Yom HaZikaron - Rememberance Day

shaman welcome to a practical spirituality here adacia tour in the old city of jerusalem overlooking the Temple Mount can you me a favor I'm sorry to do this right at the beginning of this video but maybe you could do it is just turn there you want to do it turn the air-conditioning on down one not off just down one notch to the bottom right corner of the console there there's a little tiny button no no you're just starting to press buttons bro you got it okay I loved if some for I love different personality types anyway um please also join the yom tov media club calm please go online and and just join that club even first just the slightest student rate set and forget so we can reach as many people as possible yeah so today and tomorrow are special days in israel because today is the movement memory remembrance day I only know the Hebrew part how do you say in English Memorial Day Memorial Day and and today's memorial day and tonight begins what's called the Independence Day now how are we supposed to handle this as Torah Jews because these these days were developed by non Torah Torah observant Jews so the people who made these days were not interested in Torah at all quite the opposite actually they were they're interested in in national means but they were what they were and this I'll give you is that they were very very Jewish very Jewish and they their aims were the survival the Jewish people in a national homeland to protect our people and and they were a big part of their narrative was by the way don't freak out over a day with Damon it's one of my oldest students ever you're not 48 oh yeah are you kidding anyway he's been my student for for two and a half decades and so he feels that once you hit the two decade mark you get to say whatever you want during the class but but I will ask you because I'm injured right now and I'm really on edge I got hurt no I'm physically injured and you can never hurt my feelings Hey I hurt my eye I've seen two have torn a muscle here and ultrasounds only open on Sundays I'm Friday thank you I'm not sure what that is you said okay anyway and so for example one of the narratives of the State of Israel is is is it's like this like we sprouted out of the Holocaust so like like somehow what happened in in Europe during World War two with the Holocaust gives us our right to be here you know to the point where they'll like take dignitaries to Yad Vashem is like their first stop you know look what happened we need to have a safe Israel and we deserve to be here but of course from a tour perspective our our existence here has nothing to do with the Holocaust it's nothing to do with any of that and if you really go deep into and then you find out that you could save and that the Holocaust happened because of the State of Israel because they every because the only three times we've ever come in masse to Israel we were attacked by a certain a certain tribe called AMA Lake and we were attacked by I'm a link on the way to Israel when we left Egypt we were attacked by I'm a link when we left Babylon it was the year we're leaving and that was the perm story and the only other time we've ever come back here and mass was for the State of Israel and we were attacked once again and it's been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that that they had that the Nazis themselves had a direct item a link so he think got backwards the state's narrative this is that like there was a Holocaust and we need a state know it's that there was us that we were creating a statehood in mass was the actual cause of the Holocaust which is a wild thought but it's proven beyond a shadow of a doubt now you don't have to take my word for you got to go easy on me right now okay yeah just hold all questions okay so we have to love each other it's like me getting upset at David like impossible as much he may push people's buttons he knows minor minor I've got I've got lots of so anyway the yes so as much as that sounds like radical stuff if you were in my class called control it's not my class it's part of the discovery or our team seminars you'd be like you know I've had like left-wing liberals who like like you can't even tell them there's tribes that could possibly be evil because how could you say that about a tribe you know like how could you call a tribe evil evil they walk out of that class they're just like oh my gosh there's such a thing as evil people and in fact they could be an entire tribe of people that are evil yes every one of them so so it's but they even walk out of that class just going like oh my gosh like that reorients me in a big way too what's really going on here I'm not gonna play this game as I usually do in this class because I know said I don't see any soldiers and fatigues and usually I get a couple soldiers here hey hey you gotta go you're not kicked out bro the the they're no soldiers here today but what I usually do and especially I got to be standing to do this as I ask everybody why defend Israel and year after year cuz today's the day that people fell in the defense of Israel it's a heavy day today every day I was actually on Mount Herzl today you know right now this is like the big day at Mount Herzl before the fallen soldiers and so why defend Israel and what happens usually is is the students give all these reasons and I write them down I've even got reached three columns worth of reasons why to defend Israel and then you know what I write on the top of the board right on the top of the board Russia the name of the country Russia Shh I write the word Russia and they all look at the list and they realize oh my gosh we just gave the same exact reasons that you defend any country none of which are accepted by the way by the nations the nations don't believe in any of our rights to survive except for those good good ones out there meaning there's some good individuals out there who believe in our survival and I don't know I don't know how far you'd have to press our best friend which is the US I don't know how far we'd have to press in against their interest to us till they would turn on us to because you know obviously it's it's we're of some benefit to them to the US to be a foothold in the Middle East and also a democracy and you know they have reasons for us to be here not to mention there's a ton of Americans living there which gets kind of uncomfortable when you're not nice to Israel for the Americans but you never know how far we could push them because in the end it's every nations there to survive and they would never put up well with a threat if that threat meant discarding us they would discard us in a heartbeat so so the but they are definitely I have they aren't have and the best friend to Israel since the state was founded so then the question is what's worth defending but so what's what is the actual reason to defend the Land of Israel why do we why is this place why is this place worth defending and the answer is clear high tech just kidding the answer is clear and and the answer is that that we stand for values we stand for eternal values the eternal values of the Torah ethical monotheism and that's the only reason we're just that moral voice in the conversation of life and you might say well well how important is that voice you know they can't the rest of the world have that voice too like we have to have in Israel having that conversation and the answer is apparently yes first of all we know yes because God not only created us out of nowhere I mean we were the only nation in the world born to another nation you know I'd like like you meet a Spaniard he's from Spain you mean a Brit he's from England you meet us Mexican he's from LA wherever you go and you meet somebody he's from that place except for us we're from Egypt our nationhood was formed in another land were going me care of go nation from within another nation that's a very weird that's a very weird genesis of any nation hood and it's disorienting and it's destabilizing and we just celebrated paisa where we all declared that we're not from here it's quite destabilizing and it makes your nationalism you know a little different because we're not waving just any flag here and like any other nation might wave a flag but we're waving we're waving a flag of this this people this tribe of people who God wanted on his planet to be a voice for sanity a voice for goodness and voice for the inalienable right of all human beings to pursue to pursue happiness to pursue freedom and and that there's something called good because how would you ever know there was something good in the world I mean how can you know there's something good cuz it feels good I know a lot of things you could do that feel good would hurt people you know that would cause damage so how would you know anything's good excellent are you a Jordan Peterson fan that's what he about 25 years ago he just spent all this time he thinks a lot spent all this time trying to figure out if you could know anything's good and he said you've never figured it out but he did figure out that there could be something bad and he used the Hughes to Auschwitz as the ultimate example of how bad someone can choose and how bad things could get that would be the ultimate bad take the most innocent people and torture them beyond any normal and any sorry beyond any I don't even know what to say that but just to torture innocent people horribly you know in mass and that's would be bad and therefore he said he doesn't by the way he never figured out what good is he just figured out that the opposite do anything opposite of that you're probably heading towards good so see how see what kind of contribution you can make for su a contribution you can make for the world that you're causing more good and not more harm in creation like spend your days doing that he never figured out what was good now go now we're Jewish people though he is not a Jew and we know what's good because we have a prophetic document and without a prophetic document then you'd be stuck with with Jordan Peterson's version of good and that is do the opposite of what they did there if they took food away give food if they heard people refrain from hurting people if they took people's freedom of movement give freedom of movement that's all good stuff but we have an actual prophetic document and when you have a prophetic document you now know what's good whatever it says is good is what's good and so leave the corner your field so the poor people could come eat something too so they can pick your you know poor people shouldn't just be going by landowners and looking at all that produce and having to go to the store and with no money and no food in their hands when they leave but they should have the corner of your field give the poor people the corner of your field and and you know you see someone go bankrupt who lives in your community who's still driving a nice car cuz he hasn't had to give it back yet you know to switch leases and stuff and well there's a good guy to help cuz he has not yet fallen you know what's the hardest thing would it why what's the key to success that for all you young people in the room well there's a lot of keys to success but one of the main ways you'll get to success is by is by simply having your a good head game so a guy who's been successful and has a nice car and pays a mortgage and you know like afford his kids clothing that's the guy to help if he's gone bankrupt that's your number one guy to help because you don't want his head game to go down because he still got the head together it's just that you know whatever his competitors went overseas and and he stayed loyal to his factories in the US and went bankrupt because he couldn't keep up with the with China or whatever it's a fine businessman help him help that guy you guys bright think well if you do me a favor I'm just gonna go crazy here can you mind just sitting in that seat there for the no-show guy over there and then you just jostle your seat a little bit more yeah it's like you know what slide yours that way and then ya know you go back go back to work and you normally I'm standing so I can just position myself it's keeping us young it's like a meat seller here so we're all gonna leave here fresher than we walked in you guys meeting Petersen left to his own devices probably would have missed it you know you didn't send this and that guy's got a houses got a car he's got you know you okay his mortgage still is there you know he he's still got his lease on his car you know like he'll he'll have to go down a couple notches in the food chain you know wealth so you need a prophetic document to let you know that make that guy your focus you know and there's a lot of other examples throughout to another one that's not obvious that he would probably miss as well is because don't wait for government to take care of the poor in in the USA you're expecting the government to take care of the poor in in a communist country is you're expecting the government to take care of the poor every political body except for our prophetic document which says the government has no business taking care of the poor because they'll blow it and they always blow it they'll do it badly and the poor will wind up poor and there will be more problems the ports your problem says the Toa poor is your problem and no one would know that even the smartest people and I believe I've in the dark web lately I've been hearing some really smart people lately some very smart people smarter than the people running the systems that aren't working for the poor but I bet they'd all miss that I bet they would still think government you see even the State of Israel thinks and I'm happy they think this by the way they they think that that it's up to them to make sure we're insured we have national insurance which is awesome then enough that's enough of a reason to move to Israel I mean international insurance like you and your family is completely medically covered by Jewish doctors like you can't do better than that not to mention that further than that you get a you get a what's the other thing that's really expensive there's MIT no I'm saying Medical is expensive for the world and what's that oh cool that's cool school here is socialized education socialized your kid can get a top level degree in Israel yeah and didn't cost you anything didn't constantly my I I don't I'm not gonna mention that how many kids I have but all those kids cost me to raise them all the way I've met it and then they're old up and university degree level now they're plus you know the graduate or two there I mean they didn't even cost me what it costs all of it together didn't cost one year of school that a Jew would pain in Brooklyn or something didn't all of them together didn't measure up to one student one kid going to school in Brooklyn in one year and and so why I'm not gonna go on a diatribe against people who live in Brooklyn obviously but they but what how it how addicted to your mud can you be you know that you're gonna and then you don't even get to raise the kid because you're gonna work so hard to pay for it that you don't you get to see the kid when you could have just been paying good attention to 1948 you know incredible hush girl practicin and hush muffled protests of the Six Day War the sixth day of the sixth fear was a six-day war and we get back our biblical property especially the Temple Mount and you want to ignore that one personally when I no offense to all those people that reach out to me about their teenagers who are who are falling off the path of Judaism out there in in the observant community of New York or all the other areas New Jersey all those different places I help them I really help them and I don't say anything like I'm about to say to you but I don't say what I'm about to say but but what I'm thinking the whole time is like what do you think you get to ignore God's hand in Israel's destiny meaning is not the State of Israel meeting quale Israel meaning you get to ignore God's hand in our destiny and you're not gonna pay for that yeah your keep your kids living in an in an inorganic land to Judaism a land that you have to assert your Judaism to the point where people actually do this is crazy I mean makes me want to throw up that people think that Judaism's our religion in America why because they've been living amongst religious Jews but that's how bad it is that when you raid when you live Judaism off of its organic soil off of its ancestral lands it's a religion what else is it it's just a religion only in the land of Israel is it organic and there's even in one of our sages who says that all Commandments are only all of the mitzvahs are only for the land when you're in the land of Israel and when you leave the Land of Israel you're off the hook because they don't mean anything out there so now by the way we don't quote that particular rabbi of our sages we don't quote him for the halacha meaning you do I have to keep Shabbat in Los Angeles and you do have to put on tefillin in France and you understand like the law of Judaism is whether you're in the land or you're not land you still keep that commandment that's the way we do things but believe me of one of the sages thousands of years ago has that in his tradition it's something real and it's something worth fighting for and today's the day we we remember the fallen now sadly because they were you know who are the soldiers the soldiers are young punks who most of which not all of which but many of which were not understanding what we're talking about in this class they were just punks who were growing up and Tel Aviv or Netanya you know Herzliya or Haifa I don't know why I'm mentioning every city that has good surf but I am and and I stood for that why mentioning Oh the reason why I mention Elysee is these soldiers are from these places all they're trying to defend is that they can get to the beach without getting killed because they in the end just want to be able to pursue liberty life liberty and the pursuit of happiness but again that would be why you fight for any country why fight for this country and look at the double standard of the nations they don't care about all the reasons we would fight I don't believe we belong here in the first place imagine a imagine a couple is you know let's say they have a home in Tel Aviv you know Tel aviv-jaffa is southern Tel Aviv and they're loading up the father's loading up the jet skis on the trailer kids are already bouncing up and down the back of their FSU V he's so excited his wife comes he's just gone up to get one more thing his wife comes running up to up to the stairs and says honey there's something wrong and he's like what's wrong says there's like all these protesters outside our house with reporters he's like what do they want she's like you better come down so it comes down and there's this old Arab guy with the deed for his house you know and reporters like you know a left-wing reporters so he's like is the D is the address on this deed truly your address and he says yes it is what you have to say for yourself I mean did you buy this house from this man and he was like no I was giving it you know for a certain amount of money front by the government well well this man has the D tier home and he's expecting you to vacate imagine such a scenario so the guy system listen you know like wake up you know like you didn't notice there was a war the war the independence like 1948 and they're like no we don't recognize that we don't recognize that at all we recognize the deed and this guy's got a deed on this property it's your address he says well you know the UN vote you know there was a vote about this land and this part was awarded to us and they're like that's nice wars UN votes hogwash we don't care about all that stuff what are you doing in this guy's property at which point he says to his wife honey go upstairs and bring out it enough and she goes upstairs and she brings down the Tanakh and he opens up the page oh that's enough showing there's many pages this does it over and over again that God gave this land as an eternal heritage to the Jewish people and the late the reporter says you want to say that you're gonna take this ancient document and use it for your right to your home and he says yes and she turned the report he turns it to another page she turns it to another page and it says keep my Sabbath the guys like yeah and she's like do you know what today is he's like Shabbat it's Saturday and she's like so the claim for the house is this book you want to say that this prophetic document gives you right to take Mustafa's home but the same book says that you're supposed to be keeping Shabbos and then like the camera goes to the kids in the back of the SUV you know we want to marry oh we want carrots we want familiar we can Eric cuz they want to go jet skiing and they wait and already 20 minutes so you want to have it both ways I'm gonna have it both ways the nations don't accept your wars the nations don't accept their own vote but the nations would accept if you would somehow stay true to the Covenant the eternal covenant of this prophetic document you want to quote the document so then you got to live all of it you can't use it just for your claim on your home or your land the strange thing is that the nation's I believe really would accept it if we'd actually come back to our tribal roots if the Jewish people would actually live in consonance with their tribal roots live organically as Jews on our ancestral lands I believe that nations of the world would just bug off not only that but I think that I even think that Palestinians God created Palestinians just to cause this and you said what do you call much bears a hoot in the English Vanessa can the wrong crowd identity crisis that the Palestinians are just there to create an identity crisis for secular Israelis because one day they're gonna have to recognize that the only reason they belong here is because of that prophetic document and that when it comes to wrong and right you can know what's right it's not always intuitive like Jordan Peterson would say but you actually need the Torah for wrong and right on the deepest and most subtle levels levels that known I don't care a brilliant they are they never figure it out you need the you need the creator's blueprint for this place you can't just go with your own your own logic although your logic can go far you're part of the blueprint your logic can go far got where human mind is in the blueprint but you need the person who actually or the being that actually wrote the blueprint yes you want to see something that was my whole question I don't know I that's exactly the question I set up I'm not answering it not answering it but I am answering that the entire Israeli posted in crisis that they're really here for spiritual reasons meaning they have other place that they could go there's who's think I don't know what all those you always hear those stats of that many Arab countries surround us and how much room they have I know but I know but they were god forbid now what's worth defending though and that's the point of this class and what's worth celebrating what's worth defending what's worth celebrating is is goodness there's got to be someone whose voice is just about being good we don't treat it as some important as we should and we really should because cuz there's been just in the last couple of hundred years there's been some of the worst human behavior in all of history I mean I'm just the most horror horrifying tragedies of human error human malevolence human evil have all taken place like like it's all the the paint's still fresh you know it's still fresh so you young guys in here or like yeah let's just go party and you almost move man like that class by grabbing ladies is too heavy you know let's go run around Ben Yehuda Street with bunkers and bond people over the head and shoot saving covers storefronts with shaving creams so the poor guy can come back on Friday make his living and not be okay not yet Friday morning to make his living and he can't even see his his wares because all the kids spray-painted all the storefronts so the way that you celebrate such a day is to is to is to celebrate it with with thoughtfulness with maturity with do you know maybe put out if you're a social networker put out some good things about how to be good like some Mitzvah in the Torah that intuitively no one would have ever figured out and it's just a good good thing to do in the world like put that out there like we have the freedom to to bring a message to this planet a message of brotherhood of kindness of love of how can we make the world a better place of course yeah so we're gonna we're gonna this class is officially ending there and someone brought up why there's so much garbage in the more observant communities by the way not every a more observant community has this but most of you it's the weird thing is the weird thing is there's an ultra-orthodox full black hat community that wins cleanest city every year for like 20 years straight it's called Betar I know you and I think it's dirty but they must clean it up the day before the like they must go on some like crazy campaign right it seems strange that they always win it but they do anyway that's weird anyway and the reason is there's a couple reasons but you have to accept these as the reasons you don't have to accept them as right but these are the real reasons so there's a couple reasons why very observant homes and you want to know something it's the same reason why they don't know what they're doing next week because they don't know they really don't know what they're doing next week and they're which is really amazing and I get to capitalize out on all the time because let's say I'm running a program Sunday well today's what Wednesday so it's kind of too late to advertise for that except to a community that doesn't know what they're doing next week I've had secular friends of mine like semi whatsapp's amazing news I'm coming to Israel migrate when you know thinking maybe this week next thing they're like 2024 June 14th and I'm like write him back I'm like what was that a joke and like no no that's how far out we run our calendars and you know and we believe we have we have seven days right there yeah so we're wondering if we could come for Shabbos I'm like what you know like you can you know what when you arrive you should send me what's that and as you have you can come for Shabbos because that's how we live now why do we live that way and we live that way because of various reasons but one of the main reasons is is that we have very humble homes with very many people inside them so we're living in meaning our job is to make sure our kids have something clean to wear in the morning no you go try washing 10 pairs of clothes every single day you know and they're very clean so like meaning no kid out of any of those homes unless there's some real issues in that home but no kinetic any of those homes is walking out in non fresh laundry laundry clothing it just doesn't happen you don't send your kid out with dirty anything and and that's just the standards of our homes and it just doesn't go that way and so and so but you go wash you know and that tends likes nice I know I have friends I have friends with twelve kids I have friends with fourteen cuz I have kids with friends of fifteen kids I've but like many not one I mean you have many friends with fifteen kids I'm many friends with more than 15 kids and and that family's got a major factory going on in there and you got to feed those kids and they're feeding them and I think how many dishes you get and you can't afford to eat out yeah you're not going to a restaurant with 15 kids man yeah try taking your 15 kids out tonight what's the average you know you take them out a couple slice a piece for her yeah maybe that's like if you call that eating out but you know a couple slices of pizza drink you know let's just say you're up forty shekels a kid and times 15 kids plus you and your wife you know you'd like to use something to is here at 17 what's 4 times 17 and how much money we at your 680 shekels you're never eating out man you're eating it and if you're eating in all the time well what's it like you know there are people who see a therapist twice before Thanksgiving because they're having 17 people over you understand having 17 people are so they've made double appointments that week I mean that's also because of the people they'll be saved but be it but they're gonna be having 70 people that's a major pressure you know and and so we're not only feeding 17 people for dinner every night no not that I have 17 15 kids but but a lot of them they're we're not we're not just feeding them every night we're feeding them every morning we're packing them they'll their snacks they get school lunches brothership they're packing them they're snacks for school which is sandwiches and stuff in the morning after Dominic and then we have a full hardcore like festive meal that would probably out do many people's things givings every single Friday night and then we do it all again Shabbos day is usually a nicer meal than or as nice a meal as anyone serving for Thanksgiving every single Shabbos day not to mention an entirely different wardrobe that they have to own because you can't wear a weekday wardrobe at a Shabbos meal or else I'm not sure with the RA else's but it's something really bad and it's gonna come from heaven I don't where we dig close on Jabba's period like I know guys who like they just don't have nicer clothes but I promise you when Chavez comes whatever is there their best of they're not nice clothes is what they're wearing cuz that's all you got to do you just got to wear your finest which may be really below par but it is your finest and everyone you'll notice everyone to me Oh Oh lousy their wardrobe is they will somehow pilfer a button-down shirt for Shabbos or something you know they'll somehow get a pair of shoes if they've been wearing flip-flops all week you know there's suddenly in a pair of shoes so so the you know the last thing you're worried about is what's outside the house what is that you know by the way in bait R which which you and I know more than the cleanliness Act people you know who somehow rate it number one the you hear a funny thing tummy on your you live there so on your block there's the people who bought the garden floor apartments how many gardens are there for let's say for the 30 people on your block who have gardens are on garden floor how many gardens are there approximately [Music] live um what I would say for every 20 Apartments is one garden probably one per 20 houses you're in a very American area by the way you got to go up a block or two there's not a lot of gardens it's dirt its dirt because it's outside the house okay the only reason they like that floor isn't cuz of the garden they like that floor because when they get old and gray they can get in their house without a lot of steps okay then you know NECA meyer on the other hand has like the Garden of Eden you know he's got like some giant Meditation Center going on down there it's um he's running some cult where you have to be female to join it so the now the anyway the just kidding they gave you tea and the women said yeah anyway anyway the answer that why why it's so decrepit outside these houses because yeah you you you you'd wind up in therapy if you tried to run one of these places one of these homes you know you just you just wind up like when ice did I say therapy sorry you'd be locked up there you know maybe you've been living there full-time now there is one more factor and that is financially there's just it just happens to be a fact on this globe everywhere in the globe that the higher the standard living meaning company to countries that are wealthier the higher their standing a living the nicer the outdoors are so like for example Scandinavia's excellent standard of living living really nice dinner living you can't find a piece of garbage anywhere once you start coming south of the northern countries there we're a stand of living also drops a bit if not a lot it suddenly gets dirtier outside so and the reason why that is by the way a nice lady what's your name either huh Danny cool name and the reason why it is like that Danny is big also is because is because we our sphere of influence is really important to us but it starts small and it gets wider as we attain more wealth or more comfort in life meaning as we get more comfortable we start to notice stuff in new spheres and so based on the best on the financial echelon zuv communities they they're just not noticing spheres like they just don't notice that I notice stuff you know just on my way home on my way to the mikveh I noticed new paper had somehow blown its way into our little herb garden which is outside our front door but we have lining our building our home is herb garden now I did not pick it up because I was going to make fun but when I walked back from the mix I was my hands were already full you know I had shampoo and soap and change of clothes that I just changed out of my hands are full but you know what I stopped and said the local environments within my sphere of recognition I recognize this spot it may be public but it's it's part of me and therefore this papers getting picked up had I left it there my wife would have picked it but had she not been around I don't think I have a neighbor oh my god I don't think I have a neighbor that would have picked up that that newspaper that blew in you know is loose papers of a newspaper that was once put together it was pretty loose stuff floating around in the winds so I don't think I have a neighbor who would have seen it they might have seen cottage editorial meaning they might have seen a headline that they're interested and they would have picked it up read it and put it right back down or just let it float around so yeah I said it but it but it was sounded shot and we're shocking then if you actually heard the heard the actual narrative how it took place throughout the history of the Jews returning to the land and getting attacked by this particular tribe had you heard that class you'd totally get it so but by going straight to the end of the class is a little shocking I apologize okay everyone please join Yom Tok Media Club calm I just want to say to anyone who's still watching this class is that if you enjoy these classes please please join in fact there's a I got an email from a woman this morning who said that her rent her rent is a hundred shekels more than all 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