KMTT - the Torah Podcast
Erev Shabbat - Bamidbar -- Yom Yerushalayim
Erev Shabbat parashat Bamidbar, special program for Yom Yerushalayim, with Rav Ezra Bick and guests - IDF paratroop brigade liberating the Yerushalayim Old City.
KMTT. Today is Friday. Yom Shisei, Arab Shabbat Kodesh, Prashat Bhamid Bar, Kavrath Viyar, Yom Yul Shaddaim. For Yom Yul Shaddaim, we have a special guest today. Our guest today is the recording of the actual capture. The baking in to the walls, to the lion, Gaitya, Ahiyot, Yushalayim, and Kavrath Viyar, Tashin Haazain, reaching Harabaid, and reaching the kata. Our guest is the people who are no longer alive. Mothagur, who was a Luft Pikud Amrakaz, commander of the central command, Lusinakis, who commanded the paratroopers, paratroop brigade, who actually captured Harabaid, and Arashlamo Goen, with the time, was the chief rabbi of the army of Tzal. The recording was made in a lifetime. It's been edited. It's not five hours long, but everything you hear was recorded on the spot by a reporter for Israel Radio, who accompanied the paratroopers as they broke through Shah Ahiyot and reached Harabaid 39 years ago. The recording of course is in Hebrew. It's not always easy to follow, not so much because of the Hebrew, but because of the gunfire. A quick preview, it begins with the order of the day being given on the Mount of others, next to the Augusta Victoria Hospital, opposite the eastern wall of the old city, and then jumps immediately to the actual entering of the old city through the Lions Gate, Shah Ahiyot. The voice you hear in the beginning is that of Mothagur, the voice that comments, every now and then, describes what's taking place, is the reporter for Israel Radio, Pikud Israel. Later on, the voice that is talking to Mothagur is that of Uzinnakis, who was the actual commander of the troops. And at the end, you'll hear Harab Shlamogorin, both making the Vakhah and Calamalai Vakhamim for those who were killed. Again, the recording was made originally in lifetime. Anyone who I think is over the age of 50, and remembers it the first time, cannot help but be moved to hear this again. It's an interesting, I think, a sad or fascinating aspect of living by orlamas that are living in this world. The things that we dream about and aspire to and wait for, whether it's the 19 years no Jew could enter the old city of Jerusalem between 1948 and 1967, or I think the way we felt then, I was 17 at the time, the 2000 years of yearning, to come back to that place as Israelis, as Jews, as owners, as Puneha Aratsazar. And then, when something is acquired, when you dream about something as one value, when you actually achieve your dreams, something is lost. I played this tape for my children who are good people. They love you, Shalayim. They wait for the Mashiach, and they thought it was interesting. I played it today for someone in Yeshiva, who was born in 1973, he said, "Intervesting," and he walked out in the middle. It's something else to do. I listened to this tape more than once, and every time I hear it, the tears come to my eyes. You are walking. You hear the reporter out of breath as he climbs up the incline from Shalayish Patot into the old city. And for people of my generation, you go back to the time I wasn't at the Southern, I was in New York, but you go back to walking those steps again for the first time, and you're lost into the mists, into the mists of Jewish history. So, I know how people of my generation will feel here in this tape. I imagine a very few people at that age who are proficient in podcasts, and for most of you who are younger, I don't know how the tape will be accepted, how you'll assimilate this tape into yourselves, but nonetheless, this is an amazing historical recording. Tape this up as 11 minutes long. I suggest you listen to it carefully, try to follow, try to hear what's going on. Part of it is radio communication, which isn't the army radio communication. It's not easy to hear the individual words, and of course, it's in Hebrew. It's in slang. It's army slang as well. But you'll know you understand what's going on. The voices are the voices of the Israeli soldiers belonging to the paratrooper gates and Haneem. As they broke in, two, you shall be in a manner of comfort. It's a very difficult time to hear the sound of the sound. And you shall be in a manner of comfort, you shall be in a manner of comfort, you shall be in a manner of comfort, you shall be in a manner of comfort, you shall be in a manner of comfort. You shall be in a manner of comfort, you shall be in a manner of comfort, you shall be in a manner of comfort. You shall be in a manner of comfort, you shall be in a manner of comfort, you shall be in a manner of comfort. You shall be in a manner of comfort, you shall be in a manner of comfort, you shall be in a manner of comfort. But again you shall be in a manner of comfort, you shall be in a manner of comfort, you shall be in a manner of comfort. 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