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Mizrachi Inspiration 14 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Misraki. Inspiration.
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  Sheer #14. Some of us want to believe that
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  somehow the end of this process of exile and the beginning of
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  redemption will come when all the nation will suddenly be so
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  religious and keeping Tara. And it can't be that somehow
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  it's all going to work through a as yet divided nation.
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  Those that are connected to Tara, Those that are not
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  connected, well, just open a Tanak.
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  Open the Bible. Ezekiel Hairskull chapter 36,
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  verse 24 says as follows. I will take you from among the
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  nations and gather you out of all the countries and will bring
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  you into your own land full stop.
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  Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you and you shall be clean
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  first. It's the homecoming.
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  The nation is. The nation's revival is the dry
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  bones of the nation are going to come back to life and return to
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  the land, and only afterwards will there be a process of to
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  Shiva, of repentance. So we've got to make sure we
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  understand the correct sequence of events.
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  We don't need everybody waving copies of a Humash and declaring
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  their faith in Hashem first. It's the homecoming, followed by
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  a revival of the spiritual dimension of our people.
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  We used to two. We know two phrases.
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  We know the word kiders Hashem. So on does something.
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  Oh, it's a kiddos Hashem. It's sanctifying God's name.
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  It's bringing credit to the Jewish people.
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  And we know the opposite, the Heilo Hashem.
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  Today it says Rough cook, we're in a struggle between these two
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  forces. The greatest kiddos Hashem
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  sanctification of God's name is that which involves all of the
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  Jewish people as the prophecy of Yekhaz God proclaims.
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  I will sanctify my great name which was profaned amidst the
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  nations when we are living outside of Israel.
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  Doesn't matter how magnificent our shores look, how glorious
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  our communities are, how much goes on that's so in tune with
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  the message of Torah. Ultimately, Jews living outside
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  of Israel, according to the Tanakh is a hero of Hashem, is a
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  desecration of Hashem's name. And the nation shall know that I
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  am the Lord, says Hashem, when I shall be sanctified in you
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  before their eyes. When we come back to our land,
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  that's when there is a kid of Hashem, I will take you from
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  among the nations and gather you out of all the countries and
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  bring you to your own land. That's that's simple Judaism.
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  There's no, no debate about that.
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  That's the that's the Tanakh, that's the Bible.
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  It's very, very clear. The sanctification of Hashem,
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  which comes through the instrument of his nation, isn't
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  limited to one type of Jew. It's through all of the House of
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  Israel. Gather you out of all the
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  countries and bring you, all of you, back home.
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  Open up a sitter and check out the final words of the brah of
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  halal. Probably said it lots of times
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  and just race through the words because you got to get to the
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  next bit of the doverning. You say all of your works will
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  praise you, O Lord our God, the saintly and righteous who do
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  your will and all of your nation, the House of Israel.
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  Of course the righteous are essential in praising Hashem.
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  There's a greater level than this.
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  All of your nation, the House of Israel the Almighty, has chosen
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  His nation in love. We say before the Shama, Habok,
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  Reba, Moisra, Alba, Ahava, all of the nation, not just part of
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  the nation, the righteous. And they're not righteous.
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  Today we see with our own eyes that the national body of Israel
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  is returning to its health, to its healthy land, from amidst
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  the impurity of the nations around the world.
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  And this is the highest Kidosh Hashem that we can find.
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  In contrast, living in Gallut the Kilo Lashem woe to the
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  father who exiled the children. Woe to the children who are cast
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  away from their father, say the rabbis.
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  God sits and rules like a lion, and says, woe to the children,
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  because of whose sins I destroyed my house and burnt
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  down my abode, and exiled them among the nations of the world.
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  In the eyes of the nations of the world, those who have a
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  religious understanding, our presence outside of Israel, our
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  permanent presence, proclaims that Hashem lacks the power to
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  keep His people in His land. To restore the honor of Hashem
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  in the world, the Jewish people have to return to being a nation
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  in Israel. Nothing radical.
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  Simple texts, lot of food for thought.
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  Have a lovely day.