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What's their secret? | Tisha B'av Inspiration Presented by Oorah's TheZone | 2023
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Written and produced for TheZone campers, this inspiring and educational video brings new meaning to the day. Learn just what it is we're missing and what message Tisha B'av holds for us all. #tishabav #inspiring #meaningful #foryou #fyp
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[Music]
the ninth of of the day we commemorate
the destruction of our Temple
the saddest day of the year
if any of us were given the opportunity
to rebuild the Temple we would rush to
do so
tonight you will learn why the temple
was destroyed
and why we continue to suffer and what
each of us can do starting today to
bring the temple back
as we sit here on the floor tonight we
know
the sad night
the temple was destroyed
and we're in Exile
but we may ask ourselves
what does that have to do with us here
we are
we're in the zone
we have
all kinds of exciting fun
things our lives are comfortable
what does the temple have to do with us
why are we mourning why are we crying
why are we sitting on the floor
to understand this we must not only
understand current events but understand
the history of the Jewish people
why do they hate us we're invisible
Stars
let's go back to the Torah to the
beginning the onset of the Jewish people
at Rome of Eno our forefather Abraham
was chosen
[Music]
to be the man through him and his
children would bring the world to his
Perfection
a few hundred years later an event took
place which changed the world which put
the world onto its course towards
Perfection the purpose of the world that
event
foreign
millions of Jews witnessed
God's presence the giving of the Ten
Commandments the receiving of the
glucose and the entire tour our rabbis
tell us at that moment
your dog
the world
became hateful jealous
at that time we were set on a course
that creates
to work towards to accomplish a mission
a mission to expands Generations the
mission that we are still in the middle
of captioning
the rabbis teach us that everything that
has happened to us throughout this long
Exile is really connected to the
destruction of the Temple
for thousands of years
since we've left Israel after that
horrible horrible upon destruction
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we went through strategy after tragedy
in country after country and yet we
survival not only did we survive we
triumphed we grew
we flushed
[Music]
throughout our history
1428 BCE
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enslaved us
422 BCE the first temple was destroyed
and the Babylonians exiled us 355 BCE
Heyman and the Persians wanted to
eradicate us 312 BCE the Greeks
conquered us
70 CE
the Romans destroyed the second temple
leaving Israel in Ruins once again
1096 the Crusades wreaked havoc on
Jewish communities across Europe
1492 the Spanish acquisition set our
nation aflame
1648 once again Jews were massacred
across Europe
1942 the Holocaust Hitler's Final
Solution implemented until 1989
communism nearly destroyed generations
of Russian jewelry today Arab extremists
want to wipe us off the face of the
Earth just as so many have tried before
one of the greatest rabbis of the 17th
century writes
that greater than all the Miracles that
happened in Egypt greater than the
Miracles that happened in the deserts
and greater than the Miracles have
happened to the Jews when they came to
Israel is the miracle
of Jewish survival
the fact that we exist today
the fact that we existed in the 17th
century
in and of itself
is a miracle beyond comprehension
we have been persecuted
we've been targeted
we've been decimators
and yet
here we are today
even the non-jews
recognize
this unbelievable
fact
this is the words of the great writer of
the 18th century Mark Twain
his question his famous Jewish question
and the answer
the real answer
if statistics are right the Jews
constitute but one percent of the human
race
it suggests a nebulous dim puff of
Stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky
Way
properly the Jew
ought hardly to be heard of but he is
heard of has always been heard of
he is as prominent on the planet as any
other people and his commercial
importance is extravagantly out of
proportion to the smallness of his bulk
his contributions to the world's list of
great names in literature science art
music Finance medicine and abstruse
learning are also way out of proportion
to the weakness of his numbers
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he has made a marvelous fight in this
world in all the ages and had done it
with his hands tied behind him
he could be vain of himself and be
excused for it
the Egyptian the Babylonian and the
Persian Rose filled the planet with
sound and Splendor then faded to dream
stuff and passed away the Greek and the
Roman followed and made a vast noise and
they are gone
other people have sprung up and held
their torch high for a time but it burnt
out and they sit in the Twilight now
or have vanished the Jews saw them all
beat them all and is now what he always
was
exhibiting no decadence no infirmities
of age no weakening of his Parts no
slowing of his energies no dulling of
his alert and aggressive mind
all things are mortal but the Jew
all other forces pass
but he remains
what is the secret of his immortality
[Music]
you are the secret of our immortality
what Mark Twain didn't realize
was that the survival of the Jewish
people is not our scientists our doctors
and our Nobel Prize winners
of Jewish survival is our adherence our
observance clinging to our Jewish faith
to the Torah to the mitzvos and to
Hashem
for Generations one after another they
try to stop us
but throughout it all we stood up we
held on and we continued to be
not only did we hold on and survive in
fact we flourished
generation after generation produced
great Jewish Torah leaders the greatest
spiritual mentors
greatest yeshivas were produced in
trying of times
thousands of our best and brightest
Minds Learning and becoming great Torah
Scholars and steadfast Servants of
until today the Toro flourishes
our yeshivas are growing and overflowing
our Greek Torah Scholars continue to
guide us to show us how to live and grow
that is the true secret of Jewish
survival
every time you keep Shabbos you learn
total you do
and you are faithful to Hashem
you are connecting to that secret that
you are the story of a Jewish
immortality
a story is told in Germany in the early
1930s before Hitler Rose to power he
would travel around the country spewing
his venomous hate he would give speeches
in many places as one such speech that
was given in a local pub
in a small German Town there was one man
in the audience that was listening to
what Hitler was saying
and he kept having this smile on his
face
at the end of the speech Hitler came
over to him and he said to him
you find it funny what I was saying
so he said
I happen to be a Jew
so he spat in his face and he said
filthy Jew do you not think it's true do
you not think my threats
are true
the Jews said I do indeed believe
that your threats are true and I believe
that you will carry them out
but the reason I'm smiling is because
you're joining a long list of people
that try doing exactly what you're
trying to do
some of them did more damage than others
But ultimately
none of them succeeded
two will not succeed
and I'm smiling because I'm wondering
which holiday we're gonna have
we are still waiting for our final
Redemption
we are still Mourning
but indeed Hazel do call this day
annoyed
a holiday
perhaps this is a holiday that we
celebrate our strength a holiday that we
celebrate
despite everything we have been through
we still here
we haven't forgotten your name we still
scream shamay Israel
we still remember you every single day
this is a celebration of strength
that we are still here that we can still
make a difference and we beg you not all
don't forget us
[Music]
the ninth of of the day we commemorate
the destruction of our Temple
saddest day of the year
if any of us were given the opportunity
to rebuild the Temple we would rush to
do so
tonight we will learn why the temple was
destroyed
and why we continue to suffer and what
each of us can do starting today to
bring the temple back
[Applause]
foreign
Crossing into Israel killing two Israeli
soldiers
there is a developing hostage situation
at a synagogue near Fort Worth Texas
anti-Semitism in America haunting Jewish
communities from coast to coast more
than 100 Graves damaged or overturned
the Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia a
SWAT team entrance discovering a scene
of unimaginable performance and this
centuries-old form of hate is sharply
Rising people have to stop the hatements
here you feel unsafe it's getting
extreme huh and getting 2700 acts of
assault vandalism and harassment against
Jews Jews make up just two percent of
the U.S population but the FBI said they
are the most targeted for religious
based hate crimes these are the Flyers
the residents here in the golden Harbor
community
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became the third fatality from the
terrorist Colorado dying in hospital on
Saturday he was buried Saturday
drove his car straight into a bus loaded
with people
foreign
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[Applause]
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foreign
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we have the opportunity
to help
bring us closer
to the third base amigdash
by being in a place that screams
and having the opportunity to spread our
love
to every fellow yet please join me in
singing The Following song together
[Music]
how long am I to wait for all my
children
to come on
a house
[Music]
my
son
from far and wide all came to see it's
Beauty and it's
[Music]
so much
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again
[Music]
[Applause]
together together
[Music]
forever forever
we must stand together forever
[Music]
it is a story
that said
that the person was
taking a voyage on the boat
and the captain heard some noise coming
from his room
knocked on the door came in and saw
these drilling to hold the bottom of the
boat
so what are you doing
boat's gonna sink with the water coming
in
the person said what do you mean this is
my room it's nobody's business what I'm
doing in my room do what I want
to that the captain was very angry
naturally saying you can't do what you
want because they're all one we're on
this together if the world comes into
your room the whole boat's going to sink
and this is how we have to look at
ourselves as Jewish people We're All in
This Together
and we'll have to be concerned for one
another but one person does affects
everybody
therefore we have to be
have a very concern for each other
the show or
love for every Jew and this is what we
have to live with live by
here
for instance all of the campers
in this Camp come for different
backgrounds
different places
and
we put together in the same bunk in the
same room
and we have an opportunity to show
or togetherness a concerned for the
other person not only in physical way
mundane ways down to earth things like
helping them in different ways teaching
somebody how to swim but teaching
someone how to play better even though
he might play against them for the next
game but showing that you have concern
for them
but also in spiritual matters to make
sure the person gets some time for the
fill up for praying for davening
making sure a person
says benching after eating make the
bracha wearing a yamaka wearing a keeper
that's also very important to have this
feeling for one another in spiritual
matters just like in physical matters
and this is really what
we have to concentrate on things
Redemption to come speedily we have to
be concerned for the other person not
only in actions but also in the feelings
to have Ava for the other person to
concentrate on their
good things everybody has something good
about them even though we might see some
not
perfect or not a special leaders and
character traits in somebody else maybe
we see certain faults that they have but
we have to concentrate on the good
things and the good things that
everybody has something good about them
this is how we have to look at our
Jewish
uh Nation neighbors friends family
Associates people that we deal with have
to look at them these are Jewish people
all one nation got to be in it for for
them and show the actors and
togetherness and is what will bring the
Allah