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Rabbi Moshe Haber -The Hidden Hand: Purim Lessons in Modern Divine Providence 3.1.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  I like to share a little bit of a perspective, I guess try to
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  understand a little bit what's going on.
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  What are you related obviously, because the timing is
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  incredible. What are you related?
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  And also there are really three parts.
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  What are you learning from this, from what you're seeing?
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  What messages is sent to us as the second part?
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  And thirdly, I believe the biggest question is what are you
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  supposed to do about this? What's our role?
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  So first, the first part is this.
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  The governor of in the honest Piyusha Mihila has the most
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  beautiful explanation to the entire Mihilat this day.
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  It's beautiful because what he does is that he weaves every
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  single detail together in perfect form.
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  That means like this, you know what we said just now
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  downstairs, haha. There's a major law in Nikila,
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  very difficult on Nikila, which is that you're not allowed.
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  You cannot miss one single word. It's an impossible law to keep
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  almost as a very hardly. And we do it.
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  Why is it the case of all topics?
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  You can't miss a single solitary words.
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  It a little bit over the top. The rabbis tell us, they go on a
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  villa tells us, because the story in the Gila that is thin,
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  every single detail is the hand of Hashem, and everything plays
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  into each other in perfect form. So if you pull out one line, you
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  pull out one word, you miss one part of the story, you miss the
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  whole movie, you miss everything and you miss one part of the
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  story, the whole thing's out. For example, how about the way
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  it opens up Dwayne the Mikhila opens up is that by even during
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  the time with his king, he is the king who was the king of an
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  entire 127 countries. It's a massive world by Amim
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  Mahim during that time, Kisheva Tamila Hafiz Shirosh.
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  We know the Basuk al Qiser Malhoto as he sat on his throne.
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  I shall be Shoshana Bida in the city of Shoshana.
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  The Basuk says as he sat on his throne.
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  He then threw a party which means while he reigned king the
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  third year of his reign. What does it mean as he sat on
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  his throne? What's an interesting way of
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  talking you should just say during those years as he was
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  king, why as he sat in his throne and why tell me where his
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  throne was? Says the Gala Nevama.
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  This is a classic example of a concept and a thread you'll see
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  throughout. And that is he's just like this
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  reality. Shushan was not a royal city.
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  Shushan was not your classic capital.
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  What was it? It was a walled city.
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  As we know from the Halaq of Mcgillah, it's a walled city.
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  World cities are not where you house a capital.
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  Capital is supposed to be a place of bravado, a capitals.
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  You put a place of display, of strength.
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  World City means you're scared, it means a fortress, it means
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  the Army base. So he says, what was you, Sean?
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  World city #1 not the place to have a capital.
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  Number two, it was the main headquarters of the Jewish
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  people #3 totally not the place for this king.
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  So was that wall city? Jerusalem was a wall city, yes.
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  I mean, it's capital also. Fair question.
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  So he said like this, he says. So why they use?
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  Why was Akash resting here? Why was you living here?
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  Because of Kisem Malhoto, because of his throne.
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  He says very clearly that the Akashvash was very much obsessed
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  with Sholomoir Medalistrone and he wanted to make a carbon copy
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  of the same throne. And he has carpenters who
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  happened to work in the city of Shushan and they built that
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  beautiful throne. It took a long time.
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  That's why he started. He of his ring took a very long
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  time. They built the throne with the
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  intention of lifting up that throne and moving it to a
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  classic capital. Problem was too heavy, couldn't
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  budget. So because he couldn't move his
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  throne, he settled there, and he built his palace around that
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  throne and became that the story of when he was in the city of
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  Shushan, it so happens to be that other people lived in
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  Shushan. Who's the other people?
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  The Jewish headquarters #1 and #2 Mordechai and Ested.
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  Mordechai Ested. And the story of pudding happens
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  in Shushan. It only happened because they
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  live in Shushan. So God brought a Hashirosh to
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  the city of Shushan to settle there, to throw the party which
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  made our people sin, but also to be close to as there and then
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  Mordechai, which created our salvation.
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  Just a class, one example of a random detail that plays no
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  role. He sat on his throne, but it
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  plays every role. That's one example.
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  And that's why he says you can't miss a word.
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  Is he miss a word? You miss the whole movie, you
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  miss the whole story. What is the Nihilat?
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  That said, why is it so powerful?
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  The Loys? We know when Mashiach comes,
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  many things will be changed. Many things to our story and our
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  calendar year will be changed. The one thing that is brought
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  down will never be changed is the holiday of Poudin.
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  One second you're telling me Pesach is in question.
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  You're telling me Yom Kippur, maybe I don't know about Yom
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  Kippur, might also be in question.
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  But Poudin or rabbinic holiday and me get out there a a letter
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  written by a woman, right? Years later, or she had it
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  written. Those are the things that are
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  going to last forever. What's up shop?
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  Because the message of Purim and the message of this Migila
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  writes the rabbi, is maybe the most important message that you
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  need to know, no matter what time history.
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  And that message is every single tiny detail that you witness
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  going on in the world is being orchestrated by God.
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  Every single detail, the strings are being pulled by Hashem in
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  every single way. And that includes what happens
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  in the world when it happens, how it happens, who it relate
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  to, it all is being orchestrated by Hashem.
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  Telling you this now as a little bit of my humble opinion of
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  perspective of what you're witnessing or you're witnessing
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  right now. It's both amazing and also a
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  little bit scary. As you know from the news more
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  recently, what you're witnessing is incredible, but it's
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  specifically incredible because of the way it's happening.
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  The timing is something unbelievable.
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  Look at the timing. Yesterday's Pashad Zahor, Pashad
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  Amalek were during the time of pouring where our people have to
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  deal and fight with those in Persia.
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  Haman. I mean, the the destroyer of
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  Purim is in Persia in Iran, where more the Highness did bury
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  in Iran. That is the headquarters of all
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  this Persians. And it's an unbelievable turn of
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  events for this to happen at the same timing and the overall
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  picture over the last few years since I basically October 7th.
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  You can go back that far, which has led to what we're holding
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  today. A crazy amount of turn of
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  events, bad leading to good leading to bad leading to good
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  leading to bed. And the entire world as you know
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  it knew it five years ago. There's 100% change, especially
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  the entire world when it comes to the whole issue of terrorism.
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  I'm not saying it's better yet, but I am saying the entire
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  landscape has been changed and there's so many degrees of hands
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  of ashamed. You can watch and you can see.
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  And if you see one thing led to another thing led to another
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  thing, you can see, for example, it's one example, our current
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  president lost his second term. He lost out during that time.
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  If he won that term, he wouldn't be around today as president.
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  Sorry, there's only two terms right now.
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  That's an incredible thing. So you maybe October 7th would
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  never have happened if he was president.
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  You can go on and on with this picture, but one thing is clear.
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  What we're seeing right now would not be happening the way
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  the world picture right now is on display.
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  It would not be happening if things worked out the way we
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  wanted and our mind back then. It's just one example.
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  Or the fact that Netanyahu lost many years ago and he was out of
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  office for a long time and now he's back.
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  Now, it's a very strange thing. He's the longest lasting Israeli
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  Prime Minister. It's a very strange thing that
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  he's still in power. There are many, many, many
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  people who are trying to get him out of power through all the
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  different ways. Both these men, both these men
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  have faced endless legal battles when it comes to their positions
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  in power. And both these men are right now
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  in unison, in power at the same time doing things to the world
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  the world has never seen. These things are completely
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  unimaginable. You can look back in the history
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  of books and look back at this time and say, I do not
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  understand how it's possible that a world which has such
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  unbelievable animosity told the Jewish people, a world that is
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  such unbelievable animosity to our president, somehow, some way
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  allows this to happen in front of their face.
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  Any when it happens, they kind of go silent.
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  It doesn't really add up. None of this stuff adds up.
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  And all you can stop and say is it's all the hand of Hashem over
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  and over and over again. How about the fact that they
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  actually had a meeting? Are they out of their minds?
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  Well, they clearly are. They had a meeting.
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  These people don't. They know didn't You knew you
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  read the news, you knew it was coming.
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  I predicted it on Friday night. I told my wife.
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  I said it's happening tomorrow. I was wrong because it happened
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  that night. But it's super a fact.
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  You can read the things. You know what happens on a
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  Saturday. You know everything that they
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  did was on a Saturday. You know that.
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  You can read that. You can read that.
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  They gave up on the diplomacy. The whole diplomacy was a
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  sketch. You all knew that the whole
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  thing was a sketch and we're just buying time to everyone
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  knew this and they in their crazy mind decided to have that
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  meeting and they decided to still have that crazy to
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  bravado. Stop and think about where all
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  these people are right now. They're all gone, all in every
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  single name that you that I grew up hearing every single name 1
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  after the other after they're all gone.
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  It's unbelievable turn of events and this is all literally the
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  hand of Hashem happening in a crazy way.
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  So the reason you read in the Gila after Mashiach comes more
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  than anything else, the reason the holiday of Pourim is the
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  main holiday to survive because it's the one that you see
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  strings being pulled, every detail being perfected, the
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  timing is everything and you see happening and then you end up
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  with the result of seeing a full picture.
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  That's to me, the perspective of what's going on.
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  Part 1, Part 2. That I think is extremely
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  important to realize is this. You name the guy, you name the
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  villain, right? I grew up, we all grew up with
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  Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, the guy Nasrallah, right?
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  Other guy. Now this guy, Ahmadinejad,
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  exactly Khomeini, all these people.
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  You go on and on and on. You can go with the guy Gaddafi.
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  You give me the name, right? Then you have more.
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  All these guys, every single one of these guys, spent his life
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  with his own arrogance and his own beliefs, spent his life
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  amassing crazy wealth. Crazy wealth.
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  I'm talking about $100 billion. One of these people was worth
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  Khomeini, I believe a quantitative thing is worth $100
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  billion. Unbelievable wealth with oil and
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  everything. Crazy pal, Crazy.
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  They built this whole world. Every single one of these guys I
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  am sure was trying to build for himself this future.
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  You think they really believe what they believe Yes they
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  confused their believes in their religion along with their
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  craziness and overall they were believe building power money,
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  control. They believe they they decide to
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  live this villain of mentality thinking to themselves that's
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  unbelievable. Or the guy who do we October 7th
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  was his name again, that other guy Syn what why his brother,
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  the whole team one by 1:00 every single one of these guys right
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  now they're in the shoot, the ground open up, they're in the
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  shoot and they're still going deeper down on the ground and
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  they're hitting the hottest points in the world.
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  Let's be very real. These people and we don't talk
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  about getting on ever. These people have killed so many
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  people, have so much blood on the hands, have terrorized so
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  many innocent beautiful people. Our front of the one that all
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  just keep going down and down and down.
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  They just yelling at screaming when do we hit the ground?
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  Because they haven't hit the ground yet.
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  They're still going deeper. So they build this whole massive
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  power and wealth and everything, and they got nothing, 0 no
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  future, no children, no legacy, no history of books of
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  positivity, no power, no money, nothing.
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  And it's an unbelievable turn of events to watch how Hashem
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  allows it that justice. Really, it happens more than you
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  think. We think of these villains
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  because they terrorize us for 20 years, 30 years, however long.
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  You hear about these names and you think like they're getting
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  away with it. You see these guys, like right
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  now, there's still a couple of guys left in the world and
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  they're getting away with it. No one gets away with it.
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  It it takes 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, maybe they even live
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  out their life. Not one of these people gets
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  away with it and they all end up with eternal Gehenam.
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  Eternal. That means for thousands and
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  thousands and thousands of years, millions of years, these
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  people will be spinning and boiling hot fires.
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  It's an unbelievable thing to think that they did something
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  terrible. They spent 20-30 years thinking
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  they're on top of the world and they're nowhere.
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  And it's a, you see justice and you appreciate justice.
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  The Third Point and at this, that second point to me is very
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  valuable because it allows you to live life the right way.
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  When you start to realize that the evil really do get their
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  time eventually. It takes time, but they get some
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  of them live it out. Some of them actually, you know,
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  do die in their bed, but doesn't make a difference.
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  They all end up in the same place and you're seeing what
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  does that mean? Every dog has his day.
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  Every dog is having his day right now.
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  These dogs are having their days, that's for sure.
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  Finally, after you get excited and you get emotional and you
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  appreciate and you I was glued to the news.
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  I'll be honest with you. After you get excited, you have
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  to realize the final fact. The main thing after all this is
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  for us, it's all about the Jewish people.
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  It's always been, it always has been, always will be.
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  The idea that the United States president is so obsessed, it
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  seems with things that relate to us.
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  It's an unbelievable time of events.
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  It doesn't really make sense. He's busier.
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  That's why we'll have all these, you know, I want to call them
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  the name and these people that are, you know, very busy with
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  domestic and they're officially anti with libertarian.
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  You want to call them whatever you want to call them.
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  They can't understand, they can't stomach the fact that
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  here's our guy who's conservative, who's pro America.
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  His thing was mega make America great again, all about America.
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  And yet all he's doing it seems is doing things a lot of things
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  are international. He understands it relates to
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  America too, but we understand that it relates more to the
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  Jewish people than it does America.
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  And the fact of the matter is that this man in power today,
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  who God should bless him because the things he's doing for the
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  Jewish people, really he deserves more credit than many
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  Jews. He's an unbelievable existence
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  right now. Whoever is in his mind, whoever
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  is helping him along, Hashem is giving Siazza Deshmaya to the
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  world that the world has hasn't seen in a long time.
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  But this man is busier with the Jewish people and our outcome
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  than he is with American domestic, whatever is going on.
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  And it's an unbelievable turn of events, all Hashem.
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  It's crazy. But the point is that are all
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  relate to us and the overall outcome is supposed to be that
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  we do something different because of the overall theme.
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  After you get excited and emotional and wowed and can't
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  believe you were missing living the day to watch us.
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  The final point is it's meant for us and meant for us could be
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  a bangy chest, but meant for us more importantly means you do
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  something about it. Which means if after all this
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  settles and there's the same discord in Israel between the
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  two sides, that's a problem. If the all, after all this
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  settles and no one stops and turns to Hashem and says, thank
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  you God that I got the witnesses, that's a problem.
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  After after all this settles, we don't pray harder for our
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  brethren in Israel who are suffering, who are dealing with
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  tragedy, who are dealing with missiles, who are dealing with
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  terror and say to Hashem, please and this forever, let this go
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  away. Let the style go away.
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  Let the world become a more peaceful place.
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  If we don't pray hard enough, that's a problem because the
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  overall theme after all the beauty and the excitement and
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  the good feel, the you know, the good feel is the overall theme
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  is a weak change. We connect, we recognize God
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  doesn't do open miracles that often.
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  Well, your witnessing one way or another is an open, absolutely
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  open turn of events. These people prepared for this.
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  They were ready for this and they still lost everything.
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  They spent billions and billions and billions of dollars on a
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  nuclear thing and they still lost it.
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  They wanted to become all powerful, to run the world, what
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  they try to do, and they still lost it.
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  It's a crazy, miraculous turn of events and it's meant for us to
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  respond. And you think to yourself, what
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  can my response be? I'm a regular small potato in a
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  very big fontless pond. How can I make a major
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  difference? Very simple.
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  If you do something in your mind that's a little bit Shalom
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  related, which means you know there are people on a different
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  side of the opinions, right? I don't agree when it comes to
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  the whole Israel scene. There are a lot of sites and a
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  lot of times these sides get me nervous both ways, right?
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  But if you in your mind, you say let people have their opinions
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  and they're not the all agree. But I wish there can be some
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  degree of Shalom and I can see someone that's not exactly the
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  same way of thinking as myself, and I'd like it to be that
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  everyone gets along. Sounds cheesy, it sounds
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  kumbaya, it sounds like it's not going to happen.
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  Doesn't matter if your hope is for Shalom.
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  That right there made a difference.
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  If you pray for every single Israeli, regardless of where he
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  lives, they make a difference. If it's Vinay, Barack, or Telavi
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  makes 0 difference to you. A Jew is a Jew and you're
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  praying for them. If that's your emotion, mission
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  accomplished. If you start to do things and
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  you say to yourself, listen, Hashem is clearly, clearly doing
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  my Shia time stuff. There's no question about it.
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  I'm not saying my Shia is coming tomorrow.
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  I'm not one of those guys, but Hashem is definitely doing
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  things that are as big as they get.
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  He looked from the from the aerial view of history, he
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  looked down 1 by 1, taking down the enemy of the Jews, 1 by 1,
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  something's happening, right? And say it's like, OK, if
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  something's happening, it's meant for me to do a little more
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  to Shiva. To get close to college and try
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  to become a better person one way or another.
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  If you recognize and you respond, then this is literally
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  that. You respond, then mission
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  accomplished. If you don't respond, how you
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  just keep glue to the news and you enjoy yourself because it is
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  kind of cool. That's great.
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  That's not the goal. The goal is not for the Jewish
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  people to be the most powerful seeming people on earth, which
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  is what we see right now. There's no question about it.
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  Everyone knows Israel's behind this, and everyone knows that
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  every single terrorist right now is shaking in their pants.
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  There's no question. Every single terrorist in the
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  world and pretty much every evil person in the world is shaking
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  in their face. That means the men in Russia to
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  the men in China to the men everywhere.
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  They're all shaking because they all know at any point in time
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  they can be taken. It's clear they can be taken at
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  any point in time. No matter how powerful they
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  build up themselves, they know it could be them next.
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  Not saying it's going to happen, but they know it.
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  That's a crazy cool turn of events, but at the same time,
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  that's not the goal. You feel good about it, but the
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  real goal is the main goal is to see Hashem's hand, appreciate
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  the hand of God, to recognize that I believe very important to
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  internalize the fact that justice really is served.
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  More than we talk about. We always think that people get
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  away with things one by one. Every name that you grew up
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  knowing, they're all gone and they all still, they're going to
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  be gone for a million years. That's how bad it is.
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  And finally, the real ultimate purpose of all these things
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  doesn't seem that way because the news is not talking to us.
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  No one's addressing you and I. But the truth is Hashem is
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  addressing us directly and telling us.
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  Do you think the small little move putting this coming, that's
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  the time of friendship. Get along with the next guy.
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  Have in mind that you wish every single Jew in this major
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  discord, everyone got along. I don't care about the divide.
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  I don't care about the politics. I just care about the fact that
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  people get along. It doesn't mean everyone has to,
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  you know, doesn't mean you have a yeshiva that combines one type
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  and another type. Doesn't mean that.
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  It just means you don't care for the venom and the hate and the
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  fight and you wish for a degree of Shalom.
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  You have that in your heart. You have that in your mind.
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  Mission accomplished. That's the goal.
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  I believe my humble opinion, stop with this.