Mr. Isaac Gross at The Project Inspire Convention 2019

thank you you know many years ago I had the privilege of being the MC at the big column dinner on borrow Park and there was a packed packed crowd as on a matzo Chavez and the malapa maca started at 8 o'clock at night and was just going on and they honored every doctor at Maimonides Hospital for those that rabbi B where are you mosey right those mob markers have a way of going every doctor even the nurses get honored everybody gets on it my money is because that's to ensure that what we have special if we ever need it that they they service our Jewish brethren and at twelve o'clock at night the director walks over to me and I said to me you know it's time it's already for hours everybody's sitting here can we end this and he says no no we can't because we have this cousin who was very active in bicker Coulomb and I need you to invite him up and he should please do two songs I said are you crazy it's 12 o'clock at night nobody's things they said no no you have to do this so I got up on the podium and I said and now ladies and gentlemen in conclusion it is my honor to present cousin so-and-so I'm not gonna mention his name I still see him from time to time and and I'm gonna invite the cosna up to please be Mahana with two songs and cousins so so could you do me a favor when you finish please close the lights so I think they were trying to tell me something that I think at this session my job is to make sure the lights are out after we finish the session I would like to acknowledge a chorus a type we all have to have a chorus a type I was privileged to have two giants we talked about the Shabbos Noack Weinberg and we've made Shuster who both stayed numerous and numerous times in our house well Ramaiya used to eat by us and sleep by the Freedmen's but from noah stayed by us and every Shabbos morning of course I heard his alarm clock the cockadoodledoo long clock that was hurt across town but I cannot tell you the effect that they both had on my family my children seeing people like that who truly loved Claudius troll and it's not the point of just loving classy stroll from Noah instilled a message and he said I asked them why do you think people don't go out and don't help and bring their brethren closer and he adds it because it doesn't hurt them they see somebody drowning they see how many people were losing and it just doesn't hurt and if it doesn't hurt you're not gonna do anything about it in concept it's a great thing but it has to hurt it has to hurt when you see your neighbor that doesn't know what Tish above it and it has to hurt because very simply we say coleus Rajesh lamb kala kalah my boa every Jew it doesn't say call Hungarian Jews have kala coil my bar it doesn't say I see them have a K look whether my but doesn't say litvaks it says call you strong every Jew regardless of where you born Orthodox not ultradox whatever you are you have italic and we also believe in call you swell our ratings L is there and it doesn't say what kind of juice so we got to make up our mind if it's true that it's a Raven's l is there because otherwise your wife has to make kiddush for herself if that's the case then it's gotta hurt us and if it doesn't hurt you you gotta ask yourself why why doesn't it hurt why won't we see our brethren doesn't it hurt we had the most memorable shot as possible I mean the Shabbos was like over the top it really was the speeches the people the dignitaries that we had if they bruh bonham everybody here it was so unique from judge Bernstein to to the the dedication to Rebbetzin Trista I mean everything and where do we go from here I mean I can't even think of anything that was that we missed except some sleep didn't miss a lot of that you know coming up Friday night three o'clock in the morning is not something I want to do every week but we have to think why doesn't it hurt us why won't we see our neighbors why doesn't it hurt us you know the Roberta Shawn gave us a great gift and the great gift is called Shikha we come from áliveá the tragedy less to ours we come and see our fellow Jews and we just become oblivious to it and we can't forget them because guess what without them we ain't going anywhere we're not going anywhere because till we get caught you stroll together it's not gonna happen this Shabbos was dedicated by idiom myself was a knish mass his brother who died tragically a couple weeks ago and there's a young man but there's one thing you've never seen in your life I've never seen a live a like this that was set up in two seconds and I would say there was between 500 and 1,000 people at that Olivia and flow of people that came to pay a Shiva call for simple Joe and he had this one meter of caring about people there was nothing he wouldn't do but people in the shul whether taking them to the airport there was nothing he wouldn't do for his family for his nephews for his nieces an unbelievable character he was this big guy with a heart of gold and I can't think of a more fitting cause and a more fitting Shabbos than dedicating the Shabbos in his memory may he's neshama be Mela co-chef a cold cloud swirl and I know he's gonna be pushing us and doing everything that he can you only mentioned before the effect of all of this has on our children at this point I want to give our chorus a tithe for what Asia Torah did for my children when H became part of our life over 25 years ago it just kept on growing and growing between my children and now I see my grandchildren in the same respect it makes us better people it's not what we're giving them it's what we're getting from them burnish em we have a lot of family and when you have I consider my family because these are all people that grew up in our house that today have children four or five we have him in Philadelphia New York all over and people that we still have a regular cyclist with people that came back to Chloe's role just on their own volition and what a lesson when these people come and they came out of nowhere and we learned from day because to them like we're north always said to them God is real they didn't grow into it they came to it so God is a real factor in their life and the betokened that he had we had one of our boys that grew up at you know house recently had a child has a child that had unfortunately a very bad disease and he decided to do it what's that for this baby the people should say tell him we were all very affected by it but one thing happened which was unreal that he started or whatsapp about people saying tell him and this whatsapp grew into the hundreds of people that started saying tell him hundreds and he calls me up because he couldn't believe all the encouragement that he was getting and he said you know when I started becoming from nobody told me what a family we have nobody told me that people would be what's happing me from all over the world saying tilt for my baby Oboro Hashem the baby's out in a hospital not well but we got to a big major step to ignore there was never such a thing as hero it wasn't about caring to ignore it was about hatzala saving the Jewish people that was his goal to him we had to see every day as if a train filled with Jews was on its way to Auschwitz what wouldn't we do to save those Jews what wouldn't we do we wouldn't go up and down the cars in his car are you Orthodox are you this do you eat challah Bistro does your wife wear sheitel it wouldn't be a question we'd go out and save everyone and that was his mission his mission was to save the Jewish people you know what we don't realize that from 1938 to 45 we lost 6 million Jews ladies and gentlemen we lose a million Jews every year to assimilation and I hate to say this but we think that we won against the Nazis the war is not over we're losing a million children that totally and and you have to understand what the danger is you know some people think you know we're gonna take them and we're gonna you know do tough yummy with them and that's gonna be the end of it and they'll be fine the answer is no see that different parts of the world the big broker was once upon a time and in some places where a guy didn't want to have anything to do with a Jew I remember I had people to work for me and they were they came from Europe and one of them came from South Africa and he used to not understand how the other Jewish workers who are not sick who were secular how they date non-jewish girls and he would tell me he was from Belgium and the other guy was from Johannesburg and he used to tell me you know they wouldn't date us we used to go to college they would have nothing to do with us here in America unfortunately with reformed jewelry and everything else the dangers that we have here is just the opposite the Italians in my office tell me their mothers want them to find the Jewish husband because Jewish boys make very good husbands recently you know we have a million by us insurer in the office and I was concerned because the way the calendar came out and I said to one of my guys did you have a minyan every day because it was before Yom did before circus so he says yep we had a minion how did you have a minion I don't count that there was a million guys yes he says to me simple I called in Jonathan Weiner I said are you crazy Jonathan Weiner his mother is Roman Catholic he says I figured his name is wiener what can be more Jewish than the name Jonathan Wiener which goes exactly to what you said your name we're living in a society that in a couple years we'll never know who's Jewish because you know that there's people out there thing if there's any side is Jewish that makes you Jewish and if you eat kishka for sure you're Jewish and if you eat Galah then you're crazy Jewish or by side we have people that are here dedicating their lives to continue the work of Asia Torah from a Stephen Burke who's been phenomenal in reviving Asia Torah he's brought us back he's brought all the commitments back he's brought the people back together with the generosity [Applause] together with the generosity of the Heitmann and their families I mean we can't let these people down we really can't I know as we all leave here today we're all gonna make two commitments two commitments one is care of that we're all gonna get involved and the second is going to be about diets we don't want to break both of him okay so let's make sure at least our commitment for Kirov will stay because after all pay suckers around the corner why would you start a diet now and right if the pace up is of course there's a birthday or anniversary and we got time to really start their diet after tisha puffs it's perfect time the day after a fire Slits thought the diet so please let's focus on changing the world that was renounce dream to change the world and to wake the sleeping giant we are the sleeping giants we are the people that can make this happen it's impossible to let things go on the way they are right now we have such a dedicated staff of project inspire I mean to do I can only say one thing rabbi Samson & Company there's so many people to mention I must mention one person who never gets mentioned because he's always down on the totem pole not maracay trop gets it and then we finish but Yaakov Guinea go [Applause] yakov janiga is the sleeping giant in asia in in project inspire he's the man that really doesn't everything and I want to just give him a call out and that's besides Josi yes he's unbelievable he's on top of every single thing you can think of yes equipment you know weekend's like this are often imitated but a weekend like this can never be replicated and I thank the whole staff from the whole team for this giving us this unbelievable a memorable weekend and we get Shabbos that was unbelievable the speakers [Applause] Dianne Abraham why why I mean it's just it's just something that will live within us for a long time and Steve Burke my message to you is keep on driving the bus we all need a leader thank you so much and drive safely [Applause]