Torah Reflections on A Tishrey for the Ages with Rabbi Jay Yaacov Schwartz

Heat. Heat. Welcome to a brand new year of para sashvua. It's a thrill to be back with you after a long hiatus since um Yum Kipper for for Yum Kipper. And if you recall in the last year uh we we noted how this the Yum Kipper that we passed had a tremendous tremendous significance to it. and the events leading up to it can now be viewed in the context in our rear view mirror as we take a look back at what has been a tish for the ages as we segue between paras and now this week we enter the tava we're going from the suka to the tava and we're going to talk about what has happened and what that transition looks like because we say of our mira everything that is good comes from its origin. So the good of the month of tish is what's going to take us through this year a year with perhaps great challenges but also great surprising miracles. So let's analyze in retrospect looking back at what was a tish that may have been the most consequential one certainly since 1973 without doubt and in the real war but for Israel and for the world but perhaps um we'll be able to callull from it some ideas that we're going to take with us as we march forward fearlessly into tough shin in uh pave V which is a year that we have long awaited and a year that there may be surprises in store that we could not possibly um anticipate but that the events of Tish may have give may give us an inkling of what's to come because as as Neville Negoan says inside the word Besit is contained all of the lessons of the Torah in fact the Great Moroccan Torah sage Diryako wrote a complete sefair making with Rocher Tavos of the word berid in hundreds of different permutations each of which teaching a massive lesson of Torah and this is the way of the sages two things I would say as we emerge out of sukus into into parperacious because of simas to Torah and now we go forward forward into paras Noah that there's there's an agenda. So I want to I want in order to do a proper overview I want to take the agenda a piece at a time. Okay. So back let's backtrack to Hosana. We know that Oshan Rabba um is the day of judgment uh but where we receive our which means that basically our allocations or our expectations for the year ahead um we we get actually the angels that are assigned by to govern his will in this world are given this information and mechanics are set into place in which the sashkah will then begin to unfold. Of course, what's incredible about the Jewish people that at any moment uh can overturn which is why the Jewish people have a general appeal that goes into play that even on where the quote unquote final judgment is rendered it's not the final judgment. Why is that? Because our our sadikim and ourim have been able through their tilos and through their chuva and through theiros what they've done says harim to get us a deferment to the very last day of Kaneka which is of course a very blessed time for the Jewish people. Though we can only anticipate that the events that were set into motion on Hosana Rabba especially will have great impact as we move forward to the soap SO of this year's good as it were which will be our appeal state which is till zos Khaneka we should be encouraged that whatever might be difficult we do have a chance the Jewish people always has a chance even after Zos Kanekah but to set a pattern turn for the year. We are still in the in the stages of molding molding that and there's many many wonderful things that we can work with kto a lot of kto material that we can anticipate. First and foremost, Anusharaba we we come we is the day which we finalize reading about the 70 pim the 70 bulls that are brought on the kagasukot that are are assigned as a zut or a kapar or in some cases a tikun of the 70 nations. We have a misora that there's 70 nations and according to Nagon uh after the flood after the mabble where much of the original members of the world were wiped out and then the families of chase primarily right are the ones who had nishar not even all of them only Noah and his wife and his children. So the the recast the concept of shivim umos in a higher level which would eventually become the families of the families of Asav. In other words, descendants of Afrainu. So in other words, the world has uh how shall I say been upgraded in a sense that the chance given to mankind of redemption has been enhanced by virtue of us escaping the harsh judgment of the generations of the mobble those 10 generations. And now we are and certainly from the generations of Cayenne and He which were the first 10 generations and now we're in that third revolution which is which began um with Amrainu. So Noah represented the stage two of this. So when you say bracious Noah, what we're really doing is we're actually catapulting us forward 20 generations, 10 generations from Noah, which includes the Mab and then of course Noah going forward 10 generations until the emergence of Arabina which happens at the end of this week's parha which is very exciting. Ara is already on the scene. So on that day of hosana raba the final uh seven what you have here is seven pim seven left because we began that journey okay on the uh on the 13 pium 13 on the first day 12 on the second day that's already 25 okay and then uh 11 on the third day that's already 36, right? We're already halfway there. And Vil McGome was quick to note that as the 70 nation concept evolved forward and the the the nations of Asav and Yeshel are the ones who now occupy those spaces. Um they are evenly divided 35 and 35. And there's and there's a signal for it in the reading of Hosana itself. How is that? because it varies between mentioning the pareim being accompanied by other parts of the sacrifice. Aimas, rams and sheep, but also a seat, a a goat that is a katas. And the seir is generally a reference to asav. But when we add the appendage eim, okay, that is a reference to Ishmael. So if you'll note the very first day of judgment, we go straight for Yeshua. In other words, you have 13 pim, right? And it says there so who's closest to us uh is actually knocked out day one of sukus but he's completely wiped out on day six because the seventh day which is Oshanaraba says only which is a reference to Asav the remnant of Asov which is very likely Amalik. The last part of Asov to hold on in its subjugation of the Jewish people is Amalik of course. But Yeshile is gone by the day before which is the sixth day of Sukus gone. Isn't it interesting that in the day after Yeshua's forces or energies were diminished, corrected, uh, turned in a positive direction, whichever way you want to look at it, theim, the hostages emerged because the power of Asov diminished out completely in terms of tough shin VV energy. Anyway, on the day before Hosan Rabba and who dominated the day of Hosanana Rabba, the seir katas, the Americans, that was the day that Donald J. Trump, president of the United States of America and leader of the earthwell world of Asav, some suggest he's a gilg of Asov. He's got the hair for it anyway, right? um came to your and said incredible incredible things to honor Hashem and to honor the Jewish people and to honor Jerusalem which is unheard of unprecedented in history. Even though the United Kingdom was helpful to the Jewish people to whatever extent that they were in trying to found a Jewish a Jewish uh homeland uh starting already uh in the beginning of the of the 20th century. But they we know that ultimately and they even England led the charge together with Saudi Arabia as we noted an Arab Russia Shana to renounce the Jewish state and to declare it a Palestinian state. When I mean it, I'm talking about the biblical homelands, okay? the heartland of the Jewish people, those holy cities, they would say no, it does not belong to the Jewish people. They officially renounced whatever support that they had offered. And with them, you know, the the forces of Ismaile, but then came Hosana and the and the historic day at the Knesset, which I think really was historic, but even more importantly, the release of the hostages that followed. Now there are those who suggest that it's a very very partial uh victory because of the fact that many of them may seem have not been returned and I certainly feel that way and I was of the personal opinion that nothing should be celebrated until that and it was wrong uh of uh America to celebrate its great victory. And by the way, today as we speak right now, the vice president of the United States is on his way. He's being rode aare Netanyahu and the rest of Israel for further concessions and further concessions. But let's hope let's hope that Hashem will styy their plans and that the the the nations of the of the of the Western Europe have already declared their main intention, which is so fascinating. It's just fascinating. What's their main intention? That there should be a Palestinian police force governing Gaza. Let me translate that into English. No Jewish jurisdiction over any part of the Holy Land that we can get out of their hands. that they're foolish enough to surrender to us, we'll gladly take it and we'll take everything else if you don't give it to us. which sets an incredible stage which is happening because uh again as we went through that day of Hosana Rabba some suggest it was a partial thing but some suggest as I as I alluded to earlier that uh among them are of Kessen who's a a voice that I respect and listen to one of my teachers he claims that it is the end of the judgment of Asa. In other words, if you look at Hosanaba Bead, its purpose is the judgment of the world. And he said, and in the case of judgment of the world, there's the not international court of justice, but the divine court of justice, which is a lot more good and and a lot more credible, frankly, and it's not bent on evil. So, the divine justice court, as explains, wants fairness, wants to give everybody their due. And if anyone has harmed anyone else or anybody has a legitimate claim or caused suffering to others, they'll get their due. And we know the zar kesh tells us that as a that put in a claim for the land of Israel, saying that they are the children of Abraham and that they deserve his inheritance, which included Erit Israel. And Hashem said to them, you have a claim, but only a partial claim. And when the Jewish people are not in the land because I decree that they go to Golus, in that event, I will give you the possession of the land of Israel, but it will be limited to 1,000 years. Limited 1,000 years. Now, where were those 1,000 years? Those 10,00 years actually began in 622 with the conquest of Erit Israel by the beginning uh beginnings of um of then uh early emerging uh religion of Islam and continued till the era of the Ottoman Turks conquering the land which was approximately that that was taken over. Okay. And so you see that that period of time which was uh there was a bit of an overlap but there that period of time marked the end of the Islamic domination and now they had to share it. Although there was Islam as a religion but not Yes is genetically as the Arab folks. Now Arab we know Yeshal's residence is har even in the end of days when Moshe gave the for ze said g he gave the Torah to Israel hyiah haran one of the places hashem had offered the Torah previously to the two major protagonists to and they both rejected it um that hofia mahar pan means that's the midbar pan which is near Egypt where basically it's the beginning of Egypt where Ishmael lives. Primarily Egypt is Yeshel. Yeshile is Egypt. His mother is Hagar was the princess of Egypt. He took a wife from Egypt. Egypt is the primary Arab country. In addition to that, there's Syria and Saudi Arabia and all those other countries to the east that but the if you want to speak who is an Arab, a real Arab, okay, it's Egypt and then the countries associated. There was a time right before the 67 war that Egypt made something called the United Arab Republic in which they joined forces with Syria. So you see Syria's prime prime is territory but the is midbar and mit. Okay. So that's their place. Isn't it interesting that Mitsyam is right up on the border of the conflict that we're currently talking about and is rearing its militaristic head and wants control over the situation in Gaza completely and has been in control of the situation in Gaza in terms of influencing it by allowing smuggling, allowing military buildup, allowing the building of all the horrific tunnels. So they've been no friend of the Jews, no friend of Israel. Ostensibly they have a peace agreement but that's because of the diminishing of the power of as they have been diminished uh since um the British threw off the yoke completely of any Islamic country over Israel and it continues to diminish throughout that time since the founding of state of Israel and the various succession of wars 1967 even 73 there was a final attempt until Sadat got it that he's not going to be successful so he went to treachery in order to to get back um all of the territory that he coveted pretty much and uh but now but ultimately they knew that they could not conquer Erit Israel Erit Cananan they could have mit they could have midbar pan but Erit's kenan could no longer the mu is no longer viable for them and of course the last ones to learn this lesson have been the countries which hashem used these last two years to beat them merc mercifull mercilessly, including Gaza, including Iran, including Lebanon, including Syria, and of course to a lesser extent Yemen and its various even Qatar to a certain extent. For all those who yet still believe that Yeshal will have a hand on Israel, if they have that foolish idea that has already been taken away from them, then they will suffer the consequences. However, there are those who still persist and will persist. And um how Hashem will deal with them, I think we saw a bit on Hosana Rabba of a sense of they're being forced to capitulate forced to capitulate under the hand of of Asav who's the last man standing on the la on Hosana itself. Trump's visit to Shalim, the release of the Katuim, that was another affirmation that no matter how hard the voices of hatred are, and there are two different voices. One is the voice of the uh of the Arabs who say you stole our land, of course, that they have the claim of Samarina, which is no longer which has expired many many years ago. and uh and the ones who are Amalik voices who wish to destroy the Jewish people and if they can't destroy them physically they'll destroy them reputation-wise and justify their eradication by calling them genocidal genocidal that the claim of genocide is actually the best that a malik can do right now they can't do what Hitler did they can't take Jews and put them in the crematoria uh but they can take the reputation of the Jewish people, the history of the Jewish people, the legitimacy of the Jewish people, the reputation of the Jewish people and burn it. And that's what they have done and that's what they continue to do. And it is that war is the it remains the unfinished war of a malik in our day. So you have to bifurcate and you have to make a dichotomy here which is uh you know that's how our world works. We have the reality and the opposite of the reality and they they coexist just like a human being has an issa forward we saw that yes defeated and that their power is minimal and their threat is minimal or at least minimized and not successful. They really really had a plan to conquer and destroy the state of Israel. They really really believed it in their heart and soul. Sinir believed it. Nasarawa believed it. Uh the uh the Ayatollas from Iran believed it and the the Houthis believe it and and uh many others. But I don't know that they believe it anymore. In fact, um things will have to change dramatically for them to reclaim that that last vestige of hope. And I don't believe it will happen. I think we're past that point. But on the other hand, the voice of a mullik is as strong as ever. So how can that be? Mishma is rising in the west and setting in the east. Follow me. It's dominion over Eric Israel as of Hosanar of this year um has really really at the culmination of a 2-year imprisonment. Just like Yoshadic was imprisoned for two years. So to the Katufi were imprisoned for two years. when they came out their light shone throughout the land of Egypt. This is what's very important that what happened to the for all the evil that was done to them that is beyond belief their souls have been so purified that according to the Anuka anyway who is a very famous uh Rav um up and coming not up and cominging but one of the young stars of Hashba of Chuva in the chuva world today who had direct connection to the katufim in many ways and advised some of the families. He said to them because what you suffered of this great darkness literally like Yoseph underground in a boar. There's it's it's a perfect analogy in a boar that you'll never get out alive. That's Arish said Arish would say Yseph was put into a boar never to get out and yet he was not broken. He was not broken. If anything his spirit evolved and shone brighter. The souls of the katuim, especially the ones that are still alive, are great great lights right now. And uh I've been sent a number of stories about how these young people, albeit no Jewish, no yeshiva education, they weren't raised in anything, but their souls burn with an amuna and a debacus to Hashem. That's precisely what Hashem wants from us in this generation and the generation which we require more than anything else. Amuna and more amuna and more amuna theseim stories whether they passed or whether they are with us is just beginning. Okay. So similarly I'll mention another great great surah that happened was the loss of Rabbi Hower Rabbi Mosha Hower executive vice president of the Orthodox Union from Baltimore. I personally acquainted with his family his brother-in-law and his sister are some of my dearest friends. I've known and observed him for close to 40 years. And it's a massive loss for American Jewish community. Massive. And of course that took place when literally once the day after hosana. So here we have the dar. Even though there's great sim that occurred right on at the same time there was great tragedy in follow mel the powers of evil are diminishing in they're growing and on the table is the election next month or this in within 30 days of Mayor Manni of New York who literally says that the Jewish people are guilty of of genocide and would arrest the prime minister of Israel as did our our good friends Canada so much for the British Empire um and and New York City. British Empire and New York City. These were the places where the where the um where the Jewish people could thrive in freedom, right? England as opposed to Germany. Canada how many how many Holocaust survivors fled to Canada to Montreal? How many which is where was from by the way where how many um people from the Holocaust fled to Australia and to South Africa and the entire empire of the of the British Empire and now they have turned. Australia has turned. Canada has turned. England has already turned but has become the leader of the voices of hatred which is the voice literally of a Malik. Literally the voice of a Malik, which calls for the destruction of the Jewish people on moral grounds. Always a Malik will say, "I'm not saying this because I'm an anti-semite." No, no, no. I love Jews, but Israel has blood on his hands. The Jewish people have blood on their hands. This has been the call, the cry of a Malik throughout the ages. Whether it's money, which is damim or dam, stealing our livelihood, number one, or stealing our children, number two, it's always the same horrific claim. Nothing has changed. Okay? When people are of the hypnotized um woke left uh run around saying bad things about Israel, inevitably what they say is Israel kills children in Gaza. This is the same blood liel that has been gone on since the times of um of the founding of Christianity. Nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. It's the same cry. Okay. And we have to understand that they don't even themselves understand what it's all about. Okay. But let's see if we can explain it. So, so, so far what we noted to this point was as we merged out of Sukus, we came we had a mixed bag. on the one hand the return on the other hand only the partial return because the Mason did not come back and number and then then a horrific loss coupled with it that that disappointment and the resumption of hostilities in Gaza almost immediately. So it was a u poor tend of great things to come but at the same time here we are in dealing in the dayto-day need to be returned. Ga Gaza needs to the the the threat in Gaza needs to be expelled completely. Ultimately it needs to be recaptured and resettled. But this is beyond the conception of any person in the world even Mr. Trump. and uh maybe not uh and um and so we wait so we wait for the good things to continue to unfold as God's will will unfold in the world. Now I'm going to to that end I'm going to mention something that I said over over Sukus which I believe to be on the first night of sukus which I believe again set the stage for braces. Number one, I asked the question, why is it that when it comes to the two mitzvah of the holiday of sukus that we passed the lul of on the one hand and the suka on the other hand, they seem to be diametrically opposite. What does that mean? A lulv and an estrog one is medicas. We are really careful. If you have a black dot on the top third of your esrog, you go running to a post egg to ask if it's kosher. you can return it to the sale that you got. If a rabbi writes you, "No, no." Oh, there was a black dot. No, I'm not taking it. And if a slight imperfection to the pit or any little bit of it missing, we're we're we're thrown into a a tizzy. Is this kosher or not? On top of the lulaf, the top two leaves that come together. You can't even barely see them. Are they closed or they open? And you must look with a magnifying glass if there's any split between them, which is interesting because it kind of represents the spinal column. And you know, any split in the in the spinal column is is deadly. You better look pretty carefully and we do. And some like I prefer want to have it closed over with that reddish colored uh whatever it might be that closes it up. Oh sh and similarly we worry is it really mish is it really are they run are the three hadim leaves are exactly on the same line that's how we deal with the quite the opposite is how we deal with the suk the suka we have incredible leniency okay mostly from kazalas from the Torah and the rest from for example Sukkatkot. How many walls? As a matter of fact, how many walls in a suka? Well, logically four, right? No, no, no, no. Only three. And the third one doesn't have to be more than a tea. That's basically two walls and a and a and a stickle nothing. So, it's two walls. Who ever heard of a house with two walls? Two and a stickle wall. No such thing. Who ever heard of a house where if the wall is hanging down but doesn't really go to the ground but at least has tent coming down we say it reached the ground but it didn't reach the ground. So what are you making up stories? No no no no this is the it's called good and good. It can go down it can go up from the bottom. Oh, and by the way, if there's a hole in the which is supposed to be covering us, right? As long as it's not 12 to to 18 in, which is what three to a tea could be, let's say four to four to 6 in, you know. So, three could be what? 12 to 18. That's a lot of space. Uh, it's it's okay. It's it's it's good. Oh, and by the way, if the wall doesn't touch the next wall, but it doesn't go that far away, we'll consider it. We can That's called love. It's close enough. It's close enough. Oh, and by the way, if you have cement going over the top of your suka, which is so not kosher, but as long as it's not four four amos, an ammo is a foot and a half, that's like six. As long as it's only six feet worth of concrete, we'll still consider it as if the walls bent. The walls bent, but the wall's not bent. So why you saying it's bent? What's going on? How could it be that the two most important mitzvah of the brand new year that Hashem gives us between rash between sukus, excuse me, between rash shana and sukus where we get a chance to do chuva, we run from yum kiper and we start building our suka immediately and we run and we get and yet it's two mitzvah that couldn't be possibly polar opposites the ultra strict the suka kimat doesn't exist. And the answer I believe is if you look at the where this is or it's in the same it says it says create take for yourself a little bit each and every individual Jew or Jews if she wants is requires her own little I can't say yeah this guy's got the kazin bought a I bought the shul bought a beautiful luminest we gave it to the kazin and he's going to shake and it's all good No, you've got to buy your own little of an estra. What? Say one guy, a big dev builds a suka for the whole community and they're all going to eat there. Is that a problem? And he's going to pay for all the meal. Oh, that's great. I didn't lift a finger. This guy built a big suka. He's feeding me all the meals. I got to show up. It's great. Did I get any less of a mitzvah than that? No. Why? Because the Torah says means look at yourself. view yourself. After all, what does the represent? It's the human form. The is our heart. Theim are our eyes. The robas are our ellipse. The spinal column is our thinking, our mindset, our mood. There's always room to grow. There's always worth inspecting because you know what? You can't be happy with your progress and say, "Well, I did enough chuba. I'm gonna stop here. Take a break." There's always more growth. You have to keep growing. You have to keep improving. Whatever level you reach, there's more to go. Your chuva is not done. You can't say, "I'm finishing doing chuva uh now and I'll do chuva next year. I can pick it up, you know, where I left off." No, it's every day. Become better. become a better person, a bigger lambdan, a bigger a better diver, a bigger better, a better person, a better balmos, a better sham, a better husband, spouse, friend, brother, sister, mother, there's always more. But it says, all these citizens of the land of Israel, my son has a great imitation of Netanyahu. He goes, Israel. He always starts with that citizens of Israel. Yeah. Citizens of Israel Israel, the entire Jewish nation one suka. And that's if you're going to make all the Jewish people come under one suka, you better find a way to look for what's there and not at what's not there. You're going to have to accentuate what is good and look away from what's missing. You cannot take the inventories of other people and say, "Well, this person is not this, is not that. They're this lacking and this part of them missing. Forget about it. We need Israel." You have to look at them with a kind eye. Look away at what's missing. Look at only what is there and what is even in potential there. That's the difference. So again, it's it's true, but it's the opposite as well. When it comes to yourself, you can be demand excellence. When you come to others, acceptance, acceptance, love, sympathy, acceptance, and inclusion. That's the difference. But this year, I took it a step further. Look, look at the PK a little further. The PK says, you have joy in front of Hashem. by sukus. It says you should teach the generations that I put the Jewish people in sukus. Now, let's analyze this for a second. What's so happy about the why am I being happy with the of an what's the joy in it? Okay, what's the sim? I could say the suk is a sim. I like sitting in the suka. It's I have a nice fan. I can I can relax there. I can learn. I can eat. I can sleep. That's happy beloved. I make myself crazy to find that it's per that's so perfect. Why is that that tool of happiness? And why is it so important that we know that when we left mit Hashem put us in sukos? First of all, Hashem has done miracles for the Jewish people throughout the ages. He fed us m for 40 years. We don't go and make a holiday out of it. Okay? Well, you could say paraman is every day of a person's life. But still, we don't see a holiday because I served you man. Therefore, we have Monday. That's not the origin of maybe it is money if you ever thought about it that way. So many Hashem caused the sun to stand still for Yahosua. Where's the Yontiff? Okay. Yamsu, okay. Was a great great great miracle. Okay. Oh, so we're gonna say we have maybe but you know, but that's just what happened. It's not you know why you have to teach this. It's like the seder knight, you know, and this lad rises and recites the fashes to his father. You have to teach the next generation. What are we teaching? We suk. Okay. So what? Here's what I think it means. When a bul put us in the in the midbar, there was no chance for survival. There was sun sun that would kill you and from its own heat. There's a scorpions and snakes and who knows what other wild beasts. There's nothing to eat and there's nothing to drink. How long you going to survive there? How long? For any of you have ever hiked around Sinai, it's mountain after mountain after mountain after mountain. I remember when I was a youngster and we we still had Sinai. Dating myself and you could drive there. We drove on an old eggot bus and and without without air conditioning and it kept going around the mountain and then another mountain and then there was another mountain and another mountain, another they were all purple mountain. Very nice. When is this gonna end? It doesn't end. It goes on and on and on and on, right? There's no way to survive. But Hashem put us in a suka and surrounded us and we did survive against impossible odds which you couldn't even logically estimate but somehow it happened. This is the message of the sukal will always have storms to weather. We'll always go through situations that survival seems impossible. And yet, Hashem will put us in his suka and we will get through this. It's much like Noah put the animals in the tava. The tava and the suka have much in common. The suka sails to the storm of my father's who is interred here in Bamesh. I went to visit him before and there's a little tree that grows out of his cave. It's the only one in the whole Bish cemetery. This little beautiful happy little tree. So beautiful just like my dad. It's beautiful personality and wonderful men prince. And he used to sing a song called a suka, a little suka. And in Yiddish, he would sing it with great fervor every sukus, something from his childhood and back in Baltimore in the 20s and 30s. And he used to say the suka story is how an old man is sitting and the wind is blowing and it's cold and he took a little wood and he put together a little suka little fragile suka and the wind is blowing and the who it's just howling and it's a miracle that the candles don't blow out and his daughter comes and offers him a bit of soup and says the suk the suka is going to collapse on you. And he says, "Don't trouble yourself." Right? This has been here for 2,000 years and it's not falling anytime soon. This is the message of the suka is we will get through. Hashem will take us through the storm. So this is a huge huge message as we've been through two years of bitter storms but we emerge like lo would eventually open up the windows of the ta send out the yona and send out in search of peace in search of the olive branch of peace it will come it will come so that is um point number two now let's go to braces for a moment and then into Noah and with that we'll we'll be able to bring it home. What can we look forward to in this year? Well, there is no doubt that the d the drama of Hosana Rabba will continue. The world is a buzz about Israel and Gaza. It has been for two years but now in a different way. They want to try solutions to bring peace. And every nation of the world has an opinion. Just ask the United Nations that voted that all this area belongs to Palestine. There's only one problem. There's no people to give it to who aren't terrorists who just want to destroy Israel. So, they've got a problem. They've got a big problem. But as they comprise this team to bring peace to Gaza, just remember one thing. that the next target is Jerusalem. So if indeed the quote unquote international community comes together and imposes their will upon Gaza, which is that Israel should not have anything to do with it, and that the murderous terrorists be somewhat pushed back, but the other ones who support Sheekch erin terror uh the remnants of of those Amaliki voices prevail the day. Just know that the next this was the testing ground. I predict that they'll say well it worked in Gaza it's going to work in Anharabay and they will come as go predicts which we read over Sukus they will come for now the good news is that Hashem is not going to allow them to happen. So we know the happy ending of the story it doesn't mean it's any less traumatic or dramatic. So, so lesson number one takeaway from an incredible tish rate. There will be victories. There will be miracles. The subjugation of Yeshel is the weakest it has ever been and it will continue that way. But just as that continues, the last ditch efforts of the nations of the world will intensify to such an extent that they will reach and not only as they reach always for Israel but in particular for Jerusaleim. It's going to be interesting and I don't think it's going to take a long time and ultimately we will weather the storm. We will come through the suka that Hashem said we will survive. We will go into the we will have soar. Soar is the light and ore is light. And bacious we said or that was the ore that Hashem put away for the sadikim. But that's the ore that runs the world. That's the Torah itself that the blueprint for the world. But there's something else called the sohar. The soar has the letters say or go out. Okay. Go out. Um, it's the it's the light that illuminates itself. Ashi describes it as a precious stone or perhaps a window, but it has its own light. Some before suggest that the kalone was during the day when this when there was more light and so to speak and then that sar is from the times of darkness where we have the inner light shining forward. That's the light of the sad sadik sadik sadik hashem soar is the light of the sadikim of hashem that's what illuminates us now that's what we're going to hold on to that's what's coming out of the souls of these you'll see an enormous light bursting forth and they're going to reach for the light of the sadikim they already are and this is what will ultimately uh unify us and bring us to Amuna. So that's what I predict. Prediction number two is that there will be an enormous enormous um reckoning, soul reckoning with Muna for the Jewish people in the land of Israel and around the world. in the land of Israel because of what we're experiencing and around the world because of what they're experiencing which will be dramatic and difficult and it already is with the loss of Rabbi Hower with the imminent election of Mam Dani the shadows over America the violence in the synagogues besides the rampant assimilation besides a rampant rejection by our own people of of Ahab Israel which which stood them in goodstead they supported Israel and supported Torah and now they've become the those vocal critics. These dark shadows will will spawn light will spawn light as one door closes but another door opens. And um but I just want to we have some time but I just want to uh move forward is with uh the concept of uh what we learned in BC and what we learned in Noah. In Birchius, there's a sad reality that Cayenne kills his brother He initial episodes. Besides the tragic reality of the what happened in the Adas, the eating of theas tora, I'm not going to get too much detail, but the Nahash emerges as the figure. Uh, but I would like to say the Nahash gets a bad rap. So, here's a few words of sympathy for the Nahash. You ready? Maybe the Nakash wasn't such a bad guy after all. Was he a villain or was he a victim? Is that according to the Zaresh? What happens with the uh with the Nash is that he he really was victimized really. It was the Nakash wasn't a bad guy. His job was the technological director. He was a director of artificial intelligence for Adam Harisha. Medish tells us that he could go he had such wisdom he go far and wide and Adam would set him loose and he would bring back gold and diamonds and silver. This is what the zar says. He he was tremendously brilliant and he understood he understood wealth and riches and he was a loyal servant to Adam. But what went wrong? This is taken now from unfortunately the Hashem put him here so that we would have the choice for good and evil. You can't have a choice unless there's evil. So he created this minister of evil. Shalov his all his shamases as my Bobby used to say came with him all his tr troublemakers she sayshuh the one who is the most cunning of all the animals who would serve my purposes best because he's effective he's intelligent he's cunning he's sly he knows how to get things done knows how to negotiate deals he's better than Witkov, he's better than uh what's his name? Whoever's on the highway now. They think they have all the answers. Yeah, but they'll serve my purposes well. He was almost like camel. Camel like know camel will take you anywhere you want. Doesn't need much food or water. He's a great guy. And he said, "Let me use the as my tool. The Torah, the voice of truth says, "You wicked. God just created the world. You already starting problems." A person who is is overtaken by a bad spirit. If a person has gone somewhat mad, they're they're in a state. They they're in in a moment of a a moment of shus a moment of craziness a moment of violence an October 7th moment where the devil rides on those hooligans and all the gahim shamases of the of of the netherworld come and ride those vicious people. Very useful have the kamas been to the satan. If a person has temporary insanity, gone mad, are they liable for what they say? Hello. He didn't really mean it. He wasn't really such a bad guy after all. He was just taken over by an evil spirit. Al and then before explain here there's anel that describes what the nakash is all about. The satan came in the form of the nahash. Right? But what that is is the voice of madness which is the voice of sheer. It's a lie. Remember the greatest lie is to distort reality. And the reality is that Hashem created the world gave you a simple choice of tovra and told you not to eat from the eight and comes and says no no it's not true. tries to present moral and log mostly moral arguments and logical arguments why Hashem is to be morally vilified. He's trying to withhold from you good. It makes the moral case against you. You're immoral. Hashem is doing bad things to you. Hashem doesn't love you. And that's the ultimate distortion of reality that Hashem has anything against us. Well, if Hashem hates us, then why should I love Hashem and listen to his mitzvah? And that's the conversation. So that's what really happens. What really happens? And that voice is within us. Let me explain how. So you'll say, "But Hashem destroyed Cayenne and Lama and Tuen who killed I mean the stories of BCIS are require careful scrutiny." But the bottom line is a terrible thing happened. The was taken over to such an extent that according to the kadesh the actually violated Kava and impregnated and there were two pregnancies that she carried not twins one from the Nahash and one from her husband Adam. One gave birth to Cayenne, son of the Nahash. One gave birth to Heel, son of Adam Harishan. And now you can understand why Cayenne would kill Hel because the Nakash the son's job is to destroy man. And Medish says, "How did he know to kill him and so on?" He says, "He bit him like a he just bit him. He took the he took the route that he was familiar with to bring death and destruction. And that's what Cayenne was all about. And that's why Cayenne eventually gets killed by his own by his own progeny. And um it's it's it's a the medri says he he was killed because tuken his grandson told lama also his descendant his great his there were seven generations between him and tuokayen who in who developed instruments I can't give a whole she about this there's a whole she to be given about this but I'll just mention it in passing that death and destruction came to the world because of cayenne because of the satan because of the sahara and it was passed. It was was wiped out by the Mabble save one person. There was a daughter of Lama whose name was Na and she was sweet and beautiful and Noah said her I can save and he takes her for a wife and she gives birth to three children including Shame Shame the our forefather of Arainu and the Jewish people. There's always going to be maybe very watered down and maybe manageable even for for with Hashem's help like Noah did this voice of cayenne of the Sultan inside of us that we have to answer that we have to be able to respond to and say that's not a great idea. Lemon mering pie not a great idea. It tastes great but it's not a great idea. It's MS. It tastes good, but it's not MS that it's good for you. And that's the voices on a tiny level and of course on a bigger level that the world has to choose. That's how the Nahash survived. It wasn't really the Nahash. It was the Satan who used the Nahash's skills. And today the voice the most intelligent people, the most wealthy people, the most powerful people are being used by the Sultan to call Rah against Hashem and the Jewish people. They're being used. They don't even know they're being used. They're not even aware of how much they're being used. They spout this stuff because like the says, it's just this ru that has encompassed them. They're waiting to be liberated by the ruach to of the katuim of am is of Israel and of Torah. The or and thear together will reverse this. This is the breakthrough of tough shin the breakthrough of the orms so that the trance over the world can begin to dissipate. That is what's going to happen in Israel. As more people awaken to their love of Hashem and their amun and hashem and sadikim, this is what was hopefully going to happen to the world as Mr. Trump demonstrated some people can get closer to the truth. Ironically, he calls this thing truth social. But again, he to whatever extent is I told you that we'll get a half good from him. But we still have to know to be strong and reject what he proposes which is not good. And there's plenty of that. And it's arrived in Israel today. We have to know Hashem should give us the Shaya that the bad plans should fall apart and whatever is good should emerge by itself. And that is ultimately finally Noah. Um, by the way, oh uh um Hashem didn't decide to destroy the world. Um he decided to destroy anything that lived on earth. What did not why did Hashem not destroy the fish? Why did he destroy the fish? What's wrong? You know, Rashi brings two opinions. One is because they the animals also sin. They went with animated. Notice homosexuality is always identified together with the with with avod zara and with gazelle with stealing because it's the break of any boundaries. When you break a boundary, it's sheer. What's not your what's yours is yours. What's not yours is not yours. It's the truth. And once you break that down, it's according to the tarum is people that steal. That's the target of the word. And it's not the newspaper, but it's that too. It's theft. It's stealing what's not rightfully yours and giving it to those who don't deserve it, don't earn it, and don't belong to it. So, Hashem did not touch the fish because the fish didn't participate in this. But I would go one step deeper. Why did the animals do that crazy thing of going to anomin? What happened to the animals? Animals don't know any better. The answer is because Marishon was created on the same day as the animals and from the same essential basis. The birds are very interesting because they start in the water but they end up on the earth. So they're included in the exera because primarily birds live on earth. They don't really survive in the sea as they maybe once did many many years ago. But any earthbound creature is connected. Hashem created all the animals, even the mosquitoes, and then he created man because we are part of them. We're just the enhanced behem. So when Hashem when man sins, he drags everything down with him and therefore the animals follow suit. And I think this was even documented once off the course of San Francisco that they noticed unusual behavior in the animals of as if to say man rules man sets the way he can he can be stronger than anybody but at the same time you know redu is lashon he can also descend lower than anyone. So man dragged the animal kingdom down, right? And that's why they were all destroyed, but not the fish because fish are essentially Mayim. They're made from Mayim. There was recently which says you can be toll in the eye of a whale because it's essentially water. It's from the water. It is water. Hashem, man has a responsibility to lift everybody up. And that's another hopeful theme for this year. Hopefully the the the passing of such great people like how such as the katuim that passed away that hopefully be reclaimed and whatever tragedies we've suffered in the last two years okay will be put behind us tough emergence of freedom when Yseph comes out of prison he rises to world prominence immediately and he says I die it's all because of Hashem this is the job of the Jewish people in this year to proclaim like Joseph did when he got out of jail. Bil I die. It's not about me. It's about the glory of Hashem, his Torah, his sadikim, and the light of MS, which is a pitched fever battle with Shakare. the fitched pe you know Charlie Kirk uh Nebak who who was so horribly murdered said to Donald Trump right before he passed away I said to Natanyao before he passed away before he was killed murdered he said you're losing the war of opinion you're losing the war you're not fighting the war of truth so another theme we have to fight the war for truth the truth words the words of truth have to come out in this year. So again massive tough yes victories over our enemies which wish to take our land from us but the voice but the the forces are troubled and troubling and strong. And the second thing is is that the emergence of awareness Hashem awareness and amuna in Arit Israel and around the world. And the third thing is the voice of truth that truth should emerge and that what is righteous should be called righteous. What is sadik should be called sadik and what is rah should be called rah and not the vice versa. And with these blessings we'll go into a new year. We survived. we thrive and with Hashem we continue to grow even more more together more loving each other more connected to Hashem more connected to Torah than ever before and with this we shall triumph and prevail in a year of wonder and miracles Heat. Heat. Sh.