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Welcome to the Jewish Task Force, my name is Chaim Ben Pesach.
This program is dedicated to elevating the souls of Dov Ben Avraham and Chava Bat Avraham.
Why do we celebrate the Shavuot holiday two days in the cursed exile?
In the Land of Israel we celebrate the Shavuot holiday one day. In the exile--two days.
And this is true regarding all the holidays--also on Passover--on all the holidays--on Sukkot.
On all the holidays it's one day in the Land of Israel, and two days in the cursed exile. Why?
There are a few reasons. I don't want, because we don't have much time, and this will only be a very short video--
I don't want to go into all the reasons.
But now it is possible to calculate when the holiday falls.
In the past, there were questions on when the holiday fell exactly in the exile.
So that was one of the reasons--that in order to be certain, they celebrated it two days in the exile.
But now, with all our modern technology, we can measure the time in an accurate way, and there isn't a problem now.
And we also already have a calendar that the Sages prepared for us.
And according to the calendar, it's also possible to know exactly when the holiday falls.
So why do we continue to celebrate the Shavuot holiday and all the holidays two days--twice as much as what there is in the Land of Israel?
One of the reasons is, according to what I hear from all the great rabbis here in the exile--
one of the reasons is always to remind us that we are in an exile.
And it is a crime to live in the exile at a time that we have a Jewish state, a Jewish homeland. It's a crime.
There is ALWAYS a commandment to settle in the Holy Land, in the Land of Israel--always, even when we don't have a Jewish state or sovereignty.
But NOW when it is so EASY to immigrate to the Land of Israel--relatively easy--
they don't *** people at the moment that they arrive to the Land of Israel now like it was in dark periods in our history.
Today we have a modern state and a developed society. And we have everything in the Land of Israel.
Not only that, the standard of living in the Land of Israel is higher--BELIEVE me--the standard of living in the Land of Israel is higher
than the standard of living in the United States or Europe or the exile.
I know that there are Israelis that think that all the Americans are millionaires. That's really not true. REALLY not true. The opposite.
The average Jew in Israel lives better than the average American--an economic fact!
That was not true, by the way, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, 40 years ago.
But because of the RUSSIAN immigration, all the Jews in Russia brought huge Jewish intellect.
And THEY are responsible for a technological revolution in Israel that turned Israel into a state with immense technology,
with more technological development--relatively, because it's a small country--
relatively there is more technological development in the state of Israel than the technological development in all the other countries of the world.
And again, I'm talking RELATIVELY.
So the standard of living is better now in the Land of Israel than the standard of living--economic, social, etc.--in the exile.
So there is NO reason, there is NO excuse!
I am in the cursed exile, by the way, because they deported me from the Land of Israel and are not letting me immigrate.
They haven't even let me visit the Land of Israel many years already.
I was in prison five and a half years after I fought on behalf of our dear brothers from the Soviet Union.
After that I was on probation another 12 years.
After I finished all that, after I finished 17 and a half years of either sitting in prison or probation,
I was legally capable of immigrating to the Land of Israel. That means the Americans wouldn't prevent me from immigrating to the Land of Israel.
So I tried to immigrate 14 years ago. They immediately deported me from the Land of Israel.
The Shabak arrested me, and they deported me from the Land of Israel.
The Arab Hitler, Yasser Arafat, may his name and memory be obliterated, and 80 thousand Nazi Muslim terrorists--
they were invited to the Land of Israel by the governments of Israel.
They invited them to the Land of Israel, gave them half of the state, gave them weapons, gave them a billion shekels, gave them everything free,
they even want to give them Jerusalem our capital and Judea and Samaria, the heart of our homeland.
They are accepted, but I, Chaim Ben Pesach, am not accepted in the Land of Israel because I fought on behalf of Soviet Jewry,
because I fought in order to enable Jews from the exile to immigrate to the Holy Land.
So because of that, I am not accepted in the Land of Israel. And of course, the real reason is my opinions.
They hate my opinions, and they don't want me to disseminate those opinions in the Land of Israel. That's the real reason.
They KNOW that I'm a law abider. They know that I was a law abider also in the Land of Israel. They know that.
ONLY because of my opinions, my POLITICAL opinions, they don't let me immigrate to the Land of Israel.
But the point is that we must always remember what an exile is.
You don't have a clue what the distress is of a Jew that lives in the exile when he wants to immigrate to the Land of Israel.
You don't have a CLUE. Because, praise G-d, you live in the Land of Israel. You were born in the Land of Israel. You don't understand it.
But it is a stronger distress than any other distress in life.
So we always celebrate the Shavuot holiday here two days in order to remember that it's not like in the Land of Israel,
in order to remember that we have to do it twice as much.
Because even if we do it twice as much in the exile,
we STILL can't reach the holiness that there is when we celebrate the Shavuot holiday and all the holidays in the Holy Land.
We must thank the Creator of the world that He gave us the state and our country again in miracles and wonders.
And we must keep EVERY inch of the Holy Land.
And we must settle in every place throughout the Land of Israel.
And we must give thanks that WE were fortunate to be in the generation of the redemption.
Because this is the beginning of the redemption of the people of Israel.
And here, in the exile, we feel it all the time, every time that there is a holiday of two days.
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