Trump's Deadline: Echoes of Israel's Past Purim wars? by Rabbi Jay Yaacov Schwartz

Heat. Heat. [music] [singing] [music] [singing] >> [music and singing] [music and singing] >> Okay, welcome everyone. Today is Arav Roshesh Adar and of course every Arab rodesh is called Yamiper Katon a day of Kipur and this month we have Kipur and Kip and Kipurim because we are just two weeks away about from the onset of Perm and so today is the hopefully the Kipper portion and And then we can go straight in beginning tonight with and it should be a joyous month. And I want to just reflect um this on this moment about something that is very urgent that's going on in the context of the para and upon and also the context of the previous conflicts that have engul engulfed Israel and Jewish people at the time of PM in particular in our era. So let me explain. All right. So the history of Israel and Jewish people became unique in 1949 with founding of state of Israel and it immediately entered a very difficult conflict known as the war of liberation 19489 and it was soon thereafter that the laberey was assumed the position in 195 50 of the seventh labure. And it's interesting that those two events kind of came together because the Rebi would have a unique message that was relevant to the newly developing state of Israel that would carry on till his demise, untimely demise in 1994, but carries a message well beyond not only into the 21st century but now to this adar itself. I think it's important to reflect and be aware of what has transpired and what messages we have in our parha and about the fact that it is a month of Adar specifically in the context of the fact that that a decline has been issued. What am I referring to? So the president of United States met with recently uh Binyamin Netanyahu and they had a conversation about the quote unquote uh diplomatic efforts with Iran and and uh we don't know the exact content of that conversation but one thing is clear that President Trump came out and said that there that they have a month. A month now that was about a week ago. So we are now entering into the first week of keshadar. So that means that when he speaks about you have a month that in that means that it won't be past the end of Adar because since that deadline was issued several days before Roshesar we now know that the deadline about quote unquote a decision whether diplomacy is going to be the outcome and there's going to be some sort of arrangement made with Iran and who knows what that entails. uh releasing some of their assets, allowing the regime to continue, allowing the support of the terrorist groups that they use to point and in the attempt to harm and destroy Israel, which came to its peak on October 7th uh 2 and a half years ago, but has not stopped since then. So if the deadline is in Adar, it behooves us to take a little look at what Adar is all about, what could in it inform us about trying to understand what Hashem is messaging us with this and and how we can best prepare for that arrival of that deadline whenever it might be. So the good news of course is that it's the month of Adar which is an extremely fortunate month for the for Ben Israel. Um but it's also a month of contrasts. It's also a month of near misses uh of mortal danger and escape from mortal danger. In other words, lifethreatening danger. Think of the story of Esther. She said, "Kasher, I'll go to the I'll go to plead for the very life of the Jewish people whose decree had been as McGillah says for termination, extermination at the hands of Hmon, and it was sealed and that was it. And when Esther who is one of our prophetesses she's one this is like the final prophetus she she dav Hashem and she asked Hashem Kaye Kali lama zapani famously why have you abandoned us so to that according to Saskar she got an unusual reply and I want to share that with you was by way of introduction we're going to talk about a little bit about the context of Adar are the le a tremendous lesson from Paras Mishbatim, but also a quick review of the wars of Purim, the conflicts which go well before the Gulf War when the Labra first began to give messages to signal his positions about how Kali Israel and Aratus Israel should behave visav our mortal enemies. those who would put us in mortal danger which has been since of course the very beginning of the state and never and has never stopped. So what does the benak teach us? He says that that he quotes an incredible incredible drussia. Um there's a the medish quoting the medish this is a euphemism why were the Jewish people here we call them the enemies of Israel because we don't even want to say anything about shalom and we shouldn't say that about we'll just speak about the danger but we'll speak about the salah not the not the actual reality of that of those evil designs taking shape. So, but she asked why is it that we're we're in that decree of as a prophetist she was told the answer is vash the Jewish people have become mach worn out vash and impoverished speaking about a powerlessness a lack of power in spirit and a lack of financial strength and they're downtrodden. The Jewish people have gone down tremendously and as we spoke about they were they were now in the mat of have been hand handed off from Bavl to the conquering power of Persia which you could see conceptually and I I could explain this to you. There are four golios but really there are two and two ironically much like the four cups of the seder. You have two before the eating of the matzah and then you have two afterwards. Okay? One for burkoson and and one for nila comes afterwards. So So really conceptually bail and persia and paras are one gulus in two parts. It's a two-part act but it's one play. It's play number one. Play number two is cup three, cup four which represents Yavan and Rome. And these two are intrinsically intertwined. Okay? So when you think about Bavl and Paras, think of them as a unit. Okay? And when you think about Yavon and Rome, our final golus in which we still are remaining with a little help from Ishmael, then we should think of it as a unit. Now, why do I say that? Because there's something very very interesting. Um, but first let's see the medish mak means that now that you're in gullis, you also two things. You became m and you became rush. Mush means that your mus has been crushed much like the word me right also kind of is a couple letters of the word of m but it's crushed our mud was crushed vir is ro is um a uh reference to being impoverished dolim rashim okay but at the same time rash is has a connotation of reishonne of of noise as we spin on on perb. So but that was the cryptic answer that she received. The Jewish people are mach and rash again two things. What was the answer? So the medish says that in response to that message Esther said a lama famous words my god why have you abandoned me to the 22nd psalm until here now what does this mean it's a it's called a medish plea it's a medish without explanation until came along a great makupal named bishimi astropalia he of the famed letter that's often read by people arv the seder night right which by the way was the night that that aashro did not sleep and within two days h would be hung so there's that that long connection between perm and pes again two so it says he says I'll tell you what this is going what's going on over here okay and of course died so we say that I was killed by the Kakosio. No, he explained that every Malik has names of God that animate them. And that's their that's what makes them go. That's their battery. That's their life source from the source of all life, which is Hashem. when some of those letters go missing, right? Are plucked away, so to speak, they go lifeless. So if you have a malik, you can pull his battery plug when you remove letters of his divine name of the divine name of Hashem that animates his messenger, which is the Malik who Hashem sends for various missions of every kind. So for example the name one of the four that we speak about at night when we go to sleep we entrust ourselves into four malim um Raphael right Gabriel and Nuriel those are the formal that we entrust oursel our souls to bedtime but Mael who is like Hashem is specifically the malik assigned to the Jewish people. He is our aropus. He is our um he is our defense attorney. He speaks in the heavenly courts on behalf of the Jewish people. But what if Mikel and his various um formats in a particular situation loses the name of Hashem Alf right? Lammed kale. What would happen is is that he would for you take out the word af and you remove that which is what Esther which is what Esther said. Kayla, why have you abandoned me? Well, what she's saying according to astropolo is that has been reduced by those three letters and what's left is two letters mach. She said, "You you you took the power pack away from our defending Malik Mik by removing Alfred and all I'm left with is something mak something that's all worn out and unuseful. You uh discomforted him. You overturned his power." So similarly similarly uh the name Israel Israel has also audit lammed right and if you remove those three letters that animate Israel which is the remember the malik is the malik of Israel if you destroy the malik of Israel or weaken him or diminish him then Israel is by similarly uh diminished so what happens is if you Remove the letters alud from the name Israel. You will get r and shin. Shin and r. Spin it around. And it's spells rash. Poor, impoverished, weak, not able to stand on its own two feet. That's what this what she said. That's the secret of what Esther said. Kaye kay lama zapani two times. How have the three letters of alhammed and alhammed abandoned me twice? for they removed from the name of our archangel Mel and also from our very own name of Israel. So uh that's her complaint. What is Esther hoping for? She wants a reversal. She wants to to get Alfred Yud back so that we will restore the name of Mikel and hence restore the name Israel. Okay. And he he elaborates this further but for our intents and purposes that's quite enough. Meaning that part of this month of Purim is that we have a duality like a purim kipurim yum kiper and and and purim are almost the same. Kipurim tells us is like like purim. Like purim zor says like purim. What does that mean? Yum kipper's day of fasting and chuva and perm's day of feasting. The answer is yeah, but both are present. There's a duality in Adar. On the one hand, life and enjoyment and simha. On the other hand, mortal danger for which you have to fast, do chuva and hope that the divine decree that of any negative sense be removed. That's what yamiper is all about. So Pim they they are combined because there's some sort of incredible energy of the month of Adar to flip from one side of the coin so to speak to the other either we're going to be and by the way more importantly that's how to flip the coin that's how to retrieve the alamud a lie mashem a lie instead of a leaving it's a lie come back mashem a lie Moshe said don't abandon Jewish people come back. You can do it through the same medium of yamipper which is that is of course fasting, doning and doing acts of specifically which is why the purum holiday contains elements of extreme sodaka beyond the normal boundaries of sodaka. Usually with stuck there is that govern the levels of stuck. The rab counts eight different levels of stuck. the highest which of which is getting a person a job so they can be self-supporting. Um and then there's mat beser giving without knowing who gave all kinds of levels of sedaka. But on purim we're going to go in in this month of way past that with something called matanas levonim. I personally sponsor a campaign for matanosim which you will all find out about on the day of perm which is a hyperta which you don't even start to distinguish between this one and that one. You just give. You give without seemingly without any sort of thinking. Anybody who opens their hand, you give them. It's not even sodaka. It's something way beyond sedaka. It's a giving from a type of giving which mirrors what Hashem has. He has a treasure chest of deliverances and and that are undeserved undeserved treasures. You don't deserve it. You didn't earn it. It doesn't really belong to you. I'm going to give it to you anyway. So, we have to be smart enough to hit that chord and say to Hashem, I'm not domining you because I'm good. I'm not ding to you because the Jewish people are good. I'm not dominating you because I'm your servant or the Jewish people are your servants or the role we play or the we've done or the mitzvah I performed or the goodness that I that I have achieved or the Torah learning and the tum I've recited. No, I just want you to open your treasury of unearned gifts. That's the saddaka of Pum. There in lies this secret of flipping flipping around the the fish of Adar heads or tails and we can transform one to the other using that lever. Hence the gammor and migillah speaks long about what's coming next week. Notice it goes roesh and then zadar and then yudalid and adar. It goes in three steps. Tomorrow which is roesh is the first entry point to adar in one week is zadar. the yards of Mosher Abenu. In the next week is Perm. And then for those of you in the know, the following week exactly is the yard site of the Herb of Mik of Lzens on the 21st of Adar who is also a place where people go to Davin and particularly for the treasury of unearned gifts. uh parasa health uh from the children uh Yeshua's for the Jewish people and we can speak a lot about that maybe as we go later in the month but thus know that the the duality of Adar means we go down to our lowest darkest point but that dark point is the turning point for the light that's exactly what Adar is similarly uh the fast of Esther which is the reciprocal of the Yum Kipper experience we're required to eat and feast in nice clothes confident of our victory in judgment and iniper we fast and we pull out all the stops da crying dabing giving saddaka comes first the feast and then the fast here in pum as we know the fast comes first it's called tinus Esther even though Esther fasted on what turned out to be Pesak. She fasted Arab P. She fasted through the Seder night. Did not eat on the Seder. There was no seda that year for Morai or the Jews of Shushan or for Esther herself when her narrowa. They said uh Esther decreed three days fasting because of the extreme danger. Not even the seder knight, the mitzvah, the central mitzvos of Jewish belief, matzah, hagada, um, morosas, telling the story of mitime, the four cups of gula. Uh-uh. The next cups would be the cup she would hand to the hands of hoping to get him drunk enough that he would lose his das and turn on his own best advisor. H and that's a little bit of the secret of ado yada as well. We won't go into that right now. So what is the theme? The theme of the month of is when in extreme danger a lot of extreme danger can come to kal Israel at various times through the offices of our arch enemies who want to do what? They want to pull the alify that animates MK and Israel and destroy us. And that is a malik through an average every generation ale. That's why mullik our mortal enemy who wishes to seek the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people uh rears their ugly head again and again in the story of Pim and and just know one thing. Um, it's danger, but it's a danger that can lead to an incredible victory. So, it's very interesting to reflect on the fact that Trump's so-called deadline, and we'll see if it really materializes, we don't know, has been scheduled for the month of Adar because it actually brings both things to the forefront. On the one hand, we will enter a period of extreme danger. We don't know what will happen with the attack with the attack of uh if America attacks Iran then what will Iran do in terms of attacking Israel not only by itself but with its proxies the Houthis and uh all its other nefarious allies we don't know but at the same time it could come out a tremendous tremendous victory and the b and the banishing of evil Will the Alf rejuvenate us? Will the Alfud spark the revival of Mikel, our archangel? And then and that and also the banner of of the of of Israel. Okay. So let me now before we get to an association with parcels mishbatim which will happen let me go back to some of the events that occurred around purim in the wars of what I'm going to call paras. So remember if you think of Nebuchadnezzar the first one who destroyed the temple and took us into exile as part A and then the the uh the medians and Persians who took over who defeat Bavl and then take over the control of Jewish people for many many years okay into the period of the of the second beta mdash until the Greeks appear. So they're a unit, they're a team. In contemporary terms, that translates to two mortal enemies that we have faced on perm. And that would be i.e. Iraq and Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf Wars. Notice Persian Gulf. They call it the Gulf Wars. Everything. What Gulf? It's like a like uh Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America. It doesn't matter. Gulf. This Gulf, that Gulf, doesn't matter. It's a Gulf. So yeah, but but it has a name, the Gulf of Persia. Notice Persia, Parus. That war, I would like to suggest, which was in two parts. One began on PM and the first one, the second one began on Perm, the first one ended on PM. If you recall the history, and I'll just spell it out for you a little bit if you're not so familiar. um right after the fall of the Soviet Union of the Berlin Wall, okay, which broke open of course in 18 1990 post 1990 and then we go into 1991 and the first Persian Gulf War. Let's understand what's going on over here. It was a time of extreme danger, but it was also a time of extreme uh breakthrough for the Jewish people. I've said and I will remind you that the year 1990 is specifically relevant to the gula process because it represented the year 5750, right? Uh that was uh 36 years ago. the crossing point between the last day, in other words, the last 500 years of possible Jewish history as expounded in Rosar and Gammoras Sanhedrin Perik and the first per is that our history is that the world will be shabistic. It'll be a total of 6,000 years ushering in a period of shabas. Okay. Year 5750 represented entering the last quarter of that final day. In other words, the night began uh in the year 240. It ended 500 years later in the year 1740. The dawn of Aeros Chabis of Friday was 1740. and the katsos the midpoint of the final day at which point shabas starts coming very rapidly everybody knows when you get to past noon on air of shabas you get into gear if you didn't make your kougal you better get cooking and you're getting ready for shabas and some people even are ready for make it their point to be ready for shabas at katsos which is highly highly commendable and ideal but uh katsos threshold was passed in 1990 and that accelerated That's the dawn. That's the dawn, right, of the f of the of the of the that's the that we we cross the noon. We cross the noon point. And that means that we're in hyperdrive. In 1990, Soviet Union falls, releasing a flow of a million Jews or more, which transformed Israel into a technological giant, ready to take advantage of the newly opened internet, causing other issues, but certainly it was the happy ending of 30 years of intense struggle to free Soviet Jews. Now Soviet Jews could come to Israel or could openly celebrate their religion either in Russia and Germany, wherever they ended up or Brighton Beach. Okay. But they became rejoined to the Jewish people. We got a boost. We got a little alfadud power back. A lie. When they came back, a good chunk of the Jewish people that had been imprisoned in the deepest deepest edomic e exiles became associated with the land of Israel. to such an extent that some people think that uh Putin views Israel as a really a Russian satellite country because so much Russian is spoken here in Israel. He's got a million plus uh citizens here all carrying around Russian citizenship. Most Jewish, many not Jewish, but whichever it is, they're Russians. And that happened at that turning point in 1990. But also simultaneously the threats of Saddam Hussein and Saddam Hussein like Arab leaders before him going back to 4849 or even 36 or even 29 1929 all the way back to the father of Palestinian terror uh the chic of Jerusalem al- Husini the comrade of Hitler. Throughout this period, various Arab leaders stood up and said, "We will destroy, we will take the alf out of Mikel and out of Israel. But in a in the era of the speeding up to redemption the post katsos post 1990 the first one who appears is the king of Bav Babylonia which is none other than Iraq's Saddam Hussein who threatened to destroy Israel if anybody contended with his quick and lightning fast devouring of Kuwait in the summer in August of 1991. one eventually what happens uh is that Bush the first Bush the father organized a coalition of forces and to from all countries in the west and some Arab countries as well and said to Israel you don't do a thing you sit by you're not a partner to this we're going to take care of it and sure enough they They their objective was not to dethrone Saddam Hussein. No, not at all. There was just to get Kuwait from out out of his belly to make him spit back Kuwait and all its rich oil resources and uh you know to restore that kingdom. And that's what they do. And during that period with Saddam Hussein from the summer threatening to destroy Israel and to throw on it chemical weapons, most of the Jews in Erit Israel all sat with with masks worrying that the uh the uh you know chemical weapons were going to appear, the Scud missiles and so on. But when asked the labi at the time said Israel is a place where Hashem's eyes are from the beginning of the of of of the year till the end of the year. There's no safer place to be than Israel. These were all at the time considered outrageous pronouncements. They echoed the pronouncements that he made in 1967 which is what thrust him into the spotlight for world jury and for the world in general. uh in the during when the events of the of the sixth day were became known that this was going to be a protection and a victory because MK is active and Israel is active. They're not without the alamud. They're activated and they're in power and therefore Hashem is watching us and we will not we will not succumb or even terribly be damaged by these by this mortal threat. Now, we know that 39 Scud missiles fell on Israel at that time, corresponding to Lameitet. You know that there's 39 lashes that a person gets for violating various mitzvos, including, for example, things like eating not kosher, uh things like like um viol uh you know, certain other violations uh whether it's things that you eat or things that you do that are are not allowed to be done. Misa there certain lavin that inquire that that are relevant to an act. For example, if you eat like one wiggly uh centipede, you could be over as many as eight loases. That's eight eight lashes. Eight times 39. Anyway, but we got lashed a little bit. But there was bas there was damage to buildings, but almost no casualties. In fact, there's this amazing story that 200 people were doveting in a shul. 200 people dominating a shul and it was a direct hit by a Scud and nobody died. They thought by all rights, by any natural order, they would have all been killed. Now, if you think that the Scuds were duds, you're wrong. Because another Scud fell on on a US Army base. It killed like 30 people and it wounded 90 people. Now if you would take 30 and 90, okay, three times that amount in terms of just people being injured, I mean injured is means really injured and multiply that by 39, you're going to get quite a high number of deaths and casualties into the hundreds and injured into the thousands. So you think the Scuds were nothing? No. How could it be that that when there was a fall on a synagogue of 200 people doing that no one was hurt? It can only be explained one way and that's the way that the the referenced he said to the detractors and this goes back to 56. Let me explain. The Reb's position was and always was not to consider the events and wars of the land of Israel as having to do with anything seelic. Just like on PM when you cancel the you drink the wine and it's like ado I don't know what morai we'll talk about that when we get closer to PM what that really means but he said very big criticism of Israeli leaders who after the 1956 remember he became rebi 1950 1956 Sinai campaign for those of you who are not necessarily Israeli history buffs at that time. Uh, Gaml Nasser, who would eventually attack, lead the attack on Israel in ' 67 and be completely defeated, closed the straits, the um the Suez Canal as an act of war and terror against Israel. and um what he was trying to accomplish exactly uh you have to look in the history books but immediately France and England not happy that their access to the far east which ran through the Suez Canal I mean that's a big chunk of their business shipping etc um was being closed partnered with Israel gave Israel Mirage jets and all sorts of weaponry and said come fight with us and reclaim and they reclaimed in lightning order the entire not reclaimed but they conquered for the first time in Israeli history the Sinai Peninsula which they promptly forced Israel to cough up which was something that took great issue with and and he was widely critical about the quote unquote diplomatic efforts to achieve peace and security that involved surrendering the entire the entire Sinai Peninsula and as we know what would happen in ' 67 that was a huge staging area for the attack on Israel which is beyond belief. So two there was a fellow I'm not going to mention the name right now because I'll come back with more information but I think it was Schlloberg who was very takenback about the reby's very overt criticism of the then leaders of Israel that they went along with a diplomatic plan for security and he he called them out and said the greatest security is just being in Israel we should hold on to the Sinaar peninsula and that will be security and don't give an inch yet of course they gave back everything. And when this gentleman came to protest the reby's stark criticism of the leaders of Israel, which is unusual, know in the 50s, you know, Israel was still just creeping out from under the the death of the Holocaust and trying to just live a little bit and trying to stay alive. And here the Rebi was saying, "No, take a bold stance. You don't have to give back a thing. You don't have to commit any diplomacy for securityurities purposes which the United Nations forced Israel down Israel's throats including America including General Eisenhower okay who knew better but that's another story. So he said to this fellow and this fellow came when Rebi was distributing um cake known as leak you know once a year during sukus they would give out the cake or sometimes perhaps on other occasions and he came to the rebi says I'm not taking the rebi's cake as is the case of don't take the cake he says because I'm angry with the rebi that the rebi denounced the leaders of Israel for seeking diplomatic path towards security which the rebi promptly says when it comes to Israel I do not believe in diplomacy. There's no diplomacy. There's no diplomacy when it comes to Israel. We're in a different category. And he explained if Israel was a country like every other country which is in ministers by by Hashem's various angels and emissaries that run those countries according to the systems of law and order which Hashem has set the world on its course. Y and valila that would be make sense to make some sort of deal. But since Erit Israel is under the direct supervision of Hashem himself and whatever angels he employs he employs not as managers and not as governors but merely as shalim. Whereas the management of the state of Israel and all of its affairs comes all the way up to the to the top desk to Bezon Shamala then in that case we are operating in a system which is not your typical system. It's the system of miracles and PUM is a time of miracles and Adar is a unique month for the Jewish people in which the miracles of ER Israel are to leap from matzah. that looks like it's the end where kaye the letters are taken out to where where they're fully operative and restored and the arch angel of Israel is champing our case in the best in Shamala and we are protected from harm the rabbi said our wars are not the wars of the nations our people is not like any other people radical position compared to the rest of the Jewish people without a doubt till today a very radical position but the reby's position and he has been proven right in many almost I would say not uh not not 90% 100%. that the impact, as he said, of the quote unquote diplomatic solutions will only create a myriad of problems much as the Az negotiations led to much much much bloodshed and problems and surrenderings and the Palestinian Authority becoming from a terrorist organization that the entire world denounced to a government of a state. All of this was due to the diplomatic path which the Rebi says is not the way to go. We deal directly with Hashem. Hence called Salmon when it was 1990 just before the and Saddam Hussein was threatening the Rebi issued an edict on error foreshhat of 1990 I guess it was 90 or 91 he said half day fast everybody give saddaka say tillum get everybody organized the same thing that Esther Malika said so many years ago and that's it and don't make a big deal about it I haven't seen And sadly perhaps any hint of our is state of Israel declaring a day of unified fasting, repentance and charity and expressions of mus. This is what we need. And unfortunately the agents the agency of conflict in Israel has has been pouring gasoline onto the fire and the quote unquote uh unity of the Jewish people has become um outright and dangerous conflict. Literally people are are are are being attacked in the streets on all sides. And and primarily and primarily it is the political uh how shall I say forum that stokes the division and the hatred and tries to imbue us with values that are even more liberal than the most liberal nations which is not for us which is not for the Jewish people. We are as we said we read in part we have to be a cut above and a cut above doesn't mean secular above with secular values. It means holy values the holy nation and the utter holiness is shalom between Jew and Jew. We must stand up. uh was very enthused about the fact that the leaders of the Karedi world got up and condemned the terrible uh outbreaks of hatred and hostility that happened in Vene and the secular government have declared their interest in taking every Jew and bring them to the army. And that has not been the path of Torah and mitzvah in the way of the Jewish people that we didn't value Torah study in the land of Israel. And at the same time, the Kedi community has been dragged and has allowed itself to a certain extent to be part of a bitter conflict as opposed to um uh how should I say condemning all acts of antipathy, hatred or anger. And I think that the today's declaration goes a long way. And we'll see what happens. And of course, it's so obvious that when there's a will, there's a way. Things that need to be discussed will could be discussed and resolved privately, but then again, people make political gains and people make uh their their um their providers happy. They they do their of people who support them financially and otherwise by sewing discord and this is not helpful. This is quite this will take shalom the alif lammed letters out of and is we must have them destroy from being destroyed. We must have those letters activated activated. And that's only through unified prayer and kindness. Unified prayer and kindness. Uniform prayer and kindness. Speak it out there. Don't go around criticising any Jew. It's not your business what they hold. It's not your business what they believe. Just know they're part of you and you can't live without them. May not like them personally. Even may not like their ways to be sure. You can never hate them in their persona because is is a holy thing and has nothing to do with the activities and deeds. It can never be spoiled. So you have to look at a person and say no matter what they do, this is a holy soul. Doesn't matter what. And we don't know what tunim they're making and what role they're playing. and and um certainly akarattov to those who lay their lives on the line so that we can have security and at the same time we protect our values and protect our integrity and do not allow Torah to be um disgraced and discarded and defiled. How do you pull that off? I don't know. But we keep talking and that's a first step. do. We're diving for it. We speak about it. We We envision a a Israel today that's united. We We've seen unfortunately during the wars, I think in ' 67, there was such aus that people still speak about it, the love of every Jew for another Jew when their lives were in such mortal danger. Sometimes that's what it takes to unify us >> is the knowledge that if we we're all in the same conundrum ultimately our differences mel melt in the eyes of our oppressors and therefore we're all in this together and like it or not we must find a way to um to bind ourselves one to the other and that can only be through a Israel's Daka and viewing the other person positively and behaving nobly and encouraging noble behavior. Okay, that's what the asked for. Okay, so given that this is the situation, let's go back to what happened in 1991. The Rebi declared a fast and knew that there was great danger coming on Israel, but he advised everybody who is either in Israel to stay in Israel. Oh, and they have the videos of him on the line where he's giving out dollars and advising people. He said, "If you're in Israel, stay. If you're in in America and you want to come, come. Do not be afraid. Hashem will protect us from Saddam Hussein." Incredible. Incredible promise. There's a video I saw of of a regular American religious family had a daughter here in seminary and they came to the Reb for a dollar. Should we bring our daughter home? This is getting dangerous. So he says no. But the mother said, "But she has a semester break." In other words, it's not going to be school's going to be closed for two weeks. So go. So the said to her, he said, "Yeah, but she can go around us and learn many things. There's so much to learn in I guess there's shurim, there's this, there's that, there's opportunities." He says, "And you should go too." And the woman the woman was just flabbergasted like she couldn't imagine why the rebby would tell her not to pull their daughter back. There's no school. There's nothing going on. She couldn't process it. She just kind of went away with her mouth open. And the reb was very adamant. And um so it was 39 Scuds fell and there was only one fatality. And apparently that person was a very very diplomatic person who was in a very difficult person who was in some sort of and um was not really uh was was a dangerous person into the community and he did not have the of the protection. But as the Israeli leaders said at that time, we can always build rebuild houses, but we cannot restore lives. And that's the miracles that we're seeing. So that takes us to Purim 1991, right? When the war the first Gulf war against to to make Saddam Hussein cough up Kuwait ended on Purum. Fast forward to the year 2003. Okay. Perm war again begins begins. What stopped on perm 1991 resumes on perm of 2003 because now we're talking not getting Iraq out of Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait but getting Saddam Hussein out of Iraq out of Bville. And of course we know that a while later this was a reaction to uh Bush II's uh you know 911 nine you know the events of of September 11th 2001 and eventually the whole thing schle out and and uh it starts pumm and and it ends on a unique day when they discover Saddam Hussein overgrown the with you know disheveled and hiding in a little little hole in the underground. Can you imagine the this man of a tremendous power reduced to a little square underneath the ground in which they found him utterly humiliated? He gets up and he says, "I'm Saddam Hussein and I'm pro Palestine." And he made all these decorations. In the middle of all his decorations and prayers, the rope went and he followed Hammon's route to the gallows. And what was that date? 19th of Kisv, a day that's celebrated as the liberation of uh one of the original Kabad rabbis from the prisons of the Soviet Union, a day that the Jews escaped mortal danger. Significant day. So the Persian Gulf, Bavl, Persia, Iran, Paras, they're a team. Wouldn't it be something? Wouldn't it be something symmetric and poetic now that Trump has declared that somehow in the month of Adar all this needs to be resolved? I didn't make that up. That's what he said. He didn't want to do it in Shvat. He said, "Let's wait a month to the month of Adar." Could it be that history is repeating itself once again? We're the partner of Bavl. Paras in the first stages of the Jewish exile prior to Greece Rome uh is now completely uh removed from power. Is that possible? It's definitely possible. What does it depend on a what does our safety depend on? Well, Rebi said fast help other Jews be united with Hashem. That's where we would stand the greatest chance to be spared from harm once again and the Reby's general approach that not to be afraid not to be afraid but to be proud and kind. Now it is true that in the first in the in the Gulf War Bush I the first told Israel do nothing which is what it says in the A shimoni that the the war of the worlds will happen. Saudi Arabia and and their team against Iran and their team with the United States coming in Edom to help and this is the stage that we've been seeing and that we might not do anything. So we just you know chill, relax, dive and learn, give some saddaka and uh whereas in PUM we had to take Madison's our own hands and certainly we've done we've seen the need to do that but who knows what our what our role is and hopefully that same pattern will emerge. Again, just simply stated the uh the patterns of the Persian Gulf and Persian war gulos paras uh seem ironically resonant. Am I hearing echoes of those wars? We shall see. I did want to share with you something about parish as it just to end very quickly that we find and a whole list of rules. The laws of slavery, the laws of damages, the laws of shity of people watching other objects, laws of laws of everything between man and his fellow man. And theor say an elaboration on lo said in in the ten commandments. Don't get involved with other people's stuff. Well, what does that mean? What happens if you damage? What hap what's yours and what's not yours? What's the restitution you need to make or that they need to make to you? All of the laws that straighten out the are referred to in this section called there's one problem here that the para then continues and according to rash it happened before mat tora but if you learn like other other and other that this was a sequence ten commandments and then comes the idea of we're approaching the issue of building the Mishkan this week's para truma we're going to start to build basics but in between we have paraim and a bris that's made between the Jewish people where they say nasa once they say nasa once they say nasa minishma and then there was a safer harris there was a book that says this is the book this is the pre-orra this is the protoorra this is the first sections of the Torah that I'm giving you and no one says that veishim were part of it except one far I found. Wouldn't it be part of it? He just read the whole long story of all the laws between and when you make the bris with the Jewish people right after the right after the hearing of the dibbros and then Moshe is going to go up extensively and get the first lucos and you got to buy in. Everybody has to buy in and he put up 12 stones and he made carbonos and half the blood on the altars, half the blood on sprinkled towards the Jewish people and all 12 tribes. Why wouldn't you put those teachings of Alamishbatim into the book? What does the book contain accuracious the original mitzvah of mankind including brisma to aim and then all the way through what they learned in Mara a little bit about shabas here and there. What happened to Mishbatim? Why isn't Mishbatim the elaboration of the Asera dibbros the elaboration of loaf mode included in the book? I don't get it. Doesn't make sense. And I think what it is according to almost everybody, every mafarish is that Moshe was given this information to tell the Jewish people, if you're going to do this, this is your precondition to getting my presence among you. In other words, if you're going to be, imagine a groom comes to take a bride. Jewish people the bride, Hashem's the groom. You I want to give you the luos. The lus seals the deal. We already wrote the tanoyim. The tanoyim was the sabra. Now I'm going to go up the l that's kaduc that's the ring and then we're going to consummate the marriage between hashem and the Jewish people. We spoken it about all the principles and said and now we're going to get down to the brass tax. And Moshe is told just know one thing. Tell them it says at departes is he says I'm up here in I don't want to be in shm anymore. He says, "I want to be with you." Right? You should build a build a Mishkanti, which is what we're going to read about this week. How's that going to be? Well, imagine a groom comes to check out, you know, a date date his perspective wife or to meet his perspective wife. She didn't take a shower. She's all dirty. She didn't do her hair, right? She's barefoot. she's uh you know uh loa not adorned not beautified not anything the groom's going to say well you know wonderful Jewish girl but isn't this a special occasion of expression of love wouldn't that mean that you should adorn yourself some say that 24 books of Tanakal tell us are the 24 kishut kala this is actually something that we had referenced previous this is based in nvi that the adornments of the kala adorn yourself, adorn yourself, lift yourself. You're going to you know you know how to make sure that the kala is ready. The kala has to have a peace in her home and everybody filled with love and that's you want my presence then you must get along with each other. That's not what's in the book of the bris but that's what's going to create the conditions for me to be with you to fulfill the bris. Much like Israel told Mosher Rabenu, you can't have this system where everybody's coming up to you with all their problems and their fights and they're fighting over money and they're fighting over he got more from the he took more from the Yamsu the tell us and this one says the the Mitzim who converted they said the money is ours because they're fighting over everything. Listen make captains of tens and 50s and hundreds and thousands I told you so that we make peace on the low level before it becomes a problem. contain it in groups of 10 that can talk about their problems. Have a support group, right? And then their jealousies and their angers and their injustices can be aired out there on that level on the level of tens on the levels of which is exorbitant which is exaggerated the levels of 50s the level of hundreds. It's never going to get to you mosherenu because we will root out we will root out the lack of obvious before it ever gets to you and that's what you got to do. Israel said was reiterated again here in Alamishbatim. If people, this is how you're going to do it. This is the system you have to put into place that there'll be peace between Jew and Jew. by reading and now getting through this time we should take the message comes with a precondition and that is the love of a fellow juke is and uh we need to elevate our game and we need to really work on our own I'll add to this from a psychological point of view negative thoughts about ourselves negative thoughts about others you got to convert your brain into a positive brain and look as Aman says on the good side. This was referring to our children, to our spouses, to another Jew, to Hashem and to ourselves and most most of all very very very hard task. This is the bitterness of the amalachite ha husk which is parro hama never had enough never was happy had the whole world at his feet but one Jew didn't bow down to him and he was enraged with jealousy we got to rid it out of ourselves and become positive happy earth people easier said than done But imperative so we can come together basima and hopefully another adar of miracles. Have a wonderful wonderful kodes. Bye now. [music and singing] My [singing] birthday [music] [singing] [music] >> [singing]