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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?
Chodesh Adar sponsored anonymously in honor of all the open miracles that we're seeing daily. Nice one. Shkoach. The silver is le'ilui nishmas בתיה פיגא בת ישראל, Raziel ben Hershkowit, מרדכי שאול בן יצחק אייזיק בן פינצל, לוי יצחק בן יוחנן זלמן, and for the Refuah Sheleimah of our chayeilim hakedoshim דוד נתנאל בן איילה הובה, טוב שמואל בן אביה נאווה, אברהם בן יעקב בן דבורה פיגא, ואת שאר בתוך כל שאר חולי ישראל.
The week is sponsored by the Edelman family in memory of Zvi's Abba אשר בן פסח הפנס 30th yahrtzeit. It's mamash apropos we're learning this right now as you know that there's a whole there's a bunch of there's hundreds of chayeilim now just this morning were added on karka'is raglis going into Lebanon now on the ground. So this learning should mamash please Ribono Shel Olam watch over every single one of these precious neshamos that chalilah nothing should happen to them. They should have the zechus of mechiyas Amalek be'ezras Hashem, hakedoshim shelanu.
Okay. What's that? 45 shekel. Whoever are there any seforim left? Okay, whoever everyone everyone grabbed one, yeah? Everyone grabbed a sefer. Okay so yafi shkoach hazeh 45 45 shekel.
Okay great. Now, we began this beautiful important sefer explaining to us it was more of like a brief history of what's happened until now and we've kinded in terms of modern war history in Eretz HaKodesh going through all the wars and we saw that the second the second we kind of forgot about the Ribono Shel Olam and started putting stuff back to ourselves and our own credit bad things started happening and that's kind of been the game and it's also the game it's also this game that we're in right not a game chalilah it's just this puzzle that we're in right now and the bottom line is it we have to always remember the Ribono Shel Olam when it comes to our wars it's got to be something constant consistent and you can never the second that you that you get a little shvach with it bad things start start happening chas v'shalom. God forbid it should happen it should happen to us. I gotta tell a crazy story.
It's very very apropos. There was a an Orthodox Jewish man that joined the US Military Academy. Say it again. There was a an observant the Orthodox Jewish man.
There was a Jewish man that joined the in the military. Huh? Part of it goes... Jewish. Jewish.
There was a Jewish guy who joined the Military Academy at West Point and after two semesters he went over to the top whoever the general or whatever it was at the academy said I'm leaving the school. Why? Like of all of the things that you teach and how wars are won not one of the wars that that Israel has won has been mentioned in any of the classes. He's like 'cause we don't rely on miracles. This is the general of the US Military Academy whatever it was.
I've heard that before. They can't learn any strategy because nothing makes sense. They get it. They get it.
אז יאמרו בגוים הגדיל השם לעשות עם אלה.
אז יאמרו בגוים הגדיל השם לעשות. Mamash pshat. Unbelievable.
Now the next perek that we have in front of you on on daf 13 on page 13 begins he continues over here. We're not going to be doing every single perek in this sefer. I want to focus on specific ones. But it continues with the inyan of the issur to forget about the Ribono Shel Olam and the second that you reveal something about ke'ilu a little bit of your ruach or your koach again power that you once had gets chalilah swallowed up by the other side.
But what I wanted to continue with today is on page 18. This is a very this is a fascinating perek over here. We'll try to get through it today. Fascinating perek about all all the things that maybe we're not aware of that are actually happening while we're in a milchamah.
This is fascinating. All these different things that are really happening beyond beneath the beneath above the surface beneath the surface things we're not really aware of but it's important to pay attention to. Of you see on page 18 אבות העולם וצדיקי העולם ונביאים ראשונים. So Rav Shmuel Eliyahu says like this ביחד עם השם אלקיך המתהלך בקרב מחנה ישראל so together with Hashem that's with us in the encampment of going out to war באות גם כל נשמות הצדיקים הגדולים מאז ומקדם לסייע לישראל Tzaddikim come and join the armies as well.
Tzaddikim from shochnei afar meaning Tzaddikim that aren't in this world anymore.
כך מובא במדרש על התגייסות הצדיקים בשמים לעזור לעם ישראל בעת גזירה של המן הרשע The Midrash tells us something... the story of Purim. Listen to this Midrash.
מיד רץ אליהו בבהלה אצל אבות העולם וצדיקי עולם ונביאים ראשונים ואמר להם שמים וארץ וצבא מרום בוכים במעי נפש וכל העולם כולו אחזתו חיל כיולדה ואתם שוכבים במנוחה. Eliyahu HaNavi comes to all the neviim and he says, look what's going on in the world, the Yidden are freaking out, so all this chaos and you're just lying here comfortably b'menucha?
אמרו לו על מה אמר להם מפני שנגזרה על שונאי ישראל כליה למה מפני שנהנו מסעודתו של אחשוורוש. So he says, why why are things so crazy, the tzaddikim are saying, because there's a gezeira on the Yidden because without getting too involved in it, they were enjoying themselves in the seudas Achashveirosh and now there's a gezeiras shmad on all of Am Yisrael.
כיוון ששמע משה כך אמר לאליהו כלום יש אדם כשר באותו הדור אמר לו יש אדם אחד ומרדכי שמו.
Is there any kosher Yid that Moshe Rabbeinu's asking? Is there any kosher Yid in that generation? He said, yeah, יש אדם אחד ומרדכי שמו.
אמר לו לך והודיעו ויעמוד הוא משם ואנו מכאן. So go tell Mordechai he's got to keep on doing his thing and Moshe Rabbeinu is telling Eliyahu HaNavi and we're going to stand up and do our thing from here. Alright, from here, whatever that means.
מרדכי ידע את כל אשר נעשה, is that why he's Eliyahu's the kesher there? Give another chiddush. This is wacky what's going on. That's the posuk though, no?
מרדכי ידע את כל אשר נעשה. It could be.
I thought you were darshaning out of Mordechai yoda, meaning that Mordechai knew that Eliyahu HaNavi was running to Moshe Rabbeinu. Yeah, yeah, exactly what we say. Beautiful. Beautiful.
מרדכי ידע את כל אשר נעשה. He knew this was happening also. That's beautiful. You're so humble.
You're so not miyaches the chapp to yourself. It's a beautiful thing.
כשיש שיתוף פעולה בין הצדיקים בשמים לבין האנשים בארץ when there's shituf peula, you know what that means, right? Partnership happening between the tzaddikim in the heavens and us down here.
כוח האבות הצדיקים פועל ומסייע לבנים הלוחמים.
The strength of the holy tzaddikim comes and helps the kinderlach that are actually fighting.
וזוכר חסדי אבות ומביא גואל לבני בניהם למען שמו באהבה. But it's not just the tzaddikim that wake up. This is the problem.
You see, if it was really just like that, that it was us down here versus an evil army down here, together with Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, Yehoshua, all the melachim and neviim we ever had, what would be the sha'ila? Why would we have any problems at all ever? Something else gets woken up also, which is what we have a really hard time with. The question of Moshe Rabbeinu was also sounded very similar to are there any tzaddikim left in Sodom? Avraham start, but he doesn't go ten. He goes straight to one. Well, who was Avraham going to summon from the higher world? I'm saying when the question was asked, that's the first thing that came to my mind.
It sounded like the question Avraham asked. So you're saying that they didn't have the zchus avos that we have? By Avraham? I mean, like what's he going to I mean you could say, well no, they were still alive. Because he started with the fifty and he went down because he's like I don't have anything to bank on up there so I'm gonna start with the fifty and he went down. There's another important he'ara you can see from the Midrash here.
Adam echad. Yeah, Mordechai. We're often sitting here thinking, what can we, how can we change something? Adam echad was sufficient. Tzaddik echad from the avos.
Adam kosher echad. Ish, obviously ish. The only thing is that there's a danger with that because then you'll say, okay, I'm sure there's someone there that's going to take care of it right now. No.
I think the notion is that it doesn't have to be a ribbuy, it doesn't have to be a... right. But since you don't know and you shouldn't bank on that one person, everyone has to. Nachon.
Nachon. I have plenty of people I can go into my mind. Listen, like throughout this whole twelve months, I keep on saying to myself to calm myself down, the Amshinovery Rebbe is chai ve'kayam. He's alive.
Like I keep on... it's... I've gone back to it many times. Like it comes up in davening a lot, like with the Amshinovery Rebbe Shlita is alive, he's here, he's with us in our dor.
This has got to be this is a... you know, shmira bizchuso that the malachei ma'ala and tzaddikei ma'ala are also po'el. Felt. Once you see the eyes of a tzaddik like that your life is not the same.
My life is never as my life is two tkufas, one up until I was seventeen, I saw him when I was seventeen, and then after seventeen. Like before seeing his eyes looking into his eyes and his eyes looking into mine and afterwards. But even the Amshinover Rebbe would probably say but you have to do your gig too you know everyone has to do their gig. Okay.
Now what else happens though with the hissorerus of these tzaddikim aroused by coming coming to in through Eliyahu Hanavi?
הזהר הקדוש מרחיב ואומר. This is a this is intense.
כי במקביל לכחות כל הצדיקים שבאים לסייע לעם ישראל באים גם כל כחות הרשע העולמיים ומתעוררים לסייע לאויבי ישראל בזמן הגאולה. It's also the it's also the flip side.
It's also the flip side. The reshaim from previous generations somehow also get up and this what the Zohar says we'll we'll read the Zohar inside he's going to explain it afterwards.
רבי אבא אמר משמיה דרבי יוסי סבא והכי אמר רבי שמעון זמין קודשא בריך הוא לאחייא לכל אינון מלכין דאקו לישראל ולירושלים לאנדרוניוס ללופינוס נבוכדנצר סנחריב ולכל שאר מלכי עמין דחריבו ביתיה ולשלטא לונג כקדמיתא ויתכנשון עימון שאר עמין וזמין קודשא בריך הוא להיפרע מינו בהתגליא סחרני ירושלים הדא דכתיב וזאת תהיה המגפה אשר יגוף השם את כל העמים אשר צבאו על ירושלים אשר יצבאו לא כתיב אלא אשר צבאו. Okay what's the diyuk here from the what the Zohar Hakadosh is saying? Past versus present.
Zos omeres anyone that ever came and messed with Yerushalayim specifically the examples given here are those that were machriv the bayis that they're going to have like a double you know a double whammy meaning they're going to be shechted again and thrown again into the pit of hell once they start messing and trying to help the enemies that were with that are with us right now. Who's aware of this? Not so much us. The umos haolam are aware this is shocking. The umos haolam are kind of aware of this part of their chutzpa that they have and who who was saying this the other day? Tolner Rebbe's chutzpa.
You were quoting this right? In the name who was it was your inyan? Was beautiful like it's it's a chutzpa. From the Tolner Rebbe from the from the Tolner Rebbe shlita. The current? Yes. It's a chutzpa.
But where does this it's a chutzpa to to shoot a rocket at a Yid it's it's poshut a chutzpa. But where do they get some kind of their of their chutzpa? Where does it come from? So they have some kind of like intuition that they have this aid from I don't want to say above because it's from bisheol tachtis from the other side that comes and kiviyachol helps them in with their wars because and and it gives them the chutzpa to do what they're doing. It's not just their own thing. And he brings examples here but he first explains the Zohar.
אמר רבי שמעון עתיד השם להחיות את כל המלכים שהציקו לעם ישראל ולירושלים. Hashem will bring back to life the kings that gave Am Yisrael a lot of tzaros and gave Yerushalayim a lot of tzaros. And he starts listing it Adronius Lupinus Nevuchadnezzar Sancheriv you know Sancheriv we have a really big I mean I don't know I have a I say his name and and I get the it's a icky feeling inside because Sancheriv one of the worst things about him was that he was mebalbel. He was in charge of mebalbel why don't we know anyone anymore with their shevet as far as like lineage wise? He was the one that was mebalbel the yichus.
Without getting too much involved in the story of Sancheriv but what Sancheriv did is that he took everyone's zehus everyone's identity everyone's connection to to understanding their shoresh neshama.
בא סנחריב ובלבל את האומות. He came and he brought a lot of confusion within the people mixing people up vechulu. He also comes and he shows up over here.
וכל המלכים שהחריבו את בית המקדש והציקו לעם ישראל. The kings that destroyed Beis Hamikdash.
והתכנסו איתם שאר עמים למלחמה על עם ישראל ועל ירושלים. Together with other people they should like we see today even though it's downplayed because we try not to give a lot of information to the enemy online not so successful in that in today's day and age but you realize that Yerushalayim is definitely on the kavenet this time.
and clearly things have been falling pretty close to the Makom Hamikdash.
ועתיד השם להיפרע מהם בגלוי סביב סביב ירושלים על כל הצער שעשו לעם ישראל. They're gonna come back and Hashem's gonna give a double revenge on to them for all the tzaras they ever did to Am Yisrael, bifrat those that are staging war towards the place of Hashem's dwelling of the Shechinah, which is in Makom Hamikdash in Yerushalayim. Now he's gonna explain something historically freaky.
I remember this as a kid that went through the Gulf War. This was freaky.
זה מסביר למה סדאם חוסיין העריץ אמר שהוא ממשיך את נבוכדנצר. Do any of you remember this? It was the wackiest thing in the world.
He not just that he said it. I think that he had statues of Nevuchadnezzar in his palace. He lived there. In where? In his old in Nevuchadnezzar's stomping ground? Me'eifo ze ba? Meiheichi taisi? למה המצרים אומרים שהם ממשיכים את דרך פרעה?
למה האיראנים אומרים שהם ממשיכים את המן?
ולמה נסראללה בגימטריא ארמילוס, same gematriya 347?
והוא משתמש כל הזמן במספר המזל של 313.
He always uses, they use this number 313 in all of their, how do you say ta'amulah? All the propaganda and stuff, this number 313 is used all the time. What's 313? Bakakuim shelahem in their tattoos. Bemisparei hamachoniyot shelahem, their license plates. Batarichim shelahem on their dates, כי זה המספר של אגג.
Agag is one right? It's the same gimel-gimel-aleph, right? 3-1-3. These are things that are not stam. 313 also has 6 and 7 in it.
כל נשמת הצדיקים מתחברות לנשמת חיילינו לנצח את אויבינו.
This is a very important thing here. The neshamas of the tzaddikim are connecting to the souls of our chayalim to beat our enemies.
כך כותב הזוהר גם במקום אחר שכל האויבים מדורי דורות באים להילחם בישראל עם הישמעאלים על ירושלים. This is frightening.
But it's what but we see it. It's frightening and yet if before we began this war we were to learn about this, it would freak the daylights out of you, but because we're in it now, we see okay this is what it is. This is why it's so intense and yet we still, we still are able to go veiter. We're still able to be strong.
What does the Zohar say?
ובני ישמעאל זמינין בההוא זמנא לאתערא עם כל עממי דעלמא למיתי על ירושלים.
דכתיב ואספתי את כל הגוים אל ירושלים למלחמה. All Bnei Yishmael, they'll be times they're all gonna come, bless you, and wake up to come and wage war on Yerushalayim, as the Navi Zechariah says, I'll gather all the goyim towards Yerushalayim to war. That's what the Navi says.
וכתיב יתיצבו מלכי ארץ ורוזנים נוסדו יחד על השם ועל משיחו. All the kings of the land and all the noblemen will come together against Hashem and his Mashiach.
וכתיב יושב בשמים ישחק השם ילעג למו. As we say always when we refer, when we have these intense moments of wondering oh my God, is this really like everyone's throwing around so easily the word Armageddon.
Like they're people throw around these words all the time. I've been hearing that word for so many years already, Armageddon. Is this Armageddon? Is this Gog u-Magog? Lo yodei'a mah. But whatever it is, it seems right now this is a time of like everyone's gathering together.
You saw there, Baruch Hashem, we were able to wipe out a bunch of mechablim yesterday in Shomron. The crazy levayah, they're carrying these bodies of those mechablim and did you hear what the slogans they were screaming? They're begging Iran to aim better. Aim stronger. You realize you're in the same, you know, the people that are asking for Iran to aim stronger and send powerful missiles, no one like little bit of a news flash, you're also underneath the same area where these missiles are going towards.
But to them it doesn't even matter. Shahid. Zeh lo meshaneh.
אם הם רוצים להיות שהיד.
ממש זה לא משנה. But what does it mean Yoshev bashamayim yischak? But the one that dwells in the heavens is laughing at them. Hashem yil'ag lamo. He laughs...
השם שוחק עליהם ולועג למו. He's laughing at them. Why? And how does he do this?
הוא שולח את נשמות הצדיקים הגדולים כדי שיעזרו לבניו להילחם בכל כוחות הרע העולמי. He's sending down the souls of the greatest tzaddikim we ever had to help his children fight all this evil power in the world.
נשמות הצדיקים והתנאים האלו מתחברים ומתחדשים עם נשמות החיילים הלוחמים. And this is like this is really important for us to grab hold of be'emuna shelema, God bless you, that when our chayalim are going out to krav, Mordechai HaYehudi is holding one side, Shmuel HaNavi, like all of us, Rabbi Akiva, I want to say something else also. Shimshon? Huh? Shimshon HaGibbor! Any gvura that we've had, they're they're going out to the ma'aracha with these boys. But here's what I was thinking about, I don't know, you tell me if you and I know you think I'm crazy but this is like one little way out.
All the nishamos of the gerim that we have in our mesora this time around are also mis'orer big time. Why? They draw from the umos. So one way of looking is that they draw from the umos, ze kenegged ze, but I was thinking that whether we like to whether we however we understand this, the President of the United States has yedishe einiklach. Like it doesn't it's so bizarre right now.
Now what's even crazier is that his daughter's name Yael, Eishes Chever HaKini, Yael in the in the Nevi'im, Yael was a powerhouse of gvura. So I feel like now there's there's this extra siyu'a here of also the neshama of any ger that was moser his nefesh to be a yid has joined this ma'aracha as well. Like we don't we don't really understand the magnitude of of what this this war's going to take a while because it's that big. This is not another sevev, it's that big.
And all the siyu'a. When the spirit of God, it's true, the spirit of God shows up powerfully when the nishamos of gerim are also me'ores something right now. Like any holy yiddele who became a yid and he had to moser his nefesh for being a yid, I feel like she her zchus, we don't understand these things. Yael.
What's what's his name in Hebrew? Does anyone know? I remember don't ever used to be like I'll find out after shiur. Today everyone's immediately AI what's Jared Kushner's Hebrew name? You could find it doesn't matter right now but Yael's inyan is there's something bigger than than anything. So all the nishamos of any ger that ever gave his life for being being a yid is joining this ma'aracha. All the nishamos of all the tzaddikim are joining the chayalim as they're going out to war.
This is what he says: השם שוחק עליהם ולועג למו הוא שולח את נשמות הצדיקים הגדולים כדי שיעזרו לבניו להילחם בכל כוחות הרע העולמי.
נשמות הצדיקים והתנאים האלו מתחברים ומתחדשים עם נשמות החיילים הלוחמים. A soldier that goes out to war today, his nefesh, his neshama is mischadesh together with the nishamos of the tzaddikim. Do you understand what this means? The soul these souls become renewed somehow.
עם נשמות עם ישראל שבדורנו הכל בכדי לחדש את עם ישראל ולחדש את העולם כולו לטובה. In order to renew Am Yisrael and to renew the whole world for better. As he's going to continue here from the Zohar HaKadosh: Le'ischabra ulechadsha nishmasin to connect and to renew souls, Dehavu atikin from the past, Begin lechadeta alma in order to bring oneness into the world that we're in right now, Kemo dikesiv, Yismach Hashem bema'asav, Ukesiv יהי כבוד השם לעולם לאתחברא כדקא יאות to connect all these worlds as it needs to be right now. Yismach Hashem bema'asav לנייחא לון לעלמא ולמהוי כולהון בריין חדתין לחברא עלמין כולהון כחד.
That what's happening right now in the world is a merger of generations and it's a merger of souls. Because like we said in the beginning of the shiur, you can't what was the lashon about not being able to learn from the strategy from what's going on? You can't learn from miracles. So this is, you can't, you can't learn l'ma'aseh to teach war strategy to other nations and explain to them, well listen, by us, when we go out to battle, there's a merger of souls that are coming from previous generations and go figure this out, like who are you going to summon? But what you're saying also is, on the other side, the, I don't know what we'd say, but the koach of the enemies are also, so it's interesting what you're saying, but the diyuk in the Zohar is that it doesn't use the word yitchabrun, meaning it doesn't use the language of like neshamos merging and everything. It's a koach.
I just need to say, my own way of thinking initially was zechus avos, but this is clearly saying it's much more. This is more than zechus avos, I think. It seems like. It seems like we're fighting a new war that's really an old war, and it's like mamash the same war, like we're actually they're coming down living within us.
It's like, maybe that's why we're stronger nowadays more than ever because we have more tzaddikim that have ever lived, ever, period. I think like our minds are going like, oh Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I'm thinking like, how many chayalim were killed last year? Like, they're also here. So yeah, so there's more there's more of a chayil, a koach like we never had before that are battling this war.
But good diyuk, Steve, because by them it doesn't say yitchabrun nishmasai and everything. The Zohar just talks about like there's a his'orerus of the koach of it, but it's not really anything more than that. Okay, so now he ends off like this. It actually ties to the beginning of the shiur.
כל אחד מבין שהכוח של מדינת ישראל הוא לא הגיוני. We all understand none of this adds up, none of this makes sense. Take out a map, none of this makes sense. Not just take out a map, you'd think that the only way we've been able to actually hold on to what we have is because we're so united here and everyone's on the same page and everyone's supporting each other and there's a manhig that everyone listens to and that's bichlal not the story that's going on over here.
Ela mai, and we always speak about this, the chayalim, the tzaddikim, gibborim, kedoshim, the way that they're going out to war, they are the ones that are leading the way and they have Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the tzaddikim and tzidkaniyos and the geirim and the giyoros. That's who's, that's how anything works here. Al pi pshat, it's lo hegioni, it's just not normal. Naftali always says, אנחנו חיים פה ב I mean you say it because because you have some people that you know that are more involved in the inner, how would you say? You could say it without mentioning names.
I mean, explain it, explain it, like you always say this. Under the hood. Under the hood. Under the hood, and when you know what's going on under the hood, zeh be'emes doesn't make sense how any, like meileh above the hood doesn't make sense.
Then you have a little bit of knowledge of what's happening beneath the surface, you're like, yeah yeah, that's it doesn't add up. Share with you what Izzy, our oldest, said once after she joined the army. She's already been released, she already finished two years ago, but towards the beginning of her service she came home one day and she said to my wife Jess, I believe in Hashem now more than ever. Jess says, amazing, what happened? She said, the whole country's run by 18, 19 year olds, the only explanation is Hashem is watching over all of us.
And so Izzy was released two weeks ago and so it's like they have this like one month kind of cool off period before they officially like, you know, get released and then enter miluim. So to his home and now this issue with Lebanon. So you know, he's sitting around saying hey, what's, Ben, Golani's going in? Hey, you know, some unit I was dealing with, oh, I'm going in. No, but you're released.
He's like, no no no, like this is what we're doing. So he calls the commander, and the whole tzeves, like they all feel. Remind us the age. Yeah, they're 22.
22. So like this is after they've already been Lebanon, after they've already done Gaza, this is finally their time off and they all more or less collectively call the commander to say hey, you know, what the heck, why is don't like why'd you take that machzor going instead of us? You know, like we're going, we want to go in. But no, you guys are off now. No, we want to volunteer.
So he goes, okay, I'll see what I can do. Turns out, they're oversubscribed. Still. They're still oversubscribed.
That's not normal. It's not normal. It's really just like they're oversubscribed. And so he's working and one guy's calling a father who knows someone connections to get back into Lebanon to fight Radwan.
Hah, that's what's actually happening. Tumbling, that's what it is. It's tumbling. Not normal.
It's pashut not normal.
כל אחד מבין שהכוח מדינת ישראל הוא לא הגיוני.
כוח כנגד יותר ממיליארד ערבים ומוסלמים שמקיפים אותנו. We are a koach of people that are going against over a billion Ishmaelim that are surrounding us.
עוצמה כל כך גדולה שאי אפשר לעמוד בפניה. It doesn't make sense. This does not add up, chevre.
עוצמה שברגע אחד נאבדת, but this strength gets lost in a second כשעם ישראל שוכח שוכח בזחיחות את השם.
But when does it get lost? When does it get lost? Koachi ve'otzem yadi, everything we learned in last shiur. All this, the magnitude of this beyond this world gets completely lost when for a split second we start thinking, "Wow, we really are something," or we are that, what they said, high-tech nation, "startup nation", all that. It's true, it really is like that. That's when it's- those are the fragments, that's when it starts to, like, the holes, chalila, in the ephod, in the armor.
But when that's not like that, mi yachol aleinu?
ואומר כחי ועצם ידי עשה לי את החיל הזה. Be'otah sha'ah, at the same time, השם סר מעלינו כמו שסר מעל שמשון. So Shimshon is a- Shimshon is a very interesting perek in understanding gevurah. Because how did- what was Shimshon's downfall? What was his downfall? The gevurah of Shimshon, what was his downfall? That they cut his hair? You can never say to Delilah what my strength lies within.
So that- that's- he- he spoke about it before, we skipped over, but just to- just to put it in here. The second he started telling to her, like- being tempted by a woman, that's- that's not the inyan. The inyan is is that he started giving over to her his own, even for a few seconds, koachi ve'otzem yadi, boom. Then the story of this gibbor has a different ending.
And then Shimshon lost it. With all the gevurah of our- of our powerful army, חמישה אלפים שיפוטניקים וכפכפים. Bediyuk. Bediyuk.
He's talking about October 7th. You just said five thousand- five thousand- we were so- our big army was worried about Iran and this and that, and five thousand guys in- because our hashkafa about that area was, "We got that one." Nah, we- we set it up. We really set it up. Like he's saying, shiputnikim vekafkafim coming, exactly.
It's the same- same mahalach. Has it changed? No. Still no. You know what's happening right now in Gaza? Yeah, they're rearming.
Fully- fully rearming. Fully rearming. Hashem yerachem aleinu and- and take care of business boz'mani. We can take care of anything.
If we have Avraham, Yitzchak, veYa'akov with us fighting wars, we can do anything. Vechozer aleinu but this koach comes back to us כשאנחנו חוזרים בתשובה כמו שהוא שב לשמשון. Just like it came back to Shimshon and he did teshuva.
כך קרה לנו אחרי התבוסה בתחילת מלחמת יום כיפור.
Again, I don't know how they teach Milchemet Yom Kippur in- you know, in like modern history- I don't know how they teach it in like modern schools here. I don't know what they give over like when they learn Jewish- like the history of the modern state, I don't know what they say about the Yom Kippur War. Like when they give it over, what do they say? Do they talk about how this was like a heroic, amazing thing from the start? No, it wasn't. It wasn't.
We had casualties beyond casualties. So he says this happened to us in the beginning of Yom Kippur War, כך קרה גם אחרי האסון שהיה בשמחת תורה, this also was the beginning of what of the aftermath of October 7th.
הבנו את הטעות הגדולה של המחלוקת והסרבנות. We realized the grave mistake of machloket and sarvanut, which was very big back then.
We just don't talk about it so much. When you had a bunch of top ranking officers in the army, saying that if there's going to be a war, we're- we're out. Sarvanim. We got over that then.
התאחדנו ורוח השם חזרה לשלוט על הלוחמים שמסרו נפש לעצור את המחבלים הרוצחים. The spirit of Hashem came back to hover upon the soldiers that gave their lives to take care of these horrible terrorists, לגרש אותם ולהכות את אויבי השם אויבי ישראל שוק על ירך בלי הפסקה חודשים ארוכים. So the next thing that we're going to be speaking about is to infuse ourselves with living in the presence of tzaddikim, that people that are actually matzil Am Yisrael, because that's what we're living amongst, people that are ממש מציל עם ישראל and the shaila is, those of us that are not in the battlefront, how do we do it in our daled amot as well? In their zchut, how do we do it in our daled amot as well? Okay, so we should have a week full filled with nissim veniflaot and none of kochi ve'otzem yadi, only of yad Hashem begalui, be'ezrat Hashem.