Champions of Inspiration - Leiby and Aviva Weiss

[Music] hi my name is Livy Weiss I agree I grew up done before was popular my father is from South America and he actually taught the non-religious boys we've lived close to the Village School so growing up we always had people as guests so it was sort of something that I was always introduced to I was always it was always part of us I've always been involved and interested in kiriv and sort of the relationship part of reaching out to to our brothers and sisters we were all we all come from the same parents from the same grandparents we're all one it's just history that makes us different it was involved with h before it kind of grew it was on Wilson Avenue and I went there to sort of volunteer my my uh my time and I learned with somebody I think liebe was always involved with the Jewish Community I think he was the president of our shulra Shabbos at one point um he I think was involved with the Hever kadisha in the community he's always been involved with and he's been a man who exudes all the time so it's very natural that he got involved with project Inspire in the way that he did they got married a little over 30 years ago they moved into 120 Shelbourne and consistently since the very beginning anybody who moved into town anybody who came to Shoal knew that it was a matter of time and short time before they were invited to Libyan Aviva's Shabbos table live in Aviva have always been passionate about kiruv I mean they the haknasis orchem is great and they've always had guests over I've been on a number of trips with Libby he really truly represents Torah values he's a real people person and he knows how to speak to people and he knows how to explain things on people's levels so I've known him for 30 years so we were in school together colleagues friends so several years ago life threw me a curveball and leiby just kind of stepped up to the plate and helped me out and got me to understand certain things I didn't know or understand before he's just been very encouraging and inspiring on one of the first Israel trips that I was on we take the guys down to the hotel and it's after we've been in Israel for a couple of of days already and they're sort of ready for it and we go down to the hotel and they stand at the hotel and you go over to them and offer them to fill in puts fill in on them and we make a bracha with them and then I say ishma Israel they say my Israel and they burst out crying and they say I don't know why I'm crying but there's something there that connects there's something about the nashama and the kadusha and and when you experience something like that you realize that that this is real and this is impactful for them I am always in awe of when when Aviva is on a mission how much she dedicates herself to the people and making sure that everyone has an amazing experience and making sure that everyone understands what's going on we take for granted what's going on at the coastals going on at a Friday night table but Aviva can always see what someone is experiencing so Aviva is an extrovert and she's got a lot of energy very high energy person and I think that that's infectious I think that she she bonds with people in a very real and sort of easy way people don't need you to sit down and teach them they're so happy to watch and see each other's table and see parents interacting with the kids and seeing how we run things and that we're interested in their lives we might not have from kite in common but there are so many other things that we have in common that there's so many conversations that you can have with people what makes Libya and Aviva so effective what they do uh is the sincerity every single day they wake up and before they go to bed they they have done countless things for other people this is who they are because I think they're really themselves so and and people sense that when people meet them they realize there's no show there's no mask they're just they're you know what you see is what you get and they're very authentic they're role models for other Jews and they really connect with Jews of all affiliations because of the role they've taken within project Inspire the many trips that they've gone on that they've inspired other Jews encourage them to get involved as well just by their involvement that's been their impact on Project inspired just on their own they've decided to make it their own personal mission to impact people to go on missions with them to invite them to learn to invite them to their Shabbos table to share their Suka with them to share their Purim student with them Lobby and Aviva are always open to sharing what's what's going on in the beauty of Yiddish kite with all of the people that they encounter in addition to everything that they put into project Inspire they are such amazing parents and grandparents and to watch them be there for their family and at the same time have so much time to do you know project Inspire activities and countless other Act of crescent and and Outreach is inspirational they're an example of people that care for college Israel and who are willing to give up their time to take another Jew under their wing but this is something that affects everyone in the whole world it doesn't need matter whether you're prestigious whether you're live fish whether you're why you whether you're you it doesn't matter this is something that everyone can do because at the end of the day we're all brothers and sisters honestly I'm doing this because I'm a regular guy I I have no special training in this I'm a busy guy like I did like everybody else and I really hope that that will inspire somebody else out there to to take some time and to do this because I really believe it's it's it's really important if you had a brother and he was off doing something and you could impact his life in a positive way you would do that and these are all our brothers I really wish for them the strength to be able to keep going and to keep increasing and to bring friends and others that they know into the same mahalak that they have in helping Claudia Israel I wish that they should continue having brachas in in everything they do hot slak and everything they do and continue having the impact that they're having on the entire Community give you the health strength and resources to continue to do this together [Music] foreign