Miracle in the Middle East? The Untold Story of the Abraham Accords | Inspiration for the Nation 19

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

3:00 in the morning she wakes up, chucks a pillow at me, and says, "Ari, we've lived our lives based upon the wrong philosophy all of this time." Oh my gosh. And I turn to her and I'm like, "Yeah, what?" Right? We're not exactly getting a normal night's sleep at this point in time. She goes, "Who are we to decide what the right time is? When there's a right opportunity, it's your job to make it the right time for that right opportunity." Says she says, "God opens the door, it's your job to figure out how to walk through it." And says, "You should go ahead and take this job right after Shabbat to go and tell David right after Shabbat to go and tell David and tell me if they'll still take us, we want to come." Welcome back to Inspiration for the Nation. I'm Yakov Langer, and I'm so excited for today's episode. I always knew about the Abraham Accords since they happened a few years ago, but I didn't really know. I still didn't know before this episode the nitty-gritty, what actually happened on that iconic flight, and and so much more. And and and I got to sit down with someone, I think he said the line in it, um an an ordinary person with an extraordinary opportunity. And I think that is the story of all of our lives. We feel so ordinary, and we have the tremendous ability to do things extraordinary. And it's not just, you know, we we all all of us don't have the option to create a plan to create peace in the Middle East, but we all have a mission, and we all have a purpose. And Ari Lightstone is is a true delight with so many funny moments and inspirational moments in his life and his career. And I think,

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2. 6:11friends today, I can trace back either to NCSY Kollel or the people that I met…
3. 12:16exciting. I spent a lot of time talking about politics. But uh sort of to get…
4. 18:22president moving forward, uh our failure to veto the resolution at the United Nations, which essentially…
5. 24:34It was the recognition of Jerusalem and moving our embassy to Jerusalem. Uh so that was…
6. 30:42closer to Israel. And five countries in 123 days made that decision. And there's so many…
7. 36:44like I I want to do this. I'm inspired to do it and and I think…
8. 42:51States of America and Jared and Avi the trust and the faith that they had put…
9. 48:54spiritual level, there are always ways that we can fill that hole that we need to…
10. 55:00Israel and the United States of America and the Middle East in the last 70 years.…

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