738 Days! Hostages Return Home - What's Our Lesson?

As with glee we're able to watch our captives be released and Hashem somewhat bringing this parha to a close. I think it's relevant to mention the fact that here in Erit Israel exactly the time period that it was besides the fact that it was Oshanaba during the time of the mil the war of go which took place over these past two years the idea of the breaking of the walls and coming in and the conclusion that we're able to to receive in return our shuim our captives we were all saying over here at that time on when We finish with the and beating them. We say the praises of the writes that he says when a person goes through an eight when he's going through a very difficult time and say to himself which singings the beautiful praises of the and that's what he says we should say. But it's no coincidence that really really specifically they even came up to me in said the first seven were released right when we're in the middle of when we were coming and saying these words all the praises that we can say because you released us from you released us from our captivities when we were captured even in a time of starvation you kept us alive you kept us alive kept You had to survive the of the sword in order when a person was standing at bullet point. We were able to keep our head over the water. And as we understand the rest of the praises was I'm sure we're quite familiar with every Shabbat we say it. But if you pay attention it's mash the description of praising for what occurred. One of the fathers of the katuim who actually at this point became a little bit famous the father of yimana bought for him his he bought from before the before the in order that he should be able to shake it and this is before there was a deal on the table he didn't even know there was a deal but he bought it and said I'm doing it shal I'm doing mine can you please do yours he didn't get a chance two years to shake a lulah please let him have it let him go ahead and be able to shake is Lulu. And what's And what's incredible is even through all the pain that these parents had to go through and suffer, they were singing and singing the praises of thanking him for what he was for everything that he did for us and bringing him back and giving an appreciation for what we have. [Music] me. [Music] Now when these come out one of the that they will all say of course is the we say the which is what we say because there is a a sacrifice norm as a thank you sacrifice it's known as a corban toad. Nowadays we have no sacrifices. Therefore we say this we say as we are familiar with we say in the when we cross an ocean cross a desert when someone is sick as we are familiar with and lastly when a person comes out of jail says a shah with him in 1936 says he was on a boat coming from Europe to Israel which is what somewhat saved him from the Holocaust. He was on a boat coming from Europe to Israel and he said in the middle of the ocean suddenly a massive thunderstorm occurred. There were towering huge entire waves going up and down. The boat was bobbing up and down and on the it was on the verge from these winds tossing and mash like he says a drunkard. Mish like a drunk man was driving and it was going swaying right and left up and down. He thought that it was all over. He couldn't believe that the boat would not get capitalized. He was in incred incredibly in fear. He says 20 straight hours. 20 straight hours when it was going through this thunderstorm. He was holding on to a metal bar with all dear life. And he said he did not put on fill in that day. That day he actually did not put on fillin because of obviously reasons he wasn't able to do it and he couldn't let go of the bar in order to put fillin on. He was just dabbing to Hashem the whole entire time. He said when he landed in that port in Kyifa he said a go with all the covenant that you can imagine. Oh boy. Not like when you're flying an LL flight in first class and you come back and say thank you very much. No, no. He said a go with all his his he said with everything that he had with him and he says that's the way that's why a person is supposed to say and he continues says 35 years ago and writes and someone that comes out of a jail someone who's coming out of jail it doesn't mean some nice jail with a swimming pool three meals a day like they give over here to the Arabs in the jail cells over there treating them comfortably. No, no, that's not what it means. It means he says it's when he's under captivity from the evil enemy who has no mercy and is treating him improperly and he doesn't know if he's going to make it tomorrow. That's what a real a is that Schwab is a real agl. So these people are going to really be saying a goal. That's an amen I would love to listen to. That's a real a for what it's supposed to be worth. Continues. He says when you bring the kurban you bring and matzah you bring leavenven bread and unleven bread. He says the reason why is because the is the natural world everything naturally becomes. If you leave bread naturally it becomes leven it becomes as we are familiar matzah is unnatural from you hold it down you grip it you make sure it does not become that's the unnatural. He says, "Why do we bring these two things when we make a corban toada? When we make a when we're thanking Hashem because we thank him for the big miracles that we call the unleven bread, the matzah, all the big miracles, we thank him. But when we thank him for the big miracles, we start having recognition for the dayto-day miracles, the ones we're used to, the ones that we don't usually think about. Sometimes we have to rethink it." And this is really the messer of the day. Vikler writes this in many places. The idea is when someone is going through a difficult time, yes, it's there for him to be mtori and he has to think about what he's doing wrong and how he's supposed to fix. Yes. Yes, for sure. That one we know. But less familiar is when our brethren are going through a difficult time or have a release and come to a time of satisfaction. It's a message for us. It's a message for us to take and make a hag in our own special way. Which means we have to take the message and start appreciating about the things that we have about ourselves to start realizing if you see someone blind never be happy about shalom but to start appreciating the vision that you're able to look at this video right now and see or you're able to listen with the auditory capabilities something I know it's hard for us to appreciate on a day-to-day basis but when we see someone that went through what they went through suddenly you start recognizing suddenly you start appreciating So here is the time at this time when we are sitting and watching. It's no re it's no as they say. You don't have to listen to Trump or Natao and all these guys who are speaking and speaking and speaking and speaking and talking and talking. No no that's not what you need to be listening to. You should be focused on this. Closing your eyes and picturing where these people were for the past literally two years, two full years. They were sitting in a dark tunnel in an absolutely claustrophobic phenomenon. I don't know how many of us would have been able to sat to to survive to able to survive such a situation. There's barely any air. There was one who was so deep. He was he was so many floors down into the ground he was barely able to hold on to his breath. Extremely claustrophobic. Obviously, we understand the tuna the the what was there to eat was very minimal. They only got a pitha and a half or so a day with some water on the side. Barely any type of nutrition that they were able to keep to as we all understand. But I'm trying to be descriptive on purpose. We obviously realize that when you're sitting in a tunnel, the lights there are not doing very well. The electricity is minimal. They basically had a flashlight to their to their uh to their usage and that was it. They woke up to darkness. They went to sleep in darkness. They didn't have any type of thing. They didn't weren't able to listen to the news. They didn't know is it tomorrow? Is it in another week? How long? For all they know, it's a life sentence that they're sitting under these tunnels. They were listening to bombs, boom, bangs and bombs all the time cuz of course we needed to do what we needed to do in Israel. But they had no idea if one of those are going to penetrate into their tunnel. And of course, obviously, they didn't know if they would ever make it out. They didn't know if this will be their place of burial. This is a scenario that they were living in we should ever understand or connect to anything like this. But to close our eyes and think about it, put yourself in that situation. Put yourself as if you were there for 2 minutes as they say. Put it in your imagination to such a situation. And then open your eyes and start appreciating the breath of fresh air, the beautiful food, the endless amount of world that is in front of you, the beautiful family that you have. Start appreciating the vision, the the the capabilities of listening, the clothes that you're wearing, the fact that you can change, the fact that you push and can take a shower, the fact that you can go to work, the fact that you can learn Torah, all these things that we take so for granted suddenly can be appreciated. And if you do that, I tell you, I tell you, if you do it really, you'll get to a stage where you won't complain about anyone. You'll start blaming your wife. You'll start blaming the kids. You'll start blaming the neighbors. You'll start blaming, of course, the rabbi. You'll start blaming those people for this and that and the boss and your co-workers and everything else that we always seem to be frustrated, irritated, perturbed, and annoyed about. It comes for taking too many things for granted. And this is the lesson that we get sometimes when we get a time to really say that we say every day we give a thank you. Sometimes when we hear the events that are happening around us before we forget in a month or two months it's going to be already a blast in the past a piece of history. Very nice. But this is the time to put it in your head. Go through with osmosis. Close your eyes. picture the scenario and start appreciating life for what it is. is we concluded which we just finished now that is that is real that's real that's how we are raised that's our that's where we're supposed to go ahead and make the change this is what we're supposed to learn like I said it's not enough to listen to the politics what's happening how many released how many not released that's not what's the lesson over here the lesson is to start appreciating for what it is appreciating for what that father that I told to you that he got the dollar mean for his son and the first thing he did was say is when he saw his child tears rolling from his eyes and the best thing he can do is recognize the yadashem the yadashem that is always with him is connected to him the appreciation from the people who went a different direction and that is where will give us a yeshua hashem and that will definitely be the signs as we saw go is behind us and now it is time for the mashia amen and