Berel Solomon LIVE IN NYC | CHAZAQ

[Music] our behave for kazak and bgx we are so happy to welcome everybody for a very exciting program it's not too often that you can meet somebody who admits that he was a drug dealer then became the prince of the nightclubs and then became aidic rebi no he's not AIC rebbi he's he's a he's he's an observant Jew who uh started businesses worth multi-millions of dollars but more importantly he's a man of faith and he's going to teach us tonight how we could come to Faith so before we introduce our very illustrious guest speaker I just want to share with you one idea tomorrow night will be a week away my favorite holiday P kanuka you see I drank a little too much today Kaneka is a week from tomorrow night you know what Kaneka represents to me there was a war the Greeks wanted to kill the Jews so the Greeks attacked Israel sounds familiar yeah 100,000 foot soldiers 22,000 Horsemen and 32 gargan elephants the elephants were the tanks what do the Jews have on their side five little rabbis half my size three times my girth and the Beards were 10 times the size of my beard and much more scowly than I will ever be can I ask you a question do you think the Jews could ever win this battle impossible statistically naturally impossible improbable the Jews will never win this battle how do they win against the Greek Empire and the answer is because it wasn't a physical battle ladies and gentlemen it was a spiritual battle the same way today we're all very worried because we see a quagmire or conundrum in Israel in ARS Israel sees fire no sees fire even if we succeed in getting most of Kamas out they will proliferate and proliferate they're germs and it's almost inevitable that's impossible to really eradicate the only way we win this battle is spiritually spiritually means us returning to our creator delving and Tower Heritage and appreciating where we come from but more importantly the Jewish people should do exactly what bgx was created for this place Brook Jewish experience and kazak you know why we were created we were created to bring peace to the Jewish people to bring Unity to the Jewish people so Jews of all backgrounds as you have symbolized and represented right here in this room you have Jews from every conceivable background coming together the Shalom with peace so here is a little formula for you to gain peace in your life make peace with others in your life and because if we start on a micro level we could succeed on a macro level and like tentacles it could extend and the entire Jewish people could be peaceful you ready for this the Hebrew word for peace is shom say it again Shalom say it louder shalom shalom by the way the Hebrew word for peace is the same as hello so Shalom but it's also the same for goodbye and therefore it's a very peaceful word because the person doesn't know if when you say shalom if you're saying hi you're goodbye got it so Shalom four letters Shin the first letter of Shalom is Shin Shin is the widest letter in the Hebrew alphabet it extends the most it's the Weight Watchers letter the letter that's big the biggest letter like that and it means that in order to have peace you have to learn to extend yourself to reach beyond the lamid is a tallest letter which teaches us in order to have peace you must rise above the occasion you have to stand tall and don't be silly and Petty and foolish make peace and then the Third letter is VV VV is a conjugate letter it's a connecting letter which means you have to learn to connect with others even if they're not like you and finally the last letter is me which fortifies and protects which encases and that means that if you have shalom in your life make peace with your in-laws Outlaws everybody else in between then Hashem will make a mem around you and fortify and protect the Jewish people I like that I'm begging you all to learn that lesson so I just want to tell you about a little opportunity that's happening Friday night here is Kabal Shabbat everyone's welcome it's the most auxiliar experience we sing a dance to welcome the Shabbat Sunday morning we're having breakfast Bagels locks coffee danishes I know I'm making you hungry that's what I'm trying to do and come Sunday morning then there's also a CCW course conceal carry weapon course on Sunday I'm not sure you could still register you could ask if you could still register and then next week Thursday is a Hanukah Galla Party All You Can Eat bouet open bar a lot of spirit for young professionals and college students there's a lot more going on uh and I'd like to please call upon our amazing partner organization kazak to welcome everybody and to introduce our amazing and extraordinary guest who will blow you away none of them he'll tell you who so thank you everybody for coming thank you for [Applause] listening two mic mayor R mayor two mics I need both I don't think so oh work works yeah it works okay thank you for the introduction maybe it doesn't work as [Music] well thank you for the introduction it's a pleasure kazak and vjx you know we do events you know we've been doing them for years throughout um you know the different and different things that are going on we always try to come together two different organizations who are doing so much for cloud yourell and really trying to make an impact in bring the the light to the world that is so necessary as we can see in uh the times that we're in and we want to give a special thank you for barl Solomon to coming out this evening to uh give us his words of inspiration and his thoughts on the current events that are going [Applause] on and um actually kazak one of our board members who should be be here Victoria and Shalom zv helped put us together um they're very close and barl was coming in from in town to New York for for a couple different events and he wanted to speak and really come out and spread the light something that if you know his story if you've seen him on social media and Instagram and all the different platforms he's using it for such positivity to bring the light of of Yiddish kite to to the world it was supposed to be enlightened to the Nations this something that ver has you know really focused strongly on besides just all of his amazing business advice that he gives and all the success successful work that he does uh in general for for for you know the world it's also to bring that light and it's something that's been very inspiring for me to watch um throughout not just the last few months for the last few years watching it him online and really you know inspiring so many different people um you know he has hundreds thousands of followers I'm sure he's impacted over millions through the words that he he's given so we appreciate him coming out and joining us this evening um kak like I said um does these events throughout the year A lot of times we do them for your sites and and um we we have people who sponsor different events in different communities in New York and Beyond so if you want to sponsor an event like this in the future you can always reach out to us and uh just to give you a background on kazak I know everyone here knows the amazing work that bjx does and the the C and the love and care that goes into all their work kazak also does a lot of similar work in the public school systems they have after school programs um um from elementary to high schoolers and they have a special program called um public school to Yesa where they've helped send over 1,400 kids over the last seven years from public schools into the Shiva system um M sh know I think it's uh it's uh very clear especially nowadays you know what's going on in the the school systems and how important it is to have close connections within the Jewish Community um so want to take off too much time as you know the person you want to hear is amazing story and he wants to come and Inspire so I want to Welcome to the stage now barl saloman what's up bjx Make Some Noise yes sir Brooklyn yes sir yes ladies yes gentlemen thank you Rabbi for having me such a pleasure such an honor thank thank you for helping organize thank you kazak thank you Hashem let's go we're going to have a great night tonight ladies and gentlemen it's going to be amazing there's an amazing speaker here tonight and he's humble um I want to ask just so I don't double uh I don't double talk don't double dip I also want to give a shout out to the boys in the front I heard a lot about you guys so round of applause um I just uh want to ask who here had a chance to see the movie that I put online Orthodox anybody here have a chance yeah okay we have a few people okay so I'm going to introduce myself um I don't know if you guys remember when Netflix was putting out all those disgusting films about the Jewish Community they were making all these films they had unorthodox and they had my unorthodox life and you know they're very clever Netflix where they can't really be outwardly anti-semitic but they're they use a very clever tactic which is they find a a self-hating Jew and they have that Jew talk about how terrible Judaism is it's a very clever it's a very clever um manipulative tactic that they use and I was really Disturbed at the constant barrage of negative portrayal of Judaism and Jews on it if you search on Netflix and you just type Judaism you'll see they have over 25 films 20 of which are horrendously anti-jewish and uh I was very moved and inspired to create a movie their movies were called unorthodox so I made a movie called Orthodox um which is discussing my story of how I became uh I guess you could call me Orthodox um I'm still trying to be Orthodox by the way I'll let you know when I have achieved that so in short I'll give it to you very simple is I grew up in a family probably a lot like the people in this room where we I guess you could call us traditional I went to a Jewish school but there was nothing je about the school except for Jews went to the school and we had Friday night dinners but on the table for dinner was pork chops and it's not that my parents were anti-jewish it's just they didn't grow up with it in their house and they didn't know any better and they did the best that they could and they give they gave us a better education than they had but still it was only it was it was only that far and as I grew up there was a boy in my grade who his older brother was a drug dealer and he would sell drugs into my grade so in grade seven all of my friends started smoking weed which was fun at the time and I remember going to Yum kipur in my synagogue and before I went I got high because it was the high holidays and and and we would we would smoke day in and day out I mean every hour of every day I was high more from the age of 13 to 21 I was high more than I was sober what was I saying I forget and at a certain point I said wow this is a great business because my my friend's brother was the one selling the selling the dope and I said wow this is a great business and I was you know a young entrepreneur and I said let me let let me get into this business so I started to sell to my friends and I quickly became a pretty big drug dealer and I started out I started out moving you know grams and then ounces and then pounds and then and then you know kilos and I had a whole operation going on I had people working under me I had you know I had I had a good business I was I had a good parasa and one night my friend's brother calls me and he says I have a good deal for you I have a uh a batch of weed that is a little bit burnt and I knew how to clip the weed and take out the burnt parts of it to get it to a point where I could resell it as a premium product so I took the the uh I took I I I went to his house it was probably 12:00 at night 1:00 in the morning and I take the batch of weed and it was in a big duffel bag and I take it to my friend's house where I was going to unpack it and do what I had to do to upgrade it and as I had as I was exiting the house after I had done my work to the batch I open up my trunk of my car and it was probably 2 or 3:00 in the morning completely silent completely peaceful and I had just upgraded this batch I bought it for 1,500 bucks and I was probably going to be able to sell it for $3 $4,000 and I gently open up the um the trunk of my car and out of nowhere bam and I turn around and there's three guys with masks on smashing me in the face with guns bam bam and as I'm falling to the ground I'm screaming what did I ever do to you I had to get reconstructive surgery on my face they um they stole the weed they stole my car they stole my watch and they left me they left me bleeding on the side of the road to die and I had my cell phone on me I called 911 they picked me up in an ambulance and I had to lie to my parents what had happened I had to lie to the police what happened I wasn't able to file a a police report what was I going to say and I remember I didn't leave my house for like six months I was probably about 18 or 19 at that point but that's really where my problems began because the way that the for anybody who's interested in getting into the business the way that that business works is the drug dealer gives you the the weed on consignment and then you go sell it and you bring it back the money why you shaking your head like you know all about this she's like yeah that's exactly how it works I'm just joking um the way that that business Works they give it to you on consignment and you have to bring it back to you have to bring it back to the you you go sell the batches then you take the money and then you bring it back to the dealer and then he gives you a bigger batch and you keep on rolling the money and you get you keep on getting bigger batches I had a problem I I owed I owed him a lot of money I was I didn't have it so there was an older there was an older gentleman do I mean he was a gentleman he was 21 years old you know in Montreal I was 19 so he was he was an older gentleman and he was in the nightclub business and he was the coolest guy in town you know know in Montreal the legal in uh drinking age is uh is 18 but it's really just a suggestion you know you could drink earlier but we suggest you wait till 18 and he was in the nightclub business and he was the coolest guy I mean he was the guy that stood in the front of the uh nightclub with the red the red rope the red carpet he was letting you in he wasn't letting you in I mean he was just the coolest guy I said to myself wow and he always had money I said whatever this guy knows I got to know so I made a meeting with him and he taught me the business and I went into the nightclub business and within two or 3 weeks I had my first party um at a nightclub and I invited all my friends and they were 19 years old at this point it was probably one of the first times that they went to an open bar event and I remember they got so drunk they were throwing up all over the place and the nightclub club owner at the end of the night gives me 80 bucks that was my that was my pay for the night and I went to the bathroom and I jumped up and down with the $80 I was so happy I said wow I like this business I was the man I was so cool so I kept on doing it and I kept on making bigger parties and bigger parties and bigger parties and I was making uh I was making good money there was some nights where I would walk home with $5,000 and as soon as I did that I would I I remember I paid off the dealer and good riddance I I I left I said you know get out of my life I mean as a side point I don't usually tell this part of the story but I'll tell you guys because I love [Laughter] you it ended up be the drug dealer was in cahoots with his younger brother and the drug dealer set me up and he sold me the batch sold me and he told his younger brother that I had the weed his younger brother followed me to the house that I had been at and his younger brother was the one who ended up robbing me later on I found out I broke his nose and uh by the way side point he's actually he's actually a Jewish he's actually a Jewish boy and I remember um on yum kipur that year we were both in in synagogue I was it was the high holidays so you know what state I was in I was in and he was also in the same state and I remember I went over to him and I said to him you know what it's yum kipur I'm sorry for anything I did to you I forgive you for anything you did to me and he says I I'm sorry I'm sorry also you know so as far away as we were you can't take a Jew is always close a Jew is always Jew is always a Jew so I was in the nightclub business things were heating up and there was some nights that I made like I said $500 some nights that I made $5,000 I remember that was one night I was planning all the graduations for the high schools in uh in my city and I planned nine graduations in one night and my girlfriend at the time she had this gigantic bag it was like one of those purses the girls will remember in the the ladies in the room do you remember like those bowling bag purses that people used to have yeah remember those yeah um so she had this bowling bag purse and was stuffed with cash I made $51,000 that night I was like 20 years old I was the most obnoxious kid you ever saw in your life and I kept on growing in the nightclub business and there was a uh there was a there was a time where I wanted you know big growth and there was um Kim Kardashian was just becoming popular at that time and Facebook was just released at that time and is that better yeah better better in the back can you hear me and I saw all these I I said you know what I want to I want to bring celebrities to the nightclub so I started bringing celebrities I started off with small celebrities and then I I had my big break where um I brought the Drake to Montreal for the first time that he had ever been to Montreal he cost me $4,000 at the time I organized his Greyhound bus personally for him to come from Toronto to Montreal today to sneeze at your kids bar mitzo would cost $4 million but I got him for 4GS and I got it on camera and I had all these celebrities that I was working with at the time and I put together all this video footage to make this reality show because I wanted to get paid I said wow I'm paying all these people why am I paying them let people pay me to come to their party so I started to try to make myself Famous by making a reality show thank you I know everybody's very religious in this room so you're going to see me not make a Braha I already made a Braha downstairs on water so calm down everybody okay bunch of religious extremists and I made this reality show I put it all together I go to you know I worked on it for six months I had all these great all this great footage great celebrities it was big I go to make this reality show about this about this uh about my company everybody in it and I go to erit in the nightclub there was thousands of people there there was TV networks to come pick it up by the way this whole thing is documented I in my movie you see this entire thing actually play out with all this footage and I go to share I go to air it on the big screen and it was my moment it was my my coming back to Grace after I had been robbed and beaten and downcast and I was the run to the litter and finally the crescendo of my career was about to take place in my big redeeming moment and I go to air myself on the big screen and I crashed I saw myself standing and promoting to sweet young Jewish children drugs sex and rock and roll and I said to myself what am I doing there was an exit to my left and I remember quietly walking out the door of the nightclub not tell of my own party and not telling anybody and I hailed the cab and I put my head in my lap and I just drove home I shut off my phone I didn't answer it for weeks and I was going through a existential crisis of an identity crisis what do I who am I this is what I stand for what a what a what a what a disgusting thing and obviously in my mind Judaism was not true because if Judaism was true then all of my teachers in high school would have kept chabas put on Fillin kept kosher and none of them did and I trusted them and I figured that they probably did their research and they probably knew better than me and so I wanted truth so I started looking into different religions I read the Quran read about Buddhism I started I I I I I read about everything you could imagine I had books lined up to the ceiling in my room one day I go to I go to a a church with my younger sister and they give us the you know the little wafer that you're supposed to eat and I asked my sister I said you think I should eat it she says I don't think you should eat it so I didn't eat it and I remember going to uh mosques and and it was actually pretty interesting really all the religions that exist they actually have a little glimmer of truth I mean it can't all be not fake I mean they're based on Judaism there must be some truth there and I started getting really into Buddhism and I said to my mother at one point I would like to go to a Buddhist Monastery she said before you go to the Buddhist Monastery go to Shu and I said whatever okay I I I did the whole tour I may as well do the tour of the sh as well I have nothing to lose that chabas I went to sh and I remember seeing the face of the rabbi the face of the of the kazin and they were so happy they were breast love the cousin was a breast love guy breast l breast lovers are the happiest people in the world and I remember feeling at home and it just like it felt nice and there was like all these old people that really liked me there and and it was a really nice feeling and I remember the I was learning one day with thein and he said to me he said the word Hashem and I was like Wow Hashem I remember hearing that name when I was a kid and it gave me shivers and I was like Wow and it felt so good and it felt so comforting and it felt so grounding and the more that I learned and the uh you can hear first of all shout out to Victoria thank you for organizing tonight you're the best thank you in the back Yes W um is that better could you hear me now yes all right I think if I just talk like this it's better yeah so the more that I learned the the more that I was like wo this stuff is so rich so many questions that I was begging morality was finally introduced into my life and it was delicious and I remember because thein that I was you know coming closer with he was all into talking to Hashem with your own words you know sometimes we get lost in the sitter and you know we read Hebrew we barely we don't even know what it means and you read the English and it's like you know the the Lord on the choir Master of the you know on on on the harp of King David and it's just like what like what and and the whole tenant of breast l is talking to God from your heart and just I remember when I spoke to Hashem for the first time it was just like he was always there as if he was always there since I was a child and he was always watching me you know they say when people when you ask people do you believe in God and they say no you say well it's too bad because God believes in you so even though I had not been connected to Hashem at least from my part when I started talking to Hashem I felt as if he was with me since he was following me since forever and I'm sure that there's people in this room that are coming closer to their Judaism and in the beginning when you go from absolutely nothing to something in your Judaism God is so is so he goes out of his way to make sure that you know that he knows that he's listening and that he's part of your life and he's part of your journey you know eventually you become more religious and we become desensitized towards it but in the beginning it's like whoa it's an amazing thing and then we have to do our part to get that fire back I started keeping chabis I started keeping kosher there's so much I want to tell you but we have so little time and I was working for my father at that time because I stopped working in the nightclub I became Showman neia and everybody around me was freaking out because I went from I think the rabbi introduced me from the prince of the nightclub to the you know to the rabbi of the sh and people were very confused and I was working I went to go work for my father and I really wanted to go to Yeshiva because I had a big thirst for um for Torah I strongly suggest that if anybody has the opportunity to go to Yeshiva go for any amount of time whether it's a day a week or a month or a year or a decade no I'm just joking but go for a year it's good for you it's good for your health and I went to um I remember I made a deal I made $25,000 in one shot in my father's company and everybody was congratulating me but I didn't feel anything in my heart it's like a it was like a plastic knife trying to cut through trying to cut through um I hear I just heard my movie you just looked up my movie didn't you I know that sound I don't know what's cooler that you were looking it up or that I knew from the little sound s that's cooler yeah yes another view thank you so I go to uh I go I ended up going to yiva that's a whole story in itself I'm just going to fast forward until the end because people usually like the first part of the story you know it's a little more exciting but today thank you Hashem I have a beautiful wife I have five beautiful [Applause] children all of which were TI yamakas be thank you beautiful beautiful I have everything I'm the richest man in the world you could clap again you can I I mean I'm just I'm I'm so grateful that I remember when I was becoming religious I was very upset at everybody around me because I couldn't pry openen a Torah with a crowbar in front of the people that were around me they wanted to have nothing to do with it and I remember being very upset and I called my Rabbi and I said to him you know what the heck is with everybody and he said to me do you think that you're any smarter than anybody else that you came back I said well yeah a little bit he said said no I'm sorry to damage your ego Hashem chose to open your eyes at this point in time and you have to be very grateful for that and you have to be patient with the people around you and do your best to try gently to open their eyes so I want to read for you um how does this all relate to what's going I hate to WR now I hate when I hear you know big speeches and synagogues where they don't address the situation in is right now because I don't know about you guys but I have been a mess over the past um you just felt the whole energy in the room change by the way anybody else feel that over the past 55 days whatever it's been I've been a mess I mean there's nights where I'm not sleeping I've cried I've been numb I mean it's it's been rough I've had I've had trouble working I've had it's been rough and I I really don't like when people don't address it in C in speeches I mean how could you not so I want to I want to bring it uh I want to bring it there if I may yeah I have permission yeah so I prepared this for last night and uh I want to I want to I want to read it to you guys Israel has made One Singular critical mistake for many many years probably since the Inception of the modern state of Israel and if you listen carefully to my speech tonight you will begin to see and to hear probably Midway through and if you pay attention when you hear the mistake it should hit you right in the face and you'll see it very very clearly so we live in a very unique time right right now we are at the center of the world's attention if you open up Twitter we are on every single trending topic on Twitter Bar None every time I open up my Twitter the Jews and some way shape or form are trending and this mistake that Israel has made has led to a tremendous amount of violence and bloodshed from the Arab and Muslim world and also the condemnation that we see from the rest of the world stage you see Israel Prides itself in being a democracy in technology in its open-mindedness and when they go in front of of the United Nations they often discuss the past 75 years I saw a clip yesterday from GID and she said that Hamas has the right they had the right on October 7th to do what they did because of the Decades of Oppression of the Palestinian people and I I laugh to myself the decades what an immature way to measure Time by decades and by the way Gaza wasn't so bad until Hamas decided to poke the lion it wasn't so oppressed they're probably living better than any Arab or any Muslim in any Arab country in the Middle East the problem that Israel makes and even most Jews even Orthodox Jews is that we've been measuring time with the same measuring stick that Gigi Hadid and other anti-semites have been measuring time with you see the average person that's walking on the street today they have almost no context they've lived for they live for 75 80 85 years they get their context from Tik Tok Instagram and that's the context in which they're viewing that's the lens that they're viewing the world from it's the equivalent of watching a movie in the middle catching five minutes of it and drawing conclusions with no context the Jewish people on the other hand have a vantage point of 3,300 years to to put into perspective the United States of America is roughly 350 years old and the Jewish people are 3,300 years old that would make the United States of America a 10-year-old boy and the Jewish people 100-year-old wise Sage disclaimer America has been great for the Jews and we're very grateful to the country and I'm personally actually very surprised at the very strong stance that such a liberal government has taken in this time so we all have to have hakara we all have to have appreciation for America and what it's done for the Jewish people but just to put into perspective the Great America it's only it's a 10-year-old boy compared to us so I do these Instagram Live Events where I welcome people to debate me on Israel and whenever I get a hostile Pro Palestinian person come onto the life and they start talking to me about 1948 and 1967 and this Accord and that Accord and this treaty and that treaty I immediately end the discussion I don't even I don't even get into it it's so irrelevant through the lens of 3,300 years I also see a lot of Jews making this mistake and they they miss the mark when they are debating with Arabs on the subject where they'll talk about you know everybody saw that picture of the penny from a 100 years ago and it says Israel on it or Al it's so immature such an immature way to represent ourselves and this is why really the world doesn't respect us because we're playing by their rules if you study the Torah what you'll see is that Jews rarely followed the Crooked rules that were set in front of them Abraham was one man against the world and the rule of that time was you had people bowing down to Idols an idol worship Abraham's father was an idol worshipper and Abraham was supposed to run his father's shop and he ended up taking a hammer and smashing the idols and becoming the only man in history to be to be believe in one God he broke the rules to such a point where they threw him in a furnace Sarah his wife she had a son named Ishmael who was a wild child and she threw the kid out of his house out of her house because she didn't want him to inherit with her son Yak she broke the rules Yakov he bought the firstborn inheritance from asov he couldn't watch it go into the evil hands of asov he broke the rules the firstborn is supposed to get he bought the first how do you buy being a firstborn you're breaking the rules but his mother told him that she cannot allow the inheritance of the Jewish people to go into the hands of asov to such a point that she broke the rules she wrapped yakov's hands in skin to deceive her own husband in order for her child the one that she chose to get the blessing there's another story is a is after being abused by Lan a hundred times Yakov picked up his entire family like a thief in the night and he ran away from lovan's house why because he knew that if he played by the Crooked rules that Lon had set ass had set up for him that he would never gain his freedom and he would always be indebted and would never be able to leave lon's house he broke the rules the lessons that we have to learn from these stories is that Jews cannot play according to the Crooked rules that the world wants us to play by their game is immoral to begin with the big discussion today on the left the wokest left which claims morality is that we have to castrate children for gender affirmation and then you have R radical Islam that will do genital mutilation to young girls they're both mutilating genitals and they both tell you that they're righteous and they'll both tell you that each other is evil the rules of the game that they want us to play are crooked the modern day Jew of today and for sure the modern state of Israel has never had the guts until now to call out evil for what it is for Millennia we've given too much power to Ishmael to asov to Lan and to Egypt our current Exile when the United Nations looks at us they talk down to us they treat us like the youngest adopted sibling in the family that they have to educate on morality what aah and here in lies the mistake of the modern day Jew and the modern day Israel is that there is nothing modern about us so The Jig Is up we have to finally come clean it's finally time that we stop hiding and we finally tell the world what they've really they've really suspected all along that we are the same Jews that they read about in the Bible we are the same Jews that they read about in the Quran we are the same Jews that they read about in the New Testament we're not 75 years old it's very cute the day that bib Netanyahu stands up in front of the United Nations and declares as a proud Jew that the land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people not because of the United Nations in 1948 but it belongs to the Jewish people because the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob created the entire universe and he created the world and he chose to give the land of Israel to the Jewish people end of story on that day that BB does that Israel and the Jewish people will finally be respected on the world stage and by every single nation on planet Earth you guys could clap [Applause] now when I was becoming religious in the nightclub business I asked my boss at the time his name was Giovani Cito a nice Italian Christian boy I asked him if I could start wearing my keepa to the nightclub and he looked at me with a very serious look and he said to me words that haunt me until this day he said to me you are a Jew and I am a Christian if you don't believe how the heck am I supposed to believe you wear your funny little hat [Applause] so then you'll have Muslims Christians atheists um what do they call them online trolls that they'll say that the Jew and they'll admit they'll say the Jews were the chosen people but because you sinned God has removed his Providence from you and he's given it to us and the answer to that is very clear and simple true we're not perfect we're really not the Torah says about us that we're a stiff necked people okay we've made many mistakes we continue to make many mistakes but the answer to them is very simple God's thoughts are not like our thoughts and although we we are not perfect God is and he doesn't change his mind so we have to stop measuring ourselves in front of the world with a 75 in measuring stick and we have to start measuring ourselves in front of the world for who we truly are with a 3,300 mile long measuring stick because that's the truth and when a Jew doesn't tell the truth the world hates us because if we don't believe then how the heck are they supposed to believe when we start talking the language of Torah the world will respect us because we'll finally be playing the part that God and the rest of the world needs us to play the world doesn't want us to play by their rules every time we've tried We've Ended up smashed beaten murdered exiled slaughtered they remind us all the time don't get too close to us you are not like us you are not supposed to blend in you are supposed to lead stop trying to be like us and be a Jew For Heaven's Sake [Applause] so until now we've discussed the change that I believe has to happen after October 7th in terms of our exterior posture to the world the world world is demanding that a Jew come clean and just admit it already that we are God's chosen people and we have delight and that's the exterior change that has to happen but there's also another shift that has to happen and that's the inward shift that we have to begin to do to our community that we so we could begin to finally heal as a nation and we could recover from not just this trauma but thousands of years of trauma because there's a lot of healing that needs to happen so there's been a Great Awakening since October 7th amongst the Jewish people many unaffiliated and very very liberal Jews are finding themselves with a terrifying identity crisis I did a live event last night where a Jewish woman joined the discussion She's a Lesbian and she was Notorious for marching with every single cause that has ever existed for the past 30 years and almost in tears during the event she admitted that the lgbtq community the BLM Community the yogis and even the vegans had turned their backs on her and ignore her and call her every anti-semitic Jew hating name in the book they all kicked her out of their little clubs and she begged me on the live to give her Direction and she said where do I fit in even the Torah calls me an Abomination so here lies the difference between Judaism and other extremist religions if that lady would have been in Gaza and admitted that in front of hundreds of people she would have been thrown off a building but Judaism says okay you have a yat Sahara nobody's perfect that should stop you from doing a Mitzvah I told her my sweet yish I said light shabas candles this Friday night give a few coins to sadaka every day day put maab up in your house say cap to here there whenever you can and bring your light into this world because God needs it and as she choked up in front of hundreds of people she said to me in tears I will she's just one example of millions of Jews right now that have woken up and are waking up since October 7th millions of Jews that hid their Judaism for years wanted to have nothing to do with it and bury it so deep all of a sudden are standing tall as proud Jews Jews you never even knew were Jewish anybody see that video from from Mark cubin going around a few weeks ago great Mark cubin is Jewish since when all of a sudden he's giving to the to the whole Jewish world what's his name um Schumer today what's his name what's his name Chuck Schumer stands up in front of the entire I know he didn't vote on Israel I know we don't know the in story stands up in front of the entire House of Representatives today makes a 41 speech about being a Jew Anthony blinkin travels to Israel In the Heat of the war and stands up and he says I'm here because I am number one sorry he said Anthony blinkin travels to Israel in the heart of the war and he said I'm going to stand here in front of you today number two because I'm the secretary of state and number one because I'm a Jew who talked like that before October 7th it's an amazing thing what's going on so it's up to us the people in this room it's up to us to make space for these millions of Jews who are coming home the B says that we have to take a lesson from everything that we learn everything that happens that our eyes witness we have to take a lesson from that it's God talking to us we have to we have to learn from whatever we see so what's the thing that we all are obsessed with in every family's WhatsApp group right now on every Instagram feed right now what are we all starving for is videos of the hostages coming out of the tunnels and it's so peculiar I see this it's it's it's it's baffling that every hostage that had no communication with each other over the past 50 60 days they all have the same baffled face it's heartbreaking the little girl who's trying to hug her father the father's trying to hug her she has no emotion it's like they're blinded they've been cut off from light they've been cut off from the world for 50 60 days and they're baffled as soon as they climb out of the tunnels so what we have to learn from this is that right now there are millions of Jews all around the world that are climbing out of spiritual dark tunnels many Jews who have been cut off from Hashem from Torah not just for 50 days but some for 50 years and when they come out of this days they're baffled the world doesn't accept me for being a Jew the movements that I stood with don't accept me they're baffled we have to treat these Jews who are emerging from these spiritual dark tunnels with love with care and to create safe space safe spaces for them just like in bjx and we have to welcome them home with the same love that we see Israel welcoming the hostages home coming out of the tunnels because a lot of Jews around the world were taken hostage millions of them were taken hostage when they were children when there were babies and the hostage taker is the current Exile the 2,000 year old Exile that we live in but they're coming out of the tunnels and they're coming home so in closing in these moments when the entire world's attention is on us and we can't hide anymore even if we wanted to you know it used to be the way of the Jew the way that we survived for so many years was we hid we lived in our little ghettos we lived in little towns outside of the main cities we didn't want to make a lot of noise today we don't have such a luxury today the world is demanding to hear from the Jew and are we're going to tell them how much technology we have all the inventions that we've made all the Nobel prizes that we've won they don't care we have to look the the world straight in the eye and we have to stand strong and proud and tell them what they've known all along is that we are the chosen people the children of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and we are the main characters in The Greatest Story Ever Told so have some humility why don't you and be a mench towards us when you talk to us or about us and if you are a mench I promise you we'll teach you everything we know because contrary to what we've been pedaling to the world is the true source of strength of the Jewish people is the 3,300 years of Torah knowledge that we have accumulated because the world is starving for God right now and we have the water and number two inwardly as a community to begin to [Music] heal we the ones that have been out of the spiritual tunnels we have to shine our light so bright and we have to be a beacon of light for all of those who are emerging from their tunnels and their darkness and we have to invite them in and nurture them and take care of them and love them with intensity and I'm convinced that if we do this one two punch the inward post the outward posture to the world and the inward healing to our own communities then we will finally see what we've all been waiting for which is the arrival of the mssiah a time where the entire world will live in peace and prosperity and all the nations of the world will put their their swords into the ground and all the nations of the world will come to Jerusalem where they'll learn Torah and where godliness will finally be revealed in this world amen [Applause] amen