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Khal Bnei Torah Dinner 24, Rav Cynamon's Shul- Rav Meyer Yedid "The Power of Chabura!" Guest Speaker
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it's a
great tonight to begin the
program and I just like to explain in
two
minutes first of all why we have to
start on time and finish on time and
what's the connection to this great we
have to have our to
here I was uh yam and I was working in
y and I was asked to
um make a connection with
RAB pich to connect him to come speak in
the Yeshiva it was in the camp at the
time so when I called him up he said he
doesn't really know about
terima at that time he didn't know about
the Yeshiva but he told me a V and I
think it's very appropo to hear he said
to me we the posic says
you should look to be to to connect to
from theor DARS
malem means
Kim so you have to look for a rebi who
has the who has the
mid and the the attrib the attributes of
a
Mal
but told me that's not
the says
so that's you have to know someone who's
completely completely not selfish
devoted completely to giving over that's
a Mal but pavari asked that's not the
pus of the C the ptus of the C the
simple reading is Mal what does it mean
so if you look in the radak and the msud
Mal means
a it doesn't mean a Mal like him a him
Mal
is a the is Mal so RAB pavari asked so
how do you know if someone's
a how do you know if someone's a of hem
so he answered and he
said when you see his
tal and you see somebody's has
and has a lasting
effect that's
a that he's a of because you can't have
a lasting
impression if it's lacking in the
connection of
SE so a few years ago ra did called me
and I came to his Yesa and then I also
came to sh at the time of the of
I was
floored the beik I came down the
downstairs in Shion hundreds of people
being at
night it's something
mindboggling I walked out from the
Yesa there were B all stripes and kinds
and after I finished byki they were on
top of me with more beos with more
rutson with more yearning to connect to
Theus that where I saw those and
those I knew this is a
who's and that's why he's rushing to get
back to give his sh that he gives every
night in the sh I don't know how we
was we're a good sh and we're doing a
lot and we have
tremendous and we're
also we're also created
a a of which is like a lighthouse of
showing to to the whole world but it's
in
that it's my privilege to
ask to give us
some thank you Rabbi caman for such a
warm
introduction it's it's a big to be here
you forgive
my the truth is I came here on a night
that I'm quite busy I'm between a few
things but when RAB caman calls me I
have no choice but to
come and I'd like to explain
why I'll give you an example
Temple that happened just
this Friday
night we're having
a for my daughter got married last
week thank
you and I'm sitting
with my new
son-in-law it's a
beautiful that actually came from a
Yeshiva and one of his cousins
it's not so I wouldn't call him a
Yeshiva
boy not from the family of a Yeshiva
family and he got up to
speak and he spoke with
such strength and and so I turned over
to my son-in-law and I
said I
said how did you get so close to
him he
says when I was learning there Isel he
says he was there for the year and I
made sure once a week we would learn he
wasn't in know Yeshiva he was in Israel
whatever doing whatever he was
doing and once a week they would learn
and when he came back here he decided
he's staying and
learning I said once a week what did you
learn with
him what do you learn once a week with
somebody who doesn't know what the
sweetness of Torah is not ready for the
of Tora what do you learn with
him he said I'll tell you the truth he
says I would learn something by Rabbi
cinnamon I would listen to a sheer I
don't know if it was a saer I wasn't
sure what he said he I would prepare
something that was gak and I would sit
with him and we would learn every single
Thursday
night and that's the boy that came out
of our learning the boy still learning
today this is a
story that I'm sure has happened a few
dozen
times where cinnamon has given our
boys something sweet Something Beautiful
to chew
on in his sweetness and the way he
brings it
over and I feel a tremendous amount of
hakar for by
for what you do not only for your T in
the
Yesa for your kahal not only for that
but your T him out there in the world
even SP him you don't you don't even
know people that are growing from your
Torah and we appreciate
that I appreciate being around such
special
people who are building a
here in Brooklyn I know for ashim that's
not so
popular to build a kahal in
Brooklyn but I'd like to share with you
something about a
kahal like to share with you something
something personal it's not so deep you
forgive me just very
simple you know in our lives there are C
MIT that we
celebrate
with with
music with great
celebration probably we should celebrate
every Mitzvah that way but I guess there
are certain mitv that were
given
special and when someone does that does
that Mitzvah it's something
else we have by
it's not a regular
mitvah many people
come food sometimes
music
p is one of those mitv that we
celebrate mitv
mitvah we
havea another beautiful
people coming eating
dancing and we
have when we finish something when we
finish a we
finish a season together
together but in truth the doesn't
quite go with everything
else cuz if you look at all the mitv
that we celebrate we're celebrating
something that's in the
future we're not celebrating something
in the past a Jew doesn't celebrate the
past he celebrates the present and the
future Abit is a beginning of a Jew that
entered we celebrate the future of this
child P he was redeemed from something
he couldn't accomplish he's a bear but
he can't do the job of a bear so we have
to redeem him so we celebrating his
future he could find his
D
Mitzvah these are all celebrations of
the future they're not even celebration
of the moment and certainly not of the
past we don't celebrate the past we
learn from the past we grow from the
past but we celebrate the
future on we start a
new
Seer it's
a but really we're not celebrating
bit we're
celebrating that's the past
is something that seems to be out of
character that we're celebrating
something that
happened I assume this is the end of
year dinner or end of season or end
of you go to the mountains I don't know
what happens over here is that what they
do something like
that so we're celebrating the past year
together I'd like to say and you'll
forgive me that I didn't come to say
deep things but I'm your neighbor here I
don't have to say deep things when you
come from out of town you have to say
very deep
things
I with hashem's tremendous
blessings were to be part of
a like R San said we have hundreds and
hundreds and hundreds of people learning
M every night all different
levels people never open the gamar
before people who went to Yeshiva all
different kinds from all ages there's a
tremendous thirst for
Torah but in that there's maybe 70
80 who I've been with for for a long
time 15 years or so call them the
kabura we learn Bab we're learning now
we finished Shabbat took us four years
we learn we
have we learn every morning every
night and Sunday night this week was the
last
Shas it was done by one of the boys from
the
kabura and he invited all the boys and
their
wives to this
beautiful and they asked me to say a few
words after they all
spoke and looking around the
room the whole night I'm looking at this
person at that person at this
person and I
realized maybe not for the first time
but it was glaringly
for the first time so
clear I knew I know every guy very very
I learn this is my family this my Mish I
spend more time with them than I do at
home I'm busy all day I
work there's yeshivas there's talim
there's
buildings but I have every morning and
every night I'm part of the
kabur and I realize
how
much this has it's something unbeliev I
wish I was able to give you my feelings
that you could see
it each one I without hag each one has
the most beautiful
children mamash children that anybody
here would not believe such beautiful
boys beautiful
girls marrying Benet Tora tremendous
tremendous tell me from these guys
children they're not tell me but they're
a the that this kabur has not only
spiritually but also in G
unbelievable and I'm looking around and
I'm saying how fortunate we are I'm not
the same guy that I was 15 years ago 15
years ago I don't sha even I was working
somewhere I was teaching today we have
children 15 years 14 years I'm not the
same guy that guy I remember he just got
a job today he's one of the biggest
supporters of the
Yeshiva that guy unbelievable
alah if you look at the
kabur and I know I see naali over there
my dear friend you there right
Nali he could be
thank you for all you do for
cl he knows some of the
guys
actually had a fundraiser by the
person's house that I'm talking about
this this
year you know who that
is what's the what's what was what's the
secret what's the underlying braa that
we have
and there's nothing really in common not
our last name not our family backgrounds
not even our spiritual
level but there's one thing in common
that we have is that we're
kab you know there's aah the
T to love every person like you love
yourself seemingly an impossible Mitzvah
to love every person like you love
yourself that's why the ma say
practically you can't do it practically
you could do what hilel said to the G to
the convert that whatever you don't want
done to you don't do to others that you
can handle I don't want you to park in
my driveway I won't Park in your
driveway I don't want to be spoken about
I won't speak about you I don't want to
be annoyed I want to know you I could do
that I could handle
it to love someone like you love
yourself it's impossible
but they say theim
say that there's one person you can
fulfill that
mitvah as
is and that's your
spouse that it's really
Kam when you go buy a plane ticket you
don't buy for someone else you buy for
your wife it's the
same when you buy food you don't take
them for dinner you're buying for
yourself it's come off
you can fulfill with a spouse the
true but I'd like to
add that this Sunday night I
realized that I truly love every guy in
the
kabur I believe that every guy there
loves each
other with family where is there a room
of people that get together 300 65 days
a year morning and night and never get
into a
fight where is there room that people
every day they see each other wish
themselves a good morning and a good day
and a good
night
such
shomura the people that I live with in
the bet midash has changed my life and
every single person in that
kabur and
perhaps that's what theum is all
about the is not about what we
accomplished this
year theum is about what we've become to
go forward like we say in
theum
alanan means the
beauty of what we accomplished together
as aab in this Alan it's here it's now
I'm living it I'm feeling
it I'm living with it with my family I
see them my
children you have any idea what it is
with my children see have aab that I'm
part of every single day I'm not just a
guy who prays in
this here is there I'm part of a kabura
we're together
that's what theum is all about it's not
about the past it's about the new
me that's been produced through learning
with my Kusa and my
kabura and my
rebi that's something that I have so
special that I wanted to share with you
I imagine this is a kabura or at least
wants to be a
kabur but sometimes in life you want
something but you don't have the
strength to actually do it because it
takes a little sacrifice you have to
stay in the same
Sho you have to pray the same time it's
a little this corot you have to
bring and sometimes you have to leave
early it's almost 9:00 I got to leave I
see you guys want me to talk more but I
have to go anyway doesn't make a
difference I got aab I got to go there's
a wedding at night I have to leave I
can't be there is
waiting to be part of a kabur it takes a
little
sacrifice it's much easier to be on your
own but guess what when you know
about it changes the game because now
it's not only about the right thing to
do now it's about My Success it's about
my family it's about my sim it's about
everything that I have in my life you
have any idea The woman there that night
that were
glowing when I was speaking they were
glowing and they realized what it means
when they send out their husbands to
learn early in the morning and late at
night they're seeing the braa in their
homes that's the
of perhaps that's what we celebrate when
we make a see it's not about what we did
it's about what we've
produced and what we could do going
forward
Hashem says oh you have people that you
love in your life you have aab you have
10 guys that you learn with that you
became a family with that you're
learning
T you're growing together you're living
together you B together you love each
other I'm here with
you I'm with you it's a in the Tora it's
not
of it's a simple p
when you have people that you love and
you spend your life
with hasem says I'm with you take my
hand you
have those are the feelings that I feel
for myself I feel very thankful that I
have such a reality and I hope to be
able to grow it more more more people
more a
aab is not only about
learning it's about living your life
with I bless
you my dear
friends we are friends whether we know
each other or not we have each
other we have one thing that unites us
whether was
farazi
our heritage
is the Torah the Torah was given to us
before we even had a
land every
country every people is united through
their land as we
say the nations of the world what makes
them a nation is the is the
land that's what makes an American and
an Italian
and every single nationality their land
is what unites
them didn't give the Torah not in yush
and not in
harab he gave it to us outside of the
land we were a nation before our land
because there's something that we all
share together and that's our holy Torah
that's what brings us together and
that's what brings
Ouray and I bless you allal kados that
you should continue to
go build the build the and build the
that you will see for yourselves for
your children
grandchildren amen
amen after such an inspiring
draer but we still get together each
year like R you did your
said not only to
celebrate but also to
take accounting and to take stock what
we're doing what we could do
better in our personal lives and in our
communal life as
benil the T says in this week's
P that that CL some of
Cl
and the note what does it mean hasem it
should have been
hasem why is it underlined
as Rashi seems to note because it was a
complaint they were
complaining and that's somehow connected
to the o to the ears of Hashem
what does that
mean why is it connected to the hearing
to the ears of
Hashem I thought it's not mashman
the according to this that the complaint
was the issue and I looked it up in the
medish they had just when they left
midbar SI they walked three days
straight and after walking three days
straight
with
children they had a lot of
children obviously there were
CES that wasn't the
issue I think the issue was possibly a
much deeper
issue I want to say over
am and I'm not coming to say Godless
about Yeshua salv
but I want to say I once gave him AA
that was
worth almost I think as much as
the that the great give him
he and I can't be in competition with
the great gim who give him money to
distribute but I was in his house two
years
ago in the summer I think it
was and he knows things that are
happening all over so he said to me RA
cinnamon
you're in with
us I said yes he asked me a few
questions then he said you
know I said I know I said the name Ra
sheps was the G original tal of the
bris he said yeah Ra sheps was a devoted
talmud from the
Mir AAL of his grandfather so I told him
I was Z One Summer to be in the Bungalow
County with RAF
sheps and I used to walk him to
minv and when I would walk into minv my
sons were little then they came along
and invariably after a few times it
ended up we talked and learning Ra sheps
was atick fire but we talked and
learning and one of the times he said
something to
me and Kar
Tyra I argued on what he
said and he answered me
back and while we were walking I
reargued the
point and then he touched my lapel and
he
said first of all ra sheps was close cl
to 100 years
oldu was not even a dream of being born
when he was by the brisar and he told me
so I said that
to that said to
me he smiled and his wife was even
sitting at the table and she stopped the
conversation with the Reon with my wife
and she wanted to see what were we
talking about cuz she saw how he was
from that what was R trying to tell me
that I shouldn't argue with him
because he was trying to tell
me don't
think in
Mir and in brisk and in
Shanghai today this people people who to
go ask and learning there's people who
are giving over the
T and today there's a whole blossoming
world and we're living in that
world that's not only about the Russia
Yeshiva and the
abon that we have to believe and be
do just like they were do in the Years
prior but it's also about
ourselves many times we play ourselves
short we're
stuck believing we are who we are and
we're just going to grow by becoming by
doing things a little better learning
more ding more of course that's
important but there's something so much
more we have to
accept that we are the D DEA of today's
door we are the ones who are children
are looking up
to our children don't have anything else
to look up to they're looking up to
us doesn't only me
be your father or your mother of course
it means
that many times we're striving so much
to stay
young we're not allowing our ourselves
to take on the mantle of the
masim that every move we make makes a
difference in De doas because it has an
effect and an impression on our children
and our children's children and the
people around
us the abish said of course you have a
re right to
complain but you
don't you're not cognizant that after m
you are now the door that was Ma and
people are looking at you your children
and all
Theus it was
RA
people they weren't they didn't accept
that people could hear their
CES they have to do things and raise
themsel up because they're responsible
for future
dyus I think it's very appropriate
that tonight's
dinner is we're honoring
the as a to as a beacon of
light for the whole Greater
Community because that's what a Sho
really is we accept that what we're
doing has a hash and
effect people come to learn come to
learn
come and it's a
withar and all the
adjunct in that take place from
the are something that's comes from a
point of
responsibility should help all of us we
should be able to
feel the goodness and the meaning in
what we're doing
and that should drive us further to
become better to become
different not only to do things
different to become B
mention mention and that's really what
the is i s k Le says when the told to do
his a he called it
a the question is what kind of aoid Mata
you giving AEM a
he's telling you to do it he's telling
you you're compelled to do it so what
kind of matona are you giving him you
tell somebody you're obligated to do
something for me that's the opposite of
what a mat
is the whole na
was did it with a Mar with a fire with a
devotion that's the Mata we can give
today that's the you turn a when you're
compelled into a gift when you do it
with let's learn
with let's with let's
do like R did said really I really feel
it we're in a different situation in all
our lives from when we started this
kabur we're growing together we grew
together but now we're up to the next
love the next love is a door of
has a of we know we have the
responsibility of being the Mas for our
children our children
children I felt a great Nas a few months
ago someone called me up a r of a Sho in
Lakewood and he told me on the outskirts
of Lakewood and he told me they were
having a meeting in the sh about
something that's taking place in the Sho
some K wanted it this way some wanted it
that way and one
balab said I don't know in by cinnamon
Shool that's the way they did
it and that's the way I want it to be
done in this sh that was his
vote I'm not praising ourselves I'm
saying I see the keser Naes that the
people who grew out of the sh and that's
the matona we give
ourselves when we do it with a we do it
with
an we do it with a
togetherness and we have to respect it
we have to respect
others and if person who comes into the
Sho when it's the all the storm that
there are in the
Sho we could see ourselves as older I
come there on Friday or Friday night and
I
say I always look at myself I said I'm
not getting older but the people
listening are definitely getting younger
when I see them there and with such aik
and such a Gish
reminded me of
a they have archives of pictures and
turas a few times I went downstairs and
I looked at some of the
pictures so there's a picture a gavala
picture that I saw it made a rosim army
an
impression they have a picture of Camp
missa and in Camp
mifa came to Campa SCH was the tal mov
of was the
Rus he was brought
up didn't know anything else and he came
to
taradas the first year he was in taradas
he went out to Camp
missa so there's a video and a picture
of him in Camp
M and he's wearing his capot and he's
holding his hat and he's talking to for
Learning and I looked at the picture the
talking to him are wearing sailor
hats with sailor
uniforms I'm looking I don't think that
was the uniform
ofas and he was talking to them and
learning and they even have on the back
of the picture some of the names of
these in the future and I asked somebody
in the office and they said it was color
War they were dressed or they were doing
some sort of presentation and they were
dressed in in Sailor
uniforms I
said and was talking to them and
learning
inah
in and he was talking to
them he didn't look Americana books
that's not the way he looked at it he
looked at did it we're going to raise
them up and we're going to talk to them
like I spoke to the tal in comms and in
rames every one of
us has to see our jobs of course there's
a mer of
nus and the de have to respect this
young D for all the nus that they have
to go to to see and battle but we have
to respect it and our Asos we have to
raise them up raise up the
aspirations rais up the D of to raise up
the D
of and will give us the that we need for
the I want to mention also for me my
parents are here my father's and my
mother all of us together to
be to have the G the patience to be able
to grow to be able to be Masia and to be
able to do
our in a way that will bring
to before we get to the next would be
remiss to thank all the people who help
out here in the it's almost come
out I said our sh is definitely in one
way very
unique there's not one salary that goes
out from
the there's not one
penny that is
spent not on the Kadar of
the and it
shows I don't mean it shows that it's
sometimes not so neat
but it shows on the gal rain kite that
comes out of the
Sho it's a little our Sho we have quiet
people who are doing things I have I'd
like to thank
myel who's always at my
side who who really uh is always
there is too
much for that like to thank
the who take care bov Krueger and others
who give us the the the
of I want to
thankin who takes care of all the
projects in the sh I want to
thank Rosenfeld for his being there Paul
of the and rabari fredman and na'vi
Schwarz and
and everybody
together because the runs and
it's it's with a rain kite with a purity
and that's why it
is we just begin the next part of the
program I would really
invite because it's so hard to
describe what happens in the SHO
both on Fridays Friday night and during
the week in the
Sho I once had somebody from Lake WRA
you did was talking ashkenazim while
leaving
Brooklyn so it was someone who came from
Lakewood and I was sitting in the Sho
Friday
night the place was
packed there was a coil coming out of
the Sho and a person opened up the door
and then he
he maneuvered his way into me I was
sitting in the front and he said to me
RA cinamon where are all these people
from where are all these
B I said don't worry the has room for
another hundred guys we'll put people on
top we'll we'll bring a
tent it's
m the amount of Li that there isn't a
Sho by a lior shabas and the Friday
night it's
a and the Sho gets beaten
up and I have the Ritson always tell me
make sure it gets cleaned
up it's very hard she takes AAS for
it and I
say let's bring another hundred boys
into the Sho let them break the
steps that's calic that's what the Tas
is boys I hear back from Yesa
theas they come back and they repeat
what they hear in the Sho it's such a
for everybody in the Sho I want to take
this
opportunity to
thank should help
[Applause]
him for spearheading thisal
andin
[Applause]
who supports the whole this whole
Endeavor and they come to learn but they
like the
sushi but we get them into the sh and
when they come in the Sho they t a learn
and it's
and I'd like to thank them they should
help should give each one what they need
and everybody together should
be it's also for the last year the
Sho has become a center for dur during
the week night Sader I don't know
exactly how he got
connected but
y as was mentioned before Nai Miller who
went together with all
his Myriad tremendous amount of Aras
that he does for Claus Ro it's it's
almost
mindboggling the amount what he does
with and so many personal people that he
helps he has it on his mind that the
boys should come to the sh and he hires
yite that many of them are here tonight
who learn with the
B who supervise the B and the sh is a
m seven days a
week learning and sometimes I say I come
in they're learning some of the boys are
shooing and I say to myself but they're
shmooing in
sh and when you're in sh you'll end up
learning I still remember when I was a
boy I was brought up in burrow
Park and it used to be Friday
night and my father's an used to say to
me go bottle in Lakewood
minion go to Lakewood minion hang out
with your friends in Lakewood minion
that's where a b used to be and that's a
tremendous Nas I have when I see the
boys in the Sho learning there
so you should be able to
continue with all your great Endeavors
for from your children and you should
have from all the people that you help
and cl is thankful
with you and last but not
least I met a rashash
Shiva wasn't
Riva uh I met the son of the novinar
rabba who's now the novinar rabba and he
gave one of the shim in the
shabas and it was seconded when rebella
brudney also came to the he told
me the
quality and the
kid of
the that take place in the
sh is a kesem both for the
m and for the people who attended year
the inim that are
covered and the people who are there who
come to say on
the and people come M shabas to hear the
she and to argue on the
shear it's it's a kesem not only for the
attendees but for the whole CL
ISRO and GL me believe me it's it's not
always so easy to get somebody to say a
sheer on
bakama now I loosened it up I said you
could say in the last 10
BL but I have on my side Rebel Cass
who's always helping me out
calling
confirming through the winter every Mo
of shabas without fail
there's a she in the it's a for all the
that this takes
place so of all these programs the LI
that takes place every morning in the sh
after daving we have the in the sh the
Dai that takes place that's led by our
Dai Commissioner of Sheldon
spurn and all the people who are being
in the and all the others should help
all of us so I'll just finish with one
last and I'd like to present the uh TMS
to all the all the
honores They once came with a settle to
the to the
chabin and it was the time the
chabin was it was about
shita so it set a big paper a Cru they
wanted him to be the first one sign and
it said all of Cl used to always support
theu from the past Generations would
support to
sh they wanted him to
sign he took out his pen that chov they
thought he's ready to sign and he
crossed out a line on the Cru
on this uh announcement pronouncement
they looked down and he crossed
out so he asked him why did he cross
that out he said of course we're makush
to the free of
theas of course we look for guidance of
what they
did
but the said if I hold myself
that we should support
the
every we have to live up to the task we
have to raise ourselves
up we are the Mas of
this we have to accept it and grow with
it so will help all of us we will will
be able to be equal to the task