Excerpt of a shiur given over on 22nd Kislev, 5785, (Dec. 22, 2024) to ANSH from Netivot.

There is a picture of the head of the shevet of the Nazis, of the Germans, eating her husband.[1] There’s a picture, they wanted to destroy the picture, [but] they didn’t succeed.

Now, they already made hundreds of thousands of copies of this. [The Germans] wanted to say that they came from the Finns[2], that they came from the Finns. ‘Iran’ is a name that the Germans gave, because they wanted to say that they were the descendants of the Aryans, of the Persians.

The Persians were already a tribe that was more ‘European’, so they wanted to say that we come from the Persians.

So, they gave the name ‘Iran’. Iran is from the word krina (radiation). The root of ‘ary’ is not from the [root of the word] aryeh (‘lion’), rather, this is radiation. Horon[3] in English is krina (radiation). That we are influenced by the sun.

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Like the Japanese, [who believed] we are influenced by the sun.

When they dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima, no-one knew what this was. Even today, no-one knows what this was…. Some say that it wasn’t even a nuke, it was just stam, something… Stam, 300,000 people were killed.

And now there, people are living there [in Hiroshima] as normal. You can live there, you can buy an apartment there for half price, because only three years [after the end of the war in 1945] was it forbidden to live there. After three years, there was already the possibility of living [there]. We are already 80 years [after Hiroshima].

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Now, there will be a ceremony. On the 27th Iyar, there will be a ceremony, on the 6th of August, and the 9th of August.

On the 17th of August, they were ready to fire the third [bomb at Japan]. Then, Hirohito [the Emperor of Japan] said I am the child of the sun [and I want to surrender].

[Hirohito said:] I was born from the sun. Whoever was at the birth can recall this – how he suddenly fell out of the sun.

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Because by us, they told us that the stork brought the children.

Until his wedding, a man used to believe that he was born from a stork! The stork came – there are whole movies about how the stork used to go along carrying the baby as a package, and used to rest a little on the clouds, on the way, from sheer fatigue.

Afterwards, it would bring the baby in via an open window, suddenly. All of a sudden, a baby is born! And people believed it was like this until the wedding, that he was born from a stork.

So in Japan, they believed that the family of the king – until today, they still believe this – he was created from the sun.

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So there was Togo, he was the Chief of Staff [of the Japanese army].

He was the Finance Minister, like today there is Ramatkal Herzi HaLevi. He evacuated the whole army, sent the army away from the South. For four days, there was no army. They slaughtered as many as they wanted. Four days, until Wednesday morning, there was no army.

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In Kissufim, [the head of the defense team] was left with 15 bullets.

They took all the bullets out of the guns. From 90%, they took away the guns and the bullets. Whoever still had a gun, it didn’t have bullets, because maybe, you’ll fire on some Arab. Or you’ll fire on yourself, sometimes people shoot themselves.

So, they decided to have an army without bullets. You don’t need an army with bullets! The Jews don’t need bullets!

But in Kissufim, they didn’t give up their bullets. And also in Kerem Shalom they didn’t agree to disperse [the security team]. The army retired all the security teams. [But in Kerem Shalom], they didn’t agree to be dispersed.

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When they arrived at 6.30 in the morning [on Simchat Torah], then 500 terrorists showed up.

They made a hole in the fence around Kissufim – Kissufim is the most southern [settlement], it’s more south than Netivot. So, he stood there with 15 bullets – the main security coordinator of Kissufim. In the whole kibbuts, they had 15 bullets. He took down 15 [terrorists], sent them to gehinnom. (I don’t know where he sent them to, I didn’t follow them… He sent them to gehinnom.)

So, he took down 15, and everyone ran away. They didn’t know that he only had 15, that there were no more bullets. This is what he had. He managed to take down 15, so 500 terrorists ran away.

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Terrorists didn’t enter Kissufim.

In Kerem Shalom, they only entered the first houses, because the security team didn’t agree to be broken up.

They will take legal action against them, in the end [because they refused to break up the security team]. They won’t give up. The prosecutors won’t give up.

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So, Herzi HaLevi and Gallant sent the army away.

They only got to Kissufim on Wednesday morning. Because there were no planes. Because the Attorney General didn’t give permission for any aircraft to fly. They said it’s stam, a few hooligans, you don’t need planes for that.

In the meantime, they slaughtered 1,500, and kidnapped 250.

So, 100 came back [alive], already 100 died, and a 100 are left. 50 of these are also dead.

If they free them, so there will only be 50 alive.

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So, we are talking about how they took the bullets and the guns away from everyone.

When they went to the armoury, there were no guns in the armoury [in the kibbutzim]. The armoury was empty, there were no guns in the armoury.

It looks like they sold them to Hamas. The commanders sold everything to Hamas. They have M16s and they have Kalishnikovs – they have everything. Everything that they stole from the bases. The soldiers sold them this for a hot price.

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Translated from Shivivei Or, 390

FOOTNOTES:

[1] It’s not obvious what the Rav is referring to.

[2] I.e. From Finland [?]

[3] Possibly, this is a mis-heard rendering of what the Rav said, it’s possible he said something like ‘Oran’, or Iran, or uranium.