Rabbi Zino, Rabbi Meirov, Rabbi Nisanov | Grand Selichot Event עשרת ימא תשובה | CHAZAQ

Shabu welcome everyone to tonight's very special major event tonight where being presented by fazakria where we have two amazing speakers Raonim followed by the amazing by all the amazing singers and musicians tonight we want to thank all the sponsors Mr. Yay, Shul Yankee, Dennis Shalamov for the parasa [Music] Benella Rafel Nishma Tamar Liu Nishmat Rafael. We want to give a special shout out to Eph and Milan Yiva. Let's do a round of applause. our efforts for tonight and um to to um to introduce tonight um I thought we could have this right now we're a few days before the right now we're a few days before Yum Kipper so person might say okay fine so we we had el we had rash on yum kipper what's the difference so Charlie once said a famous mushy story he said once there was um someone he went down to the west coast in order to to to get a parnasa to because he heard there's going to be a b big business over there. So what does he do? He goes there for 3 months 6 months a year and what happens? He's not making any money but he but he misses his home. So he says I'm going to come home. So what happens 30 days before he calls up a travel agent and and and he says I want to get a ticket. How much does it cost? They say $2,000. He said, "Okay, I'm not sure if I want to get the ticket. I'll call you back." So, what happens? One week, one week before the before the before the the train back, he says, "Okay." He calls back the the the the person who's raised the ticket. And they and they say, "Okay, do you want the ticket?" "Nah, I'm not sure. I'll I'll I'll wait till the day before." Day before it comes and what happens? He says, "Okay, I'll I'll I'll buy it on the spot." And what happens? The day comes. He's running late and he has his bags and he's running up and he's and what happens? He hears the train going away and and and and the conductor sees him and it's actually leaving and he says, "Drop your bags and jump." And and and what happens? He jumps his bag. He drops his bags and he jumps on the train. And that's and that that's what we just what we just um experienced. which had the the days of ro el the 30 days of el and a person says to themselves nah I don't want to be better I'll I'll be better when he gets closer to rashash shana rashashana comes for that week and the people say nah okay I okay I don't know if I want to be better and what happens right now we're 4 days before yam kipper and and hashem says drop your bags drop your limitations the person says I'm too young I'm too old how the will be better what my environment is going to my family is going to say and hashem says drop your limitations and jump to become the person you're meant to be and hashem um to introduce our first rabbi rabbi to zeno hashem he's inspired so many in the community roashm for so many years he's one of the rabbis right here let's rise and give a round of applause for rabbi want to welcome everyone to Bet Gabrielle after many many years finally were able to host in the new banquet hallm as we are approaching Yum Kipur the last few days of Sihot. How beautiful it is to get everybody together for a wonderful but when it comes to mind yamipur when it comes to mindsot we do this every year Right? How are we going to approach it this time? How are we going to come to Hashem in a few days from now and cry to Hashem to ask for forgiveness and to finally get sealed for that year that we always wanted. There's always that famous mashal where the guy got married. The next morning after the beautiful wedding, he tells the wife, "What are we going to eat for breakfast?" She says, "We're going to have choki." She says, "Wonderful. Problem is I don't have any toki. He goes and he says, "No problem. I'll go get us some toki." 5 minutes, 10 minutes, an hour, 2 hours, 5 hours, he's gone. Where's my husband? Where's my husband? A day, 6 months, husband's gone. She sends a search party. All she has is a picture left of him. A year later, she's sitting in the anniversary of her wedding without a husband. She gets a knock on the door and she sees her husband after a year, flowers, chocolates and noni. He says, is this. Let's have some breakfast. Let's have some good time together. Like good old times. His wife says, "What are you crazy? Where were you? What are you doing?" He says, "Kai, let's forget about the past and let's move on." They sit, they eat, they enjoy. The next morning, they wake up. They want to make breakfast. Says, "So, what are we making for breakfast?" He said, "Let's make pancakes. We'll make some uh some nice pancakes, but I don't have any batter." "Okay, don't worry. I'll get you some flour." Said, "No, no, no. Don't go nowhere. You remember what happened last time?" He said, "Don't worry. It's 2 minutes. What's the big deal? He leaves. He goes 5 minutes, 10 minutes, an hour, 6 hours, he's gone. A day, 6 months, 7 months. The disappearing husband, she's sitting on the anniversary, looking at the picture, crying. She gets a knock on the door. Her husband is standing there. with chocolates, flowers, and pancakes. Says, "I'm sorry. Let's make up. Let's do it again. Let's try again." The wife says, "You think I'm an idiot? You think I'm going to do this again with you?" She shuts the door in his face. We all have to ask ourselves are we like this husband rash. We come to Hashem with this with the chauffar with the chocolates flowers. We say hashem this I'm here and then rashana is over. We disappear for a little bit. Then we come Roshana, knock on the door. Hashem, I'm here. I have chocolates. I have flowers. I'm going to buy. I'm going to go and cry today. But this tishua that we do on Yumipur and has to be a real tishua. Not one day and disappear. every single day continuously it's a relationship with and this relationship has to be real there's a famous mash where the guy was traveling and he had a bunch of friends but we always see him stopping by certain places so they saw him eating lunch one time they saw he took some cheese. He cut some cheese. He made himself a sandwich. Later that day they saw him take out the same knife and he was cutting some salami. So his friend said to him, "Hey, you used the same knife for dairy this morning. How are you using this knife for meat in the afternoon?" He says, "Don't worry. This side is for dairy and this side of the knife is meat. We laugh, but this is who we are. One second. We can be so holy. We'll be have tears crying down, rolling down our cheeks. We'll be screaming. [Music] We'll feel it. And the next day or day after a week after we we'll say to ourselves or we'll tell ourselves back to business, back to usual programming. And this is where we have to make that change. And the yeshivas, they used to tell us a story where there was a guy who was a little bit not 100% there. His his whole thing was he loved to find random furniture in the street and bring it to the yeshiva. He used to collect a bunch of stuff. So one day he brings he finds this huge scarf and then he comes to the yeshiva and everyone sees him struggling, huffing and puffing, sweating, bringing this closet to the dorm and they see the everyone's looking at him. Where is he going to go with this thing? So he finally, I don't know, somehow gets up the stairs. He gets to his hallway where he's about to enter to his room. All of a sudden everybody stops. What are they doing here? Boom, boom, boom. What is this noise? Everybody is standing. The holy yeshiva is standing in the hall. Look at this guy. And he keeps trying. Boom, boom, boom. And they're all telling himo, you got to put it down and then you could push it in. He's yelling, "What?" And he keeps trying to push it in the door and he keeps hitting the top of the door. Boom. Boom. Boom. And the masak in that time he said I learned a huge lesson. He says we're all like Schlommo. How are we all like Schlommo? We think we can get to the next part of our life, the next step. We want to go through the next door to get to the next part of our life and we're bringing all the same closets and all the same garbage that we have from the past. We think we can stay the same but go through a new door. And it can't be that way. We have to get rid of some things. The the the writes the first mitzvah a Jew has to go through as a boy is a you have to cut a part of yourself off. He says that's what you have to do to your in you come in one way you have to change the way you are throughout your life. But what do we do a lot of times? How many miracle stories I hear every day? Unbelievable. Just the other day, I heard about a person his wife had to have a surgery and there was huge repercussions of what's going to happen to her and if she would be able to have kids or not. He prayed and they added a name to his name and he she went in for the surgery and the doctor said, "Why are you here? I don't even know why you're here. I just did another scan for you. Nothing's wrong with you. Go home. We hear crazy stories like this every other day. So, how do we not make the shashma? So, I'll tell you a story. There's a rabbi in Israel, famous mashia. He goes into the taxi and the taxi driver tells the rabbi, "Rabbi, I want to tell you a crazy miracle story. My friend became super religious after this story. You're going to like the story. You're going to say it to your people. He says, "Wonderful. What's the story?" He says, "We were in the army in the bunk in the in in the barracks in the middle of the night. We hear screaming. We turn on the light. We see a cobra standing right in front of my friend's bed about to bite him. We didn't know what to do. My friend in the other corner, he's a sniper. He takes out his sniper. He's aiming for the snake. And he says, "Don't move. I'm going to shoot. If you move an inch, I might shoot you. I'm going to shoot the snake. Don't move." He says, "Don't do it." Everybody says, "Yeah, do it. He's going to die any second." "No, don't do it. A big bagan." Confusion. All of a sudden, my bread, my friend who's on that bed with the cobra over him, he screams. All of a sudden, everything's over. The snake goes away, goes wherever it goes. Everything calm down. That guy woke up the next day. He put on til. He said, "From now on, I'm religious. Hashem gave me another another lease on my life." He said, "Rabbi, you see how unbelievable that is?" said the how Hashem was right there in front of us. He put his finger and he made a miracle happen. And the rabbi asked him, "I understand. You saw it. So why are you not religious?" He says, "Rabbi, it happened to my friend. It didn't happen to me." We laugh, but we hear this every other day. But you know when we change sadly, we change sadly when the bad story happens to us and we wish it didn't happen to me. Every year we say in the who will live and who will die who will be healthy and who will be sick, who will be successful and who will not. And all of Hashem asks of us as the Rambam tells us ask for Hashem when he is near. If you do, Hashem writes you in the book of life. If you don't do shalom in the other book, but why do just do another mitzvah and Hashem will write you in the book of life says, "No, all we have to do now is tou whatever that means for you, whatever you have to work on, whatever you're missing, and if you don't do, how could you not do? Hashem is coming to us. How can we not open our hands, open our heart and do to shaman? But a lot of times, you know, we thought to do mitzvot, we thought to pray, we thought to learn, we thought to come and do a mitzvah, but we think, I can't. It's not for me. I don't know how to read. I don't know how to wake up on time. I'm not an orderly person. I'm not so smart. I don't have the skills. that didn't learn. That's not an excuse. You know, in the circus, they have elephants, two-tonon elephants, and they have them controlled how? By a string, to a stick. How in the world do they do that? They explain that when he's a baby, they tie him to a string, to a stick, and he's a baby. He can't break the string. He's fighting it. But since in his mind he knows he can't break it. Even when he's an adult, he still thinks he can't break it. So he doesn't even try. He sees the string like chains, like it's impossible. I can't do it. How many of us try to learn? How many of us try to have a serious schedule every day to wake up on time? How many of us try to say tim every day? How many times somebody forwarded us join this yomi this join this yomi that and we said ah I tried I fell off I tried it's not for me we wrote it off like I will never get there we're like the elephant tied to a string and Hashem says all you have to do is push yourself a little bit more and you'll snap the string but you think it's chains and that's the biggest mistake. But we have to be serious with our commitments. We all know the that guy who's looking for parking for his important business meeting. He's looking for parking. Looking for parking. All of a sudden, he starts praying to Hashem. Hashem, if you help me find parking, I'm going to go to netan every single day. Hashem, if you help me find parking, I'm going to keep Israel. That's it. No more. Okay. Okay. Okay, you know what? If I'm going to do if you please help me find a parking. All of a sudden, the parking opens up. He's Oh, Hashem, it's okay. I found it. I found it. It's okay. You know many times somebody suggests us, I found this crazy sigula. If you hop on one foot, rub your belly, tap your head, and send 40 days, you know what's going to happen. Wow, man. Let's do it. But to do our basic obligations to be a good person to learn in the morning to learn in the evening to pray to give sodaka to do to smile to another person somebody who is a guest who walks in doesn't have a place to stay doesn't doesn't know where to sit you come and you open your hands you open your arms to him this is where the are guests this where you have to make the I want to end with This we know one of the first people who did as son the Torah says that he made a big mistake. He did a big mistake that he went and he switched his father's beds. He was his bed, his father's bed was supposed to be in the tent of zila and he took it out and put it in the tent of the Rama writes explanation to this whole passage in the Torah. He says that Bilha Zil sorry was supposed to have two more tribes within but got involved. He said, "What do you mean Rael passed away now the bed has to be in my mother's tent?" Saw that it's not working out that all of a sudden his bed is getting switched from Shamim somewhere else. He says, "You know what? I'm not supposed to have these tribes. I guess not." And he didn't have them. Ended up being his son Ysef had the two more tribes he was supposed to have. But the Torah considers it as if Ruven slept with his father's wife because he got involved and he stuck his nose in his father's business. All his life Ruven was doing to Shuva. Then the first person who accepted to Shua for the sale of Ysef was Ruven. But what happened in the sale of Ysef? The Balto say that really Ysef wasn't sold by the brothers. There was Mitim, there was Midianim, there was the Balto say that they went to the pit after and convinced them to change their ways and to do the shan. They went to the pit to take out Ysef and what did they see? Ysef was gone. The goim took him out of the pit and they sold him. They took possession of him already. We see from here two things are bai. The main touva we have to do the shuva for is being too smart for our own good. [Music] Being a smarty pants ruven thought he knew better. You know many times I convinced somebody to say what did I tell them? I said, "Come say Rabbi, I'm busy right now. I don't have time." I said, "Kabibi, it's gula." Oh, he came to me afterwards. He said, "Rabbi, if I say it twice, it's bigger as gula." We think that we know how to run our lives and how to get success and wealth and health and happiness, but all we really needed is a mitzvot and to be close to Hashem. How many times I said to somebody, "Listen, if I would have a prayer written by the Baba Ali, would you read it every day for 40 days?" Of course, Rabbi. I said, "Even better. If I have a goula from the Rambam, my man Rambam, he writes usually he doesn't write school. He wrote a school. Rabbi, I'll pay money for this." I say, "Even better. I have a special prayer written by Abraham Ainu in the back of over there. a special prayer you say wey rabbi say no more so how I said how come you don't drop everything and do this goolah hashem asks us it's called a mitzvot himself tells us a very powerful called and mitzvot we have to recap ourselves reconfigurate ourselves. But what do we see from the sale of Ysef? According to the Balot, they wanted to do but they missed the opportunity to when they came to the pit, Ysef was not there anymore. Mashenu, he didn't want to look by the burning bush. And later the says when Mosherenu asked Hashem, "Let me see your face." Hashem says when I wanted you didn't want to look now when you want I don't want [Music] shalom. We have to answer why we didn't do tusha yesterday. Why only today? We have to ask ourselves that question. I'll end with a story from of Nissim Gaon. There's a story of Niss Gaon. He wasn't so known in this area that he was staying by. He was hosted by somebody. They hosted him. He thought he was a nice rabbi visiting from, you know. So he stayed Shabbat. He stayed at the he beautiful Shabbat all over students came to the place and they were kissing his hand and serving the rabbi bringing him whatever he needs. And this guy who hosted him was shocked. He says, "Who is this rabbi?" He says, "You should be embarrassed. You don't know what this is. Who is he?" Oh, he's the door. You don't understand. The guy turned white. He went on the floor. He was kissing the rabbi's feet. He's saying and go and started crying. He said, "I made the rabbi so upset. Look, he's crying. He's so upset." He says, "No." He picked him up. He kissed him on his head and he told him, "No, no, no. I I'm not upset at you at all. You don't have to ask me." So, why is the rabbi crying? He says, "Cuz you gave me the biggest mous in my life." He says, "Which mous I gave you, Rabbi? I offended you." He says, "You didn't know who I was, and now you know who I am. You feel bad how you treated me. I should ask myself compared to how I know Hashem today and how I used to know him yesterday. How much does Shiva have to do? How much I know Hashem now and how I didn't serve him like how I serve him today. All these years with everything I know now. How did I not serve him better before? I'm so religious now. I know more Torah, more mitzvot. I have so much to make up. Let us come and this in yumipur. Hashem is giving us a no-brainer called to shuva. Let us take it. Let us embrace it that lasts not just till the yonipur in the day after from this. What do we say? [Music] Hashem will see our tishua. He'll write us in the book of life, in the book of health, in the book of wealth. He will accept our tishua and bring us the Amen. [Applause] Thank you Hazakura Bazino for your powerful powerful words. Of course once again I want to thank Beth Capri for partnering together on this beautiful beautiful Kush Hashem or Hashem in the new banquet hall right here at Beth Capriel. And we're our next speaker is Rabbi Elamrov. And um I think to give introductory remarks. Um we could say that always around this time of year we always read and par it says that standing before you today are your heads of of the tribes. So it says um your heads your tribes. So Ra Mosha Feinste has a famous question. He said really it should say the heads of your tribes. Why does it say your heads your tribes? He says that cuz usually a person thinks that in order to make a difference in the community they have to have a certain position in the community. They have to be the CEO. They have to be a rabbi. They have to have a certain title in the community in the sh. But of course the the the Torah is Hashem is telling us that that every single person has to say what are they going to do for the new year to take upon himself to do something more in their organization in the community and Rohashem a rabbi is doing so much in the community director of Kazak one of the rabbis over over here at Bethra You allow me up seat though. Wow. I always tell people that when you're doing something good, the puts up a good fight. You know, be has been doing so much for the community from the sh to the mikvah for men, for women, the dishes mikvah, the yeshivot and the was interfering at the new building. Today we're sitting here. We're getting a little bit of the feeling of what we're going to have very very soon. And when we have the new building, we'll get a little bit of what is going to be like. I want to thank obviously the organizers tonight. You know, you got to have an engine behind every cause. So, obviously, Robbie, God bless you. Milana, you and your brother Frian, God bless you. Very much. The three of you should find your this year. I meant, >> you know, I'll be honest with you. Anytime I see a flyer that says concert or a flyer that says a musical, it really gets me very nervous. It gets me very agitated sometimes. And I'll tell you why. You know means that we ask for forgiveness. We do introspection. And sometimes what happens is instead of doing we have like a form of entertainment. The only thing that's missing is some popcorn and a large uh bottle of Coke for every single person. And people are sitting, they're chilling, they're having a good time. When we put this together, I said, "Listen, we got to have with we got to make sure we have a lot of And we got to make sure that the audience understands we're not here for entertainment. We're here to change. So I'm going to share with you a few minutes and then we're going to all be inspired by this. Inspired, not entertained, inspired by this. First things first, you know it says, what does that mean? When a lion roars, who's not scared? Who's not in awe? A lion, the king of the jungle is roaring. Everyone is scared. There's a message behind this puk, a secret message. What's that message? You look at the word. How do you spell it? >> Alf. What? The guys don't know how to spell. What's going on over here? Hey. The women are saying it correctly. Alf. Yud. Hey. Says alf stands for alul. race is what you is what and the message is when you reach this time of year who's not scared who's not in awe this is what the rabbis tell us so ladies and gentlemen I have a question for you the rabbis are telling is who's not scared of I'm asking you who is scared honestly all the guys sitting here when you got to sh and you went put on your suit you look in the mirror what are you thinking about you know if there's two more guys like me would have been here already you know is anyone thinking wow I'm about to be judged is anyone in awe is anyone sitting there saying wow life and Death is in front of us. I'm telling you very little people. The question is why are we not in fear? If everything that happened last year was determined last year, why are we not a little bit worried about the upcoming year? Why are we so chilled? So, I want to share with you an idea that many rabbis talk about, but I'm going to try to make it as simple as possible. Anyone here has been to a zoo recently? I don't mean that you visit your in-laws for a real zoo. You've been to the zoo Shiman anytime. I used to love going to zoo as a child and even as an adult I like going to the zoo. You see the creation of Hashem. It's beautiful. Unbelievable. All the animals. Now let me ask you a question. When you see the lion in the zoo, are you scared? Imagine a lion is walking around roaring. Are you shivering? Are you are you trembling? >> No. >> What do most of us do? We take a nice selfie. We send it to our friends. So there's zero fear. Why are we not scared of? You know why? Because there's a cage that is separating you from that lion. As long as there's a cage, you feel very chilled. You're not worried. But what happens if you're standing there and suddenly the cage starts going up? >> Now what are you doing? Now suddenly you're running for your life. You realize that something serious is happening here. Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to understand we're in the month of already finished already started almost who's not scared. Tell us. You know why we're not scared? Cuz every single one of us has a cage separating us from that reality that we're being judged. >> There's a distraction. There's something telling us, "Don't worry, nothing's happening. And everyone has his own distraction. Some people it's money, some people it's honor, some people it's pleasures. But I'll tell you what most people have as a distraction. I'm going to ask if anyone in the audience has a phone. Anyone has a phone over here? >> If you could take out your phone for a minute, please. I know Rabbi usually doesn't say take out a phone during Listen, take out your phone for a moment. You have it out. I'm going to use you as an example, please. If you don't mind, >> you sure? You sure you want to be the guy in the >> Quran? Listen, take out your phone, go to settings, go to settings for a second, go to screen time, and let us know what you see over there. >> You want to come to the front? >> Anyone wants to volunteer? Let's go. What do you see over there? >> Not Shabbat. Okay. Shabbat. You're >> listen. You're about to change it in 30 seconds. >> Oh, no. I'm saying which one is it? >> Screen mode. >> Screen sit screen time. >> Screen. >> Okay. Any other volunteers here that have more simple phones over here? >> Yes. What do you have? Anybody else? Who wants to volunteer? Let's go. What's your screen time an average day? >> Abutai. I did this with someone. Oh, you have it. Sadik. Very good. Where does it say? >> Where's the screen time? >> Right there. This is for the week. >> How much? >> 5 hours a day. >> 5 hours and 28 minutes a day. How much do you sleep a day? >> Seven. >> Seven. That means we 12 hours 20. Half the day is already gone >> from sleeping in his phone. >> And we had two days yum last week. >> Two days yto. Helped keep the number a little lower. the average >> and Shabbat. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, it's much more than 5 hours and 28 minutes. [Applause] >> I'll give you credit for being a man about this. >> But I'll tell you one thing, ladies and gentlemen, I want you to realize all of us don't realize how much time we are wasting on the phone. If you want to know what the cage is between you and judgment day, between you and your husband, you and your wife, you and your children, you and your parents, it's your phone. Most of the people don't realize how they're losing life because they feel like they have to follow every news story because it'll make a difference and watch every video. We're we're losing our life. The phone is connecting us to the whole world. But we're not connected to the people closest to us. You know, they say there's a husband and wife sitting on their couch. The wife sneezes and the husband text her, "Bless you." It's a joke, but it's a reality. How many times things take place in your house, you don't even realize it. Your wife needs help, the husband needs help, the kids are this, your parents are that, but you don't realize. You know why? because we're glued to the phone. So if I would give you one suggestion tonight, it would be to take upon yourself that I'm going to be in control of my phone, not my phone in control of me. One more time, take upon yourself that you will be in control of your phone and the phone will not be in control of you. If you do this, you're going to have a beautiful year ahead of you. So now, with that being said, Rauai, with that being said, I'll give you a small tip. Just to get rid of your phone is very difficult. I told the guys here at Big Gabriel and Shabbat, the following parable. We'll end off with this. You know, anyone still in school over here? >> Yes. You're still in school, Sadik. What grade are you in? >> 10th. 10th grade. >> You know, in every school, you have the class genius, you had the class bully, you had the class nerd, the class this, class that, right? So, one time there was a story of a young boy that mis everyone used to bully him. That was like the mean. Everyone bully this boy. So one time the bully comes over to the boy with two other kids and he puts in front of him, listen carefully, he puts in front of him a $100 bill, two $50 bills and five $1 bills. And the bully and his two friends tell that other kid, "No, what do you choose?" And the kid looks at the 100. He starts analyzing. He puts it down. He looks at the 250s, puts it down. He looks at the five singles like, "I want the five singles, and everyone starts laughing at him." The next day, you do the same exact thing. $100 bill, 250s, five ones. No. What do you want with a different group of kids? He takes the $5 again. He does this for a week, for a month, for two months. Basically, the whole class is laughing at him. Every day it's a new group of kids doing the same same trick on him in front of new friends. Someone comes to him and says, "Tammy, don't you realize they're embarrassing you? Don't you realize they're making a mockery out of you? Take the $100 bill. Why do you keep taking the five singles?" Listen what the boy said. He said, "You know, if I take that $100 bill, you know what they're going to do? They'll take it right away. They won't let me keep it. So every day I take that $5 from them. They're laughing at me, but they don't realize three months I'm doing this, I already made $450. So who's laughing at who? You know, when you try to do too much in life, you're going to lose it. So if I could give you one tip when it comes to your phone, accept upon yourself tonight. You know, some people their phone is attached to their hand. I think it it grew into their hand. They wake up in the morning, first thing they do is what? Check the status, check their email, check their stocks. Tell yourself from now on, you will not check your phone until after Rabbi, it's too much until after the morning blessings. Tell yourself from now on when I sit with my spouse, with my kids, with my family, with my parents, no phone for the first 30 minutes. 30 minutes, put it away. From now on, you walk into shul. I'm not going to have my phone period during shul. You're talking to Hashem. And lastly, you're making yourself a deadline of when you have to turn it off every night. You know, the phone is so powerful. You don't you say, "Let me watch 10-minute 10-minute video." That's it. This happens at 10:42 p.m. Then when you finish at 10:52, a new video pops up. Oh, this is good. This is good. Another 14 minutes. You're done with that. Another 32 minutes. Next thing you know, it's 2:17 a.m. It happens to hundreds upon hundreds of people in our community every single night. Not just single guys and girls, married people as well. We've become addicted. It's separating us from Hashem, separating us from our families. It's destroying our lives. One message I tell you, take control of your life. Starting now, starting tonight, we're going to have in a few minutes. Pay attention to the words. Pray this. Don't be busy with your phones. Connect to learn how to connect. When you're connected, you're going to see tremendous. I want to end off to every single person of year. Hashem should bless you with it should be a year of tremendous success, physical health, spiritual health and should grant all of us all our very very soon to be in a Tonight of course our families of I want to first take this opportunity to say thank you for I want to take this opportunity to say thank you to Kazak to Rabbi Rabino Thank you to to the vice president. This should be they start home and they start all over. I'm very proud to say that my wife is here, my daughter is here with all that beloved. You know is a day of appeal. We appeal to and what we say people say 12 times. We ask Hashem please all the look they should stay upstairs. They should not come down and unbelievable the tilot and the prayers that everybody came on behalf of myself, my wife, my daughter. Thank you. Thank you, Hashem. Thank you. You know when we met when I met the president of Armenia I told him I'm going to teach you three Hebrew letters. He speaks very well. So he asked me so I tell him this is the I told him something else. You see you see how I came. I told them I need Bkari. I am proud Bkari. We're not ashamed. We should not be ashamed. We should be proud. We should be very proud that we have such a outpour. And this is the testament to us. May Hashem write all of us in the life of the everybody should come home. foreign. Amen.