Unforcing the Withdrawal From Lebanon: The Ohr HaChaim HaKodesh & the Battle for the Land of Israel

Heat. Heat. Okay, welcome everyone. Today is the 14th day of the month of Tamos. Tomorrow the 15th is uh generally accepted as the day of the yardite of the of the late great Moroccan sage miracle worker and messianic personality Rafaim Ben Atar otherwise known as the orodesesh and I hope with God's help to make it there tomorrow and I'd be happy to carry prayer wishes written or electronic whatever it is which is a a place of great distinction ction to pray since his passing in 1743. We'll tell a little bit about his story and about his incredible connection to the Balmto also very important founder of messianic figure and their unique connection and how that place has played out as a place of salvation for many many people including in general the Jews of the land of Israel. um exactly 200 years after he passed away. Okay. So we are now the truth is that there are many people who who there's many traditions that he actually passed away on the 14th but was buried on the 15th. So here we are on the 14th. We're already in the how shall I say we're in the energy of the of the great this this great hila when when there's a yard site it's a day when that soul is infusing power into the world and opportunities to uh utilize our prayers to to work uh wonders for ourselves and for the Jewish people as we will strengthen ourselves and our belief in our belief in sadikim no matter what the circumstances that present themselves are. So, I'm going to start with a important question that I'm going to um ask you regarding the Jewish people in the para that we're reading that survived the attempted cursing of Balak. This is the parha in America in which the name of uh the Jewish people appears many times but no Jews appear in that conversation. The entire parish is a conversation between two non-Jews and it's remarkable that it made it into the Torah. We're going to talk about those two personalities, Bolakum, and their unique connection. And we'll contrast that with the holy connection of the orimadosh and the balmto, which is very very intricate and uh brings two traditions together. the Moroccan or what we would call uh which he he called the Balento famously called theamim Maravi the western one because he was from from Morocco which is way west uh of Ukraine where the BMT resided and flourished. Uh but reality as we speak about the adut misra the um the congregations of the spartim right and we tend to lump in all of the mreb all of north Africa from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, uh Egypt all of these had a play in some of the remarkable events. Uh so it's a linking up of two very powerful communities. On the one hand, the Ashkanazic/Kasidic community of Europe with the the great traditions of the Spartic giants and the Kubalim of you might say it was a joining of forces that began in earnest h at that moment and had it portended great things for our future. And and ironically here in Ar Israel we have seen this happen. We have seen actually the coming together of the great communities of the Moroccan rabbis and all the North African rabbis and the Syrians and everybody else, Iraqis, and then joining with the company of the Ashkanazim who came from Europe and whose origins were in Europe and even good old Americans like us, late comers for sure. But just know that around 1743 when uh the kadesh passed and when the baltov mourned his loss uh that was the time of French revolution uh well the the the uh how should I say the democratic uh revolutions in Europe and of course America as they broke away from tyrannical England and it was already happening. So America's founding which is now 250 years right just ask Donald Trump it's the 250th anniversary that's being celebrated but it it oh is was within that context of the um of just beyond it was already happening. It was already beginning to unfold uh more than 250 years ago about 40 years uh you know about 30 years before that and when which is the episode of the Makesh's passing now we are um going to ask the following question Bulock and Bow what was their connection what were they trying to accomplish and you might say that the title of of uh today's shir is he who blesses you shall be blessed and he who curses you shall be cursed and this was echoed in the parha of bum as well and it's all about blessing and cursing so let's understand what was the purpose of bum being summoned from Mesopotamia he lived uh on the river which was logically it could only be the tigress or the Euphrates and more logically the Euphrates And that's where Balak hailed from. And that of course is the cradle of holy civilization. What I mean by that is the children of Noah divided into three. Shem and Yafed Shem or Sem or Semites which gave birth to the Jewish people. Right? Our origin was where is Aram come from? from the that area which is uh roughly Iraq and it actually is all the Aram's journey took him all the way from the lower recesses of Iraq which is just opposite the Persian Gulf really literally that's where he um was almost put to death but that kingdom that early kingdom had been powered by none other than Nimrod who was a rebel who came from the cursed Kennan families and of Africa and Egypt. Okay. Usurped the power of the Semites who were the children of Shem who was recognized as the pre the priest of Hashem, the king of Jerusalem, the mentor along with his children and grandchildren. Shem and Aver were the mentors of Arabiz and Yakov. So they're the quote unquote good guys that carry the tradition from from uh the cabalistic traditions about what is Hashem, how did he create the world, what's the mystery of the Hebrew letters, why did he create it, how did he create it, what do we need to know about the inner workings of the universe, spiral and all these things. This was a tradition given from Adam, including the seven noahide mitzvos which went through Adam and Noah. And all of that was delivered through Shem son of Noah to Abra and Yakov. And without that contact uh there is no I mean Aram himself identified that there has to be a god but but and he understood its concepts and its wisdom through Hashem's direct revelation to him. But but he also respected and honored the traditions that were be that were already uh being transmitted throughout those early generations. Um remember it's close to 2,000 years after creation. Aram is born in the year 1948. So around the year 2000 when Aram begins his journey to spread God's name in the world. There was a combination of what Hashem revealed and spoke directly to Aram which becomes the core of a Torah, right? And what was transmitted through Shem via Noah and Marishon Kan other figures which is the cabalistic transition what we would call panemius they had access to some of that information and they shared it with Aramakov. Okay. So both both the both are the revealed Torah and the hidden Torah were were converging now. So, Bullock and Bum, if you want to look at it that way, are the exact polar opposites to what we would call Aram and Shem. If Aram and Shem were devoted to bringing literally Shem, Hashem, God's name into the world, and Aram spreading it to the nations of the world, Bollock and Bum teamed up to form the contrary position. In other words, Aram is bringing to the world. Hashem told Ara that he will be a blessing in the world. Okay? And you bless with the name of a god with Shem. Comes Balak and Bum that team that nefarious team and they are the polar opposite. They are bringing cursing right and destruction. So let's understand who they are. Bulock, if you look at his Hebrew name, is three letters. Bet lammed kof. Okay. The word lammed kof uh phonetically it sounds like the word lick. Lick lak in Hebrew that's also the intention. Lil means to lick. Okay. His I'll tell us his intention was to exterminate the Jewish people. He had a Nazilike idea. We just want to spill Jewish blood. And if we spill enough of it, we can get rid of them. At least if we can't destroy all of them, we'll destroy enough of them so that they will not gain entry into the land of Israel. That was his primary objective, right? Is the solution to the Jews eventually or under Yahushua would be under Yeshua. Now we're in the 40th year. this episode happen and there Moshe is about to transfer leadership to Yeshua and Yeshua is going to lead the Jews into Ar Israel. Um he says I don't want this to happen. So what I'll do is I'm going to kill Jews by killing Jews or causing them to sin that will blow off their redemption. And this has been the objective of the Satan and all the forces of evil throughout the generations to delay to deflect and to um uh defend the land of Israel's tuma that has encroached upon it from giving way to the kaduca of Torah and the Jewish people who wish to reunite with it. Okay. So balak is based bum four letters baze lammed iron men. Okay. Now if you put the name bum on top of the name bulock. Okay just right on top. And you take the last two letters of each. The last two letters of bam isin. The last two letters of balak is lammed kuf. That spells out what? Amalik. Amalik is the strain of the families of asaf. Okay, can I hear me? Good now. Okay. that is um devoted to the complete mortal destruction of the Jewish people. Now the father of Amalik was named Alifa son of son of Asov. He was sent by Asv to chase after Yakov who fled for his life after receiving the brahos from his father and Asov missed out and Asov didn't want to do anything to Yakov in his father's presence. Uh, and so Yakov fled the land of Israel. And on his way out, Asov says, "Go kill him. Go kill him on the way. Just do away with him." And Yakov encounters Alifas. Leah says, "What can I do? I have to kill you because my father said so." And they were very big into Asav and his family, their father's day. Wasn't it Father's Day last week? They very much held the Father's Day. Mother's Day a little bit less, but Father's Day for sure. And he said, "I got to kill you. My father said so." He says, "I'll tell you what if you take every penny that I have." And he must have had diamonds, gold, something because he was going, he needed a dowy to to find his wives in the house of Lavan going back to me, going back to up in the direction of uh our countries of origin, Mesopotamia. Um so so he said just take all my money because in an LE scum famously says there are a couple of people considered as if they're dead to the world sadly someone who has no money cannot really do anything cannot take care of his own needs and needs as a family establish themselves in the world work because there's just no resources to do anything they're just receiving enough to keep body and soul together. So he says, "Make me like that." And for all intents and purposes, you fulfilled your father, your vow to your father. And Medish describes how Yakov may have spent a lot of time in the Midbar naked and alone until he managed to um find even clothing to be able to with his with his miraculous stick which came from Ganeden. Uh which was removed from Ganeden with Adam when he left. And that became eventually the staff of Mosher Rabenu. And that's a whole different story. Uh Nimrod had absconded with the clo the miraculous clothes of of Adam Harishon with which he controlled and hunted all the species of the world. And uh that garment was was the garment that Asov's who slayed Nimrod. He did a good thing. He slay he slayed Nimrod and brought the garment back to his father's home. And that was the garment the big day the original priestly garments that were given and designed by Hashem kind of like luos almost except they were they were garments. They were cotton note ore. Okay. Specially, divinely provided. And they were the instruments of service. They were the the priestly garments as it were of that generation. And Asop had it, which is he presented himself to his father as wanting to do the priestly service. He wanted to be and he did sincerely want to be the religious leader and figure, but not with the commitment to purge evil out of himself and out of the world. You. So, you can't kind of have it both ways. Do you want to be the high priest and be rife with sin? Not not happening. But that was the game that Asov played with himself. He convinced himself that he was worthy of this role. Whereas Lamisa, he had committed the most grievous sins that any person could commit starting the day of Abraham's death. And then even though he returned the the garments of Adam to the house of Yitzk his father Rifka had them and she dresses her son Yakov in them deceptively I don't know it's called deceptively or by by uh lack of any other purpose possible solution and is those garments that Yakob presents himself and Yitsuk smells him because he can't see and he says ah this is and I recognize this smell. This is a smell of gun because these garments go all the way back. So here we are that Yakov. So that that fellow Alifas son of son of Asov um married a woman who was desperate to be part of the Jewish people. Again same concept she said I want to be on the winning team but she just was attracted to their success to their amazing which is not bad. Not bad, but it's not necessarily converting for the right reason. Kazal famously tell us that in the times of Msiah that will come that are incumbent upon us, we will no longer accept. We'll no longer accept converts. Why? Because those converts will come because everybody loves a winning team. Laabdul, you know how the the New York everybody all all the all over the place said, "Oh, I'm a big fan of the New York Knick basketball team." Why? Cuz they were winning a championship. You never watch You didn't suffer with them when they were losing every game and go and watch and agonize yourself and all their losses. You didn't watch them year after year fail the one year that they're successful in the middle of the year. And towards the very end, you jump on the bandwagon say, "Oh yeah, I'm part of the I'm I'm part of the fandom." That's kind of the Tim the way. She said, "Oh wow, winning team. I'm going to jump on board, but one second. Are you willing to pay the price of Kaduca? Are you willing to abstain and and and perfect yourself and your midos to? Are you willing to do that or are you an amalikite? Well, guess what? She becomes the mother of a malik. Sadly, although she had a good desire, and in fact, some suggest that that's our punishment, that a Malik is not really uh an enemy per se so much as Hashem's whipping tool. That's why I say it's a it's a miranos. says, "If the Jewish people need chastisement, Hashem created a molec and gave him the whip and said, "Go for it because I need you to help correct the Jewish people to get them back on their path." Much like a a driver might whip a a horse and buggy or a coach to get them back on the road, much as we saw Bum try to do that with his dunets. Now if it's true that a malik is like asov that person who desires the glory of holiness but not earning its blessings. Okay now you understand why am is so paired with the Jewish people because that's what Hashem wants us to do to earn our blessings. Even though we're inherently blessed Hashem wants us to earn our blessings. So it's a kind of like a shadow self of ourselves. And in fact, the vagan says of the categories of the Jews that need perfection at the end of days, they have names. They're they're part of what's known as the av. They are the exactly that the Jew the the non-Jews who saw the glorious victory of Hashem the makos theatry the defeat of parro and they ran with Moshe and they said we are going to go with you Moshe you convinced us but it was conditional love this is a very profound point it was a conditional love not an unconditional love that Hashem that a kai Israel for the yeah, you love me if you give me a lot of money, if you buy me gifts, if you speak to me so nicely. I if you treat me with great honor and respect and you do every thing of my bidding, then I'll love you. And what if you can't? And what if the funds dry up? And what if you are less than uh perfect? What if your your attention is drawn to other activities and other things? Well then, okay. And then there's suffering and what will happen? Will there due to that suffering cause you to defect from the camp of Hashem? This was the big question of our generation. If you take all of the galot and all of the crusades and all of the expulsions and all of the murders and the kasaks and everything else and all that we suffered throughout the generations, it wouldn't begin it would not begin to equal a short period of time within the Holocaust. Because in 1943 alone, the year that the story I'm going to tell you about the Kesh took place was 3 million Jews were slaughtered at the hands of the Nazis, uprooted from their home. uh suffering uh death that wouldn't wish on anybody, working to death, starving to death, humiliated to death, um cruelty beyond belief, sadism beyond belief, even to the point of taking their very skins and making utensils out of it, which was uh very very well-known uh attribute of the SS officers whose task was to be literally the agents of the Malahabas. And they even had proof cuz you know what they wore on their helmets? A death's head symbol. What do you think that meant? Maybe they didn't even understand themselves. They were literally the shooim of the angel of death and his cabal of destructive angels. Literally. And we saw it in our world. And yet the Jewish people miraculously held faith said Schma Israel believed in the future carried forward traditions and learnings and survived and thrived and and in short order came to Israel to begin again a new. That is unconditional love. The Rebel Lovich didn't concern himself with the theological questions of day aside in the Holocaust. He said, "It's none of my business. It's not my business. I'm here to serve Hashem. No matter what you do to me, Hashem, I'm going to continue to serve you." That's the legacy of Rebaka. That's a legacy of these period of time that we're entering because just after the 15th of Tamos which is coming up in a couple of days we'll enter the three weeks 17th of Tamos which speaks about the unbearable suffering and destruction of the Jewish people throughout the ages including destruction of the two temples the girush of the expulsion from Spain and the Holocaust itself all wrapped up into th that three-w weekek story that's the story but what is the story the story is that no matter what a Jew clings to faith and you can't be whereas a a a Timna or an alifas or an aviv say I'm with you in the winning season but when things get uncomfortable nasty negative I'm out of here I'm out of here so that a rev which came from a originally a good place just Tim did they want to be part eventually they need redemption eventually Mosher Rabenu took them in Mosher Rabenu wanted them to a certain extent and he said this is the future we're going to have to somehow find a way to incorporate these Jews in many people suggest that the highly secularized settlers of the land of Israel that came from Russia in the early in in the 20th century aliot They uh they physically built up the land of Israel, created its defenses, created its towns. Uh their philosophies were not uh aligned with Torah and Yiddishkai, but they were interested in being Jews and they were proudly Jewish and they would put their lives on the line for for the land of Israel and the Jewish people. So that is some suggest that's the reward of those Arav who proudly wanted to see Israel's victory till today. They want to see Israel being victorious. But what about when we're not? What about when we're getting kicked around? What what then? What then? You know what if your vision for Israel is not the one that's going to be long term? Do you quit? Do you say, "I'm out of here. I have no interest in this. I want it my way or it's not going to be." This is this this is really the central point in the conflicts that we're currently experiencing in Israel today. What's the longterm picture? What's the vision for the future? and the incredible struggles and pains birth I call them birth pangs that we're suffering through now with is that Hashem wants us to struggle with the question of well but what about if it doesn't go well are you still my people are you still interested in the land of Israel if you're in captivity by by a malik himself that will be a test that will be question and we've seen how certain individuals have shown with great light their goodness and their connection to Hashem specifically when it was the moments of utter cruelty and darkness cuz that's a Jew ultimately ultimately ultimately our souls are bound with Hashem and no matter what you do to us it doesn't really matter our love remains unconditional that is a very important point. Okay. So, Bam and Bollock fought that. They did not want the Jewish people to have this exclusive relationship with Hashem. So, again, their last letter spell, their first three letters, right? Ba lammed and B spelled Bavl who destroys the holy temple which is the place. So, Malik and the destruction of the temple. You see where it's all going. All right. Now, I'm going to throw in a little little thing here that I think needs to be said. Um, again, let's just recap where we're going. I told you that this today and tomorrow is the yard site of the great Oraim Kadosh who was bound in his soul to the BMPto. That is the movement towards dividic redemption which was in Jerusalem begins in Jerusalem and ends in Jerusalem with the rebuilding of the Beth Mikdash. That's what they're after. That's what those souls yearn for. That's what the who was a famous crier. The Bashem said about Benatar. He said he's a great crier and he and it was known that in the one single year that he was in Shaim and he would say and cry like a baby he rattled all the residents of the old city of Shallayam with his blood curdling cries for the holy temple and to break through the iron wall of the satan whose partners are those who seek our destruction. out. Um, so what did Bill and Balak do, Bikitser? They attempted to undo undo the relationship between Hashem and the Jewish people and make them equal to every other nation. And to this end, I like to demonstrate that each time that they made a um an attempt to curse, they built altars and they brought on them two animals. par, right? A big cow, right? And a lamb, a small animal. And uh seir, a little little and and then what does that represent? So if you remember and if you recall that the nations of the world are compared to the bulls pim on sukus we we bring 70 sacrifices in descending order to either honor or fix the relationship of the 70 nations to the Jewish people and to Hashem great but ones the day that's special for God and the Jewish people we bring only No pneumin. We bring that little that little sheep that little sea say boat whatever and that represents us alone with Hashem after everybody. We have we fix the whole world. That's great. Nice. We'll even fix the Avra who some of them are named Amalik. Yeah. There's a group of of Avra people who state their Jewishness and they're called Amalik. That's crazy. Some of them are characterized by being bala that they are like the nilim. They're they're they are very base in their desires. So they act out physically and with food and with sexuality and with money and they and they just, you know, rife with do whatever they want kind of like what Asov did. And then sadly and then there are others who are very arrogant and they refuse to help Jews. They'll give millions and millions of dollars of support. Those are people who will run around wittingly or unwittingly. I'm not here to judge anybody. and tout the Palestinian cause or the cause of the non-Jews or the whales or of uh who know who who knows trees and nature and global warming and everything but the Jewish people. They'll give saddaka to every single cause. But if if a religious Jew says I want to study Torah, will you help me? And that's a special category of avah because Jews are generally speaking doesn't really matter. People who are not connected to to mitzvah overtly are often great Torah supporters quite often. So it's in it's in our it's in our DNA. But there's a special kind of cleav that convinces people to to to antagonize the world of Torah. Put them in jail. Call them what they are in their eyes, which is just parasites. They don't see the value uh of Torah study or Torah practice for that matter. and and therefore the misunderstandings and the misappreciation and the conflict. What's sad is not their opinion. What's sad is the conflict. It's it's a very sad conflict and we everybody's responsible to resolve it equally. No one's the victim here more than the other. It's just a very sad lack of understanding and appreciation and uh how do you overcome that? But you know the Satan has his uh great uh he's got a great team you know he drafts really good ones. But back to back to our question about. So if you want to say that Bum and Balok are the counterparts and in fact in the in the Mishnovos we we contrast Arainu to Bum himself. how Aram you know saddled his saddled his donkey to take early in the morning to take his own son to sacrifice whereas Bam saddled his own donkey in the morning as Khazal point out to go and curse the Jewish people and to build altars that would undo what they tried to do is undo the relation they want to say that the par and the and the ram are the same get it nations of the world and Jews and that is the basic approach of the entire world, including our many some of our quote unquote closest friends. They do not see Israel as a special and holy nation that has a unique relationship with Hashem. Some see it, some don't see it. 99% don't see it. The Arab world really does get it. But they'll say, "But the Jewish people have sinned and therefore we following the tradition of Ishmael." Next up, we have and the Christian world says the same thing. The Jews sinned against God and therefore we are the inheritors of the world. Funny thing h in today's dafomi dka today's dafomi where it's talking about that's a gammor 60. It's a very important gamarra actually very fascinating. It's all agotic. And it says there that you think that there are words in the Torah that are just not not apparent what their purpose is. Like there just throwins like the Torah says that some of the nations call um Mount Kermon sneer. It's a different way of saying, you know, those mountains up in the northern region in the Golan, which by the way are not far from Syrian attack if you're following the news. So why do I need to know that this one calls it and this one calls it? Well, what's the difference what they call it? You know, it's a mountain. Soal tell us in the he says you see the nations of the world build cities and they call them after the mountains of Israel. Even though a mountain is not a place where you can really build a city nor can you thrive on a mountaintop necessarily unless you're a billy goat or something along those lines. You want to be on the top of the snowy kmone. That's not the greatest place to establish a civilization or a capital. But guess what? They don't care cuz every place of the land of Israel, they thirst for it. There is no issue greater in the world. This is so comical. And the Gar predicts this. The Mishna Sultan predicts this that they'll measure the land of Israel with ropes. What's going on in Lebanon today? They're trying to get the Jews, the the Israelis army out of Lebanon. And there's going to be this zone, that zone. The pressure and the weight of the entire world sits on these mountains. And they wish to say, "No, the Jews can't have it. We want it. It's our mountain. We're going to devour it. We're going to eat it up. It's" And the weight of the world is so heavy that, you know, they bend. Okay. So we'll we'll we'll be strong. We'll only give back this much and not that much. What do the nations of the world want? They just want us out. Out of the entire land of Israel. Free Palestine. Does not mean that there should be an Israel. It means no Israel. That is the goal. Want Jews? We'll see. Maybe if you let us do what we want and maybe do you a favor, we'll keep a few of you around and maybe it's good for the good for business. but but not beyond that. So the the dafomi showed this great lust that the world has for every little bit of territory of the land of Israel. And of course nothing nothing uh indicates otherwise. Okay. So let's go back and finish up our our our our thoughts about the ord. So what was this connection between between him and the baltov? So this is how the story goes. Of course the balto was founder ofud said and it's there's traditions in many many books ofut here I'm going to show you this beautiful book that I have which tells the story of the life of the n maravi from a kidic perspective and how they admired this great Moroccan sage which is unusual like it's like really really strange but what happened was that the baltov had a spiritual connection He in his um meditations on high where his soul as he described it entered the upper realms and interacted with this with the soul of Messiah himself which he understood he was an extension of he was carrying that mission what's the mission of Messiah to rescue the Jewish people from Galut to return them to the land of Israel and build a beta mdash it's exactly Mosher It's exactly Yahosua. It's exactly David and Schlommoch. It's never changed. It will never change. It's a singular goal. And those that are committed to it or gifted with the abilities to really make a difference and a breakthrough, they're kind of all on the same team. So he experienced the heim is not necessarily greater than me. We're probably equals, but he's faster than me. He would climb up to the heavenly realms. By the time I would get there using my meditation, he was already on to the next level. And they said, "Oh, you know who was just here? Uh the just left five minutes ago. He just missed him." And the Bashtov acknowledged his greatness. And when when his when the uh at the very end of his life there who was so persecuted by the Arabs in Morocco that his life was mammish not worth living that he took a handful of students and made his way to land of Israel. He had a he stopped in Italy for a while where the congregation there wanted him and they published his book and he gathered money to establish a yeshiva and all. All he wanted was to establish a yeshiva and shalim that would teach kabala and the inner secrets of Torah on a very high level for the purpose of advancing the arrival of Messiah. That's it. When he finally gets there, he has to move around the land of Israel a little bit and he's only in Israel for two years. and one year in Jerusalem. And it says that when he went to doin for the very first time at the Kotel, very first time when he arrives in Israel, this is in again around 7 174243, he saw the image of a dark woman, dark, you know, garbed woman and she came to him and said, "Oh, I'm the Kipa that's going to take your soul. So have fun here in Jerusalem because you're a goner. and he he prayed. He prayed, but he didn't last the year. Now, the way I look at it, and this is what I really want to share with you, is that it was a it wasn't a tragedy. It was a breakthrough. It took someone of the magnitude of stature, purpose, and soul construction such as the to break this incredible resistance. Because remember, Hashem rules the world based on judgment. Hashem loves truth. He is not into the molec. The world is designed that we earn our reward. However, there's a shortcut path that the great sadikim have to pull us through. As long as we're sincere and we really want to do chuva, we want to do the work and whether we mess up or collectively mess up, he can still open doors. She she he can open doors for us. That's what why whenever someone is ill or sick, you open up a tum and reach out to the soul of David or you go to or you go to this is what the garra says we have to do because they're able to convert Hashem's judgment into mercy. they're able to turn the tables on court and that but it's not it's not an easy task and it's and not everybody can do it. So the makes it now the baltov a light goes off in his head saying I have an idea and this is what it says in the safer he says look here's how I understand things we know that everybody has a soul the soul that inhabits the the earthly body has three parts nephesh which animates the body of body functions it literally what makes us alive our organs function our basic desires our basic psychology and then there's ruach which is our you know our sense that you know this is the the above the physical values morals uh achievements desire to be the desire for perfection to grow and to be great and to to accomplish things that's our ru and then on top of that there's there's something called nishama which is even higher level which we can barely barely barely fathom and then there's levels beyond that but let's assume Presume that neph and ru are really the story of our world. Call one the yates ra and one the yateser to if you follow me. So if one then the yates to the ruach is supposed to pull the nishama up and not let the nishama who succumb to the temptations to pull the ruak down and drag it in the mud. Now that and that is the story of of our struggle. So he understood BMP he said look we are both made up of these two components of both David and Schlommo he says if has David's ru then I have his nephesh or the other way around or and if I have then he has who is the partner of David in building mdish of course I have his so they're one soul fused. If you follow me, they're intricately connected parts of the soul of Messiah Ben Davidid. No one think that Messiach Ben Davided is the part of the soul of the Jewish people that links to the land of Israel. Correct? Not that Yoseph doesn't, but Yoseph and his mother Rael's job is to be the bridge to the Jews of the Galutan diaspora. That's why Rael stands at, you know, where she stands on cave Rael and calls and prays for the return of her children. Yoseph is the Jew that thrives in Egypt that does commerce and injury industry. You know what? I I looked something up. Um, and and this is such a telling statistic, okay? In America, for example, what is America what is America interested in? So, think about Yoseph and Mitraim. What are what are what are they into over there? What are they into in America? Sports, right? It's a multi-billion dollar business. They pay they pay people hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars because they want to watch. That's what they want. So, I did a quick search on how many Jews own these sports teams and run them. 30% of 126 sports franchises are owned by Jews and another huge amount are managed by them. Why? Because you understand that that's one of the main streams of wealth of America. And who's making it work? I you can't even make this stuff up. The founder of the National Basketball Association, I found out, was a Jew who went to Harvard. He set the whole foundation and other Jews served this comm. They create the fountain head of blessing. You got it? You understand this? They're Yoseph and Mitzam. We're Yoseph and Mitam. When we go anywhere we go, we bring blessing. And therefore, those that bless us are blessed. Those that curse us, you don't want us, fine. But you're not going to get the blessing. You're not going to get it. You want it, do it. They tell the story about this great basketball player, LeBron James, didn't know whether he should leave his native Cleveland and go to Miami where he felt he could be more successful and win championships. So, he consulted with a certain spartic Moroccan rabbi, you know, ironic. And the story goes, and this is how I heard it, he went on a boat with him in Miami with this rabbi. I'm not going to mention his name, but he's a very well-known Moroccan Makubal. and he told him, "You come to Miami, you'll be successful." Well, the rest is history. He did it. He listened to him. LeBron James understands that Jews bring him blessing. He said that his agent and his accountant and his entire team are Jewish. Not because he has any great love of the Jewish people, but he says, "These are the people that are going to bring me success. They're connected. a Jew if he doesn't even as long as he knows he's Jewish, they're called Israel. As long as they're somewhat proud of being a Jew, they're bring blessing. Okay. On the other hand, the uh Jews that ch people that challenge us and curse us are the opposite. So um I want to bring back about what happened here. If the makadesh and the baltov both understood that they were twins so to speak then the baltov had an idea that if I come to Israel this was again in 1740424 42 before he passed away he said I'm going to set out to the land of Israel we're going to get together we're going to dive in we'll sit in the yeshiva together we'll study we'll teach and we will rapidly advance fastforward the gula why Should we wait into the 21st century? Let's do it now in the 18th century. Let's get it over with. Maybe we can pull it off before the Holocaust. Maybe we can pull it off before the massive assimilation of the Jewish people in the mid- 18th century. Maybe we can pull it off before all the trials and tribulations of the world wars and the pains of trying to enter and build the land of Israel. Maybe we can pull it off. They tried. Hashem did not allow the baltov to make it there to Israel. In fact, the story goes that his ship, which ironically came from Turkey, Istanbul, uh was blown to pieces. He was hanging on to a piece of wood. He forgot all of his Torah. And on top of that, the Satan tempted him with abandoning his faith. And then if he could get him to do that, that's the end of the BMT. And he said, "No, you know what? A Jew never abandons his faith. It's an unconditional love. doesn't matter unconditional love and he barely survived made it back to Istanbul created did many miracles there on the one pesak that he was stuck there and he went back on his way because he understood that Hashem does not want him to make it to Israel because it wasn't time Hashem always wants more time we want it to speed up Hashem keeps it slow why so that more and more Jews will have a chance give them a fighting chance to survive. A fighting chance to survive and and to do chuv and reconnect with the Jewish people. Okay. So back in 43 theatinba Oh. Oh yeah. So because of the baltov's fascination and I would say obsession with this Moroccan sage allidim who you know the students of bashtov also adopted and said learn his commentary learn his commentary learn his holy words of Torah so we're going to do that but first let's read let's tell what happened was as I've told this story the Nazis were on the verge of conquering the land of Israel they would have exterminated every last Jew There were about 4 to 500,000 Jews at that time and there were plans were completely to destroy them. Allah Awitz they had a place set up in Ban. They had the muy of Jerusalem supplying manpower. They had the tech technology of the and the experience of Awitz and it was short order. Raml said I can conquer the land of the land of Israel in the time that it takes to eat lunch. And the Brits got together and said, "We're gonna we're going to have to abandon the land of Israel, which we conquered in World War I. We're going to pull back our troops all the way to Iraq." And they told this to the Jews. And the Jews says, "What? Nobody to defend us, nobody to protect us. We're goners." And they declared this day of prayer. And the day of prayer happened to be 15th of Thomas today, tonight and tomorrow. Um and uh the people who generally would pray at the the kev of the or kadosh including the husatin reba were approached and they said you have any idea what's going on? Do you have any idea the great danger that we're in throughout may they made 247 tollum groups people were just sitting out in the street saying tom crying to hashem save us. Um, famously one of the rabbis said that even in kibbutz anar which is ultra secular socialist communist atheist kibbutz they had prayers on that day. There was not a dry eye in the house. Everybody knew death was almost a certainty if the Nazis would break through and miracle happened. Oh, so what happened comes and they declared they that if they they stayed till him for 40 minutes at that pointb closes his closes his tillum and everybody's looking at him saying we're not finished he goes all right all right fine continue but you see they saw was distracted he buried his head in the in in the in the eventually he just said that's it he will not come he's not going going to make it here. Meaning Hitler will not come here. They said to and number of said to him, "How do you know? How do you know?" He says, "I see the name Yudfk, the only name of Hashem blazing over the graveside of the Kadesh in golden letters. I know he's not going to come." Well, miraculously, there were delays in the Nazi advance. Told the story many times. And Rama went back to Europe for a couple weeks. And meanwhile, they appointed General Montgomery, who would have Hashem's hand in give him the power to push Raml all the way back and eventually help lead the forces of the D-Day invasion. And and by the way, I have a little addendum to that. If you think Montgomery was was successful because of Montgomery, let me just tell you, he did one of the greatest disasters in the in military history in World War II. And it's featured in a film called A Bridge Too Far. It's a very famous movie and it described the genius plan of General Montgomery to have English and other Allied troops parachute into Germany, destroy all the bridges and, you know, cut off the the German armies. Well, it was the most massive failure of all time. Haha, Montgomery, if you think your success is because of your military brilliance, think again. You had tilos of Kalisrael and Hashem's hand behind you and bridge too far. That's who you are and that's who Raml is when the will of Hashem is on our team. That's the greatness of prayer, the sadikim, the will of the Jewish people, the destiny of the Jewish people and Hashem's unconditional love for us. And that's what we really have to remember. And I also have to take one word from the himself. Okay. All right. Just one word to power us a little bit ahead. All right. Okay. So, here we are. Pinas. He says as follows. He says that binas was given was given the the the bris of being a cohane. He wasn't a Cohen before he stepped up and corrected the Jewish people, the the Ni, the the prince of the tribe of Shimon who was marrying a Midionite woman who challenged Mosher and says, "Moshe, you married a woman from Midnight, so why can't I?" And 24,000 Shimonites died because of that because Israel had fallen into forbidden relations, lust, and even idolatry. Nebach. So, so the says why why is lorded he he he was aoy he was a zealot for my name. So it says gave it gave him the the the the ability to be a a priest. He was entered. He was a Levite. Now he became a cohane. Why did Hashem give him the present? Because he appeared as a Okay. So, Hashem and since he cared about the honor of Hashem, Hashem gave him honor. Okay? That's why he received it. So, just with that one word, we have a message. If you care about the honor of Hashem, Hashem will care about your honor. And that's our job to honor Hashem. How do we honor Hashem? unconditional love, belief in prayer, belief in sadikin, seeking mitzvos, honoring Torah to our best of our abilities, and knowing that the leaders of the non-Jewish world, including our good friend, President Trump, who has not been blessing the land of Israel or its leaders lately, Adaba, he's been cussing at them, calling them bad names along with his vice president, and he's learning perhaps not going to be successful. He's viewed at the weakest and most stupid point of his presidency. All because he thinks that he has the solutions to us, Gaza, Lebanon, kick the Jews out of Lebanon, kick kick, you know, give money to Iran. I'm sorry. If he will remember his lessons and heed to them by the by the ear by his earlobe that his job is to honor Hashem, they'll be successful too. And that's what the arim says. Have a wonderful week and it should be a time of great Yeshua for the Jewish people. As it was in the past, so it should be in the present. birthday