Your Choices Don’t End With You—They Echo for Generations - Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

really uh um a measure of the uh his dedication to KL Israel, to the Jewish people and to what we stand for and it's an honor to have you here, Rabbi Gladning. I want to acknowledge Rab Kashman and Namisra who are partners with us and Rabman took the lead in arranging this for us and we very much appreciate it. We also want to acknowledge our sponsors um um Ethan and Amy Solomon for Hilos Salman Benar Pesoem also sponsored by the Holtzer family the Ha family Sam and Yuskai and um this is sponsored as autaram Ben Yakov and Rabash helped me with this name is Misha Mesha Basidi and Ben Victoria Victoria and Luna Bas Miriam. And uh the rabbi is on a very tight schedule. He's going to try to make it back tonight to the airport. Uh we warned you about that, but uh I don't want to take any extra time. I want to hear every extra second that Robert Glasin can speak. And here he is. It's a real honor to be here. I grew up reading Tales Out of Shul. I even flipped it to the back of the book today, but I was actually a little bit frightened cuz on the back of the book, it said that during the high holiday season, Rab Rabbi Feldman would exhort the people to greater observance. And one woman turned to the other and said, "For this, I needed to get all dressed up." But it was uh quite remarkable walking into this story building. I thank you very much for the opportunity. Thank you to Harman for uh taking care of me today and for the very warm southern hospitality. I'm also very pleased that Rabbi Feldman uh introduced me by saying that whatever I have to say, you're eager to listen to, which implies that we may not necessarily be speaking about tshoua. So, actually, you wouldn't believe what we're going to talk about tonight. I just came back from England and I happened to uh arrive on the yard site of Queen Elizabeth >> and I could not get into the airport and I could not get to Shul uh because of all of the commotion and you know in recent years there's a lot of fascination with Queen Elizabeth and the entire royal family especially at her Levia September 8th 2022 to when more than 4.1 billion people tuned in to watch the Levia of Queen Elizabeth, the single most televised event in the history of the world, which the phenomenon itself is worthy of our attention. What is so enamoring about a Levia in New York? People are not so captured by Levas. But putting that aside for a moment where obviously people are taken by the pomp and the ceremony and the pageantry of the royalty in England, the queen put forth for many decades an aura of polished demeanor of understanding. But actually it said that Queen Elizabeth had a pretty wicked sense of humor. So she would once she was once strolling in her castle gardens in Bamaral and she would always be accompanied by her protection officer and they're strolling they're walking and they encounter some American tourists that in England they do not look fondly upon American tourists and the American tourists see the queen have no idea who she is and they say to her, "Oh, you look like you're from England. have you ever met the queen? And she looks them straight in the eye and she says, "Actually, I've never met her, but he actually spent time with the queen of England." So, she offered to take a picture of the dumb American tourist with the protection officer. So, so far this is good. deerus for yam keepper and queen Elizabeth was the photographer actually what's even more humorous is when I spoke in Sydney Australia in middle of kusra they stopped and they made a misha ber for queen Elizabeth because queen Elizabeth was the sovereign of over 32 countries and Australia is considered a constitutional monarchy now there was a lot of fascination with king Charles III which You may not know that King Charles III fervently adheres to the Minhug Kadesh of kings of England named Charles to have a bris ma from a Jewish Orthodox Maya. Okay, it's a very tradition that they have dating back to the 1700s where all kings of England are given an actual brisma. He his milo was given by Rabbi Jacob Snowman, one of the expert in London. Maybe you could get in on, you know, on on that. I'm not sure, you know. Anyway, here's what I'm interested in. While 4.1 billion people are tuned in to the Levia of Queen Elizabeth, what I'm interested in is Phillip. That's right, Phillip. Philip was married to Elizabeth for over 70 years. He is the patriarch from here on of all future kings of England. Who in the world is Philip in Yiddish? We call him Kimar. He has no royal English blood. Philip was the son of Alice. Alice was married to Andrew the prince of Athens. also a man with no English royal blood. So while the whole world is tuned in to Elizabeth's Levia, I am beside myself trying to understand how did this guy Philip who by the way when Philip was courting Elizabeth the future could not could not be so that at Kim would would marry the heir apparent of the throne. Where did this guy come from? He's the son of Andrew. By the way, Andrew was an alcoholic gambler. He became disillusioned. He left Alice and Al him and Alice should produce um Philip who would marry Queen Elizabeth and now King Charles and from now on Ad Yamo Hamashiach. All future kings of England come from Philip. How is that a topic for the chuva draasha in Atlanta, Georgia? Tough shin pes. But friends, the answer to this question will highlight an idea which is perhaps the most unrecognized and unappreciated idea in all of our avoid sashe. Did anyone here ever have the privilege to visit Maran Kyvki? Anyone here ever go to his house, visit him? Did you get in? You get in. Anyone here ever go to Raim Kyvki's house and not get in? I at least I had to wait. I got there before hours and I had to wait. Now, as I was waiting, there were other Rabanim that actually knocked on the door and were allowed in while I was waiting outside. Imagine if Revel would have come at that moment. While I'm waiting outside, Revel would have knocked on the door. Would Revel have gotten in? Of course, they would have opened the door and they would have escorted him right in. I would hope his daughter would have allowed him into the house. Let's say Rub Aaron Lee Steinman would have knocked on the door. Would he have been allowed in? Yes, he would have been allowed in. Let's say Rub Gerian Adelstein would have knocked on the door. He would have been allowed in also. Imagine if after these three Gdam would have been allowed in, I would knock on the door and I would say as follows. Just like you let in Rebel Yoshiv and Rebers Adelstein and Rear Lee Steinman let Gladstein in also. What a request. What an audacious question. How dare I have the right to invoke these three great luminaries and think that just like they were allowed in, I should also be allowed in. That would be great brazeness. Friends, do you realize that we basically make the same request every single morning before rash and don't we say every day in Misha almighty you answered Abraham at the so answer meu Do you understand the of our request? We're actually turning to the rebunish and we're saying, "Omighty, you answered Abraham. You answered Isaac. You answered Aliu Hanovi Bahara Carmel. So me standing here in Atlanta, Georgia. Why are you not answering me?" And yet we say to God with a straight face that we should be answered just like they were answered. And the reason we do this is because we believe it. We consider ourselves no less important, valuable, cherished and loved by the reban than Abrahamu. That is the fundamental principle of a hashem that it doesn't matter who you are. If you have a soul, if you have an issue, you have the right to turn to your father in heaven and ask him to answer you no less than any great person who ever lived. I want to share with you an idea that I only recently became aware of and it's a very powerful idea, a very enabling thought. What do you think of yourself when you look yourself in the mirror? What do you consider yourself? Do you think you're a sadic? Do you consider yourself righteous or sadikas or do you consider yourself a Russia? Like be honest. What is your personal opinion of yourself? What should your opinion be? What should it be? On the one hand, should I condemn myself? Should I consider myself wicked? Doesn't it say in don't consider yourself wicked? But on the other hand, the Gmorrah tells us that even if the whole world showers you with accolades and praise and says you're a sadic, don't consider yourself a sadic. So what am I? Who am I? What should I how should I view myself? Says Rabina. Yes. Don't consider yourself wicked and don't consider yourself a we view ourselves every moment of our life from the day we're born until our last moment that we're exactly equal. And our next action or our next thought or our next word will determine our status and the status of the entire world. Do you realize how important you are? Do you realize that who you are and the fate of the world and the destiny of the Jewish people depends on your next move? That's how we view ourselves. That's what we consider ourselves. We literally believe that we control the fate of the entire universe. You know there's a little known in don't come late don't come late I always say you know with all the added during you basically have enough time now to say the regular you know now that we add now I just have about enough time to finish let's say you're running late what's the barebones minimum you need to say of zra say should really try to come on time or early to make sure you complete zra it's very important to complete zra but if you're running late the barebones minimum a let's say you have a bit more time what should you add on add on the final halaluca because the garra says there's a great value in completing to him every day. So if you finish the last, the last by completing the last halaluca, it's as if you completed tollim. So you have a bit more time. You say the final halaluca. And let's say you have even a bit more time. This is the little known halaka. You say the third halleluah. Why the third halaluca? What is the third halaluca? Halleluah. Hallelu as hashem and hashemite. The third halaluca depicts man depicts the Jew as a conductor. And he points or she points to the sun. Praise God. He points to the moon. Praise God. She points to the sky. Praise theam. pointing to the sea, to the air, to the animals, to the fish, to the birds. But get a load of this. Do you understand who we're talking to in Zimra? We're addressing very important people. We turn to King Charles III. You know that every day you address King Charles III, your majesty. Forget about your pen and whether you like how it writes or not. I need your attention right now. Hallelu Hashem. Praise God. Me, you are giving orders to the king of England. You're turning to Donald and you're saying, "Mr. President, please stop what you're doing right now. Praise theam. The president of the United States is taking orders from you. You're asking him to stop with his international affairs and to praise the Almighty. You're turning to Putin. You're turning to that guy in North Korea and you're asking them, "Stop what you're doing. How do I have a right? Who am I to address the leaders of nations? Who am I to address the world's superpowers? The answer is you're only the most important individual in the entire world because whatever the abovementioned individuals do, they have limited capacity. They have limited control. They're in charge of their particular country. But it's not like their next word or thought or mitzvah actually changes the fate of all of mankind. But you're more important than they are. As explains, you see the Jew is plugged into the system. And every mitzvah we do or every a we do builds or destroys people city blocks, cities, worlds, universes. The central principle of is there is no one more important than you. And it matters what time you get up in the morning. And it matters what time you come to dabing and how you dabin. And how you speak to your spouse and how you talk to someone else. People sometimes wonder what could I do for the Jews in Israel? What can't you do for the Jews of Israel? There is no one who determines the security and the safety of the Jewish people than each and every Jew. Our actions reverberate throughout the world. Every word you say, every thought you have, every deed you do, it has a ripple effect that ripples throughout the universe. But friends, our deeds don't just ripple through the universe, they also reverberate throughout the generations. You'll help me with my uh Jewish geography. Where is Memphis, Tennessee relative to where we are right now? >> Exactly. >> What? It's right on the Mississippi. Actually, when I was in Memphis, Tennessee, they took me to the Bass Pro Shop to the tallest freestanding elevator in this side of the Mississippi. Yeah. And you could see the whole entire Mississippi River. You could even see Huckleberry Finn floating down the river. And while I was in Memphis, Tennessee, this goes back about 15 years ago, I met an old Jew. His name was a stunning name for me personally. His name was Yeshua KNA. Yeshua KNA. And the reason I was so jarred when I heard the name Yeshua KNA, my grandfather who was a rabbi in Pittsburgh, which is north west, northeast. Okay. My grandfather was a rabbi in Pittsburgh for 70 years. That's a very long time to be a rabbi, you know. And my grandfather was a Holocaust survivor. His grandfather was a Talmud of one of the great Polish gay of the 19th century, Rabbiu KNA. So when I met this Jew, this Jew was named after Rab Rabishu KNA. This man was in his in his '9s and he told me one of the most moving stories I ever heard. He said he grew up in the beginning of the 20th century, in the 1920s, in the 1930s during the Great Depression, and his family was extremely uh poor. His mother couldn't put food on the table. And back in the day, a loaf of bread was 5 cents, a gallon of milk was 2 cents, a newspaper was a penny. They couldn't afford even any of that. Even wealthy business dealers were reduced to going to the street corners. They sold apples. They sold shoelaces. They sold schmatas. And this young boy would buy carts of ice cream. He would buy dry ice. He would go to the highway and where the where the truck stopped at a red light, he would scoop out ice cream for the truck truck drivers. He would make a few pennies here, a few pennies there, and he would give it to his mother so they could put food on the table. He was attending a yeshiva in Brooklyn. I used to say the name of the yeshiva. I'm not saying the name of the yeshiva for obvious reasons. It wasn't the yeshiva's fault. There's nothing they could do, but let's leave out the name. He got called into the principal's office. The principal said, Yeshua, you know, the the went on strike. The yeshiva hasn't paid salary in a few months. Your father owes three months tuition. Your father owes us $6. you and your brother, you're coming in tomorrow with $6 or you're not coming back to the yeshiva. Many, many students were sent home from the yeshiva. A student that was sent home from a yeshiva in Brooklyn in the 1930s does not have Jewish descendants today. That's a fact. My grandfather grew up in the Bronx in the 1930s during the Great Depression. My grandfather would always say in the Bronx there were 600,000 Jews. The intermarriage rate was 70%. Only 600 boys went to yeshiva. Very few people have Jewish descendants today from that area. So he comes home. His parents don't know what to do. They have nothing in the house. His mothers didn't have silver candlesticks. All they owned was a suit. His father owned a stu a suit. It was a lousy suit. The jacket didn't even match the pants. The mother said, "Okay, dad, you're going to take the suit. You're going to go to the pawn shop. You got to come home with $6." So, the father goes to the pawn shop. He shows the suit to the pawn dealer. The guy says, "This is the ugliest, most disgusting." >> Thank you. Disgusting suit that I've ever seen. It's not worth more than $3.25. The father played. He said, "Look, I got to send my kids to school." He walks out of the pawn shop with $6. He never got his suit back, but we took the $6 to the yeshiva and we went back to the yeshiva and it was the best investment anybody ever made. For those $6, my father bought over a hundred great grandchildren who are all Shimra Tyra. And then the man told me, "Ain Hakoen wore eight big day. The high priest wore eight garments. A regular Coyen wore four garments. My father had one garment. And in exchange for that one garment, he bought many generations of loyal Jews." You see, the decisions that we make reverberate until the end of time. It's not only about what happens today. It's not only about who you influence in your immediate surroundings. The decisions you make today reverberate until the end of time. Do you remember the garra? When the garra describes what happens on the garra says the book of the living and the book of the dead are open before him. Did you ever wonder why in the world is God opening up the book of the dead? Hashem is judging the dead onra. Why do the dead people need to be judged? Weren't they judged already? I mean, what are dead people doing wrong? You ever see a dead guy like elbow the guy next to him? You ever see dead people talk sh you know they've done studies on this? You know they they found that it's very difficult to speak lash and hurra when you're dead. Why are the dead being judged annually? They were judged on the last rashana of their life. Not much has happened since then. You know why do we have yizgar on on yum kipper? The mishabu explains to bring atonement for the dead. What do the dead need atonement for? We give saddaka before yum kipper. We pledge saddaka on the high holidays for the mason. What do the mason need from us? What have they done wrong? Heler Yeshua Heler was a student of the he was a student of the student and he offers a very powerful perspective. He paints the picture of a guy a real god-fearing Jew. He was warm. He was caring. He davened Arlo. He dealt honestly in business and he passed away. And in the Garden of Eden, they gave him a nice house. They gave him nice windows, good window treatments, a little marble in the front of the house. They even gave him a decent vehicle in Shamayan. He had a pretty good garden with good landscaping. He had it very comfortable. And then about a year later, someone's knocking on the door. He opens up the It's an angel. The guy says, "Uh, you know, I I didn't realize there were visitors up here." Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You see, um, you're moving. I'm moving. Where am I going? You're going to an upscale neighborhood now. You're going to have like a double lot, a double garage. You're going to have really good vehicle. Now, guy said, "What? I don't have any income. I I'm retired said no you don't understand your grandson you heard about your grandson your grandson he learned how you dav and you should see how your grandson is praying you should see how honest your family is dealing in business so you have residual income so now we're moving you we're taking you out from this location and we're moving you to a better spot and then a year later they move him to a corner spot and he's living in a giant estate says Yeshua Heler because the state of a person is fluid. It's fluid in this world and it remains fluid for all eternity. Because the way you lived in this world, the actions you did, you may be finite, but your actions, your words, your thoughts are infinite and they continue to produce fruits and they continue to have an influence. And therefore says, did you realize that in the Russ we say that for the Almighty to judge even one person, Hashem has to literally scan all of humanity to judge even one individual. Why does God have to scan through all of humanity to judge one individual? And the answer is because everything we do has a ripple effect. The way you dive in affects the guy or the girl next to you, affects the person behind you, affects their family, affects their block, affects the entire neighborhood, infects affects the country, and then continues to reverberate until the end of time. So for the Almighty to get even one judgment on one individual, he has to scan all of eternity. But on the other hand, says Yeshua Heler, if somebody wasn't so careful how they lived, and maybe they didn't take their prayers as conscientiously as they should have, or maybe they weren't as careful with their words as they should have, and maybe their children learned from that, and maybe their friends learned from that, and maybe their family learned from that. And it's something that continues to have ripple effects not only today, not only tomorrow, but until the end of time. And therefore, annually the ribbon continues to judge every single individual. And therefore, yumra is called yoim hakurim plural, not only for the but for the mim as well. R Yeshua Heler says, "Did you remember a guy by the name of Manasha? You know the story of Manasha?" Manasha is the quintessential narrative of Chuva. Manasha is the one who introduced idolatry throughout the length and breadth of the land of Israel. And then he did Chuva. You know about the chuva of Manasha. The usami rec records Manasha was actually put in a pot and they were going to boil him and Manasha did some half-hearted chuva but ultimately God accepted it and Manasha's chuva was accepted. Anybody remember where in Tanakh the story of Manasha is recorded? Anybody remember how many times in Tanakh the story of Manasha is recorded? It's recorded twice. It's recorded in safer and it's recorded in safer it just speaks about the sins of manasha the idolatry of manasha the bad influence of manasha and it doesn't say anything about his repentance and then inim it tells you the end of the story and the end of the day he repented so askishua heler if he repented why don't we record his repentance and say from says rishu Heler cuz at the time was written even though Manasha repented but he influenced the Jewish people to serve idols and the people were still still serving idols and because the people was still were still serving idols the heavens did not accept the chuva of Manasha because even though he repented but what are they going to do about all of the dozens and hundreds of people that Manasha influenced influenced. So therefore the Tyra doesn't acknowledge the repentance of manasha. But then later on in history we read about how old idolattors were eradicated. So now the influence of manasha had come to an end. Only now manasha's chuva is accepted. Only now the Torah acknowledges manasha's chuva because it's not just about you and your deed. You and your deed may be finite in the moment but what about the person who learns from it whether for good or whether for the opposite says of Yeshua Heler very frighteningly he says the day may come we're we're going to want to come back here in this world and we're going to want to make a big announcement hey everyone remember me. Forget me. Forget everything I did. Forget all of my influence. Whatever you picked up from me. We don't want to have to be in a situation where we're going to want to recall. You know, every 3 days I get in the mail from a car that I had 20 years ago. Recall the the you know, the ex the spare tire connector screw is defective. You know, bring your car. I haven't had the car in 15 years, but it's a recall. They're very concerned cuz if someone is still driving around the Ford Taurus from 1998 with a loose screw in the spare tire, you never know that tire could injure someone. Then there's going to be a liability. There's going to be a lawsuit. So you you'll still be getting 30 years later recall on your spare tire. Says Yeshua Heler, you got to be careful. We don't want to be in a situation where we're sending out postcards from some property up there. Recall my behavior. But on the other hand, the decisions we make in this year in this world continue to have repercussions for all of eternity. There was a woman who lived a hundred years ago. Her name was Shiff. She had a magical voice. As a basakov girl, there's not that much you could do. Certainly a 100 years ago with a magical voice. They heard about her voice. Agents came to offer her a lucrative contract to sing in the Austrian opera. So she told her parents, "That's it. It's Hollywood. I'm headed to the Austrian opera. The thing is, if you're growing up in Austria 100 years ago and you're a basakov girl, that's not necessarily the traditional career path of a basakov girl. So, the parents take the girl to the rabbi. There's nothing the rabbi could do. They take the girl to the capishnuts rabbi. He looks her in the eye. He says, "What do you got with the Austrian opera? Why do you want to sing in the in the Austrian opera? Is it the money? She says, "Rabbi, I'll tell you straight. It's the fame. It's the renown. This is my calling. The whole world will know about me." The Reb told her, "Whatever fame a person gets in this world, they'll get somehow. I bless you. You overcome the challenge. You will have a son who will illuminate the world with Tyra. End of story. End of story. The son was Rav Halevi Vasnner. The last pad of the 20th century. The only thing is no one never told him. His mother never told him. Ravdan Seagel found in the archives of the Kahila in Austria that the Russ Kahila recorded the story in the official chronicles. Sir Abdel came to Rebosner. He said, "Did you ever hear this?" He said, "I'll tell you the truth. My mother never told me. All she told me was as follows. She would say learn well. You have no idea what I had to give up to have you. The decisions that we make in this world bear fruit sometimes today, sometimes tomorrow, sometimes many generations later. You're probably wondering, what does this have to do with King Phillip? What's this got to do with Philillip? I'm going to tell you what this has to do with Philip. But before I tell you about Philip, let me tell you about another city, an interesting city. Let me tell you about the city of Ninveet. I want to share with you a very delicate question. You know, in the final closing minutes of Yam Kipra, we read about the story of Ninve. Ninve is the capital of Ashwar. Did you ever wonder for a moment, why is the Almighty sending a prophet to tell the people of Asher to do Chuva? They're Jews. They're not Jews. Yeah, you know, I'm trying to be politically correct, but does God send prophets to the Gentiles to repent? No, he doesn't. He never did it before and he never did it again. What's especially astounding is can Gentiles repent? No. Chuba is not for the nations of the world. It's only for the Jewish people. The med says explicitly the pan we spoke about earlier the in at least seven different all right the gift of chuva was only given to the Jewish people the mechanism of chuva is god is our father a father could forgo his honor so let's say for example you come home at night and your kid's sitting in your seat your kid's not allowed to sit in your seat but if he's sitting in your seat you could say yingala stay. It's okay. No problem. A father could forgo his honor. But a king has no authority to forgo his honor. God's relationship with the nations of the world is contrary to what you may hear in the media or on the radio. God is not the father of all mankind. God is the father of the Jewish people. Banim. We are the beloved children of Hashem. God values, cherishes all mankind, but he is their king. He is only our father. That's the reality. There's not your children are only you're only their father. That's the reality. Chuva was only given to the Jewish people. So why is God sending ya tobe to tell them TO DO CHUVA? WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HAPPENING on yum kipper? You ever wonder about that? says the kuskuni is bothered and the kuskuni says look God doesn't send the prophets to the nations of the world he never did it before he'll never do it again but Ashure was special you see in the year 1996 of the Jewish calendar in Babylon a bunch of bad people group together to build a tower to fight the Almighty and there's a guy there his name is Ashure and he doesn't like what's happening so in America if you see somebody doing something wrong. The common attitude is live and let live. You know, mind your own business. No, if you see something, say something. But Asher, they didn't listen to him. So Asher said, "I'm out of here." So he left Babylon and he built a different city to run away from evildoers. And the capital of his city was Ninveet. And over a thousand years later, God said, "You fought the tide and you didn't want to go along with the rest of society. I'll remember that forever. I'm going to give your kids an opportunity to do Chuva. So in the final moments of the holiest day of the year, the entire Jewish people, my children will declare to the world that I don't forget what people do not aundred years later, not a thousand years later. And the world will hear the story of Yina, how God gave Gentiles an opportunity to save themselves and their entire country and do chuva. You think it's a coincidence that all future kings of England come from Philillip? No, it's not a coincidence. Philip's father was Andrew. He was an alcoholic. He he was a gambler and he left his wife Alice. They had three daughters. They all married Nazi fascists. But Philip didn't like Nazism. So he left Greece and he went to Great Britain and he fought valiantly in the British Air Force against the Nazis like Ashure and he met Elizabeth. Meanwhile, Alice had a good friend, the Cohen family of Athens, and she harbored Jews during the Holocaust. And the Gestapo came to her house and they interrogated her. And she denied harboring Jews, and she saved her life. And after the Holocaust, Yadvashem pronounced her. And strangely in her last will and testament she her final request was to be buried in the mount of olives. And in 1969 when she died they ignored her request. But in 1988 King Charles says you know grandma wanted to be buried in the mount of olives. So they reentered her body and today Alice lay in the most coveted burial spot in the world. She lay in her repose for all eternity in Harazim cuz she stood up against the tide. And she merited to have a son who fought the Nazis and who married royalty and who became the Av of Malus in England until the great day that Msiah will come. You think it's coincidence? Nothing's coincidence. The decisions you make reverberate until the end of time. You could choose royalty for your children. You could choose royalty for your family. It's your choice, but the results lay in your hands. I'll tell you another story about England. Not about King Charles, about Jewish royalty, about the Mashk Ramio Solomon. I heard this story when I was a kid. I could not place where I heard the story. I knew it had something to do with something Ramatio Solomon said when he was installed as Mashiah of the lakeha I was asking around anybody remember a story that Ramatio said when he was installed I called Ramatio's Tal Mak what was the story Ramatio said when he was installed he said he didn't say any story I was there no stories were said I said I'm pretty sure there's a story he said call uh Ramasio's son-in-law Han I call Halprren. He said, "Call my brother-in-law, the other son-in-law." I called the other brother-in-law. He told me the story. But the story Raatio didn't say when he was installed. Ramatio said it when he was honored by the lake with Yeshiva. And when I told my father, my father said, "Danni, I'm the one who told you the story. I wasn't." And Ram's uh son-in-law told me at the event, this is every speaker today, you know, today the speaker's biggest nightmare is are there batteries in the camera? Because it's not I'm I'm going to come back to Atlanta, you know, tomorrow to give this again. You want to make sure it's recorded. You know, all the cameras died when Ratio gave this address. There was no recording of the story. No one remembered the story. It was like, you know, uh, God concealed this great revelation. Story goes like this. Ram Matil is getting up. He's being honored by the Lakewood Yeshiva. There probably a few hundred people there. He turned the whole thing on its head. He said, "You think you're honoring me tonight? You're not honoring me. You're honoring my mother." Nobody knows what he's talking about. Say you see in 1941 the Nazis were hot on the chase to capture Ravaran Culler. Ravaran Culler was in Klesque and Ravar got wind. The Nazis were on his tail and a plan was set into motion by the Vad to save Ravaran either via Eratis or England. It was unclear which channel they would use. And it was during the blitz when the Nazis were dropping destroying England night after night, dropping bomb after bomb, but still they were going to save Aaron through England. They needed a volunteer to sit at the phone Friday night to wait at the phone in the Vadal office in case the call would come in to save the life of Rav Aaron Cutler. People didn't want to volunteer. They were risking their life. A young girl named Etal Solomon, a teenager, volunteered to wait on the phone, Leel Shabis, to desecrate possibly in order to save the life of Rabar Kler says Ramatio 60 years later. The reason he merited to become the mashi of the lake of yeshiva is because his mother like the prophetus Miriam who waited at the river for Moshe his mother waited at the phone to possibly save the life of Rav Aaron and God remembered that and therefore her son became the mashf the overseer of Aaron colors yeshiva Because the decisions you make, the challenges you overcome, they're not just for today. They're eternal. They change your brother, your sister, your sons, your daughters, your friends, your neighbors. They change the whole world. The world becomes different every day because of you. You wake up in the morning and the alarm goes off. We're very important. We order King Charles. We order President Trump. We order all the leaders of the world because our lives are even more consequential. Friends, as important as Jews were a thousand years ago, as important as they were 100 years ago, we're more important today. were more important today in the hakdama to anafot brings the story of a princess who everyone would try to curry favor with the princess and people would try to bring her jewelry and delicacies and the princess would dismiss it. What are you going to give a princess? Princess has everything in the world. But one time there were these sketchy allegations against the princess and the princess was actually imprisoned and thrown into a pit into a dungeon and she had no no food and a person would sneak into the dungeon and give the princess stale bread. And when the princess was released, it was the stale bread that this secret benefactor would give her that she remembered for the rest of her life. says Maran Rabada when the temple stood when the B mikdar stood and God was in his palace boy did you have to do a grandiose mitzvah to find favor in his eyes for it to be memorable to the almighty but soon we're going to say in the melatim God so to speak is in golos the almighty is in god it's not just we who are in America Atlanta is golos Five towns is galas. Bar park is golus. Even Lakewood is golus. And when when we're in galas, the almighty is in galas. And when the almighty is in golas, every little mitzvah you do is so consequential, is so valuable, is so important. It's more important than ever. I'm going to ask you a very challenging question. Who does God love more amanim your greatgrandparents your grandparents or you say I don't know I never thought of that says Schwab we say every morning I have a rabbanu hashem what does the word rabba Rabba doesn't mean great. Rabba means everinccreasing. God's love for the Jewish people is ever increasing. He loves us more and more every SINGLE DAY. AS MUCH AS he loved us yesterday, he loves us more today. When I was a kid growing up in yeshiva in New York, if you didn't pay attention to the gamarashir, you're dead meat. You would have to take out a sino gamarra. You know what a sino is? where the English was more archaic than the Aramaic trans Aramaic. So if you didn't get the Bakama from the Aramaic, you're dead. You might as well have the ox come and give you a sudden art scroll came out and when I was a kid there were two makas of art scroll. My kids have the whole sh and there's with art scroll. Why? So you think it's because we're weaker. It's not because we're weaker. It's because as much as God loved us 20 years ago, he loved us more 10 years ago. And as much as he loved us 10 years ago, he loved us loves us more today. And wait till you see the outpouring of love of the for the Jewish people tomorrow. And if Msiah hasn't come until now, the writes openly Rabba, as time passes on, it's so much more likely that Msiah is coming. And did you know that when the bala blew the cha this rashana? Even though you didn't think it was Msiah, you know who did think it was Messiah? The Satan, he didn't learn from last year. He didn't learn from the year before. It still hasn't been Mashiach for the last 3,300 years. What a fool he is. Now we're the fools. Nobody more than the Sat knows that as much as God loved us last year on rash shana. His love for us was so much greater this year and if it wasn't the of Msiah this year, our chances are so much greater tomorrow. And as much as Hashem loves us, imagine how much he loves our children. May we all be za. It's just a few more steps, a few more adjustments, a few more improvements, and we're going to be very soon to the tremendous outpouring of love of to the Jewish people. I wish everyone