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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.
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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
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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.
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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.