CHAZAQ's Torah Talks #151 Rabbi Marty Katz - It's Never Too Late

I paid a civil call mice Krauss great grandmother with nft terce four children she had four children the woman was a holocaust Survivor in the camps she was in ganam the end of the day ganam the entire family's from the entire family B Tyra I don't care what you did it's not happening we're here and I mentioned I have a son-in-law that's the coal director in Houston so his grandfather Z Ruda fredman was a holocaust Survivor I couldn't believe it at the when they would dance at him and he would has his hand in his hand and he once turn to me and he says Rabbi cats we're here this is the most important message we're here there's anti-Semitism all over the world we're going to get out of it aish bur's in [Music] charge welcome to Torah talks kak Tuesday night program with special guests we have with us RAB Marty catch our dear neighbor great to be here how you doing we're doing great friends we're great once again at the headquarters and we're going to be speaking about it's never too late but before we get to that exciting topic a little bit back on about the rabbi and the great work you're involved with so this Rabbi Marty cats is living in hugard Hills Coast to 48 years married with five children they're all married two granddaughters married and okay two two successful business people um one is actually a CO director in Houston Texas and uh they're in the right direction my work I think many of you know it's called just life from the you create you save the world you save the life you save the world in a nutshell for the last 34 years 34 years crisis pregnancies any problem in pregnancy God forbid a woman's considering to terminate God forbid there a high-risk pregnancy there's a dysfunctional family any problem we are there we've saved over 21,000 was the first advis then it went throughing and he should only be well he should be terrific Ru F now holds that holds that Banner we have this I know I watched it and these though there's a lot of another if I had to pick the word besides the Godless from each of these three GM that I mentioned okay that really my is my work uh We've saved twins triplets quadruplet primar all I was going to come that all in AR Israel if there's a situation in America I know where to send it to because there a group here that does it so we send it to them United States the kupit I always talk about they're 25 years old one's married with two kids one's married with one kid one just got married the fourth will get married yeah and the doctors told this woman to F red to terminate we were there and sent us was a sign of was it was it was it's very special it's very special and in addition to that as some of you know I've done some different kinds of Consulting who advisory work for different kinds of projects different kind of stalkers I think in a nutsh show that's the rabbi Marty Kats man Rabbi Marty cat story and my mother upstairs is saying doing okay so you just told us how just one life is affecting so many babies and Families and uh having an effect on them how did it have an effect on you being involved with such an amazing cause you somehow appreciate life in a different way you you know somebody once said to me he's actually a very successful person in real estate he says to me no Mar at the end of the day they tell me how many bathrooms were fixed how many walls were painted how many sidebars are needed for the outside of the house and at the end of the your day you're figuring out how many babies were born so it it's impacted me it's open my eyes up I still have the same passion 34 years later that I had 34 years ago and 34 years ago I couldn't believe the cause I just couldn't how did how did the rabbi get involved with the cause how did that all come into interestingly enough I was involved I I was a teacher in Ras I was an executive vice president to the well-known synagogue Lincoln schare synagogue then I took off two years to go into business and it failed oh wow it failed it totally failed my kids are sh boys and if Yakov grman I don't know if he remembers this the show there there one said to me you know I heard you were in business and I heard it failed you know what I said Marty cats when I heard it fail said what' you Sayo course look where you are and then I looked around for different causes and projects there was no shortage of seriously a lot of big name brand spoke to me because they just spoke to me and I was called actually by uh we I had a head hunter agency Joe Pa and they told me about this 120,000 pregnancies 990,000 births 30,000 arm born six all sorts of data World War II to now a million point2 babies million point2 babies didn't were annihilated in World War II and since the establishment of state of Israel till now if we weren't out for the you know this factor of terminating we would had another million babies I said what's going on him I couldn't believe it so you know what sometimes you have to do something that just grabs at you and it was a challenge because in the beginning people were say you're kidding you're kidding even in the Jewish community and then we expanded we went into every area of pregnancy around and the rest is you know now we're very busy with the war yeah I was going to ask you about the war and how is it affecting we've had cases since October 7th I could just give you cases that you know two c we we have a case where uh a woman's husband was killed in Gaza have another case it's a crisis case not she says I need to abort you know why I'm expecting my husband's going to Gaza he's not going to make it or is he GNA make it I don't know I hope he makes it but maybe I should terminate like this if God forbid he doesn't make it somebody will marry me because if not and I have a baby it's a whole story our team in Israel are not just people who are women helping and Advising you if they're professional have degrees in In from wsa from Wu from hebu from T from shed shed when I walk into shed I'm like the Russ we get 50 60 70 cases on them of Irish pregnancies so it's impacted me to appreciate life and to realize we're not in charge I say this to you delicately sometimes people say to me you know if the work you do maybe you're a holy man I said no no they a holy man the work's Holy by the way Yan no one asked me to say this you and your brother kazak you're rescuing kids from public school you're stealing them out of public school it's holy work I'm not saying you're holy because you you you'd throw me out for saying you're holy but the work the work is Holy and no one asked me to say this I want everybody to understand this clearly and I want to make sure it's not edited there's Holiness that happens here the kenu kenu we shall only be able to do good but what can one do about the situation according to the to to to your opinion what do you suggest so who am I to give mus but I'm going to talk about what I did myself pers wela told the story at the Kess G when Shapiro unveiled I guess it was in the 30s unveiled DFI I think in the 30s the first Kess goova there was and next to and he unveils it and and said why didn't I think of it how's the English on there why didn't I think of it so I'm in I'm listening to this little talk here and I said you know what I've tried me that could be any type of learning let me see what we could do here I changed my entire schedule those of you who know me know I'm I stay up to 1 2:00 trust me not watching the Yankee game to see who's playing center field okay just like Ravi is up to 1 two o'clock I can tell you that he's not busy dealing with the with the demets in center field okay and I haven't changed that time so which is scary I get up 520 5:30 there's a kabor of about five of us at the da and to me that's that's impactful because it's a small group ruy Ginsburg he Z in somebody at the by the name of Leon Stern old friend uh we go back a whole relationship between the Sterns and the caters and I switched around my schedule and he and I must be running four five to seven hours a week um and I'm not embarrassed to say that uh and um talk to me in a year from now if it worked talking a words I'm still here okay so the mus I'm giving is it's we hear so many talks oh he spoke great oh he was unbelievable oh he was fantastic did you hear the message it's unbelievable it's terrific the real it's not a trick is how do you take yourself who's believe me you know my schedule and suddenly say how do I switch around all the phone calls I get some of them can wait and they can wait that's really the to myself and to to everybody so the war what could we do I guess right to the congressman yeah right to the president be Miss power for who Miss in sense that he's totally in charge and that's really where it it starts from that's where it comes from there's a deep message here Bry spoke about the whole Yem there's a deep message here it's a message to us that we have to do something we have to grab the B by one I'm close also toam in this community and I think of the simple story he told of the who didn't so he can get an extra five minutes in and his learning I appreciate it more now at my young age okay but Yan told me I can't say what it is so I won't um possibly than I did before th those are items in terms of learning to Hill him is a biggie okay to Hill him is a biggie uh the Mo in conjunction with the over here in America said around the clock okay it's it's it's it's it's real whether it's pimo l it's it's it's it's a key it's a key in who we are but we can't let the passion dis at the way we may be doing was October 7th there was unity all Jews spoke to each other we cried a lot of the politics fell through the Wayside but we have to keep it up it's it's a it's a test for all of us and the truth is I'm in a different that the is done in an unusual way I've seen it done and and it's me I'm reminded that there was an inter in the uh I don't know 20 8 2010 I don't remember where again we needed to he him and then was round round round the clock calling out and doing and then after a few weeks again it gets it it loses it Windows that's it windows I was be I was with okay and who am I there not enough that could be said about show and he said said to me next to me say already people were running out of the sh half the sh's running out for why is it better already I still hear him of saying it I still hear him he did two things to me that and he want ask me to give him a br he asked me to give him a br they based on the the so I said I need from that's a Side Story okay that that's a Side Story okay so he gave me a br and then he was very strong by the way he grabbed my right arm I feel the strength now and he says you're not leaving this dining room you're not leaving this house till you give me a br this is if I give him a br but then he went back to right who am I to give the mus I'm just telling you r while we're smiling it's unmar what's going on not just AR all over the world we know it okay we know it okay universities they're gone okay I already know somebody who told me that one of his students as he was walking in Columbia University he was stopped by I guess two Palestinians or whatever it is who said uh you know you're a Jew either you should be dead or maybe we'll take care of it and we make sure you're dead it's anti-Semitism I I don't I'm not a maven in the solution I'm not even a maven in analysis so listen the last weeks of Torah we spoke about the of hem at the end of the day we all come through we're all familiar with this of all the empires Rome bille this no one survived we're here we're all familiar with the pich he went to Rome as he didn't even get undressed didn't even have a j didn't even unpack he was with his gizbar is shamas in in Rome and he says I got to go to Titus the Tower of Titus CH Titus and he calls out inish I'm here where are you so it's hard because we're saying to ourselves we're coming out of it because there's a bris because it's hard it's hard for us to GB on to it so you have to GB on to it you have to in many ways not be afraid and it's really it's it's difficult it's like title it's never too late even if you've never been there whatever it is listen I'm not embarrassed to tell you I'm not telling you but y just said it's true this whole schedule with the learning it's not that I didn't learn it's not that I didn't come from a background of learning seriously I uh this but all of a sudden at this age I gra grab to it in a different way than all the other years of learning and I'm not afraid to tell you something I told you I'm an advisor I'm a consultant as you know to different projects I've done work for tasa National Jewish Outreach project an Autism Center a hospital shos I can go on I'm not the consultant but I've I've advised I've coached people in the field a few weeks ago it's like the second or third time three or four people going into the field and it's very hard for people to go into nonprofit today and Rabbi Marty Katz could we sit with you two or three of us and hear a little advice and coaching as we go into okay and I when I was in Tora besides I was also I I lectured to there was a whole series on different topics of marketing fundraising and two or three years I was there I don't want to go through the advice I gave him in terms of professional advice because there's no need to bore you or bore everybody else but I'm got to tell you how I started off so all of you think you're in the hot solo business saving lives all of you think you're busy 247 you don't have time for anything else all of you think you're parted from learning I'm telling you I said this and you're going to go out you're going to do great things and you're going to forget or you think maybe even partner from your family how should should I have supper with them should I bring flowers to my wife and they were flowers to their wives trust me I saw it you're going to rationalize don't make the mistake don't do it of all your phone calls maybe 15 20 are you have to handle right away don't do it so one guy raises his hand and says R cats how do you know what you're saying it sounds great so I don't want you to make my mistake I don't want you to make the mistake and believe me I'm not embarrassed to tell you this I'm known in the community I'm respected in the community I'm I give advice over time and I did learning but I don't feel I should have I did it the way it really should be done and my kids have heard me say this and it's a role model for the kids that the the KN they're getting okay every Friday afternoon the boys that are over B MIT call me with Torah we exchange get get into the Habit if you need a list a roster of what I'm talking about I I'll take you out to lunch I'll give you the RAS so you don't make the mistake don't make the mistake it's never too late no matter what the situation it's never too late listen Rabbi FR that the Mas one Mas never too late it's never it's and and it becomes a pointed model to everybody else you just mention model if there would be one role model but a lady there that the rabbi cats would uh who who tick hat way reader I'm going to be gutsy and I'm going to tell you who because I caught me off guard stepen adelberg stepen adelberg who I know at least 50 years but you know you lose contact he reminded me that when when he was a pot washer in uh Camp I told him you're going to be something ad lesburg but he taught me something he never forgot it he never forgot I told I forgot it he never forgot and he has a CS of to that I told it to him why he should live for 120 years and he he did have he did have the mland is a walking miracle I got this miracle okay um but I'm might here to give a whole you know a whole hpit as they say it's a model of he's a mod OFA he's a m of AA a the same person that builds Beyond yeah we had an event in beond he was MC there okay the be re is like his his the brother is the same person that builds beyond that builds you flaish that builds and helps B at that gives to Lakewood that gives to yes University that goes into Manhattan Beach and sets up a coell with PUK that travels to ER Israel to see the IDF of Maya gold why because he's total o yid and I just heard a v that ruin spoke about in the name ofon where th night about when came around five million people's the calculation everybody was together that's a deep message of his and his whole uniqueness you see Yaniv I told you he had the MAA but how many people he had multile Myoma how many people have the MAA and you can't say because he has the resources Friday afternoon I don't know if he starts at 121 I don't know when how many people call up 20 30 40 50 am people who have cancer he meets somebody has cancer he start talking to them I've seen it I couldn't believe it he when he's in the hospital he met somebody a Russia shiva's wife a Russia shiva's wife he found out she had cancer because he was there and they started talking he calls her come out every Friday that's a role model to me in the same VOR that I heard from Ruben it was not was a sheer we spoke of iron iron spoke about you have me um and they have me between why because each day is against the maida each day is against the MAA each day is against the maida that you have to work on and he spoke about saying Shalom say hello to people show to look at people worry about people it's a challenge we all have it's a total challenge it's such a CH challenge it's such a challenge powerful powerful and it's never too late if a person is not really as doing it up until now it's never to it that's the message and and if you try some things and it doesn't work try again exactly Marty we have a m custom a final message for our broad audience so many different messages we've heard so far there's a Torah it's a simple Torah sometimes it's Torah that said 60 seconds or less they they carry out so in the name ofos that I heard from from it just does something to me come a chauffeur the blowing of the chauffeur on the quintessential the highest moment every single yid every Jew in in a b Mees there's T there's Purity every it doesn't matter at that moment it's at that moment before we blow Schauer if I would ask cats or May or anybody else what peric and would you say give me a peric about aru give me a peric about give me a about yob me I'm not saying it's not in one second you could change your life in one second it's not too late says that's the model because at that highest moment no you're the ability if you work on yourself to change to make an impact that's the message with the war it's learning it's it's it's to it's family it's [Applause] caring by the way if anybody I hope it's okay wants to even talk to me about this I could give you my number 347 9967 751 if you if it's too fast just call R my ra you'll get my number how do you work on yourself even if people will say what is he working on himself he's doing okay he's great family I leave with an image I have if I can I paid a shiver call a week ago for my wife and Muny one of my grandsons in-law mice Krauss great grandmother with NI terce four children she had four children went to pay the shiv call the woman was a holocaust Survivor in the camps she was in ganam the end of the day ganam the entire family's from the entire family B Tyra the entire family basically are the pun ofit I don't care what you did it's not happening we're here we're [Music] here and I mentioned I have a son-in-law that's the co- director in Houston so his grandfather's at rud Freedman was a holocaust Survivor and I used to Marvel to similar type of thing that I said about mice krauss's great grandmother I used to I couldn't believe it at the when they would dance at him all the grandchildren they were around him and he would has his hand in his hand and he once turned to me and he says Rabbi cats we're here this is the most important message I say this to the which I'm saying to myself and please I'm not from the we're here they're GNA dance to us there's anti-Semitism all over the world they s the hostage hav't learned this we're going to get out of it in charge we should be with help with God's help and thank you very much for being on the show a very special show for those beautiful words of inspiration every single Tuesday night 8:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time kazak Tor talks with special guest k.org C aq. RG special shout out and thank you to our friends at Tor anytime especially shout out and thank you to daily giving a dollar a day I know that kazak and of course just one life is also on that amazing uh uh platform organization uh Revolution that they've created Dr Don there is no project in a certain realm like daily giving I got to answer it it's unreal a dollar a day it's it's unreal Google it be part of it okay it's great and Redemption [Music] [Applause] [Music]