Yishai Show: Permission to Be Wowed

[Music] shut them everybody and welcome to the Shea Fleischer show broadcasting live on the land of Israel network to the world you're a part of it where ever you are Shalom and welcome we have a great show for you I got a chance to get back together with Rabbi Mike foyer and we have a long show with a lot of topics that are just going to touch your life and certainly are touching our life here in Israel and I think important for the Jewish world and the only reason that I'm doing the kind of intro to the rest of the show is because of the many issues that we had discussing on the show we forgot to mention one issue which is very close to my heart and that is the great and awesome holiday of laga bomber wad bomber an incredible holiday which really celebrates the victory of the Kabbalah of the deep inner Jewish culture the Torah the real inner aspect of the Torah the fourth dimension of the tour if you will and the victory of that dimension the return to the Land of Israel the study of the real original Torah and the life of the original tour and really revelation of God's inner intent has perfect a relationship to mankind and that prophetic relationship only happens in the Land of Israel and we had to run away rabbi Shimon bar Yohai basically represents running away from Rome packing up that knowledge into suitcases prepared for the long exile and we're unpacking those suitcases now so today Lag Ba'Omer the 33rd day of the omer which is the memorial day of rabbi Shimon bar Yochai the author of the Zohar that's the critical and essential work of Kabbalah of the of Jewish mysticism and that's what we're celebrating today hundreds of thousands of Jews go up to the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai in May Rhone in the north of Israel and we celebrate there we really celebrate we dance with beautiful klezmer music and the nation all around lights fires to say that our fire has never gone out and that the Zohar which is the inner Torre's truth is coming to to the fore and so I wanted to just mention that for a second because I with all the other issues that Reverend Mike and myself talked about we kind of missed it so and this is a very important holiday for me and I think for really Jews who who sense the the powerful return to - to something that that seemed to have been lost or packed away and then it's unpacked and it's full full glory and we're not yet we haven't yet seen the full full glory of it all it's just revving up right now but we're certainly in line to see to see amazing revelations and you of course are a part of it when you're listening to the show this network and you're part of the Jewish people part of the story of the Jewish people part of the story of Israel part of the story of God's grace in gathering so the show's title today is permission to be wowed and get ready to be wowed in our discussion with Rabbi Mike foyer and myself god bless you stay tuned and here we go [Music] ha hello everybody and welcome to the chef Licia show broadcasting live from Jerusalem to the world you're a part of it wherever you are Shalom and welcome to to the partes Institute here and beautiful you shall I'm and that means you say Shalom and welcome to rabbi Mike Feuer Shalom and welcome o Shah own eutectics here it's great to be with you here and we are in the heart of Jerusalem's great to be in Jerusalem today from my street there is a my streets very high I'm really at a very kind of peak of the mountain and there's exactly a spot where you see the if the Sun is just right and it is often you see the Temple Mount or so my street is Shabbat see own streets and return to Zion Street and I get like with anchor when I Drive 5 meters from my house boom there's the Temple Mount yes it's a it's a happy feeling that today's gonna be a great day it's like a little happy sign for me speaking of that we haven't we didn't get a chance to hang out the last few weeks you were not so well last week I was not so well last week yes it was you were unusually unwell because I like was reaching out to you and you were just like you were not you were incommunicado that is yeah that is a fair statement we'll just leave it at that okay well it's good to have you back it's good to be back it's good to have you back in the meantime the State of Israel and the Jewish people experienced a few kind of strange tugs and pulls and and and and kind of you know we're used to bad guys and fighting the bad guys but we had a wild turn events here last week when ten kitten young people ten young teenagers or 18 year olds approximately were swept up in a flash flood when they were hiking in the south of Israel and in the Judean Desert and the Judean Desert close to the Dead Sea or the south of the Dead Sea and anyway it's very well known here in Israel people some people don't know what a flash flood is my beloved wife found the video which really described what a flash flood is it's not a lot of water it's like like a like a pool or something it is a raging mudslide yes it starts as a tidal wave and then follows it is a mudslide but the ice cold river behind right and with rocks yeah right with anything that was blocking the water right things are gonna hit you in the head things are gonna knock you out anyways it is death right and if you cut under it yes and I personally been so heartbroken over this whole situation first of all one of the one of the students that all was a student my daughter's high school mhm so there's a shockwave that really went through and as I was watching unfold in the news she is of course on whatsapp with her friends and the family in the in the in the siblings and just hearing as things are unfolding and and you know I read a book or heard I heard of I heard a book read I think about disasters like man man man mistakes what are they called human error human error so majority of those kind of errors when when a lot of people die like airplanes go down it's usually one air after another each one is a small step he was I was I don't because you know but maybe our listeners don't I was a guide in the outdoors for a decade mountaineering backpacking boating I've done a lot of work on what's called risk management in terms of how you actually make decisions in you know and what end up being life or death situation it's absolutely true is what's called cascading bad decisions like it's getting bad this is exactly right and and sometimes you have remember that pilot that landed the plane in the Hudson River I forgot his name late they write a movie out of him anyway and I think it's Tom Hanks I didn't see the movie but basically the thing was is he was an expert at exactly those kind of scenarios yes and he changed his mind within 60 seconds he changed his mind 4 times yes and I was the right thing to do the right thing to do was but was able to make those decisions and may basically the right decision here it clearly a wrong decision was made in Israel everybody's talking about it basically the whole country if you would have woken me up in the middle of the night and said that night said to me is it a good idea to hike everyone would have said no right because because it was raining those these flash rains in the basics of backpacking in this countries you don't go in to the riverbeds when right it's like everybody knows exactly the basics and and that's why it leads me to and the people that led them to this deathtrap we're good people very good people some wouldn't have been doing what they were doing if they weren't right heads of these machine note of these pre military academies and guides of them and people really care about these young people but they made a big mistake but it also put into my mind that Hashem you know somehow that mistake was I don't I don't want to misstate the state the case but in some way Hashem didn't open those people's eyes and not to make that mistake however you want to say my point is here's what I really want to get to is that is that somehow it was catastrophic it was very painful my Thursday that's when it all happened just just was shot and I was just listening to the news the whole time and then I was praying they had lost one one girl had not been found yet by nightfall right and they and they found her nine kilometres away she was swept up by this by this tidal wave as you called it and I was really praying for it for them I didn't I didn't expect her to be alive but I was praying these least to find her find the body and also not endanger anybody else because there's choppers in the air yeah it was a very dangerous rescue mission right rain was still falling rain was falling choppers were in the air divers were in this riverbed you know and so you know you just really wanted to make sure that nobody else got hurt and that really happened but I want to say that that I also I felt that there was usually rain in the month of ER is considered a blessed sign but there was no question that there was maybe there is a question but to me it was obvious that it was a little bit of deaning of harsh judgment Veruca show me show me but afterwards after all one pass I thought to myself I hope that this was some kind of expiation that these young you know people were that there were such good and sweet and the pictures of them were shocking it was a heartbreak right every single one just the pain that the real beauty like you said and and the charm is such a shallow word for pain I don't even know how to translate it just the shine the shine that they all had so you you really hope that it was some kind of like sometimes things like this when things like this like when Ilan Ramon died these moments where you like you just hope that that it that it has a greater purpose in the meaning so so I sat Friday night with with my daughter who like I said this this girl or was very present in her school as befits someone who had committed to going to sister pre-army and if our listeners don't know these many know these pre army academies have contributed an enormous amount to our society to the army to a sense of leadership and in sort of instilling values in our children so I do want to echo with whatever judgments are floating around that the people who made these decisions are people who have devoted their lives to doing good things so they should not be judged by their failure in terms of their life mission at the same time Oh get me there was responses I hope that they'll be the first ones to accept that right but there's more to their story than that so we were sitting Friday night and I had been reading uh rough cook or oatmeal coma the lights of war which is a important section of his writings and he was speaking about this notion of of the innocent who are he uses a lot of of swapped Bocchetti famille comma where shet f you know is the same whereas shoot the phone as the the tidal wave this flash flood that these these tidal wave of war of battle right meaning in war we always innocent people die and it raises a huge theological question meaning i understand like the the bad guy stands up and shoots it the good guy of gucci we can understand that's a clash of values as embodied in human beings we're gonna speak more about that later but what about like as a friend said to me i'm not afraid of the bullet that has my name on it it's the one that says to whom it may concern that that makes me nervous we talk about it later right so so so we're speaking to my butt my butt but we are told that when a certain judgment enters the world even it can be undiscerning and this is exactly what i'm driving of coke talks about this idea of eh despair below me schmuck it is true that people are taking from the world without justice without without you know and I was speaking to my children about this is a hard thing for for young teenagers to absorb but but what he says is that in war and I think it applies here as well this idea of eh nice pebble only spot that people are just taken has what he says has me Tom me that Teddy quemic apparent that the death of the righteous brings atonement to the world now you might think wait what do you mean the death erection Springs atone let them stay in the world and help us by their example by their actions but but the the reality is is that in something like this happens we're all called to do a fishbone nephesh to do some sense of how can I make my life better not like as a this caused me to do that and some simplistic theology but simply the only thing we can do in the face of this type of tragedy is to resolve to do better and through that it doesn't give meaning to their deaths but from their death we gain meaning and I think it's a very important response for us to have because the question of why is not one will ever be privy to the answer of but the question of what do I do with this is one we can answer ourselves so you reminded me of another thing that I wanted to talk with you about today this week I spent the first two days of the week Sunday Monday very very fully and very busily starting at 6:00 in the morning and finishing up at 9:00 two days in a row and basically there was a well-to-do couple from Chicago and the lady the lady of the house decided that for her birthday she wanted to do two days of cressid inerrancy style and I was lucky enough to chaperone the this amazing couple incredible and first we went to a battered women's shelter I can't say where because it's kept a very secretive and I got to see it for the first time and hear some incredible stories scary stories oh I saw the children because I didn't understand that a women's shelter here in Israel certainly one of its first priorities is to have a kind of school type of environment until the shelter can help put them in a school the children so we're talking about kindergartners to to teenage - young teenagers so saw that we did that and then from there we went to the Schneider cancer ward and hung out there and get they get o in every place they gave tremendous amount of gifts for they gave a set of towels and the highest-level huge set of pots and pans to every woman in the women's shelter and they promised to build four more rooms okay they're in the next place in the next place we went to Schneider's the Schneider children ward a hospital in Petach Tikva for oncology the cancer ward and we have friends whose child is right now undergoing that and we pray for you care frien been recalled Vora was in that exact unit and they gave away their a Bluetooth speaker for every kid and a headphone and every kid in the word Wow every kid in the ward got and the top quality stuff and we we talked to every kid there every kid we talked with I translated from Russia and there were Arab kids or hurry to get all thing and then from there we went to what really blew me away which was a girl's orphanage run by sons thus answers in Netanya right Lonnie out of hospital if you've heard of it the sons of rabbee rabbee runs a good half of Netanya right basically the sons already lost eleven children and his wife in the holocaust and he promised that if he would get out all the things that he suffered from he would make a better version of in the Land of Israel including a hospital including this orphanage orphanage had 105 girls Wow beautiful look totally well-adjusted but they're not they're not they're orphans in various ways even loss of parents but more often abuse running away all kinds of stuff and so anyway that was day one and we came we finished off the day like totally finished like we were just the next day we went to FEV Ron showed them all about around cover and then we had dinner with 25 family that victims of terror 25 just cured our bathroom right just here at our back everyone we had a dinner at Reena Arielle's house that's hilarious that's where I had figured that it was a beautiful dinner and we we heard the stories I'll give you just one just one example to make it for you like what really we heard about a lot of people getting murdered and family members people that I know you know Kannada Kaufman his wife his son were there there is one guy his name is Shu ki he was on the rapid response team in Kerala theorem he and another and and this other rabbi immediately got a message that the that a terrorist had jumped over the fence they came in to they figured out after a while that that that that the terrorist might be in the house and they call the father the father a king of the house I mean client they came on Macario they came very quickly into the house they went in they saw Hallel Yaffa re l in this horrific condition she was already gone there was there was no way to save her but at that very moment the terrorists came out and was just about to stab and really kill this Shuki but the rabbi saw the terrorists shot him but the bullet ricocheted after killing this terrorist ricocheted off a hip or something like that and hit Shuki right knee i he went right down and he thought he was he thought it was going down to die right now yeah he just grabbed his eye and miraculously he was totally saved but his eye and his whole eye socket got blown out and okay all that that's all well known what's not well known is that Shuki since then he has a prosthetic eye or whatever it's called the fake eye and he's been suffering a lot from pains in his head now he told me this is a tough guy he said to me shine I have to go to surgery now I'm just as scared of the surgery as like I have I have trauma from the last surgery I told him I don't want surgery unless you promise me that I could stay in the hospital morphine for a week his whole the the bone underneath the eye which is is still shattered and his eye like falls his prosthetic eye like falls lower it needs to be fixed and he's a frightening this a tough guy really tough guy and he told me that he's also been having issues with the State of Israel with with the internal Ministry of Internal Affairs to get all what's coming to him because he's now 100 percent disabled anyway just that stuff that real stuff after it all yes what's the drama passes in life actually right expected well anyway this couple was just blown away and I was blown away by what we saw but I was also blown away by them oh I forgot she she fed pizzas to all the we had a pizza truck deliver pizza to all the soldiers in Hebron Wow and she handed it out she that was like a highlight for her and and altogether just to see all the self-sacrifice and to see her coming all the way from Chicago and just just to just to give just that's what she wanted to make with her life well that's what I said she wanted to celebrate a birthday yep incredible yeah I'm telling you honestly I never saw anything like it right and it was a whole day of just listening to painful stories and giving for every one of the families of these families they gave about a thousand dollars of food coupons for Amelia just like every family they just gave and gave and gave Wow and I mean god bless them that they can give but also like and it was it was like it was it was there was nothing hard about them nothing it was nothing like it all like they would look just like they just wanted to and this is how she celebrated her birthday it was it was bless awed may have history those were two days of meaning yeah and I was drained after that Tuesday Tuesday I was like haha you know I bet Tuesday was now now now now this leads me to yet another thing which I want to discuss with you which is that on the last day Monday night as we were driving already back from Hebron the Prime Minister Prime Minister Netanyahu was on the radio we pretty mundane I was Monday night feels like it was our driver Dave divita FlyLo who's also an expert in tour jewish tours to morocco says to me when we come back in the car he's like the prime minister made an announcement something is coming a big big announcement is coming so the announcement was made that the prime minister is gonna have this news press conference and there's like tension like hey did you think we were going to war i thought it was not possible yeah it was definitely it was it was definitely one of the thoughts across my mind but then i was like well it's not gonna be done a news conference i didn't know i was going on but i but i get and i heard there was already rumors and was pretty obvious that it said I'll tell you what I the night before Sunday night there was bombings in Syria vaults of installations big ones yeah big massive explosions they had it on video like a gigantic so much so that there was registered an earthquake yeah in Europe they registered two points something on the Richter scale yeah yeah and this was after and here's another thing I wanted to ask you about we're on the list yeah so we'll also we're driving and we're listening to Prime Minister and everybody already you know you probably know by now he laid out a whole case of how the Israeli Mossad went in just incredible I found a hundred thousand document they saw a ton of material from a suburb of Tehran right and got it back and translated it well they get it how did the country I really don't know I really don't know oh and that was interesting was the yurt site it was exactly the yurt site the 53 years since the hanging of Elli Cohen really yes that night Wow that night when he spoke about that it was the greatest greatest spy ever for our country the great spy ever and I want to add one more thing the day before a certain American official the the Mike Pompeo right Secretary of State Secretary of State it's like it's like wow think about like John Kerry and you know and how you know I felt that he was such an exchange yeah and suddenly there's pump here now I told my wife notice that name pumped Heil does that remind you of anything there was a general in 63 BCE his name was Pompey right this is the guy that took over Jerusalem and basically he was brought in by the warring brothers of the air stop it was Newark and it's right right and basically he's the Roman general the conquers Jerusalem and this basically destroys Jewish sovereignty he's the beginning of the end yes he's the beginning of the end and here comes Mike Pompeo and him and and and Netanyahu are hugging and and obviously collaborating next let Ben know things are blowing up and there's all these announcements it's like the though there was no connection here right so I was just like is this Pompeyo coming to do it back in the world to do his Tico I mean come on that is that is an interesting I hear it it's dancing and and in anyway so here we are listening to this thing so we had this full day and suddenly you're right there was definitely an atmosphere of like what are we going to warn bombing the night before in Syria major obviously Depot's were blown up mister already at war the question is at what point did the gloves come off right we are at work you're at work we're we're bombing the and they're doing their actions right yeah so yeah that's the those are a lot of things and and and here in Israel at the same time it's like dududududududu you know let's let's go and tonight where it's like a biome here yeah and everybody you know what the news is talking about is be sure to have you know be safe would be safe in the in the fire sapien in the traffic right and the north of Israel is gonna be full with Jews going to Marone because you're scattering the world right and not afraid of some kind of or at least field defended from some kind of Iranian aggression it's an amazing thing I find with with all of the all the threats around us is that that there's no sense of fear and whether that's kind of a naive yabba said they're like things are gonna be alright which we know doesn't always play out well in in life or whether it's just this sort of deep-rooted faith in in there bunch olam right in the master of the world or whether it's just somewhere in between which is like we just can't live in fear you're gonna let ourselves always you always give all the the Western whether you missed the Russian version of the same way of feeling which is what we're strong Israel is strong that's also something right yeah yes reporter shel olam yes we don't want to live in fear and yes Israel is strong yes is real strong netanyahu is strong our Jets are strong our Mossad is strongly with we're cause a queer cuz I can and and and that's something also that's like that gives people a confidence it gives people a sense when it god forbid please don't don't ever misunderstand that I'm trying to say this is some external to God or or you know no God has given us the strength I want to tell on the car he's given us strength but but we are strong right now people feel that the the the woman in the street knows that Israel's strong Israel's got our back that's something also know yeah that's true right yeah we keep coming back to that hill Russian American Bank I think it's important actually I think I think it's important I can I could give a speech about why I think Israel has rights to the Land of Israel in front of an American audience and I'll talk about international law and I'll talk about it in in you know in logic and in history and then somebody will just get up and be like oh you're right wing cuz you're religious because for many Americans the only way you can contemplate being nationalistic as if you're like linked into it to to to religion and God but but as the Russian side of me says you know I have the same opinions as a secular Russian Israeli there's there's it's a it's a perspective on the Middle East it's a perspective on how to survive strength is part of I would further it's actually just a perspective on the world meaning there are two competing worldviews here of whether there is some legitimacy to the nation being the sort of unit of measure for for the polity of the world right nations we're never gonna draw the boundaries and whoever gets to be part of the game or are you assuming that nations are actually just at best second best if not downright evil and that really your cosmopolitan that really every individual is the unit of measure of the world we ought to have some international sort of global civilization right I'm really pushing this line you're absolutely right in my analysis of the Zionist era and the Jewish story it seems to me that we're playing this challenge out now and we're still playing it now that's nothing new we're playing it out and and though there is cosmopolitan ideas out there it still still a world of nation-states and and still ethnic groups do coagulate together and look the same and have a similar language and have a shared history and have a shared vision for the future generally speaking absolutely and you know what this leads us exactly into the tour portion of Bihar which can be argued I think it can be argued that this is the most nationalistic ly inclined of the Torah portions why do I say that why do you say that why do I say that because what we see in this in this our portion is a very clear sense that there is a land that it has to end this land has to follow certain laws right it meaning to say it's not a people and they follow customs the it's the people hood sits on a land and this land and this people had together have a certain symbiotic relationship of law and furthermore there was a little bit of this last week but but in this torah portion is a sense of the other the gentile Legare he may be a proselyte or you may be a resident alien but he's an and he's an other okay and you may maybe you can take what he caught on loans interest on loans from a Gentile who lives in your land you may you may have him you know work hard labor and different things of course all fairly but with your Jewish brother there's an us there's an us and there's a them even though the them that they the other might be within your sovereignty these are great obligations toward them but it definitely draws a very clear distinction between the V Gale and the Ezra right the the citizen and the stranger even though it's important to note that there are many places in which the Torah will go out of its way they say there's one law for the gear in their Israel in terms of basic morality in terms of what we call civil law but I think you're correct in that when it comes to that nexus of how the people how society emerges from the intersection between the people in the land right well in particularly what we call the Jubilee here and the and the and the shemitah cycle the sabbatical cycle which holds the central place in this parsha it's very important to note that this is a national relationship to land and though the torah is very concerned about the week and in the stranger right it does not blur the distinction between the two and i believe it doesn't blur them because it believes that doesn't serve the purpose of justice that it's either in the mind of the tour it's an illusion to think that distinctions don't exist and then when you pretend that they don't you end up doing evil not good even if your intention was correct is that there's a people hood which is the basis for justice in this land and to erase that people who do actually undermining justice even if your intention was the sort of sort of multicultural egalitarian ethos that that's not how the land and the people interact right distinctions judgments Co centric circles of holiness of distinction the Land of Israel has distinct elements and at different holiness --is we know have one outside the line nine within Jerusalem itself even within the Jewish people there's the different levels and there's the Kohanim and even within the core name there's a conquer though there's a constant hierarchy of things and that hierarchy of things creates order when when you when you get rid of all of these order lines they actually end up causing chaos even if you think that you're actually giving everybody quality you're actually causing a certain kind of chaos in any case I'm Margit that that Behar the story portion is very much a nationalistic lis minded Torah portion that it sets out land barriers and its borders and it sets out and it sets out distinctions between the Jew and the non Jew there's something very important to me in that is that it takes for granted that the basis of a just society is socio-economic so one of the great challenges I feel we face here in our country I mean when we say Israel is strong we don't just mean the military the economy here is is booming an example of that is like Russia where you have a country whose military strong but the people are are living in poverty all right well but but one of my concerns is that there is a growing individualism which fuels our economy in is fed by it in the consumerism and the gap between the rich and the poor now thank God if you look at the percentage of Israelis who are involved in volunteering or the level of stuck above giving one to another it's incredible nevertheless I feel like this parsha challenges to think as a site as a whole not just to rely on individuals and their goodwill god bless everyone for it but to think how do we structure society that can take the wealth and power that we have and build build a whole society that can free human potential from this constant sense you ever feel like you're running on a hamster wheel right and you and I are doing well thank God I mean I'm not inside your own but relatively really yes relatively relative relative ly I'm relatively to what but but people do and we as well it's it's not like it's not like it's a it's still an economic struggling and every month and the every month everyone I know is gritting their teeth right right and what I meant by doing well is is that we're creating our teeth but we're not going under that's right right and and so but but why is that just think of the fact that what this parsha is telling you is that there's a way to of ordering society where that sense of desperation which lurks around the corner and for many people actually is sitting in the living room not around the corner doesn't need to be and and I feel like we have so many resources and some great minds and great souls in our country that that the parsha is a call for us to think about how can we do it absolutely absolutely and and and there are people out there in Moshe Feiglin to his credit also opened my eyes to this that that why is it that that a French doctor like says it's hard to make a living in his room I'm gonna go to Toronto Montreal or or and and should be and I do hope though that this current wave of a sense of success in the country will trickle down trickle up trickle trickle all around and give people then those basic necessities but let's address let's see how the Torah kind of in has some systems here in place for us in order to achieve exactly what you're talking about right with Mike for rabbi Micah easy to email you rough Mike at the Land of Israel calm sure is your Facebook page is rough like for Facebook rough Mike you rub Mike you'll get there too I think they actually rub my for okay very good alright and me also here did I did I talk about the Land of Israel calm I don't think you did I don't think I said Shalom and welcome I was about to say Shalom and welcome to the Land of Israel Network and we have wonderful shows here I want to thank re Brom watts and Jeremy compel for being the Papa and Mama I guess of this I don't want to Mama's but don't do it yeah let's skip it but thanks guys for for this wonderful network and we've had some great shows recently here the fatality Bennett was on the kill Hoffman's show something that Eve did caught my I can't remember right now of course slow-mo cats Josh Mason a lot of a lot of top-level discussions are happening here on the station so thank you very much to the Land of Israel network and I'd love to hear from you also as well by writing to me at Yishai at the land of israel dot-com Lanta the land of israel calm okay so that I know for some of you in outside of the Land of Israel it's a different to our portion we talked about it on last week's show I talked about it but now we're just gonna have to keep going with where the land of Israel is or else we're gonna miss it and screw it up so and also I don't know to do see this is this is miss a parsha well I know I'm not gonna miss a party sure are you gonna double up I just it's a tricky situation that's all it's like it's like this unequal vertical unknotting off lockstep yeah I think we're out of sync that's not good for the Jews no it's not good for Jews and it's true in many ways that's right so let's just talk about first the the major aspect of this Torah portion which is the shemitah year and the jubilee year right so every seventh year is the sabbatical year it's forbidden to work the land in the Land of Israel after seven sets of seven years a Jubilee years proclaimed by the blast of a shofar on that year's Yom Kippur during the Jubilee years this is the fiftieth year all the laws of the sabbatical year apply and in addition to the sabbatical laws all slaves are set free and all lands revert to their original owners this is a big deal and it's like a kind of imagine that like you did your stuff in monopoly and then you just kind of hand the properties back yep there are of course some exceptions to that it doesn't mean that you lose all of the wealth that you acquired in the last 50 years by any stretch and and it's different also for cities for for property within cities as opposed to property within kind of tribal lands but in any case the important thing here is to understand is that there is this kind of cyclical thing which protects the land from being overused and in the fiftieth year it's not so much of a land thing it's more of an economic thing it's but I'm a whole society skill because don't forget every seven years there's also the of loans right which is which is sort of not land-based but the key piece is that the land is the repository of value just just explain what I mean remittance of loans that means a few if somebody loans you money yours the the torah's idea is that on the seventh year you forgive that loan right however subsequent rabbis in a very controversial today it's not controversial but back then I'm assuming it must have been very controversial in a sense yeah ban the loophole out of that I want to point out that you could say found a loophole out but the same time if you look at what Hill oh the elder actually said is that what he was noticing is that the Torah says don't be hard-hearted and tight fisted and when the seventh year approaches said I'm not loaning to anybody because they won't pay me back which is a fairly reasonable thing to say right and so what Hillel said is that better people should be open handed under the assumption that they'll be able to get their loan back then that they should be tight fisted and so therefore he created this institution of the pros Bowl to prevent people from violating what's called a low toss a a negative commandment of holding back from learning because if people weren't aware it's a separate commandment in the Torah to loan money to your brothers and sisters without interest of course we're talking about without interest there's a separate command which a very important command which basically says the Torah says if you accumulate more than you need then your first thought needs to be gosh there's people out there that could use this right and not because you want to put your money to work for you and make interest that as you point out that could be true in your relationship to other nations but within the family your primary ass attitude needs to be as soon as I have enough I need to be thinking about who needs and that's a very big shift that that it's difficult to make I'll admit it it's difficult to make you work hard you cumulate wealth it's not so simple to look at it as oh god gave this extra to me so I can help someone else it's much easier to say Cokely bow to me I D like my hard work in my strength brought this in right and so what I would like to see is that somehow we find a way within our society least to encourage that behavior if not to mandate it absolutely absolutely and those people that I that I described a couple from Chicago they they had that the shining example yeah in the second Aliyah of the Torah portion we are commanded to conduct business ethically since as we said all lands revert to their original owners during the Jubilee year the amount of the years remaining until the next Jubilee year must be taken into account whether a real estate sale is conducted and the price is set accordingly the end of the section enjoy it teaches us to to not to not lie basically and not to mislead our fellows this is I actually read one of my favorites hyk treatises in Rome elements book what's the elephant and there's a whole section on speaking truth and he brings many many different sources and this is one of them great work it's an amazing work and and and and and and that just parenthetically it's important state there are great works today rabbi rabbi Benny Lao on the sages yeah I mean Allah and many many more there are today if people should know that rub Muhammad's work anemia luck Allah is actually completely available in translation online yes it's all free lined there's a gap I have an amp yeah I have a nap and when I would need to keep fall asleep I just open that up and I'm speaking about here's a here's a leader of our day who put incredible amount of work into producing something and his decision was now it just needs to be available to everyone right right that's that's a powerful that's a powerful point you're making so patina hahahaha the pearls pearls of the law of Jewish law yeah it's all available online in English is it there's a great app for it I don't know if the app is in English but I don't know but I know the Epis in Hebrew but if you want to hear if you want to just read the Jewish law and understand that in depth without without too much in depth the the bottom line law by someone who's deeply engaged in present-day Israeli society right fabulous okay and if you forgot how to reach that write me an email and I will send it to you okay that sounds really good oh by the way speaking of sending stuff last week I made a little little competition for folks - I enjoined people - is that the way to say it you courage them encourage them to write to me leggo but Omer okay oh macha just sent this morning is about to send I think we need the addresses now but two people wrote to me a hashtag Lego by Omer and they are getting little Jay brick LEGO sets okay awesome that's right one is a lot of omar one for the first-place winner a little rubbish iman in the cave and the other one is like a set of tefillin cool paint from Lego very neat very cool okay another issue in this week's Torah portion is what are we gonna eat if we're not allowed to gather a grain on the seventh year sir God tells us that he's gonna bless the six years six years harvest and he'll produce enough to provide for three years in some cases until the crop of the eighth year is ready to eat the Torah then gives us a ration now from the for the prohibition against selling land in perpetuity and a land can only be leased basically till the Jubilee year because the lot because quote the land belongs to me you are strangers and residence with me it's my land you can't sell the land for in perpetuity you can you can't own it you don't own it really you're like a 99 year lease type of thing yeah for 49 years basically this is I mean it's a fundamentally different attitude and it's a great indication of what I was speaking about I said we have a value structure most of us here in this country that is based on private property so probably the fundamental assumption of Western economics the Torah does not see private property as the be-all and end-all of relationship to the land right the the rant land is the repository of all value and belongs to God and we are meant to work with it as a means to survive and thrive but not as a possession and and and that's a big end it's a big shift that we're being called to in our relationship and I anybody that's listening that lives here with us in this beautiful land please take it seriously in the way you act toward the land itself it needs a lot of love it needs a lot of love right and and and here's an in the fifth Valley also is a is exactly what you're talking about we are commanded to assist our brethren by coming to their aid before they become financially ruined and dependent on the help of others we are forbidden to charge interest on a loan to a fellow Jew basically what you're saying is we have to we have to come to the aid but then and this is very different than the individualistic perspective we're a nation where people were found do you build the society that understands it's always easier to hold someone up than to pick them up once they've fallen why is a walled city different than another city and that we said we have this of course in the laws of poram of when we read stuff important but why is it that that homes in walled cities may be redeemed for the full value for up to one year after the sale but if not redeemed within that year they become a permanent property of the buyer and they are not released by the Jubilee my sense is by the way review who knows all done is a whole book on the sanctity of the walled cities like you're referring to it place it on our places and he's a tremendous timing to come it's really worth looking at but in in a simple sense I think that you're seeing the already a a diversity what we would call today a diversity and economic base right meaning within an agricultural society most people live dispersed on the land and as you put it out this the tribal inheritance and therefore the land is the repository of wealth but but the the the commercial element of economics that we're far more familiar with in our society right is represented by a walled city where who's living there so the people who've made enough that they can actually move away from the land they don't actually have to be sitting on their fields and you have a concentration of wealth there where now prosperity depends on this ability for private property mm-hmm right yeah there's a much larger there's a much larger discussion to happen there but I would have also said that I think that just from my own life I think that there's some people who know that they belong to a tribe that they belong out there in these fields in these places and then there's some people who are more cosmopolitan and feel themselves more naturally not in a tribal configuration and not out there in the land but in a city where a lot of different things happen with a big mix and here there is like those laws of speaking autobiographically I have it's a thought you know when I when I when I'm out in those places I can I understand the city life and I understand that what why person would be attracted to the city life and the hub the hustle and bustle and and it's not as the ident and you could see it religiously also there there's much more mixtures it's not as parochial it's not as parochial that's exactly okay make a plug for tribalism sure so I mean I think it's very important to remember that the yeah what do I mean is that people often make a mistaking at one people one God one land where people have oneness it's true but when people on God won't land twelve tribes right right and and and that sort of built-in diversity to borrow the word of the day he's extremely important remember because frankly if you look around in our country right now we're already broken into tribes there's the tribe of Tel Aviv got the Judean 's and everybody knows the Samaritans and the Judean aren't the same that's right right and you can Sumeria folks are different you got you know the the tribe up there in the north of the Golan and and you know and the people of the south and like there's important element to saying I can be absolutely Who I am and believe that I'm fulfilling my mission for Omni sterling for God by being Who I am and actually even amongst the Jews I don't need everybody to be like me right what I need is everyone to hold together as a people right that's different when you have that space for tribalism I think it's very similar to the world today I mean like Here I am in the heart of an institution which is nominally committed to cosmopolitanism and I am a very happy and unashamed particular right like I and and and I actually believe that the healthy way of working the world is by respecting the boundaries and finally a way where where where people's nations tribes can learn to work together as opposed to assuming that the only way to get along is that everybody is like everybody's right homogenous ation is not the only way to do it no well now that but it's proven itself to be one of those brutal vision right the humanities ever proper right it's a suppressive vision yeah and so that instead of and that's the same idea as general nationalism general nationalism the idea was is that ethnic states will have their own separate borders and then they will get along well by developing their own culture protecting their own safety looking the way they look and having their own language on their own history but thereby after having that safety be able to relate to the guy next door and this is precisely my point about the tribalism with enum Israel is that as well coke says is that the divisions of people's is a source in his three of of conflict and and war but it's also the only source we have for real sort of richness of human culture so he says there's an essential refinement that um Israel offers that because we know how to negotiate that tension between the particular in the universal that's right that is the gift of our tribalism and it's innocent it's something which unfortunately you know tribalism has in many people's mouths a bad taste and and yet I don't think everyone would want to live in a world where everybody was the same right and so therefore we have to find a way in which that the difference is a source of of energy and growth and richness and and not just an excuse for conflict and which are saying right now so important today where in the world there has come into the world this more divisive type of attitude between left and right where you can't converse anymore and speaking of of tribes I am heading out to another Jewish tribe I'm heading out to Australia the far flung tribe of Australia that's right Australians I'm heading out to see them I'm very excited I'll be leaving on Monday I'll be for 10 hours in Hong Kong and then afterwards I go to Perth and from Perth to - to Melbourne from Melbourne or for Shabbat and then Sydney O'Meara shall I event and then and a few gigs in Sydney and then head home but I'm very excited to connect and I was doing an interview today with the Australian Jewish news and I am coming under the rubric of discussing alternatives to the two-state solution and the settlers and all that but and I know that in Australia a lot of people tends british type liberal okay mmm which is which is which is okay I know all about that but I know that some other folks that have come from the right wing the nationalist conservative position have been have been had have have had some rough moments in Australia and my thing was so saying I'm coming to talk I'm coming to converse I'm coming to hold hands across the Pacific I'm holding I'm here to share with you our life and to also hear about your life you know and to hold hands and to be and to stay connected I want to share with you a position in a perspective so that you know it so that you hear what what people are talking about I'm not here to preach it you're teaching you I'm here to to - - it's a it's like a log it's dialogue and love in a relationship a closer relationship where we understand each other and that was really my message and I hope that that kind of messaging also breaks through and we can really have conversations about the future vision on the future of the Jewish people and here's a tribe you know of Jews whose whose you said far-flung but it's not a joke they are they are they are out there was a joke right they're really out in a different land in a different place it's not jus York it's it's the sky in the scars the stars are different the stars are different an astounding experience right so you've been to Australia I have good land there eh I spent a good six months travelling there after I graduated college right and here the the the wonderful famous chef here David Berman David Berman at reality well god bless him he was like.he shy just make sure to eat the lamb chops and I and I indeed indeed shall make sure it's either a tool and shop so anyway let's move from the Torah portion in one second to the haftorah they have Haftarah haft the the meaning of the prophet is associated with the week be Tori that's right the the weekly for-profit section it happens to be one of my absolute favorites but before we go to it I just want to do a few plugs then and then keep going ahead first thing I want to thank the good folks at toilets Tek hele T for helping us be true Blue Jays true blue Jews absolutely and and there's nothing like I just love getting a conversation with people wearing this Caitlyn I'm like dude that is some nice yeah people are excited about it and and I want you to take the opportunity to - to become a true blue Jew and that's your your step your connectivity to a story of redemption to the story of the Land of Israel it's really worth 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like there's something else that I want to talk about today something that there's somebody special that I wanted to talk about maybe it's someone I did want to shout out to Jake my buddy Jake out there in Phoenix who I spoke with today and is always helping me with the political stuff in America god bless him I want to say hi to Andy as well who spent time with me in Washington and I want to do a shout out to grandpa Walter who was wrote back to us and it loves to hear the show and loves to listen to the show all the way in in western Florida but I feel like there's somebody else something else that I want to say hi to somebody else and there's something else that I want to mention and it'll come back to me so we had the lego we had the heparin we had the jangle oh we had the station we had the toilet we had Australia overwhelmed I'm over it that's very overwhelming okay speaking of being overwhelmed your Jeremiah Wright Oh your chair Maya and your well you know Jeremiah wasn't easy life economy he's dodged and stuff like that the whole sort of watching the temple burn thing right so he's he's in some kind of he was a prophet he was a prophet and and he gets to to to have he's Jeremiah you know he's got songs about him yeah don't go there don't go there and and there's Jeremiah and gods like and you could feel that the city's about to go down oh yeah Jerusalem is about to go down Jerusalem's about now I have lived through and we've just before the show we talked about the destruction of Gush Katif communities the communities of Gaza seeing a Jewish community be destroyed us actually with a bulldozer right I am thankful that I now through this horrific thing that I saw I'm able to understand what it means to see that Jewish community destroyed let alone let alone Jerusalem and the temple to see it burned by the Chaldeans that's a bummer okay so so here comes Jeremiah and he's about to witness this God says to him in chapter 32 the Book of Jeremiah hey you know that your cousin is coming over right now what's the name Cana Mel right yeah he says he says he says I want you to buy the your cousin Cana Mel is coming and he wants you to buy a piece of property that is in the benjamine region in the town of Toad just to be clear he wants him to redeem it meaning it belongs to Cana Mel and somebody he became poor so he had to sell to someone else and Jeremiah is next in line to redeem it right and apparently he's got the cash he's got the cash please buy my land and on a tote in the territory of Benjamin for the right of succession is yours and you have the duty of redemption buy it then I knew that it was indeed the word of the Lord so I bought them yeah good well the ultimate bad investment right because because Jeremiah knows that in within the space of a year that the whole country's gonna be overrun by the Babylonians and what by your field from this guy like who's gonna that's just throwing money away I'm never going to be able to realize my investment right as we say it's just and it's it's so fruitless and so there's not only its future right there's no future right but God told him to do it so I bought the land in on a tote from my cousin Hannah Mel I weighed out the money to him 17 shekels of silver that's a lot of money oh yeah I wrote a deed sealed it had it witnessed and I weighed out the silver on a balance all right documents sealed witnessed paid for I took the deed of purchase the seal text and opened one according to the rule and the law and gave the deed to bar off the son of Neriah son of Moxie in the presence of my kinsmen animal as witnesses they were named in the deed and there's a lot of info here yeah excuse me right in their presence I charged Barack's is following thus said the Lord of hosts the God of Israel take these documents this deed of purchase oh I forgot to say this is a cross from your house yes not far away it's it's yeah we can think it's it you could see the army base of on a total sure absolutely in the modern Jewish village that's right it's there we'll get back to that take these documents this deed of purchase the seal text and and the open one put them in an earthen jar so that they may last a long time for thus said the Lord of Hosts God of Israel houses fields and vineyards shall again be purchased in this land okay we got it right basically this is a sign for you that in you will see destruction but you'll it will be back his story is not over right but interestingly enough I would say that's the end of that that's he said it God said it you know right but this is not what what happens after I've given the detail barkless out of an area I pray to the Lord because what we're missing here is how bad it really is yeah and he says ah I'm translating from it's literally in a biblical in Hebrew AHA it's a boy it's the original boy yeah it's what we'd like to call a cracked acress or in English an onomatopoeia which is boy Oy gevalt and he says the original crafts here it is aha Lord God you made heaven and the earth with your great mighty an outstretched arm nothing is two Wanderers for you you show kindness to the thousandth generation but visit guilt of the father's upon the children after them in parentheses those are the people who don't repent oh great and mighty God whose name is Lord of Hosts wonderous and purpose and mighty indeed whose eyes observe all the ways of men so as to repay every man according to his ways and with the proper fruit of his deeds you displayed signs and marvels in the land of Egypt with lasting effect and won renown in Israel and amongst mankind to this very day you've read your people Israel from the land of Egypt with signs and marvels with a strong hand and an outstretched arm with and with great error you gave this land that you had sworn to their forefathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey and they came and took possession of it but they did not listen to you or follow your teaching they did they did nothing of what you commanded them to do therefore you have caused all this misfortune to fall to befall them here are the what is this word siga Mons what does that mean I'm not working with English at 2014's so they look oh I guess the battery the batteries of their enemies there's a funny English word here here the cinema met see it's two words that compounded siege mounds okay I didn't know these round sees mounds I didn't know is one word here are the siege mounds raised against the city to storm it and the city because of the stored in famine and pestilence is at the mercy of the Chaldeans who are attacking it that's important like suddenly the camera pulls back and you realized that this whole real estate deal happened in a city under siege where no one can even go out to this field that you've just purchased much less think about ever planting it again you hear the pathos here oh yeah you know here here's that here's the cg mounds and and people are dying from from famine and pestilence what you threaten has come to past as you as you see yet you Lord said to me buy the land for the money and call it in the witness when the city is at the mercy of the Chaldeans and then it says then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh is anything to wonderous for me and it keeps going but the the the way the rabbis have us they stop us here like that's it like is anything two Wanderers for me is anything two Wanderers can I can I can you can you believe that the Jewish people will be exiled and the temple will be destroyed this is by the way about the first temple yes alright so we're still yet before the second temple which is not so far after this first temple row because the Exile that that Jeremiah is launching out into lasted for seventy years right the one that we are returning from last 2000 right name but it's sown according to me that this is how it ends it's a God doesn't try to explain God just says listen you've got to step outside yourself right I understand you're a my your your rational calculus he's perfectly accurate that it is a foolish thing to take your money and buy a field when you can't even leave the city to go see it much less is there any hope that you'll ever be able to plant it and and reap its crops but I don't look at the world that way and watch you because you're a prophet just to step into the divine perspective right now because I'm telling you now there will be life here again and and and how that's going to happen well is anything - wonders for me and that word padlet right is is the place according to our mystics where we're paradox resides where the two things that can't possibly coexist in the human mind that's where they meet right and in it's so important that the hope which this raft or is meant to instill that there will once again be a land filled with the people Israel which is reflective of the values that the Torah is meaning catering to us in this parsha it will be again if you can't imagine how that will be that's fine you just know this is God just know there's nothing to wonders for me for us right now as we're talking about this it's like easy to buy into it because we see it but let's easy to forget actually because we see it right that's what's hard yes easy to buy into because you and I read this text in right we know it's speaking to us and that it's happened then it's happened that's real unfortunately and I see this as a teacher here almost every day it's also easy to forget mmm so cool okay even modern State of Israel and I can tell you the history of it and why it happened so see economically and politically and all these things wait stop just roll back tape 150 years right this was not obvious no in any way no it was not obvious like I'm right now in the middle of the story of Herzl in my podcast they they thought he was a madman right they laugh did it right right they say you're insane Tom said only a madman would think that that you know that millions of jews will come to the land of israel you know Herzl wrote after the first Basel conference right when he first launched this idea of the said a few days after zero this journal he's like I announced the birth the Jewish state was born today he says that and everyone will laugh if I say it out loud and Mossad and but in five years or in 50 years everyone will know it's true in 50 years afterwards the modern State of Israel was born that's right and this is the power that Jeremiah is trying to communicate to us here right and I think maybe another way of saying what you just said is remember the first onomatopoeia which is aha like oh wait the other one is wow yeah you got to be wowed by you but you got to be wowed by it you got to be bit and I actually sometimes find the telling people hello this is a moment to be wowed by it yes people like okay okay I've permission to be Wow yeah let yourself go into permission to remember those books by a rabbi a person to believe permission to really remember that yeah permission to be wowed I I'm telling you it's so important I'm through with my students all the time yes I hear your complaints yes I hear your criticisms yes I hear your skepticism fine well we'll get to that but give yourself a minute walk the streets and be wowed right and that's why that's why your podcast and in general history podcasts people like yourself but also rap my barrel wine and others they give you perspective they give you a perspective again here the Russian Jewish perspective and Russia in general is more historically minded for example the Holocaust the world war two is much more alive and meaningful for Russians and Russian Jews than than in America for 20 million of your citizens died in a war you might forget so quickly right on your own soil that's right that's right that's right but remembering is very important and it gives you that it gives you that wow moment and if you can feel Jeremiah's break and and that's why I wanted to do that extra part because it could have totally ended with you know like develop okay I did it God told me to write or or like it could have been a little bit more a little more kind of more schwartz a little bit more terse it's like buy this land what for because land because Jews will be back and then he launches into like really yeah I'm seeing I'm seeing it all go down I'm seeing it all go down cuz I'm gonna do it right you he calls all the history of God and the Jewish people and he promises and he also promises not only will Brad God bring us back to this land basically other words there you will also do chuhwa you'll also returned to godliness you will also return to serve God we learned that of course a proper to prophet Ezekiel you know a little bit more you know robustly when it says like you will return to you will return to serve me properly and this is the heart and soul of partial bahar because the idea of of a personal repentance as it were religious observance pales in comparison to a national return to the construction of the society which in its every aspect expresses the justice and the will of God in the world that's the vision right by the way I through this conversation I recall that last thing that I wanted to say thank God it came back to me because it has something through it and it is only befitting to finish off this this section with this last announcement and that is that I have been giving away these giant flags and in the last two weeks I've basically given away four Flags four flags but there are still some left giant flags from either heparin the Mount of Olives or the or the top of the Mount of Olives or the City of David basically three places from from Jerusalem City of David top of the Mount of Olives or the Mount of Olives Jewish community mullahs a team or from Hebron from the the flag atop of the tell Ramada these are all huge flags some of them very very huge other ones are just quite big okay and and I asked for five hundred dollars per flag and the flags that a lot of that money was going to go towards putting up new flags in in these places some of it will go to support the our efforts to continue to broadcast but whatever it is you will get a flag which is a WoW thing it will be a soiled flag and I would use the word soiled in its more literal sense that it has soil in the Land of Israel on it okay no not not in that way rabbi Mike yeah more like it is actually has the soil of the Land of Israel on it has the rips of the wind of Jerusalem or Hebron I give it to you to get it sewn up and fixed up but I sent you the raw from the land of Israel and you will have a flag that flew over a rebuilt Jerusalem you will be wowed by it and you can show other people and show them what it is to be wowed by it okay Wow by the by this reality and it's easy to just go to each I fly sure calm you know there's that there's the donate or support page I forgot what it's called and then boom put put that in and and we will send you the flag Malka is on we have boxes in the house now they're beautiful I saw market today with a big box and we have to go to the porch in order to fold these things cuz they're so big alright and we go to the to the balcony to fold it and we folded we sent it out so it's going out to Bobby it's going out to Adam it's going out to my friend to our friend Arthur okay alone he got himself a flag and so it's it's win-win for everybody so please support this flag project and when you send me you know and you get a flag I basically get more flags I'm gonna keep thank God the wind keeps blowing and the flags keep flapping and and we're gonna get more flags but I think this is a great opportunity for everybody and it's a great way to end the show I also want to say two more things which is I don't think we celebrated enough on a tote for example this should be shabbat on a tote the Shabbos and not everybody goes to on a tote this should be on Friday we should all go visit on a tote about this is a fantastic spring right below unbelievable yeah body kilt is like it's the most what's the call they're aimed far right below on my throat is actually um no my brain is it'll come back to in a second most core just want my fear place in the Land of Israel this you don't know what voddy kilt is a famous rock ain't Pratt it's not not describable you're not described in fact now you've made me think that maybe I'll take the kids to aint pride to celebrate this this beautiful this beautiful purchase of the land of Israel versatile and the last thing I want to say is that I believe I want to believe I do believe that this earthenware jar of Jeremiah's purchase we'll be found and when it will be found that will be one of the greatest signals that God has says they got fulfill the promise II prophecy he write he said he said to us put this see that I sold it to German you're gonna see Jeremiah signature you're gonna see Jeremiah signature and I'll be today with a mutual friend I'll be seeing her own today at the City of David and that's probably where where that all took place Rose bar close by and and the people from Jeremiah's time there's their seals have seals of their of these a number of them right of these of these importance officers in the kingdom behind the me I know there's a lot right unbelievable they're actual seals have been found and we will find one day this earthenware jar of the purchase of Jeremiah and I think that'll be the greatest signal to us that we are indeed back home by the will of God rabbi Mike Feuer I want to thank you so much for spending so much excellent time with me I haven't seen you in a while so I have to catch up double down that's right and I want to wish you lots of health okay and I shan't see you next week most likely I'm gonna be somewhere in Australia right R or Hong Kong I won't see you next week but I want to wish you a great next week and I also want to say that we won't be together for yo Michelle I'm it's right here being Sydney I will be in a little bit of Melbourne and then in Sydney I'll be doing two events to Jerusalem Day events what a so I told my wife years ago I said to her you should know something either young Irish a lime or yo matzo mode the other way around either yo Matsumoto michl I'm I'm probably not gonna be in country I'm gonna help Jews around the world and lovers of Israel's celebrate these important holidays so one of them I'm out one of them I'm in though someday I'll join you again like we have our time in LA that's right that's exactly times those good times okay folks write us an email rabbi Mike fiers ruff Mike at the Land of Israel calm he shy is he shy at the Land of Israel come check out my Mike force others show which is in you know absolutely in in a key period right now and you really the stuff I listen to this shows too many of the shows in our network and you should as well most important is that when you hear something you should internalize it make it part of yourself we are living in great great amazing times be wowed we did a hot now it's time to be wowed it's time to be wowed and you are part of really the WoW Network the world we are all the people that are part of the network are wowed by it all and I'm trying to broadcast that Wow so god bless you thank you so much for being with us thank you God for letting us be wowed Thank You rabbi Mike shabbat shalom clock so mad god bless you stay strong stay strong stay tuned stay connected stay part of the story wherever you are Schiller Israel was founded despite the Holocaust not because of the Holocaust this week on inside Israel today with Gil Hoffman an interview with Naftali Bennett head of my Yahoo tea party and Minister of Education that's not about the safe haven it's about coming home tune in to hear one of the most powerful people in the Israeli Knesset that's inside Israel today with Gil Hoffman on the land of his