Speech To The Yeshiva | Rabbi Daniel Kalish | Waterbury Parents Day 2025

[Music] Good afternoon. Good afternoon to everybody again. A tremendous appreciation for everybody for everybody for being here. [Music] Again the the tough kid our purpose people could have different and each each parent has their own coming and obviously every parent making trips out from far places from Canada from Detroit from Atlanta from Texas from New York from Lakewood coming from from Muny from off from Payic from all different communities five towns from everywhere that everybody came obviously from Baltimore more certainly we're saying to each other to our children I imagine many parents main message to their child is I care about you parents who didn't come care also but certainly the message in driving distance is our children St. The message to our children is we care and we're here and we're present. My purpose in asking parents and having the on Sunday people are busy and have busy lives. My purpose in asking people to come and arranging to be together is very very simple. I want us to meet in person. I want a yidos in our community. Connection is what is what a makum is. It's a world like revol called the world of ty tyanidos a world of friendship. I was I was to see a father who learned like like people breathe all the years of his life. He was a mass manif. My cousin was was close. We grew up like brothers. So my father learned that was his default setting. He learned and he learned and he learned and he learned. He was always learning. His default setting was to learn. And he learned with an incredible yet he would drop everything in a second for a wedding. He went to every every in the later years they're like pictures of him learning by simas. That's beautiful because he always learned. The only thing I want to say about those pictures he danced by weddings and socialized by weddings. It was a very interesting for a person who was one of the biggest masid in the world. I say that as just what I saw. a person didn't stop learning. It wasn't a day, a month, a year, like a week year from from when he decided to learn as a teenager. He had grown up in a mix the yeshiva and he made a decision. I want to learn to he didn't stop learning and teaching his day his last year of his life. My mom said it was the most it was the t most used day of his life, the end of his life. It was the busiest days of his life. He was somebody who was finish every year. the last year of his life was working on a safer that he put out right before his pet with a kesh and every he was in a he was a rer with guys from our yeshiva from this yeshiva learning in a ka with him he just had a little extra time so he became yeshiva that he said and ran every single day he was involved in his day was saying of course his day was wild yet he would drop in a Second for a person sim a wedding of art and offer and never was that like a fetch my people close to him would ask him but the trip you're a person use every minute he would drive to Lakewood in a second for a wedding that's two hours there two hours back in a second he'd say that's the best time to car he'd go with his best friend he went with my mom that's great time but for aid he goes goes and the less and he loved a value of a yid superseded even that was part of his aid was like when I was a youngster and I admit when I was a youngster learning in the mirror if a guy would fly back for a wedding I thought he's not such a serious guy okay you know one of those I'm embarrassed I was young and raw now not I'm still young but not as raw getting there and today Somebody flies for a sim like what do you have better to do in the world? My son went from here 5 hours to Baltimore for his friends. Obviously if you're going to bring a smile who drove who was the one who drove them both drove of course [Applause] to me to me to make a yid smile to connect to a yid to be present to a yid is is like the highest value. So, this is a world. This is a place of connection. We're not very good at shows and and it's funny that we decided to have some music this afternoon. I like when the guys express the fact that was talking and we didn't look great. People are smoozing during the music. I'm happy not to look good that people were smoozing. Our guys are excited to see each other. The parents were excited to see each other. Nobody can get quiet. Outstanding. Please continue to enjoy each other. the fact that there's friendship here. We're not a show type of place. It's not what we're trying to be. It's an honest place. We're a mumra. Things here aren't meant. We have no meetings before today with the guys. Please don't dress like this. Do that. Nothing like that. Nothing. We want people to meet to come together. We're a place of honest connection and relationship. I simply want the parents to come. Many parents some I speak on the phone. We just the fact that we're sitting together via the fathers meeting the fathers, the mothers meeting the mothers. I I want people to know when a kid comes here, he doesn't find a school. I'm not so into schools. We're not trying to be a school. We're not a warm school, a cold school, a fun school. We're not a school. I don't care for school. When somebody comes here, school is for kids. Children go to school. We don't have a sixth grade. This is this is for Bakim. This is for teenagers. I don't I'm not trying to be a school in the slightest. It's an honest place where people can be and connect. Connect each other. Connect to Hashem. Connect to Tyra. Connect. Can honestly connect. And the fact that parents I like that siblings came. I like that parents came. We came together. I like that Dan brought his home. Mishbah. Of course, next year if you're claring next year, by the way, by the way, you heard it. It's an unusual place and schools don't bring your daughters. Yeah, you can bring anybody. Everybody's welcome, comfortable, and safe to be here. I consider it one of the most safe. I question if schools are safe. If a person can't express honestly and comfortably, I don't consider that safe. That's a different type of thing. I think there's one of the safest places in America because people talk here. People express, they share, hey, I'm Hey, I'm feeling this. Hey, I'm feeling that people feel it. It makes it a very very safe and honest place. So, I just appreciate the parents. You're part of making this place. This was made by it's it's made by the it's theem only Hashem could construct what's here. He he created an incredible people and the guys together we're building this. I'm in this school myself learning my stuff. I'm in this makum. called a school but I'm in this ma and I'm learning my stuff being honest trying to plug in myself to go on my own journey it's a very very honest space so I thank everybody you're not like coming to a place you're you are the place you're part of the place the parents are extremely extremely not just significant here I've come a long way the early years of the yeshiva the guys were in the yeshiva and parents like I don't have time I'm not connected The guys we're close to the guys today I first of all if we like a bach that means we like his parents a child comes from his parents if you like him you like his parents this year usher came to yeshiva I praise him I want to express that means I'm close to his parents I wanted his parents his mama came big distance and if you like a bucka that means you're into his parents we come from our parents anything and Everything I have is from my parents. We come from our parents. So liking a guy means we like the parents. We're asking, you're not watching a journey. You're part of the journey. We're asking parents something. We're telling parents. We're begging parents to really develop a kesher. Not people think it's like directing. I told my son I said to him it's not talk speak. Two people look at each other. Meet meet each other. Two people I watch. I'm not trying to be cheap. I watch Aaron with his father. They're close. This is not new age that a father and son are supposed to be best friends. It's just as old as the Tory. The word means Rashi says a father is a friend. It's not new age zero. Of course, there parameters to the friendship. Of course, there's respect. But of course, but the translation of a is says y was an a par. He was not par's father. He was par's friend. And it calls it an a par. The translation the word a what an av is a close friendship. Close. Of course there's parameters to the friendship. I'm asking parents and it's a journey of the kid and the parent and people have difficult feelings and complicated sugas. I don't look at it when we're close to a bach and very close. I don't look roll my eyes and the guy is fighting with his dad and disconnected to mom. I don't roll my eyes like come on. You call up the parent like almost an attack. I love your son is like an attack. Well, I do too. Like excuse me. Parents like I promise a father likes his son the mother more than any rebby and friend. When teenagers are going through it, they get confused. a friend. He's my buddy. My mom, the mom likes you more. Ellie, we just went through Ellie and Donniey's yard site in yeshiva. Their petira changed my life. They were nif on the way to yeshiva and it changed many things. Changed this entire yeshiva. The history of the yeshiva is before we lost any elandi and after that it's a different yeshiva and it's already a bar mitzvah over 13 years ago. And one of the things that I discovered is seeing the way Eli Adani's mothers responded to their petira. I learned nobody touches the love of mother. Nobody. And for a place that cares about reality, a guy has to live that reality. He may have frustrations. His mom loves him. What I don't say that means mom makes all mom's still human. But a parent is only one father and one mother. And a place of honesty, a place of Tyra, a place that's serious about Tyra, the relationship to a parent is huge. If the if the success of the yes is yeshiva, if anything that a bach any success, a guy's closer to his mom, closer to his dad, closer to his siblings, siblings are like a big here. Not because it's spoken about in a shallow way. We learn ty we're just true to the tyra. I said we read this morning Ravula focused on this key adaptive. You know why I love Abrau the most idealistic person who ever lived. He built worlds. He was an idealist who changed history. And yet says I love him because he was family because he was family for what he meant his family. My father was an idealist. The amount of shi we said is staggering two dafis a day she crazy days crazy and yet there's not one grandchild not one exception I promise not one grandchild's a year later is not rocked their grandchildren here mamish close to him not there no like there should be like one grandchild era a lot of grandchildren not one that's not like crazy close to the tata to this not One, you can't find an exception that struggle. Not one bu exception. Nephews and nieces. My my my my cousin who clos is a nephew. There's not a nephew family. He was very mundas to miss a family. You got the wrath. He didn't scream, but it was duly noted. That was a lot. You missed the family. That's like that's crazy. Cousin, a sibling. Mishbah. This is like a basic to yadeshkite a basic to yadas. It's interesting that we don't come from a yeshiva our people. You would think the start of our people's we come from a house father and a mother of we got a rebihenu later on. We come from a home that's our people. Interesting. You'd think the people of the book would be formed in school in yeshiva. It's not our people. We come from Bram the house of there were yeshivas yeshiva shor but that's not where we were constructed we plugged into yeshivas we come from a home we come from a home from bram that's where we come and to me the the parents are a huge part of the yeshiva and fully understood we all are different places of our relationship to our children and it's fluid it's a it's something that moves and it has its own complexities we're actually asking asking parents to be more involved than ever become close femist that you could look eye to eye and have an honest conversation but like real people ask am I really close do I'm talking about to develop it with time spent like any friendships develop honest conversation it takes time to develop that we ask we're all on the same page we ask guys and parents a lot of guys are very scared of today it's going to be awkward oh my parents are coming that's a normal fear for it's very little is awkward here. They're used to environments that are very much doing something and it's like awkward. Stand here. Everybody could be themselves. Be you. Be you. It's safe to be. It's a very safe place guys after our surprise. That was comfortable. I thought it was going to be so awkward today. We're not doing so much. We're sitting in friendship trying to meet. I was so happy by the by this. When I spoke to the mothers, a mother stood up and said something intelligent. Excellent. Stand up, scream, yell, argue, curse, say the police. That's also good. Don't worry. It's safe here. It's safe here. I thank really truly thank every person for making the trip and for joining and being here. one of the nodas by Arainu. I want to share some Ara I want to do a few things but I want to express that Arainu before he takes his soldiers to fight his yeshiva Ara came in a very the strangest day I'm very visual Aram's our father I think about him and Ara showed up to yeshiva he had tens of thousands of talid him and sar had the lady's wings countries princes kings would come queens would come his yeshiv was very famous worldwide. Hashem promised him and the Ram describes tens of thousands would learn by bram little kids picture a little tent that's just wrong and that's for a little child that's what they could that's not the truth he was a powerful sprawling campus made Durham look tiny it was blocks made probably miles I picture miles they talk about doors in each side in a little house that would be weird even a big house you're talking about there were entrances says east, east, north, south, west, different. You see, you're talking about miles long. It was a campus. And in the campus, people came. They heard about Aramino. People were intrigued by this human being who lives sincerely, who lives authentically, who gives, who shares, who cares about other people. It was a revolution. And people plug in to the base Ara. One day a comes to yes in the most craziest day in the history of the yeshiva. He says today they're excited for shir for the lectures for the speeches. There's a sign goes up. Everything's cancelled the lectures today. What's happening? We're going to fight a war. He tells his yeshiva guys that he hands out guns. He hands out guns. We're going to fight a war. And Abrau comes. It's interesting. Why did he fight the war? Because one person was captured. Abakar in yeshiva asked me a question. I love this question. A guy in yeshiva said, "Rebi, I have an uncomfortable question. I love friction. Friction's great. Friction's excellent. Don't be afraid of friction yourself. If you're at a Rebi says a gishmak and you find it boring and uninteresting, that's important. Friction. Don't melt from that. That's big. I find learning very boring. That's great. That's very cool. Go on walks. Figure that out. Speaks about Hashem hands us a gift doesn't feel like a gift. Friction's excellent. Is the best place I get in my life is when I have friction. When you have friction, a guy told me he doesn't like yen. That's that's that's cool. That's a cool space. Go on walks. Hashem likes our people. You don't like that's a big friction. I don't like fake. If I meet somebody I don't like him, I go and walk. So baker comes to interview. Sometimes I like them. Sometimes I meet the guy, I don't like him. That's a good friction. I say, "Oh, I love he's a stop. The guys taught me to be real. They taught me you could be real and discover a truth." So it's a friction. Go on a walk, figure it out. Usually you find something in yourself that's making you insecure. You go on a good walk, you figure things out. But we could get place. So Bakar says to me that why is fighting for the 20 hostages? We lost more than 20. Said anybody think he knows we're going to lose more than 20. So we exchanged more people. That's friction. That's friction. That's that's that's how that's how we live. He was being so honest. He was feeling something. So I don't like I don't give answers. I'm not that stupid to give answers to people. Friction. Why would you take away friction? People could get could really get places on it. Question is we're born for here. We don't have Q&As. We have cues. Questions. That's what friction is. We're born for that. We're not stupid. A kid asked me on an interview two summers ago. He said, he was a very sophisticated kid. I was so upset he didn't come. He had like series of questions this night. He came from serious. So he said, "Rabbi, you got the answers?" I said, "No, no, we have no answers." I said we just have room for you and your problems and me and my problems. Answers people give answers. Stop questions very dangerous there. Space for questions. You have frictions. We we believe in a person a person of finds. So this question is cool. I did want to learn with him. Hears that one brother was captured and he brings his yeshiva to fight a war. Any statistics you're going to lose more than one in a war. You have my brother says they have our brother. They have our brother. Light learned in this. And he says we're going to fight. I don't I lose my mathematical abilities when you take my brothers. My brothers are by you. I'm fighting. It's not There's no math involved. You touch my brother, I'm going to war to get him back. I'm not doing any math. You have my brother here. I learned. It's the only in that I learned with my So the last few months I've been pounding the D. I'm being the casher to my father. It's the day after the yard sites. I want to tell you what do he goes and he's fighting a war. Rav says he strengthened their learning. I like shalom. I love the Israel that are fighting. We have 40 guys who learned in this. I have a brother-in-law who was in Gaza, left his five children and is fighting in Gaza. I love the yen fighting. Lan er he's so amazing and I love the yidd who won't fight. I have nephews and nieces and guys who would never fight. They say we're worried somebody will go off to all different worries and fears and they're sitting and learning from them and us people will make we're we have all different types of we need the of all and us our job we're like we don't know the so as you marry into a family and there's a fight in other side you don't know from the fight so you can make sh delicately I think I want to bring the whole yeshiva there so all the parents at some point and make shalom anarch. So if everybody will come at some point we'll bring a few hundred thousand people and we'll make sh but delicate understanding there's history there's complications but there's tremendous from people learning to people fighting amazing lights all around and takes his yeshiva to fight but beforehand he strengthens them in Rav says he the garra says the garra says that there was some of he shouldn't have brought to fight I'm not a political guy I'm just learning the garam did it but the garra says he was punished so it's all interesting sometimes you have to do something but you get it's comp it's a journey our people are beautiful but I want to share like this I want to share says a f I want everybody to hear this if all the guys re if you could hear my daughter. I want her to hear this. Says that before Abrainu fought a war, he gave out money. Abrainu gave out money. People that are big literalists. They picture Abrau hand. Why did he give out money to his talid? He comes in one day were fighting a war and he starts handing out cash. Says gold. It wasn't like a g dollars. Abraham was giving out like big time money. He's giving out Z of wads of cash that millions. He was giving out big time money. What was he doing? Very dangerous. The fib conquests are dangerous. You know, they made billions of dollars that they made. They ended up conquering the whole economy of Kaka. It's very dangerous to fight wars. Armies in generals a lot of a lot of it's lot of promiscuity in armies. Tremendous danger armies. There's psychological reasons when people fight. What happens to a person? If you know about PTSD, people get stuck that I'm I'm physical. They forget their nish. They just get stuck in something what I am. I'm just certain instincts make the person remember, forget the refine, the greatness of a venge and fighting is very dangerous and interacting with the world. He's taking soldiers. They're going to go off to Derek. They're going to get tempted by the wealth, by the money, by the all the attitudes of the world. So what does do? He gives out dollar bills to his he gives out millions. Does anybody think that that would help say he handed money to all this? You think that would work? If you hand the guys $100, they won't want money. Don't teach us if you have a hundred you want 200 200 400. So he gave them money. Wouldn't that make them more money? What's a this is in a tyra says before they fought he gave out money. I have seen guys come to yeshiva with the sense that the joyy's out there a few bakram the first might say shabas yeshiva went to a rave they used the schools we're mad at you you misbehave what's with you I'm not mad at one guy my kid would call me I'm at a rave I'd be curious oh well how'd it go I'd actually be curious what he wanted there if he liked an isha I'd first be happy I dive in all my boys should like a girl that's a wonderful thing And and it'll be interesting. Oh, he went there. Interesting. The reason I don't want my kid not to go because he's worried I'm going to be mad. He disappointed. You let down the family values. You make Waterberry look terrible. You're like you mammish. Now you messed up. It's nothing to do with that. I want somebody to find truth, to find happiness, to find meaning. I want that my kid didn't go there, that didn't go to that rave because it's not what he was looking for. He wants to marry a girl one day. He wants to be happy and and he can get temper that that just didn't do it for him. I want him to find truth and meaning. I really believe somebody could find things that they believe in and live for it and and believe in it and mameish be that and mish find the truth. Mameish we're shamus that want it and I believe we're capable of finding it in Araminu's world. My cousin could say that. I'm not exaggerating. I never met somebody in my life that like this world more than my dad. My dad loved this world. A good tennis game, skiing. But I'm told at the end of his life, good ski trip. A good white water rafting. I knew about white water rafting. How many places he liked? But not if it was to the Delaware didn't do it. He needed crazy. It has to be wild. His motto was if it ain't dangerous, it ain't fun. He brought us places. Crazy place. It had to be Lebed. And he liked this world a lot. A lot. I want to express he knew who he was. He was about then Hashem made a beautiful world for Hashem's beautiful worlds meant to assist the learner of Tyra, the liver of Tyra. I never met him. He liked grilling a piece of schnitzel. But he was focused. He learned I breathe. He taught with he liked this world. No guilt. No mish liked the world is a nice world. So enjoyed Hashem's world. Mameish. We never grew up with the sense that those people have the fun. Like a joke. I asked my mother about it. She started laughing today. Like those people, we grew up a beautiful world. Hashem made a beautiful world. When we forget our purpose and are sucked into the world, there's nobody who's happy. Nobody. Mas the my father loved and was daku was mkashu describes one in a thousand darn happy people who don't know what we're about. We're a soul here. We have a light each of us a beautiful light to shine each in our own unique station. When we live that and and and understand that and shine the light that we're supposed to shine a beautiful unique unique to us in a unique way in a unique place. We're not trying to be the guy, the best. We're not trying for any of that. That's nonsense. We're trying to serve Hashem sincerely, authentically, beautifully, our own unique light. And when we find it and focus on that, a beautiful world that's so nice, such an assistance, a nice meal that we can have and enjoy and appreciate. A nice game of tennis, a good game of basketball, pickle ball, the things have a place and a space. I believe simple. I never heard a better. What does it mean? Aram's handing out dollars. It's pasha to me. If you look at if you're literal it could be also if you want to learn literal I don't mind maybe handed out dollars the mitas of how is it safe to take a yeshiva and fight a war mish he took his yeshiva it's so dangerous we have 40 guys in the army not a guy who walked in this space medish went off to der from the army they're all from I promise not one ry brownstein ms where's ry brownstein he's connected is there a guy who went off I don't believe there's one person from what's mean the proud you fight for not going anywhere I want to express how is so confident it's dangerous they were going within conquest it's the first place it says in the he entrusted with their were filthy rich they were rich that's not a trick my father played ball with us took us it wasn't like he wasn't didn't like it. He wasn't into tricks. Tricks are for kids. If you take the guys, if you take them skiing, they'll be from Stop. Don't do any tricks, please. He just actually enjoyed Hashem's world. It wasn't like any tricklam. He wanted to learn his gish. Hashem made you could ski and then I can get back to learning mameish with more. He had energy like a little kid 78. His day was crazy. I don't know a 30-year-old, a 15-y old that could keep the day he kept at 78. Crazy. But every day for his whole life, you expect a bad week, month, year, middle age crisis. Let zero fire, fire on fire. He enjoyed a good ski trip. Kishmak, let's go. A Friday tennis. He asked him Tuesday. No, he has no time Tuesday. Friday was in its place, in its time, in its thing. She made it beautiful. It wasn't a trick of I think was the calling card of a wasn't a's like trick to the people entrusted the people entrusted to a were filthy rich so it wasn't like the dream of mine in this space medish nobody feels like oh those guys have what are you talking about right here right here there's a sense the best feeling in the world I don't say we have it always they're times guys feel we'll have a moment the guy's sitting in my shapiro chair next door a guy's very sill you know what it feels like that I wouldn't want to be any other place on earth this I had that in my father's home this you couldn't pay a gazillion dollars wouldn't want to be any other place I believe in my children that if somebody had a billion dollars cash a billion dollars sepas once they would laugh their brains off at the guy they'd chuckle your card a bill what are you talking about what are you talking The dream of the yes is yeshiva is to find sincerity and authenticity. And when you're finding that what it like the fun is where hap the world was made it wasn't like a world made at for like really there's a world the world wasn't made hashem says what it was made for for the for the server of hashem and when he grows he has an the world has an aliyah with him things become valuable and precious there's a line from fel there's a line from salant that somebody else's gashmas is your it's a very beautiful line somebody's gashmas is your I want to say on my father that his gashmus became everybody around him's different line his gashm who his skiing and how many people are from because of skiing with him how many people are closer to hashem you know how many families are healed because of his rafting thousands Thousand of people went on his rifts. You know how many people are closer to Hashem from the tennis games? Yeah. All of us. Now he didn't do it as a trick like make us there was it wasn't do he wasn't a tricks type guy. He was he was serving Hashem. Hashem made a beautiful world. The attitude here is attitude. Those that are filthy rich. Enjoy. were not enjoy friendship enjoy enjoy wasn't a trick of his yeshiva it was an expression of a place that absorbed the kindness of hashemu appreciated the kindness of hashem and absorbed it nobody felt by means he made them the rich types see they're going to go off to d are you kidding me you joking Abrainu's guys went to nobody they all came right back to Abrau right back that was the ofu they were they were in a very wealthy way so I I wanted to ask everybody here I wanted to express that we're partners in a I don't even want to say we're partners barely you're you're the mechanic of your your children and I'm asking each parent stay involved D with conversation and get more involved with your child in a relationship, friendship, closeness. I'm asking to bring this to the other children. I'm asking to bring this to your neighbors and friends. What's happening in the yeshiva is impacting many. I want I read to the mothers a letter that I want to read to everybody. [Music] This is a letter. I want to read this to everybody. This is a letter. A girl from the Hamisha family came to meet my wife and I. An incredible girl, 25 in her mid 20s, very special person. There are thousands of people like this. This is one letter that came this past Friday. There are thousands like this. Hi, thank you so much for the opportunity to come down and speak to you. I wanted to tell you how much your yeshiva means to me. This is a hish a girl from you read this bad for reputation. Girls like her yeshiva. I'm just telling you the truth. I feel part of something big and great. Even though I'm technically not part of it, she's part of it. It's a lifeline for me to be able to listen to sher that are real and wake up my soul. To be able to listen to songs from the guys that are on an amazing journey. When I listen to the songs, I feel like I'm not alone in this. So, thank you for being my rebi without you knowing it. Thank you for creating a space where honesty and healing and real connection is the new norm. It's a huge gift from Hashem. I'm able to plug into this amazing place. I really love your MFA and I'm constantly following everything that goes on there. If you guys feel stalked, I apologize. It's the most fascinating place and it makes my journey so much more bearable when I'm plugged into a place that's all about everything. Everyone going through their own stories and being honest about it. There are thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people plugged in to our precious makum. And I'm asking all the parents I'm asking this is your yeshiva our yeshiva. It's Cla's yeshiva belongs to us. I promise when a guy comes right my adus and I want to do some introductions. I want to hear some music. I dragged on way too long. I want to express when a guy comes I have zero sense. Right. Brownstein's my aid. I have we have zero sense that it's our question. Should he come? If a guy will grow here, if a guy will grow here, then he's entitled. He has as much right as parents. You could tell anybody this is true. We could try, right? Brownstein's wants organization. A parent in Cly call and say I accepted my son to your yeshiva. He has his right. Any member of we have handed this yeshiva. We don't feel we don't act like owners. Excuse. We're not gatekeepers. Right. Brownstein's mass. We would try to make a guy come in a mass time. Maybe maybe we tell somebody don't come too young. It's not meant for a fifth grader. There's a certain style. I think kids should be in school. I think at a certain age people should join a yeshiva and be a place you can meet and relate. I'm not so into school for teenagers. I don't I don't look at it that way. But but I don't look at it. We're violent. We want people to be accepted and to come. We don't look at it. We don't pretend we're owners. We view it. It's Hashem's place. It's Claudius. And I want to express to the parents, you're part of this. You're here. You're in this makum Tyra. Schools are for kids. A Makum Tyra, a place of honesty. I look I'm looking here with his parents. You're amazing people. I've met the family through your older son who is incredible. Zachary, Zach, incredible. All your children and each one's journey. You're part of the yeshiva. You're in yeshiva. We have I love when brothers are here. It's a place of a lot of brothers. Everybody in Yeshua is getting to watch Ephraim. The two Jacob and where are Jacob and Aphraim? Where are those two from brothers? Stand up. Stand up. The brothers where's where's Jacob? Okay, I'll check it up. It's a place where relationship to siblings matter a lot. Family, it's a place of connection and relationship. Family matters. We we had a sim I I love that today the silver family sang together. I thought that was delightful. I thanked them all for singing together. You guys dancing together as Mishbah was delightful. It's a place where family matters a lot. This is a place of my own children, my four older sons. I can't wait to send my fifth son. He's 11, so he's a bit young. I don't think Greg Brownston will accept him yet, but but he's um but my other four sons all learned here and grew here in the dorms, part of this yeshiva. They could have gone anywhere. I wanted here. I like the truth that's here. I like the honesty that all Bar Hashem gained worlds from being here like me and my wife have gained from here. So I welcome really welcome. I want to do a few introductions today. We should get to know each other. How does this place work? You have a guy any one of my friends know me. Like my cousin said, "For sure you're not going to be at 2:00 on time." He doesn't know I was with my mother. My mother made sure I was on time without she was sending people away at the speech at 5 though. My mother was she took me to the garden. My mother is more misunder otherwise it could have been a problem. But um so how does the yeshiva work? Hashem gifted us with somebody who's a bal and is he works it's 365 shabas he's on the summer he's on running cams I'm running all the camps I'm going to ask him to stand on people could put their faces people say the word raiet he's Rabbi Brownstein the fact that he has his first name I guess the more holy the tanim they're called by first names the big ones are hill nobody calls them rebill so maybe ask me it's a first name but everybody should if I could ask Brownstein to please stand up if I can just to give a picture the shurim the heart and soul of the yeshiva and in the morning in the morning the shurim as guys are successful early a guy learns he could sleep till 4:00 he go to sleep for it's very tempting to go to sleep You have the coolest guys on earth. I would I don't know how I if I stayed here at night, I might be up till shakas, but it's very tempting to smoo. They're fascinating guys, interesting people, feeling people. So, a young guy comes, he stays up till five, six, seven. I I totally I get it. Now the goal we try to encourage >> we try to encourage >> uh 67 67 the most popular word I don't know what's happening in the world for those that don't get it for those that don't get it first of all you're above the age of 40 so welcome to the club if you didn't get the joke 67 seven, you're above 40. If you're under 40, the most popular word in the world every year. Two years ago, they they they do it based on texts and and and computers. They have the popular word of the year. Two years ago, it was gaslighting. And these words, the new words, the word that won it this year is 67. So, if you ever say the word, I thought it was like an anagram number. what it means. Go ask your go ask your 14year-old daughter cuz if you're over 30 you definitely we we don't know what it means. I don't think too many people do it. Six seven means maybe so and so. Whatever it means means somebody likes rap. I don't know what it means. The keter is is that as guys are being successful finding their way. I want a guy to find the shir and he could plug into the shum. No, I don't want one guy paying for anything. I don't believe in incentives to please please I have a tus please don't give an incentive to put on fill and don't give an incentive for shabas I don't like that I ask every parent if you were stab no incentives a guy comes and finds truth he finds emis he finds fillin he finds he finds chabas I'm not the biggest fan of incentives there's such a thing called incentives better not you come to a shar and the shar is packed right shapier they come because they want to hear from Shapiro. They want to connect to Ray Shapiro. So just to describe the sh in the morning, one guy comes five minutes, one guy comes for three hours, different guys plug in and they find their shar where they're learning and finding something out that's connecting in the room next door. Shapiro daily some of the sharpest guys, some of the smartest guys in yeshiva go to that chair as there mish intelligent big nish is some of the holiest guys. I'm actually gonna ask somebody who was in that share for years in a different she now and I want to say that anybody a 70 year old Russia who would come to Shia would find it sophisticated to a 20year-old to a 5-year-old to somebody who didn't know much about yushkai to an established they're learning I don't like dumb down things so R shapiro says this year next door is Ray Shapiro in the room right now >> want to introduce Shapiro to the cover. >> I can just He's meeting with a pair. Let's introduce Ray Shapiro for a minute. >> SHAPIRO [Applause] in in this space med that take place who has 10th graders and he has 25 year olds and everything in between. Risone right where Rabbi Lang is sitting right in the back there. R Risone says share every day and that's Ryone share that takes place in the morning. Is Ryzone in the room? It's funny. It's funny that I like sports a lot. Not everything that happens on the court reflects life. It happens to be the way Ryzone plays ball that he's in it and he's he goes after it. He plays is the way he lives his life. And Ryzone is here many many nights late at night with his guys smoozing with his guys going through the dorms. His tenacity and dedication to the yeshiva is remarkable. So many have spoken on the phone zone. I think of any revy the one who's best with the phone. I lag very much at the bottom but the one who's best with the phone most accessible and available. I'm not saying this to you. Call him. Don't try me. And maybe for the next few weeks he'll go. But but Ryzone just appreciate how much he brings to our community to our yeshiva to our that's Ryzone right there. That's just right around right around the middle table. A lot of the always that run the yeshiva they surround Ry Brownstein and Ry Brownstein say I introduced him. Right behind me is a shir Rab Russ. Here's Russ over the years some of the most sophisticated guys in yeshiva are in fines and others the most sophisticated guys they're usually very talented and the guys who are the relationship is deep it's nuanced he's a brilliant person many of his guys learn oneon-one with Rahas he's here throughout the day first and second seder many of the guys learn with him. My own children was to be in a learn with him. So that's Rabbi Rasir that takes place right here every morning in the in the front of the base medish ramen raats gives a shar in the front of the base medish for the many years we have somebody when he was with his guys it was like full service rights is a is mish a gift from hashem somebody who's dedicated he's here many shabases also somebody he's here a lot in the day is right cats here right You got to go somewhere. Okay. But that's my cats are shared >> to continue with the just to continue with the different shim. In the room next door in the building next door is a base medish that's become a center here. There are two shurim that take place. Each one is like their own universe. In the room straight ahead Rab was daily says a shir. There are hundreds of guys married with children. The rebi probably who's most connected their marriages who are calling Ray was daily with shilus with questions meeting the wives meeting the husbands. For those who knew Rab overlander when he passed away we had a huge void in our community. He was very involved with the marriage. Rayniki besides learning with our children giving Shurib and being close is very very involved with hundreds of families that have learned here presently >> speaking to people in the classroom. Oh, he's speaking to families in the classroom. That's what I was thinking. In the room on the right, a shir that my son, my son was in the sh for three years. This rebi has changed the entire yeshiva. He's brought a tre, him and his wife have brought a tremendous depth. A lot of the revolution of honesty is led by this rebi. And that's in the sh the right rice silverman. Where is rice silverman? [Applause] Rman actually the first year of the yeshiva learned in the mifa then he went to Isra and learned for years in Israel and we was to steal him back and he's making massive massive impact on the yeshiva so that's to introduce brownstein I introduced all the reb I don't want to miss anybody the that's should introduce One of the strong forces of the yeshiva. It's one of the secrets of the yeshiva is the dorm counselors. I'm going to stop speaking in five minutes 45. We're going to allow for question statements. I want to say that one of the secrets of the yeshiva is the dorm counselors. Now I want to express why doesn't everybody do that? We have 40 guys who are cool for purpose. You know, they're good-looking and fun and look at Morty Sam with Morty. [Applause] So, now I want to say this. You should know it's not easy. I have such Ask if my wife was here, she could say this. Hundreds and hundreds of girls. My wife and I meet many many a week. Many they're just looking forim. We've made many and people call all the time. So I want to express the dorm councs are the heart and soul of yeshiva. So why doesn't everybody do it? It's very it's wild. The way a place of honesty works is why do 40 guys give of their life come back to yeshiva they're learning they're doing college some them some of them are working some are learning through why do they come back? They love this place and believe in this place and they come back for their own. They want to give back and they want to continue to grow. And the way the system works that guys are willing to come back talented. It's funny. My son was on a date. And the guy goes sits him down and says, "You're a dorm counselor. You don't seem like a mean guy." That was the only question he asked him. He said, "That's not a dorm c. You picture a dorm counselor as some person enforcer or policeman." not here. A dorm council is a big brother who's open, who's honest, who's working his own. The dorm counts are the heart and soul of the yeshiva. They're here 24 hours. When we leave, Ry Brown, right, zone will leave 1,212 in the morning. But then from 2 to 8, who's manning it till Ry Brownston comes back at 8? The dorm counselor here round the clock. They run the leagues. They run the music. They run the night. They run activity. They run everything. They run the night sader. And the secret of the yeshiva and amazing that giving causes giving which causes giving. There's a system of giving. I wanted to ask one dorm counsel for three minutes just to share something brief. I did not give him much time. Is Elio here? [Applause] [Music] Then I'm going to I'm going to put I'm going to put on this spot. Every dorm counts as stand on notice. Get nervous. I'm going to put on this. Um, >> so when I was asked to speak, I was, you know, I sat down and I thought like, what do I have to offer other than obviously my good looks and charm and I was thinking about it and I settled on an idea like a concept I think something that I gained from Waterberry and over my time here I've watched many many people gain from here and I wanted to you know bring it to attention some new parents in the room or new Waterberry parents and the old ones who might not know this and I thought this was a good just a good thing to bring up at this um time and uh what I wanted to talk about was the I'm sure you've heard I don't want to sound like I'm regurgitating all the Rob's speeches but I'm a bit of a cussid so you've heard probably that this is a yeshiva of connection a place of relationships and of course there's you know many important different types of relationships that one would foster and grow over their over their lifespan and definitely over their young adulthood and teenagehood and you know like a friendship uh relationships with Rabam with parents with peers acquaintances um with God but I think the the best or the not the best the most important relationship and the one that this yeshiva allows people to foster and grow in uh in that area is the connection between you and yourself. And I think I mean, you know, I don't think I really need to advertise why that's such an important connection and why that's maybe the most important connection to have, but I do think that this is a yeshiva that, you know, allows for that growth. It pushes that growth um through the Rabayam, through the other dorm counselors, through the other guys. One one thing I've always appreciated about this yeshiva is you don't have to necessarily be a guy who goes to shear because as long as your roommate goes to shear when he comes back to the room you hear a little bit of shear over a year over two years over three years you've heard plenty of sheerum secondhand and just through that you've gained so much just you've gained so much by your friend gaining by your friend going and I think you know it's it's almost a little bit of a depressing thought but you know it doesn't matter how many friends you make doesn't matter how close you grow to your family, how many wives you have. Um, all these all these, you know, nice and different connections one could achieve over their lifetime. When you go and you lie down to go to sleep at night, there's only one person who's there and it's yourself. and to have that, you know, that friendship and that love of yourself and to be comfortable in your own mind, in your own body, in your essence and your being, who you are as a person. I think that's something that this yeshiva allows for growth in, it pushes growth in, and it prioritizes growth in. And so, I just wanted to bring that to everybody's attention and say how much I've gained in that area and how much I think you could watch and see as your kid is here over time, how much they'll gain in that area. and maybe through some secondhand shear you yourself will gain in that area. So that's all I wanted to say and [Applause] why did every single one of us know he would have something intelligent to say? But it's also beautiful when somebody speaks and they and their words are not aligned. It doesn't go in when somebody who's developed the connection shares that important that correct that that comes and allows for all the shares that eloh that was phenomenal. Thank you. You know what I'd want to dam before I put any other dorm counselor on the spot. They taught us a song that they did before. They brilliantly put two songs together. I'm gonna ask Schlommo Schlommo. I'm gonna ask Shim the dorm gets to come up by all the dorm counselors if Shim come up and do it again. Here is a slowmo here. Schlommo. Come >> see T. Come up and sing with. [Applause] [Music] Let's go. [Music] Oh Let's go. [Music] My Lord is coming back to the city of David. My Lord is coming back for his arms. Yes, my Lord is coming back to the city of David. Oh, praise the Lord. Yes, my Lord is coming back to the city of David. My Lord is coming back for it all. My Lord is coming back to the city of David. Oh, praise the Lord. [Music] Heat. Heat. My heart my heart is coming back to the city of my Lord is coming back for his own. Yes, my Lord is coming back to the city of David. Oh, praise the Lord. [Applause] [Music] I wanted to ask, this is putting on the spot, but I wanted to ask another dorm counselor to share. Elio didn't have much time either. Really? I can quote parents also. Maybe I will next. I think if I say that people are going to start slipping out people can share but people can also attack. Attack ask there many questions to ask. Friction is good and attack is good because I wanted to be honest. I don't want We're wonderful. The yeshiva has flaws mistakes and things will improve. We want we want to improve as people as a school. Please don't be afraid to express after my I'll ask if there are but I want to ask this dorm counselor is one of the leaders of the dorm councils we've been more organized than ever before we have a much more organized staff literally more than before things are more misunderstein did a lot to organize things rice has come in to organize things and I want to express that one of the dorm counselors that's being side there organizing a lot just more conversation making sure we're all on the same page is Mishi Kaish and I want to ask my to please share [Applause] >> first of all if you find yourself if you find yourself put on the spot apparent and say you're an idiot. You're not that put on the spot. We're all prepared. You know my father. Um that was fire says remove yourself I guess the literal tit remove yourself from evil and and go do good or f go do good. I guess literally um the posup shot on that I guess would just be like the sticker you see around sometimes of like disconnect to reconnect like stay away from the bad so you can do good stay all from all that stuff then you'll be able to do good you see the sticker around sometimes like disconnect to reconnect it's cute nice um I want to try to go through the shop of the on that um there's a medish that says that when met after the vera know what happened even the world changed forever. Um he left he got kicked out of Gan and later Adam sorry Adam sorry um Adamas he then later Cen kills he and obviously a bad a killed his brother not one of the go things to do a vera and he meets Adam met met Ken and asked him like what happened killed your brother what ended up happening and Ken said I did chuba forgave me so Adam like hits himself in his head. It says like put his hand against his head. It's like wow if I would have known everything would have been different forever. So the magic says what was the cha when tells Hashem Ken tells Hashem I don't know but I think you can't handle my too big for you. Um you Rashi says there you created the heavens you run the earth you have it all you you created all this and you can't handle my little equity inequity would be the word um you can't handle my little aera and he tells Adam that Hashem forgave me and if you that doesn't sound like chuva what we heard about at least of like he tell he doesn't say oh my gosh I'm a bad person I whatever he says what Hashem you you're very big you can't handle my little sin and his sin was big he killed his brother and he says can't handle it and Adam says If I would have known this mamish, everything would have been different. Adam looks like the chuba to us. He hides embarrassed and he says I would have known about your chuba telling hashem can't handle it. Um to anyone that will say I think everyone's reaction will be like wow it sounds like you're enabling others. You're enabling bad. The Ramban the Ramban says there's a whole thing but he says that if you have a relationship where you can't get forgiveness there's no chance that a person will have any fear to break that relationship because you know you're you're human. You're going to break you're going to hurt the person at some point. And if you know you can't heal it there's no fear of that person. There's no attempt to try to not hurt that relationship. You don't care to hurt it because it's going to happen anyway. It's going to hit you. So just give up. The reason to fear Hashem and not the other as he speaks out clearly is because you know he could forgive you. I was with Ragiser I was with Rageyer in first year and some like while I was with him he got a call from his son and he tells me he's like my son's deciding what is she going to go to and I remember like haha so cute like nice like so where you going to send him and he's like he's deciding like the eighth grader where you sending him and I'm like like he'll let me know. So he's like I really trust my I really trust my son. Oh my god, that's so sweet. Like it's so nice to tell him that like but like you know there's unhel out there different like you're a very smart man like maybe gave him two options and he like I remember he looked at me he's like let me tell you a story he's like there was an up piece of Hashem and he sent them into this world and he's like there's a lot of scary stuff out down here and he's like he really trusted his soul to do good and he's the Aramberg song obviously and he's like he said he's like song he's like Hashem really trusted he sent down and like he knows he's not sleeping but Hashem s sounds crazy he has a pure soul piece of himself and he sends it down to this room and he's like, "It's a crazy like it's just true. I trusted that's going to work." He's like, "I really really trust my son." And I be like a crazy moment. I'm like, "Whoa." And that son, he's in eighth grade. He was a little kid. I really really trust him. And I think there's a big I don't have kids yet, so I can't speak for that. But I got I let God speak for that. I can speak for myself of there's so much fear of like not hurting it. Like it's the scary world. You don't want to mess it up. You don't want to hurt anything. And realizing that there's like real godless. There's a real like there's a real I'll say work backwards. He says that he tes the move away from the rah. Stop being so scared. Like move away from that a little bit. Stop protecting. Hashem's very big. He'll be okay. And it's not saying do I have errors. saying I'm going to be okay but you felt like whatever and do find the good and I think there's a big sign for ourselves of like of so much fear of what's going to happen terra is good and I know that so protect the part that doesn't feel that love tyra love Tyra make yourself love it put block anything that says maybe I won't and there's a huge sug for ourselves of trusting like hashm will be okay like there might be a journey even but know that there's stop being so scared and fine there's actually really good. There's real essay type and there's a real place of finding. I think this place sums it up of there's not such a fear of I follow said before he's not so scared of a rave not saying go it doesn't mean go do it you think he's not so scared of it there's a real place of finding what I connect to what there's a song from Ari Bernett that was that was made here remember that um he says cave I think it's called maybe the place I need most maybe the place I need to go is the place I'm the most scared of there's a world of like relax Hashem created this world he's very big he knows what he's doing and like don't be so scared of every part. I should put it there. You can find like real real greatness. I think that sums up this place. I guess that's what we call I can relate to. I think a lot of guys here can relate to that. There's a real trust here and yeah, it's a real it's amazing to be a part of it. Thank you. [Applause] >> I want to do Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody has to go. We're It's our fault. We're running late. We're just enjoying the parents here. I want to do some introductions. Maybe you'll even sing something. Sim. Maybe you should sing something. SUSH. [Applause] Sim's mother was the gutsy one who was the first one today to break the ice who jumped up and spoke. So I thank you for doing that. Simka's older brother was here and I want Sim's good friends with Sim could share a song with Here [Music] I am. All right. came [Music] I can [Music] Jesus. [Music] I [Music] love she [Music] must be [Music] again. [Music] I can't [Music] say I Must be like [Applause] [Music] my [Applause] Just even coming attractions, you heard the little coming attractions. The music of that's touched many. We were asked last year. The big vision and mission of mine is to unite our people. One people. One people. One people. The fact that we have different branches is wonderful. Fact that we have and all different types is wonderful. But we're one people. Last year he asked the yeshiva to perform. They gave us 150 tickets. The holy yeshiva went and performed for nine minutes. They won us back. They want the holy yes. I think they're going to give us 20 minutes. They're going to give us longer. So that's I think what what was the date though? December 7th. December 7th will be a concert. They'll get 20 minutes over 2,000 people there. That's a possibility of uniting our people upcoming attractions to continue just continue introductions. I want to express appreciation from Baltimore. [Applause] That is a very very big y tremendous just a wonderful yin. He's he's part of the yeshiva that in the yes is yes and his two sons at dear I'm thankful you made the trip all the way from Baltimore really really appreciate you being here. So a tremendous tremendous thank you. I want to express I want to I'm going to ask him to do a flip. I want to express he's much much more than that. But I want to thank that was one of the warmest guys in the yeshiva in a place that hugs he gives the best hugs his warmth. I remember right when he came to the yeshiva like I went to his room I was like the new guy here. He like hugged me. I felt so comfortable being in yeshiva. I want to thank Yudi Zionist for being I want to express that the Zionistes are incredible incredible people. They've they've they've been through a very very difficult year and they've been through a difficult year and we've mourned together. Yud's brother was Nifter and I want to express that their home is a home of love. I saw how many people are welcome there and wanted there and feel at home. All different type of I want to ask Yi to come up. I would have him speak. He'll yet speak. He'll yet dance. Yi, if you can come up. Do a flip. Yi, come up. [Applause] >> We'll have him yet. You have sneakers on. Don't try this at home. Don't >> send it. [Applause] I want to express he can do a lot. That was cool. His his routine outdoors is wild and we'll get a chance to show it to the whole Yoshima. That's like a a drip in the bucket of what Yi could do. But I just want to appreciate that Yoshima and his parents have made the journey. Thank you for being here. Thank you very much. [Applause] I want to introduce one of the dorm counselors who gives a crazy amount and I talked about it's more organized this year the amount he does his p his mother has done a tremendous amount for my family. So he's the son of Abalas. He runs a camp. He runs a camp for 30 of our guys every summer on his he does it. He arranges it. The amount he does here is crazy. It's a good number to have if you need. He's the rashiva of the Carlton. If I could ask Abby Bros. [Applause] Abby bakes a cake every [Applause] true story and I want to introduce to introduce another stand up again stand up. I want to talk I just want to say that this young man We'll have him speak. I just want to say it's relevant to but I want to say here's a person the day he puts in he makes he's at he's at the man has he has he sits and learns he supports himself a has a business he supports himself helps out his family has a brother who has unique and special needs and ai's there and brings him for shabas The kindness that of course starts at Kesher to his brothers. His brother went to his own camp. He brought a different brother to his camp. Tremendously kind, giving, sharing, caring person. I have a tremendous respect to people. Every penny he wears pants. He earned the money and bought those pants. He's taken his family to beautiful places for PES. He's somebody who's how you fit so much in your schedule. He's close. My father sent a here. I met Avi the Shad of our friendships my tata my father said as a 10th grader get to waterberry and my father called me and said he took somebody into the yeshiva and I want to express on ai that he's somebody he's like my father what he fits in a day is super human guy who has a full-time job supporting himself in a beautiful way and then he has time sedar learns every single day running the dorm hands on anything comes up involved running after Shabas arranges all shabases. Tremendously appreciate what you do. Thank you. [Applause] No, no parent came expecting this was going to turn into like a should conference and what a very funny Abrau comes to they fight a war. You come, we come and it becomes a sh. Okay. I want to introduce we'll continue on the shin of caplins another dorm counselor another dorm counselor who brings it besides being a full-time dorm counselor he also runs the woodworking program he builds a lot in yeshiva but most importantly builds people the kindness of this guy is freaky he'll drive a guy across the world what he'll do for people is extreme extreme extreme We needed we were giving suits for guys for young somebody gave suits. He drove to Brooklyn, drove them back and then had to drive back home like what he'll do for another year. The test set is is remarkable and I want to introduce please stand up. CHECK GERNSBURG [Applause] besides being a brilliant person who's who's just knows if you need to know something he knows it. If it in construction, in cars and anything in between, tremendous, tremendous knowledge, but just the kindness, the amount of capacity that the dorm councils have that just they're able to do so much. It's very appreciate what you bring to Yeshiva. I can't go around introducing all of them. Ezra Borg, please stand up. Ezra learned in Yeshiva. Ezra is from Baltimore and the amount he's done over these couple of years. Also just working tremendously, tremendously hard together just a full schedule is tremendously appreciated. All the dorm councils to get their numbers to know. I want to introduce another rebi somebody who there's been more learning this year more learning which is very important to me. I'm we have a kabur in the afternoon and this rebi has learning with guys and in the morning I want to introduce her EVERYBODY [Music] [Applause] somebody walks in the morning there's much more being studied being learned and rol is a big part of that it's important to me and it's there's guys plugged in many many guys learning a whole that are plugging in. Is she all the nearest? >> They're entitled. We We went a long time. >> Should we open the floor for questions? What does that hour's late >> Sam? What do you should we open the floor for questions or just call it a day? [Applause] Zack, you're going to like him even more. So, all I'm going to do, I'm going to introduce Zack Winner, who is here. He's giving a lot of Zach is the assistant coach. If you want to see the Wolfpack get a win, Tuesday night, Tuesday night, come to Brooklyn. I believe that with my family plan on being there for a year during the I didn't go to games. That was important to me not to go to games. And now Dave is over. I will be there bleed. I will be there Tuesday night cheering loudly, maybe even telling the rest some opinions. But Zach runs the basketball and is just very involved in the yeshiva. And Zach Weiner said that it's very late at six o'clock. Tremendous. Tremendous. Thank you. Anybody's invited, thank you for bringing your parents all the way from [Applause] the Ben's parents here from Texas. >> I want to invite anybody and everybody's invited. Supper is going to be at 6:30. Is that true? >> You said Y is saying what Ysef's the MVP. Joseph Stein says [Applause] M I want to express a thank you to one sec. One second. I want to thank parents. Billy Billy Billy >> N is a popular he's called his nickname is Billy whatever he's called we're thankful since he is here Billy so thank you to bring you here >> I want to thank from Cherry Hill New Jersey I'm thankful is here in love it your parents are still here. >> I want to express that I have I want to learn more. I'm trying to push. It's important to me. And I have twoas that are pushing me and David Cruz is one of them. He came to me. I want to learn more. And there I'm I'm working on being on time. 5:00 daily. David's waiting with his ready to learn every single day. And then David stand up. DAVID STAND UP. [Applause] I FEEL I want to thank David's parents trusted us and I thank them for trusting the yeshiva but I want to express that when you send your kid here I never I don't ask guys to trust us I don't say trust us I don't like guys to learn trust this one I ask to trust himself one thing learn yourself and trust yourself trust yourself hashem gave us instincts trust yourself my sons in Ask the guys go out. Trust yourself. Trust yourself. Trust yourself. Yet you sense things. People want the truth. Trust yourself. We say every morning great is your faith. It's not like a we mean great is Hashem's trust in us. Every morning, thank you. Said over that from Hashem trusts us. Hashem brought us here and he trusts us. A therapist in my called me up and he said, "Kaish, I figured you out." So I was like excited. I said I'm still working like please for free. He was like offering a diagnosis. But he so I said what did you figure out? He says I watch you yeshiva. I studied yeshiva. Yeshiva has affected me. It's changed me. He said you trust people. And he pauses and he says you're crazy. But he said you trust people. And I want to express that I'm thankful everybody here trusted your children trusted us entrusted us with with the with with your children. The fact Yehuda, your parents, Yehuda, your parents sent you here. You trusted us. I feel blessed that your parents trusted us. That David, your parents sent us here. They have this cool, good-looking son. You send them to this funny place. There's range here to the world. The sophisticated question is why is waterberry safe? I think it's the safest place. And the answer to the question is because people talk honest conversation. I don't fall for other things. I don't I don't consider typical places safe. The reason they're unsafe is people don't talk. Externals can be one thing. The question simply is do people talk honestly? People talk honestly. Can a guy express his frictions, his issues? I'm thankful trusted just that they get me to learn is already a thank you govern. You're incredible. You like learning. And you're funny. I want to express an appreciation. My cousin who's a child of we grew up as brothers. My cousin David is a massive impact in St. Louis is a mccarif who has brought many love. My dream growing up was to do kir. When I dated my wife, I said I'm moving to Cincinnati and doing kir. That was the dream. Hashem sent me instead that I should come to a place and get mur that I should find out my guys call you out here. It's a very difficult place. >> If anybody thinks this is a simple place, you don't understand the yeshiva. I'm I look at a guy like Arya. That song you sang before was gorgeous. I'm thankful you're here. You're sophisticated. You add to the yeshiva tremendously. There's a demand in place because guys call me out all the time. You're not feeling what I'm saying. It's not. Oh, I'm so sorry. No, be quiet. I don't want to hear that. You're not present to what I'm saying. Guys who demand an honesty and the conversations are honest and demanding. And I'm thankful guys. I'm thankful. You got 10 guys. Thank you. How was the 10 guys? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Appcate [Applause] here. I want him to say something. Here, come up. How are we going to stop it? You didn't sing anything yet. Come up. >> Hours late. Didn't sing yet. This is the guitar you're using. Oh [Music] My soul when trles come and my heart >> and I am still waiting in the silence until Since you are with me, you raised me up so I can stand the mountain. You raise me up to walk on so I am sure when I am your shoulders beyond more than I [Music] You raised me up so I can stand on mountain. You raise me up to all stories. I am sure when I am up. You show us. You raise me up. More than I can. [Applause] I just want to wish everybody tremendous tremendous hats in all our journeys. safe trip home of course and in all our journeys. Our children success in our journeys. Have an outstanding