“The water became as a wall for them” – this is written twice, because Datan and Aviram split the sea a second time.
Datan and Aviram said, for sure, we are greater than Moshe Rabbenu!
After all, the sea split for them, too. They didn’t want to leave [Mitzrayim with the rest of Am Yisrael]. They said, we aren’t going to go with Moshe, we aren’t ‘chassidim’ of Moshe, we aren’t Shuvu Banim, we aren’t crazies. We are normal. We aren’t going to the desert. Who is going to bring them water?!
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A person all by themselves doesn’t go to the desert.
There is the desert of death in Nevada, the desert of death there, in Los Angeles, Death Valley. People enter, they don’t know how to leave it. Even now, bein hazmanim, in a little while it will be bein hazmanim, the 2nd of Av – it’s forbidden to go on tiyulim.
They go to Ein Gedi, and they make a mistake about the way – there’s a desert there, where people simply die in it. Only if there is an helicopter accompanying you. The helicopter should accompany them the whole night, he’ll tell them where they are located.
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Just now, a pilot fell in the war.
Now, Trump said there will be no more war [with Iran], gomarnu, we’re folding.
Qatar and Bahrain influenced him, give the Iranians what they want! They deserve it.
In the end, they are smarter than Trump. They made an agreement with them – they got everything. It’s forbidden for the Jews to return fire. They fire in the morning, they fire on Shlomi[1] and Metulla.
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Shlomi – the Rabbanit was there for a whole year.
She over-turned the whole of Shlomi, it was already all just chilonim, because they took all the children.
They drove to Shomera – this is after Shlomi, even more North, they wasn’t a single religious person there. I transformed the whole place.
They used to come from the kibbutzim with trucks and buses, to take the children on Shabbat for tiyulim, or to soccer games. They took the kids, the kids that came from Morocco, they came from Tunisia, from Algeria.
They came from all different places – and they drew them away. The parents saw that they they’d taken their kids away, gomarnu.
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There was one man, Dubrovnik, he brought down in the book “Ha Ish Al HaHoma” that there was a journey of the rabbanim, that began on Chayei Sarah.
It was 30 days, they went to Afula, they went to Yavniel, they went to Kfar Tavor. And they went on foot from Kfar Tavor, they went on foot to Yavniel. And they rode on horses – the big rabbis, HaRav Yosef Sonnenfeld, and the Rav Kook.
Everybody rode on a horse, they went along the whole Jezreel Valley, Balforia, and the whole of Eretz Yisrael from Rehavia – all the moshavim.
And they spoke, and everyone was already without kippas, they’d become chilonim and they’d thrown everything away.
They went to the moshavim – there were no rabbis [there], they’d thrown everything away.
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And then, there was such a great awakening.
If you do a journey like that, everyone will become religious. Just when they got to Degania, Moshe Dayan was born. Moshe Dayan was born precisely when they got to Degania, [R Sonnenfeld and R Kook] were at his bris.
He writes in the book there, we were at the bris of Moshe Dayan in Degania, when he was born.
His mother was called Rivka. They really were at the bris.
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And exactly then, two people were killed.
Two watchmen, they were called notrim (watchmen). They Arabs managed to kill them, like Alexander Zaid.
Alexander Zaid – he has a huge statue in the Jezreel Valley. He was the first watchman, he organised the watchmen, and the guards, he organised everything.
Alexander Zaid.
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There is Beit Yosef, Yad Yosef – every place where it’s written ‘Yosef’, it’s after Yosef Trumpeldor.
Now, 11 Adar, was his yahrtzeit. He died in 1920, because the Circassians delivered up Tel Hai.
They brought Circassians to guard the new settlers – and they delivered up Tel Hai. They opened the gates, and the Arabs entered and murdered everyone. Not a single person remained alive.
And like this, they wanted to destroy the yishuv.[2]
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Because there was the Balfour Declaration.
The Balfour Declaration was on November 2, 1917, and then the English tried to take it back. They said that it was a mistake.
This isn’t correct, James Rothschild loaned him a lot of money. The Rothschilds lent Balfour a lot of money. Ben Sasson explained this to me, so then they gave the Declaration to James Rothschild[3].
They gave the Declaration, that they are obligated to found a ‘national home’ [for the Jews] and to obtain agreements to do this.
Excerpted and translated from Shivivei Or # 463.
This is old footage from 1932, showing Alexander Zaid at home, and also settlers of Kfar Giladi:
