Kids In Israel 🇮🇱 - R. Chaim Rosenfeld - TorahAnytime.com

I don't know if you saw um when one of the hostages got out, so his father, when he was in captivity, he went to a great rabbi in Israel known as the Yanuka. Have you Have you ever heard of the Yanuka yet? Okay, he's going to be world He's going to be world famous very soon. In the Gemara, they refer to the Yanuka Yanuka means young. A young Torah scholar that knows everything, but he's a young man. They call him the Yanuka. So, this man is in Israel, that's his nickname cuz he knows kol Torah kulah It's all Torah on his fingertips. He's a young man. And he has a huge following among the non-religious. This Friday night, the non-religious go to him all the time for blessings and everything. So, this this father never his son was in Gaza in the tunnels for over a year, and he went to the rabbi asking him for a blessing. So, the rabbi says, "I give you a blessing. Your son is going to make it out of the tunnels. He's going to be released one day. But as a merit, as a zechus that he should be let out, I want you to open your Chumash and read the story of Yosef and the brothers being sold by his brothers down to Egypt, in jail for 22 years, and I want you to read that story over and over, and as doing that as a mitzvah, it should merit that your son should come out." Okay, and that's what he was doing. Sure enough, as you all saw the videos of all the hostages coming out. So, everybody here got a very emotional. So, I was personally watching this one, and the father was with his son in his house, and he said, "Let's call the rabbi and thank him." So, they got a a phone, and someone had a FaceTime next to the rabbi, and they FaceTimed the rabbi, the Yanuka. And you see the conversation, and the father says, "Rav Rav, this is my son. This is my son, and he was let out a few days ago." And the kid said, "This is the rabbi. He made a promise that you'll make it out." And And the kid was thanking the rav, todah rabah todah rabah todah rabah. Thank you very much. And the rav looked at the kid, and he told this man, he said, "You know, when you were in captivity, your father came to my house, and I told him and I told him to that you're going to be let out, but he has to learn the story of Yosef and the brothers. I told your father." All of a sudden, the boy puts his hand in his face. He's like, "Why? Why? Why?" He was like shaking up. He's like, "What?" He says, "When I was in captivity, my Hamas kept captives made me watch a video on a laptop. Of what? The story in Arabic of Joseph and the brothers." They also believe in Torah. They made me watch in Arabic the story of Joseph and the brothers. He says, "I never heard the story before. I watched the whole story. He was in jail for 10 years," he said, "and then brother sold him, and then they came down to Egypt." He's repeating the story. He's like, "That's what I was studying in in the tunnels." And the father looks at him and goes, "How How do you not tell me?" "I I I've been telling How do you not tell me what you just said?" He says, "I I I I'll tell you. So, meanwhile, this father was learning the story of Yosef in Israel. His son is in Hamas seeing the same story. And what killed me the most, even though it was an incredible story, what killed me the most is the fact this boy was in school in Israel for 12 years. This boy was in public school in Israel for 12 years, and he didn't know who Joseph was. Is that a tragedy? People think, "Oh, you're in Israel." I told [clears throat] him, I grew up in Israel. Some guys Steve grew up. You understand? People think, "Oh, you're in Israel, you probably know." No. Public schools in Israel are like going to Lincoln over here. It's unfortunate. Here you're in Israel, you would think they would teach you some Jewish every day, some halakha. Nothing. It gets shut out. Unbelievable. And this boy went for 12 years and never did not know anything. That's why I [snorts] was telling Mike last night, I said, I mean, the other night, I said, "I'm so happy. The fact that that your kids now are in Yeshiva they'll have they'll they'll have knowledge. Goes knowledge the greatest decision I've ever made. Baruch Hashem he makes a nice living. He sent me