Siyum Moed Katan in Las Vegas

who lives here in las vegas and works with public school students who in this crowd i have to say almost all of them don't know what a gemara is almost all because a few of the ones that do know what a gemara is and learn gemara almost daily are here together with us and you'll hear from one of them later this evening but it's interesting for me to understand that the ou the orthodox union who supports all the incredible work that i'm able to do in las vegas also runs programs like oldav or mishna and things for people like us i mean i think we we hit a world record this evening i'm pretty sure this is the most khabib skying rabbis that ever came to dafyo museum in the history of the world so if that wasn't enough for the ou it's not being recorded trust me it will be online so it's incredible to see that the the breadth of the work that the ou does goes completely across the spectrum i was very recently introduced by complete brothers to rabbi who is here with us this evening who runs all that literally started this that took the world by storm and obviously you know we we give all the credits revision but for sure kobe definitely helped and uh all that was an unbelievable utility for people who needed to to learn the daf and to continue learning and it was really it was a it was a complete coincidence that i was able to meet him i actually my brother does uh something called filo with uh victor miller he translates his sperm and he puts out a tv every single day so i was thinking we could do old fila so i i wanted to get in touch with you know the people that do it so i had sent to whatsapp i poked around a little bit because you know i had connections in the ou so i i met rabbi and then the next thing i knew they were planning a scene in las vegas for my cutting which was only in three and a half weeks but barak hashem we're all here this evening and i have a tremendous debt of gratitude and i've grown to have tremendous covet by forever and i thank you for coming and i'd like to ask him to come up and share with you so review the maryland is very modest he says he heard that old apple's planning conceivable las vegas let's set the record straight the theme tonight is all because of rather narrowlist from concept to completion so thank you very much [Applause] and it's true what totally by hashgraph he called me for some other like he says looks like i'm talking about his brother doing something for me but let's see it is where we are tonight and every elephant and i together with usher tesla flew in today and we're actually flying back tonight but we hope to be back we've been here for a few hours and we are just blown away by everything we've seen so far we visited the shoal and the day school it's tremendous so on behalf of the ou rabbi meisha howard executive vice president mr moisha bane president i'd like to thank the los angeles community for hosting the old nazim this evening my special thank you to maryland again putting us all together literally from beginning to end even though he was on the slopes yesterday the day before but he made it back in time a special thank you to rabbi marsha elephant for taking the time and flying in also in and out and hashem we look forward to being able to be here for a longer period of time but it's beautiful and very special to be able to spend the night here with this beautiful crowd i'd like to share achiva before that i shared that i want to mention it's very important the old app platform has been dedicated by a very special person who wishes to remain unanimous the memory of mayor ben khayim wakmin who was a special man who actually unfortunately passed away during copenhagen but he was a special person a family man community person in casablanca morocco and the global scene usually we have this live stream but we're on the west coast so we'll have to film it and put it on line hopefully soon has been generously sponsored by mr josh goldberg and family in memory of his brother elliot yitzchak isaac benelliazzer who was a someone who was sick his entire life was in the hospital many many many times but constantly was fighting and lived until the age of 47 and josh had shared with me that he was the doctor's diagnosis was that he was supposed to pass away at five years old so i always take that inspiration for the omi learners it's something it's a constant battle it's a fight and something that at the end the reward is is great it's tremendous and the local cm tonight in las vegas has been dedicated in memory of yeshua so i'd like to share a chuva for a mayor shapiro who was the miyasi of the tafiyami that we know back way back in poland in 1923 i believe and he was sent the following question and he was sent this question from a community in berlin germany and they wanted to know when you get to adapt like today's daf today's that for those who learned that me is a quarter of the page literally these people wanted to know we took upon ourselves to learn one that every single day perhaps we were macabre we took upon ourselves a nether to learn one type every day does this count when i saw the chuba i was amazed these are jews in germany and this is what they're concerned about holy jews did we learn did we do we complete what we took upon ourselves so he assures them it's okay and he brings riots from different bars and shots that adapt could be even not a complete dab but the the language that he expresses he says i'm so excited that it came to my attention he proposed to learn there was a gathering of all the big rabbanim of that time in poland and he said i'm so happy to hear that even in far away germany they took upon themselves to learn dakayomi the tasty lib explained around him he says i thank hashem that i'm able to be from those that are missing around to learn and for the elephant and i we have this feeling that although you know we sit we live in new york and we really have all our content online so what are we coming to the las vegas community to share this [Music] so my feeling usually is that ultimately the goal and the idea is to be able to learn the way we got the torah from harsinai to marshall bay know when he tore to yeshua and he toured the clowning story is to learn with a harvard with a kabura with with with irabi with your friends now old app is made as a tool whether you're listening to the share on the treadmill you're in the car there's so many opportunities today people don't have access to be able to go to share all the time but to be able to have the availability to learn whether it's a hazara without whether it's listening to a jewish history sound by the doctor henry abramson fascinating every day he provides a tidbit on the daf whether it's about an amura or a tana or about a city or about some kind of object that's mentioned in the deaf all kinds of different shirin that are available for a person even for not learning that feel me but to be connected to that the world that the only experience is something that we feel we're a part of but of course the ultimate joy is sitting down with with the rabbani and we have i know of two abundant here in las vegas who are making they share the two different communities so it's just the fact that we're able to come here and celebrate with them is something amazing and exciting for us thank you very much again i just wanted to share one part so i was talking to remember this and he says if you come to las vegas and talk about torah flowering in the desert you know you turn the crowd off that's what everyone talks about but i know there's a famous question that's asked why was the torah given in harshinai has seen eye they were in the desert it wasn't the most comfortable situation they didn't really have food to eat they didn't have clothing of course the wolverine was the man and hashem made that their clothing should grow with them but wouldn't have been even more spectacular more comfortable for the torah that had been given when they came to terrorist israel they were comfortable they were settled what it had to be given in the midbar in the desert in har sinai especially we know that our 48 kenyan 48 ways that a person could acquire torah and some of them many of them talk about how a person has to be he has to be happy he has to be sure he has to be calm so why was it that hashem decided the place to give the tourism to be in the middlebury in the desert and there's a lot to talk about to answer this question but i become i'm not the one who came through it here to speak or the elephants one came came out to speak so i'll make it very brief but the answer is is that if we look at tranquility in the eyes of the with the material eyes then we have to be comfortable in a materialistic way everything has to be perfect we have to make sure we have our panasonic is okay and our houses are okay and our cars are okay and everything's okay but if we look at it in a way in a different with different eyeglasses that what we need is to be close to our shaman to be able to learn torah and it doesn't have to be that our life our materialistic life is perfect our gosh gastroparesis is perfect then that's the way we really could grow in torah and that's what hashem was teaching us he was the famous he talks about the soldier the soldier who's out in the battlefield not the perfect situation for a person to be comfortable with bullets flying and everything else that goes on the battlefield but the soldier has to be calm he has he has to feel at peace with himself and that's the way he's able to be that's the way he's able to win the war they're able to win the war the armies if even if everything around them is crazy but they're calm that's the way they can win the war and that's what he says that's the way a person has to grow in torah everything else around them the world around them can be what's going on in their lives doesn't have to be in the materialistic world settled but the way to be able to acquire torah as if we focus on our goals and with that we have that that was the lesson of giving the torah and the midbar we're in the mid bar we don't have everything we need but we're going to get the torah and that's what we're going to focus on our buddhist hashem and be able to do mitzvahs and hester and everything else and we're able to withstand that he actually wrote a love it's brings a muscle which i want to share a story because that marshall really talks to me on a personal level he talks about hasan who's getting married and if you think about the devastation you know he wants really everything to work out to the best and just imagine if there's a scratch on his shoe or something else maybe his his tie isn't the perfect tie or his suit didn't come out the way he liked it to be how much he could wear on his mind than bothering the devas this is that's not the way it's supposed to be i have a grandfather may he be well who's welcomed his name he's a holocaust survivor and i remember myself a day of my wedding my own wedding but the minute you used to put on a white kettle at the wedding and i was getting ready to go down to the chopra and i had the white kettle i put it on and there's someone else in the room who brought a plate of sesame chicken into the room and for some some reason the kids make contact with the sesame chicken on the sleeve here i am like oh no i'm going into the hopper with a white kettle with a sesame chicken stain my grandfather is a holocaust survivor who went through it all lost his whole family he calmly walks over to me and rolls up the sleeves two or three times and there's no more sesame chicken stain that's somebody who doesn't who focuses on what's important the world doesn't have to be perfect he could have lost his whole family and struggled to build a new family in america but he's focused on what's important your husband you're going to have yakupa we're going to make it work and everything's going to be fine want to end off with the bracha the emir shapiro and that gave to the people that wrote that he said continue on with your strength but anything anything a person can learn any quesadilla in any way whether it's the daf whether it's the mishna whether it's parsha any way a person could have a daily connection to torah that's the most important thing it's important it's an important work for khaled so again i thank everybody for coming tonight it's heartwarming to see everybody out here and everyone should have continued and everything and we'll continue with the program thank you so before i get to the the fun stuff i want to first a couple thank yous um i want to obviously thank you very much for putting this together this was not expected this is a lot actually a lot nicer than i expected it to be but i shouldn't have doubted you and of course thank you to the ou and aldaf although i don't use it regularly i do lean on it as a crutch occasionally especially when i'm traveling which uh happens quite often um just because i am covered i am i do have to point out that i would love to have an all musser so you know i'm not the first person to ask tonight well well there you go this is how it's coming for you you can throw some daphyomi into us but you can't take out the monster um i also i have to uh give a card to tell me i should come up to the guys in my shirt we have a pretty unique group and a pretty uh incredible incredible group we do things a little bit differently with our share we you know first of all we do it at night which from what i understand is somewhat uncommon in the da filming world as well as i'm often traveling and so either i'll have to skip the sheer or it'll be a very random time because of the time zone i'll shoot out a quick text to all the guys hey you guys available now for a quick dive yomi you know most of the guys will somehow figure out how to get on uh get on zoom uh we'll get this shirt done so it's uh it's really pretty amazing to see that the dedication uh from the guys in the group is inspiring for me on a very personal note um i haven't really shared this with anyone before but but before the doff started i was actually going through a pretty uh pretty tough place stressful place professionally besides for being in the call here i also work i own a company and i work in the afternoon and i was going through a bit of a tough time i was really right when the new uh the new cycle was starting in the da fiomi um and a bunch of the guys were pushing me to do to do the daf it was another half bucks for me to learn i said why not let's do it we'll get it started there's no long-term commitments we'll do one one miss after at a time i'm not promising promising you anything and of course you don't really know uh where things come from especially if you did i think it was yesterday's da you know especially when it comes to parantha you know whether it's mazo and you know bottom line is mostly shown instead the two combined on some level um but i will say that within a month of starting the shear uh things really turned around for me professionally and you know bona fishing i've seen a lot of brahma since then so again you never know what causes things but you know if anyone's been on the fence or obviously anyone who's here has already committed somewhat to the daf i will say that it's you know for me it's changed me tremendously so thank you for the guys in the shirt for that um all right so i'm going to do the last last couple lines here of the daf at the end of maui they have no rest even in the world to come marashi explains that this is actually a good thing it's not what you think it's not like they're stressed out which is typically what we assume a lack of manuka is actually it's the fact that they're learning in allah which to them is that is a positive it's not as stressful amelas are able to learn to learn nonstop uh essentially saying that will continue learning and growing and getting closer to hashem um even in shamayim allah thank you very much organizing this thank you for all those people for coming and i know uh your sheer my various members of my family are very very helpful and very uh into your cheer so i'm all over the world so it's really supposed to have you here um so i just wanted to say briefly actually that uh it's actually ironic i might point it out on the way here he said we actually um we also in henderson we do this year after mars at 8 45 every night and it's ironic because um since we moved here we've always wanted to my wife and i come on to go out for dinner anyway but because of the dog nobody share we actually have had a lot of difficulty like coming to dinner and literally we had to go to a restaurant somewhere down the road or like they stayed overdressed until 9 30. right but so we actually wanted to come to this very restaurant and become it because so the irony is that uh and i appreciate right now it's organizing this that we actually get to do the scene here so now we get to bring as well have to be sponsored by all them thank you so much for that so without further ado and yeah i would like to also think we actually my wife and i and my family moved here about six months ago and i came and i visited and i said oh where's the doctor we share and they said oh there's actually no doubt that we share i said okay well when i you know if i come when i come but we're gonna do that and so you know to the henderson community's credit i mean it literally came in august and you know we came during owl and it's not shy it's really started then but we started right after album i believe we're still the end of pizza we actually started a little bit during yellow during onion pepper we started right yeah thank you so much so without further ado here we go we shall return to you allah foreign yes they sent me you know who is what happens in vegas stays on there and i have to tell you right now after spending half the day or whatever here in vegas completely disagree with what happens in vegas should be taught to the whole world [Music] by the way here this is what clients will go down and this is the conflict that should not be kept as a speaker ladies and gentlemen every single person in this room you know like i have to know today is praising me i i don't deserve it but every person in this group you are the stars of pride yourself that you come to a place not like we will know the things that that's the only place where this year is live as well but here in las vegas [Music] and you are once [Music] learn that every day and the naked ensure you really see the vote calling his both energy and time he says speaking i recommend that every once in a while you should take the night off take a day off and go out with your life the next people who got up i've been giving you that pledge here for over 30 years over 22 years actually every morning i thought it would be there and this magic shield also tonight this year who has been getting a message 5 30 in the morning and he told this other speaker you know i thought of your idea and i told my wife one day i'm going to take off tomorrow i'm going to go out i'm not going to give this tomorrow and she said you tomorrow to understand gold coming from arrest and actually as i said when i spoke a little earlier this morning behind my what are you going to say about it the woman who speaks it said the people who are left in the world should be sad the natural many years ago i tell the people in my and i never understood that shabbos at the time i know you guys aren't controlling new york we're always on the run so during the week flat time [Music] of the week apparent publishers he said there are three words in the short s-ray of shabbos that you can't say during the week i don't work but those three words we ask god lookout and when a person gets blue when a person has rest he doesn't have the headaches he doesn't have the worries he doesn't have the concerns that is the biggest problem that somebody could have all week long in the hectic life and the possible muscle of us the strikes that we live in that everything why not because we know that what's the difference between a person when he is alive versus a person when he's no more alive you know all of us [Music] he can't accomplish it but by my side the person loves the right thing while he's in this world and now he's no longer in this world unfortunately but what he accomplished in this world we can continue to accomplish even after he's in this world and doesn't mean that they're still working these people lay down in this world for over 30 years with people of course tightest people full circles we have to speak about the all that program which has touched thousands and thousands of people there was over 120 countries around the world you know what that means that spend time every day which is so fantastic and so great you know what else to accomplish the families of every one of those people are different families a family a wife receives a husband come home from a hard day work and gets up and goes to learn a child who sees that every morning when he gets up to go to school his father is not home where is he he's learning the death a family who sees that when they're driving in the car to go anywhere instead of listening to nourish titans instead of wasting their time to have the death journey on in the car ladies and gentlemen those families are different families those children are different children and the different that you learn in the morning or in the evening or whenever you have a moment don't think it's only because you're learning and you're doing the mixer you are but you are having a profound influence on your family you are having a profound influence on your friends my community and all of clyde as well those are the individuals you know why because even as that person is not older in your life in the world or even hashem you still honor the world and every one of us hope and pray that our children should get married and begin their own families the child of a father and a mother who grow up in a home that sees that that's the devotion and that's what's important that every day i'm going to learn that child's family is a different family and that child will be a different father to his children and will be a different husband to his wife and will be a different member of this community and that's why you don't have a new car because you're constantly growing because what you have accomplished the unsung heroes of the daffy army are not the magicians with all due respect we get pleasure from giving this year the heroes are the people who learn every [Applause] we finish the septum white cotton would you give us after that ego and what is the western receptacle it speaks about going observation there's a tremendous connection between constantly influence the world you will be the individual that will be undecided to be early you will be the star in the basement which will be rebuilt the behavior of your name here this week's passion for acted itself and that that software answers the question the target begins many times as he's saying south to maine climate one of the words that acted so he calls the leverage compassion the memphis says [Music] when somebody observed mushroom walking when somebody observed the way mushroom lived his life when somebody observed the way mushroom interacted with other people that was the greatest lesson great lessons are not learned through speeches great lessons are learned through personal examples says the possible you people looking at you to suffer you don't need to say anything they just have to watch you and when they watch you that will be an example on how they should listen the people who learned that that foe me don't have to give speeches to their families and to others the atom they are the people watching that make that are obligating every one of us how do we to re-examine who are we and that's why the cluster continues the person says that they should take shem anxious off they should take pure oil the highway snare tongue to use for the monograph and rashi quotes now she says that the oil that was used to light the maniro had to be absolutely pure but the light that was the oil that was used to bring the carbon did not have to be explored such a difficult grasp you know i work in the food business so people who leave olive oil for lighting you don't have to use such great olive oil as long as it lights it's good when you're using olive oil for a recipe then you want to use a quality olive oil but the havoc is just the opposite is for the carbon which you're going to eat we don't care if it's quality the oil that's going to be used for lighting the nothing else why wouldn't it make sense just the opposite so ramosha feinstein says the oil that was used to light the monaro represents the ore title malawi represents tarot cara when it comes to torah we have to use the purest best childhood you know why because the pasta says yeah it's like arrow in the bottom that's the oil that aaron's practically there has to be cure for eating that's not what we're here for it's any oil if we want to serve as an example for our families but we want to serve as an example for other people that oil has to be pure our lives have to be examples and models for others who will be citizens and in the big and the world will be we will be proud of that will be making a kingdom in their lives the actor to cyber actor you be the example that you will be the example if you will live a life that is an example for others then we you will be zoicker to me you will be five generations again i thank you i don't deserve it thanks i thank you i thank those who listen to this year not just to march here to any sheer not just how old got it just please i make it appeal to you not for money and make it appear when you do something think about how will this influence my family how will this influence my community and this course that you will live your life that way let's get us together with our children hopefully that suede and i will have this course to go together with our new friends from las vegas we should have the supposed to be able to be together with you you know too late coming soon so believe it or not when we were thinking about this scene of course my mind directly went to ncsy and what we could do and how we could get ncs1 involved in this seal and i was thinking maybe we could do machias by cutting with with ncsy guys they learned together and then i was thinking a different angle and maybe they could do adaptation and then i realized that murder russia borbik here in las vegas has these guys learning so much that to try to add to their learning is just going to be too much and then i thought you know something we have a jewish leader of claudius role in our midst in las vegas that's with us here tonight but i wanted to be able to share a few words but before i do i just wanted to explain who he is came out of nowhere most most ncs like his little brother this guy's little brother you know in eighth grade the ninth grade and then they grow up in hashem because but very rarely like out of nowhere in 11th grade somebody shows up and just to give you a little ncsy structure will take 60 seconds just to explain to you what it means in every chapter there's about 100 cities that have ncsy in every chapter there's a teenage board which is about 10 teams 10 students and then there's one president on that board and then what they do is in each region there's 10 regions that have those 10 chapters the west coast of the region we have about 10 chapters so there's 10 years of the year on the las vegas chapter of the year this year so in every 10 chapters there's ten presidents those people form a regional board that's very question that's the regional all the top leaders from the region but then there's ten regions so the ten regional board presidents right from all over the country form what's called the national board now that national board is the 10 leaders of jewish students in quality israel that are picked from about 25 000 jewish students around the world and of those 10 national board students there's one national board president who happens to be in this room this evening and i'd like to call out don malka as the same day that was a long introduction probably the longest one i've done so far i don't think i uh in terms of speakers i think i'll probably have the most qualified regardless uh i do not ever have the most extensive extensive uh history on csy and general and especially in gumara i didn't know what a gumara was so actually this past summer when i went to ncsycolo which actually changed my life i didn't understand what it was if you put me in front of me i probably wouldn't have told you what it was and uh with nc's guatemala i not only learned what it was the importance of it and it propelled me forward into learning to put up a booth that i was going to be set up by polo i'm going to thomas and locally with the local col which is uh and uh even though i'm not doing enough the only yes uh steering around here and especially after that you can see all that i went through it a little bit it's pretty it's kind of like a like a white chorus tomorrow it's uh inspiring i think look at this but eventually what they're showing to do with them [Applause] for coming from brooklyn you and for everyone that was that government i think i also made it very clear how much importance it is and i think for myself i've learned so much even outside of the world of choosing just a critical thinking aspect that it takes foreign [Music]