Inside ArtScroll Season 2 Episode 5: An Exclusive Look Inside the Home of Rav Chaim Kanievsky

[Music] Hello everyone and welcome back to inside art scroll where the books you read and the people who write them come to life. Today we are joined by Rabbi Shai Graer the compiler and author of a number of prominent published by art scroll ribshai. Thank you for being here from Aritis. It's an honor to sit with you and talk with you. I know there's a lot to get to. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Thank you. So some people may know your names your name from this farum that you've released. Many other people may know you as the son of Daddy Graer, a well-known singer. So tell us about your upbringing. I know you grew up in Aritisro. Talk about that for a moment. So Borakashem I lived my whole life in I grew up. My English came from my mother. I was going to ask you cuz we were talking before. You have an excellent English especially for a native Israeli. So my mother is coming from Canada. Okay. And we used to speak with her a lot of English. When I was a kid before I went into the Torah world. I I I went every year to camp. I used to go to camp and my English got better there. And now camp was in Israel. No, the camp in America. Camp in America. Every year I used to go to camp in America. And I was probably until 15 16 I wasn't learning so much. But always I saw in my house and I remember my father besides all the big concerts and going all over the world and performing and being in stadiums and has and all over the world. I remember the times that we used to go to hospitals to sick people with cancer. going to weddings of almones going and seeing my father no matter what doesn't matter what time even when he landed from two weeks performance when he got a phone call that somebody needs we need to make somebody happy he left everything and he used to take the children to see it and that's how he grew up and bor Hashem today with all this for him and everything we're I'm trying also to help and do a lot of cuz I think the when a person wants to have even when he's working or doing some stuff you have to give it to others and you have to help others and that's why I saw that's why I grew up so I grew in it's not today I'm what type what is the community of like for those who are not familiar it's it's it's a community it's more it's a religious half half people not religious we have some shs But there's no liked people. It's different than your me. Yeah, it's different. Very very different today. All the all the Let's go back to your father for a moment. All the years, what did your father do for a living before he was singing? What was he always? He used to sing. Always. Always singing. Okay. Always singing since he was a very young boy. Always singing all over the world. And you used to travel with him when he used to Sometimes I used to sometimes he used to come to camp to sing to sing in camp also but always yeah we used to go big weddings all over the world from Brazil to Manchester to Belgium France. What did it feel like growing up as a son? Your father was somewhat of a celebrity. Yeah. What did it feel like for you as a young kid? It was it was fun. It was a lot of fun. I remember all the big concerts in America. dad you used to sing and scream and yell I was I was in the back meeting all the big singers uh it was special it was nice but my father always I saw that there's aus it's not just the pnos it's not just the business of making money and getting money from the concert he really felt that he's making people happy it was like a it's a I felt the true that my father and That's where we grew up. Also my mother with her said big marriage counseling today. That's what your mother does. She's a marriage counselor. Yeah. Very very big all over the world. Also I feel by my parents that the that when Hashem gives you a gift and it's a gift. Mhm. It's a gift. It's not something a lot of things you can learn but it's a gift and his voice was a gift. my mother's and and I I saw the pure and also this point of I remember with my father going to sadikim when I was a child you ask a question and you ask it the right way sometimes you can come and ask questions to get the right answer and sometimes it's hard you say no you say yes and that's what I grew I grew and now did you possess a musical talent yourself did you ever think of going into music as No, I like the davin as a hallelujah. I like the davin and I like singing. I like singing. I enjoy it. But you don't you don't want to embark on a career. I I do want to before we get into your and what you do, I know that it was not long ago that your father wasn't well. He went through a kufa. How is your father feeling now? My father's doing better. Barashem is recovering. The It wasn't easy at all. was very very very hard. It's also very, you know, we're not talking about this for him yet, but I remember when he was in a very bad position like in the ICU and we didn't know anything. I remember going to Kim and begging until I didn't hear tell me that he's going to be okay. I didn't leave the room. Wow. And I remember we checked his muza and there was a letter that that was puzzle had the muza of the of the door of the house. So we changed the whole muz and and right after we changed it woke up and since then we're praying we're dvening we got phone calls I got the the amount of people that came to the hospital and were telling us so much stories what your father I remember him he helped us what can we do everybody just wanted to I've heard that also from people in the music business and elsewhere everyone loved your father very beloved figure but it's not only the big people it's it's it's the small people in the community that my father used to help them. If it's food for Shabas, if it's a good word, if it's if it's giving them the right and it was amazing. Wow. You know, you don't know. Did your father ever think of now going back into music or is that part of his life in the past? No, his voice is not backed not back to himself. Um, but maybe who knows? Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? So, back to you for a moment. You said you're 16, 17. What What happened in your life at that point? So I my one of my father's friends uh took me to bin his son had mitzvah and they used to go to Israel. So we went to all theimudra the vision all the all of them all theim and we went also to and I was there with my small yarmaka with my my shirt wasn't tucked in my buttons they told me fix it we went into and right when I went in the house I I felt that something here is is different and you were a teenager then I was a teenager. I wasn't learning so much and I got a said then he looked at me he says sit and learn. So I said I didn't learn it. So I said what? What? So he said I should write. He told me write. And since then I went out. I felt very very like warm with a smile with not talking a lot. Doesn't talk a lot, right? And I felt something different. And I said uh you have to you have to do a change. You have to take it a different level. I remember I told my parents and slowly slowly they got me good kavus to start learning. Was that in a yeshiva or privately? private in the beginning uh rabbi that learned with me and then I went to yeshiva they got me the best best bestimus and they used to come my mother bring me food and it wasn't easy in the beginning my parents I became I started to become like more and they weren't used to a hat a jacket all these things but hashem bar hashem in the end um I can't thank Hashem enough and where do you live Now I live in Arnov in Mhm. I have four children. I know and my wife's from Arnov. My yeshiva used to learn in Arnov for 5 years. Where's was where in Arnov? What is that? Derkma. I used to learn there and Bashem. Now I live in Who's the Rashiva there? Rabbi Silver and Ravilanski. They were the Rashivas. I was there for five years and then Borashem I got married. My wife's from our north. our parents from our north and it's the best thing. Amazing. So what do you do now on a day-to-day basis? What are you occupied with? So basically we're working on the projects from we always trying to have more ideas. How can we help and and let the people understand and and have kvski in their table daily? Besides the English, we're working on a lot of forim in Hebrew. We just had a huge project of Mishnu with Kanye or on the side of the Mishna. It's a project for a few years that we did and we are always looking and has a lot of letters more than 170,000 letters that he wrote people all over the years. But I I think we jumped ahead for a second. Here you are, you're a young boy. You go into it gives you a you start learning. How did you end up in a position where you put out now a set of from now on to which is what we're here to discuss today is a brand new caferk on how did that transition take place so what happened is basically when I was in yeshiva and I used to get close to and I was writing already for him if it was the we learned at yeshiva if it was on the para for my wedding I published a book on the whole para shirim that I gave in yeshiva and then I remember going to the goa's grave and when I was there the first time it was something very very special and I called I called somebody he told me opening garagra and that's what you'll say there I opened the garagra and I I got very touch of the garagra and I was working on it a long a long time and baroo hashem I told my father after we published it and I worked for like four or five years with Gda Israel, I want to do it in English also. So my father called Gdalia Ladawitz and he told him my son. So he says okay we'll meet. How do your father know Rabbi Laditz? He knew it from a family friend. Okay. They knew each other. So he says no problem. I'm coming to Israel for one day. Let him come pick me up from the airport and we'll discuss on the way to. So I remember picking up Readitz Gadalia and then we are in the car and he saw the safe and we started I started with the Sag with Arts School and I remember talking to on the way cuz I was already close to not so close like today and he told me Arts school he told me my father we tried to translate never gave permission never gave permission and I told him that I I want also Rafine to give permission but I'm begging him. So he told me after we met, we had right away a good connection. A good connection. He told me, "Push, push. We'll get it done." And I to get what? What did you want to print at that point? Uh permission from to translate is safer or that he wrote it's a safer m with 30 subjects to get a permission from to get it translated. And I was begging every single day going waiting in the car sleeping in the car hours and hours and says no no no and I remember going to his son that he's the one who's with him the whole time and telling him we need it. I see the American people and I used to go to America all the time and I see in every single house everybody has the or it's a black cipher. Everybody knows it but no one opened it. It's everything is kazal and people don't really understand what's written in the safer. What was opposition to translating? He he's afraid that when you're gonna translate it, it's not going to be enough correct not be accurate and it's going to be mistakes and and it's not going to be the right way and if it's everything is if there's something not bishmus he's not he doesn't do it. So we were trying the whole time and I remember I remember andalia and I remember the first time he said yes I called and this was like the biggest day I I felt that something is going to change. What changed Riim's mind? I was pushing a lot and and telling him that the American people want to get every single donation's name support. But besides a huge saddaka and that everybody uses him, people really want to understand his Torah. People want to want to hear also the truth. And he wasn't afraid at that point still that it wasn't going to be accurate or you we got a and the whole translate when we worked on it me and a bunch of group of his grandchildren and we used to give I used to give the papers to his son and every single word was going through mistakes if there was questions we asked on the spot to know that we're getting 100% true and then we had Reb Wagner, Rabbi Wagner that is he translated all the books from Lakewood, a huge Tom and every single small sophic used to call me. I used to get an answer and we did everything. I never send it with a fax, never send a question with a delivery guy. Everything firsthand firsthand. And that's what we had. That's what we had. At that point, you already had access to whenever you wanted or was it still not not uh still I still still working on getting closer and closer. But open the doors, you know. How long did it take you to put out the English? We did it very very quick cuz in Orer it was safer. So it was just the translate and we added 150 stories. Mhm. On the translation cuz it's unbelievable to see that it's not only is writing the muser in the stories you see that is living it living it. This is his life. This was the rabbitin. This is the this is what it's the stifler. This is the way he was growing up and this is the way he lives. So basically I should mention by the way in all your there are dozens if not hundreds of stories. It's not only a per is also fascinating stories. The new volume on tim has amazing new stories about the about the stipler stories that people never heard before. Yeah I remember told me when we went to pin he said the is the is is is is the biggest. Now what's interesting I want to get back to to what we were talking about but let's say the this was this is a pish that was never printed in kadesh never so it's a brand new commentary it's a yeah that we worked on it that's being printed the first time in English in English somewhat of a for that his commentary is being printed in English for yeah and and and we got the letters that we were talking about we got special letters when is answering for people on questions on him with with his own perish. So basically we created a new thing. So when we did the was we didn't change the cafer and also the now it was a whole new work a group of and to be involved and work on the stuff also that it's it's we're creating a new thing to the world. And now did it did it get a little easier? I guess once saw that art scroll published the first volume. Yeah. And it came out as a vidafine the way he wanted. I imagine it also and also his son that he's the one who's and his grandson Yankei and the the phone calls the letters that are people thanking thank you for giving us the opportunity to understand. Thank you. It's beautiful. And so many people whoever came to the house just in the house the sold thousands of thousands of copies you used to see every yeshiva taking it with him every person that wants to understand buying it and it's it's just amazing that we we had this to do such a thing it's it's a miracle. Now what year did you put out the or is not even three years? So in three years you've put out five volumes on and the gar you had put out before the first one was we did I did in myself right right you put out also right and that was in between and but that's quite a bit to do in in three years but I learned one thing you don't stop for a second you have to every single day when you seek guy wake up in the morning, he barely sleeps and learning is is gimra is dinging is you get you get caught he doesn't wait you can't there's no such a thing waiting for the next day today now it's done you can't there's nothing else to do and the of the and what I see gives me such not to stop just not to stop and push and push and push and get things done there wasn't it wasn't n't easy. You know, everything is here now. It just it it didn't come from it didn't come from sitting on a chair. It it came from a tremendous nephesh. Mhm. Hours of hours of hours non-stop with Radalia with the translator with Rifim's house and of course a tremendous dish. Now you live in your bench on are you there every day now? Every day. Every day. Every day. Every day I go. What time what time do you go in the morning? So it depends when there's basically I would say I would say half a year I cannot go Nates every day to Davin in the letterman sh no today we d times out in the last two three years he doesn't d in letterman so I go Nates special the 40 days from keeper I go every single day and then during the year but a lot of times I go in the afternoon or in night time and sometimes I go two times and three times and when you go into the house are you just sitting and listening as your pim greets people. What are you doing in the house? So basically when when I go to the house I have a lot of emails, phone calls, people that are calling me, sending me WhatsApps and questions questions to present their present to the RV. They want answers also people send me on on the perushim to understand whether the RV 100% like that they understand the vort or something like this. But basically it's first of all just to see the you don't have to talk you don't have to do anything just to see the you get you get you get a but every single question every single and there's a big that people because of the art school and knowing art school a lot of people are sending questions and people want to want to know and get a and get a and get a what should we do their in their lives. So it's all day long. It doesn't end doesn't end for a second. Even while am I sitting in the interview here in America? You're getting emails the whole way. Emails. This one with CO. This one needs a sh this this one is going now to a doctor. They're scared. This one is asking for this one just left the yeshiva. What can he do? And it's it's every single second. But it's it's you know it's amazing that we have who to go to and who to ask and and what to get. It's it's a special thing and there's a very nice thing that writes in that I think that this is one of the biggest like a lot of people are asking questions and it's a very interesting thing. There's a letter from four years ago, five years ago that he's writing him. How come when we ask you people ask the onim he can answer one learn the second one givea the third one sayim the fourth one learn kidushim the fifth one say each one is getting a different answer and it's true cuz I remember myself last week I was asking him four questions the same question each one gets a different answer so writes eight words Whatever Hashem puts in my mouth, that's what I answer. Where is it coming from? So he writes an it's amazing on the subject of writes what to say. They just give him to say the a lot of times we see it's a you see a lot of time in one guy is saying yes no don't do it here now vaccines people can ask to do a vaccine yes one yes one no all the time everything and it's like and he says and he says very interesting how do we know that the and the his Not all the time that's the person that's asking the question when I'm coming to and I'm asking him and people are asking I tell them you believe 100% what word is going to say is going to work and whoever has it wouldn't happen It depends who's asking. So it depends who's asking the question. So you can ask the question and whatever you have is so there was a guy one guy there I can tell 5,000 stories but one story that's coming in there was a guy that his sister was on the nine month pregnancy and the baby was upside down what a breached breached baby. Yeah. Yeah. The the they wanted to do C-section. Okay. So they went there. The doctor says, "What should we do?" So he went to So says, he says, the guy didn't understand. He says this, this. So he goes, he tells he tells his sister. They go and they do an ultrasound and they seem it changed. so happy. They come after for the next checkup when you know in the nine month you have to do a lot of and they see that it it went back it went back they don't know what to do the doctor says I never thought it was a thing that it went back and then went back again doctor doesn't know what to do nobody knows anything they they saw we're doing the C-section tomorrow or two days after and they go into the she goes She's she's ready to the C-section. They do it rules just before and they see that baby went back again. It went back. She had a healthy baby and this but but this guy that's what I see it in my eyes. This guy got first time just take it and run. You go again and you ask things can change. So I'm saying but every single word every single word is is you see sometimes I feel it you know I feel I'm next to the I see when when he talks and when he tells check your muzas it's things you don't understand and and if you don't live in his house and you don't see it you can't believe it cuz it's it's it's like it's it's something be beyond you can't you can't You don't see such a thing. You don't see such a thing that a person that is is is all day long learning, learning, learning and he feels the he feels the that he wants to answer people. That's why he answers letters. Right? And you see I want to talk about that for a second. But before I get to the letters, why to now? Why did you pick tollim to put together a perish from? So as know when he was a already he took to very very seriously when he was a and he used to have a kabala his kabala was first of all not to talk second of all to give it to givea and the first of all finish till every day until today from Russium keeper finishes every single day theim and it's something I was last keeper with the ro in co to see the ro saying tell him in that times it's like it's like something's going to he can't do anything and he doesn't stop and even if you want to stop him he's saying it saying it with the yeen before and after it's something amazing so when he went to the yeshiva he said you used to say when he went to which yeshiva is yeshiva he had the three kabalas you're saying as a youngster yeah he had the three kabalas not to talk so he said talking He needed to talk cuz Roshiva used to come talk to him in learning. So he couldn't do Chinese debra like what is talking. The second it says I didn't have money. Mhm. I didn't get money. I was in yeshiva. So I didn't do puto. The only thing I left it was and he used to go on the roof of the yeshiva and the rashiva used to look for where's he's in the roof. What is he doing there? He used to finish the tim every single day. This was so was always very connected to tom. But now when co started and we asked the ro a lot of times says we have to be it's very very important and he used to push and tell me a lot a lot of times when my son had optionary and every single time say tail say tailm and now especially with all the sorus that are people going through he's telling people to grab tail one a day two a day three a day 10 a day each one gets again a different answer and and and for him to heal him. I I believe that that you see him that besides the Torah besides the tremendous you need special you don't have to wait to have a or to need it for bad things can be also for fore to thank I remember two weeks ago two weeks ago it was it was mish Uh yeah it was Araf of Shabas. So Rheim after Nates went to rest. So he told his gadalia go get me tell him he was in bed resting right he was with the whole time and he was with and he's so he told the ro the told him tell him. So he says the you don't want to rest says don't get me. So he thought he's going to say his tale that he says every day in order to finish it like he does. So he gives him the tale and he says starting to say the prime in bed middle of the day like finishes 15 times a year. He says to finish 15 times the 10 days of and the whole year he has five times from middle of he does 10 a day 10 caps. So he finishes 15 times but now saying and was saying the whole word by word and is not saying is saying he goes he what he's what when he what he can see with his eyes 93 years old nobody can see like a person who saw only tora and kadusha so so in the middle he told him after 19. So at least he told him Sabah be when you're saying this tell him. So told him that's what I'm doing. I'm ding for this. I'm saying that the whole for this at the end to the M of 19. So if your is finishing in this year 16 times to him I think every single person of us has to take h I'm not saying finish him but if we're not saying start saying one per a day two per two proim a day 10 a day whatever a person is saying regular till today every single person can take up on himself and with the article to him we have perushim there's so much this came from where? How did you compile it? So, we got it from the letters from stories from grandchildren. We combined everything together to have the best things. But today, people can understand what they're saying. And it's a different world. It's it's mish a different world. And if we're going to take it and understand what we're saying and live the life of David, that was his life wasn't easy. He had he had but he was always no matter what we thank we pray for and when we take this thing on ourselves it's it's it's a tremendous this this can be a real changer covid-19 is not going to end because vaccines because all the things it's going to endem we hope so but it's going to end when we'll understand that an so I want to tell you my favorite story in this safe friend. There are many stories and I love good stories. There's one story there about a child and you could finish the story. I'll start it. A child wrote a letter to and he wanted to know why the PK says with an endon why doesn't it say you remember the story and I think it was who was hesitating in responding. He was tapping his pen against the paper almost like he was thinking what should I answer asked why don't you just answer him what the answer is that it's a dict issue so said because the person the child who wrote it it was a yasum if I write back to the child that the word is used because of a dictuk matter the child's not going to understand it it's kind of like beyond his pay grade he's not going to understand the child dick I have to think of an answer that the child's going to understand. And that's why he was sitting there even though he had an answer but he wanted to answer the letter in a way that the child's going to appreciate. So you write so beautifully how came up with a simple answer that a child could understand that it's talking about by the par in paras that parro was the one who was describing the and parro didn't know so well so that's why he said it one way not the other but I was n from the sensitivity and the thought that here he is he's answering thousands of letters but he was so to speak struggling or trying to find the right answer so that a child could appreciate the answer not just answer you know to be to me that story makes this whole safer worth it but to is chock full of story after story ver I'm telling you you've produced an this is a masterpiece they're all masterpieces this is something absolutely special and I and whoever buys it and reads it and learns it is going to see it it's really incredible but tell us more you're sitting there by I'm sure you get asked all the time tell us some interesting of this stories things that you see from that maybe people aren't to know so I'm going to start with the last thing before I came here now to America I remember going in the afternoon and I was there with the ro and it's very interesting when is laying down nobody sees him eventually um like every 10 minutes he wants to wash his hands so there's a special like spritz bottle that he wash his hands And a lot of times says I just finished migill I just finished sanedrin like every 10 minutes 20 minutes something special but I remember so he's washing his hands in all the time in honor of because I don't know what he's learning when he's sleeping but he's like he wants to be the whole time but I remember and it was I remember I was crying is pointing I was in the room with he was calling his son And he was pointing a few times in his bedroom for the and he tells and it was dark. The room was dark saying a few times. I started to cry. What did what did he mean? What did mean? I know. But but you got emotion. Then we need Mashiach. The cloudy needs mashia. and he was looking at it and you can't see it barely with his eyes. He's in bed and he's pointing and he's telling me a few times. But look how sitting the whole day learning and when he's not learning he's answering letters. He's he's learning. He's learning all 24/7. But the the number of Israel that come to him, it's you know who hears more than nobody. Nobody, nobody, nobody in the world. But Borakashem, I I have the that a lot of people I tell them on the phone when they call me and they need a Yeshua. Please don't forget to call me. And as I'm coming here, a woman, you need to call back when the Yeshua call me and tell me. I want to tell the story. I want to make him happy. And in the last do the whole time. The whole time there was now a family that the RV told them the wife and the daughter weren't feeling well. Doctors were very nervous getting phone calls, WhatsApps, my phone is I went to the rav learn the family didn't learn. They made a sum of a every single day. They took the of when the saddic says something and they took it. They made 33 summen and on the 30 third the doctor says you can go home already. So I remember telling and he ran a big annoy they asked to do this mitzvah to do this to do there. But I'm saying it's it's it's I think it's important. I think you know people think he when he hears the but when you come also and tell him the the the surah to I'm sure he gives him a big and I see it gives him I see the smile a lot of people see my pictures every day why does he smile I tell them I just told him a good a a good bsura this lady they told her she's never going to have children and after 12 years she had a she had a boy's happy he's in the end of the day is a person right with with all the And I think it's amazing. I think it's amazing that Hashem we have who somebody to ask and we have answers and we're a we're a blow to get the the the the people that are so far and people that can't come to now everything's locked and we have and it's a and it's mish Hashem gave me a that I'm able to help people and this is the most it makes me very happy it makes me happy that I'm able to help people because how's how's your wife feel that you're away much of the time you're in Benbra how is how do you balance being in's house taking care of your so it's not easy my wife is a sadist that she with all what she's doing growing up and and allowing me to go especially the days of the 40 days of yum kipper is not easy not to be rashipper it's not easy but the and is is she understands and she she's the one who's pushing me to do it and it's not easy like I told you it didn't it didn't come from sitting in the couch and borashem her parents are amazing I live next to them and it's a blessing and they help us a lot so you know it's it's a it's a real real true bless that we're able to do such a thing and I couldn't believe when I pick up Gdalia from the airport that after two and a half three years we're going to sit here and have all this you I I wouldn't dream in a better thing in my life and these farm you could buy in Riim's house also right so not all not all of them especially now in co it's hard people can't come and it's mostly American people so all the store has it all the stores can you can buy it online sure and everybody who wants gets them I get a lot of phone calls people to buy I send them the arts bullying or if there's people who don't have like so I try to get it to them and bring it to them cuz I believe that every sing if if one Jew has a to the happiest person sure I'm the happiest person and I'm telling you today I think a few hundreds just myself orders for for people that want to give it to their grandchildren people that want to give it in their offices people are so excited to It's something that doesn't come out, you know. I don't think there's a lot of from within. There's a lot of and and and I think also the shabas tables mirror shabas. I'm getting so many phone calls. People are are they they're not they're asking why you're not doing it in Hebrew. They want to donate. Do it in Hebrew. Do it in Hebrew. I don't know. Maybe you have plans to do them in Hebrew? No, I don't have plans. Not right now. If I'll do it, I'm doing it with an article. That's for sure. But I don't have plans now. What What's the most interesting question or difficult shila that came to you that you had to present to the RV that you could think of? I know I'm putting you on the spot, but the most difficult or something interesting, something out of a box. There's so many questions. It's it's like what's an example of something that uh that recently came to your plate? Someone emailed you and you had to present her a difficult sha I'm trying everything by me is so by the way every single shila in question I take it like it's the it's it's it's it's a mal I think that every single person we can never judge that s or know what person but I think for every single person is a different I remember now there was a there was a girl that um they wanted to start shuim with her and she got a a shot one day four years ago and she couldn't move her hands. Mhm. So they wanted to do a surgery and they asked the ro to do a surgery to do the surgery not to do the surgery. The doctor says not only that the surgery might not work could be that it's going to be worse and she can't move her hand. She's starting there's a very very big big now you know when you come and ask the you never know what he's going to answer never never never so I went to the ro and I told him the the shila and this is like this is like a girl that this surgery can life or death exactly so says to do the surgery after the doctor says no and they did it it was like a first surgery of crying this and borakashem I remember myself it was shab is the surgery Thursday that Thursday I get a phone call 11:00 at night and they call me that she's she can move her hand not only did nothing happened but it worked and I was crying I don't I would never forget it I didn't wait I went straight to and I told the and I said what a n and they wanted all of the doctors to tell them that it's a nace to bear the n. So I asked the ro. So the ro was laughing I remember and the said that's what he told me but he was so so so happy he's talking about himself himself and I told him but this is a diff there's there's a lot a lot of listen when a when when when a father calls me that his son 16 years old left yeshiva this is a hard question and they ask you what they should what they should do that they should be this is also hard this is you know you feel the pain of of of people I got a phone call today a mother calls me she's alo crying crying crying I'm like what happened says my son's 23 doesn't have one date one date he's in shidim his friends are getting married one date and she's crying and she's asking the roof what to do what to do she'll do anything the ro says anything. It's hard. It's it's it's you know it's every single question every single every single people you know it's it's each one has his eventually and each one has his is so how many how many of the questions that you get how many do you get to presenter on a daily basis so it depends basically so now when I'm here I send it to somebody that I trust and he records it or I'm on the phone with the person but when a mans Israel at least uh if it's questions I would say around 20 but with what what time of day do you go to the r to presenter so it depends or at night or after Nates or in the afternoon it's you work around his because he has yeah I try to work around the but there's sometimes I can be there six hours and wait and get the shas prepare the shilus fix it a lot Lot of times it's brahas only. Not only just a person wants a braha. Now there's a lot of brahas. So you write down the answers to each shila and then you go back to Yeah. Yeah. Or I send it by email. Or you send by email or I send it by email and answers on the spot each time. On the spot every every on the spot. Do you ever have to Rim ever tells you he wants to think about it and you have to go back there? There's no such a thing. All the way. There's no such thing. Think there's no such thing. He gives the answer on the spot. And do you ever follow up with a question or is it Ri says and that's it? The time says and sometimes if if there will be something can ask but basically he gives an answer it's it's right away and what he gives it's finished it's done you can't you can't try a lot of people come to they try to change his mind it doesn't work and understands 100% clear who is coming to ask him like this trying to manipulate exactly and who's coming this yeah every single person will tell you this is this is the way operates Yeah, it's clear 100%. Incredible. Now, as far as your projects, you've done a lot. You mentioned before there are thousands of letters. Thousands. Are you planning to publish them? We're working on it right now. We're publishing it in Hebrew on the there's we just the first of on the Torah. It's one book for three parishes. Just one say for one say for thousands of thousands of questions on every single rashi every single thing was asked by and so those are questions people posed to their answered yes yes and we take the letters we have the letters are doesn't end and we're working now also on a big onita in Hebrew with perushim and understanding that people should understand for theat that's coming and everybody's waiting for this lastmita is the so everybody buy this and this coming year is it's very very big it's going to be selling thousands of thousands of thousands of thousands of copies and we're not stopping I tellitz the whole time he told me actually we're just warming up that's what he tells me all the time he's just warming up and I call him and I tell him so much to do we're starting it And you know I get emails and I I showed them the emails people are you know sending emails what's the next project what can we dedicate it and you know so much people want to be involved and told me this is a very interesting thing when I went and we got the first dedicator and then we wanted to do it wasn't so easy in the beginning I couldn't find it so I asked what's going to be it's going to print. We need a dedicator. He says he says we'll be okay. I'll So then he told me I remember I would never forget in my life told me you need a you need a and when I went to America to look for the I went to the said I'm going give me a give me an he says don't push I'll soak all this for him. I don't push. Hashem sends the donors, the dedicators and it's amazing and when we did I was very and I would never forget it that I asked there's a big that when a person is learning somebody's his mouth on the caver is moving right I asked the rebs with the dedicators a person that gave them money for do the book. Does he have the looked at me and says, "Yes." Even the pre people that are donating it are so every single article book, every single dedicator, they have a source. What a maybe today we don't see it sometimes, but this is a a a big thing. And it's interesting that told me writes there the guy who dedicated the safer now. So it's wow that he's the is saying so it's a big whoever right whoever dedicates for him I want to just ask one other question I was reminiscing as you were talking I was thinking in my mind I remember about 20 years ago when I was learning I had a shila and I wrote a letter to and I got an answer I remember I was so excited I got an answer written I don't know if he wrote it or Maybe maybe was someone else wrote it. Do people still get written answers from nowadays? Not so much. Not not as much. Probably the volume is is uh off the charts. Yeah. But Ripshai, what you're doing is amazing both in serving as a on behalf of people who want to send their shik. You've become a one-man machine. You give people, you give people strength. You're helping them clarify. You're helping them navigate both personal questions and questions, Gashmia's questions, and you're enriching Clalis with your beautiful together with the wonderful staff here at art school. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for sharing some of the insights into base to many more years of being with him. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. [Music]