Abarbanel - R. Hillel Eisenberg - TorahAnytime.com

The Bush is destroyed. We are completely shellacked. There are literal rivers of blood in your written not poetic actual rivers of blood. That's how many people were slaughtered. We are sitting in the rivers of Babylon. Alar's bubble. The says we hung up our harps. Okay, we're sitting on the alnar's bubble. We hung up our harps. Why do you have harps on you? I just had a fire not so long ago in my apartment. Okay, I wake up Friday night. I my my alarm went off. I go into my dining room. There's a fire. Not like a habzilla candle, napkin, cute little put it out. Like my whole apartment is on fire. I have 10 seconds to leave or I will die. I'm not rummaging in my closet for my drum kit. I play the drums. I'm not going for my tuba. I grab my kid and we out. These people are are by the skin of their teeth. They're making it out of out of your line. And they have their their I'll rub them beside Telino. They have their tubas on them, their harps. [clears throat] The answer is yeah. When you know that's the most important thing. When you know it's all about do you joyfully choose Hashem? Do you sing and dance the road of life or you just trod down the road of life? Well then, yeah. Yeah. You bring that 1492 August 2nd all the Jews who by the way left mid left and mo a lot of them ended up in Spain they're getting kicked out and killed one man is allowed to stay the Barbaranel why cuz he made Fernand Isabella super rich they said everybody's got to go all millions of Jews got to go you can stay cuz you like we like your money he's like if my people go I go he walks out into the street this is Tishab August 2nd 1492ish He sees all the Yidden. These are wealthy Yidden. They're dragging their little manra. They have a little nothing. They have a little just a sack. They're all sad and depressed. They're walking towards the gates of the city. The Abarbino runs to a local restaurant, goes to the back. There's a band. He gives each one a hundred bucks. He says, "Follow me." He places this band at the front gates of the city and says, "Start playing joyous music." and he gets up in a box and he says, "Rabbi Shai, I'm well aware that today is Tishab. I'm also well aware that you cannot listen to music on tishabove. I'm well aware. However, I'm also well aware that the Jewish people are going to their next train station on this long gulus. And the only way we'll get there is if we dance there because that's the only way. We will not get there if we're sad and depressed. We will not get there if we're gloom and doom." So in one of the most surreal moments in all of Jewish history, the Abarbel forms a massive circle and dances his way out of Spain on.