Rejuvenation: An Agricultural Revolution

hi everybody Chev left oh I hope it to start over greatly this is Eve Harrow and you're listening to rejuvenation on the land of israel network is december 24th 2017 and actually if you're listening to this I am when it's being first played I am heading to England today so I'm actually pre taping this just before Shabbat more on that a little bit later I'm heading to lean would you kaeleen mood is a few days of learning all kind all kinds of thought it tends to lean more to it's called the progressive side of things which is the reason that I'm going put a little balance get try and get people thinking a little bit assuming that they come to my sessions so I'm going to have four sessions there one is going to be a panel the last one is actually going to be a panel including are you a king who some of you may remember I interviewed here a friend and a member of the Jerusalem Council and that's going to be on is Jerusalem a settlement so you can try and guess my answer might might surprise you and then I'm going to be giving a talk about 50 years after the six-day war is it was occupation or liberation that you might be able to guess we're going with I want to I'm going to give more of a tour talk about that wine and about the rejuvenation I guess you could say of a lot of the things in Israel now even bringing don't tell anybody but for that session I went and brought about bought a bottle of wine from the default winery near sheilo J Julie it's a kind of wine that was made in the olden days in the days of the temple that was just grown for table grapes over the last couple of millennia and is now being made as wine again and so I'm sure that nobody's tasted that before so I'm gonna bring that to the session so even if they don't really like what I say so much and the other things I think this one they'll kind of like and and the last session that I'm going to be giving is coexistence can there be peace without it and so it should be really interesting week I'm very excited first time that I'm going to lis mode and they're just so nice I like all the males back and forth just really nice people and they have a buddy for me since it's my first time they're really really looking forward to it Malka and he's shy Fleisch over there last year and they told me what a great experience it was so that'll be next week's show I'll give you the roundup on what happened in Birmingham England during this during this next week so I guess like you know Christmas there even though obviously I don't I don't celebrate Christmas and I live all year right outside Bethlehem which is very funny but I'll be for this whole week in England in and I hope it goes well but of course you can always write to me I'll be picking up my mail Eve at the Land of Israel calm so this has been a really interesting week to say the least of course the topic on everybody's minds is what happened at the UN and the vote about Jerusalem and the stand that both nikki Haley and president Trump have been taking you know it's real fascinating is it's almost not about Israel in Jerusalem anymore it's about America's right to decide where they want to put their embassy it's gotten like it like it a personal front towards America and towards and it's coming obviously it's about time and for the lap you know those of us here have been thinking for so long that the UN is just a terrible place I've been asked for so many years why Israel is even still sitting there but but something there seems to be like a major shift here and again and I've said it before the fact that there's a glory in the fact that there's a threshing floor that the temple is built on a threshing floor and really very simple what sweet what's chaff what's truth what flies the UN for so long is the Ateneo said a couple days ago has really been a House of Lies Israel and good people in the world have had no chance but especially Israel between the communist bloc and the Arab bloc it's just then just then you know we're always always always going to be in the minority but really interesting to see how the United States has now just taken is much more vocal is saying hey we're giving so much money and you do the things against what we've asked you to do like we're not going to enable this anymore and it's really about time those of you who are listening to the show who are American taxpayers your money has been going for a long long time to support people who do not support the United States and its interest and it's a really bad time that that stopped so but to see some of the other countries that the officer loaded with Israel in the United States it's very refreshing I hope that at last and of course when you look at it through a biblical prism you know some of the prophets a Hari etc it's like wow you know the nations of the world are gonna be fighting over Jerusalem it just you just can't make this stuff up but what's interesting for me about this last week because you know when you I'm always jumping back and forth between the biblical times and and Temple times and and our history and our present and in my head just and also that's just the way you know I guide just tying the two things together because really history just repeats itself and things just do not change you find the same themes over and over and over again power security water greed just people are people are people and in those in those days the temple let's talk about for example the first century right in the waning days of the Second Temple period the temple was was the center it's it's the religious center and so you know Jerusalem that is very very different than the rest of the country that's where you have the people who are involved not only with the temple but of course with the King because that's the capital and that's where those two institutions are but in other places of the country where I've been during the course of this week it's very different and people are farmers people are Shepherds people are religious in a different way and this also like clicks in with a blog that a friend of mine posted this week about when you're when you're religious as an aside in dahveed as an aside it's all the time to visit or I can go read it that's a discussion for another time but it just kind of flowed in with that we um you know what is being really just mean how do people express their religiosity a little bit different well actually a lot different in Judaism than in other religions because since there's so much that we have to do for men let's say we're in keep our putting on tefillin for everybody keeping kosher there's Shabbat so it becomes I guess more obvious when somebody leaves a religious way of life you start seeing the dress differently and eat differently and you know the trappings are different and so there's a discussion here also with my own kids and with a lot of people this generation about where that's going and how much of the traditions are really super important it needs to be kept are there some that are less critical that we're keeping us going in the diaspora but now that we're back in Israel perhaps there are different ways of expressing Judaism so this is that's like an ongoing conversation but because of what was going on about Jerusalem in the news this week but because I physically was out and about in different parts of the country on the edges of the hills of Judea and eBay now how visiting re Abramowitz by the way and visiting the ranch are doing so much work there it's incredible Ari's just great and also visiting ranches I was in Itamar with a one as well fun bus a few days ago and we were visiting Itamar a lot of the farmers and a lot of the ranchers there and people living really very simple lives very very far from the center in Jerusalem and you know it's like right around Klamath right or anomalous over there and now I happen to be in the north in fact as a matter of fact I'm looking out of my window right now I'm up here with my husband for a convention looking out my window now in the beautiful hills of the Galilee so and it took us by car on nice roads not walking or you know with a horse or a donkey on the olden roads three hours to get here from home so this is far again the Galilee is far from the sanshin george forman it got me thinking about what it was like back in the day because it hasn't rained here it this whole week has been really dry it's been beautiful if you're touring around but if you know as it's like lovely to not be slogging through the rain we really need the rain and so I started thinking about what it was like in the olden days because today we need the rain the trees need the rain the force need the rain we need the rain to keep things even the underbrush from being very very dry one of the places I was at this week is Nevada tzuf in the middle of this room run where they had these terrible arson fires last year and and part of the reason that we're having more of these fires is because the underbrush is you know is just so dry and so you still need the rain even though Israel is as we all know now the world leader in in dissemination and in recycling water and drip irrigation and just doing some great things in order to still produce food when you don't have rain and you don't have enough fresh water for a growing population but you still need the rain and when I've been traveling through the gallery this weekend thinking oh my god if it was like this 2,000 years ago it wasn't raining these people were praying all the time they did not have to go to Jerusalem they did not have to offer a sacrifice at the temple in order to connect with God and it was like very clear when you're a farmer when you're work the land when you love the land you are on line with him all the time because everything has to do not just with the rain which is of course the big item but if there's too much wind or not enough wind or if there's locusts or or diseases or anything your your existence because food is I mean that's the basis of existence and so much of their day was spent in providing food for their families are enough food to sell so that they would be able to buy the other things or trade for the other things that they needed really a very simple existence so it's no wonder that the people in the Galilee and for those of you who are Christian you know that would include I suppose Jesus I'm an asura through passing azeroth on the way up here it's no wonder that they were tough people that they were upset with what they saw as the excesses in Jerusalem and with people here working really hard being taxed not only by the temple and of course by the king because taxes are something that we've sad being taxed heavily by the Romans if there's any kind of even mild drought or mild situation not even like we having right now of a weather issue and where they're not getting food these people are collapsing they're absolutely just collapsing and so it's no wonder it's that the revolt against Roman starts well technically it starts in in in case Surya and Caesarea with like something that the Romans did or inflamed the Jews there but it's really the Galilee the where the first battle start the the war starts in 66 Jerusalem Jerusalem is destroyed the temples destroyed in 70 you have years of the war going on up here in the north Josephus the famous historian is the commander of the at least initially until he flees out here is the is the commander of forces here in the north you have on the Golan Heights which then is really just considered like the eastern part of the galley you have gamma lon the fabulous now it's an archaeological site but the place where you see that where the battle was that was in 67 incidentally one of the oldest synagogues that we have is from there showing that it existed while the temple was up because it's destroyed in 67 so there's just so much it's going on here and I felt it this way as much as I've been up here for the many years that I've lived in Israel travelled around and of course now privileged to show people my beautiful country I connected the dots here this week in a different way specifically because of this mini drought or whatever it is that we're having and it's continuing this year is not unusual the North only got 10% of its annual rainfall last year so something is happening there messages that are being sent in so many different levels yes it's about Jerusalem but we can't forget the rest of the country I feel that strongly because of where I live and because so much of what I do is to show people the importance of Judea and Samaria and the importance of the hill country and so here you have on the one hand the world's finally standing up and in the conversation this week was all about Jerusalem and the world going to battle to a great degree 128 Nations it's what they're saying if they don't want the American Embassy in Jerusalem is they don't recognize Jerusalem is our capital and they want to take true is from away from us the fact that we have some really good people amongst them foremost amongst them right now the United States is part of a much much bigger picture fighting for the truth of fighting for what's right but let's not forget about the periphery as we focus on Jerusalem and the importance of Jerusalem there's also most of them not just that most of the people in the country don't live in Jerusalem there's a whole country here and Jerusalem is the important religious focus of course for for so many of us and the important government focus also for so many of us but and that's what the embassy issue is in in the now that we don't have a king so you have your democratic institutions and those are in Jerusalem so but it's still the leadership there's the religious leadership and there's the and there's the so-called I suppose secular leadership but the political leadership and that we have in Jerusalem now we've got the Knesset we have the Supreme Court we have the officers there except for the Defense Ministry which is in Tel Aviv you have all the major officers in Jerusalem so the focus is on that but this week I had a chance to see what happens in the outlying regions and to understand in a perspective in a different way what was happening to my people 2,000 years ago and it was a battle then also between what was seen as corruption in some of the high places a betrayal if you will because that's what corruption is a betrayal of the leadership religious and political of the little people and the little people cannot be forgotten there's little people or the bulk and and so we just finished with Hanukkah and of course going around Judea and Samaria so many of the battles of the hush I'm gonna aim were in you diverge from one around Jerusalem but in the periphery because if you don't protect the periphery then the battle is actually physically in Jerusalem and when it's like that then it's already too late then you can really just like count the minutes it's it's it's all over and that's exactly what happened in 70 and that's what what the huh she wanna even prevent from happening we have that they have the Greeks did take over Jerusalem and then you have the hush Mona I'm arrested back before they can before they can you know totally destroy the temple and so those battles happen in around the city which is you don sham run and the Galilee just north of the shim run of course protecting from the north and Lebanon is on the other side of here so when it comes you have to know the land in order to understand even today get fusible on Lebanon got the Galilee just south of that sham run just south of that and then you have Jerusalem so these things still matter the place is still very much matter of fortifying the places keeping people here making sure that people here have a way of making a living having a way of eating yeah it's different now than it was 2,000 years ago most of us are not farmers or shepherds now that's why it's interesting to go and see the farmers and the shepherds and the people that are so attached to the land but you can understand why and how so many of them then we're really spiritual people have the Pharisees were very very spiritual people tough people not at all simple maybe didn't wear fancy clothes but when you love the land when you understand the land when you nurture the land you see your relationship with Hashem in a very very different way because he is just a part of nature a nature is him it's all integrated and trying to figure out what the message is here about what we have going on here in you know in natural sense in the nature sense the drought that we have here is has been all over the Middle East and for many years and I think we've mentioned it on the show before how there are those who think that the Syrian civil war was kicked off by the fact that there was a drought and so the farmers had nothing to farm and they moved into the cities and that destabilized the cities so these things are much much bigger than like okay let's pray for rain some kind of idea of like you know the Indians going around are doing a rain dance it's much more serious than that because the the feeling is also that the Bronze Age ended if civilizations collapsed people were on the move because of droughts of fires of starvation of famine and so with all our technology and we've certainly come a long way there are still hungry people there are still droughts famines and fires and all those things can very much disable countries to stabilize governments we can't provide your people with water and with food and hence security then a lot of things that can collapse so these are far from being some kind of old-fashioned things that we've moved beyond and now we have you know different concerns they're still very very prevalent and again because I live in the land because I'm privileged to travel and I was able to see things and understand on a deeper level what was happening here so long ago and it's really just amazing and so I do hope that it rains they're supposed to be I know it's going to be raining where I am in England next week that doesn't really help us here so there's a forecast for a couple of days of rain but wherever you are keep Israel in your thoughts not just about the rain but about everything else that's happening here try and see this as the bigger picture that it is and and hopefully all will be good but we are definitely on an international level moving in a very very interesting direction I don't know maybe this stand is what's going to save America maybe finally standing up on the world stage and saying what's right okay because that's one of the things that nikki Haley said this week okay it's America's just right to decide where the embassy should be and also it's the right thing to do and maybe in that simple sentence is the answer to a lot of things it's the right thing to do so that's it for today spend the week doing the right thing and I will be back next week God willing telling you maybe I'll get a chance to interview some people when I'm in England and I will try and be doing the right thing for my people for my faith for my land so Yves Harrow freon rejuvenation for the Land of Israel network like I said write to me even Linda visual comm love hearing from all of you thank you to Tabitha and to Ben and to everybody else it possible for me to dislike talk to you every single week so if it's your holidays this week enjoy them be with family be with friends don't forget the spiritual aspect of you know if just appreciating of thanking God for all the good things that you have and that is always important that should be just the undercurrent of what we do because it can go like so quickly that just a brief like couple of Hanukkah miracles that happened to friends of mine this week one were their kids and grandchildren in a car that caught fire and they got everybody out like in the nick of time and another where there was a terrible accident that my husband actually saw he couldn't believe anybody walked out of that car life and it was kids and grandchildren of good friends of ours I mean we love them too and and walked out I think a broken rib was the whole extent of the damage and that was really really a miracle so where's she belts drive carefully pray eat well eat good eat healthy don't smoke have a great week everybody leave Harrow for rejuvenation take care everybody goodbye for now