Inspiring Purim Stories

and yes of course there's a lot of different things we can think about we can think about M we can think about mat Yim we could think about preparing the meal and who we're going to be eating with we could think about where we're going to hear the Milla but there's one secret about Purim that's important to know Purim is a time of prayer great prayer in fact purin our rabbis teach us is even holier than yum Kipper in fact yum kipur is Yumm the day of atonement is a day like Purim purm is even greater than yum Kipper especially in that regard even when it comes to prayer there was a great sadic by the name of re Becker passed away a few years ago and when his family was sitting shiva they told over the following story was a young man in his 20s and he had one child and then his wife got sick shortly after childb birth and the Doctor Who was an expert in this field his name was Dr schulen spoke to and he said to him listen Rabbi you know your wife is engraved danger we have to do an operation and unfortunately she'll never have children again didn't know what to do and so he went to seek advice from the K is who was the most prominent godle of his era and he traveled down to babra and he said rebi can I speak to you was right after he had washed his hands before daving Min and he says well what's the question he says my wife's life is in danger and the doctor wants to operate but I'm not going to have any more children anymore and Kish says well what are you asking me you told me that her life is in danger she has to have the operation but you know what let's discuss it at greater length after Min and so he D and after Min he spoke to the Kish once more and the Kish says tell me again the question and he tells the Kazan the question and the Kazan says she should not have the app operation and he says but you just told me before that she should have the operation and the said to him that was before and the family Tells over this story all nine of them sitting around sitting shiva for their father and they said you see what can happen from one Min eight more children and my mother lived to be in her 90s well that's the power of prayer but there's one more thought that I think is important to share ran right before he died began to lament the fact that he was about to face a judge the king of all Kings and he said if I was going to face a king of flesh and blood a human King I could bribe him with money with gifts pleading on my behalf but the king of all Kings you can't bribe him and the mar says on this gim that was saying in the next World you can't bribe the almighty but in this world Hashem wants you to bribe him with prayer and with charity When you pray you are bribing Hashem to alter and to change the decree to work towards your benefit when you give it can save one from Death That's The Power of prayer you can even bribe Hashem what potency what power we have and Pur him a day when people are busy with all other types of things is the day when you can focus when you can pray to Hashem and ask him for whatever you want don't lose out on this very special opportunity thank you Rabbi spear for your tremendous remarks our next is d by mayor simus Sperling everyone if anyone missed any the previous stories to inspire events then um please email us at event.org and we will gladly share you the link again that is spelled e v n TS chq.org events.org our next speaker his energy and his dedication for KRA knows no bounds Rabbi mayor S I would like to welcome everybody to this beautiful event would like to welcome everybody over here what a for us to come together to inspire each other and to get closer to which is really the point of everything in life but uh that's the point of stories that's the point of stories that's the point of the point of all these different ideas that we do all the time is to get closer to get more of a Clarity in life what we're doing here what our purposes and uh perm is I should say the Milla not so much per perm also but the Milla is something that if you learn the lessons of P if you go through the story with the right the right guidance and the right books and the right and the right commentators and everything it is unbelievable how many lessons you could learn from the Miga it's really unbelievable how many things we're able to learn from it and how much closer we get Toes by just tapping into the Mig and the story of the Milla so I just want to talk very very briefly about the main lesson of PM about the Milla the main lesson and then I want to share a story which doesn't really have much to do with it but has a little bit to do with it but I just saw the story and I want to share it's a famous story obviously I will be changing all the names and all the facts and I'm going to change the entire story but not the whole story but um but it's a pretty story but I think it's it's it's eye opening so anyways what's the main lesson of perm right so if you go through the Milla you'll see all of the the mid of the people who had good mid and you see theid of the people who had bad mid and you see the about how people cared about things like like just l h caring about the fact that one person doesn't bow to him one person doesn't bow everything means nothing to me there's nothing to eat I don't want one thing in the fridge there's nothing to it's an amazing thing like that goes on the it's unreal so that's that's first of all the you see how Esther Mish followed Mor and her and how Mor wasn't afraid of anything nothing not afraid and I think the ultimate lesson is that we see that is the Supreme guide of the worldes is the Supreme guide of the world he runs every single event that occurs in this world in the most intricate and amazing fashion however hidden his May hand his hand may be sometimes you don't see it you don't see the story it looks so painful it looks so dark it looks like there's no way we're ever going to no hope and then all a sudden boom yes in one second Everything Changes one phone call he runs every event and yeah his hand is hidden often but Al we know that he's the one who runs the story like we see from the Milla and therefore what and therefore our and therefore our chuva and everything that we do has to be geared towards him cuz he is the Supreme guide he has everything he has all the answers and everything and we just have to tap into that and only by learning his ter and by fulfilling his mitah will we're going to find favor in his eyes and um you know that's what we suppos do it's you know sometimes we focus on other people and trying to find favor in other people's eyes and doing this when they can't even help you they can't do anything it's only that can help you and therefore to really appreciate the the lesson of P the lesson of the Milla you have to tap in you have to really think about this really is if you take a look at the M there's so many ways to to realize to see to feel that it was just you know coincidence I mean read this that's why when Esther wrote it if you take a look at the the different people who write about it I think the gr talks about it also that um they had to write it in a way that saw it as coincidence yeah he's the most powerful man it's all about him it's nothing about Hashem so you see that was hidden and it could be coincidence but we know that every single thing that was happening even years before the perm storyes was making these plans and we just have to and focus on that's the whole lesson or that's one of the main lessons so this story that I want to share with you is a story of a family or I should just say a mother and a son who really just turned to Hashem and they try to tap into to give them the feelings of whatever it is that they needed and an amazing anything happened so this is a famous story so you might know this and even if you do know it I'm going to change some of the names and some of the stuff so it might be a little bit new to you and if you don't know it it's uh it's really a beautiful story so there was a doctor whose name was Sasha elovich he was Russian obviously uh he was a famous Jewish Doctor Who Lived in St Petersburg one of the biggest cities in Russia he was married to a woman whose name was Natasha and they had a son whose name was Igor it's old Russian class Russian names and they lived a happy lifestyle very happy they were they were Jewish and um yeah they lived their life he was a doctor he was successful she was at home taking care of the child taking care of eigor and life uh you know went on trying to get close to keshu trying to tap to our mission in this world anyways there was one one of the things about living in Russia back in when this when the story happened is that there was there was always a little bit unless your was Mish like to the top it was a little bit hard because you were living a life of of fear a little bit of fear because they hated the Jews the Russians they hated the Jews and sometimes the Russian police would come they would knock on your door not so gently and they would just take you away for what you did this you said that you sneezed you going to Siberia for the next 400 years and they would do this and this happened unfortunately often to Jews even though there was no justification for it nothing didn't do anything do he wasn't even there wasn't even there they took him away so there was a little bit of a fear anyways there was one night that um they were sitting in their house uh this Dr Sasha Natasha and eer and uh there's a very very loud bang on the door and clear there's certain knocks that you know who it is you know like oh no like I had time to say before they knew it the door was busted open they came in they grabbed him this doctor and they ripped him out he did not even have time to say goodbye to his wife and his child and um it was a terrible ordeal for them to see for them to witness just being ripped away from the family they became very very sad they had no idea when he was coming back if he was coming back and they're very scared like now what first of all besides the trauma how do we live now he was the one who made the money we don't we don't work right e was a little kid and Natasha didn't work so now how are they going to make money and not only that but there's another there was another cash and that was that all their friends were also frightened because if they were seen talking to Natasha or talking to e whatever it was or helping them the Russian plea might think that oh we have to arrest them also they're obviously part of the plan whatever plan this doctor did or whatever it was so therefore we have to arrest them L were their fathers or mothers whatever the case is so therefore everybody stopped talking to this family out of fear they really wanted to they really wanted to be friends and be there for them and help them but they couldn't they were just too afraid so they lost all their money they lost their husband/father and they lost all their friends [Music] says Inus you need a friend you need the respect you need people otherwise yeah otherwise right so they were all alone anyways one and A2 years later um from when the doctor was taken away just before perm right before perm so Eiger came and he ran into the kitchen from wherever he was coming and he told his mother he said ma in Russian obviously is there is are we doing M this year are we giving sh to anybody like I don't really have friends but it's a Mitzvah we learned that it's a Mitzvah so are we giving anybody SH now she was very surprised the mother and she was very happy that her son was interested in you know doing the MIT but she she knew that the next question if she say yes she's like to who yes we are doing sh to who who are we giving it to nobody likes us nobody talks to us we don't know anybody we've been alone for the past year and a half so she like hesitated to say whatever but um but she didn't want to say no because they wanted to you know they wanted to do what they what are they going to do so as she's like sitting there waiting there's a little twinkle in her eye Bing and she's like yes we are absolutely going to be giving sh Absolut to a very good friend of ours so Iger said to his mother who we don't have any friends we're we're not allowed to have friends everybody stopped talking to me about a year and a half ago so who is our friend that you speak of is there somebody I don't know about somebody comes in after I'm sleeping so she said we're going to send is going to be our friend sounds very simple right as if like a little child had spoken like s hasem but the thought was so true she felt it for she's like you know what i is our friend and's hand is hidden and we don't understand it butm loves us so we're going to send so he ran to the kitchen and he's searching for food where we need two Foods you got to have a and a Shak whatever you have you have to have two foods and they're looking around looking around finally he finds a cookie probably from like a year before that and he takes the cookie and he wraps it up in like a nice little wrapping whatever he had and he's like um you need two we don't have two what are we going to do where we going to get another one so the mother looked and and she said to her son she said do you remember how daddy tati used to always tell us that when you serve Hashem you need to serve Hashem with joy remember he used to tell us that so he said yes I do remember he said well we're going she said well we're going to make an exception to that rule right now normally we do we serve but to tonight we're going to serve Hashem with pain and with tears and with sadness I want you to sit down and I want you to take a cup and I want you to think about your life and I want to think about your father I want you to think about your father and I'm going to think about TTI my husband and we are going to think about what happened to us and we're going to start crying and we're going to cry and cry and cry because life is so painful is so hard even though we know that there's a plan here and Hashem has a Hidden Hand we know that but it's so painful and therefore we're going to cry and we're allowed to cry we're allowed to cry and we're going to fill up this cup with tears we're going to fill up the entire cup with tears and then we're going to wrap up the cup and that's going to be the second item that we're going to give to Hashem the cookie and a cup of tears and they sat down and they started crying and they started thinking about what they went through they sat on the floor their father their husband how lives their lives have become so sad and the tears started to flow and not before long say pretty quickly the cup was filled with tears and the mother took the cup and she placed it next to the cookie and she slowly and carefully started to wrap her M and she said I'm sure hashem's going to love this gift I'm sure one literally one second later there was a knock at the door another hard knock at the door and they were like both they were like in a zone of like crying and you know thinking what happened to them now usually when it knocks when when the when the door knocks when somebody knocks on the door it's usually something that's dangerous or a Sakana but she didn't know what to do so she went over to the door she's like trying to look she couldn't see she slowly opens the door and who's there her husband's there her heart stopped she started crying again and she couldn't move from her place and then eager the son looked at the mother and said sent back as we were giving him he give us you know you go to a house you give them like wait wait they get theirs they give yours gave us the same time that we gave his the ultimate and by now everyone was crying and everyone but the tears now changed they changed to the tears of joy and he looked at his father this little son who missed him for a year and a half and he hugged him and he held out him so tight he didn't want to let go and finally he looked up to when he said this is the best ever I don't know what your story is I don't know what the plan is we don't know the plan but we know that you are the Supreme guide why do you have to be taken away for a year and a half I don't know but there's a plan why do you have to go through what you go through I don't know why do I have to go through I don't know but what we do know is that AES loves us and what we do know ises is watching every move everything that happens in the whole world both for us personally individually communally every everyone Hashem sees everything and the main thing is Hashem loves us that's the main thing so whatever he's doing to us whatever the story is The Hidden Hand he's doing it for our best and sometimes it's very hard to hear and it's very hard to see and sometimes boom with a snap of the finger there's a knock on the door and the Yeshua is right there but what happened during that time did you grow did you connect to him did you tap into whatever it was that you were supposed to tap into and be like this year were giving to we're not going to doubt him we're not going to say not nice things about him we're not going to be like oh we're not giving to anyone we're not doing any no we're going to give him sh and not we're give to our friend to hasem even though you think like you went through so much pain how could you call him a friend but no who loves us we love him and we have to work we have to work so hard that no matter what we go through no matter how challenging it seems we have to remain strong in our and who knows maybe one day you'll get that knock at your door too maybe you'll get that email maybe you'll get that job maybe you'll have that child maybe you'll find that sh maybe you in the laty if that's a good thing maybe and said this is the when Pam comes you have to realize this is you're everything you're everywhere and everything you saved all of us the whole story you were behind in every and so too you're behind the scenes in my life also and we tap into this and we drink to this and we say thank you hashm for everything you ever did for us and for always being there to watch us yes it seems hard and yes I don't understand it but I know that you love me and that's all I need to know I trust that you know what you're doing if we get tap into this we could all to really build our and and make proud get the knock on our door whatever knock that is in the right time and thank you for joining hi there this is Shimon kako from Torah anytime hope everyone is doing well I also hope you're enjoying this incredible stories to inspire event wanted to share some very exciting news with you barem for the first time ever now to anytime has two apps in the App Store the first one of course came out about 6 months ago it is the brand new revolutionary game changing tar anytime app uh it already has 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that he used to lease a farm one of his properties to a yoodi to a Jew and next to this Farm there was a body of water and the agreement that this Gentile this Gentile had with the yehudi with the Jew was that anything that the farm produces belongs to the Jew no no problem just pay him the the lease in the end of the month pay him the rent at the end of the month no problem however whatever fish he catches from this body of water half of it half of the fish goes to the landlord to this Gentile now this Gentile is speaking to the Jew and he's telling him you know what happened one day this Jew that I leased the property to he had the body of water next to him and he caught the fish he caught one fish only and it was a huge fish I hear but the Jew tried to keep it a secret from me but I found out and I approached him I said hey don't forget the agreement says half half why did you keep that fish away from me why did you hide it from me and the Jew tells me look you know the holiday of Pim is coming up and I need a huge fish to feed my family I'm inviting guests we're supposed to have a very lavish meal we're supposed to have a so therefore I kept it I hope you're not upset at me I apologize and the Gentile tells the Jew H I forgive you no problem but deep down he was very upset now this Gentile is telling the Jew and you know what happened after a few months all the landlords and the owners of the different properties and lands got together and different Farms got together and we were all complaining about the same thing complaining how the Jews are not fair and not just this one is saying this and this one is saying this and I told them this is the Gentile speaking to the Jew and I told them let me tell you a story that takes the cake I had a farm and I had a body of water and this was my agreement with the Jew and you know what the Jew did he caught one fish and he didn't give me half and he gave me the excuse of his holiday of P he gave me the excuse of the lavish meal the but I told him I forgave him I really didn't forgive him what are we going to do with the Jews what are we going to do with the Jews and we all agreed we all decided and agreed that it's time to expel all the Jews from the country no more Jews in our land we drafted something we were about to sign it in walks a very tall very handsome very glorious individual with a white beard and a long coat and he comes and he says so what's going on over here and we told him look we want to get rid of the Jews we need you to sign the first one and this person tells us you want to get rid of the je for what what did they do because of the fish because of this this is nonsense you need their money this is nonsense don't get rid of the Jews that's what he said he left and the Gentiles telling the Jew and I turned to the person next to me and I said wow who is that person and the person told me I have no idea and he asked the person next to him and everyone said all together we have no idea who that person was and the Gentiles telling the Jew but but you know what that person he saved you from Annihilation he saved you from being kicked out of the land so you tell me you never saw God but in that room I saw God it was that God that saved you that saved you that gave you a great miracle this is the story now we know in the Mig it doesn't say hashem's name doesn't sayem's name we see it sometimes in [Music] acronyms we see it however pardon me hashem's name explicitly is not written in the migil why because you don't have to just see Hashem to understand that Hashem is there to understand that hasem is taking care of every detail in your life Hashem is always there even though he doesn't show you that he's there but he's always behind the scenes you know what the says if you read the Mig backwards you don't fulfill your obligation you're supposed to read it from the beginning to the end what's the symbolic meaning of this what's the of this so I think the symbolic meaning is don't wait till everything comes all together in your life in the end to realize that Hashem is there don't wait till the end of the Mig and then understand it from backwards to forwards no no no no you have to see Hashem in every event unfolding in your life it's very hard of course but Hashem is there read the Miga from forwards to backwards find out that Hashem and see that Hashem is there even though his name is not written but find out that he's there there's no coincidence we think it was a coincidence Vash got murdered a coincidence that M was sitting by the palace when he heard b a coincidence that EST was chosen from all the people a coincidence upon a coincidence upon coincidence we know there's no such thing as a coincidence coincidence we know in Hebrew is m m is the letters Rak the words Rak only from God everything happens because God deems it to happen don't read the Mig backwards to forwards find God all the way in the end no no find God when things are happening unfolding in front of you so you think you don't see God you see God you see Hashem in every single thing that's happens in your life that's the story of puim that essentially is the story of our life may Hashem open our eyes to always see Hashem in every detail in our life and ultimately Merit have to in the rebuilding of the mikash we will all come together in great joy and great happiness in Dancing with the Masia in the mikash I thank stor to inspire again and thank you for watching thank you RAB for your amazing remarks really uplifting remarks our next speaker is RAB Danel Corin Rabbi Corin is one of the rabbis of of 184 of b or tremendous Rabbi he has daily Clips he's you check out his all tremendous sh anytime some inspiration for PM I want to share with you a story that took place in Morocco in the city of meches this story is a fascinating sh which we will see will not conclude with a but the inspiration we certainly can take with us listen to the story the story takes place on Pur the there's a person that will call him and he sends as the actually says that want to do it with a messenger okay sends his beautiful shim on the way shim smells the delicious food can't hold himself back his back in G it looks too good to be true and he ends up eating it not only that he drinks the fancy wine towards the end of the day he feels terribly guilty and he runs back to and he says I'm so sorry I never delivered the Ruben hears this the news and the following reaction of Ruben takes place he thinks for a second looks at the clock and says you know I don't have enough time to send another M I want to fulfill the obligation retroactively with you whatever you ate it's yours I give it to you full heartedly this question of whether he fulfilled the obligation or not came all the way to a great man by the name of in and he did not decide that means he didn't come to a full conclusion of whether he has fulfilled the Mitzvah or not now we could discuss on the whether yes fulfillment of retroactively works or not but that's not what I want to share with you what I took from this story is an incredible inspiration how a person who is focused p and especially all year about how he could get closer to hasem through the mitzvah Mitzvah are there to bring us closer to has and when a person is so focused on the relationship and the opportunities of mitzvot he could be in a place where most of us probably when we would have been and heard such a such news from our beloved messenger we would have given him a beloved message we would have been really angry would have said how could could you how could you steal m in the greatest day hey and cause me not no this person ruen was Collective and thought to himself how can I still strengthen my relationship with a Mitzvah that's the inspiration for per perm is a time where sometimes it could be quite stressful it could be challenges and we have a choice how we going to react are we going to understand that whatever happens is another opportunity to be able to get closer to maybe in a different way than we planned and that's going to give us the greatest PM ever have an amazing beautiful pm thank you Rabbi Corin our next speaker is Rabbi scho Hartz as we know rabie Hartz is the founder of Jewish Crossroads it's a tremendous speaker tremend is his his stories his his work that is really impacts all segments of the Jewish people it's a great by harwitz RIT grman is the legendary head of the migdal or instit institutions in mdala amch in Israel he tells the story of a boy known as Dano allow me to quote R grossan to tell you the story Dano had a special Nama we all knew it the teachers were aware that his family background was difficult and that he was carrying a very tough burden with him everybody gave him the warmth and love that he needed during all his school days at migdal or when he reached the age of 13 we made him a beautiful Bar Mitzvah I gave him a pair of to fill in and I wished him success however his brothers insisted that he returned home and study in school close to home I was very apprehensive about it but we had no choice his family insisted Dano returned home and in a short amount of time he became somebody living on the edge somebody connected with tough and dangerous children in in that neighborhood and he deteriorated spiritually and morally I carried with me all day a heartache that Dano had left the way of the Torah he who had already known his creator Hashem and had studied with great desire and Excellence left the lifegiving Wellsprings of Torah for broken sisters and then one day he showed up for a class last reunion at the Yeshiva it was on purin the celebration was great millat EST was read for a large crowd and Mish manote were distributed there was a wonderful sud filled with song and praise to Hashem the visiting alumni stood up to dance and the atmosphere was very pum likee and happy I was standing on the stage with a microphone and suddenly I look out among hundreds and hundreds of students I said that's Doo I noticed Doo I put the mic down I ran out to him and I asked him to come on stage with me come on Donna let's go at first he refused but then he took the stage with me in front of the entire Lively crowd I said to him dear Dan our beloved student tell I want you to send me and then I gave him the mic and he said well Rabbi I certainly owe you a lot of gratitude for everything you've done for me of course I'll give you some I'll put something together and give it to you great I said I don't want you to give me Mish I want you to be the actual Mish manote and Dano looked at me and said what me what is what do you mean Rabbi what do you mean I should be the m and I said to him I mean that you yourself are the M for me for Pur you're supposed to give two different kinds of foods so give me your body and soul those are the two dishes that you have to give me in honor of porm D said and my Dan I said in front of everybody I am asking you to give yourself back to the Yeshiva come home to us and that will be my do we have a deal yes Dano was flabbergasted this was the last thing he expected on this class reunion for purup the entire room grew silent all eyes were on Dono yes Rabbi we have a deal and the entire room erupted in cheers d d d so Dano came home to his family and said to the family I am going back to mdal or and they looked at him in amazement and they said what's wrong with you you finally left those guys why are you going back because of the rabbi D told them what do you mean they said and Dano told his family I promised myself as a mman and the family was very traditional they were careful about the holidays they didn't know how to deal with this but they said all right we have no choice if he's supposed to be the Mish manot for Rabbi grman whatever that means then that's what we do and his mother said to fine go and he went and he is still there because today Dano is harav Daniel and he is a popular rebi in that very School the light of Torah and mdal or shines brightly in harav Daniel and each year on purm he tells a wrapped audience about that purm that changed his life forever the year he became M manot thank you Rabbi har our next speaker is Rabbi e Epstein he came out with a tremendous safer recently called doing Divine it will literally uplift your diving for the rest of your life and you and your family it's definitely worth it read over you can read a short segments over at your Shas table definitely go to your local Judo store or get it online dve in Divine it will uplift your your prayers Rabbi Ephraim Epstein I am pleased to be able to present this story and I am honored to have been invited by kazak Torah anytime and stories to inspire three fabulous August institutions and wonderful organizations that bring goodness to and light to a world filled with Darkness our greatest strength in life comes from good habits but a great fear of lessening intensity and productivity also comes from Habits if you don't have the habit of getting up early in the morning to doin then you're not going to dobin every day in the morning but if it becomes too habitual that I get up in the morning that I don't even think about it anymore then my habit becomes a frustration and it becomes a detractor instead of the positive nature of what a habit could and should be I think of this as purum arrives very soon on one hand we get all excited it's borm on the other hand we get to sh or the ASA and we sit down and there's a little voice inside of many that says oh man they're going to be making loud noises for humming again can't we just hear the Milla why is that guy in the corner using a fog horn right what what is going on over here here can't we just do the Mitzvah and move on with it I've been fasting all day it's Tinus eser I'd like to have my my uh break the fast already so I want to share with you a two-minute story that you can think of this year to open up an inspiration that all of us could gain from and that is that it was the year Saddam Hussein was throwing bombs and when he was throwing bombs I had a toalet in the aiva who told me that his brother was coming from the United States and they wanted to spend purum in our home in tellstone why because the parents responsibly in their own minds didn't want them to go to Yus because there was a threat that Saddam Hussein Yak shimo was going to go throw bombs in yush so they the mother said well Hussein probably won't throw a bomb on tellstone so you guys can St in telone for shavas uh for purm so they came to our home for purm and both of them were on the beginning of their Journey towards from kite but they both came from a traditional home and they both felt pretty much like they had this holiday under control they knew about the mcgilla they knew about um having the suda they were excited to celebrate but you know let's it's time to go to the ISA so we went up to the the ASA on the top of the mountain nateon at the time and we walked in and the place was pack to the gills and the mcgilla started and you could hear a pin drop appropriately and you could see the guys were like wow this is what a Milla reading is supposed to be like you could hear every word wonderful and then first chapter second chapter and it was time for the first hamon hamon hit and the place exploded when it exploded and my mind's eye I thought oh I wonder what these guys are thinking so I turned to my right to see you know if they were like taken aback by the thundering hummon and I couldn't find them and then I looked down they were under their desks they thought Saddam Hussein blew up a bomb and that's why there was so much noise they had never ever experienced a thundering humon before it opened their hearts and opened their mind and they'll never and I will never forget that honic experience of them hiding under the desks so this year when we hear hon let's not think with a sense of oh no know who's the guy with a fog horn but we should think let it awaken that arousal inside of us like it did my two guests that we should blot out evil with that big noise in front of us and remember good so that we should see we should see we should see purum all year long a gor and we should see goodness and greatness Darkness turn into light in front of our days hi there this is Shimon kako from Tor anytime hope everyone is doing well I also hope you're enjoying this incredible stories to inspire event wanted to share some very exciting news with you bar hasem for the first time ever now T anytime has two apps in the App Store the first one of course came out about 6 months ago it is the brand new revolutionary gamechanging Tor any time app uh it already has over 50,000 downloads thousands of fstar reviews if you are not using the new tar anytime new T anytime app you're really missing out so make sure you go to the app store right now and download it and the second app 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story about how I got this beautiful guitar that sits here on my lap in front of you so each year when we have our porm Sudan our home our porm meal our porm banquet qu in our home we like to invite family friends neighbors but also we like to include those who may not be celebrating porm in their home you know people that could use this exposure to what a real Sim joyous porm looks like and we try to include them in our suda in our meal so a few years ago we're inviting different people and there was a a woman who had been learning with together with my wife and had been coming to our classes and our programs who was growing so much so much in her in her Jewish connection in her spirituality the thing was her husband was very much not on board he he he he wasn't connecting he had he had strong blockages things that did not allow him to connect to believe that there's any any value in Judaism at all so she said listen I'm happy to come to your um meal but in all likelihood my husband is probably not going to come along any know that's what we assumed we didn't set for him everybody showing up and we have families and and thank God our dining room is is is packed with people beautiful and she shows up and something interesting happens as her husband is dropping her off he says you know what I'll come in and I'll check it out okay so he comes in I'm surprised I didn't know him very well he's tall he's Brad and to be honest with you I was you know a little bit intimidated by him being there and he sits down and I say you know what his name is Brett we're going to drink a little bit would you like something to drink he says no I'm not going to drink anything like okay it's it's going to be a long one any yeah we're having our meal and he's sitting there and he's very quiet and he's not participating and we start going around the table and people start sharing different stories about where they're coming from some of their history some of their joyous moments from the year and we're singing a little bit and I had a guitar at the time it was an old guitar kind of falling apart strings fly all over the place and we start I pull it out and we're about to start singing and as we're about to start singing a friend of mine who is also hosting a mill inist home with a bunch of high school students who I knew well who I had also taught and just at that moment he comes barging in with maybe 25 30 young High School guys just as we're starting to sing and they're coming in and they're they're hyper they're excited and they see me with the guitar so they want to sing and they want to dance so he started playing a hit something that everybody loves thank you [Music] Hashem [Music] thank thank you and everyone's labor dick and everyone's jumping around and dancing and I'm watching and I'm looking over at Brett and he's just sitting there taking it in and I can't really read like is he enjoying it is he not like what's going on what's going on in in in in his mind and after it all dies down the students are there everybody's sitting and Brett stands up and he looks around at the room and he says he says I I want to share my story he says when I was very very young my father was in a terrible criminal it was an accident that he was the victim of of criminal activity and it's not the time now to get into it but either way he was terribly injured when this Brett was a young man and he said since then I grew up like that and since then I had such anger against the world against God I never allowed myself to be open to anything spiritual at all and in fact I actually turned to addiction I turned to alcohol and throughout my recovery process they always told me to embrace a higher power something spiritual and I was never able to do it I never allowed myself to do it he says I want to tell you over the last couple of hours of being here at this purm purum meal he says I feel so deeply connected to everything that's going on I won't touch the wine because I'm Rec I'm in recovery but I feel so deeply connected to what's going on a few days later at my door Brett by the way I forgot to mention earlier he was actually the manager of a big guitar chain over here in Maryland he sent this gift to me at my door together with a note saying thank you for the most beautiful spiritual experience of my life and I look forward to keeping in touch and we've had a beautiful beautiful relationship ever since my friends the P the P has such power the heavens are open purm is a beautiful beautiful day however you're going to celebrate your purm suda go deep go deep inside because there's tremendous tremendous power that happens on the entire day of PM and specifically at those beautiful moments when your heart is open with joy celebrating the Miracles of PM thank you Rabbi bpam our next speaker is RAB yov rahimi as you know rabim is a tremendous speaker speaking on beh of kazak Tor time and and many other tremendous K and Torah organizations is the author of The sa it's a great to call thank you stories to inspire thank you T any time foring this event the P event I'll show with you a quick story for the story teaches us that although things seem dark and and seem endless an endless dark tunnel you don't know how you're going to climb out of it is there and Hashem has a plan for everything to take you out of the situation that you're in Hashem will give you wings of an eagle to pull you out that's what the story of puim teaches us hashem's name is not mentioned in the but everything was andm pulled the Jews out of the bad situation that they're in now I want to say a quick story that I saw from there was a person that survived World War II survived the Holocaust this person said a tremendous scary story that happened to him he was in a village that I don't remember anymore there was a certain Village in Europe where it was extremely hard to survive and run away from the Germans closing into the village that he was it wasn't in Germany certain Village he was hiding but the Germans were closing in and to get a passport was impossible you had to be very very hook up you had to be wealthy to pay everything up to bribe and bribe and bribe for this Jew who said over the story who survived the war he said it was very hard almost impossible for his family but eventually after months and months of pushing and running around and bribing finally they were able to get a certain amount of passports the passports came to the location that they were hiding it ends up being there was enough for everybody I got the number how many people it was it was enough for everybody except for one person meaning there were one passport short one person had to stay behind now this person who said over the story said that he knew he got his passport he knew that he got that right name which is his name and he got the passport there was another person hiding with them who he wasn't related to that one password that was short was that guy but what ends up being this guy stole the password from him this Jew stood over the story he stole the passport from him and he made believe as if it's his passport can you imagine doing the war you're in the Holocaust running away from the Germans the Germans are closing in impossible to escape almost impossible to get a passport finally you got a passport some guy steals your passport and you can't blame him either can't judge Shalom and you can't blame the guy who stole the passport when it when it's very very tough times like that you can't blame anybody but that's what happened he took someone else's passport this Jew who survived the Holocaust said he didn't know what to do this guy literally stole his passport they fought they fought they F but he gave in can you imagine giving it to such a thing like that he gave in he knew his password was told but he gave in okay he stays behind sounds simple okay but it's very scary this person stays behind the set over of the story and all the people that got the passports escaped they leave the village what ends up happening what a scary story and I wish it never happened but it's an unbelievable runs the world but I wish it never happened I wish everyone will stay alive and be healthy and the Holocaust never happened in the first place when ends up happen all the people that had the passports who left this hiding spot and try to escape in the country they were caught by the border by security and they saw that the passports were fake and not legal so all the people with the passports who tried escaping got transported unfortunately at the concentration camps but the people that didn't have the passports who stayed behind the ends up being that they stayed in hiding and they survived the war in hiding and they were able to come back to is this Jew that said over the story he said at the time when he saw his pord being taken away from him he said the world is dark I'm dead I'm dying it's over it's endless and suddenly ends it being just the opposite Hashem took away his password for him to live all the others were supposed to die but you were supposed to live that's the password was taken away from you Holocaust is a different level of test that we never know we should never ever go through we cannot judge anybody it's a different level of tests but every single person and a much small smaller smaller smaller smaller smaller level it's going through different and different test sometimes you think it's endless sometimes you think something bad is happening to you but it's really good for you 100% you just don't see it yet trust aad he knows what he's doing your job if you're going through a hard time is to scream at hasem for help your job is to how it's going to happen when is it going to happen what are the technical things behind the scenes that's Hashem but your job is to everything is AEM but your job is to press the button of is involved in our lives 24/7 let's utilize the relationship with hm and no matter what we're going through always dive into Hashem to take you out of that you in but Hashem is involved in everything in our lives thank you so much for listening thank youim our final speaker tonight is rabbi aam stouber stulberger is the dean of Valley Torah high school and and and hisum literally Inspire Jews Jews throughout the entire world as our grand by stalberger what of the themes of purm this incredible day purm is V things just turned around it looked so Bleak it looked so dark we didn't know what was going to happen we didn't know where the ISU was going to come from V it turned around literally in a moment because was always there yes it was hit his face but when that time came for the Yeshua to come it turned around immediately there are turnarounds when it comes to CL Israel and there are turnarounds when it comes to each and every individual Jew we have to look at a a special day that has a component of we we re accepted the Torah the gar says we're able to sort of recreate that moment of nasma we had that Clarity that we had that commitment we had that Unity to be able to turn to and say yes we reaccept the Torah we want to rededicate ourselves to T mitzah the way we we did on V in the year 2448 that opportunity is there for us too in a sense of a we can turn things around in a matter of a second it's an incredible story of it's a it's a Yumer story but Yumer and Pur we know are related the quotes that in the AR's name that y that Yer is a day like purm so purm and yum Kipper are two of the holiest days we have throughout the year so the potential inherit in purm is actually greater than yipper if Yer y that means p is even greater so this idea of of being able to turn around incredible story that is said that many eyewitnesses to this story in the in the horrors of the concentration camps and it was AR Kipper and they the had and they were together in the concentration camps and they were very concerned that it's Aram Kipper and tomorrow we're going to be given work and we're going to have to break the laws of kipper can you can you please go over to this Jewish Capo and maybe asked him that tomorrow you should give us only Rabin work it shouldn't be Thea work that we can keep the laws of of yum Kipper and the Reb was reluctant but he went over to the Capo and when he went over to him to ask him he dismissed him out of hand no says don't bother me what do you want from me and he basically said no and the Reb was very dejected but sure enough the very next morning they showed up for yum Kipper and the Capo responded to the request and he gave them only work this Jew a lot of these capos were knowledgeable they knew theas they knew they they knew what what what your ker was about and he gave them work that did not involve breaking the laws of Y Kipper and the Jews were ecstatic can you imagine in the hor in the geham of a concentration camp they were singing whatever they remembered of the of the daving of yum Kipper and they were doing their work and they were so happy that they weren't able they didn't have to break the the D laws the Torah laws of yam Kipper what happened next was shocked everyone while they were doing the work the doors bust open and the Germans J came in with a fancy beautiful ven table of Delicacies and that head Nazi Yak sh announc you're eating today Jews you're eating today we have plenty of food for you today typically was 350 calories a day and now they brought out so much food and they were all shocked they weren't going to eat it young Kipper how could they eat and the this cppo who yesterday dismissed the rebba this who who was part of a who was a collaborator with the Nazis you would have said his his sh is not worth a a Wooden Nickel it's not worth he goes over to this Nazi and he says though you don't understand it's our holiest day it's yum Ki we're not eating today what you're not eating today you you collaborated you coer what do you mean you're not eating today of course you're eating today and of course they're eating today cuz we say so and he repeated those words no but we're not eating today the Nazi takes out a gun he points at the head of this this Jew this Jew who was nowhere near any connection to yishai in any sense of the word it collaborated with the Nazis they pointed a gun to his head and he said of course you're eating today if not that's going to be the last word you ever say and he repeated looking down the barrel of a gun it is our holiest day it's Kipper and we're not eating today with that he died killed him and shot him on the spot it's an incredible story what happened between yesterday and today what was said to this that somehow connected his back to the level he ready to it's unbelievable level this van took place within him and this is the power of the we just have no idea of when that V can take place it could take place any time at any place under any conditions under any circumstances this is the of this is the message of Pur who runs the world and he gives us opportunities through our B through our freedom of choice to see the em see the truth p is a day that allows so much opportunity to connect properly to the the that we have today the listening of the Milla to hear and to think about the fact that we are part of a gus upon him that we that that is apparent that seems to be there in terms of's concealment and we know he's not really concealed he was with us every step of the way and he's been with us every step of this 2,000 year old goist he's been with us every step of the way as well as if y reminds us great in the miracle ofam is a miracle of Jewish survival Pur represents survival in Gus Jewish represents Pur represents the the that he protects us that in a moment things can turn around in a moment a nation could turn around in a moment a Jew can turn around PRM if we take each and every one of us this Collective responsib this individual responsibility which ultimately is a collective responsibility of turning ourselves around of coming of being reconnected to in the way see that determination see that special time of of of Pur where we can become so close okay it's a day like Pur so Pur is even greater than y if we can take full advantage then we can use the spiritual awakening that we just experienced during the special special y to move into Nissan the month of P the month of that we should be through our efforts and through our growth and through the to the behavior made stulberger for your tremendous remarks thank you everyone for joining us tonight at perm stories to inspire want to thank everyone for joining us um this evening like to thank all the partner organization help put together tonight's amazing program the kazak organization stories to inspire the Talis man Torah anytime at anytime as we know the kazak organization organizes this not only organiz this event but puts so many tremendous events throughout the entire year if 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