Tisha B'av 2024 - Rabbi Steven Weil: Reliving Our History

not a simple day there are multiple Min there are movies there are other programs happening we want to thank our sponsors an and Charles Bartel who do each and every year for tab for the sh and Diana and Dr Michael and their family commemorating the yard site of Michael's grandfather David Le Ben schmuel I'm sorry David Le Ben Schmo zelig Mr David buman as well we want to thank a number of people that were dedicating the the Kos to one of them Shalom Ben perits I think many of you know Steve newworth really was an incredible treasure to the Jewish people Steve his wife Natalie and their children live in new relle and Steve tragically passed away unfortunately of cancer so we want to acknowledge Steve we also want to acknowledge and dedicate this to the memory of Samara pilsky Richard and Deborah Parov each and every year dedicate this program they usually do it in in the honor and memory of Richard's parents but tragically they lost their daughter after a battle with brain cancer Samara was a gem a righteous woman and Incredibly humble good baset her husband Michael their children Rafi are you here Ella their oldest daughter the the Twins were Olivia and and Josh and they have a young son who's barely 12 years old Noah four children her husband Michael her brother Adam and sister-in-law Ariel we want to dedicate this to samara's memory and then the third that I'd like to dedicate it to is someone we'll talk about later is an incredible young woman who grew up in Dunwoody Georgia Dunwoody is a suburb of Atlanta she was a lone soldier she was an incredible Hero on N9 on 107 on the Simas Tor Massacre the the story that's really not told about SAS Tor and the massacre in Israel we know what happened and we're going to talk about Bei we're going to talk about karaza we'll talk about nalo the reim Zim we know the places nativa assar where the destruction took place but there were 22 communities that were able to defend themselves literally Ward themselves from the Hamas one of them was a community by the name of kibuts sad and one of the heroes that day from Dunwoody Georgia was a young woman by the name of Rosie Lublin Rosie's parents her her mom Robin her dad and stepmom David and Stephanie they involved in the Jewish Community there in in Dunwoody it's congregation Ariel that they're members of Rosie was a fascinating kid you know from the time she was a little girl she was telling her friends she her grandparents took her on a trip to Israel I'll always be a friend of yours I'll always be you know for you but you have to understand I'm going to be living in Israel she had this dream as a little girl to live in Israel so in high school she went to Dunwoody High School she was a cheerleader and she was on the men's wrestling team quite a combination she got involved with ncsy with the JSU the Jewish Student Union she would walk like five miles on chabas to the wrestling meet she drafted and she could have taken an easy job she wanted to be a combat Soldier and she particularly asked to be in the mishara Gul the Border Police why did mishara this is the first time in 2,000 years that the Jews that we control yush Jerusalem and she wanted to defend the Makoma sakosan the holy places Temple Mount she wanted to defend and as you and I know being in the Muslim corter in Jerusalem is not simple it's a very challenging place and Sim Torah she was off no one was expecting anything she was at kibuts how is she on kibuts my daughter many of you know who grew up in the sh Atara went to Maya note a group of 21 kids who made Aliyah who joined the army my daughter happens to be in the Air Force they were there's a program called gin sabar and kibuts religious kibuts took the kids who wanted an observant life and they spent their preparation on this kibuts when they finished that preparation and it was time to draft all the other kids got apartments in yusel got apartments in Tel Aviv which from a point of view of public transportation is much easier to access to your base your army base your navy base your Air Force Base Rosie and daughter who good friends they fell in love with kibuts there's a phrase in Hebrew M saled the Earth Jews it's an agricultural Community very very beautiful rich soil along the Gaza Strip there produces all kinds of food that gets exported to Europe all over the world so they live there they rented a place on kibuts my daughter and S she she was at her Air Force Base Rosie had off Hamas there were certain places like NE o like the nalo base karaza particularly the we'll talk about the young People's Community I mean it was just overrun by hundreds of of murderers karaza I'm sorry kibuts sad it wasn't hundreds that attacked it was tens was Shabbat so everything was gated Rosie her boyfriend and about five six members of kibuts they got their flat jackets they got their guns and they were in an 11-hour gun battle with Kamas it was a place that the Army didn't get to till the end because were you know it's triage there were many communities were much more serious in in the Army had to get to and they fended off for almost 11 hours Kamas attackers who tried to get in in the middle of this gun battle Rosie who I don't think is 5' one tough I mean I think she could take any of us but but not particularly tall she is opening and closing the gate in the middle of a gun battle while she's being shot at while she's shooting why because over 200 of the young people who were at the Nova Music Festival they found Refuge they escaped to kibuts and she's the one who's letting them in I mean literally a hero a month later on a Shabbat in the old city in the Arab quarter the Muslim quter she is attacked and she's killed by a Hamas so I'd like to dedicate today our learning to the memory of Rosie Luben as well as Steve newworth as well as Samara pelski the reason we're going to start this year with the 23rd Kenna we usually don't get to the 23rd Ken till like the thirr or fourth hour is because of its relevance particularly today to what happened this year and before we start the 23rd Ken which those who have the rabbi salvic the murus arav it's page 439 those who have the art Scrolls page 262 the we're going to frame the kinos that we're learning for a second for for a few minutes each and every one of us right now we're at a funeral we're attending a funeral the phrase that kazal used the rabbis in the gamar Bo and the rabbis and the gar Bros the dead is lying before us the bodies in Israel you'd say the bodies wrapped in a Talis here you'd say the bodies in the coffin the dead are lying here before us and we're in anos after we finish the funeral and the burial we'll be in Shiva and that's why we're conducting ourselves like we're in Shiva what happens on Tish it's not just a commemorative day when we remember the sadness remember the tragedies Tish in the Hal parallel is Sader night Tish you and I right now where we living we're reexperiencing the tragedies we're reliving the death the destruction and we're attending the funerals that's what we're doing right now our Min is ashaz is that from the 17th of tamos each and every one of us took upon ourselves the status of ybes we're in the mour phase of the last 11 months rashes each and every one of us went into a modality of schim we're all inim and now in Tish the funerals happened the tragedy is happening we're reliving it we're reexperiencing it and each and every one of us will be in Shiva today is a day of Shiva reab salvic developed this and he shared you know think about regular avus what happens with regular avus a tragedy happens you lose a loved one you're an oning until the burial then you have the first stage of Shiva where the total focus is on the destruction on the loss on the deprivation schim you're allowed to go back to work but the way you conduct yourself externally reflects where you're at internally no one shaves no one gets a haircut no freshly pressed clothing it's a weaning process of moving back into the world back into life and then you bases when it comes to what's known as a I'm sorry a a not that someone not that we lost a parent not that we lost a child not that we lost a spouse but just the opposite it's something that happened a long time ago it's something that you and I were not alive we didn't live during the first crusade in May and June of 1096 you and I didn't live in theb bikes in the summer of 70 of the Common Era most of us in this room were not alive during the annihilation of ashkenazic jewelry between 1939 and 1945 what we're trying to do is we prepare ourselves Hally we build up we Crescendo towards you can't just walk into Tish you know you can't just walk into Tish without preparation for it and that's what's happened over the last 3 weeks whether it is the Haas whether it is the status that we live by during that period That's the preparation and that way today becomes a much more powerful meaningful day the last piece of introduction and this is something we say each and every year is important as real estate is to you and I it's important it's significant whether it's our business whether we're in residential commercial whether in retail or whether it's our own personal Homes Real Estate is significant especially as Jews who've been naad who've been Wanderers and refugees don't have that ancestral real estate that an Italian or a Frenchman has who's been on their land for 800 years or a thousand years but as important as real estate is you and I we are not mourning the loss of a building I know that when someone asks you the question what is Tish we all answer this is the day the temple was destroyed but the morning that we're going through this intense morning right now we're not mourning a piece of real estate what are we mourning what are we mourning and to to frame that think about two or three halik phenomena number one the 83rd Psalm Capital piml describing the tragedy it says misore La Assaf Assaf was the author of that Psalm a mizmor mmore is like a song it's something positive so the the gar the medish asked the following question it should not say mmor it should say k this is a durge this is a eulogy this is this is crying over a tragedy why do you say mism more question number one question number two re in the gar is of the opinion that we should be fasting on the 10th of a Titus coming from the north from the Antonio Fortress breaks through onto the Temple mount the beginning of the destruction the beginning of the torching of the Bas of Mikes doesn't happen till the afternoon of Tish the afternoon of the nth of a that's when it happens okay the destruction most of it happens on the 10th the burning the destruction of the building is primarily on the 10th of a not the ninth the ninth is when it began so why are we not fasting on the 10th and the third question is think about what you and I are going to be observing today Hally we did not put on Talis and filler this morning we will this afternoon we didn't say this morning that God should give us Comfort compassion give us the ability to rebuild and move forward we didn't it's there's no this morning there was no last night we didn't say last night either this afternoon we will last night in this morning there is no kadish tabel God please accept our our petitions please accept the Praises we've said before there's noage based upon the verse last night in like there's been a Mel an iron an iron boundary that's prevented our prayers from ascending to heaven in the afternoon at Min we'll put on Talis villain we're going to say we're going to say kades toel so the third question is come on if the destruction if the torture took place in the afternoon that should be the most intense morning not the night before not the morning it should be in the afternoon why is it that in the afternoon you're allowed to sit up you don't have to sit on the floor you can sit on a regular seat you can put on tal you can say you Sayes so this answer is given by RAB salic subsequently I saw the vagon said the same thing it starts with the premise what are we Mourning morning over today we're not mourning over the destruction of a building what are we mourning over literally the removal the absens of that intense perceived presence of God when the almighty allowed Titus to take a woman of ill repute go into the the holy of holies you know rip the parus to fornicate with a woman of ill repute in the holy of holies that means that the has that intense intense providential relationship that God had with the Jewish people God has abended part of that now it's just a building that happens the afternoon of the 9th the tragedy is Sil kashina and it answers another question and we'll see we haven't answered all the questions but one other question why are we observing the Simas Torah Massacre October 7th why are we observing it today why are you and I the sound I apologize Kenna 22 Kenna 25 regarding the destruction of the of the German Rin land of the balamas of Mines of worms of spes of bone of Kul of Regensburg why are we mourning the destruction of ashkenazic jewelry that happened in the last week of of er and in the first week of civan in 1096 tough tough NV why are we observing that today why are we observing today the slaughter and the butchering of 35,000 Jews in what is today known as the Ukraine by the Ukrainian kaks and their tartar mercenaries why is that being all observed today because all tragedy the allowance the tolerance that enabled Kamas to do what they perpetrated that enables the blasphemy that come out of Taran that comes out of nasala in Beirut the attack of the Yom Kipper War what Ferdinand Isabella Tada what the Dominican Friars did to us first in 1391 under Vincent Fay then in 1492 under Ferdinand and Isabella all of that the allowance that enables them to perpetrate those Horrors those evils on us all of that stems from kashina from the lack the dep approvation of of God's intense providential engagement with us and that's what we mourn think about shirim we mourn as is is this we have this historical randevu with the almighty this providential randevu with God Almighty we we yearn we mourn the loss of that intimacy because the lack of that intimacy and the lack of that presence and the lack of the intensity of that presence is what enables all tragedy so if that's the case why does the mour become lighter easier in the afternoon of Tish what happened in the afternoon so the medish the RV quoted that the vagon quotes I'm using human terms I apologize for using human terms but I speak we speaking the way we speak there was a shik Hadas there was a weighing a calculating should the Midas hadin impose itself should God impose the Midas hadin on the Jewish people which would mean an annihilation of Claus ra or would the midus hadin impose itself on the B mikash on Jerusalem on the loss of our having our BAS ofes our autonomy our holy city and the Jewish people would survive and the reason it's m the reason why we say the reason why we we the the avus is less intense is that we lost Jerusalem we lost the Bas of Mikes but God enabled us to survive God saved us and it wasn't clear that that was what is going to happen because the strictest of midus hadin for our corruption should have been Annihilation and that it didn't happen is a Misa is a lessening of the Aus that's why the Aus from that point on from the afternoon on is more of a schin and less of a Shiva because it wasn't clear until that point where the Midas hadin would manifest itself that's the context of what we're doing today now let's start with the 23rd K background you and I know that the revolt against Rome as a function of the oppression as a function of the the over taxation as a function of just the the improprieties of the Roman proconsuls and the Roman governors over Judea a Revolt happened in ' 66 the beginning of that Revolt was where gamla just by show of hands how many of you have ever been to gamla up on the Golan Heights has anyone ever been to Phoenix Arizona and climbed Camelback Mountain okay so if you've been to Phoenix Camelback Mountain is very similar to what gamla looks like both were called Camelback Mountain because of the the double hump in the mountain it was fortified it was walled around and the Romans tried to break break in every time they would climb the ladders that they put up next to that wall the Jews boiled hot oil would pour it over the wall scald the Roman soldiers to death the Romans gots catapults they they had to import catapults the term the gamarra uses is bistri what are bistrot they would very dense packed of of of dense Stone in a round ball fashion they would use the Catapult and shoot them at the wall and eventually pierce the walls they broke through the walls they come into gamla they murdered everyone you know think this is very different than what you have 20 minutes from here at metti MetLife station I'm sorry MetLife Stadium you know they're killing each other on the football field for 3 hours then after the game what happens the guys go to to to the 50 ydd line they take off each other's Jersey you know Josh Allen and Aaron Rogers are going to take off each other's Jersey give it to the other guy autograph it going to put their arm around each other you know for a picture in front of you know Tony Romo is going to speak about wow what a you know what what two Warriors but what great bunch of guys the Romans didn't do that after they had lost so many of their soldiers when they find broke through no survivors they took no prisoners it was a Slaughter and the Romans benefited from that policy because as they go south through the Galilee most of the Galilean Jewish communities did not put up a fight we always quote Taria that way I said is wrong Tori how how many just by show of hands have been to torei so you go to torei it's fascinating there was a a dual um archaeological site there for many years between the University of Michigan and between Baran University and you see where the theaters were you see where the main shopping areas were you see where the shes were you you see people who lived you know let's say in the nice section of town gorgeous mosaic floors how come seori is not a state of runes it wasn't rued but it was actually pretty well intact because in seori they didn't fight and if you could skip a few years maybe 80 90 years because Zori was intact re Yuda hanasi and the Sanhedrin establish itself in CI we are of the opinion that what we call the mishna the publication of the mission of the final edited edition was done by reab Yehuda hanasi reab Yehuda hanasi Rabbi nasan and the sages in seori there are one or two exceptions the most famous is a city by the name of yudas what was yudat that was a City that the leader of the Galilean Jewish forces lived yose Ben matis yahu we know him much better by his Latin name Josephus flavus okay when the Romans at the point they were breaking through the siege of yudat there was a suicide pack there was a mass suicide done there and yose Ben mat Coen Josephus flavus he shows the Romans I saved you the death and destruction that happened in gamla and they took him they took him to be the man that would Chronicle their war against the Jews the wars against the Jews as it's called you understand why Kaz have incredible ambivalence when it comes to Josephus flavus okay he's a very very ambivalent uh character figure but my point is most of the Galilee stood most of the Jews who lived in the Galilee were not exiled to Rome were not sold as slaves in Rome go further south the siege of yusel starts in the year 68 under vaspa it's a three-year Siege in the midst of this Siege Nero had died the emperor Nero in the Roman senate was debating who would be the next Caesar who would they Proclaim as the next Caesar the back and forth they chose thep we are all familiar because of the famous gamarra of RAB Yan and Ben Zaki but vpan is chosen to be the next Caesar he's not going to waste four years of his life 66 67 68 69 he replaces himself with his son who I don't think was even 30 years old at that time Titus Titus was led actually by a Jewish General who would come from Alexandria Egypt was a relative of Philo and Titus as you know eventually is successful in Breaking The Siege of Jerusalem in the summer of the year of 70 The Siege is broken on the 17th of tamos and 3 weeks later they enter the Temple mount now a question that we have to ask ourselves since everyone in this room has probably been to yusel to The Old City more than once how long does it take you when you enter the Jaffa gate to make it to the cotel to make it to the Temple Mount those of you who are go through the Arab shook maybe 12 13 minutes 14 15 minutes those who go around the Armenian quarter go around the Jewish quarter it's really The Armenian e the Jewish a but but they call it a quarter takes you maybe 18 minutes those who are not walking too well a little bit enfeebled takes you 25 minutes 30 minutes how did it take the Roman Legions who were pretty in pretty good shape who were wellfed were pretty tough how did it take them 3 weeks to get to the Temple Mount you can't tell me you can't answer me that well they they didn't know where to go first of all the city isn't that big secondly they're the ones who designed it you know you know how we have in Manhattan you have very major thoroughfares that go north south like Broadway you have major thoroughfares for shop shopping that go east west like 59th Street or 57th Street or 42nd Street so so Jerusalem was built the same way the East West Corridor came from the Jaffa gate the north south Corridor came from the Damascus gate the Shem gate you you've all seen the cardo culinarium right the whole shopping it's not like it's that complicated how did it take him 3 weeks to do something that you can do in uh 14 minutes or 18 minutes how did it take him 21 days and the answer of course is what those 21 days were brutal battles going on Brutal Urban combat that generated rivers of blood Jewish blood and Roman blood and and and the streets of yush were filled with blood with corpses the the members the inhabitants of jush were fighting every inch for their city for their Temple until finally on the afternoon of the 9th of a Titus from the north makes it from the Antonio Fortress makes it into the Temple Mount and and into the he now after they destroy the mikash this is not seori they fought for three years to conquer this anyone who wasn't slaughtered was taken out the Jaffa gate today we call it Highway one that natural crevice in the east west travel in terms was getting towards the Mediterranean and they were taken down to the Jaffa Port they were put in ships and they were shipped to Rome we know the Coliseum in Rome which was inaugurated in the year 76 of the Common Era we know this from Roman sources not just from Jewish sources the Coliseum was built by Shu Jewish captives slaves who had been cap had been seized from the survivors of Jerusalem and you better believe many people died on that construction project that's where we pick up this Kenna this Kenna is a story of two of the captives of Yus Shu yush one of them is the son of the kohen RAB isma kohen the other is the daughter of the kohen now we'll study when we get to the 21st Kenna we'll study the tragic death the tragic murder of the Coen RAB isma but his son and daughter actually survive turn please again to page 439 in the rebis salivic 26 62 in the art scroll this is written by one of the great ashkenazic medieval panim this is also found this story is found in the gamar and gon this story is found in AA in the medish Raba an the question that we have to ask ourselves is the following why is this so significant you see that K discusses in the Meda they discuss it in the gamar the theim discusses why is this so so significant that we deal with in a few minutes the es like means my Abode my temple this is the Jewish people they B me to the Jews my sins have destroyed this face of mikash and my tears it's like Niagara Falls it's not one or two tears there's this there's this constant stream going down from my my tear Ducks going down my cheeks can't stop this the crime on this day when we go back into a modality of Shiva will I call out will I raise my voice and crying I will mourn each and every year now just one comment that we say each year on this Kina if you look in the ram H the ROM says the following that if someone if you and I lose a loved one a spouse a parent a child a sibling we cry we cry we go into depression mode and that's natural in someone who's not pained and hurt over the loss of of a parent spouse child the r says that that's cruelty how can you not feel the loss of someone who's been with you like that the r says the first three days are a period of crying the period of Shiva there's aim what happens if a person can't move forward can't go back to work they're in a total depression not during the Shiva not the first few weeks but 6 months out a year out two years out ra is what does he mean when he says what does mean meaning that emotionally there's something wrong there there's something a foul why the ram explains because it's Min the nature of the world is that you and I were born to die we're all going to die that's the nature the of the biology of The Human Condition some of us will live 20 years some of us will live 60 years some of us will live 80 years some of us will live 100 years but but the the nature of a human being is to die and we have to know that and appreciate that and acknowledge that and because of that there's a time to be broken there's a Time For Crying there's a time for just total depression but there has to be a rebuilding and those feelings of pain and hurt have to turn into feelings of of gratitude of Yearning that's when it comes to a normal death but what do you see from this Kina it says each and every year the each and every year I will go back and mourn this loss because this is not been go what happened and s t on October 7th was not MHO Goa the way those young Jewish girls were treated the way those young children were treated the way people who were settling our land Building our land Bal not just Bal to Jews but B to the Muslims living in Gaza and those very same Muslims came and hunted them down and didn't just kill them the gruesomeness the brutality of that you know shur is a base it's a very fascinating army base CU it's the headquarters of the raban of the Israeli rinet every body is taken there whether it's a victim of Terror whether it's a soldier that was killed and the people who do the Tara and the PTSD that they're going through he said there were bodies you couldn't identify them they said we've done the Tara on bodies that were shot soldiers that were killed in in a pigua or in a battle but these bodies you couldn't identify them the number of bullets that were pummeled into their body by Hamas you needed DNA and dental records just to make identifications you couldn't bring the relative see sometimes you would bring a relative and they would identify that that's their loved one they were unidentifiable that's not that's not someone who lives 75 years and dies of a heart attack or 75 years or 80 years or 90 years and dies of cancer that's not Minh that that young girls should be treated that way that's not m it's a horrific AV it's an avus that I can't even accept any comfort or consolation it is worse than any other pain that I have suffered over this son and daughter of the k from their memory Yoda it it is in my conscience it burns it's like a raging fire each and every year I will mourn over their loss A Nishu they were abducted they were taken from Jerusalem taken out the Jaffa gate into the ships shipped across the Mediterranean and then sold on the RO slave market now think for a second think for a second of your basic economics what's the first lesson you learn in economics what's the very first lesson if you want to know the price of any object what do you do you look at where the demand curve meets a supply curve supply and demand will determine the price of any object lesson number two what happens if there's a huge increase in Supply let's say for instance that Ford made a mistake the most popular vehicle in the United States of America is the F-150 pickup truck and Ford thinks that there's going to be many more people that are going to be driving the F-150 and they produce in their factories in Michigan and Ohio oh and in Mexico they they produce many more F-150s but the demand stays the same what will happen to the price of an F-150 it'll go down because when you have Demand Being constant and an increase in Supply the price goes down that's what happened in the fall of 70 of the Common Era when ships upon ships upon ships of the captives of Jerusalem are being brought into Rome and these people being put up for sale on the Roman slave market if you're a Roman Aristocrat you're going to get a steal you say in Yiddish you're going to get a msia right you're going to get a real deal on a slave and that's what happened here what's the description these gentlemen happened to be Aristocrats you know they they were wealthy guys lived in an upper upper neighborhood you know very fine neighborhood in Rome they're on the same street they started bragging to each other about the deals they got I mean think about it what happens at a cigar lounge guys are talking about you know the real estate deal or the the price they got on this company or the the deal they got on this stock you what happens they're telling the story Z from the Zionist captives here is referring to Jerusalem you know we dress her up in gorgeous clothing oh she is she beautiful is she hot she radiates like the moon meaning Gorge she's she doesn't just have a beautiful figure she's gorgeous with a who are yima when you want to use a paradigm you those are the daughters of J of EO those were eo's daughters the most beautiful people I can't get over this I keep going back each and every year to mourn this so his neighbor he says you think you got a deal he brags double he need I got a male I got a buck you know a male Jew from Jerusalem now again why does he say he he had good eyes the reason this is a horrific phrase when you buy animals let's say you're a cattle deal like my family our business is we're in the cattle business the first thing you look at in an animal if you're buying it is its eyes if you want to know if it's a healthy animal you look in the eyes if you're a horse trader if you buy Hogs you're always looking at the eyes so they're they're treating this the man who would have been the next Co G one of the G hador how they treating him like like like a bull that you'd buy from a farmer you know you said that she looks she radiates like the Moon this guy is like remember Gary Cooper High Noon think about the sun when it's right overhead High Noon that's what he radiates like is next paragraph page B let's breed them you know today in Israel Israeli cows produce more milk per cow than any other cow than any other country on Earth you know that how does Israel the best milk producer of any country on Earth very simple it's it's bull Seaman from America they're just very smart about how they breed if they have a cow for instance that produces a lot of milk but not so strong in the the milk the milk fat content you think about you those of you who want a good ice cream you're not going to buy any ice cream you're going to buy hog andas you want something that's got a really fat content to it that's what makes good ice cream so when it comes to milk for butter for ice cream for all of these products the fat content counts so if you've got a cow that produces milk but she's got weak fat content what do you do you take the semen from a bow that's known for producing Offspring with good fat content let's say if a cow she's really good but she's got a weak spine you don't think she's going to be able to live that long and produce that much milk because as she gets older she's going to have back problems so for her child you take the semen of a bull that's has very good spine has a really strong spine so at least that way her Offspring won't have her weakness it's a science in the Israelis they're smart about it they don't just breed half hazard usually they breed in a smart way and that's why Israeli cows produce more milk than anyone on Earth but that's how you talk about a cow that's how our our friend here in tinck um aam zat when he had a horse that came in number three in the Kentucky Derby and he was very smart in how they bred that horse the child became American Pharaoh the greatest horse in America in 40 years won the Triple Crown that's how you talk about a horse and that's how you talk about a cow this is how you're going to talk about the son of the coing gal this is you're going to talk how you're going to talk about a righteous Jewish woman a yish who's atua this is how you talk that's how they talked about them but come game Let's breed them we'll split up the kids a couple this good-looking you know they'll produce beautiful Offspring so the author of The Kenna says just hearing this my ears are ringing I can't bear to hear this I have to tell you I forgetting his name he was the executive director of Yeshiva tus emis in Brooklyn I think his name was rabash Shiner I'm not sure if that's correct R shim Shiner he was a survivor of the kov nto and there are two times I have to thank bar singer bar singer from the low E side his father was a famous re Joseph singer he took me to meet him and to interview him about the cosm magto and I brought him certain pictures that have been taken some of them by Nazis some of them by by lithuanians in the kov neetto you know I started to show them the pictures started to ask him specific questions very kindly very gently at the time he was in his young 90s push the pictures away put his hand he says there's just certain I'm using my terminology there's certain doors you don't want to open there's certain places you don't want to go there's certain ghosts that you don't not want to exercise he says I I just can't go back there I can't look at these pictures after all these years I I can sleep at night and I just don't want to go back there he apologize and I apologize to him you know you you listen you you you you read this you hear this to even mention this as m a Mima I want to tear Korea all over again I want to rip my garment tear Korea all over again is the two of them agreed upon this they put him two together in a room and the owners outside the couple [Music] what was happening they were lamenting their plight and it spells it out in the next paragraphs he he was lamenting with a fever a feverish and a melted heart the descended the [Music] of you're going to use me like a breeding bow like a breeding stud for think about you know think about where we come from who is the lineage of Aon and Mos think about what she did who she was now her descendant is going to be used like a cow or like a horse for breeding purposes oaz to the one who decreed that this is what would become of us what are Orion plees the constellations the statement that's being made by the author of this Kina R was medieval it was a medieval rehon you know what he's saying this is not just a Jewish tragedy this is not just a human tragedy this is a cosmic tragedy when the woman who would have been the mentor of generations the Sarah schneer of her generation when the man who would have been the next coing gutle one of the leading figures on the Sanhedrin a mentor to the future of am Israel This Is What Becomes of them theim y y or Bo so they they're each in this room and instead of breeding each other he's off in his Corner she's off in her Corner the Morning Light because remember it's antiquities you don't have electric light so it's dark inside they recognize each other oh my god this is my brother this is my sister they Embrace each other they hug each other the description here is until their their souls departed with a last breath I think what it's conveying is not necessarily that they died that moment they gave up the will to keep living you know if if you give up the will to live you know you stop eating you just you die you wither away another way of saying it is they died of depression for this will Jeremiah lament in in a horri way this decree this is what happened to our future this is what happened to the best of our future future do I continue to cry over this and in my heart in my conscience there's a raging fire over the Son and Daughter of the now the question we have to ask ourselves the question that jumps off the page whether whether it's the gar whether it's the med or whether it's what we just read which is an elaboration of the of the med this is sad this is tragic is this the worst tragedy that we are mourning on T shabath I mean you say to yourself maybe they could have been like the Holocaust Survivors that we know and we all look up to they didn't have to die of depression no no one tortured them it's horrific what they went through no one that should never befall anyone but it's not what happened to our brothers and sisters in karaza in bayi at Nova to we're going to talk later about what happened to Nal on the nalo base that's not what happened to them why are we mourning this why is there an obsession amongst our over their over this story over the Son and Daughter of the K why and I think this speaks to us I'm going to come back to what I normally say I want to start with this year you you know of the many things we're asked to do the the ministry of Defense has a about $26 Million worth funding five programs for bereaved families for the relatives of of those who lost because of the situation in the north one of those programs is they take micro demographics what do I mean by micro demographics widows in their who are like in their 20s and 30s another micro demographic is Drew's families who buried a son religious families who who buried a son and you have siblings who lost a brother they take like survivors like you know like in terms of being in the same situation bed families and we're funding they're being taken to Cyprus with a team of psychologists for five six day Retreats the second program that we actually administer here and again anything we do we fund fidf funds to go to Israel but there have been six groups the last one is just arriving now after Tish abov of Orphans this war has created 200 new widows 500 brand new orphans and over 1,400 younger siblings who have lost an older brother or older sister at War we bring the orphans and the younger siblings it's called Legacy here the younger kids the barbat Mitzvah they spend couple of weeks in a camp whether it's the capital Camp which is which Services the Jews of DC and of Baltimore right now there's a group in campstone and then they spend a week in a community the older kids the high school age students we do traveling camps two of those traveling camps were based here in EK at the glenpoint Marriott they had barbecues members of our sh hosted Jacob shoulder hosted one some of our the members of the shes and of aast Tor in East Hill and Englewood hosted them they go different places Six Flags take them into Manhattan take them out to Long Island to The Hamptons for a program with people they've gone to Boston you know toured Boston and then had a meals with with families Etc it's a travel camp and I just want to share with you some of the things that we hear now what's the logic of the ministry of Defense of the these young kids they can't open up to their parents you know why because their parents are just riddled with pain their parents are just they are just suffering and they don't want their parents to suffer more at school everyone is very nice to them the principles the teachers fellow students but no human being wants to be treated like a china doll right no one wants to be treated like a china doll that you're an other especially if you're a kid you know it's very important for kids to be socially accepted you don't want to be treated like an other and they said we've got to get them out of Israel and get them with similar and I use the analogy those of us who are children of survivors we know this well a Survivor is only truly really comfortable amongst other survivors there's a certain safe space when you're amongst other survivors and sometimes you don't even it's not even a communication of words a verbiage sometimes it's a communication a language of Silence where you can be open you can share even if a Survivor tells their story to us there are certain feelings there are certain emotions that are too sacred that are too painful that are too raw that you don't expose them to others to Outsiders that's the case with these kids they need to be in a place where there was someone just like them there was someone who's going through what they are going through there was someone who even through silence can appreciate can understand their plight the goal of the ministry of defense and having us do this was that they would create a network they would develop friends for life just like when they take these people on Retreats that hopefully they'll create a network of friends for life that they'll have someone that they can feel safe with the rest of their life so listen to some of these conversations if you talk to an American of a certain age what will they tell you you you ask them where were you when JFK was assassinated when you first heard that JFK was killed every American will tell you that they remember where they were when they heard the news the JFK was assassinated these kids are going around on the bus rides you know you got a bus ride to Boston a bus ride to Long Island a bus ride to Hershey Park they're long bus rides what is a conversation where were you when the knock when there was a knock on the door what am I referring to the knock on the door those of you who've seen Saving Private Ryan you know what I'm talking about the infamous knock on the door from the casualty officers what happened during the knock on the door and one of the kids is saying yeah my mother fainted other kids is saying I'll never forget the the the shriek from my mother's I've never heard that shriek that shriek will haunt me the rest of my life and they're telling where were you when the knock on the door now by the way what's incredible about the IDF in the ministry of Defense if you're a parent you're a sibling you're a child you're you're a spouse unlike Saving Private Ryan where there was a knock on the door there's a casualty officer that's dedicated to you the rest of your life until you die as long as you breathe on this Earth there's a casualty officer that's responsible for you that's that's the the the Army ofad that's the med that's the Jewish Army but with that being said and done who were the madim and the mad for these trip the MIM and M themselves were either Orphans of the army or a bereaved sibling what's called bereaved siblings so the the the the advisors themselves have been in the same shoes as these kids think about us we we had a a member really a very involved family in this Sho Ari Weiss BR died tragically when his son you know was looking forward to going into high school and ends up having to come to minion to say kadish for his father it broke our heart every day that we saw the you know we saw David Weiss BR saying kadish you know kadish is something you say that your parent has lived till 85 90 years old and you're in your 60s and you say CSH for your parents to see a kid 13 14 years old have to say CSH it breaks your heart this group talking about the traveling camps that stayed they based here in Bergen County so group of religious Boys on there they would get up an hour early for 50 minutes early every morning and they had a minion can you imagine a minion that every it's a minion of kids and every kid in the minion is saying ksh it breaks your heart and then there's a conversation amongst these kids they're all saying how they hate when people come over to them and call their father a Gore a hero he says one kid says I'll never do this around my mother I don't want to break my mother's heart I don't want my mother to have any more pain but when my mother's not around and these people come over to me and they say your father was a gebore your father was a hero shut up shut up I don't want to hear that word don't say that he ran off he saved other people's lives and it destroyed our lives I'll never have a father walked me down the aisle at Mya I've become a father at the age of 13 looking after my young younger siblings our family is is ruined it'll never be what it was and you're calling him a Gore now by the way this is a kid who loves his father this is a kid who respected his father but just the pain and the hurt over how their lives have been wounded there's no such thing as a family sitting around the table for a shabas meal the family unit's been broken just that pain you know if we right now we happen to be investing about $90 million to fund PTSD therapies the focus of the ministry of Defense the primary focus is they don't want to repeat what happened in 1973 these young men were called out a SHO they rushed up to the Golan Heights they rushed up to to the Su down to the SE Canal to the Chinese Farm to the lower sin you know 2700 of them were killed many of them there was nothing left to bury they were turned into ashes by the Soviet tanks that the syrians and Egyptians had by the anti-tank missiles but what about those who survived in 1973 you didn't have people didn't talk about PS PTSD they didn't talk about what happens to the neurotransmitters in the mind they didn't talk about neuroplasticity you know what they said 1973 1974 1975 you're a tough Israelis suck it up suck it up suck it up and be a man that's what they said in 1973 and 1974 but when the neurotransmitters go you can't suck it up and be a man because you're broken neurologically CU you're broken biologically it's not about being a man and these people you know till this day Dr Mickey poock who's the top he's at Sheba Hospital T may he says every month we have a new case of a new manifestation of PTSD from a Yumer veteran 51 years later these guys are shivr luos broken tablets with the go through they were not functional fathers some of these guys they were not functional husbands they couldn't hold a job they were erratic to no fault of their own God Sav all of us from what they experienced in October of 1973 and the goal the goal of the m is that this should not happen to these to these soldiers here they should not have to go through what happened to the soldiers in 73 now you know in terms of anyone who has Frontline Duty I'm giving you numbers from Vietnam from Iraq and Afghanistan our American soldiers I'm giving you numbers from yipper war from the two Lebanon war the war in the80s the war in 2006 anyone who's been on the front line you're looking at about on average 10 10% acute PTSD what does acute PTSD mean mild PTSD is what many of our parents from the shaah had they couldn't sleep at night they had nightmares at night sometimes they would wet their bed but they functioned well during the day during the day they were fathers mothers during the day they were spouses during the day they held a job they ran a business that's mild PTSD acute PTSD is where you cannot function in Vietnam Iraq Afghanistan yum kipa War the two Lebanon Wars that averages 10% what's happening now we're averaging 15% why is this war different so Dr har Evan used to be the Surgeon General the Surgeon General of the IDF he's now the number two at Sheba he shared with me what what they believe in the medical commun this is not something they can prove but this is something they believe there are three factors that are creating the benas isma of Our Generation Factor number one what they experienced on the 7th the e8th the 9th the 10th along OT Gaza the Gaza circumference when when they were trying to hunt down the NBA in in andot Naran Bay these various communities what they saw there what they discovered there and you have to understand I spoke to Major generals guys who fought in three Wars guys who saw their own soldiers die who they themselves saw the bodies of the people that they killed they said we never ever experienced anything in 35 years of war and 33 years of being in the IDF and 37 years of being in the IDF we never experienced anything remotely close to what we saw with our eyes and what we smelled along OT Gaza that's Factor number one factor number two you know that we can prove it'll probably turn out to be more but that we know of now 20% of those killed of our soldiers killed have been killed by Friendly Fire been killed by Friendly Fire do you know what that does to someone H how do you live when you know you've killed another Jew third factor is the brutality of this war never ever before has there been an urban War like this for this long think about the Iraq and Afghanistan war there were Urban battles fuia mosul most of the battles were not Urban battles think about World War II there were Urban battles Vietnam there were Urban battles but not most that's not most of the war this is only Urban Warfare jabalia banun Gaza City RAF and you understand what the enemy does they're using elderly they're using children they're using women as human Shields they're popping in and out of out of holes that lead to tunnels in almost every third house has a tunnel entrance in it they're popping in and out the brutality of this war is like no other and allow me to digress for one minute before we come back to them and we come back to the daughter the son and daughter RAB isma understand one thing never ever in history has there been a more ethical moral Army than these young Jewish men than the commanders of these Jewish men you know America We As Americans have a very moral Army one of the most moral armies on in the history but when those American contractors were killed in fuia and we sent in the 1001st Airborne we sent in the Marines to fuia and we conquered fuia 23 civilians died for every combatant it was an asymmetric War we in America have not fought a symmetric War since World War II the enemy is dressed in civilian clothing embed themselves in red crescent ambulances embed themselves in Nursery schools embed themselves in in E unra schools Israel has not fought a symmetric War since the Yom Kipper War you know what it's like fighting in Judea Samaria and Gaza the wars in Lebanon but the average in urban Warfare we mentioned this on chabas nine civilians die for every one combatant that's the average fujia was 23 to1 what the Russians are doing in the Ukraine is far more than that you know what Israel's numbers are in 2012 in Gaza and I'm using inflated numbers I'm using Hamas numbers 2: one in suan in 2014 70 days in the summer of 2014 one to one in shot May of 217 to17 civilians died for every one combatant in this war we've eliminated 19 ,300 combatants so far Hamas claims that 38,000 people are dead I mean it's a total fabrication and many many world organizations have shown it's a fabrication maybe if you include people who have died having nothing to do with the war maybe 30 or 31,000 have died maybe you're looking at a 7 to one ratio 7 civilians for every one combatant never in the history of humanity have you had this kind of a brutal war and this kind of a moral ethical War it's unheard of it's off the bell curve but these young men and young women are suffering you know contrary to what you hear and there's all kinds of stories out there they don't get they don't protect their soldiers that's baloney that's hogwash and let me just explain to you the last time time Israel had a war was 2006 second Lebanon war 15% of anyone who was injured died of their wounds anyone was hit with anything 15% fatality rate you know what the fatality rate is after 10 months in Gaza 6.5% they're they protect their soldiers the helmets I'm talking about I'm not talking about guys on the supply chain I'm not talking about logistics I'm talking about people Frontline back battle in Gaza Frontline battle in Gaza incredible protection you heard tiir the shopus describe how shaag Works how the evacuation within 53 minutes of someone being hit they're in a they're in a hospital America armies all over the world are studying the success of keeping soldiers that are wounded alive from this war but the other side of this these young men who've been wounded physically wounded from Frontline battle 24% of them already have acute PTSD 24% have PTSD already in total we're looking at 15% we cannot allow we cannot allow any more benas isos the most tragic Israeli with those people we spoke about those yum Kipper veterans yum Kipper War veterans that's why there's I have giving you numbers as of two weeks ago it's actually more today but 220 therapists I'm talking about psychologists and social workers who have no background in PTSD they're being trained by Mickey Pollock's team at telesur that's one of the things funding the idea is to set up centers all over Israel the you can't substitute for serious therapy these young men have been most of their lives these young men you know that that we laughed at we called them The Tick Tock generation we called them Generation Z the M neish they have for the hostages the myus neish they have for for Israel for Jews is incredible we're 10 months into this bloodbath and what they've accomplished and what they've done but God forbid we should have a repeat of what happened in America after Vietnam what happened in America after Iraq and Afghanistan you know what the numbers are here in America for 7 and A2 years post Iraq post Afghanistan we averaged 63 attempted suicides per week 22 successful suicides per week of our American GIS we can't have that the Jewish people have an incredible future with these young men and young women with what they have done their determination their resilience their M neish but we can't be producing a benas and that is the goal is to prevent that so that when we say this Ken we're not talking about them and we're not talking about their kids and we're not talking about their spouses and we're not talking about their parents but unfortunately that's that's not the case and I'll share with you just three stories that I can attest to personally survivors you know we call them the sth million we call them the eighth million they were not killed they were not murdered between 1939 and 1945 but their psyche their soul was murdered and they survived physically but they never survived emotionally they never survived mentally had a case she was a very good decent woman after her husband died I would meet with her and she went into total depression it wasn't because of his death it was the Catalyst of his death that took her back and what haunted her what haunted her is that she had been violated she had been raped during the war after the war after Liberation and she lost everyone and being so alone after the war that loneliness it's it's something we can't relate to the pain the the the terror of just being all alone in the world and the survivors married there was an incredible move to marry to not be alone they were not necessarily the best shim they weren't the best marriages but anything befe beats being alone she could never tell her husband that she wasn't a virgin that she'd been violated she couldn't share that with her husband and she was riddled with guilt after he died that she felt she had lived a life of a lie she had deceived him for 45 years she couldn't tell her daughters this and we used to talk and and I used to and I I failed miserably I failed miserably and I used to say to her she did the right thing there's she didn't have to bring that into their marriage that's not something that she was obligated to share with her husband and that she did the right thing and there was she should have no guilt and just the pain on her face the sadness in her demeanor the depression I mean it was just haunting we had another credible man who married another Survivor who was a just not only a wonderful wife a wonderful person and you know somebody I only heard through a grapevine through a rumor of what his story was cuz he never talked there's certain survivors that would never ever talk about anything you could barely get a word out of what life was like before 1939 and what did he do became a contractor to support a family he eventually went into construction he became a builder he's one of those Jewish survivors who built California remember California in the 1940s was not a state of huge population it exploded over about a 50 60e period to become the most populous state in the Union he's one of The Men Who Built it and he worked like a dog had a great wife great kid kids ni grandchildren great grandchildren when he finally couldn't work anymore you know was probably 79 80 881 something like that when he couldn't work anymore that's when it all came out and he sat there like a mummy he sat there almost like like an abberation I don't know how to describe it stare into space and you know they used to bring over the great grandchildren a little baby makes everybody smile right a little baby warms everyone up they got him a puppy they brought him to the best doctors at Cedar siai Hospital neurologist found nothing there was nothing anatomically there was nothing biologically wrong but what he suppressed all those years by working working working working when it couldn't work anymore it came out it haunted him it was so sad and one other one last story of an example of a son and daughter rabish k it was a wonderful family in Poland the father owned a ton of acreage you know how you have an America warehouser they they they cut down the trees they own forest land and they produce Lumber that was a father's business he was a lumberer many polish Catholic people working for him they would cut down trees and they would sell the the wood for construction purposes had girls six girls and one boy so in many families what do you do with the one boy he's going to take over to business this man wanted his boy to be like shul hanavi he was going to give him tutors great ream the ream educated him nurtured him producer to and it was a beautiful family they had beautiful you know k and the shabas table they would sing the ziros together father was a generous man about Sedaka and he really lived The Charmed Life Of course till 1939 once 1939 came the whole world changed turns out he's the only Survivor the grandparents are murdered the parents are murdered all the sisters and their husbands are murdered he all alone in the world somehow through 10 Miracles he survives comes to America marries a woman who is well as a Survivor he never really was able to get back on his feet he worked as a as a subcontractor and it just was a very sad existence but we used to ask him he he was later in life he was still try you he still had to work just to make parnasa but he joined our sh we used to ask him this was in Michigan tell me about your childhood you saw some a transformation like you couldn't imagine when he was transplanted back to his childhood to his parents to the shabas table to the ream to the learning all of a sudden this sad broken man was a prince was royalty radiated like the sun was a different person and you you got a glimpse of what his world was before the Nazis ruined everything that's the you know when someone is killed and someone dies you say A kades you put up a memorial plaque you say yizar you dedicate something in their memory what about when someone doesn't die and they become almost a leech on society I don't mean this in a negative way they can't function and we have to take care of them and we refer to them as a neb they didn't do this it's not their fault this was voice upon them they were better than us they were greater than us and their whole world was rued but there's no yor site for them because they have to wake up every morning they have to get out of bed say Moda an despite the depression despite the malays despite the fact that the neurotransmitters have never they've never retrained their mind how to deal with this and they have to operate another 40 60 70 years we have to have gratitude to them we have to feel their pain we have to appreciate what they're going through whether it's these 200 new widows whether it's the 500 new orphans whether it's the, 1400 siblings whether it's the 750 sets of parents that's the story of ral's children the son and daughter who tragically they too we mourn onti of the next K we're going to do is is lamad doad Page 541 in the Theus the rebbi salv chinos page 320 in the art scroll so you and I are familiar with Zakaria hanavi of the bay sheni he's one of the architects of the second temple he's the one that we have the famous eschatological Visions the the the N of Theos mashia that we say on took us about go we say it every day at ALU this is Zari this is the second Zariah the first Zar we don't have his noos recorded and unfortunately what we perpetrated against him is one of the worst tragedies in Jewish history it's a tragedy that was not perpetrated upon us but that we perpetrated what's the backdrop go back to the haor of shab of parim I'm sorry I'm just going to move my knees for a second the haor of of of shabash galim of parim deals with a very challenging time the daughter of aab and Isel Jezebel and aab she became the queen Queen of the Southern Kingdom she married the melik Yehuda when he died this shrew tried to and she was almost successful kill off every last living descendant of the davidic lineage every s of David and schom she tried killing off the Cohan GLE and others took a little boy Yash the Coen G's name was yahho and he took Yash and they saved this kid's life they hit him and raised him in clandestine fashion after the people finally revolted against her name was atalah alahu is a s of a daughter of a in inel she's the the Monarch she's the one running the southern Kingdom they revolt against her they get rid of her and now they they try to clean up the country I'll give you an example one of the things that she did she knew that if she would do physical damage to the base of vict there the people would revolt against her so she just allowed it to come into a state of disrepair think about the highways here after the winter if they're not going to do construction on Route four give it three or four Winters the whole thing will be filled with potholes okay it won't be you couldn't Traverse route four that's what she allowed to happen to the base of mkes that's what she allowed to happen to the highways for the Ole Rego coming to yush to the base of Mikes what happened after they they eliminated her took over the Cohen gutle served as a regent he was like a mentor to the young king who was too young to run the country himself was a young Yash and yoya did a very good job the nvi describes that as long as Yahya K was alive Yash did that which was yashar bashem he did that was which was upright in God's eyes unfortunately what happened as he became older after yah Hoya died he resented people telling him what to do people having checks and balances against him he resented that he becomes the melik who now is a new kohen the son of yoya his name is Zakaria Zakaria is even greater than his father yoya he attains that level of intellectual Perfection that that he becomes a navi so Zakaria is a Nai and the people who are under yahwah are not conducting themselves properly are in violation of many Financial violations theological violations and the co is trying to steer them in the right direction what do they do they murder Zakaria when and young Kor where in the base of mikash yum kipur that falls out on chabas in the Bas of mikash they murder their Cohen G who's also the navi of the Jewish people you know we use that phrase in baseball hitting for the cycle you can't imagine a bigger sin than that now it's terrible what they perpetrated it's terrible what they perpetrated what about the nation the people shouldn't the people have been in a state of uproar shouldn't the people have have gone crazy in defense of this righteous coing of this righteous Nai shouldn't the people have demanded a change in the authorities that perpetrated this no Kim hugoo life went on as usual that's the backdrop to this skip now well over a 100 years to the time of the destruction of the basa Mikes to Naran who is the general of the Babylonian forces as he comes into the base of mikos anti that's the scene of this Kim let's read page 541 in that in the MAV and 320 in the art school the day of of my oppression it became from the word c it weighed heavily upon me the compounding the geometric compounding of my sins why when I murdered when I took the blood of the Prophet where the spot of where he was murdered that blood the stain was never wiped away it was never erased until it lasted until the time when the Babylonian Legions came into the temple in Yus there was a a sort of speak a um a wander that what was the wander that they couldn't erase the blood that so to speak it boiled and this is the the refrain Yuda increased amongst the daughter of Yehuda meaning increased amongst the Jews was moaning and groaning in sorrow we'll see how that happens in a second the blood was like a it was a storm test you let's think about a ship at Sea it's was toost it was boiling bubbling until the chief executioner meaning Naran came he comes to the he sees the the boiling blood the bubbling boiling blood he says what's the story what is this they answer him oh this must be from one of either the the Bine species that we Sheed today or maybe from one of the Lambs you know it must be blood that that spilled over didn't have a chance to clean it up so he Sheed a a calf Sheed a lamb Sheed a goat nope it's not Bine it's not lamb it's not goat [Music] I said to myself this was your sin and now decades Century later it's going to Bear its fruit the blood did was not quiet and it was like literally like a like a the Waters of of a thunderstorm of a tornado so again he asked come on what is the story behind this boiling blood and it was explained to him the blood of the man of God who did no sin who did no wrong his life was uprooted so General said okay it's clear that you're going to have to pay the Jewish people are going to have to pay for this sin gather for me you these your your kohanim your Educators your public servants so he starts to Slaughter and kill the kohanim kohanim were no military threat to him they were not bearing arms they were working in the mikash but he starts Slaughter themos so he kills he kills the old the elderly by the hundreds he starts slaughtering innocent elderly people what's the next phrase he starts killing the young people by the tens of thousands you understand the asymmetry here why is there a focus why why is there an obsession on the young people this has always been the case with the anti-semites there's a bloodthirstiness to kill off the Jewish children I'll give you one example I think we've mentioned it possibly last year but I want to give you one example during the trial of The Mastermind of the Holocaust the SS oam adman you know he kept saying that he was only fulfilling an obligation he took an oath of loyalty he swore to the fur he swore to the Third Reich that he had a responsibility to fulfill his duty it was not something that he personally enjoyed it wasn't something that he so to speak uh had a bloodthirstiness for he was fulfilling his duty and he had a moral obligation and when Gideon hner said to him so you're telling us that you had a oath to fulfill a moral obligation loyalty that you owed that you swore to uphold and it would have been a ethical and moral violation for you not to fulfill that Duty not to fulfill your oath let me ask you in your own words you said that 52 million Jews Jew were slaughtered were annihilated another half million Jews died of starvation and disease you've also acknowledged that 1 and A5 million Jewish children were murdered what is a greater violation of your oath what is a greater moral failure the vi viation of the oath or the butchering of a million and a half Jewish children the slaughter of five and a half million Jewish people putting in ghettos and causing starvation and disease to kill another half a million Jews and it shocked everyone in that courtroom but without batting an eyelash Amman said that is very clear would have been a greater moral violation for me not to have fulfilled my duty but he came across as someone again who wasn't personal one of the prosecutions approaches and there were many to disprove this this this presentation that akman made of himself and that Robert cvus his defense attorney made one of them was from the autobiography of Rudolph hurse Rudolph HSE was the commandant he was the SS officer who ran aitz 1.2 million Jews were murdered in aitz the scene of the death of more Jews than any other scene on Earth and you know the story with him after the war he was caught he was put on trial and as he was waiting to be executed was put on trial in Poland scene of his crimes he writes an autobiography now you have to take that autobiography with a grain of salt because by definition he's going to try to make himself look good and look innocent Etc but he describes there were two times that left the Gestapo headquarters in Berlin and came from Berlin to observe aitz which from a point of view of production from a point of view of of sanitary much more successful than what happened in belits and we we'll talk about belits later in the day much more successful than what happened in soore and the second time that the came to what happened was there was a separation I mean it was sick what the french did the French had an an area outside of Paris by the name of draon SE d r NC y draon SE is where the the Jews were brought and they were shipped from draon sea all the way to Poland all the way to Western galitz to aitz to be annihilated and this could have never happened without the support of the French police without the support of the vichi government because keep in mind even though vichi controlled the southern most part of France Paris was under German control but the laws were the laws of the vishi government of Marshall patain and the the leadership of the vishi government so 80,000 of the 320,000 Jews living in France were murdered were deported and sent to aitz a few of them other places but the 95% of those who were deported went to aitz and even though the French want to say but it really wasn't French citizens it was Jews who had moved to France from Germany Jews who had moved to France from Poland Jews who had moved to France from Belgium you take for instance the city of ran ran is the capital of um the Normandy region 90% of ruines Jews were murdered and the large majority of those people were French born citizens so the land of egalitarianism the land of liberty the land of fraternity might have been the land of liberty fraternity and egalitarianism if you're not Jewish but not h Jewish citizens so they separated the adults they shipped the adults to aitz leaving these little children behind you had infants as young as 3 months old with kids and then a couple of days later they deport the kids from donon you know growing up we were never allowed to buy a Dr German product and my father would never allow us to buy a French product lithuanians did much more than the French the latvians were much worse than the French the ukrainians were much worse than the French but there's only one difference you didn't expect any different from a Lithuanian or Ukrainian you knew who they were you expect a different from the French what you saw in the streets in Paris in July there hasn't been a whole lot that's changed in the last 80 years either took France a very long time it took the trial of clous Barbie for the French to admit what they did to their own citizens but let's leave the French we've got other s to speak other issues to discuss so these kids are shipped ashs and Hurst describes to akman what it was like for the SS men unlike Operation Reinhard unlike belits unlike sore unlike trinka where the Nazis the SS ran the death camp but the most of the people that worked there were Ukraine Ians or in some cases lithuanians aitz was different aitz the SS were the workers they weren't just running to camp they're the ones who actually Hands-On administered it okay so he describes this term and and again I don't know the term I can't pronounce it in German but in English it translates into shaking of the knees that's a term in German our knees were shaking what is that he says these little children are are crying and pleading with us for their lives as we're shoving them into the gas chamber and we're shoving them in and we're we're we're closing the door on them and they're pleading and crying with us and and and H says to you know we're also human beings we also have children what we what this did to us and as he's describing this to akman akman yells at him shut up shut up what do you mean these little bastards they're going to grow up and take Vengeance on what we did to their parents what are you talking about the most important job is to annihilate these little Jew bastards what do you think the whole goal is to rid the world of these people we should allow these little children to grow up to reproduce and to continue going on so the Vermin so the cancer just multiplies and [Music] continues this was this was the need to see that there be no perpetuation of the Jewish people this is the need to destroy the children RV spoke to a survivor of Lithuania and I apologize that I forgot his name the commandant of the vnto he loved to play classical music he was great on the piano chopan Mozart Bak beatoven he had had a love for it he also had a love to kill Jewish children there's a bloodthirstiness to eradicate Jewish children and they would describe they would bring kids in that they would find from hiding in the ghetto and with the one hand he's playing the piano and with the other hand his pistol he'd shoot the child while he's playing classical music with his pistol shoot the CH this is this line here darim Laos the elderly were killed by the hundreds Bim but the young L by the tens of thousands and again we saw this play itself out tragically and the blacks who was it again school children they took the kids out of school and they started slaughtering the school children and the parents just can have to watch this this scene we know happened on on the blacks Andor they killed children in front of the the eyes of their own parents before killing the parents the blood it did not reside it didn't subside continued to be a sign a wander and the sword of the oppressor was taking its Vengeance for zakaria's death and the city in is a state of perplexity who's the with all of this his anger did not reside did not subside is it referring to Theon meaning the meus hadin for the fact that you had a society and a civilization that was not a gas that didn't that didn't try to do chuva for what happened to their Navi the K is referring to asem is are referring to naron the Oduya the vardan sword meaning the Babylonians Slaughter of the Jews of Jerusalem continued this is straight out of October 7th slaughtered women with their nursing children if you live in the Middle East when you think of the most powerful River it's not the you fres it's not the Tigers those are powerful Rivers it's always what the Nile the blood of the Jews was FL flowing like the the Waters of the Nile until what himself starts to do chuva for what he has done he turns to God he says is this not enough have we not slaughtered enough of the Jews do you want me to totally annihilate complete genocide of the remnant of whatever is left only then only then did the blood subside and quiet itself and only then was the sword of Vengeance and put in it scattered and now the Jewish people turn to God why does it use the word Elohim we have sined to you the God of Justice because the Justice that's see this is a much this is placed towards the end of the kinos for the following reason at the beginning of the kinos we're in too much pain we can't start to to start to be introspective we can't start to be doing shua all we're doing is in pain and suffering it's a state almost of perplexity but later on we say to God we have sinned against hashu all different types of sins no justification some of them were blatant some of them were premeditated we murdered your Prophet theanu we only now acknowledge the corrupt the evil of what we have done please God only through not we deserve it please console us K Shivan out of the depths of hell do we call out to you when we pre maleno the fruit of our corruption how have we been satiated how we have we borne the fruit of of that sin these are phrases from yes the one who cannot be comforted or consoled the one who is storm tossed like a like a ship at Sea just totally thrown from one place to another her eyes to you does she lift and for your help for your support does she yearn do she wait and yearn turn now to 31 page 5115 in the murus page 306 in the art scroll the 31st Kina and what we're going to do is we'll sing four or five stanzas and then we'll we'll do some some of the commentary on it you understand the contrast here before we before we see the Kina you and I can relate to this you know how we can relate to this think about the contrast after the sixday war in the contrast after the Yom Kipper War think about the incredible Jubilation after The Six Day War and the mourning the pain the hurt after the Yung Kipper War so here the contrast isus to leaving yush leav leaving Egypt after the esos with the wealth the booty leaving Yim either under the Babylonians or under the Romans as broken as slaves as people who would lost everything lost all our loved ones you see the first phrase will always be upbeat positive the second will be a durge [Music] B he's calling name [Music] sh [Music] for for [Music] so what we'll do is we'll we'll analyze these these lines you know the Shir Shir it's an unforgettable song you know this description just the the the regular Jew experienced in terms of n at yamu something that yzel himself did not experience and it was a time of great Jubilation of Hal not only had we left Egypt but but our captors who would hunt us down you know think think about the those images you have of the slave Hunters hunting down the runaway slave the greatest army on Earth had been destroyed at yamu The Chariot The Chariot of its day was today's nuclear bomb it was today's ICBM until MIT how was War fought you know how war was fought you had swords you had daggers you had bows and arrows you had Shields but what this changed all of War to Hitch up a chariot to Horses The Chariot Rider could Slaughter masses and that was the state-of-the-art weapon by the way that is why the greatest honor the Pharaoh gave to Yakov when he insisted that Joseph bring his family to MIT he sent what it was it was the pharaoh who sent the wagons the wagon was the domestic application of military technology of The Chariot I use an analogy the worldwide web they they say that in the history of mankind the greatest technological intro the greatest technological phenomena was gutenberg's um movable type it changed the world the second most important phenomena technologically was the web you know what the web was the worldwide web was a way of American armed forces communicating it was a private language that enabled internal communication amongst American armed forces and what they did was they Declassified it and they gave it a um civilian application it changed the whole way we communicate socially it changed the whole way we do business that's what the wagon was to the SS vervo to The Chariot of uh of of the Egyptian Army and that's why that technology could only that technology could only be released with a sign off of the Pharaoh the commander-in-chief had a sign off on that that was the covo that he gave that he gave to the the Jewish Family when he brought them down to Egypt the Pharaoh of his you know appreciation of yose he extended that gratitude by he manifest that gratitude to the family so that Chariot the horse and its Rider suso The Chariot and its Rider had been defeated had been destroyed we're truly free now they can't hunt us down this was essential to our Liberation and it's reflected by the Shir think about the detail of the shiram think about the the glory think about the how we how we say it with a special tune what did we say as a function of leaving Jerusalem no think about a what we said this morning if we could have a Shear on the haor from this morning a I that was a brutal ha crucial and essential for us to understand but just reading it just very tough mosha led the song at the seat but it was Jeremiah and what did he do it wasn't a song it was n again alluding to the eighth and nth Pim of yahu other Nas of yahu mill in the yamu the water stood like a wall what happened when we left that wall that stood up to our benefit right that enabled us to pass and Traverse through the yamu so to speak figuratively those walls crushed down and and they they drowned us the the drowning wasn't through water the drowning was through it was through water because many Jews died in the Mediterranean on their way to Rome but but we were drowned so to speak with the fury of the madin in a parched Barren desert Wasteland we were given man we were given water we were provided for when we left Jerusalem only the bitter Waters May what is the here The Bitter Water referring to mamar that's an illusion to the mayot who drinks the Mota someone who's guilty of infidelity we were guilty of infidelity to the Almighty with the aod zaras with all the isms and the various philosophies that we we sold out God we we we literally threw God down the river threw him in the garbage can and we adopted broken and and corrupt systems what did what was the ultimate goal of the Exodus of Egypt was our spiritual our intellectual Liberation was the Covenant that we made with God when we adopted the Torah at har contrast that with the mourning of the refugees by the Babylonian Rivers the refugees encamped you know in various communities along the Tigress Euphrates along the kar tributary the whole notion you know of of bringing the coronos of coming to the base of Mikes becoming educated becoming through the learn kohanim through the Sedin partaking of the meal of Kim where we come to Yim and we're totally we're not just inspired and educated but but we feel transformed what happened when we left Egypt I'm sorry when we left [Music] to quote it's like we were we were the ones being slaughtered not the Corban schlim that came but who was the Corban the Jewish people we were the ones who were slaughtered so let's continue [Music] the [Music] no [Music] men [Music] Ben so if we can analyze going back most symos you know what is it when we observe theim it plays a couple of roles one idea is it's the great unification of the Jewish people you know we we live apart from each other because this one's in the diaspora this one's up on you know on the Golan Heights this this one's down in the neev this one's in yush this one's along the the Mediterranean this one's near the yamama this one's on the kinat this one's in the ACH Israel we live different lives but three times a year we come together we're one people one nation and what happens during that time we become educated you know maybe I live in a small farm Village or you live in a small fishing Village you don't have the same opportunities that somebody living in yush has you don't have the same opportunities as somebody living in a community that has a serious Sedin has so we get this incredible education that's on the that's the common denominator between the shal regalim but each regel has its own unique person ality PES we re-experience our Liberation we have gratitude to the almighty for think about what we were a bunch of illiterate Pagan slaves and he transformed us through this Liberation into the people of knowledge the dorda the the people of the book shuis is the reenactment of of the Covenant think about what we would be without the Torah and how the Torah not only trans changed us transformed us to transform the world and sukus you know what sukus represents in terms of the Hasa in terms of what the almighty was for us and did for us that's what each and every holiday represents they OS Mo contrast that with Tish no one sitting around as a family having a holiday meal growing together learning together we don't even greet each other the Yum yima each and every year we just feel the pain look this year it is so much more acute the last time we've had a Tish above like this year was the Tish above of of 1974 the Tish AB in the aftermath of the yipper war so this year it it doesn't take much to observe Tish above this year but a Tish above that's observed properly it is such the opposite of what a a is of what a Rego is we're broken we're left with questions we're left in pain it's not a time of optimism think about what's over our head right now we don't know what will be we don't only God knows what will be but understand something in the event there's a war with aalah this is not Kamas Kamas has sent over TW between the p Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas they sent over 12,000 Rockets into Israel two people have died two people were killed by one of the mortars those Russian cornet anti-tank mortars don't have a trajectory so you can't shoot them down with Iron Dome that hasn't been the case with theah theb has sent far fewer rockets and killed tens and tens already of civilians and soldiers hasbalah has that you and I could take a Torah out of the AR Kesh we could swear tobala has 150,000 Rockets but I'm telling you they have more I can't swear to it I'm telling you they have between 170 180,000 Rockets we don't have the missile defense to defend ourselves against that it's not going to help American ships cannot shoot down those Rockets the they can shoot down Iranian Rockets because Iranian Rockets are coming from a far distance what hisbah has we have a limited amount of Iron Dome we have a limited amount of David sling you have to protect your most strategic assets you have to protect the runways because if you can't get those f35s those f-16s f-15s off the ground there's no Israel forget it the be no Israel so that's your most strategic asset are your runways you have to protect the Leviathan The gri in the Mediterranean you have to protect that that chemical plant outside of kifa because of the damage that could happen if that blew up so what do you do you end up leaving your towns your Villages your cities totally open totally exposed totally naked you you end up leaving them vulnerable a war against hisb is not a war against Hamas the the guys with the orange kumta the soldiers with the orange Beret it's known is PUD orif the home front command we don't have anything like a PUD orif a home front command in America they're the they're equiv of a National Guard and Homeland Security and and local law enforcement what they do is they in the case that that the country is being taken over being attacked they're responsible to take over for the civilians you understand the highways will be blown up the hospitals will be attacked they'll be blown up they're going one of the things that we've spent tens of millions of dollars funding are field hospitals so there are field hospitals that will be set up all over the country because you won't be able to get people to a regular Hospital you won't have Wi-Fi you won't have uh electricity that's what will do and they've they're not in one place they've got rocket launchers and serious Rockets embedded throughout the length and breadth of Lebanon will Israel win a war against hisbah with God almighty's help yes if they can get the the the planes off the runways they should be able to do it but those first two to three weeks Israel will turn into half a parking lot Lebanon will end up being a total parking lot and Israel be half a parking lot that's what we're facing that's the Tanis the a that we're facing we got just a for spice of that on what happened on the blacks and K we'll never overcome that that is going to define the next 50 years of Jewish history what happened there but just understand what we're looking at the black cloud that is over our head in terms of what we're facing Iran for the last 40 years has been funding these proxies whether it's the 30,000 Shia militia in Syria the 30,000 Shia militia in Western Iraq that have Rockets focused on us but the most dangerous by far the most serious of them all are and in the event that there is a war it's not going to be pretty and we don't have the ability we cannot sit back in Comfort we don't have the ability to defend ourselves against their Firepower until literally Lebanon is turned into a parking lot which isn't going to happen the first week and you know we used to have this certain arrogance and this confidence in ourselves you've all seen this Hamas War should have been over months ago but because of America holding back weapons because of America and and and again I'm not here to attack am America but because of the administration's calculus which I think is personally I think is very very shortsighted it's it's not only wrong for Israel it's wrong for the world it's wrong for America it's only going to embolden and empower the enemies but Israel's hands were tied behind its back in this war and despite that Israel's been incredible it's won this war with two arms tied behind its back but you can't fight hisbah with two arms tied behind your back you'll lose hands down you'll lose that's how good they are so we are not only mourning what we lost this year we cannot have this this exuberance this arrogance or this confidence that don't worry you know we'll we'll take care of whatever they send our way it's not so it's just not so that's Tanis for or do think about the institutions that we had the structure of the B of mikash the the surrounded by shave Ley was it mishkan apologize surrounded by shet Ladi surrounded by the the the four MOS you know you had Don leading in the north you had Yehuda leading the one side The South was uh led by Ru and what was the notion there it had a Fri leading in the other side to the east you had this incredible structure and and yet the Jews within each of the dullum how modest how humble how wonderful the homes were that forced billum to acknowledge matovu this whole personal family structure that was built into a web that created a national structure that's what we had known as the the that's what we had leaving what did we have leaving we went to our cousins we went to the Arabs unless you think that Arab anti-Semitism started with the state of Israel I mean only a fool would think that it goes all the way back to the Exile of the first base of mkes when we fled the Babylonians and we went into parts of Arabia and what did they do they fed us incredibly salty foods and then we were famished asking for water and all they had was air all that there was was air there was no liquid and we sucked it in hoping that we would have some kind of liquid to stop our parched throats our parched State and we died we died under those conditions the the cruelty with how and the deception and the manipulation of how they fed to want to help us and how they killed us that way we remember that you know you don't kick someone when they're down you don't beat someone when they're in a state when they're on the ground and that's what they did Y what did we have uh do you need for the we're just going to take a few second break to replace the batteries so we had the um the yoel in the what is that this the notion that we acknowledge this is God's land and that every seventh year most people their business no what they did for a living was agriculture the GNP of of Israel was probably 85 to 90% agriculture between those who produce crops those who raised cattle thank you between those who who produce crops those who raised cattle so every seventh year was a chance to grow educationally we don't always appreciate this in western civilization we think that education is for children education is for high school students education is for people in their 20s but once you get out of school now you're in a world I mean how many people that get an education in Shakespeare throughout their high school and college Years will ever pick up a piece of Shakespeare and study it how many people that get an education in science for years will ever open up a science book or even read the Tuesday the science times let's turn it back to us how many of us that were trained in the ramban for 6 7 8 10 years and shabus afternoon forget about during the week we'll open up the ramban even the key the essential ramban on the par how many people open up a gamarra we were trained in the methodology of abay and Raa the methodology of raban R yose ra Yehuda rauna how many of us sit there and and swim in their words and wrestle with their thoughts that's the opportunity we were afforded that every seventh year would be a year of educational growth as an adult I'm going to say something I don't mean this as muser when you and I are in school we learn because you have to go to school but when we learn as an adult we're learning cuz we want to grow we want to develop we want to explore the the wisdom of God the it's the greatest opportunity we didn't use that we were more interested in more parosa it's our land it's not God's land it's my land yeah what happened in the end we were sold we were sold off our land our land was not even bought from us it was stolen from usus and we were totally cut off Leon the whole structure of the Kahuna shave it Ley and and the the 24 taxes that we give to the levim and the kohanim why is that so they can educate us we've discussed in the past the purpose of Theos Kahuna is not that the Kain can go and work two days a year in the basa mkes cuz as you know the Kohan and L were broken up up into 24 Mish maros that means they would travel to Jerusalem once every 24 weeks that's twice a year twice a year plus the holidays but the holidays were all traveling to Jerusalem so they traveled twice a year now in that week that they're there they're broken down into bav the Rapa ports will be in the mkes on Monday the cones on Tuesday the cats is on Wednesday right the the Wilds are the Lev on Thursday the levians are the L on Wednesday the levies are on Tuesday but if it's your day it doesn't mean you're even going to work in a mikdash because there's only so much that can be done so there's a lottery there's a pasas or a go route so you may be chosen you may not be chosen are you telling me that we're going to we're going to give 24 different taxes to the kohanim and levim so that they could work maybe two days a year in the Bas of Mikes come on that's not the purpose of a Coen and a Ley what's the purpose of the Coen and a Le you know what the purpose is I'm quoting now the I think it's is it to the first chapter of Mal whichever it is it's either to the role of the Co in our towns and our villages in our cities they take the taxes and they they become educated they become scholarly and they teach us they are our teachers they're the ones who communicate the our our re they become the ones who communicate the knowledge of God and why is all all the laws of the holidays put right in the middle of paras's emore emore is literally it's the meat and potatoes of Tes khanim you want to know about a Coen more than any other par it's parore why is the laws of the holidays it's the Locust classicus of what to do on rashash what to do on sukus what to do on and and and PES and yum Kipper why is that there because when is the cohim front and center the kohanim and levim are teaching us when we come home at night from work they're teaching our kids during the day six days a week but chabas is the day you're not working chabas you can't work chabas is the day where we're committed to the almighty who's front and center on chabas the Kahan the L that's when we have the sheir there's the N shear and the ran Shear there's a Navar there's a Dai there's the salsa Shar there's a that Shear there's the Bas medish learning that's shabus chabas is a day of Education a day of spiritual growth so we had this whole institution and what's the shim the 71 greatest Minds The Reason say shivm it's Mo the Paradigm is mosha plus the 70 but the 71 greatest minds work together as a think tank they are our legislative body they're the ones who Institute H for us if there needs to be a fence around the Torah I'll give you an example lest you come to write on chabas there's a concept called M you can't play with a pen or a pencil lest you come to charge interest which is fixed rate the Torah prohibits rivets get suits a fixed rate interest so they're there they set up something you're not even allowed to charge interest which is not fixed rate which is variable rate or which is you know going to be determined later in time can't do that all the the institutions of lash andhara I'll give you an example not only can the does the Torah prohibit me from from engaging in character assassination but the rabbi said I can't even wink or make a funny face about someone let's say that Dr sus asked me about so and so and I make a smirk or I go like this you know can't do it can't do that they're the ones who legislate that and when there's doubts give you two examples of crucial doubts that we need the in hedrin for 60 years ago if I went over to you and I said who's your mother you'd take your fist and you'd break my jaw what what am I questioning your mother for today if I ask you who's your mother it's a real Bonafide question who is your mother is it the woman that provided the genetic material the eggs where I come from we call them eggs but my kids make fun of me they said you're in New York now you have to talk like the eggs the eggs that that were provided by this woman is she the mother cuz she's the one provided the DNA right she's the genetic mother or is it the incubator the woman who's uterus that you were nurtured in for 9 months who Hally is the mother do you understand the ramifications of that question we have friends got married later in life and by the way there's many people in in our community that are in the exact same boat got married later in life and unlike most of our cells that regenerate a woman's egg C are with her from the time she's born so those egg cells are 20 30 then 40 50 years old well you know what an egg cell at the age of 37 38 is not the same egg cell that it was at the age of 21 or 22 so this couple got married in the late 30s couldn't have children they tried cloma they tried all kinds of possibilities in the end they found a very healthy person there was a Protestant woman a Lutheran woman in Oregon and they took a number of her very young eggs and Frozen and this couple had three kids so all the kids are going to look somewhat similar to each other cuz they have the same biological mother and they have the same biological father what's the story with those kids two of the three kids two of the three children are girls are they can this when these girls grow up today these are adult girls can they date a cohain or not do you need a conversion for these girls do these girls have to convert boy too does do they have to convert these children are they Gentile children or Jewish children can they data Callin not data calling who's the mother that's why you need a sined just so how we can function another issue one of the men who was killed in one of these Terror attacks I'll give you an example that's close to home we have a Shear every Wednesday in this sh that's dedicated to the memory of Alisa Fato Dr sus we many of us in this room we remember Alisa when she was killed in karome in the Gaza by a Kamas person she was brain dead her father and mother Steven RZ spoke with Rabbi tendler spoke with a number of others her heart her two kidneys her liver saved four lives the irony is I think one of the lives I think one of the people that was saved was was an Arab was a Palestinian one of the kidneys went to now the doctor that removed the organs from Alisa did he do the greatest Mitzvah there is p nees or did he commit murder did he murder Alisa Fato St RZ who had to give permission for this to happen did they do the most incredible Mitzvah the most incredibly heroic thing that a parent could do with their child God knows in the cion that they had at that time Steven Ros Flo are they guilty of of a betting murder what's the there's a major debate what is the end of life is the end of life cessation of heartbeat if that's the case then that doctor's a murderer and Steven Raz did a horrific thing to their daughter if the definition of the end of life is the licing of the brain stem the medulla the the the licing of the medulla of the brain stem then Steven Raz did the most incredible heroic thing this doctor fulfilled P nees and Alisa Fato in her death fulfilled Mitzvah that we would only dream of fulfilling in our life she brought human life she saved lives in her death that's a debate just like there's a debate about who Hally is your mother we yearn we need a sin hedrin of the 71 greatest Scholars of the generation to determine these issues because if they determine that the end of life is the licing of the brain stem brain death is the end of life not sensation of heartbeat then every one of us is going to have to sign a halakic organ donor card every one of us because there's a shortage of Limbs of sorry of um organs out there we must all be signing that but if the end the the definition of end of life is sensation of heartbeat then we can't then we're not allowed to the only thing that will be able to to be able to provide to another human being is a cornea transplant because that can happen after the heart stops beating but do you understand the ramifications between the two ways of looking at it that's why you need a Sanhedrin and that's the role we see we don't even appreciate how important the sedron is I mean I'll give you an example one of the great one of the many tragedies that Herod hus harasha Herod the wicked or in history he known as Herod the Great one of the many tragedies that man perpetrated upon the Jewish people he prohibited the Sanhedrin from operating as a legislative body from from legislating Hala he didn't want any other governing body amongst the Jews and that is when Yu that's when we went from having three debates between the B Hill B to 765 debates and the difference was with the three before Herod what's the H what do you do you know let's say Dr sus is arguing a point and I'm challenging his point and I'm arguing a counter point and he challenges me he's got his proofs he's got his logic I have my proofs I have my logic and we do this in front of the C and then they question each of us and then they discuss it back and forth and they vote you follow the majority right so there's one Torah there's one there's one one Judaism since the time of Herod that hasn't been the case and you have this situation where you know everybody's doing their own thing so when it describes that was an incredible structure incredible system that allowed for the national Perfection of the Jewish people today now it's noon oppressors people who beat us who abuse us people who sell us who buy us mosha urar you had that Moshe was the great educator Aon was the great B you know there there's there's so to speak the the the leadership of mid the leadership of mid and you need the combination of both what did we have NAD and Hadrian adri no just a comment if you were writing this Kina you would say and what would you say tius right you'd have he was the one who who through his General nard destroyed the the the first Bas of MDES or maybe you wouldn't say tus maybe you'd say Vespa the the Caesar Vespa his generalist tatus destroyed the second bases why is it why did the author of this K we have to check who the author is why did they um say is a parallel hadrien anybody why is hadrien the parallel strange you know it's not it should have should have said vpa or Titus see Hadrian did things much worse the spaan and Titus destroyed the base of Mikes and they killed many Jews the worst genocide we ever had in our history that was under until until 1939 until Hitler was under hadrien just a little background how long were the Jews in Exile after the Babylonians destroyed the first base of Mikes 70 years right 52 years after the destruction of the Bas of Mikes when they assassinated the Babylonian ruler bitar they sent in like a hit squad I guess you'd call it like a you know a mad team that got is hania in tan they did the same thing to Batar it threw the whole empire into a turmoil they were like they were traumatized they were frozen they're paralyzed and the Persian median Alliance comes in overthrows the Babylonians who are in like a state of paralysis you know if if there was a Las Vegas at that time in history they would have never given odds to the Persian medians to to win that war they did kores who till this day Iranian Jews named their baby boys kurash after him kores he didn't just do this to the Jews but he did it to others it was a very smart politician he said to the Jews you know God is told me my job is to be your Liberator you can return to Jerusalem you can return to your Homeland so Jews started already going back 52 years later unfortunately we had a setback with art Ares better known as AOS he put a a building freeze a building freeze on Jerusalem in the temple and we know the story that his prime minister wanted to perpetrate a genocide against us the great chuva movement that brought about the death of hmon in the genocide Mori becomes the Prime Minister 3 years later that was that was 67 years after the destruction of the Bas of mcash meaning if the base of mikdash was destroyed in 586 before the Common Era in 5 19 before the Common Era was The porm Story 3 years later n I'm sorry AOS dies you know my speculation is he probably died of psoriasis of the liver or something like psorosis of the liver you know some kind of liver disease was a big Shaker whatever he died of 3 years later his son Darius takes over till this day Iranian Jews Persian Jews named their baby boys darush Darius or and he allows us to rebuild the base of mes so the whole G is 72 70 years 52 years we start to head back 70 years later we build the base of M why did I just spend that time doing that if you're a Jew in the year 130 or the year 132 what is your whole whole historical perspective huh what's your whole historical perspective the destruction of the first Bas of mikdash which lasted the destruction of 70 years we're almost there we're 60 years 62 years in already the third base of Mikus is going to come around the corner anytime for sure it's going to happen in my lifetime just any moment that's your whole historical perspective let's now discuss what happened there hold on one second you had these Roman governors these Roman Pro councils that were running Judea what is Judea it's the most important piece of real estate in the whole Roman Empire why is it the most important piece of real estate in the whole Roman Empire because it's the Lynch pin between the three continents if you want to get into Roman Africa which is not just today's Egypt it's it's a good part of North Africa go from there to Europe go from there to Asia or if you want to get from Asia into Africa you want to get from Europe into Africa you have to go through what you have to go through the um the Judea they the Romans called it via Maris via the Mediterranean via the sea because if you were going with large contingencies in the winter you could cut down what we call the Jordan Valley it was hot in the winter but it was bearable to get into Africa but in the summer couldn't you had to go along the Mediterranean it was way too hot in the Jordan Valley okay you couldn't take what today we call Highway 60 because that's the mountainous range that only you know if you're a small group of people like avra ainu or Yakov ainu you can do that that crevice in the mountains in the middle like but but if you're a whole military you're a whole Caravan or you're a whole troop you got to go either the west side or the East Side the west side is along the Mediterranean the east side is Jordan you know through the yamama ETC now you can't have fighting you can't have Revolution you can't have problems in the vam Maris because otherwise all international trade is going to be styed you understand it's the whole Lynch B between the three continents they would have Roman governors known as Roman proconsuls the one that is probably one of the most vicious of them all his name in the gamar I don't know what his Latin name is we refer to him in the gamarra as turnus Rufus you ever see garas with conversations between turnus Rufus and Rabbi AKA these guys were horrific they used to tax the oppressive tax burgs they imposed on the Jews the way they treated the Jews because you know what it's like it's like a 3 or four year stint you got sent there from Rome you had to manage and govern Judea you had four years to get as rich as you could to make as much money to milk the place as much as you could and you made the the Jewish lives miserable there's a new emperor his name is hadrien the Jews send a Contin Agy to him saying your Governors your pro counsels what they're doing to us it's not in your interest forget about us the Jews even if you don't care about us it's not in your interest you're destroying the economy you're destroying the whole ability to have infrastructure built which you need because of the nature of this land and Adrien gets it adri starts to ease up on some of the oppressive you know disgusting ridiculous impositions that the Romans were imposing upon us the governor turns on hatred what are you a Jew what are you a philosemite you don't have to live among so stinking Jews we do we're the ones who are forced to deal with them are you kidding me what you want us to turn against you then you really have problems so what does he do hadrien needs to solidify his own support there he's a new emperor he realizes that he's got to back his own people so he makes it even worse he makes it even worse and the Jews the Revolt that we called the Bara revolt was not Jewish bravado the rabbis all supported it not just rebi AA all the supported this Revolt cuz we couldn't live under those conditions you know you can make something so unbearable that it's unlivable and that's what they did to us they made it unlivable and unbearable and the Revolt took place the Revolt was incredibly successful to give you a context you had I believe four Roman brigades defeated the Jews in the war that we talked about from' 66 to 72 they needed nine Roman brigades to defeat Bara the Revolt in 132 to 135 they took the most elite Roman Brigade that was on the island of Great Britain they had to ship them across in ships to Mainland Europe take them through Europe take him through what is today turkey you know Syria Lebanon into Israel until they defeat us once they defeated us there was no hey you know like the end of the the fight the UFC the MMA fight you know it was a good fight you know and then what's his name Joe Rogan comes up and he interviews both of them uh-uh none of that business this was a fight I mean they they perpetrated a genocide a genocide that was so bad a genocide that was so horrific they wouldn't even allow anyone to record it they wouldn't allow the recording of This genocide theyve slaughtered and butchered children they slaughtered and butchered the elderly this is not Josephus flly obvious the war against the Jews and you Chronicle you know this Great War and this great Victory this is horrific I'll use an analogy okay of how bad this was and you'll see where we're going when we get back to hadrien give me I want I want you to give me a minute I'm going to read something this is a quote from Hinrich himler the head of the SS the head of the Gestapo the number two to Hitler Hinrich himler gathers together all of the leadership of the SS to the city of Posen today it's in Poland it's called posan then it was in Germany it was known as Posen the great rebi the AAR was the rabbi of Posen okay the date is October 4th 1943 by October 4th 1943 over 80% of anyone who was going to be murdered in the Holocaust was already dead was already murdered at this point there's almost no one was left almost no one was left in Poland the ludge ghetto you had the Jews in Hungary the Jews in two-thirds of the Jews in Slovakia was still there Carpathia Mountain jewelry was there yet almost everyone had been killed at this point they they killed they deported the French Jews they killed the German Jews they killed the Dutch Jews at this point they killed the Italian Jews maybe there were a few Italian Jews left but most of the Italian Jews had been killed they killed the Greek Jews they killed the Norwegian Jews almost all polish Jews had been annihilated the largest block of jewry on Earth on on on the continent all that was left was the Hungarian and the Slovakian Jews so now what happens I'm giving you the context they have to they have to erase the crime they got to cover up the crime this is the famous convocation where himler tells them you got to go back to Lithuania to to to panari Forest outside of Vila you got to go back to Lithuania to to the seventh Fort the ninth Fort outside of kova where you murdered all those Jews and you've got to remove the remains you got to go back to ramulus outside of Ral Latvia you've got to go back to soore back to belet trinka is winding down you've got to remove the remains of the 900,000 that were murdered in trinka that are buried there of the between 5 and 600,000 that were murdered in Bell jets that are buried there of the quarter of a million that were were murdered in soore that bu you got to remove all the remains but I'm not just going to tell you about it I'm going to I'm going to give you the quote here this this is a quote from himler and just bear with me for a minute and you'll see what it has to do with hadrien I also want to talk to you quite frankly on a very grave matter among ourselves it should be mentioned quite frankly and we will never speak of it publicly just as we did not hesitate on the 30th of June 1934 to do the duty we were bidden and stand comrades who had lapsed up against the wall and we shot them so we have never spoken about it and we will never speak of it it was that tact which is a matter of course and which I am glad to say inherit in us that made us never discuss it amongst ourselves nor speak of it it appalled everyone and yet everyone was certain that he would do it in the next time if such orders are issued and if it is necessary what am I talking about I'm talking about the evacuation and the extermination of the Jewish race it's one of those things that's easy to talk about quote unquote the Jewish race is being exterminated says one party member that's quite clear it's in our program elimination of the Jews and we're doing it we're Exterminating them yeah but then they come to me 80 million worthy Germans and each one has his decent Jew of course most of the Jews they're Vermin they're scum but this Jew you got to save him he's an A1 Jew not one of all those who talk this way has watched what we have done and not one one of them has gone through what we have gone through most of you in this room you know what it means to see piles of a 100 corpses of a Thousand Corpses of 10,000 corpses lying there to have stuck it out and at the same time apart from exceptions caused by human weakness you have remained decent fellows this is what has made us hard this is now listen to this line this is the most famous Line This is a page of Glory in our history which never has been written and will never be written for we know how difficult we should have made it ourselves if with the bombing raids the burdens and the deorations of War we still would have Jews alive today in every town as secret sabator as agitators as troublemakers we would end up up the way we were at the end of World War I when the Jews were still part of the German national body we have taken from them whatever wealth they had I have issued a strict order which SS Lieutenant General Paul has carried out but this well should as a matter of course be handed none of it for ourselves individual men who have lapsed they'll be punished in accordance with an order that I issued at the beginning of the war which gave this warning that whoever takes so much as a deutche mark he is a dead man a number of SS men there are not very many of them they have fallen short and they will die without Mercy we had the moral right to annihilate the Jews we had the duty to our people to destroy this nation but we have not the right to enrich ourselves with so much as a fur a watch a mark a cigarette or anything else because we have exterminated a germ we do not want in the end to be infected by this germ or to die of this germ I will not see so much as a small area of sepsis appear here or gain a hold anywhere wherever it may form we will cauterize it alt together however we can say that we fulfilled this most difficult Duty for the love of our people people and our spirit our soul our character has not suffered because of it I want to quote that line again this is a page of Glory in our history which has never been written and will never be written they couldn't publicize the Germans couldn't publicize what they did the extermination of children the extermination of elderly the extermination of women they couldn't publicize that yeah Kamas did they publicized it and then you have Rashid Tali and Bowman and you have the these the the useful idiots here on the on the campus is denying that that it ever happened denying what Hamas themselves published that genocide we suspect and I'm quoting the P the introductory medish to Med we suspect that genocide annihilated 800,000 Jews do you know what that means 800,000 Jews that was the far large majority of Jews living in Israel and Judea that was probably half of the world Jewish population until until the shaah there was never a genocide that large there was never of all the anti-semitic events that happened to Jews nothing was as worse as as this as as the hadrianic genocide post the Bara Revolt that's why I think he mentions hadrien here let's we're going to finish the Kina [Music] I know [Music] now this is a at the end we pray please to the almighty that once again we return to Jerusalem and again when we say we mean the restoration of the B mikdash the restoration of the government the restoration of the Sedin and the eradication of evil the next K is we're going to do the will study page 415 in the and RAB Salina page 250 in the art scroll AR lean The Cedars of Lebanon now you know the Cedars of Lebanon is not just referring to the the construction material that sh used to build the B of mikash the Cedars of Lebanon is what those are the human building blocks what is the human base of Mikes the the scholars of the Sanhedrin the the great balam that's who they were they were a a living a three-dimensional living Bas of mikdash Torah the masters of the Torah Bal tracing the Miss of the gamar you know Rook always says based on the gamar in Bros when when you and I have an argument with each other a lot of times you know I'm looking to beat you I'm looking to win when they had mlus what was it they weren't looking to win they were looking to discover the truth if they felt they had the truth that means they had to defend it against any rational logical attacks any proofs that look to be a contradiction to it it's very much like the whole methodology of the balos that what we call the dialectic methodology that that was adopted by the the ran and his students the rash the ra the for the ran that whole approach you you know you you have a a gamar over here that seems to contradict the way this gamarra the way we're explaining the gamar over here so so what's the idea to try to explain the gabar in a way where that's not a contradiction or that's talking about something else the goal here was was it wasn't personal it wasn't ego what's mishna is the data of the tar it's the facts you have to know you know ravos was a CI right you have to know just know the the facts the principles what's gamarra gamar is analysis it's the wisdom it's the the the the inductive reasoning it's it's the the an an what it call the linear analytical thought that's what gamar is so they were masters of this GI what was their strength they had incredible self-discipline meaning the following a gioves is who is the the the real gibor the person who have self-discipline they're in control of their ego they're in control of their passions that's the gebore and these were the rambam says you know you have to have what's called moral perfection you have to have psychological emotional Perfection and that allows for intellectual Perfection and that they were they were psychologically emotionally perfected their their their engagement in Torah it was done in a pure way Bahar they were again they were looking for for the truth they were looking it wasn't about them glorifying themselves it wasn't about intellectual stimulation it was about the knowledge of God how the tragedy is their blood was spilled like Niagara Falls vura and their their strength was was was just removed sapped who are they H kados the 10 it is for these that I cry it is for these that I flow with tears just even mentioning what happened to them again this is not going back to what we said earlier in the ram this is not the way someone was meant to die just even mentioning them I will cry out a horrific horrific cryes the most precious of the Jewish people what does it mean they became clay hakodesh their very their very bodies became a vessel of ministering vessel of God not only did they see we have many of us we do righteous things we act righteously their very Persona their very being became holy Sanctified they are the crown CR they are the they are the glory of the Jewish people to all their motivations were pure the holiest of the Holy but they were slaughtered in such a horrific way now we say this every year you you understand the first two the co r and the nussy whoops one second the Coen G and the nussi they were the religious leadership of the generation of the destruction of the second base of mikash um they were probably killed at the time of the siege of yusel the other eight on the other hand the other eight they were killed after the the Posta genocide we just finished discussing the post Barba genocide but in order to stop the Jews from continuing or rebuilding or the Jews from coming back again against the Romans what the Romans legislated known as the hadrianic decrees and this was the Catalyst for this came from the Jewish apostates the judeo-christians Alicia Ben abuya they said to the Romans hey if you don't want the Jews to keep coming back again and again and again you're going to have to basically prevent Jewish Education if the Jews assimilated to Roman culture then they'll be like us then we won't have the headaches and the problems but as long as they remain committed to their world view to their then they're going to keep coming back again and again they're always going to be different they're always going to be an other one second what was it page 4:15 is that what we said so the first two when they were executed rebi AA was alive re UDA bua was alive but the others were not why am I saying that because when you get the other description of what happened with the 10 Martyrs the description that we read together a esar every do Kipper you get a very very different picture you think that they were all simultaneous they were all together that medish is very important AA esar but it's fictitious meaning the following that story never happened the story that we read on yum Kipper never happened in in reality it's an idea a very important idea but the idea of that is that the generation of theban which Rin gam RAB isma lived in and the generation of the other eight the hadrianic During the hadrianic period the flaw of the Jews in both Generations the national flaw was sin was Jews fighting Jews was personal ego was was in Jewish animosity that ultimately was our downfall not that the rabbis were guilty of that God forbid but the rabbis are responsible for the generation the leaders the rabbi leadership is responsible for the flock for the generation and because they're responsible for the generation they unfortunately suffer for the sins of the generation so the whole story of that medish and AA esar that the 10 brothers who took took Joseph and sold them you the 10 are going to pay for the 10 what was the sin of the sale of Joseph sin they were jealous of Joseph was s this clean them that is the flaw of the generation of the Jews that lived during the Roman times we're not focused on that right now because when we read it on Yom Kipper we're reading it for the purposes of kapara of atonement what do we mean kapara atonement the reason we're studying it is because when we feel their loss when we feel that look at what they sacrific their lives for for the perpetuation of Judaism for the continuity of the M it forces you and I to stand up and follow whoops to stand up and follow in their footsteps and to continue their legacy that their death should not be forau us living a life committed to the perpetuation of the masora their values to to follow in their footsteps that's a m that in itself is an atonement cuz we're not then conducting ourselves the way we used to we see a purpose a mission we we're committed to a value think about the soldiers the soldiers are most sfes for the sake of the hostages for the sake of the defense of the Southern territories for the sake of the defense of Amel they're they're they're they're committing their life for for a greater goal for a greater ideology for a value that we view precious that's what we do on yipper and that's on the that their death should not be forau that we should continue their legacy what everything they sacrificed for we sacrifice for that's not today today our what we're doing we're in mourning we are reliving their death we're reliving their execution and we are just sitting here you know in terrible terrible state that how could such righteous Pious people who were dedicated to the perpetuation of God's Torah to the building of Cl Israel how could they suffer like this so go continuing yadal the two the first two they they they cast a lottery neither of them wanted to um live to see the the other executed each of them wanted to die first me me theur who will be the first one to meet the sword when the lottery fell on R shim thei he extended his neck to be executed Rim m so the descendant of Aaron the K he started crying he picked up the the decapitated head of the nussie and he says Ro he took his he took his decapitated skull he puts it on his knees manora toora this Illuminating manora meaning the one who communicated with such Clarity that's idea of manur you can see it it illuminates with such Clarity the Torah of God he put his eyes by his dead eyes he put his mouth by his dead mouth bav gamur this mouth that was so articulated in the Torah like that P it's gone ni has been decreed upon you know think when we think about the guillotine you know we think about the Maria antoanet we think about Louis the 16th we think about the French Revolution how could that be the death of R shim B gam how can you say the ra shim Ben gamil in the same breath as as the other people who who were decapitated how could it be now the question everyone asks if RAB isma is a Coen how can he how can he touch the the the skull of r shim B gam the answer obviously is what was a m Mitzvah he was the only one there right he he was the only one there he the melik here probably means the Roman Governor the daughter of the Roman proc counil was absolutely infatuated reab Kong was was very good-looking a stunning man you see that from the good looks of his kids that we spoke about in the 23rd Kenna so she wanted they should peel the skin off of his face and put it on a bust so I can sit there and look at him and be fascinated with him and get erotic over him because she she she was infatuated with him so so they took the skin off of his they were flaying it off of his uh off of his flesh that verse from yesaiah you know where they when they afflicting the Jews they bend over we're going to tr Traverse over you and you they would take a move here you know like when you're getting a haircut the barber tells you move and stay in this position or you know you're in the dental chair you know move here and keep your mouth open to this so so that's what they're doing to the co goo as they're is they're fing the skin off of his off of his skull Mitzvah what happened he didn't Flinch he didn't cry can you imagine how painful this was but when it came to the Makin the place where he would put his T in that was a different story [Music] there was like an earthquake when he called out because he would never ever be able to wear the miniature C Torah to wear the shame Hashem the name of God you know as his crown that's when he cried out and the Earth trembled means 60 some years later they brought re the Rea who what does it mean he would uproot mountains and he would grind them now you you understand sometimes you have a difficulty in learning it's like you're up against a rock you're up against a mountain you can't Pierce through it he was so brilliant his analysis he would take those mountains and just literally grind them up to into dust he had the ability to pierce through a difficult problem to get to the underlying assumption to say well your assumption is predicated upon this and the reason it's not a problem is because you you you want your assumption is wrong about that he had this brilliant analytical mind as bin what did they do to him they literally had these iron Combs which wrenched the flesh from his body his soul left saying you know the in he said you know this is my opportunity to fulfill the Mitzvah of loving God with all with your whole soul your whole life and he said that he declared the unity of God each time they took him out where did it take place in the coliseum in in cesaria in quari that Coliseum which today is a UNESCO site Etc you can go there they forced the Jews to watch it as they took their great Rabbi who was well in excess of 100 years old and they brutally murdered him rebi AA what was the BOS called that's what did they cry out re fortunate are you your your very body we talked it before we said about the clayes your very body has been transformed it is it is a ministering vessel it's completely tah after that benaud who's rabuda Bena he was the one that defied the hadrianic decree against transmitting SM giving ordination determining you know in declaring who would be the ones that would be the leaders of the Next Generation if there's no SM then there's no future leadership then then you have chaos you have Anarchy but by declaring and and giving SM you're defining who is fit to be the leaders of the Next Generation who are the great Scholars and he gave that he was murdered at the age of 70 Yosi throughout this horrific period he would fast each and every day in a very weak body was an incredibly pure person incredibly honest person and he was a he would always go he would always go above and beyond the letter of the law this we know from the the story OFA is the gamar at the end of the first Park of s hedrin in fact we have the ohal that we've created over his grave in the Galilee unfortunately it's been destroyed two different times by the by the Arabs by the Muslims we've rebuilt it in it's a place that people go to and then we have the death of rabi benon he was doing what RAB AA did he defied DEH hadrianic decrees by engaging in public Jewish Education what did he do he would gather the communities together in the gates and Zion what does that mean in our cities we want everybody to come in you should come see 42nd Street you should come into Soho and do the shopping you should come to Madison Avenue for the high-end shopping you got to travel down Fifth Avenue you know we want people to come into the city in Antiquities was just the opposite the people of the city would go out outside to the gate outside the gate outside the gate they would set up their shops you would have that's where you'd have the shopping mall you know the shook that's where the courts would be the government uh you know the government uh agencies would all set up because you do not want strangers from the outside coming into your city exposing the the nakedness of your city where they so they'll know how to attack it you didn't bring people into the city the people from the city came outside and then that's where all the Commerce all the the the government activities took place you know this from the story of Ruth and boas right you know it from there you see it here as well so he that's where he would go where all the masses would gather mailas and he would gather the people together and he would start teaching them now they didn't have books and Antiquities what did he use use a cloth use a safeair what what is a safer meaning the The Scroll of the Torah The Scroll of the Nabi that's what he used to teach the T what did they do they enveloped him with the safer Torah and then they took uh kindling wood underneath it and they took firewood underneath it and they burnt him they started the fire they enveloped him in the and they burnt him but they didn't just burn him they wanted him to suffer seriously they put soaked wool in water and they put it on his chest so he would burn much slower so the toorah would burn much slower so he would have a much slower more painful death shal Mah this is what they did to the great reab baj you know his son-in-law was RAB mayor his daughter was bu how did they kill think think about being cast to they take you like meat they throw you alive to a bunch of wild dogs and the wild dogs eat you up while you're still alive you you ever see like those National Geographic when the lions eat the zebra I mean it's it's horrific it's terrible that's what they did to reur there was nothing left they ate him up alive there was nothing left to bury I just want to stop a second you talk about nothing left to bury n 's base was right there on the Gaza border there were a number of bases that that were close to Gaza this was literally on the border and it was the first place struck there I don't know if there maybe about 70 75 Golani soldiers it was the 13th Battalion that was there they were all they were killed in a way that it just devoured the Battalion there's nothing left because all the members that so many members of the Battalion are no longer alive on that base you had the tanot what are tatan from the word s right like Mount scopus what's s the vision these tatp tanot their job was to be in front of the computer cameras watching what was going on in Gaza you have those balloons those radar balloons over Gaza you have the drones over Gaza you have cameras that are set up and they're watching the activity now there was a debate in the Army in general why do you want tat banot on the Gaza border they could be in Tel Aviv they could be in rovo they could be anywhere you know in Beva why do you want them so close to the border the other side of the argument was that but you want them to feel part of the army if they're defending Israel from Hamas and from what's going on in the Gaza let them be with the soldiers who are actually responsible let them feel that they're a part of it so there was this debate back and forth is it stupid is it ridiculous to put them In Harm's Way or no for the sake of their psyche and the culture do you want them there with the soldiers well you see that they they remain there when the Kamas you know attack and take over nal's base the tatano go and they lock themselves in the building with all of the computer screens Etc they initially Hamas couldn't break in what they were able to do is they took a couple of RPGs RPGs are these Sher held rockets and they were able to pierce through the roof Kamas had with them and this was all stuff that came through the Egyptian border you know the Ali family made close to $500 million allowing these bnds to come through the Sinai desert they had tunnels that they had told Israel didn't exist but really did exist some of it was not even through the tunnels some of it was was across above the ground and they allowed Russian equipment North Korean equipment Chinese weapons of Destruction Iranian weapons of Destruction all this stuff had been brought over throughout the years from the Egypt some of the material some of these bombs and these horrific weapons are known as a thero thermobarometric bomb what's a thermobarometric bomb when it's you know when it's set off it can reach temperatures of close to 3000° C so once there was a hole in the roof they put in these Thor barometric bombs they incinerated everything they incinerated everything I went to nalo in December 3 months after it happened the smell the burning smell was like it happened that day I was with Yehuda fredman we were he who's here we we went together to the shur base took a group of people there and they showed us the pictures they spent weeks just trying to find is there any remains of 21 of these tanot is there any remains is anything left a few fragments of bone a few fragments of of teeth there's almost nothing to bury they had to take remains from that room and bring it here to to do Delaware where there's a sophisticated uh DNA lab because they wanted to try to have something some small nothing fragments some minimal fragments to at least have buried in the Cather for these 21 young women now there were 27 women why do I say 21 were incinerated into nothing by the thermo barometric bomb one of the girls and saw that there's a small window on the top of the bathroom on the wall of the bathroom she broke through she slipped out five other women followed her of those six women one of them was liberated she's alive she's in Israel she was being held and while her cap was asleep she took his cell phone texted her mother and said Mom this is your daughter this is me you whatever immediately you've got to get this to the authorities show them this text she deletes the text on his phone puts it down so that the authorities knew her location and they came that was the first hostage that was physically liberated they liberated her young woman the other five we don't know if they're alive or dead you've all seen pictures of them when they were captured by Hamas bloodied and beaten and in a horrific state but we don't know where they're being held we don't know if they're alive or dead the other five so you talk about someone being incinerated the difficulty they had going through kibuts b kibal because some of the victims of October 7th were burnt in such a way that they they barely could find any ashes you know and then they had try to use any DNA possible to determine is it from this person is it from that person you know what about it if it's the ashes of a wife or a neighbor you don't want to put it into someone else's coffin just was horrific you know when we talk about SAA someone being burnt to death like [Music] reaj unfortunately it's not a phenomena of 1900 years ago it's a phenomena of this year they put I mean they put children into ovens and burnt them to death I mean the things that they did were just unbelievable no no human could in the worst nightmare can imagine doing things like that as r that's the famous the incredible incredible articulate oror of his generation they were killed on the day of Wrath they give this description if a bird would fly over the head of re while he was teaching Torah it would like burn up meaning the Torah was a alive it was on fire it it was the kind of experience you had listening to Rabbi salv Shir you felt like you were in a symphony you you felt the passion you felt that you were in a different world that was sadik RAB alzar Ben shamua rabar Ben shamua was was one of those five students of rabi Akiva who after his 24,000 students were killed asaria l SAR is a euphemistic term for the sword were killed during the um the post Bara genocide Rea in the last years of his life saved Judaism by educating these five young men rebi mayor rebi Shimon as in Shimon barai RAB Yuda rabuda RAB Yosi right RAB Yosi Ben kalaa and the fifth was RAB Lesar Ben shamua but rabien chabua how come he didn't write anything right reab Yosi wrote the the famous seder Raba the history of the Jewish people rebi mayor is the author of The mishna the foundation of the mishna rabbi Shimon is the author of the foundation of the Zoar is the author of the The of the the the mid and Bidar and and rud is Aus kohanim he's the the author of the The midra so the whole torab comes from those four how come you didn't have anything from RAB cha because he was killed he was killed as a young man but he was executed how it was Friday night they were making KES the Romans didn't even let him finish making KES they took the sword out of its sheath right we say that's when he was saying those words he was [Music] killed it wasn't just the ones we mentioned in this K it was them like them and like them that's the famous phrase that that Nasi says to you could have like the wives you have you could have this many you could have this many you could so too it was when those who were murdered out K we can't even enumerate we can't even you know elaborate upon how many were killed who's left a scattered lamb the majority of the flock has been devoured by the wild lions these were eaten in a holy Place why because they themselves their home by definition was a Bas of mikdash their environment was a holy environment was a Bas of mikash their death was the sacrifice was due to what does it mean it was a function of our sins one person doesn't die for another sins what it means is they were the leaders of the generation and because of the flaws of the generation they were responsible and accountable the finest the choicest that that which we give to the from the Corban that's who they were T they were ripped apart by the the the the adult Lions and the child Lions the young cubs meaning what there was no respect from The Young Romans for them may God may never allow this to happen again please fortify and strengthen our weak knees the remnant of Jacob and save us at the time of Crisis please God please God once again manifest return us to a state of hash manifest your your your control of the universe in a clear way that it is perceived and felt by everyone and please put an end to the days of our mourning it is for your light the light of God that we we yearn for and that we we yearn for we're going to say the kimna for the Holocaust we're only going to say one this year because of time the BB rebis Kina in the rabbi salic the masar at 627 in the um art scroll it's page 382 we've talked about the bub of a rebi his father was a previous rebi he was killed in um by the Germans in eastern galitzia the BB of escaped his name was schab he started on the west side of Manhattan eventually settled in Boral Park and many many Jews who were just absolutely the last one of their Community they came to him and they found him to be a mentor a father figure and he really developed the quite Aus there Bubba a schools in B Park and he had a huge impact on many many Rabbi herp said the story behind this K RB hers was close with the bub of a re he told me he said the story behind this Kina his felt they need needed something they needed something to say an about the thean about the Shah and he didn't put a lot he he wrote something they they needed something to say he felt that need he put something down on paper and he gave it to them and we you know many Jews across the globe not just we say this K the nation must call out in may your voice be Heard On High meaning don't just say it quietly it's something we we need to cry out European jury was annihilated by the Germans the best of our nation MOS with the most wicked and cruel murders barav many died of hunger but some of many died they were just dehydrated to death the those images you have of the Warsaw Ghetto you can't get them out of your mind those images of these children there you know emaciated dead on the street died of malnutrition you have these two Mass graves in the Warsaw cemetery and you see this please God this may NE we the Jewish people we should never ever forget what was done the world should never forget what was done not until we Merit the stage of of the shrieks the cries how they were they were literally how many people were put we're going to get a description I'm going to read to you how many people people were crammed into these cattle cars him like sheep to the swau that's the famous quote from yesaiah you know who quoted that ABA covner he was the one that led the Revolt the the youth Revolt in the vag ghetto where they went out they escaped into the forest and they fought the Germans and he sent messages to the Jews in Poland and to Warson to the ghetto they said they're annihilating Us in Vila they they've almost annihilated all of Lithuanian jewry they'll come for you the Polish Jews will come for you next don't die like sheep to the slaughter like sheep to the slaughter you follow the of we were brought to the killing centers Polish jewelry was annihilated in blinka 892,00 belet between 5 and 600,000 I used to think it was 452,000 those numbers were way underestimates it's clear now that it was at least a half a million more like 600,000 so bore a quarter of a million Jews from throughout the European continent were taken to aitz the Greek Jews in 42 the Italian Jews in 43 the French Jews in 42 the Dutch Jews in 42 the German Jews in 42 then the Hungarian Jews were taken there in 44 the Slovakian Jews in 44 the carpatho ruthenian mountain the marar rushian Jews in 44 the voice of their crying out to you should always be in front of you all the time before the one who dwells in the heavens when they cried out and said and they accepted their fate they died to the master of the Masters to the almighty R you ever hear the name the ker clover V fmer you know the the the um mayor Shapiro Rabbi mayor Shapiro who was the chucker of Ari who was the one who started the Yesa blin what was Yesa blin in bellarus in Lithuania amongst litx you had great great educational institutions great yeshivas he had slatka he had tells before that you had the Mir you had many others Roden grudna really great institutions mayor Shapiro realized we in Poland Poland proper not referring to galitzia but Poland proper we don't have a great Yeshiva and we need that we need to take you know we've got Poland had a lot of Alexander and we've got to give them an incredible education train them to be the leaders the manum of the future generation they'll be the Reb him of the Next Generation and he spent his he he didn't live very long he only lived into his 40s but he spent most of his adult life fundraising for this great institution that he had built called the yesin and had a dormatory you didn't have to live in someone's house it had a cafeteria it had a kitchen and they took these young mainly Kisha boys some of them were notum but most of them were to get into yesin was not easy you had to have a test depending on what age you were and some of them were 12 or 13 some of them were 16 17 depends on the age what was the exam 200 blot Rashi toas you had to know that B I mean you know Carl we we're laughing when you think about that the reality though is in America if we wouldn't spend so much time on the iPhone or in our generation before the iPhone you didn't spend so much time with the baseball cards and the football cards the basketball cards think about all the think about all the statistics we know right meaningless statistics if we knew mishas and gamar and toas I it would be the same amount of brain you know what I'm saying we could also do it but Jo you know the reality is these were very talented young men exceedingly talented and if you were a little bit older let's say you were 16 or 17 it was 300 blot you had know 300 blot Bal Rashi toas they could you know ask you a question from anywhere to get into this Yesa so these were good good students they were very capable and talented young men the goal is that these students would have become the the raban the rash Shiva the shua rabbis the community leaders that would have led the Next Generation that was the goal that obviously was ended in 1939 when the Germans came into the blo the person who led that District the uh SS his name was odilio glabach this guy was not just a ruthless killer this guy was an incredible GH of when HR hler talk about not stealing the loot this guy became exceedingly Rich you know a lot of a lot of German leaders stole Hans Fran was the head of the general government he was a he was a Nazi lawyer who became the head of most of Poland they all took and they all lived very well but this guy took it to a new level the Germans themselves couldn't handle how much he was stealing and there he actually was removed from being the uh the head of the Lublin District but that's where this was it's okay Howard for people to sit on a regular chair it's after people can sit on a regular chair if they want so you have this situation where you have the rushing Shiva you have these great Scholars when they came into the shin it was probably the best base medis you had the top base medress you had in in all of Europe because people left people let's say who had kids that weren't religious or didn't have any children their personal collection of they left the it was a beautiful beautiful B of what did the Germans do with it they took out that whole incredible library and they burnt it they did a bonfire but they had their film Crews filming it and in Germany when you would go to the movie theater no different than in America when you went to the movie theater you got a double feature and then you watch the news between the double feature so what was in the middle of the double feature in America they call it movie tone news they would show you the news so in the Nazi propagandas you know they had the all the propaganda directors and producers between the movies they would show things and one of the things they showed one time was that these are supposedly the Future Leaders of the Jewish people these are their rabbis that are going to so to speak spread the poison of the Jewish religion and spread the poison of Jewish values and we've stopped them we've shut down this institution we've burnt its world class famous library and we've taken care of the future rabbis of the Jewish people that's Ron we Afflicted them with very you know they they Afflicted us think about the slave labor I'll use you one I'll give sl