War In Israel, Message to a Holy Nation from the Bomb Sheter

I've a cry to make from the bunker. Me am Israel God we are an incredible nation because over here in Israel people on a constant basis yes we have to run to our bunkers we're getting alerts on a constant basis someone's taking a shower someone's in the middle of doing something he's going from house to house there's a lot of walking going on and suddenly you hear a siren you got to figure out where to go and there's [snorts] a lot if I could say what to complain about to be uncomfortable about to feel in a in a in a state of dismay. And at the same time I have to tell you an incredible thing about when you're here in Israel and that is that when I grew up of course I was in Los Angeles you open up a radio and what do you listen to on the radio you hear talking there's no chance of ever getting on the radio first of all and what do you hear you understand a lot of in between the news maybe with some church or maybe it's some idiot who's on the radio who's saying some funny things that is absolutely meaningless but over here you can actually turn on the radio on a few stations and listen to every Torah on a constant basis or which you vote that people call in on the radio and ask questions. And people ask questions and you yourself can call in sometimes to ask questions and I was found it very incredible also I received questions I answer for a certain hotline but also listening to the radio especially and you know what the list of the questions was one after the other Rabbi I want to ask I was in the middle of making Kiddush and then the siren went on so I had to run to the mom and dad room with my family we had to take you have to stop for between 7 to 10 minutes come back and then we didn't know after finishing Kiddush if we have to make Kiddush again because it was in between Kiddush and we didn't know if we had to do that that was it the answer is once you come back even though you had a decent break then you don't have to make another Kiddush or another question was what about Kiddush come to that there's an Indian that when you make Kiddush you have to do it in the same place of the but we stopped after the Kiddush and we left and then it took a while till we washed hands came back to the and this maybe have to make Kiddush again because it was not so that it's still like so that no but since you came back to the same place you're still good another person asked that you know we have a they don't have their own private can you imagine that you have to share a safe room with all entire building and a few people together go at once and sometimes there could be a state of because you have women in there together with one man or something to that extent and then it gets to a state of which is a little bit of when you have a number of women but is it really because other people can still come in another question that's asked a person's in the middle of they're in so and then the bell hits and they have to go to the safe room or in the back of the they find a staircase or find somewhere to go so they leave in the middle of so they go and come back after a number of minutes 6 7 8 minutes do I have to start from the beginning of again or can [snorts] I continue from where I left off that is a between the and the actually you do if it's you have to start from the beginning and the it's tell you you don't whatever the is that's not so much what concerns me right now what I found incredible is you take a situation that seems bland frustrating irritating something that you just want to bicker and complain about and yes there are from those that are amongst those that don't keep me touch so much that are just complaining about the situation constantly and you turn it into a Kadusha I found it absolutely incredible that we're able to do something to take something that seems so irritating and to go ahead and turn it into to turn it into something ever present something that I have I can do something with we take a lemon we turn it into lemonade we take something that seems a disastrous situation and we make a of it we make a of it it's just something that's absolutely incredible to be able to ponder about to see the positivity that comes out from such a situation there was a girl that had two apples in her hand her mother was you know surprised why two apples obviously most people only eat one apple so she said to her cute little daughter you want to share one of those apples with me and she said okay so the daughter went ahead and took a bite out of the first apple and then she took a bite out of the second apple in which the face of the mother started to grimace and she started to be a little bit disappointed in the of this young child what's going to be with her why did she go ahead and do such a thing and she goes okay Emma this one I'm and she gave her one the first one that she bit and said this one is much sweeter here you take this one she bit both to check which one was a better one for her sometimes we look at a bad situation and we get frustrated before we realize maybe there's a better side to things maybe there's something a little bit positive giving us something that looks negative but he's going and testing out which side is sweeter in order that we can know what to do with this is classically a symbol of the of because when we speak about the idea of freedom you wonder freedom in our situation I got missiles and ballistic missiles falling all over here we got buildings that are being smashed to the ground we have two and a half years of war under our belt and we're losing soldiers we've already lost in this war which is only been three and a half weeks already 23 people between the and the people that were lost in in the over here and you're wondering how are we celebrating the of how do we celebrate the of the holidays so that's what the actually writes he says we're free what does it mean we're free cuz we take every situation we turn it into a we look to and we treat it and we feel that yes there's something frustrating about it but there's so much I can do with it we see money and we wonder what we can go ahead and do with it the of a of a the whole idea of a is you have an extra stroller okay let's see if we can open a to do something to do something about it everything that we see we say kill a you should be say you should be to have richness or life what's because we hold that the biggest is to take something and make a out of it you see a person who's in trouble can I do a with him can I help him to go ahead and do it and that's really our opportunity here when I'm sitting here in Israel in a time which looks a little bit bleak unfortunate that we're going through a very difficult war on three fronts already the already started shooting missiles at us also unfortunately but we [clears throat] realize that the opportunity that stands at all I knew someone who was by the the one is a young person here that is known he's very famous over here the big he has many many followers and they brought from the that they said an incredible thing he said if people knew the opportunity they had if being in this type of war time in Israel they would walk here by their foot that's what he said they would come here by foot if they were able to do it if they realize what it means to be in Israel even during or especially during these difficult times and this is what he means the amount of that is in that is that is in the air that is being encompassing us during these trying times but specifically in Israel