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[Music]
love shot came into a sativa and he took
a look at all the guys in a Shatterer he
said that guys about sugar that guys
about Truman that guys about children
that guys about children said I've shot
got up in a shutaura
and he said my friends he said these
words if one man can kill six million
Jews one man can save six million Jews
do that this is a shot speaking in Asia
tour
[Music]
Renaud was a man of greatness he always
used to say give me ten men and I can
change the world he would start yelling
wake up wake up wake up he was sure that
before he dies we're gonna finish the
job right what did you fight for
something Judaism was a walled garden
grove Noah took a sledgehammer and broke
a door into that wall he saw a need to
help the Jewish people come back he
lived it this was the power he gave the
basis to remove it we're fighting to
save the Jewish people and we're gonna
win the first thing about my father is
almost you didn't hear the word killed
it's love its responsibility this is
your brothers this is your family you
take care of them you love your children
he used to say to our cutters Berkeley
please help us to love your children the
way you love your children
I met with Nora I had never seen anyone
like this before the first thing I heard
about was Colley's holidays I was
falling apart what are we gonna do
bring back the Jewish people all of them
now no excuses
we've not was a unique visionary where
did he get that kind of vision from my
father was this wild child that just
didn't sit down for a moment he actually
became very American because he was
youngest and his family and he was
shaved and he got into the sport he
loved the American society but my father
always remembered this my grandfather
every time used to meet him used to stop
him for five seconds no yeah - getting
stats if I run and I got used to speak
Yiddish sis do you remember that there
is a god she's for sure for sure dad
says you have a big big Mitzvah and my
father said the Emunah started to go
into his blood
he kind of had it drilled into him from
an early age and he drilled it into his
tile meet him
you got an Amish em loves you his father
was completely caught up in learning
would cause Amish nice on the street but
have told me he remembered having to
pull on his coat to get his attention
when they were walking in the street I
knew of no I was a bundle of her since I
was about 16 years old were roommates
together for a couple years in nearly
soil learn together Baja Musa
I remember once someone was a sell a car
for about $50 it didn't have any fenders
the wheels were exposed was a wreck but
a road well had good motor I put in $25
an 8-pin $25 and he bought the car
together didn't concern the Lisa it
looked terrible on the outside as long
as it got us their destination you want
to be a wanted telephone no question
about to us he was he was a Thomas
Holcomb who was his mind was up there
but his feet were on the ground I won
him he was like a fighter a warrior on
the other hand he was a tremendous
Thomas Holcomb and he was the warmest
loving person like he hit such a soft
side to him and he seemed like you know
a bit of a contradiction he wasn't a
nice kid he loved learning more than
anything else if you think he had
passion for kube you had to see rip
Noah's passion for shot inner romba I
was standing outside the office and
there were colorless of rocky runoff and
Rabbi Yaakov were screaming at each
other I didn't know what was going on
suddenly the door open Rebbe Noah grabs
my arm and pulls me in the north and
Rabbi Yaakov were sitting and arguing
over chott inner Amba driven off wanted
me to decide who's right I spoke with
Rabbi Yaakov Weinberger I was studying
in area Sorel and he says if you could
take my brother a package I love it
what was in the package that I brought
him no those and those days they have a
caffeine pill so you don't fall asleep
from nor believed in learning all the
time without a stop and he would pop
these pills and stay awake as much as he
could in that time my grandfather passed
away my father was 13 or 14 then my
father stayed is the youngest of the
family growing up with a widowed mother
I think one in ingredients to Reb no ox
power is that his mother gave him a very
special childhood and reven always saw
the good in people and saw the good in
the world and he got that from his
mother my father would realize that you
know going to camp or going up to the
mountains is a very expensive thing for
his mother she used to work very hard
what he did is then the summers when he
was a little bit older 1920 he would go
out to work so you would travel around
America that changed his life because he
saw that there's so many Jews he says
people were so proud about being Jewish
and he would ask them and would say like
what makes you so proud about being
Jewish and basically realized that
people had no idea and it we head into a
disaster we're heading that these people
one generation to generations down we're
going to lose the children the
grandchildren we're going to lose them
and that's where he just started to
think what could he do you go to the
rabbi's you say rabbi do something about
it right so that's what he did he went
from rabbi - rabbi from receiver to
receiver he said guys there's a
holocaust going on there's people dying
on the street like what are we doing
about it and people tell them forget it
it's never gonna work it's never gonna
happen just take care of yourself take
care of your family that was the notion
that time and then as an issue was in
Israel and
he's gonna convince the husband ish he
went on a boat and on the boat he heard
in the radio that the cousin is passed
away in his old trip to Israel it was
pointless we say that the next day they
got up in Jerusalem and he opened the
window and he said this is a place that
a Jewish person has to live so he turned
in the meal for a period of time he met
my mother they get married says that my
father came to us versus even said
receiver one opening Shiva descend this
is my plan I went to de Blasio and I
wanted permission from him it was the
mail in the in usual I am I am begging
is usually sang he says what do you want
to do now so I told you I want to take
secular people I will show them the
agouti of tourists but but they don't
want to keep missing I mean oh I'm going
back and forth finally he gets the
message he says no yes I understand what
you want to do do little smacking off
happily cabal each other you want to
make a factory and turn people take him
him once in and out the other end
bali joon-suh surely come on what do you
tell me I'm crazy yeah say says a rabbit
we say table achiever one ambition buddy
was shocked he was shocked leave a
particular horrible war so if I
introduce you don't need to his fiancee
will he leave me we leave me he says if
you believe that you'll succeed
yeah so I got a broker but my father
started from scratch because there was
no book there was no people that really
did it there was no key with
professionals and basically he started
to feel his way in the dark people
thought oh it's impossible you can't get
a person who is not brought up in a
Torah home - all of a sudden like
learning Torah love mitzvahs Bertram no
saw such a beauty in the Torah and
everybody that would see it
they would come here Sheila the guy's
not religious to be done people would
point with a finger there goes NOAA the
Michigan he thinks he can teach secular
people Dover it was so far away
eventually have not found how to break
the ice
that was the 48 ways but the 48 ways did
is it showed them that Judaism has
something to say about your life and
make you a better person I come from a
family that was not observant whatsoever
so we knew we were Jewish but we didn't
know much more than that at all I grew
up as a reformed Jew and I I knew a lot
in life so I thought I would say Jewish
Lee proud connected but not really
observant in any way and I grew up as a
suburban secular poet non-religious boy
I went to Hebrew school through tenth
grade which provided virtually no
information on Jewish belief and for me
be Jewish it was just an empty black
hole I didn't understand any of it I was
like the skeptic I was the one that you
know I could have married out very
easily I actually ran away and tried to
escape having a Bar Mitzvah
basically it taught me one thing that
there's nothing relevant in Judaism I
was looking I was lucky to find out
really what it means to be a Jew and he
had a whole approach in learning which I
tried I memorized the 613 mitzvot I
learned with him also the 48 ways to
wisdom and that changed my life it was
like a father to me
my father was very concerned that I
should go to college but I got a year's
leave of absence from Harvard
my father allowed me to go to Israel I
think about five years after we started
learning my father who was a sailor a
radio officer in the Merchant Marines
and his ship came to Ashdod and and I
met him when I took him to read me Trev
nya so he walks into rev Noah right and
he looks at him he says I've been
waiting for five years to punch you in
the nose and then they embraced so my
older brother at the time fell into a
Shotaro and this was really just at the
beginning when Asia tour really exploded
and a lot of people started coming and
my brother Eric was the last person in
Toronto anyone would think would go to
yeshiva and it created an enormous
uproar
you know the whole city thought my
brother was caught in a cult including
my mother and around that time groove
noah was coming to Toronto to speak and
it was the first time really that he was
making like a public appearance in
Toronto we're gonna go meet him know
we're gonna see who's who is this rabbi
you-know-who busy stole Eric away you
know what's going on and the place was
packed and he gave this class I didn't
know at the time but it was really five
levels a pleasure I was mesmerised I
thought is this
this man has genuine wisdom he is
dealing with the issues that are really
bothering me that this is what I'm
looking for and the back of mine I'm
saying I need to go to Israel at some
point and really meet with them it was
incredible it was inspiring to see
people hippies you know come in with
their guitars and two weeks later
they're sitting in their learning
forty-eight ways he would come with a
few boys on their Kippur Rosh Hashanah
kept it to me a Shiva to doubt he would
walk in with these dozen fellows who
look like they came from Mars as far as
the mayor was concerned something just
stood out like I mean it's hard to
imagine a more glaring discrepancy from
everyone else black and regular yeshiva
SH and this group
I was spending my last day in Jerusalem
someone came out and said would you like
to come for a class and I said well do I
have to pray and he said no so I said ok
welcome to a class it happened to be
that at that exact minute Rebbe Noah was
teaching a class on his famous series
called the 48 ways to wisdom 40 West
wisdom is from pure chaos the 48 ways
that the Torah is nick met by him it was
looking like there was something really
solid here and I didn't feel I could
turn my back and just hop over to
university and forget what I was
learning and my parents very reasonably
said they would sit Shiva for me and
that they wouldn't talk to me till I
came back and they were quite serious
about it although they didn't really
follow through they go to said they
would cut me off financially I think
they may have done that I wanted to know
you know why was important to marry
someone Jewish besides my parents
threatening my economic well-being
someone said do you want to go to a
class about wisdom said why not so we
went to RIF Nowak's class the first
class was about happiness and I never
heard wisdom like this from the Torah so
I decided to stay for two weeks to go to
classes and I called my parents and I
said you're not gonna believe this I'm
in a new Shiva studying Judaism and my
parents were very nervous in fact they
actually went to a therapist how to deal
with their son who was in Israel and
some type of place they came to Israel
and Entebbe ready to get me back and
I'll never forget that meeting with Reb
nog we're in Rebbe knocks office have
know obviously the warmest person and
then my father gets up what did you do
to my kid what did you do to my kid I'm
gonna throw you out the window
mr. Feld calm down we're just learning a
little Judaism over here
and when we got married rythmic was in
solid condition and my father took his
hand like this I owe you everything I
owe you everything
and it was really really a special
moment
not only did ruff Noah infuse within us
a deep incredible fire but he empowered
us to take that fire and do something
incredible with it and I still remember
this quiet moment of Noah was walking up
the steps and the Rebbetzin was walking
up the steps alongside him it was an
incredible partnership of two people who
have transformed the world was very
happy with my life I wasn't really
searching for the answer I wasn't
searching for spirituality but when I
first met Reb Nowak he made you think
about things that you maybe hadn't
thought about before would rather be
happier rich what's life about and so
that really got me spurred me to stay
and I wound up staying for four and a
half years when I told my parents I was
gonna come back but only to visit that's
when it sort of hit the fan and they
were like what are you doing this is a
cult you're crazy you know what's going
on I brought my parents to meet Reb not
the only thing I really remember was my
mother storming out of the office yeah
so it didn't go so well
actually my brother who's three years
younger than me came to check out what
was going on he took a semester abroad
and he came to Israel and he came to
check out what I was doing and he wound
up staying at H also and wound up
becoming an H rabbi now he's a lawyer
so my you know
the parents got at least one lawyer I
think the story starts there Newark
really with my dear brother who was
visiting the old city one thing led to
another he met somebody was who was
religious he said if you'd like to know
a little bit more about Judaism I'll
take to you a plate you to a place where
you can know a little a little bit more
and guess what
next thing you know he's face to face
with another Noah and he felt that he'd
met a wise man I thought you know what
my brother's lost his marbles you know
so I came up to get my brother out and I
listened to the 48 ways I went to
reversed
classes every day and they were
mesmerizing but it was really his proofs
of God and Torah which really got
through to me after a few weeks you know
he got me in a double nelson and that
was it and it was hard for my mother at
the time you know getting our medical
school was not the most popular decision
at the time she came to Israel to to
meet with whoever knew her before we
started any conversation with her my
mother he said dr. Samson you have two
amazing children how did you do it at
the end of a year I told him I was gonna
become a rabbi and work with Asia Torah
that actually reassured them a little
bit cuz I thought I wasn't gonna starve
to death
so when I came to H and I decided to
stay all my friends were convinced that
I must be brainwashed I'm a twin brother
got together with a few of his friends
and roommates and they plotted how are
they going to rescue a frien so the
three of them specifically would talk
about it in plan and my brother just
made a decision that he was going to
spend his whole second year at
university preparing to come out that
summer and have all the answers and all
the questions that he needs to bring me
back so everyone was rooting for him and
they were all excited and he he took
courses in rhetoric and logic and
comparative religions and philosophy so
he had the whole thing worked out so
that when he got here he'd be able to
just you know he thought this would be a
a piece of cake and then he came across
these intellectual Giants by the end of
the summer he decided that he was
to be show more Shabbat and kosher his
apartment his party apartment back at
the University he started an Asia Torah
study group back in Toronto anyway the
end of the story is that all three of
the plotters they all went on to become
Orthodox rabbis and all involved in one
way or another in outreach I innately
had a certain belief in God a personal
God as a young child these feelings and
these beliefs sort of became submerged
over the years Noah was every bit the
intellectual match for any of the the
Harvard or Cambridge professors that I
came up against and then some yet he was
coming up with arguments that were
compelling that I had never heard before
I had the opportunity to basically
engage with Noah one-on-one for a couple
of days almost continuously and I felt
all of my reservations and skepticism
and cynicism just melting away I
realized that this was this was very
right and this addressed something very
deep within me I was all for learning
now I've graduated Dartmouth College I
was very into learning and philosophy
and different religions and I was like
great and I only think I'm ever of North
when I decided I was gonna take six
months to figure this out either it's
true it's not true either I'm in it or
I'm out of it that was that was where I
was coming from
why didn't I didn't bargain for exactly
what I was gonna learn because it really
is a God he really did give her Torah
from Mount Sinai and it's real it's true
Roe she was Torah and his his living
with
self-evident truths that he understood
about Hashem in Torah that to me was
with galvanized me I went to India and I
found a girl and I was because I was a
very spiritual person so I was learning
you know I learned how to meditate I
learned
Easterns spiritual ways to get close to
God and my guru said to me you're Jewish
trying to look into Jewish mysticism
it's like Judaism was a walled garden
but I couldn't find a way in this was in
1969 there was no way for women who
didn't speak Hebrew who were not raised
from - uh to find their way into that
garden so I stopped in Israel my way
back from India we went over to H we
went up the into the Shiva
there's narrow stairs that go up to
rovno office office and Reb know us and
he said do you know what the most
important thing in the world to know is
like no introductions no niceties no how
are you hi how are you our they were
like you know know we know we and he
said to us the most important thing in
the world to know is that Hashem loves
you we lived in Jaffa at the big house
overlooking the Mediterranean on a hill
was an extra until the age of 40 I
didn't know anything about Torah nothing
at all you asked me was missionary you
Molly
what are you talking about big bunch of
pressure if the fact that I was a film
star before I tell you stuff before he
took me here gave us a place in the old
city we ate there we slept there we
learned the Torah
he didn't megiddo gave washes he he
lived it this was the power when he
taught 48 ways for example he would
teach a lot laughter but happiness about
friendship but love had that sparkle of
happiness moving his eyes when he talked
about love of God you could say this man
loved God
she loved Hashem and you could see it
all over him when I came back to yeshiva
and I said I'm gonna stay a month the
first thing that they did with my
knapsack on they dragged me straight
into Revenue Office and no so excited
that I was here and he proceeded to ask
me a series of questions and one of them
that I remember that really stands out
was would you rather be happy or rich
and of course I said happy it's a great
if I told you that we will teach you how
to be happy and it's gonna take you a
year to do it I don't know I'm getting
nervous here all right that really went
very deep because it really taught me
what are my prime I being real with my
priorities I say one thing that am I
really living that but what was also
interesting was that I heard Rev Noah
over the years ask that question and
make that challenge thousands of people
and the first time I saw him I was in
such awe he came around the corner
besides this one he said to me you know
do you want to go back you know that was
so rough nah he had understood how the
world worked and it didn't matter if it
fit in with your intuition about it this
is a mess and if you did this you know
we'd get it straight you know a big
white beard black coat the whole thing
and I figured we gonna communicate and
then of course he breaks into his lower
Eastside accent so he basically gave me
a five-minute talk on Samantha's Elko
how to be happy with your portion the
warmth the the sincerity the care about
me it all came out in those few minutes
it was like a blast of of love he was a
new Shambhala just realize that God
loves you Noah had that ability take
very profound concepts and make them
just real and clear in our minds so I
ended up staying two weeks that turned
into one month that into four months
eventually that produced a wife and six
kids and ace Toronto a very leader
leader not there that makes himself a
leader a leader that leads a whole
movement he gave the basis to the Cure
movement he fought for it and he made he
made things happen now it's very popular
talking about hundreds of South Valley
troopers in every soil but then it was a
desert the beginning and he fought for
it 24 hours a day he planted the seed in
all of his talmidim he understood that
one person one person can make the
difference he made the difference if he
could just get his talmidim to see that
as well they'll realize it too and
they'll continue on his mission in life
I think what attracted me to Asia Torah
was just that sense of responsibility
that rug Noah made every single Jew that
walked into Asia tour understand that
they were a leader that they had
responsibilities that they had to go out
and they had to to really save the
Jewish people in any in every way and
when he would go away on his fundraising
trips he would have one of us students
step in and teach the 48 ways or proofs
of God we'd been at Asia tour of olive a
month or two months person like that and
step up some people asked me when was
the first time I taught a class at Asia
Tara was shocked when I tell them it was
after three weeks being there I wasn't
religious yet he said a person knows
Alif you have to share olive spread if
you know bays share Bay's we have a
obligation to learn Torah and to teach
Torah it's one of the column of total
lil wood Alban hasta la maid learn in
order to teach this is part of no
Aquino's is getting us to start right
away in taking responsibility no it was
empowered us teach what you know we all
thought that was a little bit crazy
later we understood that this was a
reverse form of leadership development
thinking about like what was the number
one thing that really moved people a
better of naath I believe it was his
invitation to be a partner the way that
he believed in me and the way he
believed in every Jew that we can be
unbelievably great we can really change
Jewish history I guess over the years
our relationship developed from one of
of an almighty Rosh Yeshiva an awesome
personality which he absolutely was
certainly one the most inspiring people
I've ever met in my life but once you
took responsibility you became a partner
and in the way he said hey if we're
partners with the rabona partners we've
got himself I never I never come across
that before somebody who spoke about
responsibility in a real way knock would
look at you and then all of a sudden his
eyes were sharp and he would steer you
and it says what are you doing for
cloudy strong you know the coverage
frame says and Freeman said does he says
you'll go down the street and you see a
guy drowning you're kind of going and
save him you don't know how to swim
poor guy who drowns but if every day you
were going you see people drowning then
you have an obligation to learn how to
swim
and I got a call from Jamie Calland who
said to me Noah spend some time in New
York do you want me or of Noah and the
first don't like you sure it's fear of
Noah come buddy letters not just nephew
this is gonna play the like no it's the
action like the one but like yet though
I'm like yes I'll be there right now and
during those two weeks I spent six hours
of November I felt like we've no
Weinberg thinks I can do something with
my life
like we're of Noah when you feel that
somebody that big believes in you it is
impossible to not believe in yourself
more and the reason why he believed that
it was because he believed that it
wasn't you it was awesome as I went to
yeshiva I was having a hard time and my
father a close student over of na
brought me to meet him when he was in
New York so now sits me down and he says
Jimmy do you know God loves you and as a
teenager a bilious teacher rabbi leave
me alone that's all I want here like he
says come on do I have to prove it you
I said no of course I grew up with this
I'm a she could of course I know God
loves me
I start burning flaming red eyes and he
slams the table on he says so dance
dummy and that is really what I think
would be his message not just to less
affiliated people but to from people if
you knew that it was a sham in the world
who loved you and you had and you really
were clearly as the Russia Shiva was you
beat as he would say dancing a jig to
every mitts you're about to do whenever
I'd walk with or not so every I don't
know fifty feet or so he would stop and
go like this and I thought he had back
problem and at a certain point when I
asked him to describe how do you
experience God and experience the six
consonants us he like put his bag down
and stuck his back up and it's like you
have to just breathe in comes right here
right now with you he's taking care of
you I said to reputa back bravo he said
no I said is that what you're doing
every 50 feet or so he says yeah what
how else am I supposed to live it does
expand services I don't think anyone has
ever in my life before that taught me to
think of Hashem
which to me is such a different way to
see the world puts us I'm on your side
it made a huge impact on me and all you
have to do is realize that he really
believes in the rabona Shalom that's
within you and once you get that and you
go out into your life if you can
remember that it's really very little
that can get in your way
so as far as I'm concerned the the 2000
Tommy Tom which I have had and the three
generations already they're all tell me
am i riff know every time a kid hits Bar
Mitzvah but our BAS Mitzvah it's a trip
with Daddy to Israel and we want to see
Reb nog and Rev no I said we'll give a
picture of the family I said sure I took
it out I showed up the Rebbe knock and
he took it from me and he put it in his
suit pocket I said run off
I need that picture back I have to show
people my family he said that's my
picture and those and that's my family
of six children and five grandchildren
and to the grandchildren carry Reb Knox
name you know I know it meant a lot we
have not always asked us for photographs
of the family and what really gave him
the he used to literally carry
around with him photographs of us and
our kids that's what really gave him the
to do what he did my oldest two
sons have made their their lives
learning they've they've learned in
yeshiva and kollel for many years my
oldest has now become a roach kollel my
second is transitioning to become a
Rebbe we had the enormous privilege of
remaining and in touch and his close
touches I think anyone at a distance
could be with rinoa
whatever I am and have done that's
worthwhile it's equally attributable to
rev Noah he loved us like a father
we became his his his back his children
proved nor was love hugging and it was
my father and like a father he slept me
so many times so you are deserters it to
me a deserter you know who you are you
always go out bring people make much
more sense oh I want to read Torah I
wish it forty was my life I don't waste
any more there was a fight
the most difficult set of encounters I
had with him was with regard to the
curriculum in the yeshiva he wanted that
someone could come in and go from olive
bays to Smith in six months I put
together what I felt was a super-duper
program that it would take seven years I
walk in from the office office I
presented it and a lot got angry he was
big he was strong
he held on to his desk I was sure he was
gonna throw it at me
and he starts screaming seven years in
seven years we won't know who's Jewish
la da phony no he was so right
he was so right but we have no idea a
juicer
I've been working statistics now there
are somewhere between four and eight
million Jews in America
how's that for statistics somewhere
between four and eight million Jews
we don't know huge and he saw it coming
in Kiev at the time you were in it's
like the lowest of professions like your
hangout talked to happy course even to
show you of all day so there's a
controversy and a very unpleasant one
and I was very hurt by it at the things
that were flying about I remember this
is clear as day I walked into of the
office office he was sitting there with
a smile on his face and I said look this
is hard and I said when are they gonna
stop some of the zealots were coming
after him
and he said don't worry there will come
a day but in all of the religious world
we'll be learning how to do Kiro
formation Torah the only reason I
started my first yeshiva or my first
organization and all the room subsequent
was because I believed one thing that if
I come to a human father and I say your
son is drowning
I need your rope would you please give
me your rope you guys gonna give me his
rope yeah is that right I'm gonna come
to you or - eh Almighty I need you to
help me I want to save your children may
you get that that's the only reason I
ever started I didn't know what to do
how do you make money how do you raise
money I don't ask for money
I feel mighty will help me I didn't know
how to make an organization the almighty
has to help he's gonna help I'm going
for his children he's gotta help this
one day there's a knock at the door and
it's Tom Markman and I said well what
can we do for you he said well the truth
of the matter is I'm looking for a place
to stay so that I can establish an Asia
tour here in Cleveland so I said okay
sure and he said to me what can I do for
you I said I want 15 minutes with from
Noah
he was such a celebrity cuz my kids have
always heard about you know we're know
our stories and arity straw in Asia
Torah and Kirov and everything else in
here is the man himself coming to our
home
and sat down with me in the kitchen of
my home so I said I am very much
involved in Kerrville hokum and a lot of
my friends are really discouraging me
they're always saying to me you know I
think you give up too much time to them
you have a family
my Shila to you Reb no loss should I
stop he looked at me with those dancing
happy eyes and that big beautiful smile
so here's what I'm gonna tell you if you
were living in 1942 in Poland in a city
or a village where you knew the trains
were going through to take Jews to
Auschwitz but they told you you know you
can pull one kid off that train what
would you have done
you would have dropped everything and
you would have ran to that train I said
but no I give me a brother brachii why
is that my children should live Torah
and bring others closer to Hashem in
every way and he said you got it you got
my brother and I remember in the first
Internet meeting of acecomm before was
every stop they were showing us what the
internet was like dissecting a frog on
there showing it and then the guy said
he said you know this is amazing if this
really works we'll be able to reach
thousands maybe tens of thousands of
people a day once H calm was launched oh
this was relaxed like pride and joy like
his little baby because he saw like wow
look at the potential here rev knock was
always looking at the big picture how do
I create a movement look what is I need
an army I need manpower for that
movement what's the most logical and
manpower the firm community so it was
always his dream if he could just awaken
the sleeping giant the firm community
are the sleeping giants if we can just
awaken them they can impact the entire
Jewish world I mean he spoke a language
which said you can change the world I
remember him saying what are you doing
about the famine in Ethiopia
what are you doing about Rwanda now one
student would say it's not my
responsibility so he would show
everybody from that interaction and you
would self-evidently see it from
yourself it is my responsibility it's my
responsibility to change the world so
that that really appealed to me so after
9/11 he realized the civilization that
we lived in the Western world was
greatly threatened if these guys take
over you can forget about the campuses
and we were rebelling
he said Rob knock were a Kirov
organization you bring Jews and we
connect them to their potential and Reb
Knox said no we're not a queue of
organization we're hot Sallah
organization we do what's needed we take
on all Jewish problems and this is the
one that I've identified did not
surprise me 101 iota that a guy who was
involved with outreach for the Jewish
people would do something out of the box
to help the Jewish people I got a call
that Rabbi North Weinberg wanted to
organize a group of people to petition
the Canadian government to arrest an
Arab terrorists and he raised six
figures when ralph north when he when
someone said there's something he does
it from no I've said every person who
has been hurt or killed as a human face
let's get that in the media and that was
the beginning of my relationship you
financed us to open up an office and
people say who's behind you said you
wouldn't believe it
are you selling in the Mossad no just
there's a little rabbi who was either
who's behind this
my son contacted me from stay wrote he
said ah but you wouldn't believe what's
going on here my dad had a relationship
with rabbi no I'm expressing throbbing
off my first rocket experience being in
a Shabbat in a shul during the Friday
night services and once Robin off heard
that story said and bring him over I
want to meet with him and then rabbi
nach said what is it what do you need as
as simple as that I need me a video
camera only a small car to chase these
Rockets I need a computer and your
lapdog simple as that
and Robin Nelson I'm with you the second
I got the video camera the first one
there to literally dock him in those
first seconds after the rocket fire I'll
be honest that after getting this first
grant from Robin off we're able to
establish ourselves he knew very clearly
that this has to be shown and exposed
throughout the entire world melee to the
Jewish people so Robin or if it was a
physical or spiritual attack on the
Jewish people he took it as his own plot
to do anything he can to speak up for
that he understood it a threat there's a
threat of threats and there's no
difference in yaja do it in Judaism he
would say between the I was coming to
you with a cross or with a knife with a
bomb he understood this if he were here
right now if he were sitting next to me
Roth North what do we do you mean what
about what the Arabs have just adopted
the first school system in the world
which endorses the murder of Jews let's
go get him is what he would say and
thanks to rebel with Rabbi no our
agency's been around over 32 years we
would have forgotten that start without
rug north so whether it had to do with
radical Islam very few people knew that
was North Weinberg behind the whole
series of films that were done that made
it to news and everywhere else but there
was yellow journalism honest journalism
rather anything he was there for the
Jewish people he was not a man that
believed I'm into the cure of business
to him he saw his role to save the
Jewish nation and he said it many times
he wanted to becoming a Shiva of
creating leaders that can go out into
the world and teach and save the Jewish
people so after I've not got up to the
yeshiva and said what are you guys doing
about it so the guy started thinking
about what should we be doing about in
typical age style right you know yet
guy's thinking and and it was amazing
things started coming out of that
there's an organization today called
honest reporting that monitors at the
Israel media came out of people that
were
so a couple guys in the Shiva came up to
me and said we have an idea let's go to
college campuses back in America and
let's talk to students there about
what's really going on in Israel and it
was such a powerful and we talked about
empowerment saying you want to take
responsibility for the Jewish people
Asia tours behind you of knocks behind
you you can do it and that really laid
the seeds for husband fellowships and
the foreign ministry told us okay we're
gonna give you the funding to do this
first program and I went straight back
to the Shia and I went straight
throughout no ox office and I told him
well the foreign ministry said yes and
he looked at me like in wonder and of
course he gave me another slap this was
I think my second slap slap and he said
the foreign ministry of Israel
I mean secular left-wing they chose Asia
Torah to stand up and defend the Jewish
people like he said like Messiah is
coming he couldn't it was it was amazing
his whole essence was Torah saving the
Jewish people taking responsibility for
the Jewish people that was his whole
life his 24/7 goal and I became
interested
I saw meat it is a very unusual person
he's a learner rabbi is also dedicated
to the Jewish people in particular
worried at large he looks every
individual noticing that everybody is
something good in himself and his aim is
to bring out the goodness
besides connecting the Jewish people to
Judaism I was walking in New York and I
bump into him he would been sick at the
time I didn't know about it he was gonna
have an operation and he saw me and the
second day he gave me a hug and yes and
what are you doing and I told him I saw
the spring where he/she been working
very hard and you know I listened it's
very happy and then when I finished he
says but what are you doing for Claudius
wrong
the difficult time when he wasn't well
and unfortunately got a very bad
prognosis seeing him in that light in
the condition that he was in and he
never let up he never let up and the
serum Norco from a standing position to
a sitting position was very painful it
took a lot of energy out of him to like
and he had to be helped to sit down and
I'm watching all of this and he knows
that I'm watching him get into the chair
and in a lot of pain and he looked at me
and he said don't worry this the God
loves me this is all good I think the
main thing that I hear of not saying in
my head over and over is
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the Almighty is with you there's nothing
you can't do but I don't think I really
knew what I was capable of accomplishing
until Rob Noah kept pushing me to the
next step so I didn't know why it was
important to be a Jew but he pushed me
to understand that I didn't understand
why I was important to teach other
people he pushed me to do that I didn't
understand why it was important to go
out and take responsibility we started
house bro fellowships we brought
thousands of students on campus to learn
about how to stand up for Israel I would
have never done that if he wouldn't have
pushed me out of my comfort zone to
realize that I could do that he would
cry about the pain that the Jewish
people are in and he would use that to
motivate us that you have to feel that
pain but realize that pain is there to
motivate you to get up and do and that's
what we would say he would say get up
and do use that pain and change the
world anyone who was in touch with Rabbi
Noah Weinberg and who was inspired
understood that he's got a mission in
life and has to continue only a few
people in the Jewish world are going to
inspire me to do something out of the
box to really have an effect only a few
people are like that Tim that's the way
it is I'm sitting in at the hospital
better if not last one last days I said
Tim Rebbe the Mushaf coming soon he said
of course I said as a Jewish group are
the Jewish people gonna come back of
course I said so why do I have to do it
but she asked do it why do I have to be
involved in it he says you're making a
mistake
so she was giving you the greatest
opportunity since the beginning of time
if you want to take that opportunity you
got it if not let me she asked - it'll
be fine that's up to you
that's what it means I think to be a Jew
in 2019 is to realize that like
Roma's waiting for a few people that
stand up and take responsibility that
could be all we need and you pray to God
about Jews who are assimilating what do
you say to us I say Almighty I know that
you care about this much more than me I
know that you want me to succeed I know
that if you love me we can change the
whole world
no you want help I don't I just have to
want it enough please help me to want to
feel this pain the way you feel it I
said you can help me do it
that's what you do
we all just watched a film about the
life of ribbon or look lavas hi I'm
already brings the the huzzah we're
Yoshio hemella who was brought up in a
palace that was trying to be ogre you
kite from Chloe's throw he
discovers a safe Atari he never read it
before he never he never read the Bible
any fat vines his ever done he starts
reading and it gets to the plastic he
gets to the plastic of all a chalukyan
as live reactor rehearsals and the usual
me asks for teh Torah no flawless and it
says yes that was in the days of yore
cor Mela and yoshio Melek says to
himself
oh why la Hawking the plastic is
speaking to me I can do it and yoshio
went and made the whole cloudy so
observant again one person if she
remembers me the whole nation from again
the message from Marc wants us to hear
is that Kali is fellas falling apart
most of college world doesn't know they
were created they don't know there's a
burial most Jews don't know that they're
there sitting on the greatest riches we
have all the secrets for life most Jews
they've read more about other religions
than about their own al Ilah Hakim every
observant Jew any Jew that has tasted
the beauty of Torah has so much to give
we take so much for granted being our
Shabbos table beyond her head
our way of life in general knowing why
you get up in the morning we have so
much to share
Oh Lila Holcomb there is nobody nobody
nobody that can tell himself
already they're gonna ask you some deep
philosophical questions that I won't
know
ohayo Hawking every one of us can do
this and every one of us has to do this
cloudy stroll needs every lil kid Ohio
Hakeem this is this is the message this
is were from North had every one of us
feel a while or Hakeem
it's not for someone else to do it's not
it's congest gonna be a nice finish am i
him every one of us has this obligation
because we have the ability to
everyone's got to feel this make use of
this wake up wake use of this go out
there and talk to people spread the word
of Yiddish kind let's make the
difference and let's be safer to a
different world
to be honest machines it came open here
of your main on me
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you