Yisro: Why You Should Be a Proud Jew Today: Crash Course on Jewish History

it's fascinating that uh the par of mat which is of course and in many ways and not just in many ways probably in all ways it's the most pivotal event of Jewish history and of world history M when you have the divine revelation and this happens all in Paras and yet the name of the portion is named after a non-w y you would think you know in yishai the name contains the theme of that which carries the name a name is very significant and the name of this par so the names of each par are very powerful they're potent and the name of this par is y you would think such a par should be named and yet it carries the name of because it opens up with the story of Y in fact the first half of the para deals all with Y it's the events of Y coming to the desert and only from there do you have the second half which actually deals with the Revelation ofi and the ju position is very interesting that the first half of Parra is a story of a gentile who was actually a pagan priest in midan who comes to the desert Kar SII to be with the Jewish people and the Z says on this something very powerful it says that the T could not be given until yro did not come until yro did not come something essential was missing and only when he came can the T be given that's what the Z says so let's explore at least one angle one aspect of this the opening of par it's your first Source sheet it's the Exodus chapter 18 the beginning the Begins the and he identifies who is number one you have to know he's he's the Cen which means the leader or the priest of this of the country called midya he's also of course the father-in-law of M mha married his daughter to P he heard everything that Hashem did for MAA for his son-in-law and for his people for Isel for the Jewish people that Hashem has taken Isel out of Egypt the T says what happens he decides that it's time to go pay a visit and he takes his daughter and her two sons G and elaz M's two children and his wife after they were sent away they never made it to MIT initially when mha went back from midan to MIT he took them but then he sent them home and now they come for the first time and they come to visitu and the Jewish people in the desert near the Mountain close to the mountain of Hashem near Mount Si that's the story it's interesting that the identifies him as we already know who is is in we met him mosa met him he gave mosa his daughter mosa saved the girls of the daughters of Y who were being harassed by a well and mosa stood up for them and he protected them from the Shepherds who were abusing them and Prosecuting them and uh and persecuting them and M then marries and he's shepher the flock of so he already met was the priest of midan but here the T identifies him again as Ken midan because this is important and K say midan means either the leader of midan in other words he was a politically powerful person or Cen as in the term priest he was considered one of the most uh prominent Pagan religious figures in paganism of that time he was considered the top spiritual priest of the Pagan religions in midan on this there's a fascinating teaching of our sages you would think the PK is pretty clear y heard everything hasem did from M for the Jews he took them out of MIT and he said you know let me go visit let's let's go but the in the next source is which is Page 116 we quote and you have it also in the English asks what is it that he heard and caused him to come to arrive what did he he Mas means what from the word sh Mas what was the what was the rumor what was the news that he heard that caused him to come tell him he come and he took his daughter and took the two children and traveled to the midbar what was it venay not only did he come he converted he joined in there's an argument of course there's an argument can be otherwise who argues three of the greatest sages of the time and these are three sages who lived at the end of the era of the second bikes in the beginning of the era after the destruction of the second B mikdash the first person was actually a Ley was a Ley who was still one of the vocalists one of the vocalists in the second bikes yesu so he was literally in the era of the end of the second and the destruction postd destruction so you have three personalities argue RAB Yeshua RAB elazar Hami and RAB elzar says what heard about was the war of because right before the story of his arrival what's the story right before is coming the end of what's the last story of the T tells The Story of B that after the splitting of the Sea and the Jewish people were now traveling in the desert who came to declare war on them the Jewish people were in and came and declared war came from his country he marched towards the Jewish nation and he declared war and that's when mosa summoned his disciple and said choose the right people and go fight and indeed the war begins the next day M goes onto a mountain and he's daving with his hands stretched upward together with Iron and who sustain him but Yeshua leads the military campaign and he weakens amalik and his people with the sword that's the story and what's right after the story Hur yesu says obviously this ju the position this close proximity Is is precise this is what hisory heard about the war ofik and that's why he came he argues he says no that's not what happened what he heard was he heard about which is interesting because according to this it means that came after the T was given even though it's recorded in before the T was given so some people say like the Z and others it happened before the T was given but according to this is what he heard about when the T was given to the Jewish people it's K the sound of it the voice of it traveled the world from one end of the world to the other end of the world so y was impacted that's what caused them to come then there's a third opinion RAB says no it was he heard about yam he heard about the splitting of the Sea and the Jewish people went through it parted for them and then the Egyptians who were pursuing them drowned in the sea as we discussed last week at length and bashak this is what inspired ISRO to come three opinions RAB Yeshua and rabi elzar as I mentioned Yeshua all these tan lived right after the end during the last era the last years the final era of the second bikash and saw its destruction in fact was an Uncle of Bara the famous Bara who led the revolt against Rome 60 years after the destruction of the second B mikdash A Man Named shim Bena who became known as bar the son of the star because he was considered the star said about him he was the star that emerged from yov to fight the romansa even felt that he is Messiah ultimately he led a massive campaign against Rome very successful he liberated started to build a third bikes and was extremely extremely successful for a few years to the point that Rome was devastated I think two Legions of Rome were wiped out by him ultimately it was not successful H was his uncle probably it's a tragic and fascinating story The gor says Inus Jerusalem Tal chapter 4 tells the story that during the Revolt which was extremely successful he fasted every single day was considered like a uniquely saintly person in his generation he was one of the tan one of the great sages but also in addition to that he was like known as a man of unique saintliness and Holiness and S and he prayed and he fasted and daved every single day that the Jewish people shouldn't be defeated by Rome what happened was this was a tragic tragic mistake of his nephew bar who was the military commander of this entire campaign there was a uh the Romans were trying every possible way to breach bear that was the last Fortress bear where the Jewish people held out I think close to a half a million Jews were there and they sent in a non-jew ausi from the shamron they sent into him to go speak to was daving or learning and this man went and started to whisper to and people told that there is this fellow who came in and is talking who is he it was looked suspicious so summoned this non and he said what happened what did you tell him what did he tell you and he says listen if I tell if if I don't tell you the truth then you're going to kill me right if I tell you the truth then the Roman Emperor is going to kill me other words I'm stuck I'm stuck better to be killed by him than to be killed by you he made this whole it was all a lie but he contrived this and he finally spilled the beans quote unquote with no beans to spill wants to find ways to make peace with Rome this is what he revealed this is what they spoke about so he called his uncle and he said what happened what did he tell you what did you tell him he said nothing it was nothing he was busy his own think got so upset he kicked him he kicked and he was killed and the gor says ultimately that's when B fell soaz was considered one of the great Giants of his time and he argues that what y heard was mat that was the issue rebelar says not was who wasar wasar hus known as rabz ha he was the teacher of RAB AKA and of RAB Yeshua he was one of the greatest sages of the time he's known as rezar hag to the point that the the his his his Brilliance and his depth and his scholarship was like unprecedented and unparalleled this is rabi elazar so we have here opinion three opinions of the great sages what caused yro to come but as the commentators point out the whole discussion seems strange the T clearly says what heard they're debating what did hear the T says if you look in the first St heard everything did for and his people he took them out of Egypt that's why he picked himself up and he traveled to the Sinai desert so why does the ask what did he hear that made him come and then we have different reasons than those that are stated in the text the says clearly what did he hear the man heard that hem took them out of so first of all they ask a question that seems unnecessary and then they give a different answer they should say yeah it says this one says this one says this one says this one says and what's the logic behind the three different opinions I mean we know that there's a Mitzvah sometimes it looks like we have to argue about everything like why are the three diverg opinions why why are they disagreeing with each other why does each one of these eminent sages attribute y sacrifice to a different factor and then the third question let's look at the first reason amalik he heard the war of amalik and that's what inspired him now that seems strange the other two things were indeed all inspiring the splitting of the sea I get it you hear about K yam you're like I'm I'm going I have to see what's going on there with my own eyes you hear about mat wow that's big as he says the sound went from one end of the world to the other end of the world but the first opinion say he heard of the war of amik and that's what inspired him but the war of amalik actually weakened the morale of the Jewish people it weakened the spirit of the Jewish people as our sages say amalik was there to prove that they're not Invincible kazal say it's like there was a hot bath and everybody was scared to go into the bath and amalik jumped in simply to lead the way and show you don't have to be scared of the hot water everyone was in awe and reverence of the Jewish people and amalik is the one who said no you don't have to worry we can take them on so if anything even though yua fought them why was that so inspiring to make come especially in comparison with the other two things especially in comparison with the other two thingsam and which were obviously Supernatural Miracles here was actually a war against the Jewish people the gamar doesn't even say Yeshua says it was the victory against amik he says the war of am that's what inspired to come but the truth is that here in this argument if we go a little deeper into it we discover a very profound reflection on the Jewish people and Judaism and it was always relevant but it's certainly and especially I think relevant today as well and here we see it looks like just an innocent argument three opinions what inspired is to come but if you go if you look between the lines and you go one level deeper you see really a universe or three universes unfolding in these three opinions of course the T says what heard heard everything that happened says everything that happened and it's specifically The Exodus of Egypt so why would they argue why would they even ask the question what perturbed the what perturbed the rabbis and the sages was a specific issue a particular issue and they say it in the words he heard and he came V he physically picked himself up and came the T introduces y with the two words midan he was the priest of midan this means that ISRO was living with great honor and living in great distinction he was at the height of his career midan this was considered one of the most prominent vocations in the ancient world the religious leader of midan the political leader of midan so yro was surrounded by riches by riches by Glory by Honor he was a Man of Distinction this was the destiny of the Pagan Priests of yure they were considered the The Visionaries of society everybody needed them and looked up to them especially in the Pagan world with it was so much blindness yet he left it all behind he said bye-bye and what does he go to as it says in the third third Source the fifth chap fifth of this is the father-in-law of mha brings his grandchildren and the wife of mha desert they go to the desert because that's where the mountain of hasem is so Rashi says we know where M was at this point everybody knows where he was why does the T have to tell you the exact location it should have said came to was we know where he was the answer is is trying to explain the significance of this he was on top of the world he was living in the glory of the world tell you and his heart inspired him to leave glory and riches and go to a Wilderness go to a Barren and fertile place to a desert means like to a place of desolateness a place that's infertile a place that's not conducive to very prosperous luxury and living and comfort this is an insane move in order to hear words ofra that's what's bothering them what's bothering them is y heard great things but what happens he decides he's going to leave everything behind to go to the desert eager to hear the words of Tyra directly eager to be not just a spectator not just a fan but a participant a player he's not anymore the priest of midan he's not anymore a leader now he Isa he's the father-in-law of M now he's coming as a stranger as a foreigner he's going to convert he's not he was he didn't grow up there it's a whole different challenge he's starting all over again that takes a lot of Courage that takes a lot a lot of courage to start over your life again especially when you didn't have a miserable life if he was a homeless beggar he had nothing okay the Jews have very good there's a good kides shabas morning if you go to the right sh you can get food every single day in the back you have soup you have whatever you want I got it the midbar had gal stuff but is had it all so now you're abandoning your life and you starting all over again and it's difficult you're the father-in-law ofu is the man you're converting into a whole new Faith a whole new people that you were not part of and that's why the G uses the words what compelled them to come not what compelled them to be inspired what compelled them to come why would a person of such stature midan abandon everything in order to pursue an attraction to T what compels an aristocratic Royal leader to say goodbye to a very comfortable habitat a glorious lifestyle R says he's on top of the world why he wants to join a nation of Nomads a place of desolateness in a desert and yet the T says that he came so you could say well he heard about he heard about the Exodus of it says he heard everything that Hashem did for M and the Jewish people but let's face it he could be content by hearing stories from afar he could he could sign himself up to all the good whatsapps that come out from the Jewish people he could send a check he could get messages he can get letters he can follow the Jews here or there what motivates him to become part of them V to become part of the two or three million Jews in the desert he could sit on his couch on Sunday and be a fan of the team fan of the team called CLA is no problem he could be an admirer he could be a supporter he could be a he could be a fan not not a big deal he felt that he actually has to come he has to transform for life you see it's a whole different question you could sit and say wow this is amazing this is incredible I'm going to learn lessons from it I'm going to apply it to my life maybe I'll bring it even back to my ashram and midan maybe a few meditation skills that I could learn from the Hebrews but no he's ready to go through complete metamorphosis and transformation especially the venis GU to go through this process of conversion why cuz he's not a spectator he's a player right the famous metaphor you have in a game the difference between Spectators and players the fans sit on the bleachers and they watch the game they enjoy it they drink they eat popcorn they eat french fries if there's kakosa section they can get a koser hot dog with mustard and sauerkraut and healthy ketchup if your team is winning galic and if your team is losing yeah so you have a phone to go on or you go home early that's if you're a spectator if you're a player whether you're losing or you're winning you're in the game you're not watching the game you're not part of the fan club you're there you could have remained a spectator he didn't he became a player that changes everything when you're playing it's raining the sun is shining it's a good game it's a bad game you're feeling well you're not feeling well your team is doing a horrible job you're in you're in fully why because you are playing the game you're not watching the game that's the question Mas from a spectator he became a player his fate now becomes linked to the Jewish fate you know often I sometimes I travel a lot I you meet converts you know people who uh it's fascinating always for me to see a person you know grew up completely in a different environment nothing pushed them nothing compelled them their parents think uh what's wrong with you especially today F you know I most of us in this room it looks like we're born Jewish grew up Jewish so what are you going to become tomorrow you become Amish you have people and when you see that metamorphosis that transformation it always begs the question you could sit at home and go to a website go to a nice Jewish website and learn a nice thing about Judaism read the Bible this is the question and for this the sages present three different explanations because these are explanations not just to be inspired but to make that transformation RAB Yeshua says he witnessed the war of amalik it was the war of amalik says it was mat and elzar says it was the splitting of the sea these three opinions embody three extraordin inary features of Jewish history when this happened by ISRO it was just the beginning it was literally before right after the tah was given today 3,300 more than 3,300 years later we can go back and appreciate these three opinions with far more depth the depth that comes with experience let's take the first opinion Yeshua Yeshua says it was the war of aik that's what caused is to come and I asked the question why is that so inspiring amalik actually as we said he weakened the spirit of the Jewish people because the war of amalik represents something it represents the Enigma that once again caught the Jewish people by surprise on October 7th 2023 and the following weeks and months and that is the Enigma and the riddle of anti-Semitism that's what yro saw in mik it was wasn't the victory against amalik of course that was part of it it was the very war of amalik that touched him to his core in fact I would say many of our brothers and sisters and good people were also touched by their core when they saw once again mik because who was amalik what was the war of amalik amalik was an independent nation they had an independent country they were strong they were secure and the Jewish people when they left Egypt part of their Journey did not go through the territory of amalik in fact they were very far from the territory of amalik literally hundreds of miles away so amalik was unprovoked amalik was unthreatened there was not even a perceived thread that maybe they want to come and take our country this was not part of the plan it was not part of the agenda yet amalik found it necessary to declare war on a people that has just set itself free after Decades of person person Al and horrible National and individual Agony and suffering remember that the Jews were in P's concentration camp for 86 years for 210 years but for 86 years they suffered horrifically crushed murdered beaten mercilessly their infants plugged plunged into the Nile River into the Nile Delta and finally they're free finally this young nation is free and they're just a few weeks old Sak the men beaten and enslave labor for decades so and a few weeks after The Liberation amalik unprovoked unprovoked he comes and attacks the Jewish people and that's why by the way the T says you always have to remember amalik because there's a difference between rational hatred and irrational hatred rational hat is may be completely wrong but at least I can appreciate what you're scared of let's face it there are people that trigger us very deeply you get triggered by them maybe you're right maybe you're wrong but it's not relevant because there is a process there's something I'm feeling threatened by if I can talk sense to myself and sometimes it's not sense sometimes it's an emotional difficulty but I can deal with it I can confront a fear on insecurity told his Nation hatred was not justified but in his own mind he was threatened by the Jewish population growth that going to take over the country they're going to take over the land in other words he felt threatened should have he felt threatened the Jewish people didn't want to take over Egypt the Jewish people didn't want to expel py from Egypt they were good citizens but for whatever reason he felt threatened by the Jewish people and therefore he began a war a genocidal war against the Jewish people that's one type of hatred such a hatred you hope maybe maybe not always but maybe we can talk we can converse and I you could see that I'm not a threat and then maybe there could be some form of reconciliation with a mik it's a whole different process with a M there is no connection the Jewish people don't live there they're not coming close to you they're not interested in you they're not even walking around your country they're not even it's not part of the journey so there's no military political economic motivation the Jewish people are minding their own business they're in a desert they're not even in a territory that you claim is your territory they're not even there they're not even close to amalik what happens he attacks why why the answer is he doesn't need an excuse there is an insane irrational hatred that runs deep deep down it's not calculated he hates them because their very being as long as you're here I'm threatened by you this means there's nothing to say to you if the problem is my very being my very existence cuz I'm not bothering you this is a whole different type of hatred this is a hatred what's the cure for it what's the cure how am I supposed to assuage it what am I supposed to do that's why the worst thing you can do with amalik is blame yourself right one of the greatest challenges of the Jewish people was because they're a good people they blame themselves for all forms of anti-Semitism if I change my nose and I change my forehead and I look better and I'm more Rich or I'm more poor or I'm more religious or I'm less religious or I assimilate or I inter marry or I look this way or I change this way I finally you'll stop perceiving me as a threat but when you're dealing with anik your very existence is the threat this you have to remember the worst thing you can do is internalize the hatred and say it's my fault and therefore I have to bend over backwards and compromise everything that's important and necessary both in terms of physical and spiritual power to assuage somebody who couldn't care less because they would destroy you regardless an interesting moment I want to share with you there's a Jew his name Ison adalist Ron adalist idealistic I guess adalist is one of the founders of shalom you know what Shalom is peace now one of the founders and uh you know the Shalom shav was very very strong movement certainly was a very very strong movement and basically blamed much of the hatred in the Muslim World against Israel on Israel because we don't want to make peace and everybody really wants peace Etc which as you know is a philosophy that has guided many many Jews and caused Israeli leaders to make ill-conceived and Ill faded decisions from one extreme to another extreme run out the list once came to get a dollar and a blessing or I don't know if to get a dollar and a blessing but he came to see the it was in 89 maybe 8 88 89 those years and uh and the gave him a dollar and a blessing and then he say says can I ask you a question the rebba says yeah he says do you in Hebrew he spoke to him he says are you still of the opinion are you still of the opinion that Israel should not make any concessions should not give away territory should not make any concessions the Reb who was also a very wise man looked at him and says you have influence in other words is this just going to be an abstract debate of two Jews you know arguing with each other like you know you B I'm explaining he didn't say basically you want to provoke me or this is is like a real question do you have do you have influence about this before he answers so he says I have influence like every Jew he was one of the founders of Shalom so they did make a lot of noise but he said I'm like any Jew every Jew has influence so he says if if I can have influ if I can influence you so then the influence should be in the direction that all of Isel belongs to the Jewish people and anyone who gives away any part of it he's actually stealing from the Jewish people basically what he was telling him is that besides everything else besides everything else it's not even a certain Jews land to give it away doesn't belong to me or my wife that I can give it away you have to ask every Jew in history it's their country that Hashem gave to them and essentially it's a desecration of all Jewish history is basically saying that the promis to the Patriarchs abam Yak of M Jews from a till now who believe that this is their land it's all meaningless and Hashem himself who says this is the land I'm giving to the Jewish people it's really a mockery it's not so serious so he looks at the and he says you're saying this even if this is going to cause war in the whole world that the whole world is going to come out against us and the whole world is going to fight us so the rebba looks at him and says without skipping a heartbeat those who want to make war against Israel don't need any excuse to make war and whatever you do or you don't do it's it's going to be irrelevant then he says I grew up in Russia so let me tell you how I grew up in Russia there was every other day another Blood liel against the Jewish je people and it had nothing to do with anything Jews did it came from people who want to harm the Jewish people and the worst thing you can do is start thinking that if I don't do the right thing and protect myself they're going to love me he says they want to harm you and it's going to be irrelevant to at least do the right thing and protect yourself so he says you have no hope that one day the world will want to make peace with us like you're such a pessimist so he looked at him and he said that's not up to you or me that's up to the world has to make peace with us and that's up to Hashem and he doesn't need me or you to encourage him to help with that process because every Jew is his only child his point was yes one day the world will make peace with us but don't think that if I go through plastic surgery and emotional surgery and spiritual surgery that's what's going to make the peace it's the responsibility of people to change and that's going to happen when they're ready to change in the meantime don't intoxicate them with false hopes that they can kill you and don't do things that will undermine your safety and only embolden your enemy to be able to accomplish what they want to accomplish I have to say I I watched the video and I saw that he like I'm not going to say he went through like isra conversion but he was like he was very confrontational like his heart melted a little bit and he said thank you and he left as he left theba turned to him and said I don't think you should be spending the time of your life to find reasons that the Jewish people should give away parts of Israel this is what says he suddenly saw a hatred that came from somewhere so mysterious so strange and in a paradoxical way yre said I have to find out what's the secret of this people that they can trigger such such Venom such hatred that's irrational you know it says in I become wise through my enemies what does it mean I become wise to my enemies sometimes the greatest wisdom in life you can get from your enemies sometimes if you want to understand who a Jew is what a Jew is you have to look at their enemies show me who enemy is and I'll tell you who you are draw up a list of Israel's foes from the beginning of time till today and you'll understand how holy the Jewish people are when you see that the people who want to kill you are people who are ready to torture mutilate burn alive even their own people even their own dissidents you say wow what a holy nation the Jewish people must be when you see that your greatest enemies are a and and a and a Hitler and a Stalin and a Bin Laden andat andani and and and when you see that these are your enemies people who couldn't care less about barbarity and sadism of the worst degree in the name of God allahar is says what kadus what Holiness do the Jewish people have that trigger mik unprovoked that as long as there's a Jewish baby in the world he can't sleep at night H says as long as there's one baby I can't sleep at night Hitler took resources that he needed for the war for the war and he used them just to exterminate the Jewish people because that was more important than his own Victory his own victory was not as important as the extermination of the Jewish people and this is what a lot of Jews are astounded by in the last few months they didn't expect this let's face it everybody thought that the the the the survivors I was I saw an interview with a woman in Israel very very left-wing woman very very liberal woman she spent a year living in an Arab Village that's how integrated she felt she dated and almost married an Arab young man and she said her grandmother always told her her grandmother was a Survivor from the us from hungry and her grandmother always told her that you should realize that the people around us our neighbors if they had the ability they would do exactly what the Nazis did if they had the ability if they had the ability they would do exactly what the Nazis did to every Jew living in Israel and I told my grandmother she said you're traumatized by the Holocaust you're a victim of Holocaust trauma we are of a new generation so she dated an Arab and she went to live there so they interviewed her now and she said in one moment my whole velt on sh my whole my whole world Vision it it crumbled she suddenly saw that her grandmother had a point that there are not everybody but that there are hundreds of thousands or millions of people who would gleefully do the same thing that they did on October 7th 2023 every single day of the year until all 6.6 million Jews in Israel lifeless and for them it would be ter every single day and a lot of Jews who were sleeping awoke and then they thought okay at least the Civilized world would protest at least all the women's rights movements that whenever there's a woman who's being abused even a even a little concern of abuse they cry out and here with the atrocities done to so many women I'm not going to elaborate here and children and men and older and younger silence and the universities who are supposed to be which are supposed to be the enlightened places of mankind 32 top universities in the United States of America filled with letters and demonstrations proas blaming Israel for the atrocities and leaders of top universities all they can say is that if somebody calls for the genocide of the Jewish people it may not be wrong it depends on context it all depends on context and now as Israel is fighting such a painful and difficult war in Gaza the obsession of everyone of so many news outlets newspapers and websites and blogs and whatsapps and politicians and professors and news anchors and journalists and essayists of how many people will Israel kill and it's disproportionate and how can Israel do this and you need a ceasefire and here's a shelter and here is a hospital and here there's a school and here there are civilians as though Israel started the war as though Israel went into Gaza cuz it had nothing else to do as though they're not dealing with a group that promised that they would do it in their words again and again and again they would literally do it again and again and again and nobody even realizes the double standard the Distortion the depth of hatred towards this little tiny Jewish country that's trying to survive literally lamb surrounded by 70 wolves and you're talking about literally even good people decent people who otherwise seem fine and Men somehow when it comes to the Jewish people all the logic and rationale that's applied to every other nation in the world is thrown out the window I mean anyone knows anything about the history of War Pearl Harbor happened December 7th 1941 did I get my history right December 7 2200 servicemen were killed in Pearl Harbor Japan decided to kill 2200 servicemen in response America declared war on Japan over the next few years I'm not talking about soldiers how many Japanese citizens were killed close to 2 million 100,000 in one night did they take America to the hog criminals criminals genocide they killed 2200 servicemen go to Japan and kill 2200 people make it proportionate but America understood Japan wants us dead if we don't win they want we need we're going to be defeated again they need an unconditional surrender till Japan didn't agree to unconditional surrender the war continued nobody was screaming at America here is a hospital here is a school of course it's horrific when a child dies who's guilt who's guilty when you take a risk to attack another country that other country has not on the right a moral obligation to defend its Citizen and attack you how many German citizens died were killed during the second world war by the Allies not I'm not talking about the V I'm not talking about German soldiers I'm not talking about SS I'm talking about citizens German citizens more than a half a million more than a half a million and they kept on bombing Dresden you know this history and Hamburg and people asked the American generals why you bombing why you bombing we know we won this war and they said they have to realize that they lost you're dealing with a Hitler regime if there's even a tiny little little bit of it left if there's no complete complete surrender there not impossible to win 2800 Americans were called killed 9/11 in the Twin Towers 2800 so what should have America done go to Afghanistan and kill 2800 members of al-Qaeda you know how many citizens were killed in the next few years after 9/11 400,000 400,000 and I never heard anybody saying America's genocidal why you came here you killed 3,000 Americans we're going to wipe you out completely that to wipe out Al-Qaeda wipe out uh Isis and that's what happened it's hor yeah war is horrific who do you blame you blame Al-Qaeda not America you blame Japan not America you blame Hitler for the second world war not Churchill you don't blame Churchill for the second world war you blame Hitler for the second world war that's with every other country in the world besides Israel people just have to understand the numbers per capita what happened on what happened October 7th is this imagine a group in Mexico breaches the the border of Texas murders 35,000 Americans takes 5,000 American hostages 5,000 I want to know what the United States of America would do in Mexico I want to know even even even today even today what does this all demonstrate this is what y saw and in a funny way it inspired him many ways you could say this is depressing what I'm saying but for yro this wasn't actually depressing it showed him what the Jewish people mean it showed him what they represent it showed him if there's such irrational insane hatred for what what are they trying to do I asked somebody I said I don't understand if Kamas put down all of its weapons gave away all of its weapons releas least to the hostages there wouldn't even be another moment of war the whole reason this war is because you want to attack Israel because Jews are not safe so what's the solution the solution is stop killing Jews surrender put down your arms completely there wouldn't be one war there wouldn't be one gunshot there wouldn't be one missile oh we forgot about that solution you would think this is rocket science you would think it's genius this is simple stuff I told somebody what would happen if Hamas decided to go on vacation for 3 years to Hawaii or to Mexico together with hasbalah together with Iran together with Syria together with Egypt together with Afghanistan is anybody afraid that when they come back Israel has taken over Syria has taken over Egypt has taken over Iraq has taken over Afghanistan went into Gaza and killed every child no nobody would be afraid of that what happens if tahal would go on vacation for three days what would happen they go on vacation for three days it would be the end of the Israel what does that mean this is what saw they came from far just to kill Jewish children attacked the weak he attacked those who were spit out from the cloud those who were vulnerable he attacked why just because he can attack them he can do it somebody set my wife actually sent me a beautiful clip from last week I don't know when he said it he said an interesting thing par persecuted the Jewish people horribly told who's I should listen to him I don't have anything with I don't have anything with God I'm not sending out the Jewish people what happens there's a splitting of the sea the Egyptians go into the sea they're drowned and that's the end of them we never hear from them again we're still eating because of them mat and and and making we don't forget them but the celebration began right after that we mention every day that's the beginning of B at the end of bash comes amalik and amalik makes a war against the Jewish people and Hashem says every generation in fact every day we mention amik we're going to wipe out amik why doesn't get such Why doesn't aik were busy fighting with 247 erasing aik is only the for those who eat don't eat there was a difference par said who's God I don't believe in God I have nothing with God I run this world I'm the dictator okay no I'm auga like this you throw him into the sea and you're done amalik never said that am came to the Jewish people and said who are you say it says attack the exhausted Jews the Jews who were downrod who left the cloud Amal came attack them he attacked the vulnerable he attacked the weak what does the inner amalik say the in doesn't say who's God God may be big the inner amalik says who are you a mik is the feeling I'm a loser I'm dejected I'm a nobody that that's a continuous War I once told a teenager you know I know you have issues with belief in God okay you'll figure that out one day but one don't forget and that is whatever you believe God is God believes in you the moment you fail that aik says who are you garnished you are nobody takes the weak and the vulnerable those who feel dejected those who feel downtrod I'm worthless that's and when yro sees this type of hatred when yro sees this type of passion he asked to ask himself what Holiness does embody in the world that it responds so intensely both good people respond so powerfully to the Jewish people and their haters respond so powerfully and there's no sense here it's be completely Beyond rationality it's like almost in the DNA of existence y says this I have to be part of it's not enough I can't sit home in the couch and read the news this says thear says he was the greatest debater with the non with the Gentiles of the time the Roman Roman philosophers and others wanted to debate the Jewish people who was the representative of the Jewish people RAB Yeshua so he was in constant contact with people around the world and he saw behind all the philosophy and behind all the questions there was an irrational obsession with the Jewish people Yeshua says this is what touched isra that's why Yeshua says this this is what affected isra in such an extraordinary way you look how many demonstrations there were pramas against Israel it's fascinating in the Congo Millions were killed in darur millions were killed in Syria half a million were killed you saw one demonstration oh it's Muslims killing Muslims that's fine let's go for breakfast Israel trying to defend itself let's go out on a demonstration hundreds of thousands of people on a demonstration saw this he understood this this is what made him realize you're dealing with a whole different reality here this was a source of such Enlightenment of such Clarity for isra then comes the second opinion says what y saw was what he heard was mat in other words it wasn't enough that he saw how amalik hates the Jewish people what really caused him to join the Jewish people was he had to understand not just that amalik hates them but that God loves them he had to understand the power of mat when yro heard about mat this is what caused them to come this went and what is this that y heard and it's who says this I mentioned was the man that embodied Holiness and saintliness to the point that he def he's the spiritual defender of Bar's entire Rebellion as long as he was alive and intact the Romans couldn't defeat the Jewish people understood this power when yro heard about mat he realized he can't stay home and just be an observer he has to be a player not a spectator but a player you know we're living 3,300 years later so we can take for granted the contribution of T the contribution of yish the contribution of Mitzvah but y did not he understood something and since yro was a non-jew and he decided to join the ranks of the Jewish people he understood something that I once read from another non-jew another non-jew his name is not yra his name is Thomas kohel he's an Irish yra was a midianite this guy was an Irish is an Irish fellow and he wrote a book called the gifts of the Jews the gifts of the Jews by Thomas Co if a Jew would read another Jew WR this he would feel ashamed it's too Jewish but since it's written by ISRO so then you could write whatever you want nobody could blame you that it's too Jewish because it wasn't written by a Jew so he's not coming from that place at all and I says and I quote we can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being being Jewish he's talking about non-jews what do I mean the religion of the Hebrews a tiny marginal desert tribe changed the world view of Western Civilization the West's most deeply held beliefs about life human nature God and Justice are all owed to the ancient Israelites in the ancient world of the Evert turning wheel the countless gods and goddesses of the old mythologies played out their dramas in the world above these gods were lustful jealous greedy humans were of little import man had no freedom to choose a destiny no divinely inspired laws and ethics to guide him according to kahal the Hebrews developed a whole new way of experiencing reality it may be said with some justice that theirs is the only new idea that human beings have ever had written by a non-jew I I said many Jews would be uncomfortable with these words but this is written by Thomas coell what did y see in Mata what he saw in Mata was the power of to the power of Mitzvah and again then the Jewish people had to accept a lot of it with faith why they were a new people they didn't see what's going to happen throughout history so they had to accept from well they saw they saw the splitting of the sea they saw the temp they saw the m so it wasn't Blind Faith it's what they saw but the knowledge of the future was still based on faith after 33 100 years in many ways I should say we're lucky we don't need any more faith you could see the reality cuz whenever in science if you want to understand what's the secret of the longevity of something if you have an organism that survives for thousands of years if you have a tree that survives for thousands of years you have the Redwoods the seas in San Francisco they want to know what's what's the secret what's the secret of you have somebody who lives till 116 years old right in Japan it's usually in Japan what's the secret they tell you I drink wine every day I eat chocolate every day I don't exercise I'm relaxed I'm Serene I meditate I don't take anything to heart I'm not nervous I'm not anxious everything is perfect okay it's not for me whenever science wants to know what's the secret though how does this organism survive especially in difficult circumstances you always have to ask what are the features or the traits that this organism has and had throughout its entire existence you always have to look for characteristics that have been there from the beginning till now you can't look for something that was only there temporarily because that doesn't explain its existence at other times so whenever you want to understand scientifically the power of something to survive and thrive for long Generations under difficult circumstances you have to always identify what is a permanent feature and trait that was always there with it that gave it huh that gave it this power yeah what is the spine what is the the the the power of endurance I can't look for something that was sometimes there that was sometimes not they have to look at something that was there [Music] constantly so if anyone this is very very important to understand if anyone is a real object really objective without great and you ask the Jewish people have been around thousands of years thousands of years and very difficult circumstances they went through every conceivable Sor in the world every conceivable type of form of suffering and Savage brutality from in almost every anywhere they almost any country they were they were expelled from you can count on your hand the five countries that didn't expel Jews one of them America and Australia that's pretty new literally you could count on your hand every great Empire Tyrant and dictator was obsessed with the Jews usually genocide extermination persecution and yet the Jews are here thousands of years later so you have to ask as an objective person what's the secret what did they have so you look for something that was always there I can't look for something that was there for 200 years so you might say language sometimes language holds a nation together the problem is most of our history most Jews didn't speak our ancient language till today more than half of the Jews don't know Hebrew Jews spoke the language of their host or yish or Aramaic or Espero or Laino or whatever the language of their host so you can't say it's the it's the language so some people will say land territory but for most of our history sadly we were living outside of our land dispersed all over the world so how do you account for their existence during that time so you'll say culture the Jewish people had tremendous culture the problem is Jewish culture changes radically from one country to another country from one Milli to another milu there are Jews who don't know what is and there are Jews who don't know what filter fish is there are Jews for who bagel and lox and Bingo was the beginning and the end of Judaism and there are Jews don't even know what Bingo or Bagel LAX is they want sushi in terms of Jewish culture what we call tarbut culture it changed radically from generation to generation so if you ask is there one accompanying thing the Jews had you say an army unfortunately most of our history we didn't have an army you'll say maybe we had tremendous amount of finances unfortunately most of our history not so you identify what are the features that hold a nation together and make them survive and all of the regular features land territory culture language military prowess Finance none of it works with the Jewish people but there is there one feature that was always there from the day we became a people till today is there one feature that you could say it's permanent it was always there in every country every Malu all circumstances every situation Good Times bad times rainy days sunny days when Jews were in their Homeland when they were exiled when they were persecuted when they were on top of the world when they were in the abyss from the north to the south to west or east and it accomp the entire nation from one end of the world to the other end of the world and there's only one such feature what is it the answer is mitz mitz that's where in the 900s wrote he wanted to understand what's the glue of the Jewish nation in the 900s most of them were living all over the world very few Jews were in the land the and the mitzvas this is the one feature that accompanied the Jewish Nation from the day we became a people at Mount Si until this very day the T and the Mitzvah that the Jews learned and observed and internalized and celebrated and lived with and Beed to their children and grandchildren and they did it with unwavering commitment that mysterious and dedication through thick and thin it's the one feature that existed in every country under all circumstances for every single Jew and you could see further Jews who abandoned it Jews who neglected it Jews who said goodbye to it we don't need this let's use other features let's find other ways there were the helist Jews already in the desert they made a golden calf and then later you had the worshippers of the and the worshippers of the Bal and those who joined Hellenism it's etc etc those who converted those who assimilated in every generation what happened to them so either after a few generation some of their descendants came back to mitz and those who didn't they're unfortunately gone they're gone we you could see with experience this doesn't take this what I'm saying now is not an article of auna it's an article of historical fact using a scientific model CU it's it's not like there's 20 things and you have to choose between 20 things there's only one thing that was there constantly so a person could say I don't agree you how how does mitv help the survival of a Nation what's the connection so it's a very interesting question but you can't argue with the fact the greatest Empires who had a lot of power nonetheless they're vanished they're gone this is what y understood saw the he saw what exists in the life in the Theology and in the daily life of T and Y said I can't sit on my couch and just hear about this I have to come I want to tell you a little story was shared by the former Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Israel mayor Lao R May Lao said it was the early 90s he was sitting in his office he was the rabbi of Tel Aviv and he was sitting in his lishka in his office a Jew from London came in and he asked if he could speak to him for a few minutes his name was M Kaminski M Kaminski Aid of g a GID an older kid with a white beard he takes out a book and he says this is my biography and my story of survival in the Holocaust he was a Survivor and uh I'm about to publish this book but before I do I have to get something off my chest this is the early 90s RAB La says what he says something is sitting on my conscience and I never apologized it's sitting inside of me for 50 years 60 years and I need to apologize to you so he says what are you talking about and he reminded RAB Lao a story that happened when RAB Lao himself was four or five years old October 1942 the Germans come into petrikov in Poland this is the city where his father was the rabbi of Petrov they come into Petrov and they begin an action separating the Jews from each other they gather all the men into the city square and put them on trains to take them to tre's father was murdered in Trea with his brother the women and the children they left in the meantime to deal with them at a later date in middle of the night the morning before they left on the trains RAB LA's father Lao left the square and he came running to his home and he told his wife the rabbitson that he found for her and their little baby lul they called him lulik is mayor they had T was naali and it was L he found a a bom a attic a hiding place in the Attic where they can hide it was basically on the fourth floor of an abandoned building in an isolated attic and he felt that they should hide there he told them and he ran away he ran back to the square cuz he had to be there is is Mayor Lao who's sitting in front of M Kaminsky and his mother indeed went up to that Bo and went up to that attic and they found there another few dozen Jews who were all hiding in that Hiding Place who was there this m Kaminsky this GID who was a little child and he was already an orphan both of his parents were taken and uh he was there this little kid M Kaminsky together with Y mayor with with is mayor suddenly they hear the sounds of boots loud Boots the Nazis came into the building and started to go floor after floor to search for Jews who were hiding they went in to one of the rooms that was close to the room where they were hiding and there were a bunch of planks of wood so they thought under the planks Jews are hiding so they started to pick up plank after plank beam after beam the Jews in the meantime were hiding in absolute silence in this attic M Kaminski tells RAB Lao he says you know your mother brought into the hiding place a bag with a few apples she didn't know how long they're going to be hiding so she had a few apples M tells RAB I was starving I haven't eaten in a very very long time and I saw the bag so I took one of the apples without permission I didn't want to ask cuz I thought you would say no and I started to eat it it but right when I started to eat the apple it's in my mouth the Nazis came in to start searching the building I knew if I continue to take a bite into the Apple it's going to make a sound and they're going to discover our hiding place I also didn't want to spit out the Apple because then you and your mother and the people there would reveal that I'm a thief cuz I stole the Apple so I sat for two hours with this apple in my mouth about to chew it but I can't chew it until the Nazis left the building and I continued to eat my Apple now I came to ask you forgiveness for that Gava for the fact that I stole your Apple it's been already half a century and it still sits on me and I want to apologize to you RAB Lao broke out sobbing and he looked at he gave him a hug and he said trust me I forgave you that moment even though I did not know the story till this moment when he shared the story I thought to myself you know think about the refinement of a person what sits on his chest for 50 years that he stole an apple here you surrounded by Nazis who wouldn't have an issue did not have an issue gazing a million and a half children that's what their conscience and their Enlightenment most many of them were phds and scientists and doctors that's where their science LED them to and here you have an orphan who has nothing in the world and what's sitting on his chest that he stole somebody else's apple and when he has an opportunity and needs to publish his Holocaust Memoir and he's getting older he comes to Israel to ask forgiveness that's what touched R more than anything else just to thought about it what does this tell you this is the adle kite the refinement of mat writes one of the last things tells the Jewish people is we say you're going to step on their means elevated platforms of your enemies you're going to step on their platforms meaning that which is most elevated you'll step on it so it's not just a physical promise it's much more a spiritual promise what he's saying is sometimes look in the world and you see what is the most elevated emotional spiritual attribute and that still sits under the legs of is you sometimes look at theay in the pinky of a Jew who saturated with t and that little tiny year sh the lowest level of adelite is still far loftier than sometimes the great deep levels of refinement that you read from people who worked maybe worked on themselves and their decent human beings but didn't have the gift of T is saw this he saw to live in a such a space of Purity to live 24/7 in such a space of truth of authenticity of Love of divinity of godliness this is a completely different type of existence this ISB what caused is to say I can't stay put rather I need to come and then there's the third opinion RAB elazar razar says it was Kus yamu Kus yamu is what made yre come what's yam if it was T itself he says y could have sat at his hamk go into the yeshiva.net and listen to a class and enjoy it what causes y to abandon everything to leave his environment and join a Wilderness with these millions of Hebrews he had to hear of the splitting of the sea what does this represent rebelar says this is what touched y because the splitting of the sea demonstrated another component of Jewish history and that is that the people of Israel CL Isel transcended the laws of nature and the deterministic patterns of History they say that Louis IV from France asked blazy Pascal he was one of the great scientists of the day what's the greatest proof he has for God blazy Pascal was a religious person he went through a metamorphosis and Pascal said your majesty the Jewish people their history because what you saw throughout Jewish history was and this is I think also very comforting to us in today's darkness and Horrors the largest Seas the mightiest oceans the fiercest tsunamis could not drown the Jewish people they would combat many overwhelming turbulent Seas throughout history they wouldn't Experience One Titanic travesty and tragedy but many many they would encounter impossible odds but like it says in in Song of Songs Great Waters could not extinguish the love and Rivers could not overwhelm it they would cross every sea and if the sea they need a part it would part and they would come out on the other side stronger more vibrant More Alive more determined a nation that endured so many oceans and seas that threatened to drown every single one of them and they indeed suffered so many losses as we did and we still do and yet y saw that inexplicably they came out at the other side of of the sea and not only they came out they were pulsating with a love for life and a zest for peace and a faith in better days and a faith in Gul and Redemption he says this is a people that their narrative narrative transcends the form formulas of deterministic History yro understood what another non-jew yro would write thousands of years later his name was Mark Twain and he considered himself a skeptic aelf self acknowledged skeptic they say that when he met Shalom you know Shalom was a yish comedian and they met in New York so Mark Twain was a funny guy turns Shalom and he says oh I hear that you're the Jewish Mark Twain he says no you're the Shalom you're the Gentile shalom in in 1899 I believe it was 1899 in Harper magazine Harper magazine azine Mark Twain penned an article an amazing article it's called why the Jews but one par you know his English was special eloquent it's before you did texts where you spelled U with a u and and LOL and all that people still had to write full sentences you remember those those horrible days Mark Twain writes and this is what is saw this is what kazal are saying in their own inimitable words Mark said the Egyptians the Babylonians the Persians they Rose they filled the planet with sound and Splendor then faded to dream stuff and passed away the Greek and Romans followed they made a vast noise they're gone other peoples have sprung up held their torch high for a time but it burnt out and they sit in Twilight now or have vanished the Jews saw them all beat them all and is now what he always was exhibiting no decadence no infirmities of age no weakening of his Parts no slowing of his energies no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind all things are mortal but the Jews all other forces pass but he remains what is the secret of his immortality he doesn't have an answer he ends the article with a question what is the secret of his immortality again if a Jew would hear this from other Jews many of them would feel uncomfortable nah we just like Chinese food and Gulf and make a couple of dollars and go on vacation to the Caribbean but Mark Twain understood he saw he saw in its manifestation in every generation and he wanted to know what's this unique situation another great contemporary novelist one of the greatest writers was Leo tto one of the greatest Russian novelists he wrote an article in 1908 I quote the Jew is that sacred being who was brought down from heaven the Everlasting fire and has illuminated with it the entire world a non-w writes he is the religious Thor spring and Fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions the Jew is the emblem of Eternity he who neither Slaughter nor torture of thousands of years could destroy he who neither fire nor sword nor Inquisition was able to wipe over the face of the Earth he who was the first to produce the Oracles of God he who has been for so long the guardian of Prophecy and has transmitted it to the rest of the world such a nation cannot be destroyed the Jew is as Everlasting as eternity itself this is how you're supposed to write by the way for all the English writers for all the English writers and this is important to emphasize I often share this with students aor has their whole Discovery program based on this seven wonders of Jewish Rory but it's important for people to understand because we sometimes take it for granted and that is when you look at history and you see that a nation has survived for thousands of years when almost every Empire not almost every single Empire that numbered hundreds of millions or millions of more are gone I never went into Macy's and met met somebody who said hey I'm from I'm an Edomite I'm a midianite I'm a moite I'm an AM malachite oh I'm straight from the Roman Empire oh I'm from the Egyptian par family it never happens but the Jews the same Jews who were fighting 3,000 years ago are still fighting now it's a fascinating thing thear says individuals die the community doesn't die it's the same CL that stood by sin it's still standing here today when you see the eternity of a nation that itself is Supernatural it's but then you could say look at the Chinese look at the Indians but then you have something else it's not just we survived in one country with tens of millions hundreds of millions of people but you're dealing with a nation that for most of our history has been dispersed in every corner of the world persecuted crushed often close to Annihilation and now to survive is crazy it's insane but that's still not enough if at least we would not number a few hundred million a few billion Jews don't constitute even a quarter of 1% of humanity I'll say it again we don't constitute even one quarter of one of 1% of humanity it's not that we're 1% we're not a half a percent we're not a quarter of a percent 0.2 in other words the number of Jews is smaller than a statistical error on a Chinese census think about it 1.4 billion Chinese as I'm talking another million were born they're planting the Shalom Z now and we are barely 14 maybe 15 16 million Jews Cano such a tiny number then not constituting a quarter of 1% so imagine how difficult that is now even that would be already insanely powerful but with such hatred and anti-Semitism there's not a tyrant or Empire that didn't try to annihilate or persecute or Exile or harass the Jewish people people to a point of Extinction that's also impossible think about all these factors coming together an eternal people dispersed all over the world tiny numbers dealing with tremendous horrible genocides and persecutions till today you have hundreds millions of people who would want to see every Jew dead and a country in the United Nations who calls for its Annihilation constantly and hundreds of thousand thousands who with Glee would do it and if that's not enough look at the impact if this tiny nation was hiding somewhere in a cave I don't know near New Zealand still strange but the impact that the Jewish people had on civilization over these thousands of years with both hands tied behind the back is beyond even from a secular perspective as somebody once said the last 100 years saw four major revolutions if you ask somebody who were the four most powerful figures that influen civilization in the last 100 years certainly some of the top names are Zigman Frey the father of psychoanalysis Albert Einstein who changed science and physics Carol Marx who gave the world socialism and communism Charles Darwin who changed the world of biology so you have Freud you have Marx you have Einstein you have Darwin three of them were Jewish Darwin was wrong now when you're dealing with a people that's 0.2% three of them were the most seminal figures I'm talking from a secular perspective there were 900 Nobel prizes given out in the last 100 years around 2530 how much how many Jews should have gotten the Nobel Prize based on our numbers the answer is maybe a quarter of a Jew one Jew would already be a lot and the answer is some and the truth is that in some areas they got 30 40% of Nobel prizes 25% 30% 40% it's unimaginable what happened here and this is even from a secular point of view never mind if you look at the world of the spirit the sages and rabbis and Prophets and Mystics and sadik and men and women of such great nobility and Holiness and wisdom over the generations this is all what yro saw and I want to show you one point here and that is as we bring it together if you look in the last source of your Source Sheets if you look in the last source of your Source sheets you see everybody knows this Mitzvah says when you count the Jews don't count them it's going to create a plague what should you do let everybody make a contribution count the contributions everybody gives a and you count that and it's very astonishing to people what's wrong if we count Jews till today you go to a they're looking for a minion somebody who doesn't know how a works it's very strange it's like not one not two not three not four not five or it's like we have you can't count Jews first time says don't count Jews let everybody give a a half a shekele count the money so one cynical way of doing it is God knows that's the way to do it you make an appeal you want to get their money say we need a senses in the meantime they'll give coins you'll count but what's what's the meaning of it once had a very powerful Insight by RAB Jonathan saak said something very powerful he said why do governments make a sensus why does anybody make a census census is a way of flexing your muscles of showing the power that you have of a company you Google Microsoft you have 10,000 employees that's powerful don't mess if a country has a million troops a million soldiers it shows power if a country makes a senses we have 300 million people here this means the labor force it means the contribution it means the Ingenuity is powerful so whenever you count counting is a way of demonstrating your power your skill your prowess your efficiency or at least how much potential you have the says to the Jew to M don't count the Jews you know why if anybody's ever going to count the Jewish people it's a recipe for despondency for depression you're going to say such a nation how can they survive how can they Thrive and never mind how can they change the world AB was told that he's going to be a blessing to the entire world this doesn't make sense it's a recipe right away it's one little lamb surrounded by 70 wolves there's no way this lamb Can Survive and Thrive and then change the world bring Redemption to the world light up the world doesn't make sense Hashem says TOA don't count Jews never count Jews counting Jews is a recipe for disaster on every level but we want to count them let them give and then you count their contribution don't count them count what they give count what they have given what they give and what they will give the world and then you'll know exactly who they are think about it was told 3 and a half thousand years ago 37 all the nations will be blessed by you you're going to become a great nation I'm going to make an eternal Covenant I want to ask you if you wrote a book let's say uh mosa Jefferson wrote the Bible George Moses wrote it let's say you want to say that play Devil's Advocate you don't write things in a book thousands of years ago that will demonstrate that you're a you're a it's insane to write this a you're going to be an eternal I'm going to make an eternal Covenant with you and all the nations will be blessed really how do you know this you're going to prove yourself wrong that's the uniqueness of all the phenomena I spoke about in Jewish history if it would have happened you could say wow it's pretty incredible what's really incredible was it was all predicted there was a book written thousands of years ago and there it says it's going to be an you're going to be an eternal Nation you're going to be spread out around the world you're going to be hated loathed and despised you're going to be the smallest of all the nations light unto the Nations you're going to change the world you'll never be extinct you will never be decimated you'll never be destroyed everything was written thousands of years ago so you're writing in a book things that don't make sense you don't write that unless you know what you're talking about and the only way you can know what you're talking about is if you're somehow in charge of this planet it's called God this is not Blind Faith this you could look into the book I didn't make up these verses he told it's going to be so whoever wrote this book let's say a human being fabricated it you don't write things that will PL that will prove that you're inauthentic you just don't do that and yet it was all written in the saer he saw something unique about this and it said in this book says you a light unto the Nations you're here to change the whole world and one more thing it says in this book as long as you're in with Middle East was if you remember history it's called the Fertile Crescent one of the most fertile regions and here's the phenomenon when the Jewish people were exiled from is every witness says it became infertile as the p says it's going to be desolate When You're Gone rash says it's AB there's an organic connection between the Jews and Mark Twain has a diary when he went to Israel in the 1860s and he says desolate Barren desert you go today the desert bloomed another fascinating thing is where whoever heard that a nation exiled 2,000 years should come back to its Homeland it's unheard of the Dal Lama called in Jewish leaders a few years ago 1989 he said he's been exiled from Tibet by the Chinese for 50 years and he doesn't know how he's going to be able to bequeath the tradition to the Next Generation they're in exile for 50 years so he called the Jews to figure out how did you do it interesting the Dal Lama is a book about it called the Jew and the Lotus Mr common what's the point the T says you'll be exiled everywhere but you're going to come back to your land and even though half the Jews are still not in the land and we're waiting every moment for messiah because with all of the Beauties and miracles we all understand the darkness of the time but one cannot underestimate the miraculous fact that thousands of years later close to half of the Jewish people live in a and this was predicted in that book even though we're still before but you see a foretaste you see something of a of so many Jews in the last generation who came to is all predicted thousands of years ago by whoever wrote this sa as far which we call the tanak so isra understood that to experience this immorality he has to leave his mansion in midan and he has to join the nomads in the desert to become part of a story which transcends nature I can't sit on my couch and send a donation I can't sit on my couch and identify and say yeah they're good people I have to transcend my my own nature I have to make my own to join the Symphony of Eternity so is was not Jewish but he made this awesome sacrifice to join the Jewish people and internalize it says study anti-Semitism and it should be a powerful teaching who the Jews areel says look what T is look what T did to the Jewish people look what Mitzvah did to the Jewish people terms of survival and in terms of quality of life in terms of refinement in terms of Ethics in terms of Holiness in terms of K in terms of godliness and reel says he so he saw a completely different pattern in history where they were Guided by the creator of the world who is Supernatural and predicted ASI says as Mali says God says just like I won't die you won't die when he saw this is he said ah this I have to become part of this I want to be part of and the same is true in each of Our Lives Hashem says don't count yourself very often people are looking for dignity for self-esteem what do I do I look in the mirror say I look good I'm waiting for a compliment God says don't count Jews you're going to get depressed give and then count the coins put yourself in a space of Light Of Love of giving and then automatically you'll see your value you'll appreciate your value somebody once asked sir Moses Monte Fury sir Moses mon was one of the richest Jews in England it also helped that he was a brother-in-law of Rothchild that sometimes helps and he was also great philanthropist m is named after him you ever saw the mill the mill of Moses m you visit is and Ne way somebody asked him once in classic Jewish question it's what men ask other men how much are you worth this year it's how you say good morning instead of good morning how much are you worth this year so that mosha gave a number he gave a number let's say 400,000 so the Jew says oh stop lying I know I know you're worth at least 10 times the amount come on you made much more he said oh you didn't ask me how much I made this year if you would have asked me how much I earned this year I thought could earn much more you asked me how much I'm worth this year so I told you the number that I gave to charity this year a person is worth that which he's ready to share with others that's what said look at their contributions when you judge yourself we often judge ourselves so harshly you look at yourself I don't count to anything when I can Embrace somebody when I can give somebody love when I can help somebody ignite a spirit that comes back to to a person because the dignity is Immortal and it's unchallenged it's never questioned the question is how much I'm aware of it and the makes a person aware of it so in every person's life we have all an inner y there's always an inner Y and the inner yro struggles one part of yro says I want to be a couch potato did I Couch Potato okay it's not Mark Twain's English okay one part of is is in mid the question is what allows yro to make his own to split through his own sea to take that plunge what do they called the ice plunge you know when you go into the ice to take that scary plunge what takes to really be able not just to identify to be a spectator to be a fan to be part of the fan club of the Jewish people but to really integrate it to go through what's called Aus an internal transformation and each one of the sages points on another point one is when you see how much evil wants to destroy you you understand how much is at stake in your life it's true in everybody's life when you see how good your Yar is and wants every morning to plant in you fear and insec and uncertainty and despondency and despere and he never gets lazy it's unbelievable we never get lazy from this area this shows you how important it is what's at stake how much you have to be courageous and not let it take you over when I see how in a moment's notice I can slip and fall prey to theik inside of me theik that wants to say who are you I'm not asking about God par asked about God who are you you idiot you you lazy good for nothing you see that you realize what's at stake don't let amalik win that's number one number two says when a person sees literally on a daily basis what it means to live in a space of divinity to live in a space of infinite love Infinite light infinite trust infinite goodness and not to step out of it the choice becomes obvious which space am I going to live in we live in a space of light or in a place of Darkness a place of complete attachment and authenticity or a place of superficiality and falsehood it's not even a competition now because falson and competition is so empty it creates all types of attractions but it doesn't even it never competes with EMS that's what touched is and then the Third is says when I see in my life that I don't have to live Shackled In the laws of everything is predictable and everything is always the same in the same cycle in the same orbit but when I plug into the source of creativity creativity comes from the word creation when I plug into the Creator you become part of a creativity and even seize part what that means emotionally and psycholog ically even very difficult situations insurmountable obstacles they part you live in a different place in a mindset of Liberty and Freedom the is inside of us says it's time to go I saw last night somebody sent me an interview with her son yam was a hostage and he ran out of one of the buildings and the Israeli soldiers mistaking him for a terrorist for Kamas terrorist killed him together with another two people and then f said a sent out a famous letter to the soldiers not only she forgives them but she loves them and when they come out of Gaza she should they should come meet her and her family they want to hug them cuz she knows what a impossible situation they were in not knowing who's a killer who's not a killer who's a terrorist who's not and they shouldn't for a moment hesitate to kill a terrorist because of what happened and it really inspired the nation I I think I shared two last week or two weeks ago about her so somebody interviewed her and she said that she grew up a very very secular Jew very secular home very secular Jew in Kaa red Kaa they used to call it very very leftwing Kaa City that's where she grew up and she says something happened something in me was awoken and arose and transformed and I can't even explain it but she said something drastic was transformed inside of me I suddenly feel connected to a people and to a Homeland and to my Jewish tradition and I don't know from where it happened I don't know how it happened I didn't grow up this way it's not part of my my equation it's not part of my thinking process it's not part of my education and then the interviewer asked her what do you do with the horror the pain that your son was in captivity a young man and he was murdered by our own forces he was killed I should say by our own soldiers and she said listen nothing will take away the pain of a mother who lost her child especially under such circumstances but she said but I have to choose every day between pain and despair despair I will not have pain I will have she says I have to choose between losing all hope and having pain but let the pain be filled with hope this is how a mother of this is how his mother speaks it gives perspective it gives perspective to who we are as a people what our role is as a people and these are the three things that our sages are bringing out what yro felt and it transformed him completely it turned him into the person who Not only was an admirer and a spectator looking for a commentator on the news who supports Israel and say yeah like like like like like y could have gone on Facebook and did like I like Israel I like Douglas Murray I like I don't know all the two and a half people who support Israel and don't believe we have to go to aitz again you know the Jews are right we find one non-jewish reporter who thinks we have a right to live and it gets sent around to all the Jews and we're very happy there's one person who thinks we shouldn't die thank you and we really we do appreciate he's a great we appreciate it but y didn't just press like y became one of C hasem he became a soldier in hashem's Army this was the secret when he saw when he saw when he saw this changed him for for eternity as it changes us for eternity may we see a complete Victory and a complete Redemption now have a wonderful week next week we're on hasem Tuesday 9:30 yeah we're on next week we have a class yeah sure thank you for coming stuff means I love my child unconditionally bring you to one point and then on the contrary it's one thing when you really love somebody they can heal and they can be open to their own truth that's what it's about it's not about finding some my mother's truth that's not what it's about I never thought of these ideas hey where were you four years ago you know when there's emotional pain we're not going to listen to any ideas we're just going to focus on Survival you know what I mean if somebody is choking me just think about it if somebody's choking me right as they're choking me they're preaching to me that M happened first of all I can't hear anybody I can't even hear lecture on Coca-Cola just trying to breathe but what's worse is the one who's choking me is the one who's telling me about mat what does that mean that mat is associated with what choking me choking me so not only can't I hear it I have to go to the Other Extreme in order to get some bre fresh air so the love the connection creates an openness where I don't feel choked and then slowly I can actually hear truth she's open yeah yeah than so you're welcome thank you for coming thank you so much and that I enjoy your English so much thank [Music] you yours was what your children DA's scho she finished high school not a success in our Liv girl may I she a she was C there and her accomplishment collected money for this is our such success wow wow sh yeah yeah an author yeah he was a literary he was a literary genius thank you thank you for coming pleasure to have you hope you me I I came in and I I couldn't leave okay I saw you there no no it's nice to have another man here for little protection no I know it's it's fine it's fine anyway I I stood in for my wife this week I see I'm sorry the questions keep sure sure no problem because I'm dist so I have to say would who have and allowed anded his own children to be there after all all the yes and all the G and it's a good question yeah you know they supposed to be at Mat so I'm thinking so if yra came before maranta then and they were there if not not I want believe that they were there many opinions say yeah there's an argument what thank you an argument when y came literally he came before Matan but then there are others that he came after but I have to feel it I have to feel the but you know what there may be also very profound message maybe a very profound message and that is we don't care for yeah and that is that m raenu in terms of his own children you would say he wasn't successful Aon Aon and his children succeeded him moshe's children didn't succeed him in fact it says mha was upset about it he wanted his children to succeed him Hashem said yahushua what this teaches is also very profound sometimes a parent thinks that he's a complete failure because his child is not succeeding him but you see for m m became the greatest teacher of the Jewish people but it was not something that went in the family so there's different roles there's different situations there's different Journeys you don't look at mosa and say oh what did you do where are your where are your kids right this kids had a different mission right I don't always feel that you know it's because of what we do it's because of what hasem wants that's my point yes that some sometimes not what we do it's what Hashem wants it's everyone's journey and everybody's soul and it's a very complicated idea in many ways you can say is personal one has to let go and ask what's my mission what's my role I could do the best I can make their own decision and every child makes their own decision I could be there to support and love and be present but you can't but you can't live your child's life we educate we Inspire we Mentor we always remain loving and supportive through thick and thin but my child has his Nish my child has her journey that's the lesson of Misha and still he remains the greatest Jew and teacher who ever lived despite that Ma nobody looks at mosa and say hey Moshe you're such a great teacher you couldn't Inspire your kids doesn't work that way thank you very much sure missed you we missed you I was away but yes welcome back each time welcome back I felt I was missing welcome back we did a little crash course of Jewish history abely Yeah question first of was an amazing thank you to helping non like a lot of profession on a social work in a we [Music] have listen our respon as I said before about tells you're going to be a blessing for the whole world the ram says that by Hari the Jewish people had a MIT got a Mitzvah to influence the entire non-jewish world to accept in other words part of the Jewish responsibility is to light up the whole whole world we're not just a people for ourselves by being true to ourselves our role is to influence positively the whole world when not influence a nonre to embrace the you're familiar with so that is part of a ra says by told the Jews from Hashem to influence the entire world right like the says means you should influence the whole world so it's not about trying to like not work so it's not about isolation and segregation no of course Jews need to be true to themselves and authentic and follow the But ultimately by us being real Jews our job is then to influence the whole world especially especially today you understand yeah a lot of Jews don't know this but this is how it is l