Excerpt of a shiur given by Rav Berland on November 17th, 2024 in Tiveria.

Part 1 is HERE.

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In Kaplan, they dressed the women in red robes, that now, if there will be here dati’im (religious Jews), so then everyone is going to be ‘maidservants’.

Once upon a time, maidservants used to wear red dresses. So the people in Kaplan, for three or four months, came to protest with the women wearing red dresses. Because now, the dati’im are about to start ruling here, all of them with beards, all of them with payot!!

They are going out of their minds.

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Now, they already want to get rid of her. The soton, the shrew….

The soton itself. She didn’t let any aircraft take off – not a plane!

People didn’t understand why they were breaking the fence for 45 minutes, breaking it down with a bulldozer….

Within 15 seconds, an aircraft could have come and blown it up, what’s the problem?!

No. Because […] she said that it’s stam, just some hooligans who are breaking the fence there.

I know!! It’s just hooligans, so everything’s OK!!!!! We’ll manage them. Just for that, you need to bring aircraft?!

She didn’t permit any aircraft to take off until 4pm [on October 7th]. That’s when the first aircraft participated.

This is the explanation about the aircraft, for how come there were no planes?!

You are on Ramat David, you are situated [in the area] of training base 4, an airplane can take off within three seconds, and within another three seconds it can already be on the border it’s meant to be defending – to explode that bulldozer, that’s destroying the fence.

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Around 1,000 white vehicles entered [with terrorists], they came in.

In Sderot, they conquered the police. [Either] there were no bullets, or they’d sent the army away.

All of this is Gallant, and Herzi HaLevi. They already got rid of Gallant, gomarnu (it’s over). It was already impossible to tolerate this. And Herzi HaLevi, who is still the Ramatkal – he is responsible for everything that is happening here.

He emptied out the army, took the guns.

They got to the armoury – there wasn’t a single gun. And whoever had a gun, this was without bullets. It was forbidden to have bullets.

What, that some poor Arab will come along, and some soldier will fire upon him?!

They took the bullets away from everyone.

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The rekaz (defense coordinator) of Kissufim didn’t agree to give up the bullets.

He was left with 15 bullets – the rekaz of Kissufim, the emergency response team. The day before, they dismantled all the emergency response teams.

When they got to the security guard [?] they shot him, they came straight in. And the gates were open. Only by the religious kibbutzim were the gates closed.

So, [in kibbutzim] Sa’ad and Yachin, everyone was saved. And Alumim and Kfar Maimon – this is all dati residents, everyone was saved. Because the gates were closed.

Whoever had their gates open, they came straight in and destroyed 50 houses, they destroyed everyone.

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So in Sderot [on Simchat Torah] there remained seven policemen, and one police woman, who kept Shabbat. Because everyone else [had been given a holiday]. It was Simchat Torah, so they sent everyone away.

She said, I’m staying – and she had seven bullets, altogether, and another eight bullets. Altogether, this is eight policemen times 7 [bullets], this is 56 bullets. This is what they had.

Then, 500 terrorists came. They shot 56, but 500 came. More and more and more just kept coming, they conquered the police. The police was conquered for four days – until they blew [the police station] up.

It was impossible to re-conquer it. This is all because they took the bullets away from everyone.

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So Kissufim was the only [secular] place where the terrorists didn’t manage to enter, because the rekaz didn’t agree to give them up, the rekaz of the response team.

They came from behind the fence, they came and chopped down the fence, they broke it, they hacked it. 500 terrorists came from there. The rekaz only had 15 bullets. 15 bullets!!

He took down 15 people, this is what there was left for him to do.

So, they prosecuted him for the 15. Only 7 is allowed, 5 is allowed.

They are still prosecuting him. In the end, they will give him 15 life sentences. How did you still have 15 bullets left?! [The AG] doesn’t allow people to carry bullets!

An army without bullets. It’s the most pitiful army in the world. An army without bullets.

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So, they conquered the whole of the South within a day, in a single hour.

They conquered the whole of the South!

But they didn’t manage to enter Kissufim. Mefalsim was entered. Mefalsim is in the North [of the Gaza Envelope], Kissufim is in the South (of the Gaza Envelope) – it’s more South than Netivot.

And so in Kissufim, he took down 15. They didn’t know that he only had 15 [bullets] – the arabs. They saw that he’d shot down 15, everyone else ran away. They thought maybe he had 500 bullets, or a thousand bullets.

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So, Kissufim was the only [secular] place where the terrorists didn’t get in – Kerem Shalom also.

The security team didn’t agree to be dismantled. They said, everyone is being retired, go home, it’s the holiday, you aren’t needed. There is no wars, the Hamas is a boobie (dolly) – the real problem is with the charedim!

But not with the Hamas. There is no problem at all with the Hamas.

The problem is with the charedim, who don’t want to enlist, they just don’t want to,

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[People] say, that the chareidim are ready to enlist at every second!

[Just] get rid of the girls [in the army], and make the food kosher, then everyone will enlist. 90% want to enlist, it’s impossible to learn for 24 hours a day. So, learning for 8 hours, 8 hours serving in the army, what’s the worst that can happen? They’ll shoot a few Arabs.

So, 90% of the yeshiva bochurs truly want to enlist, this is the simple fact. Just, they aren’t giving them the conditions.

The whole purpose [of the chilonim] is to [use the army] to make them secular. This is the problem.

They don’t need the [chareidi] soldiers, they just want to turn them into chilonim.

There [in the army], a person already doesn’t have Torah, he doesn’t have anything. And he is surrounded by girls, and they teach them how to be seductive.

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Why did they kill the Midianites (after the sin at Shittim)?

Because they were seductrices. [That’s why Hashem said about the seven Canaanite nations]:

“Rather, you shall utterly destroy them.”[1]

Because the Canaanites used to teach their daughters how to seduce men. So, [the Children of Israel] had to kill all the women. So, why didn’t they kill the Moabitesses? Moav wasn’t killed, only the Midianites.

Because in Moav, they stood with swords – it’s written that every father stood over his daughter with a sword. If you don’t go [and seduce the Israelites] I’m going to kill you! Go and seduce the Jews![2]

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[In Shittim] 24,000 died.

[They were the residents of the city of Shechem who had been killed by Shimon and Levy], and reincarnated as the Tribe of Shimon. They were the people of Shechem. In Shechem there were 24,000.

For one girl, you kill 24,000 people?

For one girl?!

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[Skipping a short discussion about how the Chiddushei HaRim explains that Shimon and Levi gave a barmitzvah drasha explaining how they were allowed, halachically, to kill the people of Shechem over the kidnapping and rape of Dina.]

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Now, it’s already 411 days [since the hostages were kidnapped].

Tunnels just half a metre high, that’s where the unfortunate girls are lying, without food, half a pita a day, without water.

It’s impossible to describe the suffering. I don’t know how they are even managing to survive, or if they are going to be ‘normal’ by the end [of their ordeal].

[The original transcriber speculates in square brackets that Hamas is asking for control over the Philadelphia Corridor in return for releasing the hostages.]

[But really], they want Bnei Brak. They want Tel Aviv. The Philadelphia Corridor – what is this, the ‘Philadelphia Corridor’? It’s really Tel Aviv. [I.e. if they rule over the Philadelphia Corridor, they can also get to Tel Aviv.]

[From] the Philadelphia Corridor to Tel Aviv is 100km, it’s 20 seconds.

They have no end of rockets.

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Hezbollah has 150,000 rockets left.

They had a million, they have 150,000 rockets left. If they [fire] 100 rockets a day, this is 1,500 days [until they use everything up]. This is five years.

And if they fire 200 [rockets a day], this is two and a half years, that they can keep firing at here.

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Now, that Hochstein came. He said, accept it with love for two years, what’s the worst that can  happen?! Just put your head down a bit, and stop with all your arrogance.

But Trump says he was just elected…But we need to wait another 60 days. He said [to Israel] you can do what you want.

Now, Biden doesn’t agree.

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[The US] also needs to send the bulldozers – 130.

And the soldiers are entering into houses, and all the buildings are full of terrorists, full of booby traps. They are operating them with a remote control. It’s enough just have some long thread that you don’t even see it, and another six [soldiers] are killed in Lebanon.

They go into a house full of terrorists, they go in, [because otherwise] how can you check, if there are terrorists there, or there aren’t terrorists there?!

They go in – and then they depart, al kiddush Hashem.

OK, they’re in Gan Eden – [but] we want them here! They go to Gan Eden, they learn Torah straight from HaKadosh Baruch Hu, [to be killed] al kiddush Hashem is the highest thing, but we want them to stay alive!

We don’t want the soldiers to die, God forbid.

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So, [the Americans], they don’t allow the bulldozers to take the houses down from outside. [Then] you wouldn’t need to have a booby trap [to take the house down, saving Jewish lives.]

So there are 130 bulldozers, we already paid for them, but Biden is not agreeing to send them. You are going to destroy the houses of Arabs!

This is the simple fact.

You aren’t with the program, you are staying there in Gaza. Where do you come from? You have no idea what is going on!

So, 130 bulldozers are standing there, they should have arrived already.

But with these, you are destroying houses, just like that, like a house of cards.

130 bulldozers, that can take down a whole house. But Biden isn’t prepared [to let this happen]. What, you are tearing down houses of Arabs!

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Devarim 20:17.

[2] I.e. because the Moabite girls were forced into seducing the Jews against their will, they weren’t condemned to death for their actions.

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