Meet Julian

but there is actually no Jewish schools around me so I don't get that kind of education um it's secular hi this is Rabbi Ezra sarna I say one of the shiram on the All Mission app and I'm here with uh Julian who sent me an email about one of the mishayas and then we developed a relationship I want to just introduce you to Julian Julian I got an email from you can you tell me how you got my email and and why you emailed me um so basically basically I I started learning the missionaries on my Saturday and basically so I wanted to start with that one because that was actually before about it I heard about that for me but I hadn't actually heard about mishnaomi so I wanted to start learning it so I learned with yoshio um because it was the first one I saw in the easiest one to one understand um and then I started to have some questions and then by pure coincidence you put your email at the end so I was like oh I have some questions maybe I should email him so yeah you know it wasn't pure coincidence that I actually put my email there on purpose because I wanted to give people the opportunity who are listening to ask any questions that they might have and I actually love getting emails from people because it gives me a chance to know who is watching my share and I can correct anything or clarify anything and I just love getting to know if people are listening so how old are you Julian um so I'm 11 years old um and you know tiny bit late because you're meant to start learning machine at 10 but it was it was just really good to start learning really really intriguing what were some of the most fascinating things that you learned um probably in I love how right now in massage circus um I find it really interesting about all the different things because you have to think logically like would this be considered Kasha would like today for example half of your body sitting inside the sucker and half of your body sitting out of it you just think and then you hear the arguments between base Hill and base shamai and it's just really really interesting so Julian how did you even find Al mishna how did you find my shear and um it was actually um through so first of all I saw the videos um the advertisements on Art scroll because obviously I use before when I started I was just like well I'll just use the old school missionaries but then I saw um the thing on there because they were Distributing them um shania's along with all mishna I thought this looks interesting maybe I'll check it out so then I eventually after a while I checked it out on the first day it was really hard I looked through basically almost every one of them and I just found the visual is really helpful I find it a bit hard to concentrate sometimes um but it really really is helpful and it just makes it so much easier so you're you obviously are very intelligent kid like do you find this uh more engaging the school less engaging the school is it like a nice compliment to school [Music] to school but there is actually no Jewish schools around me so I don't get that kind of education um it's secular so what I basically do is I learn with my parent I learn by myself but then that's a really good thing for people who can't really because it's basically online all the lessons you can get all the lessons you need all the education about you don't it's just it's complete it has the mission now on the website it has the shoe line it has it has a lot just so much because obviously it's not like another country where you can just go to a shop buy a set a lot more complicated so that wasn't really a thing I was aware of but then I just heard and I saw and through learning about the different things I was just like well it sounds like a really good idea to start learning it to let me learn even more so Julian you you you watch on the website on the app do you find it easy to use is it hard to use is it complicated it's really easy to use the app sometimes I found for example when I just use the actual text just this the notes are really helpful you can see at the bottom but then because it's basically like that but when you just read the text straight up it made little to nonsense for me and I just tried I looked and looked over it even if it's just too short basically paragraphs I looked um but then with all mishna there were so many things that I could find without listening it's basically and the way it's Illustrated and the way it talks through it's in such a good way that I just it's so great that's amazing and if you had if you were to speak to other kids out there who said you know Mitch is probably too hard or I can't really do it or I'm not smart enough what would you say to them I felt like so hard but then I just tried and it's just really easy it's a really good routine to get into you always feel like you learn something and just do it every day and you'll see it just makes it so it's I don't know how to say it it's just great so Julie you've been learning so much you've been learning every day has the learning you've been doing has it helped you in your own feeling as a Jew and you're being proud of a Jew in your daily life as a Jew has it impacted you uh yeah it really has it's for example i s i Am even before because I didn't I literally I didn't grow up in it and it was so hard to teach Shabbat that I just didn't at all now I've done that I I do it every week no matter what I it's really hard having people around you not doing it but you see and you just imagine you think about the stuff you've learned and you're thinking what I'm learning this for basically in the center of town There's a synagogue um and we I just decided right I'm learning this I want to go there because we used to never go but now we try and go and you and and when you dream about you know you started this mission to learning what are your dreams after in five and a half years when you finish the whole cycle and you're when you've done the whole thing um start again just start again because it's it's always different like I can go over look at it a million times and you learn something each New Times I'll definitely when I'm a bit older I'll start learning um gamara but I won't give up on mishna because it's it's really connected to every bit of everything Jewish let me ask you one more question the mishna the letters of mission are men hey when you rearrange them they spell the word so you know that already yeah why do you think there's what do you think connection is between mishna and nashama because it's basically it's like the soul of the Jewish people just like you say the Torah is the heart it's like the soul because it's the two parts given on house Sinai and that is just the other part and it's still as important and it's still as wonderful and as it and as interesting I I want to tell you that that uh you know you may feel like you're benefiting from this year and I'm so glad that you are but I definitely benefit more I get so inspired from people like you you might think no who am I I'm a I'm a kid living you know where I live but but getting your emails was was like was like adding tomato I I felt like I was on on fire you know knowing the people like you're watching the mishna yeah it gives me gives me strength and gives me motivation to to keep doing it I really appreciate the fact that you emailed and I encourage you to always reach out if you ever have any questions I really encourage people to just if they have a question reach out because you feel a bit shy at first but then once you realize you may say oh it doesn't relate to me now the Avada um in the basement it doesn't relate to me now why would I do this there's no there's no code there's no coin cuddle there's no why do I need to learn this but it's related to every single part of Yom Kippur it's what it's based on and that can relate to literally everything even if it seems completely unrelated Julian anything else you want to say to people out there um just learn it you there's no there's no age too young there's no age to hold and it feels you think about it oh it's gonna be a big uh it's gonna be a big thing that you're carrying on your shoulders hauling around with you no it's hauling you around it builds a routine it builds uh um it helps you learn so much it encourages you to learn more because you hear request you hear something and I'm like because it doesn't finish on the Mishra it Carries On foreign