Yishai Fleisher Show: Top Ten Pieces of Advice (from God)

[Music] Shalom everybody and welcome to the shy Fleischer show broadcasting live from Judea actually from Jerusalem to the world that's right from Jerusalem to the world this half my mind is a little discombobulated but I'm here with rabbi Mike Feuer I by Mike Shalom and welcome Shalom and of course if you're in Jerusalem you are also in that's right that's right we're not in correct that wasn't correct but I'm at a discombobulated because I got a lot of stuff in my mind right now and so much so that again second week in a row I made like a not total wrong turn but I made like a wrong turn to get to this place here because my mind was thinking about other stuff you too you had a late last late night last night hanging out some friends that's right thank God thank God hanging out and about 60% okay cuz 60 percent is good and and and our audience will really appreciate your 60 percent today I might sell out of me yeah no I myself am thinking about a lot of stuff right now I got I got a big event coming up in Washington DC actually it's not exactly watching them it's in Maryland next door it's at the National Harbor which is right next to Washington it's gonna be the CPAC Israel Heartland reception the Israel got my name the Israel heartland reception that seat back at the Israel heartland reception at CPAC and we're making these beautiful pins my whole thing's coming up beginning of March huh no the end of February February 27th Thursday night anybody that listen is listening is invited because it's at the Residence Inn across the street from the Gaylord Convention Center which is where the CPAC big event is happening that's the conservative PAC event and we have make we're making these pins I'm so proud of them they say I heart Israel's heartland I heart Israel's heartland I think that the Heartland folks in America really can appreciate it and this is all within the effort to change the relationship linked in language linguistically and touristical II to this area and really let the the people of the Bible sell the Bible help the world fall in love with the Bible help with the world fallen over the place of the Bible and help really Israelis feel like they're presenting the world of the Bible which actually happens when you sell something you start to identify identify with it sure in this case it's a genuine we are product of it we are a product of it but that doesn't mean that that it's it's not necessarily foremost in our identity know for sure now uh the town of efrat right which is you know the whole area of Christiaan which is where the story of Ruth took place there's no Ruth festival there's no Ruth plays there's no defeat of Melek like stuff that happens around chef's vote nothing so you don't self-identify with it so you doesn't it doesn't happen everybody hanging out on the green floors nobody says that this is the place of Romania you Dolloff Cashman which is a yurt site of overkill Amina is not a big thing in Gush Etzion it's not okay so they don't they don't think about these things and I think that they should so sometimes you're gonna need the Gentiles to help you out like the Gentiles are like geek the election why so female a Oh Timon oh yeah that's that's the meaning of that verse which says in the Psalms like but the Gentiles say look I chef has done great things with you and you're like look well lookie here so that you know and you could say that's sad or not so who cares the fact the fact is it works that way and and and so I'm very excited so that's the number one big thing I'm working on I'm very excited I really want to invite everybody there you can be there by any chance I don't travel as you know that was not a real question yeah no that was not a real fish but it's gonna be it's gonna be really fun I'm really I love this pin I heart Israel's heartland that's that's catchy yeah it's exactly and and the whole idea is to just just and and also move away from the identification of this place as this occupation that's what they want to do they want to paint it all is this like occupation and and right and in Israel colonialization all these words well in its it runs a little bit deeper than that it has a lot to do with our current cultures rejection of history I mean we need to decontextualize ation it's like what really matters here is what's happened in the last 50 years that's all the members I remember once I was in grad school I was having a bit of debate about Israel the Middle East with a Pakistani student and he kept saying like anything that happened 19 before 1948 is irrelevant and I kept saying well we we talked about like the Jewish attachment to this land and like going back to Abraham you know it's that desire I didn't realize at the time but the exact what you're expecting if you can decontextualized if we can remove the deep roots then you can control the discourse and you can present what is the heartland of the Jewish people as a military occupied zone I mean the flipside being true is that we indeed are of a military occupied posture there right now the difference is why like we have to ask that question which goes right back to the context right so one of the great warriors of the stuff that you just said on the side of the anti-israel narrative is dr. Sahib Erekat oh yeah he's and he was kind of I follow him on Twitter and he was just kind of you know kind of enjoining embezzlement and all the good things that come with good guys in life your good things in life it was just very quiet but I want to tell you if anything the Trump deal of the century has an element of Tata my team of resurrection of the dead because he has come out like a lion okay and he's out there on Twitter tweeting every day like got like a banshee and he says I mean if the prefer to Cather main theme is dread Omer and Abbas talk about pull on resurrection anyway you were saying you're right you're right that's right so I actually tweeted on that Dumb and Dumber and I he writes Danny Danone representative of an occupying power with a well document well documented long list of crimes and violations uses the UN Security Council to call upon the world to ignore international law and for regime change in Palestine this can only come from a settler colonialism mentality there's a lot of large arguing he's save his back yeah and but what happens is when you step inside that language it's internally referential and it's consistent and therefore it seems to make sense and most importantly for Westerners who are suffering from a sense of guilt about how the last 150 years have played out and sort of global politics it hits all the right raw wounds right that's right and here's you shows response from this morning hey say hey Eric got saved your house of cards is falling your people who live in fear from your Stasi reject you Stasi East German police thanks no not for you you will choke on the millions of dollars you embezzled in the name of liberation wait this is Twitter that's way too many characters the children you brainwash to hate will turn on you Halle will take you down fighting words oh no wonder I don't get any checks on Twitter also also another thing happened yesterday I really upset the the hard left crowd because what happens Oaks are difficult of course well no they got really upset they actually got that they really like at tried to help me for saying what I said it didn't anybody cancel you did anybody cancel yeah like block o block yeah no I I rock a thin line where it where I try not to be blocked by those folks and III don't see any reason why they should but in any case what happened was is that they there was a young man who was arrested and there's a video you know these famous videos and the video is of course the camera never lies right the this is a fourteen-year-old kid getting chucked abide by about five soldiers chuck back into the back of an under arrest you know Chuck violently just put in the back of a here it as you could see it he's putting being put in the back his mom's upset and stuff like that and they're like look at look at the face of this thirteen-year-old as he's being you know arrested and I wrote heartbreaking that such a young child's mind has already been converted to violent and tolerant jihadism oh my god they went they flipped out on that how could you say that you you're justifying arresting these kids I'm like I don't even understand what we're saying if a fourteen-year-old killed somebody would he not be arrested I understand what we're even talking about here yeah but I mean this is again part of that progressive mentality no he wouldn't be if we had our way because we would blame society and this is this is part of the whole tent in the discourse like to what degree do you focus on the responsibility of very individual for their actions and to what degree do you take that individual strip away their individuality plug them in to some sort of you know intellectual theoretical con struck and then blame the construct for the actions right this is what major tension between the conservatives and the progressives right now right and and and nobody has a good answer by the way just just last thing I saw my mom sent me the funniest you know what what I do like about the situation is that there is room for good humor out there well yeah and and so so you have this there's the video on Facebook it's it's like it's like a white guy he actually looks kind of Jewish but a regular kind of guy and he's driving this little BMW a little mini car he's just driving along listening to music and he like swerves without looking he swerves to the right and there's like a motorcyclist like a Harley guy like I like like a biker not a chopper and he almost like runs him off the road in the shot and the guy the biker you know swerves aside and then he like drives around him and he's cursing him with the full f-word with the ineffable word of F ok he's cook he's throwing it out on him and he's like are you blank and he'd you know how could you drive like this this and that now when we saw the guy the white guy the first guy at the beginning he had no hat on but when the biker pulled up right next to him to the window and he's cussing at him the guy rolls down the window and he's wearing a make Mogga hat yeah Mac ahead like America make America great again a red hat yeah and he's like oh what happened and he's like the biker looks at him he goes alright just try to be more careful next time alright it was really funny okay watch this transition are you watching I'm ready Saeb Erekat is a little bit chubby and if he would smile nice he would be jolly and that reminds me about how the Prince of Egypt movies depicted Jethro which is which is a jolly type character which actually wise I don't so much like that guy you know desert in contemplating God went to every avodah Zarah could about nothing there that's fine he could be desert veteran like Lawrence of Arabia I guess you're like a Yemenite better win type I know exactly what you're talking about like Oh like a real sold feature right like a guy I got him in my hair even worried right like a guy who's like crouching looking out of the desert maybe you're smoking a you know a rolled cigarette and thinking about like what what it's all about yes I I hear you I hear I've seen those people I know those people but he could also been fed in any case the fatness in in that patan I don't in any way and not talking about anybody's weights already that should be but the the point of that was is that he was lovable and in a person in that in that characterization was a person that like was able to see the good of the world that was the way that they presented it and and there is something to that I I do feel that in that in that in that Jethro is this character we talked about this a few times but here comes the father-in-law he's coming he's he's held on to or protected or been the father to your wife Moses and also your to the grandkids and he's he's kept them she's you know when you went down to Egypt and did all that action they were safe safe overnight and now I'm bringing them back to you here in the desert I'm meeting you I let you go to this fight and I held on to your family but hey you're also a it's maybe surprising but you're also a person Moses family managed your family men and and I'm bringing you the fam not only that but you have a father-in-law you know you have a father-in-law that has that has opinions and at the beginning of the Torah portion which is named after Jethro is really him seeing Moses in action and telling him while you are certainly going to should continue to remain in your role as the spiritual leader as a as a person of prayer as a person a spiritual guide and a judge you can't be the lone judge you've got to delegate and that's the system and I'm giving you a little bit of Gentile hokhmah a little wisdom here that doesn't come from it comes from below not from above it comes from human experience yes and I'm saying to you like you want you want to judge these people good but but you you need to stay fresh you need to find balance I mean this is what the sages see the original business book like an original self-help book yeah yeah yes six six Jethro steps to success yeah I like I hear it I mean the like this is a sort of an embodiment of our sages statement that you find someone says that there's wisdom amongst the nations believe them if someone says there's tor amongst the nations don't mean the Torah is the sort of internal relationship between God and Ami's realm but wisdom is a human characteristic and he is wise Jethro because the other wisdom that he has is that he blesses God's name which was a which was in itself a thing which is a to to like not only be thankful but to bless God what does that mean I mean the phrase bow Hashem which is what he says he is the first one to use that phrase isn't really a blessing of God it's a misconception when we when we make you know blessings over food or etc we're not blessing God we're identifying God is the source of blessing mm-hmm it's a very important distinction is they is that when you throw here is about you know the spilling of the Red Sea in the battle with a Malay can seize the people and yes there's an aspect of oh thank you Lord but there's more of a sense like wow now I get it God is the source of everything mm-hmm and here's the proof it used to be that not one slave at every escape from Egypt and I'm looking at this camp it's quite vast isn't it isn't it interesting that he says bless God for recognizing the awesomeness and and towards the very end of the story portion it says God says behold macomb I should ask you touch me every place that I will allow my name to be remembered it really means all all places that my name will be said but it's understood that it means all places this is at the end of torah portion in chapter 20 we're in the book of Exodus chapter 22 our portion of Jethro verse 21 every place that my name will I will remember I will have my name be mentioned I will come to you and bless you mm-hmm when I allow my name to be said like things like Baruch Hashem like that that is that is a if I allow that thought to come onto your lips that's one of the ways to know that God is with you if that word comes to you and it's an opening for more I mean that's a lot of what this parsha is about is it's the opening of a different scale of horizon I mean you can always look at events through a narrow lens you know today's narrow lens is science or or sociology etc right but but but the divine lens of course is the widest possible horizon so humans we're not capable of holding God's eye view but when we use Gaza and when we invoke God's nature looks at this situation he says both of em like I don't I don't know how this happened I know it's from God but when we invoke that know what God saying I will I will bridge bring down more you open the door I will widen it so that's a lot of how that works right and I think there's a there's a Rashi there that ever I don't know I don't know if it's this week special or different place like every place that the word blessing really means more of yeah like it means have more of that always since the first usage in creation it was it was bound up with Peru to be fruitful and multiply nice right alright so sometimes people say to you in English keep it up that's a 15 year boo Danya boo that's one of my favorite expressions that's right that is it going we're gonna get to another good Hebrew expression in a minute another thing about Jethro last thing before we go on to really the Ten Commandments is what was he what did it for him what was the thing that he heard that moved him and that was actually a couplet of things one the splitting of the Red Sea impressive awesome that's cool oh by the way by the way by the way I was thinking to myself I in my listing of the five books of Moses as the first book is the book of Genesis and creation the foundational family the second book it was like Exodus I had a thought today in the car on the way here which is it's the book of drama like the high drama high drama happens here that's why it's called super cool ah right go Redemption we got we got the splitting the Red Sea we got that we got the plagues the splitting of the Red Sea we get the revelation at Sinai right and then also the the the the golden calf and a continuing relationship between Moses and God like the lead the next step the detail of the Mishkan of the tabernacle which may not seem as dramatic as splitting the sea but in the end of the day serves as a dwelling place for God's Spirit on earth it's a big one mm-hmm it's it's really a book of like like big stuff cinematography Cecil B DeMille made a movie that's right big explosions of knowledge coming down so so what was the two things that that rocked Jethro the city Bereket what he could look at Apple gang Apple came here there's only so many things you can mix man okay on that well he the other thing that moved him and that that seemingly was was was meaningful to him was actually the attack of I'm awake on the Jews yes he's like I know you now this is business right this is meaningful well you know there's a question that you know a person by their enemies right and he understood I'm like William right then I'm like is this sort of route of the nations on some level the anti Israel and that if we had evoked their wrath this must be actually something real that's that is wise that's like that's like a Jethro in wisdom yeah I mean at the risk of labeling I'm like in our day it is too noteworthy that with all the mess that the world is facing for all the problems it has who brings the wrath of the international community down on them time and time again here we are in little just numbers alone it's like wait I don't get it listen to Kate care about the Palestinians or you care about these where you care about topless were talking about nine million people here right like it's it's just nothing compared to what is happening what we're talking about a small conflict yeah like compared to having all over parts of Africa and like you know the Russians in Ukraine and and like you know what's happening look the Turks are literally clearing out a chunk of Syria to forcibly resettle look a million plus refugees mm-hmm wait say it again right they're clearing out a section of a foreign country to forcibly resettle over a million people nobody care what about 1,500 protesters murdered in the streets of Iran yep there's a hundred protesters murdered nobody he don't cares you know Carrie and it's like it's like a kid gets arrested by the idea for for throwing a rock yeah and the Internet expense and and you know but that was my point yeah I mean that that itself shows that we're doing something significant here right which is which is a pretty good way of looking at it you know if you can spin it it's a positive yes I just chuckle about the fact that the President of France would have an opinion if I decided to put an addition onto my porch but but that's what's interesting about Jethro instead of shaking his head no like how bad is the UN or how bad is the world or how about a CNN or the EU he's like yep that proves it yeah I think there's a although it's logically understandable I think to be able to engage that that's pretty wise it's like that's a cut that's like a wisdom and and he was like uh-huh like that really proves it for me because the first one might have been just a natural okay that was cool you're free this isn't isn't of of you know cosmic historic significance that was an event he understands how it fits into the narrative and in many ways that's what I'm awake does is that you don't really have a narrative until you haven't protagonist and antagonist so so so what we're saying here though is that the anti-israel narrative that is I'm awake and his efforts worked in Jethro's mind as a pro-israel narrative or at least as a pro God narrative that's okay it's a critical piece is that fine but you have to realize oh wow the divine plan has taken a step here Mukesh M but it takes a really wise person to be able to see what is the exact opposite effort of that energy and be like I understand you to be yet another proof like I'll say it's simply if I'm out there is a neutral person and I'm looking at the Israel story like this week and I see now the Palestinians are going to the UN and the ripping Israel and the ripping Trump I would it be like well there's a question mark out there like wow why is everybody so up arms about these Jews let's figure that one out but I would be like maybe there's right here and maybe this right here and the truth is probably somewhere in the middle but what he understood was no the truth is all the way on this side and it's actually your your antagonism in opposition right which is it right that takes a its certain perspective I mean that takes just a great mine obviously each row gets a big nod in the Torah and that a whole Torah portion which is one of the seminal Torah portions of receiving the that's a committee right yeah is named after him which also says so into in the whole whole book five the kid named after non-jews right what's the other one don't oh sorry I was gonna have people right here okay okay I'll erase that part just joking let's talk to in Commandments all right I create we're here we're here on a leash I flashes show and you shall Americo - and you know I really I want to tell you like last night I got home late and I just I put on the podcast just just to listen as much as I could to to get as much perspective on the ten commandments as I could because I thought to myself like it we got to spend time on it you know because now why use or even attend commands maybe just that's the first question like what why it frankly it's problematic and we know in our tradition it's seen this problematic you know the whole debate of whether one should stand in shul when the Ten Commandments are read is expressive of this awareness we have of like well why are these fundamentally different than and they got commanded you thou shalt not murder but God also commanded you don't eat lobster so they're both divine commands and so there is something I shall not eat lobster right you know so so I would say is they there's a difference here between the between content and experience that really in the end of the day when we speak we're speaking about Mohammed rc9 there's standing at Sinai and and the law that comes from it is some level secondary to that because it's no less binding than the laws of how to make the Michigan or whether you can cook gap and it's Mother's Milk right but what was different was that they're called the Hotei doot right this is the tablets of testimony says yeah there's gonna come a time where people aren't gonna buy it that I actually gave you loss as God and so we're gonna have a big moment together a big moment that for the rest of history is going to become a reference point you can quibble cuz you're Jews about what this law means or whether that one really came from here or there that's fine says God I could see that one coming but don't forget we had a moment right I like what you're saying very much and I will only add to that that there's also another element which is related to what you just said which is we had that moment and let's also create an iconography which will go down through the ages and iconography which people can can visualize over don't hold onto my wife has a fabulous necklace with the two tablets and it has a small version of the you know there's the short for way of writing these drugs Commandments and it's like and it's a very deep thing if you think about it it's like 10 things 10 sayings 10 10 ideas 10 values and we have a tradition amongst the rabbinic tradition of trying to trace all all of the commandments yes back into there into the roots and it's an important one right let me need to say the 613 commandments are all rooted in the Ten Commandments there they are essentially referenced references or these are sort of roots to the branches all the other Commandments yeah it's at the same time you know we we see that the e the temptation for people do and none too alike say well these are obviously the important ones right no no no and the other ones are these are chapter headings and and again they're they're icons of everything else now yesterday my good friend I don't want to say his name because he's an ultra Orthodox Jew and he went up to the Temple Mount that's the only reason why I don't wanna say his name because he's one of these Temple Mount going ultra-orthodox Jews that can get in trouble with certain as we say in ultra ultra Orthodox world my studies right with the me with the schools or institutions that that his kids go to but any case they know but they don't want to publicize it too much too much that he goes up to the Temple Mount and he went up with rabbi ul by noon oh yeah you all been knew who all everybody all been known as a great thinker in our time and he told me a DVAR Torah that review abandoned told him on the Temple Mount and then afterwards told him you have to write it down what I told you and he was writing it as I came into his house yesterday and it's just very very simple the verse in chapter 19 verse 5 says and now in schemata Schmoe McCulley felis if you hearken to my voice Sushma I'm ability and you keep my covenant the hateem v10 lease Kula you'll be a special capable nation me Cole Haim you'll be special to me from all the other nations Keely : eyelets the earth is all mine vadym here's the here's the magical phrase I attempt you Lee mimetic or name you'll be on to me a kingdom of priests the [ __ ] Kadosh a holy nation a dream these are the things I show to develop they said these are the things they gotta tell the Jewish people right meaning this is the condition this is the story right and then Rashi writes here's the Rashi Ella had valium these are four words you talk about great Hebrew expressions lopa Holtville oil - yeah not less and not more and would reveal but they're not saying like this is the essence of Judaism you gotta know the role of the Jewish people our role is to be among look anemic wicked those that's what you gotta do and this is the things that I'm telling you to do and Rashi says and not less and not more not more which is like except that by the way you and I were having a huge discussion beforehand before the show about the next hundred years and and I wouldn't say to you something like this which is a lot for though your tear like we gotta be on looking couldn't even kudos how the world is gonna take go forward and coronavirus and technology and save like sea level those are all in sealable these are all important things nobody denying our pooh-poohing there but in terms of our role God's God knows God controls the world and in terms of our oh we have to be a holy nation and Rashi just adds these words just this which you got a note not less and not more that's what you're in charge of to be a much economy kadosh and the way you're gonna do it is through the ten commandments so let's just go through them shall we we shall just be just to clarify there's a large part of the Torah portion be the the Torah section today before they're giving the Ten Commandments which is the description of the drama of the mountain itself the limit it's smoky it's there's lightning there's there's a sound of shofar blowing it is a dramatic and scary event the Jewish people are at the foot of the mountain if you've been to what is according to some scholars where Mount Sinai is I've been there it's really a just one Darvin Sinai night the Sinai yeah there's there's there's different different takes but if let's say we accept the one that's down Sinai it helps you kind of visualize it you've got a small little mountain range in the middle of a flat plain desert and so you could have the nation around it and then this like middle mountain range is just like on fire and Moses is told to to to limit the movements of the Jewish people make sure that nobody is going to go up the mountain there's some there's obviously some kind of a yearning to to touch it whoa well there's a whole theme of boundary here in that on one hand witnessing something is an intimate act you really want to be as close to it as possible at the same time there needs to be an experience of something which is beyond you and your giving testimony to something you can't comprehend hence right the the seeing of the sounds and the hearing of the lights and there's an ax like really and also I think it's fantastic from here all the way through out of 3435 I forget exactly how far into into shmona it goes the chronology is completely chopped like my eyes clearly deliberately so to give you this sort of almost all dizzying sense of of a mix between the gods eye view and and the the Israel's eye view that you know for all Easter this is unfolding in the course of time but for God this is an expression of an eternal intention right and you get back and forth emotion running up running down running up running down and then you stick to the golden calf in the middle of it but wait to get through leave this week's Barcia or did he come back it's like total confusion total confusion I picture somebody blindfold being spun around eighteen different times and then you whip it off their head and push shine online there what do you think when you're done with that yeah you almost don't know what's going on but you're left holding the time and the ten commandments so the Torah portions part of us she she is where where we have the ten commandments and once again a system then the III thought to myself it says go down to the people and stop them if in a family man arrived if you don't stop them a lot of people are gonna die there's obviously some kind of like yearning for everybody to get a piece of the rock mm-hmm-hmm everybody wants to touch it at this moment he has to kind of really limit the people from touching him I mean the image it's offered in certain places in class they do it is they if you've ever held a match up toward a candle lit match at a certain point when the flame gets close enough it leaps right and they become one right that there's there's an exposure of the soul here which is potentially fatal right the other thing that I thought about I wrote myself a note here is that this reminds us a little bit of the Garden of Eden don't touch the tree yeah don't come too close don't come too close don't come too close like state step back let's not make that mistake again you made that mistake before and you and you reached out and you grab that fruit this time I don't want you to grab that fruit there's so many parallels between Sinai in the Garden of Eden I mean the fact that our sages even say poskim and so on with the knowledge that the the mortality which we gain through that failure actually left us for a brief moment at Sinai or that in the end what's left is the is the Mishkan you know the tabernacle with with the ark at the middle of it what's sitting on top of the ark the crew veem the chair were left guarding away to the Tree of Life what's the trio life today it's the Torah meaning like there's a lot of connections that we could make here and and the study of Torah can help you will will eviscerate this energy of uh this is neat this this week has been very busy for me but I kept feeling like but I have to anchor it in Torah I have to have a week if Torah I can't be doing what I'm trying to do and do it like is in a human you know in a in a you know this worldly way although these things are important like you have to anchor in TOR that's a big Jewish principle you have to have an anchor in Torah and let's start with the first commandment which is have you ever been to a Torah reading of the book of Genesis when every day they go like boom for every book ooh yum-yummy Sean and they do this like clap on the table and they go like a Torah yeah yeah then they go they go boom they're not sure we do that okay right there's something like there's something like like like sure man first day of creation we try to like play it up and and these are booms also the first two are truly booms in that is that they when God speaks about himself our tradition is that he spoke about it in his voice and the nation heard it and kind of according to some stories blew them away blew them away and they all died had to be resurrected only to hear the second command which is thou shalt not have any other gods to get blown away once again ya blown away and then they go okay listen Moses that was awesome but you know why don't you talk to God maybe maybe it's there to tell us there's been a first resurrection a second resurrection and the third one is is coming in the future time to come yeah but but but they were they had enough of hearing it directly from God but really that was God talking about himself and he was he was talking about himself and he says it says Hashem okay huh this is a chapter 20 verse 2 I am a shame your God a shadow Latifa mayor to meet salami beta V my took you out of the out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage so the point of that is it's not just it's it's not just a UH it's not just a guy that took you it's not just a guy that's revealing from yourself today today I'm the God that has been with you in history I've granted you freedom I've brought you to this mountain to now hear these words and of course classically not the guy of creation mm-hmm rather the god of history because you know what's about to happen this commanded relationship really gains its significance in guiding actions in the world of history it's critical to remember that say it again it doesn't say I'm the Lord God who created the universe that would be very impressive design whoa God who brought you out of Egypt why because the commandments which are about to come down are important in history the actions of how many sorrows are real people in the world are going to do building a land building the temple that our Yama's as of this very day it's very important to remember that we keep the mitzvot not as some sort of abstract spiritual practice but in order to build the real world maybe another way to look at it is that he says I'm about to give you a lot of laws and they sound like slavery but no I'm the god of freedom I've given you freedom and this the stuff that I'm about to tell you it may sound like bondage but it is a freedom well a the the idea of it this is a story of slavery to freedom it's just a misconception right God has said from beginning schlock at that maybe I'll do me but me bum right send my people out and serve me he'll serve me it's a movement from servitude to service okay and the distinction is I'm sure you'd have job before that you ain't it head gapper never your people like me who who always a job that I hate and go with me many people listen jobs that they hate it getting up in the morning was like an act of slavery well I need I need to write down from service to serve a tune I like that very much I know the phrase you'll ask me later okay okay um you why do people do it cuz you got to make a living because you got it yeah on some level you're totally estranged I was here I was a cashier estranged from the work you're doing but you need the end result that's a form of servitude whereas there are jobs which were even perhaps more demanding but because you identified with the mission or the values or the process of doing the work even though it was hard it wasn't servitude right can we act a service and that's what God's trying to do he's saying listen I'm about to give you a lot of laws but understand this is a new way of being right you're not by the way mullet Kohanim come on name you play Reese but it's not true there okay Russia says very clearly they Cohen is a missionary it's a servant the servant right a public servant right the public servant but but but don't deny that we're still talking about freedom it says you know hiruta little hoods don't read it guru don't read it don't read it so I would say it's the female parrot is engraved don't read it engraved but read it freedom okay so but it's a question of what one means by freedom it's not coal fish right it's not you know freedom from Beirut is a much deeper concept it's Liberty it's a it's a freedom of that there's an assumption that by engaging the Torah you can become that which you otherwise would never be and that's a liberation right okay okay but but but it is but I think God is saying to you like Daddy Burton I'm right but that's what he's saying he's that's what he's saying like don't take it that way I know it's a burden but I remember I'm the kind of God that frees you right so I didn't I didn't I didn't like I'm not your new taskmaster I'm here to give you liberty and you could choose it by the way you could choose it a lot of that it just comes down to do you believe God has your best interest at heart or not yeah okay good okay great he's like I just brought you out of slavery right leave me when I tell you this is a good thing I like that I like that that's simple and good I like that and and that's really the first commandment the first commandment strangely enough is I am God right no this no this right that's what I mean it's if you don't have that as a context for the rest of it it will only ever be oppressive at best the list of things that you have to do today and worse that which prevents you from being a natural human being who doesn't have to suppress their urges nice the second commandment which if you looked at it graphically you would not understand that it's a second command but we're Jews that doesn't stop us right like graphically it's done within one paragraph that looks like it's really a modifier of the first one which is thou shalt not have other gods before me right mm-hmm Louella Kyle ahima Kalimantan I'm either the gods let's read the Rashi here because what does it mean other gods and him [ __ ] medieval over the ham like they're that strange or causing delay depending on how you want to read it that meanings say the concept of other is that is that these other gods they make the person kind of other like he in every he talks to this this God but it it never responds to him it treats it like it's a kind of joke it's like it's this Idol makes you feel like another like year you're gonna be kids are an unresponsive God other responsible other gods victim Aquila who a fish ain't no Mikheil about my ol um like the the Idol treats you like you're another that he never recognizes you again and therefore there's no way to truth which is goodbye with it which is very ironic though why because because in some ways the folks that are that are outside of the exec of the monotheistic tradition they feel that their God is very close to them is like them understands them I've heard that many times yes and so and so I'm wondering what he's talking about maybe like anyway there's a study here of what idolatry I suppose over what he's pointing out is that they're not going to actually do for you right that's I think you're right that's very good good I split the see says God remember that one that I'm gonna save you I'm gonna give you freedom these other ones are not gonna give you they're not real okay okay so I am your God is the first commandment but we split this paragraph into two the second one the second part being don't make other gods don't make a pestle the whole to Munna shabbat shalom do not make an image a graven image or a picture of anything that is in the heavens above or in the land below and is under the which is in the sea or under the earth nothin right don't don't make a characterization of other things in simple terms don't be an eagle or don't be the eagle or or though I don't know what or the Sun or the moon that's not where the strength these are these are created beings and not create the creators themselves are not powers onto themselves correct okay but that's to us very important to Jewish people are allergic to idolatry sometimes some of my Christian friends don't understand why we like chaf it's sort of things they look these are images right they they just understand like why are you so bugged by this because we're like highly attuned to two idolatrous themes and things like that they just weep wrote were programmed against that even if it's smells of it or has the dust of it that's right okay deep programming right okay number three click whichever terminal well I kind of skipped a part of it which is God says I do for from my lovers and for those who keep my Commandments I do kindness on to theirs generation right this is not just a theoretical discussion right there are practical consequences right okay so that's that goes with the theme if I took you out of Egypt I'm a very practical God the other gods are not practical gods and I'll be kind to you practically speaking or unkind to you if you do not respect me fine at number three which is maybe really connected to one and two I am God don't have other gods but now that I've got and you have a relationship with me don't take it lightly okay I am also a jealous God we need to say I as you said reward and punished don't use my name in vain thou shalt not use my name loti such emotional katha the chef's do not throw out her son's name lightly one of the great tragedies of our society is that we no longer feel bound by our language right and this commandment is so important in that respect is that if you're gonna evoke my name realize you've created a reality within which you now live right and unfortunately we vanilla society where our political leadership our cultural leadership many of us individually just feel like okay I can say it then I'll take it back or I'm not really bound and its destructive right and and I think that's what Rashi is getting to which is like don't think this is a light thing words mean something my name means something by the way that's my little joke that I say to the people and the so called peace camp they're always like I'm like I don't know if I want to use that word peace door like isn't peace the name of God and look exactly don't overuse it okay don't over throw it out because I mean it's not just don't over if you're gonna say it mean it right and don't have it be some construct where peace equals what I want just just so people understand when our children little children my four year old when he's learning how to give make blessings over the food the kids tend to play around with that that's one of the things that the parents are like hey we can't joke around with that when we sang Hashem's name you got to say nice you got to make the broth on ice okay there's a new Yiddish songs out there that my kids listen to it goes masa bravo Bravo and they're like what is Maha Broca I'm like math means make all right make a broth okay yeah the fourth one it is now kind of changing tax now it's much more the first one's right I'm God recognize me don't have other gods don't take my name in vain okay that's a triad the next one says it's kind of out of a different place which is remember the Sabbath Sabbath there's a there's there's an and I guess if we say Sabbath we're also mean something very special which is people hood because the Jewish people are the ones that are commanded to keep the Sabbath and it is an historical fact that nobody else keeps the Sabbath and in in that way in fact when the other peoples kind of decide that Sabbath is a different day it's there's something good about that cause like this is the coven ental people they keep the Sabbath that's what we got to do I mean it's also weird that's in the Ten Commandments you would have thought it wouldn't be in the Ten Commandments why were you not it was so foundational I'm saying one would've thought of course you're right but I'm saying one would have thought that it's one of those other commands like don't eat lobster it's one of the ways that you can look at this is that you've got a boundaries of conception I am God no others then you have a boundary of language which for Humanity is so important don't forget language is also the vehicle communicate of creation right right and now you have a boundary in time right and this is where sanctity actually first makes its appearance and I would say the kedusha holiness we you know we are masters as a people of building holiness into time in fact our whole exile in many ways was a long discourse on how when you're when you're not rooted in place you can nevertheless maintain sanctity in time so much so that we struggle to figure out how to actually rebuild sanctity in place think about the fact that the Temple Mount is almost deliberately slipped through our fingers because we just don't know what to do with it you know so yeah I hear what you're saying but it doesn't speak to me so much there's no ice I think you're right I just wanted to kind of highlight the point which is that Shabbos is in there and I think that what you just said right now that strengthened my understanding it's like so so it's both sanctification sanctification of time and sanctification of nation yes and takes us back to creation this is where a creation makes its reappearance in the ten commandments right because the reason given here is no longer because I brought you out of Egypt the reason is because I made the world yes sorry I was believing the notes already out on the board here thirty sixty percent part of that's only awake right I was like oh look he's got the board vacation I thought that that's a good that's a good title goes through it throughout our show you know titles pop up in my head and I think about him so so the Sabbath made it made a sneak peek in there but if now that the way we've discussed it it's really made it very clear to me that Shabbat is like a big boom here like a big a big explosion of knowledge that this there's a nation there's a time there's a sanctity there's something else that was just important to me which is there's a methodology introduced here in which which we saw already back in the Exodus but it's putting square in the center which is [ __ ] right this this Colten memory right right there they they you there is a way in which you have a story of the past which is embodied in action in the present that will bring about the future that the Torah demands and this is the first not the first cuz it was part of the exodus but this is one of the central calls to make memory the centerpiece of our people hood and not history okay and but the halacha creating of that is that suhoor is the positive aspects of Shabbat making he do dressing properly eating and some more and the other Ten Commandments is the all the negative or prohibitions the third or nine okay but that's good so there's a two ways to read some [ __ ] and there's an exposition about about which house Shabbat is supposed to work there's actually a law maybe the longest of the paragraphs is really about Shabbat and that God rested it says Rashi that like it's written in so you would think that kind of view you would understand that God rested so that so so to you and but that's a kind of answer anthro and for improvisation of it okay yeah and then we go to the last of the ten commandments which is one that I remember all the time because I'm always teaching it to my kids which is honor your father and your mother so that your days will may be lengthened societally and personally we're on the land which God has given to you turns out that honoring the parents is is akin is a Zionist act that's interesting that's an interesting thought that's an interesting thought staying on the land means having respect you know I mean having respect for God having respect for the Sabbath that bring us before all these things and and and and basically when you say honor the parents it means that modern things may come into the picture and you can honor them and their technology and they're great things right now just don't throw away the knowledge that's coming down from Sinai don't don't throw away the the don't throw away respect and don't throw away the effort of others to raise you for what you are the minute you throw away your parents you've basically said I am God I have born my given birth to myself this world is created by me there's a very deep paragraph part of cook or he speaks about freedom of freedom of thought freedom of speech like there's a as a right because in the you know the 20s here in the Zionist world that was a big fight to be able to say or think whatever I want and he just points out in much more sophisticated language that the danger is you shouldn't be so open-minded that your brains fall out right that there's they that freedom of speech can erode what you're speaking about which is the framework for knowledge altogether right the the social and historical fabric is what gives you the framework for knowing anything and if you destroy that and you bring about this knowledge and a vacuum you think now you've more sophisticated than the past you know better but you've actually lost the way of knowing the world you know it's a there's a there's a deep problem that I see our society struggling with today in that respect mmm-hmm that's what I was saying that that like with advent of so many new things and you're you know mom can barely handle a cell phone and you're thinking yourself you know what could you possibly know right that's a big mistake one of the things that my mother by the way tells me many times who does handle a cell phone quite well by the way she tells me that in her field which is chemistry there's been more forgotten in the last 50 years than isn't a man is imaginable lots of knowledge has been lost deep deep knowledge about chemistry she says she says people and and and one of the fields in which the most knowledge is being lost is actually in the nuclear field because of the Rebbetzin surround nuclear energy so a lot of knowledge isn't just words that things in books that in fact this right and she says people are losing it and it's an incredible source of energy yeah and so that's that's a poem okay and then so that's we just finished the five Commandments on this side of the of the chart and there's another side which is a quick chart which is you know huge huge topics but written in in in tiny form thou shalt not murder thou shalt not what do we call Tina adulterous adulterous 'no straight adultery adultery thou shalt not steal but in this case it means kidnapping do not this is very interesting do not speak falsely about your your colleague your friend your false witness witness that's right ed that's right false false witnessing and again if you if we had time we would do the exposition on that false witnessing means a society of lies yeah is there society of truth or Society of lies its truth we attend but on some level this side of the ten commandments are the ones that you think should just make sense to you and if they don't make sense to you right then you should be asking yourself some very profound questions or maybe we should thank God that we're living in a time where these things are at that level because of the time of let's save Noah they were not these these are all these are all things that happen in Noah's time and one exactly opposite oh yeah and it's not so long ago that people man would kill another man to take his wife it's not so long ago that such things would happen their place in the world where they still do that's right and and so finally do not covet your friend do not covet his wife his slave his man slave females live his animals and that he possesses do not covet like be thankful for what you have it's such a profound way to end this for two reasons first of all it's a call to inner state there's no action just saying don't be like that don't have that inner and and on another although although one of the explanations is do not plan and take over don't even the planning isn't in action right it doesn't say don't pull one over on your neighbor to get his house right says don't covet it right so not only is it just a profound recognition that humanity can control its inner life but it's it's an indication of what's going to actually make you satisfied in a whole human being like you said you need to be grateful the posture of gratitude and in sufficiency and not one of constant want which is so unfortunately characteristic of our society so ten commandments you could wear them on a necklace you could put them in a classroom you can memorize them very quickly ten commandments but these things are the roots the roots the blueprint and with these with these ten commandments you could really build a human society yeah build a human society that is a holy society and this is this is definitely given to the Jewish people but it's clear the ten commandments are also and in the tour portion of Jethro the Gentile it's for sure that there's a out of the world right now but Zach so giving to the Jewish people on behalf of the world and everybody including the Sabbath which is obviously a Jewish command but even that is a seven-day cycle you have to rest you have to you have to get you know don't work people to death unplug unplug a little bit Rabbi Mike Feuer thank you very much for going over the ten commandments with me we're gonna we're gonna run to two minica now a lot of people are really so thankful for the great work that you're doing also on your other show which is called the Jewish story here on our land of Israel Network the land of Israel is a fabulous network it's only going to grow Jeremy again fellas is an REO Brahmins are pushing ahead to make this network reach even more and people can reach you at Rev Mike at the Land of Israel calm or also 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Gil Hoffman political correspondent for The Jerusalem Post every week on the land of Israel dot-com [Music] alright folks we are back here on leash I fleshes show we are joined by maka Fleischman we are live in Judea on the Land of Israel Shalom and welcome Elka and Shalom to you each I maka it's it's a little bit post to be fat and the weather has turned it's the cold outs yes but it has turned more sunny and as a dad you know the Kabbalah says this is the kind of party this party folks say it more yeah that like there's two sides of the year there's to be fought and starts the summer season and then to be too bit of starts the season that's really two halves so the the the two the two - we moved in - we shifted into into like summer mode right some remote I mean it's not just the couple it's also actually there's a mission that says like the SAP is no longer credit starts to rise in the trees right exactly and there's like a there's like a change in that there's a yin-yang instead of four seasons there's a kind of mental respective which it really there's two seasons write the summary season the wintry season and so we've we've changed seasons here that that doesn't mean that that winter is out I actually had a very special to be fed and to be fed for me is very meaningful in a few levels one is because actually it's our half anniversary yes half a verse three okay but also because my grandfather loved shalom grandpa mortify grandpa mark grandpa Mordechai it turns out we knew that he died on to be Schwantz but when we looked at his to that zoo that his Israeli identification card it turned out that he was born on to be shod so he has the very unusual distinction it's well known that that in the Jewish sources if somebody dies and is born on the same day it's a righteous type person but moreover on to be sure that is like whoa so to be tried holds a kind of you know special place in my heart this year I actually got you know everybody knows about planting and to be fine but this year I got a chance to celebrate to be shot at the Knesset there was an event at the Knesset at the Foreign Affairs and defense committee which would be to hunt sexually right ready Foreign Affairs and defense right and there was a big committee gathering on the issue of installing an elevator in merit at Machpelah both as a human humanitarian issue and as a touristic issue right and there's a lot of stairs for any of you who have not been there it's going up a lot a lot of stairs up or a thing of stairs and up another thing a stairs up another thing of stairs so if you're not like capable of you know there's some people who don't even want to go up one stair but let alone like a whole you know like 40 stairs or whatever it is a lot right so so that was a that that's definitely an issue and it's been bandied around and discussed for a long time and there was a lot of speakers there there was get on SAR there was a mere parrots there was yellow chickadee there's a lot of folks okay and they all said like come on we're talking about an elevator in one of the most it's not like you're gonna be bulldozing parts of Martha my flats will be on an addition yes yes building on a little bit anyway so so were there some people who are opposed to this idea there are people that are dragging their feet because there are elements in the Israeli military that are really part of a type of non-transparent military apparatus known as the civil administration this civil administration is the one really the deals with the Palestinian Authority in all kinds of what's called a coordination coordination with the Palestinian Authority and their security services and they are reticent to make changes because they think it'll you know in a flabs yeah right and and there was a lot of Knesset members who were like upset the Arabs we're always gonna be talking about upsetting the Arabs right it's like it's like we can't live by the Day of Rage and what are we talking about here I'm in an elevator for for Muslims as well be able to right so and there's there's a whole design element that lets the the Muslim side use it as well it's a whole thing anyway so I was there there was a fine meeting albeit somewhat frustrating but then since it's my grandfather's year at citing them I mean I wanted to say Kaddish for him that's the the mourners prayer guess what I heard that there's an early minica at the Knesset so I love gaveling at the Knesset first thing I feel like you're bringing the name of God as in the store force right isn't right into the right into the this this important place that that that has a ping has a broadcast on the rest of Israel so bring the Torah in so I always try this happen but also I have a have a secret love yeah for a group of people in the Knesset called mish Moroccan assets these are the guards and they are a brand of people there I mean they aren't generally farty Moroccan but not necessarily but but pretty much a lot of them yeah and they dive him and say to Hillerman look Nestle wha they have that they have the DeLorean they're like guarding on every level I'm telling you their names the Miche mark Knesset's turns out really what they're called that's what they're called wish mark Ness is not not further to hell him for the guards are called me schmuck now see that's the Knesset guard but they happen to be also just a type of type of people that I have a rapport with and and they say a lot of to helium I've seen this many times and I have this like a sneaky suspicion that it's like you know like it says about Solomon that he has the sixty you know guards around him you know the you know he anyway we went to we went to minify we went to the afternoon prayer it was a hundred of those Knesset guard Wow and who was speaking one of the shots Knesset member cohort because it was to be shot such a and then these huge tables of food splaying out fruits fruits prepared for for to be shut happens to be there's also the birthday of the Knesset for some exact history but they called the birthday of that and so like the Knesset kind of celebrates in Turkish nice and I went out to do a short little video I stepped out into the patio there and there was like a fruit tree behind me in the middle of the kind of courtyard within the Knesset in any case it was just as good feeling that I had was my grandpa's you're excited I was a special yeah and and I dive in this dis mint clan they did it like really we were like real cousin Newt of you know hearty prayers and and Knesset members spoke and then there's a chief rabbi of the Knesset he also spoke what's his name do you know I think his name is Arielle very very nice very nice man religious Zionist guy Wow and the first speaker was was the the shots Knesset member rabbi coin it's a coin I think and just give a great tour but it's Israel and it just felt really it just felt really really good and it was just one of those beautiful days so you know and I took a picture by the way and said this is the most important meeting in the Knesset today today to celebrate to be shrine well that wasn't it because then you came home yes and we had our to [ __ ] about Seder did we certainly did we had a nice to be shot Seder in the house wait is that right or was that the day after our too much about Seder your your story I think was after our TVs fine Seder um could be yes but the night before the the beginning of to be shot we had a nice Seder here in the house and we had something like 24 different types of nut and fruit yeah and then you posted a picture of our two b'shvat table to Twitter and the Imam of peace imam toe IDI retweeted your today or he liked it or something like that your tweet and then it got like another like four hundred and fifty likes something like that you got like a lot of likes on that tweet oh I didn't see that it's just a day in tweet history sure it wasn't you that retweeted my tweet and he tweeted your two now holla by a mom of two uh I don't think the Imam of peace has ever retweeted me my mom of pieces are powerful to mount OED if we were listening Shalom yeah he's the man he's the man he's the man he's the man I had a great honor of meeting him here in Israel he's an awesome guy also you had some the Russian word for adventures reading Shinya right this week yeah a family well my little guy used to L he is in what we call in our house rabbi school he's in rabbi school which is he has his regular school which is gone they call it a preschool but then once a week the Habad of efrat runs a little program for kids his age to come to the house the Habad house and to learn like the parsha and they make little crafts and stuff like that so i slay me rabbi [ __ ] moon right so he swell loves rubbish limey and we try never to miss rabbi school that's what we call it so rabbi [ __ ] really comes up with creative stuff excellent teacher such a cool thing to do to like give a class to preschool kids well what I think what happened is that he they ran a little summer camp this last summer there's like a period of time in which there's no school and it's like it's it's during like the non festive part of the summer there's the three weeks in which you're really not supposed to like go do anything particularly fun so then the kids are all at home and the kids that are the hardest to kind of entertain sometimes or the little little ones mm-hmm so they ran a little camp and I think so many parents were so thrilled with the little camp that we all like reached out to him individually that's my guess because I definitely did myself and we're like how about if you do something the rest of the year I'll definitely sign up for that and then he did so there's like five or six or seven or eight little kids who were signed up for rabbi school and I'll give you an example there was the Torah portion recently where they talked when we talked about the new month and so rabbi school he took Oreo cookies or our version of it yeah and cut out the like open the up the Oreo cookie so there's a white part and then cut out little little kind of little slices of the white part right this week I did that also but I dip the cookie in the tea and voila yeah one two so what they need this week was was this funny little hat where it's basically like a crown and then a stick and then another crown on top of the first crown so it's like wearing - like crowns at once for not a 70 Sh'ma it was like when the Jewish people said that we will do and we will hear that like Hashem put two crowns on them basically so they came home with these giant tall two crowns beautiful her head it was really cute but anyway so I went to we went to rabbi school and everything was fine and then and then I went to go get you Sorrell back from rabbi school in which and then and then all of a sudden I hear that my car sounds weird it sounds like there's something stuck under the car I don't know what it was like shaking yeah and I looked I thought now I have a car that has one of these front bumpers that kind of get stuck on the curb do you know I don't know if that happens in the United States or other english-speaking countries but here in Israel sometimes your car like rubs up on the sidewalk curb the Subarus front bumpers a little low so the and the and the it's like it's like it drags a little it's it's it's too low it's not standard size so so I thought maybe my bumper had come off or so like half come off and was dragging or something and I got out of the car and nay it was not my bumper it was a mutt tire my tire was flat flat flat actually flat tire in Israel you say punch it punch it which means I got a punch in my I think punched through my tire right yeah you had a punch oh I'm like oh no so I'm like but I'm cool right I can totally handle this cuz II shy and I have like talked over how to change a flat tire several times mm-hm so I was by myself and you saw I was in the car and I was in a part of town where they're like kind of building it it's a little bit construction II and so there weren't that many people around and I'm like fine I'm totally cool I'm like uh outdoorsy right I can definitely handle this so I went I got my spare I got my little sticks and things with handles on them well to jack up the car and don't forget the most important thing which is uh which is the the jack the jacket you got to put the jack in the right place right anyhow so here's what happened basically I'm like okay well step one take off the hubcap and I'm like I look at the hub cap and the hub cap looks at me we're looking at each other and I like I'm like okay yank come on come off up yeah and it's just like oh please and then I'm like I pull it right I was like no and I just like it's cold it's kind of rainy it's wet and I'm just like fine so then I'm like okay Aisha is giving a speaking tour in Modine a talk a talk he's not around my brother-in-law he lives near near nearby he is in America that's not gonna help me I don't like have a lot of buddies here in town so I don't exactly know who to call so I got nowhere to call except I saved a number in my phone one time because I got it on one of the like local whatsapp groups here in town the number was for something called eeeh D deem you D deem which means like pals or like like friends like nice people right so I'm like I heard that there's this group called ug deem that will help you if you're in a like a funny roadside situation they will help you like if you ran out of gas or oil or water they'll come and like bring you some oil or gas or water if you're stranded they'll they'll help you like if you're if you need a jumpstart they'll come out and help you they're basically like a roadside assistance made up of volunteers right so everyone knows about Triple A right people in America you have Triple A you got your car insurance and if you have a problem you call your insurance company right but this is not an insurance company this is a group of volunteers you could sign up online like anyone and it's basically all over Israel I think and you can sign up and be like yes I am willing to be like paged or like text messaged or called or something if somebody has a problem and I like volunteer to go out like jump out of my house or whatever and go help them it's like it's like Hut Sala fusa Sala except you don't need any certification I think like you have to say that you have I know how to change a tire and that you maybe have the tools or whatever I think you sign up for whatever it is you're willing to do but this is completely volunteer based on voluntary thing there's no money there's no insurance you don't have to be a member in order to use it so I'm like you diem they're like Shalom he got him the lead I thought that it was gonna be like some guy was like I'll oh like what do you need you know a man like Here I am I'm the idiot like what do you need but it's this whole like nice for English press one Liat now that each time right and you're just so they're like I've got a person on the phone who definitely sounded her ad I don't know why but he was just like yes and I'm like um I my tires flat and I'm a lady I've got a candidate ringing it's cool yeah I was just like I don't know what to do and they're just like okay where are you and I'm like I am at this at this place they're like do you have this stuff in your car do you have a spare and I'm like yes and they're like do you have kaeleen I'm like I don't know how to say the words for these things in Hebrew even though I've been here for like I don't talk about these items right now so I don't know the words for these but I guess I have the stuff in the back I felt very sheepish but they're like okay fine and we're gonna send somebody in the meantime I'm standing outside just waiting and then a lady walks by with her kids she's like walking by with the stroller and she's like oh man flat right and we're like yeah she's like if someone coming to help you I'm like no she's like I'm like maybe I don't know cuz they said they'd call me back if they get somebody I didn't know if they would get anybody anyway so she ends up stopping somebody stopping the security truck there's a truck that does laps basically around town and especially in different neighborhoods and they just check the perimeters and they just make sure everything looks cool and it's it's like a private police security service a little bit so she must have flagged him down as she you like walk down her way because all of a sudden this like nice guy comes and he starts to deal with my like he starts to take he looks at my tools and he's like I'm gonna take out my tools so he took out his all his funky stuff car things and then and then all of a sudden he's like this other car pulls up right in front of my car and out like jumps this like little glop bespectacled jus and he's like he has this toolbox and he's like he's like walking over he's like yes I am here right doctor UD now at first I thought it was just somebody who had just seen us and stopped right cuz he didn't say anything right and then after a while he's working on the thing I'm like I called the UD deem I'm like just so you know like don't send anybody cuz I got help and they're like he's like I'm UD deem or I think what they call in Israel UD diem right I'm UD din right do you like yeah I think it's like the more like her a deep appreciation that he's really it's not you DD DD okay right okay so so I'm like oh great then another guy shows up and he's like he comes out with his hot Sullivant bright hats all of being a like emergency medical service volunteer organization which is another insanely amazing volunteer organization in Israel but one of the most incredible volunteer organizations in the world really anyway so he like jumps out so you get whereas I had been waiting for 20 minutes on the side of the road like alone cars were passing me I didn't know to flag them down I don't know you know people at the end of the day and they're going home they're all they're on their way to places I felt a little weird to like flag them down I figured maybe someone will stop if they see like a lady in distress a damsel if you will in distress on the side of the road per her bill that didn't happen so I stood for 20 minutes by myself like being sad and then all of a sudden I took a picture I posted it to Twitter of three men like operating on my tire they just like and it was like I realized that it was probably the most IQ points that have ever been used to change a tire it's like all those smart Jews like then they're like Twitter you know they got ones guys got glasses another guy looks like he's like a rabbi the other guy is just like some nice party guy with like cool gloves they got the gear yeah and they're like wearing you know and they like to change the tire and they just I was like think I might give him a bra all right finish um should help them cuz that's what I had to give you your you've got a Moroccan sign tl so you give you become like a blessing yeah well first of all I think that's the right way I think all Jews should I should adopt that side that's like what we have that's our power that's our superpower so you give what you can I'm wasn't gonna give them 20 shekels you know it's not why they do that by the way in Israel you got to be very careful just just FYI in Israel if somebody does you a favor and you try to like offer them money they find that to be super right you got like some some situations definitely call for money don't misunderstand situations really don't and you got to know when you're using money and when you're not here these guys are that like that's their mitts what they want to do it they just guys like they like and they were so nice sure and they like one of them like he was like okay listen you got a drive slow this is not a real tire and I'm like okay and then he like followed me a little bit out to make sure I'm okay and then I like pulled over a little to let him pass me he's like are you okay and I'm like I am thank you so much and he was just like so you know he had that face on of a man who like did a nice thing that's it exactly right and that was my story and then we came home and that's right yeah mocking a good story and you know these stories are I wanted you to talk about this today because because there's just there's so much good there's just so much good and then in the the new cycle and the stress of this world we like focus on the bad you know one guy sitting on your bumper or flashing you're being you know annoying it can eviscerate so much good stuff and we really should be set the other way which is when we hear good things when we feel good things that should totally erase all the little tensions that we have inside so I think that that's a great story of and only in Israel story and in may we continue to feel that we have you DD mouth may we be that's right an all-volunteer to be it for and you know it really made me think that you know as they were doing that that like a small you know I don't think it was a small act to like come out of their homes and come out and be willing to get dedicate like half an hour to me that that's not a small thing but every one of us every every every every person has something that they can do it doesn't have to be like an official thing it doesn't have to be a thing you sign up for but all of us have things that we can do that we can be like this is what I volunteer this is like one of the things that I volunteer in this world I'm like a smiler i smiley I'm the person who goes I love your shirt like to a stranger right you go you look great today yeah and like just makes the person feel like there's like some you know like ray of light shining on them in this world or AMA you know this person is like a baker like I bake things I bring them to work for like no reason and just like cheer people up or AMA like hey do you need a ride somewhere or I'm like yeah I like III I like hitchhiking I like picking up hitchhikers and I just I just I've got like you know and I have my limitations I don't want to pick up more than I have two spots to give two spots I'd only compete but on the other hand this is my festered it's my small thing I want to help to get you there and the things can be so tiny they could be so tiny yeah for example sometimes I go to the grocery store and I go I you in Israel you have to purchase your your shopping bags right so if you go to the grocery store each like grocery bag is ten a groat which is like not it was like two and a half cents it's really not a lot of money three cents so you have to buy those it's not a lot of money right but if I ever have a leftover one I don't take it I go to the person next to me in line I'm like here this is for you right it's nothing it's nothing I believe me I don't think I'm going to heaven on it right but it's like it's like just a tea it's a micro it's a micro kindness let me talk about micro aggression it's like a micro kindness you just go you give the person like a moment where they like someone was like just nice to me and they won't even remember it okay load it's just like a moment maka look up micro kindness on the internet see if that concept does come out I think but I think we I think we all have those things where you just like smiled at a person you know who's always doing my major cup of coffee you go that was delicious things like you know anything do you know who does micro kindness Hashem he's doing micro on my macro panelist all the time and and and just to be so thankful to think about all the amazing kindnesses that she does with us every single day Michael Fletcher we are out of time I want to thank you very much for giving everybody a great sense of of the joy of this world this radio station the Land of Israel calm brings a lot of joy to a lot of 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