Rabbi Yaakov Rahimi | Yom Kippur: A Fresh Start | CHAZAQ

But welcome everyone to what's our our third annual uh chuba dinner and shir. Again, a great opportunity to come together as a community to uh to to try to ascend, try to elevate ourselves during this time which is a time of growth, a time of to Hashem, coming closer to Hashem. And what better way to do it than by learning Torah and eating dinner, right? But by learning Torah and especially when we have such wonderful uh and such wonderful speakers to learn from. It is really my pleasure to uh to welcome Rab Rahimi. But before we welcome Rahimi, of course, I want to take the opportunity to give a shout out to our good friends from Kazakh to Rabbi and to the Kazak crew. I have to tell you, as soon as everyone leaves tonight, Robbie's already going to text me. Okay, what do we do at Thanksgiving? You know, like he's already keeps me on my toes about the the latest and greatest speakers. So, a very special thank you to Robbie. It is my privilege. Okay. My honor and privilege to call on Ravi just to say a few words about the great work that Kazak does. >> Give it up for Rousey. [Applause] [Laughter] >> Thank you. Um appreciate it. Of course, Kazak is always honored to partner together with the shashem so many times bringing tremendous um speakers for the for to the community, inspiring um inspiring the community and we have the rebi tonight traveled over three hours tonight from Lakewood. So we thank the rabbi he definitely gets the reward. I think of no one's close. No, I don't think anyone's any close second place for the rabbi. So it's worth um and of course um we have um so so one one quick word. So of course we have um um Kazak part of we have some calendars um in the front. Everyone's encouraged to take one and for new new year of course and it has some some more information about Kazak organiz different shar and programs in the community um different different communities. Um right now right after this year Rabimi is actually going all the way to Great Neck to give another share. Um and of course Kazak has um many different programming public school students of course if anyone has if anyone knows if anyone has children in public school to give a Jewish education through different programming to Kazak and quick word just on on the topic over here. So um it around we read around this time of rasher. So there's um so it says standing before you today are so your heads your tribes. So find has a very very famous question. He says um really it should say your heads of your tribes but it doesn't say that it says your heads your tribes. He says the reason is because usually a person thinks okay fine if I'm the rabbi if I'm the CEO if I have a big position in the community or in an organization or whatever it might be okay fine then I'm going to make a difference but but if I don't have a position okay fine I'm just an individual but but Hashem is saying is that the the Torah is explicitly saying that that that every single person is commanded to say what am I going to do more um in in the community in the shul and and of course that that we say Ro hash like Ro is is Hashem is saying in the new year in Raship for in this new year who is going to everyone is going to look Hashem's going to say who is going to take upon himself a leadership in the sh of course everyone should reach out to Rab Dan's girl your local organization project and say what am I going to do before obviously we're taking our own personal commitments for the new year but also what are we going to do on a community level for um for for the Jewish um community at large and of course a rabbi who's doing that for so many is the great rabbi and of course that's uh Rabbi Daner so [Applause] >> here I am okay thank you Robbie again um now Robbie and I didn't plan this but we were just giving an example if I could ask everyone to silence their cell phones um it would be great that way uh uh make sure that we don't have any interruptions to this year but uh but it is now my my honor and privilege to call on Rabbi Rahim. Raimi grew up in Lakewood, New Jersey. He is a graduate of the Dal Yeshiva and went on to learn for several years in the prominent Lakewood yeshiva base magava. Rabim is a very close to of who we quote a lot in so he's a close and over the years has taken a big part in the project mission which is a collection of all the sparic post on the mission and currently he's involved in Kazak to any time and many other organizations um Kazak and were so gracious enough to provide for for all of us to take uh to the safer Here we have his positive word power which is based on the words of the uh and uh and I was told by Rabbi that although Rabbi speaks on many different topics in the past couple months it's really been a strong focus. It's been a burning desire to help help us really with our sal and our guarding of our tongue which is something that unfortunately keeps the Jewish world apart from each other. uh and in a in a day and age where the quick word and the uh the the the you know you get especially in a sound bite to be able to guard our tongues and speak properly is something that cannot be taken for granted. And so what a to have reverb here and it is my honor and privilege to ask brother to present words of Torah tonight. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you, Rabbi. I apologize I'm late. Some things are just not in your hands or many things actually except chuva. Chuva is in our hands. How long am I supposed to speak for? Just in case till what time, rabbi? >> I don't want to go over. I don't want to go over at 10. >> Okay. Daniger Danigans. >> Daner. Sorry, Ma. I'm very bad with names. I was just in a carp with somebody for a few months and I thought his first name was something else. So, so we're holding before the days of Yum Kipool, before the day that Hashem gives us yet another opportunity and another chance to repent to do toua, utilize our lives, utilize our time, our potential, and get close to Hashem. I want to share with you a very interesting thought from We know the famous story in where Elon was a king. Very fancy king, very big guy like the puk says. In fact, he got rewarded because one time he got up when he heard Hashem's name. When he heard Hashem's name, he wanted to honor Hashem. God said he got up from his chair, but it was so hard for him. But he still did it. Hashem gave him a reward for that too. Even wicked people when they do what's right, when they do a mitzvah, Hashem rewards them as well. But Melik Moav had two daughters, two princesses, Root and Opa. Root and Opa eventually married two Jews, Mlon and Kon. Both of them were initi I'm making a long story short to get to the point. Both of them Mlon and Kalon lived in Sed in Israel. But they went to the country of Moav because it was a famine in and their father Eli Melik was a very very wealthy man. He was actually one of the wealthiest people in at the time of the famine. But he couldn't handle the pressure. There's a lot of deep understanding what happened over there. But Eli Melik the leader couldn't handle the pressure of everyone knocking on his door begging for food, begging for money. So he made a decision and he ran away and he booked. He just ran away. He disappeared out of Israel and he went to the nearest country right by the border called Moav. In Moav his kids, his two boys Mlon and Kon started hanging around with the two princesses, the daughter of Eglon. Two daughters of Iglon. One son marries root the princess. One son marries, the other princess. Okay. Eventually, Rabai Eli Melik, the leader that left Israel and moved to Moab, passes away. Then his two children, both of his sons also passed away. So now we ended up with three widows in one house. You have the wife of Malik Naomi and then you had and three widows in one house. Naomi tells her two daughter-in-laws. She tells him, "Listen, now I have nothing in the country I'm Moave. I'm going to go back to Israel. Time to go back." And she starts leaving the country of Moav. Now, her two daughter-in-laws, obviously, they really got along. The two daughter-in-laws started going after her and they said, "We're coming with you. You're leaving the country of Moav. We're not going to stay here. We're going to go with you. We're going to be with you your whole life. We're going to move to Israel with you." Naomi started walking towards the border of Israel away from the country Ammoave. And then she turns around right by the border. And she tells her two daughter-in-laws and she tells them both of you stay here. You have nothing to do in Israel. Israel is a Jewish country. You're going to come over there. You have nothing to do there. People are going to judge. It's just not for you. Stay here in the country. Your father is the king. What are you going to do with me with a poor woman in Israel? I have no money. My husband passed away. What are you going to do there? you have everything you need over here in the country of Moav. Okay. They started fighting with her, debating with her. We want to come with you. We don't want to come with you. Eventually, Naomi convinced him not to go with her. As Naomi was leaving, R gave one more step forward, which means she went over to Naomi and she told her, "No, I'm going to be persistent. I'm going to be stubborn. I want to come with you." And by the way, there was a lot of tears going on in that conversation. like say who told her mother-in-law Naomi she says no I'm not giving in I'm going to give it one more try let me come with you to the land of Israel as soon as Naomi saw that root really means business cuz she took that extra one more step she told her no problem you come with me to Israel or on the other hand even though originally she wanted to but she didn't give that extra step that one more time try let me convince my mother-in-law so she turned around and she went back to the country of Muav. There's another reason why her name is Oah because the back of her neck is called which means she turned around on her mother-in-law and then she went back to the country of Mo. That's what she's called. Says, listen to what happened over here took one extra step. She gave her one more try to really want to go to She begged her mother-in-law one more time to believe her she really wants to change and grow and move to land of Israel and become Jewish. Nomi believed it or pa did not take that extra one more step because she already gave it a try. She did not take that one more step. She turned around ends up being she went back to the country who took that extra step became Jewish married Boaz. Boaz was the god. He was the rabbi of all rabbis of the generation. She literally moved to Isel and she married the greatest rabbi generation and she married it to have king Davidid melik come out of the descendants of root and the midash says the root lit for so many years she merited to see melik king Solomon sit at the throne of the mut in the palace which means root made history became one of the greatest righteous women that we had in the Torah why cuz she took that one more step to really want to grow and go with her mother-in-law. Her other sister on the other hand gave up. She didn't take that extra step. Whatever her calculation was, she did not take that extra one more time. And look what ended up with her. She ended up over there in the country of Moab. Her children ended up being by the way wicked people. And David Melik, the grandson of fought against them in the land of Israel. So, let's take a step back and look what happened over here. One person gave it one more try. Look how much succeeded. The other person gave up for that one more try. Look what happened to them and the rest of history. We went through many yakims. Hashem gives us another year and another year. A person has to make sure to tell themselves even though I had a yum kipper the year before and even though I had a yum kipper two years before that this yum kipper this upcoming yum kipool I'm going to take that extra one more try to make sure this yakipim is going to be the gamecher that's going to flip my life around to get closer and closer to closer and closer to hashem what the will tell a person What this yet in our minds tells us is that we live through so many years of young kipool. How much change actually happened? Do you really think he could do it? Do you really think you get close and close to why do you think this young kipper will be any different? Who taught us not to think like that? Who taught us take that one more try, another try, another step, another step. You're never going to know which step is going to take you very far closer to Hashem. You're never going to know which yum kipool is going to get you very very very close to hashem. Take that extra step and take utilize the gift of another yakipim and make it this yum kiper that I'm actually going to do to shiva repent and get close and close to hashem every person on their own level. I want to share with you a story. So remind me to go back to what I prepared. Just thought of a story that I read a few years ago. One time he bought a gift to his granddaughter. His granddaughter came to his house in Ren and he decided to buy her a gift for her birthday. So he put money rubles inside an envelope. He went over to his granddaughter and he gave her the the the gift. Okay? He expected her to open the gift right away. I mean when I got a birth birthday gift right away I opened it ripped the whole thing open his grand did not open it up he waited and he waited after a few hours the went over to his granddaughter and he says I don't understand I bought you a gift usually little children open it up right away are you not curious to see what's inside how much money I gave you why are you not opening up the package and she told him an unbelievable answer she tells them zadei in Yiddish grandpa it doesn't make a difference how much money is side. The fact that grandpa thought of me and bought me a present and thought and remembered it's my birthday and came over and gave me a gift. What does it make a difference how much money is inside? The point that you gave me a gift and you thought of me is already the greatest gift says the we're all hoping and there's no question Hashem is going to give us an awesome good year but at the same time a person has to understand no matter what's going to come within the year no matter what's the package in the year if Hashem gave a person another year of life that itself is a gift what does it matter really what's inside Do we get a gift? Do we have another year of opportunity to get close to Hashem? That's already the greatest gift. Life is the greatest gift. I just remembered another story and again remind me to go back. Should I just say what I prepared? Should I just do that? >> Say one more story. Let me just say one more story. >> This is this is an unbelievable story that I just heard from a very big rabbi. His name is is a very big speaker. and he goes around and he has literally open miracles happening left and right for those who really follow the path of Hashem and those who really take the extra step to get closer and closer to Hashem they see unbelievable Yeshua salvation and blessings so I'll share with you one of the stories of his many stories that he said over after October 7th after October 7th it was a great tragedy but the stories that are coming in of open miracles are tremendous I'll share with you one story he said that right after of the war in one of the trips that he went to Gaza. He went in inside one of the tanks and he said that he gave a shar in one of the tanks. He said one of the tanks that he was in in Gaza at the time he said there were so many pictures of sadikim and all over the walls of the tank. He said he thought he was inside our soldiers and should give them only healthy and live only good news. So he said as he was one of the tanks there was one soldier there his name is Leo. Leor is a very famous Israeli name for any Israelis here. Leo is a very very uh famous for a man and for a girl it's okay. So his name was Leor. He goes to and he tells him which means a story like mine you never heard. I know you go around say over a lot of stories but a story like this you never heard in your life. He tells him okay tell me the story I'll be and I'll advertise it. He says no no no I'm going to ruin the story. Go to my mother's house in Rishon. Rishon is a city right next to Tel Aviv over there in Benbra. Go to my motherish. She will say over the story. I'll give you the address. I'm going to tell her you're coming. I'm just going to ruin it. You know what? I'll go to within the next few days. He was he lives in Benbra. It's right next to He goes to the city of Rishion. He finds the address. He knocks in the door. He said that he heard a lot of dogs barking and he's scared of dogs, but whatever. It's a side point. As he's knocking on the door, the mother opens the door. She tells him, "How can I help you?" She sees a rabbi by the door. And then he gives her like a note that her son Leo wrote from Gaza. He wanted to send a message to his mother. He gives her over the note and he said, "Your son Leor told me to come ask you about the famous story that happened to him." She tells him, "Ah, I'm going to tell you a really major story." She brings the rabbi in. She makes some coffee. They sit down. She tells him, "Let me tell you something. Listen, this only happened after October 7th. This is one story of the many. We'll see how many stories we get to say tonight. She tells him right after October 7th, my son said, "No matter what, I'm going in. I'm going in to fight Sham. I'm going to do what it takes. I'm going in." Now, really, he is. He's exempt from the idea of army. Why? Because he's an only son. A an only son in a family is exempt from the army because we're scared, God forbid, they might pass away. So, he was pat. But he decided still, no matter what, I'm going in. So his mother was telling the she had a very hard time with that. She didn't accept the fact that her son is going to war like that. Who knows what could happen to him? It's her only son. But her son was stubborn. He says, "No, I'm going in." So she said, "The week that you went and enlisted to the IDF army after October 7th and went closer to Gaza." She said that she couldn't sleep at night. You can imagine it was very hard for her. And she said almost every single night she was rolling over, rolling over, getting out of her bed, going back to bed. She just wasn't comfortable. She wasn't calm. She wasn't happy. She decided one of the nights she's taking a walk outside the middle of the night. She leaves her house in Rishion and she's walking a few blocks away and she sees in one of the corners betset one of the shoos by the corner the lights are on and the door is open. So she figures listen I wasn't in shul in so many years but right now my son is going to war. You got to speak to you got to speak to God. So she goes inside the shul in the middle of the night. She sees the light is on. As she goes in, she sees a person sitting on the floor. Some sadik a merch guy sitting on the floor praying about the destruction of the beta mdash saying tikun katot in the middle of the night. Special prayer that we say about the destruction of the bet mdash hoping it's going to be rebuilt. So this little sadic this guy was sitting on the floor in the shul all alone. Didn't expect anybody to just walk in. Suddenly he turns around a lady walks in and she tells him rabbi you're my messenger. And he tells him, "Whoa, what do you want?" Imagine just you're sitting down in the middle of the night in a sh. Someone just walks in, tells you, "You the rabbi, help me." She tells him, "My son went into Gaza. I don't know what to do. You're going to bring me a Yeshua. You're going to give me a salvation. Tell me what to do to make sure my son stays safe." Tells, "Listen, I'm not a rabbi. Tomorrow morning, you can come meet the rabbi." She tells him, "No, I want you to tell me what to do. You're in here for a reason. I took a walk. You tell me exactly what to do." He goes over to the shelf. You see, do we move here? I can leave it. He goes over to the shelf. He opens up a spary sitter. Guys, remember though any white sparty sidum over here or >> no spar here? >> Oh, you got it. Very good. Very good. So, he opened up a Oh, perfect. He's like, can you pick it up over there? Exactly that. Sidul. Perfect. He goes through the sitter and he tells her, "Listen, I'm going to flip through the pages. Whatever it ends up being, where my finger lands cuz the sidu is made of pes, my verses of whatever it ends up being on my finger lands on it, it's going to hint to us what you should take upon yourself now for your son. And this lady was not yet. She was not yet. Tells her, "Whatever it lands on, you take it upon yourself." She says, "Yes, deal." Now, this is all middle of the night. A little spooky. He opens up the sidul. He flips through it. Boom. Puts his finger. What does it end up being in the on top? It says songs for the Shabbat meals. What song did his finger land on? You opened it up. He tells her, "Hey, look. Those who keep Shabbat, Hashem will protect them. Shabbat will protect them." He tells her that's it. A deal is the deal. Moving forward, you have to be shame Shabbat. Then she tells him, "Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is something I have to discuss with my husband. I can't just stop being shame Shabbat." She goes back home as she's coming to the house, the way she her husband is outside looking for her, looking for her. What? His wife just walks out in the middle of the night. What's going on? Then she tells them, "I just went to Shul. I met this guy and I want to tell you something." They go back home. They sit down. She tells him, "Listen, we're starting to keep Shabbat." This rabbis to keep Shabbat. He says, "Map." And and the husband, the father of Leor, is also a very like heavy duty smoker. He's also addicted to smoking and everything. So he told her, "There's no way I'm doing it. I'm not quitting smoking. I'm not stopping to go on my phone, the TV, especially not doing a war. You have to check the news every second. This is not happening. Go back to the rabbit. Tell them it's not happen." She tells him, "No, everything happens for a reason. The last time I walked into shul was years ago. Years ago. They didn't just walk in for nothing. And if that's what happened, we're going to do it. They started having a long conversation. And they ended up being that they're ready to take upon themselves not the whole Shabbat, but at least Friday night Shabbat, meaning from candle lighting until they go to sleep, they're going to keep Shabba. But the next morning, they're not ready yet to keep the full Shabbat. So she went over to this guy in the sh the next day and she told him, "Listen, my husband is ready to do, but not the whole thing. Can we just do Friday night?" So he told, "Listen, I can't tell you I'm not God. I can't tell you keep a half a Shabbat, not a half a Shabbat. We'll go to a big rabb a big pose in Benbak. He would tell us what to do. They went to one of the biggest rabbis that we have in and said told him no, no problem. Just keep Friday night. So you make you don't go on your phone, you don't watch TV, you don't smoke from candle lighting until you go to sleep. The next day, if you want to do Malik, do have dala. Shabbat is over for you. but on condition that hopefully within a year or less you'll be ready to keep the full Shabbat. Okay, that's what this couple did. They kept that Shabbat and she said that she went shopping. That was the first week. She said that she went shopping for Shabbat and they cooked for Shabbat Friday night and they're already planning what are we going to do Friday night without the phone, without the cigarettes, we have to get board games, we'll do this, we'll do that. Barak Hashem Shabbat came. They made kadouch. She lit the candles. And she said that that Friday night of the first Shabbat after she took it upon herself that weekend. That Friday night was so hard cuz her husband couldn't smoke. They couldn't go on their phones. But she said at the same time, it was also very nice cuz her and her husband finally had a chance to talk to each other. She said they were so bored. They even talked about the time that they started dating many years back. That's how that's how bored they were. But they started having a conversation. Okay. Comes the next day. Albatai. He opens up his phone. The father, what does he see on the phone? He sees, and for those who followed the news carefully in the beginning of the war, unfortunately, the first week we entered Gaza, the first week, there was a tank that exploded sent an RPG straight into the tank and there were 10 people in the tank. Nine people pass unfortunately unfortunately nine soldiers passed away. This is within the first week of the war. Over the weekend, nine soldiers passed away. One survived. Who is that one soldier that survived? Leor. When did he survive? When did Hamas send this RPG? Friday night. When his father was keeping Shabbat and his mother was keeping Shabbat and it was hard for them, but they did it. Shabbat protected their son all the way in Gaza. Unfortunately, everyone there passed away. The one person that survived was Leor. And when did it happen? Friday night exactly when their parents were keeping Shabbat. Even though it was hard for them, but they went out of their way to keep the mit of Shabbat. Now, this is a tremendous story. This specific lady now is fully religious. She keeps fully Shabbat. And she goes around the country. She's an older Moroccan lady. She goes around the country and she spreads a story all over. There's the power of Shabbat. And she says she saw a nest in front of her face. She saw an open miracle that happened to her. and albat there are many nim many many miracles from October 7th I'll try I'll share with you one more story even though I did not prepare this what am I doing to myself but the stories are just too good rabbi right one more story okay one more story of a miracle of aness this is unbelievable right after the war broke out who's a great mikubal one of the biggest rabbis we have in our generation he said that if October 7th was able to happen if kamas were able to break in like that. He said it's very innatural how that happened because you know the IDF is one of the strongest armies in the world. So the fact that it happened is innatural. So said that what Hashem is asking from us because of the swore the message is said the great the message is every person should try to think of something to take upon themselves that's innatural for them. try to think of a of a mitzvah or aid or a way to get close to Hashem that's extra hard for that person specifically or extra uncomfortable and they really have to go out of their way and they never thought they'd be able to do it specifically take that upon yourself do something innatural do something unusual that you never thought you would do because of the war October 7th that's what he said over Zed who was a student of went around the country and said over the message of the rabbi as he's speaking in one of the shs that spoken in Tel Aviv. He gave this speech how you got to go out of your way for one another. Go out of to do a mitzvah even though it's hard. One girl after the speech comes over to him. Her name was Tali. Tali was an older single girl and she was also she was an orphan. Tali goes over to she tells him, "Rabbi, I got really inspired from your speech. How we got to take something upon ourselves and go out of our way and know the more something for even though it's uncomfortable." I decided I'm going to take all my savings money that I have, which is not a lot cuz she was a babysitter. I'm going to take all the savings that I have and I want to buy and purchase a huge amount, a bulk of pair of sit for the soldiers. And again, for those who remember, at the beginning of the war, there was a shortage of tit for the soldiers. The Syrian community, which I worked for in Brooklyn at the time, in a huge fundraising, and they sent tons and tons of tit from New York to for the soldiers. So, there was a shortage of tit for the soldiers. Tali said, "I'm going to give money even though it's hard for me. She's an orphan. I'm going to give the money that I saved to buy the tit to protect our soldiers. I want to do something for another Jew. I want to go out of my way even though it's uncomfortable to do a mitzvah for another Jew to protect them. Told her when I gave the speech, I didn't mean you. You're an orphan. You barely have money. You're all alone. You have to save up money. I don't mean you. I'm referring to other people and all the mitzvah. She says, "No." And told me that she even started tearing. She started a crying the rabbi. I want to do this. I really have a good feeling about it. This is the mitzvah I want to do. Okay. Eventually, she donated the money orders a parrot. He calls up this girl Tal and she tells him I have the box of tits in my house. You come take them. I ordered for you. She tells him, "I'm not the rabbi. You're the rabbi. You have to go to Gaza, not me. You go give it out to the soldiers." Tells I have to go to Gaza now in middle of the war to give it to the teacher. Tells him, "Yeah, you're the rabbi." Okay accepts it. He called one of his friends that has a uh he you can't just drive with your car to Gaza. At least don't try. Okay. You had to take a protected um IDF truck that's bulletproof. He called one of his friends that's in the government. Eventually they made a time and place and he drove him to the to Gaza to give it a tit with a bulletproof truck. Happens to be he told me it was a half bulletproof truck. I don't know what that means. Anyone know what that means? What's a half bulletproof truck? Okay. But he went down there with a half bulletproof truck. He says as he's pulling there suddenly they hear in the microphone very loud, nobody in Hebrew, no one shall leave the car. Makum saka. This is right near the Gaza border. Nobody shall leave the the car. It's makum saka. What's going on? There are three loose terrorists kamas people running around that area. So nobody should leave the car. He said he was sitting in the car with the person that join for like 45 minutes. He was able to also it's like keeping Shabbat. It's a different story. Finally after 45 minutes they get a clear notice everyone can leave the car. The coast is clear. It's not a danger zone anymore. Leaves the car. He goes to the group of soldiers and he starts giving out a parit. And by the way, he told us one more detail and try this at home. The great So listen to this one. The great told him, if you ever want to pour, if you ever want to pour blessings and a person, sing them this song with these words. And by you just singing it, you're bringing kadusha. You're bringing your holiness and to the world. And which song was that specifically? It was He said singing it and singing with the soldiers. That's what the great Mikba told him as they're singing and he's giving it a pair. He said that he had one more pair of tit listen to this. This is an gadul sham and said in our times he had one more pair of tit one soldier several feet away from tell me one one pair of tit said that he threw the pair of tit towards a soldier. Now the tit were not inside a bag because they were individuals. They weren't wrapped inside a bag. So they were loose. He threw the the pair of tit as he threw the pair of tit he missed. He didn't have good aim and the tit landed on a cell on a stone. Now for those who've been to the south of Israel especially by Gaza it's desert over there. There's a lot of stones on the floor major slim. So that sit landed on a cellar. As soon as the pair of tit lands on the cellar, you see from under the rock, a kamas terrorist getting up with a gun, one of the terrorists that was loose the whole time, you know, he was hiding again in one of those tunnels that they had somewhere over there under the stone. And as soon as the tiss hit the cella, I guess it tickled his ear or something. I don't know what happened to that terrorist over there. He got up and they saw him right away, the soldier, and they said, "Ash, Ash, fire, fire." Boom, boom, boom. And they killed him on the spot. Now the general of the group over there of he gave it a tit he said you should just know this is an open miracle if we would have kept on walking if we would have kept on going he would have been behind us and he shalom could have shot everybody so that one pair of tit that you chucked look how hashem runs the world look how everything is calcul it's unbelievable that one pair of tit that landed on the stone whatever happened whatever it did to that kamas terrorist he decided to get up at that moment and that's when we caught him and that's when we killed That's an open miracle. That's a tremendous story. That deserves a round of applause for such a miracle. Round of applause. Such a story. And it doesn't end. It doesn't end. There's a part B to that story tells Tali after he gets back home. He says, "You don't understand what you did. You're of giving, you went out of your way even though it was hard for you. Look how much soldiers you saved. Your parents look at what happened here. Open a miracle. Look what you did by going out of your way even though it was hard for you. Look how many soldiers, how many lives? You changed the world. Was so inspired and he went and he advertised a story again and again and again. That story right after the war became so famous that a lot of the American speakers started saying over the story in English and that also got very popular. So it got so popular that gets a phone call. This is part B of the story. Gets a phone call from a very wealthy man in Miami Beach, Florida. And he tells I heard you story with the open miracle. I am so inspired by this girl Tali that even though she's an orphan, even though she went so much out of her way, look how much miracle she calls. Look what one person could do. He tells her, he tells her, "When she's ready to get married, when she finds her ziv, when she finds her husband, please call me back. The wedding is on me. I want to sponsor her wedding. I want to sponsor her furniture. And listen to this. I'm going to give her my extra apartment in Bagal. How much is an apartment? A lot of money. But he tells make sure save my number cuz I heard your story. She's going to get married and she's she's a she's an orphan who who's going to pay for everything. Make sure you call me back. I want to pay I want to pay for this girl's wedding. I'm going to do everything. This girl Tali got married. And when I spoke to Zed, he was actually just coming back from a restaurant, meaning this is as they were dealing with the furniture and the appliance and the apartment and the signing. So this girl got married with an apartment in her wedding was paid for. She saved so many soldiers. Oh, for what? From taking the words of inspiration so serious. From believing she can make a difference by doing one more thing, one more mitzvah. going out of her way even though it might be uncomfortable doing something extra look how much blessings is salvation and brought to the world all of us have so much potential all of us can get so close to Hashem every single year but what happens is the tells us not to believe in ourselves you know such tremendous I'll say one thing I prepared okay the midash writes like this we know that writes says to us. Go to the antim lazy one. Go look at the ways of an ant. How it conducts herself and you will get smarter. The smartest of all men, King Solomon is telling us, go look at an ant. Go look at the bug and misses aunt and see how she acts. Learn from her. You will get smarter how to serve Hashem. Says the midrash. What is Schlomma Melik trying to tell us? What is it I learned from an ant that will help us serve Hashem better? What is an ant already introducing to us that we did not know when it comes to serving Hashem? Says Midrash two answers and it's an unbelievable shot. Very, very powerful. Very powerful understanding. It was worth it driving all the way from just to say over this. It's one of my favorite ones says the midrash. An ant lives in average. An ant lives an average 6 months. An average ant lives 6 months and all it needs is a which means a kernel and a half worth of wheat to sustain itself and to live. So an ant lives 6 months and in order to live how much food does it need? A kernel and a half. Okay. Says Melik. What does an ant do the whole winter? What does an ant do? It prepares. It prepares. It goes around and it collects kernels. More food. More food. It goes underground and it has three stories worth of food. And it prepares. And it prepares more food. More food. More food. Succumbs. I'm sorry. By the summer, she does. It comes the winter. She doesn't have to leave the ground. Ask Schlomma an ant. All you live is 6 months. All you need is a kernel and a half worth of food. Why are you working so hard the whole summer to collect food more than you need? Three stories worth of food. The ants are collecting and collecting, carrying on their backs, going underground. Why are you working so much? Says amid. An ants to Hashem. We know not only human beings d to Hashem. Bugs do also and animals and birds and plants. An ant also dav to Hashem. What does a pray to Hashem? She prays to Hashem. She tells him, "Hashem, please give me longer life. Hashem, please let me live longer the six months." So it says Melik, you know why an ant prepares so much? Cuz just in case it might live longer than 6 months, it's going to need more food. So if it needs more food, cuz if it will live longer than 6 months, you need more kernels. You have to prepare hard. So you got to work and prepare and store and store and work hard just in case she will live longer. Says Melik, this is the lesson we learned from anal from an ant. If an antipanimla lives an average 6 months, but just in case it might live longer, it prepares so much food to live with. How much more so us Ben as human beings where we know after 120 years we're going to go to we're going to go to Hashem and we know the only way a person can sustain himself in or herself in is through the Torah and one did in this world. How much more so does a person have to prepare and not waste time? If anal if an ant that lives six months prepares so much just in case it might live longer then what are we going to say where we know we're going to go to after 120 years and we know the only way you can live in the next world is with the we did in this world with the with the prayers with the with the mitzvah that everybody is doing over here coming to this lecture waiting for me for so long it's a tremendous mitzvah that's the ticket to that's how we're going to live how much more So should a person not waste their life and make sure to utilize their time that Hashem is giving them another year another year to store up to stock up and make sure you have enough to live with in the next world and the next world is this forever and ever. What does forever and ever mean? Just to bring it down, I'll bring you a mash, a parable. Imagine the whole city Manhattan is filled up with sunflower seeds. Ginim sunflower seeds from the bottom all the way to the top of the highest building, the Empire State Building all the way to the top. And a bird at Paul comes once every 20 years to take one sunflower seed out of the city to empty it out. How many years? Any accountants here? How many years will it take the bird to clear up the whole city from all the sunflower seeds? If it comes once every 20 years and it's all the way to the top of the Empire State Building, how many years would it take the bird? Once every 20 years. She takes one and she leaves once every 20 years. But that's a very long time. I don't expect anybody to tell the numbers. I still didn't figure out the number. But it's a very, very, very long time. And even that is not forever. Aba is even longer. And how does a person live in? How does a person sustain themselves? only with and prayers that they did in this world. the good deeds that person gave the prayers that he prayed the the he went out of his way for his friends or when a person is quiet when someone makes fun of them doesn't answer back when a person doesn't speak the Torah one learns all of that a person takes with himself for which is forever and ever and ever and the only way you can live in is only if you stored like the ant did more that's a tremendous this lesson. A person while they're alive cannot waste their time. The yet will fool a person to think you have your whole life ahead of you. Next, we all know we all know that it's talking to us. We know ourselves how much potential we have. We know how much we can accomplish in this world. Our job in Yumipool is to remind ourselves why am I in this world? Why is Hashem giving me another year of life? What am I going to do with this here? How am I getting close to Hashem? The whole year were very busy. You know, the evil parro when he saw that the Jewish people started praying to Hashem. So, he noticed that the Yudim have too much time in their hands. So, they have time to pray. So, what did Po do? The evil king of Egypt. He decided, I'm going to throw more work on the Jewish people. So, they'll be too busy. So, they're not going to have enough time to pray. The iso like the iso is the it's all the same. They're all evil. The what does he do to a person the whole year? He overwhelms us with a lot of things to do. We're all very busy. Every person is very busy with their life, day-to-day life. So the yet makes sure that we don't have time to take a step back and look and see what can I do to get closer and closer to Hashem. What am I really getting? Am I really utilizing my wife my life yet? make sure that we don't think so he overwhelms us with the iPhones with this and news and news and more and more and more so we don't have time to think am I really getting close to Hashem am I really utilizing the opportunity to get close to Hashem comes yum kipool that's the day one really has to think that's the day a person really has to sit down no eating no drinking no phones no talking person try not to talk on on yum only to feel yes I mean that's a one you should just not tell you a story one Here you have a tissue. Let's get a tissue. Right here. One year I tried to be an extra saddic and this is the first year I got married. Uh I said I'm not speaking this yum kipper only. So I I did it. So I told it to my rebi after kipper. He tells me he's like you didn't speak the holy kipper. I was like yeah. He's like aren't you sh didn't you just get married this year? I said yes. He's like you didn't tell your wife good night and good morning cuz you wanted to be at sadik. That was a big lesson for me. Very big lesson. Yes. You want to take upon to be at sadik but a person at has to be careful if the spouse is okay. The rel every every person has to also think about the other person but at the same time a person should reduce the amount of times they talk it's we don't talk we don't eat we don't drink all we do is pray what does that mean look yourself in the eye look in the mirror am I really getting close to Hashem or am I being distracted by life to me that's a tremendous lesson it was worth it driving all that we here just for that and now we're going to get to the touchdown who's ready for the touchdown over here says like this we're all looking for merit it to get closer and closer to Hashem. But there's one guarantee that the GMA gives in the Garash says like this. I'm going end and we'll finish off with this. The rash says like this. Every person is looking to enter yum with something. Every person wants to make sure Hashem gives them a good judgment for the year. Says the Garra will teach you a trick. Now when the Garra says something Abu Thai, we listen. The Gimar is this big stuff. So when it tells you a tip if you want to have a good year, if you want to have a good judgment, they know what goes on in Sham says a person who's in English, a person who's not too, how do I say it in English, Rabbi? A person who is not too angry at everything, right? What's the right word? A person who lets things slide by. What? >> Flexible. >> Flexible person. Okay, very good. Let's that person offends you. So you're not that type of person that jumps up and says, "No, no, I I have any right to get back to him. He he made fun of me first. I I'm going to get him back." A person who knows how to let things slide by. Such a person who acts like that with others. In Hashem will let things slide by as well with his judgment. Maybe the year wasn't so good when it comes to mitzvot. But if you're a person that you don't get back at other people right away, if you let things slide by when people attack you, you let things, you just shove them under the rug, you just ignore them and say, "It's okay. I forgive you. Don't worry about it." You're a person that's flexible in sham says the Hashem will be flexible with that person. It's an unbelievable. They just taught us the secret. A person wants to have a good deen. A person wants to have a good judgment right now in the right right before I'm speaking of it too much. That's what happened. All the speeches right now of what does a person have to do? Take upon yourself and I'm going to tell you this just happened to me last week also gave a speech and deal. I went back home and it was a long day. And when I tell you it's a long day, it's a long day because I work in Brooklyn in the morning. I'm a Rebi. So I went back to Lake and test speech and it was a long day. Thank you, Hashem. Thank you, Hashem. Finally, after I dive in Alvit, I sat in my garage blasting AC. I like it very cold in there. And I'm sitting learning. It must have been like 11:00 at night. I'm sitting and learning. I left my phone on. Okay. I look who's called me. My mother. Oh, ima. Okay. You can't ignore it. Especially freedom kid, you can't ignore your mother. I pick up the phone. Ken, how can I help you? Yeah, you were here for Shabbat. You forgot your kid's tanol in the fridge. I put it in a bag. It's outside the door. Please come pick it up. Ima, please. Why can't I pick it up tomorrow? There's a full day. What's the emergency? I had a long day. No, no, no, no. I I don't want to hear. Just come pick it up. What should I do? My mother tells me something is for you. Kipper. If I want to have a good judgment, you know what you got to do? You got to go out of here for your mother. I put the phone down. I got inside the car. It's like an 18-minute drive, by the way. Okay. After a long day, I went all the way there. I took the menace. that told Hashem, "Hashem, I got to practice what I preach. I'm always telling people always just, especially with your especially with parents, giving in, going out of your way over here. There was an opportunity. Hashem gave me an opportunity even though it was hard for me, but your mother wants something for you. It was uncomfortable for you." It's these small things, and I'm talking to myself. It's these small situations that make a very big difference in shamim. These small details. A person walks in after a long day of work and you thought the house would look one way and it's not. Does he start screaming? Does he start giving comments? Or let's say a wife back at a husband or let's say children with parents or co-workers or different things in shul. So many things happen throughout the day where we have opportunities not to answer back. Those opportunities Hashem is giving us in order for us to perform to be to be flexible. Why? Because in Shamim, if we're flexible, Hashem will also be flexible with us in Shamim and give us a very good judgment. I end up with one mash, then we're going to give it to many years ago, I had to fund raise money for a certain cause. So, this wealthy person told me to come meet him in his office, in his garage, in his warehouse, and his warehouse is in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Now, for those who know Asbury Park, New Jersey, it's not known to be a very, you know, high class place type of place. I went there. He takes me to his office and all I see is a bunch of um you know those things that they carry from China on the ocean, those big you massive containers. He takes me into one of them. He's like, "Rabbit, let me show you what I do as a business." This guy's a very wealthy guy. He opens up one of the containers. All I see inside is secondhand appliances, fans, uh printers, computers, screens, lights, different things. And I told him, "Really, what do you do for a business?" All this looks broken to me. I mean on a secondhand tells me he has a business that a lot of stores in the city don't like to when they order a lot of products there's always one or two broken things. They don't want to ship it back. It just takes away storage. So my business is we come pick up the broken stuff for free. We bring it to our warehouse and then we sell it on eBay and we say that it's broken. It's secondhand. A lot of people buy secondhand things as long as it works because they can't afford it. And that's his business. told him, "Wow, you basically know how to take garbage and turn it into gold. That's basically what you're doing, genius." I thought to myself, every single day, it's a powerful mash and parable. Every single day, Hashem throws at us n Hashem throws at us people that make fun of us, that comment the wrong way and we get offended. Or let's person thought he'll be at a certain place at a certain time and it didn't happen. Or a person thought he'll make a certain amount of money, it didn't happen. A lot of inconveniences happen throughout the day. A person might think that it's garbage. A person might think that it's not good for me. But our choice is to take those things that Hashem has thrown at us and flip it around and turn it into gold. Turn it into reward into every time a person makes fun of you or comments to you, Hashem is giving you a chance not to answer back. Take that opportunity, flip it around, and you're going to get rewarded for that. And in shamim they're going to be flexible with your dean. In shm they're going to give you a good year because if you're good to others and you don't answer back in shm also is not going to be hashem is not going to be precise with the things that maybe we did wrong the past year. So we're on this major mission. Thank you Hashem. last year to try to get as many as possible to start learning the in English is a book written by the about the power of using our mouth for the right things not speaking careful how we talk to others a person who's careful how they talk to others in shamim like the says they're going to give him a good judgment and I can sit here it's too late now I got to go but I can sit here and tell you tons stories that already happened for people that I know that started learning the and they saw tremendous tremendous salvation. I'll tell you one one story, you know, one story. You guys are such good people here. It's unbelievable. One story. There was two people in Lakewood that were trying to purchase a house in Lakewood. No, it's very hard these days to buy a house in Lakewood that the prices went up, but they had to live in that place. A house in Lwood these days is like $800,000, $1 million, by the way. Everything went up. So, they tried to look for a house and they had a very hard time. They couldn't move out of town. So, they decided, you know what? We always hear the speeches that those who are careful not to speak, we'll see. We'll see because the says the pipe of panah when hashem wants to give us pan he throws it at us but a person can choose to close that pipe if they speak too much causes so much damage that it can god forbid close the pipe of of blessings upon coming from this writes courting the zah so they took upon themselves these two women to start learning the book together I have a picture over here over here daily companion they said we're going to learn together every single day and we're going to control ourselves not to talk clash and har within 4 months these two women called me up in Lakewood within 4 months they both found houses real estate agent got them a house for their price and location that they want I'll tell you one more story how about this fellow in Lakewood this happened this past summer beautiful story this story bar hashem went so viral that I got so many emails of people that heard that story and actually started and now they have a story that's a whole that's a whole lecture by itself Maybe sometime when I come back we'll see if I come back ever again over here right you going to invite me again or yeah okay so the story goes like this this fellow I met him in BMG in lakewood and he comes tells me I know you go around seeing the stories of bashon you got to hear my story yes a let's hear your story he says we heard you lecture last year tishov in the kazak program in Queens about speak about not speaking lashhara you're going to see blessings and me and my wife always had in mind to start learning the book but it never Suddenly right before the summer my wife in Lakewood loses her job. Now this guy is in Kell. He's in K. So who supports him? His wife who goes to work she supports the husband to sit and learn sadik. She's righteous. He's righteous. He's learning. She's working for him. Okay. But she got fired right before the summer from the school that she works in. And he told me that he did not have enough money to go for the summer to go pay for his bills in the summer. And he says, "Not only that, his wife, I really should call him up because this happened a couple months ago, but his wife was due. His wife was pregnant. She was due to having a baby. And because she got fired from the job, the insurance she was on also now took her off." Now, that's pretty pressuring. No insurance when she's due to the doctor. She gets the email, she's out. No money for the summer, no job for the upcoming year. What do you do? Then they remembered, "Ah, maybe we should start learning. Maybe if we start learning the safe we're gonna see tremendous tremendous blessings. He went to Judeica Plaza store in Lake Judeica store and he purchased two books of the Delhi companions in English one for himself one for his wife and they learned it every single night. I personally do also with my wife by the way brings tremendous schlumb also. It's a beautiful thing when you sit and learn with your wife a couple of minutes. So they sat and they learned it every single night. He tells me within two weeks, listen to this, one of the jobs that his wife tried applying for, when she went to the meeting, they told her, "We have more teachers and rebies applying for the job than students, so we don't have room for you." Suddenly, within two weeks after learning the and he said that he had he had test, but he controlled himself. He said it wasn't easy for him and his wife, but they controlled themselves. Suddenly within two weeks, his wife gets an email from the main secretary that the principal wants to meet you. She goes down there, Bar Hashem. The principal, he told me this deal. The principal didn't say, "Yes, you're hired." But he said that he thinks it's going to work out. And the secretary told him when she was walking out. If that's how the principal spoke, don't worry. That mean that means you're hired. And then the story goes on. He go the same day that she got the job. Listen to this. This is a story that just happened in Lakewood. The same day she gets the job in the school, he goes home, he opens up his mailbox. I checked the mail after learning. He opens up his mailbox. Where does he see an envelope from? from the US Treasury of United States. He opens it up. He goes home. A few thousand dollars worth of tax returns was owed him in the government because they messed up on his tax returns by co the whole situation. So now they're catching up. Can you imagine? Out of nowhere, you open up your mailbox. Donald Trump sends you 10 grand. That's awesome. He opens it up. Boom. I have money from tax returns. This is what I've learning for two weeks. The story doesn't end. He opens up. He tells me that he opens up his laptop to check out his emails that night after learning. He opens up his laptop. He checks in in his email. What does he see? He sees that the insurance that his wife was off from, now she's on it. Why? Because one organization in Lakewood that helps at these couples saw what happened and they try to help her out and she got her back and they got her back in the insurance which means three Yeshua, three salvations in one day. A job, money for the summer from tax returns that the United States, I guess, made a mistake on a a few years back. And she was back in her insurance all in one day from what? Learning the for two weeks. This will bring you tremendous blessings, tremendous every person should take upon themselves to start learning the book daily companion. You're just going to see after 120 in you're going to thank me. You're going to tell me remember you came to Razin. I'm going to be like in gum somewhere. You guys are going to take me out and tell me yes because of you. We start learning look how much reward Hashem gave us because we controlled ourselves not to speak. A person who's careful not to speak. A person who's careful to use their mouth to compliment others to give to be nice to others will see tremendous. There's free books giving out of the back. If you need more I have more in the car. Every person can take a book home for themselves for their wives. One condition. 50 bucks for saving. I'm joking. uncondition take it upon yourself but you have to learn it every single day try to finish the book at least once at least once you're going to see how it changes your life for the better you're going to start seeing salvations and blessings from different directions you're going to see only thank you so much for listening I apologize I was late for all those that came and waited for me I really appreciate you made a big it's not easy I'm sure you're all very busy and you have many things to do many things to do I really appreciate item should give you only health. You should all be to see only from your children, grandchildren, grandchildren, whatever it is. Only good news. The war should end. Our hostages should be free and safe. Our soldiers should be safe. And thank for coming all the way from Lakewood, making the trip. We want to thank Hazak for helping us coordinate with this event. Again, all the events that we do together, we give us so much to think about, so much to do, not so much time to do it. We should follow the the guidance of and hope be blessed with a good year. Thank you, brother.