Grand Farbrengen Celebrating Rabbi YY Jacobson's 50th Birthday

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people have toiled in this masaka for more than four months and there is nobody that i can think that is more roy is someone who represents people from all over israel to make a seam for us so i'd like to invite ireland's team up to make this scene in celebration of tonight's event and the theme of this massacre for all over the world you okay it takes a big time multakum to be able to finish a masato without a gemara i did it already i think i got it right yeah who has had such an impact on so many people here including myself you know we learn hamish when we're six we're eight we're nine and it usually stays with us most of our lives we still look at light as you know with the sheka this parachute talks about may mariva it's a singular event moshe took them out of mitsrayam marcus went through our buoyamshana awkward buddy the main mariva and when we look at it we say what did he do instead of talking to the stone he hit the stone like that doesn't seem like such a major event that he should meisha's legacy should end over here let me share with you something how many of you here remember when your rebbe looked at you and he said am i talking to the wall or when your father said to you can't you hear a single thing that i'm saying when we let's look at the parasha again as adults what happens here it's the 40th year maui is about to take the 39th year he's abroad to bring them back into eretz israel and what happens they come and they say lou gavano there's no water halavai we would die why did you take us out of mitsrayam what does this sound like to maisha it's an exact echo of the miragulum they said lou knew how levi would have died exact same thing 39 years later and moishe is terrified he's thinking to himself the whole door died we're back to square one is that it here we're about to enter eretz's role and that's repeating the exact same things these mamrim shimuno hamoirum what does it say by the miraculous same exact thing and what does hashem say talk to this stone talk to the rock how do you talk to a stone isn't it absurd talk to a stone does a stone have ears guys are listening did you ever hear the expression between a rock and a hard place and what does it mean is there really a rock there when you're between a rock and a hard place word for metaphor i'm stuck the person i'm dealing with is just so stubborn inexorable i can't get anywhere so when the rabbinic shalom says talk to the stone what is he really saying he's saying talk to claudia israel and i know they're doing the exact same thing again and again and again you still have to talk to them they debart them lassella because deeper means connection when gamora says in subis the gemara says daberes and plainy it means she's having physical relations deeper means a connection and why is it important to connect to your child because if you threaten your child i'm gonna give you i'm gonna stop i'm gonna dock when your child leaves your power he's gone if you connect he you connect forever now we know that the hate of the durham of the may mariva ghazal tell us goes till today every rebbe who can talk to his child every father who can't talk to his child that's from the haiti marie what does that mean when maisha hit the rock instead of talking he was creating a sever there was something severed in the masira of the torrent and the in the most muscular yeshua but it wasn't the same thing it was there was an element of hakka an element of force an element of a lack of understanding how many times have you heard a kid he says you know you know what really got me sick about yeshiva when my i asked the question and the rebbe said for such a question we don't ask such a question for such a question you get sent to the principal or you get thrown out of declare so you get sent home or your parents get called how many of you have had that experience in a class or the time when you as a child were listening to your father and your father said why can't you listen and you said i wish my father would understand me he doesn't understand my bullying he doesn't understand what i'm going through he doesn't understand the competition there is a severance between dabe vedibarta malacela and vayajes and it lasts forever because i'll say it last till this day you know we talk about moisture abandon we're talking about daksha badakis but there's something to fix over here and the gemura says that's and when we see emisha when we see a talmud who is whole matsias is the debarte malacella and if you look at rabbi yosef yitzhak's website talking to boys who left yeshiva talking to girls who are off the terrace talking to your son with a tattoo your daughter with a nose ring right husbands and wives not talking to each other the whole torah of rabbi savitzrak is a torah is a torah of a deepartem el hasella he for many of us has changed our relationship with torah and changed our relationship with the rabbani shalom with cava yachal because he's a majorhead he is the maisha maisha shapiro comras he is the one with dibarta malacela if you have a stone in your heart if you have a stone if your child to you listens like a stone or maybe you and your father tell them to talk to the moisture of anu of our daughter who is making it's really a privilege for me and a privilege for all of us here to come here to give kavit hagoyin who is and what a parsha for this simcha to happen on the parasha of the main mariva by us celebrating here a different method of teaching torah we could be misaki in the vallaj masala [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] wow [Music] so [Music] happy [Music] my [Music] okay thank you so much thank you europe david for that beautiful words tonight the goal is to raise as much money as we can in support of the work of her yoy jacobs and all that he is doing all the terror that he's bringing into the world and it's so important to show him tonight and every night that he has the resources that he needs him and his incredible team to continue to spread the light of torah throughout the whole world i want to share with you an idea in many ways when i listen to my why why there's something that i think about many times and what i think is what makes him so unique and it's something that i think each and every one of us should strive to be and it's something that he embodies you know there's an amazing moment in our history when the mishkan was dedicated and aaron akon was given the responsibility to light the menorah the passage says hashem said when you light the candles and he uses the word and the commentators ask the question there's a word in hebrew for lighting it's like when you light candles on shab as you say lahadli god knows hebrew it's the wrong word god shouldn't have said baha'u'llah as honey it should be like bahadurli neros why did god use the word baha'allosha so rashi picks up on it and says it's because the way aron is supposed to light the candles you don't sometimes when you like candles and shabbos you ever notice this you'll go to the wick and you'll light the top of the wick and the wick will catch fire and then the flame will go down hashem says aaron i don't want you to do that i want you baha'u'llah i want you to lie to the wick on the bottom because i want the fire to catch on its own i want you to hold your lighter close enough so by the time you're done the wick will light on its own it'll allow to go up i want the flame to go up and the commentator says something amazing they say this is actually a metaphor because the torah is embodied in the menorah the gemara says harold selahim if you want to have wisdom turn to the south because the menorah was situated in the south and we know hashem nishmas adam the soul of man is compared to a flame what's taking place on a deeper level is the connection between me and you are souls and torah the menorah is the torah we are souls of the flames and what hashem is teaching us when you teach torah teach it in a way that people are inspired that you lift them up torah shouldn't be taught down where you feel worse where you feel less where you feel when you got to it that you're overwhelmed torah has to be taught when someone knows exactly the point to bring the flame in and then to hold it just long enough so the flame rises on its own so you and your flame your soul rise with the torah the torah has to lift you and when you're done you have to feel that you are higher in many ways the reason why we're here live and online and the reason why we're celebrating tonight the work of rabbi yy is that he embodies this concept if you could take his torahs and say why is it so popular why do people love it so much every time i've heard him speak i say to myself within seven minutes i'm looking at the audience there's this chair here that chair here it's been that's that they've been sitting for ten hours in eight minutes they're all gone 45 minutes later everyone's glued how come because he has a way of lifting you with his torah the words make you bring you up and who doesn't want to be lifted up with torah what's a better feeling than being lifted up with something as rich and as saturated with meaning as our torah and so what we're doing here tonight isn't just wishing rabbi yui a happy birthday there's other ways he could have celebrated his birthday by the way and it probably would have been a lot less embarrassing he could have had his birthday in a much easier venue than this we're trying to get more of it we're not giving to rabbi yui we're pulling more from him we're saying more flames more flames more flames we need more fire this generation needs much more fire and if we allow and if we allow a little bit more fuel you know what's going to happen to that fire it won't just be a candle it'll be a bonfire and there's one thing that we need in this day and age is bonfires of torah so tonight online here live give generously support the work of rabbi y give the opportunity to his entire team which we'll hear about the resources the fuel that they need so they can take one little bit of fire and make it spread around the whole world it's honored to be with you tonight we'll be together the whole night we look forward to being here please go on the website donate give generously let's create the resources that we need let's give her yy the birthday present that he deserves so that he can continue doing what he does which is being the cohen gudl by lighting the flames of so many jews from all over the world thank you so much [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] huh [Music] s [Music] the [Music] foreign [Music] uh [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] ah [Music] it [Music] okay first of all a very special happy birthday englishman and why why so where's the wi-fi coming in to eden whenever you talk to your heat is to eat and it's connected and it's hashem [Music] and this is [Music] wisdom of the rabbi you rebel however the five which says however 100. [Music] giving away of yourself may seem like the hardest thing but that ever says that like a father loves their children [Music] county seeing everything was new but from hearing for shame to the entire world you break through [Music] you open the eyes of so many people to see the colorful light how everything is enlightened and bright so i thought to myself give money for sudoku may be not easy it is but it is one tougher task that not only the rich can do every person has the skills the toughest thing to give away you don't know how much you have is to give away from your precious time [Music] and you are giving away of yours more than a pretty dime [Music] my [Music] why [Music] to delete from the people the negative coilers you're opening a pathway to make it easier to connect to hashem are those ninety clam with your wisdom you help them hashem will continue to shine to unfold your wisdom for the people who are ready to be my couple toilet of exceedance for many more years you continue this [Music] by your birthday now if i may [Music] she has the power she's behind [Music] you open up the frequencies of the world of the higher space for people all over lakewood pakistan [Music] you should continue to flourish hashem's glory and take your way off claudius [Music] my [Music] why [Music] okay so i was going to sing a song but we know that hashem leaves the energy what we should think so i changed the plan i was going to sing a song about abaya with 60 plates just because i wanted to sing i'll explain the deeper message abaya was a very poor man and a buyer waited for abba and abaya came to a big pyramid seat and the kimura says there were 60 portions in every portion at 60 place and every place had 60 things and a buyer said i was so hungry that i could have eaten the plate just deeper shoot him in it but the push up shot is he said i was so poor that when i came to this rich man's mansion and i saw the party i realized how hungry i am about why i realize realizes how hungry people are before they themselves realizing it so i changed the song instead of singing this story i'm going to sing a story of hannah trey batrona and the hannah bakuna i want to humbly say that i learned a lot from rabbi why but in my personal life i make people happy everybody who's channeling into my my way of making them happy and other people are channeling in tada by my way of making them more spiritual happy so i think there's a connection hannah trey bakuna and to break the ice we're going to laugh what helps me sometimes when i have a sad day and i can't laugh i just open like somebody opens the light i open my mouth i go like this the second i go like this i say i'm sad it's a whole different i can say i'm sad i'm sad so sad [Music] i want to sing this song [Music] then let's go around and make the people laugh laugh laugh i hope i'm one of them tell me if you are in then let's go around and make the people laugh laughs [Music] [Laughter] [Music] soon everybody will laugh because it's healthy to laugh [Music] laugh laugh laugh i hope i'm one of them tell me if you are in then let's go around and make the people laugh laugh laughs [Music] i hope i'm one of them tell [Music] i hope i'm one of them tell me if you're worried then let's go around and make the people laughs [Music] you should continue to make the people the people [Music] thank you happy birthday happy birthday [Music] i had the privilege of growing up at the feet of the great lubavitcher above blessed memory i was there almost every single shabbos i sat at his fabrengans at his gatherings that would continue for many many hours almost every shabbos and holiday in many occasions and i would say that a lot of my mindset my paradigms my way of looking at the world looking at myself looking at people studying torah understanding tired appreciating toyota what judaism is was molded and crafted by the veltam shower by the hashkafa by the perspective of the laboratory and it was one day one job as as i was doing my own thing suddenly i see there's a finger pointing at me literally like this and instead he's a middle of talking and he would never address people individually he was speaking to thousands of people and he's pointing at me and the whole crowd is stunned there's this deafening silence in the room and the river asks me a question out of the blue and the question was i still remember it in your dish i could see him i could visualize the moment pointing at me his finger was shaking a little bit he said vastu how do you know that the world exists i have to tell you the truth i never thought about it how do i know the world exists i was a little kid i never thought about how i know the world exists what is this some epistemology class in university there were six thousand men all staring at me my face changed colors and there ever was quiet he was waiting for an answer all i could think was do me a favor live and let live i didn't disturb you are you disturbing me above it should ever go on with your talks let me do my thing but the rebel was waiting for an answer probably 10 or 15 seconds that seemed like eternity and i didn't have an answer i didn't know so the labour should ever decided to answer for me like to speak on my behalf and he said end fit there this child answers how do i know the universe exists because it says entire videos the opening of hashem created heaven and earth so of course you know the universe exists it says clearly entity that is a world and then the river went on to the rest of the talk the next week i was afraid he's going to ask me another question so i listened i listened and i started to understand a little bit [Music] the each week i would understand a little more until i became enthralled enthralled by his talks but his perspectives by his way of analyzing something by his way of understanding toyota by his way of teaching turner by the clarity by the unity by the oneness of the whole turtle by the oneness of hashem with the universe but in many ways i feel that today i feel maybe it was also somewhat of a mission statement that as you travel around the world you'll speak to audiences from so many different stripes and colors and backgrounds remember that your mission is to give them a perspective of the world from the vantage point of the opening passage of tyra veracious barilla conversation besides to see the world and to see their own world from a divine perspective from a godly perspective so that's what i try to do [Music] welcome back for those that are joining us online thanks so much for joining us those who are live thanks so much for being here remember we're raising money to support the work that is being done by yui our goal for tonight is 1.5 million we're already at 1.1 please go to raiseathon.com yyrazathon.com yy be generous allow us to achieve our goal tonight and give her yy the birthday present that he deserves to continue to bring his fire into the world now we have an opportunity to hear directly from rabbi rabbi thanks so much for joining us thank you thanks for being here and happy birthday thank you thank you ayobel thank you everybody and thank you everybody for coming it means so so much to me thank you i'm glad that you were able to uh to celebrate together with you it is close to all of us thank you so we're celebrating somebody wrote to me yeah this has been elvis when you become 50 he says you're wise enough to start taking advice okay so i'm looking forward to all the advice tonight you're gonna get a lot of advice from my wife you could listen now of course for my in-laws for my mother who are here and from everybody beautiful beautiful all the advice you can give me ben commission later we're going to have a line at tonight after this is over just to give you advice you'll go and you'll get everyone's opinions yes so we're celebrating your birthday tonight and the question is what what's a birthday and why do we celebrate it you didn't do much when you were born your mother did all the work we should be celebrating she should be up here and yet you're sitting here that's right there's a clap for your mom hundred percent my mother's here my mother is here and her birthday's in a few days just a few years above 50. still looks like 40. so uh that's true so the truth is that uh you know there were some people who were critical of celebrating birthdays because they felt big deal you were born you know who knows what are you going to do with your years but it's interesting the gemara says in talmud your xiaomi in rosh hashanah attracted rosh hashanah that the malachites used to send to war people on their birthdays why because they knew that their muzzle their spiritual energy is very powerful and they felt they won't be defeated on that day wow they used to send them to but saudi kahn of lublin writes but on the day of your birthday you don't have to fear anything like the balshampton's father told them before he died don't fear anybody or anything in the world but hashem sadik says in the day of your birth you don't have to fear anybody the truth is that my great teacher the laboratory he encouraged people to celebrate birthdays i wasn't sure why but recently i understood i think i understood we live in a time that one of the greatest challenges that people have is appreciating their own gift to the world you know we have affluence many of us have prosperity and comfort beyond what our parents or grandparents could even dream of even if we have our struggles but one of the greatest crisis we have is people don't really believe that they matter they suffer from such a deep inferiority complex and celebrating your birthday is really celebrating and acknowledging that god did not make a mistake when he created you right the day that he created you the day you were born is the day he said the world needs you you're an indispensable note in the cosmic symphony and i think today more than ever we need everyone to be able to celebrate that to realize that there's something at stake in your existence there's a light that you have to contribute to the world that nobody before you and nobody after you can contribute amazing so it's really more it's more of an of an ahras it's a it's a recognition i think that i'm here for a reason versus everyone please send me adolation because i exist yeah and not just cerebral but visceral you know very real in a way that when you look in the mirror you realize that this is not it's not and it's never about your arrogance it's about realizing that your light is so important there's something about your individual light and presence and flavor and personality and a shama that the world needs and and sees the moment and flex your muscles and carpe diem seize the day and maximize your potential because if not you if not you there's something that you have that nobody before you and nobody after you will ever be able to give the world wow and and today you know the great i would say that one of the greatest i'd say the eight sahara of our generation is four words i heard this from the rabbit omani you know who am i and what am i that feeling who am i and what am i and it directly undermines the recognition of the infinite power of a person you are you are infinite consciousness having a finite experience that's what you are you are infinite consciousness you are a part of the divine your infinite consciousness having a finite experience and we become defined by the finite experience rather than by the infinite consciousness that's traveling through the finite experience sure and as a as you're speaking i can almost imagine anybody understand what i just said because i didn't yeah okay somebody understood there's infinite travel going on so it's awesome [Laughter] somebody in my class has a t-shirt she has a t-shirt i'm infinite consciousness having a finite experience i can imagine somebody watching or hear thinking you know it makes sense for you you have so much light what about for the rest of us what would you tell somebody that says i don't really know what that is or i don't really have a lot to share or i'm not really that unique i'm just a regular person going through my day and my value really isn't enough to celebrate well we all suffer from self-doubt and i certainly have that as well but there's a mishna that's unbelievable in tractate sanhedrin page 37 38 that zip code of adam loymar every person and by the way is jew and andrew is obligated to say for me the universe was created now that sounds like real narcissism i'll tell my wife you know esther the world was created for me that's wonderful and the white your wife says the world was created for me great for marriage what it really means is there's something at stake in your presence in your life that nobody else in the world can fulfill and the whole world is waiting for that song for that music now you might say i'm just a regular guy trying to support my family i work hard i'm not this grandiose personality but that's exactly the fallacy when the terrorist says that every person is betsalamalikim is in the visage of hashem it means that everybody has something very inspirational about them and if i meet somebody and i don't find inspiration in them it's not about them it's about me beautiful it's i'm blocked i'm blocked wow that's amazing growing i want to skip to your your your you're growing up your youth look back a little bit we just saw a video of a little babachi rebbe tell us a little bit what that was like to grow up around him the impact that he had on you how it shapes you mentioned that he's just listening to him shapes how you see the world the paradigm of your thinking share with us a little bit about the impact he had on you and how that continues for these past 50 years and then rich hashem for the next 70. yeah so i grew up for many years at the feet of the laboratory of blessed memory and i can still get emotional because to sit at his feet almost every shabbos sometimes every day what the rebbe embodied most was the idea of real oneness that the terror is one and that the jewish people are one and that the world is one and that you could find oneness within yourself did not recognize and give validity to fragmentation you know we live in a world of so much fragmentation politics cynicism corruption fragmentation within ourselves stress anxiety trauma i don't know who i am i don't know who i'm not fragmentation and marriages fragmentations between parents and children between god and the world i think what i'm learned most from the laboratory growing up and his presence was the unwavering conviction that we are all part of the infinite oneness that the strife the conflict the politics is all superficial don't take it seriously don't go there the rebbe was not a naive person he got 700 letters a day and he knew everything that's happening but he never allowed himself to become cynical he never allowed himself to surrender to despair to depression to negativity to doubting the power of the human being i think what i learned most one of the things i learned most from the rebel was never ever stop believing in the authenticity of the human spirit to transform darkness into light you are an ambassador of hashem in this world he would always say an ambassador in represents the one who sent you you are sent by god you represent hashem you're infinite your challenges your limitations are simply an opportunity they're the place you were sent to don't define yourself by those limitations allow those limitations to be defined by you being a derivative of infinite consciousness and in a life that is challenging and in my journeys that sometimes i come across with all types of situations that are very difficult you know you'll forgive me and it's very i get emotions i get almost 200 letters a day and those letters don't tell me you know i'm doing great rabbi why why i'm doing great i just wanted to send you an email i'm happy i love my mother i love my father i love you this guy life is awesome they don't send me those emails i hope they send it to their whatever whoever they send it i get different types of emails you see the brokenness of people and it's very easy to get derailed to get angry to get upset but i remember from the rebbe always he always said ask one question what does hashem want from you from this moment what does hashem want from you at this moment and it's always to bring light into this person's soul to bring light into the situation to bring light into these circumstances and never be afraid of any emotion of any experience of any encounter you don't have to amputate any part of yourself because a night mulvade everything is here to help you grow to help you maximize yourself and that has given me tremendous vision and strength fortitude you know they say that they said that good leaders have lots of followers and great leaders have lots of leaders and you see that the rebbe has done that he has built such incredible leaders in uh the people that have been next to him and followed him it's an amazing thing yeah listen you know he would come down shaumbras he would speak and i knew you know he didn't have children uh so you know that that that create that ambition we have you know i want to create a family empire you know that didn't exist he didn't have biologically any children yeah most of his family was killed out or died very young so personally had a very tragic life you know people know about his life it was a very tragic life and many people who survived the holocaust or stalin they were accompanied by trauma that's the fact trauma trauma trauma they were all survivors i think one of the greatest miracles about the laboratory was that he was not defined by the trauma of hitler he was not defined by the trauma of i don't know how but his his he spoke about it with tremendous pain but his focus was the world is thirsty for a consciousness of goula for a consciousness of oneness god is here and alive you could change the world change it amazing before we finish this question i have one more question for you before this segment i want to give a big shout out to shia and sarah bowmogreen just right now came in with a hundred thousand dollar hundred thousand dollar donation in honor of y and s d jacobson thank you thank you so so much so thank you speaking of this thank you and tell us a little bit about why you're choosing to spend your birthday with all of us the the what goes on behind the scenes isn't it just so easy to make a video like i know what's the big deal don't you just get up and look at a camera and it magically makes itself perfect like give us a little bit about what tonight and all of the resources are going to and what this stands for who so the reason i chose to celebrate my birthday this way is because i asked myself a question you know what's the value what price would i pay to be able to inspire 16 million jews what's the value what's the price tag to be able to inspire four hundred thousand jewish college students what's the value what's the price tag to inspire yeshiva boys many of them don't feel connected even if they follow the program what's the value of inspiring a million and a half two million jewish children who are often rattled with questions and a lack of enthusiasm what's the value of reaching every single demographic of the jewish world and setting them on fire to become ambassadors of love light and hope and i believe the value of that is incredible and if god has blessed me with 50 years it only means that it's a mandate it's a responsibility and it's a responsibility we are living now in a very unique time crazy opportunities and crazy anxiety crazy gifts and insanity of of confusion and and disassociation so i wanted to mobilize my friends and supporters the world over to be able to say together we can ignite our generation one soul at a time amen beautiful thank you everybody thank you thank you so much for joining us and today thank you let's continue with the program thank you and thank you last shoppers i gave a sheer shop this morning here in shul and i finished the class and the woman comes over to the table where i was sitting and he said i came here this shabbos to tell you rabbi jacobson that you saved my life thank you so i said let's go outside and you'll share with me and this woman tells me she was walking and a truck hit her she was unconscious but she survived but she completely could not move bed literally all day and her whole life was transformed from a successful vibrant life into literally a paralyzed life so i decided i'm going to start listening to your classes this is corona days so i was producing a lot lectures here and there in the morning i learned with you in the afternoon south africa and then in the evening australia and then the next day it's israel and then she said i realized that every other class you say the same thing but he said there's one line you kept on saying that every person has to know that you're an ambassador of love light hope and then i'm listening to this and i'm like i'm not gonna surrender to this fate that they're telling me and this is every class i was getting more energy and more energy and i told my physical therapist i'm an ambassador of love light and hope i have to light up the world i can't be here in bed for the rest of my life i said up my therapy and she says now look at me she's walking around running around so she says i came here for shabbos just to tell you thank you and she said i just want to tell you don't stop talking because you never know who's listening when they're listening and what it does for them at any given moment [Music] them [Music] m [Music] before [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] so ah [Music] she [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] um [Music] mmm [Music] the [Music] the [Music] foreign [Music] me [Music] uh [Music] foreign [Music] um [Music] me [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign oh [Music] me boy [Music] [Applause] is anyone speaking this year only one only israel by himself yeah i see some some fingers going up but the truth of the matter is that music you don't need to understand the language because music is the pen of the heart as the altar said i'd like to sing a medley of my old yiddish nagunim if i can get some more level in the monitor to be very nice thank you very much [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] so [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] i [Music] i [Music] is [Music] me [Music] i [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] yes thank you so much we'll be back it was a few years ago before corona i was giving my morning shear to men and there was a man there 45 years old and he's looking at me and i see he wants to ask a question but he's he's having trepidation he's nervous he's anxious so i encourage him i say frank fleck asked no no i push him ask i want to hear your question man it's a stupid question i'm like i'm not continuing this class till you ask a question i love stupid questions because they're usually the most brilliant questions so you asked a question it was a good question i answered the question we went on at the end of the class i said i'm just wondering do you know why you were so afraid of asking the question everybody asks questions i don't mind i like questions so he says yeah i'll tell you the story and he says it in front of everybody he says he was a boy in grade two and they were learning parsha's boy and para tells moishirabenu that the women and the youth he should leave in egypt the elders can leave so moisha says we're gonna go with our youth and with our elders and then he says with our sons and with our daughters nailer will go why does it say twice nail it in the past i could have just said one sentence the teacher who didn't have such pedagogical sensitivity says all these questions you'll ask for the seder this is not a question you ask it's a foolish question and he told me since then whenever a child asked a question and they wanted to make fun of the question they would say binary biscanani i never asked a question again in my life so this is the first time i asked a question in class at the age of 45 that's why i was hesitant at the sheer sitting the custom last night the straw lamb is his name mazel tov to the lamb and mizell's family and he says let me tell you my story he was learning here in muncie and he said i asked a question i was also in second grade and when i finish asking the question the teacher says israel come with me to the principal's office i'm like oh yeah now let's ask questions how can he punish those an innocent question i'm like oh what did i do he brings the principal's office i go into the office and he tells the principal this boy asked the question it was such a beautiful question i was so inspired by it i wanted the principal should hear ask the question again and he asked the question again and the principal gives him a big piece of chocolate for asking such an amazing question and yesterday looks at the class he said and since then i didn't stop asking questions it's one word that shatters somebody's dignity or builds somebody's dignity it's so important especially people in education don't be stingy with warmth dr michelle is a cardiovascular disease specialist at columbia university medical center with over 25 years of experience in the field of preventive cardiology and attends or by yy's classes regularly talk to michelle please join us on the stage and share a few words in honor of this special occasion [Applause] wow rabbi y is turning 50. amazing yeovil year so with that in mind i thought i would present tonight 50 of his most powerful teachings to inspire us all but even before i just saw your terrified faces out there i remembered that it's his yeovil year but for all the rest of us it's not your year it's a shemitah here so let's instead think in sevens and let's take some poetic license and paraphrase the famous words shiva bayoum hilaltijha take halal let's turn it into highlights and let's briefly cite seven unforgettable lessons we have learned from rabbi in his shiren first perhaps foremost then our every experience or moment of anxiety stress frustration despair ultimately reflects a rupture even a subtle one in our awareness of being achaelic elokami [Music] a very tough day shalom bias is not great the car won't start our son's teacher is looking for us and then at work the machiavellish our computer crashes right in the middle of a project the computer is gone we're always stressed and stressed and stressed why because we fail to understand the message that our computer is flashing at us over and over your connection to the remote server has been lost your connection to the remote server has been lost we see the words but we failed to grasp their deeper significance we are servants of the hashem and the server who provides us so much chef i each day the shogen so remote him but so close he's reminding us that our connection to him is frayed it needs to be restored we have all heard of beethoven but our rebbe has shown us how to use it in his hands and through him in our hands this highly abstract idea suddenly turns into a practical tool for our daily life that can be transformative next rabbi y y has counseled us always to think big that dreaming big is not what psychiatrists call delusions of grandeur it is a divine mandate each of us has a unique lofty unique divine calling each and every one of us plays an equally critical role in what our rebbe likes to call the great cosmic symphony we dare not forget the lesson of the great assassination recorded massachusetts magilla kamraba of zera our greatest aspirations yearnings callings rabbah can defeat can overcome our fears of inadequacy zera the era and hence we learn further that we must forge ahead and fear not failure and we also need not fear success rabbi why why barak hashem is an equal opportunity mentor he brings us this latter lesson not from some obscure hasidic writings but from rashi's grandson the rashbam hardly a beacon of hasidus we have seen furthermore that the works of hasidis are extraordinary tomes containing vast troves of treasures but these texts present a rugged and challenging landscape they need to be excavated to call the gems and pearls that lie underneath and with our unique master rabbi archaeologist we have been astounded as he has opened these texts up for us and we're suddenly able to see that all the great ideas of science psychiatry the humanities all the great thinkers of history they can all be found with the right mentor deep deep down in the work of these hasidic texts before there was freud and the super ego to explain the complex parental dynamic of yitsukanese the altar rebecca told us about makif before marriage and shalombia's challenges became about five love languages the labachareba told us that avraham avinu gave us two love languages spousal love and sibling love imrina ahosi before quantum mechanics the rocket shiva taught us about the physics of light waves and before einstein's relativity theory our rebbe demonstrated for us in li kuta torah how a watch would function an actually shortened time when launched with a monkey into outer space what else has rabbi why why taught us that in the moments that we feel paralyzed by uncertainty searching for the best path forward it might be a momentous life decision it might be even the mundane but sometimes confusing choices of a dreary day we can always intuit we can divine what exactly hashem wants and expects us to do at that very moment we remember well the lesson of rav yochananresh lakish with the sickly beggar in the bath house of hamitzvaria we too have been granted that ability to dig deep into our divine core and access hashem's guidance to help us navigate through our muddle and confusion for those scoring at home we're moving on to the fifth of the spheros the rabbi has taught us that sphela is a journey davening that most fundamental and primal of obligations so challenging for so many of us the same words dreary again and again tedious monotonous morning after evening after morning after evening but we have learned with his help to reframe it as a journey we start by opening the highways turning the broncos into brejos channels sino-rose through which we will travel and approach the almighty oh the places you will go we darn our gartel or our seatbelt your choice and we're off from the opening mundane requests in the olam hasaya the virgo sashachar we jump to the olam hayat sera where we behold and praise the wonderments of hashem's created world the enchanting beauty of nature as only davanamela could describe it from there it's on to olam habriya where the malachim and khaya sakhodesh stand around most excited clamoring to get ever closer to the creator that they sent is nearby agitating noisily derash godol and then finally you have reached your destination the quiet intimacy of the shimone esri the exhilarating exhilarating encounter with transcendence the silent reunion with kucha bricho rabosai study these lessons internalize them and your davening will never be the same and let us make sure that rabbi y can spread them to the many who are still uninitiated as well and of course rabbi y y has told us taught us about shaluchim no no not those shlokhim not the ones sent to towns and territories in uncharted corners of the world i'm talking about the we here rely on to cultivate the uncharted territories of our hearts and minds all day people talk to me about finding the right shaliah but in our rebbe we have found the shliyak with the wisdom the passion the power to connect to our souls and oh my the eloquence the unforgettable masterful poetic sentences the ones we hurry to write down verbatim in our notebooks lest they be lost forever to posterity or to the vast oceans of the yeshiva.net we sit around an old table in an old building drinking stale coffee and how can our minds not but wander back 150 years as we can imagine and feel what it was like to sit at the table of the marketplace rich we emerge uplifted and each of us knows for sure today rabbi y was speaking about me just me my existential tensions today's whole sheer was for me and only for me sound familiar evra the rabbi is maybe not too happy with the section of speech enough said call of gorya and finally perhaps the most profound lesson the absolute absolute unity of torah mr nigler rabbi lord jonathan sachs it's all one but it sure doesn't look like it the dagger fraying on hashem with moshe at the snare was it really a conversation about dealing with straight thoughts during shimon esre haksavim really about the proper sequencing of emotions and intellect in avodah hashem taurus is it really because every shabbos hashem pulls his universe back from rasha sarabham to rishis well no and yes because these deeper hidden obscure layered kabbalistic interpretations they're not just refracting the basic lower levels of shot and interpretation they are simultaneously reflecting them recall the letters engraved in those stone lujos through and through the stone paradoxically could be read intact from either side reflection refraction i remember we were learning a mimer and simpson maybe it was rav hill maybe it was the rashav and suddenly i realized i had like an epiphany oh my god that that idea that's the ramban and bow at the end of bo that's what he means that's the deeper understanding oh how did i not see that wow it's so much deeper than what i thought wait a minute that's also what david hamelech it's all the same idea and what makes those moments so exhilarating is that we experience and feel that profound unity of torah we are touching in a small way the very unity of the ain't self we are tasting the yihud of kuchobriku and shintay we are in those magical moments slowly climbing step by step a 3 000 rung ladder of abstractions michelin interpretations that will bring us up to the organic unity of mashal hakatumoni so i have given you only some highlights truly only a khatsi haleel to reach the halal shalem we can only hope and wish to learn more and hear more and to ensure that more are able to learn and hear so hence we wish our dear rabbi y our beloved rebbe much continued good health and success to him rabbits and este and their wonderful family parents children [Applause] and the strength and fortitude to continue his groundbreaking and sacred mission with our help our support and the ribonus shall alums manifest blessings and support for years to come yom who led it [Applause] master of the world for giving me back my soul with compassion your faith in me is great wow what a beautiful message your faith in me is great everybody believes in god but people have a much bigger problem believing that god believes in you every day when he returns my soul he's basically giving me a message and that is somehow the world is imperfect without your contribution the mission says in sanhedrin a person is supposed to say the world was created for me what is this extreme narcissism what it means is that there's something at stake in your life that nobody else could fulfill not in the future not in the past not in the present there's a light that you have to bring to the world that nobody can do it so god has faith in you i'm not a victim of circumstances i'm an ambassador of hashem in this world i'm an ambassador that was sent into the world this day to take a world that may seem dark and reveal its light to talk to people who may sometimes feel they're in the dark and helps them see their own light to talk to me who sometimes feel i'm in the dark and allow me to see my own light that whatever i touch during the day i have one job i want to bring more light into this place into this person into this reality into this life every person does it a different way every person has a different mission person has different challenges and virtues and blessings but that's the common denominator when you wake up in the morning you have to spend a few moments to anchor yourself [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] wow foreign [Music] is [Music] my [Music] [Applause] hello [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] hey [Music] hey [Music] my [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] see ya boy foreign [Music] hello just a small group of men [Music] when did you rush the soldiers let them move [Music] so many tears [Music] the pain has lasted thousands of years [Music] of [Music] together [Music] never ever will we have to express any fears [Music] together [Music] we ask hashem please bring those old times back we all know that you're listening of course we know it's true but i've the received [Music] that hashem will lead us out of this much longer [Music] thank you [Music] we will all be together [Music] is [Music] is [Music] in our only home in a beautiful home in [Music] together [Music] all of us will be together [Music] happy birthday to my dear rabbi [Applause] [Music] jacobson with [Applause] i was invited for a shabbaton a number of years ago it was planned almost a year in advance i was packed up we were ready to go i got a call from one of the organizers she's devastated what happened it was cancelled cancelled so you're planning this for a year it was cancelled i am sorry i have no words it's horrible politics complicated story so friday night we invited ourselves to a friend in the neighborhood okay i was quite upset i remember walking with my wife home and you know saying how it was just unacceptable they could have canceled a week ago a month ago the politics wasn't created today [Music] we came home from the meal and i was sitting on the couch in the dining room i was learning [Music] i fell asleep on the couch three o'clock in the morning i woke up and i was restless something is wrong i walk into the bedroom everything is fine my wife is sound asleep i go into the kitchen something is bothering me i just go back to sleep i can't go back to sleep but i'm tired i didn't sleep much why am i not sleeping i don't know did something happen no i had an office in this apartment building on the fourth floor over there i had lights on and i had more books side to side of this i can't go to sleep and i have nothing to do so i said i'll go up to the fourth floor and get a book i kid you not it's three in the morning i leave my apartment i go up four floors i come up to one of the floors there's a teenager sitting on a step i stopped i sat down i said good shabbos is everything all right didn't answer i put my hand subtly on his shoulder how are you doing you seem sad can i help you are you locked out you need a place to sleep you want to come to my house not answering as i'm sitting there in silence he jumps up and he runs into one of the apartments and perhaps the father in me told me to pursue him and i ran after him he closed the door but i put my foot in when i got in he ran into the kitchen and he had a bunch of tablets there and he started to throw the tablets into his mouth and i knocked them down on the floor so most of them were gone and he started to fight with me and we got into a wrestling match he was aggressive i was aggressive thank god i was a little more powerful and i finally pinned him down and he started to tell me leave i just wanted to take my life and end it it was all planned those tablets you ruined it and i spent the entire night there first it was a fight then it was surrender then it was conversation and we were there together a whole shabbos today years later this young man is a beautiful person successful bright schmack after shabbos when the drama was over i turned to my wife and said if this shabbaton would have not been cancelled this boy would have not been here today people are people they make their decisions but it was by divine providence and from that moment i learned a tremendous lesson people cancel events events get delayed events get pushed off flights are missed things happen that moment i learned there's a bigger picture you're never aware of it's not about a shabbaton that was cancelled it's about a life that had to be saved and i've had this hus to save this person [Applause] welcome back for those who are joining us online thanks so much for doing so for those that are live it's great to have you we thank mbt for his incredible performance in this entire night of inspiration we are raising money tonight to help right why why continue his voters at kodesh our goal is 1.5 we're at one three three three we're almost there we could feel the momentum we could feel the flame rising up the wick so if you're if you haven't given please consider to do so if you've given give again we take dessert twice you can give sucka twice not the end of the world wherever you are please join us i am joined here with two incredible individuals on my left is isaac shapiro an lmsw who works with the city population in monroe in muncie his relationship with the rabbi yui started as a listener in yeshiva.net and evolved into becoming a regular attendee it is weekly qasidashire on my right inshallah friedrich an incredible leader like a schmack individual person who has don't camp from what i understand you're doing amazing things thank you both for joining us isaac i want to start with you tell us a little bit how you know right why why um yeah so actually i got to know about why i was somewhat listening on the website but more than that was between my friends and coyle i learned the bells of coil the monsie over there and they're saying there was a sidishi guy saying about the yoshidam and it's amazing inspiring i should go i should join and um my english then was a little bit less than it's now but i started to go over there regime and it was really amazing and really inspiring and i started to listen more and more and i was also opening up to myself to the sides of torres rabbat before that i [Music] i still enjoy the other series and still my my this but the exitus of the rabbit has rawai teaches it's comprehensive and it's deepened and especially for our generation and especially for now that i am doing it in mental health it's the relevancy is enormous thank you we'll come back to you in a second shalom tell us a little bit of how you know about yui well um first of all it's an honor to be here and a big happy birthday travis why why first of all [Applause] um you know growing up in crown heights there's so many things i'm very thankful for and very blessed to be born into and there's a big level of like you know this is who we are and i can never be tampered with then you know teenagers hits and regular questions come up and i remember for myself and lots of friends there was these questions that would come up we would ask different teachers and not necessarily do we feel that there was someone you know communicating to us it was more like just this is what we got to do and i don't i don't blame them i think it was just a lack of an understanding and it really um it pushed me to search it pushed me to search in different ways and ultimately i ended up going to venice italy at age 16 you know to look and a friend of mine nakamura calls me up and he says you know you gotta come to venice and i get involved with the khabarovs and it was really really inspiring and it really got me in and i went to shiva afterwards but fast forward two years later kovit hits and i'm sitting in yamadota i'm learning gemara i think it was shabbos and these questions come up that like how do i know this is legit how do i know that i'll buy it this actually happened and i turned to someone that i know i turned to ellie engelson and i said you know it's not that i'm trying to have these questions but i have them you know what should i do they says shalom you've got to check out the basics of emunah number seven by robert jacobson and i look it up and for the first time there's the aspect of nishma coming in you know my whole life there's like nasa foundations who are who we are but then there's love of nishma to cultivate that relationship with hashem and i'm hooked and i'm listening to it the whole time fast forward this past year to uh be ashley and the wilkes-barre yeshiva kind of an older brother for the guys it's it's similar to yeshiva to waterbury another big shout out to rabbi kalish i spent in 11th grade by rabbi kalish and i'm with the boys and a lot of shir from robbie jacobson will be passed around and the boys really felt that there's someone in my corner just like a boxing match or someone that got my back there's someone at the statue of robert jacobsen who has my back this year we had the honor to be able to do multiple shabbatons at the shiner family in muncie beautiful beautiful chavitones and at first the guys were making the cayenne for brain and rowdy and but sure enough we were invited back and back and the last time i called rabbi you know for the grand finale i called robert jacobson before shabbos and i felt a bit bad you know shabbos is someone's own personal time i said robby would it be possible to come over let's give it 35 minutes he says for sure what's here to talk about come over and i remember was a rainy shabbos and each boy on his own was there i came pretty much last they were actually also there by the sinister in the morning and we get there lasted for about an hour and a half and this is shabbos you're our own time to relax or jason's with the boys and he invites us back for um lava maca pizza malava malcolm now who could deny pizza with robert jacobs and mate chavez so we come mate chavez and we're sitting there and and usually you know muslims i'm trying to inspire the guys in yeshiva and here on their own they just started asking questions you know regular day-to-day life that teenagers these days have you know on adulthood and and different changes in the body and questions on life itself and guys there was the level of of nishma of here's how we cultivate that relationship with hashem and i'm just going to say that this is someone who's really tapping into the teenagers of today this is someone who's a teenager and this is what i said before the teachers i don't think they were bad i think there was just a lack of understanding and here you have an in ben amin of in our generation getting up and talking about things straight from tara and sharing in a way that we can understand it it's inspiring to each teacher to each mechanic it's a ripple effect so if i could conclude i hope i'm not taking too much time but if i could conclude i'm all of 20 years old i'm not a professional there's no angles attached but i but all my friends were like wow i can't believe you have this close this is something that's needed for our guarantors of the torah for today's youth tomorrow's leaders and as robert jacobson likes to say ambassador ambassadors of light so if we're in this room it means that we were given the opportunity to close the deal to make this a reality for if it's not for our children then for our grandchildren for generations to come to get this going to hit a million and a half dollars and together if we can i'll rise and give a standing ovation and applause to rabbi jacobson [Applause] i think you found your host for your 75th birthday party just making sure you want to book them now because it'll be more expensive in 25 years i am sure yeah that was amazing i couldn't tell you're awesome rabbi what an incredible story what an incredible individual to my right tell us a little bit about the swedish community that you represent and how the impact that you has had on some of the background in your world and how that what the importance is and so maybe the yiddish speaking world as well yeah i will be the i will speak up for the for a lot of the silent people that get inspired from rabbi yy and especially i believe all my clients know and get from me the link from rabbi because this is something that even mental health is not always related to judaism but mental health will be the yiddish guide will be a big part of someone's mental health and a lot of times unfortunately there's a lot of it's not the time tonight tonight we're celebrating life but a lot of times the we call it the system will create a lot of pain on on kids and then they will be adults and even grandfathers the pain will be there and with rabbi and his chiron because he answers and he heals the world he is over he like a lot of times uh people will ask me like okay so i should listen about yiddish guy that's haunting me so many years already like okay so why which or should i listen my answer will always be just go on yoshishiva.net and go to any shoe you want you will find every answer you want and he will be speaking right to you as dr michelle said by that year whatever you see you click and i was never proven wrong and this is an amazing thing that we have discussed tonight we always laugh times are busy the system hey the system in now is the night we are creating a new system now is the night that we have the capability at the bonus time gave us this course that is now our generation and why did the buenos aires do that he has his reason but he gave us this host and we have the capability tonight to get him give more shirum and to spread the words of the bundesliga despair to teach our children about the harvest hashem and a healthy way this is this is this night and this is the night that we like this is what everyone in my field and everybody that does with children with will or with bahrain and adults we know that this is the most important thing that we need today is and especially when it comes from from hasidis and from yiddishkai there's nothing more than that thank you so much thank you both for your incredible words thank you everybody for what you do and thank you all for being here let's get to 1.5 let's go everybody let's get there robert y thanks so much it's been a pleasure happy birthday robert jacobson i have still one one word in here my life is an assistant attorney and a lawyer i would not have believed if i'd have seen a picture of myself here or anywhere in the last 20 years in my rabbi role i wouldn't i wouldn't have believed it's true and even more so i would not have believed it possible that i would one day share my own personal love for rabbi jacobson and let me be very honest and candid he and i have never met in person [Music] my name is mayor feldman i've been the senior rabbi in fact the co-senior rabbi here at temple bethel in great neck for the last 13 years i have been listening to rabbi yui and i walked the streets with him in my ear and during kovid when all of us virtually all of us were walking and walking and walking much of my time was with him i actually had open heart surgery back in march of 21 i had a valve replaced and and rabbi white brought me [Music] rabbi y has enabled me and caused me to love yahadut more than i ever have wanted a brilliant man like him a brilliant rabbi to tell the world that yahadut is about loving human beings the more we can we can bring our love our compassion our our passion to that love the more likely we are to bring redemption to the world and to raise our own personal lives to as high a place as they possibly can be raised to i certainly include the world that from which i can i come the reform world but i think conservative orthodox his ability the value that he could bring to the lives of any aspiring teacher of torah i think is so real so genuine and he doesn't want an ounce of credit for it rabbi why why you are a blessing in my life i only wish you another 70 years of strength and health and faith and clarity that you make such a difference in the world it's a privilege to be in your in in the circle of your your world your friends and i bless you your wife and your children only many years of strength and health and love amen [Music] foreign [Music] where is rabbi why [Music] i know you know the song from vanekum [Music] impossible to keep up with him and we want to win [Music] what happened you guys what's up [Music] um [Music] um [Music] [Applause] foreign is [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] um [Music] is [Music] tonight i [Music] is [Music] is [Music] boy [Music] my [Music] foreign me is [Music] [Applause] [Music] we're celebrating toyota here tonight i want to share with you a song about what happened when the torah was about to be given there's a whole story i get a stool look at that let's join the mala who was the first to um accumulate many frequent miles when he was trying to uh find a customer for the toyota let's see what happened why why you with me [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] m [Music] my [Music] is [Music] hey is [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] thank you sir [Music] help me cope [Music] mother's day [Music] foreign [Music] know [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] uh [Music] and i have a song about guilt you just talk about guilt tonight is all about twitter and about guild right now if you have toyota and girl together good [Music] but this kind of minute [Music] him [Music] foreign oh [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] by [Music] i [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] i [Applause] [Music] um [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] da [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] me one of the themes for tonight is our yy's ability to see the world in a new way and to bring new light to people's lives our next guest is a man who does just that group abi fischer if abi fishoff is a healer in claudia straw created a paradigm shift in the way we view our struggling children and has helped thousands of kids families and parents all over the world to embrace a life of connection of love and of infinite unconditional oneness he is an inspiration to our generation and a person who is bringing the light to so many people it's an honor to call up rabbi avi fishoff this is how we meet huh disclaimer i'm not a rabbi okay that's the sun birthday party if every neshama that was helped by our dear guest of honor rabbi y would be here tonight metlife stadium would not be large enough to accommodate the crowd [Applause] our dear rabbi y has emerged not only as a brilliant torah teacher but as a true authentic torah leader what's the difference between a teacher and a leader let's learn from our first leader maisha rabeno the torah tells us of laysam he saw their suffering everybody saw their suffering everybody around in those days saw people suffering because i'll say that he his va'yar was different leo's made sarah lahim he cast his eyes but not just not a regular vision a sight but his heart to experience their pain many people today even many torah scholars and teachers have the eyes to see what is happening to so many yiddins suffering in pain but how many have the eyes and also the heart to thoroughly feel their plight and fight their fight when you are in his presence you are in the presence of greatness the greatness of all torah leaders the greatness of those who are so big then they can see and feel even those that are not that big our dear rabbi wai is a true torah leader in the greatest sense of the word [Applause] he feels the pain and suffering of a heinous torah teachers they teach torah to those who can learn while torah leaders like rabbi waiwai they teach sympathy and empathy towards those who cannot learn i feel fortunate to be alive at the same time as my dear friend you did call base israel rabbenu jacobson i know i know lubavitcher is like everything to have a the brilliant gifted mind that is marvin's terror to the masses and yet has such a huge caring compassion at heart that never loses sight of the plight and pain of every individual yid the dedicated guide for every lost struggling the shama the powerful speaker for those who lost their power to speak the heart that truly feels the pain of the brokenhearted the unstoppable motivator for those who cannot start to motivate themselves it's such a sus to be here tonight and to be able to just share these feelings about our mighty rabbi the mighty soul who carries the broken souls who are too weak to carry themselves we all know the saying of 50 even shari thomas 50. the amish is for every yakitori to kyle to 50 years of kyle but hashem this is just the beginning my heartfelt wishes and prayers are that your ever widening reach should reach ever wider your uplifting words should lift up even more of our brothers and sisters desperate for your encouragement and that you should continue guiding leading and when necessary carrying claudiuso and pratyusero in good health inner happiness as we greet moshiach who will certainly thank you for your steadfast dedication and tremendous impact as a true authentic torah leader of our generation tough [Music] i'm back so soon how do you like that so i had the good fortune to record a shikola gamora many years ago and i might even take the uh the audacity to say that might be the most popular sticker of gamora in ganshas because of yossi green's favorite famous tanya composition yes give a hand for your secret [Music] and uh my wonderful nephew who's with us here agreed to join me for tanya took some convincing but i convinced him benny friedman [Music] foreign [Music] him away [Music] me [Music] foreign [Music] so [Music] foreign [Music] is [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] is [Applause] [Music] me [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] thee [Music] i need you [Music] i've heard you say this next quote let's do a little bit of this song mandy then unbeknownst to why why we're going to do a duet together [Music] but they're going to do a duet together after this next little song we're doing a duet and if you ask why i'm going to answer you why why okay i've heard you say this quote so come here [Music] foreign [Music] and you are not you boy [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] m [Music] is [Music] just be [Music] and you are truly you [Music] and you are truly you are just be yourself [Music] don't be shy [Music] by the way besides being a an orator of i once had a discussion with what is the advantage of a niggun over a speech we know that a good speaker can make you laugh can make you cry like a song so what is really the difference where do we see tachless uh of boil it a very outstanding advantage of nigun as compared to a speech [Music] and i stumped him he didn't know let me give you the famous answers you know says it's the pen of the soul et cetera et cetera he said give me something more tactlestic so he said i imagine you have an answer i said i do and the answer my friends is i've never seen anyone dance to a speech even jacobson's speeches [Music] you can't dance to a speech lifts you up off the ground anigen brings you closer to shamayim and that is the kayak of vandigon as compared to a speech for the next song so we chose a classic that truly inspires and lets the soul soar and get closer to its maker obviously we have a mic we don't need a mic we had a special mic ordered for you from from china [Music] i'll calm down i'll come down i'll come down to you let's do this together singing on stage [Music] yes so the name of this is called the toltava it was sung frequently by the love of paltava what was his name because i don't know what year he live what did he pass away if only rabbi jacobson would know how many hours on airplanes everybody's dropping snoring away and i'm listening to the way on my headphones how much physic he gives keep it up keep it up [Music] so i'm gonna interview now i'm interviewing you through this okay i'm gonna ask you a question you'll answer me okay [Music] my [Music] that was my question what are you saying [Music] that was a very good answer but [Music] i [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] i am [Music] i [Music] foreign ah [Music] my [Music] my [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] am [Music] foreign [Music] i am [Music] my i have no more questions happy birthday very often our children's behavior at any age triggers us in ways like nothing else triggers you sometimes observe the behavior of your child and i'm so triggered i'm angry i'm frustrated i'm depleted i'm exhausted i fall into the spear i get sad i get mad instead of right away judging and taking all that anger and lashing it out of the child can i go inwards and say what just happened inside of me what just came up for me why was i just overwhelmed why did i get startled why am i so angry why do i have to eliminate this problem and have my child go to school right now and if not i will feel like an eternal colossal failure we have been trained certain ways and we like to fix problems right and we want the house to run on a good schedule and if there's a problem we like fixing it we like to do that in our jobs with our computers in our cars in our marriages and with our children the problem is that souls are not machines every soul has a journey and every soul has a unique infinite light and yes i want to teach my child discipline and structure and positive choices and how to make decisions and how to confront my own challenges but if i'm not tuning into your soul if i'm not tuning into your heart if i'm not tuning into your challenge if i'm not letting you be and grow from within if i'm just trying to squash your energy and make it look good on the outside what happens i didn't deal with the person i didn't help the person i just covered up the wound through a band-aid and it's going to emerge a few years later my turn foreign we have the music also oh the mendel let's hear it forever it's the best of the best so first of all my dearest brothers and sisters i am so thankful for all of you being here today so meaningful to be able to greet every one of you so special to me and my family and our community it behooves me at this moment to express my gratitude to all of you who are here and all of you who are supporting the work i'm involved in emotionally spiritually and financially [Music] because what is the worth what is the price tag for reaching 16 million jews what is the price tag for reaching 2 million children what is the price tag for reaching 400 000 teenagers 400 000 college students god's children so thank you for being here i want to make a special to my mother who's here special to my in-laws who are here father-in-law and mother-in-law and a very special toast to my dear wife my soul mate esther avigail and all of my wonderful children who make me a better person every day [Applause] simon i want to thank all family and friends who are present it's so special to be here with all of you thank you thank you thank you and as i sit here i remember a story it's a story i once heard myself i heard it from the laboratory and it's a story about the al-tarab about the balatanya revolutionary he was once sitting in his house and he was looking out the window and suddenly he saw a parade of students disciples hasidim who were marching down the road they were approaching his house they wanted to hear a torah from him they wanted to hear divreila [Music] you know the real real people have no ego they're just conduits so he turned to his wife you always turn to your wife at a moment of crisis his wife's name was sterna rabbitsterna and he said in ye there's these words villains they for mere what do they want from me [Music] what do they want from me [Music] and she noticed the despondency in his voice he felt so inadequate they were all coming you weren't talking about a few people it was i think 1300 people were coming to his house what do they want from me and the rep said the stories that she knew right away that this moment would make it or break it he basically felt completely unwilling to assume this position his whole life he lived in modesty and intimacy with hashem he didn't need it didn't want it while shantiv didn't want that he didn't want it so he turned to his wife and he said what do they want from me i have nothing to give them and the rebbe said his wife was a wise woman and she said these words in yiddish she said the mains say come and head in from there say come and head in let's do is get hit from the you think they're coming to hear from you they're not coming to hear from you they're coming to hear what you heard from your rabbi [Music] he responded to his wife in these words in yiddish [Music] if that's the case if they're not coming to hear from me they're coming to hear from what they're coming to hear what i heard from my rep i'll share and share and he opened the door and they came in and he said then the famous torah it's not a share now but for dr michelle's purpose is you'll put it in your notebook for the next speech although said then the famous toyota unbelievable it says in the mission in bikurim that when the people would bring bikurim the baskets with the new fruits to bring to the base hamikdash so the mishnah says the trumpets those musicians who would play the trumpet would strike and play the trumpets the music to greet the people who brought bikurim the new fruits to say granted to give gratitude to hashem for the land and the flutes would play the altar in his inimitable way said i know if you don't know kapole it's going to be a little complicated but it'll just take 20 seconds hollow is the flute but khalil also means the emptiness kabbalah cities teach that before the creation of the world hashem filled his light filled with the hollow the empty space and in order to create the world hashem withdrew his infinite light and he allowed for there to be a hollow an empty space where infinity would not be present even the light of infinity that filled the empty space was darkened was dull in the presence of those who brought the bikurim otherwise the way hashem cherishes cherishes the jew who brings the fruits to him it's so powerful that it even dims and dulls the infinite light that filled the empty space before the world was created so you know in many ways it's a little strange for me to celebrate my birthday what am i doing here with a birthday hat smiling but the truth is that each and every one of us was given a mission and if you have the mission if you have the power to communicate terror to communicate wisdom to communicate love and light what you have heard from your teachers from your masters it's never about you it's about being a channel so today i thank hashem and pray to hashem that i should continue to be able to be a channel a conduit to be able to share with the jewish people what i heard from my rabbi the divre al-akim khayim the words of the living god that could empower and uplift and unite the generation i want to share with you a little story but first election to my dearest friends please join me thank you for coming out here this evening [Music] everybody joining us virtually physically and virtually you know we say before khalid [Music] very interesting words before khalid remember we give special permission with the yeshiva of heaven and the yeshiva of earth to pray with the transgressors and i just literally just now ups delivery amazon delivery i realized one level of meaning to this there are so many disaffiliated jews there are so many so many estranged people yeshiva shall if you look in the yeshivas they're not there they left yeshiva but the yeshiva shall myla the yeshiva of heaven the yeshiva of heaven is the yeshiva that you can create for every single jew today through the yeshiva.net the internet the internet could be a curse but it can also be a yeshiva shall myla there's a yeshiva of heaven there's a yeshiva of cyberspace where you can reach every person in their bedroom and you'll forgive me sometimes even in their bathroom i don't know that you should watch my clips in your bathroom i'm not going to get into that but the point is is a yeshiva shall myla in the yeshiva shall myla the yeshiva of god's infinite gifts we can reach every person even the person who doesn't find a place be yeshiva shall mata and that's our obligation that's our duty we have here in the room people who haven't been at a yeshiva mata they didn't have the privilege but with yeshiva salma in god's divine yeshiva we have today yeshivas that are amazing you have yeshivas that have a thousand boys five thousand eight thousand unbelievable but i want to tell you in the yeshiva shall mila sometimes you give a class i give a lecture i present a clip and it could be four hundred thousand students be yeshiva shalmaila we have no excuse to let them go there's no excuse today hashem gave us the opportunity to reach every jew in his or her bedroom kitchen dining room living room and even in their spa [Music] so thank you for all you for all of you who are partnering with us to be able to reach every single jew every single teenager every single child every single woman and man teaching them that they are an indispensable note in the divine cosmic symphony to paraphrase dr michonne a little story [Music] so a few weeks ago my wife and i had the privilege to attend a beautiful shabbaton for an organization called olami they had seven or eight hundred students from a cross campuses of the entire world and another few hundred guests around fifteen hundred guests we spent the shabbos in the hilton not far from here in connecticut stamford and you know the highlight of every shabbos is kiddush the kiddush right the sermon depends who gives it but the kidneys is always the highlight said the kiddish i was walking around schmoozing with the people and the jew comes over to me and he introduces himself he says [Music] jacobs it says my name is rabbi aaron gruman i'm in middle of the year of grieving for my father who passed away a few months ago the famous rabbi pinicus gruman who was the one of the pillars of judaism in los angeles passed away at 91 a few months ago this was just a few weeks ago i'm saying kaddish for him my father was one of the great students of moved on to build the community in los angeles and passed away at 91. ah this is what i want to share with you a story see what he tells me just a few weeks ago he says my grandfather my father's father was a survivor came from ukraine escaped the summer condos pakistan arrived in america built the family and moved to the crown heights section of brooklyn new york in the 1940s and in 1951 he opened the first grocery store in the crown heights section of brooklyn first kosher grocery store weir an albany those who know the geography of brooklyn albany between union and eastern parkway the first kosher grocery store 1951 in crown heights the grandson rab aaron who's a rabbi in new jersey today a govalda kirov a special person sharing this with me at the kidneys by the salami stand so i want to tell you something the community was small many jews very few jews were eating kosher my grandfather opened the grocery store and he stood there all day selling food trying to make ends meet he tells me rabbi a few years later it's 1955. just four years later another hasidic jew moves into crown heights and he has nine kids and he needs he needs to support them so he decides to open a second grocery store on kingston avenue between union and eastern parkway just one block away he says my grandfather is very upset he comes to him and he says you know there's not many jews keeping kosher these days i barely i have one store you really have to open a store one block away that's not right this man says the community is growing i think we can have two stories he says that's not right you're stealing my money you're stealing my food rabarian grumman tells me rabbi jacobson they're arguing and he says don't they do a second grocery store it's our sagas you're stealing my business from me you're taking away my money they get into a debate he says and by the way the distributors also said they can't distribute to both stores there's not enough they're gonna go out of business they can only distribute to one store so it wasn't but he turned to this man and he said you know what we need somebody to help us see this objectively what do you suggest he says it's a good question we need an objective opinion he says i have an idea let's both go into the laboratory 1955. the rebel was a new rebber five years four years let's ask him he certainly got no axe to grind [Music] so these two jews the one owning the grocery store on the opening avenue between eastern parkway and union and the other one wanting to open a grocery store go into the young laboratory and they share the story and the dilemma reborn is with me at olami mr rebel looks at both of them and he says [Music] god has in his store a livelihood for both of you you can have a store you can have a store and you'll both make ends meet you'll both make a living have a lot of success the byron tells me they walk out of the room and my grandfather turns to his competitor and says no if the rabbis said that hashem has livelihood for both of us so that means you can have a store to open up a store you probably have to have seed money how much money do you need to open the store [Music] the other man says i need a thousand dollars which today would be like thirty thousand dollars 1955. she says you know what i'll give you the money [Music] here is a loan here's the money start your store [Music] it should be successful god has parnosa for both and i'll call the distributors and tell them it's fine they can give both of us and the byron tells me he says this was my grandfather he came out of the room he takes his money his competitor he told him you now that open a store takes his money he gives it to him and says open your store because the rabbit said hashem has pronounced he finishes telling the story at the kidney and he says rabbi jacobs you know why i'm telling you this story you could probably use it i looked at him and i said rabbi aaron do you know who this other person was do you know who the person was who got the money from your grandfather he said i don't know i say to him it was my grandfather my mother's father his name was reby kelebsker those of you who remember brooklyn from the 60s and the 70s know there was a grocery store on kingston avenue between union and eastern parkway lipscore's grocery store my mother's maiden name is lipscore that's my grandfather so i said i never knew this story but thanks to your grandfather my mother had food on the table my grandmother had food on her table her eight siblings had food on the table he said what it's yours hate that i said yeah my zeta opened the grocery store on kingston avenue with the loan of your grandfather and we gave each other a big hug suddenly the story had a different meaning a different perspective and the two grandchildren in 2022 i don't own a grocery store and he doesn't own a grocery store but both of our zedas own grocery stores both survivors and they owned grocery stores they sold danishes they sold cigarettes you'll forgive me they sold danishes they sold bottles of milk they sold eggs you know what they sold in the mom and pops grocery stores now my grandfather did not know how to make a living from it because if you're a widow you're an orphan you're a yeshiva booker you had no money you got everything for free so a living i don't know how much he made of it but pardon say god gave him this i heard from the grandfather of iron the grandson of aaron gruben a few weeks ago a few weeks ago shared it with me at the kidner stand in the hilton in stamford and you know for me it represented such a powerful truth we live in a time we live in a time where the jewish people are yearning for israel for ava's israel for love and for unity let's face it it's not simple for jews to be united jews are very opinionated people three jews 19 opinions as i once heard myself from the rabbi he said when i tell you shalom aleichem your response is alaikum shalom grammatically doesn't make sense imagine in english i tell you i say to you good evening and you say evening good how are you you are how what's up up watts but in hebrew we do it all the time shalom why don't you reciprocate in kind and the answer he gave was when two jews meet even before they get into a conversation the first thing is we have to establish that we disagree with each other it's the exact opposite once we agree that we disagree now hopefully we can have a civil and loving conversation you want to know something one of the hardest things for jews is to create unity and i'll tell you why it's not because we're bad people it's because jews have very strong convictions and if you disagree with me it's very hard for me to tolerate you one of the biggest problem in marriages i have my way you have your way you know the t-shirt i'm very easy to get along with once you learn to worship me but if you don't learn to worship me it's very difficult but my dear friends my dear friends we live today in a different era we live today in a time when all of our brothers and sisters are craving unity [Music] and it's this paradigm shift that i want to invite all of you and myself to engage in this evening you didn't come here tonight to hear a speech or even a song as beautiful and splendid as they are we're here this evening to be able to go away with a renewed sense of consciousness and that consciousness is not about me and it's not about any other individual it's about each of us realizing that the labels that have divided us for so many generations are superficial [Music] we may disagree we may have different opinions we may come from different backgrounds but how does that compare to the truth that the soul is a cadillac that the soul is a piece of hashem and if the soul is a piece of hashem does it matter that you wear this hat and he wears this hat [Music] and you grew up in this way i grew up this way [Music] can i look at you and say ah can i give you money to start your own grocery store the authenticity of a jew to be able to live in a higher consciousness and this is my blessing to myself and all of you tonight that we should become the facilitators the ambassadors of a new consciousness in claudius rome one that does not recognize division one that recognizes love and unity and empathy and oneness one that doesn't recognize a dichotomy between our brothers and sisters somebody asked me the other day rabbi why why do you have boundaries which jews you give a hug to and which jews you reject and i said i'll tell you clearly i have clear boundaries if you were jewish enough that you were on the line in auschwitz birkenau and joseph mengele would send you to the gas chambers if you were jewish enough from mengele to send you to the gas chambers you're jewish enough for me for us to embrace you to celebrate you to believe in you to accentuate your value and to embrace your infinite significance in this world let it not be said in history that you were jewish enough for mengele but you were not jewish enough for us for me [Music] so tonight i say to each and every one of you my dearest brothers and sisters let us allow ourselves to open i don't want to say a new chapter it's not a new chapter it's a deeper chapter a deeper chapter in the history of claudius one in which we can embrace each and every one of our children each and every one of our students each and every one of our brothers and sisters each and every single one of our people allow them to maximize their infinite potential and see the oneness in us all and the oneness in the world and the oneness in our souls bringing together all of our people and at this moment it behooves us it behooves me to thank my own personal team and staff who helped me day in and day out in the work that we try to do to uplift and unite claudia strong the entire staff the 14 people on my daily team women and men unsung heroes [Music] the 14 people you know they say an old line if you know the yom kippur avoid the between kakayamer you have to fall four times kyrim some people say between giving a share and implementing and executing and bringing it to the masses there's a lot of work for the dedicated people who help me day in and day out help us day in and day out to bring torah to bring yiddish kites to bring premium satire to bring the presence of the reborn of shalom [Music] to the whole of our people thank you thank you and to all of you here physically and virtually i love you thank you thank you very much [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] my friends in times like these it's hard to see past the insanity in a reality so uncertain and unknown life as we know it forever changed and there's no peace of mind to be found who can even make sense of tomorrow when our dreams keep crashing to the ground and yeah as we rise to greet another day and the sun is still bright up in the sky always a reason to hope for better times although it seems like the answers world's aware we've got enough just enough to keep us going holding on to unbroken simple things [Music] the fears [Music] the crowds dispersed on the streets that were once filled with light but a brilliant light emerged from deep inside our hearts [Music] instead of looking out for inspiration we dug deep and found strengths we'd never known and what was that we will rise to green another day where every home means more precious than ever and life's sweetest little joys they are the treasure cause when it seems like the answer is we've got enough more than enough to keep us going we're holding on to unbroken simple faith [Music] is [Music] is [Music] never gives up in the night he it perseveres through the deepest despairs his emuno strengthens him for the fight and he understands that hashem has a plan and that's all it [Music] holds takes [Music] [Applause] thank you thank you happy birthday rabbi jacob son at this time i would like to call to the stage a good friend of mine and a good friend of ours ellie schwabel [Music] oh yeah [Music] this is for you so much so much love everyone has for you and me especially in our relationship i really really value it very much and i'm so glad that i could be here with you tonight benny i love singing with you this song written by my rebbe movak a.b rottenberg it's one of my i don't think it describes this evening better than this here we go [Music] he sits late at night in the soft candle line as it casts its warm glow on the pages and the words that he sees are the secret decay that has kept us alive through the ages why does he cherish the wisdom of all and delight in its study each day he knows only tied up on a risky song come listen and hear what [Music] oh [Music] to me [Music] peace [Music] as a nation we fly we adore the world spying at the sight of our precious books burning we ignored our grief to the world's disbelief and never no pepper stop learning [Music] come listen and hear what he said [Music] [Applause] [Music] to me [Music] and now we remain with our faith yet sustained by our passion and love for this treasure it's our link with c9 and our father on high so we'll keep on learning forever [Music] me [Music] beautiful it is my distinct honor to welcome back to the stage my dear fetter avraham freed [Music] can i get myself over here i got nothing in the wedges [Music] want to do anything else if we can ask from the islam you can come a little this is supposed to be the fabregan tish segment so if you're not uh too tired come come a little closer so we have a little feeling of a comfort of a brain and pull up a chair what do you say you're vowing that's close enough [Music] everybody come on stage [Music] last time i was on stage with you i think it was i don't know eight years ago when it's momish my honor for a long time i mean i've been for me i can't stand sitting i hear you thank you oh gosh oh boy okay i cracked myself up i'm okay i can't stand my pants are still here everything's okay whoa think i should sit down no i think you should sit down listen to your older father sit down oh [Music] you [Music] foreign [Music] you [Music] yo [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] my [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] for you [Music] me [Music] me [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] i think it's time for happy [Music] birthday birthday to you happy birthday [Music] to you everybody [Music] happy birthday to you [Music] big bad big [Music] happy birthday [Music] time [Music] great song [Music] um [Music] cutting the cake [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] uh [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] no [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] let's see [Music] to be continued to be continued amidst hashem be a few [Music] i want to tell you all a fascinating story that just happened a little while ago when i walked in over here i walked over to rabbi yui and i gave him a hug i haven't seen him in quite a few years although i listened to two shirum at least a day for as long as i can remember and rabbit whiteway gave me a big hug and a kiss and he told me 25 years ago do you remember that shirt about the mystery of pain moist hitting the rock that's when you became my talmud what an unbelievable memory what an unbelievable sensitivity what an unbelievable shock listening to rabbi why why tell me that gave me goosebumps it's a true story it just happened right now i had long forgotten that sheer but it was after that sheer that i was mesmerized and i went to rabbi and asked him questions about it and he spent time and he shared with me and explained with me but what i never told rabbi wago i was that it wasn't then that i became his talmud it was actually a little bit after my bar mitzvah in 1994 when my father told me please come with me listen to ashir from rabbi waiwai this is the third sheer you're going to love it i was in a very confused space in my life i had no interest in learning i didn't know what yiddish kite was and my father told me there will be cheese danishes there and the rest is history i listen to the third shear of a tale of two souls where abe why why explained why did the author write the book and on the way home walking home from the sheer i told my father that this shear changed my life and for the rest of my life up until today i could honestly say that that shear together with the other shirum literally changed my life i was in yeshiva later on in brenua and i watched rabbi wawa coming for bring with us when i was a 16 year old booker he mesmerized the whole entire yeshiva for six hours but what was most fascinating was when he left for the next six months there was a transformational energy that happened in the yeshiva almost every bucket over the years today on silicas almost every bucket over there today listens to europe today they are shloken but they don't have time to learn rabbi y has single-handedly changed the face of judaism in the whole entire world single-handedly and the debbie used to always say should vary if the words come from the heart they enter the heart the tremendous sensitivity the little that we know every person should look at themselves and ask themselves where would they be today if rabbi why was not in their life we don't know how to measure these things because these are inspiration this is something fascinating it's like the story of rabbi hudavaner who came to the deva and he spoke to the rebbe about what the rebbe's mission was and that ever told him i l i'm here to light everyone's candle and when yehuda avenue left he does he asked that but did you light my candle and that ever said no but i gave you the match every single person that i know rabbi y way has touched him i recently read a rasha shiva from a lithuanian yeshiva narcissarole and he was sharing with me a fascinating sheer that he gave and i asked him where did you hear this from and he oh i listened to ashir rabbi why why i recently met a russian shiva that opened up yeshiva in in london for for for bhakram that need help and he said i got my inspiration for about why my son was born with some vocal cord issues and he was in the hospital for a couple of months and for quite some time he wasn't even able to talk and we used to play for him this year and why why and when he was just three years old he said one day when i grow older i'll be a motivational speaker like rabbi you jacobson and i sent rabbi why why the clip because he sat and listened to even as a little child in the hospital the tremendous hakora satov that we all have to have to rabbi that he made siddhis relevant that he was the whole entire claudius that all of the tapestry the whole entire mosaic of toyota becomes one with the way he teaches where everybody is equal with this true act is this role where it's dwarf where we became better fathers better children better husbands each and every person that he shared his lesson what has changed and that's why this fundraiser has to mean something to every single person because he gave everybody the match and you lit up your own soul and you're a changed person if you look at yourself honestly because you were touched by something he told you because it went into your heart because you would have never known it had you not known him and therefore you have to take your hakara satori that you have and give back to him so he can keep on giving the gift of siddhis the gift of light bringing the rabbit to the world uniting claudius ultimately bringing mashiach [Applause] rabbi why why are you here are you mamas here i have something to share with you and the entire world watching and listening or here now and watching god give me your drum roll please in honor of rabbi y yy jacobson vivian sternbock has just donated to do this together two hundred thousand dollars [Music] i [Music] me [Music] foreign [Music] hey [Music] is [Music] huh you