Project Inspire Convention 2022 Don’t Miss That Ride! How One Decision Can Change Your Life Forever

okay good luck everyone at least the intro no way no it can't happen i said i love you i still do what though you didn't get the i can't believe they took away my four minutes all right bleeding out there i thought it wasn't ready it wasn't ready everybody go okay there is a story that is told a well-known story from what i understand i didn't know the story it wasn't well known to me i did think about you tonight by the way something happened anyway a well-known story to those who know it i saw it in a safe air i don't remember what it's called but i did see it there it was after i finished shimona esre i was in a place called ramada skull in a show called benay something beneath everybody shiva's i get confused this one is which forgive me i'm not coming to to mock it i really don't remember which one they used to have one right next to the other so which one's still there and uh just finished uh chakras and being that i'm extraordinarily stark there was uh there was some sperm there so i finished one s right and then finish the finish right and then i i grabbed the safer in between to grab the moments and i read the following story the story is told and i'm sure someone's going to tell me you got it wrong it's like fine the point will be the same i think there was a great sage by the name of shimon schwab of shimon schwab when he was a young man relative to being an older man went to visit the prophet saying we went to go visit the kravitz this is not going to be your average prophet's claim story the the general conference crime stories are like or he said like no take my blanket i don't want you to steal right that's like the classic ones this owner of shipping shop walked into the coffin says tell me are you a coin he said no i'm not a coin he said well i am he said okay he said why aren't you a coin it's like my father is not a coin can you imagine standing in front of the goddamn door and he's he's drilling you or like why are you not a co-hey look what do you want what do you want from me everybody knows the old story so i shouldn't tell it so i won't so let's keep going but there'll be one that doesn't so i'll say it and that's the story but the guy who goes to his rabbi and he says rabbi i want to be a cohen make me a coin so i can't do that see rabbi i'll give you a 500 donation to the shul it's like not happening a thousand bucks no 5 000. you see it like what five thousand i'm sorry i'd be like ten thousand dollars rather just just go ahead and make me a coin he said listen if you can keep this between us you know like i didn't do this and you gotta leave everything but like yeah okay let's let's do it you know he said but why do you want to be a coin so badly he says listen my father was a coin my grandfather was a coin a grandchild i also want to be a coin you know so he went to i guess you didn't hear it anyway so you went through i'm so surprised this is like this is like you're like the world of balichuva is amazing because when they come into age they don't know all the classic jokes you know so i could say and they actually lose themselves and apparently you also once that worked i'm i'm trying the next one so this guy goes on a date no shackles to this class at all he goes on a date and uh he goes to meet the prospective father-in-law and the follower says how are you gonna support my daughter he says oh yeah you know god will provide because what's going to be business it'll be like actual pronunciation god will provide no but how you guy going to live god will provide he leaves the wife comes in what do you think he thinks i'm god you know it's great oh my this is a wild next corny joke that everyone knows here we go okay so let's go back to this so he goes the coffee coffee crime says to him why aren't you a cohen i can just tell you personally when i when i've been by different good old man the opportunity to visit certain i remember in particular i went through khaim kanyevsky i went to go get a bracha for something which i can't talk about on camera but i i went to to go get a bracha i don't know everyone hears your experience in life and what you feel and don't feel i can just tell you for me it was a hut it was it was scary it was a scary thing to be standing in front of the goddard and to be and to be right there i'll tell you what it was i this is this is years ago this is when i was i think i was 22 at the time this was about four years ago and what happened i've gone since then one of my one of my sons i i have leonard are a bunch of kids and uh i did the briston for my sons i did the i i did the bris i'm not immoral i just said when he's about to do it i'm like i'll do it and i just you know went like that and everyone said mazeltov and the baby started crying it's weird uh but one of my sons i didn't do the breasts it's because we did it by rafael kanievsky and i was just too nervous to do it in front of it now i will just tell everyone just really relax like actually i did have a mole there he just wasn't in the room but uh now i had a mole there and you set it up there's what's called the mugane i'm not getting into that look let's see about different things i'm even oven but this is called the mugen it's just totally boko hashem when agrees we're good and uh and whatever i'm not gonna go into details i did the breath but i didn't do my last one i was too nervous standing in front of him kenievsky like it was in front of her like mama's in front of her this is three plus years ago it was actually his 91st birthday i didn't know and it's good i didn't know because i probably would have been like you know it would have been a little awkward to say that the goddard but but well you know it's nerve-racking a majestic and he was a young man he go to the front he says why aren't you a coin he's like i don't know why should i be he said well i'm a cohen he's like okay he said i'll tell you why i'm a coin and why you're not a coin you wonder why i'm a coin you're not and you wonder why i'm going to be able to go into the base of mikdash and i'm going to be going to places that you're not going to go the base i mean this is different areas where people are allowed to go depending on what status you are kohanim can go the furthest the coin gundle can go the furthest right the furthest up the furthest the deepest of the deepest right but he goes ahead and he said the quran we're inside we get to eat like mad mad cow we get to have a lot of flesh we get to and you're not going to be in the basa amigdas in those areas because you're not a cohen okay could you stop killing me here like what's that and you know why i'm a coin you're not a coin because we just read a few weeks ago and pasha's kisa we read about the eagle azov about the golden calf and what happened by the golden calf whenever by the eagles of we know that the jewish people unfortunately was a very bad time for us and they ended up falling so it was really really not pot really not good so what happens after moshe comes down and it's interesting because i notice that a lot of people don't know the end of the story it's most people know like there was the ego as of but not everybody is familiar i'm being kind not moving to your back in station you know so so so the eagle is off he goes ahead and he's back so they got us off what happened after the eagle is off after the igloos off the mojo comes down and he says that's it we got to go to war over here this isn't so simple jewish people got killed brothers sisters parents again i don't want to go into detail because i'm nervous people here maybe it's too much but it was very intense and moshabin who made a call he called that mila hashem eli whoever is for god come over here whoever's whoever's forgot come and who went says my great great great great great grandfather he who heeded the call he went when moshe abano says hashem whoever is for god a lie come to me so my great-great-grandfather went and yours didn't and that's why i'm a cohen and you're not a cohen those that she that heated the call that came but she would leave you they went over they became the guanum your great-grandfather your grandfather didn't go mine did why am i telling you this and he said i don't know why are you here again why are you telling me this he said i'm not telling you this to kill you i'm not telling you this to point out that i'm better than you the reason i'm telling you this is that the next time there's a call for mila hashem a lie make sure that you heed that call and make sure you take that opportunity we have so many opportunities that come our way we have opportunities to be able to do amazing things and sometimes it's very simple sometimes it's extraordinarily simple just helping someone out with a couple of shekel or whatever it is sometimes a little more difficult going out of a way to you know perhaps drive someone to the hospital or who knows what right there are opportunities that come does it mean that a person should take every single we'll call it i don't want to say the word opportunity every certain single circumstance that comes their way they should just do and it's just love that i've got necessarily but does that hejman understand that there's something that can come from this there's somebody that can come out of this do you want to look back and say oh no i wish i would have i wish i would have what a loss and i'm sure everybody in this room has something like that everybody in this room knows in themselves that there are certain things that you could have done over the years that you didn't do and now you're upset that you didn't do it i wish i would have done it and some of them by the way we even began doing but then we stopped doing classic examples would be something like learning a language playing an instrument learning how to do x y or z whatever it is that we even did but then we stopped doing and or like i my mom said i have to play piano but i didn't do it now i wish i would have you know what a loss i wish i would have done it so firstly let's understand it's true that there are missed opportunities there are missed opportunities and you're not a cohen sorry it is what it is other times it's not a missed opportunity forever it's just a momentary missed opportunity and then we have to ask ourselves can i make it up is the way that i could fix this missed opportunity i was on a plane flying i don't know where i don't know where to where i know toronto was involved i just don't remember if i was going to toronto or from toronto i don't remember i don't remember the name of the woman either but i think her name is sheila that just sticks out of my head i sat down i got a exit row when i sat down by the exit row the one next to me was open and i silently in my mind went score but outside i went like this i sat down there everything's great i got myself an extra seat even though it was one of those messed up ones you can't lift the thing enough too it's you know it was like a stationary thing but still all right you know i could spread my arm you know if i need after a few minutes a woman sits down next to me she looks very feeble she makes her she comes up like very like you know walks like that and sits down next to me she's like oh i'll be okay she says to like the stewardess and then when sears walks away she turns to me she goes i love being a senior citizen i was like what does that mean apparently in canada you can correct me if i'm wrong but i think it's 63 or 64 whatever it is for a woman it could be the same for me i don't know but i know she was a woman i think and she said to me she didn't ask are you a woman but but you know she said her name is sheila if that's her name and uh okay you get the point or you don't i'm gonna go invite her she goes sits down she goes i love being a senior citizen i said what are you talking about she goes these flight attendants think like i can't handle so i go i am a senior citizen get me a bigger seat totally milking being a senior citizen i said this is wonderful it's like when they come to do the briefing in case of emergency are you willing and able to actually rip a door out of the frame of the plane if it's on fire and she's like oh dear i'm fine i'm like oh yeah this is going to go well so she sits out okay she starts talking to me and the topic turned to judaism i don't i don't know how how she knew that i was jewish but but it came out it became pretty clear that that's the case and so we're talking about whatever she tells me she tells me that her best friend is a from woman her best friend is a from woman wears a shaytal has like 43 kids thousand grandchildren two million great-grandchildren and then the whole spiel so i'm looking at like oh okay interesting like your best friend this woman does not look jewish what does that mean okay i don't know but she didn't look to me like she was jewish let alone she wasn't wearing any keyboard how am i supposed to know you know that she's jewish enough to fill in nothing so so i didn't know and and she played the senior citizen card against sounds jewish-esque you know but uh she tells me that yeah it's her best friend is this a rady woman this hority lady so i was like okay how did that happen and she said well she grew up in a i don't know it was conservative or forum home whatever it may be and her friend also did they were both not affiliated with the orthodox world at all they went to a class together they both really liked the class and both of them wanted to continue but only her friend did and she didn't it was just this is what happened it wasn't that she was against into stuff came up and she didn't go the next one her friend did go to the next one she didn't go to one after that her friend did go and slowly but surely she ended up getting more connected to this and she she speaks with a i don't know if the word is jealousy or envy certainly a sense of of joy and pride over her friend's success but for herself to think you know i sometimes wish that i would have done that and i really wish i could still do that so i said sheila she said that's not my name kobe shouldn't say that i don't remember her name i said sheila you sound like you're giving a eulogy you're speaking now as if it's over as if there's no chance if it's done if you want to do that then do it do it if that's what you want to do then go and do it it's it's amazing my grandmother always said nothing no one ever always said that's just weird you know she always said an apple a day keeps the doctor away hi sapta good morning an apple day give the doctor what time is it she always say but she said often that's not true either i only say it once but it sticks in my mind she said the following time keeps on ticking ticking ticking into the future that's possible that wasn't my grandmother i think it was a man actually but but nonetheless nonetheless my grandmother did say one time time is moving you may as well do something with it it's like when you have people there i see a lot of students that go through to come to yeshiva and they're not wasting their time they're in the class or just anyone who goes to a classroom and like oh and they're just not doing they're not paying attention you're there already you may as well pay attention otherwise what are you doing there so leave i wish i'm 15. like whatever point this so leave what are you doing here take advantage of it do something with your time somebody says ah i wish i would have my wife is from montreal she speaks french i always wanted to i like languages so i i remember saying to him when he first came here teach me french and she said no is that what does that mean so it means no by the way but she said no that's exactly what it works you just like cut your words off in the middle yeah and she's like no i'm not teaching your friends i'm like come on just teach me one word just teach me one word a day that's all i want today i'm married close to close to 45 years i i would now i'm kidding i'm you know although i'm married hashem like almost 20 years but i wouldn't know it feels like two days you know tisch above and yom kippur by omahu mahu i'm totally kidding it does it feels like two days mamish underwater but uh is this being recorded we'll upload it right away okay make sure that goes quick okay i think i need a new place to stay if anyone can help me and she's like yeah whatever's in one of it not to be fair i didn't push it enough i didn't push it but had i done that today no thousands of i don't think there are that many words in the whatever but i said in french states like everything is french who speaks french again there's got to be some friend for you know french there's no jewexes this is like it's serious business there's no jewexes uh it's a french joke you know what i'm talking about anyway it's serious there's a lot of conjugations and i don't know what that word means but uh but in french it's kind of question right a lot of things i wish i would have i wish it would have done i would speak french by now at least i know a lot of words i understand we have to understand certain words first of all it's very complicated for me is very complicated it's totally totally not phonetic at all uh that means fennec means like it looks like i'm not even explaining it but the point is it's it's not fine i remember my father-in-law told me the first time i was driving to montreal i was trying to get instructions and he's telling me him coming from new york take the 87 north that's the through way and just take it that's all you do and then then you've got to get to this thing called he says the bonjour play so i was like okay i'm going to go to the ball show and play you know i'm looking all over bone shawn play b-o-n boom sean play s-h-a-p-l-a-y like i guess monster play i'm driving i can't for the life you find this bone shouldn't play you know i don't know where this thing is i finally stopped at some gas station like when after i've been driving like 48 hours and it's only a seven hour drive so it's like crazy and i see some guy i'm like excuse me and they already start speaking french when you start getting towards the border of montreal and i said to canada and i said to the guy i'm like uh excuse me he says what there you go that cup what i was like no he goes yeah anyway so i said excuse me do you know where the ball and sean played he said what are you talking about it's right there i said it's right right there he's like look at this sign paul champlain i'm like where he's like he's pointing at his side i'm looking at the same sign he's looking at it does not save on charmaine it says pumped chimplagny that's what it says there's no bonus right ponte champlagny just stay punch and plagued me and i'll know where i'm going but i wish that i would have done that i wish i would have taken that opportunity to learn the language i wish i could have learned something i wish i could have take i would i i i wit sheila what are you talking about i wish i would have i get it but you still wish so do it now in 10 years from today we shouldn't be looking back and saying again the same words i wish i would have rather it would be amazing to say i'm so happy i did i'm so happy i did i'll tell you my own personal journey studying the daily page i'm a big fan of the daily page tafayomi and i started i started learning daffy me when i was 14 years old and bo i mean to see him not long ago just do the math it doesn't really work out so i started 14 years old and it's daphyomi and it's koh haolam kula so why did it take so long the answer is it didn't take so long what happened was at 14 i thought to myself i really want to do it and i didn't do it and then the next team at 21 years old i said i really want to do it but i didn't do it and then at the net and i keep looking back i wish i would do this and every time there was the next cycle i thought that i said okay i wish i would do this and then the next second i said you know what maybe i should do it but then i didn't but then i started i did and then i made my way through it and hashem was able to finish and look back i'm so glad i did not i wish i would have and how many times do we say this comes because we don't take these opportunities that are right in front of us all the time now there's different styles of opportunities there are some opportunities that you'll gain from there are others that will change the course of your life they'll literally literally change the course you will become a different person for better or worse kalila sometimes we get the opportunity to do something wrong and someone takes that opportunity and then later they say i wish i hadn't and others we have the ones where i wish i would have or i'm so glad i did and it literally changes the course i think i believe i didn't get a chance to look this up so forgive me but if anyone has a car please send it with me i think it's disgusting as the concept it is discussed i'm just going to give credit to i'm sure it's that all of us have opportunities one out of a thousand though will change the course of your life if you grab them they'll change says your grandfather didn't go you're not a cohen for all time that was heed the call in that opportunity grab that moment i know some of you are thinking i'll say carpe diem now we'll move on grab that moment grab that opportunity let's go with classic for a second everybody knows the story of rabbi akiva on some level some way shape or form i remember the moment when i was when i was i was so excited that i grew up i personally didn't but my kids grew up in arizona and in israel and it could be it's like this in other places outside of woodmere i don't know but i just know wood mirror and areas to sear that uh the moment that i saw my kids association it snowed in israel in 2000 and a while ago recently there was another snowstorm but you go back earlier i think it was maybe 2010 11 12 something like that there's a big snowstorm for israel was a huge snowstorm it was like about an inch or two but this time it was actually not not not too shabby there was about a foot of snow i don't know you could look it up and find but it was a it was relatively terrible to sell there was a ton of snow and even other places oh it snowed it snowed just to give you an idea uh how israel's not structurally made in order to handle it took them literally six weeks to clean up all the trees all the whatever six weeks i couldn't leave my block where i lived for six days i couldn't leave my block because i have a van and i live in the bottom of a of a of a hit i'm living in a van down on the bottom of the hill i don't live in the van but and uh to get up the hill i tried i couldn't get up i was i got it it kept sliding down there was so much snow there i couldn't even get up but the first day we went outside and the snow is melting a little bit when you walk out of my house is two steps to walk down to the street and there was you saw everything with snow but right in front of my house going like this looks like someone took a stick and put it straight down into the snow there was a hole there what is this hole because the snow from on top of the roof was melting and it was dripping down onto that area and my daughter at the time was however old she was i think five or six or something and she looks down and she goes oh ruby akiva i thought to myself that's not what i thought at all i was like somebody's stabbing the snow you know what i mean i'm from new york you know that snow got mugged you know that's what i was thinking i was like that's the first thought that came to her mind rabbi akiva and says yes what we learn we associate so we know story ravikiv is walking down the road and he sees that there's a rock and there's a hole in the rock and there's water dripping and you just take a look and see what happened if keeper walks by and as he's walking he goes and he says oh would you look at that rock hole water i will now learn torah forever what happened over there we all know the story you ever stop and think does that make any sense you don't understand my mora told me that stop and think about what just happened there all it is do you walk by it's a rack there's a hole in the rack okay you can even say amazing or beautiful there'll be a keeper the government says haiti he hated this idea he did so much i don't want to go into that because it's too much together but he wanted to bite them and the kamara goes into a description he wanted to bite them the bite of a donkey i think more evidence says not the bite of a dog the bite of a donkey maybe that's the expression comes from when someone goes i don't like you bite me right that's what he says he wants to bite him the bite of a donkey why the bite of a donkey because says the gemara the bite of a dog only goes through flash the bite of a donkey goes through bone it's incredibly incredibly painful or so i'm told thank god it never happened i never although i did live with many donkeys for many years sounded a little awkward but i'll explain what i mean that's not what you think it means i hope but i was like okay we got to edit everything here anyway point is that i was uh i went to yeshiva called or shalom oj we lived on omoshav called beit i was there for two years one day first day i'm there i didn't know what got myself into i came to yeshiva early as i mentioned and i i came in and and i'm getting i was living in a caravan there was a that's that they didn't even have a building of their caravans i remember one day i'm like closing up the caravan i turn around i'm face to face with a donkey i was like oh hey uh he goes what's up i'm like we're not gonna have any trouble here are we he's like are we now i didn't get bit right but uh they were all over the places like the donkeys horses dogs sheep chickens this is like mosquitoes i remember years later i went to do a chabatone there when i'm married with kids and my kids hated the place there's so many mosquitoes like why'd you bring us to this farm you know like get us out of here he hated so much he wanted to bite at the bite of a donkey that's pretty intense and then what happens he's walking by he sees the rock he didn't study torah he sees the rock he's like wow rock hole water torah heart soft fire torah love tara sham i love tara what happened over there that changed it so obviously or maybe it's not so obvious to me it seems obvious bekiva must have been looking for something already he was looking for something he was searching gore goes to explain explains why did he feel that way about that it is for now but i'm not going to go into it but yeah he had he thought this being judged or whatever it may be and he thought to himself what am i able to do already i'm 40 years old it's over i'm finished like my opportunities are done i'm not able to do anymore until he was walking he saw the rock and he saw that there was a hole going through the rock this is classic isha torah material i'm going to share with you right now could be others as well i'm just saying they say this all the time there's something called the chihuly in the age building julie's a guy he's an artist glass artist and i have this chihuly in the in the building which is uh this i'm not really sure what it is they they say it's this beautiful thing the colors are really nice they are what it's yeah well i know what it is i'm saying but it's but it's just a lot of that going on and just that and everyone's like oh wow a flame i feel like it's like modern art you walk in you see like just stuff on the wall like that oh it's a horse frolicking with uh his friends where did you see that and which psychologist are you going to next you know saying like but this one is the colors of a flame and it comes down to a ball of of glass which is blue and it's meant to symbolize the idea of akiva of the drop of water and the question they ask all those that visit ishitara they say the following the water was dropping on the rock now for those who know where i'm going with this i have one request don't be that guy for those who don't know you're welcome to attempt when the water drops on the rock if it would be one drop of water who does not know where i'm going with it you don't know i'm going this be honest with me can i ask you that a question don't get the camera no it's not fair unless you want it it's your call okay question if one drop of water would have fallen iraq i mean there's a lot more than one drop oh mikey baby you thought you'd be inconspicuous did you no not with you that's right one drop of water would have fallen that rock if one drop what would it do to the rock one drop nothing okay two drops no okay 12 billion 345 trillion something okay now i'm gonna ask you a question this is gonna get personal how is your math skills well how's this what's one times zero zero good now in other words let me say let me make it more simple if i give you nothing one time what did i give you nothing one time if i give you nothing two times what did i give you nothing one times zero is zero two times zero is zero four thousand times zero zero four billion times zero zero four trillion times zero zero if one drop of water does nothing all the next drop is is another individual drop that means the second drop also will do nothing and the third will do nothing in the fourth will do nothing must be then voice noise must be must be that it actually does something that one trump did something i that's what shivers people do i remember the same guy walks in he didn't really know what's going on so he goes mouth earth i i don't see anything i don't see anything in my time i knowing anything it says you're right you may not see anything because it's quite quite minuscule it's small it's so small that we call it insignificant but you do it enough times you're going to start to notice something one drop does something says rabbi akiva i'm rebecca kiva i'm arabica one drop does something says well it must be that one drop actually does do something his all thought process is i'm already 40 years old amari cuarenta es estodo terminos what am i going to do i'm already done what am i going to start learning a drop a little bit it's going to mean something the answer is he walks by the rock he's already searching this he sees a hole through the rock and he thinks whoa it must be that the rock was penetrated with the water that each drop actually makes a difference let me start he grabbed the opportunity he saw a hole through the iraq he says it's because of consistent drops that were hitting it i can do one drop i can do a second drop i could do 10 billion no but i could do one drop 10 billion times and what ends up happening it becomes rabie akiva do we understand ruby akiva was that was was perhaps the greatest sage that ever lived where he who who gave him the stamp of approval moshe rabbenu moshe himself spoke about it how look it up in another share but the point is he did unbelievable akiva let's play this again my brother-in-law and sister-in-law were on a vacation they went to arizona are there some people with arizona here anybody been to arizona anybody heard of arizona right okay been to arizona before there's apparently a famous rock you've been there it's called what's it called i think so will you tell me where it is i think it's called hole in the rack and my brother-in-law he sent pictures when he went to visit with his family it's like there's this rocket sideways though and there's a hole and you can see through it uh the city or whatever and here's a picture with his kids and himself sitting in the rock with the selfie can you imagine today if one of us came across a hole in the rock imagine rebbi akiva would have said wow look at that echi so he starts etching out a picture of himself chiselly to get that picture wow that's cool let's send it out let's send it very quickly to our grandmothers otherwise known as instagram so go ahead and quickly send it to all their grandmothers i didn't know all grandmothers have this thing but apparently they have quick mail two grandmothers today looking for instagram gramps right and they go ahead imagine it would be akiva if you would have walked by and you would have missed it if you would have missed it we wouldn't have rabbi akiva ah left one out of a thousand you'll take that opportunity it'll change the course of your life and the course of history that we keep all of torah comes to all talks about pet comes to make us unbelievable because he grabbed that opportunity if he would have walked by said cool and keep going would have missed the whole opportunity this is right there it's throwing in front of us do we grab those opportunities that we have and we grab them what does it do where does it take us it takes us to a whole other realm we become another person it's quite it's quite amazing like we said not everything's going to do it but we can and the gomorrah says fascinating the gemara is found in avodah zara david zayn a very well known gomorrah about allah i'm not it's not relevant for me the gomer right now it's always relevant the point of that you might want to draw on is that there was a fellow and he did a lot of avedas and then he changed his ways and he did shiva and then he died and he was invited to the world to come that's the gemara in a nutshell i just yeah i just see it i just took every rob's drastic rosh hashanah and made it one minute you know you know you know how it works there's a story once i was on a roll in the beginning let's see if this can keep going there was a there was a rav who gave his draw shot he gave his speech you know during shul 45 minutes and whatever when he finished one of his congregants comes over and says rabbi that was that was a masterpiece that was so powerful he said thank you he said listen i have a radio show i would love it if you'd come on my radio show and if you'd give over that speech he said my pleasure be an honor he said but is the problem i only have a three minute slot do you think you can give over that message in three minutes he said yes he goes then why didn't you so the gemara says about our loser bender daya that he went off to derek he was involved whatever that means whatever that means and what happens he goes ahead and he does chuva and at that moment the gemara tells us about somebody name of rabbi boko found rebbe crying a few times till charles maybe cried out and he said yes the camera shot him those that acquired the world through many years we inquire our eternity our world to come it takes many years to get it and others acquire their world in one moment this guy allah he acquired his world to come in one moment says if you take the first letter of each of those words and you switch it around it spells the word akiva akiva acquired his world in one moment that moment was there for the taking that opportunity and he grabbed that moment he grabbed that opportunity there are those that acquire the world in one moment it's right there it's ripe for the picking do we grab these opportunities do we grab those moments can i get a more background loose and then start to realize wow how powerful that is and do we take those chances do we grab them like reverence will have it said i believe it says about akiva also it was a moment a couple years ago in this building i saw rabbi pesach crone was here and i shared with him this idea opportunities and grabbing them and that was a moment of one out of a thousand that if he didn't grab he wouldn't have elevated himself so much but he didn't elevate it he said to me that if you look in the medras when it tells a story about ruby akiva and walking and seeing iraq that it starts off by saying pam akhas one time rabbi akiva was walking down the road and it tells the rest of the story what does mean that was his one shot in that opportunity and he grabbed that opportunity now i have to grab every opportunity i think everything that comes my way again we have to evaluate and see but at least take it seriously you never know which opportunity is going to change your life or maybe even be the purpose of it as we'll see in a moment ah shem i'm taken by the song we say by the young the royal and we say also i mean let's find him do it it's fine to do everything all the time but ask and as we do it sometimes when we say the words hashem hashem etc and when we say this hashem hashem one of the things we say is said hashem is said he's the one which gives kindness venus and truth well which one is it is it ms which is truth or is it which is above and beyond it means kindness i'm doing something you don't necessarily deserve ms is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so el pas hashemes a few years ago and probably close to 10 now i was giving a shirt on about yom kippur time and talking about this idea and i spoke to a friend of mine rabbi bamzer who shared with me the following of the according to palm and he said what is it what does that mean what that means is as follows sometimes the ms is the truth is that we don't necessarily deserve a good judgment sometimes i mean everything's good ultimately but it's not going to be such a pleasant one we behaved in a way we did things that there's there's there's an effect there's a there's an outcome of our way of behaving it's not a punishment you did that now i will punish you it's an outcome that because we have a certain way now something has to happen in order to be messaged to fix up that issue that's the ms but hashem loves us the lord almighty loves each and every one of us and being that the lord loves us he doesn't want us to suffer so what does he do what he does is he gives us opportunities to do in order that the ms will come out in a way that which we like it case in point i'm speaking with a holy yid from cleveland recently he shared with me that he's a relative of rabbi goldwater goldwater if you don't know who that is and i didn't say much to you right now because i made it sound like oh oh of course you know i say oh yeah he's friends with steve mcnilly but with driving in a car he had a driver that was driving him somewhere when he was driving to wherever they were going they're on some long highway along stretcher road and he says to his driver do you see in front of us there's a coca-cola truck he said yeah could just want to make sure you're paying attention no that didn't happen but he said do you see the coke truck says i see the coca-cola truck he goes i want you to stop the truck oh sure sure stop stop in the name of abu khattera before you break my heart what's he gonna do he says what do you wanna do what do you wanna stop the truck he said stop it i don't want to stop it i want you to drive ahead of it and then slow down slowly keep it safe but slow till he has to slow down and slow slow slow till you stop the truck it's going to mill the highway he goes si senora so he says okay he's fighting so he probably said something else but so he goes he goes in front starts slowing down and that guy's going anyone did it as a kid when the trucks go by you're not talking about right and they go by slowly it's slow slow slow slow show you until it stops walk off this guy gets out of his truck he's 712. stone that's for english people he was huge comes over to the guy i want to say but i'm nervous it's not appropriate and if there's a camp if there's no camera you can say bad things but there's a camera mata what are you let's keep it at that it's like nuts you're crazy what are you doing so dangerous so the driver is like scared ahead of his mind you know he's like he's like max he's like oh he goes to the back opens the window the rabbi he's like you're not big many and he starts going wild so if i could wait for him to calm down he says to him listen i'm very thirsty can you get me a coca-cola please can you imagine what an israeli would do to that there are so many words that i have in my mind i get like four i don't in english said before letter words like love and hope i can't ever word i could think of he starts going crazy on the guy a drink he's like yes please diet i think you're crazy you're out of your mind you're a sugar and he storms off there's a big storm around underneath he goes off and gets back into his truck goes around the guy and starts driving half a mile later gets into an accident and the driver is killed on impact so the driver of rabbi abu hatser turns to the rabbi and says what's going on here he said i saw the malacha mavis the sutton the angel of death was dancing on top of the truck i knew this guy didn't have much time i stopped him in order to give him an opportunity to do kindness and if he would have helped and unkindness if he would have done then the next one ms truth would have been that he's deserving of life but he gave up that opportunity and unfortunately that was it how many opportunities do we have where people say can i this can you help with that whatever we're like ah crazy again it doesn't mean you do everything all the time it's but it's a husband wait a minute this is serious this may be my that's an opportunity to be able to go ahead and have ms i read a story a number of years ago for those who are speakers i'm not pulling an illegal move now because i set a message in between the story and i'm going to another story so because you're whatever i'm even oven so point this the story i read this story from rabbi arizev ginsburg of a ginsburg i don't know where it was i think it was in mishpacha but i wrote him an email and i said that i really enjoyed that story i can't find the story can you send it to me if you want to look it up yourself it's called the 21 club and missed opportunities that's the name of the article and i read the following story the story is that in the catskills on a busy road on a sunday night two friends i just met up to speak and to reminisce and there was uh afterwards they were getting their cars and they were they were going they were going to drive home and they noticed that there was someone hitchhiking a little background on the person hitchhiking from who came to collect the money for his daughter's hassana he came to collect money for his daughter's wedding and he's there he is he's at the uh he's waiting there and this guy was telling the story said that he left his friend and he drove and he noticed this guy you know waiting for a ride but he didn't stop for him you know what he thought i should i shouldn't i should you know so the foot like went like kind of off the gas but not on the brake for some reason the car didn't stop so he said it's been a shamayam so he kept going but he saw in his rear-view mirror that his friend picked him up okay but hashem someone else did it that's that's great okay someone took him what happened this friend picks a guy up he's speaking with him in hebrew discussing what's going on with his life suddenly the guy looks like he's in some sort of shock he starts to feel like this pain not in acute pain but a pain nonetheless in his chest not acute but a pain just to feel coming down his shoulder this weird feeling what's happening is having a heart attack this guy quickly calls his brother-in-law or brother he calls a brother and he says you know what do i do is that sulla guy and he says quickly they took him they they met up they're right there they took him to the ambulance the brother got an ambulance they brought him in and on the way there he was talking with him the whole time to make sure he's gonna be okay and he was having a massive heart attack they brought him to the hospital no doubt saved his life save the guy's life when the guy after sergio was taken out this guy who gave him the ride was right there stayed with him to make sure he's going to be okay and when the guy woke up he started crying and he said it's okay you're fine it was good this you were successful you'll be fine and he says it's not why i'm crying he says what he says i still have money i need a raise for my daughter's house there's no way i could do this now i'm stuck thank you for saving me i appreciate that now i'm stuck i don't know what to do the guy says what do you need he says i'm 20 000 short for this wedding he says okay just relax we're gonna try to help you and he goes out of the room he calls a bunch of his friends and within five minutes he gathers twenty thousand dollars he comes back in he says don't worry we got the money this guy was a lady that couldn't believe it and he said i never would have thought i met elio navi what a crazy experience that i just went through over here and he goes and and he ended up surviving he gets better and then afterwards this the first driver that didn't pick him up is telling robert ginsberg this story and ginsberg said wow what a beautiful story but the man who's telling him the story himself starts to cry he's like well okay this is weird what's going on he said did you miss the point to my story he goes clearly what's what's the issue it's a beautiful story he goes rabbi i didn't do it when i get to shamayim they're going to say to me you could have given the guy the right my friend gave him a ride and while giving me right he was makayam beaker hollam almost talavoya sammace a lot of things i think upstairs and this guy's dory doris and all the torah is going to come are all in his account and i miss the opportunity i'm never going to be able to have that again scary concept we have opportunities that are there do we take them do we capitalize on them we could have grown in our judaism we could have grown in our set we could have grown in our connections and relationships with our friends with our family with hashem and we didn't take the opportunities okay is my grandmother said tick tick tick tick tick at least do something with it now could be we missed things it's possible but grab what you can while you still can share with you one more idea quick recap one point than we done leoned there this is the well-known story coming up to the holiday of purim i didn't check before i don't know if i'm right i think it's in peridod in the megillah i think if i'm wrong then i am but if i'm right then i am the magilla tells a story the very famous story if you're a girl you probably never heard this idea before about esther malka and who knows if that's why you were brought you probably never heard this but all the guys heard it i'm totally kidding you've heard a thousand times that's what i meant you're like what i heard it what happens is we know that the jewish people are in a very bad place was approached by a home and let's go kill the jews so let's go uh uh so what happens not to use the next song yo yo yo yamaka which is tomorrow's dear shoe for those who are learning uh mr brew so what happens go zed and hum and boo comes along and we know he goes to go to try to kill the jewish people achashveros is down he's like let's do it yeah let's get rid of him mordecai comes along to esther and says you've got to get in there girl that's your chance get in there go get em ace you can do it you get in there and you have to you have to save the jewish people i'm gonna go in there i can't go but i wasn't called i wasn't called by the king if you're not called by the king you just go to the king that's it that's it all right we know one of the assailants it's over i'll be killed if i go into the king esther listen let me explain something to you here's the bottom line the jewish people are going to be fine they're going to be fine we're promised hashem is always going to take care of us but if you don't do this the jewish people will be saved but if you don't do this then you and your household will be lost and then come the famous line miode in leicester who knows maybe for this reason you actually became the queen in the first place that's the general understanding of the possible it troubled me esther is apollos guyva what she's someone who wants she's arrogant she needs it to be in her name that she did it esther was a prophetess esther was one of the greatest women that ever lived what she needs to get the credit for great people like that when you give them an out they take it you mean i don't have to do it to someone else to do it let them do it you just said to me it's not a malcolm shayinisha you're straight outside the santa monica chain she's like so why should i do it but esther says okay i'll do it what's going on over there esther needed to be the one he gave her a whale if you don't do this it's going to get done thank god for that let's luck with them because i don't need to do it but she says okay i'll do it why perhaps the message was a little bit deeper um who knows maybe for this moment you became queen this is the actual purpose of your life the reason you were created in this world was for this moment and who knows maybe this is what you're meant to be doing and if you don't do it this is your legacy god does god will take care of it but you're meant to go and do something here god created you and he said i want everyone as a mission in life maybe that's your purpose and meaning and mission and the purpose of your existence and you're going to give it up esther says okay i'll do it i lost out i'm going to lose that from doing this in other areas perhaps but if that's the purpose of my existence okay maybe every one of us umio dem lis casigata marcus who knows what the reasons are for the particulars chances that we have maybe it's worthwhile to seize those opportunities in those moments so let's do a quick recap everything we did and it was one point and then we're done we started off in the beginning i'm super shocked invisible but it says are you calling cohen you're not going to lie why don't you go do the opportunity to grab over the chicken all the opportunity comes out crying somebody says that coming to ellif we have that opportunity to come away we even wanted a thousand gonna go catapult you to another stratosphere time to don't take it and take it i wish i would have why i wish i would have sheila say i'm so happy i did don't understand the fact that it's over and it's finished i can't do it anymore now's the opportunity as long as you know it ain't over until you die so now's the opportunity to continue doing it so why are you stopping right now it's like oh it's convinced it's gonna be like can't really do anything like i don't care why do you go and want to fight it he hated him so much so what happened look rock water heart eye torah sorry what answer is because there's already certain stuff what's a little drop going to do 1 times 0 is 14. 0 0 0 0. it's something it does something like it says oh i'm out of eva i'm going to give in which case it's worth it i can't do a billion jobs but i could do one a billion times it was going to be the opportunity to grab it over keep it just walk by go chisel and you missed the whole opportunity over there when he's sending a chisel to somebody your grandmother what's that going to help make sure that we take this opportunity we grab those right in front of us and we gotta have crested viewers in san francisco which one is it i want coca-cola recognize opportunity over there they're there in order to save us you think they're helping somebody else helping yourself you're saving yourself by doing such an idea and make sure that we take and we grab and look over here this man who ended up missing the opportunity to give this guy a ride he says he was mikayama paya and oila and like and and and shatness and the guy was making orient and i would i it i missed this opportunity i could have done already i missed it i could have done kindness and i could have visited the sick and i could have brought the deadpool mason and i could have gone and done charity and i could have gotten gone for dory doves i'm going to miss my between you but then all of a sudden it's already lost my friends what a powerful concept what a powerful idea that we have did i miss anything what'd i say say again no i said it i said it [Applause] and every one of us have these opportunities so i'm going to make very clear once again it doesn't mean everything all the time we have to sleep we have to eat we have to make time for ourselves and we have to do but when those opportunities arise make sure you're in we we think through maybe i should be taking this opportunity because you never know it could be that that's the reason why maybe we were created in the first place shavuot [Applause]