Israel Inspired: A Nation Refined in Flames

[Music] and now live from Jerusalem you're listening to Israel inspired radio here your hosts rabbis Aria bream woods and Jeremy Gimpel Shalom everybody and welcome to Israel inspired on the Land of Israel network on the Land of Israel calm this is Jeremy Gimpel and I'm here with Rabbi Ari Abramowitz and we are broadcasting from the beautiful majestic hills of Judea I think we are the last two Jews in Judea right now this the edge of the desert the mountains were the only ones here right now but pestle is something else they were like a billion people here but now it's just re and I hear re how are you I'm doing great think I am over Passover was it was the dream you know when we first came out here and and saw this place it was tumbleweeds and destitute and now we had over Passover buses coming out here hundreds of people everybody that comes out here seems to be powerfully touched but I don't want to get too lost in that right now because we are here at a very special moment in in time this is like a very special time of the year Holocaust Memorial Day then we have young hots mode and then you me or shall I'm it's like these three modern-day Jewish / Israeli holidays that aren't like biblical holidays that are celebrated amongst you know the ancients but they are very profound experiences for us now it is yea they feel biblical to me they certainly do it feels like the this is the next chapters where the Torah and the tenna and these holidays are beginning yeah the siren today was very powerful I was in Jerusalem and the siren for Holocaust everyone was alike around you know it was just totally quiet in silence standing in Jerusalem it was just it wasn't like I was on a highway and I said oh you know people are on the highway they pull off on the side of the road and all the cars stopped and everyone gets out of their car that's also very powerful and very meaningful this time I was just like standing alone with Hashem in the streets of Jerusalem hearing the siren echoing through the street it's thinking about the six million and here we are standing in the streets of Jerusalem it was just like mind-blowing yeah no it's true I was standing right here on my balcony I was sitting inside learning Torah I stepped outside stood on my balcony and of course you know there's Arabs around us here and many of them are like building and working and of course none of them stopped I didn't have any resentment in my heart I don't even know if any of them know what else for I spent the Arabs in Jerusalem they know because everyone is stopping but the the Arabs that are working specifically here they're so out here in the mountains I just don't think that they may not even know that's true that's true but you know as I was like preparing for this program because I feel like we're back in the day we used to do a show every single week we sort of got in the mode of doing it being out here it just feels sometimes like time is not our own you know there's the winds of history are blowing things in our direction that we need to contend with and we're not always able to do a show and so like I've been trying to sort of systematize my approach you know the way I've been doing and I read the Torah portion because we learned that you know what happens at the Torah portion and it informs it influences it illuminates not only our personal lives our national lives but the entire world so you sort of read the Torah portion and then you reflect on current events and connect the dots and and see how it all comes together but this week what's happening right now it seems like the confluence of what's happening in the Torah portion what's happening in the Jewish calendar and what's happening in the world are coming together in such a powerful way all tied in together I even struggle right now I hope I shouldn't give me the words to be able to express how these things are all it just feels like Hashem finger is on world history and there are winds blowing that are changing the way things have been the way people have been moods in the world are changing the statuses and and perspectives are changing and and it's that's what our network is here for right to connect those dots it's not always something that can be with pure secular pragmatic rationale a deconstructed we sort of need to see it with a certain level of humility and say sham help us give us the ice to see what's happening now and here we are on Memorial Day and I'll tell you when that siren rang and I stood on my balcony I closed my eyes and I don't know what do you you said you were thinking about the Halliwell does that mean for you what were you picturing I was thinking about all of the people that had given their lives throughout the Exile culminating in the most insane mass murdering systematic annihilation of those Jews who were just hopeless and helpless and then imagining them seeing me now what they would be thinking interesting you're picturing them looking at me looking at you and then being like we won Wow well I'll tell you I was picturing at the beginning I was I just said okay what is the most extreme thing I can picture to get into this in this one fleeting moment that I have to really join in my energy and my focus with with the entire Jewish people in the Land of Israel and for some reason that popped into my head was the vision of sort of women and children clawing at the walls of the gas chambers at Jews from secular to Orthodox to hassidim to high rate him from leftists right all of the Jews coming together into these cattle cars and being shipped in these cattle cars like like cattle like sheep to the slaughter and and as I'm standing there I thought to myself I'm here on this mountaintop in Judea this is why will be never again you know this never again thing since I'm a little kid I remember never again never again and I think that those words are so loaded and they mean so many different things to different people and I've over years I've become existentially uncomfortable with the term never again because I feel like it can give us a certain sense of of comfort or security that if we keep saying it again and again that indeed the Holocaust will never happen again I don't know if you just saw today in the headline in the news it said that in Austria 58% of Austrians believe that something like the Holocaust happen again but I my discomfort with it is more about the Jewish perspective and how we deal with the Holocaust how we deal with never again that that somehow by we we believe that by educating the world about the Holocaust by spending millions on Holocaust museums with the best multimedia presentations that somehow we will never let the world forget we'll keep it in front of their eyes all the time they will remember what Jew hatred leads to and it will never happen again that somehow you know you shy fleischer wrote this article the clash of American liberal jure in Israel nationalism is really not such did you read this yeah I do it's like the first thing that I have actually tweeted out in maybe a year and a half I'm like this is just so good whatever I can do get it out there one of the best articles I can remember reading because I think that on each side especially the farther you go in each side there can be so much hatred and resentment and animosity towards the other side and I feel like he was very um dispassionate about it he wasn't casting aspersions he was simply explaining why there is such a difference between the Jews here in Israel and the Jews around the world and that by universalizing the Holocaust exemplified you know and even in Jerusalem in Los Angeles what do they call the Holocaust museums Museum of Tolerance Museum of Tolerance that somehow that mankind will realize that this is not just about the Jews that this is about all people oh yeah building the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem why maybe you should build it in Gaza or in Ramallah like the Jews of Jerusalem we need that reminder thank you very much right but there's a hope that by making this a universal thing of all of mankind that all of mankind will benefit but we as the Jews will benefit from this liberal tolerance being infused into the consciousness of humanity and that this Holocaust won't happen again to us but I think that we suffer from this projection we've talked about it for many years I know I have protection it's hard it's part of the human experience it's hard to see the other and really get into their shoes and see things through their eyes because we're so our own experience in our own perspective but you know I've always had this discomfort with the ash wit's I'm gonna be speaking at the march of the living they're coming to Jerusalem and I'm gonna speak to them on Yamaha Zika our own on Remembrance Day and and they've just come out of Auschwitz and other than the fact that these Jewish groups are one of the biggest cash cows of Poland and of all of the concentration camps where the Jew hatred was most focused they are now having this affluence come in from Jewish tourists from around the world but not only Jewish tourists but tourists of all different backgrounds and we think that they're going to the Auschwitz and they'll see it and they'll never want it to happen again but I just listened to this unbelievably shaking testimonial of this Gentile during his trip to Auschwitz I want you to listen to this I first went to Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp in 2012 and as somebody who had read a lot about the history of that place and had watched a lot of documentaries it was something that I was dreading but I was also in a kind of way looking forward to to go to a place where the absolute worst things that humans have ever done to other humans was an honor but unfortunately my abiding memory were visiting that place isn't actually what had happened it was the behavior of the people that were there as we walked into the crematoria at Auschwitz one a couple that were in the group that I was in decided that it would be a good moment stop kissing each other when we walked into one of the barracks wear shoes of the Jewish victims at Auschwitz concentration camp were displayed our guide asked us not to take any photos and not take any photos of the shoes or the human hair or the suitcases because these are after all the possessions of people who've been murdered and the first thing every single tourist that was in my group did was whip out their phone and take a photo and unfortunately to my undying shame I said nothing I did nothing I stood there disgusted and angry more angry even at their behavior than what I was actually witnessing because it was so horrible to see the way that people come into this place this terrible place treats them almost as if it was like an amusement park you know just imagine that these these non-jewish Gentile schools or sending programs to Auschwitz and that's what they're doing boyfriends and girlfriends are kissing and selfies I mean this is something that a lot of people already heard about is the behavior the laughing the jovial in Auschwitz where they see the pictures they see the actual place where it happened and it's not foundationally shaking them to the core and making them question man's human inhumanity towards man it's not doing that we have this perspective in this hope that it will but it's not I even remember speaking to a pro-israel pastor yeah going well have you ever been to a death camp yes I've never been and I could imagine going there and having so many walls up that I don't want to be shaken to my core and have my world rocked so these you know I don't know high school kids from Europe that are going there I can just imagine them being like I am NOT ready for this deep thing right now I'm just walls up I'm not paying attention I'm gonna make a joke at it maybe maybe there's not paying attention and there's walls up but there's a difference between laughing and making out and taking selfies and making light of it and not internalizing right the depth of what at all I mean I would imagine that there's some European youths that are like going there and they're like yeah man Hitler he was he was onto something I wish he would have done it a little bit more efficiently meaning there's a whole rise now of neo-nazis in Europe it's not like they look at the Holocaust as the inhumanity to man it was like that was a great achievement in that was a golden era a golden era of now the nationalism of the Germans but even this pro-israel pastor I was having a heart-to-heart with him and he loves Israel and he said that many of his fellow pastors and he's like a very high up in and so that's where the pastor and politician things sort of overlaps and he was saying that in in Poland and Hungary and in all of these various places where they must do these ceremonies and where Holocaust denial is illegal that secretly these politicians are just tired of it they don't want to have to go and hear the speeches and lay the wreaths they don't want the guilt they don't want to have it thrown in their face again and again and again and they're tired of it and they're tired of hearing about it and this hope that Jews have that it will keep the the hatred and the realization alive in the minds of the Gentiles around us it's just not working that way and this message of never again somehow is is pointed or focused at changing the world to keeping the world in check but the truth is that on Pesach what do we say with a hold or VAD or MDM elena lafalot a know every generation they're going to rise against us to destroy us and that's a universal truth and it always changes it morphs it mutates it never looks the same it looks different and very often we're always fighting the last Holocaust instead of seeing what is coming up but I see what's happening in the world today and it's hard not to see that there is a new spirit of Jew hatred that is being kindled it's like when I was thinking of how to say this it's like a rua a rua it's like a wind and what is a win to win to something you can't necessarily see or put your finger on but you can feel it even just today the polish party in an in Poland they submitted a bill to cut off Jewish claims on Yom Hashoah on Holocaust Memorial Day on purpose they said Jews should no longer be getting claims from the Polish people in the in Poland on Holocaust Memorial Day let me you know just a a little bit of history that I just recently learned in Croatia the crow has killed murdered rounded up thirty thousand Jews and killed them on the spot looted all of their possessions before the Nazis arrived in Croatia meaning the Jew hatred that's there hasn't really gone anywhere I mean what's a seventy five years seventy six years the world hasn't radically transformed there's this dragon of Jew hatred that's now rearing its head again and that's just the world that we have to wake up to and the only difference now I don't think the non-jews the nations of the world have changed at all I think in the times of the Holocaust there were the Righteous among the Nations that stood along the Jewish people hid Jews in their homes opposed the nazi party even though they had to be quieter also they would have been thrown into auschwitz with the jews and now the only difference is medina israel is the state of israel the fact that the jews have finally have now the ability to raise our heads up high and say like really pretty confidently no that's never gonna happen again and if it does happen we are gonna go down in a blaze of glory fighting right that's true you know i was just thinking about all of this anti-semitism Erica over the past few weeks that we haven't done our show every week we could highlight and focus just on the newest wave either the big ones that are happening like in Pittsburgh and in San Diego the the massacres and the synagogues there but also just everyday you know FBI statistics show that Jew hatred anti-semitic attacks are over three hundred percent higher than any other minority which is sort of jarring but but you know they today's Holocaust Memorial Day and there's still survivors may they live till one hundred and twenty but there was a number of them that came together and they were saying that this is reminiscent for them what they see happening to the world there was a guy named max Eisen and he said in Europe in Canada in the United States anti-semitism is back it's taken on a life of its own and it's a terrible thing he was imagine this from the words of a Holocaust survivor and he sees it happening again he gave an example of an anti-semitic incident that happened to him where there's a poster of it with his photo next to a synagogue in Toronto in Canada and it was vandalized the word ah tongue was sprawled on his head and that's what that was the word that meaning attention that the Nazi said to the Jews he said I know this word from Auschwitz and it's happening now in North America what does that word mean Achtung me attention at all know you know and then the Jews would have to stand at attention and so that was sprawled on his head and he says I remember that from hash words and now it's on his head in Canada in North America this Jew hatred is fomenting with with such a with such a fervor and and when you look at it it's almost like okay there's the Pittsburgh shooting right and that was in a reformed synagogue and then there was the San Diego shooting that happened in a Habad in an Orthodox synagogue it's not like those that hate us make distinctions are differentiate between oh they're they're the good Jews they're the bad Jews they're the religious Jews they're not the religious Jews they don't make those distinctions but it's interesting because there's certain demographics that are coming together that agree on nothing this is what Prime Minister Netanyahu said they agree on nothing other than their hatred for us from the white supremacist who have done the shootings but there's something about the white supremacist attacks on these synagogues which is it's more pure it's more simple it's more honest okay they hate Jews and they say that that's what they're doing it's like very easy to understand that but the more sinister duplicitous hatred for Israel is really coming from the left and that's what I think is much more concerning from Ilhan omar and jeremy corbyn to the New York Times The New York Times were publishing cartoons like dare stürmer if you listen to the Land of Israel Network we had we've had a number of shows that are talking about those cartoons and what they're doing I don't want to get lost on that but it's blatant it's not like Oh anti Zionist policies no if the yarmulkes on their head Jewish stars around around the dog of Benjamin Netanyahu's neck this is a clear Jewish hatred hatred of the Jewish people in New York Times they apologize and then they come out with another another one back to back in the New York Times but you know I feel like I get this I've struggled over the years when I have this message in my heart where I want to say to the Jewish people wake up it's not safe for Jews in America and it's never received well and I always have this conflict no just be positive tell them about the dynamic exciting life in Israel and try to encourage them to come from that the negativity never works but one thing I always just try to say it I'm not saying you have to leave I'm not saying a Holocaust system but just keep your eyes open keep your eyes re I don't even understand what that means we're looking at the New York Times which is mainstream left media it's not radical fringe left it is the mainstream media outlet if you were to take that picture of Netanyahu as a dog with the Jewish star around its neck and go to Yad Vashem the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem and you would put it next to any of the other Nazi propaganda the cartoons right it's like right there alongside so we have the mainstream Democratic Party the mainstream left that is seething now with anti seventh row themselves they they're publishing it and publishing it and saying it all the time then you have on the right Jews being gunned down and then you have the Muslim population in America growing at every I mean we are being attacked at every angle I just said goodbye to my wife's brother who lives in San Francisco he came over here for Passover and he made you read on he lives there right now and I was like alright Shmuel well I'll see you later be safe it's a dangerous place in California and it was like is that really how I'm saying goodbye to my brother-in-law environment it it's dangerous now to be a Jew outside of the land of this is a Jew post on Facebook saying does anyone else have this sinking feeling that we're sitting ducks in our synagogues right that a lot of Jews are feeling that way I remember I used to have debates with Jews and they said no synagogue is a place of worship it's not a place to have guns and there shouldn't be any Jews with guns in there I don't think there's one rational jew that would say nowadays no don't have weapons don't protect yourselves in the synagogue's for what could happen I mean it's so obvious but you know but the Holocaust Memorial Day one of the other things that happens I just saw the Friends of Israel saying the reason its State of Israel is an insurance policy for the Jewish people that's why it's important to have a State of Israel so the Holocaust could never happen to them again and that has been something that exile jury diaspora jury has been echoing again and again that part of the reason we have a right to the State of Israel is because without the State of Israel the Holocaust can happen again but obviously that's you but there's a shift a rift that's happening but in the Jewish people that Yishai fleischer so beautifully explicated in this in his article that was just on The Daily wire calm and and finally for years I've been saying what the message out of the State of Israel needs to be and Danny Danon the ambassador to the United Nations he said it so beautifully listen to this today I will present to you the four pillars that prove the case full Jewish ownership of the land of Israel the first pillar in the Bible the Jewish people's rightful ownership of elet Israel the Land of Israel is well documented throughout the Old Testament and beyond the second pillar is history the Jewish claim to the Land of Israel is confirmed time and again not just with Jewish history but with the history of the world the third pillar is a legal claim our rights to the land while codified in international law including in the documents that founded this very body and the false pillar is a prostitute of international peace and security a stronger and safer Israel means a stronger and safer world it is who these four pillars mr. president that I will provide you with the answers to your questions let us discuss our first pillar of proof the Bible the Jewish people's right to the Land of Israel is mentioned over a dozen times in the Tanakh the Hebrew Bible which includes the Torah the Old Testament the prophets and the writings in the book of Genesis the very first book of the Old Testament God says to Abraham and I will with that inhibit they can't yet bleep even you've been hoping that have a salad or tomliboo eat ollahm fodhla halle-loo him hahaha Vanetta till eventually sight illest it's called a an laughs ooh that olam vital ahem Liam and I will now with the translation in English and I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant it I would give to you into your descendants after you all the land of canaan for an everlasting position and I will be their God this is a deed to our land I feel like I've been waiting my entire life to hear that in the United Nations to hear an ambassador for Israel saying the first pillar I can imagine maybe saying the first pillar is the United Nations resolution in the international community or Jewish security know the first pillar is the Torah is the Bible and then he puts on a yarmulke a kippah on his head and he reads in Hebrew from the Torah in the authentic language that it was written in and he says this is our right to be there was that did that not give you goosebumps I feel like maybe not for you because you feel like you would have said it I would have said it better no but it was very good call a couple of did Donny dunno and good for him I'm glad that someone's saying what needs to be said right and that's really the what the never again means never again that that I felt when I stood on the balcony I said never again in my heart why because we're in Judea right this week's Torah portion parsha kid Oshima well what is it kiddo she means it's difficult to actually translate you could say holy holiness but it God tells us could Oh shame to you we are to be a holy nation to God now what does that mean holy nation to God holy doesn't just mean separate it means a different thing altogether right so Melba would say that there's people that keep the Shabbat and keep the seventh day people that keep the seventh day okay it's a different day than the rest of the day but it's still a day but Shabbat is an entirely different plane and dimension of existence of time of spiritual reality it's an entirely different thing and as the Jewish people we are supposed to be an entirely different thing not just a separate nation that that Herzl dreamt of when he said we can be a state like all other state of people like all other people's a nation like all of the nations where we have our own country that's not what it's about it's not having another country and it's just one more country in the in the world in the commune international community of countries no we're supposed to be a different thing altogether a country that exudes faith faith in God that lives the the manifestation of the understanding that there is one God in the world that infuses and permeates everything that he is in charge of absolutely everything in this week's Torah portion it talks about you should give sadaqa the corner of your field what is sadaqa I come from sadaqa people define it as charity but it really comes from said Eck which means justice that that 10% doesn't even belong to you according to justice so we have to give to the poor we have the the the weaker that's the theme to be kind and compassionate in a world then otherwise the Nazis the Aryans would say survival of the fittest the survival of the fittest the strongest are the best what what is the Nazis say what is beautiful is good if it's beautiful that's great if it's ugly kill it what are the Jewish people say what is our message to the world what is good is beautiful it's a message of compassion but in a doggy-dog world in a survival of the fittest world if you're compassionate to the weak you're not going to make it because you're gonna fall down with the weak yourselves if you don't just work every single day of the week you're not going to have enough money but we say no our faith is in God and that's where the source of our strength comes from and with that strength we're able to actually foment a deep compassion even for those who hate us you know and just one thing Jeremy the hatred against us is a reflection of the unique quality of who we are I mean it the hatred of us is so transcendent people look at this conflict that we have with the Palestinians and they insist on politicizing it and saying it's about occupation and when in reality if you just look a little bit deeper it's almost laughable I just went to lunch with my father and he said he took out a newspaper and he pointed to the to the title of it the headline he said I want to have this guy over for Shabbat the hutzpah of this guy who was he talking about a bus a bus the head of the Palestinian Authority he says it says that they're on the verge of financial collapse the Palestinian Authority because Abbas is accusing Israel of stealing money from martyrs meaning that the Palestinian Authority incentivizes not in some abstract way in a very clearly obvious monetary incentive is a ssin that if there is a terrorist the more there's a sliding scale the worse the terrorist attack the more people he murders men women children doesn't matter the more money they will get and Israel's like we're not forwarding the tax revenues to you we're we're subtracting the money that you would be paying these martyrs and Abbas has the hutzpah the cojones to say how could you take out the money that we're paying to kill you to kill you just the fact that that is and and that's why to me it's a little bit of a clear thing people say well you know this anti-zionism thing it confuses things that makes it political even Jews in America they're staying the two-state solution I feel like the two-state solution for the average person that understands anything to really be advocating that we as the State of Israel should create a peace for a state that has already run by a government that is paying its citizens to murder Jews the more they myrrh and we're supposed to have a state we're supposed to give them their own independent state where they can have the military have it's insanity it's jus hatred of the highest order it's saying with the destruction of Israel and the murder wide-scale murder of the Jewish people in this Palestinian state yeah well listen you know I I was just listening of today with YouTube and podcasts and my wife tehila you can learn so much and so just I can't watch too much about the Holocaust because it just brings me into such a dark place but there was a story that I heard and I'll tell it in just a little bit but the stats were that there was close to a majority of American Jews that did not want to accept Jewish refugees from Europe as the Holocaust was going on almost a majority I think it was 40% of American Jews said listen it's rocking the boat it's upsetting this country I don't want to let more Jews in we don't need a spotlight on us and it's like the Jewish mind of the de Rivoli dues and American Jews I mean it's not so complicated that it's a I don't you think you don't need a professional psychotherapist to understand it well I'm saying the Jews of America at that time of the Jews anywhere in the world without the State of Israel you are a terrified person you don't know what's gonna come you have no way of protecting yourself you have nowhere to run you have nowhere to hide and you know you talk about never again just the world will never again be the same as long as there is a State of Israel but I'll tell you the thing that really has touched my heart is just a couple of days ago we had this group of German volunteers that came out to the farm and they came out for the whole day often a group will come for a morning they'll come for an afternoon they'll come for an evening a barbecue under the stars but they came here now for the hidden just want the tour they wanted they wanted to work in the fields they wanted to like sweat they wanted to really get their hands dirty and it was just so marvelous we were like you know playing music together and working in the fields together and then at the end of the day they all got around and they just like blessed us and I feel like that's just like I don't know I was like somewhat uncomfortable with it in the beginning but then I like kind of like saw myself from a bird's-eye view having these descendants of our worst enemy just you know a few decades ago and now they've come to Israel they've gone on their quote/unquote vacation and they've come here to work and help us build up this farm and at the very end they were just blessing us being blessed by the nations by the nation that was our worst enemy and how marvelous that was and really like the blessings of themselves a lot of them were speaking in German so I didn't understand but one thing a universal language I understood were the tears how many of them were crying weeping as they were blessing us and thanking us for the opportunity to pick up trash around they said we want to help and I said the truth is what we really need I spoke to our partners they said that a lot of the workers here and there's just a lot of trash around the farm they said we want to do that it's it's not like they were like oh we want to prove vineyards or olive trees whatever was needed they were so eager and excited and we had bags of trash that they spent hours of the first half of the day we were learning together touring together singing together in the second half the day we were like working and just so marvelous and you know you asked me before you know what was I thinking about during the other moment that all of Israel is like standing and that's pretty if you really think of in a bird's-eye view it only happens you know a couple of times a year it happens on you know yo my show on the Holocaust Memorial Day it happens on yo Mazique our own on the IDF's Memorial Day and all of the fallen soldiers and the people that were killed in terrorist attacks where the whole country stops it happens I guess in Neela you know on Yom Kippur the whole country is like standing at those last minutes of Yom Kippur it just where the whole country is like standing together it's just such a marvelous and this like shofar is being blown throughout the land that's what the siren sounds like to be just like one long takea just do and the whole country is standing and you know it's like preparing for that moment and in the morning you know I try to just have some time and you know before diving and before I prayed to listen to music and just like have some time meditating and I got into this state where I just had this story that was unfolding in my mind kind of like almost like a lucid dream and it was of this father and his son and they were you know being taken away by the Nazis in the whole time the father is telling his son I want you know you have to have a muna you have to have faith all of this is for the good Shem is with us because I read Moe Danilov phonetic like the first day of the like and then there's a rabbi muna - how great is your faith God and like there's so many parts of Dava ting today that are hard to say you know - of Hashem Lacovara hamabo Colm I saw of God is good every one in his mercy is upon all and I'm like okay it's Yom I show other day that's not an easy verse to say and I had this vision of this father with his son I want you to wash em this is good everything is okay this is all for the good and they're putting the Father and the Son and his dream into you know a train into a cattle car and they're rushing him off and people all around them are like crying and they're all upset and the father's with this sudden and this father's saying you just have him went on this is really good everything is okay and they're taking their father and they're standing in line now and they're in line to go into a gas chamber and the father's with his little son it says you have to have him we're not everything is okay people all the rest up why are all these people around us so scared and crying like I don't know I guess they just don't have anymore now but I'm saying we have him when everything is good everything is all right there in the gas chamber and people are freaking out all around them and the son is telling his father I will wire all these people so scared I don't know we just have him you know everything is good everything is for the best I Shem is with us and they're gassed to death and both of them hug each other and they're smiling and they leave the world that way and that was the end of my dream and I'm like wow that was heavy that was a heavy dream and I was thinking like you know if you had to go through the sufferings of that reality of the Holocaust and that father was doing his very best to protect his son from any suffering that was the best protection that my mind and my subconscious dreams possible was possible and what car that was to just have em you know in this the worst of times and then as they passed on to the next world really I called my metla Tovar now there with a Shem and they're back in the oneness of the universe and they really walked through those fires in the father protected his son I don't to me that was just like such a powerful dream that I wanted to share that but then the thing that I learned right after the siren was this amazing story that I had never heard before and when I'm almost now 40 and I've never I thought I've heard Schindler and I've watched the movie and I've got how many you high school educational things about the Holocaust this is a story of a couple in America named Gilbert and Eleanor Krause and they were just he is a lawyer she was just a housewife American Jews practically fully assimilated they weren't like observant dirty religious just doing the American Jew thing making a lot of money no a lot just like doing the good day lawyer making a good living they're living their life and the documentary was about 50 children that they saved in the Holocaust and now those 50 children of course have had children and grandchildren and the Krause family has literally changed history by doing that and the whole story was when they first were doing what they were doing because they heard that the quotas of the immigrants weren't being met let's say there were a hundred thousand Jews allowed in a year but only 90 thousand would make it for someone got sick someone changed his mind something happened there were 10,000 slots open but as far as the american Registry were concerned that was a hundred thousand it was given and it was done and he has a lawyer went to the State Department embattled and ultimately he was able to convince them to allow 50 children to escape he and his wife flew to Nazi Germany took a boat to France made it to Nazi Germany in 1939 talk about the courage of these people but they weren't so courageous they were just people they stopped in France they went shopping they went to visit the Eiffel Tower they're like on a vacation and on their way to the vacation they go to Austria and they find 50 Jewish children and bring them back to America and save their lives in the whole time the Jewish community inside there communicated them tell like why are you bringing these Jews here that's how I found out the stat that so many Americans just didn't want we've tried so hard to assimilate and to become American we've changed our names and now there's these kids making a foreign language bring immigrants often people are gonna associate us with them and so they in the they had to like fight so they never really talked about it because it was upsetting the Jewish community amount around them so much so the story never became famous and I was thinking are you kidding me and then what happened they saved these 50 kids they found 50 families that adopted them where they found their families distant relatives and they like found their homes and then they went back to their regular lives rich regular people doing the lawyer thing doing the housewife thing and they had I don't know let's say four months five months six months dedicated to this cause and then they changed the world forever they have now great grandchildren that are Jewish and influencing the world in bringing life into the world and they saved those 50 children's that have now brought family trees of their own and it was just like a brief moment in their lives that was like in the Gemara says yesh misha knish alamo be shocked on you can acquire your world to come or your world in this world however you want to read it in one hour and it was like these simple people that were just regular people did something of such heroic proportions and they just went back to living regular lives and I've been thinking about that so much one of the thoughts that I keep on thinking about is that you know Here I am 99 years old and I'm on my deathbed and I can go back to this day what would this day look like now I just got one day let's make this day beautiful and I feel like thinking like that has really helped me just make my days a little bit more like the Krause family Gilbert and Eleanor that just said this is an opportunity to do something marvelous with our lives let's actually make today great because I don't know the more I think about it just I read this quote somewhere that a great life is just a bunch of great days and so you know yesterday we were celebrating the pseudo deive simcha and Rachel Gluck and some of our listeners were listening to that story unfold and now it's been just a little bit more than a year in a pseudo Jaya is a gathering a feast of thanks because yeah Kara frying who was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer a little boy not even three years old is now hair is fully grown back Paul's really quick the there was so much meaning imbued in what happened yesterday because when when was it a year ago maybe just a little under a year ago after he was diagnosed and they started intensive intensive intensive chemotherapy you could hear the story on even ation I think it was not this past week or the one before that they had a child's third birthday you do what's called an up Sharon you don't cut their hair for the first three years and then at the on his third birthday you cut his hair and everybody gets to cut a little bit of a little piece of his hair and then he learns the Hebrew alphabet and many people put honey on the letters so the honey's it's a celebration it's a time of tremendous joy and because he was going to lose his hair they preempted it and a few weeks before his third birthday we all got together for his up Sharon at this very spot on the promenade overlooking the Temple Mount overlooking all of Jerusalem I'll never forget that day it was the one of them poignant ly painful there is not one dry eye there many people picturing possibly the worst that could happen when you find the stage four in metastasized in a little boy what could be at hand and now it's almost a year later we're at that very same celebrating celebrating it's just so awesome and such thing yesterday was such a beautiful day and make my days great and what a great way to spend my day just celebrating the simce and Rachel and then I was thinking over Passover this was the best Passover of my life I mean every day buses in the morning buses in the afternoon people coming at nighttime I mean the end of every night to hila and I would just literally pass out in bed in exhaustion wake up the next morning and do it again a lot of people were saying to me Oh with such hard work you're doing such hard work I was like it's hard but it's not work oh my goodness this is there's nothing I'd rather do the best days and then I had this the Zohar says that if you want to understand Malu if you want to understand what a kingdom is or if you want to understand the mystical dimension of the kingdom of God and how he interacts with the world you have to look at ants and when you look at ants that is the manifestation of Malu of Kingdom on earth and you look at the ants and they each one has their own job and they're going they're coming and they're this one's picking up this one's protecting and this one's feeding them and the queen bee and ever I don't know ever like the answer I'll just like doing their ant thing and that is like a kingdom and I felt like over Passover and when the Germans come here to volunteer I feel like you know this little ant on our little mountain and it's like we are doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing in this big scheme of Kingdom and we are just it's like I've never felt such great days as just being here broadcasting from here allowing Jews to come here allowing non-jews to come here it's just been such an experience one of my greatest prayers and I'm sure yours and many of the listeners out there that I've had is I always am praying God please use me as a vehicle as a vessel to bring your light into the world and and I feel like throughout our journey together in this mission we've been on we have felt that many many times but since being out here I feel like my hand I'm like I fit this place like a glove like a glove there's nowhere I can ever imagine being that would bring out all of my skills and all of my powers and my strengths which are limited in in their scope but this place harnesses them perfectly and what's so beautiful as I see that so many people come out here in it like it brings a light to them you know they come here and they leave prouder Jews they leave more connected to Israel I mean those Germans that were here for the day they left they are changed people they're gonna go back to Germany not the same people that they were before they came here and so you know there was just you know I'm thinking like one family that comes to mind we were in such a jam at one point and was like we're in sort of a constant Jam here at the farm there's like a huge obstacle ahead of us and there's all these stray brief moments where we're out of what feels like we're out of it just out of a jam but then there's like an obstacle ahead of us that we have to overcome but it's not like we are in the middle of a gym and there was like we were just like our backs were against the wall and this couple that we had never met before from Northern California came they came out to the farm and I shall just open their hearts and brought light into their lives and then right when we needed it they came and they just saved us and it's like a scheme' somehow weaving this beautiful tapestry of kingdom together that each person has their gifts in their qualities and their abilities to allow this to be and it's all coming together in such just a marvelous way and then I think about Israel and there was a prophecy that already taught me I don't know maybe literally ten years ago and I forgot where the quote was but I remember what the prophecy was and then Rises like oh it's in the Book of Isaiah so Ari tell me it's in the Book of Isaiah in chapter 48 verse 10 and it says to Israel and is talking about the galoot just talking about the Exile you want to talk experience the heighth climax of the Exile D the ashes before the resurrection we're talking about Yom Hashoah and it says I have refined you not as silver I have tested you in the furnace of affliction and somehow you know when you think about the process that the Jewish people have gone through and that Israel is going through and when I say Israel I really mean the macro Israel cuz anyone that attaches themselves to Israel is like just cast cast their lot with us it's really talking about that movement of people that are building up Israel that are a part of that process being refined so much what it took to stay Jewish what it took to believe what it takes to stay in Israel and not leave what it takes to make Aliyah and leave whether it be the good life in the five towns or whether it be somehow making it from Ethiopia across the desert to Israel it's like this amazing evolutionary process that has refined the Jewish people like the cream of the crop of the Jewish people are alive today whoever wasn't strong enough fast enough smart enough to make it 3500 years who has been left has been refined and refined and refined and refined and refined and even until now you ridi shy Fleischer's message on this there's still like a whole rift of Jews that are lost in America and probably in one or two generations they will be lost in to the nations in this refinement process continues I just want to take one issue with what you just said you said whoever isn't strong enough fast enough smart enough I don't know that those are the words that I would use no no but I'm saying different okay like they weren't see would use I'm saying those that didn't have the inner fire of purpose and meaning to their lives meaning there were people that were super strong in Auschwitz that didn't make it but there were people that made meaning and made purpose and had a vision and and kept alive I don't know that I would give those physical characteristics because there's a book of Gideon who were the ones that went to war and defeated the Assyrian Empire it wasn't the weathered seasoned veteran soldiers it was the ones the feared God the most so I don't know I don't think that I meant those words is actually who could run the fest I guess in some times there were people that actually survived the 3,500 years of Exile because they were faster I meant spiritually stronger okay spiritually more persevering emotionally whatever you want to call it it has refined the Jewish people to a place where whoever has made it back to the Land of Israel in this generation has been refined beyond refined it has gone through the fires of the furnace of affliction and it is pulled out somehow this amazing people that is different than all other people of the world and the Germans that came here was just so injured because I really the more I get to meet the German people I really really love them I love Germans it's weird it's bizarre they were our worst enemy and every nation you know they have their own identity and people that want to say all people are the same it's just not true Germans came here a few months ago they put up the most gorgeous pergola outside our ecological pond that we're building in the most insane they did it in one day if they would have given that to me and to re to put up that would have taken us at least one month they did it in one day and they did it in the most insane conditions like the German mind it's so sharp and they're so sincere and they're just like all in when they bless they're crying they're just such special people and what an opportunity is to really get to know the German people or at least some of them in this generation that have now turned their hearts away from like the ethos of the Nazi reality of underpinnings of the European Union and if sought to connect themselves more to Israel into this land into the Torah I mean it's true as far as non-jews that are coming out here Jews we have coming out here from all over the world from all throughout Israel of all different religious backgrounds but as far as non-jews I would say the number one most frequent nationality would be Germans Germans are coming change the most unbelievable and so something so special is like happening here a place in the heart of Judea that's healing nations like how special what a time we live in and just to know that that refinement process you know it's not just a refinement of the Jews that survived the exile and how strong we needed to be and how hard we just had to cling on to the Tanakh into the hopes of the prophets and now that's just built us into who we are and it's not just the strength of the Israelis now that I have to go out to war every few years and I have to fight and reserve duty and live through the challenges of Israel and it's not just that but there is a whole world of the nations that are a part of this process and they are refined just as well and men the furnaces hard they have to be different than everyone in Europe they have to be different than everyone in America and they are like going against the grain with the rise of anti-semitism it's gonna get harder and harder to stand and there's no running away from it either I mean the this last attack at the Habad in San Diego you know sometimes there's little stories little what's the word I'm looking for it's like a little anomaly right and one of these stories that happened in in San Diego was this family it was that were in stare out and you know and stare out there's like months that go by where they have alarms going off constantly all the time they're forever vigilant their brains are already neurologically circuited in a way where they're ready to pounce and run at the very sound of the alarm and they they left Israel they they went away they just the refinement the pain the terrorism of living in Israel and starid was was more than they wanted at that time so they left they went to San Diego and there they were during this terrorist attack and this man he jumped up and grabbed his niece and ran he was shot in the leg she got shrapnel and they're in San Diego there's like nowhere to run there's nowhere to go there's nowhere to run you can't run away from what it is to be a Jew the Jewish identity in the world there's a difference however there's a difference between being in the Exile and being in the Land of Israel where you're surrounded by your own people by your own nation by an army of Jews the first Jewish armies in this the times of King David there's a difference there but it's not something that we can run away from so if we can't run away from it let's turn around and embrace it right what does King David said October I said your defu Nico ma hi goodness and kindness will chase after me all the days of my life if it's chasing after you means you're running away and so I think those people who were struggling with their Jewish identities well what it means to be a Jew in the world today rather than running away from it and hoping that other ideologies or liberalism or right-wing or conservative whatever identity or ideology it is that you're hoping to embrace that they will accept you they will not accept you you will always be a Jew so rather than running away from that turn around look it in the eye and embrace it because there's nothing greater than living as a Jew especially in our world today where we see the ingathering of the exiles from all around the world they're coming back to the Land of Israel we have our own state we have our own nation we're sending the cheapest machine ever to go to the moon the the technology the innovation the light that's coming out of the Jewish people in Israel is unparalleled and that's part of what we're trying to broadcast here on the Land of Israel network and share that message so all of you may you have a meaningful Holocaust Memorial Day and may we go into Memorial Day as a nation together and into Independence Day and experience the pain and the joy as King David says he shows with tears will reap with joy let us feel those tears and embrace them and then we could truly enjoyed the delight and the joy of [Music] [Applause] [Music]