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The Hamas War: Clarity, Courage, Faith and Unity
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Let's Get Real: Eli Beer, Dr. Akiva Perlman & Rabbi YY Jacobson, We Are All Soldiers on the Front Lines United to Uplift the Morale of Our People. What is our Mission today? How can this happen? Why? Where do we go from here? Let's Get Real show with Coach Menachem featuring Rabbi YY Jacobson with Eli Beer, the head of United Hatzolah Live from Israel, provided insights directly from the front lines. Additionally, Dr. Akiva Perlman joined to discuss pertinent issues. On Sunday evening October 15, 2023 Coach Menachem’s weekly Sunday night zoom program is a weekly program with the top speakers in the Jewish nation to discuss the relevant topics in the open form question and answer segments. Please join every Sunday night at PM Eastern standard time. https://youtube.com/@CoachMenachem?si=frYA74aDMXO3EtVh To sponsor or dedicate an upcoming class click here: https://www.theyeshiva.net/donate To watch more classes & to read Rabbi YY's articles visit: https://www.theyeshiva.net Follow Rabbi YY Jacobson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RabbiYYJacobson Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheYeshiva Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yyjacobson Twitter: https://twitter.com/YYJacobson Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yyjacobson/ Telegram: https://t.me/RabbiYY
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the yeshiva.net
there's an expression in yish an old
expression there are moments in life
when it's very difficult to
speak and one naturally just wants to
remain
silent one naturally wants to remain in
their own cocoon with people that are
very close to
them to feel more cozy more connected
more intimate but it's sometimes even
more difficult to be
silent this is not one of the shurm or
lectures that I or any of my colleagues
aspire to or or P for this has been one
of the most
uh you'll forgive me if I uh break down
at some point but this has been one of
the most difficult weeks for the Jewish
people as many have said
that since the Holocaust literally since
the Holocaust which means we're talking
about eight
decades there has not been so many Jews
murdered in one single day as this year
and shabas October 7th 2023 50 years
after theer
war and
uh you know some of us talk a lot about
generational
trauma we thought we're talking about
generational trauma that we're dealing
with from previous
generations nobody in their worst
nightmares of thought about you know the
living trauma the pain and the grief in
the holy land this week is
unfathomable more than a thousand
families sitting
shiv more than a thousand funerals think
about the family shattered and crushed
the families of the Wounded you're
talking about almost 4,000 people
wounded you're talking about more than
1,300 people killed and then you're
talking about more than a 100 in
captivity in Gaza they and their
families and all of Israel and all of
the Jewish people the world over we're
all
reeling anyone with a heart and a soul
and every Jew has a heart and soul has
been touched this week to our core
and thus we're coming together tonight
because it's obvious what was hamas's
plan besides murdering Jews torturing
Jews abusing Jews the plan was to strike
fear Into the Heart of the Jewish people
to demoralize our nation to demoralize
Israel to inculcate us with d dread and
panic and therefore an essential part of
the Victory and of the fight backers to
lift the morale of the Jewish
people
in on that dark
morning they all
read for us
it and they read that in the
last speaks moments before his passing
and he
says
so Rashi writes and I quoted it I put it
down there I wanted to quote the words
of Rashi after all the blessings to all
the amazing powerful stupendous
blessings
says after he specified all the
blessings why should I get specific
CL the summation is it's all
yours so I want to share with you a
little story that happened this past
Thursday for me it's very meaningful I
heard it from the person person who was
present this happened at North Carolina
University and N
ncu I have a friend a colleague his name
is Rabbi zman blooming he's the kabad
rabbi and at Duke University in ncu
sadly sadly this is also unfathomable
there have been demonstrations this past
week in universities Across America
protesting against Israel and blaming
the atrocities on
Israel it's horrific it's so sad it's so
sad because you have Jews at these
demonstrations so there was a
demonstration at ncu against Israel a
Jewish professor in the University who
second secular very secular and liberal
and
atheist heard about it but he's a Jew
he's a human being he has a sensitive
heart he has a basic morality so he was
outraged and he came running to the
demonstration and he started to shout on
top of his lungs yelling at the
protesters that they sound like Nazis
they're talking like Nazis celebrating
an
organization that is so overdraw to
murder and burn Jewish babies you're
like Nazis Nazis
Nazis the police escorted him away from
the demonstration supposedly for his own
protection he went back to the
university and then it was time for
class so he came into his lecture
Auditorium and he sat down or he stood
up to give his lecture and before he
begins a young woman studying in his
class comes over them with a bouquet of
flowers and she presents them see asks
her what's this so she says I wanted to
tell you how proud I am for what you
just did outside that you stood up for
truth you stood up for life you stood up
for love you stood up for decency you
stood up for Humanity for heaven sake I
am so proud of you and I was so moved by
your behavior and the fact that you lost
yourself I wanted to show you my
appreciation and gratitude so he has a
bqu of
flowers so he looks at her and he says
you're probably Jewish she says no I'm
not so he says so why do you care so
much she says because you're the chosen
people he looks at her and says you have
been in my class for a while you know
that I don't believe
that she looks in him and says you may
not believe it but we all know
it in the darkness of this week we also
saw something else we
saw on two levels first of all the
hate the says show me who hates you and
I'll tell you who you are when we are
the people that Hamas hates and wants to
see every one of us dead it shows us who
the Jewish people are when your greatest
enemies in history are par hon Nadar
Stalin Hitler Hamas this means we must
be such a good and holy people because
of evil despises the Jews more than
anything else evil is very very
sensitive to its antithesis to what
threatens it when we see who despises us
who hates us if people who are capable
of such barbaric
sadistic inhumane evil and to dance to
dance for it to celebrate it and they
are the ones who hate the Jewish people
for them we are their greatest threat a
little Jewish baby represents a threat
to their existence they gleefully want
to murder her or him what does this tell
you you belong to a people that embodies
the deepest goodness and Holiness and
sanctity and morality and love and
compassion and Divinity and beauty and
ecstasy in the
world that's something we need to
celebrate and when you look at the
response of the Jewish people this week
when you look at the out pouring of love
and grief everyone who's reeling from
Pain know why you're reeling in pain
because you care because you love your
people because you love love and you
hate evil and you love goodness don't
repress that pain that pain tells
you so my dearest brothers and
sisters the bottom line I think or at
least one of the bottom lines is this is
a time of a lot of pain but a pain that
needs to help us and guide us and
Elevate us to become the best version of
ourselves to understand what was
targeted who was targeted why were we
targeted and thus to understand that at
this moment our calling everyone one of
us is to lift up our morale as Jews to
inspire ourselves to inspire others and
to live the best and deepest version of
ourselves there's no question that every
Jew was
called To War last shab
every Jew was summoned to a battle every
Jew is now engaged in a war but a war
has many
divisions hasem God's Army also has many
divisions like every Army the question
is not if you were drafted the question
is for you and me to be able to ask
ourselves what division have I been
drafted to what are my skills what are
my talents what are my resources what is
my SCH what is my unique Mission
everyone is a soldier on the front lines
today but I have to ask myself what
division have I been drafted to what is
my mission today how will I help my
brothers and sisters lift them up from
the abyss lift them up from depression
from demoralization inculate myself my
children the people around me with
fortitude with resolve with confidence
with courage times of War are horrific
but they can also bring out a
Clarity and a decisiveness that is unpar
these tragic events have touched us to
our core they can allow us Now to
respond on a core level not
superficially no external layers no
bubis you know bubis is part of life but
not now it gives us an opportunity to
crystallize to ourselves and our
children who we are what we live for
what we stand for what is Israel what is
a isra what is yides what are the Jewish
people and therefore why Kamas wants to
destroy the Jewish people and every one
of you some of our front some of of us
belong in our homes with our children
some of us are in a b Med some of us in
SCH some of us have jobs some of us are
on the front lines literally some of our
children some of our nephews some of our
relatives some people may be tuning in
some of us are drafted to different
divisions but everyone
everyone you have been drafted to in a
war there's a lot of pain it's not easy
but Al the says don't allow fear and
panic now it's easy I can't just snap my
fingers and say no fear and panic this
is an inner calling within myself within
yourself which we're going to try to
help each other throughout this evening
to be able to reach this space this
place of opening oursel up to the unique
calling and
opportunity of our mission right now at
these critical times for Israel and for
the Jewish
people I think we should begin we have
here Ellie Beer who is as you may know
the founder and the director of hatah in
Israel uh Ellie can his own history and
his own story with founding atan his own
journey is quite fascinating but it's
now 4:30 in the morning for him or
almost 5:00 in the morning for him in
and we have here Elis I think we should
begin with that here is somebody who's
always on the front lines and been on
the front lines I think from the moment
he heard the call so uh Ellie can we
begin with a few
questions good morning uh from Heritage
ra and it's a great honor to be with you
on the same podcast and uh I'm sorry
it's a Miss circumstance I wish I wish
it was in better circumstance Hanah we
lit a manira together in m
yes yes we lit the Mina together oh love
the truth is I gave Because of You 4:30
in the morning to go on a zoom call you
need to be muga but you're a m you're a
certified mugan already for many years
I'm the chief mugan here you wouldn't
have founded hatala we know the story
you know when when Ellie tried to work
with you know bureaucracy to found hatah
in Israel and I think somebody told him
you're a 16-year-old little schandra go
back to Yeshiva or go get a job so uh
and but it's an honor to be here with
you FL stand go open a fla stand go open
a flawful stand yeah so you decided to
open 2,000 flawful STS but not serving
schw serving uh
life yes so where were you when when
where were you when the attack happened
when how did you find out about it what
was your first feeling your first
response I don't know if you could share
everything but uh it was it was it was n
Flores this whole event was one one big
Nets I must say that we're looking at
the tragedy and we're seeing so many
people gave their lives so many people
died so many people injured so many
people were captured there's still
people were in who knows over a 100
people for sure are kidnapped and and
captured and probably tortured by the
Kamas but this situation could have been
10 times worse because they were
planning to come to
yam they were planning to March up to
that was their plan and something big
Nim happened and I want to talk about
the Nim tonight not about the tragedies
because we all know about the tragedies
the tragedies were all over the news CNN
wrote about it CNN spoke about it every
every every newspaper wrote about the
tragedy but I want to talk about the
they have a little city called Ti if you
know TI it's right next
to next toim I don't if you know about
what went on inim that terrorist here
for 2 24 hours terrorists were in the
city taking over homes TI
has thousands of firm families of
families have yeshivas here seven or
eight yeshivas every Yesa was full of
their Yeshiva Boys who was dancing for
for s
t think about the disaster that could
have happened with thousands and
thousands of students not one of them
has a gun these were going on there they
didn't not even one person got hurt in
Tira it was right next to everything
they somehow skipped they passed by TI
and they didn't go in think about the
Nim that we had somehow these these
terrorists got distracted with money
they started it's unbelievable these
guys came to kill Jews and they were all
about killing babies killing women
killing everyone they saw credit cards
of their victims they started shopping
in R Russian Russian websites they
started shopping in Russian websit can
you believe it
this is unbelievable what they were
doing they they they got distracted they
could have continued to other and other
cities Israel was not prepared for this
I am very proud of thousands of
volunteers of United hella who left
their homes at 6:30 in the morning 7:00
in the morning and rushed down to help
out the people who were in trouble
people who needed help thousands of of
victims that we were treating people
were in inured in very difficult
situations my wife gy who
is she left we left we all together for
for S and she left she went down there
she's a paramedic she was able to save
at least 40 people that she saved with
her own hand she was there for 36 hours
straight treating People Under Fire she
was in St Road missiles were flying
above her head and she heard bullets
next to her air and she continued
working together with other Heroes where
were
you we had where were you
Ellie I was in y we were all together
in and I was woken up at uh 7 sorry
6:40 we had a volunteer his name is
Rabbi K Sassi he was driving he was
going to SCH he was he had a Talis on
him he was going to SCH in he lives in
he's used to miss he's used to
everything he doesn't get excited from
it and all of a sudden he gets a call on
Hell radio that they have a shooting in
this in the police station so he runs
back home he jumps on the amb cycle and
he starts driving towards the police
station when he gets close to the police
station he sees the fire going on the
shooting he takes out his weapon while
he's driving that cell ambus cycle he
holds it he's a he's he's a dying he's a
dying he's not a young guy like 20 years
old taks out his weapon from his
right side and he points it towards the
first terrets he sees he he hit four
terrets one of them he killed right away
four of them he injured seriously then
he felt a bullet in his arm and his face
and his leg and he fell off the ucycle
while he was down on the floor he fell
off the ucycle he called for help and
that's when they called me already they
said he said we have 25 terrorists here
in in stero well once they called me and
said 25 terrorists in STO I knew
something is bad because they have to
pass through other villages to get this
other other then we heard the missile
attacks and then we heard other other
other attacks we had another
volunteer in in uh in Kar Aza who was
yelling for help he said terrorists are
everywhere so I knew already the
situation is really really bad I didn't
know it was a war I thought a few
terrorist groups came in so we all got
up my old family is in not sella my wife
my kids I have five kids in atella my
son's in the Army my son's in the
Special Forces now so right away I'm
like we're all like running everywhere I
ran to the atella station and you saw in
the main headquarters and I we have 10
dispatchers at night 10 dispatchers I
knew right away they're not going to
have enough dispatchers we were getting
phone calls from women and people were
crying in the phone save me save me
we're hiding in the Attic it sounded
like a movie it sounded like um in a
holocaust museum in yadvashem they were
hiding dude were hiding in the attic and
they were asking us for help we couldn't
we couldn't send troops to help them
rescue them because it was too dangerous
but then that moment am came together I
can't explain you I had people running
to the seller station with T from shes
everywhere it looked like the yipo war
like pictures from the yipo war hundreds
of volunteers with t them they were just
taking keys for ambulances jumping on
vehicles and just r riding down south
they don't know where you're going and
they just went straight into the fire
zone they're running in to save people
rescue people we had 1700
volunteers who went down there I managed
the Dispatch Center of hella we right
away called for 60 more dispatchers all
from Jews all came from shs from all
around from gacho from RMA from M
everywhere it just showed up and started
picking up phone calls phone calls after
phone calls it was all the same phone
calls terrorist outside of my house all
the same phone calls terrorists outside
my house but once in a while you hear a
phone call of someone with chest pains
you have to treat them too and we had
that day we had we were treating
2500 victims of Terror of War people who
were seriously injured and we had 1,00
emergencies that are not related to
anything so all this we had to manage in
one place wow we had to open the bomb
shelter it was it was a chaos but I
could say that United atel was ready
because we always practiced that
something could happen a war could
happen we always do practicing never
thought it would be such a magnitude of
a situation where we would have this it
was never even in our back like it
wasn't even a it it wasn't even an
option but unfortunately we suffered so
much but I'm I'm so proud of everyone in
Amis world and I think this is the only
way to win isus and and I think you'll
agree with me that I think that the fact
that we weren't we didn't have and we
had for so
long I'm not even talking in a mystical
way I'm not even having nothing to do
with mystical nothing to do with Thea
it's practical the go these these
anti-semites who wanted to kill us were
looking for the right opportunity they
had Iran behind them they saw am Isel in
the weakest
situation where Jews are hating Jews a a
Jew wants to die in Tel Aviv and yer
people fighting him this guy is fighting
it's it's everyone's fault I'm not
blaming one side I'm blaming all of us
we didn't fight enough
for and what happened was 6:30 in the
morning on
chabas am Israel came together and I
really really hope that I feel I hope
you feel this in America and you feel
this in Europe I feel it in I walking
around ER Israel I'm walking in in I see
it in I was today I was inar AA farza
was the worst of the worst 60% of the
population were murdered in the worst
condition I don't even want to describe
how it was but you see people coming
from everywhere from a lot from
benra LBX kabad everyone walking intoa
and looking how to help people just want
to give people want to do people give
cookies filter fish hering whatever they
could do they they're giving out people
are just feel like it's about time
after so long that we weren't loving
each other it's about time we should
start respecting and loving each other
and I really hope that this is not
temporarily but this will be a long a
hav situation and only then only then
this might take six months this
situation we already ready for six
months we are preparing ourselves for
six months war with with
Hamas and with
and inside Israel we have so many
enemies inside Israel unfortunately but
I know and I have hopes I'm here in
Israel I'm not leaving I'm not going
flying to Miami I'm staying here my
son's in the front lines in Gaza he's
inside of Gaza your son is inside of
Gaza your son is in
Gaza my my son is on the border of Gaza
he's in a special forces my son he's
practicing for two years for a situation
like this and now even more the last few
days only they practiced they're
practicing all day the outside of the
Border they have 350,000 soldiers
350,000 Israeli soldiers are out
surrounding the Gaza Strip besides for
another 150,000 up North so we're
talking about almost every family in
Israel feels
wow and I'm telling you as an Israeli as
an American also but a Jew I I never
thought I'll live through a situation
like this I never thought I'll see a
mini Holocaust that's how I look at it I
went into I went into the to this bar I
saw it we had a
volunteer his name is shom he's a guy
who made aah from from England a few
years ago Shalom mid little payis going
on the sides he went in with the Special
Forces with this vest with the with the
bulletproof and a helmet the Special
Forces went into Barry toaza to rescue
farara
he went in with them and he heard a
screaming of a babies babies were crying
babies they found after 16 hours the
babies were laying in bed crying for 16
hours because the parents were
murdered the mother went out to from the
shelter to get milk for the babies and
they shot her I don't want to even say
what they did to her before they shot
her you could imagine what these
hilarious
did these hilarious are the worst of the
worst they they went and they did
whatever they did with her killed her
and then killed her husband and the two
babies were left sleeping in the room I
don't know how they didn't find them
sholom found them 16 hours after they
were starving they were crying six
months old
twins and shom said to me when he was
holding the
baby he felt like he's rescuing a Jew
from the
Holocaust that's how he hold the baby
took the bottle he made him a bottle the
baby one of the babies another hold the
second baby baby and they gave the baby
water the baby didn't want to leave the
bottle alone he was so thirsty
dehydrated then they gave him milk or
whatever was that they made him they
made him from the same sink that the
mother was laying on the floor that made
her food for the
baby because they didn't have any other
CH a baby was starving two babies that
picture was in the front lines
everywhere in CNN and everything with
the guy holding a baby what a kidish
hasem I see this a guy running in with
special forces rescuing Jewish kids in a
K in a k this is theel that I want to be
part of this is the that I want this is
the that I want I'm begging I'm begging
every day I was doing this United atella
the reason I changed the name many years
ago from atella to United ATA it's
because we put everyone together we have
secular Jews from the K te with earrings
we have volunteers with tattoos
everywhere and we have volunteers with
SH and all together in one
organization and two Volunteers Of Us
died guess what one of them was a
Israeli secular Jew was a shinb guy the
second one was an Arab from
Nazareth and he was tortured like the
Jew they tortured this volunteer because
they saw he was wearing a hotella jacket
with with with this with the state of
Israel's flag on it they took him and
they tortured him we took after four
days we found him only after 4 days
another volunteer of ours who's an Arab
Israeli a doctor in sraa hospital he
stopped to treat the victims because he
was on the way to work that these
terrorists caught him he started talking
Arabic to them they shot him in his legs
then they realized he's an Arab they
tied him to a light pole and they made
him look watch how they're killing all
the Israelis and they said to him you
are our protection that when the
soldiers come they won't kill us because
you're here and they tied up to the pole
he was there for 9 hours tied to that
pole luckily he wasn't shot because the
shooting was going between the soldiers
and them he was right there standing
there he is suffering he's a lover of
Israel this this guy lover he's a bedin
he's served in the Army he served in the
Israeli
Army a lot of these bedwin serve in the
Israeli Army it's unbelievable everyone
feels it here but the most important
thing out of this whole thing is this
was like you said this was the worst day
the the biggest killer of Jews since the
day of since the Holocaust this is worse
than y kipa War because yipa War it took
weeks till this amount of people K were
killed weeks in one
day over 1500 people over one day and
how many more people will die people are
captured but my hope my real hope that
we will all
get by the by the is and this is what I
want this is what I'm praying every day
and I'm asking all of us in in America
you see another Jew smile to them give a
nice word it doesn't matter if the Jew
has a beard or has a yamaka or nothing
just smile make we need this this is the
only way we could
survive
wow how are you dealing emotionally with
all of this personally emotionally
well I feel destroyed I really I never I
say 10 days ago was another
person I didn't smile for 10
days my wife myself my kids were just
thinking of what we
saw um I hear stories I hear other
volunteers talking all day that's what
we're talking about this is nothing else
we're talking about not Sports and
nothing else and it's very hard for us
but we know I tell everyone we have a
responsibility We Can't Break we're like
soldiers yeah we are soldiers we can
cannot
break and we have to continue and we
have some Miracles just two hours ago
next to my house at 1:30 in the
morning not far from me a lady called
atella she's she felt like that she's
giving birth to atella volunteers arrive
from the from the women's division and
delivered a baby baby boy and you hear
these stories it makes you you know what
good things are going to happen mem a
lot of good things are going to happen
we just have to be in auna we can't
break that's what theas wants that's
what Iran wants Iran is behind this
whole thing and we all know that and
this was not a plan by theas Kamas not
they don't have the a bunch of
lunatics rapists that's what they are
ask ask you a question all the people
that are coming here tonight and I'm
just telling you as a personal feeling
it's such a feeling of mixed emotions of
fear and what's going to be and the news
and you know right now we feel like
America is very you know Pro and you
know President Biden really spoke
amazing when he gave a speech and they
seem to be very supportive now of Israel
and they see you know they seem to get
it get it clear but we all are just like
inside like scared of what's going on in
Israel and how the anti-Semitism is
pouring ac across America you know the
stories that are coming out the protest
being there and seeing what's going on
like what what could you tell us give us
some physic over here it's a different
type of physic over there you're dealing
with life Terror over here we're dealing
with like fear you of the unknown of of
you know we're just sitting back and
watching it like like like from an
outsider what do you tell all the people
worldwide not in N Ro but what should be
our mindset what are we supposed to
think well and 10 days ago when this
thing started I was I was devastated I
was sure we're we're losing the country
you know in certain points if you go
back in history 50 years ago gold de
mayor thought at the second or third day
that the country is over she actually
thought that the Egyptians are going to
catch her so that's what I felt and then
I want to say and I'm going back to what
I said
before when I saw the off I knew we're
going to win and everywhere in the
country you see Signs Now it
says it's all over the country if you
think about it it's such a powerful
saying if we're together we could go
through this it doesn't matter if you're
in Lakewood it doesn't matter if you're
in B park it doesn't matter if you're in
Los Angeles all the Jews together will
win all our enemies we
won
1946 five after the war look the Jewish
people came out of the war situation 6
million Jews were murdered and look at
us today I think every single one of us
has me family members who were murdered
in the the Holocaust and look at the
Jewish Nation yes we we got the
worst thing that we could have imagined
happened on S sim turned to a name of a
war it was now Sim it turned to a name
of a war but I really believe that it
brought us back together unfortunately
we were going we were going in the wrong
direction for last I was watching I was
watching on the news shabas in Manhattan
the big schs in Manhattan which is
basically not so from they had videos
the wasn't a seat in
the I feel it the amount of love that we
feel people calling me and sending me
messages and people apologizing when
they calling me you they know we have a
war people are supporting you're not
going to believe the amount of love and
support that is coming not only to
towards United because every
yes
organizations are getting ing love and
people realize that it's about time that
we really have to really care about each
other it's not about ourselves it's
about all of us and I think this is the
best message that has to come out of
this whole thing
Lakewood and La Bor Park and
Philadelphia we're all together every
Jew in the world no matter who you are
and you have some people who are more
for them or less for or not for them but
the terrorist didn't choose who's who
they going to kill and who not they
killed everyone they killed all the Jews
and so many miracles are you're going to
hear about a lot of Miracles coming out
of this whole story lots and lots and
lots of Miracles I hear them all the
time
look this could have been 10 times
worse they were planning to come to yush
you know how many tourists they had in
yush for Sil store hotels were pack
there were no police from there was no
police no police Maybe One Cop for us
for people were speeding they would have
gotten a few Kamas people who got a
speeding ticket they had no security in
Israel it was a disaster what was going
on it was something that unheard of that
Israel should not have the Army prepared
and the reason they didn't have anything
prepared is because they were busy
fighting with each other that's the
truth they were not thinking about our
enemies we turned ourselves into the
enemies and now I think we realize look
at this Benny gance is sitting together
VI
Nan and and hopefully I don't you know I
don't know what's going to be we're
going to fight for a while and but I
really feel that we're going to win
because I'm
is like we say and we we're here for
staying we're not leaving anywhere and
we're people willing to give their lives
for it look at this 350,000 soldiers
down south people are running people are
coming I don't know if you saw chared
flights from LA there was chared flights
of people that flew there to the D try
to fight left with 300 people people are
begging to come to fight people want to
come protect the country people want to
come learn here not only fight people
want to come learn Torah here people
want to support people want to do good
and it's really showing the good face of
us I had children my daughter today I'm
just going to tell you a beautiful story
What in in Alim was a terrible situation
a lot of people were murdered and host
for 20 25 hours and one of the
volunteers is a girl her name is
panina and
she she was devastated from this whole
thing and after she finished treating uh
victims and her and her other volunteers
she came over to me through through the
head of the theim division and she said
he called me up and she she was crying
on the phone she says I'm supposed to
get married Sunday today and she and
they cancel all the weddings in the
south no weddings no
events and she said I don't know where
to get married I don't have money to
make a wedding I don't I said don't
worry we're going to make a wedding for
you we had arranged Hut sell wedding for
her
inim um Danielle renov she's a peace
pece love and carrots she I called her
up I knew she knows how to arrange
things she found a hole we found a
caterer we found this my daughter Adena
was 15 and2 years old with her 10
friends came to the wait do the waiters
they were waiting for for cleaning up
setting up the place giving people the
food and then cleaning up after and this
is all volunteers did it was and then
when people heard said that they have a
wedding of someone from
from at 500 people showed up to the
wedding to dance in the Shool that they
made a wedding in it's just showing the
love that people want to give to each
other I want to turn to another topic
and I want to be part of it also Dr
proman the bottom line we me and I'm
talking for probably other people as
well how do we deal with our emotional
not to get wrapped into it there's like
this I say I'm talking for myself
everybody could do whatever they want
there's that feeling of okay we're
starting the is coming there's the
feeling this is World War II there's the
feeling the Holocaust is starting
there's a feeling of extreme excitement
at one side another side extreme fear
and then of course the million dollar
question the children from my my
six-year-old listens he turned on Alexi
says tell me the news he knows exactly
what's going on okay he's a little
Advanced but 16 straight through I mean
how do we deal with this how how are you
dealing with this just let's let's let's
talk about it h first of all I think
like everybody else my emotions are all
over the place I think I started every
single meeting this week uh with I
apologize in advance if at some point I
start breaking down because my heart is
with you my my spirit is with you I'm
right here but but I'm also with our
people and to be with our people means
that you're carrying their pain you're
feeling them you're alongside them I I
just wanted the basic answer to that
question Asher and and Coach man as well
why why and Ellie and all the most
amazing people in the world that are
here together this is here just tonight
letting you know there's somebody from
Mexico Argentina have everybody live
here from around the world continue sir
this is the biggest part of our healing
not healing because we're still in it we
don't know where this fight is is going
to take us and I think we need to to
shift a little bit of the way we think
about anxiety we're always thinking
about how do I ground myself how do I
get okay how do I do that and I think
what we're seeing is the best way we
could do that is to convert that into
action we'll talk a little bit about it
soon some research with regards to that
and I think here getting together I
think if there was a way for us to do
this every night to sit and look at each
other to see I could only do once a week
I don't have one week well there there's
a time and place for everything and it
could very well be that we need to do
this more than once a week right now so
we could see each other and we could
connect for a moment I know I had on
Friday nights um usually I know it's a
time to recharge for many of us um but
you can't you can't sit in your own
skins I walked over to my sister's house
to spend some time with her and and her
husband and family and we just we
laughed Together We Cried together we
shared stories we disagreed we fought we
shared our anxieties and I know that
both of us at the end just a big Embrace
with a lot of Tears in our eyes just
love you I care about you you're my
brother and it's such an honor to be on
this journey alongside you and I think
that's what we're seeing there's nothing
like every once in a while we get a
patch we get a little reminder that all
we have is one another and I think in
the beginning if you look at even just
this week what it looked like being in
America it was like that the beginning
he heard words from the president you
heard words words from some others it
was amazing to see how quickly The
Narrative shifted it was supportive how
could people do this to the Jew Jewish
people to the to the state of Israel and
then very quickly it became restraint it
became an eye for an eye it became
everything else and I think it's been
haraan for for most of us to see that
when you're driving down the street and
there's someone that you're not so
familiar with or even a neighbor that
you know how does this person think
about me how do they see me right now if
let's say they're from a different
denomination different religion how are
they looking at me at this moment it
became truly terrifying I know for me I
was sharing with family that I'd feel
safer in ER because at least I know I'm
with my family I know what I'm up
against and over here there's so much
silence there's so many looks that
you're getting I had already a few times
this week just driving on the highway
you know every once in a while when
you're in traffic you look at the car
next to you you try not to make too much
eye contact but every once in a while
you do you have a moment of connection
and this week I had at least four
moments of disconnection where you just
catch eyes with another human being and
instead of their being like just a a
polite Hello nice to acknowledge Your
Existence nice for you to notice me
there was like a look of disdain there
was a look of fear and I remember
sitting in my car I think it was the
first time in my life I actually
experienced fear being in this country a
real sense of fear like what's going to
be and I know it's something we need to
attend to I it was a story my my first
day of internship and when I was
studying to become a therapist my first
day first or second day I forget was 11
that was my training and I was working
at the time in a in a locked unit in the
Psychiatric Center it was called
Hillside Hospital connected to Li and I
remember the the patients in that unit
obviously these are people who've been
through a lot in their lives they've
struggled a great deal but the whole
focus of their experience in that moment
became personal it became singular they
all needed a great deal of medication
just to like settle themselves down and
I was thinking about that in contrast to
who we are as a people when we suffer as
a nation we come together it's not just
it's not only about us as individuals
and yes we're in anxiety and I wish I
could say do this and you lose your
anxiety we could talk about things you
could do to to ground yourself to
connect but at the end of the day we
know that we're going to be in a state
of anxiety because it's an anxious time
we know that there's
time there's a time for anger there's a
time for love there's a time for fear
and this is a time where we're truly
afraid no one here could predict the
future
but we know that we're when we're
together we're strong when we're unified
we We Become One Singular people and to
see that happened like in all these
stories Ellie Beer is sharing the most
beautiful stories of what it means to
for cherol to come together that's the
greatest Yeshua that we have there isn't
there's no tricks of losing letting go
of that anxiety I think we need to talk
to our kids openly it's something we
need to we need to say that we need to
give kids a language for what's going on
around them they need to have the
ability to ask to to get some degree of
clarification give them a language
that's appropriate for them that they
could begin to align their inner world
with their outer expression so we don't
have this fracture that could start
early on and then just today I was
sitting with a person who went through a
lot he had an experience in his life
early on deeply deeply traumatizing and
I think for anyone who's close enough to
trauma they understand this idea that
because he wasn't able to integrate that
experience at that moment and you start
you see that fracture beginning you know
it began at a very early stage in his
life but here he is as a married adult
still living with that fracture still
holding on to that and the best thing we
could do remember asking him I said did
you did you share this information this
experience with your parents did you let
anyone know what you went through and
like most people who've been through any
degree of trauma the answer was you get
like a Blank Stare there was no one
there there was no one to talk to there
was no one that I could share that with
and when we think about our kids today
they see us they know what we're going
through they know that the world is
slightly chaotic at this moment that
we're living with our own sense of
uncertainty we're on edge and we need to
find a way to explain to them in their
own words that is appropriate for them
and like you said Asher you have a child
who's possibly a little precocious in a
beautiful way and I'll use it those Kus
to to bring great healing to our people
in the future God willing takes a lot of
courage to to stand up and he's showing
those signs early on which is amazing so
he might need a different language than
someone who is a little bit more
withdrawn a little quieter but either
way we need to start thinking about what
is the inherent language what is the
internal language of my children and how
could I find a way to reach them in that
place so they don't have to absorb it
they don't have to hold on to it that
they know that there's just like us as
adults what are we doing all day aside
from watching the news we're
communicating with with one another
through WhatsApp and yet children
because they don't even have words to
express what's going on they don't have
that ability to share with one another
and we need to give them that ability we
need to be those people for them we need
to give them an opportunity to express
what exists inside of them and and
hopefully that'll that'll give them that
strength to stay aligned and I think
with ourselves it's really the same
there's a lot of research if if I could
start a little
bit um there's a lot of research when it
comes to how do you prevent trauma and
the irony of this by the way is that
most of this research emerges from Artis
because it's a community it's it's a
country that lives in a state of trauma
so a lot of the most relevant research
that we have on trauma on PTSD on what
what what this does to people when they
experience things that they can't
integrate into themselves um it all
comes from ER and I could imagine so
much more will emerge from this as well
we'll be able to learn from it but
number one
there was a a study that was done with
Israeli soldiers after they experienced
the loss within their unit and they gave
them options two options they said
option number one you could stay close
enough close proximity to your unit you
could process it with them you could
stay along with with whatever fight that
they're in or option number two which is
certainly appealing and I think it's
appealing to us as well as adults is
that you could go to a place get some
rest be by yourself a little bit go to a
hotel go to some some Spa rest find your
find yourself again and then they follow
those people for many years and they
said who was better off which group of
people ultimately did better and what
they found overwhelmingly was that first
group of people the ones who got to stay
with others the ones who had the
opportunity to process it I know that
this is a it's hard to say this but this
is a a we have some people who open up
their cameras but I know that for myself
when I have an opportunity to see people
especially now on this screen I see a
few people that I know sha was a student
and I see some others that are just
people that mean so much to me in life
and when I see your face it gives me a
sense of connection it gives me a sense
of I'm with you in this journey I'm
alongside you and and there's a purpose
that comes along with that when you stay
engaged you stay connected you have the
opportunity to mourn alongside one
another to share in the struggle with
one another um and this is a moment
where it's it's frightening it's
frightening to share this with one
another but we need to we know that
trauma is defined it's really defined by
any experience that we don't have the
opportunity to integrate into our system
it's beyond us for whatever reason and I
think it's fair to say that this is an
experience for all of us it's simply
Beyond us and so there's going to be an
impact there's going to be a ripple
effect and I wish I could say do this
it's going to go away but I think we all
know we're all wise enough to know that
this is a moment where the best we could
do is to have a moment like this to
share with one another to love one
another to accept and embrace one
another because that's that's what we're
here for and to experience those moments
together uh by doing by engaging I was
speaking to my sister I have a sister
there cell um she has her son and her
son-in-law are both on the front line
they're right there ready to go uh my my
my dear nephew Gabriel he was a part of
that unit that base that was fact he had
just graduated from the Army a few
months ago and that was his base that's
where he was stationed so most of those
people were his
undergraduates and for him the
opportunity to say I got to do something
it wasn't even a question it was like I
this is my duty this is what it means to
be a Jew this is what it means to stand
together as a people and my sister she
she has the ability unlike I don't
believe i' I'd be capable of doing this
um but she's doing the taharas and she's
been she's part of the KRA kadisha her
and her husband husband and she's doing
the
taharas hard to hard to even say this of
of the Holy brothers and sisters who
perished and she's describing scene
after scene of what is that like to she
told me one thing she said that when you
put you try to piece together a person
because you want to present it to the
family so they could bury them with
dignity and respect and she said they're
asking questions is this is this the top
of the body is this the bottom of the
body how do we do this and that's what
she's facing but because of her strength
because of who she is as a person
because she she knows that it's her
children that are on that front line and
she's sending them there with fear and
apprehension but with pride that this is
these are our children she's doing her
part and we need to do our part every
one of us like RAB Waba was saying that
this is our One Way Or Another We're
being called upon to do something I know
even today like showing up here I don't
believe I have a lot of words to share I
don't don't I just want to be with my
brothers and sisters that's the only
thing I could do I don't even like the
fact that there's a doctor and a PhD
it's irrelevant at this moment what's
relevant is that we're here together and
we're one big family that's what matters
and we show up when someone calls upon
you and say it's time and to see the to
hear the stories my son's is two boys
inel who are learning I can't tell you
how proud I am of them that they were I
want to be here I want to be in atis
this is myus right now it's my way of
fighting alongside my brothers and
sisters is that I'm going to learn from
my people I'm going to learn extra hard
for my people because that's my way of
showing up that's what I could do right
now but there was a a battalion that
reached out to one of my sons yeshivas
and they said we need to raise an
exorbitant amount of money in a short
period of time in order for them to get
vests and helmets because we're not
fully fully prepared for this moment and
it was literally a matter of hours where
they were able to raise a I think it was
like
$170,000 these are just 18-year-old boys
making calls to their friends to their
family saying what could I do and just
an opportunity to video call my son and
to see that the passion to see how alive
he is to say that I'm doing my part for
col and that's what it means to be a yid
and so we say that we you stay in it
together the best way to We Can't
inoculate ourselves against fractures
that emerge inside of us it's not we
don't have that ability but the best way
we can In This Moment is to find a way
to contribute to find a way to be close
to find a way to to do our part whatever
that might be and for some of us it's
staying to hilum for some of us it's
learning a little bit longer than we
normally do for some of us it's
literally sending tanks to another
country which I literally got a call
from a guy today do you know if you
could get a tank ter Isel and I'm like
listening to the guy in the phone what
are you talking about but the honest
truth that's what he's working on he's
really working on getting a tank because
they need it there's there's some group
that needs a particular type of tank
that they don't have so they're working
on getting it they already priced it out
they already found the people that are
that that make it and they're trying to
figure out how do we get it there and
finally they got in touch with the guy
who runs DHL and he says I'm willing I'm
willing to take it we'll find a way to
get it there you get me the tank we'll
get it there and all I could think is M
who's like us who's like us unlike any
other people you know we see 9/11 we
came together as a country no question
but to see cherol coming together like
this no no matter how we look what we do
how we dress how we interact what our
approaches to yish kite that we're one
big family and I think the fact that we
see the outside world responding the way
they do it almost to some degree forces
us into this space yeah we embrace it
because that's what we do I want to
share another piece of
research that they talk about and again
this is something to think about and I
know there are different opinions on
this but I'm just speaking about it from
a psychological perspective this was
research that was done after 9/11 and I
think most of us know um that we were
just just drawn to our devices or
whatever we did to to to observe what
was taking place to see an airplane
flying into a building and see people
jumping out of buildings it was
something that because it's so different
and so novel Something That We're drawn
to something that we like but we know
that
that they they discovered afterwards
that the people who saturated themselves
in these images they really just watched
it over and over again I think there's a
psychological need for us to do that it
gives us some degree of control some
degree of Mastery we know what's going
on we're aware and it allows us to feel
like we're doing our part one way or
another just by observing what's taking
place but they found that when when
people internalize too much information
that they can't truly internalize
that there's like this residual effect
there's this lingering information that
we we don't know where to place and it's
something to think about that we all
know our line I'm I'm a sensitive soul
and for me I know that I I that if you
see if I see something I'm going to have
a really hard time unseeing it I don't
think I ever will in the middle of you
and my sister talking today I said
please I I so deeply appreciate hearing
some of the stories but you know who I
am I can't hear all of the stories share
with me some of your experience but not
every aspect of it because I know that
if once I hear it or once I see it I'm
not going to be able to unhear and unsee
it it will stay with me and for some of
us we have the ability to integrate it
we need to know who we are um but for
some of us we
don't um and I want to I want to turn a
little bit now a little bit because a
lot of people asking Ellie we ask you no
no good
good we can we get a little bit into
like Hashem and like a lot of people are
having just a hard time with them Ellie
I want to start with you if that's okay
like people are texting all time like
like how do we deal with we believe in
Hashem and hm's this and cl and then we
watch you know one thing we learn about
the Holocaust we watch videos it's most
of us already it's more of History than
it is reality you know but when we see
what's going on it's people being
butchered and slaughtered and we D hem
hasem like how do you you go there you
see this how do you internalize how do
you deal with that how do you connect I
love then you see what's going on how do
you it's contradictory
oh listen I I uh when I was a kid I had
my
was and uh I don't remember the whole
para by heart but you know Hashem gave
us a
choice G us you know you could choose
bad and good and hem gives us a
recommendation to
choose I don't I don't remember the
whole um it's almost 6: in the morning I
didn't sleep for a couple of days but I
remember my father explaining this this
to me when I was a young boyn my father
grew up in America and when he was 10
years old he was raising money for B Sal
to save Jews from the Holocaust and I
asked my father how did you stay
religious after this after you heard how
many people were murdered how did you
stay how and 6 million Jews were
murdered how did he stay
from believing in Hashem after all
and he told me the parure I had was
really um you you RAB RAB y why could
actually help me out here but because
I'm like very exhausted but really hasem
gave us the human beings the choice to
be good or bad and Hashem really gives
us the Torah that we should follow these
are the steps he should do to be a good
person a good Jew here's a sarados
here's the 63 1 MIT this and we have to
follow them if if a group of terrorists
a group of
Nazis are are doing bad we have to do
more good we have to influence the world
more my father said he every day after
after Yesa used to go to Torah every day
he used to go raise money to save Jews
from from Europe and he felt so good
with himself every single day when he
got a few dollars and he said hand it
over to the organization and after the
war he said maybe I should have
more he didn't think
of being angry at hasem he knew the
Nazis were the bad people and we were
the good people and it's all about us
educating our children our families to
follow
D is very clear you see someone no it
doesn't matter if he's Jewish or
non-jewish you see someone needs help
you go help them you have to help Jews
and non-jews you have to you never allow
to kill people for nothing These Guys
these terrorists they they do EX exactly
the opposite they choose their the the
the bad they choose doing good bad and
it doesn't I actually say that it's it's
really nothing it's all about us and our
education I'm not blaming Hashem for the
Nazis and I'm going to say I don't
believe in Hashem because of that Hashem
created the world Hashem follows
everything that's going on but Hashem
gave us a direction I really think that
after seeing what I saw this last 10
days I believe in Hashem even more and I
want to go in his way even more I want
to follow the Torah even more I want to
make sure my children follow the Torah
my grandchildren follow the Torah to be
kind to each
other that's the Torah that's that's
what hasem asks us to do and if and and
this gives me more MOA than
ever Ellie how many terrorists came in
to Israel how
many over 1500 and how do you explain
that for so many hours there was no
response so let me explain first of all
how it works in the border of Gaza they
have a big army base very very big army
base that they all the cameras the most
sophisticated cameras all the all the
you know the borders were protected if
you touch a border automatically the
camera's going on this was planned over
a year a year and a half but they did is
they send drones with explosives on it
they had dozens of dozens of drones at
6:00 early in the morning what the
soldiers were used to seeing in the last
few years Farmers Arab Farmers from Gaza
would come close to the gate so they had
a lot of farmers come that day they
didn't realize that was weird these
farmers were not really Farmers all
terrorists and what they did is they
send drones into the army bases and they
blew up and killed soldiers lots and
lots of soldiers by drones and these
soldiers were overlooking the the
computer ERS most of them were murdered
by these drones then they started
shooting missiles into Israel so
everyone when they hear missiles they
run to shelter and that's when all these
Farmers got up with the machine gun
started shooting at the at the soldiers
that were on the border and they started
coming with tractors knocking off the
border and th hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of them were just coming in
with Jeeps 4x4 you know pickup trucks
with guns on it and like thirsty to kill
Jews
and that the no one was waiting for them
the truth is it was a big surprise for
everyone I'm saying again this was one
of Israel's worst failures and I'm
saying admitting this I I'm an Israeli
you know we all love this country we
failed we failed and I say it again and
again we failed because we're too busy
fighting with each
other if we were not fighting with each
other we would think about how to secure
Israel better how to fight our biggest
enemy which is Iran Iran are the Hitler
of this
generation these are the Nazis of this
generation they sponsor it's like you're
sitting now I don't know where you are
now in America you're sitting around
thinking how to do good in the world how
to give light in the world how to
support and do good things is sitting
there all these guys with the long
beards these guys are sitting how do we
kill more people and this is what we
were supposed to be busy with we were
supposed to be busy with that
somehow the
Yahara is so powerful yahar always says
let's speak about each other let's toat
each other let's find why the second
person is not good and Hashem
unfortunately got us you
know I I I I I think this is worse than
the mipa war no doubt much worse in the
MK War it's not even over it's just the
beginning Rabbi we're just in the
beginning now because now we have to
clean up the mess do you feel the
Israeli leadership do you feel Ellie
that the Israeli leadership honestly has
the courage to create the sustained
efforts necessary to do what they have
to do in terms of Hamas Iran Gaza kisala
and the Enemy Inside the state of Israel
do you feel deep down in your gut that
our leadership political and Military
leadership has the courage resolve and
even Clarity and confidence to do what
they have to do I know now everybody's
angry and you know sh and Biden is
supporting but I'm talking about you
know what I mean down the line you know
when CNN start showing other
images I don't want to be political here
and you know speak against any political
figure in the end of the
day in sorry this is my my life for the
last 10 days I don't feel well but the
the end of the
day we we have to give support to the
leaders here although if we like them or
don't like them we're in a war now we
should
not even say lanar about our leaders
because now we have to hope there was no
elections now we have no choice uh I
feel like 10 days ago they were doing a
terrible terrible job terrible job
running the country
terrible
and I was embarrassed of what was going
on here it was everything against what I
always preach and I think s t at 12:00
in the afternoon B nany for the first
time went on television and started
talking he
realized big failure this country went
through and he was the leader of the
country and he called for AK and he
called Benny Gans he called yed
unfortunately yed did not join he called
even Le
who we all know his opinions and no
one's a big fan of this crowd with him
but he called him and and Benny Gans who
was a who was a chief of staff of the
Israeli of the
idea joined BB n for the government
which I thought it was an incredible
thing and I really put a lot of hopes
and I think we have to dve in all of us
be maab ourselves to DAV to give s and
do and give hope that these people will
have the right direction should help
them out find the right d to win this
enemy because this enemy is more evil
than the Egyptian enemy the Egyptians
were planning to kill you remember
you're young I was born right before the
enip war but I read every book on the
enip
war the
Egyptians wanted to kill every Israeli
throw him into the ocean but once they
realize they're losing they decided to
to to make a
ceasefire because they were surrounded
with Israelis yeah and they had no
choice we thought we're losing and then
everything turned around and I really
think that in this situation the Hamas
are very different than the Nazis by the
way the Nazis also didn't want to die
the Nazis the Germans wanted to build
the Empire of the German Empire
worldwide but they didn't want to die
once they realized they're dying Hitler
shot himself in the head and the Germans
wanted to make peace these guys want to
die yeah how do you fight two million
people want to die I don't know so
Hashem has to give b n and Benny Gans
and everyone else involved some kind of
that I have no answer for how do you win
an enemy like
this wow I saw an interview with a Hamas
leader on one of the stations and he
said the difference between us and the
Jews is he says they are weak because
they want to live they cherish life we
want to die the guy said in the
interview the Jews are weak because they
love life they clink to life they'll do
anything to live we are happy to die we
want our children to die they die a
martyr's death they go to heaven with 72
pies of
pizza and I that was what that was what
may said that's what gold the mayor said
we're never going to have peace with the
Arabs until they love their children
more than they
us right I don't know if you have this
answer people a lot of people are
texting it it's a it's a question people
know is at the end of the day are there
hopes of these hostages are we are we
trying is is the goal trying to really
save them or we just we're more focused
on you know really the getting Kamas it
might not be a question for you but just
a lot of people are texting me
this look I think as an Israeli who has
children here we all have tremendous SAR
tremendous SAR on every single person
that was captured by the Kamas and we
know that their condition
are you can't even imagine how bad their
conditions are and that one that one
father was interviewed I don't know if
you saw the interview in CNN he said
he's so happy his daughter died and she
wasn't captured by theas his 15-year-old
daughter was murdered and he was so
happy that she died and wasn't captured
by the Kamas these Kamas people first of
all they are monsters like I can't
understand people who are protecting
even Palestinians are you guys out of
your mind you want to live under Kamas
look what's going on under Kamas these
guys are murderers are are thieves I
don't even continue but they are the
worst of the worst of human beings all
they thinking about is the the the the
the the the fun of killing people even
their own people so the the people are
protecting them it's only because they
hate Jews so that's why they're
protecting them even Europeans you see
protecting they Jews so they're
protecting them I I personally think
that we we have a challenge here we have
to really work hard for the next few
months and kill the heads of theas their
families and everyone
if these these people that were captured
Israelis Jews were captured or we can't
we can't think of them because we have
the whole country to think of I don't
know it's a I don't know but sh should
you blow up the whole Gaza and you have
100 people or Jewish there because if
you blow up the whole area you might
save a lot of Jews in the future I think
you can't negotiate with them for sure
you can't negotiate with them it's a big
Shilo what's going to be with them and
Israelis most of Israelis they don't
even say it but they think it might end
up
terrible I want to turn the question
back to you back to theem and you know
the the million dollar question how when
we hear all this is how we supposed to
ourselves and really pull ourselves
together in in a spiritual sense I'm
bring up a side topic I know nobody
wants to answer the question but do we
are we supposed to think about this is
really y this is really the beginning of
ofas is this is what we're
holding listen you're asking the
question of all questions this is the
greatest and profoundest question of
History you know where is God
when innocent people suffer in this
way you know when you read T of
D you know we read tum in Hebrew and
very few of us understand the rich
poetry of of T but if you understand
the it's extremely comforting
because and the other nine writers of
tahan they expressed there the pain and
the disappointment and the grief
and the sense of despondency and loss
from all the suffering and anguish that
David experienced and the Jewish people
experienced and he yells to hasem and he
screams you
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know and you know he screams at and yet
God is also the source of comfort so
it's like almost a paradox like you know
you're screaming where are you and how
can you allow this and if you're so good
and if you're so compassionate and and
El and
like what happened with
with and and and you know you read the a
it's by the way just I'm I'm smiling
because it's important to remember one
thing in this entire tragedy and that is
we have been around for 4,000 years our
nation has sadly sadly sadly
seen incomprehensible atrocities not
just generation of the Holocaust we're
talking about for thousands of years and
it's just it's important to remember
that we are here to tell the story so
everybody should just know what the end
game is the end game is we're winning
we're Victorious we're going to come out
triumphant there's a navi the last Navi
of the Jewish people was malahi the
prophet Mali he has a line there the
name tells them to tell the Jewish
people listen you're going to die maybe
but they're going to have to kill me
First Once Hamas and Iran andala
finishes killing God then they'll be
able to kill the Jewish people as long
as they don't kill
God you're not going anywhere so if you
ask you know where are the Egyptians and
the syrians the Babylonians and the
Greeks and them all the way back to
Hitler and Stalin and the answer is
they're gone the empires are gone the
Jewish people are here so that's the end
the end story you know as Ellie
said is not just a slogan it's not a
cliche it's not just sung in Kennedy
Airport which is beautiful it's in the
DNA of the Jewish people because it's in
the DNA of huh is here is still here
like the
says but like we
say it's just important to understand
that
we The Eternity of the Jewish people was
never a question and never will be a
question despite despite the
incomprehensible law so there is a
paradox here on one hand we turn to God
and we pray and we DAV and we cry where
are you
why by the way the greatest Believers in
Judaism quite great
Believers asked these
questions because the pain is so so
overwhelming and yet their very Comfort
came from that very same God how does
that work how does that work does it
make
sense and the answer to this is is very
simple and it's also very profound and
that is why do we believe in
love why do we believe in love why don't
we if the whole world is a random error
it's a random mutation okay people die
there are murderers there are killers
good and evil it's all relative there's
no real absolute why are we so upset
obessed with our hatred towards evil and
our love for love and compassion and the
reason is because love and Justice is in
the DNA of the universe because there's
a God who's good and that's what's
entrenched in our systems so we have to
remember that our entire experience of
love and compassion comes from the
source of love and compassion if you
don't believe that at the world in the
world is a source of love and compassion
the this whole thing is just our own
imagination so the very amuna that makes
us cry out why is there so much pain in
the world tells us that the core of love
and compassion is coming from a place
much deeper than my mind and my heart
and therefore it brings me also to the
next conclusion and that is there's no
way that our finite brains can
wrap themselves around the mysteries of
life and the mysteries of the Jewish
people
when you hear about what happened if I
try to assimilate it into my brain and
try to understand it like I try to
understand and I try to make sense out
of it one of two things happen either it
forces me to numb and detach from my
emotions
or my mind becomes completely M there is
a moment where I have to tell myself I
don't understand I don't have to
understand
when R when theim saw the fate of R and
they
said's response
is
silence what type of response is that
silence let's think about it their
question wasn't only about words it was
a question about thoughts also it's a
place where the human mind the human
thought The Human Experience of what is
love what is goodness we just don't
comprehend it and therefore we cry and
we're vulnerable and we rule so our
refuge is in God who is the essence of
love and the source of love but we don't
know exactly what that means we
understand about Hashem and his journey
and his plan and his Infinity as much as
a plant in my garden who's watching me
embrace my child or give something
loving to my child how much does that
plant experience the emotion of love the
plant is a
plant we don't the whole vocabulary of
the Divine completely completely
transcends us and yet that is our only
that is our only source of security what
is my source of once heard from Ellie
wizel Ellie wiel was an
aitz and he said I heard this from him
once he said he was W by the
LA and elel struggled with God terribly
like so many survivors he wrote a book
called night in which he writes some
very very powerful
powerful feelings about how he lost his
God in aitz he saw a Child Hanging oh
I'm not going to get graphic here but in
his book night and he he said this he
said he was once by the re and at some
point you know these are two very
educated intelligent people he said I
looked
at and I said how do you believe in God
after
aitz and he said that the Reb was
silent for a few moments very pensive
and then he looked at him and he said in
who do you you want me to believe after
ashz you want me to believe in human
beings after ashz if there's any faith
left at all in the destiny of mankind
it's only from something that
transcends the ego and the mind of
mankind that was the
response we are torn we are shattered
and a and doesn't mean that I'm naive
I'm numb I'm dumb I'm detached amuna
means that despite everything I want to
believe and hold on to something that is
eternal and that
transcends my ego transcends my emotions
transcends my mind and is a source of
ultimate love and Security even if I
can't explain it in rational equations
and rational terms it's the belief it's
the belief
that each one of these Jews who were
butchered to
death their life is not
over the kamnik were killed and the Jews
who were killed they don't have exactly
the same
fi without God they have exactly the
same fate they're dead they're finished
Hamas is dead the Jew is dead no
difference bad Ma wrong place wrong time
faith means no that their lifeas Kamas
took their bodies their life their
conscious the fact that they're part of
the Divine truth which I can't see with
my eyes and that's why we cry for them
is is is not over and it also means
Faith also means that goodness will
prevail love will prevail Unity will
prevail that's what mhia means Gul means
that our job is to make this world a
place of Truth a place of love and that
we're going to succeed with it and it's
a choice everybody has to make the
choice Amud is a choice in many ways
it's a choice that comes from the
deepest part of the Soul that says that
I want to hold on to the fact that all
our trauma and all our pain for 5,000
years was not just the mockery of evil
Sinister monsters who get power and can
do whatever they want yes there are
people who choose that philosophy and I
will never judge because pain is pain
but this is the power of Judaism this is
the power of the Jewish people and I
know in my life I I know what I want to
choose let's go to the Live question
you're
on hi okay my question is um I see the
outcries all over um from the world out
there
against Israel um about
their I guess um the way they're
treating the innocent Palestinians the
women and children and I know there's
such a thing as collateral damage and
work my question is he for ourselves
like you know we're are a compassionate
Nation like how do we justify that to
ourselves that we are also causing
suffering to innocent people and like
we're not like Kamas yeah we are you
know inadvertently causing the suffering
and B how do we answer the world like
you know when I see all that and like I
feel like I want to respond but like
what do we respond it's a great great
question Ritson Esther may I respond so
I want to ask you I want I want I want
Dr per also to respond after you okay
okay no no
no be I'm waiting for re please sh okay
okay re sorry yeah yeah so Esther I'm
signing off I'm signing off it's a
wonderful question I just want to say
one thing it's this question that has
inculcated so many Jewish Leaders with
such weakness and an inferiority complex
that according to Natural circumstances
is responsible for so many of Israel's
mistakes and failures over the last few
decades you know let me ask you a
personal question right if you are
sitting in your house with your
beautiful children and somebody is
shooting shooting with a bullet and each
bullet is killing or Ming another
child and you want to kill the person
who's killing children but there's a
problem and that person is using a human
shield
that person is living in a house if you
blow up that house there may be children
so the question is what do you do what
is your moral responsibility to allow
all your children to die or to take down
the enemy and blame him him he's the one
who started the shooting not one child
would have been harmed in Gaza somebody
tells me a liberal Jewish friend very
very hardle he says you guys have a
strong Army Gaza has nothing they have
they have Kamas a bunch of losers of
course they have to kill Jews I said you
know what Gaza has Gaza has a country
nearby who doesn't want to hurt even one
Palestinian CH let me ask you a question
my dearest open-minded moral friends
what happens if Hamas goes on vacation
for three years to
Hawaii does Israel shoot one rocket one
missile to Gaza does it kill one Arab
child no everyone is left peacefully to
take care of their lives what happens if
tahal if IDF goes on vacation for one
week will there be one Jew left alive
from the 6.6 million Jews in Israel we
don't have to go back there was a second
world war a holocaust do you know what
what ger what America and Britain did to
Germany in
1945 read about what happened in Dresden
read about what happened in Berlin read
about what happened in Munich and
Frankfurt in
1945 there were a lot of German
casualties who do we blame
Churchill America we blame Hitler the
monster he started a war he's
responsible for the Germans who are
dying we're blaming Israel for trying to
protect 6.6 million Jews who would be
slaughtered them using human Shields and
Israel is at fault it is Moral Moral
Insanity when did the World Trade Center
America flattened Afghanistan there must
have been hundreds of thousands not
millions of innocent people that got
killed of course you never want to
Target an innocent person which Jew
which Jew wants to Target one innocent
person you could count on your hand Jews
who want to Target innocent
people instead of Kamas is brilliant
they know that when they use human
Shields the world is going to gank up
against Israel instead of ganging up
with Kamas and say you are Thugs and
criminals and Nazis and monsters and we
will never tolerate you Israel
surrenders to the
stupidity of a world who couldn't care
less if there's another holus and says
yeah we're so sorry we're so sorry we're
a moral country a moral country means a
country that defends its citizens
unwaveringly and unequivocally and it's
this
mindset forgive my passion here but it's
important it's this mindset that has
crippled Jewish leaders for decades now
because we are a compassionate
people sadly not sadly that we're a
compassionate people sadly that we
confuse authentic compassion and
understanding when compassion causes
much more pain to the cruel more Arabs
have died more Arabs have died because
of our appeasement Churchill said I
quote Churchill appeasement is feeding
the alligator in the hope that you will
be eaten last sadly least since the Six
Day War Israeli Leaders with good
intentions have embraced the path of
appeasement in 2005 10,000 Jews were
thrown out of their homes in Gaza Jewish
Graves were undug to be able to give our
neighbors a beautiful Palestinian state
in Gaza I say to you I'm not a
politician I'm not a military man
Israel's greatest mistake was the moment
that Hamas shot the first missile from
Gaza into is
AR Shan should have stood up and said I
made a terrible mistake I thought I'm
giving you a state you'll build
universities hospitals schools Gardens
Farms use our green houses beautiful you
you have a beautiful green houses it was
a paradise there Paradise use it and
then the whole right wing would have
been numb the right wing would have been
proven wrong because look we gave them a
Palestinian State and look life is
flourishing
instead we said ah another missile
another missile another missile we
allowed a monster a Nazi monster a
raging cancer to grow and grow and grow
and grow every few years we have to send
in a few people and lose more and kill
some of their own children instead of
having the unwavering Clarity and saying
terror is a raging cancer either you
eliminate it or it eliminates you
welcome to 2023 we did not eliminate the
cancer okay so the world is saying it's
been our treatment of the Palestinians
till now that made them come out you're
saying it's the opposite it's really the
fact that we had too much r instead of
of course we're harming their kids it's
Aus on the innocent Palestinians Kamas
is a Nazi regime do you know how they
suppress any dissident in Gaza do you
know the torturous methods they use for
their own dissidents for Arab people on
them and to to to relinquish our right
to protect Jews men women and children
let me let me remind you something and
Ellie forgive me if I'm wrong if Hamas
had an opportunity what they did they
would do every single day of the year in
the morning and the afternoon and the
evening and they would have every day
they would do this to six million Jews
they would burn them and torture them
and rape them and and delate them and
murder them every single day the only
reason they don't do it every day is
because of God's grace and because of
our army what happens in would have been
a daily occurrence it's not one time it
happened one time they would love to do
it every single day that's who you're
dealing with so if you leave one one
cell of Kamas intact you are literally
inviting the next round let me tell you
something what we saw I don't like to
use these words but I'm talking from
their perspective what they wanted to
show us was a preview of their movie
their real movie is Ellie what's their
real
movie this is a preview they're real and
killing every single Jew every Jew
there's 6.6 million Jews to embarrass
Hitler to show Hitler that they can do a
better job that's their movie this was a
preview so what and this is the
beginning of their uh they their plan
Hamas Isis their Muslim brother
they want to conquer the world they're
going to go to Europe they're going to
go to England France Belgium Sweden this
is going to be in the last in the next
20 30 years if we don't eliminate it now
here in Israel if we don't fight this
cancer like you said and eliminate them
and Destroy them this is going to beat
every country in Europe and hope and I
hope never but even in the United States
Canada and other other countries you
can't have Rus in evilness like this
it's like when the Nazis were fighting
in Europe no one said why are you
hurting so many Germans and poor Germans
look at these poor Germans you're
killing so many German kids no one said
that no one said that when we went to
when the Americans were bombing Isis in
Syria and Iraq no one was thinking oh
these poor Isis kids how could you kill
them Hamas is exactly the same as Isis
and worse than the Nazis and we have to
educate ourselves and not have not on
their children not on their families we
have to eliminate and unfortunately
unfortunately unfortunately their
children are there if they would really
be real Fighters they would put their
families in a safe place
and they want us to kill their kids so
they can accuse us of being murderers
and we fall prey to their monsterous
ideology and PR success that they have
with Europe and with America and with
stupid professors and academics in our
universities and we full pray you know
the Jewish people were chosen to teach
the world
morality instead of us being students of
CNN and the New York Times and NYU and
Colombia about what's moral and not
moral time has come that the Jewish
people should stand up and say we will
teach the world what morality is for
four 5,000 years we have died to keep
our nation and our world moral we were
the ones who taught the world that every
human being Arab and Jew black and white
is created in God's image it's time that
we embrace our mandate to be a true
light unto the Nations don't look to the
world to smile at you oh 2,000 Jews were
killed we'll give you sympathy for a few
weeks no let's be the beacons of
morality what's right what's wrong
what's good what's evil call a spade a
spade call a monster a
monster I
agree we educ the world what morality is
by killing them is that it
no you got it wrong completely wrong
you're completely off completely let's
make a whole education center for for
for PR for Israel and for the Jewish
people now right now we don't have to
apologize for anything we're doing right
now we have to act we don't have to St
stand here and apologize to anyone in
the world not in Europe and not in not
in America or not in in Canada we have
to fight for our country for our people
we have here in Israel 9 million people
who are living here including non-jews
two million non-jews living here or want
to live peacefully most of them we have
to protect them and right now we have to
do everything possible there is no
morality or nonm morality we're in a war
now they came here invading Israel
killing our women and children raping
women killing old men and Holocaust
Survivors we have to go take care of our
enemies and for fortunately our enemies
are using their people as protection
their children as protection we can't do
anything about it they're also using our
people for protection they kidnapped
over a hundred Jews and having them in
their custody we can't do anything about
it we have to fight our enemies
including unfortunately some of our own
people and many of their people yeah and
shame and it's shame on all of us on all
of us that we have allowed years and
years and years of a philosophy of such
a demonstration of weakness with the
best of intentions that emboldened our
worst enemies to Simply continue murder
after murder after
murder I want to say one thing Rabbi and
I'm going to say this loud United
atah We during the last 10 days did not
treat one terrorist unfortunately some
terrorists got to the hospital not
through United hella I'm not going to
say who did but we did not treat one
terrorist we did not take any terrorist
to the hospital thank you for your
sanity thank you for your sanity this is
this is Humanity this is humanity in a
situation like this you see a terrorist
on the floor you leave him on the floor
let the police deal with them I hope we
live in a situation where no terrorists
would stay alive these terrorists I once
ask kki I'm putting this here recorded I
asked from K keski they had a situation
that un sorry that the Red Cross
are very involved in Israel and had an
announcement by one of the officials
here in err runs big emergency services
that if they have a situation where you
have a terrorist injured and a Jew
injured you have to do triage and
whoever's injured more you have to treat
first imagine imagine this is a Jew
saying this a Jew saying so they asked
me as atella what does United atella
think about it what is United's
statement about this situation you have
a terrorist injured by a a cop who came
because he saw the terrorist trying to
kill a Jew and a Jew is injured who do
you treat
first so I went
to I said you know what before I answer
you the answer I have to I want to ask a
g I was by rki for a few questions and I
asked him this question I said we have a
Jew who was stabbed by a terrorist and
the Jew was shot and the terrorist was
shot and he's he's more inur than the
Jew who do I go first for you know what
said to me you have a to go first to the
terrorist shoot him in his head and then
go to the
Jew very
good said this I I wouldn't do it
because I'm a medical person but in the
war I where's this where's this come
from you know he's he's without a gun
now he's he's he's injured he's maybe
cuffed said he has a din of AI yeah
these all of these terrorists and
fortunately and their families are
surrounding and protecting them all
these family members who are standing
there and protecting them have a din of
ative we're in a war now we're not in a
situation of a hostage and a guy in
Manhattan holding a whole Affair this is
a whole group of millions of of millions
of terrorists in Gaza who want to kill
every single one of us want to kill our
children our mothers our grandmothers we
now need to protect ourselves we have
zero you remember Norman Schwarz Norman
Schwarz goov was the commander of the US
forces in the first Gulf War not Jewish
and they asked him should we forgive
terrorists so General Schwarz said
that's not our job it's God's job our
job is to arrange the
meeting what let's let's go to another
Live question
okay that one uh I like
that okay I'm hi um yeah so I just I saw
this for myself and I see this from the
previous questioner
that I think that and when you listen to
what the the you know the news people
are saying I don't know I'm not like
very educated I don't know so much about
it but if I ever just listen to one
person and and immediately makes me
doubt what the MS is what the truth is
who's right and who's wrong that that
question like I can so relate to it
because I started thinking the same way
like maybe I don't know maybe the
Israelis are doing bad things and the
truth is that that we know the truth and
listening to what the world is saying is
so
detrimental it literally like just takes
us away from what our true mission is
which is to do hashem's will to do more
Mitzvah to bring more light into this
world and to to help bring mhia closer
to help just like to feed on this Unity
to take the unity that came into this
world due to what happened and just feed
on it let's bring more light into this
world why are we doubting what the EMS
is we know what the EMS is we know that
theen right we know who Hashem is we
know that we're hashem's Army how can we
even doubt that what we're like it's
only because of you know you yeah you
expose yourself to what's going on out
there to the opinions of the world then
yeah immediately it makes you doubt but
why are we even going there why are we
turning on the media why are we
listening to what they have to say we
know the MS I think that we need to just
focus more on on that like let's let's
just focus on what our mission is and
what you know the people who are not on
the ground we know what our mission is
we know that we have to bring more light
into the world with Ty and mice and I
think that that's what we need to do
like you're right liby liby you're a th%
right I just want to add one more thing
and that is there are tremendous amounts
of Jews in positions of influence in
America in Europe of course Israel and
around the world it's not just enough
for us to know who we are we have a a
more important job for those that are
capable of this and God put them in that
position and that is to speak to the
world to be a light onto the Nations you
know on Sim in Israel when the attack
happened they were reading par BAS does
anybody know what's the first rashi
rashi the greatest commentator of T in
history what's the first Rashi in the
whole what does say the should have
started off from the
first the whole the whole history
creation is a book of Mitzvah give me
the mitzvas and what does Rashi say the
whole reason why the T started off with
Bas is so that the Jews should have an
answer to the question what's the
question one day Rashi says the nations
of the world are going to come to the
Jewish people and say l you're a bunch
of thugs and robbers you stole our land
you are occupiers you are foreign
colonialists who took our land and
that's when Jews will have an
answer you believe in the Bible you're
Christian you're Muslim you believe in
the Bible God created the world he took
one little piece of land and he gave it
to one people for forever and ever and
ever we are not robbers now think about
this Rashi lived in the 11th century in
France during the First Crusade even in
his Wildest Dreams he couldn't imagine
Jews settling Israel on mass the
question was the Muslims or the
Christians who will rule Israel
Christians or Muslims but Rashi was
teaching a 5-year-old Jewish child a
5-year-old Jewish child and every Jewish
child older than that that one day the
world is going to look at you and say
you are robbers list at them and the
whole P the whole sa fous was written
and engraved and given to us so that we
have an answer an unwavering clear
answer this is our land we have one land
in the world one Homeland in the world
we are not thieves our position here is
as moral as it gets and therefore we
will defend it and we will not allow
monsters to murder our
children this is what every leader of
the Jewish people needs to say this is
what the spokesman of Israel has have to
talk about enough with the shame and the
inferiority complex and relying on the
UN to give us legitimacy don't rely on
the United Nations to give you
legitimacy the only things they could
unite about is to condemn
Israel we're going to make you the
spokesman of the state of
Israel okay there's a lot more
question
Ellie no you're 100% right I agree with
you everything you say Rabbi you are
100% this is we don't have to be ashamed
to protect our country you know how much
confusion would have been avoided you
know how many casualties we need Clarity
decisiveness resolve like they had
during the second world war nobody
doubted who Hitler was why is anybody
doubting who Kamas is Iran kbal they're
Hitlers Hitler ists you know during the
war during the war the second world war
they had thousands and thousands of
partisans who were very very cruel to
the Nazis they killed their families
they killed them no one came in the
world said how could you do this to the
poor Nazis you killed six children a
Nazi uh adol Schmid from from V from VI
you killed their children no one cared
you did the right job you had to protect
you had to save the world right now we
have a mission to save ER Israel
literally save ER Israel and save the
Jewish nation and we are the if it if
it's not us we're the guinea pigs here
after us if we don't win this
war this is going to the rest of the
world these guys are not interested to
stopping Israel they want to conquer and
literally murder anyone who's not like
them right they're going to jump from
City to city in Europe it's going to
happen and we need to stop it here and
ER is now and not look out Sid say oh
they said this they said who cares yeah
who cares you think during the killing
of the Jews we stopped to see what
people thinking we have to right now
think about
exactly the stupidest thing Jews believe
is they want a Palestinian State they
got a Palestinian state in 2005 in
August they got a beautiful Palestinian
State and it would have expanded in
expent they would have gotten the whole
West Bank they don't want a Palestinian
State near Israel they want a
Palestinian state in lie of
Israel is that what we should allow them
we want we want peace they want us in
pieces and this is a fact for over the
years you know people forget what
happened in
Gaza 20 years ago 15 years ago when was
Ariel shom and he gave Gaza away 2005
August he made a Tish and he pushed it
up to the 15 day of of
2005 10,000 Jews forcibly expelled from
their homes how long after the Hamas
they murdered all the PLO members yeah a
year later away like a year later These
Guys these guys are such Hypocrites I
was I was today I was watching some kind
of chat that I was in with some
Palestinians and pro Palestinians I I
was so upset said you guys are sub
Hypocrites 18 years ago when aamas were
killing you you were shooting back at
any one of them you were fighting like
like dogs one between each other and you
killed each other they killed children
they killed they killed Everyone by the
way no PLO was left in Gaza all control
byas and you guys are attacking now
you're attacking us you're condemning
Israel for for attacking the ones who
were your enemies and this shows that
the hatred towards Jews is so great even
in Europe you still anti-semites who
hatte who hate Judaism so much that when
our enemies are attacking us and killing
us these guys are standing and waiting
to see when we're going to kill the
First Palestinian kids so they could go
ahead and condemn us all around the
world yeah the good news is my friends
the good news
is that we have watched every great
Empire who tried to destroy us
crumble and we are here and we had a
secret weapon that has sustained us for
4,000 years from the day we became a
people through thick and thin through
sunshine and rainy days through light
and darkness and we still have that
weapon number one Jewish
Unity number
two and mitzvas and then Hashem wants us
to use nature natural natural power an
army A an intelligence but we have to
remember that this is a time of resolve
and confidence yes we have fear yes we
have pain no question I don't think all
of us have fear but some of us have a
lot of fear and all of us have a lot a
lot of pain but I want to translate that
pain into
resolve into actions into empowerment
everybody as we said is on the front
lines I have to ask myself what is my
mission now whether it's going to the
front lines in Gaza whether it's t
whether it's whether it's t whether it's
Mitzvah whether it's ch whether doing a
a favor to another person whether
it's today by the way there's an
unbelievable
opportunity to help Jews come closer to
their true Essence to their Judaism and
to their Jewish Essence because everyone
is touched in ways that is unprecedented
sees that opportunity everybody has
influence the his the inspiration today
in Israel from people you wouldn't
expect to touch something holy H what
I'm traveling now traveling now my place
I was eating supper a bunch of Na people
walked in randomly and they said can you
please put F on yeah it's incredible
inredible and I want to say something we
have here a few thousand people
listening every single one of you has a
relative a friend a business partner an
employer an employee a neighbor somebody
you know from the gas
station everyone today has a if every
one of us does one thing to influence
another Jew besides ourselves of course
on our families and our children a
revolution can happen a spiritual
Revolution can happen whether it's or
it's kasus or it's mza or it's mik it's
shabas or it's
or or it's say or it's daving in Israel
and around the world there's an
unbelievable opportunity seize the
opportunity don't be embarrassed Jews
want to connect everybody wants to do
something not everybody can go drive a
tank in Gaza not everybody is part of
Zak kadish and United at Sol some people
are jobs and people have
responsibilities but everybody wants to
do something seize the opportunity seize
the opportunity I want to tell you with
the help of somebody and I want to let
leave the give the platform to with the
help of somebody there's a there's
there's something you could send it's
called one mitzvah.org
Israel rabi YY Jacobson that I created
with somebody you could send it to any
secular Jew with a choice of Mitzvah
they can accept one mitzvah.org
Israel rabi y Jacobson and you you could
send this to any person you want and
it's a let's help how can I help with
money yes with food yes with moral
support yes with everything physical
that they need yes and then we have the
Eternal weapon of Cl the Eternal weapon
of
is is Holiness it's love it's to it's
and it's mitv
let's not drop the ball don't drop the
ball I I want to talk about uh one one
story before I end because it's 7 a.m.
almost here in
Eris um I was in Far
Aza the morning
after and it was devastating and all of
a sudden a young guy comes over me a
young man definitely not a religious Jew
and he walks over to me and he says if
I'm hungry he has food I said no no give
it to the soldiers he was giving away
sandwiches he made I said give it away
to the
soldiers and I said to him sorry this
wasn't yeah was fari he says I said to
him give it to he saids no I have enough
I have enough I want to give you two I
tell her I want to give you two I said
where you from where you from I want to
know he's coming from all over he says
I'm from The kibuts Next Door bar he's
from Barry Barry was a terrible Massacre
there terrible Mass I said you the the
morning after you making sandwiches
giving he says I decided I want to do
good deeds I after what I saw last night
I was mirac saved he was saved he said I
decided to take a Mitzvah on myself and
do good deeds like you said before and
he was going around after what he went
through and going around giving people
food and I don't know if it was Kos or
not I didn't end up eating because I was
not eating anything for days after but
he was given around food that he made
just because you wanted to do a Mitzvah
and I think this is a great opportunity
for all of us to to pick up a Mitzvah
find a Mitzvah you don't do uh there was
many Mitzvah we forget about and we
should uh first of all is the greatest
Mitzvah we could do and uh any other
Mitzvah you pick up on the way you like
uh I'm gonna I'm going to look into that
website and send it out to a few of my
friends one mitzvah.org
isra I just say a little bit I know
we're talking about what we could do for
cerol and what we do for ourselves but I
think on a on a more personal note most
of us one way or another we have things
that are unresolved that live inside of
us relationships that are unresolved
fractures hurt pain and I think I know
for myself going into shabas like
there's a little bit you know you give
AA to your children Friday night and
there's a a little bit more a little bit
more sincerity a little bit more care a
little bit more I love you and gavis
because you realize when when we're
being attacked and things that we we
seem to take for granted are being
threatened we start looking back and see
okay what truly matters to us as people
I think it's also a time not just to
give to others um but also to give to
ourselves to give to ourselves the
opportunity to say what truly matters to
us and when you think about what matters
it's relationships it's our bonds it's
our connections and some of us have
deeply fractured bonds even with our own
parents sometimes with our own children
it's an opportunity to take like take
stock and reflect and say maybe there's
an opportunity here to try to resolve
some of that to try to engage another
where we could find some forms of love
that have been missing in our own Hearts
it's just an opportunity it's a wakeup
call for all of us to like take stock
what truly matters to us I just want to
say this out loud because Esther I I
thought your question was deeply
sensitive and beautiful and I know there
many of us who also have such questions
I think we are a a nation of
compassionate people and that was a
compassionate question we need to get
truly truly educated they say what when
you have a fight that's a moral
equivalent you could start asking
questions like they killed our children
is it is it okay to kill their children
and God forbid we approach things that
way it's never okay any loss of life is
not okay um but we're not on the same
page we need to know our history we need
to understand that this is a nation
that's trying to push us into the sea
and we could say this with full honesty
and a full heart that we know that our
people our nation would never
deliberately try to harm a child ever it
would never ever happen because that's
not who we are it's something that that
happens and our heart breaks that it
happens but it's not because we want it
to happen it's what we call collateral
damage that's the only thing but I think
that the question is a deeply Jewish
question and I'm proud to be a part of
the nation that ask such a question we
need to continue to ask it yeah we need
to answer it as well we need to answer
it because there are answers we're not
at an a a a moral equivalent with this
enemy we're not it's a different state
of mind we're being attacked and we're
trying to protect ourselves it's a very
different
story
beautiful okay let's let's go to closing
let's everybody give a little wrapping I
know let let Ellie go first if he first
Ellie just from the text people are text
me people want to hear one more physics
story if you could think of one and the
question that people keep on asking is
now that everything is tense and we do
see clly whether in Israel America
coming close
what can you tell people that when
things M come down that we keep that
same thing and we don't go back to the
left and the right and you know all that
stuff how do we keep that when things
are not at War those are the two things
I'm asking you to close with well first
of all I want to ask everyone here to
make
reservations to come for PES
is it's all going to be behind us PES
time so if you want to have a nice time
in erit Ro you're going to see Aus like
you never saw before I really think
think it's going to take a couple months
but this is something that I really hope
that the same way the Holocaust is
something we talk about all the time the
Shah this is something that we will all
remember in ER Ro and I think everyone
here knows why this thing happened and
all happened because
of and I really hope this is going to
be a memorial for sin we should talk
about this is this should be part of the
education in schools I'm I'm really
putting it as part of my agenda as
United hella to speak about this in
front of ministers and and and and
government officials that something has
to be done in terms of education for I
don't know how to do
this you you are big Educators you can
teach this in America and uh I will I
will focus this as part of the mission
here and I really I personally I'm going
through a very hard time as I told you
my son ISRO is in the Army now and he's
a wonderful kid I have two four
beautiful daughters who are giving me a
lot of N I have four
grandchildren and um I'm really really
excited about always every time I'm
coming back home and I can't wait for my
son to come back safe from from this
battle but we're all in it together and
and the only way to win it is if we
really take care of once and for all we
need all the doing from all of you all
the doing we need and all the SED I
really hope you all support good causes
and of course United hella is very very
important so if you could share our link
you'll be very very important we need
support to buy more bulletproof vests
more helmets more bags of medical
supplies more ambulances we're buying
things we never bought before armed
ambulances ATA armed ambulances which is
never something we never did before and
unfortunately we have to prepare
ourselves but I'm optimistic more than
all I'm very optimistic first of all
hearing you and seeing thousands of
people coming to here and getting this
gives me I came to give but I got from
all of you and I went through some tough
times the last 10 days that I was really
depressed but I came out stronger than
ever and uh I want to thank all of you
for doing this beautiful evening for you
and morning for me and I love you
all um Ellie everybody wants to have
your son's name and we want to say Capal
and then we want to continue before you
sign off can we do
that yeah let's say capital for Ellie's
son and for all of the soldiers all the
soldiers and your son and all of and all
of the Jewish people in arst and of
course all the wounded and all the
captive all those in captivity and all
the families of the slain and the
wounded and the Captivity let's say a
for everybody Ellie what's your son's
name let's go let me tell you a short
story about my son you
love if you remember in y 20 years ago
they had a Doctor by the name of David
app was sh yeah and his his daughter was
supposed to get
married and uh this was
September September 9th his daughter was
supposed to get married September 10th
and he went with his daughter Nava to a
coffee shop in emim in yine in a cafe
called Cafe
H and that coffee shop blew up with a
terrorist that walked in and David and
his daughter NAA were in the coffee shop
having coffee together the night before
her wedding a disaster the whole Army is
was every Jew in the world was
devastated I was one of the first medics
who arrived Asel I came on a motorcycle
there David was a very close friend of
mine uh we were very close with the
sanss David's daughter was supposed to
marry Kanan sand s Sand's daugh son and
I was I saw David on the floor I
couldn't believe it's him I was like
shocked he was such a sidic that guy he
did shifts on the ambulances with him he
was he was he was a very very close
friend and also a member of atah and
shed and again de and he was like very
involved with saving lives all said I
see him on the floor dead and then after
a few minutes I realized his daughters
right there were trying to save her I
was like devastated and I went home so
depressed my wife was in labor then and
three days later my wife gave birth to a
baby boy it's my first boy and I told my
wife I want to call him as David alab
and my wife said listen let's ask asila
about this I went to the biggest Maven
in name
he was the chief Rabbi Israel
Mah this is by the way my book called 90
seconds I forgot to promote my book
called 90 seconds by Art School Rabbi I
don't know if you read I'm GNA give you
a book so you read it it's an Incredible
Book it's it's inspired so you know why
I like you I like you because you're
here for a few hours and you forgot to
promote your book continue I forgot
completely I'm talking about the war and
this and that I forgot even about a
website I forgot about it um so so
um I went
toah who was the a big God he was a big
Maven in cabala and everything and he
said he loved this he says listen you
need to change the
order your son's David's name was
David change the order to
is and he's going to be he's going to
have a long life he's going to be
successful so I know gave my son a br I
would love to give a br tonight to my
son he's giving me a lot of and he's a
big he's a big minman he does everything
in auna and he's fighting in one of the
most elite forces of the Israeli Army
and he worked very hard to get in that
unit it's a it's a secret unit
and um his name is is David Ben Ben
G do I say a mother's name right the
mother's name yeah and but but it's
not's he's fine but together with
all all MERS i r before you start I put
a Googled uh Google doc on the chat for
everybody this 170 names of the captives
that people have I put on the chat
anybody could download it open that
Google
doc with all the thousands of people
that are here okay so you you can open
up
a or if you know it by heart we'll say
together
cap and cap andum okay please everybody
share with me for the for our soldiers
for our brothers and sisters for all of
the families and for all of our
people 121 122 okay here's
May
again I'm also to mention again before
me one more second again it's it's it's
a it's it's a thing that obviously you
know that
Ino
and supports thousands of that are
learning
and there a big campaign for everybody
to be part of it give a small amount a
dollar whatever it
is all situation that is the ultimate as
we all know and I'm putting the link
over here obvious we're going to send it
out but everybody let's try to you know
one Mitzvah we're going to add to the
email Ellie you did the
one thousands and thousands people you
accomplished the Y MIT day today so
Ellie thank you for coming on Ellie we
love you
k continue to inspire and continue to be
the leader that you are for so many and
to do it
with I want to tell you Rabbi one thing
before I leave that I every night I
watch a short video about you I don't
watch any TV I don't watch anything but
I love watching your speeches on the
short YouTube things you're incredible
you give me you speak so well you like
so many people and I'm a person who have
very little patience and to watch your
short shorties I don't know what they
called I don't know how I got into it
every night to to relax my brain before
I go to sleep I end up watching a few of
your your short videos so I just want to
say thank
you um it really help you think if I
watch my own videos I can relax my brain
too or it only works for other
people
watch watch I'll watch you watch my book
you read my book 90 seconds and I'll
relax my brain you relax your you love
you you love you'll laugh you'll you'll
cry it's it's an incredible Story how I
raised money to buy the first motorcycle
it's incredible the story and uh Ellie
and I had this past Kan at M to light
the public mana and dance together and
may you and all of us continue to light
Flames of Love and light and hope and
courage and I think it's important also
I think we can learn from this also you
mentioned this it's very important to
relax our brains we cannot uh change the
world for the better and change
ourselves for the better when we're in a
state of disarray and panic we need to
be anchored in something very powerful
so ask yourself what can anchor you
these days in an emotional and mental
space that will will allow you to be the
best version of yourself that will allow
you to radiate unity and love and
compassion that will allow you to become
the
ambassador of the Jewish people and of
Hashem in today's day to be anchored is
is is really critical but Ellie thank
you for your very very gra say that your
jokes your jokes usually are incredibly
funny and I was like thinking once you
know I do events forella to bring you as
a comedian not only as a rabbi you
always have the greatest openings for
every everything you start with a good
joke so I want to say and before I leave
I'm sorry I'm going to give I'm G to
give you the popit I just want to
mention if someone wants to support
United upsel go on to Israel
rescue.org Israel rescue.org the reason
we don't say United hella is because so
many people by mistake Go into's website
and
donate it's so confusing I'm not kidding
I have a lot of people who are not from
ID and I don't know where they send us
check friends of all the time and I have
people
say they say to me I love the work is
doing you're doing such a good job is
that the right link Ellie is that the
right link in the
chat I don't know if the Donate yeah
probably Israel
rescue.org donate and even you know you
should donate to Torah and donate to
saving lives and and we'll together be
able to so can I you we got three things
Don to to support donate to Israel
United and do one Mitzvah day from and
we going to do that together all
thousands and thousands of people we're
going to see the war over and we'll be
in metary to before
kanako okay you know what I was thinking
about pesak if you want to make Kaneka
you have to donate another few dollars
and you'll get there in Kaneka does it
come with the full package like with the
dessert and everything you come for
dinner we're going to go to mam to light
a candle with the rabbi and then you
come for did it to me okay Ellie you're
thank
you thank you so much thank you okay we
have thank you
everyone Hi how are
you hello yeah hi hi hi are you good um
my question is like I'm dealing with a
lot of different you know personal
challenges in my life right now I feel
like this whole situation in Israel came
with to invalidate all my challenges and
everything that I'm dealing
with and I'm walking around in
tremendous pain from the things that I'm
dealing with and at the same time
tremendous guilt from feeling the pain I
want to know like how do I stop feeling
so guilty for my own problems or like
how do I find the balance you
know
yeah
a we should know that if you're you're
hurting you're allowed to hurt even
during time of crisis in Claus you're
allowed to feel pain you're allowed to
struggle I think one of the things we
learned from this like they're trying to
take away our individuality we're all
seen as one it's just one individual yet
in reality we're all very unique people
beautiful in our own right and if you're
going through a hard time honor that
hard time try to find a way to to take
that energy and say what could I do for
other people but if you're in your
experience you're in your experience
we're allowed to we're allowed to be
there like RAB W was saying before we
need to find some way to ground
ourselves during this time my sister
I'll just leave you with one story my
sister as she was doing the tahara
um in for for all these unfortunate you
know the Mason are brothers and sisters
and she said there's a room for the
people who are doing tahara to go
collect themselves to to find a moment
so they could breathe because they need
that we all need that and she walks into
the room which is sort of like this
quiet Enclave for you to find yourself
again and she sees in that room several
boxes of pizza and her initial response
was pizza during tahara like what are we
doing how are we doing this and there
was another woman who was sitting in the
room eating some of that pizza and she
said don't let them take away your need
to to eat to enjoy what you're eating to
survive to take care of yourself and we
still always need to remember that we
need to take care of ourselves during
these times find ways to do that even
though it feels selfish it feels like
we're doing something wrong but in order
for us to be at our full strength we
have to ultimately take care of who we
are as people and reach out get the help
that you need get the connections that
you need and we all we're all in this
together but there's nothing wrong with
being human during a time of deep
Humanity this is where we are and we're
in together which is a beautiful I want
you to end with the closing I want your
closing to really encom may may I add a
a 60c comment to what AA just
said I want to just add one detail and
that
is it may feel selfish but it's really
really the exact opposite of that and
I'll tell you why the more you take care
of yourself
the more your relationships become
stronger the more your attachment is
healed the closer you can feel to your
soul to your body to your God to your
family to your loved ones the better
version of yourself you will be the more
of your inner light you will radiate and
the more you will be able to fulfill
your mission which is going to help the
whole Jewish people and Israel and the
world so it's not like you're you also
have to indulge in yourself
what Dr pran is telling us is not only
that you're allowed to do it of course
it's even more than that by each and
every one of us of when you're taking
care of yourself you're taking care of
God's child you're taking care of a
royal princess you're taking care of
a you're fighting you're taking care of
a soul you're nurturing a soul I once
heard from the from the theb he said
something very powerful he said there's
the Jewish people and there's ER to the
Jewish people is like the body to the
soul we need to protect the borders of
and we have to protect the borders of
our own body because our body is our AEL
that's where your dwells that's where
your dwells you're aik and your B is
your in your body these are the borders
of your when you protect the borders of
your body and you allow the right energy
to come into you so that you can radiate
the right energy you are protecting your
piece of a
exists physically and spiritually and
that allows all of us to protect our a
and that allows our brothers and sisters
to protect the cosmic
a Dr per I just wanted to end with one
with one thought that I know you covered
a little bit but I wanted just bring it
up again just the human emotion as we go
through all this right now right just
grounding ourselves and grounding
obviously grounding ourselves
automatically ground our children and
being you know it's very interesting to
always preach to our children about the
Holocaust the Jews and how we survived
and how amazing we are all in theory but
now that we're actually living it in
reality and our children have to go into
the world and deal with anti-Semitism
and see the things that are going on the
exposure is great how do we practical
just simple practical how do we ground
ourselves in these unstable situations
in these scary situations and how do we
give that over to our children and
ultimately really I'm getting into is
actually question how do we do that so
well for ourselves that we automatically
give it over to our children so they
feel that sense of as RAB Russell says
safe secure seen and sooth
ah beautiful words from RAB Russell it's
nice to bring him into this room and I
like this the um one thing we need to
know that it's we're we're in something
we're not at the end of it looking back
and reflecting and thinking back what
are the messages we want to give over
and our children are looking at us for
direction for clarity and in order for
us to give them that we need to first
and foremost take care of ourselves
acknowledge that whatever we feel is
acceptable it's okay especially and if
we're feeling very anxious which many
people are like we need to find a way to
attend to that anxiety um and that and
everyone has their own way we're not
going to get into like the the the the
fine details of how we deal with our
anxiety but it's an anxious time and
anxiety is is almost the body's response
telling us that there's a problem and
there is a problem we're in a problem
and we're doing it collectively together
but in order for us to to give over that
message to our children we first and
foremost need to learn how to take care
of ourselves and I think tonight is one
of the best ways that we're taking care
of ourselves not only that just like
going in and figuring out what is my
unique way to give what is my Essence
what is my way of expressing myself in
this world especially during a time of
Crisis and by doing it soothes the soul
by doing it makes us feel like we're
engaging in something we're
participating in something we're using
the gifts that Hashem gave us in order
to live in the world in a better way and
I think we need to get together more
often that's my take Usher coach this is
something we got to do a few times a
week for cla's sake just so we could see
one another and we could ask each other
questions that we don't necessarily have
answers for but we could simply ask and
then have someone attend to them and say
okay I'm here with you I'm here with you
in the struggle and that's what we do
and I think what we we try to do as best
as we can is when there's a threat
that's coming at us think about what the
threat is and then dig in deep and say
how could I provide an antidote if
they're coming after us and and and
saying that because we're Jewish it's an
opportunity to dig into our yish K and
say how lucky are we to be a part of
this if they're coming after us and
they're trying to tear us apart and even
within our own families it's a great
opportunity for us to to love and our
families even more than we do to say
you're so precious to me it's an
opportunity because now we know what the
threat actually is they don't
discriminate and we can't discriminate
not certainly not for one another and
it's an opportunity for us to be
together um but we need to take care of
ourselves that's the best way we do it
you know and we all know how to do that
in in in some strange way and if we
don't we need to reach out to the people
that could help us with
it give you know I love you I want to
say com this is a personal comment NE
should understand this you can see this
from Ellie Beer I want to let you know
RAB you could say
Ad we decided to put together to share L
before Shas and then today
I had no I'm traveling I'm busy I had no
time for anything and I had to reach out
to ra Dr and Ellie bear was impossible
to get all those
and is when you want to do something and
you have
the will give you so everybody whatever
you could do to help somebody even if
you think it's a little bit beyond you
do it push yourself put your mindset to
it and God will give you the help you
need to get doing this for four years we
have no idea how we do this we have no
idea how it works out started during
Corona started during Corona and it's
been an incredible journey an incredible
journey so Dr ke thank you for
everything I just want to mention again
because just mentioned it again for
people that do need more A B fresh start
and I have very personally GES with him
he's doing a four thing seminar with the
biggest therapist you know ra W knows
people therapy with Ken Adams and fiser
and Dr Ruth and Dr Dr Van brussell who
wrote the probably the best selling book
on Amazon um join is October 16th 18th
22nd 24th he showed in the beginning of
the program you can go to Jewish
start.com there the webinar program so
over the next week if you need more of
these trauma type of things he's
bringing on the really the best of the
best and as well thank you R I'm going
to turn to you for a second give us the
closing after I don't even I don't even
need to preface it we were here for
three hours with thousands of people
give us the closing that we need to
hear
may I be a channel to uh share what has
to be
shared there's a famous that says at the
end of his life we
sayas tells the Jewish people that after
all of their long challenging
history the
blood of every single Jew will be
claimed will be
Avenged so Rashi says Hashem is going to
appease his land and his people he's
going to appease for all the pain that
the land went through the Earth went
through and the people went through and
it doesn't even
say the land and the people he will
appease the land the people because the
Jewish people and the land
are
one says I see him from the top of the
mountain so the says bam says as I look
at the mountains and mounds of is I see
engraved in the Rock and the soil
of the land and the people are
organically spiritually and physically
geographically and mystically deeply
connected
this is a story that's much much bigger
than us it's much larger than us we also
know that every year we get closer and
closer to the
Gula we thought the greatest pain of Gus
was behind us and today we can already
usher in the Gula with much more comfort
and prosperity and serenity but we don't
know the mysteries of Galas and Gula
what we do know is that this is a time
to hold on to each other tighter than
ever we need to be able to be open and
vulnerable and raw let's face it we are
an opinionated people we know how to be
divisive we know how to disagree with
each other we know how to fight with
each other like nobody else we know how
to bicker we know how to prove that
you're wrong and I'm right and God is on
my side and not on your side your minig
is stupid and my minig is sacred we're
all good at it in the secular community
in the religious community in the very
religious community we're all very very
good at it Israel is a great example of
that but today I think we
were torn at the core and we have to
respond with our core and whenever we
respond with our core there's so much
attachment there is so much love there
is so much Clarity there is so much
confidence there's so much decisiveness
and the reason is because we have
confusion but not at our core at your
core at my core I can swear to you
there's no confusion and the reason
there's no confusion is because your
core is aligned with a source of Truth
your core is aligned with infinity in
fact your core is an embodiment of
infinity it's
a this is a time for a lot a lot of
inner work and outer work to be able to
stay aligned with our core in your
marriages in your relationships with
yourselves with your children with your
loved ones with your
AEM and with everyone you come in
contact and let's face it the crisis God
willing will Wayne nor normal days are
going to come great days are going to
come the future of the Jewish people is
as bright as ever we need to work on
ourselves that as time goes on we don't
lose the positive Clarity the sense of
urgency and confidence and beauty that
we found in ourselves and in our
brothers and sisters during this
time there's a a ver I once saw from the
K the
he says that Hashem cursed Ken the first
murderer of History to be a
na you're going to be wandering around
the world so he says why just buy a
house and stay there and you won't
wander and the K says he doesn't mean
geographically he means mentally Cen
will not have a day without anxiety this
what the C writs 250 years ago anxiety
will pursue him internally he could be
anywhere in the world he could be the
most beautiful beach the most beautiful
spot but the internal anxiety will
constantly pursue him and the med says
that God saved K by giving him an i what
was the O shabas says what's shabas he
says shabas is that you're really
connected to God and when you're
connected to God so your anxiety can
relax a little bit because you're
anchored in something that is infinite
and absolute but it's a gift it's a gift
and I think we all need to learn that
gift a lot of us issues with Hashem
because of the pain of life but
ultimately if we can try to heal it with
ourselves and with each other it's going
to be our source of comfort and faith
and and fortitude whenever you find
yourself whenever I find myself I meet a
lot a lot of people and I get letters
from A lot of people and I hear a lot of
opinions and a lot of them I really
disagree with you may have noticed that
I have some opinions about a few things
and uh and I find myself becoming
judgmental like I find myself becoming
judgmental and I always know if I'm
hearing the voice of judgmentalism I am
not anchored in my n I'm anchored in my
ego when I'm anchored in my ego I need
to feel better than you and the way I
feel better than you is by
saying you're too leftwing you're too
rightwing you're too detached you're too
aach you don't get it you're this I'm
not I'm not in the place where where I
really am and this is a time to be able
to go to those places we can have a
opinions we can have different opinions
too I don't think all Jewish difference
of opinions are going to end but go from
the place of of divinity and then
everything is different cuz then I don't
need you to be wrong for me to be right
what I need more than anything else is
that I should feel attached to you and
you should feel attached to me that's
our deepest need that's the need of the
Soul that's not the need of the ego and
finally it's a very powerful time to
connect with family sit with your
children around the dining room that we
you don't have to say much just listen
be there get rid of the phone every you
need a few hours in the day no phone no
phone even not my Clips let Ellie bear
watch my Clips get rid of the phone sit
at the dining room table sit at the
couch cry laugh make jokes make lotas I
don't care if you make uh rice krispy
fluff my wife doesn't allow it it's not
healthy but I don't care if you do rice
krispy fluff together listen to each
other laugh together play a game sing
songs singing is very healing sinking is
very healing breath work somatic work
physical work emotional work spiritual
work and if you have a mindset that is
productive you will see it'll be much
easier so this is a time to connect to
our children as as Dr prman said our
children will forever remember how we
responded at this
time right what do they say in English
you want to give your children good
memories but it's not just semantics
it's very very important we need to be
able to be present for for each other
and for our loved ones in the
profoundest way and that happens through
listening through attentiveness through
connection through celebrating life
let's use these moments to teach our
children our deepest priorities our
deepest values not through words through
tears and through song and through
prayer and through love thank
you let's go after three
hours uh I just want to thank you I'm
sitting here Mish listening to this
powerful powerful night and yes I
believe we do need to do this more often
we are in a V vulnerable state and we
don't really know how to do this and by
having you R Jacobson Anda thank you so
much for just being there for us so we
can sit and talk and uh yeah we're you
know to be able to figure out what
Clarity we have so many questions
and this is what we need for so many
years doing doing the same thing over
and over and then one day we're like
what in the world are we
doing and then we get some clarity we
ask hem that it should come only through
positive ways and not these ways and M
AEM with to and all the things that we
heard tonight we should be to see the
step by step day by day amen amen
something just popped into my head I'm
sorry I don't want my son always tells
me you hog the mic so I need permission
before I hog the mic
again I did I I needed something today
for myself mentally and emotionally um
just because of my position and what's
been going on the last week with emails
and questions and calls you know
soldiers on the front lines reaching out
so I just needed some healing myself
today and uh and I went to a friend and
we did some breathing which was very
helpful and
it's a little embarrassing and I was
crying a lot at the end I started to
laugh like a m and I didn't know why
nobody made a joke there was nothing
funny about it I just started to laugh
it was some type of I don't know Cosmic
or comic release maybe it's the same
thing and I don't know something popped
into my head and I said Ah
that's I wasn't laughing because of a
joke there was just something like I I
think I thought I touched something very
deep in myself and the only way it could
be expressed was through uninhibited
laughter and then I realized maybe
that's exactly what Gula looks like on a
cosmic level that we're going to touch a
place of reality and everything is just
going to be converted into laughter not
because the pain is not significant or
the horrific horrific losses are not
significant because we'll just be able
to touch something so real real and
infinite inside all of us that there
will be this explosion of joy that we
can't even imagine when we're stuck in a
very narrow State of Consciousness so I
just want to pray and hope that all of
us can experience that especially our
brothers and sisters in the holy land
and those who suffered so much directly
to be able
to when all of the darkness will be
converted into Eternal laughter am amen
thank you am thank
you thank you thank you thank you
telling you everybody the facilitator
the facilitator was
100% like every
week you saw it today I could
say good night everybody see you met
next week in N take care am amen
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