Learning From Hitler ?????

Okay, so you can't come to Austria and not talk about arguably the most famous or perhaps I should say the most infamous Austrians of all time and that of course is Adolf Hitler. And now think about it. It's strange. If someone were to ask you to picture the greatest villain in history, one of them, you probably wouldn't imagine a short, awkward, physically unimpressive man with no military brilliance, no extraordinary charisma in his early years, no wealth, no pedigree, and very few natural advantages. Hitler was rejected from school twice. He lived in poverty. By every normal measure, he should have disappeared into history as just another forgotten nobody. [music] So how does a man like that end up changing the course of all of world history? The answer is simple. It's because he was relentless. Once he believed in something, there was literally nothing stopping him. Every setback only made him more determined. Every obstacle pushed him harder. Now obviously the evil he devoted his determination to was beyond words. [music] There is nothing admirable about his mission, obviously. But maybe just maybe one of the messages Hashem wanted us to walk away with from the life of Adolf Hitler is this. Stop thinking that you need perfect circumstances before you can change the world because if Hashem wanted to destroy European Jewry through some unstoppable empire, he could have done it through an emperor or a king through a billionaire with massive armies at his command. Yet instead, history was altered by one socially awkward, insignificant-looking man who simply refused to quit. And maybe that's supposed to shake us because how many of us spend our lives saying, who am I? I'm not famous. I'm not rich. I'm not connected. I'm not smart. I'm on meds. I'm just one person. And that's what we tell ourselves the greater part of our lives. But why do we still think way? History already proved what one relentless person can accomplish. [music] Imagine if that same relentlessness and that same relentless energy was devoted to Torah. Imagine if you refused to give up on becoming a Imagine if you refused to stop until you built that worldwide that you've dreamt since your kid. Imagine if you refused to stop inspiring Jews. Imagine if you attacked your mission with the same stubborn determination that Hitler attacked his. Who's stopping you? Maybe the greatest obstacle isn't that we're weak. Maybe it's that we've convinced ourselves that we're ordinary. History has already answered the question of whether one relentless person can change the world. The only question history hasn't answered yet is what will happen when that person is you.