Yishai Fleisher Show: Listen to Moses or Listen to Beinart?

[Music] all right folks you are listening to the ishai fleischer show broadcasting live from judea to the world you're a part of it wherever you are khodesh tov it is the new month of bittersweet on the one hand the happy new month a new new beginnings rosh chodesh means like i call it rosh hadash a new head new mind that you can get at the same time it's av which we recall the destruction of two temples and the rejection of the land of israel by the jewish people in the desert so there's definitely a painful side to this month today is here in israel i'm joined by by my beloved makaha fleischer shalom and welcome thank you shalom welcome to me thank you thank you very much for welcoming us to your home and um it's it's corona time yeah and it's all kinds of stuff right now it's all kind of it's the nine days right because we just started which means the nine-day morning period in which we mourn between the breaking down basically of the walls of jerusalem all the way through the breaking into the temple and the destruction of the temple by the romans and by babylonians babylonians that's right uh and also also many bad things happened during these during this this period in jewish history the expulsion from spain the expulsion from gus katief uh in hebron 1929 the jews were massacred on the 18th of of and they said it was twice tish above that's what they said nine times two they said it was not twice as bad uh so there's a there's a lot of that at the same time um well actually let me let me let me actually hold on to this the bad stuff let me let me actually just focus in on that for a second something that i want to tell you you can believe the next phrase or not believe it but things go funky and sometimes bad during this period right two two two so if your stuff especially your stuff your like car laundry machine a crack in your house something like happens you you're let's the proverbial yeah 100 bill on your table and you knew it was there and it was definitely there and now it's gone right i'll say the proverbial coffee mug okay your proverbial beloved coffee mug that said best mom best dad in the world whatever it fell and it cracked that is very nine days that that is a phenomena that happens now it's a time of suffering i say this in three for three different reasons one is is that once you know that it a little bit mitigates the anger the pain the frustration that you know that there's like some stuff that's gonna happen just that time of year right two is that that even on a deeper level of mitigation we're taking the breaks the reverberation of the breaks of the temple and so if you could appreciate that and say this cup broke because the temple broke and i'm feeling the pain or maybe i'm even lessening the pain by absorbing that shock right so that makes you feel uh a little bit better and i think that that's actually the deeper meaning of it um what was the third way of seeing it i don't remember right now the third way of seeing it is but the bottom line is that is that there's pain right now oh the third way is that we're also in a time of rebuilding and i have yishai's famous parable of the ninth ave in our era okay it's isha's famous parable we're ready here's how it goes ready to go the parable is there are two i've said this before on the show so if you've been a long-time listener you may remember it there are two single women in a room both are single both are unmarried one though and therefore they have the same status as two unmarried women but one her husband just died god forbid and the other one is engaged to be married so yes their status is legally the same but their situation different trajectories different situation all together and that is the ninth of ave in our time we live in a time of engagement we are engaged for that third temple it's on the way amen we're living in that time we are living in a time of of redemption uh and so and so yes we continue to mourn but with a forward looking towards rebuilding and i want to tell you in the last few days here in the land of israel you and i have been driving to places we drove to the key narrative with the family and what we saw what was also yesterday when we drove through shalim i went to do to a skin doctor just to do the yearly checkup our amazing skin doctor by the way in harnoff who's not only dr shamroth who's not only a great skin doctor but has written a whole book about the calculation of the calculation of the month in the jewish calendar how to calculate the month with the moon cycle and the whole thing we're talking astronomy mathematics so we told them we were coming and we were like dr shamrock get a book ready that's right and i got one of those books we bought one of his books and i can tell you after reading it didn't understand the damn thing uh uh but could what is the lion mucka did not understand one word uh what movie is that from friends what movie is that from did i have read this book i have read this torah didn't understand the word okay uh so write in yeah write in hashtag tell me what you and and maybe we'll get you can we get them some kind of prize for that one well i have to think of it what should we give that i don't know we'll give them something we'll think of it off air but you'll you'll get something if anything our appreciation anyway that that's the parable we're living in a time oh so we're driving all around the country and what are we seeing building building buildings so much beautiful building so much just power of the rebirth of the jewish people in the land of israel it is it is incredible it is it is so powerful and so obvious that the land is being rebuilt and you could tell mountains are being cleared which is a process you know they break them into little boulders and then they break the boulders into little boulders and little little and they pulverize them into dust and you know what like you could see that the mountains like yeah it's not sad it's like it's happy it's like let's go now i've said this before years ago also there's a midriff that says that why is the land of israel hilly and mountainous so that when the jewish people come it'll flatten out and make room for all of them ladies and gentlemen for 2000 years that medrush was a parable who knew what they meant was it will actually be flattened out right we will flatten the mountains and to make houses and nice roads for the jews in the land of israel well it's it's uh it's good that you're talking about this actually because i just saw a new story and it's really really hot off the presses um and we didn't so we didn't even talk about it you didn't you had no idea i was going to talk about this on the show the headline that of the article i'm reading says huge kingdom of judah government complex found stone's throw from u.s embassy get out among the 2 700 year old finds 120 inscribed seal impressions on jars at storage facility holding food collected as taxes for king hezekiah and menasha in first temple jerusalem basically they did a huge excavation the israel antiquities authority um just three mile three kilometers which is 1.8 miles outside the old city they did a dig um right near the new u.s embassy in jerusalem which is the old u.s consulate in jerusalem um and they found like i said 120 jar handles indicating that the location had been used as a storage and tax center prevalent among the stamp inscriptions is le mouk or belonging to the king a way of marking that the food stuff stored in the jars had been tithed to the judean ruler that is what we found in chevron as well that's how i know about the lamellar seals the lmkh that's what they call it english you can look it up on on on wikipedia but we found five of those in chevron as well wow and also for the period of well it's interesting because they say here the iaa says that they have like over 2 000 similar seals discovered at excavations that's really changed the way that they think about administration and tax collection in the kingdom of judah um iaa excavation co-directors what you're saying is that there are there's two things that that are constants in this world like death wheel death and taxes the taxes there they are right so so one of the things that's interesting is we're very close thank god um to a lot of the people who are influential in the city of david ir david yes the place where it's believed that king david had his second capital basically his first capital was in hebron but really his main uh capital in jerusalem in the capital that he's known for um but it turns out that the ir david zone wasn't the only area where stuff government stuff was happening and that's what they're basically discovering they said at the site we excavated there are signs that governmental activity managed and distributed food supplies not only for shortage but administered agricultural surplus amassing commodities and wealth and they say that this is one of the most significant discoveries from the period of the kings in jerusalem made in recent years that's awesome just to make it clear it's nice actually that they're reporting this i think now um for the for for the you know rosh chodesh of wow um great story to give us a sense of what was going on in the final days of the kingdom of judah and um you know a sense of what life was like in jerusalem as we try hard to get back to like you know the new like altenew land you know uh herzl's alt-n-i-land like new old land like we're trying to do things the old way but we're also trying to do it in our new way and we're talking about 600 years before the advent of islam altogether the i like to say the invention of islam all together so we're talking about 2000 years ago um and here we we are living in the same places those seals are in hebrew okay they're in hebrew and they're being dated to the first temple period okay so this this leads me right to the next story malcolm okay i want you to hear this tweet that i wrote this week okay i i wrote this is a response to peter beinart he writes he he quotes what are you talking about peter beinart wrote this article calling for for binationalism in other words two-state is over right and now just let's have the arabs vote us out of existence but if you have one state everyone has the same kind of citizenship and everyone has voting rights and they can vote for and even a jewish state and not he admits that it's bye-bye jewish state per se and he writes he writes uh a quote he writes critics may charge that this vision is utopian who writes this binary himself okay yet it is no more idealistic than the assertion that all men are created equal and then he has uh this uh this link to a guardian article in any case i wrote israel is a defensive this is in your article or is this in twitter twitter twitter i write to him israel is a defensive ethnic national state created to protect the jewish tribe on jewish tribal land the mostly arab and muslim region lacks any semblance of equality for us jews among other people as well and therefore like the kurds we have an independent autonomous country pretty pretty innocuous it says we have drew's tribal land yeah we're a defensive country we're an ethnic national we're state we're not here to respect the equalities of all mankind not that they're not not that they're lesser people of course not that's not what we're talking about of course not but but this country's not set up to protect other ethnic minorities or other majorities it's here to set up it's set up to protect our people our ethnicity just like just like many other countries in the world like poland or japan et cetera hungary um and of course the 22 arab countries around us which are ethnic national states this is the by the way the the the the unbelievably frustrating argument of binary it's like wait a minute you are asserting this equality for all mankind yet you don't make zero demands on the arab countries around us to have any kind of semblance of equality not just for us the jews which are a persecuted minority but also there's no civil rights decent rights voting rights in the arab countries around us so how come you're making us into a western liberal country when the other countries are nothing like that at all and you have no demands on them anyway so i wrote what i wrote yeah these are some of the responses to my little tweet okay how is building racial colonies in other people's lands defensive as in but i said to you it's nice yes you're a thief and you're a racist okay next that that was from uh eugenia this one from madilaire he says and you have no semblance of equality for palestinians kurds don't rule over other people uh kurds don't rule over no one's asking kurds to get all up in their country exactly exactly ps where the kurds are ruled by the iranians the turks the syrians they're persecuted so they they they got conglomerated into the little area teensy little place they're like we're just taking this teensy place okay this guy geroid sounds like hemorrhoid i don't know he says jewish tribal land is not an international legal category and holy books do not provide rights under international law nor justify the abuse of another people in violation of their rights the bottom line is like i didn't argue an international law an international law i have a great argument san remo uh the uh the mandate for palestine uh internet the the i just i was on a i was on a podcast i listed five five loci of jewish rights land purchase defense of war um beautification uh international recognition and religious authority if you believe in that but any case he's like going back to the international law thing um uh your political ideology continues hemorrhoid he says your political ideology has led you to to committing to an illiberal form of zionism yes it's not meant to be liberal for others it's meant to be liberal for us it's meant to defend our peoples binary seeks a form compatible with human rights law and values yeah right like he's seeking is that what he seeks or does he seek to totally exterminate the jewish state by giving uh people who have tried to overrun us and destroy us many times what do you mean have continued we're still talking about it now right you know that hamas and fatah like set a date for um for a big like sulha look i don't like you and you don't like me but we both hit the jews yeah so let's get together on this this is literally what their meeting is about that's so nice you know at least like i'm happy that we're bringing people together um your form continues hemorrhoids he says your form has been tainted by prejudice and should be contested fear is no justification for abusing others uh no it's not that's why we are not abusing others that's why we created an ethnic national state for on our land in our tribal land and we're not abusing others okay um and we're we're the opposite we're a light of liberty in this region finally says j.m parker i think it's a false name says you sound more like a bigot trying to justify their racism too late we see you for what you are yeah and it's like it's like it's like yeah you shy we see you for what you are you don't see me for what i am i see before you are no they don't see me for what i am because no they really don't they really don't and they don't want to and they're never will right it doesn't matter you could you could speak until you're blue in the face i'm gonna just write that it's not about logic and it's not about argumentation right anyway there's more of what we always talk about which is the narrative war out there the problem with the narrative wars it used to be localized in the in the bad guys now it's diffused like every every bad guy in every on the other hand it's really horrible and everyone's so angry and everyone is so accusatory that leads me to another thing malcolm thank you for saying that you know today you know what now i remember what was the the real third thing i wanted to say about roshav is a time of mourning but it is also the york site of aharon hakohen aaron the priest moses brother moses is older brother but really the high priest and he has his own set of like values that when we think of aaron we think of those values and that in in in simple terms it's it's israel the love of the love of the jewish people to love the jewish people and to love one another and to find a peace to find a way for peace to to to cut corners for peace amongst amongst lovers amongst people who should love one another not finding peace with your enemies which you should not you should fight your enemies but but there's many times where we're ending up end up fighting not we we're not fighting enemies but we're fighting ourselves and i must say that that i think that for the next nine days i think we should really try to focus on the aharonic ironic don't be ironic manka i'm be ironic okay uh just a little bit of a havati sorel a little bit of space for another last night we lit a candle and you know maka you have a little candle holder with two hands well that's not mine actually that's less oh our daughter she got it for a bat mitzvah and then she lent it out to us and we've been using it well that is very nice of leia who is sitting right here hi leia and stuart's summer homework food food she's doing math homework ein herrera i know but it makes me it makes me wonder where she came from exactly okay um and but these hand uh hand the the hand can't can the holder that's the hands of the priestly blessing you know right and it really made me feel very special so so a little bit of love and then at this time wait wait just let me say this phrase this phrase this is a loveless period do you agree with that what do you mean the nine days this whole this whole corona time and protest no i would not agree with that no good good i'm glad you're pushing back monica i would not agree that what do you mean a loveless time i'm talking about on the internet on the these uh corona have to do with anything i'm talking about people who are angry or angry and it doesn't matter what time period it's just not a time where the word love is a i don't know is out there that much i don't know i think that there's good people out there and i think that they are showing love to each other and while you're talking about doing ahavati sorel you know all of us could use a boost always about like showing people love and being nice to people but like i'm not sure i have a big problem with that like i think that there are people who do have a big problem with that and i think a lot of those people are the people who hate israel i'll be honest with you and not to like conflate everything together not to intersectional the politics with the jewish values necessarily or anything but like i do not feel that the people in the like zionist camp have like a love problem generally speaking on the micro level i'm sure that there are people who are rude to each other and you know whatever and we could all uh always be working on our interpersonal relations but i think that like on the whole the people who are showing like their bile and their rage are the anti-zionist people who are just kind of anti it just feels like they're very very anti and they're right and if you're anti-zionist you are probably angry that is that is do you agree with that formula there's not a lot of like loving anti-zionists like good mood anti-zionists no because if you're because because really the real truth the deep truth is is that if you're anti-zionist you're anti-israel you're probably anti-god you're probably anti-religion although you got tons of these like you've got tons of people who would espouse themselves to be extremely extremely religious ishai who call themselves anti-zionist because they're very angry at different policies of israel and they feel that israel discriminates against ultra orthodox people in israel that has anti-jewish policies their problem is that they're missing the big picture that's their problem and that happens sometimes sometimes you miss the big picture you you zoom in you see a lot of crud and and you you do have to be very smart these days you got to know how to watch the news you got to know how to watch the news you got to know when to turn off i also want to say and this is something we've said about the army before not that haradem per se have to serve in the army like that's like something we're super lacking or something like that i feel like the army is mostly i don't know handling itself with the with the people that it has but i always say to myself like you don't want the haradam to serve in the army like the the hereditary leaders the ultra the ultra orthodox but if you guys would flip and be like you know what we've changed our mind we're sending 50 000 people to the army next year then it would change everything it's like you talk you have people who are like anti-zionist because they feel that israel isn't living up to what it should be and i can i can respect that on some level okay i can respect that on some level and i think that all religious people deal with certain disappointments about when israel is not living up to its potential and doing what its mission is to do but i would say like instead of going i'm anti-zionist you go i'm running for office right like i'm i'm jumping into politics i'm gonna like i'm gonna take this job and this job and this job i'm gonna apply for this position i'm gonna like our community is just gonna take over this thing instead of shrinking away and saying like i don't look i don't like israel because of x you go i don't like israel because of x and therefore i'm going to lean in harder i'm going to like participate more i didn't know we were going to get into this topic but my one comment on this is that i think it's really changing i think ultra orthodox people are much more into living in the state of israel being part of it but i'll tell you whether their their big contention is in part a brand they don't subscribe to the brand of blue and white and ben gurion that's not their brand they have a different brand and therefore they have different lingo and different things that are important to them and so in many ways i see ultra orthodox today as being excellent citizens of the state of israel and very much contributing to uh holding the fort on moral levels bringing more torah into the land and certainly more children into the land god bless them and so they bring some crucial critical values and and right and like commands into the society that if we didn't have them i don't know what we would do that's what i'm saying and and and and the airport has when we use the airport when we will once again use the airport one day one day you know it's got it's got a lot of kosher food because there's a lot of ultra orthodox travelers etc etc so i just i have come to the realization that people don't all want to be locked into the same brand and sometimes the state is a very strong brand okay and its way is a strong brand and so we have to know how to be flexible to to have people on our team that don't talk look and and do the they don't wave the same exact flag right but they're on the team right speaking of that micah uh i want to go just one more topic which is that last week i said that i would oh oh boy oh boy sorry wow before i go to this uh last week okay last week last week i said i would tell a story last week i people i asked people if they want me to tell the story about buying books or mine so i got a lot of people wrote to me saying i want to hear that story before i do that i want to say today's show is dedicated to a very dear friend of ours who passed away um um i think it's eight years ago today uh already now um but yes eight years ago our good friend leah goldman passed away and was really a dear friend of ours and uh her husband shmuel goldman uh is sponsoring today's show right in her memory which is in itself a big honor one of the greatest honors of my whole life that is leaning in by the way leia goldman ali raja was the kind of person who would lean in oh my gosh she and her family had a dream they were going to move to the north of israel and they were gonna like live a life that was like natural and with a good air and just go up to this beautiful scenic place in israel and they went up there and they went to one community and they went to another community and they went to another community until they could find the place that was there forever home yeah and they settled in a place called moshav yonatan in the gulan at the time moshav yonatan a an agricultural community with lots of nice israelis in it and a nice place to raise your kids and a great shul and just everything really good but leia wasn't content with that she wasn't content with her contentment she no knew that she had found something special and she wanted to share it and so she really took it upon herself to really push out the message of the golan and get people excited especially in the english-speaking community because when they moved to the golan it was really primarily uh you know regular israelis who had kind of drifted up to the goulan heights and she decided that she's going to be the kind of person who like pushes it and she took it upon herself as her mission and she got got herself a gmail account gogolan gmail.com and she would encourage people to come to the golan and she ended up in her town becoming i don't know what the word is for it but like the contact person for people who want to um come up and move to moshav yonatan and because of her basically and all of her passion and her husband shmuel's passion they opened up like a new massive section of the moshav and like many like tens i think of houses beautiful beautiful gorgeous and people you know living in the jerusalem area is so special but what's interesting about living in the golan area is that it's a lot um more free in the sense that there's a lot more opportunity to like build your dream house and to spread out and to live a little bit more of that life that that maybe if you could relate it to like the american country but not the country because it's not that rural but just like much more out in nature and spread out and less tense and because of her like dozens of people dozens of families at least moved up to the north of israel and moved up to the golan and today um even though leia has passed shmuel and his family are living up in the golan and their will got remarried remarried to the to the amazing bachelor and um and now they live there in their community and like on one side of the street is like all these israelis basically on the other side of the street is like all these english speakers you mean new israelis i mean yes we are all israelis that's right no matter what language you're speaking no matter what color you are uh no matter where your port of origin uh we're definitely all just as israeli as the other but i think you know what i mean i'm talking about i think you mean port of embarkation because our port of origin is yes that's right fair okay our the report of embarkation to come home right so uh so not that that leia saw something lacking per se in israeli society but she saw an opportunity yes and she saw an opportunity that she could share with others and she could have just kept it to herself but instead she like she she grabbed it and she was like everyone has to be able to get a part of this and they were in touch with nephesh but nephesh and you know trying to trying to help people come to the north and they raised a ton of awareness and and uh in their merit a lot of people built beautiful homes and are living beautiful lives up in the golan that's right and that means that israel's got a better grip on the golan heights that means that land is is welcoming us uh we very much miss you leia and your neshama is important to us and you're with us and it's an honor to to uh dedicate today's show to leia goldman uh and also i knew her as lisa height in high school uh but she became leia goldman um she was in my grade in high school and uh back in the old country in our port of embarkation and so yeah very powerful thing i also had the the dubious but on the other hand great honor of speaking at her uh a funeral right dubious in the sense that you don't want to speak at a friend's funeral but but if you got to do it then then you get a chance to do it and um and we miss her very much and it's an uh still getting stuff done yes on the next level and may she see nakas from her children amen uh growing up well in this land um so now to the story people asked me about uh to tell a story about uh about buying books on your tithe and your mice or money right so i said start with the mitzvah of masai what right you're supposed to give a tenth of your earnings of your products good of your profits to charity uh this is in line with the idea that you're supposed to tithe to the priests and the levites so uh you last week we were talking about buying books and you threw out um i don't remember which books were we talking about art scroll we're talking about people really if you're the hardest time right now and you can't buy a book so so i recommend that i talk to people don't do this don't but it is legal but don't buy a book on your meister money the story is is that one time there was this cool book about about about the laws of the sabbath and with pictures with pictures and it was neat do you even know where that book is absolutely you know exactly where it is on the shelves it's right over there now and here's the story we bought this book and we bought it on meister money that was the one book i bought on because we had just learned this law we just so you can buy the book so we're like okay wait i forgot to add and when you buy a book on on tithe if anybody wants to borrow it you can't kind of say no because like it becomes like a library thing it's like a charity it's like you have this book on channel you now have a book right it's you you didn't exactly own it it's like a charity that you had this book everybody needs it anyway we bought this book three days later somebody comes for shabbos and the person says ooh nice book out of all of our books he goes can i borrow that it was like uh yes yes you can that's the law this book promptly got lost like we didn't see the guy also it's not a person we see very often we didn't see him and like months go by and then years go by and then i'm like and i said to the dude i'm like dude where's that book he's like it's gone so i'm like oh fine i'm like that'll that'll learn you that'll learn you don't buy books on meister anyway we had a friend also passed away a rabbi rabbi uh yaakov um yeah that's right uh and he had a bookstore in baytell of rare books we went i went to that bookstore one time i'm looking i'm looking i see the i see that that book i'm like that's great i look i open up the book it's got my name in it okay in the bookstore i said there you are i said i said we found you we found you i said where where how did this gets him and he and that guy happened to have been at his house right we were mutual acquaintances like corona we trace the darn thing in any case so um so that's i i got the book back gratis i didn't have to pay for it because it was mine yeah or it was my service it was not yeah yeah i should have i should have probably paid for it maybe i did prefer thinking like okay now i can own it outright in any case he may have gifted it to you he may have he may have but the bottom line is that is that uh that you got to be very careful when you buy books on um uh on on monster they're liable to do the thing that they're supposed to be doing so if you want a book if you want it in your shelves then buy buy it outright uh in any case folks uh maka i want to really thank you uh for being with me and i wanna i wanna assure everybody yes a juror a sure i don't know what i want to get everybody to to do something a a juror sure i think i think we should use a totally different word i'd like to to get people to do so i'd like everybody to to to hop on and get yourself some israeli wine by going to israelwines.com although you're not supposed to drink wine during the nine days just a little heads up yes that's true true true true uh but maybe if you order it now you know yeah by the time you get it yeah you can look at it for a while or they can have it on shabbat yes you can have it on shabbat wine and meat that's right enjoy yourself during these nine days uh so so but the other thing i asked everybody is to please write to me to tell me how their orders worked out for them and i haven't received an email like all right that's okay so get to it folks order and write me an email uh check out of course hebron uh that's uh that's that's home base that's mamas and papas that's where the with the forefathers and mothers are buried hebronfund.org makes all the difference in the world right now during this corona period we could so so use your help and you could use the help of giving a little bit of tzedakah so so check out hebronfun.org and sign up for our virtual tours and our uh our continuing effort to beautify the marathon and our support of the jewish families there including securing them a lot a lot of work there so that's hebronfund.org still a prayer quorum happening there at the tomb of the patriarchy you bet you better it's not like totally shut down that's right and of course trailer t-e-k-h-e-l-e-t oh and both for trailer and for uh israel wines just type in coupon code you'll get the big bucks off all right i just want to remind all you people regarding the trailer regarding the tsitsi that the month of elul is coming right up which is the month of teshuva the month in which we uh prepare our souls for rosh hashanah the brand new year and all kinds of judgments are made regarding our future in the upcoming year um and so it's good to have your religious gear all set for you that's right absolutely a little time is coming good time to you know it's a good time to buy that book and it's a good time to buy that cc and it's a good time to do something for yourself that's going to help you like renew that spiritual energy yes so you can charge ahead yes and and also uh lastly i want to recommend that this ello we learned together written by rabbi rabbi has an abridged version of it which is very useful uh rabbi moshe lichtman i think he was on somebody else's show on the network the land of israel network land of israel.com which is our sponsor network um i want you to check out the rest of the shows and network but like get yourself the book now uh ima benim smith that we could learn it together over the month of ello and get ready for a new year folks those of you who are locked out of the land of israel that's just that's just an illusion okay there is a ways to connect with the land of israel today more than ever before through the shows through the trailer through the wine through the love through the prayer through the pictures through the videos there's a million ways to be more and more connected let's use this time that has uh on the one hand caused us to be uh more distant from one another let's use the tools that have been given to us to come closer to one another malka i also want to offer up this week's hashtag yes if i may we haven't discussed it so i'm just blurting it out go ahead i say this i would like to see some emails this week about what would if you could be here in israel or if you're in israel and everything was open what would be your dream israel vacation israel vacation nice i want to hear about the good stuff that you would do keep it short and if it's good we'll read it out on the air next week 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comments uh throughout the show so everybody welcome and if you're outside of the land of israel and you wish you were here then this is the small way in which we're gonna kind of connect you and bring you into the land uh and today is also a very special day here in the land of israel it is rosh horeshav so happy rosh chodesh as i always say rosh also means okay it's a time for a new head it's time for to get to get a new perspective a new way of thinking uh and it's also the york side of uh uh and i actually had the great merit to visit the tomb of aaron with my mom many years ago we were in jordan and we we we were with a bedouin and with donkeys you can't you can't get up there with camels to that spot uh you gotta you gotta donkey it up it needs a little bit more nimble of a uh well camels have plenty of oomph but they they're not they're not as nimble in these like tight uh passages uh and we went up there it is an incredible sight it is an incredible sight of the tomb of our own it overlooks the whole arava in southern israel and it's it's purported to be it's got a good tradition it's called jabal arun that's what they call it the mount mountain of aaron uh in in in today found in the kingdom of jordan or what we like to call here euphemistically the east bank correct he's bank there you go so uh that was that was really good times um and and he's a very special character that i don't think that we always kind of uh take time to think about this character of aaron who classic overshadowed brother right overshadowed brother and even misrepresented by spielberg in um in um what's that movie called prince of egypt a little misrepresentative how did he get represented he was a bit rougher that he was he was actually a little bit the opposite of who he is which is this incredible lover and and uh of the jewish people and also when when when moses when we actually meet aaron for the first time and he hears that moses has received this prophecy he comes at him with joy and with he's happy for his younger brother he's got no jealousy beau yeah i know it's it's an archetype of what it means to be happy actually right an amazing person aaron and one who who's like greatest mistake i like to think about this whose greatest mistake was the golden calf but if you think about the golden catholic what kind of mistake was it it was a mistake where like he over went towards the will of the people to to bomb them to placate them to find you know every every me that has its kill cool every quality has its sort of um corrupt expression and arun gave the people what they wanted he understood their need and and gave them what they wanted what they needed and it in it uh if you read closely with the text went quite a bit further than he intended it to right that's right i i like to think about that moment is that the truth is is that moses is this very we have a hebrew word for it which is which is very very straight talking right as in he says to the to the the two jews are are uh striking one another so he says to the to the guy who's the evil one he says to him hey bad guy why why would you hit your brother it's very very forward very truthful and he represents capital t truth it's moses yeah motivation always knocked and loaded just remember that right he's lying he's not messing around he's not messing around and he's not he's not giving you what you want to hear and and he's the opposite of what aaron is which is a diplomat yes which is a diplomat somebody who can say it in a gentle way bring you on board bring two sides together great to set he's the negotiator he's the diplomat uh and that doesn't mean that it's fake it's not fake but but it is maybe polished and maybe maybe maybe maybe coated with honey just a tad in order to you know and as you said if most is the capital t truth that was also his failing because it was very difficult promotion even to relate right to the reality of the people something that i would love to speak toward when we get into the parsha in in the sort of revisiting of the story of spies that we see in this week's march which is so fascinating and i think indicative of the kill cool that sort of like corruption of moshe's absolutism in its inability to understand other people's fear so our own on the flip side is the small t truth he gets it he says you know people don't argue for nothing there's aspects of truth in what each one is saying now they're small teachers so they're not able to recognize that if you put the two together you might actually get further so that was his art form to really bring people together around the fact that their partial truths would often make a greater whole right so so the way i conceive of as the sin of the golden calf is actually when moses goes up to heaven to to the top of mount sinai so he's with god and that's a place that he's comfortable with so capital t truth is with capital t truth and he's up there and aaron who who is the diplomat and who likes to massage a little bit to to to to as you just explained to to find everybody's truths he's left with the people when this those two forces are separated that's when there's going to be a problem and and what happens is is that they say that people say we see that moses doesn't want to come down to us he doesn't want to come down to the rabble and then and then and then honestly if you were up there with god how quick would you be to go right especially if you're a very holy man like like moses and that's the way they perceive him they perceive him as otherworldly than to them but aaron at that point without that capital t pillar and more with the people so he's going to go towards them and in that case in a faulty manner in a manner that that that god is displeased with but i think that the displeasure is not it aaron per se it's at the separation of these two of the tension of these two the dialogue between these two energies which is capital t truth and diplomatic truth and when they're together when there's two forces like voltron when these two forces are together you know you know you really just go there you know these two lions come together right i mean they're separated they're weak so what i hear you're saying is that that our own loses his anchor when moshe's not around and moshe loses his bridge right when i'm it's not around very good right very good so so and and i think that both of those play themselves out in in the very painful failures that each one has the first time that i even ever heard that there's a torah of aaron was at uh the levine family in teaneck uh ezra halevi but his parents his father buzzy levine leia levine these are they're like 60s hippies who are still very much there yes yes and and you know buzzy levine has a guitar store in teaneck and he he's like really still lives there and they were like dude don't you know about the torah of aaron the whole another level brother right and i didn't i didn't know i didn't i was like what what are you talking about there's moses seriously some people say it's also it's a dot and that's another way to understand it it's a dot there's like knowledge and truth and it's famous how to live it with the people and and these two forces go ahead yeah an eighth of that is also about distinction and drawing of lines and it's a time is an organic hole very just like you said yeah so there you go so today is is uh is uh the the york side of aaron and i just want to say something about stewart site it's one of the your sites that we actually have in the biblical text yeah okay it says when he passed away we know the date that he passed away that's i think that's i think that's important kind of yeah i think it says something to us it says like mark this day out moshe's date because we get at the beginning of the book of devarim when he began but we don't actually get the day at the end but iron is explicit right that's explicit that's right we know we know uh the the passing date of moshe or beno but that is our tradition and a powerful one but there's something very powerful in the torah says to this day this is what happens so um that's that i also want to say before we go on speaking of passing away today's show is dedicated to leia goldman okay a mutual friends of both of ours uh shmuel goldman uh dedicates today's show to to leia goldman i already talked about it in the first half with mauka but i want to say it again now uh good friend let goldman who i actually knew from high school by the name of lisa height uh she was in my grade and uh and i i met her under the same name really long time ago a long time ago i was yeah where she was the youngest you know she was almost pretty much high school age but she was there when we were all in college that was kind of the way that leia was she's always inside herself she was she was always friendly with the with the older kids it was always like she was also just the type to charge out front you know what i mean like this is not a woman that stayed behind and let other people do the work yeah one of the things that always bothers me about her her death is that and i said this at her funeral it was not like her uh she was so vivacious so full of life and uh to this day i'm always like that doesn't add up to me little old me uh how to understand that but i know what paul is doing now yeah yeah absolutely and and and we talked about it with mauka but she was very instrumental in bringing more and more people to the golan heights uh she is survived by her by her father by her brother and sister and by her husband and by five children and so we really want to bless them shmuel got remarried to the wonderful bachelor and we really want to bless their families that have also melded together two big families to continue to be successful i'm sure that you're being blessed by leia and uh we miss leia goldman very much and we uh we we wish her in the shaman aliyah right uh i also want to say that related to that somehow in any case it's related in radio logic is that uh yesterday uh the judgment came down for the murderer of ahri foreign yeah that's right and and it was a it's a life imprisonment for the 16 he was at the time 16 and a half-year-old terrorist who struck down already full who i knew very well as well and really was murdered just just a few kilometers down the road here uh so um you know good people uh are struck down some by disease and others by by terror uh but at the same time uh my good friend bobby pittinger uh and his family were just blessed this week uh with a brand new baby boy i don't know i don't know the name yet was the name announced i i didn't catch it yeah but we want to wish you a big the pittancer family a big fat masaltov and lots of blessings and this is a family this is a family that loves torah and loves erits israel uh and are strongly strongly connected so we wish uh the the new boy to have a hatslacha to go into torah upanima uh all the governments all right good um what else today is also rosh chodesh as we said rosh chodesh and we're starting a new book now you and i because of my fault i think we i missed broadcasting with you last week so i apologize to everybody no big no that's right uh what we didn't talk about from last week is the torah portion that ends the book of bamidbar the book of numbers and the two torah portions and it really talked about dividing up the land of israel who the heads of the tribes will lead the jewish people into the land of israel the dangers of leaving your enemies on the land of israel uh and uh the the allotment really um the the the apportionment and the borders of the land of israel if i didn't say that uh so it was really it was really the should i say it again the de luma of the uh you love that word i do like it uh the climax of of that of the book of numbers which is really humongous are not the same thing isn't dynamite like the they want is the is the after effect of the playing out climax oh darn it there's so much to learn there's so much to learn out there there's so much knowledge um well there's so many other things i want to talk to you about i also want to tell you that i went to the kinaris recently and i got a chance to you and i both have had little mini vacations in the last few days am i right yes thank god i got away from shabbat to the beach in netanya super beautiful very sweet town i love latanya i love natanya natanya is one of the best and i went up to the kineret and hung out on the shores of the kinarat and i think what the reason i'm tying this in is because the that those messiah is really about the the land of israel torah portions uh and we're we speak about the land of israel a lot but a lot of our brothers and sisters uh both the jewish tribe and family and both lovers of the land of israel are locked out out of the country and are really locked out for the foreseeable future it's been a long time and yeah i know my mom has finally cancelled her ticket she had a ticket for pass off and couldn't come and she rolled it over to rosh hashanah thinking at the time we were like of course he'll be able to come for rosh hashanah it doesn't look like that's going to happen now it's like really heartbreaking so rabbi mike a good friend of mine mayor mayor eisenmann who is one of the finest tour guides in the land sure he's famous he's famous thank god maybe i've helped him a little bit um he um he he called he left me a whatsapp message saying we have to help break this siege in which uh our american jewish brother it's not a siege but the blockade the blockade that was the way okay the black the naval blockade the air naval blockade which is stopping the our brothers and sisters from being able to come home and then i was i was in a bit of a suggestion for how to do that right he didn't say that and i was in a feisty mood and i sent him back a message and i said to him yes yes you can believe it i said to him uh i said to him you know maybe american jews are locked out as a little lesson for them i said i said you know sometimes we take the land for granted and we think that it's always there for us and we think that it's a playground where we do our fun stuff uh there we eat the good food in the summer we we go to the hotel in the beach and then pepperoni and masada uh but maybe we think of it as like not the real life and then we go back home to the real life and i said maybe it's a little lesson for them right religious disneyland and then he said back to me and then another friend of mine named david david cazone said to me he said to me but our brothers and sisters are in a lot of pain right now and we should recognize where they're at right now both in how that country is doing the divisiveness of that country corona that struck hard there etc etc and i felt sheepish a little bit because i thought to myself he's right there's something like i should just like i want them to have a little lesson about about the land of israel we should have a lesson i should have a lesson about caring more for our about the people of israel yeah and i'll add to that that we want to be careful opening that lens of judgment because the reality is is that we're in more danger than they if we're going to say that the consequences of not loving and respecting the land of israel are felt immediately i mean we're the ones that risk getting spit out of the land right and our respect for the land our respect for the torah our respect for one another um our obligation to create a just government and to be sovereign these things are are not necessarily being fulfilled i mean i wouldn't dismiss the accomplishments we make god forbid i'm not that's not my point my point is is that um there's a wake up somewhere here it's a wake-up call and if it's a wake-up call to our brothers and sisters outside there's they'll come home then to us is to wake up like beyond israel like it don't just be a bunch of jews in the land or god forbid a hebrew speaking you know nation uh like others but but um but you know beyond israel yeah i was talking about this with my class last night that the the rambam says that that um the conquest of this gemara that the congress of yahushua the sanctity of the land was uprooted by the conquest of the babylonians because if might makes right that works both ways but the conquest of ezra which was done through acquisition right the persian empire granted this land to us held out but there's complications and so we were speaking about is there a third way because you know wait wait wait wait wait but but this you didn't you didn't say the end there which is the conquest of ezra through purchase did stick i said i said it held out it held out yeah yeah but but it's still complicated if you look because they didn't take all the land and there's this status and that status so so we've done the joshua style conquest not to the degree that joshua did but we've done our fair bit we've done the ezra style conquest whether it's in direct purchase or you know sort of international regulation what's really going to make it permanent in my eyes is when we understand that really the only thing that gives a hold on this land is the fulfillment of our applications with a mission this land is a platform for our mission in the world and and and not conquest nor acquisition is enough to really bind us to this land only the fulfillment of our mission um my rationale a lot has been written a lot has been thought about and written about the difference between the conquest of joshua and the conquest of ezra for sure and the real question is wait a minute wasn't joshua coming with godly miracles and with awesome power and ezra came with kind of a poor group of of misfits in babylonia so how is it that he's missing tonight logs there was the core ideologues good good thank you thank you i appreciate that with when i am which one you are you know sometimes ideologues are misfits oh yeah well usually they are right ideologies have a nice term in those people's mouths right my explanation for that is actually um um maybe a little novel which is that joshua and company they came there was nothing else they could choose they couldn't go back to the desert and they couldn't go back to egypt they came there by force and those that tried to reject it already got smashed the ezra people they came by total choice in fact their brothers and sisters were like what are you doing and they're like but we yearn for the land of israel and their brothers and sisters we're like but babylon's working for us it's so good it's so good right someone just sushi right when a jew chooses the land of israel by choice uh it's a completely different level than when you are forced to accept it uh when you come here by choice or when you run away from anti-semitism those are two different things oh we'll take you if you run from anti-semitism oh oh you bet we will but there's a difference between that and saying i want this land i'm coming home because i want to be close to god in this land um the other thing i want to tell you is that is that actually at the end of my beach day we went to see the rambam the rambam the rambam is buried in tavaria it's so fabulous to visit the rambam but you know he's not there alone there are more heavy hitters there we'd go on another road trip that was all that was fun that was very special that's right that's right and i went i went to the tomb of the rambam and i saw the rabbi yochanan ben zakai who is the one who chose yavneh over jerusalem when the emperor what is it titus what's the type of face he spoke about this patient was his son that he left behind to conquer jerusalem and he returned to rome to take up the uh the mantle of the purple right now now uh uh a american progressive intellectual by the name of peter beinart has written an article titled yavneh in which basically he argues just like this sage was able to choose a lesser zionism because roman conquered it so to israel today can choose a lesser form of zionism of an ethnic national state instead make it a state of all its citizens a bi-national state which i've uh the term now by nardistan uh yes you guys you gotta copyright that i have i've yeah i i wrote it in my in my article and i call it being artistan uh by nagistan and and i think by the way i can understand why he's so into binationalism because it just sounds like his name so it's by national by nardistan um and he uses rabbi yochanan ben zakai as a kind of model which by the way i got to give kudos intellectual kudos for at least formulating it in this interesting jewish way i mean you yes and i my reading of the articles is that he didn't understand the kimono at all right don't forget that that that um the german itself raises the issue like you know like you know uh mesa huffman i forget exactly how the apostle comes it's like well he was a full reveal should have asked rome to go away and and and it's ready kiva's voice that says it that he that he lost his wisdom but the the reply is that that um understood there are situations in history in which the only thing you're going to get that's fascinating if you're going to try to grab too much you're going to end up with nothing so you had to like you know maytil puerta it just saved a little bit because rome was this ascendant power but ready kiva is the one who understood that the flip side of that argument is that sometimes actually survival means going for broke even if you fail because it's not just a matter of holding on to some little bit that you can like you know survive with it's a matter of what your and purpose and and just despite the fact that people paint rebbe kieva's rebellion and rebellion as this tremendous failure and cause of suffering i disagree vehemently the the the revolt was the was the fire that fused the teachings of yavna into a unit which actually could not only survive but thrive and serve as the seeds for the world in which we live today so so yeah for him to i i found it infuriating i mean yes true he's a cut above the rest and the fact that at least he knows to come up you know but uh i was tempted to do the whole even the devil can quote scripture thing on it but that's boring truth i don't do i i liked everything you just said the only thing i would i would just a tad just kind of change a little bit is to say i don't think jewish history records rabbi akiva as being a loser nobody ever said rabbi kiva you're the one who led to this thing the opposite like everybody understood that rabbi akiva rabbiki was considered one of the greatest of all sages yeah but the rebellion was judged by the sages and certainly for most of jewish history up until the zionist movement to be an unmitigated disaster and the big question of it was how could we kill have been we still find those inspiring coins that say for the freedom of jerusalem and according to some according to some there's some disagreement on this i found but according to some uh barcode actually did take back jerusalem and hold it for three years and uh and restarted the the temple sacrifices you know i find one of the most moving things have you ever seen the barcode letters the the they were discovered in the case not far from my house where he sends messages he literally war with the largest concentration of legions that this region had ever seen right and he's sending men and messengers saying the army is very large we need a lot of and and lou loves and hadassah because sukkot is here by the way you left me a message today we were back and forth on sms and then and then the message you sent me was the 770th with 770 in my messages i said this is this is a good sign this is a good sign nick right that's right so so i mean there you go uh get your little of intro trogum ready for for the armies of israel anyway it was wonderful to be at the tomb of the rambam and it also capped that's what i love so much about vacationing the land of israel like you vacation you swam in the beach but then it's not like swimming in florida where you're like okay i swam that was good for my body like right you went to this holy place and you know my wife just loves that kind of stuff it's like we like we like we like finished it off with this beautiful like spiritual you know we were there on a spiritual journey as well and that's wonderful uh speaking of spiritual journeys uh we're starting a recap and we're starting the book of deuteronomy and by the way i'm supposed to eric eric the monk has corrected me yet again and i'm supposed to say pentateuch pentateuch with a k at the end not pentateuch i'm so dumb anyway uh he didn't say that uh so we are starting by the way i've begun um googling how do you pronounce anything i have a question i'm gonna save myself the embarrassment of getting that email that's right that's right and and uh you know and i love latin terms and french terms i love french political terms i love those uh so and what's that i said i like french fries i like please if you actually if you have any political french terms or latin terms that you like please send them over i used to love them in law school though they had this great you know writ of certiori and stuff like that they had great stuff in law school uh of latin terms but in any case the book of deuteronomy which is the second telling uh of the torah it's it's it's a different kind of book it's written in a different voice it's written in the voice of moses uh and we started now it's a 30-day speech uh that starts at the jordan jericho servant is too long just remember that days i just want to say hebrew joke to you now uh the the the gabba says to the rabbi is giving a long speech so the god comes up to me and says okay there you go the i got it for those who get it there you go no problem um in any case we have a very special torah portion which is um this um this read the begin the beginning a book which retells the story now i actually have a big problem with this book my problem is is that during the whole summer i find that i have a very hard time saying divrei torah i have a very hard time getting up there if they ever ask me to speak somewhere i have a very hard time speaking during this time because in the rest of times i can find word connections and things and ideas here it's like just listen to the man just if you'd like i'll read to you from the book but there's nothing to add to it let me just read to you from what he says because the rabbi is speaking the rabbi is speaking what do you want from me you know what i mean that's uh that's something that that is always troubling for me in this torah portion uh but one of the things that you you know what before we'll get to what you hinted at for a second but there is one verse that i like very much that i wanted to speak with you um here's the good news moses in verse chapter 1 verse 11 moses says hashem eloque the god hashem the god of your forefathers yourself he should increase upon you a thousand times he should bless you as he has spoken to but then the next word is oh my god how can i carry along on the one hand you're blessed and you're awesome and you're huge and you're you're you're you're just a massive awesome people and and hashem is blessing you on the other hand there's a lot of you that's a lot of jews yes and there's a lot of there's a lot of contentiousness and and and dealing with you is not easy that's what i think about about our beloved state of israel on the one hand it's like awesome on the other hand that's that's a handful a lot of jews to deal with i'm telling you i don't envy anybody who's in charge here that's right that's right and when whenever sometimes i think netanyahu's greatest skill is just keeping the lid on the pot that is that is the well i mean he might be slipping on that one right now that's right that's right his the greatest skill here in israel is to be able to manage the very vociferous forces that that pull at this the graph the gravities that pull up this from different directions well apparently the technique is just to give everyone a mana falafel and chips and it just works hey you know falafel will do a lot for you so tell me what you think about about about a lot like like you're blessed a lot but you're also a big lot and that's not easy uh yeah i mean i think that you kind of said the the essential thing which is that um they're the intensity of the connection to the divine which is the hallmark of israel is only a blessing if you have the kalim to receive it it's only blessing if you have the vessels to receive it uh you know and and the land of israel is a primary vessel for that the torah is a primary vessel but i think in particular there's an aspect of leadership right the the major says in many places that moshe know chicago notion but here i think what it means is that moshe was a real leader he could serve it he could hold it he could serve as a fleet to hold that and to then take all this sort of very powerful disparate energy and weld it into a people right and i think that moshe's pointing out is that you know like gosh i've had many people say this but like your children are very big engines so i feel like one of those expressions they use in parenting classes like it's a child with a very big engine you're like well thank you very much can we throttle back on that you know um you know and like oh your kids are gonna be when they grow up they're gonna do amazing things and i'm like well really because right now they're killing each other you know um and that's what i hear and what moshe is saying is that they the capacity of amish is so astounding at the same time to have that kind of capacity without the proper vessels to hold and channel it is tremendously destructive and difficult and he's been holding it for this long right now he's putting it down we have to remember that that's the context here he knows it's been told in no uncertain terms oh invites come on he'll have his last sort of uh attempt to overturn the decree but he knows this is it this is his parting speech and anything he can teach us now is what he's got to teach us right and and in some ways there is a clue into the end of the uh moses leadership in this torah portion with the retelling of the sin of the spies which strangely by the way just got retold again uh last parsha when the two and a half tribe the two tribes asked to stay on the east side of the river jordan so he says to them hey you know your your forefathers uh uh when they spied out the land they came back with a negative report they melted our hearts and you're going in their way you're melting the hearts of the people the same thing right and you have a bad culture he literally says yeah right you got bad culture going on that that word is used there and here again is the retelling of the tale but in a way the retelling of the tale here is in order to say um it was really your idea to send the spies and i got punished because of that yeah i went you go ahead sorry maybe i was gonna say maybe i went down the aaron path which i instead of sticking to what i do best was just capital t truth i succumbed a little bit to you and that that that that led me to the road of that led to a certain demise well let's lay it out for people who may not be so familiar because there's a couple of details here i think that not only teach us a very important lesson about motion and leadership in general but they open out for us what exactly look at the volume is because you already alluded to the fact that look at the volume does not fit the mold right it's no longer a linear narrative like the linear narrative stops basically at the end of the meet bar and we're now going to re-tell so it's a reflection it's also in moshe's voice and there are many other ways in which it differs but but back in bamidbar at the beginning of it and it sounds like god says to moshe yeah send the people and then then irashi there alludes to what happens but here in our parsha moshe retells he's now telling this back to member if you were 19 years old at sinai you were there when the slides went and you're alive now because the fact that that whole generation passed away doesn't mean that there's no one there that remembers if you were 18 19 you probably remember fairly well what happened this was a major life event so he says you all came to me and you said we want to send people spy out the land emotion says i thought it was a good idea right and i took them and i sent them etc right but the the missing piece is what rashi fills in from the midrash town huma that how did it all go out how could it be that in it sounds like god says send them and here in motion tell this retelling his own experience he says you came to me and said let's do it and i said good idea so rashi fills in the critical piece from the midrash he says what really happened the people came to motion said we want to send spies now up until now every time anybody has come to moshe with an innovative idea what does moshe do what's he do everything the notes look god say we should inherit the the the people who are carrying the bones of yosef say you don't want to miss out on passover what does moshe do he he turns it back to god he asks hang on let me check with the amsterdam like that's what i do i'm motion here and the meters points out that for the first and perhaps only time moshe says god what should i do and god says i don't know moshe what are you gonna do says you think it's a good idea you send it that's what moshe says i thought it was a good idea so i sent you and then at the end of it even more mysterious right it says hang on it's in line i think it's like 37. ah 37 yeah right and a guy was also angry with me um i sort of because of you on your behalf and he said you can't go into land what you ask every kid who's educated in the israeli religious school system and probably ones that are educated in the secular host some of them will tell you why didn't moshe go in the land he hit the rock that's not what moshe says right moshe says you can go and land because he was unable to do the right thing in this moment so what wasn't he able to do i think that goes back to our discussion about the capital t little t motion didn't understand fear not understand fear did not understand how it was that these people who had been following the the pillar of cloud by day and fire by night they were surrounded by the clouds of glory drinking the miriam's well in mana and they'd seen the splitting of the red sea inside how could they possibly still be afraid it even says in in in the description that they says them don't be afraid that's right right that's like his sort of like throwaway line don't be afraid because fear is part of process because process lacks certainty but emotionally like you said most is not about process motion sees the product and the error to sale is about the process right and there's no certainty for any one generation yeah there's a divine promise for sure that's where the certainty lies but not to you and i and and and this was moshe's realization that he was not the one to lead us in he belonged to the wilderness he belonged to that generation yeah specifically to the wilderness because the wilderness was a place of perfection thousand glory miriam's well mana the echoes of sinai but here's not the daily life of uncertainty of fear of messy process of failure and success i i thought what you were gonna say is he didn't understand the people's fear and therefore he was not a proper leader for them all the way to lead them in because he wasn't in in in mental health that's what i'm saying that's what i'm saying is he couldn't he couldn't get it and therefore he couldn't speak to them meaning what should he have done he should have said whoa whoa whoa why do you guys want to send spies right and it's like so we're friends with guys listen i get it but listen there's a place for rational fear and there's a place for courage and of course who are the people who show true courage yo shu and kalev they're the ones who say yeah we saw it all we saw everything that you guys were afraid of but but god like god said we're going to do we're going to do it notice they weren't that they weren't afraid because courage doesn't mean you're not afraid then they just mean you're ignorant right courage means you're afraid you're doing anyway because you believe it can happen right and and but but but it but they but they did also see the very same fears in a different way that they saw opportunity they saw i mean like look at look you know like in my mind like a great businessman has got those kind of eyes he just looks at something he sees a dirty empty lot of broken lot he sees a skyscraper okay people have that sometimes but no nobody doesn't see he doesn't see the certainty of it he's right risk he's willing to take right that's right that's that's the courage part saw the certainty and that was the way the inability to really relate to the people's fears it's most ribenu he lived in a world of certainty like you said which is powerful beautiful we still sort of uh are illuminated by his light but but in the end of the day it's not the world in which we live this year i also saw a mattress that i never saw before and it just says something so simple that i never heard before the metric was like will your generation be condemned and the leader is going to go into the land of israel yeah it just says it like that it's like could it be that that that you will graduate but your whole flock won't that doesn't make any sense that doesn't mean that i saw it when i was trained in the midfield i was very surprised at how simple that was how simple and powerful is that um wait i want to give you more peace move on if you look in the eighth verse right it says it's in the past tense bold i've already given you the land so go and inherit it right coming in here right here so you look at rashi it says there's nobody that's gonna argue with you on it the ancients and you wouldn't even have to fight ila shalhumaragli that if we hadn't sent the spies we would have not even needed war why because and that was that was moshe's level you see if you if we really weren't afraid if we really understood that if god said we're going to inherit it as if it's already done then we wouldn't have been drawn into this sort of like uh tactical error of the spies and and the whole story going forward would have been fundamentally different the power of faith is the power to change reality in many ways absolutely we all have by the way internal fears about what we can do and what we can reach it's very powerful to get in touch with those things and to say them and to and to know them outright what you're afraid of and i think that there's i think that there are also forces out there today that are that use fear uh weaponizing narratives is really making people scared making people doubt there's a lot of forces like that in this world today there's a lot of forces that want to make you afraid of what you know is true afraid of your own possibilities afraid of the land of israel afraid of standing up for yourself afraid of standing up by the way for what you believe in politically or morally you just can't say out there today what you believe because you're just being judged all the time or you're going to be shamed are you going to be cancelled culture by the way i i had um there was a video of me surfaced saying some stuff and the the you know it's been seen now like 30 000 times on twitter or something like that awesome um i was talking about the temple mount and i said that god does not well the clip that they cut out i said that that i was talking about hashem or the hashemites who should rule the temple mount hashem or the hashtag i'm like that's right i'm like i'm like the hashemites are a substitute for hashem like we want hashem not hashem okay and and then i said that you know god says when you're in other people's lands we're supposed to be liberal jews are liberal we we we see the the the beauty and the truth and the rights of other people to express themselves but when god brings us back to jerusalem he says be liberal with me give me my small jerusalem my small land of israel my small temple mount to be free and here's where i got in trouble to be free of churches of mosques and of idolatry that's right so the the the the the the anti-israel crew and i don't mean i mean that literally was the anti-israel crew not the regular like jewish crew that is like left or liberal picked up on it and they and they and they they splashed it all over the internet asking newsweek shouldn't you cancel this uh authorization that was the take right they were right for cancel culture right for cancer uh of course so i'm just quoting the the spartak and ashkenazic rashonium yeah or or how josiah got rid of the idolatry and my point is is that if you don't like the the stance that the church in the mosque might be idolatrous so then you might as well cancel my entire um legal history that's right and and that's the thing the thing is is what i said was not it wasn't really contentious i was just saying what are what are jewish laws no no it could be it could be contentious so it's contentious but but it was it was not the intent was not um hateful or hurtful nor was it just based in nothing meaning one of the challenges that the canceled culture seeks to avoid is that is that we have to also look at the realities that have shaped us you can't just decide in the year 2020 i had to check um that this is this is what morality is this is what truth is and anything which doesn't conform to this you know they say we used to the expression used to be we are dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants you know now the perspective is where it's giant standing on the shoulders of dwarves and yeah and and it's crushing them right we're crushing the past which notice by the way means that our ability to see gets less right and also it's it's a complete haughtiness in simple terms do you really think that you're a giant and do you really think that the past are nobodies i'll never forget by the way one of my one of my favorite stories and i'm not sure it could have been that our mutual friend zeb showed it to me i'm not sure but i this is an amazing thing you can look it up that during the last tsunami in japan they they they kind of studied the area where the tsunami was hit they found all these stones these big monoliths and it was written in japanese five hundred years ago do not build below this line right okay you build a little design it's new york times they have pictures of it did you just see these monoliths do not build and i love it that the ancients sent us a message the ancients i love that we built a nuclear reactor below the lines we didn't just like build a house right that's right what could possibly go wrong with the nuclear reactor tsunami line right or who knows who could believe that the water would come up to this line that's absurd and and the ancients are like no no it comes up to here you know it comes up here it's got something to tell us and minimally we should we should listen to the agent the ancients if not necessarily accept everything but at least you know deal with it by the way i want to tell you that i uh i found a fabulous app for da fiomi and i'm back on daf yomi and i want to tell you and i know you know this i want to say that anybody who wants to start studying talmud gemara shabbos is packed full of just great stuff great questions my favorite question yesterday was if if twins were born one was born one was born on friday before shabbos and the other one was born already on shabbos and let's 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devarim to take the time to retell our stories in a way in which is not only gonna make us healthy in the present but it's going to orient us positively for the future amen i'm very good and and that dovetails perfectly also with both rosh horish ave tishabhav but also this coveted crisis period that we're living in a great time to reflect and to think deep and to also i think muster of the courage that when we get it when we're breaking out of this jail we're going big like joseph we're going big we're going all the way up uh from this to something much much bigger as shaol asks uh on the facebook he says you mentioned about da fi omi app but you didn't mention what app it is and the app's name is me but it's got plenty of english language uh lessons as well it's got like a hundred different classes every day uh for me well well made app uh with also you can hit click a button you'll see the the page of the timeline fabulous everything has worked out technology is working with us 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