Transcript [00:00] Some people had the question, what's the [00:01] difference between voting for the joint [00:03] list of U Fagan and Smutric and and [00:08] Bengalier? Okay. And I remembered a [00:11] mashall that I wanted to tell you and it [00:13] was very much for this audience. [00:16] I um was a student at Yeshiva University [00:20] and I bounced around from some Rebi to [00:22] Rebi. I I was a reb when I came from [00:24] Israel. So obviously like I went overly [00:26] Israeli yeshiva. So I went to Mal Dumim [00:29] at the Cahzrahiva which is like the you [00:31] know one of the really intellectual [00:33] capitals of of the Hzra yeshivas and and [00:36] I came to Yu. So I went to Rabbi Gold [00:41] because that's what you do and I was in [00:42] Nashir and it just he's great he's a [00:45] guttle. He's exotic. He's amazing. It [00:47] just didn't do it for me. You got to [00:49] find a rebi right say you got to learn [00:51] Torah where your heart lies. Right? So, [00:54] so I then I went to Rabbi Rakman Hershel [00:57] Rahman and I was there and I enjoyed it. [00:59] It still didn't feel like home to me. [01:01] Later on, by the way, I started studying [01:03] with him on Thursday nights when I was [01:06] at Cordova and that did stick, but I [01:08] didn't stick in his and [01:12] I found Rabbi Mosha David Tendler, Rabbi [01:15] Tandler. And this for me was like a [01:17] lifealtering event. Really, it was a [01:19] lifealtering thing, lifealtering time [01:21] for me to spend time with him. And he I [01:24] used to tell people about Rabbi Tandler [01:26] that he didn't teach Torah. He taught [01:28] Misora. He didn't teach you just Torah [01:31] like from the Torah from the book. He [01:33] taught you a Torah. I asked him one [01:35] time, "How many rabbis are you guys [01:36] back?" He's like, "Well, we know at [01:37] least 10 generations back." Clearly, [01:39] he's the kind that had rabbis all the [01:41] way back to Mosher Rabenu. And you could [01:43] feel it. You could feel it when he would [01:45] talk. You could feel it that you're not [01:46] talking to a guy who's like Bouva and [01:49] which is awesome but you could see that [01:52] it's a deep deep deep Torah and I [01:54] respected him so much. I respected him [01:56] so much. One day he says to me [02:00] come down with me to my office after [02:02] Shia like okay. So we go he finishes at [02:06] what was it 1:30? What was the time [02:08] exactly like? Right. Something like 1 or [02:10] 1:30. We go in the elevator. We go down [02:12] and instead of going to one, we went to [02:14] or zero, whatever it's called, went to [02:16] like minus one and and he opened up the [02:19] door to his uh office [02:21] and immediately it smelled like [02:22] formaldahhide [02:24] because he was also a biologist, a [02:26] microbiologist and there was, you know, [02:29] what you'd expect, you know, eyeballs [02:30] and hearts in a in a jar, you know, let [02:35] he go sit down and I sat down right [02:37] across from him. He picked up his phone. [02:40] Now, the phone was the D. Remember the [02:44] old kind of phone where it was like the [02:45] the rotary phones, but then it had the [02:46] buttons and he had a and he had the [02:49] receiver. Now, this was different. The [02:51] receiver had a volume rocker [02:54] on the side where you could with the [02:56] thumb you could push it up. And he made [02:57] it loud. I mean, really loud so I could [02:59] hear it. It was like a speaker. And he [03:01] dials in to start hearing messages. and [03:03] he opens up this one of those black and [03:05] white [03:07] notebooks that is already bound and it's [03:09] got paper and line paper. He opens it up [03:11] and he had like a big marker or like a [03:12] felt pen but like a big one and he would [03:15] make a paragraph big line and he started [03:17] listening to messages. [03:20] I I tell you when when I tell you about [03:22] this I like choke up a little bit [03:23] because it's just like I can't. He [03:25] started listening to the messages and [03:27] the messages were [03:29] it was like first person was like Rabbi [03:32] Mosha David Tendler. My name is Miriam [03:34] from Australia. My husband just had a [03:36] catastrophic car accident. We're in the [03:38] hospital right now. The doctors say that [03:40] he's brain dead. Should we give organ [03:44] donors? That's what they're asking for. [03:46] And she left a telephone number. He [03:48] would make a line. Next message. My my [03:50] my son is suffering cancer. They want to [03:53] give him some kind of experimental drug. [03:55] Do you recommend it? Next. Litany of [03:59] awful stuff. [04:01] And it was just like I could then he [04:05] finished this list of five, six people [04:06] calling from all over the world. This [04:08] was before WhatsApp. This was before [04:10] WhatsApp. He starts dialing back. He [04:12] writes, starts dialing back. Hello. And [04:15] he would talk to every one of these [04:17] people and give them serious advice and [04:21] he would give them brahas [04:23] and gave them serious advice. Yes, you [04:25] should listen to the doctor. This [04:26] medicine is not yet proven. Started [04:28] dealing with these issues one by one. [04:31] And I realized that my rebi was not a [04:33] regular rebi. [04:35] He wasn't a regular tama teacher. He was [04:38] dealing with life and death issues and [04:41] helping Jews throughout the world and [04:43] giving them more than he just gave them [04:44] actual answers. He gave them actual [04:46] answers. He also gave them he gave him [04:49] comfort in the worst moment their life. [04:51] People were all crying thanking him for [04:53] calling back. Obviously Shiv University [04:55] gave him a a line to call the whole [04:56] world. He call he was calling I remember [04:58] Australia, South Africa whatever calling [05:00] the whole at the time it wasn't so easy. [05:02] He was calling the whole world to give [05:04] them answers in the Then I realized that [05:06] Rabbi Tendler was dealing with life and [05:09] death issues. He wasn't just a good [05:11] teacher. He wasn't just a good [05:12] storyteller. He wasn't just a son-in-law [05:14] of Moshe Feinstein. He was actually a [05:16] man dealing with really hard stuff. And [05:18] the other rabbis teaching a big classes [05:21] on the same floor were amazing teachers, [05:24] maybe better teachers, but they were not [05:27] dealing with life and death issues. [05:31] Now [05:33] that's a metaphor for the situation. [05:36] Fagan, great guy. Sadic, one of my [05:40] rebies, and I don't say that as a joke [05:42] or lightly. There's a difference between [05:45] that and a guy who is defending our life [05:48] and putting his life on the line [05:50] himself. 10 credible death threats have [05:53] been uh stymied, [05:56] stopped where they wanted to kill him. [05:58] Why? because he is providing guns for [06:00] the Jewish people, [06:03] making the life of murderous jihadi [06:06] terrorist prisoners a hell so that it [06:08] would be a deterrence. [06:10] Changing our situation on the temple [06:11] mount, not just talking about it. There [06:13] is a difference between a guy who [06:16] understands everything and can teach you [06:17] everything and a guy who gets it done. [06:21] And I'm telling you personally, I had a [06:23] chance to be in the other party as well. [06:26] And I turned it down because I wanted to [06:28] be with Benvir because I'm the kind of [06:30] guy who respects and wants to be with [06:32] the kind of people that get it done. [06:35] Proclamations, theories, philosophies [06:38] are important and we need those [06:39] teachers, [06:41] but there's still a difference in [06:42] politics between some guy who's a great [06:45] speaker and somebody who's the hammer to [06:47] get it done, to get that policy done. [06:49] For years, we've been talking about the [06:51] temple mount for years. And then some [06:53] guy came, his name is Benvir, and [06:55] changed the reality of the Jewish people [06:57] after 2,000 years. And then our own [06:59] country upholding jihadist principles on [07:01] the Temple Mount, making sure that we [07:03] can't pray. If you move your mouth, you [07:04] move your mouth, you're getting [07:05] arrested. And then we all knew it was [07:07] absurd, ridiculous, sick, and wrong. But [07:09] some guy came and changed it cuz he [07:11] knows how to grab that bull by the horns [07:14] of the Israeli bureaucracy and change [07:17] it. Fagan was in power for he was he was [07:20] in the [07:22] he wasn't able to make a law to change [07:24] stuff. You can say he wasn't a minister. [07:26] Exactly. Banker has a vision and he gets [07:28] it done. You don't like his mannerisms? [07:31] Don't worry about it. He's your hammer [07:33] to get guns into Jewish people hands to [07:36] destroy illegal buildings in the south. [07:38] Car theft, crime by half in a few years. [07:42] Our life is safer because of this guy. [07:46] This guy's made our women and children [07:47] safer on the roads. And that that's the [07:50] kind of party I want to be in. And [07:51] that's the difference. [applause]
