Complete Sunday Morning Keynote - Project Inspire Convention 2025

welcome back welcome back to the uh Sunday morning keynote session here at the project Inspire convention I want to thank everybody for their cooperation keeping to the timing the last moment just a few short days before the convention har called me that there was a family situation that unfortunately resulted in him having to um having to um board a plane to go to it's Israeli family matter and uh regreted not being able to be here not being able to be here together with us however he is joining us live from Isel via zoom and without further Ado it's my great covered to introduce from Isel fromes thank you so much for allowing me the chance to participate in the project Inspire weekend and Convention again the hasn't allowed me to be with you in person but it's my pleasure and honor to be able to participate in this way and I hope in some way this more limited participation in the convention should nonetheless achieve and should achieve a for all of you who have participated in This Magnificent expression of kesem the topic of our discussion today is a nice idea or real obligation it's difficult to imagine a more appropriate time to discuss this topic because standing on the threshold of the Y of purm we know one of the most poignant and emotive sukim verses that there are in the Milla describe how hon the Paradigm of the anti-semite the Paradigm of someone who seeks to undermine all the greatness of the Jewish Nation argues his case with a the then ruler of the world and says the words yes he doesn't even give the Jewish people the credit and the respect of naming them but defines them and labels them by a nation who is Mu scattered and fragmented amongst the other nations and as many of the commentators of the Milla point point out that as Esa and M discussed the steps that would lead to the Salvation of the of the Jewish Nation the expression that Esther used was go and gather the Jewish people and the commentators ju oppose these two expressions and contrast them and explain that what would be the antidote the solution and the source of salvation for the devastating critique and denigration of the Jewish people at the hands of hon by describing them as there's a nation which is both scattered and fragmented the antidote would be to gather the Jewish people in an expression of unity and so the commentators underscore the theme of unity as part of the story and The Narrative of PM as one of the key components which led to the Salvation of clais and in the same way as in that era the unity was key to the Salvation of clais we have in many places in kazal in the rabic literature mes gar where the unity of clis is a prerequisite and a condition and something necessary in order that the Jewish people should experience both blessing and the beneficience of God's Providence daily as well as what the Jewish Nation lives for which is for ultimate Redemption we have AES Rab in par as yov gathered the tribes together shortly before his passing and there the verse uses the words hosu gather as our patriarch Yakov pulled all his children together and the med comments his and says Yo's deathbed instructions to his children was be considered one Gathering and he says if that can be accomplished that will be means by which you will be preparing yourself towards ultimate for ultimate Redemption so too we find in other places in the Mish where the emphasis of allowing all parts all elements all levels of the Jewish people to be able to be in the words of the med in in the book ofra where the med says what allows God what allows the revelation of the Divinity in creation what allows the elevation of the creation and the cosmos as a whole when clis are formed into one bound entity Shen that when are bound together when all the elements can be included including what the med calls people whose observance and whose practice is not yet as complete as perhaps God has designated for them ultimately to reach nonetheless if they're able to be bound into one bind into one then each one of them contribute strengths to the other which leads to that the unity of the unity of God then gets revealed in our world and this theme is repeated as we said in medes in many places and so we understand that the unity of clais is not just something which as we describe in the of rashash is is what in its perfect state will look like that we look towards an era in whichis will be an one entity with all its elements bound together we understand that that's a prerequisite for ultimate Redemption and as we mentioned we learned from the Milla that that is the source The Vessel through which blessing and life comes to the Jewish nation and through which salvation peace comes to us but the question is provocatively is that just a nice idea what does unity really mean I think it's helpful to begin with a remarkable piece of maharal in his work where theal in the 25th chapter of his work fascinatingly engages in with the question of someone outside the Jewish people who he describes as someone from the um someone from the nations of the world and he engages with a very provocative and very challenging question that this person sort of through at the marel I'll pray see the way the myal presents this question the questioner the non-jew said the following you claim as the Jewish people that you represent the values of goodness kindness and so on in the world and if that's true he says why then do we find that the Jewish people are so Rife with disagreement why is it that so many people or groups within the Jewish Nation see each other as somehow superior to the other and he says aren't you commanded with the Mitzvah of aren't we aren't you commanded to love each other and if you'll retort and say but that's only Kam if the person is somehow similar to me so then haven't we allowed for the Jewish people to become fragmented with each person labeling the other person as not being like me and therefore the in juncture of doesn't apply and the actually goes on to say and it's unclear what his source for this statement is but he says that that question is a question that has been asked in many earlier times and the Jewish people has been challenged by this and he says and I read his original language because it's so powerful he says this would almost seem to be something which is a stain on the Jewish people the degree of infighting says the morale that the Jewish people seem to be subject to doesn't have a parallel amongst the other nations of the world how do we understand this so first the maral says that the Jewish people being fragmented to the degree that they are is part of the condition of Exile and he says that part of what causes us to be fragmented to be a part to be different in our thinking and our opinions is part of what Gus what Exile what fragmentation means to the Jewish people he says when am are unified in a land around the B mikdash with all the institutions that unify clis like his s hedin like the highest courts or the institution of kunun and a and a m is a Jewish King where all of those will be as the rambam describes the Jewish King as the heart of the king becomes the unifying heart of the Jewish people then we've created a system and institutions and means by which the Jewish people rally around central focal points both physical and spiritual but in the absence of those he says he says the by definition has imposed on us in Exile that we are challenged in terms of our [Music] unification and he says the maral that in general whenever we find the appearance of something negative in the structure of clis we also have to understand that what it source is is something which is a aspect of CLA stoll's greatness which in some way has become corrupted or isn't being brought to fruition in the way that it was originally intended and he says the following he says when CLA challenge each other it's because the natural Drive wish and ambition of every yid is to forge the most complete path towards fulfilling his Divine Mission and the intent inity of the debate and the intensity of the dismissal of the approach of others the intensity of the factionalism with which clais can be beset comes from every person striving to be able to define the most accurate the most consecrated the most complete way in which to approach the and therefore as every person seeks his own most complete path it then can sometimes be taken to the degree that establishing my own unique path in sometimes spills over in dismissing or being somewhat in some some respect being contemptuous of the approach of someone else but he told the nrw that the proof that the source of the factionalism with which CLA roll beset is beset is because of the natural striving that clis has to reach and to be confident of their approach towards Divine service can be evidenced by the fact that when clais is beset by its sorrow where they beset by tragedy or there's a need to extend to extend loving kindness from one to another then the nation becomes unified when clais is faced by tragedy when they're faced by outside challenges when they're faced with danger then those are the points in which the morale says CL unifies and therefore he doesn't seek to apologize to the questioner the outside Observer of the Jewish people and explain away or Justify necessarily the differences but he's making two points one that it comes from every group and every individual striving to be confident and to assert that they have found the right path towards Divine service and second that within ourselves when're needing to be there for each other to provide for each other those differences Melt Away We therefore understand from the morel that the morel has given us at the same time both a and a challenge on the one hand he's told us that to some extent the challenge that clais R faces in achieving Unity is part of the condition of Gus itself and as we look forward to the ultimate Redemption and to God reinstating to the Jewish people those key rallying points around which the Jewish Nation unifies the temple in Jerusalem the land the institutions that are part of the Magnificent and the structure of clais then unification ultimately in its completeness will follow but at the same time he's also challenging us to work at what unifies us which is providing for each other being there for each other loving each other and allowing each each of us the space and the independence the self-determination to find our unique path inem in the approach towards Divine service and the approach towards Divine without the need to having to having to prove that our approach is right for us by putting down or dismissing the approach of anyone else and I think here we come to a key point which is not just one of mantics but one of essence the term that's used is a term that we often colloquially use Oneness perhaps those in the audience who are etymologically inclined will be able to fully validate this but in my limited knowledge the term ofus doesn't appear in kazal it doesn't appear in rinic literature of the T and amaric periods and nor does it appear to the best of my knowledge in the original texts of the r and the early commentators it's a term that begins to appear in what we call the ear the later commentaries I believe that one of the earliest uses of the terms is in the work on and in the AL in his commentary where we find the termus being used what we do find and that was language that we mentioned before is the term of or for example at we say and I think the key here is that when we speak about we are speaking about meaning a multiplicity of individuals of approaches of expressions of spirituality and closeness to the but unified under one ideal and the source of this is from the structure of clais of the Jewish Nation from its very Inception when our progenitor Jacob yobu had 12 tribes 12 sh it wasn't merely that he had 12 children and with that created the basis of the Jewish people the Aral explained that there are 12 so to speak shaim gates in Heaven through which every tribe's toos every tribe's prayers are received the differences in the positions of the tribes of theim as they traveled through the desert indicates specific tasks and specific expressions of divine service that each shet represented each shet inhabited a specific region of the land of Israel each shet had its own Sanhedrin as we learn about in and that indicates that in fact the actual structure of the Jewish people is a multiplicity of tribes and expressions and approaches but unified as we mentioned with under certain and rallying around certain key ideals which unify the Jewish people as a moral often points out in his work the sanctity of the land the sanctity of the temple and the sanctity of the Torah and divine service when we speak about AK as we say our the Rabin literature uses the term an audo means a number of items which are held together by a unifying Band by a unifying thread there are certain key immutable themes without which am is not for example in his work says the Jewish people became a nation as they stood at the foot of sinine the Jewish people are the nation and the bearers of T and within that there are 12 a multiplicity of approaches of expressions and like the maral says every faction and every group The gives it blessing and light because they're striving for their own unique expression of how to approach God and to achieve his closeness but where we carry it or it gets carried too far says the morale is the striving to prove the correctness of one's approach by having to dismiss the approach of another that the moral says is where the greatness of Amis risks being corrupted and descending into faction factionalism and argument and so if you return to the question of of a nice idea or real obligation it's an absolute obligation and in order for the obligation to be fulfilled and not remain a nice idea we want to be able to allow every group its space to allow those who appear more radical than us to have their space to allow that to be their expression of a and to see that those who they appear in our eyes lack are merely on a journey to be able to find their own expression and their own way of being close to the r shom because if we all share the ideals of tah observance of achieving communion with Hashem of striving for bikash for the land for prophecy for Kahuna for the Divine service in the temple then we can form an a we can be 12 tribes 12 unique expressions of AEM all surrounding and all being bound together with one ideal of revealing God's magnificence in creation as we began with the mes that in order to create and in order to enable the plan the Divine intent for creation to be able to be fulfilled to allow erat to allow the material to allow the mundane to be able to be consecrated that depends on a Unity of expression where Judaism doesn't need to be monolithic it doesn't need to be a single strand it's a a Binding Together on the on the one hand recognizing not just tolerating but appreciating the unique strength expression and intensity that every group brings to the Jewish people and recognizing and being confident that one's own approach to the Divine if faithful to T if faithful to the ideals of Sinai if faithful to be if faithful to be accomplishing that ultimate goal of bringing the Divine glory to the Mandan then we can allow for an AA we can allow for multiplicity of approaches whereas the moral says I was striving to find the most complete relationship with Hashem doesn't cause us to have to denigrate and to dismiss anyone else's and so if we would want to argue and present a definition of AK which will lead us to be able to fulfill that real obligation and at the same time not remain a nice idea is if each one of us can adhere to a simple principle that the most dominant force and ideal that guides Our Lives is how we have intended and how we intend in the future to place our relationship with Hashem our relationship with God and our part in bringing about the revelation of his glory at the center of our lives then there a place for each and every one of us in the AA if our lives are dedicated to that ideal to living individually and collectively our divine Mission we dedicated to that in a Wholesome Way then there is no question that each one of us can integrate with every other one of us and to achieve that magnificent goal of a to complete the revelation of the Divine in our world and to bring about the thank you very much of everybody here want to thank you for joining us live from mer Isel everything should go well and we look forward to seeing you at another time mem live at the project Inspire convention ladies and gentlemen few short announcements first of all this morning's session is being sponsored nishma Z Ben May the inspiration coming from this morning's session be a an alyah for his also I just want to mention I know that people have still pledge cards that are outstanding they would like to uh redeem them at our pledge R the Redemption table but just a shout out after Steve G's talk yesterday we were approached by Josie Friberg fryberg who has been a tremendous partner of project Inspire who uh gave us an additional $118,000 Canadian donation to for project Inspire and our new initiatives want to thank you very much thank you for your partnership and thank you for sponsoring the welcome bags as well as people came into the convention the beautiful bags additionally maybe the most important announcement here is that so far just a liveed update is that so far 45% of our participants here at the shabas have signed up for an initiative to get involved really I want to thank you I know there's been a lot of discussion people have definitely come over to me with all the excuses and then as they uh continued excusing themselves I pointed out this is actually an initiative that they can sign up for so I 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before we hear from very far he can close out the day as to really what blocks us and maybe what can drive us not that I know personally but from the people that I've learned from as to why one should really take the time because one of the things that we've heard a lot from people is I don't know what can I do what I can't do and just to be clear about something the initiatives that we have people to get involved in are just the beginning if you say I can't do any of these but would really be great if I did this think to yourself if you were here in a year from now and you said I can really help in this way and project inspir that's actually a pretty good idea we can use that a stood here on Friday night and said we need your help we need the cover and if you're in the room right now and you're going well I really the things that are on the board are good but I really can do this imagine in a year from now you're back and the thing that you have in your head right now is an initiative outside and there's 50 people doing that thing that's nitus that's for yours forever the opportunity to realize that each and every one of us are put into this world as we said Friday night with a tea and the te that we have is something that is inside us that is supposed to be given to Hashem and we have lives we got to live our lives but if you have that piece of you that tea inside you and you lift it up in the way that you're here for Hashem you can't imagine how many people that are not here that can benefit from that way of thinking and maybe you're going to start your initiative right here so don't walk out without at least saying I'm in now I want to share with you one perspective maybe this is how I maybe I understand the has an approach towards a Hashem just let me give you a thought and then I'll bring up far why is it that we have to get involved so there's a story that I heard years ago in this context that I want to share the story is about a dad businessman and like many times in life when you're running a company you have to in invoke the confidence of your of your colleagues of the people you want to do business with of your lenders of your investors and some of the ways you do that is by showing that you're doing great it's a game if you show you're doing well the people around you goes they're doing well I know people that have that are in certain businesses and they overspend on the cars they drive in order to create an assumption that when they pull up question G St it's not for now but the question is they pull up people go oh wow they drive that they must be doing well I'll invest money with you it could be complicated either way the way The Story Goes is a man says listen I'm I run a company I have a lot of people people that that rely on me that invest with me and he has two three kids his first two sons were married and is now his youngest and and only daughter was getting married he said I'm going to blow out this wedding I'm going to invite everybody and when everybody comes they're going to see just how successful I am and that's his was his strategy so he brings his boys into his office and he says boys listen to me spend whatever you need to spend I want you to look amazing when my people show up at the wedding they see my kids they should look amazing whatever you spend for me whatever you spend so that your your sister's wedding is perfect I'll handle the flowers I'll handle the the the the the hall but you have to handle how you look when you the way you look represents me and your mother and I want you to look amazing whatever you spend it's on the house he's got two boys his first boy is a chip off the old block you don't got to tell him twice to spend money he's like you got it and he married God God bless a woman who forget that she definitely doesn't be told how to spend money so he hears that it's on the house before the word house was finished he was already ordering he was ready go you know taking a tour he already had his wife on speed dial his second son haish he's happy when he W gets up in the morning he's he's ish pimi as they say putting on a tie is getting dressed up and his wife also from the same type she's just happy so the two of them start going out the first son and his wife they go on a spree and they look forget about they're buying custom this that the kids all match perfectly this and that the vest the shoes out of a magazine the Second Son walks out and goes okay I should go shopping at some point and the day of the wedding comes and the doors open up for Thea what it was a Jewish thing for the for for the ceremony boom and the father and mother come out because they want to see their kids and all the guests are all whined and dined and the son comes out with his wife and they look you can't it's like they thought they were looking at royalty and the kids behind them everybody looks wow wow the father is beaming as the oldest son looks amazing and the door closes and doors open up again and now the second son comes up and he just remembered that morning he needed to wear a tie and he rumbled in the bottom of his thing and he took out his tie that was half and his wife just forgot that there was and she borrowed someone's outfit that half fit half didn't fit and they came down the aisle and people were smiling and the father was he couldn't believe his eyes wedding is over chevas if there was J after Shas the older son walks in and he goes daddy we got to chew up he goes what are we chewing up he says what do you mean we Che up do you know what that cost us it's on the house we did it for you see he says you guys looked amazing really the compliments that I got about you and your wife and the kids it was beyond really says you're welcome and he goes I'm not paying for a penny of it goes what do you mean you you told me I sat in the room you said whatever you buy for our honor is on you you know how much that cost us he says you bought it for my honor goes you don't know your brother you thought your brother was going shopping your sis your wife doesn't know her sister-in-law did you think for a second what happened when they walked in the room you didn't know that they were going to walk in the room with the crimple tie you didn't think for a second you don't know him long enough she doesn't know her long enough to know how do you think we felt when the door closed and then they walked in it wasn't a on our family I'm trying to set an image and my son walks in not dressed properly you think you bought that for me if you would have bought your brother a suit then I would have known you bought it for me you bought it for yourself I'm not paying for yourself that wasn't for my honor that was for your honor I'm not paying a penny there's three levels in my opinion of our relationship to the k the first level is acting towards Hashem you know you see a little kid when the kids are very little their first their first relationship to their parents is very selfish if the kid is crying in the middle of the night he's not thinking well mommy just gave birth to me and the woman needs to sleep and it's formula it's disgusting anyways I'll wait three hours no one's King that get up now you think it ends it like you know six months it goes until like the 20s by the way there's a sense that kids have that like if I'm upset of course mommy has nothing in the world to do but the to to dot on me until I feel better and then when they're little we we we try to get them to do stuff like remember that it's Mommy's birthday and they just follow along and it happens all the time it's like young couples they just know you know they don't really have but they know it's like the famous story of the the guy who comes home and he forgets his wife's anniversary and he comes home and the wife says hello she he goes hello anything special today he goes it's Tuesday anything happened 20 years ago today sun rose sun set goes we got married she goes oh congratulations happy anniversary she's upset he's out he goes to the rabbi Rabbi goes she's a woman treat her with respect they care about these things goes what do I do goes go to the flower store buy the biggest bouquet of flowers you can find bring bring it to your wife for your anniversary he goes Rabbi you are not only a scholar you're a gentleman I'm the luckiest congreg in the world he goes you're welcome he goes to the flag store he buys the biggest bouquet of flowers he knocks on the door she opens the door he goes here the rabbi told me to buy these for you is we doam by the way here the rabbi told me to put these on for you here the rabbi made me not eat this food for you it's the first level at least we're doing something the second level is the heart we put into it we love somebody we think about them we give to them we know how much it means to them we buy them their favorite stuff and we recognize that objects are just really mechanisms to put emotion into once you realize that your parents love something and you buy it for them when your spouse loves something you buy it for the person when they feel loved they feel thought of it's the next level up of what it means to be an a Hashem Hashem loves and you act a certain way so you do it even if you don't have to do it the way you DAV the cavana going above your mahu the Mitzvah that's all the next level up in love of Hashem but there's one more level and B this is a level that we're talking about the whole shabas this is what I think we need to get to before we walk out this door you know when you see a parent they say the following rule that a parent is is only as happy as their least happy child for the parents in the room am I right everything could be great you walk into room everything's perfect one kid's upset your head is in that kid and once talking to a mother whose kids was a little sick she was walking down past the beding of her daughter like holding her daughter and she spot and she tell someone go tell my I'm like what she on the deck and came in the parents are like watching the eyes of oh their kids how they doing how they doing how they doing how they doing because the highest level of love is not giving to you the highest level of Love is seeing through you I see the world through your eyes that's how parents it's it's a doesn't come from the mind it comes from the LA you could have a grandmother sitting in a room and she's got the whole family and she knows it how does she know because she feels through through somebody else the highest level of Love is when you see the world through the eyes of another what does my wife feel like what do my kids feel like I need to give to them not based on what I want to give but what they want me to give when we reach that level of love that's what it means to be one I don't feel separately from you I feel one with you I don't have my feelings and your your feelings we have feelings together if you're upset I can see you so I'm upset what in the world are we doing here and I'm looking at this room just even a little bit here people that given their lives to this clothing is physical and it's spiritual you know when you put on clothing in the morning you're not supposed to put on two things at the same time because rad says each clothing is R there's spiritual clothing in is this physical clothing and spiritual clothing there are people in the world that the Kish B who gave a gift to it's called spiritual clothing he gave people yeshivas and families and Role Models he gave people Journeys that came back he gave people clothings of R which is what it feels like to have a shabus what it feels like to be a Jew what it feels like to close your eyes and feel like the creative of humanity knows your name and is listening to you what it feels like to be part of clais what it feels like to say a share miles for a thousand people what it feels like to get news from Israel and somehow you think that you're connected to the hostage because you understand the concept of CLA Isel what it feels like to be a from Jew is the greatest R it's the greatest clothing we can walk around with and Hashem gave certain people the ability to have a knack for it we didn't earn that we worked for it but he gave it to us and when we live our lives if we we look at it from the perspective of what I give to other that's all it lasts for but if we think about what it must be like for Hashem in shamayim right now to look down to every single one of his children and see kids that may not have had the same ability to wrap themselves up with the or of Hashem it's not their fault they've never once had shabas they don't know what it feels like when it's 5 o'l in the in in February and shabas is starting you're like I got 25 hours left do are locked they don't know what it's like to have the joys of what it means to be from that Joy Of The postfast Bagel like this a Greater Joy than that nobody they don't know what it's like they don't have it shot they're wonderful people they wonderful people they can't read Hebrew no one taught them Hebrew they know it's like to sit in the room and close their eyes when somebody's singing a a song during kadua and people are crying they're going to feel what the the feeling of a have hasham even the world's coming against me they're going to say to Hill him in a in a Hos room and we're walking down the aisles of life so proud of ourselves look at my clothing look at my Tyra look at my everything and we walk the aisle and we bought it and we look amazing and daddy looks at us from shamay and says look at my look at my kids R the whole world's gone nuts and a few people still hold on to my tire look there wrapped in clothing of light and then the door opens up again and there's no clothing here it's not their fault they don't have the knack for it and we come to the K BR and go ah and he goes ah did you think about the people behind you don't you think about me what about my perspective Hashem says I'm the dad I see the world through the eyes of my kids you don't think when I look at my children don't have the clothes on I'm not heartbroken did you think about your brother did you think about your sister you couldn't take them shopping for what for money I give you money for health I give you health for the narish kite of Our Lives I give you your life you know in a second I can make your life more or less busy in a second I I don't own this I'm not a cure professional the people that you heard on this I'm a regular dude the reason why we're here is not because we think we're going to give to somebody reason I here because a Hashem loving Hashem means seeing the world through his eyes because means I think about you I'm done now no once said to me I once had the chance to meet no live many years ago he said to me that every night he does t I'm sure he does the real T too he goes you know what Myas is goes every night I sit on the floor and I think about the world from hashem's perspective imagine that every night that's how you become of no sit on the floor and go how does Hashem see the world the s you sit at a wedding you sit at a at a Sim and the mom gets every kid The KES looks down and he sees every kid when one of his kids that have the knack for yish kite stops and goes I keep on putting on the right clothing but hold on a second how does my daddy see the world he's in pain over the my brothers and sisters I can't change the world but I can at least take him shopping spiritually can you imagine the Nas is there more NAS from a parent when a kid takes care of his brother and sister we're not getting involved because we're changing the world let's pretend let's stop pretending we're do playing Lego this is a joke where Lally says all the time you know what we're getting involved for because we're showing Hashem that we love him this is not about us and another Jew this is about us in Hashem we turn to Hashem and say I love you Hashem and what that means is I think in from your perspective and if you're in pain over some Jew that doesn't wear the clothing of our then I'm in pain and I'll take my brother shopping wherever you are online or live project Inspire or do it yourself they don't have to do the project Inspire who cares involved do something inspiration we're post October no more time we're activation now we're in activation mode and if all of us together that did something raised our hand in the Tava that hashm gave us to take our brothers and sisters spiritually shopping for Hashem because we don't want him to be in pain that's what a father is waiting for that's what it means to be I believe a Jew in a world ofos in the world of and together even by just trying Hashem should look down and see us here on a Sunday morning and doing this and together we should have the that he sees how much we care about each other and he'll go I got it I'll take care of it myself and we should have a conference like this next year maybe in the Waldorf maybe better Steve's got the building maybe we'll go to building we should be this happening with [Applause] okay ladies and gentlemen thank you Charlie before we end with r far most important announcement of the weekend yes there will be to go containers to take lunch home with you there I said it uh have in mind that it'll be available only into lunch so that people don't walk away with the entire containers last year somebody wheeled the entire Buffet into their van while complaining to me about how much food there was over this weekend so there will be also final checkout final check at is at 1 p.m. and please your hard keys we need both keys at the front desk so that we're not charge and unfortunately we have to pass that charge on to you so please make sure that you find your keys and return them ladies and gentlemen this has been a spectacular weekend I believe from beginning to end really and more and more important and more special than all the presenters and speakers and there were so many of them in so many amazing presentations were all of you who came out to spend the time to be here even on a Sunday morning when life was supposed to get back to things to hear to continue the inspiration of course the activation to become active without further Ado he's been here before at the project Inspire convention he's an inspiration to us all he himself is involved as the rabbi of the saffr synagogue in Manhattan has been involved in so many projects Outreach projects around the world it's a great honor to invite once again to reinvite to the project Inspire convention rabbi schlomo fari [Applause] ladies and gentlemen it's an honor to be here um and after hearing from Yi what you guys have been able to accomplish and hear and feel over this past Shabbat I'm I'm truly jealous sometimes I'm not sure what I want to say and sometimes I have so much that I want to say that I kind of wish my Sho let me get out for Shabbat more so I could have been here to speak to you at least a couple of times but I'm going to try and squeeze it all in to the time that they've given me today um before you wheel the food out into your van I'm just I had this feeling y the reason the guy was Wheeling the food out because he felt he didn't get enough food over Shabbat that was how he was getting his money worth that was the that was the feeling over there we always have to judge people favorably so that's what's going out in my mind same feeling why people have when they take soaps and shampoos from hotels to then bring home and never open in your own bathroom to then take more when you go to the hotel and you tell your wife why we didn't open the ones that we had just in case thinking of creating a mashiach suitcase just filled with tiny tubes of toothpaste let's begin when we think about puim often times we think about the salvation the save how things were fixed and what's interesting to me is that as someone who's been doing this for a minute and a half I know Charlie probably feels the same way one of my very closest friends you know a lot of times you feel when you're sitting with somebody I wish that you came to ask me this question before you were in the problem I wish we weren't solving this issue instead we were avoiding it to begin with so in STO understanding the story of puim so much time goes into uh an effort and focus goes into understanding the save but I don't know if enough time goes into understanding how we could have avoided the problem to begin with I'll start with the gar the gar says they came toim and they asked him yeah why did the Jews deserve that they should have Haman stand up against them and wipe them out I mean thank God we saved in the in the 90th minute but why why did we get to that place when we were facing Amal we know it was from their hands had become weak they' lowered their standards in T and but what did the Jews do that allowed amalik to come knocking what happened and rimon answers because they enjoyed the of now I don't know about you but to me that doesn't sound like it's worth a national K what was wrong with the sud some opinions hold that the food was even kosher was it the find that hard to believe According to some opinions as well it wasn't even that they got masim to pour the wine so what could have been the problem and if the problem was eating or drinking it should have said that they ate or they drank the key is in understanding that it says that they enjoyed it and why was Hashem denying them that enjoyment what was so wrong about their enjoyment of that suda my friends I think there's something here that's it's unbelievable and the answer is actually very simple we are told that at the they had the vessels of the one might think therefore the punishment was because they were being Mo it was they were using the vessels of the temple no that's not it then it should have said that they were Mo in the vessels of the temple the BET mikdash doesn't say that my friends there's something here that was taking out the vessels of the temple because he thought he understood from Haman that the 70 years of galut were over and God's promise that he would redeem the Jewish people and bring them back to Ed is rebuild the BET mikdash mashia all of that it was not true it was never going to happen and if it was never going to happen we may as well use the the Le the so brings them out but when the Jews came instead of seeing that they would not be redeemed instead of seeing that they wouldn't be the Jewish people anymore they rejoiced it's like that famous joke Jewish person meets with Hashem and he says Hashem is it true with the chosen people and Hashem says yes and he says o could you choose someone else for for a while the anti-Semitism the the the attacks for being Jewish people could you choose someone else holocausts pgrs kazaks my friends am Isel in the throws of galut they felt if we're not being redeemed if hashem's not taking us back if maybe he's left us alone there was a certain Han that they had that they were not going home that they were not the Jews anymore my friends I want to share with you what I believe is the source of that almost Holocaust you know if you're judged by people's social media profiles or some articles that you find online one could be forgiven for thinking that the most important thing that a person has to do for par is put a key in a Kala I'm not here to tell you that you should not put keys in kalas one year I wanted to put an entire key ring into my kalas but I just feel that that's probably something that you do on top ofuna in Hashem I think like if you're an atheist but B AA and a ke does that work I think comes before probably prayer comes before in probably we are we on the same page but my friends there's something that I believe is even more Elemental than that more Elemental than doing and we say it every single day the eyes of every living being they turn to you God right to give them in order they should have you open up your hand and you give every living being what they need what does it take to get God to give you everything you need in this life R whatever you want what does it take it doesn't say it doesn't say what does it say the only thing you need in order to get sustenance from God is what bra from God is what you just need to be alive my friends dogs dogs get food from Hashem mosquitoes Buffet I wish I hated as much as I hate mosquitoes but Hashem provides for every living being How come every living being doesn't need a job and only the smartest of all living beings need a job right you ever saw a goldfish right who's doing taxes no somehow he manages you ever saw right you ever saw a giraffe in your life you ever saw a giraffe decide to take on part-time Uber his head out the sunroof you ever saw that you never saw you ever saw a dog go be a l okay sorry why is it that the only being that needs to get a job for parasa is the top of the food chain the smartest of all the animals and the answer my friends is beautiful the answer is because you know why God gives everybody in this world what they need because they are doing their job what is a dog a dog is a dog is a dog is a dog he's doing his job perfectly Hashem provides him his parasa whatever he needs what is a goldfish doing that is his job I just imagine little goldfish sitting with their parents parents are very nervous they're sitting in the principal's office he just doesn't get it we keep showing him there's books on for goldfish it's just one page I don't understand a goldfish only has one job it does it well only the smartest of human beings could not know how to do their job and if you're doing your job you have a purpose in this world Hashem he's got you but the minute you're trying to be something other than what you're supposed to be what happens happens the source of your your ma your life force itself is cut because the only reason why you're here the only reason why you're here is to do what Hashem wants from you and if you're not doing that there's no reason for you to be here you guys remember the PPP loans during covid imagine a guy is working for a law firm and the only thing he does is PPP loans if the co there's no reason for them to keep him because the thing he's doing there's no par in the thing if you not there don't have a job my friends that's the the Jewish people for a minute said oh you know something we don't have to be Jews we'll just be Persians to be clear I'm not referring to Persian Jews I don't need death threats from your community in Great Neck relax will'll just be like everybody else but if you're everybody else and you're not you you have no and then every man woman and child is not killed but they have no reason to be able to live that's the power those are the keys that we handed to Haman let me show you how this plays out in the migil and then you'll know why I'm ranting about this this morning Esther goes into the palace she's very afraid she doesn't doesn't know what's going on Mori tells her what's going on she feels terrible he says you need to go into the king she says I can't I haven't been called you know that that means a death sentence M says beautiful language don't think that you're safe to escape to the Palace from all the Jews if you remain quiet in this time the Jewish people will be saved another way and you and your father's house would be destroyed who knows if for a time like this is not the reason why you came to this position my friends I'm looking at this and it makes for a second it makes he gives you Goosebumps what is Esther saying what is she saying to her uncle or maybe according to another opinion to her husband someone who sat outside the door every single day loves Esther he raised her Esther says morai I'm afraid he's going to kill me I don't know what you would say if your daughter said this to you but I know I wouldn't say to her well if you don't go you just going to die everyone your whole family who who talks like that what is morai saying where's his compassion where's his empathy the answer is morai is telling Esther out of love out of love and concern what is a good from Jewish girl why was she kidnapped why was she taken why was she put in the palace we didn't know until now but now we know why you are where you are and Ester if you hide in your house and you don't do what you're supposed to do your whole existence will be cut short because we get our in this life from doing what we are uniquely supposed to do and is it ever been more obvious in the history of the world what you were supposed to do in this moment than Esther in the Palace of the king with a decree in the life of the Jews hanging in the balance my friends theti shim in his opening line says something incredible he says that a person needs to know and it needs to be clear to them what is his responsibility in his world now in English we could have said it different the Vaga says that there's not one single extra word everything is exactly as it's supposed to be you know what that means what is your responsibility in your world not is what the responsibility of a Jew but what is your responsibility in your world my friends when I saw the uh six different options that they prepared on the walls I understood what the MTI shim was talking about what is your job in your world if God put Esther in the palace it's because she's supposed to use the palace and your job with your world finally someone has done what project Inspire is doing they've made you your without you ever needing to leave your world and that my friends is the source of all of your it's asking you what do you have to give to this great Mission your brothers and sisters are dying my friends if anyone here saw the shot of the malbim it would shake you to your very Bones the malbim says that there are two different points there's a decree that goes out and Mori is going out alone crying in the streets how come all the other Jews aren't crying and fetching how come only morai he gets to the Palace Esther's like what's going on how did she not know was she not under the WhatsApp status of the Jewish people what how did she not know what was going on says the malbim did with two decrees one decree was sealed for the 13th day of Adar don't open it until then the second decree only said one one line it said everybody in every country be prepared for the 13th day of Adar be prepared for war but it didn't say against who unbelievable of the Mal morai because he knew he knew he goes out tells everybody what's going on but without Mori they would have gotten to that day everyone would have been taken by surprise Esther therefore doesn't know my friends I started shaking when I saw this because the malbin reminds me of October 6th we we all sitting and celebrating and so happy in our homes Suk getting ready unbelievable so much joy not knowing what was about to take place the asson that was heading our way the sadness the pain the destruction the death we had no idea it was coming there was a gizer it was sealed it was signed it was delivered and we had no idea the Jews had no idea until morai told them my friends not only October 6th but March 9th there is a war out there trying to destroy all of the Jewish people selling them liberal attitudes selling them anything but Judaism and people are being robbed had a young man in my house this Friday night at the Shabbat table he's very inspired he has no ideas he takes that his phone at the Shabbat table and he says this is amazing could you recommend some books I could read about you know getting more connected to Judaism he wants to write them down on his phone I said start with the 39 I did not say that I did not say that although whoever made that book that was made for children should just know that they use that book with all of the pictures in every Corel that's learning Shabbat by the way because the job that they did on that sepher the 39 M with the drawing with theas and the and the notes in the back is imperative for clarity in the it's unbelievable my friends he's starving for it but he doesn't know cuz someone took it from him a war has been declared but they haven't said against who you have the opportunity you think to yourself you know what I don't know let the guy go on an H program let him go on AI program I have a secret for you programs are not mareev Jews people are mareev Jews I don't know what to say to the guy I didn't study you know theology Christianity I don't know what to say by the way every firm person thinks that when a Jewish person comes to their house they need to know how to disprove Christianity I have news for you that's not the struggle it's not that or this it's Instagram or Judaism it's J Street or Judaism it's Wall Street or Judaism so if you think you need to argue with them kiru is not about arguments it's about Connections you never learned how to talk okay gotcha did you learn how to make kala you know how many Jews came back to Judaism because of Kala I want to share with you a beautiful line the pasuk says by Abraham ainu he didn't just believe in he brought people in he had them for meals he sat them underneath his tree he served them like they were royalty he didn't judge them for the aod they bought into his house someone asked me the guy has a phone I was like I have eyes and I said I made AER sha he said what's theer sha I said the is that it says by wash off your feet from the that's why he was telling him to wash off his feet he said what's the this from guy I said to him all the Pas in it says an iPhone is equal to aazar so if he brought in his iPhone which according to the signs is aazar he brought it into my home then I have a lesson to learn from Abraham ainu who still welcom them into his home I want to share with you the most beautiful chot in what Abraham ainu was doing now I have to ask you was the mid of Abraham ainu K what do we know is mid was you've been waiting with that answer for a very long time I can see that just like popped out there's certain answers if you teach long enough there's certain things that people have heard long enough many many times so they're like waiting for the thing they're like you know so it's not thing it's not physical they're like it's spiritual but that means that is busting out of you beautiful AB was not a Marv but he was also the biggest MV he believed in Hashem so much his desire to smash Idols was so great and by the way growing up in the Yeshiva World is that not an expression of our frite that we want to smash sheer that we want to say that this is silly and what we have is true if you feel that inside your bones and you believe in it like Abraham ainu you know what you have to do you must share it because how could you see someone who's literally dying in front of you he doesn't know there's a gazer him he's not sure he doesn't understand he's cutting off his children and his children's children how could you not intervene says come into my house I'm gonna get you some bread enjoy and then leave I always was bothered by this you ever do that come come for Shabbat lunch and then at 12:00 leave you could be honest you want to do that had an uncle who would shut shut the lights whenever he want to get to leave oh look at that the lights went off I saw you turn them off obviously not talking about Shabbat here potato potato what is AB saying he's the bigest ever why is he telling them to leave and I saw the most beautiful because what we know is that he would give them food to eat and then when they had the food to eat what would he tell them to do do abrahamu told his guests before they signed on the dotted line you want to come to chatau Abraham come eat drink and then don't do anything else don't enroll in Yeshiva don't keep Shabbat don't wear to seit don't put on tiine just leave I'm happy to just have you in order to do with you that's what Judaism is about you don't have the answers your Shabbat table is an answer you don't have the answers your boardroom is an answer my friends when Abraham does that he doesn't make an argument with them even even though he knows how to argue cuz he's gone through Theon himself when he first became from what does AB say come on over we have delicious meat and fantastic ugot with even a little bit of mustard my friends I want to end by saying this because the hour is late do I how long do I have till Yi I don't know what that means do we have a chart for immigration you could put right over there some people got it okay whatever you win some you lose some the madash tells us that when you have a coal and the coal is about to go out I don't know if any of you done this before you have a coal it's a fire it's burned low all you need to do is you lean in and you just go and what happens to the coal instantly you see it come back to life it's amazing the tiniest breath from someone when a coal is dying is enough to be able to bring it back to a roaring fire what people don't believe in their heart of hearts is that actually this person sitting in front of me we think he really doesn't want to be connected to Judaism what can I do to convince him to join my craziness that's what people think remember hearing from by Cooper Smith when he would tell people that he used to play hockey they're like why did you from Jews would ask him like why would you become from Jews well don't you know what you have that should not be surprising it should be surprising that someone doesn't want it or doesn't have it if you believe that this person is dying to learn more then you're very happy to share right well what if you could think that they're dying to no more before they tell you that they're dying to no more cuz that's the real emit then you'd share then you'd be confident then you'd be giving all you have to do is just blow the tiniest bit on the coal and it Springs back to life immediately my friends we know that is called but really his name says the was Daniel and why was he called instead of Danielle says they cut him down from his gdula and the question is why was Danielle cut down from his Gullah different opinions a simple is that you know what demoted him he used to be an advisor to the king and now all he was was a helper to EST there that's the simple straightforward more a little more complicated is people say that they we cut him down from his greatness and I want to share with you the of the the says why was Danielle considered so great in the eyes of the Jewish people everybody knows one thing about Danielle M Daniel right it depends on if you're in the Lion's Den in the Lion's pit why was Danielle thrown in the Lion's pit anyone know because in the time of Daves they made a decree and the decree was that for 30 days no one was allowed to ask for anything from human or God only the King Daves they wanted to solidify his position as king so they said anyone who prays you know what we're going to do to that person we're going to throw him in the Lion's Den and what happened Danielle prayed three times a day they threw him in the Lion's de Danielle was great says the but now Esther is going to ask every one of the Jews to fast for three days to not have food pass their lips not until the night three straight days if you think you quetch after a Tanis they don't make K times three starving three days no food no water ding from the the depth of their souls you know what they saw when they were able to do that they saw that it wasn't just Danielle who could do it I could do it I could D in like that I could risk my my life to pray to Hashem I have like that ladies and gentlemen heu we've reached that point we are in the generation of H panim like we have never seen H panim before for 500 Days have we not wondered where is Hashem we're living inim so the answer is look back toim and see how we solve the problem in a time where God's name is eliminated from the from the Mig it comes to me and to you to stand up to do what Hashem wants us to do and my friends there is nothing that Hashem wants us to do more in a time of go get them let them fast for three days and do let them call out to God and know who they're calling out to my friends I want to share with you an example of this that will touch you hopefully and drive you to each one of these beautiful initiatives because project Inspire has prepared six but there's not only six there's 600 there's not only 600 there's 6,000 there's not only 6,000 there's 600,000 ways like the 600,000 Souls of the Jews where every single Jew has their own way and therefore every single Jew has their own heart to offer there was a young boy and I'll end with this a young boy who's a bit of a troublemaker you and I both know that not every kid was cut out for school unfortunately some kids they were born for homeschool we all know a kid like that and the only reason why they're not in homeschool even though they're only cut out for homeschool is because I was not cut out to give homeschool I want to make sure that I don't un alive myself my friends this young boy he's struggling and struggling and struggling in school he doesn't know what to do he can't help himself he's running around he's a troublemaker and then one day his his mamid walks into the midash of the Yeshiva and he can smell something interesting shall we say in the midash walking around smelling trying to find the source of this wonderful smell can't figure it out they start the finally they open up the Aron KES for for the prayers for the take out theph Tora and all of a sudden out of thees jumps a goat I know that some of you think that that happens in spartic shoes it doesn't racists opens a goat jumps out and everyone is flipping out and the rebi looks around and of course he sees his uh Troublemaker extraordinaire right over there in the corner laughing his head off immediately he tells a boy get out you're expelled the boy said says thank you one of the biggest challenges that teachers uh struggle with is that they don't know how to punish children in a way where the kid thinks that it's also a punishment so the kid's like home that is fantastic so he leaves about a week later The Boy comes back and he walks into the isba and the rebi says what are you doing here he says I'm back he says no no I don't think you understand expelled not suspended not vacation expelled you're not welcome in the Yeshiva the boy turns to the rebi and he says you can't do that you can't throw me out you have to ask aov you have to get aak you can't just decide to throw me out because it's too much trouble to have me anyway the rebi can't believe he's arguing with this kid now there's all the other kids are around him and everyone's getting swept into it they're arguing back forth the rebi says you know something I'm going to go to the r I'll explain what this is he's going to Sor with me anyway and this little unbelievable group starts walking through the streets of this Village okay in Europe and everyone's following all the kids are following and the rebi and the guy and they're still arguing and they're coming and I just imagine by the way I'm a rabbi and I'm imagining the rabbi is looking out the window and he sees the rebi and he sees the biggest trouble making getting down and he sees all the kids surrounding them and he's thinking to himself what every Rabbi is thinking in that moment why did I become a rabbi if you think this every once in a while don't worry that's healthy if you think it every day get another job anyway they walk in the office and the Rabbi says you know what can I do for you and the the rabbi explains and the kid and the kid is saying well you know I felt bad and I didn't really I'm a troublemaker but I didn't mean to do it and the re's like he put a goat a goat in the arones with the who knows what's going on in there from the smell I have some guesses how can we have someone disrespects the the T Who and the re's the r is nodding nodding you know and the boy sees this is not going his way so he mutters under his breath like only troublemaking kids do he mutters under his breath his breath as the rabbi starts he says well did you ask them and the r says ask them ask who I'm the r and the boy with tears in his eyes he says did you ask my children did you ask my grandchildren I'm a troublemaker but do my kids not deserve that their father should have had a Jewish Education do my grandkids not deserve to marry other Jews cuz I did this cuz I made this mistake did you ask them before you give you a ruling and the r is shook and he tells the rebi maybe give him two more weeks see if he turns it around I can bet those message are is he done yet is he almost finished is he I'm in the car I have the entire lunch buffet let's make a clean getaway that was that level of intensity notification level it's unbelievable Yosi go stop them we all need to eat by the way every Instinct I have as a speaker is like don't interrupt your narrative don't interrupt your narrative don't interrupt your narrative and then the troublemaking kid that would have put a goat in the arur codish is like go for it the rub says given two more weeks most of thater was wiped out in the war and this man whose children became b t whose grandchildren studied in became Ron and rim themselves who was given that chance was given that chance because he was able to express clearly to the RO what about my kids what about my grandkids should they suffer from my mistakes when you see a Jewish person in front of you you have an opportunity to invite him for a Shabbat meal you have an opportunity to sign up for a one-on-one learning you have an opportunity to uh introduce them or meent to them on a m on a on a uh professional level you're not sitting with one person you're sitting with all future generations of that child Esther also was not a cur of professional nobody else was like Danielle but on that day we all became Daniel's my friends you cannot leave this building we have locked the doors until you say he I'm here I got it sign me up if not for one for two if not for two for three but it cannot be don't think that you will be able to escape because you grew up in a from house you're in the bet because maybe God put you in the bet not for you but for him and all of his children God doesn't give you strength personality money education he loans them to you for all of am Israel so this thing if you try and keep it for yourself get out there in the time of we are all Esters we are all Daniel's we are all and even if we have nothing to say to them come to my house my friends they've done all of the work all you have to say is I'm in repeat after me I'm in that was the worst ever ever repeat after me I want 25% off this weekend I just want to gauge one more time I'm in that's H that's mosu H and today that's every single one of us thank you so much [Applause] ladies and gent ladies and gentlemen thank you thank you for being here thank you for joining us lunch is being served outside remember to please return both keys both keys we can't blame it on the roommate or the spouse please bring both keys to the front desk thank you so much for joining us when you give back the keys they are going to scan them everybody got Applause but nobody got a standing ovation this weekend you got to give a St Standing Ovation for Rabbi Yi fredman stand up stand up give it up give it up for Rabbi Yi fredman he deserves a standing ovation please enjoy your lunch remember to give back the keys thank you