no there's a there's a plan here right god we gotta get this plan moving forward that's Sadiq Ben sorry he's not just not him it's about like you said he's the intergenerational mission that he represents for me sir well just just tiny parentheses here that's exactly what we were talking about earlier if you read the Tanakh and feel yourself in here I'll quote you who dikko into being act a character in the Tanakh yes they're supposed to be part of that so you're like okay I've gotta be that Abrahamic presence in this world I've got I've got to bring that yeah there's a mission which needs to be fulfilled okay wait what's ooh a bunny-bot the the the sons struggled struggled in her womb inside of her and he she says here's another one of these rifka lines yeah Potomac in King Lama's an elite notice she says just if so why is this for me why is this happening to me right me very message here right and me like I'm in charge like it this is about me and I got to make a decision Vitelli she goes leader Ashutosh em she goes to prophet well that's or or she just asked god yes right I know for some reason I'm not exactly clear why I know that because I'll say here that she went to speak to a prophet to me I don't I don't see any reason to say that we're in this verse in the next verse it's clear that God speaks to her directly okay come up with but okay fine no problem but the point is is that she goes to demand natalie josh has two meetings which is to unearth and to figure out and also to demand of God like something's happening to me I want to know why that's what her face is and it's very important if a person wants to understand the world that you have to accept the fact that our assumptions define our conclusions she lives in a world but she knows that everything comes from God therefore what's happening to her is a question to God and not just just to the doctor speak and and and and the element that that she's asking about is the struggle ation that's a word I just made up yeah this is months the struggling the struggle the the the but it's not just theirs they are struggling yes what is the deal with them that's what she's really asking what is her struggle not like why do I have twins or something like what's going on inside so God says to her here here against this volume rush em la says to her snake going but vintner which nail oh me me me me I eat but I do okay so to two nations are within your womb and and two kind of kingdoms or Nations or well those are very it's very important decision pink going and Lou okay let's let's go right what is is a people hood yeah the people in lumia aren't nations right which is why you use that word Kingdom because ma hood if you look into the translations in the commentary what's the difference of people is is a story it's a narrative it's a culture now who'd is its political physical embodiment in the world and this is a very important vision that she receives that that the first of all there are two competing narratives inside you right now and they're going to have two physical manifestations in the world right but notice the you can have the to claim in whatever relationship you want but what does it say loom loom yeah I'm not the Ravi votes that you but there's two kingdoms if you want them to actually have their physical manifestation of fullness in the world now they're gonna struggle and one's going to serve the other right and that goes to the heart of what we were speaking about right and this who's gonna serve who can be read both ways the many will subjugate the the young or the many will be the servant of the young we need to say it's a little bit there's a there's a play there there's a play although it's easiest to read as that the old the elder will serve the right but I heard from from I heard from Rabbi Shalom that for sure and it's and and that plays into the whole idea of that and we'll get it at the end of the parsha that it can reverse if the Jews are not doing the thing right then the path the other powers can control them it's important to note that this is the beginning of narrative warfare right right it is the origin in the Christian Church will fight this battle down arguably depending on which part of the dish you're speaking about even today who's the Elder and the younger right between Yaakov and a silver between the Jews and the Christians is a rather hot topic down through time yeah yeah a lot of times when I'm at the the Martin Pella I tell people that one of the greatest battles here at the marathon so two on the Temple Mount is on the Temple Mount is who is God's favorite and that's why other religions and other peoples have tried to establish a Temple Mount a temple there of sorts and at in in Chevron the battle is whose Abraham's chosen who's Abraham's favorite son right and that's the battle and if you're like a total secularist and you're like why can't we just have peace you're like you don't you don't get what's going on here do you have any siblings right okay so then the the the to these two gentlemen emerge first is as this reddish one right and he's wearing a red tie he said yeah he said hey Sean that's one name the first one comes out red and he is he is like like a mantle of of hair like a coat wearing like a coat like the couch more a salve and you mentioned this every year as though he's fully created already a fully made man fully fully established yep and though for his experience from birth is that he's self-made he doesn't have the process of interacting with the world and therefore the rest of his life he's running around trying to maintain that self would which is why he's safe he's you know a worn out and tired right why he's all about seizing and doing and achieving because that has to sort of like maintain that sense of of like it's only downhill from here I don't maintain it whereas Yaakov has a whole process of growing into self wood which is quite long we see it's gonna take a number oh dear that's interesting and I need to spend some time thinking about that some more in any case his brother his brother emerges and he's holding on to the ankle of a sub a sieve already has a name right the name is already sticking to him and just as the Emergencies already like add a sub that no he's and and and he's coming out with holding on to his heel that's that is some graphic image vigraha cove and they called him Yakov and that was his name now they they separate immediately in that in that a sub becomes a person who knows the hunt he's a man of the field while Jacob Yakov each Tom your Chevrolet milk Yakov is a simple man or hole man who sits in tents in what does that mean sits in tents that was intense intense he's intense what does that mean do you know any Jews yeah they're intense for sure I love it when my Gentile friends come over they're like are you guys always like this like what mean my dresser but he is a man who sits in tents what is that what does that mean does that mean that he that he's a studious that's a rat Rashi says that he's a jury that he's the the plural raschi's focus on the on the you know the tents of Shem forever and this idea that there was a process of learning divine will even before the Torah was given which I would never disparage but I think the simple meaning there is that um he's not cook yet right you know comes out ready to go right hits the ground running he's full hair may each the field you know hunting etcetera Yaakov he's a little bit bemused this is like I'm not really sure I want to stay here in the tent and we're ready to go out there in the world what does mean time what it means hole or perfect or suppose mean simple meaning yeah he's not ready for the world because what we're gonna encounter pretty soon as a Yaakov that knows how to be wily oh yes as opposed to a kind of a Tom he is a kind of a player yeah he is the classic trickster in that research that respects and and even the deceiver in many ways and it's gonna raise a lot of questions about oh well I don't you know we'll see what the deception is Rifkin's we'll see that a bit but here we're gonna let's just get ready to completely whitewashing from right but let's get right to it which is okay he's gonna catch a sub and a weak moment mm-hmm which is which is which is a fair way of warfare right it's like it's like it's all's fair all's fair I always say like when the Gentiles want to kill the Jews you know they around us up in camps and they gas us and they burn us and then they take our property when the Jews want to take the the Gentiles property we establish casinos okay and we say have a good time nobody wants to kill you have fun just give the money over okay nice nice we got that out of this show no but here's the point here's exactly point listen what happens right he comes to him and and and he's cooking up a stew yeah a good smelling stew mmm right it's a yummy Stewart and remember he's a man he's a mama's boy sitting in the tents so here he is and he and he's cooking up a sweet smelling stew doesn't say sweet smelling but I'm adding that in because it was definitely savory because a circle is coming from the field and he's tired it says so and he's tired and tired by the way here means hungry okay look at out of energy area okay so so a sub sister Yaakov look who turns to who he doesn't sell it to him he's like Oh give me some of that or pour down my throat some of that very red red red red red stew right because I'm tired or hungry therefore they called his name eat him right by the way I one time I think I told you the story yeah one time I needed I was in a break from law school and I was in Florida in some place and in the motel you know Shabbat and I was like on a hammock or something and I heared these bright people reading the Bible and I just go I had a hat on I look like a drunk I'm telling you never I walked up and I was like can I can I say it was Shabbat and I was by myself I was like can I sit with you and they were like it was like a biblical moment they're like okay I'm like I just love to hear the Bible read so they're like so there was this verse they go in there and they called his name Edom had no no English sense EDA means read don't means read how do you know that he just you know me I'm like I'm from Israel doc oh my god praise the Lord okay and thus the truth has arrived has form of a drunken Jew that was not drunk I was just very tired okay Matt soso Jakob says sure I'll give you some of the soup sell me your birthright what's it worth you what's a rather so so a self makes a very reasonable calculation he says here I'm going to die I'm very very hungry why do I need a birthright for what do I need a ephemeral thing abstract food writer versus immediate gain immediate real gain real tangible gain who knows by the way I heard also he says here I'm going to die I heard rabbi at Shalom say I'm in a very dangerous way of life in a risky way of life I'm a hunter I'm out there I could get eaten by a lion tomorrow and you know and so my whole life is I don't know about that I'll die some day tomorrow right and I don't necessarily know that I'm gonna have you know any any need for this thing so says but Jakob says you know taking it one step further make an oath for me and he makes an oath and he and he sold him the birthright and then Bobo I should point out that that taking it one step further is also he is part of the depth of this process because the aquifer wants to just point out it's one thing yeah yeah like after the birth right yeah like giving in to his appetite yeah goes to 20 ounce and weight bind yourself right if you're gonna make this decision and make a real decision right now right you know in many ways even this some people like to see this is like a like the underhanded part of this like wait are you sure that it's actually worth it to you right and he doesn't remember he doesn't offer it to him in the beginning it's first he's just making a stew and it comes a something is like I want this to say this isn't the part that I see to be underhanded but it's the same thing with a casino it's like listen okay the reason my hesitation there is because there's a real disease there's a disease that's being preyed on there that's true no that's the problem yeah I agree with you III and we have that here in Israel as well the lottery stuff uh IIIi I walked into a store I think I told you this I walk into a store and I looked around one of these stores that sells lottery cigarettes sugary snacks and booze probably and booze and and I'm just like and I looked at the guy was a religious Jew and I'm like you're a drug dealer so I told them I'm like everything you sell here is drugs everyone yeah oh and he had the ona at the sports on TV right I'm like you that's what you're you're just a you're just a legitimate drug dealer yep look at your whole store it's all drugs all addictions marina and he was he was just like he looked at me like I was nuts and I'm like look look at everything you're selling it's all it's all just stuff to get you addicted and there's nothing there's nothing mighty evening right I think I've given the whole story yeah except for the water okay no I agree with you and I appreciate that you pointed that out I appreciate that you pointed that out although a lot of people do go to casinos or not it's being preyed on me the people go to the casino it's definitely have fun and entertainment selves that's not my issue right issues that the that's not working Cena makes its money right see what makes his money off of the people that it's preying on that's right that's right okay anyway now a camera shift to to Yitzhak and he is going to there's a famine in the land we've heard this before and he's about to go down to Egypt right and cot system cot system well I'll do that meets Naima don't go down to Egypt as opposed to Abraham Sean Sean bed it's a [ __ ] O'Malley let her live in the land which I will say to you goo'bye it says that live in this land va má I'll be with you if ever Quetta and I and I'll bless you keyless off identical that's what I'll give you and yours in your seed these lands and I'm going to fulfill the the oath that I that I gave to Abraham that's the silent partner right like like like their Abraham is behind this whole thing Abraham is blessed and and I don't want you to go down to Egypt your and say just say to us your holier than that you can't go down you're not supposed to leave this land he was the older to Mima right whole offering my mom was shocked when she spoke this past Shabbat I saw her she spoke to famous former and maybe future Knesset member or a stroke and and she says I think I saw you even fail on one time in a recess to her I've never left one hand of Israel so my mom was like wow a choice you know yeah and and he keeps on going and he says I'm going to make your seed great like the the think the stars in the heavens I'm gonna give again your seed these lands and all of the nations of the world will be blessed by your your seed and way it's important to put a finger on that as well because this beetball who bizarre ethical goodness is a repeated phrase we see it twice twice right here in reference to brown right see it twice right no no no no it was that he'll give us give you the land that says it twice is that it's critical to remember that particular lism that we see in this idea that god says yeah you Avram you Yitzhak even like and then we start with like it's not Ishmael and and in Yaakov and not ASA and I said that particular ISM is in service of all humanity that there's something about on Israel sticking to its mission which is bringing blessings to the whole world it's it's a it's a very important tension which exists from the beginning and it needs to be sort of um I think not only honored but contemplated in our day where where people want to make some sort of a pollutant absolute distinction whether you're like a particularly you know tribal thumping drum you know DNA in Indiana or you're the enlightened Universalist blah blah blah well that's what's so unfair about liberalism today which is I'm always like do you remember that that nationalism was the original realist right it was a liberal idea and like how have you totally you know global warming climate change which one is it no but that's there's an easy answer that historically is that so long as a small group of individuals managed international empires and kept people's suppress so National Liberation was a real force for liberation the argument that the liver or the progressive world is making today is that now those nations are suppressing individuals and not peoples and so therefore a liberal stance against the sort of national structure there's there's a logic you it's that's that's that's good that you're pointing that out in any case and it keeps going about Abraham here which is that Abraham heard this beautiful poster ekadasa-bhava Ramba Coulee riche modish mug t mitzvah title whatever Tata and you know it's funny of it he kept my tourist mom where we were that phrase I gave a cher Shabab piccoli what was the last time we heard that in partially every from now in a cave a sure Martha but Kohli is is a is an indirect reference to the end of the akkada haha there's I think Jana sure you know Thank You church mother Kohli right you know you you you Abraham he since you listen to my voice I will bless it with you in the plastic etc meaning there is a who knows better than you talk like that mmm the depth of how he listened you know so there's a lot of weight in that line there that's cool that's really cool which is also where we get the clue for thought you know coin going on it's I just I just think that it's important to know that what you're saying right now is and it's in this week's parsha it's like it's like carries Abraham now like we said he's the silent partner of this parsha right yeah he's you and he repeats himself you time you'll find it it's like it's like that's what it's really about who's gonna pass it on and and Yaakov is gonna be the it's like it's like is the what he called the axial the transference oh is the bridge between oh yeah this there there's a lot written on that right in our mystic tradition about the interaction between our I mean it's [ __ ] being necessary in order to produce Yaakov right okay let's keep going where our time is running and does that it's like is in Crocker are basically is Gaza it's next to Gaza it's somewhere between British Evan Gaza right yeah okay and okay guess what riff cos very beautiful they seem to consider to take her they never do take her the the Philistines be family precaution of telling everyone she's his sister right and then I think you were to learn from right but then well he does learn he does a little bit learn IV melis somehow sees and this is very interesting verse here which you wouldn't expect because so far it's quite silent type of person but somehow he is true to his name he is jesting with his wife what level of intimacy is that we don't know but the bottom line is something that was seen by a female if the Philistine is that is that it's Luck is jesting with his wife obviously she's his wife and not just a sister and and he comes out with a decree nobody's allowed to touch this man's wife or else you're gonna die anyway right I've got a story in my family since I've been elected it doesn't end well wait don't touch this guy's wife right there's this is probably a second of email if not the same old emails as a neighbor groups time remembering of people don't know that the name of email simply means my father was king right which is a natural thing to name your son when you're king right that's a good point I didn't think of that but also it's like Pharaoh it's a it's gonna be title title it's probably a Philistine title at the time but that's a great point and then and this is what I tested my kids on yesterday I said to them where does the word gnat what is mass showering I'm like first thing where's Miriam they weren't tight on that we figured that out and then I said which is a new alignments of famous ultra-orthodox part of town I said them what does the term mass sharing mean whether they say hundred gates they said 100 gates and and I'm like okay we discussed it but then we really got to it and and really it means a hundredfold and what happened was is that is that he stuck sowed the land there and he and he found that year or was it was produced that year mass sharing which is 100 gates but it also means a hundred fault just hundred better hundred measure right okay very good right and a Shem bless them the beautiful term mass share him and of course Miriam has a lot of gates to it the the neighborhoods it's a beautiful beautiful name you know I called the dog show Orthodox what if you think about it at like 1850 was the height of Zionism right right because it was the beginnings of the breaking out of the old city walls and really developing Jerusalem so they wouldn't have called themselves maybe Zionists maybe but they were just Orthodox yeah there's no like old truck but they were also courageous to break out and and to start building absolutely let's just say like it is one thing you have to get to the freedom is that they're not afraid no there are things that they fear right since the name Carrie D which means to travel but it's before God yeah speaking of clarium just yesterday I called my I have a few you know I have Arab friends that I'd get all my info from and I've got my deeply embedded karate friends would get the great info on and my beloved wife maka is struggling like so many Israelis are struggling right now with the butter crisis the butter crisis there's a butter crisis of the land it's called land of margarine and honey because we've got a butter crisis by the way I dropped a couple of sticks of butter recently okay a bad effect okay so for some reason which is beyond the purview of this show and beyond the purview or indulge in weird conspiracy theories you can look it up on the internet why there's no butter right now you will see the strangest explanations you could ever imagine including alien invasions I did not know that I am I am i I know why there's no butter because there's no butter just like there's no ring butter repels but there shall not be butter because there's not it's not right now a time of blessing with all of our problems we put it this way always remember that God never holds back so the blessing depends on our capacity through is to receive okay good so so but but Landa it Eretz savate margarita that's what I call it okay that's right call the show I was thinking about that land blowing with margarine that's right and and but not only is there a butter crisis but there's also a crisis of Mehadrin butter yes because the import stuff from Europe is not right not only that from non-jewish of my wife black ocean water and she went crazy and like held back there she bought like seven sticks eight sticks I don't know it sounds like butter it's kosher but it's not Mehadrin she called anybody Israeli stuff you mean yeah Snover call their back and explain to her yes some of this is milked on Shabbat and usually mahajan butter they throw out the stuff here yeah anyway I'm thinking next one of the only areas in our you know in our industry outside of meat that the difference between standard mahajan concert is actually a fundamental right a real thing right yeah anyway I was thinking I'm gonna go to America and pick up some some you know from from amber waves of gravity I'll pick up some mahajan butter Frese it and bring it here you know give homage to the oh so the forget arrested to the border with butter that situation give more to Pat the back guys okay here we go whatever sorry oh because you call your friends ads where you get butter your friends are like we all have an allotment of two so it's like it's sent out there we have a lot men of two sticks of butter of Mehadrin butter okay the next verse I actually make my kids memorize yesterday and they really like that it's verse 13 of Shelly she chapter 26 Vitale ish viola Halawa goodell at the key gaddama note the person grew and he kept going and growing until he became very great indeed big big big and that is because Hashem was blessing him and what happened was is that the Philistines we're doing something really bad what did they do call a burro to show her full of their Viva be me Avraham Aviv there's Abraham again sediment pollution TV maluma far the the Philistines were covering up or filling in the the wells that Abraham had dug now that's how jealousy that that's how I mean this is like they were do you think they were worried about global warming that knows everything if you over exploit the land and and you exploit the wells will run out of water here the the table water will well I mean I don't they at that global perspective but it is true that over grazing every shepherd without having the phrase over grazing we don't back from when load in Avraham split there was just an instant recognition in every Shepherds mind like too many of us here but at the same you gotta think globally act locally yeah well for sure well they were just thinking locally in acting locally which but but there there is a there's kind of like a deeper message I think here in between the relationship that you talk has and the relationship that the police team have is that the it's Hawks mentality is a mentality of abundance and and and especially well let's just make more I'll dig another one I'll spread out and the the police team have a mentality of scarcity which is that we have to we have to stop this up because if he has it we don't have it and it's that that's what brings him blessing that's why it comes to concerts if you want man I don't even 100 fold increase you have to have an abundance mapped out I really love what you're saying I really really love what you're saying and I think that that's actually there's that's a key different what's different way of looking I think I mentioned this either with you or with maka last week but my sister was at a speech of a famous Israeli journalist and Donna vice and Donna says the following she says you could tell a person's politically remember we said we said we could tell a person's political outlook by thinking his time with us or his time against us yes right and that's the same thing abundance yes or scarcity okay fine yeah but yet - Philip wells I think the tour is giving a backhanded insult to the Philistines here directons right well yeah well I mean it's just it's just a life negating posture life negating posture very good I like that okay so so he goes and he's digging wells in these places and he seemingly is a farmer which is an interesting transition he's a shepherd remember pastoral people's also plant they just don't settle mm-hmm it's interesting I I heard it differently but I didn't understand exactly what was coming from but any case you don't really see him being called a shepherd anywhere you know you don't you don't actually see that and and we did see that okay in any case we don't really know well doesn't help a farmer he's not hand watering not necessarily wait for the rain these wells are for his flock flocks okay but even a farmer as well okay I'm not sure because it doesn't really say clearly to me and I haven't seen where it says that he's actually a shepherd but in any case he digs wells everybody's fighting with him about different Wallace until he finally digs one it's called revolt he calls it which means widening God will rock uses brought places in the land he finally finds a kind of a pasture that's peaceful that nobody's bugging him about and he calls it rahova today there's a big town called Rehovot and actually it is a very successful town because it has the vitamin Institute there and he goes up a little bit north he goes up to bear Sheva one of the holy cities okay and and God appears to him yet again it seems like the last time he Peterson was one who was heading down I was born teaching Egypt says don't go too far further but then he didn't talk to him all this time or at least the Torah doesn't court he comes up the parish ever boom God God comes to him and it's the Torah lines by Lila who that night you guys gets to bear Sheva God talks to him okay which which says to you about something about the Land of Israel a place where God communicates with people as opposed to outside even if you're in the Land of Israel there is within the Land of Israel there's more you know more holy more connected places and he says look again here he says he says Valmer I know he L okay uh Rama visa right I am the God of Abraham and I here's that little hint again don't work don't fear because I'm with you and I'm going to bless you and I'm gonna make you your seed great again Bevell I'm of the of the for the the sake of Abraham my my servant I wonder as a Yitzhak do you feel a little bad about that like I think there's personalities out there that I don't think he's thinking like why are you talking about Abraham all the time I think he's like no I my mission in life is to pass the heritage of Abraham and I'm cool with that I'm like I said he let his father bind him to the altar right at this point he's gonna back down from that mission right good point the Philistines come and greet him and they say listen to this this is very interesting they say they come and greet him and they say listen we kicked you out yeah but the he says to them will you kicked me out but they say well we see that God is with you let us make a covenant let us make a covenant but he does not make a covenant with him he takes only an oath he makes a feast for them and and he makes an oath as a post of Covenant and oath is a lower form than a covenant Abraham they asked for an oath he gives them a covenant people the rabbi's including the restaurant mothers say just say that was a mistake you're not supposed to give a covenant some people even attribute the V afraid to be man elevate that the akkada happened after he made that decision right do not sell the Land of Israel for perpetuity do not allow them to live here don't make a covenant with them they're not people of covenant you can make an oath of peace you know in a deterrent but not a covenant where you're giving them equal footing in this land so you talk does not do what they say pointed out I catch Alam he says look he says he says scheme of a chef Oh each laughing if they made an they made they took an oath but not a covenant okay and then immediately afterwards come the servants of you suck and they told them yes we found another well and they called that well Shiva which which which is the name of it and then therefore the name was bear Shiva but this time in perpetuity the Torah says odd the omens that we had another time where Abraham also made an understanding with the same Philistines this time the name stuck and he gave the name and he he inherits that that chunk of land he holds on to it okay all right fine a saab is going to be taken bad wives he's gonna be taken local Canaanite wives Hittite wives and they were troubling and here's an important thing troubling to both you talk and rifki so you talk the the one who loves I think we may have skipped that pus occur but it's like loving in past tense a South but rifka loving in future in present tense loving Yaakov presently and here we go big finale showdown one of the most dramatic and I'm sure your students here at partes struggle with troubled trouble they got trouble and that's fine we talked about it last week which is it's clearly met the trouble here oh my guess anyway because it is troubling but it's things I try to point out if I'm having more than a three minute change around yeah yeah they are a product of the culture of the Torah right so therefore the fact that they have a moral sense that causes them to be troubled by this text he's only because the tourists succeeded in creating a people who have moral qualms about this whereas there's a good part of the world that reads something like this that says yeah he pulled it over on him they got what he was after right okay well let's get let's get to the text and says you suck listen I got it I got a he says to a so he brings him in he says I want to bless you before I die a consensus the day of death is coming so now put on your your your your tools of hunting and go to the field and hunt for me a hunt all right and make me yummies yummy treats that I loved and bring me bring them to me so that I could so that my soul which actually in the fee in the Torah means myself my inner self can bless you before I die now rifki here she is again another verse about Rivka I told you every verse riff - Oh Martha the valleys like she hears but the belly like the it's like his taking is talking to ASA and and he goes a son goes to the field and he goes to bring this hunt Rivka says to Yaakov her son saying listen up Shama theatre V commendable I heard your father speaking la salve official mo III heard him talking to a stop saying bring me the hunt and make for me delicacies so that I could bless you before I die and now here's great see this what I mean look at riff : Vata not like ly Vata and now my son hear my voice listen up listen up for I am now a man this lady is amazing I'm telling you lady is amazing no no lillahi soos without any well because she's heading him all cuz she knows he's gonna say what wait it even does okay but this is a wild plan here this is a crazy plan and it's Rifco who's behind this plan yeah so so she says to him now go get me two days to kid goats yeah and the sages remind us here of yom kippur the two codes the kid goats they're good ones I'll make them into the the conceive I know what your father likes to eat and you're gonna bring him to your father and he'll eat and so he'll bless you before he dies so Yaakov here know that Yaakov says a surprising thing you think that you could be like ah not right right he's like wait a minute there's a good according to your plan here which is maybe maybe a fine plan but ma I'm I'm smooth and my brother his hair he points out the tactical problem right strategic wad right we could plan mob but one thing maybe maybe he was maybe he was pointing that out in order to avoid the or maybe he appreciated the fact that his mother would not have done this if it weren't intrinsically right right um or maybe he fears her or maybe fears her but I reason I said that is because I think that the question that lies behind this whole story is what's the standard of measure for right and wrong right because because no one's gonna be happy about deception right but if you deceive if she deceives you its [ __ ] in this moment in order to bring about the proper result is that what's right and in the ends what's this question exactly the question right the ends justify the means although here it's it's sort of almost a deeper question which is well what is truth is truth that the will of God be done in the world and that she knows having heard this prophecy that Yaakov is meant to actually receive the bra right and that therefore she's being called upon to overcome us like have a narrow sense of morality in order to fulfill this is prophetic sense which is a lot again that's the question that lies behind here and but there's given maybe another third option and that that option is the way I see it maybe maybe is that this is a test for Yaakov I mean this is a test of courage it's a rigged up Asajj I learned that in like and like where was that I remember her name it was an English class and we learned there wasn't English but she was she was an English teacher that liked French she was one of those and she's told the Sarita Posada just called a rite of passage yeah rite of passage I know but it's not as good and I'm sure that Eric is going to reach out to me and correct my French or he does that do to a part of my French okay but it is but it is a type of right and I know I know and I'll try to prove it that that that maybe not that they're in cahoots rifka in his [ __ ] but there is a type of in order for him to make it in the world right he cannot remain the sort of boy in the tent you know and that goes to your to your point earlier which is he's in development yes this is a critical turning point and by the way he's gonna pay a price the deception element that happens here he will have to fix before this process is over right okay so he says okay she so he asked her maybe my father's gonna touch me and I'm going to be a trickster in his eyes and I'm gonna get a lie I'm gonna get a clever I'm gonna get on myself a curse and not a blessing the whole thing is gonna go [ __ ] carrots it's gonna go the other way and it's going to be you know upside down and not the desired result she says to him for Tom Morello em all again rifki every every phrase she says I like love company Healy Kela cop but he unto me is your curse my son now some rabbis explained by the way that a lot a lie is a is an acronym for the three curses that he's gonna get in life I was three challenges ace of liván and yo safe people explain that and okay and there's more to that but in any case she says I'll take it she says automatically but directly I do what I say Valeska ly yeah okay so so yes so anyway he goes and he and he brings the the it's interesting she could have taken by the way the goats herself obviously she wants him in the story yeah and by the way I also feel it's interesting that they the emphasis in the troubling aspect of this story for most people is on Yoko's behavior when in reality we should be asking the question on rifka oh absolutely absolutely rifki is the main player here absolutely absolutely anyway she takes her son's her other son's clothing seems like his special clothes there's a lot on the cinema drishyam right his special clothes maybe his hunting clothes or maybe his mother still doing his laundry it's interesting he's married memory he's got two wives got two wives that's right but he does not like the softener that they use it's nice I don't know how to get the hides that's right that's right too much starts you don't want to get an a so his bad side boride right okay so then so then she puts these special clothes she also takes on Yaakov she also takes the hides of these goats these goats by the way as you could see very economic she's also gonna make the food out of them but also gonna use the the guys for disguise and she gives it to the what she prepared she gives to Yaakov and he comes into his father's tent he says and he says Valmer of evæmon a knee me atop knee says my father it says I am here that's the famous scene a knee again of the of the akkada which you talked about who are you son right from the get-go it smells a rat yeah this is the suspicion so Jakob says I I am a sub your firstborn now there's a lie and a truth there and here I noticed that Rabbi Shalom did not bring this up that's the lie is that I'm a sub the truth is I own the birthright right and I have a right to say that that's a very important point you sure it's a very important point okay I have done as you have said which is not exactly true because I didn't go for a hunt and it's not really me a self please set up and eat from my from my hunt not exactly the truth so that you're together right okay right oh maybe that's what it is now you've you've closed then go get them even they're in the cages bring them he brings it do you gotta bring it to ya you you gotta you gotta take ya you gotta catch those you know bringing a goat by the way if you go into the what's it called the pen it's not so simple you guys knows that he knows that slaughtering look in your eye yeah exactly he's like I don't want to kill your walk right I just want to make you kosher what was that from oh that's from the kid come on okay alright last by the way I want to say that many about five people wrote to me that they knew what my riddle from from the maca part of the show of of what was in the basement of the Alamo which is which is of course pee-wee Herman's bicycle okay okay fewer here miss bicycle or really the real answer was the people you Herman's bicycle is not there because there is no basement to the Alamo and my friend Ari Silverman all the way from Barcelona wrote in be like I grew up next to the Alamo and I know it has no basement I'm like of course it doesn't that's the point when PB Herrmann gets there there's my face mayor okay there is no basement as well alright anyway back to holy things meanwhile anyway it's Texas do come closer to me so I could feel you if you're indeed a sub and in any city and he touches him and he says the voice is the voice of Yaakov but the hands are the hands of Asaph now to me this is actually the first of the blessings you got the voice of Jacob you got prayer you've got thoughts you got deep stuff you're the man of the tents you've developed you know the inner cause right yeah but your hands are the hands of a sub like this is your first act that I know of that you are that you're engaging the world yeah you're actually trying to build the world right and you and your being you getting dirty yeah getting dirty right you're being billed without getting hands and that's part of the reality that is happening here meaning there will be negative consequences from this act okay and you will have to live with it and not only live what they'd have to work it out but in the end of the day he's doing what's right right and he offers his father food notice by the way that suddenly I don't know where there's wine right there's wine and he offers always there's always wine and the wine I look how wine appears in the vines would he need it's like got wine right here look at that that's great okay so um oh you just reminded me okay so he says to him let me kiss you he draws closer to him what does he smell he smells the the scent of the field and he says you are my son that has been blessed by the scent of the field that the God blessed him with and he gives them this blessing and this blessing is very very famous and it starts we say Saturday nights a lot of people say the e10 Lakai Lakai me tell us your Irishman the audience loved the guy Matthew Oh chef do if I may be stuck look I know me have a cuppa Bo and that's it he like litany of really blessings very physical blessings physical blessings of the land and the produce of the land not a mention of Abraham here or anything like that in any case he gets the the the the broth I'm only rushing a little bit because of time and and he exits and you could hear the music now as Yaakov exits the room he says I'll take that yeah time Tonto and who comes in but a sub okay a Sikh if is gonna come from his hunt and he also prepared the the the delicacies for his father and these cook says in the it's [ __ ] says who are you and he says I am your firstborn son I am your your before a sub is that a truth or a lie what half and half half and half again because in truth you are a sub you are not a firstborn you saw that that was the oath okay oh but it's like it has a deep moment of fear yeah what's another word trepidation like traveling traveling and he says who was that other guy who hunted a hunt and gave me food and and and and before you came and I bless him and here's a key line he shall be blessed like I accept that I accept that he he wanted that blessing he did it actually remember the it was received because because it's Hawk is handing on something which doesn't just purely come from him he's a channel for a divine blessing and he says will end it and it worked which is what poses the question in his mind of Wow maybe the trembling is he just got saved from doing the wrong thing because he had intended to give that blessing to a self right it was a very complex moment for him it's very complex moment and then then there's one of the I think if you hear it it's a bit of a scary moment it says what when Asaph heard the words of his father he brought veyts Alcala oh he cried a loud in bitter cry if you hear it if you've tuned into it it's still there in the world oh well no you can hear that let me say just say that that in achieve Amish f ck no until the Messiah comes that we're gonna be paying the price for that crime right and that's what I meant not in the sense of punishment and sense they they they sometimes you do what you do because you need to do it because it's right but don't kid yourself about thinking the fact that you're not going to damage things along the way that you have to fix before the story's over and so so it's not a question of means justifying the ends so question if this is how the process was given to you to do but don't keep because when you say the reason I hesitated on that when you say the means justify the ends it means ok the ends like whatever I don't bother me with those moral qualms know what I'm saying it's no you're right this was painful for a solve it wasn't okay for him and yet he's gonna carry a burden from that for the rest of his life and therefore so will we and nevertheless it was right so then how do you make it in its fullest so we actually have to fix that somehow right you can't just say the means justify the ends therefore what do I care what happened through the means and it's not what we're saying right and and I heard also an expression that that Mordecai's can also cry a bitter cry and that's because Haman who's the descendant of evasive is going to do this horrible attack as payback so so yeah it's you're right and it is a hundred percent complex like enjoy the complexity yeah like like struggle with the complexities okay in any case each clock ends up giving him a tight blessing a shorter blessing and he says on your sword you shall live and your brother you should serve but it was when your brother will will throw off his yoke won't be exactly what supposed to be you will be on top of him okay there's gonna be there's a flip-flop here there's a non flip-flop a inverse relationship right right right right that if Jakob in simple terms a few Cove is not gonna be doing what he's supposed to be doing and he won't deserve that right then you will get what you deserve which is the right to lord over him which is why one of the reasons it makes a lot of Jews uncomfortable but it's worth saying it one of the one of the ways we understand anti-semitism in the oppression of the Jewish people is that we're just not on mission right we're not on mission the first mission then we wouldn't have these problems right and he says in his heart says a self in his heart when my father's when my father's life will be well when my father will pass away I shall go kiss a kid yes I will go kill yeah Cove I'll go kill Yaakov again back to my favorite character it was told to rifka obviously prophetically the words of a sub her oldest son she calls Yaakov and she says to him your brother wants to kill you okay now listen to me again get up and run away to Livan my brother took her on the back back to southern Turkey over there to my family and sit there only justified a few days I'm finishing up just by a few days we'll meet that term few days later on when we talk about Raquel until your brother's anger will subside until your your brother forgets what you have done to him thanks a lot Rick yeah thanks a lot and then she says why should I lose both of you in one they two different explanations either it's gonna be us o'clock in yakov or then or we also learned the it's like in the Yaakov and a sub were buried basically on the same day at least the head of a sub and the body of a vehicle we'll get to that later in any case the cliffhanger it's a cliffhanger he leaves basically on the run he's on the run he's on the ran on the run but importantly and I can't finish off the show without this this part of the show in any case that it's Huck invites him in and he blesses him again and this time instead of the blessing of financial and field and earthly blessings he gives him that blessing of Abraham very famous very beautiful words the kill shot well El Shaddai evil ethical Cogley if Rebekah vitalica how I mean Hashem the the god of fertility Hashem like that name of fertility shall bless you and give you many offspring and you'll become a what how do you translate Kahala me a conquer unity of nations congregation of Nations community of nations v10 advocate around I'll give you the blessing of Abraham Lacan Eleazar essa Atok the aristocrats McGuffy you'll get the blessing of Abraham and to inherit this land the land of your sojournings which God gave to Abraham and by the by the fact that this happens now I think illuminates a lot of what was going on before why did you talk want to give the prophet a sub because he knew that ASA could make his way physically in the world and that that was a critical bt bewl was a critical vessel to receive he looked at Yaakov he said sweet kid really sharp spiritual but he's there in the tans he's not to make his way in the world he's not a vessel that can receive this vision of what Abraham's promise was now that he gave him that physical blessing and also saw that his could make his way in the world quite well now he's ready to receive the promise of a problem and that's and that's I think the first part of the blessing which is the voice is the voice of Jacob but hands you gotta have you gotta have a sathyan hands that's what builds the world that's what builds the world alright rabbi Mike Feuer thank you so much for joining me here at parties in Jerusalem it's a beautiful day may God give us a real sense of this narrative may we feel that we're the continuation of Abraham in this world and get through the hiccups that are happening in the world right now maybe even more than hiccups this little kind of moment or birth-pangs that are happening right now and lots of blessings through shabbat shalom' thank you so night alone alright folks more great stuff is on the way again I didn't get to all of your emails people well I promise I still have all of them on on file Thank You Gmail and in any case maka Fleischer is next the land of Israel is calling to you the God of Israel broadcasting to you and you are awesome for being tuned in so stay tuned mortgage bubble annoying inshallah [Music] shall up everybody and welcome back to the me shine Fleischer show broadcasting from Judea this half with our beloved maka flesh a maka welcome to the show thank you sure and how are you feeling after a big Shabbat that's everyone well we had the Bat Mitzvah then we had I had a trip to America for the David Horowitz Freedom Center weekend in Florida right and then I came back right into Shabbat I saw I which is the major event on the calendar for the year this is all after Sukkot also and all that right and I saw the preparations for the prime minister so all that together frankly I am very very pleased and very very satisfied but also a little bit worn out and and I'm looking forward to a Sabbath now a Sabbath which is not a work Sabbath like last week which was which was really awesome and I mean it is also incredibly inspirational 45,000 people in Chevron great VIPs great program that we run a lot of work with the army with the police with logistics like toilets toilets toilets toilets you got to bring toilets look around for people to be able to you know things that they I think they do not so bad right no we've but it's that's not like the oldest practice ever it used to be that they did not bring in these toilets and then we brought tons but we brought it was not bad about three years ago we were like we sat down or two years ago we sat down we're like lose gotta just double the toilets yes and we just double the toilets put a lot of nice toilets and also doubled the amount of people who are cleaning and taking care of it and this ha this also cost a lot of money we pay for all that right and actually people pay for tickets to get into federal or something it's very you come you get in the tent in fact it's not just free but but there's a lot of I said a lot of free food that goes that that's given out and and thousands of thousands of thousands of shekels and dollars are given into to feeding people there's this huge huge rows of like pastries and Baracus and all these different things that that come out for kiddush for people and free meals that are given out that i ran into somebody of we each I you and I really ran into a couple with a child who came and they're like we're just standing on the steps going up tomorrow acapella we run into these people and they're like hey um so like where can you go for like some food and we're just like you know it's Shabbat and you have no plans right and they're like yeah it was Shabbat Irish yeah we're Shabbat already and they're like they're like they were also like it was weird and they're like well where do we sleep and we're just like are you kidding and then they're like no and we're like they were older they were not yet without with an older child also anyway they were there weren't cool people and I guess they figured it would work out and I'm sure dead like we are we turned them toward people who could feed them at least I mean every single like little piece of floor space is usually taken up by by some kind of mattress or something of some guest who showed up you know you know what uh but I'm sure I shouldn't take care of those people a lot of that but what I wanted to say anyway is that that's kind of like what it's like a little bit in February and they bring tents and everything but it is a little bit of a like on one leg kind of trying to manage the situation as it is as it happens well I don't want I don't want people to get the wrong impression it is a giant festival and people come out very very satisfied very happy and yeah was actually a felicity and most people make a plan either they bring their tents or they get some apartments you call us in the in the month beforehand we hook you up with apartments there's a week before people were calling which is normally a very reasonable thing to do right who makes plans for Shabbat like months in advance but in this case it was hard to find people places to stay but even that I saw that Hashem like took care of different people there was a one person I know who really wanted to go and she couldn't find a place in this and that and suddenly she's like in a class with somebody and somebody knows somebody and suddenly she has a place to stay right now we had I got to hear the Torah read right in front right in front of Martha Michaela the weather was beautiful we've course read the Torah portion that we talked about last week which is the Torah portion of case are on and you get to hear the the purchase the the negotiation and purchase of Martha fell out right there and it's very very moving very meaningful and just people walking around my mom was just she was with us also she was just looking at people yeah it was fascinating to see all the people decked out and their shop is closed but also sleeping in tents right right and you see also it's pretty amazing you know I don't know how many of you do camping we do a little bit of camping but not a ton of camping so it's always it's always impressive to see how people like set up their home right in their little tent for one day right and people bring out these big pots full of cholent that they prepared ahead of time and their sleeping bags and tables and salads and like people really made themselves like a beautiful Shabbat there and they're camping right and now right before Shabbat right before Shabbat we did something special it was an idea that I had which is to make a poster that said that's a thank you president Trump and administration from the Jews of Hebron and that was the poster that I made a big one you know like three yards across it was a nice big like you know parade type poster right and and right before Shabbat or Berlin there before Shabbat God got a few hundred people to kind of surround the this poster right and and took a picture with it and Martha pull out and put it on Twitter right before Shabbat and it absolutely went and I think it has it has 2,000 likes right it has almost 450 shares okay I see a 2k here if you guys aren't our friends on Twitter then that's where we if we if we had to say that one of our social media platforms was like our most active social media platform it would be Twitter yeah yeah yeah so you got to come hang out with us there yeah yeah it's it's it's fun and and we're always where was snarky and fighting and fighting and snarky I also want to mention one other thing that happened over Shabbat because it's important to mention it and also because it got covered in the media and that is that there was some violence that took place between Jews and Arabs there were some Arab and Jewish violence that were kind of used to sadly there was also some Jewish on Arab violence and the the Palestinian media went you know took that took that all the way ran with it and ran with it around I mean I guess it is news right it's not that it's not news well they didn't lose they run it because they wanted to create an atmosphere that right settlers are violent and all that kind of stuff right even though none of the violence was from local residents right it was it was all people from outside you know there when you're setting up basically an entire city there was there was how many people I mean estimates range it's around forty five thousand people which is a map which is a huge city full of people right so there were a couple of people who were unsavory unsavory and and frankly young and drunk right some of them and and they threw rocks including a rock that that that that hit a baby according to reports passed an arab baby and and all i have to say is that is extremely regrettable we're 100% stand unequivocally against that kind of action we work with the police and with the IDF in order to make sure that does not happen we have called for the police to make arrests or whatever they need to do basically this thing it is extremely against our interest for a few reasons first thing our festival which I call Woodstock meets the Bible and which was quoted widely in the media is is exactly that it's Woodstock meets the Bible one of the things that was very famous about Woodstock was that really the police had no work where there were hundreds of thousands of people and they were just there was just peacefulness that's what this festival is about it's about our story connection to this land it's about Abraham it's about love it's about a lot of things but it's not about violence that's just not what this thing is about and it just ruins our reputation so we don't want it second thing is when you're violent now now I'm not here decrying against all violence there are times when you got to push back when you got to make your presence felt all that kind of stuff there are times when the our army which is really organized violence has to act etc etc etc yeah but throwing rocks at random babies is any kind of violence that any person around here it stands for we are 100% again that's exactly what I'm getting to 100% against that and here's the other part of it we actually have to live with our Arab neighbors the next day right and you usually do it with very little problem that's right and and so to have these folks now there was also block throwing by by the ABS there was lots of stuff there was a video that came in yesterday about attacks and soldiers all kinds of stuff but the bottom line is is that we are unequivocally against that the kind of action now a rat a supposedly reputable news source I'm not going to mention which one but a supposedly reputable news source which I don't think is that reputable wrote an article saying basically just aping and mimicking and read what's gonna be packaged in the palestinian news sources and it was just like it basically made it look like 45,000 people got together but forty five thousand hooligans got together in in Halil the arab right needs to rubble for normal people living in hebron well I had to call that I'm talking about an Israeli news source I had to call that Israeli news source and was like you didn't even quote the J post on the other hand quoted me very widely explain how we're completely against it but this other paper just was like just didn't even have one quote explaining or or or minimizing or giving another perspective anything I call them gave him a piece of my mind they called me back and wrote a paragraph into that story they left the story as is a nice you know anti hammer-on story but there was there was a but it wasn't just straight-up Hamas newsletter propaganda exactly exactly Malka you and I right before the show I know that one of the things that you and I really believe in is that it would be so amazing if the culture of Israel would would be like the bots would follow the readings of the Bible for example I sorry you go to heaven if I ate say festivals right there should be and it's easy to do this this week should be bear Sheva this is there should reliable places throughout our country we're not even talking about the Bible heartlands and stuff let's just think like marketing-wise places throughout our country are being highlighted in the book that like a a lot of people are reading every week right and because of that we could be highlighting those different places bringing tourism to different places bringing awareness to different places you know helping create a positive unified cultural environment in our country by making cute events cute not just cute but also meaningful events and fun events educational events sporting events any kind of thing all throughout our country in the different places in the tour so this week this week the tour portion highlights really the main city that's highlighted this week is bear Sheva and it gets its final goosh bonk its final like signature name in this week's Torah portion you know bear chef it's such an amazing place people don't think of it as a biblical place but it's one of the hearts of the Bible place you know each I happen to know that the chief rabbi of beer sheva wasn't ever on for Kaiser and I think it I don't know if everyone everyone doesn't have a chief rabbi does it no we don't have a chief several should have a chief rabbi that's interesting but if there was rabbis we had way of course so you have the red oval your who just happened to a few years ago move to your shall I am chief rabbi right so I think that it's also a good opportunity for you know the the town's to respect each other the chief rabbi of everyone should be going to bear Sheva for Shabbos and yes you know make connections speaking of Chiefs my good friend our good friend Alex Tremont yeah it was a long long time friend of mine worked with me at many jobs he just came back from America he's now the managing editor I think of jns new source Jewish new syndicate and a great paper I'm very proud of it and Alex you know alex has got you know he can pull off things that nobody else could pull off so he has himself now an Indian's hats you know like the Indian baseball team yes with with the Indian chief on the on the on the front of it that's chief wahoo okay that's the name they're getting rid of that yeah do you know what are they getting rid of that they're getting rid of that symbol because it's like because it's offensive and a little bit silly and all that kind of stuff and we remember in law school we we we covered some cases about Reds let's conceal this is that but anyway chief wahoo is being being phased out but Alex got himself a chief wahoo hat and it's so funny because there's Alex with his big grin and chief wahoo on his head with his big grin and it's just it's just that he says he made me really laugh and I and I just wanna throw a shout out to him and his good work if you know what I'm talking about you know chief ah who is mocking you can look it up on computer you'll see why it's funny mark is looking at me with that okay but anyway just just that just a shout out to my buddy Alex doing great work at Janus and do check it out you also right there Jana's maka you write great articles as well and I'm thinking about maybe having a column there or something like that we'll see if that happens in any case the other thing I wanted to so this week is bear Sheva next week that's told us bear Sheva next week Viator is beit el valle schlock is is both Beit el but I think it's also scam like a loan or a scam because that's where the whole Deena story happens maybe we should go there because our good friends not on in and and Karen shocked are there out in a lawnmower ed doing great job over there so maybe well when we miss them because they had a massive birth so let's actually be we didn't miss them on let go because they had a result of birth we missed them on lexico because we had our daughter's Bat Mitzvah uh coming up just right after that I see ok so there you go that's why we missed them but regardless of why we should maybe what they're and I also was just before the show talking with you about imagine if there was a Bible themed restaurant like I like the idea of biblical burgers ok and then you can have the ace I've won you know the bloody one and it's like I don't know a great put more red sauce you know red sauce I thought we could have the Yaakov ladder fries you know fries shame shame giving away all of our secrets how are we gonna make the money well I want other people to come up with food yes yeah what would buy foods ok every week we have a hashtag but it's different this year yeah this week this week you need to come up with cool dishes for our Bible themed restaurant right right like what what is it called what's the name and what's the food last I ate at a Bible theme restaurant was what will you ate at a Bible we were in Teaneck holy huh yes yes Noah's Ark but it wasn't well it wasn't it wasn't there was a Bible thing except for the name yeah but it started raining and then once somebody said in our big party group of people were like look it makes sense of where Noah's Ark right and that was cute I thought a moment but like definitely I would I would definitely have the Leviton fish sticks you know I would have I would have you know I don't know mrs. loads pretzels salty pretzels you know come on folks I don't know don't think of them all you shot you got to give people a chance that's right that's right not I mean you know there's just many many many options I want to hear from you a hash tag Bible food okay or bit or biblical theme food okay or Bible burgers hash tag Bible burgers and I want to hear from you what Bible foods you would what would Bible theme foods you would come up with what do you think Malka cute yes all right it's been a it's been a long an awesome show Malka oh oh yeah yeah oh one more thing Oh Phooey got it all confused why did I have the thank you Trump and administration thing before in Fabri why yeah it was about it wasn't just a general Pro trumpian thing at all specific yes pump the Secretary of State Pompeo came out with a statement saying that they're they're doing away doing the Hansel the Hansel memorandum of 1979 under the cart or they should the Gretel men memoranda that's right which is Gretel memory which is all about what which is all about saying that that according to the United States the United States position is that Israeli settlements in the quote-unquote West Bank are illegal under international law and he said that is no longer the case the United States has is repealing that Hansel memorandum and this was an in in in that was all in legalese boil it down equal sign according to America according to United States position the settlements are illegal right in under international law and I was so excited a lot of Israelis were so excited but I was just talking about I'm just saying it's not no I just want to people to know that it's not like some kind of outlier that was excited about this right this thing in Israel it was like a big celebration across this rail across the political spectrum people were very happy with this lutely absolutely but you know II Shai I you had these hundred and seven House Democrats in the US Congress who wrote a letter of rebuke to Pompeo and you know all the articles focused on this idea that 107 Congress people wrote and wrote a letter rebuking the State Department for saying this because international law really says that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria are illegal because Jews are occupiers etc right but I read the article and this is something I didn't really see in a lot of the articles which is they didn't just denounce this recent statement of pompei of the State Department the US State Department undoing this this distinction of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria is illegal they denounced basically the entire pro-israel policy of Trump I want to read this this one I think it's one sentence or run-on sentence they express their strong disagreement right and then they say this this announcement the State Department announcement following the administration's decision to move the u.s. embassy to Jerusalem outside of a negotiated agreement its closure of the Palestinian Mission in Washington DC and US Consulate in Jerusalem and it's halting of aid Congress appropriated to the West Bank in Gaza has discredited the United States as an honest broker between Israel and the Palestinian Authority severely damaged prospects for peace and endangered the security of America Israel and the Palestinian people so really it's not about this particular announcement it's not that these hundred and seven Democrats which by the way are not are approximately 25 percent of Congress meaning to say 75 percent of us James wanted nothing to do with this mm-hmm this letter but 25% of the house representatives signed it and their problem is basically with any pro-israel policy that Trump has done at all they don't want pro-israel trauma policies from Trump they want Obama policies for Israel and I think if that's important to note meaning to say there's it's there it's unreasonable it's it has nothing to do with a you know a clinical analysis of whether you know the communities in Judea and Samaria are legal which one could obviously now analyze is not true right that the communities are legal but rather that they have a problem in general with the idea of doing any of these moves which suggests that Israel has a sovereignty in its land um I think that they worded it carefully saying it was the things that prejudiced the negotiations with the Palestinian Authority I don't think they're calling for in that letter for anti-zionism they're saying look all these things that undermine you know israel's discourse with the palestinians is what we're against and i think they were very careful in wording it that way because they didn't want to get snagged up in in in you know something that would be considered anti-semitic in their mine Trump is being anti Palestinian listen you know to me all of those moves were or excellent moves in and that Palestinian Authority is really a machinery that that pays money to terrorists and is and educates towards the hate of Israel and is a is a ethnic cleanser wherever it goes but in their worldview that's the way they see it they see that that it's to prejudice this thing that they fought for I've tried to to move forward on both under Carter Clinton really also Reagan and also Bush and certainly Obama for for the creation of a Palestine and yes yes they're absolutely right it is being systematically undermined and we are systematically applauding that okay that's exactly we because we owe to want to undermine the idea of creating a Palestine on the Land of Israel and that's another thing we have to say it clearly I even see people on the on the nationalist side who don't say clearly here let me say it clearly I don't want to see a palace Land of Israel I am against a Palestine on the land of Israel I am 100% going to do everything I can to stop from the creation of a Palestine in the Land of Israel whatever Palestine already exists in the Land of Israel is already a very bad thing it's bad in Bethlehem it's bad in Ramallah it's bad in sham and it's been certainly been a tavern it is a bad phenomenon Israel should be the sovereign in these places and that these people will have to find them a way of living some kind of status which is maybe residency or Jordanian citizenship etc etc there's many other things that we've discussed but I want to say clearly I am 100% against the two-state solution or any formation of a Palestine on our land including in Gaza which is what has happened it has been a just such a tremendous source of violence and terrorism and destructiveness against Israel so I find people don't say that clearly enough in and the Trump administration has not said that clearly enough yet well they've said right because because because it's almost like the United States is leading the pro-israel policy today which is on the one hand neat it's on the on the other hand it's insane right and it's embarrassing it's like Wyatt said why why should it be that that we need this guy over here to like give us the courage to do what we should be very courageous to do it's I'll say to this Rakoff President Trump is a head of the State of Israel but there's one more group of people that is a head of the State of Israel and that's the so called settlers and so we've been a head of our state for a long time holding on to this part of land saying that Palestine is a bad idea being against Hamas etcetera terrorism saying that we should be the sovereigns here we've been doing that from the get-go it's President Trump he's just matching our speed he's a tad behind us okay but he is way ahead of the State of Israel in any case market I want to thank you so much for joining me on the show today I want to thank everybody who's out there listening and I want to bless everybody really I want to bless you personally whatever you're listening to it could feel that you're in a highway somewhere listening in in your car or you're jogging or washing dishes or walking the dog or whatever you are just want to give you a lot of blessings from the land of blessings and it's a special Shabbat of told out and I want to ask for one more thing which is hashtag pray for rain yeah okay I want to ask everybody beautiful up in here I want everybody to please jump on the web bandwagon here the lands of Israel has not received its winter rains at all yet and it's time for everybody really late it's it's time for everybody to get on the ball and get on the prayer a prayer bandwagon here and let's go we need the rain so we turn to us Shem we say please a show you know bring us the lane to lend a rein to the Land of Israel and we turn to you out there and say you know turn to turn to the tournament and ask him because it's time for these beautiful blue skies to become overcast with that with that note I want to leave you and thank you again Michael Fletcher your awesome just how great broadcaster a great great lady great awesome mom and wife and everybody should should have a mock in their life if they can't even walk in their life at least enjoy the ishe flesh a show where were where they will they get to enjoy your Wow you shy this is the best ending of any of your shows ever you did it is so I will not tarry any longer just in there shabbat shalom everybody lots of love for the land together [Music]