Secret of Jewish Survival (Simchas Torah)

forem in Judaism. We have a lot of books. We have a lot of that we get to experience. The Torah is endless. You have all of we have Mishnas. We have Gumar. We have Midas to the list is no end. But you know there's one other book that I want to talk about today which was mentioned in the previous para but coming soon to Simka Torah. I want to mention about this connection and that is what the mentions the is telling us that there's another important book to read and that's the book of Jewish history appreciating our past seeing the miracle of what we call the Jewish nation something that is unexplainable one who has been surrounded by 70 wolves anti-semitism so many people have tried try to kill us. And here we have it. Those little sheep surrounded by 70 wolves. And the wolves keep dying out, being revived by new wolves all the time. But that little sheeplet keeps going and he doesn't close his mouth. He makes a lot of noise. But for some reason, the wolves are not successful to rip him into pieces. Instead, like I say, they just pass away into the nebulus of the universe and just disappear. That is that is the song of the previous para that we call of appreciating the greatness of the Jewish people. Ryakov Mden writes that greater than any miracle that he ever experienced or ever has heard about greater than the splitting of the sea and create Yamsu and the 10 makot and everything that we know that happened in the midbar is the fact that when every day goes by he sees the miracle of the Jews that they're still here. They've not been done away with and they still are survive. They're still surviving. And the question is what is the point of that survival? How do we get around anti-semitism? How do we get to the place where we won't be overridden and won't be taken care of by the gra? How do we get them to like us and just push it? Leave us alone. Go away. We've had a lot of attempts with this back to the times of the mitim from the time of the Greeks. We know there were mitim that were trying to mix up with them and it still didn't seem to pass that didn't make it in the end of the day. We had inquisitions without any end. We had the Spanish inquisition especially where we had the people with the moranos that tried to go ahead and become one with them at the same time as quietly they acted as Jews but outside they didn't. We had the time of course with the Napoleon and who broke down the ghetto walls, the whole emancipation which eventually became western society going ahead and mixing in going ahead and mixing in us together with everybody else and still we were able to survive but that anti-semitism for some reason has not found any type of break. It has not given us any exceptions to the rule. And of course, I don't have to tell you about the husca, the enlightenment movement, which was the beginning of the movement 150 years ago, which eventually led to the reform and the conservative that go ahead one after the other trying to go ahead and say, "Okay, we'll take a little bit of Judaism, but we'll play with this branch or that branch. Let's try the Yiddish uh the the Yiddish way of doing the skull." All these different types of quirks and ways to get around it. Everything was just a nissan an attempt to be able to calm down the anti-semitism to make things quiet to keep us maybe a little bit Jewish and to be able to do it. The reform died out. The reform we see are nothing to do with the same reform as what was previous. The the conservative also the same entire thing and hcala the enlightenment movement got the biggest slap in the face that they ever wanted to get. They weren't even allowed to marry Germans. The Aryan race refused to marry another Jew. They said you're not allowed to until of course the Holocaust happens. Here we have it with pagrums and holocausts um and uh and blood liables. The Taz rightites 400 years ago that they used white wine because they were sick of all the blood liables. If they used red wine, they would accuse them. So they would they would do pesak with white wine. We had all of these things and it doesn't seem to have stopped the communists. Who were the leaders of the communists? Marx, Lenin, Jews. These were all Jews and still nothing nothing seemed to make it. the solution and the one that made the most sense would have been what we call Zionism Zionism the maybe it makes sense look everything else didn't work so let's make our own nation make a separate pe body of people and that's it and now nobody has anything to do with us great so we'll move to Uganda I mean I mean to Israel sorry and then after we're there nobody's going to go ahead and bother us instead of when we're in Germany the Germans hate us and when we're in Poland the Polish hate us. When we're in Israel, everybody hates us. The whole entire world, there's no one here who seems to like us. Like I always try to figure out, how did Canada fall into picture? You know, Canada, our old my old neighbor over there. Like, where did they fall to start hating Jews and start getting all committed against us? I don't say, oh, suddenly because we have this new country, they're just not interested in us. That's the idea of Judaism. And there's been no solution. So, you ask me, so what is the solution? So, I'll tell you the words of the panovich. And with that, we're going to finish. Yakov Galinsky reports that one time the Povich came up to him and he told him ah Matu he was so happy he gave was such a simple look at this how many tens of thousands of we have learning in yeshivas and we have so many people and didn't want to disagree with him but he quoted to him a in that says that there were medium there were tens of thousands of medium during the times of the Amarim that there weren't during the times of the Amarim and the times Gumar in the time of the Tanim and amongst them of course the 24,000 Talmidim of Reba. So it seems that there was a nice amount of Talmid even 2,000 years ago. So corrected him the the he said if you look it says one out of every thousand comes out to be a barely there was there are hundreds that come to learn Mikra that are able to do to learning Gumar Mishnayas. There might be tens and to come out a proper balor to be a proper to be a proper one out of a thousand one out of thousands would be able to succeed. So Galinsky didn't understand. So he said but it says over there but that that's really just the nature of the world that there's not so many people that are going to come out as if that's the nature. So what changed in our generation? So sent to him the ponovich of the man who was of the man who rebuilt all of Ponovich and Punovich when it all got burnt down and raised to the ground in Germany. He went and rebuilt everything again with no hesitations. Most of Israel here in in in Israel has to attribute to this incredible man thean who did out of his absolute affinity and love for knowing that this is the s this is what's going to keep us alive. What did he say? He brings a He brings a when you have difficulties happening to you. He said when there's a We've always had we've always had difficulty. No question. But he says when they start attacking the Torah, when things become cult when things are become a certain gush of feeling about become so stale. So he says that's when promises it will never be forgotten. And when a makes a promise is the words of he makes it spill over the sides. It spills over the ends. When aes promises us it's not going to happen. He tells us to the extreme that don't worry I'm going to make a lot of it. And that's what he's saying is going on in our generation. In a generation where there's a tremendous zil here we are in Israel. And I want I wish this message would get over to everyone. People should come here and appreciate being benra init because when the attack on terra and the way they speak about terror and the way it's thought about over here became so-called it never existed that bad in Jewish history again we've gone through holocaust pgrums we've gone through a lot of physical destruction but ter was always seen in the forefront we it was always appreciated to certain extent except for the min minority obviously there's always been those people that went off but obviously the idea was the ideal was there and here the zil is gone off the records. It's become a bush of it's become embarrassing about the extent of the of how much they're chasing after Ben to that extent. And you wonder am I a Zionist? Am I an anti-ionist that I speak like this? Well, let me tell you what the puzz says. I'm not reading to you from some or some or some type of nice mus book. I'm reading you from the itself. Does speaking through the throat through his throat the words of what does he say? It's not empty from you. The Torah is not empty. It's full. It's not empty. It's full. This is the way you're going to live and this is the way you're going to live for other when you're celebrating. Remember these words. You want to know how you're going to be? How you going to last in Israel? You are one sheep surrounded by 70. How are you going to last? This is the solution and this is only the solution. Nothing else is going to let you last on this ground. If we are mousle in the if the is being treated and sped on and stepped on and thrown into into the wrong places unfortunately then you have to repeat theseim and sing it over and over again on this incredible holiday that we call when we go ahead and celebrating the Torah and loving it to know that we are in Hashem the way we are our survival code is one and Mosher Rabenu we all trust him even the Christians listen to him everybody listens to Mosher Right? Everybody knows when we came out of they wanted to know the nations were so scared of us. They said, "How do I know how to get rid of these Jews? What should I do?" So, you know who they went to? They went to a You know what his name is? Bum. His name is Bum. Who was a very intelligent And they asked him, "What should we do?" He said, "Well, I have to tell you their zadei gave them a their gave them a promise. As long as you have the call of Jacob, you're in big trouble. You're not going to be able. He said, "Lock up the base. Get those out of there. Make them serve. Do something with them. Get them out of the base and then you'll be able to get them. As long as you have those base minions running, as long as you have those, as long as you have the shelam cooking, as long as you have the kilites, as long as you have, as long as you haveim, as long as you have to so affluent and rich that we have in front of us, then you should know you will not be able to devour them. They will remain on their lamb and there will be a that's the only way they will last on the ground. Bum knew it al other Jews should know it. At least this is a message that all his Jews should know including the non-religious ones. If they would appreciate this then they would realize that we are all Zionists here. We are all probe being in a Israel. We want to be here. Just the prescription is different. The solution to how we're going to stay here is a different recipe. And I like I said, we go back to the beginning. The way to figure it out is not philosophy. I'm not coming and telling you ideas and we can have disagreements. I'm speaking about facts. I'm talking about gravity. I'm talking about scientific proofs. You look in history and we have the answers to these questions. bring this year the and the following year that we have afterwards the we should be able to see and appreciate that should be together with together with all of whether it's the non-religious the religious any type of whatever it is that we all come together to realize we'll be standing around in a big circle with the in the in the middle and we'll all be pointing to each other with that circle with Hashem in the middle saying