Plugging into G-d's Blessing - Slovie Jungreis Wolff

[Music] when I was a little girl and we were at this time of the year in Kadesh hello before Rosh Hashanah before Yom Kippur my parents would always take us to see my grandparents my Zaida my mama and we would line up for abraha and I would put my head down and my zeda who survived bergen-belsen together with mama and my parents I remember I would put my head down and his soft beard would cover me and he would place his hands on my head and he would say you seemeth elokim kiss our rifka rafael Vallejo may you be like Sarah Rivka rocof Alea IVA Rocca haha Chandi ich maraca hashem should watch you hashem should bless you Hashem should shine his countenance on you Malati rahman should be with humankind the angels of mercy should be with you wherever you go and then I would feel my Zetas hot tears on my head and I say that would cry and when my Zadie would finish his bracha his blessing I would go to mama my grandmother and I would put my head down and the same thing my mama would put her hands on my head I was just a little girl I'll never forget it and she would say see Sam Adel and my sweet sweet girl you see me hello Kim kiss our rifka Rochelle Vallejo may you be like Sarah rifka raha Vallejo you've a replica Hashem Dias merica Hashem should watch you Hashem should guard you hashem should give you a good good bench dr and i would look around the room and everyone was crying mama Zaidan my father my mother why were they crying and now that baruch hashem i am a mother and I am a Bubbe myself I understand the tears who cannot cry soon we're going to hear the piercing sound of the shofar in our hearts who use Shana mishmash can wake up slumber is from your sleep your hot dinners coming wake up how could we not cry today my Zetas in cha my mama's in Treme him and the heavens above my father's in cha mine and just one year ago my mother was called to show my him but I'm not alone because the braja remains in my heart the Braja remains in my Nishiyama the bracha remains here in my memory and it's with me forever every single person sitting in this room has had a mama Jose de a Saba ass after somebody who cried for you somebody who shed tears for you somebody who prayed for you somebody who gave you a brother somebody who made a path for you who's watching over you and that bruja remains with you and with me until today until today never doubted all of us sitting here are the daughters of Sarah rifka Rahel Vallejo Sarah Rebecca Rachel and Leah and their brothers remain with us too but how do we plug into the bracha it's not enough to have a brother we have to plug into the Braja how do we make the brother come alive in our lives in our homes in our families what can we do so travel with me now come on the trip come on a journey and travel with me back to the oh hell to the tenth of Sarah in Maine who our first mama our first bubby mama Sarah Emma Sarah Sarah aminos oh hell sorry main news tent was filled with bracha it was filled with blessing there was always light in her oh hell there was a was light in her tent everybody wanted to be there everybody felt good there did she have an easy life let me ask you did Sarah in Maine did our mother Sarah have a life that was easy the Torah tells us that Sarah in Maine who mama Sarah lived for a hundred and twenty seven years the Kulin shoving the Tobin they were all equally good equally good sorry Amane what a tough life she had lake lacar hashem said to Avraham Avinu and Avril Lavigne who said we have to leave we have to go we have to journey leave everything that you know your language your house your home your family your friends your land everything leave where are we going to go who's going to help us where I don't know where but wherever Hashem says we go we're going to go and sorry Manu goes with Avraham Avinu and what happens no food here you're in a hotel a whole Shabbos plenty of food imagine no food and she has to leave again and she gets kidnapped kidnapped and then she can't have children for years imagine how sory men who must have felt in her oh hell in her tent when all the women come and say mama Sarah mother Sarah teach us how do we raise our children how do we teach this baby how do we create families and they come with all their children and she has none none how much pain she must have had but all her years cool on shove in the Toba all her years were good and her home was filled with Braja with lights with a good feeling how can that be what was her secret and finally finally she has a baby and she has to tell Avraham Avinu yesh mall has to go if this doesn't work and in last days in her last days her son yet stock is taken to an arcade ax and she doesn't even get to say goodbye he comes home with his father and the oh hell the tent is dark no more light and they come in and Suri menos neshama went to show Mayan she didn't even get to say goodbye but she had a life filled with Braja how did she do that how do we plug into the bra have surimi know if we can take just one of her bra coat and take it home then you and I we can change our lives and we can bring Braja to our families so what's the secret the first bra of Sri a man who is that in her oh hell in her home in her tent her Shabbos left her Shabbat knee wrote lasted from one week to the next what does that mean that the entire week her Shabbat candles were lit what does that mean in the Megillah Wester we say like you who Tim hi tell orava simcha when there is aura when there is light there is simcha there is joy Sarah a man who never lost her simcha she never lost her joy when there is light there is joy when you were in her home you felt simcha where her days difficult oh yes was everyday perfect did she have challenges of course she at challenges but she held on to that simcha how it was her secret lashauwn kodesh the holy tongue gives us so much wisdom because this last shown comes from ha kodesh Peru from Hashem you want to know one of the secrets to simcha in life listen carefully take the word simcha which is happiness joy change the new coat underneath and you know what it says share maka what does that mean Shem aha - we race to erase to forgive to forgive to make peace to make Shalom not to go over and over in our heads she said that to me he did that to me I'm not talking to him I'm not speaking to her how often do you make us some car and you have to make the tables and you say I can't put her with her because they're not talking she's not talking to her sister she's not talking to her sister-in-law these friends are not friends anymore how often does that happen and we lose the simcha because there is no shalom there is no peace and without peace there is no joy because we get angry we get bitter we lose ourselves because we are so upset and sad sorry I'm a new Yamaha she taught us how to forgive how to move on how to live with simcha how to live with joy because that's the secret to make sure long with your life to make sure Lome with the people around you to make sure alone with your niece aiong with your challenges in life I was sitting once with a couple they were having Shalom bayit problems so I say what can I do for you and the wife says it's his mother I can't stand his mother and I say really what happened and she said at my wedding his mother did not let me choose my flowers and I say wow how many years are you married 15 15 years and you're still angry about the flowers at the wedding how can that be sure maha means you forgive you move on you let go because if not you become such an angry person you have no peace you'll have no simcha you have no joy did you ever go to an airport and they take your luggage and sometimes you see people and they just walk through the airport and it's so easy for them their luggage is light they put it on the scale it's good they go they go through security they're on the flight and other people what happens they put it on it's too heavy you have to zip it open you have to take out you have to put in another luggage you put it back the zippers broken you're pushing you're waiting it's hard you're schlepping when you walk around being angry at people when you can't let go when you can't forgive you know what you're doing you're schlepping luggage wherever you go you're slapping that anger and it's so difficult to live a good life because you're upset my mother would say it's like letting somebody live rent-free in your brain they're always living in your head you hear them you see them you're getting angry and you have no peace when you leave here today if you're upset with somebody if you don't have someone with somebody pick up the phone make shell oh haha forgive because if we forgive others we come now to Yom Kippur to Yom hadn't Hashem will forgive us make peace make Shalom and find some huh sorry may knew her lights were lit from one Shabbat to the next you know what that means it means that not matter how difficult the week was for her how tough and some weeks there are so many challenges and we feel as if we're in Xhosa we're in darkness no matter what she never lost that light of Shabbat I want to share with you something when my children were little often we would go for Shabbat to my parents home all the cousins would come all the sisters and brothers would come and one of the highlights of Shabbat was lele's Shabbos Friday night the children would all get into their pajamas all the cousins and they would all be in one room in the basement together a little room and they would say Bubba to my mother could you tell us a story could you tell us about when you were a little girl in bergen-belsen tell us boo boo the story about Shabbos and bergen-belsen they would ask for this story and so they would all gather around my mother and my father would sing the Shema and after he would sing the Shema my mother would begin and she would say Kinder la lista kinder la my sweet and precious lights when I was a little girl when I was your age and I was a little girl I didn't go to my Barbie's house anymore I was in bergen-belsen I was so cold I was so hungry I was covered with sores it was lice in my head but I never forgot who I was every single day the Nazism Asha mom would give us an old moldy crusty piece of bread that's what we were supposed to eat my Tati my mother said yours ADA do you know what he would do he won't eat that bread we were so hungry he took that little piece of moldy crusty bread and he would hide it every single day he would hide it and he would say to us Kindler lift the kindle oh my precious lights let's count the days five more days till Shabbos the next day four more days till Shabbos Kindle a count with me three more days till Shabbos two more days one more day it's love Shabbos and then zeda would gather us around he would take out those little pieces of crusty moldy bread that he was hiding the whole week and he would give each of us a piece of that bread and he would say close your eyes my litigate weekend close your eyes my precious lights close your eyes and imagine that you're home this is your challah mama had kabak kilometres baked Haleh can you smell it can you smell it the white tablecloth is on the table and then Zeta would begin to sing Shalom Aleichem and he would say Mama's lift Mama's Shabbos lights are dancing as he would sing each week Shalom Aleichem to us we were transported we were back in the Highmore back home but one week my mother said one week my little brother said Tati sisa Tati my sweet father I don't see any mala him here where the Malacca and my Tati started to cry and he said you may lift akin to you my precious like you are the Malacca muffs Shabbos wherever you go in life you must remember you are the malacca of Shabbos no matter how much you feel that you are sitting in Xhosa in darkness no matter how difficult the day no matter how difficult the challenge the time we must remember to keep the lights of Shabbos from one Shabbos to the next because you and I we are the melaka move Shabbos never forget it never forget my sages words you are the mulatto of Shabbos so the first bracha that sorry I'm a new mama Sara tortoise is to keep the lift going to keep the Shabbos lights going never lose simcha never lose joy make Shalom make peace and remember always that you are the mullah hum of Shabbos never lose your light the second Baraka of sir Manu was the Braja of the ISA the braja of the dough from one Shabbat to the next Sarah in a news dough was always fresh her kala was always fresh what does that mean what kind of Braja is that that the whole week your challah is fresh it's never stale it means that the Sarah ma knew her life was never stale she always saw the bruja in her dough she always saw the Braja in her kala you know what we do we make a big mistake in life we look at everybody else's challah we look at everybody else's dough and we say wow look what a good life they have why did they go on vacation we look at the Facebook and we look at the Instagram and we check the text and we say wow did you see the house they got if I'd have a house like that I'd be so happy her husband bought her that jewelery how come my husband never buys me that they went out for dinner we never go out for dinner if I'd go out for dinner like that I'd also have stolen by it did you see their kids such good kids they never fight you see the pictures of them it's so happy did you see the awards there kids get a graduation how come my kids never get awards like that and we are so busy looking at everyone else's Braja that you know what happens we never see our own bracha and our dough our challah becomes stale because we don't see the bracha we think about what we don't have what we are missing instead about what we do have wood we are not missing and we fail to see the bracha that Hashem gave us and then we miss out we miss out on so much because we're so busy looking at everybody else imagine going on a vacation and you check into your room and your so happy when you say ah how wonderful this is this is a good life finally we're on vacation with the children the family and your little boy says mommy I'm going out to go see my friend Donny ok comes back in half an hour and he says how come Donny has a suite we don't have a suite how come Donny's room is on the ocean and we're looking at the parking lot and then do you say to yourself hmm how come and you thought you were so happy before and you know what now you're not so happy what changed what changed what changed is where you put your eye you put your eye on somebody else and you don't put your eye on yourself and then we lose out on the Braja so we must remember that to have Rahan life we always must see that our dough our ISA our hala must never be stale we must always look at our abraha and say baruch hashem Thank You Hashem make Abraha on our dough not somebody else's dough I'm going to tell you something about making the bracken challah which is a secret to braja and that is this when we have re sad when we have our Khalid oh how do you make your holiday rise what do you have to do you have to cover it you have to cover it because bracha comes with snoot when things are covered you have brother in life you don't have to post it via helter the savato burrata and eat yes hashem says eat enjoy your how to be savato be satisfied obey rakta and make a breakfast a Thank You Hashem but why is sushi tastier if you first post it before you eat it why do we have to show everybody everything why do we have to take everyone on vacation with us why before we put on a ring do we have to take a picture and push send keep Nebraska it's New York with modesty with dignity with holiness and all of us must keep our eye on our Braja not other people's broca's because then we lose out and we miss did you ever look at the challah before it rises and it's in the pan it looks so little it looks so small did you ever think to yourself this hollers going to be big this Kyle is going to be beautiful this collar is going to feed my family look at it and what happens what happens well of a sudden it starts rising and rising and rising and you put it in the oven and the whole house smells delicious that is the potential for braja that all of us have in our Issa in our dough none of us should ever say I'm so small I'm so little who me what bra can I bring to life I'm not sorry may know I'm not rifki I'm not ruffle I'm not even a rabbit's in every single one of us says every single day at beautiful Tefila a beautiful prayer we say a lokai my god neshama showing us out to be the soul that you have given me to hora he it is so holy ah tuberosa oughtta get sorta etana factor B we bow no shallow the master of this universe you gave me you blew into me your breath the Nisshin Maru Shem the breath of Hashem is the neshamah the soul that is inside of me everyone sitting here today everyone watching this has within us Selam aleykum me mouth something from hashem inside of us that is unique that is holy that is special for us to bring into the world that is the potential that is inside of each and every one of us no one should ever say me what can I do everyone here has magic to sprinkle into this world never doubt your greatness never doubt your potential never think I'm so little you know who taught this to me one day a little girl it was a Thursday afternoon I did my shoppers shopping I come home and I realize I forgot things so few hours later I have to go back to the store do more Shabbos shopping I come home and cooking I'm preparing I'm getting ready 9 o'clock at night I get a phone call and a family asked if they can come for Shabbos I'm so tired but you can't say no so 9:30 I'm back in the supermarket I come in it's so crowded so crowded I can't even find a cart and I go to get the fish and I go to get more chicken and I go to get more bottles and drinks and I'm holding it like this and I'm balancing it and I'm on line to check out it's very heavy and there's a little girl in front of me with her mommy and she looks at me this little girl and she says to me isn't that heavy and I say yes this is very heavy don't you want a card she says I would love a card I said but there aren't any and this little girl looks at me and she says but there are some all the way all the way all the way at the end of the store and I look at her and she says would you like me to get you one and I say wow is that okay with your mommy and she looks at her mommy and her mommy says that's okay and so this little girl goes across the whole store she doesn't even know who I am and I say to this mother wow what a special little girl you have and she says to me you don't even know half of it because this little girl was diagnosed this year with a very difficult illness and every step she takes hurts her legs she has pain did you see her legs I said no and just then her little girl comes back and you know what I see I didn't see it before she has braces on both her feet and every single step she took was with pain but what a smile she has and she gives me the card and she says look what I found for you and I look at her and I say what's your name and she says my name is Ahuva and I said a havala I want to tell you something and I want to tell your mommy something I speak to mommies and daddies and bubbies and Zaidi's all over the world about parenting and me dote and character and do you know that mommies and daddies and bubbies and Sadie's and Saba's and softest all over the world they Darvin they pray to have a little girl just like you what a special girl you are what a special girl this little girl taught me that night never doubt yourself never put limits on what you can do never say I can't accomplish it's too hard never doubt your greatness you can always do something to make this world into a better place don't limit yourself don't limit your potential look at the Braja in your Issa look in the Braja of your dough and Rhys what to become great ello kynesha machinist thought to be Hashem Hakadosh broker give each of us a mission ah a pure neshama and we can make that potential of greatness happen in this world with our neshama and what was the third Baraka the third Rahab sorry amino was that when you walked by the oh hell the home the tenth of Sarah do you know what you saw on top of her oh hell there was a cloud it was an anon of kavod and when you walked by her oh hell you said wait whose oh hell is that whose house is that who has that that the cloud and everyone said ah that Sri may know because she's connected who's she connected to she's connected to Hakadosh barukh who because she has kadesha more than just the mitzvah of mikvah it is a kaduche odd is the way we speak the way we walk the way we talk the way we dress the way we live that is kedusha that we can bring into our lives every single day because as women we are connected to Hashem we have the co-ack we have the power of tefillah we have the Khoa of dima out of tears bashar DeMott Loney Nalu and the gates of tears are never closed so as women we have the power to reach ha kadosh burger with our tears raquel neva Cabana it was Raquel Raquel who cried for her children and what did Hashem say Rael me Nikolas me Barry cease your weeping wipe your tears KH Suhaila politic because there is reward for all of your hard work in your efforts the shovel but nila Ghulam and your children will come home those were the tears of Rockley menu we have those tears as women and we an open sorry Rahman we can open the gates of Shah maíam the gates of class at the gates of Mercy but we have to know what do we use our tears for what do we cry for do we cry and ask Hashem for more things we want more things when was the last time that we cried for amuse row do we cry for you with shall I am do we cry for all our brothers and sisters that Hashem is waiting for us to come home do we cry for the Shechinah do we cry for the Beit HaMikdash that was burnt and destroyed do we cry for the pain of another or do we just cry for ourselves when I was a little girl I'll never forget it my father was the rabbi the rub my mother the Rebbetzin and I was sitting in the living room of my home and there was a guest and my father received a call from somebody in the congregation that their little girl was in an accident and my mother said to us children quick take it to heal em take a book of Psalms here is a name you have to davon for this little girl and the guest that was there said really Rebbetzin really I think this is too much for these children soon they're going to cry I will never forget my mother's words my dear friend she said some children cry for chocolate other children cry for licorice or toys my children my children will cry for the pain of another cry for the pain of Israel there's so much sour there's so much they wrote there's so many people to cry for tada van for don't let a day go by use your tears to open showery rahman because Sharda my oath the gates of tears never closed no shrimpson Conneaut righteous women of Israel pray davin use your tears but use it for good and we must know and with this I will conclude we must know that we must never give up on art to feel out because Hashem never gives up on us each day nello we say lead of it Hashem or is she the Yeshe Hashem is my light Hashem is my salvation and at the end of the - fela we say Kazakh via medley Becca KVL Hashem has a clear miss Rebecca vocabulary hope to Hashem hope to a Shem Kazakh via miss Rebecca and be strong and have courage and then we see again the cavea shem and hoped wash em why do we say it again because if you feel that your - fela has not being answered and your knocking and your knocking and your knocking don't stop knocking on the gates of shamaya kazakh liam8 rebecca don't give up have courage be brave be strong the carmel hashem and hope to our sham because hashem will answer when i had my little girl my first little girl I took her to visit mama my grandmother and I remember placing this little bundle in Mama's arms and my mama my grandmother looked at me and she started to cry and she said you know there were days when I was in bergen-belsen and I didn't know if I would ever see the sunshine again I knew I'm Israel would survive I knew the Jewish people would survive somehow somewhere because that's what Hashem promised us but I didn't know if I would ever hear the birds sing again could I ever have imagined that one day I would be holding my great-granddaughter in my arms I would see family again can you imagine ho doula Hashem ki Tov Hashem is so good Hashem is so good he took me out of that fire and I'm holding my little great-granddaughter in my arms who could ever have imagined it's a miracle years past mama left this world her neshama went to sham I am my little girl grew up and Baruch Hashem she got married and she moved here with shall i I will never forget the day when I was finishing the last words of my book and as I was writing my phone rang and it was my son-in-law and he said mommy Mazel Tov Shanee had a little girl I said I am going to go on the next plane Thiru shall I am and I did that night to see my first grandchild I finally after all those hours I get to you asha lime I opened the door my daughter Shane D is holding this little little baby in her arms and she puts the baby into my hands and she says mommy do you want to know what we named the baby of course I said what's the baby's name and my Shane D said we named her maryam for mama for Mama that night I slept in the baby's room 6 o'clock in the morning the sweet sounds of a newborn wake me up through the shutters the golden sunlight of yerushalayim comes into the room I take the baby into my arms I sing the same lullaby that mama sang for my daughter she loved fish loaf Amidala sleep sleep my little girl Tyrel better lenin you're going to study tyra one day a grace it's a take it better variant you're going to become a great set dick it's a great and holy righteous woman and I start singing to this little girl and I say mama can you imagine mama from bergen-belsen to you Chilean I am holding a baby with your name in Yerushalayim singing your lullabies this is your legacy mama this is the legacy of a misra l of all the women sitting here will never give up Kavya Hashem hoped to a Shem Kazakh fiamma kleberkuh never give up have courage Vic avail Hashem and hope again touch em and we will bring Brucker into our lives into our homes into our families all those who need before shall Aimie Hashem should take our two fellows Hashem shall take our tears and grant were foolish shall Amos speedy recovery and healing all those who need Shalem by it peace in their homes with husbands with wives with children a sham she allow us to enter the hearts and bring Shalom into the home all those who need pernessa hashem should help us find Mazel and bracha and blessing in parasite ova so we could give to Dhaka and build beautiful homes for Amira l to be bottom ik - all those who need she do him Hashem should help we should find she do him and Hashem should send us referrer Yeshua go Allah mushiya said que no boom hey Revere may no main thank you so much you [Music]