Jerusalem Day

I said, "Yeah." He goes, "Man, there was that big...

It's called Jerusalem Day.

All these young people march into Jerusalem and flags." He goes, "I was there at that parade watching this happen, and the, the soldiers came up to me, the Israeli soldiers with the guns, and there was, like, three of them around me.

And they were like, "What are you doing here? Where's your passport? Who are you?"" And he said, "They were just questioning me, and they were surrounding me, and I'd forgotten my passport back at the hotel, and they thought I was Palestinian." ...

And the only other covenantal society in modern day history that has come to a covenantal society is the United States of America.

And not only did the 250th rededicate concept and the proclamation for the Sabbath that the President of the United States put out there, it happened for us as Jews in Israel on Jerusalem Day.

reunification of the capital of israel with the state of israel so for me this had to be a divine moment i don't think anybody from from the president's office was telling the president you should just know what you're doing right now is pretty uh prophetic of having the sabbath and we know about the sabbath being the celebration of freedom because in deuteronomy uh in the book of deuteronomy in the repetition of the ten commandments talks about sabbath from the point of view of freedom that no one including those who are indentured servants are supposed to be required to work on the sabbath sabbath becomes the equalizer for everybody so imagine that you're celebrating this rededicate 250th sabbath as freedom for the united states of celebrating freedom and i feel that what's happening in the last few years if you're not within alignment of the god of abraham isaac and jacob and you're in the alignment of secular society you end up playing victim for whatever pharaoh you are choosing to worship

Yeah, it was such a good analogy.

Pesach, Shavuot, Sukkot, we say on Rosh Chodesh.

We say it on Yom Ha'atzmut, Yom Yerushalayim, on special occasion when an individual had a, a great thing happen to him.

The Jews that say rescued from Entebbe.

So they say halal.

And you hope that people read these books and hope to move to Eretz Yisrael.

And when I got introduced to Yisrael, you spoke at the yeshiva I went to on Yom Yerushalayim, and I was like, I have to buy Yisrael.

And this was when I was figuring out, do I want to go back to America? Do I want to stay in Israel? And reading your book on the Parsha every week was a huge piece for me to have that inspiration to say, wow, like this is really where I want to go.

And I'm curious for you of, When you write all these form and put them out, do you hope that it's getting to all those people in America to kind of wake them up in a certain way to say, hey, this is my time to come? Like, what do you feel is, what do you hope that people gain from reading these?

This is where we have to focus.

We have to get these kids when they're here, and that's why.

You know, the main thing that I do now is I teach in one place now, but I go around after Pesach, around the Yomim, right? The Yom HaShoah, Yom Yerushalayim, Yom HaAtzma'ut, that time of year between April and May and June.

go around to the different yeshivot and seminaries i have a relationship with almost every single one of them and i go and i speak and i offer my books for sale and that's to me the most important part of my of my year and and that i live for that i live to be able to offer my sperm for them to buy um and you know to me it's it's a little bit sad that some of these yeshivot do not do not emphasize this i'm not telling you that telling them that that they shouldn't emphasize you know from kite and torah and mitzvot in general of course but you know one of the mitzvot that's equal to all the rest one of the most important mitzvot in the entire torah hands down according to everybody no one will deny that You know, Rav Asher Weiss once gave a shiur, a student of mine was there, and he started the shiur as follows.

And you hope that people read these books and hope to, to move to Eretz Israel.

And, and when I got introduced to your sefarim, you spoke at the yeshiva I went to on Yom Yerushalayim, and I was like, "I have to buy your sefarim." And this was when I was figuring out, do I wanna go back to America? Do I wanna stay in Israel? And reading your book on the Parsha every week was a huge piece for me to have that inspiration to say, "Wow," like, "this is really where I wanna go." And I'm curious for you of when you write all these sefarim and put them out, do you hope that it's getting to all those people in America to kinda wake them up in a certain way? To say, "Hey, this is my time to come." Like, what do you feel is-

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What do you hope that people gain from, from reading these?

This is where we have to focus.

We have to, we have to get these kids when they're here, and that's why.

You know, m- the main thing that I do now is I teach in one place now, but I, I, I go around after Pesach, around the Yomim, right? The Yom Yu- Yo- Yom HaShoah, Yom Yerushalayim, Yom Ha'atzmaut.

That time of year between April and May and June, I go around to the different yeshivot and seminaries.

I also am a Zionist.

I also celebrate Yom Ha'atzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim.

But maybe he just never thought of it because he didn't grow up with it.

But he's like, oh, wow, you know what? I see that.

The rebuilding of the temple, the third temple.

Minister of National Security, we're singing on the Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day, celebrating liberation, celebrating reunification, reunification of the peoplehood with this holy city.

It's not complete yet.

The Jewish capital is still challenged.