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Israel At War: It’s Up To Us (Ep. 205)

5.3K views · Oct 9, 2023

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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hi this is D Orlowski and welcome to the rabbi Orlowski show and uh we're going to be doing something uh that we have to do which is addressing the matv uh luckily our editor uh Isel is very good at his job so hopefully you will not hear the occasional uh blasts from uh the Rockets that are reaching from uh the Rockets that are reaching even here to yush and uh the Iron Dome missiles that are being set to intercept them um over s we had actual Sirens going off here and we could see the explosions taking place in the sky and we of course were relatively safe compared to the people in the southern communities and uh the terrible tragedies uh that have taken place and uh place and uh I was asked to speak about the matv I cannot think of too many people less qualified the speak about these things in me because what do I really know I I have I I don't have that kind of insight I don't have that kind of uh uh so I will share with you my feelings more than uh um to try to give you a true T perspective but just how I'm as overwhelmed as everybody else how I'm as overwhelmed as everybody else I mean I'm just overwhelmed so let me try to put this into a context [Music] um I was a kid in school in 1967 Elementary School when the war broke out and uh I think I was in fourth grade I I certainly wasn't in a position to know very much about what was going on uh but I know they came into our class and you can sense the danger and

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  2. 4:38power that there was nothing that could affect us and K yum Kipper we were feeling
  3. 9:49historical and the wounded was so terrible yeah especially when the syrians came in and they
  4. 14:55nobody should take anything that I'm saying as you know oh this is the answer I
  5. 19:56fun so uh so there's certain things we just don't even have a word for it
  6. 25:04there culture um I I I was a member of the East medow Jewish Center and
  7. 30:11story um Patrick moan the Irish Senator came to meet with Shimon Perez to thank him
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  10. 45:38said the kazal tell us that when chabas is rashash it's going to be a bad

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