Rabbi Ari Bensoussan - How MDY changed my life and will change your life as well!

what an honor it is what an incredible zakut i have to be able to be speaking to the greatest hidden on planet earth and that's just all there is to it what an incredible honor so first i i have to say to the whole mdy ether over here we say this to each other all the time so it almost sounds like we're patting each other on the backs but i think rightfully so mazzalto of masaltov another message under our belts but more another massacre that's in our hearts and another mistake of us just gaining gaining more of a community gaining more traction with each other gaining more of a connection this is a family that spans i gotta tell you i was shocked i i had no idea when when when rebellion showed up here to los angeles so harry shalom got in touch and harry said look we want to do something let's get involved and i figured all right you know we'll be able to get a minion hopefully we'll try to bribe some people to stick around for mayrav afterwards i don't know who's showing up and this other truth we did it we did it inside really not even like the main part of town uh we did it all the people in the valley will yell and scream at me and they'll claim to be in the main part of town but you know the main part of town you can call the from a part of town up in la brea we we didn't even tell over there i think we would have gone there we probably would have tripled our numbers incredibly what we ended up having was nearly 100 people packed into the khazak center that we have down in the valley and there was so much love between each other there's so much affection and it all came from that beacon of love that revelli was giving to everybody so thank you for bringing us all together so first we want to start off i think everybody's showing a certain amount of a certain amount of thanks an amount here of gratitude cervelli's defense game for the whole mdy team for bringing an entire faction of claudius all together a kibbutz gullius that happens once a day how incredible is that akiva golios nothing less than that that from arbor convoys you go and bring us together from the four corners of the world to you to eric's israel to the beacon to the place of torah itself thank you for that and now just to spend a few minutes over here i only found out a few minutes ago that i'm going to have this incredible opportunity to be able to speak to the whole khara so it's obviously the verm that are going to have to youtube they're going to come from my heart because i didn't have any other place to prepare it from so let's really get into this i'd like to also thank harry shalom i'd like to thank lazarian and i'd like to thank all the la yidan and i really hope that we can put together some kind bazaat hashem maybe see him after beit but some kind of a something because we got to represent from over here we got to represent what we have over here and represent as akarata tov to rebellion do you want to show them how many people they are affecting every single day but we're going into rosh hashanah and to be honest because i'm coming in as an mdy there i'm coming in with maybe a bit too much confidence and i know i shouldn't i know we're not supposed to go into rosh hashanah um with too much confidence i understand that i get that was supposed to come in that way but let's really think about what is it that's going on in chemical what is it that the abuse is going to be giving a look at this year for us so the concept of what exactly is being judged this year or every single year on rosh hashanah so what was really created on rosh hashanah so everyone says and so we would say that the world was created but we know that's not true we know that a point in fact adam richaun was created on rosh hashanah the world was created a few days before but adam are you showing meaning the purpose of the world is the purpose of the world was created today on rosh hashanah it means that this adam this adam that his entire purpose his entire focus of life is the fact that he's given birth he's given free will he's given the ability to choose to have his existence echo with hashem for eternity or or he can choose to just make a mess of it all he can choose to just be selfish he can choose to just disregard that there's a torah and he can choose to simply just exist and then to be forgotten about and to be like to just be something that just completely blows away in the wind we have our choice to build our lives oh we have our choice to waste it it's free will and the way that the mikhail melio describes it is is that your level your level your niku bihira your point of free will is gonna be decided how high can your point of choice of what you're gonna choose this year how close of it that you'll be able to get to hashem this year what are you going to have and hashem decides hashem goes according to that and hashem says all right if we have somebody over here that he's willing to take his niku he's willing to take his decision-making to a much higher level so what does he need what do we have to give him he needs health he needs money he needs his short he needs to have stability he needs to have peace he needs to have hope he needs to feel secure what is it that this yid needs to be able to get through so that his choices that he's been making and will be making will come to a fruition that he is upping his level of what do we have to give him so is he a worthwhile investment is he's somebody who's worthwhile to invest in to go and to then say yeah we want to give him all these different things well let's give a look let's give a look and see what kind of a chooser is he what kind of a person are we dealing with what kind of choices does this person make rubble thai i think that being people who have chosen chosen learning over sleep chosen learning over meetings chosen learning over vacations or even harder chosen learning during vacations chosen learning during meetings and he even chose learning during sleep we are the few we are the proud we are the daffy miyagin that every day no matter what comes because we know it's not about the dolphins about the only we know that it's no matter what gets thrown at us today i'm throwing myself into it we are hidden together who have made decisions throughout this past year and even if you just jointed not fearing me yesterday but you're showing somebody who is within himself the grit he has within himself that push that drive he has within himself the want he has the desire to build the stability that is necessary to become that incredible warrior that is the duffy yid the one who pushes himself to get out of bed early or the one who pushes past sleep late at night or the one who learns how to lock his door to his office and even harder had to lock his phone because right now right now it's the time right now it's time to connect and right now i'm sitting down with rebelli and right now the rest of the world can just melt away because right now i get to live with a few with the proud we are the living don't you get it the safer write us in the book of life my review of burke which would always tell us you know what the difference between the book of life and the book of death is the book of life is for people who truly live the book of death that's for people who just simply exist they're the same small person from year to year they're saying they're sorry for the same thing year after year they're just in the same place 10 years 20 years 30 years a book of life person he's bigger than he was last year he will be bigger in the year to come and he's so much bigger than he was a few years ago rabbotai those of us who started from the beginning we know what it means to live even if it's only an hour or so a day even if it's just that time but there is nobody there is nobody who has gone through an mdy daffy i mean share and then afterwards said well that was a waste of time there was nobody every single one of us at the end of it were like uh that was the climax of my day today that was my truly living aspect of my day and when we come to rosh hashanah now and we say to the avista give me life give me the ability to keep on living give me the ability to keep on pumping away at the daffy step that is my lifeline that's my real living i'm alive then the rest of the world is completely a shadow just around me while i get to bask in the light that is you give me that and we come when we demand our tell you what you are tired of saying you have to demand what's yours about i want to truly live this year give me life hashem says this is somebody who's going to be choosing me constantly this is somebody who's going to be choosing torah constantly this is somebody who we want to have this is somebody who we want to give him everything possible we want to give him life health happiness hope security we want to be able to give him that feeling of accomplishment we want to give him shall a bias we want to give him from his children we want to give him life because he's choosing to truly live rabbotai those who know know those who know no because it's a misnomer to say that we're only living during the daft because afterwards you turn around and you see on the zoom how many brian hara hundreds and then thousands of people that you've gotten to know that you've got to connect with that you've gotten to and the stories that come through in the pictures that rebellion shows us all the time we're a family we're a community it's amazing davishin gave us that and that's the next step we're a community i hate to put it this way but hashem kind of needs us we are the people keeping up the world now it's not that hashem needs us i know it's a bit much of a lunch and i get that but the avista is that there are thousands of hear them from every shavit under the sun and we are traveling together like we did in the mid bar once a day underneath our flags from whatever it is that we're coming from but together we have once a day and that's something that the avista looks down upon and hashem doesn't see individuals and hashem judges us the tsar brings that on the second day of rosh hashanah we get judges communities we get judged as what is needed for the world to keep on going and so therefore he says that the murray and they get judged on the first day but then on the second day after that sadly kim kimuram get judged then calms the communities themselves in my heart of heart i feel so sad but the people are not a part of the mdy community because we literally are a people who are holding up life itself because every single day thousands of us at the same time all choose to live truly live and that is something that i'm coming this year to rosh hashanah with that is something that i plan to come this year and when i have to explain to hashem why ari benshushan is a worthwhile investment and why the a bista should decide that this little shnook named arie venture-chan should be granted another year i'm going to say i'm a part of something so much bigger i'm a part of the biggest staff you've share in the world i'm a part of the arteries that open and close every single day in the heart that pumps life into your world hashem it's rabbotai with a few with the proud we are the mdy chevra and we are so so lucky to have this so bizwa we should keep on going and we should keep on picking up more yiddin along the way as many people as we can it's really hot salat nifa you all know that this is literally saving lives you cannot compare a yid who goes through the day with having his not feeling me and he who goes through the day without his daughter it's the difference between simply existing or truly living and we all we all choose life so him to everybody and may we keep on choosing life a good good bench to your to everybody and a thank you to the heilig rebelli stefanski for being the shliyakov should send you only happiness and health a kayak to be able to continue and a sense of calm a sense of fulfillment and to your wonderful rabbitson a sense of fulfillment even more with the responsibility that you've taken on to your incredible shoulders to be the one to be mekabetz every single day thank you so much and everybody's to feel it should be answered amen