Rabbi Benzion Klatzko | How to Get Into The Book of Life, Feat. Special Guest | CHAZAQ

[Music] and sorry for joining us this very special year how to get into the book of life we're only a few days away from great days of Russer coming up and we have the great great honor [Music] want to thank all Sara for once again partnering with that event I want to give a special round of applause to Amanda Levia for helping us behind the scenes Please give a round of applause. Um and of course we um of course the the book there might be a few copies in the back. Positive word power. Um everyone got a copy. Um everyone of course is encouraged not only to take the book. It's not it looks good on the bookshelf but of course um could be maybe a thing to um something a positive action that each person can take starting tonight to to learn one page every single day. Of course, it'll be a great great marriage for for you and your family to have an amazing year coming over with Hashem. And of course, we want to thank one of the anominous sponsors tonight. Um, of course, for for dedicating as well as um for my parents dedicating a >> so I'm sorry in this week's part about to read. So it says that standing before you today was what how does it describe it? It says your heads your tribes. So it seems like it might be um an extra word because he's a famous question. He says really it's saying the heads of your tribes but why does it say Rasham your heads your tribes? because it because he said that some people they think that in order to make a difference in the world they have to have a certain title in the shul in the community you have to be a rabbi to be CEO but but what's the lesson your heads your tribes every single person in the in the Jewish people can make a difference and must make a difference um in in the world and of course that there's Rabbi Mary did he said a comment once he said that sometimes it's an issue in the community in the family and person's life and they say okay the community will take care of it. Has everyone has anyone ever bumped into someone in the street and they asked them what's your name and they said your name is the community. No each one of us has to make a difference in our own life in the life of our family and the community and of course um um my grandmother of course was somebody who did that and I think it's apricol her her name was Ka her name was Kayasara and what show are we in tonight? Osara. So of course Hashem that I heard sh impact is continuing with Hashem and on that note someone who is of Hashem making such an impact um in not only in New York not only in my not only in America all over the world.com is Kira in on on campuses and um and speaks all around the world in his lectures and literally changing people's lives. It's our great great honor. Let's call a round of applause. [Applause] >> Thank you. >> Good evening everyone. [Music] I want to come close closer. [Music] That's what we tell Hashem. I want to come closer. I want to come closer. I came back from Israel this week, this past week. And our daughter name is Zahala, who's a composer. I saw in her eyes, she had a song. She was like waiting to tell me, but she wanted me to put my suitcase down first. She had Rakmanut, so I should relax a moment. But instead of waiting for her to say, Tati, I have a song for you. I said, do you have any new songs? She goes, "Oh, I was about to tell you I have a new song." I figured. So I sat down by the piano and she sat down and I said, "I want to see the words so I could feel the words while you play it. And the chorus was abba bring me closer. And I don't remember the tune. I heard it only once. But it was something like aba bring me closer. Aba bring me closer. [Music] Aba bring me closer. Closer to you. Aba bring me closer. And when I heard I got the chills, he would have looked at my arm little goosebumps because really with all the complicated Torah ideas and Torah lectures and this and that and this mitzvah but on that one, that mitzvah, what do we really want? We just want to get close to that's what we want. However it is, Hashem, you have a long love language. It's your mitzvot. We get it. We're going to get close, but at the end of the day, our cry is, "Aba, bring me closer." The title of the talk was how to be inscribed in the book of life questioned, what is a book and what is life? Does Hashem have a book? Is are there pages? Are they made out of rag? Are they made out of paper? What does the cover look like? Does it have a dust cover? I can make a marshall out of all of this, but we don't need to. The idea of writing something in a book is an ancient idea. It's an idea that when you want to remember something, you don't rely on your memory. You jot it down. There there's a device that's given. And some people who take it, they're really happy. I know my daughter actually does this where for many, many years, every night, she writes at least one page about how her day was. And she writes a letter to Hashem. Dear Tati, dear Tati, I had a bad day. I had a good day. I had a difficult day. My friends, my stomach was hurting. My head was hurting. I got a promotion. I got a job. And then she could go back. And then you can go back and you can see four months ago what did it look like? What did I look like? But when we don't write things down, then we don't make a bone. We don't make a calculation. We don't keep track of how our life is. And then we are subject to something called the quickening. I want to tell you what the quickening is. And I want to connect it to Rashashan Kipper. You know how when we're young, everything goes very very slowly. From 1 to 10 takes forever to my poor kids. I got grandkids now. They're six forever. Then they're seven years old. Forever. Everything's forever. Forever. Forever. Right. How old are you? You're 11. You're 10. Right? You lived a lifetime in 10, right? 10 years old. >> Almost 11, right? You can't wait. You're double digits, right? So, did did it seem slow your whole life? That was a whole life, right? So cute, right? But here he is sitting learning Torah. Wonderful. But then you got 10 to 20. At 10 to 20 goes a little bit faster. Still pretty slow. Don't worry about that. But still, you know, 16 to 18. Okay, it goes. It happens. 19 and then you're in your 20s. 20 to 30 goes a little bit faster. Turn around, you're 24 and you're 28. And then 30 to 40. Oh my goodness. Okay, now your foot is on the accelerator. 40 to 50. Zoom. Boom. 50 to 80. You're right. I know. I see you're all nodding. It's true. It's true. Life goes quicker and quicker the older we get. Now, the simple reason why is that when you're 10, 100% of your life is 10 years. So, therefore, it's your whole life. So, of course, it's slow. But when you're 20, so 10 to 20 goes a little bit faster because that's only 50% of your life. And by the time you're 60, the next 10 years is only one of your life. That makes sense, right? So, it's slow. But I'll tell you another reason why life goes quicker as you get older. Anyone remember your firsts? The firsts. The first time you went on a train or a subway? Remember the first time you ever went on a subway? Yeah. You remember that? Do you remember? This is a hard one, but for me it's not hard. I remember the first time I had sushi because I didn't grow up with sushi. That's like that became a thing 20 years ago. Like what's sushi? You know, Jackie Mason used to jug sushi. Sushi. Today sushi is like pizza. But we had firsts. The first time we went to Erits, Israel, for some people they've never been. Some people been multiple times. Right. Our firsts are remarkable. We remember them. They're a first. They stick out in our mind. But then the second time is the second time. It's not the first and it's not as remarkable. And then if we're the kind of person that, for example, goes on a plane all the time. So the first time went on a plane. Whoa. And then now we go on planes all the time. I'm going to be on a plane at 7:00 tomorrow morning to Chicago. I will sleepwalk my way through the plane. I will not think, "Oh, wow. The runway. Got to get a window seat aisle. I I want to get some sleep. That's a I got window aisle. I because I've done it already." And it's not remarkable. Now, when things are remarkable, they create an impression. And when things create an impression, it creates what's called a memory marker. Wow. Today I went on a train to today's special. But if I go on a train every day, then it doesn't create a memory marker because I've done already. So it doesn't it's not remarkable. So it gets glossed over. And as I get older, I've done already so many things that I have fewer and fewer opportunities to create memory markers. Does that make sense? I'm I already had my sushi. I already went on the plate. So these things don't stick out in my mind. So my day is not marked with a remarkable event and because of that time goes quicker. I have less and less things to mark time. However, if I take a moment to enjoy, to appreciate, to have gratitude, to thank God Almighty for even small things. One of the results is they begin to stick out of my mind. It could be something as small as a delicious apple. When I say, "Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe." And it looks good and it tastes good and it smells good and its texture is good and it's good for me and its smell goes up into my nostrils and it and it bathes my entire being with that cinnamony smell of deliciousness and it's going to be remarkable and nowadays I call it mindful. I'm going to eat that apple mindfully and I'm going to be grateful for it. All of the sudden, I could take the simple act of eating an apple and create a memory marker. And I could take things that seem mundane and say, "Wow, a new suit. Who allowed me to live and who allowed me to be sustained and allowed me to reach this time? This time deserves a memory marker." That's the idea of Shakanu. I'm creating a memory marker. Lman H. Boom. Memory marker. Boom. This This is This is important. This is remarkable. I'm going to remember this. That's what it's like to create something that is unique and real. And that is what gives life. So when I create my book of life, my book could be a short book. You know why? because I don't create markers in my book. Imagine somebody who went to the store, bought a carton of milk, and then came home. Now, I could tell that story in one sentence like I just did. I went to the store, I bought a carton of milk, and I came home. But, you know, I can make that story much more remarkable. I went to the store and thank God Barak Hashem I have money because some people don't have money so they can't afford milk and Barak Hashem I'm not lactose intolerant and actually I take that back even though I'm lactose intolerant I have lactate that I could take to make sure that I could eat to drink that milk I have coffee and cereal at home that I'm going to eat with a milk or a piece of cakem there's a store that's nearby and it's a kosher store I'm be able to buy milk and then I'm going to go to the store and I say hello to the storekeeper and he knows me by name because I'm so friendly. I'm a cabos. So I say, "How are you? How is your family?" And say, "Oh, actually my grandmother's sick." And I say, "Oh, what's her name? Let me dive in for" and I write her name down. And then I go and I meet a neighbor and I see the neighbor and I'm friendly to that neighbor. And the neighbor says, "Oh, by the way, you're making a bar mitzvah this week. We're looking for an extra room for guests. Do you have any extra room?" "Yes, I do." So now I'm going to be able to do that mitzvah. And I buy the milk. And once I'm buying the milk, I have changed and I put the money in sedaka because I want to do a mitzvah. And I take the milk and Hashem gave me legs that carry me to the store and hands that I'm able to hold on to the milk. And I look around and the air is fresh and I hear the bird song and I see the neighbors and I wave and by the time I come home, I just had an experience. I didn't just go to the store and buy milk. I just had an adventure. and I met neighbors and I met friends and I did mitzvah. Oh boy, that chapter in the book is not one line. That's a whole fat chapter of goodness. You know what the book of life looks like? It's a book for those who want to live. It's not just that I am being written down in life, but I am writing a life. My friends, we have the opportunity to write our own book of life. When we come in to an event like this and there are so many people here, you know what we can do? We can say, "Hello, how are you? Sham allayikum. I found that someone's engaged and it makes me so happy and I give them a hug and someone else comes over to me and they're looking for and I'll take the name and send the rest." I had all these conversations on the way up to the podium. Barashem, I'm writing a book of life. I am writing my book of life. And Hashem says, "I want you to live a full life. Live it mindfully. I gave you mitzvot. I gave you commandments." And you know why I gave you so many? But oh, so many commandments. Kazal tell us the rabbis teach us. The Almighty wanted to give the Jewish people many merits, many merits, many opportunities. Hilk. Therefore here Bam Torah mitzvah he he increased he made many the opportunity to do to Torah mitzvah shamar like it says Hashem Hashem wanted for his righteous for his righteous people he wanted to give us goodness therefore he made many he made it many so the first idea is Write your own book of life. Live with your eyes open. Live your with with your antennas way up high with opportunities. Who needs a shuk? Who needs a hello? I was at a wedding. Oh, what a beautiful wedding. It was in Bar. Wow, a beautiful wedding. And the kala, she was so radiant. And the Hassen very worry is so beautiful. And the kala looks at me and she says, "Rabbi Klatskco, thank you. Thank you for everything." And I said, "You're welcome, Aviva. You're welcome. My pleasure." How do I know Aviva? Who's Aviva from Burough Park? She's not from Burough Park. No, her father's Dutch. Her father's Dutch. What happened? I was flying back from Poland and I said, "I'm flying from Poland. Hashem doesn't want me to sit in my seat and watch a movie. Hashem wants me to connect with people." So I walked up and down the aisle trying to find another Jewish person. And I saw this young lady and I said, "Hi, what's your name?" She said, "Aviva, not religious, coming back from a trip also to Poland to Awitz conservative." I said to her, you know, I said, "Aviva," I spoke with her a little bit. I said, "Guess where you're going in two weeks?" She said, "Where?" I said, "You're coming with me to Israel." She said, "I am?" I said, "Yes, you are. You're coming to Israel." She said, "Okay." And that was it. And she came on my trip. And after she came on trip, she was a superstar. She blossomed and bloomed. And that she stayed and she learned in seminary one year, two years. And that she came back and she began working in Brooklyn. And she worked in Bar Park. She married a casinos fellow. >> You know why? Cuz I because Hashem wants me to be to be inscribed in the book of life. And the book of life is not sitting in a in a in a airplane watching a movie. That's not life. That's death. That's that's destruction. That's boredom. Get up. Do live. And I want to tell you, plenty of times I don't live up to this. Plenty of times I tick myself. I say, you had a golden opportunity and you didn't take advantage of it. Don't you want to be in your own book of life? who says, "I have put in front of you life and good and death and bad and evil and choose life." It's your book. You can choose the book of life. That's the secret. Hashem, put me in the book of life. Put me in the book of life. Yashem says, "Back, put yourself in the book of life. Put yourself in the book of life. I'll I'll make sure you're sealed, but right now put yourself in the book of life. If I ask you right now, what are you involved with? You should be able to answer on the spot. I do. I do. I visit this person. I take care of that person. I something. We should have it at our fingertips. I had a student. We were again on one of my trips and the student says, "Yo, these religious people blah blah blah blah." I said, "Do you know how involved they are in kindness?" I said, "I bet you I could stop any of them." And I could ask them, "What institution of kindness are you actively involved with right now?" And I bet every single one of them is. And the student said, "No way." I said, "Okay, so let's do this." And I said, "Okay." So I got up on my seat in my in the airplane, turned to the person behind me. can I'm sorry I know it's a strange question what said what kindness are you involved with so first he was shy to tell me I said no tell me we just want to know he says okay he says I connect I collect money for brides that can't afford weddings as a matter of fact I'm on my way right now to Israel I collected $25,000 for a family I'm bringing the money right now so my student looks like whoa okay let's try someone else I said okay let's do So I turned, there's a young lady next to me, maybe 20 years old, 19 years old. I said, "What are you involved?" She said, "I'm not involved with too much." I said, "Too much. Too much. Tell me what you're involved with." She said, "Okay. Well, each each um each week I go and I visit this lady. She's blind. She's an older lady. And I read to her and I serve her dinner every single week. Not bad." And I also and she told me something else she did. And then we stopped another person and they're involved with the orphanage. And the student looks at me and says, "You you set this up, right? This is all a big setup." I said, "No, this is what it means to be in the book of life that I can stop anyone." We are not waiting for life. People say, "Hey, go get a life." >> I I agree with that. Yeah. Yeah. Get a life. Get a life. I don't mean get a life by being fancy and wearing fancy clothing and wearing and and driving fancy cars and being famous. Get a life. Do something that you are choosing to live. And we have that opportunity in every single thing that we do to choose life to choose to live a life. Now I want to take this one step further my friends. You know what is life? When we choose life, we are choosing Hashem because Hashem is life. Hashem is life. You see, life, truth, goodness. It are all other names of God. They're all other names of Hashem. Hashem is You're the source of life. When we choose life, when we're written in the book of life, what does that mean? We're written in the book of, "Hey, I have a relationship with Hashem." That's what that book says, not, "Oh, I get to breathe for 365 more days." That's not the book of life. The book of life is, hey, I'm connected to Hashem. I'm connected to the source of all life. That's what it means. So I'm connected to truth. I'm connected to goodness. The book of life is the book of connection to Hashem. So if you want to be you written in the book of life, all you got to do is say the words, "Aba, bring me closer. I want to be written in the book of life. I want the source of life to look at me as somebody who is living a full life. I want my each chapter to I want my my book to be so full that every chapter is exciting and meaningful. Nothing's a throw in. Nothing's a giveaway. I'm certainly never bored. I'm certainly not looking for diversions and distractions. I'm living a complete life. I do this by choosing life. It's a powerful notion. How do I do this? I do this by taking every mitzvah, every opportunity and making the most of it. For example, we daven we pray to Hashem. We go to a minion. You're a man. You're going to go to a minion. If you're going anyways, so do it right. You You're there anyways. You made the effort. You got in the car. You made it. You made it. You got up early. What a waste it is to do all that and then just to go you you're there ready. What what what bus do you have to catch? What train do you have to catch? You're there ready. You're going to do a mitzvah. Do it with a zest. Do it with gishmach. The more gashmak you do with the bigger that chapter is going to be. Your book of life will write itself and all by itself it's going to read. The book can read itself. You don't need anyone to read it. And the signature of every person is there. What's a signature? Means I sign off. This is my life. I sign off on this. This is what's important to me. That's what it means to be in the book of life. I'm going to tell you now one of the most amazing stories I've ever told and I've never told it before. I've never told this before. This is a first. after October, well before October 7th before I was in Israel and I had a group and we had a beautiful Shabas in the old city and Shabas of course culminated with a beautiful havdala and we had a guitar and we were playing and we were singing da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. I was so beautiful and so emotional and people were swaying back and forth and all of the sudden my son who lives in Israel walks in to the room and he has with him a non-Jewish fellow with three children, three teenage boys. And this non-Jewish fellow that my son brought into the Avdalah is watching watching. Wow. Wow. Wow. And he came over to me after Abdullah. I didn't I didn't say anything to him at the beginning, but after Abdullah was over, I said, "Hello, shalom." And he says, "Hello." And he said, "Hi, my name is Bishop Sterns." Bishop Sterns. Oh, he's a bishop. Bishop Sterns. How are you? He said this was remarkable this Adala and we we came to speak a little bit then he was so taken he was so taken by the whole the whole vision the whole vision of the Jewish people letting Shabbat out with song with beauty in the old city in Shalam overlooking the wall and he said to me you know I'd love I make a podcast I want to know can you be on tell us a little bit about where Judaism is coming from I said I'd be happy to. And I went on his podcast and we spoke a little bit and I try to make a keshashem. Then October 7th happened and I get a call from Bishop Sterns and he says, "Rabbi, we need to go to Congress. We need to speak up on behalf of Israel. They're in terrible danger and we need to make sure that Congress is on board." And so we started an organization. We went to Israel, myself, the bishop, some clergy members from his side, some rabbis on our side, and I spoke in front of a number of congressmen. I spoke at the end, pouring out my heart how we need everyone to be united behind Israel. It was very successful. went to Mar Rubio's office, others, and then the next year it grew from 70 people to nearly a thousand. And I went again this past year to speak in front of Congress. And I come in, I brought my son with me. He ended up speaking as well. Was a good speaker, the one who just got married a few weeks ago, Mazalto. And I sit down and of course I'm coming. So they prepared a a double wrap dinner for me. Kosher, most people there were bishops and priests and ministers. And I I came and I'm sitting down and they put me next to someone. I didn't know they were. And I said, "Hello, what's your name?" He said, "My name is Frank." Frank Peshy. Okay. Frank Peshi. What do you do? He, you know, Christian advocate for Israel. Build bridges. It's a wonderful thing. I said, 'Wow, that's amazing. And we really hit it off, me and Frank Peshi. You never know, you know, whole joke, the rabbi, the priest, you never know. And u and I spoke in congress. It was very, very, very powerful. And as time went on, I stayed in touch with Frank. And actually, he lives in Missouri. Lives in Missouri. and he flew to my house with one of his children. He says, "I want to experience the Shabbat." And he came and our family was there for Shabbat. And it was we didn't have one of our Shabbats with a lot of guests, just our family, but our family is pretty big. Barashem, children, grandchildren. So, he came and he watched and he watched as we gave a braha, as we danced, shalom, as we gave each one of them Shabbat shalom. as he made kdesh. And by the time it was over, Frank said, "This was amazing. This was remarkable. I need to come again." And he came a second time and he brought someone from the Israeli government and this time Frank came and he brought this person and we had a lot of people there and we sang and we danced and it was amazing. Then he says, you know, more people have to see where Jewish people are coming from. More people. So he said, I'm going to call a conference to build a bridge so that the Christian right does not lose its inspiration to stand up for Israel. And of course you know that that also is happening. Even the woke right has been slipping in their support of Israel. So he created a a conference called the ambassadors and this past Thursday was the conference. Rabbis and clergy members and they came from all over the world. There were about 80 80 clergy members from the Christian sect. There was one rabbi just me. So as they were building bridges with me, I ended up speaking giving blessings four times over that night and there was connection going on and a lady who is one of the key reporters from German television, she got up from the RTL. She got up and she said, "The time has come for us to ask forgiveness of the Jewish people for what we have done. We have to ask forgiveness what we have done. There's nothing that can be said. The horrors, it was our fault we did it. And I humbly, sincerely, contritly ask forgiveness from the Jewish people." It was a moment. This is somebody who speaks through all of Germany. Who am I to forgive on behalf of the Jewish people? I'm one person. But as far as I could, from my father's side, they were all wiped out in Awitz. So I said, "Please, please, we want to reconcile as much as I can. As much as I can." And then came Shabas two days ago. And we had a Shabbaton. And I have to describe to you what happened. You see, the very top leaders of the Christian faith from all across the world came to me this Shabas. Donald Trump's personal minister, his pastor, flew in from Washington DC to spend Chabas with me. a pastor >> from France. He's in charge of 15,000 churches. >> He came also, as did the pastor who runs the television station in Italy, two of them from all over, from the United States, from the Dominican Republic, from all over. People came to experience Shabas and they came and they put on yarmakas and they said I would like to really understand Judaism where it's coming from. I said I said to myself what am I going to do? How do I know how to connect? I don't I've never done this before. Friday morning comes around and I said you know Hashem lead me in the right direction. So I went to shul and there standing next to me was the head of the traveling. I said you know what we're going to do an event on Friday afternoon. It's called Toyame. That's when we serve delicious food before Shabas. I had called a neighbor who I'm very close with and I told the neighbor would you put on a tayame for us put out delicious food and I told the travel would you come and sing some music and Friday afternoon they all came I put on them mamikas and we went to my neighbor he had a he has a beautiful backyard with a waterfall and the traveling came four of them with their guitars and Donald Trump's minister and the ministers from all all across the world they came and there was delicious food and plenty of tequila lots of and I said everyone and they heard music and they heard singing and their eyes were open wow this is the Jewish people this is who they are I didn't expect this you see in the eyes of the umam either Jews are all the way to the left and they're not that religious and somewhat godless, unfortunately. Or maybe they're so much to the right that they seem inaccessible. They seem so religious that I can't even approach them. They're foreign. But to see a warm, friendly, normal, accessible person. We're just we we can connect. We can use the support. And so Friday night came around and we sat around in the backyard and we began to speak and we spoke about what is Judaism, what is Torah and all the ministers were there from all across all across the world and we sat and we talked and I taught them gachavas and shabbat shalom and I said when you say gachavas you can't say gachavas there's a tune you got to say gachavis and I had them all say gachavis. Shabbat shalom. Good shabish. And throughout chabas chabas and we sat around to understand what is the amman all about? What is the chosen nation? What are the Jewish people, the people of the book, the people that the that the Torah was given to. And then we had the meal and I said, "We're going to do something called and each one said, "This is amazing." and they gave their blessings to the best that they could and each one wanted one each each of these people they're connected they have so many followers and yet with a humility they gave theirs and it was something of beauty and then after the meal we went back to the porch and we sat around in the circle and again we spoke about the issues Judaism and Christianity and what does it mean and what's the Torah and what Jewish people have been through and how do we understand mitzvot and then we spoke spoke everyone together until 1 in the morning. And at that time also I gave out a present. I gave to each person a watch, a golden silver watch, very nice present. And it was a watch that was made by Israel with a silver medallion. And each medallion had a different image, either a lady lighting candles for Shabbat or a dove of peace or Yusha lion or a barit boy reading from the Torah on a silver medallion. And each one should remember Yiddish kite the encounter that they had. And then and then it was 1:00 in the morning and we were we could have gone on all night but then we decided you know what it's getting late now in our backyard we have a merrygoround and I had this idea. I said you know what what goes around comes around. I said to all the ministers, the heads of church from all across the nation, "Let's all go on the merry ground together." And about half of them jumped on the merry ground and we spun around. You couldn't even believe it. You couldn't believe it. You couldn't believe it. 1 in the morning. The next day, then I told everyone, you could sleep until 11 at night. You can sleep. And I of course I'm going to go to Davin. woke up in the morning and there a number of them were already awake. They said we want to go to services. We want to see what services are all about. I said okay come. They put back on their yarma and we walked through my New York and we walked into shul and they all were the yarmikas and we gave them their reading Torah. And then afterwards there was a kdish and I said my friends I want to teach you something very important. It's called herring. It's a salty fish. Maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't, but better to eat it with a cracker. And they had herring. And then I brought them to my father-in-law. My father-in-law is Rabbi Juravel, who's one of the Lammed V Sadikim. And they all came in front of Rabbi Jeravel and they he stood there and they asked him questions and they said, "How do we pray better? How do we pray?" And Rabbi Jeravel, this big sadic, he says, you know how you pray better? It starts off with forgiving and asking forgiveness. That's how it goes. You have to ask your forgiveness and you have to be willing to forgive. And you know why? He said something very profound. He said we we forgive because Hashem does not want to punish. Hashem doesn't want people to suffer. Hashem doesn't want people to be punished. So Rabbi Jerel said, "Every night before I go to sleep, I say I gave to anyone who got me angry or who hurt me." And he and Rabbi Jer said, "I even add the words of my own for the honor of Hashem because Hashem does not want to punish. So we forgive and we ask forgiveness." And then we went to Rabbakan and they met a Sparta Shar rabbi. And then we went to Rabbi Rabbi Leaf and Rabbi Leaf. They met a Yeshiva Sharabi and all these. And then afterwards we had a delicious lunch. And after lunch, after lunch, after lunch, Frank Peshy, the one who arranged all of this, who I sat next to at this conference in Washington DC, he had brought his son, his 19-year-old son to the Shabaton. This 19-year-old son, he called him Frank Jr., 19-year-old son. He says, "Rabbi, can I speak with you?" I said, "Sure." And he sits down and he says, "Rabbi, I know, you know, not bringing up the whole Jay question, but I need to know. I need to know. Why is it that you don't believe?" I said, "You know, there are reasons. I don't know if I want to go into it. Why are you curious?" He said, "Well, I'm curious because you know, you know, my mother is Jewish. I said, "Okay." I I said, "Okay, your mother is Jewish." So, uh, I'll go through it with you. I'll be happy to. So, we went through chapter verse and Isaiah 53. And I said, "Don't forget Isaiah 52. It's comes before 53." And we went through chapter verse. And I said, "Are you sure you want to hear this?" And he said to me very profound words. He said, "Rabbi, I just want to go with the truth. I just want truth. And if the truth is it's not true, then that's what I need. I looked at him and I said, you know, I really admire that. I want to tell you something. I go to Israel and I bring students. I would bring you on my trip. You learn about your Judaism. He said, I would love to go on your trip. I said, okay, but look, I'm your dad's friend. you should really ask your dad whether he'll let you go because you know I am a I'm a rabbi you know I teach rabbi things he comes back and he says my dad said I can go I said amazing and I came to Frank I said you're going to let him go you know I teach rabbi things he says Frank Junior's a big boy he could decide what's truth he could decide that afternoon that afternoon we had a third sitdown down and they looked at me and they said tell me here's the biggest question that the church is facing. It's something called replacement theory. Replacement theory means that maybe Hashem Shalom has replaced the bris the covenant that he made it with the Jews and instead he's making it with the Christians. He says, "A lot of people like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, they believe in replacement theory, that God has replaced the Jews with the Christians. What do we tell our congregants? We don't believe it. What do we tell them?" I said, "There there's three issues with the replacement theory." I said, "Number one, the Torah says Hashem will never replace the Jewish people. It's in Deuteronomy. It says it very clearly. So, you can't be biblical and believe in replacement theory." I said, "Number two, we're called the children of Hashem. Would you replace your child? Would you replace your son? God forbid. Never ever." I said, "Number three." I looked at them. I said, "If you believe in replacement theory, you should know that you're also replaceable." And the Muslims think that they've replaced you. and Bahigh thinks they've replaced the Muslims and Mormon thinks they've replaced everyone. Once Judaism is replaceable, then you're also replaceable. Then I told them, I want to tell you something. Judaism is the founder where the big brother and it's very hurtful that those who have learned from Judaism, the little brother has done what it's done in the history to the big brother. It's very hurtful. and they looked at me and they got very emotional and one of the head ministers says, "You know what? It is time for the church to ask forgiveness for all that Christianity has done." And the head of his ministry, he says, "We'd like to ask a sincere forgiveness. the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Pgrams, the blood liels, the millions and millions and millions who have died. We'd like to ask forgiveness. And then the next person did. And then the next person did. Each one. And then they said, "Rabbi, can we give you a hug?" And I stood in the middle and they made a big circle around. And they gave me a hug while crying, while asking forgiveness after 2,000 years. This happened. This just happened. And then the most remarkable thing of all happened. They grabbed my titsus. They grabbed my titsus and there were 10 men who were there from all different nationalities from around the world. Spanish, French, Italian, German, English, from all over. And they grab my titus. My friends, I want to read you a p from. So says Hashem, Lord of hosts. In those days, in these days that are coming up, where 10 men 10 men from all different languages will grab on the they will hold on is to the corners of a Jewish man. Rashu says the corners means the titus. They will grab on to the titus of an ishudi leour saying we need to go with you because we heard that hashem is with you. And that puk that p was fulfilled two days ago in my backyard where the heads of Christianity held on to my tits. This happened two days ago. We are living in Messiah times. All all of those the nations of the world they pass in front of you. They pass and they they they they stand in front of Hashemas. Each one underneath this thick mish each one and on nations it is said [Applause] each which one by the sword which one will be involved in war which one will be involved in peace each one nations are judged on rash shanom this happens what does maybe maybe the world is about to change Maybe maybe maybe who knows and at the very very end at the very end of Shabas we had a musical Abdullah where the singing and dancing oh Messiah's coming. The time has come when we hear the god. When you hear it, I want to tell you it is possible. It is probable. It will happen. And Frank Jr., Frankie Jr. who's going to be coming to Israel. Frankie Jr., he saw me open my phone and he saw that I'm speaking about the book of life today in Queens. So he says, "Rabbi, I need to come. I want to find out about the book of life." And so he came. >> I want to ask Frankie Jr. to come on up. [Applause] >> I want to tell you something else. I we are living in amazing times three minutes ago unbeknownst to you. >> One of the chief pastors at pastors of France just walked in and so did Frank the man who started all they just walked in. Come on up Daniel. Come on up. [Music] Unbelievable. You just walked in. I'm up. [Music] >> Do you Do you feel Mashiach? Do you realize what's going on in front of your eyes? >> Can I Can I give you the microphone a moment? >> Sure. >> One second. One second. Let's do this. Right. >> There you go. Okay. What was I going to say? >> Sh. Whatever Whatever is in your heart, >> Barukashm. [Applause] >> I feel so I feel so honored to be here right now. And you know, Hashem is moving in ways that only he can move. And us all being here together is just it's just showing. It's just showing that. So, >> RUK HASHEM. I'M GOING TO give it to Frank. Frank is one of the most eloquent people I know. And then Daniel. Come on, Frank. >> Shalom. Shalom. Shalom. >> What does it say behind me? It says, "Huzzah!" Huzzah. Huzzah. Strength. Strength. Strength. Right. >> Wow. We're honored to be here. We love Israel and we stand with Israel. >> Now, as you know, we're living in a time of, you know, it's hardship. It's maybe we're even close to the days of Jacob's trouble. I don't know. But it is scary times. And what started off as a hatred for Israel became a hatred for the Jewish people and now is spreading towards all the people who love the God of Israel. So, we must be united in this fight. we are together. And that's exactly what our work is. It's to stand up leaders from all around the world who believe in the God of Israel, who love the Jewish people, who love Israel, and who are ready to join arms shouldertosh shoulder as one shoulder and to fight. And you have our commitment to that. >> Quick question. Question. >> Yeah. >> What did it feel like when you grabbed it? What did it feel like? >> I Wow. >> What was going on? Daniel, come on out. Daniel. Daniel. 15,000 churches under this man. He's the director in France. And something else yesterday, you know where I brought this these fine people? I brought them to an Aikipa concert. >> Yes. You're awesome. >> Thank you. >> Everything we're learning. We're very stressed. Um what does it what did it mean to us is that there's a word in the scrolls that have has been something for 40 years and when I read it is it's written that I would be taught the things I must know to practice justice to love mercy and to walk humbly before Hashem practice means I don't always make it right I have to practice it's not always natural Sometimes professional athletes look so good it's as if it's natural but they go back sometimes they miss the most important mark and they practice but to love mercy is I think the most important part of our relationships to love mercy grace one to another and to walk humbly to be teachable so I'm a I'm a man beyond words where I find myself and I'm wanting to walk humbly to learn to be teachable Thank you. >> Can I share one word about you, Rabbi? >> Sure. I mean, yeah, >> I'll I'll be I'll be quick. I just want to thank you guys. First of all, for the strength of your community, for the way that you work together, and the way that you are an example to the world. We have the great honor of being able to work with Rabbi Benzone Gladco, who is an ambassador who is more than an ambassador actually and he's somebody that I think that God is using in a powerful way for the days that lie ahead and I just want to thank you for your friendship. I want to thank you for putting your foot forward for making the effort and it's going to be good and it's going to go a long way. We have your back. We're with you. We were shoulder-to-shoulder and Rabbi, we just thank you for your friendship. I know great things are coming. >> Thank you all. Thank you. >> We should probably take our seats. Thank you. >> Yes. Thank you. Amazing. >> Thank you. Wow. Thank you. [Applause] >> Unplanned. They just walked in. >> Wow. >> When are you inviting the Muslims? >> Soon. [Music] I'll finish with this and the nations of the world will seem that the name of God is called on you. They will be in awe of you. They will fear you. They will understand that Israel, how beautiful are your tents, Yakov, your dwelling places, Israel. This Roshashana, we're all going to be judged. We can write our own book of life. And I want to tell you I'll tell us alishbil is difficult things happen to the world because of the Jewish people and we have to take what's going on in the world to heart and when we see tragedy calamity we should know it's personal Hashem is giving us a wakeup callu wake up sleepy ones from your slumber wake up I want to tell you. The nations of the world want us to be great. They want us to live up to our calling. Anti-semitism happens when we no longer represent Hashem. But when we walk with our heads held high, with our sitkas, with our righteousness, with our honesty, with our morality, then what you just saw over here and many, many more times than this, they will come and they will cling to your tits. They will come and they will say, "We want to we want to learn from you. Teach us. You're the teachers of the world. Certainly, if we do that, then we say all of the good things, all of the wonderful things we're going to see with our own eyes. Amen. [Applause] [Music]