Deciphering the Hidden Messages in Israel's Turmoil: Restoring Reverence and Protecting our Sacred Spaces

Have you ever wondered what the ongoing turmoil in Israel could be communicating to us? As we grapple with a world in chaos, we strive to decipher the profound, hidden messages within the current crisis. Together, we attempt to make sense of the unfathomable as we explore the need for self-improvement and the sacredness of our homes and temples that have been violated. This episode takes a unique turn, challenging us to reassess our religious practices and the sanctity of our most sacred places.

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What is Hashem telling us?

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We have gotten such a clop a patch from daddy With now the Asara and the terrorists and the war in Israel.

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Now nearly 1500 are gone, the bloodshed continues, the bombs are falling, there are still hostages and the uncertainty, in the dark cloud, of what will be will things get worse or will they get better is unbearable.

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So im lo achh shov, im osay, hashem is telling us something and we need to improve somewhere.

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The Rambeim, seifer Zamanim and Hilchos Tynus describes how, when there is an Ace-Sara, the elders come together and they learn up the tragedy, they learn up the news, to understand what is the message for the community.

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And here at this time I pray Lo Pansky.

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He humbly and respectfully, quite directly, he told it to us straight.

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He learned up the tragedy and he said over what could be the lesson.

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And here I hope not to step too far, but I want to give it over, try to say it with some zazz and some excitement and something with just to hopefully touch myself and inspire me to be better, and hopefully somebody else will also take from it and hear the message.

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You see, this tragedy was very different.

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It didn't just fire rockets, but they came into our borders.

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They came and infiltrated into our homes and temples.

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They went living room to bedroom, to families.

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They did this at the time when we were all at the highest point of the year, the climax of Rosh Hashanah, and Yaim Kippur, shemini, atsaris and Chastairah were all supposed to be in the shoals.

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Doesn't the detail of even you're supposed to learn up?

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What does a music festival mean?

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That they went there?

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But Lo Pansky described how it seems he stitched the thing, the whole episode, together, and maybe in our territories and our borders and our holiest Makomos, they have some improvements that need to be made.

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We've slipped in some areas.

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He described how our holiest Makomos, our shoals, they're the place that everyone comes together to learn and to dive in.

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It used to be a very formal and strict type of service, but now it's very open and accepting.

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We want people to come back to show, we want to be very inclusive and it should be an exciting place, but we shouldn't forget that it's the house of God.

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The whole goal of Tefila is Omid Luftehamelech, to talk to Hashem, and I'm just going to try to say it as straight forward as possible Is it normal that a man should be standing in front of Hashem in a talus and Tefillin underneath his talus.

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Maybe he is scrolling through social media, or, dare I say, instagram or TikTok, with a totafos on his head.

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Do you even do that, talking to your friend or to your wife?

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Hardly.

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The shoals, they're supposed to be hallowed and sacred.

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They're supposed to the atmosphere.

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What we wear, the halachos, we can't necessarily dive in barefoot, I don't believe, or dive in with a big baggy coat.

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It needs to be that hechon lechras elokecha.

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Our sanctuaries are ohalim.

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They should be sacred and hallowed.

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I don't believe that it is agreed upon by all of the great rabbis that we should just bring our children to shoal to give them a good experience.

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If they're just going to throw cheez-its everywhere and sit there watching Rugrats so nobody else can dive in, I don't know if that's really the law or the right thing to do.

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We may live in hamelech, our kedushah, our place.

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It's all about coming together to make a kiddush Hashem and dive into Hashem to meditate on the words.

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But really, if you're just bringing that device in, if we're just bringing that device in and then you dare answer it in the middle of dovening, or dare respond to a message, or dare not be present in front of the king of the world.

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Maybe it's not so good, maybe there's a time to tune out and maybe that's during Tafila, in our shoals.

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They came into our temples Like in the Chanukah story.

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It was Part zu chai meets mcdala, and now we have to be like the macabre, the macabees, and fight back, and we have to make our sanctuaries holy again, make our shoals holy again and if you need to be social and smooth, then maybe hit the social hall.

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Hopefully, bill them, bill them our Russia.

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He would look down and he would see our shoals and he should say Taka matuva, ohalakha yakav.

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How beautiful the shoals are, but who knows?

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So let us come to Daven and Daven and be present, come together as a tzibor and pray and take the three steps back and put the garter on or dressed apart, whatever you do, but keep the temple a temple and keep our insides, our kadoosha makums, into something that is really still sacred, still hallowed.

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Hopefully I shall see this.

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Our messiahs nephish for this, our improvement, and hopefully we'll all pinch ourselves and be a bad dream and be way, way, way in the past.

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