Do Not Fear: Chizuk During Iron Sword by Rabbi Dr. Ahron Adler

um I'd like to begin with a nigon that will set this tone for the talk one of theim that we've been saying pretty regularly now after the dings from the 20th chapter so at the end it says there are those who put all their hope in their forse and charot translated in the modern idiom in the tanks and the artillery and the Air Force we are going to move on with Shem with God's name I'm going to try to give a proper explanation to this PO because if one thinks the is suggesting there are those who go to battle with their horses and chariots but we don't we go with a book of tum in our hands that is a false understanding of the PUK we'll see in a moment what DAV had in mind but just to set the tone made it many years ago [Music] to [Music] my to understand this properly I'd like to just Veer over to a mishna in it's a pretty famous mishna the third chapter that says rimon Shimon says if somebody is traveling on the road and he's studying T and he takes a break from his studies and he gazes at the beauty of nature all around him and says what a beautiful tree what a beautiful pasture ground Greenery and so on says the he does not deserve to continue to live this is very strange why would kazal a re brings such a thought that to appreciate the beauty of nature is actually a somewhat a capital punishment offense that can't be so the villo explains that the key word in this mishna for its proper understanding is he took a break from his studies and he separated between Torah study and appre appreciation of the beauty of nature what we have to do is integrate the beauty of nature into our Torah study there is somewhat somewhat of a separation here A M of swords that does not belong there and that is the real problem and so too the v's understanding of the at the end of mish that we sing on Friday night in that beauty and Aesthetics is all false and vain but the God-fearing woman she is the one we are to extol so the idea is If all we're concerned about is the and the Yi that is really a sheer and a he that's really nonsense and a lie but but if this and she also has the and the Yi he this is the full appreciation and that's how we are to understand D it would be ridiculous to suggest that there are those who go with their armaments with their tanks and their artillery and Air Force but we just go with a book of tum and that's how we do battle D didn't do that D was a warri warrior he knew how to do battle but was saying there are those who only have their who only have their armaments who only have their tanks and their artillery but we with our army and fully supplied we move on and this is exactly how yobu taught us at the end of's life in so he tells um tells Yosef that um he he conquered the city of sh and he says which I took which I conquered from the amorites with my sword and my bow so the tells us that is is prayer andet is not really a bow and arrow but it's Bak it's petition and so the unus translation of in is what we're familiar with these two words in kades after every when the says that God should accept our and our petitions and this is what says is the was yaku suggesting that when he had to do battle he only used the power of no he had the there's a there's a simple reading of theim No Doubt and we know from Rashi in when yob prepares to Eng to to confront his brother as so he has D which is gifts which is perhaps to say the Diplomatic route and there was which is their theological spiritual route and there was was prepared to do battle simple as that do battle and so too when he talks about taking over it was it was the the arms that he had but behind and augmenting the arms was the and hence that's the there are those who go with re and suim alone we with the re and suim now in a scenario like we have today where there are so many soldiers now on guard they just brought up 350,000 reserves so we have tremendous amount of Manpower in uniform both in this North and in the South and also scattered out in various parts of the country I have a son-in-law right now who was um drafted in this situation but he was sent to the gion area for whatever reason and um but we have a son up in the north on the northern border is a Mee which is a plug a commander of one of the units of the pirate troop crack units so he's stationed over there and um many people think okay those who are in battle they're in battle and those who are not in battle what's left for us to do so there's really two things what's left for us to do and one is to be supportive in whatever way we could be supportive and believe me am Israel has gone on really beyond the Call of Duty in terms of where could be supportive and in because if somebody's twiddling their thumbs listening to the news it's better to open up a book of TM and augment our Fighters with the words of and you see this already with withu in the end of where the first war takes place against the Amal and believe me we're looking at Amal right now without a doubt so the first war against Amal who was on the battlefield it was yahushua who led the troops but Mau with Aaron and stood on the top of the mountain and had MOS Ra's hands lift up and the mishna tells us this was a gesture of and only when was ding that's when the tide turned in our favor when his hands went down was symbolic that Jews were a bit LAX with their then theim were were were on the winning side and The Winning Side without being overly descriptive in the Torah The Winning Side means that there were there were losses they were they were wounded and and killed and in those days until after the United States Civil War wounded in battle meant you died but you didn't die right away you died three days later that's what it meant so they were the concept of wounded in battle and remaining alive with something that's pretty modern in in Warfare in the history of warfare so you have the idea of those who cannot engage in battle for a zillion reasons have the obligation to augment the the the fighters with their so that's one understanding there are those who are doing the battle and there are those who are doing the except that we believe that the Battlers the fighters themselves are all also that they too have a a portion not only in terms of their backgrounds that many of them are very very devoutly religious and spiritual Jews who DAV who who who study Torah and so on and now they're just putting the safer on the side because they're engaged in battle but they are people of very much so the fortitude of so great soldiers and very very devout devoutly religious so speak about such personalities as well in it mentions somebody described as exactly what is this the word comes from the word refined and means strong strong sometimes a strong personality it's not exactly a mild Ain Pleasant seems to be a contradiction who know and who is it said about so according to some it's about According to some it's about yya who was his commanderin-chief so it it certainly has something to do with D no doubt and it may refer to himself so the tells us on this phrase that he was actually able to um have a dual persona when he was sitting indulging in Torah study he was very very very refined and and very very soft almost as soft as a worm in the sense elasticity and and bending and and being flexible that's one type of persona but when went out to do battle he became very firm as a tree and you see that or perhaps had this dual ability of being both is a Torah personality and a warrior and we most probably can say the same for RAB aka's students who he sent to engage in battle against the Romans in the Bara Revolution I mean they were tal 24,000 tal students of RAB AKA I assume as we use our in our phrase today they knew how to learn they knew something this students of RAB AKA and they also were battle ready to to do battle with the Barba forces so this is a a type of Personality that I can tell you that from the Baka Revolution until the modern day this dual personality hardly existed it hardly existed because you know people are saying that what's happening now what happened to unfortunately the on here in the South the the people are equating the the malicious and the vicious to to scenes of the sh we have to be careful and I agree with Yem on this 100% we have to be careful not to misuse the word sh in the historic sense but it's certainly appropriate to use the word pgam no question about it because if you read for example eliel's description of the 1648 uh and and the kishion of I mean you see this the this is what we're seeing now is what we saw in the pams and in 1096 in the um Crusades there's one big difference between the Crusades and 1648 and the days of kki and the Kish of of 1903 and today the difference is in all of those prams the only thing left was to say Yar that's all there was nothing else to do we could not fight back there was nobody back ble ready nobody to take on the other side after burying our dead this situation has changed I believe I mentioned it last week in the talk that when spoke on 1956 on and he said heare no longer is Jewish blood heare freefor all we today can return the battle and do it even more forcefully which God willing will be on our side and we're going to be able to do it so we have here personalities who are able who able to be Torah personalities and also and also uh stand up to battle as we believe they should um in many of the shirim at the center and elsewhere um people have heard that we were in my family we were blessed with a son who happens to be an L pilot and um you people right away say is he still religious is he still religious not not just because he was a kipa and has his tius out with tr um this is somebody who's a graduate of the hez Yeshiva in K and studied in the there for a year lives in talmon which is the do area he's the he's AES he's the gab and the he's he and as I always say he could give a shabas I think I could do a little better but he wouldn't embarrass me he would not embarrass me he's he's quite a capable quite capable fellow I'm going to just show you for one minute it's a 30 it's a minute clip of what he sent Aon Adler sent to our family in so that they should be strong he's giving them so they should be strong hello to all our friends and family abroad want to wish you a shabbat shalom here from beautiful Israel true we're going through some tough times but we're strong we need your support your support pH all together will give us the strength to beat enemy defeat the enemy annihilate the enemy and help us rebuild what was broken thank you very much for your support love you all shabbat shalom I hope you saw that saw it okay um yeah that's called Nas and should really really really protect him his buddies and all the other and the police and the magav and everybody else who's involved in this it's it's a long Hall it's a long Hall and um and God should be with us mem and he will be with us there's no reason they shouldn't on we said in the so you have the big three now everybody has their private file what they're going to deal with on rash in terms of whatever sins iniquities they may have but there's also a concept in called there there are communal issues and sometimes the community sins sometimes omell sins and even though when you say Amel you know the whole is nothing but the sum of the parts so it's going to be individuals who are going to do or not do things that contribute to the AA of the whole when kazal say that the second mdash was destroyed because of because Jews did not like each other putting it mildly that doesn't mean that every every individual Jew just was not a nice fellow to the next neighbor it meant that if everybody acted like that then there's something wrong there's something wrong with Society with the general country with the general Nation for example the mishna tells us in at the very end it says that there are four different um categories of human beings so there are those who say what's mine is mine what's yours is yours what's mine is mine and what's mine is yours I'm willing to share or what's yours is yours and what's yours is mine I mean that's you know in Yiddish we say that's aaza you know what's yours is yours and what's yours is also mine but if somebody says what's yours is yours and what's mine is mine M say that's called Boni he's not a big sadic but he's not a big Russia either he doesn't want to share with others but he's not interested in taking from others so he's somehow in the in the 5050 line but then the mishna says and some say that's called that means he belongs to the Society of s Amur why it seems that he didn't do anything really wrong viciously wrong so why should it be associated with stone so I once heard from Rabbi Meer berglas from m he once said that if it's Mish says if somebody says an individual says what's mine is mine what's yours is yours so he's not a big he's not a big rush but if if everybody's saying that if all Society is built on what's mine is mine what's yours is yours and not interested in listening to your troubles and not interested in helping you and he's not interested listening to my sarus that's me that sto that's what stone is all about out and unfortunately what was going on here in the country I'm not going to point fingers now at sides but there was a a horrible atmosphere permeating the the the entire nation that summed up what was all about and people would ask me you know how are we gon to get out of this and I said tragically most probably a war that that's a very sad comment but it's it always it's a it's a formula that always works and and look unfortunately I say with great pain that I think I was correct on this one the the the the the war brings out the best of us that's for sure and the chu that had to do from I think we can put on a silver platter and hand it to in and say look we turned it around that's what chuva is all about we turned it around we're not looking at political affiliations we're not looking about what type of kipa you're wearing we're not look looking at at now what what what what you don't in we're not looking about the height of your whether you have a we're talking about Amel in totality and Amel in totality right now is a unified nation and we said it started making sense a lot of sense this is actually what we have going on right here today so you have there's no doubt there's been upgraded both on the private level as well as in the sh's level to say that we're saying shabat so both the here as well as my dear re in America from gave the to the RCA the rical Council of America that the should sayab when do we say only by the only time because if yum comes on Shabbat we we do not say in the evening or in the morning after or by we say it only by and says this is nil time it's it's it's and and therefore we have to say even on Shabbat so we have upgraded our to to the highest levels of and and we're screaming and shouting to and is a big word and means everything that's covered by all kinds of assistance and is not only a hand out of cash but it's also of our time and energies and so much whether you were sitting preparing sandwiches for the soldiers whether you were winding Titus for the nonreligious soldiers who are asking for Titus and came a request from the Army to put together tis on green and this was done thousands of titit were made if if it had to do with anything anything of supplies that some of the soldiers may have been a little bit short-handed and they were compensated because of the country the people pull themselves together this is unreal amount of and and and the says that is the is clearly clearly the the prescription of that which will grant us a tremendous Yeshua and and and Hope f is going to see favor in our eyes that this is going on but what does it mean will take the evil out of theer it means theer unfortunately is still a and edict is an edict and sometimes we it is impossible impossible to pray for the total eraser of the edict it's we we try we say certain things we do ask but we do recognize that if we cannot have the total eraser of the edict the Bad Evil edict but Kos can take the sting out of it and make it a little bit more palatable a little bit more acceptable with less pain maybe with some some somat neish as we say with with some aggravations in life that we're willing to accept and it was the cabalists who actually made this um observation with regard to Abraham and at the AA so the Torah tells us binds binds to the altar to the so that Z says who represents is now binding m means absolute judgment and absolute judgment means if jump off the roof so gravity is going to bring you down and you're going to be killed you can't do chuva while you're falling person jumps off the roof thinking is going to commit suicide and then has he regrets what he just did it's not going to help him at all because the laws of gravity have kicked in and this is the El Mother Nature with capital M and capital n and this is what's going to happen there is no return from midin but the Tor teaches us that sh and can do things to undo so the cabalists in the Z say that this is the sorry binds he now captures and allows the to sprout forth and this is what's known in the cabalistic world as sweetening the Judgment it doesn't mean eraser or abandonment of the Judgment it means sweetening the Judgment the judgment is still going to be there but you're going to get off the hook it's not going to be the complete sentence or what they say in the Judiciary A reduced charge a reduced charge of some sort so this something is extremely important to understand and do you remember on no fewer than five times at the end of each when we say we ask God help us help us that we shouldn't sin again but what we did Sin please erase erase them erase those but not by using difficult difficult distress and illness so said did you ever hear of the word seems to be Superfluous it says that's enough why do you have to say evil bad terrible horrific nobody ever heard of good the answer is that there are and there are there are those that are intolerable and and and unfortunately so difficult that that the human being just cannot recover and there are those where it's painful very painful even but we recognize that it could have been worse my father used to have a phrase he used to say it often in life ARA it can always be worse it's almost a a a Jackie Mason line it can it can always be worse Jewish attitude but that's what is we recognize that you know what it's bad it's even terrible but it could have been worse it could have been worse and that is called a person receives a a a a after a doctor's report of of a particular Illness but there's treatment to it and treatment is going to be lengthy but God willing you'll get through it so the news is not good when you hear the diagnosis but you you're already told that there's something to do about it so it's it's not like when they tell you you know look you have this and this and sorry there's nothing to do is is the is the the end game there's nothing to do any longer but we have what to do you know there's a mishna at the end of and it tells us about what's going to be in the era right before it's called the period and the footsteps of the Mia it says all kinds of things that is going to reign supreme and children not going to have respect for their parents you know something you read that mishna and you say hello heu here we are you know this uh this Miss has come come to fruition without a doubt but the last line is very troubling the only thing we have left the only recourse is to rely on God and I rememberin quoted a a a great Professor one still with us but unfortunately had a severe accident and is cognitively not really with us AA Ritz and he explained that mishna in an interesting way he said that's not a Braha that what's left is to rely on God he says that's not exactly a Braha if all that's left is to say a we're in bad shape we're really bad shape Isel was never told the only time that I recall in the in the Tor we're told sit back and leave the driving to us is at the where says that's the only time afterwards by am you have to fight with midan you have to fight Yeshua conquering Isel you have to fight and that's it that's the way that's the way wants us that we have to raise our hands and do what we have to do so we understand that it comes with a price the price unfortunately has been paid already in the last two weeks with bitter bitter bitter bitter bitter price the numbers keep going up and up and up, 1400 they say, 1400 plus and and theim those who are in hostage and there's hundred unidentified we don't know where they are it's it's a it's it's a it's a real mess and and take to you know the the in to the there's no house without a dead body here I use the word mess m s every house there's a mess there there's a real mess in in people's lives everything is is completely completely disheveled and unfortunately last week I was going Shiva hopping it's a bad term I know I used to use it for Suka hopping on onus to go see how other sukot were decorated and I'm going from one shba to the other other some people we knew and some people we didn't know and it's just a really a horrible situation but but when one thinks just a moment take a deep breath and think that the situation could be worse and it was worse with Israel and kadosh gave us the ability Now to turn it around and God willing we will we will turn it around and therefore when we finish every single day three times a day there are a few lines that are in small print and you know what happens in many shes in small print small print means you don't say it you don't say it I mean people have nicknamed it has an interesting nickname you have one foot out the sh know sh you know you're out there t is off already Talus is off already one fo out the door and so on but then there two two or three one from from Mish and one from do not fear from the show here comes the word this where it comes from from this in in Don't Fear from Sudden sudden fear something that all of a sudden out of nowhere CAU you off God or from the why is gonna they may have ideas they may have plans but gonna break their plans is going to be able to show us that um he he will he will [Music] eradicate what they had in mind will not take place why because God Is With Us is with us and therefore all of those so there is a famous nigan of UTA that was composed by somebody whose yard side is today on the 7th ofan and I'm referring to and I never really knew that he was a musical composer because he was a great RV of the town of um Petrov those who know Reena Quint those who know Reena Quint her parents came from Petrov were married there and this R I'm GNA say his name is a signator on theba of Rea Quinn's parents it's unbelievable pet I visited there several times the um he was a r in Sanuk before and he was the great R of luin and the founder of the Yesa and the organizer of The Da 100 years ago in 1923 at the Grand Auda convention in Vienna where youve going to YouTube you can see the for eight seconds walking and by Me was like you know a wall picture a drawing and there he was in a video clip 1923 and he was in his lower 90s already by then or upper 80s for sure and at that convention have suggested and proposed the a program that has Unified no matter where you are so if you're doing and I'm sure ra Shapiro in 23 didn't think for a second about the thousands of women who are studying Dai today like my wife they they you never would have imagined are the tens of thousands of men who are studying Dai kids are studying D so get you're going on a train go on a plane you meet somebody there something to talk about the da that page of M kin that every single person is studying today they identical but I didn't know he was a composer and he composed Rabbi if you could uh closer to the microphone because it was very difficult to hear your last nunam okay and I think everybody really wants to hear [Music] Jo [Music] and also has an Al [Music] you little better uh miss a little bit better but it it was hard to hear some of the singing you you'll hear it on the recording unfortunately I don't know I guess maybe you needed a you know a mic they said so anyway I want to wish each and every one of you um you should have a y sh quiet day and God willing you should send us the Yeshua today we started saying tal and as we said in on that faithful day should give us all the the of the land and give us the shalom shalom we say shalom