Tisha B'av 2021 - Rabbi Steven Weil

talk. How about now? Okay. We want to thank Rabbi Bal and Howard Grunb for for putting on the program and setting up the shul. Not only are we going to be learning and analyzing and studying together on tishabove as we relive and reexperience the tragedies but throughout the day here at Keter Torah there's going to be programming and and you'll see that in in terms of after we finish Mina there'll be a program on Rabbi Shear who was with the liberating troops of Bkhenvald and trying to bring back to life the survivors of Bkhenvald and later in the day is a film on the life of Bakim began particularly his whole career was driven by the fact of what happened to his family. He was one of those rare unique individuals that decided to go east into the Soviet land. And just to keep in mind, you have to understand if you're a Jew in World War II, your whole perspective is World War I. The Soviet soldiers were barbarians. They were monsters. They were animals. The German soldiers were dignified, were respectable, and most Jews stayed in Poland. Most Jews stayed in White Russia, stayed in Lithuania. Bean went east, and he survived. But he was haunted, as all survivors were, by the fact that he was unable to help his family, to enable his family to survive. And that drove him. It drove him as a Jewish leader. It drove him as a Jewish role model. And he impacted all of us. So the film on his life will be taking place here at Keter Torah later today. I want to thank as well as Howard and Rabbi Bal who really are our role models to all of us. I want to thank the sponsors for today from the shul Diane and Dr. Michael Fineuk and their family who are commemorating the yortsite of Michael's grandfather David Lee Benmul Zelig David Bman and we want to thank our friends Relle and Phil Goldmitt Phil as you know is the leader of the pro-Israel community here at Keturin and Tene and together with Michelle they're commemorating the Yorksite of Phil's mother Lana Bas Yehuda Hakohain Elizabeth Goldmitt Zona Lraa we also want to thank our good friends Richard and Deborah Parkoff. Each and every year they sponsor this program is tens of thousands of of Jews on five continents each and every year learn study together the kinos with Rabbi Winerin. This year in Israel it was Rabbi R. And together with us at Keter Torah here in America, we're studying and learning and growing and hopefully the experience of reliving and reexperiencing the tragedies through that cathartic experience. Tishabove will be a day of growth. It will be a catalyst for Chuva and ultimately will come to an end. The suffering, the sorrow that this nation has suffered over the last two millennia. You know, the way that we experience Pesak Seder night, it starts out about being a history lesson about Aosenu, about what our progenitors went through in Mitzim, but there's a transition in the mag where it's no longer about auvor and each and every generation. The Rambam says laaros to demonstrate. We say los to relive to reexperience and that's what we do. We relive and we reexperience seder night is as if we were leaving Egypt as if the the liberation was happening to each and every one of us. That's what happens today. Today, right now, we're not talking about history. We're reliving the tragedies. We're at the funerals. Kazal have this phrase of the dead is lying before us. Is that okay? The dead is lying before us. What's happening is we're reliving. Whether it's the banaron of the six million, whether it's what happened in 1648 to 1653 in the Ukraine, in Poland, in parts of greater Poland, whether it's what happened in Jerusalem in 70, in the aftermath, the genocide of the aftermath of the Barakba revolt in the 130s, or whether it's it's what happened in the Rishon. And that's what we'll be doing throughout the day. We're going to start with the two kinos that we say from the shawah from the and the reason why we're starting there is many years we never get there. We run out of time and it would be inappropriate and wrong on this day of tragedy of reliving and reexperiencing the pain if we don't at least reexperience the greatest tragedy that happened in all of Jewish history. So I have the Rabbi Salvich Kinos. It's page 620 621. those who have the art scroll. It's the kina of Rav Schwab. It's at the end after Elitzion. The kina that Rav Schwab wrote. If someone can call out the page when you get there. What page? >> 386 in the art school door. From the time that we were chosen to be a unique distinct nation. From the time we were chosen to be the Almighty's partners in a transformation in the transformation of the destiny of humanity. Nothing has happened like to our people like this. That which happened in the last generation. Oh yanu what befell us that literally the deluge of blood over those who sacrifice their lives the depth of the tears. Please God never ever forget that see that before you. Suapima als tribes of Israel Adosahilos the communities arimilos the cities the towns theos kavuros you know any of you've been have any of you been to Yadvashm to the valley of the communities what do you have there it's a maze it's a maze in which the goal is to get lost. You have for instance western Galitzia. So inscribed in the limestone you'll have the large cities like Kraco and Tarnov and then you'll have smaller towns. Then you'll have little you'll have that with Germany. You have that with Lithuania. Sorry. Yep. You'll have that with Latvia. Eastern Galitzia, Poland proper where the large cities like Lublin or Lodge or Vars and then smaller towns Savvitz Chenovia and then villages and what happens you get lost. Now what's the experience supposed to accomplish? you realize thousands of Jewish communities. In some of those communities, there wasn't one survivor who survived. See, you and I, we have a very difficult time relating to 6 million. It's a number that is so uncomprehensible. But if you know of a town or you knew of a village or this city or this community, you take for instance Tarnov. Tarn was central Galitzia. There were probably about 65,000 residents of Tarnov and some ofwhere between 40 and 45,000 of the 60 actually was 66,000 the 23 were Jews. Our friend Jerry Wininrich is sitting here someone that he grew up with a survivor in Memphis by the name of Mr. Diamond. Mr. Diamond he was good friends with with Jerry's parents. He shared with me there were Geridum, Alexandra Hassidum, there were Misraim, there were Litfish. When I say litfish, I mean Polish litish. There were every type of Jew you could imagine, every type of shul you could imagine, every type of you could have imagined and the tunes that they sang shalom to or the tunes that they sang to. Tarnov was it encapsulated to a great degree European jewelry. Less than 400 less than less than 1% of tarnov jewelry survived. It's all gone. That city that was so rich and filled with every dimension and aspect of Jewish learning, of Jewish intellectual life, of Jewish cultural life, gone. You multiply that by a thousand. That's what Rav Schwab is talking about here. That's what Rshab is saying. Adosilos arugilos call mogay. That that that my tear ducts would just be a Niagara Falls. It would just pour down eld alim. the thousands upon thousands upon thousands goofing this ruffim. We don't even have a grave to go to to say a malim to say a kadesh to know their name because they were all burnt. There's nothing left but moes the masters of the Torah. Many of you have been to Kavna. Kavna which was the capital of Lithuania because Vilna at that time was po under Polish control and and in independent Lu Lithuania you had Covena as the capital. You're doing two incredible yeshivas there. It was a suburb of Covenant by the name of Slabatka. Sabbatka was fascinating. It was a very Jewish suburb. There wasn't one church in all of Sabbathka. And what were the two yeshivas? The Kessus bas Israel named after Israel Salanter, the altar of Sabbatka. The survivors of that yeshiva built Torah in America. Ravakov Kamitki, Raarin Cutler, Rav Hutner, Ravi Kutner, Kim Berlin, Rutderman, N Israel. The majority of Torah that was created in America came from the survivors of that yeshiva. Those who had left early enough, who had been able to get out. There was another yeshiva Kinesis base named after the great Rabbi Yitskan Inspector Yeshiva University Reitz Rabbi Khan Inspector Theological Seminary. The base inspector was a Rev of Kavna. He literally was the Pose Kador and they named the yeshiva after him and the great beer Leovich the great student of Salvik he was the rashiva of that yeshiva. So you had these two great institutions that would have shaped all of European jewelry wiped out because the communists took over in June 22nd. I apologize what I said is wrong. September 1st, 1939. There was a pack between Stalin and Hitler. It's known as the Molotov Van Ribbentrop pact. Van Ribbent Trap was the foreign minister of the SS, I'm sorry, of of the Nazi regime. He actually was one of the defendants at Nermberg and you had Molotov representing Joseph Stalin. That's as in the Molotov cocktail. And what they did was because Hitler knew he couldn't have a war on two fronts. He's going to have a war from the French and the British. He can't survive with the war against the Russians. So they made a deal. Russia to get out of World War I had given up territory that was part of Zar Zarist Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, what we call the Baltic nations, White Russia, Jacob, where your family is from, from Bellarus. All of that the Russians took and they took the Ukraine. And what Hitler did was they took eastern they took almost all of Poland. The very eastern most part of Poland went to Stalin and went to the to the communist Russia. So that Russia now became the great bear once again. Now that it regained the three Baltic nations, White Russia, Ukraine and Hitler just expanded his empire by conquering almost all of Poland. Okay. So during that time now that the communists control the Baltics in the white Russia, one of the things they did was they prevented Jewish education. They shut down all the yeshivas. And many of these Russia yeshiva and many of the tamidim they literally were on the run. They went to places where it wasn't their building where they would be a target. So for instance, Baronovich, Baranovich, which is in white Russia, was one of the greatest high schools there ever were. The greatest mass. Who was the Russia Shiva? Rabbi Khan Vaser. He flees with his students to Kavna and they're operating and functioning and learning in Kavna. In 1941, June 22nd, 1941, after Hitler breaks the pack with Stalin, they go into the Baltic nations. They go into White Russia, they go into Lithuania, they go into to Latia and they conquer these areas. There's a group in Lithuania, radically radically anti-semitic. It's known as the Lithuanian Free Army, the LFA. Today, they make these men into heroes. There are statues named after them. There are streets named after them, city halls named after them. They go town by town and in the summer of 1941, they literally eradicate all of Lithuanian jewelry. Those of you who've been to the Holocaust Memorial in Washington know there's a permanent permanent exhibit that was created by Dr. Yafa Eliak Zron. Dr. Yafa Eliak is from a town called Asashuk. Asshuk had a Jewish community for 800 years, a community in Lithuania, and in two days was annihilated. All that was left of Lithuanian jewelry were three ghettos. The VNA ghetto, the Kovna ghetto, and the Shavel ghetto. The Shavel is was those were three big communities. Many of you know the name Rabbi Dr. David Katz, an incredible historian. He's he has a RV he's a RV. He has a shul in Baltimore. Many of you listen to his podcast. He's a professor at John Hopkins. So his father was a was a Tommed Kh was from Shavel of the Vila ghetto of the Shavel ghetto of the KNA ghetto you know maybe 10% of those Jew not even maybe 8% of them survived the ghetto what are the chances of you surviving from 1941 to 1944 when the Russians liberated Lithuania maybe 10 maybe 7 8%. So we have very few survivors. At the beginning of the coven, they were looking for rabbis. They were looking for figures. And the greatest of them all, Rabbel Khan Vasiman, they took him out, him and his students, and they took them to an area called the seventh fort. And they shot him. They murdered him. And this was true of most of the Tamil when the Germans would come out into a town in Poland. Remember the the the notion of of the execution of Polish jewelry didn't start till March of 1942. Between 1939 when the Germans entered Poland and March of 42, 22,000 Polish Jews had been killed. Now that's an exorbitant amount in our mind, but relative to 6 million, that's nothing. But you know of those 22,000 who was killed, they took the rabban. They would take the rabbi of the town. They would take the rabbi and murder him. Give you a simple example. At that time in history, at that time in history, there was no such thing as a television or an iPhone. How did anybody see the news? 1939. How did anybody see the news? So if you were in America, you went to the movie theater and between the two films, it was always a double feature. There would be something called movie tone news. The way anyone would see the news is they went to the movie theater to watch the news. That's how you saw it. In Germany under Joseph Gobles, the minister of propaganda, and his partner Dr. Julia Striker, they had a whole department of the Nazi party. They took German filmmakers who were Nazis and they conveyed the news. That's how you would see those pseudocientific experiments. The Jews are and gypsies are not really human beings. These are animals. Just by the way, the speaker went off and the the shul speaker went off. It's good. Okay. They're animals. They would compare them to rats. They would show the hooknose of a Jew to the hooknose of a rat. They would show the spine of an Aryan and compare that to the spine of a Jew, which was a in German a boole like a hunchback. Jews have fat guts, hooked nose. They're not human beings. They're they're these quasi human being. That's a cancer. Why is it a cancer? Because when they breed amongst us, that was remember the last piece of legislation in Germany were the Nermberg laws of 1934 which prohibited someone from marrying a a Micheling, someone who who had Jewish blood in them because it it's a cancer that metastasizes throughout the German people. So you had these movies in early in I'm sorry in late 39 after the German invasion. Okay. After the German invasion in late they go to Lublin. We're going to talk about him in a few minutes. Odilia Odilio Glabbachnik. He was a monster. This man was a a monster, not a human being. He oversaw the Lublin district. So they went to the yeshiva kakmeublin. Many of you know what is the yeshiva kakmeublin. It was the greatest Torah institution in all of Poland. The chka the the famous mayor Shapiro. He spent his life fundraising to give them a yeshiva that would have a dormatory that would feed the young men so they wouldn't have to scrge around finding families to feed them. you know, this family will feed you on Tuesday and this one on Wednesday. No, there was a dormatory with a kitchen. Jews from all over Europe dedicated their libraries, their it was one of the greatest Torah libraries in the history of the Jewish people. What did the Germans do? They shut down the yeshiva, the Russa, we call him the eritzvi aryvmer, was a incredible. We study his works till this day. They murdered him. Most of the Talmid were murdered. They took out the library and they created a bonfire in the courtyard of the yeshiva and they had the film crews. They had the film crews and the Germans in Germany and in Austria were watching this on the news. They would see the footage of this, the destruction of the yeshiva. And why were they proud of this? Because this is the institution that's going to produce the leadership of world jewelry. This is the institution that's going to produce the Rabanim, the rabbis, the educators who are going to take the Jews to the future, to the next generation. We have to stop that. We have to prevent this cancer from metastasizing. And how do we shut it down? We destroy the educational institution. Imagine today someone shutting down Lakewood or shutting down the Mir or shutting down the yeshiva university or shutting down Nar Israel. That's what it would in in taking all the sarim in killing the students in killing the Russia yeshiva. This was their glory. And that's what Rab Schwab is referring to. Alsaz, the misor, the tradition, the what we call the young kohan, what we and I would call the young students in the yeshiva who are going to be the future of the Jewish world. Al midrashos moi mumoros, the ones who are going to produce the teachers. Do you understand? In Poland alone, there were 50,000 girls attending Basakov schools all across Poland 50,000 students in the Bayakov movement. It was probably the greatest educational movement that we have had until modern day. But it's one thing today where where you have governments funding education the Sarah Schneer what she started in Krakow it spread she just passed away this year in her in her mid '9s fella Chappelle many of you are familiar with the Chappelle family from Daroom and Midash Rael yeshiva from from the Holocaust Museum from Yadvashm fella grew up in a town is Jews. In Yiddish, we call it Oshbitzine. In Polish, Ashvin, in German, Ashvitz. It's a very significant Jewish town. A very high Jewish percentage of of residents there in in western Galitzia. And when the Austrohungarian Empire controlled Galitzia, they would go to school, public school, learn in German. And then after public school, the girls would go to the Basanov and the boys would go to the Kaider. And then after World War I, when Poland conquered when when there was a reconstitution of Poland, which didn't exist from the 1770s till till after World War I, they went to public school and learned in Polish. And then the girls after public school would go to the Basanov and the boys would go to the Kaider. So you had towns and villages and cities like this all across Poland and they're gone. It's all gone, wiped out. What do I mean wiped out? Let me just use numbers. Professor Sal Freedellander. He says you had in the early 30s, the mid30s, you had three and a half million Jews in Poland. It was the largest concentration of Jews on Earth. because of where things were going in Europe. When the war started in September 1st, 1939, when Hitler attacked Poland, there were 3.3 million Jews in 39. Around, we don't have the exact numbers, but these are very fair assumptions. Around 300,000 fled to the Soviet areas, fled east. Of those 300,000, close to half survived. Most most of them just died of starvation in places like Siberia, but half survived the war. What about the 3 million Poland Polish Jews that remained in Poland? At most, he says, at most 35,000 survived. He thinks it was closer to, we don't have exact numbers. He thinks around 25 27,000 but he says at most 1% of Polish jewelry survived. Whole towns were annihilated. Do you understand? 1% survived. This was the heart of Judaism. This was the heart of Ashkanazic jewelry. Gone. Decimated. Tino's basim, the precious children, school children. One and a half million of the six million were children. If you've ever read the biography of Rudolph Hurst, he was a he was a commandant of Avitz. He was tried and he was executed in a Polish court I think in 47 something like that. Now after his trial while he was waiting for his execution they were trying to appeal it. He wrote a biography. Now that biography you understand an autobiography I apologize. An autobiography you understand it's biased because it's the world according to him. But there's there's a couple of descriptions that he gives that are extremely powerful. One of them when SS Odam Fur Adolf Aman when he comes to Avitz and Hurst describes to him they would take literally groups of hundreds of children and these little children are crying and pleading for their life and their the Germans with the butts of their rifles are cramming them into a gas chamber. Okay. And there's a term, I apologize, I can't pronounce it properly in German, but there's a term that's called like where you're shaking at the knees. He says, "Even," he he turned to to Aishman and he says, "Even we, the SS, the most loyal of Nazis who are overseeing this great enterprise of Avitz Burka." Now, we get that state where we shake at the knees hearing the cries of the children. And Aishman says to him, "Nonsense. Don't even think that way." He says, "What do you want? That you should have compassion on the children?" He says, "It would undermine everything we're doing. What do you think will happen? You let them live and they'll grow up. They'll take vengeance on us. The whole purpose is to annihilate this people to to snuff out its future." The greatest most holy component of this mission is the eradication of the children. And Hurst writes this in his autobiography as he's waiting to be executed. One and a half million children. That's what Rwab's referring to when he talks about tinino sha albanos boi visavos. Savos are the the elderly. There is no respect for the Jewish elderly. They were beloved in their life and in their death they shall not be divided. Ro please God seek out the blood. And you count the number shall call all those who were killed during that time 6,000 times 10,000 one-third of the Jewish world. These were the finest of your orchards. Goladam please the one who redeems all blood. Please remember their pain, their sorrow, their affliction and never ever eradicate that. Never ever erase that from the book that you have written. Remember each and every cry and moan vashos as they were brought to their murder. Dem the rivers of their blood. The rivers and streams of the tears that they shed. May that never ever be forgotten. Call any shriek, any groaned, any cry. from the barking of the dog for please remember and count each and every cry and each and every tear. Put them in your vessel in your container elon until the time will come for the the justice and the vengeance of what happened to them. The camps of the barbarians, the kind of pain and affliction, the humiliation they were spit on. Pakosum, the beatings, you know, it talks about starvation. You know what that is? Take take Matausen. Matausen was in in Austria as you know. You know what the average life expectancy was in Matausen? 6 weeks. They had this incredible deep quarry and they quarried stone there. And as the Jews would would would go up those steps, if you weren't carrying the boulders from the quarry up the steps fast enough, the Nazis pushed you off the quarry and you fell to your death. Most people they just they they the caloric intake was maybe 4 or 500 at most calories a day. In some cases it was 300 calories a day and they just worked them to their death. The average life expectancy of a slave labor, a Jewish slave labor in Matelin was 6 weeks. In Avitz Burkanau it was 10 weeks. Unless you were working in a bunk like Canada where you could get food from the the suitcases as you were going through the packages. Unless you were working in a place like Canada, in Avitz, especially, think about in in the winter in Poland in these work camps, 10 weeks was the life expectancy. And that's why they fed you three 400 calories. They worked you to death. Reone Simone Chigon. It It drove people crazy. the siman, the pillars of smoke, the the ashes coming out of the chimney. I want to read something to you. This is a an obituary written by a friend, a mentor of mine. His name is D Dr. Michael Burnernbound. Michael Burnernbound is one of the preeminent Holocaust historians today. He's an incredible mench of a human being, a wonderful Jew. He's the one that created Survivors of the Sha for Steven Spielberg. He was the one who created the the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Many of you have been to Belgettes. He was the creator of of the memorial in Belgettes. And Michael last year, the very last survivor of the Sunder Command. Now understand the Sun Command, the special forces, that was a euphemism that the Germans used for this. These were the eyewitnesses. These were the Jews who escorted their fellow Jews, helped them undress, put them, brought them into the gas chambers, took out the dead bodies, were involved in the incineration and cremation of the dead bodies. They're the ultimate eyewitnesses. And you know, every 3 months in Ashvitz, they were replaced. There are very few survivors. Only 1.5% of all members of the Sundaman survived. And that's by each one is a unique miracle. The very last member of the sun command this past year in 2020 he he was nifter Dario Gabbay was a young Jew from Salonica. He was a kid from Salonica who was deported to Ashvitz. In some of the in Avitz some of the um members of the sun command, a very large percentage of them were Greek Jews. You know why? because a Greek Jew didn't understand German, didn't understand Yiddish or Hungarian, any of those languages. So, they couldn't really speak. They didn't they wanted that that they couldn't speak with the people. Therefore, they couldn't tell stories. And the other thing is they can't speak with other members, other uh inmates in Avitz, whether they're Jewish or Gentile inmates, because who's going to understand Greek? the famous bombing and and destruction of the second of the gas chambers in Crematoria and Avitz gas chamber in Crematoria 2 that was done by Greek Jews. They knew they weren't going to survive but they wanted to destroy the the gas chamber so that it wouldn't kill others. So Dario's Gabby was the last survivor. He died at 97 years old last year. And I want to read just just one one piece of of background. You know when we suffered in Spain before 1492 in 1391 in Spain there were these terrible terrible poggrams led by a a rapidly anti-semitic Dominican frier. The Dominican friars were the ones who really controlled everything. His name was Vincent Fere. They started in in March in in Sevilla, you know, in Seville. civilas, southern Spain, and they worked their way up north and these puggrams through from 1391, they devastated Spanish jewelry. You know, 1492 was the funeral of Spanish jewelry. The death of Spanish jewelry was 1391 was 100 years earlier. So, I had the honor of being with Nathan. We were in Barcelona. There were no Jews in Barcelona the last 100 years of Spanish jewelry. After 1391, it was over. Anyone who wasn't killed or forcibly converted, they fled. Where did most of the Catalonian Jews? When I say Barcelona, when I say Jirona, that whole northeastern Spain, the dialect is different. I'll give you I'll give you an example. How do you pronounce a city Jirona? You say Jirona or Herona. Depends if you're a Spanish or you're a Catalonian. I'll use an analogy like you have in in Canada in Quebec, you know, they always want to secede. They're always voting to secede. Till this day, the Catalanians, they look down. They view the Spaniards as lazy. They view them as secondass. The Catalonians, you know, they're the you know, they're they're they're much more educated, much more sophisticated. So, they're always trying to secede from Spain. But you should know Bar the great Jewish community Barcelona didn't exist after 1391. Where did most of those Catalonian Jews, Catalonian Jews go? They found respit in the Ottoman Empire. In the Ottoman Empire at that time, it wasn't called the Ottoman Empire, but that time Greece was under Turkish or Ottoman control. And they settled in a port city by the we call it Salonica. You know, they used to refer to it as Thessaloni. Thessaloni or what what today in English we call Salonica. It was an incredible city. The Jews controlled the ports, meaning the the the import export merchants, those were Jews. The steadors, the guys who worked on the docks, those were Jews. So you talk about vertical integration. The ports were closed on Chabas. It was one of the world's largest port city. And it was the tunes the miro the miros that you sang Friday night. Those were the old Catalonian tunes the nusuk of the it was Catalonian. It was how the Jews would davin in Barcelona and Jerona. And it was a rich rich community. It was a really special Jewish community. You had gdole there. You had a richness to the Jewish life. things turned when Greece seceded and it was no longer there was a breakdown after World War I of even before World War I of the Ottoman Empire and now you you have a reconstitution of Greece. So what happened was the Greeks were very anti-semitic, extremely anti-semitic and life became very very difficult and some of these people actually traveled to Palestine and settled in Israel. most of them stayed. And in the year 1943 when the Germans come and to Greece and you talk about the the evil of the Germans, you had these small little islands, corwe and roads, all these small little islands. It's not worth their time. They spent huge amounts of money, manpower going on to these small Greek islands to find every little Jew who's living in Corfu or every little Jew who's living in roads or every little Jew who's living on this island. Do you know how many hundreds of Greek islands there are? Santorini and this one and that one and they're gathering up all of these Jews and shipping them to. That's the backdrop of this of his story. Dario Gabby 97, the last of the sun commando. And this was published in the Los Angeles Times. Who are the sun commando? Those prisoners who were forced to work in the vicinity of the gas chambers. Born in Salonica on September 2nd, 1922, Gabay was a son of an Italian father, Victor Orim, and a Greek mother, Rosa Baraka Gabay. His mother was traditional, deeply immersed in the intense spartic culture of the city. Salonica, whose ports were closed on the Shabas until World War I, was called the Yushaim of the Balkans, a community of some 65,000 Jews with over 40 different shul synagogues, a Jewish hospital, and even a Jewish fire brigade. As a boy, he played the clarinet and began a lifelong passion for athletics. Shortly after the Nazis invaded in April 1941, the Jewish community was ghettoized and most Jews were deported to Achvitz in March of 43. Daario, he was deported a year later in March of 44 along with his parents, his brothers Jacob and Shuel. His younger sister had died in infancy along with him for the 11 days journey from Greece to Avitz. Can you imagine that? How much do you think they fed these Jews, these Greek Jews in 11 days? You know, you understand why they went to Avitz. Once you got onto mainstream European territory, once you get into the land, mainstream Europe, you could reach Avitz from anywhere. That's why they spent all this time in Norway gathering. I don't I don't think there were maybe 7,000 Jews in all of Norway. They gathered them up and once they got them on, they could by rail you could reach Avitz from anywhere in Europe. Okay. That's why Awitz was not the death of Polish jewelry that we'll talk about. That was operation Reinhardt. That was Soore that was Belgett and that was Trebinka. Avitz was for the rest of European jewelry because of its access to rail. And you know they referred to Aishikman SS Obadam Fur Adaf is is the desk murderer because his brilliance was he literally utilized the whole rail system of the European continent to annihilate the Jews. I mean by doing that he ended up killing his own German soldiers because they couldn't get provisions to the German soldiers who were getting beaten by the Russians you know and on the Russian front because the most important war was the annihilation of the Jews. And and you know I think many many of you may know this originally the rail it went to the town of Ashvitz and then they marched the Jews from Avitz like many of you do on the march of the living mitsim they marched from the town of Avitz to to the the chambers the gas chambers in Berk canal in in 44 they realize they're losing the war and the Russians are gaining territory and the Russians are closing in at any moment. So what did they do? They built tracks from the town all the way up to the gas chambers. And that's the tracks that many of you have experienced. That was not there originally. That was only built in 44. And then they built two more gas chambers in crematoria. Gas chamber four and gas chamber five with crematoria. And it the the the the the construction the engineering of those was much more sophisticated than two and three could kill many more people and it could eradicate many more bodies at a faster rate. You'll see why in a minute as we read. So he was shipped in 44. By then Avitz had been in existence for almost four years and Burkanowits killing center had been operational for more than a year. Yet Daario did not know the name Ashvitz. Upon arrival he faced selection. The old, the very young, women with children, and those who were weak were sent to their death, and only the strong survived. His mother, his father, his brother Shmoel were sent to the crematory of Burkanau. Daario was young, seemingly strong. For Daario, that began his lifelong obsession with physical fitness. He had seen the weak die day after day, week after week. After a short time, Daario and his brother Jacob along with their cousins were chosen to be members of the Sund Commando. Chosen in part because Greek Jews were raised in Latino, not in Yiddish. Few spoke Yiddish, Polish, or Hungarian. Soon to become the largest population of Berkanau, as during some six weeks later, the Hungarian transports began. 437,400 Jews on 147 trains between May 15th and July 8th, 1944. An average of 2950 Jews per train. Some three trains each and every day. Eight of 10 of those 437,42 Jews were taken directly to the gas chambers, which were then operating at full capacity, even beyond capacity, as on some days the Jews were burned in open pits. Daario had his baptism by fire. The sun commando were intimate with the act of killing. They observed the murderers directly, closely, and over a long period of time. They were in the presence of the condemned in their last moments, when they entered the undressing room, when they lined up to go into the gas chambers, and moments after they were gassed. When their bodies were removed from the chambers, and they were processed, gold teeth were pulled, inner cavities were searched for hidden valuables, for wedding and other rings. They were removed from fingers. The hair was shorn and bundled. They were the remains of the victims as the victims were burned either in open pits or in the ovens of the crematoria. Daario was not without guilt over his work. Daario said, "How can you have a peace of mind? It is very, very tough. Inside of us, there is somebody else." Sunder commamando were slated to be murdered after some two or three months. As they have seen too much, they knew too much. Yet because of the intensity of the killing during the summer of 44, Daario and his fellow sun commando were kept alive. The chaos of the last period at Avitz allowed him, Jacob, and his cousin Schlommo and Maurice Venitzio to escape all but certain death. Daario was on the death march, what the Germans euphemistically called forced evacuations from Achvitz in 1945, walking in the dead of winter with temperatures well below zero and then boarding a train that was to take him to Matausen. He developed an unusual strategy for getting through the endless march when if you stumbled, if you rested, or you paused, you were shot. he said quote unquote. I closed my eyes and said, "How beautiful is Athens in the spring?" He kept repeating it again and again. How beautiful is Athens in the spring. Soon he said, "I was sweating." He was liberated from Ebony, a subcap of Matausen by American soldiers on May 6th, 1945, two days before the end of the war. He weighed less than 100 pounds. Only one and a half% of the sun commando survived. Few of those deported from Salonica survived. So he was truly in the words of Yeshai in Udmales a brand plucked from the fire that's taken from his his eulogy. Dario was featured in James Mole's Academy Award film The Last Days. Together with his cousins, his return to Avitz was featured in a film called Avitz: The Last Witness. And in a 2010 documentary, Finding Nico, which reunited him with a roommate, he married Dana Mitzman Gabby, in 1953, and their daughter Roa was born in 1957. Gabby is survived by his daughter. Daario bore witness time and again. he could not forget. Yet he fought those memories. It's like a virus, he said. It lies dormant and then it comes back. He last returned to Avitz in 2015 on the 70th anniversary of its liberation. And he walked to the crematoria with Warren Reinold. He sang in Italian, "Mama," as a tribute to those he had lost. As a sunder commando he was with the remains of those who were murdered as the bones that had not been burned were crushed. The ashes were accumulated and then brought to the Vistula River where they were deposited in the river to flow downstream and be scattered. Among those ashes were Daario's immediate and extended family. Those he knew, those he loved. So even in these difficult times, he died during co So, Professor Burbum says, "We were had the privilege of burying Daario and giving him a Kev Israel, something his loved ones had never had. His body was washed and placed in shrouds. We said the Kelm Rahim in the Kadesh recited. He was at peace at last." I want to read to you one other testimony. Between the months of March 1942 and September 1943, Polish jewelry was annihilated. The only ones who survived Polish jewelry were children that were raised in a Christian family. And unfortunately, most of those children we never ever got back. Most of those children ended up being raised as Catholics and the only ones who survived were the Jews in in the lodge ghetto. The lodge ghetto under Morai Rumovski wanted to to save those who were healthy and strong. He had hundreds of factories. Many of them were textile factories because Ludge was an incredible textile center. It was a textile center for all of Europe. But these Jews were producing uniforms for the Germans. They were producing armaments. They were producing all kinds of goods and materials for the Germans. And that's why they were kept all the way till August of 1944 because they had a value to the war effort for the Germans. As the Germans realizes the Russians are closing in, the Russians are liberating Polish territory by by the day they ship the last remaining members of the Ludge Ghetto. Jerry Weinrich's mother and father were amongst those. They were taken and deported to Ashvitz. Now Jerry's parents survived. Most didn't. But my point is no one no one do we have as survivors of Belgettes or soore. What do I mean? Belgettes which annihilated Galitzian jewelry, western Galitzia which is the area around Krakow the all these small communities that were influenced by the Noamel Melik of Lujanskidum the rupt you know the Nali ruptitzer all these towns and villages eastern Galitzia where you had in German they called it Lmberg the Vienna of the east Lav today it's in the Ukraine it's called Leviv but at that time it was Poland Lev all of Galitzia Tarnov and Krakow and Lov annihilated in Belgettes. Only two Jews survived Belgettes of a quarter of a million. There were only two survivors. A man by the name of Kaim Hirshman in 1946 as he's on his way to a Polish court to testify. He was murdered. One of only two survivors of Belg. He was murdered. The survivor, Rudolph Rder. Rudolph Rder was a chemist. He had a soap factory in Lav. He he was brought by some of the SS because they were buying supplies. And while the SS men were talking to these pretty Polish girls, he he ran away and he escaped. He's the only Jew that survived. Most of what we know of Belgettes which wiped out which annihilated Galitzian jewelry. Most of what we know comes from Germans from Nazis who were there. The most important testimony other than redder that we have I want to read to you. It's from a man by the name of Kurt Gersstein. Kurt Gersstein was a chemist in Germany and the Nazis took him to try to improve on Trebinka in soore and in Belgettes to try to improve upon that. They wanted him to expedite to make it more functional as a killing factory. See you and I think of Avitz where Zyclon B was used. Cyclon B killed almost everyone. They they choked to death within 15 minutes. But in Trebinka and Soore and in and in in Belgettes, they had these big diesel trucks. They had big diesel engines and they pumped the diesel fumes, the fumes, carbon monoxide fumes from the diesel engines into the into the gas chambers. It was a much worse death. You're talking 30, 35 minutes till people literally gasping for air. Can you imagine choking to death for 35 minutes? And they brought Gersstein there. Now, Gersstein was so horrified by this, he wrote down what he saw and he sent it to the to the Vatican's emissaries in in parts of Europe. One of the studies that we're looking to see now that the Vatican has been opened up and that they're going into the files of Pope Pius I 12th historians his and we have documentation. I'm going to read you his documentation that was sent to them. Was was it given to the pope? Did pope pas know what was happening in 42? What? It's clear that that that the church officials had this information that we know question is what did they do with this after the war because you know he was conscripted into the SS as a chemist. He was in incarceration. He was murdered by other Nazis who were in jail with him before he testified. He was going to testify and they murdered him. But we have his what he wrote and what he sent to the world after experiencing this. And I want this is the last piece that I'm going to be reading probably for the next four hours, but I'd rather than me say it. I'd rather you hear it in his words. I made a thorough inspection of all these camps referring to the three death camps, Trebinka, so Belgettz accompanied by Christian Worth. Christian Worth was the commonant who oversaw Belgett's then Trebinka the head of all of these death factories. Earlier Worth had been put in charge by Hitler and by Himmler of the murder of the mental cases at Hadamar and Grafinik in various other places. Odil Gablachnik, he's the monster who was the head of the Lublin district. He said the following. You will have to disinfect large quantities of clothing, 10 or 20 times the quantity resulting from the collection of clothing and textile articles, which is only being done to obscure the source of the clothing taken away from Jews. Your other duty will be to improve the service of our gas chambers, which function on diesel engine exhaust. What is wanted is a much more toxic gas that works faster, such as prusic acid. Prussic acid is the main component in cyclon B. The Furer and Himmler, they were here on August 15th, that is the day before yesterday, and they instructed me to act as personal escort to those who have reason to view these establishments. Professor Fensteel then asked, "But what did the furer say?" So, Gabbachnik replied, "The Furer has ordered all action speeded up." Dr. Herbert Lindner who's in charge of the euthanasia program for the m ministry of the interior. He was with us yesterday and he asked me but would it not be wiser to cremate the corpses rather than burying them? Another generation may perhaps judge these things differently. I replied this is this is Lubachnik speaking. Gentlemen, if there should ever be after us a generation so cowardly and so soft that they could not understand our work, which is so good and so necessary, then gentlemen, the entire national socialist movement would have been in vain. On the contrary, we ought to bury bronze tablets, stating that it was we who had the courage to carry out this gigantic task. The furer then said, "Yes, my goodnik, you are right." Nevertheless, Dr. Lner's opinion subsequently prevailed. Meaning, Gabbachnik wanted to keep the dead there. He wanted to keep a remnant to show all of the millions of Jews that they had murdered. But in the end, whose position won out? It was this Dr. Lindner. And even the corpses that had already been buried were burned by means of gasoline or oil on grading erected on rails. That's how they you know what they did. Himmler had the SS and the last slave laborers in places like Soore and Trebinka. They took out they exumed these corpses that had been buried and they put them on these huge rails and they burnt them. The reason that there was a revolt in Soabore or there was a revolt in Trebinka is because the sun commando, the last Jews, knew that once they finished eradicating and incinerating the bodies of their loved ones, their relatives, their fellow Jews, they would be the last ones killed. And that's what led to the revolt in Trebinka and in Soibore. So two days later, we left for Belgett, a small special station with two platforms. It was set up against a yellow sandill. Immediately immediately to the north of the Lublin Lav railway. To the south near the road were some service buildings and a notice saying Vafen SS Belett's office. Gabbachnik presented me to the SS Habamur Obermire who showed great reserve when taking me over to the installations. We saw no dead that day, but a pestilential odor blanketed the whole region. Alongside the station was a large hut marked cloak room with a wicket inside marked valuables. Further on, a hall designated hairdresser containing about a hundred chairs. Then came a passage about 150 yards long, open to the wind and flanked on both sides with barbed wire and notices saying to the baths into the inhalation rooms. In front of us was a building of the bath house type. Left and right large pots of geraniums and other flowers. On a roof, a car copper mug and David. The building was labeled heckenhold foundation. That afternoon I saw nothing else. However, the next morning, shortly after 7 a.m., I was told the first train will arrive in 10 minutes. A few minutes later, a train did in fact arrive from Lmberg or today we the Ukrainians call it Lviv. In Polish is called Lav with 45 wagons. You you understand one train had 45 cars holding more than 6,000 people in total. Of these 1,450 were already dead on arrival. You understand how they packed the Jews into cattle cars. were dead on arrival. Behind the small barbed wire windows, children, young ones, frightened to death, women and men. As the train drew in, 200 Ukrainians detailed for the task. They tore open the doors and laying about them with leather whips, they drove the Jews out of the cars. Instructions boomed from a loudspeaker, ordering them to remove all clothing, all artificial limbs, and all glasses using small pieces of spring string handed out by a little Jewish boy. They were to tie their shoes together. All valuables and money were to be handed in at the valuables counter, but no voucher or receipt was given. Women and young girls were to have their hair cut off in the hairdressers unit. The SS Unifur told me that's to make something special for the Yubot submarine crews. Then the march began. On either side of them, left and right, barbed wire. Behind there were two dozen Ukrainians, guns in hand. They drew nearer to where Worth and I were standing in front of the death chambers. men, women, young girls, young boys, children, babies, crippled, all stark naked, filed in. At the corner stood a burly SS man with a loud priest-like voice. Nothing terrible is going to happen to you, he told the poor wretches. All you have to do is breathe in deeply. That strengthens the lungs. Inhaling is a means of preventing infectious diseases. It's a good method of disinfection. They asked what was going to happen to them. He told them, "The men will have work to work building roads and houses, but the women, they're not obliged to do so. They'll do housework or they'll help in the kitchen." For some of these poor creatures, this was a last small ray of hope, enough to carry them, unresisting as far as the chambers of death. However, most of the Jews knew the truth. The odor in the air told them what their fate was to be. They walked up a fall a small flight of steps and into the death chambers. Most of them without a word. They thrust forward by those behind them. One Jewish of about 40, her eyes flaming like torches, cursed her murderers. Urged on by some whiplashes from Captain Worth in person, she disappeared into the gas chamber. Many were praying while others asked, "Who will give us water to wash the dead?" I prayed with them. I pressed myself into a quarter and I cried out to my God and to their God. How glad I should have been to go into the gas chamber with them. How gladly I should have died the same death as theirs. Then an SS officer in uniform would have been found in the gas chambers. People would have believed it was an accident and the story would have been buried and forgotten. But I could not do this yet. I felt I must not succumb to the temptation to die with the Jews. I now knew a great deal about these murderers. Worth had told me there are not 10 people alive who have seen or will see as much as you. When the whole thing was over, all the foreign auxiliaries, they would, meaning the Ukrainian guards, would be executed. I was one of the handful of people who had seen every corner of the establishment and certainly the only one to have visited as an enemy of this gang of murderers. Inside the gas chambers, SS men were crushing the people together. Fill them up well, Worth had ordered. 7 to 800 for every 270 square ft. Now the doors were closed. Meanwhile, the rest of the people from the train stood waiting naked. "Naked even in winter," somebody said to me. "But they may catch their death." "Look, that's what they're here for," was the reply. At that moment, I understood the reason for the inscription, "Heckenhalt." Heckinhol was the driver of the diesel truck whose exhaust gases were to be used to kill these Jews. SS Sergeant Heckenhalt was making great efforts to get the engine running, but it refused to start. Captain Worth came up. He was obviously frightened because I was watching a disaster. Yes, I saw it all and I waited for 50 minutes. Then 70 minutes ticked away on my stopwatch, but the diesel would not work. Inside the gas chambers, people waited, waited in vain. They would be heard weeping as they do in the synagogue, said Professor Fonsteel, his eyes glued to a window in the wooden door. Furious at the delay, the commonant Captain Worth, he lashed out with his whip at the Ukrainian assisting Heckenhalt. It was 2 hours and 49 minutes, all recorded by stopwatch, before the diesel engine finally started. Right up to that moment, the people had been shut up alive in those four crowded gas chambers. Four times 750 persons in four times 1590 cubic feet of space. Another 25 minutes dragged by. Many of those inside were already dead. They could be seen through the small window when an electric lamp in sign went on for a few moments and lit up the chamber. After 28 minutes, few were left alive. Finally, at the end of 32 minutes, all were dead. Some Jewish workers on the far side opened the doors. In return for this terrible service, they were fed. Inside, the people were still standing erect like pillars of basalt since there had not been an inch of space for them to fall or even lean. Families could still be seen holding hands even in death. It was a tough job to separate them as the chambers were emptied to make way for the next batch. The bodies were tossed out, blew wet with sweat and urine. The legs soiled with feces and menstrual blood. A couple of dozen workers checked the mouths of the dead, which they tore open with iron hooks. Gold to the left, other objects to the right. Other workers inspected the anus and the genital organs in search of money of diamonds of gold, etc. The dentist moved around hammering out gold teeth, bridges, and crowns. In the midst of them stood captain, the commandant worth, Christian Worth, in his element, showing me a large can full of teeth. He said, "See for yourself. Just look at the amount of gold there is." And we collected this much only yesterday and the day before. You can't imagine what we find every day. Dollars, diamonds, gold. You'll see. He took me to a jeweler who was responsible for all these valuables. They then pointed me to a man who had been one of the heads of the Kaf House devestance, a large Berlin department store and another little man. These two were in charge of the Jewish works gods work squads, meaning what we call the sun commando. The little man was being made to play the violin. He was a captain in the Imperial Austrian Army during World War I. Worth told me he holds the Knight's Cross of the German Iron Cross. Then the bodies were flung into large trenches, each trench about 100 yards by 20 by 12, which had been dug close to the gas chambers. After a few days, the bodies would swell, raising the top of the mound as much as 6 to 10 feet as a result of the gas formed inside the corpses. A few days later, once the swelling had subsided, the bodies would shake down again. Subsequently, I was told, the bodies were piled onto train rails and burned to a cinder with diesel oil. The simanosim piles and piles of stones and senus. The cry the shrieks from the nation as they were choking to death in the gas chambers. By the way, you see her here was told something that never emerged. The plan was to take the fat and use it to make soap. You know, soap historically was made from animal fat. They'll use the fat of the Jews. You know why that never happened? They didn't turn us into soap. Think about where the Jews were coming from ghettos. You you look at they they were nothing when they got to Avitz. They were nothing when they got to to to Belginka. There was no fat left on them. So you you you you don't make soap out of human flesh. You make it out of human fat. And there was no soap to make it out of expos the snap of the fingers shall rush approach by the SS guards per to the right would be slave labored sal to the the death to the to the left. How they shot they shot us into pits. By the way, many of you, you should read the book Holocaust by Bullets. And I forgot the the name of his second book. The second book is actually, if you had to read one, you should read. He's a French Catholic priest. His name is Father Patrick Dubois. He spent 18 years of his life with primarily Christians, funded by Jews, but primarily was Christians. That's why they were allowed to do it. going town by town, village by village in the Ukraine, in Lithuania and in White Russia, finding the mass graves of in 1941 the Jews that were killed. Now you understand we assumed it was 1.25 1.3 million Jews who were murdered by the SS by the ansat groupinat group in A B C and D. But his 18 years, Father Patrick Dubois thinks it's closer to 1.8 million Jews that were killed. None of those Jews were gassed to death. This is all before Voni. Vani happens January 20th, 1942. This is all Litvisha jewelry and Ukrainian jewelry. You think about Russia Shana 1941. 33,400 Jews were taken out to Babiar, a ravine outside of Kiev. That was the annihilation of Kiev jewelry. And this was town by town, village by village. The name of the book is called in broad daylight. That's the book you should read by Father Patrick Dubra. In broad daylight and that's what Rashwab here is referring to. Theos they they shot them one bullet at a time. They violated our sisters. I watched it. Hasn't been published yet. I watched it. There's a film done by a very fine Israeli um producer. And it's a film that many of those who were interviewed for this film would rather wait till they're dead till the film is produced. It's Jewish men and women who were sexually violated by Germans, by Poles, by Ukrainians and the impact it had on them the rest of their lives. It's a documentary. You watch that film and there's just it takes all of your heart and soul because like many survivors, what they saw, what they went through, how they were tortured and then to have to live with that the rest of their lives. Think about how many people were castrated. Think about how many women who were the objects of mangala and the Nazi doctor's experimentation were infertile the rest of their life could never ever have children the poison that they drank from the German doctors you know that haunts us we said less than 1% of Polish jewelry survive but of Those that survived, many of them never even knew they were Jews. They were raised their whole life as as Catholics. The holy flock of God. Who can count the number of those that were killed? The fire that that devoured them should never ever be extinguished. We should never forget that these are the ones that sanctified your name with the sound of Israel. They gave over their life to God. Only God will bring them until the end of history. We have to say we have to say a kadesh for them. You're all familiar with that famous I think it's a maj of that they on on the the railways in the cattle cars on the way to the to to their extermination they saying it and then one of them you know wrote down the notes and threw it out until this that's the An [Music] that is that tune that was written in the cattle cars. The nation is is an orphan. There are no graves that we can go to say a calm to say a kadesh matas. There are no head tombstones. Nowhere to cry. All that's left is their blood that was spilled and it should never stop boiling. Dishname is beak. All we have are the very few scare scarce ashes that remain in Belgettes in Trebinka in Soibore in Rambulus outside of Real Latafia in Panari outside of VNA in Babyar outside of Kiev Malar Israel. Who could ever articulate the pain of the Jewish people? and the remnant which is so few as we mentioned. Please the living God please comfort and console us. Have compassion on us. We yearn for you. Create a new light for us. Elohim going to ask everyone at this point to turn to the 34th kina. You know throughout tishabove the rub used to say it's the one day of the year that we question God. a Jew, a human being with a finite intellect as asshia says, the the wisdom, the knowledge, the thoughts of God are not the thoughts of a human being. And who are we with a limited frail intellect to understand God's system? Mosha Rabenu, that's the famous Gar Manos when he saw what happened to Rebaka, he said, "Zoo Torah, this is someone who's integrated and become a master of the Torah and this is its reward." Come on. He couldn't understand. Mosheru couldn't understand it. The the mo intellectually perfected human being that ever lived. The man who had the greatest knowledge of God and of God's ways of the rebon's ways he could not understand the system God's system of justice all the more so we and our response the rest of the year the RV used to say is when we're confronted by something that perplexes us when we're confronted by something that that that pains us that we just don't understand it's Arun's response to the death of his two young sons. He was silent. One day a year, the ro said, "We have the right to question God." And that's today. It's tishabove. Who gave us the mat? Who gave us the license to question God Almighty? Your Miyahu Hanavi, the Ramban quotes. Many had the the the minhug. They would say aha at night as we did last night and they would read a why read a because you need a mat. You need a a a license to e have the the kutzbah to to to stand and question God and his system and his justice. And that gave us the license on tishov. Our menug is that we say at night and ki read this morning the ha tora because yahu in the ha questions god. That's what gives us the license. It's done. It's your ma hanavi under divine premonition that had the right the ability to say such a thing and that gives us the license. But what happens is throughout the day when we question God we come back as your mahu himself did in the third peric of a last night rovos don't come from God. We're the ones who generate it. We have free will. The rebon gave us free will. And when we act in a corrupted way, in a perverse way, there are consequences. And that notion of kadin after we question, we come back and we acknowledge our flaws and we acknowledge the corruption of our people. You see that theme throughout tishab and one of the areas you see that is Rabie Halevi is the author of this ka is the 34th kenna. The story is this. Now, let me just give a little bit of background. You and I when we hear the word Zakaria, Zachchariah the prophet, we think of the Nvy of the Bay. When the Persians gave us license to rebuild Jerusalem, so it was two great leaders, Ezra, who was the leader, the religious leader, and Nhema who was a governmental official in the Persian Empire. They came back and they led the people. But to build the base of Mikdash, you need nvua. You need the specific, what do we call the measurements, the midot as to where to put the misbak, where to put the azara, where's the nashim, who provided that? Who provided that? on behalf of the rebon. Three men, Zakaria, and Mali. Malaki, Malachi, Mali. The Gomar is not sure who that is because the phrase Malaki means my agent, my messenger. It's a euphe it's it's referring to someone. So most of Kazal believe that Malaki was Ezra. There are those that want to say Malaki was actually Mori. There's a third opinion that his name was Mali. So there was Mali and the one who we have the the largest body of Nvua is Zakaria. Why? Because Zakaria not only shares with us the experience of the Bay Sheni but he has Nvuote that if the people of the Bayeni live up to it could be fulfilled by them if not will be fulfilled in the Bay. That's not who we're speaking about. This ka is not about Zakaria the famous zakaria that we know. Who is this kina about? Another is a hanavi but from the bias rish. Now go back for a second to the ha that we read on para skullin. Okay it's the story of a very challenging time. The daughter of Jezebel of Isel and Akav her name was Atalyahu. Atalia marries the melhuda. The logic was that way there could be some form of peace between the 10 northern tribes Israel and the two southern tribes Yehuda. She is a shrewd just like her mother. And when her husband dies, she runs the government of the two southern tribes of Yehuda. And one by one she has assassinated all the Davidic descendants. She tries to annihilate the whole line of the Messiah, the whole Davidic and Solommonic line. There's one little kid, Yhoash, the Kohanim, under the guidance of a righteous Coen Guttle, Yho Yada. They actually hide this little kid, and they prevent him from being killed by Atalia. Eventually, the Jews revolt and they overthrow Atalyahu. You know what she did? And that's that's the whole background to Parcalin, the Haftto of Pareskullin. She knew if she would destroy the Ba Mikdash, they'd kill her. It would create a revolt. So she did something called passive aggressive. It was an old building. It was built by Schlommo. She just let it fall into disrepair. If you don't fix a house, think about our homes here. You just go two years without fixing your house and see what happens to it. Think about a structure that's that old. It needs constant repair. The term is bedabas. So she through being passive aggressive let it fall in disrepair. When they overthrew her and they executed her, they had a whole fundraising campaign to reestablish the road so that people could make aliyah come to your shalim at least three times a year. They had a whole campaign to rebuild the base of mikdash. And that's the story of the haftra of parashoen yhash as it says in safer as long as he had this regent the kohhen yho yada kohhen as long as he had yo yada guiding him and steering him he did the right thing when yo yada dies yo yada's son is zakaria that's this zakaria he becomes the next kingul He is such a righteous pious sadic that not only is he, not only is a cog, he attains that level of intellectual perfection that we call nva and he becomes a na'vi and the government unfortunately is corrupt and the leadership is corrupt and many of the people are corrupt and Zakaria is pleading with the people to change their ways. to do Tshoua to to to make sure that the court systems are honest that that an employee or an employer who feels they've been cheated has their day in court to eradicate the avodara which was always a challenge to remove the private altars the bumos many many corruptions that were taking place both financial on an ethical and moral level and on a theological level in terms of a vodora. So what happened? People didn't like it and they tried to stifle him and they tried to stifle him again and again and it and he had an obligation. Hashem was giving him nva. So they put an end to him. You know what happens when you don't like the message? You kill the messenger, right? That's what they did. They murdered. Listen to this. They murdered the Cohen Gud who was their Nvi on Yom Kipper that fell out in Shabas in the Bameikdash. You hear that phrase, you know, someone who hits for the cycle. This is a sin that hit for the cycle. They murdered the Cohen Gudal Anum Kipper that fell out on Shabas in the base of Mikdash who wasn't just any Cohen. He was a Nvi. He was the god Alhador and they murdered him in the gar and parac in the garra and paracisak in the fifth parak of gan and the medish medish aa talk about this and it describes this you could take this euphemistically or you could take this this literally either way you could explain it says the spot that he was murdered they couldn't clean up the blood stains the blood kept boiling and that's what you'll Here you'll see here in Yoda Levy's description, the blood kept boiling. So again, does it mean they couldn't clean off the spot or literally the blood kept boiling? As if to say there has not been justice done. See, it's not just the people who committed this murder. Something like that happens amongst the Jewish people. There has to be a catharsis. There has to be a shock. and awe and a sense of introspection in society has to change. You just can't have olum kimo no you know let's just keep going on okay you know okay this happened okay well well who's playing tonight in the double header you know and who's playing in who's given a concert here and and what's happening there no there has to be a trauma trauma but there was no trauma no one was traumatized okay yeah maybe we got a little carried away maybe he shouldn't have been so tough on the people is erup the almighty has patience but Hashem doesn't forget and he's a shem he's a god of mishbat that's the backdrop to this kenna we're it's on page 540 and41 in the rabbi salivic kinnos what's it in the art scroll the 34th kenna what page 320 how this our sins, you know, he's embodying the Jewish people. My sins have become doubled with the murder of the prophet Mikdash in in the courtyard of the mikdash. The earth would not cover up that blood until the army of our oppressors came. There was a what was that? That the blood would not could not be erased. It couldn't be wiped off. Quoting the second perk of Aha. And increase amongst the daughter of Yehuda meaning increased amongst the Jewish people was moaning pain and suffering. Hay the soer. This blood it was like a tempest at Bo Rav Tabahim. Who is Rav Tabahim? The chief butcher. Who is that? That of course is Nvu Zaredan. Nvu Khanzar himself does not come from Bavl from the Euphrates River to Jerusalem to conquer it. It's his it's his chief general that he sends Nvaradan who defeats the Jews. He comes to the Mikdash of God. He sees the blood boiling. What's the story? to the kohanim who are working in the mikdash. Oh, oh, this must be an animal that was freshly slaughtered. You know, the blood is hot when it comes out of it. He looked at them. He says, I think you're telling me a story. I don't believe that story. He says, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Come on. It's not goat blood. You You told me. No. There. We just slaughtered a goat. That's goat blood. This is not goat blood. Uh-uh. This is not boine blood. This is not the blood of a of a of a bobcaf or a heer calf. Uh uh uh-uh. This is not lamb blood or sheep blood. Come on. Tell me the truth. What is it? Whose blood is this? Where did this blood come from? Omaria. This is your sin. And this is the fruit of your sin. Through all of this, the blood did not subside. It boiled over like a like a storm at sea, a raging storm. And finally they they told the kohanim told what was the story? This is the blood of the man of God who was executed who was murdered by his own people in the base of Mikdash for no good reason. You know what? So we're going to his blood we will seek out. There's going to be justice after all of these many many decades. There's going to be justice for Zakaria's blood. Gather for me all the kohanim. Come on. I want him here. Who does he start killing? The kohanim. The kohhanim, as you know, they're our educators. They're the very people who are mentors. You kill off the the rebum like we talked about in Rwab's kina. You kill off the mim the educators the rebum you just undermine the whole system of the misoraishimos he killed adults by the hundreds. You see this who do you kill more of everyone? It's like it's the same thing that Adolf Aman was saying to Rudolph Hurse. You kill the young ones. You know why? Because that's how you prevent the future of the Jewish people. You murder the young. The sh the school children rose. You see, he was sedicious. He made the parents watch as he murdered the children in front of the eyes of the parents. There was no silence for the blood of the prophet. It was a wander, a sign. No, there was the city was perplexed. the the the sound of the shrieking of the cries and the suffering of all those being killed with all of this. Now, how do you read this line? Who who his anger did not reside? Is it referring to Baraku because the blood kept boiling? That's how some read this is referring it's referring to Nuvaradan. It's referring to the anger of the of General Nuaran in his outstretched hand because you and I know Nuaran can't do anything unless it's willed by unless Hashem allows it to happen. And the point here is you could read this either way. This line mothers who were nursing their children, they started murdering the the the little babies or mitzim. The blood spilled like the like the raging river, like the Nile River. It wasn't just a little bit of blood. It was rivers of blood until turns heavenward. And he says, I haven't killed enough. God, justice hasn't been done. We haven't made up for the killing of Zakari. Hakal says Sheris Hashiba, do you want me to totally eradicate and annihilate all remaining Jews? The Azaki then the innocent blood, the spilled blood of the the of the prophet Zakaria was silenced. Revaya and at that point the sword stopped. Now there's this extra paragraph. There are two gears we have of this kina. One has this paragraph. The other doesn't. We're we're going to read it. To you hashem have we sinned. See this is we acknowledge our corruption. We murdered your prophet. We know the evil that we did. May Please, Hashem, comfort us. We cry out to you from the depths of the grave, from the depths of hell. We the fruit of our sin. How have we been satiated with it? paraphrasing, we are not comforted. We have no comfort, no sense of of of of being, how do I translate it? There's no compassion that we feel. We are still afflicted and we are in the midst as if we're being in a tempest. her eyes meaning our eyes to you. We turn we lift up Sophia and we yearn for your salvation. We yearn for your help and your aid. If we could go to the third to the 11th kenna in the Rabbi Salvetic in the Msaurus Harav it's page 288 and 289. What is that in the art scroll? >> 282 >> 182 just um a brief introduction you know I think it was that uh Steven Spielberg won the Oscar for Schindler's List. It was in 1992. There was a study done in America. They asked Americans how many Americans believe that six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. I think the number was something like something like 64% believe that actually six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Now you understand what Steven Spielberg did was incredible. It was actually the third screenwrite. It was the third script. you know, he he he liked the idea of doing this movie because he thought it had an angle, you know, and but he wanted the right screenwrite for it. So, after the third script, he says, "That will do it." And uh he produced the film, but it was it was a Hollywood production. I mean, it was filmed in Poland. It was filmed in Crockdown, but it was a Hollywood production. They asked the same question two years later. I know Jason do you remember Rabbi Meyer had everyone all the talidum from FR taken to the movie theater to see Schindler's List remember that so two years later they asked the same question and um 90 I think 4% of Americans believe that 6 million people died in the Holocaust. How do you go from 64% to 94%. Tell you why. because people can relate to the story of one man. The the person that Ben Kingsley played was actually a composite character. I don't know if any of you know Alan Pines lives in Livingston. Allan is is a son-in-law of of Murray Pantier and the Panters and and as you know Rea Feldman from Arshaw the Levensteines her parents were were survivors of Schindler and um Ben Kingsley was a composite of two Jews but it was a story of one man Stern who to a certain degree was a fictitious figure because he was a composite of two individual that people can do that. You you think about the Holocaust, okay? What do people how do people relate to the Holocaust? The diary of Anna Frank, Anna Frank and Frank is not a significant part of the Holocaust in no way, shape or form. It's a tragedy. It's a terrible tragedy. But what happens? People can associate and people can relate to the story of one young adolescent girl and that is you have to understand that you and I can't comprehend 6 million. We can't comprehend the numbers of those who've died throughout the tragedies. These statistics are numbers that we can't internalize them into our heart, into our conscience, into our psyche. And that's why the method of the khalier many of the kinos is to take the story of one individual or two individuals that you and I can feel that you and I can relate to and that is what is done here with Yoshi Hamelik the famous the righteous one of the greatest one of the greatest baluva we ever had in our history Yoshiamelik two times a year we study Yoshiu the second day of Pesak because he's the haft tora haft tora is about him from safer malim and today the khal's 11th kina when the rv would introduce his kina different times he introduced um there was a a medish and the revolt against what we call the barakba revolt it was supported by the kak and we'll talk about it and raika went places he he traveled to north Africa to Jewish communities to raise money for the revolt. So it was a place in North Africa, Ganzac and he spoke about you know devastation of generations and it just didn't move the people. Then he decided to speak about EO one man and what happened what it was like as a father to lose his children and have to bury his own children. what happened to him, his his estate to lose everything he spent his life building up, how he was suffering, the bodily afflictions, the pain, how people didn't respect him and they turned on him and they said, you know, his friends Leas and and Bildad and Sar and it moved the people to tears and it moved the people to you and I would to write a check, to hand over the American Express, to to be generous. Why? Because people can feel and touch and empathize with one individual. And that is the story of what Rabika did in Ganzac. And that again is the story of what Steven Spielberg did of the of the popularity of the diary of Anne Frank. And that as well as the story here of Yoshi Amelik. Now keep in mind one piece of background keep in mind and that is that he is coming after 55 years of his grandfather Manasha a terribly corrupt reign a terribly evil reign even though Manasha himself does Chuva later in life he doesn't have the control over his people to undo much of the bad that he did you know it's Like some of these politicians, they say the the most stupid and and corrupt things about the police, you know, and then when their cities turn into to anarchy and their cities are destroyed and devoured by these animals and these pigs who just rob, hurt, maim people, you know, then they try to walk back some of the things they said. Well, it's a little too late. You've created an an environment where people hate the police, where they don't respect the police, and innocents are killed, you know, and and you think you're doing this, you know, to defend the blacks in your city. More blacks get killed than anybody else by these animals and these criminals. So, it's a little too late. You know, we had a similar thing with Manasha, who was a failed politician and a failed leader. all the corruption that he created even as he's getting later in life and getting closer to his meeting his maker he himself starts to change but he can't change the corruption he's created in the society around him with his terrible policies after Manasha Ammon becomes the king for seven years so it's 62 years of terrible terrible leadership You know, it's like a bad administration. You have a terrible administration for eight years. It's going to take 15 years to undo all the bad things that an administration may have done. I'm talking about whether it's a mayor, whether it's a governor, whether it could be an executive on a national level. It takes a lot to undo all of that which was done. And that was probably the biggest mistake of Yoshi Yahu because people's mentality doesn't change. And let me use an analogy. Think about the Iranian Jews who came to America. As Jews and as a Jewish community, the Persians have done pretty well. Think about the Jews who came from the former Soviet Union. You know, 70 years of communism where it's been ingrained for 70 years that anyone who believes that there's a creator of the universe, those are the stupidest fairy tales that any could believe. And they undermine and they attack and they knock anything that's associated with religion. And they set it up in simplistic categories like it's a straw man argument. You can't undo. That's how people look at the world. And that's how people don't understand that there's a there's there's a primal creator that drove science that what they refer to as the big bang was was was created. That initial energy was comes from the Bria, the creation of aes. And it's through that big bang is the is the emergence and the formulation of a universe. When you when there's no God Almighty in the equation, when you look at the development of the species that the ultimate the most perfected species is homo sapien, that's the species created by Celameloim that can perceive that it's the only species that has an abstract knowledge when they can't see that there's a there's a system to God's creation. All they see is chemistry, biology, and physics wi without a context. It's very hard for them to become sincere Jews. It's very hard for them to become engaged Jews in the failures that we've had integrating Jews from the former Soviet Union relative to other Jews who have come to America. Like the example being the Iranian immigrants. In one area, we've done very, very well. In the other area, we've failed miserably. I'm not talking about the exceptions. I'm talking about the large numbers. those who came under Brev, those who came after Brev already at the time of Gorbachev, religion was tolerated to a certain degree in Russia and there was a certain religious revival happening. But I'm talking about the Jews who came in the 60s, the 70s, the 80s. We did very poorly with them. So what happened? It's analogous to the world that Yoshiu inherited. He inherited 62 years of corrupt government of rampant aazara of rampant dishonesty and corruption in terms of ethical and moral corruption. That's the backdrop aloshi. Yer meow himself says the kina over king yosha. Now just understand one thing. The fourth perk of Aha, the fourth chapter of Aha, Aha Yuamv is the eulogy that Yerma gave upon the death, the murder, execution of Yoshiu. But let's read the story. He was a young man, a very mature young man. He started to seek out God at the age of eight. Carlo who what happened? It was the people the descendants of meaning the Egyptians who encamped from the word against him and all of his good deeds didn't come to his benefit amongst all the leaders the kings of the Jewish people who what does it mean who had stood up to to to fence in to meaning to create a fence for the Jewish people to protect the Jewish people no one was as Great is Yoshi Yahu from the time of Avikdor. Who's Avdar? Moshe. You and I know his name is not Moshe. His mother and father Amrad did not name him Moshe. Who named him Moshe? >> That's right. Bita the the the righteous gentile uh princess. She named him Moshe from the word minimu as the Arabs say mus in Arabic. Musa or Mosha. You know I I've drawn him out of the water. So we being the one who gave us his guidance is the rebon. We the Jews have eternal gratitude to this righteous princess to his stepmother. And we don't call him by his name. We call him by the name that she named him Moshe. But his name was a vikdor. What does that mean? That amongst all the great Jewish leaders losd. What exactly does that mean? The idea is this, you know, David Hamelik is coming after Sha and Schmolhanavi. Schlommo is coming after David. So imagine that you inherit a nation that gets a score of 85 and you take them from 85 to 90. Okay, it's very nice. But going from 85 to 90 is taking them five points up the ladder. What happens if you're Mosha Rabenu a Vikdor and you inherit a group of pagan illiterate slaves? The only ones who are ethical monotheists are shet ley and a few exceptions. So if you take them from one to 20, you've done a lot more than someone who took them from 85 to 90. You understand? Or if you take them from 1 to 30, that's an incredible jump. That's exactly what Yoshiu did. when he shut down all the private altars, when he took down all of the statues, when he removed the the wicked the corrupt kohanim, when he started changing over who would sit on the courts and who would be the dionim, he transformed he totally transformed the nation. Now, was this on the same madrega as it was in the time of David and Schlommo? No, we're not saying that. It says asheramu lid anyone who tried to transform to build to to increase to improve in terms of chuva that's what we're talking about ashar kamuikdor no one was the no one had accomplished what he accomplished from the time of a vikdor from the time of mosher raeno so what does it say the daled a sanador those who just walked in were in the 11th kina what that stuck to him. The the cynics, all the mockers, all the people who you know what couldn't stand that he's got his from police coming to our house searching for idols and getas who couldn't stand the fact that he took down the idol that we worshiped or that he removed these judges who, you know, we could pay these guys off and they would give us a good decision on the court decision. They hated him. They mocked him. They attacked him. door. What do they have? Imag, let me just see if I can show this. Imagine you have two doors that open, right? It's not one door. It's two doors. So, they'd open the door to police. They'd come and they would be looking around. The idol, you could only see if the two doors were closed because it would be half on one door, half on the other. You couldn't make out the idol on half a door. That was what they did. That was the kind of shtick they did to keep their their aodora going in hide it so to speak from his. It was the the the minations that they did to hide it from the religious police that would come in to try to remove this zeros, right? Those who eat the the the uh vegetation, the food from the Nile, meaning the Egyptians, his gorgeous complexion, they darkened. in a second. Think about in paras the description of the covenant that the new generation is going to make. Not the generation of Mosher Rabenu, but the generation that crosses the Jordan River, comes into the Holy Land, comes into Israel, and is there with what? is is there under Yoshua's leadership. The first thing they're going to do is they're going to travel into the heart of the country to center of the land to the area of Shem. Now, as though all of you who have been to Shrem know, there's two big mountains that envelop Shrem, Hargarisim and Hara and a covenant is going to be made where it's, so to speak, it's it's the Mount Si. It's the Hari of the new generation. They're making their own covenant with Hashem. And there's 11 specifics and then a 12th bar is the person that does this and auror in cursed is the person that does that. What's the last one? Auror I believe the language is a loyos doesn't say lo cursed is the person that does not fulfill. That's not what it says. It says Yakim, it's the heield causes others to fulfill. Who's responsible for the observance of the nation? Who's responsible for so to speak the smitzvos of the nation of the people? It's the executive. We know from David the role of the executive is melik bishbadar. He's responsible to make sure that there's enough tax dollars to have educators in every town, village, and city. He's responsible that there's a network of courts of but they didn't to make sure that people conduct themselves properly and that they can adjudicate if someone doesn't conduct themselves properly. So they said, "Young man, young man, young Yoshi Yahu, this is you. Do you know that your grandfather is not just Manasha but you had other grandparents? You had Yahu Hanavi, the righteous Hezekiah and he came after a a period of corruption after Akaz. There was a Schlommo Hamel and you should read his works. Shirim and Cohelis and Mish you had David Hamel. You come from Nashon Medaminadav. You come from Yehuda. These are your ancestors. This is the mantle that you bear. This is the opportunity that the rebono shaam is giving you and this is the responsibility that you are is placed upon your shoulders. And not only does he become a balashua, he starts an incredible chuva movement. Not only is it alluded to here in this kina, but that's the story of the ha that we read on the second day of pes. So it continues. What happened? You have to just a little understand a little bit of politics. There were always two great empires. The great southern empire known as Mitsraim. Now Mitsryim is not just the modern country of Egypt, a north African country. Mitsyam is the northern third of the the African continent. It's the whole Nile River basin. It's a huge power. It embodies today's Sudan, today's Libya, Algeria. It goes way south of today's Egypt. And in the north, there's always a great empire. First it was Aram, the Mesopotamian Empire of Syria. Then it was Ashure. What's Ushure? That embodied today's Syria, large swaths of today's Turkey, uh, all of Western Iraq, a massive, massive empire. And then there was BL, Babylonia. Correct. And BL as you know conquered all of Mesopotamia. So there's a b a fight between the great northern empire and the great southern empire that's about to take place. Who is in the middle? Who is smack in the middle of these two great empires? Poor little Israel. To quote the Latin phrase the viais. If you want to get from Africa to Asia and Europe or if you want to get from Asia and Europe to Africa, you have to take the via Maris. You have to come through Israel. Now, if you're an individual or you're a small caravan and it's the winter, you could take the what we call Bikatiard that's known as, you know, the Deramel. If you're an individual, there's a small little caravan, you can take what's known as today highway 60, which is the path that Abraham Aavinu took. It's a path that Yakovina took. But if you're a military, if you're a whole army, you can't use either of those. There's only one way, the via. You have to come from Egypt up the Gaza Strip through Ashkalo, Ashto, Tel Aviv, until you get to the Megiddo junction. And then you make a right at the Megiddo junction and you travel through the Amech until you get through Israel into Mesopotamia. That's the only way you can go. It's the only flat area that you can traverse the via. Any of you guys been to the archaeological site? Anyone here been to the archaeological site at in Megiddo? It's worth going to. Yeah, has been. So, what was there? Initially, Schlommo Hamelik built stansions. You'll go there, you're going to say at the beginning, you're going to be disappointed. You're going to see thousands and thousands of horse stansions. So what what if I want to go to a horse farm, I can go to Kentucky. I don't have to go to Israel to Megiddo. What What do you mean thousands of horse stansions? Keep in mind their horse. Their horse was our tank. Their horse was our humve and Akav expanded those horse stansions that Schlommo originally built. And that's what we have. It goes back all the way to the time of Akav. Why are they at Megiddo? Because again, if you're going to have an invading army either coming from the north or coming from the south, the junction is always going to be Megiddo. And I know we're Sunday morning tishabove in keter tora, but if we were Sunday morning at a church down the road or at one of these evangel evangelical or baptist churches, what will they talk about? Armageddon. Where does the word Armageddon come from? Armageddon is from Megiddo. The famous esqueological battles, right? Is the preachers way go and me or gag and magog or we say go magog. But right, why is it megiddo? because that's where that's the that's the juncture. Well, that's where Yoshiu is waiting for the Egyptian army of Paro, the leader of the Egyptian army, that Pharaoh, his name is Parro, and he says to Yoshi Yahu, "Hey, I'm coming through your land, buddy. I got nothing against you. It's not personal. I'm on my way to to to Mesopotamia to fight Usher. Well, Yoshi Yahu makes the following calculation. If I don't stand up to Pharaoh, to parro, that's another way of saying that I'm supporting him. You know the phrase, it's a way of that I'm supporting him in his battle and I don't think he's going to defeat the Mesopotamians and I think it's going to put Israel in a terrible light. Number one, just by the way, those who are listening at home, right now we're just getting a bit of a rainstorm. So if you hear noise in the background, it's the rain on the roof. What else do you have? The famous from Parasui. What does the to say? Describes that if the Jewish people lead a perfected life and they conduct themselves properly, there's going to be shalom. But then it says, "The sword shall not traverse your land. If you're going to have peace in shalom, why do you have to tell me that the sword is not going to traverse my land? That's sort of repetitious." And the Torah doesn't is not repetitious for no reason. So Rashi jumps in. It says shalom. Not only will you have peace, but not only that, you will not even have foreign nations traversing your army to get to other places. I mean, imagine this. I'm just looking around. Is there anybody here from Detroit? No. So imagine that the the the Canadian military, you got the sounds of these Caterpillar diesel engines on the tanks of the Canadian military coming through the Windsor Tunnel taking Route 75 on its way down south as the Canadians are going towards Mexico to to defeat the Mexicans. If you're living in the city of Detroit or you're living in Cincinnati or you're living in Louisville as they're going down Route 75, you're not going to feel very comfortable seeing thousands and thousands of armed soldiers coming through your city and the sounds of those diesel tanks, you know, that they they shake the ground. It vibrates, you know, when they traverse your land. Well, that's he said, "We're now on Madrega. We've not only eradicated a vodara, we've eradicated the bumos, the the private altars. We've changed the court systems. We're on that madrega, the madrega that we shouldn't have the Egyptians traversing our land. That's the backdrop. Let's keep reading. What happened? The Jewish soldiers were slaughtered at Megiddo at the place of Armageddon at the Megiddo junction as the Egyptian army was traveling to Aram Naharim into Mesopotamia. Leman because of the mistake that Yoshyahu made. He says loavim the area that they they they traversed the area that they traveled through is is the area of Ephraim. It shouldn't have to happen. Loar your mahu begged him. Jeremiah said don't do this. Don't start up with parro. You're doing great things. Now remember one thing. Yahu is younger at this point. Yoshiel is not an old man. Yoshiu is an established king, but this is the beginning of Yao's prophecy. And like Yoshiel is saying, you know, you know who are you to come and be my uh secretary of state? Is your name Mike Pompeo? Is your name Henry Kissinger? Don't don't tell me, you know, I respect you as a rabbi. No one respects rabbis more than I do. But a secretary of state is nished. You're not the foreign adviser. And he doesn't listen to him. And he says, "You're making a mistake. We cannot be passive because if we remain passive, that's going to be translated as support for the Egyptian regime and the Egyptian military." So he didn't the meatus the sin of what we talked about you know they kept the they kept up the vodora you know between the two opening doors it was behind the doorpost that no one could see it who's the vision of the man from anatu is from anat today I think we would call that French hill you know it's the northern suburbs of yushalai Tragically, he persisted on continuing the battle. And in the end, we ended up being maspid him because it cost him his life and hundreds of Jewish soldiers their lives. When the battle happened, There was no, it didn't help him. It wasn't to his avail. And the archers, they shot arrows into the body of Yoshia. As his eyes were closing, you know, before he died, what the Egyptians did was they made a mockery of him. They made a point of it. Nobody messes with parro Neo. And they set him up like a bullseye, as a matar, as a target practice. And boom, boom, boom. Those those archers started pumping their arrows into his body. The man's going to die already. No, they're going to make a mockery of him. They trapped him and they set him up as a is a bullseye for the archers. 300 different arrows pierce his body. What is this saying? Think about when you're parched, you haven't had anything to drink. What happens? You can't your your vocal cords can't even get out the sound. You talk, it's like this, right? You talk like this. It's just it's just air sound. So, he was dying and all that could come out was the air. What did they hear? What were the last things on his lips? His eyes are closed already. He's moving his lips. The last words on his breath as he's dying. Hashem is truly righteous. I have rebelled against Hashem. Meaning what? Meaning what? He didn't listen to your ma'am. As Rabbi Gatlib said, he he didn't listen to Yervi. Yao wasn't trying to be a political advisor. He was saying this on behalf of the rebon sha in in to rebel against and that's what he says. I rebelled against the words of the Nav'vi and it cost me my life. It cost it cost our nation hundreds of lives of young men. CC no of course is is is Egypt. It's a city in in Egypt. It's Memphis. Rejoice. flame. That's what your meow referred to him as. This beautiful, you know, shining young man, it's come to an endasham called what happened. The very Jeremiah, he is the maspe. He's the one that gives the eulogy at the funeral of Yoshi. What? What? By the way, what is today? This summer, we're the summer right before the Shmita year. Yoshia was killed in the summer of the Shmita year. What happens? It only happens once every seven years. What happens on sukkot on sukus after the shmita year? What happens exactly Nathan Lindam Hakel and and you know normally you'll get a huge crowd of Jews coming for Pesak for aliasgo because everyone has to partake of Corbin Pesak. You don't get as many people coming back seven weeks later for shuis. You'd love it. It would be nice but you usually don't get as many people coming back for shuis because it's you know it's a long trip home and a long trip back. Sukus is in between. Sukus you get more than you would for shabu less than for pes. I'm not telling what should be. What should be is we should everybody should come alias three times a year. I'm talking about what happened. But one sukus per cycle they all came. It was like pesak. It was like everybody was there. And that was of course the suka following the shmita year. The suka. Why? Because a special mitzvah of hakl. What's hak? The Torah says anushim nashim little kids who it's past their bedtime, right? It's it's 7:30, 8:00 at night. It's you making they're already put. No, we keep them up. We bring them because this indelible image where the Melik reenacts Mhammad Harena like we described at Harrien and Haral, they would reenact Mhammad Hari for that generation. Every generation reenacts Mhammad Hareni. When do they do that? Every seven years after the Shmita year. And these kids, I I think I've shared this in the past. You know, I grew up on a we're little farm, you know, was goodsized farm, but it was a little town. We had maybe 700 people in the town. And the most people I ever saw in my life was July 4th parade. I think it was the most beer I ever saw consumed in my life also. But it was a July 4th parade. Everybody came from two towns around and the fire trucks and you know the the Girl Scout cookies with I mean the Girl Scouts and the Cub Scouts and you know everybody you know very a lot of people. And then my great uncle and great aunt lived in West Hemstead. They were one the founders of the Young Israel West Hemstead. So they took us, we came there and they took us into the city to Rockefeller Center. They were going to light the Labavichers have the monora, you know what I mean? They they had at that time it was a beam. He was the mayor of New York to light the labavich monora in where in the backdrop, you know, in front of the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center. And I never, my brother and I, we were little kids. I mean I maybe I was seven and he was five. We never knew there were this many people alive on the globe. I mean we never could imagine there were this many people and we were getting whiplash just looking up at these massive building. You couldn't see the end of the building. We'd never seen anything like this. You know the biggest building we saw was our farm was the hay stack and top end of our barn and a silo. What's a silo? silo in those days, a big silo, a huge massive silo was 80 ft in those days. And we're just looking at this. So these little kids, they're coming from the Negv desert. They're coming from the diaspora. They're coming from a little town in the Galilee. They're coming from a fishing village on the Kerat. and they see all of these people and they're all learning Torah and they're all listening to the the projection of the voice. You know, he's up on a platform. You you know this the mitzvah of Hakal they would build they would mount a platform and he would speak and project from there. They'll never ever forget this the rest of their lives. It leaves an indelible impression. So that was going to be three months of uh you know three months from now we're all going to be coming to Jerusalem and we've get we've got a whole chva movement the roads have been repaired and we can all come and travel and and and we're going to listen to the Torah and reenact Mad Hari and who's going to play that role? Yosha the righteous king. Yeah. No. No. Because he was killed. because he's dead because he was executed by the archers of the Egyptians and instead we all come to his funeral. The anushim nashim vaf all come to the funeral. And who says the hesadei cogto tragically he had to drink the the the poison cup from Megiddo. It was a time when we would have all come together to live in Torah from him during hell. But instead we did this. Roas. What's the eulogy? We read it last night here. Ellie Kinchis read it here at Ketora. It's 22 lines. Each line is from a letter of the olive bays. Olive bays. Gimmel daled. Hey. What's the idea? What what Yeryahu was saying? What your mahu was saying is that there is no way we can appreciate or encompass the loss. I could use every letter of the alphabet from olive to tough and the devastation of losing Yoshiu. I could never ever encompass it. So I'll use every letter and it's it's I'll give you an analogy. What is Ashray? We acknowledge God. We praise God with everything that makes us human with every letter of the alphabet. But we can't. We acknowledge that we can't. We use everything in our ability, every dimension, every aspect from olive to tough and we still can't acknowledge aeshu hear the same idea. You can't appreciate and acknowledge the devastation and destruction of the loss of him. But because the very cynics, you're all familiar with the phrase aareos kadoshim memoir, you know the three partials, right? After someone dies, that's when they appreciate him. You know, after you're dead, they say you're cut. While you're alive, they rip your kishkas out, right? But after you're dead, that's when they finally appreciate you. Well, after he was dead, all the cynics, the late son had that we read about, that's when they finally acknowledged who he was, what he is. when it was too late. But because of that chuva, because of that here, her chuva for 22 years, it delayed the bases mikdash in the aftermath of Yoshi Yahu. He was young. No one was there was no secession plan at that point. Who replaced him? He had a son by the name of Yhoyakim. a disaster. Yahim was just a a wicked wicked man. In the end, the Babylonians got rid of him. What was the story? Yhoyakim couldn't handle Yermyahu. He couldn't handle the fact that there's a prophet challenging him. He knows that he can't kill Jeremiah. That's what he'd like to do. So, what does he do? He incarcerates him. He puts Yur Meow in the Hamat. We actually think we know where the place is. It's in the the Mazin quarter of Ushalai. It was an underground dungeon, you know, damp, terrible conditions. Most people if you stayed there too long, you just died from the conditions. So, Yermyahu sends a nva through his Talmet, his student Barak Benia. What is the Nva that he sends? The first, the second, and the fourth chapters of Aka. The first, the second, and fourth chapters of Aka were actually written before the Kurba. And as they're giving this to yoyakim to read, he sticks it. He burns it. He doesn't want to continue reading it. He burns it. So the that we have, chapters 1, 2, and four were rewritten after the and then chapter 3 and chapter 5 was added to it. Just to give you, you don't have to be a Freudian to appreciate this. Kazal say that Yho Yakim tattooed onto his male genitalia. He tattooed Yudke V, the ineffable name of God. So we went from Yoshi Yahu Hamel to Yho Yakim. You talk about a disaster. With the loss of Yoshiu, it basically is a matter of time till you have. One of the great tragedies was his loss. Turn if you don't mind to the gimmel the 13th ka which in the um the msorus of the rebel of is 314 315 and in the art scroll what page is it? we mentioned that there's the ability according to the RV not everyone agrees with this by the way I want to make this very clear that not everyone agrees with this but according to the RV it's the one day a year a Jew can question God a is meant to be translated as why why did you do Now the shot of is it's a rhetorical question. How could it be? How could it be that this city that was teeming with millions of Jews for Alias? This city that is so alive is now just sitting here desolate. It's a it's a rhetorical question. So Rabbi Israel Chait is the Russa of Yeshiva Benet Torah the Talmet. Fascinating fascinating Russa. He's a tom of Aaron Cutler. And then the last for probably about a 15-year period in his life. He was a tom of Mosha Feinstein. So on Friday were the Dibbrus Mosha Shirum. The Shirum that we call Dibbus Mosha. But Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday he and his brother Rabbi Mosuchet and a number of other talum they would travel to and they would attend Rabbi Salvich. So they were talkedum of the Rav and Ra Mosha at the same time. The RV on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday the Shirim at yeshiva and in MTJ at Mata Ferris with the Dis Mosha Shirim on Friday. So he says he learns a the way that most reonim learn it. It's a rhetorical question. You never ever have a right to question God. We can question each other because we're we're not perfect. We're we're flesh and blood. But even on tishabove we don't have a license to question God. So aha can be why? It's the ravate. How could it be? It's a rhetorical question. And here the kalier says aha. We're reading it as a co. We're breaking up the word. Where is the co? Now what is the word co mean? I know in the King James Bible it gets translated as like coem. Thus sayaith the lord. You know it's not thus. Co is a term that's associated with the destiny of the Jewish people. Whenever you have the word co, it's a term associated with Jewish destiny. Now, it has many manifestations. What do I mean by that? See, because in Hebrew, translate for me the word here into Hebrew. H E R E. What would you say? Po. Right here. What is there? T H E R E. Sham. So very often you'll see instead of saying po or instead instead of saying sham there'll be this term co means it's a term of Jewish destiny. So what the khal here does is brilliant. He takes all of the codes that that that Hashem communicated either himself directly or through a Na'vi and he says where is that co where's the hashka where is the hand of God protecting us nurturing us it's it's crying out to God and saying where is that co let's let's see the contrast and the use that the khal uses is one of the saddest of the psalms of the it's that talks about what our enemies do to us. Where is it that you said to when he said that you said there would be an eternal Jewish people and we would be like the stars of the heaven. Where is that covenant that you would protect us throughout the long vicissitudes of Jewish history? In contrast now, why is it God that it seems you've like abandoned us forever? Where is the co that you said to Abraham and Yeitzak when Yeitzak like a lamb being brought as a a carbanola came to appease you? What did they say? You know the famous story they're traveling. Hashem does not tell him where. He just says, "I want you to travel to the place that I will show you. our eka and as they're going north from Kvron taking highway 60 that that that traversing that and they see a beautiful summer day it's it's been a beautiful summer day all the time but there's one mountain the medish says an koshure that's enveloped by a cloud like the ana co and he says there's a there's a contingency there's Abraham Ishmael and Eleazar. He turned to Ishmael and says, "Do you see what I see?" He says, "What?" Do you see something strange? No. Eleazar? No. Turns to do you see anything? He says, "Yeah, there's one mountain there that's enveloped by a cloud. There's no clouds in the sky. And yet this one mountain is enveloped by a cloud." That's when Aram says turns to his you stay here with the with the donkey. I and the as Joe Peshi would say the youth right I and the youth I I and my son we are going to go ado doesn't say ad sham until they're adco because that is the place see a gentile has an obligation to have a relationship with God a gentile has an obligation to be an ethical monotheist mitzbah a gentile is not obligated to give up their life the mitzvah is that Mishna from mitzvah I'm sorry from paras and more that's not in the for elazzar and Ishmael were great people they were righteous people but that miraes as the said that only is so we we have sacrificed for you God we sacrifice for your values we nephesh where where's the when we're being afflicted where's a sacrifice to protect us Du kell you like you remember John Belaluchcci with the samurai he would chop everything right the like the like like a a remon you know like chop the pomegranate you know dakru ray what a ray you could translate it as your flock or your friends your beloveds mel the Jewish people have the friendship of the king and there's we're defined as yadid his friends is of the ribon. And what's happened? We talked about the the raging fire that is just ripping apart the the the sheep of your flock. Where's the next coin? Do you understand what love did to him? He tricked him after working for seven years. Raul was not given to him. He had to work another seven years. That's 14 years. And finally he says, "When am I going to take care of my own?" So what does he do? He says, "Stay with me. I'll pay you." And in those last six years, years 15 to 20, working for love, love changed the conditions, changed the rules, changed the contract 100 different times in six-year period. And every time that he tried to manipulate him, God through hashkah was there so that Jacob would succeed financially. The providence was there enabling us to succeed. Now what happens? What happened? You have the prince of Egypt. I'm borrowing a term from Steven Spielberg. He's being raised in the royal palace, but he knows that there's something different about him, that he's a Jew. And it says that he has this desire to look after his people. So, what does he do? He leaves the wealth of the palace and he goes into the slums where the slaves live. He goes into the slums where the slaves live. And there is an Egyptian government official who has a fantasy, more than a fantasy. He wants to engage this beautiful Jewish woman. So what does he do? He sends her husband out at night on some work duty. It's at night. There's no electric lights. They're poor people. They can't afford even oil lamps. He comes in the Egyptian. She thinks it's her husband. And he starts to violate her. Her not knowing that it's not her husband. The husband comes back and walks in on this. The Egyptian realizes he can't let word get out that he did something like this because it's beneath the dignity of an Egyptian to do this to a Jewish slave. So what does he do? He starts beating the Egypt the Jew to death. The Jewish slave laborers, he starts beating him to death. And after he's going to finish killing the Jew, he'll turn on the Jews wife who he was about to violate and he'll kill her. There won't be any witnesses. Who sees all this? The prince of Egypt, Moshe. And what does Moshe do? It says varo. He looked he doesn't say poam. Doesn't say here and there. It says kovako. Varish. I'm sorry. Ven. He turned kaish. Why didn't it say poam? So the med says, he says, I'm going to kill this Egyptian. When you kill a man, you kill everything he ever was and everything he ever will be. What's going to come out of him? It means I'm murdering the children. He won't have the grandchildren. He won't have the great great grandchildren. Do you remember what Hashem said to Cayenne after he murdered Heather Demeay? The bloods of are calling out the bloods of your brother. Meaning the bloods of his blood, his child's blood, his grandchild's blood, his a whole universe that he would have produced. There's another vaifen kovako. What is that? You know, no one knows I'm here. I'm camouflaged in the dark. If I'm just silent and do nothing, who knows in 20 years from now or 10 years from now, I might be the next Pharaoh. And then I can save not 10 Jews, not one Jew and his wife. I can save tens of thousands of Jews. Just quiet and don't do anything. And and and you won't be exposed. And and you know what? I can help all the Jews. But he looked at himself. But today, this is an innocent man that's going to be killed. This is an innocent woman that's going to be killed. Kovako. He looked at himself and he had no choice and he stood up and he defended and he saved their lives and he saved their lives and he killed the Egyptian. So that sensitivity to each and every life, to each and every human life, to each and every Jewish life, where is it? Hashem now this month that we relive and reexperience the slaughter and the death of our people. when with the term that that Hashem said to Moshe with co it's time for the redemption. It's time for the redemption. God, after 86 years of slavery, after 210 years of living in exile, you redeemed them. We've been in exile close to 2,000 years. 2,000 years. And now, you know, I I happened to look I wanted to see, you know, get nervous. Tishabove if anything happened in Israel. So, they're rioting. Why? Because a few Jews prayed on the Harbias. The Harbayas. We have one holy site. You and I know that is not a holy site to the Muslims. Muslim scholars would tell you al axa is in a small town called Jabala in Saudi Arabia. There's two mosques. Al Adna, the closer mosque, Al Axa, the farther mosque. And the Muslims have a tradition that the last place that Muhammad was seen alive, he so to speak went to heaven from the father m al axa which is in a town just it was a town do do you understand during his life Muhammad never came to Jerusalem they hadn't conquered Jerusalem it wasn't even under the control of his followers and and this is you if you go to the theological schools in Egypt. If you go to the theological schools in Morocco, in Saudi Arabia, in Yemen, they all have this. To say that this is the Alaka where he transcended to heaven. It's just bad Islamic theology. There's no basis for it. It's politically motivated. And what happens? A few Jews want to pray to God in their holy sight. The Jews allow the Christians to have their holy sites. The Israeli government, they allow the Muslims to have their holy sights. That a Jew on the holiest place on earth can't even pray. And now we have riots today. So when I came to Shul at 8:00 for Dominion, no one had been no one had been injured or wounded. But this is what we have to deal with. Okay, we're Hashem after 2,000 years. We think we're back. You know that phrase, so close but yet so far. We're not back. You can't even say up there. You can't even forget forget about pray to God. You can't even say up there. And you saw what happened in May with this last war. They use this as an excuse. You know, all the talking heads and all the politicians, they want to spin this as a political issue. Don't be stupid. No one in this room is. But I say to them, don't be idiots and don't be fools. You're lying. You You're such a bad liar. Do you even believe your own lies? This is a religious war. This is a holy war because they're threatened that the people that authentically represent the will of God, that authentically represent ethical monotheism, which is a threat and challenges their brand of ethical monotheism. They're scared to death that these Jewish infidels, the Jewish demies are growing and are building a nation that is a light into the nation that's impacting the universe and that there's a kibbut galos that there's an in gathering of Jews from all over the world fulfilling the prophecies of Yesha and Zakaria and Yermyahu. It scares them to death because what really bothers them? Maybe their theology is wrong. Maybe their philosophy is corrupt. Maybe God is not a god of rage. Maybe God is not a god of vengeance. He's a god of justice, but not a god of rage and vengeance. Kel Nicamos Hashem, Kel Nikamos Sophia is a god of justice. and it scares them to death. And now that we're on holy sites that that that one by one they controlled and no longer control. And now that it's happening to Jerusaleim, to what they referred to as Al Axa, which is not the real Alaka, it's getting them very scared and they and in their rage they lash out. But the truth hurts and the truth is scary. But Hashem after two millennia, please allow us to come back. Please say kamar hashem and let there be a fulfillment of the words of the na'vi those treacherous enemies they sit. What are the diet tribes you hear every Friday from the temple mount from the shrine of Omar? of Moadea. They rage and they roar. You've seen the footage. You've seen the video footage of how they act and how they behave on the holiest sight on earth. Where is the co of the new covenantos? the RV when he would explain this line there sensitivity at atos at this very moment will be the moment of liberation and we the Jewish people we learn that time sensitivity the whole notion of saying schma bisman if you light the candles at this time you're fulfilling according to the briskerv's understanding of the ramam you fulfilled two mitzvos the the mitzvah of of kavot shabas because you're preparing for shabas and the mitzvah of onab is because you've created a a house of illumination in a dark context. If you do it at this time, you fulfilled. If you do it later, it's Shabas. If you say this time, you're if you do it later, you haven't. There's this time sensitivity, right? If you start the fast last night at 8:24, you're you're being mai the fast. If you started at 8:26, you violated the fast. Hashem, where's the sensitivity? We're waiting and yearning for that moment when you will redeem us. The way you did in Egypt, Dava, you said it would be at the moment of midnight. That's when it was. This is referring to it. It's quoting I ended capitol 74 but it's referring to the the 16th kina when what happened the lack of sensitivity to holiness you know holiness what does God say to Mosherenu take the shoes off when when you have shoes on you don't feel anything right when when we're when you're wearing boots you don't feel pebbles you don't feel stones you don't feel anything when you're when you're barefoot, you know what happens? Then there's sensitivity. Sensitivity to every little pebble, every little stone. What else is there? When you're wearing shoes, it demonstrates our mastery over all the different aspects of creation. Even the most sophisticated creation, mammals, we kill them and we make leather out of their hides and we wear those hides on our shoes. When you take it off, I have ma when I'm in God's presence, I have mastery over nothing. It it is humbling, right? That that experience of encountering the rebon sholum is a humbling experience. At that moment, you have mastery over nothing. You are a frail servant of the almighty. You take off those shoes. But here at Benaleam, they come with their their boots. You know, think about the Nazi stormtroopers. They come into the mikdash, the Roman soldiers. The Germans come into our shs. Allah. What? What did What happened before Hari co Israel? This is how you should say it to the Jewish women. Tomar lashon raqa. Rashi says meaning what? There's a way that you communicate. The way you teach an 8-year-old is not how you teach a 5-year-old. The way you teach a 12-year-old is not how you teach an 8-year-old. The old The way you teach a 70-year-old is not the way you teach a 30-year-old. There's a sensitivity. There's an ability to articulate, to communicate it the right way. Cotoarakov. So, Hashem, we're waiting for that sensitivity for you to communicate to us in that soft, sensitive, meaningful way. Because if the Jewish women are invested in the theology, then the men and children will follow. That's why the women were first. They were the most important. They were the foundation of adopting the Misora. Where is that soft way of speaking? What do we hear? We hear the mockery. We hear the blasphemy that comes from the Bavla. If you add up the letters of the kohanim, which we did not say this morning, right? How many letters is it? 60 letters. It's words. It's three, five, and seven. It's 12 words, but it's 60 letters. By the way, what what what is kohanim? What is it? It's the hashka. It's God's providential system. You have is that financially we should be able to survive. We should be able to maintain our assets and function financially. What's that? Or Torah. It's intellectual. It's it's life is only worth living if what? If you perceive the knowledge of God. The or Torah or the we perceive God's face. Meaning that he communicates through providence. his knowledge is the greatest blessing is is the words of the Torah is the concepts and the axioms and postulates of the Torah. What's the third shalom? Shalom is from the word. You could be the most insightful bright person. If you're emotionally frail, if you're psychologically unhealthy, you're not a human being. You're not a mench if you're psychologically if you're suffering. And we ask God for shalom, for schlamos, for psychological, emotional health. That's the providence that he gives us. And we're saying, "Hashem, take care of us financially. Protect us. Take care of us educationally, spiritually. Take care of us psychologically, emotionally. Give us this is an illusion to how the BL broke through the BC. This is the co that that bum set. When bum came to do what? To find areas where he could find weakness of the Jewish people and expose their weakness. In the end, Hashem forced him to acknowledge and to bless the Jewish people. Instead of from the word was switched from a curse to a blessing. Now instead of us being attacked and it said instead of us being protected they they they attack us. They siege us. They burn with fired. What's the co here? When it came time to taking the levim to substitute for the boros, what happens? What happens there? God gave us a system. If we're going to be a mamlechas kohan, we're supposed to be role models to the nations. We are supposed to be kanoy kadosh. How can I be a role model if if if I'm not educated and I'm not developed and I'm not nurtured? I can only be a role model if I have something to give over. So, Hashem gave us this beautiful institution called Shvet Ley with the kahuna and throughout the length and breadth of Israel, the 408 cities arim and the kohanim living throughout the length and breadth of Israel. They play the role through the tax system that Hashem created, the system of taxes that they don't have to work in other fields. They can refine and perfect themselves as educators as master educators and they can educate us. The primary role of the kohanim is not to work in a basa mikdash that the average cohen does two days a year. One day out of a week and two weeks out of a year. So they can so that means one day this week and then 24 weeks later one day out of that week. That's two days a year. You're not going to give them all those taxes for that. What do they do the whole year? the whole year they the adult education early childhood education elementary education high school education base medish they educate us they transform us so the co that's described of taking sha ley in making giving this this very very significant role in cl of transforming and educating us to to purify them so they can play this role. Now the the heavens are thundering with the destruction of the mikdasher. This was the famous conquest of is the first city in Israel that was conquered. Each day of the week they they they did a hakafa around. One time on Shabas they did seven hakafos. They blew the chauffeur after the nua and the walls of came crumbling down. It actually you know in the foundation sunk in the ground. Now instead instead of the walls of Jericho crumbling down and sinking in the ground, what's now? Now it's the walls of the base of Mikdash. Think about when we go to the the Temple Mount, we only see a bare remnant. Everything else was destroyed. Where is the kamarashem that you see throughout is and your and many of the nim these famous esqueologgical visions about the yamosa mashiach where is the kamar hashem aeros that these words were were taken and given to the the prophets who had that great vision of the future and the glory of the Jewish people. Now what is there? My children, my young, my future. They're they're lying in their they weren't even brought to burial and the bodies are bloated and laying in the streets. How long will this blasphemy? How long will our oppressors and enemies continue to do this? If we could please turn to the 19th kenna in the Rabbi Salvage. It's page 393. You understand? Let let me let me give the following. This was an introduction the RV gave a couple of times when when people would come from all over America to Boston and they would spend uh tishabove at the Mymanity School, you know, with the RV, you know, if if I asked you what would you say is the most essential foundational principle in Yiddish Kite in Yahadus and there's many possible answers. that we might give may be tomato. We are a religion of wisdom unlike any other. It's a religion of and that's why tomato to know God is to you can only love God as you know God. And that is through delving seriously and deeply into all of the principles of our theology. You could say that. You could say we're the the religion that gave the world chabas that we acknowledge that there's a creator of the universe. There is a creator and that this universe not only has a creator but it has a goal and a purpose. You could say sedaka, we are the ones that the the great revolution of a mavenu is that religion is manifest in how you treat your fellow human being. And not only how I treat them in terms of mishbat and den, but also the notion that my assets are not my assets. I'm only a portfolio manager. I'm only managing a portfolio that Hashem has invested in me. There's many different areas that you could point to. We brought monotheism to the world. You could give many answers ibuda. You there were three great philosophical works that the Jewish people had. Some would say the khuzari was the fourth. But the three I'm referring to were all written in Judeo-Arabic because the Jews living amongst a sophisticated Islam at that time had to respond. You know, you had you had great Islamic philosophers, Averies, Alfarabi, and they could describe Islam in a context of a neo-orisilian world and they could describe Islam in Platonic and Arisatilian categories and Jews who were thinking Jews who were confronted by this, they reached out to their to their mentors. So the first was very early. in the 9th century was the vidos of raen. The second was the famous work by Baka Iben Pakuda the Salabos the duties of the heart and that duties of the heartabos was a forerunner to the great work the marim which was the third of these works to the guides to the perplexed and you know what he says in the salabos he says that the kanditioan the most foundational fundamental principle in our theology is akara A Jew is a human being that is saturated with gratitude. Whether it's gratitude to the almighty, gratitude to our parents, gratitude to our educators, gratitude to those who open doors for us in life. And gratitude doesn't mean saying thank you. Hakkaratov means I have a sheeput. My existence is indebted to this person because I am who I am as a function of their investment in me. That's very different than a person saying thank you or being grateful. It's not the American notion of great of gratitude or grateful. It's a radically different notion. Hakarasov, guys, if you can just keep the whispering down a little bit, it the the the Hakkaris hat of of Judaism is radically different. And when a Jew is an ingrate, when a Jew is ungrateful, that's the worst. Why is that the worst? Because what happens is what happens is that when a Jew is ungrateful, it undermines everything we are, everything we're supposed to be, and everything we stand for. Now look at this back and forth. Quoting Denil to you is true. We're being we're acknowledging the various signs that you have done, the wonders you've done for us from our inception. And we the ingrates upon him. How humiliated are we? Unfortunately, you know what what we have done, how we've turned on you and rejected you. We're going to read in paras this week. I'm sorry. Mit was a habarel. It was the iron cauldron. No one ever came out of Egypt. No slave ever escaped. And God extricated us a nation amidst another nation. And look at us. Instead of us being appreciative, we end up in terms of sexual morality, in terms of theological problems. We ended up mocking and aping those very Egyptians. You know that phrase, you can take the boy out of Brooklyn, you can't take Brooklyn out of the boy. You could take the Jew out of Egypt, but unfortunately you can't take Egypt out of the Jew. We became like them. Hashem redeemed his people. Seven days, one week later, and what happens? We're already rebelling against God. Elohim at Sinai, at Hari, we become the the the ones who who are the witness people. We we are God's witnesses. He spoke to us like no other nation. Like no other nation, every man, woman, and child. And what happens within 40 days? The lanu is upon him. We turned our back on him. the the the blasphemy that we did by we said Elohim come let us make ourselves a god the golden calfash [Music] you gave us the man it could taste like anything it's something that we didn't have to go travel and and humiliate ourselves by having to defecate and having to dig ditches which we defecate in. It gave us nutrition. It was there for us. We didn't have to carry it. It's not like we had a shleet every time we traveled in the desert. What happens? Instead of us appreciating that gift, what did we do? We mocked that gift. Manuan, you provided us with food. You provided us with the water source, the beer. You provided us with protection upon him. But we are we we the ingrates are embarrassed in front of you, Hashem. We called it, we mocked it. We said, "What kind of you know, everybody likes, not that we should, but people like that feeling. You have a big steak, you know, your belly is full. ah you know you undo the belt you know you get out a cigar and a drink afterwards you got to sleep well that night because a parasympathetic nervous system is spending all your energy trying to digest that juicy steak but you can't learn Torah you can't be sharp you can't be alert when that's happening with the man you could you didn't feel like on Shabas lunch you know you didn't feel bloated you didn't feel stuffed you were you you had energy. You were light on your feet. So, it gave you all the energy and nutrition and it and at the same time it didn't force you to to to be nonfunctional. We lack nothing but yet we found so many different places to rebel. What are these all illusions to? Moshe didn't want to stick it in their face. So, he alluded to all the places that we rebelled against the rebon. Whether it was the sending of the Moragim, whether it was because we had so much gold and it was the issue with the golden calf. Cananan. What did Hashem do? He didn't just give us from the river to the sea. He gave us the east bank, all of today's Jordan, most of today's Syria. The Bashan is the Golan Heights, right? Melikabashan Slamor is today's Jordan. He gave us the east and the west bank of the Jordan River. Okay? You know the wealth we had from those conquests, we lacked nothing. One little city, the first city of the West Bank, the the the bikurim, the truma of Israel, we were told not to take of the spoils. That's the truma. So what happens? What happens is what did we do? one little city we couldn't set up a system to prevent taking from the spoils in it wasn't just who took from the spoils is the fact that we didn't care enough to appreciate the word of God to respect that certain things are off limits Hashem during those 369 years of Shilo of Mishkan Shilo now Just stop for a second. Take a step back. Look at the map of Israel. I'm not talking about modern Israel. I'm talking about the biblical Israel. Shilo is the center of the country. When you look at it from a north south point of view, that was a capital. You know, in America, we've only we've only had America for 250 years. Jews had Shilo for 369 years. And sure enough, we couldn't get our act together. We didn't unify. We couldn't unify as a people and you know consistently we had problems. We were corrupt and Hashem sent us a message. Sometimes it was Midyan but then he gave us the Arba Moshim. He gave us Gidon to protect us from the Midionites. The Canananim that we were supposed to drive out. We didn't. They reestablished themselves in the northern Galilee in Katsur and they came and attacked us. Hashem gave us devorra. They polished him from the Mediterranean coast. They came and attacked us. What happens? We had Shimshon and he protected us. And this is again and again. the Ammonites on the east bank of the Jordan River throughout that whole period where Hashem looked at us the 14 the 14 different guys guys if you if you can just keep your voice you want to grab them a second I just it's it's hard to talk over you got to whisper really quietly okay so it says like this that by the way these are wonderful people this is our our camera crew And what they're doing is they're they're working as we're broadcasting across the world. So they get a pass. I'm just trying to get them to whisper a little bit less. Shouldn't think that we're shouldn't think that we're yelling at anybody. It's not the case. We're very grateful. They're good guys. So it says like this during that 369-year period during those 14 Mosheim the 14 chaft that we were given what happened? We were we had Jews worshiping. You had a whole industry called Pes Mika and they were going and worshiping this idol. Hashem saved them 14 different times. But throughout all of this, they couldn't eradicate. I mean, that's the most ungrateful. And now upon him, you gave us a place, a central educational institution that would transform our people. First, the 369 years of Shilo. By the way, how many of you have been to Sheila? Should know. We have to thank Ira Renard. He built a shul in Shilo where we have an incredible Jewish community. Ra Rapaort who was originally from Brooklyn was the mayor there. Wonderful. They they produce incredible wine there. They have you want an ATV, you can do that there. They have great agriculture. They're wonderful people. They have a yeshiva Hezra Yeshiva. So Ira Renard built them aul. He did that in conjunction with Rafina. That's a like it's a image of what Mishkan Shilo looked like. It's beautiful. You can see that sh on the mountaintop. It's it's it's like what Mishkanila what we think it looked like. And then the phallic family, you know, from duty-free America from down in Miami, they built an incredible archaeological site with a film there about the whole history in Sheila, about Kana's Tila when she came and she daved in her she poured her heart before Hashem and about the events that took place in Sheila. And you know, you can see it today. There's like there's there's like this imag it's it's not it's real but there's like a ring around Sheilo that's not symmetric where we can find pottery going back to the period of Tanakh of Chaftim and Shmo but it's very interesting because it stops you know it's it's a radius goes out the radius goes out and it stops but it's it's not it's not a completely symmetrical ring. You know why? Because the Mishna in where could you have any point you could see Shilo? Well, on some on the east of Shilo, you can't see Shilo the same way you can from the west because it's enveloped by mountains, right? And the mountains are not totally symmetrical. It's not like it's an equal radius, but you can see at the point where you no longer can see where Mishkan Sheila was, that's where you stop finding the pottery. It's incredible. So, we have to thank the Renard family. We have to thank the Phallic family. We have to thank Gravina. And we have to thank the those incredible Jews who live there. You know, they they've suffered under the hands of of Palestinians of of Palestinian Muslim terrorism. But but that is that that was the center of our nation. That was the center of our country. And thank God after thousands of years we have Jews who have reestablished Shiva and then you had Nove and you had Gon and you had the Basin. Hashem gave us these national institutions upon him. But how humiliated are we? Because of our sins, we cause them to be destroyed and wiped out. What was the saddaka here? You know this this capitol that we keep quoting I endowed. It's mism assaf a song of assaf. Assaf was one of the great um one of the great authors of many of the Tahillim. So the Gar says, "What do you mean? Go look at that text. It's not a song. It should be called a kina, a durge, a lamentation of assaf, not a song of assaf. Why is it called misaf?" So the garra and this is also in the medish says, you know why? Because look at what it says. And that's the line that we have here from the kalieru. The two mikt were destroyed. Instead of hashem doing what? Instead of hashem annihilating the Jewish people, what did he do? He destroyed the base of mikdash. The midas haden was on the institution. We can come back from destruction of real estate. You can't come back from annihilation. Hashem enabled us to survive despite our corruption. So he took a very very hefty price because there are consequences. Barry, can I ask you this? Do you know the tune to Betsi Mi? I'm going to we're going to in just a minute. Can I have you lead us come up here and lead us in that? I'm sorry. And how humiliated are we that now at this stage of we turn to you trying to do chuva trying to correct the flaws of 2,000 years. The last stanza 900 years. It's been because the RV learned. Now there are different ways of learning this line, but the way the RV learned it, it's been 900 years. The Khalier was living in the 9th century. He was a he was a uh contemporary of some of the Gaonim unlike other opinions in the tophas that that felt he was a Tana Rabazer maybe Rabzer. um the famous Shamuti Rebel Lazar Hagul but there's a question as to who he was the RV is taking the approach and this you see in some of the earlier kinos and you see this in the crow votes that antishabove the German community say in each braha of the amida it seems that he was a contemporary of the goonim and it's been 900 years that he's written this and we still haven't done chuva all the more so today where it's been 2,000 years and we haven't done chuva vanu bos upon him and we pray. Please God, incline your ear to our prayer. I'm just for this moment we're going to ask Barryclar who during the week amongst as well as being a Dafomi learner an incredible bentora gets a mazle on his daughter Tova's engagement he is a manic director leads a department at Goldman Sachs but uh he also happens to be one of our sh's not only greatest teachers in Tam happens to be one of our sh's best voices and I would like to ask him to lead us in the 31st kenna. We'll explain it afterwards, but let's say it first. On the Rabbi Salvage, the Maurus Arakin, it's page 515. And in the art in the um art scroll kenna, what where do you have what page for the 31st kenna? >> What? >> 304. >> You need the mic for the for the camera. We'll need the mic. Sorry. Come on up because for the camera. >> Oh, so I'll stand behind you. Okay. Yeah, you're good. You stand in front. >> Yeah. [Music] Give me [Music] the must [Music] Is it the God for the [Music] single record. [Music] The Pharaoh the Dish. [Music] The tasting shall hallelujah. [Music] They all [Music] of the gate [Music] of the tasting [Music] living. [Music] Tasting [Music] has now been tasting [Music] the All right. Shall [Music] Foreign [Music] Thank you, Barry. So, this is f this this kina is following that same theme. Look at what Hashem did for us. Look at the incredible things that he did for us. And now as a function of our corruption and our sins, look at the terrible plight that we're in. Look at the miserable plight that we're in today. And let's go through just a few of them. Azy Moshe, right? A shar that will never be forgotten. And instead, what are we saying today? We're singing the khal's kinosa gal gal the gimmel yamu. the incredible hashkah of having the situation of the creasyamsu and now what happens they don't shatu you know I'm reading I don't know that we'll have time this is something you should all have in your library it's called yain mitsula rabbi nasa hanover he was a survivor of takatat takatat literally means um 1648 and 1649, but really the the Ukrainian Kosak rebellion against the Poles, it happened from 1648 through 1653. And it's it was really what I would call the watershed moment in Polish Jewish history because from the time we came in the aftermath of the bubanic plague and the aftermath of the black death when we were welcomed we were accepted into Poland and we played a major role in terms of their banking industry there. It was really a 300 wonderful years. You know for all intents and purposes you you haven't had a large Jewish community in America probably more than 130 years. Right. The 1880s is when the real immigration started and you know they had a 300year ride where it was really really good for the Jews in Poland. But in the aftermath of this Ukrainian revolt and we'll get we if we have time we'll get into the details. So he describes you know how many Jews the the Niper River in the Ukraine was literally read with the blood of the Jews and I've got descriptions here that he gives of different, you know, he goes through town by town as the Ukrainian Kosaks went through these communities with their um Tartar mercenaries, what they did to the Jews in these communities. And these Jewish women did not want to be sex toys for the Ukrainian cusaks. and woman after woman, you know, they they dove into these rivers and drowned to death rather than to have to be violated and abused by these men. So this image that you have here in the gimmel of what happened at the yamsuf as opposed to zedenim shatafu arroitafu think about I don't know that we'll have time to get to it but it's on it's it's on the list the tession when it describes the shuya those who were the captives who didn't die in the battle against the Roman soldiers But they were taken out the Jaffa gate. Today it's equivalent of highway one. They were taken all the way to Jaffa port and they put in ships and they were going to be sold. Many of them were going to be sold as sex slaves. And that what happened these women they they jumped into the Mediterranean. they committed suicide than rather to have to have to lead a life of you talk about a hashem where that's what a Jew is. A Jewish woman is a prostitute. A Jewish woman is a tanua. The kaducious Israel manifests itself through the modesty and the humility and the sincerity of the Jewish women. And rather than to be violated like that, they jumped off the ships into the Mediterranean. And we have you know we have that account in the Gumar and Giten in the Medish Aha as well as in the Khalier's 16th kina. But this is that idea that he's alluding to here. The idea of zedenimafu the mishka we had a mishkan and we had a we ultimately built a basikdash with the carbanos. But what happened when we left Egypt? The Romans Romans took it all. Skulas ela. Many of you have been to the arch of Titus. Those who haven't, you've seen the images of the arch of Titus who was being slaughtered not not the lamb for the corbanola and the musabas but who slaughtered the Jews were the lambs that were being slaughtered. We have holidays that commemorate these great events, these great historical providential events. But now what do we have? evil or doah, we end up having the fast days and our life in the diaspora, our life without a basa mikdash is pursuing nonsense and and craziness. What did Bum say? We had a structure in the Mishkun around the Mishkun and there was a modesty in terms of how we conducted ourselves with our neighbors and we were on our way. We were the great march to the land of Israel to the promised land. And what happens? You know the story of Alishma. The Jews who who escaped Nvu Zaredan's armies. What did they do? They went to their relatives to our uncle to the Arabs. And the Arabs, you know, feigned welcoming us. In the end, they killed us. Mos yo, right? The whole notion the great equalizer that after the yo everyone comes back to their real estate they come back to their position erit was a beautiful quiet land and now makis because we didn't observe properly the yo and shmita and we didn't return it now we are sold eternally and we've been cut off eternally lmedim varonim bashib zakanim the whole education ational structure that enabled our perfection. What was that educational structure? We talked about it. You've got Kohanaman Levim in every town, village, and city in Israel. You've got a whole educational class that enabled us to become a people of perfection. And then you've got the the Sanhedrin Hagutel and they have this whole network of of yeshivas. The typical Sanhedrin of 23 very seldom adjudicated a case. You know what it was? It was meant to be the yeshiva of the city. You have a Sanhedrin of 23 in this town. Any town that's large enough that has 23 with smika that have the real ordination that way you have a a a great educational institution for every city. On top of that you had but they didn't you had courts of three. So you have this whole educational judicial infrastructure that enables the perfection of the nation. That's what we used to have. Now what do we have? No simmonium task masters. oppressors, Moch and Vakon, people who sell Jews. Like, you know, in in in our business, you know, on Mondays we would bring cattle to the cattle auction in Pavilion, New York, and on Tuesdays we'd bring them to the cattle auction in Calonia, New York. And these cattle got shipped to slaughter houses all over the the country. You know, the the the old dairy cows ended up becoming McDonald's hamburger meat and Campbell soup meat. You know, the much nicer animals. They would be your prime and your choice steaks and your prime and your choice cuts of beef. This is what becomes of the Jews. They get sold in pavilion or sold in Calonia, get sold to the slaughterhouse, get sold to the to the oppressor. That's what's become of us. You know, I mentioned what the Kimmelitzki Yamakimo, the Kimlitzki revolution against the Polish Catholics. Well, we were the brunt of their animosity and their hatred. Do you know how many? We don't know exactly how many were killed. Now, we think it was somewhere about 35,000 Jews were murdered, but there were tens of thousands of Jews, particularly those under the control of the Tartars. The Kosaks, the Ukrainians were the worst. Supposedly, the Tartars were the barbarians, but it turned out that the barbarians were less barbaric than the Ukrainians. The the Ukrainians killed us. and raped our women. Not to mention the horrific things they did to our women. They they took women who were pregnant and they cut out the fetuses and they they they they they sewed cats into the uterus that had been which they had wrenched out the fetuses and then they cut off they had swords and they cut off the hands of these women. So they didn't even have the I mean the the the cruelty is unimaginable what they did to us. But the Tartars, they would kill the elderly because there was no sale price on them. The young Jewish women, the young Jewish men, they sold them. Tens of thousands of Jews were sold as slaves. the Jews in the um Ottoman Empire. I'm talking about Smeirna is also known as Ismir that we talked about Thessaloni. Today it's called Salonica. Istanbul, these famous port cities, thousands of Jewish slaves were sold there. And for more than a decade, the Spharic Jews who had transplanted themselves, who now were Jews of the Ottoman Empire, they spent their fortunes. They spent their wealth redeeming us, doing pidonuy, doing pidonuy first for the women, then for the men of the Ashkanazic Jews who had been sold by the Tartars as slaves. It was an incredible act of and an incredible mitzvah. But many Jews would have been they would have died or many Jews would have been lost to Judaism had it not been for these Sphartic Jews in in Ismir and in Istanbul and Salonica and other places that literally had huge huge massive appeals. People would take mortgages on their homes just to redeem the captives just to free their Ashkanazic brothers and sisters who they had never had met. Listen to this one. The mesh. When we left Egypt, we had the the two greatest leaders possible, Mosha and Aaron. But when we left and had what's the problem with where's our lack of symmetry? It should say what? Nvadetszar and Vaspatian or Nvadetszer and Titus. Why does it say Andaras Hadrien? Now there is a Gears that says Tus, but most Gears have it like we have it in the Msurus Sarav and we have it in the art scroll. Say Hadria and this is a very important point. The suffering that we underwent, the suffering that we underwent in the aftermath of the Barakba revolt, it was the worst tragedy in all of Jewish history until the Shawah. We suffered terribly with the loss of the first bas loss of second bas. But I'm talking about sheer volumes of men, women, and children who were slaughtered. They per we'll talk about it when we get to the 21st kenna. When we get to Ar Leavan, we'll talk about it. But it it it was a it was a genocide. They eradicated they wiped out most of Israeli jewelry. And these were not people who were soldiers in Barakba's revolt or in his armies. These were innocent men, women, and children. It was a terrible genocide. The the introductory medish to claims it was 800,000. It was so bad that you were not allowed to write about this or to record this. You know, the Romans were very proud of their defeat of the Jews 60 years earlier, 65 years earlier. They had a chronicler, Josephus Flavius. Yseph Ben Matisawa Cohen. Josephus Flavius was a chronicler. And there's a history. The war against the Jews, not this. You know why? There's no pride in butchering little children. What? You going to brag to the world? You know that you killed little children? You killed elderly people? That's not something to be proud of. And it was they weren't allowed to talk about it. Jews weren't allowed to talk about it. It was a capital offense. The RV explained the famous gamarra about the talid of rabaka says the 24,000 they died of agara dtheria said they didn't die of dtheria they were slaughtered they were butchered what does it mean what does mean antipressa it's like you and I saying throughout the length and breadth of Israel the words that Aramaic word is like The sword is it can mean ascaria dtheria which is a pulmonary disease. But no, it's talking about it's talking about they were slaughtered. Okay, the the sword these these were from the 800,000. They happened to be the Bali Hamasura. Judaism was wiped out. Had it not been for Rebecca and the five students, there'd be no Judaism. But they were amongst the 800,000 who were killed by the Romans. That's why Khazal referred to Rome as Malus Rashaw, the evil empire. Before Ronald Reagan used the term the evil empire, Khazal used that. Why did they call Rome the evil empire? Because of this. That's why in the kina here he's putting on not not vispatian and night titus titus. He's putting Hadrien because because of what happened under Hadrien's rulership the worst before the holocaust. If you would have woken up a Jew 2 o'clock in the morning from their deep sleep, a Sparty, a Persian, a Syrian, a Yemenite, an Ashkanazi, I don't care what you, you would have asked them, "What was the greatest tragedy in all Jewish history? What was the most tragic event in all Jewish history?" They would like that. They would respond to you. The genocide in the aftermath of the Barakba revolt. That was the worst. So, we have a Holocaust. The Holocaust trumps everything. But understand, before the Holocaust, this was the worst. Here the kusha men and women attain that level of you could perceive the hashka was apparent. You could perceive God. You could perceive the actions of God. Now it's just terrible. We're in a state of fear. The the see the ruatum is manifest when you can have, you know, the supreme Ayatollah Kamei and his band of of imams say the kind of horrific things they say about Israel, about Jews. when you can have these it you see it both in the Shia and the Sunni world see after two millennia it's died down a bit in the Christian world the Christian world after they realized that they perpetrated a shawah that that 2,000 years of hate and bedeviling the Jews its ultimate manifestation is that you end up incinerating and annihilating and butchering a million and a half Jewish children six million Jews So right now in Christianity, there's a bit of a pause. But in Islam, there's no guilt and there's no pause. And again, I'm not talking about all of Islam. I'm not talking about the Islam that you see in in in some of the Persian Gulf states like the UAE. I'm talking about this this rabid rabbid hatred of anything other than themselves. And why do the Jews threaten them? Because the truth hurts because they see that's real ethical monotheism. They see that Sharia is an attempt to duplicate hala, you know, and and they see that that Muhammad was fascinated with Schlommo or fascinated with Alicia, but it's a copy. It's not the real McCoy. And it's very very scary to them. And which is why the hatred is so so rabid and so acute coming both out of both out of the Sunni world and the Shia world. If it weren't for their hatred for each other, I don't know that we could survive. It's only because they they hate each other so much that some of their energy is not focused on the eradication of Israel. It's a tiny tiny country. And the other problem is they see how we treat Muslim women. They see how we treat them. Onethird of the physicians of the medical doctors in Israel today are Muslim. Onethird of the medical students in the medical schools are Muslim. We've got Muslim women sitting on the Supreme Court of Israel with their gay and lesbians have to flee the Palestinian territories because they're killed and slaughtered not only by kamas but by the Palestinian territory. They have to come to Tel Aviv to live. They see how we treat women. It's it's a society of women are objects of spousal abuse. The most severe anti-spousal abuse laws of any country legislated ever were legislated when BB was the prime minister the first time in 96. I'm not here to tell you that the government of Israel is a Torah government. But the Jewish values that manifest themselves, particularly in the IDF, but also in in the society in Israel, it scares the Muslim world because they see how we treat Muslims and and how we respect in in the dignity we have for all Muslims, Sunni, Shia, women, men, children, elderly. And it's a terrible, terrible mirror that gets flashed in their face in terms of how they conduct themselves. So rather than dealing with the problem and the cause of the problem, they deal with the symptom. Which is why there's a rage, a terrible, terrible rage against the Jew, the Yahood, and against the Zionists. That's why you notice Kamei he never say Israel calls him the Zion he can't even use he doesn't even call us by our name he won't even give the dignity of calling us by our name as opposed And what do we pray? We had the Torah. We had the precious vessels and we yearn for the with the in gathering of our exiles and ultimately with the rebuilding of the Ba ultimately with the rebui