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Beauty in Pain: Tefillah During Challenging Times by Rabbi Menachem Nissel
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www.ouisrael.org facebook.com/ouisrael #OUisrael #torah #judaism #torahlectures #tefilla #daven Delivered 5 Tevet 5783 - December 17, 2023. The L'Ayla Rosh Chodesh Program is sponsored by the Brachfeld Family in Memory of Mrs. Linda Pruwer Brachfeld, מרת חיה סאשא בת ר' יוסף הלל
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too much pressure on me over
here I've never done this before I've
never sat teaching before let me try let
me try I've never done this before in my
life sit while teaching oh my
gosh just like I'm so high up as it is I
feel like okay if I stand up is this
good I did the camera person can see
me hi everyone my name is I just wanted
to thank uh once again ritson's mirror
for introducing me as usual um she
mentioned that I'm a writer for mishak
magazine so I just want to plug that
this week you should all buy Mish
magazine because they're doing a feature
on me and not that I like to sell myself
but yeah a little bit I like to
self-promote so uh Mish magazine will
have both in the women's section I'm
starting a new column there on um
Inspirations for the shabas table and on
the main section I have a um well
they're writing about me about a book
that I'm coming out now on my rebi rosi
Shapiro whose yard side is this Friday
on
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uh if you want next time I see you I'll
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for everybody um it's going to be um
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hopefully ready next week it's a felim
book and it's called looking into the
sun Mish magazine will be here in the
stores on
Wednesday um at every good local
store yeah Mish magazine um I I this is
out of my my knowledge
scale I get it for free I'm a writer I
get I get it I don't know how it works
in real life um yeah um so and and the
other thing is if I'm ready
self-promoting so you should just know
that um I'm having a next month God
willing the new version of Rick H for
women is going to be out expanded
version and uh this is very exciting for
me so I actually have a very serious
topic to talk about so I want to begin
with the story um I apologize I have
definitely told this story here in this
room beforehand so if you've heard this
before bear with me uh one of the things
that I do for a living is I take groups
to Europe honestly if I had my choice if
I would take you I would go to what I
call Happy Europe which is you know
whatever Spain and Italy and fun places
like that but most times I go to sad
Europe which is basically Poland and
Lithuania and I take groups uh from all
over the world and I try and Inspire
them uh with our history so the story
goes um this is now two years ago two
years ago I went to a place to Kent with
a group of men from um you know from
Flatbush Mony lakehood you get the
picture this my over there and in lens
as you may know is buried a great sadic
who wants to finish my sentence the re
right
re I have a side to me so whenever I go
to these sikim I always first go to the
Mikvah as a mik right there so I can go
into the Kev I can go there with my
Holiness having just been there to the
mikah um the group that I was with we
bunch of Yesa guys they don't do Mikvah
before K but two young men decided to
accompany the rabbi it turned out it was
a blessing because while I was there
something happened I don't exactly know
what happened um it seems to me that I
slept maybe on a bar of soap and I woke
up in a leens hospital um and basically
if you can imagine there's a lady in the
back who's eating um Can a favor can you
just raise your sandwich just for one
moment for everyone to look at imagine
that's my arm over there okay you see
how it's cut in the middle it's cut in
the middle that's what it was I still
have a bone sticking out exactly and it
was also cut three ways times this way
so thank you you did this on Q it was
perfect um so that's my was broken my
arm was broken in several places and um
I in incredible incredible pain I woke
up my hand was the size of a balloon I
didn't know what was happening it was
just at the end of Corona remember
Corona remember those days Corona so uh
the only person that was allowed to
accompany me was voch my polish
driver and he was trying to explain that
I had completely lost all sense of my
arm so you can close your eyes and you
can touch your nose like this but I did
not know where my hand was my hand was
just did not exist the nerves had
nothing was connected nothing existed
except for my pain and um at this point
now I I saw what they were doing they
they took a photograph I saw what was
happening I heard them say um we have to
bang bones together right they were
talking about the doctors discussing now
when I say it was a hospital um it
wasn't a hospital like you and I know
hospitals it was more like a Dracula's
castle you know like V blood I just I
don't know what was going on over there
but uh you can't actually see patients
you just hear the moans and the Cries
From the distance and uh I heard them
that they wanted to literally bang my
bones together and um um Nails one
person was complaining they I have
friend okay he have nails he is
Carpenter I did not know what was going
on okay I was pushing them like smashing
my bones together I knew this was not
good I called up my friend could be some
of you know him um Dr Michael wensky
hadasa Hospital anybody know him Willie
childhood friend from England I called
him up uh he was watching a football
game in a pub here in usai I'm not going
to go into the details but Harry Kane
had just scored for England so basically
he assumed that's why I was calling you
like go I said really okay I said no no
no no this is this is this is step out I
know you're you know I know England's
beating Denmark like woohoo but you step
out this is your best friend we grew up
together I need you now I need you I
explained to him what was going on
sudden he became very serious he says
get out of that hospital get into your
taxi go straight to W the airport fly to
Y here we'll take care of you which is
what happened he took care of me and a
lot of incredible Miracles happened to
be once I arrived in AR to thr but the
first thing we had to do was literally
escape from this Hospital
okay this was me like my broken arm the
whole thing with the pain uh they had
put me on these happy drugs I don't want
to go into details but uh yeah the happy
drugs made me happy but did not really
take away the essential pain itself and
uh literally I told vek to find his
inner Jason Bourn right to basically to
get in there to run away to J we picked
up one of the KRA from the group one of
the senior uh members of the group
joined us and uh this was it the three
of us were heading to w
and this is happening at night time so
we're driving all night long now about 4
hours into this drive I suddenly noticed
that voch my driver is uh is starting to
Swerve he's falling asleep at the whale
so now I have a whole new set of
problems okay I I say VCH I says I says
okay this is ridiculous just get out get
off the main get off the highway get
into the first Forest you find and get
some sleep for half for now I we need to
live we need to make it to the airport
thank you RAB thank you RAB we Veer off
we go into this Forest he stops the car
within seconds he's asleep seconds later
Dove is asleep and suddenly I find
myself in the following situation now I
want you to understand okay I cannot
sleep over here all I'm feeling is there
waves and waves of pain going like this
and um Hashem decided to torture me in a
very Exquisite way at that moment then
why because both VCH and Dove my friend
were both
snoring but they were snoring in harmony
vek had like the high notes uh he had
some kind of a nasal situation so
picture King David's harp but instead of
harop strings it was his no strings and
this was B basically he was going like
that thing and Dove was doing like this
deep thing and I said I don't know what
gam is
like but this is how I imagine it and at
this point now I start to think and I
start to think with Clarity I do not
know how I'm going to do anything with
my life this moment now my life had come
to a like a basically it had been halted
I don't want to go into details but just
think about it without an arm how do you
do basic acts of hygiene okay I'm not
going to go into the details with one
hand and okay I tell you what I can say
try doing your laces with one hand
apparently can be done one of my
students showed me how I hate her
because she could do it right she was a
what's it called one of those people
that work with um occupational therapist
she showed me how to do it in the veal
and seriously I've never forgiven her
for that that for that you know she
showed me that it can be done of course
in real life you can't do it bottom line
is for the next three months my children
had to take care of everything I did not
sleep in a bed for three months I wasn't
able to to to put on my f anything
nothing for 3 months my life was Gehan
but that moment in that Forest I had a
certain Clarity that I've never had in
my life you see I'm AA teacher I always
teach I'm always trying to get yeah you
got a do like the whole thing you got to
say the H I'm always like raah at that
moment then I felt a sense of
vulnerability that I don't remember ever
having in my life there was unique pain
that I was going through both physical
and emotional um I could hear the sounds
of bears in the forest of course it's my
imagination but the Wolves you know the
that was definitely
there and it was pitch black dark and
I'm there along with the K and I said to
K but for the first time it wasn't just
words I meant it you've got this okay it
is completely and totally in your
hands and I don't wish upon anyone the
feelings of pain that I had at that
moment the whole thing was a big joke
I'll tell you why because when I woke up
vek I asked him how far are we from the
from the airport he said about 20
minutes oh my gosh okay we were
literally 20 minutes away from the
airport we could have gone straight
there but K wanted me to feel that
moment of extreme pain of extreme
vulnerability and with that the extreme
Clarity that we are all in's hands that
all my otheros cannot bring me
and this is really what I wanted to
share with you today I wanted to share
with you that no one in this room wants
to experience pain emotional or physical
or otherwise but sometimes and
unfortunately we all know this these
things happen and we're living in an age
the last two months where there's been a
lot of pain I'm I'm not a soldier but I
have a lot of lot of beloved friends I
mentioned my friend Dr wensy he has
three sons that are fighting my sister
has three sons it's secondary pain of
what they're going through it's late at
night thinking about the hostages
everyone over here knows what I mean
when I talk about that secondary pain
that we feel thinking about what people
are going through what it means to be
fighting in those awesome those awesome
situations that our soldiers are going
through right now as we
speak but I want to share with you that
that this pain has to be seen for each
one of us as an individual as an
opportunity and I want to expand on this
just a little bit um what I want to
share with you have the exact quote in
front of
me unfortunately what we're going
through now in history is something that
you and I have seen many times in our
own lives but it is basically a constant
in
history basically the children of
Ishmael
and the children of asov they as they
always have are following a
script Nothing is really knew about
what's going on the children of ishma we
know about the children of ishma the
children of asov the explosion of
anti-Semitism that we've seen in the
last two months is following a pattern
asov I always say that with a n there is
what's called a recessive gene okay you
don't necessarily activate it they can
go their whole lives without it being
activated but given the right
circumstances this recessive will come
out and the person sitting next to you
on a college campus in Harvard suddenly
looks at you differently how does that
happen it happened
because tell us it goes back thousands
of years
asov is extraordinary I don't I'm just
reading a medish it feels like I'm
reading today's newspapers this medish
is um in in
P
Bas why are they
called there'll come a time will
hear the pain the groans of his people
that's my re who I mentioned earlier
points out this
word is used in paros to describe the
pain the Jewish people had in Egypt when
they were suffering underneath the
Egyptians today we're going to have that
NAA once again and he
continues the pain of the Jewish people
that will be expressed for what the
children of Ishmael will do to us at the
end of days we're in the land of
Israel that's why they are called
is he brings the
into God will listen to us the name and
will answer OS and that is how the story
is going to end there's going to be a
moment and this ladies I just want to
emphasize I'm reading to you pza was
written 2,000 years ago 2,000 years ago
rabar RAR the teacher Raba told us what
is happening today that we will be back
in the land of Israel and we will be
suffering for the children of Ishmael
and we will cry out to God and God will
answer us so we all know secretly every
person in this country knows that
diplomacy is not going to solve this
problem militarily we hope that A Kar is
going to give us a pause but we know
that it's not going to permanently solve
the problem so we'll Crush Kamas and
then tomorrow it be I don't want to say
I don't want P but we have enough
enemies to take their place that's just
sold on shabas these million of children
that we're trying to protect in 10 years
time they're going to follow the M of
the of the Tata that's what's going to
happen over
here they're following the script the
children of Asa are following the script
CL we are the
ones that know something new and we
always experience new because pain is
always fresh when we say that we are
following a script it's not really true
because we have choices the pain is a
constant the pain that everyone in this
room feels and the extreme pain the
people who are on the front lines and
the hostages of
feeling that does not follow a script
because we have choices we have choices
how to deal with that pain that's what I
want to speak about over the next 25
minutes if I may I just want to expand a
little bit about how to interpret how to
deal with that pain so I want to share
with you a story I'm asking the ladies
in front of me to interrupt me
the moment you figure out who this story
is
about okay this open for over here I'm
not a lecturer I'm a teacher so if you
know what I'm talking about you just can
can scream it out R we know exactly who
you're talking about once upon a time
there was an old
man who lived a life where he had no end
to his suffering he was never
married he was now in his late 70s had
not slept for ages and he
has someone who's trying to kill him and
he's running away from that person
killing and he's going
towards
danger everything he's ever had every
wealth he's ever earned has been stolen
from him and he finds himself in a
moment of complete and total pitch black
darkness and in that moment he turns to
The One and Only In Praise Yak thank you
very much okay so I see a few of you
murmuring the word
yako I presented it backwards without
telling you it is because when you and I
grew up I'm talking about me where are
my fellow Brits where are you okay so
you know remember dick wittington
remember dick wittington okay or the
wizard of ours okay picture Yakov in
going out okay to see some kind of like
a like a like there was some kind of um
nobleness nobility and drama about him
going out to build his family it wasn't
that way yak let's go over this slowly
Yu he left home at 63 he went for 14
years to learn in the Yesa off sh a
place without benches right he did not
sleep it said he had not slept for 14
years elifas had stolen everything he
owns as had already made a rash brings
down
the as considered yob as good as Dead
who was waiting for him at the other end
laan
alas had stolen everything and now here
he is this elderly man never married no
children nothing on his own he finds
himself in this place that you and I
know is the place of the future B
mikdash and there he unleashes a power
in that reverberates until the end of
time that you and I every single time we
dve
inas arit ar Mar every time we dve in
the mar we plug into that
moment so for a lot of ladies over here
this is going to be new
information Mari is the Prototype of
feeling in
pain Mar is the first time that we have
in the Terra feeling in
pain took it from yov so I'm not going
to explain this to you now because this
is not the agenda of today's class but
as you all know that the 24 hours is
divided into four parts so originally
corresponded to the morning corresponded
to the afternoon therefore AB gives
us and then when the Sun is setting
that's the of and his Yakov took the
night yakob took the night but yakov's
great great great great great grandson D
took the second half of the night and
gave us a thing called toim to him
corresponds to to from Midnight until
the sunrise and to Hill him is what
today is our custom um many ladies in
front of me do not D Mar I said teacher
never tell my students to D Marv you
have enough on your shoulders you don't
need to add more prayers but the idea of
mar and what Mar represents the idea of
in pain the idea of for the nighttime
that is something that we need to
connect to especially in these days in
practice it means I heard the last um
the last few minutes of reiton pearl
right she spoke about the power of toim
and toim okay is basically our go-to of
how we express our pain to he him is
like a joker in a pack of cards that
allows all our anxiety all our anst all
that we're going through to be expressed
through the ancient words of D but the
bottom line is is that y he represents
feeling in pain he represents the a the
forefather
that lived a life that from beginning to
end until
par where he finally gets that tranquil
Tranquility that he craved to be able to
elevate himself even further that last
17 years of his life where he was in gas
in Egypt but nevertheless yakob
represents the forefather in pain and he
gave us a that corresponds to night
time so let's talk for a few minutes
about
night you and I have forgotten what it
is the power of night why because of
light electricity so you and I when the
moment it gets dark we put the lights on
and it makes our lives the quality of
Our Lives consistently filled with light
if we lived 150 years ago and if we were
the average person which means that we
were in poverty we couldn't necessarily
afford candles Let's see we going back
before before Thomas Edison before there
was any form of light so what do you
have a choice candles right wax or oil
make a fireplace what happens if you
could not afford it so when it turned
dark you will Plunge Into Darkness and
if it was the beginning of the month you
will plunge into true
Darkness I remember I'm sorry just to
share with you something funny when I
was um um 17 years old I grew up in
London I was a very naughty boy in those
days and uh what can I tell you I once
um had a friend of mine his parents
owned a farmhouse in a place called Kent
out in the countryside we used to go
there for weekends and one shabas I
decided I wanted to see
demons my teacher in hasman taught me
that if you go to a place where there's
no natural light far away from anything
you take a candle you take a mirror you
told me what to do you can get to see
demons and I don't know why but in my
teenage mind I thought it would be a lot
of fun oh my gosh I walked out there
midnight deep into the fields of C far
away from London and I did put the
candle on mirror and I scream when I saw
that face I was terrified and my go I
did not realize it was so
scary but there it was okay a demon
later on of course I realized I was just
looking at my reflection
but
until that moment I had that moment of
Terror I knew what it was it was the
power of night in our religion night
everything comes to a standstill Basin
cannot convene at night the Bas mikdash
is quiet at night nothing is happening
except for the the burning of the fats I
know it sounds like an aerobics work out
but the burning of the fat that's all
that happens um um there's no Mitzvah
the Von wres there's no Mitzvah that
belongs to the night that comes from the
teror that is specifically uniquely
night Focus except for one night in the
year says the Von which is filled with
mitzvos because that night is a taste of
a future world where night is banished
and that is satanite where would he find
this Von on the
words he translates the child ask the
father what's going on there suddenly
night is behaving like day
let me quote you from the words of the
moral of Prague moral of Prague in his
classic
sa hav his essays on in the sixth
chapter he writes the following words he
says my definition of night is and I
quote the absence of reality it's hard
to translate the word mits it's a it's
not a real real it's not a word that you
could translate but the absence of
reality true nighttime there's no of
time and there's no sense of space if
you find yourself in Pitch Black you
don't know what time it is and you don't
know what where you are there's no sense
of depth we need to be able to see to be
able to see three dimensions but in pure
pitch black darkness there's no time and
there's no space that is called the
absence of reality in that world yaku
gives us the prayer called The Prayer of
pain the
prayer in that world Yak who was
experiencing at that moment extreme pain
he finds himself in the place of the
future b mikdash a few miles from where
we are now and in that world he
expresses to KES this incredible feeling
of vulnerability that he sees with
Clarity that he's completely and totally
in hashem's hands so I want to show you
something very
beautiful you summarize what I've said
so far
we see nighttime as an
opportunity the whole world escapes from
the night the whole world either sleeps
which is like obvious or you party at
night you don't want to think about the
night you want to disconnect from
reality at night you look at a screen or
you go and you do anything you can not
to think about that we're not in control
at night I want to show you something
incredible
I'm going to show you
something that you all know but maybe
you never really thought about how
powerful this idea is something else
that unite that the nighttime has that
is a unique gift from
yaku I'm going to use a marshall to
explain how this works over
here imagine that you were conducting a
survey in the secular world so my next
five minutes I'm going to be giving you
a secular narrative you go to the
secular world you go to a
a a shopping mall somewhere near you us
Brits we go to Brent Cross wherever it
is but wherever you are in America or
South Africa wherever you go you go to
the local shopping mall and you ask
people the following question would you
rather be young or would you rather be
old in other words if you could live for
10 years from either 15 or 20 to 25 or
65 to
what can I just tell you something I got
a wakeup call last week I don't know if
you know but I have a cousin called Rafi
nissle so Rafi nissle is my first cousin
he lives in Los Angeles beloved cousin
and he's on the way to sh he was beaten
up and him was with his wife like like
Rifka it was anti-Semitism again right
there in Beverly Hills he's on the way
to shore uh he got five stitches doesn't
make any difference bottom line is is
that he he's a fighter he's a fighter be
he went to sh and they were waiting for
him because they needed a Balor so he
managed to but he was in the LA Times
what shook me up is that it was said in
the ear times it said an elderly couple
an elderly couple because my cousin
she's 70 he's 75 what mean these are my
cousins then I remember that I'm 62 and
I said oh my gosh yeah yeah these things
happen in life so um let's not think
about this too much okay it's just the
number you're as young as you want to be
anyhow whatever so let us continue I'm
just making a point people are obsessed
with youth it's just a fact you go to
the front cover of any magazine they
love young people um they other
beautiful people they idolize athletes
and athletes as you all know they are
basically they we have today Ronaldo
Messi Ronaldo and Messi the two greatest
football players soccer players they are
now at the Twilight of their careers one
goes to Sat one goes to America because
they hit their 30s this is what happens
in the athletes they basically go
downhill in their 30s um in the world of
acting if you're a female nothing
personal but that's it whoever is the
the beauty queen of today she knows
she's finding a time bomb in 10 years
time she will basically unless she's her
name is like Merill stre she's going to
have to like you know find some kind of
like side jump it's the way these things
work work everything goes downhill I was
in university in London one of the girls
over there was from Northern Scotland I
can't do a Scottish accent but I do a
good Irish one he says a woman's like a
Christmas pudding everyone waits till
the 26th if you're not eaten by then you
grow old and
moldy that's it okay 26
downhill so I want to show you something
incredible what is it about the glamour
of Youth what is it that people who are
in their teens and we have children some
of us have grandchildren I've I had a bz
in anle last week okay we know we know
that they live in this world that it's
just beautiful there's some kind of a
freedom that young people have what is
so beautiful about that age
group so you can give me many answers
some of you are thinking well they
should see what medicines I take no
that's not what I'm looking for
something much simpler something much
simpler the beauty of Youth is the
beauty of the power of
possibilities is the world of choices
when you're young you can do whatever
you want so my granddaughter who's like
14 years old she can wake up in the
morning and she can dream whatever she
wants she wants to be a ballerina she
wants to be a dancer she wants to be an
actor she wants to be a musician she
wants to be a poet or writer or she
could be you know a Nobel Prize winner
in physics she could come a politician
hasem should bless her okay okay
whatever it is she could do what she
wants the world is her oyster the
freedom of choices the freedom of dreams
and you and I I'm talking about those of
you in my age group this already full
disclosure I'm 62 right they my age
group so we want our kids to dream it's
important to dream and dreaming is
beautiful but the point is that those
dreams start to disappear just like as
night time turns into day those dreams
disappear excuse me as daytime turns in
tonight those dreams disappear as you
start to make choices so what do you do
at some point you you you you choose
whatever youra your Seminary then you
choose your college you choose a career
and that's it you become a if you're
like a f girl today a something
therapist that's it I mentioned
occupational therapy that's what you're
going to be doing 9 98 this is what you
do you sit there and you work with the
arm I remember this because I had this
occupational therapy with Mario that's
it and then you finish that TR this is
what you do you dream about marriage oh
it's going to be so beautiful and
romantic and everything like that and
finally you meet the right guy and then
that's it the day after Chev bras you
know the smell of his socks it's over
with okay Welcome to the Real
World so yeah um I still have I'm the
spell boy I still have the magic hamper
I you you never know every ladies know
what the magic hamper is you don't know
what the magic because you're not a male
we men have magic hampers it's basically
a thing in my bedroom where I put dirty
clothing in and I don't know how it
happens but
magically it gets empty and then I get
my clothes clean I don't know how it
happens it's one of the mysteries of
marriage anyhow what's my point my point
is that that's it suddenly you find
yourself
trapped at some point in your 20s do not
try and fight it you will be married you
will have your career you will be
probably living in New Jersey raising
obnoxious kids that is the rule of Life
do not try and fight it and that's it
now I used the metaphor of day and night
I want to use another metaphor with you
summer and
winter you feel existentially that the
summer of your life is turning into
winter everything's becoming cold you
turn 30 that's
it you're stuck there's no place to go
you look in the mirror oh my gosh I have
an extra chin I have like You
Know Nothing fits me anymore I hate the
music that my kids listen to you turn 40
and then it comes really really bad
because you realize that one of the
goals in your class is just become a
grandmother and um there's just no place
for you to move and then fun starts at
50 and here I don't get into detail
because this is too close to too many of
us you turn 50 the doctor will introduce
you to medical terms that you did not
know
existed like
colonoscopy we're just trying to find
out what's happening it's not a big deal
well it's not a big deal some some kid
half my age is gonna put rubber tubing
in me I don't think so wait till you
taste what you have to drink before and
it's like goat spare and this is this is
what happens okay we go through this it
turn
60 okay I this this is we'll we'll maybe
stop there okay but this is it every
sudden he becomes
real and frightening until the kids say
okay Mom and Dad becoming a bit of a
burden let's send them down to South
Florida and let them enjoy the winter of
their lives at least in a warm place and
that's it you get up at 4 in the morning
you go to the local shopping center
looking for the latest experience in
soft yogurt and complain about why the
kids don't call but don't worry
Wednesday night is Maan where you get to
meet your friends okay s and see you
still around it's just depressing that's
the way it goes life goes downhill life
turns from Summer into Winter life turns
from night from daytime into night time
comes along yaku and says sh
I live in the world of
Truth in the world of Truth there is
nothing more disarming and nothing more
fake and nothing more distracting than
the world of choices until you turn it
into something real until you plant it
into seeds how beautiful is the Jewish
language one of the words for youth is
you may l means the days when I'm sharp
but it can also mean the days of my
winter says live in the world of Truth
do not be
distracted focus and plant seeds when
you're young plant
seeds remember God when you're young
plant seeds plant seeds build build
build do not get distracted and then
when you get
older you start to see the fruits of
your labors and it gets better and
better and better as you get old when
you start to see what you did when you
were young turning into fruit
and this is the greatest proof that a
world to come because if it gets better
and better as you get older then surely
after you die I'm talking about things
that are not physical the truly
important things in our life the things
that are the source of true Joy if it
gets better and better and surely it
will continue after we
die comes along yak and says I want to
teach the world we Jews see everything
the opposite of the rest of the world
the whole world day turns into night the
whole world summer time and the living
is easy fish is jumping anyone know that
reference okay turns into winter no no
no no seoras this is not us Jews we
start off with winter we plant seeds it
turns into summer nighttime is the
greatest gift of all nighttime says y
nighttime is where there's no
distractions there's no thought that we
are in control we know it's all
God we know we are totally in his hands
we have complete and absolute Clarity in
that world we turn to Hashem in prayer
and then Hashem can open Infinite doors
for us there's no end to the
possibilities that are open for us I
teach teenagers and I teach colle
seminaries and yeshivas and I always
tell them I says your world is so
distracting you can spend five six hours
a day looking at a screen you'll never
get that time back those five six hours
you could be making an impact in the
world you could be St studying you could
be building yourself you could be doing
acts of there's so much that you can do
don't waste your time when you're young
plant seeds and you will be the biggest
beneficiary when you get older it just
gets better and better and better and
better so let's get back to how we
started over
here I don't know what's happening in
history I come from the school of
thought that we don't predict I don't
know what's going to be tomorrow all my
said don't talk about go mle and this
it's not going to help you because
whatever you say you don't know we don't
work for we're down here trying to do
the best that we can the only thing that
we know today with extreme Clarity is
that we're in his
hands this is something that
s which we're still trying to process
but s gave us his
Clarity gave us
an incredible army with to we saw what
Hashem lets us do during The Six Day
War says I don't know what he's saying
but one thing we so for Clear Hashem
says no it's no Hashem says no it's no
and my friends who are fighting actually
I say my friends to be honest with it's
the children of my friends who I've
spoken to they've said they've seen
Miracles after Miracles the famous
saying every bullet has an address they
know that they don't say it they feel it
in their guts they see how K is holding
their hands in the battles that they're
going through there's a Clarity that we
have not had since yaku that first Mar
in that world of Darkness you connect to
the world of Ms in a totally different
way
today the most connected
to in the whole planet Are Soldiers on
the front line and B give them all the
in the world these people are
extraordinary the clarity that they have
and we as I mentioned earlier with the
next level we feel that pain vicariously
for what they're going through and the
hostages and we have to try and
reconnect to that world of total
Clarity that went out
in and that the G are going to be there
for us okay I'm British where are my
friends BBC I think not okay it's not
happening okay okay we are on our own
this is
CL we have each other that's all we
had the Jewish people are more connected
in my feelings I haven't felt this way
since since the M Kiper W I'm old enough
to remember that those days the sense of
Cl reconnecting I don't want to say
terrible things but I said this over to
a leader of a big Cur of organiz
AAS gave us in one day what your care
oranization could not achieve in 10
years what do I mean thear says in in M
that when gave his ring to hamon it was
more powerful than all
the and one day we have that sense of
clarity that clel we're in this together
we're brothers and sisters as a matter
what you believe in what Yash is we're
one nation and we have what Yak taught
us this that morphed into the of we have
that special connection
to so I want to
conclude with what we say
in these moments of clarity that we have
over here this moments that it's all we
put himself into his hands we become
infinitely powerful we put ourselves
into his hand we become like when he
finished that Mar he opens his eyes what
does he
see sees a ladder where does the latter
go the ran says to the End of Time the
ram in says to the highest of the
highest Universe the man of Darkness the
man who is nothing becomes infinite and
sees to the very very
end and he never got to see the downfall
of Rome but you and I can feel in our
gut that why I read to you half an hour
ago is very very close and I want to
conclude once again that
why is it the Last Enemy of the Jewish
people before
is will listen it's a guarantee this has
been written 2,000 years ago everything
else that was written by P has already
become true so this will also come true
the the pain the gron
of in the land of Israel that's
now you know
why will listen name and he will
answer thank you for
listening