Jeremy & Tehila on the Road - The Virtual Becomes Real Across America: The Land of Israel Fellowship

so how are you jeremy knoxville tennessee hi we are doing excellent can everyone hear me i don't know if i could see you even if you told me is this okay everyone hears me yes it works okay excellent and so here we are um we're on our way to knoxville tennessee we have a six-hour drive ahead of us and what i've done is almost like a scientific experiment to see how far i can push my children without them absolutely disintegrating before me just every day it's been a different city i mean i remember the first time we got off the plane from tel aviv to la la to colorado and until we finally got to our hotel in colorado my kids they weren't zombies it was just that the plug had been pulled out they were just they were just like out we had to like carry them to their bed they were just exhausted and so i underestimated how huge the united states is and we've just been traveling from city to city and from city to city sometimes five six hours in the car but um it's been amazing because our fellowship for the first time since it started in the middle of this global pandemic has transformed from being virtual to being physical there are real people in those zoom screens i've seen them i see them right now i've seen them it is um the energy and love and the excitement that's experienced when we actually finally had a chance to meet in person and it's been so special because people from you know we do one event in one city in colorado but then people from kansas drove it and people from all around the state had come in and then the next day we spent some time on the lake i don't know maybe 20 to 30 people with all of their kids came up and we were just spending time finally getting a chance to speak finally getting a chance to know each other and what a beautiful move is happening here in the world that's somehow some way people have been pulled together you know i'm right now and we found this little campsite that we've spent shabbat in down in here in mississippi it's like right at the border of tennessee and i know there's 400 campers here and all i want to do is knock on each camper and talk to the person next to me and just hear their story and they're just so many people it's impossible and then you think about how vast america is there's 8 billion people in the world it's just huge and then somehow out of 8 billion people hashem is pulling together this amazing tapestry of the most marvelous people all over the world some people live alone in a forest in arkansas and some people live on a farm in texas and some people live in the city and somehow each one has been pulled out and interconnected with this fellowship and with the mountains of judea and you know the fellowship started in a really hard time i think it was a hard time for everyone no one had lived through a global pandemic before and everything was shut down and it was scary and i feel like just out of that pain this fellowship came out to be and sometimes i thought you know king david was so beloved but he had such a hard life he never had a moment's rest he was being chased by saul and then he was chased by his own son of shalom and there was wars that he had to fight and to conquer jerusalem it was just constant challenges but in those times of pain you know king david wrote so many of the psalms that nowadays when we're in times of pain he heals us and through his pain he brought healing to the rest of the world and i feel like in that time the corona our fellowship was born in this time of pain and so many people have told me how meaningful it was for them how important the fellowship was for them especially during the height of the pandemic and i feel like it was really just blessed being from the mountains of king david that we were able to kind of spread that light and now the light is only growing and getting stronger and i just i look at myself now and the last time i was in the united states was years ago well before corona and i just see that i'm a changed person now the way that i'm handling this speaking toward the way i'm interacting with people the way i'm even just the simple things the way i'm eating the way i'm still waking up and exercising in the morning i'm just a totally different person and i can really only give the credit to this fellowship it's as if the fellowship has somehow empowered me has grown me the support of the people around us has somehow like lifted me up personally and what's amazing to hear is that we hear that the fellowship has lifted all these other people up also and i don't even understand the physics of it because how could everyone lift everyone else up it's like it's not natural someone needs to kind of like you know even when you do the red heifer so the one who's been instituting the para duma so that person who instituted that priest becomes unclean and that person becomes clean so that's usually the way of the world you know if you lift someone up over a fence you're gonna get pushed farther down you're kind of lifting them up but somehow us coming together has lifted everyone else up together we've all become better versions of who we are we've all sort of like uh risen to the challenge of these times and i want to say something that's really important because i've been so disconnected from the media here i'm a little bit more removed from what's happening in israel i'm definitely removed from what's happening in the united states i'm just sort of living in here in this place with these people and what has struck me so hard is that the media is constantly telling us how bad things are there's riots in the street and people hate each other and there's these protests and there are these hates and i know that that's sort of a law of the media that what bleeds leads that negative news always gets better ratings it's easier to get click-throughs but if that happens long enough you start to believe that the world is really a dark scary place and what i see here is that america it's like you know make america great again you know even though you know we love the trump administration for moving the embassy to jerusalem and now with their slogan i really don't agree with that slogan america is really great already the world is beautiful and the people that are around here everyone it's like the world keeps on trying to divide us into these large chunks there's right-wing people and left-wing people and black lives matter and this movement and that movement and what the fellowship has taught me is that there's no such thing that's also shalom you could be a catholic nun in germany you could be a noah hide in arkansas you could be an ephemite in south carolina you can be a jew in brooklyn or a jew in judea all of us are just seekers all of us just we're individuals and if we don't see each other as who we are on the inside just souls just little sparks of light that hashem has sent i feel like that's where real healing happens when we stop playing these different identity politics of color war that's going on that we all associate with some group or one other group but when we start just realizing that all of us are just sparks of the same fire same source um a real fellowship can be born and i feel like i've just met the most amazing people on this trip it's been such a pleasure just spending a few hours with them in the morning the night after my talks letting them meet tequila of course you know packing up and dealing with everything he needs to be dealt with right now but every place i go there i go jeremy you're really good but tahila she's the best so she's our secret weapon of this fellowship everyone loves tequila but the trip has been amazing meeting the people has been amazing our fellowship has now officially transcended the virtual into the physical and now that's step one and the second step is to bring it all the way to israel as soon as the borders open up and i really believe that it's just a matter of time until the uh this corona thing blows over the regulations change and imagine a fellowship that's not just from people in the united states but people from canada and mexico and europe and australia and all of us have an opportunity to make the pilgrimage together to our house of prayer on the mountain and then to actually live in the place that we've built together it's like a physical manifestation that will be an eternal monument in the land of israel of everything that we're working towards in the world and how you know fancy jews from palm beach that just came to the mountain can enjoy it as much as someone that's just you know a simple farmer in tennessee and how awesome that all of us are working towards this together you know with all the opportunities in life and the endless options of how to live literally america represents that you know you can just be anything you want here you can live any way you want here and to choose a life in the service of god is just the highest form of living i connecting ourselves and committing ourselves to the highest ideals to the ultimate good to israel to god to spreading the light and to find people that are committed to that same mission and i just learned from one of the fellows here one of the members of our fellowship he said you know jeremy when i committed to the fellowship my life changed and it was a definite it was like a i could see how my life changed ever since i became a member it says when you make a commitment so the whole world changes around you because that commitment has now shifted things things that otherwise might have bounced off you and gone some other way in some other direction you actually mold a new direction with every commitment that you make that's why emunah in hebrew which means faith is rooted in the same word as which means loyal when you become loyal and committed to a higher ideal your life changes for the good things that would have happened don't happen and things that do happen that shouldn't have happened just you change the trajectory with that commitment and just seeing how this commitment of all of us has brought so much light all across the united states and hopefully very soon we'll be able to see it all across the world it's just a blessing that's beyond measure it's it's such a light and so thank you for hosting us there in judea and holding down the fort and um hopefully very soon we'll be back in the mountain hi my name is jeremy gimpel a lot of people want to know exactly what the land of israel fellowship is and what members receive when they join so let me explain the land of israel fellowship is a global online community with hundreds of members from over 40 countries around the world their live sessions and gatherings that create a direct personal connection to the land of israel and the lovers of israel from around the world there's no online gathering that i'm familiar with that is connected to the land of israel that unites and brings together such a diverse group of people backgrounds and nationalities it feels like prophecy it feels like something we need in these times a window in to a better future on the horizon there's a divine unity we experience every week in our fellowship broadcast we heard these amazing teachings from an authentic hebrew and israel perspective and our jaws drop not only because they ring so true and are such a blessing because they are so consistent with what we believe these sunday morning gatherings are nothing less than a house of prayer for all nations cindy low the united states of america the land of israel fellowship is an amazing resource for learning torah the bible and the prophets unfiltered and uncensored directly from the land of israel we've been studying torah for almost 20 years but we feel we are stepping into it more than ever and seeing new depth and dimensions to scripture we're encouraged more and more every week calinardell usa members receive access to all the archives in the library of teachings on every portion of the torah the biblical feast hebrew prayer prophecy sessions on the ancient wisdom of the prophets of israel to help us navigate through these turbulent times these sessions are so rich i re-listen to each and truly each session is the best one yet tehela is a tremendous asset and the teachings ari shares are so rich i've read the bible so many times and i've known the things you are teaching the hebrew understanding is what christians have missed for century sister georgian from germany the land of israel fellowship is truly unique because it's built upon personal relationships with the teachers of the fellowship myself rabbi arya bramwitz in tahila gimpel every member has direct access to the staff 24 6 via email or direct whatsapp to ask questions to comment to connect directly to all the teachers and over the last years we've connected to some of the most beautiful people on the planet so if you want to find out more and join the land of israel fellowship you can click on the link below and if you want to try it out for just a month you can email fellowship at the land of israel.com and we'll hook you up i hope to see you shalom from the mountains of judea