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0:00 - This is the Chief Rabbi of the police. - Shalom, Rav, how is the Rav? - Shalom aleichem, your honor, how are you all feeling? - Baruch Hashem. How is the Rav feeling? - How are you feeling, your honor? - We're working very hard... - It is a privilege and an honor for us to see you. - May you be blessed. Thank you very much, Rav. We, we have... - Who are these? - He... this is a commander in the Border Police. - A pleasure. May Hashem watch over you, Rav. - May Hashem watch over you all. - A combat officer, and G-d-fearing, Rav. This is the Rav of the Bahag... this is the Rav of training of the Border Police.
0:30 - Ah, a pleasure. You have a book on the halacha, right? - Training, we're in training. Yes, the Rav put out the halacha book, yes. - So who is it that put out the book of halachos? - There are halachos... Here, we brought it for the Rav. - Ah, is that you? - Yes. We brought it for the Rav. There are responsa here from Rav Zilberstein, Rav Asher Weiss, Rav Ze'ev... It's about the war, Rav... - So there is also the responsa Charvos Barzel. - So this is Charvos BaGiborim, because it's policemen.
0:54 - Ah, nice... Good, fine, very nice. I'll look into it. - Thank you very much, Rav. This is the Rav of the tactical unit. - Peace and blessing. May the Holy One, blessed be He, watch over you. Be strong, be strong. Glad to meet you, a pleasure. - This is the Rav of the Border Police. Rav, this is the Rav of the Border Police, of the whole Border Police. - May the Holy One, blessed be He, watch over you, lengthen your days in goodness and your years in pleasantness. All the blessings and good bounty. - This is the Rav of the Jerusalem District, Rav Shukrun.
1:25 This is Rav Chaim Levi, the Rav of the Shai District. All... - Shalom aleichem, your honor. May the Holy One, blessed be He, watch over you — a good life, may it be His will. A good life, robust health. - Amen. - Length of days and years. - Amen. - All the blessings and good bounty. - Amen. Rav, we have one question. We... the police guard on the Temple Mount. If, Heaven forbid, policemen were not on the Temple Mount, woe to us, what there would be there. And we also have Rav Sherman, who was the head of the beis din, he once asked Rav Elyashiv: Who will be the guards on the Temple Mount?
1:56 He told him: G-d-fearing policemen. That is what he told him. Because they will guard, not only for the sake of pikuach nefesh, the saving of life, but also with awe of the Mikdash, the Holy Temple... They will have the awe of the Mikdash. Now, because of that, we... try to see that the people, whoever gets there, first of all, whoever goes up to the Temple Mount from the Border Police immerses. They all go to immerse. We are strict about that. The Rav should see it: whole companies go to the mikveh, immerse, and then go to guard on the Temple Mount.
2:25 Now, we have questions sometimes: policemen who are G-d-fearing, and there are students of the Rav, who listen to the Rav, who said to us: What does the Rav, the Yanuka, say? We told them: We don't know, we'll turn to the Rav, the Yanuka, to ask what his view is in halacha on this matter. Woe to us if we don't have policemen there on the Temple Mount, it's... - I understand, I know that it is pikuach nefesh. - Yes, it is really pikuach nefesh, that is what Rav Elyashiv said, it is pikuach nefesh, and Rav Ovadia Yosef too. There are things that...
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2:53 - No, certainly, there is no doubt. - The question is whether it is right for a G-d-fearing person to be careful to immerse and to be part of the guard on the Temple Mount, so that the Jewish people will, Heaven forbid, not... - Yes. This thing is possible. Certainly, there is no problem. Only, you know, they should not do anything beyond that. They should guard — guarding. They should guard without bringing people in, without taking people out — no, no — without going up themselves, without approaching the areas... - They are forbidden to, Rav. They don't eat, they are careful not to eat there, not to drink there, they are forbidden to take a shortcut. We have our own guidelines — the rabbinate's.
3:26 They are really very careful about it. They understand that it is a place that needs completely different conduct. They learn the halachos of awe of the Mikdash. Really, that's right, we teach them, teach them how — the halachos — so that they will be careful. So they don't... - The holiest place in the world. - And of course... - Can we say in the Rav's name that the Rav permits the... - Yes. No problem. Certainly they do not need to be concerned. The moment others come who will not conduct themselves properly, and perhaps there... who knows where these things can roll and end up, and it could come to much more serious things. We know what happens, that it...
4:03 the moment they see them coming there, and suddenly there is some kind of chaos, there could be more bloodshed and war, and turmoil. - Ah, right, and a war there, it's... - No, there are two wars. It happens both with them and among ourselves. It's that policemen come, as it were, and then they see in them: You — they hurt them, and say: You're not observant, you're Nazis. And it becomes a war, and they say harsh words. The moment they also see G-d-fearing ones, then those who come, too, they soften, and there is more unity — that stands to reason — there is more unity and more softening, less baseless hatred too...
4:40 You also need less dispute among our own people — that those who go up should not hate the policemen. There is no need to hate them. It becomes baseless hatred... All in all, you know, you are doing a job... So many people need to make a living. There is work, there is a state, an army, each one is placed in his position. And people forget. Sometimes they see the person in uniform, they hate the... no, it has nothing to do with it. - G-d-fearing people, Rav. We have many tzaddikim, many people who do kindness, real kindness, and help and assist, baruch Hashem. - I know, I know, you are doing holy work. Truly. May the Holy One, blessed be He, watch over you.
5:12 Fortunate are you, that you are there like this, truly, and give your lives and help the Jewish people. May the Holy One, blessed be He, watch over you and protect you, for you protect with your bodies like this and give yourselves over every day for the sake of this holy soil. There is no measuring your stature, and the stature of the Jewish people who are here in the Holy Land. When you say Jews who are in the Holy Land, those are Jews who have a different light than living outside the Land and not being in this generation of ours here on the holy soil — that we are here in our generation on the holy soil, and we give our lives to be in the Land of Israel — especially those who give their lives even more,
5:50 to be in Judea and Samaria and in Jerusalem: their stature is even greater. The more you are in more dangerous areas, the greater your stature, for you practice self-sacrifice every day, at every time and moment, because you give your life for the children too. "You shall love Hashem your G-d with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your might" — and you give over the children too, and your wife too. They all live in dangerous areas, go to dangerous areas, go out from dangerous areas, and they overcome the fear. And they are in areas like those. Their stature is even more, and even greater, and so on...
6:18 But with what you do, too, your stature is greater. - Thank you very much, Rav. We had a question, and we brought all the rabbis so they would hear the Rav. - May it be of benefit to you, may it be for you a help from Heaven, for protection and defense, "and the desire of Hashem shall succeed in your hands." - Amen. - May you have good tidings and salvations and miracles and wonders. - Amen. - All the blessings and good bounty, in good that is seen and revealed, with joy and gladness of heart.
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זה הרב הראשי של המשטרה שלום הרב מה שלומר אליכם כבודו איך אתם מרגישים השם איך הרב מרגיש איך אתה מרגיש כבודו אנחנו עובדים קשה מאוד לכבוד הוא לנו לראות וכים תהיה תודה רבה הרב אנחנו א יש לנו מי אלו פה א זה מפקדות לכל מפקד במשמר הגבול שמשמר הצין לוחם וירא שמיים הרב זה הרב של הבעד של זה הרב של א של ההדרכה של המגב אה מאוד יש לכם ספר על הלכה נכון הדרכה אה מאוד יש לכם ספר על הלכה נכון הדרכה אנחנו בהדרכה הנה הרב מוציא את הספר הלכה כן מי זה הוציא את ספר הלכה הלכה הנה הנה הרבנו לרב זה אתם כן רבנו לרב א יש פה תשובות של הרב זילברשטיין הרב אשרויס הרב אזה זה על המלחמה הרב זה אז יש גם שוט חרבות ברזל אז זה חרבות בגיבורים כי זה שוטרים יפה בסדר יפה מאוד אני אעם תודה רבה הרב זה הרב של היחידה הטקטית שלום ברכה שמור עליכם חזק אמן שמח להכירים שלום ברכה שמור עליכם חזק אמן שמח להכירים טעים מאוד זה הרב של מגב הרב זה הרב של מגב של כל מגבודים להכיר כבודו הקדוש ברוך הוא ישמור אנחנו מיך בטובתכם בנעימים כל הברכות זה הרב של מחוז ירושלים הרב שכרון מאוד שמח להכיר נעמוד זה הרב שחיים לוי הרב של מחוז שי כל א שלום עליכם כבוד עליכם חיים טובים מיד חיים טובים בריאות חות ימים שנים אמן כל הבכות והשפות הטובות
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- 0:00זה הרב הראשי של המשטרה שלום הרב מה שלומר אליכם כבודו איך אתם מרגישים השם איך…
- 0:34אה מאוד יש לכם ספר על הלכה נכון הדרכה אנחנו בהדרכה הנה הרב מוציא את הספר…
- 1:06שלום ברכה שמור עליכם חזק אמן שמח להכירים טעים מאוד זה הרב של מגב הרב זה…
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