CHAZAQ's Torah Talks #152 Shloimi Steinmetz - The Strength To Move On

if somebody gets a challenge like you say has me to Yeshua and he takes it one step at a time don't try thinking 10 step forwards and thinking how will they accept the will this medical treatment work no if put into your head I to feed the Hashem runs the world don't jump 10 steps ahead of time Hashem runs the world the doctors don't decide Hashem decides but you have to really believe it's because some people take on so much they they they want to carry the stress of the world thinking of 101 different things and then it's very hard to carry it's a bur but if you take one thing or one step will help you that [Music] much and welcome to Torah talk kazak Tuesday night program with special guests we have with us from Canada currently in how you doing we should only we're going to be discussing the strength to move on and before we discuss that topic we get a little bit background about yourself so um just got so I'm apologizing Advance if I'm a little bit tired Miss Miss jet long trip we the J like we can't go direct so we had to go VI we're here so basically I grew up in an Belgium I went to school over there at 16 I went to G Yesa I was there for three years then I went to yes's which I was there for also three years I got married I was I went back for till my older son was born which was maybe six seven months and then we came back and uh I moved to Montreal my wife is from Montreal and I'm living basically the past 28 years building a family we should only hear only good news and as we know we have coming up but unfortunately three years ago there was the meon tragedy which your son was uh was unfortunately there and perished if you could give us a little bit background of what happened so basically my son Davi is my third son I've a can of five boys and a daughter my uh my D is my third son and he was uh my older boy all Le in m and he was my third son also went to M and he really wanted you know like when he all he want to be as everybody knows it was Corona so it wasn't too simple and everything and um but they opened up and went but he went to me he didn't just go as you know as go one of the crowd he went he organized he rented the whole house to go together with friends they went like 18 boys they went together to they went to day early and they set up a whole high and he was giving out drinks and and it was M he was he wanted to to not just to go to want to to live to live it and feel it and and be at the same time he was a man so he also got whatever tickets needed to to get in to to the VIP and to be able to go know when a 21 year old wants to get done he was able to take care of himself and his friends and um so that like as everybody knows the police was uh trying to uh do the best they can unfortunately we know what what uh what happened in the end and um it's obviously not easy for us it's you know this time years very hard um but we tried to be and doing a lot of things in his and his to give him lot of and that gives us to to keep going and to the so the strength to move on after such a tragedy you uh started a anim Revolution if you could touch upon that and uh the great work that you're involved with so after the tragedy happened the whole world was was broken was clapped was was beyond everybody felt it was personal to everybody unfortunately was even more personal and I and he speaks every shus before M he speaks for five minutes that Travis he spoke as well the way he usually does and he said what can we do what can we do in order to to to to give a little bit we feel you know we're so broken and he said let's say whoever saying should keep saying and whoever does say should start saying and he gave out like 100 cards just for for the true members me personally have been saying for many years as a matter of fact my oldest son Yi which lives in mon at around quarter to 5 a.m. said he's going to go he went to he went to the and my other son went went to the my second son and we were like Mom like he took a picture of you know so we we we we still we still believe that to the last second and we still believe we just we don't understand you know like I said it many times not I believe I understand we don't understand but we believe we don't exactly we have to keep believing so basically he gave that to the he gave it 100 c and M of shabas I thought to myself let me see if I can get to a thousand people by the following trabas 10,000 people by the next tras then we see where where where hasem is going to send us anyway we worked very hard that first week I called all my contacts and camps and isas and schools and cousins and whoever I know we hit 10,000 that first week wow 10,000 people took about themselves to say an 10,000 people said they're going to say anim we call schools and then it was that's how it's started and we started printing cards initially I printed like I started printing a th000 2,000 3,000 5,000 today when I print I print 30,000 at a time wow and today we've printed almost 300,000 cards worldwide and these cards again people say from it's not because we Sprinter cards the same it's tons of I mean thousands of people saying it for the S it's just it's you know it's a the way I look at it's an awareness campaign hasm put me in the situation and I'm just the one holding up the the sign and saying you know we have to believe we have to keep going and to be honest having the an with you when you're going through when somebody goes through a very I say tragedy because I don't wish anybody to have tragedies but when something goes for a hard time and needs and you take that and you and you just keep saying it it gives it gives you it helps you manage a situation when you get a challenge unfortunately it will help you overcome the challenge will or manage a Cheng say overcome because we never know what what how how serious things are but it really helps you cope with it and when this happened to me I Wasing in my head Hashem runs the world Hashem runs the world I don't understand it and it was you know was Beyond trag have a 21y old boy which was full of life was there for all his friends cop he was a good learn he was you know say say a lot he was good he learned he learned the best but he was able to have a good time also he would for for Thea but he would white that man when it came to learning and uh learning he was taking care of his he was here in he was taking care of all the deal for his friend the every time I call I'm busy I'm showing deers to my friends how many how many deers do you need h no I have to fight he that he was always busy that that's you know that's the type of boy he was so going back to also what I heard from many they said when we do something and it has a tremendous is because that person really believed in him and the truth is he was he was a big M he was that that's who he was he really was I would tell him like don't talk like you know he used to tell me certain things and I said no how do we talk anyway but that that that that was uh he was very you know a big big M so we started doing the campaign and we started sending out cards and then we went send them out to camps and we send them went to schools and we start that was just getting the oil to to to say it and we just kept on you know the more requests we had the more we kept sending and printing and we gave a in our twice a week because as we're learning with people what's behind an there's so much behind it which we didn't even know person I mean it's new to to so he gave sh twice a week then heard about that giving sh on it and because oh sorry no we then we did we did a website an.net and we uploaded the show that people what exact spelling an i.net a n i m a a m i n NE T you can see when you go on there you go into sh you can see the sh you can see events that we did we did the the ladies event actually that my wife did last night was a Montreal uh actually Sunday night I L travel I was in Montreal and it was we had to change Vue because was so many people wanted to come it was in in a big theater and for Montreal that you had filled up a theater it's like New York filling up Madison Square Garden it's like it was Unreal my wife spoke amazing I mean she gives a and and she a guest speaker Mrs shov was it was tremendous for the community and the people who came there you had which is what shows the beauty of an also you had from all different communities whether it's irrelevant everybody was there people came from all you have people coming from satma you have from to and you have from we have which is area and you have from and and and and everybody just walked out and spy but that's the message we're giving to the world which and which we're getting from from everybody also we're getting no matter who it talks to everybody I I have people which which which are not from and they heard of and they want to hear about it and they want to say it and they want to live it and then you have you know which which which which are going to come in like I say it's irrelevant what kind of hat or yamaka you wear this is this is something which which which is is part of us and which we we live with it and the more we live and understand it and take it into US it it gives us to to keep going yes 100 it's one I got to the website I know I'm going on them you ask me the background notes sure my my head is working a little bit in the you know like I say I've been on the go for 15 hours so more and so Art School heard about the show and they decid decid to bring out a book so last two years ago we brought out the English edition the 13 principles of which is you know the book which which you can you can see it online and every every swim store has it they sold yes they sold over 10,000 copies that was two years ago last year we came out in French oh wow fren is a little bit less than man but I think they sold about 3 4,000 copies so far and this year we're coming up out supposed to launch it like but it's you know the launch is happening in about a week it's coming out in Hebrew but it's coming out in it's called because we want to make an easy Hebrew right and the idea is to come out in different languages every year and people are hungry for it so us to be able to keep going and and doing it so so for all those that are listening the the request is from the memory of their son is that they should take it upon themselves to read and to and to learn the 13 principles of Faith the the to say it on a daily basis to understand it to learn about it is that is that accurate I tell you I don't want to put pressure on people because if you're telling people that they have to understand it and learn it it's going to become a all it's going to become a it's difficult it's going to become difficult they should just say it say say it whenever you want however you want say before ding after whenever just keep the card with you or say in your s i I say it every day after shakar so there you go the more you say it it'll just come to you naturally and you'll just be part of it I just I remember somebody coming over to me um I was a mon I live in Montreal and the person came over to miss time it's I just want to tell you I saying I had I was going for something very hard and I was saying I just had saying that with tears in my eyes and it really helped me and and he never said it before he said this really helped him get through his what he was going to and these are stranger I have no idea who they are but it's just like I said I'm just holding up the sign for the I say gave us tools we this is you know this anim has been around a lot longer than but it gives us to to try to keep going and you know tragedies happen unfortunately but but this this helps us get after October 7th we got so many requests for cards all over the world you know thousands and thousands and we're just shipping we we've shipped to I don't think there's a country we haven't shipped yet but whoever requests they're free of charge you don't have to worry we have people could sign up people can sign up on the website they can send an email we'll be happy to send to Moses to school hundreds of cards whatever you want we want every every person that would like a card G we don't want people to pay actually matter of fact people are offering to pay and I don't want to take money because I don't want people to feel they have to pay for some this is something they doing they want to say because it's foring but want people feeling oh we're going to we're buying something to no you're doing it the 100% And we're happy to to to to to help out amazing phen what's the vision V to to continue translating to different languages to do more she to do more events if there's ways now that we've connected through kak we have a very big bar audience and following we're gonna Adit push it out there as well I appreciate it I appreciate it thank you thank you when you ask me what I have I have a puts a lot of DRS into my head and I never know where I'm going and what I'm doing but if you would ask me three years ago which you is coming up this Sunday obviously what happened and how you know it's beyond beyond comprehension but this is this is what but that we would be today and that you have hundred of thousand people the word saying on IM and part of this this this I don't know what the right word is if it's a revolution or if it's a it's just it gives tremendous tremendous pH us but it's not just for us because you're saying it you're saying it you know we're trying to say we want to say but you're saying it also for yourself and by you taking this 90 seconds saying on you do it for yourself and the end of the day you're going to feel better we want we wanted like we're saying do it for DAV becauseas but but the rewards the rewards the bottom line every person saying it is going to feel the and it's going to help them grow that you give so much over going through such a difficult such a tragedy and before I asked our final message which is our mhag accustomed to do on Torah talks kazak Tuesday night programs if one that's listening to this is going through a difficult time whether it's with parasa with his livehood whether it's with ch whether it's finding his health you know you're one that you know you lost your son and what message could you give over to these individuals like you said up until now I believe that everything's from we don't understand sometimes if there will be another piece of inspiration did you give an individual that's listening to this I feel again who am I you're asking me so I'm just what what's on my on on top of my head soor that when if somebody gets a Trav like you say has me to Yeshua and he takes it one step at a time don't try thinking 10 step forwards and thinking how will they accept the will this medical treatment work no if put into your head de feed the V Hashem runs the world and go one step at a time Hashem runs the world you want to go from one step to the next step don't don't don't jump 10 steps ahead of time Hashem wants the world the doctors don't decide Hashem decides is the one who makes obviously which with which are the you know you have to and everything but go one step at a time and then let let let let let let I do his do his thing but you have to really believe it's because some people take on so much they take they they they want to carry the stress of the world they're thinking of 10 one different thing and then it's very hard to carry it's a bur but if you take one thing go one step will help you that much and then take it one step at a time yeah little bit okay amazing me and one final message if you could give it over to our uh dear audience one final message I'm trying to to to find the right words because you have a wide audience but um when we look at the matv in the Jewish world today we what we realizing and what we're seeing unfortunately is that we only have each other we only have each other you know the go ha us that's that's that's the fact and when you come together and when you see Eden coming together from all walks of life from whe no no matter what from and they come together in the same Mission they want to be there for each other I'm looking at again on the an's perspective because we have a lot of people which are not from and they heard about and they saying and and I'm getting the feedback I have people sending me messages which which are notas but they saying and they and they believe in it and they see what's going on the world I'm in business I'm I'm in the door business I have fire people not from people calling me now and saying I would like to do business with you because I see that uh if we don't have each other who we going to have I think there's a there's a tremendous wakeup call now which it's very tragic that NE had to die but that's what I wanted with this tragic events but the world is waking up M we're feeling we're getting closer and closer to the G we have to like push through the finish line and we with doing you know everybody should Theirs Whatever they can to make you know to make it one better thing in life and I'm just promoting and I'm not telling people what to say I can just give you the feedback from the hundreds and hundreds of messages that we keep on getting every month and that the positive results so that I can tell you but I'm not going to tell I want people to say it but you they I let the people for themselves decide after if it's if they were happy that they started saying it amazing your inspiration you give us the strength to move on you know after such a difficult time you're moving on with doing such positivity in memory of your son all of the family and uh this is a big lesson for us all trying to move on as AA as well lost 24,000 students and he continued with five more which continued all of the Torah that we have and uh it's it's the message is to move on to move on we're moving on we're not moving forward we're moving on that means whatever we're doing we're doing we're not forgetting the past we're building and you know right 100% 100 my son's full name you should know so we should only hear we should only hear good news and we should be we should Mar to see the Redemption with the resurrection of the Dead we all be reunited with our family and friends and and and everyone we shoulding our days amen for your time we really appreciate it and we want to thank uh everyone for joining us kak horr talks Tuesday nights 8:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time special thank you to uh all those at kazak and all the amazing volunteers and workers and employees and staff members and donors and board members we're forever grateful special shout out to daily giving a dollar day goes very far away special shout out and thank you to our friends that tore any time they have their campaign coming up as well uh please everyone is encouraged to get involved with that as well and to all the 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