Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser | Unlock Your Potential | CHAZAQ

Okay, good evening everyone. Welcome to today's very special sharing presented by Kazak and the families of Memorial Foundation. We have an amazing um event, amazing speaker. So we're here from momentarily renowned speaker, author who inspires thousands of people around the world every single day. I want to thank center guys for opening doors and partnering together on the event of Christ as well. um all all the all um that we said earlier today all the the learning we're going to do tonight should all be the nishmas in loving memory of a um I didn't I didn't know him personally but I could but I could just tell you that that uh something something that I I went to an event yesterday an event with um the return hostage and I was speaking speaking to him and I I I asked him I said how did you have the the the courage the strength the amuna through the hundreds of days that he was in captivity and and and he told me he said he said um I didn't choose my destiny but my destiny chose me. I didn't know I had the strength, but but but Hashem gave me the strength and um I can tell you that um um knowing Yakov and Boris for so many years during these events, they're definitely um living with this and Muna um and and and sharing that amuna and the Torah and the for not only their family, the entire community. And of course, they're great role models for each and every one of us. And we should not only tonight's uh this should be in memory of Islam, but we should um over over the coming days and weeks ahead we should make make and do an extra mitzvah and we're going to call upon um we're call to share some opening remarks and he's going to introduce um um thank you Robbie. as usual um for the big cracks called for doing such a wonderful job setting everything up. um you know this is um we we blinked our eyes and you know 13 years have gone by and um I'm not sure how many people remember who knew my father here but um you know we sat on Shabbat and we were discussing how you know we migrated from Russia when the family realized that you know the country wasn't good for us from a religious perspective And you know like sometimes we think you know we're thinking to move from here to Florida we're thinking 20 times our parents our close family we they just picked up and said it's not going to work and um you know that's the strength of what we what we lost. Um you know the words cannot really describe you know who he was to us and what we we've lost. So um you know on the yearly basis the way we try to make sure that you know we honor his memory is by having raanim like Rabbi Gwaz to come in and give you know some phys um you know things that'll inspire us. you know, when we moved from Russia, we weren't religious. And um it's organizations like Kazak, at the time, Kazak wasn't even around, but you know, organizations like that that, you know, pluck people out of public school and put them in. So, you know, I want to give, you know, a great big thank you to the Fazak organization. um you know, not only for setting up this event, always being there for us, they're always asking us what's the next event, what are we doing next? And um you know, it's definitely a worthwhile cause, and it's something that, you know, we're we're very proud to be part of and to to support. Um you know, without further ado, I you know, I know it's going to get late, so I have a goal, sir. if you're gonna give us some words. It is a great to be together this evening on such an occasion. May his shama have an alien in Ghana. May be a may he watch over the entire community and may ask Hashem for all of you. May ask Hashem to protect Israel and to bring the hostages back home. Okay, I would like to thank the son of Mishbaka for what they do because I have already been at events that they sponsor and I can tell you that there is no greater zoot for the community, no greater zoot for any individual than to promote Torah and mitzvo in the world. And they do it in a modest and a humble way. and their words are powerful and their actions cause great things in Israel. May you continue in good health like that. We have a subject today and it is a important one. How to unlock potential? How do I give everything that I have inside of me be able to fulfill that which Hashem put me into this world for? And I would like to give a couple of examples of people that do not always understand the power that we have inside. A person may not know individual. We are modest. We are humble. What could I make a difference? What what does it matter if I'm there, if I'm not there? Really, what is my co-op? What is my power? I would like to start off with just a very simple incident. I had an aunt. The aunt was a favorite aunt. She was a great lady. She moved to Florida. She moved to Miami. and she was then alone in the later part of her life and she was uh looking for something to do during the day. They didn't have Kazak down in Florida at that time. She had nothing to do. She saw that there were art lessons, art lessons being offered in one of the stores in Miami. She figured I'll take an art lesson. She goes in, a lot of young people sitting there taking an art lesson. She sat down in one of the chairs. She wants to learn an art. She's a She's an older person. They pass out paper. That special paper that you paint on, they pass out paper to everyone. All the students that came to learn how to be an artist. My aunt never never had time to take an art lesson. Never ever drew anything. And he said, "Draw whatever you would like." The teacher, the man. She picks up and begins to draw something on her paper. She continues in the middle. The man comes over and says, "Why are you here in this class? She felt bad. She felt for sure since everybody else was young that she didn't belong there. And he was asking, "Why would you come to the class of young people?" She said to him, "I'm sorry, I didn't know that this is only for young people. I didn't know that there was an age posted outside. you can't come if you're older than whatever. He said, "No, no, no. That's not what I meant. I see from the picture that you know how to draw very well. You yourself must be professional. This is gorgeous. It's outstanding." She said, "I don't believe it. I have never done any artwork in my life." He said I am telling you finish your picture. Yeah. My aunt bra finish that picture. He said with your permission I would like to keep it here in the studio. She said okay. He sold the picture with her permission for $240. First picture that she ever made. potential inside locked up. Did she know that she could draw? Did she know that she had any talent? Did she know that there was an artist inside? No. I guarantee you she didn't. She went to the class only to try to take up her time because she was bored. Yet, Boream said, "You got talent and we're going to bring it out." And now was the right time to everybody here. Such wonderful people. I know a lot of you. I have a Zuta is here. My family, the Abba family is here. Robbie is uh he's unreal. He's running right now. He's going to be one day he's going to be the head of a big big organization in Cl Israel. Maybe even a political organization. being. He got the power. He got the potential. I remember when we started out years ago, young man, modest, who knew the potential inside? But everybody here has that potential. We have to find what it is inside of us that Hashem put us in this world that we should be able to help others and to make an impact. This evening we're going to go into some of the examples of it. Everybody is great. Even though it says oh that was great. Mosherenu there was nobody greater. Yet it says everybody in Israel has the ability to be as great as Moshe. All of us, you and I, we could be Mosher Rabenu, you could be Miriam Han, you could be Senu. We all have that power. The great ga was says, "How could we be Mosher Rabenu? Mosher Raenu was huge. He was so great. Could we become like him?" Rabbi Alan says, "Yes." In nua, in prophecy, we could not become like him. But in other areas, in greatness, in mid, in characteristics, and personality traits, in the will to serve Hashem, to be an EB, to serve God, we could be as great. We could be, but we underestimate our own potential. We always think, who am I? What can I really do? What can I accomplish? I don't know how much I could learn. I don't know how much I could have an impact. I don't know if people would listen to me, if people wouldn't listen to me. What we learn from the Torah is that every single person is a shining star. We have an inside of us, a powerful soul. And that soul is capable of far greater than we could ever imagine. The soul in each of us is on the highest level in the entire world. We don't even realize who we are. He was insecered him to stay home. Stay home. You cannot go to yeshiva anymore. What are you going to be anyhow? What's it going to grow to be? Stay. I need you in the grocery store. You have to make a livelihood. You can't go anymore to Yeshiva. The father meant well. But did he understand that he had a future? No. So he kept him. He kept him in the store. He needed his help. You can't blame him. He's his father. Have to listen. The roshiva saw was missing from the seat. A ber a young man. What's he going to become? Father, grocery store man. So he's not there in yeshiva. He has a good excuse. He has to help with the family part to make a livelihood. Leave him. So he won't be there that day. So what? Not Rabbi Ezra. He goes to the grocery store rasha. He says to the father, I need oady to come to the yeshiva to fulfill his potential. The father says I can't. I need him. I need him here. He has to work. said, "I tell you what, I take off my coat. I'll work. Send him to the yeshiva." Ovad went back to the yeshiva that day and then years later became the great God Israel, the great leader. We all have that power inside of us. We have the power for greatness, the power to change others, to have an influence. But we have to exercise it. We have to believe in ourselves. Very important. The the trust atmi in myself that I can do something that I am capable. Let me give you an example. The upcoming yumto of pes. Don't get nervous. We still have a couple of weeks. Don't worry. is beautiful. We sit and in fact we invite everybody to our seder. You need a place. Come in. Come into the seder. You need to have food. We got to have food, right? But before we do this, we say one thing. We're going to talk about the the matzah that we're going to eat. Uh, you know, we're going to have this matzah and it's poor man's bread. It's a bread that our forefathers ate and it's going to just be matzah. If you're coming for that big loaf where they have that sourdough, no. No. Just going to be like a matzah flat matzah over there. Why do we say that? Why do we first say that we're gonna have some matzah and then afterwards then we begin and say come enjoy uh you'll stay by we'll learn together we'll eat together we'll sing together why do we do that there's a beautiful answer that is given and it's like this if you hire a worker so it says if you hire a worker worker, you have to give him food. You got to give, you can't have a worker work all day, but you got to give him lunch. You got to give him supper. You got to make sure that he has food. You can't just have him and say work. That's a did. So, one of the great rabbis, his son, went and hired workers and the workers came. And he went to tell his father the food that he's going to serve them. His father said, "That's what you're going to serve them. Did you make up beforehand with what you're going to serve them? Did you tell them? Did you fix it up? Did you establish it? What foods you're going to serve? How much? The son said, "No, aba just I got the food." Even the father said, "Even if you will serve him aud Solomon in his time, you will not fulfill your your obligation." Why? Because all of Ben Israel, all the Jewish people, Ben, we are kings. We are princes. We are princesses. Even you're going to give whatever meal you thought you're going to give is not good enough for the king. You had to establish first what you're going to serve. We see this fascinating. Why is it that we talk about the food before we even invite the guest? The reason is is because everyone who comes to our seder, even the person that doesn't have food, even the person that comes in and they don't have the proper clothing, they're poor. Even the person that comes in, they're from the street, they are they are princes and they are princesses. And we have to be very careful how we treat them. So, we say, "Listen, please don't be upset. We're giving you matzah. It may not be your favorite food to eat, and you may take a look at it like we don't have a great uh menu on hand for tonight, but you should know one thing. The only reason we are serving it is because that's the food that our forefathers what they ate back in the times of the pumage and that's the reason we're serving it with that we can understand the way that we look at another person the potential the power that a person has is greatness we don't realize it sometimes there was An unbelievable incident. What does a person have power religiously, religiosity, spirituality? So some people very religious, some people not so religious. And then sometimes we peg a person and we think that that person's this religious, not more, I'm much more. That person, they're okay, not that religious. I don't know how far that person could go. can ever tell the spirituality of a human being. The Jewishness shama inside of a person is huge. I want to recount just one incident back in the old country. So there was a young man his father was extremely religious extremely religious like sadik he did some job he did some driving job in the old country and carriage one day he was elderly one day niftar he died he left over that his son should at least say kadesh when the son to say kadesh. So what happened? The son didn't do anything. The son, he was estranged from Judaism. Didn't go with anything in Yiddish. So the son says, "Okay, uh, I have to go to say kadesh. I'll go to the shul. I'll go to the synagogue. Whatever. I'll say the kadesh." He goes into one place and they say, "What are you here for?" They take a look at him. You're not religious. This is the way you come and dress. They said, "Go out. You came here to make fun. Go out." Tell him to go out of the sh. He goes to a second shaw. All right. Okay. You get thrown out of one, but you go to a second. He goes to the second shaw. They say, "Why are you here? You're here to start trouble? You're here to uh disrupt the services? You're going to make a problem with the minyan? Go out." He left. Third sh sad goes the third sh a person said why are you coming here? Are you coming here to make the sh tame ritually unclean? You coming you're making it tame ritually unclean. He left. Now everybody you know three times houses three times that's it. Whatever it is after it happens three times it's now a stronghold. One time it's three times. He can give up. He can say man I tried. I went to the sh three times. I got thrown out of my head three times. Hashem, I tried. I'm done. I had enough. I don't have to go through vision. I don't got to embarrass myself anymore. And he decided, okay, he starts to walk home. And then he felt to himself, Abba, my father, would he have stopped after three times? my father Sadik, would he have said no? Would he have given up? Would he turn his back on Hashem? Would he say, "Forget about the Kadesh. I don't care. I'm the only one that could say Kadesh and I'll forget about it." Would my father do it? Never. He decided he'll try one more place. He went to the small shore of the de Brass. of the breast of a from there. They don't throw nobody out. He came in, they welcomed him and they said, "Please have a seat. It's an honor to have you." He sat there. Only thing he did, not one word, not one word of did not put on did not do anything except when it was time for kadesh. He said the kadesh half a year nobody bothered him. Nobody told him he has to do this or he has to do that. No one said dress like this or dress like that. They left him alone. After half a year, there was a Jew there, Rabbi Benion. Rabbi Benon Bender. He went over to him and he said, "I see that you come every day to say Kadesh. Could I show you to say the Shma is?" He said, "Yes." They were nice to him. They taught him. He said Israel every day. That was it. A month later, Rabbi Ben came over to him. Could I show you how to put on the tin? He said, "Yes, you could show me. I would like to." Puts on the He says, "Shma." He says person does one mitzvah, it goes to a second, it goes to a third, it goes to a fourth. By the end of the year, he was praying the entire all of the entire prayers he would say and everybody loved him. Everybody knew he is the son of a sadik that was slowly finding his way back home to Hashem. They made a gazer. The gazer was the government. No more mikvah, no more family purity. And they outruled. They made a rule that there would be no place, no shul, no organization that would have a mikvah and anybody that would do it, they would be in prison and get a stiff penalty. It's one of the the basic foundations of our Torah, of our mitzvot. Rabbi Benion came over to the young man, the one that came just to say kadesh and he said, "As I understand, you are very talented with your hands. I would like you to build a mikvah secret in the ground in the ground to build a mikvah so that we can continue to have kusha in our community. And when it is finished, you have to be able to cover it over so well hidden camouflaged that people could walk on top of it. Even a carriage could go on the top. He said, "Who am I to build a mikvah? You have to be holy." I'm not holy. What am I? They told him, "No, it is the time that you will shine. It is the time that Hashem gave you the talent in your hands to build the mikvah." And he did. He built the mikvah and they helped him. When it was finished, they put on the top a strong covering that you could walk on top of that you could even take a carriage and ride it on there. The government heard that there was a rumor that they had the audacity to make a mikvah and they came to check it out. It was covered over. The government walked on top of it. They even had a carriage on top of it, rode around. They never found it. In Tahara, continued in the community. The man who they said the man who they said is going to be mame, he's going to make the shul unclean ritually. is the one that was responsible for the tahar the purity in the kadusha of an entire community. A person does not know the power that we have within every day we say the we say hashem who gives the weary who gives us strength. If a person needs strength, they're going through a challenge, they're going through something and it's difficult for them, you say in the morning, Hashem, give me the strength. If a person's not feeling so good, or they're feeling a little bit weak or they're tired, Hashem, give us the power. Hashem will help us that we will be able to fulfill every mitzvah that we can fulfill the purpose that we came into this world for. That is the greatness that we have inside of each and every one of us. We are fascinating. It says, it says in the if you build a new house and we're going to know that there are certain of course when you build a new house that you're going to put Mot on every door and also if a person has a porch on the outside maybe the second story. So the is that you have to put on the surrounding a fence so that a person does not walk over to the edge and fall down. In order not to fall down, we need a or a sort of a railing. And there's all kinds of interesting about the railing. However, it is fascinating that the explains this a little bit different. The says, "Sometimes a person builds a new house." What kind of a house do they build? They say, "I've got to do something different in my life. I want to do tisha. I want to make a new start. I want to uncover hidden potential. I want to establish myself a new. I want to begin something new. I want to try something for the community. I want to be better spiritually. I want to be nicer to my fellow man. I want to be more patient. I don't want to be angry. I don't want to be jealous. I want to lose all of that. Individual says, "I want to start and be new." This is something that every person can do. We say it every week. Hashem, renew it. Let me start a new. I want to begin my life a new. And it doesn't matter what a person did in the life. It doesn't matter anything that a person might have done. Hashem says, "I don't care what you did. I honestly don't care." Hashem says, "Show me from today what you're going to do." all the old history. You know, somebody will come in and tell you, uh, listen, uh, I got to tell you about my life. And I'm beginning to start talking from the day they were born, which hospital it was, and who their pediatrician, and it don't matter. What are you doing now? Where are you going from now? What's your vision? What's your what's your dream? Where do you want to be? That's what's important. I had a guy uh he's very very interesting fellow guy came into me says rebi I don't know how I could get away from my former life I said why are they after you said what's the matter he says no no you don't understand like I did some a you did some sins I said well you know join the club everybody did a sin or two you know said no person lived There wasn't a person yet that only did and didn't do a sin. So that means you're human. You're did he sin? Yes. Speak to the rock. Mosher went hit the rock twice. Everybody it is great great people in our history they didn't but Hashem sees that they want to do the right thing they're forgiven. So when a person did something they got to separate it because each day is a completely new day in our life. It's a new potential. I'm not dragged down by anything that I did in my former life. In fact, today is the day that I'm judged on who judged on what you are right now. What you were before it doesn't matter. Interesting during the 10 days of repentance. Uh, say there's a guy and they're not so careful in we'll say is, right? They like the Hershey or whatever, right? They like the regular milk. It's good. It's good. Tastes good. Very careful. Noam only bad. That's it. Is why it's 10 days of tisha. Why? What's the game? Then I go back after kipur and I eat that Hershey again. Hershey's great. I don't know you. I'm just saying an example or bishakum, right? No, I'm not eating any of those products anymore. Those snacks unless it came. Unless it came from, you know, I don't know. I'm not gonna die in vest time from England. I'm not eating anything else during nothing. No cookies from I don't know whatever. Only that that comes from What's the local bakery here? Public. Yeah, of course. I'm only going to have something from, you know, the most religious bakery. I'm going to be very careful during the 10 days of I have a lot of things that I want to say about somebody. I'm going to save it till after kipur right now. I'm going to be really really good. I'm going to be careful. And you know other things I'm going to really uh uh be strong about in this life. I'm not going to argue with anybody and I'm going to listen to my parents. I wouldn't contradict them. Not now. Right? So most people ask the question, what does it mean that the person does this for the 10 days? After the 10 days, it's business as usual. Everything goes back to the way we were before. The answer is twofold. Number one, Hashem says, "I'm looking at you just as you are right now. Whatever you did before, it doesn't matter. Whatever you were in the previous days of the year, it when you're right there, how do you look?" And you got to know that that is the time when a person should definitely be stronger in every mitzvah, take on mitzvah even just for the 10 days of repentance because when we are judged, Hashem sees that we want to be good. We have the potential to be good and perhaps we will continue after the 10 days to do everything that we did during the 10 days. It's possible. I have the power. I could do it. You know, sometimes a person doesn't realize it. After the 10 days, we try to be good as well. There was a guy, you know, they had the draft, the draft of the army, right? So, in the old country, they had the draft and, you know, Jewish guy would get drafted. They send them to the front lines. So, everybody wants to uh avoid the draft. They have a panel. The panel sits there and everybody comes and if you want an exemption from the draft, you have to appear in front of the panel. There's a doctor. Anyone that claims a medical exemption, there's a psychiatrist, anyone wants to claim they're a little bit off the, you know, whatever. They have everybody, they're ready, the panel of experts. A guy comes in, very smart. He walks in front of the the table where the experts are sitting and he begins like walking like this. He's walking like this in the thing. The doctor sees him. Obviously, this man, he's injured. He can't walk. He's of no use to the army. And in fact, we're going to give him an exemption right now. They give to the exemption. The guy takes the exemption, the paper, jumps up and starts running away. Come back. You're done. When we do, sugar, we got to last. It can't be for the moment. It can't be for the second. It has got to be something that we made an inner change that I decided I want to be better. I did that just for the 10 days, but maybe I could go a little bit further. Maybe I could take it a little bit longer. It is most unusual that a person has the opportunity in the life to change. We have the hisus. We get the inspiration. During those moments of inspiration, grab a hold and give yourself the ability to be able to change. I got to tell you, I felt so bad one time. I got to go back a little bit. It's a I I had the great zus that the louder foundation, the great Rabbi Kobessa called me to go to Poland. Poland and at that time it was right before the whole Poland the government fell and it was extremely extremely oppressive. a lot of anti-semitism in there. And we had a retreat, the religious retreat. I'd say there were probably 50 men and women that came. It was in a huge home in a place called Kamarov. And it was very nice. One night, Rabesco Bass, this great rabbi, tells me that we could go to a completely irreligious retreat. They did the same thing that we do. No Torah learning, no kosher food, no mitzvot, no minan, but it was a a Jewish retreat. He said, "We can go." He made special arrangements that I should be able to go and there was from the Polish Jewish community, there was a man and woman that came together with me and Rabbi Bessa said, "When you go, don't say anything. We're going to just sit there. There were hundreds and I cannot tell you it. The place was Zed Barov. There were hundreds and hundreds of Jews. It was the most amazing thing in the world. No one religious. I was told don't go I know you're going to say don't say anything. You can't say anything. And just sit there. They they'll see you. to see religious Jews cared about them and came it will make a impression. I said, "Okay." I They said, "Don't say anything. Get him in trouble. I don't know. Maybe they had the agents, secret agents there that were gonna I came. I was a little scared." I go out of the car and I sit in the bench. It's their bench is like old resort. Old if I tell you old resort. This is from before the war. I don't know which war, first, second, but it was old. And I'm just sitting there and I thought to myself, all these Jews, all the potential, every all in the sham and I'm gonna sit there with my hands folded. I'm not going to behave. No way. No way. I left the bench. I went inside. They had a piano. I thought, "This is fantastic." I said, "Dra, anybody know how to play music?" One person came. I'm a pianist. I said, "Okay, I'm gonna see if you're good enough. You want to sit down here for a minute?" I said, "Could you by any chance play a Jewish song?" Jewish song. I don't know any. Not one Jewish song. Not I have a little drrele. Not hat. Not whatever anybody would know. I don't nothing. I said could I teach you? Yes. I sang for that person. Not that I sing, but I sang for that occasion. My soul blesses Hashem. Very simple melody only. Four words. Could I teach it to you? I sang it. He starts playing it. But I want you to know not just the melody harmonies and amazing. And I said, "Come here. Maybe there are 100 people." I said, "I want to teach you this." I taught them. They're all singing the song over and over and over again. My soul blesses Hashem. I said, You're standing there. We got to dance. I started to dance with them. The whole everybody together. It was a revolution in that retreat. Rabbi Besser came in and went like this to me. But I saw that he didn't mind. Anyhow, one of them, you can imagine, one of them came over, Rabiner, Rabbi, would you come for the Shabbat? How the guy even knew Shabbat and the difference between Saturday and Tuesday, I don't know. It was like from out out of this world. And I said it would be my greatest greatest be my greatest privilege. I said we're going to make it up. We'll make the arrangements. I came back and they said where I was, it's not possible. We can't go. It's not the right thing. I want you to know to this day I still have in my mind the picture of all those Jews dancing asking would you come to Shabbat knowing the potential didn't work I wasn't able to go I wasn't in charge But when there is a chance at potential, a person has to utilize it. You see another person, you're in work and or in school or your neighbor and you have a chance that you could talk to them about a mitzvah. Don't let that opportunity escape. Tell them, invite them, give them a little safer. Give them a hagada on pesa. Give to them a matzah. Tell them what it's about. Don't hold back. You see another person. It is our job to be mashia. Have self-esteem to tell them. Don't worry, I'm not a rabbi. I'm not a rabbi. I'm raanit. I'm not this. I'm not you. Don't worry who you are. You're good Jew. Help another person. Let them know they will be eternally grateful. And to everybody else, you are like leaders. You don't realize it. I used to have a guy that drove me. He wanted to drive. He wanted to talk about different things. He was borderline religious. I mean, borderline. That's to say he didn't always wear a kipah, but when he would drive me, he would put a small kipa on top of his head. We were going upstate. I had to go to speak in one of the places upstate. So he was driving me and I bet you he was going like 89 miles. Didn't go 90 but 89 he was going police start you know that thing when you see that in the back window you say the whole tail the the light going off. So I said to him I think you better pull over. He pulls over. the policeman come out, you know, the one that wear the hat, you know, the hat and then they got the boots that come up to the those guys. You got to watch. They stop. He stops. He puts a window down. The policeman said, "Out of the car." He gets out of the car. The policeman looks at him, sees the kipa on the top of his head, and says, "Rabbi, I'm sorry. I I didn't mean to stop you. Just could you could you slow down a little bit?" Apologizing goes back in the car. This rabbi, now what I have to tell you is the following. We don't know how we look towards others. That's potential. That's that's a power. Other people look up to us. They're waiting for one good word. They're waiting for direction. They're waiting for a mitzvah. They're waiting for a story you could tell them. They're waiting for divine on one of the holidays. They're waiting for us. That's our power. We've got the power to give. So the great ga rebi Akiva Aar one of the greatest from postn rebi aka a eer every Jew is like we said their king if they come to your house and you serve them a suda a a feast fit for a king you still did not fulfill your obligation you still haven't fulfilled it. Why? Because they're kings. A little child, a little child walks into your class, a little child comes in. No matter what, no matter how good they learn or how not good they learn, no matter how well they behaved or how not well they behave, what their talent is or what they have no talent. Every child has the power to be messiach. It says in the rebinfeld said every little child has the power to be Messiah. Treat them beautifully and carefully. Rabikar used to go. He would go every day to visit the sick. As great of a ga as he was, as great of a sadik as he was, he used to go to visit the sick every day. One day he comes in and he sees a guy very, very ill. The guy sees the great Rebi Edgar come in. He says, "Rebi pray for me, d for me. The doctors say that there is no hope. Pastor Shalom, no hope I have. He said, "This guy has a rare disease, lo and he said, you've got to pray. You got to ask Hashem." Rabik Edgar felt terrible. He took it deep into his heart. And he said, "I will pray for you. I will double for you." Rabbi Edgar went in his room where the walls absorbed the Torah, where the walls absorbed all the all the prayers, the walls were holy. And he made up right there that he is going to try with everything that he could and ask Hashem for help. He also was going to do his his effort al naturally to help this man. One day he hears that the king is visiting his city postnali. The king it made such an unbelievable tumult town. Everyone was excited. The king is coming to our city. It was unreal. They cleaned the streets. They cleaned the buildings. They planted different gardens around. They made all kinds of preparations. Rabbi Ager began to ask people when is he coming? Where will he come? How's the path that he's going to come? Who's he going to bring with him? What kind of a carriage is he going to come on? Riker that couldn't care less about anything starts to get interested in all the details about the king's arrival. and says, "Rebi, you're never interested in any of this. How come you're asking all these questions about the king's arrival?" He says, "Because I want to see if in any way I can help that Jew, the one that is very sick, the one that is very ill." He found out that there is a doctor coming with the king, the king's personal physician, his doctor. and the king's doctor is going to accompany him. Rabika Edgar knew that the king's doctor is not only the best medically, he is a he also has access to all of the latest medical knowledge. All of the journals come to the palace. All of the new books come to the palace. And he is well read and knows everything. He sends his ribikar. I want you to get the king's doctor and see if you can talk him in to visiting this man with a rare disease leu. They wait on the road. They get the doctor smart and they began to tell him the head chief rabbi of naiar would like you to come to visit someone that's ill. The doctor said chief rabbi okay. However, I'm going to charge a handsome fee and it's got to be paid in advance. They said, "Okay." They raised the money for it. The doctor comes in to the man that's ill. The king's doctor. The doctor begins to examine him. Comes out, tells her a he has a rare disease. There is no hope. I'm sorry. He begins leaving. A Jew never gives up. That's potential. That's kak. A Jew doesn't give up just because the doctors say no hope runs after him and he says, "Adonia, my great king, you are the doctor of the king. I want to ask you a question. If the king was lying in that bed sick with that disease, Would you say no hope? Would you say there's nothing that can heal him? Or would you try? The man doctor said, "You got me. I definitely would heal him. I definitely would do it. Is there a way?" The doctor said, "Yes, but it's not for anybody. It's only for someone who has a lot of money who can afford to get what needs to be gotten. Riby says, "What needs to be gotten?" There is a bird, a certain bird, a rare bird that is only in the middle of the wilderness, thousands of miles from here. The king himself had the disease that this man has. We had to send troops a very dangerous place. It's very difficult to catch the bird. We got the bird and from the bird we were able to make a certain liquid that the ill person drinks little by little and then they have a rafu. However, rabbi, you cannot afford it. You cannot go to where it is. You cannot send the whole troop because you don't have a troop of people that could protect those that are going to go. So forget it. And the doctor explained to Edgar what kind of a bird it was. Rubikar said thank you. He goes back to his room. Rabbi Kaggar said the king who's a bos the king that's a flesh and blood he's ill and he was able to get this trua this remedy this medicine he was able to get it I have a ye I have a Jew who serves the king of kings and he can't get it hashemar begins to cry and cry and cry all of a sudden outside the window. Oh, where there's a bird. He looks at the bird and he sees its exact bind, the one that the doctor told him about. He tells the family, "Open the window gently. Get the bird in here. Make sure he doesn't escape." They got the bird. They did what they had to do. They got the liquid that they needed. They gave it to the He drank it. Little by little, he began to feel a little bit better. Weeks passed. He had a rafu sha a complete healing. Rabikar said, "Save the feathers of this bird." The doctor about two months later happening passing by town and he heard that Rabika Edgar did this thing with the bird he didn't believe it he sent a messenger to aar rebika egar sent him the feathers from the bird so that he would know the simmon the doctor said I believe in the god of Israel Well, I believe that this rabbi prays to the true Hashem that made this miracle. We take a look at this and we say, "Okay, Rabbi Ka Edgar, the greatest of the great, he could do it." But the truth is rebosai great men and women each of us has the power to bring about great things in this world through faith and muda and tila in prayer. May we have great in the year ahead. May we all have the vote and may the benam have an alien shim and be a meosha for all of us. Amen. [Applause]