Yishai Show: Go Home Jew

[Music] Shalom everybody and welcome to the high flyer show broadcasting live wherever you are it's Shalom and welcome to Beit Midrash to lamia a cove here in the heart of Nakhla jerusalem it's so good to be here Jerusalem right now and when I'm in Jerusalem in the floor I'm also with Rabbi Mike forever Mike Salome and welcome Oh welcome back to the baby drop thank you you know I have I am now a resident of Judea I'm a Judean you've always been a Judean that's right Wow you know I was a Jerusalemite which is this cosmopolitan city for a long time as well as a popular noodle kugel you show me Jewish on me kögel that's right it's got its own its own kögel that's right its own cocoa every city has its own Google yeah boy boy is Jerusalem the best city in the world you know and I can only like in it I'm just gonna say the only other city that I think you don't do it don't do it all right well you know you know bomb the other woman da-da-da-da-da but like I was just telling my friend that that like there's no other city that has the power and so you know I live just a tad away now I moved to a frat a biblical City I want you to know your beer carrots that's right I want you to know I want you to know where my mic for I have never not lived in a non biblical City and all the cities in the Land of Israel our biblical devastating negatives you've never not I've always lived in a biblical say to you yeah and the biblical said I lived a first in Beit el which I really learned about the dream of Jacob basically in the latter right and it was so awesome to live there I really looked and I also learned interestingly the flip side of that I also learned about Jeroboam you know I'm benefit and his alternative negative its alternative narrative as alternative narrative PS he tried to block Jews from coming to Jerusalem that's right to try to bring back the golden calf and it's like right digging back to the most sort of evil alternative narrative that really exists right right so there was so so I lived in Beit el I saw the original narrative which is which is Jacob in his dream of the latter great vision of the future and you know how you can test the seismic level of any kind of biblical verse how's that okay this is my test I see how much the ballot Orem has to say on it right sometimes it's like it's like drop drop drop things like like the tree with the ladder was like it was it's just it's just pages I mean this is what it means and this is what it means and this is what it means it has it has such a significance anyway I lived in Beit el then I was lucky enough to live on the Mount of Olives Zechariah chapter 14 obviously and just across from the temple my old place just the other day trying to get out of this town right a little bit dicey why because of your because of the protests the the our brothers in black who've taken closing the entrances to this city on a regular basis the ultra-orthodox Jews I am you know I haven't been seeing those protests what what's that been like well I don't know because we drove all the way up and over and around the Mount of Olives in order to get through we've had to actually get off a bus and walk for for a half hour just to get through the protest to get to the other side in order to get to my enemy there is by the way a secret road through the Mount of Olives down through a tour and so we uh and onto the road that leads to my lab to me there's a secret way I know that but I was with I was with out good friends EV Ornstein who knows the roads back there really well okay plus ways ways tells you you know ways has no political affiliation right ways will tell you I'll never forget how I was with shmuly Bluetooth and a bunch of his kids typing in Auschwitz in two ways trying to get home trying to trying to find a way to to the death camps there so you can turn me around ways is what wild anyway i lived in your salon and now I live in Efrat which is really the sister city the connected city to Bethlehem if fraud itself mentioned in the Bible the tomb of Rachel is there and King David is there I wanted to tell you something you know she wanted Esther the eighteen benedictions prayer has many different blessings and I know eighteen of them eighteen eighteen and B could 19 really right I am I have been finding that in in Efrat the blessing that kind of seismically shines or like like glows a little bit is at semuc Aliyev the coming out that's me like grow the hasten the growth of the plant of David the sprouted sprout of David just you wait until the hills around there turn green which please God will be sooner rather than later right now experience I love those hills well yeah we you know I'm color blind and when I when my wife doubts how color blind I am I go to the Internet and I show her those tests you could take the color blind test that she starts to cry realize you were very young when the olds turn red then it just doesn't make that kind of impression on me you know I mean it doesn't make the same kind of pressure in a colorblind person this just does not appreciate colors in the same way that's basically I think of it that way but anyway now I'm living in Efrat and and just to come back today to Jerusalem when you told me that we could record today just and I had many other errands to run as we call in Hebrew see dream right errands just to come back to your shall I'm f Fridays is awesome I love it but to come back to the to the holy in great city and not only is it holy but it's also a great metropolis great cosmopolitan city multicultural to really multi everything cultural religious multi everything just a lot of fun so it's great to be back here and that reminds me of our torah portion which is one of my favorite favorite names which is like Lathon right God says to Abram of rum he's not yet Avraham leave off the last H he's still Abram he says to him let Lissa go go Heather go you go you go you go you go you calm well this could be your future okay I know it's a powerful call because he's giving him an invitation to go elsewhere with a recognition that a true journey is also a journey into self right that that Avram who leaves or Kazim he's told to leave everything he knows his entire context and that the necessary steps becoming who he will be and so his going forth is it going into himself as well that's one of the most important to me frames of this entire parsha right so system go to yourself but what he's telling him is uproot yourself really you can't think you can't go to yourself as long as you are embedded in the context within which you formed wasn't I myself where I was of course I'm getting some existential discussion of what makes you you but I can tell you as an educator that the greatest barrier to learning is believe that you already know is as is true the greatest barrier to growth is the belief that you've already arrived and so God says to Rama I've got big plans for you gonna make you a great nation you're gonna be a blessing for the whole world but in order to do that you have to step out of what you know I think that I remember now that you tell us every year during when we learn about Esau about Asaph that he came out a complete man he was a done deal that's right and Abraham here is he's old and he's being told to reinvent himself and he does it he does it in a fantastic way and it was a beautiful piece that to me is always central to this parsha as well is that the Rambam knock manatee is great you know 13th century commentator asks why don't we know anything about aram before he gets such a phenomenal demand and an incredible promise I gotta ask him to leave everything he knows and then promises him basically the world make you a great nation I'm going to bless you and make you great and you will be blessing so we don't know anything about him so a answer from the spa samus he says no no that itself is his greatness says in the name of the Tsar that God is actually saying Lachlan saw at all times to all people and the greatness of Allah was that he heard it right and and and that's like a question that each of us should hold at the beginning of this parsha do we hear that do you hear that call to step out from what we know and to become the self that we could be every year at this time I try to sit with that and and really ask it's a very important question the words themselves left-click ha our twin words they're spelled exactly the same way because we have valas ation so so you can have two words to exact same spelling words sound different but they're kind of like sister words and they're like go and then it's to yourself go but but you're actually coming back and also the gamut really of like Allah is 50 and 50 you immediately get a sense of the five and five of the Ten Commandments like you're we're I'm taking you on a walk this journey is gonna end at the receiving of Torah at Mount Sinai if you're gonna go with the GU mater you also get the five and five that are added to the names of rahama and sera by the end of the partial right like we see the sort of fruition of this journey when at the end of the their names are changed from a from a Avraham that letter hey as a numeric value of five in suraíh becomes Sura and so you see that it's already and of course what is the ultimate result of that it's Huck this is the is the serve ham she thought the continuation of the generations that shows that what's begun here is a story that we're still living today it's not one great person right the the the greatness of Abraham is not in his individuality it's in the promise God makes him that he will be a great nation and so it's critical that by the end of the story is begun to open up into the generations so I may have not mentioned that we are on the land of Israel Network and I want to tell you that I was at the farm RN Jeremy's amazing farm at its bana this week blew my mind I like to call the headquarters the headquarters I like the headquarters that's right though that's right that corners and the next verse and of course we're back in the book of Genesis mu torah portion of lifeless ah it's chapter 12 or and and onwards and there's a great line there it says vah vah vah vah vah vah pizza i will bless those who bless you who mcconnell SI oh I will curse those who curse you vanilla who baja cold we should be ho tada ma all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and I saw there at the headquarters I saw Germans and Arabs ie people that you could identify if you so wanted to with Nazis and with the jihad working together to build up this Jewish town in the desert this Jewish headquarters it was it was just there was and Jeremy pointed that out to me it was just a beautiful thing just this phrase this phrase you know if you love Israel you will you will be blessed a few blesses really be blessed if you curse Israel you will be cursed you'll be cursed I'm gonna ask you a rabbi Mike for I'm gonna ask you a Asterix type question and you could pass on this okay because I just have a weird question to ask and I don't know how to say it right which is this text that we're reading this is the foundational text of our life sure but it's almost been given to us like we landed and here's a script it's like why this script I we know that this is the script but it's like couldn't do it and also I also did Iram know that the script is being written through him about his life and and like I just I just need to say like wow this is the Bible we're living it that we're reading it this is our family it's written about our family in our language and we've been carrying around this book and and and but this is the book every phrase here is is measured by God to be the perfect phrase and it's like there's something about it which you're like eh was it was there no other options what was this the is this the the DNA of the world or or could it have looked different because there been a different word popped in here or something like that so your question is did it have to be this way yeah you know or or like or like do you and do you understand the the to me has the wonderment that I feel when I'm like well this is the book this is the text I get it because what I hear you asking is that if you're going to take the infinite and put it into the finite is this the only form it could take yep right so before I answer that I want to ask your other question first which is that Avram didn't know that he was part of his story he was living his life as an individual that's why his first great complaint to God after all the sort of trials and tribulations and victories he has in the first part of the parsha is what what does he say to God what's his complaint then I don't have seen I don't have children right and God says stay in what you don't know who you are this is come on outside I'm gonna show you something it shows him the stars and then in the Midrash in the words of our sages right God says let go of your astronomy your ability to see what is and think that what is dictates what will be that's what the astronomers do that's what the stargazers astrologers actually I should say more accurately because I'll just change your name and you'll be someone completely different and there is a story in it you can show I think repeatedly throughout Rama's life that God is constantly trying to point out them that there is a stories part of now from is more or less open to it the other great place that will speak about next week is breed Banamine covenant between the pieces when God gives him a preview of what's coming in the in the coming chapters right so why do I point that out in context of your real question is because the way in which the infinite comes down to a finite form is a is a powerful and dangerous dynamic because that question of it couldn't have been some other way it usually leads to either fundamentalism or heresy no it could not have been any other way could not have been any other way and then you are bound to the mechanics of the text right or nihilism in her and know what listen it was this way it could have been that way therefore it's meaningless she has to focus on there's the preciousness of what you have in your hand right which is I don't know it could have been another way but this is the weight is right what you're saying other ways is it's also a logical conclusion a person who thinks deeply about that comes to that conclusion that you're saying it's a kind of illogical collision well this is his will and this is and it's the story he's given to us right and and could it have been another way I think the greatest proof that there's there's more to this story than meets the eye is the fact that the sages engage it and immediately begin to change it evolve it birth it into their lives and that's what we've done you spoke about the ball to him earlier you know in the end you could measure the seismic value of a verse according to the quantity that the ballot orient you know comment time but you know what you're really measuring where it strikes him right right because this text is written in a way in which its primary goals teaches about ourselves remember the bottom is also bringing together the masoor at the yes but there's no lack of miss Ora right on every single verse right and that's another book called the to rush Lima by Rev cash are right with it with every Midrash written on on every verse speaking of verses that are brought into life it says here great first that I like so much where is it the one that says voice ooh here it is right here because it says that that that of ROM took Sarai his wife load his nephew all of their possessions and all and all of the souls that they made because they were obviously in what my Christian friends would call a ministry yes they ministered right that they made in Quran because they had set up a ministry and it says viola left at our second on via whoa a second on they left to go to the land of Canaan and they came to land of Canaan this is what I always tell people this is alia it's two-step process two-step process one is to extricate yourself especially from America it's the extricate me you know could be if you're getting booted out of Nazi Germany or Soviet Union or you get out you don't have a you don't have to do much and then you just kind of like meld into whatever you know you you get thrown against the wall you try to stick when you're living in an in a Quran which is embracing and maybe too much so hedonistic Lior materialistically in other ways embracing you you get extricate yourself from that or maybe you can excerpt you have to extricate yourself from the mikveh that you built the school that you built a million things veidt's ooh they left they decided to take that step out that's one they pulled as my sister says to break out of the gravitational pull of America valve and then they came and they matriculated they became adjusted they came to the land of Canaan and the word Canaan the Hasidim always say comes from the word which means to to to bow not some subject but um submit submit and then he comes to a loan Moret which is Shem it guess where I'm going the showers that's right you guessed it you guessed that a lot of people go to partial cut to a loan Moret yeah time for Shabbos next to scam and I'm gonna be at my good friend Natasha Carr's house and he made aliyah he made alia from America he listened to my show in other shows he made alia from America and came to live in alone Laura that's a big job they were like this is the first Ola that US comes traits here in like 30 years they went to the airport that greeted him they brought him to the house by the time he came to his house the frig was stacked they embrace them they danced around circles outside of his house as he came from from New York City to a lone Moria that's beautiful yeah it's amazing it is really amazing and so Avraham comes to a lone male and God system you know you know he does his first build his first alter their God system you know walk walk around the land like how Laughlin I saw an egg but like go go see it with your feet right and and and kind of Kent gained ownership of it get a sense of it but it doesn't always work out does it in the land of Israel be hungry yeah what happens well sometimes the financial end of things can be a difficulty that's right the money the money please give us the money man we need the money and by the way if you're out there with the money send over the money yes don't be shy and sherry for tourists and their for tourism for building but it's important that this is test out prom I mean - it's an incredible thing that he has absolutely heard the voice of God saying leave everything you know and go to this place and a person who's operating on their simplistic relationship with God might think ok listen to God so everything's gonna work out God's now pointing out to him what are you a child that's not how life works you did the right thing because it was the right thing that doesn't mean that it's going to work out in the short term that's what it means to be part of a story it'll work out in the long term right in like like our good friends to fail he's learning to fan noise learning the the great moral that our good friend Zeva likes to say which if you look give the Jews 10 years 20 years could look a little grim you give us a thousand it's gonna be great so yes - no he's in the long run Evans got great he's policies lines he talks all those famous people yeah yeah that's right he doesn't he also taught me a great lesson about about dealing with reporters he's like dealing with reporters is like being a casino the longer you're there the more you're gonna lose yes so true so you gotta keep it tight you know and willing to lose this much this amount of time I'm out of here that's right I gotta keep my watch on you know they pumping oxygen take out the clocks out there yeah now I'll show you the light of day all right by the way the the New York Times was recently again in in hammer-on they deliver over there sorry I got it I got a relationship with the New York Times I got B - yeah I'm actually have a blood relation x that's right I'm like it you know it's a good you know this this just for one second this reminds me of this whole Harvey Weinstein thing you know I've been very fascinated by this because in part it's a Jewish story it's a Jewish town this guy's Harvey Weinstein the Jews for sure and this this disease of womanizing / I don't think he's even a womanizer I think he's abusive predator right / / mentally warped some way well I think a predator is something that's stepped out of the normal video I mean a predator right I guess yeah it just has been interesting to me because it is a Jewish story in part and I think that's there's a subtext there about where Jews could go when they when they go wrong well you know Jews are just like everyone else only more so only more so that's right so in this case unfortunately so so speaking of Harvey once they'll have deal elephant a lot but he still a son of Israel Sarah was a very beautiful girl they're a beautiful woman and it was Pharaoh and his servants who just kind of whisked her away that is material for the palace right yeah that's a good looking table it's a good looking woman just what's going well yeah that's the way it was in the ancient world right I guess not only in the ancient world and and uh there is she's you know his beloved wife was taken away from her TNT Turner classics made a great Abraham movie very long very good really do know every vehicle oh yeah I love biblical movies and and they did a great job it's showing you know how upset Rahm was about the loss of his beloved wife and basically what happens is that Pharaoh gets very ill and somehow he learns that this is indeed Abraham's wife he gives him back his wife and he gives him like gifts with it and he kind of sends him away and he comes hang around here no more so what do we learn about this what are we learning about Aram here that what what was the lesson learned here listen there are a lot of tough stories in Dublin's life right and before we even get into what the specific lesson is it's always important remember in and as we set the intention last year for digging deeper into the nature of the abode of the forefathers and what they can teach us I think it's worth it to keep in mind that that there is no pretense at perfection in any of these stories and and that's critical some people some people will take offense what you're saying far more events of things but I'll double down on it not only is there no pretense at perfection there is a rejection of the notion that perfection is part of the human story right there that that the what it is to be human is to work on oneself to know ones flaws to grow and change toward that what you could be but as as my remedy has always said to me in this illusion people have that they're they're not fulfilling their potential is just that it's illusion because you have a spark of God in its idea which means your potential is infinite you can't do that but here specifically I would say that I would give it one sociological historical context and one narrative sociological historical context just say like it is as long as I'm offending people women were property in this period of history so therefore I think I'm from who had a more intimate relationship with his wife knew that that's the way she would be treated right and try to hide behind that to like get out of a difficult situation on a deeper level this is a deep test almost back to God saying okay god there's the only way I see out of this situation I'm gonna put my wife into the situation which could end up with us not being able to be married any longer and I'm gonna trust that you will take care of it and indeed God does and also you get a sense that that that the Indus the RAM bond says that that when the Jewish that when Abraham kind of has to go down to Egypt because of a famine and loses his wife and all that does there's a premonition a prelude to the Jewish people's having to go down because there's a famine in the land yeah Massa I vote C Mon the Bunnymen's with the rom bond says that the actions of our forefathers are a sign for that which is coming for their children well the second place that Abraham comes to is a place called today we think it's probably a place called Bacchus or which is between the eye and beta L notice notice people don't know this but Avram does not go to beta Avram never goes to beta that's Jakov special place but he goes close by and then and then he goes to uh once again God system walked this land moving and he and he shows up in hebron he shows up in hebron and he and he finds partners there he finds finds men to to make treaties with treaties with and and basically you know abraham is now sprouting roots in the land he still doesn't have children meantime we learned that that lote his nephew goes more after materialism he gets the option after after kind of the there's a fight between the shepherds of abraham the shepherds of load load gets the option to go wherever he wants when he sees the green lushness of the of the dead sea valley wasn't the dead sea back then and and he chooses that even though the torah says that it is known that the people of of sodom are are wicked and i'm guessing it's a kind of narrator's voice the people of Sodom were wicked but he goes down there and then there's a war which I never ever managed to penetrate to understand I always every year I try to understand this better it never totally works out for me but there's a war does look uh some kind of world war between flash kings in the five game four kings on the five kings I mean this is a great example of how the Torah though it's not a history book will use elements of history in order to deliver the narrative in a comprehensible fashion first of all the fact that we don't know about this world war doesn't mean that the people who received this particular text when it was given to them didn't it's always important to remember that right the other piece is that you know from an archaeological standpoint what you're seeing here is a hint at the fact that there was a constant battle between the Empire based in Egypt and those empires based in the east be it the Assyrian or much later the Babylonian etcetera for ascendancy and that Kanaan was their battleground so you have these kings coming this league of kings coming from Assyria in the east in order to defeat these five kings within Kanaan who had rebelled against them and sworn allegiance to Egypt and this is the beginning in many ways of Egypt's ascendancy over Canaan which will ultimately lead to the context in which Joseph and the brother in yakovel decision there's always a struggle over over this land if it belongs more to the north or to the south yes we saw that also after Alexander passed away right this land in the ancient world was between Egypt and Assyria and then in sort of a later antiquity in the Greek realm was being told America and the Seleucid remnants of Alexander's time then it was between the Romans and the Parthian right modern-day persia and just look what we're sitting today it's you know and it's something that that we've discussed before actually in the language of Balaam and this notion that he calls on me sir I'm livid oddish gone this nation that dwells alone that if you were God you wouldn't put the nation that dwells alone in Penn Station at the crossroads of the ancient world unless it means something quite different but you are correct that maybe means being a thorn what a foreign thorn in the side of these empires just like right I think what it means is there were people that is meant to be bound up with the world but hold our consciousness of mission and self would despite all of the temptations and attractions of the other material and spiritual cultures around us we have an inner aloneness but we have a mission in order to perform that mission we need to be in the middle of things but in order to perform the mission we have to be separate from it this is a great struggle we see in our beloved country today right are we the 51st state like some people like to say not just politically but but materially and culturally or our way ah me sterling what does that mean there's a reason that ref Cooke says that we'll know that Google is really coming when it when Jewish art and Jewish literature really begin to flower it's not just a secondary element it's our souls finding root in the land and giving articulation to we really are you know I want to say something about that rabbi Mike is that I feel that sometimes we have regressed from a more rooted more Hebrew more Israeli more Middle Eastern sense that we had in the late 60s I think you're absolutely right you know I really feel like we're less able to speak with Arabs less land oriented less walking in the land yes and in my clear moments I realize that we have lost sovereignty over parts of and to the Philistine enemy we lost sovereignty because we lost our sense that we belong here that this is our story or that physical in the physical manifestation is that you know the politics of horror vacuum you know there's no such thing as an empty land any longer on the world if you retreat someone else will advance any case ruff salivate says that I've Rahm was was not known until he went to war with those kings the four kings he went to her with the four know with the five which they're the ones that are coming out isn't it the four that are coming out against the five that are inland I get confused any case yes you're correct right so he goes against the four so good for him from Assyria right so therefore what therefore he goes he goes to war he loads up his his his posse that's right and he goes to war towards his loins towards his loins Girt by the gird loin stands for Land of Israel Network okay so we are in fact the the people inside the Land of Israel Network are lowing girders okay we are the you have to you sometimes have to gird okay think about that yeah okay don't be embarrassed about loins just okay in any case in any case he Kurds his loins he fights he retrieves his nephew loads and everybody else and everybody else and and and Russell matrix says this is when Abraham becomes famous people are like oh this guy this guy you know which is Jack preacher he's the real thing he's the real thing this guy amazing still though doesn't have a son that's right does not have a son and and at this point he says to God like hey I really appreciate all those promises you made but I you know and the wealth is nice it's all great lots of victories and I believe in you however it seems a little bit to me that that I'm going to have how about how about pushing 90 how about Eliezer he's my the the main servant of my house he's the kind of in charge of all my stuff he's gonna inherit me God says no no no it's gonna come from your from your loins from your seed he's gonna come out and he takes him outside says count out all the stars and and he believed them still though God says - he says - God maybe you should maybe give me a sign maybe give me a sign so God says it's this week's portion no he doesn't ask for a sign on this what does he say mean by Chevy Aveo stuck up he believed in God and anyway and that was seen as great righteousness it's later when God promises him to inherence in air at the land that he says been made aa key Rosh Hashanah right it's not on the promise of children it's actually on the promise of the herring the land yeah but those are related concepts aren't they oh absolutely I mean who's going to pop it doesn't mean to inherit a land if you don't have handshake so generate so when you ask God for a sign God's like oh you want a sign I gotta sign for you here so here's what I want you to do I want you to take nine animals okay and I want you to split them nose to toe and I want you to put them on like different sides facing one another and I want you to walk walk between them now I'll never forget that I think I told you this last year we learned about this in sheep University how in Ugaritic times this was a way to sign a contract split an animal and both walked between them we're both part of this animals but it doesn't look at Jeremiah as a given that that's what you do for they breed I guess I guess I guess that's pretty serious you go to the bank either like you want a loan sure animal let's walk baby bring the cow it's like it's messy it's messy you'll never forget it no one's gonna deny that that contract was made writing you know they mean business Yeah right just look what they did to the cow right so he cuts it very interesting verse in here fascinating verse it says that the that the vulture came down upon these cut pieces and I've ROM justshoez them away because and then keeps going and why is that that the verse is there to tell you sometimes there's gonna be distractions there's gonna be a whatsapp that's gonna blink and beep there's gonna be - right on your phone exactly and my phone right now is on airplane mode it's sleeping comfortably here in the corner because because indeed our distractions you got to shoo them away and God basically tells them good well the you you I'm putting it no you know no you put your finger on what to me is one of the most important frames the Jewish history at all and you move past it - yeah I'm caught behind in this this question he says some been made a key era shanna how I know that we'll hearing it and then and then it seems like he's asking a simple question and God gives him a sign accept what's God's real answer your door hey Doc you Gare you thought about it slowly I am right but I'll do the new Oh Tom oh you're gonna know your children are gonna be strangers in a land which is not their theirs and they will enslave them and they will cause them to suffer that's an answer this is what leads some of our sages to say that all of the punishment of the descent into Egypt and the slavery there was because Avram asks for a sign right right which is a fairly now chance right assertion but there's a much deeper level to this is it ghost comes down to the question is what does it mean to know what does it mean to know is it God told you that this will happen Abram or Al Rahma at this point still what more do you need to know but in the same way well like you're pointing out I bet we could speak to people right now we'll reach out across the airwaves so to speak and ask how many of you listening right now know that you belong in the Land of Israel you know it if I asked you you'd say yes but for whatever reason perhaps many good reasons you're not here because there's a knowing that begins in the head which has a very weak influence on the hands and the feet but there's a knowing which comes through a stripping away of everything which is secondary in life which is what that word Inu e means that's what happens in Egypt right everything gets stripped away down to that final core and when the knowing starts there not what you know it's not in what you do it's who you are right and so what God says is that I'll tell you how you will know how you will have the intimate relationship with the land that will give you the continuity of generations I'm gonna send you away kick you out and you should be of everything yes you're gonna be magnetized right back exactly and we have the great merit of living through that same process today I mean how many of our brothers and sisters here when you ask them why they're here they'll just look at you and say well we're right else would I be you know and as you're saying this I just want the folks that are listening to the show today to just to just be like at least have a moment of full-on realization that you belong to the land of is from letting yourself now right like and just and be like where is my life like huh where's my PS this Friday is the seventh of Crestron it is the official alley a day in a row happens to be that yours truly had a big hand in writing that law initiating that law really and also picking that date I said in my original law that I wrote is that it should be connected to partially click on there should be around partial huh in it and and I have to tell you and I'm like between me and you mother I was listening right everybody else listening my personal ally a date is the seventh of five aware we've I love it it's amazing it's not normal thing and it's here and partially by the way speaking of a personal thing guess who makes a cameo appearance here in secret through the Rashi it says the fourth generation will come back here right you're they're gonna be kicked out of the land the fourth generation will come back here and then it says the Fen high according to Rashi and it was so Yaakov oddly me time Yaakov went to Egypt seven shoved or tov calculated his generations Yaakov to Yehuda Yehuda to parents parents of the Kalev benefits Romney but I had to be caller that's right Kalev makes his first appearance in the Torah and it says who is this that fulfills the promise of coming back as the fourth generation it's kind of been you funa and by the way he's the one that knew me Joshua and heard it all from Moshe he had in his head there was no question hello the new from his kiss kiss night that's what you say everything else was drift yeah exactly do you know exactly where to go - yeah - good - good any case there's lots to talk about also about about the the incredible promise of the covenant between the parts and the seven nations that will be conquered the full list of seven nations including including the Messianic times okay am I am I saying that right it says you will conquer the K the K night the can is it-- the Cadman i the hittite the perizzite the the rephaim wait at the Keaney Vatican even took money Italy team at the please leave identify him at the Emily Becca nanny Shiva will see of course seven plus three seven plus three the three others that are gonna come in to see anak times but this is the part I want to now go go past them and I want to I want to talk about something else for a second now the next part of the Torah portion is fascinating we all know the Jewish story eats [ __ ] he's going to become - the seed of Abraham but let's talk about what happens in the next two our portion the next part of Torah portion which is that Sarai wants to take an action to make sure that Abraham has seed and gives her handmaiden right Hegar to Abraham and Abraham is going to come together with Hagar and she's going to be impregnated right and she is going to that point somehow make light of Sarah somehow kind of there's live this power struggle where this hey you guys been married for decades nothing happens I went to him on my wedding night and I'm pregnant right something wrong with you right and and and and there's suddenly strife in the family there's a pregnant and she's looking Egyptian she's a pregnant Egyptian Soraya's been barren Sarai is now angry at Avram she says God will judge between us he says to her do whatever you want with your hands servant she sends her away she Hegar is is running away she runs away and she hangs out at the kind of well and and a angel of God an angel of the Tetragrammaton the four-letter name finds Hegar and he says to her word you coming from where are you going she says I'm running away from suraíh he says return to your mistress and be subjugated under her hand he says because guess what I'm gonna make your seat very great you are pregnant and you're gonna have a son and his name is gonna be Ishmael and he's gonna be a wild man and his hand is gonna be in everything and everybody's hands is gonna be in his there's a thieving sense here or this conflict conflict yeah simple right though it's not exactly clear what it is but his hand is and everything in everybody's hands is in his business and he's gonna live with amongst all his brothers but there's going to be a son named Ishmael he's laid around we learned he's gonna have twelve Prince's coming out of him he's gonna be a great nation now I work in heparin and I want to tell my Arab colleagues friends people I see in the street happy birthday this is it Ishmael was born at this week's Torah portion that's true htmls boarded this week's Torah portion now can we take a pause for a second grab my mic I've got I got a friend here with me and his name is going to be for the sake of this program Mohammed okay and I can't use his real name and he is a representative of our Ishmaelite cousins it's my cousins so Mohammed I just want to say hi to you hide it welcome to the program today and happy birthday to the Ishmaelites how do you feel today thank you very much I feel very happy well now that you're learning this Torah portion with us do you feel any kind of personal sense that that that Ishmael your forefather the forefather of the Arab nation was born in this week's Torah portion that it's in the Torah that it's in God's Word how does that make you feel it's very wonderful and very useful to hear this story from a PI and sure I smile is a dear brother to its Huck and all of us have to be brothers and one family no reason to be enemies but there is tension there is tension already here we're gonna learn about tension between you know it's an and it's sublimated it's not gonna be very bitter family without tension right no family without tension because you know when you have tension between acquaintances and friends you know you do you walk away right family is a binding nature so that it has a vessel for tension in tension in life is good as long as it's worked through productively I think Mohammed would tell us and I'll let you say for yourself Mohammed today Ishmael is a little bit is a little bit not in a good place Ishmael is not so healthy today yes it's not healthy too many crises too many problems in the Arab world's because of the selfishness unfortunately forth in the Arab nations and they refuse to live peacefully with the Jewish people in the Middle East we see many terrorism in Iraq in Syria and Yemen we have a clear enemy and Tehran Iran unfortunately the Arab nation don't want to solve this problem and for example if they want to solve this problem they have to make a real normalization with the Jewish nation here in the Middle East in the Land of Israel and this will be a clue or a clear clue that they want to live peacefully with each other when they accept the Jewish presence here in the Middle East I think it will be ok and they will live peacefully with each other there will be no problem between Syria and Lebanon Syria and Iraq there will be no problem between Yemen and Saudi Arabia as we see these days there is a war maybe since 3 years all of this because of the Arabic nationalism and the Arabic refusal to accept the Jewish nation presence here in this holy land and it's not weird because we learned that we are all really with the children of Abraham interestingly work where I get to work which is the the the cave of the the tomb of the founding fathers and mothers the one thing that we can come together on is Abraham Abraham the father of the Ishmaelites father of Ishmael the father of Yitzhak may the Torah tells us how they bury Abraham together and you would think that this would be a place of begin sure it's a normal relationship why should we have to be enemies if we if we pray for the same God for this sim a creator of us what's the reason to be enemies I don't understand how they refuse to accept member Agnes that you are the Gleek to enter in the Temple Mount just to place his son before two days it's unbelievable this man is going to pray for God in a very holy place so it's a madness when we are talking about refusal to accept someone with a good believer in Hashem in God in Allah too brave for God in one place but we have also spoken between you and I that there's a tremendous jealousy a tremendous jealousy that exists today in the Ishmaelite world towards the children of Israel yes this jealousy and this hatred depends on two things the religious traditions from unfortunately the Holy Quran and the radical school in the Islamic traditions and the second thing believing in the Arab nationalism it's a clear kind of racism to believe only in Arabs for example we see what happened now in Kurdistan the Arab world refused Kurdistan to be African country why because they believed only even courts are Muslims and maybe the minority are Jews or Christians but they refused the independence for Kurdistan because they believe that any other people like other Arabs are enemies so it's a kind of racism a very clear racism here we feel the same thing in Hebron and Jerusalem when our observe used to live peacefully with the Jewish people with the Israeli people so we need to religious leader a political leader in the Arabic sign in the Palestinian side to change this situation Mohammed thank you so much for being with us today here in the program there is a flash of show it's great to have you how much time do we have Mike not so much what we have five minutes we do 5 so let's go let's go for four it was great to have Mohammed he really it's an amazing thing and I and I just I really want to hug the Arabs in have Ron say to them hey you know it's your parsha it's your Porsche but they don't really know it's their their Torah portion any case speaking of the Arabs and the Jews this Torah portion finishes off with God says to to to to of ROM walk before me and be simple be whole and therefore I need you to circumcise yourself and all the men children in your family and and that's the way you're going to be whole is by actually removing part of yourself right by the way I was reading about that the only part of yourself that you can remove and still be whole there's no other part in the body that that has this kind of like you can't remove something covering right right no I mean this obviously is a long and rich topic but it fits the theme with which we began which is that cult of Rama to move away from what was to cut away so to speak his old life which stood between him and the ability to enter into a new level of relationship with God and hear it God is telling him the left leaf on IVA hey yet I mean go before me and you will be I mean whole is one translation right pure complete the the key is that there is no static completion for a human being that the role that we play in creation is to always take one step forward more with one eye so to speak on what God wills and one eye toward what we dream of and so it was given over to Abraham to actually take a hand in completing his own creation God said I left you incomplete Wow I left humanity I left creation incomplete and now I'm going to tell you the secret that the way the complete creation is to remove the barrier between you and I and that as long as you go before me now I followed behind me and just listen to what I told you to do yesterday but walk before me and and and sort of light the way for God in the world that will be what I intend for creation with Nowak we learned that he said it's a boy let they have a common side into the sea eatle ah etosha right I tell him he walked with God right God stand next to him right God says day of ROM and soon Avram system walk before me perfect yourself take those steps I want you to get out there and light the world like you said and at the end you know I've Rama's very excited about having Ishmael but God says after I've changed your name now I want you to know you're going to have a son his name is Yitzhak and he's going to be the true continuation of your path that's what it says I've heard you about Ishmael I'm gonna give him twelve princes are gonna issue forth from him and on that day a raha and he gets a name Avraham gets the H Avraham the hay becomes the father of many nations and father of many nations and and there's an inn there's a there's a universalism in our homes absolutely and Sarai becomes sera you'd pops off the Y it pops out it's not going away right it's gonna land somewhere we learn about that later and we've learnt the better we learn about it later and and that day I've ROM circumcised as his son his son Ishmael and his he's 13 years old in himself at age ninety an age 90 that's right and the the Midrash PK the regularizer says that where he circumcised himself that was on the Temple Mount and when the first drop hit-the hit-the hit-the ground God said that's where I wanted me spare that's where I want the tabernacle to be so in this very day Avram circumsized himself his son Ishmael and all of his you know all of his servants and all the stuff and he's entered into new covenants he's a new man he's walked the land he's got a lot of experience but now he's got a new name he already has kind of one son behind them and he's got yet another son on the way which is gonna be a great story and the parsha end and laughter I mean not quite yet but that name of Keats [ __ ] right this sort of like power of laughter to hold the bat which is completely incomprehensible is going to really be the bridge to the next phase of our problems life now that he's showing God that he can step out of what was and become something new God's gonna show him that there's far more ahead of him than that what an amazing name it's and Abraham left Abraham left and Sarah left and God said call me it's like yeah and it's like Ishmael is like God will hear God is heard and it's like like you laugh you know and he I guess he laughs last all right folks rabbi Mike for I want to thank you so much for joining me today always a pleasure Mohammed thank you 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