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War In Israel, Message to a Holy Nation from the Bomb Sheter
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As War rages on between Israel the US and Iran, Rabbi Genish shares a timely message from the land of Israel
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I've a cry to make from the bunker. Me
am Israel God
we are an incredible nation because over
here in Israel people on a constant
basis yes we have to run to our bunkers
we're getting alerts on a constant basis
someone's taking a shower someone's in
the middle of doing something he's going
from house to house there's a lot of
walking going on and suddenly you hear a
siren you got to figure out where to go
and there's [snorts] a lot if I could
say what to complain about to be
uncomfortable about to feel in a in a in
a state of dismay.
And at the same time I have to tell you
an incredible thing about when you're
here in Israel and that is that when I
grew up of course I was in Los Angeles
you open up a radio and what do you
listen to on the radio you hear talking
there's no chance of ever getting on the
radio first of all and what do you hear
you understand a lot of
in between the news maybe with some
church or maybe it's some idiot who's on
the radio who's saying some funny things
that is absolutely meaningless but over
here you can actually turn on the radio
on a few stations and listen to every
Torah on a constant basis or which you
vote that people call in on the radio
and ask questions.
And people ask questions and you
yourself can call in sometimes to ask
questions and I was found it very
incredible also I received questions I
answer for a certain hotline but also
listening to the radio especially and
you know what the list of the questions
was one after the other
Rabbi I want to ask I was in the middle
of making Kiddush and then the siren
went on so I had to run to the mom and
dad room with my family we had to take
you have to stop for between 7 to 10
minutes come back and then we didn't
know after finishing Kiddush if we have
to make Kiddush again because it was in
between Kiddush and we didn't know if we
had to do that that was it
the answer is once you come back even
though you had a decent break then you
don't have to make another Kiddush or
another question was what about Kiddush
come to that there's an Indian that when
you make Kiddush you have to do it in
the same place of the
but we stopped after the Kiddush and we
left and then it took a while till we
washed hands came back to the and this
maybe have to make Kiddush again because
it was not so that it's still like
so that no but since you came back to
the same place you're still good another
person asked that you know we have a
they don't have their own private can
you imagine that you have to share a
safe room with all entire building and a
few people together go at once and
sometimes there could be a state of
because you have women in there together
with one man or something to that extent
and then it gets to a state of which is
a little bit of when you have a number
of women but is it really because other
people can still come in another
question that's asked a person's in the
middle of
they're in so and then the bell hits and
they have to go to the safe room or in
the back of the they find a staircase or
find somewhere to go so they leave in
the middle of so they go and come back
after a number of minutes 6 7 8 minutes
do I have to start from the beginning of
again or can [snorts] I continue from
where I left off that is a between the
and the
actually you do if it's you have to
start from the beginning and the it's
tell you you don't
whatever the is that's not so much what
concerns me right now what I found
incredible is you take a situation that
seems bland frustrating irritating
something that you just want to bicker
and complain about and yes there are
from those that are amongst those that
don't keep me touch so much that are
just complaining about the situation
constantly and you turn it into a
Kadusha I found it absolutely incredible
that we're able to do something
to take something that seems so
irritating and to go ahead and turn it
into
to turn it into something ever present
something that I have I can do something
with we take a lemon we turn it into
lemonade we take something that seems a
disastrous situation and we make a of it
we make a of it it's just something
that's absolutely incredible to be able
to ponder about to see the positivity
that comes out from such a situation
there was a girl that had two apples in
her hand her mother was you know
surprised why two apples obviously most
people only eat one apple so she said to
her cute little daughter you want to
share one of those apples with me and
she said okay so the daughter went ahead
and took a bite out of the first apple
and then she took a bite out of the
second apple in which the face of the
mother started to grimace and she
started to be a little bit disappointed
in the of this young child what's going
to be with her
why did she go ahead and do such a thing
and she goes okay Emma this one I'm and
she gave her one the first one that she
bit and said this one is much sweeter
here you take this one she bit both to
check which one was a better one for her
sometimes we look at a bad situation and
we get frustrated before we realize
maybe there's a better side to things
maybe there's something a little bit
positive
giving us something that looks negative
but he's going and testing out which
side is sweeter in order that we can
know what to do with this is classically
a symbol of the of
because when we speak about the idea of
freedom you wonder freedom in our
situation I got missiles and ballistic
missiles falling all over here we got
buildings that are being smashed to the
ground we have two and a half years of
war under our belt and we're losing
soldiers
we've already lost
in this war which is only been three and
a half weeks already 23 people between
the and the people that were
lost in in the over here and you're
wondering how are we celebrating the of
how do we celebrate the of the holidays
so that's what the
actually writes he says we're
free what does it mean we're free cuz we
take every situation we turn it into a
we look to
and we treat it and we feel that yes
there's something frustrating about it
but there's so much I can do with it we
see money and we wonder what we can go
ahead and do with it the of a of a
the whole idea of a is you have an extra
stroller okay let's see if we can open a
to do something to do something about it
everything that we see we say kill a
you should be
say
you should be to have richness or life
what's
because we hold that the biggest is to
take something and make a out of it you
see a person who's in trouble can I do a
with him can I help him to go ahead and
do it and that's really our opportunity
here when I'm sitting here in Israel in
a time which looks a little bit bleak
unfortunate that we're going through a
very difficult war on three fronts
already the already started shooting
missiles at us also unfortunately
but we [clears throat] realize that the
opportunity that stands at all I knew
someone who was by the the one is a
young person here that is known he's
very famous over here the big
he has many many
followers and they brought from the
that they said an incredible thing he
said if people knew the opportunity they
had if being in this type of war time in
Israel they would walk here by their
foot that's what he said they would come
here by foot if they were able to do it
if they realize what it means to be in
Israel even during or especially during
these difficult times and this is what
he means the amount of
that is in that is
that is in the air that is being
encompassing us during these trying
times but specifically in Israel