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Proj Inspire Conv 2026 Rabbi Menachem Nissel - Tzadikim, Chassidim, and the Rest of Us
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Good morning everyone. Welcome to the
great blizzard of 2026.
Um, for those of you who have been who
are in front of me, so if you do want to
make a reference to the pop culture,
yes, it feels very much like the opening
scenes of the movie The Shining, but I
do believe that um it's not going to be
the same. First of all, they've managed
to rack up the heat in this room to
sauna level over here. Um, but as Hashem
is barak, we're gonna through the heat
of and we're going to be able to prevail
and make it out. And I'm hoping that
tomorrow evening, Hashem will be good to
me. I'll be able to get back to Eritrol.
And for those of you who do not know me,
I am a teacher. That's I think the most
important thing that I do is I teach.
And it is my ability to use the words of
the sitter to be able to give over major
ideas in hashkaf. So this way I can give
over huge important ideas which is what
I'm about to do and you can actually
remember what I taught you. You can
ground it in maybe we should close the
door
uh we can ground it in something
practical so you can think about these
ideas where you d them. So today's class
is going to be based on the Schwan
astray. And just to orientate you, I'd
like to share with you how I teach the
schwa. And after many years of
contemplation, I figured out a system of
teaching the array that is very easy to
relate to. It shows how every single
braha organically comes from every other
braha. Meaning you have a schwan at
first glance it looks like 19 bro that
are disconnected from each other. It's
not that way have this incredible
incredible mahalik and the more that you
go deeper into it the more you
understand how everything should connect
to everything else. So the rashbah and
baka both in tam of the ramban from
Barcelona
they taught us that the 19 brahas are
broken down the following way. You have
the opening three and the last three and
the middle 13. The opening three is
called you're praising a kuresh. The
last three is called hudah. You're
thanking before you leave him. And the
middle 13 are the actual bakos
themselves. What I've said so far is not
a kesh. The garra says this. But rabbak
and the rashbah break down the 13 in the
following way. Six six and one. And this
makes it very easy to relate to because
it means that the first six bronos are
requests for my own personal needs. My
own personal needs means my needs and
the needs of my loved ones, my
proverbial entourage. And the second six
is I plug into the fact I'm part of
Israel. So the first six is my story
beginning with my birth for the next 120
years. And the second one is to the
Malik Mashiach. This is the macro
picture of who I am. That's how the two
groups of sixes are broken down.
Furthermore, and this already is Manaka
Nissle's edition. Those two groupings of
six can be broken down into threes and
threes. The first three I call them
introductory and the second three are
the actual needs themselves. So, let me
just go through this with you and show
you how it works in practice.
The first three braas you're praising
the kures. How do you do that? Braha
number one is through the lenses of a
raino. I call birkus aos is the braha of
the roots of cl. It's also an
introductory service where you present
yourself to as the child of
hashem is god and we talk about the
relationship of
the second is I praise through through
the lenses of
and there we show where everything is
going to. It's the world ofim and the
world of endent days. The third braha is
we see how we relate to through the
lenses of
and that is how high can a Jew reach.
This is the world of kadusha.
That is the heights that a person can
can reach. These three praises of Baru
is also how we so to speak we break
ourselves into the world of having left
the outside world with our three steps.
We're now standing in front of a bar
ready to make our requests. I'm going to
jump to the end just for that to make it
uh more smoothlined. The last three
brace
and mod and shalom are three different
ways to say thank you. One is through
the lenses of that's say that's the
mdash is what I call the personalized
thank you where we say
we saw last night right here on the
stage the extraordinary miracles that
does for us and then shalom is what I
call the universal thank you I cannot go
through this in detail now because I
only want to teach one of the 19 brahas.
Let's now go to the middle 13. The first
six is all about my needs and it begins
with three introductory braasu
and
means before I can do anything in my I
have to be able to think but not just
think because hashem gave me a brain
to think through your way of thinking to
be able to think the way wants us to
think. If you're thinking properly,
immediately afterwards, you see hashenu.
I want to get back to the road. The
proverbial gas stations of life are
distracting.
Means I want to get back to the highway
to be able to live the life I'm supposed
to live.
After you are now back on track, you
suddenly realize that no since the last
one, you probably messed up and you say
you tell if I messed up, if I said
something, if I did something wrong
should forgive me. Then we have the
three stresses. I call them the three
stresses of life. What are the three
stresses of life? Everyone in front of
me will identify with at least one.
Unfortunately, some of us with all
three. Social stress, health stress, and
money stress. Social stress is raenu.
Um um health stress is rafainu and money
stress is barakenu. Those are the three
stresses that every single one of us
live our lives through that. And as I
always like to say, thank God for stress
because that way always keeps us close.
When I say stress, I mean without
tragedies. Okay, tomorrow I'm talking
about manageable stress. Okay, stress
that is part of the the the lives that
we live in. So those are the opening six
needs that we have and we ask for my
personal life. The next six talks about
me, myself, I as part of Israel. So we
start off and we ask number one we need
to have unity
immediately after that we ask for
leadership
once we've asked for terror leadership
we realize that unfortunately throughout
history since already the times of the
Greeks has always had a fifth column uh
beloved yidden who nebuk are hurting us
from within in and that's the mashim and
I always took over the sheet of the
mahar that when you say mashim you don't
ask hashem to destroy the people but
rather to destroy their value system so
those three are the introductory now we
have three left and I'm going to do them
backwards the ultimate request that we
have is called aladikim or before I
forget excuse me before I forgetu
is a unique brahar that is what I call
the ring that binds everything together.
So the six and the six which together
makes 12 there's a 13th bra just like in
the word in the alf takes the and the
dal the is eight dollar is four together
is 12 the akad is unites them just like
yakabinu unites the 12 tribes similaru
unites the 12 bros that is another
concept but let's go back to the last
three requests that we have the last one
is the request for mashiach and That is
we say
we ask and say my life is empty is
lacking without Mashiach. That is the
ultimate need of every single Jew.
What's the before that? Msiah cannot
come in a vacuum. Mashiach needs a home.
And that's the brah of that frames the
coming of Messiah. And now we're ready
to ask my big question because this is
what my sh is going to be about. What is
the braha that I missed out? The bra
before you shal Mitch, you have the
sitter open in front of you is
for years and years and years. I did not
know how to teach theatikim
because I myself struggled with that
braatim
somehow rather is past of the climactic
three requests that we have and somehow
rather will frame which in turn frames
and I don't understand what this bra is
all about
at first glance it's au
to bless the sadikim him. Now what on
earth uh we ask to bless the tadikin for
honestly
this is project inspire we should ask to
bless those who are I don't want to call
them rashim but those people who don't
live the terror life they need the
brahos what about us folks what about us
folks that we are regular bayonim why
don't we get a special bra why did the
sadikim get a shout out more than
anybody else secondly why is this the
preamble to your mdash. Why is asking
give them lots and lots of mercy. Third
question is that the whole nature of the
braha makes no sense because we're
actually asking to give these great
wonderful people to give them their to
give them their reward. Last time I
checked, there are 13 principles of
faith from the Rambam. One of them is
called Onesh. By definition,
everyone is going to get their and their
onesh. So, let's focus on the and same
way obviously they're going to get thear
give them their reward. So, why are we
asking the sadikim specific give them
their reward and this is the
introduction to shalim and the B
mikdash. And finally and finally that
word it's almost bizarre.
How did we get into that list? This is
some kind of a superhero list. So he
said then don't forget us. If you're
saying then they just say bless the
Jewish people and you've got everything.
What does it mean and don't forget us
give us a bra as well. So every way you
look at it this makes no sense. Why is
it that we ask a bar for a shut up for
the sadikim and then say don't forget us
who are not sadikim. So just say givea
for everyone and then just say you know
what what's the point of asking Hashem
to givear and to everyone hashem does it
anyhow because this is exactly what we
believe in as part of our beliefs. And
my opening question was why is this the
necessary introduction to the world of
Yalai which in turn is the necessary
introduction to the world of Mashiach?
My dear friends, we're all on the same
page. We hear the four questions. You're
happy. We're good. We're good. We're
good. We're good. So, I want to share
with you that when my rebi Shapiro
passed away, um I had a desire that I
figured out later on I found Marramos
for the idea that I'm about to share
with you. I spoke it over with my peers
and they told me, "Man, you hit the nail
on the head. This is this is the way to
do it." And it's a little unusual what
I'm about to say, but once I say it and
I sell my product, I guarantee every
single one of you, you're going to start
looking at that braha differently and
hopefully implementing the ideas that
I'm about to share with you on the
incredible brahaikim.
So let's begin at the beginning.
Who was the sadic?
Well, Yoseph, okay, this is kind of
like, you know, I have in the audience
my plant for those of you who are
watching in Tur anytime. It's good old
Mitch. I taught him in Dar um somewhere
between the Civil War and Vietnam. I
can't remember exactly what it was. It
was 25 years ago, something like that.
So, yeah, 100% correct. The Sadic, at
least in
it is Yoseph. Sometimes in the Gumar
some says binomadic but it's for the
same reason y is called the tadic and
it's unusual because we have au we have
Mosha Rabenu we have David Hamelik we
have Aaron Hakayen people come along and
they're known with some kind of a a name
that comes with them but there's only
one sodic and that's y do not confuse
this with Noah who's described desried
as a he was an iss.
And what it does is it forces us to
realize that is such a kind of person in
Israel called Vitadik. So let's talk for
a few moments about the story of ye
hats. What made him at Sadik? What made
him so unique and special? And the
answer is is we look at his story and we
contrast it with the story of Yehuda.
Yehuda was the greatest son of Leia and
Yoseph was the greatest son of Raal. If
you don't believe me, go and have a look
at the bras of Yakovu. It's basically
Yoseph and and Yehuda. They're the big
ones. They're the big ones throughout
history. And they are opposites in what
they contribute to Kal Israel. Yehuda is
called the Baluva and Yseph is called
the Sadic. Yehuda falls and he comes
along and he picks things up and he
builds. From Yehuda comes comes um Dra
Malik who also falls and then comes
along and builds and then finally comes
the Malik Mashiach. Yseph is not that
way. Ysef is the 17-year-old boy who
goes down to Egypt. Egypt is called
Admas Ben.
We said it this morning in Davening for
those of you that made it to Shakaris.
It's called Admas Ben. It is the land of
Kam literally means heat. Kam represents
um sensuality
um um aggressiveness every single bad
meter that's connected to the world of
heat. Bottom line is Admas
is the lowest of the lowest environment
that you could ever imagine to place a
17-year-old boy. Yet was not just any
17-year-old boy who was extraordinarily
handsome. And Baru designed it that he
should go into the home of Potifa who
would have a wife. Her specialtity, her
unique skill set was to take handsome
boys and make them fail and make them
collapse. take away their roas. No one
in the world knew how to do it better
than her. And she was relentless day
after day, day after day. Something
incredible, something unbelievable. Ysef
is always, always
represents the Jew who somehow or rather
is put in the hardest spiritual
environment that you could possibly
imagine and still prevails and still
comes out on top. That is what makes him
special. The midashian bring down
something incredibly beautiful about
Yseph Hadik in the that Hatadic
prevails.
Clai Israel spent 210 years in Mitim.
210 years, not once did a Jew, male or
female, and the Egyptians were extremely
lowly. And they would take women and
they would take men and do whatever they
wanted with them. Not a single one was
taken advantage of except for one case
mistaken identity. But that is the
exception that proves the point. An
incredibly lowly place 210 years a most
beautiful beautiful nation. Shir
hashirim. We described the beauty of the
of the Jewish people as they left Egypt.
And remember they were slaves in Egypt.
And slaves you can take advantage of
them. Unfortunately, if you learn world
history, you see what um invading
countries did to their slaves. I don't
want to go into detail, but just read
about South America, what the
concistadores did, the Spanish and
Portuguese, what they did to the local
population. Not once did an Egyptian
take advantage of a Jewish boy or a
Jewish girl. in who? In this of Yvatic
that goes into this impossible scenario
and somehow comes out and prevails. He
goes in. He is the foundation of how
Claw Israel is created. And then what?
Then comes Yehuda. What's the first
thing Yehuda does? Yehuda is the one
that failed and did Chuva. What's the
first thing that he does?
He builds walls. He goes into galas and
he builds walls which is the Jewish way
in galas. It is always considered to be
a braha when we have a ghetto that
somehow or rather can disconnect us from
the world around us. So those of you
that were here uh Friday night I made
fun of Baron Cutler over here about
about Lakewood being a bubble. Thank God
it's a bubble. Thank god we have places
where yen can be yidden and disconnected
from the world outside of us. So we can
flourish in our natural terror
environment. Interesting. I'm an anacle
of Tesus Yumpt. People don't know this
little piece of history. You go down to
the city of Vienna, which in his time
was the capital city of the
Austrahungarian Empire. The first thing
he requested from the Kaiser was to
build a Jewish ghetto, which today is
literally still the Jewish center in in
the middle of everywhere. It's like like
downtown and it's a you've been there
obviously but it's an incredible thing
that a good always understood and we
learned this from Yehuda Gishen Gishan
which interestingly historically was a
gift that the previous parrot had given
to Sarenu Gishan was our place geish had
walls geish yhuda comes in builds
yeshiva afterwards I'm sure he built a
base yakov and then after I'm sure he
built a mikvah and he built a school and
so on and so forth this is the history
of the Jewish people. First comes the
Saddic and then comes the Baluva. First
comes the child of Raul and then comes
the child of Leia. The child of Raul
goes into a world that is filled with
Niss and somehow rather comes out on top
and then afterwards
Yehuda can come in and build CL Israel.
And this is exactly how the end of days
is going to play out. When I say the end
of days, it's exactly 100% what we are
witnessing in real time in front of our
eyes. This is not some movie that we're
watching from afar. This is a movie
where we are the star actors and
actresses. We're in the story right
there, right in the center of
everything. So, let's analyze and see if
this is true. The first thing I want to
ask you, is this back in mit? Are we
back in? Is the world today the world of
K?
So I remember that many years ago and
this did not make it into my book. Those
of you who have bought my book, thank
you very much. My book on the Rome
Shapiro, I did not put this in because
it was a little bit I politically
incorrect but it can be misread. It can
be put out of context. But I once came
back from America and Rome Shapiro asked
me as
what did you see in America? Which means
what was the inside? As I said in
I just pointed out I said you see how
American culture is going down from
yeet. Yeah, it is beauty, classical
music, theater, whatever it is, and it's
going down to the to the the world of
And he looked at me and said to me,
okay, it's not going down to it's
already it's already there. Okay, this
is we are living here in America and in
the world of this is nothing to argue
with. I'm going to actually you can
argue but I want to let me prove my
case. What does it mean? We're living in
the world of K just for the record for
those of you that came to my share
yesterday on Shapiro's world thoughts
and we spoke about how he he viewed
Kirov and how he viewed. So I did
mention that we are in galismal
and galismal and kam are intimately
connected because mother was
hagar bas parro parro is from we always
forget that the mitzim were from the
mitz when were in Egypt whoever you
picture in in in the coloring books what
the Egyptians look like it's not what
they look like they were the children of
that's exactly what they looked Like and
that is where this
finds himself
as we say in our dening and it is
brought down into this is the world of
so I want to I want to sell my case just
a little bit more if I can.
I I as you all know from last night I
grew up in London. I said I I went to
theaters and I went to opera. Opera for
me was a was like a punishment. The
school took us to opera. I don't never
quite understood why I had to watch huge
Italian women dying slowly
and then singing about it. I mean it's
just like it was ridiculous thing. I
think half my class started smoking dur
because they couldn't deal with it. They
just went out. It it was it was
terrible. It was absolutely terrible.
But at least you know it was a sense of
culture and tvot and stuff like that.
Um,
today you have a look at the culture.
Things that what I grew up on were
considered impossibly lowly. Today is
the norm. We spoke about this at the
meal that the genius of evil is that you
get used to things. I give you an
example. I work um also in basakos. I
teach these young ladies. I don't go
like in the top top. I don't want to say
that. I obviously think that all my
students are top top, but I like
students who are struggling because I
feel and maybe I can help them. I just I
look for people where I feel that I can
be part of their journey. And a young
lady comes up to me and she says to me,
"Rabbi Nissle, should I or should I not
get a tattoo?" That's what she said.
She's already out of seminary when she
asked me this. She was going through
stuff and uh she said, "Don't give me
that. The Torah says it's forbidden. I
need better than that." Whatever. Okay.
So I could have quoted the the great Kim
Kardashian who who says that why we
don't want to put want to put a bumper
sticker on a Cadillac. All right, that
was her her big kma. I said something
else. I gave this whole speech about how
um did you ever ever like something um
one year and still like the same thing
three years later? I just asked be
honest with me. You know, fashion's
changed. Whatever you clothing you wore
three years ago, would you wear it now
or would you say it's no longer in
style? Would whatever you do now to your
body, you're stuck with it for the rest
of her life.
What I want to share with you is the
question itself shook me all over. I
never believed there would come a time
where I mannis would have to have a
conversation with the basak of goal
about a tattoo. I grew up in London. A
tattoo was associated with the lowest
strata of society, the proverbial
sailors. This is what it was. It was the
little tattoo parlor in Soho in in
central London. That was it. It wasn't
for regular people. Today, you know,
David Beckham, he goes around your
Pierre Trudeau, all these people that
are considered uh um mainstream, normal,
healthy, they get it. What's going on
with this world? Another example,
last year I spoke to a basaku girl and
something happened to me for the first
time is that she used a word, a swear
word beginning with the letter F in her
talking and that did not shock me. What
shocked me is that she didn't
immediately apologize that she's talking
to a rabbi. Normally kids, they get
heated up and they slip a swear word and
immediately say, "Sorry, Rob. Yeah, you
look shocked."
But she didn't even notice that she said
it. She just didn't even know. And now I
realize this probably they the way they
talk to each other in the dorms and she
just feels felt very comfortable talking
to me and she just said that word and
didn't step back and say I can't believe
when I was growing up again Mitch you
and I grew up between the Civil War and
Vietnam. It's a long long time ago when
I was growing up. So I would go to the
cinema. I grew up in London and they
would say warning 26 minutes into the
movie you're going to hear a swear word
you know you may want to cover your ears
you know shalom you shouldn't hear n I
had this weird statistic I don't know
when I wrote this class this this movie
must be 10 years old by now I don't know
anything about this movie except it's
considered super duper mainstream it was
called the wolf of Wall Street and it
had 538
uses of that pre pre-entured word in the
movie. It's something like once every
60 40 seconds that word came up. So it's
a different world that we live in.
Another example is clothing. Um, I'm not
saying that the clothing I grew up in
the 70s was mubad mubad, but today that
look that you just freshly fought with a
tiger, you know, whatever it is, it's
like you see people who come from very
wealthy homes and they look like that
nabuk and they're carrying all their
Gucci bags and the jeans that they're
wearing looks like that they just, you
know, cozied up to some kind of a bear.
It's ripped all over the place. Now, I
would never do this, but I imagine the
conversation would go like this. It
says, "Excuse me, do you think that you
look good with wearing ripped jeans?"
And they would say to me, "Rabbi, you'll
never understand." And I would say back
to them, "Absolutely yes." I would never
understand. There's no way I can
understand why you you feel you look
good looking ripped. This is it. I come
from Yapes. They are living in the world
of Kam. Um just one more example and
then I want to get to my main point. Do
you want to ask him to stop talking to
be quiet? Um one more example is music.
So once again, I'm not saying that the
music that you and I grew up on in the
1970s, the Gorisha music, I don't think
that it was the lyrics were about um how
you can get close to Kesh Bar except for
maybe country music. The lyrics are very
very lowly, but the lyrics were poetry.
It was poetry. So at the end of the day,
you could sit there in a college class
and and and learn of like you're
learning.
What did the the eagles mean in hotel
California? Right. Did they mean this
way? What was that? It's like a whole
shakaria. Mirrors on the ceiling, pink
champagne and ice. What exactly were
they referring to? So, but today
literally, excuse my French, the lyrics
is basically it's like biology class.
Can I explain to you? Today, we'll be
discussing the female anatomy.
So, this is the music that we're
listening to today. And guess what? Kids
love it. They are perfectly comfortable
living in
the world of this is the the world that
they live in. So let me summarize what
I've said so far. But before I do that,
one more example of loneliness. And this
is I think the most important of all.
And that's the concept of malus.
So you all know that um I'm European.
When her majesty the queen died, I
mourned, not so much for her, but I
mourned the fact that Mulus had come to
an end in Europe. At least that's the
way I felt, thousands of years of
European Mulus,
the great monarchs of France, the
Hapsburgs of Germany, all these great
kings and queens that had run Europe uh
with all their fanfare and their
beautiful palaces. It had come to an end
because they were basically taking their
malus from the malus of cla Israel and I
felt strongly that the malus was now
going to be given back to Israel and the
next great king in the world will be the
meal mashiach. So the the the the the
tears that I had for the queen was
really the tears of
of of wanting of desire of of longing
for the true meal to finally come back.
Meanwhile, we live in a world without
malus. I hope I'm not offending anyone,
but the malus in England today is
nothing more than a commercialized joke.
There's nothing to talk about. There's
no grander. there's no pump in
circumstance that you can look up and
imagine that you can make a braha of
what you see down here to remind you of
what there is up there and what there
will be for CL in the future here in
America. I hope um no one over here will
be offended, but um you can't call our
president a mel when he tweets or
whatever it's called that he does when
he tweets from the toilet. That's it.
Okay. 30 seconds after something has
gone through his mind, it's already the
whole world has to know it and it's
written in the language of a teenager.
This is the way it is. So it could be
that he's emotional. It could be he's
extremely powerful. It could be he's
extremely smart and it could also be we
have tremendous to him but malus it's
not there's no champions what means a
proper mel which comes
that a person looks at them and wants to
stand up for them because they feel that
in the presence that has given a little
bit of his own malus to bas you don't
feel that over there interestingly
America is the only great power that
comes from Asov that never had a mal in
the first place. It was built as a
democracy with a president. It's an
interesting thing. I I it was my own
thought that it's the only the final
expression of Edom. As we all know,
America is the last great stand of the
children of Edom of the 10 different um
combinations and permutations of Edim.
The last one is America as taught us.
It's without Malus. It's without Malus.
So what does this mean for us? It means
that we are now deep into the world of
Kam. And the world of Kam is exactly the
way it was in the time of when Yseph
came down. And what we need now is the
sadikim to come along and to bring the
Mel Mashiach. This is what's called for
those of you just joining us. Mashiach
bin
is the one that will bring Mashiach bin
David. I just realized now I didn't
properly explain myself. Romeshap my
rabbi always felt it was healthy to
think of Mashiach bin Yoseph not as a
person but rather as an idea. I don't
know if you know the history of Mashiach
Bose but it's been highly highly
distorted throughout history and
Napoleon people thought that he was the
Malik Mashiach Theodor Herzel people
Mashiach Bose is a very very um um
distorted concept. The Rambam doesn't
even mention him. You won't even find it
in the writings of the Rambam. Um my reb
said if I'm not mistaken he said
okay I have an allergy to the concert of
Mashiach bose just in other words
basically what we see today it basically
triggers me in the wrong direction but
what is good is to think of him as
people like the people in this room like
the people in this room who step ahead
and say I'm going to be the tadic I'm
going to be in the land of kam and I'm
going to fight against a very very very
difficult and challenging environment.
So I want to share with you my most
powerful story about this topic with my
rebu Shapiro
at this point. Now you all know that I
work for the NCSY
um organization. Um I my specialtity is
called Olami launch. I helped senior
public school kids spend a year in
Eritis.
Couple years ago I was in distur at
least 10 years old. I was in national
yaki kala.
Those say they didn't have tar town.
Those days it was everything was done in
in Connecticut. And a young man comes up
to me and says to me
I want to talk about my year in yeshiva
but I need to talk to you privately.
Fine. We go into a side room
and he told me which something which was
then unusual. Today it is more usual. He
spoke about that he has challenges in um
I don't know how to say this delicately
but he is um he's only attracted to his
own gender. I was going to say we're all
adults so he's only attracted to his own
gender and he doesn't think that it's
appropriate for him to go to yeshiva.
Now in those days this was all beginning
and I looked at this young man and I
said to him I don't know if I said the
right thing or not. I said to him,
"Honestly, if I was in your shoes, I
would run away. I I would literally run
away. I would I would move to the
Midwest. Go and find yourself a
cheerleader. Whatever is makes sense
with him, but I'm saying that go find
yourself a friend. Go out. Do do your
own thing. We Jews, we we're not good.
We're not good with people like you. We
don't really know what to do."
Unfortunately, I remember discussing
this with Rabasha Weiss literally last
week. Rabbash Weiss says we need to show
compassion to these people. These people
are going through tremendous struggles.
They're they're yidden. They also were
there. We need to give them love and to
give them as much disrespect as we can.
I was discussing a certain issue that I
was going through um in this area. So, I
said to him, we're not good at that.
Again, please do not take this
personally, but in our own backyards, we
tend to be judgy. If somebody comes into
our community, they're different from
us. They feel judged. They feel judged.
And I said, "It's not going to work for
you. You're not going to get married.
You're going to be that person that's
invited to people for Shabas and you see
they're whispering to their kids
something about you. You're going to
feel uncomfortable. Get out of here."
This is what he then he says to me the
following words. He said to me, "Niss,
let me tell you something about me. I'm
not an idiot. I know there's a God. I
know that there must have been a heni.
It doesn't make sense that God created
the world without a reason. I know if
there's a heni, there has to be
rabbitical Judaism that somehow brings
the world of heni to the meal mashiach.
I know there's going to be an olhab. I
know that everything that you teach is
the truth. Nothing else makes sense. I
also know that my feelings I have to
control them and I will do my best
because that's what the Torah wants for
me.
Can it still work for me to go to
yeshiva?
Now
fast forward. By the way, his story has
a
relatively good ending because yeshiva
did take him in and they were incredibly
incredibly wise and sensitive in how
they did everything. And I actually lost
touch with this man. But I want you to
stay with me because a few days later
I'm back in.
It's Friday. I'm driving as I did over
many, many years. I drove him to the
mikvah and back. I get to ask him my
questions. I said, "This is the scenario
that happened to me. It's never happened
to me before. Did I or did I not say the
right thing?" When I told this young man
that I would try and help him, I
actually told him that you're a hero in
my eyes. I told him that it's remarkable
your clarity of thinking. I told him a
lot of nice things, but was the general
approach correct? And Romesh looked at
him with his love I mean with his loving
eyes said
you didn't handle this well. I said, "Oh
my gosh." Okay, this is my Shapiro.
Okay, he didn't handle this. So what
should I have said? Listen to this my
dear friends. Listen to the words of an
autumn godle of a great man.
He said this is what you should have
told him. You should have told him that
the Malik Mashiach is very close. The
Malashia is coming very very soon. And
when he comes we're all going to go out
and greet him. We're all going to go out
and and and to meet the Malik Mashiach
and the Russ and the Gdolei Hadar and
and and and uh and Rabiosi of Project
Inspire, all the big people in Cla are
going to be right up there shaking his
hands. But Malik Mashia is going to say,
"No, no, no, no. I want to go in and
hang out with the people. I love I love
the people. I love Cla Israel." He's
going to go in with his loving eyes,
completely not judging every single Jew.
And he's going to go up and say,
Where are you from? I'm from Englewood,
New Jersey. Nice to meet you. What's
your name? He's going to go from person
to person.
When he comes to this young man and he
asks him, "Who are you?" Tell him that
Rome Shapiro says, he should answer with
the following words. He should say, "I
am the one that brought you here."
That's what you should say. I am the one
that brought you here. This is Allah
Sadikim. This is these are the heroes
that uh Mashiach
that's going to bring Mashiach that's
going to bring and it's going to bring
the
so and once again I don't know who's in
front of me but I'm sure there are
people like this in front of me as well.
people who are in the in in the mud of
Adam
that here living here in Mitim 2026
version here we have inspire 2.0 this is
mitim 2.0 zero. This is it. We're now in
it. We're now in mit. And there are
people that are going through
challenges that previous generations,
they wouldn't have lasted a moment.
For those of you my age group or within
20 years of my age,
we would not last in the age of the
internet. We wouldn't be able to do what
these young people, these young heroes
are doing in the world of social media.
This is in its purity in its most potent
way and there are young men and young
women who are saying I can I can
overcome I can prevail. So that's theim
what's
so I have in my mind a whole pantheon of
heroes that are around today
who are doing things that literally
against tea
I already mentioned are people with
incredibleness that overcome them who
are theim so one of the
are people that do what does it mean
that people do so once again you don't
has to go further than where we are
right now. Project Inspire, our our
leadership, this is what they're doing
is they just want to do they just want
to help people. They started an
organization to be able to bridge people
like us with people who are not as
fortunate as us to be able to have
access to terror and to bridge the two.
So these
are all the people in your neighborhood
who opened up a who opened up a hat who
went out and did things and they shaped
the world. people like Friedman who are
the of the world that ask themselves at
any given moment what can I do more for
the Jewish people that's what
cannot possibly be referring to the
because they already had their own bra
so I understand these are the people
that went out and built me honestly I
would rather donate one of my body parts
to science than do what these people do
building is yeshivas. I have a son, some
of you know him. He has shiva called in
he he could triple inside tomorrow. This
is not a request for money, but I'm just
telling you. But he sits there at any
given moment looking to his head. He's
thinking about tomorrow's share that he
has to give. And how's he going to pay
his rebel? And honestly, I see he's
turning white. He's like, I I think I
have less white hair than he does
because he has the oil of a yeshiva on
on his shoulders. It's a crazy thing.
Let's keep going. I'll play to saf.
That's the rabbis. This is now I want to
put myself in. Let me give myself a
shout out. Plus sam are the people the
rebies we don't do it for this for the
money no offense to all my employers but
yeah ask mind this doesn't work that way
every single this why I have to sell my
books we don't do this for the money
it's hard for us we do this because we
love your children we do this because
there's no greater honor and pleasure
than to be able to help a Jewish child
go from place A to place B what's next
gay or athetic
these are the craziest people on the
planet
I had a girl Net.
They wanted to do a documentary about
her because she was from this famous
family, this famous this and famous
that. And she said to me, "Rabbi Nissl,
should I do this documentary?" I says,
"Why not?" And then she says to me,
"What attracted me to Judaism is the
Jewish concept of modesty."
And I don't think that me being in a
movie fits in with that narrative. And
I'm thinking to myself, how can a young
lady who already what takes normally 18
years of Jewish education to get there?
That's Gatk. And finally, we get to
Alenu. So just for those joining us, the
heroes that bring Mashiachim,
the ones that overcome
the ones that build organizations like
Project Inspire
Zikra, people building moist,
the Rebies, Gerk, these incredible
people, they give up a life which is
normal to live a life where only Jews
can consume so much food over a weekend.
No one understands how we do it. We are
an
And then we understand the words. What
does Veno mean? Valenu means if I don't
fit into those five categories. If I
identify these people as being my
heroes, I'm one of them. These are my
people. The moment you identify that
these are my people, you become part of
them. You are your friends. You are the
people that you hang out with. You are
the people they identify with. That's
the
And then we say,
we ask them for their
it doesn't mean the in the next world.
Of course, they're going to get in the
next word. We want to see that these
crazy people somehow or rather in our
eyes we can see that what they did is
judging them favorably, is smiling at
them.
I want to finish off, but just to
connect it to Purim, I bet you that
Morai hated going on that white horse on
the streets of Shushon. First of all,
for a very simple reason, any picture
ever that you've ever seen of Aashro,
he's always a plus-sized monarch. Think
about it. Think of your coloring books.
Modai is just like, you know, little
satle stuff like that. And Aasher is
this huge big. He must have looked
ridiculous wearing Akasherish's clothes.
No wonder he wanted to get back to his
sackloth and ashes.
It's just a joke, Mitch. It's just a
joke. The bottom line is is that we
needed to see with our own eyes that
these crazy people that go against the
whole world. Everyone said you are a
fanatic. Everyone says you're the source
of our problems and he brings the ghoul
up. We want to be able to see this with
our own eyes. So let me summarize what I
came to say.
I don't want this to be just a
theoretical class. I want this to be
real on two levels. First of all, every
single person here when you dra today,
you see the blockad you say finally
understand what this block is all about.
I want to do what this weekend has
taught me to be some kind of a hero,
some kind of a person who in my own
little world can do something extra. If
I can't be the sadikim, maybe the
don't do don't be don't go into I'm not
I can't do this to you. I love you guys
too much. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just
kidding. You go into if you want to do
that. The bottom line is people that do
these things
notices you're immlaying
the fertile soil for what's going to be
the ultimate gula. And all that's left
for me to say is that it's people like
ourselves and it's movements like
Project Inspire that are going to be
able to
what we saw last night. We saw this last
night. I don't know how they did this. I
was sure that Rabiosi was going to
bring, I don't know, resurrect Elvis
from the dead
or at least bring the Melik Mashiach. I
thought it was going to happen last
night. Something big or Mr. Beast.
Somebody was going to come in. But it's
people like this. It's moments like this
that remind us about how fortunate it is
to be part of Israel and she would be
to be able to come
to bring the holy city from the higher
realms down to the lower realms and then
we can all greet
with the coming of Msiahu.
Amen. Thank you.