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Rabbi Kahane's Student Reveals What They Don't Want You to Know About Israel · None of Your Business Podcast

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  Never again. Never again will Jews go
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  quietly. The world needs to know that
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  we're not going to be weak. We're not going to take this
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  anymore. Jews, stop running, hit back and
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  hit back hard. This is what I'm imploring all
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  Difference. None of your business, Oshi.
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  None of your business, Michael. It's the None of Your Business
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  Welcome back everybody to another amazing episode of the
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  Sackett. Welcome to the program.
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  Thank you very much. Pleasure to be here.
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  It's, it's really a pleasure to have you here.
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  I know that you live in Israel and you came all the way just
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  for this podcast. Not exactly, but we'll say yes.
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  Well, we'll get into that in a minute.
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  Thank you to all our comments. You know, we've been getting a
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  lot of love and also a little bit of hate and we're loving it
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  all. We'd like to see what you guys
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  have to say. And we are interested and we're
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  keeping it interesting and it's helping us on our mission of
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  growth and we're loving every second of it.
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  RIP Schmuel. We have this thing called Chachi
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  PT says what? Which is, you know, a way for
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  our audience to get to know you. But really quick if you can give
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  me the 32nd background simply because we don't really know who
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  you are. You were highly recommended by
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  someone who was on our podcast, who has one of the largest
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  podcast in the Jewish nation, Yaakov Langer.
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  So thank you, Yaakov, for recommendation.
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  You know, I guess you were just here for a couple of days and
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  scheduling didn't work out. But either way, it's a
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  compliment for him to call me and give us a recommendation.
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  So we appreciate his recommendation and you being
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  here, but we really don't know you.
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  And you know, I spent this morning just, you know, quickly
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  Googling you and I went my did my ChatGPT 10 minutes ago and
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  I'm like reading stuff and I'm like, whoa, Mayor Kahana pops up
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  in there and I'm like, Oh my God, this is going to be
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  interesting, but just give us a quick background who you are,
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  where'd you grow up? A little bit about you in terms
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  of your background. So first of all, thank you for
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  having me on the podcast. Born and raised in Middle
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  Village Queens and I went to YCQ after that YHSQ which no longer
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  exists and then I graduated to rural college.
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  Many, many moons ago, back in 1981 got married to my lovely
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  wife Rhonda and we had at the time four children and in 1990
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  Maid Alia from Well. We moved from Queens to the Five
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  towns and we made Alia from Woodmere in 1990 to Israel and
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  been living there ever since. In Israel we added two Israeli
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  born little Sabras and one of them was birthdays yesterday.
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  She's 30, so it's not Little anymore.
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  And Barkishet, we've been blessed with many grandchildren
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  and everybody should just should just be well, in Israel.
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  I came and I was in the marketing field.
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  I worked for the door, which is the Israel Postal Authority.
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  I was the one of the marketing managers, but as we'll get into,
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  they began the Oslo Accords, and I couldn't sit silently.
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  I knew that this would lead to Jewish bloodshed.
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  And I did whatever I could to stop it.
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  And we formed. We, myself and my dear friend
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  Moshe Faglin, formed a movement called Zorat Seno, and we fought
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  against it to the best of our ability.
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  It was a civil disobedience movement.
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  We arrested many, many times and sat in prison and very proud of
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  that. I'm sure we'll discuss that.
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  But thank God I'm now fully rehabilitated, no longer a
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  danger to women and children. And Barack Hashem been fighting
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  from Israel ever since and it's it's a great honor to work in
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  what I call the Amistrell business to fight for a strong
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  and proud Jewish state. Yes, I am a student of Rabbi
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  America Kahana Rabbi Umari and I, I, I teach his I spread his
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  teachings and I, I, I think that this is something that the
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  Jewish world needs to hear more what he said.
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  I believe he was grossly misunderstood and if I'm Israel,
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  I listened to his message more and and really implemented his
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  message on a daily basis. Things would be a lot brighter
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  for I'm Israel today, but I'm living now in Herzelia Pituch.
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  I know I don't look like a Herzelia guy, but I am and
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  living in Herzelia for close to 18 years and it's a beautiful
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  community. Come and join us and just here
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  visiting. One of my children live in the
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  five towns. So we came to visit as I told
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  her, I'm not coming to visit you.
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  I'm coming to visit your two very cute kids and Mr. Ratersham
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  in a couple of days. Going back to Eric, Sister L,
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  that's the elevator pitch. Wow, I but you did that great.
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  But we have a thing called the 32nd pitch.
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  Yeah, I mean, the podcast's over.
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  You can go. That's.
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  Fine, we got it. Excellent.
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  We. Learned everything you know when
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  you say Hertzelia there's there's like a hotel there that
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  has they accept points so everybody.
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  The Ritz I. Don't think anyone pays for the
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  Ritz in Herzlia. Everyone's using points there.
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  Now I meet these people because I'm the Gabi of the shul and
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  we're the only Ashkenazi shul in the entire Herzlia.
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  There's there's about 12 Spidey shuls, 1 Ashkenazi shul.
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  So these guys come to the to the Ritz, they wind up dabbling by
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  us. Mention none of your business
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  and I'll give you an Aaliyah. How's that?
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  How's that? Which one?
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  Shishi Shishi, Which one? Depends if you like the podcast
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  or not. Well, let's get into it because
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  I appreciate that background, really.
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  Like, you know, because it just helps me, you know,
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  understanding who you are. You were influenced by Rabbi
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  Mayor Kahana, a name that still clears rooms.
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  Yet you choose speeches, protests and politics instead of
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  violence. That distinction somehow gets
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  lost on people. You know, I should have started
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  off saying welcome back to the controversial podcast.
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  You know, I don't know enough about Mayor Kahana, but I
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  definitely know that he was labeled many times as someone
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  who potentially brought violence or was labeled as that.
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  And I'm curious how that happened.
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  What's that background? I don't want to use other harsh
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  words, but I do know that it has been used in the past.
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  I'm curious, first of all, who was he to you?
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  Who was he to the Jewish people? Who's that person now?
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  What are we missing? Let's talk about that for a
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  minute. Because I grew up in an era
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  knowing that, you know, when I was in, you know, on the streets
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  of Brooklyn on Avenue J, we had a few people come over to us
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  when we were 15 years old and asked us, you know, hey, you
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  want to join a movement called the JDL and didn't really know
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  much about it, especially you're familiar with Mayor Kahana.
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  I don't know anything about any of this that you guys were
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  talking about. So for me, this is a purely
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  educational. I'm hearing it for the first
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  time. So if you can give a little bit
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  more color, a little bit more flavor to who does America
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  Kahana was or is is he still alive?
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  Unfortunately, no. OK.
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  In 1968, Robbie America Honda formed the Jewish Defense
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  League. Jewish Defensive was an
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  organization that advocated strength and pride and
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  discipline for the Jewish people.
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  The reason why he founded the the organization is because they
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  were originally a group of Jewish teachers who were being
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  harassed in the public schools and he had he wanted to learn
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  the lesson of the Holocaust where Jews cannot go or were no
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  longer willing to go as a lambs to the slaughter.
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  And he coined the term never again.
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  Never again will Jews go quietly when an anti Semite just tells
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  him move. Those days are over and Robert
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  Connor installed in us now again.
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  I was not involved in 1968. I was born in 1961.
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  I got very involved in Jewish Vesley in the 70s, but he had a
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  bunch of guys who if there was an anti-Semitic problem, they
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  dealt with it not by sending letters to the mayor or those
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  days out fax or a telegram or whatever.
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  They went and simply beat up the anti Semite, right?
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  I kind of coined the term. Violence is always bad, but
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  sometimes necessary. We are right now recording this
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  podcast on Hanukkah. Hanukkah.
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  Well, it's very nice to give gifts to the children and to
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  light candles. It's about Jews fighting.
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  It's about Jews that were disgusted with the Hellenized
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  Jews and with the Greeks and with the decrees against the
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  Jewish girls. And they took to the streets and
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  they fought back. And the whole Tanakh is filled
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  with Jews who would not sit quietly.
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  Rabbi kind of simply taught us the lessons of the Tanakh and we
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  put it to use. As a matter of fact, there was a
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  group that he formed called the Higher Squad.
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  You know, throughout history in Yiddish there's a term called
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  the Vildahaya, Vildahaya, the wild animal.
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  This is usually means Ali's going there, a bunch of
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  Vildahaya's, a bunch of wild animals and they're hurting the
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  Jews, He said. The time has come for Jews to
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  have a high squad, and the high squad was formed.
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  And any time there was a problem, the highest squad would
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  be called. And these guys, as Jewish guys
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  came, whether it was to Brooklyn College or to Queen's College or
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  to Avenue J or Williamsburg for whatever it was.
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  And I can only tell you that when these Jews showed up, the
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  gallium ran away. And at the time when the Jewish
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  Defense League was formed, there was a group in New York called
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  the Black Panthers. You don't want to mess with
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  these guys, but the Jewish Defense League ended the threat
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  against the Jewish community through a real serious actions
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  on their part, without going into details and I joined the
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  Jewish Defence League in the 70s.
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  My wife was also in the Jewish defence.
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  We didn't know each other at the time, and we were fighting
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  primarily for the freedom of Soviet Jewry.
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  Names like Joseph Mendel Levitch and Anatoly Sharansky and Marina
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  Tiempkin and Aida Nudel and Yosef B Gun.
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  These were Jews who were trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
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  And every year there would be rallies.
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  This was called Solidarity Sunday, and they would have all
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  these demonstrations and trying to 'cause, you know, bring it to
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  public awareness about what was happening that Jews could not
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  leave. In the 70s, Jews could not leave
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  Russia. They were trapped there.
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  And Rabbi Kahana said all these protests, three, 400,000 people
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  would come on a Solidarity Sunday.
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  It was obviously in April and it would be on like, I don't know,
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  page 15 in the newspaper. So we would take a couple of JDL
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  guys and we would physically block the roads on, you know, a
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  3rd Ave. and 61st Street where the Russian Embassy was.
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  We would throw bottles of red paint through the windows of the
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  Russian Embassy. And guess what?
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  We were on page one. We put the Russian Jewish
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  problem on page one of the New York Times.
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  And this is to me, it really attracted me because I can't
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  stand Jewish weakness. We need Jewish strength.
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  And every holiday that we have, whether it's Hanukkah or whether
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  it's Purim, it's always about Jewish strength.
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  And this is what we need. Take a look at what's happening
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  today, what happened in Australia, what's happening all
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  over the world. I I just understand that
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  yesterday a bunch of Jewish kids had a run off of a train in New
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  York because a bunch of anti semites got on, started yelling
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  at them and they were going to light the menorah somewhere in
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  Manhattan. They feared for their lives.
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  Jews stopped running, hit back, had hit back hard.
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  This was the Jewish defensively. Then Robert Kahana made aliyah
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  and started to talk about these concepts in Israel, specifically
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  talking about driving the Arabs out of Israel.
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  He said Israel is for Jews only and Arabs have 22 countries they
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  need to leave. Obviously that's a very
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  controversial a message and he was not accepted by everybody.
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  But mainly the Sephardic Jews love that message.
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  Do you know why? Because they grew up with the
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  Arabs. They know the Arabs a lot better
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  than anybody from the Western world knows them.
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  And they loved his message. And he was elected to the
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  Knesset in 1984 with one seat. Today the minimum number of
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  seats you could have is 4. And you know you can't get into
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  the Knesset today unless you have enough seats, enough votes
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  for four seats. Then it was one seat.
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  He was very popular in the Knesset.
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  By 1988 when there was he was up for re election, polls had him
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  anywhere between 7:00 and 12:00 seats.
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  But the Israeli Knesset couldn't deal with his views and they
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  banned him for various reasons, and they did not allow him to
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  run in 1988. The only one that was banned
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  from running Rabbi Mayor Kahana, an Orthodox rabbi who based
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  everything on the Torah. And unfortunately, two years
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  later, at a speech in a Manhattan hotel, El Sayed
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  Nosairya Machimo assassinated him.
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  He was killed in Yudh Kheshwan, I think it was November 4th,
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  1990, and he was brutally murdered in Manhattan.
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  And he's been gone now for 35 years.
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  Tremendous loss to the Jewish nation.
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  And I took upon myself to continue spreading his message
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  of Jewish strength, of Jewish unity.
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  The love that he had for every Jew was incredible.
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  And yes, even though he is controversial and people say
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  schmool back off from him, On the contrary, he is what has
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  he's the reason I moved to Israel.
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  He's, he instilled values in US of, of, of, of strong and, and,
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  and strength rather and pride and discipline.
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  And it's something that gives me great happiness when I'm able to
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  spread his message. In short, Rabbi America, Hannah,
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  you're looking down from us, from Shamayan.
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  I hope I make you proud and we will hopefully bring your
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  message to fruition. Wow, wow, that was I'm.
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  Going to let you handle this. One please.
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  Oh my God, I have so many questions and it was hard for me
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  not to jump in because you just kept going and it was very
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  informative. Very, I feel like I have a good
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  breath of the background as to, you know, who this Rabbi America
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  Hannah was and what he stood for.
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  But I have a lot of questions and please bear with me because
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  go ahead. You may find some of these
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  questions a little antagonistic. You may find them to be a little
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  combative. I've always told people you
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  could ask me whatever you want, but just be prepared for my
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  answer. Sure, sure.
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  No. I would love to have this
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  exchange with you because I actually want to get educated in
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  this. This is something that I'm sure
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  a lot of people have a little bit of uncertainty around,
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  right? There's a little bit of
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  uncertainty because there's a fine line for the Jewish people
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  in our history. We've always been persecuted.
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  We've always been the victims, so to speak, right?
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  And pretty much every single storyline.
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  And then we have certain celebrations for holidays where,
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  you know, we were about, we were in peril and, you know, we were
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  in jeopardy and our lives were in danger and we got saved
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  through some type of miracle. Very, very rarely do we see in
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  our history where the Jews sort of fought back, right?
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  Where we were in a position of strength where, you know, we
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  didn't have to worry about enemies, you know, attacking us
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  because we're well fortified. Typically.
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  We were always caught off guard. We're always vulnerable.
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  And we needed those miraculous things to happen in order to get
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  saved. And it's sort of been our MO.
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  It's sort of almost been taken for granted.
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  Like this is the way it's supposed to be.
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  We're in exile. We no longer are part of the,
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  you know, Messiah times that, you know, was back then that
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  will eventually come one day. And we need to know our place.
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  We need to know where we are. This is the reality.
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  It hurts, it stings. And we know that, you know,
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  anti-Semitism has been rampant around the globe for thousands
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  of years, but it's almost like by design, that's the way it's
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  supposed to be. And we've sort of accepted that.
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  Then over time, different movements started happening.
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  The, the, the state of Israel, you know, came about and started
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  evolving and getting stronger. Where now Jewish people, there's
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  a whole different identity to Jewish people today where like
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  you said that he coined the term never again.
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  He took that very seriously, as did a lot of people really say
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  never again. And we're going to do everything
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  in our power to sort of take matters into our own hands.
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  So what I'd like to ask you is sort of where is that fine line
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  that we can all agree on as to where's the point where we say
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  we are in exile? We're not supposed to be that,
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  you know, dominant race. We're not supposed to be at a an
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  executive level. You know, we're supposed to be
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  toned down, but still not beaten up, not killed, you know, not
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  persecuted to the point that we have no sense of stability
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  wherever we go. Like where is that line that we
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  can sort of all agree on? Because I feel like America,
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  Hana's version is to the extreme side of saying, do whatever we
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  can to gain that upper hand and let's form the state of Israel,
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  kick out all the, the Arabs like they have no right to the land
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  whatsoever, right? He's taking a very extreme
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  stance, which I'm not saying whether it's right or wrong, I
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  don't know. But what I do know is that we
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  have for a very long time, great rabbis have come and gone and no
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  one has taken that stance for a very long time that we need to
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  defend ourselves. We need to rally the troops.
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  We need to make sure that all the Jewish people unify and
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  that, you know, we're, we're protecting ourselves.
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  It's kind of not what's been done in the past and then over
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  time that's evolved and there's a lot of extreme side to that
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  now. So walk me through sort of where
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  is that middle ground of what is that that fine balance of where
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  we should be? Or is there no balance in your
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  view or in your view is no, no, no, do whatever we can.
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  Let's come out on top as if the. Messiah is here already and and
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  the Jewish people need to be on top.
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  Where's that line? I understand 100%.
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  You know when you say that this has never been done, you're
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  right. But what makes a person a great
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  leader is that person does things that have never been done
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  before. There was never Hasidut until
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  the Baal Shemtov came and found the Hasidic movement.
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  And these are things that for hundreds of what there was.
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  All of a sudden you need the Hasidic movement.
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  All of a sudden you need the Solanta to form the Musser
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  movement. Yes.
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  Now you needed the Musser movement, now you needed the
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  Hasidic movement, and now we need the Jewish Defense
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  movement. We're not looking to take over
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  New York and we're not looking to take over Sydney, Australia,
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  but the days. Of, of of.
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  Persecution of Jews, the days of beating up Jews are over.
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  I don't accept the fact that, well, you know, this is what
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  happens. We're scapegoat, we're always
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  scapegoats and we're blamed for things.
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  And we'll just have to put our head low and we can't wear our
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  keep it anymore if this country has Jewish freedom.
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  And the most beautiful thing about the United States of
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  America is that you could express your religion and you
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  could practice it freely. Again, I live in Israel now, but
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  I grew up in the United States, and I worked in Manhattan for,
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  you know, big companies, RCA, Global Communications.
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  I wore my keeper. I had a beard.
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  I took my clients to kosher restaurants.
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  And I was always the top, one of the top three salesman in the
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  entire country out of 270 salespeople.
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  And I did it with a keeper and I did it with Torah values and and
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  I would never allow myself to be persecuted.
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  There's no reason for that to happen.
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  So we're not looking to form an army.
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  We're not looking to take over. But we're not going to be that
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  nebish weak people anymore. We are the children of God.
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  Kurdish bar who saved us, excuse me, selected us.
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  When we get called up to the Torah, we say I share Bahar Banu
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  Mikola. I mean Hashem, God Almighty God,
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  King of Kings, you chose us. 7 billion people in the world, how
• 20:07
  many Jews are there .002% Hashem chose us.
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  We need to walk with our heads high.
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  Ramakana always taught us that pride on the individual level is
• 20:21
  something very bad. We need to live modest, humble
• 20:24
  lives. However, we're not allowed to be
• 20:27
  modest and humble on the national level.
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  And this is something that people constantly forget.
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  You know, when we were thrown out of Israel, you mentioned in
• 20:37
  the exile about 2000 years ago. So we were living in communities
• 20:42
  and we also were individual Jews, but the concept of the
• 20:45
  nation was lost. There was no, I'm Israel when
• 20:48
  the when when, when Jews are all over the world.
• 20:51
  But now we're back as of 1948, we're back in Israel and we are
• 20:55
  the Jewish nation. And that's why all these anti
• 20:58
  Sammites always say today I'm not against the Jews, I'm
• 21:01
  against Israel. They see the same thing that
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  Israel, the state of Israel and Jews are one and the same.
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  And you need to be strong and you need to take a stand.
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  And therefore I implore every single person to get a legal,
• 21:20
  again, a legal weapon. There's no question about it.
• 21:24
  Robert County used to say every Jew at 22.
• 21:26
  He always said, I wanted to say every Jew at M16, but it doesn't
• 21:30
  rhyme. But again, get a weapon legally,
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  again, following all the laws because as Zev Jabotinsky once
• 21:39
  said, better to have and not need, the need and not have.
• 21:43
  So Jews need to know how to protect themselves.
• 21:45
  Jews need to be able to take Krav Maga and courses in
• 21:48
  self-defense. And I'm not saying that, you
• 21:52
  know, when somebody sees a Jew walking down the street, Oh my
• 21:54
  God, a Jew, let's run away. He could beat us up.
• 21:57
  Jackie Mason used to talk about that, but it's something that we
• 22:00
  have to shed. Who says that we have to be the
• 22:03
  persecuted one for 2000 years? We can't rewrite history, but
• 22:08
  those days are over and Jews need to be able to defend
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  themselves and be proud of who. They are interesting, and I can
• 22:17
  resonate with what you're saying.
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  But wouldn't you agree that there is a fine line between
• 22:23
  being proud of who you are and not being afraid to, you know,
• 22:27
  share your identity with the world versus getting a little
• 22:30
  bit, you know, encroaching on taking matters into your own
• 22:34
  hands through violence, which means that if somebody you know,
• 22:38
  is threatening you, you're allowed to, you know, take
• 22:40
  action prior to them hurting you.
• 22:43
  But here we're almost going a little bit of level above that.
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  It's we really want to make a name for ourselves.
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  We're we're taking action in a drastic way to scare people off.
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  Don't mess with us again. And what that is going to entail
• 22:57
  is going out and making moves and, you know, being, being out
• 23:01
  there and, you know, being engaged in in some kind of I, I,
• 23:05
  I don't want to say, you know, threatening environment, but it
• 23:09
  just sounds like this is forming your own army, so to speak.
• 23:13
  Let me ask you a question. This past Shabbos I went to shul
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  and the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst, beautiful community,
• 23:19
  beautiful shul. There are three off duty cops
• 23:22
  standing there. All the doors are locked, only
• 23:25
  one door is unlocked where people come in and out of, and
• 23:28
  there are three armed guards. Do you think that's normal for
• 23:30
  three armed guards to stand in a shul on Shabbos morning?
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  Why do we have that? Because we become a target.
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  Why have we become a target? Because we're weak and I'm
• 23:40
  telling you right now the the world needs to know that we're
• 23:44
  not not going to be weak. We're not going to take this
• 23:46
  anymore. And this is something again, I
• 23:49
  look at the foreman army, but I'd also don't want to have to
• 23:51
  rely on three off duty cops to protect us as we dive in Shabbos
• 23:55
  morning. It's always been my challenge.
• 23:57
  My challenge has always been, you're right.
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  I'm like, so appreciating what you're saying, we shouldn't be
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  weak. Gone are the days where we get
• 24:04
  trampled on. Gone are the days when we can't
• 24:07
  raise a family without fear of someone coming and destroying
• 24:10
  our family. Like, why can't we live in
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  peace? Leave us alone.
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  We don't want what you have. Please don't want what I have.
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  Let let us be. Let's live in peace and harmony.
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  That hasn't worked. We haven't lived in harmony.
• 24:20
  Wherever we are around the world, someone finds a way to
• 24:23
  make us a scapegoat and someone just finds a way to just, you
• 24:27
  know, harass us. Yes, true.
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  So what's the other option? The other option is to take a
• 24:31
  stand and to reinforce ourselves and just, you know, come out on
• 24:35
  top. Peace through strength, right?
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  You got to be strong. But here's my challenge.
• 24:39
  Up to what point? Up to what point where?
• 24:43
  We're not meant to be elitists, right?
• 24:45
  We're not meant to show the world that we're better than
• 24:47
  everybody else. And this has been promised to
• 24:50
  us, and that's why we're retaking what is ours.
• 24:53
  It doesn't sit so well. And then it makes us hate us
• 24:56
  even more. Like it's almost
• 24:57
  counterintuitive. Where is that borderline?
• 25:00
  At what point are we content to say that to this point?
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  Because let's face it, we are more safe today.
• 25:05
  I know it sounds crazy because it's unbelievable what's going
• 25:08
  on in the world than we were 500 years ago, right?
• 25:13
  Jewish blood was cheap for for so long that you could murder a
• 25:16
  Jew on the streets And, and, and nothing was done about it.
• 25:19
  It was encouraged, it was applauded.
• 25:21
  And today we, we're more civilized there.
• 25:23
  There is more laws that do protect human rights, not just
• 25:26
  for Jews, but for all kinds of nationalities and races across
• 25:29
  the world. It's not what?
• 25:30
  So to what point are we going to take this?
• 25:32
  Like America hottest version was let's take over the entire
• 25:35
  Israel. Let's kick it all the Jews.
• 25:36
  That almost sounds like whoa, I don't know about that.
• 25:39
  I mean, what I was taught is that, you know, when Mashiach
• 25:42
  comes one day is when's that time?
• 25:44
  How are we going to know? That's another question in
• 25:46
  itself. But this just does just doesn't
• 25:49
  sit well with me to go to this type of level.
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  I'm almost scared off by it. Like I don't know if I want to
• 25:55
  be a part of this. I don't know if I agree, but I
• 25:58
  can't blame you, you for what you're doing.
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  I totally understand it. I see the desire for you to say
• 26:03
  enough is enough. Let's get our act together.
• 26:05
  Let's make a Jewish country. There's 22 other Arab countries.
• 26:08
  Why shouldn't we have our own? It sounds appealing, It sounds
• 26:11
  great. But I just don't feel so right
• 26:15
  about it. OK, so so here's the answer in
• 26:17
  terms of the fine line, the difference is outside of Israel
• 26:21
  versus inside Israel. Outside of Israel, we're not
• 26:24
  looking to conquer, we're not looking to rule.
• 26:26
  We're looking to live quietly. And they should know it's not
• 26:29
  worth it to mess with the Jewish people, OK?
• 26:32
  We need to defend ourselves at all.
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  Every legal method possible. We've discussed that in Israel.
• 26:39
  It's a different situation in Israel.
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  We have an Israeli government. We have an Israeli army.
• 26:44
  And look what happens when you sit back quietly.
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  You have what's called October 7th.
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  Where did those Arabs come from? They came from within Israel.
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  These were ones who worked in the Jewish kibbutz team.
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  They were the ones who drew diagrams of where the people
• 26:59
  live and where the security officer is.
• 27:02
  And they gave this information to Hamas driving through the the
• 27:05
  towns of Judea and Samaria. And you're passing all these
• 27:08
  villages, Calculia, Janine, Ramallah.
• 27:11
  Why do we have to put up with all this dangerous situations?
• 27:16
  So there the answer is to be strong and to be strong and to
• 27:20
  let them know that it also it doesn't pay to, to, to, to mess
• 27:25
  with us. But in Israel, yes, there it is
• 27:28
  about conquering. There it is about taking over.
• 27:30
  And you want to something. This has nothing to do with
• 27:32
  Rabbi America Kahana. The Torah talks about when the
• 27:36
  seven nations were there, Yoshua Joshua was told to drive them
• 27:40
  out and if they wouldn't leave to kill everyone, Loisha Air
• 27:45
  Syria, to kill every single one, men, women and children.
• 27:48
  You know who says this? God.
• 27:50
  Now, I'm not saying that that's what we need to do today because
• 27:53
  we don't have the same situation.
• 27:54
  However, we need to have a strong, proud Jewish state where
• 27:58
  we could, where we could walk down the streets.
• 28:00
  You shall not be afraid of buses blowing up and not be afraid of
• 28:05
  drive by shootings. You know it.
• 28:07
  It's a sad situation. It's a sad reality when we have
• 28:12
  always have to look over our shoulder and look, we know that
• 28:15
  around us there are there's danger.
• 28:18
  Iran and Syria and Egypt and all these countries do we also have
• 28:22
  to be afraid inside the country? Rabbi Khanna was talking about
• 28:25
  this and his message was resonating with Israelis
• 28:29
  specifically, as I mentioned, Sephardic Jews who lived with
• 28:32
  the Arabs and knew there's no way to talk to these guys.
• 28:35
  They're going to sit over a coffee and cake and discuss it
• 28:37
  with them. This is what he discussed.
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  I agree with you. It's not for everybody.
• 28:42
  It's not a message that resonates with everybody.
• 28:45
  And therefore that's the beauty of democracy.
• 28:47
  Vote for who you want, vote for who you identify with.
• 28:51
  But to me, this is what propels me.
• 28:53
  And This is why when I came to Israel and I saw Yitzhak Rabin
• 28:57
  and Shimon Peres giving away the land, and I knew that this would
• 29:01
  give rise to terror. So I started the group Zoret
• 29:04
  Seno, and which means this is our land.
• 29:07
  And we fought against the Oslo Accords and we were were
• 29:10
  arrested. I was arrested 15 times and
• 29:12
  civil, nonviolent civil disobedience.
• 29:15
  And then I was charged with sedition and 11 counts of
• 29:18
  incitement, a year and a half trial.
• 29:21
  And I was found guilty of sedition.
• 29:23
  Ladies and gentlemen, you're looking at a convicted felon.
• 29:26
  And I'm proud of it. It wasn't a felony, God forbid
• 29:28
  of, of hurting the children or drugs or robbing banks.
• 29:34
  Wouldn't do that in a million years.
• 29:36
  It was fighting for the Jewish nation.
• 29:38
  Had we been listened to back in 1990, 5 when we were screaming
• 29:41
  these things, we wouldn't have had an October 7th yet.
• 29:45
  I was sentenced to I was facing 20 years in prison and I was
• 29:48
  sentenced to one year in prison. And in the end it was switched
• 29:52
  to community service. I worked in a hospital for a
• 29:55
  year. My friend Moshe Fagley worked in
• 29:57
  a nursing home in Ranana and back to life.
• 30:00
  But I'm still an activist and still believe that what what
• 30:03
  Israel needs is strength and Israel needs.
• 30:07
  You wanna know something? When Israel's weak, that's when
• 30:10
  you have anti-Semitism around the world.
• 30:12
  This everything is rooted in the state of Israel.
• 30:15
  When Israel gives it a feeling of of Jewish strength throughout
• 30:20
  the world, Jews are proud. A friend of mine told me that
• 30:24
  after the six day war 1967, all of a sudden, you know, again,
• 30:29
  what an unbelievable miracle. Six days we liberated all these
• 30:33
  lands. A fellow comes out wearing a
• 30:36
  Jewish star and the guy said, you're Jewish.
• 30:40
  He said, did you see what my boys did to them?
• 30:44
  My boys, we never even we were friends of yours for 20 years,
• 30:46
  didn't even know you were Jewish.
• 30:48
  It brought out great national pride.
• 30:51
  So when Jews are strong, this is what we need.
• 30:54
  Am I looking to be the next Jewish Genghis Khan?
• 30:58
  God forbid. I'm simply talking about
• 31:00
  protecting the biblical homeland of the Jewish people and making
• 31:04
  sure the Arabs know they will never again raise their head to
• 31:09
  touch a Jewish Home, property, shul or individual.
• 31:13
  Totally understand, Mike. I'm sorry.
• 31:15
  I wanna not push back, but I'm getting educated here and I
• 31:19
  wanna expand on this a little bit more and sort of phrase my
• 31:21
  question in a little bit of a different way.
• 31:23
  OK, OK. And I'm coming out purely from a
• 31:25
  religious standpoint, and I am not an any means talking on
• 31:29
  behalf of religious people because I am the last person to
• 31:31
  observe as yeah, just talking as, you know, what others would
• 31:36
  potentially say and think, you know.
• 31:38
  And, you know, at the end of the day, there are certain religious
• 31:40
  foundations, you know, and baselines that we all believe
• 31:43
  in, in our history. I imagine there has been times
• 31:48
  where the Jewish nation had a country in Jerusalem where, you
• 31:52
  know, things were going very favorably for us.
• 31:55
  And it looked like we were on top of the world, right?
• 31:57
  It looked like everything was set and and this was going to
• 31:59
  last forever until it didn't, until God decided that this is
• 32:04
  not working. I'm not happy.
• 32:06
  And destruction and chaos. And we were we were exiled and
• 32:10
  cities were burned and and and thousands of people were were
• 32:14
  killed. Millions.
• 32:15
  Millions of people were killed, right?
• 32:17
  It happened, right? So there were times in our
• 32:19
  history that we had it together and we had an army and, you
• 32:24
  know, we had a nationality and we were recognized across the
• 32:27
  globe. And the Jewish people were
• 32:30
  pretty much like this. This was it.
• 32:31
  This is, this is the way God intended for it all to play out.
• 32:34
  And then it all fell apart. It all fell apart because that
• 32:36
  was God's will at some point. Which means that there is this
• 32:39
  is all hinging. Let me just finish.
• 32:41
  This is really all hinging on, on on like God's on God's will
• 32:46
  at the end of the day. Completely, completely incorrect
• 32:49
  because God didn't wake up 1 morning and decide to throw us
• 32:52
  out. We brought that upon ourselves.
• 32:54
  The reason for the first bait to mikdash destruction the first
• 32:57
  temple was because we the Jewish nation were involved in the
• 33:00
  three cardinal sins of adultery and idol worship and murder.
• 33:04
  And then when we rectified those sins and we had the second
• 33:07
  temple, it was destroyed because of sin Athena baseless hatred.
• 33:11
  It wasn't that God woke up one day and said you know what I'm
• 33:15
  not for this good life. I'm throwing you out and you're
• 33:17
  going to move to a Syria, Morocco and Germany and Poland.
• 33:20
  We brought it upon ourselves, and this is something we have to
• 33:23
  know. We have our fate in our hands.
• 33:26
  God has told us what to do, and when we don't listen, it's a
• 33:31
  punishment. Mipnet kata enu galinu merit
• 33:34
  senu. Because of our sins, we were
• 33:36
  exiled from the land. We brought it upon ourselves.
• 33:39
  So you think that there is a time that is in our future that
• 33:42
  the cards hold for us that we in your version, in your world
• 33:46
  where it's only Jewish people living in the state of Israel,
• 33:49
  correct. And we're running the show there
• 33:51
  and, you know, are are we going to be, you know, democratic to
• 33:54
  the point that, you know, we welcome the world to come there,
• 33:57
  you know, and you know, is it only Jews or or let?
• 33:59
  Me ask you a question, other people.
• 34:00
  Live there as well. Udavan, right.
• 34:02
  Udavan. Yes.
• 34:03
  One of the brohot in the schmunester is at Semak.
• 34:06
  David, what are you dividing for?
• 34:09
  You're dividing for the restoration of the divinic
• 34:11
  dynasty. Yeah.
• 34:12
  You are dividing for a king. Yeah, is it?
• 34:15
  Is it King Democracy? No.
• 34:19
  OK, so do you, do you want a king?
• 34:21
  Do you want a Jewish king? Listen, it's my understanding on
• 34:25
  my whole upbringing is that there's gonna come a time, and
• 34:27
  we'll know when that time is right that that's gonna all
• 34:30
  unfold. That's the dream.
• 34:31
  Not supposed to. Dream not No, that's that's your
• 34:35
  mistake. With all due respect, we are
• 34:37
  supposed to bring in ourselves. That's the at cult of the
• 34:40
  ghulah. That's the beginning of the
• 34:41
  redemption in 1948. This concept of we want Mashiach
• 34:46
  now. What do you mean we want
• 34:47
  mashiach? That song has to be changed to
• 34:50
  we'll bring Mashiach now. We are not a people that just
• 34:53
  sits and wants something. You don't feel good.
• 34:55
  Oh please Hashem send us health. Go to the doctor.
• 34:59
  Now go to the doctor and Davin. That's what Jews do.
• 35:01
  I need parnasa. Get a job.
• 35:03
  I'm looking for a wife. Go on a date.
• 35:06
  Do you understand? This is the type of thing that
• 35:08
  Jews need to do? Action plus fila equals success.
• 35:12
  Individual level, national level, no difference.
• 35:15
  You don't think this is calling attention to ourselves in a very
• 35:18
  negative way? You don't think that if we
• 35:20
  again, this mentality that you're Speaking of, of Masonic
• 35:23
  times of really just, you know, taking over and forming that
• 35:27
  that Jewish nation, it's just the the rest of the world is
• 35:31
  just gonna sit there and, and take it and accept it.
• 35:33
  No not at all, not at all. But do they love us now?
• 35:37
  We're doing everything the world wants us to do and
• 35:40
  anti-Semitism. Is that a post World War 2 high?
• 35:43
  Let me tell you something, Yoshi.
• 35:44
  When you do what the world wants, they will hate you
• 35:47
  anyway. And no matter what we do, when
• 35:49
  there's a tsunami or there's an earthquake, who's the first
• 35:53
  phone call they make to Israel? Because Israel has to send the
• 35:56
  field hospital, whether it's to Haiti or it's to Phuket or
• 36:00
  Indonesia, all these places around the world where Israel
• 36:03
  helps these survivors of these of these natural disasters.
• 36:08
  So they know who to call. They will rank us out in the UN
• 36:11
  every day. They will vote against this
• 36:13
  night and day, but the bottom line is let's stop worrying
• 36:16
  about the world and do what's good for I'm Israel and I'm
• 36:20
  Israel needs Erit Israel following Torati Israel.
• 36:24
  That's the dream. So interesting, you know, again,
• 36:27
  this makes sense to me and I, I'm on your team all the way.
• 36:30
  I mean, if there's a way to really, is this a path to this
• 36:33
  that could be sustainable and that, you know, great.
• 36:36
  I just wonder where are all these big rabbis for the last
• 36:39
  2000 years? Nobody came up with this
• 36:41
  thought. Nobody said it's time to take a
• 36:43
  stand, guys, it's time to stop taking this on the chin enough.
• 36:46
  How many beatings could we take? We, we got to get around and
• 36:49
  they had money for many years. Jews were never in a position
• 36:52
  where they were all poor. There was at some point in time
• 36:55
  they were able to get that funds together, you know, start.
• 36:58
  Why? Why has nobody done anything
• 36:59
  till now? So I'm telling you, I have I, I
• 37:02
  write a lot. I write different articles.
• 37:03
  I'm working on a book. And I I spoke to a woman who
• 37:06
  lives in Queens and I said to her, do it, do me a favor, go to
• 37:11
  different Shoals than Shabbos and listen to the rabbis speak
• 37:15
  and tell me when they speak about the state of Israel, when
• 37:18
  they speak about the nation. She came back to me about two
• 37:21
  months later. She says Shmuel, I feel like
• 37:24
  it's Tish above. She says I've done did exactly
• 37:27
  what you said. I went to all the different
• 37:29
  Scholes and everyone's talking about and again, not to
• 37:32
  underestimate the importance of not talking lashin hara and
• 37:37
  doing. I said these are very important
• 37:39
  things. Mitzvot are 100%.
• 37:40
  I don't want to be taken the wrong way.
• 37:42
  We must learn Torah and learn tafiomi and, and which I do and,
• 37:47
  and not talk lashin hara and make our brahot 100%.
• 37:51
  But what about the nation? How come nobody's talking about
• 37:54
  the national side of, of, of our religion.
• 37:57
  Everyone's talking about just the individual and the communal
• 38:00
  level. This is galut man, this is
• 38:03
  exile. And that's why when Rabbi Khanna
• 38:05
  came and talked and that's why when it when it when I moved to
• 38:08
  Israel and I met these rabbanim in Israel who talk about
• 38:11
  Harabayat, the Temple Mount and who talk about redemption and
• 38:15
  talk about settling the land on a national side.
• 38:19
  It lit my fire. This is what I'm I'm I'm
• 38:23
  imploring all your listeners come to Israel, not just to move
• 38:27
  there, but I tell people get mad mad stands for make a
• 38:31
  difference. Come to Israel, build the land,
• 38:34
  grow it, plant trees, defend the land, join the army, fight the
• 38:40
  Jewish enemy, drive him out of the land, make a difference that
• 38:44
  they know. I told my I told my kids are
• 38:46
  ready after 120. I tell you what what I want you
• 38:49
  to write on my tombstone. Hey, Elijah Woolsacker.
• 38:52
  He tried to make a difference. That's all I want.
• 38:55
  I want to make a difference. I want to bring the gula one day
• 38:59
  closer. And if I succeed in doing that,
• 39:02
  I'll be happy. What is the ullah hinging on is
• 39:05
  God waiting for us to take action Yes and that's all right.
• 39:08
  You guys made the first move. Let me finish it all of.
• 39:10
  Course, I believe that. I don't think.
• 39:11
  That's how we bring the. Gula yes, I don't think God is
• 39:14
  just sitting there and you know, waiting for someday to come.
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  Beita Ahishena in it's time I will hasten it, which is an
• 39:22
  oxymoron. How could it?
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  If something comes in it's time, then Hashem didn't make it fast.
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  If if he made it fast, didn't come in his time.
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  Zaha akhishena lozahab ETA well known midrash.
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  Which means if we merited, if we do what needs to be done, Hashem
• 39:38
  will hasten the gula. It says in all this
• 39:40
  Pharmacodocian and especially Kolhatur written by the Villa
• 39:43
  Nagorn that Hashem cries every day that there's no Gula.
• 39:47
  You think Hashem wants to see us killed in Sydney, Australia?
• 39:50
  You think Hashem wants to see what happened on on 7th of
• 39:53
  October? It hurts Hashem more than it
• 39:56
  hurts us. And therefore we need to tell
• 39:59
  Hashem enough is enough. We are going to do what needs to
• 40:02
  be done to bring the Gula, to build the land, to defend the
• 40:06
  land, to bring the Jews from Arabic Khanfur to Aritz, the
• 40:09
  four corners of the globe. You know, everybody davens for
• 40:12
  Mushiyaq, but there's two mushiyaqs.
• 40:13
  Which mushiyaq are we davening for, Mushiq Ben Yosef or Mushiq
• 40:17
  Ben Davil? The answer, believe it or not,
• 40:19
  is. What's the difference?
• 40:20
  Mushiya Ben Yosef. This is according to the
• 40:22
  Vilnagom. Let me tell you his job in this
• 40:25
  in the safer kolatur. This is what he writes.
• 40:27
  The Mushiq Ben Yosef is going to do kibbutz Kaliot in Gathering
• 40:32
  of the Exiles, He's going to build the land of Israel, he's
• 40:35
  going to settle Ushalayim, and he's going to build a beta
• 40:40
  Mikdash. All done, Mushiq Ban Yosef.
• 40:43
  When that's done, hin walks Mashek Ben David.
• 40:46
  He sits on a throne with a sceptre and he says, OK, I'm in
• 40:48
  charge Joe, you can go from here.
• 40:51
  Mashek Ben Yosef is the one who's going to do, for lack of a
• 40:54
  better term, The Dirty work. And that's us.
• 40:57
  I could tell you, I think I know who Mashek Ben Yosef is these
• 41:01
  days. It's not a person, it's Medinati
• 41:04
  Israel. It's the state of Israel.
• 41:06
  Because if you think about it, who's doing the kibbutz Scalia,
• 41:08
  Who's bringing the Jews home? Who's fighting the battles,
• 41:11
  Who's building the land, Who's trying to settle the state of
• 41:15
  Israel with all the problems? Believe me, as many problems as
• 41:19
  you think there are in the State of Israel, I could add another
• 41:21
  150. So excuse me, there are many,
• 41:24
  many problems, but we are fighting for Jewish rights and
• 41:29
  this is nothing less than the final redemption.
• 41:32
  See, I'm starting to get it now. I'm starting to get the the
• 41:35
  distinction of where you're going and where a lot of the
• 41:38
  mainstream people are at. It's not about self-defense.
• 41:41
  Not at all. It's not self-defense.
• 41:43
  It's not I don't want to be at risk or at fear of getting
• 41:48
  killed and not being able to live in peace.
• 41:50
  I want to take over, I want to Fast forward the redemption and
• 41:54
  I wanna create this nationality in this Kingdom of the Jewish
• 41:58
  people in Israel. And that's a very far leap
• 42:01
  that's already goes beyond just of what we started out with.
• 42:05
  What I was hearing is the JDL and movements like this is pick
• 42:09
  up your arms and shoot back and if you.
• 42:12
  Need to shoot first, that is help yourself.
• 42:14
  This is already going. That's an as I mentioned, the
• 42:17
  distinction is outside of Israel versus inside Israel.
• 42:20
  But you know what bothers me? How many Shoals in New York
• 42:23
  everybody say, oh, naturi Carta satmar, let me tell you
• 42:26
  something. How many Shoals Orthodox shalt
• 42:29
  talk about only from Shoals? How many from Shoals in the New
• 42:32
  York area say the blessing for the State of Israel on Shabbos?
• 42:36
  I'll bet you can go all around Muncie and find maybe 2.
• 42:42
  Why? What are you?
• 42:44
  Why can't they bless the state of Israel?
• 42:47
  It says in in that bracha avinu avinu shabba shamayi, right
• 42:54
  Surya, it talks about it talks about the beginning of the
• 42:59
  redemption. What?
• 43:01
  What scares them? What scares them?
• 43:04
  We're talking about nothing less than the redemption for Hashem's
• 43:08
  glory. Not about me.
• 43:09
  Who cares about Schwalzacker? I'm talking about a Kurdish
• 43:11
  baraku. This is This is why after every
• 43:15
  desecration of God's name, there's a great kid of Shashem.
• 43:18
  The biggest desecration was the Holocaust.
• 43:20
  Right after that came the state of Israel.
• 43:22
  Because of Hashem's name, we had to continue.
• 43:25
  Take a look at Rav Salavechik. That's all rights about that.
• 43:29
  He used to cry during the Holocaust clergy, non Jewish
• 43:34
  clergy would come to the greater of Salavechek and said you're
• 43:38
  the chosen people. Where's your God?
• 43:40
  How's your God allowing this to happen?
• 43:43
  He said, I, I, I would cry over the suffering of of my Jewish
• 43:46
  brothers, but I would cry more. He writes over the suffering of
• 43:49
  Hashem. This is what the non Jewish
• 43:51
  world was saying, he says, and in somewhat my, my happiness.
• 43:56
  Now he uses a different word. I forget my comfort was restored
• 43:59
  when the state of Israel came up.
• 44:01
  So this is what we have to do to fight for Hashem's battles.
• 44:04
  And you're right, Oshi, you don't hear that here.
• 44:07
  And that's the problem. We need to, we need to,
• 44:09
  especially to the youth, tell them the future is an Eritrea,
• 44:13
  not because it's, it's this. So that that's a place to eat
• 44:16
  shawarma, which I recommend, by the way, especially with extra
• 44:19
  Trina. In any case, that's the place to
• 44:21
  build the Jewish land, bring home the Jews.
• 44:25
  And yes, welcome Mashiach. You know, we're very divided on
• 44:28
  this. It's a problem.
• 44:30
  You have a is there is there something we're not divided on?
• 44:33
  Oh, but this is 2 Jews can't pick the same hetrogue can't
• 44:36
  can't agree on the same hetrogue.
• 44:37
  Right, right, right. I agree.
• 44:39
  We have like, you know, I wanna say half of the, you know,
• 44:42
  Jewish people that not only aren't on, you know, this
• 44:45
  bandwagon, they vehemently disagree.
• 44:48
  They think that what, you know, the Jews in Israel that are so
• 44:51
  pro as well are doing is actually one of the reasons why
• 44:54
  we're progressing a lot of the hate that's out there.
• 44:57
  And we're sort of self inflicting a lot of this on
• 44:58
  ourselves by taking these very extreme stances.
• 45:02
  And and that's kind of their version of it.
• 45:04
  Now, I think there's a majority of Jews, I think we could all
• 45:07
  agree on is that Israel is there.
• 45:10
  It is a state. We have over 2 million Jews
• 45:12
  living there right now. 7,000,007 billion Jews.
• 45:15
  I'm sorry, I'm 7 million, 2 million from 7 million Jews.
• 45:17
  Wow, Yep. What is that, like 5060% of the
• 45:20
  Jews in the world? It's over 50% of the Jewish
• 45:23
  population of the world. Amazing.
• 45:25
  So yeah. So we have to protect it at all
• 45:27
  costs. We're there.
• 45:28
  It is what it is. Whether you agree how it formed,
• 45:30
  whether you don't agree, how we are there.
• 45:32
  And it's precious and it's Jewish blood.
• 45:35
  And we got to make the best life for them over there and do
• 45:37
  whatever it takes, even an army. I I agree with that.
• 45:40
  We we need to defend ourselves for sure, but how far do we want
• 45:44
  to take this like you it? It sounds like global domination
• 45:48
  almost is really the end goal here.
• 45:50
  You want to build them as back? Are you building the base of
• 45:52
  Mikdash next? So that would love.
• 45:53
  To and you're perfect. I would love to.
• 45:55
  So. So we're doing.
• 45:56
  Why not tell me why not? We're supposed to be doing that.
• 45:59
  I believe so. I believe so, but we're not
• 46:01
  there yet. We first have to bring in the
• 46:03
  Jews and we have to 1st settle the land.
• 46:06
  But I I believe yes on the bucket list this before
• 46:09
  Schmulsaki goes in 120, I want to make to make this build.
• 46:13
  I don't believe for one second that it's going to come down
• 46:15
  from Shamay and there is a dot Yahi, the single opinion that
• 46:19
  it's going to come like how to basically.
• 46:21
  Make this get built. Who made that decision?
• 46:23
  How did that? Ezra, Ezra and Hemia came from
• 46:27
  the you know, again, we were prophets.
• 46:29
  They were prophets. Yes, they were prophets.
• 46:32
  And that's just what we lack today.
• 46:33
  There's no question about it, however, and This is why the
• 46:37
  Greeks thought that they could destroy us in the Second Temple
• 46:40
  'cause we didn't have prophets, but they didn't know we had
• 46:43
  something in many ways greater than the prophets.
• 46:46
  Rabbanim, great rabbis, who again, the whole Torah, Shabal
• 46:51
  PE was written during the Second Temple period.
• 46:53
  Of course you have Shmayan Aftalion and, and, and base
• 46:57
  Shamayan Basil and Rabbi Akiva. All that Arabic was just after
• 47:00
  that. But nevertheless, all the great
• 47:02
  rabbis were in the time of the Second Temple because we didn't
• 47:05
  have the profits. This is not a religion where we
• 47:09
  need profits. We know what has to be done.
• 47:12
  And does that mean that we should be able to make that make
• 47:14
  tomorrow? No, but it should definitely be
• 47:17
  on our radar. It should be a dream of ours and
• 47:21
  it should be something we move towards each and every day.
• 47:23
  I'm not looking for global dominion.
• 47:25
  I'm not looking to. I don't want to be the next
• 47:27
  Alexander the Great. I'm not interested in taking
• 47:30
  over the world. I'm interested in a country the
• 47:32
  size of New Jersey. So that's it.
• 47:35
  And now let's let's in a perfect world, let's play it out.
• 47:38
  So we are safe, as you know, makes sense to be in Israel.
• 47:43
  We're controlling it. It's pretty much Jews living
• 47:45
  there or other non Jews, but very peacefully.
• 47:47
  They're not, you know, they're not being antagonistic and you
• 47:50
  know, they're not, they're not looking to to do anything
• 47:53
  harmful to everybody else. And and it's all going well for
• 47:55
  the most part. What what happens next?
• 47:58
  So we just start living and you know what happens next?
• 48:04
  What happens next? Am I supposed to now go and pick
• 48:07
  myself up and go and move to Israel or or Yeah.
• 48:10
  Yes. So Jews from all over the world
• 48:12
  now, guys, we got it together. Israel is ours.
• 48:15
  It's well fortified. We're protected.
• 48:17
  No one can attack us. Let's go.
• 48:19
  Everybody ring the bell. Everybody come show up.
• 48:22
  And and and Olivia and And then what?
• 48:24
  And then now what? And then we established the the
• 48:26
  Sanhedrin and they can appoint the melech.
• 48:32
  OK, Yeah, we have. We have.
• 48:35
  We institute all the things that we had, you know, 2000 years ago
• 48:38
  when we had a base megadash. We we literally take it back to
• 48:41
  to the ancient times and follow all of our traditions and and go
• 48:44
  through. Oh, man, you're, you're, you're
• 48:49
  telling me. You're telling us the dream.
• 48:51
  This is the, this is the Jewish dream.
• 48:53
  What do you think the Jewish dream is?
• 48:56
  A, a, a, a week, a weekend in some Glat kosher hotel in Puerto
• 48:59
  Rico. This is the Jewish dream.
• 49:02
  The Sanhedrin, the melech and and and and and the beta miktash
• 49:07
  and the coengata. Yes, it's the dream.
• 49:09
  Is it going to happen tomorrow? I don't think so.
• 49:12
  But this is something that we need to work towards each and
• 49:15
  every day. And you want to send, you know
• 49:18
  what's my job? My job is to make sure you have
• 49:21
  that dream too. Because with all due respect,
• 49:24
  you don't have it right now. And I don't blame you.
• 49:26
  I am blame all the teachers that all the years had you in front
• 49:29
  of them and talk talk nonsense to you and didn't focus your
• 49:33
  head on the Jewish nation. We'll open your head up.
• 49:37
  We'll, we'll, we'll put in some good things about Amistrel.
• 49:39
  Look, this is not just me. This is, you know, this is how
• 49:42
  our schools right now, correct, are being driven.
• 49:44
  This is what they do. This is what they talk about.
• 49:47
  And I was told that one day someone's going to show up and
• 49:50
  make an announcement and it's time, guys, you'll know what it.
• 49:54
  Is because, you know, you know who says that?
• 49:56
  The other guys, the Christians say that the one guy's going to
• 49:59
  come JC and he's going to announce I'm here.
• 50:01
  That is not a Jewish concept. A guy's going to walk in and
• 50:04
  say, oh, by the way, you know who I am, I amashi.
• 50:06
  That is not a Jewish concept. A Jewish concept is he is the
• 50:11
  Mela hamashiach. In order to be a Mela, you have
• 50:14
  to be appointed by the Navi. The Navi can only be established
• 50:17
  by the Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin has to come first.
• 50:20
  There's a process. A guy coming in and declaring
• 50:23
  who he is plays for the other team.
• 50:25
  Interesting. And you've devoted your life to
• 50:27
  this. That's right.
• 50:28
  This is your life mission. Every waking day you wake up,
• 50:31
  this is what you think about. And you ask yourself, what can I
• 50:33
  do today to further advance this cause?
• 50:36
  Correct. Instituting the Jewish
• 50:38
  redemption and the rebirth of all the Jewish people in the
• 50:41
  State of Israel. 100% correct. And that's why I pray for health
• 50:45
  for myself and for everybody else so that we could see this
• 50:48
  to fruition. We're building the land, we're
• 50:50
  building the hilltop communities all across Israel.
• 50:53
  The. Average Jewish citizen today
• 50:54
  share your sentiments to this levels or are they just content
• 50:57
  with defending themselves? They're OK, you know, to live in
• 51:01
  harmony with others as well. And they're not looking for
• 51:03
  anything more than just leave me be, let me live my life, let me
• 51:06
  practice my religion here. Like, is that the average
• 51:09
  citizen of of? The average citizen of Israel,
• 51:11
  right, just wants to be and go on his trips and and that's
• 51:14
  fine. And that's absolutely fine
• 51:16
  because again, as we're recording this on Hanukkah,
• 51:19
  Hanukkah is about Rabin Padma team.
• 51:23
  The, the, the, the, the, the majority, the massive were the
• 51:26
  hands of the few. Leadership is a what do they
• 51:29
  say? A few good men.
• 51:31
  That's an American expression. All we need is a few good men.
• 51:34
  I'm prepared to be one of those leaders, to lead the masses.
• 51:38
  The masses. I understand they want a good
• 51:39
  piece of cheesecake. So do I.
• 51:41
  And they want, you know, to make a nice parnassa.
• 51:44
  And they want their kids married and they want to go on vacation.
• 51:47
  Fine, we'll lead them in that direction.
• 51:49
  And three times a year, they'll also go to the base and make
• 51:51
  this, bring up some carbonos, carbon peso.
• 51:54
  No problem with that. Who says you can't have a good
• 51:56
  piece of cheesecake? Is the JDL?
• 51:57
  Still active today. No, unfortunately it's not.
• 52:00
  When Robert Connor was murdered, it did that.
• 52:02
  That movement ended, but I think you could use one in New York,
• 52:06
  especially with Mamdani headed your way.
• 52:08
  But that's a discussion for another.
• 52:09
  Day, you know, if you look at what Satmar is doing to Mamdani
• 52:13
  is like, you know, if you can't beat him, sort of join him.
• 52:16
  You know, they've taken that stance, right?
• 52:17
  And they've embraced him. They've welcomed them into their
• 52:21
  community in a big way. And it's interesting to see that
• 52:25
  because in one side of this guy's mouth, he's pretty much
• 52:28
  talking about, you know, globalizing the intifada.
• 52:30
  And we all know what that means. Whether they want to define it
• 52:33
  in that way or not, we know what deep down the root of it, what
• 52:36
  it means. And in another corner of his
• 52:38
  mouth, he's talking about, you know, protecting the Jewish
• 52:39
  people in New York City. He's very clear it time.
• 52:42
  He talks about the Jewish people.
• 52:43
  My priority is the Jewish people of New York City, right?
• 52:47
  Because it's the diplomatic thing for him to do.
• 52:49
  But it's so interesting because they're taking the opposite
• 52:51
  stance of the JDL. And this is almost the
• 52:53
  traditional way, which is let's try to, you know, not bow down,
• 52:57
  but conform to the, you know, to the current leadership, the non
• 53:02
  Jewish leadership and hope that they are going to give us a pass
• 53:06
  and that they're going to, you know, we're going to get along.
• 53:08
  But we all know it doesn't work. History has taught us it doesn't
• 53:11
  work. It also does not work.
• 53:13
  It doesn't work, correct. The question remains though,
• 53:16
  like, is that supposed to be our model?
• 53:18
  Like is that like, you know, this is how it's always been and
• 53:21
  if you don't do something different, you're going to get
• 53:23
  the same result. So, you know, you're taking a
• 53:25
  whole another stance where you're going to the opposite
• 53:27
  extreme, right? And I think a lot of us are
• 53:29
  somewhat living in the middle and we're trying to balance a
• 53:32
  little bit more to the left and to the right depending on the
• 53:34
  time, depending what we what we've seen in front of us, we're
• 53:36
  making judgement calls as we go. Right.
• 53:38
  The problem is you're not hearing enough from my side.
• 53:40
  That's the problem, yeah. So that's what I'm looking to
• 53:43
  change. How many people like you are
• 53:44
  there, out there Like what? How many people are representing
• 53:46
  this viewpoint that are active in government and politics that
• 53:50
  are, you know, activists? What's that like?
• 53:52
  I don't know the number, but there are many in Israel that
• 53:55
  feel this way, that are that are working towards the this.
• 53:58
  Tree today that represents this this viewpoint the most.
• 54:02
  In government today, there are few there's, there's Bengveer
• 54:06
  and this Motrich and there's some others and of course my
• 54:08
  dear friend Moshe Fraglin that was in the Knesset.
• 54:11
  That's looking to come back to the Knesset, to a political way
• 54:15
  of life. But again, we're the minority
• 54:18
  right now. We can't look at numbers.
• 54:20
  This is not, you know, a game of numbers.
• 54:23
  We have to lead. We have to educate.
• 54:27
  The whole thing is about education.
• 54:29
  You know, again, Hanukkah has the word inside, you know,
• 54:32
  education. It's all about educating the
• 54:35
  Jewish nation. So the right value let me.
• 54:37
  Put a bow on this. Now I'm up to my final question
• 54:39
  here. OK, OK.
• 54:43
  I'm giving you the green light. I found you 10,000 people,
• 54:47
  100,000 people in Israel who share your belief.
• 54:51
  They're ready to take up arms. They're ready to go to war.
• 54:54
  They're ready to roam the streets and cleanse, ethnically
• 54:57
  cleanse the state of Israel that it's only Jewish people.
• 55:00
  And you have the arsenal, you have the artillery, you have the
• 55:04
  technology, you have everything ready to go.
• 55:07
  Are you ready to go to war right now?
• 55:08
  Are you? Are you at the point that if you
• 55:10
  have the means? Is it time to galvanized, get
• 55:14
  the cavalry going? Are you green lighting this?
• 55:16
  Absolutely not. We're not talking about doing
• 55:20
  anything illegal. And by the way, I, I, I, I don't
• 55:23
  like the term ethnic cleansing. We are against ethnic cleansing.
• 55:28
  You should know something that the Arabs have lived in Israel
• 55:33
  for many, many years. And most of the Arabs, the Arabs
• 55:37
  under the age of 3070% of them want to leave Israel.
• 55:42
  They want, they want to live in Europe, they want to live in
• 55:44
  Italy. They want to, you know, come to
• 55:46
  the United States, they want to come to Canada.
• 55:48
  Let them go. We're not talking about ethnic
• 55:50
  cleansing. We're not.
• 55:51
  We're not the Jewish Nazis, God forbid, and we're talking about
• 55:55
  joining the Israeli army. We're talking about using the
• 55:58
  Israeli government. We're not talking about an armed
• 56:02
  struggle, Heaven forbid. We're not talking about a civil
• 56:06
  war. This is not something we're
• 56:07
  talking about. We're focused on the dream and
• 56:10
  we're prepared to accomplish and arrive at that dream through the
• 56:15
  legal means in the democratic process in the state of Israel.
• 56:20
  OK, that's the long way. That's the long way, but that's
• 56:24
  the way of the world and that's the way that we're going.
• 56:27
  So you believe that this is all going to be delivered through?
• 56:32
  Mankind and through the rich people.
• 56:33
  We're going to have to do it ourselves and we have to do it
• 56:36
  the right way. It's going to take time, like
• 56:38
  you said, going through the legal system.
• 56:39
  We're not talking about guerrilla tactics, right?
• 56:41
  We're not talking about ethnically cleansing.
• 56:44
  Like you said, no. We're talking about just, you
• 56:46
  know, a country that we can call our own, a country that we can
• 56:50
  call our home and that the the government is run by the Jewish
• 56:55
  people. So we can, you know, make sure
• 56:57
  the laws are in favor of of Jewish people, correct?
• 56:59
  We can practice our religion, not just openly, but proudly,
• 57:03
  and we can elevate the entire country to be where it's Jewish
• 57:07
  pride. And if you come into this
• 57:08
  country, we're all welcome. But this is under the Jewish
• 57:11
  realm and we can elevate the entire country to be where it's
• 57:15
  Jewish pride. And if you come into this
• 57:17
  country, we have our temple here and we have our sacrilegious
• 57:20
  that we do and, and, and this. And if you enjoy that culture
• 57:24
  and you appreciate it, you'll come welcome to be A to be a
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  part of it. But if you're here, it's our
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  rules under our roof. And that is the end goal for
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  you. And that's what you're hoping to
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  see one day. I couldn't have said it better
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  myself. Well, thanks for joining
• 57:38
  everybody. This is listen.
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  I have a couple of thoughts that I want to share, if that's OK
• 57:43
  with you. You don't fall asleep.
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  No, not at all. By the way, you know, I've
• 57:48
  learned to have a lot of patience and and to be a
• 57:50
  listener and I'm enjoying every second of it.
• 57:52
  I actually enjoyed this a lot. Big fan of Israel, Big fan of
• 57:56
  your work, based on what I'm hearing.
• 57:58
  Love how you questioned everything.
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  We're zeroing in on the education part, which I
• 58:03
  appreciate. It's not about the violence, no.
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  Which brings me to my question. Mayor Khan is here.
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  He comes to you right now. What are you asking?
• 58:10
  What do you do? What's the next step?
• 58:12
  And on that note, what's the call to action?
• 58:14
  What's the CTA? What are you asking from us as a
• 58:17
  nation? People living in Israel, people
• 58:20
  living in America, people living in France.
• 58:21
  What are you asking of us? What do you?
• 58:23
  What's the plan? So the people living outside of
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  Israel, I have two words. Come home.
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  I understand you can't come home tomorrow.
• 58:30
  There are businesses, there are homes and there are families and
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  so on. I am a realist, but I say come
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  home and come home for the real reason.
• 58:37
  And let me tell you something that I heard from a different
• 58:40
  Rabbi Kahana. This is Rabbi Americana's
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  brother, Rabbi Nachman Khanna, who's still alive and well,
• 58:45
  moved to Israel from Brooklyn over 60 years ago.
• 58:49
  If you're familiar, there's a set of firm called the Main
• 58:51
  Menuhot. It's a pay Rashantosvo written
• 58:53
  by Reb Nachman Kahana. And he said, he said, you know,
• 58:57
  there's a big discussion whether or not moving to Israel is one
• 59:00
  of the 6/13. He says, let me tell you how I
• 59:03
  answer that question. Imagine a young couple, young
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  you nice, you shivish couple gets married, you know, and
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  beautiful, you know, they had a Vorta, They had a wedding.
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  And now they're home for the first time on the night of the
• 59:17
  wedding. And before anything happens,
• 59:19
  we'll say Rifkala turns to Maisha and she says, Maisha, do
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  me a favor. Tell me before anything happens
• 59:26
  tonight, why did you marry me? Why did you marry me?
• 59:31
  It's just the two of us. And he says, oh, Rifkala, you
• 59:35
  don't want to married you because now I could do so many
• 59:39
  more mitzvot. Ah, we could have a, you know,
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  Prue or Vue and best not the same.
• 59:43
  We'll have a baby and it'll be a boy.
• 59:45
  Let's say it'll be a breast and a pig in her bed.
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  And then we'll go, you know, can so many mitzvahs we won't have
• 59:50
  arguments. Shall I buy it now because I'm
• 59:53
  married to you, Rifkela, I could perform many more mitzvah than
• 59:57
  the Torah. And Nachman says if he answers
• 1:00:00
  that way, he's sleeping on the couch the first night, the first
• 1:00:04
  night he's sleeping on the couch.
• 1:00:06
  So I know how should he have answered?
• 1:00:08
  He should have answered. You know why I marry you.
• 1:00:10
  Because I was a broken soul. I was an incomplete person.
• 1:00:14
  You complete me together we're one neshama.
• 1:00:18
  My life is nothing without you. I need you to to have a full
• 1:00:23
  neshama, he says. If that's his answer, he'll have
• 1:00:27
  a very nice evening and a very beautiful life.
• 1:00:30
  He says same thing with moving to Israel.
• 1:00:33
  Don't move to Israel because there's a lot of myths.
• 1:00:35
  Would you can keep in Israel. There are Trumos and masters and
• 1:00:37
  all these different things you can only keep in Israel.
• 1:00:39
  Sorry, guys from Lakewood can't keep it there.
• 1:00:41
  But that's not why you should come to Israel.
• 1:00:44
  Should come to Israel because you're a broken person.
• 1:00:46
  You're a Jew who's broken. A Jew belongs with his nation in
• 1:00:51
  Amishel. And that's why you need to come.
• 1:00:54
  Not because of Mamdani and not because of years ago Obama.
• 1:00:58
  And not because of any other reason.
• 1:01:00
  Only because we're broken here. We need to come and rejoin and
• 1:01:06
  join ourselves with the rest of the Jews in Israel, the
• 1:01:08
  religious, in the secular and so on, and even as Sadmar in
• 1:01:12
  Israel, all of us together to form the Jewish nation.
• 1:01:15
  So that's message number one, to bring home the Jews as much as
• 1:01:20
  possible, the Jews. Don't run away from something,
• 1:01:23
  run towards. Run that.
• 1:01:25
  I would say beautiful because it's funny because I say those
• 1:01:28
  exact words. Don't run away, run towards, run
• 1:01:31
  towards the land of Israel. As far as the Jews in Israel
• 1:01:34
  also stop running and start building, start defending and
• 1:01:40
  start being being proud. And again, let's get our guys
• 1:01:43
  with our points of view into the government so that we have
• 1:01:48
  enough say in the government to move things in this direction.
• 1:01:53
  The whole Gaza war, what can I say?
• 1:01:56
  We lost so many Haya Lim. We're charging into buildings.
• 1:01:59
  Who charges into buildings? Who sends boys into burning
• 1:02:02
  buildings? Maybe there was a little Arab
• 1:02:04
  there and have to worry. Be careful.
• 1:02:07
  We don't want to hurt any innocent people.
• 1:02:09
  But my number one job is to bring that Hayao home, bring
• 1:02:13
  that soldier home to his wife and children or his or his
• 1:02:15
  parents. And that's my number one job.
• 1:02:18
  And we have to understand this is what we need to do.
• 1:02:21
  So the ones outside of Israel to come home, The ones inside of
• 1:02:24
  Israel build, defend and be strong in your Jewish values.
• 1:02:28
  You know, I, I met someone in Florida recently who told me
• 1:02:31
  that him, he was in the army in Israel and he said him and a few
• 1:02:35
  friends left Israel. I never actually heard that
• 1:02:38
  before in terms of someone leaving Israel and wanting to
• 1:02:41
  leave because he said I was afraid.
• 1:02:43
  I was afraid living in Israel. I was afraid for my kids to go
• 1:02:45
  to the bus. I was afraid for them to cross
• 1:02:47
  the street. And I was afraid for us to be
• 1:02:50
  living in a country where there's actual terrorism
• 1:02:52
  happening almost on a weekly basis.
• 1:02:55
  How do you respond to that? I feel for what he's saying and
• 1:02:59
  I feel that we should, we should cry when we hear a Jew saying
• 1:03:03
  that to to not be safe in Poland, that's one thing.
• 1:03:07
  To not be safe even on the streets in New York.
• 1:03:09
  Like I said, what could you do? You do the best you can to not
• 1:03:12
  be safe in the streets of you shall I am.
• 1:03:14
  Excuse me, but he's right. Unfortunately, he's right.
• 1:03:18
  And that's what needs to be changed.
• 1:03:19
  And that's what we're hoping when we talk about Jewish
• 1:03:22
  strength again, not ethnic cleansing, but we're talking
• 1:03:25
  about the fact that the army and the police won't allow this to
• 1:03:29
  happen. The bad guys need to know that
• 1:03:31
  if they raise their head, they will be dealt a serious blow.
• 1:03:35
  You have an organization, you do a raffle for it every year.
• 1:03:38
  I that's also one of the commercials you were doing with
• 1:03:42
  inspiration for the nation and you were doing something.
• 1:03:45
  Let's let's get away from this topic for just one minute and
• 1:03:49
  talk about that side of things because we're going to have to
• 1:03:51
  come to a close in very soon. But before I do, I just want to
• 1:03:54
  hear about your day-to-day. You have an organization, you do
• 1:03:57
  an amazing raffle for eight years.
• 1:03:59
  I believe this is your 8th year where you're giving away an
• 1:04:02
  apartment in Israel. That's right, super cool.
• 1:04:04
  So as every Jewish organization, you know, many years ago I met
• 1:04:10
  somebody from from California and he gave me his card at the
• 1:04:14
  Jewish organization. He wrote that he ran and it said
• 1:04:17
  we are very nonprofit organization.
• 1:04:21
  Organizations need to raise money.
• 1:04:24
  The traditional way is usually a sit with some wealthy guy and
• 1:04:26
  you convince him to give a couple of shekels or whatever it
• 1:04:29
  is. I don't like that way.
• 1:04:30
  I like to go to Amisrael, grassroots, grassroots.
• 1:04:34
  And I said how you gonna go to grassroots?
• 1:04:36
  So I came up with a crazy idea, excuse me, 8 years ago to offer
• 1:04:41
  an apartment in Ushalayim as a raffle.
• 1:04:45
  Excuse me? It's called the Dream Raffle
• 1:04:47
  because it's a dream to own an apartment in Ushalayim and it's
• 1:04:51
  a raffle. And at the time it was worth
• 1:04:53
  $1,000,000. Today it's $1.2 million we've
• 1:04:56
  given away. Well we've had already 7
• 1:04:58
  raffles. You could either win the
• 1:04:59
  apartment or a cash alternative. And five times for various
• 1:05:04
  reasons the people took the cash and twice they take they took
• 1:05:08
  the apartment. And this year it's a beautiful
• 1:05:10
  apartment, brand new, never lived in before, fully
• 1:05:14
  furnished. And the harder you shallain, all
• 1:05:16
  you have to do is go. Excuse me to the Dream
• 1:05:19
  raffle.com. All the information is there.
• 1:05:23
  We're offering now a special 1 + 1 buy 1 ticket, get actually 2
• 1:05:28
  double EUR there and you can win a gorgeous apartment.
• 1:05:32
  What are the cost? Raffle Raffle is $200 OK not
• 1:05:35
  cheap, not cheap OK, but the prize is 1.2 million.
• 1:05:38
  Dollars. So yes, that's how many people
• 1:05:40
  participate in this. Last year we had we sold 12, we
• 1:05:44
  had 12,000 sales now that were more than that were tickets
• 1:05:46
  'cause there were some that were, you know buy one, get one
• 1:05:48
  free and others bought more but 12,000 people bought tickets
• 1:05:52
  I'm. Curious about this side of you,
• 1:05:54
  'cause you sales, marketing, We didn't, we didn't really get to
• 1:05:56
  it and we spoke about it for a minute that you, you, you
• 1:05:59
  worked, it says here, you worked.
• 1:06:01
  You walked away from Wall Street for ideology, which correctly
• 1:06:04
  disqualifies you for most Ted Talks, you know.
• 1:06:08
  But you do have definitely, you know, a lot to you.
• 1:06:12
  There's a lot of sides to you. There's the Israel side and then
• 1:06:14
  there's the sales, marketing, business development, brand
• 1:06:17
  side. For those who are listening,
• 1:06:20
  there are a lot of organizations that are doing this watch
• 1:06:22
  auction thing, which is like a really cool way to raise money.
• 1:06:25
  You give away $100,000 watch and you sell 300 tickets and you
• 1:06:30
  spin a wheel and you either paying $300 or you paying a
• 1:06:32
  dollar. I like ideas where organizations
• 1:06:35
  are raising money without having to go and thinking of it.
• 1:06:38
  And I, I serve on a board of quite a few organizations where
• 1:06:41
  we're always having discussions, you know, what to do and how to
• 1:06:45
  do it. How do you come up with this
• 1:06:46
  idea and what would you suggest for organizations that they're
• 1:06:49
  thinking of? How do we raise money in a smart
• 1:06:52
  way? I'm I'm assuming you're not
• 1:06:53
  going to say giveaway an apartment in Israel?
• 1:06:55
  But well, it's funny because the other day I was interviewed
• 1:06:59
  actually by Zev Brenner and he said, are you considering coming
• 1:07:03
  and having dinners in America? And I said to him, God forbid, I
• 1:07:07
  think the last thing you guys need is to go to another
• 1:07:09
  fundraising dinner. And that's not my style.
• 1:07:13
  It's not easy. Raising funds is not a simple
• 1:07:15
  thing to do. People are trying to be
• 1:07:17
  creative, the Chinese and all these things that people do,
• 1:07:22
  whatever works. But what works for me is again,
• 1:07:25
  I wanted to. When you say grass roots last
• 1:07:28
  year, more importantly than how many tickets we sold, people in
• 1:07:31
  87 countries bought tickets. Literally 87 countries bought
• 1:07:36
  tickets. How are you marketing to them?
• 1:07:38
  So it's completely Internet based.
• 1:07:41
  Like if you want anybody to think I don't have like a raffle
• 1:07:43
  book, you know, I can RIP off and give you, I hope not.
• 1:07:45
  It's what? No, it's 100% Internet based and
• 1:07:48
  Internet is worldwide. So we're Facebook the other day
• 1:07:52
  it. Was who helps you do this?
• 1:07:53
  I have Bottom Line Marketing Group.
• 1:07:56
  Yeah, my buddy Yitzhak Saffla, shout out to Yitzhak and El Yao
• 1:07:59
  and his wonderful team, Mauki and Toby, great guys.
• 1:08:04
  And they're they're marketing. We're also doing marketing in
• 1:08:07
  Israel. We're doing marketing in
• 1:08:09
  England, social media. Somebody says I see your face
• 1:08:13
  all over the Internet. I said you know how much it cost
• 1:08:15
  me so that you see this face on the Internet.
• 1:08:18
  It's not cheap, but let's write the shem.
• 1:08:20
  We'll, I just did. We just came out with a movie in
• 1:08:23
  Israel. There's something called Bardak,
• 1:08:26
  which is very funny. It's a 4 minute clip, believe it
• 1:08:29
  or not, for the Haredi audience. I've seen.
• 1:08:32
  It it's hilarious. Well, I just came out with one
• 1:08:35
  last week with with me in it dressed as a Hassida shagai.
• 1:08:38
  Yeah. You got to send us that clip.
• 1:08:40
  I'll send you the clip. Right here.
• 1:08:41
  Take a look at the new Bardock movie and it's it's it's funny,
• 1:08:46
  but we're we're trying to reach every single audience we can
• 1:08:49
  selling tickets, the dream raffle.com and it it's supports.
• 1:08:53
  I've just run through three quick things with a biggest
• 1:08:55
  donut to the Israel dog unit. You know that there are over 400
• 1:08:59
  people that go missing each year in Israel, a tiny country.
• 1:09:02
  Israel, people go missing, most of them unfortunately older, the
• 1:09:06
  elderly with dementia. They walk out of the house at
• 1:09:10
  2:00 in the morning, go find, you know, grandpa by by the time
• 1:09:14
  you wake up 6:00 in the morning, he's gone.
• 1:09:16
  And he left maybe no shoes, no money, no water.
• 1:09:19
  Go find him. So these guys have highly
• 1:09:21
  trained dogs and drones and thermal imaging.
• 1:09:25
  We bought all their equipment and we're helping them.
• 1:09:28
  Just last week, good news and bad news, they found two people,
• 1:09:31
  one of 15 year old boy was missing for three days, they
• 1:09:33
  found him alive. Another one actually on Shabbat,
• 1:09:37
  they found who unfortunately was a corpse, was not alive.
• 1:09:40
  But Even so, they found them. The family now could bury
• 1:09:42
  Suchiva and so on. So that's the Israel Dog Unit
• 1:09:45
  with their biggest donor. The second thing is we're
• 1:09:48
  helping IDF widows and orphans mention this, how we're having
• 1:09:52
  an unbelievable event on Monday, last day of Hanukkah for widows
• 1:09:57
  and orphans of this last war and we're doing everything for them.
• 1:10:00
  That's another thing that we help.
• 1:10:02
  We've we've donated 4 Torres to IDF bases.
• 1:10:06
  We're building up the the country across across Israel,
• 1:10:11
  various Ishivot and various business.
• 1:10:14
  We're helping, we're helping farmers.
• 1:10:15
  We've planted 700,000 fruit trees in Israel because again,
• 1:10:20
  that grabs the land, it settles the land, it builds the land.
• 1:10:24
  Part of the dream that we were talking about.
• 1:10:26
  All these funds come from our one and only fundraiser of the
• 1:10:29
  year. The Remember the word the The
• 1:10:31
  Dream raffle.com. You're good.
• 1:10:34
  You're very good. First of all, congratulations on
• 1:10:36
  what you've built. I mean, it's amazing.
• 1:10:38
  It's a very big feat to have such a large budget raffle and,
• 1:10:42
  and that is funding everything you're doing.
• 1:10:44
  So congratulations to I, I really mean it.
• 1:10:47
  It's, it's really amazing and I hope people can learn from it to
• 1:10:50
  do things like this in terms of being creative.
• 1:10:53
  And if I go to Israel soon and meet you, where is the 1st place
• 1:10:58
  you're taking me? Have you ever been to Hara by it
• 1:11:02
  the Temple Mount? The actual HARA by it, yeah, I'm
• 1:11:07
  going to say something that Ushi says a lot.
• 1:11:08
  I was told not to go. Correct, there are many rabbits.
• 1:11:11
  However, there are 1000 rabbis with beards a lot longer than
• 1:11:15
  mine who say that you're allowed to go.
• 1:11:18
  I won't force it, but you know what?
• 1:11:19
  Until your next trip, look into it.
• 1:11:22
  I don't force anybody. If you're intrigued and want to
• 1:11:25
  go to Hara by it, I will take you up to Hara by it.
• 1:11:28
  And you will. You'll dive in Minha.
• 1:11:32
  Not at the Colton, not at some wall, but you'll dive it on the
• 1:11:36
  other side, on the temple, mounted.
• 1:11:38
  You know when you dive in on Harabayat, you don't say.
• 1:11:41
  I mean when the Hazim is repeating Shimonna Esray, he
• 1:11:44
  says, Brocoter, Hashem, honey and Haddad, you answer Baruch
• 1:11:48
  shame Kavodmal, who told the alarm the Ed.
• 1:11:50
  So where does that come from on Yom Kippur when you're davening,
• 1:11:54
  right? The Hako Hanima, are you
• 1:11:58
  Mistakovim vomrim Bora shame. Kavod malhotoli lambad.
• 1:12:03
  This comes from my dad. This is the Halaha, the Halaha
• 1:12:06
  coming to life. If you're not prepared to go to
• 1:12:08
  Harabite, which is fine, I'll take you to some of these farms
• 1:12:13
  where you'll meet Jews who work with the hands, who don't know
• 1:12:16
  what the Internet is, who don't know what Bluetooth is, who have
• 1:12:19
  no idea what WhatsApp is. But when you shake their hands,
• 1:12:21
  you'll get a couple of thorns into your hands.
• 1:12:24
  You'll meet the Jewish farmers who I think.
• 1:12:26
  Are the salt of the earth. I actually went on a trip to
• 1:12:29
  Israel and one of the things we did was we visited these farms
• 1:12:32
  and we met some of these farmers and I was immediately drawn to
• 1:12:37
  just how passionate they were about what they were doing.
• 1:12:40
  They didn't look at it as work. They didn't, they looked at it
• 1:12:42
  as they were. They were nurturing the ground
• 1:12:46
  and the spirit of it and the holiness of it.
• 1:12:49
  And I was just, I was mesmerized by really how attached they were
• 1:12:54
  to it. It was so palpable, like you can
• 1:12:56
  literally see it on their faces, the joy that emanated from them
• 1:13:00
  just by talking about it. And it was fascinating to see
• 1:13:03
  that connection between nature and human and they're.
• 1:13:05
  Redeeming the land unparalleled. Redeeming the land.
• 1:13:08
  They're keeping the land in Jewish hands.
• 1:13:10
  This is what we were talking about, something that the Jewish
• 1:13:13
  nation has not been able to do for two.
• 1:13:16
  Things, yeah, because we appreciate it.
• 1:13:17
  It's one of the things also, like you were saying, the Arabs
• 1:13:20
  had, you know, Israel and whatever you want to call it
• 1:13:22
  prior to Israel. I don't know.
• 1:13:24
  I don't know how long for at least 1000 years, maybe less.
• 1:13:27
  From the 500. What they do with it, It was a
• 1:13:30
  barren, desecrate land. When the Jews found it, they it
• 1:13:33
  was like they didn't really care about it.
• 1:13:35
  And you know what it is like it's that famous story when you
• 1:13:37
  know the the queen, you have to a husband or wife, you know, and
• 1:13:40
  it's like they're arguing over a child and then the Queen's.
• 1:13:43
  All right, here's how I'm going to make a decision is we're
• 1:13:46
  going to take this child and it's, you know, we're going to
• 1:13:48
  live by me for. And the mother's like, no, no,
• 1:13:49
  no, on the fast. OK, I'll take that.
• 1:13:51
  Live by you for two days as long as I get.
• 1:13:53
  And she's like, the mother should have it because you are
• 1:13:55
  clearly more attached to this child.
• 1:13:57
  You weren't willing to give it up.
• 1:13:58
  The Jewish people are attached to it because look how we took
• 1:14:01
  this and we blossomed into this amazing country.
• 1:14:04
  Meanwhile, the Arabs, they did nothing.
• 1:14:05
  With it, in 2005 the Jews were expelled from Bush Qatif.
• 1:14:10
  They were. They were.
• 1:14:10
  I think there were 21 Jewish communities there.
• 1:14:12
  They were the whole bug free industry street came from there.
• 1:14:16
  All the you know the lettuce and broccoli and cauliflower that
• 1:14:19
  will bug free came from there. It was also Israeli largest flat
• 1:14:23
  exporting export of flowers. It built up the land and I'm not
• 1:14:27
  going to go into the whole thing and that was called the Gaza
• 1:14:29
  disengagement Plan 2005. Everybody was what did the Arabs
• 1:14:34
  do with that land since 2005? Move their rockets in to shoot
• 1:14:38
  at the stay road and to shoot it at at Jewish communities.
• 1:14:41
  So who loves the land and who just wants to?
• 1:14:44
  And this is what we're talking about.
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  But This is why we need to take control and Misrata Hashem bring
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  the dream of Jewish redemption closer.
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  That's right. There it is, there it is.
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  You got it. You're ready.
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  Before we wrap up, do you have any questions for us?
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  Here's my one question for you. When you come to Israel and
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  you're gonna have your podcast in Israel, you're gonna sit in
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  the same chairs or you're gonna switch.
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  So I go to Israel a lot and I I I usually get a guest Co host to
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  do podcasts. Maybe you'll be a guest Co host
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  with me and we can my pleasure behind someone.
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  Seriously, give me a call. I'm not saying this.
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  Yeah, I'm telling you I'm. Gonna take you up on your.
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  I will take you around this and you will see things, yeah, that
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  you've never seen before. Yeah.
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  You know what's amazing? I have to tell you?
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  I, I go to Israel a few times a year.
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  Every time that happens to me. That's what I love about the
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  country. Every time I go, no matter how
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  small it is and the size of New Jersey, like you mentioned
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  before, I always find new, unique, interesting, uplifting,
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  fascinating things. And what a country, beautiful
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  country. And, and, and, and I have to
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  tell you, by the way, we're not one of the two shules that bless
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  the Medina of the country, but we are one of the many shules
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  that bless the army and we do it.
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  And there's a tremendous distinction.
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  I just don't want to forget to talk about it for 10 seconds.
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  The issue with blessing the Medina is you're blessing the
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  government, which, you know, like that's what it feels like.
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  And I've heard that a lot many times.
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  Like, you know, it's one thing to bless the soldiers and make
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  sure they're protected and give our prayers to them.
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  But the government itself in America, we're like, we'll,
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  we'll focus on the soldiers and the people rather than the
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  governance of what's happening there.
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  That's. Very weak.
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  All right, I accept it. I can only tell you one thing in
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  conclusion is that when the government is not doing well,
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  that's when they need your blessing.
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  Of course. OK, OK, I get it.
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  I get it. I appreciate that.
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  Finally, before we let you go, we also have a question.
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  Who do you think would fit well in that seat?
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  And maybe that's someone that we would invite here to to
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  participate on this podcast. I don't know if he'll come out
• 1:16:40
  here, but if you can, bring Rough Moshe Weinberger, who's
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  the Ravin Aish Kodesh in the Sholin Woodmere, Long Island.
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  What? What a amazing suggestion.
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  Do you have his number? I have his number.
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  Can you call him for us? I will call him for you and I
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  will tell him to come here because he will talk about the
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  things much better than I can. By the way, no comparison.
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  And I think you did a great job. But that's on my level.
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  He's 100 levels above. Well, Aish Kodesh is a is a
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  special place and in many people's.
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  Right. You bring Ramesha Weinberger
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  here and you'll know what I'm talking about, all right?
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  Listen, if you can get him here, I will accept him with open
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  arms. He's someone who's making a
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  kiddush shasham every single day, sanctifying God's name and
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  the work that he does. Excellent reputation, community
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  builder and amazing human being and and community there.
• 1:17:30
  So would love to see that happen.
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  I'm not going to have you call him right now because you know,
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  that's not respectful to his time.
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  Forget about ours, but I hope you can make it happen.
• 1:17:41
  Thank you for joining us. Really appreciate it.
• 1:17:43
  Did not see that this was conversation was going to be,
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  you know, heading this way. I enjoyed it to be honest with
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  you. I think it was a learning
• 1:17:50
  experience. I think also my take away from
• 1:17:52
  this is talk about it more. But I think the message is focus
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  on the national side of our religion, sure, not just the
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  individual, the communal focus on the national side.
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  And I would say go there more, spend more time there and
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  appreciate the values. That are to the nation.
• 1:18:09
  Absolutely. I appreciate that message.
• 1:18:11
  A lot of resonates well with me. And again, thank you to our
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  subscribers, our listeners, our followers.
• 1:18:16
  Thank you to the Prime Source production team.
• 1:18:19
  We appreciate you following us and growing with us.
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  That's a wrap. That's a wrap.
• 1:18:23
  Wow. Thank you.