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Farbrengen 3 Kislev , Rabbi Shmuel Lew - 5784
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up to you it's up to all of us I'm here
now this moment I got to take something
in my to take back to
Eng you have to do something
yourself really
really
really and he said whatever I can give
you but I can't
do
if you don't do anything nothing's going
to
happen so
now I'll tell you the real story money
the real story I want to read I want to
read the question you know why because
I'm hard of hearing if you ask the
questions you can ask don't worry a
little am I
but when you with this questions it's
interactive it's called in English it
means that it's we're all stakeholders
it's not somebody giving you a
brother about
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were
was
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anyway
so I want to tell you something
here that I
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heard but
he I
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want
legendary
in and then he passed
away was living in
London running a business
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that
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business
littleit and on thousands of
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people then the said I want you to
consider becoming
the and the
is
go
to and spend a couple of weeks
there and see if you like
it go a tri like and if you like it go
back to
London and spend the next
year winding up your
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business and then
go whated I heard
this what happened
wasm there was a car accident and his
only daughter was killed and left over
11 kids young
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months he was
already and when I and I was in South
Africa I came back on Friday was the
last day my wife said came here at 7:00
in the morning she said terrible news
but you got to go it's only chance
to told me story CU I was in I was
in
first and laugh he said told me wind up
your
business so that year he said my
business I can wind up in a
week with a month
he needed that
to make arrangements for Ling
kids that really took a lot of
effort anyway
I the
mle spoke about what a loyal
son is to a
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parent a good son is not a
son who does what his father tells him
to
do that's not a good
son that you can take for granted a good
son is someone who anticipates what his
father
wants and he does it even if his father
doesn't tell him to do
it and he said
is
someone who realizes what the dev wants
that have to tell it to him direct he
knows what wants from him and he
doesn't that's the that's the and to me
remind the story which
is I heard it
himself the
ear used to learn
yeah you know
it should so this is
the and he to learn
with and they would have discussions
also while they were sitting together
and they were discussing what is
a
and he
said that's
not if a re tell you your Rabbi tells
you to do
something
if your Rabbi tells you to do do
something it's to do
it activities even though did not tell
him to do
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it that's what you call a
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relation
and I'll tell you now about a
conversation not it's illuminated
from I was unfortunately a
city brother andway got close FL with a
nephew of mine I sat next to him the I
said anytime you want
here's
and he calls me up and he I have a
question here's the
question he saw he was preparing for
ding like a good Jew looking at
the and he saw
there a reference to na thear
says that there was a
heavy
between
and would it be better for a person to
be
born or would it be better for a person
not to be
bor on it's the interesting thing is
that's the only one I
know it doesn't say which one said which
view it just says that they were talking
about one said this and one said
that and they argued it for 2 and a half
years and at the
end they reach the
conclusion
now you
born give yourself over
yourself it sounds like make the
best so I asked him what's your question
on
that so he tells mebody can
question he says what took them two and
a half years that's the only
question
why couldn't they decide that in two and
a half minutes work out what you what
you're view with two and a half
hours and half
days two and a half
years what's going to take two and a
half
years
question
so I told him how much time you have
right
now he said he's driving from work to
work from Flat Bush to New Jersey he's
in the car he's alone it's an hour's
dri okay
so I explain to him a little
bit which I'll explain to you in a
minute in human term
about what it means to love
some what it means to have a
relationship what do it what does it
mean how do you gauge how do you measure
that you really are a friend you have a
a
friendship how can you me how can you
prove how can you show what your
friendship
is how could you
know how you
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tell what happened what what so I said
first of all before you answer a
question about it's it good to be
created or not I have two bigger
questions on the he says what's that I
said number one how can you have a
suffer if it's good or bad is's a saer
which is
called and the first the first and the
first it
says
to be
born 2 and half
years second of all in the same
seven the first MIT of
the would hasem give you a command to do
something which is not
good to bring children onto the
world the answer is the answer is it
doesn't
say
didn't remember
but I looked
up
what
does easy
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easy is it comfortable to be born is it
easy to live a life on this world that
was the
question and he says it's
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not is it easy or not I have another
brother 55 years
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ago he
me but now my voice will last maybe an
extra half
hour
I
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anyway never ever misses A Min three
times a
day told me later years after to
make
if you do now on
Zoom
what a popular kind of a guy
know I he came to visit England he just
married
now he came
there and I asked him one
question I'm an older brother asking my
kid brother he's now 79 years old I
asked
him one
question I said tell me do you have any
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friends and he was a very popular
person and he says I have plenty of
friends but if your question
is that if I have a crisis at 3:00 in
the
morning physical mental whatever
I pull somebody
up
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maximum and I reminded few weeks ago
this all I remember from the whole week
he SP in eng
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that because I thought that that is a
fantastic description of what a friend
is if you love
somebody what makes you love
them you have a relationship with
someone what makes you have a
relationship with
them what is
it
feel you want to write a poem about it
you want to draw a picture you want to
sit with them the whole day and the
whole night
yes that's how you describe it that's
not that's that's self
love of course it's a part of it you
enjoy that part and it might
be it's it's getting up at 3:00 in the
morning 8 hours uninterrupted sleep no
one bothers me that's called that's an
easy
life what happens if somebody
need and it's been a tough day and the
night before you went to sleep very
late and you had a power cut and you had
and and and this was not working and
tomorrow is a pre day at 3:00 in the
morning first need what would you
do so if you would do what the person
want you to do then you're
afraid you're doing what's
right instead of what's
comfortable I in my opinion there's a
third level what level is sleeping 8
hours second level is having a sense of
responsibility as Dy I've got to do it
I'm a me and
notable and the third level
is that I was able to help the person
who
needed and all of that applies in
friendships in being a good a good child
to parents being a good parent to
children
and and
not what does really want that's not
necessarily something with with you do
it because you're supposed to do
it that's a level that's a
very significant level
of is to do
something because that's
what that's what the
but there's even a deeper
level that you don't just
have the biggest
possible but you're doing something that
you that it's not that your body or your
mind or your personality would
necessarily want to
do that's what it
means and for that it could take me two
and a half
years I asked the guy I told him I said
by the
way uh what do you in the car for now we
can go to
work I said you work on Sunday he said
no I work for ye yes Sunday no I said do
you take the TR the trip an hour each
way on
Sunday he what are you kidding I don't
work I don't of
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course say so what are you taking that
trip you could be sitting with your wife
and with your kids the whole day every
day you're doing it it's not it's not
something you do when you day
off but you're doing it because of a
relationship a relationship is what you
do which is
not say the way to
overcome you
tell it says I want you to think such
and such or to say such and such or to
do such and such whatever it is tell
them away
let keep on pushing him off for five
minutes when you push off something
which you would maybe want to
do but there's a relationship which is
more significant which is more
meaningful to you than just feeling
comfortable that's that's where the sign
is of of a h of a child of a friend and
love anyway I'm to
question
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I can't I can't get
out
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H like
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okay here we go any other
questions let me know a good question a
completely completely completely
different
that different from each other the first
one is what role should
yish be playing in laish
today yish
language what role should yish speaking
yish what role should it
play now like most questions have to do
with and we has to do with today
versus the question is not
simple the answer not simple it has to
do
with the is
always does
not
the
probably about 12 13 14 talks about
considering even though doesn't use that
that
language so the question is what Ro what
place does have so first I'm going to
tell you something the
told us my wife and
myself before left the next night to
England 58 years
ago whenever I went with my wife she was
my also Al
together must have been five six I can
work out how many you
exctly and used to speak
English including to
me when my wife was
there and and one time they said we
should write in in know letter we both
wrote a letter
together and my wife wrote in English
and I wrote in Hebrew and when we gave
the the settle the immediately
translated a k of what the Hebrew said
we were two years
in
this you walked in and asked my
wife do you speak is
yet and she said she
understands
a lot better but it doesn't speak it so
well so said it's a shame after two
years
in and then talking about what to
do so the said to her in English I'm
going to talk to your husband
this and in case there's something you
don't understand from what I'm saying
you can
interrupt that's saying that there's a
big m in there's also a story of the
re when dr's
daughter
came with
her
who to get a from this was very shortly
couple of weeks before
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and asked are you
an and he said
yes so she said that's really good
because now you'll speak yish which is I
know you'll speak with your
children and it's interesting they got
married and they didn't have
children by 2 years and 4 years and 5
years years and 10 years and 15
years but they always had
100% to speak children not just one
children at the end they had a son and a
daughter after about 18
years children were born in
the and um
obviously now having said that the
question is what Ro
thebi
suffer when it came to the
curriculum he said is more important
than learning the if if
parents can speak with their children in
yish it's an extremely useful thing it's
very
beneficial it's the language that this
spoke the language you can
hear has a lot of
advantages
but of is
priority where they spoke WR in the
school instead of and and they wanted to
teach us to speak yish said they should
learn yish at home and in during
playtime the teacher when he speaks to
the children in recess they speaking
when it comes to learning it it really
depends there's a tremendous
of
but is more important than the language
not that the language is not important
and very very
important
but in the educational
system is what takes priority
what I did I
T the
boys
t
i i in the boys high school
and I thought in the boys ele the oldest
class if boys with 12 13 years
old and they didn't know you
I don't know
if but I used to teach them yish
songs and meanwhile I teach them how to
write as
well so they Lear they learn and they
learn how to WR as well also has
different rules of spelling and writing
it's a fantastic thing to know somebody
once came
by
D
and the spoke in Russia
Russia and he said he
said I'm trying to forget that
language so the
said said I know a lot of languages but
I wish I knew
more you want to forget a language every
language you know is beneficial there's
no such thing as a boring language a bad
language a language helps you to think
and helps you to understand everything
that you learn especially if it's yish a
language that language has in it Jewish
history if you learn how
to how
to look at the yish
word and somebody who knows how to study
it will know that it contains the whole
history where the Jews were and what
they did in all those places I give you
an
example in yish there's a word that you
all know probably it's
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I you're going to tell me this so there
was a a rabbi called Rabbi Jonathan
sax and I was very very close with him I
had a she in his room that was first one
that I dealt with
so over the years we spent a lot of good
solid years together so one time he was
in my
house and he's brilliant philosophy in
English I said translate for me the word
I into
English and he did but it was about 10
words it your philosophical words I
don't remember what they
were what what it would mean in
ter so I said to him that is a yish word
how you
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know just stop my
word and and we all do this all the time
ah you're going to tell me this then
I'll tell you
that is a fantastic language to
know but learning that said and he
said your parents should teach that or
someone else find it a different
way many of the teach that's like my
things and some of them
like there's a desire picking up a
language is not as hard as it
looks it needs
motivation but anyway so the question
was what role should it be playing it
should be playing a central role
but there other it's not the first
priority next
question you come up with any other
questions
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WR what should I do if I do not have
a and I do not appreciate that the rebba
is my
rebba
oh now that is a great
question you know why it's a great
question why is it a great
question because a lot of people have
that question and they don't have the
courage to ask it and the only way you
can answer is by asking don't give it
away so let's take the two parts of the
question part number one is what should
I do if I do not have a believe it or
not
this ailar
thing he's not saying I don't have a
saying I divide the time and I want this
that unless you AR with
the but the there's a tremendous amount
of free thought
and you don't have to do
it during the time that you have to
do you have a c see this you can do
without a c a
b look speak it through
with and look for the
areas which fit in with your cup because
there's everything it could be that the
part that you're learning is either
difficult or boring or you don't see
it's relevant at this moment in your
life whatever it is I promise you the
I'm not talking not everyone understand
but in
intellectual development and cultivating
of thinking processes it's always
Val but it's not always it
says people wrote get bored a change p
in the middle change to a different
subject or to a different
aspect whatever it is change it around
so you look for a way and
um yeah another
is which
is helping
another to
do and sometimes it's helping somebody
asked
me
and they were asking about their own
child I don't I don't want to go into
the
details but one of the things I
said is get to your child the question
was is it possible for such a child to
stay at home at the age of
15 would it be better them to go away I
don't know I this person I never you
know from ad I know the name I didn't
person I said I cannot tell you but I
can tell you what I do know a lot about
is which issues to factor in what to
consider when you're making this
decision starting with the fact that
it's very healthy for a teenage child to
be with their parents unless there's a
an issue maybe know know way they can
learn whatever it is there plenty of
situations where it's best
not but one of the things I said is you
arrange with your child to learn with
someone else and pay
them the 15year old let them Le with a
10 or 9 or 8 year old day when they have
no school evening as a pay job and that
will help them motivate them this was
maybe 15 20 years the child is a
parent I met the child I met the child
in Ro but they were already like 19 20
years
old just could you clar so by learning
to see this with somebody
else here come around here tell
me so uh by
learning to make a little in the part of
that you do
enjoy
take that it contains the essence
of those
stories learn things which are more
accessible to your level of
desire and you'll get something out of
it I promise
you onee one minute the second
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part excellent
question forget the
all was the second part of the question
was what should I do if I do not
appreciate that the Le is my
le now one of
my finished end
scho I said look we finished a week
early I gave $100 get some money to the
kids I said buy grape juice and food and
we have a for next week I said ask any
question you
want
so one of the kids asked the
question why do I need a
re so I said to this
person number one I congratulate you
that you have the coverage you act in a
respectful way an important question as
you know it's a question which is good
to know what it's about
I said in order to answer it I need
about at least 10 15 minutes and listen
here I'm going tell you a
story I heard the story from
RAB it happened before I came like 58
years ago this Happ about 60 years
ago there was a woman in Stanford Hill
in London the very religious
neighborhood a f
woman that she had a very very serious
threatening
ill and the doctor said you have just so
many weeks or so many months to
live just recently arrived in
England and he said I can tell you right
than
ever and she
wrote and the
re said that maybe said check I don't
know what said he certainly gave a
brother he certainly replied and
vess this woman
recovered but it wasn't like
a now this woman had a rabbi in the was
a
and he loved and he did a lot of good
things with but he had a on the whole
story he was like background not going
around asking B
he not something
I but I
know's was
sick and he was with his mother
Huger and they
and it says
in and God listen to the of
the
better stronger more
effective is
theiller of the one who's sick the one
who needs the
Yeshua is more potent it's more
effective than anybody else somebody
else so this Rabbi said this whole me
you get somebody gets sick and you write
to it sounds inconsistent with that
r
and somehow that question
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reached wrot every single
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week
every I saw one anyway so here the re
answer the way I
paraphrase the said going and asking a
rabbi to dou to you is not
a you say there's a new thing in town
the came which is 200 years old it's not
even
250 it's in it's in
gor the you guys are learning it's
in not the not not in the
first person in the
house people
say he's go
to says go to so the rabbi has
no place no
right to ask from
the of
fulfilling but said there is
a
says and says the of the person
themselves is better than the of
somebody else with
them and the re said the answer is that
a re is not somebody
else
word
B
excellent I hir
this you know what a r is you know what
the fun of a head
is did you ever hear of think called the
central nervous
system we know it we call it the
brain the brain is a
system which controls the whole
body it doesn't do things for you
if you want to go someplace you got to
get up on your
feet and you got to
walk that's how you go
somewhere if you want to give to you got
to put your hand in your pocket and pull
out a coin or a bu and give
it can't do you are Wai for
you you got to put on your own
body the other hand a person might be
very strong and athletic and
fit and have powerful legs for
example in the head there's a bleeding
in the
head and he can't
walk that's a a is something which
connects the whole
body and the whole of Cl is is the body
one
configuration and there's the's
the there's
the and the is the the central power of
it that's what said with in a different
kind of language than the is four by
five
names says it's not just five names
five is the connection with so most
people not most people
everybody is operating on a fraction of
our
capacity you do have even do all the
Mitzvah all the right things it's not
you know it's that's you have a certain
level there a level it's not it's not
it's it changes everything in a person's
life so I said to this
student I said you know
something you can say you say why do I
need a re there are thousands and
thousands
who claim that they don't have a re and
they don't
need but I promise you that they didn't
hit
the if they did it wasn't on the level
that they could get with a connection
to So when you
say how I do not appreciate my
don't analyze so much try to work on
having a connection
to Once came to me many years maybe 30
years ago in New York and he said I feel
I'm
slipping and I'm telling you he wasn't
slipping he
slipp
W and he says tell me something I can
do
I said want to
connect but this
guy was not holding anyone
near to in
my perhaps unfair
eyes and I said to him I bought him a
present
the big br
Engish I ask you one
thing every
day give one minute two minutes to the
and read something to think about
something said to
that so each person you want to know how
to develop that feeling why the feeling
is good because it will bring out your
he's not be of the and the is going to
be very lucky another would be delighted
love and was Jew was not even Orthodox
and he told I feel very
attracted but I don't see myself ready
to become a how can I be a of yours I'm
not really 100% there and said to him
and je who looks in the mirror and says
tomorrow better than
today I'm proud to P
my it's not where you
are fact you're looking for it look for
it find connection
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learning that's what I suggested to this
guy
today
number
two
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help because consid that person a lot of
ever told someone do be a personal
favor told
to and the third thing is to get
yourself
a
what does a person have to be in order
to be
my and through a must you'll have a
connection to the devil how does it work
I don't know but it works I
promise number one it should be
someone look up to you
respect spiritual it doesn't have to be
perfect but someone that you look up to
not just stop
number two someone you can trust to be
100%
confidential so I once told this to a
student and they said how do I know that
I said take them off for more things and
as time goes by you'll see
you and number three there should be
nonjudgment they don't think any lower
they understand that every person
especially a young person especially a
developing
person has ups and downs that is life
it's a big
problem because then whatever you
achieve you achieving your it's Sal not
something that we
trans the price you have to pay to that
his Downs as well as UPS not always
going so not always going so good you're
not always in the
move it's not always be
simp someone who you can trust they're
not going to teach his mental it's the
best
thing next
question kids should be
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home the best question in the
world you know
why because the answer
everything I asked a similar
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question his question was I say that
it's best for a child to be with a
parent he said at what age should they
leave
home
and the answer
is that there's not one answer I asked
the once when I took over as a principal
of a school and after I was there for a
year and a half I was in New York and I
wrote a long three four Page Letter to
the with two
main I don't know how to do my
job and the two things I what was about
stuff that learning in the SE
shakespare and the second thing was I
had to advise
people when they 16 17 not all
families and I'm G i' like to stay in my
school maybe go somewhere else with the
school I wrote all these different sides
and told me it depends on the person
that's
the or the want told my suffering that
ideally a girl daughter should be with
her mother the but that's not the world
we're into so they go to they have to
understand what's right and what's wrong
what's better what's worth it depends on
the home I know
people with the home life for certain
reasons was not healthy for a growing
person I know somebody and I know
and I know from a friend now he's but he
told me that they never told him and
this to advise another
boy to do a whole roundabout thing to
make that person stay not at
home CU that was good for him so for
that you have to work out with
with what's right for each kid ask and
the important thing is very often
parents or B themselves they think about
there's a certain problem in a certain
place but with a certain
person and they want to solve it and
they have a
solution and the solution
works but the other thing is they solve
one problem but they
created or two or even one but it's a
bigger one the
harder so that you need to know
situation that anyone's in is doing that
247 that's the when you say hello good
morning I got to know every single day
I'm and I try to smile this that one I
got to know exactly when and who and
what to meet theall and say
not it depends on the
person but the general point is that
that the bondage of a parent to a child
is very healthy connection that's that's
the how that applies what told me by way
was I should
all
I of mine with the words I
was your par nobody loves you like
parents but sometimes pretty heavy or
intrusive or
judgmental no you will have alone let it
I need it's a healthy
relationship
anyway am I able to smoke weed if I'm
depressed who would have wrot believe or
not believe it or not there's an answer
from the an English letter whoever it is
want to come out and tell me who he is
and send me your thing I'll send you the
I have a a English letter
in a serious way about using getting a
spiritual high with LSD
with with some kind
of artificial stimulant and
explain that that's not you know what it
says and they ate from the
at what was the
was
gra it was
wine and it became self-conscious it's
in the mind that
self-consciousness they
did and as a result they became very
knowledgeable quite
this they got to War to doing they got
knowledge so and
explains that the knowledge they had
before that was a higher level of
knowledge it was a knowledge
of their body was just a instrument to
Do's will whatever the mitvah was once
they became self-conscious they became
ashamed when they wer
dressed because there was already mixed
in in
everything and that
was so
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we the on the mother came to me she
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that happened here whatever I tell you
story I'll tell you afterwards a story
my meting by the
BBC and the guy starts screaming he
walks across the street that something
happened what do nothing happened to me
and I happened to hear him but he said
it to
me I said I promise you when you walk in
the street there's a thousand things
happening just have a big
Mount you got to you look there you'll
see the lot of exciting stuff happened
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Bor I was
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winter 8:30 he
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ground height you work hard the whole
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thing which was most difficult for me I
found to be the most
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come
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device turn off my phone at least
minimum of an hour before
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one hour usually two three hours after
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my life is not dictated it's not not
it's not by something outside of
me so I could say a life without a
device before Mar you had students
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about 11:00 at night in London manchest
later Gat still later in Scotland after
midnight and they said how could you
tolerate how could you want me to
come you can't do
anything was once there
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stimulated is by pressing a button
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with my wife that I wouldn't go home
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hear a
story and I get about two stories a year
and you get it every week on J
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choice the good that's there in your
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generation you're living not in a
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thousand
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forever ever for a billion years not
just 100 years not a
thousand it's in our
hand you can do
something you can make your life into
something which is
infinite and you can be bored or
boring even if you're a
teenager
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years old you mle age when you're 188
years old it's a it's a mindset it's a
way of thinking look at the world
the was
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decid no to
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I've heard this many many times over
these last 60 years I said you can say
any in my office any you want all I
ask is you speak to me like I speak to
you that's I don't ask
anything ask stand up when I walk you
don't have to give me any titles any
cover just speak to me direct like I
speak to you and that's how you have a
conversation not generation World
Generation the people of all time
you look at this and not only that each
person in their life you go to
different different different periods of
your life and even in any one period
sometimes in one
day there's so many
different experiences you have or
relationships that you have to negotiate
that people you have to
relate you
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power and all the things that all
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do even if it doesn't come across like
that is to try to bring
out
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now that I've seen hundreds of
people say and those who
have is because they waited till they're
25 years old till they learned the
lesson
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England and he wanted to get advice how
to go into business and not to become a
very successful
person I got him an
appointment with a top top top multi
multimillion top of real estate around
across the whole
lond and he went to him
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the
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the
70s and today you find I
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situation that you have to do what you
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valuable and
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side of the room or outside the room
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whole
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whitewashing the whole
story
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everybody
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of
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of
the this is in the car going back to
CR and I remember when he was I remember
his parent he was from Manchester not
from lond I remember he was a young boy
he was learning
in and I know he had
stories he very smart and very
open he wants to
go to learn wants to come to New York
and learn
and the said not
yet
but different
points related to at the
end he said to
the can you please be more
specific asked to tell what what what
you want me to
do said I want you to look see this he
was about 16 years old want to look to
this on
Monday and
Thursdays and which
may so for
Monday he was
in it's another neighborhood like about
7 miles away he
says gives
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go to
that on Thursday
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story was very powerful I'll tell you
why first of
all first of all because the that the
was aware
alert to the details that are taking
place through all the situations that's
happen tell of the week go to this
person and which night to that person
smile
on but secondly and maybe even more to
have his personal interest in every
every
individual
direct you guys
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this me was chosen not just by was
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specific
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frustrations and for the
hopes and for
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Care is there with you at every moment
and you see that as an invit I'm telling
you now I asked the re before I came
here before I came to America
I wrote that I'm going
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please help
me to say what you want me to
say and I'm I TR share with you
something which I was not expecting to I
didn't know about weeks
ago I wasn't expected to say it and I
wasn't expected to say it 5 minutes ago
but I think that's what I'm supposed to
be telling
you to work on a personal relationship
with it comes from touching base
learning you work out on your level
what's comfortable plus a bit more
that's not so how you
do one person is learning one person is
10 minutes one person a half hour or
three times a
week
and to help
another say a happy word to somebody
who's a bit low that day you can tell it
on their
face ignoring
them and try to get
a be able to talk with them somebody you
can trust and be
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when you go to
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before you
go and when you get there say something
else and and to
me that's really what life is
about always prepare me live with
something good positive not because of
someone
else and then when you get to a
situation you have to know you know
what's what's appropriate that
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situation
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par I'll tell
you I have a
daughter who's
married to a great grandchild of
her she asked and I know her a lot of
children and all I said to her
was make sure you look after the
parents's great great
grandchild he was very very very
special and I'll tell you one
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story the
whole project has people in the
whole
the whole world is this problem somebody
F me up once got from
from
somebody who was writing a book
about from Yale University I think it
was from one of the big universities in
America they're writing 10 books on the
10 most influential Jews of the 20th
century
he about and he asked name want to meet
I was in America the end I didn't meet I
spoke said one thing we were going to
meet if I was going to come to
America
other he wanted to
know where is a person where did he get
the
power to get
people in the
thousands
to give up that comfort
zone and to go live in a completely
different type of envirment not just
physical envirment spiritual
everything they said that's a power you
don't find that in the world
anyway so somebody I heard in middle of
the lock down was
I he said in the name
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of that
somebody met a very very real
famous and said I have the deepest
respect for what he has achieved in the
world even though
it's not such aella with an army like he
has so this told
this nobody handed an
army they were one over one by one these
people they it's not that took over
organization okay you have 5,000 people
to send them where you want could also
be a big
time but it said every one of them learn
Lear had struggles had spers had
cold moments had hot
moments and the end was he became
focused on doing somewhere whever it's
need and people a little bit
older like
myself remember the
times when there was pleading with
people to
go more than that pleading with parents
to allow their children and were not
parents
people and somebody once
heard the pleading with a
father who was reluctant for his very
son to go
Far Far Away Place far away place in
those days might have met New
Jersey
Pennsylvania go Chicago was like out of
space that was called far
away and the re said and this was the re
was a man he was 52 53 years
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so say why can't you obey me for what
me for me just because you're older than
me he said is older than me and older
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somebody heard
this here's the real
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it was 3:00 in the morning and there was
that night and the's
mother didn't like the idea that after
3:00 in the morning which was a regular
thing re walks Home Alone even though
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morning you don't see you don't you
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to he had a lot of
opposition of opposition a young guy our
chief Rabbi rabbi
told me up
once he knew he had
heating 50 years or something 40 years
and he asked him to make a video he
wanted and he told me this such a young
guy came he said that's only the to take
a young person and take
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support that was was eventually
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about
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commission
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eight years
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descend by the way but some of them are
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couple of months L it met approximately
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Sunday I went
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meanwhile the year after I
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please phone up my father my mother
passed away as give him a good
rep whatever you think of me doesn't
make a difference he should know his
son's
young it's
appreciated so my father told him my
youngest son is getting
married tell my son I wanted to come for
the
wed so my problem was I was only here
for a year and three months that's a lot
less than two
years so I
wrote
to and I said please ask the what I
should
do and
wrote since your father wants come
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very visit came with my
wife and we had before that a week
before came us to go home for one
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family and was coming in about
6:30 and you looked into the americ into
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as and he sort of like started walking
towards me and we stood
there at least 5 minutes maybe 10
minutes was a little right outside right
by the entrance where later on
speaking one of the things that never
asked my
wife at that time at two little
children you know one
was 2 years old one was one year
old couldn't go out but shabas there
were a few girl
families young
girls 12 13 15 I don't
know from
the there the families that we live
about three four
girls and they used to come
every nothing wasn't an
official like
every so my wife must have written in a
letter some stage the so the
said who's looking after those girls
this week that you're
here we
after my
brother was the
after
probably I don't
remember and asked me that you this the
brother was getting
married is he the same brother that you
used to learn
with
and I didn't know what they was talking
about for the first couple of
seconds and really what
was I had a care with my brother
Thursday
night happened maybe 10
times he was going away from I was going
away it wasn't that
regular and I to me it was like
a
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and I said
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the
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probably that would that would have been
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be
honest I
said and then gave a big big smile and
said you don't want to talk against your
brother
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tell this maybe three times certainly
twice
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you talking it's me talking to you in my
number tell
my as over is
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past whatever happened in the past he
asked
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and you can get it in Hebrew or yish or
English any language is better for you
telling
me I was staying with my father in
Williamsburg with my wife the next
morning went up to my brother's room he
was getting married that
day and I said got
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he got married Liv in B par a while
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granddaughter this was three years
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it was stilling Co so he came to America
to England these countries had rules two
weeks
expolation the the was a very wealthy
person very wealthy and they couldn't
afford the time to be in isolation with
two
weeks so he paid for the whole family to
come to England he should left to go to
America and be in
isolation so my brother was in
England but I was in with social
distancing going out go to school and
things but I didn't really go travel at
all I was
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family during the lock
we have a large
family and they all in different even
this four that are in
London but they're all in different
they're more than a half hour from each
other and from any one of them and then
they're in America California
Arizona three Pennsylvania different
cities
Florida New Jersey
Manhattan Texas all over the country so
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what's
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zoom with the
kids and I told them what happened they
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later and then I'm going to raise him to
learn with the
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learn with him on
zoom and we
started at work was similar to way you
know didn't that every week necessarily
but we just
recently unfortunately he had part of
his life after he had a major health
problem
with
and just a few weeks ago we started
again and he says he get the T he's in
the rehab place he get the T
there and uh well the same the
the big thing that I tell you
that that said
over is
over three
words profound profound profound
word because sometimes you don't want to
do something you really would want to
but you feel that you already blew it
you did something really you shouldn't
have
done or didn't do something you really
should have
done so just think of those three
words forget
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today every day is a lifestyle that's
really what life is
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day is
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past's no
moment
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a chief
Rabbi of Israel was was spoke on the
phone before
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the found
me to ask they were just curious to know
what it was about and he said look I'm
watch other on the
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this man has no
children and the man said
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students I gave him like once I gave a
bunch of in an
envelope and he brought them back and he
threw them down on my desk and
saider just
about so I told him in a very respectful
way much older than me I said can you
tell me is there a Bigg
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prone to get afid and to
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background for the
story
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then I asked him
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story that heot to
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much what should he
do he said they never told me
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put it
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me all this is a
background
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don't remember at the
moment
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on it was in
sh it's cold London
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October trying to make
believe that's
quiet and
suddenly and he
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says this was like at that moment like
somebody saying what he
simp and then the other one nameless
says I agree with him who could sleep at
night
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night the fish fog
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over father had just passed away a few
months
before he said it come 7:00 in the
morning we can't get a minion together
it doesn't look like people have a
problem
sleeping no's coming in the
morning and
then mly Li screams he was a very very
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and he start
screaming he said don't rely on Miracles
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before and he's singing he came with
guys and
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Russia under the commun he was in
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and he Liv there basic and he he these
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away blow you
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notion
only city I'm not going to say the city
because the story is still
happen still in the
middle
city in the United
Kingdom
you and
about 60
years in that City it's a city with not
a
single stal in those days
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with yam in their work in their secular
work
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and he
loved only
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loved and he went
to and then as soon as he was able to
leave the country when he finished
running 167 years old
made and he went
to
have what do they do
there they make
furniture he went there so
young that
they
designated a
couple to be like his unofficial parents
look at
this must be 55 years
ago that
came and he
was he was he was called up like
everybody
else and he was one of the nearly 3,000
TI in
the that died
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his family was just a brother and
sister and his
sister became very
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negative not because he
died he believed in it he died for his
country for his people his
religion
but she felt that the community was
insensitive to the plight of the
mother they whether she was right or
wrong it's very very likely she was not
even
right but she
fell and she went away from
SCH she went away from anything
Judaism and anything Jewish she made a
business to marry
go that's what
happened now that
gu and that Jewish
woman had two
children a boy and a
girl and
then came to that City because there's a
campus there he's a campus leader but he
deals with the town
also
and the couple now elderly couple 50
years later this story happened over
five years ago 25 years later 50 years
after he went there this couple is now
older people and they
heard so they called him up they told
him the
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story they called
up and they told him about this
woman and
said look her
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up
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email Instagram
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any
identifying screen name
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exactly who this woman
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living and exactly what her phone number
is and he
decided he's
like he go to the house
the at 6:
p.m. why 6 p.m. because 6:00 whoever
works in the day is
home and we was going out in the evening
hasn't going
out made
that went to the
house he de he can't
be waited that 15 20 minutes later come
this woman with two
daughters and she takes one look the
guys with black
hat waiting to talk
to and she said give me five
minutes straighten out the house be more
respectable called them
in and they said look you have
kids you might try to get
up she said my kids were brought
up
zero
zero once in his life when he's years
old what was
it
just so you have nothing really on the
other hand my children were brought up
to be polite so if you get in touch with
them do what you want the adults they
were in the
20s you want to get in touch with him
get in touch with
him so got in touch with the son
daughter I'm not talking about I'm
talking about the
son and he he came to him and he
brought what's called a term
card in
universities there have programs and
there's three terms in the year in
England in the
University there's
order
there's uh one
second there's Autumn there's spring and
there's summer there no
winter and every term respect societies
the groups as the university make what
they call a term card it looks like
this and they'll say
order
1984 they'll say kab of cage or
whatever is and
inside it'll
say what we are every every Friday night
this turn it's 10 Friday nights one
Friday night is ambassador Friday night
from the
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chabas all the students from Russia will
make
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lawyer will speak Jewish future marrying
out the another
page is all
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like every
Monday he
pizza and every Tuesday
lunch and every Thursday is with the re
they do a lot
of so the ghost his
Di and he brings this ter
card and he explains to him he says
comeone you meet people in the
20 you be a to
with young
people so I thank you for the
card you know I was ever in the Cog he
was very polite very
nice came Friday night and he didn't
turn
up second week he
did the third
week he appeared wearing a
coat
and coat
in the corner of the table nearest to
the door the just watching everything
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happen didn't say a single
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word then a few days later he came to
piz something in the
week and then he started coming every
Friday
night I heard the story about six seven
years ago
m was in for the
K and we had a special meeting of all
Campus of
England including myself because even
though I haven't done it the last 48
years but I was the one that began
campus work in
India 50 55
years
so week he's coming there for about six
seven
weeks and announced Friday night next
week I'm not going to be here because
I'm going to a conference in New York of
thousands of
rabis wife will be there maybe they I
don't know what what arrang they
made and this
Bo waited till everybody went
home last one
mid he said to the
rabbi would it be appropriate for me to
ask
you to bring me something from New
York
said sure Pro what do you want me to BR
he said a picture of the
man he which man the man that's on the
wall in your
house
name but do
theand
definitely can I ask you a question
would it be appropriate to me to ask you
why you
want he
say me bring me your
card and you're selling me a product you
know in 21st century a lot of people
giving out cards
Street this one has selling
vitamins this one is
selling a special vegan diet this one is
selling alternative medicine this one's
got a gym plan a
gym everyone's selling their product
what they want to sell you as far as I
was concerned you came to me
it's polite I suppos to be
polite I was not interested you just
another person selling another
thing I I put the program down and two
weeks later I was clearing up my flat my
apartment and I the throwing it
out before I thre it out on the back
page there was the the web
you link to the web went to the
web and then I went to the L on the
web and was went on to the was was the
man
he and I heard him
talking and I was very very
impressed because he didn't sound like
he's trying to sell me his thing he
sounds like he's trying to bring
something out of
me I said wow this is not something you
find out with
this and I decid I'm going to check it
out that's why I came Friday night to
check it out and then I thought maybe
it's a fluke I came to a weekday thing
and I saw this is something that to me
and I want his
picture when I heard this tell you in a
minute where the story is holding
up I qu
right because I deal with Young
Generation we didn't
see and my job as a principal of a
school is to try to
connect
with and you ask
yourself is it
possible and here
somebody there never
knew even when he asked to the
pict never was in a except for a short
at age of know what remember it all
mother
said living in a town you never you go
in
London going
from New York for sure
s we never in his life by the way I
found it later
on part
of and he felt that
is this
was and told the story
and I made him turn it over to me
personally and I
cried because I was
M about 6 months
later something he said what's happen to
this he still
coming then I met in the
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summer I said what's happen
so his picture he said you be he's
living in a part of time with all
working a town with a very small
minority of
je the it and he go into his
house and there's a wall with a big
picture nothing else on the
wall I said does he put on fill
it he said he has a direct connection
with the that's
it if I come there if I
bring but he
is they went by another six months I to
maybe two three times a year
practical he said he's dating the Jewish
girl who he met
on the Friday
night
then more
months and the guy got
married to that
girl
Amer and they sent me pictures
somewhere he sent me pictures of the
they first they check the nearest B was
Manchester very
very they did all research that everyone
is 100% Jewish and you see there a good
milion of people with
beard black hats and things that whole
town doesn't
have
except and he's got a couple of kids
in
they
Jewish
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your
mind because it's
saying that today's world with a
thousand times less than everyone in
this room has with 10,000 times
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connect and the ne is the one that will
out
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stop
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right but this time you did
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true for me for the
second anyway so we all
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came and then they were
they she used to eat
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school Friday night she ate by us she
ate and I used to walk home BL one week
gr
St and I said I'll be back in 10 minutes
after walk her home he said I'm coming
with
so I come with so I used to walk with
her every week and across the street
from her
house I stopped and I wait till she went
in but I didn't go till M the house this
was a Simon when you walk home that way
used to walk to across the street and
the would signal
to the would lock the windows or touch
the window
locked take away the window shade and
and I maybe was a snon thank you very
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walk and I
wait so
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and I said to
him this is how we used to walk what you
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said and he it's in the middle of the
street he screamed
wanted to know who am I going to be next
to and they gave him a
name so he went to the town where this
guy live nobody heard of him then he
found
back very very obese
terribly
overweight and he wanted to watch the
guys and he look through the window the
guy for breakfast has about three loaves
of bread and about 25
eggs and cake and this and that and
lunch similar
simar every
meal
they told him they don't make no
mistakes so this brother telling me the
story
in
so he asked this guy tell me your life
story and this this when he 10 years
old he was going on a business trip with
his father they went to the
forest his father had a big amount of
money
and G
came and they took the
money and they tied my father to a
tree and they said they're going to burn
him he said please don't that we have to
because otherwise you're going to you're
going to Mar on us we have to kill
you but they said we'll we'll let you go
if and he said that I will not
do and they lit the
fire and he burn so this man tell
about he burned 30
second and I
made that I'm going to eat in such a way
that when they burn me they're going to
have to wait a little
time in other words bite he was taking
was every bite he was
taking to be to
be every single bite that he ever took
all that
food that's the kind of a
guy he wasn't exactly
anyway anyway so that
girl was like
today and
my came with
her
and
my wife actually
suggested one
of who there with
the and
my I don't have time for it now I'm
going in a few
minutes you know remind me different
time back
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whatever
I want you to find the that
girl
said so my came out he's IM
immedately he said one minute what were
you saying about that and a few weeks
later they were
engaged
that's
this girl is
engaged I'll let you know what I want
for and that's it the next
year
okay
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me what I want you give to the four
people who work
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autograph you should sign and I will
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occasion
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and give me
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bigger ever standing out there there
were people coming in cars and they
thought this is
the they parked their cars and they ran
right to 77 they standing outside in the
beautiful sunny
day
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end the
gave there was two said about that
already
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was
this the
two was
already and they never made Corrections
and additions on
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sign and in those each of those four and
two others who are really on but didn't
ask that they got a copy of
that which with but not that
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from onto a paper and that was a pH copy
those six people got that
on all
other who were there from English
speaking
count for
example for example
R for example myself
all from English speak country and from
England were
given
that all
boys all children like my
sons that were born
then
and not speaking
like received a small printed
in and the
girls were given a
dollar
for the first
year this was less than a
year was n months after
even then they
never that's one time me I never knew
till about 5 10 years
C he just told me few years ago he was
there standing
the and the
said
they didn't what to give so they took
out of his pocket his own cop the
original
original on
that P me up again gave it to me he
said
England
words and then he picked up two hands
give me a big smile
and I told my wife I'm very
scared I play I got the play I said it
it looked like a
goodby that's what I
said and the next year exactly year
later I had met AAG and I
was I was I was three weeks in the
hospital and whatever well still
here anyway so
now so I took this thing Li
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b and he had a photocopy there for
whatever boy he had access to
photocopy he he he things he said to me
I'll make a c right now got to go to the
text he R made a cop I made a copy
anyway Engish said I said this to New
York and I wanted to be sure that I sent
a letter even with money right doesn't
get it doesn't get it
butal and I called
up then I got be the only time I
got like
and in it was the printed of all the
three the printed version and I
asked did the RAB personally put that
into that
envelope and he said yes I said I knew
it he said how do you
know I said was didn't have the sh no
M and it had no no staple in it it was
like maybe the first version
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happened I'll tell you one used to write
an article it was called we travel to
educate he wrote stories that and then
he was writing happened in but then he
stopped
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was every
week got the Jewish
press so we came in and the
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walking down the stairs and there was
some people going behind me I start
walking down boom she's walking in front
of me because the woman went went out
later we didn't see the woman all
together so then I knew going to go into
the left and I was right behind her and
I knew she's going to go into the left
and the re is going to open the door
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on the door doesn't answer she knock she
knocked three times doesn't open the
door so she you know there was a handle
by the door you know there wasn't a knob
on the door I mean you still is there
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after I there a Rob in
the hospital Manhattan with my daughter
is this rabbi's about
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me that he met
the when I first started coming there
when they moved here on on the second
night of
P I think after the sa he he was enged
he was married color was some Crown
Heights and he met the walking in the
streets and he
said was going with meet the
outside
and one
time wait a little one time the was late
coming home on Friday night she she got
nervous came out of the
house and she asked
the was there today it was very very
late much late he
expected and he
said and he said
no so she
said does he mind going and checking you
know seeing where's
and he started
walking and end the was walking behind
it and they SE theit turning into
Brooklyn
Avenue so he had to run away so the said
you don't leave a woman alone in New
York at
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minutes this story
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story but since I'm not I tell here
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furest
far before they had the equal from the
court that he can't take any book so
they made a m learning outside the he of
his apartment the whole
time and this B his name is now he's the
man is lives in
Pittsburgh he was a
b and he was
learning this was like the
summer M
probably he went to England
for and he came back got asked M he had
a very bad
C and he was
sitting when a horse
suddenly comes
up and he has a big job of's honey from
kabad
and he said the sent this
up and he says you should have this with
te it's part one of the
story part
two what happened on hat Tavis itself I
Knew by the way they knew that this
going to be a DI verdict then cuz I was
leing the book on Gibble Tav Sunday
night and rinsky's son told me don't go
because tomorrow is going to
be said how do you
know he said
because the
judge left the whole file on this case
all the the proofs and the deposition
everything was there in the
court because he was very busy with a
different major major case but now
before he went for in December home he
sent he took home that
file so they understood he's going work
on that and come back
this and he did but only took them a day
to type it up till he gave it whatever
so now that
day was a car of of marriage to
rabsky and he had a settle or he had
something wanted to give into so he took
it into RAB krinsky next
door is putting on his coat so 11 at
10:30 in the
morning where you
going he said I'm going to the court
they found up that they have the
verdict so he said uh who's in the car
is the roof one more and they took
him he went J came out of the Court
looked first place looked to the back he
saw that you know tued in
and
he there was a cell phone in the car car
phone the old s phones today they're
little this was like a big Contraption
the car the
phone cuz he had to contact when I went
to Greenland he called up to the to the
mosus in the middle you know from the
oil so calls up to
office and Rabbi Kine answers the
phone he want he says he wants the to
know as soon as
possible you got the
thing so ra goes into and there's a rule
with the
mus that if if they knock on the
door to go in but if there's another M
that's in there already you can go in
you have to knock and Rabbi Gro was in
there working whatever not talking
to soab walked in and the re was in
learning
like he didn't notice
so making banging steps walking up to
the re's desk no
noce he shook around the you what could
he do he was there about five maybe
seven eight
minutes now what he didn't know is that
rinsky after he called up the mosquitoes
right after that he called up
the
the brought a big loudspeaker and
music and
suddenly so the re looked up and
he so he said you look C up
and he said came out the
thing so
said tell him when he comes here he
should bring it into me right away and
then they went back into his
sa back in
there so why did I tell you the story of
the
AL the was so you know the you know
the the the whole whole Crank that we
felt that whole year and a half until
the d they ever heard about it it was
imately back in there let me know when
he comes in that a waste
I but when AB was coughing through the
mahogany thck doors and
upstairs
that and he said give him
honey I was at pittsbur he lives in
Pittsburgh so it was last not this year
and he asked
me one of the
days and I knew the story from him that
once brought me out there he Davis and
he told the story and he had the honey
on the table just about 35 years
ago so I told him now this
year give you know
got get a little
tiny you get couldn't make
a I I I wanted to save a little bit for
my family that was back in the
house it was one quarter of a drop
everybody it was like the I have this
mat years ago come toan you
know spe
you still about now what you still have
now
like come to
my we look in some years some just notic
something there time for one of the
years KCK the the envelopes with a nap
with you notice it talk about a speck
tiny spe but you know
something you
have label Kap you know
label he was in my
house he Vis in London I don't remember
why if I come
home
C and and uh he came to my
house label label some supp he told me
stories told me that when he went
to
gave and he came
out and the T didn't
look didn't look something mud about it
didn't look like it's
with so he opened it up and he started
in
inscription had a whole
thing about
the things like
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this and I think I remember correctly it
had me on the bottom as
well so he looked like a and it look
like with the used that's why he opened
it
up so he told
told so ask theb he took it back in and
he told to the
and and he gave him a different one he
gave it
so told me this story I said are you
kidding me I was going with
sugar so he said I'll tell you a better
story the dev gave him a
pack of $100 one
bills he
took
may he came out of and he said it was it
was
$110 he told
me brought it in and he came out with
$1 I screamed at
it but to myself I said that's
why he was not looking for
this he looking
for you know you have to you have to
know what you're looking
for you know what you're looking for and
you got a letter from
the it
was they got a letter with those
same just
before
I
think I
think I don't
remember but had those
basic I said to
him if
he's doesn't make a
mistake if he's not what's he what's he
writing
himself I
remember I talk father the case was
supposed to side that he has to speak to
he has to speak to the he doesn't have
to go
not
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it's not L his name is love it's not
it's
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love I promise you we're going to win
what we're going to
win I'll tell you a story about Tri
they ever called
in to give them over to deal with it so
the
said I should called
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in and the
may but they you know you guys deal with
the things you
win now that was word of within a
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month daugh
Gold was engaged to
May and
kin's daughter was engaged
to
and I asked I
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asked he said it was not when said that
not
Snapchat
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is
he was he was in
London
and
after and he staying with we went out
with
p
and did you consult
the so he said they got messages but one
time they met the I think it
was and the just told he said what told
him one
point which didn't look so
special but it turned out that that was
the
entirey and that was the letter to
Mark told them one
focus on the letter to Marx that's what
the said Alexander marks what Alexander
Marx
yeah Rabbi the floor I'll tell you
something
else you hear that
country
and
there
summer there
was a woman
there who was not really
Jewish her grandmother was her
grandfather grandfather was a
m and she was a cousin of
Judge
his he had a relative
D
and she said she they were like liberal
Jews but she was very very interested in
J and her husband was Jewish was
but she said that the cousin the judge
said that he was
no
was
not
until he
heard statement of a remarkable
woman and that was
the he said
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that yeah that was the deciding belong
to the books belong to the because my
father belonged like that you
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said