The Yishai Fleisher Show: Hanukkah Socks in Space

[Music] shot love everybody and welcome to the high flyer show broadcasting live from Judea to the world you're a part of it where ever you are Shalom and welcome to the Land of Israel Network and Shalom and welcome to my study my little workroom here in Judea overlooking the mountains of the mountains of the Maccabees that's right this is where many of the battles of the Maccabees took place here close by in Beit seward this is where Judah Maccabee held out against the Syrian Greeks this is also where Eleazar one of the Maccabees fell and he thought that he was attacking one of the either the king or the Seleucid king or maybe one of the generals and the elephant fell on top of him as though as the story goes so I'm looking at right now at these mountains and thinking about the Maccabees and I'm thinking about you as we are in this incredible holiday called Hanukkah now I'm recording the show a little bit early this is today is or it's only Monday and it's the first day still of the first candle of Hanukkah but I'm going to vacation as as we our family does during Hanukkah every year and I wanted to get something out before we left and not miss the show because it's just such an important holiday and something that I wanted to really share with you I want to share the feelings of this holiday with you and right now at my desk I've got a little check the set up I'm just looking at this right now I've got a casing of a explosive grenade called the m203 a part of the something called a grenade launcher from the bottom of an m16 or different other ways that that can be shot I have one of these casings that I took back from the Army and guess what the weird thing about this casing is is that 80 lights a so-called tea light fits right into this casing I got this casing right now in a tea lights there and I got a one candle lit this is not for the Hollis this is just to remind me that it's Konica and right behind it I have a paper cutout that was given to me by some German tourists as a Star of David and the menorah is within it and it's kind of the the candle is lit and it's light is glowing onto this Star of David with the menorah in it and it's and it's giving a shadow behind it of just a larger version of the same cutout and it faces underneath this window this window on these Judean mountains and I can feel remember that I could feel the the presence of the of the Maccabees and the battles here and I can also feel you hearing me wherever you are right now and altogether it just gives me this feeling like wow this this this holiday of Hanukkah do we do we understand the full weight of it and I said something to my wife Malka and she said to me this is surprising to her a little bit and I was like surprised that she was surprised she said I should write it up but I'm gonna tell to you on this show and that is really Hanukkah all that stuff that I was describing I was getting to this point Hanukkah is the ultimate independence holiday it's the ultimate Yamaha's mode we have a yachtsman in our time but Hanukkah is the ultimate you mots modes and that's because while we have today independence we also have a lot of haters and enemies that live within our borders and we also do not have a temple but Hanukkah reflects all three aspects independence political independence a land that is no longer filled with the enemies because the Maccabees either killed or got rid of or converted their enemies in various ways they dub with them and number three they had a temple and please do not fall for the misnomer that somehow the Maccabees did it in in a few months and then the whole thing is over it was a 25 30 year battle incredibly bloody incredibly challenging incredibly also an tight also fight with the Jews you need to say it was on some level also a civil war so that's not a that's not a simple thing to swallow especially in modern sensibilities it's like wow you can't have a civil war you know we've got the beggin doctrine I'll never shoot at a fellow Jew and and maybe that's right but that's not Hanukkah okay and just yesterday just yesterday I was touring in Chevron a very very so-called liberal group and I say so-called because I don't think that self-identifying liberals are oftentimes as liberal as they may think because their ideology is oftentimes quite a liberal to the rest of us right the Jews or the Israelis in any case so this guy says to me a professor tonight because I can't go into the tombs of the patriarchs and matriarchs there's blood that's been spilled on top of the head of Abraham and he was referring to the Goldstein massacre and I said that happened 25 years ago still it's disgusting it's bloody and that's not Judaism I go not Judaism what about King David what about the exodus from Egypt and I kept listening in things and I'm like do you want to tell me that that you can't deal with a Judaism that is that is bloody you might as well turn in your card buddy you might as well give up being a tribe member and and he had some clever and yet incorrect answer to give me but in any case Chanukah my point is is not exactly an embrace of brothers an embrace of son brothers and then a challenge to some other brothers and so to the tour portions that we're dealing with right now are also a hard a hard look into the Jewish family and to the tension within the Jewish family we're talking about here within the righteous 12 brothers and the sages and the Kabbalists have all kinds of ways of dealing with this which I respect very much in many ways the Kabbalists want to say a lot of this was done against their own will there there that for example Yehuda turning towards Tamar and having relations with her as though she's a harlot it says the the Kabbalists don't like he didn't even want to do it but the angel just pushed him to it and if you read the text carefully there are little clues like that for example it says for yet - there like he kind of the road push them towards her or when it says about Joseph you know God could have made it that Joseph never saw his brothers because his brothers would have been had gone to different town and the text goes out of its way to tell you somebody told him the way and then there's an angel told him how to go there so that so that what so that the whole narrative the God wanted to happen is going to happen which is the Exile God wanted the Exile did we deserve the punishment of exile that's not clear what is clear is that God said to Abraham your children are going to be strangers in the land of Egypt and they're gonna come out after 400 years and I want that to happen I want that to take place so we are exiled through this process that we're in these two Torah portions and really really uh you know in my lash my last show which was this airport show where I wasn't feeling good and thank you so many friends for writing me and well-wishes I really do appreciate it very much but I was in a funky situation there it wasn't very late and I wasn't feeling good and I hadn't had as much time to prepare as I would have liked III forgot to say a few things that really matter to me and and one of them is that is that to understand that that Torah portion of IHF is really all about the beginning of exile the beginning of the Exile that's going to take us through the rest of the Torah right the Jewish people through the rest of the five books of Moses are going to be either in the Egyptian exile or in the Sinai desert right on the edge of coming to the Land of Israel but never quite making it as opposed to that as Hanukkah Hanukkah is a land of Israel holiday it's never about exile it's actually about incursion about about four nations entering our land and our soil after already there was a second temple and the rule of great nations over the Land of Israel that's very different that's very different than the Jewish people in exile and I've written about this and I think it's very important to understand that there's a there's a different modality between a Jew living in the Diaspora where he is get he or she is given to the host community to the host body and we have to be appreciative and and and and subservient to the host body as opposed to our nation on our land but having to sometimes push back on foreign influences in incursions into our land or foreign entities still in our land the book of Joshua is all about getting rid of all these foreign entities that are in the land and so to today it is it is not politically correct to say that we've got entities in the land that we got to get rid of but that's part of the biblical story and in hanukkah's is is about cleansing the lands from foreign influences foreign ideas foreign people's foreign gods foreign ways to serve in the temple and and an attraction to those foreign things that are in the lands so that's what Chanukah is about as opposed to our Torah portion so so in some way we're like it crossed across currents right there's the cross current of we're learning of the Torah portions about the Exile and about going down into Egypt and about and about accepting God's decree that the Jewish people will go into exile while Chanukah is much more about exiling the getting rid of the stuff that's in the land and in purifying it on the other hand there is something that brings it together and that is the story of of the challenge of intra Jewish fighting and should do introduce tensions and also the question of when we're in the Exile how much can we accept from the foreign from the from the host body how much of their culture and milieu can we accept upon ourselves and so to in our land are we supposed to be completely rejectionist of all foreign influences that's not quite clear that's what the Maccabees were about but later on they they were unable to hold that line the Jewish people weren't unable to hold that line and there's always a question are we supposed to somehow engage on the one hand the answer it seems obvious yes on the other hand no we're supposed to be a nation that dwells alone and I even found a famous Talmudic passage where rabbi Shimon bar Yohai is is speaking very badly about the Romans the folks that come after the Greeks and he says everything that they do is do is for profit and for their own self and then for their own self aggrandizement and supposed to rep you who to bar eli who had a different take all together and he said no this nation has these Romans they have incredible things that they do look at look at the infrastructure that they bone that's just amazing and they've brought culture to the world we owe them something in Rebbe who d'bari lie and rebbi shimon bar yohai are totally at crosscurrents which one is right well history shows right no history does not show both of them are highly respected rabbis rabbi Shimon bar Yohai is of course the author of of the Kabbalah and Robert a bar Eli is the most quoted rabbi in the Mishnah his is his socks are the most quoted Halawa decisions in the Mishnah so which one is right Romans are Romans are an amazing people and their culture is something to be admired or they're to be completely rejected maybe the answer lies in the difference between the revealed Torah which is the Mishnah and the Kabbalah which is the hidden Torah maybe on the level let's not call it superficial but on a more no definitely not superficial on a more this worldly practical level surely there is what to learn from the Romans but on the deep deep connection that a Jewish person has to God that is a Boober Boober e'en like a Boober way of thinking which is I though it's me and you got in it's our secret way which is certainly in the worship of God there is no Roman 'us in the wind though in the ways of life there is an appreciation for the Roman Way but in service of God there is not I think that that is a deep answer and all of us we have to serve God in the true way of the Torah but then and that's the call coeliac of the voice of Jacob but in the way that we engage this world we have to shop at Amazon and and go to college and get a job or or know how to you know not all not everybody that has a job goes to college some of the great you know business people in this world but they know how to engage this world so the hands are the hands of a son so that is I think some of the tensions that that underlie this holiday but still though the main point that I want to get across is the great day of Independence where are where our political body is independent our land is free from influences that are rejectionist of the land of it of the people of Israel the Land of Israel and there's a temple in Jerusalem that's the full independence and that's what chronic is and that's what I want you to consider when you're lighting the Chanukah candles which is full independence not rejection necessarily of everything Greek or Roman is not necessary don't go too far but in terms of Jewish independence in the Land of Israel that's what conquering Hanukkah is it is it a total victory and that is as my mother put it to me that is their message for the generations that is their legacy for the generations that they were able to achieve that a lot of people poopoo it and say hey but it didn't last at all and they became themselves I want us forget that for a second just remember their heritage their legacy what they brought into this world a vision that they brought into this world so that's the Maccabees and and we are asked to be Maccabees and there's a power to be a Maccabee by the way today on Twitter I got to put up to just you know there are things that you put up from time to time that are just good and then there are things that you put up there just fabulous and when I got to put out was was two things one is the lighting of a Nokia on top of Martha m'appelle out with a video taken by a drone by the army and it's nighttime footage and just see the whole Martha on the tomb of the fathers and mothers lit up and the light that it's supposed to be just gorgeous just blew me away and then you have to see it and it's on my Facebook and my Twitter and the other thing was this this tweet by an American Jewish astronaut named Jessica Meir so two things about her name that know right before I tell you what her name is about she's got this tweet so she's an astronaut and she's up at the International Space Station she's a Shelia Claire from NASA right and she tweeted a picture that is now at this point been liked it's being retweeted over 3,000 times now in like 16,000 times but it's basically a picture of her at the like the point at the part of the space station that has a lot of windows that you could look out into space or like vista point there and you just see her feet over a beautiful blue earth it's her feet are kind of dangling and it's her feet with socks on them and the socks are Hanukkah socks they have a menorah and they have a Star of David and she has her feet a little bit crossed and it's just right over the the the background is this big blue earth with clouds and she rides Happy Hanukkah to all those who celebrate it here on earth celebrated on earth Happy Hanukkah from the International Space Station at NASA Wow I mean she thought of taking those socks with her when to celebrate Hanukkah down the line that's a mind-blower that's just awesome and I of course retreated between it that Jessica is though a heap the the the the male form of Jessica's Jesse Jesse is the English Way of saying a shy and Meir or mayor is from the word here to light up so she is lighting the light of yishai and Isha of course is the father of King David so this is a messianic messianic thing Meir is light jessica's Jesse's shine and the light of yishai not a shy fly sure but the light of Messiah is being lit up here and that is just awesome we salute you Jessica Mayer I salute you I think you're just amazing and awesome and really a cool lady she's got a hundred twenty thousand followers on Twitter I urge you to do that as well so happy Chanukah my friends and also I'm getting Happy Hanukkah from the United Arab Emirates which is really neat stuff it's great to hear from it's great to hear from our Arab brothers and sisters in the region that really they are calling it out loud and and this is this is the moment of social media that social media shines social media has a way of not shining but this is shining to me that Arabs around the region are saying we are with you Israel we stand with you Israel and they are doing it loudly and it is beautiful and I just want to urge my brother Hassan suwanee to keep lighting it up he is awesome he is awesome and there are many more Arabs out there he's from the United Arab Emirates he's a businessman and he's just doing amazing stuff by just sending that message out there and that is that's powerful to me that this region is uniting and about Hanukkah right when the Gentiles promote Hanukkah that is also Masonic times because Hanukkah is you know it's not the tolerant holiday it's there's an element of it of which is like the says when you celebrate hug you're actually saying the real Jewish people be strong stand up and hold on to your Jerusalem and the fact that that that some folks that are not into that way of thinking love Hanukkah is mysterious maybe that's the aspect of the holiday of lights and then maybe it's kind of you know relationship in time to the Christmas season whatever it is but like it is a mystery to me how people who are kind of posing as the anti-zionist and all that our our Hanukkah lovers do they somehow you know blind themselves to what the real meaning of Hanukkah is whatever you know maybe it's their Jewish soul is lit up you know by this thing and we should see it positively maybe there's one more amazing connection between Hanukkah and the story of Joseph that I want to talk about and that is that Pharaoh has in this week's Torah portion Pharaoh has the famous Dreams Pharaoh's dreams write and Pharisees you know the the healthy cows and they're eaten by sickly cows and he sees the the healthy grains eaten by sickly grains and the number seven is mentioned there and Joseph is able to interpret them and Joseph you know he's the the pretties the what does he's something of Dreams I forgot the name of the the proper name for Joseph he's he's the king of dreams right so Joseph king of dreams that's right so this Joseph king of dreams he's able to interpret this dream and then become the Viceroy because he's very gifted I have a different take on Pharaoh's dream Pharaoh dreams about cows being swallowed right good cows being swallowed maybe the cows as we know that that Joseph is represented by the bull maybe the cows that that the Pharaoh really dreams of is actually the children of Israel and he says the children of Israel are going to come down into Egypt and we an inferior culture Egypt will swallow up the culture of Joseph and his brothers and then there's also the the the the corn not the corn the husks which is also we know that's that's Joseph because Joseph had a dream then that the other bundles of grain bow down tents so again here's green and you see the bad grain is gonna eat the good grain in other words Joseph you've come down into Egypt and your brothers are gonna come down to Egypt the Jewish people will and we will swallow you guys up we will destroy you we will be superior we will we will consume you we will we will assimilate you into our system the minute that Joseph explains these dreams guess what Pharaoh does he changes his his name stuff not panache he gives him new clothing and an Egyptian look and an Egyptian wife all right so basically Pharaoh's like okay let me begin fulfilling the prophecy which is I'm gonna swallow you up but Joseph keeps his internal identity yes he's got this other name but he remembers who he is I need oseh feel say later on and the wife which is one of the most powerful things to assimilate a person you know out of the Jewish family line well the mentor says that she's actually the product of the rape of Dina instrument which where it was Joseph's kind of soul is really bound to the tent the place where he's really from and she's actually been sent down to Egypt through a wild way but she's actually his kin his family and and he indeed marries shall we say a Jewish girl or a girl from his tribe from his family and so all the efforts the Pharaoh to swallow up the identity of Joseph is for naught he makes him an important citizen and in Egypt but still though he always eats separately from the rest of the Egyptians somehow it's remembered that he's not of them and so that well to swallow up the Jewish people in Egypt never happens and so to the Land of Israel today it's obvious that it's a separate entity from the Arab countries around us but back then 2,000 years ago it was provinces you know this was part of the of the Greek world then there was you know as Alexander's domain and and the generals were fighting over it but it wasn't supposed to be the separate kind of Jewish state maybe a province of Judea and yet of the Maccabees fought for that for that special of Jewish identity the Jewish identity so important and so much erodes today that unique identity and it's oftentimes from folks who claim that they're fighting for human rights civil rights social justice but in the end their effect is and they say this is the name of Judaism what I call hashtag my Judaism but in their effect is to try to undermine authentic Judaism the story of Judaism the the goal of Judaism that does not mean that we're supposed to be not socially just but it means that we do have our own ethnic separate identity and again in cooperation with the rest of mankind in cooperation with the other nations around us in part of the Middle East in part of a globalized world absolutely but internally deeply inside our relationship to God has to be our special way or especially I'm very very excited about this tension between rabbi Shimon bar Yohai and review hibari lie that that tension because I myself always felt that had I been in that room and they were talking about the Romans then I would have easily been on the camp of Rebbe Hooda bar-ilan been like wait a minute the roads and libraries and aqueducts and you know and one of the Romans never given us well it's safe to walk the streets at night etc I would have been on the run review who debar Elias I tonight and i kind of didn't know the second part which was our review de varela is incredibly respected I always thought maybe Shimon was right and he was right for generations so what was there something wrong with me no there's nothing wrong with with that way of thinking it's just understand where the parameters are where we have to have great relations with the world with America with our regional counterparts with the UAE with Saudi Arabia etc with the whole world with the Mediterranean Basin trade globalization which i think is fantastic for Israel right and that maybe it's the difference also between globalization and globalism have you heard about this difference on the one hand international trade international relations the quickening of all these things a good thing but that doesn't mean there should be one world government all right don't think that just because there's international trade there should be one government that rules all of us is one mankind No so keep and they they distinguish between internet and between globalism and globalization I forgot which one is which but you understand at the point which is one one is meant to be you know a more conductive world of trade in relations and one is supposed to erase erase ethnic in religious and in linguistic and financial identities which is which is really not the way to go so keep up the nationalism but that does not mean give up internationalism enjoy internationalism but don't necessarily give up nationalism the internationalist nationalists is that is that is that interesting is that an interesting a combination of words the internationalists nationalists because i came up with a phrase that the rationalist nationalists in any case friends there will be more part of the Shai show coming up I hope that I'll be able to record with maka from an undisclosed location in the desert and send it and add it to this part of the show I want to wish you a Happy Happy Hanukkah filled with light and filled with strength feel the light of the Maccabees the light of of incredible an unexplainable courage in the face of impossible odds that is that is really the miracle of Hanukkah and as rabbi hyman richmond once said to me the real miracle of Hanukkah is that there was a family who was willing to stand up and that's that's what we have to be today as well the Maccabees in every single one of our lives for self attainment self self fulfillment but certainly for national Fatima to stand up and beat that battery alright folks more great stuff is on the way in the Shia Fleischer show Land of Israel Network you shared the Land of Israel dot-com god bless you wherever you are stay tuned we'll be right back with maka hopefully from an undisclosed location in the deep beautiful desert of the Land of Israel god bless you guys inshallah [Music] hello I'm Gil Hoffman host of inside Israel today here on the land of Israel network on the land of israel calm israelis are voting for the third time in under a year and they're celebrating Hanukkah where there was just enough oil that was supposed to last one day that lasted eight do Israelis have enough energy to last for eight elections find out by listening to inside Israel today on the Land of Israel network on the Land of Israel calm [Music] alright folks you are listening to the Shai fleshes show and we are now broadcasting from our car somewhere down in the deep Negev and we are actually a few kilometers away from the beautiful small desert city of meets pheromone which is right on the edge of the ramon crater and I'm here with our beloved Malcolm Fleischman welcome welcome to the show thank see shy we're in the car and I smell like smoke and meat and I'm looking at our canoe Kia which is which I bought at Rami levy grocery store which is encased in like this thin glass and metal case so that the winds will not blow out our candles that are yet outside of our tent which is an air-conditioned tent I won't lie because it is way cold out here in the Negev desert even though it's the Negev desert and you think of the desert as a hot place at night it's really quite cold so we are glamping that's right we're glamping but also by the way today wasn't even that hot today was actually a kind of cold day and we went to the alpaca farm and followed by a small kind of like a small private planetarium which was which was an interesting thing yesterday we did a beautiful amazing hike in the Land of Israel and this is something that mark and I this is something you and I do every year really it's something that I that I thought was always important which is which is vacationing on Hanukkah the kids are off of school Hanukkah it's really great time to meet the Land of Israel and to get back to nature get back to kind of being like for me the last few days I cannot believe how many people have tried to reach me and I've just been like look I'm on vacation I'm just I'm not even I'm not even telling them I can't be reached I'm just like I just don't respond that much and and have just lowered my social media a little bit but like just back to nature back to back to family back to Hanukkah back to like what it's all about and I personally always say to you Michael right like the greatest gift you could give me is just some vacation time right that's the best thing we could do I'd love to be with the kids and I love to be with you ah well I love to be with you too and this has been a really fun time we did a lot of stuff we went camping with friends friends that we've been camping now with several times I don't know how many times how many has it been but we've been we found some friends who our kids are friends with their kids and we go camping with them usually Hanukkah time and and we went on like an amazing hike where the only downside was that we kind of misjudged a certain part of the what they said he was the muscle a certain part of the the route of the campaign and then we were forced to wade through what we'll call hip deep water which was extremely cold and kids had to be carried on backs of grownups and there was a lot of general screaming our four-year-olds are foiled almost got hypothermia I think yeah I would like to just say that Lamaze breathing is good for a lot of things not just birthing and I would like to say to the Lost people thank you that I like I did a lot of this on my way through the water demand version of a birthing I guess it was it was very intense and very memorable and yeah you sure you did a good job feeding the all pockets today yeah I'm to really like you yeah late to you yeah I felt I felt a certain kinship so stick your teeth out and they spit at you they spit at our friends bar oh that's considered considered good luck what can I tell you folks just just it's so great to get out to date you're so great to light a fire we've lit a fire every single night and barbecue done beautiful trailer grills and really right now in the car because the kids are making a lot of noise in the tent and we're just looking from the car to the to to those to those four hunk Andals and the shamash and they're just so MUC Evette that that encasing is so brilliant it really does not allow the wind to break 7990 a robbie levy grocery store all right so that's like what like 25 bucks 30 bucks whatever and it's a beautiful beautiful encasing last year's broke so you bought a new one 79 1990 shekel shekels and then just like okay that's right that's right a good deal we're a little bit it turns out that the other people around me also were aware of this deal or something similar because a lot of the people camping around us are also religious and they also brought their glass-encased pinocchio wisely because it's windy and chilly out here that's right most of our neighbors here are indeed observant Jews but not all the the tent right next to ours is a non observant family monkey you invited them yesterday to light the haruya I noticed that that they did not bring their own conocchia and so therefore they're not fulfilling the Mitzvah of lighting the Hanukkah candles which is a shame because it's such a wonderful Mintz is such an easy one which really is not taxing and give so much to the kids it's almost I'm almost like thinking to them to myself like right why don't why aren't you lighting this isn't even so how should we say it's not heavily Orthodox it's light they just don't think it's important maybe they don't see why they should do it maybe they think it's a nice thing but they don't understand why they should be doing it every single day right that's part of really that that's really part of when you're when you're when you're observant so the commandments take on a kind of mystical and demanding element that you just can't you can't kind of second-guess and you can't play around with but that also gives regularity and structure and and something that happens you know automatically and it's just just there and you don't have to think about it so ironically having something forced upon you also relieves you of considering you know do it or not do it you just do it and then right and then you just enjoy it because you anyway I mean the Chanukah candles are one of those things that I think is just a pleasure to do anyway that's what I'm saying it's like an easy one it's like it's like but you see what happens when it's just a cultural thing and it's just refute like you can choose to do it or not do it you know anyway but what was it our neighbors they were super happy to come to our candle lighting that's right and we went all the way through most or I don't know about you guys but I went through just one verse of most swear all the way growing up every year and even that we were like wow we're so hardcore we're singing a whole verse and most sorry but there's more how many verses are there do you remember I guess five six there's a bunch and they were just like okay but then I gave their kids guilt because I have guilt will travel when you marry a Hungarian woman the way to get rid of the the the service of God through guilt is through the hanukkah mitzvah of guilt and you give the guilt it offsets the guilt monk a great job right yeah I love jokes breaks pets I like jokes at my expense well that's the major cultural one of the major cultural differences between us and that's kyboots Kelly oh that's right that's the immediately upset about jokes at their expense yeah we're breeding that away which direction in any case so this is just a little short discussion and and I'm sure there's important politics and issues to discuss right now yes there's ICC and there's and there's heparin stuff there's all kinds of stuff out there but you know what it's like I just yawned you just yawned it's like it's like 8:30 no it's no it's not it's like 9:00 its 9:30 to maka it's 9:30 to in the car in the Negev and and it's just a pleasure to be with you everybody in this caucus MF like Samantha green some math when you're here in the Negev with the Jewish people you just you just have a lot more confidence or we saw we saw hundreds and hundreds of student groups in that Canyon that we were hiking in and they look good and you just say to yourself you know I'm Esau and I think I think I think if you have to boil boil the whole Konica down it's really I'm sorry okay you know I mean you could boil all the holidays do that well yeah I like what you're saying I I like what you're saying it's but it's not exactly about on Easter hi it's like it's not enough the the the story of Hanukkah was actually that it's not enough that Ami's Ralph I was super high during the during the time of the Greeks cultural expansion out into our area and they work like okay I'm they were doing just fine and and some people saw it as an advancement maybe they're you know maybe it's good for us and the Maccabees were like that is not enough to be high is not the goal the goal is not too high the goal is to do something more than that and to mean something more than that and to be who we are I agree with everything you're saying and I'm actually foresaw that you would say this did you yes in my in my mind's eye in my third eye that's right i I first saw it in my sixth sense whatever it was called and so or in just my blodge achill reasoning and so I parry by saying for sure you're right you're totally right but what I meant was really is that I'm Israel has a mission when I say I'm East Ralph I like the strap art it's not an arm that's high it's Easter L a nation that's meant to be a light to the world through its Torah through its real it's name is it has the name of God in it l it's it's it's a very very mission without that it's not on my strong side it's on somebody else got it Sam I don't know Jacob and if I or or you know shemitah you know of the Semites no no we're talking about these right health thing the real thing the deep thing of army strong faith that's what I'm talking about what it's really all about well I appreciate what you're saying yes you can foresee that I would foresee yes I mean not I would not know but I'm not surprised that you would Perry as it were Luke to use the word he used I just you know our our secular next-door neighbors at the camping ground there are lovely people and there are definitely high you should see the way that they like eat a beautiful meal and they're together and then you know I just saw one of the ABBA's like brushing so meticulously brushing the teeth of one of the little little girls and you know they're very nice and they're very polite and they're very Israeli but they don't know what Chanukah is you know speaking of social media show you go through social media and you see that like their people know these like Jews who put the like BDS on the on the dreidel yeah they like put a B a D and s and a heart on the four sides of the thing a BDS I'm just like you don't know what Chanukah is you don't know who the Maccabees were and you don't know what we're doing here you don't know why we're celebrating this holiday you don't know who you are even and that is that's like the tip of the iceberg of it you know there I love on Easter L and I love the secular Jews and I believe in the long game and I so I don't like get freaked out necessarily by the fact that Israel seems to have such a long way to go when it comes to regaining our culture after all this time but at the same time like I understand that we do have a long way to go and and you know the Maccabees they went militant on it and some people have a different you know way of doing it the real abhava charriba for example would not go militant right his idea was not like slaughter the secular people you know I mean his idea was like inspire the secular people and get them to love the Torah and these are like the issues that were that we're dealing with today is that the Jewish people really do have to wake up to their identity they ought to for their own good for the world's good for forever impressions good Macha there are four Hanukkah candles and that means we're either halfway done or the classes half full or it's half empty it's almost halfway over or only just getting to the real to the real a great point of Chanukah which is the eighth day and you know we light one and we add one every day but there was there was another rabbi Rabbi Shammai right who said now let's start with eight and then go down one go down until there's just one little light and there's something I like I like about that which is like and that's not the way we do it but like the idea is like until we know that there's only one right there's all these forces there's all these things and these all these wars those great things but it all goes down it goes down until you remember it's only one hush em right one it's a shed one is a sham one is a sham and the heaven of the earth and I want to thank everybody for being with us I want to thank Ben brettski Moshe Herman and Tabitha for getting this show out to the world I want to thank the Land of Israel Network for being so wonderful I also bumped into Joel goo Berman from the toilet people today here in experiment so I just want to mention the true blue like we saw the alpaca wool but I'll pack a whirl I wonder if you could make a like this oh yeah it might be a little too soft I don't know squishy but you could diet true-blue and and and get the trailer on it so that's tek hele t-dot-com that's pellet that's one of our sponsors and friends and many other great folks and of course the good folks in hebron where they're doing great light Chanukah lighting with all kinds of important people check out my facebook page you'll see of fabulous and twitter fabulous video of mayor of the avocado Kea at the very top of Muhammad Villa I want to bless you guys wherever you are with an awesome rest of Konica lots of light for your household for your family for your for your for your the light of meaning that's it's really that's there's I think I think that's we're always dancing around it but at the end it's like the Chanukah candles are there they're there they're a tool to find meaning and I really want to bless you and I know you as parents and grandparents and those folks out there you want to find meaning of this holiday man I shall give you that that inside look at that kind of key out look at those candles and just be like yes feel that feel that meaning and and be able to pass that meaning on through the generations all right folks more great stuff is on the way god bless you and also shabbat shalom shabbat shalom from the land of Israel happy Chanukah happy Chanukah [Music] Josh hastened here host of Israel uncensored on the Land of Israel network at the Land of Israel calm check out my special Hanukah interview with Eugene Cantor ovitch head of the international law department at the qohelet Policy Forum he talks about the International Criminal Court's decision to investigate Israel for alleged war crimes in Judea and Samaria you can't let us build here or there because all of these things were said the triggers for a 950 investigation and on the left the i-15 investigation was coming anyway dr. overage says that while the ruling is simply political it could be a blessing in disguise listen to find out why happy Chanukah to all of our listeners