Yishai Fleisher Show: Woodstock Meets the Bible

[Music] all right folks who are listening to the Shai Fleischer show broadcasting live from Judea Jerusalem have Ron and the land of blessings the holy land and it's reaching out to you wherever you are so Shalom and welcome to the Land of Israel Network as well our great network and we have on the show today rabbi Mike Feuer he's here for great half and Michael Fleischer for a fabulous and funny half it's all here but we're gonna start to show a little bit differently today and this is a tribute to my good friend rabbi Ari Abramowitz who is the co-founder of the Land of Israel Network and he asked me to start the show this week by doing the my take on the purchase of the Martha Michaela the negotiation for Martha masala for the tomb of the fathers and mothers in Hebron between Abraham and the Hittites and especially Ephron the Hittite and he asked me to kind of do my thing and so this is a tribute to him and then we're gonna go to Rabbi Mike foyer for the continuation of the Torah portion and then to maca Fleischer for the issues of the day and for some Muslim laughs so that's that's the makeup of the show and we're talking about a special Torah portion for for me given that I work in cover and I have the great merit the great scoot to work in have rone where the tombs of the fathers and mothers are in that all begins in this week's Torah portion and therefore we also have in the country a humongous festival I like to call it Woodstock meets the Bible and that is this giant festival called class all right Shabbat in Chevron and it's all for so that people could hear and read the Torah portion which bespeaks of that purchase right at the place where it took place originally and where the land was bought in perpetuity for the Jewish people so here we go chapter 23 of the book of Genesis at penticoff gimel hey Sarah Bereshit and the story starts out that Sarah passes away and it says that her years were 127 years there's a lot of commentary on that she lived a full life and that she was you know beautiful a lot of commentary there but that's not what I want to get today it says Fattah matzo baccata bye everyone she passed away Sarah passed away in Kiryat Arba it's Devron Barrett Coonan in the land of Canaan via volleys for the South Dakota Abraham came to eulogize Sarah in to cry for viacom I'm a playmate oh no no Abraham gets up from before his dead so we understand here that his dead may be laying before him right there there's a body there and some that's an important kind of thing to understand when you're setting up the scene there's a body there in Hebron and then there's Abraham this very important person like the bed had been a that lemo and he said to the Hittites were the children of the Hittites thusly garavato shavon opium of them I am a sojourner with you no Leah who's a Kevin I'm ahem like Bahama t-midi fan I let me have a burial plot with you and I shall bury my dead from before me you need to say look right here is my dad and help me bury this help me take care of this problem this pain that I have right now so there's an urgency in the year via a new beam they said that the Romulan moto now they answered him saying so the way that the verse lays it out is already that there's this like formal he said to them our request and then they started answering him there's something formalistic in ritualistic about this discourse right and they said to him Chum I know a donee you will listen to us sir and pay attention to sword listen this word listen is a recurring word listen to us sir Shimano Adoni Nessie Elohim at Abbott okay you are a prince of God amongst us bimmy frog give a look for with Mitaka pick the choices of the of our of burial plots to bury your dead ish me Meno at keel or Louis Klemke none of us will stop from giving them none of us will stop will will not give you our best grave make a bow America so you can bury your dead okay so so they are giving him what's called a gesture okay they're they're giving him a a Middle East gesture take none of us is gonna stop it please sir you're an important person we respect you take from our so how does Abraham respond how does a Ferrari spun the Yakima Vaughn feast at hula I'm hot it's live and they said Abraham got up and frustrated himself bow down before the Hittites the people of the land so this is an important person and he's bowing down to them also a gesture and there's also pace here there's a meter the meter isn't fast it's slow he makes a request they say listen they make their counter he bows down to them via the big time limo and he said to them thusly amia shittin of chef Emmalee bought me tea if it's in your heart to to bury my dead milf a knife from before me again the dead body is right there and there's there's something very visceral about it Shamu oniy you listen to me right they said listen to us and he says listen to me oopah coolly before bent sofa fine for me this guy named Ephron the son of Zohar and Aaron continues ve Tenley at my automobile Asha Asha because s ado because of my leg it's Nana Lee bit of them Lajos are kafir so he says find me this guy affront burn so hard and he'll give me the Cave of Machpelah what does that mean either it's a name or a double cave which is his and it's in the edge of his field for full money shall he give it to me full full cost not I don't want it for free with it will amongst you for for a burial plot now Efron was there the final chef a tough man I said and if Ron happened to be in the gate of the city by the way what I didn't mention is that is that we're talking about we're gonna we'll see in a second where people sit and congregate in the ancient world was at the gate of a city some people say it's because it's the strongest part other people say it's because they're shade there other people say it's because comings and goings but it's actually a known thing in ancient history that people would congregate at the gate and we have many such examples in the Bible so therefore no chef Petrovna said no no this f1 wasn't exciting amongst this group of people amongst the Hittites via a Florida theatre farm bills name they said the whole body sharing in a limo so so Efrain who was sitting at the gate he answers Abraham in the ears of the other Hittites meaning to say there are witnesses it's it's 8:00 now it's clear that this is a public discourse right so it's a big it's not a for it's not - it's not we said we say here in Hebrew we say battle by name and with four eyes we need to say yeah you know mano a mano right no it's not like that it's actually public and he answers Abraham at the gate of his City we need to say F Franz city Ephron the Hittite because it's a Hittite city right but we'll see what how that changes later on the whole by a shower or the most saying and this is what he said lo I don't know sir jhemini listen to me acid edna Totti la i have given you the field by maharaja bow and the cave that's within it lejana Tatia i have given it to you Leni neighbor near me in the eyes of the of the children of my nation my nation not the Thiele ha I have given it to you excuse me Nastya alas vomit AHA go ahead and bury your dead so so this is also a gesture okay now before the Hittite said we'll give you whatever you want now he says I'll give it to you for free sure take whatever you want I give it to you in front of everybody I have enriched Abraham I have given him what he wanted again the meter is slow Vaishnava homily from AI Muhammad's Abraham vows down in front of the people of the land in front of the Hittites Veda been telephone knows name I'm Hollis lemo and he speaks now to Efron in the ears of the people of the land meaning say again to public discourse and everybody's listening and he says lemo he says saying I aim at ah Lucien Amy if you indeed are for me then here Mischa mainly do you listen to me not that thick sfsr there I've already I've already separated out the money for the field cos me many just take it from me I've already set it aside meaning to say you're not putting me out ready like may the calculation it's already out of my hands I've already I've already given the money cos we many take it from me Vic Perotti Shama and I will bury my dead there okay so I like like like like like don't worry about asking me for money because I've already set it aside in my head it's part of my calculations I really just want to pay for it and let me bury my debt there Veon if flan at the violet mobile OH so if Ferran answered him answered Abraham sandy to him yon means it means two things really means they understand and to answer by the way that word is is used in in in Arabic today they say Jonnie Jonnie means meaning to say I want to say I'd like to Sarah or in other words anyway so Efron um says to Abraham thusly I don't need sir Shum I Nene listen to me and it's a bomb Oh chica kesef the land is worth four hundred silver weight beanie open , he what is it between you and me vet macaque whoa and therefore bury your dead meaning to say this sum of money now there's been different estimations of what this money is I've heard everything between $100,000 and a million dollars we're talking about a large large sum when it's definitely no deal okay it's definitely not a symbolic money we're talking about silver weight full silver weight four hundred of it he says that's about how much it's worth and he says this in a very middle-eastern fashion baby baby oh baby oh my what is it between us friends we're both strong guys both wealthy guys that's how much the lads worth what are we talking about money for four hundred silver weight you know and and and then bury your dead because that keeps him coming back like that's what it's really about right don't worry about the land the land just give me this million dollars and it's no big deal vish Marva hum and a phone Abraham heard Efron again he's he's very attentive he's very seriously taking this Efron guy very seriously if a skull of a homophone at the Casa for shell Depot and Abraham Wade out for Efron the money which he had spoken in front of all these witnesses the Hittites by mal Chekhov kesef of endless affair 400 silver weight of silver 400 weight of silver passing over to the merchants meaning to say Rashi explains that the kind of coinage that he gave him was the kind of coinage that's accepted everywhere he gave him the best most accepted coins there's just no there's no he didn't give him small change he gave him big coins it wasn't coins it was it was really weight but meaning to say like like totally accepted weight everywhere else not chips but like big hunks or what are they called nodules in such a fashion that there was never going to be any anyway to make this deal seem that it didn't happen or somehow nullify or eviscerate the deal later on down the line this is going to stick and he passed him the money so now the Torah goes into narration mode and it says Viacom's they F on a Shabbat Machpelah I surely flamed my mother the field of Ephron rose up or it became it's the place what did it become first let me tell you where it is it's it's it's by Machpelah it's the double or this place called Machpelah which is in front of mom ray which is a mountain right there called job of nimrod today has sudeva hemara the field and the cave ash elbow which is in this this this plot of land call call ha it's a show Buster then all the trees are in the field I sure hope philosophy witches are all around the property what happened to it it rose up and became lava ham to Abraham Lamech net for a purchase lumic's na Lane a benefit for the Hittites before buy a shop you know all the people that came into the gate of his City wait a minute wait a minute let's read that verse again lava ham it became for Abraham let me connect for a purchase let a neighbor and they said it's for in front of the eyes of the Hittites but hauled by a shark you know all the people that came into the gate of his City who's the his it's Abraham's see before the city belonged to the Hittites and it belonged to Ephron the Hittite but the minute that Abraham made that purchase somehow the gate of the city became his the city became his because the places in the Land of Israel like the Temple Mount like the tomb of Joseph and like the Machpelah in Chevron are the keys to holding on to these places if you hold onto the Machpelah you control their own if you hold on to the tomb of Joseph you control him if you hold on to the Temple Mount you control Jerusalem and you whoever controls these three places I think has basically the key to the Land of Israel and that's why our forefathers purchased these places but the Torah very very very subtly signals to you very subtly it's just you got to pick up on these things which is like look the whole city shifted control with the control of the city was shifted from the Hittites to Abraham with this one purchase and the Torah says now it's shoddy no it's the gate of his City it's the city of Abraham and then it says vastly then kavaja vomits on afterwards Abraham buried Sarah his wife he stole it my god stammered a lot into the cave of that is in the field of Machpelah I'll put him away which is on the face of memory he's everyone it is heparin but edits Kanaan in the land of Canaan the Taurus is over and over and over again just making sure that you got your GPS your Google Maps open it's heparin in the land of Cain and it's also cure at Arba it's next to chapel nem'ro it's it tells you all these things just to make sure no doubt no doubts going to be there and that's gonna be the way the way people know it for 2,000 years until Herod 2,000 years later way 2,000 years yeah 2,000 years later one second let me make the math again yeah I guess eighteen hundred years later after this event took place did King Herod built the building that is still there today and for us it's 2,000 years old and it came 2,000 years after the 1800 years to the burial so that building that sir today is about a midway point in history I like to point out and now we now instead of that GPS of the Bible we know it because there's this massive building there but the before there was a giant building there the Torah keeps on saying this is where it is you got to know where it is it's a real place in the Land of Israel it's a real purchase notice by the way that the name of God was not present in this story why because it wasn't about God's promises it wasn't about God's gifts it was about business this was Abraham fulfilling something which was really the promise that God had made to him earlier that you will inherit this land and through the death of Sarah did did Abraham inherit this land to purchase this land and I want to say this is one of the reasons that I don't like the term cave of the patriarchs since it is Zahra who was buried there first in many ways it's the Cave of the patriarchs in any case what I always say is to the patriarchs and matriarchs or the the tomb of the forefathers and mothers final verse here is viacom asudevan massive oh the field and the cave that is within it rose up or became laughs aha for Abraham lamb was not given for an eternal a burial plot man that had from the Hittites and so - so this is the beginning of of ownership of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel the burial of Sarah and we continue now with the great effort to find somebody to - suitable to fill the next level of Awesome matriarch and that's going to be the incredible character of Rivka of Rebekah so now I end this part this is this was a dedicated to re Abramowitz on the Land of Israel Network and now we begin with Rabbi Mike Feuer so here we go thanks a lot Shalom everybody and welcome to the East I Fleischer show broadcasting live from Jerusalem to the world you're a part of it wherever you are Shalom and welcome back to the land of Israel in the meantime while I was from last show to this show I've been to both Palm Beach which is really an island and then drove across from Palm Beach to Sarasota saw my wife's grandfather and from there to Tampa drove up the Tampa flew out of Tampa into Miami Airport and back to Israel and Here I am rabbi Mike Feuer you join us Shalom rabbi might got quite a tan their each other yeah well I didn't I didn't really get a chance to sit so much in the Sun but I was in the beautiful breakers hotel which I I can hear that some people in the audience that are listening are like yeah and other people like what's that what's a really fancy hotel it's a really really nice like Jews in there I think that that Palm Beach used to not let you so much a new yeah but but like like like other places you know that they didn't let the Jews and they kept them really nice until the Jews had enough money to go into money talks right and there's a place like that also in that in San Diego I forgot the name of the place La Jolla oh yeah something like that no anyway whatever there's a place in San Diego that's like that also yeah I think it's La Jolla in any case so Palm Beach was really nice and then I drove across Florida now Florida to me is I characterize it as a tongue it's like that's it's it's long it's mushy yes enough said and it is a wild place man I'm sure how many days weeks I've spent floating rivers in Florida really mama I'm 21 day trip on the Tim River and fly I've been on the Suwannee as in way down upon the it's the kind of place that I think to myself if I ever get to like lie down here I've done backpacking trips in Florida isn't it isn't it a little dangerous don't crazy critters live and there's all kinda wacky stuff out there for sure yeah I've been stung by a scorpion in Florida it was inside my glove oh that hurt I feel like I feel like if you would like like be like I'll just take a nap here like something will come and just may not end oh yeah yes I know that I this is this is a dark form this is a dark humor but I always it's look at your face right now value we got a kid camera and when you say these things you know you know that whenever planes crash in you know swamps if it's a call the whole swamp area Everglades the Everglades like there's no wonder man again there's no remains no there's metal pieces yeah not any low flesh yeah no flesh no no no oh my god Florida is a nutty place like that yeah and it's like it's only just civilized it like it's only just like on it like you feel I feel like if like people left for 50 years I'm telling you man you get a week out on what some of these rivers and and you have left everything but right and then you come across these houses with a confederate flag hanging from the porch just like out there and you're like begin I've had some pretty crazy Florida smells like Florida is a wild place it really is a wild place but it's also a very beautiful place truthfully and there's also beautiful birds beautiful wildlife Bantu hotels fancy hotels really nice hotels on the beach and when I say on the beach I don't mean across the street from the beach I mean on the sea you can get there now before the sea eats it well yeah sorry the theme I just keep bringing it up so people can think about yeah yeah we'll see where did I see a room yeah we hold the high ground people there was some kind of weather pattern that they said was like some kind of crazy weather pattern but they're like we haven't seen anything like this in 50 years I'm like so 50 years ago you had the same weather pattern yeah anyway anyway the bottom line is that so so in the mean time between these between our shows I had this this traveling I went to the Miami Airport by the way is like a city it's like a giant's I've never been there I haven't been there a long time because I usually fly into the little airports but anyway it's quite quite a thing kosher food was at a premium on this trip it wasn't the easiest thing to get kosher food but I did I did get kosher food and it was it was catered at the hotel and I was speaking at the David Horowitz Freedom Center restoration weekend and I saw some of some of my friends for example Richard Kemp who is a great former general British he was almost general it was lieutenant Cooper and he's you know a British whatever like general and other people that were just just fabulous to see all kinds of conservative folks in there I was talking of course about Israel and about our challenges and I talked about the two wars two attacks that we faced last week which was the rocket attack and then also the European marking of goods the decision to mark Israeli goods coming out of Judea and Samaria as occupation coming not coming out of Israel but out of occupied Palestine whatever it is so I was talking about those two wars and how they dovetail oh yeah little did I know that this week was going to be this announcement that came out of Secretary Pompeo of the United States which basically said that they're repealing the 1979 hansel memorandum which states that a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria in the West Bank is illegal under international law and that was repealed okay that was repealed and I think very sensibly and it was also euphoric 4/5 folks who've been fighting for a long time both for the rights of Jews in Judea Samaria and also against the narrative war which uses the occupation accusation as a bludgeon to smash us over the head you are on a panel yesterday here at party since the - yes about these issues yourself yeah well you know here apprentice we tend to take a more personal line so they the question - for faculty members was what's your relationship to the green line that's a question that was a question what was the general was meant to just lost it out there in order to let me talk my first answer was that it's completely insignificant and I then tried to demonstrate how like you know whatever you're sort of like political or cultural opinions are to give and overdue significance to the line that was drawn on a map when we managed to hold off the United Arab armies from destroying our national home is a little bit ludicrous right it's not like the mason-dixon line you know anyway it was a it was a I think a successful discussion that's very interesting and the way you said that actually just triggered a thought in my head which is that we are also living in a generation you and I remember the Berlin Wall falling oh yeah I remember that sure I was in a lot what was i 13 I something like that it was it was 1989 yes 13 exactly what really that was nice cool old are you I'm 43 oh you're younger so so I was exactly 13 that's funny I remember that and so I wasn't a lot and you know there was that scorpion song you know listening to the wind have changed that was that was the song that was the anthem of of the Berlin Wall falling I think I was listening to reggae okay no reggae that's what my kids call the guy with the funny pants because because in Israel you can Bob Marley Bob Marley panting exactly funny pants guy here listen guys okay anyway so wait wait wait oh so here's before we get the funny pants here's what I was trying to say is that what happened yesterday with the with the announcement of the Secretary of State to withdraw the hansel memorandum is akin in my mind since of what you said that a certain wall has fallen yeah right a certain wall my parents also were behind the wall my parents were behind the wall of the Soviet Union the Jews and and and other factors undermined that whole wall it fell down this is part of a larger reconstruction collapse call what you will of the post-world War two world mm-hmm right and we as Jews it would behoove us to sort of feel that as a sense of freedom instead of one of fear there's a lot of people are very nervous like what's happening all around us and States are failing and alliances are shifting walls are collapsing the same time we should see it as an opportunity to set ourselves really free of a lot of the illusions that have held us back mm-hmm that's certainly fall I was ecstatic and I was tweeting my face off and I was also I had the time because it was exactly in two airports you know and all that you know middle time where you're neither here nor there or another literally yeah you like you barely even totally human because you actually have to compress yourself to get into an airplane in so many ways oh yeah now you you you become a compressed and it actually takes time to decompress when you come home yeah so but any case that's great tweeting time and I've just firing away and you know what I've been doing also I've I really on Twitter I have not really been addressing all the critiques of the you know hard left and all that are the Arabs I've been more like just touting the positive because I think something great really happened and very very important for us and one of the ways that you could tell is that the other side is really upset about it and that happens to on our good friend said Hornstein holes who listens to this show said something to me which I think was very strong and he he mentioned to me that isn't it interesting that this dovetails with this week's Torah portion which is Kyocera which is the first purchase of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel and the basically the establishment of legal rights of human legal rights in the Land of Israel in Judea and so it dovetails very beautifully that yeah they came together on this on this week's Torah portion and and I think it happened what days it did when did that happen yesterday I'm already so confused because of the flights I guess it happened the day before yesterday Monday I think was yesterday wasn't yesterday in any case the bottom line it really fit well with with the Torah portion and and we do have to talk about it for for us in the work in Hebron this is of course the big Torah portion I think this is the the Torah portion of heparin and and the purchase of the the cave the of the the tomb of the patriarchs and matriarchs and it's also a Torah portion of love I really think that this this is what the real two themes of this week's Torah portion and I have already read before I started recording with you I've spoken out the whole purchase and the negotiation the the Middle East style negotiation that is the negotiation between Avraham and the Hittites were never on the hit Hittite but I wanted to talk with you about first thing let's start with the issue of Sara passing away okay Sara is passing away and comes abraham to lea spotless Sorel difficult at two to eulogize Sarah in to cry for is this common thing 3,800 years ago to have the kind of relationship with a woman because it's interesting because I can't Rast it with like the bit of conversation we had last week about lots of daughters and smoke about how could he do such a thing as offer his daughters basically as prey to to the people of stem and one of the surgeons I made is well this is this the Torres was given to a society which was patriarchal in which you know women certainly children were seen as property so here this is the exact inverse where and let's not forget the context here is it's very dramatic the way the Midrash presents it and by the way it's clear that Avram wasn't with star when she died because it came right to sort of to eulogize and mourn also you know the major says that widest our die particularly now because she heard that you talk was almost sacrificed right that the word of what had gone down there on Mount Moriah had gotten to her okay so here here's a little story from from the airplane I was putting my luggage down in the to get my ticket at the Tampa Airport an international nice Airport and I put my stuff down and it weighed 53 pounds and the lady says to me well it's a little bit overweight and I'm like I could take something else she's like I'll be good sugar and I'm like okay so I reached into my bag and I saw all kinds of stuff and I saw that I had a that I took my natty vote Shalom and another book in a little bag I took it out I closed the bag in it was exactly 50 pounds so it gave me a sense that Hashem wanted me to learn this book on the plane so I learned it and and one of the things that I learned was exactly about what you just said he says that one of the ways that the the sat on that the dark energy in this world works against this sometimes it blocks us that's in front of you mm-hmm Oren sometimes it comes behind you to see riseth on me laughs on a no Macarena get rid of the satan in front of us and behind us behind us is when he makes you doubt an accomplishment that you've had and he said the way that that he wanted to make a variety comment is the death of Sarah the accomplishment of the akkada but therefore therefore ah she comes and says that she that the reason there's a small huff and leaf cotton is in order to say to you that she died because she was old and it was fulfilled and the 127 years were full and and and you shouldn't have any doubts that that that everything came in its right time the fact is is that I mean I hear it nevertheless the me dress does say that what killed her was the sort of rumor of of the McCadden and right now it or another way of saying is that since she heard that he survived the Akina then she knew that her tough kid hurt her role was done okay but that's not with him it just puts a I mean stop with apologetics there's different perspectives on this what I'm saying is that is that it's that there's something very important in understanding this is a whole new relationship with God came into the world they're on Mont Moria and and the old world past from that it was broken by it all Romani talk don't really have a relationship going forward from here Sahra is gone now rom carries through by making sure that he finds a wife free it's hot but at this point there's there's a handoff that happened right begin and sometimes the the v-power of bringing something new into the world depends on the breaking of the old mm-hm it's not a pretty or gentle reality but I think that's one of the messages diminished its bespeaks where we're speaking about for this like walls break things come down you want something new in the world that means that oftentimes what was old is going to go and that doesn't mean it wasn't important or precious or but you listen militia Rubino isn't gonna lead on mr. Allen to in tears tell you how she was gonna do it right because Moshe belonged to a previous world yeah so that's a time pointing out here they go with this'll to to what war discussion uh what the flood yeah it's like something sometimes things have to get kind of but I mean I would say in a sort of a psycho emotional level something that I work a lot with people on is the importance of mourning I mean the the reality of what might have been has to be mourned if you're going to move into what could be it's a big mistake people want to make it like well that's over or or I won't get that job or they you know that girl or whatever it was so I'm moving on it's important to move on but but you have to actually mourn you have to own the loss either of what you had or what might have been in order to do it in a healthy fashion don't skip that step right and I think that that's why our partial begins there it's not a partial morning that said it's the partial of establishing our legal human right to air it sister Elsa parsha of marriage and love and you but but it begins with a recognition that in order for those things those growth --fill life-giving things to come into the world you have to mourn the loss mm-hmm my Christian friends by the way always say to me that the one of the main things that they're a little bit jealous of and Judaism is our rights of mourning that they mean appreciate our itës right like our madness is the practices of mourning this yeah because it really is very it really does give a powerful vessel for channeling what is a very difficult experience at best right no question okay but before we get to mourning and a great segue for that is put your hand under my thigh oh there's an amazing there's an amazing yeah a little little too much information I wasn't in my agent that was a quote from the Bible just won't be clear everybody's listening I think I'm gonna call this show put your hand under my thigh that's what I thought if you have a picture of me going whoa next well you did call last year poking the jihad' bear that was good that was good that was good I actually really love this put your hand under my thigh business and and I'll tell you why because because there is now a Rashi and there's explanation that it means hold on to his his brief Mila it's you're a covenant but I'm gonna take it actually personally I think it's actually very sensible to take it at face value would and the simple reading which is better than my thigh and I've actually shown this to my kids and I thought I talk about this every year I say to my kid put your hand under my thigh I'm sitting on his chin I put your hand under my thigh what you have to do is you have to get down below the person you put your hand on to thank the thighs warm the thigh and you know this also from first aid if the thigh is is has a puncture or something like that you could lose all your blood oh yeah the thigh is is is a is a flesh Lee part of your person and you put your hand under and it's your whole weight your whole personage bears down on that person and he says now I'm gonna give you I'm passing over to you something it's not just in word I'm giving you my heat my personal person and now swear to me right swear to me exactly you're swearing to the whole me right now well it's reminiscent of a lot of the rituals of feudalism where where the oath was was a binding oath that always involves some physical act of binding through the hand or elsewhere and you know it's an interesting point you're making right and and now what's gonna happen is I've got an issue there's there's you know a biblical kind of language like issue forth from the loins like I I need you to be my emissary to find a bride who's gonna who's gonna fulfill the the take the place of Sarah on that level and you got to find a special bride and bring her back to to Yitzhak and and that's that's where that thigh comes in it's like Abraham's really he's really he's all about continuity yeah and he's looking you in the eye and he's saying like give me that help me with that continuity part of my body here and maybe why of course he's never given a name it's only evidence right so this is a servant of our right we only know that it's Eliezer but but that's not the text that's right the text called him the servant interestingly enough he also box and reminds me of Moses and he says what if the girl won't go with me just like Moses said what if the people won't go with me should I bring your son over there and and have him rest the like moved to and live in it by the way just can I ask you a question parenthetically I always thought it was a Quran but then I read that it was around the Haram and I thought that that his family was living in Quran crime is the the upper end of Mesopotamia not the lower end we come from that's mine that's work as Dean where cuz deem is like where the figures and the fruit is spread out okay okay and modern-day Syria where their headwaters are much closer together that's my understanding we're amnon is cuz that's the part that dubby conquered right okay okay okay just checking okay so so so anyway the he sends him he sends this servant to to go and fetch this lass but there's a very important piece I want to pull out of their conversation there which is that Avram says and when Eliezer is his servant kind of box a little bit and does what if she won't come back right I was just two things says God will send his angel yes he says and if it doesn't work out then you're you're clean from your oath right which is very interesting is that you see it's it's deep in a braham's relationship to God is that he's this is not a mechanistic relationship Alvin says listen I know this is what God wants I'm doing what God wants but the truth is it doesn't always work right so so therefore we're gonna do it we can and I will set my parameters for you and as long as you do what you're supposed to do if it doesn't work listen that's it you're clean it's a very important message to think for religious personalities who who have a tendency to think that like everything is laid out in front of them I'm just doing God's will Constable's that you do know you do what's right can't just do everyone but but don't mistake the obedience as the as the only expression of of religiosity Aram is the representative of the person who has a vision and is pursuing it well I usually don't always expect to beat it don't don't they to beat us but also the other way which is don't think God is obedient to you right right don't think like oh I got all figured out he's gonna do it like the way you want it to be done you know it's it you do the best you can right and you work with what you get very good very good okay so that's that's a great point and [Music] and he sends out the the this mess at this the servant and he warns him don't but don't bring my son there and we know that it's luck never left the Land of Israel he was kind of holy he was a holy vessel a holy exactly offering complete 3mo right and he was not gonna he's not supposed to leave the Land of Israel the servant takes these ten camels I have neighbors like that that have ten camels know that I may have neighbors have ten camels do you know what I got a lot I know people that never left the Land of Israel and you know what I respect that I respect that and I really do at the same time I do think that we're living in a different time slightly yeah but no but I think no I think I think that I think that today first on the Holika level one of the reasons you're not supposed to leave the Land of Israel is because of the danger of the of the of the roads today that's different but also I just I just have a feeling that we're coming into a time where the Land of Israel is coming into itself and to what it's supposed to be and so therefore going out to the world from the Land of Israel Treach and seeing the neaten the sparks of the Land of Israel in other places of course not to live there everything all so little time listen we're speaking to people who aren't in the land right now right you know better than anyone the power of broadcasting I don't know for me I feel very grounded here as we've had this discussion before I mean obviously I've left many times and because of family or other obligations likely we'll leave again but when I leave I'll leave something behind yeah and in in many ways it's the better part of myself at this point and so I strive not to have recently a couple people reached out to me asked if I would travel come do when I said no wow that's interesting that is an interesting thing what I was saying was really just I'm touching the tip of the iceberg unjust this thought that Israel has gone global right now yeah I agree with you and that globalism is is a godly intervention in this world it's important to remember that there's only one archetype right of a way of being right Avram came from coastal arts traveled Yaakov is you know so meaning if a person needs to know who they are they might have that side of you talk within them but night and and and it is a beautiful thing and there's also those American families who don't teach their kids English yeah I've known a few of them yeah yeah doesn't play out well with grandparents no no yeah no so further professional development but that's different all right so now so now there's there's this famous line here and the famous line is that the servant gets to the well and he turns to God and he says he says Hashem the god of my of my my master Abraham please make yourself known before me today do kindness with my master with Abraham let me read this because I also think it's a kind of prayer that one can pray but via mom he said Hashem okay a donee of a ham Shem the the God of my master Abraham he covered it okay hakuna laFonda hi um please reveal yourself before me today it's a fantastic word April talking vasa I said a maddening Avraham and do kindness with my master Abraham right this word to me is one of the most important words in this whole story maybe even embrace it as a whole because it shares a route with McCrea which means what happens to happenstance now this is what eliazar saying saying look the whole world is in God's hands you can relate to everything that happens - as a coincidence or you can relate to it as an invitation right and he wants God to manifest in his own experience it's or he goes on and he asks for a particular sign yes the girl that I'm gonna bump into and I'm gonna say please water can I have some kind of drink she say here go I'll water your camels - and then I'll know that'll be the one the girl and the rabbi's are like well it's not this wasn't exactly a proper request right it sounds a little bit like magic it sounds like work for me God also divination me I'm like like is specifically label on one of the forbidden tour level prohibitions of saying like Oh a black can't cross my path then I can't go down that way or oh you know like meaning the the interpretation of circumstance ready and yet and yet no matter how the sages interpreted as an improper they say question yeah right questionable yeah but but that God did respond to the Torah will list it this these statements twice oh yeah it's twice and it's like at the story I told at the beginning of the show about the book you know exactly you know gave me a little wink a sign and but that's what I meant by invitation meaning in the end of the day what did you do on the plane you learned into the shallow right look Dora like right Chris got one you know God wants you to do that and here is an invitation you shy you could have pulled anything out of that bag you could have pulled this out of the bag and you said oh that's nice that that only weighed three pounds right and shove it in your carry-on and not take it out you said oh I'm being called to attention here right right and and and that's kind of what with the eleazar's asking God dudes like please see me see I'm on a mission from notice he's not asking for himself exactly for the on the behalf of Avril that's right that's right okay so indeed he's going to be shocked that the very words that he asked for the very quest that he made gets fulfilled before he's even finished speaking he's finished speaking right and it's exactly what he said and in the Torah writes that he's a little shocked the little a little kind of struck dumbstruck it's a little bit more it's a little it's like the old joke you know but the old joke in the year there's a guy driving around in New York City says can I give me a parking spot God give me a parking spot please God I need a parking spot in your practice but and and in the building that he's supposed to park next to just as he's going around for the 11th time so he pulls out a right in front and he's like no thanks God I found one myself oh okay no but it's like this it's like it's like the servant here is just like is it is it that easy is it really that real and then we get introduced to one of my favorite characters in the whole Bible really in the whole Tana is rifka I am absolutely one of her biggest fans really I'm on the rifka fan club okay and you get to see her on the almost daily basis well not quite right right the the limited-access that's right she's in the walk of controlled side of the tomb of the patriarchs and matriarchs mystery I'm a big fan of Rivka I'm a big big Rivka fan and the thing about why I'm such a big fan about rifki is that you have never met somebody who's every single time you meet her every single phrase and every single moment that you've ever met her is the most decisive person in the whole Bible yes every phrase about her is decisive as in the first one that we meet here she comes she's coming out and she's very beautiful and then she's never been with a man and all that and he comes to her knee and says can I have some water she says drink my master and she hurries puts down her jar she gives him a drink gives him to drink and then that she says but oh my God look at my desk I shop I'm gonna now draw water for your for your for your camels until they're done drinking so just a lot of work it's a lot of work and she's ostensibly a little girl here but she is very very very very decisive and then when they ask her you want to go with this guy oh right we're gonna keep you exactly finally they get they sit down at he comes into the house the servant yet another classic Middle Eastern oh man right absolutely absolutely total Middle East sitting there eating the they are from the offering pieces I can't eat right I won't he won't eat until I have to say what I don't find one of the most powerful lines in that that whole moment is when he they just simply says I am the servant of all right let's let's look at it inside and this is this is love now we're also introduced to LaVon the kind of trickster of the Bible the Hux is that Alright huckster or hucksterism there's not what you're looking for no trickster okay yeah so he we mean him also but let's let's pass that anyway they bring him into the house via voice a bita the the servant the man came into the house via Fatah hug Malia me Park the camels right v10 Tevin oh me SPO they give like my lame they get what to eat what to eat to the camels whom I am Leah courts were glad they clean his feet vertically and chim machine mushy Rita he's with an entourage and they clean off their feet that's the way they used to do it but you sound the phone over the hall they put we have the beast right there they had the volume via mail he says local I shall not eat I'd in devotee device I'm not gonna speak until I until I'm not gonna eat until I speak my speakings but you say speak speak the better it's real and even like the look at the trope by your mouth it's a net neck flap at the beginning of the puzzle glioma right pause avid Abraham I know that's the next verse right right I am the servant of a brown I'm the servant that's what I am that's right right III and and that's that says a lot that says a lot I'm here I'm an I'm an emissary of this great man I mean it's also very powerful image because like he pointed out here he is leading an entourage 10 camels other people in any saying I'm the servant of Abraham right the image creates of Abraham in that moment it's you this guy's servant just showed up with an entourage right and he's got all this stuff he's giving away gold and right you know right there's a master right the first thing that he does is he gives RIF K gives her jewels jewels nose ring nose ring and bracelets but the real point there to me is his notice because next thing he says I'm the servant novelty's you say next bhishambar Anthony and God has blessed my master meaning sovereign well he says Avram is my master Avram says God so by the way Eleazar of the evidents himself he's truly elevating as God and that's part of this whole power of this story here is that it's all about elevating God it's often missed because it looks like this interaction between people right but but the lower the servant placed himself he's bowing he's in and at the end of this all he you know like once he ears not the end of it all but once it's interaction with Rivka when he hears me says wait what family are from and Rivka's so on you know you know yeah he ballast to the ground right right just to show you the context this is for the glory of God it's big stuff and it's really we learned from here what it is to be an emissary what it means what it means to be an emissary of the founders in any case he goes in and recounts the whole story and with with slight slight variations which the rabbi's doing all kinds of stuff but in general he basically retells the whole story one of the questions of the tour is why is there a retelling of the story and maybe from there we learn a lesson which is when you have America happened to you when you have when you have something to share with the world tell the story the story the story melts away people's had he said well Abraham sent me and I'm looking for a wife well people are like well I don't know really worthwhile let's talk ago she ate right this way he tells them a story and this is what we were talking right before the show and you said I'm a storyteller you rabbi Mike said that so I'm saying like look what Eliezer or the servant does here is storytelling he had a story happened to him but one of the things that we learn is he told the story know what's the reaction in the end if you look in looking now in chapter 24 line 50 Leon LaVon rule to hell right LaVon intro after hearing this whole story answer him the Amuro man chef Todd about this comes from God alone who called the barrel afar out of we can't say anything good or bad men are good bad or good right meaning we would have right we would have totally gone in there and gotten the most out of this we could have and maybe we did kick you right out the door cuz you look a little sketchy but now that you've pulled us into this tale like well what are we supposed to do we're just we're just characters to me this teachers a submits one the Mitzvah is to tell the story oh it's supposed to tell a story but missus to tell it to tell the story of Romney Sorrell in any case they say to him as you just said like well it's from God here-take rifka caca Villa take her and go away we had the same phrase bye-bye I think Paro with with the sorrowful to take her and go and may she become a wife to you're the son of your servant as God has spoken and again like you pointed out now that he heard this he boughs down he takes out all kinds of gifts gives everybody else not to God get a pals down to God but in this context bowing to them would have been totally reasonable as well but it's very important he pass to God in this that's interesting because by in the very same Torah portion Avram is going to bow down to the people yes right there's a lot of power you might say it's like you see it is a social custom we we today as Jews have bowing issues you know for good reasons but here I think that's why it's so powerful is that he's an avid for him to bow to the human master is built-in to he is the only person he bounced doing this whole stories to God at each stage okay but but they but they are tricksters so even though everything is great and and we've we've already noticed that before they set down the food he's like I don't want anything to delay me I want to speak what I got I came here on a mission now and my mission is not to eat and to ensure myself here's my mission okay so so afterwards when it's time to go they said that her her brother and her mother said maybe the girl should sit with us a few days or or or ten months it depends what the word I saw it in this case means maybe a day or 10 days or maybe 10 months and then she'll go like don't rush this I mean come on we're safe just like a cage yeah well your think about are you're taking you're taking our daughter our sister and he says don't delay me Hashem is going to succeed my way it's Leo also means make it go quickly right send me and I'll go to my master and then they say well let's call the girl and ask her right figuring that she's so eager to go right running off somewhere she's never been with some guy she's never met you know right she's on their side so they call riff kavika Latifah come over there they called her and they set her hat till he my house they are gonna go with this man but yet exactly like with this weirdo in the stranger nowhere vote oh man LF that's her line she says she says I'll go yep that's it one word man she's out Erica one word she's out of their whole life it's not yes and this nano hug and buy things it might not have actually been so cozy for her there since she was out drawing water for the camels but yeah it could be but whatever it is he's much better off with the rich guys she is out of there okay so they send her listen listen to this the tour is so funny here because it says they sent her and say she also took with her the famous nursemaid and they sent out her and the the nursemaid and the servant of Abraham and his people and they but now the get back to this in a second but the next verse says and they bless Rifkin they said to her is a good one our sister a Hotei no Atia of theta OVA be thousands and tens of thousands of thousands myriads right be myriads very lush deserve a shower or Sun Ave and may your seed inherit the gate of its enemies which is a direct echo of the blessing that God gave to Abram at the end of the akkada right but it's the there is a difference the difference over there it says it's shout or evolve right I think I mentioned this a few years ago to you that if you think about it who is the seed of Abraham it's it's clock but the other competitor for that is Ishmael okay and and here it's who's the seed of rifki well she's got two kids Yaakov Yaakov and ASA ASA now we know that a sub I will hop into a case of right so so he's saying your real seed should defeat his hater ASA and bye-bye Abraham it was like it's clock should be able to defeat Ishmael okay so and you understand that there's a difference between I oh yeah in a sauna sure a son has a deep hater but oh yeah there's an enemy which is not necessarily the deepest ate it justice once you resolve what the competition is you might actually be able to feasibly right okay very good now oh he so so I said before they sent her out but then it says the verse says verse 61 we're in Genesis 24 61 face our huh it says attack him recover narrative atiek of not like him rifka and hurt and her handmaidens mm-hmm got up and rode on the camels that's the first part of the verse like these girls they jumped up they jumped up in the camera going to roll right yeah and then it says Vitelli maceration they walked after the man and then it says because I ever did recover you look and he and the servant took her I'm going her okay we're going now oh my gosh I tell you I tell you Rivka she's the most amazing person she's just so gutsy so got to end the tour at like hints you all the time and that she is just you know knows exactly where she's going anyway the next thing we learn is that it's clock is meditating in the field let's talk about their rabbis tell us this is the afternoon prayer what is this a day could it be this a day of Ephron the so there Martha Michaela could it be there or it could be some other field but the point is he could be the Temple Mount could be a temper mount and he's praying on the field he is praying on the field before it says before evening and he lifts up his eyes and he sees camels are approaching by the way camels are big players in this whole Torah portion yes they keep on the the camels are a thing and guess who else raised her eyes it's Rivka she raises her eyes and she saw it stuck and then very famously and maybe very beautifully the T pole meow I come out she falls from atop the gamma which is a big drop it's a bit I if anybody's been on a camera you do not want to fall off a camel and and so so maybe maybe ostensibly this means that she's shocked by his by his countenance countenance right she's awed by it's like whoa that guy that is something but I I have a different shot if I may the t pole is also from the LaShawn to feel out we know that there's a mad rush that they prayed at opposite side of the rooms and it says right beforehand that he was in the field praying right so the tip amalga mouth she saw him and she started praying you know have you ever seen those I'm using the term harmonic residence residence do you know do you know joining for cleaning for you know you know that like you play a piano you hit the note on the piano and you have the it starts to vibrate that's what I think it's like in riff beautiful she she just sees him praying and it's like she's she's right on key with him she's right on key with him she just sees him they say and look at her bass there he raised his eyes he sees her she sees it and they're like already and there's something amazingly locked into one another from this distance and she says - she says to the servant who is this person the very weird word is hala Zee and I think I heard that the garage I don't know how he gets rid of the - haze on either side of that but the llama Zion in the middle is 37 that's how old it's like was at the akkada anyway I don't remember exactly what the tour is if somebody remembers please write to me anyway she he says she says who is that man who was that masked man he's like that's that's that's the dude and she covers her face - to be modest modest then we have then they basically the servant meet see it's like he tells them the whole story again again it wasn't gonna be that spirit austenite but but it does say that he told the note that he does tell the story for sure it's very good if you said because he what he's doing he's binding all the pieces together through the story everybody's in one story that's great stuff that's great stuff and look at the word it doesn't say Vaio Muhammad nobody's ever said he told him the tale he told him the tailor what happened last you think that this is disconnected right beautiful and so then one of the probably probably in one verse the other than stuff in the song of songs this is probably the most romantic verse in the whole Torah it's my guess it says in verse 67 via via via oh hello Sarah emo he brings her Isaac brings her into the tent of Sarah his mother of a calf a true car he took Rivka but to heal Elisha and she became - my wife via Xavier and he loved her Venus a meets Becca harima and he was consoled after his mother or the loss of his mother that that is just there's so much in that verse nowhere that were to begin with it I give us one thing I think that for me the word him always a very powerful key in opening up the inner experience of of whoever it's referring to because so the word we spoke about it before I mean it's used to mean comfort like he was consoled but it also is used to mean regret right that's its first appearance actually and and the reason that you could use the same word to mean the two is because it actually means to change your perspective on something which has already happened is that it's caucus feelings tremendous loss of of the woman in his life of Sarah's mother I mean he doesn't know what to do he doesn't know how to again to put that into one story of his life when he meets Rivka he realizes wow that that this is who I've been waiting for me and the very love that he had for Sarah prepared him to be able to love Rifkin in a way that would be healthy and real right and it's not that sorry had to die in order for him to be the lover if that's know what I'm saying she's the reality is that Sarah was gone and he felt this tremendous ability to do love and didn't know where to put it in now he realized oh right you know like God hasn't left me bereft and this whole Torah portion is is about this mm-hmm and you know maybe he felt a little bit of guilt maybe he also didn't see his mother passing away didn't get to say goodbye no ya know there's a lot of issues like that the Torah that to me the whole and I'm gonna add one more layer to this in a second but the whole story of hi Sarah and this Martha Michaela the whole story of this purchase of this place to bury the family and it's in couples and then really it's the place you know and and it's we're burying Sarah here comes rifka and and and there's love there and there's continuity it's it's actually it's also a place of family reconciliation we know that Ishmael uh I was just I was gonna get that exactly I was exactly gonna get to that point which is and I'd do this on the tour and I know that I didn't have a chance to tour the folks of parties recently in temple stairs I was and I was sad about that but one of the things that I'm always stressing is this is actually a place of as you said reconciliation in love not just the love of the founding couples but also here's verse it the towards the end of the store ssin chapter 25 verse eight it's as vague via Matta fama I've run past away they say vltava in a good age the canvas severe he was old and satiated yeah and that's very that's very daodejing you got it yeah one of my favorite verses in the whole data chain which is something really guides me and I tell you that daodejing is the only it's like it's with my favorite book outside of the Torah books it's very very wise in my opinion and and it it just has this one verse which is like a person should die like a like a farmer coming home after a hard day's work satisfied and goes to sleep but it says it in like one tenth of the words I just said it right but it's like it's like it's a beautiful image yeah it is he just like you should be you should have worked hard and you just go to sleep being like that was a good long day good they're gonna beer first you can get ones I sorry sorry okay sorry that I know everything about Japan from from Karate Kid sorry about that even though that was that was China yeah okay so you go there that's so then okay so then he passes away fine here's the next great first which we were just about to get to a fake bill Oh Tony Sacco Ishmael Panov and they--but now now the Torah lays out a few times in different ways that Ishmael is not on the level of youths fact that he's the son of the concubine and it like really makes it darn clear kicks him out right it's an amaz Oh kicks him out but also little things if you noticed if you notice in this week's Torah portion where is he it's [ __ ] hanging out he's hanging out in bear look Jairo II yeah which is where you schmell went it's obvious that he's not totally issue is not out out out out you know he's separated especially now that Sarah's gone right right in any case what what happens that yes [ __ ] Ishmael his sons the tour will say Barry's they bury together Abraham to the Martha Machpelah to the field of Ephron which is where which is on the face of mumm-ra which is today's called Chapel nem'ro was the mountain of Nimrod and that is the field which Abraham bought from the Hittites and there was Barry ku bar were buried Abraham and Sara Ishtar Avram in his wife Sarah so and then he continues by the way it's clock continues to live in Bariloche ioe obviously with Ishmael in in in summer we have some family unit here okay so so so that that's what that's how that part of the Torah portion and then there's one more part which is the life of Ishmael and his family twelve being the kind of princesses that issue forth from him princess princess princess okay right and-and-and cryptically at the very end that says open I qualify in the file he fell upon it it'sit's a cryptic phrase but it is also a negative phrase no doubt about it it's it's saying something to you about Ishmael and how he ended and he ends in a fall of sorts that's how the Torah and is that it's it's a it's a cryptic statement and in Rashi adds that after after Abraham the influence of Abraham was gone he fell off the path he was not in good shape he needed that that guiding hand and he was not the continuation of of the Abrahamic tradition without Abraham's presence but in any case an amazing Torah portion I think really really filled with love and if you take the the and I learned something from a rabbi clacks Glasgow Glasgow he was a very very powerful rabbi and I heard him give a speech to Russian Jews and has he gave this whole schmooze that he said like what's the holiest land in the world Land of Israel it's the holy city Jerusalem what's the holiest place the temple what's the holy place within the temple the Holy of Holies he's like now take a needle put it right through the middle of the Holy of Holies what do you find the two cherubs that are facing one another he's like the center of the Jewish world is love it was good it was good and and and here at this at the ethic at the count counter not counter like the other pole polarity of Jerusalem Hebron again the heart of it all really is this relationship in love it's the base because from here on out this story is going to so go in many directions write it in and we're gonna see that the today we live in a world of narrative warfare it really began with the Christians and their claim to be us back you know at their origins etc but but to go back to your theme about this the story here is that love is a binding force and and here it's being put forward as at the binding force to assert that there's only one story in many ways that's the task of ami Israel especially today to just teach you if there's only one straight didn't the unique this is the Jews we don't need homogeneous story don't need everyone to to be like Austria you want to tell our story no no where the richness of the story is in the diversity of its voices in its characters but don't go too far with that because I understand there's actually only one story happening here and it's and it's the love for both the teller of that story and for the sort of characters that walk within if it binds them all together right and we have a mitzvah folks we have a mitzvah to tell that story I think we're fulfilling that story here on the show today and I think I think that the Mitzvah of listening to this show today is to be able to tell that story on words and share it with other people share share share the story Alyssa pare tell that tell that story alright you are listening to the Isha Fleischer show and we are going to also be telling that story this Shabbat with the ingathering of 40,000 people our favor of a votes a favor of votes to Martha McCullough and and and I tell you there are few things in this world that are as powerful as reading this Torah portion in that field that is an awesome thing really it really is an awesome awesome thing when you hate when you have that old parchment with its ancient words and the deepest of truths in that piece of land with the people of today reading it and looking up to God right when that when that when that kind of comes together right when it all comes together and goes through from top to bottom from bottom to top it's a super powerful thing and it's not a coincidence also that we're gonna have about a tenth of the Knesset is going to be in Pharaon with us over Shabbat and they're really where they stay they we we give them what I would call quote/unquote VIP okay it's quote-unquote VIP there's actually a bed in the toilet right and you're not sharing with more than five or six people so we we accommodate people and and it's a it's a big effort of hospitality that's one of our toughest efforts but it's a beautiful thing and it's gonna be a looks like it's gonna be a cool and sunny day on Shabbat morning to read that Torah portion out there and I'm very excited and I'm very excited to share that love with you and I want you to be able to join us so come visit us in Hebron by checking out hep Brown fund org and come on our one of our weekly tours which are just very powerful and yeah I don't know there's like it's beyond words that's the truth it's a little bit beyond words but it's not beyond words because we told the story today we're gonna keep telling that story and there's a place that grounds it as a place that grounds it and then there's a next next week's Torah portion and it's the next part of the story the story goes on okay rabbi Mike for thanks so much for joining me it's great to see you again yeah welcome back we had a little bit of a cold I heard yes a little bit so let's say refresh lemma two rather like for any oh man what's our what's our full name here the final Mordecai Bend luma Sarah McConnell mortified Ben blue Messara refresh them ah do not slip into any pneumonia or anything like that got it right so everybody 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soldier Center in memory of Michael ravine helping immigrant soldiers can't close without families during their service when they come home from base and they have nobody to talk to they have us it's amazing to be able to connect the Marines in the US and the IDF soldiers have come together on an event like this for the full show download Israel uncensored with Josh hastin on the Land of Israel network at the Land of Israel calm [Music] all right folks who are listening Felicia Fleischer show and we are back here with maka Fleischer broadcasting live from Judea Sheila Malcolm salami shy and partially surround mother uh you got sorry you may know we're going down to Chevron we're gonna go hang out I bought a bunch of little black seeds you know the sunflower seeds yes I like to put them in little plastic bags and then I hand them out to the soldiers right I used to buy krembo yeah but you still know the the marshmallow with the cookie and then it's all covered in chocolate I stopped doing that because of two reasons one is because well three reasons one is because it's bulky two is because it's kind of expensive but three I thought to myself why would I take this Jewish soldier who I need to be like healthy and strong and be able to concentrate and give him this like pretty non so traditional evaluate thing if you would like for example make some beef jerky or biltong do you can tell you a little story okay one time see when I grew up I grew up in Texas and in Texas children have one year of Texas history class like Texas history I think it was I want to say it was a state or a she ation it was the eighth grade Texas math know you can make fun all you want hey you know what you can make a memo you can make the fun all you want did you have a year of New Jersey history I have no idea so in the face okay you shy I had a year and you can make fun all you want to Texas Matheson if I like Texas but I'm finding it very but it has a rich history and culture and for one entire year you know you have American history you have world history you of European history these are different years possibly and you had a whole year so I had a year of Texas history in Texas history class as part of the class we had to make an item that was like a prairie I haven't been to Texas in too long yeah we feel I feeling it wait I gotta tell you my story so we had to make a project where we make an item that is like a prairie I forget where we were what we were studying specifically but it was like early Texas history and we had to make something that was like a hat like I had something that would have been traded or that people would have liked like me on the Prairie so nobody made me is but people like had to make different things and it was part of it was like a thing that was graded mm-hmm now all the things that I ever did in school that were like projects quote-unquote that were like a big deal type thing my parents always got really super involved did you ever have that sure like when I was in science class so my parents like forced me to do these like whatever science project it is that they wanted to do when you have my parents are both scientists and they did not get involved in my science projects they're like I never remember they help me I'll never forget my science project about gum I studied gum yeah and I made gum and they gave my coffee gum base and flavor on stuff and I did find that but when my parents kind of I was in the Tanakh oh and why what do you mean they got involved on there I'll never forget this my dad got the glint in his eye and they made Gilgal they had listened to this mocha he took a frame what did you like he took a large gold frame of a picture he made a base to it yeah then he poured sand and glue on it Wow then he made a mountain in the middle then in the mountain he took clear like quartz rocks at the top 12 of them but then anything I can I help no no get get away wait Amaka he put a light bulb with a switch Wow okay and at the end this thing was and you saw all the souls that the people were all around the mountain we turned a button then 12 rocks lit up wow I didn't do that well because everybody was like this is something your parents made it was a beautiful it was waiting get an a No get out of town it was it was like it was the kind of thing where he's like yeah I didn't get an A it was like award-winning and yet it was like too much yeah it was it was like a different level and it was just kind of obvious you know people were you know I was selling tickets I made money for people to see it but like I didn't it wasn't like a you know so okay that was a funny story so so my story is that we had to make something at the time there was it was the perfect storm basically this this project happened at the same time as my father had gotten a food dehydrator right and he made honestly now I didn't grow up eating kosher okay so I don't know if it would be the same but he made the most incredible beef jerky really good really really good so he was like okay I went home and I told him about this project he's like okay I didn't touch one piece of meat I don't I didn't flavor I did nothing okay my father made this beef jerky I can still if I concentrate in my mind I can still taste it it was really good he's liquid smoke and Wurster sauce and all this stuff anyway what was gonna happen in the class is that everyone makes something and then you could trade amongst yourselves mmm and that's like also part of the project is that they see the project you get great and then you can like trade for different things so I brought in like my dad being my dad made a huge bag of beef jerky like enough for everybody right in my whole class one girl I remember this made lye soap real soap made out of tallow made out of like fat of animals she was in like the 4-h club and she was into agriculture and she made her own soap and that was not up for barter she had to like take home the lye soap there was something like she needed it maybe for 4h competition I don't know what it was hmm but we couldn't trade for the soap but everyone else like people made like dolls out of like cotton fluff and stuff like that so I ended up with everybody's projects I got everybody's project because everybody thought they wanted to beef jerkey right that's my story that's a good story if you made if you may Mehadrin wait how do we start this because I session because you don't want to walk around with giving krembos to the soldiers right ever own you want to give him seeds by the way speaking of Texas here's my thing don't uh your riddle my riddle yeah what is found in the basement of the Alamo okay if you can get this we will send you something okay first person to get it okay first three people to get it what is found in the basement of the and I don't know kind of nickname there you go anyway so I take sunflower seeds to everone now because I figure it's like sunflower seeds do have nutritional value there's like minerals in there and you know it's a plant based thing and and then you could like you like bite them you put them in your pocket they're like something fun to do they're not you know the sad cover either there's the C cup has been empty nice yeah I have to refill the seat cover yeah yeah that's like when I get nervous I welcome to the kitchen I need some seeds it's like my aunt who lives in New Jersey she has birds she keeps birds for as long as I've known her I think and you don't have the sound of birds have you ever been around somebody who so it's like you hear them like and like you know nosing through their seeds and then they find one and they're like yeah can they crack it open that I live with that that's me that's you I'm very excited for personalize Sarah and I mentioned on the last hour that what a co-inky-dink is that on the very Torah portion that we talk about the rights of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel as rights that are human rights based on the purchase not to mention godly rights that's the very week where there's a recognition that we have legal rights to the Land of Israel with the Trump administration basically de legalizing if I should to be accurate D legalizing then we said they didn't say that settlements are legal they said they're not exactly right so it's not illegal and two negatives make a positive okay so that's that's really qualms really excited for for Shabbat speaking of negatives you you have really entered into the Twittersphere yeah and this there's this one lady on Twitter who his name is Arielle Gould she's one of the cofounders of code pink I think I met her one time really there was a big code pink person everyone I think it was her what why she hasn't been admitted to Israel it was like two years ago I think it's even in I don't know it could have been another person but it was a wild she's one of the people who has like clashed with this law in which Israel can deny entry to like Pro BDS yeah anti-israel people she's not allowed into Israel so she just a David Wilder the previous spokesman of the Jewish community of Chiron who I have the great honor of trying to fill his position right he just tweeted a beautiful picture with the Torah portion she wrote she wrote go away racist settler something like oh she's a she's not a nice girl sometimes at the same time she's a kind of is there something like a frenemy but like a sick friend of me you know she's not a she's not a frenemy it's really a relationship of convenience for for both of us so I don't know if any of you hear a lot of the truth is I know that a lot of our listeners are on Twitter because every once in a while I see people like send me hash tags from the show you know you say hash tag doesn't that so they send it to me but she's on Twitter and she I remember when she was at like 4,000 followers and now she's at like 15,000 I don't know something big she's like she's grown really big yeah as like a like an ant seriously anti-israel person who is ostensibly according to her claims also Jewish and I think yeah she then goes to Iran oh my gosh she's like and she Paul settlers like racist pigs and like like all these things she's I don't know if she's Lord Pig know but she's like she just has the worst things to say always about Jews you are not just that about Israel in general right she she's very I mean and very vociferous and angry and her like hatred toward Israel what with a ability to laugh meaning to say she it's not like it's not like a lot of f-bombs and stuff like that like she she does it with I mean she minimally sort of pretends to use a lot of like lol s and little laugh cry emojis and stuff like that but in in real like in theory she and I would have blocked each other a long time ago she does not want to hear what I have to say right I really don't want to hear what she has to say but there's a certain interesting way in which both of us are able to play off of each other and sort of achieve the goals of putting our message out through each other in a way that makes neither of us want to block the other one right so all right by the way I don't block people unless unless they're like a real hater most time I just mute them I just mute the people like I'm right I don't really block people so much either unless they're very very people that are really really fun yeah but I just mute them I just I just don't want like I don't need you and bye-bye but sometimes it's like Jewish people or whatever it is I also don't want to give them the he blocked me he blocked me he can't take my message I'm just like more like talk to the hand keep talking I just can't hear you you're like a monkey in the zoo go ahead keep talking but I just don't hear so I just mute people so today I had this weird experience on Twitter where I oftentimes like make little comments to the insane things that Oreo gold has to say so today she out of nowhere she retweeted one of my littlest responses to her and she was like Malka is possibly my biggest troll and she like uses me to like to show how to go her own relevance or something like that to be more elephant right so I thought that was funny right because like of all people in the conversation about Israel if one of us is relevant and the other is not I would be the relevant one and she would not right she lives in America she has nothing to do with us in theory I would be the relevant okay but she can argue she can argue your yeah you know she can argue that she's talking what American Jews want to hear whatever it is just absolutely not true look she's in the if not now crowd in the J Street crowd there's a lot of people the she's not yeah she's like she's beyond those people I know but but she that's the thing about extremists is that they actually pull the center towards them and that's her in a sense she's successful like that in any case you retweeted you you saw that tweet where she called you her number right what roll number one troll and I was like I can't believe I won it's such an honor you wrote a joke because I thought I just thought it was funny anyway wait your tweet said something like like it's such an honor I was I'm just an honor to be nominated I want to thank my husband he's shy and you wrote this whole funny I wrote like a funny reply just because it was like so silly that she thinks I'm her number one like I'm her troll whatever it's set off like nine hours worth of conversations and replies and likes and shares of this tweet and whole conversations amongst dozens and dozens of people right and I got like oh like I don't know seventy new followers today right which is ironic right and kind of funny because she in theory wants to totally repress my my message and anything and meme probably personally but she really helped me today thank sorry I'll go through all relevance yeah she really helped me become more relevant today that's right you are you uncle I made a joke but nobody thought it was funny at all your joke was like oh because my joke was simple your joke was complex well she is she was like like read and think but they didn't well she was shopping around for Hanukkah Stef for she was in target and then she saw like this conical mousse which by the way if I was by the way because it's got the horns and the horns have a menorah yeah when I'm if I'm an American hashtag Hanukkah mousse everybody ok Hanukkah mousse if you heard this show all you have to do is send hashtag Hanukkah mousse and we'll know you'll know we'll all be and I I wrote so she's like I don't know what and what does that make me if I'm thinking about conic I'm already thinking about almost bought those conical mousse and I'm like you love Hanukkah and this is a very very very very strongly left person like ultra ultra ultra left and I'm like you love Hanukkah because you appreciate that the Jews were intolerant to the greco-roman lifestyle and the the the Maccabees defeated the greco-roman lifestyle and also evicted our enemies from the land which is I know but the point that I was trying to make which is I could see how not funny was but I think it was it was at least you know like at least something to be to be surprised about which is like here's a person who is deeply committed to being anti-israel yet loves Hanukkah but what is Hanukkah PS in parentheses I'm so excited for coming are you it's really my like my number two where did that start yeah it started like two three years ago and I started feeling more and more like every you know what it was I was we're like the Connells and I would feel these took tears well up every year you know those songs you know oh my gosh wait little story one time when he shy and I were seeing each other he came over and he played a disc in my disc player and then he's like oh I got to change the disc now my parents had bought me one time for Hanukah they bought me a ten disc CD player which was totally totally awesome with it great to tape tape deck yeah still works it's awesome god bless that thing yep anyway so you went to change it and a CD came out and it was Peter Paul and Mary's like holiday classics or something right and with like and I think you might have press play or something now on this disc of Peter Paul and Mary songs is like a ton of Christmas songs I don't listen to I skip through and I go to that they have a couple to Hanukkah songs which are amazing yes so you play this thing and it's like some Christmas song and you turn to me in like slow motion and you're like what is this and I'm like no no no no no like what is that song has that you I think you thought that I was some kind of missionary there for a second but I was not what is the memory that value is highly do you guys know that song everybody up there no I'm not singing any the words that we keep alive with that flame no we keep alive with that flame what is the come on why are you keep pointing at me so much another words meant to those who have died we what does it's where or as I out crowd they will not die in vain they've not done run you gotta brush up on your Peter Paul and Mary such a good song comes this far always believing that justice will somehow prevail right it's beautiful no it's beautiful words and that the truth is white so beautiful because that's what Hanukkah is I think the thing about Hanukkah for me is that it's my mom it's this sense of it's the realness of Hanukkah the history of this small band of brothers who like overcame the incredible odds and cleaned up this land in and were able to like get rid of these forces and just defeat huge armies and just like it was so real and so written it's so they're hold and we know there are ten battles we know everything about them and and they're like rise and eventual fall and it's just so visceral it's like I could feel it and that's that's that's my mother's gift of feeling history and and that's how I feel about haka and I think I think I think that's uh I think that that's that's that's what informs at least for me a lot of times informs my relationship to to like the tour and stuff guys that you could really feel it you know could really feel iveron we could really feel these these moral moral challenges familial challenges and walking in this land and talking with God any case we are going to be really in a place this Shabbat where you can really feel it and that is going to be in Martha Villa with with 40 here's what here's a feeling thought the people are coming to cover on the Shabbat there are the children there are the great-grandchildren of this this original couple and that's powerful you know we're really celebrating it together and so um I'm very excited for that and I want to say that you don't have to be in Hebron and if ever owned this Shabbat in order to feel it you gotta be there wherever you are and I'm asking all of our friends all of our listeners this Friday night to say look I'm to the the fathers and mothers better than ever on the time to forever on the time to the continued Jewish presence of our own that's what I'm asking from everybody I'm asking for hashtag look I am to have row or Habra on the climb that's what I'm asking for it okay and I really not just a hash tag I want you to raise your glass okay raise your glass okay to to the store the continuing story of everyone raise your glass not only to them and whatever people are celebrating but to us all of us who are part of that great story welcome flesh I want to thank you so much for being on the show thank you and god bless you yes keep up the good work keep up keep up keep up the laughs that's right you've already bought you've heard the heparin fund you're in charge of the liquor yeah I am the sorry Maggie Sara that's what Dan Rose asked me to that's right I'm gonna say that's funny that's a good one yeah the Sara I'm asking we bought a lot of liquor dudes you bought a lot of look well that's what I was that's why I was buying the liquor is not everything that would get it all right I bought the little copies that's right all right everybody left time and God bless you wherever you are stay tuned stay strong stay connected stay part of the story write us an email Aisha at the land of israel calm I still owe you to talk about some of the emails that you guys sent out last week I'm looking forward to to talking about them but in any case last few weeks but in any case god bless you and keep up the good strength out there and be part of this amazing story don't let anybody quash you or shrink you at the end we are we moving we're moving light years ahead huge steps are happening big things some things seem stalled and other things are just flying ahead pay attention to those things I give you permission to be wowed I give you permission to be where I sometimes on a tour bus I could say to people okay give you permission to be wowed you're allowed to say wow and then the rest of the tour I'm like I point something out people are like wow and people like are joking with me but they actually do it just like wow like yeah well that's a permission to be wowed and thank you God for the permission to live this life of Wow more great stuff is on the way on this amazing station in the Land of Israel Network stay tuned stay strong stay connected lots of love from Judea from Jerusalem from Hebron from the land of blessings blessings to you Shalom [Music] Prime Minister Netanyahu Benny guns abidor Lieberman yappi will the people of Israel have a government soon will it be a unity government will it be a right we go