Project Inspire 2026 Rabbi Sampson Motzei Shabbos Keynote Session

A good v everybody did you have a good shabas we at project inspire certainly did but a lot of people asked us over the shabas so why did you change the venue really so I have been telling people the truth that as you know we've been work been doing our se our our convention in Connecticut for many years and it was really getting very easy for Yasi to do it. He did it like the back of his hand. I sometimes even caught him sleeping in the middle of the day when things were going on and it was so easy and we know Sara Agra. So we decided to change the venue. We all met as a team. We worked out what days they're going to be sleep outside on Arab Shabas. We gave Yossi the job to to take the cars and we felt you know what that will give him a little bit of of a harder work. Lefungara Agra will get more scar. So Yossi, thank you for what you did on Erra of Shabas. Didn't Yossi do a great job? And not just Yasi, but the whole team. The whole team. And joking aside, I just want to thank the whole team for what they've done because it is quite incredible from all my experience all together in life of seeing a team like this. it. Everyone plays their role in the most unique and special way coming together but actors to to get the seat desire that we have. And I just like to mention the following names. Lauren Levit, Yoni Zakatinsky, Rabbi Morai Trop, Yakov Giner, Kayla Spiro, Civia Avadia, Toba Cohen, Daniela H, and Kaya Aza. And I'm sorry if I left people out. I appreciate tremendous volunteers and I thank them. And I thank all of you for being here and being our great partners. We spoke a little bit on last night about Misha nicknam that when ad comes in we increase in simka and we gave a little bit of a new twist to it that perhaps the idea is not just our own simka but how can we have real true simka when our brothers and sisters 90% of them don't and perhaps the marimba is that we have to get our brothers involved D to taste the joy and the pleasure of Yiddish kite and a relationship with Hashem. I shared a story with you my dear Rebi Ravnak Weinberg yesterday and I want to share another one with you now which I heard from Yehuda Weinberg his son that his nephew Yehuda's nephew a grandson of Noah met with him a a few weeks before he passed away and his nephew came to him and Noah looked at him in the I and he said to him, I want you to dven for me for two things. I want you to dven for me for two things. Firstly, I want you to do that I Ravo Weinberg can understand the meaning of existence. That's quite a prayer he's asking his grandson to. And secondly, I'd like you to dven for me that I have three more years of life. So I can change the whole world. In three years, you can change the whole world. Please dven for me that I have three more years of life. And that was Al Rebi. That was Al Rebi that he was committed to the idea that we have to bring back all of Israel. And he believed with a passion that you could do that you could do that. And why why did he have that passion? Because he believed he understood that every human being is made. The whole world was created for me and I can change the whole world. I have infinite potential as it says in Adamu. What is man that you remember him and the son of man that you pay attention to him and you made him a little bit less than God himself. This is the power the potential that we have. If we want we can change worlds for the better and god forbid for the worse but we can we're a little bit less than the almighty himself. That's our potential. And he understood that the Almighty loves us. He had a bet on that there's there's an infinite being who loves us. And with Hashem on your side, what can't you do? You can do anything. If Hashem was on your side, can't you bring back the whole of the Jewish people? Surely you can. And he had a will of iron, a shmayim, and an and a clarity that Hashem wants all of our children back. He once told me that his mission statement for life is bring which he asked him do you have a mission statement and he said yes. I said what is it? He said bring back the Jewish people the Jewish people all of them now no excuses. That was his mission statement and that's what we had as Tal and we understood. But I just want to say to you and I I I think that Bez Hashem over the Shabas perhaps we got a little bit of that clarity that we can and that we must bring back our brothers and sisters. And I'm not going to talk about that anymore because I think we got that clarity. The Noah understood that one man could change the whole world. But it used to speak about give me 10 men and we'll change the world. Some people say give me 10 men means give me five women. Five women is 10 men is right. So 10 men or give me five women, you know. But he used to say, give me 10 men and I'll change the world. But I don't know, you know, who is a man and who's not a man. Who's really on that level to be considered a man? But what I do know is we have caninehara 500 people in the room here. And I do know that if we work together with Akus, Hashem will look down and see our efforts. And I believe that this is the Misha Bima. If all of us take the beautiful shabas, everything that we learned and we say, you know, we're going to be both in our own relationship with Hashem that we increase in our love of Hashem and our connection to Hashem and we increase in our connection to the Torah. And not only that, but if we leave this shabas, this con convention and we say I'm going to play my role and all of us play our role as we go into ad hashem the almighty shook look down at all of us and say look at the my kinder and I say please now look down at all of these people in the room all of these people who but Ezra Hashem are coming out of ing beautiful and powerful shabas. Please see the efforts that they and we together but after going to make for your children. Look down please and bring back all of the Jew all of the Jewish people now. Thank you very much.