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The Laws of War and Peace with Rav Shlomo Katz is a series based on Hilchos Milchamah VeShalom by Rav Shmuel Eliyahu, opening up the Torah of מלחמה ושלום for the times we are living in right now.
In these episodes, Rav Shlomo explores the halachic, biblical, and inner spiritual foundations of war, courage, national responsibility, emunah, and redemption. Through the lens of Tanach, Chazal, and the living reality of Am Yisrael, this series asks: How is a Jew meant to think, feel, pray, and act in a time of מלחמה? What does true gevurah look like? How do we fight evil without losing humility? And how do war, mesirus nefesh, and miracles become part of the unfolding geulah?
Okay brothers let's get the show on the road. Chodesh Sivan, sponsored by the Silver family in memory of בתיה פייגא בת ישראל, anonymously in memory of all the holy Chayalim that gave their lives and the ones who are working tirelessly to protect us and Eretz Hakodesh, by the Weizels for the refuah shleima of אטיל שרה בת חנה and יעקב שלמה בן ביילא, and zivug hagun for Esther bas Rachel, by the Finns for the hatzlacha for Am Yisrael and the shemira on all the Chayalim and the refuah shleima of the Chayalim hapetzua'im דוד נתנאל בן איילה אהובה, Eliyahu ben Chava, אור חיים בן מירב, David ben Ziv, אברהם יעקב בן דבורה פייגא, בתוך שאר חולי ישראל. The week is sponsored by Chana Sarah Zeller in memory of her late husband Rav David Zeller, דוד בן מרדכי זכרונו לברכה. Okay let's open up please the pages of the sefer and the pages you have in front of you to page 70 please.
Page 70. Needless to say last week's, not last week, Monday's shiur stirred up a ton of feedback and comments that I've been receiving the last two three days from the chevra here and many of our chevra lomdos online. Understandably these are very, this is a very, I don't want to say, it's actually not a complicated situation, it's a very hard situation, but complicated is what we're trying to remove, we're trying to remove the sfekos about this whole inyan that we're in. We'll try to address as much as possible, I just want to remind us a few things before we go back inside.
When did Amalek first attack us? After Yam Suf. On our way to Eretz Yisrael. Okay. So the context of Amalek, what they always try to do is a milchama on the land.
Amalek's greatest point, I know that in Chassidus what we've done is we've taken so much of the concept of Amalek and because of the gematria of safek, so we make Amalek this entity which is there to doubt us and to put sfekos in our emunah, and our belief in hashgacha and all these things which is of course also very true. Perhaps that became so much of a more of a what Amalek has become for us in our generation because בא סנחריב ובלבל את האומות that it makes it impossible to say this nation is Amalek. So for years and years the focus with Amalek had to do with avodas Hashem, emunah things. Why did we say on the land? Amalek can't stand, it'll do anything in its power to show a Kiddush Hashem in the world.
What's the greatest Kiddush Hashem that we could show the whole world? Eretz Yisrael coming back to Am Yisrael, Am Yisrael coming back to Eretz Yisrael. So the second that we have that we show that it's possible that we're going to get to the place where there'll be the greatest Kiddush Hashem where Elokei Yisrael, the God of Israel is bringing his people Am Yisrael to Eretz Yisrael, they freak out. So today as well, as much as of course there are these sparks of Amalek across the whole world, where what is it all about? What is the whole inyan today all about? Zionism. Eretz Yisrael.
About the land. We're going to see today as well as we continue forward how this is really the framework of everything that we've been speaking about. So having said all that, ברוך אתה ה' אלוקינו מלך העולם שהכל נהיה בדברו. Amen.
The last thing we spoke about was trying to understand Rav Soloveitchik's shita. And even though Rav Soloveitchik wasn't alive in the time of certain enemies that we're speaking about now that have emerged more in public, the way that Rav Shmuel Eliyahu has shown us the whole unfolding of this entity, we see that hainu hach, it's the same thing, it's the same line, it's the same focus. As we see in the second to bottom paragraph, lefi devarav, according to Rav Soloveitchik's words, דין חמאס בעזה וחיזבאללה כדין עמלק וצריכים לקיים בה מצוות מחיית עמלק. Hezbollah, Hamas, din Amalek without even any sfekos or shaylos.
And we've seen how much we've struggled with a wiping them out. Wiping out, not hitting them hard, not setting them back, but a wiping out, which is different than hitting them hard or setting them back. That's not what we're here for. Or disarming.
Or disarming, which is a very very important thing, very good what you're saying. Disarming is not mechiyas Amaleik. That's not wiping out Amaleik. You think that if you take Amaleik's weapons away they're like, "Oh, we don't have weapons, let's go, I don't know, let's try to find a good kumbaya now because...
let's go fishing." No, lo zeh. So he continues today on the bottom of page 70.
האידיאולוגיה של החמאס כמוה כאידיאולוגיה של דאעש ושל נסראללה, של איראן ושל אל-קאעידה. The same ideology that Iran has is the same as ISIS, as Nasrallah yimach shemo, as Iran, as Al-Qaeda.
של הפורעים שעשו לינץ' ביהודים בלוד, בעכו, ברמלה וביפו, ובמבצע שומר החומות. All the different things we've seen where Yidden are attacked in Eretz Yisrael for being Yidden that are living in Eretz Yisrael and that are trying to hold on to the land, it's all the same din. And he even goes back and he says, וגם כן של פורעי תרפ"ט. Now this is very important.
Por'ei Tarpat we all know is the 1929 massacre that happened in Chevron, but it was happening throughout the country, there were a lot of murders that were taking place back in that time. What were bothering the Arabs in Eretz Yisrael in 1929? Was it the '67 lines? No, they weren't there yet. I'm asking a rhetorical question, obviously. Obviously.
ובעצם של כל הטרור האסלאמי בכל העולם, בכל מקום בעולם. Now really this has to do with all of Islamic terror in the whole world.
כולם שואבים את הרצחנות והאכזריות שלהם מהערכים של האסלאם כפי שהם מפרשים אותו. They draw out the murder and the cruelty that they have from Islamic values based on their perush.
Based on their perush of Islamic values, this is what they're saying. This is their Torah, l'havdil.
בשמו הם רוצים להרוג את כל היהודים בעולם.
ולהתפוצץ על כל אלה שלא מתיישרים לפי ערכי האסלאם והשריעה שלהם.
In their name, they want to kill all the Yidden in the world, and they want to blow themselves up upon all those that don't basically adhere to Sharia law, which we all have been very... we've heard that said out loud without any bushah, this like in our faces, like k'ilu no one's business. These are the things that's going on right now in the world. This is not a symptom, this is not like a line, a strand, this is mamash the whole story that we have over here.
Charter. Their charter, yeah, charter. Top of 71 now. Now he says something that when we hear these words we have to realize don't get startled from it, it's pashut, this is HaRav Eliyahu's words of saying something that pashut me'od needs to be said, ein mah lehagid.
האידיאולוגיה הרצחנית שלהם תואמת לזו של המן והיטלר. They're no different between Haman or Hitler.
להשמיד, להרוג ולאבד את כל היהודים מנער ועד זקן טף ונשים. Now, anyone that opens up the charter today of all these people we're speaking about will see this.
So then if you ask them, "Well, so what do you have to say about it? What do you think we could do?" "Oh, we can't, our hands are tied, international law, all these different things, we can't just go about and take care of business." So, okay, so what do you propose? So let's say this is before 1993, when the accords were signed in Washington. So what would you say then? B'emes. All we are saying is give peace a, right? That's what we're saying. Now, can you argue with that person? Yes, because you don't make peace with Amaleik, you have to wipe them out.
But let's say that you're saying it's not so clear, you can't say they're Amaleik. So I would say to someone, "Okay, it's 1993, let's give it, how about for you is 20 years enough to see what would develop, or let's go with 30?" Okay, so now we're 33 years after "All we are saying is give peace a chance". And this Torah is not yet embedded within the pulse of Am Yisrael and I'll give you a very unfortunate example that took place this week in, I think it was Kfar Azza or one of the moshavim around the Otef Azza. I don't know if you saw but there was some kind of a gathering of a bunch of older people, younger people from that chevrah, and they blew, they mafrichei yonah, they took doves and they sent them up into the sky as if and proclaiming, "We're still people that believe in and want peace." And they threw them up in the air as if to say...
we're not giving up on that on that dream no matter what they do to us our victory is that we don't stop dreaming about peace. It's funny, my I don't know, my victory is also not not giving up on dreaming about peace. Just two different things. So I saw that one of the comments from someone there wrote a comment and said I despise each and every one of you because my brother that got killed while trying to free some of the hostages that were there.
He didn't get killed to free you for you to go back and live in this bubble that you're now showing still chai vekayam in you.
זה בעיה גדולה מאוד. The thing is we don't really know how to offer a version and an image of peace in the right way. We don't have that yet either.
Yeah. Just one very quick comment. You're talking about the charter. Within their charter, within Islam's charter in the Quran you can deceive anybody in order to achieve your final goal.
Right, that's one of their halachas, Taqiyya. Yeah, that's one of their halachas.
יאסר ערפאת יימח שמו said this clearly. You can't.
There never will be. Now, Rav Eliahu quotes someone here that we've never quoted in the shul.
כך קורא להם ברל כצנלסון. Okay.
Who's Berl Katznelson? I mean you've probably seen a street in Israel in every city called Katznelson. Does anyone know who Berl Katznelson was? Early Zionist, secular Zionist. Early, ממקימי מפלגת תנועת העבודה. He passed away in 1944.
He wasn't even around to see them really go crazy. So look what he says.
נאצים הפלסטינאים שהצליחו לרכז כאן בארץ את האנטישמיות הזואולוגית של אירופה עם תאוות הפיגיון שבמזרח. Look what they did.
They took all that hatred of Esav that was happening in Europe and they were able to rebrand it and to centralize it all here in Eretz Yisrael. And then he quotes someone else we never really learned from.
כך כתבה עליהם נעמי שמר. When I say Naomi Shemer, what what comes to mind? Yerushalayim shel zahav.
So you should know, if she was around today, Naomi Shemer, she'd get blasted. She they would never play her anywhere. Why? She was unapologetic about her views. And her views stem very much with this sefer.
Very much. So what did she say?
הערבים אוהבים את הרצח שלהם חם לח ומבהיל. They this is like fire words. She said Arabs like their murder hot, right? Lach, how do you say lach? Moist.
I think it should be mavhil, in and frightening gruesome.
ואם אי פעם יהיה להם חופש להגשים את עצמם and if they ever have if they're ever granted the liberty to actually materialize all those thoughts that they have, אנחנו נתגעגע לגזים הטובים והסטריליים של הגרמנים. She said if they ever have their way we'll miss the gas chambers. The sterility of that October 7th.
That's exactly October 7th. This is the ideology of Amalek. And Amalek needs to be wiped out.
האידיאולוגיה הרצחנית הזאת עלולה להיות כמו מחלה מדבקת.
This sick ideology could be mamash contagious, as we're seeing in front of our eyes.
כך היה באירופה מימי השואה. This is what it was like in Europe during the Holocaust.
לא כל אירופה הייתה נאצית.
Not all of Europe were Nazis.
אבל כשהנאצים באירופה התחזקו וכבשו וניצחו. But when the Nazis in Europe started becoming victorious, היו הרבה שחיקו אותם. Many began to emulate them, to imitate them, veshitfu itam peula.
And they also were mishtapim. They I'm sorry? Collaborated. They they collaborated with them. They didn't put up opposition.
Or more than not opposition. I'm just saying, they just he's going to give an example here.
בפריז ראיתי בכמה וכמה בתי כנסת לוחות זיכרון גדולים. He saw in Paris in a number of shuls these big, like, you know, I don't know if they have it so much here, but in America it's in every shul the memorial boards and then like when a person's yartzeit's up so the candle gets lit, right? You know what I'm talking about? Of course, I was in charge of it.
Oh, you're in charge. No, it's a kavodik, it's a very kavodik thing. Come on. I would I would replace all the bulbs to be brand new.
Right. We're suppose I think I think we're going to have that here also. So he says though, but I looked vealeihem shemot hayeladim there were a bunch of names of children sheshtotrim tzarfatim...
התנדבו לאסוף מהבתים ולשלוח אל מותם האכזרי באושוויץ שבועיים לפני סיום מלחמת העולם השנייה.
What did he just say over here? Two weeks before the end of the war, a bunch of French police that would kidnap whatever Jewish kids were still around, sent them to their death two weeks before the war was over. Why? Because that was still the ruach of the... it's like ke'ilu what's in, you know? What's in? That's if you interview, when they were winning the war, the air was destroying the Jews. If you see in interviews that you see today around the world with people that are saying the meshugene things, if you ask them any shaila about the roots of what they're saying, what they're talking about, about the conflict, what does 'from the river to the sea' mean? All these different things, ein lahem musag.
But you know what? If you ask a lot of Yidden today as well, that even live in Eretz Yisrael, a lot of basic questions, גם להם אין מושג. I just saw a very nerve-wracking interview that some guy, some guy, this guy's a knacker, this actor, he was going around the streets of Tel Aviv the day before Shavuos and he said to everyone there, please ana, איזה עוד שם חג השבועות הוא גם חג? Right? So he's waiting for like thirty minutes for someone to say Matan Torah. No, it was Chag Shetilat HaIlanot was a big one. And he said it's Tu B'Shvat.
Asif. No, Asif, what's Chag HaAsif? Sukkos. But the Chag HaKatzir, harvesting was the only one that some of them knew. Because of Neil Young? Not because of Neil Young.
Chag HaKatzir they knew because it's a specific agriculture, they knew something agriculture had to do with the whole inyan. But Chag Matan Torah was not... So the guy said, so he wanted to like see if they would get stirred up by throwing in other options of what Chag Shavuos is. So he would say, זה גם חג עם המצות, נכון? And they had to stop for a second like, לא לא לא לא לא.
Matzot, at least at least they know there's a consciousness that Seder that Pesach is Matzot, right? So what am I saying? What am I trying to point out over here? We have such a taina on the world that they have no idea what they're talking about. Forget about the world they have no idea what they're talking about, do we have an idea what we're talking about? Do we actually understand what we're trying to do here? Do we understand how to deal with pure like something that's purely just evil? Or are we going to go into this back into years of galus mentality when we look it in the face? Or actually not look it in the face because it's too painful. And I think what Rabbi Leo is showing us up until now is that we can keep on going with examples after examples after examples after examples. When will it finally sink in? And then the call to action would be like Naftali was saying last week, okay let's say it sinks in, then what's the call to action? Right? So I have a lot of thoughts about that but we still want to continue learning this inside.
Hachashash Hagadol, we're in this middle of the page of 71.
החשש הגדול שכל מי שמכיר את המפה. The real fear of anyone that knows the map, החשש הגדול שכל מי שמכיר את המפה הוא שהטרור האסלאמי יצליח להוציא מהחורים את כל מטורפי האסלאם שנמצאים במדינות רבות וגם באירופה. He's calling this straight out.
It's great, we're learning, we're doing chesed, doing all these beautiful things in Eretz Yisrael, minyanim, dancing, it's all great. But there's something happening in the world. What's happening in the world? He's saying the fear is that some of the meshuganas which are, I don't know how to say anymore, like some, right? But that this action, this hatred will draw out from the woodworks and have people crawl out of holes, people that would never show their face in public or ever say anything in public. But this energy, this fire, this anger, this hate will be able to draw out from anywhere in the world people that are mamash hungry for destruction and for fire.
This koach of magnetism is a very real thing and we're seeing it in front of our own eyes. It's not stam, what would it look like? We are living in it. We're mamash living in it. And even though there are, there've been a few months now that we don't feel it in our, maybe in our...
And the whole war is over Am Yisrael in Eretz Yisrael. That's what the whole war is. So what's the obvious question you should have? If we're saying that the whole war with Amalek is over Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael, then where do we, what's the most recent, besides the current time that we're in right now, what's the most recent time that we think about, you know, Amalek as a people? Germany. So what, was that Amalek? What did it have to do with Eretz Yisrael? Because there are no Jews, there's no problem.
Because we didn't go there, so they just tried to kill us. Because we didn't, we were, they still, it was almost like well, we know about Balfour, we know about Herzl, we know about the seeds of something, and if they all go and they fulfill their prophecy, our tafkid in this world is done. So they didn't go yet, they're not moving. Ah, okay, great, they're making it easier for us to make sure that what our ancestors tried to begin to do when we left Mitzrayim the first time, we'll get it here before they could actually get home.
Eichmann actually came to Eretz Yisrael to study the Yidden. Really? Before the war? Before the war. Yeah. Really? I never heard that.
I'm pretty sure. Wow. Yeah. And then met with the Mufti.
Oh, that, yeah, about that, I didn't know that. That's crazy. He mammash studied the Yidden. Crazy.
Could be wrong. Yemach shemo. Right. So the timing is that there's the Balfour dec-, there're the pre-planning in the of the European Jews to come here and then the San Remo conference is probably most significant.
And we didn't, probably. Yeah. We didn't, the San Remo conference was a world conference and adoption by the world powers in which, I mean, time frame, what around what year? It was the beginning of the 20th century. I don't know exactly when.
Early. And early. And the world at that time, there wasn't a UN, there was the predecessor to the UN, and that conference was to agree on assigning the land. At that point, it was both sides of the Yarden.
And the world powers agreed and the unza yiddele were, yeah. This was happening in the world before 1939. Peel, Peel commission, 1937. Oh, that's crazy.
I mammash didn't even know that, but it makes perfect sense. Makes perfect sense. It's crazy. Now, the bottom over here, which is what we're going to really be ending with today, sinking into an ending with today is very, very, very important.
This terror that we're speaking about, as much as we say this, I know sometimes Bibi says it to sound politically, it's smart, right? But he says, you know, us trying to go and take out, and us fighting Iran is really a fight over trying to save who? The whole world, the West, right? So obviously it's a smart thing to say, right? Most people in the world don't buy it. It's amazing how the, like, there's this whole fragment of the Republican Right that is calling him out and saying you're just trying to get us into a war that's yours and not ours. Now, could be. I don't know.
But Binyamin ben Tzila should be strong and and do teshuva and lead Am Yisrael like a Yid without, just like a Yid. But in essence, do you think it stops just by us Yidden? Now, you could say I really don't care about that right now, I'm just worried right now about us Yidden. But if we do have an inyan that for Hashem, Elokei Yisrael to be the one that that is, his light is shining throughout the whole world, it's dependent on us Am Yisrael coming here to Eretz Yisrael and doing our thing here in Eretz Yisrael. So everything is, everything ha-bah-ha-talya, everything is dependent on each other.
But now he's going to take it to a little bit of a different direction. And it's important for us to see this as we're learning the origins and the roots of this, both based on halacha, Midrash, and and the Gemaras as well. So let's, so if you have this, look inside on the bottom.
הטרור הזה לא מוגבל ליהודים.
This terror isn't limited just to Yidden.
הגמרא אומרת על גרמניה שיזמה שתי מלחמות העולם. The Gemara says about Germany. What did Germany do? They're really the ones that began two world wars.
Amar Rabi Yitzchak, this is a Gemara in Megilla, daf vav. Amar Rabi Yitzchak, mai dich'tiv, what does it mean when Dovid HaMelech says in Tehillim, אל תתן השם מאויי רשע זממו אל תפק ירומו סלה. Now the pashut peshat of that means, Hashem, please don't give those evil wanters of evil to be able to implement their, zmamo al tafek, don't let them produce what they're, scheming. With the schemes of their hearts are trying to do in this world that God forbid it should go up.
אמר יעקב לפני הקדוש ברוך הוא רבונו של עולם אל תתן לעשו תאות ליבו. Yaakov saying, listen, it's my twin brother, so I know him pretty well, and I'm begging you, Ribono Shel Olam, don't let him, don't let him do what he wants to do. And the same posuk, זממו אל תפק ירומו סלה. The Gemara says, זו גרממיא של אדום.
Tell me something, how many years before World War I and World War II were these words said approximately? 1500, 1800, close to 2000 years before, mashu kaze?
זו גרממיא של אדום שאילמלא הן יוצאין מחריבין את כל העולם כולו. Because if they get to do what they want to do, מחריבין את כל העולם כולו. They're going to destroy the whole world. How far did Yimach Shemo the Third Reich get? Far.
How close were they to here? Very, they were pretty close. They would have continued. And right now Iran, if they could, we're dealing with people that if they could, they would destroy the whole world. This is not a Middle East conflict.
It's Middle East conflict has taken the headlines of it, but it's not. It's a Middle East conflict. Yeah, as Yaakov was saying before, anybody who reads the Quran or has read the Quran, their whole mission is to create a worldwide caliphate. It's ze lo chidush.
Machrivin et it's all about just making the whole world Islam. That's what it is. That's what he says. So this is what the Gemara says about Germany, right? They're saying they and they if they if they get what they want, you don't even understand what they want.
They want the whole thing, right? So the Amalek energy of wanting to destroy the whole world that was apparent in World War II through Edom has very much transferred itself into Yishmael of today. Mishpacha, one of the peirushim on Sefer Daniel and the interpretation of the elements of that monster says that if not for the fact that Germamia and its components were so conflicted among themselves, they would destroy the whole world. And who are we talking about conflicted? Basically, all of Europe. England is from Saxon.
They're part of the same mishpacha. England seems to be the first one that's already gone down this time around. So strange. But they are part of the mishpacha of Germamia.
Yeah, such a strange thing. And of course, now they've all moved and created the United States of America. Hayom, bottom line, היום רוצה איראן והטרור האיסלאמי שלה לכבוש את העולם. This is he's saying it straight up.
כולנו זוכרים את הפיגוע הרצחני בבניין התאומים. We all remember the World Trade Center.
פיגוע שגבה חיים של אלפיים תשע מאות שבעים ושבעה אנשים. That was a pigu'a that took the lives of nearly 3000 people.
הרבה חוששים כי אם תהיה עוד הצלחה לטרור הזה. If there's more hatzlacha to the terror that we see today, יחקו אותו עשרות מיליוני הערבים שנמצאים כעת באירופה. Millions of Arabs that are already in Europe look at what happened on the World Trade Center, they look at that in America, and they're like: wow. 20 years after the World Trade Center's bombings or however you want to- not bombings, the destruction of it, that same city elected a rasha merusha.
So they look- these people are looking as like: wow. It looks like it could really work. People are really not- they don't read the signs. It's amazing.
So he's saying they're looking at this, they're saying like: this is nuts. God must be on our side. Right? It must be working. Yeah.
I just saw an article about how they have an FBI recording from 20 years ago of them planning to embed themselves in universities and professors in universities and 20 years ago, more than 20 years ago. This article was talking about an FBI recording from 20 years ago and it's pashut they were matzliach. Rav Eliyahu's saying this type of allowing Amalek to be on the surface, he says the more that you allow, more that you have rachmanus on Agag of today, the more that that one Agag creates hundreds of thousands. thousands of bloodthirsty people.
So you're saying, no, I have, I'm a Yiddisher heart, I have rachmanus, I can't take them out. It just shows that you're unwilling to read the clear and present danger and all the signs that Hashem has put in front of us. And it also makes you realize how much החיים פה זה נס. The fact that we are, everything that's going on here is an absolute miracle.
Lo nitpas, doesn't make any sense at all. But Rav Eliyahu just said over here, they see the hatzlacha that they've had, they're going to have tens of millions of Arabs that are right now in Europe and other nations שיקחו נשק וירצחו את השכנים היהודים והנוצרים שלהם יחד. At the end of the day, there's no difference be'emet for the Yishmaeli, for the one that we're speaking about to take out the Christian as well. They're currently doing it in all the Arab countries.
They're going around and they're killing even the Christian Arabs. Nachon, they're doing it everywhere. That's why Lebanon is such a pelle to me that it still even exists. It's such a strange thing.
Like the klal that there's even a civilization in Lebanon today is shocking to me because of this. If that's debatable, that it's really a civilization. How can you imbue the fact that we are living the miracle to those individuals in North America and around the world that don't realize what a miracle Hashem is doing for us on a daily basis? We have to, forget about them for a second, it's us about we always go to them. You won't have to even go to them once we that are here, our lifestyles and our choices are all done through the prism of this miraculous state of existence.
Forget about everybody else, not forget, meaning, don't, we, it's so easy. It's so easy. Look in the mirror. Look in the mirror.
What about my, it's a very good point, like what about today? Wednesday in May, towards the end of May, a Wednesday in Sivan. What about the choices I'm going to make in my life today are really framed within the framework of living in a miraculous nature. That's the sha'ala we have to have. Back inside, second paragraph.
I know you're not going to like the next topic, so I'm going to make this because you see what he says.
המלחמה שלנו היא מלחמה באנשי החושך שמאמינים באונס של נערות ושל נשים שמתגאים בשפיכות דמים שמתגאים בעריפת ראשים. Our war is a war with people of darkness who believe in the rape of young girls and women that are proud of spilling blood and that are proud of beheading. Shemitpa'arim behitalelut beguphot.
They're proud about the, how do you say this? Desecrating bodies?
וחושבים כי ככל שאדם אכזרי יותר הוא שהיד עליון יותר. The more that a person is crueler, he's a higher shahid, which is disgusting. You have, whatever.
ויקבל את השכר יותר טוב בשמיים השחורים שלהם.
That person, the crueler you are, the crueler you are, according to them the higher Gan Eden you get. So having said this, first of all makes us breathe for a second and realize, okay, it's very easy to get depressed over here because we could look and be like, okay, so post October 7th, what's changed? Nothing. Nothing? No, if anything, it's gotten worse. No.
They think they're even higher now. Well, the ones that are alive. I mean, look, gevalt, we took out the head, the current head, the most recent head of Hamas last night, right? As has that deterred anyone from becoming a Hamasnik? No. Never.
All these things, these are not, ze lo ze. They have the same numbers now of fighters as they did pre-October 7th. Ken, it's insane. It's insane.
Why? Because we didn't wipe them out. And wiping them out means removing them from the land, all of them. The 16-year-olds two years ago are 18 this year, and many more. Lo ye'uman.
Now, what's the problem with this halachically is that halachically the sha'ala becomes who has a din Amalek on them? And that's what's become so confused, that's what Eli Stone was going back and forth with us, that's what becomes so confusing with the times that we're living in halachically. Can we say that every Arab that lives in Eretz Yisrael is an Amalekite? No. But do you have to lehager otam? Do you need to... deport them from the country if they're not Amaleikites? It's just common sense.
Bediyuk. Bediyuk. It's not a whole chochmah. Doesn't the Torah tell us about what we should be doing? They have three options, no? Yeah, but that's a bigger problem because then if you go like that, then who else do you have to remove from the country? Anybody who's not following the שבע מצוות בני נח, anybody who is not shomer at least the שבע מצוות בני נח.
So what do we do with all the Christians that set up shop in Yerushalayim? If you go with that shittah, you have a big problem. Meaning, you actually in the emes of emes you don't have a problem. Until Huckabee gets up and gives us a bachura. He did! He didn't treat the...
Okay, so now look what he says here. He does something, he does something very interesting over here. What is the word in Hebrew, the word for Arabs is Aravim, right? What word does that come from? Mixture, no? Yeah, lehita'arev, lehit'arbev, right? Ta'aroves. Ta'aroves.
הערבים כשמם כן הם, תערובת של עמים רבים, they're a mixture of many different peoples and nations.
מושפעים ואולי גם מעורבים מישמעאל והפלשתים, חלק מהם בוודאי מעמלק וחלק לא. So he's saying like this: If we're going to go on the line of, ke'ilu, are these from the nation of Amaleik? Not just, not just like, you know, ideologically.
חלק כן, חלק לא, because they're all mixed up together.
עם זאת, השפעת עמלק ניכרת בהם מאוד. One thing for sure, the hashpa'ah of Amaleik is very much clearly seen in them.
על פי מדד האנטישמיות העולמית, I'm only saying this because it's written in this sefer, but usually I don't say this word, הפלסטינים הם שונאי ישראל גדולים ביותר בעולם. The Palestinians that are here and their supporters are the biggest Jew-haters in the world.
הם מטיפים באופן מסודר לכל ילד וילדה מגיל קטן לשנוא כל יהודי. They teach all their kinderlach from the moment that they're able to read or learn anything that it's an inyan to hate Jews.
מהללים ומשבחים את המחבלים, they praise and they're in awe of their terrorists. Bimyuched hashaheedim beineihem.
Vechol hamehalelim and all those that praise the terror, heim chelek mehaterror. They're part of the terror. Just because they praise it and they didn't actually go out and shoot, they're just as much accomplices as anyone else that's actually doing anything.
כך פסק לפני כמה שנים חבר מושבעים בארצות הברית.
Do you remember this? I don't know if he's speaking about the case with Ari Fuld, but he's saying over here that a few years ago a jury in America paskened that the... it makes me sick be'emes I feel so not myself. Huh? Hareshut ha... right? The authority, the PA, and the Sbarro? I think it was in the Sbarro. Yeah.
They came up with a ruling fining והפת''ח חייבים לשלם פיצויים לנפגעי טרור במאות מיליוני שקלים. That they have to pay those that were hurt by terror hundreds of millions of shekels. Why?
כיוון שהם אחראים למעשי המחבלים בכך שעודדו אותם ושילמו להם. Because, I mean this, to me, is one of the most...
this... I feel like I lose my mind when I think about this. Every family of a terrorist gets a stipend, a pension. Yeah.
Mamash, I don't understand it. And we allow it. We give them the money. And they're demanding that Israel stop the money going to the authorities to pay for the pay-for-slay.
But they're the good Arabs, right? They're not Hamas. Trump had the Taylor Force Act that stopped that and then Biden repealed it. It's called the Taylor Force Act. Did he? Now? I'm not sure.
I'm not sure. Do you know that they also get Bituach Leumi? Those that don't normally have it? What? With the pay-for-slay, they get Bituach Leumi as a... anachnu cholim. Anachnu cholim.
Anachnu cholim me'od. Anachnu cholim me'od. We're still very, very sick.
ואנחנו קל וחומר אסור לנו לכסות ולהסתיר את מעשיהם הרעים.
We cannot conceal their bad actions.
שלא ניכשל פעם אחר פעם כמו שנכשל שאול. We can't afford to repeat the same mistakes that Shaul did. We have to be melachim.
We have to be Shmuel, we have to be David HaMelech. Shelo nichyeh b'ashlayot. We can't live in illusions ונחתום איתם על הסכמי שלום שיתפוצצו לנו אחר כך באוטובוסים. How many of you were here then? Ninety-five.
You know, I was, for me it was, for me it was my teenage years. I was living throughout the whole time here. And I used to go to the scenes of, I think I shared this with you once, that I was pulling out a box from my house, my kids saw some wires, they asked me "What's this?" and it still smells. And basically I would go to the scenes of bus bombings late in the day, like a few hours after.
I'd go on a bus, I'd go to Yerushalayim, I'd go to Tel Aviv, I'd go to Ramat Gan, wherever. And I'd actually take from the destruction. I kept it with me and I said, my the world says "Never forget," there's something sick going on, we forget. It had such a hashpa'ah on me.
I can't begin to tell you, it's such an influence on me, these things. I missed a few bus bombings by minutes. Baruch Hashem. I missed the bus, I missed a...
Baruch Hashem. Sometimes it pays off being a chasid.
שלא יסתמו עינינו כמו לפני דור. Last generation.
When when you're saying last generation, what is he referring to? What are you...? Number six and up to forty-six. Germany, Germany. Ke'ilu Germany, but really... no, no, no, he's speaking about Germany because he says שלא ראינו את רשעת גרמניה לפני השואה.
We didn't see the evil of Germany before the Shoah. What excuse does a person have today? If someone that was alive in the last ten years, twenty years, thirty years, what excuse does someone have today? So obviously it's not a matter of an excuse, it's that there's a piece of us of Am Yisrael that's still very much in galut. And that galut vibe says it's a different world today, we have to work smart, not just with your... it's like there's this commercial that when I was growing up that was trying to avoid traffic accidents.
It said בכביש אל תהיה צודק תהיה חכם. Which means on the road, don't be right, be smart. So I don't know in the world, don't be right, be smart? There's no stirah. Being smart means being right, means being what we call in Hebrew לא דופקים חשבון בעל הבית השתגע.
We lost that chance already on October eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and every day since for the current round. There needs to be a new generation of thinkers, people that think like this, people that understand that this type of thinking is the emes of love, and it's the real wants of peace. The real wants of peace. And I've told some of you, I'm working so hard on this in written format every day, trying to produce something that'll help people that really want to lidavek b'emes, that are bold enough, that are open enough to respect the previous generation and say, listen, we did the best we could coming out of Auschwitz and starting this whole country, but it can't continue like this.
Because every single Arab that lives right behind us is the same exact Arab of October seventh. There's no, there's zero difference. Zero difference between them. When the opportunity to kill Yidden comes about, they will go for it.
The ones that you hire, the ones that build your houses, the ones that work in the makolet. If the opportunity came up to do it, they would. How do you know that? How do I know that? Why do you want that? I don't want that. No one wants that.
You don't want that to be a reality. But Hashem gave us eyes and He gave us a brain and He gave us a Jewish heart and He gave us sechel. And this is with all the beautiful geshmak things that we're doing all the time, with all the simchas and the ruchnius and all the projects and this and that. Unless it's not looked at face value exactly what it is we're fighting for and why we're working so hard on all this, anachnu osim sivuvim more and more and more.
Bottom up it's going to happen on this side. Yeah. I'm just, what's gone through my head, like, do you have any idea how big this ask is? You're asking us to be bigger than Shaul HaMelech. You're asking us to wipe out Amalek.
Not arguing with you. You've made the case that they're Amalek, you've made the case there's no difference between them and Hamas, they're going to kill us and they will, that's fine. But then to go to the next step, to really try to address, to wipe them out, again what it takes to... from either the ideology of this country or the soul.
Like, you're not for the guy in Kfar Aza who says they, my neighbors just came in here and destroyed the whole city, burnt us and raped us and kidnapped us, and I'm now with a white dove up there. You know what, I'm not that dumb. You're right. They probably do hate me, but I'd rather live in a world where there's love and I'm not filled with hate.
And until you can offer me something better and different where I can live with myself considering the circumstances, this is just the best that I got. And the best that I got right now is this country that we built, and it's horrible to say because every Jew is a whole world and we have to go ahead and protect them with everything that we have. But it comes to the best alternative we have is just a shaving off of a shaving off of a percent of us every single year or two and that's just which is horrible to say, but that's the reality. That's the way the history has always been, that's been part of our history because this issue is so much greater than us until something supernatural, i.e. Hashem, comes along and fixes it.
They have a good idea of how to go ahead and conquer us. Amalek. They go ahead, shaheed, they value them, they pay them, it's like in their mahalech. They have mesirus nefesh.
They have a good plan of what they're doing. And if you want to look like that, is that what you'd rather be? I'm not sure if that's the alternative or what does it mean wipe them out? Like I'm, again, it's like me and you and Nachi becoming and grabbing them and taking them and moving them somewhere, assuming we could even handle the rest of the world. But I'm talking about ourselves. I was with a guy just now on a bike ride, my instructor, he has such post-trauma.
He's just a nice yid, a nice guy from everything that's all around us. So unless you really know what it is you're fighting for and then can somehow carry it out, I want to know what that means, carry it out. This is just the best alternative we got, just to keep trying to show up and daven. We're going to try to get a little bit to, maybe it'll try to educate me, but this is the best that we got.
Let me answer that. No, Yossi's right. We'll learn again next week. How do you feel? Yossi's right.
Actually Yossi's right. It's the healthiest way to go about. Yossi's right. No, you can't disagree in front of me.
Yossi's right. Skip it up. Could have been much worse. Argue with me.
I mean, that's fine. Yossi's no, chevre, I'm saying. No, Yossi's right. It's not pessimistic to be realistic.
I mean, it can be. No, you understand that with that mahalech, with the way that he's thinking, I give Eretz Yisrael, I give Am Yisrael in Eretz Yisrael twenty years, ten years, and then we're all dead. All of us with that mahalech. Yosef, sheket.
Shum davar. You're right. Bemet, at face value you're right, but you said such an important thing because this is what I'm trying to approach. You said, until you offer, like that was the keyword for me.
So we're working on it. I'm working on this day and night, we're working on this day and night. Until you offer the alternative to be something that is bar hasaga. How do you say that? Achievable, attainable.
What does that look like? We do have a military. We do have a military that can do, you don't think that we could do everything we just said right now with our military? What do you think? You think we could actually do? You don't think Shaul Hamelech could have killed Agag? I'm talking about today. Azov otam. Of course Shaul could have killed Agag.
What do you mean? One day, I believe we have the technology to do that. I think we have the technology to kill a million people. Who's talking about killing a million people? Let's start with the removal of who's going to murder. I'm talking about, let's remove this entity from the face of Eretz Yisrael.
Let's start with that. Can we start with that? Where? How? Shniya shniya shniya. Can we? If we actually, the President of America said three times that that's what we should do. It's us that stopped it.
Can we? I'm asking, can we? Is it possible for two million citizens in this country? Citizens? I'm just telling you what they. And now they have this zchut. Let's just talk. Wait, Steve, I'm sorry.
This can go anywhere but I have to just, I know him. Listen. Can we do it? In theory you're like total, in theory it's doable. In theory, if we all came together and had I don't see that.
The Israel I understand, the people I understand. You're right. With the Israel, you're a hundred percent right. With the chain of command of today, you're right.
It's not doable. doable, it's not gonna happen. You're 100 percent right. So with that, with that train of thinking, it's like okay, so shave it off, could have been worse, we're okay, we're getting here, beseder gamur.
There's a new generation, they're younger than us. They are younger, they are they are younger than us. They're not yet ripe yet, they're still they're younger generation. They're not gonna put up with any of this.
They need the support, they need the belief in them, they need the actual texts, they need to learn inside what they're fighting for, why they're fighting and what will happen if they keep on doing the tactics that we've been doing for the last, God knows 78 years, of sheket mul sheket, all these horrible things. They I believe this, they're even younger than your current children that are serving. It's not they're younger. I'll give you that, but then what disappoints me on that is, where's that discussion? Where's that even, oh there's like a new party or a new idea, where are some of these guys coming out, these gevars? Forget about how you could be tattooed, you could be...
Forget. Yeah, no, no, right, right. I want, I know that guy, I know I could go to any base and find out that guy, that guy, that guy, I'll take him as a leader all day long. And where is that? I don't even see a discussion about it, I don't see any sort of like ground swelling, I don't, that's what...
So because you don't see it, does that mean that what you offered should be what should be? Just because you don't see it yet? You have to build. What's idealism? What is the whole concept of idealism? Because you don't see it, so therefore what we sit what you said before should be the best, it's the best route because I don't see it, therefore I should I should go to that? Chas v'shalom. Anyone that's ever done anything big in the world didn't look around and say is anyone else doing this? Oh, I guess not, so maybe that's not meant to be. Bemakom she'ein ish.
Avraham Avinu, hitzitz ba'al habira. Anyone that's done anything has come from a place of bemakom she'ein ish. So it's true. Are there other chaburas or shuls or schools that are learning like this during the week? Very little.
And when you try to learn this in the army they don't let you. So that's a so does that mean that it shouldn't be because it's not yet done? No. It means if you believe it, it means Hashem, please open the gates for this to be the way that people understand what needs to be done. And halevai I should have the zechut, we should have the zechut that it's done through us.
There are plenty of people in America that are waiting, I believe this, they're waiting for this to be the voice that welcomes them when they come back home. And I want our voice to be the voice. I do. And I feel like we're still young.
Be'emet I do. I feel like there's still so much work to be done. So I can't be because the reason of pessimism that comes up, trust me, I'm more pessimistic than you, I just pretend that I'm not. Be'emet.
But I have a chiyuv to not be pessimistic. I have a chiyuv, I have an obligation, I feel like it's a it's a Torah way of living is believing that yesterday should not be today's slave driver. I have to live like that. Everything you said is true, meaning everything everyone's brought up in here about the current situation and everything that's happened before that, all that are factually true, but how could that determine what tomorrow should look like? I can't.
Now is there anyone today that is speaking like this that's running for office? There's one, he's not gonna pass though unfortunately. I wish he would, you know I wish he would, he probably won't. But beseder. It means there's still a load of work that needs to be done.
And we have to keep continue to get to work. But I don't want us to go to resort to the other way of saying listen, it's not gonna happen in our lifetime, let's just give it the best shot and try to have a good time while we're at it. I don't know, it's not I wasn't raised like that, and I don't think it's a Jewish way of living. I don't think it's a Yiddishe way of living.
I don't think any gibbor that ever did anything for Am Yisrael lived like that. And we have to be gibborim. We set up like in the Tikun Ha'medina classes, we set up a way of understanding that the gift of the medina and the gift of the tzava are kelim that are still waiting for the proper light to go into. The medina, the state is a kli.
The army is a kli. The light still has to go in in the proper places, but it's not gonna be from the chain of command, it's all gonna be bottom up. So let's invest in that next generation that thinks that that understands that מה שהיה לא יכול להמשיך. But with that head space that you shared, someone said 20 years, at the rate that things are...
things are going now, I give us ten years. Mamish, ten years. Ten years. And we're not going to go there because it is going to be good.
It is going to be good. I believe that beamuna shlema, not because we're going to save the world, but our chelek will be part of saving the world. And another person's chelek will be part of saving the world. And then you'll have the right calling that's coming out of Tzion that'll really bring in the ingathering of the exiles of conscious people that want to be here for real.
And they'll make shalom with all those that were here until now that did their best post-Auschwitz and there'll be shalom amongst us once we are clear as to what we're actually trying to do here. And that's our achrayus, to make it clear what are we trying to do. You're about to explode. I can see it.
Yeah I am. I am. Because I feel like I'm watching a figure that's about to No, because yesterday I was talking with Zeb because Naftali asked us on Monday and it seems like the theme, like what can we actually practically do? If we want to actually get this consciousness out there, one thing that we can do right now and I can send to the chat, just write a quick review for this shiur, for this podcast to get more people to listen to it, to get it up there on the charts, to spread this consciousness, to spread this awareness. That's how it happens.
We can sit in here and then take this in and walk out and then come back again, we have the same question. Do you want something practical? That's something you could do, take five minutes, give a five-star review, write it, it'll boost it up the charts, more people will see it. I will send a link after the shiur, but that's how we get it out there more, instead of just walking out of here and being like, okay, that was nice. Well, unless you don't buy this.
Right. But I think you do, that's the thing. I know, I know. Unless you're writing a negative review.
Yes, it's the best gig that we got because I need something to believe in, just like Faras with the white toes needs something to believe in, it's built as an alternative. I get what we're talking about, but until I can see it a little bit more practically... Right, it's good what you're saying. It's good.
And I'm going to keep doing the best and we're going to keep doing the best. It's good. Well, that's something practical we can do. And showing up, yeah.
Although, we'll probably get shut off by I tell him this all the time, I mean, he thinks he's shocked that I still have an American bank account. I mean it starts and then it's the diaspora. In the states? Yes. I'm going to set them up.
Hey Rebbe, we'll talk after. Just want to say one thing. Great being here.
רבי חנניה בן עקשיא אומר רצה הקדוש ברוך הוא לזכות את ישראל לפיכך הרבה להם תורה ומצוות שנאמר ה' חפץ למען צדקו יגדיל תורה ויאדיר.