Caring For Every Soul - Rabbi Dovid Ozeri

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why do i need to respect myself a person has to know that he was created you were created in the image of god what does that mean the pasuk tells us clearly by ivra elohim hashem created man bet salmo in his image otto within our makeup there is a helical there is a piece of in us in our makeup we have similarities for example morality who has morality we have morality reason we have reason free will who has free will we have free will only a human being can know and love hakados and build a relationship with hashem no other creature on earth can do that if you look into the hovot he tells us that man is created with nephesh means that's the headache means that man is created with logic that's the good news but also tells us the bad news that we also have within us the nephesh me the animal instinct there have been human beings who have acted during their lifetime like animals that is the nefesh behami we have to make sure that we have our nephesh has always superseding the nephesh behind me let me give you an example of how nefesh behami works there was two zoologists which are zoo scientists call them what you want who once took on the day of birth two baby siberian cubs they brought them to a zoo and for the day they were born they bottle-fed them they served them three meals a day they diapered them they tamed them for years until they grew to their full adulthood what was the point they wanted now when they are adults let them out in the wild and see how they fear for themselves how will they eat how will they fend for themselves they were pampered from the day they were born till this day and they brought them to the jungle and they let them loose on the first day the first day they caught a deer and they tore it to pieces how could it be because they only have never behami they only work out of instinct nothing else another example somebody once showed me a fascinating a fascinating uh feature on penguins i couldn't believe what i was seeing i see hundreds and hundreds of penguins migrating and they get to the south arctic arctic and it's freezing cold and it's snowing on them and they mate and now the mother has an egg a large oval egg pretty large what does she do with it she places it she places it on the feet of her husbands and there it stays the mother leaves she goes to find some fish to bring back to her husband sometimes she won't be back for weeks or months and the husband is standing there in the freezing cold with this egg on his feet should the egg roll off his feet and touch the cold ice it will crack and the fetus will die and i'm sitting in and watching this and i can't believe it and the narrator is saying during the course of this time till the fetus is born till it hatches the husband the penguin the husband penguin loses 25 of his body mass and he doesn't move he stands there he stands there and then you see a number of them where the egg rolls off touches the ice they could have been there for weeks for months and the egg cracks and the fetus dies and the husband just walks away for us this kind of behavior is suicide for them it's life it's just instinct that's all they only have a nephesh behind me they don't have a nephesh has sickly but we as human beings we have what is called a nephesh hassekli and that never has to clear always has to supersede the nephesh behind me sometimes you see a person in rage screaming yelling throwing things going crazy what is that besides cars what is it it's the nephesh behind me in us it's a terrible terrible thing but the level tells us it is possible to be in total control and absolutely all the time have your never sehli supersede your nephesh and that's the celeb eloquem in us we have an obligation to cause al-salem elokim to shine everybody's born with it's in the middle came even the guy the trick is to get that sedum elokim to shine that's the trick we live in a society today which there's not much nefish has left with the craziness that's going on out there you can't even discuss what they're fighting for certainly not in the base of madrid had a relative that had a child recently the doctor was not allowed to tell the mother of the baby if it was a girl or a boy the hospital not allow it you have to decide yourself what it is my my son runs at yeshiva he called me up he tells me i can't do this anymore what's the matter so i'm filling out an application for a grant a government grant and it asks me the typical questions at the beginning name address phone number there's a security this that and then it is for gender and it has six choices male female and then a bunch of russia tavis doesn't say andrugano so no a bunch of russia tavis disgusting russia davis and the last one was undecided you don't know yet what you are okay could you this is a government form application that you're filling out we live in a march they want to give us grants for our yeshivas but look what you're subjected to it's not to be believed what happened to that sediment what happened to the nephesh it's gone and it should be no reduced to us because we all know the famous mishnah the famous says the following left can anybody rebuke anybody in this society today anybody those that fear sin will be despised truth will cease rabbi said truth will cease this is a gemara that's written a bishop that's written two thousand years ago he's gonna say there's gonna come a day where the youth will disgrace the elderly imagine a daughter will stand up to her mother the mission says the daughter-in-law will stand up to her mother-in-law it was a hiddish in those days such a thing can actually happen one day right but it's in the michigan doorsteps had a meeting with rashiva from lakewood and one of the sheba's last week and he said to us he said we're living in extraordinary times extraordinary times there was an asifa of 20 000 jews for what for what to give coven to the younger light in the country to give them raises to take off your hat to them and then there was an asifa for women 20 000 women come to better better themselves in the from from the world of technology to toss all the garbage out he says where when when did we ever see this he says mashiach is on our doorsteps otherwise how will we survive okay so what do we do about how do we do it the mishnah goes on and says a man's enemy is going to be his own family pane had the face of the generation is like the face of the dog you know they have in central park every year dog owner look-alike contest every year it's a very very famous contest in new york city you go your dog on a sunday morning they take it very serious there's a panel of judges spend a lot of money on this the city panel of judges you bring your dog right and you you vie for you you try to convince the judges that you look more like your dog than anybody else looks like their dog that's i guess pineal door capita kenneth okay imagine so i once told us over to somebody so he bought me the paper he showed me the winner the winner monmich looked like his dog and he's smiling here with his dog he won he got the trophy because he looks like his dog imagine fighting fighting in public problem and to go in the mass public tell them what i look like my dog more than anybody else looks like their dog it's a pele playing where we're living in yes we live in very difficult times so what can we do what do we do about it so there are a number of statements in different gemarat that what you could do today to better your ben adam shabbat that says he who is embarrassed and does not shame back he was insulted and does not respond hear that you're insulted and you don't respond who are you those are the ones that love hashem there should be like the sun going forth in its might undiminished you know i know old story maybe i told you one time had a friend many many years ago and he became more from and at that time the moisture's name was a household name it's a household name and this fellow was newly from and he kept hearing the name ramosha that's when he was why she was printing all the igras maisha and all the chuvas all the modern-day troopers that people needed and uh he decided that well you know what he has to go down to the sun and see who this rabbi feinstein is sunday morning no work he got in his car he drove to mtj and he did this back in the early 70s and he decided that he's going to down rama i should see this man his he went there and the mesa marriage was full uh probably to 300 people happening there and the mizrah had a a lineup of zuccainham he didn't know which one was ramosha and he was embarrassed to ask finally came the end of davening it's he's going to miss the opportunity no who's ramaisha finally built them enough courage to ask the person next to him he says excuse me excuse my ignorance but who's right feinstein he's alright fine scene sitting to the uh left of the arkadish right there virginia he says him he goes yeah it's oh my gosh so what's the matter he says i just gave him a quarter a few minutes ago he says what what does that mean he says he came over to he put his hand out i gave him a quarter he says you don't understand whenever moishe saw a new face in the base of marriage he would go over to give shalom he says what did he do with the quarter he looked at it and he put it in his pocket he said thank you and he walked away he didn't say uh oh excuse me my name is why are you embarrassing me giving me a quarter oh kept quiet good that's one way next time somebody's going to start up with you don't answer bro don't answer nothing the world only exists on those who restrain themselves at the time of quarrel somebody starts up with you and you restrain yourself the world is standing because of you you are holding up the world again i'm going to repeat the game [Applause] his son wants to kill him he's on the run he's barefoot and his head is covered like a novel and he's walking on the side of the road with a few people that are running away out comes and starts cursing him says hey get out of here ish man of blood get out and he started stoning davina melech with david was his general and the general system general is a giants and he says to him he says why my master my mother why should this dead dog caleb met this dead dog sit here and insult my master move over and i'll remove his head it won't take me more than a minute what is david answer leave him maybe hashem told him to curse me and maybe if i keep quiet will see my my child and he'll do good to me so leave him david didn't open his mouth by the way what i think needed needed the general to take him on david tore up a lion with his bare hands yeah he didn't not only did he not answer he was stoning him even maybe hashem told him to do this maybe i need to be cursed hashem will see my my my side and it'll be good leave it unbelievable i once swore i once saw a modern day david america something like this i was in one of the busiest streets in flatbush and there's never parking there and somebody pulled out and a yeshiva man got the parking and went in him and his wife got out all of a sudden a jewish lady from nowhere i don't know how from she was but she was jewish came and smacked him across the face and his hat went flying says how dare you that was my spot and and and his wife this man's wife that was with me i got out she wanted to kill the lady she picked up my hand and her husband said shh i won't say anything don't say anything right and he told his wife let's go the gaiter and the dry cleaners who's been there for years and she many many many from she has many many from clientele came running out and she screamed at the lady she put her finger to the lady's face and said how dare you hit a rabbi you never touch a rabbi the goiter he told the woman and this man didn't say anything it was a very busy friday afternoon in the street he picked up his hat he brushed it off put it on and he walked away with his wife right because of him the world existing says there was that one obviously was a great man who used to walk and say over the following fortunate is the one who hears his shame hallow fairb fortunate is the one who hears his shame and doesn't answer because the next 100 misfortunes that would have come his way will now pass him by isn't that amazing imagine somebody starts up with you and you don't answer the next 100 misfortunes that was supposed to come your way will now pass you by that preparation so come on holding it's unbelievable all right i want to tell you a story about rep sushi the reason one of the reasons why i was in he gave everything away whatever money came to his hand whether it was salary nazar by time he got home it was gone his wife used to go crazy from him okay one day he realized that he needs a new pair of scissors he needs a new pair of seat seat where's he gonna get it for he has no money he doesn't take money he started saving he started saving would they have done pence there was a penny ruble pants pens my pens my pens my pants they say it took him over two years to save this money to buy a piece of wool to make a pair of citrus is now gonna he finally got enough money he bought a beautiful piece of white wool gonna make appearance it's this you need the tailor to cut the hole and then to make the holes in all four corners so this is a ceremony time for a tish they invited everybody the whole town to watch the taylor cut the hole in the census was a big thing everybody came to the base of edrish of zusha proudly takes out the piece of wool and the tailor is there and what does the taylor do he lays it out he folds it over once he folds it over twice and he cuts the hole now rabbi said you tell me you don't need to be a tailor if you fold it once and you fold it twice and you cut the hole what's going to have when you open it you have two holes and they picked it up and everybody was shell-shocked everybody guessed like the tailor from his nervousness of doing this in front of everybody he cut two holes instead of one and rav zeus looked at it and he caught himself and he said no let's dance and he got everybody up and they're dancing around the base of madrid so it's such simha they stopped the rebbe remy what's going on mainly you don't want to kill the the the taylor what are you dancing for what's this big simcha here so i'll tell you why he says all that time i was saving money thinking it was to buy a new pair of succeed that's not why i saved the money now i realized i saved the money to be tested in the in everything there is out there in kaas in disappointment and i caught myself and i was with gabe and for that i'm dancing and he made a dance at the base of madrid it's unbelievable unbelievable the tailor became a hero and that's what he did good okay what's a good way to better our our ability recognition to the other person you see the hazals it's a little bit scary it's scary there's a hazard that says in shimotra madrish whoever opens up a door for his friends more than to your mother and father that's very very difficult to understand whoa i'm rehearsed to give him more kavod than my mother and my father wow you know the story of elisha elisha did to me look over the story quickly me was a woman great woman she was ishage she was from sunam and the navi and the shah used to pass by and she created for him in her attic a bed a table a chair and a candle and whenever he passed through he stayed by that attic one time when they were leaving he says to his gabba gahazi go get go get the lady she had no children navi didn't know that he called her over and he said to her is there anything i could do for you she said no he said listen i have a meeting today with the miller i can get anything for you is there anything you want she said no i sit amongst my people it's that good to be in the limelight not good to be noticed leave me and then gazi tells us about she has no children there's no children it's brought down over there that rosh hashanah when he answered that question it was rosh hashanah and the appointment that he had with the king was and he told her next year this time you're gonna have a baby and she had a child and that child was growing it was a young boy and it went to its father in the field one day and he says roshiro she my head my head he had a bad headache he said go to your mother and the baby this child died and she took the child back to the navi and said this is the child that you gave me and he did take to my team on the child so it says over there that he did on the son of isha namit and not on his own forefathers why he says because ishashu namit gave him gave him a ab he said for for bigger favors whether it's our parents our teachers and then the hazard goes on and says if somebody does you a favor and you don't give them the proper coverage there is no bigger in great than that imagine somebody holds the door open for you and you don't have akalata talk to him and you're not ready to be mechabedum right how long do i have to have this hakarata tofu for how long the answer is forever i tell you called in a talmud an older talmud of his from the yeshiva and actually was his gabba one of his godby he called him in he says i want you to go get me this talmud and he got him and he told this talmud i'm going to send you money to tutor such and such boy in the yeshiva go find him and i want you to learn with him so he did it and he came back to rashad says why am i learning with this boy he's a maturing he was in the high school in ponovich and he's a mitsuyan shah says it doesn't matter give him more whatever you could i pay you every rosh hardish rashaq finds out he sent him a check he didn't catch the check shock calls him down once you get your chi says robbie i can't take money from the shock to learn with a mitsuyan i just can't do it he says you have to take the money so i can't take the money you have to take the money another one a month went by and he didn't catch the check again shaq calls him down again and he berates him what are you doing you have to take it away he says could you please tell me what's going on he's okay i'll tell you he says about 60 years ago when i was in yeshiva i owned one shirt one shirt and every friday i went down to the river and i washed the shirt and i hung it on a tree and i sat there till it dried in the sun and that was it one day a lady came down to do her laundry friday and she sees me sitting there without a shirt on she asking what am i doing why don't i go back to yeshiva i told i can't i'm waiting for my shirt to dry why don't you bring another shirt i don't have another shirt it says so that lady went and came back and she bought me a new shirt now i had two shirts one for shabbos and one for weekday like finding a great treasure yeah okay he says this boy is her great-grandson and i have to have she's long gone but i have to have hakarata told her for what she did for me she bought me a shirt without 60 years later 60 years later and he finds out who the great grandson is it's in the yeshiva and he's paying rashad was not a rich man that i could tell you okay and he's paying unbelievable i should i tell you how rich of shaq was should i tell you when he retired from giving sheer right he was too old one morning his son comes home from da his grandson comes over down he lived with his grandson he says come let's get pack up and let's get out of here pack up and get out of here where we going he says i can't stay here so why can't you stay here he says it's not my apartment it's owned by the shiva i realized i don't work for this year anyway i don't give a anymore i'm staying here it's gazelle let's go we're going to go i don't know we'll go to you shall i and we'll find the room we'll do i can't stay he's arguing and we're arguing him arguing with him finally he convinced his grandfather to go ask the shailer to one of the reshivers in part of which i forget which one so he went to rasheeda i can't stay in this d-ra it's not mine okay i don't have money to pay rent i'm gonna get out of here so so she asked him you come to davening to the toshiba he says yeah do you answer sheila's after dave and he says yeah that's enough that that's just okay okay that's your pay you have the dear from the yeshiva you can live with that he says you're possibly he says yeah i'm positive as long as i'm going to be on me now you know how rich for shock was that he had money to pay for this for this baka every month right can you imagine another way to better ourselves another way so that's another way is judge everybody favorably who says i have to down there i will says i have to judge people favorably the torah says so yes judge your fellow man righteously says that not only to judge in court doesn't mean he writes included in this but it is do not interpret that person's deeds or his words only let off regardless of what it is and favorably the famous story of every shabbos we walk home from shul and there is this yid that lives down the block you go the other way you don't see and he waits for us to come out and he lights up his cigarette and he's blowing smoke rings at us right ai the jew so ladies is really yeah okay shabbos came above labia yitzhak went with them he worked with them and there's this jew and he's blowing smoke in their face and rav levi yitzhak says to him must be you don't know that today is shabbos says rabbi boy do i know what shabbos i only come out here to do this on chabas of course i know it's shabbos he says must be you don't know that it's us to smoke on chabas of course i know it's awesome i can even tell you the password of course i know and he's blowing smoke i don't believe you suck so i believe your success tim oh i know what it is then they thought in those days smoking was healthy he says must be you're not well and the doctor told you you have to smoke a certain amount of cigarettes a day and uh it's passion fish says rabbi i'm healthy as a horse okay you can't imagine give me something to do i'll show you how i can do anything revlon picks up his hand says he says no matter how hard we try to get this man to lie he won't lie look at your people how far does it go have fun and he meant it he meant it he didn't say it to go down in history but he meant it can i control my emotions 24 7. could i do that yeah can i always have a karate tour can i always be done everybody in the cab zakut and i'm sorry to inform you that the answer is yes because if the torah categorized it as one of the todd yagman's vote then you could do it tada did not give us a bizarre that we can't fulfill it may take time you may have to work on yourself you may have to learn a lot of musa yes but it is possible it is possible am i over on the first thought i see somebody driving a car chavez oh my that's the first thought am i over no only if it's lingering says meaning to say oh must be he's driving his wife to the hospital to have a baby that's the second thought right then you're okay okay but you have to know that it has to stop immediately love your friend like you love yourself what does that mean says the baal shem tov how would you want to be judged so too you should judge others how do you want to be judged that's how you have to judge others you have faults you still love yourself let's face it we love ourselves we wake up in the morning we look in the mirror god's gift to mankind yeah we love ourselves yes this despite your faults despite your shortcomings despite all that i still love myself i love your friend like you love yourself because when you're constantly hoshed when you always suspect of the other person you become a negative person i'll tell you it's true story my sister story a five-year-old boy came home from school and his father is when he learned and he tells him i learned to d book the book he was parker the father he calls up the father calls his brother who happened to be a negative person and he says you're not going to believe this shlami came home he tells me today five years i learned to d book the uncle came running home running over and uncle's trying screaming we have to get rid of this teacher who is this what's going on over here crazy the d book right is it the impossible machine what kind of school you send them to okay they call the boy over it says tell us exactly what you learned you said leave the d i learned would the teacher tell you about the d book what are you with the teacher telling me about the d book we learned the a book the b book the c book and now we like to d book ask before you jump before your crochet be done have a little hackathon for the teacher it's my sister did you hear that again like yourself do you know what this means meaning that tonight is a 800 million dollar lottery i didn't buy a ticket i'd rather save the two dollars okay now wait imagine one of your good friends wins that lottery tonight 800 million dollars you have to feel good for him as if you want it that's how you that's me let's take it on a smaller scale okay there's a big raffle right the shul they're raffling off a new tesla this happens by the way all the time now ravel of a new tesla okay and they're there when they pull the ticket and they said uh joe cohen wins well somebody runs the gold joe cohen you won you when i won i can't believe it ten minutes later they find out that it's joe cohen's first cousin who's also joe cohen well the first joe cohen has to feel good for him as if he won it can we do that huh don't answer the boy goes and he's by the sinai and he's wondering why and then why isn't the cena being consumed the bush the burning bush and he goes you know what the midas says and hashem comes and talks to him tells him take his shoes off how long was he there by that snare the mattress tells us seven days leave me alone go send whoever you are what do you want from me i don't want to go shep doesn't know mushroom read the madrish if you don't go then the jews are never getting out of mitzrayim now you're going no if you don't go they're going to be enslaved forever now you're going to go no moshe if you don't go there will be no ma'am i will not be given now you're going to go no moshed do you realize that if the torah is not going to be given i'm going to turn this world back to 12 now you're going right wrong no i'm not going well you know why i can't go because i have an older brother on and he's right now the leader in it's time all these years while i'm in median right and my brother may feel bad therefore i'm not going so let your brother feel bad for a few minutes we got three million people thinking about him it's lying we got to go receive the ta-da no no no it doesn't work that way the ends of the justified means no no no no i'm not going and only to like who told him sees that you'll proclaim the leader he's going to rejoice in his heart only then did moshe bennu agree when he had that guarantee from our goddess radical then he agreed and look at the greatness of maharan he was the leader for 40 years adam he was he was loved by everybody he heard his younger brother is going to be the leader and he rejoiced in his heart for him okay we have to emulate aharon that's what we have to do we have to cultivate and emulate that attitude of happiness at the other person's good fortune it's a very difficult thing today in abu dhabi because we live unfortunately amongst the um and it's a very selfish society out there do you realize that our declaration of independence says the pursuit of happiness what does pursuit mean pursuit is redeefa do whatever you have to do to get what you want just do it don't worry that's the pursuit of happiness that's not our pursuit of happiness our pursuit of happiness is to make sure the other person is happy now seven of its votes says you don't judge somebody favorably it's as if you murdered them i said shahaya two base yakov girls were on a bus a city bus and there was a from lady sitting behind them and one girl says to the other could you believe it this surah got engaged last night to this great girl and they start talking about this sarula what a loud mouth what a slob she's so bossy and she got this guy we can't they kept talking the lady behind them got up to get off the bus and she taps her on the zone she's girls i'm so happy i met you on this bus i overheard your conversation that boy happens to be my nephew i'm going home and telling my brother to stop the no no please what do you do no no no no no no thank you very much for the information she says no no you don't understand us and they started giving excuses when we said that she's a loud mouth means she can become a great speaker when we said that she's a slob we meant it artistically when we said she's all bossy she has leadership qualities please please please no i'm sorry girls this goes over thank you very much as she's stepping down from the bus she turns around says girls it's really not my nephew but he could have been be careful why do we have to talk about other people look what it could do it's destruction absolute destruction is not only a medal but but i want to spend the last few minutes talking about a man who we all knew but we really didn't know okay and who loved every jew on this earth his name was urizor yep or he's art we're familiar okay the greatest baal chuva of this generation may be the greatest baltimore since rabia akiva actually he was really ricky about this if dude started at 40 years old he started at 40 years old yes started 40 who was he urizar back in the 60s and the early 70s he was the greatest comedian movie star broadcaster producer the greatest icon of israeli entertainment that's who zohar was he was revered by the entire country born in israel in tel aviv no religion no clue to religion the the entertainment industry was dominated by a few names and he was the kingpin who he's are he'd get on stage he'd have to stay anything and the entire audience would burst out laughing but not only was he a comedian he was an actor he was a producer he was a broadcaster and he made all kinds of money he built the largest villa on the mediterranean ever that's where he lived and in that villa he entertained all the who's who in israel israel that this was their poster boy he went around the world he met presidents and kings and prime ministers chancellors who this person was he was the darling of the state of israel he knew nothing about frumkai he hated from guide you know it says rabia akiva once said before he became akiva he said if i see a talmud i'll bite him like the donkey bites like the donkey bites yeah because the donkey bites and claws down and doesn't let go right breaks bones that's what i would do that was urizard you never saw tamiyah in his life what happened or gets invited one day an old friend of his became religious and moved to islam and he invites him to a family simcha uri says why not i'll go he was a very nice person besides all these horrible things that he was involved with he was a very nice person and he went to this and it was a very very weird experience for him seeing all these religious people who he was never around and a rabbi walks up to him this is the first time in his life he's face to face with the talmud ravitzhak zilberman there was this ravioli was famous and after he made the silverman system of learning said he was a black hat he had 18 children and he lived in a small apartment and urizar said in my eyes it was majorly depressing who wants to be around this man the man approaches me uh or he's our yeah and he asks me the following what if i prove to you that there is a leader to this world and the torah's emit will you observe the torah and i'm thinking to myself i'm a very educated person he was he had a college degree he learned philosophy literature history he says this black hat rabbi is gonna be able to convince me so he said to the rabbi rabbi you you you are you're saying you're talking about you said the word proof if you could prove to me you're talking about faith faith can't be proved what he tells him he says well i can prove it to you will you observe if i prove it to you he says if you prove it to me then i won't have a choice because he knew that he can't prove it to him he says i'm an honest person and if you actually prove to me that i'm living a lie i'm living the greatest life there is out there but if you prove to me that it's a lie then i guess i'm gonna have to observe he said okay he says i won't have any choice but to change okay and the rabbi tells him the following he tells him first uri tells him by the way you know that torah is only a bunch of ancient myths and man-made laws that's all it is that's what they believe right the rabbi told them suppose you're right and let me tell you about some of these so-called ancient myths imagine there's an old man a grandpa on a saturday afternoon sits down to write his grandson a letter all right and two people walk in and they say listen if you continue writing that letter we're going to take you outside and stone you that's case number one case number two you have an old bubby sitting and knitting the sweat of our granddaughter on shabbos and two witnesses walk in and they say listen lady if you do two more stitches we're gonna kill you now are these people these so-called winners gonna are they crazies he says of course they're crazies they're out of their mind i told you these are man-made laws you people are insane because he says okay now you told me you learned literature and philosophy yeah it's okay did you hear that he says of course i read about him did you ever have rashi of course i read around him and named this few more uh before shimmery shiny you heard it yeah i heard this i heard that one i read about them so would you just say they were great people yeah my money was a doctor a philosopher there rashi he says well if these are man-made myths right if they're if they're just myths and man-made laws by a bunch of crazies why did they spend their lives expounding on it expel why they spend their lives expounding on it and giving it over from generation to generation it must be godly so he thought for a minute and he said you know i got to think about that i'll get back to you zuberman gave him his phone number he called them back two three weeks later obviously it was gnawing on him and he says i want to meet with you and he came with all his proofs on evolution on whatever nonsense he had from college everything and he comes to this rabbi zoom and he says that he has a debate with him and rabbi rabbi this rabbi zilberman disproved them all from evolution to all the nonsensical research that he made and always said i realize i'm in trouble i'm in big trouble what am i going to do now i made a deal but i don't want to keep the torah right it can't be it just can't be he went home and he studied more and then he called up the rabbi and you know what he told the rabbi he told the rabbi like this he says listen rabbi i got one question let's say i agree to keep the mitzvot what is the minimum i need to get into that place that you keep calling all i'm about and the minimum to stay out of that place that you call gehenna i don't need fur i don't need box seats i don't need front rows the bare minimum what do i need to do this doesn't bare minimum i'll tell you what you need to do he says you need to eat kosher get up in the morning pray for 10 minutes eat kosher make barakot and on shabbos you need to get up dive in just a little bit more a few more minutes eat goods and sleep the whole day right that's it he says that's all i got to do he says that's all you got to do and you're in okay these conversations led one conversation to the next one to another one to another one to another uri zohar realized hey he's living a lie and one day he got on stage with yamaka and sitsis and his opening line was always how do i look today or am i beautiful today and everybody burst out laughing this time they were roaring they thought it was a joke sis is right they were laughing their heads off and horizon was serious and one thing led to the next before you knew it he gave up on this great career and he decides he's going to sell his villa and move to sarat skin saratska can you imagine okay it took time it took time and he was in the middle of making a big movie then and the question was he's going to finish the movie he's going to stop the movie oh all to do at the end of the day urizara became rav uri zohar he sat and he learned torah for 12 years he was there to be a kiva of the door do you know that till today there's something called uri zohar day in israel they show all his movies in one day he's still an icon do you know that he bought back a million and a half dollars worth of reels of his movies he couldn't buy everything back where about a million dollars worth and he brought it to the city burning the chamets he says what's uri during what is he burning he says there's old movies he's burning rabbi scheinberg went and made a big rikki that would have a big dance with him okay he burned it you imagine okay urizawa for 12 years sat and learned malayalam rav shah called them down after that 12 years and he told them enough for yourself now it's for the seaboard you have the gift of gab it's why do you go out we're going to start level that's how it started and you're going to be there with them and you're going to go from the ian from city to city he opened up the first city he went was hold on and they said urizar is back on stage everybody's going crazy uh audience a room that holds 500 people 2 000 people showed up in hold on right and they thought he's going to be on stage again and he handed out a questionnaires to answer after he finished talking to them he had hundreds of pages if they what am i going to do with these we got to answer all these questions and they opened up centers in every city in israel he brought back hundreds of thousands of people he loved every single jew what happened to his friends he had a friend eric einstein eric einstein okay eric einstein was his best friend he was a composer he sang music and they were best friends they went to elementary school together high school together college together army together they loved each other def inseparable well when when when urizard became he thought it's just to be a fair he'll be back soon right well he wasn't back and after a year he wrote a song about uzusar my brother you left me and it became a famous song in israel okay what happened to this areek he couldn't get him urizor couldn't get him he got everybody couldn't get him but he got his wife and kids and they ended up getting divorced okay this ireek got divorced his kids we came from two of his children married two of urizora's children imagine they became okay but he never changed now but i i want to i i want to read by the way after four years of being from the outside i got to him a little bit and he said you know what maybe i'm fooling myself maybe this really isn't for me let me go back a little bit he called up one of his friends he said i want to come over his friend invited everybody over from the industry right or is coming where he came with his yarmulke and his scissors and he says after five minutes i couldn't believe it the deja vu here i am sitting and listening to the nonsense all over again what are they all talking about soccer politics who has what how much money you have what substance are you using he says he says i walked out after five minutes it was a party for me i walked out i realized that i have a purpose in life okay what happened to all these people hashem yeshua and what happened to all these people their names shmuley krauss was an actor what happened to madan he served time in jails for possession of guns yoram kanyook these were the big names he married a christian and he denounces judaism to misladapnim that you should not be listed as jew alike einstein my best friend yeah he went to the grave with no jewish connection what did usual do for these people he says when eric died 10 years ago he went to the lava it says he saw all his old friends there everyone was more miserable than the next they didn't know what happened to them they were famous all of a sudden the young took over and they're nobodies one's in jail one's taking drugs one dies from overdose he says kaddish for every one of them on their your site he loved every jew no matter how low you were he saw potential in every single jew every single jew you know i used to go for level when he when they would come to america on fundraisers and i would go with orizon and we would speak at different events we once went on a boat in the new york harbor with 30 millionaires for dinner and he's going to speak and i'm going to speak so they called me up to speak first so i said with permission of uri zohar i would like to tell a joke so urizawa says well if you want to hear from amateur go right ahead okay he still had his sense of humor throughout his life rabbi say i told you about that mansion he built where did he end up living at the end of his life he sold his apartment on surotskin because he needed the money maybe 10 years ago he needed the money to support his kids in coyote right his kids were teenagers by the way his wife it was a night before his wife was divorcing him she said she can't do this they were living in the mediterranean he got up in the middle of night he couldn't sleep k9 says his wife was reading a book he said what are you doing right they're going for a get that morning so she said i picked up this book you were reading it was a rambam right and i don't understand it she was a very intelligent woman i don't understand it but it must be important i'll stick around i'll go with you for the ride okay and she stayed okay she stayed their children were teenagers took a very long time to get them to come around but they all ended up in qatar okay he sold his apartment where did he go another street near sirotskin there was a apartment that at the end of the hallway had a maksan it was for sale the maksan the storage room okay was what what did they say was 75 meters or something he took that storage room and turned it into a studio apartment i was in it right before covert i went to visit him the happiest man you ever saw i told ravori what did you do here he goes what ma so what am i missing look let me show you he's sitting on a you can see pictures of it sitting on a couch up against the wall right he says look to my right i have my swarm to my left i have my telephone he said look he pulls a curtain there's two beds behind that curtain right and at the end of the room there's a little tiny kitchenette with two burners and a little refrigerator he says ma what am i missing he says here's my table he's sitting in front of the table oh my god bruce's come they sit at this table he says he didn't tell it to me but he told to somebody else he says listen first i lived in the mediterranean in a big villa then i lived in a nice-sized apartment on sriracha now i live here i'm only preparing for our final apartment it's getting smaller and smaller and smaller okay that's all i'm doing he's preparing for the final resting place it's not smaller than this and he was and he meant that he was the happiest man you ever he never took a dollar from him never took a salary never took a dollar from him he was the happiest man rabbi said how did he die did it be akiva vador he had in the morning and he was waiting for the next kavusa to come he came in killed over over his gemara okay that's how he died with his gamer in hand how did his old friend dies how does his old friends die overdose in jail who knows what okay but here's the man who if you're talking about the hafta he is a man if you're talking about about the heaven if you're talking about if you're talking about someone who caused who who caused their telemetry to shine it was this uri zohar we could learn from him and we could take the heart everything that we learned tonight it's been salim now it's a three weeks if there was ever a time to put these things into practice it's now and we should be amen you could show your caring for every jew by sponsoring a share of industry retirement and bringing their business to tyra to them to everyone who's joining in not just people who came but everyone's listening on the phone and watching through the stream and i'll listen and watch in the future by calling irrigation retire donation or 718-851-8651 one of the remaining shirom of the summer or email ist at yeshivani.com [Music]