Israel Inspired: From Flames to Fury

[Music] and now live from Jerusalem you're listening to Israel inspired radio here your hosts rabbis Aria bream woods and Jeremy Gimpel Shalom and you were listening to Israel inspired on the Land of Israel Network this is Aria brand modes here with the JJ how you doing Jeremy hey kid how are you doing you doing good you look good do i yeah you're vegan you don't eat animal products anymore you've been doing that for a few weeks it's really showing that's that's true I actually just weighed myself I haven't lost anything but that's okay it's not about the weight what is it about for me it's primarily honestly about the health now you think that weight would be a gauge of health but I'm not sure that that's always true maybe this veganism is radically transforming all of my adipose tissue into solid muscle and muscle weighs more than fat so I could be gaining weight yeah potato chips they're vegan the potato chips are vegan you have a lot of that's true I would Shane and I were watching a number of documentaries on veganism and and really the health benefits were pulled me the most but I do feel more alkaline more in tune with nature I mean there's really no excuse for the factory farming stuff if you want to have your own animals or eat sustainably farmed animals that had songs sung to them when they were children and raised in preschools and kindergartens and that's like I don't have no problem with that but it's only the factory farming thing but whatever I remember for the ten minutes that you were a vegan years ago more than you were in the New York Times about your veganism because you were simply using that to strengthen your own commitment to it by getting it out there as loud as possible so your wife would approve of your lifestyle because she's been pressuring for you to be a vegan for a long time but that's neither here nor there let let us proceed alright so there's a number of sort of heavy things that I wanted to talk about today they can be looked at as heavy but they're also part of a great movement that's happening in the world alright so let's talk about the fun stuff just start with so number one you recently released a musical single yeah the musical single I mean this was a pretty big deal for you yeah it's more than a year I've been working on the album the music video the e-book and eventually I just feel like all right it's it's time well let's take a few steps back on this musical single and really give some deeper more psychological background to it so and I think there's a lesson to be learned also about friendship about the power of words you know we've shared before abracadabra it comes from of Rock Cadabra will create as I speak and many many many many years ago you were singing and I just like we're best friends and I had a little little joke a little Jeb said you sound like a duck when you sing and and I saw that that like affected you so I continued to say that you sound like a duck as we would do for each other you put something affects me you know that yet and Achilles heel and you're gonna go for it so I said you sounded like a duck and for a long time you were I think honestly self-conscious that you sounded like a duck when you were singing because I said it so many times so many times and then when I realized that that was like a real thing it was before our inauguration of this I said Jeremy you don't sound like a duck you're like it's okay you don't sound like a doctor it's okay Jeremy you don't sound like a day and then you burst out crying on my shoulder [Music] stop it you don't sound like a duck and you used you you actually have quite a nice voice it's really a distinct it's really funny how somehow through the prism of Aria brain with it was all about what you said and how you said oh so you're saying well the duck thing didn't affect your relationship with music at all because you told me you so maybe you wanna be defensive now no nothing for me and the duck thing didn't affect you listen we're not going to talk about the duck thing this whole show but the bottom line is at our inauguration you had your first you know solo musical event at the end of our inauguration that couldn't have been easy but it was awesome and and then you got this Juke in your head that you wanted to to make an album so what was that about tell me about the album yeah that's a good question that's funny you're asking and it's really fun it was the amount of positive feedback that I've got and we just put it up two days ago and you never really know what's gonna happen you put something up on YouTube put something up on Facebook and there's so much noise in the world like you know how do you break through the noise to get people's attention but the feedback of so many people from all over the world have already pre-ordered the e-book so many people have downloaded the album I mean it's really like the feedback in messages and emails and whatsapp's that I've received it's really like nice because you know four years ago we came out to these mountains and it was before we were at all partners in this farm building up this place building this dream and I just fell in love with these mountains and when I discovered that King David wrote most of the Book of Psalms here in the history that happened in these mountains I used to just come out here alone before there were almost any buildings out here and just alone with my guitar and I would start the morning prayers I we used to work in your shall I'm and I would stop here in the morning take out my guitar put on my telly didn't feeling and I would just just pray here in these mountains and that all of these melodies started coming to me and then eventually like just in my own exploration of what prayer meant to me of how I wanted to live my days and how I wanted to start my days and what I wanted my mornings to look like eventually you know the morning prayers just came out into these beautiful melodies and I said well for years I was just me and God just alone no one knew the song no one knew anything and then eventually I feel like these are such beautiful melodies and such good songs if I get the right musicians behind me it could really be a blessing for the world and so I took a lot of hour with my savings cuz it's expensive to make a real album professionally and I just said alright this is gonna be my gift to the to the Jewish people my gift to the world of those who want to like connect to them I think it's something about if you pass away beforehand you want to give to hila something to listen to in her final years without you yeah well then well thank God she has all the truth yeah yeah I mean if for her for my grandkids for my great grandkids like what's so nice about music or books or podcasts or any really creation that you created sits there and then once it's in the world it's the it will outlive me that's for sure and and so now I it's just like so nice the music video was done really beautifully and it really I feel like captures the beauty of the place that we're in and where all of it happened and so yeah it's just been an awesome journey and it's only been up for two days and has thousands of views and you know it's it's really exciting because I don't see myself as a musician I don't never saw myself as that what do you see yourself as a broadcaster a teacher I'm an educator but I guess this is just another way of delivering a message yeah but for me I think the most important thing is you know I've definitely chosen a different path it's different than most people I've taken my six kids and I've moved to the deepest settlement in Judea to live a life that's a little bit more connected to nature a little bit more connected to the animals that are here a little bit more of a biblical lifestyle a little bit more the way that the prophets and the patriarchs and matriarchs of Israel used to live and the life out here has changed my life and you know I've been through hard times and even the move out here was a really hard it was a hard decision to make but it was even harder life to live through and then what has emerged from this is is a certain lifestyle a certain way of seeing the world a certain way of interacting with the world a certain decision of how I want to live my life and the e-book is an expression of that it's like the way the Judeans used to live is the way I believe we should be living now and so the ancient practices of Israel that were passed down by the prophets of Israel who who were such spiritual Giants who understood you know this world is not an easy place to live and they gave us guidance of how we're meant to live in the world how we're meant to live every day how we're meant to bring blessing into our lives and not only survive the struggles of life but really emerge powerful emerge happy emerge empowered and so I think that the lifestyle living out here going to sleep when I go to sleep waking up when I wake up it's just different and then articulating that and then sharing that it's more than just a music it really is a lifestyle and it's a Jewish lifestyle it's the way the Jewish people used to live and it's what's encoded in fact not only in Jewish law but in Jewish tradition of just what was the way that we used to live and I look around the world today and so many people they're living the Western lifestyle they're stressed out they're nervous they're upset they're frustrated they're looking for themselves they're looking for meaning they're just like grasping on for dear life and being swatted from one direction to the other and I feel like there is a way to realign ourselves every morning with these practices and it's literally changed my life and so if I'm able to help change other people's lives for the better and bring that music and bring that message and that guidance and help them what else do I need in the world I think that's like our mission here is to bring a light from Zion to the world the light from the mountains of Judea yes so I'm excited to to read the book I'm actually starting to work on my own myself but I'll tell you that the throughout my journey I have probably stacks and stacks and stacks maybe two feet tall of papers in which I've been trying to codify the my daily daily framing because I don't know if you remember that movie memento from we years ago where the guy who every few minutes he totally forgets who he is and where he's from and and so I feel like that sometimes like Who am I what's my mission so I have this like a mantra divided into categories in my life motivations for each thing best practices for those things goals and those things but but it seems like you're really codifying it in an and I hope you share some of the the the mantras that we've gone through together over the years well there were a few movies that sort of touched on this ultimate truth I remember one of them was called I think 50 first dates where this girl would wake up and she forgot everything about her whole existence that day and then that day that I would have to win her over again and it just kept on happening you know for 50 first dates every time he just had to like she didn't remember anything I'm not gonna ask why you're watching fifty first it was the kind of really good movie from like the early 90s I think and then the other movie that you mentioned was momentum where this guy also I think he woke up every morning and then had no short-term memory or long-term memory and he had to like have all these notes everywhere reminding him what he was doing and why he was doing it and I feel like why are those why were those movies so compelling I think the truth is because all of us live in that existence it's just a spectrum meaning I remember just this last week my three-year-old know'm came up to me and he said Abba we didn't snuggle today and then I of course said oh my goodness that's our job we have to snuggle every day and then we ran to the couch and we were snuggling on the couch and I'm looking at know'm and know'm looks exactly the way that my fifteen-year-old lovey used to look when he was three it's like looking at a spitting image of my oldest son and I'm trying like conjure up memories of me and Levite together when he was three and it's really really hard I just don't rest I went and looked at pictures then pictures sort of jogged my memory from when he was three but all of us have this 50 first dates thing it's just called life it's just called human existence and every morning we wake up we wake up with a little bit of amnesia and never mind forgetting past memories from 20 years ago or 15 years ago just like remembering who we are what our purpose is what our mission is are we aligning ourselves with our ultimate purpose are we aligning ourselves with the ultimate good in the world are we choosing to live in a consciousness that we want to live in are we like letting our desires guide us are we letting our fears guide us like who are we because how we choose to kind of modify our minds is what will end up happening throughout our day and the beginning of the day is what's gonna set the stage for the rest of the day if you change your morning you change your day and if you change your days you change your life so if you win the morning you really win the day and that's really to me it's like the ultimate truth then if you start your days off as the prophets of Israel passed down it's just a sure way to make sure that your day is going to be better just stronger more focused more blessed more happy it's just the right way to be and so yeah it's being codified I'm gonna be done with it hopefully probably in about a month it's really like at the very very end stages now and it's really really exciting and it's just like I'm a happy that I'm able to kind of take what I've done over the last four years and really share it with the world and not to a belabor this album because we have a lot to talk about on the show already 14 minutes in and we're still talking about this but I think it would you would be remiss not to mention the real differentiating factor that makes the that makes it so special and the people love the most it's out the trying the triangle it's the triangle yes Ari is like the star of the music video and the irony you know some people have stories about themselves that aren't really true you had a story for a while that you sounded like a duck but the truth is that you don't you don't but I really have no musical ability very very very little I can't carry a tune so the thought that I would be in a band and I would be playing them you an instrument which is the only instrument I ever really successfully learned how to play I remember very clearly from kindergarten which was the last time I played it was the triangle so I do play the triangle in this and and it's really very well executed very well done okay so moving on where can people get this album yeah just go to the Land of Israel calm there should be a link right there you can email me Jeremy at the Lena visual comm it's on Facebook it's on YouTube type in Jeremy compels Psalm 150 the music video is right there and then in the description there's links to download the e-book and order the album but to me you know the music is beautiful I mean that you know it's you never know you know I definitely I didn't know it's like a little bit nerve-wracking like I'm gonna this music out into the world are people gonna like it are they not gonna like it it's a little bit like a nerve-wracking to just do something so new and really put yourself out there and I'm thrilled that people are so excited about it but to me more important than the music really is the e-book and there's just like one line in the Torah that that sums it all up and it's over hearta behind to choose life and I think about that all the time because if you don't choose life then life is just gonna take you wherever it takes you in life sometimes can take people and it will take people to hard places to dark places to challenging places to sad places but if you the one thing that we have is our choice to choose life to choose the Tree of Life to choose it and when you choose it it's a daily avodah it's a daily service it's a daily practice it's a daily work to orient yourself to the ultimate good to actually start off your day with Madani to start off not just saying thank you God for giving me another day on this planet but to really feel it and if you feel it and that's what the music is there for to help people to like feel that emotion if you actually wire yourself in the morning that the first thing you're thinking about aren't the stresses and concerns of life but just the gratitude that you have for all of the goodness that is in your life and the love that you have in your life and then you start your day you're gonna change your life you're gonna just gonna be because there's so many challenges here in Israel I mean just in this last week we had this beautiful 19-year old girl who was murdered and so it's challenging and so this is like at least my medicine my medicine - how do we overcome and how do we emerge victorious all right so let's talk about that or eat Anspach her zero nollie raha this past Thursday night we we heard about it in this wave of extreme pain and like pulsed through the country you know our dear friend I'm not gonna say his name but very dear friend of ours he's in an elite army unit the guys just like a soldier knows no fear he called me he was crying and he really like just crying crying his daughter was best friend Ori Ori was his counselors his son's counselor and bnei akiva you know just every of the things you hear about her from everybody you know just the kindness and compassion and spiritual sensitivity loving goodness and then you picture what she went through the horror I mean there it's like rare to imagine a more stark contrast between good and evil between light and darkness as what happened to this girl and and that's when I start going into like my own place of darkness even though I don't know if it's darkness maybe it's maybe I shouldn't call it dark maybe it's healthy it's maybe the healthiest thing that's happening here but my mind starts racing through the scenarios of what I'd want to do to this are a fad or fear guy if I had the opportunity to do it and then I talked to my friends and I tell them and it seems like everybody that I talked to says oh this is what I and they've all thought it through everybody is picturing what they would want to do to this guy and it would be a protracted painful death and it really upsets me that we have to to think like this that we have to have these feelings because we all have this this perception this understanding this truth that the government is not doing their job that they are viewing this whole thing in a politically correct Western way rather than how it really is and that and so we have this desire for justice that's what a vigilante is someone that takes the law into their own hands because the law isn't doing the law the law isn't implementing justice as it's meant to be and in giving a punishment that's worthy of the crime and and I'm not sure it's unhealthy use as a matter of fact I don't know if you heard about this at least 150 young Jews demonstrated Tuesday at the entrance to the abuse in a neighborhood of Heffron where our fat our fear was from and they were calling for revenge which by the way revenge is a topic that has been stigmatized in Western culture but the Torah perspective of it is indeed much more nuanced there's times that it's a very good thing and there's times that it's a very bad thing but to say that revenge in it in and of itself is bad that's just not the Torah perspective nor is it the intuitive healthy human perspective so the end this group they were calling for the end of the pay to slay policy in the Palestinian Authority they set aside seven percent of their annual budget to give very generous monthly donations monthly salary for terrorists and the family of terrorists who died while trying to kill Jews or killing Jews I heard Netanyahu just come out saying he is going to stop the payments now and I'm like why has this been going on for five six seven years whoa now you're stopping it we will but because the elections are around the corner like you want a trophy that now you've decided to stop pay I mean imagine what the scenario is the European Union in the United Nations are giving money to the Palestinian Authority and then the Palestinian Authority is giving money to these murderers so it is the Europeans that are continuing the work that they started 74 75 years ago in the Holocaust and they've just out sourced it to the Arabs that are now killing the Jews but they are single-handedly funding an army of merciless mercenaries to kill Jews and when you really just oppose this murderer terrorist disgusting vile monster versus Ori and what she looks like and who she was it's it's like I don't know you need like you need like orcs from the from the from the the movie the what's that movie called the with the with the Hobbit it's like the horrible monsters versus like this beautiful sweet loving wonderful little girl it's like light and darkness in such obvious terms and yet still where people can just look and see like with their own eyes you see this guy smiling the picture of him smiling makes me want to rip his face off of his skull I know I know maybe it sounds violent I'm just being honest it's just them in the mainstreaming of anti-semitism in the hatred of Israel just continues to rise even though the world I mean just look and no news outlets really covered the murder it was like totally swept the rug CNN BBC every time someone a Jew throws a stone at an Arab car it's like international scandal but this no one even talks about it's just so frustrating so you know the organizers of these hundred and fifty youths of went and demonstrated in Chevron they said that the Israeli policy sees every terror attack as a lone wolf attacker and turns a blind eye to the supportive environment to the encouragement and the support for the terrorists they said the time has come to return to a policy of reprisals in which the terrorists environment is seen as responsible for the terror it produces which is obviously true it's obviously true that this is their not lone wolf that this is not just some rant because where did he go he went ahead to hide in Ramallah and when the security forces went into Ramallah to get him what were they faced with the entire city is throwing Molotov cocktails throwing rocks attacking them seeking to kill them in any way possible protecting this rapist-murderer it's like an entire community of demons that are protected I mean you can say okay it's a we're fighting for the Liberation of Palestine Israeli soldiers but rape and murder a 19 year old girl and they're gonna protect him with vengeance this is a communal if there's any argument to make for a collective punishment it's here it's here and not only that we just talked about the paid to slay they are the money from the Palestinian Authority they're going to pay a rapist murderer of a nineteen year old girl what more proof is there for the world to see that this isn't a political issue it's not about land this is a deep-seated evil over a overwhelming obsession of the soul I don't understand who are we trying to convince that this isn't a political issue meaning it's not a political issue are we trying to convince the haters of Israel that it's not a political issue they no in their hearts that's not a political issue because they hate the Jews the same way that their grandparents hated the Jews in the Holocaust they've not much has changed in human nature or in European nature or an Arab nature the the mufti and Hitler were like partners in crime nothing has really changed it's not like we've evolved so much over the last 70 to 75 years we're dealing with the same realities the only thing that needs to change is Israel's mind we need to understand that this isn't a political issue we need to take action and seek justice and if we do what we need to do not regarding at all what the world will say because whatever we do the world is going to condemn us we got out of Gaza the world's condemning us for blocking Gaza it just doesn't matter because the Israel hatred is always going to be there so let's just look for justice tzedek tzedek tiered of what is the right thing what is the true thing what is the moral thing do that no fear that's it's just it doesn't matter what the nations say it matters what the Jews do that's what ben-gurion said what a brilliant man that's what we need we just need to do what we need to do but the problem now is all of the political leadership from Bibi to Bennett they've all just been so absorbed into just dealing current the obstacles and constraints in cordon of the this which by the way you'd hope that Trump would inspire them and let them see that something else is possible right just for like Trump or dislike Trump he definitely broke the constraints there were so many times in his journey that everyone was like he's done for this guy's political career is over and he won and he now has a pretty high approval rate it's the highest approval rating so far exactly so so the point is that you know we can look at the government and the truth is that people the people of Israel elect right-wing governments and very often get left-wing policies but but beyond that you're right it really the government regardless of whether it's a totalitarian dictatorship or a democracy is a reflection of the people at large the majority of the people and and so we really need to do that internal work just last night I was talking to Eliezer boats there you know Eliezer he's been on the show a number of time he's a famous musician here in Israel very talented even just today he is was asked by the family of the of or e0 Nelly raha to to go to a Nia Elle where she was murdered and he's doing a little concert there at 4:30 p.m. like a memorial event musical memorial for her at the site there and I was talking to him last night and and he told me that this reminded him of the egg la Ruffa do you remember the egg la Ruffa yeah of course so in short we could go into what the egg Maru feh is but but the Torah tells us in a situation where there's someone that's found murdered and they don't know who it wasn't it's between two villages then the leadership has to take out a calf and slaughter there and say this blood is not on our hands and the family boots she was at a Torah scholar she said we see then that responsibility for an evil act does not fall only on the perpetrator and not just on the abettor the crime does not only involve cooperation but also negligence omission and inattention one who sits in his quiet corner and ignores the rest of society and it's corrupt ways and quote with dualists do not mingle meaning they're just hanging out with their religious spiritual friends and guards his soul from every safeguard and cease oppression and theft and robbery but does not arise and does not move and does not struggle and does not protest he also cannot say our blood our hands have not spilled this blood and that's really what I think we all need to be asking ourselves the same question as the of the egg la Ruffa so the the leadership of course needs to be blamed for this a spokesman for the Shin Bet said that the the tariff at just the name Arafat area had spent time in prison that's how they caught him because because he was in prison they gots a genetic and they were able to match his genetics he spent time in prison for security related offenses that had crossed into Israel without a permit before carrying out the murder Hebrew media reported that the suspect is affiliated with Hamas though neither the terror group nor others have claimed responsibility for the attack but what the terrorists did say or if I'd said he was going to do anything to either become a martyr or to end up in an Israeli prison but from the way he was saying it it seems like you would prefer to end up in an Israeli prison because these prisons in Israel are they get degrees they eat better they're relaxed they have a much better life some of them than they do outside of prison they get treated and then they're heroes so of course he wants to be in prison and he'll do whatever he has to do to be in prison so now he gets the best of both it is good business right now to kill Jews in Israel and that needs to stop right and so one thing is the prisons in Israel need to be hell holes hell on earth anyone should prefer death to be in a prison here in Israel but but right now it's just we're so much trying to appeal to the Western sense of rehabilitation rather than punishment so that's one another thing is that we have and that's a small thing the real issue we need to look at is that we're facing a fifth column in the country now I've said a fifth column before but I actually looked it up this is the definition a fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group from within usually in favor of an enemy group or nation the activities of a fifth column can be overt or clandestine forces gathered in secret can mobilize openly to assist an external attack that's exactly what we have in Israel we have 1.5 million Arab Israelis in the country how many of them do you think identify and associate with with their Israeli identity or their Palestinian Arabs that happened to have an Israeli to desert identity card of course they identify as Arabs and they want the destruction of Israel the vast majority of them so it's it's not a lone wolf they went in to catch this guy and there's an entire village of his City and Ramallah that are trying to kill this two soldiers I mean to me we both looked at each other we're like there's something called a mug right a mug is the heavy machine-gun when these people are throwing Molotov cocktails and rocks shoot them Oh shoot them all is that not obvious I don't understand it I don't understand how can live in a country where the police go into a neighborhood and they're being stones are being hurled at their cars people can get killed with stones I don't understand how every single one of those people are not being arrested stopped neutralized I don't get it and I think that it's really interesting that all of this is happening in the wake of the Israeli elections that are just weeks away and of course the Israeli religious right are in total shambles there's like four different parties that are all fighting with each other and they haven't gotten their act together and that could be an absolute disaster and then like in two seconds we actually might have a left-wing government and once there is a left-wing government I mean there could be a disengagement immediately and there's not really much you can do if a law is passed and the army is activated there's really nothing you can do to stop it and we are like feet away from the elections and the right right now in Israel is just really um floundering and I just always wonder every time an election comes around could Messiah possibly emerged from these Israeli elections well I mean that's what I was hoping with orys murder when it happened I was like it was so jarring and so painful that I really I'd Stav and I said please Hashem let this be that which sparks whatever emotions we need to have as a nation in Israel whether it's rage indignation fury love unity togetherness whatever it is that we're lacking that we need let this arouse us from our slumber and wake us up because something needs to wake us up something needs to open our eyes to who we are and what we need to do but let me ask you a question you're talking about the Israeli elections I think a lot of people out there are a little confused with exactly what happened there was the by UD the Jewish home party it was religious but also not religious but a lot of people perceived it as religious but it was the right wing not the most right in the country but then it's split up can you give like a brief from your own I know you're not like deeply swimming in the waters of politics but how you see what's actually going on here yeah so the the old head of the bite you D his name is Naphtali Bennett and his kind of sidekick Ayelet shaked although I think I own the chicken is actually more popular Naftali Bennett himself they used to head the religious Zionist movement within Israel at least in the political sphere and just a few weeks ago and a Fatali banana yellowjacket said they're done with the religious Zionist movement and they are starting their own party called the new right and they are going to be a secular and religious party and they're not going to be connected to rabbis they're not going to be connected to any other parties and they're going to be doing their own thing which left the religious Zionist movement a little bit in shambles we're like so people are trying to pick up the pieces and figure it out now this traditional right wing in Israel is comprised of two parties the Jewish home party and the National Union now the head of the National Union he is a brilliant sharp awesome wonderful guy he's probably the guy that of all the havre Knesset in Israel I most identify with him his name is bit sallow Smotrich and so now there's a new head to the bite UD his name is ravi ravi parrots he was the head rabbi of the IDF he was a helicopter pilot he heads one of the biggest DC vote Macky note that prepare people spiritually in Torah before they go into the army and Israel very impressive guy and now it was obvious that the by UD in the National Union we're going to join forces and move forward but they are now I don't know in some sort of boring negotiation over irrelevant the scraps of Longshanks table they're just fighting over very little nuanced things that for them are very important probably a lot of it is ego driven who needs to be the head of the party who needs to be the face of the party and in the meantime all these other parties are campaigning and moving forward and in the meantime the religious right are just kind of squabbling amongst themselves now with all of that but Salah Smotrich wants to bring on the far-right party called oats Molly Sorrell and they are probably the inheritors of rothmeyer Kahana and they are a little bit anti-establishment they are very right-wing they're very provocative but they a lot of people at this stage in the game are becoming anti-establishment because the establishment is not doing what needs to be done and so they're say alright well I'm just gonna vote as right as I possibly can but Saleh Smotrich realizes that it wants to make a block with this far right-wing party but the bite UD head doesn't want that because you know he's like a rabbi in the army he's very you know traditional and kind of just like you know very establishment and so they're just there's just it's just a big spaghetti of nonsense and politics and in the meantime all of these other parties are moving forward and the people that represent God religion Israel Torah army yeshiva all of like the things that we would normally just like well that's like this is the values based party you wanna this is like who I'm not voting for politics I'm just gonna vote for the for the values and the integrity and for these people that are just upright and good they're just really disappointing right now and I know you wonder you know every time an election comes around could Messiah emerge from these Israeli elections so right now it doesn't look like that's about to happen but you just never know meaning King David people know that he was anointed to become king by soul about by shmuel but he's waited literally until the entire nation of Israel came together and said we want you to be the king he was democratically nominated as king of Israel even though he was anointed way years before it even after King Saul died David did not just assume the leadership or take the leadership he waited in have roan for all of the tribes of Israel to come together and say here we are we were just talking yesterday that Benjamin Netanyahu is interesting that Saul was from the tribe of Benjamin could Benjamin Netanyahu be the precursor to a leader that will arise I don't know it feels like biblically we're like some later there will arise that would mirror Saul meaning that or David no I don't I don't think so I think that for me this is all just total speculation and but Benjamin Netanyahu I don't think his name is accidental so it's Benjamin so he is he would be a Saul like character right and my perception is he's been Prime Minister for a long time he's had a lot of opportunities he's a good man with good motivations but he's not the leader that we are hoping for and praying for that's going to lead Israel to two days of glory and and light for the world and so I think another leader will arise and he will be fighting against that leader meaning he will be the sole like character that is fighting against whatever leader arises in whatever way well it seems like that really is maybe right around the corner that there is going to be this politically incorrect anti-establishment guy that rises up and really speaks what's on the heart of so many people like the words that can't be said but that need to be said in the actions that need to be done and so you know with all of this you know there's just been so much tragedy and pain and suffering that's like all around us all of the time we're just like these sheeps surrounded by wolves here in Israel but I feel like you know here out in the mountains of Judea every day that goes by we're like building it up and the reason why they're attacking us because they don't want us in this land and every time that we're here in the deepest settlement in South Eastern go should say you know it just gives me a lot of solace and peace of mind knowing that I'm doing what I can do and the people that are supporting us are doing what they can do and as as they continue to attack us we're continuing to build and just the other day was maybe a week ago I I was like the middle of the night we teal and I just gotten into bed and we were just saying oh this is so nice what a long day it's so nice to just be under the covers and being this comfortable bed and we had just fallen asleep and it was so nice and then I get a phone call in the middle of the night from Shana Ari's wife well just to clarify you didn't receive a call to HeLa received a call because you keep your phone off at night which to me is crazy it's a crazy thing it's a lack of being really connected with the magnitude of the situation that we're in out here we don't have fences or alarm systems you got to keep your phone on at night because how else are you gonna be reached if there's an emergency like happened right then we have walkie-talkies yes we have walkie-talkies I saw the walkie talkie your little girl was playing it under the table in the kitchen that was the walkie-talkie anyways so go ahead from your perspective in though it probably should be started from my sister from your perspective so Shana and I it's maybe 12:30 at night and then we are the electricity goes out so I go to the electrical box and I'm trying this and I'm trying that now because our laundry machine is outside and our dryers outside and a lot of the entire construction of this entire mountain and the retreat center and the prayer house is all being powered from the electrical socket behind my sink that's going out the window and powering the entire place so I didn't turn that one on and it turned on for a second and then it went out turn down for a second to one out so then we're like okay you know what so we don't have electricity well we'll figure it out in the morning let's go back to sleep we go back to sleep and then we're and it's just crazy sound effects and it looks like we're either being shot at or lightning is going off outside and then we look outside through the bedroom window and we see a fire that is erupted right under our tractor own work vehicle so it's parked right under this the work vehicle this fire has erupted now I am just sleeping not I hope our listeners are not visual thinkers but I ran outside barefoot in the freezing rain in my underwear and Shana is runs outside in similar condition I didn't know what to grab I wasn't ready or so I grabbed my gun and Shana grabbed her phone which was a smarter thing to do said call Danielle called the security guy from eBay now and she's like I don't have his number and so I ran in to get my phone she called you if your phone was off of course we went on wouldn't want to bother you and then tequila answered her phone and told you and you ran over you were wearing shoes you were wearing a jacket you came from that side and you want to take it over from here yeah it was the middle of the night and what happened was my entire house right now is powered by an extension cord that connects Ari's house to my house we're now working on finishing the final infrastructure the electrical infrastructure of the place but until then that's how my house is powered and it's it's it's a tricky game because I have to turn on some things but I can't turn on all things I can have like one a/c running but then I can't have the dishwasher running I have to have like the dryer running but the the washing machine so it's like a it's like a little bit of a game that we have to play all the time just to make our electricity work and all of a sudden the middle of the night around 12:30 we were already fast asleep but the electricity my house blows out why because the electrical wire that connects us set on fire and as soon as it went out pretty loud in my house and you know in the middle of the night the power went out I didn't even notice it the only problem was and munna my five-year-old blood-curdling screams the the power going out freaked her out so much screaming at the top of her lungs once she started screaming at the top of her lungs then of course Noah my three-year-old who sleeps in her room he started screaming at the top of his lungs that's somehow woke up again my little baby who's just a year and a half and I don't know how this happened because it was just in just amazing divine orchestration butthen had a massive diarrhea that went what out of her diaper up her back down her legs and it's pitch black in my house right now and then we get a call from Shana saying there's an electrical fire quickly come over and I'm like wow we went to bed it was so comfortable and so warm and so I quickly get on my shoes put on a jacket it's raining outside and I run over and I see that there is a fire right under our where our vehicle our work vehicle so I quickly jump in the work video vehicle take it out and as I'm like sitting on the work vehicle I'm like this thing could just easily blow up I really hope it doesn't blow up as I am on it right now and eventually you know we moved the truck Tyrone we took care of the fire it was explained what you did it was actually quite innovative right you just took a huge stone because I was screaming don't put water on it because it's an electrical fire in the middle of the wire the wire itself is flames are shooting out of it so you just put a big stone on top of it that we just quench the fire and then varnish em I didn't have electricity for I think it's a little more than two but the story's not over so so then it was done and we decided ok we'll go back in bed and then we were lying in bed and Shana says is there a fly in here now living on a farm there are certain seasons of the year where you see the first floor it's fly season then it's mosquito season and then so it's nowhere it's not fly season right now so I said fly she's yeah I hear a fly I said do you remember we just had a fire seconds ago maybe the fire is sir so we went out and the fire was starting again right so from from under the rock so then you see our partner he came out here we went to the central electrical thing we shut that off he cut off your wire so then we had perfect electricity because the extension cord was cut off to your place and then you were stuck without electricity but you very graciously offered us to stay in your home that's true we didn't have electricity for almost two days or may live more than two days and that's just the reality of living out here you know we had a generator and - thank god the generator was able to kind of keep our fridge working and keep our freezer working and kind of like whatever basics we had to do at one point now we're really like down to really minimal electricity and you know it is just the reality of kind of pioneering it out in the deepest settlement in Judea we're just now finishing up the electrical infrastructure and you know we'd sent out a few messages to friends of ours saying listen you know this is a pretty big project to finish the electrical infrastructure for this entire place and it was before the fire and just dear friends of ours from Florida I just a group of like just beautiful people that are real believers just good solid wholesome godly people and they came together and they said we're gonna help you part of the way and they'd committed to giving us money we now like slowly but surely as like there's so many challenges against us knowing that we're like building and continuing to grow and continuing to lay down roots here in Judea it is the answer to the BDS movement and the rise in anti-semitism and the terror all around us that the Jewish people are back in the Land of Israel and we're only getting stronger and sometimes it feels like we're digging ourselves out of a hole though because we're not just trying to proceed with the building and of course for this type of thing we can't take loans from the bank or do any of the financing things that normal projects like this would do and so we're in a different situation altogether and we're like digging out of a pit because we're also still right now to this day there are all of our electrical wires are just lying all over the ground right there it's like the danger of the situation is still right there when we walk by I remember you said it we walked by them as you said it's funny how something can appear normal after enough time of looking at it that the electrical wires coming out of my house are just like frazzled screws skewed everywhere and that's just the way it is that we still have this situation that we need to fix of the electrical infrastructure in gaining its underground and and that was much more expensive than we thought it was to begin with and to do all of the building but but let me just take this opportunity if anyone out there wants to DAF kheh help us with the electrical infrastructure what we need about fifty thousand shekels to do it another so it's not necessarily the most exciting thing to do it's not you know the diadem on the crown of the prior house but it is the electrical infrastructure and it does pose a real significant threat it's very dangerous for children and for all of us and that would be a tremendous contribution to the foundation of this place so so you reach out to us re the land of vigil Jeremy the Land of Israel calm I will just go to the website there's like a donate button you can just right I mean if they want to give more than that to actually help us move forward and like any donation helps but sometimes someone's like you know what that's what this is for I'm going to give them enough money to help them just get this infrastructure done so they're not in physical danger not from the Arabs or the Supreme Court or the leftist but just from electrical fires and exposed electrical courts so someone may want to do that I always feel a little bit uncomfortable but I know that we've given everything we have and we've given so much of ourselves and it's been such a privilege to do that it's it is it does seem reasonable unfair to give them the opportunity people want to know what we need people want to be a part absolutely yeah so the last thing a great thing that happened was just yesterday one of my personal heroes that I was honored to chaperone around Israel about 13 years ago was it when he came to Israel was ambassador alan keyes a tremendously wise brilliant articulate one of the best spoke speakers or eaters that I've ever seen in my life and he has such a passion and love for Israel I remember when I was at Yeshiva University watching him on MSNBC he had his own show on MSNBC just for a few minutes and I mean just and you know a few weeks or whatever it was until he was just so good and so true that MSNBC is like okay we're not Fox News or anything like that back off but I remember he showed a picture of the x-ray of one of the terror victims from Israel that was filled with nails and and those metal balls that the terrorists put in into the into the bombs and showed what we were facing anyways a real lover of Israel he came out here to the farm and was the last stop before he left the country and I it was such an honor to connect with him and to the people that were with him they said it was the highlight of their entire trip by the way that's something that I've seen and it's not just I know what I know you know you know what people when they're sincere you can hear it in their voice and when people say that this place is the highlight of their entire trip I mean that that's what what came back from them and and of course he shared a Torah with me that was so beautiful we were walking around and I was talking about the challenges we're having which will soon - a show about just about that the Supreme Court and the challenges were facing there and all of the different challenges were facing and I said sometimes it just feels like I have no idea what's gonna be five years from now or a year from now or even a month from now I'm just trying to see what situation I'm facing right now and what is the next move that is the right step for the next step just the next step I said it's like a car in a very foggy night that has these headlights and you can only see what's right in front of you but that's enough because you just operate based on what's right in front of you and then he said just like King David said that God is nearly ugly he is the light for my feet why is he the light for my feet what does King David say that because he illuminates your feet what's right in front of your feet right now he will just help you enough to give you that next step and why does he do that wasn't he let you see the whole thing because when you have just your next step and he is illuminating that one next step for you then you're really walking with him and being guided by him and just like the manna you know you're not able to store it you don't get to think long term and to feel secure in a world of insecurity there is no security the only security is in Hashem and when you're able to really put your faith in him that's when real joy and real happiness and living a life of vibrance and vitality comes any last thoughts Jeremy no I really like that idea very much well I really want to think about that you know there's just so many things that we can get lost in our worries worried about the future worried about there's just it's endless especially in Israel there's just so much to be concerned with but I feel like if we just stay focused on the task at hand what do we have control over what can we fix what can we make better what can how could we push the story forward what contribution can I make and then say focus on that and then really walk with God and so I feel like everyone that tunes into the Land of Israel Network it's just such a beautiful network of people that are all in their own ways just trying to push the story forward and trying to walk with God now one of the most important things we got to talk about right now and we're gonna mention it on the next show and then network is gonna be talking about it is that for Rosh Chodesh Aadhaar bet this coming new moon we are doing the Land of Israel a network Shabet own this is a new thing it's an experiment it's been untested before but it's gonna be me and Shana you and your wife and Yishai and his wife and we're running a Chaba tone at the Dead Sea called the Israel inspired retreat and and it's exciting for me one of the things that really excites me the most about it is Isha Fleischer I feel like that guy is really on the in his a-game right now in his life he sees things clearly he embraces opportunities he's not intimidated by challenges he's fighting the fight of a thousand armies here in Israel he really is and I find him it to be a tremendous inspiration and for us to have this shop atone where there's going to be Torah study and connection and meditation and prayer and we're going to be able to connect and to talk about everything that's going on in Israel today on spiritual levels it's going to be a really special weekend you can find out about it on the Land of Israel dot travel that's the Land of Israel dot to travel you can see all the details there we'd love to have you join us and that is our show for this week parshat said sava may it be a good one we're learning about the construction of the tabernacle of the temple may the temple be rebuilt soon in our days shallow the Land of Israel Network presents the Israel inspired a retreat Rosh Hodesh add our bet a three night event by the Dead Sea Thursday through Sunday March 7th through 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