Project Inspire Convention Motzei Shabbos Full Show v03 no musical segment

[Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] everyone and welcome to the project inspired convention the moza shabas program of the project inspired convention my name is jesse friedman i'm the executive director of project inspire and it is my honor and pleasure to take you through this amazing program that we have planned for you tonight yes on a normal year it's around this time when we'll sit together 1500 people crammed in the beautiful hotels of the tri-state area and we'll reminisce about our experience over shabbos we'll talk about the amazing speakers we'll talk about the amazing singing about the amazing davening we'll talk about the amazing people that we've met which make up the amazing project inspire convention it's tonight that i'll usually stand in front of you and tell you about all the complaints that people have about the project inspire convention and what's the number one complaint about the project inspire convention the number one complaint is there's too much food so look at that we listen to you this year no food at the project inspired convention and to be honest with you we had a decision to make we've all been used to that feel of being at the project inspired convention or a body and soul retreat where everyone jews of all backgrounds come together and experience an amazing shabbos together and we were faced with a decision should we skip it this year should we just wait until the covent era passes and we're able to get together in hotels together for shabbos and put our arms around each other and experience shabbat together we had that decision to make and the fact that i'm standing in front of you well you kind of know what which way we went with that decision but i want to tell you why we went with that decision the answer is all of you all of you that are watching this all of you that have attended project inspire conventions body and soul retreats and the hundreds of other project inspired programs and let me tell you why we had just finished the project inspire convention of last year a few weeks after and all of a sudden covet hit us like a ton of bricks and in project inspire we rely so much as you know on the interaction of jews of all backgrounds of inspiring each other no pun intended and we were faced with a decision how do we bring inspiration to the covet era we didn't have to think too long because you had the answer it was all of you that pushed us project inspire to pivot to the amazing shabbat show hosted by charlie hirari that tens of thousands of people come onto first on friday afternoon and then of course on thursday night you've come to love it you've come to compete in the kahoot games that was you and then you wanted more and we brought you mind flex which was daily classes on topics ranging from parenting to judaism 101 to ask the rabbis and the list goes on amazing guests from all over on our mind flex series but you wanted more and we created a deep dive which was small learning groups online where sv sittinger and charlie hirari have joined us to give an introduction and then you broke up into rooms to learn more and then you still wanted more and we began one-on-one learning rooms breakout rooms online and then you still wanted more and we had holla bakes and we had taste of shabbat and the pro the list of programs goes on and on and really that was because of you because you wanted more you wanted to use the time to be inspired and to inspire so many more and so we stand here at the matsushabus program of the project inspired convention for you you're joining us and we have put together a spectacular program the speakers presenters performers that you've come to love and know and many who you haven't yet met so buckle up because we're in for an amazing experience tonight as we relive some of the highlights of project inspire conventions and bring you brand new ones as well so thank you for joining us i know you have other things to do on matsushabus on saturday night but you're here together with us let's be inspired together let's open up our hearts and our minds and be blown away by the incredible project inspire convention as we look back on the last year since the last project inspired convention since the covet era began our hearts go out to the families who had suffered losses or people who have not yet recovered or people who have not yet fully recovered from covet and we dive and we pray as an organization together with all of you that all those families be comforted and see a speedy recovery recovery very very quickly looking back at this year a very inspirational year of project inspire as mentioned we ran programs non-stop and here is but a quick glimpse into the previous year project inspire as we went virtual to be able to service what you were asking for [Music] [Applause] all right as you're watching this convention online it's being streamed through torah anytime the yeshiva world matzah project inspired.com forward slash convention if you're on any of these sites then you're watching the project inspire convention live and earlier this week we launched a campaign a five hundred thousand dollar campaign to be able to help project inspire produce so many so many more programs you have the ability right now on your screen to click to donate of course you can click to donate on my page that is but nevertheless please click to donate and help project inspire with anything that you can small money big money you can give a monthly donation if you'd like but help us continue to inspire you and all the jewish people going forward in this next year you can be our partner in that so as this program goes on and we're going to take you through that roller coaster ride feel free to click right below your screen and donate to project inspire and help us throughout this convention weekend reach our goal of 500 000 we thank you in advance for all of you watching who have joined so many project inspire programs before you know that every summer we put out a documentary film on tish above about heroes and the jewish people and this past year was no different we put out a spectacular film entitled stop at nothing because it was about two individuals rabbi ronnie greenwald and rabbi freifeld who would stop at nothing either physically to save jews or spiritually to help jews in any way they can one of the pieces in the interviews in that film was about the rescue of natan sharansky soviet refuse nick you've all heard of natanzharansky but what you might not have known was the involvement of ruby ronnie greenwald in the rescue of natan sharansky so we had the honor to interview nathan sharansky about rabbi ronnie greenwald's involvement so here is but a small clip of stop at nothing that was produced tish above 2020. here it is we were at an ou convention in eritrea lion and one night we got a call from this member of the knesset flotto cheron who was a very controversial figure and he said maybe you can help get sharansky that's francie was a big hot item then who wouldn't want to help sharansky i was a refusenik what means i was refused uh to be given to be granted the visa and as many jewish refusents lost my job was under permanent interrogations by kgb uh in the middle of the struggle i met my future wife i retired then natalia and we had a cooper in our apartment and next day she left for israel and we hoped that we will meet in few months as a result of our struggle we met 12 years later [Music] i was arrested and accused in high tourism for my zionist security i came to israel here we organized like headquarters we decided every jew in the world has to know what's going on with the brothers and sisters in in russia we start to travel from country to country from synagogue to synagogue hilar to killa and i succeeded to come to sienat and to congress of the united states one of these congressmen was ben gilman and when i arrived to his office there was other man and he introduced him like robbie greenwald and the man was nice warm and i understand immediately this guy know how to do things then i spent time with his family in monsi and very warm and i spent their shabbat and then we tried to talk about this swap i first met rabbi ronnie greenwald when i was an attorney at the department of state and the department was approached by congressman ben gilman robbie greenwald and gilman were particularly interested in the release of dissidents but jews in particular because they were persecuted at alarming rates syransky had been at the top of our list of persons we wanted out of the soviet union for a very long period of time he was an extraordinarily courageous man standing up for human rights ronnie was just this wonderful character in the best sense of the word he was open he was clearly very smart he tried he he traveled a lot and he talked to people and who knows what else he do and he had through an israeli member of the knesset named flatoshiron contacted wolfgang fogle a lawyer in east berlin which led to prisoner exchanges that ultimately led to the release of anatoly or nathan sharansky [Music] when i came to congress and senate and i met practically with all of the congressman ben gilman was one of them and when i came then his office was uh running greenwood and i said oh you're the irony that they held from my vitality and that's how you met i remember him permanently full of energy full of initiative and full of desire to help i think his energy optimism all the time to be alert to hear the needs of the jewish people what's going on i think it's a very important legacy what an individual of a ronnie greenwald indeed was of course you can watch the entire film projectinspired.com or our youtube channel it's available or email us if you have trouble finding it but it's available for free online truly a masterpiece of a film i also want to thank danielle haas at this time who really worked day and night to make sure that this film came to be thank you danielle you did a spectacular job ladies and gentlemen project inspire is in its 16th year this past september we celebrated 15 years of project inspire we did so by creating a virtual dinner yes a virtual dinner again no carving stations but a virtual dinner to honor none other than the family director of project inspire rabbi haim sampson and his wife jochebed what was amazing about that dinner was how many people from around the world sent in good wishes and mazel tov wishes to rabbi sampson and his wife on the honoree one of those was rabbi lord jonathan sachs of blessed memory how could we know that that was one of his last messages that he would send as shortly after rabbi sax passed away so i want to play for you the message that he sent to robbie sampson and to project inspire and to all of you about how important it is to inspire jews and continue on project inspires mission ladies and gentlemen rabbi jonathan sacks of blessed memory to robert i am samson and all involved in project inspire i really want to congratulate you on all you've done and all you will continue to do and in particular by choosing the specific dimensions that you've chosen to work in because they are actually the most important ones of all firstly grow i'm just interested in that concept as long as it doesn't apply to wastelines you know that there were certain young geniuses who were totally and absolutely brilliant and achieved greatness very young but never did much after that what was the difference between the ones who as it were fizzled out early and the ones who kept growing and achieving greatness even at an advanced age and the short answer was did they keep learning so rule one learn number two rule number two is grow that i think it's terribly important in here my role model is moshe albana you know when you're 119 years and 11 months old you have spent most of your life leading the israelites to the brink of the promised land and you know you are not going to cross the jordan and be there with them what do you do do you retire actually what most rebecca did was rather unexpected he did a sort of uh he did a took on a a new job he um took on a new career for the last month of his life he became a teacher and his lessons are in the book that we call safety [Music] and it turns out that that last month of his life was far and away the most important because that is how we remember him moshe rabbani we don't remember him as moses the law giver moses the liberator moses the prophet moses the miracle worker we remember him as mushroom and that was his willingness to set himself a new challenge at the very end of his life do something that he'd never really done before never done in a sustained and consistent way and that tells me that those people who grow defeat the principle of entropy which says all systems lose energy over time the terrorist says moshe rebel that at the end of his life his natural energy unabated he had no entropy whatsoever why because every single day of his life he was growing finally cher you know people don't often enough do the very simple sum that when it comes to material goods like wealth or power the more i share the less i have if i have a thousand pounds and share it with nine other people i only have one tenth of what i began with if i have total power and i share that with nine people i only have one tenth of the power i had to begin with but if i have a certain amount of knowledge and share that with nine other people or a certain amount of influence and share that with nine other people then i don't have less i actually have more because spiritual goods work not by division but by multiplication the more we share the more we have therefore when it comes to judaism any element you care to think about the more we share with others the more we will have the more we share our learning with others the more we share our table with others through the more we share our our um now visiting the sick and and the lonely and the isolated we will find the more we have so learn grow and share and may project inspire inspire you to inspire others wow what a message what a man what a void has left us as a jewish people it's now my honor to introduce to you the family director of project inspire abachaim sampson to give us an inspirational moment about why we're all here tonight and where we're headed both as an organization and a nation rabbi sampson thanks yossi and thanks to all of you for joining us at this international online project inspire convention and we're so happy that you've been able to share and enjoy benefit from the inspiration that we've shared with you and community over the course of the year you know our motto is inspire yourself to inspire others or inspire yourself by inspiring others we're all about inspiration but how do we stay inspired in these difficult times so the great prophet have a cook in the talmud says that of all the mitzvahs can be pinned down onto one principle sadiq sadiq lives through his emunah through his belief in god what does that mean that means if we're connected to the fact that there's a being who's an infinite being who loves us with an infinite love with an unconditional love just like a father or a parent loves his or her children then we'll have all the blessings and all the inspiration of the torah you know in chabas we say we sing a song internal satisfaction menuha a feeling of internal goodness and joy comes on shabbos why because shabbos is a day of connecting to god when you when you're connected to god when you're connected to hashem you feel a sense of inner sense of manoeuvre of of of serenity of joy it's like being in the eye of the storm the storm could be raging all around you but if you're in the eye of the storm it's calm and how do we have that feeling when we're connected to the infinite being and we know that he loves us with an infinite love you can have that calmness that joy that inspiration now the rabbis of the talmud tell us further that three things are acquainted with each other israel the arises of the could the jewish people and the torah and god are one so we understood a little bit about hashem about god but we have to understand that if we connect to the torah as well that we understand that the torah is a is a is a guidebook for life the almighty's instruction manual on how to get the most pleasure out of life wow that can keep you inspired when you understand that in the torah is all ha ha digging it digging it everything is in it how to be happy how to have relationships how to have meaning how to have any to be a good parent how to to have a wonderful it's all in there from the creator of the universe to us an incredible gift that's the torah and the israel the jewish people we have to know who we are we're a people that are a priestly nation a holy people this is who we are we we made a covenant with god at mount sinai to bring morality and spiritual spirituality into the world that's who we are but it's a we come and we change the world as a people it's an us judaism isn't just about me it's about understanding as a people we're one nation we're cells in the body of the jewish people and that we're one and that we love each other and because we're all one you are me i am you i'll take pleasure in your successes and in your and i'll take pain in your pain and we're told that arctus having unity is where all the blessing comes the rabbis tell us that in the tower of babel when they came and they fought against the the world came and and made war against god they weren't killed why because they had loved each other whereas in the times of the flood where they didn't do such terrible things but they didn't love each other they didn't care about each other they stole from each other and therefore god wiped them out and we're told that in times of king ahab ahav that he was a thoroughly evil king he brought idol worship to the jewish people but he was successful in his battles why because in his generation people loved each other whereas in the generation of david king david and king saul who were great righteous kings ah there was infighting there was lush and horror they didn't win their walls they lost their battles and so for us if we understand that we are one that if you hurt me and i hurt you back the jerusalem talmud tells me it's like if i one hand hurts the other hand the other hand hurts the other hand back i'm hurting myself if i hurt you i'm hurt like hurting myself we have to understand that we're one the verse in bahu khosai tells us when speaking about the blessings the jewish people will have when they keep the torah tells us five people will chase an enemy of a hundred and a hundred will chase an enemy of ten thousand and the great commentator rash he says that doesn't add up if five chase a hundred a hundred should chase two thousand why is that why is a hundred taking ten thousand because the more actors the more unity we have as a people the more hashem is with us love your neighbor as yourself hashem when we love each other we have the power of the almighty with us so my friends i'm so glad to share the project inspire convention with you let's gain that inspiration let's connect to the almighty and his infinite love let's love the torah and appreciate what we have and let's love each other and if we have that we'll have all the an inspiration for ourselves and please god for the whole of the jewish people enjoy the convention thank you so much thank you so much rabbi sampson thank you for that message thank you for all that you do thank you for being my mentor and my inspiration and continue admiring to inspire the jewish people ladies and gentlemen one of the ways that we engaged people over this covert time is that we found people had a little bit more time on their hands they were home a little bit more and so we made a massive effort as an organization to sign up one-on-one learning partners we all know that learning with a partner is one of the most effective ways of being able to grow in our judaism both from what we call the mentor side or the student side or the teacher student side everybody gains just the same but we found that so many people have taken their judaism to another level by virtue of the fact that they were learning with a study partner and so i had the opportunity to interview just a few of them a few of the matches who have made significant strides during this coven era specifically boys who from secular jewish backgrounds decided to spend some time learning in yeshiva and even in yeshiva in israel and so i had the opportunity to interview kurt a young gentleman who's learning now in mahone in jerusalem you will notice it from the jerusalem background as well as with rabbi shields my shield is from maryland i forget we're in maryland already but you'll find out what a story but the story is not just about them it's how important learning learning torah is learning torah with a partner is take a look at the amazing strides these two have made together we have with us today kurt kurt is actually in jerusalem israel if i'm correct and we have her moisture shields is with us from maryland somewhere in maryland is that right correct okay kurt why don't you tell us where are you from what your background the judaism is just give us an idea of where you came from yeah absolutely um so i'm from a place called west hartford connecticut uh actually a very very jewish town i think we have like close to 40 000 jews in the sort of surrounding area um but it's almost like entirely reformed conservative um so i grew up and all my friends were jewish um we ate bagels we had locks you know uh but we never really did anything sort of meaningful so um i'd go to the day school on sunday or the sunday school and then uh that was pretty much the extent of my jewish wearing as a kid um and i never really thought there was anything more to it i thought it was more just like oh this is tradition i do this because my parents make me and at the end of it my dad picks me up and we go to bagels so worth it for me um but uh i went to college and then after college i got involved in ish a little backwards for most people but um i ended up going on an ace trip to israel and that was the first time i ever spoke to somebody who wore kipa outside of shul and uh it really sort of opened my eyes to like the world of judaism and i began to see it more of the depth to it as opposed to just the superficial i'm doing this because my parents did it because their parents did it because their parents did it um but uh when i started learning i really had no background i i think as a kid it was sort of like the thing in one year out the other um i was like i'm never gonna use this again so uh wasn't really something i was able to retain so i had to really start from scratch like i didn't know the oil phase i couldn't tell you what half the hugging were about so it was it was a really long process and after my initial trip with ace it was it was sort of more of a process in itself and deciding uh is this the right path for me i ended up going back the following year after that initial uh ace trip and i spent six six or seven weeks at uh ishitor in jerusalem and um then i sort of made the decision okay i want to do this this is for me um i really like this but i was going back to a place where um one i didn't really know who like where to go to shul i didn't know anybody who knew anything i basically was going back to um a wasteland at least the way i looked at it um and that was when i got uh a i think was an email from danielle saying hey would you like to learn with a harusa on the phone um and i was like yes my prayers are answered finally i have somebody i can ask my questions to and they can sort of help me guide me in this process so i ended up getting set up with uh rabbi shields and i think this is about two and a half years ago now now with that being said kurt there are people that are watching this that are a little bit on the fence about you know agreeing to learn with a study partner signing up is it really for me people might say to themselves you know we live in the era you know 2021 you can google anything you want anyway what would you tell those people in terms of in terms of where you were and what you've gained from this right um so uh for me um i sort of at the time i think i i sort of knew what i wanted um but even still like with that said i've had a lot of issues sort of come up and they're not the issues that you can always just google sometimes you need like the the personal touch to them so uh being in contact with robert shields has like allowed me to sort of like investigate um like uh things that were sort of outside the realm of what you can find on the internet and uh more applicable to the circumstances i was going through um but like more importantly with that it just sort of helped us create this connection um i mean we've even continued learning now that i'm like learning full-time and uh it's just such an amazing thing it's not it's not such a huge time commitment and uh i mean as busy as i was in school ever i always made sure that we had the time and of course rabbit shields is also very busy is a working family and all that stuff but um yeah i think the uh the connection actually has been the most valuable part rabbi shields what has it done for your own yiddish guide in terms of you know being able to learn with someone kurt you know basically admittingly didn't know out of base sunday school was the extent of it like you know don't you feel like you sort of like really you want me to go on the training wheels bike now like what is it done for you so i i don't see it as trading wheels because he's thank god a very good thinker and he and he challenges not in ever an undermined way but but challenges me to think things over when he asks questions and i realized that how much richer my own judaism is when we bring in other perspectives other than my you know nary israel very nice background that i was very blessed to have but hearing people had a very different background and being able to appreciate what what their perspective is for sure enriches not only my yiddish not only our family but honestly when i'm with my students who all grow up they're all coming from orthodox homes that are at yeshiva greater washington but but now they're being enriched because a piece of me is invigorated each week when we when we learn together so so there's a lot of benefit that happens when when we learn with people who have less background kurt um i i know for you the journey between the trip to h the coming back and then the going age for a little bit and then coming back i understand you also attended project inspire events as well what did those mean to you in the process of your journey yeah um i went to a shabbaton in new jersey um and it was it was uh but one of the most meaningful shabbos i've actually ever had um i'd sort of i'd been a little while living my town and i'm sort of doing shabbos with the community there but it wasn't like the same sort of feel that i got when i had been doing shabbos in israel when i was at aish i've been with a chabad community and they've been amazing um but uh it coming coming to that um to that event it was just it was so inspirational there was like such amazing speech speakers i met so many amazing people a bunch of other people that were sort of in similar situations to myself um and i was able to like walk away and i felt like wow i'm refreshed i'm recharged i want to go learn some more um yeah i was i i still remember every detail of that shabbos wow we want to wish you kurt continued success in your learning and your growth in judaism thank you rabbi shields for spending the time you know and in your family life being able to continue to inspire kurt uh and ladies and gentlemen as we sit here and watch this presentation not only can you sign up to be a one-on-one learning partner right there on the site while you're watching this you could also donate to project inspire and help us reach our goal of 500 000 so we could continue to not only match you up but continue inspiring so many thousands of jews around the world i've been asked project inspired to talk about the subject of unity and peace that's their objective and plow you swell and it's probably they should be very successful what do we find about peace better than anything else god does not destroy humanity in this piece he learned that from the from the durham slugger which is the door of nayach that they wanted to fight spoke whatever that means and god instead of killing them instead of destroying them just separated them making different languages and that caused that they were not unified anymore but he didn't kill them because they were unified before we find even better than that you find by ahab that he was a naivete and he really and he really was trying to push the the bow and everything and yet he was very successful in all the battles and as far as financially whatever they needed and very successful in everything they did and then they were again it was because they did did not speak any lush in his time what do you mean by los angeles no that means i know not only i don't talk bad about anybody i don't even talk good about somebody because when i talk good somebody else is going to come along and they'll say well that's what you think but i know what i know about them and they're going to have the bed come out we don't talk about people and that case was that he he saved evaji he was his top servant save the hundred navy by hiding them in a cave to hide people in a cave doesn't save them you have to feed them you have to give them to drink and that's what he used to do daily and to learn daily and not get caught there's a pretty big big thing so obviously in the midnight late at night and what you'll have if you were talking questions about people one guy will say you know last week when i came home from a party i'd show you about your carrying big packages and i was wondering we was going and the other guy would say oh yeah two weeks ago i also saw it i wonder where it was going and everybody's gonna think about the same thing and by that time somebody's uh tell the queen and they'll tell you about you that is that is without talking about people the idea that god loves in people because the world he created was that if we happen to have peace among each among ourselves then we can always create greater people even though we don't all agree we're all not the same religious and that same thing but we don't know what our children will be each one will try to do better and better to make this a more unified and better universe that's what's radix project inspire is all about he let him know hope they'll be successful i pray they'll be successful i bless them they'll be successful it'll be a bs girl to make me happy i want to tell you about a virus no no no no not that virus a virus for good i want to tell you about something that's been spreading for thousands of years something so contagious that it infects everyone in its path but this contagion isn't the problem it doesn't shut down the world rather it illuminates it the good virus i'm referring to is your jewish identity and the host that is spreading your jewish identity throughout the world is project inspired project inspire instills in us all the responsibility to unify the jewish people by sharing the beauty and wisdom of our common heritage with our fellow jews by empowering each one of us as a leader project inspire is unique in that it's about inspiring you to inspire the world this has created a movement which has the ability to reach so many more it's viral to achieve its vision project inspire provides thousands with inspiration and opportunities for shared experiences that bring jews of all backgrounds together as a community to grow learn and share with one another to make this viral we need super spreaders like you it's on us to make our jewish identities go viral spread share connect inspire join the project inspire movement [Music] today ladies and gentlemen i want to thank you because donations are rolling in and that's because of you viewers who are making this happen and so while you're enjoying this project inspire convention you can click below if you already donated maybe your spouse didn't donate and maybe they should click below either way help us raise our goal of 500 000 by the end of this convention weekend thank you it's not going unnoticed as i mentioned earlier tonight is not only about new presentations but also a walk down memory lane the project inspired convention memory lane you see some of you might remember this but project inspires message is really that what you know in judaism has to be shared with so many jews who know less than you and we believe in project inspire that many religious jews come in contact with jews of all backgrounds that know far less than them in their daily lives at work in the shopping mall in a grocery store we know this message to be true from all the success stories that we've had over the last 15 years but for the convention we decided to do something a little different this was two years ago you might remember this as 2019 project inspired convention we put this message to the test will religious jews get project inspire's message and when they encounter opportunities just in a grocery store will they take advantage of it ladies and gentlemen this was one of my favorite moments in the history of project inspire conventions we called it the pomegranate film some of you might remember that we filmed in the pomegranate grocery store in brooklyn new york it was very simple we got shim and sam two actors to pose in fact they are less affiliated jewish people in the in the supermarket they walked around and they engaged people whose wives sent them shopping yes to be set up for the purpose of this film i had the opportunity to be there in the truck in the parking lot as well as sneak my way into the supermarket at different times i know as you're watching this you're already smiling because you were at the convention and you remember that so as we take a little sneak peek not only for the sake of humor because seeing ourselves in a humorous way is a way to change and as a way to learn as a way to educate others that we know but not only for the humor aspect of it but to be able to see how in real life and depict situations which probably come our way every day ladies and gentlemen this is the first film of the pomegranate film in pomegranate live on super bowl sunday as many of our participants roamed around shopping for fruits and vegetables as you'll see they encountered shim and sam ladies and gentlemen the pomegranate film of convention 2019 [Music] baseball cap [Music] oh [Music] hi you look jewish you mind if i ask you a quick question please buy the oranges guys and engage them hey bud this is french right because it says parve on it powerful exactly power means it's not it's not meat it's not dairy so why did you come to the store my friend said i should come here to shop for some super bowl party they said i can find kosher here i just want to know how to identify it the whole store scholarship anything that goes from the ground whether it's food to a vegetable is kosher oh okay i like your accent are you from eastern europe yes i'm russian myself so a friend of mine told me that i needed to be blessed is there some sort of blessing that blessing on the food as well i make the blessing yeah i will be honest with you you want to know the truth right we don't mix meat the milk okay so i gotta call my family now and tell them no chicken parmesan yes that's them that's him okay excuse me sir do you know what the deli meats are for like the ham and the pepperoni and stuff like that uh you're in the wrong place for ham and pepperoni but i would recommend some of the other stuff here it's quite good actually so where can i get like kosher pizza for my buddies if you want is this store right of course actually i'm the owner of the store no way so do you want to come over to our party and i can introduce you as like the ceo pizza maker i'm sam by the way mayor nice to meet you everyone no i mean i'm jewish but i get married how to get married illegally how to get married legally i need to say a certain certain words and then you're just married yeah i'm saying that's it ask everyone everyone's family over here ask whatever questions you have okay so they don't have any bacon here that's not kosher no so what does it mean that if it's kosher like it has to come it's fake it's fake bacon okay how does that taste does it taste normal i don't know i never had real bacon are you jewish yes but we're not practicing we're eastern european yeah okay so there's like pork and everything so yeah you're jewish i am are you jewish yes you guys jewish yes but my family is from eastern europe so they swallow pork down like it's chicken how they do you mean yeah you ever heard of torah any time no you could take place called asia torah oh cool thank you man one of the things i do in life is try to connect jews to judaism why don't you do this okay let's be in touch i'm i'm now on a mission to buy something for my wife i'm here to buy some specific stuff i'll call you later say to sam okay we gotta go back to queens let's go we have to run back to queens where do you live in queens uh we live in i live in forest hills i mean that's yeah you want to come for me for sure with meal maybe do you want to keep down my number i try to get hooked up all right what is it 917. yeah because actually my mom's not done you have a phone yet i don't know 12th grade judy doesn't miss how it works really in judaism you don't get phones till you're 18. you call me and then i can try to hook you up with the right person and what's up with the herring brother everyone's been telling me that i should gotta try harder i'm not into her i'm a hairy person what about locks do you like locks i love that stuff on a bagel actually we have a wonderful program go to hotel for shabbat yeah and but they have like people who are you know like guys like you with a lot of questions and they have religious people beautiful yeah johnny my wife doug and sam asking a lot of very good questions about kosher have you ever been to israel no we have groups going on a regular basis it's just amazing it's like telling a blind person what a rainbow looks like pick my number and your name david mr david sam pleasure brother appreciate it dude thank you so much can i come in for a hug of course it's so helpful man appreciate it and i'm gonna definitely try your pizza i'm gonna tell you when i met the ceo of the pizzeria placement you don't mind if i take down your name and number no that's fine i'm always happy to give out my number to everyone rabbi you're awesome man thank you appreciate it it's a pleasure hey thank you so much [Music] wasn't that amazing here they are unbeknownst to them that we're out in the truck in the parking lot filming this weren't they amazing it's unbelievable they got the standing ovation at that convention as you can imagine as i'm sure you're applauding them now and of course you're texting your friends who you recognized in the film saying haha i can't believe they played it again it was unbelievable but of course there were the outtakes as well and for those who were at the convention remember that not every encounter was exactly textbook let's just call it here were some of those little outtakes of that encounter in pomegranate let's roll it awesome awesome this is gonna be exciting [Music] it looks good yeah i got the barbecue sauce uh whatever the heck this is um but how do i get this this is so high in cholesterol you'll die from this who told you to buy this all right no this is not pork this is um it looks like it yeah it's from meat oh like fried chicken skins chickens oh man that's yummy have you had these before yes but not like cardiologist knows about it [Music] i was once told by an israeli guy that like israeli oranges aren't kosher that could be because in israel every seven years there's uh something called whatever all right we gotta get out i gotta get out but i'll give you my number yeah yeah go ahead what's that i want to talk to you one day i'm not letting you go [Music] food is inherently kosher um well i'm only asking because one time now yes it happens to be from israel if it's from israel i would avoid it for other reasons nothing to do with its uh necessarily it's kosher status but it could have other issues i might want to you know yeah because somebody once yelled at me because i was gonna eat a piece of fruit and they said no you can't eat it because it's not kosher it's not that we're anti-semite so we don't buy stuff from israel right thank you very much no no i tell you there are times you're very sharply dressed though i thought you were like a doctor or rabbi a doctor or a rabbi okay a there you go are you a lawyer i am how can i help you that's awesome give him that awkward hug dude you're awesome thank you again man really appreciate it thank you so much absolutely thank you again man you're awesome really really awesome okay thank you one of you guys need to ask to try on this yamako what you're wearing is uh what's it called it's a yamaka oh that yeah yeah i didn't met my jacket okay i actually never worn a yamaka in my life really yeah would you like to trade me you wear the corona i wear your yamaha for a second i've never worn any other guys have you ever won one oh yeah like one bar mitzvah maybe yeah i've literally never put on my head trade shampoo recently this is brand new he did wash his hair are you doing a full-time trade or are we doing a part-time no i mean you can take it back if you want i just want to try it i want to try it on that's all go ahead that's it i'll get it knock yourself out i feel holier right now it looks good on you i feel like having a corona say we're going to try it sam take a picture take a picture sam this is awesome wasn't that incredible incredible for those of you at the convention and watch that happen live unbelievable but really a round of applause to all those guys because outtakes aside they really did a tremendous job in engaging these two and we hope that the message spreads because people come into these encounters all the time and that's our message share what you know with others and spread judaism far and wide you could do it you know you could do it you've already been doing it ladies and gentlemen once again as you're watching this continue to donate to project inspire and help us 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to watch people that have you might remember the year the project inspired convention was in kalahari yeah that big massive resort i know you didn't like this and the lighting wasn't this i got it we didn't go back but that year we had over 1700 people at our convention they all packed the room to hear from an individual on shabbos morning named rama yitzhak fanger rabbi yitzhak fanger is a well-known educator in israel hid abroad he's on television he's on radio and he gives classes on all different topics in judaism a fabulous lecture but some of you who had even heard of him did not know the amazing life story of rabbits-luck fangir in a title of his talk which we're entitling from israel to india and back rabbi yitzhak fangir takes us on a roller coaster ride of being a reiki specialist what's reiki stay tuned back to israel to becoming one of israel's most premier lecturers and educators buckle up this is a story that you're not going to want to miss ladies and gentlemen the story the life story of rabbi yitzhak fanger thank you very much uh you see a project inspired for me it's a very big scooter i'm a little bit a little bit nervous okay i'm israeli so my english is not so good you know have mercy on me and i'm supposed to tell you my personal story okay so um i will start with a question who is the worst enemy of the person um himself okay yeah of course he's supposed to tell me the evil inclination but i didn't met the individual inclination kill evelyn thank you how are you nice to meet you so the person himself he's the worst enemy of himself he was a young guy was walking on the street he saw a sign above a clinic and the sign said i can cure every every disease that you have if i will clear you you will have to pay me 50 shekels if i won't be able to cure you i will give you a hundred shekels this guy said i can make money here he came to the doctor hi doctor how are you please help me have i have no sense of taste i have no sense of taste the doctor say don't have any sense of taste i can help you assistant drone number 24 small battle three drops on his tongue the assistant is opening the number 24 drawer small button three drops on his tongue and this guy doctor this is fuel doctor say yeah your sense of face came back please pay me fifty dollars fifty shekels the guy said all right you know he took for me 50 seconds i will come back tomorrow give take it back day after that is coming hi doctor how are you please help me my memory i don't remember anything who are you who am i i don't remember anything the doctor said don't remember anything i have something for you assistant drawer number 24 small bottle three drop drops on its tongue this guy no no no no no doctors it's fuel no and remember he came back please pay me fifty dollars so yo he took for me one hundred dollars tomorrow i will bring the money back he came there for that doctor where are you i cannot see you where are you yeah it doesn't say you don't have an eyesight okay i don't i cannot help you please you take 100 shekel build after a minute he came back doctor this is a 20 shekel bill hey your isis came back please pay me 50 shekels so of course he did it to himself so the person is the worst enemy of himself but he also can be the savior of himself and i will tell you my story my journey and uh i don't i tell you i'll tell the truth i don't love personal stories okay because okay something happened to him okay so he need to become about whatever but i don't i didn't fail anything hashem did not reveal himself to me so you know i can stay as i am so i will tell you my story the main thing i think that change is possible okay i'm coming from a very very very secular family here in israel um just i'll tell you a story a little story that you understand how far i was from judaism my second my family is very secular i was raised in israel but uh i wasn't in a but nested in the shul only two times in my life when i was thirteen bar mitzvah and the second time when i came back from the far east i will tell you why and i came back to far east i i was like 25 years old i decided to go to the shul it was friday three o'clock in the afternoon i was raised in herzeglia you know herself so i came to the show very far away from my home because in israel it's not something cool whoa fangir you wearing this shoe yeah we love you so i went to a very fire place so nobody will recognize me i can't do the shoes it was friday three o'clock in the afternoon and i'm knocking i'm knocking on the door nobody's opening the door i'm opening to myself and i'm getting myself inside i saw an old person preparing the sephora to after the ring tomorrow so i'm coming to him hi this is a show here this is of course what do you think is the beach here because it came with a bathing suit so he said of course this is true here what do you want i said okay i came here let's start what you what are you doing here say we are dumping here we're learning torah but you came early on three o'clock in the afternoon there's nothing to do now please go come back after four hours seven o'clock the night was capable of shabbat very holy thing then he asked me have you been in the mikvah yet i said what have you been in the mikveh you know before shabbat something holy said i i don't know what mikvy is he said no problem i'll give you money and go there he gave me 20 shekels build and they called somebody moshe take him to the midfield this motion guy took me to the mickey mickey it was nice like small jacuzzi nice but my parents taught me if somebody is giving you money today give it back day after that so you won't forget you want you don't want to come in reincarnation okay so he gave me the money friday day after that friday shabbat okay small detail i opened my eyes at 10 o'clock in the morning and i remembered i didn't give the money back so where can i find the this religious person in the synagogue and then the shoal okay this is the reservation of the religious people so i went there i of course doesn't matter how i get there i parked the car very far and i came 10 30. it was in the middle of the kriyata torah you have to imagine it 80 people in the middle of the whoa okay and i'm coming into the show they put me like a white yarmulke and white kippah you know i was very shining and these guys saw me hi how are you coming steve come near to the cephalois to me you know there is light from the letters i came to see where the lights here i don't see any lights okay then you know i waited between the people that put my hands in my pocket put out the 20 shekels and set them high every this is the money from yesterday where they put it he's an old person okay he doesn't use to things like that in the shoe he shouted okay i looked back who's mug says okay i thought maybe it's a dog or something but when he shouted you have to understand all the people in this school you know staring at me waving with 20 shekel guild they started shouting me leave it don't touch it i'm not touching anybody okay i didn't understand there is something in my hand okay it's a paper paper okay it's just a paper one of the people that grabbed my hand leave it leave my hand then let's go outside you know so for me it was a shock it's a miracle i i stayed reduced after that but this is almost the end of the story my story began in the army here in israel when you are 18 you have to go to the army and i went to the tanks i became a commander of a tank i was a year and a half from my beginning of the in the army and my best friend my best friend he's in with me in the tank in the tank you have you have you have you have four people commander and three soldiers and he's one of my soldiers i i i begged to go come back to my platoon to be with him because when i'm a commander i can choose whatever you i want so i asked please bring him back because we was raised together he's my neighbor i was from the kindergarten with him so they agreed and i came back to my person and we served in lebanon we said in lebanon maybe you don't know about every day there is a war it's not only you know lebanon where gaza each day each night there is a war on the border so the tanks are sitting on the on the border and we are looking inside lebanon to to see if there is terrorists that want to come into israel it was four o'clock in the morning it's the hezbollah started to do tunnels for us we didn't know that at the beginning then they did one tunnel and they popped up inside our tent inside our camp it was five soldiers five terrorists of the description and we're sitting in the tank and we are laughing and we are happy and you know life is good life is good everything everything is in order and i'm sitting with him above the tongue the the commander and my soldier we were sitting above the tank our head is above the tank and at 4 00 in the morning 4 30 the hezbollah started shooting us bullets are flying next to your ear like that and one of the bullets hit my friend the bullet hit his his head he fell on me you know i'm grabbing him and for me you have to say it's a moment that it's a war okay you have to give commands you are the commander they are showing me in the in the air he commanded what to do what to do i have to fight to shoot back maybe to to go back to to run away or whatever what might what i to go to to call to get back up i didn't know what to do and my friends my hand in my hand and for me the world stopped i looked in his eyes and he in and he looked at mine and his last sentence was fanger live also for me have a life also for me and he died from that moment my life changed okay i took the the tank i ran over all the terrorists i started to shoot all over the place somebody they thought that maybe i was crazy for me i i had to revenge my my my friend that all the five terence died but for me i cannot go back now my life changes i understand that nobody has a life insurance and you know we talked five minutes ago we were laughing we were planning what to do after the army when maybe we got to go abroad whatever and with five minutes everything was finished for me it was very hard i came back home and my mother saw me and she said to me it's sick this is my name my name then and it's sick it's like she said to me you were grown up 20 years in five minutes my life changed i decided to dedicate my life to do something with my life because i have obligation i'm living also from for me and also for him so in a secular world i decided to do a first degree in psychology here in israel i started in psychology it's very nice but i don't want to offend anybody who's learning psychology but it's a lot of talking okay and i wanted to help i wanted to help i so i decided to combine with the psychology and i'm working that today now in psychology so it's not nice i'm saying that but uh i decided to combine with the psychology alternative alternative medicine smith was very practical i can start to work and i started on chinese medicine for years in here in israel after three years a woman that practiced reiki came to israel from upstate new york you know what's reiki is reiki it's it's a healing practice that they believe it's coming from the tibetan buddhism they believe that if you put your hands on a patient energy will flew through your head through your hands to the body of the patient very powerful very helpful over all the world they're using that so the woman came here the teacher came into israel who did reiki reiki has three degrees first degree second degree and the masters okay i'm going to the first to the second degree and then this woman told me fanger you got you got a present from above all the patients that went through you set me this funda fungi guy his hands are working very good so she said okay so she said me i want to invest in you come with me to a trip abroad everything i know i will teach you you will come back to israel after two or three years you'll be number one okay for me it's a very big opportunity i was then 23 years old she's very wealthy trip abroad why not okay so i started to go she's older than me 25 years okay be relaxed so no i can see his face is here okay so it's a career opportunity okay it's a career opportunity so i decided to go with her and we started in europe switzerland france italy then we arrived at the to the state the upstate new york and then i become a reiki master okay i'm making a lot of money it's very nice but i'm a little bit extreme if you know me if i'm doing something i have to do it all the way if i'm going to be a reiki master i want to be the best reiki master that there is okay the woman told me that my teacher told me i taught you everything i know if you really want to know more you have to go to the forest because the the source of the reiki is from the buddha tibetan buddhism so go to tibet or to india or to japan and learn more in depth the other icky things so japan is very expensive and tibet was a little bit dangerous then so i found myself going to india during the monastery of the dalai lama becoming a buddhist monk for a year and a half making meditation all the time and trying to become the best reiki master that i can be after almost a year then the dalai lama called me and said to me finger you know you you were here enough time now you have to go and practice what you have learned you are going to a solid monetary monastery up in rishikesh i was in masala up north in india so you go into rishikesh a very small monastery with 15 people you have two spiritual works the first thing you have to be in silence for half a year don't talk to anybody okay this is the reason i become a speaker okay all my frustration i'm putting it out on you now sorry that you are my victims i need to talk okay so uh half a year you shouldn't talk they believe if you want to be a healer if you want to use your energy you have to absorb your energy not to use it not to waste it if you are talking even just to somebody else or just listen to somebody else you can think you can feel that he's drawing your energy okay or on the on the phone okay so of course personally it's powerful more powerful so being silent for half a year and the second thing practice yoga i was a yoga teacher here in israel so i have to practice yoga to bring my body to a perfection of my impurity to and then i will become the best reiki master there is okay i'm leaving the masala calling my parents and telling them mommy for the next half year there is nobody to talk with my mother is telling me son we love you you can do that okay we trust you go for it and can we are behind you do it okay yeah i'm telling you that because half year after that when i tell them i will tell my maybe more than half a year when i will tell my mother mommy i'm going to yeshiva do you think the reaction would be the same son we love you go for it no and we will see the differences and it won't be hard okay so but in that time i'm not thinking even this in this direction so i'm coming to the monastery very beautiful place it's in the middle of the jungle we have 15 people i'm the only israeli there and it's in the middle of the jungle it's a real jungle not a benchman okay not to offend the ambassador so i'm in the middle there is monkeys and beautiful things okay and i'm starting my silent retreat i don't know if you tried it for the first month it's easy and not easy but you can do that okay the second month it's start to be hard very hard three months a volcano okay but inside it's here here i need to talk so but you know i'm supposed to be very tougher with my with myself okay i was in the army i'm supposed to be very tough so uh finger don't talk okay just don't talk we didn't ask you nothing just don't talk what's the problem okay what's the problem try it three and a half months and one day i felt i cannot anymore i'm dreaming that i'm talking okay it's it's something bad so uh and i'm talking to myself you i think i will forgot how to speak so i was in the monastery there was a river you have to understand it's a real jungle there is no hot water there is a river like 100 meters from the monastery on that river we are drinking we're taking showers there is no grocery shop okay i want coca-cola no you're the hell you have nothing okay what you are planting in the ground this is what you're eating you're like a goat goat okay and be happy what why not what what's bad you know okay so uh i was really into it okay so don't laugh um three and a half months and it's very very hard and i decided one morning i'm opening my mouth okay i'm opening your mouth whatever will get out will go out and you have to it's like a volcano it's like okay let's think what to say now no it's like okay so i went down to the river no no nobody was there only myself and decided to open my mouth and when i opened my mouth you have to it's it's for me it's like aha moment because it's like i don't think what i'm supposed to say just i'm going i'm just letting it out and it starts and i open my mouth and the only things that went out of my mouth wear verses for my huff okay 12 years ago like gun machine with the songs okay then like i'm quiet something happened to you she's only you okay three and a half months not a dog versus my huff my bar mitzvah my memory is not my best part in my head okay i left it to my wife maybe all the women in the world you will get married you will know you said something 10 years ago it's your wife do you remember 10 years ago when we are in there you remember what you told me i wasn't there and you know my man she remembers everything okay be nice to her okay same for me i'm talking from experience okay 25 years of marriage okay it's harder than the army stop not nice you're young be optimistic it's beautiful you know a guy before he's married is not whole now if he's married he's finished everything will be okay you will be different i hope so yeah so uh so my memory is not my best part okay i cannot remember something that for me was not so relevant 12 years ago but because of that i would become balchu of course no so verses went out of my mouth so what you know i calm myself down maybe you miss israel maybe your torah teacher or whatever but don't become both what has to do with it okay this is not the case people can see the best facts but to change it's very hard the best fact but the best proofs it's very hard to change there was a guy who was working in the newest times he was walking on the streets he went to see something that he can write on he saw a person standing in front of an office office building with a cigarette smoking cigarette after a secret secret of the cigarette so the journalist came to him and asked him how much do you smoke a day is it me three bags a day three packs of days since when since i was 16. how old are you now 56. so the journal has taken the calculation calculated and said okay you are smoking three packs a day it's 30 dollars in general times the 365 days a year times 40 years look how much money you're spending on your cigarettes is a team if you weren't smoking you can buy you can buy a building like that the guy with the with the cigarette asked the journalist do you smoke of course not no do you have a building like that he said there no you say you see i'm smoking this is also my building not nice okay he showed you facts okay you're wasting your money okay you're right okay i'm wasting my money okay but it's hard okay it's hard so to become a bad chuba because few verses went out of my mouth of course not i'm continuing with my life i broke my silence i'm supposed to start again half year i won't do that become but after three days i i'm in my room so it's not a room okay it's not wrong it's few blocks on each other but i'm alone all the monks are going to sleep very early because there is no lights so you know sunset they're all going to sleep they are waking up in the morning very very early but i'm wearing night type i love the night it's quiet it's beautiful all the monks are asleep so i'm practicing my meditation at night it was a around 11 11 00 in the night i'm alone and i decided to go to sleep i have candles i closed my candle and i wanted to go to sleep i have a mattress and a sleeping bag as i close my candle i have an odd feeling there is somebody in my room i'm lighting up the candle and start to do a patrol there is nobody there okay but you know if if you're in the army you're supposed to try to develop like a sixth sense to feel that if somebody's watching you and from where it's supposed to save your life so i'm feeling that there is somebody in the room and with me with a candle okay where is he maybe the indian guy okay watching me they are bored but there is nobody there but it's a very strong feeling i cannot go to sleep and i want to go to sleep i'm sleeping sleeping every night it's not a problem for me so i decided change place change luck i will go to sleep outside okay put in one of the candles to see the way out holding with one hand my mattress and the other hand the head of the sleeping bag as i took the head of the sleeping bag i pulled it up the head of the sleeping bag and when i pulled it up a yellow scorpion fell from the head of my sleeping bag and you have to understand if i was supposed to go to sleep like every night that's supposed to put my hand exactly on him to put your head on a yellow scorpion especially there he will bite you and after three hours you can say goodbye to everybody and to join your grandpa in the world to come for the for the first time in my life i had a very but very strong feeling there is somebody up there that protects me i don't know who it is i don't know what's his name if i would put in my calculator uh my computer okay the creator of the world or the almighty i will get no results i i don't believe in that i don't feel that i don't know that but it's a very very powerful feeling that there is somebody with me somebody up there that protects me of course i won't become a bad juva because of that because if you want to protect me why not feel free to do that if you know and it's not asking for protection so you can protect me so i'm not becoming bachelor because of that about two days after that my story finished after two days i ran off candles you have to sense the middle of the jungle so there is no uh transportation there is one in two weeks that are coming from the city with donkeys like pilgrims that we're asking from them to bring us things that we're ordering like toilet paper things that you need and things like that food so there are i ran off candles and i really need you know candles so why all the cans were supposed to come they're supposed to come tomorrow so i have one day left i search in my my bag in one of my pockets in my bag i found one candle but next to the candle there was like uh like a paper when i started my journey with the the teacher in bengal and airport there was a bad place there and the chabada wouldn't feel on people okay they're very nice but i flew in the night so there was nothing so they gave me like a paper with uh the blessing of the date filata out of the way and shmei israel from the other side and they told me take it it will protect you i asked how much did it cost so that's for free said okay give me two okay i'll sell the tourists so i took it and i put it in my bag and i forgot it totally and that night i found it and i looked at this paper and i talked to myself fangirl you broke you silent you're supposed to start half a year again before you are starting try to do meditation not with words of the reiki the reiki is based on four words in japanese like mantras okay they believe that the words are like keys to open your energy or the others so you broke your silence so you cannot practice meditation with the words in hebrew take whatever you want one of the words or a sentence or verse and try to do meditation with it when you are practicing meditation there's a lot of ways of limitations but one of them is verbal meditation i will take one of words one sentence and i will repeat it loudly again again and again so i decided to take from this paper one of the verses i didn't know i know the hebrew but i don't understand what it means so i took the headline i called it the headline it was like with two big letters and for me it was the headline so i decided to do meditation with the headline for the first time in my life i was sitting like that in my room it's late at night everybody's asleep i'm sitting with one candle seeing this paper and for the first time in my life i'm saying this my israel i'm saying like that is [Applause] and i'm shivering i don't understand what i've said i know the words but here in israel there's bhagavata they call it it's testing the torah i copied everything okay i don't know anything for the first time in my life i said it's my and my i'm breaking i'm breaking myself down like i don't understand what i've said i have here a volcano i have here like a like a bomb i am practicing meditations for years nothing let me felt like like this thing what is this verse i want somebody to explain to me what the words i'm says what what the meaning of the word i don't think that my fellows here in the monastery can help me and uh i don't know how about also i love them but i want the dangerous people from me they know what they're saying okay i want them okay let's go all the way so i i decided i have to understand what it is for me it was a really revelation you have to understand i'm practicing many things this is for years i really love that but i want to understand what it is i took all my things uh i took them with me i didn't say goodbye to anybody after that the donkeys come are coming from the city i took one of the donkeys went back to the city maybe till today they are waiting for me there okay i was a wanted israeli guy was here 25 years ago and he was vanished talking so i bet i came back to the city called my parents and told them mommy father i'm coming back they asked me what happened are you okay you know it's not a half a year now i said to him everything is okay don't ask him just want to come come home you have to understand the story i'm telling you now it's not like i have a story i will tell my parents it was my own experience i didn't think i would tell somebody that i came back to israel i have a place near a small place in italy in front of my place my my my home i have a building board and it was very big advertisement there lecture life after death judas judaism mysticism and i said to myself fanger you were all over the world almost you know buddhism by heart christianity because okay no don't ask but judaism okay it's your religion you don't know anything you have your lecture entrance free you love it so go to to hear mysticism okay it's nice it's very interesting so i went for the first time in life to a lecture about life after death i came a little bit late so the only place that was opened was first row i was sitting in front of the speaker and he started the lecture near death experience and he's looking at me did you understand say yeah i understood he continued reincarnation did you understand yeah i understood i look back maybe i'm alone here no the place was full but he took me like a project okay project inspire so uh he continued the lecture seance did you understand he understood this was all the lecture did you understand yeah i understood did you understand you understood then he finished the lecture he said okay i finished do you have somebody have questions i raised my hand say yeah do you have a question i said no i just want to tell you i understood no okay no i have a question i said him i have a question don't be offended and just want to ask now you proved us that there is life after death okay very powerful i cannot argue with facts it was beautiful but excuse me i'm asking for me all the religions are the same if of course there is life after death okay i have nothing to say about it i will you know for me if i will come to a christian priest he will say to me of course there's death after death come with me you will be in heaven if you won't come with me you'll be at hell i will come to a muslim kadhi he said of course there is half of it if you will come with me you'll be in heaven if you want me you'll be in hell and you are saying the same thing okay so there is life after death but what has to do with your titties and your yarmulke keeper he said to me whoa you're asking a very good question then he said to me something that for me then it was very hard to grasp but he said to me of course now i believe in that i leave it like that he said to me you have to understand that judaism is the only religious on earth that can prove you facts that there is hashem is the almighty and that he gave the torah so everything that is written in the torah according to this world in the other world this is the truth if you want to know the same in our phone what four days now in ascalon for academic people come and hear what jason had didn't have to offer are you coming say yeah i'm coming so you're not afraid i said no i was sure who will give lectures there rabbis yeah i love them but you know i'm coming from the academic world okay they don't know much i will come there and i will make them secular okay just to calm down my conscience that i've been there also i went to the seminar it was a mistake somehow of course not i had a seminar and for me it was a shock it was a culture shock okay for four days i'm hearing lecture after lecture lecture after lecture and i i battle on my life you know i i didn't go to sleep i i grabbed the speakers i want answers because for me or you are taking off your yarmulke or i'm putting on yamaka it's already it's easy you are you are right oh i am right there is no between and if you convince me that you are right i'm going to be like you after four days the seminar is finished there's like a simple zionist ending of the seminar everybody's standing on the stage if somebody wants to say something i'm going up to the stage and i'm saying to them what i have learned here now for four days i didn't learn in my 25 years of living today i wrote everything that you have said today i understand that there is hashem there is the almighty i understand that he gave the torah i wrote all the facts i'm going back tomorrow to my university i'm going to check what you have said but if it's true i want to become a baltimore everybody stood on the feet okay i was sure from that moment you know red carpet motorcycles will join me to get home when i reached home and my mother discovered that her son her son whether in the sim was in the seminar of judaism she was with rpg you know my father with tanks in the garden you know my mother said to me you know eating who's become balchuba criminals criminals you're a good kid okay you don't need these religious things i said you know mommy i'm just i didn't say anything i just want to hear and just want to listen this was the first time i went to the shul okay it was the second shock and i started to become a little bit balchua but i'm a reiki master i'm not just a reiki master i'm here in israel supposed to be the the reiki master so all over israel heard that fangir came back from the far east he's very good in reiki and things like that in meditation yoga so all the schools here in israel of alternative medicine send their those students they're still the students to learn from me so i'm becoming a reiki master and doing a lot of money two days seminar ricky course i'm taking and i'm not opening the course at least i have 50 people so 50 people 300 it's nice okay it's day after day there two days after two days two days after two days after like two months three months i make a lot of money and then uh two ultra women came to my class and said to me you know it's it's wonderful you have to let it out today out to those people okay they will love it as i told her no problem you know organize them i will come they organized like 250 uh octopus women and i came to give them a lecture my mother is my secretary okay this is her bliss okay so uh i'm giving it an introduction talk and all the woman was so moved it's amazing we have to learn that okay so they're registered and my mother is writing them down and she said to me itsec you're a millionaire because you're full booked from now the year and a half from now okay every day courses it's more than that there's treatments and things like that but you know you're a millionaire you're full booked from now year and a half ahead but it has to be like a butt like that one of the women came to me and said to me hi excuse me i'm asking are the rake is kosher is there any kiss kosher i said we're not eating anything we're not drinking can bring your food from home you know there's nothing there's no problem supposed to be so no you know it's coming from the far east and you know you're a little bit secular sorry i'm sat down telling you that so we have we have to need rabbis that will tell us if it's kosher or not i said to me i don't know rabbis i'm just in the beginning my way okay but send me to a rabbi and i will ask him she sent me to the arab itzhak zilberstein arabic exhibition the son of love and i came to him i came to him and i said him hi rabbi i'm practicing reiki is it kosher he said to me what's reiki yes i'm starting to explain to him forward words in japanese i'm doing initiations i'm working with energy after 20 minutes i'm making him a reiki master and then i'm asking him is it kosher he's hearing and he said to me no i said rabbit why not thinking over okay will change your mind maybe no i didn't say that of course it starts to explain to me that you know the words it's it's japanese words come from tibet in buddhism it's uh like al doitri maybe and we don't know but it's affected so you know you shouldn't use it you cannot imagine how i felt it's not only my life i will exaggerate if i'll say all my life but it's it's not it's more than career okay it's something i really loved and i invested in that five years of my life and after he said that for me you know like i built and like a building of glass and with one sentence everything was blowing up in my face i came back home i was a little bit devastated i have to admit i was sitting in my salon alone and i started to crying started crying and i said to me to myself you know fangirl you have two choices or you know you can do whatever you want you know okay he said no someone else maybe you will find another baby but if you are true with yourself and you have to understand i think isabel chuva i didn't left all my life just to you know to cheat or to do whatever i want if this is the truth if this is the way of the truth i'm going all the way if there is heaven up there i want to be in the front row not back up back there yeah i'm with the flag i'm here also no i want to be in the front row so if it's not kosher so it's not kosher for me so i called my mother i closed my eyes before that i closed my eyes and i spoke to home to the hashem and i said to him hashem it's me from the bar mitzvah okay but i said hashem you know for me i just met you i i didn't know that you exist before that and now you are challenging me with a very but very hard challenge but in the short time that i became a baltimore i have learned two things first thing that you are not challenging a person with a challenge that he cannot handle so if you are challenging me with this such a hard thing i have to believe that i have the strength to go through that and the second thing i have learned if somebody's sacrificed in hebrews mishima atamekarevoto you're making closer to you so hashem i'm not asking for money i'm not asking for a career i'm not asking for honor i'm just asking for me one thing shem please don't leave me don't leave me because i'm going to leave everything i called my mother and said to her mommy cancel everything the reiki is not kosher silent behind the line after a moment of a silence my mother started to shout it is kosher your mommy is telling bed leave the rabbits inside i told him you know mommy it's not the pasteline it's not the game i cannot play with that there we said it's not question for me it's not going to cancel everything all the courses all the treatments i'm stopping using the reiki for me it was it was so hard i didn't know what to do maybe i would go back to the university become a psychologist i'll go back to the chinese medicine somebody told me go to robheim kanievsky ask him what to do i came to this whole person it's it's amazing to meet from face to face with somebody like him i sit in front of him i said rebbe i was in a buddhist monastery i was abroad i was practicing right here now everything is gone what to do then he said to me you know you have been in the monastery for almost a year and plus can you go to yeshiva go to shiva not for a year for three months just three months go to ishiba and then decide whatever you want i said okay i can do that for three months i went to osama yeshiva after three months i discovered a world that i didn't know that it existed for me it was very big revelation they learned for me it was such an amazing thing that i decided to dedicate my life to learning and teaching and um now after more than 25 years um now i'm really millionaire okay but millionaire i don't think something has a lot of money because um millionaire is somebody who knows his purpose in life he has answers to his questions he know you know the the meaning of all the world but jesus judaism is telling us so for me now i'm in another world today i'm living in kirat sefer it's called mudin it's a auto locks place only auto locks price it's hard okay i need a little bit you know okay my wife she's a racist woman she's a ffb right room for birth she made a mistake and marry me yeah i think she's pretty sorry for that but you know hashem shame the world and i have seven beautiful kids and today i just came here to tell you that you have a treasure you know judaism is a treasure for me and the treasure you don't have to go far away for that maybe to israel but not so far my pleasure is just to reveal that and because there is a saying in hebrew that and balanese somebody who had a miracle he doesn't understand that he is a miracle you can see with your eyes maybe you do appreciate that but somebody didn't saw for a lot of years and then doctor opened his eyes so you also you know maybe you're coming to to know judaism so just understand that you have really a treasure in your hands don't waste it go and learn that become close to hashem it's the the most beautiful thing that you can do to yourself not that it's easy my life is not when i was a secular person i have i have no life and i was very you know i'm scanning for the same scan porn and now i'm happy it's not like that but of course if you know the way of course there is challenges but it's worth it okay i will finish with one story and then i will give you time to for questions if you want um i will finish with one story because when i became about chihuahua i want to learn to hua i really want to learn to i i i have a feeling that i i miss a lot of good years and i wanted to dedicate my life to to learn torah so for for 10 years i was in avreham i was only learning torah and after 10 years my brother became also balchuva okay it's a contained just no question and he became about chiva and then he brought all his friends and you know you know my brother talk with my friends and you have to talk with them convince them and then i started to become a speaker and you know it's it's coming on the time of the you know learning torah so i didn't know what to do to go to be a speaker or through the torah of course i will i can combine them but you know it's in the same time i can learn torah i'm not i'm i'm when i'm speaking i cannot learn torah so i went to my rebbe it's harvest silverstein the one who ruined my real world okay he now is helping me to to manage my life now so i came to him and asked him rebbe i i don't know what to do what should i do to give lectures not to stay by my home to go to the shiva all day and he said i'm not giving an answer for all the people i'm giving you for you the answer and each one of you will take it for personally to think what it's telling you he said to me there is a holocaust survivor that's coming to me every year he said and every year in the same date and he's crying and crying and crying and the rebbe asked him why are you coming the same date every year so he told him that he lost all his family in the holocaust except of one brother his brother and him he was in the same camp in the holocaust and uh the nazis in mashima they did like order in six o'clock in the morning everybody was supposed to stand and they checked if somebody is you know can work or not and you have to be in this this line because if you won't be in this line they will kill you and we worked all night we had only like an hour to go to sleep my brother was very tired so he said to me i'm going to sleep and i was afraid i won't get up in the morning early so i stayed awake and my brother asked me please wake me up wake me up before the line so i said no no problem i will i will wake you up and you know i was wandering in around the camp and a nazi officer saw me and called me come here and start to work and from the pressure i forgot that the line the order i forgot that my brother i forgot everybody and i in six o'clock o'clock i saw everybody standing there and i'm looking for my brother i didn't see him i ran into the camp went to the bed of my brother and i saw him lying on the bed with a bullet in his head and he said to the rebbe rabbi i cannot forgive myself why didn't i wake up my brother why didn't i wake up my brother so absolutely said to me fangir maybe after 120 years in the world to come the souls of your brothers your sisters that walking now on the street your sister now and then in the street your brother in the street there maybe he will ask you why didn't you wake me up you woke up hashem not to see that but it's your brother your sister why didn't you wake your brother so you have to do something someone can be a speaker one can do to the dedicated maybe in this project inspire to to bring some family into his home a friend here to the shiva come and learn somebody somebody's here in the coast you can speak with him you can you know be nice to person ask him you want to learn with him you want to see what you want what shabbos says just invite him you cannot you never know who's walking the street so wake up your brother so i think first of all you have to work ourselves and then we'll try to wake up our brothers and i think hashem will appreciate that because as a father i'm telling you the most important thing in your life is your kids if somebody will help your kid you will give everything for this person so we are on the memorial day of the abner weimberg and he made a revolution in the world so for me it's a very very big honor to be a little part of that and thank you for listening me and i hope we will do good things in our life what an evening what a weekend the project inspired convention yes usually at this point i'm dismissing you to go out for a lavish malava malka viennese table we remember that don't we so times have changed and we look forward to getting back to those days as well so splurge go eat that ice cream and pizza when you get up and you go back to your kitchens or wherever you are indulge you deserve it what an evening what a weekend so far i want to remind you that tomorrow night coming to you live at 8pm is a sunday night edition of the project inspired convention i myself will be there live to continue the inspiration and taking you down the path of inspiration both going backwards down memory lane as well as forward to new amazing performances ladies and gentlemen i want to remind you again before you close out for the evening you can continue to donate to project inspire right on your page continue to help us do the things that we do and to produce the things that we do to inspire you but of course to have you inspire others as well ladies and gentlemen my name is yasi friedman as the executive director of project inspire on behalf of rabbi heim samson family director project inspire rabbi yaakov guineger who put this whole thing together behind the scenes i want to thank you thank you for spending matsushabas together with us we look forward to having you back tomorrow night thank you go get that pizza and ice cream shabuato