Proj Inspire 2026 Motzei Shabbos Rav Nota Greenblatt Presentation

Ladies and gentlemen, one of the special guests that comes to the project inspire convention year in and year out to share with us his wisdom and his partnership is RevDavid and his wife Revson Debbie Greenblat. Rabbid's father, they get a round of applause for him. Rabbd's father Ravnat Zatal was the rebby for all of us in terms of what it meant to love and care for another Jew. Ladies and gentlemen, Project Inspire compiled a tiny glimpse into the selfless and cloud dedicated life of Revenata Greenblad Zatal. My great uncle Renata Greenblat filled the room. His personality, his charisma. There's no one else in that room that you wanted to listen to. [music] Whether it was Dyra, his story, his humor. was a brisker. He had an unusual command of learning with a derm that was unique to him. To watch my father talk in Torah, to watch him give a shir was to watch pure joy. Pure joy. >> You can say that of not needing causes. That's what it mean. because there wasn't an aspect of Yiddish kai that he didn't mastery baltazin shik mos giten cipher build mcfire build sit on nitra he knew everything it was unbelievable and he knew it from a practical point not just from a issue >> every single sug that he was fluent in and familiar with he got down to the core of the suga and he was able to pask in on every issue that was [music] put forth to him. >> He became someone upon whom Rib Mosha came to rely to answer the shilas that people would call Rib Mosha with. >> He didn't see himself or his scholarship or his his mother or talents as differentiating him from anyone else. He was incredibly humble. He dressed humbly. He never spoke about himself. He put everyone's needs first. There's no distance he wouldn't travel to help someone to help you he didn't need. My grandfather's sense of responsibility came from looking at the Jewish people from a big picture perspective. He felt a deep aras for Kalisel and for Yiddishka in America, particularly for communities that didn't [music] have leaders. >> He saw an ad in the newspaper that um the city of Memphis was looking for a a Kazna and a Torah teacher and uh and he went. He laid a foundation and started a day school [music] and took people who knew nothing. And as a result of his hard sweat and toil, the people who came out of Memphis were connected to Yiddishkite. >> My father-in-law, Larry Brown, grew up in a traditional home. He went to an afternoon [music] school at Talmura, but was not an observant Jew at that time. Did not keep chabas. >> I was a typical teenager running around town with with my buddies. >> My father befriended him. And uh my father asked Larry why he doesn't come to the shul on Shabas. >> My father-in-law said, "Rabbi, I have a paper root." He says, "And [music] how much do you earn and from your paper roots?" Four paper roots I earn $1.50 50 every Saturday. He says, "What should be if I give you a $150 to come to synagogue on Chabas?" He said, "You're willing to give me a $150 to give up my paper on Chappus? I'll come I'll come to Chabas." This meant to my father-in-law that there's something more valuable [music] than entrepreneurship. There's something more valuable than a paper route. There's something more valuable than money. My father did give up that paper route and [music] he did do some learning as a result of it. He set my father on a path to Yiddishkai. Today they have generations of borra of educators of scholars of Tamil and children grandchildren great grandchildren. We have so many things that we do that many don't know about or many have participated in. And for a $1.50 or whatever it would be or for just caring and being involved with these neighbors and friends, we can interest them in our wonderful lives. And you'd be surprised what an impact you could make. >> One small deed can have major ripple effects and it can affect generations and generations to come. My name is Manakim Nissle from a town called London, England. I grew up what they call modern Orthodox. I went to theater, opera, and rock concerts. When I was 18, I went for a year to yeshiva and I fell in love with learning. I gave up my place in medical school and I met a man called Raisha Shapiro. And after that, I [clears throat] decided it was time for me to get married. And my first shock was the lady called Debbie Brown. of Memphis, Tennessee. For me, Memphis sounded the most glamorous place in the world. I pictured at every street corner exotic, cool, black saxophone players playing for no reason at all, just because they were cool. After two weeks, I proposed at the kosal. I got the goahab, got the go-ahad from Hashem and I asked the go-ahad from my wife and she said to me, "First, you have to meet my parents. I came to Memphis. Boy, did I have the shock of my life. I met this gentleman, so gentleman, Mr. Larry Brown. He spoke Very much like the sloth in Zootopia. Son, [clears throat] if it's all rat with you, it's all rat with me. I had no idea what was happening to me. It got worse. He went on to tell me that Memphis was the third biggest city on the Mississippi and handled 50% of the United States melon crops. I had no idea what was going on. Little did I know that the Browns, Larry and Lorraine Brown, was involved [clears throat] with every single part of Tira in that city. And the next day they introduced me to their rebiota green. Suddenly I'm in this room in this den and I feel like I'm in your mirades these old swarm. I remember specifically an old nuda was open where I started talking to this man in learning and I said to myself how fortunate is cla to have such an extraordinary person. How wonderful it would be for me to have a kesher with this man. Fast forward 40 years. I'm standing in front of you today because of that man. Fast forward 40 years. I'm with the nine children, seven of them married, building their terror homes. I have a son of Rashisha, a son of Rasho. I now have a grandson. My beautiful amazing sister-in-laws are building their dy at the same time. How did such a thing happen? How are we to such a thing? Because one man, one giant of a man, one living safety decided that I care about another Jew. One man, one person who cared enough for a$150 to change one man's life. And with that person, he gave the thousands and thousands of people to be affected. A living satira. How much a curve I have to this sadic this godle green. >> [applause] >> I'd like to call up um Rab Davidid and his Revitson if you could just come up for one moment please. Rabbits and daddy, come stand over here, please, just for one moment. You're not in trouble. On behalf of Project Inspire, on behalf of the Just wanted to have this to be able to present to you on behalf of the thousands of people, the tens of thousands, probably the hundreds of thousands of people your dear father and father has affected. It's a$150. [applause] I just want to say thank you. Just just two seconds. I just want to say thank you, Rabbi Nissle, and everything you've become is because of who you are. And your father-in-law got a $150. And some people would say, "Great. I don't have to work today. I made a$150." And someone wiser says, "It must be that Chabas is more important than money." And that's the lesson he took. And that's why he built a beautiful family that you're part of. I'm sure my father would be honored to be here tonight and to celebrate the fact that you're one of the son-in-laws of the realms and thank you very much on his behalf. Thank you. 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