Coronavirus: Rabbi YY Jacobson Shares Stories & Responds to Children's Questions #3

Okay, welcome everybody. We're going to start momentarily. I am so excited that all of you are here. In the meantime, let's sing a song. [Applause] Ally. by [Applause] up La. la all I la welcome from the world over. I am so excited to be with all of you here today. This is our third children's program since the days of quarantine. We had one last week, Thursday, one week ago. And then we had this Sunday. Now we have once again this Thursday. And I'm looking forward to yet another programm this coming Sunday 4 in 4 p.m. this coming Sunday 4 in the afternoon. And as you know you can text all your questions to 8457774747 845777-4747. If you want to see the previous episodes, the previous programs which were I think very exciting, you can go to the yeshiva.net and you will see the previous programs called children's programs from uh last Thursday and this Sunday. So today is Nissen the first day of Nissen 5780 tough March 26 and we are all still in our homes. So welcome, welcome to all of the children who are joining us literally from all over the world. Not only from the United States of America, from so many states and cities and burrows and neighborhoods, but all the way up in Israel in the Holy Land, Russia, Australia, South Africa, different countries in Europe and South America. I thank all of the children for joining us and uh I'm so thrilled to be with you today. We're going to have an awesome time, a great time. So I asked you a riddle in the beginning of last session and because there was so many so many questions I don't exaggerate nine around 900 qu 900 questions came in more than 900 questions. The person who helps me out took a count. He told me this morning more than 900 questions came in. When I was looking at the questions, it looked like 150. But there's a lot of questions out there. And I am humbled that you are sharing all these questions with me. I'm going to try to answer as many as I can. You can text all your questions or feedback or comments 845777-47478457774747 welcome to all. So do you remember my question in the beginning of last session this past Sunday my question was one place in America we are legally sanctioned by the CDC by the health department by the government. There was a minion on chabas in the regular place in the regular shul where they always have it. I wasn't speaking about minyanim outdoors. I was not speaking about minanim that were actually wrong to make not the right thing to do under the circumstances where the says we have to follow the medical health officials. But I was talking about an official legal minion. So, a lot of the children answered. I think maybe 40 or 50 responses that I saw, many answered, of course, if there's 10 males in the house, if you have a father and nine boys after mitzvah, they had a minion. That's a great answer, but that wouldn't of course be the regular shaven. Other people said in hospitals, but that's not the case because people who are unfortunately in hospitals due to the corona virus are quarantined. They don't have over there. And others said if you had 10 people who all tested positive for corona and they fought it and now they're healthy, they came together in a minion. But that's it's a cute answer but it's not the case. One person answered somebody made a minion with the 10 of his soul. Meaning the minion was not made up of 10 people but every single is made up of 10 characteristics 10 qualities. We know by we speak about the seven there is what's called which we're not going to get into right now. And this person ded with all of them together. So he had a minion. It's a beautiful beautiful answer but I actually meant a literal minion. The right answer came from Mati Pearl in Bora Park age 10 and he got it right. The answer to the question is there was one place where there was an official minion and that is Otisville prison. In the Otisville jail, that's Otisville, New York, where there is a prison and there are Jews there who celebrate Chabas and Davin every day and Davin Shabas. There was a minion throughout Shabas and this was absolutely legal and you understand why. The reason why we are not making miny, the reason why your schools were closed down, the reason why we're all at home, the reason why we're trying to stay in our homes is so that this pandemic, this virus does not travel. It is so so so contagious and people can catch it very very easily. And we're afraid when there's a minion or any gathering of people in a store, in a supermarket, in a library, in a school, outside, wherever it may be, if only one person has it, it very easily goes over to the other people, right? And if all of the people have it, all of the people have it. But sometimes one person has it, two people have it, three people have it, even you don't feel you have it, you're passing it on to somebody else. And we're afraid when people come together, say 10 people come together or even less, somebody has it, just takes one person and the other people catch it and now wherever they go, they continue to spread it and it gets multiplied and multiplied and multiplied. And remember that there's a certain significant there's a certain percentage of people for whom this is dangerous. It's life it's it's it's life-threatening. But that's all over the world. But in prison, they're not going anywhere. The gates are locked. The gates are closed. They can't go anywhere. So they allowed them to have a minion there. And it reminds me of an incredible story. Because I thought about the fact that from all the shs in the whole America, the whole world in Israel, everywhere, only in prison are they allowed to d with a minion officially and legally. You know what it reminded me of? Reminded me a great story of the BMPv. And the story of the BMP is that there was somebody who was very needed a big Yeshua needed big help in the city where the BMPv lived. He lived in a city called Meabush in the Ukraine and the BMP was davening with his students but he felt that it was ineffective. He was not accomplishing anything. So the BMP asked his Gaba he asked his assistant to go and gather what's called ines the ganov means the thieves of the city. You know in every Jewish town, every Jewish city, there were people who were not of the highest moral standing and they would get him. They would steal and the bos had him gather them for a special feeling for a special prayer and they ded they all respected the holy bump they came and they ded and indeed it had a tremendous positive impact and somebody asked the I don't understand get it sadikim get the holy people why are you getting the gun and the bump said I saw that the gates in heaven were locked and I needed to bring together people who know how to break lacks and the lesson of course is that sometimes we look at ourselves and each of us is not always perfect sometimes I feel like a little gand I'm a little thief you know when I steal something that belongs to somebody else something that really belongs to my nish and I take it away and I use it for the wrong reasons but remember every flaw also has a positive quality if you know how to harness it, you can use it for greatness. Every challenge is also an opportunity. Sometimes we have parts of our personality that are difficult. But if you learn how to channel it, you could become an extraordinary great person and have tremendous light. A god of a thief is not a complimentary thing. It's of course forbidden, but there's a certain quality there. The was saying these guys know how to break down locks. These guys know how to go to places where you're not allowed to go. These are the guys I needed to dive in. Now, of course, I wish we wish all the Jewish people good and all good people good and we wish everybody a lot of but this was fascinating. The one place where they can dab in this shabas was in prison behind bars. Let's hope that their prayers and all of our prayers, their prayers with a minion and all of our prayers wherever we are should break all the locks and bring complete and speedy recovery and healing for all those people who need a speedy recovery and for all of the Jewish people and for all ill people and for all of humanity and for the entire planet. You know my dearest friends, we are now going to go on to do three riddles. three riddles and two of the riddles I'm going to wait till the next program to answer. One of them I want to answer bleeder at the end of this show. And here's the deal. You could text in your answer to these riddles 8457774747. and those children who get them right. Bleeder, we're going to ask you for your email and your address and we're going to send you something special, a special treat. Riddle number one. Riddle number one. Okay. Somebody a very very great Jew wrote a safer a whole safer while he was running away from a pandemic disease from an infectious disease that was traveling and was in his city and he ran away to be quarantined to go away from the city. And during his escape away from his location at that moment, he used the time to write a safer. Who was this man? What's the name of the safer? And which year did this happen? This is my riddle today. Any boy or any girl who has an answer to this, text it in 8457774747. Bleeder. Next session, Sunday at 4. I'm going to get back to answer this riddle. Anyone who got it right, we have your number. You'll text in your number or email address and we're going to bleed send you something special. Riddle number two. Riddle number two. Okay, the first one was a Jewish history riddle. The second one is a Jewish law riddle. Here is the question. Okay, it's how did they used to establishes? Many of the kind know you learned or you know it from different places. And that is the way it used to be is two witnesses, two kosher witnesses would go out at night and they would look for the new moon because the time of is the time you could start seeing the new moon. a little little sliver of the new moon and then every night the size of the moon grows until the 15th of the month when we have a beautiful whole moon and then the moon starts to wne until it disappears for a few days and then again is the new month and if two witnesses come. So today is rishesh right the first day of Nissan. How would this day become in the olden days and the answer is there were two witnesses who would come to the best to the supreme court to the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem and they would say we saw the moon last night. We saw the moon last night. Say we went out 10:00 at night whenever the time the right time has to be when you could see the moon and we saw the moon and this is what it looked like. And they would investigate the witnesses and if they realize that those witnesses are speaking the truth the next morning would say mudes makuresh makudesh they would sanctify this day and it would become and of course in the time of the bikdish there was special carbon that were brought onesh and that's why we d musf and extra because musf means extra was a whole extra carbon that were brought it was a special day it was like a y and this was sometimes witnesses didn't come there were no witnesses. Maybe it was a cloudy night. Maybe there were nobody was around. Maybe when the moon appeared, nobody saw it. Or maybe the witnesses who saw it couldn't come. There were no witnesses. So then could not make today rishes. They had to push it off another day. And that's when the month would have not 29 days but 30 days and would be the next day. So here's the question I want to ask you. Listen to this question. You have to you have to pay attention. Can the left pay attention? So two witnesses come. Okay, let's say Yankl and Schmele come today. They come today to come to the Bezdon and they say we saw the moon last night and Bezdon asks them all these questions and investigates and make sure according to their understanding of astronomy that this is accurate and finally they accept their testimony and the best declares this day as beautiful. You know what happens now? Another two witnesses come. First one was Yankl and Schmele. Next one is Battle and Zundul. Okay. Better and Zundul. And Bal and Zundel come to Bezdon and they say, "Those two witnesses, they told you last night they were in your Shalim and they saw the moon. I don't understand. We were with them last night. A whole night we were with them in Stas. We were with them. We were at a wedding a whole night for hours and hours. What are they talking about? This is called Adam Zin. Two just testified that the first two were not saying the truth because they were with us in Bdon investigates. Sounds real. They have to disqualify the first two witnesses, right? They're liars. They're not saying the truth. Ooh, but here's the here's the idea. The last two witnesses, they became bar mitzvah on this. They were born 13 years ago on the first day of Nissa and their 13th birthday, their mitzvah is now. Now when before mitzvah you're not accepted as an official witness in Bez because the says you have to be a full man not a minor but an adult after mitzvah you could be not before their mitzvah is onesh these two last witnesses were both born on alfiss 13 years ago. What makes them kosher witnesses? the fact that Bezdon made this dishes. But once these two witnesses come and say that the first two witnesses were liars, so now the first two witnesses are disqualified. So it's not kaidesh anymore. So if it's not kesh anymore, so these two boys who came now are still 12 years old. They're not 13 yet. They're not because it's not yet. It's only other so they're not mitzvah. Their testimony is not accepted. So their testimony is not accepted. So the first two are brought back. So the first two are brought back. It's Nissen because they have good testimony because the two later witnesses were disqualified. So now it's so it's the two last witnesses. The two last witnesses B and Zul are now because it's so if they're kosher witnesses. So if they're kosher witnesses, they are acceptable aids to say that the first two are liars. So the first two are liars, not kaidesh anymore. It's not kesh anymore. So the last two are mitzvah anymore. So the first two are accepted. So it is rishkish. So if it is rishesh, the last two are accepted because they have a mitzvah. If the last two are accepted, so the first ones are delegitimized. And if the first ones are delegitimized, so it's not anymore. What would you do if you were bestden? That's the next question. 8457774747. Think about this question. This goes in circles and it does not stop because if it's then the first two witnesses are disqualified. But if the two first prisoners are disqualified, then the second witnesses are not mitzvah yet. So the first two witnesses are not disqualified. So they're not disqualified. So then they are bait mitzvah. So they are disqualified. But if they are disqualified, then they're not bar mitzvah. So they are not disqualified. Okay, you get the question. If not, you can ask your older brother to explain it to you. We're going to discuss this in our next program Sunday at 4. You can text in your questions. Any child who gets these two riddles right, the first one and the second one. We will bleed get your email address and send you a special treat. I'm going to go back to this on Sunday. Now, I'm going to ask you a third riddle and this is very different. It's not history. It's not. It's a little bit of a funny riddle. Okay, here is the dilemma. And this question was actually used in a company. There was a company that was searching for people. They wanted to they had a very responsible job. So they had people come in and give a job application. They applied for the job. They had 200 people who applied for the job and they asked each of the 200 people this question and they wanted to see how they would answer this question. Here's the question. You're driving alone in a single passenger sports car. It's those little tiny cars, right? There's only place for two people and you're in the driver's seat. You're driving alone. It's a cold and stormy winter night. It's raining heavily and the winds bring the weather to 25 below zero. Have ever have any of you ever been in a climate of 25 below zero? It is cold. Cold. Not like today's beautiful weather here in New York where I'm living here in Muny where it's a beautiful, beautiful day. And as long as you maintain social distancing, go out and take a walk and do some exercise and get some fresh air and dance in the street and look at God's beautiful world. Don't remain locked up in the house as long as there is no danger that you will come close to anybody else. But that night it was 25 below zero. And suddenly you're driving in this car, not at your age, a little older when you're allowed to drive. And you're driving in this sports car. And you pass by a bus stop. And there are three people waiting for a bus. Three people who are waiting for a bus. Who are the three people waiting for a bus? Who are the three people? Number one, you have an old lady and it looks like she's about to freeze to death. This poor lady. Number one. Number two, an old friend who saved your life years ago. This fellow literally saved your life. And the third one is a man who's extremely wealthy and for 20 years you were trying to get a meeting with him cuz he can literally help you reach the goals you wanted to reach in terms of business and finances, but he would never give you the time of day. You couldn't even get into his office. You couldn't get him on the telephone. You couldn't send him a message. You could send him a message, but he would not return your call. And he's here. So, you have an old lady who's shivering. You have a friend who saved your life. And you have a fellow that you wanted to meet for 20 years, and you could not get to him. Now, my question is, to whom would you offer a ride? You're in this car. You're the driver. There's only place for one person. It's 25 below zero. You know there's only one passenger who can go into your car. Who, my dear Kinder, would you put in this car? Who would you offer a lift to? Here are the three options. You pick up the old lady. She's weak. She's frail. It looks like she's going to pass out. It's dangerous. You should save her first. Of course, you can call the police. You can call Hatah. You can call. But by the time they come, it might be too late. The poor woman could suffer frostbite. God forbid, or heart failure. So, you just take her in the car, rush her to the hospital. That's option one. Or you could pick up your old pal. He saved your life, and this would be a perfect opportunity to pay him back because of this unbearable weather. He probably is also going to fall ill. However, if you pick up the old lady or your former friend who saved your life, you may never ever have this golden opportunity to meet this person again. It's an opportunity of a lifetime to obtain and reach your dreams. What would you do my dear children? Let's think about this. 8457774747. And now before we go to the next segment to the questions, there's a lot a lot of questions that already came in. Oh wow. Wow. A lot a lot of questions that already came in. I am going to tell you about one question that was asked by many many children. And because it was asked by many children, maybe like 20 or 30, I want to address this question first. And this goes like this. One of the boys asks, "I'm quarantined in my home. I often get very upset. I get angry. Sometimes my parents get upset, my brothers get upset. We get into fights. How do I remain happy? Sometimes I find myself doing the wrong things, saying the wrong things, and then I regret it. And the truth is, I have this problem all year around. I sometimes really do the wrong thing. Bye-bye. I'm sorry, everybody. I'm sorry. As I was talking, I was notified that the system just went down suddenly, even though I couldn't back up and uh running. And I I do apologize sincerely for this uh for this mishmash and this confusion. And let's continue. So I wanted to take some questions. I also want to share with you a story. But first we're going to take some questions and then I'm going to uh share with you a uh special story. So the first question I raised a person one of the a few of the children many of the children said you know how do I deal with my emotions and I get angry and I get upset and sometimes I do the wrong thing and then I get upset and I do the right thing. So I think it's very important for all of us to remember this very important truth about who we are. Each of us has two souls. says in many swarim we don't have one soul we have two souls one soul is called a nepha bahamus and one soul is called a nephikis means an animal soul nephis means a godly soul now the animal soul is not bad it's not evil it's just like an animal it wants to protect itself wants to survive and just like an animal it has a very limited understanding of life, of the world around it. It could be very, very brilliant and very, very smart, but it's always focused on survival. That's like an animal soul. That's one soul in us. And again, it's not evil. It's not monstrous. It could become an animal can be very, very cute and very delicious and adorable. But an animal can also grow up to become wild and monstrous and dangerous. depends what type of animal. Those of you who learned Babakama, you know the difference between a tam and a hammud. There's an innocent ox who never gores and if it does, it's a crazy mistake. And then there's an ox that's a real dangerous bull that you have to protect and you're not allowed to take it outside and if you do, you're reliable for all the all the damages. So the same is true with our own little ox, with our own little bull. We have a nepha Bahamas and you have to understand that which means we make mistakes. Sometimes we do anim animalistic things. Sometimes we get very very angry or very very uh scared and we do sometimes things that we later regret because our animal is literally trying to protect itself. But remember you also have a godly soul and that's your true core. You have a nephew which is aim. It's like a piece of Hashem. It's a fragment of Hashem. And that part of you is a reflection of Hashem himself. It's like a piece of Hashem planted inside of you. And like we spoke at the first children's program, the story that of the would often say over about the coven about a person being ache in this world. When you know about that part of you, you understand that really your inside is always wholesome and always beautiful and always holy and always sacred and invincible and you have the power to triumph over all obstacles and even if I make mistakes and even if I do the wrong thing and sometimes I lose it because I have an animal in me also and we operate on both levels of consciousness. We don't have one battery. We have two very different batteries. We have two different souls and you have to understand that both are very real and don't get frustrated with yourself because you have these souls and sometimes I'm only in touch with the animal inside of me. But I have the power to always know that inside of me there's also a piece of godliness, a piece of infinity and that turns me into a piece of Hashem in this world. And therefore, just like Hashem is infinite, I and you are infinite. Just like Hashem is always wholesome and always confident and nobody can destroy him and nobody can take away his life from him. The same is true with each and every single one of you. Exactly that same quality. I want to do a little illustration for you. Okay? How many of you would like to have this? This is a $20 bill. I'm sure if I would give it to you, I can't give it to you through the camera, but I'm sure you would take it, right? But what about now? What if now? You see what it looks like now? Wrinkled up, smashed up. Look at it now. Would you still like it? Yes, I can hear you say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." Okay. But now look at this. Ooh, disappeared for me. It disappeared for me. Let's get it back. Let's get it back. Okay, we got it back. Would you still want it? Would you still want it? Yeah, I hear you saying, "Yeah, even though it's crumpled, it's smashed, it's beaten, and now it was even kicked and beaten down. You still want it. Why? Why do you still want this little little schmata?" Well, you know the answer. Because it still has the same value. it still has the same value of $20. That did not change. The same is true would be a $100 bill or any bill. So now I want you to think about this. If a little $20 bill, it gets beaten and crumpled and thrown on the ground and kicked on and even spit on. It doesn't lose its value. May lose a little bit of its shape. It may not look the same way it looked when it was printed fresh crispy dollar, but it still has the same value. So think about this. Your soul will always maintain its value no matter what happens. Sometimes in life we're kicked. Sometimes in life I feel crumpled. Sometimes in life I'm smashed. Sometimes in life I feel that I was spit on. But never ever believe that you lost any of your value. Your nephes kiss, your soul is always one with Hashem. It's always one with the creator. It's always holy. It's always beautiful. It's always delicious. It's always holy. Even if I made mistakes. Children asked the question, I made this mistake. I made that mistake. Even if I made mistakes and even if I did these mistakes because sometimes I forget who I am and I degrade myself. But you never ever lose your value. If a 20 You never lose your value. If a $20 bill can't lose its value from being crumpled, do you think your infinite soul, which is a piece of Hashem, could lose its value no matter what happens to it in life? This I want you always to remember. So therefore, cut yourself some slack. We make mistakes. We each have an animal soul. Sometimes I get scared like an animal and I want to protect myself. And then you bounce back. And remember, you can always go back and make decisions from the place of your godly soul. Now I'm going to take a few questions. I'm going to take a few questions for approximately 15 minutes and then we're going to go to our story and then we're going to go back to more questions. Okay, I'm going to try to answer the questions briefly because there are so many. Okay, and if somebody really feels that they need more explanation, you can email me directly. Rabbi ythe yeshiva.net rabbi ytheash yeshiva.net. If you feel that you need more explanation to the answer I'm going to give here's a question. Is the Corona virus a punishment or an opportunity? You have no idea how many lives you're impacting for the better. Hashem should repay you forever. Some people say corona is a punishment and some people say it's an opportunity. And the answer is I want you to understand my dear child in Yiddeshite. There's no such a thing just a punishment. Every punishment is an opportunity. What does a punishment mean? It's not like Hashem wants to take revenge from somebody and therefore punishes us because he wants to show whose boss or because he got so angry and he wants to pay you back for what you did to him. That's not what happens. Imagine your mother or your father. Let's say a mother and a father who are very very healthy and very very loving. Why would they ever punish their child? They never punish a child. You never punish anybody just to punish because I'm angry at you. Cuz I'm going to show you who's boss. Cuz you started up with me, I'll start up with you. You started up with me, I'll get you back. And I'm stronger than you. So when I give you when I give you something in return, it's going to be much worse. That does not exist in Yiddish. That comes when I'm in a very angry and weak place and I lose control. So then I punish you. In Yiddishkite, whenever we hear the word punishment, think of it more as an opportunity. Never a punishment, an opportunity. Hashem always loves you and loves us unconditionally. And that love never changes. Sometimes Hashem feels that the best thing for this human being is to go through this particular situation. Sometimes I may know why. Sometimes I may completely not understand why. Sometimes I may see it today. Sometimes I may see it tomorrow. Sometimes I may not see it in this lifetime. I may not always know why. But never think that there's just a punishment to punish people. It's always an opportunity for growth, an opportunity for renewal, an opportunity for us to be able to become the people we're supposed to become and to fulfill our mission in the world to bring the guula closer and to fill the world with holiness and with goodness and with godliness. I'm a teacher. I taught till last Monday. I came home from school. I developed fever. I still have it. I tested for corona. I feel so bad all of my students are going around and possibly spreading the virus. I feel so bad that I was the bad. Listen, we all made this mistake. Do you know how many events there were on Purim? Do you know how many people were mingling? We're all partners in this mistake. Many of us realized and realized late. Some people unfortunately still didn't realize. They're very irresponsible and some people realized earlier this is called a real real mistake. What is it going to help that you feel guilty? This is what happened. We many of us caught it and spread it. The most important thing is how we react now. That's the most important thing. But this was a mistake that happened. Listen, there was a divine providence here that this virus should spread. God caught everybody off guard. So you could blame yourself and another other hundreds millions of people can blame themselves. Alisa 11 Lakewood these days I can't see my friends. I can't see my family. I feel disconnected from everybody. It's true. It's difficult. It's important to maintain your relationships with your friends and your and your family on the telephone. If you have the ability to do Zoom or do Skype or do FaceTime is even better, but at least try to use the telephone and have conversations, fun conversations with family and with friends every single day. Next question. Everyone is saying that Corona is the gamatria of Msiah al is 358. How how is this true? How do we know it really is? Msiah could come at any moment, but if we're in New York, how will we see him? Okay, this is different questions. Tamar leads a six. What do you think we'll need to pack in a suitcase when Mashiah comes? We say an imam and in school, but then we say that he could come every day. But then we say, does this mean Mashiah can only come in? Should another question. Should I be scared of Msiah's coming? Okay. All wonderful, wonderful questions. Hashem knows when Mashiach is going to come. Mashiach could come any day, any minute. We hope Mashiach comes now. We d for Mashiach to come. We say every day. Even if you live in New York, don't worry. You're going to find out when Mashiach comes. It's going to this the news is going to spread very very fast. But we don't know exactly the date that Hashem decides to bring Mashiach. We hope for Mashiach. We anticipate Mashiach. Mashiach is certainly overdue. What you're going to pack in your suitcase when Msiah comes. This is Tamar, 6 years old. What you're going to pack in your suitcase. I'm not sure what you're going to pack in your suitcase, but you will know for sure exactly what to pack in your suitcase. So, don't worry, Tamar. Anything that's really, really important that you love and cherish, nothing will be taken when Msiah comes. On the contrary, when we say it means that Niss is a very auspicious time for the gul. It's a very special time. But it doesn't mean that Mashiach can't come any other day because it says now another child asked, should you be scared for Mashiach's coming? You should not be scared of Mashiach's coming at all. It's a wonderful it's it's the Mashiach's coming is really that the goodness in you and the goodness in the whole world and the holiness in you and the holiness in the whole world is going to emerge and all will be one. We're going to see the truth that everything is part of oneness, part of Hashem's infinite goodness and oneness. So you mish don't have to be afraid of uh of Msiah's coming. In fact, Mashiach is going to be proud of you. Mashiah is going to be proud of every single Jew that after all of these years in Golos and Jews people have been through a lot and now we're also going through a very difficult situation. The Jewish people still remain strong is we remain connected. We remain strong. We remain full of trust and faith and unity. All of you learn to and celebrate mitzvah and have a sur and in that sense mashiach is going to kiss and embrace every single Jew. My mother is always talking about how she was hidden in an attic for 7 months during the Holocaust with no heat, no cooling and a non-Jew delivered every day bread and potatoes and water risking his life. And now she says, "My grandchildren are complaining that they can only buy pizza takeout and they can't eat in the store and they have to sayo stay home and sit in the couch." That's what she complains about. Okay, listen. From her perspective, you have to understand her. You can't compare what's happening now to what she went through. So when she sees that people are overwhelmed and they're miserable, she's like, you know, you have it pretty good relative to what I had it what I had. So you have to understand her perspective. The people who went through the Holocaust went through her horrible, horrible, horrible experience that we can't even understand. On the other hand, I don't think we gain much by putting down this generation and saying, you know, you guys are spoiled and you're just sitting on the couch all day and what are you complaining? Every generation has its challenges and this is certainly a very very great challenge. It affected the whole world. There's not a single person who was not affected. Unfortunately, many many people have lost their lives. You're talking about thousands and thousands of people in so many different countries. In each of our communities, we know people who have returned their soul to its maker. We know people who are struggling for their life. And we know people who are gravely ill. And all of those who are barak hashem healthy have our own challenges during this time. So I don't think we gain by putting it down and saying it's not a serious challenge compared to the holocaust. I understand your grandmother. I understand her very well. And we must remember that we will never know what they went through. And we can have only the greatest respect for that generation who literally came out of the ashes and rebuilt the Jewish people literally from ashes and only tremendous respect for that generation what they what they did despite all of their challenges and flaws. But I'm not sure between us if it helps us to put it down and say it's not a serious challenge. I don't see what we gain from that. It's a it's a serious challenge within our generation's reality. Listen, we have had a certain lifestyle and this has been shaken up in a very heavy way and nobody even knows how and when it's going to end. So, we have to be very sensitive to what people are going through as well. Why don't we have ms nephesh to keep the schools and shs open? Jews should Jews have always been ready to die for Tyra. The answer is we follow Tyra and the Tyra says that in this case to keep a schul or a school open would be going against Tyra. So you can't have ms for by going against the says that if you're going to do something that will ris risk even one life, you're not allowed to do it. Today people mingling together risks life. It puts lives at risks. People have unfortunately died because of it. So we may have the best intentions in the world, but it's literally the wrong thing to do. Every medical professional, every health professional, every doctor will tell this to you literally all around the world. So we do not go to save by fighting what the Tyra tells us to do. That's number one. Number two, if you open your school, you're not having nephesh for you're going to be fine. You're going to be sacrificing other people's lives. It's not your own mas. It's other people's mas. And number three, the corona virus is not a against every school was shut down. Public schools, Christian schools, Muslim schools, Amish schools, Mormon schools, every school was shut down. It's not a against schuls or against schools. Every church was closed down. Every mosque was closed down. Businesses were closed down. So this is not a against and the it's it's a it's it's a on it's it's a it's a situation of a pandemic disease where we're trying to save people's lives. Besides the corona virus doesn't stop anybody from learning. It's just dictating our location instead of learning in yeshiva have to learn at home. But it's not against you should learn and learn and learning as we're doing now. We're learning and you learn and learn learn in your house. That's it. I need advice about davenining. It's very hard for me to davin. What I would suggest to you is to make it personal. Take one paragraph or two paragraphs of dining every day. Read it in a translation that you understand. So that makes it personal. And then during davening, take a few moments to speak personally to Hashem. That's how you should focus. I don't know how old you are and what stage you are but maybe at this stage the whole Davening is too much for you. Take a section of Davening let's say the right and translate it in English if that's your language speak to Hashem personally and that's how you will find a flavor in Davening Mali age six bar park why do my parents say no a lot sometimes they say no but why do they have to ever say no and why are they really strict sometimes Well, I don't know. I don't know your parents. I can't answer the question. I do know generally that sometimes it's important for parents to say no because let's say a child needs to go to sleep for their health or a child shouldn't be eating something that's not good for them. So then it's important for a parent to step in and say no or say yes. But I don't know the details. In other words, are your parents saying no more than other parents? Are your parents parents saying no when they shouldn't be saying no? Do your parents get very very angry at you? you have to share with me more details because generally speaking, we all need rules. Adults need rules and children need rules because rules keep us healthy. I'll give you an example. If you have people playing a football game on the roof, but there's no fence. It's very dangerous. They can't have fun. Only when there's a fence can they have fun. So, in life, if you really want to have fun, you have to have fences. You have to have rules. When you have rules, then you could play football on the roof and have a great time. But if you never have fences, you're always afraid you're going to fall over the roof. So that's why it's important to have fences. Not too many fences. And sometimes we have to realize that the fences are maybe too uh too strict as you say, but generally we sometimes have to say no to ourselves and say no to our children. I'm 13, without a school, without socializing. I'm feeling sad. I'm feeling bored. I'm tired of cleaning and chores. I want to know how I'm supposed to get through this time. I dab in and say till, but I can't think of ways to entertain myself. My parents are busy with their own work. They're under pressure, so they haven't provided options for me. I'm so bored. What am I supposed to do every day? Wow. First of all, can you call your friends? Can you social can you be with your friends on the phone? Maybe you can use Zoom. Maybe you could use Skype. Maybe you could use FaceTime. Maybe you could just use a phone and be with your friends. Maybe you guys can get games. You can play games. Maybe there's books that you could read. Maybe there's exercise. There's sports you could do. Yeah. Maybe watch classes that you like. There's there's there's Jewish stories. There's Jewish classes. If you like my classes, you can watch my classes on the yeshiva.net. But try to create a schedule for yourself of things that can entertain you and inspire you. Do you like reading? Maybe you can get some books. Maybe you have books that you could read. Or or other things that entertain you. Maybe you like writing. You can practice your writing. Maybe you like building. Maybe you like drawing. You like painting, right? Maybe you like singing or you love dancing or can you play an instrument? Maybe you can get an instrument that you could play. So try filling up your day as much as possible. This is a very important question. Israel apple bomb great neck New York age six how many people have the corona virus I don't know exactly how many people have the corona virus because a lot of people have it and they don't feel the symptoms like many of us may have it but we don't feel sick barak the official number that's given for people who have the corona virus meaning people that were tested and have it officially is approximately 430,000 that's one of the numbers that I read I think yesterday uh you wanted to know How many people passed away from it? I think the number now in the whole world in the whole world is approximately 18,000 or a little more maybe 19,000 unfortunately. And Hashem should send a complete recovery to all those who need a recovery. Men are not able to d with a minion now because all the shs had to close. There were Jews in communist Russia who risked their lives to help Jews to do mitzvah to go to sh. Does Hashem really want Jews to violate and not dav with a minion? Will he forgive us? The answer is Hashem doesn't have to forgive you for not ding with a minion. It's a mitzvah now not to dav with a minion. It would be an a to dav with a minion because as I told you many times in these sessions, the greatest mitzvah in the world is to save other people's lives. When people mingle now, it spreads the virus and it could spread to people whose immune systems are not strong enough. They're older or they're sicker. And because of that, their lives can be in danger. And even even if we take them to the hospital, when there's so many people who come to the hospitals, there could be a shortage in beds and in doctors and in ventilators and respirators. So that's why the mitzvah that Hashem wants us to do today is to stay home and save lives. It really bothers me when people make jokes about the corona virus. Am I too sensitive? I feel that people should be more in touch that it's a and it's not a joke. It could come to our loved ones. Some of our friends are sick. I don't want anybody to be in this situation and I feel people are insensitive. I understand you very very much. But I do want to tell you that sometimes a very good way to deal with a difficult situation is humor. Humor is funny jokes, anecdotes, humor. People laugh. It's not always because they're insensitive. Sometimes they're very, very sensitive. There's people who know how to laugh and they know how to cry. But sometimes when you can't do anything, so you can make a choice. I could just sit and cry or I could just sit and be upset and grouchy. Or I make another choice and that is I can't do anything. At least let me laugh about the situation. Let me keep my spirits high. Let me see it from a positive perspective. So, it's not always that people are insensitive. Sometimes they're very, very sensitive. They just want to keep their spirits and their humor going. Don't worry about it. And maybe you can also enjoy a little bit of humor. It's not a sin to have a sense of humor. I'm home all day and I'm struggling with technology. I'm watching a lot of movies. I know it's bad for me. It's breaking my connection to Hashem. I'm the only child home. I'm bored. My my parents are busy all day on their phone. So when they get upset at me that I watch so much on on my screens, I'm thinking to myself, how could they expect me not to watch if they are being myates? Cuz they are on their phone. They watch the news. They watch clips all day. They don't stop. They're not showing me the right way. I know it's wrong to watch, but it's hard for me to stop. What can I do to help myself? I don't have WhatsApp. Please can you put me on the mailing list so I can get your updates on? Wow, this is a very very important question and uh I think I think number one you should limit the time every day. Just limit your time every day and make a limit for yourself so you could be disciplined. Number one, have a conversation with your parents respectfully. Share this with your parents. Tell you how tell them how hard it is for you. They're literally, if you say they're literally on the phone all day, share this with them and tell them, you know, maybe we should do some projects together. There's no other kids in the house. Maybe we should dance together, exercise together, play games together, do puzzles together, make together, draw together, play songs together, eat together. Maybe also pick topics that you could now grow in. Do you like math? Do you like science? Do you like history? Maybe you could consult your parents. You could learn things now. There's a lot of opportunities to learn things maybe in Yiddish. There's so much you could grow in, but also other subjects if you like. There's history channels. There's uh the science of animals, the science of trees, the science of biology, how viruses work. Yeah. Spend a few hours a day to enrich your knowledge base. So try to live and be as productive as possible. My name is Lisa. I'm 9 years old. Is this the modern plague for the 10 makers, for the for this coming Pes? No. No. I don't see it that way. I don't see it as a modern plague for the Goyan. Unfortunately, it's a plague for everyone, for and for Jews. I have a question, Nafali. I want to play on the tablet all day while I'm home. I don't want to learn. I don't want to do my homework. What can I do that I'll be happy to learn and also have time to play on my tablet? And the answer is you should find interesting stuff to learn. Are there teachers that you like? Maybe you can access them online. Are there subjects you like? Try to find interesting subjects. For example, if you're here at this program, right, and you like what I'm saying? So, watch more of my classes or any teacher, any Rebi that you like, try to find these things. But you should do your homework. Even when you're not in the mood of doing your homework, you should still do your homework and do your learning. Because even if we're not in the mood, it's good to do things sometimes when you're not in the mood. Because that's what every human being who grows, we do that. When I only do things that I'm in the mood of, I remain very very limited. I become a slave to my moods. So now if I'm in a good mood, I do it. If I'm a bad mood, I don't do it. You become a slave to your moods. You don't want to be a slave to your moods. You want your moods to be a slave to you. So even if you're not in the mood, you always have the power to do the right thing. But you should also try to find learning that's interesting for you so that it doesn't always have to be that you're feeling uh a grudge. You're feeling frustrated with doing it. I'm 10 years old. How are we going to say this year? Whoever wants could come eat. We're not allowed to invite anybody to the sedar. How could we say before the begins in the beginning of the sed? What a beautiful question. Wow. And I guess I guess that this year the answer is going to have to be that we're going to speak to ourselves and we're going to invite ourselves to the sed we're going to say whoever needs whoever needs whoever wants come to the seder. You know who are you going to be speaking to yourself? I'll be speaking to myself. Very often we could be at a sedar but it's more like you know it's boring I just do it manishana wait for the afikman prize and so forth this year invite yourself to the sedar say I'm going to be at the seder fully I'm going to be there with my whole heart with my whole soul invite yourself to the sedar and engage use the sedar as an opportunity for your own growth for you to go out of mitz each of us has our own mitz we have our limitations we have the things that hold us back. We have things that scare us. We have our insecurities and we can all go out of our own mitz. So try to make this seder a very very personal sed where every step of the sedar is about your own life helping you grow to become the person that hashem felt you can be helping you actualize your deepest resources. In fact in the pes section on the yeshiva.net I have quite a few classes on different parts of the sedar. How every part of the sedar is a opportunity for us to grow. So maybe you could watch some of those because I think this year we have to invite ourselves to the sedar. We are the ones who have to be there with our whole soul. I've not been outside for so long. Whenever one of my neighbors comes, my mother won't let me talk to them. How should I feel? Well, listen. your mother is concerned, but maybe you could speak to them from a distance, if it's a proper distance. Number one. Number two, you could speak to them by phone. We speak about the greatness of the Jewish people who risk their lives to do mitzvah. Now, we're not supposed to do mitzvah. No, you're supposed to do all the mitzvah, and the biggest mitzvah to do is to keep your health and to keep other people healthy. There's no bigger mitzvah. I'm learning Mishnay right now. I'm 12 years old. Nisel in Virginia. When should I start learning Gamarra? Why do adults learn Gmorra so much more than Mishna? First of all, it's a mistake that adults don't learn Mishnayas. They should be learning Mishnayas their whole life. When you should start learning Garra is I'm sure you'll speak to the teachers who know you, but generally when you understand Mishna very very well, then you go to Gmorrah. If you haven't mastered Mishnay very very well, you will not be able to appreciate Gamarra. People who start learning amora before they really really know how to learn Mishnay are not doing a service to themselves. I heard you mention before about spending time to find purpose in life. How do I know what my specific purpose in this world is? Wow, these kids are very intelligent. Number one, you have to look at the talents that Hashem gave you. Every person has special gifts and resources, talents and challenges that Hashem gave you and your purpose is usually connected to that. Number two, you have to see where you live, what your opportunities are. Your purpose is connected to that cuz it's all bah. And number three, you have to see what's hard for you. Usually that which is very hard for me is part of my purpose. And that's why they ate Sahara doesn't let me do it because I know it's good for me, but it's hard for me. And the reason I have resistance is because this is part of my purpose. So when you're having resistance, it's a good sign that you're doing the right thing. And that's usually part of your purpose. Ellie from Crown Heights, did you ever think of becoming chief rabbi of Israel? I think you would be a great person in the position and help the Jewish people. Would you consider it as your next project? Well, Ellie, thank you. Thank you very much for your empowering words and the trust that you that you put in me. I wasn't actually considering it now. Uh if Hashem wants me to be in that position, I guess I'll be in that position. My name is Tapora. I am Rabbi Freed's daughter from Pomona, New York. Thank you for the great stories and I don't want I don't have any questions. I trust in Hashem and I thank you, Hashem, that he's keeping the corona away from the children. Yes, thank you, Hashem. Okay. Where did you buy your very nice tie? I didn't buy it. My wife bought it and I have to ask her, "Hi, how can we bring excitement for PES for the kids when the kids are home and schools are limited with online material?" And the answer is do projects together for PES. Maybe build different props for PES out of clay. Maybe uh puzzles of PES, maybe create their own hag. Yeah. Maybe do different things for Pes, preparations for Pes in any area, make songs for Pesak. Um again they could make their own hag. Tell them stories about PES. They can hear stories about PES. Try to be creative and spend time every day working on preparations for PES in a positive and fun environment. If Hashem wants a house for himself to live in this world, why can't he build it himself? Why does he need us? The answer is cuz he wants a relationship. He could have done anything, but he wants a relationship with you. Hashem wants that we should become the ones who build a home for him in this world and that way we become one with him. Please answer this question. We don't want our father to go to work. He says he has to go to support the family. What should we do? Kayla Alisa Tamar in California. Well, speak to your father about it and ask him to be very very extremely careful of how he's dealing with this because it's a very very serious situation and but you have to understand his perspective. You know, he he feels that he has to support the family and he has to go to work. I don't know the circumstances. Can your father stay home? Maybe speak to him respectfully about it and say, you know what, maybe Tati will be happy with less money in the house, but you stay home. Maybe he can go less to work. Maybe there's certain ways he can work from the house. Maybe there's certain things he can do to protect himself, speak about this, have an open and respectful conversation about this. How can I be calm at night when I go to sleep? How can I know that I don't have the virus and I'm going to wake up in the morning? Fagi DH H10. Okay. When you're calm, when you're going to sleep, imagine that there's pink. Just close your eyes, take a deep breath, and imagine that Hashem is embracing you with love. And you can even imagine a color. Let's say your favorite color is pink. Imagine that you're covered in pink. Just imagine. And you're covered by the love of Hashem who's with you every moment, who protects you, who guides you, who takes care of you constantly. Every single moment of life is a gift and is a miracle from Hashem. So therefore, when you go to sleep, try to tell that to yourself. Breathe slowly. Take in deep breaths. Inhale. Exhale. Calm yourself down. And when there's tension, don't fight with it. Just let it pass. Let it pass. Breathe into your tension and embrace the quiet internal knowledge of your nishama that Hashem is protecting you. I believe we will come out stronger and closer from this experience. How do we balance the pain and suffering of others? In other words, the survivors will benefit. What about all the people who died? Yes, this is very very painful. But you have to remember this. We do not know the mystery of life. We do not know the mystery of death. Every soul has its mission. Every single soul has its mission. Why were some people taken from us now during the corona? Nobody knows. We don't know. We cry. We miss them. We will forever miss them. Some people lost very close relatives, close friends. I know people who have passed away, people very, very dear, very, very special. We'll forever miss them till Msiah comes. And it's part of the mystery of life. And yes, a lot of us will grow from this experience. We will never forget it. And we will forever be in pain over those souls who lost their lives in this. And there's no question about it. And our heart goes out for their loved ones and their families and we pray for their souls and we we we cry for this. And we pray that all those who need a complete and speedy recovery should have one. How do I stay focused on my task while I'm home with there's so many distractions? The answer is in the morning make sure the first thing you davin and you meditate and have a very powerful davining. connect to Hashem in a very deep way and that will allow the whole day to be much more focused and make for yourself a schedule and take it easy is it if it's important to go to stores is it not important to go to shul yudi the answer is do not go to stores people should not go to stores any place where people gather could be dangerous a house needs food so you send one person and Everything should be disinfected. You should follow the guidelines of the CDC, how to go shopping. A lot a lot of more questions came in and keep on coming in. Wow. You could text your questions to uh 845777-4747 845777-4747. Now, we're going to stop with the questions and I'm going to share with you a special story. 8457774747. We're getting all of your questions and I'm going to share now a very special story. I do know that I did not answer a lot of lot of questions. But now we're going to stop. We're going to continue our program. Sunday 4:00 p.m. Now, I'm going to tell you a story. Okay? The story I want to share with you is about a uh it's a story they tell about the of Lublin. The Kais of Lublin was a Jew named Rabyakov Horowitz and uh he's known as the Seir the Seir of Lublin. He passed away. I'm looking at his yard. passed away I believe or toual on tishabove I just like to get these things right okay he's from Lublin Lublin Poland and he passed away yeah 1815 that's tough tishabin and it was one of the greatidic masters of his time they tell a very beautiful story about him once upon a time a Jew came to him and he was very poor a Jew from Poland a lot of the Jews of Poland were very very poor and this is the early 1800s or late 1700s and he asked the of Leblin what should he do it's hard for him to put bread on the able. It's hard for him to fix his home, to buy clothes for his children, to buy food for Shabas and Yamtan. Every night he has an older daughter. He has to marry her off. But you have to pay for the wedding, help her establish the life, a new life. And he has mamish nothing. Nothing. What should he do? So the of Leblin gave him five rubble, which is not a lot of money. It would be like today, you know, I'll give you 50 cents or something, a dollar. It's money, but it's not uh a huge sum of money. And he says, go. And the first business deal that's offered, buy it. Here's money. The first offer deal, the first business deal that anybody offers you, purchase it. And that's what he does. He goes and he travels. But weird. The Reb didn't tell him where to go. But he was a so hisb told him go. So he went he went. He started to travel. Came nighttime. You have to uh stop. He's not going to travel at night. So he went to an inn. They had what's called we call it a kretchma. like today I have Motel 6 like a bed and breakfast place you could stay you can eat you can get a drink he went to one of these these ins these kretchas a lot of them were owned by Jews they would call them mushka the the the non-Jews who would uh give them these ins they would rent it out and and and they would run them they used to call these Jews mushka mushka like mosha all the Jews were mushka because every Jew is connected to Moshe every Jew has a spark of misha so he went to one of these kas one of these ins and uh he stayed the night there. So at night, you know, they had a little dinner that they offered to guests whoever wanted. And there was a group of Jews who were uh let's call them column. They were lightheaded. They were not very uh very refined or very spiritual or very aidal or very well behaved. They were more on the frivolous side. You know, they liked a little bit of frivolousness. They were not so uh fearful of heaven. They would call themselves enlightened during that time. Enlightened anyway. And they were sitting in the inn and they were drinking. They were drinking beer and they were playing cards. They were playing cards or gambling. You know, one of these things they were doing. And this Jew, the of the of Leblin was was minding his own business and sitting in his seat. These guys were getting drunk. These guys were getting drunk. And one of them says to his friend, "You know, I'm going to have a good time with that Jew." And he calls him over and he says, "I want to make a business deal with you." Okay. I'm going to sell you my haba. How much are you ready to pay for it? I want money. I will sell you everything. My entire Haba, my portion in the world to come. I'm selling you. Pay. What are you offering? And the Jew says, he thinks to himself, "Am I crazy? Buy this guy's alam and give him my money." But then he remembered the of Leblind said, "The first business deal that you're offered, buy it. Take it." He says, "No problem. I have five rubble. You want it or not?" He says, "Yeah, give me the five rubble." He gives the man the five rubble. The guy signs a contract. Two witnesses. I hereby sold my alamaba to thisidic Jew, whatever his name was, Ply Almani for five rubble. Okay. They continue to drink and sing and dance. They're having fun or they think they're having fun. It looks like they're having fun. Usually when people are drinking like that, it's because they're miserable, but at least it looks like to others that they're having fun. And at last, the party is over. And this fellow comes home. Comes home. His wife was not happy the time he came and how drunk he was. What's going on? He's laughing. She says, "What are you laughing about?" He says, "This stupid Jew gives me five rubble from Mahaba." And I signed it off. These Jews, what they believe in, these Jews, he gives me five rubble. It was a good deal. I got five rubble for nothing, right? fast five rubble for Mahaba. His wife says, "You're crazy. You give away your portion. That's eternity. This life is not eternal. Sham passes away, goes to Alamaba, you give it away. I don't care how much he paid you. Five rubble with or more or less. You go back to the inn right now and you get back that contract. Tear it up and give him back his money. this is what you do. Okay. His wife says he follows her. He follows her instructions. He goes back to the inn. Next morning, the Jew wakes up. Dav Shakus comes out for breakfast. He comes over to the Jew and he says, "Listen, I'm sorry. My wife is screaming at me. Let's cancel the deal. I apologize. Take your rubble and give me back my Laba." The Jew says, "No, no, no, no, no, no. A deal is a deal. a smart guy. A deal is a deal. So, it was a real sale. I'm not giving it back to you. He says, "You know what? I'll give you 10 rubble. You'll get an extra money. I'll get extra five rubble." No. I'll give you 50 rubble. 50 rubble. No. Goes back home. He tells his wife, "Oh, this stubborn guy doesn't even want 50 rubble." The wife says, "Listen, if you don't get back your not coming back into this house, you leave the house. You're not coming back to this. I will not live with a man who does not have. The thought for his wife was a horrendous thought. It was a horrid thought. I will not live with somebody doesn't have. He goes back. He offers the Jew 50, 75, 85, 95, 100, 2003. The Jew says, "No, no, no." Goes back home. His wife says, "I don't care. You're not coming back into this house." He goes back. The Jew is calculating how much money he needs. How much money he needs to start off all over again to marry off his kids to to to do basic construction in the house to have food for some time to buy clothes. He looks at this fellow and he says 5,000 rubble. I give you 5,000 rubble and you get your hab. The man is pleading with him but he had money. So out of desperation takes out 5,000 rubble. He gives it to the Jew. The Jew gives him the contract. They tear it up. He gets back his he goes back home. His wife accepts him back in the house. The Jew is now with 5,000 rubble. From five rubble, he had 5,000 rubble. He went back to the of Leblin to say thank you. He goes into the se of Lublin and he tells the of Leblin what happened. He tells him the whole story. He gave him five first business deal and now he has 5,000. So the oflin tells him and he says, "I want to tell you something this business deal was really embra It was true. And I'll tell you why. When he sold you his Mahaba, you know how much his Mahaba was worth? It was worth five rubble. It was worth barely five rubble. You paid the price of Islam Aba. Isam Aba was so small and so cheap because of the type of life he was living. It was five rup. But I want you to know when he bought back Islam Haba when he purchased back Islam Haba for you, you know what it was worth? It was worth 5,000 rubble and it was worth much much much more of course because now he gave sedaka to help another Jew towards his needs. So because of that ishaba went who up not only 5,000 rubble but much much more. So he says the deal was actually a very very accurate deal. What do you learn from this my dear kind? The greatest thing in the world is when you could do a favor to another person. You can help another person can make another person happy bring up their spirits. And I want you to know every moment you're home now, you're helping to save lives. Remember, you're not home because nobody wants you outside in the streets or in sh or in school. You're home on a mission. We are all together on a mission to help save lives, to help stop a pandemic. We're on a mission for Piku, to help promote health and life among all of our people and among the whole planet. Remember, every moment you're quarantined, you're doing the greatest mitzvah in the world. And when you're home, don't only keep your spirits high. Try to enliven other people's spirits. Enliven your father and your mother and your brothers and your sisters. And even if you're having a hard day, I told you, you have an effus and you have an effic part of the equation. There was once a girl who came to her mommy and said, "Mommy, you know, I have so many obstacles in life. I'm quarantined and I'm afraid of the Corona virus and I don't know what to do and I miss my friends and Pes. We were supposed to go away for Pes to be with our family and with our cousins and I'm afraid and look what happened to this person and what's going to be the future of the world and I'm bored at home." That's what she told her mommy. And mommy took three pots and filled them up with water and put them on the stove and put the fire all the way to the highest. And this water started to sizzle and bubble and mommy put into the pot three different items. You know what the three different items mommy first put into the first pot? Mommy put in long fresh carrots that she got from the fruit store delivered or she had to pick it up. And she put those carrots in the first pot. In the second pot, she put an egg. She put an egg. This egg. And then in the third pot, she took fresh coffee beans. She took fresh coffee beans, fresh coffee beans, fresher than these coffee beans, real fresh coffee beans, and put it in the third pot. And she let them all cook. She let them all cook in the pot. And then after some time, mommy closed the fire, took the pots off the stove, and asked her daughter, "What do you see?" She said, "I see cooked carrot. I see a cooked egg, and I see the coffee beans in the water. What's the difference?" And she picked up the carrot and the carrot was very, very soft. And she picked up the egg and took over the peel and the egg was hard. And then she looked at the third pot. In the third pot, all the water had that delicious aroma of fresh coffee beans. And the whole water had the color and the flavor and the smell of the coffee. And mommy said, "I want you to know that sometimes in life, you find yourself in hot water. You find yourself in a challenging situation. Now you have to choose. Are you going to be a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean? The difference? A carrot starts off hard and tough. And then you put the carrot into the hot water and it becomes mushy and soft and frail and weak and it easily crumbles. That's the carrot. Then you have an egg. An egg starts off very soft. Soft boiled egg. You open up the egg and all the liquid, the yolk just oozes out. You put it in hot water and it gets hard and tough. It's a hardboiled egg. And mommy said there's two types of people. One person, you put them in hot water and they lose their strength. They become weak and frail and scared and soft and insecure. and you have another person, you put them in hot water and they become rough and harsh and tough and you can't get through to them anymore because they become hard and cynical and cold because they're afraid to be hurt. And mommy said, I would suggest try not to be like the carrot, not to be like the egg, be like the coffee. You know what the coffee does when it goes into the hot water? It turns the hot water into coffee. And it turns the hot water into a delicious, fragrant, hot drink with a great smell and a great aroma. It turns the hot water also into coffee. She says, "In life, we're sometimes in a difficult situation, difficult circumstances. We didn't expect it. There's disappointment. There's frustration. the trajectory, the way we planned our lives is not exactly panning out that way. We're hearing a lot of news. Sometimes you can get scared. You can panic. And some of us become like carrots. We become very scared, very, very weak. Some of us become like eggs. We become very tough and very hard and very stubborn. But the right approach, the Jewish approach is be like the coffee. Take the hot water and make it into coffee. What does this mean? It means use the challenge. Use this time and find the silver lining. Find the opportunity. Find how it could make you a better person, a better child, a happier person. Connect to yourself in a deeper way. Connect to Hashem in a deeper way. Do things that you really love doing. Pursue your hobbies. Connect to your nishama. Focus on your priorities. Today, nobody's running anywhere. I can ask myself the question, not what I have to do, but who I am and what is life ultimately about. Usually, we're always doing things. I'm rushing here. I'm rushing there. I'm rushing in. I have a to-do list. But now, I could stop and ask myself, and what's the purpose of it all? So, in such a situation, I could be like a carrot and I could be like an egg and I could be like a coffee bean. I can change the hot water, the very circumstances that bring about the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance. It releases the flavor. If you're like a coffee bean, when things are in a when things are difficult, you can change the situation around you. When there's trials, there's tribulations, you can elevate yourself to another level. How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot? Are you an egg? Are you a coffee bean? So my dearest dearest children, I love you and I bless you and I want you to be able to keep your spirits high. And now I'm going to answer the third riddle. And after I answer the third riddle, we're going to say goodbye to each other until Sunday 4:00 p.m. There's so many questions that I didn't take. There's so many questions and I'm sorry. I'm sorry I couldn't take all the questions, but I'm going to answer my riddle. I'm going to answer my riddle. And I see there's so many questions. I decided I'm going to take another few questions. I'm going to give every question just one minute because I want to be able I don't want to get so behind on questions. I'm going to give every question just one minute. I'm going to take another few questions and then I'm going to finish with my riddle and we're going to have another program Sunday at 4. Why do we say next year in your Why don't we say this year in your Excellent question. The answer is we mean that Msiah should come this year. So automatically next year PES will be in Jerusalem. Get it? Surio Detroit. How did Corona virus begin in China? We don't know yet. There's a lot a lot of theories. I don't think they have the conclusive answer yet. I think many are saying or most are saying that probably it spilled over from an animal into a person. The virus, listen to last last program on Sunday, the virus has to go into a living organism to replicate itself. But usually this virus is in animals. They don't travel to people. But sometimes there's a spillover. So some are suggesting that in the marketplace in Wuhan, China, where there's a market of living animals, the virus spread and went from an animal into a human being and then it spread from human being to human being. But it's not sure yet. We don't know for sure. Why did Hashem create the world if he knew that he will bring the marble and destroy the world and he knew there will be so much suffering and people making a Thank you. I love you. This is Mosha from Brooklyn H7. What a beautiful question Mosha. I love you too. Such a nice question. And the answer is the answer is life and history has a lot of pain and a lot of suffering, but it also has so much beauty and so much love. Just look in the mirror and you'll see so much beauty. You know why Hashem created the world? He created the world for people like you, mashallah. He created the world for people like you. People like you who are his messengers in this world to bring in love and light and hope and healing. So yes, he gave people choice because if there's no choice, then we're just like robots. There's no point. It's like I com I program my computer to tell me every day, oh, I love you, Rabbi Y, good morning. It doesn't mean much because my computer was programmed by me. So, Hashem gives us choices and when we make choices, we can make good choices and we can make other choices but he cherishes so much the relationship with us that he wants to give us free choice even though he knows that it comes at the expense that we may make mistakes but having a real relationship with us is more precious than anything anything else. You know you can ask a question why do people get married when there's so much divorce right and when why do people have children when so when sometimes children create so many problems not you and the answer is the joy of marriage and the joy of children is so deep that even though we know that sometimes it doesn't work out and we're in pain for it and we try to avoid that we still don't want to destroy the opportunity for such beautiful relationships what's more beautiful than a relationship of a mother and a child of a father and child of grandparents and grandchildren and of Hashem them and you how can kids going into yeshiva make the virus spread if a zadei has the virus and they are not so old and they are not and they are not and they are old it's dangerous but little kids apparently don't get sick that's the point the point is that let's say we go to yeshiva right and there's 30 kids in the classroom or there's 20 kids and there's 100 kids in the yeshiva even if one person has it they may all catch it and now they bring it home right now mommy goes to the supermarket and mommy touches a surface on the supermarket and somebody else touches that surface and gets the virus and that person brings food home to their aging mother at home and now that mother can get the virus and so it travels if we're all mingling with each other the virus can travel I can bring the virus one person can infect thousands and thousands of people even if I only infect two people and you they infect two people and they infect two people within 30 days you have more than a billion people infected it. Take a chess board. Take a chess board and put $1 in box one. And then double it. Box two, $2. Box three, $4. Box four, $8,62. And you'll see when you come to 29, you'll be over 500 million. You understand? How can why in the Mishana do we ask the question on all other nights we eat all kinds of vegetables on this night? We eat only m. First of all, there's no that we can't eat other vegetables. The second we do eat other vegetables by karpass. I don't I never understood it that it means that we don't eat other vegetables but it means that there's a mitzvah to eat mr. Other nights there's no mitzvah to eat m. Now there's a mitzvah to eat m but I don't think he's excluding other vegetables. You can have salad at the pes night. Why do we sometimes repeat sukim and ding like by a sh and in halal? Oh out of love. you know when when when when you really love something very strong. So you'll sometimes repeat like when I love somebody I'll say their name once and twice right sometimes maybe you'll you'll you'll hold your baby brother your baby sister on your lap and if his name is Mosha like you'll say Mosha or and you'll say it a lot of times my dear Moshe my dear Mosha it's a sign of affection. Why did Hashem choose out of any other country in the world to be the holy land? That's a wonderful, wonderful question. Wonderful question. It's Eleazar, 7 years old. Why did he choose this country from all other countries? You know what? I don't know. I have to look that up. If there's a reason that we know why he chose that country, I'm going to look it up. Thank you for the homework. Coopermanman family. How do we get ready to greet Msiah? We get ready to be mashiach through being happy through using every opportunity to bring more in the world more mitzvah in the world and more kaduca into the world and by starting to live in a way of ga starting to live in a way that I imagine when Msiah comes how am I going to live what is the world going to look like we're all going to feel one with Hashem and we're all going to feel that we're infinity start living that way already and by learning about Msiah by learning about the gula I wanted to know in this situation, every situation in life, how can I be positive? But I also but be it also feel it whether it comes to my best friend, helping my mother and even dvening. Can the rabbi give me any tips? Listen to this session. Listen to session, last Sunday and listen to last Thursday. Why do we eat matzah and and marry together? Why do we eat matzah and ma together? We eat matzah and mur because life is a combination of freedom and challenge and we are like coffee beans. Adults are fasting. Adults are davening. What can a child do to help the situation? And the answer is as a child you can also davin. and every Tyra that you learn more and every act of a that you do more and every mitzvah that you do more and every act of that you do more. You bring in more holiness and light and goodness into the world. Why is Hashem making this corona virus happen? Don't tell me that we don't understand. I heard that the answer so many times. Thank you. I am age 36 but maturity level of my inner child is age nine. What do you want? What do you want me to tell you? What do you want me to tell you? I'm not God. I cannot I cannot answer such a question. I cannot answer. Our world has moments of difficulties and challenges and suffering. Why exactly Hashem does it? I am clueless. You may not want to hear that answer, but what do you want people to tell you that they do know? However, the question we have to ask ourselves in any situation is not why, but what are we going to do about it? What's our mission? What's our response? That's much more important than a question why. If Hashem wants you to know why, he'll let you know why. What he wants us to do is our job is not to know why. Our job is to fight the pandemic. Maybe if Hashem would have told us why, we would have been more relaxed. Maybe Hashem doesn't want me to be relaxed. Our job is to heal the world from the pandemic. Just like when somebody is sick or there's a tragedy, we don't say, "Oh, Hashem wants it. let the person remain sick. Our job is to stop suffering in the world, not to explain it, not to justify it. Hashem doesn't tell us why there's pain in the world. Cuz our job is not to understand it. Our job is to fight it. Our job is to stop it. Our job is to bring healing to the world, to bring healing to people. If someone is a and he wants to come to a minion in his driveway so he can say kadesh, what should I do? You have to speak to two professional doctors who are trustworthy and consult with them. If it's endangering a life, there's no mitzvah to say kadesh. On the contrary, the nama would not want them to say kadesh. Instead, they should give saddaka and learn mishnayas. And if there's a minion somewhere, they can rent somebody over there to say kadesh. If there's somewhere in the world a safe minion, it says there'll be a plague before Mashiach comes. Is this it? I don't know what you're talking about. Why do you say there's going to be a plague before Mashiach? I don't know. We hope that Msiah is going to come very, very soon, but I don't know about these calculations. I don't think anybody knows. At least I don't know. I'm an eighth grader. How should I mot myself? How should I motivate myself to learn more during the day? Cuz at night, I have a feeling of dread that I didn't learn enough that day. Every person has to live up to their potential. As long as you're using your day productively, be happy. Be proud of yourself. And you have to, it's also a mitzvah to protect your health and to relax and to be happy. So don't worry, but use your day productively. And you don't have to eat yourself up. Challenge yourself. Do the best you can, but remain calm and remain happy. And that's also very important for success and learning. When you're anxious, you can't learn well. How do you feel about people panic shopping and freaking out about Corona virus ST10? I don't see the point of freaking out and panic shopping although I understand the attitude. We have to be responsible. We have to be conscientious. We have to be sensitive to other people and not behave in a foolish and wrong way. But we don't have to panic. It doesn't help anybody. And panic is also contagious. Okay, let me take another three questions because how can we say this year from when my father comes home from sh we say kadesh rifka 8 crown heights and the answer is today our homes are shs So when your father is going to come from one room in the house to another room, you're going to say because today Hashem is allowing us to turn each of our homes into schuls. Okay. You always say to be an ambassador of love, light, and hope. What do you mean by that practically? What I mean is that wherever you are in the world, you could bring there more love, more light, and more hope. That's what I mean. Every moment of the day we plant seeds wherever you go you should have in your pocket seeds on one seed there should be a label love the other one light the other one hope and just throw the seeds and a lot of those seeds are going to create trees people you meet well now we're quarantined but even now in our homes you should be a person who brings more love to the world more light to the world and more hope to the world that's what I meant okay there's a lot A lot of more questions that came in. A lot a lot of more questions. But uh I'm going to now go to the riddle. You can text your questions. 8457774747. God willing I will take more questions next time. And if you want an answer by email, you can also put in your email 8457774747. My dearest friends, and let's go now to answering our riddle. I want to welcome all of the children who are here, literally from the whole world. I'm so so happy you're here. We're going to have another program at uh at Sunday 4:00 p.m. this coming Sunday. Please tell your friends, please tell your children, please tell your brothers, please tell your sisters, please tell your grandchildren. And we're going to have a great time this Sunday at 4:00 p.m. on the yeshiva.net. We're going to have another program. The first two riddles, who wrote the book when they were running away? If you answer that, you're going to get a treat if you answer it correctly. 8457774747. The second riddle about the witnesses on Khes as well. I'm going to discuss that at the next at the next children's program on Sunday. But now I want to conclude with our third riddle. So what would you do if it's 25 below zero? You're in a car. There's only one place for one passenger and it's freezing and it's raining and it's snowing and it's miserable. And you go by a bus stop and you see an old lady who's shivering. And you also see a tremendous friend who saved your life so many years ago. And you also see an incredible person who you've been waiting to meet for 20 years. They will let you fulfill all of your dreams, but you never had a chance to have a conversation with them. Who do you take into your car? Do you take in the elderly lady? Do you take in your friend who saved your life? You want to pay him back? Or do you say, "You know what? I'm going to call the police or call out or let them wait for the bus. I'm going to take into the car this person I've been dying to meet for so many so many so many years. And if I don't do it now, I'm going to miss them forever. What's the right thing to do? What's the right thing to do?" So this so as I told you people were applying for a job. 200 people gave in applications and everyone was asked this question. One person answered the question correctly and they got the job and what's the answer? The answer is you get out of the car. You tell your best friend who saved your life to get into the car and take the old lady to the hospital and you wait at the bus stop with this man who you wanted to meet for 20 years. Of course, you don't let the older lady wait at the bus stop. That's not what we do. We are too sensitive to people's lives. That's why we're all quarantined here. You give the car to your best friend who saved your life. Let him drive away with the older lady and you wait at the bus stop with this very, very successful man who you wanted to meet. He got the job because he thought out of the box. In life, you sometimes have to think original, be creative, think out of the box. Don't get stuck in any box. I told you your soul is infinite. Like Hashem, because your soul is infinite, you're never stuck in any box. You could think out of the box. Kind my love and blessings to you. Stay healthy. May Hashem keep you healthy, your parents healthy, your families healthy, your grandparents, your whole family healthy, all of our communities healthy, all of the Jewish people healthy here and in the whole world in all of humanity healthy and on this bring tremendous Yeshua to all of us and to our whole world. And as one of the children quoted the famous medish Benalu, the famous Gmorra Benalu a see you God willing Sunday at 4 right here on at right here at the websitetheshiva.net. You can text all your questions beforehand, 8457774747, including the answers to the first two riddles, which we will address next Sunday. I love you. I bless you. Bye-bye. La.