Yishai Show: Palestine Great Again?

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello everybody and welcome to the new Shai Fleischmann show broadcasting live today from heparin home of the tubes of the mothers and fathers to the world you're a part of it where ever you are sholom and welcome she'll only welcome to the Land of Israel Network which broadcast great stuff and the spirit of Israel to you wherever you are Shalom and welcome to my show and it's great to be with you and I must admit I'm still a little bit in Hanukkah I'm broadcasting the day after Hanukkah and I'm still very much in the spirit of Konica and and you know Hanukkah energizes me every year and it just takes me like weeks to I just keep thinking about it about the the message of Hanukkah and I think that the message of Hanukkah is incredibly appropriate today we'll talk about that we'll talk about my vacation a little bit because I like to talk about a vacation in the Land of Israel and before I go on I just want to give a credit to the intro music you just heard that was Benny Friedman who's a very very talented singer along with the very talented composer Ari Gold wag and their new song which has already you know over almost 6 million of views that was published in February on YouTube is called ev'ry enoki evey enoki and so let's do a little Hebrew lesson it's a lot of people a lot of you out there who like to listen to Land of Israel Network in my show maybe to learn a few a few things on Hebrew right and and you take your time like my friend Cynthia who takes her time to study the Hebrew language makes a lot of sense to me that's the language that God created the world in and so what is ev'ry enoki and where does that even that phrase even come from ev'ry unoaked leave it ok i'll show my money of it what is that it is every uh no fee means I am a Hebrew and I serve God the Creator of heaven and earth I'll okay um I'm Mukesh on my money oven right and the exact quote is vo middle ahem and he said to them who is he Jonah right Jonah on the boat Jonah's on the boat and that there's a great storm and he says to them the other seamen on the boat he says to them via mail ahem Yves lien Oakley vet Hashem I am a Hebrew and and the he uses the name of the tetragrammaton the four-letter name of God which is about God's eternity that Hashem L okay Hashem I'm the god of heavens Annie are there I fear the the basically god the creator of heaven and earth but in this case and then he goes on to say I'll share outside to Yama Yama sha the god of the heavens who created of the earth so that is word that phrases from and then Benny Freidman has bitten Freedman Benny Friedman has done a great job of turning into or just a rocking song that's really about Jewish pride and being proud to be a Jew if you know cleave at the same location I'm Annie Annie RA I serve where I fear the the God of heaven it's a great song and I wanted to make a little intro music using that song so check it out on YouTube it's really something else I was just on vacation in the Land of Israel why do I stress vacation in the Land of Israel because there's nothing like vacation in the Land of Israel the world is a beautiful place Australia is beautiful and Florida's beautiful California's beautiful Colorado is beautiful and you know everything is the world is a beautiful place and life is beautiful right when you get out from all the tensions and all the issues there's a real beauty to life and you just you can really celebrate every moment New York City is beautiful right um I don't know the the the deserts and the and the North and South Poles and all those places the forests the sequoia trees they're all so beautiful right but but when you're here in the Land of Israel and you're vacationing you just get so much more because first thing is for me I I like to I like to feel totally without any guilt just totally joyful at being in love with something right and I don't want to feel in my heart well why should I enjoy this Florida why should I enjoy this you know the the seashore in New Jersey why should I enjoy any of that when really that's not mine that's not the place I'm supposed to be loving so much and when I go to the Land of Israel and when I'm when I'm in love with it I'm so doing the right thing I'll give you an example also riches like knowledge if I if I spend some time on a video that's funny but but really silly and not important as opposed to seeing a video of Jeter Jewish music or a rabbi speaking or some kind of great piece of knowledge being shared with me in Torah when I do that the latter I'm in so much more of a holy in fulfilling that was the word I was looking for before fulfilling enterprise so so that that is why I love to vacation in the land of Israel because just walking in the land seeing new places that's a mitzvah it's a commandment to do that to see that to walk to new parts of lands of Israel and you meet people and you you pray on the way and you try to connect to what Abraham felt like you really try to create connect to maybe a concept that we don't think about a lot but like the God of Abraham like Abraham how did you perceive it when you walked in this desert did you perceive God like this just thinking about that and trying to fill into those shoes of Abraham Isaac and Jacob Sarah Becca Rachel and Leah by the way in this song that I am a Hebrew ev'ry uh no fee it has a line and it says that we're all children of Abraham Isaac and Jacob Sarah Rebecca Rachel and Lancer it's really a beautiful song so I was on vacation and you know what I got to do this Konica the eighth day of Hanukkah which is considered Zoet Hanukkah this is Konica on that day last day of Hanukkah which was yesterday I got to pray the Mincha prayer as the Sun was setting I was on top of Masada and we gathered in truth I'm gonna be you know in all humility I say I tried together a shaman gave me the merit to try to gather and managed to gather 10 Jews we ended up with 12 people and we prayed in the ancient synagogue on top of Masada as the Sun was setting on the last day of Hanukkah and and here's my it was such a high moment for me really was such a high moment to achieve that and it was really the Sun was setting was the last moment it was like it was like the mountain closes Masada you know this great mountain fortress where the rebels who stood against the Romans in 73 of the Common Era in the end fought for 4 years against them and then and then like 8,000 troops came Roman troops of the 10th Legion came to - to destroy these Jews on the end when they got there they found that Jews had killed themselves rather than allow themselves to be taken into the hands of these these barbarian Romans and so it's an amazing kind of Last Stand place and reborn in our time an amazing desert fortress very beautiful places and to pray there on zouk Chanukah was very meaningful to me one of the things that I'm that I feel such a challenge with my friends and this I want you to think about which is all right so I had this great high and we came and that wasn't like 4 o'clock in the afternoon the mountain was closing I was gonna say they were closing Masada they closed the side at 4 p.m. and we were up there and like a 335 we prayed this afternoon prayer on the side of the last day and got to say the almani same prayer the the on the miracles prayer and you know and later on we we went to beautiful my friends and I and my family we went to this fabulous kids playground which was really it's like world-class a huge huge playground where in the desert city of Arad in the desert city of Arad it was fabulous and we just had the greatest greatest Hanukkah vacation ever all together but when I got home to efrat on an already at the app after the holiday after the holiday had passed a good buddy of mine his name is serves em again look him up he's very famous guy he's written a lot of great books professors F him again and he's he's always been a great visionary and he calls me up and he says he shy weren't trouble I said then what's the problems that if he says listen I was in the shower NEMA mall in the Cherone and guess what folks everybody brace yourselves for what I'm about to tell you in the Sheeran e mall it was all decorated with Christmas Christmas was the decorations and I'm not talking I'm talking about like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Santa you know that business and this this this this unbelievable you know coca-cola created mythology a modern-day American you know you know cartoonish mythology that is really nothing more than propaganda for selling products you know just advertising material and a whole theme there and I'm gonna talk about that theme because because there's an aspect of that theme that I respect very much but generally speaking that here during Hanukkah this holiday that the book of Maccabees 1 & 2 describes and Josephus and the rabbi's make into a holy holiday with Commandments with with with redemption with cleaning out the dirt and the defilement that was built on top of the Temple Mount and attaining liberty and attaining self-determination for the Jewish people in those days in our time with incredible Jewish heroes Judah Maccabee what did yeah was incredible with incredible enemies who wanted to stop the light of Israel and then and then this this this resurrection this fixing this renewal I used to call this the Giuliani holiday because I lived in New York City and around New York City when when Rudolph Giuliani took over and all those promises that every other mayor had made to clean up in New York he fulfilled with tremendous alacrity and ability and I remember thinking to myself wow I remember thinking to myself wow things can change things can change a human being even a lone human being can take a system and and really change it and you catch it will change in front of your eyes you know not not everything is the way it was yesterday so instead of celebrating this tremendous holiday which is beautiful meaningful and not even heavy in terms of ritual law instead this cheap easy and relatively meaningless and certainly meaningless for Israel for the Jewish people and that's where it becomes not only meaningless but also incredibly dangerous and pernicious right it's like enters it seeps through the culture war is back and just like the Maccabees had to push back on the Helenus so too we have to in our generation take back Hanukkah and and here's where where I'm gonna actually bring it back to Christmas which is like it's like the Grinch you know who stole Christmas it's like and and you know you got to take effort in order to steal it back and to win it back we got we got a we got a fight back for Hanukkah we got to make Chanukah great again if if you will you got to make Chanukah great again and we have to push back on on cultural this seeping in of meaninglessness of cultural super superficiality which which is such an easy replacement see my friends there's replacement theologies there's replacement narratives and there's also a replacement culture it's so easy to replace it with these empty calories because they're yummy they're simple they're happy they're jolly they're not complicated and political there's no infighting it's also the happy-go-lucky it speaks to this place in us that that's just its ease its comfort and and Chanukah is not as comfortable it's true it's just it's glorious it's it's rebellious it's its fulfillment it's blood it's depth right these are great messages you know honor chivalry light these are these are great themes but they're not like themes and we have to create and this is what my friends Evan are gonna do and I want you to remind me about this friend so I want you to write me an email when you get a chance and not even know maybe you remind me in six months we got to make a task force on Hanukkah we got a win back Hanukkah we got to make Chanukah great again we got to make Chanukah so big and here's where I want to actually tip my hat to Christmas not Christmas in Israel I have nothing to tip my head to for Christmas in Israel except for those Gentiles who feel the need and even that I I don't I don't think you know it's not should not be a big public thing sure certainly not Christmas trees whose roots are in idolatry you know I think that within Israel Friends of Israel should have freedom of worship but to a certain degree to a certain degree because this is God's land here and in God's land he says make some room for me I don't want you know I don't want crosses here and I don't want uh you know people bowing down to the death cult of Allah either I want a place God says to the Jewish people that you could serve me and that I have a little room in this world for for the I've our relationship and to serve that people will come to serve God through the consciousness of the God of Israel the God of Israel right if you can if you can you know if you can if you can bow to the God of Israel okay you know you could have a place here in any case we've got to create a task force to push back on this cultural it's it's like one of these animals that have come into an ecosystem and these animals are somehow you know predatory and and very they take over a a climate an ecosystem that is exactly where Christmases and we got to push it back we got to be the new Maccabees fighting specifically for Chanukah because if Christmas beats out Hanukkah in this country we're done for we're done for this whole thing this whole project could be forgotten if them if the holy menorah is replaced with hohoho and Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer you could just you can just you know turn off the keys on the whole damn thing there's no point to it if that is what's entering the young minds of people so my friends EV says to me we got a you know spread more light of what Konica really is but we also have to boycott we got to go nuts on these store owners and tell them no way and by the way I do want to recognize one store which goes all out for Hanukkah of course to have an interest in it but they go all out and that's the role of Dean bakery we're in the mamela mall they proud a menorah in the middle of the store and have every donut Suganya imaginable with creativity with beauty it's wonderful stuff in any case if I sound harsh don't misunderstand me I'm not I'm not coming here to I'm not coming here to smash you know well I am here to smash some idols and that's that's my Jewish prerogative to smash some idols and and and my good good friends who are not of our religion who love Israel you have to also understand something like the only way that we have been able to surprise to survive is through our zoetry right we have to be zealous for God God says you know love me zealously and and that's how that's how Judaism can survive because there's so many forces out there the minute I accept a certain kind of mediocrity is and kind of light light light heartedness you know a kind of quality of all other things to to my thing it'll be done that's exactly the point Christmas cannot be allowed to enter and it has come with the secular with the loss of secular Israeli identity the loss of secular Israel Israeli identity has created an atmosphere in Israel where where they're not plugged into he bernis they used to be plugged into secular national Hebrew news right but now you've lost that we gotta bring that love of our culture back and the problem has been is that if the culture Jewish culture is not tied into Jewish law the study of Torah in a zealous Nisour the land for the Torah for God and by the way I want to separate four separate streams help me come back to what I was saying to you in a second but four separate streams that you should always keep in your mind there is the land there is the people there is the Torah and there is God right there is why do I say that there is the land you understand that then there's the people now the people are Hebrews or Jews or children of Israel without anything even even as empty vessels there's something very holy about the Jewish people then there is the keeping of the Torah and that's the synergy of the godly vision the godly dream the good the godly truth together with the society the Hebrew Israeli Jewish society that mixes in with Torah when we keep the Torah and study the Torah you know then that there's there's a synergy with the land there's a synergy with the people and there's a synergy with the God above now I used to think that there was only three and it made a lot more sense to me to say God the people and the land below but now I realize that there's really four it's really four separate components that have to melt together the the land below your feet the Holy Land the land of Israel Jerusalem everone bear Sheva it's fine and then you have the society the Jewish people six million more than six million now in this land keeping the Torah the knowledge of the torah' as a separate entity than even God there's a very famous phrase that says God's God says I wish they would even keep my tour even if they would forget me but just keep my tour cuz my tour is true right and then there's then there's above Torah even is a relationship that one has to have to God directly one has to have a relationship with God that is talking to him in feeling him in your life and really putting him in your consciousness in your heart and your in your head and you're in front of your eyes and and putting the godly consciousness that sometimes even it has a different element than Torah Torah is looking into the book and trying to find God and understanding our lives and the law and all in that book but then there's has to be a time when you take your head out of the book and look up to God and see him in your life see him in the steps of your life and when you don't have these I would call it even zealous zealous love for these things well Judaism can become like an empty vessel and this is what you know rabbi cahana was always concerned with the Israeli Jews and then of course though Bob sure Rebbe was also very concerned with us is that is that Israelis would would become a kind of Hebrew speaking Gentile right with with a kind of vacuum in their soul that is willing to accept Christmas or any other television programs sports whatever something that'll fill it you were soul up entertain it you know and just fill it up instead of that void and we have to push back what the Maccabees did yes they lit the light that pure fight but they also fought the helenus and then just remember this was a duel war was a war against the enemies and also against the Helenus within who had culturally you know taken over the land so my friends I really in short I want to say we have to take that Christmas no just joking we got a push back Christmas take back Hanukkah you know even I was and here's the other thing about Christmas that I do like this is I think what my brain was subconsciously signaling there is something about Christmas I do like and I'm jealous of okay and that is what I like about Christmas is that when you go to America you could smell it you could hear it you could smell it in the smells of the holidays you could hear it in the music of the holidays and you could certainly see it right everywhere and that is what I want to help Chanukah happen somebody said yeah we keep kind of kind of low flame forget that the way to bring back Hanukkah and push back other influences is by by showing by by doing it big by making a commercial making it fun there should be selling in the stores the Judah Maccabee swords okay for kids you know something could you know like the Jedi swords that light up but not Jedi but judaai right Judah Judah Maccabee high it's like these things are so you know I feel so strongly about them and if you think about what I'm saying about Hanukkah about the holiday that's actually what Hanukkah was about in their day I mean you'd say well we have to do today for Hanukkah is what they did for the nation back then right the light of Hanukkah was was this pushing back on the Sun these forces of forgetfulness of darkness and Hanukkah was about memory and the rabbi's say looking at the candles helps your memory helps you remember of course it's great mnemonic for the spirit of Israel we have to do today for Hanukkah what the Maccabees did for Israel back then we've got to fight for Hanukkah and I hope that you will join me next year and really be a Hanukkah warrior wherever you are late those candles it make it big make it big for example my brother let me borrow some some twinkle lights put some twinkle lights outside of my big porch out there just to give people a feeling like damn it's a big holiday out there outside like you drive you should be like it should feel that joy feel that light in the middle of night anyway so we're gonna create a task force for Chanukah if you agree with me about that or have any thoughts or maybe you think that Christmas should win right maybe you think maybe you wanna maybe you want to mess with me maybe you want to start up and you know we want to get you on a rumble so Rumble go ahead you can rumble at me by and you can rampage at me by writing me an e-mail east shy at the Land of Israel convey shy at the Land of Israel calm tonight by the way I'll be this Thursday night I'll be there's a new course that I recorded for you Shiva for the nation's through the folks at breaking Israel news and I'll be doing the webinar tonight about the seven holy cities I think I've already some 400 people scheduled to join me tonight in this incredible webinar about the seven holy cities of the Land of Israel and the seven holy cities are to me a menorah like that they're the lights of the Land of Israel okay so that was one thing oh now I wanted to say something about I wanted to say something about President Trump President Trump gave a long talk at the White House about about Conoco and I thought to myself President Trump is a really a lot like Giuliani a lot like that very same the very same spirit that I was talking about which is like make something that was good make it great again make it great again beautify it once again make it bigger than you know that it is right now let its light shine that's what he says about America and I think that is why President Trump is also in Taconic I think he's it's a Hanukkah wonder our amazing our Boy Wonder engineer Ben brettski to add a little bit of audio from president's president Trump's talk at the White House about Hanukkah let's listen to that for a few minutes this evening we gathered to celebrate the story that is told in Jewish homes across the country and all over the world a story that began more than 2,000 years ago with a tyrant maid practicing the Jewish faith punishable by death he desecrated the Jewish temple including the Holy of Holies but a small band of Jewish patriots rose up to feed it a mighty army and soon reclaimed their freedom but the miracle of the Maccabees did not end there as they prepared to rededicate the temple they found only enough oil to light the lamp for a single night soon all were stunned to find that for eight days the lamp continued to burn brightly a sign of God's presence in his dwelling place and a symbol of the faith and resilience of the Jewish people you do have faith and you do have resilience the miracle of Hanukkah is the miracle of Israel the descendants of Abraham Isaac and Jacob have endured unthinkable persecution and oppression but no Force has ever crushed your spirit and no evil has ever extinguished your faith and that is why the Jewish people shine as a light to all nations and right now I'm thinking about what's going on and the love that's all over Israel and all about Jerusalem on behalf of all Americans I also want to say how grateful I am for Jewish congregations throughout our country you cherish your families support your communities and uplift our beloved country Hanukkah is a time for Jewish families around the world to celebrate the miracles of the past and promises of the future we are proud to stand with the people of Israel and to renew our enduring bond this evening we are blessed to have two very special Chanukah lamps for this celebration the menorah on my left has been lit every year since the earliest days of our nation it comes from the first american jewish congregation whose original members came to this land in the 1650s it's a long time ago it's a symbol of the history and home the Jewish people made in the United States right so there you go that was President Trump at the White House talking about Hanukkah and again I really think that President Trump with his with his idea of make America great again and and I've even seen memes that people say make Hanukkah great again and I really like that make let's make Hanukkah great again let's make Hanukkah great again that's what we have to do that makes a lot of sense to me by the way I also saw mine one of my nemesis's is my nemesis is his name is ISA AMRO and he is an evil anti Israel anti rights of Jewish people in Judea and Samaria activists he's got a movement called youth against settlements and yet he manages to pawn himself off in the era of fake news fake countries fake history fake human rights he is a master of those things and he wrote you know President Trump make Palestine great again and I thought to myself and I wrote and I tweeted back there is no greater phony this than this than this make Palestine great again not only was you know not only not only will it not be great again but there was but it was never great to begin with there was no Palestine it's it's a modern invention it's a it's an absolutely created mythology and you know it's it's it's a little bit more real than than than Santa because there is I have to admit a Palestinian Authority which controls very sadly swathes of the Land of Israel that is true but at the same time there is no historical Palestine you can't make it great again it was never great to begin with this as it's well known there is no coins of Palestine from the past there is no Palestinian President or king before Yasser Arafat they have no unique language or cuisine or anything that that would give you a sense that there's somehow a unique culture it is an agriculture of mostly migrants that came to the Land of Israel mostly by by the British assistance to create an influx of Arabs through this area so there you go you know not only am I talking about pushing back on Christmas and and of course I'm not talking about you know I'm talking about the culture of it all certainly there's the there's an effort to push back on that but there should be an effort to push back on that but even the greater enemy today a related enemy is the other great creative creative mythology which is Palestine yes indeed we are living in a time where there is contra narratives contra narratives alternative narratives or replacement narratives that's what I really think of the mass I really think of them as replacement narratives and replacement narratives are they can be deep right they can be they could be deeply anti-semitic or we could just suffer from from kind of a bourgeois right so so so make Palestine great again is an alternative narrative created to destroy Israel but Christmas is not created to destroy Israel it's just it's just you know it's just empty calories it's like eating McDonald's it's all good you know it's just a bite here and watching some you know another another game of sports another thing and uh and it's not really created but it is subtly very pernicious enters the mind and replaces it and replaces it with with emptiness how many kids today can you talk to them about star wars star wars star wars star wars star wars star wars how many kids can you talk about this stuff like you would have thought that star wars would have already been finished so long ago but you can talk to kids about star wars ant lessly right but how many kids can you talk about the stories of the Bible in a meaningful way in an exciting way how many kids are turned on by The Maccabees today it just seems kind of it's all kind of you know it's like it's it's it's that modern marketing is made it has made it knows this to speak the language of cool but the Bible doesn't and that is that is a big problem that we have to fix okay so let us do that by actually entering into the Bible and making it a Bible great again right let's make the Bible great again should we make the Bible great again let's make Chanukah get great again let's make Israel great again let's make the Bible great again I think I think there's a I think there's a depth there friends I think that you know I think that sometimes with these simple slogans and I think that President Trump has really this this one which was make something great again and the other one which is the hashtag fake something I actually think that with these tremendously simple phrases he has hit the head at least for me on both of those issues one is to bring up the light of Israel the other one is to recognize that there's these alternative replacement narratives that we've got to push back on okay let's go into the Torah portion my friends let's do it together and and maybe this is a great time before we go into the Torah portion just just a little break and I'll tell you that a this week this not this this week next week after you listen to the show after Shabbat if you're in England or thinking about being in England go to the lis mood conference that's happening in England and not in London but in Birmingham this year and you know who's gonna be there Eve Harrow is gonna be there rabbi Mike Feuer is gonna be there and actually Perry's gonna be there and are you King is gonna be there awesome people gonna be at this at this like five day teaching conference it's just gonna be awesome it's gonna be mega and I wish I was there I was there last year it was fabulous and this year I will not be there but it was it was just a great great gig last year and I'm sure that this year with these at least four fabulous speakers will be an awesome awesome year so welcome to that opportunity and I hope you guys take to fly I would buy a ticket right now and fly out to London if I miss you fly out even if you can't make it to Sunday go to Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday just gonna be awesome awesome the other thing I want to say is that we do have winners for the talent contest the first three for pilot so I'm excited to to send those out to you soon you'll be getting notification by email and those who haven't got the notification great try thank you so much also last week I asked people to send me a picture of themselves lighting the Konica candles and I put one of those pictures up for my good friend Arthur and I got other pictures from wonderful families and one of my favorite pictures is from Miriam who sent a fabulous picture of her grandson ami Heights V and and and in but and behind the menorah is her grand cat krembo and she asked me to she wants to be one of the winners of the J brick she always she wants she says don't send me a beard cream from don't send me a beard cream for this fabulous baby she says instead send me something from J brick for this beautiful young boy and I'm gonna put this picture up on Facebook also and I got other pictures on Facebook as well but this is a great one you get you're gonna you're definitely gonna get this picture up on my Facebook page which by the way is inching towards 50 50 thousand followers so if you if you have you haven't followed my page yet if you have a friend that you know you want to twist our arm or they owe you a favor or they're like The Godfather your children if you can ask them to to also join me on Facebook that would be great and there were other people who send me fabulous pictures of their family and you know what it makes me so so joyous to see these wonderful family photos of your okiya and your cat and all this stuff it just it just gives this broadcaster a lot a lot of lot of strong feelings of keep broadcasting keep spreading the light so we got we got a we got to encourage each other if you think that I encourage you then keep on encouraging me by writing me an email you shy at the Land of Israel calm and also of course by donating I do but I do want to remind you we had a hall schmooze about it last week and that is about giving and it's coming to the end of the fiscal year which you know what that means that means that you got to get rid of your cash and think to yourself did I did I also tithe properly did I give to what God wants me to give to and I'm asking myself as well and so it's time to give a little bit right now give a little bit give a lot you know what I mean be the kind of person that when you go to 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hit just a few points that I that I wanted to make about the Torah portion and the first one is that if you remember I don't think we discussed that last week's show because I didn't have Rabbi Mike Feuer and guess what rabbi Mike is going to to England next week so I won't have him next week either I know I know it's not as good without him I know but still though it's your you know it's me it's me and you come on so it's just me and you sometimes it's got to be just me and you so last week Joseph is is recognizing that his brothers have come down to Egypt in order to gather food for their family which is also in the midst of this famine and he plays these tricks on them he takes he takes Simon Shimon puts him in jail he says he says to them you know your you have to your spies you have to bring down your your if you have a brother oh yeah you have a brother you have to bring him down and show me I don't believe you and then they come down with Benjamin oh how did they come down with Benjamin Jacob doesn't want to send Benjamin with those brothers he refuses to do so because he doesn't want to lose yet another son he's lost Joseph he's lost Shimon and then ruvé and the other son says listen you could kill my two sons if I don't bring Benjamin back with you and he's he doesn't even answer Jacob was like you're nuts okay I don't I'm not gonna send my son with you guys I'm not gonna lose a Benjamin as my beloved Rachel's last son finally at the end of the tour portion it's time for the lion to rise up that's right there's a lion in Zion maybe I should call that maybe I should call the show today lion in Zion yes there is a lion in Zion and that lion is Judah Judah he's not - Judah Maccabee but he is the lion in Zion he is Judah and Judah he rises up any sisters father dad you give me you give me but you give me Benjamin you give me Benjamin and I promise to bring back to you or not or if I don't bring back to you you can demand them of me I'm putting my my name on this I'm taking responsibility and the reason this is important is because Judah and we're gonna see this here as well in this week's Torah portion which is Judah coming up to Joseph and saying hey you write what happens is is that Benjamin is caught with the chalice the chalice the chalice of Joseph certainly he did not steal a child so it was placed there but it but you know the servants of Joseph catch up with with this ruler of Egypt catch up with the brothers they're like you guys stole a chalice they said we never would steal a chalice then it's found in Benjamin's sack satchel and basically they go back to Egypt and they go back to Joseph's house and and and basically what what would this Joseph this hid and Joseph says is okay I'm gonna take Benjamin as a prisoner and now it's time for Judah to rise up and to be the majestic king the Lion of Zion that he is and he steps up and he's gonna say to Joseph in this week's parsha which is called and he approached for ye gosh right Jude then Jude approached him and said please my lord let now your servant speak something into my Lord's ear and let not the wrath be kindled against your servant for you are like Pharaoh right but but if you listen to at Arashi and if you listen to our great explanations commentaries he basically baked you basically see that that that Judah is being on the one hand very servile he is kind of bowing down to Joseph and begging him at the same time he's also saying to him I'm a king and I could take you on I'm willing to kill if I have to because I'm here to fight for my brother and of course all of this is what friends this is all a process of teshuva and what Judah is is a master of jouvert that could be the name of the show as well master of chuhwa think about those words master of chuva master of repentance and we've seen it now twice once with Tamar right where where he says okay it looks like it looks like my my my my son's wife my departed son's wife has now become impregnated to harlotry kill her she sends a signal saying you see who have become impregnated - it's you and he could have hidden the fact says no no she was right she was just and I was wrong and he does teshuva he does repentance so to hear remember he's the one that was in charge of selling his brothers down to Egypt man Judah you sold your brother to Egypt yes I did I fell but I come back up and now I'm gonna stand up for Benjamin and say over my dead body will I allow Benjamin not to come up to our Father Jacob and there's this long soliloquy where where he explains what Judah explains to this head and Joseph that he must he must bring a Benjamin back and that he's willing to trade his own life he rather be the slave to this head and Joseph instead of Benjamin because Benjamin must go back to his father and when Joseph sees that indeed there is repentance there is change when he when he recognizes that the sin of the brothers is no longer there that they've they've they've changed they've they've changed their ways he breaks down and these are the famous very famous verse chapter 45 verse 1 now Joseph could not bear although standing beside him and he called out take out every one from me so no one stood with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers and he wept out loud so the Egyptians heard and the house of Pharaoh heard and Joseph said to his brothers I am Joseph is my father still alive but his brothers could not answer him because they were startled by his presence I mean imagine their situation I mean first thing on top of being like oh my god like not only is Joseph alive but he's not some kind of like poor artist in some quarters and some artists quarter he's actually the ruler of Egypt and then my next thought is wait a minute you've been letting us starve be nervous be full of fear this whole time you've been playing with us and it's you and then it would have been like whoa God has really done the thing here and it seems like those dreams that he had were for real after all so there's a lot of emotional things and the tortoise spares us it just spares us all those thoughts just be creative like imagine what they would have fought like but just put yourself in their shoes for a second when this Egyptian man who's been so harsh with them and it's constantly threatening them and throwing them in jail and and they think that they're that they're gonna be imprisoned and I weave the Bible the Torah tells us they think that they're going to be you know totally taken advantage of suddenly takes off the hat or whatever and there he is that's Joseph Joseph and his dreams and it's not so easy to deal with Joseph because immediately he's gonna say things that I would characterize as annoying because he says for ready two years of famine have passed in the midst of the land that for another five years there will be neither ploughing nor harvest and what's what's annoying about that is that it's like he and then he says and God sent me before you to make for you a remnant in the land and to preserve it for you for great deliverance I will I will deliver you it's me those dreams are true but there's something there's something you remember that Joseph like had a way of pushing off his brothers with his negative reports about them with his kind of childish inability and I wish Rabbi Mike was here because I would ask him don't you see that Joseph in a sense retains those characteristic traits of not noticing that when he says certain things they seem superior seem haughty and indeed we're also going to learn that he's going to embrace his brothers and that when he braces his brothers he's going to give them gifts but he's going to give more gifts to his brother Benjamin basically falling for the same mistake that that Jacob made with him which is to favor somebody and that's a problem he continues that bad behavior but in any case now is gonna come the great the great reunion it's on the way of who of Jacob and Joseph and what what Joseph commands his brothers to do and then Pharaoh commands him to do that very thing which is send and to Joseph this is what what Pharaoh says and you Joseph have been commanded to tell them do this take yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children for your wives and you shall calves carry your father and come so the old patriarch the father is being brought down to Egypt and when when see it says here he gave them all changes of clothes and to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothes he favored him mistake into his father he sent the following 10 he donkeys carrying the best of Egypt and ten she donkeys carrying grain bread and other food for his father on the way and he sent off his brothers and they went and he said to them do not quarrel do not tarry on the way and they came to the land of Canaan to their father Yaakov and they stole him Joseph is still alive imagine this right after 20 years Joseph is still alive and he now rules over the entire land of Egypt and Jacob it says like via Phegley bow like his heart like skipped a beat or or he couldn't accept it his heart was like cookie couldn't believe him it says kilo him mean lehem he did not believe them he did not believe remember what I told you last week that some people have an ability to hear the news that they're out of jail or or or they ever renewal and they can believe it at this moment like Jacob has a pause like he can't believe it however the next verse says and they told him all Joseph's words and then he saw the wagons that Joseph has sent to had sent to carry him in the spirit of their father Jacob was revived but Fe oo ki AAG over see him walking a Cove the spirit of Jacob was revived when he saw the wagons he saw the wagons of course this is what the wagons are a great sign it's like you can hear words but suddenly they're filled with wagons of stuff the wagons to carry him and you know it's like a rolls-royce in the desert here and it's like come on get on the wagon dad all right there's no greater message than that like get on the wagon that you know not always in life do we have an opportunity that but something comes at you and says you know get in this car you're going you have won the lottery here's the car it's waiting for you already interestingly enough the the tradition the traditional commentary Rashi says that Joseph gave them a sign to for Jacob you know what topic he was engaged when he Joseph separated from him Jacob that section in the Torah when they were learning Torah together was dealing with the heifer that was to be beheaded that is the story about a when a dead body is found and nobody knows who it is so they you know you behead a heifer instead a glorified scald and when he saw the wagons it has the word egg LA which is a gala and that reminded him of exactly where they were learning where they were they where they had stopped learning that's a traditional idea that they have been learning Torah together but that that section that they stopped at that's the site when he sent him the wagon it reminded him of that section that they were learning torah with and now i'm gonna tell you what jewish joke okay this is a very this is the most jewy of all yeshiva sh inner Jewish jokes and therefore you will not laugh at it okay so don't be upset with me or yourself for not getting it but basically that it's gonna say soon that in the Torah the next few in the next few verses is gonna say that Joseph says enough my son Joseph still not alive I will go see him before I died and then he's gonna send Judah to Egypt before him and the commentary says in order to set up he she vote to set up different to set of Torah learning institutions so the joke goes why did Jakub send Judah to start up a new yeshiva well because he saw the Joseph was still learning the same section that they were learning in and there's certainly she votes certain tor institutions that learn small sections for a very long time it's called be eun right so he says he saw that he's been learning the same so guía de yoon for the last 20 years okay there's it's time now to start a new yeshiva Judah go start a different kind of yeshiva don't worry about it it's a joke that makes me laugh but don't worry about it now back to a very important part for us to all understand about this Torah portion it it is now Jacob his name has he's taken off the Clark Kent outfit of mourning and now he is in the Superman outfit of Israel and it says Visayas are in and Israel and all that was his set out the kosher kosher law via vogue in Ostrava Israel and all that was his set out and came to bear Sheva there he slaughtered sacrifices to God the god of his father Isaac why because Isaac never left the Land of Israel and now and now Jacob is willingly about to leave the Land of Israel for Egypt remember last time Jacob left the land of Israel he went to to har on well his brother was wanted to kill him see had every right to run away but now for for just you know to be fed can t be can't can he be fed in in in the land of Canaan right can't they send these carts to him on time why did he have to go down to Egypt and he and he feels really bad about it because Jacob knows that a Jews not supposed to leave the Land of Israel so then he sacrifices in bear Sheva really the city of his father Isaac and and and he basically sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac that same Isaac that never left the Land of Israel Isaac never left the Land of Israel and so since he never left the Land of Israel why should I leave the Land of Israel so he he beseeches god vo mara Elohim Lisa lb Murata Lila vo Mary Yakov Yaakov vo Mehra he nanny and God said to Israel and the visions of the night and he set him Jacob Jacob and he said Here I am and he keeps going it says vo Marik God says I know he ha el hello hey Aviva I am the God the God of your forefather I'll tear a mirror that meets i'ma do not fear from going down to Egypt Kela gooood all awesome Hashem for there I will make you into a great nation it's okay and Rashi says do not be afraid of going down to Egypt God encouraged him because he was troubled at being compelled to leave the Holy Land yes yes there's a reason for you to go down I know he led me I read in comics Reimer I will go down with you to Egypt van here I left a gumiho and I will also bring you up the Yosef your shitty ado I never and Joseph will place his hand on your eyes when he when he passed away when he passed away when you will pass away Joseph will put his hands on your eyes and I will and Rashi says I will also bring you up he promised Jacob that he would be interred he would be buried in the Holy Land in the Land of Israel in Hebrew hefty holy oath Nicky Baba grits he promised him that he will indeed be buried in the land of Egypt and in the Land of Israel not in Egypt and here it will be here in the very city that I'm sitting in right now I've grown huh and so they go down and they bring Jacob to Egypt he gets permission to leave that's that's how how much of a big deal it is to leave the Land of Israel you need permission to leave and he gets permission to leave and that's that's what allows them to go down to Egypt and they take everything down and they all come on down to Egypt the whole family and then the tour is gonna go in a long list of all the exact names of all the people that came down Judaism is is a this part of the Vitara it's a history all these people came down to the land of Egypt all of Israel the the the people of Israel the Hebrew people the Hebrew nation came down to Egypt he sent Judith head of him to Joseph to direct them to Goshen and they came to the land of Goshen that's where they settled Joseph's harness is chariot and went up to meet Israel's father to Goshen and he appeared to him and he fell on his neck and he wept on his neck for a long time and Israel said to Joseph I will die this time since I've seen your face that you are still alive and they they go up to Pharaoh now they have to now okay everybody there's been a reunion now it's time to also be official this is a very wealthy and important family family of the Viceroy of Egypt they go up to Pharaoh and there's the famous story that Pharaoh may ask you what is your occupation tell them that you're owners of livestock ok and and indeed that's what they tell them that they are shepherds and basically shepherding is is something abhorrent to the Egyptians and therefore they put them all to be separate from them in the land of goshen which is somehow separated from the rest of Egypt in any case very interesting segment is that is that finally Joseph brings Jacob in front of Pharaoh and Jacob greets Pharaoh and this is this is a greeting as is customary for all who occasionally present themselves before monarchs you know give a salute this is Rashi and Pharaoh says to Jacob how many are the days of your life or in other words how old are you or in other words wow you're really old and Jacob says to Pharaoh the days of the years of my sojournings are 130 years the days of the years of my life have been few and miserable and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of the forfeit of my forefathers in the in their days of sojournings and this is really one of the more troubling phrases and in fact the rabbi's say that he gets punished for these words because they are really not very very not very flattering where's where does thank God for every moment that I've had alive but instead they're kind of like yeah it's been bad I haven't lived a lot but here I want to tell you that there are some people who are also masters of something called I in Hara my Sephardic listeners definitely know what I'm talking about I in Hara is the evil eye the kind of the eye of jealousy and then when people are jealous of you this sometimes a kind of a negative energy surrounds you and maybe maybe what Jacobs is doing is saying look Who am I I'm nothing I've had a long and miserable life though there is some truth in it right he's had a lot of pains in his life right 20 years of being cheated by Laban LaVon the death of Rachel the rape of Dina and then the the the the loss of Joseph for so many years which which we know that the Spirit of God had not rest on him and even the name of the Tetragrammaton does not appear in all the Torah portions until until it's like hidden away it's hidden away during the period where Joseph is not revealed to his brothers in any case he blessed Jacob blesses Pharaoh and leaves and basically the the famine is gonna keep going in the lands very very strong and what's gonna happen in the next section the last section of this Torah portion is that is that Joseph is gonna do something weird he's going to create basically a slave class because he's going to trade grain for people's belongings and then finally for people's land for people's belongings and finally for their own their own freedoms and they're gonna become servants to Pharaoh you could he's gonna create a kind of serfdom and this kind of serfdom really sets the stage for the Jews to become slaves as well later on so Joseph executing a master plan and one could criticize him for this but he's executing a master plan where basically is creating this surf class in Egypt and that's what happens at the end he gives them seed to sow the soil but they become servants and the final verse of the story portion is in Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt in the land of Goshen and they and they and they acquired property in it and they were prolific and multiplied greatly okay they they basically started succeeding there how could it be it's not the Holy Land well you see the Jewish person has has a role in the Diaspora at certain times and this was a time for diaspora existence and for the Jewish people to be built specifically within the melting pot of Egypt within the court the the kind of crucible that's thought I was looking for the kind of crucible in Egypt that's part of God's plan so they'll all come out of there in this and then we'll have the great holiday of the teaching of freedom and liberty through the holiday of Passover but the set is now this the the stage is now set and we've just everybody everybody let's breathe a collective sigh of relief everybody go okay that's how I feel I'm like good we're done with this brotherly hate the selling of Joseph and then Joseph's taunting and playing in and seeing enforcing the process of chuva from the brothers very painful and also Jacob not having God's presence in his life throughout this whole period very very painful very painful period and so thank you God for getting us through these tour portions which are your stomach clenches up and that's okay you read through them you learn them there's a lot to learn here but it's also okay to say though it's beautiful votes godly though it's truth it's also painful to read it it's meant to be painful to read it was a painful time and so that period is now done where now we're going to go to the last time portion in the book of Genesis ladies portion in the book of Genesis is coming next week and that's very powerful because that's gonna be the blessings of Jacob and then we're gonna get ready for a new book in a new gear all together the book of Genesis the the foundation stone of the whole story of Israel and the Torah and then when I said to you yesterday really think about the forehead not yesterday earlier think about the four elements right the Land of Israel the people of Israel the Torah of Israel of the God of Israel are four distinct elements we were we were taught these four elements in in the book of Genesis I'm gonna finish it up in the portion of vfe that the Jacobs life he gets revivified Rhian liven and and he's going to finish off his life with with a great flurry of blessings and then when we're done with the book of Genesis who's gonna take it to the next step who's gonna bring the Jews out of slavery back the Land of Israel and into Torah who is it gonna be it's gonna be a person who's gonna carry us through the rest of the whole Torah and basically carry us throughout all of our generations who's going to be the broadcaster of the great of the great knowledge and the love and the Torah of the forefathers and mothers you know it's gonna be it's gonna be Charlton Heston no it's going to be Moses it's gonna be this incredible incredible our great rabbi our great teacher Moses folks I hope you enjoyed this tour portion I know it's very powerful and it's been great to be with you and once again I want to I want to also really recommend to you that you plug in in so many other ways a first thing I want you to consider plugging in go fly to lean with this if you're in England or you're going to Israel I don't know what if you're flying anywhere around the world pop into to lean would UK you get to see rabbi Mike Feuer 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