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We also wrote about this in Alonim. Ah, Rabbi Yoram Abergel has a question I heard from him several times: he asks about Rashi in the first Torah portion of Bereishit, the famous one, which says that the nations of the world ask: What business do you have in the Land of Israel? Why...what business do you have here? So: "He declared to His people the power of His works." Yes, " By their will He gave it to you"—that was the question, today it is: By His will, He has now given it to us; by His will, He took it from you and gave it to us. Yes, so tell the nations of the world: Everything is fine and dandy, until now it was with you, it was on loan, now it has returned to its address, to its original owners—the people of Israel. And Rabbi Yoram Abergel brought a question there, he says: I didn't understand, what did you think? Shall we go to the King of Jordan and tell him: Sir, look at what Rashi writes, maybe to the King of Iran , maybe to that gentleman in the United States: Sir, look at Rashi clearly. Not like you. What, what did you think? That we will go to the King of Iran and the nations of the world: Look at what Rashi says here. The nations of the world still don't care what is written in our commentaries. If they were interested in the Land of Israel, things would look much different. So what exactly do you do if the nations of the world ask? >> We tell them like this; it doesn't work , it doesn't speak to them. >> The answer, says Rabbi Yoram Abergel, whose Hilula is today, is that Rashi is not speaking to the nations of the world; Rashi is speaking to us, to His people. >> Yes. >> Rashi is speaking to us. When you, when we are seemingly weak, sometimes thinking: Listen, this is not the time, you should leave, give this territory here and give that territory there. Rabbi Yoram Abergel once expressed himself, yes, regarding those who give away, those who surrender territories of the Land of Israel: What, are you normal? You are messing with the eyes of the Holy One, blessed be He, "the eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it." He said very, very harsh things, yes, we are, we are in his Kollel, so he said very harsh things about anyone who surrenders territory. He says, even if you are at the highest possible level, you are touching things that are not yours, it is not yours at all, it belongs to the Almighty, and you are still touching it? Says Rabbi Yoram, Rashi is speaking to us. We need to disseminate what the Almighty wants, we need to disseminate it among ourselves, within us. Yes, everyone knows that sometimes the greatest damage that has occurred in the State of Israel is when people from among us spoke out against it, not when he or he from the nations of the world said something. When people from among us, from within the Land of Israel, speak improperly about the Land of Israel or about its soldiers, that is where the damage lies. The same goes for here on the Temple Mount, let us not expect that somehow things will change, it won't change by hocus-pocus, or when they decide then we, then we will follow them. It will not come from there, it will come from within us. We need to believe, we need to pass the message on, yes, to learn what our great decisors write also about the building of the Holy Temple. Yes, in every yeshiva they study the Minchat Chinuch, and in every yeshiva they are happy to say that the Minchat Chinuch is great and beautiful in all matters, except for what he said: that if the nations of the world give us the opportunity to build the Holy Temple, we should build the Holy Temple. The Minchat Chinuch did not say to wait for the Messiah. Everywhere they study the famous Rabbi Akiva Eiger and Chatam Sofer; they don't come for others, they come for us. We need to pass this on. Yes, when we were with several of the great Torah scholars of Israel, yes, top-tier rabbis, some of them told us: I have never looked into this. People, I tell you, I cannot say the names, but they had never checked it, had not seen it, and had not studied it. Some of them became interested and inquired, and some eventually changed their minds —not just one or two. Yes, some of them, from the bottom of their hearts, changed their opinions; some say: "Gabi , quiet, speak softly, I don't see any problem," it's just that they are not yet at the stage to publicize it. But the change will not start from the outside, it will start from within us. When we break through and pass the truth on, and show them the legal authorities, one by one, and study well what is written so that we also know how to respond. There are great leaders in Israel who are interested in this subject. They are interested in examining the matter, interested in studying the issue quietly. We will pass the truth on. It depends on us. When we spread the truth out there, with God's help, there will be changes. We will not wait for it to change from above. From below, there will be changes from above. May we merit, with God's help, an awakening for all the people of Israel, and may we merit a complete redemption for the people of Israel returning to their home, the original home; and this redemption will be, how shall I say, not when the Messiah comes, but in order for the Messiah to come. Not that we will come here because the Messiah comes, but for the Messiah to come here, we need to arrive here, with the help of the Blessed One.