Torah and His-story: The Full Telling of the Miraculous Saving of the Jews of Israel from the Nazi's

Heat. Heat. [Music] Okay, welcome everyone. This is paras week shabasim el we're welcoming the new month of el which indicates our gateway to rash shanium kipper. And I'd like to dedicate today's shir to the memory of a great giant of Torah and history of the 20th and 21st centuries Rabbi Barl Wine Zerika whose levia was yesterday. Those who haven't been touched with Rabbi Barlow Wine in their lives are uh I would say uh a more a minority than a majority. his his uh connection to the communities from Miami to the Orthodox Union to Muny and then to be beset Hani and usim in his later years or his famous books, his recordings and and teaching of Jewish history made him a a hybrid scholar and tremendously visionary leader for his root his root home was in that space between the yeshiva world and the modern Orthodox world, a place of unification where he seemed to dance effort effortlessly between both camps and was loved by all. in fact that his Levia which was broadcast live yesterday from Ushalam um included the words of senior Rosha yeshiva as well as Roshi yeshiva such as his own son-in-law who clearly um uh major figures in the Kedi community but also in the modern orth modern Orthodox community he was a giant and he he was able to bridge gaps that I don't think too many individual I cannot think of of a better example than Rabbi Barlowine who combined Torah legitimate Torah scholarship Roshiva level uh knowledge brilliant oratory uh humor um also the ability to offer guidance and advice and as well as that to serve as a beacon of interest in two unique areas. One, aliyah coming out of America and being a prominent leader in America, Rabinit uh for decades, the the focus of aliyah was unusually present for him in the in the Levia. There was one of his grandsons who spoke about the fact that his father that his grandfather would bring him to Eratel when he was a youngster, you know, seventh grade, eighth grade to instill in them this great love Israel. But he was far more than that because his scope and understanding and interest in world history and Jewish history made him a great storyteller. He told stories and one has to appreciate the fact that a nation without a story is not a nation. Some of the stories are horrible stories but the Jewish story which goes back to briasa is the essence of our being with key points. Briata, Matan, Torah, Misra, Matan, Torah, Kusher, the conquest of the land of Israel, the destructions, the exiles and culminating in the return is a story that our rabbis Khazal have embedded in every movement of our lives. returning to returning to Arat Israel, rebuilding Arat Israel, the re the restoration of the Devidian dynasty and the Beta Mikdash is every single day, several times a day in our in our benching after meals, grace after meals, right? Um in the uh the the uh four major fasts that were created by yet by Arnim to commemorate the destruction of the first temple. all of the rabbitic literature about the destruction of the second temple and particularly the Roman era um and all the details that happened in lives of Baka and his students. These are this is the story that is told on seder night again and again and again. Perhaps that he knew not to limit his communication to only that of which we live by day-to-day lambdus which is the core of Torah study but also to be able to tell the story of the Jewish people and witness it to a vast a vast audience a vast audience a very who needed to be spoken spoken to in many different languages and he used his knowledge of world history as a background to understanding what was most precious to him which was the story of the Jewish people. So in his honor the key the key key words that come up for me are Torah and history. Torah and history. This is what his genius was. He was able to combine the two. And in fact actually one of his grandchildren said what was a humor story and I'm not surprised that there was humor even at such a somber event because of the greatness and breath of his personality but it's the grandson said that you know he was a regular yeshiva boy a kared boy and he was once at his grandfather's shabas table and people broke into discussion about philosophy which branched into secular philosophy or non-Jewish philosophy philosophers how they interacted with the Jewish phil philosophers of the let's say the Renaissance year the 17th century late later years and the name came up and and this this grandson said I have no I had no part in that discussion I had no frame of reference for that discussion except one name came up and that was the philosopher Hobbes a gentile philosopher named Hobbes when he heard that he picked up his ears and says I know Hobbes There's a comic book named Calvin and Hobbs which is about a tiger imag imaginary friend to to a little boy who's it's a quite brilliant comic strip but his only frame of reference to Hobbes was not the phil philosophical teachings of of a great European mind but rather a comic book in America you know that was highly popular and his grand so he said I know Hobbs that's Calvin's friend and uh not Calvin, you know, the theologian. I'm not talking about they're not talking about Calvinism here. I'm talking about Calvin. And his grandfather looked at him and he said, as his grandson reported the lie, he said, "Whose grandson are you?" How could it be that my grandson would not appreciate this great body of knowledge that is the Yushouchia of Amuse Israel and that stories are the core of communicating Clal Israel's message to the youth and to the next generation. That is a point of genius that anybody who looks a little bit into kazal understands is a story. The Torah itself tells us tells us the life this entire safer boratious about safer the stories of the obos. This is what animates us. I've seen many Jews who are very highlevel entertainers in the secular world then asked about their Judaism and inevitably what they talk about was well we sang Gody and we lit the Kaneka candles and those two stories the story of the little goat surrounded by so many vicious enemies with God's justice being delivered that story left them breathless as children and they never forgot it no matter how little Torah education or exposure that they had and the brave story of the Mcabes resonated with their souls. In fact, the great the late great professor Ellie Weisel who I was who I was privileged to know remarkable mark of Jew and the prince among his peoples respected worldwide a giant of a person a prince among a prince among the Jewish people without without doubt. He once he wrote in the cover of his book in one of his many books aboutism and so on he says God created man because he loves stories and the great master Rabin Nakman of breast an incredible genius who understood himself to be the pinnacle of the revelation of the Torah of the BMP of his great-grandfather that would take us all the way to Messiah and as we see one of the stories I hope to share with you will be around surv around himself. He said in Yiddish, which I cannot repeat to you right now, he says, "I've taught you the most esoteric cabalistic lessons, this medicine for your souls. And for many of you, it's hard to take that medicine. It's hard for you to understand and comprehend my Toras." So his student, Rabbi Nassen of Nemarov, grounded the teachings on the cycle of the year of Shukan. So people could relate to it. Relatability and that great work becomes a much more accessible huge body of literature to fathom the Reb's esoteric's teachings. But then he said at the end of his life he says my lessons have have not fully accomplished what I want to accomplish. So I'm therefore going to start to tell stories. They're telling me and he wrote a bookic stories which are considered a literary classic not just by Jews but by non-Jews. I heard professor Ali Weisel teach these stories to hundreds of people in Boston University where where he had a a malus a beautiful building dedicated by his kusa a well-known billionaire I'm not going to mention his name and it captivated souls and professor weel said to me he said every time I taught those stories it had a religious impact on everybody in the room. Jews became more interested in their Judaism. Non-Jews became more interested in their religion. Many people took on to become clergy because they read Rubin Awin's lessons of life which is a a massive topic which we'll cover another time. But I want to honor Rabbi Barl Wine by telling a story that is both Torah and history. It's a story that I've shared, but I want to put it on record for the ages. I must tell it once while it's fresh in my freshly researched in my mind. And that's the events in the summer of 1942 when the Jewish people, unknown to most, were on the brink of extermination by the Nazis. And the story of their survival is the reason why there is a state of Israel today, why there is a Jewish people today, why there is a Torah center of life in Arch Israel today. It was a key event, a key moment where Hashem guided the hand of history in a way which was overt and clear. And I feel an obligation. I told this story a week ago uh last Thursday night to a group of soldiers in the Nets brigade who were mourning the loss of a great four young men who gave their lives dam as part of their battalion including one young man named Mosh Null who I knew personally the family and I owe it to them and I owe it to Bara Wine to tell the story. So bear with me. Those of you who might have heard it from me, but you're going to hear it in a completely different way and with a completely different orientation. Okay, let's begin. There's somebody who wrote a book called 200 Days of Dreadim. Nobody really knows from our community what this means. A scholar wrote this and it refers to a period of history of the Yeshu the the the Jews in British Palestine mandate mandatory Palestine from the spring of 1942 to the no to November of 1942 when the German Africa corpse under the command of the notorious General Irwin Raml known as the desert fox considered the greatest desert warrior of all time in terms of tank and and command was heading eastward towards the Swiss canal and mand what was then Israel mandatory Palestine. Okay, this um was preceded by another terribly dangerous time. Again, people are not aware. On June 8th, 1941, the French had been in control of Syria and Lebanon since the Psych Pico Agreement divided the land of the Middle East between England and France, the victors, over the Ottoman Empire in World War I. The French received Lebanon and they received Syria and parts of what would be Iraq and the British got Egypt and of course Archisra. The border we all know that the Germans conquered France early in the war and that meant that a Nazi regime was in place in Syria. Does that sound familiar? the threat from Syria. We find that we're right we're right there today. Terrible threats that have come our way in the past year and even now. Um we're thinking that there might be an invasion from that from that spot, a German invasion of the land of Israel, which would have spelled doom to the 500,000 Jewish residents or almost 500,000 Jewish residents at that time. But thank God, Hashem's hand in history that on June 8th, 1941, the Allies liberated that area from the pro-Nazi Vichi franchisine right here in our backyard, right in Syria. So that was the first hand. No, nobody's aware of this. Nobody knows how we were this close this close to complete and utter extermination in the in the two years that were the most bloodshed of Jews in the history of mankind 1942 and 1943. 1943 3 million Jews the majority of the Jews in the Holocaust lost their lives in Naxi extermination camps. And part of that was supposed to be the the 500,000 Jews of mandatory Palestine. People don't realize that Nazi bombers from the Mediterranean bombed Tel Aviv in this period of time. But besides the military threat, and let me explain to you what the military threat was. The uh historian Khim Sadon documents that there was an SS commander. For those of you who know, SS is the was the vicious Nazi subarmmy whose task was to exterminate the Jewish people. They were considered their own. They were the death the death head among their members of course was uh the the notorious of the Nazis men and so on. But in Tunisia, very close there, very close there to Israel, um there was a Nazi named Walter Ralph. He was an expert at conducting mass extermination. He was the head of what was known as the Egyptian group. The Inz group were murder squads. They had only 24 members sitting in Greece waiting for the great general Ramald just to cross the Suez Canal, conquer Cairo and then move on to Tel Aviv. They were waiting. He even went to see um Winwan Raml in 1942 offering his allegiance and his command and to allow the eins group Egypt to carry out the killing of the Jewish population in Palestine and in Egypt. There were many, many Jews still in Cairo. The unit was standing by in Athens. You know how close Athens is? You still have tourists in Athens today. And if Athens, they won't let a they won't let a Jew get off a boat. They won't let Israeli get off a boat. Right now, the hatred is at a peak. But that at that time in in a Nazi conquered Greece where they had deported 90% of the Greek spartic Jews 90% the highest percentage of any community in the Holocaust for extermination was not Poland was Greece. In fact, people don't realize, but the royal house of Windsor, formerly known as Mount Batton, had their princess, the mother of Queen Elizabeth's husband was in Greece and she was known as a princess. She's the grandmother of Elizabeth's sons and pr and current king of England. She actually protected a few Jews from the Nazis, but she was a very devout Christian. But Greece was overrun, including her own sons-in-law with SS. And they were waiting for their vicious opportunity. So this was the beginning of was known as the 200 days of of dread. But let me let me show you there's a beautiful safer that was written about the spiritual resistance. But I want to tell you the events. In other words, there was clearly a military threat and a position of people waiting to carry out the extermination together with the Grand MUI who was a Nazi sympathizer since the 30s. Everything was arranged and the Nazis reached the peak of their power. Okay. But in May uh in November of 1941, so let's set the stage. There was something known as the battle of Tobuk. Tobuk was a central point in Libya on the Mediterranean from whence the British controlled the entire area. If you went to Egypt, which was to the east, they could bomb you from Tobuk. Tobuk was like the last stand of power for the Middle East. The allies defended it successfully in 1941. But on June 21st, 1942, Tobuk falls leading to the capture of 35,000 um Allied troops, all from the from the British Empire for the most part. And that's where we are, June 21, 1942. And the Jewish people in Eric Israel are on the verge of panic. the a call went out to the great sadic of that generation. There were a couple of great sadikim. The most preeminent one living in Tel Aviv was the Husatan Rebba. Uh who who aidas that does not have a kum today but he was identified as one of the 36 hidden sadikim of which the vilgoan said they are the protectors of the Jewish people in each and every generation that to see that the Jewish people will have the kum and will carry on. So here we are June 21st 1942. Okay is um the day in which the Jewish people are turned into a frenzy. Theatennerbies approached and said what can we do? People don't realize there was a massive response by the Jews all over Eritus Israel. They did non-stop learning and non-stop till in every shul and every community. The secular kibbutz of a karod held a prayer jet prayer day. The newspaper Haritz said, "We're preparing for the 15th of Tamuz, which would come out to be exactly June 30th, 9 days later, the yard site of the holy or the great Moroccan giant Mikubal, who made it to Erit Israel in the 17 around 1742, perished in 1743, buried in Harlesim just outside the old city. If you're in Davided, you just keep going around to your right and you'll see the prominent Kev of the many many legends about that particular place. Arabs try to plow it down in ' 67. And what happened was every time they sent a truck, it would capsize and kill the driver. This happened two or three times until the Arabs realized hands off. This is a place of open miracles. And here's where an open miracle would take place. On June the 30th, 1942, a mere nine days after the Nazis reached the peak of their power, not only in the Middle East, but across the world, the peak of their power. What happened? People thronged to the Kev uh including Tennerebi, including this Zillerbi, who I'm sure you've heard the name, who's buried outside, and they all gathered there. And there was a rabbi who I later had the privilege of knowing who I who I shared a resident I shared a residency of the same block on the upper west side where I was a rav and he was a venerable ravika who was present at the time in USim and was ready to be given a shid from a local girl from the Ludmir family who later was Revitz Besser and he was present there and Everybody gathered in every moham kadosh there was non-stop tillum there was tinus dbor in yeshivas they switched to learning gummoras that were relevant to tinus and fasting okay people went to every holy place to me tovat people don't realize it was a mass mobilization of Torah and fasting nobody knows it's a story that is not known to us but there was a spiritual ual army that was galvanized knowing the severity of the moment to such an extent that Rabbi Besser's father went to the husbar to retreat all the way up to Syria. They wanted to run away from Raml and that would have left the Jews, left the Nazis to feast upon the local population who the Arabs had been put into a frenzy by by supporting the Nazis that they would finally get their chance to to wipe out the Jews that they were not able to do under the British mandate. Not that the British help didn't help them a lot, but they couldn't do it legally. But now they thought this is their time. And the Hagana had had prepared a masada scenario. They were going to retreat to Kyifa and fight until they died. They said, "This is it. It's over. There will be no Midnight Israel. There'll be no Jews in Arch Israel. It'll become a wasteland like it was 100 years earlier and even less than 100 years earlier and for all intents and purposes no Jew will will be alive in the land of Israel. This is how serious it was. But then came the hand of Hashem and the power of our sadik at after that prayer on the 30th of June the husatba said to this villaba I saw Hashem's name emanating out shining from the flaming letters he says as there shall be no sword that will come to this land. And when asked about the Rabb father asked and he said the now you can tell your son to go get married because Rama will not come here. And Rabbi Besser who later in New York was the rabbi of 84th Street. There's a book of them and I was also a rabbi on on West 84th Street just a block away and I was a Benias by him. He was the head of the the the um he brought Dafomi to America. He was the head of the Dafyomi commission. One of the first Dafyomi Shirim in America was in his base medish in Manhattan and of course it became what what has become almost a mandatory limud for all of Kai Israel. That's how I look at it. And he said that people were darianing on that sha on that week para's balok because it would fell out in the parasa's balok and bilahar saw into the future and recited the following puk about the future of the Jewish people at the end of days. He said, "A star will come shooting out of Yakov. Vik two names Yakov and Israel." And said on the spot there, if you look in his commentary to that and bums that he says there are two Msiahs, Mashiach Ben, Mashiach Benose, one refers to Mashiach Benavid. One refers to Messiah Ben Yoseph except as Zohar says that Mashiach Ben Yoseph was destined to be slaughtered by the head of Asaf known as the founder of Rome Ramulus. The legend is of course Kazal tell us this that on the night that B mikdash was opened by Schlomma melik a thousand years it's before the common era just about um Schlommo had the idea to make world peace. It's a great idea. United States president is trying to do it. Easier said than done. I will tell you that much. He married the princess of Egypt and by taking parro in as his mutin, right? And Parro's daughter as his own wife and built her a magnificent apartment, a dwelling. It was like on Manhattan. has to do with Manhattan like the the brownstones of Manhattan. Beautiful high-rise multi-b multi-million dollar buildings. He built her something called in in the area called as the Milu. He took tremendous amount of money and funds and built her a palace with in the walls of Jerusalem on the wall literally on the wall of Jerusalem hoping that this would be the end of time and that he would build the base of Misha would last forever. It was only one mistake. It wasn't time and and queen of the king of Egypt wasn't as sincere as he as he appeared. Neither was his daughter. And they were still rooted in a vodara which emerged later in Schlommo's life. And on the morning of his the night of his wedding, right, was the dedication day of the B mikdash, which was Rashana and coming up in 40 days, exactly 40 days. And he saw he saw and that morning he overslept and came to the wall the gates of the ba mikdash in the morning and not pre-dawn as he was supposed to and he had a great nvua known as shirim. If you know that Shirim talks about Kal Israel, the nations of the world and Hashem in the form again a story, a love story, which by the way speaks about the sadikim that surrounded the bed of Schlommo, which is what the nations of the world are supposed to do. And in the end of the story, what happens? Are the the bride and the groom together or are they separate? She says flee and go on the haramim. It's a tragic story. Shir is a tragedy. It's all about remember my loved one knocks but I missed the call. I didn't hear the call. Someone like Robert Wine, he heard the call. He heard the knocking on the door. He promoted settling in Arch Israel. He promoted the love of the Jewish people. He described and I take a one minute aside here. the night that the state of Israel was founded. And he was a he was a young fellow uh Zion from a wonderful rabbitic family and he would receive later Smika and Skoi and and also in Yeshiva Mira Torah by Chrysworth and he witnessed that night that Friday where the state of Israel was described was uh was was announced and how in America that Friday night people were hyen coming out of the the cinders of the Holocaust coming out of the ultimate degradation of the Jewish people in the films of the skeletons and the mounds and mounds of deformed bodies. Suddenly the Jewish state arose and there was hope and he said people who had no connection to Torah life wandered into shul as if stunned as if dreamers. I heard this story from himself himself my own Adus. He described that Friday night what was going on in Skoi and what a wonder it was. The sudden emergence of the of the Giloy of a Jew of the Jewish soul came shining forth because Hashem waved his hand and said a moment of there is there is a future. There will be a future. They didn't know that there would be a future on two tamas on the 15th of Thomas, June 30th, 1942. But guess what happened on the very next day? It's insane. On July 1st, the first battle took place at the doorstep of Erit Israel, known as the Battle of Elmagne. It was the first time that Raml was stopped. It was a draw. There was no clear decisive victor. It was a bitter desert war in the sands of Egypt. But the allies for the first time held their ground one day. One day after said and on which Rabbi Besser by the way commented as I was gonna say or that Ramulus was supposed to slay Mashia and Yoseph that was the Pigan Balok and everybody said ahuh Ramulus Raml Ramulus Rammo that's the same thing there was a prediction in the perish of the himself who had perished exactly ly 200 years earlier, exactly 200 years earlier, 200 years earlier that Ramulus would not come because with our prayers and with the chuva and with the interference in the divine judgment that our sadikim were able to accomplish and the mass unity, religious and non-religious, the abas Israel, the fervent chuva that took place in Ar Israel on that very day the gazer has lifted on half a million Jewish lives and the entire future of the Jewish people of where we sit today in Israel and Rab Besser said it. He said yes I see told us that Romulus Raml will not come. Okay. And on that day that Schlomma opened the B mikdash and saw Shir and the lovers fleeting away. Seazal. A stick was put into the mud which grew sheron which became landfill which later became the city of Rome with two huts built by Romulus and the Remis and Ramulus the mythical founders of the legacy of Asov which is still our gullus today. Rome, Christianity, and um the dominating world which presents itself as a direct threat to the life and well-being of the Jewish people. Now, on July 1st, that battle was was uh was a a draw. And then something happened. Rammo was sick. He asked for a two-week furlow. There are many stories. Some say that he went for his granddaughter's birthday. He was not phased by his temporary setback and Hitler for some reason granted him the leave. And in the meantime when he meantime there was a change of the guard. The uh the new general that was selected was Monty Montgomery who would later lead the charge in the second battle of Elmagne which took place between August and October and on October 23rd of 1942, July, August, September, October, 200 days, not even afterwards, Raml was routed in that very same place and he had to retreat the entire entire length of Africa. He was beaten back. He didn't have supplies. He didn't have oil. He had he had made mistakes. The brilliant general who was woripped by both allies and Nazis as the most brilliant general somehow made mistake after mistake after mistake and was driven completely back the total distance of of Africa. And it was not because of Raml's stupidity but it was the y hashem that the zerra was was lifted because of the sadikim and the troop of the Jewish people. Now I will tell you the next piece of that story. There's there were there are two there were two battles of Elmain as we said the first one on July 1st 1942 a day after a day after the Y senator Kimmer kadosh but then there was something else in the the next visit which took place exactly at the time of the second battle of Elmim was as follows. During that what it says this is from Rak Tillis tells a story about what what intervened in that summer between the first battle of Elmne which was a draw and the second battle of Elmagne which was a British allied victory. He said the commander General Montgomery everybody was expecting a big battle that could change the face of the world. Egypt the Arabs under the protection of the German victories have begun to abuse local Jews. They they were anticipating in erratic Israel. The Arabs were rubbing their hands in excitement, gleefully imagining what they would do to the Jews, to their hated enemies. The atmosphere of tension continued to increase like the heat of the desert towards midday. One day, Arab writers entered the Jewish cemetery in the city of Damore, where is buried the great Saddic, Rabbi Yakov Abuer, the grandfather of the entire Abuher clan of fame, Baba Sali's grandfather, perished in 1880. And they desecrated his grave at that time, ironically. But at the same time, they had taken out the Torah scroll that was by the Kev and they they were learning by the Kev and they trampled it. But at that very moment that they desecrated, they aroused the lion. They aroused the nishama of the great uh Abir Yakov, the greatest teacher of Moroccan Jews subsequent to the uh orakadesh in the 1700s. He died 1880. But there was a Jew named Yitsak Ala. Here he is ala lived in. And he was a makub. He was also close to Moroccan Torah scholars and he said uh you are accustomed to pray at the grave sites of the righteous men appeared to him in a dream and saysim all the time you go to all the time why don't you come to me who is me I am Jacob and where is your resting place in Dynamore in Egypt and in the dream he said now go quickly to my grave knowing that the saving of the Jewish people depends on you doing so. So Abiety awoke in a panic overcame by the dream he hurried to the synagogue Beel and shared the dream with the other Mikubalim together they decided to go to the commander of the British district to get a permit to travel to Egypt. At first the guards would not allow him in. But Vitzukak insisted. Suddenly a high officer came and said he saw the rabbi. He said, "What's the emergency here?" And he went to the commander and he allowed Ritzuk to enter. And he said, "You want me to allow a minion of Jews to go down to Egypt to prostate yourselves on a grain on a grave and you say in that merit the Germans will retreat? No civilian can enter Egypt. Only soldiers making way to the front." He says, "If you want, this was this was again the intervention of Hashem. I'll allow you to go with my soldiers." And he did. And he made it to his two officers were like two malim. They appeared to accompany him on the train. And then they sat with him protecting him the entire way. And when he reached the Jewish quarter, they disappeared. He was escorted by two malim literally to Alexandria. He entered the great synagogue of Keter Torah. He was received by the Torah scholars. They couldn't believe that the famous scholar from Jerusalem had succeeded to come into Cairo in these chaotic times. When they heard about the dream, they hurriedly gathered food and arranged a large delegation consisting of tens of Jews to pray together at the burial site of Biryakov. For three consecutive days, Rubyak and his companions prayed and studied Torah in the burned study hall next to the grave of Ryakov. On the third night, one of the scholars went outside and to his astonishment discovered that the city of Damanor was completely lit up even though there was a blackout. Soon it became known that was in celebration of the good news from the battlefield, second battle of Alamagne, the British army was victorious in celebrating your victory. It's a decade. You draw your conclusions. I've drawn mine. The spiritual warfare the Jewish people conduct is not for not is this central to our military victories. That's a lesson that Barrow Wine would appreciate. That's a lesson that history teaches us time and time again. Take the PUM story when the Jews are in danger of complete extermination as they were in the summer of 1942. We are in a grave danger because right now there are forces that seek to completely divide the Jewish people to completely obliterate our connection the connection of the state of Israel to the Torah of Israel to the history and destiny of the Jewish people that the state of Israel represents and the Torah itself. But as Bar history and Torah are intertwined it's only one story and without the stories of history we are nothing. We are absolutely nothing. When I told the story to hundreds of soldiers, I led them in a cheer that they could destroy their enemies in the merit of these four great soldiers that fell that they were the yud vke that came shining out of the seion. Four letters of Hashem's name, four soldiers. I said, "Hold on to those names and there will be no ruml of today. the Nazis of today that will plunder our land anymore. We know the teaching of Nagon that in Cohelis there are 28 time periods. Ace ace the last two everyone is a pair right it was even made into a famous rock song. It says uh for everything there is a time there's a there is a time turn turn shalom are the last two of the couplets 14 couplets which surprise which represent 28 epics or erasen said famously take the 6,000 years that the garnovar and the sonhedrin predict is the time structure of our world history it'll be like chabas six days in chabas in the year 6000 we'll be shab We're very very close. We're exactly 20 214 years away. And the last epic before before Shabas enters and our world transforms into a world far greater. Just like when our lives change, you know your life during the week and you know your life during Shabas. It's a different life. It's a different mitz. It's a different level of kaduca. That's where we're all headed. We're in that. We just entered the 214ear zone right now. Shalom. So the battles that we fight right now have largely been won. But we must pray and hope and act that we can somehow unify the Jewish people once again here in Erit Israel. something we didn't have at the time of the Beni that the dedicate that the 300,000 people that would be in the streets or they claim arguing for the fall of this government and capitulation to our enemies alai should be unified with another three or four million Jews doing for our redemption from our most bitter enemies and the full full full implementation of the vision of veritra. So I I share this with you as a story that must be told specifically that you perhaps will never hear it anywhere but the two battles of Alam which created the Torah history of Israel's survival. One was the victory of the people who ded with the oral andim and the second one was the Jews of diaspora. Finally we may run out of time. I may run out of energy energy but but uh photo uh video time I heard from my dear friend Rabbi Farah who's a rabbi here rabbi and he said in the name of the Reb he said there's two schmas one was last week's para and one was and he said you know the difference in the second para it's in the plural in the first one It's why is one in the singular and one in the plural? It's an obvious question. So I wanted to say in the spirit of what the Rebi was teaching the first one's a much higher level because one and that only occurs during the time of the B mikdash and the Rebi suggested the Reb suggested that the second where there's reward and punishment is when we're in error but without a just like then we must collect we must understand that there's reward and punishment and our deeds will be rewarded. If we take the right choices as it says this week's para I will put in front of you the choose the so there's the first which is the vision of the future a united claw Israel united under the banner of hashem and then there's a second if you'll be able to gather yourselves if be able to hear one another if you're able to say in our lives we move from the second chapter paragraph of Schma up to the first paragraph of Schma. We should see the legacy of great figures who kept the stories of the Jewish people alive embedded with Torah mitzvos and great affection for all sadikim of all stripes and all kinds and of all Jews. I was a messenger of a verine and I'm happy to share this story in his memory and it should inspire us and understand where we are where we're going and the potential of claw Israel we have in this summer of 8 shalom be well have a great week [Music] You see your