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Journey to Jerusalem Tisha B'Av 2012
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[Music]
TI there are so many words that come to
mind
Aus
mourning
moriman so many reasons for us to be
sad but there is another word another
concept another idea that actually has a
tremendous connection to TSH and that
isim bringing back those who are not yet
in the
fold that's the concept that can bring
mhia that's the effort that can make the
difference that's the one thing perhaps
that can make the difference between
galus and
Gula and we we sit here today on Tish
abov and think of all the Tish abov in
the past but we also think of what has
been happening in the last few years and
the efforts that have been made
inim and how we can possibly bring mhia
closer and closer every year and indeed
use Tish abov as the
springboard to be able to bring Kim into
our focus and into our daily lives and
perhaps bring
mashia the well-known the wellknown
was asked what is the Mitzvah of this
generation what is it that we can do to
bring mhia
closer his answer may surprise you but
his answer is a stir ing example of
something that we need to keep in mind
take a look at this rare footage of this
well-known
Mas
for for
[Music]
they
disaar him
socialism communism and
[Music]
this year's film is entitled journey to
Jerusalem and the title is Not an
Accident journey to Jerusalem that's
exactly what I
did I journey to Jerusalem because yusim
has a special power it has a special
power that injects a certain kadua into
every single Nish some of them who were
completely lost some of them who had no
connection to yish K whatsoever some of
them with their kir of stories began in
the United States or in Canada but when
they got to ralim everything changed
That's The Power of
yusim we've showed you stories in the
past stories about how from people have
gotten involved in kir in the United
States in Canada Etc and all of them are
inspirational but this year we
understand in a new more profound way
perhaps that it is
yusim that really brings it home it is
yusim the home of the Jewish people that
makes such a difference to every single
soul and this year our mour is
compounded on
Tish by the loss of so many gum this
year and most recently the loss of
Ros who of course was the P took the
entire generation of clol on his
shoulders most of you know that Revel
Yos was an only child rosv was born
after 17 years of of his parents waiting
for that little child to come into this
world the lesson of course is obvious
they did not give up hope they didn't
give up hope and look what they got in
kirv it's very much the same way we
cannot give up hope
ever the pus can be
incredible watch listen be inspired
let's begin with an
update two years ago a lot of you
watched AR tiub film wiping a tiar in
which you saw a yungan from man who had
a quote chance encounter with someone
and a lot of people say what happens
afterwards well I was curious too so I
went toam to find out let's find out
what happened 2 years later so you have
um you had an incredible encounter that
some of us us know a little bit about um
from a couple of years ago how did how
did that get started just give us the
framework well the beginning of the
story right the very beginning well as
you mentioned some of you have heard the
story that I was walking outside my
house one evening and this guy in the
bike was riding by and he stopped me and
asked me for
directions so what do you do when
someone asked directions you ask are you
Jewish I'm riding up a hill and I see
this clish guy standing there I'm like
well he's the only person around let me
ask him so here I am go up to some
random clish guy and say do you speak
English he says yeah of course I said
okay do me a favor I'm I'm sort of lost
here can you direct me back to uh
Rockland Community College and he's like
of course but um are you Jewish so this
developed uh you were studying with him
for a while learning with him for a
while and one day you said it's time to
take it to the next level when he came
came home holidays vacation whatever it
was used to come to me for shabas
towards his end of college year that's
that's when I said you know you're
finishing College you don't you have no
planned job yet so Now's the Time I
think you should go to yiva he said
Sydney I really want you to go to a I
said what's a and he basically tells me
you know it's this uh Jewish Education
Program and I'm like H not really that
interested and you know after about 3 or
4 months of persistence uh you know
remind persistently reminding me about
this uh program I ended up here any
regrets nope no regrets no I love it
here it's really my favorite place in
the world is right here in
Jerusalem and this may sound like a um
redundant question but why why was it so
important in your eyes to get him to go
to Yeshiva first of all he's an
environment a Tor environment 24/7 he's
eating in Shiva sleeping in Shiva so all
your friends are doing the same thing
and being away from
home is always is always a good idea or
it certainly helps you grow in
spirituality was there any indication
from his learning that he was ready to
go off 6,000 mil to an unknown foreign
Yeshiva not really but I saw in him that
it's beautiful n and he could every year
should go to Yeshiva how did you feel
it's so interesting when he says are you
Jewish cuz a lot of people are reluctant
to ask that question it was a good
starting point for the two of us because
you know okay if I hadn't been Jewish
what you know I'm not Jewish okay here's
your directions but uh ARA took the time
and uh you know he tried to figure out
who I was a lot of the people who are
watching this today on Tish abub are
saying Arya roid you know he can ask are
you Jewish I I I don't I can't really
ask that question what would you say to
those those people who are not able or
not willing or not ready to ask that
question you can bring people in if you
just approach the subject they can't
hurt to ask you know and you'll never
know that unless you ask the potential
rewards for asking that question are
huge Lum seems to
have handpicked you in some way that you
were the one to meet this fellow you
have changed the course of his life
maybe he found me he was looking for
directions and I gave him directions to
Israel it's certainly a very humbling
experience and
feeling however if one thinks into it
it's scary to notice how many
opportunities we do have every day and
we lose it what would you say to
somebody who is afraid well had I shared
a different story maybe it would have
been a good question had I done
something profound people could say it's
it's not for me I can't do this but all
I done was I said hello and I became
friendly so everyone everyone could
become friendly and build a relationship
and especially if I'm sharing with you
the story that after four years and I've
never imagined who'll go to Yeshiva but
after four years of just having a
healthy relationship and sharing a
shabas and going out together look end
up so I'm sure this should give a push
to everyone that by saying hello being
friendly to people out there you could
change the
world
incredible realize of course it's 2
years since you saw the story but it's
four years since that initial encounter
and now he's in Yeshiva as I say never
give up never lose hope you don't know
sometimes it can take a long time for
those roots to really bear fruit but it
does
happen shabas you know chabas is
something powerful about chabas like
there's something powerful about Yim and
chabas has a power that is
Indescribable often we invite people for
shabas they leave and you think well
what happened nothing
much this is a story it's an ordinary
story it's very simple it's just about
one shabas invitation take a look born
and bred in Vancouver born in
Winnipeg family moved to Calgary then uh
I went to Toronto for University of
Toronto tell me where you met uh Mark
creger Mo and I we met this was in
Calgary I was 13 he was 12 we were in
bar mitzvah class together and we also
went to camp brith in Pine Lake Alberta
together as well tell us about Calgary
and how you and Rafal first met a little
bit just if you can remember that sure
so Calgary very small Jewish Community
there's one Orthodox SCH and I met Rafel
at uh When We Were Young in our 11 12
years old something like that we were
friendly in our early years and then
basically lost touch other than once a
year once every couple years so you you
had a Bar Mitzvah what do you remember
about your B Mitzvah if anything I loved
learning the uh the
ha the Torah reading of which I didn't
realize until very recently we did a
third of the portion because that's what
they did in the the do in the
conservative moment but all this time I
was pretty secular about as far away
from identifying with being Jewish as
you can possibly be but uh again I have
I have memories of this of even almost
feeling embarrassed when I was in Ottawa
feeling embarrassed to be even close to
a Sho did you say that you were
embarrassed to be close to a it was just
anything to do with anything to do with
Judaism that's a pretty heavy statement
you're embarrassed to be close to a sh
as if you're somehow associated with it
it amazes me it amazes me to even think
of this right now of where I was at one
day you get a call yeah I got a call
from him he was coming from Vancouver
and asked if he needed a place to stay
for a few days so um I said you know
with pleasure then I said what days are
you're coming and I looked at the
calendar and um I saw there was chabas
right in the middle of his trip so I I
said to him you know um chabas is in the
middle you know there's some
restrictions involved I don't know if
it's going to impede or impinge upon
whatever you're planning to do and uh he
said no whatever it's fine he's he's
good it's fine I said okay fine so so
you'll spend Shas with us he said fine
I'll spend shs great so he came was my
being himself and being a regular shabas
or was he trying to get you in it's uh
it was just it was laidback there was no
pressure and I got to see you know you
get to see what it's like it wasn't like
talking about why I should believe in
God or talking about why I should love
this it was actually experiencing
Shabbat being immersed in it right and
realizing that uh this is nice it's
beautiful now it's easy to look back and
say this is an interesting story but at
that time just regular shabas fine and
then he leaves when uh when is this the
day after on the Sunday and that's it
and that's it you go back to your life
everything's the same until when um I
think about two 2 and a half years
afterwards again I got an out of the
bluee call and he tells me that he's
moving from Vancouver to
a and I was uh it's a big move so I I
assumed being from the West Coast he was
going to a kibuts so I asked him where
are you going in
Israel and he said he's looking for
Yeshiva and I said to him what happened
like I haven't seen you in a couple
years and he said uh do you remember
that chabas that I came to your house
about 2 and a half years ago so he said
something that he experienced at our
shabas table inspired him enough to seek
out a r in Vancouver and started his own
quest for
truth and now he was off to Yeshiva toos
ker didn't even realize that he had
played a such an important role in your
transformation so to speak what do you
want to tell him thank you for for
showing how it can work truth be told
this is a
very ordinary story MH it's very
ordinary you know we can show things
that are very dramatic and people are
watching this and saying I'm waiting for
the drama what would you say to those
people who are watching and are waiting
for the drama to unfold and it's not
going to happen this is exactly what it
is right what would you say to them the
beauty of shabas the beauty of the toyra
and the beauty of the lives that we're
living just regular balot you're
bringing someone into that life from the
life that they're coming from which is
to us ordinary and from from their
perspective maybe extraordinary can be
very enlightening for them and like in
this case where I had no idea I was
doing anything making any kind of on
someone it made a huge impact and now is
married had his first child this year um
and uh that's a big Sim your little baby
boy will grow up in a completely
different world than you grew up in how
how does that make you feel completely
blows me away I mean the world he's
going to grow up well that he is growing
up in right now being in Jerusalem of
all places in Israel religious Mom and
Dad religious on my wife's side of the
family all religious as well just uh
completely you know like immersed in
this
uh just I I mean thrilled by it it's I
don't know I mean how how do we get here
yes for me it's like always reminding
myself you know
okay thankful for everything I have
thankful for being here thankful for my
wife my son
and for Mo creger too who did more for
whom you for Rafal Rafal for you I for
sure gained I for sure gained because
now now the kids are asking you know
where where's the next Rafel coming
from I wish I could tell you that it was
an extraordinary story but it wasn't it
is a very simple and ordinary one and
yet out of that shabas invitation that
he had no idea what the impact was look
what you have look at that baby look at
the family living in you're talking
about
Generations just from one
invitation
that's
intuitively we all know that there's a
special power in learning with someone
we understand that we experience it
but sometimes we don't realize how
strong it
is in this story we had to go a little
bit we traveled we traveled far we went
to
yavel it's near Taria we had to see
exactly what had become of this man and
when you see what has become of this man
you'll understand the power of toyra
you'll understand the power of learning
with someone even though it may not seem
like much and you may think what do I
know how can I learn with somebody what
difference will it make let the toyra do
the
job you'll watch you'll understand tell
us a little bit about where you were
born where you grew up and then I know
you went to Canada give us a little bit
of a picture of how it all starts was
born in Israel and in April
1987 uh they left to Toronto Canada it
was a secular lifestyle it was we were
secular Jews we're not connected to any
congregation or any shs all right
secular Jews means many things to many
people so no sh experience no sh no
Shabbat no
casot nothing I I think even for a
period of time there was no muuza on our
door absolutely nothing what did you
like to do as a teenager baseball was
early on around the burm Mitzvah time
all my burm Mitzvah money went on the
Toronto Blue Jays
[Laughter]
that time they won two World Series oh
so it was a big thing I used to go a lot
to the sky do you remember your B
Mitzvah I remember my bur Mitzvah it was
also in Toronto we drove on chabas to sh
on your B Mitzvah on my bur Mitzvah no I
didn't get any Fillin I got noin not
Fillin no I don't think even the name
Fillin was mentioned to me there nothing
Jewish about that part mitz I think and
where does it go to the next step and in
about my fourth year of UN
something started feeling wrong I all of
a sudden I stopped being happy and um I
didn't know what was happening cuz I
liked my studies I liked University I
like the GPS I like the computers I like
the academic world I wanted to do a
master's and a PhD and I wanted to like
I wanted to be you know you had it all
yeah I thought I was going to be like I
don't know Steve Jobs I thought I was I
wanted to be in the high-tech World GPS
Le are you say I wasn't happy but you
describe so many things that you were
happy with what does that mean I wasn't
happy I felt that there there's
something more this it can't be just
that this existence and I wanted to
explore who is leor inside mhm where do
you go where do you turn right so the
first thing I remember I said wait I
have to go to sh something inside me
said when you're going to when you're
going to go to sh you're going to find
the answers there so I always remember
on the way to going to high school there
was a sh Beth Jacob an drill's synagogue
and I started walking and it was like a
15-minute walk I walk
in and I'm not religious at all uh
nothing so right after so I guess
someone caught me caught you know they
saw that I'm there wow a young guy
coming to sh in that neighborhood we
don't want to miss him so the rabbi they
rabbi J cman he invited me that
afternoon for a shabas meal so they
asked me do you have where to eat I was
like yeah my mother's cooking right now
and they they're like wait chabas I was
like I was like yeah she's cooking right
now and I went to Rabbi cowman's house I
ate the meal later on I started saying
okay I'm going to go to the Sho every
every chabas and that was an incredible
year that I met
gring so uh you met leor sometime when
when's the first time you remember
having met him um yeah we met him
through um a program that a friend of
mine started in Toronto to learn with
people in the community once a week the
first impression was you know he's an
Israeli guy he's a big goodlook dude
with the sunglasses he's wearing most of
the time to me it was really kind of I'm
not really sure what this guy is going
to hear from me that's going to change
anything I'm not even sure what he's
doing here I love Woody yeah he was just
a happy guy always sat with me always
used to like Kiss the book and when
before when he picked it up before he
put it down I alwaysed I was like why
are you kissing the book he's like
that's what Jewish people do when you
pick a cph for C you and he used to
always Rock back and forth that I was
like why are you doing that he's like no
that's the way I learned what do you
remember about learning with him what
actually were you learning with him so
he learned you know he wanted to get a
taste of everything um and then one of
the things he I guess was useful for me
but also he enjoyed maybe was the fact
we learned in Hebrew so um you know kind
of he would practice his English a
little bit i' practice my Hebrew he was
the only one that was maybe available
and wanted to also learn with me in in
Thea Ines in Hebrew because I felt I
wanted to learn in in my mother tongue
he taught me everything I mean t
tuna I always used to ask him are you
sure everything's from sham nothing can
happen to me if Hashem doesn't decree
said nothing are you sure my attitude
has always been that you know you want
to share as much as you can of the
knowledge that you have you know a
person's their talents are really their
obligations and so you know we'd sit
there we'd open a safer that was easily
accessible in terms of General
discussion so let's say pavos or
something you know mus or sa for ROM bom
or something like that what what was he
like back then uh you're talking about
15 years ago yeah so I mean his I think
Lor's main concern was you know what
what coming from would due to his Social
Circle you know he wouldn't be able to
go out with a lot of his friends so a
lot of them went out at Friday nights um
he was a bit worried about his family's
reaction what they would do what they
would say and so I guess the challenge
was kind of explaining to him that you
know he can make some minor changes and
and you know incrementally try to
develop things and not be so worried
about that kind of commitment it didn't
stop with you what happened with the
rest of the family with the siblings Etc
so after um I realized that I want to
come to learn in uh in Yeshiva in Israel
and also at that time the family my
family got
closer and that that meant that my H my
home my parents house uh became kosher
uh they put up muot in every place and
after I got married about 7 years ago uh
my
brother um became a BAL Chua you know we
went to visit the leor and uh I guess
you haven't seen him recently but he uh
has a very beautiful family he lives in
a very beautiful
community and uh unbeknownst to you you
were really probably the key figure in
creating all of that how does that make
you feel yeah it makes me feel good
obviously wants to make me makes me want
to continue to to learn with people but
I think the the main thing is it just
one never knows what kind of an impact
they can have on somebody there are
thousands tens of thousand thousands of
people watching this uh here on Tish
abov and a lot of them are very
reluctant to do exactly what you did can
you can you think of something you could
say to them that would make them a
little less fearful or less reluctant
that would say to them that they can do
it too I mean I think the the main thing
the main message that I would tell
anybody is is that it's it's not that
difficult and you don't need to be an
expert I mean you really just need to be
comfortable talking to people and you
need to be able to say you know here's
what I know here's what I don't know the
main thing is to be honest and truthful
that's people sense that right away and
that's what resonates we watched you
interact with these two
incredibly charismatic and gorgeous
children that you have and you must
realize that their upbringing will be
very different than yours you're you had
a bar mitzvah without
filling so you said there was nothing
Jewish about your Mitzvah everything
they have is Jewish what does that feel
like for you knowing that they're going
to have such an unusually different
experience their whole point of view on
the world will be much will be different
than mine and that gives you huge
satisfaction that's real reward knowing
that they will grow up from with with to
with I never the first time I saw a page
of gamar I was the age of
23 the first time I put on filling I was
23 so for them to see p to see SN to see
matah to see the incredible Jewish
calendar with all its what it has to
offer and that I was denied from that
that's a huge reward and you never
know that the next person you're going
to do care of with or you'll smile to
them or even say good morning and and
even an invitation for shabas from from
their kids will come the
next from from that person itself will
be
a that from it's it's Generations that
you're savings that you cannot even see
and that's worth a little bit of an
effort
amazing imagine your udie
Grunwald you're 20 years old you're
learning with somebody you have no idea
what's about to happen and here it is
it's 15 years later and your Kusa is in
yavel with a beautiful family and he's
being M of thousands of other
people that's Kim
too sometimes we meet a secular Jew and
we think you know this guy's got
everything he's got a great family and a
great job and a little money and good
looks everything you know the truth is
he doesn't have everything the truth is
is that we have everything the truth is
you have everything and you have
something very valuable to offer we just
can't be afraid to talk to them we have
to realize that we can give them
something that is
priceless what you're about to see will
convince you that any discussion you
have will be well worth it
I grew up in
Kaa and um I went to acting school after
after uh my service in the Army graduate
acting school went straight to the
theater one of the theaters in Israel um
it looked like a great place to be you
grew up Ina never Shabbat never never
not even kidish nothing one day you find
yourself on an airplane tell us about
that so I got I got the opportunity to
shoot an advertisement in New York and
on the plane I saw that religious scary
lady C rifer so I told my girlfriend
help me here you know it was easy you're
going to sit in the middle you're going
to Smo with her and we're going to enjoy
our trip our flight it was my first
flight to New York 11 hours I so
excited and the problem with my
girlfriend was that 5 minutes after
taking off I mean 15 minutes before she
took a sleeping pill and 5 minutes after
she was like uhoh dead and I was stuck
with that lady for 11
hours and I was very surprised that she
we started to talk one day you're
sitting in your house and everything's
fine and and the rabbitson is coming
back from
Merit and she meets somebody on the
plane what does she tell you she tell me
met an actor on the plane and she met
she sat two seats away from him and F
started talking to my wife he was
sitting by the window my wife was
sitting in the aisle seat and the lady
was sitting in the middle and he started
asking questions a lot of the questions
that he asked that he had were answered
on the flight and he was amazed that all
these questions were answered before
nobody was able to answer these
questions she was stuck with me on the
plane so she had to answer something but
I got to say that her answers were
pretty good really and she was very
honest to say you know what Effie I'm
not God I don't have all the answers I
know a lot of people that can give you
some of the answers and I'm I promise
you that I'm going to ask them for the
answer that was good you know for an
Israeli that is ready to fight what did
that mean to you when when she said that
like she's submitting she's vulnerable I
appreciated the honesty that she was
honest to say I don't know and we talked
we talked about
relationship and Hashem and education
and
chabas that was the heavy part shabus
why was that heavy so when she said
shabus I was laughing I told her listen
that's not you shouldn't go there that's
not me that's not for me I didn't see
anything that makes sense about sitting
for 25 hours with your two little kalas
I don't know this is what I had in mind
and a total darkness waiting for this 25
hours and she said eie if you have this
strict opinion about chabus you
obviously didn't experience shabas the
way it should be so my wife invited him
for a shabas and she kept on saying I
invited him for shabas I wonder if he's
going to ever call and accept the
invitation and sure enough after a week
and a half he
called and he he didn't really accept
the invitation yet but he touched Bas
and he saw how adamant my wife was
him to come for
shabas and he accepted tell us the truth
were you hoping that he would call her
or hoping that he would not call
her I was apprehensive um to be
honest mhm so you weren't so sure that
that would be the best thing I didn't
know I LIF up the chance whatever
happens is going to happen when he did
finally call
what was her
reaction she was happily
shocked uhuh and you apprehensive but I
came on Friday morning and I went to her
house I opened the door and I saw the
stral and the white socks and you know
that the the Funny Pants it was like I
told myself eie are you going to be here
for 25 hours I don't think so the first
thing we did when he came we took him
toas on Avenue so I saw like a nice
yamaka you know kuga and she said no I
think that the black yamaka more fits
for you which means a lot to me cuz this
is the the only yamaka that I wear
really yeah and she bought me my uh my
tit my first tit yeah it was special you
know when he came in he saw the shabas
table was all set
already and that did something to him
like he had to go get his camera and
make a picture of it he was overwhelmed
by by the just a side of the shabas
table he'd never seen a shabas table no
and I told myself
eie give it a chance you know it's one
chabis turn off the phone take it the
whole way I went to Baba people were
shaking my hands and welcoming and
smiling it was a whole different
experiences I ever had in Israel and
these people are so kind and warm and
and they made me feel like home and ding
was great
has a lot of meaning and they were
singing they were dancing they took me a
part of it you know they they it felt so
special and then we had shabas dinner
what would you say to those people who
are a little bit not so comfortable with
this whole uh shabus idea I would
definitely tell them to do it but there
are different everybody has a
different and if you're a nervous person
and you can't do it
do something else today is Tish above
that this film is being shown they're
listening to you and they're finding it
hard to believe that there is
Aisha family in B Park who takes you in
you realize this is not something that
that happens every day they're surprised
I'm surprised I'm still surprised I was
in shocked people ask me why did you
have to do all the way to bour Park
Brooklyn to feel Shabbat you live in
Israel this quel I was visiting this Cel
probably once a year I was so afraid to
come here to to have some kind of you
know conversation with religious people
and suddenly I saw a whole different
Judaism a whole different attitude for
Jud
Judaism when did you realized that this
was something special going on here it's
not some
somebody coming into the
house I think M he stayed here he
learned one my children upstairs he came
down crying and said I want you to
know you have no idea what you
have you have the most beautiful
life that exists out there I didn't know
what you have until this
shabas so I want you to appreciate what
you have
and I couldn't sleep that night I told
myself fie wake up wake up cuz you need
to ask yourself
questions I got a project in New York 4
months after to shoot some kind of
catalog and she heard that I'm coming I
told her that uh that I'm coming for a
few days she said eie you have to stay
the project was cancelled the show was
cancelled and I had two two months a
month and a half off she said eie if
you're coming you're
staying and I went to Baba and I was
learning and I was with her family and I
had K in the morning with her
son and at that moment I realized that I
want to keep shabas after he left back
to Israel almost every day she was in
contact with him almost every day yes
isn't the day today that that goes by
we're not going to say that you have a
mey uhhuh so that's why when I asked you
how many children you have you wouldn't
say how many because he's one of
them is that a is that a fair statement
that I just made for sure really
yes he he learned to become a ID in this
house and this is something very special
to us we feel it like he's is part of
our
family I think he feels like he's part
of our family too
I'm not even thinking about the future I
don't know where am I going to be Hashem
is leading me pretty
good and these people have they have so
much power they have the tool they have
everything that Hashem gave them to show
that this is the right way they just
need to learn how to show it few years
ago she was not involved in this is this
something you could have predicted never
and so she saww in the
newspaper the project Inspire Inspire
was giving seminars in
flush so she went and since then the
rest is history she became trans with
the the limit of weberg she constantly
listens to his
tapes listens to
she
and no saying where where this is going
to bring you realize that for every
riper
family there are thousands of others who
are nothing like them many of them are
watching this film right now many of
them and they're saying if I get on a
plane and an Effie sitting next to me
I'm just going to go back to my safer or
my iPod or whatever it is and I'm going
to enjoy or fall asleep What would what
would you say to those thousands of
people I want to tell
them that they have a gift that they are
blessed all they need to do is just give
it a
chance you
know give us a chance the people that
didn't have the opportunity to
experience
it I felt so angry that shabat that
nobody introduced me of
chabas and I felt like these people this
RI or family they're so lucky to have
it share it with us all the religious
people that experienc Judaism every day
share it with
us and they're going to change the world
I'm telling you they're going to make
Hashem so
happy and we're sitting here
we weren't United you know we're one big
happy family and this is a case of what
happens if we're not
United they have the
power to bring us all together to one
family I think if we all cried like you
crying then we'll uh we'll get
there
man thank you
I tell you the truth I watched that like
you watch that but I was also
there I don't think I will ever forget
the time that I spent with Effie in the
moments that I felt his
Nish it is
unbelievable to think how far he can
come and where did it come
from somebody sitting two seats away on
an
airplane burrow park that's right burrow
Park
bub and today he's learning he's finding
himself his journey to Jerusalem was a
journey that we all can take whether
we're going to Jerusalem or whether
we're in B Park no matter where we are
it could be 35,000 ft in the air it
could be around the corner it could be
sitting with your lawyer or talking with
your dry
cleaner there's an Effie out there who
we all can
touch we've got to do
it you've seen four stories today
stories of inspiration truth is there
are
thousands in past years thousands and
tens of thousands of people have been
affected and been touched by these
presentations you've seen the power of
chabas you've seen the power of toyra
the power of
Yim the power my friends is really in
you that's a power that you need to
harness today yes today on
tiab this is the time that we not only
want to feel inspired not only want to
feel moved but we want to take action we
want to commit ourselves to saying that
we can be a part of the final journey to
Jerusalem
that's what we want to
do and if you have any lingering doubts
or any questions about whether you can
or whether you should be involved in
this we have the opportunity
this to show you a final clip just two
minutes of P
shinberg who's passing we still mourn
during this
year and we see how this God alhar with
his keen understanding of The Human
Condition and his keen understanding of
Yiddish kite explains so simply and so
powerfully about how important this
really
is I'm sure that the rashash Shiva is
aware that the intermarriage and
assimilation rate in America and in
England is soaring it's getting bigger
and bigger today it's something like 40
to 50
sent how important is it for our the the
to get involved is it
our what can we
doer so we're responsible for everyone
course but how how in this da how
important is it does it take on a bigger
as much time
necessitates what about our own
learning I think you can still find time
for learning as
well we can find time for own learning
as well a whole he has enough time for
learning as well what would the Russi
sheas say to the many people who feel
that they don't have the
skills that they haven't been brought up
in the same way they don't know how to
deal with a nonr world they they're
they're frightened to deal with a nonr
world you give him a less you give him a
lesson or two you show him how you
should have a special course for that
think the course how to do what about
those people who feel that bringing
nonform people into their house they
should invite them for shabas and
they're scared because they're
frightened that their children will be
mush from non from people child those
for
shab not
true they want that in cigarettes and
Shabbat in the home
they wouldn't put on
the I don't think so we want to to give
up once a week to sit and learn with
another person what it is if they
learning Lear the other
people not because they'll miss the D
they'll miss the so they make up some
other time they make it up some other
time
yeah yeah time they don't have time to
come to training it's it's a b man what
should one say to
them they can bring one closer
to to do
that you've heard the instructions from
our
gum you've seen the inspiration from our
stories you know what what this is about
you understand my guess is you're moved
you're inspired you want to do something
it's no longer a question of what is
there left to say is what is there left
to
do you want to make sure that you leave
here with something
concrete no matter where you are you're
sitting at home at looking at a computer
screen you're sitting in a Shool in a
bungalow colony in a camp wherever you
may be you have with you a card a simple
card that gives you options options for
kirv all you need to do is take this
card and either click or check off any
of the boxes there perhaps you can learn
with someone perhaps you can be a Kusa
as you saw in the films perhaps you can
just share some of your knowledge with
somebody check that box off perhaps as R
shinberg just told you that we can be
trained it's very easy home Cur of
training means just 10 people in your
house we do the rest or maybe number
three or maybe all of them you want to
reach out to a coworker you don't know
how to do it exactly check off the box
someone from Project Inspire will
contact you you don't want to leave this
Tish abov without some kind of
commitment you don't want to say goodbye
to Tish above and say I could have and I
should have done something this is your
chance to do
it take that card take that Mouse click
the screen check the box make a
difference you can be a part of bringing
the Gula Shala
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an interesting mea which might have
happened over the last 50 years which
remembers
about he REM have to remember that was
it I remember
AA that that the Riva went to a dentist
and uh and this dentist was not
religious he was from South Africa you
know what's his name Dr was was dentist
Miller Miller he from Australia from
Australia he was from Australia he was
not
religious and the rash went to him it
seems he had to have a different things
done on his teeth so he wanted to give
the rash a shot and the Riva did not
want a shot afraid for heart whatever
did not want a shot she said but it's
going to be impossible I have to do
surgery so R said let me just get
into and I'll think and learning and
then do what you want so he wanted 10
minutes or so and then he started to
work and she didn't move a eyelash when
he
finished the dentist called the his
driver and he said I want you to bring
me chilling that's that's a is amiz that
is
fantastic go no she has to say the story
fantastic he asked AA to bring him and
since then he's putting on
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