Project Inspire TB 2025 Show

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And it's really a show that I hope will mean something to you. I know it's mean means something to all of us here. Before I introduce my co-host, I want to just share an idea that I've been thinking about. You know, you hear a lot of times when it comes to tishabove, you know, speakers get up and they say, um, you know, I can't believe I'm back and this should be our last tish above and next year. And I was thinking about that throughout the entire day. And honestly, when you see the show, you'll see that there are so many different types of people that are making such a difference. If you think about what is gula that we want, we all say we want guula. The BA migdash is just the representation of Hashem's presence in the world, right? It's the it's more Hashem. And if there's a lot more Hashem, then you're at Ba Mikdash. And when we say we want, we want Mr. from we what we're really saying I hope is we want more Hashem well you can get more Hashem you get more Torah you get more you get more mitzvah in this world Hashem's presence is in this world and when you look around at the amount of people in this world that are just not connected they don't know or they know and they know the they're turned off when you look around at how much possible Hashem could be in this world. We don't have to wait for one event to bring gula. It's not like it's gullus and then there's a switch and then it's gula. Why can't we just start piece by piece as our nava said brick by brick to bring back Hashem's presence in the world through his children. And I think the answer if I'm being straight and it's like the end of tishaba. If you're ever going to be straight, it's now is because we don't really care. Like we we'd rather go, but we don't need gula. And if me and you found out that if we raised a thousand more pairs of fillin or a million more Shabas candles or you know 17,000 more pounds of kosher food eaten, we would just like rock and roll be done by like by Lol. But we don't really think about that. And we don't really care that at the end of the day, so much of Hashem's presence is not going to be in this world. So much of his children will never know him. And that's what this program is about. It's not if we can, it's if we care. Because if we're really going to say next year, like we should just mean it, which means I'm going do whatever it takes. Whatever it takes. Hashem, I'm willing to be uncomfortable to bring you into the world a little bit more this year. And that's what inspire is all about. How to get me and you to actually care enough to bring more locus into this world through the mitzvah, through the hashkafas, through the Toras of his children. And I'm joined with an incredible individual, the executive director of project inspires Freeman's with me. Uh yeah, Rab Rabbi Freeman has been together. We've been doing the show for a very long time and it's really an honor to invite you to the show and to include you and actually thank you for including me in the show since this is your show. It's so good to be back with you again another year. >> Hardly you know it's like Charlie remember the back in the days you know it was like began in the Miami boy choir and like slowly like the be like so not so fast Charlie show. I'll take it. Thank you very much for uh Thank you very much for having me on here. Now we're had technical issues and this is me. This is you. Um and we are here another tish and >> I actually took a note. I don't know if I've ever done this but like I took a note on what you saiding you know which is >> I really think there's a chance this is the year of gula if I >> possibility >> if I took a note um which is the do we need versus prefer or rather yeah you know and that's that's a very important I think that a lot of what we're going to discuss today are going to be people and situations where people could have just left it as is >> it might have been okay yeah >> but like they needed they needed to do they need to and they cared. They cared and I think those are the factors that really puts it's a good thing that we planned this really well so we can come to up to the first two minutes of show and like but that really nails it. That really that really and and I think that that is going to go through a lot of the videos and a lot of the people that we're going to meet is that >> they were totally okay the way they were and it might have been nice if things would have happened but like they cared and they needed to do things. So I think that's a a huge part and I and I think it also goes to a little bit about you know as an organization as project inspired as an organization you know this as well as any of us is that for many years a lot of our focus as an organization was only on if you cared enough you would reach out to the person next to you on a plane on a bus and we've had stories galore our conventions and online and and videos and everything about really incredible stories by incredible people. But I think there are a lot of people who have felt sort of like on the owl. So like that's really great, but like that's not me. And maybe the next time that happens to me, I'll feel bad about it, but I'll still know it's not me, you know, and people will definitely have that feeling. And by the way, that's also progress. That's also progress. But >> sitting on a plate with a secure Jew and feeling bad that you're villain is still something. >> A guy told me he had the worst plane ride. He thought about me the whole plane. Right. But but something >> we're almost there, right? Not that I do it even. Like you know what I'm saying? >> But I think that we've graduated from that in that of course that's sort of the ultimate like how else is that Jew going to find his way back if not for you? But for everybody who might not be that person and might be very busy and might be do going about their daily lives. As you know, in the last year, we've been focusing greatly on the people who might not be comfortable doing that, but they're ready to raise their hand and say, "I'm a doctor. I'm a lawyer. I'm a housewife. I'm great at baking kala. I'm a ruach person. Whatever it is, count me in." Like, I'm in. And then we started different initiatives which we'll discuss. But I think that concept really doesn't give an out to anybody, but it also it's a big hug around all of the F community that says like we're all in this and we could all do something. >> Yeah. So let just to make sure that the crowd fully understands this is that today project inspire has evolved. Prospire is always about mobilizing the relig from community to be able to reach out. But in the past you had to almost do it on your own. And now Inspire is coming in saying, "Hey, we have all the relationship with all the cure of organizations. We've identified initiatives and ways that you could actually get involved. Just raise your hand and we'll figure it out for you." >> Right? And again, listen, we're evolving into those relationships into the trust of the organizations into all the the different, you know, curve organizations that we've had have relationships with and are getting, you know, uh, becoming more and more valuable to. It's an evolving thing. But the main thing is that we turn to people and say just say I'm in just say I'm in you know and I just want to discuss just a couple of the initiatives now and and I know that the the link will be up during a lot of the show that people can actually while you're watching the show can actually sign on and get involved but for example we mentioned the professionals you know there are many people that say listen I'm a lawyer I'm a doctor I'm in real estate I'm wherever it is like and I might not be able to even be macariff people right but can I offer my services to the world of kira roof, you know, I could help with I could help with the the the aspect of of legal uh you know, legal advice, accounting advice, things like that. And on the flip side, maybe I'm not ready to reach out to the guy in the plane next to me, but if I was given a law student, if I was given a law student, >> I can mentor him. >> I could mentor him and and I'm happy to do that because of course that doesn't mean we're going to have Rabbi Mark, David Mark to discuss more about that, but like I I could do that. I can do that and so we have this leaders hub you know leaders hub means you're a professional like join our leaders hub sign up for it and we have many people I think I mentioned this your child who have come to the project inspire I mention who have been involved for years have never really been involved in anything and all of a sudden they're like that I can do see that I can do and of course >> Macarvat in Boston's been very low kit just you got to hear the story he's an incredible incredible guy he told me a story about a girl he's been working on for years to come back and she was so interested but she just couldn't ever I think see herself as being more connected to Hashem. She brings her to this conference run conference and um and she comes out >> which is sort of a noncure of organization which I think goes exactly our point right meaning it's a professional medical >> and they're all and they ran this g amazing conference. Yeah. Yeah. The story the the girl comes back from the conference comes to his class and within two years she's in Israel and she's from and he goes what I mean four years you're in my class every week. She says to him, you have to hear this. She says,"I always in my head wanted to be a neuroscientist, a neurosurgeon. Only a neurosurgeon. I don't want to I can't be a neurosurgeon, be religious." I went to the Kman conference. There was a religious woman neurosurgeon. I had one cup of coffee with her. I'm like, "How do you do it?" And she says, "I I'll tighten my day." She didn't give her kov. She didn't teach about the god. She said, "This is what I do for a living." She came back. She said, "It's possible. I'm ready." >> Someone's a professional and they just say hello to somebody, they don't understand. They're they're creating a role model that that person that may be the block in that person's life, >> right? We see this and and and on the flip side on the front person side saying like, "I'm not a cure of guy, but law, medical, >> I could talk, right? I could talk I could talk about accounting. I could talk about engineering. I could if if if we are who we are, it's it's a model for people that are around it. you still have that and still have and still be from >> right and and secondarily which is the next initiative that we have which is the conference connections which you're calling this because there are people who they might not be the professionals but they have access to a and you know Charlie in Midtown Manhattan or wherever it is you have a conference room miracles happen in conference room you know it's an people do not appreciate that when you're a a macar and you've got 20 kids coming in from out of town and they got to come to the city and you can go upstairs to somebody's boardroom and just sit there and order food. They feel like they've conquered the world. People that live and work in the city are like, "What's the big deal?" >> Right. Just the space of it. >> Just giving up your space. >> Yeah. >> And a lot of the times it's not even during business hours, >> right? And and again, these are just other opportunities for people to say like, "Yeah, can you do this? You might not be you might not be the class. Can you at least give us your confidence?" >> Exactly. Exactly. you know, and thirdly is we had this initiative on the road and there have been numerous people who have gone on the road even though I know that more people signed the Bible convention and we're constantly we actually reached out as you know to Tucson and to Memphis and place like that to hopefully get you know more project inspired on the road which again people are saying listen I can get away for a shabas yeah >> you know I have what to give like I'm happy to help a community that doesn't necessarily have balabatum readily available at their at their >> I don't think I don't think balabatam from regular people understand that their presence is inspiring. I don't think so. Cuz most firm people live with a thousand other from people. They're just another one of the >> if they go to Tucson, they go to Boston, they go to Miami, they go to Texas, they spend the shabas on a campus in a community and people are talking to them and they're just talking regular. They have no they have no appreciation for what happens when you leave and you go someplace else and you just be. >> Yeah. again that this is just another initiative and as well as again I'm not going to go through all of them but there's being a community ambassador which is next initiative uh community ambassador which is be the person that we have a campaign an invite campaign a you know upcoming we have a rashashana campaign beautiful gifts to give out be the point person in your community here men women it doesn't really matter if you're on the niche list or if you have access or or you can be someone to be able to promote this like it can go a long way and again I don't want to go everyone can go to projectinspire.com/initias that's right there on the homepage of projectinspire.com as well to learn one-on-one to host. We have we definitely have need for host etc. >> I'm thinking as you say this I'm thinking about the following. How many stories have you heard in your life in your life about the kid who sees the ad for for whatever does it and ultimately starts his journey? Right? A thousand. If a person says, "I don't feel comfortable giving a class." Okay. I don't feel comfortable telling over the my story of my life cuz I'm a professional. No problem. Boardrooms, I don't think so. >> Can you at least forward over the flyer? Right. And I'm saying like, can you at least say I'm a cobble upon myself that I will hear something about some program and you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to hit forward. >> Right. >> Like if you can't do that, >> I don't even know if I don't know what's exactly. Exactly. I think at the convention I said I'd said like so if you don't have a job if you don't have a job and you're homeless, you know, we still can use Right. Exactly. You know, so so at the end of the day, I think that the point that over here is as not only as an organization, not only as a show and the messaging that we're going to see today is that I think you're to your point, we are more inspiring than we think, especially to people. >> Oh my gosh, so much more inspiring. The one thing I've learned in my life and I know very little is that if you happen to be a person that is a bow Torah mitzvah you and you'll see this throughout the whole show. You are underestimating your ability to inspire somebody else. Your existence, your decision to keep shabas, your decision to eat kosher, your decision to learn Torah, you your your knowledge of how to daven for the um your existence is inspiring. You are a piece of the mooa of Hashem. And especially especially if it's someone who's who's >> yeah trying is growing and just being in and that's what was said earlier. If you want or would rather more Hashem in the world like great if you absolutely positively need it and all you have is either I see a base of mushd or I'm back here. It's a different life. Just bring it in piece by piece, Jew by Jew, mitzvah by mitzvah. like we could have millions more sparks of Hashem in the planet just by this stuff. >> All of us watching that that's really the uh I think that's the point of today and I'm I'm glad you got the rather prefer versus the I need >> it. We need it. You got to need gula. >> Yeah. >> You know what Wall used to always say or Wallin Zatal used to always say if it if it was if it was your child, how would you act? There were times he used to he told me to fall asleep in his car. couldn't get out of his car. Robert Wallace used to pull into his driveway and fall asleep in his car cuz and I and we would say to him like why? And he goes cuz I'd say if it was my daughter like if we really believed that that kid that guy that person was our kid would we like would we for him a flyer? Like would we open the boardroom? Like like the joke this is like a joke a little bit. You know what I'm saying? Like if we actually cared we would do so much broke kids. >> Well I just you know to segue into you know this film which is so much about the messaging that >> this film knocked me off my socks. I cried during the film. >> This you cry you cried because he made the shots. >> No that's for sure why I cried. You know what I'm saying? There's no question but you hit me between the eyes. >> But I but I I feel like you know we're going to see a little clip about that in a second. is that this this boy Zebie Sammit who you know didn't need us to become a star he is a star not only as a basketball player but as a person as well >> and you know he and he meets his team >> and he's taken a back now and here's a kid >> here's a kid who could have been okay like you know it would be nice if they were more connected you know it it would be nice like I could still win with them >> you also have to remember this is a basketball school team right this is like alpha male soup right like this is like broke country. Like you don't walk around and like walk in and share Judaism. Like there's such a this is a this is a there's a culture of of masculinity or being tough and cool and and stand offish a little bit. So for him to come into that culture >> is so impressive. >> We're going to play a little clip and for those who did not yet see the film, it's available at projectinspire.com. projectinspire.com. It's called Bounceback. It is a, you know, beautiful film of this story as well as the hostages, the two hostages who were released. We're going to talk more about that. Who released, they were on that film last year. Both them were released. I had a chance to catch up. Both them were that was also a bounceback. Um, we'll we'll uh we'll speak about that as well. But here's a short clip of Zevy being introduced to his team for the very first time. Let's take a look. The first day I met the guys on the team, I see one guy with a red hair afro with earrings. See another guy with tattoos. I'm like, what in the world is this? I played a lot with people all over New York City that were not Jewish that had earrings and tattoos, but now it's Jewish team. A lot of these guys were not affiliated at all. [Music] I was born in New Jersey, but I moved down to South Carolina when I was three. And that's how I spent most of my life there. I didn't have the most religious background. I grew up going to public school, the only Jewish kid. I didn't say I would grow up too observant, maybe go to Shul on a Saturday. I grew up actually in Dallas, Texas. Both my parents are balas from around the world and a large percentage of my class didn't keep shabas and so a lot of time I felt like I was kind of like on my own with it. >> I grew up mostly in Roshine in Tel Aviv. Beginning I didn't really know much of any holiday any traditions and at the age of 15 I left Israel. I went to play high school basketball in Northern California. Been there four years, finished high school and then I was looking to play in colleges in in America and I contacted YU and they wanted me to come and play for them. Yes, why not? The first time I met Zebie was one of our first preseason workouts. We were in the in the gym at like 5:30 in the morning and he was wearing a CC over his shirt and he was wearing a keo while he was warming up and I was like what is he wearing? I obviously I knew what the kipo was but I didn't know what the tissues was and ever since then as the season went on we just became closer and closer. I went up there was a freshman retreat we went on the bus I sat next to and then he's like telling me that he's learning about >> and I said I need help in Hebrew. So some of the words in the mission bro I didn't know said can you help me he said yeah >> cuz honestly I wanted to be educated I wanted to know why are the reasons people doing it and why maybe maybe I want to do it I don't know and then Zebie suggested me if I want to try and do that he said why not so we got him a cup he started doing it every day put a sign of mani on the wall and started saying it every day was >> talking about like exactly here's There's a guy shows up on a basketball team. When you walk into a basketball team, the first thing you do for a long time is show people you know how to play ball. Like that's it. There's no like I want you to become I want you to be like it's like an invisible world of just machess. Zevy can Zevy shows up and Zevy what's amazing about the story is that he comes in right away looks over and says wait a second what's going on and ultimately uses as an opportunity for him to be able to go and bring people closer piece by piece person by person. It's exactly what we said earlier. He didn't prefer it. He needed it. >> Right. And that that's really it. I I I think that you know meet Zevy and like I think everybody who has watched the film has sort of met Zevi is that he but he really felt that way like he really felt that like what a kaval like this guy has no this guy has no idea. This guy's not connected. this guy's uh you know so and and and I think that that that really also that comes across throughout the film is that they never felt that like he was just trying to like teach them something that he didn't want them to do really he like it really bothered him really concerned them so he would involve them in in his life and and in mitzvah and things like that and we're going to see as as we go along we'll see what the the outcome of that is as we know for those that watch the story but I think that you know this was the point is that he could have gone four years played basketball maybe even one, right? And yet all these guys who were sort of right there interested, you know, wanted to hear from him would totally been >> I found that the and you have to if you haven't seen the story, I mean, like here's the exactly I think this is the model of what we're getting at. Here's a kid shows up on a team. The goal of the team is to win a game, okay? And at the end, they win the game. Like spoiler alert, they win the game, right? Like it works. And the best part is that when the the film is over, you realize that it's actually not about winning the game, >> right? >> It's about getting these kids to find Hashem. And me and you are going to live our lives and think that our life is about living in our careers, having our jobs, having our life. And we're going to realize at the end of it, it's not about that. It's about who have we touched, who have we inspired, whose lives have we changed, and the money we make and don't make, and the house and all that stuff is nourish. This is the model, right? >> It's an amazing model for life. The game was Hashem's setup. Our job is to look at the game and go, I want to win that, but it's not about that. >> Right. Right. And I I actually had I had the opportunity to sit with some of these teammates and say to myself, you mean you didn't know what Shabas was? Shocking. >> Like no, you know, and we we'll talk more about that because there's this whole trend over here. And and by by the way, on that note, on that note, we we you know, we meet Sasha. >> Sasha, you know, Truv was was a was a hostage and last year he was, you know, we made a film with his mother and his mother became all, you know, so much more connected because of it. and his now fiance Sappir and everyone knows their story but you know there's so many underlying things with with Sasha that and I had had the opportunity to sit down with him you know I asked him straight out you know there was a pictures and videos going around of when Rabbi Lazar you know met him the first time you know the chief rabbi of Russia is there he's in Israel at the time that he's released that's not even the most shaky and I had a chance to catch up with Rabbi Lazar afterwards which Let's take a little clip little clip of Sasha from the film. >> Lazar was in Israel for the wedding of his own daughter, >> right? >> When when you were released. Tell me about that. I came to this yard where we was waiting and he gave me such a big hug like my father wasn't there but like a father would he was so happy about my release and of course his wife was so emotional about it and his family and we did the pictures and everything and of course he said would you like to put fill in and I don't know I I never put Phil in before but with him it felt right. I said yeah why not of course and we did it. [Music] I really prayed at this moment for my heart to get other out. I really hope that they will eventually be able to feel the same joy and happiness that I had with their families and the ones who are deceased. I wish that they will return home so where they can be buried and their families can close a circle at least have a place to mourn. So, you know, Charlie, I I sat with Sasha. It was actually the interview was done here in the States. You know, he was here and then the Iran war happened, you know, so it got in the way of some other people's upsharing plans. You know, in Israel, the Iran war was inconvenient. But, uh, but but with Sasha, it actually got him stuck here in the States. But what hit me was here's a guy, and he's so honest. He's so honest. Here's a guy who's telling me that before October 7th, he did not believe in God. He did not believe in God. And I'm saying to myself like all right you're in Israel like I believe you know it's all relative. Then he tells me like he never put like he said in >> I can't even imagine that >> he never put on. shocking that we're living at a time where in arid circle there it's shocking me that there are Jew forget if you don't put on fill in >> right >> you never heard of the thing like this is the kures burough who's like this land you know what I'm saying like you're not in you're not in like Zimbabwe you're in Erit Israel and you never even heard of fillain I don't I don't understand it even >> right we heard of Shabas we had the the basketball player never heard of Shabas >> I don't I I it's maybe not for I Maybe not for that, but we we have a lot we have a lot of work to do. That's for sure. But but was it's even it even goes one step further because I had a chance to catch up Rabbi Lazar literally erhov Friday and in there he mentioned something that if you thought Sasha and his never putting on fillin before was disconnected enough. Rabbi Lazar really shocked me in terms of Sasha. Let we have that interview with us here today. Rabbi Lazar, thank you so much for joining us here today and uh it really I know your time and you're in Moscow now and I know uh before Tishb things are are really busy over there, but I just wanted to ask you I had the opportunity to sit with um to sit with Sasha and one of the highlight moments of my interview with him was when I asked him about your interaction and you meeting him after he was released. Um, everyone saw the clip about how emotionally he was and the hug you gave him and the gesture of love that he felt from you and of course the experience putting on fillin you know with him for the first time in his life which I know for some people is so shocking and moving. What was that experience like for you? So actually uh when I went to meet him once he was released was for me also a very uh I would say emotional moment not only because we have been dabbling for him been in touch with his mother and with his fiance for such a long time and waiting and waiting and waiting any sign of life was already like a big y and finally he's came out but actually one of the points personally by me which was very difficult to know what's going to happen was that his mother all along once she became much more involved in the community Jewish life keeping mitzvah davening all of that shabas kash all along she had been saying I'm worried I'm very worried at a certain point she strongly believed that Sasha will come out her and her were very very strong but she was worried what would he do when he's going to see her as a religious person and that was what one thing that she was worried about. How will he react to her becoming religious? He might not even want to talk to her. That was even the way she expressed herself. But she said if she'll see a rabbi with a hat and a beard, he's going to run away. So just she didn't know what what will actually happen. What happened when he came out was actually exactly the opposite. We realized that while she was dabbing you know as a new person she not only affected herself she affected him also and he started dinging and the connection was through dvening and through know Hashem that connects each one of us. So very often we look at people and we see actually the Maro we see only the outside and what's what he shows and Sasha has been you know practically as a young child came to Israel zero connected to this guy nothing didn't have a say there he didn't have you know a bris he didn't have anything and all of a sudden an experience in his life showed his true colors and I said it many times the way he was Ding. The first time you put on fill in, I wish I were able to reach that level of dabing. Was such a emotional moment for me to see somebody that came from so far away and really his nisha came out so open to show what we really are all about. So we're standing right now before tishab and uh we're thinking now what are we supposed to do? Israel is really seeing the potential which is in by each one of us. It's enough of seeing the outside and judging people and saying, "Oh, look what he did. Look what he said. Look what he stands for. No, look at his he might have never had an experience that actually would connect him and all of a sudden when this experience takes place, it's going to be mitzvah. You're going to see really what's burning inside of him." So for me it was first of all a eye openener as much as I've seen many many people work that did chuva and came back but really the way we are supposed to judge other people you never know what's really happening in the person's life deep deep inside. So of course you know could be it's friends could be it's upbringing could be the community around you could be many different things that brings us to do the wrong things or say the wrong things but actually deep inside each one of us wants to do good nobody will ever come and say oh why did I do a mitzvah that was a big mistake I did a mitzvah and we know people when they do something that is not the right thing they regret it so explains why does trou work because troub actually reveals what's deep inside the person. Even when he was in a moment of weakness and he did an a mistake at that moment actually he didn't want to do it. That's not him. It's that came into him. So let's take away this let's take away this cover up that sometimes you know gets into sadly each one of us and let's look what we really want to do. What we really want to do is hashem and u together if we're going to look at each other and at ourselves with the right eyesight I'm sure we're going to see mashiach now. >> Amen. Amen. And the truth is just where to end is that I know I know that your feeling was to see was inspiring to see his attachment and his maybe even surprised attachment to terra mitzvah. But I know that emotionally he felt that you had a strong love for him. And uh may you may continue to feel that from you and all of us and feel that connection and be able to come closer to see Mashiah soon in our days. >> I think you said it best. It's if you love someone, if you care for someone, you're going to see coming back even more love and more care. So it just grows and grows and grows and it's amazing. Let's do it every day. Not only when we see such special moments in our lives, >> right? Thank you very much for your time and you should be avoid same to you. You're an inspiration for all of us. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> So that to me was incredibly powerful and it brought out a couple of nudas that I think we should talk about. Number one, I don't think we appreciate the level of distance that Jews have today. Like that's like nuts. People living in Artisel like off >> not anti >> off the prairie. >> Not anti like they can't even find it, right? They don't even know how to get here. >> And the no says the like can you imagine how Hashem feels about that? Like it's he's still a Jew, right? Like Hashem created him as a Jew and he doesn't even know how to like get anywhere near Hashem. And what what >> Lazar Lazar said was so hush of what he said and it's so true by the way. We're all like so like nervous like I don't know what are they going to say? What if he says no? Cuz I think deep down we don't really appreciate what fillain is and we don't know what chabas is like you know most people have it cuz it was they were born into it like he doesn't do it. It's like what's the worst that's going to happen? He's going to say it's a mitzvah. Like he's not going to say to you, I hate you for offering me a mitzvah. >> Or I regret doing it. >> Right. Or I regret doing it. >> But that was that was more regret doing it. >> Or actually I'm not going to look down on you and go what did you do? Like you made someone you made yourself feel uncomfortable trying to bring him close to me. Like I can't believe you wasted your time. Like I can only imagine the coaches broke being like are you of course I want him to do this. And of course his soul that I created wants to do this. Like it's just like we have this like hangup of like I don't want to be uncomfortable. >> I want to I want to say I want to say something. I I my uh I know this this is one one of my uh my father-in-law's favorites which is why I don't want to say it now is is also I remember that I remember that that Raf Pam Satal was invited to a an event my tenant made an event downstairs growing up and he said this vert that he had written they wrote in the safer and he says that there's a misus and a media right the media is the guy who gets someone to be of the mess is someone who tries to get someone. So p say do you understand what that means? If someone goes over to and tries to get to bear, he's amaz. [Music] >> Wow. >> If someone just tries, right? Just tries. All he did was try. >> I feel so small, honestly. Can I be straight for a second? Like could I just be like straight on? I don't try hard enough. I really don't. Like if we understood what what what Rez just said like what's gonna happen if you go to a Jew and say can I give you the opportunity to tap into your real essence like in Shmayam they're not going to be like that was dumb and but and the what are they going to say? Let's assume he says no I hate you. So what >> right >> at the you at the end of 120 you get to shay and go no I taken tried >> right we're going to tab into the whole segment over here which is a little bit that segment which is fill in specific but it's also the people who made the move and offered um as you remember Charlie a few years ago we had the opportunity at our convention the project inspire convention to sit with a young boy we're going to see him again we had him and what that has led to gosh we're going to get a little we're going to tap into a little bit where that led to and meet somebody who has taken that to another level. Let's tap into that famous story. >> Yes, it was. >> That's someone who needed it to happen. >> That's right. >> 100 test. >> My name is Yak the Kramer and I'm an eighth grade in Shivaras. My teacher in the afternoon is Mr. Ber. >> Mr. Jonathan Berger, an unaffiliated Jew, has been a member of the secular studies teaching department for the last 26 years. >> I've taught grades 6, 7, and 8. I've taught English, math, social studies, and science for the last 10 years or >> My name is Yak the Kramer and I'm eighth grade in Shivataras. My teacher in the afternoon is Mr. Ber. >> Mr. Jonathan Burgerer, an unaffiliated Jew, has been a member of the secular studies teaching department for the last 26 years. >> I've taught grades six, seven, and eight. I've taught English, math, social studies, and science. >> Okay, we're we're going to we're going to come back we're going to come back to this. Um we do have a video that does work, by the way. Um it's coming, but we we're we're going to where this story was, if you remember, was this this Kramer boy was sitting up with us. He tell he he tells us the story, right? how here, you know, there was a teacher and they wanted to get this teacher to put on fill in and they were going back and forth with, you know, and he finally made him a deal. He made him a deal. If he got a hundred on the test, right, that was right. 100 on the test. He gets 100 on the test, this guy's going to, you know, put on top. >> The best part, I hope the video does work. If not, we'll I'm sure you could see it. But like the best part of the video was like the anticipation of every got 100 on social studies. You know what I'm saying? Like, >> you know, and not easy. You know what I'm saying? for a kid. >> But it was again, this was a termination of a kid, which we're seeing a lot of, which we're seeing a lot of over here. We're seeing a termination of like, you know, people who don't know that you're not supposed to, so to speak, or that you're supposed to be, you know, weary of or you're supposed to be hesitant of like >> I was remember being in 10th grade, like it was a little bit ago, but like I could care less about my teachers. Like they were just the >> the the thing in the way >> of recess, >> right, of recess, of of of gym, of the end of the year. The fact that this young boy like saw the teacher and said, "Wait, like I want you to put on fill in like what an amazing perspective of that boy to care about the nishama of his teacher." >> Right. >> I didn't know they had nishambas when I was that age. >> Right. Well, mine didn't. No, of course. But I'm say okay. So, so here, so we show this, we show this boy the video that everyone had seen, you know, and we we asked him like, you know, what made you do this? And we, but one of the points that we asked him was, you know, no, and then we surprised him. We surprised him sitting up there. We showed him a video of a guy from another yeshiva who he didn't know, who was inspired by the film that he had seen. And then he was putting filling on the teacher over there. We joked with him that that kid got a 40 on the test. You know, he didn't have to get 100 right now that all the teachers. Sorry. >> In the math department, you had to put on the film. >> That's right. Now you have a second teacher and you're you're putting on film and the this boy Kramer said he the most inspiring part then was a boy random boy stopped him and said I saw your video and I have a teacher who is Jewish. I'm trying I'm trying to get him to put on filler. Right. So this is a story that you took place and and it gets you thinking you know it's like here's a kid who like I said doesn't know that you're supposed to hesitate with these things but there are people that do hesitate with it etc. But other it grabbed on to other yeshivas, right? And so all of a sudden we crossed the pond and now we're in Farakawway in Darra, right? And they, you know, they and they they they put a put a video out of this of of, you know, a little bit of a similar situation even though everyone's got their own personalities. But let's take a look at what I guess was an outgrowth of this whether they know it or not of this. Let's go to Di on this video. My name is Robert. I was fourth generation in the family-owned glass company for approximately 40 years. I closed up several years ago. I wasn't ready for retirement. And then a friend told me that there was a nationwide shortage of school bus drivers. I looked into that. looked interesting and eventually ended up here at Guardian Bus Company. When you get your first assignment with a commercial license, you don't choose, they choose for you. And I ended up here in Yeshiva. After driving here for a while, October 7th happened, and we were all horrified. At that point, I realized that being here in Yeshiva was exactly where I needed to be. It was bash. It was meant to be. The kids felt comfort having a Jewish bus driver here as well. Every once in a while, a parent will give me either a kala or a sourdough or a kougal. One child's parent had me over for shabas dinner with my wife. Last year, I was invited to a very, very special event. It was the dedication of a safer Torah in the in the Lawrence area. And when I sat down next to him, he asked me what my Hebrew name was. I said, "Ruvane." So he finds a r. And he says, "Hold my hand." He dips his hand into the inkwell and he colors it in. And then when it was all done, we marched through the streets dancing and singing. And it was very beautiful. Very beautiful. One of my kids that I had last year in Back Lawrence, he had approached me cuz some of the kids that I wasn't driving, they weren't on my route again this year, but they would see me. So, one of my boys from last year said, "I'd like to put on the defillin with you." I said, "Okay." I asked him, previously knowing that he was Jewish, "Did you put on fillin today?" He said, "I did not." I said, "Would you like to put on fillain?" He gave a little bit of like of a doubt for a second. He's like, "Yeah, why not? Let's do it." We wrapped his thrill and we said shama with him slowly and he was so grateful at the end he was giving us praises that you guys are going to make the difference in Judaism and you guys are going to be the ones who are going to help out the world to become a better place. >> To be frank at 67 years old I can probably count on two hands how many times I wrapped the fill in my life. So this was Hebrew school for me all over again. My boys were teaching me and it was fantastic here in Dai here in this Jewish community. It's a protected bubble. It's absolutely phenomenal. I'm proud to be part of this. When you say life, this is life. This is life. This is ongoing Jewish life. [Music] I want to wish Roberta and all that you do and that you should keep driving the Yisha kinder from school safely home every day should be whatever you do when you say life this is life. [Music] >> Please welcome Eliazer Herz and Nusbam Talidim of Mifaim Schlommo. >> Good evening, dear Robert. You told all of us how Basher was that you found yourself at yeshiva when you did and how your connection with us has enhanced your life. Robert, your presence among us and a sincere yearning to connect with us, your Jewish family has enhanced our lives. Robert, we would like to present you with a special gift. your very own pair of villain all the way from our beloved land of Israel as well as a talis and a beautiful embroidered leather bag with the western wall in Jerusalem as well as your name on it Robert Moore Ruben Moshia CL. [Applause] I was so I think that clip was un incredible. You know what I'm saying? Like >> it's but it's more it's more of the same. You know, here here's here's a bus driver who could have easily taken kids for 10 years and everybody be on the bus and off the bus and on the bus and off the bus and he's a Jewish guy. You know, it's uh if you remember back in the day, we did this, you know, the the cure of blunders videos and we had this, you know, the uh the the uh the busy body, you know, you're sitting in the back of the cab and there's a muza dangling from the window and the driver is like, "Oh, about you, you know, and like would totally go on, you know, and here the kids are jumping towards." >> Well, one of the things that I took a lot from this is that you would think that we would be bothering him by offering him to put on filling. 90% of the people I think would come on the bus and go like don't bother him. He doesn't want to put on fill in. Like what are you what are you if he wanted >> he would have put on fill in like you know what I'm saying? Like what are you doing? Like you know what I'm saying? Like it's not religion and you think you're bothering him and all you hear from him is thank you for including me in this. This is life. What he said this is Jewish life. So it is such a major misconception in the from community that people that are outside us think that we're bothering them. What they're really thinking is you don't want me to be in your room. >> Like it's the it's like like we're talking past each other. Like if we were just say wait you're a Jew like do you want in? Like we just want to include you. Look how honored he was. Get to the dinner. Oh your burden. He shook his hand. Like he's at the top of the de like he's just a guy and he's not just a guy. He's a member of Clius. He's child and he took it takes two high school boys. It's like this is like a joke. You say like it it's it's such a m on us, you know? You got a guy playing basketball, you got guys in high school, you got a kid from Vadas. Like there's like like these are like young people that are stepping up for Clasel and I'm sitting there going like >> I feel like I feel like I'm this big, >> you know. By the way, a major shout out to, you know, to to D, you know, for not only the beautiful production and the dinner and the focus, but comes from somewhere. >> Yeah. This is like, >> you know, this is this is this is a >> Bender has been saying these things in so many ways and so I mean he's been building a generation of just doers and activ. And by the way, our next our next guest on the show is someone who >> really has taken that to another level. I mean, here's someone, you know, by the way, I'm just going to say this. I know he'll kill me. Maybe even he'll hang up, but like just to get him to come on the show to speak about this was like pulling teeth because he just doesn't see himself as somebody who's in anything, which is exactly the point of the video that we're seeing. >> So, I've met Yakov um for a few months now. We know each other and really there are a few people that are so dedicated to mitzvah as this young superstar. Um and what he's done with fillin across the country is something so special. So, let's let's go to Yakov right now. He's the founder of the Tillin Project and um Yakov, it's an Yakob Bash is here with us. Yako, it's an honor to have you on the show. >> Thanks for having me. It's great to be here. >> So, tell us a little bit about how before we before we jump in, tell us a little bit about the Tillin project. What is the Tillin project? >> Sure. Um the Tillin project uh was something I had to be a cle a cle to start uh in about 2021. Um it's it's a project in in honor of uh my mother and it really I mean it started like uh just in a quick background but like people unfortunately left their fillin in in my high school. Um, and while I was on NCSY COLA, I had gotten that film that ended up by my Kabad Rabbi and and I started giving them out to public school students on on NCSY COLA and different summer programs I was involved in and making these cool giveaway experiences, surprise giveaways. And I just saw like the power in in in those uh those giveaways and eventually like got some funding and and um and obtained some filling, made some swag and started to uh you know get nominations in of different of different people and we made it a mission to get every single Jew that never had a pair of fillin that's committed to putting on every day a pair of fillin and fly to wherever they are in the world and make an awesome experience uh inspire the community around them as well. So that's all we bashm we've been doing and we're about at I think yes two days ago we did our 176th pair of fillin giveaway bar hashem >> so so you see kids >> by the body >> right by the way we just gave away 176 pairs of fillinund so you see kids unfortunately we don't have to go into high school that leaves their fillin back I guess after they graduated you give away those fillins and you start to realize that there's lots of people that want fillain and you go on this campaign to get people filling and and you organize these giveaways across the world, raise money for the tillin and then give it in a way that is meaningful and impactful and you've given away 176 pairs of tillin >> and to people that are going to use them >> and what is it like Jacob what is it like when you give somebody tillin that doesn't have tillin explain to us their feeling towards you for now handing them an obligation 100%. Yeah, this part of the reason why I started the project after like the feeling was an indescribable feeling just on my for myself like when I was able to give these people filling and they just like they can't even speak like they're some of them just start balling like like just crying and like we we I got my filling I was bar like okay whatever it wasn't such a big deal and you know whatever everyone gets everyone gets filling but you see these people we give it to people someone who was 85 years old and he just just was speechless like just couldn't stop really he like couldn't stop talking about how how thankful he was uh and I wanted to give that feeling to other people to be able to do and even guys on my own team. One one of the guys on my team he wasn't putting on fill in try to get people that that could use a little little and and um he started giving out he just flew to Germany the the other day and and he started rapping filling himself from from giving out to other people. Um it's an indescribable uh indescribable it's really incredible experience. This is such an important piece that I want to just po pause on for a second. Like here you have an individual and like you by the way Yakov like when I got my T it was awesome but it wasn't like life-changing. I wasn't I didn't break down in tears >> donuts >> right like the other parts of mitzvah and because many of us did not break down in tears when we got our fillins we assume that fillain is not an object of which you break down into tears. So when I see someone without fillin, I don't think I have to bring him fill in because I am not blown away by my fillin. Now I'm not taking away from the fact that you're 13 and we have a lot to be we have a lot of defense for that. But >> what what Yakob was saying and I think it's so important for everyone to be hearing is that just because when we put on fillain we're not crying. There are thousands and thousands and thousands of Jews that when somebody hands them fillin when they're eight when they're 21 or or 18 or 28 or 85 years old, it's the most precious possession they have because we don't appreciate how much they appreciate >> put doing a mitzvah. I mean, not only that, Yako, this goes to the story that we just saw, you know, where the bus driver, you know, the bus driver gets his own periods fill in in his uh, you know, in his 60s, he gets his own periods filling and he's so, you know, he's so overtaken. But Yakob, what I want to know from you is how do you so great. So, you started to give out people's filling who were left behind, but like there's a lot of Jews in a lot of different countries out there that have been recipients of fillin from your fillin project. Like, how are you reaching people? meaning how are they, you know, is this word of mouth? Do you have people saying, "Hey, right, I'm supposed to ask that guy to put on film like how how is it working?" >> Yeah, it's really uh through like every avenue. I mean, one one thing just to point out is that after October 7th, we started getting like triple the amount of nominations in and every single nomination form was saying after October 7th, dot dot dot dot like I started to feel more connected. I wanted to and people are just looking up looking us up like online and finding us. We had a we just had a nomination in from French Polynesia. That's like Bora Bora. Like there's one shu one shul there like barely any Jews and like they just if they look up free like free filling online they'll they'll find us. We have we have Kabad, we have Olami, we have NCSY. Every single organization is uh you know finding us and just kids in the on their college campuses that want to recruit, you know, want to like help out their friends that we've had we've had it all. So um but there people they're thirsty. Their mom is thirsty out there. people are are waiting are waiting to uh to get the fill or have somebody approach them and and and offer offer to put it put them on them. It's like other mitzvah. I'm not a kabad guy. I forgot to shave like before the time you're allowed to shave. I look a little kabad. I'm not kabad but is like is and I respect them. I have a lot of respect but there's something unique about like with other mitzvah. Torah, it takes some time to see to the nish like other things. It's there's an experience you have to go through before is like a double-edged sword. It just cuts straight to the nishama. You put it out. That's why people cry. Nobody cries on other mitzvah. Like you put it on and all of a sudden you're connected. You're wrapping yourself to Hashem. And I saw that this we view the film project as a start as start to uh be able to be connected to a lot more mitzvah. And and now for whoever's watching if you know anybody now now you know you have a resource uh anyone that you connect with like look us up online and we'll we'll set it up and we'll come we'll come to you. >> Where do they go online? >> It's the fill the fillain.co. Great. >> Might be might be changing to fillain.org soon. But uh just look up the project and there's you can nominate whoever you want and we'll uh we'll be there. >> So So it goes by nomination. You nominate someone for a pair of filling. >> Yeah. Yeah. Either people can nominate themselves or >> nominate yourself. It's the best thing in the world cuz if you have people it's it's the best and let you should know by the way just to connect that dot you know the rebba was he knew and he knew the certain mitzvah had the big impact right and that's what you're getting at which is the understood that when you put put fill on someone that act can change who you are and it does it it it really really does and there's not a tire behind it this is one of the give outs this is the one of the giveaways this check this out yeah >> this is a giveaway of a of a guy >> who received a pair of like he's in his 20s, >> right? >> This guy's from Argentina, actually. >> Oh, wow. >> One second. We'll get Yako back on in a second. So, Yako say that guy's from Argentina. Is that right? >> That guy was from Argentina. I was in Tel Avivia. He had like a fat tattoo, right, where the muckillin was. It was It was awesome. Like wrapping it on on the on the tattoo. Um and he he he literally said he I just text I was texting him recently. This this guy was in our with our cola and he was saying like just as soon as soon as I started putting on film like my life just changed like I had that connection. I I was missing true. >> Thank you. We appreciate you being on. Keep it up. Don't stop until you get the million people. Okay. Every Jewish male needs to have a parrot. Fill in. Don't stop. >> That's Thanks for having me on. Keep working. You bet. Thank you for joining us. This is Mama. Like you know the most unassuming. It took me like this to get him on the show >> because these are the people. And by the way, this is the point. You don't need to be a professional. You don't need to be a ham. You don't have to know that I'm 28. I'm 48. I'm 68. I'm not I'm not I'm not. We're so good at being broken in. >> You need to need >> That's right. >> You need to need not to prefer or to rather. You take somebody who is an a 11th grader in Terraas, a ball player in YU, a call guy in Ro and you say, "Listen, you know how he started his thing? His friends, you know what he said? His friends left the fill in after high school. He went to a monu high school. His friends left the fill in." >> He could have been like, "Oh my gosh, he needed to what? That's all it t all it takes is for us to actually care." You know what always says. He says Torah and Hashem is about a relationship. So if you actually care, stuff will happen. >> Just care. That's it. If we have Jews that just And by the way, even if we did nothing, the fact that we start to care, it it gets the juices flowing and then at some point, can you come for Shabas? Can I share with you fill in? >> It's it's a crazy thing how easy it is if you're burning to help. >> It's it's what's amazing is you meet a guy like Gakobash. He could be anyone's kid. He's a regular guy, you know. And I remember just I'm sure when I sat down with Zevy Sam for the interview, I said, "Zebie, don't worry. If you're thinking about like, oh, how do I sound more of this or No, no. The point is to be exactly who you are because that is what is going to inspire people. >> And that, by the way, is the inspire message if I could. That totally is. Just be you. Show up. Bring me your heart. We'll take care of the rest. You know what I'm saying? Like enough with the excuses, just care. That's the answer. Just care. If you believed Hashem was in pain that there are thousands of Jews in Israel that don't even know what fillain is, >> it's not normal. >> Never put on before. And his mother was afraid that he would find out after being in captivity for 498 days. He would come back and not speak to her because she was religious. That's what he was afraid of. That's what she was afraid of. We have to let that sit. Let that sit. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, before the bagel can't feel that good tonight. You know what I'm saying? This is really tish. I got to say, y this is tishov. >> It's not like we fasting. We live at a time in 2025 where we can reach every single sand in this world. But yet there are Jews that don't even know that the creator of the universe is their father. It's like shocking. It's shocking. It really it's it's shocking to us and we don't even care. Like we care but do we like care? We'd rather like do we care? It's it's really if you think about it like nuts that we can do anything we could really do anything. we can accomplish things and go I could almost picture Hashem looking at me being like I gave you so much stuff like you know that's my child right like you know that kid's drown like you like say the whole time like do you know that's do you know that's mine like did you think maybe like he's sitting in my house and he doesn't even know I'm the father do you think maybe you you would just go over and say that's daddy it's and and now Hashem is showing us you got high school kids doing it right >> successfully >> right >> right wildly successfully 176 pairs of filling and counting. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, before we move on, I just wanted to give a shout out to some of our sponsors of the film and of this program. Uh Frian Fasten from Fast and Hashtam, thank you. Dies Media, Hass and Saltz also sponsors every year for our film. We thank you. Hill Jaffer from Pal's Supermarket. Uh Michelle Freriedman as well from the for the the uh the accountants she and Stalin and Suri Isaakovic Lu and Edie Goldberg uh Frankie Conn Ellen Renee Singer Jack Jaffa and the list goes on. We thank you so much um for from Misher Le Mendlesson just thank you so much for all of you who really sponsor this who allowed the message of inspiration both from the show and of course from the film to get out to all of Claudia. Like Charlie said, we still have so much work to do and we thank you very much for letting us get our message around to Cla. Without further ado, we saw the first clip of we saw the first clip of of Zevy where he got to know his team, started to get them involved a little bit and, you know, get them a little bit more interested. But then they go for the kill and how they jilled both as a team and as a nation really on that basketball court. Let's take a look at that little clip. been this way for a little while. Salmon dribbling elbow jumper is good. There were >> 30 seconds left in the game. We fouled one of the best players. He had the ball we needed to foul him and they were up by one. Zebie just he dribbled across our court and uh and he trusted the work he's put in and we all trusted him and uh we trusted God too. >> 34 points, 29.8. Shot clock is off. Time out. You see, but a two-point game. Dribbles. Second shot. This one's good. Here we go. In across the timeline. 20 seconds. Fall away three for the lead. For the lead. Time out. Farming. Oh my goodness. Semi7 with a fourway three to take the lead with 15 seconds to go. >> After the championship game, we all go into the locker room and I get in there and I'm like thinking like these guys are all be playing rap music and I get in there and they stop and they look at me and they go, "Ready guys?" They all go in together to be aid to be a 999 to be a I looked at myself afterwards. At the moment, I didn't really get it. Afterwards, I was like, how special is that? You have a team that probably 50% are not religious. And after the championship game, they're all singing on the bus ride afterwards just playing music, having a good time, but they're all wearing situs. [Music] Listen for basketball junkies like this. Forget it. That was way too much. I I was I was debating on the when he hits the shot on I was I was having conflicting emotions. Thank god I watched that. I I will tell you one thing. >> I I would tell you really cuz you know you have to I will tell you one thing. When I watched the film, one thing that did that was not on this clip that I I loved was he says on the thing the interview says Amunaka wins championships. Okay, that to me you got to put that on some billboard somewhere. Amuna wins championships >> off the cuff. >> Right. Off the cuff. But when I watched that, I got to tell you, I I I I told you I really choked up at this film because to get a bunch of guys who are just a bunch of ball players that they they they're ball players >> and that's their life really. >> Yeah. Like and they're not and they don't care. to go back into that locker room. Gishmak it was a sign that the this this is our rally cry now. Did they Yeah, they did. Like I'm thinking like what's the big it's a big deal. They're walking around with sensitis. He took a game that between me and you and you know how much I love sports is really meaningless. It doesn't really matter how many po it doesn't. He used it as a mechanism to be a portal to bring kids back to auash. And at the end, thank God I've had SW in my life to play the sports. We've been in rooms where we lost, sometimes we won. I got to tell you honestly, the most emptiest feeling an athlete feels, not that I'm an a player feels, is not when you lose, it's when you win. Because now exactly when you lose you're like I had I won I would have felt when you win after 10 minutes in the locker room you're like >> that was >> all of that like that was a billion there's nothing there >> I know but this but this is the point I sat across from this Roy in in in Rosha and I've done these interviews and like you meet amazing people and I said to him I said so before you sat down next to Zevy on the bus I asked him to straight you didn't know what chabas was and you definitely did not have to yishkite on your trajectory of where your life was going. He's like definitely not. He said now he says in the film he says now I keep most shabases right I make hidden every day I say modi I d and like and and now he's planning for the rest of his life to be what he was describing as a show to mites it's >> that's why they're so good and this is what we're talking about here and I hope everyone's getting this I really I know I know this show's almost almost done and we're like at the end we're like people are like you know just like we're crawling through the kitchen so like we have to get This the reason why I love that film so much is because here's something that's mundane. Even though people love sports, it's really nothing. Like, let's be honest, it's a portal and you put everything is in the portal. Like you're saying, as is, >> right? As as everything else that we do. >> That's right. As is accounting, as is law, as is cooking, as is your house, as is your life, as is everything else in this world. That's what Gullis is. Gullis is a world with everything butina. >> And what you could do is take your life and say there's not enough in it. What do I got to do? I can either fold my arms and wait for Msiah to come or I can say I am being makab upon myself this year to put more elocus into the portal of my mundane life and then you'll make your life so much more interesting. How many times do you see a winning shot? Big deal. If he would have hit that shot and no one would have been for him, it never would have made this show. It would have been nice for like an hour. But like at the end of the day, who cares? Now we're watching the shot. And you see guys, it sent us afterwards. It's like the best thing, >> right? >> And by the way, this is, you know, and today today because of the film, people emailed in and they signed up as everyone here can at projectinspire.cominitiatives. It's right there on the homepage as well. People emailed in, I'm a doctor or woman. I'm a doctor at a career without ever having to be Mahal Shabas. She wrote, I'm ready to get involved to mentor today a woman and so so many women really which which by the way if you knew how desperate the cure of world is for women for from women just you know the the like professional women a woman emailed them today I work in real estate I do this or this I'm ready to get involved in this. This is what it's about because it's not about can you do this in cure? Am I good about this? It's really connected >> and that's your story, right? He didn't he didn't give I mean he did give I saw but wasn't that the story the Zebie story isn't that he he left and he started to get involved in teaching he used the mundane thing that's a wherever you are in this world whatever you do whatever you do somebody else does it or cares about it if you just take whatever you do somebody else in the world that is Jewish will either look at it and go that's interesting or say I want that >> no matter what there isn't one person in Kali today that is keeping Torah mitzvah that does not have something. Nobody is off the hook. Nobody. Nobody doesn't have something that and we'll find you someone. It wasn't like you have to have like you're speaking in front of boys and girls together. Forget that. You're you're a professional woman. There are hundreds. We know this. There are hundreds of girls in college campuses saying, "But can you really be a professional?" No, you can't. No, but can you really be a professional? No, >> we story. You know, it's but but that's >> and guys and women and young people and old people. >> Totally. And by the way, no, no one better than our next guest because the truth of the matter is that in this whole new push to get really everybody involved, professionals and all from people involved. Um I I I got a call from uh Rabb Dave Marwitz. >> He knows it. Rab De Mark was executive vice president of OMI International um of OMI International and and also a dear friend and somebody who believes in this mission more than more than anybody and he said to me like >> this is what we have we have a program mentorship like if you guys know from people we we want to get more and more people you know on board and and so nobody really sees the effect from the students more than Dave Marit. So Dave thank you very much for joining us here today. It's an absolute pleasure. There there are few places that you want to be at the end of Tishabove, but this is the place to be and you guys have really set that stage and and it's really amazing to think about bouncing back and now Claol bouncing back, right? And we're seeing this just unbelievable influx of so many people that are excited to connect and to be involved in Judaism from the basketball court to the business boardroom. Everyone is really clamoring and saying, "Hey, it's time to come back." And we all know after October 7th, it's just been this overwhelming flood of people who are saying, "Hey, uh, you know, I'm Jewish and and I'm I'm ready to get involved. Uh, and you guys have been unbelievable partners in that and uh, we're excited to to launch this new initiative together." >> Yeah. Well, Dave, just just to that point, I mean, you know, Charlie mentioned something at towards the beginning of the show that I thought was uh you know, very on point, surprisingly. Thank you. >> You know, but um but >> he said that most from people don't realize just how inspiring they are. Now, you're somebody who deals with tens of thousands of secular students, mostly college age and young professionals, college students, young professionals. What is it that they see in regular from people that really is that inspiring to them >> and that we don't see in ourselves? >> Right. >> Yeah. Look, I think this is the big surprise on on both sides. You know, we started this these initiatives together. Um, and now we're doing so much more with Project Inspire because we were hoping that students would be inspired by religious professionals uh and see that you can actually balance both things, right? You can have your religious life and your professional life and they're they're not in contradiction. In fact, every religious person is saying, "What do you mean? If I didn't have Shabas, my life would be a mess. Can you imagine if I was continuing to work through Shabas? It would be a disaster." But what ends up happening is that actually the inspiration and the surprise is going both ways. So the the religious people are sharing consistently. You don't understand. I'm getting so much more out of it than the students are. It's it's way better for me. I never even realized but I think from the perspective of the student and and a lot of young professionals right today u there there are students who are starting at 19 years old and going all the way till 30 32 something like this and getting involved. You have a lot of young professionals and when they're meeting somebody who's 35, 40, 45 or older, uh, and they're they're meeting somebody who's who's really excelled in life, you know, business is one small aspect of our lives. And yes, if I'm a lawyer, I want to be successful as a lawyer. But then within minutes, what they're finding is that they're having conversations about family, about spirituality, about priorities, things that this young professional really struggles to figure out like where's their space for all of that. And somehow the religious person is finding the space, albeit that we all struggle with it. But that struggle is what's so precious is to say, "Yeah, but you're actually doing it. You're actually making time for family priorities, for spirituality. You're getting up in the morning to study like before work. That's crazy. You come back after work and you're studying again. That's even crazier. How do you balance all these things? How do you take off your shabs? And what the young professionals are finding is that they're seeing a world that they actually didn't know was possible just by meeting this person, just by interacting with them and having their initial conversation. Then when they get to know them and they see the quality, it's it's unbelievable actually that we we often don't realize ourselves just how much we have from being in the life of Judaism to being in the life of Torah and and once that starts to be shared of the values of the groundedness of the balance then all of a sudden there's an inspiration that nobody really expected to happen. >> Yeah. I I think what you're saying is is is exactly on and just to break it up, you know, as I'm thinking about it in my mind is on the one hand, we have made a decision to live in the palace, so to speak, to act in a certain way to to take off our time to our food, our relationship. We don't even realize it. We just it's like normal for most people living in from communities to dedicate their lives to the Ron Shalom. And that's just a normal thing that most people just do. And then then they build their lives on that. And what's what's what's unique about it is that when you live in in in the water, you don't even realize that you're wet. And when you start to come out and you someone's looking at you going like, "Wait, you keep Shabbat?" Like, "What are you talking about?" Like, but you work you're managing. And you don't realize that your life is much more inspiring than you think. And then when you start to realize that, you realize that you're doing things and that gives value to the things that you do that you didn't even realize was valuable before. It's it's an amazing give and take where most Jews are waiting to find their unique gift to share with the world. They're forgetting that their presence is a unique gift that needs to be shared with the world. And there's this block where like people are waiting to like get that or that idea when it's just be you because your decisions is inspiring to the vast majority of the Jewish people. >> Yeah. And uniqueness is actually the key here. You know, a lot of people think that, oh, I'm I'm in some obscure, I don't know, profession. I'm not, you know, the CEO or something like this. And what we're finding is that the the students who are the hardest to match uh the students that are the hardest, you know, we have tons of students that are looking for mentorship, right? They're they're and we pair them together. And this is really the initiative that we've we've launched now with Project Inspire that we're so excited about. And that they're they're looking to meet, you know, for half an hour on on Zoom once a week, something like this. Uh and the ones that are the hardest to match are in the most unique positions, right? They're the people who are working in geology or uh you know they're architects right and we need we need men and women especially women but but a lot of men who are in unique type of positions and often it's not the CEO that's the most relatable right because that's not actually the next kind of step that this young professional is going to take their next step in life is going to be moving up to the midlevel employee right and that's the hard one to to kind overcome and where each professional, each religious person is able to kind of excel is being that unique connection. Being that person who is the bridge from a world that you didn't think was possible to now realizing like, oh, I can totally do that. And it's the more normal person, the one who thinks I'm not special. I don't have something unique. That's the one that's the most powerful, right? every single person right now when we have over 70,000 students thank God around the world who are involved on a on a regular basis right so we're now growing at a pace of around 10,000 new students a year so we need more professionals to get involved in the thousands in the thousands more people a lot more people >> we need we need everybody that's the reality and there's kind of no greater aasum really aum Then when we see what's happening today with the religious community spending their time getting involved and they're saying why am I doing this? You're not getting paid for it. Nobody's giving me the big, you know, uh, stage. I'm not getting the major. I don't get invited onto the Charlie and Yasi show. Although maybe next year you'll get invited onto the Charlie and Yasi show, you know, if you if you volunteer now. But >> but the reality is that there are thousands and thousands of professionals who are just regular people, doctors and lawyers and business people who are meeting once a week on Zoom for half an hour and they are changing lives in the thousands. And what greater statement of than for a person to say, you know what, I'm just here because I care. >> That's right. >> I'm just here because I love you. >> That's right. >> And that message I think is the most transformational. Forget about the fact that they're a lawyer and a doctor and they're also balancing the religious life. Yeah, that's beautiful. But just the fact that they're taking half an hour a week or whatever amount of time, one time to do it and they're saying, "I love you. I care about you just because you're my brother and sister." >> That is the savior of the Jewish people. That is our unity. And that is truly why, God willing, we hope this will be the last dish. >> Yeah. Amen. >> Yeah. And you know, Dave, I I should mention that, you know, this like you you mentioned it as well is that from from our perspective, this partnership is a great way to get people across the board involved. You know, we mentioned this earlier on the show is that if somebody's not comfortable reaching out to the person next to them on the plane, etc., But they're professionals and they're sitting, you know, in high positions and they're s and and they're like like you said, they're they're they're hush of enough that if they give their time, the student understands how valuable that is, you know, to them in the sense of like, wow, I'm worth your time. And we're finding that people who have come and I I think I mentioned this to you even on Thursday is that people have come to the project inspired convention and like they'll miss their own son's bar mitzvah to come to the convention but to date to my knowledge they haven't really gotten involved in something that they felt was like theirs to get involved and now all of a sudden they're stepping up and I should mention Yoni Zakatinsky who happens not to be here but usually joins on the show has been extremely valuable in approaching people here in the Brooklyn community and and and and beyond and saying Hey, you remember us? You come you like you'll you'll you know you'll miss your own chevraas to be here. We have a student who's in your field of work like you know music people, art people, real estate people, you know the women especially like how many how many secular college students, young professionals are waiting to connect you know to and and we project inspire that is what we do in the sense of we're in the land of Balabatam in the land of getting from you know men and women involved and and it's really is supposed to be part of a partnership that does exactly that and wants to inspire students on the other end. That's right. And Yasi, it's important to note that while it's great and and there's a whole need of professionals who are going to meet once a week on Zoom and have, you know, let's say a half hour a week or something like this, there are now thousands of men and women who are getting involved online, right? It's a new world that we have. And with those people who are getting involved in online, they have coaches through our programs and they're learning with them on a weekly basis, but they've never been to a Shabas meal and they live all across America and all across the world. And we need more people who are able to host them for a Shabas meal or to go to their campus and speak about their particular profession. So whatever it is that a person can do, get involved. Get involved with Project Inspire because this is the antidote. This is the way that we bring the Jewish people back with love, with care, and everybody doing their part. >> Amazing. Amazing. Exactly the message. >> Exactly the message. Exactly right. Rabbi Dave, thank you so much for the uh the constant care and give to our people. And uh may you have all the people that you need to pair up with all those students that really just want someone to turn to, to rely on, and to be inspired by. >> Amen. As we say, they're all coming back. So, let's be part of it because >> it's happening anyway. >> Be glorious and we're going to do it all together. >> Might as well get the credit for it. Yeah. >> Hashem's looking down saying, "Who's going to step up?" Right. Beverly always says, "Step up or someone else will take your spot." >> Right. >> Thank you. Thank you so much, Dave. Have an easy rest of the fast. Getting closer. >> You too. But but this Charlie I think I think is really this this goes to the point and as you know and I know for you sort of I'm repeating is that >> in this new initiatives in this new angle that we've taken mission is the same from men and women involved in doing cure the mission is always the same but being able to partner with people like David Olami and other cure organizations and other opportunities and I just want to mention I know that uh Dr. the Steuart Heightman is watching the show and he has is has there been a bigger rock in this entire process of being able to get us >> every step of the way? >> Yeah. Really, you know, to get there and to also, you know, form these I as we sit here, I have a four-page document from NCSY Toronto about project inspires involvement in Toronto that I still didn't even get back to them about which Glenn if you're watching this week. But it it's this type of request because Kira of organizations and Kira of projects know more than we know how inspiring regular so to speak regular from people are in this process. >> So here's how it comes down to. If you're watching the show right now and you're not involved in Inspire, go right now. Like don't wait for the bagel. Just stop what you're doing. Just go into projectinspire.com/initiatives and like say I'm in like do you like but I'm not old. Um, your age is fine. Whatever you do is fine. Whatever. If if you're committed to Hashem, we want you. And it's all going to be done with. We're not looking for any games, >> right? Cuz then it gives excuses, >> right? Like you if you're if you're if you're watching this, your only reason why you're watching this is because in your heart you like inspire. You wouldn't be watching inspire. If you weren't if you're not an inspired person, you're not watching this. You're watching something else right now or you're sleeping. If you're watching this right now, it's because in your heart you're saying, "Yeah, this is probably right before the fast is over." Like, show Hashem, I don't even know what I'm getting into yet, but I want to be part of the group of people that are going to try to bring your into this world. Whether Mashiah come or not is not in our hands, but what is in our hands is one more mitzvah, one more bit of elocus, one more yid finding Hashem. And you absolutely absolutely could be part of that if you just say, "I need it. I don't want it. I wouldn't rather it. I need it." And if you're not yet there, ask yourself why. And probably it's cuz you don't think you can. And I'm telling you, you absolutely can. >> Right. By the way, someone someone who did get involved, you know, once told me that he signed up because he thought, "Ah, they're not going to call me anyway." Right. So that's our place that is that we're constantly looking for opportunities, you know, more and more opportunities to involve everybody out there. It's true. Sometimes people sign up for, for example, on the road, which takes a little more time to develop organizations and opportunities for that. But even if that's your thing, sign up. We know who you are. We know we know where where you can be impactful. And uh and I hope hopefully that's the point is that is that people should know that there um you know so I I want to go back if you don't mind because we we spoke to Ya Yakov Bakov Bash and you know last year in this show we also had um I'll just spoil it but we had we had a fellow who got filling for the first time was here got film rage you know through all that we've been speaking about fillain um I know that people did want to see the yeshiva turvadas clip again you know cuz we will discuss does it. So, let let let's pull up that clip. We we got stuck with technical issues before. Let's see if it works for us this time. Okay. No, you don't mind. You don't mind joining? >> My name is Yak the Kramer and I'm in eighth grade in Shivataras. My teacher in the afternoon is Mr. Ber. >> Mr. Jonathan Berger, an unaffiliated Jew, has been a member of the secular studies teaching department for the last 26 years. >> I've taught grades 6, 7, and 8. I've taught English, math, social studies, and science. For the last 10 years or so, I've been mainly in the eighth grade of the yeshiva. >> The boys very often share with Mr. B what's important to them. Having just celebrated their mitzvah, fill is constantly on their minds. >> The boys had always asked me to put on villain. For some reason, I always brushed them off. It just wasn't something that was part of my life. >> Recently, I was walking in the hallways of Yeshiva and I was approached very excitedly by a number of the eighth graders who said, "Rabbi Pearl, Rabbi Pearl, did you hear?" Mr. Burgerer said that if Kramer gets 100 on the midterm, he's going to put on fill in every single day from now until the end of the school year. The big day arrives, the day of the midterm, and the Revy comes in first thing in the morning, and he sees one of his Teldum sitting there with a social studies book right before Hebrew class starts. From 8:00 in the morning until I arrived at 3:00 in the afternoon, he spent his time studying social studies. He was going to prove me wrong. >> I felt like this was my opportunity to help him grow. And you just kind of realize what a firm do is. >> He proceeds to take the test and he excitedly brings it into me. I was actually practing the test in the other room. >> Mr. Burgerer is marking the test and the pressure is mounting. One after the next, the kid is batting a thousand. Every single answer correct. Sure enough, he pulled it off. He scored 100. Mr. Burgerer said, "A man is only as good as his word. I intend on keeping the promise that I made and wearing fillain every day for the rest of the year." That evening, Mr. Burger actually sent me a text saying that he hadn't used his fill in in a while and he wasn't sure if they were even kosho and he asked me if I could please bring my filling in so that he could put them on. The next day >> I got to the yeshiva and I barely could get up the staircase and I said what's going on? They said the whole yeshiva's out on the second floor. Everybody's waiting for you to arrive. Everybody's waiting to watch you fill in. >> It was literally as if was taking place in the hallway. The word had spread. Previous students of Mr. burgers from the high school came down. There was a crowd in the hallway. >> Everyone felt very excited that he was putting on film and he also felt very pumped about it. >> For the first few days, Mr. Burgerer went ahead and used my tool to put on. After a few days, one of our eighth grade parents found out about what was going on in the classroom and actually offered to purchase a new pair for Mr. Berick to use. I immediately ordered them. My brother was able to get them from the sofa in Eric's room. Brought them in. Every day he comes into class and takes out the fillain and starts rolling up his sleeve and boys in the class started giving him books about fillin. One boy even bought him a transliterated scissor so he's able to read from it. >> A short while after Mr. Burger began wearing fillin daily. Somebody mentioned to him you know that there's an incredible shmeir protection that could be offered for your body if you wear citus every day. That day he told her, "I probably want sitsus and I ran out to this store and got sus and since then he's wearing it every day." >> About four or five weeks after the entire incident, Mr. Burgerer actually approached me and mentioned that he felt that this entire episode had changed his life and he wanted to give back to the boys. So he thought that he would go ahead and offer a pizza party. He asked that we invite the entire eighth grade as he felt that they were all really part of the transformation that was taking place. Of all my 26 years here, I will always remember the class of 2022 because they brought something to me that the other 25 years I didn't have. I hope that even when you graduate that you'll be able to come back here and see me that I'm continuing to do the things that you taught me and hopefully to take it even a little bit further in the future. [Applause] Ladies and gentlemen, Yakov Yehuda Kramer over here. Yakov Yehuda, I appreciate you coming out tonight to be with Hera. I I want to ask you a question. I think I don't think I think by raise of hands, you know, 80% of the room had seen that video. Everyone, what I want to know from you is what impact did that have on you watching his words, his response. What impact did that have on you? >> So, one one impact that it had on me is that I realized that you could just be a young boy. You don't have to be a big hero professional. You don't have to be experienced. You could just be a simple young boy or simple person to be able to make a baluva. Another thing I realized was is that you have to keep on trying. I went over to Mr. Burger in the beginning of the year and he just brushed me off. Told me stop trying to waste class time. just he just he just kept on pushing it off until finally after I kept on trying and persisting, he finally agreed. >> That's great. Did Did you ever think that when you had him put on film that at the end of it, he would feel that you you he did you did him the favor? >> Yes, sure. >> You knew it. That's what it's all about. Determination and knowing that what you have is greater than anything in the world. Did you know a kid named Aka Alchel? Do you know him? >> No. >> Okay. Well, check out this video. I'll show you a little bit about who Aka Al is [Applause] going. [Music] Have you ever seen that video? >> No. >> Aka Alchul is a boy who saw what you did and he was inspired by you. So what he did was he went to his teacher and he got his teacher to put on villain. I think he got a 45 on the test though. Yeah. The the whole deal was changed. Now you get 80s upon filling over the house apparently. How does that feel that you did something and now not only was there the impact on the recipient but CL is saying hey wait a second how come he gets to do this stuff and it's inspired to go and now there's probably a million teachers in Brooklyn putting on filling right now that's for sure that the waiters are all putting on filling after they found out about this but how does that feel >> so what what really I got inspired by is that my neighbor came over to me and he told told me that his teacher is not from and they tried convincing him throughout the year and they got him to put on fill in once. [Applause] If you have a yeah I think that we see mitzvah guerras mitzvah meaning you started with something in today's day and age if everybody here saw the film so did they so did students who had this idea and hashem not only will people you know teachers I think that you know come they're going to come to school to teach invadas I think with filling already on you know so they don't have to go through this whole process >> invadas if you're in the secular department forget about you got to put on filling that's the rule >> right it's a better hope than having someone get 100 on the Yes, that's for sure. You know, >> but really Yakaba, I am honored to have you with us here today because I think that the message that you just spoke about and what you did is something that radiates in this room through the entire Shabas everyone here and I think that the rest of the world has a tremendous amount to learn from you. So, thank you. >> Keep it up. >> And now a commercial break. A beautiful project inspired story. >> Okay, we are back. We're back. And so that was the story. That's really where this whole thing started. You know, it sort of came around by way of by way of uh >> beautiful story cuz it shows what what what a high school kid can do and how much if you really need things to happen, how big you can be. One of the great problems I think people feel is that people feel that if they're young, they can't change the world, they can't make a difference. It's not true. Young people could do incredible things. >> Everything about this was was, you know, between the basketball player and this kid and the care. >> Yeah. and and the one I I think I think it's a point and we heard from Dave Marks as well which is really we almost conveniently look at ourselves as like >> right you know it's like right >> I'm going to ask that guy Phil Yakobash the sweetest kid in the world like you know could I mean the guy left his film behind should I really ask him but really the truth of the matter is that we're seeing on the other side when you talk about you know the kan you speak to someone like Dave on the me side they're the ones seeing the results from the from the students and they know >> yeah you know I I would say the following. Tell me if you think this makes sense. There's no I can and I can't. I can is a cover for I need to. I can't is a cover for I don't want to. Right? Like I can't means I don't want to. I don't know if I can or I can't. I just don't want to. So I'll say I can't. I'm not enough. I'm And I can. I also don't know if I can, but I need to. So just a comment that RV used to say this you know and I know that uh Samson the family director of project inspire says it all the time is which is no used to yell that I can't is kira and people would say why you say yeah because I can't means there are certain things you can do can you do anything unless hashem helps you and if he helps you is there anything you can't do >> very That's exactly the point. That's exactly the point. >> That's his point. And and you know, really, we've had moments, you know, convention wise that really brought out this point that that moment. But I think that there's something else that really we could take from here, which is nothing happened in one minute. You know, he says it in this uh you know, this this cre this boy who Kramer, he says, you know, the one thing I learned from this is that you just have to keep at it. Like I asked them how many times the teacher said, "Oh, you're trying to waste class time." Right. Right. You know, cute and everything, but like keep at it. We've had situations where like someone comes to our shabas table with a ponytail and you expect him to leave with a beckisha. Of course, right? It takes time. >> That means you put in you put in the time. We had a story goes back 15 years ago at the project inspired convent con convention where a fellow febb stood up and sort of came out of nowhere sat on a plane next to tippy rifer you remember this one from bar park and he was on his way to New York and she was on her way back to New York and she was sad she was leaving and he was happy cuz he was going to New York and they got into talking and she basically said to him listen here's my number you're invited to my house for shabas and he ends up in his house for shabas that was the story at the Project Inspire Convention. This year we had a really cool spin on this. I had a chance to meet this family and I want to play that clip if you don't mind just to share with you to see that. >> Let's see it. Okay. If you don't mind, I don't mind joining you in the crowd over here. Okay. I'm going to take a seat over here in front of these two little sadikim over here. >> Do you want to tell me your name, Saddic? You want to tell me your name? >> Yeah. >> What's What's your name, Saddic? Yakov. >> YaKob, how you doing? Yakov, how old are you? >> Seven. >> Yakov is seven years old. Let's give a big hand for YaKob who's seven years old. >> And what's your name little? >> Davidid. >> Davidid. What is this guy? David, how old are you David? >> Five. >> David is 5 years old. Do you live Where do you live? Yakov. >> In Havst. >> Havst. Havst draw is near my for those in Tom's room who have no idea where that is. Havst draw is in my right near my do you go to >> Yeah. >> You go to What grade are you in? >> First in first grade. What grade are you in, Davidid? >> Pre1A is in pre1A. Wow. Did you guys have a good time here this Shabas? >> Yeah. >> Wow. And what about you, David? >> Yeah. >> Amazing. Oh, I'm just going to sit here the rest of the time. This is so amazing. I'm sitting here. Yakob, you want to tell me? Tell me, what does Yati do? What does your Abba do? >> He learns Torah. >> Oh, Yaba learns Torah. Amazing. Does Yaba Does Ya learn Torah or does he even teach Torah? >> He teaches Torah. >> Wow. Yak. Yak. And one second. Is this your first time at the Project Inspire Convention, of you? Yeah. >> Wow. Wow. Wow. First time. But do you know something? You know something, Yak? We know something, David. It might be your first time at the Project Inspire Convention. But you know that your ABA was once at the Project Inspire Convention. Do you know that? >> Yeah. >> You do know that? Well, someone someone spilled the beans then. Shh. Do you want me to show you that your album was once at the Project Inspire Convention? >> Yeah. Wow. Should we play the video? You want to see a video of your aba at the Project Inspire Convention? >> Yeah. >> What about you, Yakob? You want to see it? >> Yeah. >> Amazing. Okay, let's go to the video tape and let's see the abba of Yakov and Davidid at the Project Inspire Convention. I've been asked few weeks ago to say a few words about my journey in the last two years, sir. Moving from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, from city of opportunities to my dorm with three roommates and from the audition room to the big mid rush. What was I thinking? [Music] I grew up in Kyifa. I went to acting school, went straight to the theater. It looked like a great place to be. I got the opportunity to shoot an advertisement in New York. And on the plane I saw that religious scary lady Tiffy Rifer and I was stuck with that lady for 11 hours and we started to talk. I asked tons of questions. She just came back from Israel some physic mission project inspired but I got to say that her answers were pretty good and she was very honest to say you know what Effie I don't have all the answers but I promise you that I'm going to ask for the answer I appreciated the honesty to say I don't know she was big enough to see past my behavior past my mistakes they really saw the potential and I be leaving and she did it with one simple sentence. Will you come for Chabus? That's it. I came on Friday morning and I went to her house and going for Shabas in Bourbar and you know it's not Disneyland. Okay. I opened the door. I saw the strange walls and the white socks and the funny pants. It was like I told myself, Effie, are you going to be here for 25 hours? And I told myself, give it a chance. You know, it's one shabas. Turn off the phone. Take it the whole way. And it wasn't shabus of miracles and big productions. It was a Jewish chabas with a lot of food. Of course, I wanted the compliment on the food. And I said, "Wow, so many curses." And then I realized that the word that I was trying to use is courses. Courses. I went to Babshaw. People were shaking my hands and welcoming, smiling. And these people are so kind and warm and they made me feel like home. And they were singing, they were dancing, they took me a part of it, you know, they they felt so special. And at that moment I realized that I want to keep shots. [Music] Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great honor to reintroduce to you Fryim BB. I love that. By the way, that to me was the best. It's like, you know, the before and after picture. You had that like weirdo, the outfit in the beginning and then he comes back with this beautiful >> I had a 10-minute speech after that that he spoke. >> You don't need you don't need to see it. You see him, you understand the rest. You know, that was really the uh >> But isn't the whole point of this that we're saying here is here's a woman sitting on a plane. You think she was capable of somehow taking an Israeli actor and turning him into that? It's impossible. It's the Keshu. Just that she just cared was enough. >> And she she didn't think so either. And yet it changed her life. It certainly changed his and his kids and the family. >> Amazing. Amazing. >> Okay, we have a special ending here, Charlie. >> Okay, so um we have an incredible guy over here. So, Zebie, tell me a little bit about who is in our studio. We just turned around and this is what happened. So, tell us who's here, what camp are you involved in, and who are these incredible boys that we get to meet? So, these are amazing guys from Campavas. We uh our camp, we pick guys, whoever has nothing to do during the summer. You know, it's not good for a teenager to be home alone doing nothing by themselves. So, we have a free camp, everything sponsored, and all these boys are guys who took a pond to keep Tishabove this year. So, round of applause. >> Jeez. And some of these guys have been here for a couple years. Some of these guys are their first years, but we all come together every summer to just grow as a unit. >> So, so, okay. So, how this is Tishabove? How many times have you done Tishbove before? >> This is our first time. >> First time Tishabove. Okay. Could someone tell me how you feel now at the end? We're like 20. We're like 10 minutes away from the end. Tishbuff. Tell me how you feel. >> Probably very hungry. >> Hungry is definitely why. What do you guys How do you guys feel? Um I don't know. Um tishov I took fasting pills but I don't know like usually on fast I have a hard time but this fast was pretty easy for me. Thank god I made it to the end and like we're almost there so like don't think about it too much. >> Okay good. >> Anybody else give me give me something. How what what has has it has this fast been meaningful to you in any way? >> So as you can see a big guy like me is constantly needing food. So um on a day like this you know I don't you know it's a hard risk to take like do I just really want to go through this just for the sake of keeping like a mitzvah that I don't really understand then camp K the wonderful camp that we're in they put it in a new perspective how tishov is really a time where you could look inside yourself and grow in a meaningful way and all we really need is Msiah to make us feel better so that kind of lend me a whole new vision on this and made me feel much better about it. >> That's an awesome answer. Anybody else have anything they want to add? Anyone else have any thoughts? about the fast. >> Yeah. Any how do you feel? Anything meaningful about what you got out of fasting? >> I feel really accomplished. That's it. Like we did it. >> You did it. >> 26 hours. >> Yeah. Awesome. >> Yeah. >> Can I Can I ask you guys a question? You know, this camp feels to me like a camp where people believe in you, where they where where Zevy, where the whole team come over here for a second. You're introduce yourself. Introduce yourself. >> Tell us who you are. What's going on? My name is uh Pinaso. Um we uh me and Zebie run the beautiful program under Ellie Stamler and Jaffa. >> Okay. Amazing. So So Pinas, maybe you can help me figure out, you know, who's going to answer this. But the question that I really have for you is the following. People believing in you. What does it feel like when two guys take out of their time to believe in you, who you are, both as a person and as a Jew? How does that feel? And how does that impact you? >> I would definitely give the mic to to Jonathan for that to answer that. >> So um want to repeat the question. >> How does it feel when someone believes in you and what does that do to you? >> Um gives me confidence you know to do whatever like my goals are and it feels good when other people believe in you cuz if other people don't believe in you then you just don't have faith you know. >> Awesome. Where you from? I'm from North Wilmer. >> Awesome. Amazing. Old town. Three years. >> Three years. >> Actually, he came with us when he first came to us. He was in public school and he switched after his first year with us. >> When Harav Jonathan first came to camp ais, he was actually in public school. And the guy right next to him as well, Jonah and they both after their first year switched into Tisha after one summer of campus. >> That's amazing. Okay. Awesome. >> Okay. And somebody else, let's let's pass this on. Tell me anybody else. How do you feel that someone believes in you? What what has it done for your own faith in Hashem and your own faith in Torah? Uh when people around are believing in you and clearly you took upon yourself tishov. How does belief change you as a person? >> Um like it feels great, you know, like >> yeah like that you accomplish something and someone believes in you and um yeah. >> Okay, that's amazing. >> Joey's on his way to become a comedian. >> Okay, that's true. That's true. Okay. >> All right. Anybody else? >> Huge now. >> Yeah, please. >> So, after my first year in camp obvious, I realized being around Jews and like having like that like sense of community almost like got me thinking like why am I not in yeshiva? Like I never really thought about it. But like I joined Yeshiva and I always that was the place for me. That's where I wanted to be. And this is actually my first year keeping Shabbat fast and I actually accomplished it. I feel amazing and I've grown with Hashem. I've grown with Judaism and everything. Like I feel like I'm a better person having people that believe in me. I have more confidence. I believe in myself. And uh it's amazing. >> It's amazing. >> It's really amazing. You know, we talk a lot about how people can change the world when they care. Honestly, these two people right here. What is the impact of this fact that they care about you so much and how have they changed your world? >> I was actually a camper in the camp last year. I got promoted but we don't know co- counselor. Um last year I was in the camp as a camper. I had no place to be in the summer and I came to camp ais and it was the best decision of my life. I you come in you meet these two. Look at their smiles right now. They're beautiful people all about love. They're just warming and they just they they're all love only love as Zie you hear his song and it's just so true and that's why it's called camp obviously all for a reason like we're all based off love like to come in and to see everyone just smile and like put on filling people for the first time people who haven't put on in months people haven't put on in years and just come to like such a happy and and growing camp and it's just amazing >> amazing anybody here want to put on fillin but don't have a paratillain well if you want to put on a paratillain you need a pair Parillin. We're going to get you a free parapit fillin if you want. Definitely. And what we'll do is we have a guy on the on here his name is Yakob Bash. We will organize to have a giveaway in your camp this summer for your fillin. And there should never be a Jew that wants to put on the don. So if anybody here wants to put on fill in, we we'll take care of getting a few and we'll have a getaway. We'll have a giveaway in your camp. >> Thank you so much. >> Of course. One more guy we have over here David who comes in actually every year from Germany. >> Um. >> Wow. >> David, anything you like to say or anything you have for David? >> Yeah. So, as you said, I'm from Germany. So, for me, everything was a little a little new. The first time I came to Camp Bahava was two years ago and it was like it was a shock to me because not only the environment and the culture is different, the people are different too because I I've met Jewish people in Germany too, but this was like a whole new different level. So since then I've been coming every year and I've been enjoying myself. I mean two years ago I came I was in a public school. Um I was a whole different boy. Now I've changed uh things also thanks to the camp. Thank you so much. >> That's an incredible thing. Awesome. Round of applause over here. >> Okay. So let let me just end with the two of you if that's okay. So we're going to try to just if I can get you guys into the shot. Perfect. Okay. I want to end with the two of you for a second. Okay. This whole show and and and you guys give the support to to this crew over here. This whole show is about caring and we open the show by saying that we all want Msiah to come. We all want to come. But what that means that we want more Hashem in this world. We want more elus. We want more connection. And the way you get it is by you don't just wait around for it. You go do something. The two of you have taken upon yourself to give up of your summers to give someone else the greater summer. What is the impact that caring for another person has on your life? What happens when you get up in the morning and say, "I could be chilling. I could be doing my own thing. I could be having my own funding camp, but instead I'm going to find a way to make someone else's life better." Where did it come from? And how does it feel that this is the camp that you guys have both built? >> Great question. Um, okay. First thing I want to say that I don't think it's taking away from my own summer when I come in. I mean, this is like I'm looking forward the whole year. My wife and I, we cannot wait to come back every year to do this. So, that's the first thing. It's definitely not it's not taking away anything from me. So, I'm giving to them, but they're also giving to me. I'm taking just as much, if not even more than I'm receiving. That's number one. Um, Pinas, >> you you stole that. I was going to say the same exact thing. No, really, honestly, I feel like in the summer we're definitely getting and and the amount of like that we see from the guys, I think we're definitely getting more than uh more than we're giving and and it's great. You see so many people like kids that come in the first time like doing anything that's related with Judaism and just enjoying to do it and having being surrounded in a good kosher environment and growing over the summer. so many people that that that haven't been in schools in years that got kicked out years ago and we have the ability to work with the schools and get them in. I think it's amazing. I think it's tremendous. >> Right. And also tell me if you agree with this. I have this every single year at the end of the summer when I have to I live in Charlotte. So when I go back I have this massive like dopamine drop where I feel like I I need to be doing something. I need to still be with the guys. Like I have like this real real loss even after I leave. It's amazing. >> Guys, thank you so much. Before we end off, >> can we can we end off with one thing? If anybody has uh any suggestions where to break the fast, the guys are very hungry. Let us know. >> Okay. Before we end off, one more thing we got. What's What's your name, by the way? >> Kim, step over here for a second. Kim, here's your mic. Okay, hold on. I want you to do somebody. See that? This man is Yakob Bash. He's got a an organization called Tulum Project. >> Just rap. >> Um Yakov, do you think that you can maybe get my man Kha a parrot? >> Kim, where where you where's the camp? Where's the camp located? >> This camp is located in Brooklyn. >> Brooklyn. Okay. So, K this What's today? Sunday. This week we're coming over to you. Welcome you to Rap Nation and we're going to be getting you your first bear filling, man. Welcome to Rap Nation. >> That's awesome. Okay, that's great. This week, everyone's invited on the stream this week. Camp Oasis Thrill. We're going to climb up Perth, man. I'll see you there. >> Okay, boys. Thanks so much for being on. We really appreciate it. God bless you guys and we'll see you guys soon. Keep it up. Keep it up. Keep on inspiring. Keep on being amazing, guys. Thank you so much. Keep it up. Keep it up. Keep on inspiring. Okay. All right. So, let's just uh let's just close out over here and thank you all for for listening and and being a part of this show this year. And really, there's there's really only one thing to say like we either care or we don't care. Either we care or we don't care. Everyone's going to do something. inspire can give can give you the opportunity to get involved and but if it's inspire if it's wherever it is before you break your fast which is going to come hopefully really really soon unless you're in LA which is a couple more hours but either way before you break your fast ask yourself for real am I really doing something different this year that's going to actually try to bring gula and what we're saying here is there's a thousands and thousands of Jews out there that are missing their ilocus and they want it really badly. They just needed you to reach out to care and they're not available for everybody, but you have the relationship. They're in your life. They're in your world or Inspire has tons of opportunities and they just need more people that care. But don't just like nod us through. Don't just like nod us and go, "You're right. You're right, Taka. You're right. You know what? You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. We don't need that. We need people to actually raise their hand and say, "I'm in. I care. I need guula. I need Hashem. And if I add 1% more ilus this year, it's worth it." My bra is that Hashem should look down on his children right now at the end of a long fast on a summer day where the whole fast is about how his presence is not in this world. And may Hashem look down and see a bunch of his kids saying, "I'm going to do something real to bring Hashem more into this world." And maybe that will have him trigger whatever is missing in this world that she to see Msiachu come in our days. Don't let the fast end without going to project inspire initiatives and signing up. Don't go and nod through another tishabove. Let's together join hands and show Hashem that we are serious. This is our year. We should be Zoha to see these boys and all of our boys and all of our women and all of our nation together this year. Amen. [Music] Call racehon [Music] I am over my I'm [Music] here. [Music] I see a mis [Music] [Applause] [Music] here Al me [Music] is my car. [Music] Call Bes. [Music]