Rabbi Yaakov Mizrahi - The Path to a Life of Emunah

Arab everyone welcome to tonight's very special shar of course all the words all the braot all the learning tonight in loving memory of yen arisa lea yakub and aliyah amen >> and of course we've all gathered here people of all different ages and backgrounds were all gathered to together to get inspiration and see what we could do for the aliyah for for the the rising for for the for for the soul of of this special this special this very special this very special soul of course Kazak and congregation welcome everyone to to tonight's very special shar and but we're we're going to hear from we're we're going to be hearing opening remarks from Yost Klein Amanov and um Rabbi Josh shortly and then follow obviously of course we're going to here from everybody Jacob Misrai a very powerful speaker all the way from Brooklyn and to um to um I think to to to one message that that that just as preparing for tonight's share that that that I heard I think which is so applicable to um to the family and of course what we're all doing here tonight. There's a story I heard from Rabbi Rabbi um Rabbi Fari. He said that there was once in in Israel, there's there's a part in that there's there's a part of Israel where where a lot of people try to smuggle in the cars, stolen cars. They they try to smuggle in the cars because once it gets part past that border, you're never going to see your car again. So, what happens? There's they have um they have they have guards there and they have to go through the border. So, what happens? There's there's two points of the checkpoints of of this um of this um part of of this part of of of Israel where in order to get the cars in. So what happens? So so the f the first checkpoint the the guards say they they run the plates and everything and they say okay let the car go through. So what happens as it's going through to the second checkpoint one of the guards says wait wait wait I have a feeling I I just know stop the car. They said, "We ran the plates. It's fine." So they said, "No, no, no. I'm telling you." And what did they do? They ran the plates and they saw it was um it was it was a stolen car. So [clears throat] So, so what happens? They said, "How did you know that that that it was stolen plates?" They said, "Because it said because there was a bumper sticker on the back of the car that said ain't old mil." So they said, "Okay, fine. Fine. Not stolen." So what happens? They they they find they trace back the the the plates and and to the person. and they return the car to the person. They come, they knock on his door and the guy starts crying and and and he said, "Thank you so much for turning the car and everything and they said, they were telling him the story. They said, "You know, you know, you know how we found the the place because you are the anal um bumper sticker." And and he and he and and what happens? He says, "You're not going to believe me, but what happened?" He said, "There was there were there was these rabbis. They came to my house and they said, "Um, maybe you should start uh maybe you should start putting on maybe fill in maybe once a day, once a week." So they said, "No, no, it's too much." So they said, "Okay, fine. Maybe put on a mazuza on your door." And they said, "No, no, it's too much. Maybe put on put on some situs." He said, "No." They said, "What about if you put an ao milo sticker on your car?" He's like, "Okay, I'll do that." So we see that that that they're just doing the having that belief in Hashem is something which is so powerful and and affects ourselves, our family and the whole community of course and um something something that I heard from from from Isaac Yakuba just as I was here as I was um preparing for tonight's event is something which which is so unbelievable is that this family that um the father and the mother they were saying at at the Shiva they were saying thank you Hashem They weren't questioning Hashem. They said ano mil. There's only one Hashem. And I think that of course as we we're we're um we're here to gather for for the family and as a community at large. And of course we should see in our lives what what is one way that that we could increase our belief our amuna our faith our trust in Hashem and God. And and of course that'll be a great great nishant for Ysef and Larissa Leakub. And the word call upon um somebody who wrote Hashem is the father the father Yseph Amov for some deep zikar and some words of remembrance. >> Good evening everybody. Thank you all for coming. My condolences to the family of a dear friend, family friend. The Torah teaches us called the light good. And we say the soul of a person is the light of Hashem. Sometimes when we plant seeds, it takes time to grow. Even when a a woman is pregnant, nine months is a time process. So the baby is born to this world. It's even brought down bring down that even before the wife is pregnant 12 months before the wife is pregnant then connects to the shim and only 12 months later after connection Hashem sends in the shama down to the baby into the stomach of the of of the mother says that the soul enjoys So much when we have candles for the nama the soul gets pleasure because the soul is part of the light which comes from the mind. There are many questions to ask why this happened. But we don't ask Hashem questions. We're not meant to find answers. We're meant to just carry on and to believe that Hashem knows best. the passing of a young pure baby which I was and to name the baby Ysef and they add to the name a baby so pure so cute so so beautiful untouched with no sin it's very hard to stay silent the Torah says when Aron Aron's kids passed away was silent he didn't even say anything about it he was quiet yet bring down a few anchors Not answers, lights, not explanations, just so we can understand a little bit to give us some comfort to our soul. The says that before a child is born, an angel comes teaching the entire Torah and the Torah remains engraved in his let your heart cling to my words. Observe my commandments and live. Then angels the angels hits the mouth hits over here and he forgets the entire Torah. Like it says explain they don't come to the world to struggle they come to complete the Benishai writes that there are certain souls descend only briefly because their their their tikun the rectification was already achieved in the previous gilgul and the short say they have is the final of their tikun the final seal of their tuna brings the babies who leave this world in their tenderness in their young young years they're called holy candles holy a candle does not live long but its purpose is not length a purpose of a candle is to bring light as a wall used to say that's how you say a little bit of light in a dark room pushes away a lot of darkness and this is why we just passed over kanuka which to bring the light. These are called they ascend without judgment, no accusations. They're pure. There's no gum. There's no there are pure straight [clears throat] back to the source. As we see in when he passed away, it says over there that he went back to his source. Who was the source? was and he went back to his original and he came back all the way to his place. The zor says there are some souls that come to to give to others to awaken the parents to elevate the house to bring mercy to the world to bring tikun for the generations. Such a soul is a messenger not a resident. The Ni says constantly cries and he cry and she cries and it says Hashem answers I'll explain that those tears that we cry that we cried are never wasted the amount of the parents put into the child the friends and family so much we put so much love so much it's not wasted they build worlds they shatter decrees and that accompanies the of the child forever ever. Little Ysef Kim, he did not walk the path of this world. He did not walk the path of sin. He didn't struggle. He had some suffering that we can't understand why, but Hashem knows. The Zor says that there are righteous souls that do not need a long descent to this world because some souls are sent not to be tested, but only to illuminate some light to the world. Some theor brings down that there are righteous ones who leave this leave because they're they're they're too pure for the generation. They're too pure. Says this is a this is a a good name is better than fine oil. It refers to a child who leaves this world free with no sin. complete finishing his mission. The Zora reve something a little bit deeper. He says the unused years of the righteous children are given to the merits of the parents to the merits of who who's who need extra years of the life. It goes to them. It's not wasted. Says when we have We have afflictions. Take it through love. Hashemists only cleansing and purifying our souls. The moral explains the pure the soul the less the body can contain it because the go the body is goof. It's it's physical. The souls says meaning the death of little babies is not a punishment because the zorah says it's actually why because the world is so corrupt and so impure that it would suffer. It would stay here any longer. So Hashem did and brought it right to the passed on 27th of which is I was looking at Yehuda's name which this week's para it talks about and Yehuda is the first letter is last letter is hey y is 15 is last letter is bud it's gim 27 27 when passed and he was buried on on the day of co The day he passed was 30 Kaneka, which is the day we pray for kids. And the fourth day we pray for healing because Hashem was there with you guys to console you and to give you comfort. With that, I'll finish with a story, a very powerful story, a true story of a woman, a nurse in the hospital. Her name was Brahi. She worked in the oncology department. And there was a lady named Shirley that was 74 years old that was very not doing well in her final weeks of her life. And Shirley asked Brahi, "Are you married?" "Yes." "Are you Jewish?" "Yes." "How many kids do you have?" "I have one boy and one girl." And Shirley started crying. And Broy said, "Why are you crying? Did you hear anything wrong?" Says, "Let me tell you my story. My parents survived Ashawitz. All their siblings, all their parents, they all died. I was the only one that was born after the after the after the Holocaust in 1948 before Israel became a state. And Shirley says to Brahi, the nurse, I was a rebellious one. I went off to Derek. I married a and my parents sat sha for me for 10 years. didn't talk to my parents. After time passed, I divorced this man and I went back to my parents. It wasn't the same. It was very hard, very difficult. But I didn't I I I didn't remarry. And she says, "Bro, you're Jewish. Can I do something? I'm I'm I have three I'm about to die. Can I do something to fix myself? I have nothing in this world." And Brahi was crying and she was crying and Brahi says, "I have one thing. My friend got engaged. Her wedding is in two weeks. The parents can't afford the wedding. They're short 25K. Can you help out?" This Shirley took out her checkbook. 25K. I'm running right now. What's the name? Who am I writing out to? She says, "The name is Sarah Lea." And surely on the hospital bed, she's crying again. She said, "Why are you crying?" She says, "My name is Sar Lea." And I'm crying because I'm giving my my last check to the final name of to help the wedding. And two weeks later, she passed away. Rabai, we're here tonight to understand something very powerful. Why do we have to wait to grab what we can take what's in front of us? The Torah, the Why wait till it's too late. Grab everything you can. Tell your kids I love you. Tell him I love you again. Show love and bring. Let's bring Mashia. Let's see again. I want to see this baby. I only held him twice in my life. The first day is Britain. The last day when he left. >> I want to see him back. I want to see everybody come back. didn't live a long life but he lived a true one a life of and as hard as this is may send the family condolences may be bound in the bond of life may his parents seek comfort not answers but meaning and may be miter an advocate of mercy for the children of Is and for the family thank you very much >> thank Of course, of course we should have in mind we're going to we're going to be having um our V right after this year is our great great such inspiration, such light for not only this community but so many through through this amazing sh in person and thousands of people see it online. It's our great great evening everybody. It's a tremendous for however the continues and says from here the family should only have continuous and tremendous and they'll be able to get up and what doing today especially how they emphasized how they want the to be full of Torah full of as opposed to maybe other ways that could have been done. They decided they wanted to do it the unconventional way and they wanted to have aim and that is definitely of the greatest things that you could do for the little there's nothing like being and everyone that came you're giving them and you're giving of course the child and he should be a for the family and you should only have and continuous these weeks. We're learning about Yati. Ysef Sadik was one of the greatest legends that ever lived. One of the most amazing legends that ever lived. And if you look at the life of Ysef Sadik and you think about it, it really doesn't make sense how he ended up. Yseph started as a child and his mother was Raelu which is one of the greatest ladies that ever lived and his father was Yakovu one of the greatest men that ever lived. He was the child of the greatest of people. He was brought up in Yakobinu's house. He's one of the 12 Shiva team. His brothers are unbelievable people. And by the time that Ysef was 17, he already managed that little boy, that child already managed to learn what Yseph and his father Yakov learned. In all 14 years inv what he learned by the time he was 77, Yseph already had it by 17. All those 14 years of Torah that Jacob had in and all that tora that he had it by 17. He was the you know what that means to be withd Ysef was learning to with every day. All he knew was Torah. He was living life on the greatest high. And then in one day everything changed. Literally in a moment he went he's looking for his brothers and you think he ever thought maybe he wouldn't go go home that day. You think that that would that would be the last time that Ysef is going to be initi thinking, "Ah, today's my last day waking up in this holy land." And it was and he never made it back during his lifetime to. And from there, it was seemingly just and only downhill. And he was sold sold again. He ends up in Portif's house, one of the most tame people to say the least. And his wife is no better. And he was in the worst of places and the most tame of places. And his life could have been in a tail spin just thinking, "What in the world is happening over here? I just want to learn Torah. I just want to be with you. WHAT WHAT IS GOING ON?" And the next thing he knows, he has to serve He's giving him tea. What zoot does even have to even look at the face of that sadik and now he's the servant of and he's getting tested now and then after he passes the test he's in jail for 12 years and he could have said I didn't really sign up for this I don't know what's going on I just wanted to learn Torah and now by the time he's 30 he spent 13 of those 30 years in the worst place on earth called Egypt He spent 12 of them in a pit. How does Yseph make it out alive? It doesn't make sense if you think about it. Not only does it make sense to me that Ysef made it out alive and not only alive physically, he made it also alive spiritually that even Yakov when he heard that Ysef is alive spiritually, he says, "I don't believe it." He said, "Daddy, Ysef's alive spiritually. I don't believe you. It's impossible." He thought that Yseph is going to be alive spiritually now and he's going to be in Egypt and he's going to be sick. Yseph is alive spiritually. That's impossible. Yakov says, "I don't believe he's not alive spiritually. He's alive physically." Maybe spiritually he has God in his life. He's talking about Hashem. He's connected to God. I don't believe that says Yakov. And he the says that he did not believe the team when they came and they told him that Ysef is alive. And not only Yakov, the Shvatim didn't believe that Yseph would be alive spiritually. And when they went to go look for Yseph in Egypt, you know where they went to go look for Ysef. I can't even tell you where they went. However, Kazal said that they went to go look for him in Tame places because they thought that that's where he be. That's where he'd be. He's not sitting and learning a bit midrash. They said if Ysef is alive in Egypt, he's in a no good place at all. Because a boy like that to be able to succeed in his life, it's practically impossible. And they all signed off on Ysef. AND YOUR BEAT EVERY SINGLE ODD. YOU PRACTICALLY HAVE A BETTER CHANCE, I THINK, MAYBE, to win the 999 million mega tonight than Ysef making it out alive spiritually in in Egypt. That doesn't make sense. That was impossible. humanly speaking for Ysef to be alive and not only alive he makes it out and second to the king and he's alive spiritually and he's connected to God and he's king from the age once he's out of the pit he gets out at the age of 30 for the next 80 years he has unbelievable how do you do it how did you unbelievably pass the tests and get out of a pit And now you're on top of the chain and on top of that ladder in Egypt. Where does your come from? How did you succeed? And something that we have to know about is that he had a very important ingredient in his life. And that amazing ingredient in his life and it's and it's by far the most important ingredient is one word called simka. Simka is happiness. And Yseph believe it or not did not lose for a moment for one second his in the pit. He was in jail for 12 years. He was full of simka. How do we know? You look at the pisukim. He even tells the after he shows that he's Y. He tells them, "Do not be sad." Ysef didn't come to ask for, you know, tips in life. They just need food. Send them back home. He says, "I'm sending you back home. Just do me a favor. Do not be sad." Because if you're sad in life, it's the worst ingredient. What a Jew needs to have at all times is the big word called happiness. And Yseph was constantly bim he was so bim that told us that in the end of Yakov's life after he passed away and they buried Yakov they went they went to go bury him the brothers they came back with Ysef and they were a little scared that maybe Ysef might now retaliate that they sold him now get them back. So they go to Y they go to Ysef and they say Yseph by the way daddy said forgive the brothers he because they did bad to you so forgive them. And Yseph started crying. Why'd he cry? Because Yseph cannot ever comprehend the word bad. The brothers did bad to me. How did Yakov say that? HOW COULD YAKOV, HOW COULD MY DADDY SAY TO MY BROTHERS DID SOMETHING THAT'S BAD? NOTHING IS BAD. THERE IS NOTHING THAT'S BAD. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. AND HE STARTED CRYING. That word WAS NOT IN HIS DICTIONARY. THERE IS NO RAH. HE WAS SO FULL OF SIM IN HIS LIFE THAT HE COULDN'T COMPREHEND THE WORD BAD. IT WASN'T THERE. HE'S GOOGLING. What in the WORLD IS MY DADDY SAID? It's impossible. and he started crying. Didn't did the bad to me. Did they did nothing bad to me at all? His whole life was full of you were thrown into pit. He's coming from he lived it. He experienced that his was taken off of him. He was living with he was taken away. God knows what he's doing. thrown in a pitif and now he's thrown INTO A PIT AGAIN AND YOU'RE THERE FOR 10 YEARS. THANK YOU. AND THEN ANOTHER TWO YEARS that's full. God knows what he's doing of course and that's why people that's how he DOES IT. HASHEM KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING. He never made a mistake in his in his entire EX CREATION OF THE WORLD. There wasn't ONE TIME THAT GOD EVER MADE A MISTAKE SINCE HE created the world till today. He will never make a mistake in the entire existence and the creation in the entire life of the world. God never made a mistake. He always was. He always will be and he'll be eternal. And Hashem never will make a mistake. And Ysef understood that. And he said, "How could this be bad?" And he started crying. I can't believe my father would say that. And how did his father say those words? He didn't. He never said that word to the brothers. He never said once that it was bad. And Ysef lived that life of complete sim knowing that everything that Hashem does is for the good. And the question is how does a person get to such a level? How does a person get to that unbelievable level to always be and to really grow in. There's a great rabbi in um there's a phenomenal rabbi is his name is Rabbi Dugasi used to live and be well he wrote many books about many phenomenal books and many of his are spreading his Torah and building on it and then he wrote another book and he wrote in the beginning of the book that everything he said until now is of course imit because he sources it and he says however it's not enough. It's not enough for a Jew to know that everything that happens is coming. It's not enough means that it's coming from it's it's coming under Hashem's divine providence and it's coming. He says it's good to know that and you have to know that. However, it's not enough to know that everything that happen that is happening in a person's life is and he he says it's not enough to know that everything that Hashem does is perfect because it still hurts. Sometimes it's painful. The guy suffering, it's perfect. They know it's perfect. They know Hashem's doing it. It still hurts. And he says it's not enough to know that it's that it's FOR THEIR GOOD BECAUSE IT STILL hurts sometimes. It's not enough for a person to know that Hashem is the one that does everything and it's for the person's good because sometimes they are still going through suffering. He says what audi needs in their life. And he says especially in our generation if not more than ever is to know everything Hashem does is with tremendous love. How much do I think in my day not that Hashem is running the world that Hashem loves me today that I wake up and that I say ah Hashem you love me Hashem you love me and sometimes as parents we know that yes we have to say no to our children however does it mean that we don't love our children does it mean that we don't care for them of course not parents that love their children know how to say no and a child that doesn't understand that they say ah The little child said, "Daddy, I can't get, you know, the game I want. You don't love me. You're right. I don't love you. Let me tell you. I I I don't How do you know I don't love you? You're right. In the middle of the night, I wake up three times to go check on your bedside to see how you're feeling because you had fever during the day. I uh speak to the teachers constantly about you. I'm constantly thinking about how to make sure that you can have a comfortable life and you can have that roof over your head and you can have food and drinks and good friends and my whole life is revolved around you. And then the child says and and daddy you should know you don't love me. Ah that that's that's good to know that you think your father doesn't love you. Nice. Okay. I don't love you. I guess I don't. Okay. How'd you know I don't Are you kidding? has to know at all times that loves us loves me. is he his LOVE FOR ME IS endless and Hashem is out constantly to give me and all he's doing [clears throat] is giving me constantly thinking how to give me more and if a yud does not know that then they are missing a big part of their life and that's what he says that a person has to know that everything is every single thing. And he says behind every person's tests and suffering and with all of God is so to speak concealing himself behind all the questions and the questions that a person has and not understanding God's is God's endless love. Endless mercy constantly showing us an unbelievable face of love like a father that pats the child's cheek. And even though it doesn't look like that to you and you should know there's someone that's suffering with you. As the pas says, God is with you and you're on the floor and God's on the floor with you. And I remember one time as a one of my children, they did something that they shouldn't have done. One of the times they did something, someone's feeling your pain. One one time my child did something he shouldn't do. I took them to the side. I said, "That was very wrong. What you did, you shouldn't have done that. You know, you shouldn't have done that. Then I'm going to have to punish you. So, I take the child and I uh put them in the room. I put them in their bedroom and then I closed the door and then I locked the door to the bedroom and then I sat down on the floor next to the child and the child's confused and they're like, "Daddy, you're calling me uh you know, you're telling me that I'm punished. What are you doing here?" I know you're punished. However, you should know I'm with you. You can't go out of your room now. You're in punishment. However, I want to spend some time in the punishment with you. When a person is suffering, he's saying you're not by yourself. Someone that's with you in the pits. He's crying with you. Is with you and he's looking after every single one of your children. Someone he says someone that looks at Hashem like someone that loves you. If you realize Hashem is inv there's no questions in life. And if you look at God forbid as an ov then there's no answers. How do you look at Hashem? He's holding a stick. He's out to get you. You're lost. You see Hashem as the God that loves you and you feel the and you say the in the MORNING OF with feeling, WOW, YOU GAVE ME BACK MY EYES TODAY. Thank you God. And walking to and saying it by the red light and pulling out. We begin our day with 20 thanking God. And sometimes we forget how much he gives and how much Hashem loves us. And it's for to ever think that Hashem doesn't love them. You know how Ysef was constantly and always able to be because God is with me. He felt Hashem with him. He felt is with me. HOW CAN I BE NOW? GOD IS WITH ME. Hashem is with me. And Rapinka says if someone only knew how much Hashem is with us all the time, then how could there ever be? Yehudi must always know and understand that Hashem is not only with us, he loves us and he's out to help us at all times. He's looking how to help us, so to speak. So to speak and he wants to give us more and all he wants to do is give more. That's all Hashem wants to do for you, so to speak. and constantly thinking how you could have an awesome life. [clears throat] He's he cares about us more than we care about oursel and he feels our pain more than we could feel our pain. And when sees Hashem as an that's what he did his whole life he lived with Hashem he's by I don't care where I am I'm with and he's getting tested by is with me and he's thrown into a pit I'm with God and he's standing in front of whoal are you your little puppet you're nothing who are Elohim. It's all God. You're nothing. You're a puppet. I'm nothing. It's all Hashem. Uh, you know, he's speaking to Mr. Kofair, number one in the entire world. I don't think Par right now wants to hear that uh, you know, there's a God on earth. You know, that that doesn't really sit well with him because he doesn't serve God. He thinks the sheep some mazalot whatever it might be you know maybe just you know don't say hashem's name now you know don't say god's name don't say anything about god to par you know leave religion out of this you know don't say anything about hashem like you know sometimes you're on the phone with you call the bank and representative picks up or it might be any company that you're calling any store and they ask you how's your day you know when Jews ask us we And then all of a sudden when you know TD Bank is on the phone, how's your day good and not good? You know what would do? He'd be he wouldn't be on the phone with TD Bank. And if he was TD Bank, he had all the flu. And if he is going to speak to anyone, he would say to them, "Oh, how's my day?" Thank God everything is great today. Thank God everything's amazing. Sometimes we feel a little uncomfortable as us you know we don't have to speak religion to people why not spoke to relig to everyone about religion everything is great thank god god gives me everything okay so you don't have to start being and everything however you say thank god say it all the time and does that even to he says you're nothing the only one that could help you is god if god helps you then you're good if he doesn't help you then you're done and he had that understanding that always is with the and that's why if you see in the says the great rabbi unbelievable rabbi phenomenal there's an amazing rabbi called he says twice in that's the he starts off with using an amazing phrase called which means hashem is with me at all times that's how he begins And in the end by the same rabbi, he ends off with an amazing line. It's actually a that says someone that has a good heart. He's always and everything is good. How do I get to that level that a person could always beh says he says that both tamides go hand in hand? If you have if you have God is with me then you'll have to then you'll always be how do you get that level of having the in the life by knowing that is with you. If you know is with you your day is awesome. It can't get better. And if you don't know that is with you then what do you have from the day? It's all about knowing that is constantly with us and can never forget that is teaching us how important it is to be and even when someone might be going through they can know that they have to hold on to this and how do they hold on to the because God is not leaving me and he's holding on to me and he's with me at all times and this is not coming from an ov it's coming from an ov and he knows exactly what he's doing and if someone really understood that if they could go back in time and they were asked if you could do it all over again, what would you want to do? If you could replay history and he could change something, then they would say, I wouldn't want it to be any other way at all. It wasn't up to me. It was up to Hashem. He did it. It's perfect. And who was asked that question? Because when he was a little boy, when he was a child in the Rebi got up in class one day and he said, "Children, if he could go back and he could change one thing that ever happened since the creation of the world over 5,000 years, what would you change?" If you could change anything, what would you change? He told his rabbi that he would change nothing because if that was done by Hashem, of course, then it's perfect. Why would I change it? He knows what he's doing. Everything that Bam does is unbelievably perfect. [clears throat] And as humans, we don't understand that. And Ysef is the one that is teaching us that we don't have to understand it. We have to know it. And he lived a life of 13 years which could have been pain and he wasn't suffering even for one moment because when Yehoud knows that Hashem is with me then how could he be in pain? One of the biggest and most important misim that we say every day is a mis called mour that mour has to be sung in the that's a out of the entire the only piece of the that has to be sung is that is the first that we say which is right after the right after immediately the first thing that we praise Hashem is and what do we say in that unbelievable serve God with tremendous happiness and then we say how could a person get to that level of having that you should know that Hashem which of course is the name of using the mercy that name of Hashem that you know that gave you who he's the same God that when there seems to be judgment that judgment is coming from the God that is merciful and anything that happens is only coming from Hashem, from the from the good because Hashem wants to help somebody and he is my creator and of course I belong to him. God who created me knows me infinitely greater than I know myself who he made me and he knows what's good for me and he knows what's good for yourself and he knows what's good for every single one of us and anything that is happening is of course coming from and it's coming had that in his life he was able to beimh at all times no matter what because he always knew that God is with me. And the says he felt God is with him and you're able to have and even writes something unbelievable that Ysef in the name of the midrash he was always talking to God even when he was in Egypt and he's by himself and he felt stranded he was constantly talking to Hashem. HASHEM AND HE WAS ALWAYS THINKING, "HASHEM IS WITH ME. HASHEM is with me. Hashem is with me." He never let go of that concept that God is with him. Yes, it might be painful. Yes, YOU MIGHT FEEL LIKE YOU'RE BY YOURSELF. HOWEVER, remind yourself that you're not by yourself. When you do that, now where's the pain? You don't have pain because you know you're with Hashem. It's the best thing. And sometimes as humans we forget and it's important that we remind oursel it's very it's extremely important that loves us. It's not enough to know that Hashem runs the world. It's not enough to know that everything that Hashem does is perfect. We have to also know that it's done with tremendous. When's the last time someone said Hashem loves me? When's the last time we said ah when was the last time we just closed our eyes for a moment in such a busy world running from one thing to another and even running to the mitzvot sometimes you could also get carried away even there when's the last time we stopped and we said wow God you love me God you love me and you want to know how much he loves you that if God forbid there's a Jew that's dying on Shabbat which we know that to desecrate Shabbat is of the worst things in the world and it's of the highest crimes possible. Yet, if a Jew is dying, the says you have to desecrate the holy day in order to save Hashem's child. It's amazing now is driving cars on Shabbat and they're taking people to hospitals. And you would think, okay, you know, you got in a car on Shabbat, you know, you know, you put the car on and if you weren't going to save that guy's life, you know, they would have stoned you 2,000 years ago if you had witnesses and you were warned and and and you just went and now that same act is a mitzvah. And not only is it a mitzvah, not not only is that act that member has to make Shabbah to go save Hashem's child, it's not like you're allowed to, you have to. And not only you have to, even if there's a chance that you might not even succeed, it could be by the time you get there, someone else might get there before you, and you don't even know if the guy's going to make it. 5% chance. there's a 1% chance says you have to shabbat and if the salam member after was not successful God forbid and the patient passed away when he goes back home the says that that person needs zero kap from Shabbat what he did okay at the end of the day you drove a car for two hours I tried okay you failed look you did nothing the guy died I tried Should he do? No. Should he say, "GOD, I'M SORRY. I DROVE A CAR ON YAMIPUR." NO. DON'T say that on Yamipur. Why? Because he did the mitzvah. And not only that, you're going to get rewarded for trying to save a Jew's life. Unbelievable. [clears throat] Unbelievable. Now, what if it took two Jews to make Shabbat to go save that Jew's life? Says both of them have to run. And what, God forbid, there's a little girl that's lost in the forest. And it would take 500 people to make a little Shabbat and take flashlights and drive with cars and go look for that little girl on a Friday night in a forest. And we don't even know if she's there. We just can't find her. And we have to look all over cuz she could be stuck in the forest. Says that all of them have to go now. Wow. That's how important the little girl is. And she's not even 12. She's a 5-year-old little girl. And Hashem says, "You all have a mitzvah in the Torah to go. You're commanded to make. Do you understand how much God loves us? And what if it would take hypothetically every single Jew on earth to make Shabbat to go save one Jew is that they all have to do it? Unbelievable. And you're doubting does Hashem love me? Hashem told us as a nation that we we are to make Shabbat to save your life and you you don't know that God loves you. YOU FORGOT THAT HASHEM LOVES YOU and that could be of the biggest sins that anyone could do in their life. How could you forget that Hashem does not love you? How can you think Hashem does not love you? How can you think Hashem does not love you? That's of the biggest ever. And we actually say this concept twice every day in a form. And right before we say, "God, I love you." We say, "Who picked and he loves me." Now you could say and he could say that you love God. However, first you better know that you Hashem loves you more. Do you understand that Hashem loves you and that is what a yud can never forget. A yud is never allowed to forget at any time how much Hashem loves us and that he's always there with us. And it's amazing says Rabbi Lugassi that if you look at it whatever suffering a person might go through God who put the person through that suffering however he never intended that that person should be meu ash and give up hope and feel alone and what does Hashem do he dis he took the whole nation and he commanded them to go take that person and to lift him up if there's a person that had a multi-million dollar business and he lost He he was a multi-millionaire and now he's on welfare. The guy he could feel he was driving around with the Maserati and now he's going on a on a city bus. He can't even get a bike. The Torah says, "If your brother is going to fall down in his business, we have a mitzvah in the Torah all of us to go put him back on his feet." And that means that we have a mitzvah to buy him a Maserati. That's unbelievable concept. We I have to buy him Maserati. Yeah. Why? Because you see your brother Hit. Hashem says go pick him up. Him. If you don't want him to, you know, not to have what you want for me. You You don't You took away his money. Hashem says, "I took away his money. However, he might feel down. Go pick him up." And if there's someone that's sick in bed and it's wow what a day and he feels like he's all alone, Hashem commanded Ben is go visit him and has a mitzvah in the Torah to go do and to go sit by the bedside of the sick person to make sure he's feeling good. What the has to come to me? I'm that important. I mean something. Of course you're important. Hashem made a person sick for whatever reason. He knows he's perfect. However, that a person should ever feel depressed and down. Hashem says, "I'm going to send the nation to your house and they're going to knock on your door and everyone's going to come in with four balloons and ice cream cake from think Sweet all these doors and they're going to say better. We're praying for you. We put the signs up. We're having classes and already sent 20 million people in the nation. They're all praying for you. And if someone, God forbid, lost a relative, then Hashem commanded the nation, go take from your precious time and sit next to him in his home and go feel his pain and see what he needs. And you think Hashem is not with you. You think Hashem wants to punish you. You think Hashem is he's he wants to get you. If Hashem wants to get you, then it's over. Don't worry. He's he has no problem doing that. It's already over. If Hashem wants to make someone's life miserable, he has it's over. Hashem doesn't want yudi to shalom when he's going through the suffering. He can't he can't go on thinking that Hashem doesn't love him and Hashem sends the entire nation now to go loves us. There's one thing that I could keep reminding myself and I have to remind myself is that Hashem is the greatest and most unbelievable and phenomenal oif. My daughter once came over to me many years ago. She was younger at the time. She must have been I don't know a few years old. Old enough obviously to talk maybe she was uh five six I don't recall. And she says, "Daddy Abba, Hashem could do anything except one thing." And I was about to rip on her. Anything except one thing. Shalom. How do you talk like that? Where's my tuition going? How could this be? And I relaxed a little. I heard it. I had to think if I was if it was really what I heard and instead of just lashing at her, I said, "Okay, braha." And uh please tell me what is it that you uh think that God cannot do? And she said, "God is not able to stop ever loving me. >> He could stop. He can't. I word it. I hear what you're saying." Okay. Not bad. Not bad. Okay. I don't know exactly the logistics. He could, he can't. The idea is that a little GIRL UNDERSTANDS THAT GOD LOVES ME. Does she have the biggest house? Does she have all the the games that she wants? God loves me. What? I don't know what what I get. God loves me. He knows what I need. THIS IS PERFECT to me. He gave it to me. Everything I have, everything I need, everything that's good for me, he's going to give ME CUZ HASHEM IS OUT TO GIVE ME AND to help me. He's not out to get me. He's not here to make your life miserable. He's here to help you. And if a person doesn't know that, they could be missing out of the greatest foundations of their avo. We have to constantly remind oursel how much we are loved by Hashem himself. Wow. I'm that priceless that the whole had salah would have to the whole system just to save even one Jew. Unbelievable. >> And everyone was going to is going to is obligated to do whatever they could just to save my life. Wow. I'm that precious. And if God forbid everyone ever needs a medicine in the middle of the night and and God is already telling all of us that we have to go, that we're already taking that he's already taking care of us. Yseph felt that at all times. He lived a life with Hashem. He always lived in. And when you have that, you're never alone. You're in the best place on earth. You could be anywhere. You could be in Cananan. He could be in Egypt. He could be in a pit. But he fought his house in jail in Egypt. Nothing makes a difference. Hashem's right with me. He's And he felt it. He felt at all times with him. So I think in honoring Leonatim who's doing a lot for us because it's only him right now that this class is even happening and he already contributed a wealth to the world. At one point it is that we reciprocate maybe a little bit and we can't just walk away with hearing something and maybe some bit and it's always important to me ourself even a little bit and we got to walk away with something we got to walk away maybe with a that I accept upon myself to strengthen something in my life that little sadik and I'm not going to be the same person because he taught me how fragile life is. He taught me how valuable life is and I'm not just going to take my life and now wither it away and like the rabbi say before to make a change. And the question is what can I do? Well, the first thing that you have to know is that a change makes a difference. I was driving yesterday on the Garden State and as I was going back to Flatbush, the traffic going south was horrendous. I couldn't believe it. Literally, it was like a parking lot. Thousands of I was just driving. There wasn't traffic and then I noticed that the other way all you see is headlights of the cars and cars pretty much standing still. Oh boy. And this is going on for I don't know how long and it's just piling up and we're driving and the cars are still standing there and more cars are moving in and whatever. And I'm like they don't even know what's ahead of them and thousands of cars are stuck in traffic and that they could have been doctors that had important meetings to go to, lawyers, anyone. Thousands of people their life changed. It's unbelievable to think about it. And wherever they had to get to, there was maybe another person that their life was changed because of them. So if they were a patient and they're late to their appointment, then that affected the the dentist and the doctors and the husbands are going home for dinner and the the wives now waiting and the children. Thousands of people were affected from that small accident. And what caused the small accident? One guy. Maybe there was one guy on his phone texting and driving. got into a small fender bender. Car spins, closes two and a half lanes. Have a good day. Thousands of people are going to have a different day only because of one person. One person made a small move and that will affect thousands of people. And it goes exactly the opposite as well. That one Jew that does something good. You should know that it doesn't end only with you. It could be affecting thousands and tens of thousands of people on earth all over the globe in the entire universe only because of your one act. So if someone's going to say no I'm just one Jew well one person yesterday cause caused a huge pileup a tremendous pileup. So one person can do a lot of damage. And like Ra Weinberg, the great Russ or Shalom used to say, if one person, if we could use that word, could kill 6 million Jews, then one Jew could build 6 million Jews at least. So we have to know that our actions are great and everyone that does something, even if it seems maybe small to you, however, it's not really small. And like the says, if you make a small move to be a little pure, then in get so much and phenomenal help and assistance that that little bit, forget it. It could change your life and you just make a small move and all of a sudden 5 years down the road, you look back, you're thinking, "Wow, how did I end up here?" Oh, it all started with that small cabala and now all of a sudden that boy five years later has already been Torah and his wife is different. His whole family is different and he's all his children are different. All these little kids and grandkids forever will be different and all that started because he made that small move. Why he make that small move? All that's going to get credited back to that little sadik. So any small move that we make and any any small move we have to realize is very big. So I definitely think it's very important that we meet in something after tonight and to take some time and to think what am I going to do better how could I enhance my perhaps a little bit nothing crazy small move and just to share maybe two thoughts one at least for the men should definitely be something to do with Torah that on the daily to not go a day without missing to that we We have to have Torah. We cannot miss a day of Torah. We cannot shalom miss one day of Torah. As a nation, we're to have Torah in our life every day. And we have to and say, I got to make more time for Torah. And told us so many times over and over, there's nothing like learning Torah. Make more time for Torah. Make more time for Torah. more classes, more learning, more learning and with Torah anytime and the access to Torah that we have is phenomenal and coming to the mid and sitting in front of a rabbi and learning that you have Torah in so many languages downstairs is a group of wonderful people many groups learning and sitting in a way you can learn you can learn you can learn English and Hebrew and Yiddish and Spanish and Portuguese and French and Russian and Bkharian so many languages so many rabbism pull over rabbi to the side say rabbi I want to learn I don't have the time it doesn't fit my schedule could you make time could you find me something and we got to make time for Torah and we got to meet Kazak and our Torah and I have to realize that my Torah is priceless so the ladies to push their husbands and their children that they should go learn Torah keep pushing them and ask them did you learn to your children might not want to learn and it's going to go into deaf ears and they're going to want to do whatever kids do Just ask them anyways again. Did you learn Torah today? How was your Torah today? Say that to your children. Say that to your husbands. Did you go to your class today? How was it? How are you? Tell me about it. BECAUSE YOUR TICKET TO IS THAT THEY'RE LEARNING TORAH. Encourage them. Tell them how is your Torah. You don't want to go tonight. Okay. The world's going to be missing. Maybe tomorrow you'll go. Keep asking them. Keep encouraging them. And give them that. And as fathers, we have to make time for Torah even more. And even in a busy world and to make more time for Torah, whatever we could, everyone on their own level this can't say a number to each their own. Some people could learn four hours a day. Some people could learn six hours a day. Some people could only learn three hours a day. Some people only learn one hour a day. Half hour in the morning, half hour at night. Every everyone's on a different level. Everyone has different life. However, you have a rabbi. You ask them. You go to your RV and you say, "Rabbi, help me. I got to get on a program. There's something called Torah. I'm part of this nation. I got to get maybe a little bit more involved. I got to get more Torah in my life. I'm empty. And without Torah, a person is really empty. So the greatest thing that we could do is to learn Torah because there's nothing ever greater than learning Torah. As it says to learn Torah is equivalent to the entire Torah to all other 612 mitzvot to equals all of them and it's greater than all the other 612 mitzvah. And the other inyan that maybe we could work on is of course kusha especially in a generation like ours where there's tum all over how important it is that we stay the kad and we meet in the kadusha and yeah there's going to be excuses and reasons for things that we might need on our phone. However, Yehoud has to know that nothing ever could take away their kadusha and it can never be justified for all the money in the world and Ysef fought for the kadusha and he was ready to be in jail for 10 years not to lose his kadusha and he could have said well you know it's before and anyway she's a Jewish girl and he's having a rough day and uh at the end of the day the Torah is not even given yet and he can find the different excuses and no one's going to know and there's Kipur and he could do what are you talking about and after he was thrown in jail she even came to jail and she told him Ysef you want to get out of jail he said get out of here she offered him pardon she said you'll get him out he said get out you ready to stay in jail also of course I'll do whatever it takes to stay holy teaches us what it means to be kadosh Yseph had that life of amuna we They have to hold on to the kusha and there are many people that are making great moves with the social media deleting things that they don't need getting off of certain apps that they don't need to have and the could come even in the kosher apps to throw things in and every ounce of kushad that a person can help himself goes a great way do not belittle it and [clears throat] it's not a small It's huge. Every little bit of kadusha is a big thing. Every gram of kadusha is a big thing. every test that's passed and every single time someone's and every single time a lady decides, you know what, maybe today she's going to be a little more modest and she's maybe not going to wear what she wanted to to be a little more modest and she's not going to go because she wants to be a little more modest. Is there a price tag on that? That's priceless. That's worth trillions and more. We're the nation that's going to bring Mashiach. We can't forget how important we are. We can't forget how important the kadusha is. We can't forget how important every single one of us is and how beloved we are to that Hashem is always with us constantly and at all times. That is all about knowing that Hashem is with me and that we are part of Hashem's unbelievable nation. We are his people. And we have to act like his people is that should be a for his family >> and the should and the family should only have and continuous and they should be like only having more. They should have continuous success in their life and this is going to be past them and they they're going to feel with them. However, they'll never feel down. They'll only feel full of they'll feel the in the house. They'll feel the unbelievable greatness in the house. They'll feel the extra in the house and they'll be continuous and all the children continuing to go amen. I meant