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12/5/21: Rebbetzin Yemima Mizrachi & Rebbetzin Amit Yaghoubi - The Chanukah Light
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everyone to this very special women's
night of inspiration with two tremendous
speakers
robertson yamin mizrafi from israel and
robertson i'm miyagobi
from new york we have a tremendous
lineup tonight it's really for for this
last night of chanukah
zo's hanukkah we're really going to be
inspired um everyone together
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and we want to um it's a great great
honor to call upon our first speaker for
tonight
robertson and meet ya gobi
hanukkah our menorahs are fully lit
where do we go from here
first of all to say thank you to the
unbelievable organization hazak
whatever you think you may know that
hazak does it just does so much more
khazakh with rabbi meirov and his
brother rebec at the helm directing
everything has gone into every area of
jewish society and is interested in
helping every single jew whether helping
them or empowering others to be the
helpers kazakh has
huge goals and is slowly beginning to
reach them and strive towards them and
of course to mikva usa that is providing
the framework for tahrara mishpacha the
core of what a jewish family is with
family purity across the country
enabling people to keep this mitzvah to
keep the mitzvah better hashem should
grant these organizations continued
hatslacha and more and more success in
their avodah hashem
so there's a story of a mr smith and
he's coming home after a long shift from
work and as he is walking it's a little
bit chilly outside it's gotten colder
and he bundles his jacket and he's
walking in the dark and he feels like
there's somebody behind him he doesn't
want to look back he quickens his pace
just a little bit but before you know it
he can hear that of the switchblade and
he hears a voice from behind him give me
your wallet
so he steps back and he says okay all
right take it easy no problem and he he
pulls out his wallet and he says it's a
right man so right and he gives the guy
his wallet the guy gives him a look and
starts to run off into the darkness
mr smith
turns back to his mugger and says
excuse me hold on a minute
the guy turns back and says yeah
and he says
it's getting colder
you're gonna be out all night during
your doing your work
you might catch a cold
maybe you want to take my jacket
so the mugger looks at him incredulously
and starts inching back towards him
again shows his knife and says give me
your jacket
so mr smith no problem starts taking off
his coat take it easy no problem and
hands it to this guy
the guy again jets off into the darkness
and again mr smith calls out to him hey
hey hey wait a minute uh excuse me turns
back
what
says
i was just about to go eat
you're going to be out all night working
in the cold maybe you want to grab a
bite of food with me before you finish
your evening activities
the guy looks at him
and sees this gentleman seems like a
genuine guy comes close and says
okay
where are you going
and together they walk to the restaurant
that mr smith always eats at
on his way home from work before he goes
home and as he walks in all the waiters
and the waitress says hi how are you
how's everything everyone is so glad to
see him the manager comes over and says
oh good to see you how was your day
and this criminal sitting next to him
says
are these people always so nice to you
and mr smith turns to him and says the
world is filled with nice people the
world is filled everywhere you go with
nice people of course people are nice
and this man is watching
while mr smith tells him i gotta get a
pastrami sandwich over here why don't
you order yourself another soda
and they're sitting and eating and
slowly he begins to thaw and talks to
him and tells him about his life and
eventually they finish their meal and
they're quite friendly now and mr smith
turned to this guy
and says to him you know
i would really love to pay for your
dinner
but you have my wallet
how about you say
give me my wallet back
i'll pay for your dinner
and we'll see if we can work something
out together
and the criminal
gives mr smith back his wallet
they keep in touch
he hires him and eventually
rehabilitates this man who was about to
mug him late at night in the streets
you see
we just
are coming out of hanukkah
where we had one light with pascan like
bait hill one light two lights three
lights where each light allows us to add
a little more
because the kaddish bar is telling us
the more light you put in the world the
more light will be reflected back at you
the more i can shine out to others what
i do choices i make
can change the environment around me and
that's exactly what the maccabees did
you see they didn't think that they were
going to do this worldwide kirov effort
when they went out to fight the greeks
all they wanted to do was shows the
greeks that there are still jews who are
willing to fight
and possibly die for the honor of god's
sake
and they go out and they fight they
don't expect to win the war they do
they're so thrilled there's a miracle
but then the unexpected happens as well
jews who had abandoned their judaism
who had become mitiavnim who had become
hellenistic who were fighting in the
armies of the greeks against their
jewish brethren
became inspired
by the maccabeem became inspired by
these jews who were not army trained
who just wanted to fight for doing the
right thing and slowly over the course
of the battles many jews who had
abandoned their judaism
came back
and helped the maccabee
fight against the greeks reclaiming
their portion in fighting for hashem
because what i do
affects not only me but also all of the
people around me my menorah in my window
my little window with my little menorah
affects the street
that's one of the messages that chanukah
is here to tell us to take with us
but where do we go
now full menorah beautiful lights
as we leave the holy festival of
chanukah where do we take it
maybe
we become makabim
what am i going to be macabee is the
same letters as become
what will i be what do i want to become
after going through this holiday
who is it that i want to be
maccabee in this world
chanukah is unique in that it is the
only jewish holiday that actually spans
two months
uh kislev and tevet and in fact the meme
say that the light of hanukkah
is what gets us through the darkness of
tevet that a jew wouldn't be able to
manage
without the light of hanukkah and that's
why it has to span both
what's the connection between the month
of keith's life the month of david why
does chanukah need to span them because
my friends
this holiday was a meeting of sisters
sisters witch sisters
hanukkah is a combining of each one of
these two imahot of their spiritual
powers
rahel
coming together
holding hands combining their forces and
giving each one of us a gift
this hanukkah like no other gift that we
have seen
what is the gift that rahel and leia
come together to give the jewish people
every single month corresponds to a
different chevette 12 months 12 tribes
the first three months of the year
tishrei
and kislav are all children of rachel
tishrei is ephraim
and ki slave binyamin
what who was rachel rachel was ashaki
fat
fatmar
she was beautiful rachel represents that
which we can see which is revealed good
and in fact yaakov avinu comes seeking
because what do we as human beings seek
in this world we seek that which is
revealed that we can see
that is good
who is leia
leia
say is
she is the covered world she is hidden
her world what she represents is
difficult to discern difficult to
understand
yet
we see
that rachelle in her revealed beauty is
subject to ups and downs of life
she has positive things happen negative
things happen her children when they sin
sha ul hamelach is removed from the
scene
whereas leia
in her hiddenness
has consistency
she remains consistent
yehuda shalomo all of the sins of
malchus based david don't remove the
kingship from them
there is a consistent that they have
when
we see rachel we understand she is the
world of
a reward and punishment and that's why
she is from rosh hashanah when a jew is
beginning her travels in this year tough
shin pay bet beginning her travels a jew
says okay how do i start okay there's
reward and punishment it's the world of
reveal you do good you get good you do
bad khalil you get bad it's the world of
rahel but my friends that's the
beginning
of
because the true depth of avodah hashem
is to go into the world of leia the
world where i don't
see exactly what's going on but i trudge
ahead
yaakov avinu comes seeking rafael
but he marries leia first
leia the depth of connection
the hidden understanding of bringing two
together
rachel represents the times in our life
where we feel connected to hashem things
are going good i wake up in the morning
and i can't wait to dab and i feel like
my myths would have purpose i'm excited
i'm inspired i'm doing i'm accomplishing
i feel hashem i'm saying
are those times in our life where we
feel hashem we know he loves me we know
what i'm doing has a point
but that's not every moment of our life
leia represents the takufa those time
periods where
we're not sure if what we're doing has a
point we're not sure if hashem is happy
with what i'm doing
we don't feel connection i'm davening
but i don't feel anything should i
continue should i not i'm doing these
mitzvoth but is it just because i'm
socially involved in doing these meets
vote
do i still plunge ahead
leia represents those moments where we
don't feel god in our life and yet
leia represents the coming of mashiach
where it might be there's total chaos
but hashem
is creating the path
to get to the goal where we see the
story with yehuda and tamar what's going
on it seems like not so
bad the state of mashiach is being
planted leia represents those times in
our life where we don't feel like we're
on spiritual fire where we don't feel
like okay yeah things are going great
we've got this
and yet you believe
that every part of what i'm doing
is a path that hashem is paving towards
mashiach
36 the 36 or haganuz the hidden light
that was hidden within our candles the
36 candles which we lit
mashiach
the eight nights of chanukah where we
start in hodesh kislev of rakhel and
then we move into
which is from the tribes of leia
we move from this revealed connection to
hashem
and we partner for even in those times
where it's not we're headed towards a
goal we
hold hands together on hanukkah
and give us
that koach to synthesize the two powers
says that the strength of yosef his
behorshoro was in his ability to
interact with the outside world josefat
sadiq is able to go out and rule over
egypt we see that he is able to interact
with all of the forces of
and yet retain his spiritual integrity
and even shine out
his kedusha and influence the people
around him he becomes second in command
by the way so do esther and mordechai
also children of rafael they're out
there they're in the government they're
holding these positions they're they're
they're interacting with the nations of
the world they have excelled in all
kinds of external matters of asconus and
all of those kinds of things while still
retaining their spiritual integrity
and so josef rashel
is how a jew measures up to the nations
around him how do i do my avodah hashem
clapey the world that i am part of
yehuda
is entirely different
the strength of yehuda
is the power of ruling over himself
to conquer
within
the kiddush hashem that yosef does
is captured by public media posted all
over look at what we are the kind of
nation we are amongst nations
the kids hashem of yehudah
is a kid hashem that's done
within the confines of claudius
it's a kedish hashem between us and us
with no public eye
yehuda is the ability to be
introspective to focus within to build
up the strength of claude israel clapey
israel within ourselves you understand
we need both
we need both powers to work together
we don't need either to be an end in and
of themselves
their cohort that each jew has a little
bit of both and some jews tend more to
one or the other
but they're cohort that need to be
merged together not kept separate yavan
represented
murder but yavan they were so cultured
they were so civilized they were so
democratic how could they represent
murder how could they represent shifu
because yavan
the way they killed was not physical
death
what they did was they sucked the life
force out from within
leaving
an empty shell
of what was once life
taking out all of the depth taking out
all of the inner
substance and just leaving the external
beauty
when we have
yoseph
who is beautiful
and he is fighting
against the greeks yosef is gematria
because yosef's beauty spiritual beauty
is a force that fights against
superficial beauty
the milkhamma of yavan the milhamma of
the greeks is the war against spiri
superficiality
spirituality against superficiality
you understand the greeks appreciated
beauty they came into our temple they
didn't look to knock it down they loved
the architecture it was beautiful
all they wanted to do was make sure
to
destroy the wall that separates between
the jews and the non-jews i'll
appreciate your beauty you appreciate my
beauty hey let's collab together let's
get together
let's
share our beautiful ideas
but what yavan which is the yud and then
the valve and then the noon three lines
that get progressively longer quicksand
what yavin does is the minute you fall
into superficial beauty
it sucks you down
until it removes all life force
from within you
and leaves you an empty case
with nothing inside and no depth
so as we begin
to pack up our menorahs
to put away
our mahajan minha mahadrin
to put away the beautiful decorations
that are getting more extravagant as the
years go on
we have to ask ourselves
now
that i experienced the eight nights of
chanukah the
what am i doing with that power
what am i going to be
who do i look like is there depth to me
am i focused on the external beauty
we have in cloud israel the most
beautiful challah covers gorgeous
personalized to fill in bags
custom-made benchers to match our dining
rooms we have the most beautiful
tashmishai kadusa that perhaps ever was
and there's nothing wrong with that
we have to ask ourselves though
do we have the quality of leia within
our beauty
are the gorgeous things that we use the
high quality sneeze clothing that we buy
is it
with the inner essence of leia as well
or is it just the external only what i
can see does my judaism does the judaism
that i'm giving to my children to my
students
does it have token does it have depth
inside of it
am i able to give over that which is
hidden there's a reason why our torah is
torah
what you can see and torah
and torah's about that even though we
have it written down we still call it
because there is something as jews that
we have to be able to give over that
cannot be seen
there's depth in who we are
we are not what you see is what you get
we have layers and layers our
yiddishkeit our mitzvot our shoes our
homes have to have layers and layers of
depth
can we fight the shallow beauty of
greece can we take
the yosef the children of
and be able to go out into the world and
establish ourselves as we have amongst
nations lobbying and doing what we're
doing
but understanding
that it's because we have to get to the
alma deit kasya to the hidden world that
we are not just jews out in the world to
show that we have made it but we are
making it in the outside world only
to be a light onto the
and to be able to then strengthen
ourselves from within
because you understand
it's
david it's leia that leads us
consistently
towards our goal of mashiach
to continue to strive for the substance
and the truth that we have
the sisters rachel
come together they cross over by the way
they cross over again also on purim
where because we see mordechai is called
mordechai
from leia
this combination of the jew that's
successful in the outside world while
retaining spiritual integrity and the
jew that stuck in the beta midrash
building khali israel from within that
we are not antithetical to one another
but rather that we need to grow together
and that each one of us needs to build
homes
that have a combination of both of these
powers
and that is the gift of chanukah that
each one of us has been given this year
as we are saying goodbye to the eight
beautiful lights to understand that
beauty is coming from
but it needs to be infused with leia
menu with depth
with purpose
and to check my life and make sure that
i have both
and so how do we do this i'll leave you
with the story
there's a yid his name is rabbi avraham
grossman and he has a cola inherits
israel and his cola is very unique
because they pay an incredibly high
stipend to the abraham of ten thousand
shekel a month now they don't just get
there's thirty avraham in this cola and
they don't just get the ten thousand
shekel a month they have they have
things that they need to accomplish and
one of the things they need to
accomplish is that they have to take a
bahina they have to take a test and in
order to stay in the cola you have to
get a hundred on every test and so you
can understand that this cola that rebbe
grossman has is serious tami de gacham
that are taking their learning very very
seriously retaining their learning in a
very serious way and everybody asked me
from where do you get your funding right
all organs and organizations want to
know where are you getting your funds
how are you getting your funding and our
big grossman always kept it a secret
until one year it was purim
and rabbi grossman is asked how do you
fund your cola and the following story
begins to flow out of his mouth and he
talks about a time that he was traveling
with his family and they were driving in
arts israel going up north and the
children are complaining they're hungry
they want to stop rest stop okay they
pull over to the side of the road
everybody eats they take care of all of
their needs a bunch of kids in the car
they get back into the car everyone
piles in
turns on the car
it's not going on turns on the car it's
not going on goes on for a moment and
then sputters and dies what's going on
oh my goodness they realize
they don't have gas
okay it's all right don't worry we'll
find someone to help us rabbi grossman
gets out of the car he's trying to flag
down anybody who will stop and finally a
slick mercedes pulls up and the tinted
window gets pulled down
and
there's a man behind the wheel and he
says
what's wrong
remember grossman says oh thank you so
much for stopping
maybe you can help us we ran out of gas
and this man whose name was ophir
uh was not a religious jew and he looks
at ray grossman and his family and he
says only leave it to kharadim that
they're gonna be in the middle of the
street and forget to get gas i can't
believe you people and he hits his foot
on the gas and speeds away
hashem his rahmanus his mercy overcomes
him and he eventually makes a u-turn and
he tells the rabbi all right rabbi get
in the car i'll take you to get some gas
gets into the car making small talk
talking to him oh where are you from
they finally get to a gas station and he
says okay i'll wait for you and i'll
take you back to your car rabbi grossman
gets out of the car starts to go to the
gas station to buy something to fill up
the gas and he comes back to the car and
he tells oak fear i'm so sorry but i
cannot buy gas from over here and if you
sense llama what's wrong what's wrong
with the gas and the rabbi tells him oh
there's nothing wrong with the gas but i
cannot purchase anything from this gas
station why
it says
we're open on shabbat
open on shabbat
would you ever go to a place that openly
spits in your father's face and buy
something from them i cannot buy from
this place i love hashem i love my
father my father says to keep shabbat
this gas station wants to flaunt that
they don't love my father i cannot
purchase gas from over here now you
understand ophir has been tolerant up
until now but this is a bit much for him
what are you meshuggah are you crazy i
should just leave you over here and
robert grossman says please i'm sure
there's another gas station can we just
go to the next gas station up here says
i don't know why i'm even doing this for
you you're crazy get in the car they get
in the car they buy gas
they come back to rabbi grossman's car
and they exchange phone numbers okay
very nice to have matthew alfiersham
should send you so much brother so much
blessing and
hashem will get in touch someday
they exchange numbers and they part ways
okay so the trip uh continues to go on
they have their little vacation and
time moves one year two years everyone
has forgotten about this incident
and rabbi grossman years later gets a
phone call
hello is this rabbi grossman ken musee
this is ophir do you remember me
oh fear i i'm sure we've met before i
just i can't remember
and he says oh you don't remember with
the gas you're on the side of the road i
picked you up
oh
[Applause]
how are you of course i remember you
what's going on oh fear says listen
rabbi i don't have too much time to talk
i need to meet you
in tel aviv come to this very special
buildings come and i need to have a
meeting with you i need to meet with you
right away why is everything okay rabbi
trust me we meet tomorrow come here do
not be late
okay everybody grossman says okay
he goes and he sees oh fear ah how are
you hug and a kiss
and no fear sits down and he says i'm
going to get right to business
my father passed away two weeks ago
and rabbi grossman says i'm so sorry to
hear that and he says
my father
was a
a religious man obviously i would i'm
not a religious man but my father
allowed for each one of us to go in our
own ways my father became fabulously
wealthy in israel he owns a tremendous
amount of properties
and his estate is worth millions of
dollars
when we read my father's will
he left me
a very good portion to be able to live
the rest of my life and he said that he
wants 30
of his estate to go
to a man
that loves hashem
so we read this in the will and we said
okay i guess i'm the executor i have to
find someone who loves hashem who who
who do i know that loves hashem
and he goes on the street hi do you love
hashem and you know how am i going to
assess who loves hashem to give
such a large amount of money to every
grossman still doesn't know what 30
percent is
and he says but then i remembered you
i remembered you meshuga when i'm taking
you to buy gas and you say i love my
father i'm not shopping somewhere that
doesn't love my father i remember you
said i love hashem i said i gotta call
this man
and he takes a check 20 million dollars
and he says
use this
to spread torah
and that was rabbi grossman's funding
that he had to build this cola
because rabbi grossman was not afraid
to say
i love hashem
he was not afraid to stand up amongst
the secular world and say i'm a jew and
i'm proud and i'll sing it out loud
i love hashem
i have the external beauty
because it's my internal beauty
that's propelling it forward
maybe hashem's will
that we take the warmth of our chanukah
candles that we pass it into the world
that we change those around us
because from within
we are overflowing with kedusha with
ahava with love for hashem that we
understand in our moments of connection
we're in
and in our moments of turmoil we're in
leia mode but hashem
is directing the scene he's directing us
towards mashiach
we should be able to greet mashiach
this year please god and that khalifa
should have a
shalema thank you
thank you haven't seen y'all go with
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yep um i would seems rocky
shalom america i miss you so so much and
jonathan zacks the holy vacher
used to say that the people we remember
all our lives were those who gave us
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the ones we remember are the ones
whoever gave us
hope
tikkuva
and this evening i'm supposed to speak
of sneot
me
i love beautiful outfits i love shopping
black fridays i love zara is that avoid
azter
beauty
and the jewish
breaking news are
enlightened
there is nothing more beautiful
than snee ut
is not about being ugly giving up beauty
it's all about beauty and if you look at
the woman most beautifully dressed in
the world the gorish world you will find
this princess kate middleton
the middle skirt
the middle sleeve the middle tone
everything sanua
is the real real beauty and that's what
we are going to talk about
this evening
hanukkah is the hug
which speaks of beauty
and ghazal tell us about this historic
meeting
between
the greek warrior
alexander mcdonne
hanukkah is all about greece and yavan
and he goes to conquer
jerusalem but before he gets to
jerusalem
he sees
a big group of people coming
and ahead of them
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walking someone
so beautiful
when he sees him alexander mcdonne the
greek warrior he falls on his face and
everyone is asking him what happened
brave alexander mcdonald and he says do
you see this man
every time i conquered
a country or a city every time i won my
wars
i used to see the figure of this man
walking
before me
this beautiful man
was
a akohen hagadol shim on hatsadiq
yavan greece
is all about beauty
yaft elokim leifet they had the goddess
of beauty they admired beauty
and suddenly he sees the beauty of the
kohenga doll and he says
you won
i won't
conquer jerusalem
because i am used to conquer
and you
shim onat sadiq
hakohen hagadol
you have conquering
beauty
i cannot fight
this beauty
there is a huge difference between the
beauty and the light
of the kohen gadol
he goes inside kodesha kodashimli fnai
velif nim this is the song of the
eshethrill version
every shabbos evening your husband sings
to you
you have the beauty of the kohenga doll
where as
alexander mcdonne conquers more and more
this man
has conquering
beauty what does it mean
it's beauty
which stays
no matter how old you are
no matter how many wrinkles you have
it's a beauty which stays
forever
it lingers
who remembers these days alexander
mokudon who remembers all the conquering
of the evanim no one
and the jewish beauty
is still here
and the gemara tells us
alexander mcdonnell conquers more and
more and more countries until he gets to
a place called
hanashim
the women's city
they greet him and they say to him do
not conquer this city
and he asks them llama why
and they say
if we win
people will say women one
defeated alexander mcdonald and if you
win
people will say
he won a city of woman
and he says to them
i've never met
such wise woman
i am not conquering this city
these wise women knew
that the more conquering you have the
more followers you have in your
instagram in your facebook in your
it has to stop
somewhere
it won't linger because the more exposed
it is
the more danger
is there
it cannot go on and on
forever
because it's all
over the place
and when your beauty is exposed all over
the place
there oh there will always be someone
wiser than you
beautiful than you
having beautiful children and a
beautiful family
more than you
have
it causes depression so many young boys
and young girls are depressed they feel
unworthy why
because all over the place
people expose their pictures of their
happy family lives of the last trip they
made and suddenly you feel
unworthy
i just think of all those pictures in
shidduchim time
even though he could have met her and he
could have thought she's beautiful but
when he sees all these pictures around
suddenly
she is unworthy
this shabbos we read such a pasuk
yakov marries
after he married leia
rahel
ah
which means he loved also
so why is it written just afterwards
hashem
is hated
it was just written he loves also
because when
relations
become relative
to someone else
even though he loves le a
when she is near a hell
she considers herself
hated
so many young girls are walking around
feeling ugly and hated
not because they are ugly or hated but
because relationship
is relative
and when you have so many things to
relate to
in the website suddenly your wife
is not as beautiful as you thought
is not as smart as you thought
suddenly you are not
a happy family as you used to think
because look at them
sending their beautiful pictures
from the dolomites in
italia
when things are exposed
when people want to conquer
with their beauty and wisdom
it won't last there will always be
someone
more beautiful
smarter
the family life won't be satisfacted any
longer
once people divorced less but now
they are exposed to so
many
beautiful and perfect
pictures
what can we do against it
this is the generation
following people looking at their
picture sending our happy pictures with
our husbands and children
what can we do
there is one woman
khazal tells us she is a widow
the wife of the prophet of vadiyah she
has huge debts
and the man she owes him money comes to
her and says unless you pay me this huge
amount of money i'm taking your two sons
to be my slaves
she doesn't know what to do she runs
to elisha the prophet and he says to her
um
you need money now desperately
ma
do you have anything at home and she
says law
nothing
i've got nothing
maybe
a small portion
of oil
wow he says to her now you go and you
borrow kaleem
jars from your neighbors
you close the door
you take the small amount of oil from
the jar and you say to her children
give me the jars
and you start pouring
and she does this
and another jar is being full and
another one and another one
and all the neighbors are standing
outside the house the clocked
house
thinking why did she have to use so many
jars why did she borrow so many jobs she
is poor
this woman
nes pacha chemin
she sells the oil she pays her debt but
she still has
so much left
no
and elisha the prophet says to her take
this
you and your children are going to live
with these leftovers
what
made
this miracle come true
how did she have parnassa after this
corona horrible year
she closed
the door
and when you close the door of your
house
you suddenly see
how
much
you have
when the door is open
when the windows
of your cellular are open
you will feel all the time i've got
nothing
endless
okay now close the door
close the windows
look at what you have
the reflection of the light
will be so
huge
the kohenga doll just like you
walks into his kodesh kodashim it's very
very small
he closed the door
and the light is all around
why do we put the hanukiah inside the
house instead of putting it outside
hazal revealed to us
that when
you put light on the window
your children if they look outside they
won't see anything they will see
darkness because the house is full of
light
but when the house is dark and obscure
when the house
is looking at what other people have
the house is dark
your children and husband and you
are going to stick to the window
to the screens
and the screen will be their light
it's a physical rule
the house is dark
you look outside and it looks like light
the house is lit
full of beautiful and holy candles
full of songs and music full of hugging
and good words
no one will want to look
outside
it's being a worrier
to have conquering beauty it's being a
bigger worrier than alexander mcdonne
but remember every time you want to make
sinned on a beautiful picture of your
private life every time you want to pick
up and look at her pictures or his
pictures
be careful your family life is at stake
because everything in your relation she
becomes relative
and unworthy
suddenly
but more than that
it ruins your relations
with him
hazal tell us
so many times you lose hope of tfila you
do not devon any longer because he
doesn't hear you
i say to students not student
from students from universities
i tell them try this
even for five minutes when you want to
pray you don't know if there is god or
not
you put on yourself something tsanua
modest
and suddenly you will see
how your tifila has power
how your fila becomes
why
explains when you cover yourself
you understand
that under this cover
exists
gorgeous beauty
which no one sees
that's the way you speak to god because
you do not see him he is covered behind
the sky
but you know that behind
thick covers
beauty can
exist
you know i always think
that modesty is really not modest
because modesty says
i have such gorgeous beauty
i cannot expose it
i cannot endanger
it
i have to keep this gorgeous family my
gorgeous beauty
it's such
an immodest idea
being modest
modesty is not thinking i'm unworthy
modesty is knowing i'm so worthy i want
this to linger
when you cover a little bit with beauty
your beauty you can look at this
beautiful sky
and believe
someone is hidden
behind there
listening
knowing
so smart
so beautiful
conquering beauty
i remember once when i spoke to um
students in the haifa technion
and one of them told me yemen do you
know why i came to hear you and why i'm
starting to believe in god she said i
came from a
really really secular house not
affiliated
and
in the army i was accepted to this very
special secret unit mista arvi
the mistake are those soldiers who dwell
in arab villages they are disguised to
arabs they live an arab life soldiers of
us are married to palestinian womans no
one knows
they are soldiers there are only a few
women doing this
and she was one of them
and she said to me yanima i was in a
house and i had a special hidden camera
which could see what is happening in a
terrorists house just in front of me
one night
awake no one around me knows i'm a
jewish soldier israeli soldier
i was watching and following what was
going on in this terrorist house and
then i said to myself
rega
if you can look at someone
without him even guessing you are doing
so
maybe someone is looking at me right now
without me guessing even
it can happen
the minute she was
hidden
the minute she was so tsunua
and still having such an influence on
the enemy
she could believe
there is someone so tzanua and hidden
who has
influence
on all the world
and on her
as well
when alexander mcdonald sees
the shimon sadiq the big kohenga doll he
says what
this man
from
davening in yom kippur
he really decides whether i can conquer
a country
or i lose the battle
and shimona sadiq says to him
i dress beautifully me meesh betsodza
have levusha and it has to be beautiful
i get into the kodesh kodashim
i close the door and now i can influence
all the world the rain
pregnancies
marriages
wars
i have influence
on the world
it's so hard i really tell you
that being tsanua in our generation is
being a warrior it's being a mista
arrest it's being this brave soldier
behind a disguise
keeping
this country
alive
keeping herself
secure
i want you to make
hanukkah habit
i want you to festive to to la gog
your family life i want you once a day
to close the door
to close the windows of your internet
and cellular
to look at what you have
and not only
that what you have will be preserved and
guarded
it will produce more and more and more
oil
your parmesa
your love life the education
of your children
all you need
is two things
to be
mecca always hoping for the good
thank you mikveh usa
and to be
so
very much
hazak
thank you
you