PIC 2010 Rabbi Krohn

so the story is told about a gentleman who got a new job as the University professor so he moved in it moves into the city and they get him a beautiful home and he comes with his family and he moves into the home and he comes inside and it's a gorgeous beautiful house there's only one problem as soon as he comes in he starts moving his stuff in he notices that there's no water in the house nothing air he turns on the force that nothing works goes to the shower nothing works so he days neuen County opens up the Yellow Pages looks for a plumber finds a plumber the plumber comes over to the house so what seems to be the problem he said there's no water in the house says huh I'll fix that for you no problem plumber goes around a few minutes later he comes back said doc all done perfect is that that's amazing goes over to the faucet it works beautifully so that's terrific says tell me what do I owe you some $250 he says $250 you should excuse me he said that you were here about six minutes two hundred and fifty dollars huh I paid the truth he said I'm the president of the university I don't make two hundred and fifty dollars in six minutes and the plumber said oh of course he said we're not was the president of the university I didn't make 250 takes time to sink in I'll wait I should have told that joke on Shabbos because these jokes don't work there's the ones in who's on Chavez anyway anybody is there a point to the joke I was afraid someone would ask me the point of the joke is of course as quite obvious I'll just let you figure that [Music] have to make decisions wisely folks people are very lucrative positions and they get great salaries but sometimes they give up what's most important in this case the university professor became a plumber now there's nothing wrong with plumbers don't get me wrong I want to be politically correct but if you're suited well to be University professor even if you're not making what the plumber makes that's what you should be doing and all the decisions we make and a lot of people make decisions about how to spend their time and indeed spend valuable time I know people in this audience some of whom I've met today many of who I met today who spend really significant time and take serious financial loss because they're spending hours many many many many hours a week just trying to be McCarville I find in the nineties road it's really amazing you talk about mysterious nefesh you talk about really giving up your time and for some people giving up some very serious financial reward just for this tremendous mitzvah have to make your decisions wisely how are you going to spend your time over this past jobless I think we all agree at least me walking around that if you missed it if you are not here Shabbos you missed something very very very special how many of you agree [Applause] [Music] your plan and you plan a second my mitzvah you know you plan you playing a plan and then it really happens it's unbelievable and it was we had such a fetish Maya everybody what you know running from one place to another it was just just fantastic it's something extremely extremely special and of course a big part of that special Shabbos that we had is the gentleman that you're about to hear from again I'm sitting next to and I can't possibly say the same introduction again that I said today although I could if you really want me to hood to say the exact same thing but I want to tell you what it's like at least for me over the last years just listening to Robert pesach Crone there was a great attorney in the United States some of the older folks in the audience might remember the name Louie NYE Zaremba Louie neither of course really nas it was really one of the great litigators one of the great you you walk into a courtroom and you saw Louie neiser sitting at the bench you were afraid you know that this guy was probably gonna win the case he knew that there was one moment during any trial that was the most crucial moment and that was when his opponent is adversary the other attorney the prosecuting attorney whoever maybe would get up and speak to the jury and sum up the entire case because at that time that summation to the jury would be extremely powerful now how is he gonna do anything in order to prevent this adversary from making his points to the jury and Louie Nizer figured it out here's what he did at that time smoking was permitted in all buildings even in courtrooms he could smoke whatever you want people smoked he smoked the cigar Louie Nozick and listen to this genius what he decided to do is he took his cigar whenever he went into an important case and where was that last day before the summation of the trial and he took a very thin wire and he placed it right down the center of the cigar and it was protruding past the end of the cigar several inches then he started smoking and the ashes started to come out at the end of the cigar but they just wouldn't fall the ashes don't go anywhere so while the attorneys up there talking to the jury the jury is just watching that signal and they're wondering when are the ashes then I listening to him thank you what how's that happening genius genius that's what it's like for me listening to Robert pace up you simply cannot get distracted you just can no matter what else is going on in the room I find anyway I am transfixed and it was such an honor to have him here today and speak so many several times and whenever we ask him big another session another session more and more and more so we asked him tonight again of course my Meister Shabbos to again be my Honda the I am so pleased it's a great cover to introduce our wonderful friend and leader of my face our front [Applause] that was close but no cigar it's a special sauce that I've spent this great great Shabbos here I cannot thank enough from i'ma drop my dear friend Rebecca Solomon and of Haim Sampson for inviting me to come to spend this great great Chavez this first convention of inspired that mid-session will become an annual event there's a very interesting Gomorrah and softened who feared gimel Amida Amidala and the gomorrah tells us aisha mean i slay her either my ball there are three that are guaranteed to have a llama ball and the gemara mentions two of them and the third one is how Mondale a lion but my choice shabbos the one who makes half dollar unwind on matzah Shabbos and the guar says mahi what do you mean why is that and the Gomorrah explains that in the time of the Gomorrah there were many people that did not have enough wine today wine is obviously available to everyone but wine was a rare commodity in the time of Hazael and if somebody would make you on Friday night and everybody likes to drink wine so a person would finish all the wine Friday night for kiddush and then he wouldn't have to make wine from dollar but the gomorrah says that somebody that can control themselves because we know that when you make Abraha online it's very cautious and the Messiah McKay Ducie lab doubter he leaves over from kiddush table dalla he's able to control himself and then they brought online matzah Shabbos such a person is like that I love Apple listen to the expression and I think that there's a very deep meaning to this Gomorrah the Messiah make you do sha leav Delta he left over from the kiddush top dollar I think that that describes our role for the rest of our lives we have to take from the kiddush from the halo kite of this Shabbos the Messiah make you Ducie we have to take and leave over from the kiddush from the holiness from the inspiration of Shabbos love Delta to the days of the week for the rest of our lives we came to an unusual convention the scope of the Convention was to inspire not only ourselves but to make sure that we inspire others on this Shabbos we've come the Messiah make a dushala Delta to bring from that holiness to bring sanctity to the secular days of the week I want to share with you a beautiful story a story that was told to me first by a girl in a gate said seminary I wasn't gate said in England and a girl comes over to me and the story seemed so unusual and so remarkable that of course I had to hear it from the person himself to whom had happened and she told me that it happened to her father her father before he became from was known as Sam cyclin Sam cyclin was a phenomenal cyclist he would win one bicycle race after the other as a matter of fact in 1966 he won was known as the New York State Sprint Championship and Sam Shanklin told me that there was tremendous jealousy on that team that New York team because people couldn't stand that he was Jewish and one day he told me he was riding in green on Kissena Boulevard near Kissena Park where they had a track and as he was driving home he was on his bike and he was riding on all of a sudden the car zoomed up behind him and he thought that the car would run him over he ran onto the sidewalk with his bike behind the tree so if the car would crashing with crash into the tree and the car skidded to a stop and two guys yelled out you dirty Jew we won't let you be the winner of any other races they were two of his teammates they couldn't stand him he told me that the anti-semitism was so bad that in 1967 there was what was known as the Grand Prix in Northbrook Illinois a cycling race and he told me he was ahead by three seconds he knew for sure he was gonna win the race anybody who followed the Olympics knows that 1/10 of a second couldn't win a race in glory for someone he was three seconds ahead of everyone as he came to the finish line he lifted his hands in victory and he was disqualified they implied a rule they imposed a rule that they never imposed before or afterwards the rule in cycling is that as you go over the finish line at least one hand has to be on the handlebar because otherwise you're jeopardizing the spectators that are around there so therefore being that both his hands were off the body so therefore he was disqualified and then he decided that's the end it's obvious that they hate Jews in the cycling world he's gonna go someplace Canada was too cold Mexico was too high he decided I'll go to Israel the Maccabee ins had a team and he decided he's gonna join the Maccabee in team he won a championship in Eretz Israel and then it came time to practice for the Olympics while he was in Eretz Israel of course he's a Jewish boy he's not religious he goes to the caisson one night and he's trying to dive in whatever he knows he had very minimal background but there were two brothers who saw him dubbed Goldberg and Haim Goldberg dubbed Goldberg today is a Russian even tells his father was a rabbi sick husband who should have her fish and dubbing Goldberger hi in Goldberg started talking to this fellow and they saw that he had an interest in Yiddish and they sent him to a fellow Gatien Weinberger and Garen Weinberger who was into cure before anybody else was into gear of he saw this as a Cayley this is somebody who's really interested and so he invited him for Shabbos and the boy Sam cyclin became Shimon Pesach cyclin and he started becoming from and you would not believe it long before a shot iris started Rebecca Weinberg started a yeshiva the yeshiva was not called a chateau in those days it was called muggy enough wrong Sam cyclin was the fifth talmud of Ramnath Weinberg of course now he's in the yeshiva and he has to try out for the team that's going to put a cycling team into the Olympics and the tryouts are on Shabbos so he goes throughout my earth Weinberg and he says what should I do I want to try out for the Olympics or a player said you should try out for the Olympics it would be a tremendous kiddush Hashem that a yeshiva man in Morgan of Rome which eventually became a shot area would be known all over the world as the greatest cyclist of wall and same cycling told me himself that when he used the pedal he used to paddle to that song that Geshem Weinberger taught him Shabbos a young Russian I don't know exactly how the song goes but that song was the cadence to which he would cycle but then he said to up nya but the tryouts are on Shabbos he said go to the coach tell him how could he do this in Israel on Shabbos and he went to the coach and the coach said we are not a bunch of rabbis were a bunch of cyclists and if you don't like it you me off the team he said this is Israel how could you do this in Israel she'd grown a girlfriend what happened was that they had the tryouts on Travis of course he wouldn't go and that year Israel could not send a cycling team to the Munich Olympics in 1972 in 1972 by your reaction I see that you know as well as I do that to Israeli athletes were killed right away the Palestinians kidnapped another nine and it will be debated till the end of time whether the Germans should have gotten into a gunfight with them but those nine other hostages were killed on the spot even before the gunfight developed and shimmered place our cyclin heard in Eretz Israel over the news that the Israeli athletes were killed and he realized that what saved him was Shabbos Kashmiris Shabbos kailia Chiaverini what saved him was not only Shabbos but his guiding light that was Rebecca Weinberg who became his mafia and this fifth Talmud of Ramaiya was saved because of the great Rebbe do you know that Rab Noah Weinberg was a descendant of the Solana rebellion and thus wanama Rebbe once said something that is so phenomenal he said it from iron Kalina all of us should underline it and Alice adore him when you dive in my grave underlining tomorrow night and remember that as the theme of rebellious life over the life of inspire and what Asia toy is all about and what Europe is all about listen Arab Aaron Kalina touch this a vast oil on base you surround I'm kofta we have said it thousands of times listen Heather Mubarak Alina touched it I'm a soil on basis royal if people in hidden among Gidon they love the world they love materialism they love secularism they're not from yet I was all of this and I write is ooking in the veldt I was only my basis around the abus just still loves them I'm home to my nation or hoped I love you that's what we have to remember I'm a solemn even though our brothers and sisters on the campuses our third cousins our coworkers they're steeped in the oiler McGlashan II it's still armed halt its Claudius RAL it's a shams nation I'm for often we have to love them we have to pity them we have to go out and we have to reach them and if that's the case I want to share with you another great story that happened a number of years ago many of you are surely familiar was one of the tsadikim entire generation of mortify Neustadt who started Valhalla sniffing Israel and he had many people go to Russia and they were tried to learn in the private homes and in the private basements before Russia was freed from communism and the greatest Rebbe for all those people was revelry OSS but eventually rebel yell esses in the spring of 89 he went to Eretz Israel so now rabbi noose that had to have teachers from America because rebel EOS is left so he would get different people one of the people he got was for fellow from Muncie his name is Rob you feel missile chill Arabic chill told me that he came and into Russia and he went into the basements and they bought towers and drilling for people and subdue him and he would go from house to house wherever they could do it in hiding and he said there was one brilliant guy named Masha Masha would follow not my Jill wherever he went and he was brilliant he was a scientist every shear he was there and finally when rabbi Jill had to leave he set him OSHA I don't know if I'll ever see you again but just promise me this if you come to America promise me that you'll call me and I'll do anything I can and six months later about Jill gets a call from OSHA he says where are you he says I'm an up and ethical I mean the University in Ithaca upstate in New York and I got a visa and I'm able to be there but I don't have any swaram I don't have anything he said it's no problem I will be able I live in Muncie I would get my friend in four hours we'll be up there get everything so he went to two views and of course he brought out swaram he bought a Russian sitter he brought him all food he bought him food for a month and he comes up it was in June and it comes up state to update the Cornell University and it brings him all the stuff and Moshe I can't believe it he's so happy because he felt so alone in this country and they're singing and dancing together and it makes him feel so special the next day of that night rather Rabbi chill comes back to Muncie he came back three four o'clock in the morning he was exhausted it's a four hour trip each way and he taught them Brewers in Washington Heights so he was exhausted but he's a Rebbe in the 11th grade so he comes in and he says boys boys I want to tell you something I'm exhausted go easy on me today but I want to tell you something what I did and he told me about my chili you know what he told him because he wanted that one day they should remember they should do something like this he said he told them the whole story of Moshe how he met him in Russia and he went up and he brought him all the stuff and the kids were duly impressed and they were very well behaved the next year a year later a young fellow Jeremy Strauss who was in the 11th grade that gave the 12th grade next year he comes running on a Sunday morning into rabbi chills place he says Rebbe you won't believe it he says what happened he says Friday night you know my parents would live in Inglewood we come to a shul there's a guy there it's he's obviously looking about Juba a fellow American boy and my father says to him you need a place to eat he says yeah so he invites this fellow he's sitting at our table and my father says to him you know there's always a store what about you Hubble comes from he says how did you become from what happened he says you wouldn't believe it I was graduating I was in Cornell University and I had a roommate some guy comes in at the end of June his name was Moshe a Russian guy he makes a call and four hours later two guys come and they bring in food and they and they're singing and they're dancing with him they bring him books I never saw anything like this and I said to Moshe who are these guys he said they're my Jewish friends he said I'm Jewish that's how Jews behave I never realized that and he decided because of that act of Hesed they're not my children rabbi Goodman did that he has to look into his religion and that was the beginning of his becoming from and you know what he said to jeremy strauss moshe was my roommate for two nights imagine that after the second night moshe was transferred to a different part of the college you know what we learned from this we learn that you just have to plant the seed one act of blessed by rabbi Jill are not my Goodman coming up there to moshe not only inspired moshe who lives in lakewood i won't let me say his last thing today but this other fellow whom he came from why because of that one act of cousin so i brought a present for every single one of you tonight because i want to share with you one of the greatest expressions i ever heard of my life there's a woman in manchester her name is Fabi walk she'll she wrote a book facing adversity with faith she never has MS and what happened was I went to see her and she told me she wrote this book and in this book was this expression there are people here tonight who will give it out I didn't want anybody to have it until we spoke about it but after my talk every one of you will get one listen to this expression we should live with this anyone can count the seeds in one Apple you don't have to be a big holcomb to open an apple and count the seeds but only Hashem can count the apples in one seed imagine how brilliant that is anyone can count the seeds in one Apple but only Hashem can count the apples in one seed that one seed of resset it made that other fellow from now he has children eventually I'll have grandchildren that's what we came here for this Shabbos we came to become those who will plant seeds and what I added to this expression is plant seeds so that others will reap that's what this Shabbos is all about to plant seeds take this that will be given out both in the men and women section put it on your refrigerator remember every act of gear of even one seed can bring an apple grove of Crescent of spirituality of life of fulfillment to everyone that we get to know and so I just want to end with this great story if you haven't guessed it by now my closest friend besides my wife is Yoko Solomon everybody knows that I adored him I think he's the most talented fellow I know you want your cigar now with the ashes and he's just he's just a total inspiration and he's my psychologist and he doesn't charge so of course I can only reach him one o'clock in the morning but but that's what happens I want to tell you a great story about Jakob Salomon and wood that will close listen to this Yaakov as some of you know gives the discovering program seminars all over the country a number of years ago he was in Minneapolis and he started the session let's say on a Thursday night or a Friday afternoon and there were many many people and the way it works in the seminar is that everybody the first day introduces themselves so this one introduces themselves and everybody and finally there was one fellow sitting off on the side and Yaakov s ISM and who are you sir now all they had to do was say who is what who he was just say his name but that's not what he said he said my name is Michael and I'm an atheist in other words you know like right in your face I'm not interested what you have to say so Yaakov was not anybody to shirk responsibility he says Michael if you don't have an open mind what made you come to the seminar Michael says well I have a good friend who's sitting right next to me and he said he thought I would find it interesting okay now throughout a seminar many many different topics are discussed and this Michael was brilliant so of course anything that was brought up that there's a Shem in this world other people would ask questions but Michael challenged Yaakov and Yaakov would answer and Michael would answer and people stood around this wall as if this boxing verbal matches verbal boxing match everybody is in all back-and-forth Michael's words Yakov's words back and forth everybody's listening to this fencing this goes on a whole week finally on matzah Shabbos or on Sunday afternoon when everybody is about to leave what Yaakov does as he says to ever person in the audience and let's say they're 5060 people he says I need each and every one of you just to define the Shabbos in one word think about it for a moment define the Shabbos in one word and so it was interesting one guy got up and said I would say that one word what to me the Shabbos was informed he became informed okay another person said exhilarated he was exhilarated for everything that he saw another person said perplexed you know this was brand-new for everyone so he left perplexed it's interesting what the fourth guy said the fourth guy said inspired that's interesting everybody said something except Michael Yakov turns to Michael and he says Michael everybody defined the Shabbos what about you what do you say Michael was quiet for a moment and then he said god bless you rabbi drop god bless you if I'm God bless you my dear Yaakov god bless you and all of you who came for this fabulous Shabbos god bless you may the Averys to bench every single one of you for me thank you thank you sound like my mother may every one of you be get benched but Ruth Lea super gosh pious because you made the effort to come to this Shabbos to become a planter of seeds so that apples of ruthless and Yiddish guide should grow all over the world thank you for inviting me and thank you for listening [Music]