Days of Refinement - Ari Abramowitz: The Land of Israel Fellowship

uh there's been a journey that I see that the world is going through and a journey that the nation of Israel is going through a journey that uh my family's been going a journey that I've have been going through myself and uh and you know of course in my in my heart I can't believe that we are still in this position I can't believe that we're here on this fellowship and it's been a week since the last one and I I I'm not telling you you remember that organization that existed once Hamas they they're there in the past there should be a museum they're still here it's embarrassing to me it's embarrassing to me that Hamas still exists I'm embarrassed Hamas should be wiped off the map by now and it's making the Israeli government look fickle and look weak and I think that's okay because the Israeli government is fickle and weak and that's not said out of anger or hatred not at all you know they have a massive massive decision to make with unimaginable consequences which have implications not only for Israel but for the entire world but at a certain point you stop with the strategy right at a certain point you just act from a place of truth of righteous in indignation of of Fury of of Wrath and and uh what we're seeing here is Benjamin Netanyahu as the first king of Israel who was the first king of Israel Saul right and when Saul faced AMC this the pure raw unadulterated evil that was amalik despite what he knew in his heart that he should wipe out every single one of them like he was commanded to do by the prophet Samuel by God instead he listened to all the chatter in his ear to the voices of his men and his advisers they gave him very reasonable and you know strategically valid reasons why he should reconsider doing that right now and he listened to them not to not to Hashem not to the voice ofar but he listened to them and he didn't take responsibility for it and just as Sha gave way to King David to Messiah I believe with all my heart and I'm eagerly anticipating that our own King David is coming a descendant of King David is coming there will be a leader that will soon arise in Israel that will have the pure faith in has and the love for the nation of Israel the love really for the entire world to understand that this evil is not just here in the Middle East it's not just here in Gaza this evil we're seeing on the news we're seeing constantly is spreading to all of humanity and a leader that will rise to the occasion and will act in faith and truth and not consider what the world is is harping about in their disgusting heartless evil hypocrisy y of all how many more headlines can you see that say 1,400 Jews died 1600 Palestinians as if to equate the 1600 terrorists that murdered and ripped open the stomachs of pregnant women and burned them alive in the most horrific ways imaginable and you're just gonna equate the two that is just evil that's evil and so King David tells us he tells us Mash that Hashem humbles the hottie right and then he raises up the humble and if we're going to be honest about it the nation of Israel I believe we were haughty I'll speak for myself I really did have an inflated ego regarding our brains and our intelligence and our technology and our IDF and we have been humbled and I have been humbled and those Illusions are shattered and now that we've been so embarrassed and humiliated and terrorized and heart shattered and heartbroken and the whole world seems to be looking at us salivating wanting more more dead Jews now that we've seen that and we've been brought so low this is exactly where we need to be for the next move because Hamas sees us as stalling and deliberating and they really think that they're winning they don't realize how eager every Soldier is to unleash the fury of God on them Jeremy keeps saying to me all day he's saying to me I'm just so afraid that this war is gonna end I'm afraid that this that's a feeling so much of us have that this war is G he's of course not saying that he wants War but he's saying that this war will end without us wiping Kamas off the map without us destroying and eradicating evil they don't realize Kamas doesn't realize that God is letting them get more and more haughty and more and more arrogant and more and more bloodthirsty just to raise up his children and sanctify his name along with them children we're his Witnesses and he is going to raise us up and humble those who are hotti right now Hamas andah and Iran and Syria and so much of the left around the world that is just salivating in hatred in absolute hatred they're not covering they're not playing the game anymore oh it's the Zionist no no no gas the Jews gas the Jews throughout the streets of the world and that's what we're hearing right after the horrific the hor horrific acts that we just saw Kamas commit anyways I don't know the workings of Hashem but if I had to guess why do we have why are we still here right now with a relatively quiet week it's to give the entire world all of us everybody in this world an opportunity with full and unbridled free will to show their true colors and they are right we're seeing it America Europe Africa throughout the world we see pramas rallies and there's never been such a clear display of pure unadulterated evil for all those that are Marching In the street to defend them they're making their own beds they're casting their lot with Amal they're casting their lot with absolute evil but there's also a reason I think for us here in Israel that we have this period of time that is so uncomfortable and so painful and we're for me I every day every moment I'm just I have a free thought it's about these little children the these innocent women and children that are kidnapped in Gaza experiencing Horrors that we cannot even possibly imagine and so why are we why is this still happening why is this period and so if I had to guess my intuition I feel like for us here in Israel there's a consolidation of our spiritual emotions it's coming together and I think I just saw a a funeral one of the many the hundreds of thousands of funerals that we're seeing here in Israel he says let's put it we're all right we're all wrong we're all right it doesn't matter Hashem wants us to love each other he wants us to be so humbled to the ground that we look at each other and we say how could we have been so caught up the Supreme Court and not the Supreme Court I'm not trying to minimize these issues they were real and they still are real but it shouldn't ever get in the way of us all loving each other and that's what's starting to happen we're seeing it thousands of ultra Orthodox Jews are joining the Army joining up this Army that they said Never Would We join secular Army now and now they're all signing up and joining the Army to fight and to die be willing to die you know secular Jews are coming out in Mass showing so so much love and support for their fellow Jews from every you know I I don't know if you we showed you the video but there is all like tens or hundreds of of non- kosher restaurants in Tel Aviv that were making their kitchens kosher just so they can make food for all the religious soldiers as well these are restaurants that are secular and open on Shabbat and totally and now they're it's bringing us together in such a in such a special way in such a unique way and uh and for me you know in the fellowship we always talk about constantly massaging in infusing into our hearts the amuna I was talking to rumt Glazer he called me and uh and he said that he said so many people so many of his friends there was some sort of conference in one of the hotels that was happening when this whole thing broke out over Sim these people are like studying about amuna and faith and teaching about amuna the minute this happened they were just looking for any flight to get out connecting to tur through turkey or Greece and getting stuck in all these countries and he said he said I was just looking at them and he's like they're amuna heavy they're amuna topheavy topheavy with faith what does that mean topheavy with faith you can have a lot of faith in your head but have you in integrated it into your soul into where it's trust into where it actually is a part infused within you and it it it it um it decreases the fear and the anxiety and the cortisol in your bloodstream and it allows you to act with strength and with courage that is emuna that's infused otherwise it's just an intellectual pursuit of knowing that God runs the world but is it really a part of you have it has it really come into you and so this is a time where Us in the land of Israel for me personally it's becoming more and more and more a part of me I still have these waves I have a wave come over me of fear or anxiety I still have waves come over me where I just break down in tears I was speaking to I'm not going to say name because some of you may know him but he's like a warrior of Israel he's a warrior this guy he was built to fight and to and I told him that I've been that I had uh that I've been beating myself up a little bit because of these moments these waves of fear that I've been having and he said that that fear is a good thing and it's okay as long as we overcome it you know I remember my grandfather's twin brother was a Bombadier in World War II and he said the bravest man that he knew was the guy that went up with him on every Mission volunteered for all the missions that he volunteered for but he soiled himself on every single Mission he said that's the bravest man right because he felt the fear and he had overcame it and that's courage courage is not necessarily not feeling fear it's overcoming the fear because we have faith because we have trust in Hashem and so that's been happening within me and I also see in in you know Arab countries it's very interesting to see what's happening in Arab countries I think they're feeling very conflicted and very torn and while most of them are not outrightly standing with Israel there are those who who are speaking the truth because listen there there's the sunnis and the Shiites there's Saudi Arabia and there's Iran and Iran is concerned about the growing strength of I'm sorry Saudi is very concerned about about uh Iran anyways I want to show you this video um that was sent to me uh that that I found to be very powerful because people have said to me you know I was I used to always sort of see the the Arabs around us these terrorists and be like they're the children of Ishmael and we're going to have chuva they're going to have chuva in the end we're going to come together and one of my Rabbi said really he said you think that they're the children of Ishmael he's like I'm shocked to hear that I never even thought that I was like really so who do you think they are and he said I think they're just like scattered random Philistine pagans they're not these are not the children of Ishmael and there is a line being drawn in the sand right now and it's between good and evil and the old boxes of Jew and Christian and Muslim and and no it's not about that it's about the very basic intuition there was a question asked I was reading in this last we in the Torah portion of Noah how could the world have been expected to be good if the Torah wasn't given yet the land was filled with Hamas right it was filled with with murder and rape and all these horrible things how could they be expected they weren't told not to and the answer is that that's something you should just know intuitively you don't need to be told that decapitating a baby and burning and raping and torturing is bad that's just something you know and the world is being divided in that way right now and um and I'll tell you I have these conversations with other soldiers religious not religious about whether this is it this is the end of days this is the war of Goo Magog and to me it's like shocking that anyone could think not it's so obviously and clearly this is that war can I see Hands who thinks that this is it who thinks like definitively in their hearts I I just want to hold your hands up okay not everybody but most of you but some of you not that's interesting I would like to hear more about that from you but anyways uh to me it's just so very clear when I look at the description of how this would look Jeremy was uh over Shabbat you know my family was not with with me I'm not going going to go into all the details but I was I stayed back and I was guarding Jeremy's family with uh anyways not going to go into details but Jeremy opened up on kidou the book uh the tanak and we were reading through the prophecies in Ezekiel and to me it's just like so overwhelmingly clear and so we need to hold hold tight and have faith and just know I really hope and pray I believe and I hope and I pray all of those things that the Bloodshed of the nation of Israel the vast majority of it has happened already and now the suffering we're going to endure is more and more and more fear the fear is going to grow and grow and grow as the situation looks worse and worse and worse and worse until it looks absolutely hopeless and then we will turn our hearts to Hashem like you see us already starting to do every day more and more and that great Redemption will come I know it I feel it in my heart