That Spark Tisha B'Av 2014

project Inspire would like to thank our generous partners and sponsors for their ongoing support and for making this year's Tish presentation possible Gourmet glat of curst and Brooklyn worth the trip from anywhere funding resources mortgage Corporation we put the truth in lending May the and inspiration of this year's film presentation beo nishas Ben urel yov Ben and Gad m benem y this year's presentation is for [Music] it's Tish yes another Tish abov 1,944 Tish ABS since is sheny nearly 2,000 years of mourning but what is m warning is it just tears is it just resolve we believe that it's more than that we try to use Tish as a vehicle as a medium to inspire us to be better people that's probably why you're watching this today thear Yuma tells us na that b was because of baseless hatred we all know that and we hear it year after year after year and the question is is there something that we can do about it that's why we come to you this year with that message and the message is yes this year clausell finds itself in a particularly difficult time it was just weeks ago that clol was United Ina in hope that we would find our missing three teenagers naali AAL gillad we were looking for them and hoping hoping together that they would be found alive and well but the Midas hadin said no and then came operation protective Edge and we davened and davened davened for our fallen soldiers and Dav for all of our soldiers and Davin that this terrible period should be over never again to be repeated so perhaps this year in tesab we have even more reason we have even more interest in doing something different something that will unite all of us something that will make a difference in previous years we showed you segments vignettes of people who did wonderful things things that clearly increased AAS Isel and so many of you watched and so many of you were inspired as a matter of fact some of the people who were inspired actually appeared on subsequent films on Tish because of the amazing things that they did just as an inspiration and a result of seeing a Tish shabab film but today I think we have something very special something a little different a little unique a story that when I saw it and when I experienced it I said this is something that everyone should see and today we proudly are able to show you that film we always have a rabbi of great prominence RV in the community RV known and clly iSell introduced the film and today it's a great privilege to have RAB mha the M asra of a Bas y who's going to introduce our film but in a little bit of a different way because this year the RV RAB Lea himself has a story to tell a personal story that one that everyone here can relate to one that I think in and of itself will inspire each of you that the personification of a is someone who doesn't just pursue peace but increases shom in the world scan of the previous generation asks does that mean that an individual knocks on his neighbor's door and says I'm heard you fighting last night and I'm Bona let's work it out let's create a counseling session for you and your wife or for your children is that what it means sh explains an individual has capus he's upset he's nervous he's angry because he doesn't really feel a sense of fulfillment in life with all the money and Acquisitions that he has butal has such a sense of wealth B is BL worth more than a billion dollars to the extent that he overflows with a sense of contentment he has purpose in life and the through his BL infuses his wife with Shalom his family his neighbors his friends his community his kahila his City the world literally means that there's an overflow of shom that permeates the world and affects the world because of that the v z compares the consummate pedagogue to a large Cas surrounded by smaller cases and they are filled by the Overflow the enthusiasm the Charisma the excitement that generates at the end of the day affects the world and we as Ben Ty B Al those who have come to watch this video of inspiration to be moved to be inspired to grow on Tish to inspire others are the of the the b t that are charged with this mandate uniquely in our generation not to run around pedaling peace not to broker any kind of counseling amongst Waring parties but just to create create a genre sense of excitement contentment that spreads to others about two years ago my Ritson and I moraba left our home shabas morning to go to sh as we walked out the door we sensed that it was raining and right in front of our house was a sleek black mercedesbenz the driver was was valiantly trying to start the car and he wasn't successful I looked inside and I saw he was nice atalian boy handsome fellow personable so I made a comment to him I said I hope the rest of your day is better off than the way it started and as we're walking away he tells me shabbat shalom look at my wife incredulously we start walking away shabbat shalom this was not a non-jew this was a member of our faith we woke about two blocks and I turn to my wife and she turns to me and at the same time we said the same thing simultaneously I'm going to be late for sure I pride myself from being there on time Bly NE but I will be late for sure but what is the chance that a Jewish fellow on chambas get stuck with his Mercedes Benz right in front of my house blocking the driveway so so we walk by and we walk back and we turn to this fellow and I say to him as follows I know it sounds absurd I started talking to him in Hebrew because he was a Jew or an Israeli so I turned to him and I said something that to him was probably ludicrous why don't you leave your things in my home your keys your phone and come to sh we'll show you a good time we'll give you they could spend the day with us he says it's impossible I've got to open my store on flat B you in a couple of minutes my wife is going to go crazy not knowing where I am how can I just fall off the face of the planet for the next four or five hours I said I know it's absurd but look at the right in front of the rabbi's house that's where your car breaks down come with us to the bedet and he does that he leaves his phone and his keys in the closet and as we're walking to sh he starts telling me his life story he was born in Syria and miraculously in the 80s they got out to Israel he served in the IDF the Israeli Defense Force ended up in America married a girl from Boston now he lives on Avenue y near Ocean Parkway in a non-religious neighborhood and he's excited to come with us to show we walk in the door I'm several minutes late I sit him down front row right in front of the beer my good friend Raba gross was there with an art sco sitter showing him the place I get up to speak before before and I tell the I want to apologize for being late but the reason why I was late this morning was because I met a fellow his name isim and he's coming to sh for the first time and I tell him a bit of the story and the conviction of a man who's real and decides this is the opportunity of a lifetime and and he came to David so I welcome and I asked to stand over 300 men and I'm sure the women in theim stood up they gave him a standing ovation for five minutes he opened up the Ares he told me afterwards he felt like the red carpet was rolled out for him and that he was a superstar and everybody came over to him after daving to congratulate him he came back to us for shabas lunch I took a nap when I got up to go to sh he was gone I thought that was the end of the story that week Morella my wife by rabbitson gets a phone call from his wife thank you so much for having my husband I've been looking for an occasion to connect that sukus they came and they spent with us a suda together in the they brought a bottle of wine and I've got to tell you that 2 years later Kim lives in the Terra community of Flatbush he mitv his wife goes to sh and he sends his children to Tera schools you know often you hear people saying if it starts to rain as the bearing the nifta the heavens are crying shm is crying for this nefta I look back and I say sham was crying it was raining but it was not tears of Sorrow it was tears of joy because right in front of my house this Mercedes Benz gets stuck he can't restart the car he's calling Triple A they're not responding I was told by a good friend of mine that when I came back to him he thought that I was going to tell him get your car out of my driveway this is Brooklyn but to be invited for shabas this was not an opportunity of a lifetime for him but for me I'm no guru when it comes to kir I lived in Minneapolis for 19 years we grew a Terra Community I Liv in fush for 5 years we're continuing to grow a community of but every single individual has those opportunities in the course of his lifetime to go back and to say I'll be late it might not be the easiest thing in the world but there's some reason why I met this fellow there's some spark and theam in him that could be turned on could you imagine if I kept on going could you imagine if we said well I'm going to be late for and you can't make a of being late for at the end of the day this family would have been lost buten the lives were turned around the had an incredible MEA many people say who am I to be marar I'm not an expert I don't know K how can I respond to questions of hash the Z spoke in Vienna a few years before he was Nifty he was very feeble and Ill he got up and he said to a group of 2,000 Yeshiva who were aged 16 and 17 and 18 and he said there's a fire burning of hasola of so-called enlightenment and you've got to quench that fire by learning T and by bringing people closer to you have this responsibility and as he was being escorted and literally carried out another got up and said of course doesn't mean you he means when you're 20 and 30 and 40 you're accomplished then you go out be heard these words and asked to be taken back and he spoke again and he says no I'm speaking directly to you and he told the story of a parit who came to visit his villagers Y and he comes to the supervisor of that particular derful and he gives him a glass of tea and he starts drinking the tea and he says his nose wrinkled in this taste this water is swampy silty how do you offer people this water to drink so the parts has this response from the supervisor what should we do what should you do you got to purify the water imagine pasteurized perfected supervisor makes a vow he says I promise that from now on no glass of water will be touched until it's been purified a few months later the pets here is that a fire broke out in that little village and because the homes were of wood and the roofs were made of thatch straw The Blaze caught on from building to building and the entire Village R was raised to the ground the pets came rushing to inspect his property and he asked the supervisor don't you have a volunteer fire brigade he said of course we do and the water was ready to be thrown onto the fire and then they said wait wait the Pates told us that we have to purify the water I made a NE that we would not touch one glass of water until it's purified so until we could purify the water the entire billage Village burnt down said the purits you're a foolish man I was talking about bettering yourself living high quality of life but when a fire is Raging any water will do said to these 2,000 Yeshiva B age 16 17 and 18 A fire is Raging we're losing konis any water will do we have no idea having children that grew up in Minneapolis Minnesota St Louis Park of the of our kids to bring people closer to and you will benefit more than anyone else they become experts onab experts in experts inim they 12 13 14 15 years old vast tracks of knowledge they've absorbed living in your home going to Yeshiva going to bakov and they become energized they're fighting for a cause it'll turn your lives around Tish is a time to mourn but to celebrate the future because Tish is a day that's called already a in the present tense you see the to use these moments of TI wisely to commit ourselves to Bringing others closer to and that will be to the greatest when we will all rejoice when the whole world will be filled with the idea that there's a the coming of M how many of us have been in the same position as Rabbi Leaf somebody says something it sounds a little Jewish and we just pay no attention but RAB Leaf didn't do that he thought about it rang in his head and he said I'm going back and that's what he did and the rest of the story unfolds it happens every day and it happens to me and it happens to you the question is do we let it go by or do we do something about it just beautiful project Inspire is not a kir of organization it's actually the brainchild of r no Weinberg Z who taught us that the assimilation and the intermarriage rates throughout the world are so staggering that it takes an army a full Army of everyone in clausel to try to do something about it and so so was born project Inspire to try to help people reach out give you the tools give you the inspiration to help you reach out to everyone you know to bring back a is and on that note we now bring you our feature presentation and what you're about to watch is a ky of story it's a story that spans over a period of many years and it requires a certain amount of concent ation on your part I know it's this maybe not so easy to focus but when you do and you see what's really unfolding it's something that will change your perception of the power that each one of us has take a look I had the opportunity to fly to Los Angeles and meet with a very special family and that's really where our Story begins today my CLE his son Ley beautiful family I learned about their road to yides kite but this is not some typical CB story I learned that very quickly watch um in my home there's always a strong Jewish identity but the actual practice that was left to occur more at the at the temple was there a Sader at home yeah we would do we would yeah we would do a we would do a Sader um I mean now that I become acquainted with it's not none of these things were right uh any any shabas at all at home or no never nothing at all and I mean I I I mean I wasn't a particularly ignorant person I mean i' graduated law school I'd traveled around the world to Israel even um uh I had you know I'd been to 30 countries or so I'd studied world religions and philosophy I just I think that my experience with reformed Judaism had Blinded Me I it gave me the false impression that I actually knew what Judaism was about so I just never opened that door questioned it so religious Jews were basically relegated to Amish country that type of I thought they were some small obscure dying sect out there somewhere I mean that's that's what I that's what I've been led to believe and that's that's where I'd left the question wow um at 35 years old I was uh a trial lawyer living in West Hollywood um I have the kind of practice where I like to be in front of juries in court so other lawyers would bring cases that they thought needed they wouldn't s or they had potential real value um and they would bring them to me to do trials so at that point um I think doing trials was a big part of my identity and self-esteem I hadn't lost and I was on a four-year winning streak I took all comers and between that and working out in Recreation traveling around the world that was pretty much what I was focused on when I got to my fourth year and my 36th year I was closing on four years of winds um and I was looking for more business and my little brother who had become a balua about five five years earlier um told me that he knew an attorney it was an employment lawyer named Michael Eisenberg and he needed a new trial lawyer and so I said that's great you know I'm I'm doing really well and I want to meet him Josh Copple was uh one of our favorite guests to have he was uh at a local college and he would tell me oh you got to meet my brother Mike Cel he's like this hardcore philosopher philosophy major very intense trial lawyer you got to talk to my brother he's like tough as Nails on this stuff and uh he could he could really use it my little brother calls me back and said well actually his son is having a bris um he's having a new baby boy y mayor he's having a bris and you should let's go meet him there okay it almost blew apart from the get-go because um it was at Bas Yehuda and there's all this and he comes walking up with this robe and a big furry hat and I don't know what the look of my face was but I see my little brother he gets his panic attack I said I slap him on the chest what's the deal with this guy cuz nobody who dresses like that can have a successful law practice and as as I'm like what's going on Josh you you told me he says no no no he's very successful he only dresses like this because it's Simka it's a what's that mean a happy occasion Hi how are you doing we shake hands and uh and he says how you doing it's nice to meet you and he says yeah well we'll talk soon but you were blown away you were turned off completely I mean I assume yeah I was turned off because there must have been some point in my life I've seen a picture of aidic Jew but I I'd never seen one within 50 yards and to be around 100 and him walking up to me I didn't understand what that was that did not make any sense to me as a person I could have a conversation with well I followed up with him probably about a day or so later we had lunch and I tell him you know I've been lost in three or four years and he says his trial lawyer just inherited tons of money and he's gone so he's not he's not working anymore so he needs a guy who can do that perfect good Che yeah yeah and but within three or four minutes he goes you know what when what are you doing for dinner Friday night and I said that's that's the Shabbat thing I said nah I he just come on for a meal I said nah like I'm really and he had this look on his face that um like I was a mark like he was he like grinning at me and I was what are you I can see the way you're looking at me what do you but he was he was so unrepentant about it was kind of funny really yeah he was like like a fox you know like almost daring me to I say at one point I'm thinking about it and again I'm like look we'll build a friendship that's a great basis for a business relationship and um plus I thought it was kind of funny how Brazen he was being how open right and first meeting it's the first time you met him I know him I know him now and he's he's always looking for kff his Law Firm is a front for kff no I'm not kidding there's another guy in our Law Firm who moved in there he just became religious three months ago so I I made one opening I said is your wife a good cook and then he knew how it was done he smiles relaxes cracks his knuckles says the best that's it he wasn't lying by the way she's amazing cook um so I came for a Shabbat dinner the meal at their house that Friday night changed my life that meal change my life wow yeah how does a a meal change a life you understand what you're saying okay let's put it this way I went there for the meal figuring I'll know his family I'll build a relationship business will be smooth there is I walked out of that meal not caring about the business but caring about the fact that um I got my first taste of what a Torah observant Jew lives like and that was a form of wealth that was better than anything I could win in a case and what did he do Mike he just kept coming yeah Mike kept coming he was uh he was he didn't ask me any questions about none of that philosophy stuff we just we just cut to the Chase and had you know some good food and some laughs and you know he really loved my kids my kids loved him and uh he was a regular at our sh table for a long time every Friday nights when when he wouldn't show up the kids would be very disappointed he's not coming and uh I just he just uh he he he really he really connected with with the with the lifestyle it was just better than it wasn't just better than the life I was leading it was better than any plan I could construct uh so Michael CPP was doing some trials for us and we had a lot of fun working together and I don't recall whether it was I think I may have suggested to him that he'd take some time off and go to Asia Torah in Jerusalem because he seemed so interested and I think we had a lot we had a lot of conversations about this and I told him that he'd really have to if he wanted to take his Judaism to the next level he'd probably have to go to Yeshiva for a little while and you know he was a soul practitioner so I knew the folding up his practice could be very detrimental to his business I told him even just you know couple few weeks you know people you know people take time off all the time to do Vacations so just make this into a vacation he wanted me to go in December and I remember thinking yeah probably January and that's when we went and he came came with me I did actually actually went with him and uh kind of introduced him to some people that I uh knew over there and uh would visit him every day he closed up his practice he left his wife and kids just to make sure he was watching me as me my Sher I had my own learning schedule that I was doing in Israel and but I go to as I'd go just check up on him and you know he'd tell me but oh he got to come see Rabbi Burger he's terrific or you got to listen this so I'd come with him to these lectures to the sh him and uh it was great it was it was a nice experience mty berer one of his classes was on the Messiah to show how the Prophecies of Isaiah are happening in front of us over the last 100 years or you can see it now I'm hearing about the vitality and the the the presentness of Jewish life and what's about to happen right now and and the Vitality of it and and I didn't really need much of a of an excuse because I already knew I wanted this life and at that point I said that's it I'm going to do it class ends I get up and I walk up to him woman I say I'm becoming a balua so he gives me a big clap on the back goes great kiddo and he walks out the door now I wasn't expecting to get a parade but he was so non chalot that's kind of his thing great yeah no kidish no no Ching just he walks out the door swing shut and I'm sitting there alone nobody left it didn't matter it was the it was probably it was it was not probably with the exception of um choosing my wife uh or proposing to my wife it was the best decision I've ever made in my life and I can't really compare them because they're interrelated best decision all I can tell you is I was a almost a zero percenter and and now now I've got 50 years to pay that back and I will do it and I will do whatever I can do to help CLA Israel to help my family and to help help in the aot of Hashem it's everything I would have wanted and uh it just even when I made the decision to become B chba I didn't I didn't I didn't think within six years I'll be married with three kids I mean that I've been very very blessed tell me about Ley he he's been building his own shabas sets he doin he's he he he lives this all out now I it means to me everything this is what I wanted what I could never find in the secular world was a way to develop strong moral values and then give them to your kids and he has them and he'll have them even better than I do so that to me is everything you have a look at him and think of Michael Eisenberg and say wow yeah oh yeah no I mean I look at my wife and I think I look at Levy I look at leor I look at Tamar none of it happens without Michael Eisenberg no question it's not even there's nothing to talk about he introduced me to her he introduced me to Torah Judaism of course not and without him they wouldn't exist I feel like when I go upstairs when I'm 120 and uh when they ask me what I've done I think that that um to say that I had this very this one relationship with Michael Coppel where it was such a profound impact on his life and my life uh I think Hashem will be very very happy with what happened I think you're right incredible Michael Eisenberg extends an invitation Mike Cel says yes and the rest his history but the story doesn't end there you see Michael Eisenberg was not born with a stral on his head so I asked him what was your upbringing like I mean I I grew up in a conservative synagogue and you know my impression of growing up in a conservative synagogue is the Judaism is defined by the Holocaust stories and Israel bonds you became a you became a lawyer right right where did you go to school I went to I went to University San Diego law school it's private school down in San Diego right not observant not uh not at all not at all nothing nothing to do with that and then uh you found yourself back in Israel somehow on the University of Tel Aviv right so uh I went on a summer abroad program at Tel Aviv University and um my grandfather used should rest in peace my grandpa Lou he was uh fighting cancer for a couple years and when I left that summer for that summer semester I knew that that was going to be the last time I saw him and uh when I was there I got the news that my grandpa passed away and you know my my grandfather only had two daughters my mom and my aunt and it troubled me because I know that you're supposed to say cotti for for a person to pass away and I knew I had to do something about this I couldn't because my my who's going to say cotage for my grandpa so I was on campus that next day that when I I heard that night next day it's a Friday I'm on campus I see a a guy walking with the Amica this guy came up to me looked approximately my age and he came up to me and he said said do you speak English I said yes I do he said uh are you Orthodox I said yes I am I said can I help you he said that his grandfather had just passed away and he wanted to know if he could say Kadesh and where he could say Kadesh and the reason he wanted to know if he could say Kadesh was he said that his parents are still barem alive can he say Kadesh I said you know I don't know the answer to that question it's Friday today why don't you come to to my sh this evening and we can ask the rabbi that question and you know what why didn't you come eat dinner with my parents tonight and uh I was very happy to be invited so I so I went and he I met his lovely family his siblings and his parents and uh he became like my first religious friend when I was back in Los Angeles I get a phone call out of the blue the last part of my MBA entailed a program in Silicon Valley and I thought after this period of time in Silicon Valley I'd never been to California previously why didn't I go down to Los Angeles the problem was I didn't know anybody in Los Angeles except for one individual Michael Eisenberg so I called him I said Michael do you remember me he said yes of course I remember you I I said to Michael I'm in um I'm in I'm in P Alto I would like to come down to La for a few days can I stay with you he said sure I'm happy to host him I was very upfront with him I said look you know I know you're o you know I don't keep kosher I I don't keep shabas you're here for a week week and a half I said uh just you know that going into it but I'm going to make it work so don't worry about it I'll make sure everything's fine just we we'll get through this thing together so Michael called an organization I think it's called the Jewish learning experience something like that that's what it's called and asked them or told them he said I've I've got a I've got a friend from Israel he's Orthodox we uh we would like to know if you could host host the two of us for meals on Friday night and and and Shabbat lunch and they did they put us in touch with two different families uh during the during the lunch the lunch meal when we were walking home we met Rabbi zarat who is a cir Rabbi for from ashru he met me in the street and asked me 20 questions and uh found out where I worked what I did all the basics very short period of time and we kind of hit it off it was the first shabus that Michael had kept in his life and it it it was a powerful experience for him I finally just sat down with Rabbi I listen one day and I said you've got it all you've got this amazing wife beautiful kids you know you have such a happiness in life how do how do I get that he laid it out he and I had a very you know he's a very upfront kind of a guy which I appreciated and he told me he says you want it you got to you got to be that yourself you want to you want to be a nice Jewish girl you got to be a nice Jewish boy and you started to study and you started to keep shabas sure you know the first thing I did was uh keeping kosher not eating non- Kosher meat and just you know from there a regular daily learning just reading everything I could any kind of book on Judaism just you know AR Kaplan books getting the basics basic foundations of Judaism down you developed a relationship and I Rabbi I I I I I didn't open up a safer to to to Le with Michael it's not like I said let's learn mishna or let's learn gor let me teach you I didn't do that at all with him I think he he observed we we we spend time together but it was more about friendship it might be fair to say that had he not been there that day had you not thought about Kadesh and saw a friendly face walking by I don't know who knows who knows you ever think about that yeah I'm I'm very uh I'm very thankful to him that he uh he took an in he took me under his wing and uh like I said really made like my problem his problem and tried to get to the bottom of it so I I really don't think I did very much so here I was I had met with Mike Coppel I met Michael Eisenberg you heard the story like I did unbelievable and then Clive libshitz and he's trying to tell me that what he did was really nothing but what I was about to show him would change his perception of what happened forever so I'm just going to show you this I'm going to show you this picture here and ask you do you know this man no could you could you look again real closely and tell me if you know him don't know do you know do you know the child sitting next to him no looks like a from kid but I I don't know that family mhm have you ever heard the name Mike coupple never you've never heard of Mike coupple never I don't know who my couple is you don't know who Mye couple I don't know my couple I don't exactly know how to describe him let me ask you this very thankful you know this man that's Michael he took an in he took me under his wing and uh like I said really made like my problem his problem and tried to get to the bottom of it so him you know sure well Mike Coppel yeah and Michael Eisenberg right are very very close friends okay very nice if not for Michael Eisenberg my CLE who you see in that picture would not be there and if not for Michael Eisenberg that little boy sitting next to mik Cel would not be there okay because Michael Eisenberg right was the Clive lipshits to Mike Cel wow this passes on that's unbelievable that really is incredible are you getting a chill I am right now you too wow take another look at that of Mike CLE nice beautiful wonderful look at that kid from kid Ley but my couple was just like Michael Eisenberg before you came along wow that's incredible I think so that is really incredible so Ley and Mike they're your kids too that's an incredible story R yeah I think so how does it Howes it make you feel it's powerful it's powerful because you can see it's almost like you can feel a tiny little act here leads to another act leads to another act leads to another act that's almost how this continues that is incredibly powerful and I guess what this tells you is Mike coupple May himself influence somebody else the bll rolls on you said it snowball you said it better than I could right that's that is incredible I never thought of it that way before and it really started off with such a minor chance and there's no chance in life but it started off with such a minor act I feel that in my and Mike as well for sure there was this spark that just needed to get lit and released right so it doesn't take that much no no it doesn't every single viewer whether there's 50,000 or 100,000 people watching this and is thinking you know will I really make a difference and you're telling them live from your experience as you just said it in a way that that I could never have done said I never opened a safer with him right there are some people who would want to do it that way and that's wonderful right you just shared your life this was just honestly this was just friendship do you know that Michael Eisenberg is is a kir of machine I have I've subsequently learned this he he lives for for helping others he lives for showing everyone the beauty of yish K some people have said that his law office is a front for the kir of movement that he heads I'm sure he's a successful lawyer there may be some truth to this too right right right do you know what the license plates are in his car I love yiden is the one and I love Hashem is the other I I I realiz realized this was a different Michael and it it all started from you didn't shrug him off you just said let's meet the rabbi and ask and then you said I just want to be your friend this is incredible I I I I never thought about it this way but this is an incredible story I think so yeah you can't help but think so incredible I sat with Clive as you saw and I understood and I was moved by the fact that he did something that he thought was very small but he seiz the opportunity and look what it became leus and he had absolutely no idea Michael Eisenberg he sees the opportunity too clyve lipitz he sees the opportunity as a matter of fact Rabbi Leaf he also seized the opportunity and none of them had any idea about how great the things we do can actually become that is today's message rer says in that a person is not allowed to say who am I what can I do I'm but a small person an individual we're not allowed to do that we have to see ourselves as great we have to see our actions as great we have to see the potential of every single thing that we do as being as enormous as changing the entire world because that's the truth that's what Tish abov is really all about Tish abov is not about intensifying our despair over the past it's about inspiring us for the future we can take Tish abov a a day of mourning for nearly 2,000 years and turn it into a colossal KES hasem that's our job that's what we need to take away from this story today we need to understand that we are great we are great people we have greatness within each one of us and those small things by taking those little chances the little opportunities can make all the difference in the world where do I fit in what can I do I'm inspired I understand I see that little things can become big things but what can I actually do so let's talk Tas shall we first of all you must realize that the opportunities all around you are endless every day you and I we're meeting people but we ignore the the opportunities we let them go by without realizing that a small hello a simple handshake saying hello to somebody can begin a relationship sharing a website with them teaching them a little bit Torah giving them an experience of chabas or aasa Kaneka whatever it may be any little small tidbit of yite can create generations of people who are sh Mitzvah the truth is you could be the next Clive lipitz you could be the next Michael Eisenberg doesn't take much you know that you just need to try and in addition you may have heard about the shabas project it began last year in South Africa thousands of people who never had any Shas no connection to toyra or Mitzvah got together and experienced a shabas together well this year it's starting again the shabas project is in pares October 25th worldwide people will try to get people involved who have never been involved before and you can be a big part of that project Inspire has partnered with chabas around the world to be able to create this shabas experience find somebody who's never experienced in chabas and bring them into the fold it's really not that difficult and if you ask but I don't know anybody I really don't have the opportunity I don't know the people who am I going to invite well October 25th is a few months away but how about rashash Shana contact project Inspire to give an easy Outreach gift for rashash Shana it's a few dollars it can change someone's life it can change change your own life sukus comes we have the project Inspire sukus initiative just bringing somebody into a Suka for the first time truth is they love it they have a wonderful time it's a great experience and by the time pasas no rolls around you'll have a whole host of people who will want to be a part of that very special chabas experience there's a lot you can do this Tish above make the resolve challenge yourself say to yourself right now I want to be a part of this I can do a lot in the Merit in the of all the things that we take upon ourselves today onsh Mayes bring in all of our lives and and bring the Bon Basi Yu project Inspire would like to thank our generous partners and sponsors for their ongoing support and for making this year's Tish above presentation possible Gourmet glat of cedur and Brooklyn worth the trip from anywhere funding resources mortgage Corporation we put the truth in lending May theuk and inspiration of this year's film presentation beo nishmas Ben urel Yakov naali Ben A and gilad M Ben hasem Yin this year's presentation is for