Project Inspire Convention 2022 Suspending Our Disbelief How to Build Emunah in Hashem

good okay good luck everybody i'm sorry i always lose my voice when i yell anyway so uh everybody's here because they're too tired to get back to their rooms or go swimming so uh and uh there's no refreshments out so i guess we might as well just join together in here for a few ideas you know there's this argument that people encounter all the time yeah how do i know there's a god so my response is always do you believe in god most people say yes i said that's it you know good he says what if somebody says i'm not really worried about that yeah these are these are the arguments and uh it's an amazing sort of a thing i'm in the field a long time and you have people say things like now you have them but i used to run an organization called ncsy in long island high school kids and i'd have a 9th 10th grader 14 15 years old they'd say to me i'm an atheist i'd say you're an atheist you know there's no god that's right there's no god i said well have you ever studied classical philosophy no plato aristotle no medieval philosophy thomas aquinas no modern philosophy um hegel no jewish philosophy la habdiel maimonides you the levy no did you ever study talmud no do you ever read the bible not the whole thing one person read the review notes you know on the old testament i don't even know there were those i said you'll forgive me you're not an atheist you're an idiot would you develop your theology on the school bus one day looking out the window is there a god nope in fact i'm positive i'm an atheist i don't even have a question and yet people take these people seriously i'll get a call from yeshiva i have a boy he's having a scuffer problems i said really he doesn't know if there's an abused uh i said uh he gets up late yeah he hangs out at night yeah he's not really much leaking his learning says yeah i said he has problems they're not hush gothic tell me he gets up he learns the whole day and you find him in the basement at two o'clock in the morning with a copy of spinoza you know what i mean as someone who's having a scuffle problems it's just every kid knows he can go maybe there's no god and everyone goes he's an atheist yeah an atheist an atheist means that you know something you can't you can't deny something without knowing anything it's just called being ignorant but uh we get bent out of shape we hear this you know so uh we wouldn't do this in any other field a person uh walks into a you know astrophysics uh you know conference and i think einstein was wrong so really yeah time is relative i have relatives that never on time okay thanks for coming you know i'm gonna take this guy seriously so what does it make but when it comes to this all of a sudden everybody's an expert i heard a story years ago i don't know if it's true i'm not peso crown and he checks out all his stories i don't um and uh it was about um a science and religion conference and apparently rabbi refsen from the very shalom was there and there was a major astronomer who was speaking and he says i don't know that much about religion but i think he could be summed up as love thy neighbors thyself and don't do unto others as you wouldn't have them do unto you and thank you very much so i reps and gets somebody says i don't know that much about astronomy but i think it could be summed up as twinkle twinkle little star he looks at me says you're a man of science how could you say i don't know anything about a subject and then say what it is just say i don't know anything about religion i'm looking forward to the theologians here to explain it to me how could you possibly have an opinion on something you don't know anything about but this is what happens everyone has a right to say i don't believe in god yeah and people's ability to disbelieve it defies reason yeah moshe tells aro hit the water and all the water in egypt becomes blood in the rivers in the lakes in the streams in the calem everything turns into blood and then the magicians of pyro say that's not a big deal we could do that too and they turned the water into blood so the obvious question is if iron turned all the water into blood where did they get any water from so because i'll say the only way the egyptians had waters if they bought it from the jews so that makes a dramatically different scene iron hits the water and all the water turns into blood let me just say that's nothing here are on his twenty dollars give me some water watch this poof i turned it into blood oh yeah you're as powerful as i am so how come i have your twenty dollars it doesn't matter you turn water into blood you turn water into blood that's good enough that's all i need yeah this is this is the ability to rationalize something you don't wanna see you ignore it so here's the way that it's often put i don't know if you ever got this i've heard this over the years if god would make a miracle for me i would believe him i want to see a miracle abner weinberg used to say people would tell me i'm an atheist and i say did you ever see a miracle they say yes now how is that possible right but that's the argument god showed me a let me split the red sea in my backyard you know let me see a miracle so i used to answer this until i realized that the argument is totally not true and i'll tell you how i knew i moved to aristotle 1988. my parents assumed it was a passing phase i would grow out of it but i went for a while came with uh four children had a fifth while i was there and um and then in the summer of 1990 iraq invaded the arab country of kuwait and george bush who was president at the time realized this was a very serious situation because he was doing poorly in the polls and there's nothing like a good war to get everybody on board so he got on the radio and he said if saddam hussein does not pull out of kuwait we'll be forced to use military uh options so saddam says he thinks my name is saddam i don't think he even knows who iraq is no i'll cause bluff so he lines up all the foreigners ties them to national security uh positions and says go ahead and bob them it's a good way to win overnight world support he gets on television with a little beret in his mustache he's like some character out of a bad movie and he starts yelling at some little english kid who's sitting there crying it's just horrible so george bush said okay i can't mess this up and he puts together the largest coalition in world history he gets russia he gets china he gets um syria he gets israel he gets um germany europe south america north america everybody's on board the only one who's on saddam's side is yemen and i'm sure that was his ace in the hole because yemen promised to send both camels so you know that should really stand up so finally saddam hussein said if you attack me i'll bomb israel and bush says go ahead we dare you go ahead and bomb israel and israel says hey we're okay with this we weren't using kuwait anyway you can keep it you know this is no no we're going to bomb israel okay listen i live in artsville they're always threatening to bomb us it's not a tuesday if someone's not threatening to blow us up you know fine we don't take it too seriously so finally george bush sets a deadline yeah january 15th if they don't pull out we're going to start military action so november my daughter comes home she says it was so funny in school we dressed up like a fox wife said did you hear that they dressed up like a fox i said so i dressed up like a tree in the tuberculot play what are you worried about she says explain to abba what a fox looks like he says oh he put on this funny mask with a long nose this is a gas mask they're practicing putting on gas masks i said well they don't do anything at school anyway most of these decorate the front of their makba road you know maybe this is actually a marketable skill who cares you don't think saddam is going to attack israel everybody in the world is there fine comes december people are starting to get nervous so general ben nun who at the time was the head of the air force gets on the television typical uh israeli military person you know got the sunglasses shirt open big hairy chest lots of metals you know cigarette dangling from his mouth an arab under his arm you know then you wonder why we don't get world support you know i made aliyah and back then they were supposed to draft you after three years and three years came by and they never drafted me so i went down to the recruitment center and i said shalom party be sure they said that's funny just go home i said no i'm here to serve my country they said sir you have the military profile of a terrorist victim just go home i said no i can do something for the country that no one else can they said what's that make me a military spokesman when they see me in a uniform they'll feel so bad for this country i'll get you international support but they didn't listen i would have really been able to tip the balance of power in the middle east fine they sent me home so he's sitting there in front of a bunch of f-16s he says if saddam tries anything we will blow up a baghdad and there are four guys behind them and they'll go okay well we're very reassured yeah fine so about a week later the jerusalem post puts out a map of the different sections of iraq and he says don't worry we know where the scud missiles are they're all in h2 and h3 and they showed us exactly where they were and i remember thinking at the time that maybe it was a mistake to publish this map because it could be saddam has a subscription to the jerusalem post and he might decide to move some of them to i don't know h1 and h4 you know but nobody was worried because we were told that we know where all the scud mussels are and we're safe now it's january israelis are starting to panic how do you know they're starting to panic they buy all the tomatoes i don't know what it is with israeli and tomatoes they get crazy with tomatoes you know first thing when they sense a national crisis they buy up all the tomatoes milk and bread yeah okay so so they're getting nervous so they start distributing poison gas equipment that's when i get the first call from my mother that's it come home i've had enough of this bring me my grandchildren back here now at the time i was in my 30s and i was a rabbi of some repute i said come on mom can i stay a little longer no you come home right now i said mom what are you worried about we know all the missiles either in h2 and h3 don't mention this to any iraqis you see if anything happens we'll blow them up didn't you see ben nun in front of the planes says aren't you nervous at the distributing poison gas equipment i said shouldn't i be nervous if they weren't that confused her yeah so it was a typical jerusalem evening we went down for gas masks and pizza and i come in with my children and i give them my to that secret and there's always something wrong on youtube and israeli paquid has not done his job if he doesn't make you come back three times yeah the last time it's with the witch's broomstick you know what i mean it's just ridiculous so i come in they say there's something wrong now i'd been in israel long enough i know how things work there now yeah i start screaming now i had to learn this because this doesn't come naturally to me i remember when i opened my first bank account in long island i went into the bank and they said oh please go to mrs smith and i said i want to open a bank account they said oh isn't that nice here's a toaster you know let's pick out which types of checks you want would you like mountains would you like seascapes would you like horses you know if you pick it out they say would you like a large initial of your last name you know sure what check would you like it to start at you get to pick whichever number check it should start oh okay where'd you get a check holder fine i went to open my first israeli bank account and they told me go to this guy who's sitting there reading the paper smoking under the no smoking sign and i said anira selector he says zelopo i said hey folks la mata so i go downstairs and i wait online window window window windows they tell me no it was him he just didn't want to do it he did not want to open my bank account so i get back up there's a row of like three people in front of me and he looks at me says ma tarza i said anira self-taught now for a moment i said oh okay i'll take the two buses back to harnoff come back after four o'clock and then wait online again to try to open my account or i could employ the skills that i learned from my years running junior ncsy which was the division for the 10 to 13 year olds and i looked at him with my mina's face and said i knew it's bone he said busada that's how it works i don't know why it works that way is fartim uh very big on making brissim very important to them i have a friend of mine who was farting says his grandfather said ben bat er ekasha yeah brit you know what i mean that's it so uh he had four girls the nurse comes out and says congratulations you had a baby girl goes what i already have four girls i have to make a brit i want a name for my father he starts screaming she gets nervous she goes to the back she comes back and says i made a mistake you had a boy he says you see you don't get anything in this country unless you yell i said fine don't give me any gas masks we'll all die we'll die in a gas attack that's okay my son says we're going to die i said no no this is israel you've got to do this here you know so they said okay mercedes so they give me two adult gas masks two children gas masks and two gas cribs mamat now in case you've never seen them they're about oh this long this wide made out of plastic you unroll it stick the baby in and roll it up mommy mommy i said can he breathe in there they said we're pretty sure i said this looks pretty nerve-wracking he says no no we know where all the scud missiles are they're in h2 and h3 don't mention that to any iraqis but we're going to go in and blow them all up but just in case one of them gets through and has a poison a gas warhead and hits harnoff you know we want you to be protected but you don't have to worry because we live on a mountain and the gas is heavy and it sinks to the bottom of the mountain i live at the bottom of the mountain don't worry you don't have to worry you know but just to be on the safe side you want them to take one of your rooms and cover the window in plastic and then tape up the door and have a towel sitting in water and baking soda to put at the bottom nothing to worry about no nothing to worry about oh by the way i'm giving everybody an anti-nerve gas shot there's one inside a little crib for the baby there's a glove reach in and you can inject them not that there's anything to worry about but just to be on the safe side now this is new to me i never you know i never really had been uh threatened with poison gas before so it was like fine so we take it all home the week before people are starting to get nervous now it's getting serious right it's already january 6th january 7th someone answered zalman what it's going to be and he said i'm not a navi but i promise you the following june 15th is the deadline on june 16th we're going to say halal and this year we're going to eat meat on teshev well the news spread like wildfire until somebody realized january 16th is rosh kodesh we always say um halal and uh that year tish above came out on shabbos so because he's trying to have a little fun at our expense but anyway so people are getting nervous my mother calls again and says that's it come home i said mom you don't have to worry i've got my poison gas equipment i've got a piece of plastic on the window and we know where all the scuds are so everything's fine good comes january 15th the war starts and listen to the radio sure enough the americans blew up all the scud missiles because they were in h2 and h3 because they have a subscription to the jerusalem post they knew where they all were and they blew up all the missiles and everything's over now is the end of the war january 16th it was a thursday night my wife wakes me up she says i think i hear a siren do you ever hear an air raid siren it's not like an opinion so it turns out that the guy in harnoff in charge of the siren fell asleep we were hearing it from bait zion so it's on the other side of the mountain i stick my head out the window i said it's an ambulance go to sleep my wife says we know this might be a missile my bet might be a missile deck let's turn on the radio so who's on the radio in the middle of the night the disc donkey doctor love now i want you to appreciate this because i'm a news junkie when i lived here in you know uh america i was always listening to wcvs newsradio where there were only three stories and they kept repeating them over and over again and was always very dramatic a fire in the bronx we turn to our correspondence in the bronx what's happening there well a three alarm fire has gone to the building in the bronx and the fire department is looking into that right that's it you know back and forth and then the traffic and weather yeah i used to listen to it even though i was at home i wasn't driving anywhere the weather doesn't change that often but you know but you listen cause you're always afraid you're gonna miss something i was only once in an actual emergency yeah it was in the 1980s there was a hurricane called hurricane gloria hit new york just before circus blew down all the suckers of those foolish people who put it up early people think i put up my circle last minute because i'm a procrastinator i'm not there might be a hurricane but most people aren't thinking like i am so hurricane came so they switched to emergency broadcasting every news man lives for this here we are at hurricane headquarters um standing by with a report we turn to our correspondent in long island what's happening out there i am here in long island in a public school which is serving as an evacuation center and i'm speaking to mrs smith mrs smith where's the situation we're very nervous and what are you doing we're waiting for the hurricane do you have anything you want to say uh thank goodness the red cross brought us coffee and donuts very good back to hurricane headquarters okay now we turn to washington uh people are standing by the president is prepared to issue a statement as soon as the hurricane hits but we're guaranteed that the national government will give us all the support that we need back to hurricane headquarters all right let's go to the weather center oh this is definitely a hurricane bob we're looking at winds of up to nothing happened there was no news but it was so exciting they were cutting here and going there and it was like could you imagine if new york city was under missile attack they would bring back edward r murrow from that dead this would be the story of the century so i'm i'm in uh i'm in my house and there might be a missile attack so i turn on and there's dr love no emergency broadcasting shalom yesh azaka there's a siren go to your sealed rooms put on your masks of music and they stop playing music now i'm half asleep i said to my wife i said you see there's nothing going on playing music my wife said they said go to the sealed room and put on your mask i said they don't announce that in between songs this would be a war yeah so i'm waiting for the music advantage he goes okay i hope you're all in your sealed rooms and now more music for the sealed room i said oh my gosh a missile attack so i wake up all the children i said quick quick into the sealed room you know because they were very excited i bought bumper and bisley i put in the sealed room i said you can't have it it's for the war what is that so they were really praying for this attack you know so i bring them all in and we put on the mask i stick the babies in the little my mud mommy mommy and i wrapped them up you know what i mean my wife was on a mask he says i can't breathe now as it turns out they forgot to remove the little plastic disc covering the air hole from a number of the masks which i don't find that surprising because they bought them from germany now it seems to me that's the wrong place to buy anti-poison gas equipment that's just me so i said you must be doing something wrong give it to me and i put it on and couldn't breathe but i left it on loose because they said it's not going to work anyway if you have a beard and i know what i look like without a beard and i'd rather die in fact a friend of mine is she even told everybody you have to cut a few beards you know everybody shaved off their beards so after the missile attack he called this rebbe you know his wife answered the phone and goes just checking to make sure everybody's all right he says okay can i speak to the rep he says he'll be with you soon so let me ask you did he cut off his beard he says no he says what he says don't worry he'll tell you himself in the background you ah what's going on he covered it with electrical tape that's got to hurt anyway so we're in the room the little babies are going mommy mommy mommy you know they're playing music we're stuck in this room we don't know what's going on and finally nachman shai comes on he was the point man in charge of this war nachman jaya apparently died several years earlier no one had the heart to tell him he was a spokesperson he had no discernible personality whatsoever so dr love is interviewing uh can we take off the mask can we leave the room no don't take off the masks don't leave the room he says could you tell us what's happening we're looking for the scud missiles now a sked missile is four stories tall travels seven thousand miles an hour has an explosive possibly chemical payload how hard could it be to find and it's good missiles here no okay hey you have this good missile so i think i know what's gonna happen it's going to crash through the wall of my sealed room and it won't explode it'll just be ticking i'm going to have to like unscrew the cone i'm trying to remember you cut the blue wire or the red wire so i say to the kids does anyone know if you cut the blue wire the red wire but they're not listening to me because they're trying to get the bisley through the little arrows and their masks so we're stuck in this room and they're not giving us any information so i remember back then in the middle of the night you could get voice of america i turned to the channel this is the voice of america and here we are at go for headquarters i said okay now i know where i am you know we turn to our correspondent in washington what's happening there uh president bush is standing by he's getting prepared to make a statement to the country as to the how the war is proceeding back to gulf war headquarters okay now we turn to our correspondent saudi arabia uh i'm over here with a english pilot that turns watkins wilkins uh turns what do you have to say uh we're getting ready to do our job and what is that we're going to bomb baghdad and anything you want to say thank goodness the red cross gave us coffee and donuts i said okay i know where i am now you know and now we turn to our current corresponding jerusalem uh we are in our sealed rooms wearing our uh protective equipment and what is uh israeli radio reporting nothing they're just playing this feathery music listen okay uh back to gulf war headquarters they're not telling us anything we're stuck there i think they realized they shouldn't have told them we knew where all the scud missiles were that might have been a mistake now they weren't saying anything you know nothing we weren't giving the weather report nothing no news yeah we're there till about four o'clock in the morning the radio is on and finally they announce the all clear they take off at mass come out of the sealed room and israel radio is reporting nothing but this is israel you know then the home of the cell phone when nobody had cell phones everybody in israel had a cell phone yeah so everyone's calling their friends top secret base so the news spreads pretty fast um nine missiles hit the greater tel aviv area over a hundred houses were destroyed nobody was killed in that first attack no one was even injured you know how they build in israel stone steel reinforced concrete when that falls on you it often hurts nobody was injured it was beyond belief so we were punch drunk it was went into arab shabbos it was a strange shabbos oh the jew from jews had to re leave their radios on or the secular jews had to stay home for shabbos yeah there were three missile attacks that night luckily i slept through two of them my mother always said i could sleep through a missile attack turns out she was right she also said i could sleep through an earthquake that was true when i was in l.a i had an earthquake i slept through but i wake up in the morning and the bookcase is all over what happened here looks like there was an earthquake anyway so we knew we couldn't go on like this this is too crazy so you thought shamir says you know we're not going to go on like this you know we'll bum back that ourselves you guys don't know how to do any bombing you know that they said no don't come in it'll upset the coalition we'll give you patriot missiles now the best thing about a patriot missile is its name the patriot missile you figure it's like red white and blue with a cape patriarch to the rescue to fight the ugly scuzz missile which is like black with a shark face you know what i mean come in so sure enough the next day there's another scud missile attack and we release the patriots now what the patriots do is they intercept the missile so that it breaks in half and the warhead falls directly on your house that's what happened next there was a house somewhere i think it was the ramadan and it landed directly on the house the building the entire apartment building was destroyed nobody was killed they didn't believe it one of the reporters went from apartment to apartment and everybody was alive so i was in the bedroom i went to get the kids the other one says i was in the sealed room you know and i went to the bedroom to get my wife the other one says i was in the kitchen and i ran to the sealed room everybody was like someplace else just when they met one guy was in the bathroom he says i heard the explosion and i thought i was going to die and i knew i have to say the shema and i didn't know if you could say the shema in the bathroom when i looked down there was no bathroom now how he explains the situation to his rescuers i don't know but there was something that went on in the israeli public after that they're like oh my gosh they can't hit us i remember hearing nachman shy during one of these attacks he says go back inside people would stand on top of the buildings to watch the scud missiles oh look here comes one boom everybody okay yeah let's go the next building oh here comes the other one boom nobody seemed to care the the most dramatic picture was probably the one in savion this house collapsed the guy was buried up to his neck in rubble which is very hard for an israeli because he can't talk because the israelis need their hands to talk i always imagine when i'm driving i look at the next place i can follow the entire conversation i can't say what he's saying and he's talking on the phone it's not a it's not a zoom call i don't know what he's doing who he's talking to this way and that was it so they come in with heavy equipment they move it off he was okay jacket got ripped he was very angry yeah so it was just astounding i heard yeshua grebin interviewed on the radio and he was not a religious man and he said we have to recognize that these are miracles and then he stopped he said and that's me talking yeah it was amazing it was it was there's no other way to explain it right so the interview this one woman she said would you say that these are miracles and she said no things like this happen in israel all the time now she's right okay i i was born in 1959 so i don't remember the 48 war the 56 world but i remember the 1967 war i was in uh you should be day school when the war started and the reports were that israel was in flames i mean egypt has the largest air force in the middle east the arab legion was the most powerful army the syrians controlled the golan heights the country was nine miles wide how hard is it to beat a country nine miles wide and we won an unbelievable victory but those first reports kaifu was in flames telling it was in flames everything tremendous destruction it was an unbelievable miracle by the way the cure of movement began after the six day war because it reignited jewish pride people couldn't believe it and it was just the most dramatic thing you could imagine i was once on a bus sitting next to one of the 10 commanders who captured the golan heights he said most of our tanks were so old they couldn't get up to the heights so i said anyone whose tank works come with me that's how we capture the golan heights an unbelievable miracle and so what did everyone say well we had the advantage of surprise we attacked them first if they would have attacked us first we wouldn't stand a chance but as it is you know that's why we were able to do it so i think a kurdish barrack was trying to make a point so 1973 yum kippur we were totally unprepared and the egyptians attack and the syrians attack now we had built what was called the barlev line which was basically made out of sand so that you couldn't knock it down because all the bombs would absorb it so the russians gave the egyptians these powerful hoses and they just washed away the barlav line and they come rushing in and they had these advanced anti-aircraft missiles and they were shooting us down left and right and we were totally unprepared there was no call up up in the north the syrians were coming down through the golan heights anytime they came to a village they killed everybody and they're coming down and they're coming down to the bridge to tavaria now they could go across this wipe out tavari they're in israel now and they stop for two days until israel can counter attack i have read reports from the americans the israelis and the syrians nobody can explain why they stopped it didn't make any sense and so we made a call up and of course ariel sharon managed to go over the swords canal surround the egyptian third army we fought back we got all the way to the outskirts outskirts of uh of damascus you know and we managed to win i mean but it was so close it turned out later that golda media and our whole cabinet were carrying cyanide pills to commit suicide rather than get captured that's how bad it was they were running out of bullets of alexander haig who was the head of nato at the time didn't rush us armaments yeah he didn't even wait for approval he just gave us we would have been wiped out it was a very difficult time for israel but the fact that we won with those conditions it was for sure a miracle so years go by and they say no our army is so good that we can give them a two-day head start and we'll still beat them so hashem said okay try this sit in a room by yourself with a piece of plastic between you and death i'll shoot missiles at you and nobody will die now tell me who won that war the generals were pacing up and down you know nothing to do my friend robert joseph garnovsky he was in haga which is civil defense he thought it was the funniest thing he was getting all these benefits from being in the army and his job was to run the siren he says two times a year i've got to push the siren and yo that's my host service until the gulf war the only people called up with a siren people he had to sleep there in the siren room waiting for the code yeah there was nothing we didn't send any planes we didn't send any tanks we just sat there and they shot missiles at us 39 scud missiles and in case you think skype missiles are a joke one fell in saudi arabia and killed 27 u.s servicemen these things are not a joke it was a miracle everybody recognized it was an unbelievable miracle and you know what happened next so uh the entire government became religious and now israel is a torah state no that's not what happened what happened was everybody picked themselves up and went back to their regular lives but you saw a miracle you admit you saw a miracle you told me if i see a miracle then i know there's a god not true is it and that's the sad reality it doesn't matter how many miracles that a person sees it doesn't change your life it might get your attention but it doesn't change your life so what do people really want they want to know if there's a god so story navi yoshua put a curse on anybody who rebuilds eureka and this guy says i'm not afraid of the curse and he lays the foundation of a new city and his first son dies and he starts to build and his next son dies and finally when he puts up the city gates his tenth son dies so elio never goes to pay his shiver call and akhov the king is there too and elio said why would you do this you see your children are dying why would you keep doing it and akham says don't listen to him you're worried about the curse of the talmud what about the curse of the rebbe mosher ben who said if you bring into voter zora there won't be any rain i brought in lots of a vote of zara and there's plenty of rain so elio navi the kanoi says hashem give me the keys to shamayim no rain until i say so three years drought they didn't have any water purification systems there was no water that means they couldn't grow any food that means that people were dying animals were dying everything was drying up and elio who hid and ah is searching all around for him can't find him and uh finally hashem comes to him and says okay three years that's enough go to achav so he shows up and akam has a good guy who's working for movadya and he says i don't believe in helio how could that be you we searched you everywhere in the in the whole world he says yeah well i was i was hiding yeah so uh he says well what happens now he says go tell ah how i want to see him he says no no no i know how you work and they tell me to go get ah i'll bring achav in the meantime you'll disappear in a chariot or something up into shamayim and i'll be left here holding the bag what do you want to get me killed for he says i promise you i'm going to stay here so ahm comes and he sees elio he says you murderer of israel he says me you're the one who brought in the vote of zoro says you're the one who brought the famine you're the one you know what forget it let's have this out once and for all me and you tomorrow har carmel be there so the whole jewish people assemble heart carmel and all the priests of baal are there and elio and of he says i'm here by myself representing kurdish baruch and they set up a deal whoever can bring the fire down from shamayim wins so they took two animals and they built two bummers and you know the baal uh priest of baal won the coin toss they went first yep they bring the corbin and they're waiting for the fire to come down and they start chanting and elio says he might be sleeping try it louder i think he's sleeping okay hi you know he might be in the bathroom maybe give him a couple of minutes you know what i mean he might have a magazine you think so okay but wait a little bit okay yeah they start cutting themselves he says i like that part do that more yeah anyway comes noon time no fire they say okay we couldn't do it and he turns to the jewish people when he says ad mosai fm how long you're going to straddle the fence if god is god believe in god if baal is god believe in baal but don't be jews for baal make a choice and he says hashem answer your people and the fire comes down and burns everything up and all the people throw themselves on the ground they say hashem well kim hashem allah kim and uh and that's it as you can imagine that was a really bad time to be a priest fabal they killed them all and elio said come on you better run home because it's going to start raining and sure enough the rain comes and that is what we call a happy ending and like every happy ending in judaism it lasts about a day because that day is evil when she hears what happens sends the captain of the god to eli yahoo to tell him this time tomorrow i'm going to put you to death as we say in hebrew bluffer you can't kill me look at all the people i made this tremendous miracle they're all on my side but that's not what el you says he runs into the midbar and he throws himself on the ground and he lies there and hashem says what's the matter elio he says you're people of sin there's no more hope i want to die strange reaction he says okay come with me all right take some directing i put some in the little cave that moshe was and there comes a wind there comes a fire there comes a noise and then comes a small yeah small voice called daca little voice and it says what do you want eli yahoo and eliot says the same thing people said there's no more hope but obviously hashem was trying to make a point here why was elio responding this way because he's evil sent the captain of the guard and said good show elio terrific terrific the fire from heaven the jokes terrific i can't touch you now not until the power of your miracle wears off i give it 24 hours and this time tomorrow i could kill you and nobody would care and he says she's right that's it i give up i did my best show i i i quit i give up so hashem says come with me see the big noise see the big fire see the big wind that's not where you find baruch who called the mamodaka the small quiet voice but eliot didn't get the message he says okay you're fired take the next chariot to heaven and alicia is going to take over and i'm going to keep you around you're not going to die you want to die you're going to die you're going to do three things you're going to go to every pesach seder you're going to go to every bris mila and you're going to announce the coming of meshiach there's only two mitzvahs that the majority of jews still keep the pesach seder and bris miller i mean the overwhelming majority of jews in israel something like 98 99 percent see these people you gave up hope on eli yahoo here they are 2500 years later and they're still here and you're going to come back and need a big piece of humble pie when you see me come on these people you gave up hope on because miracles don't convince anybody big presentations don't convince anybody cole de momma daca i gotta tell you you know this yourself when you listen to the stories that were said so far over the convention of people like you who were inspired to reach out to the people who were touched by project inspire they were ordinary people they weren't cured professionals there were people who met somebody and took an interest in them and came up with a real clever approach come with me to shul let's learn parasha wow what innovative programming how did you come up with that one because it's the cold the mama daca that makes the change we don't believe it we think we need some big presentation some big show some big video no we need one person to care about another person and go over to them and invite them over for a shabbos meal take them to shaw yeah i i know a fellow he was after this one particular family and they wouldn't come to him for shabbos so finally he said you know what i'll go to unifor shabbos he says we don't keep shabbos says that's okay they packed everything up and they brought their food they lit their candles they sang there's mirrors the family was doing whatever they were doing they couldn't help themselves they got sucked into it so i'll bring it to you we deliver you know ever since corona you know i'll bring the shabbos to you we were able to turn it around called the mama dhaka all the loud noises all the shows all the power can't stand up to one person quietly speaking to another person to influence them louis xiv the catholic king asked the mathematician philosopher pascal said i want to see a miracle he says well you know joshua walked on water he said no i want something i can see today he said the jews there's no reason we should still be here it's a miracle you know why we're here called the mama daca it's that constant constant thing and all the heterodox organizations can't figure out what it is why orthodoxy keeps growing and growing and growing and their movements are shrinking the answer is because three days a year with a big show is not going to do it it's every single day it's every single shabbos and between me and you not everybody's shabbos is the most inspiring not everybody's dominating is the most inspiring but it's constant they did studies in the 1980s because there was this theory of quality time it's okay if parents don't spend too much time with their kids just you know spend an hour of quality time and they found that it's not true it's quantity time a kid would rather spend a lot of time with a parent who's not entertaining them then i spent an hour called the mama daca the constant constant voice my friends nothing is going to convince people with big miracles and big shows it's going to be you reaching out to another person with that small quiet voice that amir hashem will change the situation in claudius and finally bring back our friend ellie yahoo to do his final job and announce mashiach's arrival thank you very much