Part 1: Rabbi Shais Taub and SoulWords 2021 Livestream Program

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Okay, so let's just start with the uh just the facts, please. So, we are going to be live tonight with you 9:00 p.m. to 1 a.m. to 1 a.m. Maybe even later because who knows? We have a special guest that's coming on at the end. And at that point, we never know because he's very unpredictable. Yes. And uh tomorrow night, tomorrow night, we're going to be live from 7 through 11 p.m. 7 p.m. to 11. So, we're going to see through this campaign. I don't know. You know, you know what 7 to 11 reminds me of? A yarmaka? Yeah. You want to show? Can I just wear it? No. Okay. Um, I'll take this one home later, but this yarmaka um I don't know if you know this about Rabbi Tao, but sometimes to put himself to bed at night, he goes on to Canva and it's whatever. It's his relaxation therapy. And if you follow him on Instagram, you see like just really random quirky stuff that at least he finds funny. But amongst his many very creative designs, I should say this one is is of the best. And um we decided to make it into a Yamaka. And thank you to Yankee Pearson of Ikeepa. Right. Or maybe we're going to have him on I think tomorrow we might. And what's his company called? Ikea. IA. Ikea. Anywhere. That's That's where you should get your customized yarmas and masks if that's still a thing. Here's the thing. There's a 7-Eleven, but instead of 11, can everyone see it? Instead of 11 says, like kind of rhymes with 11, but it's like Yeah. So the med says that all sevens are precious. And that's from the Reb's first bosani, seventh generation from the alterb. So, it's like our generation and that's beautiful. And it's got the Soul Words logo. Learn Torah at soulwords.org. Speaking of soulwords.org. Yeah. Um, last year giveaway for the Oh, so you forgot the plug. You know, this is a fundraiser, right? That's a good reminder that we are running a campaign. So, we have some beautiful giveaways that we're going to get to, but since we brought up the Yamaka, this Yamaka could be yours for a donation of $360. Am I right? I don't know. No, I'm not right. We have a different gift for that. Okay, one thing at a time. All I know is we're going to get to this Yarmaka, this very special Yamaka very soon. But we're going to go in order first. What's going on? I don't know. You just came from Crown Heights. Rabi Tab was a guest speaker at Pagisha in Crown Heights. It was amazing out on campus. Pagisha. Yeah. Yeah. At any given day, like how many things are you doing? A lot of things about because Thursday night you had a show, the night before you were we had the chol year. Yeah. Yeah. Live live Thursday night choling cheer. We call chol because we learn something different every week and we serve real chol. And right after this Monday, you're headed to Nebraska or something. To Omaha, Nebraska. Yeah. Monday I'm going to Omaha, Nebraska. The catchments. Yeah, that's right. All right. So, I don't know how you do it. You just came from Crown Heights. We're running a campaign. Come out on campus. It was amazing. Amazing. Hundreds of students from all over the country, all over the world. They had a group from England, a group from France. It was amazing for sure. And we're going to hear from a few people later on that are involved and uh have been, you know, the beneficiaries and have had long friendships with Rabbi Ta. that will give us a little peak into just what goes on behind the scenes in the world of Soulwords and the words of in the world of Rabbi Ta. So yeah. Um but first I don't know if you looked I've never seen anything like this. I mean I've donated to many campaigns on charity. I never seen this before. We went live at 8:00 and you're at over 25% of your goal. I was actually blown away the the pre-donations before the thing even went live. People couldn't even see their names. They just they were sending the donations when we went live. I saw we were already after we we're past 25%. Very very grateful. We have a lot of people who care about what we do. So that's wonderful. And there's already a lot of uh dedications and comments and things that came in even before the campaign went live. Um some of them I have here and you saw a bunch of them on the screen uh before we came on. That was a survey. We sent out a survey a couple weeks ago. We said we're going to have our live campaign and would anyone like to share any comments about soulwords and people wrote these beautiful things got all this feedback. Yeah. So then that was some of it. It's really amazing. Yeah. You know the thing is when when see when you go to a place like the shop is just saying I was at in in Crown Heights the Kabad on campus and Monday I'm going to Nebraska. So you see human beings and you can gauge the reaction. But the nature of the internet stuff which is my mic okay get closer to the mic. Past you know well year or two with with the whole pandemic. So we were forced to really focus on our online presence. So you put stuff out there, you upload it. I mean you can kind of you can see numbers but you don't really get the human reaction. You don't know did this person just, you know, have it on in the background and you don't know if they watch maybe they watched five seconds of it and then they left the room. So when people send in feedback and they say these amazing things, these wonderful things about how what we're doing is important in their life. It's it gives me I I I highly recommend that anyone should do a campaign just to get the feedback to find out people actually care. It's a wonderful thing. Anyways, so I was wondering if I could just read a few. So I was wondering if I could just read a few. Um, okay. We have Mayor Schmuckler from the Jet School. Continue your amazing life-saving work. It's a beautiful donation right there. Beautiful message. You know what they say? They say it takes one to no one. He's doing life-saving work. So he thinks I'm doing life life-saving work. He's running an amazing school and he's saving lives. And uh he's one of the good guys. And we have anonymous in support of I don't know if I'm supposed to read it if it's anonymous, but Chris of Del Poso in honor of So that's not who donated it. Anonymous donated. Anonymous donated. You can write. You can read the dedication. The dedication and bossy labor $1,000 in support of all the work you do. Wow. Barry Barl and Jenny Gullum $1,000 and they donate through the From the Inside Out podcast. So I should get Yeah, that's So let's go. So So in case you're um unfamiliar, the way it works is on charity they have, you know, the campaign, they have the goal, which I should mention, the goal is $180,000. Anything you donate is doubled. So right 100 bucks, it's $200 and so forth. Um but uh the rate we're going I think we're going to hit bonus round even the perhaps even with God's help. Yeah. So um and really a lot of these uh donations and a lot of the the hype around it we really owe um we we owe a debt of gratitude to some of your friends who have you know stepped up and and made these fundraising teams. And right now we have as last year um from the inside out podcast um Rifka Krinsky and uh Shottenstein. Very popular podcast show. Yeah. And uh some beautiful donations uh Mendel and Miriam Kinsky in loving memory of D'vorah Krinsky. Kana Futurf in memory of D'vorah Krinsky. Barl and Jenny Gullum. And we just said $1,000. Kana and Ari. Hey, Ari Marinowski. $200. You know Ari? Oh, yeah. My old roommate. Oh, there you go. Okay. Rachel Federman 360. So grateful for the parenting class and continued education. Wow. Yeah. Parenting webinar that was very very popular. Sure. Just we're going to hear something tomorrow um from someone who attended the workshop and wants to share a little bit of feedback. And we also have uh well, we'll get to that later uh tomorrow. Uh, I'm excited for this show. I don't even know what you planned, Kaim. I just I Kim is great. I just told him, "Plan show. I'll show up." Yeah. But yet, I still get all the Andy Richtor abuse. As if I'm just a Do you know that the title of his biography? No. Fake te fake laughter, real tears. Oh my goodness. Okay. So, Leia Dman 720 from the Inside Out podcast. Wow. This stuff is beautiful. Um, yeah. Yeah. So yeah, we have a lot of surprises here coming up. Okay, first of all, I don't know what kind of a mug that is for a talk show host. This is my real mug. It's not a talk show. No, it's a decent mug, but this is what I actually I got you a different one. All right. I actually think my wife gave me this. So, it's a nice mug. It's a nice mug, but I thought this would be nice. Let's see this one. Since we're in the pot of our understanding. Pot of our understanding. Yeah. Um Mendy Herz is the one who gave it that name. He calls the whole podcast studio the pot of our understanding because I wrote a book called God of our understanding. Anyway, so this says the same thing on the front and the back. Resentment, reliving your own mental anguish. That's good. Yeah. And I got one for myself. This is nostal if you grew up in New York or not just New York. The old bed coffee. We're help we're happy to serve you. Yeah. But this classic look. Oh, but once we're getting into aesthetics and stuff. Oh, you know what? Oh, we have something ready on the screen you were talking about. swords.org and some of the results that you've been seeing and we pulled the web stats of the last three years of the website because a lot of people did not know about the website and then last year we were reminding people about all the content that's there. So let's on the screen you should see uh yeah soulwords.org website traffic and what do we have there? There's a there's a story behind this because I mean I didn't even have a Soulwords website until I think three and a half years ago and uh you know I was making videos for 15 years I think but I was just putting it on all different platforms and then I realized I want to have one place where people can find my stuff. So we made a a little like beta version of the website. I don't think anyone knows of it. My brother designed the first version of this. Yeah. David designed the first version of it was very like did his best and we had the first version and I think that year maybe we had 500 unique visitors and then could they put it on again so I could see. Then we built the real one, the nice one and from spotlight design. Oh, they did a gorgeous job. And now what do we have? How many unique visitors last year or this year and we haven't even finished the year. Over 6,000 unique visitors. Wow. And that's just a website. I know personally. That's true. That doesn't count YouTube numbers, Spotify numbers. Torah anytime is a big uh platform. Yeah. Yeah. You have your Vimeo site and you have all those other platforms. It's just soul words. Yeah. Yeah. I tell you once you get hooked on YouTube, it's really hard. And I do the audio YouTube. I just have it playing in the back. Me a lot to your when when you go on YouTube. I want to tell you something ra you know the you could be subscribed to a bunch of things but you don't actually necessarily come up in your feed unless you select and then there's only one channel I think I only have like two channels that I actually want it coming up there's only one channel that I have actually I get a notification if I you hit the bell that's yours. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Thank Um, and I often have you well in the shower sometimes. I have it uh just going because I do YouTube audio and uh it ends up being easy. Okay. Uh so I think that's you know there's a lot more uh there. Check out uh there's a lot of old stuff there but there's a lot of old stuff on the website that you couldn't find on YouTube cuz I was pulling some clips for for tonight and tomorrow. We're going to watch some interesting clips. Okay. By the way, I would like to watch one now actually. Okay. Um I'm gonna ask him to queue it up. By the way, you're saying you're asking him. We should mention, yeah, that shame and from 321 Motion run our uh live stream and uh if anyone saw the promotional video that we did for this event, yeah, that was 321 Motion as well. And I think all of our live streams, last year's charity uh fundraising live stream, but also like all of our random live streams we do throughout the year. So, you don't see all the magic that's going on behind the camera, but there's a lot of magic going on behind the camera. Yeah. Okay. So, here's what I want to do. We have someone a special guest coming pretty soon. In the meantime, I want to first review the the core uh things about the campaign. Okay. And once we get that out of the way, we can get to some rich content. I also want a little tour of this place. Rich content. Yeah, we have some rich content. Rich. You told me I should censor myself and I'm like coming up with cheesy terminologies. All right, no problem. We're going to get to it later. I was not ready with the rich content, right? I just You have no idea. I've been biting. There's a hole in my tongue and using words like rich content. It's beautiful. No, it's beautiful. I like it. I appreciate it. You know, you promised me that we're going to do a podcast separately after this. And by the way, part to get time to produce the um what's this called? Live stream. Is that I have to do a podcast with him where he can say all of the jokes. But that was that was the deal last year and somehow it never happened. Really? Was that the deal last year? I part of it, but it just At least I'm consistent with But I got married. I got married. It says a year. Exactly. Schoola to run my live stream as a schooler for apparently. Yeah. My wife is here helping out. Gula's upstairs with the girls. Yeah. Yeah. She uh because I have these cards for a special segment we're going to have later tonight and I didn't have time to write them. Anyway, we have index cards. This is a very official talk show. All right. So, okay. The charity campaign is for $180,000 and hopefully we'll go into bonus round. The donations are being doubled as you see and they're going to be doubled throughout the uh campaign. And like I said, we're already at over 50,000. So, like it's pretty obviously where we're at right now. Where we at? Wow. Almost 60. 58,586. Amazing. And um there's some uh very significant donations from people that I want to get to, but just let's first review these fundraising teams that you have. So yeah, you have we we mentioned uh the Inside Out podcast and we're going to hear shortly from um one of the co-host, one of the co-host podcast. Wow. Okay. And uh we also have uh Rabbi Tab's parenting course they have gotten together and put together. Wow. Um, and they're, wow, they're already at uh, 18% of their goal. And we have a Schustman team, also someone that we're gonna hear from later. Yeah. Oh, we're gonna hear from one of the Schustmans. Yeah. Yeah. I want to Oh. Oh, you know what? Then we lose focus, but I have something to show you afterwards. And then we have Yeah. Bass Schneer. Yeah. That was formerly called the Crown Heights Shaw. And it's called Bay Schneer in loving memory of Schneer Hersh, who we lost last year. here was Justice Yortsite, wonderful, wonderful young man and uh part of a wonderful community of young young guys in Crown Heights who are really I I tell them all the time they're just the cream of the crop and we get together we fang we learn together we have a a thing we do at the oil from time to time uh get together on a Sunday and learn a mimer and then go into the it's a very beautiful group Yeah, who else? Who else do we have teams? Oh, and then here we have uh the Fresh Start Center. A retreat center. Fresh start retreat center. Last year we heard when they were in their just beginning stages. I don't even think they had launched. Yeah. Now that was the first public announcement about it and he's off to a running start. There's amazing uh communal activist especially in helping the Jewish community with issues all issues pertaining to trauma. People think I I I know about trauma. I say, "No, I'm just just a rabbi." But uh I did some podcasts with their staff. They had incredible staff, like world class, like the biggest experts. So I interviewed the world experts. People started thinking I was an expert. I'm not even a little expert. Not even not even a novice. I just know how to interview. So anyways, you can see it on Soul Words. We have a called the Fresh Start Podcast is one of the one of the series on Soul Words. Yeah. Those are amazing. And actually, one of the one of the comments, a few of them I saw, but one in particular says they want to see more of those. Oh, really? And I How much should they donate? Um, no, it was in the pre uh the the submission of the form, the survey. Yeah. And I want to share something about that in a moment, but uh I I have listened to those numerous times. Yeah. That is some of the distilled wealth and wealth of many books on trauma distilled into 25 minutes keyed in straight to the core of what it's all about. Um and and with the focus on the healing and um yeah. Okay. So that is our and then we have I didn't even talk about our matchers. Our matchers Ellie and Freigha Nash. Yeah. Very good friends of ours. And they Ellie was on last year. He was on the live on the live stream. We're going to have him again. You got tomorrow. Tomorrow. Beautiful. Yeah. I should fill you in on some of this. You don't check the I haven't been checking my WhatsApp. Yeah. Okay. I've been putting stuff on the Google Drive, but you're not uh Okay. And then of course, it's not in the Google Drive. I haven't looked at the Google Drive. And a Shotenstein. If it's not on WhatsApp, it doesn't exist even then. No. Yeah. What if you someone had your WhatsApp for a day? Yeah. Because when I look at you sometimes I'm like, "Wow, you're and then I see your WhatsApp activity and I'm like, "Wow, you really should look a lot worse." Yeah, I should. Thank you. I should I should look a lot worse. It's no wonder you were preoccupying yourself with the flower pots there that I uh he moved my flower pots outside cuz they were taking up too much space, but it's cold outside. So, I put them back inside upstairs where it's warm. If you would borrow my WhatsApp for the day, I I I wouldn't wish it on you. I mean, I don't know. Should we talk about stuff? No, because you brought drama. Yeah. Anyway, so we have Davidid and All right. Later tonight, we're actually gonna have Davidid and a wow really on Zoom. Yeah. Amazing. We have a few different special guests. All right. But that came up. Okay. Getty and Alisa Felic. Yes. Actually mentioned that Gatsy's uh grandmother passed away out of Shabas. I believe it was out of Shabas. I think the Levia is tomorrow. So, we're sending our condolences to the Felic family non-stop. Yeah. Yeah. And I I want to get to some other dedications, but first, like I said, we have mercy. If someone is gonna make a donation, they're going to be read on online on online air on the as I told you. Yeah. We were talking about this earlier. I would like to make a point to read all the donations. Okay. So, right now, we have a lot to get to because of all the ones that came in before we went live. Yeah. Yeah. Catch us up later. Yeah. I think I'm going to I'll just start from the beginning and then I'll steadily otherwise I'll never know where I'm left off. Okay, fine. But um we have a few orders of business. Okay. Right. Uh once we get out of this, you know what? Should we take a little break and we'll get back to the business in a moment. We just talked. Give us a little tour. What's going on here? I know you you've you actually have a a lot of attention to detail. Yes. I've tried to help you with a few things over here and then you're like you you play Max Pish as um we call it, my wife calls it. Yeah. You're like, "Oh, I don't know. I don't know how to do anything." And like, "Uh, whatever." I'm like, "Oh, I'll help you out. I'll buy you like and I start whatever. I don't want to get started here with my codependency, but I bought like all different kind of things sensitive to design." Then it turns out, you know, exactly what you want to do. Acoustic foams and they were great, but we got like these red one. You can't see them. They're on the camera, but we got these red ones. So, uh, yeah. Anyways, this is a very carefully curated space. I want So right now I don't think we're Could we zoom out? Okay. Yeah. Get the whole So basically every rabbi online is sitting in front Well, let me ask you. Every rabbi in line is sitting in front of a a shafa shafa. Yeah. Bookcase. A bookcase. Like that's the thing. You're sitting in front of a bookcase. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to create a space that is sort of like a physical embodiment of what we're doing contentwise. So, I guess now you see what I imagine my content is, but something that is Jewish and spiritual but fun and maybe a little nostalgic but also current. So, and then things that are like special to me in in a personal way like okay I don't know can can they zoom out and I can point to different things. I mean first could you come just so I see like right behind me is the Messia chart which was a chart that America's put out back in the 40s and it's a hard chart to get they don't Yeah. Let's zoom out again. So right behind me is the America's that you used to see in the talks and tales right yeah well the the the the Yeah. And al in the cither sometimes they have this in the back of the cither and the te of sasham sither. So that's that's that you have on the other side you have the tanya map from kahos which was like my first big project that I did the Tanya map that was back uh I mean I was put your name on the map no pun intended. Yeah, couple I was married for a couple years. So talking about maybe 20 years ago I did the Tanya map and Kohos put it out and so we have that there. We have all the albums. Now where did albums come from? So this you're acting like I didn't use anything that you contributed to the studio. Also is a big collector of vintage vinyl of all genres but especially Jewish stuff, Yiddish stuff. So had multiple copies of some of these albums. These are like the old authentic albums. These are these aren't coming back. There's very limited amount of these. Very limited amount. These are vintage things. These are on the wall. Also, you notice like we have can you get in the center over here? We have the the Reb said that it means every kid's room is called. So said in the room like you have here you have a cither a Tanya and a kish those are like the main and then there's can they see that the pushka is a fixated in the wall they can't see it so the screen is behind it is behind but don't yeah yeah you could can they see it now the real deal yeah so the the pushka the lucite pushka which was actually like designed for this space too that's actually fixed in the wall that's another I think. And what else do we got? And can we give a shout out? These beautiful details and not just the details, but D'vorah Booket. Dvora Booket Design. That's right. Uh D'vorah Booket Design on on Instagram and she did the interior design. She designed for Gem their studio where they do interviews. So that's how I knew she could do this. Yeah, D'vor is the sweetest person ever. And I should also mention Bradley Cresman from Saskatoon. He got involved. He was a guy who was watching my stuff online and he contacted me and he um he runs a company up in Saskatoon where they do like uh you know remodeling, home remodeling. So he was the one who came up with the concept of the brick in the back. And by the way, I should also mention who put up the brick. My sons Yro and Aram Abba put up the brick that you see. This is real brick. Yeah. The real brick they put they put up they put up the brick. Oh, good. Stick to that for a second. Yeah. Yeah. And uh Oh, and the table. This was this was designed I don't people don't realize this is like specially the exact width of this uh wall and it's like was like this T-shape for this exact type of This was like delivered this way. This is like a serious was delivered as three desks and then they had to screw them together. But this is three desks. This was made This was made in Arizona. Some guy in Arizona made this. Took me like three months to wait for the shipment. And uh what else should we tell you about it? Oh, what's it behind there? The New York Times. The New York Times. That's You know what's funny? Because I'm going to Omaha on Monday. This picture is in Omaha. This is actually at Boytown Orphanage. Last time I was in Omaha. So, Rabbi Katsman set it up that I went to uh Boytown Orphanage to speak to their uh their mental health team about the spirituality of addiction. So the New York Times religion reporter heard about it. He's like, "That's wild. The kidic rabbi going to a Catholic orphanage to talk about the spirituality of addiction and recovery." So he flew out to Omaha. And that was the article in the New York Times. And that's the picture. And that's the article in the New York Times behind me. And then below New York Times, you see that the the what's that? LED. Sharp. Yeah, that's sharp. Yeah. Yeah. I think I think Vor Booket made that. Well, she didn't make She ordered it from a guy who does LED signs. Yeah. I would say it may be unc Well, you do great with the the crowdsourcing. People appreciate you and you somehow you're in no one knows exactly where does this guy live? What does it uh and it's sort of you're like a real person and when you put yourself out there? Yes. Yeah. Real person with with feelings and a private life. Private life. And sometimes uh yeah yeah if you cut me do I not bleed half a do you not eyes let's find out by the way which leads me to uh test kislv and yudis it's a perfect segue and we didn't even set that up you cut so yeah you know the about the mit so the mit should mention that today was tess kisv the nth day of the Hebrew month of kislv which is the birthday and the yard site of uh Rav the son of the alterba the son of the balatana who we call the mitlerb and his his birthday and his yard of the same the same date and then yudis is his we have a lot of those in kabad because the rebba goes to jail and comes out it's called a it's called redemption so the of the is today yudis and they say about the mit that he was so full ofidisic teachings that if you would cut him blood wouldn't come out would come out and the Reb once explained that blood is kay blood is the vitality of a person it's what keeps you alive so for the mitbidis wasn't something that was abstract or philosophical or ideological was his lifeblood literally is what kept him alive in the physical sense should also I want to mention something also they say about the mitba that he was not just prolific in the sense that he wrote a lot and he uh spoke a lot but the manner of transmission was like a gushing stream. They uh he's called the width of the of the river like a like a forceful stream of gushing revelation and to the extent that when he would say this when he would deliver orally a mimer he would say sha sha he was no one was talking you could hear a pin drop he was speaking to himself his brain was working so quickly he was saying sha sha to himself to quiet the stream of consciousness and they say when he would write he would be so um just gushing forth with acid this that he had to have attendants who would remove the paper from him because he would keep writing off of the page and then they would have to take away the old page and put in the new page so he could continue writing. So today I was like you mentioned I was in Crown Heights for the kabad on campus pagisha. So I ded in 770m had the the today this morning shakas in 770. So I'm standing in front of upstairs 770 and I see my friend someone who I respect a real uh one of the big uh teachers of this in our generation Reb Simmon Jacobson. So I said simmon what's going tell me tell me something good for tas kisliff. So he told me that when he was I think he was still a bach but uh he was one of the team that worked on the seafim which was uh anthologizing the teachings of the mitab's son-in-law and successor. Um so he had access to them to manuscripts and in fact in that time I'm talking about in the 70s there was a big like a big finding of manuscripts that were in Warsaw the previous rebay had left in Warsaw. He was managed to get much of it out but there was there was a there was a a lot of it that was that was still in Warsaw and it came over in the 70s. So Debb Simmons said that among those manuscripts that he was that he merited to be able to have access to he said there were original manuscripts of the Mitb and what he told me is that not every page but it wasn't uncommon to see that in a manuscript of the miterb the bottom line would be cut off. And if he hadn't known what we know he would have thought maybe you know somehow maybe the paper got cut. who knows you know what he would have attributed to it but he he knew very well why was the bottom line of text cut off because the mitba was writing off of the page with with his excitement with his like I called it his the gushing stream of so that's anyways that's the mit and that's today it's a it's a big deal meritorious day it's a it's a yim zakai it's a meritorious day So, birthday yard site and then Google at home. Yeah. Yep. And interestingly, the yard site was the year following the the redemption. So, it's actually it's interesting. There was never a proper uh first anniversary of that redemption because the redemption was yudisv the 10th day and then a 10th day of kisv and then the next year tess kisv the ninth day meaning the day before they would have observed the first anniversary of the redemption they uh they unfortunately there was a histoalquist there was the passing so it's an interesting interesting tidbit so we just hit 60,000. Really? Yep. So I I That's a third of the way cuz the goal is 180. My math tells me that 60 is a third of 180. I'll take your word for it. Cut my veins. You're not going to get any math. Okay, let's go. I'm going to go start from the beginning. Every time we hit another 10,000, we're going to go we're going to do some mentions and that way we're going to because there's so many and um I I want to get to all of them and catch up. So every time we hit another 10,000 can we just do like a like set of Ben Hman just like rattle. No I mean respectfully these are these are friends and supporters and people don't make fun of me with the if I mispronounce. So go slowly. So go slowly. Okay. Okay. And we're not they're not all loaded. So I'm just going to start from what I'm not going to interrupt. We're not saying side jokes. No side stories. No nothing. Let's just give attention and honor to the people who are supporting us. Go ahead. You know, while these are loading, there's another a significant donation that came in from Avi Fishoff. That was a pre-donation that I saw once we went. Um, and there was a nice video that uh that you sent out the other day. Beautiful story. Can we show it? Yeah. Um, Shami, could you uh pull up clip for us and then by that time I'll have all the other ones loaded. Um, yeah. You pull up uh five have you want any background for this what it is? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So this clip that went out it's already playing. Okay. Should we give the back? Okay. Let's give the background. Yeah. So just the background is that um Avi invited me to come down to his crisis center where he has parents who um were seeking support and guidance in how to how to parent uh their children who are in uh difficult situations. And um I've been there a number of times. I think this I think I I think this was my third visit to the crisis center in Flatbush on Skenctity Avenue and I've also been to the Shabaton to the Kashinavi Shabaton. I think I was there twice and um it's an incredible community of parents who are really giving support and love to their children and helping to heal them emotionally and spiritually. And uh it's yeah it's an incredible community. The the parents there they uh I I'll tell you the the level of of sensitivity and compassion in that in that group. It would be well observed by the entire community if we could emulate that that type of love and patience and and uh tolerance and I think we'd all be better for it and happier for it and and stronger for it. Anyways, that that that's that's about so I went down there and this is a story that I told to the crowd over a beautiful story. I saw it and I I added it to uh Yeah. Could you uh cue uh clip number five? Can I tell a twominut story, please? Okay, two minutes. Time me. This story happened in the 1960s. There was a Labavature kid in America who went completely off and his parents were desperate and they begged him to go to the Reb. He said, "What do I want with the Reb? I'm done with that stuff." But they begged him. They got him and he went in to Yiddis. 3:00 in the morning, 4 in the morning, whatever it was. And um the Reb would always ask people to sit. Now would never sit. It was just a known thing that the Reb asks you to sit, but that's a formality. You do not sit. And this baker knew that. So the Reb said sit sat to show not. And if that's not enough to really make the point he wanted the Rebba to understand who he was, he pulls out a pack of cigarettes in the Reb's room and he pulls out a cigarette and puts it in his mouth and he pulls out a lighter and he's going to light up a cigarette and smoke during the he's trying to light the lighter and as much as he's trying to show he's a tough guy, as much as he's trying to show he has no respect fact. He's shaking. He's shaking. His hands are shaking. And he he can't get the lighter lit. And as he's shaking, he realizes that EB is standing right over him now. Now he's even more nervous. And he looks [Music] up and that Eba hands him a match. Now the baka that this happened to is a today from I don't think the story requires any explanation. Wow. Ah okay let's dive in. Somebody asked me afterwards what does it have to do with parenting? There was a story about the rabbit. It reminds me of that that uh classic someone goes by the rabbit just going lauding. You're amazing. You're amazing. You're amazing. Oh, the that was the Gordon Zach story. He told the debi you're amazing. Yeah. So the rebbit says, "So how is that helping the people? What benefit will that be to the community?" Yeah. Right. like but that seems to be a a very human instinct to try to deflect it towards um I heard something I um like I I listen to my surav sometimes it's my connection but anyway so I cassettes the old WLCC cassettes I have an MP3 I bought from Jam and I have it on my uh my eye you remember those old cassettes that you got at WLCC I think is that what's WLCC now Je bought WLCC noc What's the location? The location as Essenbench. That's Essen Bench. But that's not where the original Essenbench was where Chocolatte is. You're right. Right. Right on the corner. Essenbench is where WLC glasses glasses store. The glasses store. There something before the glasses store. I don't know. Is there a glasses store there? There is. But are there a corporate sponsor? No. Then there's no glasses store as far as we're concerned. Okay. Let's get with these donations. So, oh, what was I saying? The mic. Reb is an old clip and Reb is saying how ironic is it that I mean we need to understand things um and relate to them. So that's that's understandable but you know um he says it ideally the way or the way it used to be or the way you know people who study who are connecting with ideas rather than sensation. Mhm. So if they hear something about a miracle, you know, it's like, okay, and then, you know, whatever. They move on. They go to eat kougal or but the Reb said it the reverse. The Reb said like, but then you have people who they hear an an abstract idea, an esoteric idea, and then they go on to move and eat kal. It's like it's supposed to be that's not supposed to be uh what what did I say? Yeah, exactly. that the miracles are not supposed to be what uh what excites us. She's saying people then they hear a miracle story and they get so um you know moved and like you know and he said uh people in this room they were witness to miracles open miracles that they experienced in Russia with with the freed and other things and he's like that wasn't what what really motivated them or moved them that was just part for the course. Mhm. Um and uh what are some of the funny terminology used about like you know that that but yeah see people sort of and I I I raised that because there's some content later that I set up that I would like to get to and uh yeah well we'll get to that later. But let's get to some other of these donations. So, we of course want to thank Avi Fishoff and uh for all his work and for uh for the for the love you wrote a dedication, right? You see these people's dedication. I can't scroll back up. Okay. Anyways, it's fine. All right. We're going to get to it. We'll get to it. All right. But you should read people's dedications because it's so nice. People spent time to write their dedication. We're reading everything. All right. We're going to go anonymous 72 $72. Jane Marcus and these are came in from previously and we're just J Marcus $200. Aha Ree $246 in memory of Jacob Benmul anonymous $36. Okay. Jeffrey Grunfeld 100 bucks in memory of Mishi Yakab and Sarah Grunfeld. Anonymous 500 in honor of my wife and children. Anonymous 36. Yasani Sarah Bransky $72 anonymous 360. Thank you for your great advice. And this was sent through the uh from the inside out podcast uh fundraising page. $22 Ginsburg. Uh Sergey Sevchuk $180. Misha Riby $72. You're doing such great work. Anonymous $200. Dmitri Celita $200. Nice. And um we'll come right back to that in a second. Actually, anonymous $1,000. Ella and Gerson Lurman, $2,000. Uh D'vora and Ari and Ariel Stern, $722. And uh that was given through Rabbi Tab's parenting course. Ella and Gersian Lurman $2,000. That's very, very nice. Yeah, I know. I said I just wanted that. It was a nice number. I didn't get All right. Yeah. Hey, I'm not the guy. So, I get to like hype up if a number is significant. Right. It's not right. It's only uh All right. Yeah. Mitzvah. Yeah. Exc. And they're all I I think. Okay. I know you and I, like you said before, the survey that you sent out. This is also goes a long way to sort of give you to motivate me. I'm not going to words. It is extremely motivating to see that people care and they've taken time and they're giving their hard-earned money to support what we do. And yes, absolutely. I can tell you, you know, can I make can I say like a little aside right now and you'll get back to the dedications because I don't I don't want to miss any of the dedications. I was telling somebody the other day um I was uh I was saying you know there's a famous story about Alfred Noble who if I ask you well who is Alfred Noble who is Alfred Nobel Peace Prize right but that's the whole point the story is that Alfred Noble invented dynamite and he was reported dead he wasn't dead but they he was reported dead and so the newspaper wrote an obituary was falsely reported dead and they wrote an obituary and in the obituary they said inventor of dynamite so he read He was like, "That's how I'm going to go down in history as the inventor of dynamite. It's something that's used to to to destroy." He said, "You know what? I got to I got to change my legacy." And so he made the Nobel Peace Prize. And now he's known as the guy who made the Nobel Peace Prize. So at any rate, um the campaign for me is like the it is people are so nice. They're so kind. Thank God to be able to hear what people think of all the work that we're doing and how it benefits them and that they value it. They actually I mean they take time make a donation. They write a dedication. It's it's incredibly gratifying to know people care. They're liking it. They're getting use from it. They feel that it enhances their lives. And yeah, I I mean, I'll tell you, I remember from last year's campaign that it's really a great way to just redouble I'm saying it like I'm advising everyone to do it. Although I am I am advising everyone to do a charity campaign, but for me it was a great way to say, "Hey, whatever I've been doing, keep it up and do more." Which is I mean, you can't you can't get simpler than that. Just stay on track. Keep doing it. It's working. Don't stop. To the contrary, right? Do more. And that's you know, you were saying before like, oh, Thursday night I did a live stream and and then Shabas I was in Khali and Monday I'm going to Omaha. Yeah. And those are the events, but I sort of hang out with you quite a bit and I see the amount of things that happen privately that you're people who just, you know, have your number and you never seem to be able to say no much to Don't tell them. Okay. Okay. Don't say no. No, no. But um we'll work on that later. But uh but no, I I I it's not it's not easy. And I and I do see how So I have an idea. Yeah. We're going to read every I'm going to read every But I wanted to say though to that point, if you can't afford whatever, if even if you give $2 or $1 that will turn into $2. I'm going to read it and you'll be able to, you know, write a donation. I'm write a dedication. You'll write a dedication and and and you'll also be very because I know there's younger people who watch a lot of your stuff. That's true. And I don't obvious, you know, not everyone has uh you know their own money. I remember being a have two dimes to rub together. Although today I know things are different. They got credit cards and credit cards and miles. Yeah. Speaking of that, um we'll get to the monthly. So even if you donate a dollar Yeah. uh whatever. We're going to read your um your dedication and you'll be you'll be going a long way to because I think seeing the numbers of the amount of people who donate and seeing the the feedback um is very uh is very uh important. Okay. I was speaking Ed of Shabas Dehuda Gorwitz from from charity and I said to him, you know, last year we had like I think 680 uh individual donors. I said, "Just give me an understanding of like what size organization has that many donors?" And he was like, like uh a kabad house of a city. So I said, "Well, that's a great way to think of it because 99% of what I'm doing now is virtual. So how do I imagine my community?" So he said, "Like a city." I said, "A big city or like a, you know, normal city." So, you know, God willing, maybe we'll get 800 individual donors and then it'll be like a Yeah. a bigger city. Yeah. So, I read I read a I read a uh donation earlier and I said I'm going to come back to it. Yeah. So, before I even say the name, Shamai, could you cue up? There's a clip 13, I believe. Let me make sure. Um, but we're going to get back to all the donations. We're going to get back to all the nations. We have a special guest. You remember what we got up to? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Don't lose your place. I'm I'm marking it. Okay. We have a special guest and I'll introduce it with this clip. Could you play clip 13 and then we're going to go directly to Zoom. One last thing. I have a friend boxer um Demetrius Celita. So he one time he said that he had a trainer, forget the trainer's name, but he said his trainer told him that when it comes to being great in in boxing or in anything really, but he said it in context of boxing, so his trainer told him, "A lot of guys have what it takes, but very few do what it takes. Okay, we got the zoom. We should see the zoom on screen. Rabby, turn around because we're live. Oh, okay. I was writing a message to Shami. Okay, so we should have a special guest. Wait, wait. We're not hearing him. Oh. Hello guys. Hey Dimmitri, I hear him. Where? Where? It's going to come up on the screen in a second. Dimma, how you doing? I don't see you, but I hear you. Okay, we have I also don't see you, but I hear you. There is about 30,000 cables and inputs and outputs going on. I don't know how I see them. Wow. Okay, Grace. Demetri, I asked you to come on uh because I I had seen your uh donation um come in and I I know you from many years ago and I thought it would be good uh for you to come on and uh so thank you for doing this and just you know if we have uh two minutes of your time uh or three or four um well yeah if you would just tell us a little bit about how you know Rabbi Tab and uh a little bit about soul words and your relationship with it. Sure. Well, first of all, who is I mean just to introduce him. I mean the clip introduced a little bit but um he's a pugilist. Is that the right English word? It's called one of them. It's one of them. Okay. Yes. And a promoter. And a promoter. Yes. Yes. And a good guy. and the varmid. So, um it's it's uh great to to be on with you, Rabbi, and um uh hopefully one of many uh contributions to the great work that you do from from for me. So, really the reason why uh I feel really connected to you and you probably don't even know the story. First of all, it's amazing that you remember this story that I told I don't know how many years ago um in such detail. Pretty incredible. It was a great line. It made a huge impression on me. Um, so I I uh I got a letter from from the from the Rebi uh a couple of times uh years apart to learn uh duties of the heart sh and the first time which was maybe 10 years ago or eight years ago I didn't really pay attention to it. And the second time which was more recent, I paid attention to it and I ordered the book and uh the book is good but then I spoke with a with a friend of mine and I told him that I really want to learn it and he said why don't you listen to Rabbi Rabbi Shay's top uh lectures on this and I think there's 27 or 29 of them on on your website and I listened to them and they were really incredible and uh uh really uh you know uh broadened my my my scope of Judaism and and uh and uh so I'm very grateful to you. Wow. And uh so you you've inspired me and and you know and I know that we we appeared together on a a PES program many years ago. That's and Lake George. We were together Lake George. Right. Right. But I I gotta say I am a huge for for for lack of a better word fan and follower. I love your work. I love how you speak. I love your messaging. I love your honesty. and uh and uh and you do a great service to the Jewish people. Wow. And I am very honored uh to be your friend and to listen to you and to be on this program. Thank you. I didn't even know that we learned shaken together. I just uploaded it. I didn't know who's on the other end. Right. Right. So I'm I'm one of the beneficiaries. That's amazing. Amazing. This is great. We got we did a campaign. We got to find out. Demetri was learning [ __ ] talking with me. Yes. Yep. Hashem. So, so, so, yes. So, so I I I I first I ordered the book originally translated into English. Then I listened to your shir. Now I have the book that's just the book that came out with the Reby's commentary on it. Yeah. That I'm I'm about halfway through. Fellow edition. Yeah. Yes. Exactly. Yeah. So, so through and actually through, you know, through it uh I was able to to to see some of your other great work and uh and uh made me realize how much of a deep learning man you are. So, I I'm I'm uh I'm very grateful for our new relationship, I would say. Okay. I'm humbled. I'm humbled. That's that's delightful. I did not know that you had been learning with me online. I just I knew that we had crossed paths a bunch of times. I saw you in Detroit a bunch of times in Yeshiva. Yeah. I've been I've been laughing laughing with your jokes. Oh, you like the jokes? Yeah. Kim also likes the jokes. Yeah. You spoke to Kim Marcus recently, by the way. It's another mutual buddy of ours. I I didn't. He's actually the one that referred me to your website. Oh, very good. We got to call him Marcus. We got to get him out. I think is Ellie Marcus coming later on. He is. He is. Yeah, that's Ellie is big as as as you said as it says in Sher talking that good things come through good people. So u Marcus uh was uh the led me to you. That's right. That's right. Good things. Yeah. If you're if you're a good person, Hashem will use you as an instrument to bring good things to other people's lives. That's right. Hashem's a good guy. And one of the things that that that I want just want to say outside of it is that, you know, there's been a lot of emphasis now on on mental health, on cognitive psychology, on these different instruments that people use to better their lives, to understand themselves, to understand others. And you know, and I feel Judaism obviously it's been embedded in Judaism for many many years and it takes great minds like yourself to be able to kind of explain it in a applicable language to to everyone else. But um uh you know I so I find lots of gems on your Instagram page and and on your website uh and um uh wishing you continued uh work and may your reach of people just grow and grow and may inspire and uh and uh uh inspire and give clarity to people from all over the world. Amen. Wow. It's beautiful. Braha. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you for joining us. Amazing. Wow. This is amazing. Get Dmitri on with us. It's a beautiful, beautiful guest. Thank you. Wow, that was so nice. I didn't know he was learning with Yeah, we have a lot of surprises coming up for you. Beautiful. Oh, okay. I I forgot two orders of business that I want to get to before we read more um um dedications. So, there's an option, by the way, if for some reason someone is unfamiliar with the charity platform or um it finds it easier to donate through PayPal or Cash App or even zel on charity.comst. That's where everything is, by the way, in case you're watching on YouTube or somewhere else or you're watching us through a different you found us on a link somewhere. A lot of people came through CO should mention Mikasa CO. Thank you. Always always so helpful in promoting what we do. Yeah. And if um Yes. So if you're on the place to go to donate and you can watch it there and see who's donating is charity.comst for Rabbi Shay Tab. And uh when you go there you'll see a lot of links. You'll see contact links. You'll see links if you want to donate via PayPal, Cash App, or Zel. That info is there. And uh you'll see our contact info. If you want to send in any questions, by the way, I'm not sure if we'll get to them tonight, but if you send them in now and tonight, we'll get to them tomorrow. Yeah. Q&A's tomorrow. We have a special session. I if we can get to I would like to do one tonight. Tonight. Yeah. And my uh shout out my brother Zman prepared a little special intro for that. Little video intro. Tom does a lot of video. Yeah. Yeah. We have a few things. All right. We'll find out. A lot to come. Amazing. Uh this is a very well produced show. Oh, thank you. Not bad for Andrew Rick. Okay. So, um you know, and then uh there's also a WhatsApp broadcast list. You can subscribe to get alerts of when there's new um new classes or new material. Uh, and you could just uh that's the Rabb Tabs um WhatsApp subscription list and that's all over there and allwhere. Yeah, if you go to the Oh, everything on the charity page. All that contact information contact. Yeah. And then of course you can always go to soulwords.org but for right now. But don't don't Yeah. I'm just saying in case. Yeah. For future. Okay. So, charity.com. Yeah. And by I want to thank uh we want to thank your daughter Tyelab. Table runs runs the she runs Solowarts. She is the the power behind the whole Soul Words office. So all those emails and the WhatsApp that's um Yeah. And she's going to have quite a bit of work to do after this because we got merch. Oh yeah. So I sort of got to it and then I forgot to get back to it. But and we're still reading the list of all the donations that dedications. Yeah. Okay. So um Rabbi Tab had this beautiful idea for a yarmaka and then where uh for the first time uh which this has not been released yet but we'll consider this I guess a soft release of something very special and you could see it on your screens. This is called the four cups Hagada and I'm holding a copy right here. It has not advanced copy. yet it has not uh it's gone to press but they have not been released yet but we have one copy here I don't know if the camera you know you know who did the spotlight design spotlight design who did by the I mentioned earlier that spotlight design did my website I should also mention that they did the map of Tanya behind you the map of Tanya behind you they did the map of Tanya in fact in fact they were co-sponsors of the map of Tanya because they basically donated their time to do it Yeah, because no one could no one could understand what the map map of I made the map of Tanya cuz I wanted it for me because I was losing track of what was going on in the chapter. So, I made it for me and I wrote it all up uh on like scraps of paper and then I put it into a word doc and it didn't look like anything and I brought it to Spotlight and they were like, "Yeah, I get what this is." And they turned it into that and then Yeah. Yeah, it was a trifold um like a go. Well, there's two things. The first it was the poster and then they they made the personal size the the trifold that fold that folds out. But it was originally designed as a as a poster just like that map of Tanya. You can get it at khote.org. Khote. That's how you got to say it. Yeah. Anyways, but Spotlight also did the four cups. How go? Go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah, I'm going to get to it. And by the way, speaking of the M the the the Tanya CDs I've been listening to. You know who sponsored the Tanya CDs? Tanya CDs. No one uses the CDs anymore, but I I have some tiny CDs still because made Well, so I'll tell you who made it and I'll tell you why I have some. Uh Bar Dman made the time CDs. Yes. And when he made it, he said, "I will only sponsor it if you promise it will always be in print." I'm gonna message Bar see message him right now and okay so Barak said you I will only sponsor Tanya CDs if they will always be in print. You cannot tell me we went out of print. So we sold out after like I don't know a year or two. We sold out and so I had sold out doesn't mean like we compromised our principles. Sold out means we sold all of the extant um inventory. Anyways, so I but I made a deal with Bor. You got to keep it in print. So I made another run of them and so I still have like a hundred of them left. Tanya, they're they're in the closet. I can I can get them. We can bring them on in a minute. Uh because it's really it's they're tell Open up the closet over there. There's Tanya CDs. Bring them on. There's a thousand computers and speakers going on there. Don't open that. Don't open the closet. Okay, fine. Anyways, the show later government sponsored the Tanya CDs. Yes, that was a threehour overview of Tanya that was recorded in Sydney, Australia. The land down. Yeah. While Oh, you all has. Okay. Bring it on. Bring it on. Okay. Look at this. All right. Okay. So, you'll have to old school. You get a CD adapter, put it in the computer, and then and then you three CD box set. It's beautiful. Box set. Yeah. When's the last time you bought a box set? Yeah. Anyway, so the um these are great. These are great. The audio is beautiful. And um short pieces, you know, who produced the So I I'll tell you something about the the audio. You're saying the audio is beautiful. The audio was produced. See, I recorded it live in Sydney and then I brought the audio back and it was this little MP3 recording somebody recorded on like a little portable thingamajig. I gave it to a guy named Garrett Haynes. Who's Garrett Haynes? He runs Tree Lady Studios in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. Okay. And I went to him and I said, "I have this three-hour recording, and I want to make it into CDs." Garrett is a Grammy award-winning sound engineer. Okay? So, he's very talented. He made it sound so beautiful. And then, but here's the weird thing. I started getting comments from people that, "Oh, we love your Tanya CDs." My kids, when we're in the car, I don't know if it's a such a thing anymore with the new cars, but there was definitely a time when every new uh Honda Odyssey, that's the the the Jewish car, right? The Odyssey, had like three CDs, right? And it had like a CD changer in the Honda Odyssey. Okay. So anyways, so a lot of people start coming over to me like, "Hey, you know, when I'm driving carpool and I have my kids, they all say, "Play the Tanya CDs." And I'm like, "What? That CD is not for kids." I mean, it's not like it's inappropriate for kids. I just can't imagine it would be interesting for kids. But I a lot of people were coming over to me saying, "No, our kids love the Tanya CDs." And then it it hit me. Garrett, who engineered the Tanya CDs, he won, you know what? He he won his Grammy for children's recordings. So, apparently he knows like the perfect sweet mix for children. That's great. That's like the nicer version of how they sneak sugar into some of these foods to like get kids, right? But this is only to sneak Tanya into their lives and to enrich them spiritually. Yeah. I would have never have thought to even share that piece of interesting information. Yeah. I don't think people realize the extent and myself I'm learning more about audio and stuff, but the extent of it's one of those things where you don't know it until you hear it. You know what Ellie Marcus, who Ellie Marcus is coming later, right? We have Ellie Marcus coming at soon. Yeah. He told me that there's a certain mix that they use for Jewish music. It's like a standard mix and if you don't use it then people won't buy. Is it like it's like a certain mix that just you we were talking about something else the other day and it's like ironic but is that a very good one or meaning that people are used to it doesn't necessarily mean that it's quality. Oh no it doesn't mean that it's quality just means that's what people are used to. That's right. That's right. You heard about this whole Yiddish controversy? The Yiddish the the dualingo. Yeah because they use the the honky Yiddish. They use the sat Yiddish. If anyone I' I've been my wife already learned Spanish. She's talking to the the cleaning woman in Spanish. Okay. Full conversations and she's been it's a great app. Um, so anyway, I heard about it because of this Yiddish controversy and you were telling me so anyway without getting into long the guy who was defending why they chose to use the Hungarian Hungarian pronunciation because that's what who's ke the the really like you know the die hard you know yish were very up in arms but he said it's like going into like a takaria in Tijana and saying this is this is not real Mexican food it doesn't taste anything like Chipotle So it's like people are used to something and then that is what it has to be right there like the quality uh right but that is something that's I guess amazing and kids are sensitive enough to it all right that's enough of we like taking these rabbit holes let's get back we got a lot of business we got to get back on track go ahead you had the hag spotlight design yeah so this hagot I want to hear more about it how it came about and we're going to we had a slide up there before. A beautiful slide. Maybe put the slide back on. Sorry, it's very hard to deal with it with the ADHD stuff. Ah, there you go. So, that's a little And I know the quality isn't good because I took it from a PDF. Um, by the way, thank you much, Nick. You mentioned Spot Design. If you're watching, thank you. Um, and uh, so it's called the four cups Hagada, a recovery Hagada. Yeah. Edited by Rabbi Sha Ta, author of God of Understanding. You want to tell us a little bit about this? Uh, sure. We're going to have actually, you know what? We're going to get to it later. We have some a special guest coming later on. You'll talk about it with him. Okay. But you were going to say this is not going to be The reason you were talking about it now is because it's a giveaway. Exactly. Okay, fine. So, it's merch. That's a word I learned tonight. Merch. Merch. Yeah. So, Okay. Tell us about the merch. um for a donation of anything of um where do I have it? I wrote it down. I want to say the wrong number. Here we go. A donation of $360, right? Which effectively is $720. You'll get a copy of that. I got a uh mailed to you and it's going to be coming soon and you'll have it certainly before Pes probably before then. Um, so that's for $360 and up. Uh, if you donate uh $5.40 and up, right? So 5.40 effectively is 1080, you'll get the Yamaka and the Hagada. Uh, so just beautiful gifts. Obviously, you know, you're donating because you're donating, but we want to say thank you. And uh, beautiful yarmaka soul words. You get to share the good gospel. I'm sorry. And then you'll have uh the beautiful Hagada too. We're going to hear more about that uh later. I want to say something else. You could also donate monthly recurring donations. Yeah, me too. Recurring donations if it's you know you don't you could uh donate like $10 in the recurring 12 months and it's 120 but then it's doubled so it's 240. So you basically put in $10 recurring donation effectively for us is 240. Yeah. So, you're build for 12 months and we get that full amount and it's doubled, right? And these uh the merch giveaways apply just the same. So, if you donate 36 a month, right? Um then uh you get the Hagata because that equals, you know, around the same. And uh what are the price points? What are the So 36 a month, which is effectively 72, right? It's effectively 72 a month. Yeah. Right. Right. But I mean the full amount, what does that come to? 72 times 12 times I don't know. Okay, fine. Either way, for 36 a month, seven. You want me to figure it out? No. Okay. 36 a month, you will get the Hagata for $45 a month and up, which I just did the difference, but made it monthly. Okay. So, $36 recurring. You want to geek out with math, don't you? Kind of. $36 recurring, you get Hagada. Hagada. Okay. Four cups a $45 recurring. You get you get and upward. Yeah. You get Hagada and the Yarmaka. And the Yamaka. Yeah. Okay. Wow. It's a significant um Okay. What about people didn't do recurring? What if they gave that amount just as they did it already? No, we're going to go back. Oh, those people get also. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everyone who already gave is getting this. Oh, okay. Fine. So then we should figure out what is the the uh we're probably going to need more, right? Because at the rate this is going have to order more. Yeah. Okay. So we'll order more. We'll order more. We'll order more. By the way, there's some other stuff that we have. Uh okay. So 36 * 2 * 12 is 864. So any anybody that's effectively 864. So anyone who does um 432 is effectively 8.64. So they're going to get the hagod. And then 45 time 2 * 12 is,080. That's effectively,80. So anyone who does 540 is going to get Does that make sense? Yeah. 540 a month is No, not a month. 540 total. If they do it right now, then they get the goddamn and the yamaka. Yeah. Okay. Wow. And you're going to go back to all the people who gave for it. Yeah. It's only right. It's only right. It's like always like like people who uh the the first No. Absolutely. Yeah. As I said, we're going to keep Table busy and we're going to order more Hagadas if necessary. This is not any Hagada. This is the four cups. Yeah. Hear about it later. We don't We have someone coming on. Okay. Hopefully in about five minutes. Okay. And I wanted to get to something else first. I wanted to continue the donations before I lose my my marked spot. Okay. Um I'm gonna be quiet. Yeah. Ella and Gian Lurman. That's the one I read right before. All right, the next one. D'vora and Ariel Stern. That I did say as well. Sippy Weiss $200. Anonymous 30 cichlid inhabal or heav. I don't know. Probably. Okay. $108. Uh, Mendel and Rhy gross balam with Rabbi Tab's parenting courses. Well, excuse me. All right. Leave and mushki. Leavy and mushki dub $200. Kayla Stein $120. Dvary Reb Weber 72. Lily Nishmas a loser Ben Dovet. I'm also a loser Benovit, but I'm a loser. Okay. Um the $22. Okay. All right. Um what what did I miss? This rabbi is a good guy for his overall work for Claws. That's good. Why'd you laugh? No, the name. Oh, okay. Was it a troll type thing? Yeah. Can I do it? Uh, if you question it, Caim, probably not. I don't know. All right. No, no, it's not. Yeah, it's usually pretty bad. It was a troll thing. No, it's not the Okay, skip it. What if it's the guy's real name and now? No, it wasn't like one of those. Okay. No. Okay. I'm now making into a big deal. It's nothing. It was just It's in Okay. D'vorah Klein $72. Dorabas Rahul. Uh uh. Sorry. Dvor. Yes. Um Basher. No. Amain. $1,000. Mati Dolphin. Thanks for inspiring the next generation. We need more like you. That's very kind. Anonymous. $16. Aviva. Um, oh god. By the way, someone wrote, someone did $16. That's great. If somebody, you know, can do even, you know, $2, I think you mentioned before, whatever whatever it is, this the all donations are good because you know why? Um, when somebody takes the time, this this is at least this is how I take it. Every single person who takes the time to donate is giving a vote of confidence. So, it's not necessarily the number. It's about showing that you care. Yeah. Okay. Where where are we up to? Aviva $18. Aram Sternberg 200 mlaga. Danil uh Fredzan 200. Shra Sherman 144. Schlam Mushki Darren 360. Y and Shia Ber 400 with Rabbi Tabs parenting course. Mishu Vogel $72. Label Shmp 72. Leia Englander $200. Rabbi Tabs taking Rabbi Rabbi Tabs classes with you has been a real privilege. Thank you. Uh 72 hours of Y Weber Lily Nishmas an Anna Basim Pinhus and Geran Jen Misha Halevi. They donated through the Shistman's page. Another one through the Shistman's page drizzen 360. It's you know Kaicha. Sure. Illustrious. Yeah, anonymous $200. Another anonymous $200. Thank you, Rabbi Sha, for all your wonderful Tanya classes, your wisdom and inspiration. 360 Amy Con, thank you. Uh Sarah M. $50 Yasher Kayak. Uh $36 Schmol Wagner $240 anonymous $50 Goldie Plutkin anonymous $72 $100 anonymous tulamisund uh one $1,800 from Kaim Lieberman and we have Wow, this is interesting. We have $72 from Yel Khan. Maybe it was dedication. Yeah, the ill nishmas or maybe someone's name is Yel Khan. Yeah, Ya Khan doesn't know how to use charity. Badger. Okay. Oh, why? Okay. Continue. Continue. Okay. 216 Bati Nhuda Le Herz. Um, thank you Rabbi Ta for sharing your wisdom of Torah and Tanya with us and that's through Rabet Tab's parenting course. I want to say by the way that you did like a fivehour marathon for bringing with Yasi Jacobson. Yeah. Why y about y'all Khan and it was Yeah. So different people don't know because there's only two people in the world who know it. We're doing a part two. Really? Yes. Nobody knows about it yet. That's great. Yeah. There's a select audience. I I You know what? It's not for everybody. It's definitely not mass appeal, but for those who really appreciate the depth of of Yeah, we got a lot of great feedback about it. So, Rabbi Y and I are going to do a part two coming up actually very soon in connection with Yasis. I'm revealing a lot of secrets right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We don't want to lose track and we have a guest coming soon. So, um, $108, Auva Ree in memory of mom Hana Kenna May Ree, Bachmull, and Sarah Ruckle Cats. And they donated through the Fresh Start Retreat Center. Nice. Anonymous $40. Anonymous 360 from the Inside Out podcast. Thank you. And wait a minute. What? Oh, I can scroll up. Okay. 360 in honor of Danil Bengalia in honor of Ganil Benalia. May nama have an aliyah a with Rabby Tab's parenting course anonymous $1,000. Thank you Raba for your contribution um that you're making. $200 anonymous thank you for all that you do. $100 and Adina Landau Landa, thank you for your aides. And do we have someone? Do we have our guests yet? Yes, they are. Okay, we're going to take They're left off Atlanta. Left off Atlanta. We're going to get back to them. We have a very special guest from from Nevada, California. Yeah. Yeah. I spoke by them once for Shabaton. Amazing community out there. Okay. I told you we have a guest. Our matchers. Yeah. Uh what? Make sure that they're You're waiting for Sham to tell you it's good. as soon as we see them on the screen. Oh my goodness. Look who's here. Theines. How are you, Rabbi? A good, you can't see us. We your cameras. There's two cameras off. Sha, they can't see us. You hear us, but they don't see us. Looks like you're on mute. There's a picture of you. No, that's also Wait. No, they should be could be. Can you see us? I we see Yes, we see you. Okay, we can't see you, but we can hear you. You hear us? Okay, fine. He's working on it. He's working on He's working on it. Okay, but but but on uh online, everybody sees all of us. Shamai, everyone sees all of us. Okay, fine. The viewers in uh all over the world see all of us. Okay. Amazing. Good. Thanks for joining us. Good. It's such a pleasure. It's an honor to be here. No, just look there. Huh? Look over there. Okay, fine. You know what? No, you look here. What? No, I'll I'll look there. Yeah. Oh, we actually see you now. Oh, now you see us. Excellent. Amazing. Okay, we see two. There we go. There we go. Now we see you, Rabbi. Okay. Well, I'm improvising here. That's not the actual monitor. We're doing it on my laptop. Okay. All right. Just look here cuz it's going to come there. Yeah. Don't Don't get involved in tech. Which way should I look? Talk to them. Talk to them. Okay. You still in talking to the mic? Yes. Okay. Fine. Hi, Davidid Nita Shottenstein. My dear friends and supporters. And I want to tell everybody that before I ever did a campaign, long before, see, Ellie Nash's guy got me into campaigns, but before I ever did a campaign, you guys built the first version of soul words. And because they did the first soul words, by the way, we're just talking about uh Rabbi Wi just a few minutes ago because nobody knows, but we just revealed that he and I are doing another uh thing about this coming up for you. You built the yeshiva.net. So you're very into like you like to invest in business. You also like to invest in I see you're very you have you have a good smell for goodidic investment. So you pick up definitely picked a couple winners. Yeah. You like to pick up winners. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. In business and in spiritual business as well. So you guys built the first version of Soulwords. From there I was able to pick up enough support to do the first campaign. With the first campaign, we built the real website with Spotlight, which cost a pretty penny and it looks like it. So, is Barashem worth it? And from there, we did another campaign and we built the studio and now we're doing another campaign. So, we just keep on putting the money back into expanding the platform. Barashem, I showed you those numbers that we got. The crazy how many like 6,000 unique visitors this year and the year is not even over. So well very easy to rally for something that the world needs very badly and um and I think your work speaks for itself everything that you've done um look at the campaign already Kayahara it's going to continue to grow in in compounding ways and it's really unbelievable um what you've been doing and how you've impacted us and many thousands of people around the world. So thank you very much Rabbi Ta. Thank you. Thank you. Um I mean I think I I think a lot of people don't realize, you know, there's such a thing in the Torah world, we're all familiar in the Jewish world that there are rabbis and there are supporters, you know, and and and sometimes, you know, that's that itself is enough, but I don't know if people know and maybe it's not for me to say this publicly, but I I want to say because I want people to know this that our relationship is much more than just the fact that you support me, which is incredibly important, but there's a a real spiritual relationship of of growing and and trying to do what's right and trying to understand what we're here for. And um that's I mean, for me, what I value about our relationship beyond the the material support is that it's really aboutis and and the Reb's vision and really trying to implement it in our lives. So, like I couldn't ask for better matchers, for better supporters than than a couple like you who really gets it and and and supports it, not just monetarily, but you really care for the message and it shows and it's amazing. Something something I'd like to share that I think is relevant right now because you're doing a campaign and I'm sure there's a lot of people who are, you know, figuring am I going to give? If I'm going to give, how much am I going to give? Um I think it was six years ago uh my wife and I were at a Shabaton in uh Saggaf Deont in in Canada and the very insightful fantastic wonderful human being speaker you uh were speaking we're doing a shabatone at the Schul and I remember you were talking during that Shabbat you were speaking uh in one of your speeches over the weekend and there was two concepts I walked away with one of them was giving for fun and for free, right? To give no strings attached, for fun and for free. And the other one was something that you talk about a lot about being a a thermostat, not a thermometer. Set we set the temperature. We don't let others set our temperature. And I can tell you that while it's great to give for fun and for free, when we give charity, we give SUKA, it's nice to know that when we're giving, there's going to be a tremendous yield from that gift. We want to know that our dollars are going far. Similar to how we invest in business, right? Like you said, you like to pick winners. I like to pick winners. And what I can tell you is that the isha.net net has been uh one of the one of our our grand slams and getting involved with soulwords has been a grand slam because when you get involved with souls and when you get involved with with you Rabbi Tab uh and you support the work that you're doing which is the Reb's work it's it's the gift that keeps giving because you are inspiring and you are you are inspiring people and you're changing people's lives and you're getting them to do things that they wouldn't otherwise do and that inspires other people and that inspires other people and it's a never- ending chain. So, when I think about uh investing in your campaign, it's a no-brainer. It's the gift that just keeps giving. The yield is unbelievable. So, uh I'm really I'm I'm grateful that I are are part, you know, have become close with you and we're we're matchers and I know that um I didn't have anything to do with this particular campaign. a now runs the show and uh she worked this out with you and I know you guys are doing amazing things together and just a big that you should keep going from strength to strength and 10 years from now this will be a joke compared to what you're doing 10 years from now which I have no doubt it will be David wow wow I just want to add obviously enhancing people's lives around the world but what um what you also do is nephesh and We personally know people whose lives you you have saved um through your you know your work and your guidance. So this is not simply you know just inspiring people with words of wisdom and andic you know wisdom and so forth. It's also literally saving people's lives and preventing the next generation, our children from, you know, god forbid, experiencing all kinds of issues because now we have the tools that we need, the wisdom that we need to practice prevention. So, it's really an amazing amazing um cause, amazing thing to give to. I hope everybody gives as much as they possibly can and know that they're doing the best possible thing they could be doing with their money and time and whatever it is that they Amen to that. Wow, that's very your belief in the cause is very humbling and uh it's the truth. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm not going to argue with you. All I'll say is I'll try to live up to it. Yeah. And keep keep doing so. We're we're very proud to be involved and we're proud to know you. Likewise. It's mutual. Mutual. Yeah. And uh it's a great thing to be able to partner together to try to to help others. And like the Reba always said, when when one Jew meets another Jew, it has to benefit benefit a third Jew. So I feel like that's what we're doing. And uh we should just merit to constantly have opportunities to be useful and to be helpful. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Well, what else do we have? Kaim. I mean, Kaim's producing. I don't want to override his uh his agenda over here. Yeah, we have a special guest coming soon. Another special guest coming soon. But, uh they're they're uh So, we have we have David and Neita for a little while. I I don't know what what we worked out. We could do another few minutes. We can do another few minutes. Yeah. What what was that uh that bracious vort do you remember that that thing that the from a few years ago? Now I'm putting you on the spot. This is really but I remember I wrote up a thing about Hashem creating the world and that that that the six days that Shabas comes in at the very last minute and then I heard you give it over. You you don't probably even remember this and I heard you give it over. I wrote up a thing was adapted from a sika and then I heard you give it and you gave it over so well. I was like that was mine. He said it over. He said it better than me. I had such nas from that and I was like I my my my shabus dur at the table was always from you. So I was I've always sometimes you would send it like 20 minutes before shabas. So I would be likeing to read it and then have something. Uh but yeah that that's that's still an ongoing thing but a lot of people don't know that a lot of people have never heard you say dra you say it very nice very gushmach you have a good deliver I have I have a serious audience I need to impress my wife is he's been doing it long before he married me but I'm I'm I heard you give a great eulogy once at um how it was 2007 I was at well I forget the first You Yeah, you ulogized I think your your uncle or great uncle. Great uncle. Uh anyway, forget. Anyway, it was great. You mentioned got a haircut. Something about getting uh going to the barber shop every week or something. It was very funny. It was very very good. Yeah. Yeah. I I really prefer doing Dora. Davidid, you got to start a podcast. No, I don't. Telling him that. Let me tell you, what is doing with her podcast, which by the way, it's amazing. The From the Inside Out podcast is amazing. Yes. A lot of that inspiration, you know, a lot of what drove a to want to change lives and to do what she's doing is 100% from you, is from the work that you do and from the things she's learned from you and that we've learned from you. There's no question. And now now I mean I go anywhere I go oh you're you're married to eat a shot no one no one no one no one yeah that's how it goes but that unbelievable thing and that that is definitely as a result of our involvement with you it's very cool yeah it's a it's a tremendous platform it's just grown such a huge audience and such depth and real And people don't even realize necessarily what they're getting. They're getting gems. It's a it's become a real platform for for very deep content. Baram, yeah, I know a lot of the, you know, behind the scenes stuff when you and Rifkar are working on the episodes, you put a lot of planning and thought into that uh content and it it shows. I'm I'm excited about the episode we're going to have coming up with Oh, yeah. Is that public knowledge or is that No, no, no. We're that under the lid and then we're gonna we're going to release it and I I have a feeling that's going to be a popular one. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Does Eda know about it yet? Wait, wait till you see what I what I've cooked up. Oh my goodness. Okay, this we're just That's a little teaser for the worldwide audience. Little teaser for the Yeah, we got someone coming in. We got somebody else coming up. Amazing. Okay, David and Edida, good friends, supporters. Good luck. We're excited. Can't wait to be super successful. Merashm. Amen. Thank you. Thank you for your friendship, your support, and all the good energy. Thank you. Okay. Wow. So, we Yeah. Any minute we should be getting a special guest in the studio, but Oh, I need to turn that off. Okay. We are off Zoom. And before special guest. I do want to read a few more of these because they they just keep coming in. And let me just refresh the page. See where we're at. You know where we were left off? Lando from Novado, California. Oh, you're not talking into the mic. You're reading the dedications, the donations. Yes. We left off left off at Land of Novado because I spent the Shabas there and I got to tell you I remember there was like four mile walk to Shul was incredible. This young couple went out to Novado, California and they built this this community. It was really amazing. We had a Shabas. It's like in the middle of of of central Northern California, not like a metropolis hustlebustle type place. And they had this I mean they packed it was on the second floor of like a like a mini mall type type situation and they had a shul up there and they packed it was on Shabas. The place was packed and it was I remember very I know who I know who Landa is. Yeah. It's amazing. Yeah. Okay. Who who's who's next there on your list? We have uh $10 from anonymous lus and we have $36 anonymous. Thank you, Rabbi Tao, for your wisdom you graciously graciously impart on every uh to everyone. $72 from Shalom Sharf. I appreciate the spirituality, relatability, and authenticity. He says authenticity. Shalom always says the authenticity. Yeah. Okay. That's that's Yeah, I'll try to keep that up. It's good. Yeah. And that's the hardest part, right? That's I mean the most rare uh the $36 uh from FA Lipker. Uh, thank you Rabbi Tao for your incredible content and lessons. And that was through the Rabbi Ta's parenting course page. $36 he of Cape Town, $72 anonymous. Nikki Levit, $36 anonymous. $36. $64 anonymous for Mushka Basashana. $200 from anonymous. Shira, Amelia, and Rafal for being our daily inspiration. $72 from anonymous. Anonymous 360. You get a lot of anonymous. Yeah. And uh that's that's saying something. I'm saying people who they're very humble. Yeah. They don't need the spotlight. That's what I'm choosing to believe. Not that they were. No, I don't. I There's something very significant there. You think so? Anonymous. Is it disproportionate? We have to ask the charity people if I get a disproportionate amount of anonymouses. I I don't know exactly. But I I think I'll tell you why I think it is. I think touch people in a very deep way. Yeah. So they feel like it's a personal private thing. Yeah. Really? Is that what you think? Yeah. Mhm. Could be. If that's what it is, that's very meaningful to me. I I will choose to believe in that interpretation. Muty Dolphin, $1,000. Thanks for inspiring the next generation. We need more like you. Um uh I didn't already read that, right? Yeah, you did. I remember you reading Monty Dolphin. Yeah. Okay, we're back uh with um I I did do this. Okay. Yes, I I scrolled back. I'll remember the names if you read them. Yes. Okay. Um, by the way, we're almost about to hit 70,000. No way. Yeah. But Hashem, um, here is where we're up to. Um, $500. Victor and Rachel uh Shikman Rafur Schlma for Batia Bastana and Rebbitson Shandel Rifka Basana Pasha and then 720 anonymous 360 anonymous $100 Kaishka Baron 360 Esther Goddessman thank you for the incredible Shah habidan classes and so so much more $36 D'vorah Los thank you for your teaching Msiah now. $1,000. Shalom and Sarah Pal $36 anonymous. Another $36 anonymous. $40 anonymous. Thank you for sharing your light with us. $1,000 anonymous in support of Chris. Oh, that one we we read. Yeah. Um $100 uh $108 anonymous. Thank you for all you do. Anonymous 180. You know, I press one thing and it jumps all over. Yeah. Okay, we'll take a little bit break. We're up to anonymous 180. Anonymous 180. And we have our guest coming very shortly. Um, but before we do that, I I said I I chose like a a little selection of clips similar to what what we did last year. Okay. And um I want to play one. I'm not sure if that this one will be ready. Um, and um, yes, that will work. Okay. Oh, we got a diet coke delivery. Come on. Come on. Oh, that was Rabbi Tab's daughter. That's very nice. Okay, thank you. Yes, we'll speak. Insert Diet Coke. Right. It's um, okay. Hey, you know that Dubna Magad once he arrived in a town and uh they knew who he was. So they said, "No, give a a sermon, you know, with one of your great uh parables." He was known for his parables. So he just walked into town. They just put him in shaw. They put him at the at the Beimma. No hospitality, no no nothing. They just guy just got in town. They put him up in the in the sh to stay to to to speak. So he's like, "Okay, uh you want a parable? Here's a parable." One time there was a guy bought a cow and he bought it for milk and he got home and he milked the cow and nothing came out. So he went back to the guy he sold it to him says yeah he sold me a a dog. This cow doesn't give milk. He says let me ask you sir when you brought the cow home did you give the cow to eat and drink before you milked it. He said no. He said well you got to feed the cow. You got to give drinks to the cow and then you could milk it. And then they all understood. Yeah. He needed a diet coke before he could speak. Anyways, go ahead. I was interrupting. Speaking of the Duba Mago, there's a beautiful mushel that I heard that that says a lot. I wasn't planning on going here, but there's been a lot of talk about how you offer something unique for the next generation. Okay. that there seems to be a a generation gap that's been brewing probably for a very long time that has only I think recently started to be uh tended to and I think you are at the forefront within the Jewish community of speaking to that. You know, our friend Ellie Nash hosted this two-part great series and he called it the Great Divide, right? That you have a unique ability to speak to both of uh generations in a way that's neither patronizing nor um like you know inaccessible. Yeah. And that's a unique combination. You know, normally you got to sacrifice one for the other. The Reb said that by Eden among Jews there's no generation gap. So anytime you see that there is a generation gap that don't attribute that to toyra is emis is eternal. It's always true at all times in all places. Anything that's causing a generation gap can't be toyra. It can't be truth. It's got to be something you know some cultural norm that somebody got hooked on and then they like sanctified it and turned it into their you know they they put it under the rubric of of religion. But if it's really tyra, not only it won't cause a generation gap, but it unites children and and parents and grandchildren because it's timeless. So you just got to you got to stick with the real Torah and then transcends generations. Often times it's the same stuff, but the delivery Yeah. When that isn't when when you're not speaking, you're speaking something, you're not taking into account who you're speaking to. Yeah. It sounds like completely something else. and sometimes like the opposite uh in some scenarios the opposite of what the idea really means. That's true. Yeah. And something very ironic is that so often the antidote to the calamity is the very thing that was miscommunicated. You know, there's many ideas when they aren't communicated properly, they become toxic. And the remedy for that toxicity is the thing itself only in its un you know the the idea that a person the the concept in Yiddish kite that a person usually needs most for their healing is probably the same concept that turned them off because it was pre presented the wrong just a little the wrong way and but that's not because it was presented the wrong way so now it doesn't resonate but that's the specific specifically that idea is the you see it all the time that that's the idea the person most needs. So then what what's our job? Our job is to give them a second chance to hear that idea in a palatable way so they can embrace it because it's it belongs to them. It's uh Oh, who's at the door? Oh, someone's at the door. Welcome. Okay. Oh, look who's at the door. Acappella. Just we were talking about the dubnamaged when they told he walked into town. They didn't even give him anything to eat or drink. They said just start talking. Just said you're not a real person. Yeah. Just start talking. All right. Just Yeah, that's it. Just go. You want to diet coke? No. While you while you get set up while you get set up, here's a bottle of water here. While you get set up, um I'm not on the mic. I'm going to finish this this anecdote and then while you get set up Okay. Ellie Marcus is here in the studio. Wow. Yeah. We were, you know, we were just talking about Kaiama Marcus. Oh, your older brother. Your old He's the oldest. You're the youngest, right? No, he's not the oldest brother. No, he's not. He's not the oldest. Zam is the oldest. Oh, okay. So, we were But you know why we were talking about Caim? Because Demetri Celo was on and he was talking about he's learning Shabbat talking with me and I asked him, "How do you get starting learning with me?" He says, "Kaim Marcus sent me the link." Isn't that amazing? Yeah. So the Okay. So you mentioned the story with the cow, right? Yeah. So isn't it interesting though when that happens when there is that healing of the idea being retransmitted in its true right form that there is then healing not just for this generation who it was miscommunicated to but even for the older generation there's there's a a a circular healing anyway let me get to this mush it's a great mush that I heard Um so this uh fellow gets um a car in the you know a car in the Yeah. the first one of the first, you know, automobiles and he shows his father and he says, "Dad, this is a this is a car." And uh you know, instead of a horse and buggy, take this thing you can get anywhere in like a fraction of the time it and dad's like, "Yeah, yeah, I know what it is. I know what it is." Um here's what you want to do. You want to make sure to give it like really good hay every morning. And you want to The father starts telling he knows. Yes. He's like, "Yeah, I know. I know. Good hay. Good hay. You want to give it clean water. Don't leave yesterday's water out for it. You got to go get fresh water. Clean the bucket. And you want to groom him. This says like, "No, no, no, no, Dad. It's not You're not getting Speaking of a horse, right?" Yeah. This is not a horse. This is a car. It I can't really explain it, but it's not. It doesn't work that way. He's like, "Yeah, I know. I know. When you groom him, you want to make sure that you clean the comb after. And then you want to Anyway, on and on it goes in the sun." It's like, "All right, forget it." Right. Anyway, um that was the end of the Marshall. No, that would be weird, right? Yeah, it would be nicer. No, a few weeks later, the guy he forgets to to change the oil. Oh, and then a few weeks after that, he runs it and on no gas like for too long. And then um he doesn't like tend to the shocks, you know? Anyway, long story short, a few months after that, the car dies, right? So, the father says, "I told you to give it." No, there's no I told you so. I think this the story says itself, but it's it seems like the message the idea is the same. the but there's a something very right and that's you know so the father wasn't so foolish after all he said it wasn't hay that the car needed it was gas but the same point was is that the point of yeah yeah okay but um the these principles that are universal and and old is this merch that you have here that you're holding on to this like a giveaway this is my coping mechanism I got I got a box full of fidget toys. All right. Okay. And um but this is not something people can win for donation. No, this is my own personal I got my own stash, but we have other stuff. Okay. The Hagada. We got the Hagada. We have the Yamakas. The Yamaka. And then should I say Okay, we have a few other things. But um maybe you want to remind everybody if somebody puts in a donation anytime uh I'm only going to do I'll do You know what? Don't do like last year and make these weird offers that you can't remember. No, because what you did is you made these weird spontaneous offers and then you couldn't remember and the next day we're like what were all the I'll simplify it though. Anyone who gives a donation of 360 or more that's an effective um say 7 um se doubled. So if you give 360 it's 720. Yeah 720. Um, so if I see anything above 720 in the comments and you write in there, write whatever you're going to write and write, um, I will mail you one spell. N I C H O A N I C H O A C H. Right. And you're going to give them what? I'm going to give them a an original LP. Um, collector's item. Yeah. Collector's item similar to what you see on the wall. A vinyl. Yeah. Yeah. I'll give I'll give Table Yeah. Yeah. Full V. Yeah. So, anyone does effective 720 and writes in the thing. If you're an audio file people do it. So, no. Maybe just the next person. I'm going to do it. You know what? I'll do it for three throughout the campaign. The first three first three albums. I have three. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I'm not gonna I don't know what volumes I do have. He's not promising which ones, but real vinyl. Yeah. Okay. It's pretty cool. All right, speaking of music, speaking of Speaking of Nigim, okay, Ellie Marcus is in the studio. This is very exciting. And wow, I'm very And look, they put him right in front of the picture of the rabbis, right? Perfect. Perfect background. Yeah. Fit right in. Fit right in. Yeah. So, uh, your show, Ellie, you can do whatever you want. What? Yeah, sure. It's like a takeover. I'd love to. It's a shot. Yeah. And we tell stories of And we uh sing about and I'd like to combine the two and sing a niggan of Alio that was sang at the BMP's Malava Mal. Oh wow. That's the That's the tradition. Amazing. And there's something about saying the Oanovi 120 some odd times. Have to get into that. Uh I'll have to look it up. But when you sing the song around Yeah. It comes out to uh goes something like this. Yeah. [Music] All right. That's it. Helio one no one no vioish. [Music] Hey yo, yo. [Music] Hey, Elon. [Music] Helio thumbs up with this keyboard. Hold on. Hold on. There it is. And then you do it one at a time like this. [Music] That's we all know from the from the BMT. Still getting comfortable here on this piano. All right. [Music] A [Music] good voice. [Applause] [Music] Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign [Music] speech. [Music] Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign [Music] speech. [Music] Fore is the [Music] I didn't get the [Music] sh [Music] for [Music] any commench. [Music] Feel the [Music] sh of the [Music] Fore sh me [Music] That's a Yedish classic from Freed. He co-wrote it with co-rote with Yiddish lyrics. You want to do another song together? Yeah. Thank you. You want to do that? the bar. Yeah, let's do a Yiddish classic. I think you can you can classify it a Yiddish classic. Yeah. Okay. [Music] Oh, so this is a song um about a boy who was uh with his bubby Shabas and it's getting dark and he's asking his his grandma to wait off on singing the song Gutanavram because um he's uh he doesn't want to rush back into the daily grind of of uh of the [Music] mundane. [Music] Fore in my I need a [Music] new hab. [Music] Hero shining in [Music] him shine in him. [Music] for in their golet. [Music] The oil is the [Music] far [Music] for killer shower. [Music] show you. This is beautiful. Wow. Gorgeous. No, I was thinking since since we have Ellie here, I'm speechless. Speechless. That was beautiful. Beautiful. Yeah. Remarkable. You could hear it. sounded like a little kid like begging his grand and everyone I don't know we should have had subtitles but yeah I mean you said what it was it was it was sounds like you're really channeling the whole uh situation you know with a little kid. Um you know what I was thinking since we have Ellie here it would be really really a special treat. I don't know if I can uh spring this on you, but we were mentioning you get about to get surprised. Okay. No, we were talking about the fact that uh today was Tesis and now it's Yudkis which Teskis is the birthday and the Yamhila the Yite of the Mitler of Der who was the son of the Balatana and his Yamhagua meaning the day he was liberated from imprisonment is Yudkis and that that the Mitba was well we spoke about his he his being a prolific teacher of ofus and we we spoke about how if you would cut him blood wouldn't come out would come out the explained that means that for him wasn't abstract it was that was his lifeblood that was it was real for him anyways what a lot of people may not know uh is that the the mitler had a group of musicians yeah the Capellium. Yeah. Yeah. Which is a a very interesting thing in in Kabad history. I mean, it wasn't just musicians and singers. There was also like a like a horse riding like I don't know what it's called. A troop or like equestrian. Yeah. Yeah. And there's a there's actually interesting story with the with the the son. The son. Yeah. um just at a on a random Tuesday said they should call out the horses and they should put on a a show a performance and they came running in the middle of the performance and they said that that son was very sick and he kind of ignored them and just keep the show must go on go on and uh became urgent and they no your son is very sick and he's said no don't worry it's going to be and then the the illness subsided and he said because of the simka because of the joy that this the horses and this whole this whole show this whole uh brought that that brought about the the cure sim there you go it wasn't just music and and uh and singing it was uh K do you have a horse could you get us a horse in the studio I can get you a horse I'll get you a horse by 3:00 anyways uh the capellia there's a there's a niggon there's a sidic tune that is uh and they used to sing this if it's attributed to the capelli I guess they must have sang it they must have sang it yeah [Music] It [Music] is her [Music] You [Music] don't you [Music] You [Music] not mama. Let [Music] it oh [Music] it oh it d D. [Music] Oh, [Applause] [Music] it Oh, you na. Oh, you na. Oh [Music] you [Music] m it did It la. [Music] Oh my. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh my. Oh no. [Music] N you know. Oh nam. [Music] So, we have a guest coming soon via Zoom. But before that, we promised uh people you did a survey uh like a week ago, a couple weeks ago. Yeah. A few weeks ago. Yeah. Um just general touching base with uh the people who follow Soul Words. What do you want to see more of? What kind of classes? Do you have any questions you want us to do on the live stream? What do you uh think about what we've been doing? Yeah, that kind of stuff. Oh, and then there was another question we put out if people would be interested in a soul words Shabbaton, like an actual in-person event. So, uh, we got some responses to some people. I was thinking about it. I was thinking that would be like a next frontier is, you know, this is basically a virtual community and, uh, people are connected like I didn't even know Demetri was learning [ __ ] right? So, uh, we were on a clubhouse once. We were doing a clubhouse just random banter and someone popped in. Oh, Peter Himlman. I heard that. Yeah, we're at a came was just chatting. You invited me to clubhouse. So, I went on this thing. Yeah, that's right. Kim was my my invi inviter clubhouse and then we Peter Himman comes in. He's like, "Oh, sh. Yeah, I'm learning sh talking with you on YouTube." It's like most random thing. Yeah. Yeah. So, you want to connect with people in person? Yeah, I want to connect with people in real life. IRL and in real life. That's how the kids call it. That's text ease. IRL in real life. LOL. Laugh out loud. A lol actual laugh out loud. Well, okay. No, you have to know this, Ally, because we have to be we have to be relevant. Have to be relevant to the LOL has lost it. It's lost its I know it doesn't really it doesn't because when someone writes LOL, they didn't really laugh out loud. No. Hence the a lol. Yeah. Actual laugh. Mashma did lol stom. Yeah. What are they going to do after a lol doesn't loses its potency? Yeah. You just keep on upping the ante. Yeah. So, but we you know what's interesting? We took the on Google forms you could kind of mix up. So you asked which what kind of content uh would you like to see more of? See more of and then you also asked about this live stream in particular. Yeah. And 61.8% of people said they want to hear more about not more but they want to hear content around Amuna. Really? Was that the highest response? That was the highest. And then second was something like 55 wanted to hear about 55%. 55% talking percentages right now. Yeah. Uhhuh. Okay. 55%. Could you vote for more than one? Yeah. So people could select multiple but overwhelming. Okay. So 61.8%. Something like that. I remember. Oh, that wasn't the real number. No. No. It was like either 61.6 or 61. Okay. 8. That's what it was. There was a point8. I remember there being a point or something. Okay. And they they wanted a Yeah. And the second I think was like 55 or something like that. Yeah. They wanted to hear more about emotional uh healing. Emotional healing. Okay. And then the third was like in the 40s and wanted to hear more about percentile percentage again. Percentage. Yeah. Um what what happened about um can't remember marriage and shias. Marriage and shias. Yeah. Okay. So I was thinking Maybe um you know you talk about how the answer is in the question. The person answering the ask asking the question already from the getgo without realizing already slipped in. So I was wondering maybe in that order if people subconsciously or the numbers subconsciously offered the uh Yeah. You're basically is this where you're leading? We didn't rehearse this. No. So you you're spontaneously thinking maybe perhaps if people would have more faith and trust in Hashem, it would lead to emotional healing and automatically they'd have shalom and bias. That's what you're thinking. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Yeah. Numbers don't lie. 61.8%. Yeah. Do you know 73.4% of statistics cited by rabbis were made up on the spot? We're going to do I got index cards here of we're going to do a segment soon about paradoxes. Paradoxes. I got a lot. You know what happens when one PhD marries another PhD? What? You get a paradox. Oh my god. The laugh track. L O A L O L. Yeah. Okay. Um we have a guest on Zoom and then afterwards I want to cue up a clip if you can. Shamay. Um I don't know if I Yeah, the batan clip. Okay. Okay. And um I'm gonna go to our Zoom guest now. Okay. I don't even know if they know. Shaman, you know we're going to the Zoom. Sham, we're going to Zoom. Okay. Is it going to work better than it was with Shottenstein? You know, they were matchers. You want it? Shottensteins were matchers and the Zoom didn't work. That's why you need to get better internet. That's what they're playing. No. Do is he need my Oh, we have him on video. All right. So, he should be on screen. Okay. All right. So, this is Rabbi Schusterman. Actually, you don't see him on the screen yet. I don't see him. We spoke about the four cups Hagada, right? We also spoke about the team, the team, which I believe is actually led by Ilio Schustman. You can probably hear us, but we don't you're not he's not on so he can't really talk back. Yeah. Just one second. I can hear you guys. I hear him. I hear Oh, so okay. We'll do it again this way. Okay. Okay. So now I see him now on your laptop. Okay. Turn your audio off, I guess, so we don't get an echo. Yeah. How you going to do it? Now I see you guys. There we go. Okay. Amazing. Shalom. What I put here? Shalom. Okay. Yeah. What is that? You put an ashtray. Nobody smokes here. No, I couldn't get you uh an antique radio mic and I got you. Look at this. Even better. Oh, it's mine. Antique mic. Yes. Okay. All right. What's going on? I'm watching the show and I'm loving all the all the back and forth between you and Ellie crushing it with those beautiful. Yeah. Great entertainment and great cause and and I see that the team is doing a fine job as well. Yeah. Hashem the team. Yes. Yeah. So, uh we got to keep sharing it. I'm going to be sharing it around more. But, uh all those who are helping you're you're helping a good cause. Chase is a I heard you talking earlier that you're kabados without borders. Like doctors without borders. Yeah. And we're trying to uh I was saying before the numbers we're we're trying to I have a goal. I mean obviously we have a goal. $180,000 is a goal, but I I I have a personal goal. I told him about it a little bit which is I was speaking to uh Yehuda Goritz from charity Arab Shabas and I said like tell me like oh you were you were just referring to that. I was saying you know we had close to 700 people last year. What is that like? He's like like a small city kabat house. So I want to see if we can get like 800 people this year. Doesn't matter what they what amount they gave. Just let's see how many people we can get. Yep. I think you're going to hit it and and I think you're going to be surprised. You're going to hit even more than that. From your mouth to God's ears. Um you know, we were talking about before about the four cups and we're talking about spotlight about Mishi Machnik and but we didn't speak about we didn't speak about you. Like if you if if without you it would never have happened. Um, well, without you, it certainly would never have happened. So, at most, I would say it was a it was a shared effort. We have here an advanced copy. We show we showed some slides before. Yeah. You're the only one you're the only one with an actual copy. Even even I've never seen it in in a book form. Yeah. All right. So, you know that we're giving these out for people who donate at the level of uh um 360 faculty 720 and over. They got Oh, that's what you said. Yeah. You said 36 monthly recurring four monthly 360. That's not but that's not uh there's 12 months in a year. Unrelated to the month we did also three $36 a month. Oh anyone who gives 360 though 360 total. Yeah. A regular donation effective 720. Effective 720. So anyone who does effective 720 whether they do it once or they do it recur split up as a recurring donation is getting a hagod. Anyone who donates $360 effectively 720 or donates with the monthly option at $36 a month. No, but that's not 36 is not the 36. Yeah, 36 times 12, which is effectively more than a little bit more than 720. It's more than 720 because there's 12 months in a year, not 10 months in a year. I have a brother-in-law who's an accountant. He can help us with the math if needed. Yeah. The point is they're giving it monthly. They're going to give a little bit extra because they're going to give Okay, fine. All right. Anyways, but they're getting the Hagadas. Do we have enough? That's exactly That's the important. Are we going to have enough copies? We will make sure to have enough copies. We'll make sure to have enough copies. So, what what what uh inspired you to like start this project? What was the where did the impetus? Pesak. He called me after Pesak. He's like, "Hey, there's so much recovery in the Hagada. Let's do a real one." I was like, "I've been wanting to do it for years and I never would have done it. I wanted to for years. I wanted to do this project. I this I had this idea what God of our understanding I think is 11 12 years old and right after I did that I said I want to do the hagada and I never would have done it but was like let's do it and and and he had the proof because he owned the domain name so like that's true a little behind the scenes uh story uh I said I not only do I have the plan I have the name of it and I own the domain name I've been paying whatever it was $20 a year to GoDaddy for the past 10 years for four cups com. Oh, should we plug theorg? Right. So, people is that active now? Yeah, the website is active and uh you know, even though it's just gives you a couple sneak peeks at some pages of a much earlier edition, so well before the editing was done, but really the purpose of that page is just to if people, you know, because everyone who's on your distribution, emails, WhatsApp, they're going to get information once it it's available for purchase. But if people want to get a immediate uh notification when it comes out or if they're going to want to buy bulk orders or if they know people in sober communities or sober living homes or recovery homes that have Jewish um um clients and residents um that or kabadoses or if you have people because it really is a beautiful beautiful like the just the physical book is is so beautiful um and it's going to make for a great gift. So those who want to buy bulk orders, this is the way to communicate with the back end of people who are going to be able to help you get it quickly. You know, ship by mail, shipped in bulk, etc., etc. You can order at fourcups.org, right? Or you can Yeah, you can communicate that. That's how we'll catch information and connect you with the people who are selling them, whether it's through different Amazon channels, but there'll be many ways to get it, but we're waiting for the physical to actually arrive before we do any of that stuff. So the whoever donates is basically getting first uh dibs on it and they'll happen in time for PAS. Obviously the idea is that the physical books with God's help will be here before PESA. Correct. Correct. Barring another Well, no, no, not barring it. With God's help, it's going to be that's it, right? We're letting go and we're letting go. That that's that's Could you give us give us one highlight of the recovery? Yeah. So much stuff. I don't know. Name, do you have a favorite vort from the I'll I'll I have a little bit. Very quick. Well, very quick though. I'll tell you what. Otherwise, I'll just put up a page right now because I took one for the slides. This one looked just interesting. Um that I it stood out to me, but it's us under Russia. A message to the terminally unique. Oh yeah. Because the Russia the the wicked son, he excludes himself, right? He excludes he says he's beyond redemption. Yeah. Yeah. So we tell him, "No, no, no, you're meaning conventionally they would be." So the conventional understanding you think he's a bad kid. He's not a bad kid. He's just he he just thinks that this could never work for me. So you have to share your experience, strength, and hope and show him that uh work for other people. It could work for you and don't be so terminally unique. Don't think that yeah, but my case is different. So that's what we have to do. we have to bring him in, show him that uh something that worked for others could work for him. So, you know, I don't want to give any of the you know, Chase can share whatever he wants to share, but I I think I think what people need to know what's what's what's the of this besides that there's really little out there in in this uh space. There's a couple things Rabbi Torski put something up, but it was uh this was a full-blown effort is that that not only is it helpful to those in the world of recovery, but it's really those that their families or anyone who's and on a certain level I think everyone on some levels in the world of recovery, but it uses the language of AA the big book um and anyone who has any shyness to it at all will will appreciate how clever it was done. It was done in the most unique and clever way combining real terra realis and real actual language of recovery all embedded perfectly with our it's really it's a special unique piece of incredible work and you know it's great it's a really beautiful layout very crisp easy to read it's nice I got to see the slides honored to have had the opportunity to to be able to lean on Shay gently to push this to the finish line know you are very good pro project manager. It was almost painless. It was good without organizing. It would not have happened. I mean, he he Yeah. You know, there's there's and Caleb, so you gave me good vessels. You uh definitely helped me channel the creative energy. It was it's a good thing and uh we're looking forward. Listen, we we we're very optimistic in how popular it's going to be. We printed enough copies to match that optimism. So folks, give those donations. And if you know people who who are in in in a world of need, this is this is a really something special. It's a great gift to to give to those people and and may all those all those who need um strength and hope and encouragement in their journey really get it and let this be a for everybody really. Yeah. Thanks so much for coming on and thanks for the uh the the donations and the push. Thank you, Nhema. Yeah, take it. Okay, we got a lot of stuff to do. Okay. Okay. Okay. Um we doing we are first we got to read more names because they're coming in fast and hard and I still Fast and Furious feel like alliteration. Okay. Say a bunch of names. [Music] Um this one I read Oh yes. Uh okay. I may be re okay anonymous $64k bashana I think I did $200 anonymous Shira Amelia and Rafael for being our daily inspiration. Anonymous 72 anonymous 360 Victor and Rachel Shikman $500. We did read that. Rafa Tanya represent Shane Rifabasha 720 anonymous 360 anonymous 100 anonymous. Okay, I know I did read these. Esther Godman 360 Dorshack 36. Okay, I'm skipping back to where I was. Um, Fam March $36 360 from anonymous 36 from anonymous. Karen Ritz 36 in loving memory of common Ben Misha of blessed memory. By the way, even though if you if you donate anonymously, you still get the merch. You cuz in behind, not on the front end, meaning but on the billing information you put in your info and you know, just because uh you're humble, it doesn't mean you shouldn't get a gift, right? At the very least. Yeah. But I guess uh anyway, so yeah, let's keep going. Okay. All right. Anonymous 72, Shaina Drav 36, really enjoying all the classes, etc. Bench Alpert 72 anonymous1 12 $100 anonymous 720 Ellie and Ela Feldeldman $108 your teachings are a source of great wisdom and inspiration $36 Cheryl Ross $72 anonymous and Cheryl Ross says thank you for sharing your wisdom much Dr. Joseph and D'vorah. Um, oh, I I'm mess up how to pronounce that. Uh, you want to pronounce SaitTac, not say, well, if it's Polish, it's Taitok, but it's KEK in English. K- um, see, every time I touch the mouse, it goes and, um, they donated. What was that number? I saw it. Okay. Um 360 Esther uh Kush Kushniski $200 Hill Busovski 266 your teaching enable us to taste Msiah. Wow that's a nice it's a very nice uh comment. Yeahidis is for taste of Msiah. So I guess they're saying I'm teaching. Yeah. Khan Mendelbomb $144 Janowski $144. Oh wow. Yeah. Very very dedicated educator form. This is not me but con ON third 360. Your shaken last year was transformative. That's not me but I do agree. Anonymous $72. Thank you for all your Torah wisdom. Yeshua Danis uh 36 to the great rabbi who helps all Jews blessed by Hashem with wisdom. Joel D. Groden $200. Saxs family $2,000. That's beautiful. I uh Shender 180. Paula and Avi Freriedman 360 in honor of all the being shared with the world. Nice. Civ Guppin $400. Love all your inspirational classes. Thanks anonymous $500. Keski and Rifky Rod 360 $360 with the Rabbi TA parenting course. Yehuda froml. Well, that's what happens every time a new donation it comes in. Oh, and a new one comes in and bounces it. It's a good problem to have, right? Okay. Wow. Okay. But we're gonna we're gonna pick that up. Okay. Because um so we have those clips. New new donations are coming in while you're reading it. Yeah. Such a good problem. I thought I was doing something wrong. All right, that's amazing. Um, yeah. So, uh, I didn't tell him which one. Let me just tell him. I can do four things at once. Um, okay. So, like I was saying, you um people asked to speak to um Bakan and Amuna as a topic, and I selected a clip that I think would be a good springboard. Sure. Um let's see if they have it ready. Oh, I wonder if they do. Um. Um. Okay. Let's clip uh nine and 15. Let's see. Both of them at the same time. Then nine. Okay. Nine or 15. In the [Music] meantime, give me clip two. How's it going, Ellie? Time's trying to find the clip. Doing good. Do do you need clip music? Clip finding music. Jingle. Yeah. Oh, okay. Let's go to the screen. Can we hear the sound? [Music] Wow. Who made that? That's my brother Zman. We got Zman Con made that. That's good. That's cle. Can we show it again? Yeah. Play it again. 10 seconds. Play it again. Wow. We're going to the mailbag. Going to the mailbag. Okay. Amazing. And by the way, people can still send in questions. Do we have a mailbag theme song? We'll make one right now. Okay. Let's see. Oh, there was some music behind there. But uh mailbag. Oh, there they are. All right. Ellie's playing the the theme song. [Music] Oh yeah. No, keep going. I'm going to read I'm going to read. I'm going to read the question to you. Just keep going. Okay. Dear Abby, I mean dear Rabbi Ta, this question was posed a few times in different settings, different matters, but I guess coming from a different angle, can one look at their marriage with the same perspective? One looks at how they receive a parnasa. In other words, I don't mean to be. In other words, and attitudes we have concerning material needs, the greater one's beten and trust, the greater the channel. Can we so to speak borrow this concept when it comes to our spouses, as in through greater trust in Hashem that he will provide us with our emotional needs, i.e. an authentic and intimate life. Can we borrow the above idea and see it in our marriage or is it a totally different category of avida? I hope my question makes sense. Yeah, I didn't I didn't I just selected this one. I didn't I mean I read it like I scanned it, right? But she just said she just described exactly what we were Oh, that thing before we said. Yeah. Well, she increase your bet. It'll lead to greater emotional health and you have better homeworks. But but you you understand the person's writing that question is I mean this is not it's not funny at all this is you understand that's that's a question that's coming from a lot of pain. Um, I mean obviously here's what I'm inferring here's reading between the lines like we say you know the famous story about the briskar that the guy asked him the shila briskar was a ravi was where am I looking over here he was a uh he was a raviic uh um ruler and uh so people came to him with hik questions so a guy came and said, "Could I use for the four cups for the seder? Could I use milk instead of wine?" So, uh, Biscov says, "Here, here's money for wine." They give him whatever, how however much money it was. And one of the talum said that was a lot more money than a person needs for, you know, no matter how big his cups are, uh, that's a lot more money than you need for wine. He said, "Don't you understand? If he's asking if he can use milk at the seder, he doesn't have meat either." So, I gave him enough money for the for the wine and for the meat. At any rate, when someone's writing this question, you have to understand what's between the lines. Basically, somebody's saying, "Why did you say it's a woman, by the way?" Did I say that? I don't. Did you? Maybe. Maybe I felt that. Maybe I felt that from the page. Okay. Maybe it wasn't a woman. Um, the for some reason I felt that. Um, so I'll tell you what is this person saying, and I'm inferring a lot. I I always infer when I get these letters. I have to infer a lot. Uh because I'm just going on little clues and I'm building a a picture which may or may not be Oh, because I was saying it in like a feminine thing because of the this this song. It could be because All right. That could be the case. So basically what this letter writer is saying is that he or she is not getting his or her emotional needs met in marriage and is wondering being that there's a concept that when it comes to one's material livelihood that if you have more if you have more trust that Hashem will provide your livelihood that itself can draw down increased sustenance that you will make the money you need. Uh so she's she or he I don't know why I keep thinking it's a woman. Um you know you know why because most of the time is it the woman asking guant trying to find help. I'll tell you why. No because yes 80% of scholias related questions are from women. But I'll tell you my theory why that is. And it's not just your old classic men don't ask for directions. I have a theory about it and that is that men don't have scholias problems until they find out that they have scholars problems. Right. You ask a man how's your schol Oh, it's fine until you ask well my wife when they do find out they find out. They find out. That's right. So I've been married for more than five minutes. I get to like you get to write act like a veteran here. So, by the way, we said that running the uh charity campaign uh live stream is a school for which it worked out for this year. Anyways, um so basically the question is can I increase my can I increase my trust in Hashem that Hashem will meet my emotional needs in my marriage and that will cause that that should happen. That's what the question's asking. I mean you read it to me once. Normally I would read a question over and over and over to really make sure and I only heard you read it once but that's that's what that's what the question's asking. Question is asking can I use ben as a way of getting my emotional needs my as of yet unmet emotional needs uh more fulfilled in my marriage. That's how I understood it. Um, you know, it's interesting. There's a story ach it was at dollars the came to the reb with his supporter and they just built a building and the the showed he gave a key of the building to the to the rebba and he showed pictures of the building and uh so the rebba in his trademark style thanked them for the building and said when's the next building right that was always the rebba's style Congratulations on your success and you know when's the next success? You know you go from one strength to the next strength. So the supporter says yes yes we are putting up a second building. Yes that is in the plans. But here's the thing um the last building we had a lot of opposition. I don't remember if he said what it was or if he didn't say who knows what opposition it could have been zoning. could have been, you know, could have been donors or uh any number of things. But he said we had a lot of opposition and we're asking the bra that the people who opposed us last time shouldn't oppose us this time. Said something very interesting said they have free will. I'll give you a instead that you shouldn't be bothered. It's very interesting. We can't make anybody else do anything even through spiritual hacks. What we can do Yeah. is be able to rise above it. So what I would say to this questioner and this is the first time hearing this question. So I'm really I'm doing my best over here. I and I don't want to mislead people to think a that I think this is the right answer because I don't know usually I I like to think a lot more before I answer a question. Uh and b I don't want them to think that um well ba basically I I I I don't want them to think that it's so easy for me to answer questions because it's not. It's actually it's a arduous process. It takes takes a lot of a lot of focus. But I'm I'm just for the sake of whatever. Why do we even do this segment? Really? It was kind of a crazy idea. I just threw it on you. You just kind of threw but we're we're in midstream. So, let's just let's just finish. I have two videos that might help clarify it. Well, let me just finish the thought because I'm I'm afraid that someone will take half of it and then sometimes it's very dangerous. People have half an idea and they don't have a full idea and then they they you know the implement in case you needed proof that this was not rehearsed. Yeah. Now you have it. So, um, you know, the question was about basically getting your emotional needs met, which is a very subjective thing. Like, how do you know when you've been emotionally fulfilled? Well, it's very subjective whenever you feel emotionally fulfilled. It's not like um, you know, you have to eat a certain amount, you have to eat a kazas of matzah, you know, it's not like it's it's not like a physical thing. It's a it's a subjective thing. when do you feel emotionally fulfilled? So what I guess I would say is that um we don't control others and in fact in speaks about this that one of the benefits of beten is that you no longer depend on other people for emotional uh fulfillment and you don't you don't turn to people for validation anymore because you realize that you don't need it. And so what I would say is that if you're looking for more emotional fulfillment in your marriage, who says that means you're going to get anything different than what you're getting? Maybe more fulfillment means subjectively you'll feel more fulfilled. Now, I would add something as long as I'm just making things up off the top of my head is that sometimes that actually that subjective change of I'm nothing has changed objectively, but I'm feeling more satisfied. Sometimes that can actually lead the subjective change can lead to the objective change because I'll tell you something when people feel like they're doing well at something they do it more and they do it better. So when a spouse feels unfulfilled, whether they say it or not, the other spouse knows that they are not doing a good job or senses it. Whether they know it uh consciously or not, they sense it. And it's like the kid who says, "I hate math." Well, you don't hate math. You don't like math. And if you'd be good at it, you would like it all of a sudden, right? So sometimes when a when a spouse feels like I'm just not doing well. So then they dry up and when they feel that what they're doing is succeeding, it's hitting the spot. It's causing some type of satisfaction. So like we said before, success breeds success. So it could actually be that changing your subjective experience of it and feeling more satisfied in this particular case could cause the other person then to objectively do more of the things that are are emotionally fulfilling. How do you like that? It's cool. Yeah, that's cool. Cool. Okay. Do you know about the guy who went to uh parenting uh like a marriage uh and codependency whatever workshop? came back and he said, "You know what? Hey babe, I solved all my control issues and now I'm can control you." No. No. Is that is that a real thing or is that like a He said, "No, I've mastered all my my issues I had with control with control. Now I'll master yours." Oh, I got over all my control issues. Now I'm going to help you get over yours. Okay. Okay. That's how you Right. I've gotten over all my control issues and now I'm going to help you get over yours. I'm going to make sure that you get over yours. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's good. I like that. So, al alternative to that. That was a good joke. Yeah. Took a few times iron out the punch line, but it was a good joke. We don't tell jokes for their comedic effect. We tell jokes because of the truth, right? And oh, we got good stuff coming. Every truth has a little joke. Every truth has a little joke. And the truer the truth, the jokeier the joke. Jokier the joke doesn't mean it's funnier, right? A jokeier joke doesn't have to be a funnier joke, right? You don't actually have to lol. Preferably, it's probably really not. Yeah. So, okay. I want to uh two clips to your point about the relationship between and to speak to what if someone doesn't have I mean what what if someone finds themselves where they don't have what they don't have. Oh, they have. Yeah. Okay. Fine. So could you uh play clips uh 15 and then nine back to back? Yeah, back to back. Time I saw a letter from the Reb about and the Reb is writing to someone and says your major problem right now is the lack of you need to have more. And in case you don't know what is I'm going to tell you right now and this letter to me is gold. This has been to me a guiding light in my life where the in one s in one sentence explains what has been talking in such a tangible practical accessible potent way says like this you know that feeling of utter relief that you're going to have when your situation is finally resolved merely means having that same feeling now and we know is not just that I trust that as long as I trust Hashem can do anything for me. That's one level. That's one level of but I came to a new in a new appreciation. What's is when I trust that even if I don't trust that Hashem can make everything good for me, Hashem can still make everything good for me. That my lack of talking is not a limitation upon Hashem. So that's what I trust. I trust that Hashem can help me even if I don't trust that he can help me. [Music] That was a clip of me. Pretty. Can I ask you something, by the way? Because the the other one was a voice and text. Yeah. You seem to like I can tell like when a clip was that you you go through a lot of glasses. Yeah. What was I What was I wearing in the bakan clip? I was looking at the the bigger the bigger the clear ones or the No, like plastic frames. I do go through a lot of glasses. I'm looking at the thumbnails for these videos that I put on these Googlees. See, I'm counting one, two, three, four, five different pairs of glasses. These are different. There's only two duplicates so far and three. And these are Yeah, they're few different years apart. I think it's I'm looking at total of 12 video clips of you and six pairs of glasses. 12 clips and six. No, no, more. No, I only saw like one one. Yeah. Yeah. So I yeah first of all I really depend on my glasses. I have very poor vision. I forget my exact prescriptions. Negative7 something. So um there's a guy out there crying now who's got a negative eight. He calls I call it very poor. He was the other day he was telling someone I don't have such bad vision. I'm negative8. Now I'm making his problem making his problems worse. Anyways I have very bad vision. I can't see anything without my glasses. Um, some sad music for a second. In fact, to the point where um I remember actually I had Oh, you want to play sad music? Yeah. Yeah, we'll play I have a little fiddle there, too. I remember that, you know, the protective co anti-glare coating. Yeah. I I was losing the anti-glare coating on my glasses for a while. Um, and I realized after a while, I don't want to say which mikvah it was, but it was a mikvah used a lot of bleach because I wear my glasses all could you could Yeah. Okay. Yeah. No, go ahead. What do you want to know? I want you to tell everyone your Union Street Mikfa story. No, I'm not going to tell. No, that's at 2 in the morning. No, I will not. No, now they're going to think it's worse than it is. I'm not telling the Union Street MCA story. But anyways, yeah, Union Street MCA for those who uh are in the know. Anyways, yeah, my my anti-glare coating, my glasses were coming off because of the bleach in the mikvah. People would say, "Oh, you have your glasses on." Yeah, I know I have my glasses on because I don't want to trip coming out of the mikvah because that's how bad my So, I'm very like um um dependent on the glasses and I have a lot of them, you know, like do you know Teddy Roosevelt? You know Teddy Roosevelt, president of the United States? You know, he was like a tough guy, right? Do you know about this, Ellie? No. No. No. Well, you know that he was famous for his little glasses, right? He wore glasses. But did you know that he was very, very paranoid about losing his glasses? Yeah, he was. And in fact, he used to have like 20 pairs of glasses. And he had like this jacket made with different little pockets and he had glass. Ellie, you can even reach look on my shelf even right now. How many pairs of glasses I have right next to the letters? Those are the thank you letters that have to go out to the left of that. Okay. How many? Yeah. Go ahead. How many pairs of glasses? You could hand it over. Yeah. Yeah. One. Okay. So, I want to show you something though because Kim is talking. Yeah. Bring it over. Yeah. There's just two of those here. Kim's talking about how many um different pairs of glasses. I want you to know it's much hand it over here. It's much more than worse than I thought. It's worse than you thought because it's not just how many different pairs of glasses I have. There's multiple pairs of the identical uh of the identical glasses. Oh, okay. Now that Yeah, that's a real I thought it was just a creative outlet because you created being a cassidic uh man and you know whatever that sort of thing for wardrobe. No, no, this is straight up psychosis. So, these look at this. These are all the same exact same glasses. three pairs of the exact same glasses because I don't want to be caught without them and I'm always losing them and misplacing I don't lose I I I misplace them temporarily so I always want to have glasses around uh I depend on them a lot and yeah so I found I'm not going to use the corporate name because I don't want to give an advertisement but actually it's it would be ironic if I would mention them on YouTube because this particular online company highly targets me with YouTube ads. Yeah, you know who I'm talking about. But I discovered this. Should we continue talking about this? I discovered this particular company and I can get glasses for much cheaper than uh in a store and I just get tons of them. Glasses has to be I go through them like potato chips essentially. All right. By the way, every time we hit another 10,000, we're going to read names. We're also going to find out another quirky Yeah. tidbit. Yeah. And we're going to put another piece in the puzzle together live. Yeah. We're going to solve this enigma. Yes. Around the world, there'll be a collective. Oh, now I get it. Okay. So, where are we at? Where? Well, let me refresh this page. Okay. What if we can get What do you think? Can we get halfway before we before the night's over or we already Halfway will be 90,000. I think we can do that. What are we at now? Cuz it's meaning before we What are we at present? 73,780. We're at 73. We need to get to 90. Yeah. Okay. We got tote music. Could you do um [Music] I mean um no no the post tote music the uh what was the what what is it the I was blanking on the tote music. Wow that's what is this teleathon uh reference. Oh come on. Yeah no it's not habazak. It's not Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what they do. The teleathon. Oh, it is haz dancing rabbis. 100%. Very good, Ellie. No, but then it goes into this other thing that isn't haz. Yeah, it is. The whole thing is nice. I think Ellie's right. I think Ellie's right. It's not. It's a clever. It's called the Kazatk. [Music] That's it. That's it. [Music] Okay, so we're basically at 75,000. Um, we'll be there in Yeah, thank you. Perfect. It was like that would have bugged me for like 20 minutes. Ellie, remember when we did a gig together recently in LA with the Cunans? Yeah. Yeah, that was great. And we're talking about different things that I do like uh I get around. I get around. Yeah. Yeah. So, we did a gig together. I didn't even know it was you. They booked me and then they were like, "There's gonna be music. Who's the music?" Like LA Marcus like it's my man. So we did a thing in in LA. Oh, I remember flying back. You you you got delayed and you had to stop in Salt Lake City and then you barely made it back for Shabas or something crazy. Oh, that was terrible. But we had we had this gig together and I remember it was it was for the Cunans uh West Coast Kabad. And what so what happened? I was like before the we were sitting we're talking before the gig and where was it? some some hotel in Beverly Hills. Beverly Beverly Wilshire. Beverly Hilton. I don't know. One of the other. It was a nice hotel. Anyways, so I was remembering nostalgic remembering the the teleathon. Who was it that knew the year? There was like 1997. Was it you? Oh, there's a guy on uh on YouTube who knows. But you were the one who said we were sitting there and you were like 1997. I think it was you, right? and and we were talking about to dream the impossible dream. You remember that? I was like, oh, Ed Ames saying to dream the impossible dream and then I incorporated it into my That was brilliant. Brilliant. Yeah. I gave a speech about the the Neba's vision that we're going to perfect the whole world to dream the impossible dream. Anyways, and then at the end I remember Rabbi Kunan got up and he's like, "Marcus, the impossible dream." Did you you attempted it or you weren't? I don't think so. I don't think so. Okay. But No, they cut to something else. Oh, they cut to something else. Okay. But if it were to happen today, if someone were like, "Marcus, the impossible dream." I only know like the opening two bars. The only thing to dream the impossible dream. See, it's so Jewish. I was that's what I was talking about is that should I tell you this thing we're going to do the that's like a 10-minute uh thing I don't know we I up to the donations from two days let me give you the two-minute version because it's just so it's so gishmach to dream the impossible dream first by way man of lancha is the first record you usually see at most salvation armies I don't know for vinyl I don't know this but is a collector of vintage vinyl did anyone actually put into a dedication so that they can win your I'm still on two days ago. I don't see so is a collector of vintage vinyl and he gave me this albums that are on the wall anyways and he says if you go to Salvation Army the first album you find is Man of Lancha. Okay. Followed by Alan Sherman I believe you. So um Man of Lancha is the Broadway musical version of uh Doniote which was written by Miguel de Cervantes and he was in most most probably he was a cryptoj after the Spanish expulsion. He was a hidden Jew. And there's a whole theory that Dan K well well they apparently it would be pronounced with like a like a shin in Hebrew. In fact in Israel it is it's called donishot kishot kishot means truth also it means he because he is a fool. I was talking about that said you have to be a fool for for holiness. So he's a he's a he's a holy fool and he has this impossible dream. So the whole thing is about like the impossible uh miracle of the Jewish people and their survival. And then I was speaking about the the Broadway play mana which is the the Broadway version of uh of of Doniote and that everyone involved it was Jewish the producer and the one who wrote the lyrics and the music and uh I was saying just such a Jewish thing that idea of like it's nothing impossible and uh even if it's impossible don't you we'll figure it out and that was yeah that was that was in LA it was Gimmel Thomas Gimmel Thomas Anyways, Marcus, that was that was f I'm I'm spellbound. What? That was a fantastic uh just it's such a great it's a great concept. Such a great idea. Yeah. So, you now now you know the man of launch the just do the first two lines just for fun. Just for fun. Something like that. Oh, nice. That is That's like the The impossible dream to fight the unbeatable foe. This is the most Jewish line. To bear with unbearable sorrow. To bear with unbearable sorrow. On our list we're going to do for the the to run where the brave dare not go. The brave dare not go. You not only you go there, you run. Well, that's so you're basically we don't have to wait for a burough park chevus to sing this for it to become officially a Jewish song. It already is a Jewish song. We made it a Jewish song. It is. First of all, it was written by Jews. The lyrics were written by Jews. The music was written by Jews and we sang it here at the Soul Words. All right. It's a Jewish song. So, it's a Jewish song. Welcome to uh coming soon to uh a Kabad fundraiser near you. Okay. 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You know, and I'm glad that you figured out now why you were having problems before cuz I always assume it's because I'm an idiot, you No, I I I wouldn't say it like that, but I actually I saw the pain that you were having that you felt like there was something cognitively wrong with you that you were processing it incorrectly. So, I'm glad that we found out the solution that you were not It's always nice when that happens. Yeah. Um what's even nicer though is when you can Okay. Like if I come late uh only I didn't come late tonight but that's very but uh but when you know you're running late obviously and then the person who you're meeting who's probably usually a punctual I'm running late can you give me an extra half an hour like no if you're really like like you know whatever like Larry David go like oh my god I came and I this and that while you're still at home but it's just so nice right to but um yeah I always assume that there's No greater pleasure in this world than canceled plans. Something came up. I can't make it. [Music] Yeah. Yeah. Well, give us one thing that you would feel sad if it was cancelled. Now, now it's You know what? Now that cuz people are going to feel badly, right? If it's I'm be like, well, my my my my friends uh whatever. I don't want to even say a joke example because people are going to be like, he didn't say my thing, right? But if we didn't have to do anything like would we? I don't know. All right, we're doing we're doing jokes. Oh, okay. You know what? I read one. I'm not going to read it out loud, but someone it was all I'm going to read it. if I find it. Okay, here it is. It was This is from the one of the feedbacks. Okay. Should we commercial break? Could you cue up? Could you cue up clip? Um, Shami, by the way, somebody texted me. I I actually say it was Mendy Casawitz who gave a big donation. Yeah. And I don't know if you saw it yet because it was a newer one, but he just texted me and he said, "Shh, we hear you during the video." Oh, damn it. I asked you that. I didn't know. He just texted me. You said we hear you during the video. I asked earlier you think and you Sham should have said right but I didn't say anything bad you should have told us technical things right. All right. No hot mics moments here. Okay. We were going to do some paradoxes. Could you cue up uh clip 12 if possible followed by four? Gonna chat send them to them in the chat. It's just easier to do it this way. Someone wrote something to effective, you know. Um, oh, loved loved your uh love your classes, love your live stream. Um, really enjoy Shahabi Taken. Uh, looking forward to this year's live stream, but also um that other guy with the jokes. Did you tell him not to Does it say that? No, no, no. But but some people wonder if the jokes are are uh are like um not inappropriate, but maybe like unnecessary getting in the way. I don't know. I I I've heard from people say, "Yeah, we don't need so many jokes." But uh I think we do. I think we do need I think so, too. I think I need the jokes. And so, we're going to continue with the jokes. We are. Oh. And they don't have to be funny. And that wasn't the point anyways to begin with. No. What was the point of the jokes? We spoke about it at length last year. So instead of doing that, is Shamay there? Could we get Okay. You know what? Could you play? Do you have 16? Play 16. Okay. And remember, they can hear us during the clip. When I open with a joke, it's not to loosen you up. It's not to prove to you that I'm a nice guy. I'm a cool guy. Okay, it's all right. Put you at ease. The joke is instantly to draw those two circles into an overlap. Even the tiniest bit of overlap. And once there's overlap, there's some common ground. I can start to pull you into my world. And that's spiritual. I'm gonna get you to see what I see even if you've never seen it yet before in your life. So that's why you tell jokes. The Yeah, the joke creates common ground. Yeah. I didn't know that you were using that clip. That's that's a very specific aesthetic over there. that um I was going through the my vapor wave aesthetic uh phase and um so that video that's a clip actually from a talk in Cambridge Cambridge University and we processed it with a little uh VHS filter. You see we made it look a little bit vintage. So I was experimenting with different aesthetics. Anyways, yeah. So the point is that the point of a joke is to create common ground because if I'm speaking to you from a place of authority, occupational hazard, even though it's good to be in authority, right? But the occupational hazard is, oh, I can't relate to this guy. He's he's on a different level. So if you have a joke, that means we both have a common reference. You got my joke. So if you got it, that means there's something that I understand that you already understand. And so we're not so different, are we? And when you establish that overlap, that rapport, now I can say, "Hold on, maybe there's some other stuff that I can get you to understand as well." And then you draw them into your world. That was the concept of the joke. So now that we've dissected why we tell jokes, could we maybe dissect some actual jokes? Yeah. Shami, could you cue clip three? We have a very special surprise. [Music] What? What's that? Also, Zman Cone. Yeah, Zone. You made the the mailbag um opener. Yeah, we have some the dissecting the frog opener. That was really cute. So, all the details got a stand up. Uh Mike doing Yeah, I caught that. Yeah, it went by very quickly, but now he doesn't know he's got about to get sliced open though. the frog. Oh, there it is. Yeah, little standup frog. And of course, this is a reference to I'm imagining this is I mean, I didn't make the thing. You made the thing, but I'm imagining it's a reference to the there's a joke about jokes or there's a joke about analyzing jokes, which is analyzing a joke is much like dissecting a frog. You'll understand it better, but it's dead, right? So when you dissect a joke and you explain why it's funny, okay, you'll understand the joke better, but it's dead, meaning it's not going to be funny. But we don't care if jokes are funny. In fact, we prefer we prefer them not to be funny. So here, I'm not going to even say the joke. I'm just going to give the punch line and then we're going to go straight to dissecting. Ready? Okay. Sure. And this is one of the most famous Jewish joke I think is perhaps Well, that remains to be five in and perhaps the most quintessentially Jewish joke. Okay. Okay. I'm just going to give you the punch line. Yeah. Hey, got a load of Who Thinks They're Nothing. Oh, that's a classic. So, should we dissect it? Yeah. But people don't know. Really messy here. People don't know that. Okay. Just in case you want to just in case. But give it really dry and unfunny. Okay, no problem. So, should we set it uh Nila Yim Kipper? Yeah, sure. So inshul and the yim kipper and the holy ark is open. And uh I just got a text by the way. I'm not even joking. I just text right now. Beautiful live stream tonight. Love the MC. I think they mean you. Oh, they're calling you the MC now. Really making me feel better for the woman. Why? Why do I think it was a woman necessarily? Could have been what the thought I was. Anyways, so someone and Okay. Yeah. Anyways, so your work is appreciated. Um, what were we talking about? Oh, so it's Nila Kipper and the ark is open and the rabbi uh falls to the ground and he starts to weep. I'm nothing. I'm nothing. And the kazin, not to be outdone, you know, he's also a paid performer. So he falls to the ground. He starts to weep. I'm nothing. I'm nothing. So the shamish, you know, the custodian, he sees what's going on. He figures, "This is what you do." And he falls to the ground. He screams, "I'm nothing. I'm nothing." And the cousin elbows the rabbi. He says, "No, got a lot of who thinks he's nothing." A lol. Yeah. So, right. You want to dissect it? Yeah. Okay. and he just texted again. Yes, I mean cone. Oh, thank you very much. Just to verify. Okay. So, I think there's like a few layers there. [Music] So I think maybe quintessentially what is Jewish humor when this is a very debatable topic but it's stripping away the veneer the facade that is often you know just within society at large specifically just revealing what's like sort of going on behind the curtain right and what's being revealed here the word I would use for that is disillusionment