3MN DE TORAH POUR COMMENCER LA JOURNÉE - 🌱 RETOURNER AUX SOURCES

Today, the 3rd, a great day today for Yosef, whom many of us knew, and all his teachings and his books are spread throughout the Torah world. And it's important to remember a little of what he said in 2009 when there was the war in Gaza and after 2012 as well, and when he said in his Saturday night class, he said: "Every time you see a soldier, you must embrace him.""It's like a mitzvah." And we must also understand, that is what unity is, because we talk a

lot about peace, we want to love one another. And right now , you hear a lot in Israeli politics about words from this side and that side: why don't they go to the army, why do those ones study? He used to make this peace, he would say that just as Moses, when he fought the war against Amalek—do you remember or not , right when we left Egypt—then he raised his hand and it was hard to raise his hand, it was necessary for Aaron, they helped to

raise his hands, but the soldiers, they were there.

And in the says what? What? Who was it when he raised his hand? Was it him fighting the war or was it the soldiers who were there fighting?

So, the Mishnah answers and says: "Is it the hands?" Every time we understand that every soldier who fights is there to guard all the people of Israel, and everyone who is there to study is studying the Torah and guarding the soldier so that he will succeed in his mission, and that was the "unity" that Ovadia Yosef wanted to create, including in study. Dear friends, when we returned here to Israel a little over 78 years ago, we had many groups: Sephardic, Moroccan, Breslov, Chabad, Ger...everyone had a

different path. Even today, you might tell me, we have slightly different clothes perhaps, different colors of kippot, hats, beards, things, but at least in our hearts...Come, let's try to unite, come, let's all sit at the same set table. How do you say a set table in...?

"Shulchan Aruch" in Hebrew . So assemble everything, return to the sources. Well, in a certain way, there is a lot of unity now, there is much more Torah, there is much more return toward God. So all of this rabotai, today is the 3rd of Av, it is in honor of Rav Ovadia Yosef.

Today we know there is artificial intelligence: you need a source, you ask where it is written, etc. Imagine, 60, 70 years ago , no ChatGPT, barely any books. There were many, and Rav, they say they had 10,000 books in their heads, they were a source, all knowledge. To know, always look for the source; when you know the source you are, you can try to gather around it, because you hold, you are a gover-governor...what do we call that in Hebrew?

Moshel al mashaltech, you have, you have what you need, the reins in your hands. So let us all try today, first of all, to study something in his memory. Try also to be in that image, rabotai, of Torah, of gathering, of thinking nonstop. I will end with a story: some say it was him or the Rav, but someone needed to get some air, he wanted to go to the north, the tzadikim , Rav Ovadia, he lived in Jerusalem, he said: "Go there to the Western Wall, there are soldiers, you don't know them , anonymous, you pray there, it is the same thing." Imagine the level a bit, rabotai.

If we manage to live like that , to love each other in the same way: we see a kollel man, hug him because he studies Torah; we see a soldier, we hug him because he protects the people of Israel. This mix of the two, the Torah, that is what makes this, that will bring us Mashiach.