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Rabbi Kalish
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I
brought a little bit I want to break the
order. There's a There's a piece of tire
I want to share with the camera, but
I have two friends here. It's really is
here. Remind me the names. Remind me.
I'm slowly in
Rebel Hills
>> [applause]
>> So
I want to we are committed to say them
committed to say them when a guest come
you serve a keyboard. That's like Pasha.
I have no fridge here. People come to
serve some payers some something nice.
You make a big people are in our weird
world. We don't have a fridge. I don't
maybe one day we'll have like payers
enough to lead person that comes today.
We're making a habit with song. We give
a song. And now it's during sphere. We
can't even do with music but we could do
without music.
Does Does Gabe do you know I guess you
You got it.
Well enough.
As real you know right? I guess you
You have the words there?
No no that was
>> [laughter]
>> I did you have the words? You have the
words?
Marty I want you to hear this song and
I'm going to learn together.
>> Let's do it.
Thank you,
May
all the days
of the king
be many.
May there
be
peace in our days.
>> [clears throat]
>> May all
the days
of the king
be many.
May there
be peace in our days.
I will
rejoice [music]
>> [singing and music]
>> in the Lord.
My strength,
my strength,
my salvation.
I will rejoice
in the Lord.
My strength,
my strength,
my salvation.
>> [singing]
>> I will
>> [music and singing]
>> rejoice
in the Lord.
>> [singing]
>> My strength,
>> [music]
[singing]
[singing and music]
[singing]
[applause]
>> Thank you,
Thank you, David. Thank you, Israel.
Thank you, Yakov.
Yesterday we were able to start this
Maya. We started we started our base
together.
I want to do I want to do a mission, a
little piece of a mission
in the second paragraph of us. That's
really the paragraph that Israel learned
this past Shabbos. I want to do a little
piece, I want to tell you
a shot from the Sfas Emes. Something
that's so relevant to our Yeshiva. It's
relevant to a person of today and I
think it's like such a mysterious such a
it's just so instructive how the Sfas
Emes learned
so I want to learn this.
The mission says in the second paragraph
of us. It's the end of a mission. It's a
statement from Hillel.
And the old-timer
Hillel says, "Old-timer, don't say look
chef na ashna
I'm going to translate it the way most
translate it. It's not we're going to
get it we're going to learn deeper and
better with this fast MS, but the simple
translation chef na when I have time.
Pardon me means when there's vacuum when
there's space look chef na
when I have space ashna learn sham a
light upon maybe you'll never have
space.
Don't say when the conditions are
perfect look chef na
when I have time when I'm planning when
I'm available then I'll learn sham a
light upon maybe you'll never be
available.
That's the simple translation of the
words. It's it's a it's a it's a truth
hello else teaching a truth of life.
Don't wait for the first perfect
conditions.
There's something you want to be
something you want to do don't say when
the conditions are perfect I'll do it
sham a light upon it may never get the
perfect position.
But I want to share this fast MS is
shot. It's it's it's it's clearer and
it's kish mach and true.
Look chef na afna is malashim pnim.
Afna means space look chef na when I
when I have a pnimius
when I'm able to connect in a deep way
then I'll learn when it means something
to me when it resonates.
When I'm in that space of like when when
mish when I'm able to learn pnimius when
I'm able to be comfortable when I'm able
to I connect to it in a deep emotional
way then I'll learn sham a light upon
it. Who said that's what I sham wants
from you?
Said this fast MS maybe you won't who
said it's it's a good space to be
we could dive in for such things but
sham a light upon it maybe you'll never
maybe that's not your space Hashem wants
the service and maybe you won't be in an
ofen pnim. Shema like the pnim.
Learn in the condition, serve Hashem in
the condition that we are. We're a
generation very, very much craving the
pnimius of things.
We're We're a generation that in some
ways said, "I'll only eat matzah when I
like feel it. I'll put on my tfillin."
In a way we're saying, "Look, Hashem,
now when it hits my pnimius,
when my tfillin mamesh I I I feel it. I
sense it. I know what this means. This
like This is magical to me. Then I'll do
it."
Says the misha Shema like the pnim. Who
says that stuff? Why does Hashem want
it? Maybe Hashem wanted your avoda here
with a certain emunah, a certain The
emunah of a yid who's not feeling.
Reb Nachman described his own journey
and described two years where some
feeling was taken away from him. He
describes feeling very, very little in
his avodas Hashem for two years, Reb
Nachman.
And mamesh the misha Shema like the
pnim. Now, it's something to strive for.
A yid is allowed to strive to connect by
ofen pnimius, of course, and we have a
whole generation craving to strive to
connect by ofen pnimius.
But all time of Shema nachshav only do
it when I have that space. Shema like
the pnim. You don't know.
You'll see the avoda Hashem has for us.
I started this man We started this man
with the prayer of Dovid HaMelech.
Dovid HaMelech praised Hashem. I think
this is mamesh the prayer of today's
der.
If I had to sum up a prayer in the
yeshiva that guys are davening, this
would be the prayer that exists in the
yeshiva.
And the prayer is tov tam va daas
lamdeni. I beg you Hashem, teach me
time. I want to taste, I want an
emotional bond with mitzvahs.
Time. Thus is an emotional connection.
Tov time.
Nice mamesh, a nice time and thus.
And and thus lamdeini, teach me.
Dovid Hamelech prays, that's the prayer
of today's der, that's craving.
I We started singing in Yeshiva weekly
the last many years ka esof neyam
shabbos. We sing it because I feel it's
like the song of the generation. Ka esof
we have kisufim for the sweetness of
shabbos.
We want to taste it, I want to
experience it. We're
The guys today are so weak at being
robots, at being like at just doing like
a certain type of emunah pshuta, I just
do it, I feel nothing. The guy our der
struggles with that.
So the prayer of today's der is tov time
and thus lamdeini. I beg you Hashem, I
want time and thus in mitzvahs.
But it's rooted, it has to come from
earlier ders, kiyum mitzvah she'eini
ma'amin bi, I have emunah in mitzvahs.
Even when I feel nothing. Shema alai
tipana, maybe I won't get to that
pre-mystical place. Maybe I won't have
that space, have that bond. I'm willing
also.
Shema alai tipana, I'm willing to serve
even without that, even when that's not
there. Reb Nachman who understood the
heart of Am Yisrael, Reb Nachman who so
speaks to our generation and understands
it, describes his own journey of serving
Hashem without that, the Shema alai
tipana, the serving Hashem with a
certain kiyum mitzvah she'eini ma'amin
bi, I have emunah in mitzvahs. I pray, I
put on my tefillin, it's a big thing. I
want to feel it. I want to experience
it. I want to like know you told me to
put on tefillin. I'd like to like have a
time in this. I'd like to have a dance
in this. But
I need to do the
maybe I won't get to that space right
now. This year next year maybe I won't.
But I'm going to trust
you
Hashem.
And I have the faith that you understand
me that I'm going to do the mitzvahs and
it's and it's a big deal and it does
something and I'm going to serve you in
that space and from that space. So
that's the shot in the mission I wanted
to share.
I thought I'd be remiss today if I
wouldn't welcome and give a mazel tov to
the TO YAAKOV ZAICHYK.
>> [applause]
>> I WHEN WHEN I COME INTO YESHIVA I was
talking on Sunday about Raffi Pines.
I just think we have such a collection
of good and this morning I went on a
walk. He's not here. I'm not saying it
to like give him like a a cheap shout
out. I'm not I was walking with
I was just like wow. I was jaw dropped.
I'm tired today cuz I was like listen
he's intelligent a sophisticated
beautiful he was taught he was talking
like a just as a saying
saying like deep things beautiful
things. We have a collection of really
beautiful
deep true sincere
Yaakov's one of the stars in a place of
sincerity. You know in certain place if
if if if if if what if
I get called by certain mothers people
know my weaknesses. So a mother said my
son's an amazing ball player. He's crazy
and the guy ends up being pathetic.
Cuz that mother doesn't know what a ball
player is. You have to know who it's
coming from when somebody says
somebody's a ball player.
If if somebody says somebody's nice and
it's a mean community so nice is like
schmo.
If you say here a guy's nice whoa.
When we speak about Akiva ben Perachya
being nice, that's nice.
>> [applause]
>> It's like
It's a place
In a place of night In a place
[applause] of night [cheering] night
So, I want to say about Yakov Zeitchik.
I want to say about the chassan just the
sincerity, a beautiful journey. I want
to specifically say and it speaks about
him and it speaks about his parents. I
want to say p'shat in the Mishna and
Avos. I want to say p'shat in praising
the chassan. I want the everybody to
hear this because I think it's a good
p'shat.
The Mishna says
It's It's this perek is
Rebbi Yochanan ben Zakkai
Rebbi Yochanan ben Zakkai had five
talmidim. And he was mineh shvachin and
he's saying the praises of his talmidim.
And one of his talmidim, Rebbi Shimon
ben Chananya, says, Ashrei yeladetehu.
Fortunate are the people that gave birth
to him.
Ashrei yeladetehu. Fortunate are the
people that gave birth to him.
Now, why is that a praise of him? Mineh
shvachin says he was saying the praises.
What's this praise? Fortunate is the one
who gave birth to him.
What are you saying about him? Now, it
means clearly he's so outstanding, he is
the praised. But you didn't say what the
praise is then.
All the others seem to say something
about the person. Eliezer ben Hyrcanus
is a bor sud sheynah mavtich He doesn't
forget anything. What's a maila? He
knows a lot of Torah. I I want to hear
your Torah. That's what he says.
I'll go.
Rebbi Yochanan ben Zakkai is saying
about Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, he's a bor
sud, he's a laminated pit, he's a sealed
pit, sheynah mavtich. He doesn't forget
one thing. That's a maila of a person.
You're saying a praise, he remembers
that he doesn't forget a thing. I hear
that.
Um Y C coin is a Hasid. A Hasid mission
is
speaks about the behaviors of a person.
The
son of the great
The
son of mine
you're speaking about my of the men.
This one is
lucky are his the people gave birth to
him.
Wow, praised are the people gave birth
to him.
What praise did you say about that?
You're a mate. You know sometimes
sometimes they give a very general
praise. The Rambam says that after
is to praise people.
You say you praise to somebody is very
somebody we've all gotten compliments
that matters. But when you compliment is
vague, you're awesome. I hear thank you.
You didn't say anything. You're amazing.
Say something.
Guys here guys here cool cool that we
call each other out. If I'll tell a
backer up tell you why.
Like shut up Kayla you're proud of me.
Why? Tell me why. Tell me what you're
saying.
What is this is lucky fortunate are his
parents. What did you say about him?
So this it's a strong question what the
a lot of
we're taught by the way that his mother
brought his crib to the base madras and
left a big impact on him. We still need
to
what is the mile of been
lucky are his parents who parents have
such a son.
I want to I want to say you hear you
hear my
it says my
my actually a lot of fortunate are his
parents. Wow parents I share a lot of
praise are his parents who have such a
son. A praise on to the parent.
Somebody somebody was telling me
somebody was telling me that it was very
hard for them to go to their own seder.
They want to go to a different seder.
And I felt very stark they should go to
their own seder, this person. I felt
very stark.
When people return to their own families
you go back to your story. When you were
two, when you were five, when you were
10, when you were 15, you go back to
your story. Your seder is your story.
You're with your mother who brings you
back to certain ages. You say, "What,
Dad?" Your seder is your story.
And I want a guy to be makabel. He he
becomes a year the seder night when
mamesh we're born as a people. I want
him to embrace his story. Come from your
story. Be connected to your story.
This is your story. This is your story.
And all the challenges and the
difficulties and the things it brings
out, this is your story.
There's a certain success of a person
who has steig through his story and in
his story. You could trace it back to
his roots.
He mamesh is him.
When a person's a forest child
somebody like stark stark, but it's not
him. You don't say fortune or his
parents. It doesn't look like it came
from his history.
There's a madrigal of a guy who's like
close to his parents.
He came from his story, mamesh. His
mamesh truth It's like a truth to
thyself be true.
I'm very impressed Yankel's relate to
the chasan very very close to his
parents. Like mishna they're close. And
it's part of his story is kesher to his
tata.
The ashrei a lot of ties you come from
your story, your truth to self. I think
it's a bechina somebody steig People
say, "Wow!
Mamesh, your parents did a good job."
This This is mamesh you. It traces back
to where you come, to who you come. I
think the success of somebody who's like
close to his parents, who's plugged into
the story where he comes from, is an
ashrei a lot of tay. Wow. Praise where
the people who brought you here. Your
story is a good story. You've tapped
into your story. You've gotten some
places through your story in your story.
It's an It's a growth that it's
comfortable. The person in my mish looks
like you.
It's a degree of steigging that I could
tell this comes from while you're true
to your roots.
You momish got yourself. You momish in
your story. You're true to your story.
That's what I hear in the words ashrei a
lot of tay. We could trace it back to
where you were born.
I want to express that the kashrus many
things to say about the chosson, but the
kashrus he has this tattus of a
beautiful kashrus. Like really a
beautiful Father's a brilliant year to
tzaddikim. And there's the There's
always this There's a journey with our
parents. Our parents big tzaddikim.
There's a There's a story of being a
tzaddik than tzaddik. But somebody who's
plugged in to his story in a true and a
comfortable and a beautiful way. I've
watched Yaakov advance and grow in
beautiful ways. So I want to wish a
mazel tov to Yaakov. I want to wish you
that you and your kallah should build a
beautiful a bayis ne'eman b'Yisrael.
It's interesting we say ne'eman.
Ne'eman means reliable, trustworthy.
It's ne'eman Hashem. Of course what
means it's also part of ne'emanus
Hashem. Should be ne'eman to you,
ne'eman to your kallah. Home that's
b'mishus. That's b'mishus. People get
People go to chinuch classes. Chinuch
has to be from your comfort space. We're
all different. Should be ne'eman to you.
Momish your type. It fits you. Your Your
style. Your This one's a little
stricter. This one's looser. But it's
honest. It's sincere. It's ne'eman. A
bayis ne'eman b'Yisrael. Should build a
beautiful home you and your kallah. So
thank you Yanky for being here. Thank
you. If it was a day that wasn't sphere,
I'd have you play us a song, we'd play
you a song.
It's sphere right now, so.
The Reb Michelle, me and Yankel sang
together. The Reb Judah Michelle just
text me a few days ago if we could do it
again. So, Yankel, we got to
we got to go back there.
When is the date
with Gabe? It's true. But, you weren't
Were you there, Gabe? So, let's do it
together this year. Should we do it
together?
Good.
Yeah, yeah.
What's What's the date of the wedding,
Yankel?
Okay, be there or be square, have a July
28th.
What day is Sulum over, chevre?
Great timing.
Okay, middle of Sulum, not so bad.
Where is the wedding going to be,
Yankel?
In New York.
Straight.
That might not be Is that the day of
mountain biking?
>> [laughter]
>> Have you done the mountain biking?
I shudder about that day.
It's crazy. Have you done it,
Weber?
That would happen.
She didn't She didn't have a cure yet.
>> [clears throat]
>> We should hold tryouts to sing by
Yankel's wedding, man. We should have
guys do solos. Maybe that was the first
song to
Does Does miss as much as we do when we
pray? I miss it a lot.
Keep meaning yourself. I keep seriously.
What's happening here? Every other
morning we do we're mourning something
that's like a point in mourning. There's
like it brings us somewhere.
And there's yet going to be a return.
There's yet we're we're like missing
something, but it's yet going to come
back. What's happening with this
morning, Harry? We're mourning to tell
me then what's happening.
It's a very unusual. The base I made
this is something we're craving that's
yet to come back. We're
When I didn't talk was was my the have a
have every other morning is a very
present thing.
I'm saying seriously the growing the
You're asking every Yartzeit. Yes, there
was a child's Yartzeit.
I still see the make a big party on the
Yahrzeit. Hilula. Shimon
Was yesterday or Shimon's Yartzeit?
Wow. How cool that we spoke about
Yartzeit yesterday. That's wild.
Why? Didn't even happen. It was nuts. We
spoke about Yartzeit yesterday. It's
Shimon's Yartzeit.
Not having a special
special like that.
It says that the the tzaddik the tzaddik
on the Yartzeit the three days
surrounding the tzaddik the
Not the three days surrounding. The
tzaddik comes down.
Isn't that amazing, right, Russ?
Yesterday we spoke about Yartzeit about
it. It's Shimon's Yartzeit. When was
that? Yesterday? Two nights ago
yesterday?
Cuz the three days When was it? When was
Shimon's Yartzeit?
Didn't tell us.
I did
made it I had everybody tell the camera
something about Shaya.
a minute
Come on easy.
See is he giving us something about
Shaya?
Is that in nowhere yes Joshua?
[clears throat]
maybe
Come on don't be shy.
my shy and bashful friend that I was
even share some
Come come come Shaya I like to come.
I'm sharing with I have a kasha.
Okay so the year
Yesterday I was having everybody make a
chaim.
This was the side of this was maybe you
have to mention it was a boy's yard
site.
So my boy's yard site we have
>> [laughter]
>> This was the year of Shaya
Joshua you want to go?
>> [laughter]
>> My boy's yard site what? Didn't already
meet you?
You got a block right?
You were in my sight a beautiful master.
You know what I'm saying it was good. We
were in my sight of master that uh
He said a beautiful master as follows in
uh
one of the great good day late
uh rabbinum they don't have a place
again.
130 years ago
It was a dark in my show. The mean the
mean catcher.
Not the one that with the here Shaya how
to show his father.
Right? So,
um
and he was one of the great
uh
tzadikim. A lot of the A lot of the
maases
that surround Reb Shayala were
uh involve a lot of hak that the oilam
was uh
whatever, either pro or against, they
were curious about this like upstart.
Reb Shayala was not of particularly
this you know, distinctive,
distinguished, aristocratic lineage.
He wasn't by uh you know, uh by any
standards. He was a gabbai of Reb
Hershel the Reb Hershel Liska.
He was a gabbai for many years.
But
uh you know, he it's so so ultimately
but he was a tremendous nadvan. He gave
a lot and he was a baal chesed. So, he
you know, he started his own uh
hachnasas orchim. You know, it was it
was I mean it became a uh
a rebbe with with Shabbos soles through
the kids are
The Duchi Chuvah heard about him. His
yahrtzeit is the second day of Sukkos.
I'm sure you all [laughter] knew that.
Anyway, so the Duchi Chuvah was a uh he
was passing through he's traveling
and among his travels
he figured he's going to stop by it was
near Karasburg. He was going to stop by.
He comes for Shabbos. Reb Shayala
finishes uh he makes kiddush.
And the uh
and he he he zips through Shalom
Aleichem cuz a lot of people there that
hadn't eaten much.
As he's uh and he's finished kiddush and
he makes hamotzi. Okay. He makes
hamotzi. The room's packed. Shabbos
packed.
And he makes hamotzi lechem min
ha'aretz. Before he
breaks bread
he notices a yid in the back.
And he motions for the Yid to come
forward. And with the then, you know,
with the with the heavy concentration
of
humans in the room, like you have till
the Krias Shema happens, maybe the Yid
was older, it would took it took quite a
while for the Yid to make his way to the
front. The back of Chuba, the Heilige
Menachem Tvi Hirsch Shapiro
is sitting near him getting anxious.
He's kneeing and he's he's clapping
because he
he made a bracha.
And Herschel ignores him. He's motioning
for the Yid to come forward.
Herschel is getting bored.
Shaya ignores him.
The Yid makes his way forward.
And the Yid
Herschel slowly, patiently takes his
knife, cuts the challah,
breaks open.
He takes out he cuts open from the
challah he takes out
from the softest, you know, the white
gishmaka. Who's who's with me here? You
know what I'm talking about?
Okay, you take from the middle, gives it
to the Yid.
Thereafter, he cuts himself a piece. He
gives the he gives the
the Menachem the head of Herschel and he
gives that to the Yid.
He turns to Herschel and he says, "Yeah,
greatest
Yeah,
well, good work detective Sherlock.
You're a little angry at me." He goes,
"Yeah, your mouth's sick."
So Shaya says, "Listen, you're a bigger
you're a bigger talmud chacham than I.
I want to ask you, so let me ask you a
shaila.
Um if a Yid has, let's say, a Yid has
b'heimas, animals, that he had that
haven't yet eaten,
and he makes a brocha of hamotzi lechem
min haaretz.
What's the halacha? Who should he make
Should he provide for his animals? So
Rashi says, "Yeah, that's a it's a fair
share, you know, halacha it's Gemara."
Beheim, you have to If you have beheim,
you give them food.
And that's the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch.
K'vodo haTorah. K'vodo haTorah is Gemara
in Gemara Brachos.
So Rashi says, "Tell me, would I I would
think that a human that a Yid in the
back of a room is as least
on level
of a beheima.
I saw this Yid in the back of the room.
He He didn't look like he had eaten
recently.
I saw his
hunger.
So I felt I he mizonei as I lay, it's
it's it's my achrayis to provide for the
Yid before I take myself. No? So I would
think just like it's not a hefsek to
say, "Let's feed the animal."
L'havdil, it's not a hefsek to say,
"Let's feed the Yid."
The Munkatcher was so nisragish, was so
nispail
from R' Shaya's
sensitivity.
I I'm sorry. You see, I told you I'm not
R'
R' Shaya. And he said He said, "Okay,
I'm sorry. I'm not up to that maybe." He
said, "Okay, but why you like You were
like getting it right?" He said, "When
the Yid came closer, I saw he had no
teeth, the guy.
So I can't give him the hard challah I
give everybody else. I wanted to give
him the soft white mushy part so he
could eat." R' Hershel said, "You know,
I didn't even notice there was a Yid
back there. There are a lot of people in
the room, you know. I'm there, he's
there."
R' Shaya felt the hunger of a Yid in the
back of the room,
a Yid that I didn't even notice.
That was the godliness of R' Shaya, that
he could sense and feel
in a
in a in an in a in a practical literal
sense, the hunger
of a year at the back of the room.
And excuse me, you're going to line me.
Beautiful story. What was your answer?
Like you care. Um there was uh
So I was bothered like the
See I was Okay, I'll ask it as a
question. Why doesn't it say Reb like
your own children? It only says Why is
there no
statement your own children also?
Like let's say you have children. Are
you are you that they had to to provide
them before you take? I'm saying when
you have little kids and you make a
mitzvah, they get first? Not
necessarily. No, right?
Okay. So that's What's the answer? I
don't know.
But I was I'll tell you what I was
bothered by because that same Gemara Reb
Shayala himself every time Reb Zisa on
the story said every time Reb Shayala
would you say every time you make a
mitzvah, your No.
>> kids are hungry, maybe you should give
them first, you know?
>> Oh, I am asking. Oh, that's not a bad
point. Yeah, I am, I guess.
But he said you're allowed to give your
animals first. And Reb Shayala is too
old to somebody
is the death. No, but he's In other
words, this year was like very strong.
This year was very strong. Right, right,
right, right, right, right.
>> kids is starving. You can't hold off a
bracha. But to give your animals since
it's the Torah of you're not allowed to
eat till your animal eats. That's Reb
Shayala. Reb Shayala said an incredible
thing. The halacha is that's not called
mitzvah.
But Reb Shayala said that you in the
back is hungry. So I had to wait for
him, too. So he made a whole break. He's
right.
>> I have to feed him. So Reb Zisa said,
"What about your kids? So if your kids
are starving in the house Right, right.
Reb Shayala, you give them
>> No, because I had a question. Normally
the kids are there. They're starving.
Right. See I asked what cuz it says told
bracha the same Gemara. There's three
cases. There's real Torah available
melach, the told bracha real Torah.
>> he say give me Not allowed. I want I
don't allowed. It's not a half sick. You
know the difference you know what I'm
saying?
So so but that's just it. See told
Brooke is not a kid. Told Brooke is not
a kid. You're not to make to give a guy
the carrots is if you have someone who's
like on the on the on the degree of like
like we don't like he's suffering
whatever. So then it's a
I have no I have to give him a foot.
That's what I was saying.
That's why he used that you heard the
story of the Chavis. Beautiful story.
A beautiful story should be.
I mean
The monk catcher came to check out. You
hear listen to it. You hear the story
you hear
the monk catcher came to check out of
Shilo. People were curious that he had a
there's no swarm. What's what's his
story? He what? He came he had a big
crowd and he made a
and before he eats you know how he have
sick. Before he eats he calls you in the
back. It took a long time for him to
come and [snorts] he was sick and the
monk catcher was upset. No no you can't
be sick. So he said to the monk catcher
that if somebody makes a
and then realize they didn't feed their
animals you
to feed your animals before you eat. So
somebody has a hunt has a dog you have
to feed the dog before you eat.
And the guy makes a
I didn't feed the dog.
So it's
you're not eating you're allowed to feed
the dog first.
So he said a a hungry in the back should
be worse than a dog. He came to me that
I saw the was starving.
So before I ate he waited till he came
and he fed him. Where'd you hear this?
Isn't a beautiful story?
As he's passing of Shilo was
almost in the next world.
On his
he was leaving this world.
And in last with his last bit of
strength he calls over the the chef from
the kitchen.
Put up a lot of borscht with a lot of
potatoes, more than usual.
Soon it's going to be a levaya. They
didn't eat it.
You hear that?
>> That's what he said?
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
>> Those are his last words?
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now,
it's interesting
that I'm forgetting the last name. I'm
forgetting the last name. I forgot it.
There's another maaseh.
What was that story? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's on the chat. What was that story
you said over from the Yid who worked
there, the Yid who spoke Yiddish?
You remember that?
Not a Yid. A guy, a guy. Yeah, there was
a guy, an Atlich Guy Gammer.
There's a guy, the most heimish a guy
ever met.
And he's like giving like they ask him
to give a brocha for Klaiza. Brocha for
Klaiza, kind of broches. You can give
him broches.
He's the most heimish a guy. Anyways,
he's whatever, he hangs around Kesser
Torah, he works there or something.
So,
his wife was sick. He had a machla.
That's not what he called it, a cancer.
He had a cancer.
Uh
my wife had a cancer, ready?
Gary and Guy. Anyways,
so someone told him, "Get yourself a
shaila."
Guides him to the cover.
Uh you know, he's a groisse baal maaseh,
you know,
at a funeral.
So, the guy says back, "I've been a guy.
I've been a shkutz. I'm telling you, you
have to watch it."
So, the guy So, he reported In other
words, the guy is saying over the story.
Says, "I you know, I've been a guy." So,
the guy Yid me yeah, I can help him go
and he
doesn't have a choice. You know, he can
go.
So, the guy said okay, fine. He goes
back and my wife had a baby.
Yeah, his wife was pregnant.
No, no, no, no. Whatever, this was
before. This was like a year ago. And
his wife was very sick. They had no
children yet. So, he said he asked for
you know, a few of my wife.
And they went back to the doctor and the
guy was saying that the cancer is
nothing like it you know, and it was got
slower and smaller and his wife started
recovering.
Year later they had a baby. They got the
baby.
And gave him the name
Nathan Nusin.
A gift from God.
There was a guy in Hungary by the name
Nusin.
>> Yeah, Nusin, Nusin, you know.
Nusin Bograch stew with ramen.
Yeah, yeah. I remember that.
Yeah, I remember a Hungarian guy Nusin.
Yep.
You'll understand me or something. Then
you hear the song our our balakay goes
and he's like he didn't even like get a
gift for the guy and the guy said okay.
He went to the guy.
Really?
Yeah, he is really.
He's the shamash there? I don't know.
He's a guy I guess, something. He's He
does something.
You saw this guy? Yeah?
Yeah?
Like a bald guy? Yeah. Nah-uh.
>> [snorts]
>> What's his name?
Christian? And Nusin Nusin then
Christian.
>> Christian Shilo, you know what I mean.
Is that true?
Have to be, man.
On
Monday, there was a young boy, is a
bris, a bris milah of a young boy.
His name is Omanowitz.
No, that's not his name. His zayde is on
So, his the the great great grandfather
of the baby is Reb Shaya, I don't
remember the last name.
Reb Shaya, he's 100 years old.
He was born a few months after Reb
Shaya.
And he got a uh
and he was there to help the help the
zayde of the baby was giving broches, he
was the sandek by the
baby.
He's named He's named He was born a few
weeks after Reb Shaya.
Wow, he's 100 years old. He's going to
be He's about to be 101.
I forgot his last name.
Nachum, have you ever been to Reb Shaya?
How many times?
Let's do it.
Maybe we can get Reb
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the guy.
Yeah, I have to buy him a fiber.
I think I think um
>> I do have a picture of him.
Famous thick guy.
In the video, he speaks Yiddish?
Can I hear it?
Where's the guy You have the video of
the brocha?
What else is there?
>> Oh, was it that he asked him um
Remember that he had out he he
He said, "How how do you how do you um
When he came to he he he said uh
I'm forgetting the whole mice. I posted
yesterday. When he came in and he said,
"Today I answered I I I answered seven
kashas with one turrets."
What shy was that?
>> Yeah, I said there was a big kasha.
And then the other there was
A yid came to the seven kashas with one
turrets. I answered all seven kashas.
The turrets are killing me. He came
The yid came in and he said, "I have a
son. I have a daughter. I have a
I have a rather rather rather
What's up?"
And I gave a turrets to seven I answered
seven kashas.
If I answered seven kashas then
I answered it. Yeah, one answer.
>> money. They need money. They need money.
He had a bite. You got it? He had I my
son is crying. My wife is crying. I have
a son. I have a daughter getting
married. I have a I have
This kasha is beyond this. I called
I I
I did it. It's funny for all the kashas.
It's seven kashas.
If I verify to Daniel, come close. I
want to tell them we're we're saying
stories. I'm going to say stories.
Yo.
If I told you a story, Yisroel,
Chaverim, listen to this story. We're
telling stories today, Ari, and I'm
telling it's not Tally. Keep you hood. I
want you to hear this.
If I told you the following story that
there was a lady Chaim, listen. Jackie,
listen to this maiseh. Eli, would you
believe me if I told you, Gabby, that
there was a lady on the way to
Auschwitz? She was in the trains. The
Nazis were sending her to a death camp.
And the Yidden were men of God. They
were packed in the cars. They were
packed. And there was a lady in this
packed car. My rebbe used to give a
Holocaust right parent gave a course to
the Holocaust to my class.
And he put us in a corner. He was He was
explaining these trains, the death
trains. He put us in a corner like 20
guys, Ari. And he like stopped us. We
were And he had us sit like that. Like
for a little bit. It was And
he described being like that for 24
hours. And on this train was a cattle
car. It was packed. And this lady had a
little son. Everybody Ellie, listen.
Yoel me, listen to this story. A lady, a
Jewish lady has a little son. Now, she's
worried crushed to death as many kids
were.
She held him like this on the train that
he should survive. He knows what he's
doing. And while she held him like this,
she looked he turned blue in colors and
he died. The kid was no longer alive. It
was so It was impossible to breathe in
there. She was holding him like this to
help him survive. She looked at him. He
was He wasn't alive anymore.
She sees he's not alive.
She decides Unclear exactly why, but she
It's on a train. Her Her son's not alive
anymore. There was a little crack in the
train that a human being obviously
couldn't jump out. Everybody would jump
out. She put her son through the The
crack of the train was going. She put
her son through the crack. He's not
alive anymore.
She's watching her son. He falls out of
the train. He falls into a puddle. He
was pushed out, and his hands went up
and she hops he's alive.
She jumps off the train, impossible, she
gets through the crack, you couldn't,
but like a mother, like a mother could
lift the car, she needs to be with her
son, she jumps off the train while it's
moving and her and her son survived the
Holocaust running in the forest.
>> [clears throat]
>> Do you believe this story? And if you
believe this story, do you believe me if
I tell you that the grandson, the great
the grandson of this man is sitting in
this room?
And hold hold saved the story is true.
Now
you hear the story I'm saying? But it's
in the family, they know the story. You
hear the story, Kiki?
That a crazy story? Who do you think the
grandson is is in this room? The
grandson.
>> [snorts]
>> What's going on?
>> [applause]
>> DID I SAY THAT WRONG?
DID I SAY IT?
DID I SAY IT TRUE?
Find out exact. No, I want exact.
How did you hear it? Say it how you
heard it. I heard it this I heard it the
same way Rabbi heard it. Say say say.
Um To say this Daniel learns with his
Zayda.
Daniel learns with his grandfather. Him
learns his grandfather is my rebbe.
Daniel learns with his Zayda and this
Zayda's the story how Zayda survived.
His Zayda always is a big Zayda, massive
talmud chacham, and he survived. He
landed in a puddle that revived him. His
mother jumped off and they survived
running. That's how they survived.
In the DP camp they the people after the
war were starving and your Zayda felt
bad for his mother. You could ask his
Zayda to try new
your Zayda's mother. Your Zayda's mother
and my Bubba were best friends in the
world.
Yeah, it was three
yeah like best best friends. She was a
pious tzadekes, big tzadekes. Her and my
great My grandma was from Yakishur, but
they were best friends. It was Mrs.
Munchik, Mrs. Klein Kaufman, and Mrs.
Stern were all three best besties. They
were the best friends. His great grandma
was a holy lady, very very holy lady.
So, this this this lady Now, in the DP
camps after the war, people were
starving. They were hungry. There was a
lot of problems. They were struggling to
get food. His zaida stole a cow. They
had a chech, that somehow he stole a cow
from the guy.
Oh, yeah, yeah. He stole a cow. He He
was a little boy. He stole a cow. He
describes Can ask him the maiseh, "How
do you hide a cow? How do you steal a
cow?" So, God says that they got good
food for the whole family.
>> was he saying? Sorry, can I ask you what
you were saying? The The What you heard
Say over what you heard. I I just heard
the same version, right? What did you
hear? What did you say exactly?
>> it at 3:00 in the morning on Pesach
night, so.
Who said it over? I heard it at 3:00 in
the morning, um Pesach night. Who said
it over? He said it. His zaida said it.
>> he say?
Was there anything different there?
I heard I heard that he got thrown out
of the train. His mother jumped out.
They were running for a couple years, or
They ran in the forest. They survived
the Holocaust in the forest.
>> Who found them?
I don't remember who found them. They
were running for a couple years in the
forest.
Zaida.
His zaida's been in this room, has
spoken in this room, yet.
Rabbi Klein Kaufman Talmid chacham.
Yeah. Special special yid.
Talmid of Rav Chaim Kanievsky, amongst
others.
Amazing story. Amazing.
His zaida said over the maiseh?
He doesn't remember it, either, but I
heard I'm pretty sure I heard from the
mother.
I remember the And if it's not exact, I
heard Mrs. Klein Kaufman say over this
maiseh.
She's the bottom Mason. He probably
doesn't remember it this either. He
probably doesn't remember it. Right, he
heard it from her at the same place I
heard it.
have you ever heard this story?
Isn't that unbelievable?
Heroes. What Yidden built, what Yidden
built after going through what we've
been through, heroic.
I had I had in ninth grade I had
Daniel's Zayde for a rebbe and we loved
him and he loved my class. He asked for
a yeshiva, could we be together the
whole four years?
I can't handle I don't like in high
schools that you have a rebbe for a
year. Who said
Who I loved that Hoodie had Rabbi
Silverman for one year and he stayed by
him three years. Who said to switch?
Make a taste. You have a rebbe ever? Cuz
the yeshiva said next grade next to
rebbe. We loved you Zayde and your Zayde
loved us. And then they Nate, GAVRIEL,
WELCOME HOME.
>> [applause]
HE ASKED THE YESHIVA who was his
machuten and he said no.
It would have like messed up the whole
yeshiva system but we we wanted to be
with him for four years.
Like to be with this. I learned
the mesechta I learned by his father is
probably one of my favorite mesechtas in
yeshiva. I learned Gittin.
By your Zayde.
What? That I learned Gittin by your
Zayde.
The whole thing we did.
The Zayde.
That's the whole thing
He's going to ask him the story.
The entire
Gavriel, welcome home.
>> [applause]
>> Maybe Gavriel Gavriel and Gabe should
sing something. Gabe, you put your chair
next to Gabe. You're going
Two Gabes, what song do you like to
sing?
Great Grandpa?
Which one?
Do you know Ekra?
Ekra.
Ekra. Let's go YouTube YouTube. Ekra
le le kemalia.
Ekra
le le kemalia.
>> [music]
>> Ekra.
Ekra
le le
kemalia.
Ekra
le le kemalia.
Ekra
le le kemalia.
Ekra
le le kemalia.
Ekra
le le
kemalia.
Yitzchak Misha
>> [singing]
[music]
>> Yitzchak
>> [singing]
>> le le kemalia.
Ekra [singing] le le
kemalia.
Yeah.
>> [singing]
[singing]
[applause]
>> Two Gabbys.
Stay for one minute. Pull up a chair for
a minute. Just for one minute, I want to
share. Uh?
Okay. I want to I want to
We had interesting things we did. I just
want to read We're trying to go a little
bit in order. So, we learned the first
two Mishnais
of
We learned the first two Mishnais, the
first perek of Avos. I want to learn
Mishna Daled, the fourth Mishna. We're
holding back on Mishna Gimel, but I
would like to learn the fourth Mishna
Bini for 2 minutes.
It's very, very interesting. In the
earlier dairies, we had one leader of
all Israel. In later is what we call the
Zugot, they were pairs, there were two
leaders in all Israel.
And
issue shall I am with the next leaders
of all Israel.
And he said
I want to talk about these five words
Ari.
You who do I want to talk about these
five words. The simple meaning
your house base bad a meeting place
for wise people.
Your house should be a meeting place for
wise people.
From the ones before is Antigonus is so
great.
I skipped that mission. I skipped the
one. But it says these two said your
house should be a meeting place for
Haman.
Now certainly certainly always you learn
simple chat. It's a big to be connected
to the king.
The simplest chat is a person should be
connected to the king. It's funny I
looked at my phone this minute and
there's a picture of this year Yaakov
Malone.
And he used to ask my father is talking
to the king. He used to always want he
asked the king to wear this thing. I
looked at a picture on my phone somebody
sent me and he used to ask the king to
come use his swimming pool.
And the king
would swim in his pool. He wanted the
king to be in his house.
There's a there's a line
There's a
that says all
the whole world is created with
to be connected to this person. There's
an Indian to be
to connect to the king. It's a big big
Indian to connect to the king.
There's such an alien of a skashrus of
connecting to tsaddikim.
And so when it says your house should be
a base vad l'chachamim, it means simply
chachamim and tsaddikim should come to
your house. That's definitely a chashuve
thing. This year, somebody sent me a
picture 2 minutes ago out of the blue. I
don't know why you'd have to look up
who's sending it and why they're sending
it. I think it was on a family chat, but
I just got this picture I just saw this
picture of of of a yid who used to ask
Reb Belsky to swim in his house. A big
tsaddik and talmid chacham should come
to your house. Yebasecha base vad
l'chachamim. For sure. We had a guy who
was here this Shabbos.
We had a guy who was here this Shabbos
and his zaide's name his zaide is a very
special yid and he used to invite my
father over to play tennis. And it meant
like the world to this guy's zaide. This
bochur was here this past Shabbos. It
meant like the world that a talmid
chacham comes and plays tennis on his
court. It it was like very holy to him.
Yebasecha base vad l'chachamim. Your
house should be a meeting place for
talmidei chachamim. Certainly it means
k'pshuto the simple. But I want to share
another idea and it has to be another
idea Ari, I'm not just stooping another
idea in.
It says your house should be a meeting
place for chachamim.
It it it could say have a connection
talmid chacham, bring them to your
house. A meeting place for chachamim.
A meeting place for chachamim. Who said
the chachamim want to meet in your
house? A base vad is a place where all
the chachamim gather. How many people
could host the Moetzes?
Besides that, you ask ask a shvua
chacham ask him if he could he come to
my house. A big thing. And certainly
anybody could have the zchus of having a
tsaddik ask Daniel zaide to come to your
house. A big zach.
But a base vad l'chachamim, what does it
mean your house should be a meeting
place of chachamim?
How many How many people in Klal Yisrael
could do this?
It's like And if you can do it, but it's
talking to everybody. We're all learning
this Mishna. So, we all should call the
Moetzes. Do you mind your next Moetzes
meeting?
It has to mean something else also. Your
house should be a meeting place of
chachamim.
I don't want to say shlug it up cuz it
definitely means as much as chachamim
could come, let them come, but it has to
tell me more because it says it should
be a meeting place for chachamim. Sounds
like there's something else being said
here.
What I want to What I want to say, and
this is delicate, and I want to What I
want guys in this Yeshiva to hear it. I
want Yidden to hear it.
There's a lot of tzaddikim in our
people, and it's the best thing. Ari
Zeiche went to Eretz Yisrael and found
the Rebbe mamesh.
Reb He's close to Reb Feier, who has
Rebbeim with Geisler, and who has the
Torah from Ishbitz. So, you mamesh found
the Rebbe. It's the best thing in the
world.
And have a mesayarang Reb Yonah. We was
zaiche, we had two chassidim which were
just here. They have a chassidus, they
have a Rebbe.
I want to tell you I love that two
chassidim came here. They They've heard
about the Yeshiva. The guy said The guy
I'm leaving said to me He's not It's no
reason to say it. Said it's the nicest
place in the world. That's the guy just
said. He felt people were nice. He felt
good. [applause]
I want to tell you
I want to tell you that [cheering] I'm
I'm I want you to hear something.
Your base chabays vadlacha, your house
should be a meeting place of chachamim
is learn to respect and appreciate
what's going on in another world also.
The base vadlacha chachamim is in your
house, other things are welcome here. I
was always amazed by my father. He the
Hasidic tell me the
he did not see their way
a lot of their sheet is politically
politically even the way ideals how they
live their life. My father looked at
life very different. He would help
support these Yeshivas. There were
Yeshivas in Israel. He raised a lot of
money and he'd put a lot of effort and
respected is a Talmud chacham.
By my father tell me the chacham will
welcome in his house. We loved always
the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Reb Shach. They
have different sheet is so what? In this
space chachamim are welcome. Your house
should be a meeting place of chachamim.
Learn to respect different I I I said
Yosef was not here. I'm not giving a
flattery Akiva. Yosef was telling me he
met a Yid who does not have the
emotional awareness that's unique to our
base medrish. He was a certain
disconnected and he was like very
impressed from the sheet he was from
what he saw.
And I had tremendous chizuk that he was
able to respect and appreciate different
beautiful ways of serving Hashem that
are valid. Your base medrish chachamim
here chachamim are welcome to meeting
place of chachamim.
Your house should be as and as it
doesn't mean not to have a mesorah, not
to have a rebbe, not to have a
machlokes. But here other things are
welcome. It's so beautiful I see two
chassidim come here. I see the guys
respect them. They It's us. It's all us.
This is a base medrish chachamim. Here a
Yid is welcome. Here a chacham. Here a
loyal servant of Hashem is welcome.
There are different ways. Let your house
be a place that's safe for all
different. It incorporates. It knows how
to hold and carry all different styles.
Of course you have one mesorah.
It's not as opposed not to having a way,
but other things aren't rejected, aren't
mocked, aren't ignored.
in your house is a meeting place of
Hachamim. Here is sincere person and
sincere Tyra here is welcome in this
home to meeting places.
I skipped the mission when I saw the two
sitting
sitting with the Hachamim. I felt like
we have to learn this. This is a base
Hachamim. This room is a space where we
could learn. It bothers me if he comes
and he's a stickle even a little
clueless emotionally, let's say.
And he has nice Tyra to share. We should
be able to plug in and tap in. He has
good things.
You base Hachamim
never to be so arrogant and so silly.
Somebody else doesn't have that silly.
One of the ways in my life that I know
if somebody has truth or not. I'm going
to speak about Rebbe's. There was one
sir Rebbe, a guy at a Rebbe. And he used
to say nobody else in the world knows
how to do anything. He used to rip every
other Rebbe. It turned out it was like a
complete farce. It was a scam. There
were like five years people were into
it. It turned out I always was wary of
the guy. Whenever somebody has a
monopoly on truth, I don't believe the
guy.
You found a truth, it's great. You have
truth in your base madras. Not to be
aware there's another base madras of
truth. Is is it's a this there was this
Yeshivaish.
It's called a Yeshiva also he
the only truth is here.
It's like so you probably don't have any
truth there probably.
Anybody who has truth and there's truth
elsewhere and then there's there's
something called Emes. You have base
Hachamim.
It's not to say your house cannot It
should have a Messiah. Should have a way
it follows, but it should be that other
Hachamim welcome here, are respected
here. It's a meeting place of
that's the quality of the
home. That's a quality of a home of
truth. That's what I think is being said
here.
Yeah, I specifically like it. I I happen
to specifically like it.
This is the first pair right here.
I like when the statements fit the ones
who say it. This is the first
and they say you have to be a meeting
place.
There's a lot of consensus. There's a
lot of couple of
and we and and there's different voices.
I like that it was the first that said
you have to be a meeting place.
To me it's logical that the the
statement should reflect the ones who
say in the time that and they're always
like that say and why it was said then.
We said from
that one before
and this one that that that
the
they say you have to be a meeting place.
I could so see see them teaching. There
wasn't one of them. Like
different voices. There's
room for a few voices. There's room
there's room to hear there's room
[clears throat] to
I have this kind of way people speak
about with husband and wife that we have
to have like a
there's a word people use that we have
to like be have the same voice.
What's the word what's the word I'm
looking for people like and wife
describe that they have to like be have
the same be on the like in sync they
have to be aligned.
People think you have to have the same
as your wife. I think you're a much
better company if you have two of them.
You have different as long as there's
respect. You're a better company if you
people I've got the word
the same maybe
that was the word I'm looking for like
when they have to be aligned. I don't
look at it that way at all. What we say?
I look at it it's much healthier two
people a richer company and they respect
each other. Your house is a base
just like room in the house for another
I get so not just turned off there's
something about not having MS when
there's not room for a different MS.
It's a topic that fires me up to the end
of the world. I'm concerned that Eretz
Yisrael. I'm concerned we have so many
stark sheetas but the other side is like
wrong out There's a sheker to that.
There's such a sheker. Whatever I hear
in in the political arena if you ever
hear a Republican guy and he calls every
Democrat a socialist. If you hear a
Democrat and he calls every Republican a
Nazi, you know there's sheker there. Any
honest person says this is my life I'm
aware of a different life. I'm aware of
a counter. Reb Nachman had people who
were against him he liked them.
Reb Nachman made such a statement I know
Hashem loves me cuz big tzaddikim are
against me.
You hear that line? Reb Nachman wasn't
joking. He said I know Hashem loves me
cuz big tzaddikim are against me.
It's a very beautiful thing. You're up
I have one of my best things about
Derems is a big tzaddik who doesn't like
I'm like very besimcha.
I feel oh we talk so maybe we have
something we have something.
If you have a light that means something
there should be other lights. If there's
a Hillel there's a Shammai. If there's
no Shammai there's probably no Hillel.
Every MS has counter as everything. So I
don't I wish I want an Eretz Yisrael but
I don't want to look at another yet. I
want to bring this.
I want an Eretz Yisrael. Why can't we be
rich and we have people that fight in
the army. We have people who hold us us
and them and I love that. I want a
people that one guy holds
the surum
and another guy fights. I want a people
that's so broad that's so big. You have
base you're a much bigger home. Who
wants to be I want a people that have a
Shamayim hello. Do I want to be so
narrow you can't But the bigger no but
the bigger the Yeshiva that's your base
of the
house has to be a what?
So we have to figure out no without
being like yeah yeah yeah I want it's
like the dream is that we could like
have it we could be big. Isn't that a
dream? When my kids argue on things that
I really feel they're like they have
different neshamos and I some the best
thing at the Shabbos table is like I've
seen my kids gang up on
and they fight and I see like different
neshamos it's so beautiful. It's like a
nachas
Sometimes it's the most sometimes when
they're arguing like in a real way and
you just see different neshamos bringing
different things out. It's like
wonderful. Thankful a house can like
hold different things. That's your base
that's my message to the
that's what I wanted to study today. We
had a lot of detours today. Who's saying
what?
We have to get back to the guitars but
Hashem we're getting there. Do you have
a header early Joshua?
>> [laughter]
>> We're getting there. Today was the 19th
day of the Omer. Did I get that right?
You're right.
Today's the 19th day of the Omer two
weeks five days. So we're almost
We're almost right there. What's this
week the third week is what meter?
Joshua
So isn't that cool? What is Tiferes?
What is everything is
I wasn't even thinking about that.
Tiferes is is
both sides. Do you know what that is,
Tiferes, by the way. I sham all the
world. I was not thinking about Tiferes
this week of yet to say.
What do you think it was on my mind,
Ari? Probably. Hashem puts it's Tiferes.
Tiferes is that's the the most pretty.
Anybody knows beauty is the any any
choir is Tiferes, by the way. Singing is
Tiferes. Singing sounds beauty when
there's like friction, different chords,
different sounds that that's that's
beauty. In our people, can't we like
wake up and it's good that we have
different opinions and like like hold
different opinions?
That's what we have to get.
I love you. Have an excellent day, have
an excellent day. When's when's tomorrow
uh
What's what do you want? If if the
besides in Israel, you realize that
they have different I hear.
The Bible stops the harvest in Israel.
That's the only reason it's still going
is
What is this?