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Prep For Shavous - Rabbi Daniel Kalish & Rabbi Yosef Sonnenschein
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Our captain's great. Sun shining,
tremendously appreciated what he's
built, what he's brought us to. So, it's
an honor to be here.
I want to express people wonder what's
What are we We're a group of Yidden that
was before Shavuos. Everything's allowed
here.
In the heart by me a kumzits what we're
going to sing share the great Torah. A
kumzits works when at the heart like the
height of it somebody cracks a joke and
ruins the whole thing. A guy opens the
light, close the lights.
If something needs comedians need a
certain like thing in the room. Like to
work comedians need Can we have lights
on a little? I want to see everybody.
Then we'll
I don't want to argue. We'll do Just for
a little bit. Then we'll close. I just
like the chevre. Comedians need
Comedians shaggy need a certain thing in
the room. If you bust if you hurt the
thing like the whole show is ruined.
A group of Yidden that like each other.
I was very impressed. I'm sitting next
to Gabe Baleman, you'll meet him soon.
And there's a song he composed that like
to me is like life It made a big impact.
My kids say nobody kills a song like you
dad. Cuz when I like a song I just
listen day and day and day. If you know
how many times he composed like a week
ago we've done it in Yeshiva. How many
times have I
>> 10.
>> Yeah, 10 times. Who's counting? But the
maiseh the maiseh I he I was blown away.
Here's a song it's emotional, it's real.
And in middle of the song a guy made
like a joke. Like in middle of like I'm
sitting there it
It's mamish like
bigger than Moshe Rabbeinu is Moshe got
water from a rock, he got tears from
this guy's rock. And and I was emotional
and a guy cracks a joke in middle.
And he like enjoyed the joke. He stopped
the song like
explained the whole story on the joke.
But I liked it because real things it's
like you ruin the whole thing, please.
At the Shabbos table your kids
misbehaving they save your whole table.
If you're trying to construct they broke
a human construction. A Shabbos table is
a family that likes each other.
He ruined the whole thing. She ruined
What are you talking? You You think
we're like we're real thing. We're a
bunch of you and we like each other.
We're friends. We have with you who
try to be making. We have the rubber
GG's here. Right Madlinger arranged with
carbs here. We're a bunch of you and
it's not like somebody makes it ruins
it. They had the song
and we all like trust me it's matter to
plug in and to be connected but it's not
ruined by a person by a certain in
middle. I like the heart of a comes in
somebody like comes in and what's going
on is what's happening? We're saying
that they saved the whole thing. It's
not it's not a certain It's just an
mystical thing. A group of you and
slices and
we want to get ready for Shabbos. We'll
use the right tire. We'll use mirrors.
We'll use jokes. We'll use food. We want
to We want to be prepared. I want to ask
to do a specific song that he the
I don't think I don't think knows it but
I want to express as follows.
My kids and the guys in Yeshiva are
changing my life. Righteousness and
shine was a start of this journey for
me. I'm trying to learn my inner world,
my insecurities, my discomforts,
that which frustrates me.
And we're in a very
mystical time. People are feeling.
Adults are looking at their kids. What
my 11-year-old says things emotionally
I'm 51. It's like what's happening?
The wave is expanding. This has been
predicted, right? Rabbi Shapiro quotes
Rabbi Hakohen who says, "Even though
there's you read this haggadah, the lave
is going to grow." Psukim said, "The
time of Mashiach a lave evens going to
become a lave boser." People are feeling
and it's remarkable. It's beautiful.
It's challenging. It's shver.
And I'm and I'm and I'm working on the
inner sugia in a generation that's like
very sensitive and the gains are
relationship crazy. You could be close
to your children. They could share the
hardest things in the world and you
could sit down and have the toughest
difficult conversation. A man must be
close and look at each other and man
must know each other. Man must be close.
It's It's amazing what's going on.
And in a generation that wants to
connect to things, so you sit at your
seder, people don't want People don't
want speeches. They don't even want A
guy tells me I sit at my seder and
everybody's saying different Torahs.
It's different. Everybody's saying
different He said, "Is anybody
comfortable? Does anybody What's What am
I supposed to experience here?" And I'm
not He's not making fun. It's good. You
didn't say it right Torah, but what's
the experience? I come to a rough table
at a chasuna and there's tremendous good
to see that people share different
Torah, but why aren't we comfortable?
Could we be comfortable? Could we be Hi,
how are you?
And I come from my car in the middle of
a Mets game. It's hard to share that
that I was listening, especially how
much they're losing. It's hard to share
that.
But could we be comfortable and meet and
together we man must could study Torah.
Man must we could learn a different
Torah from a place and we want to
connect to things. We want to sit at a
seder. We want to like feel it and
experience it.
If I would express the prayer of today's
generation,
it would be Everything's from David
Hamelech. It would be tov ta'am vada'as
lamdeni. Hashem, give me a ta'am. Da'as
is emotional reality. Let me like
experience what's going on. I want I
want a time.
And what I want to say and absorb, and
I'm want to work on, and I think it's
that void of today's door, is to know
give me a mitzvah I say I am on the
Schleicher Magboller was standing by the
hair.
Mitzvah I say I am on the means David I
Melech says I have a moon and mitzvahs.
For years you're looking at a guy I
would speak after Pesach and I would ask
the chevre, "Know what kabbalah to hold
on to what we got?" Today I hold that
question from me, not from anybody else,
borders on clear.
Borders.
What could we do to hold the
What could we I ate matzah. Me and my
kids, everybody ate matzah, you'll never
be the same the rest of your life,
never.
You think after you eat the food, you
tell your body like where to put the
nutrients? What could we do Pasha to get
the
the right things in the arm and the
sinews, you know, I Pasha what the
Hashem designed us momish. She also said
in the comments, things go where they're
supposed to go.
Somebody eats matzah, what can I do?
There's not just so good, there's such a
thing.
Yeah, maybe a little. You ate matzah,
what are you You kidding me? You ate
matzah. Give me a mitzvah I say I am on
the
I can't We're going to count a person
counted Sefirah tonight. You're never
out, you miss a night, you're supposed
to you have to count a mitzvah to count
count tonight. If you didn't count one
stole Sefirah, count tonight. Momish a
mitzvah. You count one night, you count
Sefirah, you're a different person. I
might be You miss my say I am on the.
We're so used to
Very important to me in Yeshiva. I met
me and met a Yid today. He was
upset, a bocher broke something in his
property. So I went down, it turned out
he's a Yid.
He was raised He was raised He said to
the pastor, he said he's a Yid momish be
related to him. He might be related to
him. His name is Gushansky and Levy.
He's my cousin. He's my Levy. We're both
Levys. So, I called up Carmi. You
got to play music. Guri played
music for the kid. The kid was crying.
His jaw was to the floor. He's my
friend. Tomorrow we're going to put on
film for the first time in his life.
>> [snorts]
>> He said, "Kid, I want to put on film and
that Oh, you're getting there." He
listened to music. We we we said the
word Hashem to him.
It's not in context. He's becoming I've
been shaken since I left his house. My
wife said, "Daniel, you're okay?" Not
really. I met a kid we like spoke. We
said he heard the word Hashem.
The only rabbi he said, "You're a
rabbi?" I said, "I don't know. Maybe. I
don't know. I don't know. You studying
to be one?" I have no smicha. I don't
know. A rabbi maybe if you want. But the
only rabbi he met was very tough on him.
He said, "A little kid he did he said
it's hard to me to say this."
A kid
a kid who grew up in Durham,
Connecticut. He grew up there as a
farmer in Durham, Connecticut.
>> [clears throat]
>> And a kid puts on film. Oh, are you
doing better? Oh, are you getting
A kid puts on film to be born for that.
Don't make things A kid learns for 5
minutes. You're born to you learn Torah.
It's not in context.
We believe in mitzvahs. A kid does
mitzvahs. It's it's worth worth from one
end of the world to the other.
David Hamelach says,
"I want an emotional connection to
mitzvah. I want to sit at the seder and
go places. I want to be so deeply
understanding and connected and in it."
But you know why?
When whether I do or don't, it's a big
thing to do a mitzvah. At the root
I think this is
the prayer of today's dirt. And what we
need to give over
and mitzvahs.
A youngster today looks at somebody who
never missed a minyan for 63 years.
And they struggle. What does he feel
like? What's the experience? Explain it
to me.
And they're saying something and we need
to merge two generations that each one
have a light that's so gorgeous. We need
to merge the Mitzvah
and Monty allows for the prayer to have
time with a slam Danny a sham please.
I'm craving an attachment. I want this
experience to like be beautiful, to be
special, to mean something. I want it to
mean something.
We have a minyan in the morning of
rebellion come with with a bulk of the
minyan showers. Started like filling up.
Today they were like 40 guys coming and
they're making such a rash that I can
say it by prayers.
We're trying to be given Mitzvah
and Monty whether I I want I want to
connect a sham. I want to speak to God
and connect even if they're Amish
robotic. I'm not coming with much. I I
can't. I'm tired. I don't
I'm just a lot on the mind but I'm here
and I'm minding that he just says the
words of prayer from
it's a big thing. It's
reminding in your Mitzvahs. We know it
means something.
And that allows and a generation that's
pleading. If I summed up today's door,
they're begging a sham to have time with
a slam Danny. Please and our job is to
connect with Mitzvah
and Monty. We have a moon and Mitzvahs.
Of course we want to say that that's
like wildly magical.
And we want all our Mitzvahs. We want to
fill in that's like of course we want
that. We want to connect. Guys will ask,
"What do you think when you put on
my gosh shocks?" I was afraid you'd ask
that.
>> [laughter]
>> And they don't take it with you. What
what does it mean to you? What he's
saying is I I to put on I want to do it.
What do you think? You have a Shabbos,
where does it bring you? What do you
What do you And tove tam v'daas
l'lamdeini, I want a I want a Shabbos
that's a it's an immersion in some
Hashem's mitzvos, Torahs Hashem.
All right for that, we could pray and we
should pray and we are praying tove tam
v'daas l'lamdeini. L'kayem mitzvosecha
emanti, we were meaning we stood at our
scene and Hashem handed us a Torah and
mitzvos.
And we're aware and our neshama knows
it, it's big, it counts, it matters,
each mitzvah, each thing.
And celebrate it as such. Person puts on
tfillin, we should look at each other.
Person put on tfillin, I'm excited. This
guy's tfilling, tomorrow's going to be
like crazy. He's going to put on tfillin
first time in his life to put on
tfillin. Rash He's going to put on
tfillin I mean it.
Maybe I'll put on tomorrow's, I think
I'm going to put on also. You going to
wear tfillin tomorrow?
Psh.
You put tomorrow not? It's a big thing.
Mitzvosecha emanti, it's a big deal. You
put on tfillin, it's a big thing.
And of course we pray if I could ask
if we could put if you could
teach the song, learn the sing. Shlomo's
in tove tam v'daas l'lamdeini l'kayem
mitzvosecha emanti, yitgadleu Torahs
picha m'alfai alfei alfei alfei alfei
alfei alfei alfei alfei.
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I love our Kehillah. It's beautiful. We
have beautiful Yidden. It's it's
ridiculous. It's ridiculous. I went to
the base shul. I'm looking family family
we're we're we're in a we're a wild
abundant of richness here.
And I think the prayer after Hashem
gives us Torah. The ummah is bench us
Hashem you are with us by shalom. We
need to each have shalom each to make
room the beautiful light that each one
is to make room for each other. That's
the blessing after receiving the Torah
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>> Beautiful Benjamin those.
I is this Tyra Shem I is I is this Tyra.
So what's Tyra? It's probably Kedai to
study by I is.
The The person that Sadiq whose name by
I is this Tyra in him. Probably if you
study him you'll get a sense of what's
Tyra by I is. By I is is called the man
whose I is. He's like the shpits.
The epitome of a Ben Tyra.
So we can study by I is a long time but
I want to I want to hear Tyra from my
son Shlita. And to study by I is to
introduce the rab who needs no
introduction. But I want to express that
by I is is the godol hador. By I is is a
Sadiq is
and and by I is marries Ruth.
And Ruth is the shpits outsider.
She's a giyares, she's a convert.
Ruth is a aniya, she's very poor.
Ruth is an almana, she's a widow. She
has everything in the world. A widow A
husband's achrayis is to bring his wife
to the community. That's the job of a
husband. He brings his part of a show,
part of a Khabura. The husband brings
the mishpacha that the mishpacha is in
the killer.
She has no husband. She's in She's
penniless. Everything that tends to put
somebody on the outside.
And by eyes, the man who gets Tyra,
who's a shpitz Tyra, Tyra says 36 times
in the Tyra. It says Abba Sager.
It's It's maybe from the most spoken
about theme in our Tyra is pulling.
Pull in and include.
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There's a light in every Yid. There's a
light in every Yid. Kabbalah Tyra
celebrates Tyra and the Yid. The Yid and
Tyra Yisrael be Raisa Chadou.
And by eyes, the man who is Tyra, who
gets Tyra, this Tyra enemies a shpitz
Tyra, he includes the outsider. She
becomes the ultimate insider. Of course,
Im Yisrael Malchus. She sits when
Melech on his throne, right next to him
is Raisa's throne. The shpitz insider.
And from her comes Dovid HaMelech's Lev
Levav Am.
Is it a wonder that from Byas, from this
tzaddik Byas, who's a shpitz Tyra, comes
Dovid HaMelech's who's a metzius, who's
Lev Levav Am, who everybody listen me
may be like klums, all about the people,
inclusive.
The world of Tyra is pulling in, is
including. Nobody falls.
Nobody's out. Nobody
For years, the Rav for years has been
the Byas of our community, including in.
Nobody's like, "They're out." They're
not No, no, no. Pulling in, pulling in.
Come, come, join. You're part. By eyes,
this is our We have a beautiful kehilla
that's built from minute one of this
kehilla was built. My son, I remember
one year Purim, he was tight shaker,
inebriated. He grabs the mic by our
kehilla and he says we're so lucky to be
in a community. Here a person counts.
It's a tire place.
Here a person counts. Here a person's
light is each one. There's no extras.
There's no There's no person that
doesn't count. We're a community. Boy,
is this tire here.
There's a person
so then the nation say
give that people shalom. Each one
counts. Each one matters.
I ask myself why don't people pull in?
Youngsters, why don't they pull in? Why
don't they include?
There's such a thing as a coolness.
There's such a thing of cool. Wherever
you have coolness, wherever you have a
social standing, whatever gives you
utilize it to pull in somebody else.
Rabbi Gessinger was one of the heroes of
my life. My wife and I since his only
recently we found the rabbi. We were We
were reeling because he's somebody who
his standing he gave thousands of
all different types became in. His
coolness caused thousands to be cool.
So why don't people do that? Cuz they
don't know that they're cool. What is a
youngster afraid to be inclusive? Cuz if
I go to include that one I'll be on the
outs also.
So the secret of
is
there's greatness in him. He said this
when we we have something real we pull
in.
That's the
we're pulling in. We're included. The
entirety of our people we have no
extras.
I want to appreciate that. We have a
rabbi who for years has been inclusive.
That's been the the calling. Anytime
somebody's going through many others
would outsource and send it. The rabbi
gets involved.
Described this as the job of a rabbi.
The job is is to make sure to include to
be inclusive to make sure no one falls
out. We've been to have such a rabbi. So
we come here, we want to hear the great
Torah.
>> Sometimes you have a a divrei Torah that
you understand with your mind,
and sometimes you could have a
a vort, a ma'amar Chazal, that at a
certain point you start to understand
with your heart.
And 9 days ago,
there was a ma'amar Chazal that I
I don't know what happened. In the
middle of Shacharis, I started to
understand with my heart.
And I wouldn't ordinarily share it, but
I have the safety of sitting next to
Rabbi Kalish, who's been such a close
friend, and we've shared our journeys
with each other, and created a
tremendous sense of of um
of making space for ourselves, for each
other, for others, and and mitach that
sense of safety. Thank you, Rabbi
Kalish, thank you for joining us and for
for sharing your heart with us. Mitach
that atmosphere, I want to express
something that I understood with my
heart 9 days ago.
In Mesillas Yesharim,
I didn't start understanding it by
saying Mesillas Yesharim. Now I'm giving
the hakdamah.
Tell you where my heart came in later.
In Mesillas Yesharim, perek yud tes,
asks a kasha when he says that we're
supposed to daven for the geulah.
He asks that a person will ask himself,
"Who am I that I'm going to bring the
geulah? There are thousands and
thousands and thousands of Yidden
davening for the geulah. And if you
include all the generations of Yidden,
there are millions of Yidden. Da mani
safan." The the the Mesillas Yesharim
says like
"I'm going to say "V'liyerushalayim er
rachamim tishuv", and Hashem's going to
be like, "Now, finally somebody said
it." You know, like it's not what's what
what's my tefillah, my bakasha for the
korban. What does that add to the oceans
and oceans of tefillos?
So, the Mesillas Yesharim brings a
mishna.
It's a very, very famous Maimonides
Chazal that I think
I think at least for myself, I I haven't
understood until now.
It's a Maimonides Chazal that if you ask
most people where it is, they'll tell
you it's in Pirkei Avot.
But it's not. It's a Mishnah in
Sanhedrin.
And the Maimonides Chazal
starts with the Mishnah discussing the
fact that Adam was never Yechidi.
Hakadosh Baruchu created one Adam.
And the Mishnah says
Hakadosh Baruchu the King of Kings
the praise of Hakadosh Baruchu that most
people if they have a mold, everything
that comes out of that mold looks the
same. And Hakadosh Baruchu created all
of us in the mold of Adam Harishon and
we all look different.
And then the Mishnah says Lefikach
Chayav Kol Echad Ve'Echad Lomar Bishvili
Nivra Olam.
Each and every person is obligated to
say the world was created for me.
And I want to just say
let's not settle for the narrow view
that the that the Chazal that Rebbe
Yehudah Nasi writing a Mishnah in
Sanhedrin was trying to do a maybe a a
quote that someone would post on their
status or
a self-help good like one-liner.
Everyone should say the world was
created for me.
Chazal included it in a Mishnah in
Sanhedrin. That means it's a deep deep
deep profound life-changing emes.
First of all,
if it's true,
if it's not true, so then why should
everybody say it?
If it's not true that everybody that
that the world was created for me, so
then don't tell me to say it. It's not
true.
If it is true, so why doesn't the
Mishnah just say Lefikach
Why are we learning it through Chayav
Adam Lomar? Why is that the way that
we're learning it?
And that's not even that obvious
question just to get that out of the way
is that I'm sitting across from from
David so David just use you as an
example if that's okay. So if the world
is created for me
it couldn't have been created for you it
was created for me.
So but you your mission is also says
that if the world is created for you
couldn't have been created for me. So is
it some kind of a game it's some kind of
everyone should think I I don't like
answers like that. It doesn't that's
solid it's not it's not healthy what
what's the what is the answer to the
question this is
talking this is not that we got some
self-help guru to sit on the floor in
the yard and we all sat around him and
he says everybody should think that's
not what this is this is a very real
statement in a mission in Sanhedrin the
same as after that describes the
best day.
The same thing it describes how to do
says
which really remember
what's going on here?
So just in terms of the
the
and then we'll talk about what the real
is. The
is of course if say it's true.
And of course if say that I should say
the world was created for me with all
due respect the world was created for
me.
But I could
have not say miss bar.
I could have managed to put into one
world
many many many many many worlds and if
you have to realize the I can just take
a minute to describe the
that's miss bar there's no measure to
kindness cuz I am
all of you I just want to announce just
you might not have known all of you were
created for me. Thank you.
The world was created for me which means
every single one of you are here
in this case of this room is to be a
help in my
other people might have been created to
be a challenge in my
you know I don't know you know.
>> [laughter]
>> So so but every you know so so just to
continue my example so
Reb Dovid Seltzer
was was Hashem Hashem decided
52 years ago
Hashem decided that this guy,
Sonnenstein, needs Dovid Seltzer in his
life.
Okay?
And you're part of what's in my life.
Thank you for being here. Baruch Hashem.
I I think I grew a lot from you. Thank
you. And you're here.
Now, Hashem also wanted to create a
world for you.
And Hakadosh Baruch Hu thought
for reasons which I'm not 100% clear on,
Hakadosh Baruch Hu thought that you need
a guy, Sonnenstein, in your life.
And it stemmed exactly
even though
where I sit in shul is different than
where you sit in shul. We're different
ages. We have different backgrounds. We
have We have different We have different
journeys.
But my journey
somehow matches perfectly with what you
need. And your journey matches perfectly
with what I need.
It's amazing.
But this plot thickens because sitting
next to you is Yechiel Sonnenstein.
Okay? Now
no offense to us, but the world was
created for him.
And Hakadosh Baruch Hu in his world,
where he's the center of the world, this
is not a joke.
This is not a joke. Had Hakadosh Baruch
Hu wanted, he could have created 100
million separate worlds. Hakadosh Baruch
Hu is a ba'al kishron. He put it all
into one world. But this is not a joke.
It's a real thing. So Reb Yechiel, the
world was created for you.
And that means that Hakadosh Baruch Hu
thought that there should be Sonnenstein
in your life.
That was an important component in your
life. I hope to help more than to hurt.
I hope. Okay? But that's a component in
your life.
Hakadosh Baruch Hu also decided that
there should be a Dovid Seltzer in your
life.
Now imagine the greatness.
Me to you is one relationship. You to me
is another relationship. You to Dovid is
another relationship. Dovid to you is
another relationship. Me to Dov- I don't
know where I'm up to here. Okay? And
Hakadosh Baruch Hu worked out all the
trippy thing a little bit. I could just
work out these three elements that all
of us are in the center. And each one of
us is serving that center in a way that
the
wanted for us to exist.
And that's true multiply that by
everyone in this room, everyone in this
every year in the world.
The I could just work out created a
world for them and they're the center of
the [clears throat] world. That's the
That's I always understood that like
that. That didn't happen 9 days ago.
9 days ago
I started to understand something with
my heart and I hope my mouth will be
able to explain it.
And that is like this.
That
means
And it's
it's a mission. It's true.
It's MS. It's real.
It's not a gimmick. It's a real thing.
It means
This is my world.
It's my world, right?
And that means that I cannot spend my
life
being afraid of my world.
And I can't spend my life
in a fetal position afraid
to be me and to do
what's coming out of myself
because I'm afraid of the world. Not
everyone here understands what I mean
probably. I hope. But many of us
understand what it means to grow up
afraid of the world.
This big scary world and trying to push
ourselves to be accepted by the world.
To be
to be loved by the world, to be
respected by the world. To
out of a certain fear out of a certain
like this fear of the big wide world.
When I was in first grade, I was in to
me, but people don't know this for first
grade. Kindergarten through you know
that? Kindergarten through first grade.
I was a I was a very, very little shy
kid and a very, very, very afraid kid.
And I used to I remember clearly walking
up the steps. There was a few front
steps there.
Holding on to the banister while all the
big boys were rushing by.
I was terrified of the world of the of
the world. But it's my world.
It's my This is my world. Bishvili never
That's the flash of light.
Bishvili never means it's my world.
My world means that
that it's not like, "Well, sh- sh-
should I express myself here?"
This is your world.
This is your world. This whole world was
created as as a stage. Go, be you.
That's why the world is here and be you
and be you and everybody else.
Stop being afraid of the world. Step
into the world. This is your world. And
that's the Mesillas Yesharim's terrors.
There may be thousands of Yidden.
But this world was created for me.
And there's no Beis Hamikdash now.
And that's on me. I'm not saying it's my
fault. That's not That's not my point.
My point is this is my world. And in my
world, where I'm the center of the
world, one of the pieces of that world
is that there's a gold dome where the
Beis Hamikdash is supposed to be. And of
course, I need to daven about that. I'm
going to ask Oh, but thousands of other
people daven. Those thousands of other
people, the world wasn't created for
them.
And that's the Chayav Kol Echad Ve'echad
Lomer because it's true for each person.
This is my truth for me that the world
was created for me. I want to tell you
after Beis I'll stick a confession.
Okay? There are some people that when
they daven,
they make a lot of noise.
Okay? Some people
They've been a rabbi a long time, you
know? There are some people when they
daven, they clap. You know people are
clapping when they dive in? Maybe
there's some people here that clap when
they dive in. There's some people that
they clap or they wave their hands or
they jump. Some people jump when they
dive in.
And again, I I want I want to be honest
that I always very very very much looked
down on that.
Take it easy. Chill out. Know your
place. Everyone knows you're a good guy.
You don't need to announce it to
everyone. Like that's kind of You
familiar with that kind of feeling? Like
The nine days ago,
I was realizing
Why why shouldn't he do that?
This is his world.
And this is how he's expressing himself
to his God in his world. I'm going to be
concerned that Yechiel Shon might be
like, "Wow, he's really getting carried
away." I'm sorry, but clapping me,
you're in my world. And I could just put
you here as part of my world, but it's
my world. And I need to be me in my
world. Even if it means I'm acting out a
little bit. Even if it means I'm saying
something silly. Even if it means I'm
jumping when I'm davening. But I have to
inhibit myself because I'm afraid of the
world is against the Mishna. This is my
world. Why am I afraid of the world?
This is my world.
Okay, there's there's a there's a lot of
different parts to that, but just the
nekuda is important to realize.
And there's a certain achrayis that you
feel. You think if you walk around
saying "bishvili nivra ha'olam", you're
going to become a ba'al ga'avah?
I spent nine days sitting with this. I
discovered that it doesn't make you into
a ba'al ga'avah. It makes you into a
ba'al achrayis.
This is my world.
So, this person I have to take care of.
This thing needs to be dealt with. This
person should be thought This is my
world.
Hashem put me here. I have a job to do
in this world. It's important. This is
an important makom for me to
Now, you might think I'm being very uh
like focused on myself. Well, I'm sorry.
I read a Mishna in Sanhedrin. I invite
you to read the same Mishna in Sanhedrin
and make the same conclusion about
yourself. Because it's also your world.
I'm I'm a prop in your world. I'm I'm
part of the scenery in your world, but
you have a world.
And in your world, you're
you're the center. It's your world. Stop
being afraid of the world. Start serving
Hashem with what's inside of you and
stop making so many shidduch lines.
Somebody, you know, it's very very hard
for some of us to be so evil that
someone's thinking negatively of us.
I had the best week this past week. IT'S
MY WORLD. YOU'RE THINKING negatively of
me? I'm sorry. This is my world. It
doesn't give me a right to to be not
nice to people. That's not the I hope
nobody is mis- misunderstanding me
because you have to be very responsible
when you have a world. But this is my
world. Again, I'm not telling you a
trick, a gimmick. We're not doing
ayahuasca here, okay? This is a I'm
I'm doing it This is Nobody knows what
ayahuasca is.
Um
the the what what This is a serious This
is a This is a missioner. This is a
missioner. This is an MS. The This is my
world. And if it's my world, then
there's a mocking for me to be me in my
world. And by the way,
it really makes me have to answer to
myself. One second, if it's my world,
I can't spend my life
living
trying to be other people.
I can't keep stepping into other
people's shoes.
They only exist because of me.
I I have to find my own big boy shoes.
I have to find my own self.
The fact that someone that I admire did
something could be a great idea or a
trigger to tell me that that's what I
should do for me. Maybe that's why I
could have put him into my world. But
being him is not my job. This really
never This is my world. This is my world
and I need to be me in my world. And
that I I hope it's obvious that applies
to every single one of us. We need to be
ourselves in our world. What does this
have to do with my This is the life.
This is breath.
And I I have found over the last 9 days
that it has affected me on many many
many many levels. Like just this sense.
This is my world. I'm I have to be
honest, I'm a little embarrassed to say
this, but I was walking down the street
in Queens and there was a guy walking by
with a dangerous-looking dog and I'm a
Brooklyn kid who's, you know, we
traditionally are afraid of dogs. And it
was like a certain thing. I was like,
"Sorry, but this is my world." Like this
dog exists in my world. I don't know why
that means the dog wouldn't bite me, but
but but it did something for me. It was
it was something. Like this this is my
world. This is my world. I like puffed
out my chest a little bit. Like, "This
is my This is my world." Again, I didn't
expect the guy we walking dog to bow
down to me. That's not the point. It's
not what I'm saying at all. I'm just
saying Hakadosh Baruch Hu created that
person
for me.
So, I'm not going to go hiding from him.
Hashem created him for me. How are you?
I'm going to address that person. I'm
going to I'm going to connect with that
person. I'm going to be engaged with the
world that Hakadosh Baruch Hu put around
me. I'm going to I'm going to express
myself in the world. This is the first
time I I can't believe this is being
recorded, but but I'm I'm going to say
this anyway. Many many many of you know
that I
Kaylish knows this very well that I work
for someone who's probably one of the
biggest I'm alive today. Okay, I'm
asking.
Okay, literally knows Torah about pay.
So, I work for him for several years
already. I still am a little nervous
when I start talking to him. I'm a
little nervous. And I sit next to him in
the basement and when I lean over to
talk to him, I
I feel a little nervous.
Be honest. Not this week.
This
I was still very respectful to him and
in fact, I I had a moment of emotion of
grateful to Hashem that Hashem put him
into my world.
What? Because this is my world and
Hashem put this massive time of Torah
into my world. I'm very grateful to
Hashem for that. I'm grateful for all of
you being in my world.
I'm grateful for Alisha being in my
world. I'm grateful for Rabbi GG. I'm
grateful for Rabbi Kalish. All of you
have made my world a magnificent world,
and thank you.
But this is my world. I have to take
responsibility. This is my world.
And this is very to Kabbalah Satoru.
Because
after
created man, he was waiting till till we
get till we get the Torah. Don't make
the mistake
of receiving the Torah
just like the message of Sham's casher
that the nation of Klaue Israel accepted
the Torah, and I'm part of that nation.
What am I going to do? I also accepted
the Torah. Maybe I'm even excited to be
part of that nation. There was a memory
that I heard about 2 weeks ago from the
Russia Yeshiva that they said that when
they sit down to learn a Gamara,
maybe Rebbi Boruch Ber said it, that
when he sits down to learn a Gamara,
in his mind, the Torah was just given,
and he's the first human being to ever
look at this Gamara.
That's what I learned in Yeshiva. It's
my Torah that
Hashem gave me the Torah.
Gave the Torah if
I never had a problem. And if
I write a Torah
then
I'm not just giving us the Torah.
Certainly there is a Torah that's given
to the whole Klaue Israel, but I'm
giving me the Torah, and I'm excited to
go into Shavuot. I don't know how it's
going to play out. To be continued. I
don't know how it's going to play out,
but I'm excited to go into Shavuot and
to see what it feels like to be focusing
not just on that the Torah is being
given, but the Torah but to think about
that
I created the world for you. I'm giving
you the Torah. What does that mean to
you? How are you receiving it? What are
you doing with it? This is a very
personal day. Hashem in my world that
Hashem
made the this world for me, Hashem is
giving me the Torah.
And that's a very very very very
meaningful day and that's what I wanted
to to express. And again, tremendous
tremendous Yasher Koach for being here.
I think all of us we're all worlds.
We're all worlds. We're either we're all
the center of our world and we all have
the guts to be part of the scenery of
each other's worlds. But let's flex
ourselves a little bit. Let's not be
afraid of the world that we live in.
Let's step into who we are
and let's turn to our Hashem
and
let's see what
is a fascinating new world for me. What
does
Hashem have in store for me? Yasher
Koach.
>> It's always fascinating. I'm curious
what I am curious what I am. It's always
fascinating when somebody speaks what
somebody else is hearing.
You could say and I've I've had a lot of
funny things. Some guy's going to go
home tonight some sad dick and he's
going to say to his wife [clears throat]
and kids I found out tonight we all live
in some sunshine's world.
Amazing. Amazing. Let's sing again.
Let's talk.
We need to give space for a lot of
worlds. We should
with
time that we didn't sing it enough.
>> [chanting]
[singing]
>> Yeah.
>> [singing]
>> Yeah.
Yeah.
>> [music]
[singing]
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>> [music]
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>> [music]
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>> [music]
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>> [music and singing]
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>> [singing]
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>> [singing]
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>> [music and singing]
>> Yeah.
Yeah.
>> [music]
>> Let's turn the recording
>> I would say in Yeshiva after asking Gabe
[music] about 10 times this week to sing
a new song he composed, I the last time
I promised the guys that this week I
won't ask again in Yeshiva.
So I didn't say won't play it, somebody
else might ask, but I didn't promise I
wouldn't ask here. Benyamin isn't here
yet. Right, Balsam isn't here yet.
Right, Carlebach isn't here yet. Right,
Sunshine the Rub's learning the plan
Bishvili Nevarech Olam that a person
that the Rubbish Olam thinks about us in
everything that we experience.
Gabe wrote a song that he composed in
Yeshiva that I wanted share with the
Chevra. Then we'll get back to Zemiros
and the great Torah about children, but
I what want to ask Gabe, is it possible
you'll share this song Gabe?
>> Yes, very possible.
>> [music]
>> I heard you had me
>> [music]
>> you moved out
to college
away from town. It's kind of crazy
the way [music] it all worked
We didn't grow [music]
up
in the same house, but we're brothers.
[singing]
[music] So I want to tell you about
something crazy
that [music]
[singing] I
found
>> [music]
>> It might be useless [singing]
I might sound stupid
cuz I can't prove it.
But I need to tell you
that
there's a God
knows [music] your name and he knows
your heart and
feels your pain. Oh, I wish [singing]
that it [music] was something I could
explain.
I can't but I need to say there's a God
and
knows your name and he knows your heart
and
feels your pain. Oh, you might
[music and singing] not believe me but
either way
I promise heaven knows your name.
Do you ever
feel that spark that is [music] burning
in your heart? Does it guide [singing]
you
when you're in the dark?
>> [music]
>> Or do you wonder
if there's more to life? Is [music]
there's an answer [singing]
to the great big why? I believe [music]
that
there is truth to find.
>> [music]
>> I might be useless.
I might sound stupid [music]
cuz I can't prove it.
But [music] I need to tell you
that
there's a God and
knows your name and he knows your heart
and
feels [music] your pain. Oh, I
that it was something I [music] could
[singing] explain.
I can't, but I need to say
>> [music]
>> there's a God
knows your name and he knows your heart
and
feels your pain. No, you [music] may not
believe me, but either way, I
>> [music]
>> promise heaven knows your name.
I hope that you
hear this song and one day
you'll
sing along.
>> [music]
>> And together we'll say
there's a God
knows my name and [music] he knows my
heart and
feels my pain. And it's not
>> [singing]
>> something I need
to explain.
>> [music]
>> No, I just want [singing] to say there's
a God
knows [music] my name and he knows my
heart and
feels my pain. No, I waited [music]
all my life
to say
that heaven knows my name.
>> [music]
>> Heaven knows my name.
Heaven knows my
name.
>> [music]
>> I waited all my life to say
that heaven knows my name.
>> [applause]
>> 1 2
>> [music]
[music]
>> May I help you?
>> Yes.
>> Okay.
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[music]
>> I don't know what I say.
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>> [singing]
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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>> [chanting]
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>> [chanting]
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>> [chanting]
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>> [singing]
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>> [chanting]
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>> [singing]
[music]
>> Wow.
>> Rabbi, there was a song that was
composed by a bachur who learned in the
Yeshiva.
It could be not with Aaron. I saw Aaron
for a minute.
Aaron, it could be right it could I
don't know if he was singing it that
early. At least you'll remember, but
somebody composed the song to the words
that Hashem taught us on the Yom Mam
Yochis by Mam Mishnayos. Hashem
the song Atem Tivlu Mamleches Kohanim
and it's been like a rallying cry in
Yeshiva for decades way over
[clears throat] a decade of 20 years.
The Atem Tivlu, this rallying cry Hashem
promised us from the great challenges of
our life, of my life, my friends, my
children our dor is a is a there's a
sense of shame that exists.
A sense for a generation who've seen and
there's and the exposure to different
things makes people feel less than and
not so worthy sometimes and the charge
of today of of the Yom Kippur of that
second day at the choir, we have Shem
swore us, promised us that we
are going to be holy nation.
The preciousness of our people, it's
been a rallying cry and a song of the
Yeshiva. I'm going to ask the first time
we'll all join in after. First I ask
Green has been singing to our
community, our Yeshiva and to Klal
Yisrael for years. Gabe Goldman joined
now and has lifted us up. And Azriel
has been singing to the Yeshiva.
So I'm going to ask that we stay with
here they first then until we then the
second time that we'll all join in.
>> [music]
[music]
>> We are the people.
We are the
people.
>> [music]
>> We are the
>> [singing]
>> We are the
>> [music]
>> We are the people.
We are the
people.
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We are [music] the
>> [singing]
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>> [music]
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>> [singing]
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>> [music]
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>> [singing]
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>> [music]
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>> [singing]
>> We are the
>> I'm
>> [music]
>> a good
boy, honey.
>> [music]
>> We got
the attitude.
>> [singing]
[music]
>> I'm a good boy, honey.
We got
the attitude.
>> [singing]
>> I'm a good boy, honey.
>> [music]
>> We got
the
attitude.
I'm a good boy, [singing] honey.
>> [music]
>> We got
the attitude.
I'm a good boy, honey.
>> [singing]
>> We got the attitude. I'm a good boy,
honey. We got the attitude. I'm a good
boy, honey. We got the attitude. I'm a
good boy, honey. We got the attitude.
I'm a good boy, honey. We got the
attitude. I'm a good boy, honey. We got
the attitude. I'm a good boy, honey. We
got the attitude. I'm a good boy, honey.
We got the attitude. I'm a good boy,
honey. We got the attitude. I'm a good
boy, honey. [chanting] We got the
attitude. I'm a good boy, honey. We got
the attitude. [music] I'm a good boy,
honey. We got the attitude. I'm a good
boy, honey. We got the attitude. I'm a
good boy, honey. We got the attitude.
I'm a good boy, honey. We got the
attitude. I'm a good boy, honey. We got
the attitude. [chanting] I'm a good boy,
honey. We got the attitude. I'm a good
boy, honey. We got the attitude. I'm a
good boy, honey. We got the attitude.
I'm a good boy, honey. We got the
attitude. I'm a good boy, honey. We got
the attitude. I'm a good boy, honey. We
got the attitude. I'm a good boy, honey.
We got the attitude. [music and singing]
I'm a good boy, honey. We got the
attitude. I'm a good boy, honey. We got
the attitude. I'm a good boy, honey. We
got the attitude. I'm a good boy, honey.
We got the attitude. I'm a good boy,
honey. We got the attitude. I'm a good
boy, honey. We got the attitude. I'm a
good boy, honey. We got the attitude.
I'm a good boy, honey. We got [music]
the attitude. I'm a good boy, [singing]
honey. We got the attitude. I'm
[chanting] a good boy, honey. We got the
attitude. I'm a good boy, honey. We got
the attitude. I'm a good boy, honey. We
got the attitude. I'm a good boy, honey.
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>> I was wondering this this year and and
the days now leading up to Kabbalah
Sefirah, why we got the Torah in the
desert?
Why in the midbar? Come to the midbar.
My father was
was my rebbe, my father, the hero of my
life.
And my father was somebody whose default
setting was to learn. He learned I never
was around the person who learned so
much Torah in my life.
Late at night, early morning, lunch,
break- It was learning. That was what he
did. He learned. He learned and he
learned and he learned and he learned.
He was
davek in Torah and avas Torah.
And he was very worldly person. He was a
good tennis player, wicked set of
tennis. He liked water skiing, regular
skiing. He was engaged in nice piece,
nice barbecue. It was wonderful.
He's engaged in the world. Everything I
know about Torah
Moshe Rabbeinu was set lashon hara on
him by Aaron, by his brother and sister,
by Miriam and Aaron HaKohen, cuz he like
separated from the world.
The Torah we have so speaks about the
world. Avraham was fighting wars. Yaakov
and Yitzchak were digging. Yaakov of
course they mines with davek Hashem
shivisi Hashem negdi samid. But it's a
world anybody reads Torah, it's a world
engaged in this world.
So it tickles my mind. What does Hashem
say? Come come to the desert.
Lehavdil, the Tibetan monk who doesn't
understand.
So he maybe would understand come to the
desert. To us who know what who who
study Torah, who've seen tzaddikim and
gedolim, there's an exception, there's a
peirush it seems somehow harasha, nazir
is called a choteh. Kedusha is the
highest madregah to engage in this world
in a meaningful way. So why does Hashem
say come to the desert want to hand you
a Torah?
>> [clears throat]
>> Come to the desert. Come come.
Right in the issue of New Jerusalem,
right in our cities in the entire
So interesting. Go to the desert.
L'chaim. Have a wonderful night. Koach u
bracha. Yeshar koach.
The terets like would ruin things. The
kashas gishmas.
>> [laughter]
>> I said the terets is the not
When the Sfas Emes like yearly says
another pshat, wasn't like a rabbi who
had to say drashas. So I used that one
last year. I need a new thing for the
heaven. What do I come up this year like
It's not how the the Sfas Emes I was
happening. The kashas energy.
And the kasha that energy different
times in his life produced different
things.
I have no idea. Let's all come to the
desert. Bizarre. Chazal ask it. Any
thinking? Come to the desert, I'll hand
you the Torah.
It's not anything I know about. And then
you read then we we like receive the
Torah, we learn the Torah, we live the
Torah.
It's precisely with him the Chofetz
Chaim, the godol hador, the mashpia, the
posek the posek of our dor. He had a He
had a store. Of course he worked.
Of course he was engaged in the world.
He was working to support his wife, his
children. Of course.
Of course, obviously. We engage in the
world. Well, that's Anybody who learns
Torah knows that.
So let's come to the desert. What's
happening?
Friction in the room, Yehuda?
I a yid once asked. He said, "Critique
my speeches."
So I didn't want to I called the person
that I was like a
But he was like I chaperoned a lot. So I
said, "You don't sell your questions."
I wasn't be He He was like so cute. Like
I'm not that type. I'm not such a
performer, entertainer. It wasn't what I
was saying.
If there's no friction in the room, you
can't teach a terets.
You have zero. If there's no Only in the
space of friction
We all like we love questions. That to
love everybody Who's the Who's the
Yeshiva the community? We allow
questions. You know anybody who doesn't
allow questions? To allow questions is
to allow your friends to struggle, by
the way.
You're not honest. We say we allow
questions. I'm not I didn't mean to be
so serious your question. Anybody
struggling is asking a question.
Somebody's talking in shul and you throw
them out. Don't say you allow questions.
You know, he's saying so he said don't
relate to prayer.
Don't say you allow questions and you
don't People give lip lip service. We
have Q&A Q&A as well.
Q&A doesn't mean anything. Any real any
real Most people are not asking their
questions. We stopped Q&A the community
was like two such honest people who's
ask who's saying it's it's videoed.
Sure, maybe you want to say your
question to 10,000 people. Sure. My
deepest I'm not telling you any I tell
you I tell I tell my wife one other
person maybe.
Questions I'm talking about deep things
that bother us uncertainties.
Questions are very precious are very
powerful.
Questions my mission my mission things
that bother us is very powerful.
So not to regard the midbar come to the
midbar to miss like bizarre Why isn't
anything that I think
I would know about turn that's not where
it would be given it would be given my
mission to the issue of my mission.
>> Midbar is friction.
That's it.
>> Wow. Wow. Is that what hits you to go to
the desert come come to the hard place?
It's interesting interesting. That could
have that could have
could have yeah.
That's why nobody owns the question and
certainly that that would be something
that could hit a person tremendously.
I'm still like in the desert. I'm very
visual. I'm in the desert. What's going
on?
What's going on? It's like so bizarre.
Two people one was my son and one was
somebody else told me something that hit
them and it like resonated by me.
So I want to share but I've no idea the
answer. None. None. None.
Friction the question.
Come into the empty with the friction
gishmak. I mean, it will bring you
friction brings you to the best place in
the world. Like drives and produces and
creates.
You know the person in the middle of a
suda? So, everybody say, "We sat tonight
from You're going to come home to your
wife like what happened tonight?" I
don't know.
We ate. We sang. We talked. We this. I
what?
Some You know, you you know the suda in
the middle of the suda?
Have you tried tire now? The tire tire
now? You stop your whole meal and you
share. Now, of course, you should say
tire to the table. Of course. Of course.
Of course. Of course.
What happened? What what Why is
something that feels something so shh?
Right tire. I like when I come into a
room and you shh with the shmoozing
hard. Shh. It's not shh.
Actually, I want to continue what's
happening. I mamish want to continue.
It's not shh. The energy right GG speaks
and shh.
He's speaking. The talking. It's all the
same. It's not a different thing. See,
it's it's a different type of shh. It's
not a different tire now. It's not
what's happening. It's a go left. That
wasn't my father said different tire
thing. Wasn't like shh. Katati speaking
is going to say it's going to My son was
working out of town with two yidden.
And they said like a sprach. He called
me like bothered mamish. They said a
sprach. They had like a line.
Like we did for achatziluach. We did for
ourselves. Now, let's thank God
something. Let's learn. My son was very
like troubled what they was saying very.
I had this yeshivas will outsource like
send the guy to I love therapy. Every
person Our our whole generation should
look into it. It's a beauty of our dark.
We're we're we're looking in. We're all
working on our inside. If you're not
jumping, get busy. Come on.
We're working on our inside. That's what
the lave is putuach. It's good things
happening.
But I don't like that it's the yeshiva
outside like a separate
Nothing's out of the realm of Torah,
nothing. Nothing. It's not like you're
sued the way you're sued the whole way
you have a suit.
The way the way you schmooze is is is
Our life is created by Torah.
Two people said that if Hashem gave us
Torah in the issue of then it would be
Could you fit this in? Could you say it
by Torah you're
We're given where there's nothing and
from here build everything. There's
nothing out of the realm of Torah
lifestyle. Because if you look at our
community, different people, different
tasks. It's like you go to work and you
come home. My son was like I was
thinking about Torah when I was working.
I was trying to be more honest. I was
interacting. I was I was mamish
connected to Torah. Mamish. Mamish. It's
like weird that Oh, we we like Messiah.
We weren't Messiah. That's not it. What
do you mean? Our whole life came comes
from Torah. It's about Torah. It's
through the Torah. It talks to every
aspect.
Mamish every aspect. So I said there
wasn't like the Torah Hashem came to us
and gave it to us in the issue of said
could you stop this around? Could you
fit this in maybe? Maybe at the Torah
your table also? That's not what it is.
The whole came the whole family partying
and schmoozing and enjoying and
kibitzing as well. We're people of
Torah. You schmooze very mamish we're
people connected to Torah. The Yid goes
home to work and he comes to learn cuz
he was like mamish his whole day was
Torah and he's checking back into his
mamish he's busy with this. This work
we're doing Hey Torah, we come from
Torah. Obviously there's no part There's
no A guy in the Shiva A guy tells me I'm
not working on Torah and I'm working on
mental health. You think there's an area
When I look in my inner sugia and
starting to look at my insecurities and
stuff I I've seen new things in the It's
all the ba'al ba'al the ba'al.
It's all from Torah in Torah. Our
stories, our name, our essence,
everything's in the Torah. It's all
there. It's all from Tyra. So, that was
this these two people felt that we
received it in the desert where it's not
stupid in your life, fit it into your
life.
It's from here, from nothingness. Here's
Tyra and now build a life. Now go and
build the issue, make a show, make a
community, make now build everything,
everything. No no aspect is this I love
in in our community, I love the Friday
football my other I can't get enough. I
run back from Yeshiva and make the
second half. I do want to see my son,
he's a wicked football player, not bad
at all. But I like the whole the parents
there watching, cheering God. It's
there's all the Tyra community. Our kids
have outlets and enjoy each other and
parents are cheering God to watch right
Ross cheer for Yitzhak scores a
touchdown is delightful.
Exciting, it's smack, it's beautiful
watching the different I love what
Yitzhak Kalish is like the best ball
player in the city to watch is Halo and
Tata. I saw him to watch his Tata like
enjoy and encourage and coach. This is
all there's not like exotic thing where
Tyra Kalish had a
Every aspect it comes from Tyra's
contained. I never felt when my father
skied that he was disrupting from Tyra.
He wasn't sick
to say our interaction when we look at a
tree and of course we enjoy the
tree and so we should enjoy it. But we
never
but if you're
it's like
You don't say when guys are shh.
We want to shh.
What do you do tonight? No, we ate, we
sang, we said the we didn't shmooze
enough. Wasn't enough shmoozing.
We'll warm up together, it's different
half and not everybody's used to each
other yet.
Kalish talked way too much. But okay, so
we have to be
to shmooze in park but it's not like it
there's no part that's not in the realm
of Tyra, of a life of Tyra. It's not
like the shmooze where I I saw him he
doesn't come to you shh.
The shmoozing was from Tyra too. You
didn't enjoying each other and being
together.
It's like seamless. It's like I felt
this and my father said they were
First of all, you didn't just Of course
you had sharing Torah, but everything
was like from there, in there, involved
in there.
But things aren't a break up.
Stop this, do this. It's all the whole
entire thing is the entirety of our
life. The whole
day you
and all and everything we do is comes
from Torah.
So I want to express to each other. We
gathered tonight. This was wonderful
that we have to do this more often. I
want to say that I was thinking was on
top of it. My mother pushed this and
there's a beautiful schmoozing. The
crazy We have to meet more. We have a
good killer. What are we doing? Why
aren't we meeting more? It's weird. Stop
being weird and get together.
What are we doing? Get together and
sing. Benyamin
Benyamin does it Thursday nights.
Whoever's been there, it's an
otherworldly experience. Benyamin is
like a shine, the talking. You go there
That's you could tell the matzah. The
talking, the phones going off.
Everything's all part of the same thing,
a schmack. There's no interruptions.
It's each thing. It's It's this room
here. This momish room here.
The
should be killed.
We need to respect each other. We need
every light. There's no extra light in
our people. We need to know our own
light, that we have a light and then we
could pull in others. By us. Pull in the
other, include. Pull each other in. This
was a great This was wonderful.
It should probably be much more often.
Revolution, we have a reason not more
often.
>> Maybe it should be longer, too.
>> You're probably right, Dennis.
>> [laughter]
>> You're probably right, too. But I really
tremendously appreciated them. We asked
them that put this together. My mother
was on this. Right was thinking this was
This was momish. This was beautiful.
Thank you to ALL THE GUYS.
>> [applause]
>> BARUCH ATAH ADONAI
>> AMEN.
AMEN.
AMEN. AMEN.
AMEN.