TNL in Jerusalem #10 - The mask of Purim

sheva israel national TV and for alarm the center for Biblical Zionism present re Abramowitz and Jeremy game pal the world only here's an Israeli voice we want the world here a Jewish Voice we're all part of the same body and that body is Israel it shows Israel this way is fight because this is what God hangs up hashem is with us he's protecting us he's brought us to the Land of Israel and we are here to stay Tuesday nights in Jerusalem are never gonna be the same again why the heart of Israel Tuesday night live in Jerusalem tonight we have a special special treat for you all I bet rebbe soul just a couple of weeks ago I get to meet all these amazing people and since doing the TV show and his music is the essence of the engadget of the Exiles that's the way I see it he brings music themes ideas from Yemen from Europe from Morocco from all around the world bringing all those sparks of holiness now back to the Land of Israel so please everyone give a round of applause tehama core all right it's good to be here with you all Tuesday night live and start off with a song called amiss car you new mascot head Bruce I the sky he missed out who shall I the sky you know I who shall I I'm you know I shall I whew he miss got a please God these guys you will I did it is horse since No it is a lie I hey he's got to me gosh yay hey sky you me me yeah thank you so much thank you guys that was awesome show them everybody and welcome to Tuesday night live in Jerusalem you know I just got back from my speaking tour and I've been vacillating whether to share this story or not and ari said my wife said Jeremy you have to save the story the story's not his wife he's made hands with what he's still single by the way girls it's boring come on all right just teasing I think he's dating all right here's the story I'm going to share it with you I'd say it really it's it's really a very powerful story for me I hope it's a powerful story for you as well I was going to be this last shabbat in miami i was invited to speak at a young israel thank you and at the last moment I realized that on sunday i had a speaking engagement in orlando and originally I'm like well Tel Aviv to Jerusalem at just to drive away same state how far could it be from miami to orlando I realized that that's like driving from the goal on to a lot I said okay goodness I better stay in orlando for Shabbat for those of you that don't know there's not really a much of an Orthodox Jewish community so I said SOS re hooked me up with chabad I know there's a lot there please so there are two chabad analysis and re set me up with one of the cup odds there and I went in to the guys house for shabbat i met the rabbi such at sonic such mystery nephesh baruch hashem that there are such dedicated jews that are scattered around the world that are so dedicated to bringing the Jews back to Torah he turned his garage into a show and shabbat morning I walked into his garage and immediately just start saying she watch loomed everyone's eyes shabbat shalom shabbat shalom I'm Jeremy great to meet you when you come into Israel and the first guy I come up to he's got like Chewbacca shibata Shivaya shabbat shalom I'm like that was awkward like shabbat shalom and I just kind of kept on I went to the next person went to the next person and actor services the rabbi asked me to speak and I said great so I got up and I spoke I spoke about Israel speaking what's happening here kind of getting people excited ignited about Israel ignited about Judaism and this man now the formal service is over he's next to his wife he has a little boy thing about two years old and his wife is clearly not as observant as he is and he stands up after I speak and he says you know I have to say something there's a miracle happening in this room tonight and everyone's like what's he talking about this is on Wednesday my wife and i discovered israel national radio and on thursday we discovered israel national TV and we saw tuesday night live in Jerusalem and we saw the show about steroid and after that show it was so powerful my wife decided that she had to take a step closer to Jerusalem a step closer to Judaism and she decided to come to synagogue for the first time and when you walked in and we saw Jeremy Gimple in the synagogue in Orlando we didn't know what to do that was confirmation it was a sign from God that we were meant to be in synagogue out of all the synagogue's that Jeremy could have been in here in the garage of this rabbis home he walks in it was Tuesday night live that brought my wife here we've now decided that we're moving to Atlanta next months but our hearts are now in Israel and we're going to be moving to Israel it's powerful it's the hidden hand of God McGee lot as stare the scroll of Esther Esther we all know means hidden Megillah means scroll but it also means to reveal so what is Mickey lat s stare it's literally revealing the hidden michelada stare is the only book in the Tanakh that doesn't mention God's name even once I mean you read the end of the book and you're like my goodness the tree that hammann prepared for Mordecai he was hung on that tree at the end the Jews celebrate I what a victory god is great what a miracle and in the end God's name isn't mentioned even once as the last book attached to the Tanakh hashem leaves us with the most profound message he says that from now until the very end of days there will not be manifest miracles there's not going to be a splitting of the Red Sea there's not going to be Mon from heaven my miracles will be performed through people through nature there will be a hidden hand of God behind every action our jobs are to reveal that hidden hand of God in 1967 the greatest manifest miracle occurred to the Jewish people in two thousand years in six days we liberated Judea Samaria Gaza the Golan Heights we reunited Jerusalem in six days who wins a war in six days it was a manifest miracle but you know what it wasn't supernatural it took a lot of Jewish sacrifice it took a lot of Jewish power it took a lot of Jewish blood but in the end of the day the entire world fell to their knees as they saw the power of the God of Israel as he brought his people back to Jerusalem the show is dedicated to revealing the hidden hand of God and dedicated to the holiday of Purim so Jeremy is in a garage in some hole in Florida if you're from Orlando forgive me but where is that probably wondering what am I doing here am I having any influence at shabbat to my wife and my children are in israel what am i doing here and God sends him this man to reaffirm that he's on the right path and my life I call that the spice cart I always say to Jeremy Jeremy this is my spice cart why because we remember when Joseph was sold into slavery the rabbi say that usually traders would go through caring sulfur and other stinky stuff but this time they had fragrances and perfumes and beautiful smells and that is where Joseph was sold into slavery on to this beautiful spice cart a spice cart to me is when God reaffirms that he is with us and although were in seemingly adverse circumstances he gives his signature and sometimes God lets us know that we're not on the right path we stub our toe we get a parking ticket or a totalitarian megalomaniac decrees that he will wipe our people off the planet that is the opposite of a spice cart and indeed in the megillah that's what happened Haman declared that man woman children everyone would be killed and the response the reaction of the Jews of Persia was so telling you think they would be afraid or angry or sad but they were navaja confused they were full of consternation what kind of response confusion that's their response because they said no no there must be some mistake we are the most patriotic Persians around we were the first to RSVP for the party that was celebrating our own destruction we root for all the Persian sports teams were persons we're not even really Jews were Persians of mosaic persuasion as the Jews in Germany said and of England and France and Switzerland and all of the different countries that we've been expelled from or murdered throughout history we never seem to learn one moment of respite one moment of rest when we're not being persecuted and we say this different this time we're safe all we need to do now is deny who we are assimilate completely and we can once and for all just disappear and be accepted but that's not what happens that's not where it goes david horowitz the editor of The Jerusalem Post came out the very interesting and eye-opening article this past week he was talking about a trip a delegation of Iranian Jews that came to Israel with a man named Habib al ghanian he was the leader and he went to Menachem beggin about Jewish education Menachem bacon said you better watch out things are stirring in Iran there's going to be an Islamic Revolution and you won't be safe anymore and habib said oh please the jews there were going to be safe everything will be okay the Shah he'll he'll always be in power and they returned to Iran and less than one year later the Shah was overthrown Ayatollah Khomeini came into power and habib al ghanian was on trial for friendship with the enemies of god and summarily executed he then goes on to speak about the Jews of Venezuela what's happening today in Venezuela Hugo Chavez and the government is very anti-semitic and anti Jewish schools on Jewish country clubs on synagogues what are they going to find rug alot and bagels why are they raiding all of these Jewish institutions to instill fear and let the Jews know that they're being watched and one man one man said his name was Roberto Khan and he was a wealthy guy he owned a textile plant in Caracas and what did he say he said the problem with us Venezuelan Jews is that you can never live like this anywhere else you would need to have ten times as much money to live this place anywhere else in the world you see choosing the Exile often live very well with a lot of comforts that give them an illusion of security they really enjoy themselves in the Exile very often Jews in the Exile they can be so totally connected to Torah and mitzvot and yet missed the entire point the Gomorrah and my second coolant undef 132 systema naturae me 9 how do we know that Esther was foreseen in the Torah the Gemara answers van aqui estare a steer pan I by Omaha that's a quote from varying 3118 Deuteronomy and i will surely conceal my face on that day Rebbe Nachman brings one of the most profound teachings on poram with this gamarra in Hebrew it says asterick twice in English it's translated as I will surely conceal myself but in Hebrew its austere a steer pan I by Omaha Rebbe Nachman says there are two kinds of concealments there are two kinds of being distant from God there's one distinct that we all know when we're in trouble were sick we're in a bad spot we're calling out to God saying God why are you so far away from me help me out but there's another kind of concealment and that's to be concealed from the concealment that's a stair mean high stare that's when you don't even know how far away from God you are because you're connected to Torah and mitzvot you're doing the right thing you're going to Mahone gold you're doing what you got to do they did kid on Tamela gadhada Melek the major says that every Jew there not only were they eating kosher food but they all had their own textures for their wine he had the oh you he had by dots in there sitting and akash viruses meal he's wearing the Kohen Gadol clothing drinking from utensils of the beit hamikdash i gave over this idea in Great Neck just two weeks ago and i said my goodness these jews were sitting at a meal eating their kosher food proud of their kosher wine all with their own special hex cherem they're going to minyan in the morning they're doing def yo me in the evening they are so good they are so law-abiding but they're missing the entire point they're sitting at akash various meal the gamera teaches us that that meal was a celebration seventy years it passed according his calculations and the Jewish people weren't redeemed and the Jews were now celebrating alongside this giant desecration God's name we can be so topped in tapped into Torah tapped into mitzvahs and we're so distant and were concealed from how concealed we are hammann didn't come out of nowhere in poem is not an isolated incident it's a theme throughout Jewish history and Rebbe Nachman says Torin it's an auspicious time to wake up it's a wake-up call to all the Jews that are tapped into Torah that are going to Mahone gold to say my goodness am I going to my home gold but am I really concealed and the question is we all know that the future of the Jewish people Jewish destiny biblical destiny it's not going to unfold in great neck and it's not going to unfold in Queens Jewish destiny is going to unfold here in Israel rabbi nachman kahana he's a famous rabbi in the old city of jerusalem and he has an incredible teaching about why the story of Purim is so relevant for us today he brings the story from the Talmud in the book of mcgillin that in the tractate of Megillah seven oliff where esther goes to the rabbis and she says the story of Purim the megillah it should be included in the tunnel and they say well for a book to be included in the ton off it can't just be a miracle but has to be a miracle that's significant for the future after all the story of Hanukkah that was a miracle but Sarah hamaca beam the book of Maccabees is not a ventana and she said but yes it is it is relevant for the future and the rabbi's did indeed include it in the Tana the future is now what we need to understand as a people is that this time these times are auspicious because as we look back into the megillah into porn I'm sure that the Jews of that time looked at Mordecai and they thought that he was indeed the cause of the decree to destroy the Jewish people his incitement of Haman and they probably thought that they're going to the banquet of a hash barouche the vet was really putting down the barriers and allowing them to a but really hindsight is 2020 and thank goodness now we know that it was their very assimilation that caused the decree and it was the faith in God and the pride of being a Jew that Mordechai displayed that saved the Jewish people in those times what save the Jewish people in those times was Jewish pride now there are two miracles in the megillah that I always feel a kind of overlooked the first miracle is that the Jews actually believed that Haman was going to do it they believed that they were going to get killed for some reason the Jews have some sort of genetic disorder that we only believe our enemies on the trains to Auschwitz only then we wake up I was in South Carolina and I spoke to a group of Jews and non-jews and the questions and answer segment people said so what do you think about the future for America and I said you know what I don't see a bright future for the Jews of America and all of these Israel loving non-jews were going mm-hmm mm-hmm and the Jews were shocked seeing these jew loving non-jews and they're all saying that's right i have non-jewish friends I know exactly what the future of America is and in Israel it's so fascinating we have an enemy that says I want to kill you and we say oh but let's sit down and we can talk about it and he says no no I want you dead it's like well can't we just go to Annapolis will sit over a cup of tea and no no I want to throw you into the sea oh so you're saying it's about the settlements no one that saying it's about the settlement I want your dead and we say oh maybe if we give you Jerusalem Jerusalem would be nice but you know what I'm going to kill you and the Jews don't get it the miracle of Purim was that the Jews got it and then what did they do what did they do what did they do they didn't establish a peck they didn't try politics they realize my goodness were in trouble who do we turn to do we turn to President Bush do we turn to oshkosh virus I mean we were just at his party we had such good ties a pact has done such a wonderful job what did they do they turn to god that's miracle number two now the Torah is the spiritual blueprint and all things look so random the world seems I mean people are being killed Jews are coming back what's going on our share core hob by Derek is the power of amalek to convince us that all of this is just random but in the Toro we have a pattern we have a code we have a key we know exactly what's going on and now is the time that the Jewish people wake up and we all come back to Jerusalem and celebrate Purim with all our Jewish brothers and sisters Rebbetzin young guys thank you so much for being with us here today Gareth poem on the horizon in very soon every Jew around the world reading the story of for him what does the story of the megillah have to teach us as the Jewish people today I truly believe now Khloe speaks to us like it never spoke it was a new generation that needs porn it's as the lessons of poem the teachings are flowing today we have a very serious dilemma our nation is in crisis terrorism is escalating all over the world anti-semitism is escalating over the world what do we do about it and there is a man with a neighbor of Israel who actually proclaims openly without hesitation that he intends to make a holocaust he denies that ever was a Holocaust by intense orchestrating a new one to wipe Israel a bit of the math so what do we do Barry we look in the Torah holiday poem same agenda same address Iran of to be a special yesterday human up yesterday is Ahmed in a jar of today same agenda la Hache meet lahav ah kula abate at Cole Hollywood him Heyman wanted to annihilate all the Jewish people but in our fathers there was any voice race and they behalf was the UN of all the nations of the world of all concerned for the Jewish people not at all they were delighted with a man's plan was there any country any nation and the individual any person would have raised his voice on behalf of Israel no no one so how did it happen that he had such a miracle that overnight in a second darkness was converted into life tragedy into a magnificent young tub and magnificent celebration how did that happen two magic words came over to blue the Jewish people we accepted and we committed themselves to their tova to the divine destiny to the legacy the teachings from Sinai and overnight it a miracle occurred and the darkness became a bit of blessing and joy certainly who deem heitor over the simca for the Jewish people that was joy and gladness simple to bird key muvek elope so I would like to say to all our people who are listening all over the world who have god no that you heard him don't you care that you believe that you understand that you are coming home but you're on your way a little bit more shoppers just a little bit more little bit more pleasant a little bit more loving kindness little bit less Russian have a lil bit less gossip a little bit more consideration a little bit more players a little bit more Torah study the book open it it's an amazing life it's an amazing study it will change you if you elevate you that's the message of code there's a modern-day Queen Esther do you feel like your name has guided you throughout your entire life I have no illusions I'm not crane tested but I do believe that every Jewish girl is a queen esther because what was Esther's request as I need the backish Aussie she said I said my people and I think every Jewish girl every Jewish woman which really looks into her heart pronounced in the Shema is so to speak to her we understand that this is our mission and this is our priority i seek my people and every jewish woman has that in her heart in the neshamah in her soul only problem is that you know we live in the 21st century that is saturated with materialism and there's so many voices pulling at us so much craziness and because Louis and we don't have our roots some of you get confused at once you touch the soul of a Jewish woman here I still the kids and once you start speaking and met truth the total transformation takes place well there's no question that the heroine of forum is a woman Queen Esther and what is it about Jewish women that they wake up every morning and they pray Shani cured so know that Hashem made them according to his will what is so special about Jewish women so the Jewish woman has a special path do you know that in the holy language in Hebrew the word amana faith can only be said in the feminine gender because it's innate to the female to be a believer it says biscuit machines it Courtney Galu about 10 mm it's mine in the merit of devices women there are four fathers with in from Egypt and it is written that even as the first redemption occurs because of the women so the final redemption will occur because of the women from a man I'm an integer why is it so many nations he should shush people what's the reason there are two aspects service at man cyanide and I'll give us October I say just teach us that the word Sinai sin I is a play on the word Cena hatred the moment we became the teachers the witnesses of God I'm planet earth that moment other nations resented us are chosen s has nothing to do with our being better or superior it's not my bi chosen we are chosen because we have accepted accountability responsibility to be servants of God to be witnesses to him attempt a died e online and witnesses the other aspect of anti-semitism is anti-semitism in a way is here to protect us because if not for the fact that the gentle I says you cannot come to my club you cannot join my club I don't want you to be a part of my group the Jew would just dissolve and disintegrate because that's the meaning of assimilation Jews have this weakness assimilation they want to be like all the nations of the world I mean just considered that today we are losing more people from intermarriage then from the Holocaust ask the average Joe who was the mother of Moses of Moshe Rabbeinu he will look at you ask the average Joe towards the mother of Jesus her Lord we have a nation who has expertise in science technology marketing odd music whatever you want but asking you about his tova and he is totally illiterate and that's a tragedy so God takes out an ad in the papers when Jews really shed the Jewish government and the forget who they are anti-semites invited to remind my people that they are Jews and it's every generation now millions who volunteer thank you so much my pleasure we have a special treat for you tonight one of the funniest men in Jerusalem people call in Jerusalem's comedian is here to spice up your life wine all of us here in Tuesday night live in Jerusalem are about alia everyone in this room is made Ali I'm not you guys just yet but you're on the way and he's here to show us the lighter side of alia the funnier side of alia here to spice up our life so everyone give a round of applause to David column Nick I'm not David tillamook but he's right here now David killer mix guy originally from Rochester New York I met him out of all places in houston texas at my parents home he was traveling through and he has come here and really shaken things up he has brought smiles and happiness to Jerusalem founded off-the-wall comedy give a little word about off-the-wall comedy off-the-wall comedy basement is actually the first comedy club in this city Jerusalem well so you took comedians Jewish comedians which is an insane idea and you brought them all together to make people laugh how did you make that work because we're Israelis Israelis all right was an Israeli bday make them laugh make them laugh aight guys i don't know if i'm here to make you guys laugh here to give a message i'm here to tell you guys look out here and I see a bunch of people who made Allah and a bunch of heretics and I have a message for you guys tonight do not make aliyah do not make out if you're from Atlanta stay in Atlanta do not make Ali yo guys Allah is not for people from the USA we all know that Allah is for people from third world countries and France they figured hey people in France what do kill us because we're Jewish so we'll move to the middle east it's a lot safer as i'm charlie i moved to israel america i'm driving a new car here i'm driving a Ford Escort 89 I don't think you understand I don't think you understand I'm not the man I'm such a loser I feel like such a loser you know I'm driving on the road with the car that barely moves no time I feel cool driving my car is when I'm driving in the settlements I'm driving and be tell people like Shh 889 cheese hot dish that buddy I mean it's better than driving in the rest of this country i'm passing places that make no sense i was driving past many israel the other day like this rule isn't small enough good got to see light happen i've done some thinking about it many israel for you guys done a little thinking Minnie Israel is actually a hoot Oh Marge plan for Israel's future just give it a few days guys the end of the heat con suit that's it that's it that convergence plan that's going to be Israel a little miniature golf course no holes that's going to be our land guys but I'm a Dolly ah I made all the I and I and interest rate I gotta guys I love it I love it you know had a choice i knew i had to make a Leah I knew it I knew it guys I knew it please i'm living in rochester new york and haven't you i gotta live someplace where it's hotter you know i got a choice i can live in Jerusalem with Americans or i can move down to South Florida live with Israelis gotta make decision and i love that we have revolutionaries in our land i'm watching Mike or a great man but I you know I am toughen takes Jewish music after 2,000 years revolutionizes the lyrics takes a yawn I changes it to a y i my my that's what this land is about it's about the revolutionaries guys you know we have the messages here the Ministry of safety for Purim I think it's very important we take their message to heart a lot of you are thinking I drink and drive this poem Ministry of Interior has given us that message and I believe it's important to stick to that on Purim do not drink and drive the rest of the year whatever but purim do not drink and drive our country we have to focus that is the key and perms common around and I know a lot of you guys are parents over here I see one over there do not let me just put it out here if you have a little boy real cute whatever it is don't use per room as an excuse to dress them up like a little girl I mean I know like 10 years later likewise our kid living in the village Esther I'm all costs they keep dictated the kids future so guys I'm here to help I'm here to help and I you know and I know a lot of you were thinking Israelis are not good people but they are a lot of people because I know a lot of times you're like you go to Israeli akai ito so its like the chute I'm sorry didn't mean that your shabbat is really hard sometimes you go over it in Israeli it's like shabbat shalom it off try to beat that uh mr. funny what is this just wait for pesach what are you talking about more than listen classical games money mr. song huh yeah but it's because they care Israelis care you don't notice it but I was watching I was watching this Israeli guy driving his car he hit a guy on the street that is not funny but it was fine because it wasn't pursued cares but it didn't stop there this really guy got out of his car he went over to the guy on his bike that he hit and he started to scream look what you get to my car money I came as Emma because Israelis care so you don't understand you guys do not understand I have to move this thing where you guys don't understand cuz what happens what happened you come to this land there's a frustration everything comes small in America you have a barbecue it goes from here to here everybody gets a stake here I've been to you alot smoke what do they give you a mongaul it's like a matchbox I mean you have to wait a half an hour for her knock nikia like when should we go into another night Nikki I wait this is time cooking it takes time there's only one thing that comes big in this country toilet paper gotta buy a hundred and twenty rolls at once I mean you're not I'm talking about you use Smollett it feels good right come on you want to use it for the next three years napkins who cares no we got two other paper but I'm telling you it doesn't make a difference i I'll be honest with you I'll show you the exactly why it doesn't make a difference because the bathroom is tiny and the door I don't know why opens to the inside I'm not lying okay I've got to sneak into my own bathroom but what are you supposed to do in this position 911 I don't know how to get into an Israeli bathroom they never taught me this in the US by the way it's pretty dark in here it wears a light switch why did you put it in the kitchen yuck you guys please put on my bathroom light I didn't mean to put on your living room they put the light switch in the kitchen of my neighbor's house why I have no idea but I'll tell you this one thing about Israelis they do care and I'll be honest with you if you ever go to America like Jeremy trying to run away from the homeland if you ever leave ya burg see an Israeli in America go to New York you say hey if there was a war in Israel what would you do you know what that Israeli would tell you you tell you this you say I would go right back to my homeland to be with my people and I personally like to think that if there was a war in Israel I would do the same exact thing I'd be right back in rochester new york thank you very much guys perm some ass this is not going to happen again so enjoy it while you can we're here to call the Jews of the world back to Israel we're here to say non-jews stand with the Bible for crying out loud but the story of Purim is reven vatsala evola Yehudi me makoma hair relief and deliverance will come to the jews from another place God has the back of every Jew even if they're mr. banana man and may we all enjoy the wonderful holiday poor him together in your shall I'm not next year this year shall own from Jerusalem Oh hello Yuri Lucia i belo your back it's hola Leo Messi Tommy come on see you alone hahaha yeah Oh I bello your life who said that okay though the open the other careful haha you I below yeah Oh ah no yeah I don't know yeah haha haha oh yeah hey no yeah I below I mean oh yeah haha all right thank you so much