Joey Newcomb at Oorah Auction | Kumzitz & Stories pt. 3

[Music] sitting here with the highlighter hello this was not expected yeah it wasn't expected but i just wanted to let you know there are wakanda's top three tennis in the whole world tap tap what three tenors tenors yes yes tennis baritone baritone parrot on bass very deep deep oh deep oh you're a bass i'm a deep guy so you give me gave me a special hat this is a hat for two o'clock in the morning i don't know if you could talk about it let's see what we have for the three o'clock hour by the way oh a while but it's terrible yakov looks very tired i don't know if you noticed me i'm just overtired it's a different avoider you ready yeah sure let's see if you can hit a chorus right there give me give me i should do it yeah i want to hear how you do it for a second give me five give me five help keep your disguise alive you're helping here of thrive so give me five give me five [Music] so give me five say give me [Music] top 17 keyboard players in level of lakewood oh it's a big number it's a big number because i heard there's like 300 keyboard players in bmg alone if y'all can take it away you ready here we go give me a little beat over there yeah let's go give me a little beat [Music] kira thrive so give me five sir give me five give me five give me five to help keep hitting a lot your health take care of thrive so give me five say give me five here it goes when piles of cash short a brand new car seven thousand dollars on a mastercard a sheild some diamonds or a big fat check give me a big fat check big fat check just five dollars you won't regret health and fitness you'll feel real good but oink shabbos the way you should we'll pay your mortgage or your rent the little five dollars will be well spent give me five give me five to help get you this kind of life you're helping kieran thrive so give me five said give me five give me four give [Music] so give me five said give me five now give me harmony here we go some new furniture or make a wish we'll pay your tuition you'll feel so rich so rich you know what that's like rubble huh no stunning silver will shine so bright or art scroll library you'll stag all night hey give me five give me five help keep yiddish kite alive you're helping gear up thrive so give me five said give me five give me five give me five your health give you this kind of you helped that hero thrive so give me five said give me five here we go the greatest prizes you can find ain't no other of its kind just five dollars 50 dimes so you'll help the kiera thrive or auction once again spread the word and tell a friend bring [Music] hero thrive so give me five say give me five give me five give me five you helped keep me in the sky alive you helped that hero cry so give me five so get it five [Music] so give it bye [Music] give me five there we go there we go so give me five said give me five give me [Music] health key [Music] it goes like this [Music] i can't sit i can't step for nothing i tried to sit didn't work they threw me out avoid it [Music] you know why because either inspires you to do to be better ye inspires eden to come back to avenue when you take a jewish soul you reconnect him to his father in heaven [Music] one two three [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] let's go [Music] is [Music] i [Music] my [Music] is [Music] i can dispel one myth about kirov it would be you do not need to be a professional to do kirif just by learning with a torah mate just by exposing a non-from yid to your shabbos table to the torah that you learn you have the power and the ability to inspire him to excite him to the life of tyra i learned this lesson from my dear brother shlaimi and it's illustrated beautifully in the following amazing story i want to share with you the year was 2008 and ura was just starting to become the tremendous grand scale organization as we know it today a meeting was called here in lakewood for lakewood light want to get involved i want to be part of a tremendous project and the meeting starts and rabbi mintz presents the following he's asking every person to take upon himself to go around the surrounding towns of jersey and to cold call to go knock on doors and just make yourself available to show them the life of tyra and my brother willingly was there to say yes i'll be part of this and they hand it out to anyone who signed up a list that was generated from 401.com of jewish-sounding names that were never affiliated with we're never filling with any jewish organization that we knew of and their mission was to go up to these houses knock on their doors and make an offer and that's exactly what they did three months after the meeting it was a summer night the next address on his list was 12 sutton place and my brother parks his car on the corner and the first address on the block is number four now sometimes in jersey the address is skipped by four by eight not only by twos so he went to the next house and went to check if that is number 12. right away he spots a beautiful shiny silver mezuzah and he's thinking wow this is it and it gets that tight feeling in his stomach the feeling that the boy feels on that first date when he's ringing that bell and you build up the courage and you just push that button and you ring the bell and he did and as he's waiting for the reaction from the door he notices on the right side of the door post the address is not 12. the address is number six and he's thinking oh wrong house what do i do now they said wait a minute not the wrong house this is the right house it has a mezuzah and they're standing in the doorway was a middle-aged man probably in his 30s with a kind look on his face and a welcoming gesture says hello who are you he says oh i'm robbie freed i'm from down in lakewood he says oh that's so nice how can i help you he says oh i'm going around here in the jersey neighborhoods and i'm looking for families jewish families that may be interested in learning more about judaism he says oh that's wonderful i happen to be looking for a place to learn more about judaism and he welcomes them in they sit down at the table they start talking and it's funny how in common these two people are joe's wife joyce says she works his special ed and shelby says oh that's interesting my wife also does and they talk about special ed where are you guys from oh i'm originally from staten island as is my wife says wait a minute i'm also from staten island turns out they're from a neighborhood right near where we grew up and the conversation continues and it's wonderful it's getting warmer in the room and people are feeling comfortable and then it comes time to go and slimy says okay joe here's my card we'll be in touch joel takes a look at the card and he says hey how do you know my name somebody says what he says look at this card it said and it realizes it wasn't really joe's name it was really slimy's name because the last name stuck out off the page and was looking at him and was freed we had the same last name and that was beautiful and they laughed and schlemmy left and three days later schlemmie calls up joe and he says joe why don't we meet in lakewood come i'll show you around maybe we'll learn a little bit joe says that's great i'll meet you there on sunday morning sunday morning comes joe pulls into lakewood and he's shocked by the scene he's been around jersey but never to lakewood and what does it look like it's unbelievable people look religious they're it's bustling and hustling with strollers and families are coming and kosher stores and yeshivas they had lunch and as a treat at the end schleime took joe to tour the uru office which was then on east county line road after walking through the office they saw a pamphlet advertising tour mates joe's looking at it and there's these questions screaming out of the page why kosher where do people go when they die why do people eat to filter fish why do bad things happen to good people and joe turns to me and he says this is what i want to learn about islamic says that's great give me some time i'll prepare some classes and i'll come give classes in your home and that's what he did every two weeks schlemmie was there giving classes to joe and joyce and they were growing and joe says as the time passed and you learn more the questions just dissipated and week after week month after month changes started happening the house became kosher the children were enrolled in yeshivas after a few years one yeshiva to a better yeshiva and better at moving on after one class joe turns to shlaim and he says i really want to learn real gemara social media says that's fantastic let me look for a cabrus of you he pulls out his phone and he calls my brother-in-law mayor now mayor is already here in lakewood a wonderful man and he says are you available to teach kimura to my torah mate and there says sure no problem it's been years since this harvester shaft started and they finished with sakta after massachusetts years passed and it was time for matt's bar mitzvah joe's son and shlomi says i'm going to turn over the world to make sure i'm attending this bar mitzvah if i have to walk from lakewood i'll walk hashem arrangements were made and was able to stay right near joe's house for shabbos right where the bar mitzvah was going to be and then but and the bar mitzvah was beautiful [Music] matt lane from the torah and and he had his aliyah and then it came time for the meal for the bar mitsumi and joe got up to speak and he says i want to thank hashem for bringing me to this day just a couple of years back who who would have dreamt that i'd be standing here today i want to thank i want to thank my torah mate for helping us reach this milestone and thank you for coming out here and showing your support and coming to the bar mitzvah but there's one thing but there's one more person i want to thank that is my mother you see just a couple of months before knocked on my door my mother had been visiting my home and she noticed that there was no messiest on the doorpost and she said joe you have to have a mezuzah on your door a jewish home needs a mezuzah and i pushed her off and i pushed her off but she was adamant joe you need him as those on your door and just two weeks later freed mistakenly knocks on my door because of my mesozoic mom thank you it was as simple as that just the introduction to a from family that was able to bring back from person it's not the professionalism it's showing someone the warmth and inviting them to come and see the life of a from yet [Music] is [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] it's been an amazing night having a highly competent health again eat it eat it it's been amazing we're gonna bring now we're gonna tons a little bit you know what i'm saying for this i can't i can't sit for nothing i had a hard time sitting you know i'm saying i was never able to sit right right upside that's why i never got thrown out of class i was thrown out of class every day i couldn't sit [Music] here no matter what you're going through in life to still get up and say thank you [Music] thank you [Music] one two three [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] my [Music] leading rabbi elon over there thank you [Music] thank you [Music] my [Music] you [Music] foreign