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Today I am privileged to be joined by
Rabbi Hashi Klyman, author of many
popular books including a brand new
volume called Living with Hashem on
Hashkahus. How are you Rabbi Kleman?
Pleasure to be here. So nice to see you
again. Thank you. Uh we've still
enjoying your previous books.
Uh we're here today to talk about your
newest right living with Hashem which is
on the topic
of I know you've covered many topics
over the years in your books in your
speeches and so on prominently which is
something that you brought so much
inspiration to. Thank you. And today
you're very focused on hashkah which I
think every from is on some level but
you've made it almost like a campaign of
yours. talk about what got you into it
and then what people will gain from this
book. Okay. Ironically or not ironically
but Hashka Prates is the way I got into
Hashkah. Uh about 12 years ago uh I was
contacted I think by Jonathan Rhoden
Bloom I believe. Uh he was putting out
the first volume of CL
perspectives and he asked me to write an
article. Uh but at that time my
daughter, you know who that is, uh was
getting married. Mhm. And uh when I sat
down to start to write something and
then we had an interruption and I I
called him back and I said, you know, I
I my head's not there. My daughter's
getting married in four or five weeks
and there's just too much going on. I
won't be able to do the justice that I
thought it
deserved. And oh, the topic was the
disconnect
uh that exists. In other words, Hashem
Cly is wonderful doing mitzvah and
learning to and this and this and but
there seems to be a disconnect. Okay.
And through the years I kind of noticed
it that there was this disconnect when I
would go to different communities speak
in different places. It just you get the
vibes that there's a disconnect. Well,
what what do you mean by disconnect
between one and one? Okay. And Rab Va
Miller is very big on this. an awareness
of uh
hashkis and of spirituality in the
world. In other words, we do mitzvah
almost in a vacuum. And we do the
mitzvah. We wrote almost the mitzvah.
That's an it's an old thing. That's many
things written about that. But we kind
of don't connect with the fact that the
aisha is here. It's funny as little kids
we all know the song but when we become
adults and we stop singing we lose focus
and lose sight of that particular
aspect. Now less one say that that's not
a part of amun but the truth is the ram
says that it is and levenstein and all
the big bala the bal have written about
it for many years vulva was very big on
this and it's something that it kind of
got gets lost in the shuffle and again
we're doing a magnificent job arch gold
is part of the region because of all the
wonderful swarm that they make available
to everyone in their language in in the
mode in the way that whether it's in a
book in
English they're able to get into the
medish into the gam the uh the agata
there's so many things that does to make
all the swarm and and the hashkov
available and if I may mention yes over
the last few years I've observed let's
say just in the world of art scroll yes
there's been a
proliferation of books and on the topics
of especially especially correct and
that kind of dovetales perfectly with
your focus on on correct right that's
correct so people are now uh aware of it
it's not all the way back here in their
mind and this is not a criticism it's
you know I I speak in the shool that
that uh you know every single shabas in
Jackson and that's correct and I was
once uh I mentioned something and
somebody came over to me and says, "Oh,
that's Musa. People don't like to hear
MS." I said, "You're absolutely right."
I said, "But let's just give it a
different perspective. You know what MS
is? M is that we are
unbelievable in this day and
age of each generation. You have to look
at the generation. We are unbelievable.
Call yourself. Unbelievable. Can you
imagine people that have so much more to
be able to accomplish and they may be
unaware of that or the strategies, the
tools, the vehicles. Musa to me is
you're wonderful and you know how much
more you can accomplish. You know, as
greater you can be for yourself, for
quality yourself, bring that's like
Wahhabil. If I said, you go over to a
wealthy guy and you say, you know what,
I've got an unbelievable tip. Now,
here's what you need to do. You need to
sit down with an adviser. You need to
read a couple of uh I don't know,
portfolios and and and rearrange things.
It'll take a little bit time, but after
that, you'll be on easy street. So,
somebody wouldn't say, I want to hear
what you have to say. So Mus to me in my
mind it's not it's not pointing out the
it's pointing out how
wonderful each person is
aim each
person we're
called we all have unbelievable
abilities which the gave us let's
utilize it to do even more
so that's kind of like from where where
we're coming from to just make people
aware of the that they're focused on
amuna. Wonderful. That's great. And it's
helped. You're right. And now let's
point out some of the aspects which they
can connect with to enable them to go to
the next step up the ladder. So in
practical terms, what does this book do
for the reader? Okay. So first we talk
about in the first chapter be assemble
talk about um how each individual has
has within them the ability to do
unbelievable things and often times the
abilities are dormant. They have not
been tapped into. Uh just like again in
so many different areas I I mentioned in
in building wealth. What about child
rearing? If somebody would have told me
things that which I still don't know but
which I may have recently read but if
somebody would tell me that you know I
would say wow you know what I could have
I could unbelievable what I could have
been able to accomplish. So it's it's
just a focus of of uh bringing again
making people aware of certain things
and and uh you know trying to get them
to connect with certain concepts. Now
let's let's go back to the drawing
board. Okay. Hashkah hashka for the
layman out there. Okay. What what is
hashkah? What does it mean? And how do
we apply those concept to our life?
Ashkahus means
everything,
everyone, every place, every moment is
provided
by every moment. It's not like God
pressed a button and then he went out to
lunch and it comes back and oh good,
he's happy to see that the world is
running. every moment without the aa in
effect willing that moment there would
be to vivo there'd be darkness and and
the bus would fall off the rails. So
it's the fact that which means that
every moment has spirituality embedded
within it because if the
aub is so to speak willing each moment
that means each moment comes from our
now we don't see things that way for one
basic reason if it was so clear then we
wouldn't have and we would have we
wouldn't have
reward with the whole reason that the
aister in effect really created us. It's
because
right and like discuss that there's
cause and effect. That's correct. Them
put into the world a system and that
camouflages his omnipotence and his his
his running his running of the world
everything else right is for us to be
able to find ways to connect with that.
So everything the fact that I even
decided to write this
book theim that I may have looked into
the people that I met I'll give you an
example. Okay so we started Thursday
night in Jackson a couple of weeks ago
we'd like to have a vad we call it a vad
uh with the people living in I live in
Whispering Hills. So what do we do?
What's the VAD? So although it's the
beginning of November and it's a little
bit cold, but there's a fire pit in
someone's backyard and they bring food
uh the first week. But yeah, someone
bring a guitar and they're hanging,
chilling, whatever they call it. I'm a
little bit older than I was going to
say. Yeah. When I walk into the meeting,
the mean age goes up like, you know, 39
years, you know what I mean? Um and then
I say to them, ask me whatever you want.
Fire away. There's no topic. I'm out
there to talk about the Pa whatever you
want. Whatever you want to talk about
and we talk about absolutely primarily.
Yeah. Everything. So the first question
the first week which was a wonderful
question
uh how do we understand what was going
on in Israel with the the the he crimes
and and and the slaughtering and then
the little babies.
So right away my first answer
was if I recall and I believe this is in
the end of the book they told us Aaron
had said after the marone tragedy that
we
say we do not
say right away off the bat it's not for
us the thoughts are the depth is very
deep and quite frankly I would
never think that I know how you guys do
the wonderful things that you do because
I might be a bright guy. Maybe I am,
maybe I'm not. We can debate that. But I
never created something like you guys
have which is what you do is
unbelievable. So no one's created a
world. You know what I mean? So
the so we might want to have some
insight to understand how we should
react to things. But to suggest this is
this makes sense. So that basically what
I told him and then we started to talk
about somebody asked me a different
question. We started to talk about
Ashkahas. So one guy says to me I have a
great Ashkah story. I said so let me
hear and let me I'd like to share that
story with you and with the people
watching this. Okay. He told me that
when he was 19 years old, uh, one long
Friday night in the winter, he was
sitting on the couch and he was going to
be
right, but he had the whole night to do
it. So, he's sitting on the couch and
he's thinking to himself, should I get
up? Should I do it? N, you know what?
I'll get up. and he picks himself up,
goes to the other end of the couch where
the humish is next to the uh small table
next to the
couch, gets the humish and sits down
there at the other end of the long
couch. 10 minutes into his being mobed
the
cedra, the other end of the couch where
he was lying down with his head at top a
pillow at the end the other end of the
couch which happened to have been right
next to the wall of the dining room
which had a floor to ceiling mirror.
The mirror all of a sudden 10 years
after it was installed comes crashing
down right where his head was on the
other end of the couch. He is over here
shook
up. Everybody comes running in. Are you
okay? Are you okay? He's okay. A little
bit shook up. And then he kind of
collects his thoughts and he realizes
had I not gotten up to go be maded when
I did then I still would have been lying
down over there. By the
way says that someone's
there you go.
When I looked at him I said we got to
get this one into the book. Uhhuh. So
this is a couple of weeks ago literally.
So I've uh suggested this story going
over with my wonderful editor from Mko
Bzan the next couple of days and I'm
going to substitute that further because
that's a remarkable remarkable story. So
you know tell me if I'm wrong. I think
there's there's somewhat of a misnomer
that
Ashkahus is where things work out the
way you wanted it to or things you know
kind of there's always a happy ending.
Okay. Really in essence in
principle is telling us of Hashem's
control of the world regardless of how
things play out or how we feel they
should play out.
said
that does not mean just because the
abish is doing it does not mean it'll
work out the way you want to right now.
Okay, I'll give you another idea. I'm
not talking about because I know is a
separate discussion according to the
shittas that hold that if you have
proper on the very high level you could
actually you know bring bring about a
cause. I'm not getting involved in that
in that conversation.
So there are different ways to interpret
the meaning or to define what it
means also means it takes a whole
lifetime which means it'll be good now
we won't necessarily see the good it's
more than this is what the wants the
is a total mive a perfect mate and
therefore it'll turn out well for you.
It may not turn out well right now. And
the book is Hashem will have uh at least
125 stories. I got a whole bunch of
great
stories. I ain't going to say it now
because then let's hear what what's your
best one? Give us Oh, I Okay. So, one
that comes to mind is a story with uh
with uh his name with Mosha
Salvich and uh he was a very wealthy uh
timber merchant and all of a sudden in
the days of he loses his money. They
convened a court because this guy was a
real real good person, you know, he get
stuck and everything. How could this
have happened? What? He lost all his
money suddenly. So by the way when he
lost his money with a very bright guy he
sat down and he started to learn he
wound up uh becoming a member of the
bezden and they convened uh uh I guess a
bezdon for the lack of a better term to
understand what happened and the only
conclusion they reached was he gave too
much stucker supposed to give a certain
amount and he gave too much
so said that can't be so here is
someone no longer has his uh timber
business. He's learning. His kids get
into learning and his son
marries daughter, I think it was. And
then he becomes the beginning of the
brisk
dynasty. Lost at the time look
terrible. Could you imagine if you say
to someone, okay, 30 years, 20 years, 50
years, whatever it is, wealth, but you
won't have that. That's the way the
worked out. You got to read the story in
the book to see why that but that's the
so yeah the gar that says that the word
ms is spelled alf me to first letter of
the hebrew alphabet the middle letter of
the hebrew alphabet and the last letter
the
word three letters relate to each
other this is also in the
What's the hasha behind it? So there are
several explanations. I'll give you one
which is in this particular day in the
book. She
abounds. You can find it. They're all
there. It's all over the place. Okay.
That's corporation,
right? MS. If you want to get the MS,
you got to go from the beginning. You
got to know the beginning of the story.
Mhm. the middle and you also have to
wait for all the way at the end and
you'll find out the MS. It might take a
while. If you look at the olive and the
mem you won't get the MS,
but you've got to go further and you've
got to go further and you have to give
it time to develop. I would I would add
that we're not always in our lives to
see the tough, right? It's not always
the case. We
are asked the question of sad later said
if I tell you to answer I have to
dismantle the world. So again it's the
aish world he created the world nobody's
done it. So
so
now having said that now let's take a
step back. So we understand it but we
understand it
intellectually says was called a mime.
So, here's what I told the seems to me
and this was at the beginning of the
war. Seems to me that if I had to pick a
generation that I'm familiar with, I
would say our generation we're like,
we're mim
100%. But m of course we're like it's
it's a tough nut to crack.
Yeah. our gener take a look the
generation bened unbelievable I remember
over 50 years
ago my rebi once gave I may have said
this the last time I was there I don't
remember and he changed the smoo this is
because of someone who was went to rebi
the week before said I'm having so much
difficulty the the yam no wrong coming
up and I'm feel I'm not good enough and
then like uh you know what I mean I'm
I'm I'm being mi I'm giving
up says please don't ever do that. He's
not the only one but that's the one that
I can recall. Please don't ever Jews are
never supposed to give up. So changed
his to
say that we have to do
chadic. You know something in our
generation the people that are watching
this now I must tell them they're all
sadikim sadikim. Are we perfect? No. But
that's we're down here and the a created
us with the don't forget that sodic
falls seven times but he still called it
sadic.
So as I think what was missing in so the
stipler on says it was
a yeah he understood it he learned about
he understood it but it was it was an
intellectual
concept we know what all the bal say the
most important thing is it's got to you
internalize it yeah you got to
internalize
So how do we internalize
it is being chased by his
son and
yet he should have said
lamentation if it would have
been but now that it's his son wow
that's the reason for a mismo so the
obvious question is that's not a reason
for a mis your son premeditate So Rabion
I says an unbelievable shot. He said of
course it was a difficult his son is
trying to go after him to kill him but
he saw it was so unusual was so out of
the ordinary when things happen out of
the ordinary we see clearly. It's like
when miracles happen we also see clearly
yamm. Wow did hey you know what
happened? Can you believe it? What
happened was wow that is remarkable.
Wow.
Oh, my daughter became a and you know
how you know what happened? She wow that
is remarkable. Okay, you know what
happened? It was an accident. But then,
wow, that's really
Oh, we're not to miracles, but what we
are to is
the moments. And just
like because he saw so
clearly, he was so happy. He knew that.
No, when you know the is with you. You
have
hope. You know that the the big ofay
he's with me. He's not a he's mish. He
is the director, the producer. He is
doing everything. All the little
moments, the nuances, all even yes, even
the difficult part. There must be a
ronius reason otherwise he would not
have willed it now for me. I want to
point out you mentioned Rabbi Miller
before Rabbda Miller. Um one of the one
of the things Rabbi Miller was able to
teach
Kalis was that we don't have to wait for
those moments to recognize. Maybe Rabbi
Miller more than anyone else in our in
the previous generation in our time was
able to highlight the presence of duram
in every facet of our lives from our
health to our sustenance and so on and
so forth. The watermelon, the potato,
yeah, the apple the apple so on and so
forth. That was that was really what
what what his message was. Um, so, so we
don't have to wait for the for the abala
moment, you know, we don't have to wait
for the tragedy and we don't have to
wait for the for the miracle to to see
the yashm. We really could see the
absolutely right. But you know
something, just like the ordinary
moments happen, the out of the ordinary
moments happen so frequently.
That's how I'm able to have 125 stories.
Stories. It just takes it's a question
of recognizing. Yeah. I I've got so many
in my family. I'm sure you have in your
Here's an example. The Thursday night
story where we got around not to talk
about that. Wait, then then somebody
else said, "Oh, I have a story with my
grandfather who was in the Russian army
and and I got three or four stories just
by people getting together." It's it's a
function of being aware of something. If
we're aware of it, then we start to look
for it. And if we start to look for it,
we begin to notice it. And when we
notice it, we internalize it. And if we
internalize it, we move up that
proverbial ladder where
was and were able to reach the heavens.
We're able to connect with the Right.
Right. I would I would mention we're
talking about
um I think in the last years, let's say
the I I'll bring up one story, the story
of Khubashkin specifically.
Interestingly enough, and I think he
lives not not far from you in Jackson.
His story his story is in the book also.
It is. That's correct. At the end, but
but wouldn't you agree that his story
resonated so widely with people because
they saw the tangibly someone who lived
it and still lives it and uh and how he
was to the Yeshua and it it gave people
a lot of in that in that fashion. Right.
Right. Right. Right. We we have the
story with the when President
Truman recognized the state of
Israel and the State Department was
against it and how did it happen? So,
President Truman had a friend Eddie
Jacobson who was a non-religious uh
Lower East Side Jew who moved in 1913 to
Kansas City, which is where Harry Truman
was living. They went to school
together. They fought in World War I
together. They started a habadasherie
store for three years. It wasn't
successful. They went their different
ways. Harry went into
politics. Uh Eddie Jacobson did
something else. And in 1948, Harry
Truman is the president. And but the
State Department wouldn't let anybody
talk to Harry Truman about recognizing
the state of Israel. So somebody
remembered that there was this year.
Wait, didn't President Truman have a
friend, a Jewish friend, Eddie Jacobson?
Yeah. So, they contacted him. He calls
up the president. The first thing the
president says is, "But we're not going
to talk about the state of Israel."
Eddie Jacobson says, "Fine, but can I
come see
you?" People did not want the president
to see him. He said, "He's an old friend
of mine. We started a business together.
How can I not see him?" Mhm. And he
comes to the White House and Truman
Hashkah brought this happens to have a
bust of I think it was Andrew Jackson on
on the table behind him. Eddie Jacobson
asks President Truman, "Who's that?" He
said, "That's my
hero." Jacobson starts to cry. He said,
"Well, I have a hero, too. Who's your
hero?" Cam Whitesmith. Would you please
speak to Cayenne Whitesmith?
Well, I mean, I can't have my one of my
best buddies crying. I'll talk to him.
He talks to him. And now, that's not
that's only one aspect of the practice.
The other aspect was in 19 uh I forget
the year. It's in the book.
Truman was down and out. He was
depressed, had no job. He was down and
out sitting in his mother-in-law's
kitchen. that's also in the book. And
somebody calls him up and says, "We need
someone to run for the local congressmen
in in would you run?" And some, you
know, one of these powerful men in the I
think in the party, I don't remember,
says, and I'll back you. Truman wins.
And Truman becomes years later the
unlikely vice
president of Roosevelt.
So Truman getting into politics was all
because he was down and out with no
future starting to get depressed.
There's so much hashtas in this. It's
like and and you go wait I mean this is
remarkable right? So it's Hashkahus is
all around us.
Yeah it is all around us. And I think
today I you're you're older and wiser
than me. Um I think I'm I'm older. I I
have more gray than you. That's correct.
I think one of the tactics of the today
is that he makes us so busy and so
harried that he doesn't allow us to stop
and see what's in front of us. Like you
were saying, there are moments that are
obviously
uh orchestrated from above, but uh Yates
just keeps us on this this this
this
deal that I'm older, but I'm not that
old. That was the deal in Mitraim. Keep
them busy. Keep them busy. Keep them
busy. By the way, the title of the book
is living with Hashem colon and in
smaller living with clarity and
connection. We don't have clarity
because the HR sends so many obstacle
there's confusion. If we had clarity, we
would see clearly and it's all in front
of us. It's just a function of being
aware that it exists, taking a step back
and noticing. It's almost being mindful
every moment of take a look what's going
on and now now that uh we're we're in a
war right uh cl is is is engaged you
know people are tuned in they want to
know what's going on Israel that seems
to be a tremendous wave of chuva and
people recognizing the more than in
regular times which is interesting also
people are recognizing dashka you see
people who are putting on putting on sit
is soldiers who are who are recognizing
the adashem and so on and so forth. It's
it's definitely an opportune time wars
and difficulties trials and tribulations
uh when Israel seems to be to come
closer not the other way around. It's
it's somewhat counterintuitive because
people would think sometimes when they
go through difficult times it would push
them away but on the contrary we're
finding that people are drawn to their
spirituality and drawn to their
abundance level. So this is the Mishna
the
Bash and we are definitely without a
doubt in the by all accounts of in the
current generation in prior generations
it's really like the
leader there are difficulty there's
immense pain I mean go back we've had
covid we had the marone tragedy we've
we've had a whole and And then we had
this. So I'll I'll tell you another uh I
guess Hashkah brought this in a
way. In February 1960, this is also in
the book. Revelon told his students the
following. There was an earthquake in
Morocco. 5,000 people died. And Rella
Leon told his students that just because
it happened hundreds of miles away from
Israel, don't think it's not a message
for us. That's the
garbus
peron. He said it's not that we're we're
not at fault. Don't misunderstand the
but it means we're supposed to take it's
a message for us. Why? We have to do
cha. That was the
message. I'm in
shul and this is right before
Russ. And then I tell the I said, "You
know that the largest earthquake since
February 1960 just happened in
Morocco. 3,500 people died. 5,000 people
were injured." And I said to the week
before
that's if were around now. What do you
think he would tell
us? Let's fast forward. We have to do
chuva. The Rambam says that if we don't
do chuva, be called an azour. It's
cruel. The obvious question is you're
not an azour. I might be mindless. I
might not be focused. Why call me an
ala? And the obvious explanation is
which some of them are far from
say there's an obvious message. Knock
knock knock. Who's there? Would you
please get up and go answer the door? If
you would answer the door, you would see
what you need to do. And the Rambam
says, "And if we don't do Chuva,
there'll be more turus." That's the Lion
of the Rambam. So here I am right before
Osana and I'm telling you I love what
Rella Lopeon said in February 1960 and
guess what we just had an earthquake a
couple of days ago the largest
earthquake in the same place if Rabella
Lopeon would be here now what would he
say mindful of the Rambam that if you
don't do Chuva you're an Aza more
terrorists will come and then a month
later we have this war in
Israel so here I am after the war and I
repeated what I had said that time. I
said, "I don't know what's going on. I'm
just telling you what Revelan said. I'm
telling you what the Rambam said and I'm
just reporting the
news." But you see, if if we start to
connect the dots and we recognize the
Ashka, everything happens for a reason.
That's what Ashko brought. This means no
such thing as coincident. Truman
becoming president, how he got into
politics. Eddie Jacobson, his friend.
Okay, I all the stories this guy being
Mava Cedric gets up decides to be Mava
Cedra just then 10 minutes later that
10year-old
uh mirror falls it's not it happens to
have happened to have happened
everything happens for a reason and
everything has a spiritual aus lesson
whatever it is even if things do not
turn out well okay Rabula was stuck in
Sweden for eight years
right after the war and this is also in
the book and there was no minion rabba
said this is the same thing who was
learning with his father the Jacob who
goes to
Mitraim can he say well this is terrible
where's no dash brought this he goes to
mitim we all know the story right he's
in jail come
down don't you see even the difficult
parts in a person's life if we're
mindful that this
is the only does. Now we have to process
it. There's no doubt we have to process
it because we're human. We're boss of
Adam. But our conclusion really if we're
focused and if we're well educated and
inspired by the whole concept and the
stories, we'll begin to see that
everything happened. So, yeah, go ahead.
No. So, I I I So, here's what I want
people to do. That's what I was going to
ask you. I know you I know you want
people to take you you're you're on a
mission. Yes. You're a man on a mission.
You didn't just write this book. You
told me before we started this interview
that you really want this book to be um
I don't know if the right word is a
roadmap. You almost want it to be a
guide to people to do something, to take
action, to apply it. How how do you want
people to implement? By the way, that
that always seems to be the uh the
genesis of of all the books of all the
books that you've read
the
but this happens to everyone. This
happens to everyone. It happens to me.
It happens to you. It happens to me and
my family. I'm aware of many of the
incidences. It happens to me in the
place that I go, Jackson, of some of the
people there because they related the
story, except we're unaware of all these
things. We're unaware of the things that
happened to other people and we're
unaware of the things that may happen to
ourselves. Can you imagine the gold
mine? I I have one of the days in the
book is called uh turn dirt into gold.
Could you imagine the mundane? When I
say dirt, it's like it's nothing. You
know, you take the, you know, there's a
little dandel on on my shoulder. You go
like that. Take the mundane like what's
embedded in this moment. There's nothing
there. Be aware that as Sashkah brought
this to turn that into gold and we can
all become closer to the Aisha. Now, I
want people to keep a diary. It's not my
suggestion. In
1984, Ramosa Ramosa Feinstein Kamineski
suggested I found this in one of the
wonderful art school books. Okay, I
think it was uh Ra Sutton of the Blevi.
I found it in a footnote. I was waiting
for Ma to start one day. There was a sa
I picked it up. I start reading and I
said husk the aunts and don't you see
that's an example
husk and do the minion they had nine
guys usually mean I sat down and what am
I going to do so I picked up a safe the
safer happens happens happens to have
been there with that safer wait I happen
I had like a minute because the tenth
guy comes in I I happen to have opened
it up and I'm looking I'm reading the
story I'm going wow oh I didn't know
that not only that I find Doctor of
Katsk Levenstein used to suggest to his
daughters to keep a personal journal and
he would incentivize them practice. Can
you imagine if everybody started to keep
their own journals which meant they
became more aware of it. They would
write it down. They would write down and
their kids would keep the stories of
their own Ashkahus. And could you
imagine and I'm going to suggest it in
the book that people email to me their
stories right now. The addresses
vanitila.org v a n like in no i t like
in Thomas e f i l l ah.org O
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well if the story is a really good one
which means and it's relatable we'll put
it in a book you'll have your story in
an Oscar book we're working on trying to
incentivize with a raffle for
wonderful gift certificate I don't know
yet we're in the process of doing that
can you imagine and you would have this
of helping thousands upon thousands
Thousands of people see
dash which is one main aspect of a by
the way you know every day we
mention because that's the aspect of and
that's more important for us to remember
and to relate to and to talk about than
the fact that the aish created the world
not mind as I don't remember exactly
this is also in the book so if we can
help claw Israel to focus. We can bring
everyone. That's what the says the gula
comes. We rely on the aster. Now if we
recognize that he does everything, then
of course we will dive in and rely on
him. That seems to be a main part of the
recipe to bring kahula.
So this is like a wonderful
opportunity to get everyone to focus,
get everyone to internalize, get people
to connect and to bring gula. Could you
imagine? They'll say, "Ah, which
generation was the one that brought the
goula?" Yes, that was the one that
brought the goula had all these amuna
and ben books and everybody started to
read it. Not just Arkll, but everybody
to their credit. As I mentioned before
the Salom Kim people they started the 1%
they started to connect and they
enhanced that connection because they
started to
focus and they
realized it's
a it's here for the taking. Mhm.
I think there's no more opportune time
honestly for this book and this topic
than now and that's and that's also but
you're you're the to bring this message
to the public at this time. uh people
who are going to read the book that they
they won't only be inspired by the
stories, they will be inspired by the
messages which they'll be able to take
with them because it's not just about
stories that happen to work out nicely.
It's about totally I think right it's
really about reshaping the way we look
at everything. But I do want to mention
I've got a couple of chapters on dash
when things do not work out to explain
it. Right. I have um uh a chapter about
people that go through difficulties. And
it's it's all about just focusing on
what's going on whether we recognize and
it works out in our best interest at the
time or even if it doesn't, right?
They're all
opportunities literally tailorade. I
have one chapter about you mentioned how
I'm sort of I'm not doing one part of
the puzzle. No, that's the emis are
doing their part and everyone is going
to be doing their part. There's one long
chapter in the book about and you're
tough kid. Everyone has a purpose. And
the way I explain it, some people say,
well, you know, who am I? Can you
imagine somebody gave you this big
beautiful puzzle and they said hang it
up in your living room. Now the puzzle
has a lot of details. There's the
building and the colors and the foliage
of the trees, the beautiful kite and
everything the plane and then the top
part of the picture has got blue sky. If
let's say one small piece of the blue
sky, the nondescript what what is that
part of the picture doing? It's a
nondescript little blue sky. If that
piece was missing, would you hang up
that puzzle? Big beautiful puzzle. I
wouldn't. People come in and go, that's
an incomplete picture. Everyone has a
tough everybody helps to bring to the
world brings a
dunos that says why one person has this
mission and that that's not for us. He
said it's also in the book. The
maramokum is there. That's not for us.
But what's clearly for us, I have my
mission, you have your mission,
everybody else has their mission. And we
might think that my mission is not as
great as yours. But guess what? The a
don't make mistakes. And if he created
each individual because he holds that
person is worth it to be created. On
that note, Rabbi Kleinman, thank you for
this magnificent book. Thank you for
this message, a reminder of Dashkah
bratas in our lives. Um we appreciate
the work that you put into this and we
appreciate your your general inspiration
that you provide to cla. Any final note
before we wrap? very kind and I
appreciate the fact that I have partners
who take the next step always with
literally with excellence and with
perfection as much as a human being can
do and who helps claim it's a team
effort the credit goes to the truly
rabbi and the rest of the art and it
goes to the readers who then internalize
and they'll hopefully send back their
By the way, when they send back their
stories, we'll take out any personal
information that they all want. Don't
worry about it. But we can really help
to bring the gula. I really I really
feel that. A main Rabbi
Kleman, thank you again for coming in. I
appreciate your time. Thank you.
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