Yishai Show: The Real Bible Belt

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] shall love everybody and welcome to the east Shai Fleischer Show broadcasting live from the land of Israel in the Land of Israel Network Shalom and welcome I am today in my offices here in the offices of the Jewish community of Chevron and I'll explain to in a second why we're here two weeks in a row very important week to be honest everyone showing and welcome to the Land of Israel Network and thank you for all the great emails that I've gotten this week I've got more emails this week about Christmas and about the issue that we talked about last week's show then in in many a weeks it hit hit a it hit a nerve and what's funny is that there were a lot of emails of Christians who said to me yeesh I this might surprise you but we stand with you that's right no Christmas in Israel that's right absolutely we're gonna be talking about that but before we go on to any other issues we have to hit this incredible Torah portion and this week rabbi Mike foyer and so many of my good friends are actually in the UK Eve Harrow she's in the UK Mike foyers and you in the UK are you kings in the UK Ashleigh Perry and even a good friend of mine named yakky Mohammed who is a great pro-israel Arab they're all at lean wood UK but rabbi Mike is not with me and I needed a partner this week although I got a lot of messages from you guys saying hashtags that each I alone is not bad at all so I really appreciate that that's really great but this week is a very special Torah portion and here in if everyone we like to think of it as hi a surah to write you guys all remember about two months ago we had the Torah portion of Kyocera in which the beginnings of that Torah portion was the famous purchase of the field in the cave here in Hebron which was going to become first the burial of Sarah and then subsequently the burial of the whole biblical family other than Rachel and you remember that that week weekend that Shabbat 35,000 people came here to Chevron and we hosted them and here in the next nextdoor City our sister city of Cara Darva so you recall that and this week is the number to the the completion of that story and that is because our father our father Abraham purchased Martha my fella but now it's the turn of our Father Jacob Yaakov and he is going to be dying in Egypt and as he's dying in Egypt he's gonna be calling on to his beloved son Yosef in order to make him take an oath to bring him back to be buried here in Chevron in mathematica line now we're going to be talking about this whole issue and the the biblical text itself the text of the Torah with norm are known none other than the world expert on Martha Mikayla and the legendary spokesman here of the Jewish community of Navarone num pick up your mic thank you so much for joining us Shalom Shalom and welcome everybody welcome you share I am so happy to be thank you thank you so much and thank you for letting me into your office which is a lot of fun it's it's a real professor like office here and I find that this torah portion of a yeti that talks about jacob his request and then subsequently his burial in quran to be very very as we say in hebrew Minegishi very emotional very moving and that is because here's a man who's dying abraham was dying here his wife died here and care darpa okay so you could say she died here he wanted to bury her you didn't want to carry her around this is where she lived this is where she died okay but here we have a situation where the Yaakov is dying he's laying there dying in Egypt and he makes this request please don't bury me here in Egypt a lot of times when I give speeches I say to people that what he said is don't bury me in Hackensack don't bury me in Los Angeles bury me in the Land of Israel also this has personal value to me because my father'll of of Shalom died in America and we flew him over and buried him in the Land of Israel so I really understand that on a kind of a personal level what it means to take a body from hutsul arts from outside of the Land of Israel and bury him here and that's why I think this Torah portion is so moving that that he could have been buried there and in fact Joseph we're gonna learn at the end is buried in Egypt he asks to be taken out of the land of Egypt but but but you know he decided to stay kind of with the people here Jacobs requesters don't keep me down here I wanna I want you to take me physically tell me a little bit about that what he why do you think that was so important for Yaakov to not be buried in Egypt to be buried here well so many many great things to say first of all they think about that two portions of the Torah hi Sarah and vfe who deal with me at a Machpelah place of a so-called dead dead people both the names include crane hey Sarah and why Fe the two persons that deal with with tombs graves and Barry include the name of him is what you said that the fathers and the mothers are waiting for you to visit them it's according to the Kabbalah to the Zohar which says they they are not dead they are alive in different level of life but they are alive and this is what the Torah the hint is the names of the prussians fire Sarah and vfe both names included in them that's right hi right everybody knows the words I remember you you see those necklaces crying you know I think that the button in my heart are more mobile life than many other people that's suppose so called supposedly alive but their lives has no meaning in the existence of their vote and in my heart is so much meaning for mankind so their life is continuing even today and certainly through their children who are very much alive and very miss Roth aye that's right and also back we're alive and we're back and this is what your safe-side I knew yourself how or David hi how old are we high Aviv high our father is alive right I am Joseph is my father yet alive so let's let's dig in actually to the actual text I want the text with you here today well so we're gonna we're gonna I'm gonna read the text and we're gonna translate it if you don't like my translation jump in and the the Torah portion starts as you said via C Yaakov Jacob lived by edits meets time in the land of Egypt shrines Shana he lived there 17 years and I rabbi Stella see those were good years for him finally he got a little menorah a little Madoka in in regular life via mayor Cove Schneck I have Sheva Shannon Val ba-ba-boom ba-ba-boom a Tiana right so the life of it was the days of Jacob were seven years and 40 years and 100 years 147 years old reminds us a little bit about how Sarah is an impartial case Sarah how old she was 7 and 20 and 100 years old 127 years old there's a parallel azimuth there right it's parallel because ima Saleh moot it was time for Israel to die and look how the Torah switches between Jacob the man who lived a certain amount of years but now his more national standing the father of the Jewish people of Israel it's his time to pass away vacant ah by the way it never says that he actually dies famously I rabbi say Jacob never died it says his days were coming that he that Israel was about to die but it never says he actually dies if I could I leave no leo Elias if he calls his son Joseph vo Malone he says to him I'm not mad sot 'i can be NECA if I had found if I have found favor in your eyes seem not yet Rocketeer three put your hand if I friend if I have found favor in your eyes now do me a favor put your hand under my thigh and this is as we've learned with Abraham and his servant is a form of taking an oath right now there's something for the way sons a swerve it's a right to know I swear but some people have explained that he doesn't put his hand under the thigh but actually holds on to his to his brief me lies that should you believe in that or or what I heard that from it just there are explains I want to get all those explanations I think those somehow too far right you think it's it is what it says he put it under the fire you're sitting down means when you put your arm here when you put your arm under the rag I mean you put yourself somehow under the authority of the one who you swear to right and this is how you obligated to to fulfill his will right I can I can imagine that you're sitting down and you put your hand under the thigh he means I am under you you tell me what to do I'll do it right and but there's only one other place in the whole Torah that this was discussed and that is right after Martha Mikayla was purchased that's when Abraham is gonna make his servant to find a woman a wife for each stock again two portions with two two typical items in the Torah so see me I'll cut actively put your hand under my thigh or take an oath vicita a midi dress admit and do for me kindness and truth now we know that the world has a dream it immediately gives us a signal that this is about death there's such a limit which means what it's mean the the last thing you can do for somebody who cannot give you something back this is a fluke has said that you do when you go when you loot Olivia it's something that really you make a desert or the man now we can't give you anything back right so eight so so so we have the concept rested shall I met like the true is kind of kindness that you could do for the dead in any case he signals to him I'm talking about something that I need you to swear to me because I'm about to die I'll not take a bit of anybody's time do not please bury me in Egypt that in itself is a phrase right forget about what else I want I want you to don't bury me here yes now let's understand why we know that in Egypt there are a lot of marvelous graves pyramids the Egyptians knew how to bury people with the bed most honorable way Yaakov doesn't want it because he knows once he's buried in Egypt it says that the homeland of the Jewish people had moved to Egypt and he want to symbolize that Egypt is not our land it's not our place we have a land we have an homeland and this is my place so please take me back home this is what he said in the last wheel take me home you see you see I just want to pause you for a second to me there's something more Marrakech more moving even about this poor Torah portion because Sarah we don't hear her saying very mean martha mccallum but here Jakob saying like don't bury me in Egypt maybe this is coming from my experiences as an immigrant to returning immigrant to this land which is like Yaakov is saying like like yeah you know I'm from Israel and I moved to America for a while but please don't bury me here night and I know that we might when my father passed away it was obvious to us don't bury him in New York bury him in the Land of Israel because this is not my place this is not my homeland and we have a homeland I want to be back with my father's and exactly that the shabti in a vote i I will lay me say don't bury me in Egypt instead the Shekhar theme of attire I will lay with my forefathers unas irani and you shall carry me me meets rhyme I'm telling you now exactly what I mean by that what I mean is technically carry my dead body from Egypt hookah vitani Bakula Tom bury me in their burial place Joseph answers back without it saying the word Joseph says by yomara and he answered him I know he said I shall do what you said so this is what Yakov said to yourself but Yakov didn't want to say it only to him although Joseph was they had the power to do it but Yakov wanted all the sons to participate in this deed this is why after say to yourself and it could relay on the promise of feel safe alone rely to rely on promise but he did not if he thought it's not enough he should deliver this will to all the sons and what this is what he's doing in the next chapter right in in 49 okay we're gonna get to that in a second but but the man who's in charge who has the power to send him out and by the way it turns out that in that Egyptian period immigration emigration and immigration were tightly controlled by the government and therefore exiting to bury somebody somebody else is not an easy thing and Joseph had the power to request that a pharaoh but he and he says to Jacob sure I'll do what you said however Jacob was not satisfied and now we remember how Jacob made a sub Esau taken oath and and Satan when he sold the birthright he's a swear to me he doubled seals a double locks it and he says to Joseph vo miss chef oddly he says you gotta swear to me it's not enough that you said okay I'll do it dad well not enough and he says let me just finish V Chuvalo and Dean he takes an oath to him face Taco Sol on a horse shemitah in Israel bowed down at the head of the bed I mean if you say he was in bed he lay down and yet he boughs down to Joseph after he takes that oath promising taking a solemn oath to bury Jacob in the lands of Israel why so much weight why so much why this double walk why this double steal a lot of the commentators ask why does he need to make him take an oath about them I think that the Yaakov had so many times in his life that he was somehow cheated and by Levon whatever he wanted to be sure he wanted to close his eyes very very sure and you now relax that this oath is going to be fulfilled and he wanted to make sure that he gets the best way to ensure and to implement his deed some people also say that Pharaoh may have said to Joseph could have said to Joseph no I don't agree and then he would have to say to him look my father made me swear to him this is like I can't I can't not do this yes so he needed that extra weight but in any case one thing is for sure Egypt is a tremendous gravitational pull there's a tremendous weight of Egypt culturally in the center of Jewish life and maybe somebody could have kind of worked around it you know he said move in but maybe it means you know maybe let's call the cemetery they have brown cemetery or something like you know say no no no I you got to take an oath to me that you're taking me out of here and we have to remember in the Egyptian culture there is a very very wide field of burial and the journey of the soul to the other world you know that the soul in Egyptian culture is going small very very you know many many chapters of going down into the underground the hell and and Yaakov wanted to make sure that he is not in this way is not in the journey he has his own way you know no I'm it's very interesting year you're one of the world's leading experts on Martha McCullough the tomb of the patriarchs and the building the Herodian building on top of that which you're kind of saying here and I never thought of this before there's a there's a comparison here between the Egyptian pyramids and Murata Michaela there's like two different burial systems two different spiritual systems and you're saying like I'm not part of your you know it turn eternal life through mummification and through all these things and we do see by the way that he does get mummified Egypt wanted to take him in that pathway right well physically this is the only way to implement his will but spiritually I would say spiritually the Egyptian death is downward and the Jewish death is upward fabulous that is a fabulous distinction I thank you for that and from there basically what's going to happen is that was chapter 47 from Chapter 47 there's going to be two more things that happen and that is the blessing of the two boys a Fryman men acheté right and that whole issue which I'm not going to touch right now and then also there's going to be the blessings that he's going to give the various tribes and their different kind of designations and names and the special blessings that that Jacob gives to his children very reminiscent certainly of the end of the five books of Moses the blessings that Moses gives is a lot of literature written on the comparison between the two sets of blessings but in chapter 49 in chapter 49 towards towards the end of it one second I just want to make sure I'm not making any mistakes here a chapter xlix there it is it says like it's right in the in verse 30 he says like this after he's giving them blessings he says big Tsavo Tom and he commanded his children saying viola's sang vo Mattala him Bates aye vote on for your mother let me commanded them and he said to them I knee meet me Jacob Annina Asaf ela me I am now being gathered onto my nation kevo t ell a vote I bury me to my forefathers el hamra Allah shall be Stefan opt to the cave which is in the field of Ephron the Hittite well we haven't heard that name in a long time right okay Sarah of course right we learned the name so why does he identify please known please tell me why does he identify the the Martha Michaela which was purchased fair and square and the Torah taught us this why does he refer to it as the field of Ephron the Hittite why is that still a designation that's important for him to mention at this point well many many years has passed from the time that Abraham had purchased the cave in the field now all the his descendents are not here they are not in the land of Canaan maybe the Canaanites of the he ties whatever would claim well what do you what do you want here under when they see the Israelites come with the body of a akov who may be some clan ID so someone would say well what you're looking for it's like someone's of say today to the Jews return to the Land of Israel who are you and what are you doing here now if you forget the whole operation of the purchase of the place you don't know what to answer this is what Jakob said to his sons I know the worst somebody named Ephraim many many years away I'm sure that Abraham had told it to you by the way do you know that Abram was present there in the bar mitzvah of Jakob did you know that so we did because Abram was there until the age of nineteen seventy 175 and he was there a Akabusi was born when it's Huck was so Abram was there in the bar mitzvah vehicle so Abram could deliver that I could give away the whole history and the information and the message of buying of purchasing the Jakob when he said it to his sounds he had heard the heat from the old region Amen person a person who did it this is why I said I know there was somebody named there from many many is away right and he sold it to my grandfather and this is yours yo no and I should know the history right know the history exactly that's exactly know the history good by the way there is a word for that in English an interesting word about art and where the art comes from it's called provenance it's a word that I learned just a few years ago provenance a piece of art has its provenance its history how it came to be so you saying to him he's saying to them it might not be the stay front anymore but understand the history this is how it came to be yeah and he keeps going now remember he's on his deathbed and he says bomb man aha this is now first 30 bomb era at the cave a ship is day after which is in the field of Machpelah a share Alpen a memory which is on the face of memory there's gonna be each side by the way open a eastward eastern memory we know we know where mama is supposedly today it's called in Arabic ninja very close names and the mela the cave is eastward alt name I'm going okay East from I'm right good we're better let's come on in the land of Canaan a share Conover ham which Abraham purchased Ed's death asada the field met authority from Ephron the Hittite Lajos at Keffer for a bear plot here's the way here's the place here's the here's the the man here's the history the provenance provenance this is this is the whole I'm telling you the whole the whole story and he keeps going and here we're gonna get a piece of information that we didn't know before Schama have Lou at Avraham the etc there were buried Abraham and Sarah visage toe and Sarah his wife Shama Kovu at de Tocqueville efika there were buried it stuck and rifki a stone we didn't know where rifki was buried the Torah did not tell us this earlier I don't think it told us actually where he's was buried either so just like was Bear but it says now it tells us for sure that is where it's buried where bed there Shama Havarti at lea also a piece of information that we didn't know before there is where I buried layer I find out to this phrase this sentence to be truly very Marrakesh very moving he says listen this is where Abraham and Sarah buried this is where it's like an Rifkin buried this is where I buried live and that's where I want to be buried and he didn't say this is my where my grandpa and grandma are buried and it doesn't say this the place of my father and mother he's called them the my name's why is that why because through history he wanted the sons the children and the children of Israel forever remember the names of the people who are buried there so people should remember it's not grandpa and grandma for history these are the names of our forefathers and mothers and any Jenny says now a third time McKenna has sudeva hemara what's the purchase of the field and the cave a ship in the cave which is in it a memorable me at benefit from the Hittites let's look at three different Hittite mansions here it's the same hitter but inside the name everyone and we say it's not only Efron himself alone because all the people knew about the purchase and confirmed it and make sure that it's our property and he reminds them it's this the field and the cave and the cave was was purchased for a burial place that no one can say I don't want a cemetery in front of my window because you know this is the place of the burial of our forefathers and mothers this is what it was purchased for so no one can claim anything else and it was it was owned for burial yes yes it it's the very place in your cup reminds it to his sons you should know all the facts about that you should be sure you should be you know today when you see so many Israelis they don't know the history and I'm not sure for the place for their place in the in the land and so many others come from all over the world and say you are occupiers you are foreigner I don't know our people here we should know the history we should this is what Jakob said please learn the history and know it and use it by the way before we get well you know let me read one more sentence from this chapter vehicle Yaakov let's say voted bana Yakko finished commanding his sons a sofa glove L Amita he gathered his feet and here we learned before the nassif I mean it starts with a Nina suffer let me I'm gathered to my nation now he gathers his feet onto the bed of a kava he expired doesn't say he died he kind of maybe his body expired via safe Ella mahi was gathered on to his people what does this gathered on to the people business this is a recurring theme in the Bible I have learned that one of the reasons that it says that he's gathered on his peoples because people used to be buried with their family and more than that when you are alive everyone is a different body when you take this pizza I can't take this pizza everybody is let's say is fighting for his own slice of the pizza yes the fine but when somebody passed away he's not a different body anymore he belongs to the people he belongs to the nation he belongs to the klaris well he goes back to his to his a crater to it to his McCall source source of being part of the unity of the nation whole of Israel speaking of the unity of the of the nationhood of the of the Jewish people there's also the unity of the land and before we go to the last segment about Martha Michaela there's going to be two more places that are going to be mentioned specifically as purchased or or begotten in one way or another one of them is the tomb of Joseph in Chen he says to him Vani Netaji look on them Asad Elisha and there's different it means I have given you either an extra portion on top of your brothers or I have given you this special place RAM for you yourself and for the tribe of a friend that's where you're gonna be buried a Sharla kazimir I'm away but he'll be over Christy which I took from the amorite with my sword and my and my bow and my boat so that's one thing as the tomb of Joseph and the other place is the tomb of Rachel he's gonna give him in this monologue when he talks to Joseph he's gonna say and I buried Rachel on the way in Bakke left him on the way to France and the way to efrat and then it doesn't the way to frets as at two times just like it says it originally when she when she passed away I mentioned two times that she's buried in Bethlehem so it gives us a kind of map in two important places in the Land of Israel the other places are Shem the tomb of Rachel and these two have a weight you know and there's some sisterhood between the tomb of Joseph and Quran as we learned that Joseph was sent from the depth of Quran from the valley of Quran to ship em right and of course the tomb of Rachel is not so far away from here these are connected sites to our what do you have to say about those two sites Lisa V rattle our ownership first of all it's true that those places were purchased and symbols national symbols national monuments of the Israeli people if the Jewish people from the very beginning of history and let's look at the map and you can see from shrim - you shall I'm to Kibera hell dokubón it's one line on the hills of Judea and Samaria the original location the original original geographical zone of where Jewish history begins is on top of the hills it's not in the very coastal plain of Tel Aviv and Netanya we all love Tel Aviv in Netanya Anatolia in Raanana in Ashdod and for sabah but the original location of the jewish soul the Jewish spirit is a pub on the hills to breathe there the wind the the free air of the of the wind above the hills it's different it makes a different soul of a people as Prime Minister Netanyahu says Jews are from Judea that's right she's a from Judea I like that very much that's very famous Netanyahu quote you know he says the Chinese are from China French people are from France choose or from Judea that's right and one last thing before we go to the very last segment about Martha Michaela one more phrase which has become a very famous song here in the Land of Israel which is which is chapter 48 verse 16 it says when he's blessing and the verse before Jacob it says Viva at Joseph he blessed Joseph biomech and he said ha elohim asher eaten who avital Afeni the god that aren't that my father's walked in front of Avraham reads ha ha Elohim hello Team EOD ahuyama say the God who has shepherded me from when I was from my inception to this very day and here is the song Amala a girl or Tomica lara the angel who has who has redeemed me from all bad things evil Ephrata name will bless the the youths the two your two sons vicar ahem shimmy and he'll call and and they will be called on my name the Shem of my name is Jacob the Shem of a tie and names of our my father's Avraham feet stuck Abraham and Isaac v8 goo love they'll become like fish though multiply like fish the kirov habits on in in within the land he's he's he's putting the name of of the father's and mother and the father's in this case on to the children he's blessing them with the name of the father's the name of the farmers in the name of he means the name Israel right Shmi be Karev I'm me it's named Israel can you see how marvelous it is really really great that when the Jewish people had at last decide to return to the land it's called the Land of Israel and Israel and the established state it's called Medina Israel we took the name of Israel for father Israel and we renewed the name in our new statehood in your new nation we again return to the original name of Israel which means kiss Arita am Elohim women at all this what the Torah said which means you you've already struggled with man and gods with gods and man and you could you were able you were able to so we carry the name of victory Israel is the name of victory I hope from that's a beautiful thought you know I never put those words together but a very beautiful thought nom that Israel means victory I heard from our friend of Jean Cocteau of Shannon Chloe said that the famous Hebrew linguists in fashion wanted us to be a nation of peace he would call us slew meal [Laughter] that what people don't know is that that's a kind of word that's a that's a funny word meaning that kind of slow meal is like a person who's not coordinated right it's a person who like falls and what's the call the klutz yes okay but they didn't Kailash Lumiere okay no I'm we got two more things let us now finish off the story of Marathon which ends basically the story of the book of Genesis the whole book of Genesis the whole thing is wrapped up if you had to wrap it up in a place it's wrapped up in stories it's wrapped up in names of people but if you had to wrap it up in a place ago it gets wrapped up her tomorrow at the Marbella and it says in chapter 50 verse 12 via sulla via super novel or his sons did to him cash it's even as he commanded them how : race sort of Anna van of artha at so keen on his sons carried him to the land of Canaan Vic bill Otto and they buried him Ben Marat stea Machpelah in the cave of the field of Machpelah which is which is paren that eclis what a shell can Avraham which Abraham purchased at the sad day the field was not carved to a neighbor for a burial place metaphor no pity from Ephron the Hittite I'll pay my mount to the east of memory man this this Efron he got a good deal I mean you know he may have he may have saw the mark for that but he got into the Torah a lot right became a star you know in Israel today so many places are called in Arabic names right you can go to kostina you can go to all those ancient Arab names mas Mia bubble word many Arabic names were the other what Emilia know many Arab names are still around because people remember when the Arabs were here they penetrated into our country into our land in the seventh century and many places when they bury the Arabic names and the the Torah does not ignore the fact that they are the field in the cave belonged to Ephraim actually the Torah said and teaches us the fact they really were belonging to heaven but we we purchased it we bought it so again now these verses as Yaakov so said it to his sons in these in this chapter it's the Torah said it to us when we learn the Torah when we read the parsha we should remember okay somebody was here but we have all the rights it's ours we don't forget what happened in the past but this is our land now Jacob's trials and tribulations in this world are seemingly over in terms of his being buried in mathematic he wished but the Midrash and even the Talmud itself adds that it's not the end of the story as the burial procession and by the way the the the Talmud will explain to us how the brothers stood how they carried the coffin just like they carried just like they walked with the tabernacle in the desert they stood in a certain arrangement they carried that the the coffin to Martha Martha and we're just about to have this beautiful burial here we go no I'm here we're about to come to Martha Martha what a moment suddenly who's standing in front there says the Metra it's there it is it's once again yet another face-off with a sub and a sub or Esau is standing in front of Martha and he says fee fie foe fum I'm not gonna let you bury that bum no way is he gonna be buried here this is my place I am the firstborn I have every right to be buried here and then the Jews become very jewy they go into a very classic you know kind of Jewish Talmudic legal discussion they say wait a minute we portray Yakov purchased it from you and he says oh yeah show me the proof they say will you sign the contract he says show me the proof they're like well we don't have it with us it's back in Egypt he's like produce the document and they sent down who is it totally fleet-footed Naphtali you know he's our mercury laughs deal l5 there though he's he's flying down he's gone going real fast with his fleet-footed naseeb to get the document and they're having an international law discussion do you have proof did you make the purchase and then there is one guy there now he's the son of Dunn and his name is husam the who she means census he's mr. census weirdly though he's deaf he's named a census that he has good healthy senses but he's got a bad sense which is a sense of hearing and he says to his brothers what what you know remember this is before all these new implants and these you know today we almost want to thank God we almost have no deaf people but you know I remember when I was a kid still seeing people who are definitely would say who what's going on here and they said to him this guy a sob uncle a sob is blocking the burial of Yaakov and he being a person of good senses now there's there's two different versions here but the Gemara says that he takes out a club and he bops him on the head he pops him on the head and the Gemara says his eyes popped out a son's eyes popped out and in Yaakov who's a body who's a mummified body opens his eyes and smiles says the Gemara and the Gemara mentions the famous verse [Music] cousin I come right right that that a righteous man will be happy because he first saw he saw in his life he saw a retribution he saw and he saw payback and a salve blocks the the to the the burial but then he gets he gets popped on the head another version is that his head gets cut off and get rolled into Martha Magdalene and that's where it's buried once I told that story to Knesset members here when they came to her and I said to them you see sometimes to have good senses is to be deaf all those claims that we're not from here all those claims that were not supposed to be here that we're occupiers sometimes the healthiest way to be is to just not even listen to that stuff not to produce documents not to argue with them but just to kind of be deaf to all those claims in any case indeed the the sons Dewberry Yakov here in this place and seal Maratha map Allah is this place of what pilgrimage prayer eternal connectivity everything you say about Allah is true it's also a place in Hellenistic or Roman architecture God mausoleum you have different kinds of mausoleum and from one aspect this is the sort of Hellenistic of Roman mausoleum because the building was built them 2,000 years ago in the Roman period so they built in the same design and I can architecture of buildings of impressive buildings in the Roman Emperor is from one side but not as a typical Hellenistic Roman was mausoleums this place this building has another floor another space and this place invites the people to come in and pray and come in and get inspiration from their personalities and from the faith of the fathers and the mothers so it's it's from one aspect it's the building is a typical Hellenistic building but but from the other side it's very Jewish building it was built by Jews when Christianity and Islam did not exist in the time that it was built and it is a Jewish building symbolizing the eternal memory of the fathers and a mother an eternal message and faith and I in ideas they taught and this is what people come here to get inspiration to pray and to get some sort of labor to get United with their with the Ducie with the holiness of our fathers and mothers all right and so the the another another interesting distinction you made before we talked about Egypt the pyramids in mathematics but the Roman mausoleums in Marathi Machpelah and let's just finish up this Torah portion by saying that Joseph is going to almost mimic word for word but in commanding his brothers and his children saying take me out of here but not now when you'll be called and the secret password will be given which is pakoda Eve code if you hear that secret password for anybody that means that it's the redemption it is here and at that time I want you to take my bones out from this place and he made them swear he made them swear by the way he says take me out of the bones from this place to the land which was sworn to Abraham Isaac and Jacob viescha vile Cepheid and they said and and then and then and then Joseph made them swear that when with the children of Israel when you hear the words but code you've code when you hear those words God will take you out of here and don't forget my bones don't forget to take my bones out of here all right now I'm our known is the world's expert in marathi moushmi LOM spokesman legendary spokesman of quran we have one last thing you know i'm okay one last thing just the other day here the Minister of Culture and sports Miri Regev came to give getta getta acclamation get get respect in a kind of an award for helping grow the Jewish community of Quran including a new wing of the museum that's going to talk about the founders of Jewish active Rome and you were the emcee of the event and her name is minister of course Miri Regev amazing lady right amazing ladies just just a powerhouse lady in so many ways very feminine very strong knows what she's talking about great stuff but that word heard last name read give what does the word read give me was that word he's a piece of it's like a chunk of soil so the ground right a piece of a piece of Earth a piece of Earth yeah a piece of Earth and and you you've taught us today we've learned that Martha Mikayla was purchased was purchased you started off you were the emcee of that event you started off that event with a song you got on stage and you said I want to start this event with a song and you sang a song that had the word reg given it will you sing that song to us and then we'll explain a little bit go ahead don't be embarrassed here it is come on no no no my face is not like your voice the garlic it is demonic let F be a racist el demonic let dunam povidone sham ray give give cocoon if they admit harm means upon negev dunam povidone champ ray give her a give cotton if they add Matt harm me it's upon an a give fabulous now what is that song mean as a peddler hiya V gamma Chi yet I'll tell you a little girl in little boy s Betsy soil at the manicure how in the Land of Israel earth is redeemed do not provide unum Shem a little bit of Dunamis like what is it like a Hector what how does that translate it so it's a bit it's an amount of land do nonprofit dunams I'm here a parcel of land there a parcel of land and I give a hug I give a trunk of soil after chunk of soil Katherine is dead adamantium meets a phone at negative that is how will we will purchase back the land of the nation from the north to the south and this is one of the songs where did you know the song from wow this song come includes [Music] the box that's Dhaka box my god I'll hack you to pieces of course at hottelet culprit ash nasarah a demonic led culprit ash and ignis a demonic elet it means on the wall there is a box tell it the light blue that I glow every penny goes in redeems the land every penny every cent that you put in helps to redeem to purchase our land when I was a child we had this box on the wall this is the JNF box this is the Karen hi Emmett SATA Karen okay I met in my kindergarten kindergarten we had this on the wall every Friday we should bring a small coin some pota whatever it was then and we put it and we were singing this song now when mrs. Reagan announced ministry give and now she is going to come I remember that song 60 years ago okay I remember the regular have a give a piece of land after a piece of land it's how we're going to redeem our land and I thought it's very very nice to sing a song Meimei mentioning her name in the this a connection of redeeming the land and this is what we do here and this is how Abraham started the story here plant avrami did the first step and we are after almost 4,000 years continue no more known thank you so much for joining me here in the high flyer show each I it was really a great kiff fun fun okay to be here with you to study torah and to feel the Torah and to feel how the Torah is living and you should come people you should come to have Ron to feel how Torah is alive how the memory of the fathers and mothers in life and how he here we get the inspiration their understanding feel the place that we have in our world in Orland alright folks stay tuned we're gonna have a few more minutes here on the high flyer show Norman oh thanks so much for being with us god bless you Shalom Shalom alright folks and stay with me because there is more to come with each I flash a show all right martyrdom did not end something said Indira Gandhi it is only a beginning but for me each episode is a new beginning then I'm telling the story of the past set to build a present identity that's motivated to make the future of which we dream I'm Rob light forever and this is the Jewish story listen to the Jewish story with Roth Mike Feuer on the land of Israel calm [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay folks were back here on the chef license show broadcasting on the Land of Israel network from heparin this week without rabbi mic and for the second part of the show today it's a little bit more of the shy monologuing some people told me that indeed they miss rabbi mic and that they think that the show is not as good with that rabbi mic and you know what I totally understand them I miss him as well but other people encouraged me and said yes indeed you shy it's great to hear your monologuing and you know I like the sound of my own voice so great here we go in any case the rabbi mic is not around and I'm here with you and I have a lot to say to you but the truth is is that I'm not gonna be monologuing per se because I want to read some of your emails I want to read some of your emails before I do I want to thank two more people that I sometimes forget to think I want to make sure I thank them today the first one if is my man Moshe Moshe H he is behind getting the show out there to you in many platforms and I asked him this week to get us on a new platform called stitcher and that's because my man Shmuel goldman out on the Golan Heights was like why aren't you on stitcher and I'm like is that important and I'm and he showed it to me and I'm like duh gotta be in stitcher ask Moshe he got us on stitcher within a few minutes after I asked him whatever he took care of it fast and and it's great it's it's a it's actually a great system to sign up for the Shai Fleischer pot but podcast in the show and soon hopefully the whole Land of Israel Network will be on stitcher a very important and very user-friendly podcast system where SoundCloud is a little bit more for music putting up your music stitcher is really a podcast system and allows you just to sign up for podcasts it's just a great system and it's you know it's like iTunes for more than on iphone for the Android system or whatever so I think that's great and so congratulations check you not a vacuum out of ya know that now we are on stitcher and I'm very proud to be there thank you very much Moshe also thank you very much Tabitha who's in charge of the whole Land of Israel what's the word I'm looking for here promulgation okay what's the word when they say like like a website needs to like promulgate or perpetuate or whatever there's a P word out there I'm sure you'll send it to me and I'll be happy if you do of propagate propagate I got it propagation propagation we should we should be propagating live long and prosper ooh me Oh ethics you should propagate and Tabitha she's behind the whole propagation of the Land of Israel Network and so thank you very much for the good work you do and of course Ben Brasky who does not know that Ben brettski is the best boy of this radio station yeah he's he makes it all happen anyways thank you very much those folks now and now I want to tell you last week's show I talked about the problem with Christmas right I should have called the show the problem with Christmas but we called it Palestine great again and I don't know if it was the title of the show or the Christian the Christmas issue but I got a ton of email about it I wanted to read to you and I also asked some people to I asked people and some people did who would send me a hash tag that that went on by myself that's okay so we got all that let me let me read to you some of your emails okay and everybody else just listening because this great folks from all over the world who are really expressing themselves amazingly first from South Africa says somebody named their their email handles no spam they say I'm one of the perhaps unlikely supporters of this initiative the making Hanukkah great again and pushing down on Christmas here in Israel he says even Christians should keep Hanukkah instead because in my view it is mentioned in the New Testament and Hanukkah is mentioned there and therefore I don't think Christmas was mentioned there and therefore Christians should keep Hanukkah but you my friend no spam from South Africa are not the only Christian who wrote to me about about the issue of Christmas let's see says to me Elaine Elaine writes to me I don't know from where she writes she'll ameesha I've been listening to your show through the Land of Israel Network for several years I was introduced to the loin I still got a kick out of that gird your loins by the good folks at how you fell and I've really loved listening to the podcasts I'm a Christian but I've been reading of the Torah portions for 10 years and I agree with you about Christmas when I first came into Torah and learned of the pagan origins in the idolatry that is involved I strongly wanted to remove it from my life interestingly I had stopped decorating for Christmas and stopped putting up several putting up trees several years before I started a Torah so it made it easy to give that up for many years I wanted nothing to do with Christmas but softened slightly this year as my children are Christians and my granddaughter's are too young to understand why Graeme doesn't do Christmas I haven't really started celebrating Hanukkah although many of my friends do after listening to show I just may start thank you for being such an articulate advocate for Israel I pray you will have great success in making Chanukah great again and removing as much of Christmas as possible from the land of Israel I love listening to you and Rabbi Mike and I love listening to you alone also I love listening to you and Malka blessings from Elaine Elaine thank you so much thank you for your for your courage and your in your dedication to really serving God thank you for your email I really appreciate and I want to send you blessings back not just from the Land of Israel but really from Hebron here from the mothers and the fathers you're a grandmother you've raised children now you're raising grandchildren and I wanted to send you the blessings of Sarah Becca and Leia to continue to raise your grandchildren in the right way and the service of God Thank You Elaine so that was to Christians let's see well let's go to this one this is from Lisa Lisa says just listen to your show and I have to share with you how we celebrate Hanukkah in our small southern mississippi country home as you can imagine Christmas is big down here and quite frankly we're tired of being last placed during such an incredible time of celebration of our history so we had some 6-foot leftover bean sticks from the garden and with a few screws I created a most fabulous Star of David that I wrapped in a brilliant blue in brilliant blue twinkle lights they cannot be ignored in my front yard that was just the beginning of course the electric menorah in the kitchen window in more Stars of David with blue lights our Hanukkah decorating definitely did not take last place this year such a great time of year to take a stand that will continue throughout our lifetime we are light to the nation's shabbat shalom from lisa lisa to think i'm a few things first thing awesome hashtag you're awesome second thing hashtag where's the photo where's the photo you got to send me a photo of that i'll put it right on my facebook page like please oh I need to see that I need I want to see that for myself that's like the stuff that gives me a will to live so please send that over to me I gotta see that and and thirdly I want to say I want to ask you you're down there in Southern Mississippi in a country home and you had that out did you face anti-semitism you know what I think that you're gonna tell me that mostly not and I think that that's an incredible thing about oh I'm looking forward to your answer but still there's something amazing about America about about the American South in this case that you can in Mississippi put out a big you know six foot Star of David and people drive by and are like good for you I mean that's there's something beautiful about that and you know of course I'd love you to come out from your country home now to Mississippi and come join us and in a country home here in the in the Negev desert or something but but it's great that you were able to do such a sanctification of God's name a kedusha Shem with your brilliant blue twinkle lights you know this yeah here in Israel I don't want to have that whole you know Christmas versus Hanukkah thing but but it's cool that that were you are you know you can really you can make you could make Chanukah big down there that's great Lisa god bless you from Israel from Cameroon I keep going because there's more of you even as I tell you this thing like this this last week's show got a lot of email from you guys so let's keep that up I want to hear more from you but first let's go on to a email from Beatriz Beatriz I hope I'm pronouncing that right show me shine my name is Beatriz and I just wanted to start by saying that I really appreciate what you and your friends at the Land of Israel network are doing and that it really does bring me a lot of joy and blessings in my life I pray and hope it'll also bring you as much as seem calm I'm writing to you from Sweden and I just listened to your podcast Palestine great again question mark it was very encouraging and I totally agree with you let's make Chanukah great again in Sweden it's hard to find other Jewish listen listen listen to this everybody pay attention to the next few lines because you'll understand the life of Sweden as opposed to what I just said about about Mississippi she writes Beatrice writes in Sweden it is hard to find other Jewish brothers and sisters especially because most people keep it secret in fear of anti-semitism okay so Elaine is putting up a six-foot Star of David in Sweden says Beatrice that she doesn't have an easy time finding other Jews because they're hiding I can get a bit lonely it can I can get a bit lonely sometimes and I do feel like I'm very far away from home I'm in a literally dark and cold place but by listening to you speak from the land of our fathers and mothers that helps me connect to the land and to my people even without Rabbi Mike 4 I still do think you managed to bring the Torah to life and I just want to say thank you and may Hashem bless you yeah I want to tell you something Beatrice if like if I can keep you company and make you feel like you're Jewish and that you're not alone in this world like I can I could just like I could just go to sleep at night happy okay if I if I if I if I came to you if my voice and the voice of people at the Land of Israel network or anything from Israel in general and and I want to recommend to you that you should you should you should order some products from Israel you know you should have a couple if you're gonna be sitting there alone in the cold in Sweden you should do with a cup of wine in your hand from Judea and Samaria am i right you should say look I'm you should look up the first thing first thing let me add one more thing you're never alone because there's always God and he's always with us he's always with us especially when we reach out when we call to him and so many of us forget to just look up to shimmy up to heaven and just to say God please you know please be with me oh please let me be with you that's number one number two the technology that allows Israel and and and the voice from Israel to be connected to you when you connect to us here that's really incredible and fabulous but I do think that you need a like a bottle of wine from the land of Israel I don't know like you should like you know there's a lot of these websites now where you can get products from Judea and Samaria and I'll find I'll find some good you know if you guys want to recommend to me what are good sites of that and we'll talk about in the next show but definitely you know find something I want you to be if you're gonna be in Sweden and you're gonna feel lonely I want you to say look I am with a haha and I want you to drink the same waters that Elisha the prophet drink from the Jordan River I want you to be to be that connected and really spit in the face of all that darkness and instead you know shine a light of Israel and you need a cup of good Judea and Samaria one with you when you're doing that god bless you Beatrice wherever you are out there and come visit us soon again you will if do you want if you want me to send you so I can't can't send you any warmth here from the Land of Israel but I think the wine the wine will do it god bless you [Music] David from from the hills of a frien writes to me we miss rabbi Mike but he shot you're great and he adds a Hebrew phrase from the Bible me law even if a lion roars who shall not fear stay Cossack brother and he wishes me blessings from the hills of a frame here in the Land of Israel lots of love from my brother David alright awesome man awesome great - thank you for the great email and I do feel strengthened by your email but I keep going because there are more emails from you there are more emails from you here's the best one this one came in to the Jewish press where the show appears and it goes this I have supported Israel but Yishai fleischer and his narrative on fake Christmas is an insult to me as a Christian okay to condemn anti-semitism but not anti Christianity people like you and those that support you are what causes animosity towards the Jewish state thanks for opening my eyes hashtag he shot your bad well all I could say is I'm not gonna even waste too much time on it all I could say is is that other Christians understood my words and did not understand them as anti Christianity and understood what what this good land needs and so you know people I'm gonna go with the other folks who understood it right let's go on hashtag this is from Isaac hashtag a shy monologue best and I mean it yes I do lover of Mike but I need a show with just you with just you you're my number one show fun and inspiring in many ways and I feel loved by you like nobody like nowhere else thanks so much god bless you please pray for me my family to have a salute to make alia soon he's praying he's asking for us to pray for him to have the merit to immigrate to the lands of Israel Isaac in galute Brooklyn New York right well look Brooklyn New York is you know that's a tough good because it's because it's really almost like Israel and some in so many ways and yet of course it's not that's the trickiest part of it when you have something that's like very very much like it that's sometimes the most dangerous because it's very much like it but it's really not it come on everybody let's pray for Isaac I sick Isaac Hashem wants you in the Land of Israel Hashem is giving you every opportunity to make it to the Land of Israel this is your time this is your time you were born in the right time that you can make it to live here in the Land of Israel there is paranoia there's there's welfare here there's there's there's houses there's everything Isaac if you wanted it is no dream and let's do it man let's let's be neighbors come out to the land of Israel and you know destiny fate ever all smiling upon you a Shem is smiling upon you this this era the smiling upon you and bring the good stuff from from Brooklyn New York worst comes to worst I'll have to see you in Brooklyn it'll be like visiting a prisoner but I can't wait to see you Isaac god bless you and I mean it if you want it I know you want it I can feel it you have this foot you have this foot now it's time to to make it real my good buddy dan dan H from from California who I just saw when I was out in LA he writes me hashtag he shy alone not alone and he writes to me a great show great great show you should each I thank you thank you Dan god bless you and thank you so much for helping the Jewish community of Ron I appreciate your help so much Dan as well still still a few more emails let's do let's do three more quickly okay dear each I've been listening to your show for some time and I just want you to I want to let you know how much I enjoy it I forget to share some of your great nuggets with our friends when we retour on each Shabbat about Christmas you're right on even though I would I this is the I like this line so much even though I would be considered by you a Christian we have come to a place by good to our teaching that we put Christmas away actually burning our tree actually burning our tree recognizing it as recognizing it as pagan we hope Israel never does Christmas we now keep the feasts instead in each year learn more and more truth and have more and more commitment to the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob keep up the good work for the gula Leslie from Idaho Leslie thank you so much for that fabulous email and I want to tell you I was I was giving a talk to to to Christians recently and the pastor and it was somebody somebody somewhere somewhere I had to I had to talk about uncle J right and and I you know kind of was I didn't I didn't say the name and the pastor was like his name is Jesus and I said I looked at him and I said brother we have so much we agree on let's agree to agree let's agree to agree this is a standard line I say with Christians all the time let's agree to agree we have so much that we can share the Bible Abraham Isaac and Jacob the exactly what you wrote you know coming closer to service of God through what the Torah says let's share that the stuff that we have some issues with let's not go there so much we get it I get it I know what you believe you know what I believe it's all good but let's talk about the things that we do share let's agree to agree and when I said to him when I sat in front of this pastor in front of his his flock I said them let's agree so everybody's like to disagree I'm like no let's agree to agree we don't have to agree to disagree that's obvious you don't need to agree to disagree let's agree to agree let's let's let's talk about what brings us together and what we have in common and what we love and and and and and the heritage of what you would call the Old Testament I would call the Torah they're so so so much there why don't we just agree to agree on that stuff and then and then you know not not get stuck about stuff that's really not not a problem for us well it's it's it's not something that we we need to haggle over we don't need to argue over it let's respect each other and let's talk about the many things that we need to talk about in order to be in this great time and a great process of what God is doing so Leslie from Idaho thank you so much you know it Leslie I want to say something you say to me even though I would be considered by you a Christian and I know what you mean I want to say to you something you know what I consider you a lover of the Bible a lover of the fathers and mothers a lover of God a lover of truth and a servant of God let's agree to agree okay I appreciate what you're saying and it's good to actually highlight the differences sometimes it's good it's healthy and the people that hide that that's not always healthy I appreciate what you're saying I know exactly what you're saying and yet I really want to tell you I want to bless you to be to continue to be a servant of God god bless you thank you so much Leslie two more emails and we're done this is for my good buddy Steve who made a Lea we just we just had we just had Isaac who pray who asked us to pray that he makes out Leah this is Steve and he says Yishai hi is usually your comments on this week's podcast about Christmas decorations in Israel is cutting edge political and social commentary as an all-american boy who chose to make home in Israel I completely connect to your comments as an insider on both sides of the divide secular Israelis are easily taken in by popular culture and since they dismiss the religious aspect of their own identity they easily embrace the spirits of the day I see this firsthand working in the heart of Tel Aviv every day it's not that they disdain Judaism as we commemorate all holidays in the office but they resist any doctrine approach that would be an intrusion on their perceived Liberty intellectual and behavioral they viscerally resent the ultra-orthodox and the state Rabbinate and frankly this colors their view of religious Judaism as a whole I have always thought that the way to reverse this tide was to tie religious Judaism to the constructs of their Jewish identity I don't know how this can be done but it would involved you know vey innovative education probably using social media the way that Prager University uses it with a series of short engaging creative videos if you are thinking of a task force to promote the true message of Hanukkah perhaps this is an idea for a vehicle to spread the word the idea should be to target the unfaithful that's a hard word to the unobservant when I listen to you I always wish you had a wider audience because your passion for Israel and Judaism is infectious coal ha kavod on another great show that needs wide exposure sincerely your friend and Modine Steve Steve thanks for the great email god bless you haven't seen you in a long time and even though I'm not that far away from you right now in covering we haven't see each other a long time and I want to really bless you for continued success success in happiness and health thank you for your very right email I agree with you on many points and I think also I want to tell you that that's actually what I think about Hanukkah the Konica can be cease can can win back religious feeling through other things that people are familiar with which is nationalism defense an ethnic identity and and here I get I always get some pushback from someone I actually believe it's very important to have an ethnic identity as as a Hebrew Jew in the Land of Israel and to have that pride is that yes we're an ethnic people we have every right to defend themselves and the Maccabees had that also the Hasmoneans they had that also that aspect look one of the things that Israel has not done well is to sell the love of the Bible as as a of course it has to be religious but it can also be sold to people on a more basic more like these are our national stories or national foundational tales our national culture and people have to kind of fall in love with the look and feel of the Bible and that's been that's been a problem you're absolutely right that the ultra-orthodox the hate towards some of the ultra-orthodox has colored people's thinking but that's why I want to bring back through Chanukah I want to bring back you know victory I want to tell you just just really before I started recording the second part of the show there were these young missile boat commanders and in and Navy SEALs Israeli Navy SEALs showeth and also and also submarine captains who were touring several today and they are just so awesome looking so strong and awesome looking really like III have a I have a weakness for the Navy because I grew up in a Navy town - in in the Navy town if you will and and there are there isn't there is a spirit of the right of the Jewish people to fight to defend ourselves if you tie that into Manickam it's a it's a whole Hanukkah thing and you and you tie it in with lights now here's my big this is one of my secret dreams okay everybody you pray I'll pray for your dreams if you pray for mine here's one of my secret dreams my secret dream is that we're going to do you do you remember do you remember when when September 11th happened and then afterwards they took these beams of light and shot them up to the sky exactly where the Twin Towers sir that was I was one of the most amazing things I ever saw it was brilliant forget like it was just so brilliant it was just so awesome it was so meaningful you know like like you can never take us down in and I always remember those lights those big projectors shining into the sky and that's we're gonna do a comic on Jerusalem we're gonna make giant projectors on the mouth of olives that are going to project how many nights of how many Konica candles are are they're gonna be like it's gonna be like turned on and they'll be at the last night it'll be eight cheering projectors with giant beams going up to the heavens it's gonna be amazing and we gotta go big we got to make people fall in love with with our with our story now can we jump from that what look at look at Christmas one of the things about Christmas is that is that it's got the Grinch and it's got this and got peanuts or whatever that's on Halloween but like you get these you know or [Music] what was the Laurel and Hardy thing remember that you've got these cultural iconic things in America and I know that I'm we're having emails here from Sweden from other places but like we got it we got to make Chanukah like get into the bones of the kids and then we'll build on that we'll build on them you know and there's many other things there's many other beautiful things that that Israelis need to what can I tell you it's really how do you get people to fall in love with their own thing you know with their own as rabbi Richmond says Cosa Nostra you know our own you know our affair how do we how to get them to love our affair our culture how do we get them to feel like the Irish feel and you know the you know Irish pride parade you know in st. Patrick's Day like like how do we how do we get them to feel that that they we've got this thing that's so beautiful and yes I agree with you that some things have caused us to move away from that but we gotta we gotta fix that and I saw today as these young non-religious officers in some of the top units in the army we're walking around I could see that they couldn't look they couldn't they could and do want to love have run in the end they're there they're there it's not so far away from them Steve god bless you and Steve light the lights you the rabbi there I know you're not a rabbi you can tell me I know you're the rabbi in that position that's something I want to tell all of you whenever you're in that kind of position where you're in a work environment you're the rabbi you're the rapper I don't care if you're a woman I don't care if you're I don't care who you are and listening to show if you're in a position to teach other people beat the rabbi hashtag be the rabbi you know be the rabbi New York place in your community in your workspace share with people and when people see that you're either a true Jew or our true lover of Israel they'll they'll come and ask you questions I'll be magnetized to you be that person I have been approached a thousand times in my life for just walking around you know remember that story that I told you about the i-24 Oh about that news network that I told you about but I was just standing there and girls are coming and you know they're coming up to me and they're like hey we're nationalists were right-wingers great stuff all right um last email and then and then one more one or two more points this is from Daniel he says to Yishai living in Norway I attended an event in a town called Hammar by the local so-called Palestinian Committee they were blathering in the same old Tosh and I asked him in Norwegian in what way can it be called ethnic cleansing in Gaza when the population has increased when my parents had children we didn't say my family shrank I'm one of the local leaders from the Med Israel for Fred which means with Israel for peace in Norway and we had a V ad who da D and Moroccan Jewish Israeli from Radio Durham visit us in February to tell us what is what life is like living in it how life in Israel is from the show Christmas is a pagan festival because before it became Christianized but then so was Israel what but then so was Israel as it were Canaan perhaps God judged Christmas and claimed it for wait a second I don't know what he's saying here III should have read this more carefully but in any case but in any case he says he says look he says some some say quote so-called Islamic state why not introduced a so-called Palestine please nudged pleases nudge in a so-called Palestine into your next show then if you haven't had time to mention the rest of my email or just disagreed outright just throw that in and I'll let you and I'll let you and I'll know you left the fleece with the dew on it to get in to Gideon the expression Daniel you are you're a good linguist it's a lot of fun to read your emails and I do like so-called Palestine I do like that I want to say something sad though Daniel and that is where I work there is a Palestine that's right ladies and gentlemen hard thing is to say is that where I work all around this town is is a is a Palestine maybe it's not a full state but it is a sovereign and that's a big problem there is a real Palestine and the problem is I could say so-called Palestine and that's maybe linguistically good or what or whatnot but you have to know that I'm actually dealing with swathes of land that Israel gave up one for one reason or another if it was for the cause of peace quote unquote or because we were just weaker and afraid the fact is we don't have parts of Cairo and we're not allowed to go into it and so this so that some parts of the Land of Israel are you Dan Ryan right Gaza is you Dan Ryan it's been ethnically cleansed of Jews parts of heaven are you Dan Ryan parts of Shem Nablus are you Dan Ryan and I have to deal with not only the the media Palestine but the real Palestine on the ground okay let's go through a first thing thank you so much everybody for your emails those are just great emails and have just they made me laugh they made me feel great and I hope that also everybody that heard these emails understands how how incredible people are out there and they might be in Sweden or Norway or Mississippi and they're connecting and that's that's really that's incredible that's really incredible and I want to thank for the opportunity to be able to speak with you I want to make two more points here first thing I want to say the end of the year is coming if you want to hit that donation button one more time or you know that one time before before the December 31 cutoff that's what you know Christmas that reminds you that it's time to give donations right before the the fiscal New Year right so so you know come on everybody season's greetings and pony up so [Laughter] I'm being silly and I'm in a good mood I'm in a good mood because I was in a fight with somebody and I made peace with them I exercise a little bit yesterday and I got to pray today and you know what else I got to do I got to clean I took a broom and I got to clean around there out the mop in LA and I do that sometimes just uh just to make it nicer the tombs of the fathers and mothers last thing I want to tell you something political I don't think that Netanyahu is corrupt and I don't think that we should be trying to take down Prime Minister Netanyahu I think that what we should be doing is praying for him and for President Trump I think we should be praying for them to keep going with their fight against the United Nations and keep going with moving the embassy to Jerusalem and now by the way there are at least 10 other countries that are discussing there was an article in The Times of Israel it's on my Facebook page ten other countries are now discussing moving there they're contemplating moving their embassy to Jerusalem we got to give them strength right now and not tear them down and I say this not only to the left but especially to the right here in Israel that is also now on the bandwagon of trying to tear down Netanyahu and I think that they're wrong wrong wrong even people that are very close to I tell them you're wrong this is a time to leave this pair this pair that works so well together that like each other and that listen to one another trumpet Netanyahu are they perfect are they are the University is it is it Messiah okay you know I mean it's politics and politics is dirty and politics is compromise but right now there's a beautiful window and moment and this is the time to give them strength and not to tear them down I call this Trumper tunity that's what I call it and this is not because I'm a trump supporter or not Trump supporter that's completely irrelevant if you're a serious political person you understand that politics is not about me necessarily exactly agreeing or disliking for all the way or not liking all the way forget it we see now the two major things have been a comp and that is under the recognition of Jerusalem and a fight with the UN which is what needs to happen and therefore I will not support those people who try to take down Prime Minister in town and I'm gonna do it the Torah way which I'm going to pray and I ask everybody on the show even if you think there's problems did I ask you to pray for Prime Minister Netanyahu and for President Trump or for leaders like that around the world and there are others who want to recognize the truth so I stand with my Prime Minister Netanyahu yes I do and I and I want and and it's not because I necessarily think that he's everything everything everything that's completely irrelevant it's like not serious it's not readout politique I'm into realpolitik sometimes okay and in this case I believe that there's a moment and we've got to support it that's my thought on that by the way the the Sunni states are starting to get in the fight with with Abbas and the Palestinian Authority the so-called Palestinian Authority right Daniel and that's because they're starting to see that these guys aren't going to get anywhere and they're just gonna make a mess and amok and right now they're real enemies Iran and Israel's also got understands and one of the things that I would like to see in this window of time for the Prime Minister of Israel in the tannot and for president Trump to realize is that it's enough talking about Iran we've got to do something to defang these guys and in President Obama who is a deep and true anti-semite and I don't care what anybody tells me I know it in my heart he he let the reins loose he took off the muzzle off these Iranian regime terrorists and by the way it's not Iran or the Iranians if I said that that's what I mean I mean it's the regime that regime's got to be toppled their teeth got to be defamed the weapons that the Hezbollah has amassed need to be destroyed and we need to be merciless against them merciless we have to be against this evil evil regime nazi-like regime that's all there is to it so I wanted to say those some political points to you on that again I wanted to thank Moshe for getting us on stitcher so check out stitcher it's a great app and it's also a great website and the Shia Fletcher shows on and I hope the whole Land of Israel Network shows are gonna be on it oh and here's what I want to see because of what this is this is the last part of the show right now because of what we did in the first part of the show with Nam are known and I and we talked about how precious Maratha map Allah the tomb of the fathers and mothers is I'm gonna ask you to write me an email the email all it has to say is hashtag mothers or hashtag fathers or hashtag mothers and fathers or if you want you could be creative and write to me hashtag founding fathers and mothers hashtag mommy and daddy hashtag Mamas and Papas I want you to send me at our hashtag the biblical family you've got to send me an email all you have to do if you don't have time to write to me in a full email hashtag I'm gonna send you a link with pictures of martha maccallum then i want you to print whatever picture you like and then i want to see a picture of you or your family or your living room or i don't know what a picture with you and in the mouth on my pillow it doesn't even have to be you or your house or whatever it is so you send me hashtag something that talks about moms and dads i send you back a link that i've created of my pictures of martha Mikayla that I've taken here in fev1 and then you print that guy out and you send me a picture back with with with you and your life connected to Martha Mikayla that's that's I want you wherever you are to be connected to the tombs of the fathers and mothers that's that's the that's the assignment for this week's show and I want to bless you from here I want to thank you very much for being with me here and it's been a lot a lot of fun and it's a lot a lot of blessings folks don't forget to exercise don't forget to floss don't forget to take deep breaths don't forget to not get too wound up don't forget to take care of all the bureaucracy as early as possible but don't let it flip you out and of course everything that I'm telling you is things that I'm telling myself don't forget to learn Torah and to love it don't forget to love yourself don't forget and this is what I told my little girl the other day I said to her that's a turn Leia she was nervous about some homework assignment I said to her Leia it's not a mitzvah to be nervous it is a mitzvah to be happy and to serve God enjoy it is a mitzvah to have faith in God and it's not a mitzvah to be nervous and all worried like and all like stressed out there's no Mitzvah maybe that's even an even that's not a Mitzvah maybe it's even a sinner nivara but it certainly am it supposed to be joyful and serving God it's a mitzvah remember I remember you say uncle eesh I said it's a mitzvah to serve God in joy so I have to be happy today that's all there is to it god bless you folks wherever you are thank you to the Land of Israel Network Thank You Tyrone thank you to our good friends at telecom where prizes are going to be going out soon for the first three people who wrote to me and I'll hope to make more prizes coming out from toilet that's the blue string true blue Jew good friends at Jay brick has sent out some some presents thumb if you got them I think I already got their area I think I already got one email with a picture of somebody getting the the J brick Lego set the of Mubarak eyes lockable O'Mara that's really cool thank you to the good folks at django django net general net will connect you to the land of israel with all the information you could possibly need to making to make a life here so django at net and all that internet society around that connect to it thank you to heparin fund dot o-r-g which will give you an amazing tour in the land of israel and thank you for all your create emails god bless you Shiva