SPECIAL Night of Inspiration | Rabbi Krohn, Rabbi Mizrahi, Rabbi Nissel, Rabbi Zino | CHAZAQ

[Music] sh we want to thank everyone for joining us tonight it's very special she presented by the kazak organization and Beth Community Center Round of Applause to Beth for hosting tonight's event being such a place in the community we have such a and amazing L up of speakers tonight one after another so many tremendous speakers and um the entire event is being dedicated um for the uplifting the of rafik Bena alah car yakobov and just a quick word about him who's a very caring and loving father and grandfather he had many talents um in in the musical realm but uh and he was a great handyman and a cook but of course most importantly he was an optimist he had AA faith in Hashem that guided his his his kids and respect for his for his two son-in-laws one daughter-in-law and love for his children many grandchildren and of course they miss them very much and of course that um it's such a special thing that um that the the the yakobo family is um dedicating tonight's year and um theyve Round of Applause of course the yakwa family for all this this work they did for the community raem and I think it's such a inspiration for the entire community that some people they have what do they do for for for a yard site maybe maybe they're not dedicating amazing sharum like tonight that's going to be by so many people are here inspired in person of course thousands of people will watch it online so I think it's a great um great role models for the community it's also all the M all the all of course who died K in in the war that's going on and of course we should hear BOS in and of course you want to give a quick word about the kazak organization organizes events and shum for men women just like tonight amazing shum uplift and Inspire so many hundreds of people thousands of people throughout the year has a special um um impact on the public school Outreach through after school programs in 15 different locations a special division um called public school yiva which just transferred or 1500 children from public school Yeshiva so everyone right here before they leave think of think of a friend the neighbor coworker children in public school it'll be a great marit for you and your family and um of course I think I think to introduce tonight I think it could if you have one story I think to introduce what what the the meaning behind it tonight event is I think it'll be as follows far said this story recently he said that in Roden the they had the they had a fundraising event to to raise money for a hospital so there so there was different people they were calling out pledges and one person he donated five beds in the hospital somebody donated 15 beds in the hospital and was giving them giving them c k honor to them of course and then he then saw a few yes some people who are learning in in col all day and night and and and he gave them even more covero more more honor to them and and and the person who donate 15 beds he said said Rabbi why you why you giving more honor to them how many beds did they donate and he said they donated 50 beds he said what do you mean 50 beds they don't they don't even have a penny to their name how do they donate 50 beds he said because through their Torah through their learning through their mits that they're doing they're preventing 50 people from being in the hospital so I think that that's that's what we're doing here tonight that that that we're all here gather GED in to to get inspired to hear different words of inspiration from so many renowned speakers and and um and we don't even know what we're preventing all all the power of Torah and and um and BR of course that we're going to make as is have such an impact on the world in Isel bar and and um and of course this have such a tremendous impact and um Rabbi who needs no introduction a rabbi from Brooklyn New York oh please rise for RAB good evening everybody robak thank you for inviting us tonight to this beautiful night of inspiration for what you do is phenomenal on behalf of am especially the PST taking the boys out of the public school you have tremendous and continuous always hosting Tor spreading Torah in so many langu anges to so many Jews throughout the world there should be continuous in this beautiful they should have in the extension and the renovation that they are doing and all the congregants with all to amen of course to dear friend raim behind the camera on behalf of T time and uh I see over here we have the father of shim and ruen kak with us the father of the founders of T time it's great to see you as always and you with your children and all to also the class should be especially our brothers and sisters in the wounded the hostages if anyone would like to adopt a hostage you can email adopt a hostage gmail.com come and ask for a name they'll give you one name of course B are praying for all the hostages but when you feel sometimes connected to one specific hostage you have a name you could say that name and have a lot more kavana you could email them there's already many that have signed up and received in him of a hostage that they are personally praying for and we should be to see all the hostages freed they should go back to their families healthy and continue building the wonderful families We Begin the second of the five T we are beginning the that teaches us about the Exile the galut of Ben is we begin a very holy time called the six and this year t so with another two weeks that we have that we speak about the galut speak about the G and how important it is to take this opportunity to remind ourself why were we in galut how do we get out of the galut and into the G because to remind us we are not bystanders we are not passengers we cannot just sit around and say let's leave it up to the gim to get us out of this mess together have to come and and to realize if I'm part of is then I could do something and I have to do something and what is it that I could do to get Ben is out of the galut so that we could greet mashia and if you think that there's nothing that you could do my dear friend you're are wrong if you think it's beyond me then why did Hashem create you if you're here you have a purpose you have a mission and you have a way to help us get out of this galut and the question is what is that master key that's able to get out of the g into the and I'm sure there are a few very important ones to like tonight we like to address one of them and our rabbis tell us one of the key ways out of the galut into the G believe it or not is the same which is the for everything in our life what is the of our as we say in the that song that we sing un little Shabbat was written by a and he saysat is the key to all you want in your life run to shabbat shabat offers [Applause] yes the is hiding in if you see the first it says over there three words where if you take those three words and take the last letter of those three words it spells is shin Boggle those three letters and we have Shabbat the first p in this week's par is already hinting to shabbat KES he asked mosu for advice Moshe the cities that b are building are crumbling how do they last mhu told you want the cities to last give Ben is one day off which day shall already in Egypt they kept shabat we got the mitvah Shabbat before and in Egypt B is were already keeping Shabbat and keeping Shabbat we got out of the galut and that's the key for us to get out of this galut whether it's the communal G of all is the that we are living in or someone's personal galut that he is in or that she is in the greatest way to get out of the greatest is by [Music] being you want in life run to shabbat the many times he would say something amazing when people would come him for once he was quoted saying why are you coming to me for go to somebody greater than me RAB who's greater than you you're the and he would say you want shabat is the why are you coming to me if Shabbat does not give you then I cannot give you run to shabbat i' like to take you back to the year 2488 in that year yua was the leader over and we charged into the yard split for the Jewish people to walk through the Jordan River into is and our first battle against a city that was fortified with a very strong role is called had a very strong wall around that city as a matter of fact our rabbis tell us that the wall was as thick as it was tall so imagine the height of the city of the wall That's how big and wide the wall was it was a very difficult wall to breach and they walked right into after seven days they go around a certain amount of time and on day seven the walls crumbled down they destroyed the city they took over and not one injury there wasn't one fatality there wasn't one person that got hurt from that war the next battle was against a city called a i you would think is going to be very easy for is to conquer so they sent Scouts to go see how many people do you think we need to battle the city called and they checked and they came back with a report and they told Yeshua this is an easy City 2 to 3,000 people that's all and sure enough they sent a few thousand soldiers and they ran back for their lives they were not able to destroy a as a matter of fact not only did they have to run for their life 36 Jews died they realize something's wrong what's going on over here no one is dying and I 36 people died and they realize that there was a Jew in that didn't an a there was a law after the first war that nobody was allowed to take from the battle spoils whatever The Spoils of the war of Y were after you conquer another city they were not allowed to take any of the spoils and sure enough nobody took unfortunately however one person from is took from The Spoils of that war Yeshua wanted to know who it was because they realized being that a Jew sinned that's why 36 people died and they lost the war against a so he asked Hashem who took from The Spoils of the war who's the perpetrator and Hashem said do you think I speak lashar unbelievable b b tells yua the leader and there to it he needs to know we can try to find the says you think I speak I'm not telling you who took so yahushua has to do a lottery to find out who took from The Spoils of and he does a lottery and he gets to someone called aan the name of the person that took from the spoil and sure enough aan confessed and before he was put to death he composed a that we say every single day as three times look at the power of this man's say three times a day it's the second half of which starts with the words if you take the first three words is composed this beautiful before he passed away and he did T and he was killed for what he did and the question is begging what was the crime well we don't need more of an answer if he wasn't allowed to take from the spoils it ends over there but our rabbis tell us also that that day that they conquered and taking from the spoils means touching he touched and he caused where we do not understand the power of Shabbat to bring and one Jews shabat God forbid to bring to because Shabbat is hashem's honor and we cannot play with hashem's honor there's a zero tolerance when it comes to hashem's honor and that's why shabbat is so and that's why it's so important to in our Shabbat and to realize the more we stick to shabbat the more we run to shabbat the more we're going to be the more we're going to be the that we need the that we are waiting for is dependent on Shabbat if a person wants then they should run to shabbat the says something amazing on a mish that we say on Shabbat in the second Pedic which is called over there we say the famous M what does this mishna mean the of course he explains this mishna means that sometimes someone has aat maybe that they want to put out a candle remembering back then a candle was the whole earn wear the wick the oil and it cost money today maybe we don't really appreciate the value but back then they were very important items maybe not that easily made or acquired to get a good Wick to get a good candle which is the holder of the oil with the wick that's called the N that could be hard to find and someone sees that the fire is burning and here he is on Friday night and he doesn't need the oil anymore what a shame for the Lost oil he's going to sleep the oil is going to burn no one's going to enjoy from it so he wants to put out the flame because he has pity on the oil or he has pity on the wick or he has pity on that Earth wear candle he's going to sleep he doesn't need the light on he wants to put it out so he feels bad for the candle he feels bad for the oil he feels bad for the and that's why he closes the candle and the speaks what's the obviously it's but that's the discussing he's doing a but the says what's it's like he has pity what is do that mean he doesn't seemingly have pity he really has pity on the oil on the wick on the candle he's really H he feels bad for it the says no he doesn't because if he really felt bad for it then he wouldn't put out the fire because that's just going to get him a loss if he really feels bad on the loss of the oil of the wick of the candle then don't put it out because you will never gain from any shabat at all Shabbat only brings electric bill and the money and the AC I'll just shut it I'll do it B I'll close it like this if I really just do that it's a small a but there's a big gain small a but big gain big a and no gain because a person can never gain from it is impossible to gain fromat it is impossible to gain from Shabbat a person will never ever gain from being Shabbat what are the chances that someone's going to win the power bowl tonight just to bring it out to us to understand what it means that it's impossible so the chances of winning the power bow tonight is not impossible there's odds statistic is it likely it's not likely is it possible it is possible great whoever wins tonight what are the chances that that same person is going to win tomorrow night is it impossible it's not impossible they teach you in math class odds maybe it's one out of whatever number times one out of whatever number but it's not impossible is it likely it's not likely but it's not impossible what are the chance is I'm going to win the power bowl three nights in a row close to Zer close to zero is it impossible it's not impossible what are the chance I win the Power Ball all week long is it impossible it's not impossible odds are it's possible unlikely but statistically you have a chance I have a better chance that I win the power bow six nights in a row than to make a dollar fromat because that is impossible whatever chance I have to win the power bow six nights in a row is 0. zero I got it but there's a one eventually I have some shot from shabat it is impossible I have a better shot to be starting center in game seven of the NBA Finals because as much as that's not likely but it's not impossible to gain fromat is impossible is if we want to know how to get out of galut how to help the how to help ourselves and how to help old Shabbat Shabbat is the If We Hold On To shabat we can't even understand how much can come into our lives a friend K told me a phenomenal story a few months ago about his father Mr Walter car is atel and all the way here I asked him again to remind me of the details of the story and he says the way the story goes is that in 1977 his father had a store in an area that was rioted there was some type of blackout at the time and there were riots go in the area they would put a chain on the back of a truck they would put the other end of the Chain by the gate of a store and they would just take off the chain like it was some Sardine Can and they would Riot the store empty and his father got back to the store and he saw that he was looted there was nothing there you can imagine he lost the wealth and he didn't even have RI his insurance so he had to borrow money at the time $40,000 going back over 40 years that was a lot of money even today it's a lot of money going back 40 years was significantly a lot more money he borrows $440,000 and he opens up a children's store that has children's wear children's toys and he figures that when the big season for the to buy their gifts is going to come then he'll make back the money and he'll pay back all the people what he didn't realize is that y the big day that the guim were going to buy that year was actually on Shabbat Saturday now he didn't want to open the store of course on Shabbat but he owed a lot of people money and he was hoping that that's going to be a big business day that he'll be able to pay the people back so he didn't know what to do so he went to and he asked him for a to open his store on chabbat and R Mo told Mr Walter carry I could give you a but if you don't open your store I will give you a that you will make a 100 times more now that wasn't necessarily style to give especially 100 times more he had the kak for sure but that wasn't no for to always do and he told him if you don't open your store I will give you a to make a 100 times more instead so he's a smart man and he ran with the Friday he was ready to close the store but there were so many customers when he was telling them guys everybody get out go home at 2: 3 whatever time it was they weren't budging and the manager of the store said it's a big day that you're making a lot of money and he wanted to run with the so he gets up on the counter and he screams fire he said oh he screamed fire or bomb what are the other everyone runs out of the store he closes the store he gets home before Shabbat KES and mo a Shabbat he goes back and he opens the store for around 3 hours from around 6:00 till 9:00 the previous year he made in the register $30,000 in three hours he made $35,000 more than what he made enti year he made on he couldn't believe it that's what is we can't imagine what is we can't imagine what Shabbat is offering us Shabbat comes every single week when Shabbat comes we should be ah thank you hasem the is coming we should be running waiting for Shabbat KES that's not the end of the story the owner of the property didn't really have much to do with the property because the place was rioted value went down so the owner was ready to sell Mr Carrie didn't really have the money to buy the property the property was going for $120,000 any one of us today would buy whatever it is for $120,000 any building probably just sure I you don't care where it is $120,000 and they told Mr Walter carry don't worry give 20,000 and the other 100 on the mortgage he ended up buying the property for $120,000 he ended up selling the other stores for around $27,000 a month which came out to around $300,000 a year that he was profiting just from the real estate that he made off of that property and when he sold the building it went for $3 million he bought it for $120 and he sold for 3 million what was you make a hundred times more you made last year last year he made 30,000 times that by 100 you have two more zeros that's 300,000 that's $3 million when a person runs to he cannot even understand what kind of is coming his way and even if a person is already keeping Shabbat but for a person to understand to respect Shabbat to get ready for Shabbat early why do we have to run into Shabbat why do we have to run into Shabbat guy could say I'm keeping Shabbat beautiful but are you beautifying Shabbat imagine someone's able to get ready an hour before Shabbat imagine someone's able to be ready by on of Shabbat by midday that's it we already know from now I have a secret for everybody Shabbat is coming in less than 120 hours we already know it from now so if we just plan our week accordingly and revolve our week around chabbat and say wait I don't have to save everything for Thursday Friday let me PR prepare a little earlier so that when Friday comes along we're already dressed for Shabbat waiting for Shabbat can we just imagine the we could be bringing to the world Shabbat is the the faster we run to shabbat and the more we take care of Shabbat the more we could have in our life keep the rabbi waiting I'll leave you off with one last Point Rabbi I said that we have 15 Steps From kades until there's one step that really sticks out we have kades out of all the 15 Steps one of them really sticks out and we should be scratching our heads what's going on over here this is different and what step is that because it's two words every other step we manage to tell you in one word what to do and it could have been a very difficult step that's two steps and then that is the easiest step eat two words to tell me to eat and he didn't even tell me to eat he said set your table that's not the Mitzvah the Mitzvah is not to set the table the to eat what I think think the answer is what we see amazing in the danus the same way there's 15 Steps From Kadesh all the way until very end we also have 15 the number 15 is a very important night on the night of s and there's 15 15 times that we say what is theu that corresponds to because every you could match it up with one of the steps of the S the first one corresponds to Kadesh the second one corresponds to which which one corresponds to well is number 11 if you look at the 11th I'll read it to you the 11th is the gift of Shabbat if only we got Shabbat we're thanking hem for Shabbat Shabbat is the number 11th of the corresponds to shabbat Shabbat is double everything that corresponds to shabbat is double two candles we do twice double so the words in the s that correspond to shabbat are double and if a person keep your table is set your life is great comes thank you for coming tonight thank you M for your tremendous powerful words as in the continue the the night of inspiration next speaker is one of the rabbis of the sh tremendous Rabbi such who gives such powerful words that impact so many people and um we should um all please rise for good evening everyone should be for the RA in the highest parts of GED we're getting tonight together for inspiration on a day where many celebrate as a legal holiday we are separating ourselves and getting together to meet in Tora beautiful beautiful speakers to get together but Gabriel really welcomes and thanks all the rabbis for coming together and making such a Kem on this day I want to share with you a few thoughts how important it is to be dedicated to what you believe in into your heritage and not just going with the whims of time and not is going and doing what everybody else is doing as my rebi Arin Shalom he used to tell me that rabi used to tell him everyone has their favorite Rabbi who is their favorite Rabbi the famous saying but everybody does it why do you do this but everybody does it what do you mean so on this night we're not doing that we're not saying but everybody does it rather we're getting together to our Traditions are very very full of meaning and purpose and they uplift us and make our lives that more meaningful that much more meaningful and all it takes is a little bit of belief and research a little bit of reading a little bit of dedication to want to know and you'll realize this tremendous on everything our sages said there's a wonderful story with the of Al Shalom where there was a boy who was in Russia who was getting inscripted into the army and he goes to the rebbi to get a Salvation to go get help and try to get out of this duty to go to the Army back in those days if you went to the Army you lost a lot of your yish you lost a lot lost a lot of your Judaism it was very difficult so he goes to theb he asks for Reb I'm going to get cons conscripted into the army what do I do the rabbi takes out a little pamphlet he sticks it to him he gives it to him and he says take this you'll be fine and the gabbi pushes him tells him next next next he says that's the blessing and gave me a little pamphlet what does this have to do with anything he leaves he opens the pamphlet it's a small 5 minute 10 minute read where you learn all the laws of BR basically how to be a mo ins and outs he's so confused maybe the rabbi thought it was somebody else how is this supposed to save me from the Army but they always taught him whenever the sages say something they they mean what they say and we have to do a little bit of due diligence to try to understand what they're telling us he goes into the army he said the rabbi said to read this he read it like a like a book of back and forth again and again maybe some sagula over here I don't know what these laws mean he knows the ins and the outs he was involved in as in the medical field he was involved in the Army get training as a medic and he knows he knows his little booklet back and forth one night the the head of this unit he comes into the barracks he starts screaming and yelling he starts throwing things all over the place he says where's the Jew I heard there's a Jew who's in this Barracks he said yes everyone points to this man this boy he's the Jew he say come straight to my my office he brings him to the office he says oh my goodness they found out I'm a Jew that's it I'm over who knows where they're going to ship me off to he brings him to his room to his office this commanding officer he says to him you keep shabas he's so scared he doesn't answer the commanding officer takes out a gun he puts it to his head he says you keep shabas he says my goodness my life is on the line he remembers the laws of Kem giving up your life for the sake of your religion he says I have to I have to stand up for my religion I have to believe in what I believe in he says yes I keep Shabbat he you keep kosher he says he was he was stuttering but he said yes and he was willing to accept upon himself to admit that he's a Jew a religious Jew and ready to die as what it is it is what it is after he's almost crying think he's about to die the commanding officer puts away the gun he says very good he says do you know moel he mo he I'm looking for my son was born 8 days ago and I need a religious Jew a real Jew to be a all for my son I'm also a Jew and he said I wanted to see if you're a religious Jew and I had to put you to the test I didn't want anybody to do this bre and then a being that he says yes I'm a mo I learned I know what to do okay he didn't have experience so much but he knew what he had to do he knew the laws he took to took out the pamphlet the G gave him and he said the next day you're going to do a for my son he said but yeah it's it's it's assur it's we're going to get in trouble he said don't worry I'll make a deal with you you do this B we we'll give you a reason you'll be exempt you'll go home this is a small example of how when when our sages this is talking about more recent of the sages when they said something that we don't always understand in the moment why they're saying what they're saying but if we do a little bit says they even see even the mundane conversations of the sages needs to be studied to to learn tremendous amount from what they said how much more so in the that they taught in the M that they taught in the r many many many Customs that we have we have to realize that there's tremendous tremendous amount of meaning and power and everything our sages tell us but a lot of times we look at each other and we look at other people and compare and we make the mistake of thinking that maybe the other person has it right I have to be have what the other person has I have to be what the other person is and we have to realize that also in ourselves who gave us the power and the ability to be successful with what we have as there's a famous story where there was a parable where there's a person who was a farmer and he used to bring water from the well every single day to bring it to his to feed his animals to take care of his family to bring water to his house and he used to carry on a big stick two buckets and he used to fill it up with water however one over time was older and had a hole in it and as he would come back from the well by the time he got to his house half the right bucket would be half already empty so and obviously it's a parable it's Mas in the parable the bucket left bucket talks to the right bucket he says you see you're no good I do my job better than you I bring a Full Bucket you bring only a half bucket what are you good for and the right bucket felt you're right you know it's true you're doing a better job than I am but the farmer one day sens this and he tells the buckets Mas obviously he says you should know from the fact that this right bucket has a hole as I walk home every day I have a beautiful patch of flowers they get watered every day from this bucket that has a hole and this left bucket would never have again able to accomplish that it would be perfect and but in the same way not perfect so there's many people in their lives they feel have they have hold in their lives that they're missing something that I'm not perfect like the next guy I'm not perfect like the next girl but even the person who's perfect is not perfect like how you are also they wouldn't be able to make that patch of flowers or make that other accomplishment that mission that Hashem sent us here to do and we have to give benefit of the doubt to the sages we have to also give benefit of Doubt to ourselves we have to realize that has a mission for all of us to realize that put us in this in this situation with this problem with this these people with this family with this baggage that we think is baggage but really it's only to make us stronger and better and accomplish our mission there's a famous story with shom where a person has to we learn from this that a person has to realize that not just do we underestimates ourselves sometimes or what our sages are saying is that we underestimate ourselves even though we can do good in other things and we think that we can't do good and everything there's a famous Story We visited a certain Inn used to stay in a hostel when he used to visit certain area of Europe to go collect Saka and he went to this hostel and the owner was said wow unbelievable a rabbi came unbelievable says every Rabbi has to know mil and be a sop he has to know how to be a scribe says the rabbi is here unbelievable I have a sh I have some guests I need some chickens to be slaughtered this Rabbi is going to be my you're going to be my sh unbelievable so he says to him no problem but before him before I do the for you I can ask you a question privately please he says sure what happened he says maybe you can spot me rubles he 10 rubles one second hold on I just met you who are you what's your background how am I going to get this money back who knows when you're going to pay back you know in this in this world there's a lot of scam artists you know you you look like you have a beard and everything but who knows who you really are he says I don't understand you were about to let me your chickens and do everything on Cor you're going to eat off my hand but to take give me a few rubles you were scared how come for business you're so scared but for the AL you weren't so he realized that sometimes we we are able to do the due diligence and to do the investigation and other things but we have to realize we have to spread those skills to every part of our life to we we also can be just as diligent if we're doing it in business as said that there was a person that LE Nai came to he was a fisherman and he asked the fisherman asked him why don't you study Tor he says noi I can't study Tor I have I have no brain I have no ability to study T it's going to go in one year out the other I'm barely going to understand what it says what's the point of trying he says them I understand what do you do for a living he say I'm a fisherman he says tell me how do you catch these fish oh there's fish you catch in the morning there's fish you catch in the evening there's fish you catch with a cage there's fish you catch with a net you have to have this type of ND that type of ND you have to have this type of feed this type of feed he's explain to him a whole 10 minute spiel about how to catch fish he says you look like you don't you you said you don't have a brain but look what kind of brain you have if you have a brain for fish you have a brain for Torah if you have a brain for business you have a brain for Tor take out the word employee and put a m take out the word this product and put in a put it out take out this you could if you have the capacity for this you definitely have a capacity for that person says sometimes Rabbi I don't have AA it's very difficult to have imuna we have to ask ourselves we utilize imuna in so many different situations we havea when we buy milk from the store that we assume it's going to be not spoiled we have AA when we go on that doctor's table and we're going to let them do an incision on us or a surgery we have a MAA when we get on that plane when we go and fly for Yeshiva week we have a MAA that he's going to land us safely if we give to all these people we can realize we also can give him to in the Asian countries when they have a broken Bowl what they do is they fill the cracks with gold and they meld the bowl back together and a person has to realize that a lot of times we feel we can't we feel we we we can't continue but real we have to realize that this broken State we're in actually makes us that we're more valuable we actually overcome through this obstacle that we push ourselves we're like that bowl with the cracks are filled in with gold and it becomes actually more beautiful than the regular Bowl but seeing the world that it is today and how we are very outnumbered and and the Jews are always a small population it's very easy to get carried away by what's going on in the world and want to watch the ball drop or wanting to go and celebrate like everybody else we have to stay strong we have to stick to our heritage we have to delve into it as I said earlier today dur there was a k a soldier who was in October 7th he got he got called to Arms he went with his fellow Soldier and they on the way they were many met by many many terrorists and they were running out of ammo they started taking guns from wherever they could find from bodies on the floor that they found to the point where they got stuck behind the wall and they didn't know where to go they ended up praying to Hashem they thought their end was near they sounded tremendously outnumbered they had no more ammo and this friend of his the is telling a reporter in in an interview he's saying my friend he's a soldier he's not religious whatsoever he's the type of person to make a barbecue shish kebab on yum kipur he's that that not religious so so far he says to his friend while they're hearing the bullets whiz by if we get out of here alive I'm taking upon myself to keep Shabbat every Shabbat he made a cabala an acceptance he he says if we get out of here I'm keeping every Shabbat after he said that he felt mamash that the bullets were getting farther and farther away they in the middle of a gunfight they knew they pinned them behind the wall and all of a sudden it's as if they forgot about them and they left them alone they left they get they get they escape they lift the tell to tail he's telling this reporter you know what my friend said to me afterwards he says my friend said to me people ask where wases in the Holocaust where was in October 7th I tell them Hashem was right next to me Hashem was right there I saw him how he saved me he says you know what I'm going to ask those people who ask where was Hashem in October 7 where was hasem in the Holocaust you know I'm going to ask them I'm going to ask them where were you I asked and I took upon myself to keep Shabbat Hashem came for me Hashem was right there my question to you is if you don't feel Hashem you should ask yourself where were you maybe you didn't come yourself close to hasem that's why Hashem wasn't there so even with the crazy world we live in with everything going on we have to ask ourselves are we dedicating oursel properly are we telling I am here Hashem where are you it reminds us of another story with shom where he went to visit his hometown after many years of not visiting and he sees one of his childhood friends he became a very famous doctor professor and he sees Ohan I remember you fromer what came of you what became of you you're a very smart boy I remember he says I became a rabbi I became a teaching Ina so his his friend was a little bit not so excited he said okay nice cute I became a doctor I became a professor you know people give me a lot of honor where I live I have a nice home a nice car and whatnot so they reminisce they smoo and the rabbi felt the feeling that he got from his friend so the time came they they they reminisced and the re said I have to leave now I'm going to the train station he said let me escort you he goes to the train station and he sees that the rabbi is boarding this train it's a Shabby old train and it's going going to back to Yeshiva so the doctor asks him why why are you going this shabby old train they just installed a new train beautiful operating Windows it works the things actually pull down there's comfortable chairs comfortable seats it's brand new it goes very fast he says why don't you go on that train why are you going on the old train he says listen you're right it's beautiful but that train is going the wrong way it's comfortable but it's going the wrong way I have to go this way he said that it's a lesson in our lives we see a lot of people they have very comfortable lives they have very good lives I want to live in that train also the question is which way is it going though is it going the right way is it going the way that is going to lead us to is going to lead us a way it's coming close to or is it going the wrong way completely it's comfortable it's nice it looks good but it's not going the right way I want to end off with how I see I speak to many people in the community and I realize a lot of people try to do mitv when they were younger and didn't go for them it didn't connect to the Mitzvah they weren't successful in feeling connected to it so they they gave up on it some people tried learning some people tried praying some people tried s some people tried many different it didn't go for them they didn't feel connected they didn't feel successful with the Mitzvah it wasn't they said it wasn't for me and then they never try it again every opportunity came to learn again something else it's not for me it came to pray again it's not for me came come give to to this organization it's not for me they already had that taste in their mouth and they didn't want to try again it reminds us of how there's this phenomenon the psychologists speak about how when by circuses when they have elephants they train them when they're little not to run away by tying a string to a little you know stump in the a little stick in the ground a thick stick in the ground and the little elephant can't budge he can't get out and even when he's older even when he's almost four or five tons whatever it may be he goes and he he sees the string over on his leg into the stick in the ground he doesn't go anywhere he thinks that he won't be able to break it just like when he was very little and it's the very biggest psychology trick that he thinks he can't break it even though in once second he could break that stick in half and many people are the same way and there's this wonderful story on then off with how a person has to believe in himself and any person who cannot think he thinks he can't learn or he thinks he can't pray or he thinks he can't make a difference that you have to M believe in yourself and give a m in yourself and someone's Israeli person told me you need to have vitamin B vitamin B means Vin B you have to believe in yourself vitamin B there's a story of a fellow a Jewish fellow who's running his own private bank and he came out in rough times and early the times of the Great Depression he was losing a lot of money everyone was pulling out their Investments and he had a bank run where the bank has to give all the withdrawals at once and they don't have enough to do fulfill all the withdrawals and he kept telling people I'll pay you back I'll pay you back I'll pay you back he didn't know what to do he can't think straight he can't spend time with his family he can't learn he can't D he can't do anything he goes to the park he says to his wife you know leave me alone I have to go and clear my mind I'm not I'm not myself he goes to the park and he sees an old individual dressed up in a nice suit and tie and he says to this young man he why are you so sad I'm an old man I'm not here any much longer you have your whole life ahead of you what are you so worked up about come on it can't be that bad he says listen Mr old man you don't know what I'm going through I want to see you go and pay back people millions of dollars you don't have it's not so simple he says no if that's your problem don't worry he said what do you mean he say you don't know who I am my last name is Rockefeller he said therefore what he says I can help you out he takes out his check he says I like you you're a nice kid what do you need $10 million $20 million come he writes him a check here's $ 10 million don't don't don't sweat it don't worry about it everything's going to be okay you could check this get this check cash it whenever you need it I'm here for you he is unbelievable salvation came out of out of nowhere in the Blick of an eye he was so uplifted he saw hope he says I could do this Hashem is throwing me you know life another life another chance he goes home he puts it in his safe he says just in case emergency I'm going to use it I'm going to try to pay everyone back and miraculously he doesn't even use the check he put himself together and he paid everyone back he worked it out he takes the check back few a week later he wants to go see that old man give him back the check tell him thank you and he sees this time the old man is sitting in the park bench with a nurse there's a nurse there he goes he wants to kiss the old man's hands he wants to get on his knees he wants starts crying to him and the nurse is saying what are you doing what are you get off the old man what are you doing he's what do you mean this person saved my life this person gave me everything gave me a new lease on life he says what do you you mean he say gave me a check for $10 million he's Mr Rockefeller and the nurse says oh yeah you also bought a story you also fell for it he what do you mean he say you see this building this man is from the old age home right there I take him on walks he goes to the park he's bored he goes and he gets these little gags he gets these checks that says he's Mr Rockefeller next week he's Elvis next week is this he tells people all these stories you bought his story he had a he almost had a mini heart attack he says what do you mean I almost went to the bank and almost cashes his check I literally put myself back together thinking this was a real check and he realized in that moment that even if he didn't even have the check the fact that he put himself together he pushed himself and tried again that's what made it that he believe believed himself that's what he made that he put his life together raai on this night of the inspiration this night we're getting together to remind ourselves to stick to Tora if you try to learn and if you Tred to pray and if you Tred to give it didn't go for you I highly highly recommend you try again you never know what hasem has instored for you amen let's get Round of Applause RAB Zeno for his tremendous powerful remarks tonight next speaker p want to remind everyone that all the Torah everyone all the tonight everyone should should see on the signs everyone should as well of course we know speaker and author and um and Mo and please it's a very great to have been invited by kazak to come here tonight it's a special for all of us tonight we show what kind of people we are as we said so many times already tonight by all the speakers that tonight so many people will reach the lowest of their lives getting drunk yelling screaming celebrating but the truth is that that's not what a man comes to the world for we come to grow every man every woman every child is put into this world so that we should be the best that we could be that we should be able to be honest wonderful Jews and be able to contribute not only to our own lives but to the lives of others and when we come on a night like this as we have done this for many many years we owe a tremendous gratitude to kazak and to all the people who have put put together these programs so tonight I've chosen to speak about a topic that every one of us will be able to gain from every man woman and child and anyone that's going to be watching this presentation and the topic is bringing out the best in yourself every one of us is brought into this world as we will see in a few moments with certain talents and Hashem wants to see how we are going to use those talents and bring out the best in ourselves and in others so I want to start with a very famous Z the Z tells us something very interesting that the word is which is spelled y Shin Isel what it stands for is Yim there are 600,000 letters in the Torah why 600,000 because there were 600,000 men that left mitzraim now really there were millions of people that left MIT if you count the wives and the children but every man that left MIT has a letter that's his in the Torah and all of us that are the descendants of those 600,000 we each have a letter in the Torah that's ours we are all one big Collective sa Tor ra this thing fell okay so we are all one big Collective sa Torah which means three things imagine that if you come Shabbat to the synagogue and the balora is reading the Torah and one letter is missing so then you can't read the Torah the Torah is flawed it's not perfect you can't use it you have to close the Torah bring it into the OR kodes and take out another one that means that if there's one Jew out there whether he's in Forest Hills Regal Park Chicago Los Angeles Israel wherever he is and that Jew is not fulfilling his role of what it means to be an orthodox then it's a question on all of us just like you have a that has a 100,000 letters but one is missing then the whole Tor is flawed you can't use it and so we have to know that K being a fellow Jew it's not only for or or it's for all of us all of us have cousins that are not religious all of us have neighbors that are not religious all of us have neighbors and co-workers that are not religious and what we have to do is make sure that everyone reaches their goal and their toket of being a wonderful Jew that's the first lesson the second lesson is no two letters in the Torah can overlap they can't touch each other you know why cuz every letter special every letter stands alone and that teaches us that every one of us that's like a letter in the Torah is special every man woman and child in this B medes tonight is special you come to a big community in New York California Chicago Israel or whatever and you might think Hashem well what do you need me you got so many Jews out there there's so many great Jews no no no everyone is special nobody can overlap La every one of us has a different mindset every one of us has different talents and every one of us has a way of doing things that's different than everybody so every letter counts no overlap and every person counts and the final lesson is in English you have words that have one letter I I go I do I think a a book a microphone a video camera camera in the Tora there's not one word that has only one letter you know why because you can't do it alone we need each other those three lessons every single person is a part of a big sa for Torah and if one Jew is missing then it's a question on all of us every Jew is important there's no overlap and the third lesson is we can't do it alone we need each other now I want to tell you something that happened at the funeral of thisas EMS thisas EMES was the second G rebbi the first one was theim the second one was theas and unfortunately he lived to be only 58 years old and at his funeral one of his sons who would be the next rebi the Imes said to his younger brother balel at least our father had means Length of days so the younger brother said to him what do you mean Length of days he only lived to be 58 that's not Length of days listen to the answer that he said I didn't say that he had aim length of years I said that he had Aras y Length of days no one no one here tonight and no one watching this video no one can can guarantee for themselves length of years only Hashem can give us that but every single one of us can guarantee in our lives Length of days that means making Every Day Count and that's what this son said about his father he had he made everyday count and that's what Hashem wants to see from us how many years he gives us that's his gift to us the days that we make count that's the gift we give to Hashem and tonight we're going to learn how every one of us can guarantee in our lives Length of days making Every Day Count now I want to tell you something that happened to me a number of years ago on my birthday now I love my birthday because the whole world celebrates my birthday my birthday is is to bishvat so everybody celebrates now on my birthday a number of years ago somebody called me and said something that I found so inspirational and the truth is when you think about it every single one of you here tonight when you think about it it fits for all of you as well you know what the person told me the person said the day you were born many years ago that was the day Hashem decided the world can no longer exist without you think about that every person right here the day you were born right here that's the day that Hashem decided the world can't exist without you he needs you and he needs you and he needs you that's why Hashem put us in this world because otherwise he wouldn't have brought us here there no two people that are alike even identical twins are not alike they have a different mindset they think different they act different so if Hashem brought you in the world then you have a role to fulfill everybody is important that's why Hashem brought you in the world and so what I'm going to show you now is what it means to have a the length of days to make every single day count now a while ago there was a fellow in Toronto he happens to be a very good friend of mine I was his P leader as a little boy when he was a little boy his name is ABY Rottenberg and he wrote a song and it's impossible to listen to this song the way he sings it with a guy schulam lemmer without crying the song is called the butterfly and it's about Zakaria Wallin we all know zakar Wallin was great in kir like nobody else in the generation and they wrote a song about him and there's one line in that song that's worth the whole song and it says so much and the line is as follows you can fly and you can soar if you'll just only open the door you can fly and you can soar if you'll only open the door now I'm going to show you now I'm going to tell you a story about somebody that all of you know he comes in in the middle of the story as you'll see in a few moments but we will see greatness and how you can fly and you can soar if you'll just only open the door 3 years ago on a m of shabas I got a call from a couple and both the husband and the wife were on the phone and the husband and the wife are telling me that they need they need encouragement and I said what's going on and the wife started talking and she said I'm expecting a baby in two weeks and I'm so nervous I need I'm frightened I said why would you be frightened that's the happiest moment in a woman's life that she's able to give birth to a healthy child and then she started crying she couldn't talk and her husband took over the phone and he said Rabbi cron I want to tell you that last year my wife was also expecting and we went into the hospital Friday afternoon and the doctor thought everything was perfect the nurses thought everything was perfect the pregnancy was perfect all nine months and Friday night the baby was born and it wasn't alive it was a stillborn and we were so shocked and the doctors were shocked and we cried all night we couldn't believe it it was awful and I just I'm afraid he said that it shouldn't happen again it happened last year and that's why we need because we're so frightened it shouldn't happen again so I said to them I want to tell you something I want you to take out your tum I'm going to show you something and I'm telling you that if you do what I tell you you'll see in two weeks the baby's going to be born and everything's going to be perfect but I want you to take out your and I want to tell you something they took out their T and I told them I want every day from now on don't tell anybody I told you this but I want every day from the next two weeks you're going to say chapter 127 and 128 and and when you go home you can look it up you'll see what I'm talking about and I said take a look at the per now at this chapter right now and the in K 127 says the heritage of hm is children and in the it says children are like arrows in the hands of a strong man a strong man stands here and he shoots an arrow and it goes far and it accomplishes what it's supposed to accomplish that's the same thing with children you raise kids in Forest Hills you raise kids in New York you send them out to California ER Mexico whatever and they accomplish so kids are like arrows and then the next per tells us also the says your wife will be like a fruitful Vine in the chambers of your home and then it says in the next your children will be like Olive Sprouts olives are always fresh throughout the whole year your kids will be vibrant these two parim talk about marriage and they talk about children save these two perakim and you'll see the baby's going to be fine fine we hung up two weeks later on a m of shabas I get a call I recognize the guy's voice he says Rabbi croll well as soon as he said it that way I knew it was good right and he said we just had a baby girl and I'm thinking I'm a m you couldn't have had a boy okay I didn't say it I didn't say anything but the point was fine I wished to mazeltov and I asked him about the baby his name I gave him a br and I was about to hang up and then he says Rabon I want to tell you a part of the story that I didn't tell you two weeks ago I said what's that he said Rabbi crom remember I told you that we cried a whole Friday night shabas morning I said to my wife look there's a shol down the block in Long Branch where the hospital is there's a sh down the block and I said to my wife I think it's Shabbat I should go to Sho and she said you're right so I wiped my tears and by the time I got to sh it was late already they were in the middle of Kata Tor they were reading the Torah he said Rabon I want you to try to picture what happened when I came in I come in I'm so sad and as I'm coming in Yakov Chi the famous singer is finishing an Aliyah they just gave him an Aliyah La Torah he just had a healthy baby girl and everybody is wishing him mlov I'm walking in I'm so sad and everybody's yelling mL of course I went over to him I realized he had a child I also said ML and after ding they announced they're going to make a big KES for Yakov Chi everybody loves him he's a wonderful guy and I went over to him and I said Yakov I know they're making a kdes for you would you mind staying after The KES I have to talk to you about something personal and he said of course it's no problem and sure enough after the kidou everybody left and only me and Yakov Trey were in The Shaw and I said to him Yakov my wife asked I should ask you a favor last night we had a terrible terrible tragedy we're expecting a baby to be born a healthy baby and it was born not alive and we want to cry we have to get it out of our system and we know that you sing a beautiful song Mama R cry could we come to your house and you'll sing it for us and we'll cry together we just have to cry and get it out please can we come and you'll sing it for us and yakob said of course what's the question I'll wait for you even after midnight it's no problem wherever you come it'll be okay and he says Rabbi cron I want you to know we came to his house not only did he sing it for us listen to one line of the chorus Mama ra cry for us again won't you shed a tear for your dear children if you raise your sweet voice now as then the day will come not only did he sing it for us he sang that beautiful song that he sings about the B mikdash ra he gave us he gave us CDs he spent so much time with us it was incredible and when I heard that I said to this fellow you know do you mind if I call Yakov because I want to tell the story I want to write this story I would never write a story without somebody's permission using their name so sure enough I called him up I said yob I just heard this unbelievable thing that you did for this family that's amazing he said Rabbi please don't tell the story I said why shouldn't I tell the story he said you know why I do all these things I do it so I should get reward in the I'm I'm afraid if you tell the story I'm not going to get so much reward up there I said Yakov you're a bigger toic than I thought you were I said I want to tell you something why do you do what you do because older singers than you like Mor B David and schamy Dax and ab Ram fre they've been doing it for years they go to homes of challenged children they go to hospitals and they sing for them and you learned it from them if you let me write or tell the story people will learn from you you'll get 10 times more reward in the and he said you really believe that I said' of course he said okay tell the story now why am I telling you the story because he was able to fly and he saw it because he opened the door do you know what he gets paid for a concert more than I'm getting paid for being here tonight that I can tell you he gets tremendous amounts of money but you know something he gave it to them without trust because he knew they needed did it every single person here tonight has talent some can cook some can bake some can speak some can be graphic artists some could be hatop everybody can do something you have to look into your heart and look into your mind and think what can I do and how could I do it for other people take a look at a guy like ra segv right he's sitting in the back a humble fellow you know how many videos hundreds of videos he has done for kazak and Torah gos all over the world he's a videographer I can't do what he does Andy can't do what both of us can do and we can't do what he does but Hashem gives everybody a talent and you take that talent and you use it that's what Hashem brought you into this world for and I want to tell you something never ever believe someone who says you can't do something even even if it's your sister-in-law who you haven't spoken to in four years don't believe anyone if you believe you can do something you'll do it and I'll tell you if you believe you can't do it you'll never do it every one of us can enhance the lives of other people in CLA Israel and you know something there are many in here tonight that can change the world now I want to ask you a question I'm sure that nobody knows the answer but there's one person here who probably will know the name of this person I want to mention a Goa person just by a raise of hands how many people ever heard of the name Roger banister besides Mak nissle anybody oh tell us what did Roger bister do I believe he broke theile that's right that's right the gentleman is right you can look it up in the Google Ador Roger banister was a medical student in England and on May 6th 1954 he was the first one shes who ran the mile in less than 4 minutes he ran it in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds and the World Went Crazy maybe the only one who could do it was naali because the Tet tells us naali could run fast but nobody could believe it how could any human being run a mile in less than 4 seconds four minutes and he did it in less than 4 minutes 3 minutes 59.4 seconds now hold on to your seat belts you're not going to believe this that was May 6 1954 by May 6th 1955 37 other people did it how did they do it what happened everybody ate weedies like how did that happen you know what the answer is cuz now people believe they could do it if he could do it I could do it and you know something by May 6th 1956 100 people did it and today over a thousand people have done it cuz everybody felt that they could do it if you believe in yourself you'll be able to do it if you don't believe that you could do it you'll never do it that's how you bring out the best in yourself you look and see what did Hashem give me that I could help other people and I'll tell you something that happened to me when I was in the ninth grade in tur us we had a teacher Mr hos he was my favorite teacher in English literature and on one night on PTA my mother came you know all the mothers come to see how wonderful or unw wonderful their kids are right and Mr oza said to my mother I was in the ninth grade she said Mrs cron your son is a good writer but he'll never write a book and my mother couldn't believe it I'm ninth grade she wasn't thinking about my writing books so she said to M OA why do you say my son won't write a book nah he's too religious nobody's ever going to read what he writes now I'm sure that when the next parent came in Miss OA surely forgot what he said my mother didn't forget and I certainly didn't forget and 25 years later when the magget speaks came out my first book on Jewish short stories I went looking for Mr oosa I wanted to see if the guy's still around and sure enough he was the head of the English Department in hafta a Jewish Day School in Long Island I called him up I said Mr O do you remember you taught in us he said yeah some good years there I said my name is p do you remember I was one of your students he said yeah I think I remember I said you know I got a present for you he said after 25 years you got a present I said yeah when can I bring it he said well if you got a present you could bring it tomorrow sure enough I drove up he's sitting behind his big desk he's the head of the English Department and I said listen I want to tell you something I know you're not going to remember this but in the ninth grade you once told told my mother that I would never write a book I just want to show you I just wrote a book for a company called Art scroll and it's got 95 stories in it and I'm going to give it to you and I'm going to autograph it to you I'm giving it to you as a gift well he went crazy he could not believe it he comes out of his desk he puts his arm around me he says come with me I said where we going just come with me he takes me into one of his classes he says boys I want to show you a former student of mine he just wrote a book and I taught him how to write let him think that he taught me how to write but the point is Imagine I've thought about this so many times imagine when I started writing that book if I would have thought to myself I'm going to write a book it's crazy my favorite teacher said I can't write a book and you know something you know how the old the speaking started I'll tell you the truth the speaking started after I started writing the books because people figured hey if the guy could write a story maybe he could tell a story imagine all the books and all the speeches gone if I would have believed in that teacher who said that I can't do something can't believe in anybody if you believe something you can do it now I want to tell you about two people who changed the world and I'm so happy to tell you about these two people as you'll see in a few moments these two people grew up here in Forest Hills they were in Forest Hills High School no Kult no nothing they were in farest Hills High School and there's an organization called Jeep Jewish Education Program and Jeep is allowed to go into schools to teach religion and they see two boys two spartic boys and they say you want to learn Torah and I said nah he said no but we're serving good hot pizza oh okay we'll come so they came and what happened whoever that Jeb teacher was was he should be benched forever because he said such inspirational things that these two guys they loved it and after the class the rebi Yesa you want to come back next week said the first thing they said was you're serving pizza and I said yeah I said okay good we'll come now these two guys shim and ruin they decided that they are going to come every single week they took they got a small cassette tape recorder and they started recording what they were listening to they started sending it to their friends and after a few weeks they decided why are we recording it wouldn't people want to video it and and see better than listen so they took a video camera and then they started recording and then they started sending it to their friends and then they came to a shabbaton they came with their parents shimu and K Yakov the Holy Father sitting right there and we were at a shabbaton together I will never forget this Rabbi Wallin made the shabbaton and and I was one of the speakers and Ruben and Shimon and their father and mother came over to me and said listen Rabbi we know that you speak a lot do you mind if we video you and we'll send it out to our friends I said of course not why not and then they said you know because we have an idea that we want to go and video many many speakers and everybody says it's impossible we could never do it I said don't be ridiculous of course you could do it I said RAB friend and I we do the Heritage Foundation every TI of tens of thousands of people see it why can't you do it and Ruan and shim Co Yakov started Torah anytime that come and their father sitting right there give him a round of applause cuz he raised such holy children cuz these two guys believed they could do it and they just needed encouragement and if you want to know why my voice is by Tor anytime.com right before every speech and afterwards cuz I was the only guy who believed in them I remember they came to my house and they said could you make that recording before and after I said of course two guys last year do you know how many hours of Torah was listened to by Tor anytime.com 12 million hours two public school kids right here in Far SS High could you believe it because they had an idea and they believed in themselves and every one of us here has ideas but sometimes we just don't believe in ourselves and we think ah somebody else will do it no no no you could do it just believe in yourself and you could change the world just like these two guys did and I just want to end with this lifechanging story because we have a great speaker coming up after I his name is RAB he just came from marage Israel he's written for women you must get it ra it's wonderful so right after I speak he's going to come up and speak with His Brilliant English accent so even if you don't listen just listen to the accent it's great but the point is I want to tell you one more story a number of years ago in Lakewood they decided that they're going to close the elementary schools a few days before y for PES because it's a very busy holiday and like this the rebies would be able to help the wives two days and three days before yant so now it's two days before the holiday and a rebi comes into his wife's kitchen he says can I help you we have off what could I do for you she says you really want to help he says yeah I'll do anything he says okay good listen we had six kids if you could take the kids out for 4 hours I'll be able to bake cook and clean and he's thinking what in the world he going to do in Lakewood for 4 hours with these kids but then he remembered New York airport is an hour away way and the kids were never in the airport so he figured that's 1 hour there 1 hour back already killed two hours and now he's got to figure out what to do with the other two hours and then I remember there's such a thing as an air Trin in Newark Airport now the airports today are monstrous so if you land in Delta but you got to go to United or American Airlines so there's a train that you take and in Newark it's overground so when you're on the train you could see the planes taking over off and landing and then you could see the Jersey turnpike so it's interesting so he takes them and they're on the train for 2 hours and they're having a great time after two hours a pilot gets on very spiffy looking guy with a jacket and a tie and a cap and these Pilots are wonderful people especially the guys with the Southern Accents and he goes over and he sees a father with six kids and he says where you all flying today they didn't know what to say they're not flying any place so they look at the father and the father says to the pilot actually we're flying nowhere he says you're flying nowhere what does that mean he says you see we have a religious holiday coming up and it's a very busy time for the women so my wife asked me if I could take the kids out and we're just having a great time together on this air train and the pilot got very serious and he said young man I want to tell you something I've been a pilot for for 25 years there's not a major airport in the world that I haven't landed in he said 2 years ago I got a text from my son and he wrote me dad you're always so busy you never came to any of my birthday parties you didn't even have the decency to come to my graduation and last week was the birthday party of your first grandson my son and you didn't have the decency to come do me a favor take my number out of your contacts and then he said two weeks later I got the same text from my daughter he said young man I have flown everywhere but obviously gone nowhere you told me you're going nowhere but with your kids you're going everywhere and that's really lifechanging he flew everywhere but went nowhere this kid these children they were going with the father they were flying nowhere but they were going everywhere and that's what I want to tell all of you as much as it is so important to take your talents and give to everyone the most important thing is your family your children they need you more than anything no matter what you do for CLA you s you can never ever forget your children people always ask me how do you travel sometimes 12 out of 13 sh I'm away from home in this country in this city in this vention or whatever you know what the answer is my kids are married you got to be crazy to do this stuff if your kids are home your kids are your priority of course you got to do for CLA Isel that's part of the but you can't be out every night can't be doing for the whole world without doing for your kids your kids are the most important Hashem should bench every single one of us that we should be able to fulfill our potential and take the take the talents that Hashem has given us and use it for claw Isel and the priority is to use it for your family don't forget that and if we can do that hopefully we'll have an elevated CLA we'll have an elevated sa because as we said before we're all letters in the sa let us make that SAA perfect and mashia will be able to carry it and carry all of us ter Isel thank you kazak for inviting me and thank you for listening thank you Rabbi Crome for your words of inspiration our next speaker is RAB we appreciate the rabbi coming he's all the way coming from Israel he has very special remarks of course the rabbi just came out with an amazing book looking into the sun about about his re ra MOS shabir and we're looking forward to hearing from RAB tonight everyone please okay rule number one in public speaking never speak after face of crown uh rule number two in public speaking is never speak of New Year's Eve because people are very distracted at the moment but I do have something going for me I have one thing going for me that Rabbi cron does not have and that is um I'm fresh of the boat fromes and I want to talk about my country which is also your country I want to talk about what's happening in ER Israel and I want to give you a message that I honestly think is absolutely vital with what we're going through the craziness that we're going through but I want to do it my way I want to begin a little bit from a different angle Than People expect I want to talk about each one of you where did your life begin so when the moment you were born correct your life began the moment you were born incorrect absolutely incorrect if you have a look at the way the in brings it down the moment that you were born was n months after that you were created your first life is what the doctor says was a fertilized OV but what we say a fertilized oven with attached that was you and inside your mama's womb what happened for 9 months you had your own personalized angel that came down from shmay According to one tradition that angel stays with you throughout your life he's joined with another Angel for Shabbat but throughout your life you have this Angel and this angel will testify you on the Y had on the day that you go up to shmay when you're 120 years old what does the angel do for you're in your mama's womb so I'm going to say it my way is thinking you get I'm G to say my own way for nine months thear says the this Angel teaches you the whole T its entirety which we all know is impossible the whole turn its entirety is infinity the whole turn its entirety to quote the that everything that we have studied in the Torah from the beginning of time to the end of time it's like taking a drop out of the ocean the ocean remains intact because the Torah is ultimately plugging into hashem's mind it is infinite says the Mah means you're you're shown your Torah you're shown your ladder you're shown what your capable of doing you're shown ases so beautifully taught us just now every single barrier that you can break because in those nine months everything that you're capable of doing has been shown to you how to do it how to deal with every single situation so you come out and as you leave the angel comes along touches you over here according to the maral he actually touches you on your mouth and says to you now you have the power of speech at that moment you forget everything that happened to you during those nine months and your challenge of life is to climb your ladder and to become that person that you're supposed to be and to break those barriers and to bring out all your and that angel on your Y is going to tell youor I showed you everything by the way it's I don't know why I think the Angels come from Puerto Rico but uh apparently they do apparently they do the bottom line is is on the Y Haden when you're 120 years old he's going to come back and he's going to testify did you or did you not climb your ladder so I want to take this whole idea a whole level deeper because I want to connect it to what's happening in ER Israel I want to do it with a story I apologize the first few minutes of the story is just just comedy because it's funny but then it's it's going to instantly become very very serious this story involves who I consider to be one of the most Kad that I've ever met a man by the name of risim black does anyone by chance have heard of him so for R cron if you've not heard of him he is the polar opposite of who I am I grew up in the privileged suburbs of Northwest London I grew up in a home where my parents never raised their voices happily married I grew up in a home where literally everything I possibly wanted I had he was born in the barriers in the the worst neighborhoods of Seattle he was born to a black family where his mother died well my mother also died but unfortunately in a car accident his mother died from drug overdose as his as child he himself supported himself by drug pushing before his Mitzvah and everything that could possibly go wrong in a child's life he went through we were Polar Opposites in every single way and when I met this person it was it was as if he was my brother as if we had loved each other our whole lives but I want to tell you the story that happened to me with him two months ago with a little bit of background I work for an organization called ncsy this morning I was with 200 kids public school kids from all over the country in a few minutes I want to tell you more about these children but it's tremendous that I have I work with teens have a lot of fun with them but I want to tell you as my re you would always say you will get from them much more than you can ever give them and exactly one year and 3 months ago I was in a place called Utah with a bunch of kids from ncsy and Sunday morning the shabbaton is over Sunday morning I'm going to get into my car and drive 7 hours from this little Lake in Northern Utah all the way through Utah all the way through Arizona and then going to Nevada and finally finally finally I'm going to make it to Las Vegas where I'm speaking forne in as T of Las Vegas at exactly 7:00 in the evening that's my story now I happen to know I have students over here I see their faces so unfortunately they know my personality and R cron knows my rabbitson and he can picture this exactly happening my wife calls me and say I know what's going to happen you have seven hours to make it exactly to be on time to be there in Las Vegas at 7 p.m. do not get distracted promise promise me you're going to be there in time she knows me she says be sensible this is important this is a be there at 7:00 now also happens to be that if you look up online what is the most beautiful part of the world the number one Road in the whole world I'm talking about the whole world not just America the most beautiful beautiful world it begins in Yellowstone goes all the way through Utah all the way through Grand Canyon keep going and it till curves to the South I am going amongst the most beautiful part of's world and I love nature my wife says be sensible I'm GNA be sensible and then I see it hearton not hearton Zion National Park I see that sign I look at the clock I'm doing well I make a calculation if I go to Z National Park I can spend 20 minutes there and see one of God's Great wonders I get to the entrance over there as I get to the entrance I notice that my phone is no longer working so I don't know what's going on in the big wide world but I told the guy over there what can I do if I have 20 minutes and he said to me the following go for 10 minutes and come back for 10 minutes and you can win an award for being the stupidest person that ever came to Z National Park and then he said to me whatever you do don't go into the tunnel cuz once you go into the tunnel through the mountain you're going to come out the other side it's going to be so beautiful you're going to get distracted you're never going to make it back in time does anyone know what I'm referring to andone be T National Park that tunnel you remember the tunnel you know what I'm talking about that tunnel so I drive for 10 minutes and there I see the tunnel and I'm looking at the tunnel and I'm thinking to myself you know you only live once I'm here I'm here at the tunnel I don't have free choice I have to go and see what's on the other side I drive through the T I completely forget about time I forget about my wife I forget about responsibility I came out the other side beautiful beautiful nature how could have you're so incredible you're so amazing and then obviously once I'm there I decided okay let me just do a short little video for my YouTube channel by the way you can subscribe right here and I get back I come out of the Z National Park I look at my clock once it once it kicks back in and I find out that I am now arriving in Las Vegas at 7:20 20 minutes late what am I going to do my wife's going to kill me not only that is such AIC and it's not like I can go overtime because at 8:30 I'm teaching in the college campus for the students they have to finish a Time at eight everyone's going to be upset with me and then I remember that I'm Israeli and I remember that just know a little bit how to drive fast now I just want to make sure that everyone knows at this point now that what I'm about to tell you now I am no longer RAB because this is bad role modeling okay kids don't listen lishma I'm not going to speed speed speed but instead of going 55 I go like 65 maybe 70 and I said what 7 maybe 75 okay just push it a little bit so I just want you to know something there's a state called Arizona the whole purpose of the state is one thing and one thing only to give speeding tickets that I think is that their major national income is speeding tickets it's notorious for speeding tickets I come in I'm now in Arizona and suddenly okay there's a there's there's a cop he's telling me to go to the side this guy comes out I can't really explain to you what he looked like but he was kind of like um he was he was he was truly frightening imagine like a mix between um a Kansas City football player and Donald Trump okay with a little bit of like a Twist of Ed sheron's face and he comes out with his draw and says sir I'm not mad at you that you were speeding I'm mad at you I did not know this was a rule in Arizona that you do not go to the other land while I was in the middle of an operation does anybody know what I just said you know what I'm talking about there's a rule in Arizona that when a police is busy you have to go to like to the other lane and not disturb him yor in New York too I did not know what he was talking about middle of an operation I looked at him and said in my finest British accent said sir you were in the middle of operation you don't look like a surgeon um he did not think I was funny at all and then he decided that instead of giving me a ticket he would give me a kha that was it he started to explain to me what I did wrong and how bad I was eventually he let me go at that point then it now said 7:40 so at this point now I was literally devastated and I'd been driving like like for 6 hours already and I felt hot and shitzy and disgusting and I was just like then I remembered I'm a teacher I I teach and I figured I'll turn to Hashem and I'll ask for a miracle got himem in heaven I want to be on time for this incredible Shear in Las Vegas but it looks like I'm going to be 40 minutes late for a 1 hour class K can do anything can do any miracle in the world if you just know how to D him properly I see the great state of Nevada I cross over the Nevada line and then the miracle happened suddenly without any explanation the clock moved back one hour and I said kbar how did you do that okay this is an I was kbar he just incredible I was so happy I got off I went to the nearest nearest I saw a shopping mall I went up I bought myself coffee I bought myself all kinds of you know like Nevada souvenirs and barem I was only 10 minutes late and I cannot believe it can just move the clock like that it's such a miracle now this story doesn't end over here because this is where the story gets serious fast forward to two months ago so it's a year later and now I am in the great City of Chicago I'm in O'Hare Airport and I'm waiting for niss and black niss and black is this incredible holy theama he BW up grew up as a as a black rapper and now he wraps to M and MIM beautiful children it's incredible what he does he actually when I he made me a personalized presentation for me to give over to the anus wirus over shabat which is why I'm giving over his story right now we arrive in our her we are going to a shabbaton in a p place called casopis now I know this you're thinking I'm joking but it's it's in a state called Michigan copis Michigan I think it's twinned with sophus um I don't know copis sounds like some kind of a sickness that people get I have a good cream for that but it's actually a place and it's a campsite and we're going to copoulos okay so I said to I said to Nim I says are you by chance hungry he says I'm starving I says okay we're going to stop up just for a few minutes and my friend called Alisa pin I don't know if you know the pin of Chicago I asked her can we pop over sure I said I'm coming with this in black as we arrive like literally he is mobbed everyone wants to take pictures with him and um this chent in this like cougle and then we decided we're going to do a quick mik on and then we're on the way and suddenly I realized now this is I cannot make this up when you go from Chicago which is in Illinois and you want to go to copoulos which is in Indiana you actually baru does another miracle you lose an hour you actually lose an hour and suddenly I said Nim we have a major problem because we are going to arrive 20 minutes after Shabbat now I'm religious Jew I don't mess with Shabbat I said we're turning back we're going to Chicago we can't do this there's no way we're going to do this over here this looks at me he says you're Israeli right you know how to drive he says I want you just to go you know just press a little bit we're going to make it I said I want to show you something look at our ways there are literally cops every 3 miles it's not going to happen it's not going to be good for us he says listen you do the driving I will take care of the cops how you going to do that cabal he starts rapping cabalistic he's going like like the whole thing I know what he's doing these things is crazy stuff and the cops are like waving us on and we're like whizzing past them and I don't know how this happened and it remains to me what I call the miracle of sophus but we actually arrived 20 minutes before Shabbat ended before Shabbat began I even managed to take a Shabbat together we did kabat shabat it was most incredible thing and I turned to Nissim and this is the point of my story before I get very very serious with everyone I turned to this say how did you know how could you rely on a miracle that we were going to make in time for Shabbat and he said to me the following words he said to don't you get it you and I we are the shabbaton we are the shabbaton the 200 of your kids expecting us to make the shabbaton of course we're going to making time for Shabbat I started to think about what he's saying what does it mean that a kbar who takes two Jews and he does the most incredible Miracles because we have decided that what we are doing is something important let's go back to I started my presentation remember the story of you and I in the womb in Big Mama's womb remember when we spoke about how the angel shows you your ladder and told you you have to climb to the top of your ladder and when you reach the top of your ladder you have filled your tough kid you've done what you're supposed to do in this world that is not the full story it is not just climbing your ladder because your ladder has to fit in with every single of the ladder of every single Jew in the words of the holy Zohar if a KES is a conductor every single one of us was given in our mother's womb an instrument to play so you have to play the harp and you have to play the violin and you have to play the symbols or whatever it may be each one has an instrument and your instrument is exactly what is needed to make the music that is perfect because when mashia comes and he representing Hashem is going to show every single Jew their instruments but it's not going to stop there because your instrument has to play in harmony with everybody else otherwise there's no point in playing it's not enough to be your own instrument when every single Jew plays their instrument in harmony with everyone else you start to hear that every single nju has music as well and then you start to hear the music of the animals and then you start to hear the music of the plants it's called PIR and then you start to hear the music of the inanimate the Heavenly celestial bodies says the zor at some point your will want to leave your goof from the beauty of the music you're going to be able to make and now listen to this every single one of us also has a letter in the SE of hasem how how did hasm create the world he took 600,000 letters he created out of this the seph Tor and each letter corresponds to one and if you do not bring out your letter the whole sa suddenly Everything Changes because Ron always says things beautifully and positively but I'm saying something that is frightening we have an to bring out we have a responsibility to bring out a letter and without that we have failed the whole world so I want to get to the point I want to make to in Shabbat we read that theim the 12 tribes said to says the rabbis is God is created by being his one is are the children of and D are the children of and z now stop and think for a moment are they are the children of the maid servant they are second class citizens Shalom to think that way without the letter doll you don't have a without people doing what they need to do to go to the corners of the world we have nothing this Shabbat a girl comes after to me her name is AI she's the only Jewish girl in her school it's called Niles North in Chicago since what they call October 7th we call since then they call her in the school the Jew girl kids go up to into her face they didn't even know what a map of the world looks like they certainly would know where Israel is and they see into her face free Palestine the same way that when my mother grew up in Germany her classmates who were German would go up there and say but like ferociously she goes to the dean and she complains and she says this is what they're doing to me the harassing me you know what he says freedom of speech and this 16-year-old girl She Bangs on the table and looks him in the eyes his dear and auntie semma and walks out I told her actually I told her this morning I said do yourself a favor and stop doing this because you're a hero in my eyes but you're not going to win the reason why you're not going to win is because everything that's happening here today today has been written in the books thousands of years ago you can open up has spoken about this it's all there everything that is happening today has been 2,000 years ago written about in great detail before mashia comes B is are going to be back in the land of Israel and the last gut we're going to suffer from the children of Ishmael all they are doing the children of ishma is exactly what is written so it's the script is there the B they're doing what they're supposed to be doing the B had this recessing Gene called anti-Semitism on campus they're doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing the story of asav and is we've been doing this for thousands of years go and ask your grandparents and ask them if they could to remember their grandparents so the names change and the periods of History change but the story is always say the only thing that is different is our pain and the only thing that is truly truly consequential is what we do with that pain and the choices that we make and now I want to make my point over here the reason why I came and I was so appreciated that Robbie asked me to speak tonight because I feel very strongly with the following message last night when we did havalah with these 250 beautiful Nish and we sang I don't know why I started crying I started crying I got very emotional I was planning after the Shabbat was over to thank RAB Greenland for beautiful shabbaton but I realized that this beautiful powerful shabbaton was extra special because there's someone else I needed to thank I needed to thank Hamas I needed to thank Hamas for doing something in one day that ncsy could not do in 10 years now you understand that I'm saying this tongue and cheek I'm saying in exactly the same way but the gamar brings down that in a way we have to thank Haman because Haman took the ring from and in those 30 seconds he did more says the more than all the in all the we talking about all the great prophets could not do what happened in 30 seconds between and what happened next the Jewish people were brought to an to a Unity that we had never seen seen since the Jewish people completely transformed from a few seconds between that man Haman and we don't thank Haman but the tud says the children of ham are learning in have given us a wakeup call and now I want to take what cron says but I want to just add one little twist over here it's not enough for you to find out your special skill and bring it out to the fullest and make changes in the world you are obligated to say at this point now I have an to take whatever I have bring it up one more level because this is the time with all the suffering we're going through where the Jewish people have to find an that we've never had before since the Yer war and I'm old enough to have memories from those days as a kid growing up in London since we have never seen so much potential for so much potential for and as my r r said is giving us some spiritual awakening from above to allow us to reach places as a nation as a people that we've never had before so every single one of us has to ask us a simple question where is my strength where is my power what should I be adding can I do this to help what can I do more in this community this community does a lot I know what goes on over here in Queens is incredible but there's so much more that we can do you must take the and ask myself am I pushing myself that little bit extra like all the are telling the now if soldiers are putting their lives in danger for us they are pushing themselves literally putting their lives in danger we have to ask ourselves take the to push ourselves more and to break barriers that we've never had before but guess what's going to come out of this whole thing on Friday I was listening to a from shapir from the book I just wrote he quoted from the brings down that when a lion and a lioness that's theal when they become close when they become one no one is allowed to go near them because at that moment they create a power that is Unstoppable says as you all know is Hashem the is is and gatria numerical value is 43 and 47 I think it is 43 and and 48 together 91 is what's called is What's called the combination of theem in its full power I am ding all the time and I believe that we have it in our hands now that we can create this connection between the LA and the Le in a way that we've never seen in recent history we're so close my dear friends we're so close and I come fromes to give you this message is that don't rely on isra soldiers to do their you have to take for them and for your brothers and sisters to find your instrument and play it to the best Poss ability in harmony with everybody else with kilot like the place that I'm riding right now and with all the other holy kilot we can create a revolution and all the music will come together and play an orchestra we'll play a concert we'll play the most beautiful beautiful music that the world has never heard and the name of that Symphony will be that we should be able to hear that beautiful music thank you so much for listening thank want thank everyone for joining us tonight and again everyone please make ra thank you