Yishai Fleisher Show: When Auschwitz Gave Way to Jerusalem

[Music] Shalom everybody and welcome to the chef license show broadcasting live from Jerusalem to the world you're part of it wherever you are we're back here at partes and that means that rabbi Mike Feuer has returned to us Reverend Mike Shalom and welcome hello BJ good to see you oh my gosh too long yes yes yes yes yes it was great to be in my lair to meme a few weeks ago to do a show with you but it's great to be at the old mahogany table here at is it mahogany wood table the wood table here in partes it's just good to be out of house it's good to be out of the house is good be in Jerusalem you live Mirko - you shall I'm is wet that it was the country cold it's cold let's get this let's get this through our our head here the Keen air it went up by a meter a lot by a meter look at that in service area right they don't they don't even tell you how much that is in cubic you can only figure it out you figure it out you have to get the size the circumference the whole thing yeah but we're talking about tons that I mean tons of water so a lot of water has fallen Buddha kasha here in the Land of Israel and we still coming down it's still coming down this weekend we're expecting yet another downfall all because in tevinter the concern tevinter and and you know what I really I really like I'm so thankful and my mom god bless her was getting a Stickle depressed cuz of the grayness outside so I said to her listen here's my advice for winter my advice is when it's really raining cold outside like do it right turn on the heat put on the socks curl up with a book god soon clean out a desk you know I mean like do stuff inside and like let yourself like really nest nest in that in that gray zone outside and just enjoy it inside and then last night maka made show hot cocoa not show coke hot cocoa as in melted chocolate with marshmallows and my daughter and I and actually Eleazar as well joined in and watched a little bit of Star Trek next generation a shout-out to Arthur he knows that some of us you know post Russian Jews still need that that Star Trek next generation speaking Russian Jews to see the sweater way I missed the connection for some reason Russian Jews love Star Trek next year a weird thing okay it's like a weird thing but we love it literally speaking of Russians I am wearing my fatherís a sweater oh also my dad's sweater here I was yeah yeah I took out my I can't wear his ties cuz they're not they're not with the times okay they're closeted you know you know what's what's the matter with the time wearing don't you know it's out of style anyway today's show is a special one because we're actually in a very special week well first has been those big rains and then we also have this this massive ingathering of the world's leaders the princes and kings of the world Dukes and duchesses princes and kings prime ministers and and in dictators and dictators exactly was gonna say you know are are coming to town literally tonight going to be a king they were dictator it's just more it's much more legitimate sounding every sneers at kings I don't know right now being a king is not so fashion well you got this you got you know Prince Harry being a prince he's not he's anyway he's second in line to the throne I mean come on I think he's six whatever but but yeah I know what you mean no it was interesting if if you and and I wanted to and I did want to hit this tangent for a second you know the first line of the book of Ruth is like it was in the days when the judges were being judged yeah well literally is when the judges judged that's the way the sages read it meaning if it was in the days that the judges judge the sages read it the way you just said it right which is the judges word judge yeah you can read it both ways you can really dramatically Photoshop team it's it's it's kind of the reason that the sages read it is because kind of a it doesn't quite you don't need to kind of say judges judged it's like the judges were being a judge do it so anyway here's here's the here's the point I'm looking at the world right now right and I am it is it is I have to say a mesmerizing drama out there not that I want to get into the weeds and the nitty-gritty of it all but you have a you have an American president who from Israel's point of view and when I say that I could speak not only of my opinion but the opinion of the majority of Israelis for from Israel that's been proven time and time again that the majority of Israelis see the new American president president Trump is doing great things and have a high approval rating from here to Israel from Israel to America we view him as a good president and and by the way I dare say that there hasn't been I haven't seen any numbers on this but I'm pretty confident when I say that I think that the Arab world also looks at President Trump that idea in in large measure and says like okay you know I mean we got a player here that we like as opposed to President Obama which was well known that the Saturday's and others were not happy with him the Egyptian people were not happy with him in any case he didn't have a president who's relatively popular from this perspective and I'd say that uh-huh but in the United States he's literally being he's on trash ride this morning weird thing happened my my beloved son Eleazar didn't feel so good so you wanted to stay late uh and and my mom my wife Macha allowed him to stay later so so I was on Twitter as as my want and he was looking at me and then I saw that he was like he was like hugging me was right next to me and he we saw both of us that there's some live stream Reuters had a live stream of the American impeachment trial which was must have been super late in America because it was early morning year it was live stream they must have been up very late at night over there we still working for their money in DC and we hit the live play button and we watch it I was very surprised that my eight-year-old son was very very interested in this I know that I was always when I was a little kid it was interested in c-span and stuff like that but I didn't think that my Israeli boy you gonna give your whole life been I've been a geek force definitely definitely since after the army like III I switched over to geek them yeah but you like see spend as a child it seems that they were some of the early warning signs no I I didn't like it as each other did starting when I went to college which was which was like at the age of 21 but then I watched it incessantly it would relax with it you know I found it to be relaxing how their brain asleep but I knew the schedule of things I knew I enjoyed it I like I like c-span and it was weird we only had TV with a little game a buttons to get the vote on your end but do you say that it's governor they called the yeas and nays today and and and they called it a fact it's the best part you know it's a good part the yeas and nays anyway bottom line is the the my son was asking me a lot of questions I had to try to give him you know it's so tricky too I want to give him as much cold facts without coloring him with my opinion and at the same time giving him also my opinion sure but like making sure that he cuz I don't want him to become just a parent what you said right I don't want that I wanted to think it through sure but at the same time I want to help him understand through stuff you know there was a like Adam Schiff the you know stood up as the prosecuting attorney in the Senate and I had to tell him what I thought of it you know no matter what I thought of this conspiracy no but that that that this guy is dead said and bringing down this president and that I told him that he was Jewish and that was important like for example he picked up when they they said mrs. Feinstein he's like Einstein I'm like no Feinstein thing and fight that whatever it is my eighth is an eight-year-old boy and he's looking at this stuff for looking at but any case he's being exposed to the fact that this president who he knows that his father appreciates is being tried in the United States of America in the Senate by the Supreme Court the Supreme Court justice is presenting the chief justice so it's like that's not a small thing no no this is not small it's not small okay so to Prime Minister of Israel soon is the media strike yeah the news day in day out they're trying how the trials supposed to go right they're trying now no big they've already decide how the trial supposed to go you're saying monster wants to have a hearing about what you know what is admissible and what is not admissible and all these things and you know does he have a right to be to parliamentary immunity immunity so that's what my son is listening to on the radio in the morning cuz at eight o'clock that's exactly when the news goes on we listen to it so as my with my finger in the volume button because they're always gonna talk some inappropriate stuff about some some kids something that I happened so i but anyway okay so in the in israel and here's a prime minister who with faults and my as dimensional and with faults is also a man was done great things for this country in the last ten years fine so so here's judges judges are rulers right judges are not just Supreme Court justices they are judges as in judges of Israel they are rulers they are they are they are leaders leaders sovereigns however you want to call them they're in there on trial yes PS you could also throw into that just because we like threes the the Prince Harry leaving of the the court exciting he wants to spend less time with his family more time on his job I mean the way I understand that is that that even though it's not being said this way there isn't there is an accusation out there against the monarchy it's a it's a it's a can't be an easy life to live it's not an easy life but but that's but but but the but my point is is that on the world stage the way it appear subtly is it's a judgment is a judgment judgment on the institution of monarchy saying I want nothing more to do with that right I want out yeah and that says something which for you know maybe cite my 11 year old daughter was shocked why would someone not want to be a princess right what do you mean right right she no longer dreams of being cleave in England cuz I told her that they wouldn't let her but it was when she was young okay anyway so one aspect is the judges are being judged okay just just something that's happening out there in the world on the other hand judges or great leaders as we said are coming to Jerusalem tonight and tomorrow the the great warning of get out now while you still can't breath city shuts down right there's like a city shut down and and not only that there's really one Road from the airport to Jerusalem and and everybody's just there it's gonna actually be shut down I don't know I'm getting home tonight if you get out in time you'll be fine anyway they're not heading to my lids I'm iam so you'll be okay you should you should be alright but but the bottom line is that all these people are coming now I've heard a lot of people pooh-poohing this thing oh I need the Hungarians and the Ukrainians to come here and and and say ah the Holocaust was bad they were they were themselves perpetrators of it that's the line out there I happy man oh yeah they're like I need these guys to come here and and and and and cry with me we have a lot of chips on our shoulders yeah I'm like I'm like I've said to people you are missing the point the point is who is the star of the show is it the Holocaust the Holocaust survivors nee na is it Auschwitz nay the star is Jerusalem modern Staters are writers Lamia that's the star that's the thing that's who's on display here that the God of Israel brought the Jewish people out of utter destruction unspeakable it's not assimilation unspeakable murder unspeakable wholesale destruction of the scale that nobody had ever seen before and from that to bring them to you shall I'm this incredible city of light and to bring all these world leaders to bow their heads in the truth of that that's what this is about this is about them recognizing and they don't have to say a damn thing whatever speech they make or don't make it really doesn't matter the fact that they land at Ben Gurion Airport I think I rode up to Jerusalem and I'm gonna see this beautiful modern city in the State of Israel it's a repudiation of the Holocaust and and it is what's happening tonight and tomorrow is a massive kaduche Ashim the the the title of it is Auschwitz the reality of it is Jerusalem yeah if you know I'm thinking that you have said to me many times that any opportunity where there's a possibility for a kid to shoot him there's also a tremendous risk of Hillel sham of the sort of desecration of God's name and I wonder what's the story that's going to be told cuz there's a lot of discussion and the sides in the political community in the historic historical community about the narrative framing of who was at fault right we're talking about Poland Co is not coming and Putin's being front loaded and and you know there's all kinds of chatter happening right and it's a it's it's a deep question I feel like that we as a people are still not able to own the narrative to the extent where we can we can negotiate that well so I I would hope that what comes out of this is a sense of both the absolute incomparable nature of the Holocaust the particular sense that this was not just another genocide but rather was a war on the Jewish people mm-hmm not just as a people but as an idea and what we represent in the world and at the same time a taking of stock by all these world leaders that you know this type of the type of murder I mean the universal message is ongoing and that we as a species have clearly not learned the full lesson meaning I hear the learning the lesson of coming to Jerusalem is a very important one but the purpose of Jerusalem is bring light to the whole world and so I really do hope that the light at the light is there is that there's a judge like like to me there's like a subtle message here which is there's a judge who's gonna see what you've done and when you do horrible things you're gonna be judged by that well that's my question and the Justice gonna come out of there is there real justice that's going to come out of this because the reality is there's no structure of international law other than power at this point still today but that's that is the lesson of how cuz when i when i take out the hashem side of it yes the holocaust and this to me is like the the lesson is don't let it happen to you yes but not the lesson of the nations are gonna get together and and and have a system of justice because that's never worked and it didn't work then yeah but it is our vision ultimately and so therefore the the the fact that the United Nations I'm not sure again to come through I'm not sure that our vision I'm not certain that our vision is some kind of universal body of justice I'm not sure about that read Isaiah meaning this not a mistake the United Nation takes Luisa go ahead go ahead Badou oat milk I'm that nation channel not lift up sword against nation and the nations won't learn war anymore it's not that some accident that that is engraved and the entrance the animations it's just a failure of the moral fabric of the organization that like has the hoods but put it there the only way that nations are gonna stop that is not through an international body of something-or-other it's going to be through a consciousness of a greater purpose and then in life and their and their God consciousness if without that people are always gonna be so scientists without a political entity to embody it this is a completely useless phenomenon yes the reality of our thora that is a reality of our Torah you God consciousness actually seven actions yes but I'm not sure but you I'm not sure you could prove to me that that necessarily means a centralized one nations the world will need a body in which they can deal with each other as entities just like every individual nation needs its body in order that the citizens can deal with each other as entities so far that has not proven to be the case okay be said everyone could also just point out so far we've made progress toward it I don't think the UN is a body of progress its progress over the the council of Vienna in the 19th century so you know meaning it depends on what you compare it to you know like you don't don't take too narrow a worldview I don't like the ICJ and I don't like the ICC and I don't like this because they're they're not driven by an actual vision of justice but by the way let us remember that if there is a world body it is supposed to be centered in usual lines that's what I just said when I'm not looking to revamp the UN they stole our culture do you know by the way that possibly from Isaiah was unattributed and until I think Pilate 20 years ago yeah where was finally demanded that they just note the fact just note that they took it from our prophet yeah up there originally it was unattributed that is wrong yeah but it also says at all this exactly your point meaning you can't have that without the god-conscious underlies it accuse you understand but the same time the god consciousness without a political structure which negotiates the realities of power mm-hmm will allow these world leaders to come here bow their heads and go home and slaughter their citizens and that's what I worry about right well we let me let me just say to you that the last night let-let-let late afternoon yesterday i sat with a group of herbs and this word harab started yelling at us and he's like I will never forgive you for empowering the Palestinian Authority to make me live in fear oh you know like it was just like so horrible you know and I and I and I and I marvel at the folks on the so-called liberal left in Israel who want to still portray the Palestinian Authority is some kind of liberal enterprise when my friends cannot take a picture of with me they are afraid to take a photograph man yeah or unless they be tortured and imprisoned yeah and so you know on the one hand and but that was let's just make sure the people in Turin that was explicit when we're being made his famous statement that they won't have to worry about patella more Bhagat's I mean he created a Quisling government which would be unrestrained by democratic culture or law which could could sort of fight who he deemed to be our enemies and he had no care and this is consistent you see it on the left consists no care for the life that's going to be lived under that role just let me wash my hands to borrow a cultural phrase of the situation write us here them there right I've heard it from from people here it's just like we just need to draw clean border and whatever happens there is not my problem yeah that that's your sense of morality no you feel guilty because you know how to wield power and you're unwilling to wield it and so therefore you'd rather actually just step away but we both know of course that what will that lead to is you're gonna have to wield much more brutal power just to defend yourself and you tacitly in the meantime allow a brutality test its explicit unless you just simply stop your eyes and ears so therefore you know Jerusalem has got a little bit of work to do in order to be that model that's the only thing I was trying to say there the first work is would be actually extending our power as far as it can reach in this region in in in pursuing a real vision of justice that's right speaking of that I just wrote an article yesterday called the prayer Intifada and that is about a new type of prayer Intifada that's happening on Fridays being run by both Hamas Fatah and a new a new group which is Isis like in their ideology caliphate like thinking they're called something career degree means liberty or freedom his without the career party of like Hezbollah is party of God because about the careers party of liberation freedom in any case there's Orwellian doublespeak that's right that's right freedom freedom to have a Caliphate so that you won't have any more free what means freedom from occupation the from the colonizers and so has nothing to do with the Western conception of freedom that's right in any case there they are gathering on Friday mornings at like 4:00 a.m. at the to give to the Muslims they don't that's around when they pray yeah they're good they're good at that and and and they bring their young as well and they're going to the Temple Mount and to to the the the other noble sanctuary which is the the Ibrahimi mosque ever owned that's what they call we call it the tomb of the forefathers and mothers but they're gathering together and last week they made all kinds of horrible declarations including Jews remember high bar which is where the Jews were destroyed slaughtered and women were taken captive by good old Muhammad himself okay I just got to tell you the Quran is a is a is a very challenging document that I want to tell you that it's it's a it has some deep deep basically messages to kill Jews in the very actions of the Prophet and so okay anyway these these are the phenomenons that we're having so we have on the one hand a kind of effort to making a religious uptick in Judea and Samaria the West Bank so-called West Bank we have the judges being judged here in America but we also have the world coming to pay homage to the survival of the Jewish people and I think that say it or don't say it won't be nicer if you said it but God of Israel is going to be on show as the the liberator that's a career that brought the Jewish people back the Land of Israel into into Jerusalem oh that were that our own government too approach you know what Minh Tevan so hard no Menachem Begin style on American congressman on our American senator would say it without a problem yeah Menachem Begin South something who just simply recognizes that everything comes from God right and and and whether religion as its practiced day Nessa's becomes a necessity as a conclusion from that is its own question but for a fewer Jew just recognize we're playing on a divine playing field right but but but but barring all that and borrowing the right statements simply coming to Jerusalem I agree with you I think I think if even if it's not shed and it's and it should be said and by the way people don't see that they're writing themselves out of history meaning I mean on some level to come here and not make the connection that like Wow 75 years ago we're recognizing the fact that these people were literally on the lowest place on earth right in every sense right and now here we are in the capital of the regional superpower and by the way have you read the Bible yeah I'm saying I'm like to me this is to more tonight tomorrow is a kedusha sham that's I I really think that I think it's gonna be just there's there's a light that's coming out of here and that light is and with us or not with us we need to say we either know it or we don't know it but but like that's comment that's coming out this that's how I feel about that altogether there's a way to kind of look at all these things as an element of like truth to power trying to speak your truth even judging the judges is some kind of effort to like it's absolutely mean the prophets that was their job right they were they judge the judges the judges even the prophets was an institutionalized speaker of truth to power and it really begins in our parsha right i mean for example the prime minister of israel in the meantime as he's being kind of led into you know into the into just going into the courtroom he's like throwing out like candies he's like we're gonna next January yeah he keeps he keeps though he said so much so that Betty Ganz was was was obligated almost from politics alone to start talking about annexing the Jordan Valley just because he wants to try to snatch the center-right voters that are starting to get sick of Bibi right I wouldn't trust any of them to follow through again it's sometimes like the words are important here in this case it's like there's a value that has that has crept up I know some of the people involved in hammering out that very language for those values as in as in the sovereignty movement yes as opposed to annexation that I know the people they themselves like crafted these words really six seven years ago and and have been hearing her way now that's part of the lingo lingo is normal most Israelis as well-known believe that the Jordan Valley should remain in Israel's answer so therefore like throwing that out is important that means the map changes by the way I'm gonna crank out a little article saying that that one of the things that can change very easily is if we just started using a new language when it comes to the territories or Judea and Samaria or the West Bank just are calling it this is so simple the Israeli territories just like the United States has Puerto Rico which is a u.s. territory u.s. territory means we're never leaving we haven't fully you know made it into a super state right but it's it's America and it's always gonna be America and we just have to say about even even if we don't man areas see we just say these really territories here's the thing though I with you okay I'm with you but we need to actually take it seriously it can't be an act of rhetoric because the thing I believe which is undermining our ability to actually make that language a reality is the consistent refusal of our government to own full responsibility for what's happening like whether it's the environmental situation whether it's the law and order question whether it's the existence of jihadists that leads to a military posture that prevents the average citizen talk about average Arab citizen from just living their life you understand like if we want to making the Israeli territories let's make them that and actually sure it'd be full sovereign in every sense I'm I'm I'm totally with you man I'm totally with you we need to think about that because the switch of the language is not gonna take us very far but a switch at the posture work by Mike rabbi Mike listen I'm involved in settlement activities know right but settlement activities means we take whatever we can to to to create those facts on the ground I want the government I'm saying but we have forced the government much to go in in our in the right direction and now we're gonna keep doing it I'm saying here's yet another step I'm in full agreement with you full full full agreement and I tell people all the time I'm like the so-called right wing the nationalist perspective on Arabs is that whoever is my resident whoever is the subject of my sovereignty needs to be treated with decency inequality and etc etc etc and so so like I'm like more for human rights than the left that wants to cut it all it is is that the left has an absolutist posture and it all follows from a sort of very specific definition of sovereignty which is that if the Arabs living in you Donn children don't have a nation-state style independence then they actually have nothing right so therefore we were oppressing them like that dying that whereas the right says no I'm not willing to do that for both religious national historical and security reasons fill in the blank but I am willing to give everything except that right and actually work toward all kinds of creative solutions no no no we're not willing to discuss those solutions right because really you're just trying to create second-class citizens look and I didn't use that language right so the absolutism yeah you know and thank God you reminded me yet there is one last thing that I do want to talk about right before we get to the Torah portion here this is very important well the Torah portion links into everything we're talking about sure it's very important what I'm about to say and I'm gonna be talking about this for the next many weeks do yourself a favor and listen to me now so you can not listen to me later okay right now the wzo the World Zionist Organization is having an election for the delegates these delegates decide where basically a billion dollars gets allocated is that much money it's a ton of money that's a lot money it's a ton of money and it's a ton of power and I know for a fact what I didn't know I know today for a fact how it impacts the issues that we're facing now if you're an American self-identified Jew if you're a person will the living in America and as a self-identified you over the age of 18 and you have a credit card with an aunt within a u.s. address you must go to scientists election org okay you must go to sinus election that the Israelis can't do it let's make it clear if you're in Israel you already have if you can if you vote in the Israeli elections because our political parties also get representation in the wzo right fortunately basically it's supposed to let me make it just simple we have the the elected body here in Israel called the Knesset the diaspora has got a voice in Israel it's called the wzo okay let's just make it simple you go to Zionist election or RG and you pay seven dollars and fifty cents it's a ripoff okay sorry I'm sorry that we have to that you have to pay money at all but it makes it serious I don't think that's such a big deal you don't think it's a big deal good I like that good you're right you're right it's not a br bucks no seriously you're right you're right it's right it's but you know people like why should I pay money to vote you know what it's like you don't pay it you don't pay taxes in Israel so this is like your little tax to make this thing happen you're right anyway thank you I'm glad you I'm glad you you aired that out $7.50 you vote now there are many a slate okay you go for a slate that's what you do you vote for a slate you vote first late and there are many a slates okay there is the folks that call for progressivism in Israel they call for two-state solution LGBT totally qualities and all these guys that's their platform you could read it yourself for example Hatikva I don't recommend voting for those parties that's not that's not my cup of tea and if you're listening to the show maybe first thing I don't care what you vote for it just vote just get let's get this straight I'm step one get involved right step one is I'm what I'm doing is getting out the vote I'm not telling you who to vote for okay and I wouldn't presume to did no I'm saying that's my opinion but but I wouldn't vote for them but you can and if that's what that's what your cup of tea is great do that and have a voice in Israel have a voice in Israel on the other side of the aisle there are a lot of good parties that are running the COA has a giant slate that includes everybody like so many people including like H and all kinds of stuff like that they're all bundled together tons of like good and Lilly coud is bundled together with the W's with with the CoA under Morton Klein I like that party a good friend you who the Cohen is running a party he's not running in it because I know it's again it's called it's called visions it's called visions it's a good party with a very young kind of feel and it is vision for Zionism Mizrachi he's got a slate the OU's got a slate and there's other ones there's revisionist as well there's great folks from my point of view we want to get a coalition of nationalists pro-israel parties okay and there and there are other ones there are other ones and and just getting involved is the greatest thing so I'm begging you out there if you're listening to the show if you're over 18 if you're an American citizen not an Israeli citizen and your self identifies a Jew notice that how I use that language I use that cautiously and carefully whatever I'm not asking who your mom is if you feel that you can check the button that says I'm Jewish or I self-identified as a Jew click that button and vote if you care about Israel and you as self identifies a Jew click that button and vote just just do that the website is Zionists election org by the way a lot of the organizations approached me and said you know help us help us help us help us I said to them I decided yes I will help you I will get out the vote that's that's that's that's the help I'm gonna min I'm gonna start pumping that out it's simple and it's it's it's and it's real yes I'm Dyslexic possess elections a billion dollars is real yeah it's it's it's real like I'm telling you it's real it's real it I've run it's real it deals with allocations of JNF money for example okay so it has a lot of power all right so so everything we've talked about is truth to power and and you also got a speak truth to power out there with your ballot with your ballot you know if we're in the age of democracy play democracy that's right you know if that's the game that's been allotted to us don't be pining away from monarchy all the time you know play to win yeah play to win but play with your time playing the game I mean play win take it seriously right or you went to play I don't know just yeah beat be be alive in your time this is what the the world has given us the universe's has given birth to the Shem has given us the opportunity please be part of it okay that I mean alright so let me know if and let me know if you have any problems with that please write me an email you shite the Land of Israel calm and Rabbi mic of course is rough Mike at the Land of Israel calm okay Tyra okay last week last week I didn't get a chance to speak with you I've we had mark on the show instead we talked about the the the prequel the Moses life enter Moses mmm-hmm the deliverer the back story yet the back story which I really appreciate you know with Avraham and stuff we don't get the backstory it's a big question but like most most surveyed and we get the backstory yeah you know we get the foundational psychology of this you know and we also miss just an image for baby Moses huh an image for baby Moses baby mother why's what we eat what we eat for pigs in the blanket here that's right that's right there we talked about that did I forget to say that last week in Israel that pig in a blanket is called Moshe but Ava that itself is something you should say chef Tiana and your and you hold a pig in a blanket and you know that you made all the on now you can eat emotion but Ava that's a totally different thing and when I say eat Moshe but if I don't mean some kind of Christian thing where you're eating the body of Moses you mean a hot dog wrapped in dough that's what I mean okay it just happens to be called Moses in the are in the basket in the basket okay so we talked about that this week at the end of last week's Torah portion you know the end of the the Torah portion of genesis of Bereshit god's like oh man this world is a disappoint the world is not so good i created i may have messed up because and you know and i like i like Noah but like God was saddened on to his heart here in the beginning of the book of Exodus it's like Moses is like God you disappointed me you know that I'm just disappointed you know any I think Rashi their word I think it was a Russia or some other content I was like he's well you're not going into land of Israel yeah Rashi break that down it's a very deep question there I love it I love it it's like it's like you won't you you won't see my full you'll see what I'll do to borrow but you won't see well do 231 Kings right you won't see the the fault the full Redemption cuz you cuz yeah because you were I mean in a way it's a very important insight because of course Rashi is not arguing it's in the Midrash she's not arguing with the idea that Moshe doesn't go in there it's sale because he struck the rock what he's pointing out is what's the underlying psychology that led Moshe to that moment of despair that caused him to hit it which is that Moshe had a hard time holding the process when most is a classic challenge for someone who sees the truth right and it gives them their power that's why he's willing to stand up to look at power and say like you're nothing I'm speaking on behalf of God at the same time it makes it very hard for him to be an educator to the people for whom he doesn't want to look at them as nothing he wants them to come along and learn to see the world in the right way but he suffers continually from the fact that they're not where he's at and so therefore that quality actually doesn't make him the right leader for going into the Land of Israel where as we know things are gonna get worse before they better but also Moses has a certain kind of hutzpah like that impatience is the kind of impatience of a man who wants Redemption is willing to do something about it and one could say that the early Zionists had that impatience yes they had a certain like okay God like look we need to do this so let's do this type of thing it's like it's like it's like why did you do bad for the people you said you would do good so let's do good it's I'm just saying Moses is a pusher he's pushing it he's a pusher who's who's pushes based on sense of truth and rectitude right in the same way the early Zionists they had these ideologies that they believed this is how it must be right like it's an unnatural state in exile or you know the Communists socialists right we must sort of recreate a proper labor oriented Jew and it just must be so and it leads to a tremendous ability for self-sacrifice mm-hmm my theory on the secular zionists is that they were they were greatly needed because the Jewish people had been bred out of one characteristic trait and that trait was action and we were bred out of action and they had to be careful we read out of action in the physical historical world that's what I mean - action well but the mitzvot are action I'm talking about action of the worldly kind I know you I just want to point out that careful not to fall also into the Zionist trap of disparaging the action of the mitzvot right no no no no no there was plenty of missiles but there was but there was no the crank had gotten completely rusty on the historical physical frame right and it but it had been totally bred out yeah and so you needed a generation that was going to be all the way attuned to the other side and so is to breed into the to the Jewish people that that characteristic trait of action and they were completely and utterly successful we've you read rough cooks eulogy of Herzl yeah it's a very important insight there where II I mean obviously wasn't his thought but he's one of the people who really pushed the frame that that that process is a messianic process of me chef Ben you're safe right like Joseph who was the man of action he got out there he brought in the wheat he figured out the distribution system he rearranged the country but he can't actually bring Redemption because the reality is that's the platform for the revelation it's not the revelation myself that's right so the Jewish people are are in in prison and in slavery in Egypt Moses speaks truth to power power speaks back to truth and says not gonna hang not gonna happen right and and and and pushes back this week's Torah portion is seven of the ten plagues and these plagues and now the Habad read klemish I forgot there's a special name for it has an excellent list that I took a picture of this morning and it let's just talk about the first seven then we're going to talk about today Aaron's staff swallows the staff of the Egyptian sorcerers if they're meant when it's plagued their own assigns one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven they added that one as a miracle first what he does so fairness Pharaoh given the effect is that Pharaoh has given a message that God's rulership his staff is mightier than his own then the Nile turns into blood that which means the deity of Egypt the Nile is afflicted in its entirety infestation of frogs the deity of Egypt the Nile is source of havoc for the whole of Egypt lice infestation Egyptian sorcerers are unable to duplicate miracle they confess that as the finger of God this is the headlines right there you read that one hey unable to do clean vehicle must be finger of God says I'm in cotton that's right a mixture of wild animals snakes and scorpions is incited upon Egypt Egypt is thrown into a unprecedented havoc yeah well lions tigers bears to do that I gotta tell you something about heaven that filled me just a second death of cattle through disease the cattle of those Egyptians who feared God is spared start to make some distinctions here right humans and animals infested with boils Egyptian sorter sorceress are utterly humiliated and are ashamed to appear before Pharaoh they like they're just they're hideous hail kills humans and animals God's precision is demonstrated in the exact time that the plague begins moreover there is the famous Rashi there that the water and the fire coexisted these two opposites came to peace in order to serve God I like that Rashi a lot yeah well by the way that like concepts a very important concept within Taurus that is that opposites either you know destroy each other meaning they can't coexist but properly framed they are expressing a deeper will so here you have the fire inhale but you know where the classic example is you put metal between them and you can have a cup of tea meaning there's a way in which the opposites of fire and water can be in service of and that's the deeper truth then so I cuz I'll say that that Shalom peace is the place where fire and water coexists you can think of that as some like divine perspective I can't conceive that or you think I'm in there you practical perspective which is how do I bring them together in a way in which their difference actually serves it's a beautiful meditation for this week folks it's a great meditation for us this week think about fire and water coexisting think about your various either either people in your family or people at work or even internal characteristics traits that are at odds and trying to find some kind of peace with them and really the clue is in the service of God yeah what's the vessel that holds them it allows them to be in service of right in simple ways like if we all agree that we're in the service of God then our different our different characteristic traits come into into into play and they come to harmony because they're all focused on a point like together then at the risk of doing too far into the counseling work I do that that this is the baal shem tov says there's a three-step process in knowing oneself in that respect that it's non of Delevan Tukka that a person has to have to has self-discipline need to be little control your behavior then you have to be able to separate yourself from each of your qualities Havdalah and say i am not my anger i am not my desire right I had this thing I have then there's um Tucker which is that each of them is somehow a gift because it is expressive of some power within you seeking outlet and once you can do that full process then each of them has its right place and and you can really achieve wholeness beautiful excellent speaking of threes just uh just now in DAF yummy I'm a little bit behind a few pages but like right now was a was the strangest Michelle they were talking about whether you should mention the teach the pressure off seat seat at nighttime mm-hmm and the question is like won't in the time of the redemption we're not we don't need to mention the the Egyptian the exodus from Egypt because it says in Jeremiah I think 23 that that that in in the time of the Great Redemption they won't say anymore they took a centimeter per hour I don't gathered you from the north and all the other countries right okay so it's in the Haggadah right it's another goddess so so the the answer was no no it doesn't mean totally racism in the Egyptian thing it'll just be secondary people be like and also Egypt and then they give him a shot they're like it's like a person who was attacked by a wolf and overcame that and then told everybody was telling people about how I got it I got attacked by wolf and I overcame it by a lion my lion this is it this is important so attacked my line and he stopped talking about the wolf and he started talking about the overcame a lion and then thirdly he was attacked by a snake and then he talked about the snake and the the the inferences that the snake is yet more dangerous yes okay hold on one second now I'm not a great it's a possum while at most I'm not a great zoologist I'm not I think of you as one I'm not a great zoologist but I have faced some snakes I want to say that snakes are quite dangerous can be but a lion eats people you know and I mean if it's angry in a bad place you know and a snake doesn't really eat people so often you know it could be kinda know I could theirs and their stories but like like a lion thing that brings down wait hold on I'm I'm looking forward to going somewhere I thought to myself this was actually a message about the challenges of the three the first temple second temple of Third Temple and appeared the first temple I don't know about the first temple is much how it connects to a wolf but I'm sure it's there but the second temple was the Romans the Romans destroyed Second Temple they are Lions they are big lions this is the Miami yeah this is the most lioness of all empires that ever existed this is the lion this is the leader of the great and mighty armies of Rome nothing's existed like that that's them strongest and most and also the greatest leader like the Gemara says like the the effect of Rome will never be erased from this world it's a kalai and it's like it's like that look uh that's a superpower of superpowers anyway it's Rome in Persia that will last into the days of Monsieur I is it ok alright alright so so that ok so you know Persia led into into Rome finally with a little Greece in the middle but and I mean Greece the country and no I'm just saying like in terms of where we're at today right noteworthy but like the final challenge is gonna be more snaky the snakes are sticky yeah that we have remember that we have to deal with snakes not with frontal Wars we're not dealing with frontal Wars as much we're dealing right now with much more of psychological warfare of erasure of effort to erase our history of sneak attacks we're dealing with a frontal the language violence lion we're dealing with the Greeks the Greeks yeah but what did they use the the leader on a different method bad they were the toughest and at the room you know you know you know the the witch whatever Legion was you the tenth I think in Jerusalem wasn't over like 200 years in occupation in occupation duty we're talking about talking about some serious fighting machine here that's the line the snake that's the time that we're living in that yes there are fought shaking hands like there was no Yasser Arafat's shaking hands in the Roman times the way things work right dealing with front told battles right now we're dealing with with snaky battles and that's and that's a great battle and that's the challenge of our time that was my thinking on that no I was gonna add is there how is the first how is the Babylonians like wolves though I'm sure it's true but I think maybe they're wolves because they carried off the captivity into Babylon you know wolves like grab a prey and they pull it back like they yeah I was the only I was at least is that there's a there's an echo in there and have to look at the Chimera to see if because I'll quote it of that very important puzzle can almost in the 5th chapter I was in the 19th line there about how like it's like a man flees from a lion and then runs into a bear and he threw this in the bear and he ends up putting his hand on the wall and getting bit by a snake right right that there's a there's a sense that oftentimes to what is most dangerous is that what you perceive to be least dangerous but don't forget you're gonna what snakes any people that's not the way that's all thought of snakes let's just talk a little bit of snakes tongue people they herpetology right yeah poison the poison poison that and then in that a snake is small and seemingly harmless but packs the most deadly punch right because the reality is you have probably more chance of surviving a lion attack than you do of the most deadly the deadly serpents here in the Land of Israel certainly in their day sure and just you know I think that it goes hand in hand what you're saying is they don't dismiss the power of the challenges that we had today because we seem to be powerful this is one of our challenges like we have a big army if Rome commands today we'd whooping but we're flailing in that battle to to elevate the spirit of our own people in the people of the world in the way in which were meant to do rain that captains through language on Simchat Torah I was walking home with a group of people now walking to shore with a large group of people here inertia lion and a coiled small triangular head snake was on the sidewalk in your salon really with it with up with a with a bad head yeah I mean the kind you know did you kill it I certainly did yeah I took a piece of wood I know and everybody's like what the heck bro special story people walking out it was on it wasn't in the forest it was on the street corner I lived in some crevice nearby yeah I smashed it everybody was like what happened there and I nailed it to the doorpost okay here we go now I want to go backwards for a second and just do that the we're still at startup zone at the beginning of this Torah portion before we get to the plagues there's really one of my favorite monologues because God really monologues oh yeah this is this is and maybe this has got maybe maybe this is God's longest monologue as in in his voice I'm not sure but I don't remember that there's another in God's voice there's there's there's obviously monologues of meets mode and stuff like that you know of how things should be done but here that God is talking in his voice and telling us like the whole story and here let's do it together well we're in the second Torah portion in the book of Exodus it's called Vieira and starts in chapter 6 strangely verse 2 okay vita bella' loki el machete ami de l'avenir Shem so God spoke to Moses and said I am Hashem I am the Tetragrammaton named Vera I'm elite stockwell yaqoub el shaddai push me Hashem loan without to them I showed myself to Abraham Isaac and Jacob through the god of Cal shock I which is the way I understand it and I've seen this also set a few times this is the god of fertility okay you'll be AB great nation you'll become a nation that's my blessing to you but Shmi Hashem alone with nothing but my full tetragrammaton name I did not reveal to them which means go ahead means I was not known to that house not known to them right right because as Rashi points out what do you mean like they knew that name they knew that name but that's why Rashi says the tension between Shaddai is the promise er that's the god of promises right and the the four-letter name of God is the God of payment of fulfillment right I I would say differently I would say when was the god of give birth donation the other one is redemption of the nation admits the same promise in fulfillment okay good so then so then so then we had a we had a okay began Hakim ot ability I shall and indeed I shall what's the word acuity I established my covenant with them let a lemon I'd ever taken on to give them land oh yeah you think it's an ass you for sure Hakim ulti right maybe but it costs maybe I established he swings gave it I said I made myself known to them as kill Jedi I may I I establish my covenant with them to give in the future right right that's what I'm saying it's it's i establish minh the covenants in the past but like you said but the promise to actually give them is in the future okay fulfillment coming and totally right that's what he saying therefore now i didn't have the time i heard the cry of their children when ii forgot my key mo te tii also fulfilled no i stylus established establish my covenant with them latet l'homme tenets canal to give them the land of canaan edits magorium the land of their sojourn so share God by which they lived in which they surged earning right yes yeah the gamma Nisha mati a gum here means and I also but it probably means about however Anisha mati I heard it knock cabinets the cry of the children of Israel I showed me time a vadim item which which Egypt is subjugating them visco pretty and I remembered my covenant that thing that we just talked about a minute ago I said so now I agree with you more I established a previous covenant with the forefather Moshe why are you here with me now because I heard their cry of their children and I remember the code it's time left and therefore a mobile device I say to the children of Israel Aeneas Shem I am a Shem of the Tetragrammaton vote SETI at them and I will take you out meet a curtsy voltmeter I am I will take you out of the bondage of Egypt Viets all t of them I will I will save you me avoid attempt will not save you okay save you from their their their work or their enslavement the godly of them and I will redeem you it's not better word for redeem I never liked that word Redeemer no I think is actually a very important no you and I had this discussion because the race was important because the the monetary what's the other word for kill a lot of them Redemption okay yeah go ahead mister say that the the the the gula has a specific monetary meaning in the the discourse of the Torah which is that something which has a value that you and you want to take possession of that thing that there is an exchange meaning the way you get possession for something Israel is paying its full value and and in many ways the suffering of the Egyptians is payment that God exacts in order to take it's a strange to have a payment granted but there's there's a lot to be said about the fact that Gulas monetary meaning okay the gods erm and I will redeem you bestow on a to yah with a outstretched arm right outstretched arm ooh [ __ ] Fatima dalam and with great judgments or great miracles great wonders great judgment judgment I'm Fatima means I also do great like well but the judgment happened through the vehicle miracles we don't but don't forget it this is not a dog-and-pony show it's not lights and they know God is specific judgment on the nature of Gyptian society right okay but Oh Liam I hope great judgments but then why is it big because that's I'll tell you why it's because we're still talking about it now right okay so big judgments for like a thing if the Egyptian economy had just gone kaput right and and and suddenly there had been some internal strife that led to the freedom of the slaves and ami soil had left it would have achieved the same effect historically speaking we've been set free but we weren't be still be talking about it today I understand Villa costly at the time and then okay so that's the Egypt part but now Villa Kathy I will take you I will take you villa casa let's comely lamo take you to me to be a nation very lehem looking and I will be for you a god via dot Tim this is by the way the only thing in this whole list that you have to do the only little thing you got one shot one small job I will do and I counted ten verbs we could talk about it later of things that I've done or will do I'll do ten actions I'm asking you do one thing one thing only it's just to know it that's all I'm asking you just have the consciousness that's like the big ask is just to see it which is a big ask it's from Judas I mean listen in our and look for their generation it might have been a little bit easier although I would argue that the the UDI used the word consciousness which is a very important one their problem was that their consciousness was formed in slavery right so they knew as a point of information because they experienced it but in terms of a consciousness they it was unavailable to them we don't have the point of information because we didn't experience it but our consciousness has been shaped by the snowing that's right but still the big job is to know it oh for sure the big job is to talk about what it means to know to never a passive state right right but and that's your only job really you got it you got to know it it is the frame for all existence remember he's not talking about point of information but that's what I mean exactly back to the Jerusalem story you don't even have to do that much you just have to know it God has done these things I know why you're saying it that way but open up it that that is that is the fundamental the way in which you know the world is the baseline for all the actions you take right for the opinions you hold for the relationship your narrative is your laws their policy so everything's it's not point information I have to check the box dude gotta figure out a [ __ ] yours no no no it's know exactly what is the cognitive frame right what does the world look like in light of the fact that God brought us out right good via data me shall know Kiani and Shamu can fry that I am a shame your God how much see it let me talk to Bob it's a machinery guard who takes you out of the bunch bondage of Egypt via vetti a tram l ha ha it's I will I will bring you to the land which land a share masotti a tid which I have raised my hand Lata Tata laughs around exactly Satya Dede could mean I've taken an oath yeah language right that I that I've taken an oath that I've raised my hand razor right in that's right to give latecha to give the land lava Hamlet's Hokulea Cove that I promised to give to Abraham Isaac and Jacob villa and indeed when I Tatti oat I'll give it I'll give her luck to him I'll give it to you Masha in eternal inheritance ani hashem yep this word more shot only appears one other time the whole Torah which is more shocking Yakko writes taurat see violent emotion more sake lotta curve that the Torah is also an eternal inheritance yeah and these are the two things the Torah and the Land of Israel the Torah the Land of Israel because they're the two primary vessels for the national relationship with God right and I would say they're also you say that way and I would say they're the vessels for one another you want the Land of Israel you Toro for sure you want real Torah you need the Land of Israel yeah but both of those things that they are the more a shot they are the more Assad they are they engaged to one another these two things Torah in the land of Israel that they work together great so so but the Jewish people were not able to it doesn't say they didn't believe it but they weren't able to hear it like I said I don't you know I feel you I hear you I couldn't they couldn't hear it because they were too short of breath well yet in and under and under bondage coats our walk is an important concept for our day because I think actually it's an undervalued reality that we still live in a time of code to rule right we live in a Supercuts of rook yeah but okay fine meaning but one could say that after 70 years of Independence maybe we should have a little bit more bandwidth right but I think that but the reality is they coats are Roth is is just I would say a narrowness of spirit right right and this is a well-established many very interesting works in within our world the H kodesh that means that's the Rabi writes about how one of the great problems of suffering is that it narrows the spirit and we become incapable of knowing the world other than through the lens of our suffering so so to the slaves of Egypt the concept of freedom which was being offered which is not a freedom in the Western sense of liberation from but it's actually a freedom of right of the ability to actually engage God and the fullness of our individual and our collective experience right that was inconceivable they weren't able to hear it because they they lacked the bandwidth in our language so so too today right we we like we want an easy life we want a good economy you want what you're not much those aren't bad things but do we want that revelation that you were speaking about when the nations of the world come to Jerusalem and say give all actually we didn't know what the story was about all along do we really want it I don't know that everybody does because I don't think that we oh I think we're in can see it's inconceivable that's what it means and even for those of us that have an inkling and we're kind of afraid of what it would ask of us and also Israel still you know it's it's it's still in its in its mind a kind of small country living on the edge and so so much of a trauma complex here I don't again I don't blame but it is but it is starting to leave it is starting to leave we are overcoming for example the difference between Ashkenazi and Sephardi has great measure in our lifetime left the fold and and will be so much more able to deal honestly with the Arabs when we actually accept the fact that we are strong and have an unlimited capacity and to do from a place of strength allows you to deal from a place of generosity of spirit the only problem is is that when you when you understand and I think that this is a moment that we're coming to worthy where the problems are no longer existential they're not external they're not coming at us but they're only only a matter of of of the way we see things absolutely which is which is a great moment and by the way this is not the moment that you and I were born into no when Israel was facing the the Yom Kippur War when the Soviets we're placing samms in the Syrian hands in order to knock down our our planes and like when you add these two prepares playing with us yeah suddenly there's a there's a moment where I think if this is maybe it's being born tomorrow it might be being born tomorrow where asteroids turns into Jerusalem right yeah I think that the process began and we could talk historically all this season before we talk about it of the Jewish story of the Jewish story here on the Land of Israel network network but but lug but you know that's but but I think that you're correct at the moment we're looking for is the moment in leadership be it in political leadership in spiritual leadership in cultural leadership who's writing the books that aren't about you know flagellating themselves or I'm doing my research right now that you know the first works in which we began to express our guilt over of what happened in 48 to the Arabs were happened the first time Israeli culture had us at the breathing room after the Sinai campaign in the 60s why because there was like the individual began to emerge from the collective necessity of survival and started to feel guilty so but we haven't reached the next stage which is that individual is able to say well but we have a powerful collective if I feel guilty about some of the consequences of surviving I'm not gonna choose death and cease to survive how about I choose life and say I could use this power to fix it but fix it for real not throw what my conscience of bone and and etc but but actually rearrange the world the way could be we're waiting for that boy in for that in culture and our literature waiting for in our political weight we cross the board and spiritually most importantly you know and I just want to bring you down to just the last thing here my kids showed incredible amount of satis appointment in the last day and a half because it didn't snow they were just brokenhearted about it I thought it start out by you guys a little bits not a little bit that everything they literally pray to God uh-huh and asked him from snow and it didn't exactly like it didn't exactly materialize you know in in the bone right now I was like I was like it's something I wanted to get anger there was like nutty fast here yeah I told him that but but then I just think as you were saying like they want they want the yeah that they weren't that great moment you know they want to see that great moment it's so beautiful and the snow by the way the snow is also the snow is a taste of namana it's got this like white you know it's like it's like what regulus to a small child and snow right right and you get freedom from bondage ie school school that's amazing we're interested in snow as a meteorological phenomenon that's right I mean they want to throw it one another in the other person the whole thing so so instead of going out there everybody let's pray that that really together with our good good energies out shorts will turn into Jerusalem and the world will see that and let's for my kids sake sand and so many Israelis and also by the way for the grape vines that love snow yeah frost let's all pray for a little bit of snow in Yerushalayim I just had a one story from from my son said to me last night the context is not so important he said to me you just I just just I just want to believe in a Shama go under he didn't say that so I just want to know that a sham is real right I said okay well what would that look like I wanna I want to know that want to sign just so perfect are ya Harsha and I said to him well you need to look out the window right and he's like what you mean I'm like whoa but here we are we're in it's not just me right and and um I realized that for me I've always known that for me that is the clearest expression of God's existence and creation bar none but for him it's just reality right and so there's there's a deeper demand a whether it's a relationship to God that doesn't demand signs or whether it's we're in the land of Israel you still make alia and that's the temple and the temple you see miracles so I had I had that thought I had that thought that really like what's stayed it was for me it will only be the temple for them right like for you was coming to the land yeah but for them it's coming up from the land to temple in Yerushalayim yeah and that's gonna bring over the via data but in order to build that temple you also got to have that very that--some cuz you got to do that for God you got a house him he doesn't need to house you he houses you already yeah you houses you and I'll be free of charge you know that's my favorite phrase above all the phrases that's like my favorite who macomb all shallow larvae in a llama como like he houses the world but the world does not house him but if you want at the greatest level of consciousness you could build him a house in your show but that's the this sort of paradox embedded in macomb we're talking about a Clea vessel that's meant to hold paradox in a productive fashion that's precisely what the temple is meant to be when we say macomb hama coma is a name of god we mean both of them we mean what you said which is God is the place of the world but we also mean yeah right over there right which means what that you can have an intimate relationship with the infinite man that you can do that amen god Bless You rabbi Mike for so good to have you back we want to wish you continued healing presses for your meniscus I mean and continue to bind that meniscus back to where it's supposed to be bound and the doctors know so god bless he's great to have you back please check out your other show rabbi Mike's others show which is called the Jewish story which is found 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they're told and there are people who like to tell others what to do and then there are people out there who are just wondering what exactly needs to be done which one of you I'm Rob Mike Feuer and this is the Jewish story listen to the Jewish story with Roth Mike Feuer on the land of Israel calm [Music] alright folks we are back on the isha flash a show joined by our beloved maka fletcher mackel Shalom and welcome you say thanks so much Volkers I am back again Boker Tov every 100 meters on route 1 from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has a police officer the Old City of Jerusalem has practically shut down and where my mom lives in the area of the Knesset also everything is to completely shut down there was already police yesterday in the evening I was there and just like at every like you look under a tree hey police officer you look you look you look under like it was raining also so everything that was covered I looked under there was a police officer and mushrooms and basically they were getting rid of all parked cars there there's like a place where I know where it has some like old park cars got rid of them they towed that just towed him very simple everything that could be used as a bomb or anything like that was just cleared out right well and this morning I read an article about the various planes that the leaders came on most of them came in on army airplanes really like the Czech army and the Polish and the Polish didn't come the Czech army who else ok polish all right let's not talk about that so much and then and then you have you just have people coming in on their army planes and then you have for example a Mike Pence is coming in I think on an army plane I think he's coming in this morning and Putin is coming in on an army plane some people came it's not gonna like get on the back of an eagle fly no you know what the pence one I don't remember if it was like it was uh it was like the u.s. it was like the US presidential plane but I think it was more like I think I read that it was like a like a large you know army airplane one of the interesting ones is that the king of Holland flew in himself on a big Boeing cool in 737 it turns out that for the last few years he has hidden this he has every other week flown what KLM flights yet out of yeah he's like aiya this is your captain speaking like that like that king of Holland that's right that's right it's this thing you know it's the thing he wants to fire plain see this thing so he flew in and supposedly the tower no there's a lot of pilots that there thing is to be a king and so like they could totally switch well the the so-called king of Jordan the so-called former king of Jordan was also a flyer a pilot I remember seeing him 11 I think he I think he piloted when he flew into Israel one time he piloted it himself any case so a lot of people are flying in different ways some of the private jets some one army jets and some on some are flying themselves and some on just that the the prime minister of Bulgaria is flying in on a regular ll flight that's really cool yeah from Sofia and everybody's coming in today to remember the Holocaust a lot of leaders and we're talking about I think 43 world leaders let's I want to name a few more names well we have the big ones right now is vice president pence right I want to get off the the air with you and like go run to the computer and put on a live stream of Israeli news because from 9:00 till like 11:00 like leaders at landing landing landing lasers like a lot a lot of lands including Putin what I want to see I don't know why but I want to see Putin we have pence policies coming us House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking a break from her busy impeaching schedule to come and remember the Holocaust or show her face as a Democrat in Israel we have Putin Prince Charles from England print French president Emmanuel macron who already managed to get into a like like a French style angriness at Israeli police so great what happened was is that he was going into some church and the police wanted to go with him or protect them and he started yelling he's like you know the rules you I've been doing this for a hundred years 300 years and and you know he can all angry and I thought to myself great you know I mean okay like who cares it's almost like it's almost like do your French thing get get angry get ticked off but I saw already people writing like he thinks it's a crusader [Laughter] you know you get spicy people come to our country it's not the same we're not as tolerant see this is a 75th anniversary of Auschwitz yeah and really we're not as tolerant of being herded this way and that way is we used to be right it's like people like even the President of France has to like step back a little bit when you're in our country we have our sovereignty now and we're in our own country and we got our weapons and we we like we're not in in the Auschwitz space anymore right this may be in Auschwitz conference in the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and certainly a lot of the countries who are being represented had a huge part in that and so in since we owe our lives to a lot of these countries and we owe in a sense also the State of Israel to these countries because they went and liberated what what's that face you're making a lot of these countries were on the wrong side yeah you have a lot of these countries also on the wrong side here we have for example German president do Frank Walter Stein Myers also coming ukrainian president vladimir Solinsky is coming leaders from Romania Italy Austria and Germany in Austria come right right Greece but sadly Greece Cyprus Albania Croatia Georgia Bulgaria Sweden Denmark the Czech Republic Hungary Finland Bosnia Iceland Armenia Australia Canada and etc right I want to mention that that Vulgaria was very famous for actually defending all of its Jews in the face of the Nazi atrocities very bravely but yesterday I got myself got into a little tussle with the Bulgarian politician yeah the specialist on Twitter a special representative Bulgaria has sent the UN Special Representative for Middle East affairs is a Bulgarian politician by name of nikolai and he got in a fight with him yesterday because he tweeted out something that said like if israel and Nexus any parts of Area C then this will be a death blow to the two-state solution will be bad for regional peace and I wrote to him something pretty mean I was like I checked out rankings of your country and you are the considered the most corrupt and least developed one of the tied with with with another country for at least developed but number one most corrupt country in the EU right so they're their national gross national product is way below ours their corruption is way above ours and we have our own but they have you know got their own problem and I'm like why don't you go back and deal with domestic affairs instead of telling us how to how to like solve complicated problems and right by dividing our land and giving it over to the jihad like Gaza and he wrote back to me which was fun he wrote back to me saying yes so he wrote back to me that that Bulgaria saved its World War two Jews and I have a problem with the UN then I should talk about that but not about Bulgaria is the country and I wrote back saying don't you think it's fair to challenge your expertise as a person giving us advice when you are no experts at an economic stability and at a nation-building state building you know it's like you're coming from less advanced more current country to our country and now you're also giving us wonderful advice what I wanted to write by the way Malka and I didn't was like and I was about to I was like because I didn't I don't know his personal you know his personal history but I was gonna write I can understand what you're in favor of the PA because you know corrupt regime to another corrupt regime you know I'm saying you guys have like a whole you probably like got right in there and figure it out how to make deals with these guys and you know you know you know each type the truth is that that all over the world every nation on this planet basically feels that it has the right to tell us what's the right thing to do with ourselves and that's still part of like a certain we'll call it micro victim victimization that the world is still doing to the Jewish people here we have the 75th anniversary of Auschwitz and frankly I think it's a big honor and a big statement that a lot of these world leaders are coming to Israel and that isn't that is that is very very meaningful at the same time you have the whole world like really is trying to push us in different directions which is kind of crispa dick right it's like getting involved you know the the whole the whole like political scene in America right now is all about how other countries are trying to influence America basically in a nutshell right and did President Trump allow this to happen intentionally or not intentionally for his own aims whatever but it's like here we have openly on a like an hourly and daily basis nations trying to affect our our national policy and our NAT and facts on the ground in our country right and they like they act like this is like the most normal and reasonable thing in the world when a lot of us hear saying like who are you like even if Bulgaria is the most ethical country in the world I never personally I don't read so much about Bulgaria in the news right you don't hear about a lot of Bulgarian atrocities right it doesn't seem to me like Bulgaria is a bad country in fact like you said the Bulgarians saved their Jews when no one was doing that right barely anyone was doing that so so they they definitely have a merit in this world and in the next sure but uh but even still like why why are people telling us how to run our country still right after all this time well everybody wants a hand in Israel that's an ancient thing and I'll never forget the Rashi that that explains like why were there 31 kings that joshua fought in land of israel 31 kings no it says that's one way of explaining it another way explaining is that note the whole world wanted a stake in it they want a part in it so it was Kings that weren't trying to be involved in the land of Israel if you know anything about the history of places like Jerusalem in the last 200 years you know that every religious denomination tried hard to build their church or their mosque or their thing in Jerusalem to have their stake to have their place because they realized that Jerusalem is activated again and they immediately wanted to have their their presence their control their their impact felt and that there's something about the Jewish people on the Land of Israel which is certainly independent and we're proud of that but there's something about this story that the nation's want a hand in right and that that's something to just there's always been Crusades right you you can Juarez right you can in things happen you can poopoo it and and say I don't want any of it but like let's just analyze it in partially which is like that is the history of this place something about the nation's they want a stake in Jerusalem and I gotta tell you Makkah and I and I said this on the last half I think today is going to be filled with tons of small and unimportant News's sure first is very exciting for the journalists right it's also extremely like selective process by which people are invited to different events so all the and there are many journalists are like very proud of being invited and part of difference for example do you know that the prime minister of Finland is going to a Finnish old-age home oh they don't for for Finnish people nice there's all these many implementing all kinds of diplomatic fees everybody's meeting with the president that's everybody but has it Ruby rivers Andrew Berlin and some people are meeting with with Prime Minister Netanyahu they're all coming in they're all coming in and having a chat about that but then they also have private events all kinds of pray a lot of visiting the old city today a lot of touring the old city people are going to their churches their places their mosques okay so people are going into that by the way well though it's supposed to be raining okay so see what the Lord you know the the when you see the leader of a when you see a king or a world leader there's a blessing that you say that's right which is that God like shares his honour in this world sure for the you know is there is there a blessing for the Tsar oh my gosh you know you should I call the show that is there a blessing for the Tsar because I was gonna call it when a Schwartz gave way to Jerusalem yeah but hashtag is there a blessing mister blessed is there a blessing closer so I was gonna say there's a lot of micro stories today yeah including for example macron and his I'm done with him now that he yelled it is really please I'm over it but you see I actually a I kind of like because I thought it was funny and good political theater and I honor political theater you know and it wasn't theater but okay I think it might have been I think he faked it I think he wanted to create a little incident to get himself out in front you've got everybody cares with Putin things everybody cares what Trump thinks nobody cares what micron thing so then in micro came in and he shows some arrogance and he you know got angry and I thought it was I thought it was like clever anyway my point too is that you know these politicians to get on top of France is not an easy thing either so when you see a politician that is number one that means that he's clever into watching is just something to see but I'm getting to the real point market which is who cares this is not the real story okay not the real story the real story is usual I'm the real story is that these leaders from all over the world some who were good to the Jews others that were bad to the Jews are coming to Jerusalem today ostensibly to remember Ashwin's but that's not the story the story is they've come to Jerusalem today to say the following the God of Israel took the Jewish people out of the hell of the of the Holocaust out of the hell of a switz and brought them to your shall I mean rebuilt Jewish life as was promised in the Bible that is what we're gonna see it they're gonna see you're definitely gonna drive through whether they're gonna say it or not say it they're definitely gonna see it they're gonna drive through and they're gonna be like this is so this is Jerusalem right exactly and you know we read an ASA lamentations about how the the people will look at Jerusalem and be like this is the city that was called like I forget what they got what it's called exactly like a city that was called like greatest in the world something like that right and but now I think there's gonna be a little bit of a Tico and there gonna be a little bit of a fixing I mean Jerusalem still has a ways to go and we don't have our temple and we we don't have we haven't signed and sealed Jerusalem yet MOCA I was listening to the radio but they're gonna see they're gonna see that Jerusalem is is a beautiful flourishing city full of Jews and full and and growing in and shining mister scolar it's it's the light of the world yeah it's a Russia alum it's like anyway the it's the light of the world and all these great leaders are coming to see it and and it's like it's it's a perfect day it's a prophetic day in Jerusalem it's a day of great prophecies it's a it's a day of you know and and I I refuse to let the smallness be the the topic of for sure I refuse to write this this you know you know you know how you have you know in politics you have these like lawyers and these are legal advisors and they make politics and leadership into like is it legal isn't that league on there and you have these bureaucrats and what's called petty tyrants you know you know and I refuse to let the press take away the meaning of today right turn it into right there you know you know look at what he said he said this is just forget it and even that girl nama who's afar who's in prison and then in in in the in in Russia and the Putin's even that which is a fine issue that I'm sorry that is not that is not the big story here that's not the big story the big story is that 75 years after Auschwitz session was rebuilt your shall I'm and he's bringing the people home and the world is coming to bow their heads in front of the God of Israel that's what it's really about and they could talk about Auschwitz and it was bad you know what happened with what part they had it's not about you it's not even about Israel I'm sorry it's not even about the it's not even about the State of Israel and its successes and you know it's about it's about the story the miraculous unbelievable unspeakable story that God what God has done that's what this thing is about and I wish I wish people would sense that and and get a little bit higher than the low you know places you know a little bit more regal and see what this is about I wish they would but you know it even in the absence of that it is what it is you can't take away the the I'm sorry there's a word in Russian that is just God does just business you know like like like a kind of like glory and honor you know that you know I hi thing you know I mean I imagine see right now a lofty thing and and and and III wish people wouldn't just see the the macarons of this world you know I mean and I got blessed I'm I know I'm telling you I don't even care that he did this thing I was funny to me but it's but it's nothing it's nothing compared to this great day and this is an honor a kings and presidents and prime ministers are coming to Jerusalem who are they honoring president Reuven Rivlin Prime Minister good to notice for for a second to back back up into the bureaucratic element that you said we shouldn't talk about it is interesting to note that this conference is not happening in Tel Aviv right and this is kind of a an atmosphere which Israel has fought very hard for right absolutely which is to create Jerusalem as the center not Tel Aviv is absolutely and the Prime Minister of Israel United States had a big part in that it did the Prime Minister of Israel needs to get a lot of credit for that and in his his standing on the world stage no doubt you know I'm not taking away the honor from these people but just for a second ladies and gentlemen just for a second snap out of it you know snap out of the micro politics and the impeachments and the trials in the and and the whose testimony is accepted in all this you know our lowly crud that we deal with you know and for a second for a second realize that the majesty of what a Shem is has done in this world and it's and it's it's impossible like either one of the reasons why people don't speak about it is because it's impossible to grasp the only reason I can speak about it is because I accept that it's impossible to grasp and that's what I recommend other people do as well it's like it's it's not to say here's what happened it's not to own it it's just to be like awed by God right awed by what what what he had what what he has done and and and moved and moved and and and and and it's not a coincidence that it's this week's Torah portion Viera which lays out the whole plan that I remember the the the oaths that I gave to the forefathers and I will bring them back to their lands and you know no no no and gather them and and the whole thing and I'll bring them up and it's an eternal inheritance that's that's what today's about and I just I really rather that people would you know I don't know anyway I'm looking forward to I'm looking forward to 8 p.m. tonight I have a date with you you deal with the kids what are we gonna do we're watching the news tonight 8 p.m. that'll be fun we're watching the Israeli news maybe some popcorn I want the kids yes Oh prepare that I want that hits to see all these kings coming in good cause I want them I want them to see it I want them to feel it and I want that and by the way I want to tell you I was in Jerusalem to sing the preparations yesterday I'll tell you what maybe the press is lowly and all that but Jerusalem was looking majestic Wow good for you - yes Wow you know I mean and it's you need to read Isaiah a little bit you need to read you know you need to read the great prophets to see what's happening right now to feel that because that's the level that it's at that's the level that it was it was interesting that you also mentioned the Book of Lamentations it's like it you know at the end right at the end like like we read lamentations in announcements for for what was happening for God's sakes your your grandparents are survivors you know I mean you're a pro you you you are I'm a product of the liberation about you you are out roots to Jerusalem you Wow you are you are your outfits to Jerusalem and it's just like I never thought of it that way anyway you sure it's okay do you need its issue yeah a little bit anyway all right all right so great stuff it's great thank God we have this kind of thing to cry about right that's right all right all right folks you are listening to the each I flash to show Michael I sure want to thank you so much for joining me and celebrating with me this great day and of course we remember the Six Million as well and their and their their murder and their honor there's no survivors alive today like your grandma my grandmother you got to show them the love they really you know Mike our kids each I asked me yesterday Eleazar asked he's like who was the worst like person in Jewish history who was considered like the worst person and it was not non Jew like the worst human being yeah like who is the who was considered like the most evil guy yeah the most bad guy Titus and I was like well that we had Nobu hot nets are right who dispersed the Jews and destroyed it - sure and you had I was like I was like well leaders Hitler right there's Titus of Rome Titus of robe but then I thought to myself who is the worst I guess I don't know Hitler when you're facing oh yeah I think Hitler was the worst when you're facing an Arab an Arab jihadist riot that's destroying your family and coming into your house and killing yes you know killing parents in front of children at that moment that person sores yes but but the point that I really want to make the point that I was was aiming at was that I thought about it now I'm not such a historian right so I don't know all the intricacies but when you think about the the aims I mean except for maybe Hammad it could be that Haman was the worst person in history because he really had a plan to destroy all the Jews but aside from him it's really Hitler right and it's like we actually we have people in our lives who came in contact directly or indirectly with the worst person in the history of the world and it's like you think about the magnitude of what the Holocaust was and therefore what outch wits was and that we really come out of that it's like like you're saying from Auschwitz to Jerusalem it's like really from the the worst like capital T the worst to liberation to redemption to the redemption process for sure and you know when when Eleazar asked me that I was like I kind of realized the the proximity the close proximity we have and we had to like the worst evil ever in the history of the world and and to see from that the great rebirth is so I'm so so improbably so but it's also so literary yeah here for you you maka are from Auschwitz to Jerusalem really alright folks who are listening to these chef Liza show write us an email you should I at the Land of Israel calm thank you very much the Land of Israel Network I also want to thank the Jewish Jewish press comm for hosting my show as well Jewish press comm check out one of 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