Eitan Katz & Joey Newcomb on Oorahthon '22: Kumzitz & Stories 2

[Music] camp is shabbos revolution where every person in camp takes on something in honor of shabbos b is something small making kiddish that week keeping the entire shabbos every camper and staff member takes on something in honor of that shabbos in the teens division then every person takes on something not just for that shabbos but for the next eight shabasa [Music] josh golian is in 12th grade in public school in great neck long island he took on shabbos revolution he took on that he is going to keep the entire shabbos for the next eight shabasa his family is not religious he knew was going to be hard but he decided he's going to take on the next eight shambhasi that first shabbos was in camp he kept shabbos in camp camp ended on sunday thursday comes and he's starting to think about keeping shabbos and his parents home starting to think about the challenges it's going to be a little difficult he's gonna make him kiddish his parents are in the next room watching tv they'll be proud of him but it's different than the rest of his family is doing and he starts to hesitate he's really he's just not feeling it he's not in the mood he's not feeling that this is what he wants to do right now and he's back and forth back and forth besides you know it's too hard i know i want to but it's too hard right now maybe a different way i'm not keeping shabbos right now he makes the decision he looks at the clock a little bit before 12. he's a little hungry so he goes outside pulls out his bike and he heads towards the pizza store now at the end of josh's block as he's biking there's a hill and he goes up and down that hill every day that's how he gets to school he goes up and down that hill every day to school that day 12 o'clock on his way to the pizza store as he's biking down he sees a car flying down the road and he pulls on his brakes to not be hit by the car he pulls on his brakes or he tries to and the brakes aren't working he uses that bike every day and this time his brakes fail last thing he knows remembers flying into the intersection and he remembers just black when he wakes up he sees people he sees flashing lights he conks out again he wakes up he sees somebody holding his helmet it's completely split into here's him talking about brain damage bleeding into his head he hears them saying they don't know if he's going to be normal again what's going to be and he starts to freak out and he blacks out again when he wakes up he's in the ambulance he's on his way to the hospital and he remembers them talking about how brain damage and bleeding in his brain and he says i can't do this i have to be normal i'm a young guy i can't i can't be going through this my whole life you know hashem i know i just said i'm not going to keep shopping if you let me walk out of this with no permanent damage i'm going to keep shabbos for the year black's out again he wakes up it's 10 hours later it's 11 at night and the in the meantime the doctors have done mris cat scans x-rays and they tell him they tell his parents that the only thing that happened was a broken ankle josh kept shabbos that year he then took on to keep more shambhasim he's still keeping shabbos now he's still in public school in 12th grade he's finishing the year and he has signed up for arsenal for january of next year we're on the air [Music] sing along if you know it [Music] is [Music] no [Music] oh [Music] me [Music] yes [Applause] oh [Music] [Applause] over here first of all first of all huge shout out to the halogen rep josh over there [Music] rev josh get up here up josh you're smooth with josh where you gonna sit you know what i'm gonna stamp it just stand [Music] is josh tell us a little bit what do you think what's your story tell me something um so i went to the zone stampers 2020 corona summer and corona summer over there beginning of the summer like i was like chilling with my friends and we didn't really know we were going to do this summer but then sandy shulman called my mom and told us about the stamper program let's go and i would like to say that like that summer was one of the most influential summers of my life you know changed me made me the man i am today and i learned a lot of things i had a lot of fun you know my friends they're not my family i mean a lot of brothers there and yeah changed my life [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] i [Music] brother josh over there josh is a hero josh we love you all right [Music] so wait wait josh you can't run anywhere because we're going to tons in your honor over here you know what tans means dance we're going to we're going to dance because you brought so much inspiration to so many people just now but obviously your whole your whole journey but right now mamish ready all right all right riako if you have the drum machine over there [Music] i [Music] oh [Music] let's go [Music] is louder [Music] oh [Music] oh foreign [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] is you know [Music] you