🔴 Tisha B'Av Israel: The Megilla of Oct 7 / Simchas Torah

I was one time in a place with a I was one time in a very mountainous place on a very high mountain and I was able to see an incredible beautiful view. You were able to see the landscape and all its details with all its very big a tremendous amount of fineries to see all the details to see the whole entire picture. Incredibly beautiful view. You felt like you were mamish on top of the world. felt in charge of everything. You were able to see all different types of water, lakes, grasslands, etc., etc. Finally, when we went down down the mountain, there was an option to be able to go back up a different mountain, a different mountain to see the view, let's say, in a different perspective, or to stay down and walk down in the bottom over there by a by a river and keep going across for a few miles to be able to see from within. And the reason why I decided to stay down instead of walking up the mountain is because there's two different types of views that a person can see in the world. There's two different types of perspectives, bird's eye views that a person can see. Sometimes you see something from a mountaintop and you see the whole entire picture. You see a landscape. You see the whole entire film all at once. You see it from the beginning to the end. And that's one type of incredible, beautiful picture. It's a it's a feeling of breathtaking. It's appreciative. It's something that gives you a tremendous amount of enjoyment when you're standing up there and seeing everything as one big picture. But sometimes there's a mala. Sometimes there's an advantage of being part of the view of being down there in the bottom of the valley on the bottom of the mountain where you can't necessarily see what's going on from on top. But you are one piece in the picture. You're a small piece in the picture. You're an important piece in the puzzle, but not necessarily can you see the whole entire view. Not necessarily can you appreciate it, but at least you know and you feel and you get excited by the fact that I am part of that view. I am a piece in the puzzle. I see it as something of fundamental importance. Both are important. Both perspectives have an incred incredible amount of significance. And therefore, sometimes it's good to be part of one and sometimes part of the other. When we read, we're reading the part where is describing being in the view. He's in the part of the mdash in the middle of the destruction making us feel an intimate feeling to the mikdash what we lost and what we are begging for the return of. And that's where we are. He's part of the view. That's what we call migillat. The migill that we read tonight. But there's another migilla that of course we are familiar with probably even more familiar with in detail and that's migila tester. Migilla tester is a different type of perspective. It's a perspective from what we call a helicopter view. McGill testers from standing on top of the mountain and being able to see the whole entire details of the whole view. As we all know McGill took place over a 10y year time span 9 and a half years. It took a tremendous amount of time but we read it all in one fell swoop. So we get to appreciate the history is all one shot. Just like when I was standing on top of that mountain and was able to see from the beginning to the end being able to appreciate the whole entire landscape in the picture but in the end of the day it took a tremendous amount of time. In other words, whoever was standing during the time of Haras in the time of McGill, they were in a different perspective. They didn't necessarily see what we see. They saw maybe a fortunate amount of coincidences. They saw isolated insul in incidents that always have a pattern that seem to have a pattern. A bunch of maybe very nice coincidences that worked out very well together. But of course we read it all together in order to appreciate the whole entire picture. Of course, we know the is when it comes to migilltor and this does not apply but migill is that you're not allowed to miss a word. Everybody knows that you're not allowed to miss one word in migill or you miss it because the idea behind it as we're going to describe later is that you need to see the whole entire picture. You're going to miss the whole entire story if you miss one word. You can't miss a piece in this puzzle because if you miss a piece in the puzzle, the whole entire puzzle falls apart. You ever put together a puzzle and there's like one piece missing smack in the middle? It like ruins the whole puzzle. You're not going to put it up. You're not going to frame it. You're not going to enjoy it. There's something missing here. There's something very lacking that's very disturbing. As we all know, it started with a certain amount of and I'm mentioning this on purpose. That's how the migillas started until eventually we all got together as one nation and we were able to go ahead Morai was hated hated and disliked amongst the people and as a result of that that's what led to the downfall of migill until we were able to pick up the pieces bes that lies the difference between when you're standing in the picture as opposed to migill where you're standing on top of the picture so I'm going to do something a little bit unusual I ask you if you don't want but I'm going just take five minutes maybe 6 minutes to read to you from another migillah we call this migillah I just want to take it it's a few it won't take long don't worry it'll take a few minutes it's very short it wasn't written by a very impressive author but I just want to read to you a little bit from a migilla that you could see very similar to migilla tester where we could see the migilla from a helicopter view instead of us being in the middle of a migilla where we're standing in one spot and it's very hard to appreciate all the tremendous coincidences that we are surrounded by all the incidents that seem to have some unusual pattern. Sometimes it's kadai just to read the migilla to be able to see about what's going on in the whole entire story. So we'll start like I said it's only got a few don't worry with a couple mafarim but it won't take long. I'm going to make sure to meet makata very much. The first par starts like this was during that time period where he created I'm going to translate the Hebrew into English don't worry very quickly but where he created around him a tremendous noose around Israel he created around him a tremendous barel where he put around him med in order to protect him in order that he should be able to create wanted surrounded completely by from the north and from the south as we all know we know that we're surrounded from all sides whether it's kamas from this side from the north we have we have Syria from the right we have the from the from the south as one of the big people that was knocked off on the first day of the Iran war said previous to that he said there's no way we are ever penetrable because for Israel ever to try to get to us they to cross over so many fields, so many people, so many countries that have our ballistic missiles and our and our anti-plane missiles, they will never be able to get to us. And even if they come to us, we're loaded in order to protect them. He was picked off on the first day and you can understand why already as it continues over there. There was a big maket amongst the nation in Ben Israel because what happened was during the time of Corona. It was discovered I'm translating the Hebrew just so it makes it easier. It was discovered that if they make a minan in Dingov in the middle of Dingov then they make a bet and it will be incredibly populated with a lot of people. It had over a few a couple hundred people at the time of people that would never go on but because it's sitting in the middle of Dising so why not? you might as well go there also just as it's a place that we're familiar with. But many people came they came against them with a tremendous amount of hatred and with a tremendous amount of makah and they started to make ruckus of the whole entire place. In the middle of the Yamipur they came. They were throwing around chairs. Talot were thrown from up and down. Sidurim were up overturned. The the the shelves that had the were overturned. They cut the in half. Very similar to what happened by the by the in the we never found so much of such a amount of that ever happened. Now on the bottom of there one of them a far the end of perkalif but one of the mafarium they bring down that there was a relig there was a non-religious person who was standing there who obviously had some type of understanding that hashem was standing there and he says and he reported to one of the people he says more than I was misa more than I saw this incredible thing and I couldn't believe it I was I was actually scared a person completely not religious he had a tremendous fear there again these There are people who are completely not religious. You understand? And he said over there then and there I let out to as he says the words inem's name please don't pay attention to what's going on. Can you just ignore this? This is really not simple and I'm afraid of what's going to be. As we know didn't answer this person's prayers did look at what happened and he went out with a massive campaign in order to be and also if I could say get vengeance for what these people did forget what occurred and he went out with a massive campaign of doing a massive kiru event that causes we'll see later a massive bringing back of of many people in Kai Israel back to where the makurat He does it as out of love and when comes out with of course we know that it comes for a tremendous amount of love. So the second par continues suddenly without any type of rhyme or reason Ukrainian suddenly the king of Russia decided to go ahead and attack Ukrainia for no rhyme and reason. Nobody really understands why how what give some speculations and he went to K for Shimot there were many many years during that time period where there are tremendous amount of casualties I think they're crossing the million to a certain extent but suddenly over there because the whole entire nation went against this king of Russia and they were upset about what he did and it worked out the king of Paras went and backed up the king of Rousia and he sent him certain amount of help and backup and emotional backup and went behind him and uh and was behind him and the rest of the Europa they left inside of them a certain fury a certain frustration for Persia for Pas for what we call Iran they were certain frustrated because here we are trying to take care of an enemy and you're going and backing him up out of nowhere that is incorrect suddenly They realized who this Iranian guy is about. Suddenly at that time period because was so was such a Israel he hated us so much he couldn't even control himself before even finishing his conversation with the rest of yim with the rest of the people that accompany him which were supposed to back him up which at the time where he was supposed to lay out this onslaught he was supposed to have a backup from other people such Syria and Persia and others. Suddenly he took the he jumped the fence and he went ahead and he was until he caused an absolute war because of the tremendous amount of casualties and the whole disruptive catastrophe that that he caused after a week or two. But we were able to get things under perspective. So only then kicked in and you don't realize how big that only then is when people were as they say on the bottom of the mafar over here they bring whenah was attacking many of the denominations most people assume that the second one would attack because of I don't have to get into all the details we understand we're talking about tens of thousands if not more of casualties that could happen in this country with many different which people are familiar with and many different that were able to be able to put down and knock out at that time continues and then in domestic suddenly he saw Syria he saw that the Syria is is the the person that the person who was behind Surya is not doing so well. In other words, down suddenly in Lebanon, there was an upturning and they went ahead and went to go ahead and attack against a person because he had no backup behind him and they were able to lower the from him. They were able to push him up until and paras was left by himself. the king of parasu or Iraq wasn't behind him anymore. No one was really behind him. He was kind of on his own. All the surrounding all the surrounding uh uh proxies that he had in the in the process were all there except for Rousia. But Rous coincidentally enough, Rousia was too busy for the past two years taking on their casualties not realizing how big the war that they that they entered in. So of course Russia would have been a quite a scary scary event but he's too busy with his with his enterprise was left that's why he continues in I'm almost finishing suddenly suddenly the mel of America was put down the person who was paras the one who was really behind paras and the one who really was giving a tremendous amount of money to Paras and whenever Shalom ever attacked the king of Paras he was put down in a miraculous victory and was a person by the name of Trump if anyone's heard of him is a person who was cared about to a certain amount that he worked hard in order to be able to transfer the dot the the the ideas of in order to be able to turn around the ideas and the of of Paras in order that they should go ahead and stop at the same time as he was trying to go ahead and do this. The Medina of Europa also sort of backed him up in order to stop Paras from being too much of a thing. It's not because they loved Morai in any type of perspective. They could care less about Israeli only because they're upset about this guy. This guy who's behind Putin the whole way. So they were interested in trying also to stop him from backing up this thing. I'm in the last bar. Don't worry, we're on the we're on the we're on the anchor here. who threw this thing when the president was trying to convince to put down his weapons to go ahead and give in because it made absolutely no sense how he can go ahead and refuse an obvious victory and he didn't care about all the threats and the damage and the surroundings that he saw around him until there was a tremendous war that was campaigned against him in 12 in 12 days and until eventually the bomb that he had until it was completely annihilated and then went away. The threat and the present that was busy that was on the verge of being was destroyed. An incredible an incredible migilla which sometimes like I said if you just kind of read it it kind of gives a different perspective. It says at the end of the migilla by the way it's all right. No it's not bad. No it just keeps getting longer and longer. You have to say it all in one breath though because you have to see it all in one shot and was able to go ahead and do it. It's so important to see this all in one perspective because sometimes we don't realize it. It says usually that means we think many things but the of Hashem comes standing up. But that's obvious. Obviously we know that what Hashem decides to do that's the one that's going to be successful. used to say he says it's the that a person gives that causes theem the more we put into it to do a certain amount so that causes the of the more we think that we are going to be to do a certain perspective to do a certain act the more we do that that ends up causing is the one who has if we can say the last laugh he's the one who does it and you see it step by step by step. You can't skip any steps in this migill that I just read to you because if you skip one step, Israel would have been finished. If it was done all done, you would be in big trouble. The isa if someone reads the backwards, you are not. Now, why is that? So, some say again a little bit that what that means is don't read it in retrospect. Don't read it as a story in the past cuz it's a story that we live dayto-day. This is Jewish history. This is the Jewish ammano. This is what we live by. McGillitester is something that we will always be having during the time of the galut. And therefore, don't read it as laafa as a blast of the past of something that occurred because it will recur itself. But there's another pirouch which I think I don't know if it's my own pirilly test for a very obvious reason because many times if you want to take a history test so you read a history book and you can read history and it doesn't matter so much if you read the the prom in the proper order. I'll read about the revolution this way. I'll read about the civil war this way. I'll learn about this president who was that way. I'll learn about this type of history or this type of world war that happened that way. It's not the biggest deal. In the end of the in the end of the day, facts are the facts. You end up getting the facts. That's not such a big deal. You want to do it's not such a big deal. In the end of the day, you will still end up getting the facts that are are necessary. But and Miguel Tester, they're trying to point out something very important to realize that you can't read it. You can't skip. It only works in this order. This is the way it works. Because if anything would have been skipped, the whole entire migilla would be fulfillen. It would be finished. It would be it would be that puzzle with a missing piece. The whole puzzle would fall apart. It can't work. You need every piece in this intimate puzzle in order to appreciate the whole entire story. You can't miss a word. You have to read it in a certain sedar and suddenly realize, oh, that was built on this. Oh, this was built ah I didn't realize. That's why it says at the very end of the migill of it goes ahead and speaks about the great of is written I'll say for the paras what is this puk doing everybody asked well what's a p doing to say if you want to read about morai it's written in the chronicles of may you know what it's doing it's coming to tell us that if you want history go look in chronicles go look it up you get a lot of facts we skipped hundreds of facts says Esther we didn't put in all the facts we put in the crux we put in the juice. We want you to appreciate what is doing for us because from here you're able to appreciate to see to be witness to the greatness of something that we are standing in our day and age to be able to be witnessed to something you don't always get to do when you see an incredible thing. The says in what does it mean that is able to see and he looks into us through the wall? He sees to us through the wall and he sees to us through the windows and he see and he peaks through the cracks. What's the difference? So says when they're doing the hem he's looking through the windows as opposed when they're not doing he's speaking through the cracks. What's the difference? An incredible that I want to explain this with is that when we are doing not only does he hashem look at us but we're able to see him. When he looks through a window you're able to see through the window and see him back. It's reflective. There's it's it goes back and forth. You're able to see who the one who is being seen. You're able to see back and forth. We're able to see the we're able to see the when we're not when it's not so good. So, Hashem peaks through the cracks. He sees us, but we don't see him. It's very unobvious. It's not always clear. But sometimes gives us miracles in order for us to see clarity. In order for us to be able to see him, not just that, he should see us. In order that we can appreciate what we're looking at, in order to appreciate that, no, no, no, there's no one else to attribute what just happened. There's no we can attribute it to. There's no great leaders that we can attribute. We can only attribute it to the adv. It makes it so obvious to us. It makes it so much more juicy, so much more luscious. One time at a kennis to le aim they asked yoshv if he can come and speak. Now he wasn't able to make it but he sent a message in order to exp to to give over. It was during the time of the bus bombings approximately some 20 some years ago and it was during the time it was a very and that's why they made this kennis this get together and sent a message like this the famous where says that he he's singing the praise of hem his own son is coming chasing him and we know the I think it's now says very clearly that it should be say we're saying today that to be a kan. His own son is chasing after to knock off his head. You say a kan and the garra says something unusual. It says until then thought that the person he knew that someone's going to chase after him. He thought it would be a mam or an eid or someone not nice someone inappropriate and suddenly realized it's a son. So he said means more instead of a kina. So it says what's the what that means? It doesn't make any sense. He says because when a bar sometimes sends us prun which are which are natural when we receive a natural spank so that's it we don't necessarily see in between the cracks we know we got hit we don't know why we can explain it to this and that that's what happened over there was speaking about the buzz bombings but when we're getting spanked in a completely unusual way when things are so halfhazard things can't be explained in any other way except for that there's something miraculous going on that's was happy to see such an unusual thing that himself his own son was chasing after him because he realized this can only come from nothing else is going to happen it can only be a yad so it's so good it's so luscious it's so enjoyable sometimes when we know it's the yashm it's so much better than when we think it's a natural phenomenon we realize and we appreciate and we feel much more connected to the to this concept with this I want to bring out something very important with this I'm basically going to come to a close okay when we talk about seeing the yashm and everything that we've been surrounded by appreciating what we've seen is because here we are we read from the migilla tester this time was migill say maybe one day it'll be printed but we're reading the idea of the migilla as we all know the tells us who knows and who doesn't forget the whole theme of the whole entire migill is the idea of an because as we all know many times and especially the most intricate times works and you have to hear the reason why this is very important very that sometimes works da the ra what looked like bad ended up turning back on his own face he gets smacked back in the face I don't have to go through the migilla everybody knows how Hmon put Esther into the castle hmon himself put up the tree etc etc as we're all famili familiar with. But we see this concept over and over again. When the brothers were selling Yseph, it ended up getting right back to being Mikim the Kalamote. The dreams that they were running away from came right back to them because they sold them. Or when the kids were being thrown with the little babies were being thrown in the ocean. So parro himself right under his nose would be raising up a Mosha Rabenu. the in Suka where slowmo knew was told by the Malik he's trying to get his hands on two of his servants and he to he quickly ran them to to he wanted to get them to the the impenetrable city of Luz where they wouldn't die and they died at the sh of l right in the gates of l and the malik was so happy because he said I needed them to be in the gates of l in order to kill them I was waiting for that this is the idea of coming back and forth the go took this there's something called the edipus rex theorem in mythology where the image stole is straight from from us this whole idea but works the point of ends up coming back smacking back into his face when this rash war was going to go he didn't only destroy himself and everybody around him he caused a domino effect to destroy even the people that were behind the proxy and Persia himself were getting didn't realize the trouble they were getting themselves into DFA ends up being the source of what looked like something very depressing. Of course, it's very depressing what happened on October 7th was something that should never happen should keep us away from such things. But when we see sometimes things like that shows us you see you see you guys thought everything's bad. You see people and I know people that were upset. Yes. People are saying no people didn't want to go to shul for a while. Not here in maybe in America and sudden see he's showing us a little bit. We only see a little in the yam just a little bit to be able to see but you see there was something behind it. It wasn't there was some meaning behind it that what I do I don't do it for there was some behind it. What you think is a mistake is just a misinterpretation. where you think sometimes is what we call absolute evil in the end of the day turns it back you you were trying to says to me try you're trying to say they shouldn't uh procreate and I say and I say the more da when the when one direction is coming it's coming and being it's proven that everything we thought was a facade everything we thought in the first place is really just an optical illusion the more the ra kind of implodes it gets bigger and bigger or we called as a big X it ended up being a we're able to see in action where we realize that we were blinded you understand this is just one little piece of many times of what occurs many times in our life until we're able to get to a stage of we realize that we're only dreaming we didn't realize what was only happening and the beauty behind this and like I said with this I'm basically coming to a close the beauty behind this is sometimes when we see something happening difficult in our own personal life, you're supposed to take that instead of just being a difficulty to a challenge to an opportunity. There's no way that we can ever pick our pieces up until we actually sometimes fall. Sometimes the falling is a point of of a of sensation of being able to succeed. on on the contrary for all the examples I gave and tells you that no it's not just like a bad movie where you have the good guys and the bad guys and then eventually the good guys win because you're showing that there was a bad side what are you doing there's no bad side there is no side of bad in the world where by showing the whole day of this whole idea of how everything just comes back in a big circle is coming to show you that the ra was also a piece an intricate piece in the puzzle And it was a necessary piece in the puzzle. It was something that was necessary there. It wasn't just bad and good and we had to get rid of the bad and will be okay. Mashiah was going to come and vanquish. No, no, no. He's going to come and be Malafa just like Yseph was me to the brothers in retrospect that everything you thought was a problem was really a success. Everything you thought wasn't meant to be really ended up being for the that's what it was supposed to be. That's the idea in general of anapaku and therefore every challenge that we receive, every place that something happens should be seen as an opportunity. This is the place where I'm going to make a change. There was someone who lost a job and instead of being upset and depressed, he was happy. He said, "Oh, now instead of being mishad, instead of being subdued to a mascar to a constant salary, I'm going to now try to go ahead and build my own pal build my own build my own business. At the same time, I'll have more time to learn. Until then, I didn't have a chance. He took this as an opportunity and he built himself up and he was able to become extremely successful businessman from such a from such a phenomenon. Every person, don't you cherish the fact that wow, I wish I could have that smart child who was just a boy wonder. Everything just went e easy. Always got hundreds on his tests and and and things just kind of flowed with him. It didn't have to be any challenges. Well, if you check statistics, they show that those children are usually the not the ones that succeed because everything came so easy and came so flow that they were never challenged in their life. They never utilized their capabilities. It's the ones that were challenged and rose to the occasion. The one that made a change in themselves, they're the one that are actually much able to succeed. When a person is having difficulty in his marriage, instead of taking it as something as a reason to just finish it off enough, it's a reason to start understanding what a relationship is about. What's a woman about? What's an idea of dealing with other people or dealing with the difficulties of life or where am I supposed to grow from here? How am I supposed to affect my own self in order to make to make the change? There was a person that I actually read about. I did not speak about a such a person but I did read about when such a person that whenever he you know when you you know especially they give a present to the when it succeeds when it comes through really supposed to give more than a present but etc. He would actually go ahead and give a present to every shiduk that did not succeed because he realized that every shiduk that didn't succeed was the next step to where he's supposed to get to. He knew there was a certain amount of shidim that he has to go through in order to get where he needs to. And then in the end of the day, he was able to get to where he needed he needed to get to. I wouldn't mind finding for him. Riaka who is one of the greatest of the people that we know Rabika the greatest of all tanim of course we know he made a full changeover and everybody knows for those who know the basic minimums of Rabi knows that he was the man who always saw the positive side of the fence. He always in the end of the mak as everybody's familiar with because it's a small whenever they saw the shall the fox going out of the bet mikdash he was the one who was laughing at the time when he lost his his and his tarnle and is there his candles and this and things didn't look good as we all know he was very into his he was always the man that was there behind it even when he was being painfully destroyed painfully killed and he didn't know what was going to lead to next he was the man that in the end of the day went and was smiling that he was able to be makadesh sham over and over again all these gar and people just say oh he looked at the silver lining he had to he was a good person no no he read migilltor he was the one who was able to see milala he looked at a helicopter view and he saw the future in the present he saw the pain as a success he was already able to see what will be already from now from the very beginning he knew the said It's not just a a nice idea nice and most safer in Muslim charm. A person has to make a something difficult just like on something happy. It's difficult. No one says to avoid it. Like the says just don't call it call it. It's bitter. It's there's something wrong. It hurts. That's fine. But the struggle is what gives birth to the greatness. That's the man who realized that. And that's why Rika made the change over he did at 40 years old because he's the one that always saw the whole entire picture. He was the one who was way ahead and to do it. And that's why every month is this of a is considered as such a good time. I'm not sure a is a time when Msiah is born. A is a tremendous amount of you know casualties that happen but a tremendous amount of successes. We have tuba that occurs. It's called a mo. We don't have as we're familiar with. We see that av is a very funny type of holiday because on the contrary the fact that there is a drop the fact that there is a breakage that's the point where we know the success will occur. That's where we're able to make the take the month and use it in a tremendous amount of success. And this is really what we're struggling we're struggling with when we're discussing the idea of the beta mikdash. Because when we discuss the beta mikdash what we're missing is the source of truth. At the time of the beta mdash everything was real. It was palpable. Everything was truth. Believe. We believed in we we didn't just believe in we knew Hashem. He was in front of our eyes. It was something that was so straight that we wouldn't make a mistake. It wouldn't it wouldn't fall to the wasteland. And and in that time there won't be there would be absolute clarity and no type of sadness. And that's something that unfortunately we don't realize what we're missing. And that's really what we're doing for now because when we get there we'll be able to appreciate we'll be able to appreciate what it is. And I'll end with a story of a person who really took a challenge and utilized it to the best. His name was Omar Shtov. He was captured unfortunately by the kamas and it was in a deep tunnel at the time when he was a tremendous and this is a non-religious person completely not religious came from a non-religious family and when he was down there you have to he uh he did when he they were taking calculation him and the person he was with at the time figuring out what day was Friday. They wouldn't miss the day. They would always try to count the days through the hours in order to be able to remember because they wanted to know which day was Sunday, Monday, Friday and to be able to know what was Friday and Shabbat. As they were there, when it came to Friday night, he said, "You know, we didn't keep Shabbat. We didn't do anything, but I do remember that we used to make something called kadouch. We had kadush with a little bit of of bread at the time that we did it." And they were upset that they told the guy who was watching them, the was watching them, he said, "We need we need wine. we need wine that apparently he um he he accompanied he was willing to concede and he actually brought them a bottle of wine. He said this is it but that's it. He gave him a bottle of wine. He said that they realized that they said you know it could be you know last time we saw Gilad Shalit was there for many many years. So we don't know how long we're going to be here. So what they did was they said okay let's make kdouch but we have to save this bottle of wine. Who knows how long it's going to last. They took the bottle cap and they poured a little bit of wine inside of it and they made kadouch on top of the wine. He knew it by heart because he heard it for many years. Like I say, he didn't keep anything except for this one thing. He drank half and he drank half. They each drank a little bit from a bottle kept and they rest they kept the rest of the bottle for next Shabbat. But they said, "What about the bread?" So they were given a pa every night. They they received one pa and they had a few pretzels in their pocket. They had a few pretzel in their pocket. They saved the pretzels every day. This is what he himself testified. He got out. He took off he took off one pretzel a day and they took off the salt off the pretzel one time a day to put it down and then they would dip the bread into the salt in order to have their pa with salt of course cuz the min that was very that they realized it must be very important to dip it in salt. So they dipped it inside of the salt in order to be this uh this mitzvah incredible ms nephesh of a person who was able to uh to take a challenge and take and turn it into an opportunity to be able to make a change. Having said that you should know parathetically they found when they were when they were getting close to them they ran away and they were taken away. Meaning when they went close to the tunnels the army almost got to them but they weren't successful but they left behind a notebook. They found his notebook. This this Omr. They found his notebook and it was secretly given to his parents. It wasn't publicized cuz they didn't want Kamas to know cuz it would cause him problems in the thing. And they read the uh it was written over there about different events over there. But they noticed a few pages that said one word over and over again. Food. Food. And he had drawings there of a pictures of a hamburger. He drew pictures of a food because he was just dreaming about it. I'm mentioning this. This is the same person that saved that bottle of wine in order to make kdish on it with his bread and his pa. He didn't eat the pretzels in his pockets cuz he was saving the salt to dip his his his pa inside of it. Do you see what we're talking about? Eventually you should know that this person while he was in the tunnel one his friend got out and he was there by himself but his friend told the parents that you should know he was mabel on himself to keep Shabbat. He told his parents you should know he is mab on himself to to keep Shabbat which was very surprising to his parents but they told him they said to his friend well it's not really so hard to keep Shabbat when you're in a tunnel and there's not much to do. They don't there's no cigarettes, there's no phone, there's no anything. So what do you mean that you keep Shabbat? He says, "Well, guess what? The electricity when it was destroyed, when it was taken down, we we shut down the electricity at a certain stage. The only way that they were able to be in the tunnel was each one each each hostage was given a flashlight. He actually got the of having a flashlight, believe it or not. And he said he made sure on Shabbat that his flashlight was not on. He kept his flashlight off in order not to keep it on for the whole 25 hours. He kept it off during that time period. And he did not turn it on and off during the whole entire Shabbat." his mother who visited him every day. How did she visit him? So they describe it over there. Every day she would walk into his room, look in the mirror and she would start talking to her son by looking in the mirror. She said if that's what you did, I'm going to do it also. And she herself was also Shabbat. She also was Shabbat. I think we know many other stories. I said a story I think is less popular. That's why I mentioned it. But this is the that went on. This is the campaign that went on after that first peric of the migill which we saw what occurred. We see how far that people come that we're able to do because we all want to come back to where all are there and we all know that everything would happen is only should bring the rest of the hostages back. We should only say and you know every time in everyone wonders what's there to cry about. I think we have no problems these days. I think these days you're able to say and I just want to end with one piece. We've seen this recurring over and over again. And obviously the reason why we succeeded in this country we have a tremendous to our to the people that are protecting us to the army and it's never not to deny ever to the people are protecting us and risking their lives for us in order to be able to stay in the beta midrash. But we also have to know and it's very important to know if it doesn't work without people who are staying and learning the midrash the people that are there that are keeping us alive that is there and this happens all the time. I don't even know why people don't see the connection here. They are absolutely attacking all the they're trying to get them all out of the mid to be able to do as much as they can. The gus is going to anyone. Don't listen to anyone. It's going to the biggest learners that you've ever seen in their life. It's going to absolutely every single person. I know myself trust me that uh it's going to anyone even people who are mass is going to that always this happens there look in the history when that happens the world hates our guts they scream at us we're sitting here being ter being being terrorized by all these countries that are calling us evil people and all the atrocities that we're doing and it's like mimicking the same words that these leftists are saying at the at the at the people in the thing you guys are causing that's all your fault it's all you the same words almost if you Listen, it's almost the same type of gestures. So at least if we're appreciating the miracles, if we see the gilm, we should realize that it works when we go hand in hand together and we should always back them up and we should be there and should bring the gula and should take away the for what we know that in the time of the is is that it leads to the other people that they are chasing after the but if we're able to get around this. Amen.